10th instant.
could neither read
nor
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CHINESE CLUB SWEEP. as the remaining tickets in the of the Chinese Club on that after- same book Nos. 08007-03070 were noon between 3.30, and 4.00 tale- sold. The Arbitrators sald (para phoned to Mr. Ng's residoneo and THAT DERBY TICKET.
2 (a.) of Award) :-"We are un
was, answered in able to accept the evidence given (tady unknown and unidentified by * lady's voice We have received the following as to the aule and purchase of the witness or by any one) to the letter from Mr. Gi, K. Hall Brutton; tickets Nos. 03000 to 03070. We effect that the family, did not know
I have read with much interest reject such evidence as being the letter of Mr. Furg Mun-sui, the untrue." On what ground? Be... 0300 and that Me. Ng was in who was the purchaser of the tickel Hon. Secretary of the Chinese Club, cause Chik Sung-iing, Chik Yau-Shanghai with the counterfoils. 1 written in reply to my letter of the chau, his nephew, and Yuen Shing should like to publish the whale of dab, who posed as an important The only object. af Mr. Pang Munofficial in the Shanghai Branch of the Award on this point but it in sui's letter in to attempt to justify the China Specic Bank though he far too lengthy, But if any of your the conduct of the Club in refsing Chinese accounts and was in re-morning payors on the 7th day of
tur write reader
up either of the to pay to the person who bar celpt of only $12 a month wages, July 1923 they can read. the whole been proven by a Court of law for have been the holder of the winning purchased in the private room of
gave evidence that the ticket was Award. ticket, the vakte of the first prizni. Yung-chat at the oflice of the He founded his arguments on the General Exchange Co., Ltd., on the fact that there is no legal or moral 5th January, 1928, which evidence liability on the Chal to pay. That Li Yung-chat who was not called there is no legal liability I admitt the Arbitration absolutely had there been, the Ciub would have denied in the libel action recently been sued long ago. But as to there heard in the Court here. being no moral liability I join issue.
(Mr. Brulton attacks the credit The liability to pay is and can only of witnesses for Chik Sung-ling by--for technical reasons that are who he points out, were bribed.) perfortly well known to the Club's
The Telegrams, Solicitors - a moral ones. The right
Evidenco was
given by Mrs, ful owner of the winning tickel is. Chan and Henry Wei before the therefore, to repeat the concluding arbitrators that a telegram was woads of my origini fetter.. lepere sent by Fleary Wel at the request dent entirely us the bestone of the Mrs. Chan to Mr. Ng Quino in paid am a bill of costs for defendi Members of the Committer of the
When Ticket Was Bought, purchased ticket No. 03066. His Now as to the evidence that Chik
evidence was that be purchased it, on the ath danuary 1923 in The private room nad prosellers Yung-chai, Chik You-chan
of li and Yuen Shing-dah. Li. Yung-chai was not ruhs at the arbitration
but his evilence was obtained in the libel action and he denied em phatically that Chik ever purchased | a ticket in his private room in his]
Now is to the date personer the 5th January 1999, He (Chik)| said it was on the same date that the afternoon of the 1st March, ing him at the Polis Court, after she knew that she was the Mr. Pung Mansi refers at length owner of the winning ticket and date be paid as was the 4th January to which the hat she could not find it. The 1923 and produced at the Arbitra- quinidium of the warship of turbitrators deal with this in the in the counterfoil receipt for the
Award as follows:--"We find as a money paid my firm, my bill book|
„Chinese Chale
to the Arbitration
The
winning ticket With referred by fact that this telegram was not fand luud rewly to produce muy jern!{
Agreement betwien t Plaimants. He quotes from a letter sent by Mr. Henry Wei on the l
written on Sideband just, by the hion to the expective Solicitors for the, chinaants that the fetub only agreed to suck arbitrs Bon on the condition:
I also protveil a letter of the instructions of the Defendantsane date sent me by Chik and gave Mr. Chun) in the afternoon of evidence that Chik himself exiled at the 1st March, 1925. We find that any office on that date with the the Defendant did not tell him to texter and money. in dealing with send off this telegram and did not this the arbitrines
May in the tell aim to wire to Mr. Ng at all. Award We think that Str. Brutton (1) That Hy Club will not be is not for us to speculate re- was mistiken in thinking that the
bound to nei neroading to thegarding the motives which the
man who brought the Son to him award of the arbitrators. sender had in sending this tele-in payment of his costs in vespert (2) That sh Chub reserven arut it may be as Mr. Alabaster of a Police Court use together
suggested that the sender thought that he himself had a share in the with a companying letter was the
Plaintif kiki bimself,” firket 3006, (this was denim by Henry Wel), or it may be that the sender, knowing tint the Mr. Ng, assumed that it was sold ticket 03060 had been sold through
RBY
its rights and that the posi tion of the Clubs in law shall Jus deemed to be exactly the saur as if nee such arbitritron and taken place,"
18 recoded in Mr. Ng
after 12
di f the General Ekehnite."
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tain a free hand to pay whoppson
member of the family" in doing so are then again at the) ever, they liked independently of any There was not one serup of evi- Police Court and, afterwards all arbitration. This is further som dence to support this suggestion.
within a period from the zul to the plified by the Club's letter of 15th
The telegram - sent to Mr. Ng† ul. January 102! On this guind Mareb, 1925, in reply to an applion in at Shanghai, care of The of preluase of the ticket two other tion by Messrs, Lyon and Hall Union Bank of China, informed witnesses were endled to show that, Solicitors for Chik Sung-Bug, for an him that his family in Hongkong the correct date was as Chik him-- arbitration by two urbitrators and had won the first prize in the self stated, the 5th January 1923, | an umpire, part of which reads: "The sweep with ticket 03066 and to the arbitrators say "We see no cah does not wish to take part in return immediately. But evidences at all to doubt the Plaintiff's Pont Yovrny your eltend my was given before the Aristratorsik's) evidenor that he did bey have with any parson as the y Mr. T. V. Soong, the Manager ownership of the ticket." It is only of that Bank in Shanghai, that he is ticket am the 5th dammary 1929 on being pressed by my fire be it not receive the cable till the in Mr. Li Yung-chai's room at the half of Mis. Chan by a letter dated 2nd March, and did not give the
In the Award the arbitrators 21st March, 1g, that the Clules cable
WQuinn til
o'clock and "that the exact date on which Solicitors reply as follows:
March after the ticket No. (83066 was in fact pur- are instructed to inform you that von on 2nd
interview with Chik at which Chik chased seems to us to be a matter the Chat the request of
Inled Mr. Ng Quinn a ticket, which
uf Comparatively little impor- parties is prepared to appassit such
Lance." With this 1 beg to differ. members of the Club as are wiking interview, neording to thik's own
The date upon which ticket No. evidence in the Arbitration, Leak and as the parties shall agree del
103066 was bought is. of extreme
With regard to the 24th December 1922 as alleged i the evidence of Mr. T. V. Boung, by Mrs. Chan and her witnessen X3049 as litween the two present rinimus" on the terms and condithe arbitrators dealt with is in this and found by the Special Jury in way "We cannot believe that Mr. the libel netion (the evidence was tiems quoted above,
Ng did not know of the contents of that all tickets in the book contain- Would Consider Award.
1ing Nos. 03061 to 0:1070 were sold Ja paragraph 7 of his letter Mr. this telegram before he went Fung Man sai states that it is true terview the Plaintiff (Chik Sung-on or before the 24th December, have pur that the Club should not, and wolling on the morning of the 2nd 1922) Chik could not
March" ad again "In our opinion ehused the same ticket No. 3OGG not be bound by the Award, but it Mr. Ng also went to that interview on the 4th or 5th January, 1923, and would" (and here he quotes again with the preeqievived intention of therefore Mr. Ng Quinn could not from the above-mentioned letter getting hold of the ticket 030s have obtained that ticket from him from, de Club's Solicitors) "ne which he must have recollected or on 2nd March, 1923, in Shanghai. dhabt give the Award of the Ardiscovered as having bri parchus. If he did not buy ticket 08066 than bitrators ils most weighty consideraod from Mr. Sg by the Plaintiff what ticke! did he buy? tion when the Club comes to en
(Chik There
evidence evidence given on this point by sider the question of payment after whatever to support the fireling of two witnesses enlled by Mrs. Chau One the Award has been mady" and the arbitrators that the telegram was that Chik purchased 09076, a Day
was received by Mr. Ng Quina friend of Chik's, a Shanghai man, Only
de arbilior to Jaquire into place between 11.39 am and 12-10 importance. For if purchased on the ownership of the ticket No. Pn. The same day.
IL
he goes on to any that as the Club saw no reus for differing from the conclusion arrived at by the Arhi
W
form the interview,
ILO
The
purchased 03077, and one of the witnesses himself called by Mrs.
At the hearing of the libel nation Chan purchased 03078 on the 4th trators which, by agreementy was there was the additional evidence January 1923. This evidence the in fact to determine the rival elnims, of the inside chit book of the Union arbitrators entirely reject. the only honourable and possible Bank of China in Shanghai which ticket handed to Ng Quinn in attitude for the Chib to take
UP showed that no eable was received|Shanghai was 03076.
The
after the Award was to make the by thuả Bank on the 186 March hut The Four Telegrams. payment as the claimant so found that two were, received on the 2nd During the proceedings Chik pro- to be the true owner, and neeurd-
Marcla
diced 4 telegrams which had pava- 】 ingly the full amount of the prize
Club Knew the Facts,
ed between himself and nephew money was paid to Me Chik on or
Evidence was also called at the and In cross-examination both about the uph October, 1991."
Arbitration to prove that on
stated that there were no uther
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passed between them. Subse- On the 7th March, 1923. Mr. of the winning ticket, vno of them other cables sont by the nophow Sydney Ng Quit on the morning being a Member of the Committent
Chik. On this the Ar- after his roturs from Shanghaij of the Chinese Club who was told bitrators make this comments: notifed the Hon. Secretary of the by a memhot of the fully that "The Club In writing that Mrs. Chan | afternoon that Mrs. Chan was tho been raluctant to produce was the owner of ticket No. 03066 owner of the winning ticket, that them for the obvious reason that which was lost, and gave him the it was lost, and he was asked to at least one of them contained Hames of each and every
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thom
Six witnesses stated on oath or Me Ng Quinn on the same day, In one particular they could do so
The whole of this evidence was
the SAW affirmation that they winning ticket No. 03066 sold to -Mrs. Chan on 24th
1992, at the same time and place sole conson,
In this lettur I have not dealt
December, rejected by the arbitrators for the with the alleged Memorandum put according to the in by Chik in the Arbitration." T Award, "that the Assistant Clark (Continued on Page 9.)
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