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OPIUM SEIZURE.
RIGHT TO LEA
backing another man's Bill often SECOND MAN CHARGED IN POSITION OF ORFICERS ON
COURT.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
CHINA COAST.
morning.
a very unsatisfactory thing When you recommend a book people look at you suspiciously,
OBJECTION TO EVIDENCE think you have some deep under- lying ulterior motive, and prob- There were further develop Arguing on the basis of the ably think you mad. They buyments at the Central Magistracy pleadings in which 'It was set out and read the book In secret and this morning arising out of the that the plaintiff considered he their worst suspicions are con- seizure of seventeen cases on had a right to leave even though firmed. In addition they confirm board the sa. Lorenzo as his service with the Company to sail was terminated Mr..Eldon Potter, the conviction that your literary she was about taste would find ample room on for Cebu last Saturday.. The K.C., had much to say in the the edge of a ten-cent piece...aka cargo was described as mirrors Supreme Court this Bill Grimes was a sailor who was and leaf sugar, but on examina regarding the negotiations lead killed on board his boat. They tion four cases were found to ing up to the settlement of the dis- packed him up in canvas, put the contain a quantity of prepared pute in 1916 in which were involved the China Coast Officers' Guild and usual pieces of lead to carry and plum valued at $38,000,000
Earlier in the week, Eam Tse-) Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.g keep him down below. Bill Grimes
yu was charred with attempting Mr. F. C. Jenkin and Mr. Eisley had wonderful experiences. He to export the oplum, and he was. Zeitlyn (instructed by Mr. G. K. is not really dead. He mixes with remanded until next Tuesday Hall Brutton) were for the plaintiff. Davy Jones and a strange crowd morning, Mr. Whitehouse appear- | Mr. Robert Kettle well, who claims gathered there from all the ages. ing for the defence, just damages for wrongful dismissal. Bill's record is read out of a huge Chlef Preventive Officer R., J. and Mr. - Eldon". Potter, K. „C./ book. He has done this thing and Clarke produced another man (Instructed by Messrs, Johnson, that thing all bad. The crowd is (Chan Kwok-tsan) before Mr. JR Stoker and Master), for the China. unimpressed. He has committed Wood this morning, and charged | Navigation Company, murder and led a mutiny. Good, him with committing an act pre. |- To make clear the intention of Bill's the real thing,But the paratory to the exportation of 3.377 the parties in regard to the que record also states that Bill saved taels of prepared oplum, namely, tion of leave, Mr. Potter in-
a girl from drowning. He is purchasing sugar and mirrors dicated that, Mr. Young, of the indeed a lost soul, not fit for the amongst which the opium was firm of Messrs. Butterfold and cave of Davy Jones. So Bill finds found. It was stated that Swire, would be called to speak. himself in a place of marble the accused was arrested on Tups with reference to a letter circulat
day evening on the floor of certain ad to the officers concerned in 1914 palaces and flying angels, being premises of which he is supposed, in which it was set cut clearly that welcomed by the girl he rescued to be the principal tenant. On a leave was looked upon in the Bill is not satisfied. He wishes the missing letter in go'f he was previous visit by Revenue Officers nature of relaxation for employees a card which apparently gave the satisfied with the Company's, not there. And immediately he name of the firm was hanging on service and wishing to continue.
whisked down to Hell "And the wall, but it was later found to this just shows you" the narrator be missing. The accused on being ends. It is a gem of a tale questioned was "alleged to have Original too." And it is one in a admitted having destroyed the book called "The Best Short cerd
Mr. Jenkin formally objected to the submission of this evidence, and His Lordship (Sir Henry Cowper Gollan) indicated that he did not frogard evidence of inten- · Stories of 1924: 1. English" Kelly. The accused was formally re-tion as admissable with reference.. &Walsh may have a copy left, manded until next Tuesday, when to the actual agreement signed by We shall not sell ours or even both the cases will be heard at the the plaintiff which had been several " lend it..
years later.
The,,Shivering. Cure,
same time.
Mr. J. T. Prior is appearing for the defence in the latter case.........
A Minor Fiad. A bag containing 30 taols of pro- pared oplum was found on the s.a. Hol Cheung yesterday: The Revenue Officer failed to connect
It is a curious"anomaly but one which may be taken as indicating the presence of that streak of perversity which would appear to any person with the possession of characterize in greater or less this contraband degree the, mental structure of almost any human being that when the cold weather is with us we long for the warmth and when we swelter in the heat we long for the vitalising invigorating cold. The mild heat wave which Hong- kong is at present experiencing as a fortaste of what is to come is
STRAITS NOTES.
ALLEGED
EMBEZZLEMENT
BY EMPLOYEE.
Mr. Potter claimed that the.. whole object and aim of the Court was surely to give effect to the true position of the parties, and said that in his opinion His Lord- ship should be placed in thought where the parties were in fact..
Mr. Potter quoted cases which he claimed gave him a 'right, to bring this evidence, and said that the word "leave" was used in the sense of something granted to a man still in the service of the Com- pany and not one who had volun- tarily left or been, dismissed.
Mr. Jenkin, at this point, was called upon to reply to the argu ments of Mr. Potter that he should be allowed to call "this" evidence. not, However, likely to cause such The charge of embezzlement and he contended that it was not a violent set-back as would against Ngan Sul-chik, an em- the issue in the case that he should increase the number of Pattison ployee of the Societe Francaise de have to prove that at the termina- cult devoteca.. Dr. Pattison has Gerance, was again mentioned tion of five years' service Wief caused somewhat of a mild sensa- before Mt. J. R. Wood at the the Company a man was entitled tion in the medical world by his Central Magistracy this morning. to full benefits whether he advocacy of the "shivering cure.” The story for the prosecution left or remained in their service. tion with the Post Office, there Writing in "The Lancet" he claims was that a packet containing if his words had given the impres- The China Mail would be a big reduction. This is that the production of shivering $6,000 in Straits currency notes sion that such a man would have a not all. $518,160 is estimated to two or three times a day greatly January, was found on arrival to case had been that Mr. Kettlewell
despatched to
invested right he was sorry. · His be spent under the heading improves the appetite and condi- contain useless paper and cuttings was wrongfully dismissed when tion of patients and although he from children's exercise books. he would have been entitled to "special."
This is for things makes it clear that he does not Some of the cuttings, it was his leave and but for wrongful dis- which would be described as recommend shivering as a hobby alleged, bore the handwriting of continuince he would have got capital expenditure improving for everybody, he ridicules the the son and daughter of the this leave with its six months" full the plant, additions, etc. Seeing aspersions which have been cast accused.
upon it by the coddlers and the Mr. M. H. Turner, who is peo- that the railway has evidently no croakers who declare that the only secuting, stated this moralog that of the possibility of parties taking Mr. Potter replied that, in view credit balances, where does the possible consequence of it is double the Едгореап witness from the case further, he pressed His money come from to meet the pneumonia and death. In a few Singapore would arrive next Lordship to accede to his "applica special expenditure Reference month's time there will be many Monday, and it was desirable that tion for the admission of this to swings and roundabouts will in Hongkong who would be he should not be delayed too in evidence.
devoutly thankful for the in Hongkong. provide a sufficient answer. Had
momentary experience of such a The Magistrate fixed the hearing the Railway been a public limited bodily condition as leads to for next Tuesday afternoon, after concern with its shares at say a shivering; they may or may not ascertaining that the date was par value of $10 each, it would be be in a position to satisfy the suitable to Mr. Turner and the easy to guess what their market desire by a cool plunge or a shower defending counsel, Mr. M. K. L. bath but it is doubtful if they ever quotation would be to-day. It is seriously envy the patients of Dr/ probable that golfers would be Pattison! playing for packets of them at Fanling.
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His Lordship said that in view of the Importance of the case he thought he might allow it subject. to Mr. Jeakin's objection.
Yesterday's Heating,
Mr. Putter opened the case for the China Navigation Company, yesterday afternoon. Dealing with the question-pf the drops inserted in the eye at the fint étamination. (by Dr. Morrison) and which the plaintiff had claimed were the causa of bis not being able to pass the later tests, Mr. Potter empliosised that Dr. Haruton had said that although it was not impossible the effects might list too long, it was
An armed robbery was commit ted early this morning at Hokunkok by five men armed with knives.highly improbable. He certainly
CHOPPER TOO HANDY.
An American traveller has predicted that. Shanghai will be the sixth city in the world jo the next 100 years. This gentle- man's order of cities in 2025. ís Thanks to the effective co- They gained entrance to the first did not tell them of any such rasd Of the Government's enter as follows: San Francisco, New operation of Mrs. Holyoak, her floor of a house by a door which he knew of but definitely stated. that wlum le conducted the frises two only are known York, Melbourne or Sydney,
band of willing helpers, and the was closed but not locked.
The occupants of the floor, a exininntion of the plaintiff's eyes, officially as undertakings. These Chicago, Shanghai, London, Hongkong Amateur Dramatic sre the Post Office and the Kow-Buenos Aires, Bombay or Cal Club; the funds of the Benevolent woman and her younger brother, in his view they were not silented
were gagged and bound, and the by the drops. cutta, Rio de Janeiro. We rubbed Society should receive an agree-robbers secured money, valuables, Dr. Aubrey had stated that loon-Canton Railway. Do they our eyes, go out, our Crooke's able amount as the result of last and clothing amounting to $600.
althongha - precautionáry pay? One does. The other does lenses, and read three times. night's performance of
measure he invited his patiente la comedy "French also on paper. The incume of Hongkong, we found did
not sparkling
come back in seven days, he did not remember a single case in the Post Office for the current appear in this estimate. So we Leave." Those who had not pre-
which the drops had affected a year is estimated in the sum of have placed the Colony third, viously seen the play, and many eliminating Shanghai, which is who had, gathered in big numbers $800,000; the expenditure in the really what we wanted to do. Our and entered into the fun of the sum of $888,131. This latter sum American traveller deems trade thing wholeheartedly Mrs. Bird does not include the salary of the the thing that conduces to great was unable to appear, and her
A carpenter was attacked fast ness. Whore trade is there must part was taken at short notice, Pesimister General who is a be greatness: greatness of build by Mrs. Wade. The other mem-night at Praya East by two, med Cadet. A cadet's salary is debitedings, greatness in numbers and bars of the cast were as before, one of whom intimidated him with to another account, which, in this presumably greatness in oppor- and all acquitted themselves well. a chopper. They removed from his case is bad account keeping. Add tunity. We must admit that, and It is hoped that the light in thea-pockets a sum of $50.
trical fare will soon be Hong- To a report made to the police, $20,000 to the latter sum which admitting it, we place Hongkong kong's portion, and that a fur-the carponter stator that he re- is the salary i Cadet may think tells us Hongkong is but on the ther acquaintance will be possible cognised the one with the chopper he ought to get, but does not; eve of a vast industrial advance of the art which Miss Dorothy as a man whose name he gave. allow also for the depreciation, Soon we shall be a mass of chim. Holyoak and her colleagues 80 transfer to reserve, which anneye all belching smoke like the abundantly possess.
third in the list. A local prophet.
very-deuce. There will be peace ordinary, business concern would and there-be-pisatyran make, and you realise at once that meetings of shareholders of the Post Office is a paying concern limited companies will be dove-like
in the
CARPENTER HELD UP AND person's.even five days afterwards.
ROBBED.
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham has written a new novel called The Painted Vet to which he has given a Chinese setting. A very interesting und instruc
Trecture wind gives at the Se
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will be
breathe a concern in which, if it were a We shall scarcely know what to C.L.M. limited
money might be e do with all money thate will by the Bafely Invested, $813,000 Is the fail
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His (Mr. Potter's) submission wae that without any drops at all, Mr. Kettlewell, would equally have failed to pass the Board of Trade examination if his teat showed no
Dr. Morrison first examined him better resulta than they did when on April 17.
Mr. Poller further contented made by Dr. Morrison on April 17. that the actual results of the test were of the very highest import- ance. He went on to show how Dr. Hurston came into the case. Dr. Morrison was not pre- red to take the remotužbility of Raying anything which would jnvolve the officer losing bispos tion and not, unnaturally tioned
nion of antiter doctor.
ficate t discharged
Dr. Harston a certi Mr. Kettlewell had breat
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