THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1992.
FAMOUS JUDGE PLANS TO RETIRE
MOST DISCUSSED PERSONALITY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
Probable Lecture Tour.
This decision is not a sudden one, whatever and has no connection
with the criticisms passed on him
of
by the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Avory in the Court Criminal Appeal recently.
Extra Period.
Cornwallis-West case
THE CHINA MAIL.
OUR PHILHARMONIC MORE MEN FOR HOLY
SOCIETY.
Loss on Last Play Due to Many Circumstances. NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW VENUE
Dur
ORDERS.
Shortage of Clergy Being Made Good. SPONSORSHIP SCHEME RESULTS.
There are signs that the shortage of clergy in the Church of England may soon be made goed.
The most
LOCAL SHARE MARKET. In Buoyant Mood. SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCE IN'.
QUOTATIONS.
Sales.
most
was 2 sub-
Docks, $22/20.
the
Providents (old), $4.90.
in conse-
Hotel (Cum. Right), $13.60.
H.K. Realties, $11.10. Hong Kong Lands, $7724. Hong Kong Trams, $21. Peak Trams (old), $15.60. China Lights (old), $21. Constructions
(new), $1.90 ex.
Buyers.
Hong Kong Banks, $1,500. Bank of East Asia, $115. Union Insurances, $465. Benguets, $122. Raube, $98. Wharves, $148.
Docks, $20.
Providents (old), $4.90. Providents (new). $24.
Hotels (Cum. Rights), $13.55.
Hotels (Rights), $2.80.
The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton presided at the annual meeting of
The official summary issued by the Philharmonic Society which was
More than one speaker at the the Stock Exchange to-day states: held in the St. John Cathedral Hall
The market opened in a last evening, and was well attended. opening of the Spring session of
the Church Assembly-held at buoyant mood this morning, with a The Chairman stated. inter Church House, Westminster - re-strong demand for practically the alia:-- The Daily Express states that it, the famous
in my speech last year 1 congra-marked that there was a tendency entire list of the active section.
Consequently, there understands Mr. Justice McCardie, in 1916.
The discussion was introduced by stantial advance in quotationa of Though he was a bachelor, hia tulated the members of the Society for the position to improve. the most-discussed personality the legal profession, will shortly re-work in the Divorce Courts showed on the fact that the Society had
a deep understanding of domestic never been in a better way both as the Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Guy The more hopeful news from the sign from the Bench.
regards finance and membership. Warman, who was one of those who North, coupled with the lower ex- and matrimonial life.
For a time, a succession of cases Regarding the former, you will see saw reason for optimism. He rechange, would seem to account for concerning women's dresses carned from the accounts that a substan- ported that twelve hundred men had the sudden improvement in the last him the title of "The Dress Disputes tial loss was sustained on "Miss been ordained since 1919, either two days. Judge," and many of his judgments Ilcok of Holland" the result being through funds raised by the Church bank Assembly, or through the Sponsor- in cases of peculiarly feminine in that on February 29
ship Scheme. 1 am, balance was only $25.70.
A remarkable analysis of The criticism was in the course terest are already famous.
The recent Cambridge "Heien of pleased to say, however, that a sa- of the appeal of a man who received a sentence of four years' penal ser-Troy" case was heard by him, and tisfactory amount due from sundry situation was made by the Warden Kidd. He observed that of 70 vitude from Mr. Justice McCardie he has attained considerable pro-debters has been paid since that of Keble College, Oxford, Dr. B. J.
reduced to eighteen minence recently by his advocacy date.
As to membership you will see freshmen admitted to his College which was months hard labour by the Court from the Bench of a change in the
that there has been a gratifying last October, 29 came with the in- law on abortion. of Criminal Appeal.
serious difficulty, he Famous cases which have come increase in the number of Vice-tention of taking Holy Orders. Mr. Justice McCardie, at the trial, before him and cases in which he Presidents, and I should like to
to men destined had been reported as criticising the has made striking comments in-thank these gentlemen for their painted out, was now the financial Div.
Ordinary question common support of the Society. reductions of sen clude the following:--- "unaccessary
Changes at the University. of Criminal May 1922.-Ronald True, sen-members are down by fourteen but for every kind of calling.
still remain well over one hun- tences by the Court
"Fifty per cent. of the students of Appeal," and it was to this report,tenced to death at the Old Bailey,
1924. The dred. May and June
the University of Oxford," he said,) as well as to some features of the
Causes of Failure. O'Dwyer Case, General trial, that Lord Hewart and Mr O'Dwyer
The failure of "Miss Hook of "are there largely through extrane- Justice Avory took strong excep brought an action against Sir San-!
of the University has kura Nair, which raised the whole Holiand" was due to a number of ous assistance. The whole character tion.
riots, 1919. circumstances which I hope will not] It is likely that the famous bache issue of the Amritsar
is not a University tonsisting of the lor judge's resignation would have The judge expressed the view that arise again. In the first place the quence changed, in that respect. It had been wrongly scenery and properties proved un- well-to-do; but rather the contrary.
expensive, been announced before this, but the general
notwith- of judges, wero punished by the Secretary of State expectedly when the salaries
standing the loan of a considerable At any rate the proportion is about "voluntarily cut" last year he do for India.
March 1025.-The Dennistoun amount of the former from the half and half. time for Bome
"People sometimes complain that to whom cur best cided to carry on
Mrs. Dennistoun claimed, A.D.C..
due. The Are
rige i is the future clergy who specially rather than appear to be leaving the Suit.
from her former husband. The jury thanks
Not at all. It is the Beach for financial reasons.
de- need support. the dollar Dennis- in
After the to Mrs.
from future occupants of all sorts of awarded £5,000 toun, which the judge ruled, how-parture of Great Britain
I need not go ever, that she could not recover. the Gold Standard and the economy positions in life-agriculturists and
treasures necessary to balance the schoolmasters. The case cost £30,000.
January 1927-Action against Home Budget, both of which had through the list. That is the char- Paquin, Ltd, by Mrs. Fox Pitt the effect of reducing salaries in acteristic feature of our times.
The Church Assembly is moving "I should say that a new hat has this Colony, were also contributory
It is factors, while the departure from with the times in securing support three aspects, if well made. a treasure, a triumph and a tonic. the Society's policy of selling ex-for men sent to the Universities for Not Worth Mentioning. change vouchers owing to the dif-training for the ministry. If the October 1931.-Mrs.
V.ficulty of collecting the money, os-clergy fall behind their congrega- tions in the education which they It is not improbable that he will
have enjoyed, the Church will, in take up journalism so as to enlarge Mr. Bernard Breskal and wife, for sibly affected the houses. his platform for the many social re£99 14s. 6d. clothing supplied. The judge said: "A husband is so un-
Last year I had to make reference the end, suffer. There are large forms dear to his heart.
to the death of our old friend Mr. waiting lists of men at present in Mr. Justice McCardie has been a important in these daya that he is judge since 1916, and is one of the hardly worth mentioning."
A. J. J. Brock, this year another the hands of principals of theolo Gilbert November 1981.-Mrs.
had to be postponed enthusiastic supporter of the So-gical colleges. Applications have few junior barristers who
£265 the judicial Frankau's Dress Bill Case.
down." been prometed to
She was always to claimed. "You offer a modern society has been taken from us in
The clergy as a whole, Dr. Kidd Bench without "taking silk."
дл womun excellent red Mrs. McLeod
by her death the Society sustains! Continued, were changing, in that flannel petticoat, and she will never the forefront giving of her best and! forgive you" said the judge.
December 1931.--Cases affecting a great loss. To Mr. McLeod and they had smaller resources of their
"My view is that her two sons we offer our deepest own than a generation ago. Birth Control. the attitude and substance of the sympathy.
bers of the Society assisted Mr. come of the clergy and the rising LOTTERY TICKETS. law of abortion should be changed, and changed soon."
Mason at the Cathedral, the result responsibilities of those incomes, it will be extremely difficult for them December 1931-Attempted mur-
to accept benefices offered to them. blessed being a moat appropriate rendering "One of a wife.
We must anticipate the time com der feature about women is that they of the music sung.
You know, of course, that we ing when a large number of clergy will find difficulty in accepting pro forgive men. observations being taken. There is shall not be able to use the Theatre motion when they become ripe in
for performancea. no intelligence service in the world Royal again
opened regarding performances. international weather service.
ог "If the only purpose of a mete-in
for Η matter orological service were to tell the this will be possible public when to take an umbrella or will when to leave an overcoat at home, new committee, to decide, also the It is questionable whether the cost opera to be produced. With refer-
made of the service would be justified. erce to the latter enquiries have
Information to weather The object is, however, to supply been
There have been strong attempts
to
to persuade Mr. Justice McCardio
tour a lecture undertake
in
America. It is probable that he will accept the offer when in a posi tion to do 80,
In addition, he is certain to turn
to writing, and is already planning
a book based on bis experiences.
Journalism.
have
Before his elevation to the Benchciety he was the most sought after junior of his day.
Within a few years he built up a huge practice, and he was stated in 1915 to be making more than £20,000 a year.
as the out He was recognised standing authority on common law, and appeared in most of the cele
His last brated cases of his time. appearance in such a case was in
HOW WEATHER IS PRODUCED.
Part Played by Tropics and Poles.
MASSES OF AIR.
Bermel
Obituary.
On Good Friday evening mem-
No Venue for Shows.
Hong Kong Lands, $78. Hong Kong Realties. $11. Chinese Estates, $35. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 1434. Hong Kong Trams, $21. Peak Trams, $15.60. Star Ferrie, $91. China Lights (old), $21. China Lights (ned), $20. Hong Kong Electrice, $782. Telephones, (P.P.), $21. Canton Ices, $52.
Cements (combined), $18.40. Watsons (Cum. Rights), $16. Watsona Rights), $32. Amusements, $214.
Constructions (new), $1.85 ex
Government Loans, 31 per cent. Div.
Premium. ог
turned
"The result is," he added," that as time goes on with the falling ini
so complete and so rapid as the Negotiations have already been experience for it.
another theatre. Whether
not the
LL.D. CERTIFICATES.
be
Sellers.
International Assce. Tis. 4.
Hotels (Cum. Rights), $13.60. Malabon Sugars, $21.
S.C. Enterprises, $10.
Alleged Unlawful Possession.
CHINESE CLERK PLEADS A "PLANT."
.Considerable discussion in regard to the unlawful possession of lottery tickets, took place in the Kowloon Magistracy, when a Chinese clerk, LLD. Certificates of the Sociale employed in the China Light & de Placements, Power Co., Ltd., made a second ap- regarding "Tantivy Internationale those Towers" which is now released for Basle (Local agents, Messrs. A. pearance before Mr. J. A. Fraser on a charge of having in his possession Dr. C. C. Simpion, Director of the Meteorological Office, in a lec-
Yesterday's official quotation in 20 po piu lottery tickets. lure at the Royal institution, said: whose work, and often life, depends amateur performance, and "The Cocke & Co.):-
Basle: £2-14-0.
"We now recognise that weather is produced by the bringing together
on the weather.
Fountain of Youth" both of which for were on in London last year, but for shipping, "Forecasts fishermen, for aviation, and for answers have not yet been received.
The report and accounts of great masses of air from polar agriculture are the justification for and tropical regions by the gened the elaborate meteorological ser- duly adopted. circulation of the atmosphere.
vices maintained in all countries
were
New Officers. The following officers were elected "Such masses of cold and warm No method has yet been found for air do not readily mix, but overrun
expressing the success of weather for the ensuing year:~~
President-Hou. Mr. W. E. L. another along undercut one
forecasts by giving the percentages of failures and successes, but the Shenton.
Hon. Secretary Mr. H. J. Best. Hon.. Treasurer. - Mr. improvement in the supply of in- formation and the scientific dis-
ог
'fronts' which can be traced for hundreds of miles on the synoptic charts. On one side of a front there is warm air and on the other coveries have resulted in an appre- Buchanan side cold air, and cyclones are com ciable increase in the accuracy of| plicated meeting points of warm and cold 'fronts.'
"As warm air alldes up over cold
the forecasts."
air or cold air cuts under warm air HANGED HERSELF WITH SCARF.
cloud and rain are formed, so that
'fronts' are long, and usually narrow Child's Fatal Slip on Spring-Balance. strips of bad weather, and it is the motion of the "fronts' which is now
It will be recalled that defendant was arrested by a Chinese detective'
in Reclamation Street, on April 3, and after the hearing of the evi-
of the
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in the dence, His Worship granted a re- King's Theatre, and which case of the City Hall had cost $250 mand to enable the prosecuting on the last occasion a play was pro-officér (Detective Sub-Inspector:
Elston), to take advice. duced..
Bigger Accommodation. - At the second bearing of the this morning S.-I. Elston Another important consideration case D. was that where in the case of the said he had spoken about the case Theatre Royal only 500 people to Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Assistant Committee. Mesars. T. V. Har-cauld be accommodated, a number Attorney General, and had been in- THREE STAR
were inconvenienced by formed that if the Police had proved mon and J. W. Baldwin, Mrs. J. H. of whom
Intervening pillars, the Ki g's that the man had possession of the Shaw and Mrs. G. W. R. Grigga.
The election of the Hon. Con-Theatre could afford an unobstruct-tickets, the onus was transferred to Again, the man to show that he had no Juctor and Hon. Producer was left ed view for 1,200 persons.
this bigger tommodation would knowledge of possession to the in-coming committee.
King's Theatre's Price. enable them to put on fewer shows tickets; that he did not know they Replying to a question with re- thereby reducing overhead and in were concealed under the saddle of How a nine-year-old girl ac-gard to the negotiations for a venue cidental expenses, such as paying the cycle...
gestion that the tickets had been the chief concern of the forecaster. cidentally hanged herself with her for producing plays, Mr. H. J. Best for professional orchestral service
planted beneath the saddle of his The recognition of 'front has given scarf was told at a Thornton, Lancs, stated that he had inquired from and refreshments.
the King's Theatre and found the
The drawback about the King's bicycle, S.-I. Elston said it was the forecaster a powerful new tool Inquest.
Mrs. Edwards, of Holly Farm, fee demanded was $800 a night, on Long Lane, Thornton, said that she account of having to buy out the Theatre was the question of re-highly improbable that anyone has greatly improved the short found her daughter Ethel hanging picture. This figure, however, was hearsal and the necessity of getting would plant tickets that were worth period forecasts, especially these for in an outhouse from spring-not so formidable as it appeared at started at 9.80 after the cinema per-$8 and might have won one of the balance used to weigh potatoes.first sight, for whereas in the case formance ended at 9 p.m. The large prizes offered in the lottery. A knotted scarf round her neck of the Theatre Royal the rant was prices, it was indicated, would still Furthermore it was strange that defendant had made no reference to "At certain specified times each.....
put forward, the man who was supposed to be re- day observations are taken, at 45 was fastened to the book of the only $120 per night, other items be 33, $2 and $1.5- * Be and to be met auch as attendants, A suggestion was
"In the and approved,
the effect that I sponsible for the "framing." Since stations in the British Isles and on balance.
A constable sald the child must booking, advertising, etc. a number of ships in the Atlantic and telegraphed to London hawaped when trying to look at case of the King's Theatre all these negotiations for a. atage broke the remand defendant had been the all to see her weight, and the additional Items were included in down, if might be possible to given the opportunity to produce close co-operation information fr over 500 stations is available in barmust have caught in the book the 8860. One big point, said Mr. organise a concert affording plenty the man, but had not done so,
Saturday next. meteorological om in which was only aft. ein. from the Best, was the question of lighting, of scope for choral work to memThe case was remander until Europe, within two hours of these floor verdiet of "Accidental which would be supplied by the bers of the society.
death
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aviation.
every
returned.
The One Drawback.
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