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have they assembled only to learn that be tween whiles their studies have been in vain because new Bills had been prepared for their acceptance. Such a tinkering and patching have seldom been seen in a Bill which strikes at the roots of the Colony's policy, and were it not that everybody is convinced that the Coverament's sole desire has been to frame a measure, which will secure the support of the Council and be acquiesced in by the community generally, we should be inclined to suggest that it was an attempt to be wilder the members by a multitude of laby rinthine problems. But far from that being the care, it is us, clear as daylight that the Government has spent sleepless nights and arduous days over this unhappy measure with the sole object of flattening it into a form that would feast offend the suscepti- bilities of the public. If the Government MANUFACTURERS. entirely succeeded, the officials chatzed with the framing of the Bill are not to flame, for in the first place they were at tempting the next to impossible, and, is the second, they were lying in the face of the most cherished traditions of the Colony, And as ill-luck will have it, His Excellency the Governor is the greatest iconoclast. of them all. A sorry task he undertook, and we can admire the courage which enabled him to endure the opprobrium which must CHAM-attach to the exponent and advocate of an unpopular Bill. Necessity, however, knows no law, and it was either a duty on the iu ported liquor a duty which would affect all and sundry or an increase in the fees paid by licence-holders which would only hit the few-or bankruptcy. As the least of those evils, the Government adopted the principle of import duties, leaving it to the future to decide whether the policy as defined by the Ordinance will prove beneficent or the re verse. In order to impress the Council with- ¡the magnitude of the difficulties which have to be overcome by the Government, His Excellency went at some length into the fo- ancial condition of the Colony and a doleful, melancholy, depressing tale he had to unfold. The oftener We read His Excellency's state REFRESHING. ment the more dispirited do we become, but this question is not up lur discussion at present. We must leave it alone until the Governor presents the Budget for the year in the course of a few weeks. All we can say is that we envy no man the duty of seeking to make ends meet in this Colony, whose re- sources are limited and whose expenditure seems likely to become colossal. What we are -concerned-with-is-the-fagt-that-Hongkong-is

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MR. BUTLER WRIGHT BEFORE THE COURT.

The following report is from the Shanghal Time of 14th lost. -

fu H. B. M. Police Court, yesterday, before Mr G. W. King, Magistrate, the charges The Chiness section of the Canton-Kowloon gainst William Butler Weight, accountant on Railway, whose arrest was effected on Bep tember 6 on board the s.i. Tenyo Maru, "wane announced.

tration.

Mr. Douglas-I would ask to whom the warrant is directed?

His Worship To a chief constable, H.B.M.'s Consulate-General, Shanghai.".

Mr. Douglas-Then that is not the original

warrant.

His Worship-I believe it iş,

ICY QUESTION IN 'HOT WEATHER.

IMPORTANT JUDOMEST OF TECHNICAL

FOINIS.

The Court of Appeal in Hongkong delivered interesting judgments yesterday in be celebrat ed cap ice a plate ice action' instituted by the Hongkong Milling Company against Mesar Arabold, Karberg & Co. The plaintiff claim the plant supplied by the latter did not accord ed $100,000 damages because, it was alleged,

with the original requirements.

288 FORMOSAN ABORIGINES.

THE DIFFICULTY OF SUPPRESSION

A Tokyo dispatch to the ashi "quotes Mr. Oshima, Director of the Civil Administration Bureau in Fortinas, who is now in Tokyo, for the following statement on the question of con- trolling the aborigines:

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measure ushed through the Council with the utmost possible despatch. But that is not the way in which lawe of quch a drastic and far-reaching character are usually passed. This Bill to provide for the collection of duties upon intoxicating liquor"may mean the life or death of the Colony What is to prevent the Government of a future day saying: "You have adopted the principle

The control of the savage aborigines is the of import duties in respect of liquors; all we.

most difficult of the undertakings in Formoss, ask now is that you extend that principle to

The Formosan Government is much concerned raw sugar and rice"? Logically, the Gov.

ble measures for the suppression (febulas) of over the matter, and has been taking all possi", crament would be perfectly justified in 'tak ing. up"such an attitude. It would not

these people. The defence line could by now Sir Henry Berkatey, KC, and Mr. M. W have been advanced to some considerabla materially add to the labours of the "man

Slade, instructed by Mr. John fastlogs, ap-extent, but owing to a lack of funds it is impos in the brass hat" or dislocate the machinery Defendant was represented by Mr. J. C. E. peared for plaintiffe, defendants being repressible for the authorities to adopt all the desired for the collection of duties already in full Douglas, while Mr. S. H. McKean appeared on seated by Mr. MacNeil, from Shanghai, and meastires. The total force sow engaged in the operation. We have previously dealt with the instructions of the Crows Advocate, and Mr. C. J. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. H. W operations of advancing the defence lines is more the question of the revenue, which the Go. handed in the warrant received by the consular Looker, of Messrs. Deacos, Loker and Deacon. than six or seven thousand volunteers and six or in the course of a lengthy judgment the seven hundred police officers. This força in veromcat is the most sanguine spirit expects authorities for the apprehension of the accused,

His Worship said that the warrant was sign. Puisus Judge dealt with the meaning of the not regarded as strong enough to bring the to derive from the imposition of duties on intoxicating liquors. Well, he sees most wheed by the acting Ceasul-General, at Caston, and word clear as appeared in the warranty, and aborigines under the control of the authorities. lives longest, but we are of opinion that the ant, Cauton-Kowloon Railway, Chinese Secoce at all that the adjective "clear" had, in ponditure for this object to Y500,000 from

so forth that William Butler Wright, account. said there was as far as he could see no evid. It is now proposed to increase the adoqat ex- Government is unduly optimistic if it expects tion, did on September 14, 1908, and Decem. the ice trade any other than its ordinary mean- 'next year, the amount now appropriated being to gain seven and a halflakhs from the duties ber 30, 1998, fraudulently embezzle the sums of ing. It would certainly be difficult to say from 12,300,000. If this proposal is approved by on liquors in 1910 and ten lakhs in 1911 $5,000 and $13,000 respectively, the property certain passage in Borsig's catalogue whether the Dist, the operations for advancing the de We may be a community given over to the of bis employers, the aforesaid railway adminis, the words "clear" and "transparent were fance line will be greatly expedited; and in five cousumption of dutiable liquors but we are

opposed to ond another or not. On the

'or six years 'a' satisfactory result should be not without the saving grace of economy→→

whole he was inclined to thick they were attained. The region now occupied by the not. The suggestion made on behalf aborigines is about one half of the whole area compulsory in most cases--and a matter of

of the defendant amounted to this, both parties of the island. Taking the total area of Formosa ten lakhs of dollars is not the trifle that

to the contract were well aware that all can ice at 24,000,000 square ri, 13,000,000 square r¿ is certain people seem to deem it. However,

was inferior to plate ice. They know that the in the occupation of the aborigines. In some we will hope for the best and trust that the

Hongkong Ice Company made plate ice which quarters the action taken by the Formosan Go- eubanced prosperity of the Colony will gr

had no core, and that Borsig's plant produced vernment is regarded as being too lenient, and able the inhabitants to indulge in a luxury

can ice which had a core. When they agreed the authorities sta ur, ed to suppress the abori for the sake of the Government finances. Mr. Douglas-labould be directed to the the one to sell and the other 10 buy a cengines once for all. But such an undertaking in The principle is adopted and that is all there has no authority tosissue a warrant to any cus

officers of his ows Court. The Consut there ice plant warranted to produce ice equal in Impracticable. The Formosan Government, bas clearness to that of the Ice Company, they been convinced from past experiance of the im- is to say about it,

outside biz own provincial Court, but I shall had in contemplation that it would producis practicability of employing an organised mil not go into that just now. Mr. William Batter ice of am entirely different kind from, litary force in the aboriginal region. The defesce Wright is perfectly willing to give all facilities and for clearness in no way comparable line is now being advanced in the direction of to the authorities and to return at once toto, the Ice Company's ice. "It' would follow Toyen and Shiuchiku. The hostility to the Canton to go into any matters which require to

from this that when Mr. Renoie made bis advancing force now shown by the fierce tribe It will be remembered that some time ago be gone into in his business, and I do not con-

contract with Jardine, Matheson and Company of Gosioban, known as the Athiyaru tribe, is the Government was asked by the member sider it my duty to say anything just now about and gave a similar warranty of clearness for the due to the instigation of Chinese bandits who of the Legislative Council representing the the course which has been adopted. But I wish ice he was to supply, he knew perfectly well have taken shaker in the aboriginal region, Justices of the Peace a question regarding the Court to understand that we wish to give that it was a warranty be could never futfil. He but the tribe will be suppressed before long. the punishment meted out at the Magistracy have only one application, that is that the used. This much was at any zato certain, either mated at 170,000, including the Ataiyarn tribe, every facility for an immediate return, could not put this construction on the language The aboriginal population of Formpas įs'esți. in the case of a drunken man who prac: Court here should fix the amount of sure they did not really know very much about the dif- the members of which number between 40,000 tically ran amok and struck a Europears which the Court wall accept. Mr. Butler ferent systems of ice plant and their respective and 50,000 25 contrasted with a case in which a Wright is quite a stranger in Shanghai, producis and were content to give and receive ricksha coolie or some such person did and he does not propose to try to find the sure- guarantees in a somewhat onbusinesslike mán- 50 ne trivial thing and was fined a heavy ties here. For that reason I made no applica-ner, or they used words in a sense very diffi sum. At the time that question was subtion to your Worship earlier. But, I should cult from the usual meaning of those words, or mitted we suggested that neither were the like this Court, either yourself or the judge, to they really believed, whether wisaty or' prud.

FEARED INCREASE IN COST OF YARN.' fix the amount of sureties. Of course, the only or not, that with no up-to-date and cases analogous nor were they of importance.personality of the sureties must be fixed at scientifically constructed can plant they could But the other day we found in a corner of Canton, but I make this application for the turn out ice as clear and transparent in

The Oraka Amad notes that the dearth of the paper a small paragraph to the effect Court to settle the amount so that on his return every part as the plate ice. He was inclia-cotton-spinside operatives is becoming very that a Clilnaman, a shroff or

or assistant com. to Canton ho may be released at once. ited to accept the last-of-these alteroatives, pronounced of late, and new, mills just com pradore.in.one of the largest_shipping_firme.will.oot.be.possible for me to go down on the His Lordship went on to say thût it followed pleted are unable to carry on full operations. in the Colony, suffered to the extent of $100 same steamer as he does, and that would put that the ice produced did not come up to the For instance the Akashi mil! of the Bettan warranty and he found this as a fact. The Spinning, Company is equipped with eighty for an offence, which, with all deference, we bim in the position, if the Court does not submit was a pardonable, one, and also one grant my application, to have to apply for bail plaintiff's never got the ice they bargained for, spinning machines, but not more than fifty can personally. The Consul will not be in a position and he say no reason why they should be be operated, owing to shoringu o bands, while which any of us might commit unwittingly until a few days after Mr. Wright's return to obliged to take a quality of ice entirely different night work is completely suspended. Usual. As we have said, the paragraph was of no held a preliminary investigation,

to that for which they had contracted and ly in such circumstances a struggle “goes size, jusignificant, unworthy of attention, and

which they did not wast. To put a vow sort on between spioning companies, each en- cons'qu ntly the facts which led the

of ice of inferior keeping quality on the local ticing the operatives of the others to Magistrafe to appraise the delinquency at

market in the face of the powerful competition change their situation, but it has been" $100 are nutquite palpable. But from

of the Ice Company was a speculation on which discovered from past experience that such i why we gathered from what was stated

they were not called to embark, at any rate at struggle is futile, as trained operatives who are their own risk. There was a clear breach of easily induced to leave their places are unlike. at the first hearing slowed that a lukong

warranty. On the question ci special damages | ¡y to remain long with their new employers.- had come to the accused's on the out.

he reserved judgment.

This fact bas led all the companies to direct look or quest for a couple of men. The

The Chief Justice animadverted on the||their attention to the interior, whence opem- lukoug, according to the story we read; was'

manner in which the case bad been conducted tiver are now being recruited

The expenses incurred in engaging one operativa in the considered to be a masquefader by the

and said the case had been fought with an shroff and he promptly locked up the lakong

interior amount to about Yao' and the term of and his two prisoners in a room in the

service is from six tó twelve months. Thi XII building in which he was employed. Now,

naturally tend to increase the producing cost mark this: as evidence of the good intentions

of yarn. Spinners are therefore much concern. ed as to measures for improving the condition.. of the operatives in order to retain thidin longer. Many are convinced that excessive tasks are imposed on the operatives, who are

His Worship-I propose to adopt the course of returning him in custody

Mr. Douglas This Court has power, I be lieve, to hold the whole preliminary examina- tion, and this Court has power to fix the amount of the bail subject to the quraties them selves being agreed to by the Consul. I would ask the Court now to make an order for bail for his release on his arrival at Canton.

His Worship this warrant there are two charges, altogether for $18000. Supposing that after the warrant had been issued, sub-acrimony that was absolutely acecessary. sequent investigations showed that the amount alleged to have been embezzled was found to be considerably higher than the amount asked by this Court?,

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of the shroff, he mmediately telephoned Mr. Douglas-This Court can fix two rub

the application be made to the Consul at On- His Worship-I prefer. Mr. Douglas, that

to, though, of course, there is always an appeal to Sopreme Court on a question of bail.

He held that the cast for the plaintiffs was' mede out, and said the Court had yet to con- sider the question of special damages. It was a question they could not at present agico up- on, but they hoped in the course of the next

mest would be for plaintiffs with costs of the machine, exclusive of the question of profits, which would be referred to the Registrar 10 report. They would add to their judgment is chambers whether they could allow speeia damages or not.

THE HON. AMOS P. WILDER,

FRUIT SYRUPS,

mixed with aerated or plain water to become a full-fledged Customs station with its preventive service, its body of make excellent refreshing beverages.searchers, its informers on the hunt for honly and all the rest of it. The Attorney. General, as Mr. Murray Stewart point. Guaranteed to be made from the ed out, "built up a defence of certain important powers and gracefully retired under cover of it." pura juicó of sound ripe fruit.

One of those powers, we take it, was the right, to search the baggage of passengers arriving in the Colony. The Attorney-General Himself in one part of his speech seemed to indicate A. §. WATSON & CO., that such a power would be conferred when he said: "This Bill will, of course, contain such measures as are essential for the forcing of the duties which the Upancil em powers the Government to impose. The pro visions of the Bill in that respect necessary have been made, as hon. members will see when we go into Committee, as inoffensive as it is possible for any such measures to be. Of to the Central Police Station telling what hestantial securities-inen who would be interest-wesk to do so, when they would add it to their course, it is always disagreeable to have your had done. Is that the action of a man of ed in seeing Mr. Butler Wright come to his judgment in chambers. For the present judg. baggage searched, but the baggage is in most guile? Does it not show that he had a trial. Theis would be fixed, relatively speak. cases, got, searched unless there is some bona fide idea that the lukong was playing a ing, without reference_to_the_amount_of_ibs reason to suppose, that the person accompar! We should say here that we do not money alleged to be embezzled. Mr. Wright panying the baggage has in it articles fable know from the evidence recorded whether would have be difficulty in Canton in finding 10 duty, The Bill, of course, dots contain, the Chinese police official was in uniform or

Satisfactory sureties. and must contain, and would be no good muki All the game, the shroff informed unless it did contain," powers which give to the Central Police Station that he had in revenue officers the right, should occasion custody three men, one of whom pretended arise, to see that the Government is not to be a lukong, and he wished the police to being defrauded of revenue. That is all we inquire into the matter for themselves. 'It can say about those provisions." That state-

may be that, the shroff took, too much upon The rate per quarter and por mensem, proportionalment would lead one to believe that the himself, but we have all heard of the Subscriptions for any period less than one month searching of passenger bagga e'would be an "confidence trick" and it is possible that will be charged as for à foll month.... →

essential feature of the Customs officers' this shroff believed himself to be an duties, yet we find the Attorney-General-say-Oriental, Sherlock Holmes. On the arrival ing later on "With regard to the proposal of representatives of the Force it was found which we ori inally thought peemed neces- that the alleged lukong was actually and sary, and which some may still think neces truly and confirmedly a lukong. What is that the warrant comes direct from Canton, sary, with regard to the lospection of bag. happened to him and his two prisoners we and that the first charge was for Tls. 13,000 and that now there are two charges. I cannot gage, we propose to ask the Committee to

fix bail without knowing the whole circum. strike out that clause, without which we trust

stancos, to be able to make the Bill effective." If execution of his duty. He was tried and fined that means anything at all, it means. Some days later he asked that the that baggage will not be searched excuse be reopened in order that he might call cept in those cases where information had evidence: The petition was granted and the been received leading to the suspicion that fine was confirmed he had to pay the $100. smuggling was being attempted. The fart What we would submit is that anybody might is that while one section of the Legislative be guilty of such a blunder in the case of a Council was speaking with reference to oue Chinese lukong. We do not suggest that the Dill the Attorney General was dealing with lukong was arrogant, overbearing or dictatori- ON LIQUOR generallY,

a totally different one. Even the senior al, but if anyone came to an average busi unoffical member found that his arguments ness office, claimed to be. a Chinese police Hongkong at last stands committed to the were directed against a Bill which had been officer, and insisted on exercising his authority principle of import duties on alcoholic withdrawn in favour of a new measure which without giving any proof of his credentials, liquors, through the medium of a Bill whose apparently nobody had seen with the excep. we fancy the same thing might happen again. CAPTAIN Flagg of the Kwiwo had a narrow draughtsmanship is confessedly ridiculousion possibly of a few official members and Then why fine this unfortunate, shroff Srog, escape from drowning at Hankow last Tuesday and whose provisions are nothing more or as they took no part in the discussion their when he thought he was doing his duty as a evening. He slipped from the pontoon during less than a hatch-poteh of legislative enact opinion on the matter does not count. It citizen? If he had locked up the lukong the gale and fall into the river, fortunately fall "ments. Three times have the members of only shows the hasty and somewhat slipshod and let the others go we could see the force ing clear of the pontoon. After being buffetted the Legislative Council been called together fashion in which this Bill-perhaps there of the suggestion that he might be so acto reach the bund where Mr.Janitze, a tide about by the waves for some time he managed to discuss this question of raising revenue may be another in existence before this is complice, but he lacked up the whole lot and waiter in the Customs service, helped to pall from the importation of intoxicating liquors, printed-has been formulated, how it has crowned his exploit by telephoning to them ashore, The Hankow, Daly Natur records, three times have they collected their com been chipped and chopped and mangled Central Police Station. Where was the crime with a fealing of thankfulness, which will be bined thunder of disapprobation, on the out of all recognition and how the sole aim in that? And why was the punishment so shared in Shanghai,, that the Captain is ad woofficial side of the Rouse, and three times of the Government has been to get a beavy?

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cannot tell, but the shroff was arrested on a charge of obstructing a police officer in the

Mr. Douglas-Your Worship can see that The Washington correspondent of the Boston there is a difficulty. Mr. Wright will active | Transcript, under date of July 30, gives publici. them in custody, and would have to be remand- ty to a rumour that the Hon. A. P. Wilder,

there or make the application himself. Consul-General for the United States at Shang And Consuls are not so familiar with these hai, will probably be appointed to the position questions of bail as this Court is. If the Court of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in suc relased my application I shall have to make it cession to the Hon. J. B. Reynolds. We direct to the judge who will perhaps be the best sincerely trust that this rumour will prove to be man to settle it.

without foundation and, that Mr. Wilder may Carry out his original plan and return to Shang:

His Worship-Perhaps. However, all I know

Mr. Douglas-It is a matter of convenience

bai late in October,—Shanghai Timmés,

SIXTY persons have died of cholera in the native quarters at Chemulpo.

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DEARTH OF JAPANESE SPIN-

NING OPERATIVĘS,,

naw compelled to work eleven ar twelve hours e-day in factories at a temperature often_of ́more than 160 degrees F. But no, spinning, company will dare to take the lead in reducing the number of working hours, owing to the in- crease in the producing expenses of the yumm which would ensue. The companies are folly." aware of the disadvantíges caused by thair-apor. atives failing to remain in their service for more than a year, not the least being that the latter have no chance of becoming skilful so that on the average no more skill ́is shown than five or six years ago. In fact, an actual retrogression is observed. The low quotation, for rice now prevailing tends to, induce the

farmers to send their daughters to factories with a view to adding to the family income. How long this condition will continue it is ime possible to foresee, but it is feared that the dearth of operatives may increase, and, as ni- ready mentioned, spinners are directing mom attention to the improvement of conditions in the factories.-Japan Chronicle.

Besides Consuls are not so familiar with ques: THE French mail of the 17th August was deli- THE Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and tions of bail as this Court here.

His Worship-I don't think there will be any difficulty about that.

go back at the convenience of the Court.

Mr. Douglas Hi. Wright will be ready to His Worship-I shall have to consult with the consular authorities regarding that.

Mr. McKean-l now apply under rulo 38 that a warrant be issued to be sent to Canton.

The Court then adjourned, his Worship signifying that this would be issued.

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We have received a copy of the schedule for the 1910 Flower and Vegetable Bhow to be held under the auspices of the. Hongkong HorticulTur local agent of the Chinese Engineering tural Society. THE Paking correspondent of the Jiji Shimpo, output of the Op.'s thren "mines states that, with a view to assuming an active ending 28th August amounted to sole in mining, forestry, sailway and other ent and the sales during the period, jo terprises in Manchuria, America is andeavour tous For the week ending Septe ing to purchase the district of Changpeishan, 20,561.44 toos and the sales during the

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