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“...B. M.’s Supreme Court. H. B. M. Supreme Court. IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861. Shanghai, 29£/z June, 1867. WHEREAS on the 28£A day of August 1866, Henry Edward Bush and Robert Kelly Maitland, lately trading in co-partnership under the style or firm of Maitland, Bush & Co., were adjudicated bankrupt on their own petition, filed in Her Britannic Majesty’s Court at Newchwang, and the said Court held a sitting for the first meeting of creditors on the 8th day of October 1866, and by adjournments dn the 5th November 1866, 15tli April 7 th, and 31s£ May 1867, and whereas the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court in consideration of The fact that the majority of the creditors being re- sident without the jurisdiction of the said Court at Newchwang, has this day ordered, in accordance with Sec. 88 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, and by virtue of Sec. 39 of the China and Japan Order in Council 1865, that the proceedings under the adjudication and the...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. H. B M. Supreme Court- H. B. M.’s SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA & JAPAN. NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that the sittings of the Court for hearing Civil cases during the month of July next, will be held on Wednesdays, the 3rdand 10/5 A days of that month respectively; and for Motions, Ap- plications, &c., on Saturdays, the 6th and 13th proximo. The Vacation will commence on the 15£A of July, and terminate on the 15/5h September 1867, during which period the Supreme Court will hold no sittings for the transaction of ordinary business. Shanghai, 21st June, 1867. IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA & JAPAN. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861. Shanghai, 26th June, 1867. WHEREAS a petition for an adjudication of bank- ruptcy was, on the 25/5A day of June 1867, filed in Her Britannic Majesty’s Supreme Court for China and Japan, at Shanghai, by Edmund Warden, under which he has been adjudged bankrupt, Notice is hereby given Edmund Warden that he is hereby required...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR, GAZETTE, JWy bth 1S67. It is requested that only such communications as that they Editorial matters be addressed to the Editor, and relate to be sent not later than Friday. Advertisements will be received till 10 a.m. on Saturday. No communications can be noticed unless accompanied by the name of the writer. Supreme drmrt anb Consular fedte Shanghai, July 6th, 1867. The legacy which Mr. Vice Consul Alabaster has left behind him in the shape of a memoran- dum on the Mixed Court is not without its use- fulness. Here we have at a glance the reasons why this Court was established; the object that its founders had in view ; the rules by which its procedure was to be governed ; and the third part of the series shews the difficulties which a Court has to contend with which assumes to decide cases of great commercial importance in the absence of any rules of commercial law. When the Mixed Court was established it was intended to be a Police Court and Court of Small Debts...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. July 6tk 1867 than adjudicate on small debts and enquire into and prevent petty offences, it must have a re- gularly recognised system of Law, by which its Judges must be guided. Merchants cannot and will not submit to their rights and remedies being made the subject of ideas. It is all very well to scoff at the technicalities of all recognised systems of Law, but we may fairly presume that these technicalities, as they are ignorantly termed, have some use in them or they would not have been adopted by Jurists of all civilized countries, and we venture to suggest that China is about the last place in the world where the interests of foreigners can be left to the tender consideration of native Judges or to the protection of native Laws. Sundry customs or habits have grown up in Shanghai, with regard to monetary transactions, occasioned, doubtless, and perhaps justified, by the peculiar circumstances of the locality, but which are so far anomalous as to give...”
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“...June Gth 1867. SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. might specify without difficulty, by means of dates, the bill delivered, to which it was intend- ed to apply. In short the very smallest amount of commercial ingenuity would, we should think, meet in half a dozen practical ways, this incon- venience, which appears to be merely a relique of the days when men at Shanghai clisdained to reckon the amount of a bill, and treated money as so much dross, with which the fingers of a gentleman were not to be soiled. These days are now a thing of the past—people now find it a reasonable and advisable thing to look into the demand made upon them before they pay; and we think that the valuable time of com- pradores or coolies would not be greatly sacri- ficed if they were made to call upon the debtor in the first instance for the purpose of present- ing the bill, and afterwards as many times as might be necessary for obtaining payment thereof, before the creditor resorted to the extreme measure of a summons...”
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“...4 SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. July Qth 1867. study of the Chinese. The monosyllabic nature of the tongue, and the consequent frequent re- petition of the same vocal sound, probably first suggested this mode of distinguishing words. To those who desire to obtain a fluency in speak- ing, the exercises which Mr. Wade has compiled will be of great value. The system of number- ing the tones, in place of distinguishing them by signs, we deem an improvement. We are dis- posed somewhat to differ with the view given by Mr. Wade respecting the desirability of sys- tematically practising the various tones at an early period of study, as being somewhat likely to overburden the memory. A constant watch- fulness for the cadence of his teacher’s voice, combined with the knowledge that these distinct- ions have to be observed, will be sufficient to place the student upon his guard; and after a time, as he becomes familiar with various words of apparently similar pronunciation, he may with advantage...”
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“...agreed to accept one approved surety of $1,000 or two sureties of $500 each for his appearance; the prisoner to enter into his own recognizances to a like amount. H. B. M. SUPREME COURT. July 2nd, 1867. Hopkins versus Gam well. This case was re-heard before the Chief Judge, in Chambers. Mr. Eames for the appellants, urged that the letter of guarantee was not a regularly prepared legal docu- ment, and that the only reasonable construction to put upon it was that the guarantee extended only to the end of one month. The points were argued at length; and His Lordship decided that the decision as given by the Court below should stand; with the exception of $13 balance, being the difference between $139 actually paid and $152 for which a receipt had been given, His Lordship holding the receipt to be binding. H. B. M.’s SUPREME COURT, SUMMARY CASES. June 29 th 1867. Before R. A. Mowat Esq. W. Harvie v. R. S. Raphael. Claim for Tls. 63.50, balance of account for work done and materials supplied....”
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“...6 SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. July ttk 1867. you can go to Mr. Kingsmill, or my agent J. Morris, Esq. Your obedient servant, R. S. Raphael. Next day 19th, T obtained the certificates from Mr. Kingsmill that the work had been properly done. I have applied to Mr. Morris, who refuses to pay, be- cause he says he has no authority and is not his agent. He has been left in charge of house furniture, and 1 think a carriage. I fear the value of the furniture is not enough to cover my claim, unless the carriage be in- cluded, I am sure it is his. Mr. Morris has informed me that he pays a monthly rent for his premises to Mr. Raphael in advance. I think Tls. 40 per month. The rent for July will be due in a few days. 1 do not ex- pect Mr. Raphael back. Some say that he means to go to Bombay, others that he is going to Hongkong. July 2nd, 1867. Plaintiff puts in defendant’s acceptance of offer to repair at Tls. 840. T. W. Kingsmill.—I am an architect; my services were called in to superintend...”
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“...July 6th 1867. SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. 7 affray was sentenced to one month imprisonment with hard labor and bread and water on alternate days; Brook and Wallace 14 days with hard labor ; Ritchie and Murray to one week with hard labor. John Smith, a sailor staying at the Home, was charged with stealing fruit from a Chinaman’s stall. Yeu-Chin, keeper of a vegetable stall in Old China Street, deposed to the prisoner leaving with sundry peaches, pine apples &c. refusing payment and assault- ing the witness, kicking him on the head and knee. The Prisoner was not drunk at the time. He was stated by the Police to bear otherwise a good character. His Honor ordered him to pay $1 for the fruit eaten, and to go to jail for 14 days. John Reed, A. B. seaman on board the Sovereign of India, was sent to jail for two weeks with hard labor for refusal of duty. The prisoner habitually answered insolently when ordered to do anything on board. Chas. Wevil was charged with assaulting Captain Winchester...”
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“...8 SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. July Qtk 1867. on either side. The ancient bed of the river was dry for the greater portion’of the year, butfor a few days in the summer the Hwei River and the waters of the streams Rowing into the northern portion of the Canal were allowed to empty themselves into its bed. At present the stream which flows from the northern portion of the Canal, as well as the water of the River itself, finds an exit through the lower portion of the Canal until exhausted by the de- mands made on them from the irrigation of the lower portions of the Kiangsa Province. The Canal has withered to a narrow channel some 10 yards in "width, and flowing towards Chinkiang with a scarcely perceptible current. The waters of the Hungtse lake, the great recepticle into which the Hwei discharges, and which communicates with the Canal by the short channel, were described as being considerably higher than the general level of the districts lying to the South, which had been restrained...”
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“...J uly 6th 1867. SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. 9 Totnes, Reigate, Yarmouth and Lancaster was carried. The Half Yearly Report of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, just published, exhibits an excess of Expenditure over Revenue, of “ Six thou- and Pounds” (£6,000.)—June, 1st. The House of Commons has adopted the amendment fixing that Boroughs with a population of under Ten Thousand shall return only one Member to Parliament.—June, 3rd. In the House of Commons last night the amend- ment to Disfranchise Boroughs with a population of under five thousand was rejected. Mr. Hunt in re- ply to a question w’hether overtures had been made to the French Post Office Authorities to render the Mail Service to India and China more available than it would be from the tenders just issued, stated that the required service might be devised; he expressed the hope that the Messageries Imperiales_would offer to carry it out Prussia.—May, 31st. Advices state that Count Bismark accompanies...”
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“...10 SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. July 6th 1867 Tls. 120 ; Lucifer, Tls. 125 ; Trustee, Tls. 80 ; Chal- lenger, Tls. 60; Reform, Tig. 120 ; Chef D'CEuvre, Tig. 120; Sunshine, Tig. 100; Half Caste, Tig. 350 ; some Griffins realized Tls. 110, 90, 70, and 45 respectively, and Highflyer fetched Tls. 145, and Smith O'Brien Tls. 20. The following passengers have arrived during the past week ; per Aden, from Hongkong, June 30th, Messrs. Buckingham, Tongue, Carvalho, and Capt. MacEarlane ; per Yung Hai An, from Hongkong, Capt. Newton and Miss Weed; per Suwonada, from Hong- kong, July 2nd, Mr. R. J. Fearon, Mr. F. B. Jenkins, Mr. T. F. Stephenson, Mr. S. A. Creem; per Dupleix, from Hongkong&c., July 4th, Dr. Murray, Messrs. T. Jackson, E. Juvet ; for Yokohama, Mr. Robecehi, and svt. (Italian Consul) Messrs. Chappelier, Saia, Damioli, Frigerio, Bignotti, Dell’oro Fondro, Viccetich, Vizano, Gattinoni, Dusino, Facchi, Ortel, Pivi and Son, Saris, Burslay, Hirclay, F. Abegg, and Walker ; per Yuen-...”
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“...July 6th 1867- SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. 11 been heard at the British Court, in which the Captain of the Medina was ordered to pay £100 as compensa- tion for maltreating a steward on board that ship. The case has been freely commented upon in the pa- pers, it being in one alleged that the steward was a dangerous lunatic, and that there were 1,200 kegs of gunpowder on board, which it was thought he might fire to get his revenge. This would be a reason, no doubt, for confining him, but not for giving him bad provisions and keeping him in irons. The Municipal Council, finding it had to spend about twice its income to provide for the wants, of the settlement, called together the Land Ren- ters and laid its difficulties before them, offering for their choice two solutions thereof'; one the liar a kari of the Council and relegation of all Municipal duties and re- sponsibilities to the native Government—the other, the continued existence of the Municipal Council, strength- ened by an accession...”
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“...12 SUPREME COURT ^CONSULAR GAZETTE. July 6th 1867. H. B. M.’s SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN. Causes for Hearing. Wednesday, 16th July, 1867. Lane, Crawford & Co. v. A. Campbell.—Claim of $591.10, for goods sold and delivered.; H. Sutherland v. T. H. Johnson.—Claim of Taels 87.50 for breach of contract. In re E. Warden—Bankruptcy meeting postponed to Tuesday, 23rd July, 1867. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Shanghai, July 6th, 1867. T.m.c. T.m.c. Grey Shirtings—5 £ Catty,........... 2.2.5 a 2.3.5 ., for arrival..,................. ,, 6£ Catty, on spot.............. 2.7.0 ft 2.8.0 for arrival..................... White Do. 64 Reed,................. 2.8.0 T-Q loths—81b., 36 in,.............. 2.8.5 a 2.9.5 Long Ells—IIH Scarlet,.............. 7.5.0 ,, Assorted,................ 7.2.0 ,, CPH. Scarlet............. 7.4.5 ,, Assorted,................ 7.2.0 Spanish Stripes—Elephant,........... 0.6.5 a 0 7.4 » Tiger,............ Camlets—SS..................... 14.0.0 SSS .................. 13.0.0 Lead.......”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. British Consulate Ningpo. and also to make application for his order of discharge under the “Bankruptcy Act 1861” (whereof and of the purport whereof the notice required in that behalf was duly given) I, R. J. Forrest, H.B.M. Acting Con- sul, Acting in the prosecution of the said Bankruptcy held a public sitting at the time and place above men- tioned for the purposes aforesaid, and it was therein ordered that the meeting should be adjourned. The Court has now appointed a public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge, to be held before H.B. M. Consul at Ningpo aforesaid, on Monday, the 8th of July, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon precisely. At such public sitting proofs of debts of Creditors will be received, and the Bankrupt will be required to submit himself to be examined and to make a full disclosure of all his estate and effects and to linish his examination. Christopher Thomas Gardner, Esq....”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE. AUSTRALIAN COAL. NEWCASTLE WALLSEND COAL COMPANY. Head Office, Sydney; Mines, Wallsend ; Port of Shipment, Newcastle, N. S. 17. IN the Admiralty Report on Australian Coal, printed by order of the House of Commons in June 1862, this Company’s Coal was placed first for Steam pur- poses, the report being—“ very good in every respect." A copy of the report is printed on the back of the certi- ficate issued with each cargo. H. M. Ships on the Australian Station are supplied, under contract, with this Company’s Coal, which the Engineers report to be “ the best of the Australian Goals." Copies of testimonials from Captain Logan of the S. S. S. Hero, and Captain McMeekan of the S. S. S. Omeo are at foot. The sales of this Com- pany’s Coal in 1866 were 170,000 tons : the supply can readily be increased to 1,000 tons per day. Vessels load at the Government Steam Cranes in Newcastle, down to 17 j feet (the Coal being put on board as fast as the ship can take it) and...”