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LYEMUN LADY'S DEATH.
MISS D. E. STOKES.
UNJUST WILLS.
WHAT LORD ASTOR'S BILL
WOULD DO.
WOMEN TO PROVIDE FOR HUSBANDS.
We regret to record the death at the Matilda Hospital on Sunday of Miss Beatrice
Lawyers are discussing with great afternoon Elizabeth Stekes from, it is under-interest the provisions of the Wills stood, malaria, The deceased
and Intestacies Bill introduced by" lady, who was only 20 years of age, Lord Astor in the House of Lords arrived in the Colony carly this year and for five years she had on August 1st. been a
A Chinese Dockyard employee The old university towns aro excellent stimulants from an in-was yesterday charged before Mr. tellectual and aesthetic point of R. E. Lindsell with the theft of view, for in term time they are two pieces of metal worth 50 cents. such hives of activity that there He complained that he was not FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY, are few who could not find some earning enough money, but a Dock- interest which would be roused and yard representative said that "ac stimulated to further endeavour."cused's pay was 80 cents a day Oxford is becoming the resort of His Worship imposed a fine of $10 retired officials. Its architectual or A' days' hard labour.- charms and surrounding beauty
Detective Inspector, Fallon visit add to the pleasure of renewing acquaintance with the interests of ed an untenanted fat at No. 36,
nuree companion to Mr. Its object is to secure proper pro- one's youth and it is the process Nanking Street, Yaumati, in the
at children or more remote depen 19th Henry Battery, R.A., of rejuvenation which appeals to course of patrol and found two and Mr T. H. Bowkett. of the vision for the widow or widower,
the floor. Lyemun. During her stay heredants of a dead person. those who, though grown old in Chinese sleeping on
Miss Stokes had made many If passed it would be impossible service, have retained their youth Under their mattresses
friends, and she will be greatly for a rich father to cut his son off of spirit. It is probabic however torch and a penknife. When they missed by the small European com- with the proverbial shilling unless w.munity at Lyeman who held her the courts were subsequently satis- were brought before Mr.
in affectionate regard. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis-
The sympathies of a large circle fed that the son's conduct was 10 An interesting feature of the Bill tracy yesterday morning they said of friends will be extended to the bad as to justify this treatment. that they came from Macne, and relatives of Miss Stokes who live in that it gives equal rights to
at West Turreek, Essex. one added that the torch was given"
husband and wife, so that a rich wife would be compelled to pro- to him by a friend. However, both
vide in her will for her husband denied possession of the knife.
as well as vice versa. Either might, The
agreed with
however, contract out of the obliga tion in a marriage settlement. Inspector Fallon that their story was untrue and sentenced them
HN
Magistrate
were A
that those who have adequate means of subsistence and a strong sense of social service will and a small country town best suited to their taste. Here the leisure they enjoy will give them the great ad vantage over others of serving the town or the county on the various committees which require men of every type of experience. This real both to six weeks' imprisonment. for social service is still happily very strong in England and is undoubtedly one of the factors that
make
for stability because it
establishes that contact between various groups which leads to understanding between them and to a solution of various diffienities, When TROTSKY was naked what chances there were for a revolution in England a year or two ago, he said there were none whatever. for the ideal of social service was. 80 firmly established that class hatred on a grand scale in England was impossible.
Here then is a field in which to expend the accumulated know- ledge and wide experience posseased by the individual who retiree from the colonies generally at an age which leaves him an ample store of energy. It is astonishing to think of the enormous quantity of potential service that exists in England among men who retire 'at
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An essential feature of this final
of present day experience, can stil be considered virile. The non use
of it, or the misuse of it quickly
eads in disaster and it is for men
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The minimum which a husband or wife would be allowed to leave the other is £3,000 a year, or one-third of the income of the estate (which
the smaller), and the ever is aggrieved party (or children not properly provided for) would have power to apply to the courts to amend the provisions of an offend ing will."
The Funeral. Junior non-commissioned officers of the 12th Heavy Battery, RA acted as pall bearers at the funeral which took place at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, yester The Rev. G. F. day afternoon. Stopford, Chaplain to the Forces conducted the service at the Chapel and at the graveside. Among those A Filipino named Francis Dal present were Mesdames Bowkett, Fisher, Gordon, Tomins, Goodbart, gado returned from a swim at
Johnson. Stevenson, and Gornal, Kennedy Town Bathing Beach on Master ir, Fisher, B. S. M. Ben Sunday and found that his Euro- nett, Gr. Axel, L/Bdr. McGee, Gr.
A similar law is already in force pean style shoes had been replaced Milner, and Bdr. Pratt.
Two of the wreaths were inscribin Scotland. In England and by a pair of Chinese ones.
Heed:
In loving memory of our Wales people may do what they like watched several bathers leave the dear Nannie" from Judy, with their money after death, and compound and saw a Chinese walk- Susanne. Diana, Joy and Wendy numerous cases have been quoted of in loving and affectionate memory
a rich man willing his fortune to ing away with the missing shoes from Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bowkett. his mistress and leaving his wife on. He immediately had the man Other fioral tributes were sent by and children almost destitute.
Judge's View. arrested. Before Mr. R. E. Lind-Capt. and the Hon. Mrs. Macnair, sell "yesterday morning the Chinese B.S.M. and Mrs. Bennett and family, Mr. and Mrs. Quinn, Mr. pleaded guilty and said that he and Mrs. D. C. Wilson, Mre. R. C. and Mrs. fell to a momentary temptation. Comrie, Master-Gr..
Fisher, Married Families, Lyemun, To strengthen his powers of L/Bdr. McGee, Mr. C. R. K. resistance when the next evil Young and Mr. H. C. Resker.
Officers and Other Ranks, R.A., impulse comes along the Magis-heavy Battery, RA (Lye trate imposed a fine of $10 with mun), R.A. Officers Mess Lye-fied to decide from the characters the alternative of 10 day's imman), R. A. Sergeants' prisonment.
MILITARY TATTOO AT
· DORCHESTER.
DISPLAY BY DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT.
DORCHESTER, August 2nd,
A miniature tattoo took place nt,] the depot barracks at Dorchester in aid of the Dorget Regiment Old Comrades' Association. Last year
Judges on the whole dislike the idea of being called on to interfere with wills, and in a recent debate of Lords, Lord in the. House Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, and others opposed these proposais mainly on the "ground that the teatator was the person best quali
Mess of his wife and children how his (Lyemur). RA. Headquarter Ser- money should be left. geants' Mess, Victoria
WOMAN HAUNTED BY TELEPHONE.
MAN'S DAY AND NIGHT CALLS.
FROM ALL PARTS OF ENGLAND.
LONDON, August 17th.. Cecil Charles Polehill, aged 33,
There is, therefore, ac early pros pect of this Bill becoming law, but Lord Astor hopes that the discus- sion it is producing may eventually lead to agreement as to the form law which of the change. in is desired.
SOCIALISTS AND
THE POLICE.
HOME OFFICE DEFIED.
bone Magistrate, yesterday.
NEWPORT, Mon There is consternation among the sum "On the last occasion on which
Polehill appeared in Court it was Monmouthshire police at the pro-
control. fatuation for a married woman- stated that his extraordinary inspect of coming under Socialist If the Socialist majority on the Mrs. Solomon, of 34. St. John's
Monmouthshire Standing Joint
which they made to ignore the Committee carry out the threat,
their own Home Office and run police force, there will be no bul wark in the county against the forces of disorder.
£139 was raised by a similar effort, a Sanscrit scholar, of Abbey Road, DISMAY IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. to think over the problem carefully and, judging by the large number St. John's Wood, N.W., was again if they are. going to make as big of spectators present in the bar./before Mr. Hay Halkett, the Maryle- a success of their retirement a rack square to-night, this they have done of their life's work must have been considerably ex- beforehand. Unfortunately such ceeded. The display was preceded Central Properties. TELEPHONE: 4830 abode in accessibility to London; consideration is not always given by community singing.
with the result that an excellent The G.O.C., Wessex Area, Major-Wood-park-had caused him during man too often becomes an inutile General Sir George Jeffreys, was arrival by the Old useless received on furdeau de la terre, or
Guard and the New, the former burden" of the earth, instead of an
wearing the uniform of the Regi- ornament to society.
ment in 1843. The band of the 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regi During the week-end ̃one case of {ment, from Aldershot, "was in at- It was stated that Polebill first became infatuated with Mrs. Solo- small-pox and one of enteric, both tendance.
mon's maidservant and then trans- Chinese, were reported.
There was a picturesque demon-ferred bis affections to Mrs. Solo- stration of the origin of tattoo,
He was obsessed with the idea
by that we mean ability to go to Steel, Girders, Iron Reel. Davits,
London and return home in com- Vacuum Cleaners, Haratonium, Air Sewing Machine, Cutier,
fort in one day. We may never Oars, Gizs, Pinching
HY suffer when and Shearing Machine, Old Lead Battery Wo Continue to er hin avail ourselves of this privilege but Plates, Electrical and Wire Telegraph your ranch-Pimples, Catarrh. Asthma, to be deprived of it as a possibility Fittings, Glycerine, Old Electric Bakery Oven, Iron
Water Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dis-
betes, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and many would be to many almost urendur- Closets and Pans, Hydraulic Jacka, other Dinesses. No Drugs. Parely able. If there is the call of the Table Covers, Carpets, Bags, Mats, Chinese Herbe
Mats,
East there is also this lare of Tables, Chairs, Deaks, Old Steel Files,
That cosmopolitanism which is so strong a feature of Crown Colony life can only be
Malting, Fold-up Lavatories,
Curtains,
POO ON HERBS CO.,
Camp Beds, 111cases, Englazed Tiles, 66, QULIN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 18T FLOCa London.
TEL. C. 5009; Leather and Metalic
Metallic
•Muta. Ding, Old
Voice
Piping,
Old Hessen,
Contas
Fleet Street, E.O. &
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1928.
RETIREMENT:
antified in London and nowhere
a strain to deber minded folk who
Central British School, Kowloon,
New London, in America, when the
the last three years continually to annoy her by telephone calls at all hours of the day and night. Mrs. Solomon's son had had no mulle the telephone bell.
Mr. Boswell (the court mis missioiary) said on that occasion that Polehill was a very able man with ample means,
mon.
well as recreations, or as the. by. at 9:30a.m. this Friday, Sept 64th, now the 2nd Battalion, carri. C. Y. Hill defended.
14th.
ed out the assault of Fort Gris-
The Volga Boatman," a drama wold, in which great gallantry.was shewn at the Queen's Theatre for
dontic tear, Lockers, Saws, Cireal the mind of the English resident year's life they soon pall, and of the Russian revolution will be shown in setting fire to the town the treatment of a Dr. Benjamin
The committee have passed a motion giving its chairmanship in perpetuity to a representative of As all the the county council. council representatives or the com mittee are Socialists, and the chair- man has the casting vote, "the object of the motion is plain.
The Home Office has withheld
Lord Raglan, a member of the Standing Joint Committee, said:
advancce Yesterday's motion the Socialists one step further in their campaign to reduce the police force to be a mère tool of the Socialist Party, Ever since they have had, the majority on the Standing Joint Committee they have endeavoured to set aside those rules which the long experience of the Home Offico has led it to regard as essential to the efficiency of the police:
Cordage, Old Canvas Band Hong Kong Ofice: 11, Ice House
Dr. 100 Haing Yuan, ex the guard going on its rounds to that he must see Mrs. Solomon:ite certificate of efficiency from the Derine, Tarred Bag, Old Woollen Bags, Street
en Old Cork, Cocos Nut London Office: 21, Bride Lane, else. No doubt some get as for President of the Provisional Court close all the taps and sending the that God was in the house, and Mormouth police on the grounds that there must be warlare until that the force is short in its estab Matting, Asbestos Packing. Old Faucers,
away as the Devon Coastal resorts at Shanghai, has arrived from soldiers back their billets. The he was received into the house as ishment and that police buildings and houses have been allowed to Old Iron Drume, New Canvas Cutting",
or to Bourgemouth, but such places Canton and is now staying in the drums of the 4th Battalion then a friend. Old Felt Old Iron and Steel, Old Scrap
In October, 1020, he was bound get in a bad state of repair. The beat the tattoo. There were also Brass, Copper, Lead, Zinc. Metals of
suggest a permanent light hearted- King Edward Hotel.
over not to approach or communi- Socialists declare that rather than Sorts, Brass sad Gun Metal Porings, Zine Bottoms and Zips Ashes, Brass
ness and gaiety which must prove
displays of physical training and cate with 34, St. John's Wood-park. be dictated to by the Home Office He was later charged with a breach they will forego ite grant, which Tubes, Iron Blocks, Lamps, Lanterns, ld Steel Plates, Old Steel I Glass, Old Steel Wire Bopa
have passed the prime of life in re-opens on Monday, Sept. 17th.bayonet fighting. One of the most of his recognizance, but failed to goes, with the certificate of effi- spectacular was an episode that attend the Court. He was now ciency, and thus throw £30,000 a Caltings, Dirty Mineral Oil and Oil
the heat of Hong Kong. Dancing, The entrance examination for new took place in September, 1781, at charged with failing to surrender to Year on the rates.
his bail. Fuel, Chain Cable and Gear, "Anchors, Forges, Compasses, Watches, Nay
golf, bridge, and jazz are all very pupils will be held at the School
Mr. Eazeibach prosecuted and Mr. phones, Binoculars, Clocks, Air Pipes and Breast Ropes,
Old Bunting, Firewood,
Broken Promises. Batha,
Bammere, Ola Stel
products of an ordered existence,
Mr. Hill asked that Polehill Fu Motors of
House, where he would be under should be sent to Camberwell. Ebonite Oid. Drills and Toos of A quesrios which often agitates but as the main element of the Sorts, Fans, Lathe,
Jamp Hzda,
Lowberry, who was confident that Indicators Cordage Machine, Boilers, in Hong Kong is the very pertinent create that ennai which is more
he could do something for him, Wood Working Machine, Capstan
not for three days only, as at first display of fireworks, and a stir. There was nothing wrong with the Engine and Gear, Powder Bleaching one about his place of retirement deadly than a year devoted exclu. four days, Thursday to Sunday, and shipping. There was also a
Such towns IS Chests of Drawers, Douglas Engine, in England. Scots, Welsh and sively to work.
announced. "The Volga Boat ring spectacle ended with the sing man's mind, said the solicitor, but his physical state of health was not Binnacle, Steel Wire Brushes, Tent,
Irish are concerned for they also Bath and Leamington Spa are
of Hope and all it should be. Waterproof Sheets, Drilling Machines,
man" is Mr., De Mille's biggest ing of "Land
Mr. Engelbach said that he envisage the future and contem favourite places of retirement but production since The Ten Com Glory," the Regimental March, Trawl Winch and Spears, Etc., Ete,
Lots may be inspected on MONDAY. plate a home in England nearer they seem to suggest permanent mandments, à picture which scored and the National Anthem. Major thought the suggestion was highly unsatisfactory. Everything possible 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1928.4
o. W. White, commanding at the had been done for Polehill, and in to the heart's desire than Hong invalidism and a devotion to one's an outstanding success.
depot, directed the arrangements 1996 he was certified and sent to a PLE OF OLD AND SURPLUS Kong with all its wondrous beauty. own physical welfare which may
home at Hillingdon, Middlesex. He VICTUALLING STORES They generally look forward to ultimately prove to be an object
for the tattoo.
escaped, and since then the life of the Solomon family had been in AS KOWLOON
England for in some way or other of absorbing interest but one that
tolerable. They did not wish him ON FRIDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER,
"home" whether it be in the is hardly suited to a person who
WEATHER REPORT. to be punished, but they wished Comprising: Berge, Flannel Clothing provinces, in Wales, Ireland or wishes to preserve his mental
to be protected. This was the Bemnants, Sundry Articles of Mess and
Yesterday's weather report, fore- seventh time he had been before Table Gear, including, Electro Plate Scotland becomes a sentiment to balance. Bath and Leamington and
ton, on December 28th, 1927, and cast and remarke, issued by the the Court and made solemn pro Cutlery, Hardware and Table Linen, which we pay due honinge but to such places suggest old age, whist, left £2,448-18-3 in England and Royal Observatory at 5.16 p.m., mises to keep away from the house,
Mr. Hill urged that the best pro- but every time he had broken his Clothing, and Condemned Provisions for
after bath. chairs,, a regular diet and 82,700. in Hong Kong to his widow, seldom return
tection was to allow Dr. Lowbury Poultry Feeding, ko.
The depression ie crossing. Hok promises. TERMS OF SALE-A detailed in having once escaped from the strict routine of life, but they are Edith Ardeshir Dharwar, has been kaido. The typhoon is situated He-bad-- haunted the house, to restore Polehill to health.
Mr. Hay Halkett said the.doctor Catalogne:
domesticities and parochialism not places for one in full possesion granted to Mr. D. V. Steavenson, between Oshima and the Bonins, Twenty times during the day and
night he had telephoned to the was probably sanguine, but he was which oppress us when we renew of mental and physical powers, lawful attorney of the widow, who moving N.W.
Local Forecast:-Westerly or house from all parts of England: not. He remanded Polehill, for a acquaintance with them on fur who has still some energy to devote is sole administratrix and benefici variable winds, moderate, fair to and when certain instructions had medical report as to his mental and
showery
(Continued at foot of next column.) physical condition.
ALSO
"LAMMERT BROTHERS,
which we
By Appointment Auctioneers e la the Admiralty Hong Kong, 28th August, 1928. [60ss 1 Jough.
sto serious work
Re-sealing of the letters of ad- ministration, with will annexed. of the estate of Dorabjea. Edalji Dhawar, who died at No. 31, Kensington Hall-gardens, Kensing-
stated:-
They will now have a perman- ent majority on the committee, which will enable them to con tinue their conflict with the Home. Office.
been given to the telephone ex- change he had used another name.".
Mr. Engelbach added that Pole- hill was not in love with Mrs. Solomon," but wanted to associate himself with her husband and go in and out as he liked as a friend...