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THE NINTH ORDINARY YEAR-
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RECOLLECTIONS OF BIR J. ROSS.
"WHAT A MEMORY,”
were
TLY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the
If all reminiscences Head Office of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, lively as "Pligrim Scrip" (Herbert Victoria, Hong Kong, on THURS Jenkins, price 183.), by the Right DAY, the 22nd day of December, Hon. Sir John Ross, the last Lord 1927, at Neon, for the purpose of Chancellor of Ireland, then novel- receiving a Statement of Accounts ista would have to turn their hands and the Report of the Directors for to another trade. Sir John Ross the year ended 30th September, tells us that his recollections are 1927, and electing Directors and all dependent on memory, What Auditors.
a memory! The Ireland of legend, of wit and drollery, is captured in this book, every page of which ja entertainment. Charles Lever said there was more wit, epigram, and sparkling fun at the Irish Bar than in the rest of the Empire, and Sir John has packed, enough into his book to convince us that Lever was; right.
The Greek Goat.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 5th December, 1927.
NOTICE.
17E have REMOVED our Offices to the New P. & O. Building
ber, 1927.
(4th Floor), from 19th of Decomand a grim inquirer into the ways Baron Dowse was irrepressible,
of resident magistrate. On one occasion he said in open court that Hong Kong, 17th December, 1927.a magistrate was no more able to
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state a case than he was to write a Greek odo. A reporter (Sir John) suggests that he was "wicked") transformed this to such purpose that it appeared in the Press "the resident magistrate could not ride a Greek goat."
as
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POLAR-
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IN PRICE.
CAKES
Made and sold by: CAFE PAVILION,
starship Company have been HE OFFICES of the Douglas
A Capable Trumpeter. During the Summer Assizes at REMOVED to the New P. & 0.
"Plaintiff: 'Yes.' Bullding (4th Floor), from MON-Omagh, Dowse reappeared after
luncheon in a turbulent mood, and "McLaughlin: The same thing, DAY, 19th of December, 1927,
ordered the police to clear the court I suppose, when you were convict- of everybody who had ng legal busied of assaulting Browne?"
"Plaintiff: "Yes."
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
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GAS THEFTS?
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
EX-EMPLOYEE.
GRETNA GREEN.
IN ART AND HISTORY.
The French genius is often said
"What is that soldier doing! "McLaughlin: 'Did you half kill
The hearing was continued by here?' he ejaculated, pointing to a a man called McKitterick? Small red uniform in the body of the blame to you for breaking in the E. Lindsell at the Central to lie in logic, and the French face of a man with a name like Magistracy yesterday afternoon of pride themselves on being, at bot- Beg pardon, my lord,' said the that!"
the case in which A. A. Remedios, tom, a rational people. And, man of war, I am your lordship's Timothy Doolan, Deceased. a former employee of the Hongalas! they have even set to work bugler.'
The lively McLaughlin figured on Kong and China Gas Company is to rationalise the usual sentimen- "Well, roared the Baron, 'go' another. occasion when Vice-charged with wilfully damaging a tal English traditions about and bugle outside; in this court 1, Chancellor Chatterton was preald-gas meter.
Gretna Green marriages; and, can do my own bugling.""
jing in an administration action In
Mr. F. E. Thompson the Com- what is worse, on being appealed The Old Woman in the Bedgown. which the letters of administra.
Dowse used to tell a delightful tion granted in the case of Timothy pany's accountant was recalled and to, one of the oldest inhabitants story of an Irish interpreter, who Doolan, deceased, were produced. Mr. d'Almada cross-examining ask- of that Scottish neighbourhood ined what would have happened if in-supports from his own recollec had been caught speaking privately At this. Timothy Doolan rose to a witness in the box. "Under court, saying: "I'm the man, and accuracies were found in an account tions which the French authority threats from the Bench," writes Sir I'm not dead at all."
of a consumer who was not on the had arrived at by historical re- John, "the interpreter was
"The Vice-Chancellor: 'For the, staff of the Company.
search. Lecturing to the pelled to divulge what had passed, purpose of this suit, you must be Mr. Thompson replied that an Institute of France
the "Have mercy on me, me lord, treated as dead at present, and if amended account would be sent, and Blacksmith of Gretna Green," a you continue to interrupt, I shall if it was paid unchallenged no für-French scholar suggested that ness) says to me, "Who's the ould commit you for contempt of court."
ther steps would be taken.. his subject was a myth, and that woman sitting up there with the red "Doolan: "My lord, you have, no
Evidence was given by two Chin- while these runaway marriages bedgown round her?" (ie, the power to commit a ghost,' judge), And I saya to Peter, "Again, McLaughlin, Q.C., cross-
esa fitters of the Gas Company to were celebrated by the plighting That's the ould boy that's sent examining a witness: You have the effect that the defective meter of a troth in the presence of all down to hang yes all."""
kept us all in the dark up to the in Remedioa's house was removed sorts of convenient witnesses at present.'
about November 18 and replaced by Gretna, from soldiers to smug- new one. About November 19, glers, the blacksmith was an removed empty legend. Now, after inquiry and it then registered 800 cubic from an eighty-year-old native of
Gretna Green, fect as having been consumed.
s correspondent us that the rational
com-
Hong Kong, 16th December, 1927. Booking can now be made at the and I will tell all. Peter (the wit
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on week-days.
Train leaving Shum Chun at 6.46
p.m. on week-days.
By Order,
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"The witness: 'Well, I'm throw ing light on it now."
"McLaughlin: Such is the light that putrefaction breeds.' ”.
дв
the new
meter
WAB
on
The Sleeper Awakened. Sir John, in his eailler days, act- ed as junior in a case before Sir Edward Sullivan, then Master of the Rolls, whom Sir John describes
A Lawyer at the Helm. as impetuous and flery, but able and}
Mr. Lindsell pointed out to Mr. assures A famous barrister was Michael learned. Apparently he was look- Duan. He was an expert yachts- R. A. Wadcson, for the prosecution Frenchman was quite right, ac- ed upon as sort of prize tiger, for man and rejoiced in the nickname that it would be more satisfactory cording to the octogenarian the before he took his seat in court his of "Fog-horn Dunn." Sir John, if it were possible to prove the legend started with an artist who crier used to appear and say in a when offered a brief in the Ad- dated on which the new meter was painted a sign for the Gretna loud stage whisper to the registrar, miralty Court, always insisted upon installed and subsequently removed, Green inn which showed a young "Will I let him out?" Sir Edward taking his friend Dunn became more and more domineering league in the case.
col and Mr. Wadeson decided to recall couple exchanging their vows in as the case proceeded, and, in the writes Sir John, "we won many the Gas Company;"
"Together," Mr. L. J. Blackburn, Manager of the presence of a blacksmith. As. a matter of fact, any witness midst of an argument, asked the naval victories.
would have served; in all pro- 'Fog-hern' Dunn rhetorical question. "Where is the had a comprehensive knowledge of
Manager's Evidence, man who really engineered this the sea, and could recite all the
bability the artist selected a smith Replying to Mr. Wadeson, Mr. merely because he thought that fraud" In order to achieve still Admiralty decisions of the English Blackburn said that the change of craftsman would emphasise the greater dramatic effect, he reiterate courts. On one occasion, when Remedios's meter was ordered by lasting nature of the matrimonial ed, "I ask again, where is he?" At yachting with some of his legal him on November 17 and his re-link which was being forged. And this a crior who had been sleeping friends, a coal tramp was observed cords showed that the change was so it would, because a smith is a in his box high up in the court sud- to be bearing right down on them, made on November 18. denly awoke and cried, "I don't to the terror of the others, who meter and all the gas fittings in the person, one who was much more The new distinctly more permanent sort of screamed to him to put the helm defendant's house were removed on likely to be found again to testify down. 'Let nobody move, com-
know where he is."
Sensation in Court. Few books have conveyed as elo-manded Foghorn. According to November 19 on the defendant's re- in case of need, than the fisher- quently as "Pilgrim Scrip" the all the Admiralty decision the sail- quest after he had been dismissed. men, soldiers, sailors, and smug inimitable comic interest of the ing craft should do nothing what- By Mr. d'Almada: In 999 cases glers before whom the real Irish Courts. The following dia-over. What use will that be to us out of 1,000 a faulty gas meter re- Gretna Green marriages were logue is recorded by Sir John, and when we're drowned?" You will gistered against the Company. The often performed. But the artist's the leading figure, William Mc-be right in point of law, yelled the witness ordered the meter to be convention has passed into the Laughlin, Q.C., was one of the Foghorn."
changed partly on account of the popular tradition; in the realm Nor-West leaders,
History Without Tears, McLaughlin was something of an autocrat, and,
But we must not conclude the low figures in the defendant's ac- of most people's ideas Gretna Green is probably inhabited to once in court, surrounded himself survey of this piquant hamper of
Replying to another question, Mr. this day exclusively by black- by a barrier of reserve, saving him- the good tales without acknow-
sample self for full dramatic effect when ledging a
of London Blackburn said that he would not smiths and runaway couples. It became his turn to speak.
He humour.
Henry Irving was pro- at the moment dispute Mr. And all the Frenchmen and all the ducing was annoyed if a fellow-barrister,
"Robespierre" at the d'Almada's statement that Mr. octogenarians in the world will or even his solicitor, attempted to Lyceum. A lady inquired of her Xavier's figures were as low as not now suffice to shake that tra-.
friend, "Who was this Robes Remedios's. speak to him, and any client doing
ao, suggests Sir John, was in danger pierre?" "Oh, he was the man who of physical assault. "Once whan was stabbed in his bath by Char he was making a powerful address lotte Corday.' "Charlotte Bronte, to a jury on behalf of a client of you must mean," was the reply. singularly unprepossessing appear-
ance he signalled to him to alt down, instead of standing up to ex- hibit himself proudly, at the back
The new Bishop of Singapore has
of the court. The poor man asked made a stirring appeal in a letter a mischievous young barrister what to the Church Times for clergy to it was his counsellor wanted him help in the work of the diocese and to do. He wants to speak to you, for laymen and laywomen for Bald the juntor. "How am I to get teaching and secretarial duties and to him?' said the man. 'Climb over to take charge of the home for those benches. McLaughlin, hear- Blind and Crippled Children. ing a nolac behind him, turned round und beheld this awful ap parition aprawling towards him. At once his glassen dropped from his eyes, and throwing up his arms, he cried. O Lord what lo this coming upon me?””
Bad On the Face of It.
On another occasion McLaughlin was an advocate in a case where the plaintiff claimed damages for assault and battery. In the course of it the following dialogue takes place:—
QUEEN'S
A fascinating new mystery
"McLaughlin: "You're a peace-The able Christian man yourself?"
"Plaintif: "I am,'ha
"McLaughlin: 'You wouldn't hurt
a fly? N
"Plaintiff: "No" "McLaughlin Never hit any body in your life?'ja' "Plaintiff: 'Never." "McLaughlin (suddenly pre- ducing certificates, "of convictions for violent assaults by the plain- tiff on various occasions): Ware you convicted of assaulting a man called Black? ANTVERWESKY
Plaintiff The Bench made a mistake.
McLaughlin Were they mis- taken when they convicted you of an sasault on White'
CHINESE
PARROT
Made by the producer of "The Cat and the Canary
NEXT CHANGE.
count.
dition. The sign-painter painted his sign; and the historians will seek in vain to efface its message.
IN KOREA.
KOREANS RETALIATE FOR OPPRESSION.
A Meter-Waterer. An employee of the Gas Company, who was described as ameter waterer, his duty being to put water into the meters, Informed the Court that six years ago he attempted to enter Remedios's house to fill the meter with water. He was then told by the inmates that the water
Tokyo, Dec: 14. According to despatches from would be filled all right and he had nover called again since that time, Korea, serious disturbances have A meter reader in evidence stated occurred during the past few that since 1925 he had not been days in Southern Korea, where reading defendant's meter, but In- the Koreans have been retaliating formed the Court that the meter for the oppression which the book had been filled up every month. Chinese are alleged to have in
In reply to Mr. R. A.Wadeson flicted on Koreans in Manchuria. (for the prosecution) witness said Besides a boycott of the local that he was responsible for the en-Chinese, personal assaults have! tries in the meter book when he was been carried out, resulting in the examining the meters of the dis-destruction of houses belonging trict covered by that book.
to Chinese. There have been The case was adjourned till to several casualties. morrow morning at 11.15. ⠀
...
REDS AT FOOCHOW.churia, though the police, gen-
U.S. GUNBOAT SUSPECTS "CARGO."
We have received information that the Soviet military men who
Owing to the fear of further attacks several hundred. Chinese are reported to have fled to Man
darmes and reservists have been mobilised for the purpose of pre- venting further disturbances.
were on board the a's. "Transbalt" army men on board, has been con were landed in Foochow writes firmed. The Américati gunboat be- the "Shanghai Zarya.” There is came interested as to where and reason to believe that "Red" in-why these people were going. The structors were supplied to Canton reteamer with the strange “cargo": at the time as well as prior to the wash not admitted" to Bhanghaf coup d'etation ... but who can guarantee that there.
It a reported that the rumour was no landing party all the same to the effect that an American and that a few individual "Redaz gunboat, « détained, at the en- did not penetrate to Shanghafa trance to Woosung, Soviet where is easy to hide onesele
teamer with a large number of for a time at least.