TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.
BONHAM STRAND
PROPERTY
Recovery Sought In Supreme Court.
FORGERY OF ASSIGNMENT ALLEGED
The case in which Li Tse-shi. seeks to recover the property known 25 No. 73, Bonham Strand, West, from Pong Tsoi-ching, of Shatin, continued before the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Supreme Court this morning..
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It was alleged by Mr. H. G. Sheldon. who with Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Jnr. (both in- structed by Mesars. Lo and Lo), is appearing for the appelant, that the assignment of the property was forgery.
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ANGLO-ARGENTINE RECIPROCATIONS
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Further Negotiations · At Buenos Aires
"London, To-day.
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In accordance with Three of the Anglo-Argentine con- vention of May 1, negotiations will shortly be opened at Buenca Aires, with the Argentine Govern- ment, the conclusion of the
Bu 201ry agreement,
tend
ed to give effect, inter alia, the undertaking of the Argentine Government to reduce duties to the 1930 level so far as fiscal con. siderations and the interests of national industries permit-Bri- tish Wireleza Service.
641 COUNTERFEIT COINS
an
BRITISH FARMER SAFEGUARDED
Restricting Dairy Farm Imports.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story
THE WEDDING
HUNDRED yeara
By Aino Kallas.
ago a down is an attempt to the
Major Walter life-A wedding was being cele-bucket & react and a cluster of ter for Agriculture, yesterday said brated on a Saaremaa farm. In hopbushes sheltered them frota the in the House of Commons, that the the middle of the room saf the house: foreign countries mainly concerned bride, so that all might see her turned as though caught in some Hearing footsteps, she in the export to Britain of cream, heated young face; the cap new-evil deed. "It was condensed whole milk and con-ly fastened
so, hot," she to her hair and to said, as though begging for his for densed skimmed milk, had given which she was as yet unused, giveness.
assurance that they wound compelled her to held her head stood holding the well-post, an- But the bridegroom agree, as an emergency measure, well back, but also otherwise, hurriedly gazing at his bride-and to limit their export to the Unit-she hardly looked the type to then, as though by some silent fed Kingdom during June, July and bow her head overmuch. Her agreement, she sat herself down on August, to an amount not exceed hands she kept on her lap on her the cover of the well, in the cracks, ing 80 per cent of the quantities apron which was just being of which the grass grew. "Let us shipped in the corresponding patched: the guests filed by with stay here a while," she begged. The period of last year, subject to a copper and silver coins in bridegroom nodded his head with-| their hands and ..threw out removing his gaze from her} Foreign countries which export- these into the apron. She thank face, and to both came a feeling of ed, comparatively small quantities ed them and laughed seeming mingled pleasure and guilt, as menta remained at the previous were asked to ensure that the ship-but to wait for the opportunity though without permission they in order to give rein to the grasped something belonging by boundless mirth within her. right to others. Overseas Dominions' representa. When the money had been put The bride dipped her hand in the Sentence of six months hard tives had promised that they would away, one of the guests seized well-trough, which was split at one In answer to a question, the wolabour was this morning imposed use their best endeavours to co-from the ring standing. around water had collected, two or three ja boy about five years of age end. At the other end, where the man Li Tse-chi, stated that the by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cen-operate, so far as they were on the bride and set him on her bees were swimming, fallen into the deeds of the property were kept in tral Magistracy, on Kwong Fong, cerned, in the export of these pro- knee for her infact. the tray at the top of the trunk. a Chinese male of 27, who was ar ¡ducts.
Jokes and water in an attempt to drink. She She said that she had never opened freeted at the Ping On Wharf at! In view of these arrangements sides, grave prophetic hopes and bees crawled in a single file along innuendos rained on her from all stretched out her finger and the the trunk between the death of her 3:30 p.m. yesterday in possession there would be no longer any ques bold quips, sufficient to drive it to safety. They began to fatter husband Li Woon-nam, and the of 334 counterfeit Hong Kong tention of British manufacturers re the blood time and again to the
ducing their output-British Wire-bride's cheeks. less Service.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Messra.; Hastings & Co., are for the de- fendant.
The cross-examination of Li Tec-
Chinese Caught At Ping On Wharf.
shi by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, continued SIX MONTH'S GAOL SENTENCE this morning.
IMPOSED
An American trunk similar
to
the one in which the deeds had been kept was exhibited in Court.
counterfeit
time when she searched for the cent pieces and 247 deeds. She had believed the deeds Hong Kong five cent pieces.' to be intact in the trunk all the Det. Sergeant Allan appeared for time.
the prosecution.
Mr. Jenkin: "I put it to you that the deeds were in fact in Heng Kong for well over a year."
Tam Wai, Chinese Revenue Off- cer No. 58, said that at about 3.30 p.m. yesterday he was on duty at
Li Tse-ahi: "If the deeds were as the Ping On Wharf. you say in Hong Kong for over
.2 At that moment the s.s. Tin Yat
year they must have been stolen was discharging passengers from
⚫ when the passport was taken out of Canton, the accused being one of
the box."
the first to land on the whart Mr. Jenkin: "You say. that on witness noticed that Kwong Fong the evening of July 31, Wong Yu came up from Hong Kong." "Yes," was very excited and decided to
Mr. Jenkin: "And he handed you some deeds." "Yes,"
were
seurch him.
level.
LICENCE REFUSED TO RESTAURANT
Too Near A Dancing Academy.
LOCAL BOARD MEETS
Despite the courage and sincerity of her character, confusion finally seized her and she lifted the boy to the floor; she felt hot, the head- dress weighed on her temples, a desire to leave the room awoke in ber. Hardly noticed, she drew aside, the cooks beginning at the
News In Brief.
wife
TO-MORROW'S STORY,
To-morrow's story will be *1912" by W. F. Harvey.
moment to wipe the tables, striking their wings rapidly and to rub them them with loud knocks to solicit with their legs, their hind-lega contributions. The violins were be-swiftly wiping their bodies covered ling tuned in the corner. She edged with fine hairs; they dragged their nearer and nearer the open door and legs along her finger, leaving long at last slipped through it. In the tracks of moisture. Suddenly, one In the girdle belt of the accua- Mr. T. H. King, deputy inspector village lane, where geese waddled crawled higher and disappeared into Mr. Jenkin: "How many?"
ed was found a three-folded leather General of Police, at yesterday's with their brown-coated young, she her sleeve. Li Tae-ahi: "Several to-purse containing the counterfeit meeting of the Licencing Board, jalmost broke into a run before she
"It will sting thee," the young gether; whether three or four, 1)
coine.
objected to the granting of a licence reached the well. No one noticed man cried with a sudden movement. don't know." She agreed that they
Tam Wal: " saw at the first to the Excelsior Restaurant, on the her disappearance but the bride- But the girl stretched her arm were foreign deeds.
glance that they were bad coins ground that it was too near a groom, who all the time had kept his downwards and shook the bee Into] Witness said that he had told her Mr. Wynne-Jones: "Was it as
dancing academy.
eyes on her and now set off after the grass, her face glowing with that he had come from Hong Kong easy as all that? (Looking at
The Board considered that there her.
pleasure at the man's concern. and that Li Kal-loy had sold the some of the exhibits). "I'm in mises in the vicinity and refused on the ledge of the well bowed dance music as the shrill notes of
were already enough licensed. pre- He found his newly-wedded
Then both turned to listen to the house, He brought a bundle offelined to believe you." deeds,
Witness said he bit one of the proprietor of the Excelsior Restau- the application of Mr. Puran Chand,
violing and bagpipes came from the Mr. Jenkin: "You knew that they 10 cent coins and easily snapped
bride's home. "They are searching had been sent by Wong Yu, by order it in two.
Mr. F. G, Nigel appeared,
for us," the girl whispered, and the of Wong Wah-kon."
for the applicant.
|young man nodded. They looked The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southors
Dinner Dances are carried on a house, from the chimney of which away from the lane and from the occupied the Chair.
usual at the Peninsula Hotel. my son Li Kal-loy stole the deeds years' experience, stated that the were the Hon. Mr C. G. Alabaster. Others present at the meeting
arose the smoke of festal cooking, when he opened the box to take cut counterfeit coins although very (Attorney General), Mr. H. B. Lwas this morning formally, remand-setting in a cloudless sky. The
Wong Yuen, a Chinese male of 35, where an early
towards the plain before them, to; the passport."
good in appearance could easily be Dowbiggin, Mr. J. M. Wong, Mr.led for one week, by Mr. Schofield parple rye-fields formed an obtuss Mr. Jenkin: "I put it to you that told by their lighter weight and ex-J. L.. McPherson, Mr. T. H. King at the Central Magistracy, on the deeds were taken out for the treme brittleness. purpose of having the property put
(secrecharge of highway robbery with the west glowed with promise of angle with the sky and behind them violence. "I did not know anything about mitted possession. Kwong Fong The Board granted an applica
the coming harvest, as though it| that; I didn't order the name to be said he was given them in extion by Mr. R. H. Waller for the with weak eyesight, was yesterday fruits tenfold, Behind the fence Ng Po, a 57-year-old hawker, that the field should give back their
were written there in the heavena! changed.
change for good money on the transfer of St. Francia Hotel's evening knocked down la Johnson stretched the grazing-ground, dear Bcence from Mr. J. C. H. Rye to Road by a tramcar while feeling to them in its barrenness because of himself: It was stated that
his way across the road with its promise of work also for them. new Company had purchased the stick. building.
He was taken to the Gov-Farther back, the church stood erect ernment Civil Hospital":
-the only rising point on the plain A. three-year-old Chinese boy, from whatever point men looked.
-ruling the neighbourhood, viäíble
The summer air was alive with
rant.
The accused was later taken to
A Chinese money-lender of 21
"I did not know anything about the Central Police Station. that. What I did know was that
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Accused denied knowledge ofiary).
and Mr. H. Owen Davica.
Two Transfers.
in the name of your son Li Kai-loy." the coins being counterfeit, but ad-
Mr. Jenkin: "You entrusted the Pearl River Bridge in Canton. deeds to Wong Wah-kon for that! purpose." "I did not instruct him."
Mr. Jenkin: "I suggest to you that your reason for doing so WAS to escape the duties charged by the Hong Kong Government."
"I had no idea whatever about estare duty in Hong Kong."`
Mr. Jenkin: "Do you know that when the auction of the property was about to take place on July 23, 1931, someone tried to prevent the aale of the property."
Witness admitted the knowledge. The case is proceeding.
VIOLENT STORM IN SPANISH CAPITAL
River Rises Three Feet In Few Minutes,
LONDON'S
CHINATOWN
VANISHING
One Chinese Woman In Limehouse.
POPULATION NOW 100-
London
Mr. C. North's application for a transfer of David's Cafe licence
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Bummer sun was
from Mr. G. Gabruller to himself Ronald Wong, was sent to the Row- was also granted. Mr. North loon Hospital yesterday afternoon, midges, dancing everywhere. The stated that he had been assistant suffering from being bitter in the bride sitting on the edge of the well manager for Mr. Gabruilder, and face by a dog owned by Mr. J. C. felt them bladly strike against her had bought the business.
Ferguson, of No. 3, Stafford Road, face; she waved them away with a Kowloon Tong. The dog was sent branch she had picked up, but even to Mau-ta-kok for observation.
then they forced their way into her Lam Yiu, a Chinese Male of 24, andden smarting in one
ears, her mouth, and her eyes. "A was this morning sentenced to six though it had been stung, made her eye, 24 weeks hard tohur by Mr. Wynne-lift her hand to rab it. Jones at the Central Magistracy, for "A midge dew into my eye," she larceny of an electric fan valued at said,
AMERICANS WED
Miss Mary Carter And Mr. E. E. Bomar.
KOWLOON CEREMONY
$22, and a silk jacket valued at $1,
"Don't rub it-I will take it out," floor at 11.30 pm on Saturday last, from No. 20 Circular Path, 2nd the bridegroom answered hurriedly.
Personal Pars,
Limehouse.
once the scene of Oriental orgies and blood-thirsty feuds between rival tonga, where [flashing knives spelled allent death, streets are has become almost reapetcable. The dulet and deserted learly in the evening. Tong wars
A pretty wedding took place on are a thing of the past.
Friday afternoon at St. Andrew's,
He had no need to bend down: The Oriental character has at Church, Kowloon, when. Miss Mary
atanding opposite each other they most vanished from Limehouse, the Rowland Carter of 2107 Carterdale
were almost of a height, their eyes, Madrid. most of the Chinese have left wife of Mr. Edward Earle Bomar, and will shortly take place, between could see the insect as a tiny black
Chinatown of London, because Road, Baltimore, U.S.A. became the
meeting. The man drew down the A marriage has been arranged lid of her eye slightly, so that he Cellars of more than 50 houses there. To-day the Chinese populason of the Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Johannes Moen, Chief Officer in the object on its inner surface. He were flooded in one quarter of tion number only 100 the Spanish capital, over 2,000 And of that colony there is only
Bomar of Tyron, U.S.A...
The Rev. W. Walton Rogers, vicar of the Repulse Bay Hotel
Mercantile Marina, and Klara Piao, brought bis face still nearer, in- feet above sea level, during the one Chinese woman, probably the of St Andrew's Church, officiated. first thunderstorm of 1989 and loneliest woman in London for the Captain J. J. Cadogan of the 8.a. been announceed of Donald Choy fine, veins covering the white of her tending to remove it with ha the most violent known for apesks no English and sees no one President Polk, while Miss Bernice Wong clerk, of 126, Den Veux eye, the tiny, freckles on her nose, The bride was given away by The forthcoming marriage has what earlier had escaped him the tongue, and in this position he saw Traffic had to be stopped on 'She is Mrs. San Sam-sing, a typi- Black of Palo Alto, California, was Road, Central and Maud Iu Long, spreading towards her cheeks. It
hut her husband. the busiest underground line cal daughter of the Orient. Her bridesmaid when rainwater flooded the Law husband keeps a general store in
Mr. M. Karlchuck of Manila, was SIA
of 171, Tung Chol Street, Kowloon,was all beautiful to him and his Courts and station A tramcar Limehouse where all sorts of Chin-best man nearly feel into the river Manese delicacies such as bamboo
An announcement of the forth happiness. The girl knew, but con- thoughts turned to his coming zanares when it was derafled on shoots, Sha Ho rice, noodles, and 2 Condult. Boad, the realdence of Antonio Gomes, marcantile assis na hint of confusion, ready to sur A reception was later held at No coming marriage of Maxiano dinued to look openly at him, with Segovia bridge by stones washed dried lichees can be obtained. Mr. and Mrs. Will Greene, the happy tant, of 11. Lock Road, Kowloon, render, but without excitement, into the lines,
Mrs. Sing, with her tiny feet, couple later leaving for their honey and Joaninha Maria Rosa Pereira, with calm, trusting eyes. Streets were turned into tor- black hair, and any manners is as moon, which is being spent at the of 3, Minden Avenue, Kowloon, has "Let us go in,” she said, taking rents in the Old Quarter round much a mystery to her neighbours Repulse Bay Hotel the river which rose over three to-day as she was on the frit day
been made, feet in a matter of minutes we settled in Limehouse, several
bid hand in, bere, Hail fell during the storm years ago. She never speaks to
The marriage arranged between came Aware of a bent man ap
As they passed within they which lasted an hour, and several any one it hurries along the
"Fair to showery weather, with University Club
Emil Henry Galllt, merchant, of the preaching along the lane from the pedestrians, suffered
to East or variable winds,
artments: high-way. He moved slowly, drag- Manie, P.Land Emm usted in the "report issued her way to
alloon ging his steps. To the eyes of both East in the SA, he moved as one bidden to Observatory this President Coolidge, will take place eral not as wedding guest. Continued on: Page 10.
years.
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street back to her, home
waits patiently for her husban knd Mulan his work, in the
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