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A RADIO GIFT.
KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB'S FINE DONATION.
The gift of a radio set to the Home for Blind Girls at Kowloon City was an occasion for rejoicing yesterday, when a party of some thirty residents were afforded an opportunity of looking over the premises and at the same time ob- serving the intenEO pleasure which the afflicted girls derlyed from the gift.
Bent.
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929.
MARRED MARRIAGE.
MAINTENANCE - CLAIMED
BY THE WIFE.
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of a
SOUTHERN CROSS.
FLIGHT ACROSS AUSTRALIA
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Sydney, June 26. The domestic difculties
has Capt. Kingsford Smith Chinese couple of Shamshuipo were
accomplished his taken to Court at the Kowloon successfully
nfiernoon non-stop flight across Australia. Magistracy yesterday when Mr. T, S. Whyte Smith was He arrived in Derby at 10.30 to- asked by the wife to make an order day after a flight lasting just over for maintenance against the de- twenty hours. He proposes to fendant who was alleged to have fly to England vin Singapore, failed to provide his wife with Calcutta, Karachi and Baghdad.
reasonable maintenance.
Mr. J. M. Hail appeared for the husband, the complainant being unrepresented.
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In the party were Mr. G. A. Walker, Mr. A. W. Eastman tund his daughter, Miss Enatman, Mr. J. Smith, and other members of the
His Worship said that the pre- Kowloon Football Club who were sent summons followed a previous associated with the gift; Hon. Mr. Bummons in which the wife claimed J. P. Braga, Dr. R. A. Brato, Mr. to have been treated with porsistent T. Bradford, Mr. Gish and bigs cruelty and not maintained by her Gish, Mr. A. Spary, and others. husband: The present action, his Mr. J. W. Brown, who was rearan- Worship understood, was an a re- sible for the installation of the sult of the husband'a refusal to been flooded. ant and apparatus, was also pre-take her back again. Ils Worship to save the fifty miners in one said that he thought, Mr. Hall had Mian Moritz, the Principal of indiented at the last, hearing, that the husband's reason for refusing the Home, conducted the visitors to take her back was because of into the main room, where the in-her infidelity. His Worship asked males, numbering some alxty girls
Mr. Hall if that was the present contributed pleasing vocal and in- | situation."" strumental selections.
Mr. Hall agreed, but said that Some of these girls have been he was not in a position to prove taught to play the violin well, and the allogation. There was only a the deepest interest was shown strong suspicion.. when two of them played in con- His Worship said that he thought cert with another at a harmonium. that the defence would have to he was
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made itself evident; paper-combs, mouth-organs and slide-whistles being the instruments called into
entertainment play. The
was warmly applauded.
The grond item of the evening was, of course, the radio act, and officiating at this, Mr. Brown suc- ceeded in tuning in to the Hong- kong station, and later to Canton. The effect on the girls was mark- ed. In their way they ovinced intense pleasure at the new ac quisition
In making the presentation of the instrument, Mr. G. A. Walker expressed the hope that it would give the funiates many hours of enjoyment.
Expression of Thanks.
Mr. Hall replied that not stressing that point.
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His Worship: Then don't you admit that the husband must main- tain his wife?
Mr. Hall replied in the negative, remarking that the complainant had deserted her husband.
section have been abandoned owing to the rising water.--Reuter fore a wife or a husband is held to have deserted, Absence of four years. If according to Home Law A husband is trying to divorce his wife on the ground of desertion he has to prove that sbo persistently absented herself for a period of four years. You are going to argue that the local Chinese customs are different?
Chinese Customs,
Yes. Even apart Mr. Hali: from that I would refer your Wor ship to Halsbury. "The obliga tion of a husband to maintain his wife ceases if she leaves him without his consent under circum- stances which do not justify her living apart."
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His Worship: Your case is that this woman' has left her husband and is no longer entitled to main- tenance?
Mr. Hall: Yes.
The Previous Summons. Continuing, Mr. Hall said that he would plead autrefois acquit. The defendant was charged on April 17
His Worship: If a woman went un a similar charge and also on a charge of assault. Hin Worship had away for a fortnight although he diamissed the summons. The de- (the husband) remonstrated with fendant was acquitted and he washer, and stayed with her mother therefore entitled to plead autrefois in the country, do you say, that in doing that she releases her husband acquit.
from all further Hability for. maintaining her?
Is Worship and that the sum- mons was dismissed because the complainant could produce no wit- ness to say that she had been treat
In returning thanks on behalf of the Blind Home, the Hon. Mir. J.ed with persistent cruelty or that P. Braga said:
her husband had failed to maintain her while in his house, but in view of the husband's refusal to take Bummons his wife back the new was issued. The new summons re- ferred to the present refuanl.
Mr. Hall said that he simply
When. I was asked to come hero and say a few words of thanks fot this handsome gift to the Blind Home, the first thought that cross- ed my mind was two lines that occur in that beautiful poem of Julia Carney-"Little Things-raised this point, but if his Worship did not agree with him he would when she wrote of how-
drop the eubmission, and would ask his Worship to hear the case on its merits.
"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy like the heaven above."
His Worship naked how long the In the presentation to the wife had been away from her Blind
Home of this magni-husband, and Mr. Hall replied that the rat It was long before ficent radio set built by our
Bummons. Thore was no indien- keen radio enthusiast, Mr. J.
Lion, before his Worship, continued W. Brown, our Kowloon fellow resident, Mr. G. A. Walker, hng Mr. Hall, that the wife wanted to performed a deed of kindness for go back to him. It was only in which I am asked to return thedicated that the man naturally heartfelt thanks of the. Mutron would refuse to take her back, and staff and of the inmates of Every Chinese would. There was no indiention then or now that the wife wanted to go back. She left of her own necord.
this Home.
In times of emergency and tribulation like the present when busy men like Mr. Walker and Mr. Brown can be found to give a Thought to poor girls, in the words of Kipling; "blind to the darkened years" and left to "the little mercy of men," one cannot fail to he struck with the spirit of charity and sympathy with the affliction of our fellow-beings which pervade the community in Hongkong and which have made the Colony
famous.
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Magistrate's Hypothefle Case.
lis Worship: Supposing my on wife said that she insisted going Home to England and I said didn't want her to but still she insisted on going, do you argue that would give me a right not to take her back again?
Mr. Hall: According to Chinese custom the wife must not leave her husband without his cousent. I the Chinese law here. It have goes so far as to allow the husband to sell her as a slave if she goes away without consent,
His Worship: Wo would not allow that here,
Mr. Hall: Oh no: Not in Hongkong.
· Complainant Called, Continuing Mr. Hall Buld that his Worship would appreciate the sanctity of a Chinese marriage and the danger that would arise if a wife left her husband without tell- ing him where she went and then went back to him again.
His Worship decided to hear the evidence and the complainant went into the witness box. She and that she had married the defendant at the age of 16 but left him when she was 27, six years ago. actually ceased living with him on April 8, 1929.
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When witness was 27 years old her husband married a'concubine. Witness denied that she had been guilty of infidelity. She accused her husband of cruelty on several occasions. She had been happy with her husband until he took a husband hind concubina. Her stated that she was too old.
Under cross-examination by Mr. Hall, witness explained that when her husband' married a second time Mr. Hall: That's a different about 1923 he was treated and position, your Worship. I don't the matter was placed before the think that's an analogous case. It Secretary for Chinese Affairs and was not a case as if this woman it was decided that they should went back to her country or live apart, the husband allowing ancestors's apuntry or went Homo witness $15 per month maintenance. as your Worship had sald. Home Five years later witness returned ...home to her home land. Then it to her husband, but finally left in would have been a different matter. April this year.. She would have been maintained in The case was adjourned.`. the family house in the country. out her husband's consent or her husband's family's consent. We don't know where she was living.
To you two gentlemen my very pleasant duty this evening is, to return the cordial thanks of every one connected with this Home for your gift which is so very highly appreciated. It is so thoughtful of you to make a present 'of an' instrument of pleasure and hap-But she deserted her husband with piness to the inmates of this Home. That this radio set will be the means of recreation and de Hight to the large number of blind girls who will sit around in this hall and listen evening after even ing to the variod programmes of music from near ́and' ofar goes His Worship:: According without saying. It is certain to Home law it takes four years be contribute to the happiness of the (Continued on Next Column) poor girls who "stricken blind cannot forget the precious trea- sura of eyesight lost."
Mr. Hall asked his Worship to take the woman's evidence and then the case could be thrashed out on its merits:
to
ful noises, and cheer, us up in the dull afternoons.
You as the donors and contribu- tors of a measure of happiness to
On behalf of all the girls, 1 the blind girls in this Home will have much pleasure in thanking be pleased with the consciouancas Mr. Walker, very heartily, for that your "little deed of kindness" raising a large sum of money for will help to make earth happy this receiving set. We are also. for these young people who re-grateful to Mr. Brown for coming. cognise in you-Mr. Walker and here on a hot day and climbing up Mr. Brown benefactora for the roof to put the atennae. whose generosity they can only We shall always remember the make return in a prayer that you kindness of the members of the and youre may be given the bless Kowloon Football Club in provid- ings of peace, health and haping us, now and again with all pinean. On behalf of the Blind sorts of amusements and gifts Home I thank you, Gentlemen, which we can enjoy through the (Applause.)
other sensos than that of sight.
་་་ (Applause)
!
A Blind Girl Speaks.
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The visitors then adjourned to In excellent English, one of the another room where they shared girls in returning thanks, sald: the hospitality of Miss Moritz and Ladies and gentlemen, you cannot her co-workers of the Hildesheim Imagine how joyful and grateful
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It was stated yesterday that the we are on hearing this good music Home will be shortly moved to new produced by the wireless receiving set, which has kindly been present premises at Prospect Place. Those ed to us by the members of the premises are now occupied by thi Kowloon Football Club. I am St. Stephen's Boys College, but sure it will soon transform this will he vacated on the removal of Blind Home into a tower of benull-the College to the new buildings
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