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NOTICES.
DECREE NISĮ
THE CHINA MAIL,
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DIVORCE TYPES IN LONDON
EXTRA, RACE,
THEMEETING will be held (wea
on
p.m.
The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be 11 for all persons including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.
TO LET Offices to be lot in
Membera are advised that they Queen's Road, Central. Apply to must show their Badges to obtain
COURT
THE BEST "FREE SHOW**
E. D. SASSOON & Co., Ltd., admission to the Members Enclo targe vestibule out of which the
French Buliding.
MISCELLANEOUS.
gure.
their passion, who always ask for damages and then the judge is faced with the task of assessing the value of a wife. This difficult task is done with the utmost tact, it being, no part of a judge to follow the lead of Kipling when he told the deserted ther permitting) at Happy Valley
soldier to "Make him take her and SATURDAY, 1st December, 1928, commencing at 2 p.m.
The Divorce Court in London has One Judge last term valued an err- keep her, 'tis hell for them both.” The first ball will be rung at 1.80 an atmosphere entirely of its own. Ing wife at £10,000;; in another case
This may be detected as soon as the a deceived husband got £3,000... corridor outalde the court is reach-But the great bulk of petitioners ed; the very attendants outside the are ordinary middle class people, court are different from those who who have probably made only one guard the entrances to the King's serious mistake in their lives and Bench and Chancery Courta. While that was their choice of a mate. To the corridors outside these latter them the witness box is a terrible courts are casy to negotiate, the ordeal, prompting a humane judge "to any to counsel. "There, there, three Divorce Courts lend is always Mr. So-and-So, you see what she Each member has the right to crammed with potitioners, witnesses, means, don't bother her any more, I Introduce 2 non-members to the counsels'
and solicitors' clerks don't want to hear any more." And Members' Enclosure, tickets for (writes whom
a correspondent in the so counsel calls the next witness, can be obtained from Statesman." In addition to those and the usher hands the lad the YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly Mcsers. Linstead & Davis And promptly. printed. "China each, up to Friday, 30th November, business, there is a large accumula are of more general interest than at $5 who are actually engaged in the smelling salts. Witnesses, however, Mail" Oftiee, No. 8a, Wyndham St., 1928. Telephone Central 22.
The charge
tion of the general public who gather petitionera. These are for admission for in great numbers to see what has varied, high and low; there is the Ladies to the Members' Enclosure been called "the best free show. In seaside landlady horrified at a will be $2.
London." I Each member can obtain, upon
scandal in her home, there is the application
The Courts themselves are large, self-confessed prostitute, there is to the Secretary, though they can seldom accommodate the hotel chambermaid and the re- free of charge. In healthy neighbourhood.Į
Bookmakers, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL etc., will not be permitted to
two front rows of seats are reserved all there is the private inquiry agent. Tic Tac Men,
for the Bar and the remaining ten Experienced counsel get used to the BOYS. A few Bourders received
operate within the precincts of the rows hold a variety of the public. little ways of this entertaining For the Race Meeting.
Hong Kong Jockey Club during There is a large public gallery and crowd and they hand them with an
a fair-sized box for the Presa. amused air. Messenger boys from the evening N.B.-Attention is drawn to a change in routine at above meet papers pass in and out all day; each ing. Horses entered for races will court requires the presence of two not bear distinctive numbers in the "Hush" at discreet intervals and to to ery "Hush," Race Book as heretofore, but start hand glasses of water and bottles of ers as they are weighed out will amelling salts to those petitioners be numbered consecutively, and (generally wives) who feel the om- such numbers exhibited on the barrassment of their position. It is Board. All horses starting in a
a curious scene, this acting of the
HOME TUITION.
STEVENAGE,
WESTOVER
don.
-
many and
Within an hour from Lon-adges for admission of 2 Ladies all those who seek an entry. The ception clerk and most formidable of j
dividual care and attention. in the House of the Principal. Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Tanchers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frade! Higher
Certificate).
gowned offcials
As a rule witnesses are not back- ward in giving evidence; it is only petitioner who weeps her eyes out
escaping. or bites her lip to prevent a cry from
Privilege of Poverty.
has been deserted by an unemploy- The poor find much assistance in their troubles. The daily. help who
Persons Department and be furnish-
race will display a saddle cloth atalest tragedy on earth, an episodeable husband can apply to the Poor LAMMERT BROS. bearing a number corresponding to as old as civilisation itself, yet new
the horse's Board number and such and absorbing enough to draw toed with a solicitor and a counsel, number will also apply to Pari, itself the interest of thousands of Mutuel and Cash Sweep tickets. Hong Kong, 26th Nov., 1928. ·
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions—
THE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction
ON
THE HONG KONG BOXING ASSOCIATION
Londonera daily. Now that the Press have been forbidden by law to publish intimate details, those who are interested in them are compelled to go to the Court in person instead of reading the cases comfortably in the evening papera.
MONDAY, 3rd December, 1928, SECOND TOURNAMENT OF THE to the undefended list and about
at 10.30 o.m»,
at their Sales Room,
Duddell Stroét. -
Three Pieces of Jewellery
and
One Marine Telescope. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT, BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 1st Dec., 1928.
Undersigned have received
SEASON.
SATURDAY, 1st December at 9.15 p.m.
at
THE THEATRE ROYAL.
MAIN EVENTS. 10 Round Lightweight Contest. L.S. HALL v. A.B. CASTLE H.M.S. "Titania" H.M.S. "Cumberland 10 Round Welterweight Contest.
Tinstructions to sell by Public Marine FRASER . A.B. SAUNDERS H.M.S. "Temer" H.M.S. "Seraph"
Auction
ON..
MONDAY, 3rd December, 1928, commencing at 10.30, n.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Large Quantity of PROVISIONS.
Comprising:-
and
Five Six-Round Contests.
BOOKING AT MOUTRIES:-
Monday mornings are given over forty petitions will be placed before each of the three Divorce Court Judges. The Courts, sit at 10.30 n.m. and at the end of three hours about 30 out of the 40 cases will have been heard. In most cases the required decrce nisl will have been granted; if the Judge is dissatisfied with the evidence he will order fur- ther inquirlea to be made and the ist. After the lunch Interval the case will be placed at the foot of the remaining cases will be heard. At
the end of the day about one hun- dred marriages will have been dis- solved and six months later, (when the decrees have been made abso- lute) two hundred people will be free to enter the bonds of matrimony
Members-Wednesday and Thurs-again. The average wedding ser- day, 28th and 29th November. General Public-Friday
and
Ham, Biscuits, Chocolate, Soup, Saturday, 30th November and 1st Sausages, Canned Fruits, Cheese, December,
Milk, Cocos, Coffee, Anchovy,
Salad Oil; Corn Beef, Asparagus,
Sauce, Mustard, Sago, Spices,
Pickles, Essence, Glaxo, Raisins,
etc.
(to be sold in small lots to suit
purchasers.)
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LÁMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneera. Hong Kong, 1st Dec., 1928.
THE
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
TUESDAY, 4th December, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.,
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street..
A Valuable Collection of Curios, Comprising:---
Vases; Bowls, Plates, Table! Screens, Crystal, Agate and Amber Ornamente, Old Bronze Ware, Em- broideries, Lacquer and Blackwood Ware, etc.
On View from Monday, the 3rd December, 1928.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 20th Nov., 1928.
THE
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
+
ON THURSDAY, 6th December, 1928, commencing at 10.30 a.m.,
at No. 5, Victoria Gardena, Kowloon.
.: A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Algo
A Quantity of
Silver Ware and Curios
and
One Upright Grand Piano
by "Harke."'
Catalogues will be issued.
USUAL PRICES.
"BEAR BRAND'
NATURAL MILK
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for building bone brain and brawn in growing children.
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THE ROW FRENCH BEKERY.
On View from Wednesday, the THERAPION NË
5th December, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers, Hong Kong, Ist Dec, 1828.
THERAPION N02 THERAPIONN(3
VALE BYLALDINI OLERKISTE, BERNÉN KHOLANDESS
vice takes about twenty minutes: provided the evidence is good and the respondent is complacent, the javerage alvorce takes. about half
that.
A Wife's Value. If petitioners дре rich and in society pressure on the Court is very heavy. In the recent Bonn divorce case seven silks were briefed; two each for the petitioner and the re- spondent and one for each of the three co-respondents. Each silk had his quota of the Junior Bar behind; him and the spectators thus dis- pinced stood on the floor. But parties of this class who provide such thrills for the public and such general satisfaction to the Bar are ¡mre.
Few people are prepared to spend £30,000 to obtain a few words from a judge which gives them their freedom. The more popular parties are those known as "passion- ate people. In these cases the listeners hear stories of horse-whips and bedroom scenes and, begin to wonder what is meant by "flagrante delicto." It is these outraged hus- bauds, who foam at the mouth In
neither of whom will charge her any fee. If she can furnish trustworthy evidence and a recent photograph of
her husband her counsel will free her at no cost to herself. There is far more of this work being done than the general public realise. A
poor person has however definitely to satisfy an appointed committee that he or she is not earning more than £2 a week and has no other Income.
And so the rich banker and the wife and the middle-aged cook, jostle poor costermonger, the baronet's in the corridor outside the Courts, all anxious to tell their dreary tale to an ever-patient judge and a never- satisfied public until Divorce Court practitioners can almost be heard to chant in their sleep "And upon that decree nikl." evidence, My Lord I ask for a
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