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THE PHILIPPINE. EXPOSITION.

An 'Ambitious Project.

In February, 1912, from the 3rd

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thrown on evory forward contract: Shanghai, Rubber Case,

indeed it might be contended that Judgmout was given by Mr. Ho contract made in this manner ture, Interual Revenue, Naviga F. S. A. Bourno, O.M.G., in van be binding because the tion, Health, Science and various H. B. M. Supreme Court in the broker might make a profit be- others. Another large and in-case of J. A. D: Watt 7. T. E. yond his commission whether to the 10th, both dates inclusive, teresting building on the grounds Dana. The judgment was a and the contract is therefore not splendid view of Ure harbour, Th4 Spurlige

as in fact, he did.. 80

or not, there will be held in the City of will be Machinery Hall, whore followe:-- Manila what is to be known as machinery of all kinds used in

In this case the Plaintiff sues contract of brokerage at all the Philippine Exposition. The the Islands, will be actually in the Defendant for a balanco of Jalinson v. Koarley 1008 A.0.. outside world ami particularly motion. Several of the principal Ti 1,650 alleged to be due under per Fletcher Moulton L. J. at p. the countries of Ulina and Japan have splendid exhibits in this as Broker for the Defendant for

machinery importing firms will a contract made by the Plaintiff (530).

Dofondant pleads the Gauting havo hoard very much during the hall. Here the visitor will be the purchase of 200 Anglo-Jayn Act, because, he says, the contract inst four years of the Philippine able to see in actual operation, shares. The fucts are as follows: was merely a gamble on differ Carnival, that great annual fiostatice and sugar mills of the latest On 30th March. 1910, Mr. Watt, ences. In reply to that the lain- which is held for a week each pattern and devies, as well as all the Plaintiff, as broker purchased tiff raises the principle of Thacker

sorts of ground filling devices frous Mr. G. W. Cooper, an em Hardy (f Q. D. D.

085), your, and during which time the and electrical appliances. It is ployee of Mr. Wattic,a promoter of numely, that a broker in such a City is given over to morriment also contemplated to live un ice- the Anglo-Java Company, 200 An-case is entitled to indemnity from ontirely and a good timo generally, making machine in full opordion glo-Javas at 45 for delivery on the his principal for there was Thero have beon bulle and couts, in this building. The Bureau of Special Settlement day, the scrip nothing in the nature of gaming large and varied hippodrome or Education which has done sucht being then issued. And on the contract of employment FOR SALE at a moderate priso-10 circus performance, athletic splendid work in, uplifting and the same day he sold the samo num-f the broker by the prin- no of lnd in the Colony sulable sports of all kinds and exhibits making better the condition of the bar to Mr. Dunn, the Defondant, ou sipal. If the intention of both for chicken fim'ng or mising jigs of the industries, agricultural ativos of those Islands, will have de same terms. On the dite of Watt and Dum land been to or cuttle. Apply 1-W, co The products and commercial activi special building where the the special settlement, 18th gamblo, on differences merely, it “L'ongkong Telognyfi," [11 ties of the various provinces of the progress which has been made April, 1910, Dunn informed Wall

by nomerns certain that archipelago. It was determined throughout the Islands will be that he was unable to take up the mcker v. Hardy would help the "OLD CHINA BRONZE. turing the last session of the conclusively and interestingly sharos. Watt settled in depon- plaintiff looking the course of

The dently withe Cooper, and psked | business under these Shanglui Philippino Legislature to make.n demonstrater.

"North Obing Daily special appropriation of a large Bosides the 31 regular so-called Dunn to cane to his ollico and forward share contracts stated Nows" remarks apropos' of the Sum of money which would more vivilized provinces, the seven discuss tho affair. Mr. Bunu thorealove, for the principle of Thuck exhibition of Chinese bronze and adoquately serve to bring to the special or wild, tribe provinces met Mr. O. Moller, who, bo con- or Hurdy is to indemnify the pictures which is to be held in metropolis, during the Carnival will have fine exhibits. Theso ends, Mr. Watt represented to broker for the liabilities ho has Shanghai early in November wook in 1912, comprehensive ex latter with their interesting peo-im us the other principal, i. o, the properly incurred in strictly carry. under the auspices of the North hibits of the products, industries ple, their strange clothes and person from whom the shares had ng out the instructions of his China Branch of the Royal and resources of the provinces, customs, &o; always make a most been bought. Watt denies, this; principal within the authority Asiatic Society, that it may not be With that and in view, the fascinating display. It is the but I find that it was so, for the given by him; those instinctions out of place to call attention to 1308] Legislature passed an Act provid- carnest desire of the Government Fact that Moller some months later were to buy as broker and seem the beauties of old Chinese ing for suel an. Exposition of to make this Exposition a most formed Dunn that he had sold carried out by a contract and bronzo. Some of these early Philippine products, A Board of effective one, and large numbers shares to Watt ut 45 was shown purse of dealing which, admit of bronzos have a barbaric malovol- Directors known as the Philippine of people from the United States have had a strong effect on the broker, if he chose, not buying ent grandour which makes the Exposition Board was formed are expected to come to. Manila Dunn's mind to have come as a is broker. but solling as princi-subsequent plastic art of China with the Honourable C. B. Elliott, at that time, inasmuch as several surprise to him and to have pal.

But in order that a and Japan appear efferainate. Secretary of Commerce and of the big Steamship and Bailletermined him to stand up his transaction may fall under the Bronze is so indestructible by Police, as the President thereof; way Companies have signifi-legal rights, whence this action. Taming Act both portion must age-acreperennius-that mould- the Honourable V. Concepcion, ed their intentions of

Although Wutt was an outside contemplate differences merely.ing and inscription is preserved Chairman of the Committee ranging their schedules in brokor, this contruct was made in I have no doubt Defendant, when intact for thousands of years. -on-Industriosa Commerce order to have vessels of their Com-the usual Shanghai forward share he bought, did, as he swears, While earthenware, porcelain and of the Philippine Assembly, punies call at this port during the untract form, and subject to the intend to sell before the special pictures are by their fragility Vice-Prosidoni, Honour-week commencing February 3rd tules of the Shanghai Stock Settlement; but did the other necessarily short-lived, bronze is able Rafool Royo, a pro- Fund onding February Lush. The Exchange. In order to determine arty to the contract intend this? minent merchant and citizen of peoplo of China and Japan and the rights of the parties it je If Coupor is to be regarded as the outlast most other materials. Old Manila, Member; Captain countries niljacent thereto, will be essential to understand exactly other party, I have no doubt he Chinese bronzos and their H. I. Ieath of the International particularly interested in this Ex-what the course of business under intended nuthing of the kind, but inscriptions have an archeologi- Banking Corporation, s Trea- position, and the Exposition off-a Shanghai forward share contract plant tliese shores on someone cal value which is yet in the suror, and Mr. C. E. Unson cials.are unanimous in tho desire was at the period in question.r other through Watt and make beginning of its elucidation. of the Executive Buren of to make things as pleasant as pos-Now the practice of the Shanghai Watt responsible for the price- Chinese annals refer the origin this Insular Government as sible for all tourists who may visit Stock Exchange in forward busi- | is he did.. If Watt be regarded as of bronze to 2,000 B. C., but very Serrotary. This Bund mot some Mauila at that timia,

ness was, when this contret was the other principal, the question few are known anterior to the months ago and determined Any persondesiting further in-enteret into believe it is now rises-Did Watt think it practi-Chow dynasty (B. C. 1122 to 255) upon a gonoral plan for hol-formation on this subject, mayor is to be altered that (1) cally certain that Dunn could not though some of the Shang dynasty THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of ing the exposition and arranging write to the Director-Cloueral of slure broker made two distinct inke up the shares at due date? (B. C, 1760 to 1122) are authenti- excellently equipped Sleeping, Dining and 1st Class Cars, is operated between many years a provincial treasurer P. 1., and a prompt raply will to and buyers and one between the contract is voidable. For that working in bronze is thed "Baikio Mara" (unol 2,677 lond) as follows:---- for it.. Mr. W. W. Barclay, for the Philippine Exposition, Manila, contracts, one between himself If holid, the Caming Act appliescuted. The Chinese recognize Dairen and Changchun in oons estion with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains

ad with Dairen-Shanghai Dhast Stoomer Service by the 8.8. Robe Mara

and at the time of his appojatment | immodiutely sent.

himself and the seller while at example, if under the Shanghai oldest of their national arts, and treasurer of the large and pros-

|home a,shure broker makes one practice a broker makes sucți a the genuine `archaic specimens. perous province of Iloilo, a gentle,

contract-that between buyor and contract as this, under which over that is to say, made bafore the inan who has had unprecedented

seller. The Shinghai Share 1,000 has to be found in a few introduction of Buddhism in the 1st Ulasa success in the Eombling of Carnï-

broker sont the buyer a bought weeks to pay for shares on which Han dynasty, are regarded with val exhibits for the province, was

noto and kept the sold-note lium-the Banks will not advance, with the greatest veneration. While self, and sent the seller a sold-[a young Clerk on a salary of Chinese bronze produced sub- detailed Director-General of this first big Philippine Exposition. Globe," we ought to rejoico atote, keeping the corresponding $100-$500 a month, the broker sequent to the introduction of The Board also appointed as the fact that the Arbitration lought-notokiusoff, (2) Although knows or must be taken to know Buddhism possesion grace, in- Secretary of the Philippine Ex-Treaties between Great. Britain, in theso contracts he purported that the Clerk is gambling on gemity of design and skilful position Mr. RA. Holland of the Franco and the United States to be dealing as a bruker he did differences; and such a contract workmanship, the more ancient

'Cablonews-American." editorial}

not disclose the name of the other might therefore be voidable'look- bronzes have a monumental and signed possibly wo wero staff, who for four years was in

principal, but held himself liable ing to the above statel practice. majestic simplicity of form which change of the publicity, work for shall be condemned by enthusiasts under the contracts. And (3) be But Defendant in this case was nis inimitable. The old artists in the Philippine Carnival Associa- for our scepticism as to the now could, if he chose, sell his own man of middle age, in-a-secure bronze-used their strength to tion. An office has been establish era, whose inauguration was per shares under the broking con- position, receiving a salary of glorify the terrible, the malign ed in the Ayuntamiento, the large manently recorded by the dozen tract form, although he signed $600 a month and um notant and the merciless. Insular Government building in

this: "for the concerned Broker”. { satisfied on the evidence that Watt Under all China's ancient or 80 photographers who koilukod the walled city, and a general President: Tuft, Mr. Bryce, and (1) double contracts, (2) non-dis- that Duan could not somehow pay and philosophical good breeding Now these facts of ought to be held to have known civilization of duty, reverence lotter of instructions hay already. been bent to provincial officials MF: Knux, as those gentlemen put closure of primeipal, and (1) for these shares at due date. The there lies a spirit of primitive explaining what is wanted from their names to the documents, jobbing under the contract of lefones of the Gaming Act thero-cruelty, a sternor side to the Chi- | nese national character. The pro- each provinco in the way of in But we still have an invincible brokenge ouable one to imagine fore fails. exhibit.

the broker's state of mind when But Defendant further pleads duetions of the latter half of the It is the earnest desire of persuasion that a treaty is nothing he made a forward contract. In that this was not a contract of Chow dynasty combined finish of the Philippine Government more than a piece of parchment, the crise of a purchase by his prin- brokerage at all. Now if I look execution with archaic grandeur make the Exposition a valuable or it may be a piece of peper, cipal he could either make at the acts of the Plaintiff in the of form. The approximate age of al instructive adjunct to each which "will be observed by the contra-contract of sale by a third light of the above stated practice Chinese bronze can only be do- annual carnival. No admission signatories 60 long as it suits their party, the other principal, identi-I find that lie treats the contract as termined by a close examination. is to be charged to the grounds purpose, and no longer; it is a cul in price, or he could sell to his one between himself and Dunn. of the workmanship, the decora whatever, or to any exhibit with public profession of amity which principal his own shares in bund Cooper, who, he alleges, was the tion and the patina. in the grounds. The Exposition is only valuable because itilmits or bought forward or to be bought other principal, le neror brought The worship of the primal will contain examples of the that amity oxists between the forward; and in the case of a sale into relations with Dunn, but paid natural elonients formed a large handicrafts of artisans in every nations who sign it. So long as by his principal he could make ahimself. Moller, with whom part of early Chinese religion, industrial line in the Islands. those feelings of amity continue contra-contract or buy himself. Duun had nothing to do and the details of design were Here will be seen actually at work the treaty of arbitration remains There was necessarily nothing to and who declined to have evolved from a quaint though. the makers of the famous Baliung in force―if, indeed, an act that link any particular buying with anything to do with Dunn, powerful cosmic mythology.

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TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's railway and 'stesmer tickets, ato finonens of texture and durability said to remain in force-but if tract except a similar date and principal. If that is the form the greatest when it deals with the well known Panama product. ever dangerous rivalries arose, or price, eg, on a buying and a sell-contract took, Dann is not liable the elemental monsters of its obtaionble at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car & Express Workers in the various inulti-common emnities, then the treaty ing forward contract the same because Watt was principal and imagination. The head of the Trains Co., the Nippon Yusen Kallis, Shanghai, Mosta. Thos. Cook & Son,

and Reirebarenú der Hamburg-Amerika Linie." coloured had shaped mats of the would at once become a thing of day for 200 Anglo-Jayan at 45, the contract is not ono of broker-large-mounted hideous T'ao-t'iel, RAILWAY HOTELS TANITO HOTEL (Tel. Addi " Yomilo "yat' Islands will also produce those words, u rope of sand, an instru- there is no reason why the former age at all. And even if Cooper is the malignant glutton monster, 80 Dairon, Part Arthur, Mukdea, Fushan and Chargohun, all under the Cóm articles оп the exposition mont without meaning, amooking should not really have been the to be regarded as the other prin- frequently met, with in early pany's management. grounds. The women of Iloilo, illusion vanishing before the in-broker's contra for a sale by him oipal the contract is voidable be- bronzos, is n most striking and Albay and other provinces, will sistont facts of human nature. at 46 the previous day or why cause Watt took brokerage from characteristic motive, "Dragons manufacture the delicate and In a single phrase arbitration the latter should not have been both Cooper and Dunn, within their prime that tear each other beautiful jusi, pila and ainamay may be summed up as reserved against a buying 'con-out Dunn's knowledge. Watt in the slime" and sundry beetle Tel. Add. Monteinu." (odos) A.B.C. th. Ed. A. 1. & I-'s" ar's cloths. Special attention, of mouns of settling the bickering tract he hoped to make the noxi put himself in the morally un-liko primordial so mspredominate course, will be paid 10, the agri- of friends, but as quite useless to day at 44.. In fact the Broker fortunate predicament of having among meandering, frets and cultural features of exhibits, and settle the real antagonisms of the was not only jobbing but follow to use his skill, knowledge and thunder-scrolls combined with a splendid specimens of coconute world. Whether there is any real ing A course of business industry at the sanje time to buy decorative treatment of various and palay, rice, rubber, beinp, advantage in concluding such which made it impossible to dis-as cheaply as possible for Dunn phases of natural phenomona, eto, of the Philippinos will be troutjes with those with whom we tinguish for certain his broking and to sell as dearly as possiblo The human figure was not used reprosented. Valuable prizes will are already on friendly terms, and from his jobbing transac for Cooper. The law has no pity in the oarly bronzes, and floral be given for the best exhibits and with whom we are unlikely in any tions... This form of con- for such moral unfortunates, of design did not come until the Hon and every effort will ho made by the ease to quarrel, we rather doubt; tract and course of business had Story on Agoney § 31 and Judg- dynasty. Incense burners were Exposition oflicials to make the but we are convinced that the been condemned over and overment of H. H. Judge Thayer of introduced with Buddhism and event attractive and instructive. whole fabric is useless for any again by this Court as illegal-the U.S. Court for China in She- although the forms of the early The Government Bureaux are serious purpose. One determined unduly favouring capitalists and knry v. Brooke, N., C. Herald," bronzes were called later înto taking an active interest to the act by an ambitions Power, either jobbers at the expense of bona 23rd December 1910, at p. 738.ervice for incense burning, the Tel, Add. “ Mano m." Codavi A, B, C, DE, IL) A, 1. AT Exposition. These will for the within or without the range of fide brokers and of thespeculating. There must be judgment, for original forms were probably use! most part be housed in one build- arbitration treaties, would shatter fublic-see judgment in Lan v. Defendant, but, without goats for as rice boilers, wine jers, an Agents MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD Ing which will be known as the the whole house of cards in a day. Graham, "N. O, Herald," July, bis défence has no merite.

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