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PRINCE HENRY OF ORLEANS AND HIS SCHEMES,
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
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FINANCE.
On the motion of the COLONIAL SECRETARY, seconded by the 'OLONIAL TREASURER, Financial Minutes Nos. 24 and 25 were referred to the Finance Committee, and the report of the Finaner Committee No. 10 was adopted.
WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS
-ORDINANCE,
[November 24, 1897.
ADMINISTERING A DRUG.
A woman named Chan Tsat was charged with administering a drug to a girl on the 13th Oo- tober.
The jurymen were:-A Moir, R. 8. Phillpot, E: W. A. Lallu, O. F. Ribiero, C. C. Barlow, F. C. A. Hahn, and G. Sachse.
The prisoner was found guilty and she was sent to gaol for two years with hard labour.
22nd November.
Hon. W. M. Goodman (Attorney-General), The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I have the hon-instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys (Crown Solici
(or). prosecuted. our to ask permission to add to the Orders of the Day the first reading of a Bill entitled an Or- dinance to further amend the Widows and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance, 1890. Itis an Or- dinance which affects civil servants only and not the general public and contains only two amend- ments which the Secretary of State desires to have made.
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded. Bill read a first time.
EVICTION ORDINANCE,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I have the honour
The COLONIAL SECRETARY secouded. Bill rend n first time.
VAGRANTS ORDINANCE. Conncil went into Committee on the Bill en-
titled an Ordinance to amend the law relating to Vagrants.
No amendment was made and Council resumed. Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT,
The news supplied by Reuter to the effect that Prince HENRY of Orleans is preparing an expedition, including a corps of Haussa veterans from the West Coast of Africa, with the object of assisting M. LEONTIEFF to forestall Ģeneral Sir HERBERT KITCHENER in the occupation of Khartoum, &c., is in- teresting and may prove important. Ac cording to this statement, a French Prince (not recognised by the French Government) is to be allowed to fit out a filibustering ex- pedition at Marseilles against a country with which France has friendly relations, and, in conjunction with another filibuster of the name of LEONTIEFF, will lead the Abyssini- ans to Khartoum to prevent the Egyptians recovering possession of that place. He is to move the first reading of a Bill entitled an of course welcome to try, but we trust that Ordinance to facilitate the recovery of poss s if the Sirdar comes into collision with thission of tenements and premises of small value. princely popinjay he will treat him as any ordinary filibuster. Prince HENRY is evi- dently playing to the French gallery. He has taken a leaf out of NAPOLEON III.'s book, and fancies that by pandering to French vanity he may acquire such popular- ity as would enable him eventually to run for the Presidential chair. After that the rest would be easy to a ruler with a military force behind him. If, however, the French want a King to reign over them they can readily find one possessing better claims and a more interesting personality. The Duc d'ORLEANS, who is at once the direct heir of LOUIS PHILIPPE and the Legitimate successor to the French Throne, would no doubt be willing to accept the crown, though it is improbable he would stoop to scheme for it by conspiring or by trading on popular passion. But France has no yearn- Ing for either the Monarchy or the Empire, and there is little chance of Prince HENRY'S ambition ever being gratified except through some grave mistake of her Republican rulers bringing about a huge disaster and so causing a complete revulsion of national feeling in favour of another form of government. In the meantime there seems some possibility that this pragmatical prince may stir up mischief. He has already succeeded in causing ill feeling in Italy towards France by his indiscreet utterances, and unless he is distinctly disavowed he may be the means of some day involving France in an un- pleasant dispute,
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held at the Council Chamber on the 22nd November. Present:—
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G,
Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART (Colonia) Secretary).
Hon. W. M. GOODMAN (Attorney-General), Hon. R. MURRAY RUMSEY (Harbour Master). Hon. F. H. Max, C.M.G. (Captain Super- intendent of Police.)
Hon. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (Colonial Treasurer).
Hon R. D. OEMSBY (Director of Public Works).
Hon, C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.
Hon. Ho KAI.
Hon. T. H. WHITEHEAD.
Hon. E. R. BELILIOS, C.M.G.
Hon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.
Hon. WEI A YUK,
Mr. J. G. T. BUCKLE (Clerk of Councils).
MINUTES,
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.
PAPERS.
The Council adjourned until the 6th December.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the Finance Committee was then held, Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart lonial Secretary) prosiding,
KENNEDYTOWN HOSPITAL.
of $3,200 to meet certain expenses in connection with the Kennedytown Hospital.
Hou C. P. CHATER asked what the expenses
were.
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IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE FULL COURT-Sir John Car- RINGTON (CHief Justice) AND MR. A. G. WIBE (PUISNE JUDGE.)
TSE LUN, APPELLANT, V. THE HONGKONG
AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LIMITED, RESPONDENTS, This was an application for leave to appeal from the judgment of Mr. Justice Wise de- livered in the court below on the 2nd November, in an action brought by the appellant against the respondents to recover $781.76, balance said to be due under a contract to build certain go- downs,
Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. Brutton, of Messrs. Mounsey and Bratton), "ppeared for the appellant and Mr. M. W. Slade (instructed by Mr. Hastings, of Messrs. Deacon and Hastings) for the respondents.
Mr. Slade said he had two preliminary objec (Co-tions to make before the motion was proceeded with. In the first place the notice of motion was not in proper form; it merely stated that the The first minute was one in which the Go.application was for leave to appeal on a question of law. Their Lordships had laid down in more vernor recommends the Council to vote a sum
than one case recently heard that the grounds of the notice of motion must be stated in the notice was in general terms asking for leave notice, but in the present instance the
to appeal on a point of law. The point The CHAIRMAN-Expenses in connection with the upkeep of the Kennedytown Hospital that it was intended to raise should be men- and staff, and also in connection with an epidemictioned in the notice of motion for the obvious of small-pox which occurred this year and which purpose of giving the other side information as to what the point of law was. The points increased the expenditure beyond the normal
of law that might arise wore innumerable and unless the specific point to be raised was stated in the notice of motion it was impossible for the respondents to know what case they had to meet. Their Lordships had decided that in a very recent case in which, counsel believed, Mr. Francis appeared on one side and Mr. Robinson on the other, and he remembered his
amount.
Item recommended.
INCREASE OP PRISONERS,
The second minute was one in which the Gov- ernor recommends the Council to vote the sum of $100 in aid of the vote Meals for Prisoners in 'ells," Police Department.
The CHAIRMAN," in explanation, said-The Captain Superintendent of Police reports that the special vote of $500 is insufficient for this year owing to the greater number of men fined in the police colls during the year.
Item recommended.
ADJOURNMENT,
The Committee then adjourned.
SUPREME COURT.
18th November.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
con-
BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE).
DISCHARGED.
On the application of the Attorney-General (Hon. W. M. Goodman) Cheung Hing and Leung I, who were committed for trial on the charge of causing the death of a woman by performing an illegal operation, were discharged by pro- clamation. A woman named Sui Kwai Lan, committed for arson, wsa also discharged.
A GREAT TEMPETATION,
Lau Un, a cook, pleaded guilty to stealing $4.850 belonging to his master, a merchant in Queen's Road.
The master left the money in his vest pocket and while he was having a bath the accused entered the room and stole the money.
of money in his pocket.
His Lordship commented upon the careless. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the tableness of the master in leaving such a large sum the report of the Committee appointed to inquire into applications for increase of the salaries of certain public servants in the colony.
The prisoner was sent to gaol for fifteen months with hard labour.
Lordship saying that the ground for the notice of motion must be given. His other point was that the application was ont of time. The judgment of the Puisne Judge in the original case was given in the court below on the 2nd November; the original notice of motion was filed on the 9th November, but the application was not made to the Court until the 15th November. The terms of Section 41of the Summary Court Ordinance were explicit. The Section said- Any party may within seven days of the date of the judgment apply to the Full Court in its Original Jurisdiction for leave to appeal." In this case "the notice of motion was filed within seven days, but the application was made beyond the seven days. It was impossible to $kF that the more filing of the notice of motion could be held to be within the terms of Section 41. In case No. 1,021 of 1893 the Court ruled that a notice of motion was not an application and counsel read the following note made at the time by Mr. Hastings: :-"Notice of motion for leave to appeal is not sufficient compliance with the Section. The application must actually be made to the Court within seven days unless, the time is extended." In Jackson v. Preddle the Court decided that application to extend the time must be made to the Court by motion.
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In reply Mr. Francis said that in reference to the latter point it had always been held that a notice of motion-which, he submitted, was an application to the Court-was quite sufficient. He was not aware of any other order having been made and unless the contrary was proved by the records of the Court he submitted that their Lordships could not nocept a note made by a private practitioner.
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