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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY SEPTEMBER

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On Saturday our copy read: God help the rich-the poor on work. To-dag, wo say "God help tho proof-roader who prints the poor can weit.

The Hon. Mr. C. Montague Ede eeded to Japan on short leave. of absence on Saturday last.

ICE CREAM SODA Hongkong on August 6 was do-America and China.

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ACTION FOR HEAVY TU DAMAGES.

Alleged Wrongful Arrest and

Falsɔ Imprisonmenta

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giving him credit without re- the same, quiting any security to be put up: appearance to Before the nèrust, plaintiff's" ro- judgment, & which it mightë bo putation was high and hoobtained | given against him, - be forth- credit, on his signature alone with paid out to his solici- withoutsecurity, Thero was also tors By ronson of the ar- another head of damages in cou rest ang imprisonment of the neotion with the expensosinuirred plaintiff he had been severely | for plaintiff's rolonso.

brated their silver wedding on capital of a highly-plaveil diplosum of $70,000 for damages for th

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The following is the return of sent at midnight on Friday, the visitors to the City Hall Library in instant, when the vessel was and Museum for the week-onding 1.420 miles distant from Japan, the 3rd September, 1911: advising all well and that the

Library, Musoum. 3. Witt Ninijonsos Bega to tumidor his host thanks for the many kind Cominunder expects to reach

Nun-Chinose... 380

1948 Foxprosions of sympathy, floral anil otherwise, received during his recent.bercavo-Yokohama on the 6th September

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184 2,470 [1960] at 8:00a.m. MEM ALEXANDR Ropes and Family bug to think their many trionis for their sympathy in their reccat bereavement.

Total..... 514 2,004

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Statement of Claim

It is stated that the Chines0. Government lias deslared its rea. Before His Honour the Puisne diness to grant yearly subsidy Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, and of Tls. 150,000 16 a private a special jury on the Original

injured in his health' and in dus steamship owner who will take Side of the Supreme Court this

credit and had suffered heavy over the maritime traffic-presum-

pecuniary loss and much physical The statement of claim sot out sufforing. The English Mail which left ably Chinese traffic-between morning, Lai Chi Chin, of No. 3,

Arbuthnot Rod, morciunt, filed that Tang Lap Ting was the

The Defence":

livered in London on Saturday. “

aeuit against Tang Lap Tinghusband of Tung Wong Shi On The defence of the female the 20th February, 1908, holofendant was that the further meroliant, and Tung Wong Shifused to be issued out of the warrant was issued in accordance An unconfirmed telegram from married woman, h of No. 2, Registry of the Supremo Court with the practice of the Court. In The Governor of British North Tokio to St Petersburg announ Salt Fish Stroot, tu, recover the writ of summons addressed to the alternativo, if the Registrar had Borneo and Mrs. Gueritz coloce the dispatch to the Russian

the plaintiff in un notion (Nonn jarisdiction to issue the war- August 10

37 of 1008) whoroin the defendant, which is denied, Tang Wong mint, with a view to negotiating alleged wrongful arrest and false ant Tang Wong Shi claimed Shi or any one on her bohalt did the tranformation of the Russo-imprisonment on the 26 from the plaintiff, the sum of not request the logistrar to issue are courteously informed Japaneno entente of 1907 into a February, 1908, Hon. Mr. HE $6,266.68. On the 26th Febru- the warrant. In the alternative by the Unpadian Pacific Railway formal alliance.

Pullook, K.C., instructed by ry, on the application of Tang of Tung Wong Shi did cause Wong Shi, and upon hearing the plaintiff to be imprisoned, which Mossrs. Brutton and Hott, peared for the plaintiff and Mr.licitor for the defendant, and is denied, she had reasonable. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. apon the reading of a declaration and probable cause to balleve P. W. Guldring, of Messrs of one Chan Chan filed in the hat the plaintiff was about Goldring, Barlow and Morrell, action, it was ordered that a war to leave the Colony and acted- rant do, issue to the bailiff onjoin without unlice. Chan Chulu be- was for the defendants.

The following jury, was ein- ing him to bring the plaintiff eved the statements in his panellod-Messrs. J. W. Bolles before the Court in order that he feclaration to be tuo. Tho (foreman), C.CH. Schroter, H.W. might show cause why he should order and warrants were procured Bird, F. Graham, H. P. White, not give security for his appear-without the knowlolgo of Tang ince to answer any judgment Wong Shi or her authority, and A. Denison and A. Bryor.

that might be given against him. int if they wore procured by any Mr. Pollock, in opening his case, and it was further ordered that gent of the defendunt, which in said that the plaintiff was claim- ing the sun of $70,000 as do the bailiff bo nuthorised to relented, such agent way, acting ages. The cause of action in thut lose the plaintiff upon pay beyond the scope of his employ raro arose out of legal proceedings ent of 55,205 68, together with ment and without the authority $234.32 for costs and it of Tang Wong Shi,In the nlter- which were taken in another action (No. 37 of 1008) which was was further ordered that in de-native, the defendant denied that fault of such payment, the bailiff here was no reasonable and commenced in the original juris should dotain the plaintiff until probable cause, for taking thin diction of the Supreme Court on the further order of the Court. proceedings. The defendant the 26th February, 1908. In the On the 26th February a warrant onied that sho acted withi previous action, the position of in pursuance of the said order was malice. the parties was reversed--the issued to the bailiff, commanding plaintiff in the present action was him to arrest the plaintiff and it was practically of the same action and the prosont defendants forthwith comunuding the bailiff going. were the plaintiffs in the other that in default of the payment of Retion. In the previous action the two sume, the bailiff should jury was discharged owing to the In the course of the case, the. Gambling-

the present defendants claimed a sum of a little over $5,000 foretain the plaintiff until further rgument of a point of law. Eleven men were charged at

irder of the Court. On the 20thi

Further heuring of the action the Magistracy this morning with principal and interest alleged to February, a further warrant was was adjourned till to-morrow

be due under promissory notes. gambling in the basement of No. The writ of suminons was taken issned reciting said warrant and

morning. stating that the plaintiff had fail- out on the 20th February, 1908, 61 to give good and sufficient and simultaneously with the tak bail for his appearance, was ad- A Case of Suicide.

ing out of the writ, the plaintiff dressed by the Deputy Regis- A Portuguese named F. A. made a special application to the

trar of the Supreme Court to Rodriguez, living at a house in Court under the procedure of the the Superintendent of Victorii Mosque Junction, has committed of Civil Procedure. It was gaol, authorising him to receive laid down under Section 66 ond

and detain the plaintiff until the Tho' concert held on the the following sections that it was 27th February at 10 am. When Volunteer Purade Ground, on open to the plaintiff in an action the warrant was issued the plain-Saturday evening, under the to bring about the arrest of the tiff had not been sarvou nor had patronage of B.E. the Governor, dofondout upon an allegation that notice of the order or warrant and for the benefit of the wife and the defendant was likely to leave had hnd no opportunity of giving family of a deceased member of the the jurisdiction of the Court and good and suflicient bail or of Voluntoor Corps-Private W. T.. that execution of judgment was

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- HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th, 1911

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A Bad, Method. On Saturday morning a master carpontor, living at 10 Square Street, attempted to commit sui- ide by cutting his throat with a opper. He lies in hospital in serious condition. 'Neath the Eye of the Law. Nineteen won word charged this morning, at the Magistrasy, with gambling in the servants quarters of the Harbour Muster's Office. They wore each fined $3:

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Mr. Lionel Pratt, Appointed

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THE VOLUNTEER CONCERT.

Excellent Open Air Function

he weather would allow it to be,

fact the programne deserved abottor. night, for at intervals a strain fell, though not enought Lo seriously inconvenience the audience,"

suigido by throwing himself from the top storey of his house into the yard below. The body has been conveyed to the mortuary.

Shanghai Resident's Deathe We regret to record the death municable diseases, notified dur moves one who has been well same day that the writ was issued, give security,

The number of cases of cons of Mr. J.J. Mansfield, which re likely to be delayed. On the very showing cause why he should not ing the week ending Sept. 2a, was known and highly respected by the application was made that defen-The bailiff in pursuance of the The question of the water supply, which came up at the Sani- eight, of which two were plague, community for over a quarter of a lant (the present plaintiff) might warrant arrested the plaintiff nt tary Board meeting Just Tuesday, involves in the long ran a enterie, ono puerperal fever, century, says the "North China be called upon to furnish security 5.30 in the afternoon of the 26th decision as to whether the Pokfulum fteservoir shall or shall not be hoen one doth from plague and Mansfield, who now loavesa widow might be given against him: The breich of the terms of the warrant and four of small-pos. There has Daily News" of August 31. Mr.to answer any judgment that February, but illegally and in retained for the water service of this colony, and while there appears tour from small-pox.. The total and family, came out from Lon-summons had to be supported by did not bring the plaintiff before Todescribeoash individualiter: to be un alarm amongst the people of the city we think that, once number of esses of plague, from don in 1883. For twenty-eight an affidavit. The plaintiff in the the Court forthwith but landed would mean a deally reiteration and for all, sonio definits decision should be arrived at. The ques-fan. It is 201, and of those 243 years he was an active member of previous

ensp- procured an hun oyor to the Superintendent of praise, for the programine was tion so far as we are concerned, dates from the time, when a select proved fatal.

B Co. S.VO., in which, he was affidavit to be filed by a af Victoria Gaol and caused him well arranged, and each turn was committee of the Sanitary Board, made a recommendation to the

Colour-Sorgoant and, recently, man named Chan Chan. At the to be there imprisoned under the well rendered. By kial permis effect that the use of the Pokfulam Reservoir should be dispensed facturors is drawn by the Commomber of the Company, he was pinintiff was in weak health and wurant. Tang Wong Shi malici- tin officers, the band of the K:O. The attention of British manu- Drum Major. The second oldest time of plaintiff's arest, the anthority given under the further sun of Lient. Col. Humilton and 'with on the ground, that, in the opinion of the committee, nomercial Attacho to the British a keen shot throughout his long was suffering from valvular qusly procured the further war Y.L... played solutions through- authority on sanitation. Could uphold for an instant the classing Legation at Pekin to the advan service. He was a member of the disease of the heart. It was a rant to be issued by the Registrar out the ovening in their usual of a watershed; from which water for drinking purposes is collected, tage of pictorial advertisements Shanghai Philharmonic Society serious matter for the plaintiff and plaintiff to be falsely impri- fine style. Cu, L. G. P. Lammert an ideal, or under any other heading a dangerous, when the Chinose railway stations He will, of course; be accorded a Mr. Gardiner, who was formerly soned. The Registrar had nong "Lovocould I only tall thee" number of sources of contamination, the traffic and the number of unaccustomed to the use of time-

"where the travelling public, military funeral.

with Messrs. Brutton and Het, jurisdiction to issue the fuither very well indeod, though traces of houses on the area re taken into consideration." On July 23rd tables, are in the habit of

would speak as to his condition at warrant, Tang Wong Shi malici-cold wore apparent, The first ene rooftheevening was accorded 1910, the Hon. Mr. A.. M. Thomson, acting Colonial Secretary, assembling some hours before

the time of his arrest. Plaintiff qusly and without reasonablo and

to Miss Gordon, who, gifted with was very mucli damigod in his probable cause procured the order replio that as Mr. Osbert Chadwick, the ominout civil engineer, the departure of their train."

grodit and reputation, as well as w be made and issued and pleasing, mezzo-soprano voleo, had not reported adversely on this branel of the water supply, the At midnight on Sept. 1 a Chi-Hongkong Telegraph" has been to the gaol in the way the de- of a false declaration on the missio plaudits My love is like

The editorial chair of the in his health, by being hauled up plaintiff to be arrested by means rendered "The Blave Song" (T, del government were not prepared to abolish a reservoir which was nese junk of about ninety-eight taken by Mr. F. Lionel Pratt, who fondants had caused him to be 26th February by Chan Chun, s siastic like a valued at $667,000. According to a minute by the M. O. H. on Aug. piculs capacity, was lying off Mui was for some years Associate Edi- dragged. The plaintiff had put man in the service of the defend-river Dr. and Mrs. Schofield 2, 1910, what Mr. Chadwick also said was that, referring to the Shin, in Chinese territory, when ator of the China Mail. During up $30,000 in an netion as ants, living at 22, Salt Fish Street appeared to advantage in a sole houses on the boundary of the gathering ground," These do not fishing boat pulled alongside his absence from Hongkong Mr. security and was it likely that a and agent of the defendant for ou from "The Gondoliers,"

Four men boarded the junk, one Pratt has been Editor of the man of such standing would run procuring the arrest and imprison-ugh their cucore item indeed drain into the gathering ground, but there will always be armed with a revolver and the "Sium Observer," Sub-E-litor away from the Colony? It was ment of the plaintiff. The declara- would I were a tiny bird, was suspicion that filth may be washed down from them into the resor-others with knives. The master and acting Assistant Eliter of this clear upon the face of the papers tion was false in that it stated that two. Mr. Hannibal served up,

much the bettor selection of the voir." At that date the M. O. II. said that suspicion had become of the junk and the crew were North China Daily News" and that Tang Wong Shi had very the plaintiff had been lately "chostaut," but its reception was a certainty, when B. coli waH found in filtered Pokful sleeping in the cabin. They finally Editor of the "Shang-grossly abuse the process of the siding with his family at 31, Caine

wore aroused by the boarders and hsi Times." He relinquished the Court with reference to the arrest Road, that the plaintiff's family reenil he recited" Kippered Her

its justification. In reply to a water last your. With such a statement made the matter immediately threatened with the weapons. Editorship of the Shanghai of an absconding defendent, and, had left the house that morning ringe," Absent-minded beggar," becomes one of urgent gravity, for our water supply should be like The pirates forced the crow into Times" when liat journal changed therefore, the plaintiff wasentitled and had gone to Canton, that the as it would be done by an old- Cassar's wife,aboro surpicion. The letter from the Colonia) hatchway, afterwards raasteking handa. Mr. Ct., W. G. Burnet, to very heavy damages. Foul! dels i bud bon info of the fashioned actor, a catato and a Secretary dated July 3rd would seem to have effectively removed the boat and getting clear away an editorial capacity on the staff medical evidence, but also by the plaintiff, that the latter was in the second half Mr.H, I:

ransacking who has recently been acting in show the jury, not only by Chiness Tang Oho, a partner of the coster, fotos d tho doubts of members of the Sanitary Board had there not boon an with fifty dollars in money, of this paper, has now been ap- evidence of Dr: Stedman, tint the leaving the Colony for Can admission that B. Coli had been found in the water, in varying Admiral Li's Condition-- pointed Manager of the "Hong-plaintiff's heart at the time of his ton that night and that declar-Jones sang Folli me ome. numbers, and that their prosenco, was due to contamination with Admiral Li's wound is horling kong Telegraph.'

arrest was in a very bad way and ant verily believed that plaintiff Mr. Gordon, an established fa- fiscal matter,

up rapidly and is giving him losa

his being dragged to gaol caused was leaving this Colony to avoid vourite, gave an artistic rendering pain. According to the statement

considerable and permanent in payment of the claim of Tang of" Kathleen Mavourneen," which It would seem that the water in the Pokfulum reservoir, te natually malo by Admiral Li's, medical The railroads of the United jury, to his-health-and-ho was Wong Fh The false statements enthusiastically received.

The programe-was- more impure than that supplied to the City of London. And this is so attendunt, it will take another States' amounted to 30,500 miles therefore entitled to recover heavy were false to the knowledge of ed by a coster song from Mt, dospite the fact, that the demand for absoluto purity is greater liore than fortnight before he will be con in 1860 and 250,000 miles in damages. Apart from the ques Tung Wong Shi and Chan Chun, P... West, and a violins role

tion of the plaintiff's health, in or were mario recklessly, without Tanture temperate zones. The government speak of precautions, which valescent. His Excellency las 1910,

Air le Ballet (de Beriot). Uy! might be taken for the conversion of the suspectode water into one asked the. Canton Viceroy to The gross manufactures of the consequence of the reports which caring whether same were false or Professor, Gonzalos, zi The 'rcerm- absolutely free from impurity, but the fact romains that after the

pur Gouernal losignato to Oas: United States grew in value from going away to Wuchow, he was Weng Shi owuld otsily love of Miss Dorothy. Gordon and MF.. matter has been before them for your, the water seems to be ton, to proceed to his post with $5,325,000 in 1880 to $15,000,-

out further doluy and not as Ad-1000 in 1995. still contaminated. ·

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were circulated us to plaintiff's true and Chan Chua and Tang notified by certain firms in Wu ascertained that the statements of Miss Dorothy Gordon and Mi chowand Canta, firmisof standing were falso, On the 26th Febru G. Grimble. Condemnation inay not be necessary but we do look for a decided usiral, so that Admiral LA may go In the last decade about the partnership of the firmas owing the plaintiff to the Chief Justice Greater London has

and good business, to retire from ary, 1910, on the application of to Heung Shop on his recovery to notion on the part of the government in this matter. If it is possible Lake cominantly of the soldiers

boon $60,000,000 have upent on

to the damage to plaintiff's reputain Chambers, it was ordered that doubled its popu for us to have the water stored in this reservoir purified, and the thore. The Viceroy has deepatched passenger vessels, of 20,000 tonation. With regard to plaintiff's the warrant for the arrest of the fifty yours, B. Coli it is said to contain, destroyed or removed let us have it a telegram to HE Fang Shan to or more, without considering those business in Hongkong of the Wah plaintif be discharged and the being 3.222.720 done at once without further delay,

Kee firm, people becamedly about aim of 85,500 paid into Court are 7,242,003,

s that offsok,

under way

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