BASKET BALL ASSOCIA-
·TION:
TROPHIES DISTRIBUTED BY MR. A. E. WOOD:
The postponed prize giving of the Hong Kong Basket Ball Associa tion's Inter-School League was held yesterday afternoon at the Chinese) Y.M.C.A. After the prize distribu- tion by Mr. A. E. Wood. Inspector of Schools, an exhibition game was played between the Senior Winners, St. Paul's College, and a team from the "Rest."
Mr. E. G. Stewart, acting Sub Warden of St. Paul's College, in a brief speech congratulated the St. Paul's College, on their fine win in the Senior Division, and the Ying Wah College, on annexing the Shield. He commented Junior upon the fine display of the Ying Wah College who had not only won the Junior Shield but had made a
very hard fight for the Senior Shield. They were runners up, sad lost the first place by a few points At one stage of the League games it
looked as if the Ying Wah College were going to repeat their per- formance of last year by winning both Junion and Senior Shields. Thanks were also extended to those who had helped and who were main- ly responsible for the success of the League. The Y.M.C.A. were also congratulated on having started the League and carried through these. successful competitions
Mr. A. E. Wood, Director of Education, said, that he was glad to know that all the eighteen teams which entered for the competition ad completed their fixtures, even when they had no chance of, the shield. He admired the team work of the players, and congratulated the winners of the Senior and Junior Divisions. Thanking those who had helped. Mr. Wood specially mentioned Монта Wong Sik Kwan; Leung Ship Sang; and Mr. Richard Shim of the Ying Wah | College.
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Mr. E. G. Stewart was also thanked for his very willing help, and Mr. Wood wished the Hong Kong Basket Ball Association the best of success The prizes were then distributed to the winning teams and the exhibition match between the Senior Winners and the
Rest"
was played
The exhibition match resulted in a win for the St. Paul's College team with 96 points to the "Rest's 17.
BILLIARDS.
CHINESE Y. M. CA, BEAT CATHOLIC UNION CLUB.
The friendly billiards match be tween the Catholic Union Club and the Chinese Y.M.C.A, played at the Y.M.C.A. Building on the 19th inst.
LADIES OPEN GOLF
CHAMPIONSHIP.
DEFEAT OF FRENCH HOLDER
MISS COLLETT'S PROGRESS.
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.)
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 16th, 1928.
ANGEL OF THE FOURSOMES.
SOCIABILITY & JOLLITY
CUT-THROAT HOSTILITY,
ST. ANDREWS HILARITY,
(or sia & HOLDERNESS.]
On the merits of foursomes there are different opinions. Probably the 'majority of golfers never play a foursome from one year's end to
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS.
HEY AR HOW THEY ARE RECON- "STRUCTED.
A "SHERLOCK HOLMES
PROCESS.
[By W. E SWINTON, Paleontologist at the Natural History Museum, South"
Kensington.]
tion is focussed upon the discovery
Every now and then public atten of the fossil remains or a prehis of a family game on a summer'storia animal or reptile such as the recent and of relies of a piesiosau- rus in Warwickshire.
LONDON, "May 14th. The British Ladies' Open Golf Championship opened at Hunstan- ton to-day in extremely unsettled weather, cold and windy. The another, with the exception possibly championship is decided by match evening or on a holiday by the sea- play and there are 169 entries, inside. Un these occasions it will be cluding representatives of Austra-treated as a parental duty or a form of light entertainment, but it lia, America, France and Germany.
is not likely to be considered The sensation of the first round suitable for the regular business of "was the defeat of the holder, Made-week-end golf.
moiselle Simone de la Chaume, Miss Glenna Collett (America) winning by three up and one to play.
In the second round, Miss Collett defeated Mrs. Shirley Lamplough by seven and six
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In the third round Mies Collett best Mira. Temple Dobel, of Brom borough, British Champion in 1919, by 3 and 2.
COUNTY CRICKET.
JUPP'S EINE -BOWLİNG.
1
Thanks to Jupp's fine bowling, Northants were able to finish their match against Worcester in two days Northants won a game of low scores by ó wickets.
189 (Jupp 4 for 30).
Worcester 63 (Japp 3 for 20) and
Northants 175 (Tarbox 6 for 32) and 97 for 5 wickets.
NAME KEPT SECRET.
FIANCE OF GIRL IN ILLEGAL
OPERATION CASE.
At Marylebone Police Court Edith Margaret Power, aged 39, a mil liner, of Portadown-road, Maido Vale, W., and Mrs. Susannah Grif fitha aged 42, of Glynn Villa, Llwynderw, Forest Fach, Swansea, were charged on remand with illegally naing an instrument on Ivy Culver, aged 20, of Fulbourne road, Walthamstow,
Miss Calver had been employed by the same firm of milliners as Power and was alleged to have been introduced by Power to Mr. Grif fiths, who was accused of having performed two operations upon her at Mre. Fowor's home.
Mr. Wallace, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, applied that the name of Miss Calver's fiancé
It is significant, however, that of the new competitions inaugurated since the war none have received more support or given greater pleasure than the mixed foursomes the Public School foursomes held held at Worplesdon in October and
last week at Deal for the Halford Hewitt trophy.. I cannot conceive popular if it were fought out in that the latter could have proved so cold-blooded singles.
Foursomes amongst women have siso been a success. The London Ladies' foursomes are as widely patronised as the men's, and han dicap women have shown their ap- preciation of "Eve's" foursomes so handsomely that that event has generally to be run with a relief section.. 1
Independence.
Foursome competitions are popu lar. Of that there is no question. There is probably room for many more in club and local meetings.
Psychologically there is a vast difference between a foursome and single. This probably explains why some persons like it and others" do not. Some like the independence of a single and dislike and mistrust a partner over whose actions they have no direct control.
There are others who like to feel the assistance of a fellow-labourer who will pull them through or share their misfortunes good-humouredly To these a foursome is a more sociable and jolly affair than the grim cut-throat hostility of a single. It is not so personal or vindictive, and the division of re- sponsibility eases the burden of the contest.
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Partner First
THE WORLD TOO FEMININE?
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.
MAUD DIVER'S COMPLAINT. CAR RUNS AMOK AMONG
DEARTH OF HEROES IN WOMEN'S NOVELS,
success.
Modern life is becoming over. feminiscd-and so is the modern novel!" said Maud Diver, author of "Captain Desmond, V.C.", whose grandson" will appear in the new novel abe is writing, a continuation of "Lonely Furrow," her recent Four Out Of Six Novais By Women, "I happen," she said, "to be Any such discovery also throws into prominence the existence of reading a good many new novels models of prehistorio animals like Just now to keep in touch with my those shown in the Natural History nineteen-years-old heroins of to-day Museum-model of strange crea Roughly four ass of six are written tures existent long before man first by women about women. trod the earth. The man in the street is told that these models are writers portray men with any detail seed on the &nding of fossilised these characters are apt to be remains, and net unnaturally he feminised too. They are increasing asks: How does the scientist koow1ly apt to be artists or authors; Actually any reconstruction of seldom, if ever, soldiers or men of this sort is based partly on certain - action knowledge and partly on a form of by Sherlock Holmes. deduction similar to that practised
The scientist does not dogmatic ally assert that this is a plesiosaurus exactly as it would have appeared had you been alive to see it. He merely puts his model forward as very likely approximation which you are at least neked to take on trust in part.
him
imagine some remote period in the future, when man na we know
has completely disappeared | from the face of the earth. Sup- pose the then living inhabitants, of the world to be of an entirely dif- ferent and distinct type from man, and imagine what difficulty they would have in reconstructing his exact appearance on the basis of the chance discovery of a skull, a thighbone, and a few ribs !
"And if these new women
"I usually make a little bet with myself before opening a new novel that the leading charactor will be writer. One excellent first novel, Cullum, by a young woman writer, E. Arnot Robertson, actually went better by portraying two literary people as hero and heroine.
one
RICKSHAS.
A DUMB YOUNGSTER'S
ADVENTURES.
GIVING MEDICINE- AWAY.
FREE
Charged with dawking medicine without licenco, a Chinaso put | forward the extraordinary plea that he was merely giving the stuff away. Ha profeseed to have some know- ledge of Chinese medicine, and those who consulted him had to ...). pay a fee, but got the medicine" tree.
Major Willson fixed the man $4, or soreá days) hard labour.
UNLUCKY DAY.
MA
Representing himself 43 unauthorised collector of funda for the Han Mar Temple of Yaumati.
Among the cases which came before the Magistrates yesterday was one in which a deaf and dumb Chinees Ind was charged before M7, W. Schofield at the Kowloon UNAUTHORISED COLLECTOR'S Magistracy with driving a motor- car without either the owner's pers mission or a licence, and in a reck- eas manner, causing damage to thirteen, rickshas.
The mother of the youthful ad- an elderly Chinese appeared before venturer was in Court and gave Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon way to a flood of tears when it Magistracy, on the charge of at.. was stated that the damage to the tempting to obtain 20 cants from rickshas was $315, while the motor female inmate of No. 18, ke- car was damaged to the extent of clamation Street, by fraud. Inspec- $110. With the aid of signi tor Fallon said that the defendant which the woman helped, it was approached the complainant and elicited that the lad turned a neked for a small donation for the corner too quickly when he was Temple. A Chinese detective who chased by Sub-Inspector Nicol and by chance happened to be visiting ran into a row of rickshaw. Defenome friends at the house ques- dant also declared that he had, the tioned the defendant's authority to permission of the owner to take collect the money. the car out. This was denied by the owner, who said he was at the time in Hong Kong and the car was left in a garage in Canton Road.
"Manly Man" At Discount, "Many men are, more or less, at a discount to-day. Motor-bicycles and silk stockings, I have heard it said, have been their undoing. An Indian
In reply to his Worship, Sub Army colonel teld me sorrowfully that twenty years ago be got sub-Inspector Nicol agreed that there alterns who brought their gas and was no prospect of recovering any polo ponies to the hill stations. Now they bring gramophones and dance money to cover the damage. The and play golf and complain that defendant's mother they are bored!
Sports Clothes--But Femining..
Minds,
hawker.
ther was only a
As the defendant was a youngster and afflicted, his Worship imposed the lenient penalty of sight strokes. with the caps.
THEFTS IN THE PEAK
DISTRICT. »
Subsequent investigations from ✨ the Secretary of the Temple in question revealed that the defen dant had no authority whatsoever.
The defendant aleo had a book
in his possession which contained names of other unlucky donors.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of 850 with the alternative of three weeks' hard labour.
TRIED TO BRIBE A CON. " STABLE WITH 5 CENTS./ ́
A Chinese who appeared before Major C. Willson on charges of vausing an obstruction in Bonhan Strand E. and offering a cent bribe to the Indian constablo, said that the constable asked for twenty: cents whereas he "could only give him five, and that he was arrested because he did not give the amount the constable wanted
The constablo denied this in the
Some Degres Of Confidence.
Gradually, I think, men novelista The position when one comes ́ta ars going back to the romantic, make models of prehistoric animals adventurous, masculino kind of and reptiles is rather similar. Up atory. Look at John Masefield, to a point one can reproduce them Somerset Maugham, and P. C. with some degree of confidence; paat Wren! But to judge from the in- that point conjecture begins to play | creasing output of novels about In charging a Chinese named its part. We know great many women it is the heroine rather than Yeng Yuen Man with theft of things about the dinosaur, but if the hero who interests the great someone asks whether it laid eggsmass of modern women readers. The "everal articles from residences on the Peak, Chief Detective Inspector or whether its young were born mannishness of Eton crop and sports Murphy told the Magistrate (Mir alive the only answer is, "We know clothes seems to conceal a lack of R. H. Lindecil) that the defendant witness-box and the Magistrate con- that some dinosaurs did lay eggs interest in all else masculine.
had a bad record and had twice victed the defendant and imposed --we have them. And as to the "Twenty years ago, when women sort of noise it made, whether it
been banished from the Colons in fine of $2 for obstruction and were more prone to admire manly'
view of this a remand was asked another 3 for offering the bribe bleated or screamed or shrieked, we men, wo women writers there were for to consider the advisability of The alternative was leven days have to confess complete ignorance. fewer than-made the male charse applying for a committal to the jail.
ter the centre of our stories. This Sessions meant that at a time when women's interests were supposed to lie in the home women novelists were dealing with men's lives and feel- ings.
The partner who gets all the short putta of an awkward length and holes them, as he should, is a comforting angel who soothes
The measure of success which has and enables one to admire the been achieved in the matter of show. beauty of the landscape in the longing people what prehistoric animals intervals of one's own part.
were like is due to the existence of certain reliable signposta, 24.
The study
of comparative ferences can be drawn from the fact snatomy helpë, enormously. In- When Women Writers Dreamed
Of Battle. that the habite of an animal im-
"The early works of May Sin- press themselves upon its anatomy. Its bones reveal whether it was a full of strenuous action.
clair and Sheila Kaye-Smith were Flora species is now extinct, light is
There is, of course, another side to the picture. In a foursome there is & responsibility not present in a single. There is the obligation to think first of the partner, to make sure of putting one's drives on the
defensible risk.
•
The man had previously admitted 'BLUFF. THAT FAILED, thefts from five bungalows. The charges against him were of steal- ing a silver clock from No. 453, The Peak, on March 29th; a camera from No. 4, The Peak; and a waiver clock from the Victoris Hospital. Asked how the defendans ma aged to gain access to the houses, U.D.1 Murphy said that he simply the things. Since the man's arrest, he had assisted the police in trae ing the stolen property to the
Major C. Wilkon sentenced Chinese to six months' hard labour. to be followed by two years police espervision, for stealing a number of articles from the servants' quar ters at No. 20, Macdonald Road
The defendant was stated to have
resulted in a win for the Y.M.C.A: ¦ should not be disclosed in open airway and never to take an in- sen or land animal. And even if a | Annie Steel, who had then been walked in and helped himself to walked into the servanta' quarters
team. There was a very keen con- test and the highest break (39) was made by E. Nuttall
The result is as follows:-
Chiness V.M.0.A.
1. K. C. Leung
2. W. L. Wong
3. T. C. Chenk
4. S. K Sinn
I. S Mah 9. Piew
Points. ...... 150 130 198
Point3.
53.
150
110
150
Total
Catholic Union Winb.
839
Hemedios en
D8
1 Nuttall
180
3. Baptista.
E. Remedios
Total
4P. Castilho.. 133
130
137
721
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
INDIA IN. THIRD ROUND..
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. 1
ZURICH, May 14th.
court. This young man, he said, was going to marry Miss Calver in a few days. He was employed by a firm who did not allow their staff to marry until they reached a cer- tain age. He had not attained that age, and if his name was published- in all probability he would lose his position.
Mies Calver gave evidence and was allowed to write her Banco's name on a piece of paper, which was handed to the clerk of the court.
Mr.
To some natures this obligation is tedious and irksome: to others it is wholly, salutary, for it incites them to concentrate and play with greater care than they would other wise doo-non
Filled In By Deduction. Again, the amount of data avail able in the form of fossil remains varies. Sometimes a large portion
The C.D.I. added that with one
thrown on its probable characteris writing for some time, had the same
mascaline quality. tice by species of a similar kind
It was less possible then than now extant...
it is now for women to lead the pawnshops.- life of men of action. But the imagination, which it is not the fashion to trust new-a-days, is often miraculously true to reality
"You ask if life in India did not give me some knowledge of regi mental routine. But it was not till recently found in the Warwickshire. I was 40, with my son at a public were lucky school, that I began to write about enough to find the whole of the the Indian Army It was then, vertebral column and about half of living quietly in England, that I but not a very large gap, to be culine life of action and movement. the limb bones, leaving a large gap, tried to project myself into a maá- filled by the skill and deductive powers of the expert
quarry..
Here we
for one's side this sense of oblign of the skeleton is discovered, mak-
When things begin to go wrong tion may produce disaster, becauseing reconstruction fairly simple to the longer interval between the the expert, as with the plesiosaurus strokes, which permits of longer time for reflection, chills the blood and excites the fantasies of fear. la cross-examination by
A had stroke in a single is annoying Samuel Coleman, for the defence, it may amount almost to a criminal and disturbing, but in a foursome the said she begged Mrs: Power to
act. A foursome demands, there help her, telling her that her par fore, a higher form of self-dis eats would turn her out of doors ifcipline than a single. -anything happened to her. The £3 103. paid to Mrs. Griffiths was her rowed by her fiancé, bat Mrs. Power did not aek for a farthing, A further remand was ordered.
MORE EMPIRE TOBACCO.
SUCCESS OF CROPS IN NEW
ZEALAND.
WELLINGTON, N.Z.
Last year the Nelson tobacco growers began raising tobacco for
The reason commonly alleged for dislike of the foursome is that it does not afford the player the same number of strokes Everyone wants to play well, and, naturally, he feels that the more shots he has to play
the better he will do so.
Happy-Go-Lucky, This is far from the truth. The mental attitude to the game is of
more importance to success than the
number of shots played. If the greater care and precision, as it un doubtedly was with most persons, it is more likely to improve a golfer
or two exceptions he did not think that the police could prove negli gence against the pawnbrokers in accepting the articles. Two of the clocks bore monograms, and the police would consider what action to take against the men who ac cepted these articles. D
Defendant was remanded in police custody until Friday next.
THEFT, FROM MESSES. BAILEY'S.
and after collecting a felt hat, s raincoat, and a chopper calmly left the premises. He was later arrest- ed by the police.
SAN OLD FRAUD AND HER” CONFEDERATE..
Two Chinese women were charged. before Major C. Willson with being in possession of dutiable Chiness
wines
Senior Revenue Officer Watt said. that he arrested the defendants in Connaught Road Central just after they had disembarked from the 8.1 Kong Sai
M
Happy, Social Life In India
The first defendant, an aged and "Living in India for seven years
crippled women, said that the wine" A charge of the larceny of belonged to her, and the second happy, social life of the young girl white metal casting from Meera defendant said that they were both from the age of 16, I had led the of the time, acting in amateur W. B. Bailey's shipyard wee brougat passengers on the 18Kong Sai theatricals, playing tennis, and not against a Chinese at the Kowloon and that she carried the wine thinking of collecting material for Magistracy, ashore as an act of kindness innumerable, to which I used to have been seen by two Indian aware of the regulations or the military novels. There were dances The defendant was alleged towards the old women, he was not ride, sitting sideways in the saddle watchmen approaching the main en- would not have done to
Hevenue Officer Watt told the without using the pommel, a shawl trance carrying a sack. On notie over the wide tulle skirts that were ing that the watchmen were walk Magistrate that the first defendant the fashion.
ing towards him, the man dropped was a well-known figure on the life, as I have anid, women found hiding behindly stated in bought that being old and strippled Aculine the sack and bolted. He was later water-front. She took responsibi- was hardly a
some lity for because
This was
Bat,
In the accond round of the Davis export, and since then the industry than any other form of the game; he could very easily ruin valuable instead of turning their attention whenthe "found the two Watchmen,
Cup Competition played here be tween India and Switzerland, the
former team won by three matches to two-and qualified to meet the Winner of the Roumania-Italy
match in the third round.
has steadily grown in popularity certainly than the four-ball, which throughout the Dominion, is a happy-go-lucky form of amuse
Last season the Nelson growers ment
writers were not afraid to project evidence that the incident was re-she would get off more lights, than themselves into the lives of others; ported to him on Friday afternoon her companion.
inwards upon themselves. They in an excited condition. were also unafraid of having hearta The case was adjourned. and feelings,
"BOOTLEGGER
The Magistrato imposed a fine of 850 or four weeks' imprisonment on the old woman, and fixed the second defendant. $25 with the CONVICTED, alternative of two weeks hard
Labour."
When the fossil remains are fix- ed firmly in a bed of rock, techni- cally known as the matrix, skilled work is necessary to extract them therefrom. There is long, arduous, and delicate task, under taken at the museum by a skilled operator with an instrument simi- lar in nature but, of course, much smaller than the road drills so fre- quently seen at work on the London streets. Bit by bit he chips away not only must be be a skilful man the rock encloses the bones; palator of his instrument, but he must also know something of the construction and types of bones, or specimens. Occasionally when the remains have been extracted, a model based thereon is made and had about 300 acres sown with. It is a weakness of golf that it is placed in the museura galleries for Bold Books For Leisured Readers. conneco, and this crop was subes-old a public to suspect
ir This did not mean a stream of quently sold under contract to an dividual one, If it were, ita There is no gainsaying that sentimental nonsense. Readers of English firm. The ares sown, this popular appeal would be even models are inmely guesswork. But twenty years age were people with
A Chinese, described as a "Boot fear is double that of last year; greater than it is, for man is a time has proved thess guesses to be ample Icisure for long, thoughtful legger appeared before Mr. B. F FOOTBALLER MINISTER.
books. Bat if the books were Lindsell at the Central Magistracy: and the same firm is prepared to gregarious animal and likes to play extraordinarily correct
Having no better excuse than tako all the leaf provided that with as well as against his fellows.
longer, they were fewer. Yearly for being in possession of 23 taels when cured it is up to the stan- This is especially true of children.
their numbers increase, and yearly of opium and a bottle of home that he was given the handbag by another person and told to run, s LIVERPOOL PROFESSIONAL
dard set by the Government I remember one summer holiday but a foursome is a most dignified the world grows more restloss, till made brandy. grader. Mag ACCEPTS A CHURCH FOST.
when we played six a-side, each ceremonis) and a social amenity one wonders who finds tims to read Benior Revenue Officer Watt pro Chinese snatcher, was sentenced to A striking example of the spread armed with a separate club, either of the industry is that tobacco cul- side under the control of a captain which will increase in value. Not half of them unless it is infants secuted and said that two men wore six months' hard labour and twenty The defendant snatched a hand- Mr. James Jackson, the youngeet ture has been started in other whose business it was to order the only has it proved itself popular and invalids. Yet the spate of arrested as a result of a raid on strokes with the Birch,
as a form of competition, but as novels continues, without so much No. 5, Chi Loong Street. elder of the church and Liver parts of New Zealand. It is right club for the right occasion, an antidote to mental staleness as a close season once a year. One of the men who was on bail bag from a Chinese lady in Ice pool football club professicas! thought that the fine, dry climate The delight of the children was from which golfers often sufler Sometimes, compared with the at $150 failed to make an appear House Street at about 11 p.m. on player, has accepted a unanimous of Tauranga will provide the light indescribable I have seen the same is greatly to be recommended. carefully constructed stories of 20 ance and his bad was accordingly Monday night, the contents of the bag, however, were not, of much invitation from the session and con- kind of soil for tobacco planting, game played by adults in dinner What a tots that in the crowded year ago, they are sheer mental cetreated
valus, being some keys, a banditte- gregation of the Shaw-street, The Gallaway Experimental jackets upon the sacred links of St golfing es lendar there, is not time babble, Women are inclined to be The other defendant pool, Presbyterian Church of Eng. Farm. Central Otago, has aro Andrews, and the hilarious gamy formational foursomes, champion garrulous, and the stream-of-com- possession of the opium as well as chief, and forty cents in money land, to become honorary assistant raised a tobacco trop. Although of the proceedings so astonished the not be that some day sciousness navel gives them their of the Moonshine brandy Having made hilams defence minister to the Rev. J. Gordon the crop was sown purely as a local inhabitants that they collected Mac cod. pada
an enterprising organiser may head! For possession of the opium the defendant added that he had only experiment, it has proved very in crowds to witness them
endeavour to run this event in con
But the psychological novel of Magistrate imposed s fine of $50 fust arrived from the country four His new appointment will not successful Inquiries on tobacco A Buggestion,
junction with the singles champion mood can be done superbly well or four weeks' jail, and for posses days ago interfere with his football career, culture are pouring into the De..
I would be improper that the ship, as is done in tennis at Wim Though I feel that the modern novel sion of the liquor there was a far which he will continue until bis partment of Horticulture, and be studies have been completed. He fore long it is thought that there royal and ancient game should be, bledon | Perhaps the women, who is over-feminised, I am still devout ther fine of $10 in default of which has been a frequent preacher in will be planting in most fruit-grow-based into a rowdy form of hockey have more leisure, may show us that ly thankful for the genius of women an additional week's jail would
(Continued on nest Column). it can be dona-Evening Standard. I writers like Virginia Wool Liverpool.
ing districts.
Liver
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have to be served. Ad
admitted
SNATCHER PUNISHED,
The Magistrate having remarked. that the man's own defence wOTS
-imposed the above sentencex
good as an admission of receiving