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cannibalistic habits of the local: criticfish. Themselves chronic critics, they are the most criticized things here. Everybody in Flong kong seems to consider bruself a judge of newspapers, entitled by some mysterions standard and good ness-knows-how acquired know- The China Mail ledge to deliver oracular verdicts on
HELDER-At Bournemouth Eng land, on the 10th June, 1921. to Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Fielder,
daughter. (By cable.)
SERVICE *FROTA, JUSTICE, PURLIO
HONGKONG, THUISday, Juxz 16, 1911.
LOCAL CRITICISAL.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
but only that he must say something
TYPHOON WARNINGS:
BLACK CONE HOISTED.
SMALL CRAFTER ENTER REFUGE,
WAR MEMORIA
HONOURING THE FALLEN.
· MESSES, JARDIŽE MATHESON & CO'S WAR MEMORIAL.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 16 1921.
ALAMITATION OF DEBTS.
INTERESTING LEGALÁ
ARGUMENT.
SPORT.
GARRISON CRICKET.
RE, WIN TROPHYT
ATHAT CONSTRICTES PART. PAYMENT!]; The Garrison Cricket League was concluded yesterday afternoon when
- clear cass of the itch for send- bling, and of sitting down to think what he should write, rather than to write what he thinks. Aŭ enter prising editors are anxious to know how their readers value their efforts.** { If that is true, why write to tell it to The No, 6 Typhoon signal-black an editor? : My impresion is that cone indicating a cyclone travelling The various pieces of the marble most readers will agree you should East to West was hosted at 10.30 pedestal of a war memorial desisted the first were quoted by counsel who 23, runs in a very interesting final Laws passed in the reign of James the Royal Engineers won the trophy by defeating "D" Coy Warshires by not pat in comic pictures. You this morning and had not been by Sir Ambruse. Paynter and sculp took part in an interesting legal match Batting first, the Engineers have the reputation of the China lowered at 2 o'clock this afternoon fured by Mr. F. T. Pomeroy, RA argument before the Paine Jorge compiled 113 runs, of which the
Matheson Mail to live up to you are not Some of the smaller boats have gone for Messrs. Jardine
1: E. Wood) in the Summary highest score was a prettily compiled Company, Ltd.. have penny novelette. Stick to your own into the refuges at Yaumati and and
bere
Court to-day,"
73 by "Staf Sergeant Redpath, and are DOW pattern and intellectual high water Causeway Bay, but the large craft arrived
The action which gave rise to the who played a very steady game. mark. I hope you are partially and the launches are as busy as in the vestibule of the firm's office
together with the marble tablets bear discussion was a claim by the Kat The only other douple figure was 12 converted to my idea; if yon derideal in the harbour. me I cannot help it." Does he want berateceived by the American Con the staff who fell during the war. Leung Man Cook-and-Wan Shan of
The telegrams quoted below have ing the names of those members of Cheung firm for the recovery from by Corp Spary. There were three "docks" in the innings. The Infan- all the paper to his own taste sulate General from the Manila 05 Mr. Bernard, the General Manager in sums of $143.32 and $677.36 Tes- trymen gave their opponents a very Kim to cater for all. The Children's servatory at 9pm. yesterday-
formed a Ching Mail reporter this pectively, being balance due for bowlers gave them no chances, and close game, but the Engineers' Corner is not for him, nor are the Typhoon in about 117 deg. Long Eafternoon that the top portion goods sold and money advanced by when the whole side was got out, comie pictures. Other pages and 18 deg. Lat N, moving . of the memorial, a female figure the firm to the defendanta..
they had 90 runs to their credit. present his ten cents worth. Who
10.20 am, to-day.. draped in a flowing robe and wear-
Mr. F. G. Vaur appeared, to sup- The highest contributors were Lieut wants to read a whole paper night 115 deg. Long E 19 deg. Lat Ning z breastplate. would not arrive port the chains and each of the descDonnell 18, Loc. Pearson 14.
There util somewhere about through? We never heard of suck » moving WNW.
October, The memorial was man. In the best Home papers you
ordered about two years ago: It is get a hodgepodge of politics and
thought at present that it will be football, religion and racehorse notes.
erected in the vestibule of the Head gossip and philosophy, fiction and
Office. trivialities. Here in Hongkong with a. much
more mixed com.
munity, we should not have to apologise for making our paper as mixed as we can. While prepared to welcome suggestions at all times, and to act on all that seem to us business
TOBACCO DUTY.
ATTEMPTED SMUGGLING FAILS..
exhibited at London:-
fendants was represented by Mr. W. Lient. Denne 24, and Mr. "Extras" B. Hind:
10.
ROTAL ENGINEERS.
The facts of the case, as agreed. The scores follow --- between counsel in the course off preliminary argument, were that the LCpl. Jacobson, b Purton.... defendants were in the employment Redpath, e Pritchard, Amor 73 of the plaintiff. firm for a period ex-C. Spr. Pearson, Pritchard, b ceeding six years down to the last Lient. Hammond, b Punto... Chinese year when the basines was LFCpt. Hayward, b McDonnell closed. Under their service they 5pr. Estoffe, e Hardy b Me became entitled to wages and com Donnell
McDonnell .....................................
WH. 000
The following description has been CIGARETTES AS JOSS STICKS.. giren of a model of the memorial Burlington House The head carries a laurel wreath the left hand rests on the hilt of a Acting on information received, sword which has the point resting like, we must really beg to be spared Chief Preventive Officer Wait and on the ground, whilst the right band mission. They received neither but S. S. Middletos, run out sambling letters like the one we have revenue officers yesterday grasps a spring which is held aloft. amounts were credited to them by the LCpl. Hallam, c Pritchard, b
boarded the ss "Chuenchow on On the front of the base of the firm in its accounts. The defendants Partón quoted from. If you don't care for her arrival from Macao and seized pedestal is the traditional laurel received goods sold and advance of Cpl. Spary, b Pertos - sweets, try our lives. If von from among the cargo in the wreath, whilst on either side are money from the firm and there Cpl Townsend, not out dislike olives, we can recommend our hold 90,000 dutiable Three Castles sheaves of corn sprayed to left and amounts were debited against them. Spr. Cleaver, & Trivett & Parton. 5 pickles. Fick out what you like, Magnum cigarettes contained in and ignore the rest. You will still five cases, shipped as joss sticks. ht and tied with ribbons in the A balance was struck at the end of the Chinese year and was for some have Ead. we trust, value for your Detectives were left on board
One side of the pedestal bears the years against the defendants. The to wait for the consignees to take following inscription Tuls statue plaintiff claimed the final balance ten cents.
Has it ever occurred to you what delivery of the cargo, but apparently erected by Jardine, Matheson and a contemptible suns ten cents is?they received warning as they made Company, Limited in honour of those against each defendant. Liability Purton We recommend this thought to the appearance. Before 5pm, when members of their staff who fell in was disputed by the defendants in McDonnell
the vessel was to leave on ber return the Great War 1914-1918"
respect of those items which were Amor .......... average local critic.
trip to Macao, the cigarettes were
The memorial bears the following more than three years old. landed and removed to the Import
Dzes:
In the course of his argument Mr. Cpt. Betts, e Townsend b Pearson 5 and Expert Office
·RG. Munro, MC, Capt. 2/18th. Hind referred His Honour to the Major Timmis, b Pearson London Regiment (London Irish Limitation Art of 1623 which set Lieut. McDonnell, 1.b.w. Townsend 18 Rifies). Died of wounds in France, out that all action for debt must be Sgt. Holdman, cand b Pearson... 19th September 1916.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
centre.
This morning when the ss Sunning" was searched on arrival from Cantati, 8,500 dutiable cigars were seized from among her cargo.
CH. C. Symons 2/Lt. 8th. B. To-day is the birthday of H. MIn this instance also, the smugglers The Royal Fusiliers Killed in France,
were not disclvered. The cigars 20th November 1917. were confiscated.
1
King Gustaf V of Sweden.
Mr. RAC North is acting as HE the to Private Secretary Governor vice Capt. Warter wha left by the $3. *Colombia" retirement.
The Chinese girl who attempted to commit suicide by hanging herself! in a cell at No. 7, Police Station) early yesterday morning died at the Government Civil Hospital last night
E. C. Symons, Lt. 98th. Bie. Machine Gun Corps. Died of wounds in France, September I. 1916.
J. E. Villedieu, Sous-Lieutenant 8th Regt. of Cuirassiers (Dismounted). Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur,
WEST POINT FIRE
HOUSE COMPLETELY GUTTED. Kuled in France..
FARLY MORNING BLAZE.
j. H. Bone, 2. Lt. 6th Br. East Surrey Regt. Killed in France, July 22, 1915.
CC. F. Cunningham, Capt. 2nd Bn. Argyle and. Sutherland Hors. Died of wards"in France 19th August 1916.
W. Davison L/CpL 1/14th. Lon don Regt. London Scottish). Killed in France, 15th June 1915.
bought within six years after the cause of actions. The Act constitated
total prohibition, but a decision given in a case in 1827 laid it down that a verbal acknowledgment of a debt was sufficient to keep the debt alive--provided that the verbal ac- knowledgment amounted to a promise to pay. In England the plaintiff in the present case would have been Limited to a period of six years but the 1878 ordinance here provided that all actions must be commenced within three years.
mond
-113
Total
Bowling Analysis.
O, MR. W.
14 1 45 5
11 0 52 3
3 1 16 1.
D. COY. WILTS.
9
LCpl. Pearson, b Lieut. Ham-
............ 14 Lient. Dense, b Fearson 24 L/CPL Trivett, c Hallara b Pearson 4 Sgt. Brewer, rt out. *
1 Lieut. Pritchard, c. Hallam b
Pearson.**** Pre. Hardy, Middleton b Fearson L/Cpl. Amor, not out
Extra
Jacobson
Total..... 90
Bowling Analysis,
AWHY
0. M. R
9 2. 20 1
70 16 1
0 10 0 20 9 0
C. S. M. Perisoa ....10.2 0 25 -7 His Honour said that there was Hammond... no doubt that the practice of the Townsend Conft in the past had been to hold Middleton... 4 a verbal acknowledgment valid.
Mr. Hind was proceeding to urge | C.E. Deustan, Signaller D. Battery that the Ordinance was not sufficient- 113th Brigade B.PA, Killed in ly clear and explicit to over-role the France, 1st October 1918.
older law when Mr. Vant interposed J. E. Gresson 2/Lt. 2nd Buthat he was not claiming a verbal Cheshire Regt. Killed in France, 24th acknowledgment but part payment. May, 1915.
It was an established principle, he contended, that part payment con- stituted acknowledgment of a debt and a promise to pay.
Atam to-day, a fire broke out on the ground floor of No. 6.
West Paint. Koshing Street cupied by the Kwong Hing Cheong A Chinese woman, aged 42 year medicine shop. Helped by the was yesterday removed to the Gor strong wind, the Bames spread rapid ernment Civil Hospital from No. 23y to the other two floors, which Hanwo Street, West Point, by Sub were soon well ablaze.. The fire Inspector Wills, suffering from razor brigade was early on the scene, but cuts in the thrust, alleged to have the fames had taken such a strong been self-inflicted. The victim's con-hald of the building that their efforts dition is considered serious... were of no avail, and all three floors
completely gutted. The A boatwoman, aged 72 years, brigade had to work strenuously to was yesterday removed to the Gov-prevent the Rames from spreading to ernment Civil Hospital suffering from the neighbouring houses. It took WHAT IS PERJURY? injuries to her head received through two hours extinguish the being knocked down by a tráin car smouldering debris. The Kwong in Connaught Road Central, near the Hing Cheung firm suffered damage Macao wharf yesterday afternoon to the extent of $10,000, which is Her injuries are not serious and she covered by the Sun Insurance Co.. would be fit for dischargé frem for $5.600 and the Chun. On insur- hospital in a couple of days' time.、 ance Co., for $4.500. The damage done to the first Boor, which was óc-
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INTERESTING LEGAL POINT. www..com AY OLD BAILEY PROBLEM
ARE WINDOWS BROKEN BY EXPLOSIONS?
Those who were in the vicinity of the Long. Tom explosión in Joly 1916, or the explosion of the bomb in Wall Street last year, will recall Mr. Hind replied that on the facts clearly that the rear which inhouse- disclosed in the present case there ed the detonation of the explo was no part payment. A part par- sives was followed almost instantly ment must be an act performed by by a shartering of glass, for a considerable distance. The Loaz the defendants not a credit accruing Tom explosion, for example, gas credited with breaking more than Evidence was then given by the $100,000 worth of glass in Brooklyn
Au interesting point of law was to them. raised by Mr. Curtis Bennett, KG.
a woman was prosecuted for alleged
at Esher
The reason for this lies in the fact
A Chinese girl living in a house cupied by the Kwong Seng shark fin/at the Old Bailey in a case in which managing partner of the plaintiff firm and the lower part of New York fill-fame in Shaukiwan, has reported firm, has not yet been ascertained perjury in the Divorce Court, the per- and by each of the defendants City, while the bomb which was to the district police that about 3 The top floor was used as a dwelling-jury being by giving an address at The former said that at the end of directed at the Morgan offices in 'clock yesterday morning, three men All the ranates managed to escape, Highgate when she was in fact living each year the balances were shown Wall Street shattered windows more
to the defendants in order to make than a mile away... were let into the house by a man but lost their property. The but sleeping on the premises. The in-break is believed to have originated
Counsel submitted that there was sure that there should be no dispute tenders produced knives and after through the overheating of a stove, no evidence to go to the jury, he regarding them. The defendants that the force of the explosion sets violent motion, with the effect of a into the kitchen, they entered her Boor, or drying, herbs on the ground cause the prosecution had only shows denied that they agreed as to the the air in the immediate vicinity in that she was living at. Esher part of correctness of the balances but His high wind, which, instead of moving the week, and had not proved that Honour said that he disbelieved their in one direction, sweeps out in a she was not living at the Highgate evidence on this point.
constantly widening circle. These address during the rest of the time.
the quality of their contents. Their cubicle and stole from her a gold mental processes are a little difficult mounted rattan bangle and a gold 411 to follow. We recall one recent ring valued together at $36. instance of an otherwise intelligens four men escaped in the direction of man reading into an article entirely Salwanho, about the Church a misstatement
floor.
-MOTOR VEHICLES.
He suggested that a man with a The question to be decided, His town and country address could not Honour said, was as to whether re-
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air waves moves forward, with coming. great force, and, contact with a broad expanse of brittle glass, shatter it just as waves would shatter a flimsy break-water. In spite of the fact that it is thicker than window glass, plate glass pre-
concerning the name of the party A Chinese third engineer of 14. STREETS WHERE THEY MAY BE be prosecuted successfully if it were glect to collect the wages due con- only proved that he had a country stituted payment on the part of the LEFT UNATTENDED. Pingshing," his reported to the
address.
defendants. who should have the honour for "
Mr. Justice Darling overruled the Mr. Vaux urged that when If ever our Saturday contributor originating the local movement for police that about 655 p.m., yester
According to an advertisement in objection, and remarked that if a can be induced to write us an Un Constitutional Reform. We call day, as he came ashore from the Natural History of Hongkong, de sise a man who expressed a wish for ferry boat at Mengkok, he was this issue, motor vehicles may be man with a town and country house balance was struck disclosing an over-sents a broad surface, and is not cribing the more noticeable fauts, more Latin quotations in the leading accosted by four men who demanded left unattended in the following petitioned in the Divorce Court be payment a man had in equity, been supported except at the extreme we feel sure he will not omit the articles. It turned out that he had $50 from him. When he refused to streets and places in Kowloon named should be very careful to give both paid his wages. The debt was due edges, so that an explosion will and it was only a question as to frequently break a glass of this Hongkong Criticfish, which is almost no latinity, but enjoyed looking them comply, the men attacked him, and by the Captain Superintendent of addresses.
after giving him a severe thumping. Police:
Counsel submitted that the ques whether the defendants could avoid nature, while the smaller panes just zbove or below it may remalo un as numerous in species as in in up in a book he had! Numerous relieved him of $15 in money. Be (1) Middle Road on the South tion of address was not material to payment under the Statutes. dividuals. The Hongkong papers indeed would be the ilustrative ex- attempted to blow a police whistle,
the issue before the Divorce Court, M. Hind quoted cases in support harmed. are often regarded by level-headed amples of cocky" criticistas, were but the men snatched it away from
(2) Mody Road on the North Side and, therefore, the answer to it was of his contention that the defendants NEW PACIFIC RECORD, wintom as excessively carping in we to recali percentage of those him. They also took a bunch of between Nathan Road and not perjury.
Cornwall Avenue. tone, but they are only a pale reflec lingering in our remembrance, but keys which the complainant bad
on of the florid chatterboxes who that is not our purpose. We have attached to the whistle. aspire them. They will rise to any to take notice of a letter just received
.
Side.
(3) Cromwell Avenue on the West
Side.AND
(4) Salisbury Avenue..
(5) Haiphong Road on the North
Side.
Mr. J.FL. McGuigan is at present in the Royal Naval Hospital suffering from typhoid fever.
"EMPRESS OF ASIA'S” FEAT.
"Mr. P. A. ̃Cox, General Agent of Canadian Pacific Ocean. Services states that he has received cable advice that his Company's RMS, "Express of Asia," which left Hongkong on May 26 and Yokohama on June 4, artited at Victoria, B.C
June
The C.P.O.SR.MS. "Empress of Russia," is now expected to arrive here at daylight on Saturday, June 18, 12. steaming from Yokohama,118 and will berth at Kowloon Wharf.
days 19 hours, and 6 minutes, the average speed being 1983 knots, which constitutes a record.
were not liable and His Honour said 12 Mr. Justice Darling: Your conten- he would go into the question and tion is that persons may give an deliver judgment at a later date. address in the Divorce Court when they do not, éven know anything tart, these fish. Does a new governor from an important we might say Chief Petty Officer Robert Scarle
about the place, where ! come? They find fault before he eminent resident who has chosen of H.M.S.Titania,” this morning
Counsel I agree it sounds ridicu has had time to discover which is the the pseudonym of "Rek Rab." In- charged a Chinese before Magistrate
(6) Austin Road outside the Kow-lons, but, in any submission, it is the most comfortable chair at G. H., and consistently, he remarks on the Orme with the theft bo board the
Joon Cricket Club.2% 9
law at the moment- they usually quamel with him, be extraordinary improvement in the ship yesterday afternoon, of a topee.
Mr. Justice Darling: Although it The list of places where motor cause he is not something else that general style of our paper, in the The complainant said that he left the they would resent for more. A war very same paragraph which expresses topee in his office on board the ship vehicles may be left unattended in may induce the lodge to give & Decision in your favour, which he Later, when he found it missing, Hongkong follows memorial? They demolish it before his conviction that we have not he went on deck to investigate. City Hall Square, when an enter-would not otherwise do. it is constructed, or even paid for touched more than mediocrity. He and there sair defendant wearing the tainment is in progress, o
Counsel The giving of an addiess does not alter the identity, S The organization of some public is good enough to say that Adver- hat, and, apparently about to leave Queen's Statue Square, subting or entertainment? Never sana" makes fine readings state the ship. The
Mr. Justice Darling held that the defendant Bald Pedder Street (east side) troni was such an effort made that did not ment we of the regular staff are that he took a Rack of potatoes on Hongkong Hotch entrance of giving of an address was material to the issue then being tried. It was have holes picked in it. A speech getting tired ofbat he complains board the ship. Here he had occasion Quicon's Road, after 5 pm. ae a letter to the papers has us long that he gets therefrom a sease as of to take off his shoe to knock down a Poker Street (west side) opposite purely a matter of law, and could be And happy a life sa & worm-dropped a writer too inquisitorial, too busy nail which was hurting his foor. Th: Messed, Jardine Mattresort and Cosettled by the Court of Criminal
Appeal anto su eel pond. Bomeone runs a body like, too know-all, and oc sun was hot on the deck, and seeing Ltd. premises, after 5 p.m. betel? They yelp about him. A casionally, as has been recently point the tube lying handy on deck, he Duddell Street felephone service? Maskoe! That's ed out, too scurrilous No doubt our it on The hat was off and different. One guesses that irrepressible com Choir favourite quotation would for himself, be the 35th verse of the $1st point of sendi chapter of the Book of Job. And criticism to t
that bringa ng back to our news our critic hi gapers, and dexiomatization of the his mind as
RUSSIAN OPERA 40-
NOT COMING HERB.
The Russian Grand Opera Co
The Canton Times says, "one field gun was found on board the s.a. Tai Ming" on the Hongkong-Wu. chow service while the steamer was near Samshiu. The different paris of the gun were taken, apart and hidden, but after a search of about one hour all the parts were found pany will not visit Hongkong-s and taken ashore. The gun is said. previously advertised ARRHEA les more or less to have been sent to Canton and ar « prevalent during this weather. "B" investigation with be conducted to Two cases of plague (one fatal): Propted for it Clambe-iain's "Colic End Dierbare Bechedy, prompt and discover the consignor and the con- and one cass of enteric fever, all theted T can always tradende sizace who undoubtedly are working Chioche, were reported yesterday. upot: Enc, sale, 57 all Chemists in the interest of the Kwangs also one imported case of paratyphoid
Douglas Street, between Des SOMETHING DEPENDABLE. broken, and be thought that it was
will answer discarded He had no intention of the taking that hat away. Ele- merely ate borrowed it to wear while on the cantly deck of the ship. The Magistrate hp passed sentence of one month's hard
Vœux Road Central," and Con- naught Road Central. //
Chater Road, after 6.p.m, blen Jackson Road (east side) between Law Courts and Cricket ground
Cought Road Central, Barbour sidey cast of