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Queen's Birthday.

resolto."

Sticking It Out.

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.,hat the Chinese athlete, like

Hongkong Dispensary & Kowloon "Dispensary.

One thing that must be said is

the Chinese in everything to which he lays his mind, carries his work through to a finish Daly the other day we heard of

udent, who is at present in the Hongkong Pelegraph" will Hongkong University, and who

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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To-day being Queen Mary's birthday, the ships in the harbour were dressed for the occasion, in- cluding the U.S.S. Wilmington, and at noon a salute was fired:

Stolen' Money.

1914.

SIR PAUL CHATER SUED.

Judgment in the Claim for $45,000. ད་ཁྱབ་དང་

In the Supromo Cnrt, this

LANGKATS.

Greatly Increased. Output Last Week.

Messrs. Wright und Tornby

CHIEF OFFICER'S SAD DEATH.

Mr. Stewart C. Davis. Dies at Sea

The many friends for Mr.

morning, in Origins! Jurisdiction, inform us that the Langkat output Stewart C. Davis, a Uhief Oloor Mr. H. H. J. Gomports, Chief for the past 7 days was 2,652 on the Ching Coast of muny Justice, gare judgment in the song, an increase of 782 tons over years, will regret. to learn of his case in which Mr. George Lnzius, the previona week. The output death at 108. a mining engineer, suad Sir will in future be published daily. The deceased came out to the Paul Chater, OMG., in con

Far East about 10 years ago and oeotion with prospecting and

jined the service of Messrs. mining transactions.

Possibly, however, the facts Douglas, Lapraik and Co., serving The statement of claim stated which are common ground are on the s.s. Haishing, commande that by an agreement in writing sullioient basis for me to proceed. by Capt. Hodgins. After some dated 22nd day of July, 1905, If I find myself in any real time he left the Company's employ the defendant and Sir Hormu-jee difficulty I can always stay my and joined up with Mesors. Nowrojee Mady, since deceased, hand until the oviance has been Batterfield and wire. He then

intly contracted with the plain-taken.

sarved with various shipping. tiff and one Archibald Campbell The first question arises upon Companies on the coast and MacMillan, since deceseed, that the construction of the agreement finally returned to Меваків. in consideration of the plaintiff of 22nd July, 1905, did Masers. Douglas, Lapraik, which Com- and the said Archibald Campbell Chater & Moly contract to pay pany he left about a month ago MacMillan prospecting for remuneration to Mesare. Lanzius and joined Captain Woollacott to minerals in the New Territories & MacMillan? This agreement take the British bulk Rhameses and adjacent British islands, the is in the form of a letter. It is down to Santuno Harbour. This defendant and Hormusjee Nowro- | headed-

proved to be his last trip, for he Mody would pay to them a To Sir Paul Chater C.M.C. & caught a chill the night he joined proper and reasonable remunera H.N. Mody Esq, and proceeds as and died three days afterwards, tion.

follows:

being haried at sea. Much Gentlemen,

sympathy is felt with the relatives With refererence to our con- of the deceased, who was greatly versation as to Minerals in the liked by all who knew him. New Territories and adjacent British Islands, we understand

From July, 1005, to April 1908, with the exception of a reriod of three months, the plain- ok part in a five miles race at Mohamed Rafeek, a clerk in the, by prospecting for minerals the last Far Eastern Olympiad. employ of the Osaka Shosen in the New Territories and ad- I did so with grant hope of Kaisha, has reported to the police jacont British islands, had ren-

The Artful Foki...

lefendant within the meaning of the aforesaid agreement of the 22nd day of July, 1005, and, the plaintiff has not been paid for the

aime,

that you will not with us for would clearly make him liable

Where as in this case the

same and if thought advisable for acquiring Mining rights and developing the same, the agreement is between capitaliste terms being that you are to on the one part and persons who have three-fourths interest and themselves do the prospecting ourselves one fourth in the work on the other, the question

ia less simple.

Prima facie I

suppise that uoless that construction was

veature.

Te rates per quarter and per mens a, proportional. Subscriptione | winding, but he was determined that, between May 19 and 23.dered professional services to the "the purpose of prospecting for for the salary of the prospectors.

for any period loss than no month will be charged as for to run the race out whatever someone stole from his unlocked

happened; and he did. He never drawer, the sum of $315,

Leather Stolen. The daily issue is divbred free when the address is accessible to name near to winning, nor had

Mesara. Arculli Brothers, leather messenger. Peak aubscribers can have their copies delivered at he even the barest cutside chance their residences without any extra charge. On copios sent by of winning, but he ran out his merchants, of 62, Queen's Road race quite gamely and earned the Central, have reported to the police. post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

From July, 1905, to April, Tue postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is 1.0 encouraging cheers of the spects that, between May 10 and 25; fifty 1008, with the exception of a tors for so doing. They saw the dollare' worth of leather was stolen period of three months, the plain- per quarter.

Weakly, twenty-five cents (for pluck and determination behind from their offices. Single Copics Daily, tea canta.

tiff was employed by the defen- the effort and were impressed by cash only).

A Chinese shopkeeper, of 34, dans in managing, mining, deve Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fixed. It is greatly to be hoped that

he and others will continue to run Wanohai Road, has had the loping, and opening up mines in period will be continued until countermanded.

(Payable in Advance,)

ut their races in this fashion. It misfortune to suffer a loss of $350, the New Territories and adjacent vould seem

that they haveIt appears that a foki stole the British islands; it was an implied learned, perhaps by instinct, chop of his firm and then went term of the said employment that yhat Western athletes, who round to various customers col- the plaintiff should be paid pro- should know better, have too often lecting outstanding amounte. He per and reasonable remaneration orgotten, that the winning of the succeeded and has since abscond-in respect of such employment.

In the alternative, on varioue a means loss to the aublete ed with the amount already lates between July, 1005, and bhimself then does the effort made, stated.

April, 1903, the defendant verbal Oplum Possession. All good luck attend them; if

Two Chinese women and a man agreed with the plaintiff that uly for that. the Panama Exhibition.

were charged before Mr. Wood in consideration of the plaintiff The hopes that Britain would this morning with being unlaw.coatinuing to prospect in the he represented at the Panama fully in possession of forty taols New Territories, and adjicont Exhibition have once again been of opium. Inspector Dymond British islands, under the said

lashed to the ground.

By Order,

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

MARRIAGES.

PERRIS-LEVY-On May 12, 1914, t H B. M's Consulate.

Shanghai, before Sie Everard Fraser, K.C.M., Consul-General, and on May 17. at the Synagogue "Beth El," Silas, youngest son of the lato Albert Perris, of Calcutta, to Alice, youngest daughter of the late Silas Ezekiel Levy, of Calcutta, and of Mrs. Frederick Ezra.

CARNIE-HANSON.-On May 16, 1914, ut All Saints' Church, Tientsin, by the Rev. F.. Walker, John Durham Carnie, to Edith May Hanson.

DEATHS.

1.

SOLLY-On May 18 1914, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, William John Solly, British Postmaster, aged 43 years.

ALLEMÃO. On May 19, 1914, at Shanghai, Quentina Maria Alemao, the beloved wife of Dulcino Allemao, aged 64 years,

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1914.-

CHILD LABOUR IN CHINA,'.

serve

We understand that you will pay such monies (not exceed- ing $1,000) as you think neon-repagusat to the sense of the sary for the cost of the prospec- agreement taken as a whole that ting outfit and also such would cover salary. The con

the words prospecting expenses expenses for the prospecting tention is, however, that the de you think proper and ngreement of 1905 is nothing so than an agreement of part pership and that under the tatutory rale the plaintiff being partner of the defendant is not

the absence of agreement. entitled to remuneration foracting in the partnership business....

reasonable.

It is further understood that in the event of your deciding to exploit any discoveries you will apply to the Government for the mining rights the several areas, and wili tu izn th money for acquiring auch m ing rights as you may think: proper and reasonable.

It is understood. that all

Ever prosecuted and a remend was agreement and in consideration discoveries which we have alrea business in common with a view.

Mr. Sharp referred to ths. statutory definition of partnership the relation which subsiste between persons carrying on dy made of Minerala or the proof profit and laid stress on various bability of Minerals shall be. disclosed to you on the signing You will not with us.

expressions in the agreement of this document and that all the words following giving the discoveries made by us during

Then

the continuance of our joint scope of the enterprise were

and interest in the venture."

Of course it is true that

venture shall be at once disclosed to you and shall be Then in clause 4-all discoveries the property of the joint made by us during the continu- venturers and that we shall not ance of our joint venture..... dispose of any such discovery be the property of the joint

venturers. to any other person neither will we directly or indirectly this agreement is what lawyer apply for or hold any mining rights in the New Territories call sa inartificial sort of docu- and adjacent Britisk lalande. ment. I have no doubt that the It is agreed that you are at parties to it thought that it con- liberty to withdraw from this ained everything that was arrangement at your pleasure. necessary between them. When Yours faithfully, people go into a venture of this (Signed) Geo. Lanziusort they are very often in a harry. each other, and they hope that (Signed) A. Campbell Mecmillan They have a certain confidence in

We agree to the above.

their undertaking will be success (Signed) O. P. Chster,

fal. In these circumstances they (Signed) H. N. Mody." Now the circumstances as

I are often content with a rough agreement and they usually intend

since the Government annourced ordered until Friday next. One of the plaintiff continuing in the that it did not favour official woman was allowed bail unt, the employment of managing, mio- participation there has been a other two defendants were reing, developing and opening up the mines, he (the defendant) atcong feeling in many quartora manded in custody.,

would pay the plaintiff for his that the, decision should be re-

Our Railway. viewed. This led to an influential Commenting on the British professional services."

The plaintiff did continue to loputation of M.P.'s calling on section of the Kowloon-Canton Mr. Asquith on May 5 and Railway, the N. C. Daily News prospect in the New Territories vivancing the suggestion that & says:While it will be many and adjicent British islands and Lecial Governmental pavilion years before the capital expendi did continue in the said employ- -hould be erected which should tare, $13,459,227 to date, is paid ment, but the defendant in as a rallying point for eff and the earnings of the railway breach of the said verbal agree Britishera from all parts of the are a clear asset to the Colony, ment bas refused to pay the Empire. Mr. Asquith then Inti-the resalt of the second year's plaintiff, and the plaintiff says With the growth of milern industrialism in China, the ques-mated that the Uabinet would operation of the line is distinctly the sum of $45,000 is a proper and reasonable remuneration for tim of child-labour begins to call for serious consideration and likely approve this scheme, which encouraging.

ach professional services. Malden Trip. treatment. It is a knotty problem to face, especially so since it is would be in the nature of a com-

Under the provisions of an the common custom all over the country to rush the children into plimentary acceptance of the The new steamer Carnarvon

me form of employment practically as soon as they are able to invitation without committing the shire, built for the Royal agreement in writing dated the to illo cfl. In the civilised countries of the West the education Government to much expenditure. Mail S. P. Co., arrived here from 10th day of October, 1906, the Jaws, which make attendance at school up to a certain age compul. But even that proposal has not home yesterday, on her maiden defendant received from the zory, prevent this sort of thing, but here in China parents are secured the approbation of the voyage to Japan and Western Hongkong Iron Mining Co., Ltd., allowed to do just as they please with their offspring, and, as the Cabinet, for a to-day'a wire says American ports. She is a fias for and on behalf of the plaintif jority of the people are notoriously poor, there is a very under the Government is to adhere to vessel embodying all the latest 9001 fully paid up shares of $100 standable tendency to put the children into some form of employ its decision not to participate in features of a modern mercantile each in the said Company.

marine vessel, similar in main The plaintiff has received from mont at the earliest possible age, so that they may bring a few cask the Exhibition

points to the Cardiganshire, the defendant only 750 of the have them before me, are shortly later on when the matter matures/ Badly Bungled. into the family coffere.

The whole thing seems to which passed through here on said shares, and there is a balance as follows. There can be no doubt that the race suffers as a consequence

to put their undertaking into a more formal shape. of this forcing of children into the labour markets at an immature have been badly bangled from her first trip some months back of 150 shares due to the plaintiff. Sometime in 1205, not long

The plaintiff therefore claimed: before the date of this letter, I do not know where the draf ag. The evil is, of course, not so pronounced where out-door work beginning to end. From the

Jumped Overboard, Yesterday, while the a... Tai, The sum of $45,000; 2, 1563 Mésers. Chater and Mody; inen of of this agreement came from, bu is encerned; it is in the factories springing up in the new indus tone of Mr. Asquith's remarka to trial centres that the matter calle most loudly for treatment. In the the recent deputation one would Shan was returning from Medio fully paid up shares of $100 each business and capitalists in Hong we are told that it was produced ba

in the Hoogkong Iron Mining kong, were approached by the case of Japan a check is supposed to be provided by the factory imagine that, Britain was on the to Hongkong, a Chinese who gave Co., Ltd., or, in the alternative, plaintiff and a Mr. Macmillan who plaintiff in the first instance an

that it was in his own hand; t laws, but, in apite of the existing legislation, it is common know- verge of bankruptcy and could an address in Bridge St., attempt the sum of $15,650

were mining engineers, that is to draft was subsequently approva lodge that the law is largely winked at, and women and children not scrape together enough monoyed to commit suicide by jumping

Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mrsy professional men, with a with certain alterations by tag des ro susmefully exploited by the operations of capitalism. At the to join in the celebrations over overboard. He was, however, Eldon Potter (ipetracted by Mr. great financial resources, apan fendant's solicitor moment China has no obild-labour legislation, but the day must the completion of one of the most picked up alive, though his con noon came, if the wishes to conserve and preserve the energy of wonderful feats of engineering dition was such as to render his Willson, of Mesars. Stephens & the enbject of mines and minar. Now the statutory definition of" the rising generation, when the example of the West in this respect known to the world. Australia and admission to the Government Willson) appeared for the plaintiff, als in the Now Territories and will have to be followed. In discussing this matter, the Shanghai other Dominions have not treated Civil Hospital necessary Mack and Mr. Sharp, KO. (instructed adjacent islands. As a result Fartnership is very simple and The plaintiff's claim to salary its terme to any given case. The

extraordinarily difficult to app National Review points out that at present the industrial system is the matter in this niggardly way, credit is due to the officers and by Mr. Looker, of Mesars. Deacon, this agreement was entered into, concise, but it is of course often confined to the Treaty Ports, where the example set is an abominand if it comes to the matter of sailors of the Tai Shan for the Looker, Deacon & Harston), re-

ia based on paragraph 2 of the rules provided by the Act for the able one. It says that the mills of Shanghai, paying in some cases economy, the members of the emart way in which the ship was presented the defendant.

His Lordship said -

letter "We understand that you determination of the question over 51 per cent. dividend, "exploit child and woman's labour in present Government should be turned about and a boat lowered.

This was an argument on will pay

whether in any particular case New Director of St Joseph's. the most heartless fashion, in some cases requiring, twelve hours' the last people to raise such an

ench expenses for the pro- By the P. & 0. mail steamer certain legal issues under an order

a partnership does or does not continuone labour for a pittance that barely keeps body and soul excuse. The latest announcement together, under conditions that give the soul precious little chance incidentally points to the fact Devanha there arrived here the made with the concurrence of the specting as you think proper exist, are mainly in a negave

parties by the Chief Justice. and reasonable. at all, and requiring that any scraps of meals shall be taken whilst that the Cabinet is a by no means Rev. Brother Aimer, the newThe arrangement has no doubt After the signing of the agreeform, and as Lord Lindley points work is proceeding at full speed." With conditions of this kind happy family, for, in spite of his Director of St. Joseph's College.

atate the weight to be attached pri vstling, the statement that the example of the Treaty Purts is intimation that his colleagues It is about five years since Brother some advantages, but it has also ment it is common ground that out at p. 25. (7th edn.) they only abominable, is fally justified. The same sort of thing is known to would likely approve the scheme Aimar left Singapore, and during drawbacks. It is not always discoveries, already made by the

section when such facts stand prevail in Canton, Honkow and other large centres of industrialism, mentioned, the Premier has ap- this time he has been away in possible to disentangle issues of plaintiff wore disclosed and that to the facte mentioned in the

alone del and we are not so sure that, if the matter were locked into as it purently been unable to bring Burmak and Penang. Previous to law from issues of fact. I have he did for sometime prospect for

As the learned author plates, ought to be, it would not be found that the conditions in certain the round to his point of view. that he was connected for fifteen heard argument on the second minerals within the area de-

Dode main principle to be kept in And he has in consequence had years with the St. Joseph's Insti- issue propounded by Mfr. Sharp, signated.. quarters in Hongkong are no whit better."

As a contrast to this picture we read that at Tungohow, in the mortifying experience of havtation at Singapore and the bus the question hero is at any am not quite sure if it is view is that regard must be pald

number of successful candidates rate one of mixed foot and law agreed between the parties what whese development the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has ing to eat his own words,··

from: this! Institution for the and I must decline to determine the words "expenses for pros of the parties as appearing from htways manifested the deepest interest, the hours of work in the fog a

Queen's Scholarship were entirely it now; it will have to stand over peoting properly cover, but it the whole facts of the case. I do till the trial. Again, on the con is not disputed that they would Hamburg, April 23. Two new pointment to Hongkong, to suoce

there is a fall day's rest in each week for every worker, and there

to the true contract and intention.

is a close co-operation between the cotton-growing peasantry and steamships, each of 16,000 tons ed the late lamented Rev. Brother would perhaps have been more the meaning contended for by thement of this kinTM it is possible to? cotton milla are strictly limited, there are regular hours for meals, Two Big Ships for Canal Trade, trained up by him, and his patruotion of the documente under some ci:cumstances have not think that in a rough agrée.

draw any decided inference front plaintif, o gif A. & Bapitaliste the absence of particular pro- or with enter into a joint prospecting visione which are usually found in the circumstances of the ones and venture, an agreement by A to

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ledged that they are by no means typical. In fact, their humane dared t-day by the Hamburg personal friends in Singapore the relations of the partier pay the cxpenses of prosocotion management, are gratifying to a degree. But it must be acknow Panama Canal service, were of eatisfaction by his ex-pupile and the faéta clearly before mo

oharacter only serves to throw into greater relief and promineqeo American Line. natures which are a diagrage to the nation so 'n whole,

ways the Fred Prese,