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Thursday, 19th November.
IN BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR F. PIGGOTT).
À QUESTION OF JURISDICTION. Re Chan Yu Shan. Mr. Hastings appeared for the petitioning creditor and Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared to oppose.
Mr. Hasting-I understand your Lordship has ordered a trial of issue?
His Lordship-Yes. The issue is proceeding
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8u Sing Pui was called and stated that he knew the debtor slightly before he sold the g.ods in question. Deb'or cume from Aunam and went to the Yuen We Sing where witness him and his accountant. The debtor resided there from June to the end of September. The master of the Yuen We Sing stated that the debtor rented a cubicle from him at $8 per month. Debtor dealt in cinnamon and put up a notice.
Mr. Hastings submitted his friend had no locus standi.
His Lordship replied that he had already decided that point.
Mr. Hastings then addressed the Court pointing out that his friend acting for the judgment creditor wished to obta u the effect of his judgment to the exclusion of the other creditors.
His Lordship did not tha' Cher Was evidence of other creditors.
Mr. Hastings said the assets were 14.000 and the liabilities $90,000.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.
HIS SUCCESSOR PROCLAINED AND REGENT APPOINTED.
Peking, November 15th. His Majesty the Emperor Kuang Hsu died on Saturday the 14th inst. at 5 p.m.
Prince Chun's son has been proclaimed the new Emperor, and Prince Chan has been appointed Regent.
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He has a well-shaped head, with the intellectual qualities well developed, a high brow, with large brown eyes and rather drooping lids, not at all Chinese in form or setting. His nose is high and, like most members of the Imperial Family, is of the so-called 'noble' type, A rather large mouth with thin lips, the upper short with a proud curve, the lower strong chin a little beyond the slightly protruding, a clear cut, thin
line of forehead, with not an ounce of superfluous flesh on the whole face, give him ascetic air, and, in spite of his rather delicate physique, an appearance of great reserved strength. His face is kindly in
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The Empress-Dowager is also ill. Peking is quiet, the news having been expression, but the glance from the heavy- suppressed in the capital.
lidded eyebrows is shrewd and intelligent. His manner is shy and retiring, but this does not seem to be so much from a lack of confidence in himself as from the absence of that magnetic quality which gives one an appearance of Over his whole face there reached a state of passivity." is a look of self-repression which has almost
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Confirmation of the suppression of the news (which is not unusual when Oriental monarchs die) is afforded by the terms of an Edict which was issued in tlie Capital on the 15th inst. The substance of the Edict as cabled to the Chang Ngoi San Po" (Chinese Daily Press states that since the Autumn the Emperor has been ill, and recently the Tartar-Generals, the Governors and the Viceroys of different provinces were requested to send experienced doctors to Peking to attend His Majesty. Doctors had been despatched from Chihli. Kiangen. Hupeh. Hunan and Chakiang. hut their combined skill contianes) to prove of no avail.
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The Emperor had suffered from a plication of maladies and was unable to slee As the physicians in attendance were unable to afford his Majesty any relief the Tartar. Generals, Governors and Viceroys were com His Lordship explained that he had admitted manded to send other doctors to the Palace. Mr Otto Kong Bing because he had, and if the Emperor was cured both doctors raised the question of the jurisdiction of the and officials would be amply rewarded. Court.
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The Emperor was of a very stadions dig. position, and followed events with the closest attention. English was among his studies. He was a great reader, aud a special official position is stated to have been no sinecure, to buy books was kept at the Palace. His
as the Emperor did not devote himself only to vainee Literature and the classics but devoured translations of forngn works and was constantly calling for new opes.
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He was passionately fond of music played a number of Chinese instruments and had even tried the piano. Miss Carl also records that he was very clever in a mechanical way and could take to pieces and put together a clock with fair success. He was a very early riser often getting up as early as two a.m. When there was some ceremony in Peking or some Mr. Hastings argued at length that the As all serious students of things Chinese are sacrifice to his Ancestors he would go the sixteen estate left in Hongkong by the debtor should be aware the name Kwang-Hsu was not the personal miles: perform the ceremony or sacrifice and available for the payment of the debts which he name of the late Emperor. but simply the had contracted here.
return in time for the Audience at eight The question for his reign title. or year indicator by which o'clock" He did not care Lordship was whether the debtor had a domicile the years of his reign are indicated. Kwang ciates, either
for young a840- mein or here. The three grounds on which domicile Hsu meaus Continuation of Glory. The late
women, though he was very fond of children. Miss Carl remarked were recognised was ordinary residence, dwelling | Emperor was the son of Prince Chun. the
that he had but few favourites at the place and place of business. Debtor had seventh son of the Emperor Tao Knang He Palace, and quite ignored the pretty young resided in the Colony for three months during succeeded his cousin. the late Emperor Tung girls and women of Her which time he had done business,
Majesty's on- Chih., who died without issue on the 12th tourage. He seeins to have great respect for January, 1875, from smallpox The proclama | cleverness. One derives from such an intimate tion announcing the accession of the late description of the Emperor the impression that sovereign was as follows :-
if His Majesty had freely exercised his talents he would possibly have made a great name in history. But all his life he has been over- shadowed by the Dowager-Empress. Her Majesty, being his Ancestress, is first in every thing." This was no less so in the political than in the social sphere. Our leading article to-day deals with the Emperor as he been re- presented before the world by his official sots, but the fore-going pen-picture of his private life helps materially, we think, to a better un derstanding of his publie-life.
His Lordship thought that if the debtor -came to Hongkong simply to dispose of the cinnamon then there was no jurisdiction. If he consigned the cinnamon to the Kwong Man to be sold on commission he did not come up on business at all.
His Lordship afterwards said that he proposed to make an order subject to this: that if he were not satisfied on the subject of jurisdiction he should cancel it.
Mr. Otto Kong Sing added that it was clear there was no residence in this case.
His Lordship said he would not grant an order on the ground of pure residence but if he was satisfied there was residence coupled with busi- ness then he would grant an order. He added that he would give a written judgment on the point.
RAILWAYS IN CHINA.
The Central Government having regard to the fact that the Chinese private railways are not making any progress, has ordered the provincial authorities to see that the railways, for which concessions have been given, are constructed forthwith. It is understood, says the Peking and Tientsin Times. that if this order shall have again no effect, the Central Government will within a short time itself take charge of building these railways with the help of foreign capital in a similar way as in the case of the Tientsin Pukou Railway This will be especially the case with regard to the Canton-Hankow and the Hankow-Chengtufu Railway which the Government can. for political and strategical reasons, dispense with as little as with the Tientsin Pukou Railway.
A magnificent silver спр was recently presented to Bandmaster McKelvey of the Royal West Kent Regiment, on behalf of the members of the Tanglin Club, Singapore, as showing in a tangible form the high apprecia- tion of the efforts of Mr. McKelvey by the music-loving community of Singapore.
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Whereas His Majesty the Emperor has ascended upon the Dragon to be a guest on high. without offspring born to his in heritance, no course has been open but that of causing Tsai Tien, son of the Prince of Ch'un, to become adopted as the son of the Emperor Weng Tsung Hien Hien Fung and to enter upon the inheritance of the great dynastic line as Emperor by succession. Therefore. let Tsai Tien. son of Yih Huan, the Prince of Ch'un, become adopted as the son of the Emperor Wen Tsang Hien, and enter upon the inheritance of the great dynastic line as Emperor by succession The late sovereign was the ninth Emperor of China .of the Manchn Dynasty of Ta-Tsing (Sublime Purity) which succeeded the native dynasty of Ming in the year 1644. There exists no law of hereditary succession to the Throne in China, but it is left to each sovereigu to appoint his successor from among the members of his family. The late Emperor's predecessor dying in the eighteenth yearsof his age did not designate a successor, and it was, in consequence of palace intrigue, directed by the Empress Dowager in concert with Prince Chun. that the infant son of the latter was declared Emperor) Born in 1871 he assumed the reins of govern. ment in February 1887. was married on the 26th February 1839 to Yeh-ho-na-la. niece of the Empress Dowager, and his enthronement took place on the 4th of March following. The reignof the Emperor has thus lasted thirty-three years. person the late Emperor was a slight and elegant figure, not more than five feet four in height. Lady Susan Townley wrote of him: His eyes are his best feature; they are large, dark and sad, set in a quare, pallid face, the forehead of which is high and retreating, his chin weak and undecided" Miss Carl, who had many opportunities of seeing his Majesty while she was at the Palace a few years ago painting portraits of the Empress-Dowager, wrote of him:
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DEATH OF THE EMPRESS DOWAGER.
ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.
A Peking telegram to the Daily Press on the 16th inst. announced that the Empress Dowager of China died the previous day, the 15th inst
It is rumoured that she was poisoned by someone connected with the Anti-Manchu
movement.
We are indebted to Miss Carl's intensely interesting book "With the Empress-Dowager of China for the following information regard. ing Her Majesty. Mias Carl was invited to the Palace in 1903 to paint Her Majesty's portrait. She lived in different palaces of Their Celes tial Majesties for a few months and her interest- ing narrative shows that she had opportunities of becoming acquainted with life at the Chinese Court such as no other Foreigner can élaim. Miss Carl had no ides of writing • book when she left the Palace as she well knew that it would be looked upon as a flagrant breach of hospitality, but the statements ascribed to her in the newspapers moved her to write in her own defence as well as in the defence of her august patroness, "a full and true relation" of her life at
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