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That gives it all its flavour.

The French Mail, which left Hongkong on May 23rd, was de- livered in London on 24th inst,

Taking advantage of the fine weather on Saturday and Sunday, Stonscultors were trowded withi bathing parties and pleasure. sookora.

A Chinese house boy was nearly

day. He got out of his depth and as he was in difficultion, he was pluckily saved by another house boy.

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SUPREME COURT.

A Question of Age.

An Amusing Case.

tion. There seems to be so many His Lordship Do you agree, ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, little points of fact. Fought really Mr. Potter, to the appointmout of

KOWLOON. to have Chinese assossore, unil assessors, and then that githor then I should have roforred it to a party shall move for judgment, so small board of Chinese experts. that the whole law on the subject Opening of New Organ You see there is also the question can he urged? My difficulty is On Saturday at St. Andrew's that it will create further expense. Church, Kowloon, thore was a of identity. would know her son and an aust shin's hadis.

Mr. Alabaster:-Tho mother

Mr. Poltor; I am in your Lord-largo ationdance on tho oosion can identify her noplow.

of the service of the opening of His Lordship: What is the sum the church organ and for tho in issue?

dodigation of the church windows. Mr. Potter: $3,000.

The dedication service was per Mr. Alabaster said he had treated as an adjournment of this of Victoria and assisted by the His Lordship: This could be formed by his Lordship the Bishop proved cortain things, and if his caso. Mr. Eldon Potter appeared for friend got in the register, which

Vicar, the lov. H.O. Spink. Thoro Mr. Paltor: That would mini-was also a large body of clergy the plaintiff (instructed by Mfr.ho thought was wholly inadmis-mise the costs. Willson) Mr. G. O, Alubinster (in-siblo, ho could call evidence on Mr. Potter said that if in fact of the service his. Lordship in a participating. At the conclusion structed by Mr. d'Almada) ap-

that.

his friend could not prove the fow remarks recalled the liborality

At the Supreme Court this morning, before Sir Francis Pig gott, the Chief Justice, an issue was hoard between Cheng Hing on, otherwise.Hin Hing Tong, and O. Wilson, Tang Pun Sang and Chan Wai-San."

Tang Fun Sang.

His Lordship:-Ho looks much older than 21.

And

drowned at Stonecutters yaster-pearing for the second defendant, His Lordship: The whole law date of birth, then he smittod of the congregation in providing

of evidence seems to be against the judgment would follow in the funds for the organ and also The action was the trial of an overything. All'ovidence excopt plaintiff's favour.

forrod to the generosity of Sir issue as to whether the defendant that of the father and mother- His Lordship:Yes, that de Paul Clater, who gave the church named, was an infant on the diato Mr. Alabaster-But I have ponds. Supposing my finding and vicarage to the people of when the cause of action accrued, been very strict.

was that the alleged date of birtli Kowloon. Holders of shares in companios and that the costs of that applica- His Lordship: A man cannot was not proved, then I should the

Mr. E. J. Chapinan owning rubber plantations in the tion be costs in the enuse,

slate his own ago. I don't want have to consider what the position the honour of opening the now Malay Statos, will learn with Mr.Alabuster said that the action to use a disrespectful term, but I wasof course. I shall have to con-organ and

lis recital was rogros that the season

has was brought under His Lordship's admit you have got shrods of sider it, and in order to save the greatly approoiated. The follow- boon a very dry ono, and it order that the parties should pro-evidence.

trouble of Chinese assessore, ifing is the programme:-1 Grand is reported on good authority, cood to try, without ploadings,

you agree to my consulting them Choeur Alla Dandol, Quilmant; 2 owing 10 the ab whether the dofondant, Tang!

in chambers, I think we can andnuto Cantabile, Widor; 3 sence of rain, none having füllen Pung Sang, was

waive the point. Counsel agreed Adagio from Sonrta, Morkel 4 |for six wooks, the rubber trees and whether the costs should

and the case proceeded. Canzona, Wolstenholmo; Mar- aro drying up and the yield for be costs in the action. The origi-

che Solonuello, Mailly. al action was a claim for money lent on 9th and 15th April 1910,

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Mr. Alabaster: My Lord, it cannot possibly be ronger. an infant

His Lordship: But when you have a man who acts as if he was age, and who looks as if he might be 30, I must have evidence,

Mr. Potier submitted there was

Mr. Alabaster submitted the contention, that a Chinaman who was born in tho. 11th moon, and! The writ was issued in May of the What woight can I attach to the was 21 according to English .N., bas spoken strongly regards year. The question for hie ovidence of this woman who says reckoning, was 23 according to ing the Yaumati Ferry. Some-lordship to try was whether Tang that her son is 23, and yet doesn't Ulinose reckoning.

Pong Sang was 21 years on the know the date he was born. thing ought to ho done, and any 9th and 15th of April and he,. After further argument, is offence which conas bafore him-- that is allowing persons to stand counsel, intended to prove that he in front of the Coxswain-will be worn on the 20th day of the 11th moon of the 15th year of severely dealt with,

Kong Sai. That was 12th Dec, 18. Consequently on April 9th 1910, he would be twenty years and four months, about.

Iron Bux and Kid Marriott-

the

Mr. Potter:-My friend ought

Iron Bux and Kid Marriott are to moot for the bantoni weight After Saturday's fight, championship of the Orient. forthcoming contest should to have told your lordship that be worth seeing.

it is admitted that the dofondant Gambling Again.

was a partner in the firm, that we Gambling amongst Chinese, la lent the money, and that the even in the principal streets, grows only outstanding point was the question as to the defendant'sage, done to romedy what is proving- The mother of the dofendant to be a growing evil. To-day as said she remembered the day and ono walked along, numerous gangs the moon he was born, but she did woro scen playing pitch and not remember the your. He was

born in Canton,

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CHINA'S RAILWAYS.

Chinese Engineering & Mining

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Mr. Potter: Are you aware that your son ontored into a partner-

Do you know what this case is about ?—I am aware now that it is about business, but I did not know.proviously.

We are informed by the Chi-Ship and subscribed $3,0007-No, nese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, that the total tput of the Company's three minos for the week ending 10th Juns amounted to 35,408,54 tras d the sales during the period, to 39,268,75 tons.

Short Life of a Newspaper.

A native paper in Canton was suppressed by the order of the Thotai of the Constabulary after the second issuO.

Japanese in Johore/

Police Promotions.

The Decorations.

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Are you aware that your son entured the Diocesan School?-1 havo hoard his father spook of it, But you are his mother!-Yes, I know he entered the school.

Are you aware that he entered school and was rogistored as he ing born in 18887-No.

Mr. Alabastor: This is not

no evidoneo which proved that the defendant was born in any particular year. There was no case for him to answer, and no

evidence giron by the two women.

Hymn 215. The specification of the organ, which was built by Messrs. J. W. Walker and Sons, London, is as follows:--

Compass: Manuals-C, C. to A.-58 Notes. Pedals-0.0.0.

Lordship said it really was a quos ion which ought to be decided by assessors, the Registrar General and a Chinoso assessor, for in-evidence to substantiate the 8 feet, 3 Dulciana (Tenor) stanco.

Mr. Alabaster: I thought so, but I came in by order of the Court. Has your Lordship any powers to call assessors?

His Lordship: I doubt very much whether I have.

After the Codo had been looked

into his Lordship said he had power to call in assessors. He should prefer to rofor the matter to a referee and assessors, or two reforoos.

Mr. Alabaster: If you have to many refercos i perhaps should be tied up so that

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His Lordship: I should only have two.

Mr. Alabaster But supposing your Lordship said Mr. Brewin and Dr. Ho Kai, I should perhaps ike to call one of those two gentle. men as an expert witness.

Mr. Potter:-Did this boy ever wear a beard?—No.

Where did this young man go to school-le went to the Diocesan Sohool when he was lifteen years of age,

How long was he at the Pliocesan School?-Two years:

His Lordship considered there was evidence, He was cloar ho should not give judgment on it. There was evidence, however, which ontitled him to consider whether he should give judgment.

Defendant was called into the witness box and admitted that his other nano was Tan Hin Ying and under that name he joined the Diocesan School. He was asked how old ho was and he gavo his age as fifteen. This was in 1903; he did not say he was born in 1888.

His Lordship:-Thoro is no- thing suficiently reliable for me to catei bold of

Mr. Potter-1 sumbit there is nothing reliable on the other side.

to F-30 Notes.. 4 Great stops. Open Diapason 8 foot; 2 Wali

& feet, Harmonic Flute 8 foot. 5 Swell stops. 5. Open Diapason. (Tenor C) & fest, 6 Stopped Din- pason 8 feet, 7 Spare Slide for anba, 8 Principalo 4 foot, D Closed. Horn 8 foot, Pedul, 10 Bourdon 10 feet.

Couplers: Swoll to Great, votave, Swoll to l'edul Gront Podul.

Accessories:- Composition Pedals to Groat, 2 Composition Pedals to Swell, Balanced Swoll Podal.

The pipes for No. 7 (Camba). and the bottom octaves of Nos. 3. and 5 are not yet insertod, but « they are prepared for, and will be addler when fumla are available.

The organ, which was orceted ir... Duncan assisted by by Mr. B. L. Frost and Mr. E. J.

Ilis Lordship 1 am going to consult Dr. Ho Kai and Mr. Bro-hapman, cost about £150. win. Im going to do more. 1

An "At Horo" took place altorwards at the Vicarage.. am going to take them into my confidence, and ask them to help mo appreciate the evidenco..

The court was adjourned sine (lia.

OUR PHILIPPINE VISITORS.

ECHO OF THE REVOLT. Bathing Party at Stonecutters.

In Canton.

Our distinguished visitors from the Philippines, the delegates. (TAN "TALESCAPE" CORRESPONDENT.} from America's insular posses- Canton, June 24..sions to Hongkong on the ocen- As the result of the Canton sion of the Coronation Celebra- tions, lave land occasion t furm, an impression of a distinctivo fen-

It is carrontly rumoured that evidence. The register does not When did ho onter into the Japanese havo acquired from speak for itself. Your Lordship business?-The year before last. the Government of Johore, large hold that in the case of a prison What business that?-I don't tracts of land in that section, to be register recently,

know. He said he was going to devoted to the planting of rubber His Lordship: I should have do the Wilson (laughter.) The Chinese government has practically pledged itself to the troos. Wimt the exact nature of the thought there were such things nationalization of the Canton-Hankow and Szechuan-linkow. Rail-concessions are we have not been as who made the entry and so on: $3,000 capital to the Wilson firm?rovolt, many houseowners were

Are you aware ho subscribed ways, by an Ipiperial Decres of June 19th, which clearly outlines the ablo to ascertain. There has been don't suppose this woman made-Ile told me so. policy to be adopted by the Government with regard to these most but little said publicly in con- any entry.

Where did he get the money ?-punished, and thoir properties ture of life in 'Hongkong at this nocossary means of communication. The history of Chim's railway nection with these grants of land, lovolopment has been mique. In the first place, instead of dealing the negotiations leaving been so

Mr. Potter: No, I'don't think Hero, there, and everywhere sealed and confiscated by the time of year. There is no guin- with the undertaking as one complete whole, it was divided into as conducted very quietly.

government not for having inten-saying that the afternoon harbour Laughtor). many parts as provinces, through which it passed, the governing

In answer to Mr. Potter, the Further arguinout followed, tionally harboured revolution-cruises and the bathing parties in body in each being responsible for the due execution of their part

witness said she did not know by during which his Lordship said aries, but for their carelessness summer have become an import of the construction. Nor did this strange method end here, for each boon made in the Hongkong mode.

The following promotions have whose information the entry was that whether an infant could con- in letting their houses to re- ant part of the daily round of individual district was required to find the money for their part of the Police-Inspector Callott, chief

tract in Hongkong, was a question volutionists for occupation before pleasures in the Colony, work. That any progress was made at all nuder those circumstances is detective inspector, on six months' tion, asked the other how old was in fact an infant was a question haud, the polico and the soldiers and his entourage were given an Mr. Alabaster, in re-axumina of the English law. Whether he the outbreak. On the other Brigadier - General Pershing truly surprising, but the fact remains that some work was done probition; Crown-Sorgt. J. J.hor son (the defendant) was, ac of his own law.

were promoted or rewarded, al-opportunity last week end to tako how, we can hardly you tell. That it was done extravagantly no one Watt (No. 22), acting inspector cording to Chinese reckoning. can doubt, for ramour to that offect, and well nathenticated rumour on the detective staff; Leo-Sorgt. She replied be was 23.

His Lordship pointed out the though they had not been able part in one of those afternoon at that, has been float for months. It was natural that the Poking Baker, on leave, to be acting

manner in which the writ was to locate the whoresbouts of the excursions afloat. The Govern Government should become cognisant of the facts, but peculiar that crown sergeant; and P. C. Per-that ho was the son of her elder "whether the defendant wasnu of arms and ammunition before Stanley at the disposal Of our An aunt of the defendant said drawn, and said it was worded anarchists, and effect any seizurement placed the steam tender they dolayed taking action so long?

kins (No. 18), to be acting leo. brother by the fourth wife. The government's notion for the remedying of this chaotic state sorgt, to slate from 13th May.

infant." His difficulty was that the outbreak of the revolution. Amorican friends last Friday. Do you remember attending it went so counter to his own free themselves from blame, when loughby steered his yacht for Moreover the police could not three o'clock Cupt, Wil- of affairs is at once drastic and excellent. It will resume possession of the railway and present shareholders will be allowed to exchange

any ceremonies in connection with views on the law. On Saturday evening, the his birth?--Yes. their shares for Government Railway Bonde, bearing at the rate of crowds in the streets almost

Mr. Potter said he had come they had been furnished with the Blake Pier where he em six por conf. per annum. In this way the construction of the equalled in number those which ceremonies took place?

How old was he when these prepared to argue the question names of the new tenants by the barkod his guests. They were line will be expedited-at least it is hoped so, though it would be had paraded the thoroughfares on month. :*:

One from the Chinese standpoint. The Inndlords. The police got the accompanied by Capt. P. II. foolial to be too sanguine and much of the necessary expense the two previous nights. The

writ simply said "whether the reward after the revolt, hat the M. Taylor, A.D.C. to the Governor, will be curtailed. The shareholder's interests seem to be adequately decorations, however, were not on was?-He was born on the 20th Mr. Alabaster said the whole punishment for their mistakoa in secretary. At first, the party in-

Do you remember when that| defendant was an infant.” --

houseowners not only received and Capt. H, Simson, privato provided for and those, who do not curo to exchango into the the same scale, many of the day of the eleventh moon. government security can sell to the authorities at the rate of 60 per buildings having been stripped

object was to clear up the question having accepted undesirables as tended going out to Deep Water cont, ad valorem and the balance of 10 per cent, after the expiration of of thoir festival dress which had better answer the question.

His Lordship: 1 think she had of birth. That would leave them their tenants, but suffered hard- Bay for a "dip."

After passing 10 years. In any event objections of shareholders will be simply a donc service during the Corona- It was again put to her and she law.

an opportunity of arguing the ship and loss of their properties. Green Island a slight swoll was matter for equitable arrangement as far as possible, for it is the tion fete. Displays of fireworks replied "How can a woman know j expressed determination of the Government to resumo control of what were given on the Parade Ground these things"?

His Lordship: Looking at the is, and always should have been, a national undertaking.

order, it is very much broader and in Statue Square, and were Mr. Alabaster: If he were than that.. It is rocalling old history when we remark that the witnessed by many thousands of born on that date would he be in builders of the tower of Babol failed because of want of unity, spectators. It was a matter of his 22nd or 23rd year?

Mr. Alabaster: My friend can and it is quite conceivable that the construction of the gonoral romark that the polico Mr. Nolun, the court interpreter,

tako his points at the trial. Chinese railways would have been still merrily proceeding till the arrangements right throughout was'roplying when His Lordship date of the birth then the ques His Lordship: If we find the Trump of Doom, had the prosent system continued for exactly the the Coronation fastivities were intervarod with the romark:- same reason. Authorition have been at cross purposes, delay and well thought out and admirably

tions of law can be argued after always delay has been a marked characteristic of constructional executed. Notwithstanding the Nolan's evidence upon this.

I don't think we can have Mr. wards. methods. Naturally chaos was the only outcome, money was being density of the crowds and the Mr. Alabastor-I thought your frittered away, and the end was no more in sight, than when the crushes which occurred in certain lordship had decided the question first length of rail was laid. At the same time China is taking a streets while the procession was judicially? most courageous step, a step that may lead to inuch good or a plethora passing, no serious casualty was of ovils, whose name will be legion. Should she control the railways reported.

in an able manner, on lines similar to those adopted in western coun- The decorations have been as trios, they will be a great factor in China's industrial progress, but quickly taken down as they wore should it be a subject of inaladministration, a millstone will have put up. The City has lost Ite boon tied round the neck of the Empire's economic development festive air, and has assumed a which will cripple it for many decades.

moro businesalike look,

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There is at present on excessive encountered and Picnic Bay, ous feeling of dissatisfaction at the Loma Island, was then proposed action of the authorities among as the destination. In consulta- the peoplo, who love fair-play, and tion with the muster of the Stanley, who have sought the assistance of it wasdecided not to make for that the Provincial Assembly in the objectivo oither, as in the opinion Assambly have sent in an official would have to be encountered matter. The members of the of Capt. Willoughby the son that letter to the Viceroy, asking Hie would have been far from pleasant Excellency to explain whether the 16 the excursionists. So the authorition have had good reason Stanley was headed for tho bay towards the property owners, for their harsh and unfair action at the back of Stonecutter's laland. Here the party enjoyed a good swim in snooth waters, and it was His Lordship-I haven't had

not, until after 6pm that the such a caso before me.

The Police have had a very Stanloy weighed anchor and mado Lordship give me an interval in what I call the trial. With rogard inhabitants have been on lioliday of the party voted the outing as Mr. Alabas er.—Tho will your n motion for judgment. That is easy time considering that the for Hongkong. All the wemborg order to call expert evidenco, to arriving at the date of birth, The Chinese crowd is evidently being thoroughly enjoyable one His Lordship Yes, I don't your Lordship said you were quite ne orderly as the crowds at auil ilm experience quite delights know how I can decide the quos going to appoint assessoru,

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Mr. 'Alabaster :. At tho trial. trial, because you are all agreed His Lordship: But there is no

that thore is no other question, so there is no trial:.

Mr. Alabastor: Thero would bo

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