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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1925.

No. 19,674

MEETING A NEED,

A WIFE'S DEBTS.

WHEN A HUSBAND, IS NOR LIABLE.

THE HIND-LAMMERT CASE:

Mr. W. B. Hind's contention that he was not obliged to pay for debts incurred by his wife was apheld yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Wood who gave a verdict in his favour in the case in which Larimert Bros, sued for $238 for furniture sold to Mrs. Hind in the sales rooms.

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STATION TRAGEDY.

ENQUIRY INTO SERGEANT BLACKMAN'S 'DEATH.

"WORRIES.

REVENUE COLLECTING

Evidence was given at the inquiry yesterday into the death of Sergt. Blackman that the de- coased had been ill on and off for several days before the night in the course of which the evidence The incident occurred at the points to his having shot himself. Junction of Pedder Street and Des On that actual night (December 2) Vœux Road Central about 7 p.m. Northern. dialect interpreter de- Near the traffic policeman's past posed to seeing him at eight the car had drawn and, it is stated, o'clock when witness went to ask the tram could not be brought up him for the revolver for the. in time. A local resident attri patrol. The Sergt. said he was butes the crash to a coolle step. very ill but said he would see how ping in front of the pointsman at he felt in the morning before

going to hospital, the critical moment.

Witness put his hand on the Sergeant's head and found it very He felt his cheek and it was. hot.

Witness was not! "hot like Are." awakened during the night and he did not hear a shot fired. next morning Sergt. Blackman's boy made a report that the Sergeant had been found dead in bed with a shot wound in his head.

M. Eleodora Rouillon, the Peru. At the annual meeting of the Kowloon Union Church last night. on remand, the nine coolies em-vian Consul in Hongkong, escaped the Rev. J. Kirk Maronachieployed at the North Point Har-orious injury in a mota accident (Hongkong pastor) said that tu-bour works, who were arrested day nobody would say they had been ahead of time as it had een connection with the death of a come more evident that the church co-worker found beaten to death,

were set free this morning. was greatly needed.

The Rev. J Horace Johnston.. Two workmen were tied up and the furniture was delivered to dance of the congregation:

His Honour emphasized that B.A.. presided over a large atten-attacked and one succumbed. As a result, after a count of murder Mrs. Hind at an address other]

has been amended, two of the Mr. C. Wallace. the hon. trea- defendants were held on a charge than her own residence. for the

Hatsurer, purpose of furnishing a

reported an increased of manslaughter and the other

seven on a less serious charge. which she proposed to let on her balance, viz., $731.74, residence The

This Items in the report of the hon.

E. morning MR. own account.

Purves.Lindsell, in discharging the men," where defendant and his wife secretary, Mr. D. J. were living

said that although he believeti already were :--- Was

Great advance on attendance at they were implicated it was not furnished.

services since 1924.

possible to identify them in the Many improvements and addi-evidence, there being several hun-

dreds of coolies employed. tions to Church and grounds.

Mr. Andrews replaced Mrs. Det. Inspector T. Murphy pro- Graig as organist, à presentation secuted for the Crown,

The law applicable had been stated by Mr. Justice McCardie in a judgment in 1922: "A per- son who deals with a married woman on credit does so, as far as regards a remedy, against the husband, at his own risk.

Continuing. His Honour saidi marriage in itself did not give & wife authority to pledge her hus

A husband might band's credit.

give express at for he night giv

roarse of cor

ity Lis wife hority by

y which he implied conferred authority to- Frontract with one or more persons, After any such authority a wife who is living with her husband from the fact of cohabitation, is heli to, derive a presumptive Authority to contract for her hus band but that authority is strictly Rimited.

In the dispute hetween the parties, no question had arisen of express authority or of authority by estoppel. The plaintiffs, there- fore, in order to succeed, had to rely on the presumptive authority arising from cohabitation for the wife to pledge her husband's Feredit for necessaries.

Lastly the fact that the plain- tiffs were public auctioneers and announced in their printed condi- tions of sale "cash on delivery." seemed to him to estop them from setting up any" presumptive authority in a married woman. who might be a successful bidder at a public auction to pledge her husband's credit.

He therefore gave Judgment for the defendant.

of

Chapter of Accidents.

Lamb Leading Stoker. HMS. "Hawkins was run into by motor cycle No. 549 at the fcot of Garden Road a few minutes past midnight last night The rider pulled up and found

Down a forty-foot embankment plunged his fying express, bringing death to a score of passengers and injury to fifty. The wire train was wrecked.

having been made to the latter.

Mr. Fleming took the place of Captain Davies as choirmaster.

In the New Year the minister to children on his gave a party Mr. Hind, who appeared yester-own outlay. A social sub-com- day and at the hearing for him-mittee was appointed in January; self as defendant, said he had a gathering was held in March and already agreed with his friend to another in November." Weekly pay for the articles in question. bathing pienics were held till the $83.80 was He had contested the case purely strike intervent. and simply as a matter of prin- realised for a crockery account. ciple.

The committee recommends monthly social event.

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$10 FOR LIGHT.

CHINA LIGHT METER READER "SACKED."

Collections have been most Eberal; special thankofferings at the anniversary making up for lean strike months.

ONE STEP MORE.

DISARMAMENT COMMIS- SION PROGRESS.

A MEETING IN FEBRUARY.

(Reuter's Service.).

The

Witness added that Sergeant Blackman had a certain amount of revenue to collect from the dis- tillery. On the night of his death there were over $500 of revenue money in the safe.

Mr. Lindsell: Did he like col- lecting Government money?

Witness: No. He said that it was not Police work, and that it should be collected by the Revenue Officers.

In answer to further questions witness said that collecting the revenue money seemed to worry him. He was the only European at the station, but now there were two European officers.

Another Chinese interpreter, asked if he heard a shot, said that no one did. The night was windy and the wind made a noise in the trees near the station,

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Dr. E. P. Minett, Government Bacteriologist and Officer charge of Mortuaries, gave' evid ence as to the nature of the wound. The point of the entry of the bullet was charred at the edges. The bullet had gone clean through, the position of the two wounds that the injuries to the stoker's being consistent with the wound leg were only superficial.

having been self-inflicted.""Dr. Near the Tam Kung "joss-Minett.added that examination of house" on the Kowloon City Road, the body had revealed signs of ad- motor lorry No. 1870 turned over vanced tuberculosis. yesterday through the front off

In reply to a question by Mr. wheel suddenly "breaking into Lindsell, Mr. Gerrard intimated pieces."

At the time the lorry that he would make inquiries to: was loaded with salt. The driver discover if Sergeant Blackman had and his foki were hurt about the been medically attended during hands and legs but both refused the past few months, and if he had an invitation to hospital.

been in hospital during the past

H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S CAR. Almost at the same time as

year.

At this stage the inquiry was

"RED

PARTNER. MANAGER CHARGED WITH

$370 THEFT.

Geneva, Dec. 11. One of the outstanding items in the agenda of the conference! was disposed of amid universal M Rouillon's accident, a woman adjourned until next Thursday at satisfaction.

was slightly injured at the junc-2.15 p.m. All the details of the constitution of Queen's Road East and tion disarmament commission, Arsenal Street. She s cross- Thanks are expressed to Sunday together with the procedure and ing the roadway when knocked school workers, attendance hav-programme, were completed and down by a car said to be that of A cousin failing to pay in a $10 ing increased from 25 to 45.

undoubtedly will be approved at H.E: the Governor and was taken "deposit" to the China Light &

Five marriages and eight bapto-morrow's sitting of the Coun-to the Government Civil Hospital Power Co., Ltd., because he could tisms had been performed and 100 cil.

for attention. not find the address led to the names were on the communion The commission will probably relative-a meter reader--being | role.

meet at Geneva in February. bound over for six months at the

The Rev. Mr. Maconachie pre- The States on the Council all Kowloon Police Court yesterday.sented to the Church a Lible pur-agreed to serve on the Commis-

Defendant had taken the chased at Home. money, without authority, from a Chinese woman. His cousin pro- duced the sum in court. Mr. W. J. Brown said that defendant would be dismissed. In the cir- cumstances Mr. E. W. Hamilton was satisfied with a bond.

Officers elected were:- Ladies-Mrs. J. A. Craig, Mrs. D. Davies, Mrs. Dick, Mrs. D. F. Warren, Mrs. D., M. Nelson, Miss Farrell."

Invitations will now be ston. sent to other, Powers, including Germany,. Russia and the United States.

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Involving his tenureship of a "red" share (the owner of which, as recognised in law, is a person who is not entitled to interest on capital but who shares with the partners the surplus 'profit after It is reported in the vernacular payment of interest on capital), papers that the eighth applica-he manager of a Chinese rice A private sitting of the Council, tion, under the Government Trade frm was charged before Mr. Do Gentlemen-Messrs. Arnott, D. of the League approved the pro- Loan, has been approved to the E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Gow, J. Cameron, W. McFarlane, gramme of the preparatory.com-amount of $344,000. D. F. Warren, E. C. Tregillés, J.mittee for the disarmament con- SHIPYARD BLAZE. Smith, D. J. Purves.

10,000-TON TANKER BADLY DAMAGED.

(Reuter's Service.).

Amsterdam, Dec. 11.

A fire in the Netherlands Ship- [building Company yard caused the destruction of a slipway and very bad damage to a new tanker of 10,000 tona nearly completed for the Anglo-Persian Oil Com- pany.

CHOLERA SCARE

(Reuter's Service.)«

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WAR IN SOUTH.

PAKHOI NOW IN "RED" "HANDS."

HOTHOW TO FALL NEXT? Quoting a passenger from that port, the local vernacular papers state that Holhow is now in the hands of the Canton (Kuomin- tang) army

ference.

Geneva, Dec. 11.

GOLD BAR THEFT.

LOCAL MERCHANT REPORTS LOSS.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

A case of gold bars, valued at over $20,000 has been spirited away, reporta a Jervois Street merchant.

Magistracy yesterday with. the Merchants requiring urgent theft of $370 belonging to the

firm. consideration of applications are, continues the report, requested to

Complainant (wife of the sole communicate with Mr. A. proprietor) alleged that she paid Wood at the Secretariat for Chin- defendant $370 for settlement of an urgent account and purchase ese Affairs.

of stock. According to evidence. he vanished after receiving the money but returned on three days when the master's, wife was not there. On November 28 he at- tempted to take away the books but was arrested on the mistress? Initiative.

FRATERNITY TRIP.

LOCAL MERCHANTS TO SAIL TO-MORROW?

ve According to present arrange- Instructions, were given to a ments. the party of Hongkong An anti-Hongkong boycott has foki to ship two cases to Holhow merchants comprising the "frat been started and conditions, are but a telegram came saying theyernal body to visit Canton are similar to those prevalent at had not been received. Sub-likely to leave by steamer for Swatow. Order has been mal sequent inquifies led to the fold Canton to-morrow. tained:

being suspected.

Hoihow has not yet been A reward of $500 has been brought into line but the speaker offered, it is stated, together, with

Madras Doc 11 There have been no further te position will be the 10-

same as that of Pakhoi in a few recovered cases of cholera reported."

days time.

The German steamer Trifele will be permitted to go to Rangoon, where it will be quar- It is notified the antined, The five members of the Debuste Y the ship's company sent to hos- Limited anek pital with cholera ára progressing Trading satisfactorily

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Case adjourned.

This Wednesday the funeral took place at Macao of Mrs: Carolina Gouveia Cabral, who

Corrected hour for lato You passed away on Tuesday at an old

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