BONHAM-STRAND PROPERTY
FINAL JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT
WIDOW'S CLAIM
Pong Tsol-ching, of Shatin, de- fendant in the Bonham Strand
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.
THREATENED BY KING FEISAL'S LONDON POLICE CHILDREN'S
CROWD
WHY TAXI DRIVER DID NOT STOP
AFTER KNOCKING CHILD DOWN
VISIT
ENTERTAINED BY CITY
OF LONDON
LIFE GUARDS AS ESCORT
London, June 21. King Feisal of Iraq made an official visit to the City to-day where he was presented with an Address of Welcome by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Lon-
West Property case, was award-assistance to the injured child That he did not stop to render ed final judgment and costs by because of the threatening attitude the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. of the crowd in Third Street, Wood, at the Supreme Court this where the accident happened, was morning.
the plea of Chan Tim, a driver of The action, which was com- the Sun Taxi Company, who was menced somo weeks ago, was summoned before Mr. Schofield in brought by 'LI T-shi who the Central Police Court this sought to recover 73, Bonham morning, for negligent driving Strand West, from Pong Taoi- and failing to atop after an acdon. ching, alleging that the property cident. Finos totalling $30 were nasignment was a forgery by her Imposed. own adopted son, Li Kaf-Joy.
were
Mr. II. G. Sheldon and Mr. Leo not accept the defendant's story The magistrate sald he would D'Almada e Castro, Junr, in-about the threatening crowd. De- structed by Messrs. Lo and Lo, fendant had stated he backed into represented plaintiff, and Mr. Western Street and if that F. C. Jenkin, K.C., Instructed by so it would have given the crowd Messrs. Hastings and Co., appear-ample time to damage either him ed for defendant.
or the taxi. Drivers who wero threatened usually drove forward as fast as they could.
ESTOPPEL PLEADED. Giving final judgment for de- fendant, His Lordship said:~~-~- livered on June last, the defendant has "Following upon my Judgment de- hore moved the Court for final judgment,"
"On the hearing of the motion the defendant has called evidence with
reference to the search in the Regis: ter of Deeds in the Hongkong Land office conducted by Mesure. Wilkinson and Grint.
They used the record of this search in the preparation of the mortgage from Li Loi
both
Traffic-Inspector Alexander said have not had a report of drivers that during the past year, they being threatened. They had had no trouble with the coolies,
Mr. C. D'Almada appeared for
the defence and pleaded not guilty.
OPERATIONS
ONE MOVE— THEN ACTION.
THE "Q" CARS
The Map Room at Scotland Yard is playing its part in frustrat- ing schemes of London's criminals. Some months ago Lord Tren- chard, Commissioner of Police, aur prised the C. I. D. when a map was placed on the wall in the office of one of his assistants who had been given instructions to watch the ebb and flow of crime. The idea was to show at a glance where crime was most prevalent.
From that small beginning the Map Room has grown to such an The King drove through crowd-extent that six dotectives are now ed streets in an open landau ac-gaged in keeping the series of companied by the Duke of Glou- mapa-one each division-up to The carriage was drawn by four with the swift action. of other cester and members of his suite. Each move on a map coincides horses with outriders. The Sove schemes co-ordinated to chock the reign's cacort of Life Guards successful attempts of the law. escorted the procession.
date.
breakor.
RAPID TRANSPORT, and sustained and strengthened veloping and proving its useful- While the map scheme was de-
in the peace.
in
nesa, steps were taken to
pro- vide all the London divisions with rapid transport facilities.
Very quietly the vehicles known the force as "Q" cars have harassing criminals who use motor-cars.
The police cars are manned by a wireless clerk and two policemen
to Yan Pun dated April 24, 1931, and fear by her mother, and her ear was hospitality accorded him and pro- taken their place in
of assignment by
Kai
Yan Pun
1031,"
- defendant dated August 6,
to the
stated
Evidence showed that the de- fendant had a call for 92 Third Street. While looking for the house he knocked a girl down. She was extracted from under the
"This evidence coupled with that to a house. She was in hospital bleeding. The mother took her in- previously given establishes the ex-for five days but her injuries were
pleaded in the Statement of not of a serious nature. fence." "In order to meet this position the Defendant, in evidence, plaintiff has in the course of the that after the accident the crowd hearing of the motion, been allowed to shouted loudly, "Tah kei" (strike Blo a reply. By her reply she has him). When he heard the threats contended that this estoppel is de- he did not get out of the taxi but feated by certain circumstances."
"In the reply it is pleaded that even backed into Western Street. He if the plaintif in fact had such reported the accident to the No. 7 knowledge and had consented, as she Police station straightowny.
alleged
to have done, nevertheless, the defendant through his agents,
Mr. D'Almada said that defen- Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, had re- dant's explanation for not stopping coived "before payment of the chase price to the vender Yan Punt med to him to be reasonable.
In
pur.
full notice and information of facts contained in 1 letter dated August 6, 1931, written by Mesars. La and Lo, the nolicitors on behalf of the plaintiff'
+
KING FEISAL'S REPLY." King Feisal, replying, made a gracious acknowledgment of
the
between their two countries was ceeding said that the friendship born out of common sacrifices and had been nourished by rapid deve-one lopments of mutual interests.
Support For
READING Voluntary
VICTORIAN AUTHORS Hospitals
STILL POPULAR
HENTY, ALCOTT AND COOPER
What does the "modern child" read? Sidney Webb, Jond, Lonin or Marx, or the Covenant of the League of Nations?
Alas! a shock awaits Utopian educationists when they open the new catalogue of the Children's Club and find out. The catalogue shows that the flower of British childhood at the present day is passionately keen on "What Katie Did Next," and better still, "With Clive in India," "The Wonder Book of Soldiers," and "Talos of the Great War."
Their elder brothers and sisters,
KATIE.
names
shine
THE PRINCE ON A “MIRACLE”
INNOCENT MEN IN PRISON
RELEASED AFTER TWO YEARS
THREE BROTHERS Madrid, "Innocont" was the verdict given
The Prince of Wales, at tho an- nual meeting of the General Council at the end of a three-days' trial of of King Edward's Hospital Fund the three brothers Miralles, who for London, read the following con- have been two years in Madrid pri- gratulatory message from the King son for alleged implication in disor on the year's work:→ haders on May 10, 1981,
The King is glad to hear that the
Such is the travesty to which the whole of the increased distribution administration of justice has been of £300,000 was covered by the reduced in Spain, These young Income of the year. His Majesty students, of respectable familles, a much gratified at the way in who were innocent from the begin which the public are continuing to ning, have had to spend all this support the King's Fund and the time in gaol for some mysterious voluntary hospitals during this reason known only to those in time of financial crisis..
: authority.
Prince said:
WAR AGAINST DISEASE. Reviewing the year's work the
bo
equally forgetful of, the duty of
On May 10, 1981, a number of party, hold a meeting which was Monarchists, wishing to forina, being "modern," are deep in the
duly authorised by the authorities. discredited Victoriana-Dickens, "I think that we have to record All went well until a crowd of Re- The crime Book now in use re- Thackeray, Meredith, and Tenny- what is little short of a miracle: publicans congregated outside and The ceremony of presenting tho Address was followed by a lun- cords the history of overy offence son. The only book by "Darwin" that, in spite of the financial crisis came to blows with the Monarchists cheon at which the Lord Mayor, in with which the Criminal Investi-that they care for is entitled and the very serious times we ard as they came out.. proposing King Faisal's health At the time crimes were recorded gation Department has to deal.
"Mister Tootle-oo."
going through, the King's Fund and This incident was the spark which said that the close association be in a haphazard fashion, but to-day with steady brilliance in this cata-they have had for some years past."
Long-forgotten
the voluntary hospitals have had led later in the day to a mob at only upon the formal provisions of actually been done must be ready the moon or under the sea, and tween Britain and Iraq rested nota complete account of what has logue. Jules Verne going round
a successful year in 1982, as indeed tempting to attack and burn down the building of the "A.B.C.," the the treaty but upon a firm friend- at any moment.
By the end of 1931, he pointed
Conservative newspaper. "Many ship inspired by mutual prospects.
Ballantyne exploring his coral out, they had been ablo to increase shots were fired and two people and of interests formed in the war!
selling with Henty's unashamed and keep a margin in hand. There blazing all over Spain and martial island, share the honours of best-ordinary distribution to £275,000 were killed. The next day convents, monasteries and churches were Imperialiam and the Red Indians was reason to fear that some at of Fenimore Coopera
least of the hospitals would law was proclaimed. suffering seriously from the crisis. It was decided to make an im
NO REDRESS. All Louisa M. Alcott and Sarah from £275,000 to £300,000. That the three Miralles brothers and the mediato increase in the distribution Among the many arrested were Coolidge. (the various doings of distribution was a fresh landmark editor of "A.B.C.," the latter being pieces, but chiefly for a Katia) are there, partly as period in the history and progress of the released a month later, the Public mysterious reason.
more King's Fund. In spite of weak Prosecutor being unable a find a spots the hospitals, taken na a charge against him. No redress was whole, had again, for the sixth year possible for his illegal confinement. margin on the right side. in succession, come out with a
The three brothers Miralles, de spite the Preas campaign waged by: ed, "have more and more developed and demands for justice by large "The hospitals," the Prince add-Spain's most important newspapers the soundest of all methods of atr sections of the country, have had tracting and retaining voluntary to continue in prison for two years keeping before the public the valua contributions. This consists in before being tried this week. of their work in the rolief of suffer- After all this time an aecusation ing and the war against disease, had to be made, and the Republic's and the fact that, in doing this prosecutor charged two of the bro- work, they are performing & regular with the two men killed outside the public service which requires in re-.
thers with homicide in connexion' turn regular income from the mem bers of the community."
"A.B.C." There was no
charge against the other brother, although he has been in prison all this time..
Senor Goicoechon, defending coun- The Prince referred to the out-sel, in his final appeal to the jury report of Lord Onslow's Committee, who said that the felicity, liberty patient question dealt with in the said: "Think with Lord Macaulay,
committee, he said, had begun their institutions but in the integrity and honour of nations are not found The out-patient arrangements in Magna Charta nor in their lofty work by taking up the recommenda- and virtue of a dozen of men. tions оп two points standard ask for a verdict of not guilty so forms of doctors' letters and hospi- that these boys may return to their tal time-tables for out-patients. On parents to-night. the first of these, Lord Onslow's Committee reported that the doc-
help in the past from Britain and "My country has received much
in the future and I know she will looks confidently for further help
the
detective and one uniformed man wearing plain clothes. They As every girl knows, boys' books work in close touch with Scotland are thrilling and girls' books are divisional squads almost without Children's Book Club has regretful- Yard's Flying Squad and the apt to 19 tedfous, and a break.
ly decided that girl school stories The controllers of the Map Room are "in general very badly written not look in vain. We need your at the Yard know the whereabouts and nearly always give totally help to develop the vast resources of these cars at all times, and when unreal impression of vel afetal of our country and the City of the maps show that a concentra- and the old favourites have had to merchant adventurers, has never district no time is lost in streng- London, the birthplace of so many tion is required in a particular be included to swell the number. failed to appreciate the opportuni- thening the local forces.
In spite of healthy conserva- ties open to enterprise in distanting from women in the north-west have Firstly, because the mother took
A recent epidemic of bag snatch-tism, the members of the club their eccentricities. The suburbs was soon overcome by the older ones have a zest for Bernard GOVERNMENT DINNER.
co-ordination of the Map Room at Shaw and "Mr. Britling Sees It To-night,
the Yard and the men of the "Q" | Through." the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir John Simon,
and Flying Squad cars. gave a dinner at the Foreign Office bandit gange have in a great mea- It is claimed that the motor on behalf of the British Govorn-sure realised the precariousness of ment in honour of King Feisal, their calling since the new scheme Prince George was among the dis- began to run smoothly, As the tinguished guests. British Wire-police gain more experience the ican.
bandits' job may become even more risky.
the child away, and secondly, be- strike him. cause the crowd threatenedi to
The magistrate remarked that it SOLICITORS' DUAL ROLE.
was possible the defendant might not have noticed the child, in look- "With reference to this first poring.for the house number. At the tion of the reply, I find that the notice same time, he should have contained in this letter did not in more attention to the road.
paid fact roach Messrs. Wilkinson
Defendant's record card showed
and
Grist "before the payment of the
letter arrived
purchase price to the at the offer he had accidents before but not of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist at recently.
a point of time when the purchase
money was still in their
the deed having been execudy: But
by both
parties they were then custodians of the money as agents solely for the vendor. The vendor alone could claim
money from them. They wore agents for
both parties tho transaction; and after
A.
the
of
KING'S PRIZE AT BISLEY
RUNNING COMMENT.
BROADCAST
Committee announces that:-
The Hongkong Broadcasting
landa.
HUMANE KILLING
OF FISH
CRUELTY. FORBIDDEN IN THE KITCHEN
Cologne.
of Animals, the Prussian Minister
New Headmaster of Eton
A. ELLIOTT
begin the adventure. of literature
The youngest-up to eleven-
Spenser's "Faerie Queene." Per- on Tolstoy, Alfred de Musset, and
ing English establishes an instant haps a certain difficulty in apell
sympathy between Spenser and the modern child.
SOVIET WORKERS'
PLIGHT
HIGHER COST OF LIVING-AND-WAGES- IN ARREARS
Riga,
OUT-PATIENT REFORMS.
The public applauded, and many tors' organisations themselves embraced the three brothers who were contemplating the prepara- are now back home again and re- tion of standard forms,
ceiving thousands of congratulatory messages from all over the country.
THE "TOTE" ON
· DOG · TRACKS
PROPOSALS MÁDE TO
GOVERNMENT
execution the-nanignment by both parties, the
"Their action is greatly to be solicitors held the deeds for the pur-
welcomed," the Prince remarked, chaser and the consideration for the
"and a good deal of experience_iá vendor. For this reason
As a result of an agitation by the MR. C. the first
being gained. The recommenda portion of the reply, in my opinion,
German Society for the Protection
At a joint meeting of representa-time-tables were derigned to pre- tiana on the subject of hospital fail!!
Mr. Claude Aurelius Elliott, tives of the Commissarints of Fin-vent the waiting that now occurs "A further answer to the same
of the Interior has ordered that O.B.E., Fellow and Senior Tutor of ance and Heavy Industries in Mos when patients come at the wrong "A running Commentary on the crabs and lobsters must be put into Jesus College, Cambridge, who hus cow, the problem of the growing time, or even on the wrong day. portation they have reached the Final Shoot at Bisley for H. M. the pot when the water is briskly been appointed Headmaster in financial dificulties experienced in The problem here is the best form
of the reply is, that what- purchaser on August 6, 1931, such the King's Prize will be relayed boiling, and not when it is cold. succession to Dr. Alington, who was Soviet industries was discussed at of general time-table, and the best notice will not operate to disentitle from Daventry if reception proves him purchaser from the mortgagee good between 10.30 and 11.15 to-humane killing of other fish. Many is an old Etonian. He will take up
The order also provides for the recently appointed Dean of Durham.length.
method of distributing it to those unless it can be shown also that the night." mortgagçe was affected by like notice.
German house-wives like to buy his duties in September.A
The fact that Russion industries who will find it useful. The reply does not allege that the
their fresh-water fish alive. Re-
Mr. Elliott is 44. He was born are in arrears with the payments
"When the Committee come to tory control of dog racing tracks Concrete proposals for the statu- mortgagee was affected by any notice
of wages to the workmen has been the actual procedure inside the out-as a condition for the legalisation staurant customers, too, are able at Simia, and is the youngest son that Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist to choose their favourite fish from of Sir Charles Elliott, the Indian frankly admitted in the Soviet press patient departments, they propose of totalisators have been submitted contained in this letter."-
were under the duty to disclose to
lately. a shoal awimming about in a tank. administrator.
For instance, the Central to begin with the study of time-to the Government on behalf of the the purchaser all material informia-Such fish must be first stunned with From 1902-6 he was at Eton, first Building Organisation Owes Its "The remainder
saving methods at the dispensary dog racing interests. tion in their posscasion however deriva wooden mallet before being cut as an Oppidan and then as a King's workers wages amounting to of the reply ed and whether acquired before they with a knife. amounts to this, that Messrs. Wilkin- became his agents
Scholar; and he is the first Colleger million roubles, and several build-provements at that stage, if found by a group of members of Parlia stage. They do this because im- The proposals have been approved son and Grist, the solicitors for the face Judgment of Vaughan Williams
Frogs also come within the pro- since Dr. Balston in 1862 to being trusts have paid no wages for to be desirable, could often be car-ment, of which Captain Arthur defendant, during the period from L.J. In Young v. David Payne and visions of the order. They are to elected Headmaster. July 23, 1981, to August 0. 1931. Co. Limited 1904 L.R.)."
ried out without causing, conse-Evans, member for South Cardiff, be stunned by a blow on the head cbtained knowledge which should have
Strikes are inconceivable in the quential changes in the rest of the is Chairman. The Government them on enquiry for flaws in the title to the
property; that they
nut
FLAWS IN TITLE.
or afterwards
PLAINTIFF'S CO-OPERATION.
i8
before anything more drastic done to them. to two weeks' imprisonment or a Breaches of the order may lead
omitted the proper enquiries; and "Other submissions made for the that their Knowledge and their Defendant which are in my vlew omission became,
in the cir-effective, are these. Firstly, that fine.of £7 108.
cumstances which arose, ledge and the
of
the know this information did not operate to omikalon
the invalidate the mortgage to Yan Pun, defendant himself, thereby affecting and until the mortgage is
in invalidat the defendant with notice of all flaws ed the title of the purchaser from ATTEMPTED THEFT existing in the title that might on the mortgagee due enquiry have been revealed.”
"the defendant it
d that
thia
unsound."
that
AD
unaffected by
OF WATCH
1 have SEVERED FROM CHAIN
BY KNIFE
been
Denying a previous conviction
College, Cambridge, and took First
From Eton he went to Trinity
Classes in the Historical Tripos Part I., in 1908, and Part II. In
1909.
three months,
12
procedure.".
have been asked to consider them together with the final report of the Royal Commission on Betting, which they will receive before
republic of workmen and peasants, where every striker is shot without compunction. The Commissariats examined the reports from different In 1910 he became Fellow, and in industrials centres, discussed the SIR HENRY ROYCE Whitsun. 1914 Tutor of Jesus College, Cam- situation at great length, bridge, an office he has retained till the present day, though he was meantime, the cost of living con- adopted no resolution. In the bent during the War
SON AT ETON.
At Eton and Cambridge he was a "watbob," and is a member of the Leander Club; he is also an expert mountaineer and is a member of the Alpine Club. He has writton oc- casional articles on history and mountaineering.
of the late F. T. Bloxam. Chief He married in 1918 the daughter Chancery, Registrar, and has one son who is now at Eton,
mountaineering accident pre-
but
tinues upward, and the Industrial workers are tightening their belts | to make further sacrifices.
PROFESSIONALISM IN MUSIC
DANGER OF LOSING. REPOSE & SERENITY
LEAVES £110,000
BEQUESTS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH Sir Henry Royco, director of Rolls-Royce, loft gross catate valued
at about £110,000....:) -
As a condition for the legalisa tion of totalisators on dog racing tracks, it is proposed that a statu- tory board similar to the Race- course Betting Control Board should bo established for the control of totalisators operating on dog rac- ing tracks.
-STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS.
His great aim was to make pro-sure of control should be accom
It is also proposed that this men- vision for research for the distribu-panied by the following statutory tion of knowledge for the purposes obligations:
notice to the pure and absolute- has been ly good. Secondly, that the know. argument
is ledge in question ent
could not have initiated
which would "It will be agreed that the know-led to the discovery of the impersona- ledge of an agent will only become tion of Li Woon Nam, and is there- knowledge to his principal where a fore not notice of that impersonation communicate auch knowledge to his mis-conduct; and further, oven if it for larceny last year, a Chinese legal duty lies upon the agent to which is here the only material principal; and, basing his position might have no led yet it is not open to tyouth, charged before Mr. Wynne upon the case of Taylor v.
v. Blacklow present plaintiff to rely (1830-3 Bingham N.0. 285) the De- auch notice, because she has
upon Jones in the Central Police Court fondant's Counsel has here contended found already by the Court to have this morning, with the attempted
of improving the health of, and pro- 1 Not more than four meetings so far from there being a duty been as lately as July 31, 1031-theft of a gold wrist watch, was vented him from joining the Colours
venting disease to, the human race. per week to be held on any dog on Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist to indeed, until August 5, 1931-active-ramanded for sentence until inform
client their
the purchaser, of ly co-operating concealing this morrow for proof of the convic-served with the Red Cross
To that end the trustees were racing track. to during the Great War, but ho "I don't think London could put
2-The number of races to be the flaws In the title, it would have
very impersonation from persons con- tion.
in up four choirs that would rival the directed in the will to apply one- heon a bronch of their own duty to cerned in this sale."
Flanders in 1016. Owing to an four choirs we have heard here tenth of his estate in making pay. run at each meeting not to exceed The complainant, a cloth vondor, attack of fever he was invalided said Mr. Kennedy Scott in admont to such universities, colleges, Sunday racing to be pro-
eight the ve
vendor who was also thole ellent, no to inform the purchaser. The casO. "Thirally, that there was no omis. was asleep in Wing Kat Street. home and then joined the Admiralty judicating the class for ladies schools, societies, and other entities hibited. ciled is, however, not an authority alon of enquiry on the part of Hia foki was nea by on
another staff, in which he worked for over choirs at the Isle of Wight musical such proportions as they think fit. No person under 17 year of
ongared in making researches in that a solleitor Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, who bed. Shortly after 1 o'clock, this four years. Acting simultaneously, for two parties were on July 31 still endeavouring to morning, defendant with another During the last five years Mr.
age to be permitted to bet on a and finding himself under conflicting had been, shown to them at the arc and sovored the watch chain within university affairs. In 1928 ha al work, out of big cities because/capital of four-fifths of the residua
trace the documents of title which mag approached the complainant, Elliott has taken a prominent part
He said they could get profession-
The trustees are also to apply the racing track. duties becomes relleved from the
6.The offering of prizes for perfomance of one duty by the fact tlon sale of the property."
a knife. The foki raised the alarm became a member of the University people were paid to do it, but speak of the estate to similar purposts fol forecasts of race results to be ho is, by performing it, in breach
"For those reasons it soms to me his confederate who made good his of the Senate. of his other duty. The solicitor's that the estoppel which rests upon escape. The watch was left be
and defondant passed the knife to Financial Board, and of the Councing generally they would not get interests therain of the widow, Lady Suggestions are also made, it is
lowing the cessation of the life legal course in these circumstances is the plaintiff is not, defeated by any
amateur work. In these day of Boyce, and Miss Ethel Aubin, who understood, as to the loansing of clearly laid down for him in the case counter-estoppel."
Mr. Elliott's father, during his beetle modern life they were in the testator described as having tracks with a view to insuring that cited in the Judgment of Tindal 0.4.
40 years in India, took part in sup- danger of losing in music the robeon his nurse for over 20 years, attention is paid to conditions, pre- "I give final judgment for Defen Defendant claimed he was on his pressing the Indian Mutiny and pose and sorenity enjoyed by their and who had done so much to pro- valling in the localities in which
way to the market to hawk. received the Mutiny Medal.
ancestors.
long his life.!!
it is proposed to open new tracks,
for the
that
The Solicitor must retire in silence from both duties. It seems to mo
dant with costs.
"
hind.
competition festival,