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THE MOLLER CASE.
Judgment Against Ex-Manager.
THE CONSUL WINS.
Judgment in Passport Case.
In the Summary Court thie' doubt or call into question bis
In a long written judgment morning, Mr. Justice. Gompertz (which the time at our disposal gave his decision in the recent patriotism. Wado, however, The Ming Yuen Studio has does not permit us to give action between Wong Yu-sai, a olaim the right to judge him by some excellent panoramic views to-day), Mr. Justice Gompertz merchant, of Mexico, temporarily
of Macao, recently taken. his actions. Neither he nor his
delivered bis decision, in the residing at Queen's Road Contral, Summary Court this afternoon, and A. Zuckermana, Consul for supporters can object to that.
Yesterday's health return shows in the case in which Moller and Mexico in Hongkong. Plaintiff All public mon must be prepared four cases of enteric fever (one Company (Hongkong), Limited, (represented by Mr. M. K. Lo) to meet criticism. Our quarrel British, one Indian and two Chin- sued Mr. T. Orton, a former claimed the return of a passport eap) as well as two Chinese cases manager, as a result of a judg-and $1,000 damages. Defendant in the past has been with Dr. of plague.
mout given against them with was represented by Mr. H. 0. Sun's policies rather than with}
respect to some flour contracte. Macnamara. Dr. Sun.
According to a Peking telegram Messrs. Moller were repre- in the Daily Bulletin, a report sented by Mr. E. W. Corbett." The facts in this case bare
His Honour said: states that Sun Yat-aon declared They claimed that Mr. Orton simple. in an interview that he desires an had no authority to make the Consul in Hongkong for Mexico, The defendant is the alliance with Germany and contraote and their allegation The plaintiff is a Chinese subject. Russia.
was that he made them on his It is agreed that on June 4th. last own bobalf.
Mr. Orton's oase (conducted by fendant at his office a passport the plaintiff handed to the de- Mr. A. el Arculli) was that be issued by the Government of entered into the contracts on be- Mexico. A consular visa is re half of Messrs. Moller and Coquired on such passports if the
His Honour held that Mr. holder desiren to
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Proposed New Racecourse.
Our readers must have been greatly interested to leara of the revival of the proposal to bave a The Okeh Studio announce the second racecourse in Hongkong-arrival of a shipment of the an international". ore out at "latest hita" in records, compris Aberdeen. The scheme is of much ing varied assortment of violin public interest, despite efforts solos, saxaphone" solos, waltzee, made to discredit our announce-foxtrots, maie quartettes, etc. Orton acted without authority in Mexico. Subsequently the plain"
ment. So far from the project
stances.
proceed to making the contracts, and judg-tiff's claim is for its return and
A DAMAGED WIFE.
The Husband's Position. Can a husband bring an action
for damages only.
"Now the defendants avid- Once is
follows:-Pass- ports aro by Mexican law Government documents, the property of the State. They are good for two years, but can be irregular or are inapplicable to recalled at any time if they are
Mr. Zuckermann states that,
being "all in the air," the neces Mr. C. A. S. Russ writes asking ment was entered for Mosare. damages, or, in the alternative, sary capital has been over us to correct the report in our Moller and Co., with costs. subscribed. Horee-racing is a last night's issue under the head- great sport, which receives the ing of "A Lawyer on Lawyers." maximum of encouragement bore. He states that the exact words be and as regards the new course all used were:--"Clients do love us to one can say is the more the argue, even though they cannot merrior". As will have been seen understand, as a rule, a word wo from our announcement yester- say." |day, however, there are to be other
branches of sport connected with A married woman yesterday to recover the amount of a doctor's the person holding them. Consuls the scheme a golf course, and an committed suicide by hanging bill in connection with injuries are instructed by the Mexican athletic Stadium. The idea of herself in a cubicla. Her condi- suffered by his wife? Stadium has much to commend it tion was beyond all aid when | A legal debata between Mr.ports regular in either of these Government to impound all pass This matter has, however, yet discovered and the remains were C. A. S. Ruse and Mr. E. David respects and return them to the to be decided, and we take removed by the police to the son on this question took place in Ministry of Foreign affairs. this opportunity of offering Public Mortuary pending an in- the Summary Court recently dur a suggestion. It will be impossible vestigation into the circum-ing the course of a case in which to have both an attractive golf
a Chinese clork sued a firm of for reasons, which he gives, he foourse and a Stadium on the now Racecourse, and one or the
building contractors for damages formed the opinion that this pase- A whist drive and tea in aid caused by the alleged negligence Port was irregular. He retained SUN'S STATUS. other would have to be on another]
site. We think an excellent place of the Ministering Children's of the defendant, or bis servants, it, therefore, and has forwarded it
to the for the Stadium would be just off League was given by Mrs. W. during blasting operations in the
proper department in When we recently enquired the new 100-ft. road, near Kowloon Reading Room on Wednesday Quarry Bay.
Forsyth at the Kowloon Dock vicinity of plantiff's house at
Mexico.
"It seems to me quite clear regarding the exact statue of Dr. City, where the Government
has long been considering the ed to $55.
afternoon. The collection amount. Tho claim included an item for that the plaintiff can Sun Yat-sen and his Government, provision of a big public recrea-were-1. Mrs. Morrison: 2, Mra wife, and Mr. Davidson's conten-alien
The prizewinners medical expenses for plaintiff's nothing. I take it that an we were earnestly seeking in- tian
ground. The proposed formation. The statement later Kowloon tramway service will Crawford; 3, Mrs. Cuthill Booby, tion was that the husband had no passport by the government of &
Mrs. J. Kynoch.
Eovereign state receives and appearing in a Canton contem, eventually run out to that district,
Mr. Russ's argument was that a holds that passport subject to ali porary giving Mr. C. C. Wu's itself, or land of small value for where a fine open space offers
Our Picture Page to-morrow busband was liable to pay for regulations governing .such viewe. was evidently a reply to any other purpose. What better will include groups of the Kong. necessaries supplied to his wife documents as that state may our query, In our issue of situation could there be for kong and Canton baseball teams and was bound by law to provide choose to enforce. If the issuing which met on Saturday last, as her with proper medical attend-State, for reasons which seem Wednesday we examined that Hongkong's Wembley ?
well as a snapshot of the game in ance. If the husband was liable good to itself, decides to cancel reply, and we do not think that Our German Trophies. progrese: a picture of the new through somebody's negligence, or withdraw the document and
to determine anyone, even Mr. Benton C. Byrd, There is something almost Post Offico launch built by Mesars then he should be able to recover
the privileges who wrote on the subject yester. | characteristic of British mentali-
W.3. Bailey and Company; and a from the
responsible. secured under it, I donot conceive day, can truthfully say that our ty in the way the many German of Naval Dockyard Rifle He caused no little amusement that any right of action accrues
Club,
by remarking that it was quite to the grantes. There is no trophies sent out to various parts of the Empire have been treated.
as imperative for the husband to breach of duty or of contract of We are not a military, though a
Pay for a doctor to repair his which a Municipal Court can
tako cognisance. The remedy, if wife as it was for hits to pay &
any, is. by representation, carpenter to repair his door.
Mr. Davidson based bis submis. diplomatic or otherwise, to the sions on the Married Women's Government of the issuing State. Property Ordinance, 1905. Ho "It follows that no action will
retort was in the least degree offensive. We subjected Mr. Wa's
right to sue.
person
ti
who is
recover
granted a
Nicola's great stunt near Blake explanation to a plain analysis of fighting, race; and to us, evidently, Pier yesterday added materially his words, with no intention right place a museum.
a captured relic of war has its to his popularity as a magician, Thus and he was rewarded with a whatever of holding them up to one finds no great show made of crowded house at the Star Thea-
The question of Dr. the mortars, field guos and other tre last night. He again appears contended that it was a wrong to lie in our Courts against the
ridicule.
Sun's moral and physical courage, about which Mr. Byrd writes so lengthily, does not come into the question at all. We have never doubted either. Incidentally, we would not hold his job for million a year.
to-night, with his clever company and to-morrow night he hopes to make some interesting announce
ments.
plaintiff if a stone struck bie agent in this case a consul, who furniture, but it was no wrong to purports to act in accordance with him when a piece of stone struck the regulations governing pare. his wife. His wife was not his ports made by the faeuing State.
"There is a note in Kail's Inter- In the course of giving his national Law, 6th edition, page alternoon, Mr. 313, as follows: "For obvious
German weapons that our forces captured during the Great War, in one place we know of, a field gun which, maybe, cost many brave men their lives, in its death-
The relatives of Shum Teze-property. dealing career and its subsequant defence and capture, lies on its leung. Superintendent of the decision, this a side in the back yard of a theatre, Chinese Telegraph Adminstra- Justice Gompertz pointed out reasons & consul is not liable to seldom used. It lies there in sun tion offices at Hongkong, who that the wife could have sued the Courts for acts done by order and rain, relic of grim war, was shot and seriously injured,
heretofore been brought.
be
The sole object of our comment forgotten, and of no more interest on the Fraya on Monday, have alone for personal injury, but of the Government from which he was to show that Dr. Sun's pre- to the average inhabitant than if offered a reward through the not for medical attendance, as holds his commission,"
Some police authorities of $2,000 for However, his Honour thought it criticised as being too broadly
it was not incurred by her. "The proposition may sent status in Canton is, in fact, it were scrap iron. In,
parts of the Empire these precisely what it was when be trophies have rouged
the arrest, or information leading to the arrest of the would-be undesirable that defendant should stated, and also perhaps on the angry
be harassed by a new action by ground that it is not based on any was previously in the city. Either resentment, as being too-vivid assassins.
the wife, and he proposed, if the decision of the Courts. There ho is at the head of a Govern-reminders of a conflict beat for ment or he is not. If he is, then such as machine-guns and trench has passed away in the person of assessing damages on that basis. and this in my opinion is one parties agreed, to amend the writ must be, however, obvious casos gotten. So that hard-won relics,
A well known Chinese resident by joining the wife to plaintiff and which fall within and illustrate it, that Government is a rival Gov-mortars, after travelling all the Mr. Chu Yu-tin, at the ripe age eroment to that in Peking. We way out to the Commonwealth of of 95 years. The deceased bad Honour over-ruled the protest and reported on similar facts is no Mr. Davidson objected, but his of them. That no decision is also asserted that he had aband-Australia, for instance, have found been thrus times & Director of the entered judgment for plaintiff for doubt because no such action has
a last resting place on the river Tung Wah Hospital and was also $216. oned his policy of "peaceful un bottom. Hongkong had four pieces an official of the Po Leung Kuk. ification." That surely is proved of "artillery among its trophies, He was proprietor of the Kwong by the fact that he is the military but the passer-through and sight. Man Tal, a firm included in the chief of the forces pow fighting German mortars repose at Police group, and had been a generous seer would hardly know it. Two included in the Nam Pak Hong un various fronts in Kwangtung. Headquarters, and two field guns benefactor to the Hongkong Un If he is not fighting for eventual take up some of the precious space iversity. The funeral takes place Offer of "Texaco" Spirit Judgment for defendant, with unification, what else do the in the Volunteer drill hall. We next week.
and Oil. learn that nothing is intended to operations mean? If he is, then be done with them by the A female searcher arrested two In connection with the forth.
His Honour added that cortain he obviously must have abandoned authorities for the present, Per men yesterday on the Praya for coming motor car and cycle trials, questions had been put in cross. his "peaceful" policy. Of course, haps if it were not so troublesome being in possession of 32 the. of we are pleased to announce that examination, reflection on the to move them, they might take raw opium. The prisoner's admitt the local branch of the Texas) good faith of defendant. There it can be argued that Dr. Sup is their place on Flagstaff Hill, and ed that the baskets in which the Company has very generously was no evidence on which those at present fighting for self-pre-keep company with the lonely, drug was discovered were theirs come forward with an offer to sup suggestione could be founded and servation, for the defence of the obsolete little cannon that at pre- At the Police Court this morning ply free Texaco gasoline and they were really in the air. In sent looks out pathetically over one of the men admitted full re. lubricating oil to any competitors bis bonour's opinion it would have
SHANGHAI COTTONS.
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MOTOR TRIALS.
"I have delivered a written judgment at the particular request of the plaintiff's solicitor whose very able argument I desire to acknowledge. But on the facts, his case is, I think, a hopeless one;.
costs."
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BOY AGED 16 AS. WHIST".
CHAMPION.
Province, but it must not be over the harhour. They might even ponsibility, stating that his com.who may wish to use this brand, been better if they had not been look that the present troubles come in useful as signal pieces, panion had nothing to do with the The Company will also offer a put, and perhaps he should not originate from Sun's own actions. Or else they might await the day drug. His Worship accepted the prize for one of the events. These have allowed them. It in a matter of history that when there will be a big enough explanation, discharged the latter offers were to-day made to the whilst he was in Shanghai, and usum to put them in. Any and ordered four months hard Telegraph by Mr. P.F. Le Fevre,
thing, in fact, but flaunt them as labour to the other prisoner, one of the Company's officials. after he had declared in favour evidence that we won the war!
With regards to the conteste, of peaceful unification, he invok-
"Belmont," No. 6. Robinson the General Committee appointed A 16-year-old boy, who is the ed the aid of Yunnanese and
Rond, the property of Mr. Silva at last Tuesday's meeting will be county champion of Hampshire, Kwaogai militarists for the pur-
Netto, passed into the hands of called together early next week, is one of the competitore in Chinese buyers yesterday, the when full details of the various the final of the St. Dunstan's pose of dusting Chan King-ming.
figure boing $373,366.50 which competitions, and the date of the National Whist championship. His ultimate object may have
works out at $3.90 a square foot. conteste, will be discussed.
A hundred and twenty county been unification, but he most de- Messrs. Benjamin and Potts are The deal was put through in the
finalists from every county in cidedly used military means to:
in receipt of a telogram from thoir office of Mr. F. E. Nash. The
England and Wales are to com- attain his ends. In other words, that
Shanghai Office advising them extent to which local property The upsetting of a jar of sul-(pete for £3,500 in cash prizes, be- Shanghai Cotton has risen in value is shown by phuric acid caused injuries to a sides a number of silver cups. he foreook the conference table Manufacturing Company Ltd., comparing yesterday's price with fitter employed by Messrs. The winning lady and gentleman for the battlefield. Judging by has declared # dividend of that paid some lifteen years ago, Dodwell and Company yesterday. will receive $1,000 each. A Ban- Tle. 3.50 for the year ending 30th when it changed bands at be- The acid was spilt over his face gor woman centonarian was. his reply to Bir Robert Ho Tung, of June, 1983, The profit amounts tween fifty and sixty thousand and arms, necessitating his robeaten only in the semi-final to however, bo is still propared to to Tle. 490,000.
dollars,
moval to hospital.
bor county,
Dividend of Tls, 3,50.
the