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SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, October 31st,

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION...

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 1912,

BEFORE MI. H. H. J. GourENTE

(PUISKE JUDOE).

A WIDOW'S SUCCESSES.

Mak Ying, otherwise Mak Yiog Kec, described as a widow, junk owner, and coolio contractor, was the defendant in four actions.

The first case called was an action brought by Wong Wing Sap, a carpenter, of Kowloon, who was represented by Mr. II. K. Holmes. It was a claim for $300, money lent and duo under an acknow- | ledgment note,

Mr. D. Lewis defended in all the cases. Mr. Holmes anid he had not seen his client since the return day named in the writ. Fle was not prepared to go on with the case, then.

Mr. Lewis asked for judgment, for the defendant, with costs.

Mr. Otto Kong Sing asked Mr. Holmes whether ho bad ever seen his client per- sonally.

Mr. Holmes said his position was that kince the return day of the writ he had not seen bis client. Ho might have a proper excuse, in which case he would make an application later.

The second action was a claim by Wong Wing, trader, for when Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared, for 8224, money lent and interest.

Mr. Kong Bing briefly detailed the nature of the claim, and called the plain- tiff.

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Mr. Lewis said his client absolutely denied ever borrowing the money. Plain tiff had brought thres other plain tiffs to bring actions against his client on promissory notes which he had handed them,

His Lordship gare judgment for the defendant and as neither the plaintiffs nor the aplicitors appeared in the other two actions, judgment was also given for the defendant.

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It is announced that Messrs. Topham, Jones & Railton, Ltd., have successfully overcome the difficulties encountered in building the eastern and western walls of the lagoon dock, which Jour Airde, Ltd.

of pronounced to be impossible because the bad nature of the ground, owing to its being the bed of an old stream. The wall foundations were laid on the 18th ult.

LIVING IN JAPAN.

SAME OLD STORY AS IN OTHER PARTY

OF THE WORLD.

ETC.

DEPT.

THE MODERN.SCHOOL-GINL

An "Old-Fashioned Fathor" writes as follows to one of the London papers :----

I have just seen the girls from a fam ous school going back from their holidays. Cab after cab drove past, three or four in each. There seemed to me to be hun- dreds of them and they were the plainest lot of girls I ever saw.

The first few struck me as unusually hard of fenture. They lacked that deli- cate bright bloom which one looks for in young girls. I studied the reat carefully. Nearly all belonged to the same type; their cheeks were weather-beaten, their hair was dragged back under their bard atraw hats, just like boys' hats, with the This gave them an un- school ribbon. natural uniformity of appearance: at least it seems to me unnatural that girls should be brought up to look alike, in- stead of being encouraged each to develop the charm which Nature has given her. I am sure that these girls had charm enough. Many have generations of high bred, exquisite women behind them. Most are the daughters of charming mothers.

But what a difference thera often is between mothers and daughters

In a report on the Consular district of Kobe, Mr. Consul-General Layard says;~ A very serious aspect of affairs in this Consular district, and in fact in the The following special telegram appears whole of Japan, is the increased cost of in the Straits Times:-

living brought about by heavy taxation LONDON, October 22nd.

which as is natural, chiefly affects the In the High Court of Justice, to-day, the action which Airds, Limited, have poorer classes. According to the local brought against the Tanjong Pagar Dock press, many articles of everyday con- Board, in respect of their contract for sumption have rigen from 50 to 100 per cent in price during the last few years. constructing the lagoon dock at Tanjong Salt, for example, which cost from 15. to-day! Pagar, Singapore, came on for hoaring di to do. 8d. per koku (about 6 bushels) I met a girl yesterday. She jerked her before Mr. Justice Parker.

The action is one of exceptional in in 1804 has increased in price to 10s, terest, involving as it does a claim to 2d: sugar has advanced from £1 s. bd. ucarly four and a half million dollars to £1 12s. 6d. per 100 kin (say 132.27lbs.); icom the coffers of the Colony, and its brown sugar from 14s. 3d. to 81 29. 5d.; advent bas been awaited for some tirae kerosene oil from 68. 3d. to 88. 2d. per case; and soy from £1 s. 6d. to £1 s. by many Straits residents at bomu.

Quite a number of these were present in 11d. per koku (10 gallons nearly.) These court at the opening of the case to-day, commodities are absoluto necessaries of A very full array of eminent counsel is life to the Japanese, and the advance in engaged, and it is understood that the price has been necessitated by the increase in the taxes on them. Even rice, which case may last from four to five weeks.

For the plaintiffs, Mr. Upjohn, K.C., is the staple diet of the people, is not appears, with two junjars while the free from to seer net shows an increase Board, the defendants, are repre- of 20 to 30 per cent. in price which is sented by Sir Robert Finlay, K.C., with sometimes forced up to 60 to 60 per cent, whom are four junior counsel, including in times of bad crops. Similarly, ground rents and house rents have doubled Sir Hugh Fort.

The ratio of The total amount of the claim is for during the last decade.

for fraud, by which the plain- increase in wages, morcover, although £600,000, tiffs allego that they were induced to from 20 to 30 per cent, operativos, does enter into an agreement with the Board not correspond with the increase in the and their agent, Mr. J. R. Nicholson, for cost of living, and much distress ensues in consequence, the stress being felt more a wharf and dock construction contract.

The defendants do not set up a counter- particularly by the smaller officials, and claim, but they have served notice on the the like, whose salaries are on a fixed executors of the late Sir John Aird that scale. they might hold them liable for a million pounds.

Mr. Upjohn, K.C., who intimated that he might speak for three days, in open ing the case, said that on the main issues the plaintiffs contended that they wore induced to enter into the contract by misrepresentations of the Board's agents, made under such circumstances that the Board were responsible as for fraud; that it was impossible to perform the contract: and that, by their conduct, the Board had twice repudiated the contract by giving Airds the opportunity of determining the same, which they (Airds) did.

cluded.

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As additional evidence of this there is a marked increase of crime in this country. The above is translated from a leading Japanese newspaper, and the figures may be taken as accurate.

head at me, awkwardly self-conscious. A few moments later her mother passed. How different the gracious bow with which she greeted me with whit ad

She is a great lady greats everybody! of the age which valued charm in women.

overdone. There was too I admit, of course, that the cultivation of charm was much of the meaningless simper; too fre- quently the smile was artificial was self-consciousness then also. ther, I should be sorry to make light of the good effect of exercise for girls. Ther used not to take enough, unless they lived active lives in the country or got plenty Those school walks in of hunting. crocodile formation were ludicrously in- sufficient to develop growing bodies.

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Yot after fully granting that there were bad faults in the bygone system, I to-day set before itself a false ideal ? still ask, Does not the girls' schooling of

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My complaint against the present mode of schooling young women is that it either overlooks or disregards the pertinent truth that charm will always be the quality looked for by men in women. 1

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that unmarried women are very often on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154. Apply to LINSTEAD & LAVIS,

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Homevano 30th October, 1472, coasting trade to foreign shipping, which, it is equally foolish not to see (1) that t while particularly irksome to and un-is-the essentially feminine women who are sought as wives; and (2) that they popular with local foreign residente, can scarcely prove of much pecuniary benefit are essentially feminine by virtue of their to the country in comparison with the quality of charm. general trade of the Empire. It should

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And it is bad economy to bring girls! he stated that English is the principal up to look like and to play games like language used here in commercial inter- boys. It is an axiom of breeding to de- It boys were course. Even with the many different velop essential qualities.

businces, nationalities represented

taught at school to look like girls there Mr. Upjohn arged that the contract practically all the foreign mercantile would be an outery. Should the plea of bound Airds to a curtain method of houses are equipped with staffs competent advantage bo dismissed (by those who timbering the trenches and dock walls, to deal with English correspondence, deny that marriage is advantageous), I the foundations of which were very whilet Japanese interpreters

still urge that it is more reasonable to UROPEAN HOUSE unsatisfactory; that it excluded them obtained if necessary.

cultivate an essentially girl-like-quality from adopting any other method; and With regard to the working of the re- rather than aptitudes which belong to To this it may be retorted that that the system of lightening was vised tariff itself, it does not appear to boys.

have crippled foreign trade as much as since so many girls have to compete with 1st December. The only humorous touch in the case,

of feminine Apply to- he said, was Mr. Nicholson's suggestion was at brst expected. The majority of men in their occupations they have more There is some forte in to the Board that if they paid extra for imports have not been affected to any need of masculine than

great amount by the rise in the duties, characteristics.

These women ought to lightening some fores would be given to and the tariff, for the present at all that argument. the contractors validity to a claim for events, does not seem likely to protect be educated for struggle; a plain, busi- weather beaten appearance Japanese industries except to a limited newslike, extra payment.

LONDON, October 23rd.

extent by covering those mannfactures would suit them. But is it fair to base u The hearing of the action brought by which could formerly only be produced systein upon the needs of a minority la Airds, Ltd, against the Tanjong Pagar

nt very small margin of loss, such as it fair to the girls themselves, who will Dock Board was continued in the High the cheaper classes of piece goods, which soon discover that they are neither com Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Parker. the small increase of duties would, under plete women nor complete men?

Mr. Upjohn, continuing his opening the new regime, convert into an equally fair to the world at large, which depenos speech, said that in the documents sup small margin of proft. On the other for the greater part of its amanity upon plied to the contractors, on which they hand, the increase in cost is bound to womanly charm}

While they are children girls enjoy Silk Shirts, White and Colour tendered, trial borings for the founds have a corresponding effect upon the tions of the docks walls were shown, labour market, which will naturally tend Striped.

which plaintiffs now contended were not to nullify the advantage hitherto enjoyed their hockey and their cricket and their golf, violent lawn tennis, their Silk Pyjama Suits, White and sunk, as such, to the stated, depths, but by Japanese manufacturers through cheap sockets and Svos. But when they become

were continued as boreholes owing to labour.

women-they-sce that gentler, tenderer Colour Striped.

difficulties experienced from mud pres There is no question but that the in- qualities make a deeper, more lasting im It is not the athletic women This, counsel said, was misrepresenta creased competition both of foreign and pression. tion and according to law amounted to Japanese firms is compelling all alike to

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closer margin of profit, nor the intellectual who are the best loved. fraud, rendering defendants liable.

He proposed proving that before the though, for the present at all events, this -Ex-

Dr. Bahr, who was sent out by the Sec- particulars were issued, this was known is offset by the greatly increasing turn- at least to Mr. Nicholson, and also to over reported from all quarters.

Apply Mr. Warren, and other agents of the perience has shown that the Japanese retary of State to investigate sprue, isFFICES in KING'S BUILDING

market is quite as susceptible as that of, now in Ceylon with Mrs. Bahr and his Sir Patrick Manson, father- defendants.

He did not desire to use offensive terms, any of the Western nations to modern assistant.

visit Ceylon on this matter later on. Irut this was the frand alleged which he methods of advertising and business get in-law of Dr. Bahr, will, it is expected,

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