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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY JULY 24.19′′

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"A QUESTION OF IDENTITY.

Obvious Fallacies. Mr. Gardinor: l'orluas 50, my Lord, I suppose both sides. have told Bos, but that doesn't ako bim liable. I would ask your Lordship, under the circum stances to non-suit the plaintiffs. suppose it will have to be judg mont for the defendant so far us

Mr. Justice Gompertz: If I

Miss Eyro, founder of the Eyre any tlie more pleasant for the londors of the present conglomeration of government than it is for the opposition. They know that if they Diocesan Refuge, istoaving long- alter the existing state of affairs it is incumbent upon them to put kong for about six weeks holiday

Case in Summary Court. would bo demanded by the people at largo, and woo botide the party

• Mr. Hooper's Resignation.

Boforo Mr. Justice Gompertz that betrays the people in this respect. We have that confidence in tho sagacity of the British public, to be sure, that any measure Intorviewed this morning on in the Summary Court this morn which, savours of haste or ill advice will meet with instant con- the subject of his resignation from ing, the Tung Hop firm sued demnation, and more cartain ars we that they will not submit to rule by general election. If in any way the power of rovision is the Sunitary Board, Mr. Shelton Wong fat and Pang King Sum, this man is concndunt

partners of the Shun Iling Tseung taken away or even limited we are simply playing at two clinibor Hooper said that he had nothingira, for $232, being balance duo don't give plaintiff judgment Ly legislation, with an emasculated upper house which, already of further to any on the matter, at venerable antiquity, is being hurried into an enfeebled dotage. present. Then the whole question contes to this either the second house has from powers for revision or them be no upper chamber at all aid it would seen that the proposals of Lord Lansdowno, imparfcet though they may be in my respects, are more acceptablo, for lengthy article on the annual thy preserve the riglits of the assembly, with an alteration of trade of Tientsin. its composition, the hereditary principle goes, but the power report which has been compiled remains. Younnnot do away with the powers of the House and then by Mr. Millier, Commissioner of reform it without giving it its old powers, and if that be the Customs, also, throws a pecu'iar

medicine.

Tientsin-Trade-

On page three is to be found

The sannol

for the creation of a theatrical

atshed at Tung Lo Wan, under shall havo to non-suit lum,

Mr. Barlow said his friend wNS agreement datol 7th February,

not putting the caso very high. 1009. Plaintiffs also claimed costs in the action.

Ile submitted that considering do fondant's story and his demeanour, Mr. Barlow appeared for plain in the box, his obvious afincios, Liffs and Mr. Gardiner said ha

and statements which were un Ire, lio thought all the credence represented the prosent owner of tho firm.

Mr. Barlow said he intended thig friend find moro witnesses should be on his aide. Although

ease, and in the future Mr. Asquith attemps to remodel the Lords light on the use of the anti-opium prove that his friend's client was thought, his (Mr., Barlow's)

he stands confessed that the measure that has caused so much the other was but a party woapon fushioned for purely party ends. ho hope that, for tho credit of the British nation, this will not be so. It would be a sorry sight to the model that the world has copied, prostituted to puro party ends and if the bad. by present reform is permanent it is stamped us the very refusal of the Commons to admit the timendments of the Lords. It is, if the alterations are rejected, the clearest pos sible assertion that the ultimate aim of the Liberal party is single clamber government. The Volo Bill will stand as such and thewhole world, the world that has been contest to follow where wo have led, will have the opportunity of standing by and watching the subver and after 1st Janur. 1909, the rate of Sabser pin to Gelour makes history and the Laboral party are writing the most peculiar sion of that upon which many have founded their governments. The pago that the world has ever seen. ·

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 24th, 1911.

MAKING HISTORY.

DAY BY DAY..

Suez Canal.

An important inove in connec} tion with the Suez Canal in the decision of the directors of the or pay to increase the depth of this important thoroughfare from

An interesting 1 to 30 feet. article on the subject is to be found on pago three.

Health Retura,

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evidenco was moro substantial

Wong Fat,

Mr. Justice Clumpertz: Who ik and more reliable. Ho therefore your client ?

naked for judgmont for the plains

Consideration.

Mr. Gardiner: Ho is the puriffs. chaser of the huto firm, Wong. King Sum..

Sole Proprieter.

The Paisne Judgo said thos Mr. Justice Compertz: And would road over the evidence, he is sole proprietor of the defend-The sum was not great but to n Laut firm?

Chinaman was no doubt on- Mr. Cardinor: Yes; the firm is siderable. He would take timo named Shun Wing Tseung Wing to considor. In the meantime ho more than two years ago. | Keo, and he acquired the business asked that Mr. Gardiner should do all he could to find-further

back "p

the documentary ovidence produced.

Mr. Justice Compertz: How evidence to about the other two dolendants Ara tlioy in Court ?

The names Wong Fat and Pung King Sum were called, but no answer was received.

INDIAN'S CLAIM.

during the week ended on Satur The health roturn for the Colony

day shows that there occurred during that poriod 17 chees of communicable disouso-15 being cases of plagne, 1 of enteric fever. and of smallpox. During the 48 hours ended at noon to-day 4

Mr. Barlow Thoro is only que cases of plague wore reported. bringing the total from the b-issue between us, as to whether which Moola Singh was plaintif being nightly thrown on theginning of the year up tp.228. Wong Fat is the man wo are sny.

The plaintiff claimed the sum screen at tho above. Tho picture

ing hois.

Mr. Cardiner: We are not the of 69.00 dollars, 60 dollars duo must be seen to be appreciated.

firm it is said wo are. Wing Kender a promissory note, and At the rent, commencement The Callior Sisters have ostati

intorest.. wasnided two years ago, and no

Victoria Cinematograph A vory powerful human drama Exporionce proves the aan, entitled "The White Slavo" is and will his worth display,

Obstruction of Blake Pler

An Appalling Murder. An appalling murilor has been unearthed in New York, when the body of a woman was found in bath tub covered with lime. The husband who has beon arrested on suspicion of committing the crimi stoutly denies all knowledge of the ffair, and alleges that it was either case of suicide or of murder by

exercises of the Universitylished themselves in public favour of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, by their refined entertainment. there wore 850 graduates. Twelve women, six Uhinese and one! Japanese were among the can- P. C. Arthur William Orin didates for the bighorneademic wilt charged the masters of the degrees.

stean-launches Bank Line and Kam Kai before Commandor Ca Shop Keeper Robbed. The stor of a shop at West W. Beckwith, H.N., Harbour Mas Joint loft his promises yesterday fter, at the Marine Court this full report appears on the third

nid on his return, found the pillar torning with lying alongside page. broken open muid $387 extracted. Blake Pior on the 20th instant in

somo person unknown tilim.

Serious Floods.

servico has been offectod on this mana personally.

In the Summary Court this afternoon a case, was hoard in

and Bakari defendant,

Mr. Barlow: The only sorvice DEATH OF A CATHOLIC is da to the person having charge.

Fat

Owner or Employe? Mr. Gardinor: No, and take it

PRIEST.

The Late Fr. A. Paletti.. from the firm. Are they going e.

He has not been served as The Catholic Missionin Hong- tempt to prove my client is Wong Wong Fot.

keng have lost a valuable worker Mr. Justice Comportż: It doesn' | and keeper in the person of the unttos. The firm has been served Roy, Father A. Polotti who passed Suspicion contres rh the cook em- such a manner as to prevent the. Serious floods are reported to played on the premises. free access of other vessels. The have occurred in Wuchow, Samad if he is the firm ho is served. way quietly at the Government Trespassing on Crown Land. evidence showed that the Police sui, Shinhing and Kongmoon. You may pass all sorts of aliases Civil Hospital in the forenoon to- him if you liko. I think you dny, Decensod was a victim of Three men were charged before launch could not approach the The eastern and southern gater Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy pior on account of the obstruction of the Shining City lace been Peared under protest on the last typhoid having been admitted to hospital for treatment just a week this morning with cutting earth used by the vessels in question blocked with line and earth

Mr. Gariiuor: Yos.

ge. The Rov. Father do Maria Evidenco was then called, the and others of the samo Mission on Crown Tand. One of the defins of 10 or one month's hard against the influx of water. fendants was fined $15 or one labour was imposed in respect of mouth's hard labour and the rest the first defendant. The case

water. were onchi fined $5 or fourteen against the second defendnet was days.

Bijou Scenic Theatre.

romanded as the latter could not be foun-1.

sent being presented to patrons

A capital programme is at pre- Kipling and the Government. of the Bijou Seenie Theatre. In Mr. Rudyard Kipling, it scoms, addition to several new films, an has joined the ranks of the pro- amusing sketch is given in which fessional opponents of the Govern Miss Violet Bonnetta and Mr. ment. He publishes some verses Bob. Stephenson tako part. The entitled "The Declaration of Lon entertainment on the whole is an don" recently, in the "Morning excellent one.

Post,"

Apostrophising the lovers mont, he cries:~~-

Now you return to your

od place T'anting to shame us anew.

we are told that

And

bouud.

The places along the banks of the river arostill completely under

In Konginoon all the street. are flooded,-wl traffic can only b. maintained by means of floating bridges.

ccasion.

managing partner of the Tung were in constant attendance on Top firm speaking as to the inak-the deceased and were prosent at the death bed to administer to the ng of the contract.

lying priest the comforts of the Inst Sacraments of the Church of

Mr. Gardiner in oponing his Jofonce said his client was an em

ploye in the firm sued and was in the employ of the firm at the time to contact was entered into.

About a rionthafter the contract was entered into and before al

Without any of the alarms and excursions that one would have expected after the outbursts of the various Lords when the Veto Bill came before then, this measure has passed its third rending and now the.darling of the Liberal Cauchs goes back to its originators so alterel that its own parents will hardly know it. The passing of the third rouding must not be taken in any way to mark an abject submission on the part of the Lords. It is simply, the stap usually

which deceased was such a valu- taken prior to the returning of an amended bill to the Lower

[able exponent. Bishop Pozzoni' The Water Polo League.

arrived just too late to pronounco House, and in this case it only sorves te precipitate the crisis that lus hoon long in the air. That a crisis must come seems almost

Typhoon signals on Saturday

the last blessing, but the prelato inevitable for the declarations of the Cabinet Ministors have been

lopped the water polo team of

was with Fr. Poletti-until 10.30 porfectly decisive on the subject, ani we may take it as certain that

the 78th Co. RG A. from crossing the payments were made last evening. "He died as he the amendments, insisted on by the Lords, will not for one moment

from Stonecutters to play the respect to the contract, an ad-lived," full of comforting forti- be entertained. We, as a nation, stand at the parting of the ways

match against the KO.YLIvertisement was inserted, in the tudo and Christian faith in the and there are now only two roads to be taken. One is merely the

which was consequently post- vernacular pross before any sale reunion with those who like him- extensión of the path we have already frod and the other strikes Armed Robbery at Pingshan.

solf, had lived a life to secure tho poned. This was a great dis- took place. now constitution, for a new

Deniot. across the torra incognita of a

The master of a trading junk

honour-appointment to those interested

temporal and spiritual well-being constitution will bo the practical mouning of the reforms laid down reports to the Police that at mid-i

Subsequently there was an of others. in the league as the ovent would in the bill. If the Crown is hereditary and the last few accossions night on the 22nd July, when the

have witnessed the debut of the signment to his client, which Father Polotti was only 34 "seem to point to the fact that it is, it stands in the very same junk was anchored in Deep Bay,

team from the new rogiment. he would produce, and afterwards yours of age at the time of his place as the Peerage. The Crown is the "fount of honour" and a number of robbers in a small

Our ears still carry the sound Those who chanced to be on the the firm was renamed, Wing Kee death. He arrived in Hong- to take the simile further the Peers are the necessary adjuncts: boat camo alongside, harded the

Of our once-Imporisi sens.

spot, however, were not altogether being added. The firm wasregis kong in the fall of 1900, mid thereof. To continue the quotation the treasury is the "spring boat, tied up the folis and got Exaltant after our King was disappointed for an intercompany ered in the usual way, and the after two years' connection with of business" and it would seem that in a real whero business away with money and clothing to

crowned.

match was played by the soldiers.enthas been acknowledged by the the Catholic Church in the Colony interests are paramount, the treasury and the body from which the value of $150. The robbers

Beneath the sun and the breeze. The game was rapid, but at times lord in the nuo of his client was detailed to prosecute mission- it derives its power, the Commons, should remain in the premier were five in number.

It is too early to have them there was displayed a lamentable which he daught conclusively ary duties in the district of Kwei- position. While, out of pure reason, this hypothesis must be ac

With the natives in the A Storm in a Tea-Cup

ignorance of the elementary rules showed there was a boun fishin. copted the existence of the House of Lords and the influence that

An Indian soldier belonging to

district he had always been a Or sold at your decrees. of the gamo, The "white" team transfer on the 8th of March. it hins hid upon the history of the nation, an influence for good we one of the native regiments: Whether it is our cara or ous had themselves to blame for losing

At that time his client became favourits and ho knew them, their venture to think, come as a large factor-into the question. If the stationed in Kowloon was brought was that are to be bound or sold in the match, for, had they market owner, without taking any liabili-langungo and their country as well Lords are fighting for a recognition of the principle that they have a up before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at quite clear. But it hardly their opponents better, the score ties. Ile did not take over any as his own native province of right to exert a rovisionary power over the work of the Commons, they the Magistravy this morning on a 'seems to matter.

might have assumed a different of the old dobis, nor was he liable Como in Italy.

for any must have the support of all who are in favour of the continuance of charge of assaulting a hawker up.

complexion. The "blues" Won

Ifo came over from the interior. the two chamber system, but if their fight is simply maintained for Tsim-tea-tsui yesterday afternoon.

by six goals to four. The league Entering the box defendant to take part in the recent Corona- the purpose of retaining empty legislative honour, they must in the appears that the defendant List of Unclaimed Telegrams match will have to be played off spoko, to the business being tion servicesat the Roman Catholic. long run alieninto the sympathies of the majority of their supporters. bought a quantity of vegetables lying in the Eastern Extension before Saturday,

transferred to him, his employer Cathedral and was awaiting 'thoiredag Wint is the position at the present moment? Sq far from the complainant, for which Australasia and China Telograpli

giving up the business on uçarrival of another priest to substi Typhoon Warnings. as the cables can tell us there is a feeling in existenes that he tendered two cents. This the Company's Offico at Hongkong.

count of illness.

tute him before proceeding on the Jards should not force their amendments but pass the bill, on the hawker refused to necopt, where. Chiongelesan, Samarang; Cros The tolegram quoted below

Further evidenco was given to home leave when Death claimed Commons refusing to accept it as it now stands. That we think is upon the soldier is alleged to have liw, Kuala Lumpor; Hokeo, Taiwas received at the American prove that defendant's name was him for his own. Much sympathy a most mistakon policy. If the amendments are of any use, now charged "the pouceful hawker.man; Honkee, Tainan; Kamiye Consulate General, Hongkong, not Wong fut, but Wong Wing will be felt with the father of the they have been made, if they afford any protection from the possibi-The summas was dismitzed, Hatsubara (2), Zamboanga; Ken- from the Manila. Observatory at Sun.

deceased priest. The venerable lities of wild cut legislation, if they secure the continuance of those

ay, Stockton Cal.; Kong Yon, 5 p.in..Manila, July 22, 3.55

old man is over vighty years of parts of the constitution which have been found to be of such

age and had anticipated welcoming Within three or four days of Cholon; Lorena, Manila; Samyip.m. Cyclone or typhoon W. n inestimable value to the country, then not only should they be tho inst confidence trick, when koo Hotel, China, Saigon; Stop- Northern Luzon, more than 100

tho son home when the sad tidings insisted upon, but the fight continued to its bitterest culmination. Chinese woman was duped in- pani, Astor House, Milan; Tohi-railes distant moving N.E."

ware flashed over the wire to-day We are not usking for anything in the shape of a civil war nor any to parting with 825 worth of chong Hon Marche, Contral, The following telegrams were

of the biter's demise. An u appeal to force such as was suggested by many of the more fiory jewellery and $20 in money, a Popruh; Taiong, Singapore received from the Manila Obser-know that it is clear,

married sister and a brother, who speakers at the last goneral election but we do say that if the measure,conel cass under similar cir- Tokutai, Tainan, Toylung, 120 vatory at 1.15 p.m. - Manila, Mr. Gardiner: 1, think it is is also a priest, survive the do- asinsisted upon by the heterogenous majority of the House of Commons, in such as to entail a change of the constitution for the worse, even if (cunstances has been reported to Connaught, San Francisco; Yuon-July 22, 7.15 pm. Cyclone or boynddoubt there was a transfer, ceased.

the Polica. In this 'instanco, a chnu, Saigon Yoon Yist, Tor- typhoon, Pacific Ocean about and think that transfer is un- Father Poletti will be better that "worse" is purely academic, the lords are perfectly justified in married woman residingat Kwong reun: 00 3,883 2,837 3,932, hulfway between Mariana Islands cleniablo in view of the documente remembered in Hongkong in con doing their utmost to resist it. The government will soon have to Yon Street West was imposed Tien's'; 0178, 1344,038), 0074, and the Loochoos, moving W.N. produced,

nection with his tenure of tho decide whether they will create the necessary number of Pears to

I Mucan; 2887, 3032, 1382, Tien-W."

The Paisno Judge: What Catholic military chaplaincy dur onsure the attainment of their ends, and, let it be understood common knowledge that it is in ;09946, 0930, 0850, Wei-hai-Manila, July 23, 5pm. was the consideration money? ing the Rev. Father. Augustin's at the very outset that they have the support of a very valuable

Mr. Gardiner: Two hundred absenco in 1900. nothing more or less than puro

Cyclone or typhoon W. of Balin- procedent, a precedent that has become an actual part of the con-

List of Unclaimed Tolograms tang Channel moving N.E. or dolles, my lord,

Tho funeral arrangements will stitution. Therefore Mr. Asquith is perfectly within his rights if he greed that leads to the downfall

or typhoon of those frail orontures, who at lying in the Great Northern Tele-E,NE. Cyclone

Continuing Mr. Gardiner said be as follows: gosso far ne to create the noble five hundred, but we wonder what the time they offer to change graph Company's Oflice at Hong- E.SE. of Nalis moving W.N.W," he did not think his friend could To-morrow at 7.30 ani, R will be the result upon the feelings of the country at large. We the supposed banknotes have now... Addy, Hongkong Hotel, (2); 11.30 a.m. Cyclone or typhoon; Lordship' that his(Mr. Gardiner's) Cathedrale ; dakle

kong.

12.25 m

Manila, July 24, be said to lava convinced lun quiem Mass at the Catholic

Confidence Trick Again.

upon to the extent of $40.

woi.

Unclaimed Telegrams:

wonder if the old, old ory of "Down with the Lords" will have the slightest intention of return- the same effect when he tells the nation at largo that oven after he ing to their, to thama, prapective Keechong Shepardenu, Army W. of Balintang Channel moving has succeeded in drawing the dragon's teath, it is necessary to further victims. Truly, diamond sut Navy Club Kanglionoheng: E.N.E. Cyclene or typhoon E.S.E. reform the creature. It cannot be thought that the prosent jesuq. is | diamond [

Limon | 2988, 4410; 0110, 745,0|of Nahia, moving W.N.WW

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"Told a Lot of Lies" Mr. Gardiner, at the conclusior of the evidence, said he thought it was clear from the ovidence,

Mr. Justice Gompertz: 1 don't

....

client was liable,

The Puisne Judge. No doubt soʻr man luas told a lot of liss.

To-morrow at 5.30 pm. Fons

oral starts from the Cathedral and will pass the Monument at 6 pm,