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SUNNING PIRACY CASE DEVELOPMENT
Bail Granted.
THE MIXED COURT.
CHINESE JURISDICTION TO OPERATE.
FOXES ON SHOW.
SILVER-COATED ANIMALS * WORTH £300 A PAIR..
With-70 Foxes benched and 10
Shanghai, Dec. 81. Five defendants in the Sunning It is omolally announced that pairs of foxy nyca chating filanting piracy case were discharged by the arrangements completed "be-glances on a host of curious visit- Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central tween the Chinese and foreign ans, the first exhibition of silver Magistracy on Friday.
Another thorities for the rondition of the foxon held in this country was defendant will be
discharged | Mixod Court will be effective as opened at the Crystal Palace, to-day, leaving cleven mon still from to-morrow.
Sydenham, S., last month. facing the charges.
Similar action, having due re The exhibition la being held in gard to the difference in status be- conjunction with the Grand In- tween the two courts, will be taken ternational Show of Poultry and' At the conclusion of the after in respect of the French Mixed Pigeons, and lasts until to-morrow, noon hearing Mr. Lo renewed his Court as from January (5) evening. As foxes and birds are application for ball on behalf of It is understood that the heal of under one roof, the latter have the sixth defendant, the Aberdeen the Mixed Court will be handed bees apacially insured against any man. Mr. Lo said the man's bus-over to-morow-morning when the
escape of their traditiona Provisional Chinese ness involved the making of gra- Shanghal
enemics. There *-WORL 12,500 was suffering on Court formally replaced the Mixed birds, valued at anything up to vestones and account of his continued absence. Court-Reuter
£100 aptece, to be protected. He was anxious that he should be available to ince the charge; and also be free to look after some of his business, Mr. Lo added: that any number of Chinese detec- tives could watch the man while he was out on bail.
"Mr." Holmes said he had no serious objection to make and Mr.) Lindsell granted bail of $5,000: cdek and $10,000 securities.
Mr. Lo: Can the ball be made any less?
"Mr. Lindsell: I don't think the ball is exhorbitant in the circum
stances.
The remaining defendants were remanded until Tuesday morning.
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CHINA TELEGRAPHS.
CASH PAYMENTS TO BE MADE.
The coats of these foxes were really beautiful and greatly id- | mired by the "womon. An export bald Daily Mail reporter. that the higheat price, realised last year for a raw skin was 2100. This misaris something about £206- | for the made-up fur; but average price for a good raw akin le about 240.
Six-years-Old Industry.
Shanghai, Dec. 31. Referring to the statement Issued on the 29th December, the three
The silver fox farming industry. foreign cable companies Inform Reuter that arrangements have is now firmly established in this to-day been made whereby tele country, particularly in Scotland. rams handed over by the Chin-It is only six years since the first
ese administration to the com-j
panies for the present will be paid foxes were landed in Great Bri- for in cash and telegrams with tain. They are a Canadian.mani- held from five on the evening of mal, and the first commercial in- the 28th are now being parasiterprise with them originated: over by the companies for their Prince Edward Island, destinationsReuter,
In the boom years from 1907 to 1014 the best skins brought from 2300 to 4520 apiece, while a
BRITAIN'S REVENUE. pair of live foxes averaged about
£20,000,000 LESS IN NINE
·MONTHS. ·
London, Dec. 81,
The Treasury's revenue returns
of the United Kingdom for the
£2,000, and a pair of proven breed- ora up to 45,000,-
To-day proven breeders are very rarely sold, but a pair of first-year cubs costs from £200 to £300, and in some cases.more.
27 In. A Van.
The first silver foxes brought to this country went ip a form in
hine months to December 81, show Rosashire in 1920, and most of revenue at £479,020,563, compared the Crystal Palace exhibits are with £499,678,926 during the cor-
from Scotland..
responding period of 1925, indicat-
One consignment alone number- ing a decrease of £20,658,363.
ed. 27 In one van, and judging by The total expenditure chargeable descriptions of what the van smelt against this revenue was £625,460-ke they must have trilled enough G09, showing ir deficit of £146,480,- essence of "vulp" on their journey 046 when set against revenuesouth to draw all the foxhounds Reuter.
in the Shires...
COUNTESS DIES, IN
ATTIC.
BEAUTY WHO CHARMED TWO CAPITALS.
The Countess Rose zu Sternqu und Hohenan, who was known as the Hungarian Pompadour, and' who 20 years ago had courtiers, politicians, and financiera nt her: feet, has died in great poverty,
Interest in these foxes over- shadows that of the vast array, of birds, although one pair of pigny pouter pigeons have travelled 7,500 miles to the show from the Foderated Malay States.
EARL'S DEBTS.
BANKRUPTCY COURT STORY OF SPECULATIONS.
A, peer's speculations in cotton futures were referred to In the London. Bankruptcy Court recent- y
She was the daughter of a small trademan in a Hungarian town
The Earl of Pembroke and and became a shopgirl in Bilda- pest, where her beauty attracted Montgomery attended for public the notice of a rich financier, who examination on accounts showing provided generously for her. She total liabilities of £404,867 [of was, however, lured away from which 66,882 were unsecured) her lover by a Hungarian poliei and assets estimated to produce cian who had himself fallen in £1,800.
Lord Pembroke said that in Jan- love with her, and she was soon immersed in a sea of political in-uary 1920 he resigned from the Ashy with the rank of Heutenant [trigue,, -
colonel and pension of about Her beauty, charm of manner, £250 a year. and wit fitted her to be a political Under the will of his father and agent, and in that role she appear-certain deeds of grant and letters ed in Vienna. There she had patent iduting from about the year great success. Her hats, with 1544 he had become entitled to the flourishing ostrich feathers, be income of settled estates in Wilt- came the talk of the town. She shire and Ireland amounting an- was always seen at the races and
nually to about £68,000. she gave herself the luxury of a racing stable, choosing rose and white as her racing colours...
Accused As A Spy.
The present gross income was £64,798, but establishment char- ges, premiums on life policies, jointure portione "and things of that sort," had to be paid, before Marriage with the impoverish he received anything. There was ed Baron Schonberge gave her o a surplus income of £3,643 after title and regularised her position. he had executed certain charges. Her brilliant career was brought to an end by the publication of in
In 1919 he and a Mr. B. F. D. article, under the title "Accuse, Fitzgibbon (who had since become by a Budapest newspaper in 1906, bankrupt), began to speculata in which declared that two Ministers cotton Futures as partners. The had sent her to Vienna' to intrigue deals résulted in a heavy loss and against Colonel Stephen Pisza, the partnership was dissolved in the former Premier.
June 1921. A wate
£200,000 Losses.⠀⠀
He had no knowledge of the ot The position of the baroness be came as impossible in Budapest ton markets, and had left the as it was in Vienna, where she management of the transactione was said to be acting as a spy for entirely to Fitzgibbon, who had the Hungarian Government.
no means to contribute his sharo She settled in Berlin and mar- of the losses. The car had to Fried Count Wenzel zu Sternau und bear all, and he estimated that he
Hohenau, who was more interested lost altogether about £200,000, in theosophy than in money, He died some years age, and in spite of plucky attempts to retain her position the countess fell on hard times,
In March 1924 he bought for £200,000 shares in a Canadian gold mining company, which had pre- ved unsuccessful, and the shares were now of no value.
She was a frequenter of Berlin To finance these speculations gaming clubs, but few people know and to pay arrears of super-tax that the elderly woman who eager for 1924 he borrowed £340,720 be- ly watched the fall of the cards tween 1919 and 1924 on the secu- had once dazzled three capitale fity of his life interest and assur with her beauty. She died in antice policies,
The examination was adjourned. altie without a friend,
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