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THE "AQUITA NIA.'
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A new world's speed record for any
Professor Henry J. Spooner, lectur liner since the beginning of the war' was achieved by the giant Cunardering at Blackburn, Lancashire, ou "Aquitania" during the last portion of her eastbound voyage from New York, which ended at Southampton. The astonishing speed of 26,46 kants was attained, or over 30 land miles per bour.
There is no ship aflat at the present moment that has approached this speed within several koos, with the exception of the Mauretania," the holder of the Blue Ribaud of the Atlantic. The "Maurets is," with the "Berengaria," is at present on the Tyne undergoing conversion to oil fud burning and when this is completed the two ships will rejoin the Aqui tania" in the 'nard express BETVICE between Southampton, Cherbourg, and New York. The service of three giant vesels, with an aggregate to
"Noise and Fatigue," suggested that December 5 should be kept as an annual "fatigue elimination day." concentrating our attention especially on avoidable noise. It would, he suggested, help in the suppression of the tyranny of noise. Such a day is barved in the United States, where it was inaugurated by Dr. Gilbreth, the expert on fatigue elimination.
Among the causes of industrial fatigue Professor Spooner placed noise high on the list, and among the noises Which be said called for attention were the following:
JILTED WOMEN.
THE CHINA
JUDGE ON "BREACH" SUITS.
Mr. Justice McCardie gave ex pression to his views on breach of promise actions in the King's Benob Division when the work of those courts was resumed. Miss Minnie Sutton, 30, domestic servant, of Upper Walthamstow road. E., sued Mr. Sidney Pearce, 38, compositor, of North street, Walthamstow. The case was undefended.
The time is at hand," said Mr. | Justice McCardie, “when the law as to bringing these actions should be considered. Two-thirds of the breach of
action brought at promise the present time, in my opinion, fre
MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
For the theft of a small roll of satin silk worth $7. from Wing On Chinese was Company's store, sentenced by Magistrato Lindsell this morning to two months' hard labour. He was seen by one of the fokis of the stora putting the roll under his coat, and was stopped as he was leaving
the store.
There was A sequel to the burglary at No. 140, Queen's Road Central, in Magistrato Lindsell's Court this morning, when a man charged with the unlawful possession of certain articles of clothing identified as part of the stolen property, received foar months' jail. He was arrested by a detective as he was going into a pawnshop.
FIRST BITE FREE.
A DOG'S RIGHTS.
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A dog's right to have first bite at a was upheld by Judge Claer in a case at Shoreditch County person fres
Court,
Mr. Arthur Joffery, 31, John Camp- hellroad, N., engineers' fifter, who sued Mr. Watts, 71, Ridley-road, Dalston, E., for £7 7s, in respect of da age done to Mrs. Jeffery's dress by Mr. Watta's dog, said the dog few at his wife and tore her dress to pieces,
When Mr. Jeffery admitted that he could not say that the dog had bitten anyone else before, Judge Cluer said if that was so be was afraid nothing| could be done. It was always assumed that a dog was a peaceful animal, If it wheress it was far from it. worried sheep to death or killed a pet Amongst those who left by the parrot, then the owner could recover not brought for the purpose of remedy-Pine Tree State," were Mr. A. Morley compensation, but if a dog had bitten ing a loss, but for tho mere purpose Horder district manager of the North him because he bad ordered him a of inflicing some public hurt upon a West Trading Company Ltd., Shang-muzzle when a magistrate, then if its man who has disappointed a woman.' hai, Mr. J. P. Allen, manager of the first bite-it was entitled to its first In the case before him Mr. Justice China Specie Bank in Hongkong, who human bite for nothing--he could
is going to Manila on a abort visit, get nothing. McCardie said he would award no Colonel C. S. Wallace and Colonel C. damages fr loss of a matrimonial R. Noyes of the U. S. Army and the woman had lost 1 out. Commandor L. R. Green. and hargain, as nothing that was worth having. But Mrs. Green. for what be regarded as the absence of manly conduct on the part of the man and also for damages in respect of trousseau and house linen he gave judgment for Miss Sutton for £26 and
Ont.
Mr. W. A. Barton, for Miss Buiten, said that Mr. Pearer had a period kept her dangling over
of seven years and had allowed her to expend practically all the The toner in boiler-making factorion. The riveter and trunk-maker noises.money she had saved in preparations
for the marriage. The noise of high-speed coachingy. Trafic notaeS.
the war.
Recent consular changes
Mr. Jeffery (astonished): Then is it allowed, that if you are walking arough the streets a dog can tear the clothes off you or tear you to piecas and you get nothing?
Jadee Cluer: Yes, if its first bite. an-You will fin. it in Roscoe's Digest.
(Laughter.)
nounced by the American Legation at Peking are:-Mr. E. 8. Prick from Canton to Foochow, Mr. Thomas M. Wilson from Amoy to Madras (tem porarily), Mr. Leighton Hope from, Amoy to Swatow, Mr. Q. Hanson from Foochow to Harbin, Mr. Myrl S. Myere from Swatow to Yunaniu, sad Mr. Douglas Jenkins from Harbin to Washington.
When judgment was given for Mr. Watts, Mr. Jeffery observed. "Isn't that all right"? (Renewed laughter.)
DENOUNCED AT WEDDING
"BRIDEGROOM IS THE FATHER OF THIS CHILD)."
A millionaire bridegroom was denounced at the altar during a
Miss Sutton said she became An extraordinary general ineoting Owing to the continuous noise durugaged in 1916, and as Mr. Pearce of the Hongkong Elcotric Company wedding at Waterbury, Connecticut, was in the Army it was arranged Ltd., is advertised for January 12 to' nage of 124,000, will be the fastesting their work, he said, boiler-makers ocean service in the world,
and riveters become more or less deal they should be married at the end of authorise the directors to enter into by the mother of the girl he is alleged
In August 1919 she asked an agreement with the Government to have betrayed. It is significant to recall that before 10, and few people who have him when he intended to marry her. under the proposed new Electricity
The wedding was that of Elvarð sighteen months ago the "Aquitania" lived for many years in a great city and he replied that if she waited Ordinance for the supply of light and Farrington, 24 years of age, described was converted from coal to oil-burning, retain normal hearing owing to the another three months they would power to the islands of Hongkong as the son of one of the wealthiest men and since that time she has exper-traffic nowca.
could hold all his money as a guar enced the greatest success of her put forward were ear-stoppers, and settle down. He told her that she and Aplichau for a period of twenty. Connecticut, to Margaret Hodson, daughter of a family equally wea thy and socially prominent. career, establishing numerous new rubber for flooring stairs, and for
unter. recurds, especially from the port of roa's. On the noiseless day proposed by Protezaur Spooner it is suggested numbers of passengers carried.
that the following would have a very poor tinie:-
BAD NEWS FR
POPGUNERS.
"Consternation" has been caused in uumeries throughout the old coun- try by the imposition of a 10s. fine on a boy for carrying a "pop gun
Tho without posacasing a licence. all-absorbing question appears to be whether papa will continue to bestow pot guars as presents if it is com-
pulsory to expend a ferther so71 45 8 licence.
Another debatable pant is wietlict, in the event of a "pop guu refusing to "pop" the licence money would be recoverable. It has not yet been ascertained whether a Society for the Protection of Popguanets will be formed.
A Press representative whe sought information on the subject was told
by a gunsmith that licences were not required even for air guns or at guns, providing they were used in the house or garden.
With regard to toy guns an in- teresting point arises as to whether a licence would be necessary to convey
Among remedies he
Drivers of lort.es with aleel tyres. Tube lift met.
The man with the hooter at Victoris
Station.
All railway porters.
The man with a new motor-car whe esnout change his gear.
Jazz bands and street musicians Bookmakers.
It would also be int resting to know if any of the above come within the standard limit of professor broty
exceed which, Spooner declares, should be a legal offence,
BUY LOVER.
LETTERS TO A MARRIED
WOMAN.
The love letters of a boy of 16 to a woman of 28 were read in court st
Corning, New York, when Christopher Erkert, the son of a wealthy timber merchant, was sued by the woman's husband for alienation of her affec
The letters were written alter
Mr. Justice McCardic: Do lovers
talk to one another about guarantees? Had the affection gone Of course we had tiffs occasionally.
The tiffs" were mostly over his people, "They did not like me," said Miss Sutton. She admitted she was a little quick tempered.
HOPING TO REFORM HIM.
Describing 4 walk in Epping Forest, Miss Button said Mr. Pearce went into a public-house and her objections led to words.
five years.
In the middle of the marriage ser- Admiral Line steamer, arrived in a woman rose and, pointing at the The "Pine Tree State," the new vice, says the New York American, Hongkong from Shangbai on her bridegroom, a young man of 24. maiden trip on Sunday morning. She shouted: came down at an average speed of 20 high terms of the ship. In some res- knots and the passengers spoke in
pocka she is an improvement on ber predecessors. The "Pine Tree State" left for Manila on Monday night on her return voyage.
The following appointments in Mr. Justice MeCardie: You thought the 2 22nd Punjabis are announced
he was going wrong by taking toon Command Orders:-Major G. de much drink and you objected strong-S. H. Middlemass is appointed 2nd in
"I've something to say before this wedding goes on. This man is the father of that child."
As she spoke a girl, stated to be her daughter, rose in the next pew, holding a two-year-ol boy in her
агия.
For some moments confusion reigned in the crowded church.
While this revenge was meant to be visited upon the bridegroom," the newspaper account continues, "the one reaction snag the, the real ly 7-Yes. I am very much against command vice Major H. Greenaway, sympathy for the bride, the
proceeded on leave from 14-12-21; sufferer of the moment. Captain C.1. Cordon. M.C. is appoint-
it..
You objected because you thought it would lead to his social and moral ruin ?--Yes.
give up drinking —I was in bepe that I would get him from it.
WNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 102.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BUTTER.
Our "DISY"
BUTTER at $1.25 per lb.
ia theat imported butter from any part of the WorldIts texture and keeping qualities cannot be exced:
Our "RYMAID" BUTTER at $.15 per ib.
is equilent in quality to any other fresh butter sold byther Stores.
We deler orders to any part of the Colony.
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▼IGHT SIX (5 Fassenger) - $3,300
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VIOLENTUARRELS.
STABBINGFFRAY AT
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Last night twinese quarrelled in Wanchai.
A DARBY AND JOAN.
IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED.
How an old couple-a regular Darby and Joan-were found dend together is told in a Bournemouth
neasage.
Miss Thomasson, an elementary school teacher, on returning from school to Warwich Hour, Belvedere-
aled to blows. "The ceremony completed, the During the strug one man called ed Company Commander vice Major wedding party marched serenely from out that he had stabbed. The G. de 8. H. Middlemass; Captain G. T. the church. The strain upon the other ran away, poople who wit Do you mean to say that you Johnson having proceeded to join Staff reneitive, high strung girl was seen in messed the fightg chase and caught would marry a man who could not College, Quetta, is struck off the the after results. During the honey him. The victies found to broad, found the bodies of her father and mother on the sitting room floor. strength of the battalion; Captainmoou in Canada she was stricken with suffering from sly wound in the Both Mr. Thomasson, who was 68, C. 1. Cordon, M.C., is sppointed Com- pneumonia, and has been brought side of the abd. He was im and his wife, who was two years
mediately remoto the hospital, older, had suffered from pany Commander vice Captain G. T. back to her mother." Johnson, relieved: Captain H. K.
now in a critical. trouble. Mrs. Thomasson had not The bridegroom denies that he is where Morton is appointed officiating Com- the father of the child, it is added, and condition. A d was picked up been in-dically attended for some Cordon, M.C. pay Commander vice Captain C. 1. | had refused to marry the mother.
from the drain.
This morning ctor Blackmaan time, but her husband say a doctor
about his complaint only fecently. produced the alle assailant before
It is supposed that one found tha Magistrate Wood remanded him other dead, and died inmediately until Wednesday
You would have married the man even if he was on the verge of b coming a drunkard ?--If one liked him is not a drunkard. The Army did not so much I suppose one would but he improve him at all.
THE QUEEN AS BARRISTOR.
of a quilt at Tsimshatsui, and of hav- On the next
"call" night, in
&
Mr. Justice McCardie, giving judy.
Before Magistrate Wood this ment, asked what would bave been the woman, Mrs. Hude, had gone on the hom of a man drinking too morning, a Chinese pleaded guilty" the purchase from shop to house suggestion in order to separate the much and a woman with a quick to charges accusing him of the theft
a visit to relatives at nis father's
pair.
show the least sign of caring for me." material point of view.
In another he said, "Now I won't send you one cent until I can get
every
he
KICKED JEFAIRH.
An argoment een two coolies ing returned from banishment before January the first women students are in West Point as ho did the most
from shock.
heart
tamper! It would have been Common carriers are exempt. But is a pufchaser a common carrier? The
"All the world is dark now that I home of wretchedness and unchange the period for which he had been sent due to be admitted as members of the work, resulted fight. One was asserts that yesterday who he sought Bonouncement of a firm of air gun ask for your sweet, comforting letters
able misery. So far from this young makers that "No licence is required and 1 an refused," wrote the bos woman having lost through the man's away had expired. With regard to English Bar. Women have already alleged to have the other down repayment the engineer who was the stairs of the house where aanding at the top of the bridge to purchase the
air rifle ages when his letters remained unanswered refusal to keep his promise, she was the charge of returning from been admitted to the Irish Bar.
banishment, the police said that There is growing feeling among they lived. Thesused injuries ladder, kicked him in the right eye, that the gan may be taken through Your letters are cool.
from probably better off You don't
tbo defendant WILH sant away the benchers and members of the four to the victim's and right arm. causing serious injuries whob had to the streets immediately after purchase
for 5 y are on August 19, 1917, and Inns of Court that the occasion should The little finger right hand was be treated at the hospital without committing no offcuec.
he was found in Teimshatsui yester- be marked in some special way; and broken, and D Kenny had to day. Defendant said that he had there is a suggestion that the Queen amputate it at spital. came back to catch a steamer for the should be invited to become the first This morning partice appeared A HEN you have troublesoe United States. "I did not dare to woman barrister. At present the before Magista ood, who fixed cough, it does not mean that gou live in Hongkong," he said, "no I proposal has not got beyond a tonta- the bearing of case for 2.15 this In the witness-box the boy deured co sumption or that you are going went to put up in Kowloon for a few tive shape; but if the Queen accedes afternoon.
LOAN A TROUBLE. admitted having ung are thre-toned, and it is just as daye only" or the theft he received to any such request, her Majesty will well to b on the cafe side and take one month's hard, a'd' for returning not be “called" by any one inn, as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy before from banishment, further 12 in the case of the ordinary student, is too late. For sale by all Chomusta and Storekeepe“.
MONEY SAVING
BARGAINS
at SINCERE
satisfaction from you. I have taken your ring back to the shop at which
I bought it and have got the money."
misconduct but
tken Mrs. Hulls about a great deal in his motor-car. This, he said, was at her request.
CURE THAT COUGH.
to lava i, but it does mean that, your
months.
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but by all four inaa.
The coxswai the stram launch "Yeewoo" cl that he lent the engineer monome time ago and
This morning both men were pro- duced before Magistrate Wood, who said that he must have corroboration of the complainant's story
The coxswain said that me of the crew saw the affair, sud the Magistrate romanded the case until Friday for the witnesses to be called
The defendant was allowed bail in the sum of $25.
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