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CASTLE PEAK
MURDER TRIAL.
“MUI TSAI" IN THE
WITNESS BOX. "
LEGAL CONFLICT OVER MEDICAL EVIDENCE,
The trial of the Chinese charged with the murder of his kit for wife at Castle Peak, on April 7th, was continued Supreme Court yests:asy, before the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) and a jury, following their visit of inspection to the scene of the alleged crime
the previous afternoon, when the case was ad- journed for this purpose.
The mai tai bogna her story in the morning, and continued it in the afternoon, being in the witness box for a matter of three hours, Cross-examination was
reserved.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10th,
N.U.R. PRESIDENT RAILS HONG KONG'S THREE
PRINCE AS LANDLORD..
LONG WAITING LIST OF
WOULD-BE TENANTS
POPULARITY IN LONDON.
A DEAD MAN'S
AT SOCIETY."
DEBT.
NEEDS.
PERSONAL OR FIRM LIABILITY.
"NEVER SUCH A RIOT OF LUXURY AT ASCOT."
DIOCESAN GATHERING IN LONDON.
CONTINUITY.
The most popular landlord in QUESTION OF THE FIRM'S London to-day in the Prince of Wales. As Duke of Cornwall he ewas a good deal of property in South London, principally in Ken- nlagton, and since he acceded to the title in 1910 he has spent several hundred thousand pounds on improvements.
Like many others, the Prince has a horror of long rows of mono- tonous little houses, and so far as possible these have been replaced by attractively designed and well väried schemes. Every new house or fat, however small, has a bath room, and electric light is laid on. In Newburn-street, Kennington, ia hostel, where acme fifty old tenants who have more or less lived their lives on the estate are housed in small flats let almost at a nominal rental which includes rates and electric light. Not far away is the Cornwall Babies' Hos taken over by St. Thomas's Hospi tal.
CALLOUS DISPLAY":"
Was
An attack on Society and the "daunting of wealth" during the season. made by Mr.. W. Dobble, president of the National Union of Railwaymen, at the opening of the annual conference
Whether defendant firm was liable for a dead man's debt, or whether it was a personal debt with no attendant liability on the firm was the point at issue in an inat Carliale. teresting case. heard at the Sun mary Court before the acting Puiane Judge (Mr. P. Jacks) yes terday morning.
the
After criticising the railway companies for their attitude in regard to
reinstatement of men "penalised for their excessive seal during the dispute, last year," Mr. Dobbie proceeded:-
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BISHOP DUPPUY'S TRIBUTE TO BUSINESS MEN,
BISHOP OF LONDON'S IMPRESSIONS.
1927.
GREAT
TALKERS I HAVE KNOWN.
REMINISCENCES OF A. J. BALFOUR, HUXLEY, GORDON
AND BERNARD SHAW..
[BY THE COUNTESS OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH.}
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I have often wondered why the strenuous day of boating on the weather seems to be the first topic river and tennis on the lawn we of conversation that comes to the were sitting found the table st mind of even clever people who dinner." meet each other suddenly and brilliant talkers-wore tired and step-children-áll seldom. However well you talk or silent, and I found the attention listen, however witty or thoughtful of my companions concentrated
The annual gathering of the Vie may be, no one can say any thing original about the weather. toria, Hongkong and South China. It is not an inspired opening but Diocesan Association was held in it is safe. It is like returning London on June 29th
your partner's load at bridge Had you thought for a moment, or St considered dummy, you might have led up to the weak suit upon the table, but your mind has been dis tracted by the discussion upon the king winning the cut instead of the lowest card and you
return
an
Following & service at Martin's-in-the-Fields, where Mr. F. I. Remedios appeared for the plaintiff, and claimed that the
address was given by the Rev. G. debt incurred by the deceased
R. Lindsay, until recently Vicar of "While the condition of the owner of the defendant firm, should general mass of our people is St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, be paid by the firm, while Mr. D. of the picture reveal?
desperate, what does the other side there was a lunch at 1.30, and at Luxury 3 p.m. the Reunion Gathering, a McCallum, appearing for the dead wealth have never been
more erowded function, was held in Vic- fendant, eontended that it was callously faunted. A whole week
during last
contained practically Chairman was the Lord Bishop of nothing but the description of the London and the speaker was the glories of Ascot. The wonderful. parade by the non-workers of the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong. dresses, wealth of Society made a gorgeous
the jewellery and the Rt. Rev. C. E. Dappuy, D.D.; Lord
have the events of the Season
Bishop Dappuy, in his speech, said display. Never before, they say the three needs of the Diocese were been so successful.
a Women's Hostel for the Univer-
upon their plates. Anxious to be as "enterprising in what is called the home circle as I wish to be in society, I said I would ask them the only riddle that I had ever guessed: adding that it had taken me three days to solve it.
"What is it that God has never acan; that kings ses seldom; and we see every day !"
There was a moment's silence. Then my eldest step-son. Raymond Asquith, replied:
A joke.
.
real
when I told them that the
This defented the silence, and
answer of the two. brilliant
Evean
Following her evidence, expert evi/Pital, built by the Duchy and now merely a personal debt, and that the nationth the Press of tory House, Leicester-square. The ing zo dove out of any ark could answer was "An equal," I felt his
dence by Dr. J. E. Dovey, in charge of the Kowloon Mortuary was given. and at the conclusion of his state ruent the case was adjourned till this morning.
The Court was full mainly with Chinese.
Mr. H. "Somerset Fitzroy, acting Assistant Attorney-General, in- structed by Mr. T. S: Whyte-Smith Assistant Crown Solicitor) is ap pearing for the Crown, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr J. A. Gordon Leask, is for the defence.
Mu Taal's Terrible Story. Yesterday, the mui trai spoke of the strained relations that had existed between the deceased woman and prisoner, her husband, and referred to quarrels which had! taken place. Witness also told in detail how she found the body of her mistress doubled up" in an out- house, bat did not say anything
Surprise For The Oval.
Ever since the Prince inherited the estate be has shown a keen interest in it, one indication being the number of informal visits he Pays to his tenants. He has also visited various industrial ander takings the owners of which are his tenants.
The Kennington Oval is on the estate, and quite recently be renew-! ed the lease, by the terms of which the Surrey County Cricket Club were pleasantly surprised.
Naturally there is huge de mand for houses on the estate, a demand which cannot possibly be met. The long waiting list re- flects the merits of our landlord,” said cae tenant to a reporter. All we wish is that everyone could be as fortunate as we are."
OBITUARY.
MR. A. R. COLLINSON.
Mr. Alfred Flowe Collinson, night of June 28th, while travel C.B.E., M. Inst. C.C., died on the
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the firm was not liable.
The plaintiffs were two Chinese poultry dealers, of 930, Des Voeux Road West, while the defendants were the Ring Cheong store, of No. 87, Wanchai market, who are also poultry dealers,
"Never before has there been on show. While the workers strug such a riot of luxury and wealth 680gle for bread the rich flaunt their
wealth and keep the luxury trades! fully occupied. This is what the Government protects, and what it stands for,"
your partner's lead."
The weather has been viadictive enough this year to excuse anyone talking about it; but beyond say
in Berkshire. I have been guarded have found a refuge from the rain on the subject. I know if it is mentioned it is a death knell to conversation. There is nothing so mysterious as" what it is that inspires good conversation. I have been at luncheons where Brilliant as Lord Morley, Lord Balfour, Mr. Churchill, Mr. Bir
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the better
the Bernard Shaws. Our host was One day we were lunching with describing with his usual wit and fantasy the plot of his new play.
}; 14 Major Barbara been produced, and the fame and had not yet success of his other plays had been listen to him. But with the appre- such as to make us all cage: to.
The plaintiffs claimed the sum of
and a woman for Diocesan work but it has been as dull as if I had ity, an Assistant Chaplain's Fundrell, and others have been present 804492, the equivalent of taels
The Bishop of London, in ar
been sitting at table d'hote.
hension of a hostess who thinks for goods sold and delivered.
address, spoke of the pleasure of stapider man been of the company polised, Mrs. Bernard Shaw said It is just possible that had a the conversation is being mono- It was stated by plaintiffs that
his recent visit to Hongkong and he would have made the enter to her, husband: "It may spoil the this sum was due and owing from
the impressions it bad left on his tainment less non-conducting. If interest of your plot if you tell the defendants to Kung Yick Loe "Fo Peace In Industry Talk.". memory. Coming from Shanghai spoil the broth,
too many common, cooks CAD us too much about it. Why don't Kee firm 173, Des Voeux Road Referring to the Trade Unions he was charmed with the beauty of many competing conversationalists thinks of your plays!"
too you nak Mrs. Asquith what she West, on May 13th of this year. Bill Br. Dobbie said they would the British Colony and of its love Clemenceau upon a celebrated, oc-
This made me profoundly un- On that date three men, Li Hoa face the issue like men.
All our forces must be mobilis-ly Peak, where the chief residents was criticised said: "Ce n'était act; and as everyone stopped talk- casion when his Finance Minister comfortable. My mind refused to Chi, Ng I Hon, and Li Chouked to return the blow with interest. live. The Cathedral he found was pas les aigles qui ont sauvé le ing the silence was formidable. Nam, partners of the Kung Yick
a warm and real centre of Church Capitol." (He meant it was not Being devoted to Mr. Shaw and Lee Kee firm, absolutely assigned
life. Also across the harbour in eagles but geese that saved the unable to think of a penetrating the debt to the plaintiffs by an as-
Kowloon there was a very happy mark has often been brought home p'raps a little long."
Capitol.) The truth of this re-reply, I said: I think they'ra, signment in writing. Notice of
centre in St. Andrew's Church to me.
and ready, he instantly replied: this was given to the defendants;
These political mercenaries and The Diocesan Schools and the Homes
It is the only I have of on May 21st this year.
When people take the trouble to emptying the theatre!"
Way petty Mussolinis must be removed for the Blind filled him with ad- come to my house for luncheon or Mr. Remedios said he from power unless we are to revert miration. He was also deeply im- dinner I take infinite trouble to of Balliol for the week-end he al
When I stayed with the Master to the servile state. would be put up but he learned legislation, quite understand
"The Government's trade union pressed with the importance of see that they are interested or ways asked me which of his guests
which has neither Hongkong as a centre for mission lightful people I may gather to- of me.
amused. But however many de- I would like to sit the other side On one occasion I chose gether, unless I am interested my Sir Charles Bowen, feeling certain
did not
what defence
All talk of peace in industry should cease forthwith. There can be no such peace with this type of people. The peace-in-industry or 83nisations are on the verge of collapse.
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Relieved
about it, and how later prisoner ling by train in the Punjab, in his from Mr. McCallum that the Hip moral, constitutional nor any other ary effort. Having touched upon self the party is not a success. The that he and I and Jowett would gave out that his wife had gone to 62nd year. Mr. Collinson, who ob Cheong firm was previously carried authority, should be ignored by the his visits to Canton and Macao, hostess is like a cox in a bost and have a good talk. He was agree
a relative, and then said she had run away with a man after trying
. to poison herself with arsenic.
The mui tai also spoke of events leading to the discovery of the body when it was dug up on the hillside six days after the arrest of the prisoner.
tained his training as a civil en- gineer in the offices of the Great
on by the father of the present licensee and the present licenses was not liable for the debts of the previous licensee.
Before the assignment was execut-
Northern Railway and served with that company from 1881 to 1889, carried out extensive railway work for the Buenos Aires Great South- ern Railway and the Great Central Railway, and from 1903 to 1914 was intimately associated, as co-ed and before the date of the gineer-in-chief, with the construc- transfer, continued Mr. Remedios, tion of the Shanghai-Nanking careful enquiries were made from She recognised a pair of ragged Railway, the Nanking City Rail
the Hankow-Canton various debtors of the vendor firm and very stained trousers an be Railway in China. During the to varify the correctness of the longing to the dead woman. Later war he was principally responsible, debt. she saw them in a pond outside under the Ministry of Munitions. He understood that the debt had for the organisation of the i the garden where the police inspec-D.I.M.A." (Director of Inspection been admitted verbally by the de- tor found them. She saw the dend Munitions body when it was dug up...
A pile of clothing was produced
in Court, and witness identified it
AB belonging to deceased,
Mr. Jenkin remarked that as this witness had been in the witness-box "for three hours he thought it would perhaps be feirer "if he reserved his cross-examination.
His Lordship agreed and the next
witness was called.
Dr. J. E. Dovey, Medical Officer of the Kowloon Mortuary, said that
way,
and
and every union should refuse to of the use of chopsticks, and of his sets the pace, Laurence Oliphant able to the idea, but said he hoped joy in a good game of tennis, the told me once that he divided society would talk to Professor Huxley Bishop said that what was really into life-givers and, life-takers, and after dinner. When the men join- at Hongkong to enable the Bishop leave one limp and exhausted mediately engaged his attention. wanted was an efficient lieutenant go doubt some of the best talkers fed us in the drawing-room I im-1· to travel over what was the biggest They speak with the pedal down; It would have been difficult to diocese in the Anglican Church
Needs of the Diocese.
whole working-class movement, operate the provisions of the Act." Another phape of the Govern ment a class, war activities was the breaking off of reiations with Russia. Never in his experience had he seen such a spurious cam- paig and such a flagrant, light.
and with monopolising vitality meets more brilliant talker or hearted neglect of the needs of the
give out at length without ever more attractive man than Huxley. country in the interests of what The Bishop of Victoris said the rative is always tedious; and po
taking in. To be copious in mar But the topic he chose to discuss was one ill suited to me. He said peace and prosperity of the world' one but an American has the time the power of religion over man- the Government hoped would be a political advantage.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., refer- understanding and real comrade- tions when the hero described is duals, and expatiated on the re- depended in an equal degree upon or the patience to listen to perora kind had done nothing for indivi- ring to a speech by a representa ahip ad between the nations of the the speaker. tive of the Co-operative Society, East and the West, and they had
proaches he would find it his duty
paralysing the said the happy combination of
I have been fortunate in having to make to the Almighty when he an opportunity in their Associa had among my friends excellent would have the privilege of meet community and tion to help and promote that good talkers, and to live with a man ing Him. I am quite unequal to Areas) at Sheffield, tendant ärm.
then letting the co-operative move understanding which controlled, as to inspection,
ment feed them did Mr. McCallum, said the Hing
not quite The Association was practically the whole of the muni-
fellowship. who has never lightened conversa responding to blasphemy, however work. tion output of the country apart Cheong firm was the property of
the day he was created Bishop, and having taken down in shorthand made a friend of Bowen-whom
ganded gation. I shall always regret aut adroitly expressed, and having from, the London area.
this was its seventh reunion. Re- In 1917 a man who was the husband of a
which necessitated his coming home Meredith, Harry Cust, Gladstove, chair up to us and sat down.
room-I beckoned to him to come tween my husband and George to my assistence. ferring to the breakdown in health the conversations. I have heard be saw standing in the middle of the
BROKEN-HEARTED" IF NOT Bishop said he was medically over- Rosehery, not to mention Joha
He drew his this year instead of next, the Harcourt, John Morley, and Lord "Professor Huxley bas challenged doctors told him there was nothing talkers living. But as I have a ed by religion," 1. acid, adding hauled the previous week when the Burns one of the most dramatic ce to me any individual whose actions have been entirely govern- to prevent his going back in De retentive memory
and kept &
he was appointed Director-General
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of Inspection of Munitions of woman present in court. He died, A WOMAN AT THE DOOR.
War, and controlled that section and it would appear from the books
of the Ministry until the end. In that the money was due and owing recent years he represented the Foundation
House, Grat in British East Africa
Co., Ltd., Aldwych at the time of his death.
Tenancy of Market Stores.
of the London board. He was
1010, and
MADE A FREEMAN,
and
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thia.
me, and addressed himself exclu-
True, I have found sex pre cember next. (Applause.) Mcan- diary, I have got a record of most that I hoped he would help me to and then in India, and be also Dealing with the tenancies, on
judice everywhere I have been in did alusta work in re-organising the point as to whether the business will be a forca to be reckoned with No country in the past three years, privileged to hear, and all the agined I was capable without any
valuable
business, but I do not think that time he had to go, fairly quietly, of the good things I have been find an answer. He said he im-
created C.B.E. in 1917 and an off-dead man's debt, Mr. McCallum general manger of a bookbinding China, and he was sure that no one
of the store was separate from the in this case," said Miss G. V. Wood-be continued, had been so much good things that have been said to help of citing a name to confute
man, the £1,800 a year director and before the eyes of the world as cer of the Legion of Honour in
Rambling round for an idea I was a member of the went on to say that the present company, discussing the possibility and cross-currents that had been being entertained at luncheon by to be a hero to Huxley. He turn-
could keep pace with the currents On May 26th, he went to Castle Junior Athenæum Club, the Shang. Chief Justice was of the opinion worshipful Company of Stationers. The tide of Nationalism, it was The Princess of Monace dad my-ed-away, having no further use for.
I remember my husband and 1uggested General Gordon By of her election as a freeman of the
strange chance Gordon happened Peak and saw the body dug up. He hai Club, and the Bengal Club. that market stores were monthly
sweeping over China in that time. Mr. McEwan many years ago. later made" à post-mortem examina-daughter and by two sons. Licu. tenancies and their right was a age. If she is elected, a precedent clear, had steadily risen in China self were the only women present sively to Bowen.
He is survived by his wife and
Miss Woodman is only 30 years of will be created, which may vitally It was right that it should arise, and the then were our host,
He explained affect the 77 City companies.
for, as he was convinced, it was Balfour, my husband, and Mr. with almost dramatic eloquence "At the moment,
she added, for the good of the human race many leading stationers, personal that each nation should be develop Frank Harris In spite of Mr. the amazing impression Gordon
McEwan's courtesy and
bad made upon him, and I infer- friends of mine, are going through ed to the highest possible point. horizontally, and the rope was hall in case of banging they usually right upon that store. There was oughly to see if there is a clause for, but what the modern world and gappy. Mr. Harris, hovering the only man who had ever shaken the by-laws of the company ther- That was what Christianity stood ment, the conversation was sudden red from what be said that he was excluding members of my sex.
had got to learn, and Chins bad between a desire to fly a kite and wound up a moving account of his his intemperate atheism. Ho throw a bomb, turned to Mr. Bai- I. shall be broken-hearted if I got to learn, was that democracy for he then was and said: devoted personal relationship by. Am rejected."
was not sufficient in itself. Christ I'm sure you'll agree with you won't believe me, my dear also and the Gospel were as much all the faults of the present and Bowen, but Gordon once said to needed in this world as ever,
trom Christianity. Journalism."
tion and found a deep groove tenant-Commander A. C. Collin around the "neck, also a loose rope
son, R., and Fight-Lieutenant around the neck.
E. H. Collinson, R.Ã.F. The groove went completely around the neck
pure right from the Government in granting a monthly tenancy. When a man died he could not therefore be said to have any interest or
ám sure she had no serious growth.
His Lordship: She might have
had heart failure?
Witness: She might have done, but I cannot state that from the post-mortem.
COTIES
W3S
encourage
away, and after
"THE UNDERGROUND.
and
vice to him?"-Daily Mail.
an inch below the thyroid cart- found marks of the rope above the a recognised practice to allow sons lidges. There were no marks or larnyx, while in cases of strangulato succeed their fathers but they abrasions or cuttings on the skin, tion the marks were usually to be had to get a new licence. and no blood in the body. The He would expect more hemmorhage The woman had a boy, 12 years found below the thyroid cartlidges. Forgans were all shrivelled up.
Mr. McCallum said the Chief in hanging
of age. She put his name down
Three Hands.
me, I were to have my brains Mr. Fitzroy: Can you tell the symptoms of throttling, but Mr. Joki to manage the store on his of Adminstration saying that alway in which the officials and busi with imperturbable
Mr. Fitzroy asked for the as the licensee and empowered a Justice had refused to issue Letters
The Bishop paid a tribute to the To which Mr. Balfour replied street I should feel certain I was.
shot out round the corner of the health of the person?
Deakin objected, saying that Dr. behalf.
though the stores had been valued.
urbanity: only translated to a wider sphero Witness: From the actual post-Dovey had given evidence at the Her husband had also been part which he could grant Letters of had met, the difficulties of these
at $1,000 there was nothing for and other centres of the Diocese Journalism?"
ness men of Hong Kong, Canton Christianity, of course; but why of Government mortem examination it would be Police Court, "and no, notice had ner in another-firm but apparently Administration. He had also held times with á epirit of patience, were a family party spending thei
With his sleek Emile Bowen ro practically impossible to tell, but I to be given to-day. This evidence not the remotest idea exactly what that there was no goodwill on the goodwill and open-hearted genero-holidays in the country. My hus brains would have been of any ser
been given that this evidence was it was in difficulties and she had
One night many years ago we plied
Do you think the absence of was entirely new to that given at the position was That firm as property. the Police Court. In opening the signed the debt due from her hus-medios that if the mom took over the minister to the spiritual wants of
It was then argued by Mr. Red. It was part of his duty to hand Crown case Mr. Fitzroy has told band's store to the present plain father's business, and carried it people of his own, race, and this His Lordship and the jury that he tiff firm, but at the time of the as on under the same name, he must work was full of encouragement was relying on the poose, and there signment her husband was dead, fore throttling did not enter into and so far as the know he left no to avoid liability, give notice to also. In conclusion, the Bishop mentioned three needs. One wILE estate whatsoever, so that she could customers that he would not be re- for a Women's Hostel in connection. sponsible for debts, etc., inenrred with the University of Hong Kong. His Lordship held that an expert not get Letters of Administration. witness could amplify any evidence The womsa had admitted that the by his father
The time had come when they
· CONTRADICTORY, BUT YOU giver at the Pulice Court, and that debt was due from her husband, but Widow's Attempt to Pay Debts, ought to try to get a building
WILL SEE IT RISING SOON: this whe amplification of that evi not from the firm
Mr. McCallum responded that a
which would accommodate between dence. If any other new evidence His Lordship said that it appear. licence outside the door gave the forty and fifty studenti. Another Behind a hoarding on the corner was brought in, however, without ed that the businear was being name of the sew proprietor. The was the Assistant Jenice, then he would give our carried on by the defendant but store was badly in debt, and the Fund The Association guaran- preparing to lay the deep founda
Chaplain's of Broadway, Westminster, men are Mr.
that it was not assignable. There woman had had no benefits, She teed the means for a man for three tons of the new £300,000 home of Replying to His Lordship, witnesses, however, a practice of taking had, however, borrowed money years; now, as the three years were the Underground Group,
from her friends to try. over by succession.
and closing, he should like the Associa It is to rise-ten storeys of if said that there was nothing incon Mr. McCallum remarked that the liquidate her husband's estate. tion to say that it would keep this on the site of the older and now sistent with death "having taken place from heart failure according uk over in succession to his not paid this one if she had paid on a permanent footing. Lastly, be called Electric House,
His Lordship asked why she had fund up not for three years but demolished portion of what used to to the post-mortem examination,
father, and in reply to this Mr. other debts
As the new building is partly over there was need for a woman for With a tower 173ft high it will St. James's Park Station difficult After further evidence the ense
Remedios pointed out that, if this
Mr. McCallum replied that this Diocesan work, and out there she go nearer the sky that the offices girder work will occupy probably was adjourned until this morning for his father debtar
was the case then the son wes-liable was a personal debt and not against would find a very big sphere. in the neighbourhood, and under all the summer, and the whole of When Menkin will creaXTXAYDİGE.
The proceedings concluded with the L.0.0. height restrictions the the building may not be ready for this witness.
the benediction and tes
top floor will not be occupied. occupation till 1999.
Mr. Fitzroy If you had found a meal in the stomach what would
you think.
Witposs: That death had occur red suddenly, or very soon after a
meal.
Replying to His Lordship, witness Baid that signs of evacuation of facoe might suggest either that a person suffered from some com- plaint of the intestinal track ...or. ad died from fright or violence (Continued on next Column.)"
it.
further cross-examination
(Continued on next Column),
the store
His Lordship reserved judgment.
SKYSCRAPER.
· 2,000 Officials. There are at present. portions the administrative, operating aft commercial stalls in the Strand, Leicester square, Victoria-street, and Aldwych.
Bome 2,000 officials with work of with the running of London's tubes, one kind and another connected omnibuses, the District Railway and the Metropolitan Electric and South Metropolitan Electric tramways will use the light and airy rooms of the Broadway dome.