THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929.
PO HING THEATRE KING'S MESSAGE OF THE SEPTIC TANK SWATOW DROUGHT HUSBAND BEFORE
*CONTRACT.
THANKS.
QUESTION.
CONTINUES.
COURT.
DISPUTE OVER SUPPLY OF MATERIALS.
DEEPLY IMPRESSIVE SERVICE AT THE ABBEY.
SIX QUERIES FOR SANITARY' BUT NOT QUITE SO BAD AS
· ́BOARD MEETING,
IN HONGKONG.
TOLD THAT HE MUST SUPPORT HIS WIFE
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POWELLS
10, Ice, House Street.
SUMMARY COURT ISSUE | EMPIRE THANKSGIVING
London, July 7. Work done at the Po Hing Theatre, Yaumati, formed the His Majesty the King has subject of an action in the Sum-addressed a Message to the Arch- mary Court this morning, when bishop of Canterbury, expressing the Kwong Loong firm claimed his thankfulness and satisfaction $524 from Ma Tau Nam, Chan that his earnest desire to join with Chiu-wah and Leung So-ah, carry. His People in Thanksgiving has ing on business under the style been accomplished. of the. Wo Lok Company, for work done and materials supplied be tween January and February this
year.
Mr. D. L. Strellett appeared for the plaintiff firm and Mr. D. II. Blake for the first defendent.
Mr. Strellett said the plaintiffs were contracting carpenters, the defendent Ma Tau-Nam being the| chief, manager of the Ping On Instiraned Company. The latter decided to lease the Po Hing Theatre for the purpose of staging Chinese plays. The firm which en tered into the lease was known as the Wo Lok Company, but whether Ma Tou-yam was the sole partner
Thanksgiving Services for the King's recovery were held in all Churches throughout the Empire. Most of them were modelled upon the service held in Westminster Abbey, at which the King himself together with Queen and eight other members of the Royal Family were present.
MR. LO'S ENQUIRIES. CROPS ARE AFFECTED. CONCUBINE TROUBLE,
Un
the
Important questions. Board's attitude in regard to the use of septic tanks are to be asked by Mr. M. R. La at to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board. They are as follows:
Swalow, July 6, 2 Although the drought hero is not so severe as in Hongkong, reports from some of the country districts show that there is considerable anxiety amongst the farmers,
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"You'll have to support your wife properly, even if I have to sell your car," said Mr. E. W. Hamilton at: the Central Magistracy this morn- ing to a Chinese named Li Kam- chol, of No. 20, Li Tung Street,! from whom maintenance WEN
Mr. A. E. Hall represented the compainant, who claimed to be the defendant's kit fat wife.
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support from the defendant for the last few months, and, in con- brother. It was further alleged by sequence, she had to live with her
the complainarit that the defendant kept a concubine.....
The defendant. denied that he had not been supporting his wife, saying that she lived with his father at Spring Garden Lane and properly provided for o
saw. concened, as far, a food
that alleged
sho left him without his knowledge and went to live with her brother. He said she was allowed to go back to the house in Spring Garden! Lane at any time..
1. With reference to applicá- On the whole, the Swatow-Chao-claimed by his wife, Li Young-shi, tions to the Sanitary Board for chaochowful plain is well watered No. 46, Spring Garden Lane. permission to instal flush water by the tonumerable streams of the closets, is it the ruling of the lian delta, so that oven in rainless Board:(a) That such applica-sensons much of the harvest can be tions must be refused if the avail- reaped, though at tremendous ex able Government sewer is for any penditure of human labour in ir-alleged that she had received no reason not considered satisfactory | rigation. as a direet means of discharge, and (b) That in urban areas on the supply from running streams Other districts less fortunate, in sen level neptic tanks cannot be This, by the King's express allowed?
are ladly off. destre, was 'naccompanied by
The first rice harvest has just formal State ceremonial, and was 2. If the answer to (b) is in buen reaped. In addition to the a simple as it was extremely the affirmative, what are the ren-small crop due to drought earlier impressive. Although, the prin- sons for such ruling?
In the year, the late sowing laid cipal statesmen of the country, the 3- a fact that a well the paddy open to attack by an in- corpa diplomatique, and a great known firm of architects have sent sect pest which has in some cases number of representative people in to the Board a plan for a septle destroyed 50 per cent of the crop. were present, there was an ab- tank (in connexion with an appli The farmers now badly need rain sence of uniform and the nave of cation for permission to instal wa- for planting the seedling rice of the the Abbey was filled by the general ter closeta in Kowloon) as to which second crop.-Our Own Correaport Employed by Owner.
such architects have made the, fol-deut. The Abbey service was relayed lowing claime The lease, Mr. Strellett under-1 alou, was made out in the mume by wireless to the whole country, of the Wo Lok. Plaintiff was not.
and many Churches equipped with aware of the circumstances underwireless receivers incorporated which Ma and the Wo Lok leased the Abbey proceedings in their the theatre, but he would say that own services. the owner of the theatro, prior to the lease coming into operation, employed his firm to put in certain
The King and Queen drove from benches and scats and also to make a counter in the entrance Buckingham Palace to the Abbey hall of the theatre where tickets were.Bold.
Some considerable time before the lease came into force, occups Lon of the premface was taken
was not material.
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public.
Everywhere, on the King's sug- gestion, the offertories were de- voted to hospitals,
in an open carriage, and on arriving at the great West Door, they were conducted to their places in the presbytery. The hymns were led by the organ and the band of the Grenadier Guards.
over by the Wo Lok, representa- Perhaps the most moving moment tives of the proposed lesseen being! there making plans with the con- in the service was when, after the of the fessore. The roll of the drums, the Dean spoke managing puriner of the plaintiff the words: "God save the King, firm would say that he had a God save this realm, God give us warkman on the benches from thankful hearts." whom he received a communien- tlon, as a result of which he went to the Theatre. A man named Yu San-wai was pointed out to him, and he gave, plaintiff to understand that he represented The lenses and said he wonted plaintiff to carry out certain work.
Estimate Given,
Plaintiff was taken into the Theatre and the proposed work
Immediately there was a fanfare, of trumpets, after which the con- gregation sang the first verse of the National Anthem.-Reuter's and British Wireless.
CARRYING DUCK BY ITS LEGS. MISSIONARY'S PLEA FOR
LENIENCY.
The defendant pleaded guilty and said that he did not know the laws of the Colony.
(a) That such septic tank, con- structed upon the principle of triple-chambered design, in accordance with the plans sent int. will discharge clear odourless cfluent into the' gewer and thence into the sen and would prove unobjection- able in all respecta; (b) That cast iron plpeg with leaded joints being used, there is no question of contaminat- ing the surrounding soil nor any source of water supply: (c) That sollage water does not enter into the septic tank but is taken to the sewer, and, (d) That the removal of aludge need, only occur appoximately every twelve months? 4-If the answer to the last question is in the affirmative, in there any reason to doubt that septic tanks could be designed and to function as in- constructed dicated in the last question, and if so, what are the reasons for such doubt?
NEW SOLICITOR..
MR. F. C. E. RENDALL ADMITTED THIS MORNING.
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall has joined Mesera, Russ and Co., solicitors, and this morning an application was made to the Chief Justice for him to be enrolled as a solicitor practising in the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
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Why She Left. Giving evidence, the complainant! said she had been married for 11 years. They got on well with each other until five years ago when the defendant look to himself a concubine and since then she had not received adequate support. Her reason for leaving the house, ahe said, was because her husband failed to provide for her, and the two children.
Questioned by Mr. Hall, she The application for Mr. Ren-sald she had occasion toʻgo to No. dall's enrollment was made by 2 Police Station some time ago, the Attorney General, the Hon. The reason being that her husband Sir Joseph Kemp, who said that all and his concubine assaulted her. the requirements of the Ordinance This, she informed his Worship, had been complied with excopt was another reason why she left the provision that four months' the house to live with her brother. notice should be given to the Law Society.
Notice was given on April 6 and the Law Society and the Registrar had no objection to only three months' notice being given.
If septic tanks could be de- His Lordship said he had much signed and constructed to function pleasure in directing Mr. Rondall na, indicated in question 3, what to be enrolled, and wished him are the sanitary objections to such success in his local practice, septic tanks in cases where the! Mr. Rendall arrived recently Government sewer is not avail-from England where he was in able as a direct means of dis-practice in Leicester for about two charge from flush water closets? years. He was a regular officer 6. it desirable from the of the Indian Army, and took his sanitary point of view that, in B.A. degree in a Welsh University. urban areas on sea level, Govern- ment sewers capable of being a direct discharge from flush water closets should be available?'
WATER LEVELS.
TRAM STRIKE RIOT.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN NEW ORLEANS.
was pointed out, plaintiff being! A plen in extenuation of the unked to give an estimate. This man's offence was put forward by amounted to $460 for five items the Rev. H. Gless, of the Basel which represented the require Mission, on behalf of a Chinese ments of Yo Sau-wai. The cati- of the Ho Yuen District, who was mate went to the business office charged beforis Mr. P. S. Whyte of the Ping On Insurance Com-Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy pany and plaintif there saw Yo this morning, for causing uni- Sau-wal who took him in to see
necessary cruelty to a duck by Ma Tau-nam. The latter said the carrying it spended by its legs. price was too high and suggested the use of a cheaper wood. Plain tiff was again referred to Yu Sau-
The Rev. Mr. Gless, sald defen- wal, who was the assistant manu dant was a refugee from the ger of the
Ping On Insurance country where he had been robbe Company and a fresh specification and where one of his brothers had The following table, compiled was drawn up. Plaintiff was ask- been killed. He had only bien in by the Board of Conservancy ed to consider it and when he had Hongkong for two or three day's works of Kwangtung, shows the done so made a reduction in the and did not know the lawa. He water levels in English feet on price of the proposed work. It was on his way to British North the West, North and East Rivers Police and numerous heads were included the erection of bunks for Boruco for shelter. actors and actresses to sleep in,) and also the construction of cer tain partitions.
After the work had been started, Yu told the plaintiff that he quality of the wood was to be changed. Plaintiff went down to the Theatre and was told that the defendants had decided to vaa tenk wood, in accordance with their original scheme. The work went on and no difficulties arose. When completed, the lessees took posses- sion of the theatre and made use of It.
Money Not Pald, When plaintiff went to the Theatre with his bill, he saw both Yu and Ma and the bill was hand- ed to the accountant of the defen dants who had an office in the Theatre. The accountant toll plaintiff to return in a few days, as he had no money. Since then plaintiff had applied many times for payment, but had not received
it.
His Worship said that in all WILM cases of cruelty the defence ignorance of the customs of the Colony, but it was usually pointed out to the offenders that it was not entirely a matter of law, but af question of what was pain and what was not,
In reply to his Worship, the Rev. Mr. Gious said he had known the defendant and his people in the country and had been asked by his brother to speak on his behalf.
His Worship was informed by the police that the defendant hud already spent the whole of yoster- day and last night in the cells.
His Worship said that under
he thought the circumstances caution would meet the case."
COMPASSION FOR A WOMAN.
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“LIGHT” BAIL OF $1,000 ESTREATED. Compassion for a woman wha gave birth to a baby a month ago, was expressed by
n Revenue
No suggestion had been made Officer, Mr. Grimmitt, when he ap- that plaintiff had not done the plled before Mr. E. W. Hamilton work or that the defendants were this morning for the forfeiture of not the people liable for payment. bail of $1,000, which she deposit. Mr. D. H. Blake said the defenceed following upon the discovery was that the goods were ordered at her home at 29, Bai Street, of by the leasur. The defendants 26 taels of contraband opium. were the longeĽA, '
Evidence Was given by the managing partner of the plaintiff firm, and the case is continuing.
Mr. Grimmitt sald that the thou- sand dollars were all that the woman could scrape together, and he thought it better to take the bail, inadequate as it was, than Impose the burdship upon her of having to come to Court having regard to her condition.
Bhanghai, July 6. The vernacular papers publish a
It was explained that her hus- dispatch from Keelung stating that ten minors were killed and eight band, in oplum-dealer, had disap- seriously injured as the result of peared, but that the authorities an explosion In the Zuiho Colliery, were not without hopes of arrest-
ing him on his return. near Keelung.
A further hundred men, in the The ball was confiscated upon mine are believed to be safe-Neu- the non-appearance of the woman ter.
in Court.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND
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EAST RIVERS.
on the dates named:
Shlühing Tsingyuen
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Samiskui Sheklung
New Orleans, July 6. Serious rioting has taken place in connexion with the local tram- way strike, the atrikers attacking the drivers and conductors im- ported by the company for the strike service.
Her husband was the owner- driver of a motor car and lived in No. 20, Li Tung Street with his concubine. Complainant further told the Court that defendant did not support even his own diother, but let his brother do that.
Defendant denied that he did not support hor. She came from the country some time in March and lived with him and his concu." bine for a while in a house in
cen's Road East. Complainant later left him and lived in No. 46, Spring Garden Lane, where his anther and younee brother lived,
Business Bad.
In answer to a question by his Worship, defendat said business was in a bad way, he having had no profits for the last two months. He expressed his willingness to take his wife back, saying that he hatf a spara cubicle ready for her and the two chilaren.
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Arked whore the cubicle was, in bis defendant said it was nether's house. It later transpir el that this was the. tublele in Two strikers were shot by the which the complainant lived be- fore she went to stay with hor broken with Police' clubs and the brother. The rent of the flat at July 6 July 7strikers' brickitar
No, 48. Spring Garden Lane was 18.0 18.4 The authorities have ordered a $27 a month, sald defendant, and discontinuance of the services for be shared this sum with his the present. Reuter's American.
yunger brothe Service.
His Worship told the defendant that he had two ways open
him. He could either take his wife back to live with him and his concubine-that would be his cheapest way-or his Worship would make an order for the do- fendant to pay complainant, through the court, so that she could be sure of getting the thoney, the aum of $16 a month. Besides that sum, said his Wor-1 ship, defendant was to continue to pay $13.60, this being the half share of the flat at No. 46, Spring Garden Lane.
OK, BY A MOTVICE, ING.
REELLA. PAT, OFF.
"I'll have to go into some other business, this ain't any
way to treat a horse."
"You will have to support your wife properly even if I have to 'sell your car," said his Worship. "If you don't, I shall have the greatest pleasure in sending you to prison,"
Defendant was given a week to consider the matter, saying that! ho wished to aco his brother and his concubine. His Worship told the defendant to send them up to see him.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships are now in port:
Basin.M.S., Tamar and Sub-1 marines L15 and L19.
North Arm.-H.M.S. Bridge- water and H.M.S." Somme.
West Wall-II.M.S. Castor.
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