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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1925.

EARLY CHINESE PRINTING. AN ARBITRATION AWARD.

"THOUSAND YEARS'

·OLD ART.

British Museum Specimens,

SUPREME COURT MOTION, TOʻ SET ASIDE.

Record No 3592 length, containing the whole of was interrupted and damage done

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NAVAL YARD FATALITY.

INDIAN MULE DRIVER DROWNED,

Coroner Holds Enquiry,

examination impossible.

Shortly after the tiffin interval on July 7, witness left his quarters and proceeded to the camber for a swim

A motion to set aside an arbiten- tlon award was heard by Mr. Jus tice Gollan in the Supreme Court yesterday, the award being one

At the Kowloon Magistracy you made by the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird terday, Mr. EW. Hamilton con The announcement reproduced on Sept. 2 last year. Mr. Jenkin ducted an enquiry into the circum in the China Express and Tele-instructed by Messrs. Deacons) stances surrounding the death of graph recently of the acquisition appeared for the applicant and Gulam Din, an Indian mulo driver by the British Museum of "the Mr. C, G. Alabaster K, C. (ins- of the Hongkong Mule Corps, who second earliest pleco of known trucked by Messrs. Wilkinson was drowned in the Royal Army Chinese printing" has attract and Grist for the respondents. Service Corps camber at the Hong. some attention.

The case was one concerning the|kong Naval Yard on July 7, 2

The medical evidence was to the Prof. Lionel Gilos writes that building of a house on Kennedy the statement is not quite accu-Road for Mr. Tong Toi. The archi-effect that the remains of the de- tecta were Messrs. Palmer and ceased were taken to the Kowloon rate. The pleco in question, Tarner and the contractor Lam Mortuary in an advanced stage of block-printed roll over 6ft. In Tuk, The building of the house decomposition, making post mortem certain Buddhist sutra, was in-

Another mule driver gave evidence seited in the brickwerk of the by the typhoon of August 1023.

The question' arose as to who of having gone to the R. A S. C Let-feng Pagoda at Hangchow, should pay the extras, amounting quarters on Juno 28, together with now a heap of ruins, at the time to nearly $20,000. The case went five other men, for guard duty in of its construction in A.D. 975 to arbitration, the arbitrator being connection with the strike.

the Hon. Mr. II, W. Bird, of the responding to that year. Bat firm of Palmer and Turner, whose anong the Chinese MSS. in the award was in favour of the con- British Museum, recovered by Sir}

He bad left the basin and swam to a Aurel Stein fróf Tunhuang, there

steamer which was anchored in the Mr. Jenkin Baid the ate nine specimens of printing.

harbour about 80 yards away from had refused to arbitrator (exclusive of woodcuts), all

refer

the sea wall. ́ Twenty minutes. later which are probably of yet earlier tween the parties in which was to

the contract bo-| he observed the doccased jump into date. Four of them actually show be found most relevant and forci- the water. Witness called out to dates corresponding to 868, ble evidence. He did not really deep, but the latter took no notice the deceased that the water was 947, and 960 respectively, consider the case which was be- of the warning and plunged in from one or two of the others may between the parties and refused to confidently aksigned to

He rose to the surfaco a lighter. the hear arguments and look at eighth century, owing to the clauses which were obviously re

onco and then disappeared. quality or the paper used. It slevant to the situation.

Witness awam to the plage where true that, with the exception of

the deceased had disappeared; but failed to find him. He then report two fine roll's exhibited in the

ed the incident to his superior King's Library, these are in A

Continuing counsel said his next officer. more or less mutilated or frax- mentary condition. The value point would be bias on the part Lance Corporal C. F. Masters of The Empress Store the newly-acquired roll lies in its the arbitrator. Here His Lord- the East Surrey Regiment, who was being an almost perfect specimen ship intervened and said that, on N. C. O. in charge of the guards in of early Sung printing, such as the evidence before him he could the R. A. & C. camber; stated that see nothing which justified anyone he saw the deceased jump into the has not hitherto been seen in saying that anything like bins water from a barge. As he did not side, China.

was shown. Such an allegation see him again witness bôd the barge Mr. E. II. Parker writes: "It was a

serious matter. Counsel removel, thinking that the 'Indian Orders for Winos, Liquors, was discovered in the foundation agreed, but said he must make his had been caught under the lighter. Provisions, Fresh Fruit and of a building erected in China in point.

He then dived into the water, fol- Vegetablos, etc.

A.D. 975." This was 40 years Continuing he said the arbitra-lowed by others, but after half an Promptly executed at com after the invention of printing tor had clearly made up his mind hour's search, without results, the petitive prices..

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Staff Sergeant W. H. Finlayson. at length in chapter 126 of the duration. Tong Toi had no idea deposed to having been called to the scene, and having reported thu "Five Dynasty

The that the arbitration had ended but fatality to the Naval Yard Police.. new method is thus laconically believed that it had been adjourn Witness requested that grapplings described:

ed or else he would have put many be sent to facilitate the searching Monsoon there is always

matters before the arbitrator. Had for the body, but was told that there At the time, all the classics were he known that the proceedings re- possiblity of North-bound steam

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The recovery of the boily made, by Sergeant Goodwin after it had boon submerged for 24 hours. It had risen to the surface but was not decomposed. There was bleeding from the nose and mouth.

Staff Sergeant Finlayson was re called and in reply to the Coroner said that he had received no orders

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The end of the seven weeks silence referred to occurred when Messrs. Palmer and Turner sent a letter to applicant asking him to attend at their office. This he did the next day and he was there ask Yard basi Labour orators in this country, ca by Mr. Bird if everything was says the China Express and Tele-all right in connection with his effect that the deceased met his The Coroner's finding was to the graph; still nurse delusions house. He replied that it was in death through an accident. If the garding the China trouble. part, but in part not all right. Mr. unfortunate man had not either do- Members of the Parliamentary La-Bird then asked him if he was go-liberately or ignorantly disobeyed WELLINGTON & WARD, LTD.bour Party were addressed on ing to pay for the typhoon damage orders the accident would not have

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July & by Dr. H. T. Hodgkin and and other extras, whereupon apoccurred No binge was attachéd Dr. Harold Baine, who statedplicant said that he thought that to anyone. that the trouble was due to the under the specification the con way China had been treated as a tractor was liable for that Mr. inferior country for many years, Bird, then said to him, applicant The real cause, and we wish or alleged in his affidavit, "It is no dially that Labour busy-bodies ase arguing about it. All I want would get it into their heads, is you to do is to go away and write! the want of sound leadership and me a letter saying you will pay or a responsible government with you will'not pay." whom the nations could come to

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