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TO-DAY,
(March 19.)
Now Zealand Films to be shown at Chinese Y.M.C.A., Hong Kong, 7.80 p.m.
BUILDING WITH 35,000,000 BRICKS.
JUSTICE NOW AND FIFTY YEARS AGO.
found. There was
Au interesting edincidence was tho Privy Council, would be to, noticed at the axial meeting of gether, but it was not till 1881 that Athletics-Queen's College Sporta British Law Society recently. This the building in the Strand was com (Causeway Bay), noon;
St. is the centenary year of the incor-pleted and syched us that "certain Stephen's Collega Sporta (Stanley). Pporation of the society and the juice" where, in accordance with Cricket-Division I.: Kowloon bilee your of a big legal ruform for Magna Charta, a representative of CC. " Navy (L), Craigengower which the society fought for forty Sovereign Justice may always be C.C. Royal Artillery (F.), Uni-years-the centralisation of the
an interesting [versity" e. Hong Kong CC (F.); higher courts of justice in London. link between the old courts and the
Division 1: RA.S.C. v. Univer-
It is hard to realise that only fifty
new. The last case to be heard at vity (.).
years ago the principal courts of Westminster was the celebrated one. Football-Senior Shield: Border-law were still at Winter Hall, of Belt v. Lawes, "Lawes had said ers Police; Junior Shield; Club [or, rather, abutted Sn the north that a certain piece of sculpture or Argylls » Royal Air Force, Bor-wall of the Hall. Some of the sta- which Belt purported to have exo- derers Twelfth Battery: Firat tucs now in the vbule of the ruted was not in fet den Riga Division: Navy . St. Joseph's, House of Commons stood along the him, and, as a practical means of Third Division: Royal Engineers south wail, at the foot of them were deciding whether Belt was genuine e. Recreio
old women who sold oranges, ap- · or not, a room was sat naide for him. at Westminster Hall, and there, un- Annual Meeting of the Bank of Ples, biscuits and milk to the mon Ensi Asin, 3 p..
Oxford and Cambridge Dinner, Hong Kong Heat Roof Gardon,
37,21:
Queen's Theatre: "The Sleeping Cardinal."
-and
·
or
of law. In those days, particularly der; the eye of a guard, he produced as there were an tubes or telephones a model. which was good enough to Shaftesbury-avenue- secure for him a verdict of £3,000 Charing Cross-road, Kingsway, or damages. The first case at the new Aldwych the position of the courts Law Courts was an application to at Westminister entailed great in-set this verdict aside, convenience. Things might have. Central Theatre: Around. Thuhean better if all the courts and the World In 80 Minutes,"
court offices had been concentrated there, but the Queen's Bench offices
It is rather odd that such an im- were in Mitre-court, Temple, the portant edifice as the Royal Courts Judges Chambers were in Ser-of Justice should have been erected, Stur Theatre. "A Warm jeant's land the thier Vice-Chancel-not by a London contractor, hut by lors and an additional Chanceryone in Southampton-Mr. Hoary Tex Dances at King's Restaurant Judge sat in Lincoln's Inn, the Bull. The 33,000,000 bricks came
King's Theatre: "The Cheat." World Theatre: Thunder.".
Corner."
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Dance at Hong Kong Hotel, Penin-plane, and the Court of Common Mr. Bull's yard is still in existence. sula Hotel and King's Restaurant. Pleas in a fifth.
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(March 20.)
Palm Sunday... Steeplechasing Fanling Hunt Mect (Kwanti):
Cricket:-Divition II. (League): Indian Recreation Club 2. Royal Army Service Corps.
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Central Theatre: "Around the
World in 80 Minutes."
Queen's Theatre: "Beau Hunks." King's Theatre: "Young As You
Feel."
Star Theatre: "Paid."
World Theatre: - "Soul and Flesh" (Chinese fim).
DICKENS DAYS.
between Mill-bank-street and Be- vois-street, Southampton, though it has long been occupied by somebody The courty still had a distinct else. Fox people, doubtless, have Dickensian flavour. Right up to ever noticed the stone imaging of the end the "Bear Garden" (Jud- Mr. Bull overlooking the quadran- sea Chambers) was a shockingly gle of the Law Courts on, the north- noisy place where, there being ngern side. It is a fitting memorial Fat of summonses, verybody cla-to a man who stuck valiantly to his moured for his turn Mr. E. B. great contract although it ruined Spence tells us that the solicitors' him. "For there was clerks (most of whom were never strike of masons, and other delays |
a prolonged scen again after the opening of the beyond his control, and eight years Law Courts) had a regular tariff for time." If the other side wanted (lapsed from the beginning of the work to the end. Southampton pen- delay which the judge might not
[pic came to the aid of Mr. Bull to grans they were taken to Prosser enable him to carry on; one, it is in Chancery-lane, and regaled with said, lost his reason through the
worry in which he was involved.
heer--the more time, the more beer.
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