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ANDRE MARIA CARNEIRO DA SILVA at his residence No. 28 Robinson Road. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 pm. to-day. Macao and Shanghai papers please copy.
Miss L, Heang of the Belillos School has returned fromi-leave
Mrs Morris, wife of Mr. A. Morris, of King's College, return- ed from leave by the P & 0.8.8. "Kashgar on Saturday..
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929.
MARRIED EARLY SIR CROSS DIVORCED
HAPPY 19-YEAR-OLD FRIDES
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London The engagement of
LADY ROSS WINS ON
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BIG GAME EXPEDITION
Judgment was given by the The funeral of Mr AMC Lady Barbara Montgomerie at First Division of the Court of da Silva, who died at his the age of 19 draws, attention to Sesaldin at Edinburgh in an ap residence at No.28 Robinson the modern vogue icarly man peal by Lady Patricia Ellison road, will pass the Monument atriages.
Moss in her petition of divorce 5:80:p.mto-day.
Among the young post-war against Sir Charles Ross, Bart.. Mr. A. G. Langston, of the reaching the age of 2k are, Boss Aleged misconduct, got the brides who have married before of Ballnagown, Rossshire, Lady Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., rescounter. Dedrhurst, weldest part of her husband with Mrs. turned from leave by the 5.a. daughter of Lord Kylsant, mar- Emily Key Hoffnan Dalziel, of
Kashgar accompanied by Mrs. ried in 1921, at 18.
New York, who has died since the hLangston and children.
Lady Suffield, Lord Kylsana's, divorce proceedings were institut- second daughter, married in 1936 the Lower Court. Mr. Wong Kwong-tin will ask at 20:
WANDZINA ELard Morrison held that Lady questions concerning public bath Mrs. Gavin Henderson; married Ross had failed to prove her case, houses, drainwashing by sea Lord Faringdon's heir in 1927, at and he refused a decree of water and better facilities for 19.
divorce. Against that decision house cleaning at the » Sanitary
Mrs: John Mayhew, who, yas Lady Ross appealed, and recently Board meeting to-morrow."
formerly the Hon. Rosemary the First Division, consisting of Carr, daughter of Lord and Lady Lord President Clyde, Lord Falkland, married at 18, Sands, and Lord Blackburn, un- Mrs. Hubert Duggan, who was animously reversed the decision. Miss Joan Dunn, daughter of Sir and pronounced a
decree of James Dunn, married at 19.
divorce." Mrs. Edward,, Rice, who wAS The Lord President said the Mies Marcella Duggan, daughter question was whether the facts of Marchioness Curzon of Kedles- found proved were relevant to in- ton by her first marriage, married fer a course of misconduct, be- at 19...
tween Sir Charles Ross and Mrs.
A dispensary coolie, who was charged with defrauding a Chi- neae of $1 from a patient was sentenced to two months' hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur-
day.
Damage to property and stock, estimated at $2,000 resulted from a fire at a coalyard at No. 2, Soy- street, Mongkok, on Saturday morning. It is believed that a spark from a furnace inside the Man Hing Cheong sugar refinery caused the outbreak. The timely arrival of the fire brigade saved the place from further damage.
Two armed men who gained en- trance to a house at No. 110, Wellington-street, third floor, on Sunday morning, were scared off by the promptitude of
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Mrs. St. John Rich, formerly Dalziel during a six months' Miss Felicity Hutchinson, daugh-shooting expedition in Africa. ter of Sir George and Lady In 1920 they were projecting Hutchinson, married at 20. expeditions together to Africa for
Misa Oonagh Guinness, who is lion and elephant shooting. They 18, fa engaged to Mr. Philip left Marseilles in December, 1920. Kindersley, son of Sir Robert In the Red Sea passengers were Kindersley?
SIR H. SAMUEL
"PLAUSIBLE POLICY OF SAFEGUARDING "*
allowed to sleep on the boat deck if they wished, and Sir Charles and Mrs. Dalziel were among a dozen or so who availed: them- selves of this permission. The stewards came to the conclusion that they were on terms of re- markable familiarity. There
visiting Sir Charles in his cabin, particularly for a cocktail be- Dalziel was also in the habit of
fore dinner.
amah," It is reported that when TEXTILE UNIONS" DEMAND was also evidence that Mrs. the desperadoos entered the house
Sir Herbert Samuel, in address- the amah dashed downstairs and ing a Liberal meeting at Leeds raised the alarm. Nothing was Town Hall, referred at some
length to safeguarding.
He said he could imagine a Con the argument was that these As to the hunting expedition, servative speaker addressing two were hunting mad, but his. meetings on safeguarding as he Lordship thought their madness. travelled throughout England. was attributable to other reasona Perhaps the speaker began in more personal to themselves. On Wiltshire and assured his audi-the whole, his Lordship arrived ence that though he was not at the conclusion that the peti- favour of a general tariff, there tioner's case was established. was much that could be said for
Lord Sands and Lord Black-
· LATEST WILLS check- A FORTUNE WON AND THEN
LOST
Mr. Joseph Lewis, of 107 a special measure of safeguarding burn concurred. King's-road, Brighton, and of for the benefit of Wiltshire manu- the South African diamond firm factures. He would go on to Bir- pioneers of the diamond fields at disavowing a general tariff. of Lewis and Marks, one of the mingham, and there, while again THE BRITISH PRESS Kimberley in the early seventies, would admit the case of a special HOW ITS WELL-GUARDED who died on July 19, aged seventy measure on behalf of metal goods FREEDOM WAS ATTAINED three years, left £3,825 with net In Coventry there would be, the personalty £3,419. His will, special claims of motore, in Not dated May, 1922, reads: tingham of lace, in Northampton
I wish to place on record that of boots, in Sheffied of cutlery, pamphleteers for seditious libel, having been a well-to-do man and in Dewsbury of heavy wool were as common as well, not as up to the year 1905, and never lens, and yet in each case dis- common as blackberries but having owed anyone a single claiming any advocacy for gen-about as common as bye-elec penny, in that year I met with eral protection. The speaker tions: and every publication was great financial misfortune, and would probably omit Lancashire a seditious libel if it tended to although the result of this from his tour, and whenever he bring into hatred or contempt, or meant absolute disaster to met a farmer he would cross to to excite disaffection against: myself, I discharged all ac- the other side of the road.:.
.
prosecutions of newspapers and "A hundred and ten years ago
will very soon see that the leader-ztolen and the men left behind ship of the Salvation Army is a a them two daggers and a knife. matter not for them to settle in the rough-shod and, indeed, | highly › uncharitable manner In which they proposed. They have been
very effectually mated and in their discomfiture they will have little if any sym- pathy from the general public. They doubtless believe that they as the High Council could act as they please, even to the altering of the Army's constitution, and, it would appear, they even thought that it was within their right to depose their leader in any way they thought fit and at any time. The consensus of public opinion, we believe, will be firmly against them, as their action in dealing with their aged and infirm leader is, to say the least, unchristian and uncharitable in the cxtremo.
counts owed by me, notwith-- The policy of safeguarding was heirs and successors; or (ii) the (i) the person of his Majesty, his The chief concern of the High
standing that in order to do so a plausible one, for every man Government and Constitution of I rendered myself practically was inclined to be a Protectionist the United Kingdom as by law Council is, of course, that General penniless.
for what he made and a Free established; or (ii) either Houses Mr. Lewis left the residue of Trader for what he bought, for- of Parliament; or (iv) the ad- Booth, on retiring of his own accord, may put into force the the property to his daughter, getting that what he bought was ministration of justice or
Lady Plunket.. right or the prerogative exercised The Hon. Alice Coralie Glyn, of nocence of mind seemed to prevall Mr. D. C. Somervell, in the "Daily what another man sold. This in- but perhaps that will do," writes by his father, General William Stanley House, 83 Mount at Bradford, where the smaller News," in his review of "The Booth, to nominate his successor Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, who unions in the woollen trade had Struggle for the Freedom of the They have also a very clear idea wrote a lecture on industrial called for some measure of pro- Press, 1819-1882, by W. H.
questions, particularly that of tection for their own industry. It Wickwar, 16s. as to whom he will nominate, better housing, left £31,052 gross was true that a large majority namely, his daughter, Commis- with net personalty £80,778 of the members declared against days meant, in fact, simply ab- "Freedom of the Press in those sioner Booth, and as she seems She gave her money on deposit the proposals, but by the peculiar sence of censorship before publi- and current account at the bank constitution of the conference of cation; it meant freedom to to be persona non grata particu- and her clothes and personal be uniona It was the number of publish and be prosecuted if the larly with several of the most in-longings to her friend. Lois Trem-unions that counted, and not the Government felt it would serve fluential members of the High low, to whom the residue of the membership. With simple faith their political interests to put the Reuter states that the news Council eager themselves to suc- and then to the trustees of Wel-vour of tariff on imported dress
property is bequeathed for life the conference had declared in fa- law in action against you. ⠀⠀⠀ that General Booth in obtaining ceed to the leadership-they have wyn Garden City for the purpose fabrics. If this proposal were to in the years that followed Water- "Mr. Wiekwar shows us how, an injunction from the Chancery resolved to take the matter into of building, founding, and en- be incorporated in any Act of Parloo, the instrument of prosecution Division, restraining the High their own hands, compel the Gen-dowing fres cottages for old lament, he would suggest for its for seditious, Le, politica, libel women of the working classes of title, "The Bradford Trade Unions' was abandoned because it broke Council from appointing his suceral's resignation and to arrogate sixty years of age and upwards, Simple Faith Confirmation Act. in the hands of its users. Some- cessor, "dropped as a bombshell" to themselves the right to appoint to be of British nationality and
The suggestion of the Govern-times juries refused to convict; at among the
This, as stated, of the Protestant community.
ment that a Committee, practie- other times, even when they con- Mr. Sydney Frank Stott, of ally a packed triburial, should devicted, conviction gave resound- were deliberating General Booth now disputes with Woodleigh, Cheadle, Cheshire, cide upon applications of indus- ing advertisement to the views on the point at Sunbury. Evida vigour and clarity of vision de cotton waste dealer, who left tries for safeguarding, would not which the Government wanted to ently they thought that if legal cidedly surprising in a man of his £85,871 gross with het personalty be tolerated. The chief agument in suppress. action were to be taken they age, whose physical condition has property, estimated at over the conditions of competition in in the struggle was our nolay old £88,712, gave the residue of his favour of safeguarding was that "The most famous protagonist would have to take the initiative. been a source of very serious £20,000, to the Oldham Royal foreign countries were unfair. friend Cobbett, but its real hero If such was indeed their opinion concern for a considerable time Infirmary.
This certainly did not apply to the was Richard Carlile He went to then they must have singularly | past
competition from the United prison; his wife went to prison; strange ideas of how General The end is by no means yet; as
States.
his sister went to prison; and Booth regards their antagonism,
Eto one of the
Evidence in support of the s ultimately the battle was won, sertion that safeguarding had It was an educational revolution. been justified had been called in "And so the law of seditious respect of the motor trade, libel was altered? Oh no, it re- cinematograph films, and gramo-mained; and still remains, almost phones. All these, said Sir. Her exactly the same. We have bert, were new industries that simply ceased to apply it, just as would have progressed, safe the King has ceased to use his guarding or not, Lord Hailsham Veto on the legislation of Parlia” had said that, by safeguarding our ment exports had increased by ten per cent in three years. The fact was that, excluding the three in-
Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 21, 1929.
GENERAL BOOOTH'S.
"BOMBSHELL "
ell while theers of the Coun- his successor.
We may depend upon it that most furious General Booth has inherited ting place bet something of his father's fighting Army - leadership spirit, and as the late General, settled.
who was the Salvation Army's
founder, was essentially a man
of action, it may, be regarded as
a fact that the present General
is unlikely to take "lying down such treatment as has recently been meted out to him. His re- ply to the Council's uest for his resignation was in Itself fore ful enough to indicat
the write
even
ensic tubeles the Salvation
finitely
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