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POLICE RECRUIT SENT TO GAOL.
WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM THE FORCE.
ATTEMPT TO REDUCE
"ALIMONY.
SHANGHAI DIVORCE CASE,.
HUSBAND'S STORY OF DIFFI CULT BUSINESS AND
LITTLE MONEY.
An Indian constable named Abdul Majeed, a recruit at the Police! Training School, was charged be fore Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday with China on November 4th, the divorce In the United States Court for refusing to do defaulter's drill.
action of May Mary Scott and John According to a statement made by H. Scott again came before Judge Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.LEM. D. Pardy on a motion by Mr: (Deputy Superintendent of Police), F. J. Schuhl, for Mr. Scott. Mr. the defendant had to fall in for P. F. Faison appeared for Mrs. defaulter's drill along with others
Scott. before Sergeant. Fell, but refused t carry out his drill. Sergeant Fell got in touch with Mr. Dooth to whom the defendant said that he anght to be fined and not made to drill. Mr. Booth gave the defend- ant a direct order to drill and hel then did so.
..
BRITISH MALAYA.
COMMERCIAL
U.S.A.
VALUE. TO
AMERICAN CONSUL'S ADVICE.
Pointing out in Commerce Re- ports that Singapore is rapidly
British Malaya hut for all the East growing in importance as a dis tributing point, not only for Indies, Siam and French Indo- China, and that British Malaya's general prosperity is well above the average. Mr. A. E. Southard, the United States Consul at Sin-
Sapore, is not satisfied with the amount of American import busi- ness done in that region.
that, a week before, on a motion Mr. Schuhi reminded the Court by the other side, Mrs. Scott was allowed permanent alimony of $35 biles and, cigarettes, imports from With the exception of automo month, Alt for attorney's fees, 8125 the United States are, he says, "far for maintenance of three children below what they should be in con- and rusts in getions for the divorce,sideration of the fact that much of Mr. Wadehouse said that the de- The defendant was not represented Malaya's prosperity is based on its fendant was one of a number of recruits who gave trouble in an endeavour to get discharged from Schuhl, did not receive notice of the exports to the United States. Im- the Force, and he pressed for ex- motion. Although, in certain cir-British Malaya-in-1826 were vained ports of American goods into Lemplary punishment
Defendant made a long state- cumstances, there might not be any at 819,778,500 geld, compared with:
on that occason because he, Mr.
rent in which he said that the in- objection to a modification of the structors at the school were no interlocutory order, he contended good as they could not distinguish that Mrs. Scott had been allowed the difference between raw and prepared opium.
His Worship sentenced defendant to four months' hard labour,
HEALTH OF EASTERN. PORTS.
BULLETIN FOR WEEK END. ING NOVEMBER TH
Plague,
cases at Maenssar ( deaths).
Cholera.
2 deaths at Bombay.
17 deaths at Calcutta,
3 deaths at Madras.
10 deaths at Tuticorin,
4 deaths at Singapore.
2 deaths at Batavia.
Genses at Canton (5 deaths).
Small pox.
1 case at Bombay.
2 cases at Madras (1 death).
1 case at Rangoon,
10 cases at Tuticorin (1 death).
1 ease at Colombo,
1 case it Singapore.
17 eases at Bandjermasin.
1 case at Samarinda.
cases at Kuching (1 death).
* GLOBE-TROTTERS.
DICK
NORTON BRINGING OUT NEW COMPANY.
DUE NEXT MONTH,
$17,374,200 the previous year. Ex- Ports from British Malaga to the United States for the same years amounted to $339,478,500 and 8203,188,300 gold, respectively.
more than was necessary for the children's expenses and he asked that the oriler be set aside until the defence received notice that an
Rubber and Tis. 4 More than half of the erade reb application would be mande,
After some argument, the Judgesumed in the United States is from
ber and about half of the tin con-- said he was prepared to hear any British Malaya. From its position evidence or argament with regard to a modification of the order.
as the eighth supplier of American Mr. Sebuhi then called Mrs. Scott,
imparts in 1924. British Malaya who said that her step-father was for some time in 1926 it held frat rose to fourth place in 1025, and the proprietor of Mactavish & Co. place. In the third quarter of the Witness now lived with her mother year, however, that position was and worked in the Manila Hat yielded to Canada, and for the Store, being paid $50 per month. She paid 260 per month for the ranked third, after Japan. The den year me a whole British Malaya maintenance and schooling of two cline was attributable to the drop children in a convent and the babyin value of rubber, the quantity of
was kept at home. Witness did not pay anything for her room and board, her mother supporting her.
Cross-examined-Before she wept to her mother, she was paying 100. a month for herself and the three children. She still had to pay be
a-month for the tween $20 and 830 à two elder children's clothes, in ad- dition to the convent fees, and about $15 a month for the baby's clothes. At the present time she was repaying a; loan, arid when that was finished she would pay her mother for her board and lodging. She estimated the cost of clothing herself at about 830 a month. She had to pay 920 a month for special food for the baby...
His many friends in Hong Kong and Kowloon will learn with much pleasure that Mr. Dick Norton, of the Globe-Trotters" Vaudeville
Defendant's Debts,-- Company is at present in Indi route for the Straits, Hong that he had $5 in a bank and he The defendant, in evidence, said
Kong and China.
Whilst retaining the title "Globe was about $7,000 in debt. Since the Trotters, with which his name has divorce action, he had garned about bren associated for so many years, $1,000 some months," and in others Mr. Norton in bringing out a com plete and entirely new
had lost about $2,000, and it work- lithedEx Casserole. According ed out at an average loss of $500 a to Indian papers to hand, Mr month. Norton's company, which, with the exception of his ever-popular wife,
revue en-
Cross-examined-He was propric-"] Miss Lella Forbes, is not only a tor of the Eldorado Café, off North
he has ever toured in the Far East,
completely new one, but the largest Szechuen Road. He lost his other is one of the best combinations of café as a bonsequence of the actions vaudeville talent seen in India for of his wife and her people, their a long time. The Karachi Daily efforts costing him $15,000. Buzette of September 30th concludes
OUR CABARET long critique by observing: 11 financed the Eldorado Café
In
A Series of Intime Revues
with
NEW SONGS-NEW SKETCHES-
NEW DANCES
TO-NIGHT
Saturday, Nov. 19th,
at 9.15 p.m.
"A LA CARTE.'
SUNDAY, November 20th
j.
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on
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which, however, exceeded that ship- ped from British Malaya to the United States in 1925.
Natural Preference For British Goods.
While these facts, together with the strategie position of Singapore East, make the area one of very as a trading point for the Far great commercial importance to the United States, Mr. Southard does ence for British goods, not overlook the natural prefer
and the fact that British concerns hold the agencies for most articles of foreign especially true of American repre- manufacture, which he says is sentation.
Giving some advice, therefore, to American firms entering the field, barring this possibility that defi- he urges direct representation, or berate consideration and care be given to the placing and maintain- of agencies-Singapore Free Fresn.
GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE TAKING LEAVE.
ان
HOTTER SUMMER NEXT YEAN.
PROPHECY BY A FRENCH EXPERT.
PARIS, Oct. 21st The Abbé Gabriel, one of France's most famous neteorologists, pre- is doghtful if an audience at the 81,400 borrowed capital and an-
dicts that this winter will be Palace Theatre has ever been more other man held the liquor-selling of cold weather and stormy days.
normal, with intermittent perioda thoroughly entertained than last night'a audience was."
rights, paying witness a commission He bases his prediction on 2 The new Company includes, in on sales.
The restaurant part of cycle system comprised of 744 years, addition to Mr. and Mrs. Norton, the business was let to a caterer. years. The cycle system, he de- and divided into two periods of 372 the Misses Daphne de Lisle, Marion Witness squared his accounts every clares, has been verified remarkably Hallwood, Gladys Linnell and
Constance Garrett and Mesars, night and, if he had not enough this year, the weather 372 years ago Arthur Ives, Leo Brooker, and money to meet expenses, he went being very similar to what it was Charles Pepper.
According to the press notices coming increasingly difficult to get
out and borrowed it, but it was be- this year.
The Abbé states that this winter comedy appears to be the hall. mark of the new company, a num $1,400 over the Eldorado Café,
money.. He was in debt about will be followed by a bright and. her of farcical burlesques being
hot summer, which again will be Answering the Judge, witness said followed by severe cold in the win specially provocative of hilarity, whilst Mr. Charles Pepper, who that previously he was running theter of 1928-1929,--Central News. specialisca in songs at the place, Lodge, but this had been taken from is described a second Tom Clare. him by others. At one time he was agent for A. G. Spalding's sport
TRADE WITH CHINA.
ing goods, but lost the agency & THEATRE year ago. He rented the Eldorado Café for Tls. 200 a month and the taxes amounted to $150. He also
ROYAL
* HERE · AND THERE THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S had to ple the Chinese police and Hong Kong Amateur
MONDAY, November 21st
“POT_POURRL"
Booking at Moutrie's and the Star ́PRICES: $3, $2" & $1.
ON SALE.
WERKLY PRESS.
July to December. 1926.
SIMILE.
"The position of foreign traders in China reminds me of an incident outside St. James's Palace," said
the people employed in the café. He had from 15 to 25 dancing girls "of all nationalities." Just after the café opened, he had to close it for six weeks on account of the troubles in Chinese territory, and in conse.
M. de Fleuriau, the French Am quence he lost about 81,000. He bassador, speaking on political and did not keep any books, but squared commercial relations in China at every day
a luncheon of the London Commer. The Judge said he considered the ial Club at the Trocadero.. order was a very modest require- "Between my car and a 'bus was ment. If the defendant had pro
a horseman on a very spirited horse, duced, books to prove his state-
I did not envy him in the middle ments, there might be a difference,
BOUND VOLUMES of the HONG of numbers of noisy ears, but he was a very good horseman and came out of the trouble all right. I hope, and I am sure, that in time the foreign traders in China will be able to do the same.!!
WITH INDEX, PRICE~~37,50, ... On Sale at the HONG KONG DAILI
Patas Offic
but it was difficult to believe he
had been losing so much when, for many months he had been running a dance-hall in which there were. employed so many girls. The order must stand.
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