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HONGKONG,, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1912,
BRITAIN AND GERMANY.
DAY BY DAY:
THE OLD POST office.
Authorised by the Government
No it is for your Lordship. I oan be devided at any time. I am
Hypocrisy can beat calumny LESSEE SUED FOR BREACH told he (Mr. Wright) ie authoris
even at her own gamo...
Due Next Week
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The Rey and Mrs Moyle are duo to arrive in the Colony next weak.
Tram Accident.
OF CONTRACT,
ed by the Government to ask for a foo. I thought I ought to stalo
Government raises question of it as I am not calling Mr. Wright.
His Lordship have doubt Mr. Wright can spo.k with
Witness's Fees,
no
THE AP EAL COURT RE-CONSTITUTION.
INTERESTING REFORMS
INTRODUCED.
Provision for Three Appellate Judges
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
A Change of Name.
How many people could tall, off- hand who is Admiral Meux who was appointed, the other day, to bo Commander-in-chief at Poris month? As a fact he is no other The most interesting bill that than Sir Hodworth Lambton who, has boon before the Legislativo in Soptember last, assumed the council for some considerable surname of Moux in order to timo is the one that his been in- comply with a condition in the froduced this afternoon by the Hon will of the lato Lady Menx. Sir
At the Supreme Court this greit authority on matters in morning Mr. Justice Gompertz, which he is export, but hore he A woman was knocked down Puisto Judge, sitting in Summary has only to sponk of facts. by an electric car in Dos Vooux Jurisdiction, had before him Mr. Potter-I am only doing Road West yesterday and was re-claim for damages for breach of whint Mr Wright would have moved to the bospital for treat-contract.
mentioned had he gone into tho 'ment.
Alexander Kotas, George Maid-box. Twenty Days Hearing-
His Lordship-Mr. Wright onis and George Tsamtsacopalas! The Li case, the hearing of which occupied 20 days, onded trading as tobacconists at the Old comes from the Public. Works Attorney-General which provides Hedworth's change of name
Post Office, sued Lilling, trader of Department? yesterday and judgment was re- 152 Queen's Roadfor $100 damog-
served Alleged Unlawful Possession of Rice.
At the Police Court, this morna ing a man was romanded on a charge of being in unlawfal passession of a bag of rico valued at $3.
B. O, C Sports Entries. .. The ontries for the club events, in connection with the B. 0. C. Sports which closed last night, are excellent. For the champion- ship events the entries are very fair..
Dumping..
Two dead bodies have been found by the police. In one enso death was due to small-pox and in the other to plague.
The dead body of a child was found in the street at Yaumati, yesterday.
Mr. Poltor: Yos.
..
for the re-constitution of the full moaut that he became possessed
es for breach of a contract in which His Lordship-Ho is certainly court and at the same time of a legacy of £5,000; Theobald's the defendant agreed to construct entitled to his chair faro, up and empowers the Government to Park, a bonso,in Park Lane, and verandah on premises occupied down. I don't think anyone appoint a temporary judge to act other property; and Lady Meux's by the plaintiffs.
Mr. Eldon Polter, instructed by Mr. Reader Harris of Mesara, Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the plaintiffe, and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Attorney-General, instructed by Mr. J. H. Gardner, defended.
Plaintiffs Case.
can object to that,
Another
interest in the brewery which The second clause provides that, bears her name, în all bring og in Admiral where more than two julges are some £20,000 a year. available, the judge, whose deci- Meux.commanded the Naval Bri;, sion is appealed from, shall not
thing I would like to know; in the Court of Appeal, supposing the fee is granted, would it go to the Treasury or would Mr. Wright, got it?
Mr. Wright: believe it would go to the Treasury,
be a member of a full court of two gado in South Africe, and hasalso Mr. Potter-He was instrublod | judges stting to. hear the held the Command of the China to make the application.
appan). Section 3. onnels that Station, and the royal ynoht Vic- His Lordship: The money the Chief Justice shall as toria and Albert. He married goes into the Treasury? general rule preside in the full
Viscountess Obelson two years ago.
Mr. Potter-So I understand, court. Provido, however, that
Mr. Potter said the facts of the enso as far as the plaintiffs were concerned, were quite short, mil Ho was instructed by his the Judgo of His BritannicHo will long bo remembered for be did act know how far they superiors to make the application. Majesty's Supreme Court for his boaten to blazes" phrase would be lisputed by the de Iis Lordship: The govern China, if his appointment ns such employed at Newcastle during fondants. On or about July ment have lost the services of Mr. judge is earlier in date than the the 1900 election. 14 last, Kolas, one of the Wright for three quarters of an appointment of the Chief Justice, plaintiffs and partner in the hour. Iis really a government shall preside, whenever he is, Turco Tobacco Company, which matter.
present in the full court.
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Speedier Litigation.
Majority Decisions
Those who have had occasion According to the fourth section, to observe the plainfully slow pro- where a full court cousisting of cedure of law enses in the threo judges ails, the judgment of
carries on business in the old Post Mr. Potter-It is a govern- The Typhoon.
Office, approached Mr. Hazeland,ment matter. Mr. Wright was Hongkong has escaped the first who was acting as architect on bo- going to mention it if I had called typhoon signalled this season, the
half of the defendant, for the pur-hina, and as I did not I thought black ball being hauled down early this morning. The disturpose of getting a lease of a portion ought to mention it for him.
any two of them shall be deemed Supreme Court will 'eudorso all of the premises. The landlord
Mr. Alabaster, said the applica-the judgment of the full court. that Mr. Drumnaond, the Shanghai banco has passed ongiwards from
Where a full court consisting barrister, said the other day re- Tonkin and has moved in the was present at the interview, Lion was roully for the employer's
forms were discussed, and the loss of time and not the witness's of two judges only sits in appol-garding the need of an official direction of the Loochoos,
landlord agreed that ho would His Lordship-Chair fees lata jurisdiction and the two Courtshorthand writer. Hongkong build a verandah on to the pre-am quite willing to allow.
judges differ, then the judgment" mises, and let's portion of the pre-
Theft of Shoes
A boy was sentenced to twolve strokes of the birch and forty eight hours detention at the Police
mises to the plaintiffa with the
The mutter was then dropped.ur order appealed from shall be moves slowly when it comes to verandah attached for the sum of of law, Mr. Alabaster submitted be modified or affected by any bat we should have thought that Addressing the court on a point disturbed only in so far as it may departing froni" old custom," $375 per month. He did not know that the lease could not possibly order they may innke as to which counsel engaged in the Courts Jship lying alongside the dock what the defence was. He did not grant the plaintiffs a verandah, they do not differ, and shall be would long have been convincod
yard.
Court, to-day, for stealing a pair of shoes valued at $4, from a
know whether it was a totni deniul because the permit to build it, dermed to be the judgment or of the contract to build the veran- hnd not been granted at the time order of the full court. Appointed Quartermaster.
dah. Plaintiffs would tell the court of the making of the contract, Lieutenant II, D. Drysdale, that it was promised that the 26th Punjabis, is appointed verandah should be completed by Quarter-master with effect from September 15, but subsequently 22nd February, 1012, vice
was told that it might take Lieutenant O. D. Bennett, second-
od for duty with the Khyberger, but never, at any time, was any suggestion made that the defendant never intended to build | the verandah.
Rifles.
His Lordship Is there any- thing, in the lease, about the verandalı?
verandah.
MAGISTRATE AND PAWN-BROKER.
R. G. A. Capt. Robbed.
missions of a witness in his actual
of the desirability of abolishing Where a full court consisting the old system of the Judge of two judges only sits otherwise taking the points of evidencos than in appellate jurisdiction and ad sproulos in longlund. Apart tho two judges diffor, tho judg altogether from the immense mont or order of the Chief Justice, or, in his absence, of the saving of time, there are occasions, senior judge, shall be deemed to such as the cross-examination 'ol Punjabis For Lal-chikok
be the judgment on order of the bankrupt person; when the ad- The 25th Punjabis will proceed
fall court subject to a right which to Lai-chi-kok there to be
At the Palico Court this mornis conferred on any party ug quartored, on 18th instant, and
ing three small boys were chargeri grioved, to an appeal to a full sols would be extremely valu- the 26th Punjabis, to Ronnie's The Reichstag has passed the Naval Law Amendment Bill, and Mills, on 22nd idem. Advance contains a contract to put up a of Capt. Crawford, R. G. A. from days after the delivery of the writer has been proved, and the Mr. Potter-The lease itself coat and wrist-watch, the property if applied for within fourteen Now that the need of a shorthand before Mr. Irving with stealing a court consisting of three judges, ble in the interests of justice.
parties leave on 17th and 20th this may be accepted as pointing to the fact that the expected agree-instants, respectively.
a tennis court in Kowloon, ou judgment or order of the said Continuing, he said at any Tuesday. Capt. Crawford said he senior judge. mont between Britain and Germany regarding a slackening of the Six Months for a Thief. rato they could not get their loft his coat on the tennis court competitive pace in naval armaments has not yet materialised. For The case remanded yesterday at verandah, though the plaintiffs and went along with others into Temporary Judges some time there Is been a confidence expressed, in some quarters, the Polios Court, in which a man were paying for a verandah.
Where three judges in the the club house. When he came bad that a mach batter understanding between Britain and. Germany was charged with stealing a
Explaining the term "verandalı"
back for his coat it had gone. permanent service of the Colony was certain. This confidence in the coming of an era of more friendly quilt and clothing, came up for Mr. Potter said it was not in He could not saya that the watch shall not be availablo, says Soc relations between the two peoples was not b sad on mero desire,. There boaring this morning, and the the usual form but was some-
(produced) was in his coat, but it tion 5, and also whenever the was the solid fact that, by the Franco-Gorman Treaty, the dangerous hard labour and four hours thing in the nature of a sloping was his, and it was probable that Governor by notification in the
While on legal matters it is" problem of Morocco had been solved, and that Britain's obligations stooks.
His Lordship Would they ho the watch was in the pocket Gazette so directs, the following
provisions shall apply
very gratifying to notice that'an- Flying a White Pigeon.
was in the pocket. to France in that matter, arising out of the Anglo-French Treaty of
ather long-desired reform is (1.) In all interlocutory ap within sight of accomplishment. The first dofondant was sen- Flying a white Pigeon" was 1904, would now lapas automatically. The whole international the charge upon which two men to ask permission from the the birch and forty-eight hours its summary jurisdiction, appeals the Full Court, to make provision Mr. Potter: They would have tenced to receive ten strokes of peals, appeals from the court in we refer to the reconstitution of situition, it was argued, would be relieved of a dangerous strain by appeared at the Police Court, this government; in fact they did so detention, the second defendant from any magistrate (including a the Moroccan settlement, and thas the way would be open-when morning. It is alleged they had and obtained permission. recent irritations had died down-for the most friendly relations endeavoured to obtain money through the sale of a girl. The between Germany and Great Britain And all this hopefulness reouse was remanded. Mr. F. X. ceived a kind of ́endorsement in the fact that Lord Haldane, nt & D'Almada appoarol for one of the hint from the German Emperor, had gone to Berlin to give and defendants. receive friendly explanations,
man was sentenced to six months'
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sidents of boards of officers order..
roof.
allowed to do that?
ment.
now Chief Justice has concurred 'n the wisdom of such an appoint- nont, we hope the Government will remove the cause for reproach which has so long existed."
Hongkong's Appeal Court.
six strokes of the birch and forty-marine magistrate), in all c1888 for which a Bill has been intro His Lordship Would that go eight hours' detention, whilst where the full court sits to hear duced in the Legislative Council over the pavement?
Yes it would cover the pave-charge:l.
the third defondant was dis-and determine points reserved for to-day. In the past, the only
its consideration, and in all cases remedy which dissatisfied litt The Magistrate said the where the full court does not sit gants have had has been to ap- Bail of 8500 was asked for.
Were you going to have tables broker who accepted the cat in appellate jurisdiction, the full peal against a judgment in a there like a cafe?" Boards of Officers.
Oh no!
from the boy must have known court shall consist of two judges Court composed of the Judge who delivered the decision, assisted by That a better understanding has been reached seems undoubt- Major W. M. Pyne, R. E. and
that he could not have honestly only. ed, but the passing of the Naval Law Amendment Bill is something Major O. H. Lawson, 20th Pun-ship that the loss of a verandah like that, and should have known court shall consist of three judges, been one of the Chief Justice's,
Ile hoped to satisfy His Lord-come into session of a cost
his learned brother Judge, and if (2.) In all others cases the full the judgmont appealed from has of a shook for the more optimistic of those who anticipated a new jabis, have been appainted pre- was a serious matter; it kept the that it was stolen. A note would one of whom shall be the julge ute after always held the casting era, The Naval Law, passed in 1900, has always an extremely to assemble at the Lai-chi-kok up off the windows and at the be taken of this case that it could of His Britannic Majesty's elastic measure. It has been amended several times, and always in and Rossin's Hiis olie-kod same time kept rain out of the be used against him if there was Supreme Court for China (if the vote in the event of the Judges the direction of naval expansion. The latest amendment is also in 21st instants, respectively, to re-shop, provided shelter, and, to any more trouble like this. He Principal Secretary of State for far side of such a situation is rut agreeing on the appeal. The the old expansive direction. The Gorman Navy is to be reorganised port on buildings prepared for to inspect the content of, the they motld by hold responsible such appointinent) or a barrisier to pointed to need amphung
a certain extent, attrooted persons also, cautioned the parents that Foreign Affairs has consented to and a third active squadron created out of the present material recoupation by the 25th and 26th
Punjabia.
shop. serre. As the result of this reorganisation the Navy Law Amendment
He hoped to be able to prove of the boys. An Incorrigible Youth.
that the iron vornðált had been Bill makes provision for "the gradual new construction of three A sentence of six months' hard built and all the defendant had battleships, and two small cruisers." Of these, three additional labour, four hours stooks, and to do, was to erect it.
AN IMPORTANT AP- Dreadnoughts it is specially declared that one is to be built in 1913, banishment, was passed by Mr. An interesting point was raised
PLICATION. the other in 1918, while the date of the third is unmentioned. Over Melbourne at the Police Court, as to the payment of witnesses, a period of six years, therefore, the German Government propose to to-day on a youths of bad fees. Mr. Potter addressing the Mr. Lewis Makes the First Ap- build 15 Dreadnoughts instead of 12, thus continuing the expansive character charged with snatching Court said that one of his wit a gold earring. Another youth nesses was Mr. Wright, of the process.
in future for the god belaviour of not less than 7 years standing may be--and we believe, in prac
plication for Ball Under the Deportation Ordinance.
for however, impartial Judge:: temporarily appointed by the Government or from time to time tically all cases the Fall Court has honestly endeavoured to look for the purposes of this sub-
at matters with a perfectly open" seotion.
mind-the impression left on Objects and Reasons
litigants where the appeal is turn- This bill is intended to abolished down is not generally such as the present system under which to cause them to think highly of By the Bill appeals from any ous of the two British justice. It is well, therefore, that Mr. Winston Churchill intimated re-charged along with him was Public Works Department, who
judges are heard by them both, introduced to-day a third Judge: cently that a return is to be made to the path of safety. The dirolarged on the grounds of had been instructed by his
At the Police Court, this mor and which given one of them a will be brought in to sit with the standard laid down by him is a fixed standard which can yet be insuficient evidenos to convict, superiore to ask for a fee for ning, Mr. Lewis of Messra, John-casting vote if they differ. It two local Judges on apposite expanded automatically. At present Britain's superiority is a 60 Mr. Melbourne said that he was attending. He was not going on, Stokes and Master made an necessarily changes the constitu- deals very satisfactorily with the per cent. one, and now that the German Naval Low has been, amend convinced, however, that he was to call Mr. Wright now but if he application for bail in the case of tion of the full court. Provision question and should meet with ed, we may assume, since the now standard is to work automatical-guilty.
had gone into the box ho was a man in custody for deportation. is made for the rules which are general approval, ly, that the 60 per cent, muperiority will be duly maintained. But
going to contend that he was en- all this will not make for greater friendliness between the two coun-
Mr. Lewis: I did not give to apply when three judges in the A man who stole s boat from titled to a fee for his attendance notice to the Registrar General permanent service of the Colony tries. Not only are they building against each other, but their Shaukiwau appeared at the Police under sec. 29, of Ordinance This is the first application under are available, and provision is also Propas naval dispositions seem to follow the same line the line of pre-Court, (o-day, in answer to the 3,1873.
the Deportation Ordinance for made for the temporary appoint- paration for a great coming struggle." The further the two nations to the charge and also to give an His Lordship:-What do you bail for a man in custody for de- ment of a third judge who must seming down the river from travel along this line the more they assume the appearance of us-account of his returning from want me to decide. tions constantly prepared for war, and the more dificult it will be banishment without lawful au- Whether in fact under that seo- so maintain friendliness and harmony. Those obtain at present, in thority. He was sentenced to sixtion Mr. Wright is entitled to the greater degree than was the name nearly a year ngo; but this raos for weeks hard labour for stealing 188
Tumpremaoy, in which Britain must always lond, cannot make the boat and twelve month for Surely the Registrar decides "strengthening of the bonds of friendship,
returning from bonishment.
A Boat Thief.
that,
portation..
of
"On May 8 three missionarias
either be a judge of His Majesty's Chungking were attecked by Mr. Irving: I will accept bail Supreme. Opart in China, or else robbers. One of them wAL one personal bond of $600 and a barrister of at least sufficient sequently killed and one surety of $500.
standing to qualify him for ap Chiness newspaper M. Lewiff That will be quite pointment to the county court good bad but
the sald paper is bench in England.