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Jury Service.
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good French, and is the ruler of 'a State in the Central Provinces, 1,681 square miles in area, with a population of 90,000.
He succeeded to full control of the State, which had previously been under the direct. manage- ment of the Government of In- dia, în 1925. He has a revenue of £10,000 a year,
The fact that you will not find the Indian Korea even mention-
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.
PUREE
DE POIS
By
BESOMORO.
ed in most books of reference, |GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE, and that it is unknown to many
The possible grounds for authorities on India, gives some divorce are manifold in certain idea of the immensity of this countries. Here are two pleas
which set precedents.
other Korea.
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sumably ill-nourished, puny specimen of humanity to a world already overburdened with de- fectives. The moratorium should apply not only to the poor, but also to the well-to-do. This is a period of anxiety for the rich as well as the poor."
When will somebody confer a boon on all mankind by advocat- ing a moratorium on debts yours and mine?
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The "conscience money record”
I wonder if there are any local instances of
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"conscience
The first is of a woman of Los Britain and 'the Dollar.
Angeles. She has been married An American newspaper attri-22 years and has live children, butes the present ills of Britain She declares that when she com to our antiquated system of mitted 21 minor mistake at weights and measures.
Bridge her husband slapped her. The burden of its theme is and when she committed a major that, if we had adopted the me- error he beat and kicked her. tric system, we should not be in the mess we are in to-day. Iable French Government official,
The other is that of a respect-CONSCIENCE MONEY. am vastly amused by the sug who pleads that his wife's pas of £5,000, which has stood for gestion that the present crisis ston for the sporting life has ten or eleven years, has been gives us an unparalleled oppor wrecked his home. It is not sug. broken this year with the receipt tunity of going over to the metric gested that the wife has failed by the Chancellor of the Exche- system.
in any of the duties normally quer of a sum of £8,575 in re- According to our American associated with marriage. For Spect of evaded income and friend all we have to do is to fix ten years she has done every.
Other large sums super-tax. the pound at five dollars and hey thing possible to assure the con- paid into the Exchequer in re presto! the metric system is es-jugal happiness of her husband. cent years are War Bonds tablished.
Of late, however, she has come amounting to £3,000, plus inter- It is an ingenious suggestion. If it is typical of America's atti- under the influence of the post- est coupons, sent to Mr. Winston tude towards our abandonment war passion amongst French Churchill in 1927; £3,414 remit- of the gold standard, we would women for indulging in gymnasted through the offices of the
tics as
an aid to beauty or Southwark Rescue Society; and seem to have nothing to fear- even with
A conscience- our shillings and rather as a form of insurance 42,800 sent to Mr. Snowden in
against the approaching calami- August 1930. pence and our roods and poles.ties
of middle-age. She rises stricken tax evader has never Evening Standard.
every morning at five o'clock to sent his name with the restitu- go through a very strict system tion. But the Chancellor is not No More Inner Tubes!
one to receive "con- Inventions revolutionising tyre of "physical jerks" and her the only
strenuous stamping and ball-science money." Restitution has manufacture are reported to have been made in Norway. A punching, together with her also been made for railway fares, new "tyre" has been evolved con- three as you were!" have at
triumphant shouts of "One, two, postage stamps, thefts, and even
bench chairs. sisting of a massive ring fitted last driven her husband to the the method of compiling the an-to the wheel between two plates mest desperate of all remedies.
The concave between
With the Los Angeles woman nual list of jurors. As is known, of steel.
plates and rubber is pumped up special and common. there are two lists of jurors with air, dispensing with the inn. few Bridge players will have
I have often! HUSBAND'S FIRST DUTY. much sympathy. Of the er tube and requiring pressure felt like doing that and much
In a Divorce Divisional Court first list we need not take any half that of balloon tyres.
partner recently, a man appealed against a lower court's order directing cognisance. In regard to the prevent any escape of air. glycer- more to my partner —
at bridge. But, as more often ine is pumped inside. This part than not he, or she, has been a
him to pay £1 per week for the second-common jurors the ly penetrates the rubber, caus- If jury service in the United
It great, big, thumping person, dis- maintenance of his wife and public (and barristers and Judges, ing it to become "spongey."
child. He submitted that when cretion has been recognised as States is faithfully portrayed in
he married it was on the con- may possibly also prevents undue wear the better part of valour and my too, at times) 'An American Tragedy," with its
friction of the rubber resting wonder how this list is
chagrin has been cloaked be- dition that his wife and he against the plate edges. Tésts
would live with his mother, aged open suggestion of political wire-
compiled. It cannot be possible have shown no damage from this neath a sickly smile.
68. After a few months his pulling in coercing individual that a test is ever made of a com- cause after 10,000 miles. The
wife left home and did not re- jurors' decisions, we can be
turn. She complained about the mon juror's knowledge of the advantages claimed for the in- MORATORIUMS.
vention are low cost of manu Moratoriums are in fashion grumbling of her mother-in-inw. genuinely sympathetic toward any King's English or of his hear-facture, as the ring is vulcanised to-day. America set the fashion Lord Merrivale, who heard prisoner, really guilty or other-ing powers. How, then, do cer- rubber without cord. Friction on with the War Debt Moratorium, the appeal, said, "It is difficult to distribute the blame. It is na- wise, who has to fight for his tain jurors' names get on to the road surface is reduced by 35 and now an American woman,
per cent, corresponding to the Margaret Sunger, the famous tural enough and creditable that life. We can recall the numer-list of jurors year after year, 95 per cent, bigger pneumatic ac- birth control advocate, has come a man feels his filial obligations ous occasions on which the Bri- with the contingent liability totion gained by having rectangu into the field with a, "Let us de to his mother.. . The ques- tish jury service has been be empanelled at any Assizes in lar instead of circular or ellipti-clare a moratorium on babies!" tion is, What was his first duty mesange to feminine to his wife or his mother?" arraigned at the bar of public a trial where a prisoner may be cal container for compressed air. Her
Exploitation of patents has been America is this:-
He held that a husband's first opinion in the past with more fighting for his life, or, at least, given to Swedish financiers, who "No woman should have any duty was to his wife, equanimity. We can even be a for freedom? A juror may be are putting up a factory and more children this year, or until -There is scriptural authority little more tolerant in
cases perfectly honest in his own deci-hoping to place the product on the industrial situation has res for that, of course; and I have the market in six months' time. turned to normal. Every child | always understood It"to be a where British Judges have įsion, after the evidence and sum-The invention does not seem to now will only add to the financial recognised social principle. It frankly disagreed with verdicts ming up, of a prisoner's guilt or promise increased consumption disasters of the family, im- seems, however, there was some of juries and discharged,
perilling or innocence-there cannot possibly of rubber. Straits Times..
the health of the ground to believe the Law might sentenced, prisoners with the be any question to the contrary
older children, and adding a pre- I think otherwise. · utmost reluctance. But "Anbut if he has an imperfect American Tragedy" is based on a knowledge of English, or if his novel which has been described hearing and seeing freulties are as "one of the great classics of ever so slightly impaired, how ean he possibly fulfil the sacred obligation attached to jury ser
Corporal Frankham of the South více? Past experience of Assizes' The Police Recreation Club'e Wales Borderers, the Service Rugby first dance of the season will be held football full back, was a passenger trials supports our respectful
at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on by the Neuralia which left for submission that in this connec- Monday night. The admission le Home yesterday. tion, the local list of common $2; ladies by courtesy. In murder trials in this Colony jurors might well be revised from
By the departure of Mrs. Dock there never has and never time to time by an official or offi-wan (26) of 8, Clarence Street, was Kong
An unemployed man, Chan Lai-by the Neuralia yesterday Hong loses one of its leading shall be the slightest speck cials in a position to satisfy found in the Asia Boarding house, tennis players. Her absence will of suspicion as to the corrupta- himself or themselves on all Yaumati, suffering from the effects be especially felt by the United
of opfum poisoning. He was sent Services Recreation Club. bility of the juries.
doubtful points concerning a to the Kwong Wah Hospital. Justice soars high above the so-uror's capability for jury ser- did influence of State politics, vice. The point might be taken
To mark his re-election for a Whilst operating a circular saw
as a Chinese both at Home and overseas.
even further by suggesting that at the Green Island Cement Com-further four years
pany's Works yesterday, an em- representative on the Legislativo cases outside the renim of com-Taku Street, injured his fingers and wall. C.M.G., LL.D., was entertain- mon crimes of violence and arm had to be sent to the Kowloon Hosed at the Kwong Chew Restaurant, West Point, by the Committees of pital: ed robbery, only those on the list
the Tung. Wah and Kwong. Wah of special jurors ought to be em-
Charged before. Mr. Grantham this Hospitals. Those present includ. panelled for service. We ven-morning with the theft of three ed the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, ture to submit this point for the cabbages from a basket in Connaught the Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, and Mr. Road Central, a Chinese youth said Ngan Shing-kwan, Chairman of consideration of the officers of that he was obliged to stent because the Tung Wah Hospital Commit- Here in Hong Kong it is rare-the Supreme Court and of the he was out of work.
His Worship ly that the right to challenge a Law Society of Hong Kong,
ordered six strokes of the cane. juror is exercised; and, even then, it is not because of any-ins
American
literature."
The
Court scenes ---- especially that in the locked jury room - have not been challenged. They can thus be left to speak adequately for themselves!
British
News in Brief.
Mr. A. W. Grimmitt, of the Yesterday the lowest open air Revenue Department, and family, temperature was 68 degrees. The returned from leave by the Empress humidity was 68 at 10 a.m. and 68 of Canado. at 4 pm.
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Juries in British Courts do make in all murder trials and other ployee, Wong. Shing (16), of 19 Council, the Hon. Mr. R.. H. Kote-
errors of judgment, but these are never due to any coercive influences in the locked jury room. Any criticism of juries' verdicts in British Courts has its basis on an entirety different foundation.
thing having the slightest bear- ing on corruption and kindred vices. Not the slightest fault can be found with the method of empanelling a jury.
From Other Pens.
Personal Pars.
tee.
With the Green Howards from Shanghai on board, H. M. troop- ship Neuralla arrived in port yester day, and after picking up some de-
TOBACCO SMUGGLER.
For a breach of the Tobaced Ordinance, a Chinese was sent to jall for six months by Mr. A.W.G.H. Grantham at the Central Police Court this morinng.
He admitted a previous conviction against him for ́a similar offènco, five months ago.
Accused, according to Retenue Officer Ward, was arrested on the Tung On wharf, the tobacco being concealed in a gunny bag.
To-day's Thought..
Grit is all right in its place but too often it causes a lot of fric- tion.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chlon Mall" of November 27, 1921.1
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To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%.
Mr. J. Rassmussen, the A.P.C. man who was captured by brigands two months ago and has been a pri- soner ever since, is now a free man and will be back in Hong Kong to-day.
The news came through on Sunday in a telegram to Mr. N. L. Watson, the manager of the A.P.C.
The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton talle here left In the after- here, Bir. Watson told a China Mail returned to the Colony by the s.a. noon. Among the
officers who left Empress of Canada.
Hong
were Kong The Other Korea.
Captain N. A. Thorpi K.0.5.B., How many people, know, thut
Residents returning to the Colony Staff Captain, Flying Officer C. L. there are two Koreans? One of If there is room for Improve them is represented at the In-by the Empress of Canada Included.Dook, Flying Officer A. G. C. ment in the local jury system, it dian Round Table Conference by Mr. and Mrs. L. Dunbar, Mr. and Somerhough, and several-naval Group Captain Jackson muat go back to something by its Raja, Ramanuj Partap Mrs. H. Humphreys, Mr. E. Cofficers. anterior to the actual attend Singh Deo, saya a London para- Humpreys, Mrs. and Miss Grayburn, odn Flying Officer Knocker, who graphist. He is a young man of Mr. A. E. Silkstone, and Miss P. have been on a visit of inspection ance of jurora at the Assizes-32, who speaks fair English and Hornell.
to Kai Tak, returned to Singapore.
reporter this morning that Mr Rasmussen, would arrive in Hong Kong this ofternoon by the day bout from Canton and would at one be to hospital. *Mr. transferred Rasmussen was an up-country In- spector for the A.P.C. and, when captured on October 1, was making one of his usual trips up the Bamboo River in a motor house boat.