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Intimation.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A‚D”, 1841.

AERATED WATER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY OCTOBER 11

MANUFACTURERS. ing the law of England to suit the require-pel the very people who are responsible

Canton Opium

Monopoly.

SUGGESTED ABOLITION. PROPOSED RAISING OF PRICE OF THE Drug, [Froia Our Own Correspondent.]

1.

1900

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necenally endorse the spinions expressed by Correspondents in thi column. LIFE ABOARD TRAMP STEAMERS.

To tam Kostol or tag "Hongkong Telxonan),"';

a kind of favour, as for getting oor brain clean. ed or beds made, that was quite onfefibe ques-^- tion (the Company made us supply cur own. bed and bedding). Our washing basins were 6lled at 7.30. a.m. but should we require any more water during the day, we had to fetch it ourselves or go, without.

dutiable goods which had been ordered those who enjoy the Peak Gardear need by contract the moment it received the have no misgivings test their little plot assent of the Governor. Curiously en of land be re appropriated. But what are ough, the Ordinance as it passed them to say about the.second Bill which can- Legislative Council-made no reference to verts the recreation grounds 'belonging to the the dificulties which are practically bound public ratepayers into money-making can- to crop up over the retroactive character of ceras which can be exploited by any gang of the law in respect of contracts. At the same individuals who choose to form themselves

Dear Sir,-Apart from mail-boats and regular In the face of these facts, can it be wondered time it is strange that the law officers res into a society, club, committee or corporation

traders the "tramp" steamers(ressels that trade at that boys do not care to go to tea, or that pënsible for safeguarding the interen of the oreven to come forward on their own hook

Canton, gth October,

to any port where a freight offers) and sailing-parents do not care to send their boys to sä? Government failed to incorporate in the in order to get what the Cockney irreverently submitted a suggestion to H. E. Viceroy Yoas eighty per cent of the whole of the Mercantile anything from £30 upwards, besides buying The Croton Anti-Opium Association has ships of this country, foren approximately ovar because if a parent has to pay a promium. of Ordinance the provisions pecessary to pre-calls a little bit off the top?" If you are to the effect that the Canton Prepared Opium Marine. The conditions of an Officer's life on vent confusion in the minds of those who persone grata with the Government or any Monopoly, now granted to the King Shung board these vessels are ably detailed by the pocket money for the four years he is serving an expensive outfit and keeping the boy in are immediately affected by the new law. It official who has some influence at headquar. Tong Company, should be abolished and that enclosed copy of a letter recently received from his time and has the expense of fees, etc., for is all the more astonishing that they should

ters it is possible for you to bar the the price on prepared opium should be simula member of the Imperial Merchant Service his examination for second Mate when bis have been guilty of such negligence when it gates of the public recreation grounds taneously raised in order that speedier progress Guild, the largest association of certificated time is finished, with the idea of his son be- coming an officer, and then for the son to come. is remembered that they were merely recast for a week at the time, and also com might be effected in the suppression of the British Captains and Officers in the world.

the suggestion a wise one and is evincing every habit of opium smoking, H. E. Yuan considers

As a waroleg to parents and others who into this sort of thing at a adminal salary of £7 ments of Hongkong. Clever and omnisci

for the upkeep of the grounds to pay through disposition to accede to it, but there are certain

lend sending boys to follow a seafaring carent 10. 0. or £8. per month, then he had far better as a profession 1 should be glad if you would keep his son ashore and put blm is affico ent thought the Attorney General's staff may the nose for the privilege of walking over financial difficulties to be overcome, before it find space is the enlamat of your valuable. be, we do not suppose that they framed the their own turf. That is, topsy-turvaydom can be given effect to, id H. E. Yana has given confer a great benefit on the public at large, descriptips being carried out on board the or apprentice him to a good trade, for as long paper for this leuer. By sh doing, you will as Master of vessels insist on routines of this Liquor Ordinance without the guidance sup without any fills. whatsoever. And he instructions to the Canton Government Anti- plied by the English Act, and we take it that Governor is to approve how the money taken Opium Bureau and the Board of Reorgani- the majority of whom are quite ignorant of the ships they command, then the conditions of the latter did not fail to take into considera- from the legal owners of the recreationation to hold a commission of inquiry into the conditions that exist in the Merchant Service things for officers will never improve. tion the importance of dealing with contracts grounds shall be applied. Well, in our question and to report thereon,

as far as Officers are concerned.

The enclosed in but a sample of hundreds of CHAM- concluded before the Act become an opera young and salad days, we believed that when tive force. We are not intent on searching a theatrical performance was given in aid of

letters of a similar pature which have been re- ceived by us from time to time. for reasons or causes that led to; this lapse, a charity, let us say, all or great part of the

Yours faithfully, which has compelled the Government to takings went to the charity. Now that we bring in an amending Bill to remedy the de- are older and viser we know a few of the fect, for if we were we should be compelled to multifarious meanings which may be applied arrive at conclusions not altogether favourable to the word "expenses." We wonder tothe strategical skill of the Government. But what proportion of the fees for admission we cannot get away from the thought that the dragged out of the evicted landowners, "accident" was an exceedingly, unfortunate the hai-pollo, will come under the cog- one. Those who are connected with What is nisance of the Governor? The object of known as "thetrade" willhave already conned and assimilated the dew sections which it is proposed to add to the Ordinance, the surn REFRESHING. total of the amendments being that any extra

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REFUGE AT HONAM,

Association has been established ai Hopam A branch refuge of the Canton Anti-Opium and was formally opened yesterday, where opium smokers who desire to get rid of their habit will be admitted for medical treatment free of charge.

THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

HANDSOME CHINESE DONATION.

prominent resident of Canton, has forwarded to We are informed that Mr. Cheung Pat Sze, a

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T. W, MOORE, Secretary,

The Imperial Merchant Service Guild.

Liverpool, 8th September, 1909.

To the Secretary,

Imperial Merchant Service Guild. Dear Sir, I shall feel much obliged if you can spare me a small space in the Guild Gazette to make a few statements which I think of nur cloth..

the Bill entitled an Ordinance to provide.E. the Governor towards the University en-might prove of interest to some of the members

for the periodical Inspection of Steam Boilers and, Prime Movers, is to provide for the "inspection of steam boilers and charges in the way of duties, storage in the prima movers" with the view to safeguard King's warehouse or other licensed godown persons employed in and about buildings are made payable by the purchaser over and where such machinery is used. We should above the amount agreed upon when the have thought that the necessity for such a contract for delivery was originally signed. Bill had appealed to the Govertimentong The rule also holds good that in the event ago. How the Colony has escaped from of the repeal of the duties or in the case of disasters through the explosion of defective their being decreased the purchaser shall boilers worked to the full extent of be permitted to deduct so much money their indicated power we cannot imagine, from the contract price as will be equivalent except, on the supposition that fools and to such decreased or repealed duty, and weans are the especial care of a merciful what is more important "he shall not be providence. Other Bills which have passed liable to pay or be sued for or in respect of the preliminary stage are ope aueading the such deduction". Another of the Bills Widows and Orphans' Pension Ordinance. which were read a first time was one refer-one is inclined to wonder if we shall ever get away from that classic "appropriation" a subject which is of perennial interest toand one in the interests If women and merchants in Hongkong as well as in the Far girls. It will be recognised, we think, that Hast as a whole. The Attorney-General we did not err when we suggested that had has explained in a memoranduin that the it not been for the all-powerful claims of the law and practice relating to trade marks in Budget and the character of the Estimates the Colony is not consistent with the law

these new Bills at which we have glanced and practice of the United Kingdom as em- would have provided an abundance of food

A. S. WATSON & CO to the intricate subject of trade masks,

LIMITED,

HONGKONG and KOWLOON.

Hongkong, 5th July, 1909,

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dowment fund the handsome sum of Sto0,000, which he has succeeded in collecting from re- sidents in the Canton dairict.

MACAO HANBUUK WORKS

SHANGHAI DOCKS SECURE CONTRACT.

Dock and Engineering Co., Ld, has been Thn N.G, D. Neurs learns that the Shanghai favoured with instructions by the Governor of Macao to build four steel self-discharging hop. lowering gear. The first two barges are to, be per barges with all necessary door Hiting and

delivered in Hongkong Harbour within three months from date of order and the remaining to six weeks later.

With reference to the alleged shortage of Officers recently discussed among shipowners and officers, etc., I believe the general opinion as to the cause of this "shortage" was, that there are not the number of boys taking up the sea as a profession as in farmer days, and the reason of this is due to the fact that there is not sufficient inducement to justify a boy in

following the sea. Being myself one of the many that "go down to the ssa in ships, J. why there is not the cecessary inducement. At should like to point out one or two reasons

present I hold a First Mate's certificate and up' to quite recently was engaged in Second Mate of a tramp steamer owned by a well-known Los. don shipowner, and as this was my first exper ience of a tramp as an officer, I must admit that the method of working considerably surprised mt, and, as I imagine there are hundreds of officers who do not realize what sort of a life the Mate or and Mate of this class of ship has

Perhaps some people reading these remarks will say: "Oh! ho'is one of those man who want to be pampered and is afraid of a little madual labour," to which raply: "Neither do I wish to be pampered, dor am I afraid of manual labour when It is necessary, for 1 happen. to be one of those individuals who, as the, say“, ing goer, 'has come up through the hawss-pipo,”. a fact of which I do not think I need be asham- ed". But what I do maintain is that when men have worked their way up and duly quali- fied to hold the position of an Officer then let them' be irrated as an Officer, and not as a sort of "glorified-boatswain-relieving;the bridge-for that it is decidedly bard lines to have to stand meals" sort of thing. For one must admit

by and see part of the work which is generally recognised as part of the Second Officer's duty, and for which he bas to pass au exám, bring entrusted to the Steward,

Now think these few items will conta as a surprise to at any rate a few of the members of our cloth whose life is spent in Mail boats and regular Lines, and when they have rend that it is not to be wondered at that boys of them they will be inclined to agree with m the present day do not consider there i sea. sufficient inducement offered for them to go to

Apologising for occupying so much of your valuable space. Yours etc.,

"MATE."

A SHIPMASTER'S CLAIM.

HARMS ION'S CIRCUS

LAST NIGHT'S SPECIAL VÉRVDAMANCE.

ACTION FOR ALLEGED WRONGFUL DISMISSAL performance given by Harmiton's Creus last There was a well-filled house at the specia! night, Several new acts were introduced dur-tour up with, I hope these few faces will bee Cooper, late master of the ss. Tak Hing In the Summary Court, this morning, before Mr. Justice Gompertz (Paisae Judge) Capt. W ing the course of the evening, one and all of those gentlemen and, should any of them brought an action against the Sze Yap Steam- which were thoroughly appreciated. One of

ever consider going in a tramp, make themship Company of No. 19. Connaught Road the features of the evening was the performance think twice before finally deciding. of the pony "Mascal," whe galloped for the there were only just the two officers. We went

I joined the ship in Hamburg and found that for alleged wrongful dismissal.

West, to becover the sum of 1858.33. damages space of a few minutes on a fast-revolving table round to the Bristol Channel in ballast and on

The amount was made up as follows-Amount of wages priza is intended to be offered to the person who the passage round I found I was expected to be

from the 19th September, 1909, to aud October, a sort of "general baudy mao" but having a new crew (and a Hamburg one at that', 1 concluded it was just until things got into a regular swing and so said nothing; however, after leaving our loading port and having gol away to sen, I was informed I was neither te

The Hongkong Telegraph bodied in the 1905 Act. It is now proposed for thought. But they were mowed under with perfect exte. With regard to this item,

HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1909.

SNOWED UNDER.

to remedy that condition of things and cer- tain alterations are made in the Ordinance by the amending Bill just introduced. Chief among the new sectipos are one which em- powers the Registrar to refuse to register a

gistered in any part of the British Dominions Tropa which the goods covered by the mark originate; and another giving the Court power to remove a mark from the register "upon proof that the mark conflicts with a mark which was registered in any part of the British Dominions from, which the goods covered by the marks originate before

the Budget and all its side-issues. It may be that they will emerge in the surface when the days of financial controversy have flitted past, but we doubt it, unless of couric the liquor merchants and the publicana de-

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. NORMAL cable communication with Formoin

is restored.

Tяs German mait of the 9th September wis delivered in London.on the 8th inst.

It is noteworthy that one of the chiclmark which conflicts with one already re-ice to have another fling at their grievances results directly flowing from the Considera tion given to the Budget speech delivered by His Excellency the Governor is the obs- curity to which several new and important measures, which were introduced at the same meeting of the Legislative Council, have been relegated. At any other time it is practically certain that each and all of the

A JAPANESE was at the Magistracy this more new Bills would have attracted a larger the registration of the first mentioned marking fined $5 for shooting a wild bird without a amount of public interest than has yet been in Hongkong." The verless tyro in matters permit evoked by them, for almost every one of the connected with the registration of trade. A CooLtz was fined $20 in the Police Court Bills deals with questions which are of un-marks can see what a fruitful source of in- this morning for keeping an eating house wirk deniable importance to the Colony and come this law may be to the legal profession. which may, indeed, lead to considerable The Act, however, has proved satisfactory in

out a licence.

:

NINETEEN men were fined $4 each in the board the 5.5. Tal Os

1909-51.8.33 : three months wages in lieu of

notice-$750.33:

Mr. M. Reader Harris (of Messrs. Wilkinson Sydenham Dixes (from Mr. R. & Harding'a and Grist) appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. P. office) represented the defendant company.

Mr. Harris asked for leave to amend the

quedar expected to bave anything to do with cisim. Plaintiff was not paid for the time he ike Navigation of the ship; all sights, azimuths actually worked-from 2nd September to 19th and bearings were taken by the Master (September, 1909. The additional claim was young man and not e Guild Member) and kept 5140.60, which made the whole amount 51,000. by him; the chart was certainly on the table ip the chart-room, which leads out of the Master's cahid, consequently we were not by any means

It was stated for the plaintiff that the action, wrongful dismissal, Plaintiff was engaged on was brought for the recovery of damages for

est time, full particulars of which will be duly can stand on the revolving board for the long. published: The graceful performance of Miss Nellie and W. Harmston-Love on bareback borses was very enthusiastically received while the triple jockey act by the three Harmstons was equally good. Rudsit, the Tramp Cyclist," made an imaginery cross-country cir cuit under decidedly difficult conditions and during his journey, discarded about a dozen collars and left the stage with as many more to spare. The other new turas were all good and do not require any detailed description.

An entire change of programme will be in. secouraged to look at the chan. When at sea, the 1st December last on the terms that he was troduced from to-night.

the Master would and rated the Chronometers, to be the master of the s.a. Tok Hing at a salary and when in port, and the Master was coton of $375 a month for the first six months and on board, the Steward wound them and just $350 a month for the second six months, Thera before leaving port, it was not the Male or Second Mate who got the necessary chatts. rulers, dividers, etc., out and screwed the Chro nometers in their places, but the Steward When at sea, I was expected during my watch on deck to alwayabe doing something, either sewing canvas, meading flugs or looking around

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A DEAL THAT WENT WRONG.

ALLEGED CHARCES OF FALSE PRETENCES

AGAINST IROKER.

Cember. No mention we made in the agree was a coefirmation in writing on the and De-

and the right of dismissal. ment as to the period for which he was to serve

of these.cates?

The Puisse Judge-Mr." isa, bad a number

discussion, if not litigation, in the future. the United Kingdom for the last four years. Polico-Court-bis-morning for gambling Queen's Road Central, was charged with: (1) after the Bos'un and the watch, but never by mention made in the agreement about the time.

ACCORDING to the newspapers in. Lisbon, it is possible that the demarcation of the frontier between China and the Portuguese Colony of

Mecso will be submitted to arbitration

Mr. Harris replied that there was no defibite

A peculiar cale was heard at the Magistracy this morning, when Yeung Sau Shan aliax Yung Yu, alios Liang-Chung Ting, a broker of obtaining on the 13th April. 1909, from Ng any chance, excepting Sundays, keeping my plaintiff was to serve on the Tak Hing but there is under false pretences the sum of $140.50 watch on the bridge as a watch should be kept, was no doubt that it was for a period of sze (gold); (3) obtaining on the 13th April, 1959 Among other duties that the Second Mate was year. In a former case of a similar nature, Mr. $500 (Hongkong currency) under falle presupposed to perform he was to be responsiblefor Justice Wise laid down a despite ruling of tences, and (1) on the 9th July, 1929, obtaining the wheel-house being kept clean, scrub it out three months. under false pretences the sum of Taels 412.

It appears that an arrangement was con.

and polish the brass in it, and on the home-

Although the Liquors Ordinance is scarcely and there is no reason to believe that it will a month old, the law officers of the Colony be other than workable in Hongkong, Two have sirendy found it necessary to introduce pew. Bills, which without much difficulty Bill which has for ite purpose the amend might be classed as a single measure, have ment of the Ordinance in some vital respects. reference to the recreation grounds in the It has been the aim of the Government, as Colony The first provides for the reserva- we have been over and over again assured, tion of certain lands in Victoria, the Peak Lo Suys, who was extradited to Cooton from to bring the Liquors Ordinance into opera District and Kowloon is recreation' grounds; Hongkong a short time ago, has been found cluded some time ago between the com- tion with as little derangement of the exist. while the second which is to be known as the Ruilly of armed robbery. Ha, was on Friday plainant, said to be a Chinese military offi. solely by the Master and Second Mate. As toment: On the 19th September, 1909, plaintiff ing conditions in the liquor trade as possible, "Public Places Regulation Ordinance 1870. taken out from the Pan Yo prison to the exec cor, and the broker, whereby....the Jaiter who would be kald responsiblo if any accident defendant company, to the effect that bis

tion ground and beheaded.

WR are requested to state that, owing to the unsettled condition of the weather, the small "At Home" at Mountain Lodge for which in

been postponed until.Thursday, 14th instant.

ward passage the whole of the upper and served for six months, at the end of which period Continuing, Mr. Harris stated that plaintiff lower bridges, including, two botik, was painted bis salary was increased according to the agree received a letter from the maonger of the services were nd longer required, with

happened during my watch and I was not on the bridge, nobody seemed to consider that point, bus I presume it would fall to my lot

instructions to hand over the ship's registers to Mr. William Bishop, who was appointed to

the Tak Hing.

consented to act as a go-between la procure for the complaisant a concubine, for which purpose defendant was given on divers dates sums aggregating to about $1,500. Somehow

One more item I should like to meation, on 7. Mr. E. Hinds appeared for the complainant, Buenos Ayres, aiub of ten days, there was a duties on liquors supplied by the wholesale poses of a scientific, educational, charitabie MESSRS. Guthrie and Co., agents for Kamun. Barlow and Mortal) defended. The cate was taken up out of No. 3 batch and put on deck, Yap Steamship Company, then went into the

which Mr. Leo d'Almada (of Messrs Goldring quantity of coal, (less than too tons) to be also gave evidencapering

the Mate and myself were asked either to turn.

Haintiff we called into the box; where' he Mr. Municy, Chief Officer of the s.. 8kiu On, Mr. Tiem Kal, Managing Director of the Sze witness-box,

And, for that reason, it was specifically de- Amendment Bill," gives the Governor power clared that the stocks bald by licencees prior to close the recreation grounds for any period to the passing of the Ordidance would be re- not exceeding seven consecutive days "for garded as non-existent so far as their liability the purposes of exhibitions, lectures, con- to the payment of duty was concerned. The Ceris, athletic contests, amateur performances, vitations have been issued for to-morrow, hy, or other, the deal sell through; hence the action. the passage down from our discharging port to gave lengthy evidence. still more important question of imposing bazaars or males-of-work or for any other pur-

firms under contracts signed before the or social nature, and to authorise any society; ing (Perak) Rubber and Tio Co., Ltd., have readjourned. passing of the new Ordinance was left out club, commillee, corporation, persons or ceived notification that the results for last month A FURTHER Marconigram has reached Yoko- of account, and as it did not appear from person to grant admission to the building.wera -rubbar (dry) 4,500 lbs; altis revenue bama from the Empress of India, to the effect the terms of the original Bill that the Gov- garden or place portion thereof so closed $6,4%. The figures for the preceding month that the steamer was, at 11 p.m., 9th October, ernment contemplated the idea of making or enclosed by ticket or otherwise on pay- were 5,000 lbs, and $2,400, respectively.

1,500 miles dinant from Japan. This is well the provisions retrospective merchants and ment of such sum of money as the Governor HIS Honour Mr, E. Lindsay Smith (H... on towards half the distance between land and 'that these contracte would not come within monies received for such admission may be Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, and Mr. J. c.gais ont of range of Japan she will be within three sailors and ano fireman, six men at work | Les, of the tri Yap Steamship Company, stated

their representatives were content to assume may approve or without payment, and any | M.'s Assistant Judge at Shangbal), Mr. J. W. land and the probability is that as soon as she

the terms of the law. Such an assumption applied for such purposes as the. Governor { Douglas, arrived by the French mail Oceanien wireless reach of the station on the Canadian the whole time, and the fact of the Master and that on a cestald Sunday, the Shun Les was.

this morning, on their way to Canton for the side. trist of Mr. W. Butler Wright.

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to and work coal with the crew or else take

Mr. Harris-Isn't it a fact that you offered to four hours, wheel and let the man go from there-instate Captain Cooper is the ship last week? -wheel and work, ibe Master of the Ship him.

Witness-No. self shovelling all the time. I might mention

this was quite unnecessary as it was flac wen

ther and there were, the Carpenter, Boson,

is

Didn't you offer on any terms?—No, into articles with the crew till January next?--- Did you ever authorise Captain Cooper to enter No.

Captain Cuberon, master of the La. Shun

Officer doing that sort of work does not tend moored on ens side of the whad and the Tab. At the Summary Count, this morning, the

to improve disciplina amongst the man. ing on the other. Witness, in company with THE Viceroy in Canton has confidentially Faise Judge (Mr. Justice Gomperts) presid certainly was not much to complain of, except they saw Caplato Cooper waving his bande As regards the accommodarian, etc., there the Chief Officer, was pacing the deck, when telegraphed to the Grand Council, reporting ing, an Indian named Mangal Singh and Mr.ing the fact that we two mates (who were of about in an excited manner, The Chief Officer great agitation in that province over the Macao 1. H. Pidgeon for 5 to due under a promissory course on two watches, which fact alone proceeded to the fore part. Captain Cooper went to the after-part of the bridgs and witness Boundary question. The Council replied by ote dated batat Angust, 1908. Mr. Leo. enough to turn most men away from the ship), used strong language and, looking at witnes ordering bir to take necessary precautions d'Almada (of Messrs. Goldring, Barlow and bad nobody to look after our rooms properly exclaimed "There he is!" and, called out to Morrell) represented the defendant. The plain the Engineers of course bad their boy so keep knock the by head out of you1 Ha Witness 44 Come on board the Tak Hing and AT the effices of the Public Works Department half of the defendant that bankruptcy proceed evidently not supposed to want theirs done, the bridge, who rose sad remed to urge him tiff appeared in person. It was stated on be their zooma tidy and clean, but the Males won this alternoon Shaukiwao 1. L. No. 418 was ings had recently been taken and defendant

Was at the time entertaining some floods on put up for sale by public auction and bought could not obtain work for comiderable rapidly sp. ilt by being made the Captain's con defendant company went on board the Tab the Steward (a really, exdeliant mas, but being on. At about 5.30 p.m. the manager of the At all events, we by Muum. Un Kam Wa and Li Yau Chues time, but lately, however, he had secured am fidant) washed the floors of our rooms once a ing and only afterwards, proceeded on The lot contains 4500 square feet and the which he had to pay $50 for board and lodging ward is reminding us of the fact that it was at Farther evidence having been called, the for 54,520, that is 510 above the upset price, playmant at a salary of 250 a month, out of week but faished at that, and, was not back the SA Los, when he made Inquiries annual Grown rent is 84,

a to Captain Cooper, A stay of execution was granted for a month, I actually part of his work and he caly did it at cysg was adjourned

was wholly without foundation, although no may approve. With regard to the first doubt it might be possible to construct some Bill, power is granted the Governor to re- sort of analogy between the non-imposition appropiate the land if it is considered in the of duties on liquors held in stock prior to interest of the Imperial Government or the the operation of the Ordinance, and the Government of the Colony to do so. Now non-payment of taxes on liquors contracted we should like to ask-What is the mearing for, that is to say bought but not supplied, of that provao? We cannot believe it was before the 17th September when the Ordin put into the Bill simply to fill out the ance cluse into force. It seems, however, measure. Perhaps it may have some re- that the Govemment had no intention of ference to those recreation grounds with waiving its undoubted right to collect duties the grandiose titles, the Blake Gardens on the goods supplied under such circumor, West-end Park At all cost stances. In other words, the law became feel confident that we are echoing the retrospective, in fle, action in the use of rows of the Government when we say that

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jagainst possible disturbances,