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HUSBAND AND WIFE

CHANGES IN THE LAW

MUST

COME

MARRIED WOMEN AS SPOILT

DARLINGS

OF THE LAW

(By a Lawyer)

Most West End houses used to blossom on the fist of May into HE députations of women, wife, and still is, even if the law masses of red and pink geraniums, > including one consisting of be changed as proposed. white marguerites calceolarias.

and

yellow all the 14 women M.P.s. which

Bankruptcy

waited on the Lord Chancellor, The present position with In recent years the window-box Lord Sankey, recently are indi-regard to bankruptcy and mer- has suffered a social decline. There cations of the wide interest ried women is that a married are more to be seen In Tooting than created by the report of Lord woman can be made a bankrupt in Mayfair.

Hanworth's Law Revision Com-only if she is trading, whether mittee,

separately or with her husband.

KING BEHIND THE COUNTER

men or single

This Committee recommends Her present position as a debtor Last month the Governor of the sweeping changes in the law of against whom judgment has been Gold Coast reinstated. the King of Husband and Wife. A husband recovered is that she cannot be Ashanti in the old capital of the shall no longer to be liable to be sent to prison-only her proper Ashanti-Federation, Coomassie

sued or be made responsible forty can be taken in satisfaction. Prempeh IL, the new Asantehene,

his wife's ante-nuptial torta or This state of affairs has been ALL DEPARTMENTS not, as one newspaper states, the contracts or for any wrongs com-highly convenient to the negli son of Prempeh I, the King who mitted by his wife during mar-gent, extravagant and fraudulent

married woman. gave us 30 much trouble in the jriage.

She has been 'nineties.

In all matters of contract, tort able to commit torte knowing In Ashanti thrones, land and or bankruptcy, and all kinds of that her husband would have to She has often family names go by matrilineal civil proceedings arising from pay for them. descent Prempeh II. is a son of them, the wife is to be placed in been able to live far beyond her Prempeh's sister, who transraits the whether of rights or responsibi-rupted; or that if she is ordered precisely the same position, in trade she can never be bank- means knowing that is she is not" royal blood and has the powerful lities, as are position of Queen-Mother.

The new King worked, behind the Women. In suitable cases a mar-lhe can laugh, at any idea of to pay on a judgment summons counter of a European trading firm being made bankrupt or by being

ried woman will be punishable by going to prison, or indeed at In Coomassie. His chief secretary sent to prison.

paying at all if she can concent will be Prempeh's son.

The peculiar institution known for dispose of her possessions to English law as the wife's successfully. A "Separate Estate" is to be in future have the same position mendations would make it pos eliminated, so that the wife will posed changes which I think needs attention. The recom as a man or single woman with sible for a rich man whose wife tributors of twenty-sovereigns on behalf of their personal skill

regard to all her property. and their own horaes has now.

And in all future settlements to instigate his wife to some tort had to great assets of her own been atretched to include six or A Civil War veteran had spent of property it is to be made by which he might profit, for seven million people who contri-weak at a New York hotal. When heillegal to include a particular instance, to libel some profes bute ten shillings each for the "What was your rank?"

legal device known as the sional or trade rival very badly- wonderfully remote chance of "Oh, just a private," the old soldier Restraint upon Anticipation. getting a modest fortune that replied.

and the only remedy the libelled person would have would be to

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW

The China Mail

Họng Kong, Friday, March 29, 1915

Your Daily Smile! Punch: A former antarelle explorer has become a dentist in Marchenter He now explores the molar regions, The First

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to pay his bill the clerk asked:

There is on risk in the pro

The Grand National When the sportsmen of 1839 will keep them for the rest of alYou are the Arst private I over met. "Well, I don't charge you anything.

The Husband Pays called their new addition to the gay and gilt-edged life. It is a

The married woman has been bring an action against the

pen- programme of steeplechases a popular dream. It remains to be

the "spolit darling of the law niless wife, whose husband might "Grand National" they can have seen how long it will last and

And the Bills! had very little idea of how how long several millions of light now that she is married."

"Betty will see things in a different in all these matters, so that husstand to gain enormously.

bands, traders and successful it is also, I think, necessary to "grand" and how "national" people will continue to display yes, if she uses all the lamps and plaintiffs against her In the deal with torts which husbands if not international — it was to this wide anxiety to pay good shades the got as wedding presents." courts have all been penalised and wives commit against each become in the course of less than money for almost nothing at all.

other. The Law Revision Com because of various types of pro- Ja, hundred years. It was For the present the Dublin" ex- the term to attection afforded to her by differee points out that their

It was the teacher's custom ask more or less modest sweepstake periment flourishes, but whether each pupil every Sunday what he or she ent parts of the law.

terms of reference did not in for gentlemen riders twenty it is good for the Grand National had done during the week to make some From about the time of the clude this subject. To illustrate sovereigns each, with a hundred or good for the countries from peragh happy. added, was the stake for which which the money is collected are sald: went over to my Aunt's

When it became Jackie's turn, he and wife formed one legal en point to the possibility of a wife-

Norman Conquest the husband it in a practical way one might they rode their four miles across matters on which there are con-house--and when I went home she was tity, and that one was the hus he could be made to lose. one so slandering her husband that country. Not only was it very siderable differences of opinion. happy." far from being a "national" spec-One thing is evident. The race tacle but it was also some dis- itself, always a considerable oc- tance from enjoying the general casion for "a flutter," is now the approval of racing owners and excuse for one of the highest writers. Seventeen riders set off flights in the history of gam- from the tape in 1889, and the bling. It was a race; it seems hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day was It was, therefore, perfectly

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 death. horses of several of them came to be in some danger of becom-0.01 inch. The total since January logical that if, for instance, she Most modern people would to pretty bad grief-so bad that ing an apanage of a Dublin lot-1 is 5.72 inches, as against an aver-injured someone's reputation by place first among arguments for there were strong protests from tery. some older authorities on Eng-

test

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

...

band. He therefore, became possessed of all that his wife had position after another, although bad before her marriage, and

his Common Law liability to any rights she had in her single She may prevent him earning maintain her remains untouched. days over her possessions revive the wherewithal to keep her, but ed only upon her husband's

he must keep her!

Uniform Law Needed

In

with an ability that would have than would ever be seen on the the charitable objects of the The first device turned the separated woman exposed to the

(Continued on Page 3)

Horse and rider the latest ar-"running commentary of the tracy for stealing two woollen and rangements for restricting the B.B.C. informs the sitter in an cloth Jackets, the property of Kwan number of entries are to be com- armchair that the favourite has Chenk and Tong Tik at No. 1 Tung mended. the number of time to pick himself up. One of such a race fallen before the Jockey has had

lish racing that the new fixture paint this widening interest in a

However, perhaps that is to age of 5.56 inches.

her tongue or pen, or if she in the Committee's recommenda flicted harm to some third per- tions the encouragement of a involved a most improper and famous spectacle a little too pletely filled by the audience which negligence, the husband was among married women.

St. John's Cathedral was com-sons body or property by her spirit of honest independence unfair

of horseflesh. harshly. There are other things assembled last night for the per- liable to pay for the damage The changes proposed, after Steeplechasing did not fit in with besides the older conception of English which are at work in transform-by the Hong Kong Singers.

the Dublin adventure formance of the oratorio" "Elijah" done the days of the Georges, accordance with our modern con- all, simply bring the law into flat-racing, and it says a great ing the race at Aintree from a deal for the resourcefulness of Grand National into a grander

the Courts of Chancery devised ditions of life. There is no real horse-breeders that they have and grander international There. The proceeds of the performance two protections for a wife's pro-reason for putting a married been able to evolve an animal of are the motion pictures, which Recreto, Kowloon, at 9 o'clock to- and the Restraint upon Anticipa whilst leaving the single woman, of Dearies at the Club de perty-the Separate Estate; woman in legal cotton-wook such strength and staying power make it posible to see far more morrow evening, will be devoted to tion. that it can stand up to such tests of the race for much less cost!

the widow and the divorced or astonished the racing world of a course itself. And that image

Hong Kong Catholic Truth Society husband into a sort of trustee of full economic blast. hundred years ago. It is still of the day's doings can be flung

what his wife had brought with about the sternest race in the far over the world into any due here from Manila at 7 a.m. next dissipating what her husband or The R.M.S. Emprèse of Asia is her. The second prevented her world too stern, in the view country where there may be Wednesday and will leave. for Vic- her own family had settled upon of many who are horse-lovers audiences who want to see ittoria and Vancouver, BC, at noon her whether by touching the rather than horse-racers, but There is the wireless, by means the standard of steeplechasers of which the authentic voice of next Friday. has been raised so notably that the bookie and the roar of the there are no longer open protests crowd around him can be wafted Sentence of three months hard could do was to spend her in- from the racing world itself into a suburban parlour; and by labour was this morning imposed on come.as and after she had actu- Mr. Paul Braga was fined $10 by When thinking of the risk to the same powerful magic the

Chan Ng, unemployed, by Mr. Q Ajally received it.

Mr. W. Schofield at the Central A. Macfadyen at the Central Magis-

Polkes Court this morning for driv- The Property Act S

given the right to own as Pro For a simillar offence, Mr. S. S..

In 1882 married women were which is closed to moter traffic.

ing car No. 560 in Kellett Road, prietors their own unsettled pro- savi, of St. John's Hall, University perty or earnings and to bring of Hong Kong, was also fined $10. . or defend actions in contract. Wives were given limited rights

Shing Lane.

capital or Income, or both so that in fact the only thing the wife

twenty-seven to-day's starters is a much these March afternoons there safer turn-out than the fantastic will be television, too: the "gen- field of sixty-six from which tlemen of England, who sit at "PO PIU LOTTERY TICKETS of bringing actions in tort Gregalach won on a cold grey home at ease, will be able to afternoon three years ago. It is see the race as it happens as

against their husbands with" re- gard to this separate property.

now possible to pick up an Eng well as hear about it. With all A fine of $40, in default three However, none of the previous lish newspaper and have to hunt these newer agencies at work webks hard labour, was imposed on protections they had had were hard for a description of the one can hardly wonder that the Yu Luk, splaster, by Mr. QA. A removed and the husbands were race; the details of what hap-affair tends to dwarf many other Macfadyen at the Central Magis left still liable to pay damages pened to the horses are lost, or interests on the day whe

at least modestly hidden, among curs; if the the domestic details and family the resource fame of those who ha drawn also"all the winning tickets or He Irish deavour

erhaps builded anca into

octracy this morning for being in. pos recovered against their wives for

session of 121 po più lottery tickets their ongful deeds.

in Stanley Streat yesterday,

No rights were conferred upon husbands parallel to those given

wives The husband's Com

Lawliability to maintain his emained untouched and

remain

conse

DRIVING IN ROADS NOT FOR TRAFFIC Two Fines Imposed

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL