In charging the jary in a recent arson cane at Hongkong, the Chief Justice said that there was involved in the case something more important than what the prisoner was alleged to have done. It had transpired in this case that an application for a policy for $1,200 was passed and scepted by the surance company without any inves-jon whatever. The property was subsequently removed from Stonecatter's Lune to Queen's Road, likewise without any investigation. That was a very serious state of affairs. Insurance companies bad a public daty to perform, They could not, haviog due regard to the public safety generally, allow Chinese to take, out at
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