Telegrams.
Reverdi)
Morocco.
London, 17th August.
Reuter's Tangier correspondent wires that It is stated three thousand Monts attacked
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 1907.
TAK SOAL.TRUST.
LEVER BROTHERS' LIBEL ACTION
We take the following report from the Fall Mall Garette il 15th'ult::—Mr. Justice A. T Lawrence and a special Jury, at Liverpool Assizes this morning began the hearing of the action bought by Mesars. ever Brothers
Two Kwang Viceroyalty.
To-day's Advertisements.
THE
the French troops under General Drude pub (Limited), of 1 on Sunlight, ngainst the As SHUM'S TACTICS SUCCESSFUL. TH Spare Reclared at the Ordinary Hall
side Casablanca, but were soon repulsed with ociated Newspapers (Limited) to recover.
heavy losses caused by the artillery.,
Korea.
Seoul reports the mutiny of the garrisons of Honju-and-Wonju.
The Japanese cavalry routed the muti- necta, and are now pursuing them...
The outbreak at Wonja is regarded as serious, and Japanese troops have been der patched to the scene.
Laler.
The Telegraph Operators'. 9'rike, The telegraph operators' strike has spread to fifty cities of the western and southern States, and the operators of San Francisco And New York contemplate joining the
movement.
Night Attacks at Casablanca, The French Admiral Philibert reports that The Moors are attempting night attacks at Casablanca.
"There was a fierce attack on Saturday 'afternoon which was brilliantly repulsed,
Tie Japanese Cruisers in Spain.
King Alphonso has given a ball in honour of the Japanese officers at San Sebastian.
TYPHOON WARNING,
The following telegram was r ceived from the Manila Observatory at &go a m. to- ay; August 12th, 7 p.m. Typhoon still far off in Pacific about EN K
damages for alleged libel. The case arose out of the suggested formation of a soap combine on the part of Lever Brothers, and the adverse comments thereon made in papers owned by Fite defendant company,"
Counsel for the plaintiffs were Sir Edward Carson, K.C. Mr oridge, K.C., F. E. Smith, and Mr. E. G. Hemmerds, while the defend. ants were represented by Mr Rufus Isaacs, K:C., Mr. Duke, K.C., Mr. Norm10 Craig, and Mr. Branson,
When twelve jur,men had been called' into the box one of them informed the Associate of the court that his wife i td shares in the defendant company.
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The Associate: We will remove all taint
rom you." care teave the bux. -
This the gentleman at once proceeded to do, and he was followed by another in the ground bfalcon political bias":
The defendants pleaded that the alleged libels, were true, that the conduct of the plain." tiffs wis fraudulent and dishonest, and that the
article, complained if were fair comment.
A DELIBERATE COURSE.
Sir Edward Carson, 'is' opening the case, said that Lever Brothers were the well-known
snap manufacturers carrying on, a business at Port Sunlight, and the defendants were the owners and publishers of the Daily Mail and Kurning News, London, both papers of very large circulation and very considerable in. fluence. This was an action for libel of a very exc. plin.1 and curious character. There were libels and 1 bely, but this was oor of a most deliberate description, carried on for weeks and weeks with the deliberate object of smash-
Manila appears have been almost stationary ing. Lever Brothers in a particular matter. The
last 24 hours.
SINGAPORE. SPECIAL JURORS,
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THEIR GASTRONOMIC WANTS, What with the considerable number of im. periani caves that, at the recent Assizes, have
claimed the attention of an unusual proportion of special jurors, the Hupreme Court, remarks the Singapore Free Press, has held a large place in the minds of a good many of the principal residents in the place, whether They were captured to serve or an. And it should be said that, the Supreme Court of this Colony, in spite of the great judicial perspicacity of the Bench and the forensic eloquence and
• legal acumen of the Bar, is not yet all that it ought to be in at least one minor though not unimportant detail. What is sought to be re ferred to here is the lack of considerate provision for the gastronomic w.nts of the special jurors, in accordance with the very proper precedents
most serious part of it was that, notwithstand. ing explanations and materials which must have come to the I nowledge of the defendants, they were persisting in these libets to the end
The publications complained of appeared in October, November, and Lecember of last year, at a time when, owing to the rise of price
NEW VICEROY APPOINTED.
FORMER KWANGTUNG GOVERNOR'S ELEVATION.
H,E. TSEN CH'UN-SHUAN.
We have received two important telegrams from our own correspond-
of raw material, there were negotiations pendents in Canton, which, we venture to think, will prova of the utmost in ing between the largest manufacturers of soap
with the view to forming a working agreement terest to readers. They are us follows:- or combination. When the fact of the pro- posed combination became known to the proprietors of the Faily Mail, and Evening Netus, who were mainly dominated by Lord Northcliffe, thy proceeded to attack, and, indeed, to emash, the combination. They pro- fessed to do it in the interests of the public, but the contention of the plaintiffs was that in carrying out this object they stooped to methods of falsehood and of libels as regarded Lever Brothers which were not only unfair, but which, if they were true, reudored Mi Lever and his company liable to be regarded as men with whom no honest man could have
Shumeen, 18th August, 1:10.p.m
Excellency Choong Yun Chun, late Governor of the Kwang- tung provinces and at the present time 'Governor of Honan, has been appointed Viceroy of Cauton.
The second telegram is in the following terras
Shamoen, 18th August,
2.15 p.m.
THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE. Perhaps the most serious charge against the plaintiffs, said counsel, was that they sold their soap in such a fraudulentmanner as to deceive the public and conceal from them that the weight of the soup had been reduced. was alleged that they did that as the result of this combination. The charge was repen ed day after day in both these newspapers--that Lever Brothers were fraudulent, dishonest is now Governor of Honan, has been appointed to the vacant position. people, who adopted methods of trading which no reputable film would adopt. Messis. Lever did not shirk the issue. Mr. Lever himself courted the ransacking of every commercial issued.
start of his career, until he achieved me and fortune. The allegation that Levers filched an ounce of soap fimm each pound was invented by the Duity Mail. Sir Edward also branded as a lie the statement that there were dismissals at Port Sunlight by reason of the co: bine, More
The resignation of His Excellency Shum, as Viceroy of the Liang Kwang, has been accepted by the Imperial authorities.
His Excellency Cheong Yua Chun, who was formerly at Canton, and
in other Supreme Couris, in His Majesty's | dealings. dominions. The officer of the Supreme Court within whose jurisdiction the inatter should fal is, we find, the Sheriff it is quite true that there is time for special juroin, in hurry off to the Singapore Club, of which most of them are likely to be hembers, and they can there satisfy, with nut, sob much time to spare, and it their own, pass, the wants of the inner man. But it would ba perhaps more gratising to the furor and more in con- Bonance with the high dignity of the Supreme Court itself, if the Sherif, from due provision in the stimares of the Judicial De-transaction from the partment to that end, were to arrange and purvey a luncheon for the special juror in a style that would do the Court-credi, and be a fiuing recognition of the merits of the public services of such valuable citizens as the gentle
· men who may be in pannelled as spécial jurors.
ver, the slateniert that Levers were "corner. ing" all the raw material the market, so a to raise the price of soap, was an absolute false bood; while a suggestion that attempting to trite and buy the 'ress was a fiction for beginning to end. The defendants urther tried m shake the foundations of the
evers were
An Imperial diet confirming the substantive appointment has been
AN UNDESIRED GIFT,
It is slated from Mukden hat one mornin not many days ago when entering his stud
SOLICITORS UNPAID BILL.
ATTORNEY AND CLIENT IN COURT.
In the Summary Court this morning, before.
his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Fuisue Judge, Mr.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACÃO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
DIVIDEND at rate of $1.00
Yearly Meeting of Shareholders, held this day, will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, on and after TUESDAY, the 13th August, 1937.
Shareholders are, requested to, apply to the Office of the 'Company for WARRANTS,
By Order of the Board of Directors, *
W. E CLARKE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th Augum, 1907
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1710
THE Undersigned have received Instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
ON
THURSDAY,
the 5th August, 1907, at Noon; at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House Brech,
A QUANTITY Or WINES AND SPIRITS,
AND
10,906 EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES, TEMS-As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGU,
Acctioneet1.
nekong, 13th August, 1907.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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"HE Undersigned have received instructions
THE US
to sell by.
PBLIC AUCTION,
——FOR_ACCOUNT_DE_THE_CONCERNED,
אס .
SATURDAY,
the 17th August, 1997, at 2.30 P.M., "at_their
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,
corner of Ice Blouse Street,
A LARGE ASsortment or ·" JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERIES AND SILK-EMBROIDERED GOODS,
·Comprising - SILK-EMBROIDERED WALL HANG- INGS. BED and TABLE SPREADS. CUSHION and PILLOW COVERS, LADY'S and GENT'S GOWNS, JACKETS,
KIMONOS, SILK BLOUSES, PETTI- COATS, SHIRTS, &c. &c.;
Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneer.
Hoogkong, 13th August, 1907.
TO LET.
itimations
THE
ROBINSON PIANO
CÓ, LD.
TALKING
MACHINES
RECORDS.
New Stock just arrived
LARGE AND VARIED
ASSORTMENT
MUSIC
1739 Comic Opera Scores
2ND FLOOR No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL
No. 38, CAINE ROAD.
and Dance Music.
AUCTION ROOMS, No. 2, ZETLAND RECEIVED BY EVERY MÀIL
STREET.
GREENCROFT, GARDEN ROAD, Kow. loon, Redecorated, Electric Light, Tennis Court,
Nos. 1 & 2, FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon.
Apply to
LEIGH & ORANGE, 1, Des Voux Road, Hongkong, 13th August, 1907, "SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LID
•NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
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FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP,
LONDON AND STRAITS. 'HE Steamship
THE
"GLAMORGANSHIRE"
Captain Norris, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Carga are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed al their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown_Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk and expense,
No Claims will be admitted after the.Goods
.E. Viceroy Hsu Shih-ch'ang suddenly perceived a strange book lying upon his drak,
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- which upon being opened was found to be a J. Scott Parson, of Messrs. Ewers and Harsing undelivered after the 19th mat, will be
collection of rather crude drawings, apparently the work of malcontents. he first drawing a
The present incumbent of the office of Sheriff of Singapore is a gentleman of taste, and it would not be his fault, the requisite vote being sanctioned, if the members of the special juries at the Assizes were not hardsamely provided company-itself,-and-said-they-were-guilty-of-was that of a mounted soldier, sword in hand for.. Some amusing notes from the Calcutta manipulation in the shares, o as to conceal Arion show that there are precedents enough,tually, when, under pressure of public leeling, enemies, whose uniforms belonged to the the depreciation which was going on. Even slashing away at a number of cowering and also that we are now somewhat remote negotiations between the soap manufacturers army of a certain nation which shall be from the period when Pope wrote of a British were broken off, the defendants even then were
nameless. he second picture contained three Court of law.
not satisfied, but suggested that the whole
men and under them were five characters, dissolution was a pretence, only meant to de ceive the public
meaning "The Greatest of Chinese Sinner
The hungry judges soon the senteære sågn, And wretches bang thai jorynen rany dine. The passage reads thus:-
THE RISE OF FORT SUNLIGHT.
ani,
J
subject to rent.
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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on MONDAY, 19th insiyat 3 PM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 13th August, 1907.
1244
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA,
HE Steamship.
"ARRATOON. APCAR”
Sabove Ports, on SATURDAY, the 17th inst; at
Noon,
..
on, appeared on behalf of his firm to prosecule claim against Eu Sik Ving, of No. 8, Ciz Cular-Pathway, Victoria, trader, i-r-conte
Mr. H. Kolmes appeared for the defend- The plaintiff claim against the defendant. was for $132 50 for professional services ren- deed and work and labour done, and moneys ud for defendant at his request in connection with the purchase by the defendant from one Mak Yuk Tong, of the Remaining. Portion of On the side of each min were charac ers Section C. of the Praya Reclamation to Marine One of our "conterr ps" in referring to the
Counsel proceeded to sketch the career of showing who he was; the first was supposed to Lot No. 71, and also in connection with a se- matter of jaiymen and their finchegas, said Mr. Lever and the progress of Port Sunlight represent Tseng Kuo-lan (the first Ma quis af cond mortgage made by defendant to one that the present Sheriff is the first of those who turned out; 3,500 hands were employed, upps
At l'ort Sunlight 3,cosions of snap a week were that name who conquered the Tsiping rebels Wong lo Tun,, and also in connection with a third mortgage made by defendant to ore Hok have held that high office to provide luncheons whom 15.000 Leap'e were dependent, and the and captured their capital, Na king, in 18643, Yuk Tang. A signed bill of coats containing all Chptain A. Stewart, will be despatched for the for special jurymen during the currency of a capital was now six millions, of which four the next represented Marg is Tso Tsung-tang, the particulars of the plaintiffs' claim has been loog and tedious case... there, however, it was million Prefetence shares were held by the the conqueror of the Mohammedin rebels of handed to defendant by the plaintiffs. The wrong, as the Hon'ble Mr. A. A. Apcar, during public and the other two milion rdinary Kansu in the seventies, and the third man was plaintiffs therefste claim as above. When
shares by Messrs. Levers. Wasibe man who ite period of his Shrievally, invariably saw that built up that great firm likely in stoop to the Marquis Li Hung-charg, whose history mout the case was called on Mr. Holmes said be was no longer instructed to defend, and the -the-inner-men-of-ili-se_who_had_to_s_fortricks of dishoneal traders for the purpose of of us know something about more or less. def ndant himself was not present,
many weary hours, listening to the often rather 6lching half prace out of the pockets of unfor- The third picture was a most gruesome one wearsome arguments of learned Counsel, were tunate widows? That char, e had done its work and also contained the representations of three amply provided for.
not to say is dirty work. Let the delerdants Not a little quiet fun and amusement was come and prove their case, and if they did not, Caused when an eminent Couarel, engaged in in that const, brand Mr Lever as a fraudulent the jute case said that it no one else would, irader he thought the jury would know how to he intended to stand the special jurors lunch, deal with the matter. This it was pointed out to him wou'd hardly do and might even be corst'ued into a breach of professional elique te if nothing worse, Jurors are after all only human and made of the same poor weak flesh and blood as the common berd, and how could they be expected to look with other than favour upon a man who had provided them with a luncheon, some of the Ingredients" of which had been; Mayonnaise de polison galantine de poulet en arple; chaud froid de cailles aux champaignons; jambon en Relas
to say nothing of a little thing like a savarin aux ceriser or a triftà like Havaroise d' opricots Nona! the affair se murcera par It would be undue influence in excelsis, especial ly the varoise, for apricots, we consider, have particularly softening not to say languorous 'effect upon one's more brutal instincts!
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men. The first represented a man divided into half by the executioner's sword. This man was designated "Yuan" (Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai); the second man had his head divided vertically into two parts-Under this one was
Mr. Scott Harston proved the claim and judgment was given for plaintiffs with costs.
COMMERCIAL.
Do.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. ¦
demand
Salling
11.40 A.M.
- 3/21
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LIMITED.] Agents, Hongkong, 13th August, 1957.. (743
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND MOJI. THE Steamship THE
+
AMAMARRATOON APCAR,"
2/27/15 having arrived from the above Paris, Coo
As to the allegation that Lever Brothers filched an ounce from their sixteen-ounces bas
the character "Chang" (Viceroy Chang Chih- | London-Bank T,T.. of soap, counsel explained the circumstances under which that, bir was put on the market. tung). The third man had his craṇium slashed · Da, Seup was listile to evaporation It was never off as to its upper part and under him was the
4 months' sight, hän7/2 13/6 sigaras of Cargo are hereby informed that France-Hank UT.
..............1.75) | their Goods will be delivered from ulangside.. announced to the public that those bars would character" Tiêa (Viceroy Tiên Ch'ue-hauen) America Bank T.T.......... contain sixteen ounces por was, it intended there should be a constant quantity. There There were a few more pictures in the book, Germar-Bank T.T....... never was a statement as regarded there being all of which were more or less revolutionary in India T.T.
any particular weight. The soap was simply tone and effect, but not so plain to the discern-
demand...
Japan-Bank T.T....................
by Buying.
months' sight L/C,
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed 2.25 at Consignees risk and expense into the 164) || hazardous andfor extra bazardous godowns of
................ 165 the longkong and Kowloos Wharf and Go
73 dowa Co., Limited.
2/3
sold as a threepenny bar of unscented Sunlight ment as the three drawings noted in the fore- Shanghai-Hack T.T.', soap. In the summer of 106, Mr. ever de- going. The strictest investigation ordered by Spare T.T. ;.6% prem termined, owing to the rise in the price of raw material, in reduce the sixteen-ounce bar. Viceroy Hat Shih-ch'ang failed to reveal who'|'|ava-Bask T.T............$33 to one of filtzen-ouncer, He had either to it was that had had the audacity to place the increase the price from threepence to three book of drawings-they were me a like cari. pence halfpenny,' or in keep the price at three
catures-on the, Viceregal desk.-Y. C. D. pence and reduce the weight by one-s xleentů.
News. We believe we are right in relating that on There was not soap mabufacturer' in 'the one occasion in Calcutta, as a result of the jury country who did not at the time increase his having been literally starved-ar at any rate | price, either by reducing the weight of the being compelled to gobble their times at such tablet or adding to his price. Sir Edward said a pice ibay they were almost all suffering from he could produce sheafs of letters from re g.p.l. (great pais inside) they promptly stopped tailers that the action of Levers consequent counsel for the prosecution in bis opening after | upon the increased price "of raw, material" was ""heart right,, • | Juath and intimated that they wanted to
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4 months' sight 1./G.
2/3 3'16 30 days' sight San Francisco & New Vorkuta)
do.. 2 months' right AFTAIN A. W. Tako, 1. M.S., is placed in
10 days sight Syduey and Melbourne.....z st months" sight France .............381] medical charge of the H. K. S. B. R. G. A. and | 5 months' sight. the British details in Kowloɔa, in addition to
' months' sight GermanT his regimental doties, daring the absence on Bank of England rate...
Har Silver jaar leave of Major T. P. Jones, R. A; M. C« from | Bank of FraPTMR.. Jih instant inclusiva.
Sovereign
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned,
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th August, 1907..
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ACCORDING to a Tokio despatch it is intended' .1.84 to confer upon Sir Clauda MacDonald, British | 231 Ambassador to Tokio, the Grand Cordan of 5/16
the Order of the Kiri Flower with the Risidg Sun, in recognition of bis exceptional marit and services,
Hongkong, 2016 November, 1906.
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IS ONLY WON BY GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
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Perfection
PERFECTION SCOTCH WHISKY
MAS A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE OF QUALITY: FOUNDED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF ITS CONSUMERS-
That is Why
WHICH ONCE TRIED IT IS ALWAYS PREFERRED TO OTHER BRANDS SIMPLY A CASE OF QUALITY
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