TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1924,
ALLEGED ATTACK.
TWO CHINESE HELD ON CHARGE,
day afternoon.
Nome
rence.
MISS TURKEY.
VANITIES IN PLACE OF VELLS.
NORTHCLIFFE'S WILL
A LEGACY FUND
THE CHINA MAIL.
London, August 2:—A suggest"|
of Lord Northcliffe's will was dis ed compromise on certain questions arising out of the administration cussed before Mr. Justice Russell in the Chancery Division. The
certain terms.
undertaken to find approximately Lord Rothermere himself had
fund. £100,000, which would relieve the
charities should receive £10,000 at It was suggested that once. He was satisfied that the settlement was one which he could properly accept.
OBITUARY.
MISS GORDON CUMMING.
(Router's Service.)
The death is reported of Miss, Constance Frederica Gordon-
Comming. ⠀⠀
IRELAND.
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The case in which Chen Hung- kwong and Wong Ka-sam are Longh Turkey or making a stay Truvellers and visitors passing charged with causing grievous in Constantinople are amazed to bodily harm to Man Kwok-song on hote the change which has taken July 3
at Sai Wan-ho, was place there all within resumed at the Central Magistracy
compard case was adjourned last April with. before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yester does not exceed eighteen months, arrived at to provide that the at Altyre, May 26, 1873, the 12th tively short period which certainly a view to an arrangement being [Miss Gordon-Cumming was born In opening the case Mr. C. A. S. most difficult race to convert, to employees should be paid out of Cumming. At the close of her Hitherto regarded na being the legacies of three months' salary to child of Sir William Gordon- Russ (appearing for the prosecu-Western ideas and Western inodes, capital instead of out of a particular education in London she spent a tion) said that complainant was the Turks have, of their own free fund, the accumulations of which year with a married sister in India enticed to the hillside at Sal Wan-will and almost ho about 10 a.m. on July 3 and set abandoned their historic usages, legacies in the ten years mention travel and led to very extensive unanimously, might not be sufficient to pay the land this awoke in her a desire to upon by the two defendants with a traditions. and # sharp bstrument.
ed by the testator. good many Fortunately sectarian customs. in order to
wanderings extending over twelve Sir Patrick Hastings, the years. complainant had in his pocket ambrace the modes and manners of Attorney-General, said that a
She wrote several books leather wallet and a cigarette Northern Europe, taking as exam- substantial portion of the estate Home in Fiji and New Zealand" on her travels among them, “ At holder which broke the force of ples the French and British
might be described as something" A Lady's Cruise in a French the blow, otherwise he might have peoples...
in the nature of 29 one hundred- | Man-of-Wat Among the South Sea "been seriously wounded. Bofore | The change over is, perhaps, and third parts of the residue Islands;" "Fire Fountains of the crime complainant had had less apparent in the case of men charities in which he should be China, the Hebrides, the Hims
which might ultimately go to Hawall and books on California,|| trouble with a partner than of women because the former interested. The 29 one hundred- layas, Egypt, Ceylon, etc. named Chan Pui, who had dis-ave, for many years, adopted and third parts would total be was also interested in the develop- appeared shortly after the occur upon attire with the exception tween £500,000 and £600,000. The ment of the invention of the
of the fez which, however, is now Man Kwok-sang, complainant, appearing and is less after seon suggestion had been made that he Numeral Type for the use of 48 years of age, a Chinese doctor, in Egypt. It is Miss Turk wheels interested in that fund on literate Chinese, both blind, and residing at No. 25, Bonhams hastened to mitte Made release the disputed claim upon China. Her residance was lo behalf of carities should agree to seeing, in Mandarin districts of Strand East, second floor, stuted Britain, having been liberated from moiselle of Paris and Mias 1924 of that he remembered that about the lotters of Eastern convention as
Crieff, Scotland) 8.15 m. on July 2, first defendant result of the catablishment of the called at his house and requested now régime which commence him to go to Sai Wan-ho to attend before the Sultan was deposed, and to his aunt, suffering from a sore is now developing so fast till throat. He did not go on that day very soon, Turkey will be very but only discussed the question of much the sure as any other coun- fec. Next morning about the try in so far as her people's habits same time first defendant came to ore, concerned.
Mr. Maugham, KC., for Sir him again and added that he had
George Sutton, said that the will DROPPING TIJK VERL borrowed money from his friend
provided for gifts to employees of That long black veil which used the newspapers upon which the and paid him now $2 on
to hide any pretty, pale brown, testator's fortune had been found- account. He accepted the money if somethines rather slow, face, ed. The total sum to employees
It is hoped in some quarters that and went with first defendant, has almost entirely disappeared. was £533,000, and a clause of the the Ulster Government may be In- getting on a tram outside the although the elderly women still will declared that each legacy fuenced in favour of agreeing to Wing On Co., Ltd. and alighting indulge it. It is no longer custom should bear interest at Sai Wan-ho market. They met try to see Insband walking out The estimated income of the appoint a Boundary Commissioner the second defendant outside the with his wives each so completely.28 3/4 103rd parts (forming the by the action of Lord Balfour in "Siu Yuen" pawnshop, No. 170, obscured that one W08 often trust fund out of which employees publishing a letter. which Lord Shaukiwan West. At this point, tempted to speculate on whether he would be paid) was only about Birkenhead, one of the negotiators
NAVY WIN FINAL. first defendant spoke to second had been lucky in his choice or £28,000 a year. Interest at 4 per of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, wrote dufendant "saying" the doctor is otherwise.
cent. on the whole of the pecuniary
On the Hongkong Cricket Club) here, shall we take him along?" Boldly, almost defiantly, the legacies would amount to £23,000 him in March 1972, strongly cop-ground, last evening, there was a When three blocks had been pass-women of Constantinople sally forth year, so that if the interest were tending that the boundary clause moderate attendance present to wit- ed they turned to the right, where dressed no different from the fine to be paid to all there was only meant that the Boundary Commisess the final of the Hong Tennis some Sunitary coolies were doing ladies who promenade in the Boix 5,000-a-year 10-form the legacy sion was intended to make only
Doubles de-Boulogne-or-the Rue de la Paix.. house-cleansing." Here the two It might be said that oftentimes
In ten years the fund would minor readjustments, and saying defendants stopped and turned back. At the same time they said their ensemble" is mare extra-with $533,000, the amount of the petent and honest arbitrator could
amount to about £50,000, compared
it was inconceivable that any com to witness Sorry to keep you delights incidental to the wearing will as construed was one that members of the House of Com Messrs. Robertson and Wilson and
vagant, far having tasted the legacies. It was apparent that the take an opposite view,
and Messrs. G. W. Sewell and A. waiting" and invited witness to go of dainty atthe, the Turkish girls would not work. to the "Walchau" tea-house where have faily "let themselves go"!
D. Humphreys, representing they stayed for three-quarters of much to the pleasure of Parisian
The naval representatives won by W. G: Humphreys and Company, an hour. They left and went back dressmakers and hotmakers, who the same way to a new street-n have, in consequence, been able to
three straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-8. block of new houses facing a hill. sell in Turkey the somewhat bizarro-
The score is not a fair criterion of When witness had passed four of items which the Parisienne now
the game as the losers put up a the housca, he was suddenly seized regards with disfarour--as, for
"A GREAT HUMAN MAN.”
great fight. In the first and third by the lapel of his coat by the instance, those freakish shoes with North-cliffe was a great humap No human being-and Lord
Betf the commercial representatives second defendant and pushed into four inch heels which Turkishan-could possibly have
played sparkling tennis and some the drain. Second defen- ladies esteem to be the last word'
Con- ZAGLUL TO MEET BRITISH Many of the games went to deuce interesting rallies were seen. ceived the notion dant then stooped over him and in correct footwear, absolutely the legacies to
of giving. sérvants and em. put both hands on his chest. very finest thing of the kind. ployees under provisions by which Plaintiff shouted out at the top of
they certainly would not for ten his voice, "What is the matter "ion, is chotmous: so great, in fact, years, and probably not for fifty The first defendant who was about that prices have been inflated to a years, receive anything except six paces away from him, turned point where they are tantamount to possibly interest. It was extra- back, drew a dagger from an old
robbery. Still, they find a ready ordinarily difficult to approach isals, no
matter how expensive, these servants and employees and Chinese newspaper and stabbed him in the left side of the abdo-description-they are all being used teatator could not be carried out Powder, rouge, cosmetics of every tell them that the wishes of 11e men. In his left side pocket, heb women, who, how they show and ask them to accept something had FE leather wallet, horn leir inces. cigarette holder and a handker- they will have something pretty to legacies.
are determined that less than the face value of their chief (produced in Court), which allow. warded off the blow. One eut mark appeared on the first two articles. More than Len blows were delivered; some took effect and some did not. He defended himself with his hands and feet to keep second defendant off, who at this time attacked him with chisel on his face and knocked out some teeth. He called out. "Save life" in a loud voice. His mouth was bleeding and he commenced to It is not only the adicts of the promise began to take shape at spit blood, splashing both defen- National Asserably, but the in- once. dants. The second defendant bolt-fluence of the cinema which has
The demand for silk stockings.
EXIT THE BARER.
Polygamy is giving place to noogany as a result of which the rem systania dying a is the slogen of to-day, and no one speedy death, Ona nan one wife is incre pleased at the change than the Turk himself, who was finding
a
fund.
Thirty
obvious, did not intend that touring the boundary region in Lord Northcliffe, it was perfect-mons, of all parties, are at present 500,000 should come out of a fund which produced only £5,000
vestigating the situation.
a year.
It was at this stage of the matter, he explained, that Lord Rother mere came to the assistance of the parties and in a most generous way offered to provide £100,000 fa
SUDAN PROBLEM,
PREMIER,
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, September 8. Reuter understands that Zaglul has informed Mr. Ramsay Mac- him. Mr. MacDonald accordingly Donald that he is ready to meet has sent a communication. hoping that the meeting will occur to wards the end of September. It appears almost certain that the meeting will be in London, In view of the fact that Mr MacDonald owing to numerous en- gagements, will be unable to leave
order that the legacies should be England. paid in full,
on his part. He was anxious that It was really an act of generosity the people with whom his brother
it for more diffien to support was associated should receive their
thres or four wives than it was years ago.
legacies. With Lord Rothermiere providing the £100,000 the com-
Mr. Maugham read the terns of
en SA
N.
strongly
The contestants were: Com- nedore H. E. Grace, B.N., and ington, R.N., of H.M.8. "Tamar," Lieut.-Commander R. E. Worth-
before they were won. In the third' set, Grace and Worthington were leading four games to love when Bowell--and Humphreys made a surprising recovery und finally made it 5-3 before going under.
Commodore Grace played one of his best games of tennis on the Club ground.
officiated as umpire."
Lieut.-Col Robertson kindly
H. K.V D. C.
LECTURE BY COLONEL * BUTTERWORTH,''''
The first parade of the newly- formed Field Sections of the Engineer Company of the Hong kong Volunteer Defence Corps, was held at Headquarters last Friday.
INTERESTINO LECTORE. * Laaut: Colonel R. FA. Butter worth, CMG., D.8.0.; the C.R.E..Chins Command, delivered un interesting feature on the train- ing programme for the current season* and on the work to be
wound up by reading s exported from s Field Company acount of the adventures of a Field Company during the great retreat in France in March, 1918, a thrill- ing story of how this unit com structed field work, blow up bridges Infantry, and morched 80 miles with their rides alongside of the all in the space of five days D.8.0., rose to thank the lecturer, Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Bird; and to express the hope that the Engineer Company would before fong obtain: sufficient recreată to bring its sections up to full strength.
ROUTINE WORK.
(Reuter's Service.) ed and the first followed. He got served to effect such an alteration the compromise, which included up at once and blew a whistle as in the acquired habits of a nation: the following he continued the chase to the For a long time looked upon as a
GENEVA, September 8. The executors shall as soon as Praya, where he lost sight of his heinous species of entertainment, may be form a fund (to be called a smaller public attendance, the "In less tense atmosphere and with assailants. He turned back to the "tho pictures" now constitute the legacy fund) consisting of the Assembly settled down this morn tram line as he felt the effects of themselves the paramount recrea sum of £26,745, which has been ing to the ordinary work of the the scuffle and went into a shop at tion of the Turkish citizens, their appropriated and invested by the session. The discussion of the Sai Wan-ho, where he saw an wives and children. It follows executors in respect of the income report of the Work Council for Indian Sergeant. He wrote down that the mode of living, modern of 2834 one hundred-and-third last year was resumed. M. Ador an account of what had happened manners, and the culture of the parts of the estate.
of Switzerland, who and handed it over to the police British, American, Franch, and Five hundred thousand pounds appealed in favour of arbitration officer. He was removed in an Italian characters depicted on the to be satisfied by the appropriation to setile conflicts between states, ambulance to the Shaukiwan screen should be noted and of ordinary shares in the also appealed for a home for the Police Station and thence to the remembered. But more than this; Amalgamated Press (1922), Ltd., Armenian people. The Assembly they are imitated, and 8 per cent. prelerence shares subsequently adjourned till the Government Civil Hospital. Even in commereint life the of 5 dollars each in the Anglo-9th The afternoon was devoted Subsequently he offered a sub- same revolutionary process is going Newloundland Development Com-to committee work. stantial reward for the arrest of on. The British and French lan-pany, Ltd., and 5 per cent, pre the two offenders. time he was sent for by police to in place of the Turkish, to express impezial Paper Milis, Ltd, of that After some guages are used for correspondence ference shares of 10s, each in the attend an identification parade at which & typewriter would have to value according to the Central Police Station and at the be a fearful and wonderfully-mode market price of the day of the Macao Magistracy, where he machine indeed,
Rather than order. picked out the two defendanta laborionely pen his communica
One hundred thousand pounds separately among a row of about tions, the Turkish trader now paid to the executors in accordance
dictates them to a gaily-attired with the condition mentiosed in In "A Full House, the Para Two other witnesses gave corro- stenographer, who, with speed and the order
mount feature which will be borative evidence,
skill, translates them as she types: Anholt (an executor) did not niglit and to-morrow night, Bryant Mr. Maugham said that Mr.screened at the Star Theatre to The case was adjourned until There now exists a social atmos 2.15 p.m. on September 18.. phere which was impossible under want the shares, sold because he Washburn, the well-known, bght
tha-old-régime Mon and woman thought they would appreciate in median takes the part of intonningle. Friqudships and value, but Sir George Sutton's quixotic lawyer who sets out to- uflections are formed in the usual pinion and that of others was that evo certain injudicious letters way. Women, instead of being George Was prepared to doide by friend.
they would not appreciate. Fir
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