July 10, 1895.J
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
THE SQUATTERS AT EAST POINT.
Mr. Hastings again appeared before the Magistrate on Friday on behalf of Jardine, Matheson
Messrs. Co. for the purpose of arguing as to whether the Magistrate bad power to proceed under the Act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 74, to grant warrants for ejectment of the squatters Mr. Hastings quoted various authorities in sup port of this contention.
THE BAILIFF AND THE BILL COLLECTOR.
and defendant wer in the wrong, and asked The Magistrate said that both the complainant defendant to apologise..
Defendant said he would not,
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Wonging has been living with me since 27 ih June,
Inspector Witchell spoke to going with's party of police to the scene of the fire. In the complainant's shed he found two gallon tins full of kerosine, and they were open at the top. There powder near the tins. In the first defendant's were also a number of joss sticks »nd some gus- house witness found a hatohet which smelt strongly of kerosine, and which it was suggested was used to break open the kerosine tins. There was also a large number of joss sticks, similar to those found in the last witness's house.
The case was remanded.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
Twelve members were present to compete for the Long Range Cup on Saturday last, The Cup was won by Capt, Palmer, the first competitor not having eutered for it. The spoons were Thompson, R.E. won by Sapper Pritchard, R.E., and Sapper The following were the best
scores:-
Sapper Pritchard, RE...... Captain Palmer Sapper Thompson, E.E. Sapper Lawson, R.E. W. Stewart
efforts
700 800 H'cap Total. yds. yds. points.
44
39
5
38 38 5 36 33 38 24 12 41 24
88 ***... 81
76
... 74
8
73
The success which has crowned the French
to with China will probably have been noted in settle 籍 very vexed question the proper quarters. Until the late Conven- to induce the Chinese authorities to discuse the tion was signed France had repeatedly failed frontier question between Indo-China and Chi- nese territory. At the date when the excellent
case I've ever known is abont 88 catties, about 3 Weeks ago. When I buy camphor I expect to get 95 catties a case: 88 and 108 catties are excep. tional. I would'nt say the meaning of a case fluctuates from 88 to 108 catties. I would not refuse a case at 88 catties, according to custom of port." Mr. Shewan said: ** 1 contract to buy cases, not piculs. For 100 cases I expect 100 piculs by custom of port: custom is about 100 piculs; slight variations. I think variatious between $5 and 108 are too large. Never known His Worship said he had decided to refer the under 90 oatties a case. I should object to more
matter to the Government for their opinion as then 10 per cent. deficiency.” Mr. Fuhrmann to whether he had the requisite powers and on said:
"I purchase by the case. For 100 cases I receipt of their reply he would communicate his expect 90 to 105 pieuls. Custom is over 90. Indecision to Mr. Hastings. special cases may have been 85 or 86. Have received cases between 15 and 110 catties.” On behalf of the defendant firm Mr. Kau Hong-take said: Don't know any custom that boxes should weigh a particular weight. The weights at which I have delivered vary At the Police Court on Friday, before Hon from 75 to 100 catties a box. Sometimes, H. E. Wodehouse, a bill collector summoned but seldom, over 100 catties. Have delivered Mr. F. Howell, bailiff at the Supreme Court. camphor to Carlowitz & Co. I remember deliver- for assault. ing 100 cases at 88 catties. On 8th June, 1895, I sold to Messrs. Bradley & Co. 50 cases and 503.30 p.m. he went to the Supreme Court to The complainant said that on the 3rd inst. at cases to Arnhold. Karberg and Co.; both firme collect some money, when defendant went up to gave delivery orders in favour of Carlowitz I him and struck him on the nose, causing it to delivered to Carlowitz: the average was catties bleed. 83 2.1.6 a саво. I sold to Wing Sui 50 In answer to the defendant complainant said cases at 75 catties I think: Wing Sui gave he did not make a oise; he was not ordered delivery order in favour of Arnbold, Karberg. downstairs, but was kicked down. who took delivery from me: that was 25th May, 1895. When I made contract I did not mean
Mr. Howell, in defence, said the complainant | THE BOUNDARY agreemeNT. BE- mad › a great noise, and shouted for Mr. Silas. box of any particular weight. There is no fixed Ile was told to be quiet, but he persisted in mak-
TWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA. weight for camphor cases. I have known 30 or|ing a disturbance and the interpreter requested 40 eatty cases delivered. Weight varies from him (defendant) to put the complainant out. 70 to 95 or 100 catties. I did not take back the then caught hold of defendant and put him out He 83 catty cases from Carlowitz. There was a by force. dispute about another 100 cases. In this in- stance the weight was about 89 or 86 catties: Carlowits refused to take delivery: we gave two cases more to avoid fronble. Had a dispute with Sander & Co., who would not accept 81 or 82, because it was not weight they had coutracted for. Contract was same as in this case: no weight given. We sold 50 cases each to Arnhold, Karberg & Co. and Bradley & Co. These were pass d to Carlowitz & Co. by de- livery orders: weight was 83 catties. Carlowitz did not demur. Bradley & Co. made no com. plaint." Mr. Ng Li-hing said “When I buy or sell camphor. I buy or sell by the case. Camphor is paid for by weight. No regulations as to what a case shall weigh. No fixed weight: it is according to weight as it comes from N. or Mak Tai said- am a widow residing at 20, 8. Formoss. Never had any cases objected to Ho-mun-tin. British | Kowloon. On the 30th because of their weight." Mr. Fung Man-yak June at 11.3) I was asleep in the cockloft of my said: "I sell about 200 cases a month. Weights house, when I was awakened by the ories of my vary from 70 odd to 90 odd. Highest is 96 daughter, aged 11, who was also sleeping in the oatties. Lowest is 76 catties. On 16th May I cockloft. I saw a tin of kerosine on fire at the Bold, and delivered on 25th May, 50 cases. They door of the cockloft. I ran ont and shouted, and weighed 38 piculs. I delivered them to people came out an extinguished the fire. Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Nothing was said Afterwards I found another tin of kerosine, on about it and money was paid in full. In selling the top of a small shed which rests just outside camphor don't say each case contains so many my cockloft. Both ius were full of kerosine catties."
This completes the evidence as to the and both were open. The oil was on fire, and so usage of the trade on both sides. Now a usage was the woodwork of the cockloft. I was not of trade in order to be read into a contract must hurt, neither was my daughter. The house is be reasonable, certain, and general, and if a a wooden shed, with a tiled roof, and consists of party seeks to make ont that certain words used one room and a cockloft. My a ghter and I in a contract have a different acceptation from were the only two occupying the cockloft. their ordinary sense either for the purposes of The ground floor was occupied by a man named trade, or within a certain market or a particular Wong Ling, who assisted to put out the fire. country, he must prove it; not by calling wit- The first defendant is a pig dealer, and lives in nesses, some of whom say it is one way and some the house next to mine; the second defendant is the other, and theu leaving it to the jury to say his son; the third defendant is the wife of the which they believe, but by clear, distinot, and first defendant; and the fourth defendant lives Irresistible evidence.". Carter v Crick, 4 Hurl-at Yaumati. I made a mistake when I said stene and Norman, at page 417. The evidence adduced does not satisfy me that a certain and general usage affixing a specific weight to a or “box" of camphor has been clearly, distinctly, and irresistibly established. Judg. ment is therefore for defendant with costs in suit 866 and for plaintiff with costs in suit 800.
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a (Kobe Chronicle) learn from Japanese costemporaries that the transport Moji-maru (formerly the 0.8.8. Hector) collided with the transport Toyo-maru (Into Zambesi), off Moji. yesterday afternoon (28th June). The Muji-maru was so seriously damaged that she appeared in dänger of sinking. The telegram was dispatched at 6.68 pm., at which time it was said several were procesding to the assistance of the
The case was adjourned until Friday, the 13th nap of M. Pavie was compiled only a very small inst.
portion of the frontier from Monckai north- wards had been delimitated and accepted by both powers. And though there was no mention in
THE INCENDIARISM AT YAUMATI yesterday's telegram of the ectire settlement of
at
the frontier question between France and China At the Police Conft on Friday, before Hou. a very important and interesting part of the H. E. Wodehouse, Chan U, Chan Ui, Li Sac, difficulty appears to have already been defi- and Chan Pak were charged with feloniously nitely arranged. Laichan, on the Black-river, setting fire to a, matshed at Ho-mun-tin, near is a little farther sonth than the frontier Yaumati, with intent to commit murder at mid-line laid down in the Pavie map. night on 30th ult.
murder
But what little has been lost here by the downward sweep of the boundary line has been a hundred fold made good by the accession of territory in the region of the Upper Mekong. Leaving enclosing the valleys and sources of the Nam Laichau the boundary line runs abruptly north, Na, and passing north of the head waters of the Nam Oo, or Hou, follows the mountainous sources of the Nam Ban and Nam Tosh in a series of erratic curves, and finally impinges on the Mekong a little north of Muang Vang, Yunnan thus cuts wedge-like into northern Ton- kin, forming an equilateral triangle with its apex at Laiobau, and counterbalanced by a similar triangle of French territory running north into Yunnan with its Long-po.
apex From a glance at the map it will thus reported to be garrisoned by Indian troops, is appear clear that "M. Sing. entirely within the new French territory, and that part of Chieng Kheng, which state straddles the Mekong, Chieng Sen, and Chieng Kong, are also included in French territory. other words, all territories on the left bank In
of the Upper Mekong over which Siam exercised any sort of suzerain rights havs been included by the new boundary Conven- land, and China are now neighbours on the tion into French territory. France, Eng- Upper Mekong. difficulty has been arranged, and it now remains With China the boundary
for i rauco and England to arrange their frontiers in a spirit of fairness and mutual good will. The Buffer State" theory may be looked land have absorbed the very territory out of which upou as exploded; for China, France, and Eng-
the " buffer was to be constructed. And for the well that it should be so. France and England sake of the peace of the region in question it is
from blows. have no need of semi-savage wedgea to keep them resort to civilized methods of settling their They are civilized people and with quarrels instead of troubling each other through the medium of petty chieftains of a state which, if formed as buffer, would over be a hot, bed of
there were only two in the cookloft. Wong Ling Was also sleeping there, and got out first, and
he
daughter. When I got to the door of my shed followed, carrying my I saw the first defendant standing at the door of his own bouse. He was wearing a Chinese sun hat, and as part of his house was on fire I asked him to get some water to throw on the flames. He took no notice of me, and did not afternoon I had seen the third defendant Assist to put out the fire. On the previous carrying things away from her house. I am with her on the 24th May, and we have not not on good terms with her. I had a fight been good friends since. misconducting myself with the first defendant. She accused me of Last year, for the same reason, she threatened to turn me out. The first defendant had been keeping me în pigs and giving me money, and the third defendant had got to know of it,
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