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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. (H.)K.M.İ. 75,

A meeting of the Legialitive Council was held this afternoon in the Council Chamber, wlien there were present:-

His Excelloney the Qflicor Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn.

The Hon. Mr. Cecil Olomouti,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Trenseror,

►

-130.459

$q. I al $1..........573,8 16,00

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by Govern- ment to the two Com-

700,016.00

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1912.

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in the Colony that the pro-bable that during this period of LAWN TENNIS NOTES. posal of the Government will.waiting, the appellants' business bo unsatisfactory and unworkable might be soriously jeopardised, while, on the other band, it is oven though, in the end, his generally admitted that the al-appeal if successful. ternative proposal of a third judge |

stated that tho

notos,

By "Half-You

Whatever may have been the With woathor more suited to will entirely meet the ends we reasons which prompted the sug-water pole, than any other form all have in view. The existing gestion of such a make-shift arof sport, there has been practical- $1,178,873.25 conatitution of the Appol rangement as bringing a judgo y no tennis played in Hongkong Court date from 1873, nearly from Shaughai; whatever such since the appearance of my last Referring to the minute regard. forty years ago, and, to illustralo The Hon. Mr. C, G. Alabaster, ing the vote to University funda,the court has increased, I find that pust, thoy do not hold good little of local interest to engage

roasous may have been in the to what an extent the business of Attorney General.

Cousoquently there is His Excellency said the Council The Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson, would remember that the original in 1874 there were commenced today. Our late Governor has the attention of my pen. There

vote of $9,000 was supplemented 1016 summary cares us against

appoint was a very full programme of The Hon. Mr. W. Chathun, by is further $6,000, making in 1,368 last year, while cues in the ment of a third judge would be League game down for decision O.M.C., Director of Public Warks. all $15,000. Since, then the Se original jurisdiction during the most desirable and he hoped that last Saturday, but the rains ron

The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, erotary of State had not soon his same porivillave risen from 50 toed, the Colony would be into

when the now Courts wore finish-dered play quite out of the ques Registrar Ganoral,

Captain

way to approve of $14,000 but of 200. That is to say that, during F.

a position to incur the ex- J. Badeley, $10,000 as the contribution of the last forty years, the number Captain Superintendent of Police. the government to the university, of minor casos anally tried by fraternity are unanimously in

ponso involved. Who legal The most interesting contest of The Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, Kt., so that the vote of 85,000 would the Puisno Judge have nearly favor of a third judge, the Un- the four would without doubt

have to be cancello and a supant cases tried by the Chief Jus

doubled,

while the more import-official Members of uns Council have been that between Kowloon in its stead. After quoting from

Community is, feel sure, prepared to pay the oxpense.

For these reasons then forward this amendment.

M.B., C.M.U.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pullock, plementary vote of $1,000 panson tice havo' quadruplod, and yet support the proposal, and the and Queen's College, on the form-

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The Hon. Mr. M. Osborne.

The Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart. Mr. R. II. Crofton, Clerk of Councils.

Finance.

derick Lugard on the matter, ro-to the staff of judges.

speech delivered by Sir Fre-hore has not been any adition forring to the immediate payment The point that I wish to make of the money to the University, in this will the appointment of His Excellency said he would temporary judge from Shanghai. The following recommendations propose that the sum of $10,000 in any way tond to solve the wore referral to the Fince should be paid to the University problem of increasing work? Committoo:

as the contribution for this year The Ollicor Administering the fund thereafter a similar sum every Government recommends the year. Council to vote a sum of sovon, thousand five hundred dollars in

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ASAHI BELL SAPPORO

Will his presence in the colony, THE YAUMATI. MURDER for two short periods of fifteen days each, enable appeal cases to

CASE. bo disposed of in a manner that On the motion of the Hon. Atis satisfactory to the grow- aid of the vote Sanitary Depart-torney General the first reading ing needs of the Colony?

As the Losgue fixtures have all ment, Other Charges, Sanitary was taken of a bill entitled "An large appoal case, I under

beon arranged well shend, it is Staff, for the following items:~ Ordinanco

Before, Mr. Melbourne at the Colloge match will have to be to regulate the as-slaul, might occupy more thnu

likely that the Kowloon-Queen's ambulances, coffins, doad vans conts, desents a lights of fifteen days; in fact it has setual-Polics Court this afternoon B

postponed to some time in July, and doad boxes, $2,500, Com- balloons, airships, seroplanes and occupied more than that time man named Tan Wing pensation for damages by disia-puracimates."

in the past, and, in the ovont of charged with killing and slaying vacant Saturdays. The result in which month there are three Toetion. $2,000, Cofio labour,

The objects of and reasons for such a largo velion, what is to be-ono Tang To, at Yaumsti on the should be to the advantage of $3,000, Total $7,500.

The Officer Administering the

come of the remaining cases of 16th May. Government recommends the

Kowloon, who by that time will Section 8 of Ordinance No. 2 of thy to be postponed for five Crown Solicitor rosecuted and the very best team available from

appeal that are to be heard? Are

Mr. Hodgson, (the Assistant very likely have settled down to Council to vote a sum of one 1893, as amended by sertion 4 of months until the thousand five hundred and sixty-Ordinance No. 3 of 1911 contain-of the judge from Shanglini?

noxt visit Mr. Lowis defenlod.

the Club's ranks. Still, few will four dollars in aid of the voted certain regulations for the couSupposing he manages to dispose Mr. Ho lason said that the de-complain at the unavoidable Public Works, recurrent, miscel-trol of aviators which was justi-of all the cases, is it not probable fondant, along with others, was dolny, as interest will now be lanoma, stores depreciation. fied by the full title of the latter that he would be compelled to in a brothel in Yaumati. They sustained right up to the very

The Officer Administering the Ordinanco namely An Ordin-rush the work so that he would ordered a meal and walked ont end. Government recommends the ance to amend The Defences not have time, to form a clor whilst it was being prepared. conneil to voto i sam of five (Sketching Prevention Ordinance, judgment or for discussion with While they wore out, the deceased hundred and twenty-five dollars 1895, nil to control balloonists his fellow-judges?

with two friends came into the advancing. The Wigwam Club AMERICAN ASIATIC S.9. 00. in aid of the vote Public Works, and others who have special extraordinary, building, post opportunities for obtaining in-would frequently hay pon that ing prepared and it was then they prizes on Wednesday, but the with liberty to sell on Malabar

It is not inconvo vable list it cubicle in which the feast was behave finished their's and were to have had their presentation of ollice

formation respecting the de-ho would become involved in There was a row, and the deceased

The first batch of men returned. Clerk of the Weather vetoed the The Officer Administering the fences of the Colony " As points of law and facts concern- Government recommends the the latter part of this full titlo

proposal. ing eae caso before he had time and his companions were thrown practically through with their council to voto a sum of one will disappear with the incorpora- to thoroughly digest the detai's out. Later in the evening competitions, and ou Saturday the thousand dollars in aid of the vote of Ordinance No. 3 of 1911 of the case immediately preceding miscellaneous service, grants in Ordinance No. 2 of 1895 in the it.

awarda were be given away to the ald of other institutions, Univer New Revised Edition, and as the

Huoccesful competitors, but the Then, again, what are the quali- sity of Hongkong, Government relation of aviation to the defences fications of a Shanghai judge to

Programme has now been post-pply to Professoralip.

if the Colony (roquired by article sit in the Courts of Hongkong? The Officer Administering the XXI (3) of the Royal Instructions) Litigation.in Ilongkong is mostly Government recommends the will therefore become, solnewhat between Chinese; cases where council to vote a sum of one obscured, and as the recent devel-Chinese customs and Chinese me- million four hundred and seventy-opment of the aeroplane industry.thods of accounting are frequently

It was dark at the time and three thousands eight hundred has rendered practicablo flights involved; intricato cases which aobody could be identified. The and eighty dollars in aid of the from neighbouring countries for their disentanglement may ovidonce was purely circunstan vate Kowloon-Canton Railway, and over the Colony and its need a comprehensive knowledge tral, as was generally the case S. E. Green has again won the Extraordinary Expon fiture, ro waters, it seems desirable that all local Chinese custom and in connection with such a charge; Kowloon Championship. I don't sumption of land for terminal regulations rospecting aviation character. The jurisdiction of but it had to be taken remotaber how many years in should be grouped together in the Shangliaj judge, on the other into account that, on the succession this honour has been frosh Ordinance relating to that hand, is confined entirely to fatal afternoon, a man named Alis, but certainly three or four. subject alone,

British subjects or defendants, Yau was asked where the deceased Ile easily overcame Capt. Clarke, In the committee stage on the and I submit that it is upon to was by defendant and three others. for though the full five sets were bill to provide for the reconstitu- question whether a judge whose Obtaining no satisfaction the de-played, this was more due to the A-The Gore nas 'to takorertion of the Supreme Court, the experience is thus limited, ie fendant and the other assaulted A

the following properties at Hon. Mr. E Osborno moved the qualifie 1 to sit for two short Yau. He was successful, however, to anything approaching aquality *sportiness" of the winner than omission of certain words in the periods a year upon the Bench of in getting away. The Crown, felt of skill. If he had chosen, Green pramble to the bill in the foll-longkong. On the other hand, that the evidence was sufficient to could have walked off with the

wing terms.

the advantages of a third per lave prisoner committed for trinl first three sets comfortably. He MOET AND CHANDONS

station sito.

The following dotaile wore laid

bofore the Council:- 1.-Waarf and Godawn Company'a

Pro, erty.

thelos stated:~

(6) K.M.L. 107, 781 sq. ft. at $1,... $111,121.60

{i} li,M,*. 2, ta

Losh Playa Go

63,275 at

220.99401

(iii) Old Praya forming parz

6 K.M.L. 9, 23,276 #9.

as the docensed and a friend were walking towards the thentro at Yaumati, they wore set upon

by a number of man, and the consed received a knife wound

which caused his death.

Circumstantial Evidence.

Kowloon 0. C. are

Coast and to proceed via Cape of Good Hope),

8.8. "INDRAMAYO on Ard Jaly, 1912.

For Freight and further informati

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hould. The Y.M.C.A. tourna- ments are still progressing, and the gente' singles are practically through. Stevens is one of this ongkong, 5th June. 1912. finalists, and the other will pro- bably be either Joseland or flick- ting, who have shortly to meet.

Your Excellency, I beg to manent judge are manifold. We by a jury, and he submitted that is certainly the best player ure 74,421 sq. ft. move, as an ninundment, that the should have the work of the that course should be adopted by on the otor side of the following words be omitted from Courts carried on continuously his Worship. On the other harbour, but somehow he can 21,274 sq.ft, the prosable, and that the whole by three men instoad of hand, if his Worship was never settle down in the Hong- of the recommendations of the two; we should have a Court not satisfied with the evidence kong tournament as he can when Law Committee be adopted. The of Appeal available during placed before him he hoped he playing on the Kowloon courts, words run thus:"And to make12 months in the year instead of would have no hesitation in dis His chief points are his strong provision for the appointment of 1 month; in the event of one of missing the case and discharging back-hand play and his wonder- temporary judges in cases where the judges being inlisposed, we the prisoner.

ful stamina. a sufficient number of judges is would still have two to continue Dr. Kool, of the Government not available."

the work; in the Court of Appeal, Civil Hospital, said he attended For several years it has been cases would be taken immediato-the deceased on the night in ly they become ready for hoar-question. He was suffering from increasingly evident that the sys tom of appoal now in vogue in the ing, instead of having to wait a wound on the left side of the Colony, by which the Chief Justice.

the judge chest and died about thirty may be called upon to review and from Shanghai and there would five minutes after he enter even reverse his decision, is un-

bo adequate time for a judge to ed the hospital. The wound Mr. 1'. M. Hodgson, Hon. Secre- satisfactory, and the dissatisfac, arrive at a decision on one appeal resoubled a knife-yound and was tary, has received replies from the tion has found expression in the case, before having to consider four inches doop. The instru- secretaries of the Shanghai and bill now before the council.

the details of the next. To ment with which it was caused Straits Cricket Clubs, accepting illustrate the possible hardships had punctured the left ventricle the invitation exten led....

A triangular contest will there-

ft. at $0.16, ....8.19.25 (i) Existing Star Parry

Pit,...... (r) Cumpe isation for cur

al of buildings on K M.

****** 22,00,00

I's and the removal to be trial nut by the Wharf andɔwn Com- pany and the materiala to remalo their property. 70,000.00 (vi) Payment by Govora

ment in lieu of Alliaria Po- lise Basin and completing thonos wall serbs its en- trance,...

..... #,940.00

#768,699.26

five months for

As to the necessity for some sort which might arise. undor the of the heart. Deceased must have

LOCAL SPORT.

Interport Cricket.

year, both in cricket and tennis.

of reform there is, I believe,system of bringing in a judge boon approached from behind. Itfore be held about the end of the absolutely no difference of opinion from outsido for 15 dlaya was an upward movement. but when it comes to the con in overy 6 months, I will take B.-Wharf nul Godown Company to sideration as to what means shall two instances out of many that behalf of the prosecution and bore Other witnesses were called on bo adopted to effect the reform; might be quoted. Take the case out counsel's statement. then a cortain amount of dis-of a man couvicted of murder, satisfaction arises. The govern and a point being reserved ment proposal, as I understand for consideration by the full went to pross,

take over from Government.

(i) Polico

Basin

71,728 sq. f.

At $1, ...... 246,900.00

(i.) Playa in

'IN nt of same

12,2 10 14.

fat, 1,886.00

Balance in favour of Wharf

it, is that the chief judge Court. Is it justice, would it

BILLIARDS.

The case was proceeding as we Seaman's Institute Competition.

t'

of His Brittanic Majesty's Supreme be humane, for such a person Court of Chinatint is, I believe, to he subjected in the event the chief judge of the court in of our two local judges difloring. Aboard Without Permission, 269,786.00 Shanghai-shall attend in Hong to five months torture of suspense, Commander CW Beckwith,

The following is the result of the Draw for 3rd Round of the Billiard Competition.

Xavior v. Best; Barnard v. kong for two short periods of fif-pending decision by the Shanghai R. N., at the Marine Court yester kes v. Howell,

Marques; Kirby v. Martin; Sou- and Cokiwa Company...$465,864,28 teen days each in every year 1 au judge whether he shall or shall day, imposed a ine of 810, with

-The Land Neolamation Com-that heshall sitin conjunction with not be hy ged? Or take the the alternative of one month's as players can conveniently ar- Ties are to be played off as soon pany's Property,

our own judges be the Court of instance or a receiver being ap-imprisonment with hard labour, range. The Government to take over the Appeal. The alternative proposal, pointed in fellazingp.oper.authorale and one which, I think, is admir pate, where the Chief Just-instance of Adolf Manson, 5th Marques was played off on Tues- A partnership dia on a coolie, charged at the The tie between Stewart and ted to ben superior one, is that a (1)K.M.L.74,

ico's decision. is third fudge should be appointed against and there ensues an in- being on board without permis- ner. Stewart was not up to his appealed engineer of the ss. Sithonis, for day, the latter proving the win- -126,790

in these courts. Itis, I undersand, terval of 5 months waiting for the sion. The defendant admitted usual form owing to his recent the generally accepted opinion Shanghai judge; is it not pro- the charge,

severe illness,

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