THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933.
BATTLE-ROYAL | GAMBLING MONOPOLY CLAIM FOR RESTORATION OF her son, Li Kahlot at home, had the day of the auction sale of the AFFECTIONATING
BONHAM STRAND PROPERTY
EXPECTED
INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES
LITTLE HOPE OF
United States Legislature," ho said, "and I honestly believe that it is the best offer that Congress can make to un..
There have been so many con-
passage were
the task of those who have slaved In sponsoring its rondered almost insurmountable. In the and they succeeded, with n feeling that the Bill as it stands to-day would settle antlafactorily the Philippines question from the point of view of both the United States and the Philippines.
YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS. "The acceptance or rejection of
PROJECT ECHO
Claim for Return of Capital
Echoes of a project to obtain a gambling monopoly at Annam four
years ago, involving a capital of
$1,200,000, were heard ' in an action commenced before the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Supreme Court this morning.
CHIEF JUSTICE ON PLAINTIFF'S - KNOWLEDGE OF EVENTS-
JUDGMENT ON THE FACTS
+
The plaintiff, Tam Chik-nan knowledge of the disappearance Ng Xu-hon. LA Kaf-lai
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
pur
From the
were
of the
GORILLA
NURSED THROUGH AN ILLNESS
ZOO INCIDENT
London.
a conversation with him and beat him property by the mortgages, the deeds Boverely. Since that date she says were still in the hands of persons who that she has not seen him; and; this statement too, wee no reason to Li Woon-nam and not for his fraudu
them for family of doubt
lent son. On She further says that on that day instructions were given to Mossrs. The occasion when she opened her. Américan trunk and
Deacons with reference to the assign- became for the first time aware of ment itself, Li Kallot was introduced the absence of her title deeds,
to the solicitor by Ng Iu-hon himself, On the afternoon of the same day, the trusted, and in my opinion, trust. the 28th July, a person named Wang worthy friend of the family. I Yui who had been sent by Wong Wa- notice also that the date of this kong, arrived from Hongkong and assignment comes shortly after the handed to the plaintiff a bundle of property was brought to the attention documents, three or four, which she
of the family by the first change in COMPROMISE
Giving judgment in the recent of these premises were produced in supposed to be her title deeds restored tenancy since the death of Li Woon- The story of how a fine young nam. For those reasons it seems male gorilla became much more Bonham Strand West property Hongkong to Hung Kam-hing, a to her. " That the acceptance or rejection
case, at the Supreme Court this olleitor, in the firmou bring can be one to Hongkong more likely that the assignment was, affectionate and tractable thre so far as the intemal administration had ever been before as the result of the Hawes-Cutting Bill for the
J. R. Wood, found evidence that who was impersonating, and a thing or tighoush July. She of family property is concerned, of assiduous nursing during morning, the Chief Justles, Mr. Deaconis, by some person unktown bringing these documents with her Independence of the Philippine Ja-
executed in good faith. Buchsevero illness, is told in the nowly NAIL This person was introduced to stayed a boarding house. plaintiff had Janda will provide a bly political
contemporaneous Hang Kam-hing by Lt Kai-lol, who On the 30th July the interviewed decision would be battle was made evident this mor- merchant, of 20A Connaught Road the deeds and of the alleged fraudu
be usually resched had been introduced to Hung Li Chouk-nam.
a conference of all the elder Zoologlent Society. after
published annual report of the On the 31st July she did so again; members of the family. ning, when leaders of the oppos-Weat, Victoria, claims $4,078.62 lont assignment of the property
purchase the sald pro and on the afternoon of that day I am not impressed by the plaintiff's ing groups in Alon, at present le Phippines Mis and a further sum stated to be from her late husband to her mises from 14 Woon-nam. On the visited Ne Ju-hon in his shop In Wing statement that she kept the "chops" ture, and one lung was nearly solid The gorilla had a high tempera- vonder adopted son impersonation. of
-Lok Street. Wong Wa-kong was concealed in the trunk under her cloth with inflammation- condition Interviewed.
interest, from the defendant, Ip He gave judgment for the defen- chaser. Hung Kam-bing prepared an there present.
Ing and not in the tray with the dangerous in the extreme. Lieut While she was in this shop a documents. The Hon. Sergio Osmena, Pro-Lam-chuen, e/o The Kwong Mandant Pong Tool-ching on the issue assignment by L Woon-nam to
The defendant claims to have shown ciety's pathologist, and Dr. Vevers enant-Colonel Hamorton, the 50- pine Sento, mpore of the Philip-Loong Fire Cracker Manufacture of fact, plafatiff to pay defendant's Kajol which cuted and was later critter from Messrs. Wilkinson and
was executed and was inter Grist, accompanied by his interpreter not merely that the plaintiff is likely, acted as medical attendants, but as Senate, and leader of the Ac-ing Co., Ltd., of 109, Des Vaux costs of the action.
The case was one in which L/registered in the Land Offled, On the Wai Po-cheung, arrived. They do to have known of the impersonation usual in such enges treatment cop ceptance group is unqualifiedly In Road Central, Vietoria-
1930, Hung Kam-hing manded from Wong Wa-kong the but that she did in fact know. favour of the Bill,
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by will annexed to the estate of her the new assignment to Li Kal-los....
Tee-shi, administratrix with the returned
17th the two earlier deeds with deeds which he had produced at the
sisted almost entirely of continu- auction room. In the hearing of the
IN FRAUD OF family. * "We have had to fight Inces Stokes, and Masters, represented Taol Shan, sought. to recover 73 Court that the only proper custody there deeds had been sent to the igżorance of the assignment to thu for a fortnight, until the animal
Mr. Evans, of Messrs..Johnson, late husband, Ll Woon-nam, of
ous nursing: The plaintiff has informed the plaintiff, Wong Wa-kong stated that
The plaintiff would establish her very night and another every day One keeper watched the gorilla santly to get this Bill through the plaintiff, and Mr. H. C. Macna-Bonham, Strand, frota Pong Teof-of these deeds was in herself, that country.
Court by reference to her castiga- mara, Instructed by Messrs. Loching, of Shatin, it being alleged she kept them under cover in a top
ASSIGNMENT NOT RECEIVED 1981, but her violence may be more
tion of her sim. on the 28th July, was taken off the sick list. ** and Lo, appeared for defendant. that the property assignment was tray of her trunk, that who put them
Items on the menu at the Zoo Plaintiff claims that $4,600 of a forgery perpetrated by plaintiff's ceived them from her husband before plaintiff consulted her present solici- of her Fon's "Rubsequent dealings 43 tons of herring and whit-
in that place whom she frat_re=, On the 6th August, 1931, the probably attributed to her discovery during the year included: the amount for which he is suing, adopted son, Li Kai-loy.
his death, that she habitually wore the in the balance of $11,000 paid to Mr. H. G. Sheldon and Mr. Leo oys of the box on her person, that tor, Lo Man-kam. She has stated with the property in fraud of his
-ing 1,914 pints of shrimps,, flicting views and interests that defendant in March, 1929, for D'Almadno Castro, Jur., (Instruc- she had not missed the deoda in that she handed to him all documents family.
shares in a company which was to ted by Messrs. Lo and Lo) appear March 1990 and that in fact she Wong, Yul. Lo Man-kam received is shown by her own actions in Hong
received by her on the 28th July from. It is suggested that her knowledge
184,076 bananas, 19,800 eggs, and 476, lbs, of dried fles.; be formed in Annam and was to ed for plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon did not see the deeds from the date from her four documents-the first kong after her discovery be called. The Cheung Fat Com-Potter, K.C., and afr. F. C. Jenkin,
which she received them until two assignments of the
Fewer people want to the Zoo promises and suction sale of the property.
last year, the figure, being 1,552,- pany. The Company had not been.C., instructed by Mosara. Haa- July, 1031.
two other documents. He did not re- So far as the story told in court 535 compared with 1,810,002 the formed and the sharca had not tings and Co., for-defendant.
*DECLARATION SWORN. colve from her the assignment by Li Roes, she on hor own initiative previous year, but more went to' Woon-nam to LI Kal-loi which was visited Li Cheuk-mam in dngkong Whipsnade, the great open-air Zoo been allotted to plaintiff. The
The location of these steeds of last seen, according to the evidence, in on the 30th and 31st 1931. Linear London, in the sense than aum of $473,62 arose from interest;
Cheuk-nam
was her husband's elder His Lordship sald:-The plaintif title between the 7th April, 1930, the custody of Wong Wa-kong in the brother and the father of Li Hip-lot1931. verbally agreed upon until the
der in the corresponding months of Li Tao-shi, is a widow aged 61 and a data in April, 1931. remains auction room on the 23rd July: allotment of the shares or the re:yours, resident in Tol Shan village in undisclosed by evidence. On or be
plaintiff's Interview who was the donee of the power of
Some 50-1, 6-19 visited Whipsnade payment of the main sum. The the Province of Kwangtung, China, fore the 13th April, 1931. Li Kal-lot with Lo Ban-kam these proceedings attorney given by Li Kni-lot Later plaintif further claims Interest fer late husband Li Woon-nam died came again to Hung Kam-hing. He originated. He obtained for her on in the second day she was taken compared with 340,311 during the on the $4,500 from October in Toi Shan on or about 10th April,
then that he had lost the the 4th December, 1081, letters of ad- to n Police Station. Ifer intention seven months of opening the pre-
two documents prepared late husband's estate. The prescht Station was exccuted
was to Jay A without a son Li Woon-nam and his wife adopted many years ago, a son on his instructions by Hung Kam-writ was issued on the 16th December, against Li Hip-loi. She hermelin named after adoption, Li Kafloi.
firstly a Statutory Declara- 1031.
she
complained that Li out. This adoption was not of
The plaintiff here asks that the deed Hip-lot had induced her son to stent the circumotaneca in relation but was made by purchase which he alleged the power of al-loi intet 24th March, 1930, be fraudulently. On the other hand, the tho deeds to have of assignment by Li Woon-nam to Lr her title deeds and sell her property from outside the family. During his ce
to his cousin Li Hip-lol. declared vold; and consequently also two Police officers who have given. lifetime Li Woon-nam, as also did attorney
evidence for her say that her com- nam who an elder brother of Li deriving validity therefrom, America and acquired there some
Induced her son to come to Hongkong and to sign a document by means POBL Kat-loi asked Hung Kam-hing to Ressed
passports. Li Woon-nom re- and a mortgage for the property, but by some person unknown is not in It is clear to me in spite of her own The impersonation of Li Woon-nam of which her property had been sold. turned to this Colony from America A more formal Conference will
in the absence of the title deeds Hung doubt. 1924. He was introduced by a re-
statement to At this trial the defendant has she was not, then alleging a theft
the contrary be held aboard the Empress of
lative to Ng Iu-hon who became Kam-hing refused to do this unless Japan, whilst we are en route to
thereupon a trusted friend of Li, with a guarantee. Incidentally Hang relled wholly upon the plea that the of title dends by her son, and it is Manila. I do not antielpate that
Woon-nam and of his family. Ng Kam-hing asked Ng Iu-hon, speak- plaintiff is ostopped by her own a reasonable inference that she must any agreement will be reached in
on the telephone, to guarantee conduct from questioning the validity have known throughout that her son fu-hen was at that time the owner ing Berlin, Hongkong, but I still have hopes
of promises 78 Bonham Strand West, mortgage by Li Kal-loi, which Ng of the assignment.
had not stolen. the deeds otherwise that some compromise will "Woman's place is in the home" Un Lung Shing firm in which firm
premises were occupied by the Iu-hon declined to do.
in her report. she would have included the thest affected before we reach Manila. is one of the slogans of the Nazi Ng Tu-hon was a partner. Li Woon-
THE MORTGAGES, Some concrete basis should be ar-movement in Germany. The mo-nam was seeking an investment for,
NO CONCLUSION FOUND.. rived at before we face the Legis-dern bachelor girl, working along his, montober, 1924, Iu-hon tan and the power of attorney to Later in the same month L Hip. an assignment dat lol produced the statutory declara.
--ONUS. ON DEFENDANT. with men in business and prefes-ed 11th
Again, later in the same afternoon, sional circles, is to
she was in Ng In-hon's shop. I may receive no sold the premises to Li Woon-nam. Messrs. Wilkinson & Grint, Bell The onus of proving the allegation say here that I do not find any con encouragement from Hitler. This NI Iu-hon (or the Un Lung Shing tors. He instructed them to prof knowledge rests upon the defendant clusion upon evidence given for the "I do not know how this ques-standpoint was made clear by Dr. firm) then became the tonant of the pare a mortgage of the premises and and if that ends be not discharged defendant to prove that on this oc- cent, Bulgaria 13 per cent, and Holland is next, with 15:6 per tion will affect the local politics Goebbels, the new Minister of Purchaser. The title deeds held by introduced an intended mortgagee the plaintiff must here succeed, in the Philippines. We have been Propaganda.
Li Woon-nam were two in number, Yan Pun. This mortgage
casion sho made a certain request Greece 12.1 per cent. ⠀ At this point I am in the place of to a solicitor's interpreter, but there Switzerland has the smallest in- In the United States so long that
namely, the earlier assignment to: "Woman's place", he said, "No Tu Hon and the element he executed on the 20th April, 1991, and a jure it in mind that impersonation | evidence about the interview between crease of any European country!
is one matter of interest in the we have got out of touch with in the family, her proper task in Ne lu-hon to Li Woon-dam already was-registered in the and Omeo.
I have politics there. Our one ambition to provide her country and her mentioned. Li Woon-nam. returned executed on the 1st May, 1931, with family by another, where the in-and Grist and
a second mortgage was in legal matters of one member of a whilst in Amerien was to get this people with children. It will be deeds. The rent (subject to approv- not concerned.
the interpreter to Messrs. Wilkinson only 4.9 per cont.
In all the world the greatest in Ng fuchun. In the legislation through,
title which the present proceedings are terests of the family as a whole are hearing of the plaintiff Ng Iu.hon is crease of any country was that for the Government's duty, so to re-ed deductions) was remitted to him
not thereby damaged, is not regarded reported to
have said
said "this is "We who visited the United volutionize the status of woman in Tol Shan by Ng lu-hon who was was
The interest on the first mortgage in the circle to which the plaintiff between uncle and
nephatter Brazil, which at the last census "In revealed the enormous increase of States for the purpose of assisting that she can once again full her both his tenant and his
not paid on duo date. The belongs as culpable. Still less is it fact, this meant that Li Kal-loi, as 77 por cent. Brazil now has a the passage of this Bill represent most important national functions: collect rent.
mortgagee instructed Messrs. Wil
so-regarded when such-Impersonation representative-of- his family all shades of political opinion, but
kinson & Grist to exercise the power is adopted to safeguard the family's settle accounts with his
must population; of over 81,000,000,- "The liberation of woman is a
Li of sale under the mortgage. The interests.
The great European countries--. we were absolute!” together in try- | danger to the State. She must
the Britain, France, Germany, premises were advertised to be sold: In the course followed in this trial Li Woon-nam kept his papers in an by the mortgagee at an auction to the plaintiff's evidence came first thoughts of these concerned had on tion that ranges from 6.5 per cent ing to get this legislation through. leave to man the things that be-
If the Italy show an Increase in popula "We have succeeded in our allong to man."-Reuter.
American trunk, locked by a pad be held on the 23rd July, 1931, at She affirms that the deeds of title this occasion been directed back to fuck, for which he kept two keys, 3 p.m. Jective. The matter now lies with
theto 6.5 per cent during the last abstracted from her custody theft 10 months earlier of the people."
duplicate keys. In addition to the two title deeds of the premises in
of 1930, according to her evidence, ed. Both the plaintiff and incidental pace nearly double that of Belgium without her knowledge. In the Spring family deeds by Li Kal-lal, the pro- ten years.
blem could not have Hongkong he had also Chinese deeda
been so describ. The Dutch are increasing at a of title for property in China. In
Li Kai-lel (Li Hip-lol being with him) obtained from her on one occasion the ly Ng Iu-hon would seem to have and treble that of Germany. keys to the American trunk and had been well aware that the deeds and access to the trunk in her absence In
not been stolen. order to take out his passport.
stated
the Bill now rests with the Filipi 12, 1932, to the date' of judgment. 1925. Presumably because the deeds. On the 13th April, 1031, he ministration with will annexed to her bath in the house and in the Police vious year.--Reuter.
ino people. But if this Bill is
rejected negotiations which have been carried on for the past 34 years will have to commence all
The case is proceeding.
over again, and the "round gained WOMAN'S
In that time will have been lost.
"Certain portions of the Bli may need to be clarified, and for this purpose informal discussions "have been carried on in Hongkong.
lature...
MANILA POLITICS.
be
MR, QUEZON ADAMANT. The Hon. Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines Sen- ate, Chairman of the. Nacionalista (Government) Party, and leader of the Anti-Acceptance of the fac tion, showed open hostility to the Bill when Interviewed.
"My opinion is unchanged and, hardly needs reiteration," he said. to the Telegraph representative.
"The Hawes-Cutting Bill, in its
PLACE IS
4.
IN THE HOME
SLOGAN OF NAZI MOVEMENT
TEA MOST POPULAR
MEAL.
London.
.
word
blood
hing, tion setting
stated that
complaint
his adopted son, spent some time in! Li Hip-lof is the son of Li Cheuk-all transactions with the safu propertyplaint was merely that LI-Hip-loi hadi wealth. Both father and son Woon-nam and resides in Hongkong: IMPERSONATION NOT IN DOUBT
in
Tho
to Tol Bhan with these two
ngent to
PAPERS KEPT IN BOX.
Further,
wak
the rent without interruption and had Up to date Ng Iu-lol had collected remitted it to the plaintif.
PROMPT ACTION-TAKEN.
the same box also were deposited the two passports his own and his son's; and two "chops" each bearing his On this date the plaintiff was away name one of which, was used by him from home with a sick grandchild in in connection with his Hongkong Canton, arranging for medical treat
the oth affairs and other in connection ment. Ng Iu-hon came down from
family house with his wife, his Bon
Tea was the most popular meal at the House of Conumons last who year. More than 83,943 teas were
pro
plaintiff that she had contemporaneous It is here alleged against the knowledge of and consented to the Impersonation.
were
Com
whose son Was of the fraud.
that
ASSIGNMENT INSUPPRESSED.
....
SMALLER NATIONS
GROW FASTER
BIG INCREASES -IN
• POPULATION
London, The smaller nations of Europe
are the ones whose population is increasing the most rapidly, ac- cording to atatistical tables just published by the Registrar-Gener-
al,
Jugo-Slavia has the grønteat 'increase of any European people
16.2 per cent, or nearly three times that of England and Wales (5.5 per cent).
Abu
present form, is, and always will served on the 144 days on whica 13th April, 1925, Li Woon-nam Messrs. Johnson, Stoken and Maine facts. According to her own state. intervening to prevent further con- | greatest in Sweden (6.9 per cent).
mone.
with things
or
month, to tako out the "chap"
For
La reason, I
Li ROYAL LIFE. SAVING
CLASS
BUS
the
of the im.
CANDIDATES.
SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL
Twenty candidates of the King's
to
"This imate of fact was the only enter was Mr. QW.
test for the Royal
Proficiency Certi Medallions yester
Life
Hongkong
helal representa, 29,
The average family In Spain and Portugal now is found to be twice the size of that in England... THE QUESTION OF FACT.`
The United States shows a 16 In House of Commons with, affairs in China. At Toi. Canton to Hongkong by the morn
In addition to these considerations per cent increase during the past The question of fact to be decided I noted as a curious, fact that the ten years but its population has Shan Li Woon-nam lived in histing train, arriving after 12 noon is whether having regard to all the actual assignment in question was
was at once. Informed of
the evidence before the Court her story is last admitted by any witness to have been greatly helped by immigra- and his son's family. At the pre-advertised sale and took prompt ae-discredited.
been seen in the auction room on the tion. Japan shows an expansion sent time his son has five children tion on behalf of his principal, the That it is probable that she had 23rd July, 1031. It was then not in of 10 per cent. grandmother the plaintiff.
atil living with their plaintiff.
knowledge of the actual events as the possession of a person concerned Among the Scandinavian coun On the
He called upon Maurice Murray they happened is shown by the fellow in the fraud but of a person who was tries the growth of population is in Watson, solicitor in the firm of be, unacceptable to me. My opin: the House sat, as compared with anticipation of his death made ཉ ion now is the opinion I have held 111,557 in 1931, when the House Chinese will. He thereby bequeath- ter: asked him to stop the sale if 1926 to July 1931 kept carefully in Other title deeds then in the same cent)-Reuter.
ment the plaintiff herself from April sequence flowing from all along, and no discussion with ant on, 176 days.
the fraud, and lowest in Denmark (6.0 per ed all his property to his wife te posables paid him $3000.00 in cash her custody the duplicate her the possession reached to Man-kam, her to party in favour of acceptance
Not a single breakfast wan air. minister and control and enjoy all so that ho might have money to meet trunks in which the deeds were de 6th August. The assignment to
solleitor, through the plaintiff on the can alter it unless vital apiend-
privileges thereof" with power to sums accrued due under the mortga-posl
the posited. With ments are made. "If, of course, ved last year, showing the absence "deal with these properties herself" go;
one exception and, arranged for the produe already referred to by her in her Kai-loi itself has not beon forth. the features to which I take objec. of all-night sittings, which in 1031 without interference,
Before his tion of the title deeds at the auction evidence no one but herself opened gest that it has been
coming. These circumstances tion aro eliminated from the Bill, involved the serving of 170 break- death which occurred on
about room! This solicitor attended at the the trunk. The trunk was kept on wife aut
auction room. The
suppressed and deeds of threo I would favour acceptance. The fasta. These facts are embodied 10th April he handed to his
will together
of the first floor in a living room. It suppressed in the interest of the loca-11
title. Including oll Bill is so complicated that I would in the recently published report this
assignment to
was in use by the plaintiff; she kept plaintiff in these proceedings who
la clothes it not care to make a detailed state of the Select Committee appointed American trunk and with Ave, Rebel Wokal-lol, were produced to him by
its validity. kayk Wong
of her own (according to Wa-kong, who is the father-
And that the ment of these objectionable fea- to control the kitchen and refresh- including both koya of the trunk in-law of Li Kal-lol. The solicitor her evidence these were clothes which tures, but the main objection. in ment rooms of the House of Cam- padlock. The widow, the plaintif, inspected the deeds. The mortgagee any dus ie w slotingale sports in personation has been brought home College Life Saving Glass passed
thereafter administered the property was represented at the salo by Messrs. China she went to the box regularly b
business property
to the plaintiff. The receipts for last year wore Ng Tu Hon accounted to her for the Wilkinson and Grist. The request each vet to Inguo acknowledgment. / mlaintiff's counsel when bo
Saving Society's rent of the premises in Hongkong for the postponement of the sale was
Issue submitted for trial by the remitting to her in the country. refused." I will refrain from comment
for rent recolved from the pro
the property his case...
opened day. The TENANCY SURRENDERED.
upon the mortgagçe'a conduct
the conduct of the Brand who is the The sale proceeded. defendant in Hongkong. In these circumstances
of the Society in In January, 1929, No Iu-hon at the became the purchaser. Subsequently it seems prima facie unlikely that plaintiff, if this latus were decided tive
formed her,
# basis of CK-
Twenty candidates entered Thieves have stolen from Messra. end of the Chinese year surrendered to the auction Messrs. Wilkinson and
the abstraction of these deeds could
as pleaded by the defondant, were successful, the examiner remark- A. Vannini's show-rooms at North his tenancy in accordance with one of Grist acted for both vendor and pur-
topp have taken place without her coniont
was not then questioned. The ing on the high standard of proficiency Foint it pleces of polished stones, the terms of the lense. Ng Iu-hon, chaser, The deed of assignment to or that the absence of the deeds could evidence was allowed to cover a
The candidates were attalnod. valued at $245,
as agent for the plaintiff, secured a the purchaser was executed on the have remained undiscovered by her.
somewhat ample field so that the Chan Tak new tenant so that there might, booth August, 1931.
Court might have before it.
Fong Ho Toung Ta Nuen. ASSIGNEE'S bona fidES.
Man, Chung
■.com no. break in the occupation of the The three deeds of title which on
story; but witnessen - word
18za Yaen, Laung Wing Chan Son hny that the position on arrival but it will be based on my present collect the rent and to remit it to Wong Wa-kong remained in his tioned, though it is apparent that of fact anly.
premises.
He also continued to the 23rd July, had been produced by Further, the assignment herà ques- called and examined on this late Ching Un, Tavi Wai Shing
It was not
his Woo Hel Tak,
Chick Sul Ting at Manila will be the same as it opinions.
the plalatif. Rent Was remitted custody.
among its purposes was to avoid the final address that tho.
Hung Choong Chair Wing Chuen,' in now. I seo no reason to belleva-
REFERENDUM?
every month by Ng In-hon through- On the 23rd July after the auction intricacies of the Probate, Jurisdiction counsel raised any argument upon
Po. Tin, Ng Sheung that any discussions which may
out the
of his agency. In Ng Iu-hon wrote a letter to Li of the Court and the payment of the
Kwok
Leung, Sing King Leang, Tse Under the Constitution of the
correspondence
ndence with Ng Ju-hgn about Trau-loi & nephew of the plaintif in estato duty, is not otherwise charade position to be placed here dearly Shing Fong, Lau take place aboard the Empress of
Po Japan whilst on route to Manila Philippines Island, acceptance or these
100 tho plaintiff used the
to the plaintiff in which he asked self involved legal costs amounting If should change my present opin-rejection Hawes-Cutting Bill may "chop" for Hongkong stairs, the Tol Shan; enclosing a further letter terised by fraud. The assignment it upon the
The College is ready and willing to parties had addressed then.- to be decided ofther by the Legislature ing her husband's name which her her to come to Hongkong in con- $850.00. The assigner, if he is to be selves to the law of estoppel no provide qualified Life Baving • men« "Fital action will be taken by or by a Referendum of the people husband had left to her. No
ronexion with the matter. This letter suspected of fraud, at this time doubt evidence would have been bers for attendance at: School launch the Philippines Legislature, and I In view of the widely divergent presentation either in Hongkong or reached Ll Teau-lot on th 26th July, notably after this expenditure post tendered to bring the defendant's picnics, bathing beaches, swimming the not prepared to any now what views held by the members of the in China was taken out to her hus- The plaintif was in Canton. She poned attempting to make any profit and within the precedent of "Tsang sporis etc. ay not preparations will be. Much Nacionalista Party, it is thought band' estate. By all parties con- received her letter there on the 87th less nu in a position to any that likely in several well-informed cir- cerned action was taken as though no Jaly. She at once came back to Toi bona fides of the assignee at this time 716) Evidence might have follow court for final judgment after fur-
establish estoppel
upon
ther, consideration of the matter, the final action of the Legislature clea that the Bill will be put to the from the owner had resulted Shan, arriving in the forençon of the is evidenced by the fact that the deeds ed
popular vote of the people, although from death of Li Woon-nam 28th July,
of title did not remain in bla custody an estoppel.
The present judgment must be rêm: I have decidöd and that when 18 months later, hu it is known that a certain section
garded as a judgment on an issue of "I cannot discuss. the roport i Tin in favour of legislativo action.
designed the fraudulent mortgage the stances to place on record here my act and the plaintif must pay the bat out, defendant's costs of the trial of this deeds. were not available to him. On decision of fact absady
leaving it to either party to move the issue.
my opinion, are those provisions regarding military and other re-. servations after independence has £30,071, as compared with £87, been granted, which would be a 045 for the provious year.-Reuter. curtailment of the Independence of the Philippine Islands,
NO HOPE OF AGREEMENT. "Informal discussions have been carried out for the past six weeks; without any hope of agreement on the points at issue, and you can
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will be..
Intond making to the Legislature,
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ASSIGNMENT EXCUTED."
PLAINTIFF BEATS -SON.
On a day, a few days before the 24th March, 1930, the two titia, deeds
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On her return she has stated (and on this point I believe her) 'that sho
record.
for himself for 18 months. Hep the Chuen V. Li Po-kwal (1032 A.C.
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