In the Belgian Coosalate-General yesterday evening a meeting of considerable interest and importance was beld. It took place s the outcome of request by the Chinese Obamber of Commerce that they might mest the foreign Assessors of the Mixed Coart and lay before them their views upon new departare which has been made by the Consolar Body. The departare consists in the appointment of foreign Assessors to sit at the hearing of purely Chinese civil casco, with the object of ching them. The weeting wae presided over by Mr. K. Schirmer, German Asressor and senior Assessor, Movers. H. F. Handley Derry, British Assessor, Mr. F. W. Hadley, U. 8. R. Assessor, Dr. Braclo, Assistant German Assessor, Mr. P. Klimanck, Austrian Assessor, Mr. J. Here, Belgian Assessor, Mr. Okamoto, Japanese Assessor, Mr. T. Toledano, Italian Assessor, and the Norwegian and Datch Asressors; Messrs. Cheng Ohso-ling, Member of the Chamber of Commerce, Nei Shen-san, Vioe-Chair-
Shing-ching, =aager of the Sin Chan Bank, 8. H. Wong (Chine Thomeon), Shen Tan-be, Li Pah-pao, Chow Tsing-toong, Dien Yo-mi 3, Teprose ating the Cotton Yara Gaild, Lo Tang-hon and Alex Ting. barrister-at-law.
The Chairman thaving explained the object of the meeting, Mr. Ting, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, gave expression to their views. After thanking the Consular Body for giving them an opportunity of thas meeting io a (friendly manner, be ssid that they knew that the proposed reform, if worked long enough, would be productive of good and would reconcile the people to but they feared at the time that it might hinder the benefits it conferred by render them prejudiced. The Mixed Court, scandalous as it had been under the late the proprietors.
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After brief interval, the onncert amed, Mrs, Puskitt, M-care McBain and Gransell con. they bad met mith or iyp of the programme and in a pellet dance Mins Vere dr Vere won the admiration of all present The programme was brought to ® corclusion with the production of a cleverly sketch, entitled Bike, the in which Pte. Fitz-George in a lady's part, was seen to distinct advantage; Pte Vine, as a newsreader. taking s-cond honours, Pes, Wilbraham ard Gran-all giving able rapport.
A fas! word mast be ssid in mention of the "Customs Orchestra", which, under the leadership el Mr. Ernest Magistrate, was nevertheless the Court of the Chinese people, established under Ohinese law. Established s it was as Chinese Court, it was rapidly in the process of becoming " foreiga Court in the popaler ime, ym, Tt was rea sovable to reform the Court along lives that bad beea adopted so far as police and criminal matiers were concerned, bat the Chinese civil cases were within the expl cie jariedicuoa of the Chinese Court, aod had nothing t" do wilh foreign trade, He might describe them as domestic quarrels, which in honour to the household they must settle themselves. By this proposal of the Consolar Body, the sacred enclosures of the treaties had been broken, bat at the same time the invader bad his bands tied down. After dealing with the difficulties an Assessor. would bare checking the subtler forms of irrogalarity and in distingaisbing them from
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