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SLANDER ACTION!
Judgment For Defendant
OBITUARY
Mr. P. F. da Cruz Prata
The funeral of the late Mr. P. Judgment was given by Mr. F. da Cruz Prata, 66 years of age. Justice P. Jacks yesterday in the formerly of the Green Island Ce case in which Idu Kwan, an elghment. Co. Ltd. took place at the teen year old Chinese girl of Cheung Chau sued Kwan Yip, a village elder also of Cheung Chau for $1,000 damages for slander.
His Lordship gave judgment for
the defendant with cost, but add
ed that there had been no evid- ence during the whole of the pro- ceedings to throw suspicion on the plaintiff's reputation and credit or to indicate that she had done anything immoral or unchaste
Mr. M. K. Lo, of Messrs. Lo & Lo. represented defendant, and Mr. M. A. da Silva, of Messrs. Remedios & Silva, appeared' for plaintiff,
The Judgment
In the course of his judgment,
Roman Catholle Cemetry yester- day when A large gathering of friends and relatives attended. ་।
The services at the Chapel and at the graveside were conducted by
Father Spada.
Ms. da Cruz Prats, a native of Macae had been in the Colony for over 30 years and had ever since worked with the Green Island Ce- ment Co. Ltd., until 1929, when he retired from the firm to go on pension.
Deceased is survived by seven sons and a daughters, to whom. the deepest sympathy is extended in their sad loss.
MAGISTRATES
SALARIES
Questions Asked By The Hon. Mr. Owen Hughes
over which the
At yesterday's meeting' of the Finance, Committee of the Legis- lative Counci Hon. the Colonial Secretary. Sir. Thomas Southorn presided, sup- plementary votes totalling $85.064 were approved.
With regard to two items of $7,683 and $4.565 for the Hong Kong and Kowloon Magistracies respectively," the Hon. Mr. Owen Hughes asked the following ques- tion: "I see that the difference in additional costs to the Magis- tracies in Hong Kong and Kow- laon totals over $12,000. I would
Among those at the funeral toke to have a little more explana- Mr. Justice Jacks sald:-The plain-pay their last respects were Mesuration of how this increase of cost came about. Is it by reason of Cadet Officers acting 2.3 Arst clerks in places of members of the senior..clerical staff?
ti in this action claims damages to the extent of $1.000 from the defendant for slander in respect of certain statements which she alleged the defendant. who is one
of the Elders of the Kalfongs of the blahd of Cheung Chau, made falsely and maliciously on two occasions: Firstly, at a meeting of the Elders on "March 30 this year; and Secondly, at the Ho Tai Sun Restaurant on April 3 last, which have injured her reputation and credit.
The evidence given on behalf of the plaintif has not satisfied me that the statement made by the defendant at the meeting of the Elders on March 30 was slander
Dus It was made in the presence
of five other men, four of whom had previous knowledge of the matter and three of whom stated that nothing worse was said than
A Gosand, W. Ogley, Iqbal Singh, Julio Ribeiro. N. Lopes, H. W. Ponieroy, M. A. Beltrão, F. E. Silva, E, A, Noronha, M. A. Figuereido, A. F. Pereira, c. Osmund, J. Ribeiro, J. F. Ribeiro, A. Keith, secretary of Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.. T. C. Beck, assistant secretary, R.
Taylor and many others.
The Chairman: It is mostly due to the necessity for providing the salaries of these diacers in the actual department in which they are working. If these galaries had been shown under general heads, I think there would have been no Increase at all. If you provide à certain amount for the salary of
his saldry too. As far as I know there is no money in it at all
Mr. Owen Hughes: I am wonder ing, Sir, whether (obviously salaries of Cadet Omcers, are higher than those in the senior clerical service) it is a custom to appoint, a cadet officer as first clerk to the Magistrates?
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ALLEGED KIDNAPPING
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the
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Central Police Court yesterday, charged with disorderly conduct by Aght- ing..
Mr. F. H. Kwok appeared on behalf of Cheng Kau
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Among the wreaths that were sent were from Mr. and Mrs. Leo D' Almada e Castro, Eddie and Cita
Frederick Barretto and Luiz An
It was stated that Cheng Kan Pedro V: Botelho and Mario R. de
entered the teahouse on Wednes- an officer under one head and tonto da Rocha, the latter a mem- Botelho Mr. and Mrs. Julio Ribeiro, Iqbal Singh, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. V. other department, you
you transfer that officer to an ber of a well-known local Portu- day and order a special kind of have to these family were brought before tes. He was served with a alf- Ribeiro, Mr. and Mrs. E. Christen-transfer the amount provided for Mr. W. Hamilton at the Kow-ferent kind. A quarrel ensued. son, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. V. Ribeiro,
on Magistracy yesterday when during which a showcase . glass Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Botelho, Mr. E. V. R. de Souza and family, Mr.
the first defendant was charged was broken Cheng Kau ran out with having on December 10, tak- of the shop without paying for his and Mrs. M. F. Houghton, E
en, away by force or fraud, at tea and was chased by the waiter Thakuche. Oel Yoe Tjing. Mr. and
Hanoi Road, one Luiz Jose Ribeiro who was seen by an Indian ser- Mrs Mildren, Mrs. Assumpcao, Mr.
with intent to procure a ransom for geant to throw a stool at the The latter and Mrs, F. H: de Carvalho, Mr.
liberation, and both were charged Cathedral employee. with having detained Luiz Jose received a slight cut on his right that the plaintiff went for walks and Mrs. E. A. Leonard. Mr. and Mrs. Frederico d'Eca, F. R. C. da
Ribeira against his will on De- forearm. with: the wireless officer. The
Cruz and family, Mr. and Mrs. A.
The Chairman: If we can spare cember 10 at 29 Fur Wing Street The Magistrate told Ho Hing two remaining Elders expressed. Coelho, Mr. and Mrs. J. Howell, the man, we like to have Cadet with the intention of procuring a that he had no right to make no dissent and apparently con-F. F. da Cruz, G. A. dos Remedios, Officers there because they are ransom for liberation. They were Cheng Kau pay for a tea which curred in what was said and dorle. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Tavares and able to act as Magistrates as well also charged with, having unlaw- he did not order, "There is too So that I view the evidence given family, Robert Taylor, Ng Yung. It is more satisfactory to the fully decayed or enticed away a much of this dghting going on in by them in this case with const- CM.M. Montelry and Francisco X. general public, too. Occasionally, child under 14 years of age with the Colony," he said in imposing B. Monteiro, A. T. Gomes and G. however, we can't apare a cadet intent to deprive Luiz Gonzalo a fine of $15 or three weeks on M. Gomes, L. Landau, the Head- oficer, in which case we make Ribeiro, the father of such child, Ho Hing.. master, Stan and Boys of the arrangements for a member of the
of the possession of the child.,
Cheng Kau was discharged. Diocesan Boys' School, the Portu- senior clerical staff to Al theNo evidence was called and Det.
·guese staff, chief accounts depart- | place.”~
Sub-Inspector C. Rozeskwy, who ment, Green Island cement Co.
WOMAN WITHOUT Mr. Owen Hughes: Thank you, prosecuted, asked for remand with Ltd, the compradore and stam, Sir.
a substantial ball. His Worship Reiss Massey and Co. Ltd., the
adjourned the case formally for Portuguese staff, Reiss, Massey and
one week. Co., Ltd., and Great Northern Tele- graph Co, the chairman, board of directors, Green Island Cement Co., Ltd, and many others.
derable suspicion,-
Defendant's Statement
I believe that the statement made by the defendant at the meeting was true. He called three witnesses who said they had seen the plaintiff walking with the de- fendant M
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I believe that the statement was made without malice for there was no evidence that the defendant bore ang 1 will towards the Flaint, and the "wireless,officer admitted that he did not think the defendant bore any ill wil towards him.
As I have already stated, I am hot satified that the alleged in- cident at the Ho Tal Sun Restaur-
ant took place. I do not credit the evidence given concerning it. It is possible that the defendant might have been there between the hours of 8 and 9 on that even.
KRAUSS TO RELINQUISH
HIS DUTIES
Magazine Gap Road With regard to an item of $22,132 wanted for the widening of Magazine Gap Road, the Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mackie asked when the road will be available for use, The Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson
SLAUGHTER HOUSE:
..DAMAGED
LICENCE
To Sell Cigarettes. And Wine
Brought before Mr. E. W. Hamb ton at the Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday, Leung Wong, a married ...Yeung Kam Yuk, proprietor of woman, was charged with selling (Director at Public Works): The The Tat Wo Tong stone quarry at cigarettes and Chinese liquor engineer in charge has promised a Tau Kok was fined $10 and without a licence. The case was to finish the road by the end of ordered to pay $10 costs to the adjourned for 48 hours, to allow the year and full traffic can be P.W.D. when brought before. Mr defendant call her foki as witness.. used on the road by the middle EW. Hamilton at the Kowloon
Revenue-Officer Humphreys, who of January.
Magistracy yesterday charged, with In answer to another question blasting stone with an explosive stated that at about £15 am." on appeared for the prosecution, It is omcially announced that by Mr. Mackle as to whether or substance without having auch Tuesday, he "stopped: a man who not the trame will be confined to store fully covered and weighted had just left the Kwong Fat
on November 28. Damage
Was Cheong shop in Castle Peak Road. bowl
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Fress" (Copyright.11
Vienria, Dec. 12.
ing but I do not believe he was. Clemens Krauss, the director of the use of motor cars only, Mr.
I do not believe that the plain. the State Opera will leave his Henderson stated that that "would Į done to the Ma Tau Kok slaughter The man was carrying a
tlf has been guilty of anything more improper than going out for walks with a young man, if that can' be considered improper in these days,
duties as from December 15. Krauss did not conduct the orches tra on Wednesday night.
The directorship of the Vienna State Opera has been taken over provisionally by Dr. Erwin Kerber President of the Salzburger Fes- tival Playhouse Trinecone Kuo Min.
I am prepared to "concede that old-fashioned folk, such as the plaintiff's mother and the Elders of Cheung Chau, may consider such conduct improper, and there' are no doubt old-fashioned peo- FEDERATION OF GERMAN ple with similar views in many of the largest and gayest cities' in the world, but I do not believe li would be considered improper by young folk of the present day.
INDUSTRIES
Berlin, Dec, 12.
NO PASSPORTS :
be a matter for the traffic depart house. Acgt, Sub-Inspector T. K ment of the Police. He understood Whelan prosecuted. however, that some such arrange- ment would be made. There was a very sharp corner at one point of the road and he had been over the ground with the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, who had suggested that a traffic light and a point-duty. policeman be placed at that point
containing liquor, which he stated | he had bought from a shop which he pointed out. He also stated that he had bought two packets of cigarettes from the shop.
Two Japanese Charged
When witness asked for the master of the shop, the defendant Jinzo Araki, aged 42, a Japanese came forward and stated that she subject, and his wife, Yone Kotaki, the mistress. She also said 37 appeared before Mr. Wynne-
that she had sold the cigarettes Jones at the Central Magistracy was made of the premises and a and wine to the man "A search
Charged before Mr. Wynne-
yesterday, charged with entering Jones in the Central Police Court the Colony without valid pass wine found. Defendant had no quantity of cigarettes and Chinese. yesterday with. stealing an over-ports. They pleaded guilty.
lleence to sell cigarettes or wine. It was officially announced on cost-from a cockloft at No. 80 Sub-Inspector. Nolloth Wednesday night that the Upster uma Cheung that Araki had a certificate of Lal Put was called and gave It is unfortunate that the plain-Federation of the German Indus- aged 22, pleaded gulity and was nationality which was not a pack evidence of having bought wine tiff has persisted with this case, tries will in future be incorporat sentenced to one the Yellow Cover"
month's hard port. They arrived on December and cigarettes from the defen- as so much which is unpleasant ed in the Reféh's group of 15 labour, Detective-Sergeant Good and then left for Catton, te dant's shop, and stated that when has been said concerning her. Idustry whereby a far-reaching win stated the defendant was ar turning on the 10th. The steamer a fold sold him the goods, the suspect, however, that she and her re-organisation may be necessary, rested going to a pawnshop in Van Heuts, on which they defendant was present. mother have been instigated by Dr. Jherle who was hitherto Queen's Road Central, A
originally arrived in the Colony. some person who bears the de-manager of the business affairs
had sailed for the North, In any fendant i will. Only one person of the
case, Araki came to the Bagistra-
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"In these proceedings has confess resignation so as to leave a free field at the Central Police Court stay in Hong Kong for three Pleading guilty before Mr. Scho-ton omce to register in order to
Nationalist Socialist party. Traninetan Kun Min.
said it without malice. GRAN CHACO DISPUTE
There has been no evidence in this case to throw suspicion on
Geneva, Dec. 12.
One of a crowd who had gather ed in Des Voeux Road during the Hitin interval on Wednesday when ed that he bears such i will and hand for the appointment of a yesterday to charges of the po months, his reason being that he a Chinese woman was knocked that is the companion of the business manager under the new session of 170 heroin pills and 60 had lived so long in Singapore trician, was robbed of his metal plaintiff in her walks
down. Tseng Yu-chun, an: elec- conditions. I believe the defendant said no Jherie's place has been taken by D'Almada, Jr., on behalf of a wo stand the cold in Japen,
Provisionally, Dr. "po plu" lottery tickets, Mr. F. that he would not be able to more about the plaintif than that Dr. Gath, & member of the man, Chan Ng stated that she Arad was deaf and probably the man in the act Brought be watch, The thief was observed by was reported to him by her mo-
a district watchman who caught ther and that what he said w&S
could not afford to buy Govern there was some misunderstanding true, that he considered it a pub-
ment optum and economised by between him and the Japanese are Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Cen- lic duty to say it, and that he
smoking heroin pills. The woman ConsulThe Police were not al Police Court yesterday, the was fined a total of $280, walle pressing the case, but merely a culprit, Oban Lak, pleaded guilty two boys, one of whom she red for ati expulsion order as the and was sent to prison for four gaged to write a few tickets, were defendant had expressed & wish
months. Detective-Inspector sent back to the country,
to leave.
W. Andrew of the BC.AZ was for The Magistrate made an expul
the prosecution On a charge of larceny by bailés zlón-order-against--hoth Nations assembly on Wednesday of a mah" jongg ret, Bhum Kam fendants, I find that the plaintif has not when the date by which the two Ying aged 74, smartled womart proved her case nhd - give judg-| governments coficerned are rez was bound over in the surn of $50 ment for the defendant with costs. quired to state the
ctive for six months by Mr: Bamilton attitudes towards the ins ortor at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, the league of Nations was exterided
stated that the
belo from December 203 until January
Lo Wing, a sho 11 In reality, this gland states that only concerna ParaquË stanfor thirteen | livia @has already I know how they she accepts the Tes
Feport
the plaintiff's reputation and cre The Chaco dispute was again die, or to indicate that the has under discussion by the Consulta- done anything immoral or un- tive Committee of the League of chaste.
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