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Mr. H. N. Ferrers first dealt with the question of whether there was any prima facie evidence or not. He pointed out that the magistrate had not taken the evidence of the Chinese official who was actually th complain. ant in the case, whereas the ordinance provided that this evidence should be, taken in every
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The Judges were against Mr. Ferrers on this point, and he prooceeded to another: The Hongkong Extradition Ordinance ultra vires. He pointed out that by the treaty of Tientsin the British Government had agreed with the Chinese Imperial Government that they should return to Chinese jurisdiction only those criminals whose guilt had been proved, whereas the Hongkong Ordinance provided for the rendition of cri. minals against whom merely a prima facie case had been made out, and the Colonial legislature had no power to do this. It was true the magistrate had stated that he consider d the guilt of this particular prisoner proved, but in so doing Mr. Hazeland had clearly overstepped his jurisdiction, and arrogated to himself the power which he did not possess. The jurisdiction of magistrates was It confined to committing prisoners to trial. was preposterous for him to presume that he could sit as judge and jury and exercise the power of life and death. The prisoner could not be extradited till his guilt had been proved, and in this case it was clear that his guilt had not been proved.
Proceeding, counsel dealt with the point that the Chinese Government had an ulterior object in demanding the extradition of this prisoner. He pointed out that the crime The alleged was not a particularly serious one. prisoner had used no violence in the sense of wounding or injuring any person in the course of the robbery, and the proceeds of the robbery were of comparatively small value; but there was a proclamation before the Court issued by an officer of the Chinese Government six months after the alleged robbery, putting a reward of $1,500 on the prisoner's head. It was, there- fore abundantly clear that the Chinese Govern- ment had something else against the prisoner which they did not chose to reveal, The alleged robbery was put forward as a pretext to secure his extradition.
Judgment was reserved.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FORTHCOMING SEASON.
Mr. T. F. Hough, Clerk of the course of the Hongkong Jockey Club, convened a meeting, held at the Hongkong Hotel on June 27, to make arrangements for the Club's forthcoming season. Mr. E. W. Mitchell was in the obair and a fair number of members were present.
Mr. HOUGH read a letter from the Shanghai Horse Bassar, offering to supply subscription prins at the same price as last year, and also a letter from the Dallas Horse Repository.
He recommended that the Horse Bazaar offer
be accepted, the time required for the three quarters to be lmin. 40sec.
Mr. CRUICKSHANK-The Horse Bazaar do you as well as anyone in the North.
Mr. FORREST suggested that they should stipulate for a mile at 2min. 2 sec., last quarter 34sec., or 2min. 24sec.,last quarter 35sec. Then they would have some notion of whether the pony could gall p, yhereas an indifferent pony might run three-quarters with a feather weight on its back.
Mr. Hoven de a few remarks on the distance of the raos, and said if they required too high a standard they would not get ponies at the price.
Mr. CRUICKSHANK said that leaving the dis tance at three quarters as last year the ponies were more unknown quantities than would be were a mile. Ha proposed that three-quarters at 1 min 40 sec. be adhered to.
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Mr. JUPP seconded and it was carried.
CRUICKSHANK anggested that in writing to the Horse Bassar they should request that the ponies be sent a nearby as possible together or about the same time. There was a big gap last year.
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A MEMBEE-Bind them to a date. Mr. HOUGH-We did that last year an! had toconcede the point. I will ask them to send them as much together as possible.
It was mentioned that last year's arrange- ment, by which, for instance, a man taking ve ponies would have to wait till all single drawers had been accommodated before he could draw a second horse, should prevail.
That was all the business.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB,
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
The annual general meeting of the Victoria Recreation Club was held in St. Andrew's Hall, There were present: City Hall, on 29th June.
-Messrs. Arthur Chapman (Chairman), Frank Lammert (Hon. Secretary), 8. A. Set (Trea- surer), F. W. White, M. A. C. Souza, M. A. R. Souza, F. W. Bains, T. Blair, L. A. Musso, T. E. Pearce, E. W. Mitchell, C. N. Brett, E.
Humphreys, T. C. Gray, G. A. Caldwell, E. B. Hayward, C. H. Grace. E. M. Haze- land, F. P. Lenfestly. J. E. Joseph, W. H. R. Hance. T. Meek, Armstrong, J. C. E. A. Hance, H. M. Bain, J. H. Seth, H. A. Lammert, R. C. Witchell, H. Gidley, H. S. Beran, J. Rodger, Capt. Warrick. T. Clarke, H. S. Holmes and T. C. Swaby.
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The CHAIRMAN said Gentlemen, the report and statement of accounts having been in your hands for some days we will, if you have no objection, follow the usual custom and take them as read. This meeting is held later than usual, the delay being unavoidable owing to the change of Secretary and Treasurer. all seen the Sub-Committee's reports dealing with the various departments of the Club so there is little left for me to say. I am glad to state that the anticipations of the Boat-House Sub-Committee to which I referred at the last annual meeting have been to a great extent realized, considerable interest and keenness in rowing having been shown during the past season. At our Regatta in December last we had the pleasure of welcoming crows from Canton who carried off all the open events. At the Canton Regatta the V.R.C. crews were not successful but did better than on the previous occasion. It is to be hoped that this friendly rivalry will be the means of still further im- provement so that in the near future we may regain some of our lost laurels. With regard to the unfavourable situation of the Bath house to which attention is directed by the Sub- Committee I am glad to say that this matter has been taken in hand by your Committee, and permission of the Government obtained for the erection of new stages in front of the Club House. This will provide an excellent bath in deeper and, what is of still greater importance, cleaner water than at present.
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work will be commenced at once and I hope to see some of our popular aqnatio entertainments given there very shortly. The cost of this much-needed improvement will be $800. The report of the Gymnasium Sub- Committee is again very disappointing. The Bar account shows a good result. I am sorry
that the Balance Sheet for 1904 is not more satisfactory although on the whole things are not so bad as appears at first sight. Taking the working for the year of the Club in all the various departments there is a debit balance of only $41.13. On the 31st December, 1904, the | Club was $549.62 better off then when we started the year, this being due to the interest on deposits. I am pleased to tell you that after clearing off the debit balance of 8997.08 in working account, this account showed on June 3rd a credit balance of $2,401,02, which does not include the interest on deposits, or the balance from bar account. The wisdom of the small increase in annual subscription agreed to at the last general meeting being apparent. The cost of a decent bath, and the new four oared boat ordered from Clasper will thus be more than covered. You will observe that $500 have been account bac's to transferred from the Bar
recommended at Typhoon Fund last annual meeting. You were all noti- fied in December last that circumstances had arisen which would delay the handing over Your Committee have taken of the new site.
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all necessary steps to safeguard the best interest of the Club. The Admiralty withdrew the notice to quit our present premises at Kowloon.
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[July 1, 1965: that the V. B. C. Magasine. I am pleased
say which was first published about six months ago shows every prospect of being a lasting success, which would result with more encouragement from members. Before proposing the adoption of the report and accounts I will be pleased to answer any questions to the best of my ability.
There being no questions the motion was put to the meeting, Mr. T. C. GRAY seconded and it was carried.
Mr. E. W. MITCHELL-Gentlemen, I beg to propose the re-election of Mr. Chapman (ap- plause). Since he has served in this office he has been a hard-working man in the past, and we cannot do better them re-elect him. He is going away at the end of the year, so we had best get the most of him, and re-elect bim till he goes.
Mr. PEARCE seconded and it was carried. The CHAIRMAN-I beg to thank you for the honour you have done me in re-electing me. am sure you could have found someone else, but
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as you have chosen me I shall do all I can to further the interests of the V.R.C. while I am in the Colony.__(Applause).
Mr. FRANK WHITE proposed that Mr. Frank Lammert be elected Hon. Becretary.
Mr. BLAIR seconded and it was carried. Mr. J. HANCE proposed that Mr. 8. A. Seth
be elected as Hon. Treasurer
Mr. CYRIL HANCE conded and it was carried.
The following Committees were elected by ballot :-
Crake, Committee: Messrs. Armstrong
Hazelan!, Grace, Gray.
Meek, Caldwell, Mitchell and Rodger.
Messrs. Cruick- Balloting Committee: shank, C. D. A. Hance, J. H. R. Hanoe, R. Henderson, H. A. Lammert, M.
McIver,
A. P. Nobbs, T. E. Pearce, F. W. White and R. C. Witchell.
That was all the business.
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THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
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The Annual Meeting of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society was held on June 22nd at the Museum, Shanghai. Sir Pelham Warren presided, and was able to comment on a
than usual activity year of and progress. The report was adopted sud
officials were the following
elected the coming year:-President, Sir Pelham Warren; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. H. B. Morse and T. W. Kingsmill; Hon. Seo., Dr. J. C. Ferguson; Hon Treas., Mr. J. West; Hop. Hon. Librarian, Mr. W. Sheldon Ridge; Curator. Dr. A. Stanley; Councillors, Dr. T. Richard, Dr. C. Schirm-r and Messrs, J Men- carini, and C. H. Brewitt-Taylor.-A special resolution recorded the loss to the Society caused by the death of Dr. Edkins; another authorised the taking of steps to provide a new building for the Society; and a third concerned the appointment of a special committee to provide a fitting celebration on the 26th of October, 1907, of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society.
SIR THOMAS JACKSON'S STATUE.
The statue of Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart., which is to be erected on one of the vacant plots in front of the premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk, was completed before last mail left London, and will arrive here very shortly. sittings, bas been engaged on this work for Signor Raggi, to whom Sir Thomas gave fou nearly eighteen months, including a delay at the foundry of two months. The statue is in bronze, and represents Sir Thomas wearing a frock-coat The figure is tou feet high and is to be erected on a pedestal eleven feet high. In an interview with a representative of our London office, Signor Raggi mentioned that Sir Thomas family a very pleased with the statue, consi- dering it an excellent likeness. that day sent the model of the Jubilee statue of the late Queen Victoria to the foundry in order to execute two orders he has for replicas of the one in Hongkong. One goes to Sɔuth Africa and the other to Toronto. The statue of Bir Thomas reflects great credit on Signor Raggi who for the past forty years has resided in London; and will doubtless enhance that artist's reputation as an able sculptor.
The artist had
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