Bourne, each giving his own personal observations, which added very materially to the interest of the proceedings. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mrs. Richard upon the proposition of the Chairman, and the proceedings terminated with an informal reception, held in an adjoining room, which had been tastefully decorated with plants and flowers.
Ix the German Consular Court, on Saturday morning, Dr. Knipping, Vice-Consul, sitting with Messrs. Griin and Burehardi, Assessors, delivered judgment in the case of Holliday, Wise and Ca. rv. Siemssen and Ca. The petition was dismissed, and the plaintiffs ordered to pay the Court costs. Leave to appeal was granted, subject to the usual conditions of the German Court. vewowsrrarsox was made on Saturday morning at the Mixed Court and afterwards at the Central Police Station by a large number of native women employed in the Yah Loong Filature, which is leased to, and managed entirely by, Chinese. As far as can be learned, their grievance seemed t> be that a shroff of the filature lid absconded without paying them their wages—some four weeks or so being due. They were easily dispersed by the police.
A cast hich illustrates the extent to which Chinese supai ition can be carried occurred on Friday afternoon in the Mixed Court before the Magistrate, Mr. Chanz. The case had been before the Court in th morning, when sin English Assessor was present and Counsel appeared on the side: Phe charge was one in which a native detective was accused of abducting a girl already betrothed to another man, and the case was left to the Magistrate to decide whether the accused should be brought before the Court on a criminal charge or not. Ju the afternoon the witnesses were questioned as to whether the detective had had inal relations with the girl, and this was strenuously denied, even by the girl herself and her mother. In spite of this the Magistrate had the mother beaten in order to make her confess. The detective, who was on his knees, took an oath inthe Chinese way, brea saucer, that he was not guilty of any criminal zclations with the girl, but thi Magistrate, not satisfied with this, desired another test and proceeded to carry. His method, to Westerners and civilised people, was most absurd. The girls forefinger was first cut and the blood there from allowed to drop into a bowl of water provided by the Court. The detective's finger was next cut and the same proceeding curied out. The Magistrate then held that as the blood mis was guilty, before the Court on a criminal charge.
We were informed later that the mother of the girl was not beaten in order to make her confess, but because she had committed contempt of Court in not carrying out the decision of the Magistrate in the fulfilment of the marriage as ordered by him some six months previously.
The sanguine: test, it is understood, convinced Magistrate that the man was guilty. The Magistrate then intended to conte: with the Assessor as to whether the charge should proceed before the Court in the ordinary manner.
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