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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1925.

CLUBS IN MALAYA,”

SOME FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

COLONEL WINS.

THE CHINA MAIL

DR. COOK.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS AND PASSENGERS.

JUDGMENT IN DENMISTOUN MAN WHO BLUFFED THE

CASE.

WHAT EACH GETS.

WORLD.

VISITORS AT HOTELS

HONGHONG HOTEL.

Jane 4.

Mr M. Axelrood

Miss E. Bailey. “ Mr B Bele

.MUHALITY OF THE CHIT SYSTEM..

FIFTEEN YEARS” JAIL,

My H. B. do Hồn

Mr. and Mrs. C.

Mancipi

VESSELS DUE.

FROM SWATO W.".

June 8-LE Lashan Marİ

Bangehan Maru...

16-NE.

FROM SHANGHAI.

His La Vialot. More June 8.-N.K.K., Laban Mare

Julging by the long reports of itst

Dr. Frederick Cook, the New Mr. Justice M'Cardie delivered. nitetings wind uppent in this judgment in the Dennistoun have discovered the North Pole Mr R. 7. Birkesk

York physician who claimed to Capt. Bentley Singapore contemporaries; sure the

case. In brief Colonel Dennistoun and scaled Mount M'Kinley,

My E. Bood Sini beho." .limbers of the

Mr Singapore Cricket Clubs have wins on the bigger issue, and his entered Fort Leavenworth Prison Mr. B. Boad objection, to discussing their affairs former wife wins on the question In Raasas to serve 15 years as a Mr and Mrs F. que publie, so it is permissible to take of money laat (except that barred penalty for using the mails to

Ficens, inéoting as the text for by the Statute of Limitations)"} few comments of club finance.

defraud.

Bilato

MW. Beans Morale ME. Nishali Mr. S. Nielson Mr and M. &

Not lo M.Braud My Oturm

HTE H, O'Farreli Mär, D. Cappläman Er & Mrs Overall: . H. Ustenif. Wr Chas. E Falgo

dr W. & Chuan Me and Mrs B),

Parma

The meeting concerned the vexetam bound to apply the rules of the with his imaginative story of Mr J. H. Cook

and long-standing gestion of chit,law as I conceive them to exist," The committee of the $.0.0, had said the Judge, nonfiel The Members ull the Damages amounting to £5,000 faning of a new bye-law which

Mr.

The man who bluffed the world

discovery left Fort Worth, Texas, Mr J. D. Deckin where he was tried and convicted, dr Damp smiling as genially as when enthur siastic New York crowds shoulder.

roses about his neck. It was "au revoir, not good-bye," he said, and declared that he was looking for prison with profit to himself and ward to employing his time in the State, as he hoped he would be permitted to practise in the prison hospital. When he time is up he his bluterest trouble," to take.up will return to Texas, "the scene of

fe anew.

provides that all members bills were awarded. to Mrs. Dennistoned him and placed garlands, of

hall be payable on the fifteenth by the jury in Justice day of the month Tolowing the M'Cardio's Court as compensation end of the months to which they by reason of Colonel Dennistoun apply." Tweaty-one members, ap-refusal in January, 1924, 10 support parently stentingan crouchment on cherished pervileges, requested her in case of necessity. This was the calling of a mulig to explain a pendant to the jury's decision the necessity of the new bye-law, that Colonel Dennistoun had made which has the effect of shortening by about a month the period of grace previously allowed to a men- ber in which to settle-dis account, At the ingesing this twenty-one were dillident in expressing wa opinia Only one of them spoke, uid is contention was merely that he cfuge should live been offected by an aftertions of rule and not by the posing of by-law. The huge majority of these present supe ported this committee, who, accord- ing to the chairman, had spent mung very hours on the question the framing of the bychw as the only solutions that they couk fu

of

The Singapores Cricket Club, is curtainly not the only institution of its kind in Malaya which has trouble regarding wouits. More than one club posts a list of, defaul ters for amounts running into very respectable amounts and it is rather muluneholy reflection on the spin of the ties that to be posted" in a club does not now to be thought quite the slume and disgrace that it was in the old days. In some cases the question of defaulters became serious that it was decided to make an entire sweep of the bine-honoured Easter thit aystem and institute either cash deposits or paymeus for drinks as ordered.

NOTABLE

EXCEPTIONS.

Two notable examples are, of

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a verbal agreement although not the one pleaded-to support her in necessity if she did not claim alimony from the French Courta

in the jury's view this was intended to be a binding contract, and it was not part of a collusive arrangement for divorce.

judgment delivered by, Mr. Justice Below in the substance of the

M'Gardie:-

GETS-

MRS. DENNISTOUN Judgment for the sums of £336 and £136 18s (together, £472 188), with the general costs of that part of the action. .*

Costs of establishing these two causes of action, which were for money said to have been advanced

on the Colonel's behalf.

in the divorce (which the Colonel Costs, on the issue of collusion failed to establish), and also

Costs (if any) caused to her by the Colonel's plea of implied

condition

counterclaim for furniture, with Judgment upon the Colonel's

costs.

For some years following Cook's exposure as a fraud by Admiral North Pole, the doctor disappeared Peary, the real discoverer of the in South America, and little wes known of his activities. A few years ago he returned and con- the Petroleum Producers' Assocla- ceived the plan of organising into tion a number of concerns owning worthless oil lands and selling the stock to gullable "investors."" For the past 16 mouths Cook has been in jail in Texas awaiting the result of his appeal from his sentence, which was based chiefly on Judge Killet's excoriating denunciatory iddress describing the former ex- plorer as one of the biggest liars

in the world's history. Cook still petition President Coolidge for his has many friends who intend to

pardon.

AN ELUSIVE, MOON.

MYSTERY OF SATURN'S

TENTH SATELLITE,

COLONEL DENNISTOUN GETS-

Judgment for £615"(money leni) in 1913), with costs on that cause

Judgment on the claim for l damages for breach of contract, mysterious with costs on that cause, which was the principal issue of the suit.

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engaged the attention of many.

The moon is called Themis, and

In other words, Mrs. Dennistoun and the fumons "Spotted Dog" of the balance of the costs should be Kuala Lumpur, where the redit against her, the £472 18s. will be system was abolished several yers credited in her favour against the ago with, apparently benets balance. If the balance of costs which outweighed the incon-Is.in her favour, she will recover venience caused to members who the balance plus the £472 18s. pay Unir dues regularly. Other

A stay of execution was granted until further order, with liberty to the parties to make application.

course, the Penang Cricket Club will not get £5,000 damages. is officially known as the tenth

clubs catering fir junior net lave hesitated to follow a head which has, we think, very much to recom- med it. They orgue ut mem- bers should not be robbed of their credit privileges, white in cases it is even orged that a cash some system would cause thembers to spend less and the club would yok he, able to pay its way,

Sach.an gment is surely not to be taken seriouste. A dub which depends for its unintenance on meinbere speling more thaw is good for them at the bar-especially a club which is supposed to exist to pro- mote the interests of sport very small claim

to the right" to exisk at nit.

Thome is my good deal to be suid for; 1 view that soberiptions mish; other tes should cover club's i overbond élærges and drinks shoabl be sold at near cost price as The custom of ordering possible. drinks for the good of the hans?, as is done in some, litels, is surely. not appliable to our clubs, The trending bubit and the futal cusc with which bills can be run up is tenuse of regret to those who take the time to think of those things, and while no one wants to see a "young man become a herinit and a Pluse it is genendly admitted that shouting rounds" has been. and is a great deal overdone. Most of ns know from experience the extraordinary ease with which a club bill of a hundred dollars and more can be acamolated: Is it

right for a young man with a salary of three or four hundred dollars & mouth to be led into Imbits these?

likė

A HEALTHY CHECK... Having to make a cash deposit and to renew it when the amount is exhausted has a healthy check on undue expenditure. The mem- ber benefits and the club, even if its receipts on paper are not so large, profits considerably by having no bad debts.

It is understood that the effect of

estimated at about £34.000. 50 per cent.

satellite. For 20 years or more controversy has debated whether it

really' exists.

The late Professor Barnard, who American observers, could was one of the most skilled of

not find Themis with the 40-inch tele scope at Yerkes.

The satellite is described in scientific sources of laformation as

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Herh chield child Write T.Bohryver Mr & Mrs Rick Mr & Mrs W. Mr and Mrs B. J. Vander Stern

Lacea

Mr & Mrs Townend Mr H.T. Werzchkol

PEAK, HOTEL.

May 2

a body of the 17th magnitude De J. W. Anderson Miss G. Kennedy

Mr F. Alin

Mr and Mrs E. K

Mr and May 8. E.

Laughton

each party will have to bear about being placed at a distance from the apportionment of costs is that (which exceedingly faint) and as Mr 8. A. Arthur Mrs L. E. al es

Costs have been Saturn of over 900,000 miles.

Many astronomers believe the object to have been merely a spurious effect of the photographic Fulite, un effect which was later preted as the image of a satellite.

Gen. Mario Menocal, former Pro ident of Cuba, who is making A home campaign tour accompanied by a body of troops and adherents. While passing through. Camaguey and Orionto Provinces, a clash o cured between his adherents and local police. Troops of the Gor ernment are enroute to the acade and warships are in readiness for further disorders,

The only observations of it were made by Professor Pickering in 1903. and these were entirely photographic. Since 1903 Themis has persistently refused to reveal itself.

MAN OF WEALTH.

4 WIVES AND 10 POLO PONIES.

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The problem of chits is a very champagne and accessories... If head, Somerset old and hoary one, of course, but he is not on the wrong side of Fifteen polo ponies for the Mahe It is always with us and it has their books already, the obliging raju a team arrived, at Plymouth by not been solved yet. Hotel and management will trust him for the British India liner Fomale, store managers say they would the bill. We suppose it works out making a string of about 70. like to see chits abolished and we all right, and we do not presame travelled well, only once refusing give their stated opinion for what to teach hotel and store managers food owing to rough weather. Each it may be worth; personally, we their business; but the effect Popy is worth about £450.

are not quite sure. There may on the young man cannot be

be something in the assertion that other than unhealthy Unless he

at the prices charged the honestis more than usually atro

customers pay for the lossea oned and has a

the others. In any case the cus portion it is ve

tom still goes on. A young man him inte

new to the place can give a large and working in orders in a store, and if he is to his detriment known to be in employment and is his advantage. presumably of good standing her hom

can obtain credit, The same these extraordin

- young man can go to a hotel

and give a dinner party to

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Because work so much better

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BE "dog days" are coming

Many generations ago pur anceston held the colour ront rising sad setting of the degustar with the sun to be responsible for the prevalenes of hot weather for a period of forty days, twenty, bafore and twenty after that avent s delightful climatic exsatanse which the oldest--zian living in our village cannot repolleok

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