A quantity of electric light apparatus intended for Chinese public lighting installations was the subject of an application in the Prize Gourt on December 2, when the President, Sir Samuel Evans, was asked by the Crown, under Article 4 of the Reprisal Order, to require the sale of this machinery and payment into Court of the proceeds. The machinery had been seized at North Bhields on board the Danish steamer Cathay, shipped st Copenhagen, Christiania and Gothenburg. Mr. D. Stephens, counsel for the Crown, stated that the vessel contained all kinds of machinery manufactured in Germany, and s miscellaneous collection ranging from electric light pleat to Epsom salts. Mr. Dunlop, on behalf of the Electric Lighting Company, of Peking, asked for the release of a quantity of electrical machinery. The packages captured included a1 pacha, of installation machinery, mad order for the public Electric Lighting Company, of Peking. The firm paid £3,300 for the machinery on July 18 of this year. It was made by Messrs. Koerting Bros., of Hanover, and the Allgemeine-Electric-irate Gesellschaft, of Berlin. There was no defiance of any Order Council; the goods were sold before the war. To sell the machinery now, according to the Crown's request; would be destructive of the neutral's right to the release of the goods, The machinery was made
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