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VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE.

BROTHERS-IN-LAW AT LAW,

WRONGFULLY AND MALI. CIOUSLY ARRESTED.

The vicissitudes of Dame Fortune were responsible for bringing twop brothers-in-law to the Summary Court yesterday morning before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, when one of them claimed from the other $500 damages for wrongful and malicious imprisonment. ;

PINGSHAN POLICE

STATION.

WHAT IS THE AREA OF THE ROOF!

THE PUISNE JUDGE'S CALCULATION.

MANŒUVRES IN MEDITERRANEAN.

WHY SEÁ EXERCISES ARE SHORT.

H.M.5.

ECONOMY ** "THE FLAGSHIP...

[tx J. M. N. JETTR:13.]

H.M.S. "ResOWN,"

Mediterrancaz.'

At the moment of writing the Navy is about to begin its main exercises of the sear. The Atlar tie and Mediterranean Fiests are

DIVORCED HUSBAND DODGES' PAYMENT.

INTEREST IN WILL TRANS- FERRED TO MOTHER.

ACTION BY FORMER WIFE FAILS.

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WORKING EXHUMATION

SECRET.

BODY TAKEN FROM NAME. LESS GRAVE,

SUPPOSED RICH MAN.

WOKING, March 19th. Mrs Minnis Dorothy Tucker, ofed during the week-end the mys Rapid developments have foilow. The roof of the Pingshan Polico

King'avenue Clapham Park. terious exhumation or a body from Station formed the subject of a

S.W. and her infant child Joan the churchyard of St. John's, a dispute between two building con

Sheila, sved her divorced husband, village on the outskirts of Woking.. tractors, and as a result Choy Kit

Mr. George Charlton, W., and his

The body was that of a wealthy man who had lived in the district Kce, one of the disputants, sued

mother, Mrs. Janet Margaret Tue-

only a few months. Cerebral Hong Pan Sang, trading as the

kar, of Haslemere, Surrey, for hemorrhage was given as the cause Shanghai Company, at the Summary

damages for alleged conspiracy to of death in the certificate. Court yesterday, before Mr. Justics

injure them.

No relatives attended the funeral; J. R. Wood, for the sum of $400.75, to meet each other in them, finted they has conspired or that Mrs. D. W. Money, ricar of St. John's..

Mr. Tucker and his mother deni.which was conducted by the Rev. in Canton.

and He employed his is being the balance on work done and in the Mediterranean Sea

Tucker and the child had aufered From that day, more than a year ter's husband as foki Trade materials supplied.

afterwards in the Atlantic, before

any damage.

ago, so far as is known, nobody went from bad to worse, and he

had taken any interest in the grave, had to give up his business. He came down to Hong Kong found that his brother-in-law

It appeared that about seven or eight years ago, the plaintiff in this action was in business for himself

was

dispersing to their respective bases in England and at Malta.

The average man, judging by one's general experience," is nowa- days father inclined 10 woader what can be accomplished by the

Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for

Mrs. Tucker and ben child, said which had become overgrown and that in the Divorce Court an order neglected. No headstone or mark was made against. Mr. Tucker for of identification had been erected.. the permanent maintenance of the About a month ago, on instrue- Within two or tions, from the Home Office, the wife and child

The plaintiff said that he had entered into a contract with the defendant to remove the old roof of the Pingshan Police Station and to build a new one." The contracted in business, and, naturally enough, Prico was 58 per 100:quare feet warships on these occasion. What three days of the decres being made i police began to make inquiries in

of work done. Plaintiff produced a he applied to him for employment.book to show the surface area of the new problems can be, set or sorved absolute and before the order sécar" the village concerning the dead.

Plaintiff was given a job and roof and that the defendant bad in this ancient business of seafaring the wife's and child's main man.'

Statements were taken from everything went well until Novem-attached his signature certifying ing Differences of guns and of tenance could be made, the husband that it was correct. He had been armour, the waywardness of tor-

and his mother made an arrange- almost everybody who had made ber 23th of last year, when he partly paid for the work done and pedoes, the intuence upon these ment by which the mother purport his acquaintance, and in each case quarrelled with his sister. He was it was the balance of the money factors of varying weather, seem to

ed to buy from him his interest | those concerned were sworn not wader his father's will, which was arrested on February 9th of this that was disputed.

him by cow a matter of well-thumb the only property upon which the police efforts. The results of this to divulge anything concerning the ed calculations. yene and imprisoned until Febru

self has ceased to be an infaut payment of maintenance to the,wife inquiry were conveyed to the Home

senior ships by dashing, appear-

When an application, was made for the exhumation." ances.

to the court for the order the hus- The very shortness, too, of the exercises, at the beginning and end of a period of ten days with blank in the middle, seems to point

The submarine

ary 11th, when he was released on The P.W.D. gare the, contract to prodigy, upsetting the plans off and child could have been secured Office, and then came instructions

Dail. The charge against him was stealing $300 by bailee. When the case was heard, he was acquitted. ile now sued his brother-is-aw for damages amounting to $800. The case had caused him expense and po had also been prevented from pursuing his occupation. Plaintiff further contended that his liberty had been endangered and that his good name had suffered.

Mr. D. Strellett appeared for plaintiff, and the defendant was represented by Mr. J. M. d'Ahoads Kemedios.

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in outlining the case, Mr. Strel- lett mentioned the facts given above and further stated that the defendant was in business making sun-bats and that the plaintiff had, from time to time, been entrusted with money for the purpose of buy ing cork and other material peces sary to the businest.

to the fact that there is not so very much to be done or to be learned during them. If the Navy were still athrob with coming problems, if it were the inevitable grappler with the first danger on the hori zon, would it not be teating its plans and preparations in some con- finuous fortnight's, maneuvres, as the Army does, with its new tanks and its new dragons, and its new embusments 1

Mr. G. W. Taylor, the Guildford band was in a position to say he coroner, issued the warrant author had nothing upon which security ising the exhumation but nothing could be ordered. As a result from was done by the police until ́Eri- the date of the decres being made day. This was due to the arrange.. absolute, except for paymentament that Sir Bernard Spilsbury, orders of the court, the husband should make the examination in under one or two intermediate at the request of the Home Office, bad paid nothing to his wife and conjunction with Dr. A. H. Brewer. child. They were now left pennia local medical man

When the body was raised 'it was Met In Egypt.

taken immediately to Waking Mrs. Tucker met her husband in | Mortuary, where Sir Bernard Spile- Egypt. At that time he was a bury was waiting A tow hours military hospital in Egypt. The the grave filled in. soldier, and she was nursing in later the body was re-interred and marriage took place in 1918. She Sensational developments may be spoke a number of languages, and expected. The result of the post- mortem examination is expected to from £14 to £15 a week, on which while, the police are making in- before she and her husband return ed to England she earned in Egypt he known in a few days. Mean- they both lived there. Her husband quiries in various parts of the coun told her that his mother had a con- try. The inquest has not yet been for life, bringing in about £1,000 Sir Bernard Spilsbury's report is a year, and that on his mother's in the hands of the police. from ideas which.

These considerations, springing death he would share that with his

perhaps brother and sister,

And from the Army these move on to the juvenile third arm, thoughts in the average man's mind to the airmen when every move is a fresh, experience, a probe into undiscovered strategy, to the air-

Defendant said that he was not the original contractor for the job, Chung Kee, who sub-contracted to him and he, in his "turn, let out the work to the plaintiff.

Plaintiff did not trust him and be fore taking on the work had said that he would get payment from Chung Kee. He had on several occasions been to Chung Kee for payment, but defendant was not aware of the transactions which had passed between them. Defendant admitted signing plaintiff's book, but said that was done before the area of the roof was measured. He was told by plaintiff that, rightly or wrongis, he would have to sign the book before work could be com menced. He thought that at a later stage he would be allowed to make all necessary correction.

Defendant produced specification from the P.W.D. to prove that the rock had not the area shown in plaintiff's book,

Chung Kee corroborated and said that he had received money from men who hold the kess of the siderable sum of money left to her fixed, and will not be he'd until the P.W.D. according to the speci truned by his wife (plantine on scation and beyond that he could Un November 16th, last year, bro. not charge. There apparently had natural enough, are set dangerous- ther and sister pad a violent quar area of the roof. That being so, essential than that it should he been a mistake in working out the ly false. There is nothing more re, over the making of some g the plaintiff could not be paid ac ine eister in a fit of hysterics cording to the amount of work be realised in the public mind that the peremptorily dismissed her brother, had done. They should all stand view of Britain's defence, are the His Honour hold thint the plaintiffst important event on land, air, was entitled to be paid according or water from January to Decem- He refused to repay saying to his work and if there was a mis ber. They do not provide very that he had been damissed without take, it was the business of the good descriptive material, for they notice. Plaintiff later went to Can-original contractor to take it up with are very technical. But is not days before, on June 4th, the de-trial Fatigue Research Board re- ton to look for employment, and the P.W.D. He therefore gave so much their description in itself while he was there, the Hing Chung

as the drawing of attention to themed firm in Hong Kong made him an

which is essential. The meeting of offer of a job. He returned and

the squadrons is an opportunity worked for them.

to explain how they are still our true defence and our unequalled weapon, and are likely to remain

Rationed Light. -

Brother And Sister Quarrel. The defendant's business was coв-

Strellets continued.

BIBCET), Air.

At the time plaintif owed the firm 824 being wages advanced to

him.

On hearing that the plaintiff had secured employment, the defendant told plaintiff's father to advise his son to see him, and settle up some matters, otherwise he (defendant) would make it hot for the young Jan. The father, however, was not able to bring about a recon ciliation, and plaintiff was arrested on February 9th. He was granted bail in the sum of $800, and after the case had been before the Magis- trate for two days, he was dis- charged,

Judgment For Plaintiff.

His Lordship reviewed the evi- dence given for and against the p.antiff at the Magistracy, and atter hearing further evidence on the case, gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff with costs. Dam. ages amounting to 8400 were also

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the losses.

judgment for the plaintiff.

His Lordship then worked out the equivalent of the Chinese "chang" into English square feet, and after much calculation found that the plaintiff was entitled to $232.32.

ENGLISH WOMEN MEDICAL

STUDENTS.

future.

50.

:

are

When they got back to England firm and built a house, but he never Mr. Tucker went into his uncle's

THE CUP OF TEA.

WORKERS.

settled that house on his wife and ITS INFLUENCE ON WOMEN child.

Eventually he lived openly and flagrantly, with a woman, and Mrs. Tucker, instituted divorce proceed-

The effech of a cup of tea or cocoa, ings. The decree it was made ab- with a brief spell of real, on women salute on June 5th, 1028, and three workers is discussed in an Indus- fendant. Mrs. Janet Tucker, sign- There is a widely held impres

the following agreabent:-

•

-

port

the workers had a three minutes,

I hereby offer to purchase the on that a cup of tes acts as a reversionary interest of my son powerfe bus harmless stimulant to George Charlton Tucker under flagging energies." states the re- the respective wills of his late pors. "One large firmy visited by father and his late grandfather us are to convinced of its efficacy Plaintiff said that the figure was

for the sum of £2,000 subject to that they offer a fires cup of tea or not right and that he could not

iny solicitors being satisfied as to cocon to every worker in the morn ing and afternoon work spelli and title. accept anything less than what he The exercises are short, admit-

during the dinner hour." claimed for. His Lordship there.tedly. They in a way resemble the Husband's £900 A Year.

At a factory where workers were upon adjourned the case until exercises done every morning by The result was that the mother given a 15-minutes rest-pause in Friday morning and instructed the the business man for the reason got back into her hands the rever each work spell, during which they defendant, Chung Kee and plaintiff that he is unable to take exercise.sionary interest of her son and all went to the canteen, and had a free- to produce their books to show how They are short, not because the she had to do was to leave it back tea provided each afternoon, the the accounts stopd,

Navy wishes them short or would again to him by will. The only percentage of workers leaving 'dur- be unable to profit by a full fort- real good it did was to make it ing the year 1923, 1924, and 1925 night's manœuvres under war condi- absolutely certain the wife and was 25. La a second factory, where tions, but because naval manoeuvres child would get nothing. are too costly for the nation's purse

Mr. Pritt, K.C. (for the mother), paine in which to drink tes pro- today. The money is simply not submitted there was no case to 5ovided by the management, the leav there to carry them out. In every to the jury,

ing percentage was ; while in a fleet on the sens in these pinched Sir Patrick Hastings said there factory, in which no rests were al- times the veritable flagship is was a case of combination between lowed and the workers were dis HK.S. Economy. It commands ali these parties.

couraged from surreptitious feed- Mr. Justice Horridge: The only ing the leaving percentage was 84. the time.

fact on which you bass the a year when they can handle feet conspiracy is the fact that the against fleet. Even so they must mother did purchase a reversion ateam at a markedly lower speed and thereby did prevent it from than they would in time of war.being available for security, In lesser mattere economy is as was a perfectly lawful transaction: if you tee and is it to be presumed that it irksomely prominent. much smoke coming from a war was entered into for the purpose ship's funnels in harbour it is be of injuring somebody because in cause the forced draught which cidentally it had that effect?.. kept smoke down is more expen

Continued on next folumin.) eve than natural draught which does not. Both water and light, which ships have to make for them- selves are carefully rationed Dow..

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LONDON, March 19th. When the senate of London University holds its monthly meet ing next Wednesday a resolution will be moved calling for the set- ting up of a committee to inquire A LLOYD GEORGIAN VISION. into the banning of further women students at Westminster, Charing Cross, London, St. George's, and Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at King's College Hospitals. 18th Apr. BATEVIA

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Alongside the new roads should be built homes for the workers, who would go to their work in non-stop “I am strongly opposed to the tube trains and tramway-cars, the ban," Dr. Graham Lattle said yes- provision of which would be naisterday. He added.

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GASSING OUT, PLAGUE,

GUINEA PIGS IN TEST IN

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Sir Patrick submitted the jury-

It were entitled to draw that in-

ference.

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