1930-03-24 — Page 7

MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1930.

22 YEARS' SERVICE

Divisional Inspector

D. Macdonald

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

Many happy returns to Divisional Inspector Donald Macdonald, in charge of the Wanchai District, who to-day celebrates his birthday.

THE

PO HING THEATRE HUNGER STRIKER

(Continued from Page 1)

tians of the licence of the theatre committed, presumably, by the de- fendant, and of two fines which the plaintiff had to pay for such breaches.

I certainly do not see how these payments by the plaintiff can be regarded as means profits: they,

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Paris, Yesterday. Detective-Sergeant Fitches The amazing vitality of Madame peared at the Kowloon Magistracy THIRD EXTRA RACE MEET- lanau culminated in her escape from this morning before Mr. Whyte-ING to be held on SATURDAY, Cochin Hospital, where she was remov-Smith to prosecute Li Ho, of San 5th April, 1930 (weather per- Mr. Macdonald, who is the senior might possibly be recoverable as ed recently from St. Lazare Prison.

In spite of her exhausted condition! Cheong Village, who was charged mitting) may be obtained at the Divisional Inspector of the Police special damage arising from the she managed last night to tie the bed with kidnapping, and, alternatively. Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Force, completed 22 years' service breach of the covenants in the clothes together and fit them to the receiving, a Chinese boy of seven Causeway Bay Stables. In Hong Kong this year. It was lease of February 5, 1929, above window bar. She then alid down from years of age from his mother. liv-

Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock → February 16, 1908, that he was referred to but they should have the upper room to the grounds, which ing at 2, Baker Street.

Noon on THURSDAY, 27th March, appointed a Police Contable, and seen specially referred to as such. were deserted after dark, and made her The defendant pleaded: "I do nat

1030. since that time he has seen service do not think the Registrar was cgruss at the rear gute unobserved. | know. A man brought the child to Hong Kong, 24th March, 1980. In most of the districts on the island justified in deciding Item 3 in She hailed a taxi and told the chauf- me to look after, while he went and the mainland.

favour of the plaintiff.

feur to drive to the St. Lazare pri- for a vehicle." His promotions were Lance- Item 4. This relates to a late, some distance away. Sergeant (January 1, 1914); Subperformances licence fee.

The prison warders were astounded The Inspector (June 1, 1920); Inspector plaintiff has paid the full fee and

when she turned up and said: "Here (August 7, 1925). He has been claims a proportion of it from the hausted and fainted.

She was then thoroughly ex- Divisional Inspector, Wanchai, aince defendant. Here again the claim March 27, 1928, when Mr. Walter is not one which, in my opinion, Kent relinquished that post on his ran be considered under the order appointment as Assistant Superin- of August 23, 1929. tendent of Police.

CHATER CASE

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.

The prosecuting officer stated that at 10.30 yesterday morning the complainant missed her son, and, without reporting to the Police THE SUMMER TERM will be The bewildered fovernor telephoned made a search individually, which in on THURSDAY, MARCH to the Public Prosecutor and her coun- was fortunately successful, for at 27, when New Students, whether sel.

was near the Po Hing Boardera or Day-Boys, should at- noon, she Injections of camphorated ait were Theatre in Nathan Road, when she tend for examination at 9 am. applied.

saw the defendant, walking with the Her escape was first revealed to the boy, and carrying a new black suit Buthorities when the Police Commis-case in her right hand. sioner rang up the hospital and en-

The complainant noticed the wo to'quired regarding Madamo Hanau's con-

dition and was informed that she was place for a motor bus which was to man and boy waiting at the stopping I do not see how longer at her room and that a men who were detailed to watch over search was proceeding. Two potice take them to Shamshuipo.

Item 6. This is admitted by the defendant's counsel to be recover- able.

Police Guard Not Mesne Profits

Item 8. This item refers wages paid by the plaintiff to a Police guard.

this claim can be considered either inconsistent with the Judgas mesne profits or as damages ment of the Full Court on which it must for breach of the covenants suct be based and that the conclusion reach-in on this action.

appen

On the recognition of her son,

Prospectuses may be obtained from Mr. LI HOI-TUNG, Mesars. Banker & Co.. Bank of China Building, or from The Warden, St. Stephen's College, Stanley.

TUITION

or did not see her flight as they were who had in his hand a parcel of stationed in the corridor outside, not orange. the complainant called an being permitted to remain in the bed-Indian policeman to arrest the LANGUAGE and characters TAUGHT

woman.

| CANTONESE AND MANDARIN ed in the judgment that these bene- Items 7 and B. These were ad- toom. fetarier as pecuniary legatees might mitted to be recoverable at the

by Mr. SHIU. Special notes and books. Yesterday was the 23rd day of her At the station the woman's box Twenty-three years' experience. Rapid might claim interest in accordance with hearing before the Registrar. hunger strike and, she struggled so was searched and found to contain progress ensured. Special explans- section 673 of the Code of Civil Pro. Items 9 and 10.

These relate violently in the morning against foreta boy's new cap and clothing. I r tions in English given to beginners. cedure had been already negatived by

to claims for the rant of a tale of cafe au lait, bit the rubber mouth-explanation, neither could she re-ences.

ble feeding that she broke two bowls which the defendant could give no Terms moderata.

Particular coaching in pronunciation. in Full Court,

First class refer- The Judgment of the Full Court, of phone and for amounts due for

piece in two, and fainted. The doctors

Numerous Successes At course, muat whether right or wrong, the supply of gas and electric cur claimed that yesterday was the first collect the "man" who, she alleged, examinations No. 10, Wyndham be followed until it is set aside, but in rent supplied to the theatre. I de time an attempt to feed her was par- gave the boy to her.

Street, Top Floor. my opinion in so deciding the Full not think they can be recovered tially successful.-Router.

After evidence was taken the Court correctly construed the will under the terms of the order of

woman was convicted and sentenc- Clause 8 did not segregate pecuniary

ed to one year's hard labour. legacies. It sub-divided a residuary interest.

For these reasons I am of opinion that the second and third heads of this motion of appeal should succcci).

August 23, 1929.

In Spite of Objection

Under the lease of February 6, 1929, the defendant deposited a

POLICE RESERVE

sum of $7,500 with the plaintiff Orders for the Current

The effect of clause B (a), (b), (c) to be held by the latter as gecur- and (d) of the will is as follows:-Atity for the due payment of rant,

the date of the testator's death (as, and the performance of the lesece's

Week

Orders by the Hon. Mr..E. D. C.

also, at the present time) the amount covenants and was to be repaid Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector-General of

of his residuary fund was unascertain to the defendant on

the deter.

cil. For dialectical purposes it may be mination of the lease, after de- nothing, or it may be considerable. It in, ducting any aums due for rent in!

of any

Police, state

Chinese Company Squad Drill-All recruits of the

COCKTAIL SHAKER

May Be Ruled Against

the Law

The status of a cocktail shaker is the point at Isate in U.S. District Court iu Los Angeles.

TA cocktail mixer manufacturing liquor?

In fact, estimated to be so large, that arrear or in respect of damages Chinese Company, who have not as I have already said, with the con- sent of the appellant in these proced-for the non-performance ings, the trustee has paid to the bene..of the covenants in the lease. In Course, will attend at Central Daniel Murphy with possession and

yet passed part 1 of Training An indictment charged Joseph) the Statement of Defence no claim ficiaries indicated in this summons,

Police Station on Thursday, at 5.30 manufacture of whisky. He admitted fa per cent. per annum upon the was mad for the return of this maximum capital value of their pros aum of $7,500 or the balance there- sharp for aquad drill under the count of possession, but pleaded

of. There seems also to have been Mufti.

P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt. Dress that he was cutting grai

alcohol and difference between the plaintiff Police Training School The manufacturing, in the sense of the law. making cocktails which he felt was not and defendant as to whether the

The U.S. district attorney's office feft} postponed to that under clause 8 (a), whole of this $7,600 had been paid class for instruction in Police (b) and (c). Until these three prior in cash, or whether it had been Dutles and Regulations will be held that it was Murphy's counsel argued

pective bonefit.

The Three Prior Funds The benefit under clause # (d) is

funds have been set apart

of water and alcohol as manufacturing}

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4.30 p.m. for the following pur- poses:-

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R. E. Booker.

by the paid as to 85,000 in cash and as School, Kowloon to-morrow, at 6.30 trustee, the fourth interest remains in to $2,500 by a promissory note.} abeyance. The Armenia Holy Church The. defendant objected to this of Nazareth, Calcutta, under clause 8 question being gone into but the Revolver Practice. Members of (d), is a participant in the residuary Registrar dealt with it in spite of the Chinese Company who have pass- estate which can receive no benefit the objection and found that $5,000 ed Parts 1 and 2 of Training Course until the claim of the prior legaters had been paid in cash and $2.500 will attend at the Bowen Road Re- under this clause have been defined. by means of a promissory note, volver Range or Wednesday even-

It is in these circumstances, that the Here again I think that the Regis.ng, at 9 pm, sharp for revolver| direction of the Court is sought as to the sub-division in account of the in. trar exceeded his jurisdiction and practice under Musketry Inspector come of this residuary fund between went into the whole of the ac these beneficiaries. A scheme for this counts between the plaintiff and purpose has been submitted by the ap- the defendant. In my opinion, the under defendant was entitled to object pellant for our consideration which it is proposed that the annual to this extension of the enquiry net income be sub-divided as it accrues and the Registrar should have con- between the beneficiaries under clause fined himself to dealing with the 8, by which the interim income to be matters referred to him. received by the beneficiarles with the prior interests will vary with the fluc tuations in the capital value the whole estate, and also with the expense whole question should be sent back as from March 22, of its administration. Under this sug- gestion, the Church would, in certain to the Registrar with the necessary

Judgment Reversed Mr. Jenkin, who appeared for the defendant, submitted that the

Indian Company Leave Constable R230 Hassan Khan has been granted eight months' leave of absence from the Colony as from March 11.

Flying Squad

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MARINE COURT

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Chamber of

(1) To receive the Report and Ac- counts of the Committee for the year ended December 31, 1929.

Four Chinese junk fokis were charged before Comdr. G. F. Hole,

(2) To elect a new Committee. ft.N., with unlawfully making fast their boats to the s.s. Talme whilst (3) To transact any General Busi she was under way.

They wate fined $25 or three weeks' hard

By Order,

labour cach,

ness.

E. R. PRICE,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, March 20, 1930.

EXHIBITION

Leung Kan, måster of A-5570-V, Strength. Constable R333 A, 0. was charged with unlawfully W. Mooney has been taken on the carrying three passengers in ex- strength of the Flying Squad, and cess of the number shown on the posted to the Hong Kong Section licence of his passenger boat-17

The weekly instructional patrol $6 or alx days' Jail.

passengers. Defendant was fined MESSRS, KOMOR & KOMOR'S circumstances, receive fraction of the directions for further considera.i of the Kowloon Section will take! Chan Slu, 15 years, was charg- net income and in certain other circum-tion. But it appears to me that place to-morrow. Fall in at the ed with boarding the s.s. Presi- stances would receive nothing at all. there is no need for this to be done. Taim-tsa-taul Fire Brigade Station dent Taft before it had arrived at Laborious Calculations The question as to which of the at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress! Win-Kowloon Wharf without the per- Items with which I have dealt come ter uniform, and cap with white mission of the master or of the within the terms of the order of, cover.

officer-in-charge. He was fined August 23, 1929, is one of law, and The final instructional patrol of $25 or three weeks' jail. But, apart from this, it also docs of any of the items which I consider tion will take place on Friday and

there is no dispute as to the amount the month of the Hong Kong Sec- Charged with mooring their sam-.

pans at Causeway Bay without to be within the full scope of all members are requested to at-permits, four Chinese women were

Fall in at Central Police fined $3 or 3 days each. The actual sub-division of the income that order. In my opinion, there tend.

This scheme seems to me to be wholly impracticable and to lend itself to series of laborious and unsatisfactory

calculations.

not, in my view, carry out the pro- visions of the will itself.

of the residuary estate among the bene fore, judgment ought to be entered Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress Chan Kwong, the master of a felaries under clause B cannot, in my for the plaintiff in respect of Items Winter uniform, and cap with fishing junk of Macao, was charg opinion, take place until the contem- 1, 5, 7, and 8, which amount to white cover. plated funds have been implemented by $3,093.17, and the judgment and Sharpshooters' Company

ed with carrying cargo (lime- stone), thus committing a breach

the trustee, then, and not till then can findings of the Registrar should be The Bowen Road Revolver Range of the conditions in his fishing the delimitation of the various interests reversed excopt as regards these will not be available for members of junk licence.

in the incorta fund be effected.

Titoms.

In the meantime any payment made

to the beneficiaries in made in advance Section 354 of the Code of Civil Wednesday.

st

He was fined $20:

the Sharpshooters' Company on

or two weeks' jall

AMOK WITH SCISSORS

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on account of benefits to be ascertained Procedure is the section under Revolver Practice.-A voluntary later date when the account of the which references to the Registrar revolver practice will take place at estate will be adjusted. The trustees are made in cases like the present, the Bowen Road Revolver Range on are not compellable in these proceedings Mr. Sheldon argued that sections Wednesday, April 2, at 9 p.m. to make any payments of income to 674 to 680 of the Code applied and Revolver

When the 'hinese man, who ran Shoot. Revolver amok with a pair of scissors and these beneficiaries. Any payments to that the proper procedure would practice will take place at Kennedy wounded two women, came before be made will be made in their unfetter- have been for the plaintiff to apply Road Range on Sunday, April 6, at fr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kow- ed discretion, having regard to the fin-under section 679 to vary or dis-, 10 a.. Members will assemble loon Magistracy this morning, on ancial development of the estate and charge the findings of the Regis at the range at that hour with their opinion, the judgment appealed front, so trar. But in my opinion, sections revolvers, belts and rifles.

the benefit of all concerned. In my

far as it prescribes the payment of in- 074 to 680 do not apply to cases like. terest, should be revarsed and this, the present; the provisions of these Court should in answer to the ques- sections deal with matters in cham- tion raised in paragraph 6 of the bera referred to the Registrar for Originating Summons declare "that the report and not to findings in an on- Interim income of the residuary estate quiry into damages on which jurig- accumulated to, the date on which the ment may be entered as on the find- funds under clause 8(a), (b) and (c) Ings of a jury."-

(Sgd.) D. L. KING.

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DSP (R)

MOTOR ACCIDENT

Girl Dies from Her Injuries

a charge of malicious wounding,

It was stated that a medical report from the prison hospital, was to the effect that the man was of unsound mind, but that the doctor would need further time for diag. nosis.

The man was accordingly re- manded for a further week for ob- servation.

ACCIDENT IN FACTORY

of the will and clause 5.of the second As regards costs, I think that codicil may be established, will be then the plaintiff should have the costs. An accident occurred on the sub-divisible among the cestul que trusta of Chond funds, together with of the enquiry before the Registrar, Castle Peak Road on Saturday at the cestue que trust,under clauso 8 (3), except in so far as they have been 4.30 p.m. Mr. G. Michal, of Middle of the will, in proportion to the capi- Incrossed by the consideration of Street, was driving a private car Bay View was the scene of the tal value of their respective Interests the items which do not fall within when he knocked down Won Kwal accident at 5.20 p.m. yesterday, A under the will and codicil, and that any the terms of the order of August wing, a Chinese girl of 10 years foki named Pau Yan-cheng, aged payments to be made in advance on a 23, 1929. The defendant should of age living at 75 Yu Chau Strest, 21 years, caught his hand in the count of their interests to the cestut have the costs of this appeal. and also Fung Tai-mal, another electric drying machine, which que trust specified in this paragraph are matters within the discretion of the frustees

The costs of the parties to this ap peals between solicitor and client. will be paid out of the estate

The Chief Justice/concur and I have repel ved letter from Bir Teter Grain in which also concurs.

DANISH CROWN PRINCE

Kobe Yesterday,

Chinese girl of eight years, living broke the loft arm, balwean the at 68. Yu Chau Street They were elbow and the wrist. He was removed to the Kowloon Hospital taken to the GovernmentCivil both suffering from. fractured Hospital by the manager of the skalia,

Astatie Knitting Compa Whore

The Danish Crown Prince and Won Kwai-wing died in Hospital premtue

Talngtao at midnight, at 9.20 prp., and the other girl is in The young me Faboard the s2 Figuía-Router: to serious condition."

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