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TO-DAY
(November 9).-
FASHIONS IN DOGS HAVE CHANGED
KENNEL CLUB RETURNS, TO AN OLD FAVOURITE
WHY PUBLIC
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Kowloon.Dep. 6.25 8.16 B.87 0.06 0.15 10.1211.8 12.12 1.20 2.20 4.88 4.50 8.03 7.40
Yaumati Dep. 6.33
Shatin.Dep. 6.45...
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0.84 10.1911,41 12.19) 1.373 0.36 10:3311,63 12.31 1,39, 0.50 10.40 12.08 12.46 1,52
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Dep. 7.20...
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| 5,47 7.02 8.84
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... 11.00 12.29 885 4.20, 4,40) 5.45 Fraling....... Dep. 7.148.02
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...13.14 12,44 8.11 4.358.00) 6,09 Taipo............ Dep. 7.80 8.18
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London, Oct. 8-The Kennel Lammert's Sale, 11 am.
Club opened their annual show at Salo of Leasehold Propertion, 3 the Crystal Palaco yesterday.
} p.m.
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Mamak Hockey Tournament,
(Navy University Wishart ground), 4.15 p.m.; Kowloon Indians r. 20th Battery (U.S.R.C.), 4.15
p.m.
Cricket: University
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New breeds come and go, giant dogs top the scales, small dogs are weighed in ounces, but yesterday the neglected smooth fox terrier came once again into his own.
Popular Cockerm.
For the ârst time for generations he outnumbered his rival, the wire bined Schools (Pokfulam), p.m. haired dog of the same ilk, and at Hockey: --Mamak Tournament: the same time he ran next in' en- tries to the most popular dog is Wishart.".
University (Nary
the show-the cocker spaniel, ground), 4.15 p.m.; Kowloon In- dians 20th Battery (U.S.R.C.),
4.15 p.m.
the
There were 232 entries for the smooth variety, and 207 for the "wire." Breeders of the smooth Rugby:--South Wales Borderers chortled in delight. Broeders of the
wire admitted the danger. . Navy.at Sookanpoo, 4.30. p.m.;
For years the "wire" Club "A". Kowloan at Happy rage until our selective breeding gave him, for one thing, a cont Valley, 3.15 p.m.
Lecture on Surgery by Professor that seedd trimming at least once
& month. K. D. Digby at University, 5.26
p.m.
Then the public turned else where. That perpetual trimming
SOLICITOR ATTACKS BRITISH LEGAL SYSTEM
NOT SUITED TO OUR MODERN. NEEDS
Bristol. Some strong speaking on the high cost of litigation in England took place at the meeting of the Law Society.
to
Mr. A. C. Hillier, of Bath, said that the cost was high as
50 pince it beyond the roach of any but the very poor, who could in- dulge in litigation for nothing, and the very rich,
He quoted, for example, three county court cases from his files at: random. The total amount in dis- pute on the three cases amounted to
volved in settling these compara- £144 10s, and the legal costs in tively trivial disputes amounted to no less formidable a figure than £396 7s. 3d.
Mr. Hillier stated his emphatic
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Whist Drives:-Seamen's Inst. was too much trouble, and the re-gation in this country. It was the
and Kowloon Dock, 9 p.m.
Theatres.
Central: "Carnival." Queen's: "The West Parade." Star: The Rosary." Oriental: "Two Orphans," King's: Sunshine Susie."
Dances:-Tea Dance at King's Restaurant and the Gloucester; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay and Hong Kong Hotels, the Gloucester and King's Restaurant.
Sunrise: 6.32 .m.; Sunset:
F. In.
sult was clear.
A packed throng of people stood six deep round the ring where the "smooths "the now pride of the 'dog world-were dancing on their toes while being judged.
There were many kings who have bean dethroned former champions now beaten by some stalwart new- comer.
utlerly effects, wasteful and pon- derous system which needed the most drastic revisión..
Resident Judges. England's legal system was not suited to modern conditions.
Among his suggestions were:
The Assize system should be abo-
These ex-monarchs were lished and the country divided in among the first batch to be bustled to areas under resident judges;
It was useless to continue enden- out of the ring when the judge compared their virtues with those youring to patch up the "wretch- ed" system; and they should "con of their new rivals.
sign it to the grave where it be longs by reason of its antiquity and build up a newer and better system."
Wars in the Engs. There was one king, though, who deserved sympathy a St. Bernard, 5.42the largest, and probably the hen
viest, dog in the show, who had come from a little Essex village to take on the world.
Tides-High at 6.21 and 19.55 Low at 0.20 and 12-15,
He was placed "reserve" in his cines. This he did not mind. But in his village he had used to every via woman making much of him.
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THURSDAY (November 10).
1th day of Rejab. Mamak Hockey Tournament: Tamar 1', 1st H.K.8. Battery (Marina), 4 p.m..
Ladies' R.H.K. Golf Club, Meet ing at Helena May Institute, 11
21.11.
Taits Manila Carnival, Kow- loon.
Tamar r. 1st H.K.O. (Marina), 4 p.m.
Annual Hong Kong. Boxing Association Meeting.
Now he was surrounded by women, each of whom had a dog on lead, and none of them took any notice of him.
It was beyond his understand ing-which was why he leapt in sheer affection at all of them, dragging his owner after him,
"The public at the moment, and patricularly the commercial public, shuns and quite properly so, indul- gence in litigation as if it were the plague," Mr. Hillier proceeded He considered that courts ought to sit for much longer hours than they did.
"The old fiction of a legal day' should be abolished. The ancient custom called the Long Vacation is productive of a great deal of de- lay and expense which ought to be avoided.”
Vacations should be aken in rota The friendliest king in the dog tion, so that the work could pro. but then, coed uninterruptedly all the yea world undoubtedly friendliness is not too popular in dog shows.
round.
In conclusion Mr. Hillier said. Most of the judging rings for We have to face this dreadful more resemble wars, and for the fact that unless a man is a pauper
Mamak Hockey Tournament: pick of them, give me the small in which case he gets his law for Battery roped-off enclosure where the Bor-nothing at our expence, and thet der terriers were being judged. of the Bar, or unless he is a man
Jack Romwick," as he is known gue ma to every one in the north of Eng land (Sir John Renwick in the official catalogue), who was judg- ing them, must have dreamed of
Theosophical Society Meet, 0 p.m. Lammert'a Salé af Postage
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Theatres Oriental; "Yellow Ticket.' Queon's: "The West Parade." King's: "Bunshine Busin" Star: The Rosary." Central: "Night World"
Border wars of old.
In Glass Boxen. Particularly when it came to de ciding the issue between Graklo, a wee bouncing, sandy spilfire from the Northumbrian foothills, and fellow rival from "over the Bor der"
Craklewon-after he had at tempted on at least two crate os casions to get to grips with his out- andish rival and the attempts had not been ignored.
of very comfortable means, it is impossible for him to obtain civil rights through the meditim of the courts. It is not our fault, it is the fault of the system.
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"logical" Divorce Law. Mr. R. M. Williamson, of Aber deen made a strong criticism of the English divorce law, and said that the rule of granting divorce where one of the spouser had been guilty of misconduct but of refusing is where both had been guilty,' un'res the judga exercised a discrétion or Dances:-Ton Dances at King's
And for the rest. There were the Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel;
usual Pakes" in glass boxes, cause had been shown, kad always Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Maltese dogs; their hair plaited appeared to Scottish praple to be Hong Kong Hotels and king's with red ribben, an that it did not itlogical.
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The English system pormitting of London, who said flīst England | his or her property by Restaurant.
ry Blues, sedate, waddling, puffing
husband and wife to dispose of night borrow with advantage from stranger and leave his or her,
the law of Scotland in this matter or husband, chargeable to the pa Sunrise: 433 &a; Sunset: 5.49 bulldogs.
And there was a fair kennel-roaid property freely by will was warm
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