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groom devates to the attributes of the lady he hopca same day to He is fairly keen-be Honukuta Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1924, might be a little keener in the way

GOLF.

marry.

his Club is managed, and elects men to office who hold golf only second

Or

us praise God for gulf; and if we

too, sentimental seem not religious, for the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Amen!

THE CHINA MAIL.

Commend us con- CONSIDERATION. to the

sideration that thinks of others. We know

ŽDNESDAY JANUARY 30. 1924.

BANK PAYS.

that it

Mr. Jonkin: Aother way is com-

impose I can have no doubt is a forgery."

FORGERY ACTION VERDICT.parative measurement?

WIN FOR PLAINTIFFS.

Witness: Yes, but it only deals with a few points.

MUSICAL TALENT." blossoming, blooing round the Club House. The decision now arrived at

HONGKONG'S PROGRESS. soome the best. At least we hope it will prove to be so oron-that-Mr-of several classic examples. For

Professor Danenberg's pupils'

Mr. Jankin: I'm going to give you plenty more, Are you getting Gompertz may at times como back instance Mrs. Dlaraeli is supposed

MR. JENKIN'S COUP.

a bit doubtful? from bis fishing, feeling that the call not to have mentioned the in-memory test recitals deserve to be. significant fact to her husband better known than they are. The

Witness:Itlooks very suspicious, put much still holds and that there is nothing who was on his way to the House of pilgrimage to the Albany takes

Mr. Jankin: We a very the nature of a visit to a Salon,

Following yesterday afternoon's nor-excopt perhaps sending Commons to deliver

if scoundrel to gaal-thas knocking important speech, that one of and the Professor's studio be

her fingers was safely, comes a place where one meets totally unexpected development weight on your opinion in this "I" out of golf,

painfully fastened in the cab the sprits of the past. For here when the plaintiffs' counsel, Mr. court and I'm obliged to you for In reply to further questions Mr, We hope sonie day that the door, lest he became concerned

young musicians the outpourings the defendants handwriting ex- benefits of golf will be fully re-and be put of from doing his is offered to us at the hands of F. C. Jenkin, succeeded in making your statement.

Mr. Jenkin: It is a remarkable cognised, and that the right of the best with his speech. This wetle of such gentuses as Chopin, pert practically cat his own words, Dovey said what had been

brings us one of our favourite Beethoven, Chaminade, Heller, the case in which the Tai Wo frm brought out was remarkable,

expert of some community generally to an oppor Home weeklies with the following Debussy, and Saint Saens. Satur sued the Bank of East Asia for tunity to play the game will also be announcement prominently dis day's gathering seemed to exceed $72,con odd ended suddenly this thing that it was entirely over-

the others which have been given, morning when the Chief Justice looked by an in certain points of interest. A (Sir William Rees Davies K. C) standing, Have you any doubt rocognised. In the meantime, let played:

No issue of The New States little Finnish girl, Signe Rintala directed the special jury to return that the signature on the appli- two songs verdict in the plaintiff's favour: cation form is a forgery? I have sang very sweetly

Tai Wo more points you know! man will be published, next.

The plaintiffs, the

Mt. Dovey: I don't think there week. The period of postal One in Russian and the other in

whilst young Emil Company, of Eastern Street, subscriptions will be extended English,

this

The Chlef Justice: That ap- We take

Danenberg again made the mind claimed $72,665, which they said is much doubt, because publication, to pause in. wondering how had been deposited with the though possible, would neces-such gifts of musical expression Bank. The Bank admitted that plies to the application form, essarily deprive many members and knowledge come to be stored the money had been "deposited a small compass. but contended that $72,000 of it of the editorial and technical

in such staffs of their Christmas Young Emil played a cycle of had been paid out on two che

joined his ques drawn by the plaintiffs, holidays. We have sought to eight places, and reach a common agreement on father in a duett for two planos leaving a credit balance of $665

Mr. Dovey: This is much this question with our contem-

stronger evidence; it only goes to poraries, but we have hot succeed playing with all the skill and which had been paid into Cont. ed. We advise our readers, if aplomb of an artist of a much The plaintiff's answer to this was

Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by how the cleverness of the forgery. they feel that they cannot for older growth. All the young per- that these cheques were forged. formers played with a sureness

He agreed that it was undoubt- fourteen days dispense with af weekly review, to buy the of touch and expression which Messrs. Lo and Lo) appeared for Spectator and read for one week we have come to expect from for the plaintiffs and the Bank wasedly traced from a genuine signa. them.If any excelled and we represented by Mr. Eldon Potterture and that his evidence in chief suggest that any K.C., with Mr. Campbell Prosser must be withdrawn. hesitate to did, it was Miss Clara Wong who (stracted by Messrs. Deacon,

!!rston and Shenton). played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C. Sharp minor in perfect manner. A long experience of that now famous piece made us believe that it had no fresh attractions

As soon as she HOME TRUTH. heard her hus- band Insert his latch-key in the door, she rushed out into the hall to meet him. "Mary gave me notice this morn- she told me ning," she said; that you spoke most rudely over the telephone to her.""

Good heavens, my dear," an swered her husband, "I thought I was speaking to you!"

CIRCULAR SAWS.

That is the name little

accordingly, course

the other side. In these days of rabid come of a mercialista this strikes us as a book interesting example of considera written by Humbert Wolfe (Chaption to employees and readers alike which should ensure for man and Hall).

It is a small book and the those responsible, "a rich reward. diameters of some of the Circular Saws are very tiny, but put your own particular bluat finger to their speed-sleepy edges! Thus

Tantae Religio."

To-day's Poem.

The Dawn, Ó Master of the World,

tby dawn; The hour the lilies open on the lawn, The hour the grey wings pass be

"And another thing. In the gardens of Haroun-al-Raschid, just past the corner where one pale

yond the mountains, rose watches her transquil shadow in the ice-blue water of a marbled The hour of silence when we hear

the fountains, black tree that pond, grew a could not wait for the Arablan The hour when dreams are brighter

and winds colder, spring. But on the contrary, in- stead of leaves she threw over her The hour that young love wakes on graceful shoulders a cloak sprigged with red blossom. And that in a single night."

"Oh, miracle, said the first gardener next morning when he observed this bright irregularity,

a white shoulder,

Master of the World, the Persian

dawn.

That hour, O Master, shall be

bright for thee; Thy marchants chase the morning

down the sea, The braves who fight thy wor

unsheathe the sabre,

lashed to labour, The slaves who work thy mines are

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red snow has fallen in the night." "Oh marvel," a swann of red butterflies." "Oh woader," cried the third," a little lanthorn in each "You must be lighted twig." blind" said the first; "or a numb- skull," cried the second;" or mad," said the third. And thereupon, as was only to be expected, the three fell to fighting furiously. The ebony of night, the red one with another.

FROM, ISHAK'S SPEECH, in Hassan.

What are those men doing?". whispered the terrified blossoms to the mother tree;"we are.afraid" "Hush! blossoms," murmured the tree, "they think that we are a divine manifestation."

"What is that?" asked the blossoms.

For thee the waggons of the world

are drawn,

dawn.

WEATHER CALENDAR,

"The appearance of the God 1667. they worship, upon earth," replied the tree.

And how do you know, cried the blossons, "that they think so?" Because," said the tree as the last gardener fell heavily to the they are killing one ground, another."

JANUARY 30.

of

4

the sole

The special jurors called were: Messrs. T. B. Pearce (foreman),, restar, J. H. Seth, W: Nichol- son, H. E. Parkinson, T. Arthur

for us, or that a more sombre, and J. McArthur. yet dignified, note could be Yesterday Afternoon's Surprise. imparted to it. Miss Wong

Mr. E. R. Dovey, the expert disproved this. Also the fact witness upon whom the defendants that music and its instrumental relied to establish that the dis- interpretation is not the enthusiasts present on Sa possession of westemers. Amongst item and enjoyed every moment turday who stayed until the last of their stay, we noticed Dr, and Mrs. Fenton..

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.

Undoubtedly Traced.

Mr. Jenkin: You may with- draw the whole of your evidence which was this morning directed towards proving that this signature. was not a forgery?

Mr. Jenkin: Having to admit that the photos can now be be. torn up, do you still hold the con firmed opinion that the signatures were written by the man Lan Se-yuen himself?

Mr. Dovey: It certainly throws very great doubt upon it,

more

Mr, Jenkin: I put it to you that this writing is that of a man of much greater vigour and a youthful man than the man waka Mr, Dorcy: I consider that they wrote the genuine ones? are written more carefully. The angles are more curved,

genuine puted cheques bore signatures by Lau-Se-yusn, the spent a couple of hours in the witness box yesterday morning

Mr. Jenkin: Exactly. manager of the plaintiff firm, had

when, with the aid of numerous

Mr. Dovey added that this was photographs, he demonstrated to the Court the reasons which led not so in the body of the cheques. Mr. Jenkin: Quite so. I shall him to

that the conclude

Si-yuen's bury that body I expect. The wit- writing

Lau was. and could

suspected. not possibly he ass said he could not admit that anyone else's. His evidence the writing on the Lighting up time to-day is at seemed so entirely to clinch the cheques was left to dry when matter that it came as a bolt from written and that on the genuine 6.10 p.m.

the blue when, crow-examining in ones it had been blotted.

Mr. Jenkin: You are an expert T.T. exchange on London is the afternoon, Mr. Jenkin, after

demonstations with a microscope, you know. Do you mean to say 2/37%; on Shanghai 70%

drew from Mr. Dovey the admiss you can't tell us whether any of Members of the Queen's on that his evidence of the morn- these have been blotted or allowed Mr. Dovey: It is quite possible reminded of the Extraordinary suspected cheques were clearly that the suspected ones were allowed to dry. Ho added that College Old Boys Association are ing must be retracted since the to dry?

The first suggestion of the coup no reason for this suggested itself General Meeting in the Collegeforgeries made by tracing. Hall to-day at 5.30 p.m.

Mr. Jenkin had up his sleeve came when he asked Mr. Dovey if he to him.

Mr. Jenkin: Do you know what was familiar with the test of super-

says about pále imposition in the case of suspected tracing. Mr. Dovey replied that Hans Gross he was but had not used that places-No. method in this case and was of Mr. Jenkin: 'You agree that in a. opinion the signatures had not genuine signature there are pale places and that in forgeries there been traced.,

are not?-Yes.

A fifty-year old chair coolie collapsed in the Albany yes terday while carrying a European passenger. He died later at the Government Civil Hospital.

Command' Order state, that the official rate of the dollar for all payments fixed in sterling,

Pale Places.

Mr. Jenkin: Well I'm going to

Mr. Jenkin: I put it to you that Fast-day for the King's death. which have to be made in Hong-show you that there is tracing. I

Mocashine and fair kong and on the China Station, ask you to accept it from me that there are pale places in all the

cheques coming into my hands last

Mr. Dovery; Quite. But I could weather, and sa into the during the month of February, within 15 minutes of the bundle of genuine signatures in this case.

Wednesday I discovered myself write a forged signature with pale garden with Mercer, and sang will be 25. 4d. till my wife put me in mind

stencilling on the genuine cheque, places.

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of ita being a fast day robbers who raided No. 40 Shan When I show you with a milero= }

Pepys.

LIVE.

Its

This is not exactly the weather when POETRY

fancy Life is an eternal to-day. young, men's

What happiest moment is now. Yester lightly turns.........

the "poet" to day was experience, to-morrow is prompted. perpetrate the following, we do anticipation, but to-day is reality, it not know; probably the death of is everything, it is life. Lavel live! live! There never was a yesterday; his mother-in-law:-

there never will be a to-morrow.

Let your whiskers grow, let your.

whiskers grow,

."

Don't waste your

shaving!

time

in

Tear them out by the roots, They'll make lates for your

boots, And look at the money you'll be

saving!

"It is worth while to dwell a moment the word оп

...

February 18 - Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m

SOCIAL January 31-Musicale at Helena May Institute, 4.30p.m.

i

One of a gang of armed kiwan Road was artested yester day in the Ming Yuen Gardens with three revolvers in his possession. Evidence of identification was Riven at the Police Court this remanded. morning and the accused

of

was

The Rev. G. R. Lindsay, Vicar St. Andrew's Church, asksus to

scope you will see the tracing run- ning up and down the signature like nullahs,

Demonstrations.

Mr. Jenkin: Yes, so could 1. Mr. Dovey in reply to further questions admitted that he enter

Mr. Jenkin: You have no doubt

two tained doubts about the cheques, not that they were written Mr. Jenkin then gave a series of by the same man as the genuine He ones, but in the sense that they interesting demonstrations.

were written by another hand, the. showed Mr. Dovey a signature on

true forger..... the last genuine cheque under a glass and asked what could be in your mind that through the instrumentality of some forger seen.

Mr. Dovey There has been athis man Lau Se-yuen and the Bank

over the whole point passed

That is, there is a signature, groove over the whole writing.

Mr. Jenkin then demonstrated

have been défrauded? Mr. Davey: No.

correct a misstatement in the China Mail regarding the recent discussion on the abolition of pew rents. He states that Mr. D. A. Purves did not propose the con- tinuance of pew rents at the the same thing to his Lorship, the he would not further cross-examine annual meeting as reported by jury and counsel for the defend

115.

the

Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co. yesterday. Resolutions were also passed capitalising part of the undivided profits. Mr. R. G Shewan presided.

500IAL AND PERSONAL

ants.

Mr. Jenkin: Can one suspect tracing?

Mr. Dovey: Ye's.

Mr. Jankin, handing the judge a paper, "Do you see your signa ture my Lord?

His Lordship:

His Lordship Yes. Mr. Jenkin: Well it's not yours,| If you're not careful, Mr. Jenkin, we shall begin to think that you are responsible for these tracings! (Laughter)

Mr. Jenkin here intimated that

for permission for the chèques in Mr. Dovey and Mr. Potter asked question to be taken away by him for examination before he examined.

ro-

His Lordship called all counsel consultation adjourned the court into chambers and after a short- till this morning.

-TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS,

Mr. Dovey Re-examined. when the hearing was resumed Mr. Jenkin, in reply to an obser vation by Mr. Potter I shall forge this morning, Mr. Dovey was briefly re-examined by Mr. one for $20,000 on your account!

SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events. Advertised In The Mail. in their affections to the pursuit of

Resolutions aftering ENTERTAINMENTS. business. Fanling is his meccs at

Articles of Association and in- January 30-Goronet Theatre; creasing the Capital of the China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co. Happy is that man who has the week-ends-00 much so that the We numbers of him who make' that

One Exciting Night," POIGNANT. found his work we are told.

Theatre; Ltd., from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000, 30.--Star January

were confirmed as Special Resolu quite believe there are numbers of pleasant, journey have caused his

poignant,”” writes Joseph Warren "Don't Get Personal."

tions at an extraordinary general I wrote it. (Laughter). January 30-World Theatre

meeting held, at the offices of « man who have not found their work. Committee to become faced with

Their's is not the hand that rings probleme that have exercised the Beach, in The Atlantic Monthly Proud Words." This word, he the bell that calls the underling or, best brains of them. Their latest in the course of a discussion on "Morale." the hireling to attention; that draws decision is not likely to please adds, meaning, as it does, simply the choqne that manets all the debts everyone, but it seems the best in keen, or piercing, or, pungent, is that are incurred, and that receive all the circumstances. A congestion prized for suggesting emotion both strong and rare, so that the

Mr. Potter: It wouldn't be a bit Potter The effect of the evidence the respectful salutations of the on the course has led to a congestion author feels himself to be writing

of use to you Mr. Jenkin. he gave was that as far as he could find, the signatures on the two Androw's Hall, Kowloon, 9 p.m..........

(Laughter) rest of the staff. Of course a man in the Club House. To have prin a manner at once vigorous and February 4. Concert in St. February 4. Grand Chinese

Mr. suspected cheques and the re- According to a Reuter message Further cross-examined, can be happy in his work even if his vided a new course would presum- precious.

"It makes its appeal; no doubt, rapacity for tonnagement or control ably have relieved the congestion on

to some extent, because it is Carnival in the Hongkong Hotel

from the Hague, Prince Henry Dovey agreed that comparative ceipt for the new cheque book had. is limiteit. The statement can be the course now in uso, but not felt to be of Gallic origin, andGrill Rooms, 9-12 p.m.

February 23.-Royal Air Force visits Spain in March, travelling measurement would demonstrate not been traced from genuine not quite English.

on the warship "Heemskerck."

that a suspected signature had signatures on cheques held by the The foreman of the Jury (Mr. upplied generally, and hot less relieved, but added to, the conges as yet

March 1-St. David's Society English word. You will find it

The following Hongkong re been traced froth a genuine ope

T. E. Barco): Mr. Dovey told us the than with regard to the games we tim in the Club House. And it is It Is, as a matter of fact, a good Reunion Dinner.

sidente are expected back in the "Very Suspicious? play. Happy thon is that man who one thing to walk the Fanling used sparingly, but concetly, in Dinner, he found his game. And happy Mooks for a couple of hours, and Charles Lamb and Walger Scott LAND, SALE,

Mr. and Mrs. W. Pryde, Mr. and ments of Lau Sé-yuen's signature, and genuine signatures is that the soons, to be the man who has found then come fired out, to find there is But somehow, among all their February 4-At P.W.D. Offices, Colony shortly: by the "Khyber," Thereupo Mr. Jenkin requested yesterday that one of

did not number this of excessive wan, 3 p.m.⠀⠀

Wan, 3D-PUBLIO AUCTIONS

Mrs. D. W. Tratman. By the Mr. Dovey made measurements on the upward strokes are es in golf the garne that gives himno room at the 'in'"; that hatha vices, the intervening Victorias one lot of Crown land at Shauki Mr. and Mrs. W E. Hollands, Mr. Dovey to measure the enlargo peculiarities in both the suspected pleasure, that exercises his and are impossible to procure, or tifins appeal to poignancy.

genuine signature 49.8 millimetres would be possible, in going over and his muscle, and brings him out either, because other enthusiasts. And so the word "poignant has February 1-One-hundred and "Kalyan" Mr. R. K. Batchelor, a genuine one and on a suspected thick as the downward ones. We and the suspected 50 millimetres. the signature to make a stencil, to in the open where the air, unlike predominate and first wants are come down to our time a coin of fourth ordinary meeting of share Miss D. Innes and Mr. and Mrs. one. He found the length of the should like to know whether it

first began to debase it. All I know and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd, at

Captain C. F. J. Bensley. The "Y" from top to bottom men make the upward strokes the same the Mr Dovey: It would, he certain forms of language, is pure being first supplied. We know the sterling valus. I don't know who holders of the Hongkong-Canton G. S. McCairn.

dandoled; and where there is added joy, of coming back from a is that you cannot open a sen the Offices of the Company, Noon. gour and refreshment to be had game to sit down to such a meal no timertal novel to-day without en- February 2-Fifth ordinary R.GA is granted leave of sured 19.3 millimetres on the thickness as the downward ones.

as in the downward strokes. fervid attributive. And the worst the Bank of East Asia, Ltd, at the 4th to 10th February for the pur- other one

possible for the upward stroke of for the asking. Such an one is an the Fanling people are able to countering this how vague but yearly meeting of shareholders of absence on private, affairs, from genuine and 20 millimetres on the O. Mr. Jenkin: Are you cominent cthusiast. He selects his clubs supply, and to at comfortably in an of it is that these emotional story-registered office of the Company, pose of proceeding to Swatow. Mr. Jenkin: Practically identical? any letter to be made as heavily

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for the have been traced ed to inquire into the meaning of wig OTHER MUNTING granted 12 months ta slice, but to send on its spoody gently--not Anamine-like but at elegantly expressive, have neglect-3 pm.

and feast lengia in a care

the word, and as often as not they February 4 General Meeting absence from 14th Ma way with deadly sacuroy, if only

of the uro it in phrases that make of the Hongkong Jockey Club in parpose of proceedin

the Hongkong Club Annex, 5 pm United Kingdoms, of fo hop

our eyda on the shrille is on top of his game, received the same attention that a would be grassy

Bank,

I tried it myself this morning. the foreman explained. Wit my own signature" he hastened

(Continued (on" pars 5.),

to the Mr Dovey: If one of the to add amidst laughter

suspected signaturos will supe