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in any way in increasing the prosperity of the said company.
"10. I have myself on many occasions given business to the siid company, and there are no legitimate grounds whatsoever for considering the registration of myself as the proprietor of the said shares in the stead of the said Chong | Wing Shan and Lai Yung Tak Tong to be prejudicial to the interests of the said com. pay, and I verily believe that the real reason for the refusal of the said Board of Directors to allow me to be ВО registered has nothing whatever to do with the question as to whether or not I was a fit and proper person to hold shares in the said company, but that the said directors, or some of them, are actuated by improper motives in refusing to approve of the transfers to me of the said shares.
"I-Several of the said directors are to my own knowledge, themselves shareholders or personally interested in other insurance com panies carrying on business in this colony ol precisely the same nature as the above-named
company.
12. The form in which the original transfers to me of the said shares executed by the said Cheng Wing Shan and Lai Yung Tak Tong were drawn is the form alopied by the above-named company for all transfers of shares in the said company, but I also hold instruments of transfer of the said sbares in the four provided by clause of Table A in the first schedule to Ordinance No. 1 of 1 «5, which instruments have been respectively executed by the said heng Wing Shan and Lai Yung Tak Tong and by myself."
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Mr. Francis spoke at cousiderable length on behalf of the Man On Insurance Company, contending that it was not merely because he was interested as a shareholder in other com. pauies that he was object d to, but that he was an active agent in opposition companies. The further hearing was adjourned.
17th February.
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This case again came before the Court, Mr Slade putting forward the case of Mr. Ho Tang.
His Lordship said he would reserve his deci. sion.
February 19th.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRING.ON (CHIEF
JUSTICE),
DISCHARGED.
The calender included the names of Hu San Yau and Li Hou San, the former having been committed for bribery and the latter for rape.
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The jurors were :- -Messrs. C. W. Richards (foremau). A. A. Co derio, Joha Shelton, Wong Kam Fuk. A. E. Qsınond, P. A. Cox, and Chow Dart Fong.
house expected a commission. The prisoner | obtain money by forged requests, etc. H. did not know the prosecutor at the time, but pleaded not guilty. he got an old friend of his naed Un Kwai Fong intraluca him. The prisoner had an interview with the prosecutor some. where about the 28th November, and he took him to see the house 26, Wing Kat Street, from the ontside The house belonged to the Li Hing estate. It was tenanted at the time, and the tenants had no idea of leaving neither had the owners any idea of letting the house to anyone else. However, the prisoner thought he would get a commission somehow, so he told the prosecutor that the rent collector was a friend of his which Was not true and gave him the impression that he could use his influence to get the house for him. On the second December the pro. soontor paid the prisoner $4 as commission, and on the 30th December he got another $120 from him. When the second sum was paid the prisoner introduced to the prosecutor Un Kwai | Fung, saying that he was acting as rent collec- tor, while the real rent collector was in Canton. 'n Kwai Fong had since absconded, It was subsequently found that the prisoner had no authority for acting as he had done and that no change of tenane, was in view
While the Attorney-General was speaking he was interrupted once or twice by Mr. Stade who took exceptiou to some of bis observations, remaking that he had never heard cases opened as they were opened in this colony.
The evidence for the prosecution was given. On the case for the prosecution being con cluded, His Lordship directed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. When the prosecutor was in the witness box he contradicted himself on several poiuts and also observed that he had no desire to proceed against the prisoner.
Under these circumstances the prisoner was found not guilty and discharged.
BEFORE HIS HONOR A. G. WISE (PUISNE JUDGE).
KOBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT BHAUKIWAN, There were two counts in the indictment against Taug Cheung, viz., (1) robbery by one mare perous; (2) robbery with violence. He pleaded not guilty.
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The jurors were:-Messrs. R. J. Gerard (fore. min), Perey William Patrick Singott, L. B. Sequiera, F. Leb. E. J. Hughes, J. J Loiria,
and A. W. Schollass.
It was alleged by the prosecution that on the 3rd January at Shankiwan the prisoner and two other men attacked a woman and took from her jewellery of the value of $40 Hor ories attracted the attention of a man, who chased the men and caught the prisoner.
Mr. H. E. Pollock "nonducted the case for the
Crown.
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The prisoner said it was not he who commit. The Attorney General (the Hon. W. Meighted the offence but his younger brother, who Goodman), however, said he had made enquiries was wearing some clathing of his at the time. as to these cases nd he did not think he could | His younger brother ran away o learning that ask any jury to convict Therefore, he did not he had been reported to the police. The pri propose to file an information in either case.
soner added, My younger brother looks the Both the prisoners were then formally dia. charged by proclamation.
OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PLETENCES,
There were three counts in the indictment
against Cheung Ping Nam, viz., (1) obtaining money by false pretences; (!) obtaining mony by false pretences; aud (3) conspiracy to defraud. The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Slade (instructed by Messrs Wilkinsou and Grist) appeared for the defence.
The following composed the jury:-Messrs. A. Cameron (foreman). L. E. Ozorio, Peter Louriero, James Walker, W. Schmidt, C. G. Klinok, and H. Nolke
The Attorney-General said the prisoner was. charged on three counts, namely, with obtaining $40 by false prete uces, with obtaining 812-1 by false preteuces, and with conspiring with a mati called Un Kwai Fong to obtain $120 from the prosecutor. It appeared that a mau named Ip Wing, together with some other people, pur- posed starting a boxeding-house, and was on the look-out for suitable premises. The pri- soner, hearing of this. thought to himself that he would be able, if he could get a suitable house for these people, to get some com nission. soomed usual among the Chinese that there should be an intermediate man in these matters, and the intermediate man who procured the
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The prisoner was found guilty on both counts, and sentenced to two years' hard labour on each count, the sentences to run concurrently, and 20 strokes with the birch.
ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROB.
Mr. Pollock said there were four counts in this indictment, On the first three counts pri- soner was charged with endeavouring to obtain various sums of money-$200, Tls. 55, and Tls. 50-by means of forged requests, and OD the fourth count he was charged with endeavouring to obtain the sum of $100 by means of false prétences. All these four counts had reference to the same date, the 21st Jan., and the first and four counts had reference to the sure sum of money. Broadly speaking, what the prisonor did was to pretend that he came from a certain Chinese shop called the Fuk Loon Shop, and was to collect various sums of money, and that in several of these cases he produced certain letters or requests for the pay- ment of money purporting to come from the Fal: Loon Shop. As a matter of fact these letters for the payment of money were for. geries.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 18 months with hard labour on each count, the senteuces tornu concurrently.
THE STATE OF SHANTUNG,
Government by proclamation, says The Pekin and Tientsin Times, is still the order of day in stringent proclamations covering the case of Shantung. Goveruor Yuaá has issued two very
this wild state of anarchy in Western Shantung. The one states the case of Christianity as being repeatedly commended by Imperial Edict, and aseing fully as legitimate a dweller in China as the Buddhist and Teist religious. He bids the peop e have regard for their fellows who follow these foreign religions, and to find an immediate way to live in peace with them. The second proclamation deals with the insidi. ous Boxers' Society which he denounces in un. measured terms, referring to the history of Tao Kuang when these Yi Ho-chuan were extirpated ront and branch. This is all very well, as far as words can make for good. But the local officials merely pass on a bundle of the proclamations to the village constables who very righteously sup- press the same unless compelled to pos' them by some additional external force. A new rôle has now been discovered. The officials of Ping Yuan and En Heion having called the heads- mau of each township and having issued the Governor's strict orders, domund that the whole country sign a boud to the effect that at present there are no more Boxers, all having quietly dispersal. Were there any truth in such bonds one would be pleased at the simple way of quelling such a wide-spread and terrible rising. The authorities in Chihli are noting more vigorously than those in Shantung. The interests are no doubt greater. In one district in Chilli indemnity has already been paid up to the amount of Tis, 2,400. This is an admir able beginning. In Shantung, on the contrary, nothing has been paid and no intimation on the part of a single official of auy readiness to pay an in emuity. We un lerstand that as regards the same trouble in I-chou-fu last winter, it took nearly a whole year to settle the very small
Chan Un pleaded not guilty to a charge of claims that were made. The remoral of the
assault with intent to rob.
There was no change in the jurors.
From the statement made by Mr. Pollockitap- peared that on the 28th January the prisoner and thr e other men went to the floor of a house in Aberdeen Street occupied by a woman named. Lee Hiu, professing to want to hire a cubicle. While they were talking to her, one of the meu rubbed some pepper into ber eyes from be. bind. She was thrown down and an attempt was made to take three rings from ber finger, Տեր struggled and got away ou to the verandah and began to call out "Save life!" The eu then skuttled downstairs and the prisoner was caught in the street and brought back. The other men got away.
The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months with hard isbour.
ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN MONEY BY POPGED
REQUESIA.
Chan Kam Un, alias Chan Tak Un. was charged on four counts with endeavouring to
delinquent officials is perhaps the first step to- wards stopping the trouble. It is learned that the Haian chin official is to be removed because
he allowed even telegraph poles to be hacked-
and cut dowa. He is not to be removed for all the terror and disaster which his atter inade- quacy has stimulatel if not abetted. Through the coming to his district of the Tuotai from Chi-ona-fu two of the leaders who destroyed the Christian chapels and homes at Ho Chio. t'un having been arrested and taken to the capital for punishment. Two others still more deeply implicated are arrested. l'he articles which were kindly sent in response to an appeal for the sufferers have proved to be most helpful, The unwonted cold of this season, the mercury being lower that ever noted here during the past twenty yejis, has made the sorrows of the looted Christians a tinge more sombre. Gen. Yuan, anxious lost marauders from Chikli shouki still molest us, has sent a guard of sights foot soldiers.
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