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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 192

INTIMATIONS.

R.

FIRE BRIGADE CALLS.

[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

ΝΟΤΙΟΣ

of the establishment of 6 Street Fire Alarms in Kowloon

Peninsula situated;-

(1)In-Nathan Road at Haiphong

Road.

(2) In Nathan Road at Austin

Road..

(3) In Nathan Road at Gascoigne

Road.

(4) In Shanghai Street at Jordan

Road.

(5) In Shanghai Street at Wing

Sing Lane.

(6) In Shangbai Street at Pitt

Street.

Each of the above Fire Alarms lead into Kowloon Fire Station where they transmit an instantaneous call The Public are requested to acquaint themselves with the positions of these alarms and to use the Flist Alarms in preference to using the Telephone or blowing Police whistles when requiring the Bervices of the Fire Department.

E. D. C·WOLFE Chief Officer, Fire Brigade. Hongkong, 6th October, 1924.

HARBOUR RACES.

ENTRIES for the Harbour Race

close to the Hon. Secretary.

V. R. C. on FRIDAY, 17th inst All entries to be accompanied by: Entrance Fee $1.00-

Monday, 20th October Ladies ... Tuesday, 21st

Wednesday, 22nd.

Chinese Open

These races will start at 5.15 p.r. each day.

Hongkong, 14th October, 1924

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RAFT Programmes and Entry

Forms for the Sixth Extra Race Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, 8th November, 1924, (weather per mitting) may be obtained as the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.

Entries will close at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, 25th October 1924.

Hongkong, 14th October, 1924.

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

Six children have been born at the Wembley Exhibition.

A WIFE'S VALUE.

FIVE POUNDS ASSESSED RECENTLY.

A High Court judge recently condemned the practice In

By cutting his pocket a thief took | divorce proceedings of assessing a book containing £600 from a

the value of a wife at a nominal cattle dealer at Edinburgh market sum, and certainly curious views are often taken by jurors of the

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Abouse-280-cadetships at Sand burst and Woolwich for Army damages sustained through"the" commissions are offered for com-loss of connublal bliss. petition.

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Suggestions for improvements were made by 3.497 Great Western Railway employees in 12 months.

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Searchlights from warships play ed all night during salvage work on a naval drifter on the rocks near Weymouth.

Married first when 19, Mr. Alfred Jones, 79, of Netherton, Worcester shire, has celebrated his second silver wedding..

When money is otherwise in-i volved in the domestic relations the law is generous, and the inno cent party is put as nearly as pos sible in the same position as he or she was before the dissolution.. Generally the divorced wife is thus benefited; but it works both

ways.

Not long ago a man applied to the court for a share of a bequest that his divorced wife had received since their marriage, when they were in very humble circums tances. She pleaded that most of the money had been spent: Fleet, Hampshire, has been found but she was ordered to pay her in a Richmond Park plantation."

former husband £2 a week.

Traced by his insurance card, the decomposed body

of William Hide, 59. gardener, of

Diving into the sea from South-

!

After three years of bad trade the-works-of Messrs. Cochrane and. Co., Dudley, cast-iron pipe makers, where, 600, men formerly employed, have been sold for dismantling.:

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At a Portsmouth inquest

on

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THROWN 1.TO PRISON.

another case

aver

settic-

sea beach, 2nd Aircraftsman contingent interest was allowed Richard Edwards, 20, of H.M.S.for. Under a marriage "Argus, struck his head on the ment, a woman was given power bottom and died from fracture of to leave to her-husband an the spine. *

interestlin£5,000 a year. This clause was inserted at the direction of her father, who thought that it would ensure her husband's good- behaviour. But it was he, not she, were who found it necessary to apply for a divorce. This was granted, together with part of the wife's income and, on the assumption. have willed him £5,000 a year, that that but for the divorce she would amount annually after her death..

Loss of affection and panionship, however, is generally considered of comparatively little account. A short time ago a wife Ten per cent of the permanent sued a woman who had, she commissions in the

cavalry, alleged,

enticed her husband infantry, Royal Tank Corps, and away from her, and claimed only i Royal Army Service Corps will be

£4,000 damages.

Particularly available yearly to officers of the

small is this loss deemed when the Supplementary Reserve.

wife is the guilty party, though in the Victorian age husbands often obtained heavy aggrieved damages.

Lieut. Edward Russell, who shot himself in the training ship Fisgard," it was stated that his idea that he was suffering from cancer was a delusion:

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Charged with murdering her 2 am daily! Mme. KELVEY, ☀ Kowloon Hotel, Room (49).

baby by throwing it into the river, ........................●●●● | Maud Norman, 23, a single woman

who said she was homeless and starving, was committed for trial at Spalding, Lincolnshire.

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Presented by an American women's organisation, a bust of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate forces in the Ameri- can Civil War, was unvelled at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

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Arrested while spending a golfing holiday at Silloth, Harold Boddington, 42, manager of the Workington branch of the National Provincial Bank, was at Wokington Police Court remanded on charges of stealing £1,200 belonging to the bank..

The damages awarded in several other cases, including one in which £40,000 was claimed, were £10,000, and once a husband was given a solatium of £15,000.

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None of the Merton Estate, near Watton, Norfolk, belonging to loss of a wife who is worth any.

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