Magistrates Should Hear Divorce Cases
THE HONGKONG
SISTER SHIP FOR THE QUEEN
MARY
RECORD TO BE SENT THE Cunard-White Star
TO HICH COURT
CLAUD MULLINS'
Company has asked four leading British firms of shipbuilders to submit de- signs for a sister ship to the T giant liner Queen Mary, equal in size and incorporat- Mr. Claud Mullins, the Magising all the latest ideas in trate at the London South-marine construction, Western Police. Court, who in-
PROPOSAL
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH
37 DIE IN MINE DISASTER
INDIAN COLLIERY
FIRE
4 BRITISH VICTIMS
Calcutta, Feb. 28. HIRTY-SEVEN people have been killed in a mine disaster at Loyabad colliery, Jharia, Bihar Pro- vince. They include four | Britons and one Italian.
The British victims are stated
J. Brown, chlef engineer, of Whitehaven, Cumberland:
British Treasury officials have stituted special matrimonial been in touch with the company. hearings, put forward some and it is understood that in view to be: novel proposals for the improveof the extent to which national ment of the procedure in such credit is involved the construc cases generally, when head-tion of the sister ship may be dressed the Conferenco on Men held up until the running costs tal Health in the Central Hall, and profit-making capacity of Westminster.
The Queen Mary have been ascer- Parliament, he sakl, had no right) tained over' a period of six to be proud of the way it had handled months. problems of marriage. Parliament
always acted on the assumption that
Provision of a ulster ship, how-
mothods of hearing that were suit-ever, is anid to be essential if the able for criminal charges or trafic Queen Mary is to he run th the olences were Aultable also for matrimonial cases. This was a scri- mort economical way. ous fallacy.
B. J. Starks-Brown, field Agent, of Anfield ~ Plain, Dur- ham;
Henry Lawton, colliery mana- ger, Wimbledon; and
W. Hayman, son of Mr. A. M. Haymon, chief controller of ae- counts at Talsa Ironworks, Jam- shedpur.
The disaster was caused by fire and airblast. Desperate efforts to
The firms from which deaigns | bring up the miners below were made by a rescue party, the great-
The compelling of purtles to stand; have been invited are: up near the dock or in the witness-| John Brown and Co. Ltd., Clydes Ļest heroism being shown. box throughout the proceedings, the bank (builders of the Queen, ingrching of them yr and out of the
Mary). witness-bux, the presence of dozens Swan Junter of idle sightseers and neighbours, the long waits while traffic and other cases are dealt with, and so on, pro- duced on atmosphere in which courts
were unlikely to get at the real truth.
Thirty injured men wore Wigham brought to the surface, and five andt
Among Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend-on- bodlea were recovered. Tyne builders of the Maure the last was that of Mr. Hayman. Ianía). Vickers-Armstrang, Ltd., Walker. Large numbers of men were en- on-Tyne and Barrow-in-Furness, tombed, and the heavy casualties (builders of the Strathaird, rescue partics were overwhelmed are attributed to the fact that the Strathmore, and Strathnaver). Commell Laird and Co., Ltd., Bir-by gas and could not reach the kenhead builders of HMS Victims. The runcuers included Rodney, Arandorn Star, and docters from neighbouring collier- feel. Sam-ria). Whichever shipyard secures tho garder will win a golden prize, fari
the contract price will be appṛo- |ximately £5,000,000 and the order | would mean employment for 3,000 men for almost four years.
"In my opinion," said Mr. Mulling, "plenty of women have got awny with well-rehearsed and exaggerated tales, simply because the methods of hearing their cases ate Auch that their husbands have not adequately defended themselves. There pre usually faults on both aider, util much coaxing and sympathy necessary before the court can
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at the husband's explanations.
HUMANE PROCEDURE "When at long last we humane and intelligent procedure for matrimonial cases in magistrates' scurta, an irresistible
can be mado out for both an extension of our financial Baits and for the in- clusion to some extent of divorce
спнея.
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will be much easier, and will be more acceptable of eclesiastical opinion Milan. alongside I eymes the transfer of Athens.
por persons" divorces to, magis Shanghai, trates' courts so that applicants for Now York. divorce can benefit from our social Amsterdam,
Vienna. services,
auch Prague.. than Lord Hewart has recently said? | divorces could be prevented if magis Bucharest We already deal with the issue of trates' courts could handle them in Madrid. adultery when hunhands seek to re- the way that separation rases are Lisbon voke their orders on acenunt of adui- | handled at the South Western Court,|Hongkong. tery by the wife.
"And why should not divorce cases come to A, as no less an authority
"I have had cases. of thin sori which in every respect resemble divorce cases in the High Court,
"Personally, I believe that this new Parliament will at long last carry out the majority recommendations of the Divorce Commission of 1912, go that adultery will no longer be the sole ground for divorce. But this reform
"I believe that plenty of
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"I do not recommend that magis-Boiling. rates' courts should grant decrees of Prussels divorce, at least not get, but I de Monte Video. | recommend that the cases of "poor | Makerade
persons" should begin with us, thi| Montreal, we should hear it record the evi-|
okohama dence, make provisional arters, and Ro then send all the written record to Silver (Spot). the High Court, where in the ordinary Silver (forward),19 esse a decree of divorce would be proWar Lonn,,.....105,5/11 nounced without any aral hearing."
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
.The Society asks for
$25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for 'sick and destitute children.' Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..
P.GO. Building.
Mr. KWOK Chan,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
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