A case of considerable interest in the relation which it bears to the action recently taken against certain ratepayers for having refused payment of the Municipal taxes appeared before the British Assessor, Mr, Grant Jones, and Magistrate Loh at the Mixed Court on Saturday morning and resulted in Yih Tsao-tsaring, editor of the local Chinese newspaper, "Minkuopao," being fined $300 for contempt of court.
The charge against the above named editor was that he, on january 13, did write and publish, or cause to be written and published in the "Minkuopao" a certain false, wicked, malicious and scandalous libel, of and concerning the officers of this court in the execution by them of the process of this court, according to the effect following, that is to say, "The Min Tse-dong Hong on the Fokien Read reported that an iron safe was broken, a cook was kicked and injured, the mistress of the shop was assaulted and injured in the face, also that pistols were used to intimidate the inmates," in contempt of this court.
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