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husband worked on the land for several moithato very little pur- poso

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Shanghai and petitioner does not know where he is. On the facts there is not a tittle of evidence to show that he has a permanent in- tention of remaining. in China. Therefore I have no Jurisdiction to try the question of dissolution: of marriage."

Finally they both crossed the continent to Sydney where re- 12 LONG, WEARY YEARS."spondent endeavoured to secure a

position on one of the Australian, In H.B.M.'s "Supreme Court coasting vessels. He did not meat recently before. Judge Peter with much success, and finally ac- His Lordship then suggested to Grain, Mrs. Emily Edith Lucan cepted a berth as Chief Offleor on Counsel that his client apply for sought to obtain a dissolution of a vessel leaving for China. Upon a judicial separation, which he her marriage with Thomas R. arrival here he joined Messrs. could grant. He had no doubt, Lucan, a marine officer formerly Jardine, Matheson and Co., Lea nowever, that if divorce proceed- employed in the Indo-China and nine months later sent for hangs were instituted in an English Steam Navigation Company and wife. Petitioner arrived in Court, they would be favourable China Merchants Steara Shanghai in Ferbuary of last the petitioner, but Counsel sald She found her husband that cost of same would be pro- Navigation Company, on the year. grounds of cruelty and adultery.quite satisfied with his job but hibitive..

The iden of a judicial separa- Mr. A. Y. Ting represented the more than ever addicted to drink.

He lost his job with the Indo-tion, His: Lordship said, "would be petitioner. Respondent was represented.

China Steam, Navigation Comto prevent respondent molesting pany early this year but never at the petitioner in future. "I ro any time lost his liking for drink.gret very much," said His Lord-

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As in all divorce cases now coming before the Judge of H.B.M.'s Supreme Court.in China, Counsel was first required to prove domicile of the respondent before evidence could be taken. After reading, the petition, which was one of the longest documents of its kind ever used in a divorce case in the local British Court Mr. Ting described the marriage of his client to the respondent, which took place on May 29, 1914.

At Hong Kong Races Realising that his prospects for another position in Shanghai were somewhat remote, petitioner then raised $1,000 after much effort and sent her husband back to Australia." He disembarked at Hong Kong, however, lost most of the money she had given him at the "races and returned to Shang-. hai within two weeks-broke He

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ship, "that there is not sufficient evidence of domicile. On the con- trary the evidence tends to show that the respondent does not in- tend to remain here." He will probably end up in the South Seas in a sailing ship.

The petition was then dismissed and a judicial separation will likely be applied for in due course..

MR. K. SMITH DEAD.

WELL-KNOWN PLANTER AND MINER..

News has been received?ip draft instead of cash for his ex-Ipch of the death in Portugal of penses.. He went to Singapore the well-known. Malayan pro- and remained there for five prietary planter and miner Mr. months, returning in October last W. Kellie Smith.

as usual.

M Kellie Smith, who resided in Malaya for many years and had extensive, property at Batu Gajah was originally an en- gineer, and built the section of the FM.S. Railway from Kampir to Teluk Anson,

as twelve and a half long, weary then succeeded in getting a post years" and a "most unhappy mar-with the China ferchants Steam riage" In that petition, a long Navigation Company but drink succession of cruelties, in-continued to be his chief concern dellities and adulteries on the and he lost that job also. His part of the respondent was des-wife then decided to send him to cribed together, with dates and Singapore, this time giving him a places with reference to each specific offence. According to the petition, respondent was a decided inebriate and delirium tremena was more than once mentioned in the course bf the reading "of the

He immediately went to where petition. Drinnk had been the his wife was employed and creat chief cause of the marriage being ed a scene. "This is the only Fan unhappy one, it being respon-place in the world where he can sible for respondent losing several set a job, declared petitioner in good positions and his being fore- an attempt to prove. domicile. ed to depend upon his loyal wife's "He knows that he can never get learnings as governess and man-nether job at Home. Lageress of a private hotel.

This concluded petitioner's evid Respondent had more than once ence, and Counsel asked His Lord been sent away from Shanghai in ship's permission to call a witness order that he might get a fresh to assist in proving domicile, start in some other port where heThis witness would state what re- was still unknown for what he spondent had said to him on a was, but he inevitably drifted number of occasions as to his in back to Shanghai and lived upon tentions to remain in China. The his wife who felt that further re-witness was called and testified petition of several "scenes" when that respondent who was well he returned on these occasions, known to him, had often express would likely endanger her own

red a desire remain in China. position. Divorce was the only course to be taken:

Court Marila).' In order to prove domicile, petitioner took the witness stand. She stated that they had been married at Birkenhead, England. at the time stated above, and

RUBBER FACTORY FIRE... shortly after their marriage, when war broke out, her husband

Batavia, December 16.---A Gov- joined the Navy. He only stayeding to a comparatively recent lawernment rubber factory at Koen one year in this service, being affecting countries wherein extra-poet Banjoemas, with) a large dismissed following court-martial territoriality privileges are en- for insurbordination and drunkenjoyed by Britons.

His reputation being then "The evidence only shows, as a well known to every shipping com- matter of fact, that respondent in- pany at Home, they, decided to tends to remain where his wife emigrate to Australia and arrivedis, so that he can live

on her. in Western Australia" where the Even now, you say, he is not in

ness..

Judge's Regrets. His Lordship feared, however, that such evidence did not help very much. "I regret to say, said His Lordship, that there is no evidence of domicile in China so far. No doubt the petitioner has been extremely ill-treated and she deserves sympathy. But domicile must be proved accord

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Subsequently he took up coffee planting and later; in the early days of the rubber industry, he was one of the first to become interested in the new product. He

was the owner of the old Kellas estate.

Mr. Kellie Smith was pre- minently connected with both the rubber and tin industries, was probably the most success- ful European proprietary planter and miner in the country. He was well-known to a wide circle of friends "and used to entertain largely at Batu Gajah..

and

Mr.Kelle Smith leaves a widow and daughter. He last visited Malaya in the early part of this year.

quantity of rubber, was burnt out. Only the enginercom was left intact.

The fire was due to spontaneous combustion in the crying house.

The rubber destroyed amount- ed to 30,000 kilograms.

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