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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927.
$10,000 FOR $1,000?
CANTON BANK SHROFFS CLAIM
BANK NOTE CASE.
Privy Council Appeal Application.
LARGE AMOUNT INVOLVED,
A
more by Inference that the ener gies of the youth of Kowloon would be better devoted to the grappling of the actual probleme facing the peninsula than with
AN OBLIGING COUSIN. Agments of the imagination, But youthful orators must first have
After further evidence there a training ground, and it is better
The application at the Full was another adjournment in the for them-and infinitely more.ent Court yesterday of Mr. Eldon Magisterial proceedings yester- tertaining for the audience--that Potter, KC, for the Hong Kong day of the case in which a Chin such a training ground should and Shanghai Banking Corpora ase is charged in respect of a provide them with the opportun- tion for leave to appeal to the cheque for $1,000 against which Privy Council against the deci he is alleged to have drawn $10,-
000: ity of introducing humour, even slon of the Puisne Judge that the
Mr.. M. M. Watson represented at the expense of the "unbeliev Bank was Hable to pay out on a
the complainant, a shroff in the able" nature of the subjects dis-note from which the numbers and Bank of Canton, and Mr. C. G. date were missing, was granted Alabaster K.C. (instructed by cussed. With the experience
by the acting Chief Justice (Mr. gained during the past two weeks Justice J. R. Wood) and the act. Mr. M. K. Lo) represented the and with their development into ing Pulsne Judge, Mr. J. H. B. Evidence centred round a mas- ter of a Chinese druggist shop maturity the speakers will be in Nihill.
Mr. Potter emphasised the im who was a cousin of the defend- a better position to appreciate portance of the case. It really ant. This witness stated that he the possibilities of public speak-was the most important that had had lent his cousin $9,000 on the ing on less imaginative lines. In ever come before the Court, he day in question. Asked why, be- the meantime, they rest on their thought, as it affected the bank- fore he knew of the arrest of his note issue of the Colony. The cousin, he had stated in answer laurels, secure in the knowledge judgment affected the public to to the Police that he had not lent that they have provided Kowloon an alarming extent as it involved his cousin the money, witness re- with an entertainment and a re- the means of prevention of theft plied that he had lont his cousin volation such as will seldom bend of protecting the public $19,000 in three surns and could
against theft.
not remember exactly when the their lot again. It is significant Taking the effect of the gloans were made...
defendant.
that the present President and 'ex-ment as it now stood, Mr. Potten
Further evidence regarding the President of the Kowloon Re-gave an illustration of what cash in the plaintiff's till was
might happen.
given after which counsel for the sidents' Association were present.
Protecting the Public.
defence addressed the court and at the "Mudford meeting on Supposing he had a banknote pointed out that if this excess Thursday night, maybe with a numbered 123 which was stolen sum had been received the cheque view to the introduction of new He could go to the bank and stop and the surplus amount would the Association. payment on that note. There was have pased through the hands of blood into.
a very good chance then that he three people in the Bank who Future upholders of the interests would recover the money. On would have had the opportunity of Kowloon have probably been the judgment as it stood at the of observing the mistake.
The case will come up again at marked down with a view to moment, the number could be was not altered and if it was
office at a later stage. Suffice rubbed out so long as the meaning11.80 am, on Tuesday.
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WERE PLAINTIFFS FULLY INFORMED?
to say that if they throw them-merely erased payment could be selves into this cause with the obtained.
The bank must actually pay on LEAKING PARAPETS, enthusiasm and zeal with which
the note although the number had advance ол Shanghai. On they have done in the case of been eliminated. It was the num it also depends whether or not "Mudford, it will not be long beber which enabled the bank to the Southern forces will engage fore even the Government awakes stop payment. Notes which against the most formidable
to the civic spirit of Kowloon and could be put into the same 'cate- power that they have to contend the need of the peninsula for received at the Bank at the rate of gory as the one involved were re- with if they would subjugate the presentation on the Legislative about one a week. The principle most important provinces-that Council
of Chang Tso-lin. In the mean- time, the Southerners have added
to the territory under the Nation- alist administration bringing the number of provinces they control to seven-out of the twenty-one which count in China,
CORRESPONDENCE.
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PUBLIC HEALTH.
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
At the conclusion of final legal
was so far reaching as to be of argument yesterday in the Sum- such tremendous importance that mary Court, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill.. the case fell in the principle of (acting Pulsne Judge) reserved appeal on the grounds of import-Judgment in the case in which the ance. It was one which should Texas Company sue Mr. A. J. Lane. for the value of two coat- go to the highest tribunal
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (for the ings of "Texacoat" put on the defence) said that the particular roof of a house in regard to To the Editor of the "Chins Mail" circumstances which had arisen alterations of which he was the Sir-There are two points in in the case were unlikely to ever architect. Mr. Vaux was for the HE. the Governor's speech at the occur again, and submitted that it defence and Mr. Armstrong, for In the backwoods and in "coun- British Medical Association din- was not a case of general public the plaintiffs.
ner on which, a few comments
It was a question importance. tries characterised by an absence may be permitted,
purely between the bank and the of efficient juridical systems. one About twenty years ago, Sir woman who had the note in the occasionally hears of attempts to Matthew Nathan, the then Gov- first place.
ernor, realised the importance of intimidate officers in whom teaching hygiene in the local
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Numbers All Over.
For the defence, it was stated that when the guarantee had been given by the plaintiff firm to make a "thoroughly satisfactory jab of it" nothing as to the roof He suggested that the bank or parapets had been hidden powers of justice, however slack-schools and, to stimulate interest could print notes with nurabers all from them. Mr. Lane had never ly administered, are vested. That in the subject, offered prizes com-round. Of course they could all used "Texacoat" before and he the economic "weapon" of the peted for annually by all the boys be erased. On the other hand the was justified in holding that the and girls of the Colony. During numbers could be watermarked contract had not been fulfilled... threat of a strike in Hong Kong his tenure of office, this subject through the notes.
For the plaintiffs it was held has been proved useless and harm-was compulsory in the curriculum On the grounds that the ques-that certain material particulars ful to its "wielders" has been of the schools. For reasons which tion involved the relations be had been withheld in regard to at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. B. proved in the course of events I have no means to ascertain, tween the Bank and the holders the roofs and parapets. Defendant this subject was dropped and no of every note and the principle had written to the Texas Co. here over a year ago. But this thing further was heard of it. As was :
an important, one which stating that water was not com- does not mitigate the gravity of a product of Queen's College, I can should go to the highest tribunal, ing through in so great a quantity the attempt made by a Labour testify to the usefulness of the the appeal was granted. Union official in Hong Kong to in-knowledge of hygiene I obtained while in school. The undertaking.
BIRTH.
FRASER-On February 12, 1927,
Fraser, a son.
DEATHS.
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DA ROCHA-Isaias Francisco at his residence, 2, Mosque Street, to-day 10 a.m. Funeral will pass the Monu- ment at 6.30 p.m. to-morrow SCOTT-On February 13, 1927, at Shanghai, Charles Perry Scott, Bishop in North-China 1880- 1913, aged 79 years.
Sunday,
Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 19, 1927.
A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
ernor.
and apparently he had found that "Texacoat" was of some benefit. Mr. Armstrong submitted that
plaintiffs were entitled to recover on the work already done.
Judgment was reserved.
EXAM. RESULTS.
SHORTHAND'AT ITALIAN
CONVENT.
Barretto, Olga Remedios.
Speed (80 words a minute) — Misses: Betty Baker Esther Carvalho, Zena Laihovetsky, Agnea Dillon.
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Auence the course of justice in of His Excellency to "revive" CAN ONE WONDER? respect of men charged with the this subject is gratifying and I posession of seditious literature: venture to suggest that it be made WIFE DESERTION CLAIM THAT
FAILED. Neither would a threat, however compulsory in certain classes for some years to come! To my groundless in possibility, how mind, the possibility of future in- The following reasons for his ever harmless to the representa- terference with its continuance in leaving home ware given by a farm at Williton, labourer summoned tive of the Government chosen the school curriculum should en-Somersetshire, for wife desertion:"
His wife often locked him out. for "attack," or however harmful gage the attention of the Gov-
Sometimes threw a bucket of to the misguided would-be users,
I am also in agreement with water on his bed so that he could
Results of Pitman's shorthand influence in the slightest a Bri- His Excellency in his opinion that not sleep in it.
Hid the food, and nearly every examinations, held last term at the tish officer of justice. The "gross co-operation with the Chinese
community is necessary to the at-morning he had to go to work with Italian Convent, have arrived and impropriety" of such a procedure tainment of better public health dry bread and water.
are as follow:- Once soaked bis bread in paraffin.
·Speed (100 words a minute):- Is the "road" to Shanghai now has already been pointed out to and that propaganda is neces- Sometimes drove him from the Miares Carolina Ribeiro, Celeste
In the streets of Hong house with a poker and brush. open to the victorious Southern the party involved by the magis-sary.
Gill, Magilde Pereira, Albertina Did everything ahe could for García, Maria Ozerio Lopes, Kimy forces? That is the question trate who was the recipient of Kong. I see Shanghai imported
posters in Chinese comparing the spite.. arising out of the news of the what he termed a "threatening "malo" to a tiger's mouth and He had not had a clean pair of capture of Hangchow and the letter." It is to be hoped that that one must not walk in the socks or a clean shirt for weeks. Handed over all his money-32 rept of Sun Chuan-fang's forces. this will be sufficient to convince centre of the "maloo." The sight
wa not Matisfied. The answer, put briefly, is "part-any who regard lightly the ad- of this poster reminds me of an- a week and then she
other posted gratis in the Shang- The woman, denied these state- Speed (60 words a minute):- ly, but not quite." The capture ministration of true justice of the hai trams, the gist of whichments, but after the man's employer Misses Winnie Lo, Doris Dillon, of Hangchow means that the futility of such attempts. It only is that tuberculosis is the arch-had given evidence the beach die Christina Allison, Lily Williams, Southerners have won yet an remains to add that it is some enemy of men and that spitting missed the case and ordered the Nellie Chenalloy, Winifred Kew, other province, viz. that of Chewhat unfortunate that at a time in public places is responsible for wife to pay costs.
the spread of this disease. The kiang. Sun is retreating north-when a struggling nation la bat-Chinese Medical Association is FOX'S CHARMED LIFE wards to his headquarters at tling for recognition of its claims also a live organisation and must! Nanking and has still Kiangsu as to be efficiently administered, an be alive to the value of propa
ganda. It is my opinion that a buffer state between the Can-unruly section of its nationals should the doctors in our midst tonese and the "Chang Tao should have adopted a glaring take the lead in launching an The Essex Foxhounds had a fine linites," the "Fengtienites," the example of such archaic methods Association for the Prevention of hunt in the Rodings, a stretch of “Mukdenitas" or whatever other in relation to a neighbouring Tuberculosis many laymen will well-known hunting country be-
be pleased to co-operate, thereby tween Dunmow and Cheimsford CROWN COLONIES. name the present Peking party government which provides an attaining another step towards where a vixen fox, which had CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS
The meet was at Collins Farm, da known by. Whether or loutstanding example in ita strict-better public health
afforded some very good runs on not Sun's forces are sufficientlyly administered and impartial
Drevious occasions, was started.
The vixen jumped out of a plan- organised to make a stand there laws for the good of the people,
tation adjoining the farm buildings and leaped over the heads of several of the waiting hounds. She ran a that during the presence in Lon aix-miles course round High Easter, don this summer of a number of and then hepdad straight back to Colonial Governora, a formal con- Collins Farm, where she darted into ference at the Colonial Office for by the Yaumati district Police and her earth hole and escaped, the discussion of various quen- charged with attempted robbery This vixen, which it more then tions affecting the Crown Col 2nd MARRUE. SIX man entered No. 4 years old, has lived in the plasta- onles will be held. A proposal for dest 12 Hau-pul-lung village (near tion all her life, and reared nine holding the conference of the
Kowloon City) on Thursday and cubs there last saison. She is well
it is impossible to state in the ab
sence of detailed information, but
Yours, etc.
RESIDENT.
Hong Kong, Feb. 18.
"Mudford" has faded away in
ARMED ROBBELY COUR
the presence at different points on a blaze of glory, shortly to be re- the Shanghal-Fungkiang railway placed by matters of less mythical
of some 10,000 of his troops seems import
to indicate that no further stand terests
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will be the Chiclana on viz
the issue in Kiangsu, if the South einers push on, depends whether
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Five Chinese have been arrested
FOURTH ESCAPE FROM HOUNDS.
Nettie Thornburn, Eileen Donald, Molly Franco.
Theory:-Misses Astri Laressu, Mary Oliver, Winifred Low, Jeanne Baker, Emilia Carvalho, Lily Williams, Winifred Kew, Nellie Chenalloy, Eileen Donald, Nettle Therbarn,"
AT HOME
"London, Feb. 18. The Daly Telegraph says,
seized that trumates but the slam ko mong people living in the Colon
| waa^raland and they fled. An In district, and at four masts of the ex
dian constable arrested one man at East Hounds in four successlyst the time and all és are illeged to years ("~has provided, the chase Have Boën ImpHested s
ving the will be