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WARREN,
A very interesting lecture on the life of • William Thomson Lord Kelvin. “ was delivered to an appreciative audience
Bay Institute, yesterday
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1919.
PHONGKONG POTRALL
LEAGUE
NEW SECRETARY AND TREASURER ELECTED.
A-BROKERS LABILITY. |ILLŠTREATING A SERVANT; }
A XUN HALSTEN & CALANARIT Pada!
In the Summary. Court, yesterday, the Kani Cheong Hong frin, of Hongkong, A general meeting of the Hongkong. claimed 1,000 from Lok Kee, alias Ro Football League was held at Victoria Lok Kau, merchant, of Hongkong.
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LADY AND HER SON,
Two wealthy Chinese, a lady and her son, occupying the top Hoor of Xo, 44, Caine Rond were charged at the Magistracy,
girl, nine years of age, employed by tenants on the ground floor.
by Professor A. G. Warren at the Helena Barracks, last evening, at 5.18, for the Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the plan our Saturday, with assaulting a servant
evening, purpose of electing an Honorary Secreti, and Mr. W. B. Hind for the defen Antengst those present were the Hon.tary and Treasurer for the First Division Mr. Cland Severn, M... Sir William of the League in the place of Bees Davies. Commodore Gurner, Capt. Basil Taylor and Mr. E. Ralphs.
The lecturer said that in reviewing the scientific work of the 10th century one
Shown words.
Wright, who is shortly leaving the
Colony.
The question of ruping-in the military ground was discussed and it was agreed to refer this matter to the Garrison Recreation Club..
With reference to the match which was and St. Joseph's College on November to have been played between the Police sth, it was explained that St. Josepha did not turn up owing, to the ground being unplayable.
for the
dated July 14th, 1919, they agreed to The plaintiffs, stated that by a contract sell, and the defendants agreed to buy, On Kee failed to take delivery, whereby 100 bags of rough white sugar, of which the plaintiffs suffered damage to the ex-
The Chairman pointed out that thea Actitious frm Police team and the referee turned up, and it was
The particulars of the claim were as to decide referge It was finally decided that the Police sugar weighing, 163 catties. whether the ground was playable or not.follows:-100 Bags of rough white Secretary be approached with a view to
Contract playing off the maten at a ruture date. settled, then reference was to be made to it the matter could not be amicably the League Stanagement Committee
rigas and that in the entis part ut the year, be was thinking of going home but be had agreed to take on the Decretaryship and the treasurership unti the work had been got under way-
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Price, $23.95 per catty: market price,
total loss, $7,039.75. $14.00 per catty loss, 11.15 per catty;
stated that she and her mistress reported Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, witness the assault at the Police Station. The Police had not advised her to enter hos- pital. It was her mistress who took her to hospital where she remained for five days
The mistress stated that the girl vomited wood as a result of the blows When Dr. To examined her, her tempe rature was 101 degrees. She was told that the girl was in a serious state.
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Compininant stated that on the after noon of November ind, she accidentally Mr. J. P. Jones, Vice-President of the
road door, and the child began to cry. kicked a toy ricksha with which the first League, presided and there were about
defendant's s011. was playing on the is struck by the number of great scientia "dozen, representatives of the various
The two defendants came rushing down fic men which Great Britain produced Clubs present including Staff and Detent of 81.038.73. The defendant acted
the stairs and while the first defendant Kelvin stands out preemiently. He was partments, Hongkong Football Club, St.
as broker and agent for Up Eee. The born in Belfast on June 20th., 1824, His Joseph's College, Royal Navy, United plaintiffs claimed $1,000 from the defen-hit her a blow on the forehead. Eer son futher was originally a farma-worker, but. F., and South China Athletic,
dant for breach of warran of authority seized her by the hair and give her a by dint of hard work, he ultimately gra
to act as breker and agent for the defen-thrashing. Hier mistress interfered but the duated at the University of Glasgow, at
daat, On Kee. Alternatively, they claimed second. defendant said: I have a right which he became a teacher and later,
the @1000 from the defendant, liable on to kill her." Complainant went to her Professor of Mathematics.
As a boy.
the contract, on the ground that On Kee, room and commenced vomiting blood and, young Thomson showed remarkable
the alleged principal, was a foreign later, she was sent to hospital. ability, Of the standard of education
plaintiffs claimed 81,000 from defendant, principal As a further alternative; the aimed at in those days we may take his
as a principal liable on the contract, on A boy," he said should have learned by the age of 19 to write his
the ground that the firm of On Fee was own language with accuracy and some elegance; he should have a reading know- ledge of French, should be able to trans late Latin and ensy Greek authors, and should have some acquaintance with fer man. Having learned thus the meaning of words, a boy should study logic. He was allowed to attend informally
Plaintiffs waived the sum of 8938.75 in his father's lectures until he was
order to bring the action within the old
jurisdiction of the Summary Court.
Mr. Lo informed the Magistrate that enough to matriculate. He qualified for
be had a long interview with Dr. To his degree at the age of 15. but he never thought that as he would be leaving next that Mr. Hind and be had agreed thaiously injured The high fever was das Before opening his case, Mr. Lo said who told him that the girl was not ser appled for it, as be wished to enter wonin, it was time Cambridge as an undergraduate. While sounded, than ir. J. Halston be elected would be assessed at 81.000. The plain-certificate, there were no external mark
Mr. Kulton Debody took it over..
and Mr. Wong if the defendant was liable the damages to excitement, according to the medical at Cambridge his time was largely tion. Decretary and Treasurer of occupied upon matters which, were con-
the ts kued the agent because, at the limef violence on her bod League. and the motion was carried. cerning the most eminent scientists of the seconded, that the resignation of the
The fairman moved, and air. Black the contract was entered into, they wers day, and he had already a European rea, (Reserve) from the second division pectable firm in Hongkong. They would face Witness went down, followed by told that the Erm of On Kie was a res-ticed the girl slapping the child on the The first defendant stated that she no- putation by the time he took his degree.
or the league be accepted and the motion Of his college days, the very detailed
was carried..
certainly not have made a contract with her son, and tried to catch the girl who It was agreed that the election of a correspondence which be conducted with us to fit the vacant core be liability of brokers in the circumstances slapped her ch the face. The child told a travelling trader. With regard to the ran away. Her son caught the girl and his father constitutes almost a complete
Fesignation or the R.G.A. (Reserve) be lets to the League Management Com-in which the defendant found himself, her that the girl had deliberately kicked record. James Theuson was by this time well off and William was by no meaga a
Mr. Lo quoted from pages 18 and the toy ricksha." She was on good terms rike, but we find the father taking poor
Lo said that on the due date for delivery of Halsbury, volume 1 Continuing, Mr with the tenants on the ground floor until William to task most roundly when his
the pipintiffs' sent a man to the broker expenses exceeded his father's estimates. William, in writing to his sister Eliza
and asked him to request the On Kee bath,, tells of a barber who offered to resignation of Mr. Wrighty moved that then informed by the defendant that the Master Gunner May, referring to the firm to take delivery at once. They were dress his hair for half-a-crown a term.
the meeting pass a vote of thanks for his
Ex. Lo stated that the girl was not hurt The offer was refused, for, as William Lootball in tongkong during the past
work and the uterest he had taken in Oo Kee firm had ceased to exist, the im-and left the hospital without the consent
for the doctor ̈*. marked, he only spent twopence each seven years. Mr. Wright was now post plication still being that the On Kee was half year upon that luxury.
to leave for Home and it was for the
Mr. Lindsell observed that second de a Hongkong firm and had gone bankrupt. later he writes to his sister Anna asking unity to bid Mr. Wright bon voyage that there had been no On Kee firm at be should have informed the mistress. members of the Hongkong football com- The plaintiffs made enquiries and found fendant was wrong in slapping the girl; her how much ten he should use to make and to thank him for his services. a cuplul. Some of this correspondence Wright said he had bad a very happy show that such a firm had been in exist. The mother was discharged.
In replying to the vote of thanks, Mr. all. They then asked the defendant to Te Magistrate imposed a line of 8 does not seem to an Englishman to be in time and a guod innings, and he ad the best taste, Already his father had enjoyed himself as much as anyone.. Hence, otherwise be, as broker, would be become obsessed with the idea that Wil the Chinese had made in football
was glad to see the great improvement liable. To this the defendant replied fiam might succeed the failing Meiklebam remembered that when he first came, they had no frm in Hongkong, and whose busi. He that On Kee was a travelling trader who as Professor of Natural Philosophy He thanked them for their kind wishes.
hardly knew anything about the game. Glasgow, and his recital of the eircum
ness place was in Chuenhuen, a town in Mr. Wong thanked Mr..Wright on be stances working towards that end were half of the Chinese Clubs for his advice
China If the Court held that the On How a woman, in endeavouring to hate. often more amusing than refined. It was, and willingness at all times to give every Ree had never existed a frig in. Hoogher son released from Victoria Gacl, where however, as Professor of Natural Pbilo
assistance in bis power.
because On-Kes was a fictitious person." If bery, was duped by a Chinese was related kong, then the plaintiff claimed damages he is serving, a sentence "for, armed rob- sophy at Glasgow, which post be filled for over 50 years, "that he made bis
the Court held that: On Kee was at the Magistracy, yesterday, when the enormous reputation. Hardly a branch
existent firm, but was foreign, they relied latter was charged with obtaining 830 of Physical Science existed but what his wonderful mind added much to it,
on the alternative that On Kee, was ander false pretences. foreign principal and the broker was Sergeant Murphy stated that complain. therefore, liable. The first alternative ant went to the Land Once on November might be disregarded for the present, uni Kowloon City. She had a conversa 10th. to purchase a piece of land, situated tion with one of the clerks about her son. who had been sentenced to three years ant was stadding near her at the time bard labour tar anaed rubbery. Defend and listened to be conversation. Defend ant accosted the women when she left the office and represented, himself to be a clerk at the Supreme Court. He made Fri-out that he had the power to release ber
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The lecturer referred in considerable detail to Kelvin's work in connection with thermodynamics, which he consider- ed to be bis greatest his work on "the" Atlantic Telegraph, for which he received his knighthood; and his part in the great Geological controversy.
As
this
mittee.
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
tisa, immediately following Mr. J. At a meeting of the Football Associa Ralston was unanimously, elected Hon Secretary and Treasurer," vice Mr
stor wright, retiring-
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting terminated.
" GOLF.
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
LADIES' SECTION..
way Cup and the Wodehouse Cap are as
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The results of the draws for the Rail-less Ou Ece was produced by the defen- dant and said that "the defendant had no authority in the matter. In that case the plaintiffs claimed damages for breach of warranty of authority to act as broker and agent for the defendant.
follow:-
RAILWAY CUP.
:
Mr. Mitchell v. Mrs. Bonnar. Mrs. Winslow . Mrs. Neighbour. Mrs. Kilgour . Miss Leith Mrs McElderry Mrs John W. Taylor
Kelvin's contributions to navigation were also treated at some length. Of these, Lord Fisher has said that be con sidered Lord Kelvin a man who had Byes Mrs. McKenney, Mrs. A. done by far the most for the advancement Gin, Mrs. H. Grifin and Mrs. E D of navigation in our time. A humbler Wolfe seaman once remarked: "I don't know who
Thomson may be, but
every sailor ought to pray for him every lovable
night. a man, he was one of the most and possessed in considerable degrees certain dry humour. He died in 1907, and was buried in Westminster Abbey in a grave next to that of Sir Isaac Newton. At the conclusion, Sir William Rees Davies, proposing a vote of thanks to Professor Warren, said that at the Helena May Institute they were privileg ed to hear lectures on a variety of topics. Not long ago, they had the pleasure of listening to a very interesting lecture on of & renowned scientist. Later on they Charles James Fox, and now on the life were to be given a lecture on Golf," and it seemed to him that the lectures ranged from the sublime to the ridicu Jous (Laughter.) The lecture they had just heard had been the result of great research.
Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs. Ritcale, Mrs. Redmond v. Mrs. Fletcher.. Mrs. Congdon . Mrs. Joseph Taylor. Mrs; Humphreys v. Mrs. Maitland, Lady Rees Davies v. Mrs. Shenton, Mra N. L. Smith, Mra. Leank.. Mrs, Arthur.
Byes. Mr. Montague Earston and
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The hearing was adjourned until day morning.
AMMUNITION CASES. DEAD MAN'S REVOLVER.
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, Chinese clerk was charged, with being in unlawful possession of a revolver,"
month ago, when a pair of trousers were lost and they took offence because she asked them about the matter,
WOMAN DEFRAuded. BUYS WARRANT FOR $30.
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son, and promised to do so on receipt of $30: The woman agreed to pay him the amount two days later and the mun asked ber to meet him at the Supreme Court. Un November 13th., the woman went to the appointed place with a number of witnesses and met defendant, who was standing, at the entrance to the court. She handed $30 to him and obtained in re turn piece of paper, which the latter made put to be a warrant for the release of her son. The woman was overjoyed and rushed off with the supposed warrant of release to Victoria Gacl. On the way, 4th, by December 22nd; 8th, by January defendant's. When the Police searched her. She showed him the piece of paper, Detective-Bergeant Willis noticed how excited the woman wad and questioned the premises, the revolver was discovered whereupon *he asked her to in an unlocked box.
with him tó the Supreme Court Inspector Grant stated that defendant's and point out the man who had given it story might be correct.
could not find the man. Defendant wa to her. When they reached the Court she arrested in Yaumati on Sunday and was identified by complainant at an identifi cation parade.
The rounds are to be played as fol- lows: Ist, by November 30th; 2nd, by December 8th; 3rd, by December 15th
8th
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WODEHOUSE CUP. Byears. H. Griffin and Mre Evans Mrs Kilgour and Mrs. Joseph Taylor e. Mrs. H. Wilson and Mrs. A. E Crapnell.
Mr. Redmond and Mra, McKenny WHEN THE SEA GAVE UP Mm Gray, and Miss D. Grimble.
Leith and Mrs Moxon Ritchie and Mrs. Bonnar
7. Mrs. Lady Rees Davies and M, Maitland
Mis Gordon and Miss Moxon,
ITS DEAD.
GRIM HELIC OF A LOCAL WRECK.
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While some workmen were busy salving 1 Launch, which had been wrecked off Hongkong fourteen years ago, they came across a skeleton, imprisoned in the fore castle. The bones were in a decaying condition. The skeleton was removed to the public mortuary at Kowloon. The Police are unable to trace the nations lity or the sox of the skeleton. Even the name of the launch is not known, although the bull of the vessel has beca Balved and it is now in one of the slip- ways. It is rijectured that the skeleton in of some end who lost his life in the typhoon of 1000
Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. A. E. Griffin Mrs. Pearce and Mrx: Davisos fast
Mrs. McElderry and Miss Moorhead . Mrs Fletcher and Mr. Humphreys
Byes Mrs Montague Harston and The rounds are to be played as fol- lows:-1st, by December 2rd; 2nd, by December 17th: 3rd. by December. Wth; 4th. by January 10th: 8th, by January 20tb.
Mrs. Lenak
LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP.
of 18 and under. Entries alone on This is open to players with handicaps November 30th
Mr J. H. Gardiner, who appeared for the defendant, stated that the revolver belonged to a deceased relative of the
Mr. Lindsell discharged defendant and confiscated the revolver.
THOUSAND ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION. A Chiness was charged with being my unlawful possession of 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Mr. D. H. Blake appeared for the de- cared for the de Inspector Brazil stated that defendant Hollywood Road. A constable searched was een carrying a rattan basket in
it and found the ammunition Defend ant refused to say, where he got the at
fexce
munition.
bail at 8750
Mr. Lindwell remanded the case, fixing
EDMAN'S STORY OF A PARCEL.
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The case was remanded till Baturday.
ROBBING THE POLICE. STATIONERY COOLIE FINED.
stationery coolie of the Central Police At the Magistracy, yesterday, the Stations charged with stealing a quantity of stationery
Defendant was searched by a constable, who found the stationery concealed under A woman was fined $100 for being in Station for ally three years.
jacket. He had been employed at the unlawful poression of 300 rounds of am- Mr.Lindsell: Why, were you such a engaged by a man to carry the parcel, in self by stealing 22 worth of paper. #20 unition. She stated that she was foolt You get a good joh and ruin your. which the ammunition was found!
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hold shagh.
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