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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

A meeting of "the" Legislativa -'Council' was held in the Council Chamber last Thurs day,: Prozent;—His Excellency the Gover nor, Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G, HE Major-General Broadwood, C.B, Hon. Mr. F. H. May, CM.G., (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. W, Rees Davies (Attorney

General Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer) Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., (Director of Public Works), Hon, Mr. F.J. Badeley, (Cap tain Suparintendent of Police), Hon, Mr. B. A, Irving Registrar General), Hon. Dr. Ho Kal,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 19.

Fto return to the ancestral, villare ciumvira

The Domicile Question, than a visitor tests to me inconsistent with

CHIEF JUSTICE'S IMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT,

HONGKONG CERTIFICATES: OF. NATIONALITY

'OF NO VALUE WHATEVER.:

The point raised in the Supreme Court the other day as to whether Wai Long Shku, the ax-assistant compradore of the Hongkang and Shanghai Backing Corporation, was domiciled M.B., C.M.G., Hos. Mr. Wei Yak, C.M.G., Hon.

in the Colony and entitled to be adjuged bank- Mr. H. E. Pollock, R.C., Hon. Mr. W. J. Gres rupt, was decided by Sir Francis Piggott son, Hon. Mr. B. A. Hewalt, Hon. Mr. H. A. W. (Chief Justice) on the 17th fast. At the time the Slade, and Mr. O, Clementi (Clerk of Councils) opposition applied to have the Receiving Order which had already been granted bim, rescind The minutes of the last meeting were read, they put forward four grounds to strengthen

their point, as under: and confirmed.

FINANCE.

MINUTES.

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The Colonial Secretary laid on 'the table the report of the Finance Committed (No. 20),

FINANCIAL MİNUTE,

the normal ides of a Chinamana

New Peak Tramway

BISHOP POZZONYÀ PRÍITION..

Nationality is not domicile npr., domicile nationality, The two things have an relation THE PROPOSED ROUTE.“- to one another. Nationality, may be evidence of a domicile of origin but it is not possible to go further that this There is therefore not the slightest ground for the allegation that the debtor was domiciled in the Colony Lodist hardey, the Hoe Mr. W. Rees Davies, At the meeting of the Legislative Council the order must therefore be rescinded with Attorney-General, said that be understood costs against the petitioning creditore

Mr. John Hastings appeared on behalf ofthe D.D. Pozrost, and the proper form was to read petition was received from the Rt. Rev. Bishop Bank of Taiwan, Ltd. judgment, creditors), the patition to the Council The Clerk of Mr. R. D. Atkinson, of Messrs. Deacon, Councils read the petition, when the Hop, Mr. Loukar and Deacon, represected the petition E. A. Hewett, moved that the petition be heard log creditor, on whose petition the Receiving by the Council, seconded by the Colonial Order was made. Mr B. L. Dennys was for Secretary. The petition reads as follow the debtor.

In the matter of a Bill entitled an Ordinance for authorizing the construction of a Tram way "within the Colony of Hongkong," In the matter of the proposed route for the

said Tramway, The His Excellency the Govemar and the The question of shipping subsidies bids fair Honourable the Legislative Council of Hong:

JAPANESE SHIPPING SUBSIDIES.

VARIOUS VIEWS ON THE QUESTION. PROBABLE. STRUGGLE IN THE DIET."

1908.

*** Mr. Denison was further questioned by other fiindulgence, and that its sarijer caff [membén;” at the conclusion Kof? which, thej na to some extent in the carb at the

· petitioner left the Council Chamber, 1763602. day, for the sake of the oil contained AVEL Bothe Governor bald that a Bill was ins | sond, its use in medicing requiring. „trodufid leveral years ago which was very | small supply. The ancient Greek mych different from the one they wore con- acquainted with the cultivated popi sidering now. During the course of bis re« mentions it, and cat, as much) |

Perred to the matter under discussion properties of the rapi, Dioscorides hore marks. His Excellancys sald that it ap Theophrastus and Dioscorides do vez, Jary call the principle ine it " mekun," and were aware of tån somn larous was a question of aesthetics against utility, wonderful book on plaats dates from the of usefulness to the public, then nothing derived from the sap by the mama, operand If the proposed tramway was going to prove first century of our arm, speaks of then drug more need be said about the matter. If pot, it is from that word that the name opida then it was the duty of the members to con- has come. The Romans callvated' the poppy sider whether the line should at all be before the republic, and land its seeds wit constructed. If the contemplated project were their flour in making bread,

The Colonial Secretary" faid, on the table of bankruptcy on which 'a petition could be to becoma a subject of much discussion in the KODE petition of Domenico Pozzoni, ture for clausola ''(which 'route'" the linocultivated`ini Asia Minor, for at least $3,000

Financial Minute No. 20. It was agreed that

11 be referred to the Finance Committée."

SANITARY DYE-LAWS.

NEW TERRITORIES SMALL DEBT 'COURT.

The Attorney General moved the third read- jog of the Bill entitled Au Ordinance to em- power a Magistrate to hold a Bosall Debi Court

To kumble

Church, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Vicar-Apostolic of the Roman Catholic

Showath

community of Hongkong.

Bill the object of which is to authorize the 3. There is before the Legislative Council a

Peak.

to become an actual fact, one of the most beauti- fal sceneries of the Colony would be destroyed. taking the governor of a rebellions provlace

THE STORY OF KING TAXQUIN FAS Dafortunately, Hongkong did not sabaiss into a poppy fald, lopping off the heads on its sceneries otherwise they would not of the taller poppies with his stick, and than mind so much trade depression. People came urolog to his visitor without a word but here for other purposes than sceneries with a look which said, That in the way to did not propose to pat the Bill to the vote, but govers a evidence of the very early cal to adjourn the debats till the next meeting, in tivation of the poppy by the Romans. Hebrew order to enable members of the Council to writings do, not mention the opidm poppy speak on the subject. It was rather prema though it seems to be certala that it has been infinitely better was to have considered was cultivated in more ancient times is is to take), but what would have been years. There is no evidence that the plast the general principle (whether the tramway was although in Pliny's time, the Egyptians used

Exp really wanted or not). The route marked in the juice of the poppy medicinally in the red would destroy a considerable portion of Middle Ages it was, and in our own day it is, the public gardens and the blue route: wa

country, especially for the manufacture of public gardens, adjourned till the next moeting, which was

Mr. Howatt proposed that the discussion beam agreed to.

imagine the disposition of the authorities in the | construction of a tramway"from Victoria to the chosen as inflicting the lasst injuries on the one of the chief objects of cultivation in ther

2, The route of the said tramway is, your Petitioner is informed, proposed to be as marked in blue lines on the plan hereto at tathed instead of the route marked on the said plan in red lines as originally proposed.

(1) That the debtor was not domiciled in this Colony at the date of the presentation of the petition and that the Court had no juris- diction to make a Receiving Order against himay (2) That the debtor had committed so act fountled..

forthcoming session of the Diet. The Govern (3)-That after payment of the costs of the ment, is understood to be keeping the atmost proceedings there would be no substantial assecrecy regarding its attitude onthe question and sety for division among the creditors.

iberefore nothing definite is known to the public The Colonial Secretary moved the adoption (4)That the petitioning creditor was in col- but if an interview published in the Hochi, of 11ye-laws under section 16 of the Public lustony with the debtor and that the proceed which is attributed to a responsible official, Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993; relatings were an abuse of the process of this hon-

is to be credited, it will not be difficult to ing to:(a) Bake-houses; (6.) Dairy; (c.) Im ourable Court, portation and inspection of animals;

In delivering his judgment, the Chief Justice matter. The official in question remarks that The Director of Public Works seconded. said: A judgment creditor applies to rescind whereas Great Britain possesses 18,000,000 tons Carried unanimously,

the Receiving Order, Four grounds of mercantile. marine, America 4,800,000 of opposition were raised and my ruling with tons, Germany: 4,200,000 tons, and Fracce regard to them will serve as a good illus 1,800,000 tons, Japan only possesses 1,000,000 tration of the general practice with regard to tone. Even this tonnage includes a large per oppositions to petitions which I have sanction. centage of old and obsolete ships which are in the New Territories and to regulate theed. The third was that after the payment of practically useless for the purposes of active proceedings in relation thereto.

costs of the proceedings there will be no sub- commercial competition. For this reason it stantial assets for division among the creditors. will be necessary for Japan, at least for some That ground is not good because it is a matter years to come, to encourage iba construction of which the Official Receiver considers and us MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE AMENDMENT,

beller ships capable of competing favourably Council considered in Committee the Billally advises the Judge ou the application, with those of other countries in point of speed

The fourth ground is that the petitioner, is in entitled An Ordinance to amend Tee Magistrates

and toonage. With regard to the payment of collusion with the debtor and that the proceed a navigation subsidy, the contention has been laflings are an abuse of the process of the Court.. pat forward that although the larger shipping This is also a matter which concerns the 'Official companies are enjoying the State grant under Receiver who in this respect exercises a gene this system, smaller ship-owners are excluded. ral surveillance over bankruptcy proceedings, from the enjoyment of the subsidy, as they are Da the motion of the Attorney General The first ground is that the debtor was not do not in a position to build ships conforming to the miciled in this Colony at the date of the pre-subsidy qualifications. Such being the case, the sentation of the petition and therefore that the Government has been urging an amalgamation Court has no jurisdiction to make a. Receiving among the smaller shipowners so as to enabis Grder. And the secood was that the debtor them to enjoy the subsidy like the larger con has committed no act of bankruptcy on which, cerns, but, owing to the unfavourable condition a petition would be lounded

on the economic situation, so far the proposal has been unsuccessful. It will thus be teen that in the pretent condition of the shipping industry of Japan protection to a certain extent is absolutely necessary. Those who are acing noise will be almost continuous when cars quainted with the fact that in France, in Ger are running on the said tramway. many, and even in England a large amount of

The Colonial Secretary seconded, -Bill read a third time and pasted.

Ordinance 189, and effect certain other

amendments in the Criminal Law.

Council resumed and Bill reported with Amendments.

seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Bill was read a third time and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.

The Council was adjourned sine die,

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Finance Committee was --held immediately after the meeting of Council, the Colonial Secretary presiding. It was agreed to recommend that the following vole adopted by the Council:-

HOSPITAL BULK "HYGEIA",

A sum of five thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars in aid of the rose, Medical Departments, Hospitals and Asylums, Other Charges, Infectious Hospitals, Hospital Hulk Hygeia, for the following items

$1,608

3:562.1.

Repain, se Typhoon damages,

This was all the business.

PROPERTY PORKCLOSED."

SUCCESSFUL ACTION BY THE HONGKONG

FIRE INSURANCE CO."

The Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Ld., brought an action in the Supreme Court, od the 17th inst, aprinst Le Kwong and the Yuen

tion is the principal place of worship for the 3. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep Catholic community of Hongkong and it situated on the east side of the Public Gardens, 4. Divide service or other religious obser "vances take place daily in the said Cathedral,

5. It is essential to the due and reverent par formance of such services, and there should be at such noblervances that absence of Deien in such Cathedral and in the immediate neighbourhood thereof.

FOUND HANGING.

ILL HEALTH LEADS TO COOLIE'S SUICIDE.

17th inst.

Owing chiefly to the fact that his health had been failing recently, and also on account of abortage of funds, a coolle named Leang Kwan put an end to his life yesterday morning,

Leang was as earth coolie, employed by a 6. Your petitioner is informed that it is pronumber of others in quarters at 46, Wank Street. posed to carry the said tramway for a consider, Early yesterday morning, it is reported, Leung contractor at Kowloon City, and resided with a able portion of its length on, a steel trestle did to go with the other mes to work. He Viaduct so feet or thereabouts in height directly complained of feeling ille and he was left in front of the principal entrance to the said alone in the house. A few hours later when Cathedral and within 80 yards or thereabouts the workmen returned home for their meal thereof, and your petitioner is informed and Leong was found suspended to a rope-one believes that the poise caused by cars passing end of which was fastened under his chin and over the guide pulleys w.li ba so lead as to be distracting to the devotion of those engaged is already intervened.

the other a beam of the ceiling. Death Bud' prayer, or in other religious observances in the said Cathedral. And further that such distract

7. The inid Roman Catholic community an

age, managed somehow or other to get the The deceased, who was about forty years of rape round the beam, and, gotting up on a stool, fastoned the other and round his neck, The matter was reported at the police station and the remains sent to the mortuary,

money is a Bually spent. for the protection of behalf, of which your petitioner, presents this after which he kicked away the support.

At the first meeting of creditors the debtor made a statement that be was born in Hongkong. I see no reason to doubt this. This then makes him a natural born subject of the King, but in order to make this point clear (and it is an important point) a certificate of Sir George Bowen, theo governor of the Colony, dated 31st July, 1884, was referred to.. It was given the shipping trade (so far as England is con quder the seal of the Colony and was to the cerned this is an error, the principal part effect that, baving examined two affidavits of of the payments to steamship companies binh, His Excellency was satisfied that Wei being for mail services] will readily per Long Shap, the debtor, was born in the Colony ceive why the expenditure should not be and therefore that he believed him to be a Bri-withbeld in the case of Japan. It is true that ish-subject-understand that these certi-The Japanese shipping trade is suffering from ficates are issued in vittus of permissive-in the effects of over-tonnage, but this is chiefly be structions from the Secretary of State given in cause a large pumber of ships are concentrated August, 1863. I have ever seen one before on the trade acar home, while the distant over. and as it was referred to in the argument I must sen trade is neglected. If the Nippon Yarea Kaisha is able to declare its regular dividend express, my opinion on it. In an English port such a certificate is of no value whatever for Leven in a time of business depression like the Roy, legal purpose." It refers to two affidavits present it is because the company is engaged of birth but by whom they were made does not in the European and Australian trade. Pro. appear. The proper person to issue cer- tessor Tomizu, M.P., is of the opinion that a. tificates of birth, or to be more precise, special bounty to regular lines in addition to cealed and cenified copies of entries in the regular navigation subsidy is necessary, bis registers, is the Registrar-General-and bat the official quoted by the Hochi is of 1, am not sure, but i do pot think that even these are made conclusive evidence of

On Tourance Exchange Loan and Godown of what is due to them for principal and interest ander an indenture of mortgage on certain pro perties; and also to have the same foreclosed.

Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., instructed by Mr. R. D. Atkinson, of Méssia. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, appeared for the plaintiffs. "The de- fendants were not represented nor did they appear in person. *** The plaintiffs, it was stated, were a company carrying on business at King's Buildings. The defendant (Lo Kwong) was a trader of 9, Bon- ham Strand-West and the delendants the.Yaen On Insurance Exchange Loáu and Godown

Co., Ltd, for an order to have an accouni taken certificate ́says that having read there twó

Co., Ld, of the same address. By an inden ture dated 24th August, 1984, Lo Kwong as signed to the plaintiffs the property known and registered as Sub-section of section -A of Marine Lot No. 95 and the remaining portion of Section' A of Inland Lot 1,310 by way of mortgage secure the repayment to the plain riffs of the sum of Sco,aso on the 24th August, 1907, and interest at the rate of eight per cont per augum. The defendant, Lo Kwong, made defauif in payment of the interest reserved

the facts contained in the entries. Then this affidavits the Governor has satisfied bimself that Wei Long Shan was born in the Colony and the Emperor of Chinn being at amity with the Queen of England at that time the Governor believes him to be a British subject, but this is a non sequiter. If the parson to whom the cer tificate is given was born in the Colony he is s British subject. There is no ground for belief or disbelief. The fact in both the instructions of the Secretary of State and the opinion. of the Law Officers have been misconstrued by the drafter of the form annexed to the instruc tions. The belief, the expression of which is

the opposite opinion. The latter subsidy certain period when a number of qualified may be dispensed with after the lapse of ships have been built, but the bounty to re gular lines is necessary to keep them going. For instance, the continued grant of bouatios to the N.Y. K's European and the Toyo Kisea's' American lines, the terms for which expire next year, are indispensable. As to the amount of subsidy to be granted these lines, the matter is now under investigation by the Department for Communications.

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petition number upward of seven, thousand- persons.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly pray that the proposed route of the said tramway as marked in blue lines on the said plan be not approved and that your petitioner may be heard by Counsel in opposition-thereto and bava cave to call witnesses in support of such opposition when the said Bill comes before Your Excellency and the Legistative Council for consideration in Committee. And your Petitioner as in duty bound will Dated the soth day of November, 1908,

DOMENICO POZZONI,

evat pray.

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SATISFYING CREDITORS,

SCHEME OF COMPOSITION REPUSED, Last Thursday, the Chief Justice gave a decision on the question of "preferential treatment" of creditors in the matter of the estate of Ho Shiu Chan, which was an appli cation for the approval of a scheme of com position.

off,

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for

The cultivated variety Pomalferum of the present day, differs from ta wild P. sati. gerum, in having the seed capsule surmount- ed by tos or twalra stigdzas (the fino onda of the leaves which are united to form the cap. auto)"instead of by eight as in the wild, form. It seems that the introduction of the poppy from the shores of the Mediterraneas into Persia, India, and China is due to Amb Mohammedaniam, and it is probable that it radars, and is coincident with the rise of was valued, and cultivated from that time an- warde, not so much for the sake of its mend and up by Arabian confectioners into a kind of the narcotic juice, which was made.

Tracts-such a bang, from hemp for the paste, and eaten, as were other vegetable ex sake of the pleasurable sffects produced by its certain that the opium poppy does not occur at poisonous action on the nervous system. It is all in the wild state in the Middle and Far Bart. from India to China. The poppy was cultivate ed, and the use of opium known and frequent In 1516 opium was already an atticle of irade

in India for some 'five centuries, before" that

century, per megapelaksande date. Frobably the cultivation of the plant in China was not stated, until the nighteenth

of indulging in opium by smoking it in a pipe.. It was the Chinese who hit upon the mode

practice earlier than 1730, about fifty years be There is no record, written or pictorial, of this

fore which data (1680) we find the smoking of tabacco represented on Chinese pottery. Very soon, the Chinese were not content to import their oplum from India but large' areas ware pot under cultivation with the indian poppy"la" China and Manchuria For a century or mare- tinued and increased as the consumption of the the export of opium from India to Chink cons drug increased, the nativo Chinese production 1730 and 1796 the Chinese Government isstied not being sufficient to meet the demand".In

other crops.

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EDICTS FORBIDDING THE SMOKING A of opium, and in the last century, the efforts of the Chinese authorities to prevent the importa suppress a dangerous vice or to favour the tion of Indian, opfum, whether with a view to home-grown article, led to war with England, three-fourths of the population: are or ware is some parts of China-for instance, Amoy...---

determined to put a stop to the dangerous and antil lately, opium smokers. Now it in Bellev ed that the Chinesh Government is genuinely? enervating indulgence in this narcolic, and the opium-growers of India will have to limit their output and employ their land and labour for

It is the fact that the eating of oplum (for it is not "smoked" there) does very little harm in India, since it is not used-by a large": proportion of the people nor in excess. Many persons who have studied' the subject main- thin that the widely spread injury caused by which it has been in use there a comparad opium in China is due to the short time during with India. It is held that a population after sonous bet attractive indulgences by the kill. faw centuries becomes immune to such pois ing out of those who canner resim excess-and the suggestion is that the simplest way of dealing with such cravings for poison is to ter those who have them and cannot resist their demand freely indulge and die, and their stock Mr. Otto' Kong Ding, who represented the with them. This is, however, a slow and debtor, He Shiu Chas, said that all the credit-tadious way of eradicating sa evil, tendency.

The Oficial Receiver stated that there was or had agreed, to the composition... opposition from the European creditors, given:

fin Lordship stood by the decision, he bad

THE ORIGIN OF OPIUM,

SIR RAY LANKESTER.

when the production by careful and restricted

It may perhaps be the only way, and harnafter,

breeding of a sound and healthy population becomes recognised as being part of the duty of the makers and administrators of the law its civilised states, it is not improbable that wa shall see something of the kind deliberately put into practice.

His Lordship, in refusing to sanction the scheme,said:—I am asked to sanction a scheme Vicat Apostolic of songkong, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Community, sixty per cent, should be paid to the European of composition by which it is proposed that Bir Henry Berkeley, K.C., addressed 'the creditors and twenty-five per cent, to the gracious permission of the honourable body to had been present at the meeting and had as Council and said that ho appeared by the Chinese creditors. If all the Chinese creditora

half of the Roman Catholic community of the bat to sanction the scheme, but it was support the petition by. Dishop Foroni on be sented I suppose I should have had no option Colony. He was only going to briefly refer to the passed only by the statutory majority and petition. In referring to the second paragraph four Chinese creditors were not present. If of the petition, Sir Henry said that the route as I sanction this the meeting will be bound originally proposed and as he respectfully by it. I do not know of any daty which produced). If it followed the blue route Kings; if they are out of the jurisdiction they can submitted should be marked in red (plan compels creditors to attend these meet marked on the plan, the line would pass Glen-only appolat a proxy. It is true they do not saly and into the heart of the valley for a cou attend at their own risk but they are quite en- OPINION OF THE “YOROPZU CITOHO," siderable distance on a steal trestle some forty titled to leave the matter to the other creditors Waiting on the same subject, the Forodefect in beight. It is the passing of the carri because they know that the decision must Choke says that the amount of shipping sub-ages over a steel viaduct which he had come come up for the approval of the Court, Gas sidios annually granted by Japan reaches when the Committee would come to consi- treatment-but here I am asked to sanction an 10 opposa. It was his humble wish that thing they have a right to expect-equality of twelve million yen, which, in view of the de- sanctioned, is as to the fact of birth in the plated condition of finance, must be consider der the plan, they would reject it. I agreement for differential treatment I cannot Colony from which the legal consequence of ed rather excessive. The question as to the the Council of the noise which would neces sanction it, be illegal. The requisite statutory was, probably the experience of members-of sanction the scheme which would, bad I not to British nationality follows. It is very necessary continuance or discontinuance of the subsid sarily follow in such a case. If the line was to majority has not been obtained because the that such certificates if they are to be issued ies should therefore not be lightly regarded be confined to the red routs, it would carry the votes of the European creditors present were at all should be drafted with extreme The problem of shipping aubsidies has bepp line all the way on a solid foundation. No only gives on condition that they should obtain care. The idea on which they were

discussed in many civilised countries, and allowed clearly was that nothing positive from the result of such discussions it would cale thes could be legitimately complained a special advantags and they are therefore af should be stated and the statement of belief appear that the necessity or otherwise of That part of the line ould pass either fected by undao prejudice. must be limited to the fact of birth in the shipping protection largely depends on the derground or in deep cuttings which would Colony. Otherwise the issue of the certificates condition of the maritime trade of the country occupy very little space. It was in the highest may be sltended with considerable danger for, concerned. Generally speaking, the margin of for religious performances to be conducted degree desirable and absolutely essential I understand, that they are sometimes vited by profit accruing to the carrying trade in all in quiet. The speaker was also instructed to under the indenture and un the asıb Jude, 1907, the plaintiffs duly catered into possession foreign consuls for use in foreiga, ports and countries tends gradually to narrow down owing of the properties ander the power of the inden. it may well be that being under the seal of the rothe growth of competition and with the excep petition. Immediately adjoining the premises mention a matter which was omitted in the ture and were in possession, Lo Kwodg had Coleny they would receive a larger measure of tion of those who are trading under certsio of the Cathedral is a mission school. The made default in payment of the principal sum credence so far as the fact of birth is concero favourable conditions most of the shipping noise (if noise there will be) as Mr. Denison of $50,000 and had not paid the same ored than they are. anitled to and in law they companies in the world seem to be in a raiber any part of it. The Yuen On Insurance are open to two objections with regard to the bad plight. Since the saying that trade follows be extremely dislocating to the teaching in the would be able to convince the Council, would' Company, who were assignees of the equity statement of belief in British rationality, In the flag holds good, however, it is clear that school. He was also prepared to call evidence of redemption of the properties by way the first place they ignore the possibility, or the extention of the shipping industry can also emitted to the perition). In close prox.

BAR THE OPIUM PIPE of mariage, had by 20-indenture dated rather probability that some of the recepiebt urdly be hogersband for the reason proteiiralty so, the Cathedral, there were also a opium poppy, and not Asia, is even more smoking of tobacco used there or elsewhere. and the mode of smoking at present in usa-ÉRT" .15th'

́September, 1908, made between them and may be the nofortunate victims of double tion is indispensable,

That Europe is the original home of the China are very different from the pipe and 45 plaintiffs, assigned to the plaintiffs all their nationality, being Chinese as well as British countries of urope as England, France, and Mission. The proposed fine would pass class fief than the fact that Europexos gave tobacco ago in an opium-den near the London Docks, If such commercial number of houses occupied by tenants of the contradictory of our antiled traditions and be. I investigated the matter myself twenty year subjects, and secondly there is a regular pro Germany find the protection of their maritime cess for settling doubts as to anticnality trade necessary in different forms, it is well would not only spa by day but also by night. to and slightly above these houses. The cars 1858. It is true that that Act probably does people to compete successfully with theirfreige privacy of the inmates. This could only be sis cultivated variety of a Mediterranean pared opium, in a condition, resembling trea provided in the Legitimacy Declaration Act high impossible to expect Japanese shipping There would be an inevitable invasion on the tobacco, came to the Far East from Europe. The opium pipe has very AITOR CAVITY, to the East. Yet it is the fact that opiam, like under the Instriction of a polite Chicaman. not apply to a Colony where the Court rivals unprotected. Further, the condition of prevented by shutting the windows which,

The oplom poppy does not

of grow wild in Asia's about one-sixth of an inch wide. The pro has no divorce jurisdiction as here but that Japanese trade is so ibfavourably circumstang the speaker declared, was impracticable in poppy, the Papaver setigerum, which has cle is smeared on the walls of the oavily be the makes it all the more secessary to issue ed that it can make but little progress without this climate, The grand result would be a pale purple, Bower, and was conveyed, long pin, and the pipe is held to lighted lamp. certificates of nationality with the greatest. Government protection. The present develop- caution fest they should be confused with mont; of the country's commence in Chica, depreciation in the value of property. Be go, by man from the Levant to Arla We The fame draws into the pipe Chit the those issued under that Act. There is also North and South America, and other places ompared the fact that the Bishop was wild in England, all with splendid scarlet or does not "light" and continue to bura Rach have true pappies of four species which grow | ópiam to: frisale and give off smoke, but it another process for quieting doubts as to the owes much to the protection given to its ship presenting the petition on behalf of 7,000 crimson petals, easily distinguished, from As whif which the smoker intiles bark to be pro- right of a person to be a British subject provid- piag. If that protection is now withdrawn itisons. The prayer of the petition was that another by the shape of the send boses, or cape cured by applying the pipe to the lampa The ed by section 7 of the Naturalisation Act.

the routs marked in blue ba not approved. It seems clear that in applying the test of will be arrested if it does not actually decreed in red be adopted. He did not by any pics a milky juice appears. It it this which is inside of the pipe before the smoker, begin to He respectfully submitted that the rente markules, which they form. If you scratch the smoke is tasteless, and it requires a good deal domicile to any .casa, the Court has regard to Although there exista a necessity for the

surface of the seed capsule of one of these pop of patience and several resmearings of the the English notions of domicile and therefore protection of the maritime trade as set forth although domicile is obviously quite up above, continues the Yorodeo, much of the

collected from the capsules of this much larger experience pleasant effects of the drugite These. known to the Chinese we can, from the point benefit resulting from protection will be lost if

opium-poppy in India and Chibs, and, when consist in the production of a man of act of view of English law; talk of a China the subsidised people do not honestly carry out

which is contained a small quantity of the in or an even more alluring aspect, to all that one opium. It consists of resisons matter, la care, whilst the imagination gives a rose colour, dried forms a hard brown cake, which is called contentment and indifistence to all trouble and man being domiciled in China. Further the the object for which the subsidies are granted. ordinary rule applies that, nolessa domicile of Even in country like the United States,

The petitioner was, then choice is proved the domicile of origin is that whose trade grows ithout artificial encour

small quantities of other powerful poisons, the scenes valuable narcotic called amorphis, and also sees or thinks of until a gentle sloup closes The accident was the result of a gambling of his father at the time of his birth.. 1 may agement, there would seem' to, be a large | what, part of the Cathedral the confessions warn (Papaver'seligeram) was cultivated hundreds" | "cultivated the opium poppy, and made opium" raid at 7, Torsien Street, whịch was éngineered I therefore at once determine what the debigr's number of people who are in favour beard, the Bishop replied that occasionally. Pavan thousands of years ago in the South before, the prepared article, wie imported in The pale purple poppy of the Mediterranean The Chinese, having obtained; the seeds, by Sergeant Brennan, There were something domicils of origin was. The debtor is 53 years protecting whipping creed and so they were hard near the proposed line: but of Europe and on the Mediterranean shores of say great quantity from & Indictmen bard earned cents, when the officers entered the was.mach too young, in those days for me to fast spring. The Bill, however, failed to and fast rule; it' depended on the, number of } can be expressed from the „sood, e poppy seed done to a population" by the habitual<zas?pf); kafortymen seated around tables,sjaking the old, so that he was baru ja 1855. The Colony for this object was introduced in, Congress sometimes near the altar. There was no hard" } africa-not for opium, but for the oil which of course, no doubt as to the injury:¿which building, framediately that every direction tended to acquire such a permanent home in resorted to by those interested: it is reports the congregation Measts, Denison, Ram and also The oil is free from marcotic properties opines. At the same time, there in seede

there was a slampede assume that a Chinamian ever deliberately in become law owing to disclosures of Corruption to affect an excapa. About thirty man succeeded the Colony as is necessary to the acquisition that the Japanese shipping companies are as Gibbs) said that he had examined and reported The purple poppy is still cultivated for that who knows spything about medicing and In doing so, by way of cressing to the adjoining | of domicile. The father's domicile was that of | duonely endeavouring by questionable midde bouses; over the verandah. One man Chan China at the debtor's birth and I have no svid- to win over the members of the Diet to the on the line. The line would pass about Boyards of too, and poppy seed oil lean article, one of drugs who does not peek of Fak, was unsuccessful, however. It is believed once before me that his father changed bis side, so that the Japanese Shipping Subateway from the Cathedral. The cars would of commerce used as food, both in the pure with revelance and synsfactibor that in crossing he'slipped sad fell to the street, domicile and so his son's domicils before Bill shall be parsed... If this is trus the coun- tanke a railing noise when being worked, state and for adulterating other oils,

| agoy nem dinhar pRITY WKEIN (ha He landed on his feet, which saved him from the debtor could acquira-8* new 'demiclia e try should withhold protection from those com-

The fact that drums or pulleys would be used earliest coltivation of this poppy is evan AL CINES: af LARGE instant death. The police captured-thirteen for himself. His Lordship rabanter because the subaldy funddingthe bands. Pavis-cordistract, strEDITI KONATHONKADE DA cultivated it, and that the variety they obtain tached the

over a treatle bridge, would make a soflicient. tone the Brist lake dwellers o

remote in Europe as 7,000 for we and gested that they zakould, and

Stone Age order of eight thật viewed the evidence and procended." On the of such people is more than likely, to be mm: * There were two other raids executed ht about debtor's statement there can be no doubt that appropriateds. It is advisable that the Gover.

gation, the same time-one at: Wanchal, by Sergeant be cover acquired a permanent home in Hongment exact from these companies traces there was not thy method other than " Francis

Questionad by Mr. Follock as to whkher of was wearer to the wild Papayer, seligerum

thin to the modern" opi Davency, and the other by, Inspector Watt, at kong, This illustrates my belief that hardly that the subsidias will be honestly devoted to bridge, whereby the uxtent of the molte Bulkeley Street, Henghem., In the former, any thinsman who is merely a trader here the purpose for which they are empire and would be mitigated: Mr. Denison, replied that. Taid fooneen' man, were taken from, 7, Sud ever tours himself away root and branch from the same time the authorities should snores it could be landed by balng worked Street, and seventeen in the other. Adore his family village in China which is what is more strict supervision gyor the uks of the fund: Peralesmed castianed by ther bky/The gamblers":" were charged, jo" the Folica | required to establish a domicle in this Colony: than kaa: hitherto been the

that it would still

interest in the properties,

Mr. Leafe, the secretary of the plaintiff com- The first defendant owed his firms $50,000, fire pany, corroborated the above, and added that insgrance premium, interest, &c.

The order was granted.

GAMBLER'S MARVELLOUS

ESCAPE,

JUMPED FIFTY FEET AND SLIGHTLY* INJURED.

Falling fifty feet through space and landing on the street without sustaining any serious injury was the marvellous escape a contic experienced at West Point last. Wednesday night. Of course, the man was sent to hospital, suffering from a fractured log, the only lujury

that could be traced.

certain that the further growth of commerce

- Court,, on Thursday morning, and the nual | the whole idea of a permanent establishment: the grant of shipping subsidies

fines were imposode

in Hongkong with a fixed determination print) of so much agney

maans presume to lay down'a particolar couras to be followed by the Government but only opposed that portion of the route masked in noted the Council, would not require any ra blue. The revision of the plan, Sir Henry dmwing of the plan.

examined by Henry Berkeley. Asked by Mr. Chatbars in

*** Mr. (of Messrs.

Sir