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INTERESTING PROBATE

CASE

ADOPTED IN MONGROxo.

MRS. CHAN'S EVIDENCE.

Last night at the Chinese "Club further evidence was heard by the Board of Arbitrators in connection with the rival claims of Mrs. Violet Chan, of Hongkong, and Mr. Chik Sbang-sing, of Shanghai, to the winning ticket No. 3066, of the Chinese Club Sweepstake for the Hongkong Derby. The amount at stake is over $50,000.

Mrs. Violet Chan is represented by Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn and Mr. Chik by Mr. C. G. Alabaster.

LAWN TENNIS.

DECIDING MATCH ON FRIDAY:

In the "A" Division the matchi between the Indians and the Chin ese was postponed last Saturday An interesting probats case was

and will be played at the Chinese heard by his Honour Judge Sir

Recreation Club on Friday even- Skinner Turner at H.31. Supreme

ing. This match will decide the Court, Shanghai, in connection with

championship and lasure to be very the estate of Tam Kun, alias Henry

keenly contested. If the C.R.C, win. there will probably be three Clabs Thomas, who died by his own hand or December 8. last, whilst

at the top, all equal. The U.S.R.C. in the employ of the Chinese Maris

have completed their programme. and have not made as good a show tine Customis at the Ockseu Light house. Dr. G. H. Thomas (lin Mr. Sang Tsi-man, Managing-as was expected, partly on account Tam Yausing), Resident Mediea! Director of the Union Bank of of some of their best players being Oficer at the Ting Wah Hospital; China, at Shanghai, gave evidence. Naval officers who are not always Hongkong, claimed to be exccutor asto receiving a telegram at about available.

In the "B" Division there are of the last will of the deceased, I am on the morning of the 2nd dated December 5 (three days March. This cable was from Hong four teams in the running. If before his death) and issued a writ kong and addressed to Mr. Queen's College can beat the LR.C. against the Crown Advocate (Mr Quinn brother of Mrs. Chan) on Saturday they will be strong

and announced the winning favourites. 1. P. Wilkinson, he having entered. a cavest and on behalf of the Crownumber of the Chinese Club, Derby claimed the goods of deceased as Sweep. The telegram

despatched from Hongkong at 3.25 bona tacantia.

p.m. on March He attributed the delay in receiving the cable to the fact that the bank had closed for the night when the cable was re- ceived in Shanghai. He himself IR.C. did not go to the bank until about C.R.C.. ten o'clock when the telegram was HK.C.C.. handed to him. At about noon Mr. Quinn came into the Bank and he Kowloon CC. handed over the cable to him. This, University.. according to previous evidence, Civil Service was after Mr. Quinn's retura from C. de Recreio... his visit to Mr. Chik Soong-sing that morning when Chik claims that he handed over the winning ticket, 3066 to Quinn Quinn denied this Queen's College & but admits receiving 3076 from LRC...

was

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SATURDAY'S MATCHES.

"A" Division.. Club de Recreio v. Civil Service. Hongkong CC. v. Kowloon C.C.

"B" Division.

Mr. Tycho Wing appeared on be In view of the importation of cont siderable quantities of wireless ap-Lalf of Dr. Thomas, and Mr. A. G. Crown paratus to meet the demands of Mossop represented the It has long been realized in ship-amateurs and others, the Australian Advocate.

The circumstances of the case ping circles that the (British) Mer-Chalons Department has issued a chant Shipping Act, 1804, however sories of tariff decisions relating to were set forth in a series of affidavita there duties. It has been decided which were read by Mr. Wing. The excellent and comprehensive it that both fixed and variable con- document upon which the proceed. might have been at the time of its densers, crystal and electrolytic de-ings rested was a letter, typewritten adoption, has not kept pace with tectors, rheostats, inductance coils and signed by the deceased and progress and is behind the times in (Honeycomb and coupled coils) in addressed to plaintiff and giving in. gang wspects, even bearing in mind tervalve transformers, valve sockets, structions as to the disposal of his and complete. toning sete shall be estate in the event of his death. the amendments and additions that charged 27 per cent. under the The estate included War Loan In- vestment of Malaya, a deposit in the have from time to time been em- British preferential tariff, 35 per Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

Chik.

GR.C....... Bodied in its provisions, says cent. under the intermediate tariff,

The chief witness after the University. and 40 per cent. under the general life insurance policy, British war Shipping and Engineering (Shangriff. Valves or vacuum tubes as loan bonds, Straits Settlements

Mrs. C.C.C. "B" Mai.) For instance, the regulations they are often termed, will be ad. war bonds, and a deposit in the dinner adjournment was

Bank Industrielle. Out of these Violet Chan, who stated that her Kowloon relating to the measurement of ships mitted free under the British pre- are especially in need of revision to ferential tariff, but duties of 5 per funds, deceased directed that $6,000 brother-Quirin,--sold her the Kowloon " most present day requirements; un cent. under the intermediate tariff, be paid to his foster-ingther for her Ucket on Christmas Eve. They had Club de Recreio 5 Brutton's boat, and had afterwards Netherlands T,C. 5 another portion of the Act in respect and 15 per cent, under the general own personal use, and $1,000 to been out an a picnic in Mr. Hall C.C.C, "A"...

deceased's cook, in recognition of returned to No. 5 Arbuthnot of which revision is equally essential tarif will be applied to them.

long and faithful service, and that Road, where she was then is Section 92, or that part of it!

plaintiff discharge all his debt. The living. She had slace Hone relating to the number of certificated

Great activity is being displayed, document was signed "Yours affecto live at No. 9 Robinson Road, officers to be carried on vessels.

Some times previously she had Section 92 Part I.) reads as fol- in Australia in furthering the work tionately, Henry Thomas."

of water conservation.

CHINESE LÁDY'S ADOPTED SONS.

asked her brother to reserve Ticket: Every British foreign-goingnessing of the Murray River is a of

Dr. G. H. Thomas, in an aff- No. 3066 for her, and he had ship and every British Houre-trade namn:oth enterprise on the part

in the house, in the presence of from any place in the United King- conjunction with the State Ad-lad stated that decensed died inte- Mr. Hall Brutton and other mem- passenger ship, when going to sea the Federal Government working in davit, said in a previous affidavit he promised to do so. That evening New etate, and made this statement obers of the party, he sold her dom, shall be provided with officers ministrations of Victoria, duly certificated under this Act South Wales and South Australia. the advies of the British Consid at ticket 3066. Ticket No. 3067 Quinn The Murray River Commission has Amoy. He was now advised that sold to his mother at the same time, according to the following scale:

(0) In any case with a duly carti decided upon a substantial increase the letter (quoted above), signed by and ticket No. 3069 to a lady who in the estimates for the financial deceased, might be accepted by the was present. Mr. Hall Brutton then (b) In the ship is of one-hundred year, 1929-21, involving an expendi- Court as a will. He therefore asked asked if he could have ticket No. tous burden or upwards, with atture of £1,039,017. The works at cave to amend his retition and 3069: Quinn replied that he was least one oflicer besides the sister prezent in course of construction affidavit accordingly. Dr. Thouns sorry but 3069 was the last in the holding a certificate not lower than consist of the Hue reservoir, the went on to say that the deceased and book and he was reserving it for his LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.

mate in the case of a hoine weir mal lock at Torubarry, near himself were adopted by a Chinese baby. If Mr. Bratton wanted a Echuca: the Lake Victoria-storage, lady at Hongkong in 1889, at the ticket he could get him one later. going passenger ship;

second mate in the care of and weirs and three locks below, respective ages of six months and Mr. Britton replied that 3066 and a foreign-going sailing ship of not Wentworth, Every effort in being two years, aut were brought up by 3069 were his lucky numbers, and more than two-hundred tons bar-made by the constructing author her. The deceased's parents had witness "okeet him" on his super- ties for New South Wales and Vie- died of plague in Hongkong in the stition. He then asked who had ti only mate, in the case of thrin to expedite construction of the year previous to his adoption, and Ticket 3066, and she told him that The proceedings were at this Hume reservoir, which, when com- so far as Dr. Thomas knew, he had she had it and showed it to him, any other foreign-going ship.

stage adjourbed, the instructions contained in de- felt the ship is a foreign-going, pleted, will rank as the fourth no relatives. He had fulfilled all ship, and carrive more than one largest storage in the world. It is

leared's leting, the legacies and the mate, with at least the first and requised that completion of this second mate duly certificated: storage is of the greatest importance liabilities named involving an ex- (d) If the ship is a foreign-going to irrigation settlements, establishponditure of $6.555.90, $428.51,

The work is and $340. steamship of one-hundred noinina ed along the river. horse-power or upwards, with at proceeding on both sides of the least two engineers one of whom river, and up to date an expenditure identity was contained in an aft shall be a first-cines and the other at 4050,000 has been incurred. Up'davit by Tani Cheuk-shi, deceased's to the end of January, 1923, the foster inother, who said that she the was married about 40 years ago at total expenditure incurred on

Hongkong to one Tam Ha-sze. In (c) If the ship is a foreign-going works completed and andor, con- 1990 he drove her from his houza steamship of leas than one-hundred struction amounted to £1,750,000.

becanes she had not born bip a nominal borze-power, or a sen-going

fchild, and ehe therefore male in home-trade passenger steamship With the object of promoting the guiries apong residents surname with at least one engineer who is at movement for reciprocal trade with- Tam with a view to adopting a son. leant first-class or second-class engi- in the Empire along the lines adopt-In the same year some person noer duly certificated.

feated master:

don: amd

first-class of second-class duly corti

ficated:

EMPIRE TRADE.

i

Further evidence as to deceased's'

COMING HERE SOON.

13,000 TON GERMAN FREIGHTER.

Expected to arrive here next

month on her maiden trip to the Far East is the 6.5. 'Scheer," which, owned by the Hugo Stin- nes Ling, is a vessel of 13,000 tons, and will be the largest ship of the Company's on the run between Hamburg and the Far East, She

ed at the Imperial Trade Confer brought to her a male child, the soul will be used exclusively for carry- (It should be noted that the above ences, un Australian branch of the of a in who had kept a street stall ing cargo, which, it is understood, paragraph (b) was substituted for spire Development Union was in Hongkong, and whose parents the original one by Section 56 of the officially established in Sydney in were then dead. Because the child Merchant Shipping Act, 1906).

Beyond the basic tonnage of one- hundred tons, there is no mention

of the size of any slip in the Sec--

March..

+

was sickly and not expected to live, she adopted another child about the same time. She became a Chris tian, together with her adopted

will consist mostly of German manufactured goods, for Shanghai, Japan, Hongkong and Singapore. The steamer was previously engaged on the Hamburg-South America line, and, like many of the Company's other ships, she is

Chinese RC. v, Netherlands T.C. Kowloon "A" v. Club de Recreio. Kowloon "B" v. University.. Craigèngower "B" v. Craigen-

gower "A

Indians RC. v. Queen's College.

ARRIVALS.

Hydrangea, (Chin ̈ ̈Oa) from Switow Co.'s Wharf.

Haiching, (D. L. & Co.) from Foo chow, Swatow. Co.'s Wharf.

Kwanglec, (C. M. S: N.) from Canton-Co.'s Wharf.

Hok Canton, (Honig On) from Swatow Co.'s Wharf,

Tascalusa, (St. Oil) from San Francisco. Co.'s Wharf.

Suiyang, (B. & S.).from Canton. -Bg.

Thesus, (B. & S.) from-Manila- Holt's Wharf.

Lushan Maru, (N, Y. K) from Shanghai, Swatow.-C18.

DEPARTURES:

Sardinia, (P. & O.) for London, Singapore.-June 13.

Van Vollenhoven, (Kai Yu) for Haiphong, Pakhoi. June 13.

Seang Bu, (Tuen Kee) for Amoy June 13.

Emil Kidori,, (Brockelman) for Yokohama, Shanghai. June 13,

Troilus, (B. & S.) for Dairen, Shanghai-June 11.

Phranang, (Cheong Fat) for Hai- phong, Hoihow.-June 13

CHILD LABOUR.

BRITISH FIRM'S NOTABLE DECISION..

tion, and no attempt made to allot at the Count of Inquiry held as a sons, and they were baptized, and officers to ships on sliding scale rosult of the "Hanee" Boribat" (educated at the Diocesan School, an oil burner. Her cargo carrying according to the size of the vessels, disaster, off the Malay coast, it was Hongkong, there taking the names capacity will allow for about 12,350 with the result that any British brought out that the master of the of Henry Thomas and George tons, and she has a crew of 80 ship, however big, however emali, "Boribat and the mate were the Harold Thomas respectively. Henry hands.

According to latest advices she and irrespective of what service it only certificated deck officers on Thomas was the man who died at may be engaged on or how many that vessel, and that on the three the Ockeru Lighthouse, and George was to have left her home port on passengers or crew it may carry, in days' run on which the ship was Harold Thomas was 10 Govern May 30. within the law in canying only one engaged the master had to be on ment resident medical officer at the

Those who have been watching deck officer besides the master, and the bridge practically the whole Tang Wah Hospital. two engineers. The absunlity of time; and it is clear that the dis- CHINESE LAW ON WILLE. admissible here. It was possible the problem of child labour will hear this is at once apparent, for accord-inster, which was caused owing to ing to the Law, the "Empress of the muster being asleep on the Mr. Chang, Yuen-duet, President of Hongkong and bo re-sworn.

There was a further affidavit by they would have to go back to with interest the decision of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson to prohibit the Canada" or the "Majestic" would of the vessel, was due indirectly, but be complying with the regulations if indubitably, to the inadequate pro- the Angriation of Chinese Lawyers Mr Wing then asked that the employment of boys under 10 and they each carried but two deck visions of the Merchant Shipping in Shangha City, former Vioe. decessed's letter be admitted to pro girls under 12 in their wills after Minister of Justice and Acting bato ana will, and submitted that September 1, says the Shanghai officers and two engineers, it is Act.

Here is the opportunity for allTM thee that the unjority of stenth- Until the Act is amended to com- Minister, and one time Chief Judge it was legally acceptable as such in Mercury sep owners, for reasons of pel all sea-going vessels of upwards of the Provincial Courts of Peking, both English and Chinese law.

OROWN ADVOCATE'S FOSITION, who have been agitating for this re- efficiency and safety, and to render of one hundred tons to carry at least Yuman and Hoochow who spoke

Mr. Mossop then explained the form to help in very practical way. thair ships at all insurable, carry three officers including the master, on the question of Chinese willu.. {(13) Filmski Hà bọ: mumber pre, there will always be the danger of He said that any intelligible expres. action taken by the Crown Advocate for behind his decision lies the need scribed by the Act, and nowadays it disasters similar to the one we have tion of a valedictory wish mide by in the matter, observing thas had for strenuous action. Fint and is the exception rather than the rule mentioned; and on the China Coast a Chinese shortly before big death probate been inplied for in the first foremoet the need for this reform for any vocan-going ship of more especially is this danger a rest one constituted a valid will, enforceable instance, it was doubtful whether will have to be interpreted to the than a few hundred tons burden to for, as we have pointed out time by law. If such will were made in the cavest would have been taken workera in a very clear way and carry the miniinum complement of and again, there are ships running the testator's own handwriting or out at all. The caveat who against their sympathies enlisted

loally and: deck and engineer officers as re-out of Hongkong under the British was signed by him, no witness the application for letters of ad reasone for wishing their childrán to further pro- quired by the Merchant Shipping flag (we child name at least aix), were required. Mr. Chang, having ministration, and the present appli-work must be synon

Įvision must be made for, the educa Act..

whore certificated personnel, while examined the deceased's letter, cation was for probate and was not practically, met and The anomalons position caused by keeping the owners just within the testified as to its validity as a legal oppoed.

setion of ton of the children the Section has more than once been Law, renders those vemels a danger document, notwithstanding that it brought to the attention of the to their own crews and passenger, was typewritten, was in the English, Han Board of Trade, but that Depart and an ever-present cause of un language, and, that there were no rather ront appears extremely disinclined necessary risk to ships whose own attesting with

In answer to his

ordehip, Mr.

to take any action that would bringers rightly see lit to carry the mund about s more satisfactory and logical ber of officers that is necessary, and Wing said that no other persons. staja of affairs. The temalt is that not simply the minimum number put in an appearance. sume azzall owners apparently mind prescribed by a regulation that His. Dordship pointed

se the afidavits received from In only electrony, have for a long rightly has been stigmatisc

kong wero

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