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TEST PLAY AT ITS APPEAL ALLOWED WITH

WORST.

MEN WHO BAT LIKE JUNIORS.

A. C. MACLAREN ON THE SYDNEY MATCH.

HOW HOBBS ERRED IN.

KIPPAX INCIDENT.

REGRET.

TEA FIRM'S "DISHONEST

SCHEME."

BONUS TO BUYERS.

A trading firm's system of gir ing bonuses to purchasers of tes and cocoa was mentioned to a King's Beach Divisional Court, when Messra. Harvey Brothers, ten dealers, of High-street, Croydon, 253 appealed successfully against a judgment of Judge Harington at Epsom County Court in an action against them.

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SCONE BOARD AT SYDNEY.

AUSTRALIA ENGLAND (for 2 wkts.) [Br. A. C. MACLAIRY (Captain of England against Australia in five series of Text Matches).]

The plaintiff in the County Court action

Mrs. Louisa Maud

WAL

The following criticism by Mr. Leveringtou, of Castle-street, Ep- A. C. Maclaren, the ex-Lancashire

som, and Judgo Harington allowed and England cricket captain washer claim for £3 108, which she nude when the score board at said was due to her as a bonus on Sydney read:-

the purchase of tea and cocon from Australia. England (for 3 wicketsy 113 Mesara. Harvey Brothers. Australia has only herself to

.... 253

Mr. Justice Shenman, giving

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1929.

WOMEN DEFRAUDED BY AN: EX-CAPTAIN..

ACTRESS AND. DANCERS AMONG HIS VICTIMS.

POSE AS A WEALTHY MAN.

London, Dec. 13th:~The frauds of an ex-army captain, involving Dear- ly. £4,000, were described at the Old Bailey yesterday when Hubert John Soppitt, aged thirty-three. was sentenced to four years' penel acrvitude for converting to his own money entrusted to him for

investment.

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His victims included a widow, two dadoing instructresses, and ab actress, and a number of them were persuaded them to give him memey robbed of all their savings. He

THE SHELLING OF

S.S. IRENE..

FORMAL CLAIMS AGAINST

· LT.-COMDR. HALAHAN.

DISMISSED AFTER BRIEF

EXPLANATION.

The sequel to the sinking of the Irene by gun fire from H.M. Submarine L4, os October 19th, 1927 while she was in the hands of a gang of pirates, was heard yes- terday morning at the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan."

gers.

The Irene, it will be recalled, on her from Shanghai as passen was seized by pirates who travelled

After subduing the passen- to invest in rubber and other shares,tock her to Bias Bay. It happen- gera, crew and officers, the gang

but he spent the money on himelt, ed that HM Bubmitine L4, living extravagantly at the best under the command of Lieut- Comdr. Frederick John Crosby Holahan, was cruising near the Bay. Noticing the Irene

hotels,

WAI

thank for the poor chance she has judgment, said that it was with 1919, and since the beginning of 1924 underway without lights,' the sub-1

of beating us in the second Test at extreme regret that he felt com Sydney. The first match at Brispelled to allow the appeal.

bane was wud long before the re-

"I am only speaking for my grettable breakdown of Jack Gre self," he said. "I think that this gory took place, and had we sent is a dishonest scheme to gull the Australia in again she must have public, but I think that it is with- beca beaten by an innings and a in the law." large margin of runs,

Mr. McClure, prosecuting, said that Soppitt was made bankrupt in he had lived by fraud. He was ment in the second division in sentenced to four months' imprison November 1994, for stealing, by trick, a bracelet worth £630.

BOD,

Mr. Craig Henderson, K,C., for The selectors evidently do not Mears, Harvey Brothers, said that share the views of the boostera of Mrs. Leverington brought the acgreat Bradman, who is not considered tion claiming £3 10% bonus before good enough to be included in the her strict turn" had been reach weakest batting side Australia based. Each customer received a cir ever put in the field, seeing that cular containing the conditions Hendry goes in third wicket down, under which the bonus was paid. and he originally came into the The Home Secretary, in Australian XI, as a change bowler sequence of questions in the House and slip fieldsman to Gregory and of Commons, sent representatives MacDonald,

to investigate the firm's books and found that there was no ground for complaint..

List Of Names.

con-

That the selectors should have kept to practically the same policy of including average bowlers and batamen

is suicidal, especially Mr. Henderson read the names o! when the Australians are faced persons who, he said; had received with fast bowler of Larwood's bonuses. undoubted ability-the last type of bowler to meet when super-quick ness of movement has left all bate- men bordering on 45.

"Tyldesley's Il-luck. The only Australian who could be acclaimed na good a batsman as Ernest Tyldesley is Ponsford, in my opinion, especially on a wicket with the pace taken out of it, as at Brisbane, and now at Sydney Yet a place cannot be found for Tyldesley on our side, which em phasises our great superiority. Tyldesley is a proved Test batsman of ability, one whom you only want to know to be well when you make up the side.

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I estimate Macartney to-day as one who would stand out in this weak eleven at his present age, more so than when the Australian eleven included such men AA

Mr. Justice Shearman: This is like a trick that used to be played on gullible boys. They were told to open their mouths and shut their eyes and see what they would get. Then some one put a cinder into their mouths. This is a very ingenious scheme, and it is purely illusory.

The judge added that, "in his judgment, on the terms of the con tract the firm might pay only one customer a year. A customer who was 103rd on the list would in that case only be paid after 103 years. It was clear, however, that in Messrs. Harvey Brothers' circular. there was not any limit of time within which Mrs. Leverington was entitled to her bonus, and therefore she was bound to fail in her ac tion.

Mr. Henderson did not ask for Bardaley, Collins, and Andrews. costs, and he stated that Mesars, Given health, it is a long time be Harvey Brothers had in fact paid fore age can rot an entertaining batsman of his class, because he has out £18,000 in four years.

a big reserve of sedater methods upon which he only falls back when electrical execution is no longer speaking, a better batsman than possible.

bawler, and now it is reported that Macartney is wise enough to be kept the runs down but never know it, as did W. G. Grace, and, looked like getting a wicket. In as does Hobbs, whose class makes fact, his bowling lacked enterprise, him just as difficult to dismiss if and safety tactics by bowling short his runs must take him much with a new ball should have been Honger to collect.

Over age must always materially congest the rate of scoring and make bowling look much more diffi- cult than it actually is, and 1 ques tioned the wisdom of opening the last Tests in England with Hobbs and Sutcliffe on the grounds that they were likely to congest the rate of scoring to the extent of robbing our bowlers of their fair share of

the 'clock.

Why Geary Succeeds,

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cut short by the substitution of a bowler who will force batsmen to play forward when the ball is red enough to prevent a true line be fare pitching.

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stop were given and on being dis- marine challenged her. Signals to regarded, a warning shot was fired

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The Irene still | CHINA MUTUAL STRAM NAVIGA. He obtained £1.100 in

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TION CO., LTD. months by posing as a man with was fired into her engine room. prospects and acquainted The Irene then caught fire, and with the secrets of the Stock the L4 did some splendid rescuè Exchange.

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on where it will be at Consignees risk be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- and Soppitt became friendly with for students in West Kensington,

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... 3,000

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Frederick Eden, manager of a Soppitt obtained £200 from Mr. London hotel and £100 from Miss Dorothy Black, an actress. found that Miss Black had £100,. which she had saved to visit her

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To which was added a claim for the loss of the use of the ship from October 18th, 1927, as the fate of 81,000 a day.

The case was heard yesterday, when Mr. F. C. Jenkin and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Messrs. Russ & Co., appeared for represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, the plaintiffs. The defendant was R.C.. instructed by Mr. Bulmer He Johnson..

After briedy referring to the claims, Mr. Jenkin said that the parents in South Africa.

It was also mentioned that a Mr. loss of the Trenc was not wrongful- defendant had pleaded that the Johnston, man," had advanced £1,500 toed by the Crown, and that it was very well-known ly caused. His action was authoris Soppitt to help him, and had lost ratified by the Crown. most of it

This year a woman obtained a decree nisi. Before the decree was made absolute the King's Proctor decided to intervene. Soppitt said as he knew some one in authority, he could smooth away the difficulty, and persuaded her to part with more than £300.

Counsel had advised plaintiffs that if the defendant's plea was substantiated by evidence, there would be ao redress. The plea was accordingly filed and the evidence had been taken de bene ease in of Commodore J. L. Pearson,

R.N., which it was made known that despatch had been received from mentioned the case of a well-to-do Colonies by H.E. The Officer Ad- Detective Sergeant Handyside the Secretary of State for the

Devon. Soppitt became engaged to defence was man living at Paignton, South ministering the Government.

The his daughter, and obtained £200 evidence that the Plea of State now satisfied on the from the father for investment in authorisation had been substantiat. Sheli Transport shares, but he kept ed. the money.

with £800-all be possessed and a A young civil engineer parted commission agent, living in Wilt

Sergeant Handyside said that Sappitt bad enlisted as a private and became a captain in the Royal North Lancashire Regiment. He suffered from shell-shock, and was granted a permanent life pension of 284 a year.

The skipper handled his bowling ry well nevertheless, and one is justifiably loath to depart from giving the new ball to the recognis ed opening bowler when there is a slight falling off as a result of hardshire, with £200. work of the previous years. What is happening to Tate now has bap I shall always think that the peaed to all our best bowlers in the Lord's match was not won owing past. It has, in the cold order of to the slow methods employed by things, to be recognised, however. bur early batsmen against Our opponents have batted no even that was abnormally weak better than was expected on a bats- in bowling,

man's wicket, seeing that the Bris- Most of us will be glad Australia bane Test, was the means of destroy, won the toss after her bad luck in ing all confidence on the part of losing Gregory and his personality, Australia's most ardent admirere, which meant so much to his con-if not of the Australian XI. them- frères when the work was all up- hill. Our skipper was wise to play Geary in place of Mead, accing he had shown himself in form at Bris

ane Queensland, and results have justified his inclusion.

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by *No Claims will be admitted after then in any case whatever." that the proceedings were taken, K.C.), pasing sentence, said: "You it was quite clear that a plea of

The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, Mr. Potter told his Lordship that Goods have left the Godown.

Dainaged Packages must be left in the No Fire Insurance will be effected by Consignees and the Company's surveyors,

Godown for examination by obtained nearly 24,000 from a con- siderable number of people, some of shot was fired as the result of ex-

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after" which date, they cannot be you deliberately defrauded them fore not done anything which he

recognised. was not justified in doing. His Lordship would also appreciate that the defence was set out at the ANOTHER LONDON TUBE earliest possible, moment and full details of what actually took place had also been given."

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Wharf and Godown Co, Lily Kowloon, "I make this statement because where Delivery can lot agree that a man is bowling wicket the more likely he is to geted and enlarged on the lines of the it might be thought outside the

obtained. well when he is bowling maidens by his wickets, even if runs come off successful Piccadilly circus scheme. Court that the plea of "Act of the 21st of January, 1929, will be All Goods remaining undelivered aftar eeping the ball on the short side his bowling at a fair rate, which and rubbing all the polish off at should always be expected in from beneath the Hippodrome, no merits in the defence. No such

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No Fas Larurance will be effected by the same time, thus throwing away Australia.

which is across Charing. Cross-road inference can be drawn because in us in any case

Whatever. hances that can never come back I am sorry to say that to-day I from the present station; and the fact a very sound defence on the Damaged Packages must be left in the Barometer.... with the gloss off the ball. Geary reckon Tate is far more likely to owners of other properties likely to merits had been raised," conclud Godowa for examination by the Con- Temperature 65 Lecomplished a great performance play early batsmen in than get be affected have already receiveded Mr. Potter.

ignon and the in dismissing four batsmen when them out-an opinion formed last notices from the company.

Company Burreyers, Humidity 50 was on the board for the loss summer on his tactics, with which

His Lordship: The strongest fact Messrs. Anderson Asbe, at 10 a.12. Nothing can be done without the is that the defendant's action has on the 19th of Jan

of Jannery 1920. f but three wickets, and it sur-I cannot hold. J. O. White is just assent of Parliament, but a Bill been ratified and accepted by his No Claim will be admitted after the rises me that he was taken off at the man to bowl to a side lacking will be introduced shartly to secure superiors

Goods have left the Godowns and all 00, when, if anyone deserved the in confidence, as over-careful tac the requisite powers.

Mr. Potter: Thank you, Your Weeks of the Claims, must

presented within Two Bain new ball, he did.

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hat Tate is in his 34th year, and

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