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1928.
SESSIONS, JURY
PREJUDICED.·
L. C. J. AND IRREGULAR PROCEDURE.
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The Very Date!
The Long Arm of Coincidence- "On January 4th," writes's cor respondent to a Homo "patier, "I
No fewer than 30 pages of the "It is n'fact that traffic in the Because the deputy chairman at left a two-seater car in X Square. Government Gazette are devoted to London area has grown faster ti al Middlesex Sessions had prejudicedWhen I returned for. it an hour the draft of an Ordinance to amend the population," said Mr. Frank the jury, the Court of Criminal later I noticed some mud on the the Widows and Orphans' Pension Pick, managing director of the Appeal quashed a sentence of five wind screen which had not been Ordinance, 1908.
London Underground Railways years' penal servitude for larceny deposit my parcels in the car I saw there before. Opening the door, to WHERE BOYS GET INDUSTRIAL: This Blil is introduced under in Group, in his evidence before the periury and false pretences,
TUITION.
structions received from the Right Joint Select Parliamentary Com- The Lord Chief Justice pointed the red tartan rug which I always Honourable the Secretary of State mittee, which is considering the out that at the end of tho Bum-keep locked up in the dickey lying for the Colonies,
railway companies' transport Bills.ming-up at the trial the deputy on the floor board. Kather The tables contained in the So greatly, he added, had the chairman (Sir Herbert Nield, K.C., puzzled, and thinking that some- Schedule to the 'Widows' and travelling habit grown in the Lou M,F.) said to the jury: There are one had borrowed' the car while Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, don area last year that every man, other charges of uttering cheques. I was shopping, I then saw the old At the far end of Third Street, on the assumption that the con each. This compared with 30911st of those.clurges.
are all worked out on the 6 basis, woman and child made 488 Journeys If you desire it you may have a man who looks after cars coming towards me accompanied by a at West Point, its grounds and tributions are earning interest at journeys per head in 1913. buildings screened by a wall, les the rate of 6%. New tables ave
Lord. Hewart asked if the pro-policeman. : a charitable institution of which been approved, which assume a rate that the L. G. O. C. and He as in view of the fact that it might car; the police are waiting for the Mr. Pick put in a table showing secution could justify that remark. He said 'Lucky that's not your. all too little is known-the St. of 87% and these new tables are sub-
owner, as his licence expired last Louis Industrial School. It is a stituted for the present Tables in sociates operated 5,220 buses, their prejudice the jury... busy hive of Industry designed in Schedule A to the Widows'
Mr. Eustace Fullon, for the pro- Junie." routes covering 1,691 rond miles. and the Interests of some fifty boys Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, year was 195,734,163, and the num- to justify the remark if it related car was almost touching the Lail
The number of car miles run last secution, said he could not attempt,
"I got out, and saw that my own walfs and strays who are being by section 3 and the Schedule to bor of passengers carried 1,698, to charges other than those in the lamp of the one I had been sitting, usefully trained in the institution, this Ordinance. while being assured of
indictment... 940, 236.
in. Both cars were of the same a future
Section 2 of this Ordinance pro- During 1927, ho said, 30 per means of livelihood.
Dangereus Practice.
make (n rather unusual typo) and vides that all future pensions shall cent, of the routes worked yielded Until two years ago, the School be calculated on the basis of the only the running costs plus de Lion to the fact that the trial was rugs, only one tartan had a white Mr. Justice Avory called atten-colour, both possessed red lartan was little more than a Reforma-new tables and that all existing preciation. Eleven tory, but lately It has been re-punsions shall be recalculated on the total number of passengers with the intention of proving
per cent. of adjourned to bring in a witness stripe in it, both clocks had organised. Six months ago it was that basis. This will mean a cer-were carried without a profit.
stopped, one at 11.15, the other at given the benefit of the practical tain increase in existing pensions
suggestion that a witness called 12.20; the only difference being experience of the Salesian Fathers, and in the calculation of future opening address on behalf of the prejury.
Sir Lynden Macassey, K.C, In his for the defonce had committed the mascot on each ear, and the six of whom, in addition to four pensionis, but the increase will not London road trnille interesis, said
fact that one ilcence had explrett "It seems to me to be a most six months earlier than the offer!" Brothers attached to the organisa-beso great as might be imagined be that the powers given in the Lon-dangerous practice. tion, are now in thurge of all cause a temporary merease of 25% don Tratic Act Departments of the School:
were quito in- has been made during recent years. sufficient to meet the need for the in order that the police may find a death announcement In a news "If a judice is to adjourn a trial)| A farmer came to town to insert some evidence ta contradict the papers
To the credit of the Salesian Fathers it must, he stated that as in Bangkok, Macao and other We regret to announce the death parts of the world, they have a in Vancouver on Thursday of Mr. fine record for practicable charit T. R. Alliree, chief steward of the able work, for many hundreds of Empress of Asia. thousands of orphans have been eduented and prepared under their naseful place in care to take society.
The Society's Aims: The Society to which these Fathers belong has as its principal aim the founding of industrial in stitutions wherein boys are taught a trade white being given grounding in education scholastic atlainments.
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and
Mr. All-
tree's son is employed locally in the Dairy Farm Company and is now on his way home.
co-ordination of transport.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris Brassels Amsterdam Berlin.
annually, barely sulieient to Vienna asking the Government to give, Copenhagen cover expenses, but it is hoped Helsingfors that with the profits resulting Lisbon from the work turned out in the
Bucharest Industrial
Buenos Aires departments of the school, sufficient will have been Yokohama
Shanghai obtained to enable the institution New York There is no discrimination us to creed or race, but the disposition Salesian Fathers have now
to carry on. In Macan, where the Geneva
a Milan... to work or learn, and tie clream- nourishing Industrial School, the Stockholm stances which commend these orphans to charitable attention, anual donation made by the Gov- ONIO are the only recommendations re-ment amounts to $7,000. quired for admission into those Father Bernardini said that the
Hon. Captain Superintendent · of Bja Police had spoken warmly of the Bombay School and had such a high re-Hongkong yard for its work, that up-to-date Silver (spot) he has sent five boys to the School. Silver (forward)
Many Departments.
institutions.
Within the six months that Father Bernardini and his assist- ants have taken charge, the St. Louis Industrial School has pro- greased as well as could be ex- pected, but further expansion is now definitely checked by the
Such work as is now being car lack of room. The promises avail-ried out in the School, within its 'able can only enter to the needs limited quarters, is of a fairly.
of a very limited number of comprehensive nature. There is
pupils, and against this there is the perpetual demand for further admissions.
an Engineering Department, where machine parts dré turned out and facilities are provided for With six Fathers and four Bro- the study of engines and motora, thers fresh from their work in These include even aeroplane other fields and keen to tackle the motors, two of which, gifts from local problem, it is a pity that the Fint Company, are already many times the present number installed. Then there are milling] cannot be taken into the fold, for engines, lathes and tool-making there are numerous waifs and engines. The Brother who tea- strays in the Colony, whose time des five or six boy mechanics in could be more usefully employed this Department, young Italian in the preparation of a future
career.
Two Lakhs Needed.
whose keenness appears to be un- beaded-spoke with enthusiasm of the work of his pupils.
Our representative was shown Father Bernardini sorrowfully over the printing and book-mak admitted to a Telegraph repre- ing departments where were seen Bentative yesterday that there is a sample copies of magazines made possibility of his having to aban-up and printed by the boys of the don the School and leave the Colony for other fields, owing to the lack of adequate financial sup- port.
"I need $200,000," he said, "and" I need it badly. We require much larger alte than this to house our boys,
stitition alone.
· Further on, at the western end of the premises, are other rooms devoted to the Shoemaking anel Tailoring Departments, The mist have been busy hives, of in- dustry during work-days, but the summer holidays have now set
The fact which strikes the visi-|
on ал
It appears that Father Bernar-n, and the place is quiet, dini is hoping for support from a group of Chinese philanthropists or on entry, and it is one which who some years ago were planning persists in his mind, in the examp the founding of a big Industı inl
ed"surroundings which have neces- School for poor boys of the Colony stated the use of every available That scheme had to be shelved foot of space. Quarters far the account of the big strike, but Fa-boys and Fathers are ther Bernardini now hopes it may equally restricted scale, but little be again taken up in conjunction with his own project. He feels concern is expressed for these that time should make no differ minor discomforts as compared ence to the plans, and if these with the pressing demands for Chinese gentlemen were then will working space for a growing ins
titution. ing to subscribe to what they re-
The pupils are taught their res- cognized as a most deserving
for five hours a cause, they should have no hestita pective trades
day, in addition to attending tion to do so now."
Loaking, about. for a possible classes where they are taught or site, Father Bernardini mentioned dinary school subjects in English the old Leather Factory site on and Chinese....
'the' mainland,
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which is now
vacant. It seems to be a suitable
A Brass Band, place for his purpose, "but, gaid Lastly, there in the St. Louis, Father Bernardini with a regretful Industrial School Brass Band, sigh, "this may not be possible." which does" admirably under A European teacher who is also the Petition to Government.
Master Tallor. .
It is, however, to the authorl- The Salesian unit of which ties that Father Bernardini has Father Bernardini is the hood had now sent an appeal for material worked in other fields in the Far support for his scheme. He has East before being invited to Hong- forwarded a petition to the Gov-kong. Father Bernardini himself ernment for the raising of the an-taught for ten years at the Macao nual Government grant to the St. Industrial School. He also spont Louis Industrial School from $600 one year at the Shanghal Instita- to $7,000,
tion before coming here. He says Father Bernardini pointed out he likes Ilongkong and wishes to that the Fathers and Brothers on work here in the interests of the the staff give their services in an orphans, if he is well-supported honorary capacity, asking for noin his scheme. Otherwise, he will thing more than the mere cost of have to leave the local School ne their upkeep. Ho calculates that it is, and go, it may be to Bangkok. this amounts to $60 a head. The to take charge of a new Industrial sum of $7,000 which he is now School that is being founded there.
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London, July f.
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evidence for the defence, then the "How much do you charge?" he. defence ought to apply, for a fur-asked."
W
ther adjournment to prove that Ten shillings an inch," was the the witness who has been called reply.
for the police is not to be belloved. "Heavens said the farmer. There is no reason why a trial "He was over six feet high!"' should ever end in that way.
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34.02 Lord Hewart said the trial had | At least 120 Hneal descendants 12.00% been unsatisfactory, The judge of the late Queen Victoria aro now 20.40 called evidence involving adjourn-scattered about the world, some of .18.20 ments of the trial to deal with a them not even traceable by the law 34.59 matter which did not arise, aud-courts, it was revealed in a recent 193% denly.
action contesting a will the 2.7/32
The course taken was not only Chancery Division." 794% 17.16/34 irregular, but it was gravely to The will contained a trust to
2/7 the prejudice of the accused,
continue until the death of "the The appeal must succeed, and last of Queen Victoria's descen- 4.87 7/32 the conviction would be quashed.dants living at the time of the
26.28 There were other charges, but the do with .92.80 Court, had nothing, to .18.16 those charges, for the moment at .18.20
any rate. ..104 20.02
...375
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death of the testator" provision frequently employed some, venrs ago to avoid as long as possible certain rules against accumula- tions and perpatuities,
Counsel for the Public Trustee, 5.57/64 Sir William Prescott has been who is trying to upset the will, 1/5%elected chairman of the Metro-said that the descendunts of Queen 2/0% politan Water Board, being the Victoria included members of the 27% Arst member of the Institution of Russian royal family, whose fate 27.3/16 Civil Engineers appointed to the has never beef finally ascertained, -British Wireless,
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and of the German royal house, "who might not all eventually be traceable for reasons of compara tive, obscurity. An Archduke of Austria, Johann Orth, was sold to have shipped as a sailor and dia- ameared. The son of Louis XVI Was supposed to have fallen' in battle, but this had never been officially condried.
The case is a commentary on the unset in royal fortunes wrought by the war. Before 1914 the ther rht that some of Victoria's descen- dants might become. "untraceable" as early as 1928 would have seem- ed absurd.
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Willesden rates official: apply for 160 summonses; only ordinary ones, nothing particular. Gas company's official: And I for just seven, also ordinary.
A street pavior stated at Bow County Court that his earnings were £7 a work.
Wife.at Bow County Court: My husband said that he could not dance attendance on this court when he had work to do,"
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More schoolbay howlers- The Transvaal is situated on a plateau four bousand miles high, and produces large crops of serials,
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The Nile rises in Munge Park. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea which has come into the middle of the earth by means of an earth- quake.
A cape is a piece of land falling into the water from a great height. A watershed is a shed. In mid- ocean for ships to shelter in when in storms."
In Africa the sheep's tails are not cut off; but the ends are made into butter.
North and South Poles mean that if a ship comes near one, and looks for the farther one she can't see it.
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While leveling some ground for a tennis court at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Clutterbuck in an out lying part of Brighton, a workman found a skull Thinking it to be that of in animal he threw it aside, together with other bones which he Bubsequently litiearthed
Investigation, however, showed the remains to be human. They were reassembled and proved to bej those of a girl about twenty years of age who, it is thought, must have died nearly 4,000 years ago, The body had been, buried in a crouching position with flints piled over it, and experts say, that it belongs to the period of the Stone Age or the airly Bronze Aged The teeth were in a remarkably good, state of preservation, The skull and bones are to be exhibited in the Brighton Museum. d
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