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CHINA DOMICILE AND DIVORCE.
INTRICATE POINT ARGUED ÄT SHANGHAI,
SOME IMPORTANT CASES.
6TH
1993
TRIALS OF A CIRCUS
TROUPE:
THE STORY OF ADAM
AND EVE
cease to exista da Silva submitted
MOYLE
p.m
SPORT.
FOOTBALL.
INTERFORT PRACTICE GAME.
It would appear, from a case heard SERMON BY THE REV. COPLEY läst week in the Civil District Court at Singapore, that the 'Almazoff Cireum, iwhich recently showed in Singapore, will shortly St. John's Cathedral on Sunday by the Club ground, to-morrow. Kick off, at 5 The following sermon was preached in A practice game will be played the At HM Supreme Court at Shanghai
Senior Chaplain, the Rev. E. Copley a claim, on behalf of Mr. Jean Cotterell Moyle, MA.- last week Bir Skinner Turner Chief
who, with his trope, performed as the Judge, heard further argument
She took of the fruit thereof and did' circus, for the sum of $41429 belog wages cat-Genesis iii, 6 support of the plea of domicile in condue from Jan. 3rd to-Jan. 15th at the naxion with the petition of Mr. Sidney rate of 240 per week. Mr. Dudigy
Once again the Order of our, lectionary J. Powell for the dissolution of his Parsons appeared for the defendant, Mrs. his brought us to the reading of these
An arrangement was eventually come to
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he said, had another claim for £240. Mr.
J..
The Interport team rill play a Navy XI. The Interport team will play blue and the Navy XI. in white,
Navy XI.Phillips (Titania), Adkins marriage with Catherina Agnes Powelt R. Fillis, who was not presons in court. carly Chapters of Genesis. Some one may (Hawkins), «Weedon (Titania), Sawyer (Harking). Farroll (Diomede), Stirk Proceedings for a decres of divorce wore between counsel that Mr. Parsons should be thinking, why should we read them (awkins), Barkham (Hawkins), Darli instituted at Rano, Nevada, by respon arrange for the circus properties to be Have they anything to teach us? We do so (Durban) Cann (Durban), Sells dont, and a decree was obtained by her auctioned and to pay the amount of the not now regard them as history. As (Zonicde) and Wemyss (Durban). R on May 5th, 1921. Eric Anthony Sykes plaintiff's claim, plus costa, into court
Bickers Archbishop Bernard has written. We serves: "
(Hawkins), La cited
Emery corespondens Neither It was mentioned that there were more believe that we have in this Biblical re
(Titania). respondent
co-respondent made claims for salaries and also some local answer and word unrepresented. Mr. debts to be paid, and Mr. da Silva claim word of the Falla purified form of rard (Club), Chan So (South China), Interport team :-Swan (Polico). · Ger- R. Q. MacDonald appearod for ed priority on behalf of his client, who, legendary narrative concerning man's Hudson (Tamar), Stewart (Club), Loung petitioner.
Mr. MacDonald said that since the Parsora asked to be allowed to arrange early history, which had wide currency Yuk Tong (South China), Chu Kwong adjourament he had secured two wit for the auction to take place within, three among semitic people. In early Christ- Begg (Club), Dr. Valentine (Police) and Yeung (South, China), Forsyth (Club). nesses who would give evidence that days as members of the company had been in time many Christiansy amongst the Chan Kwong Yin (South China).
Re- petitioner had axpressed his intention to given notice by their hotel proprietors the learned writer Origen, regarded the
ecrves; Wynne. (King's), . "McLaren j make China his place of domicile. He and an early settlement was desirable early stories of Genesis as allegories in (Folico). Valentine (Club) and Ip Kait bad impressed upon petitioner the Mr. Asten agreed and made the necessary tended to teach us spiritual and not necessity of recollecting to whom he had order, it being found that the length of historical lessons. But in later times
(South Ching). exressed his determination to remain in Ars. Fillis's residence in the Colony did theory of Lespiration arose which China for the rest of his life.
not permit of her being made a bankrupt. generally known as the theory of Verbai Inspiration, which taught that every Frank John Blom, consulting engineer,
statement of the Bible is literally and! then enllod and currcborated counsel's statement.
historically true. This theory has now Witness had had
been abandoned by all scholars. It was Billiards Championship tournament, at Playing in the first round of the business dealings with petitioner and also
never accepted by the whole Church as the Victoris, Recreation Club, last night. know." him in private life. He had
a true explanation of inspiration. It is R. Luz defeated L. Beltap. frequently expressed his intention to live
an undeniable, fact that God has per- was in China for the rest of his life.
mitted us in this nge-to' Have an amount Petitionor a houseboy said, "Mr. Powell have said many times
stay China all time. He say many times.
In reply to his Lordship witness said that when petitioner went to England he (witness) continued to be his servant,
#tiat
· “PERMANENT › BTAY UNNECESSARY. Referring to Diery, counsel" said it was
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REGENT'S PARK TRAGEDY. "TAILOR'S SUICIDE IN LONDON
FLAT.
Rosorves are requested to be present.
BILLLARDS.
The match La exceedingly fast one; though A London wireless message of January of knowledge about the carly ages of the ther a one sided affair, Luz making his 600 in one hour and three quarters. 10th, says: Owing to the disappearanes world such as our forefathers had not, for several months of a marine officer's and that knowledge has to be reconciled
Beltao scored $88. Luz was in great
in a house in Regent's Park tenanted by early stories of Genesis. The theory of wife, who was last known to be residing with the way in which we interpret these & Tailor named Maltby, the police, after verbal inspiration is based on no authority five days watching during which they of the Bible, which never tells us what were unable to gain admission, forcibly an inspired book ought to be. To quote entered under a health warrant, Maltby the verbal inspiration and verbal expart of his nature..
the late Dr. Driver," The doctrine of
form, making double figures on nearly His principal breaks were; 30, 99, 27, 26, every occasion that he went to the table. and 25.
He was made in
not necessary for an individual to intend/ shot himself dead and the woman's body actituda. Saripture, is in fact an af the image of God" and so, though ovil
was found in a bath,
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to stay permanently. If that individual intended to stay for an indefinite period was sufficient to suggest domicile. Even if he added that in the event of winning a Calcutta, cash sweep he would return to England, it would not alter the presumption of domicile Counsel pro beeded to state that domicile need not be at any particular place. An individual could be domiciled in England, but I necessarily in York, and in India but not in Calcutta. The motive was indifferent. It was only a matter of choice. Peti tiquer had said something about staying bere for his health, but what he said in
During the past week, Malthy had regard to his business was alone sufficient barricaded the house. The police wer
We believe that the writers of these get the best out of ourselves and out of for the presumption of domicile. The intention to stay was not an intentica to watching the bouse and the gas and water carly stories were largely indebted to the others by dwelling upon the possibiliti
Good in change his allegiance Counsel said he were cut off. There was a sensational old folk lore of the early Semitic people, of good and, not of evil. wished to convince bis Lordship that development today when the police ob for the material for these stories, but stronger than evil. Where sin abound- petitioner's intention to stay in China Health Act, and ectered Maltby's shop from the
warrant under the Public that they were inspired to purify themed, grace did much more abound."
gross polytheism of their must overcome evil in ourselves and in was not because he wished to evade his to ascertain whether a nuisance existed originals and to present them in a form others by emphasising and calling into commission in the British Army Ana a cult of the water supply, being cut which can instruct and edify as to-day operation the tremendous force of good. intention to remain in any one country off
What then are some of the lessons we news which is present but may be lying did not mean that he wished to become an official of the Marylebone Borough which we have just heard? One lesson spark of the Nature Divine." The vers
may gather from the story of the Fall hidden. "In the lowest there's som
priori theory, framed not upon the basis may now soon so deeply ingrained in A subsequent message gives additional of any warrant contained in Scripture human nature as to be almost insepar- details as follows:-
itself, but upon an actecedent conceptionable from it, and though we have z A mercantile marine officer, whose of what an inspired book must neces example in history of a sinlces man wife had stopped drawing his monthly acrily be. It is, however, a complete mis except Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, allowance of £18, discovered on, returning take of principle and method to frame you if sin is not an essential part of dan home that his wife disappeared Inac first sa a priari theory of inspiration we may look forward to time when August, and be informed the polica. It and then to insist that the Bible; must we sbali bo entirely freed from sin, appears that his wife, Alice Middleton, conform to it; the Bible is the only in- we regard sin as an imported character- left her home at Hampstead in June and spired" book that we know of; and asf istic of human nature and not of the went to the house of a tailor, named no independent definition of inspiration essence of man, we shall be the more Ciell Maltby at Park Road, Regent's existe, the only sound method is to study ready to look for the essential goodness Park, who was living apart from his wife the facts presented by the Bible and to rather than for the imported evil. How- and six children.
Formulate our theory of inspiration ever wicked we may seem to be, or bow- accordingly.""
over wicked others may seem, wo shall
citizen of that country.
His Lordship inquired why Mr. Powell should not have filed his petition earlier presuming that he was so sure of the question of domicile.
Mr. MacDonald said he would explain that phase quite easily. Until he consulted counsel, petitioner had been under the impression that the decree
worthless.
tained a
Wa
Council said that applications to enter is certainly" this, man has the power of warst man has some good qualities and
house were disregarded by the choice. If he sins, it is the choice of his if we can find and appeal to thos pier aux accordingly a quad of will. He is not forced to sin. He does qualities we shall get the best out of him. detectives battered down the door with it deliberately. And does not our own We are more likely to get men to give crowbars They heard a shot and found personal experience confirm that. us of their best if we show them that wo Maltby dead in an attic.
A search We
Ourselves for some sin expect the best from them, than if we int revented human remains identifed ad by saying "I could not help them sece that we expect the worst. those of the woman Middleton.
I had no choice," but all There is much sound common-sense in the We view of the optimist who asures himself A revolver was found in Maltby's the while we know that is false.
months.
од
it
excuse
",
obtained by respondent in Benc was hand, and Middleton's decomposed body know we had to choose, We had the and others that wherever evil germs Residence in a country was was found in a bath wrapped in bedlinen, power of choice and we choose the wrong. strong good is really stronger still, and not sufficient per se to constitute dom-She had apparently been dead some Our will is fro. That is a great respon he is likely to do much more good tha icile, but the intention to stay was
sibility that God has given us, free will. the pessimist who says men are evil and sufficient presumption, counsel went an,
Mr. Middleton's husband is now on & And the gift entails the power to choose you need not expect good from thent quoting from Dicty, Halsbury, Browné v. Watts, Tootal's Trust, Casdagli, Wilson Maresfield, which sailed from Plymouth the trees and plante, with no power to board the wrongly. God might have made us, like voyage to Bangkok
One who claims that he knows about
it v. Wilson, Bater.. Bater, Le Mesurier nine days ago, Lo Mesuriar Lord Advocate v. Jeffrey, Mather. Cunningham, and Sharpe', Crispin (Judge Lobingier'a Extrater ritorial Cases). It could not be presumed by any foreigner that he intended living in Shanghai throughout bis life...
His Lordship interposed that there was no difference whether the place was: Shanghai or elsewhere in China, for the reason that British subjects were subject to British laws. In Shanghai they were among a better organized society.
▲ SCOTSMAN IN ENGLAND.
"ROMANCE,"
A GREAT LOVE STORY.
Tells mo the earth is a vale of sin; Bat I and the bees and the birds-we
doubt it,
And think it a world worth living in.”....
1
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choose but made to obey the laws of their nature, but then He would not have had' the willing love and service of free beings. So He gave us the power of choice that wo might learn to choose aright and that He might be able to rejoice in the love and service which mankind willingly We are often inclined to attempt to render Him, He did not want the devo- overcome evil with evil, whereas we "Romance is always young" sang the tion of more puppets which could orly ought to overcome evil with, good. Let" poet. It would seem so indeed to judge do as they were told, He wished to, have us then believe that we ourselves, as well by the eagerness displayed by kinga the free and intelligent devotion of free as others, are capable of heights of good- Misa Doris Keane made her first local entailed the possibility of a patrons at the Coronet, yesterday when agents. Of course, the gift of freedom ness, hitherto undreamed of, and we shall wrong find that we advance towards the goal appearance on the screen. Romance," choice, God had to take that risk, for of perfection. the fim in which she figured, is a pio oven an omnipotent God could not at The problem of pain and evil is one turised version of the play which held the same time give to man the power of which attracts the interest of many, but In the matter of intention to stay Londoners enthralled for more than a choice and compel him to choose aright.it is a more practical task to fight evil counsel quoted the case of a Scotsinan, Miss Keane herself created, the leading from the narrative of the Fall is that whose house is burning, does nos eft down. thousand nights during the war in which Another lesson which we may learn than to discover its origin. The man who having discovered his wife's infidelity, role of Madame Cavallini, supported by man is not left to himself to make his and ponder on the origin of the fire, he proceeded to England, but retained his her husband, Mr. Basil Sydney." shooting lodge in Scotland and member-Bomance" is more than an idyllic which urge him to a wrong choice. The flames. If we believe in the love of God,. choice but there are hostile powers gets water and tries to extinguish tho ship of a society. Furthermore he remained a sleeping partner in a business love story; it is a study of the reaction story represents the serpent as tempting we are sure that the presence of evil is in Ecotland." He went.
of two strong characters to the influance the woman to sin and his temptation necessary, otherwise a loving God would' stayed there for six years and then portrayed, the story tells of the affaire is hard and unkind and does not really evil chance but it is the wisdom of Our to England, of an overpowering passion. Beautifully takes the form of suggesting that God not permit it. It is not the result of some instituted proceedings for the dissolution coeur which an elderly clergyman, desire man's welfare. And the woman Father, which permits and controls those of his marriage on the ground of his Bishop of New York, unfolds to his listens when it would have been the pains and sorrows which often seem to wife's adultery in Scotland It was held nephew in an effort to restrain the young wiser policy to run away, that the fact of his residence in England man from marrying an actress. He tells some templations which have to be stab when they shall have done their work There are us so inexplicable, but the day will come did not constitute domicile, yet in order how us a young rector he fell in love bornly fought, but there are others from and will pass for ever away. Then there apt to discredit his statement of intention at first sight with La Cavallini, which it is the wisest course to flee, and will be no more evil but "God shall be all to stay the Court was bound to come to famous Italian prime donne and how she to flee at once. And another leason which in alt," I will conclude with some words the conclusica, that he had acquired aaved him from his own passion. This, the story teaches us is that the anticips of the late Archbishop Magee. You the domicile in England.
the main part of the picture, is superbly tion in often falsified by the realisation. pesemist, tell me of the sorrow, the
The Judge here quoted the case of an neted by the two principals and in the Ye shall be as Gods knowing good and suffering, the misery of humanity and I illegitimate son of a Sootaman by a passionate love scenes which ensue one evil,ld the serpent, and the woman tells of the time when death shall be des Portuguese woman. The youth was sent gets to realise how it is that Miss Kenne thought what a fine thing it would be troyed, and when sorrow and sighing to Scotland to be educated and after ranks as one of the greatest emotions to have such knowledge, but the knowledge shall be done away with, and when, men worda entered the British Customs actresses and Mr. Basil Sydney as one of when it came gave no pleasure, but only will weep no more. You tell me here Borvica. It was held that the boy had not
the world's great stage lovers, 5, acquired domicile in England. It was Coronet until Saturday, N
"Romance" is being shown at the pala and humiliation, the eyes of them of mystery and difficulty and perplexity, both wore opened and they know that and I tell you of the time when we shall even further held that the place of his
they were naked." So the prizes, which know even as we are known. Doubt and domicile was Portugal, the land of his
the Tempter offers us if we disobey God myetary like sin and sorrow and shamo mother,
and choose evil are found to be worthless shall fade away in the white light around In conclusion, Mr. MacDonald sub
The Stamp Correspondent of the Times as soon as we have gained them. It is that throne on which sets the Lamb that mitted that other, cases bearing on the has something both sweet and bitter to say only the things which we gain by the died for mankind. There in the future subject were immaterial. It was only of the M.B. and its stamps--In con help of God, which give us real satis lies the completed optimism of Christ innity. Here, in the Christian life, novesary to decide on the facts of the nection with the great industrial fair held faction. present case Firstly, the Court had to at Singaporo during the visit of theHowever, desirable the prizes of the though working feebly and imperfectly conador long rudence (on, that alone Prince of Wales a number of contemporary world may seem in the distance, onde as it does, is to be soon the evidence of Petitioner could be said to be domiciled) stampe of the Straite Settlements, Borneo, they are grasped they are found unsatisfy the truth of Christianity. that we may take home to our hearts. Let us strong- and accondly there was his statement on and the Malay States were sold with the g
then this evidence, each one of us,
in our aath. There were also circumstances of hibition" from March 31st to 8th. This tosch as is that man's sinfulness is some can patiently await the time when the
special overprint Malaya Borneo Er-
Another leon which the story my daily Christian life, and meanwhile we intention in the pasty
attempt on the part of the Colonial authorities to exploit the stamp-collecting thing which has been imparted to him day of full unclouded vision shall dawn, public gave rise to much adverse criti- from without and was not an esential and the shadows of our fears and doubts. cism, in" philatelic circles.
(Continued at foos of neat column.) shall fes away for ever.
His Lordship said he would give his decision in the matter of domicile within la few days-1, §, Daily News.
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