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WEDNESDAY,

HOT COUNT.

COUNSEL ANGRY WITH THE JUDGE.

LOCKEN ROOM PUZZLE.

Peasant women wearing_clogs mixed with daintily dressed Paris- ermes when the sizes court opened St. Briene (Brittany), for the trial of Louise Theolas Comtesse de Kerninon. The comtesse, who is 62, is charged with the manslaughter of her husband, Comte Roger de Kerninon, the twentieth bearer of the title.

According to the indictment, the comtesse made the acquaintance of her future husbandin Algiers, where de was a music-hall singer. In August 1924, they went to stay with M. Fleury, u Tannion notary, the comtesse's son by her first marriage, On August 21, it was reported that Comte de Kerninon had accidentally shot himself while handling a revol- Wr. He died in hospital on September 1, and a post-mortem ex- amination showed that, though he was wounded in the neck, the actual cause of death was a swelling of the lungs.

then, I as representi requch your to confi your legal duty of putting without making insulting tions."

The judge referred to a visit paid by her to Milo. Bernardine Nedelec some months before the tragedy, and the comtesse explained: knew the way my husband used to knock when visiting his mistress, and I rapped on the door as he did, Bernardine opened the door and I walked in and asked her if she knew my husband, and when she said: No. I mucked her face."

The judge interposed, "You forgot to state that you levelled a revolver at her, '''

The hearing was adjourned.

NOTICE

EXCHANGE

An Extraordinary General Meeting of The Hongkong Block Fac Exchange will be held on Thure residents with so

pplying enc Govern st waters, Stock Exchange..

day the 2nd. July 1925 at 11 This depot. ia in the Peak Hotal Settlement for fund o'clock at the Exchange at which premises adjoining the Dairy day, July 7th 1925. all members are earnestly re- Farm-depot. quested to be present. -

By Order of the Committee,

A. NISSIM, Secretary,

NOTICE

NOTICE HAK RESIDENTS

For Hongkong Stock Exchange, 24 BIRKETT Chairman.

Hongkong, June 22, 1920.

LOST...

Arrangements have been made to keep stocks of AERATED Hongkong, 80th June, 1926. WATERS at the Peak Hotel

depot. Presidents should Turtle shall cane in Repulse send for their requirements, as Ray Finder will be rewarded delivery, to houses cannot pow be on returning game to owner mado.

Room 42, Kowloon Hotel, BATS. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 29th June, 1925.

Notice is hereby given that the I was more frightened of the re-interest and responsibility in our volver then she was," replied the Firm of Mr. Charles Alexander comtesse.

Hooper ceased on the 30th. June 1926, Mr. George Gwinnett Noble Tinson has this day been admitted a partner in our Firm which will be carried on as here- tofore under the style or firm name of Johnson Stokes and

STORY OF FATAL SCENE.

The presiding judge remarked that the comtesse must have bean very happy when she heard that her husband had died as she had no one. to contradict her now.

Describing the event of August 21 last, the comtesso said:

My husband, seeing that I placed tho revolver on the bed, remarked that be would clean it." I told him to leave it, but he picked it up,

I went to take it out of his hands. le protested. I insisted. The revolver went off.

.The circumstances were, however, considered suspicions. It was found that two shots had been fired, The mechanism of the revolver was stiff, and it could not have been in voluntarily fired a second time. When the tragely occurred the Comtesse do Kerniron and her husaying that he was afraid he would band were the only persons in the stain the carpet, room and the door wie locked.

Comte de Kerninon was alleged to have subsequently made statements itcriminating his wife.

THE OTHER WOMAN, As a motive for the comlesne's alleged desire to get rid of her hus band, it is suggested that she believed he intended to leave a cor siderable sum of money to Mile, Bernardine Nedelec, a young woman with whom he was carrying on an intrigue.

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When I saw blood on his face almost fell. He, too. faltered,

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I went to open the door, but it jammed. Finally, I kicked the panelling, and my husband tried to help me. That is all.

PASSIONATE PASSAGES,

In further replies the comtesse said that she had been with her hus band during the last day of his life. "He, 1. and God only know what took place," she exclaimed passion- ately.

The president said that; according to Mile. de Nedelec, the comtesse Tall and upright, and dressed in often indulged in revolver practice: back with a long crepe veil, the Naturally," replied the widow comtesse when she reached the pre-everything that Bernarding de soner's box in the court bowed to Nedelec says in gompel to you.'' the judge, M. Murinier, and In reply to one statement Maitre asked his permission to seat herself. | Robert remarked : "We are en- This was granted. On sitting down|titled to raise the question whether she took from her handbag a black it is right to praise the virtues of the fan which she opened and held be- mistress in order to condemn the fore her face.

wife."

Master..

1/

Johnson Stokes & Master. Hongkong, 1st July 1925.

NOTICE

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Consignees of Cargo from the New York are informed that car United Kingdom, Continent and go for Hongkong by "Eurypylus" and subsequent steamers is being lies at the risk and expense of the discharged at Singapore where it Owners of the goods.

BUTTERFIELD WIRE Hongkong. 30th June, 1925

Agenta.

NOTICE

As from and including the first day of July, 1926, the interest and responsibility of Mr. Edward Maurice Raymond in the firm of Moxon and Taylor, Sharebrokers, has been terminated by mutual consent.

•

Dated the 1st Day of July, 1926

MOXON &TAYLOR,

E. M. Raymond.

NOTICE

TO CONSIGNEES

THE STEAMSHIP EGREMONT CASTLE

from NEW YORK

Iler replies to the judge's ques This sally was applauded so tions were precise and carefully loudly that the judge in vain tried phrased, and oxxcasionally her eyes to restore order. flashed

as she gave indignant denials.

At first she appeared to have The Ideal Husband. difficulty in hearing the low-pitched Women differ as 'to what qualities questions put to hor by the judge; a man contemplating matrimony und Maitre Henri Robert, the ought to possess. No doubt, if the Sumous French barrister, who is de opinions of a hundred, women on the feling her, helped his client by subject could be collated they would repeating some of the questions. make interesting reading.

But we have Constance Talained muke ideas on what to avoid thOptional Cargo will be forwar

prospective husband. She ex ded unless notice to the contrary pressed her views to her press agent be given before. a few days ago. Here they are. Avoid, she says, a man who

Holding, a black-bordered hand- kerchief, which from time to time she pressed. 3gainst her eyes, the contessa related her meeting with Comte Roger, their marriage, their years of happy married life, and their estrangement which ended in the death of her husband.

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that, the Hongkong Stock Exchange is closed from this date and the June Settlement has been postponed until Tuesday, July 7th, 1925.

By Order of the Committee,

ADMIRAL:LINE

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON Owing to the strike conditions. the President Jefferson sailing from Hongkong to Manila on June 30th is cancelled. This vessel, however, will tall at Hongkong on her homeward voyage, skiing from Manfia on July 8rd arriving here on July 5th and sailing for a Hongkong, June 22, 1925. Victoria and Seattle via Stange hal, Kobe, and Yokohama at 5.00 p.m. July 7th

A. NISSIM, Secretary,

NOTICE

not receiving their paper every Subscribers of the Chins Mall

delivery as the result of the strike evening awtor to the uncertain are invited to notify this office if they would prefer to purchase boys direct and have the amount their paper from the street news. credited to their account. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

HOTELS LIMITED

OSAKA.SHOSEN KAISHA

MARU, BORNEO MARU, KAIJOJ The Steamships SOURABA YA

MARU.

above steamers are hereby in- Consignees of cargo by the

labour situation at Hongkong, car- formed that owing to the present go originally destined to Hong- kong was overcarried or is being With reference to the offer of carried back to the ports under- new shares dated the 15th May mentioned and stored there res- 1925 (made to the existing share-pectively at shippers, consignees holders of the Company) by the and-or cargo owners' risk and ex- terms of which the sum of $7.50 penses. per share, was to be paid on the

No Insurance whatever has 30th June 1926 and the sum of been effected by, the steamship $5.00 on the 30th September 1925 Company. the directors have decided (in Surabaya Maru from Hongkong view of the present condition of

June 28, for Takão, Formosa: affairs) to extend these dates.

Borneo Maru from Hongkong on

June 29 for Singapore.

The date for payment of the first instalment is accordingly ex- tended until the 30th September 1925 and the date for payment of the second instalment until the 81st December 1925.

Kaljo Maru from Hongkong on June 30th for Keelung, For-

mosa.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

M TAKEUCHI,

Manager.

As regards shareholders who take advantage of these extended Hongkong, June 29, 1926. tintes the new shares allotted to OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA them will rank for dividend as from the 1st October 1925 in re-

The 8.8. BINGO MAKUP Consignees of Cargo are hereby spect of haft the nominal value Having arrived on June 26th, informed that all Goods are being thereof and as from the 1st Jan consignees are hereby notified that landed at their risk into the Stan-uary 1926 in respect of the full owing to strike conditions prevail dard Oil Co's Godowne at Ken-nominal luaithereof.

ring here part of her cargo origi- nedy Town, whence and-or from Any shareholder who makes, nally destined to Hongkong the wharves delivery may be ob payment prior to the due date Foverchrried to Kobe and interei end interestant 2 nOK TAREKE, MUMBAI and speifer of cent, per adnum on the amount the opsignees, shippers and-or paid by him from the date of pay- cargo owners No Insurance ment until the due date.

whatever has been effected by the. No claims will be admitted after This notice will not affect those Steamship Company. the Goods have left the Godowns, shareholders who make payment Consignees of the cargo: which and all Goods remaining undelion the original dates, i; e. as re..was landed ex the steamer at their vered after 6th July will be sub-gards the first instalment on the risk into the. Godowns of the The indictment, as read by, the

ject to rent.

30th June and as, regards the Hongkong -and Kowloon Wharf clerk of the court, was to the effect.

All claims against the steamer cond instalment on the 30th Sep- and Godown Company at Kowloon that the comtesse, although she had

must be presented to the under-ember. The shares to be allotted, are hereby requested to send their accepted the presence of her hus-

signed on or before the 6th July to them will in accordance with Bills of Lading for countersigna- band's mistress, was so upset at the

or they will not be recognised. the original terms of the offer turés immediately. All Claims "prospect that his expenditure on the

All broken, chafed and damaged rank for dividend on one half the must be presented within 10 days. other woman would depreciate the

Wears a white bow with a rub- Goods are to be left in the Go- nominal value as from the 1st of the steamer's arrival here after family fortune that she shot him.

downs, where hey will be exam-July 1925 and on the full nominal which date they cannot be recog It was stated that evidence would-order even to approach perfedined on the 4th July at 10 am- value as from the 1st October nised, be brought to prove that the tion, says Constance, a prospective by our surveyors Messrs. God-1925, comterse locked the door of the room | bushund myst

OSAKA SHOSEN. KAISHA dard & Douglas.

By order of the Board

TAKEUCHI, TAGGART,

Manager. Managing Director Hongkong, June 29, 1925,

Wears rubber shoes. Uses grease on his hairs Carries a pocket mirror and comb. Steps on your toes when dancing. Chinches celery with his back teeth,

Reads over your shoulder. Plucks his eyebrows.

ber band.

and then fired twice at her husband. Be good-looking.

with an old revolver.

As the comte actually died of pugumonis brought on by his wound, his-widow is. not charged with murder, but with manslaughter.

"IT IS ALIE." Rarely has the examination of aff accused woman opened so drama- ¦ tically. The pointed questions put by the presiding judge met with rapid replies and counter-attacki both from the comtesse and from Maitre Henri Robert

First, the judge suggested to the contees that the had led an im.

"storal Vife in Algiers "before her with the comte.

You

aa & Finge inexorab

he declared, "that £3 every night by sing king concerte. Every:

what that means:!!

was the immediate "hamed, the money by indy was an, «honest,

this stage, sat

Always laugh at my jokes.

Be conversationalist. Porse horse-sense.

Enjoy opera as well as musical comedy.

Know how to wear a dress suit. Sympathise with me when I am angry.

TRAMWAY SERVICE FOR TOMORROW

Ten minutes service between the Post Office and Causeway Bay

also

Ten minutes between Post Office and Happy Valley.

No Fife insurance has been ef fected.

s of lading will be counter- signed by

- DODWELL & CO., Agents. 30th June, 1925:

NOTICE

There are abundant stocks of FIREWOOD on sale in the Colony and these are at present being re plenished through normal chan

n

For the benefit of those mem hers, of the public who, in the or linary times. purchase Firewood minue service from the Post dares it is hereby notified that This is equivalent to a five through their servants or Compra Office eastwards..

ample stocks are available from the dealers in Hongkong

BANK HOLIDAY.

There was little indication this morning of the observance of to- day se a general holiday. ManyTM ofices were almost déserted but! this was due in the main to the falent the Judge Artinued absence of Chinese members of

This declara Kiska: Robert to his featuri

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