Show A ill IDA sill stir that will atit I 1 lb be limit of the mn ila hiers lut artinr bunty tj A AR charonk te service Ser rice BT ST JOB JO B N B AUK aug 28 sr sir baldwin walker captain of her ifer Maje aphid emerald and naval co commander mader of this station has filed his answer to the cummons and complaint of james kairo tha tile st johns merchant an whose hose lobster fact factory 0 on t the be r french rich shore bore was closed lait june by b jr sir baldvins baldwins bald wins orders and sir baldwin bad warned baird beveral several times against operating his factly fact fac try try decler r ing that it was forbidden by the modus which the british and french governments ments had entered into last march sir mr baird declares that there is no law 0 on the statue books of parliament or of the colonial ac at which makei makes liia ids business busine ea illegal and that lord salisbury is not empowered empo ware 1 by the constitution and laws of england IDe lanil to interfere with the lawful business in of I 1 any british subject he ile defied all oil of all sir it baldwins baldvins Bald wins warnings and rod protests and instructed his ia to continue the fac fAct torys orya op rations until unfit forcibly interfered with these orders were follo tollo ned ed and a forcible interference ter te ference derence came whereupon sir baldwin was promptly prom ply served with a writ issued froma from B colonial court directing him to answer bairda claim for dam axe a tr im t r tr trespass a I 1 dys befu at first intimated pre suoi ably under instructions from the british government for of course his proceedings ploce edings have bean bests wholly under lord Salis burys orders that bem pidy mr bairds bairas claim but he baa has at ray last sat chosen to put in defence and lie he urges the plea that his acts sets were justified by the orders of the imperial government issued to give effect to the modus this raises the isa sane al u c clearly learly and directly whether the british government had bad the right to undertake the enforcement of A the mo modus dus without the fanchion of an enabling act or without first proclaiming the territory affected by b it to bo be under martial jaw the trial will come como off in november public Jit interest terest in its result is naturally deep and universal |