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A Law Court Defect."

DAY BY DAY.

The heavy rains of yesterday

Lilo is an art in which wo arg made very appront a defect in the Law Courts, which may be too often toero dabblers. We more emphasised during the for- must take our degree at the ecst rential xainsof the typhoon season. at our heart's blood. Beneath the dome of the Chicf Justice's court, the hull is lightod

The Malls.

to-morrow,

A PLEA FOR THE

by a large window spaco, that, at German Mail.-Closea por asn

P. E. Friedrich at 9am. either extremity, opens out d'rec on to the roof near the elavated portions which aro rooful in ⚫Korean fashion. It is almost Siberian Mail-Arrived For 8.8 P.E. Friedrich this morning obligatory that the windows should be open, for ventilation purposes, and yesterday they were 80, until the rain falling from the eaves oreaicdao 10 ST splashing, that both the judge

LINTON-On March 2, at Clintaworth Grange Road, Singapore, the le of A. 1. Linton, of n son.

FLEMING.—On March 10, 1919, at Wullfien," No 1 Jessfield Road, Shanghai to Mr and Mrs Douglas Fleming, a son

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GRANT-HAWSTHORNE On March 1914. U.M. Consulate General, Shanghai, and afterwards at the Pies Ch'istain burch. Mabet Eliza hoth, only daughter of bir. and Mrs. F, W. Rawsthorne, & Charlio Pestson DEATH.

Grant.

The object of this paper is to publish correct info-nation, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

and counsel had to take unt unl

H.M.S. Monmouth.

The cruiser Monmouth rou:n ed from Yokohama, this morning

ongkong Volunteer Corps. The Parades and Map Kendib Class ordered for Friday are cancellad.

Golf Club Meeting The Royal Hongkong Club is holding its annual meeting at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow.

effort to make themselves heard Unfortunately the defeat is no! very apparent except to those who are actively engaged in the routine of the court; otherwise it is more than probable that the matter would have been righted,

Lady May's Departure. earlier; but the strain on P

Lady May and daughters are pleader's voice must indeed be leaving for Home, on a holiday, great when he has to make extra by the ss. Namur to-morrow. effort to be heard, in a speech or three which may last two hours or even a whole day.

Reaplag their Reward,

It is evident, from the latest wires to hand, that the public bas bad about enough of those fanat- oal creatures known as the

The Rainfall. For the 24 houre ended at 10 a.m. to-day 3.72 inches of rain were registered at the Hongkong Observatory.

Easter Holidays.

Defective Brakes,

CHILDREN.

Need of a Playing Ground In Kowloon.

[SPECIAL ARTICLE],

If soything farther were need- ed to be said in advocacy of the idoa, it is thisIst anyone take a walk, though the hot and dusty main thoroughfare of Kowloon in the swelter- ing days of summer.

PARSEES AT LAW.

Judgment Delivered in the y

-Talati Case.

Judgment was delivered to-day "There at the case in which B.U. Talati

In this case, Mr. Eldon Potter, with whom was Mr. F. O. Jenkin, intracted by Mr. W. B. Hind of ed for the plaintiff, and Mr. E, Messrs. Bratton and Lielt, appear- H. Sharpe K. G. and Mr. M. W

So immersed are the authorities he will see little ones by the score saed M.P. Talati for the cancella. Hongkong at the present sitting along the roadside, dab- tion and delivery of an "agree- moment with big issues, that the bling in the dirt, scoping apment made between the two cry of the children for playing dust in seaside buckets, trying parties, or, in the alternative, spacos ia opt to be overlooked. hard to be happy in their un- damages, by MrJustice Gompertz,

How sitting in original juriediction." There are, it is to be admittel, congenial surroundings. considerable difficulties to be they would love to frolic on the face i when we come to consider soft, cool, grean turf The ex the question as it affeals the island pressions on their faces tell it, of Hongkong. Practically every And who of us can afford to be available space on this site of the deaf to such an appeal? "" harbour has been built upon. Moreover, the greater bulk of CORRESPONDENCE. European children here live in houses од the hillside which have their own lawns and gardens; while there are always The Botanic Gardons within easy roich. In Kowloon, however, the conditions are not the same Further, il a census of the Eur-To the Elitor of the "Hongkong opean children of the wholeOplons were to be taken, it is probable

[The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necos8- arily those of the "Hongkong

WATER SUPPLY.

Slade K. C. with whom was Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mesars, Deacon Looker, Deacon and Harston, for the defence.

The case for the the plaintiff was that in settlement of a claim, which was being made in the Hongkong Courts, under a judg ment of the Bombay High Court for Rs. $322,000 odd, the plaintiff and defendant entered into an

Telegraph." Dear Sir,Recognising that that Kowloon would be found to the "Telegraph" is ever ready to agreement, where by the defend furnish far and away the larger extend the hospitality of its ant agreed to assign to the plain who tiff 140 permits to import opium to those number. A walk through the main columns throughfares of the penianul cannot make themselves heard. into China, for a period terminat- would, at any rate, seem to con-I beg to approach you for ing in 1916. According to the firm that view, Kowloon term a small space in behalf of renid. plaintiff the permite wore with- with young life. The place in aents within the Rider Main Sys-drawn shortly after the signing Coals for the Navy,

voritable paradise for the in tem. Ever since the introduction of the agreement, and that the The steamer Baron Napier a-

of the intermittent supply of water fact that such withdrawal was and, more recently, the adoption possible was not made known to rived yesterday from Barry, S. search of" pidgin".

A Beach Which Disappeared. MARRIAGES.

of the street hydrant system, due the plaintiff. There are other facte, too, to the prolonged drought, resi-

The defence was that the plain- for the Admiralty.`, MAYNE-BI) WELL, Yuck 11, 1918, bfie II. M: Consul "suffragettes" The British put-Wales, with 0,750 tons of coal

which may be quoted in support dents in the districts affected tif kept on with the agreement, General, Sir E. V. II. Frier, KCMG, and forwards at St. Joseph'io is proverbially long-suffering,

of the plea for the provision of a have been put to considerable taking his chance whether the Church, Grong Edward Otway, elfost run the lae Blair E. Mayne and Mr. but there is a limit to its pati-

The Exchange Banks in Hong Blair & Magne, of Shanghai, to Geraldya, frth daughter of the late Mrsadence. As long as the "shrieking

sisterhood" confined their activi kong are to be closed for the much-needed playing-ground for inconvenience from the reduced withdrawal would be continued In the course of his judgment Mrs H. S. Bidwell, of Shangbai.

fore the coming of the railway, porer section of the community, ties to harmless little prauks, no-transaction of business on Friday, children across the harbour. Be-supply and, as they belong to the or not.

there used to be quite an exten- the hardship is doubly felt his Lordship said that the perm't body minded. But when it came Saturday and Monday next.

China Borneo Co., Ltd. sive airip of beach along the though their having to pay for system appeared to have been to blowing up residences, wil- fully damaging sporting grounds

The yearly meeting of aliare-foreshore near Blackhead's. That

Government of Chins determined lestroying priceless plants and

holders in the above Company is has now disappeared, and the every basketful of water carried worked as follows: When the

their flats. up RAHLER:-On March 12, 1913, at Tieats'n, Water. Fruz Kator, flowers, to say nothing of win to be held on the 3rd April at little ones who in other days

Since the heavy downpour of to limit with a view to the dow smashing and the pillar-box the Company's office, St. George's romped and played on the sand rain on Sunday and Monday, graduat extinction, the importa

the Appriser Chinese Marilino Cus om3, aged 51 years.

outragee, the limit of endurance Buildings.

have been driven ia shore. Other there is good reason to believe tion of Persian opium was reached. No wonder, there

pote there were, too, where the that the storage reservoirs, both Maritime Customs in Hongkong fore, that these silly women have

A batch of Chinese wore pro-inveniles formerly indulge in Tytım and Pokfulam, must drew up a register of the now incurred

marked very

must secuted before Mr Hazeland, at their games and pastimes. Bu have been replenished, at any firms engaged in this business. popular bostility; It have been 3 Borry Bigh the Police Court, this morning. these have been built upon one rate to the extent that the Island Each of these firms was to be law-breakors for using trucks with defective by one, until now there is little may be considered out of the allowed permits based upon their these to Beo

loft for the mites save the dusty wood as far as the fear of a water. business in the past, the num- chased up and down Oxford brakes.

streets. Some one pot acquaint famine is concerned. The fear bers diminishing each year up Strcot by an infuriated crowd for

el with the conditions in

may be farther dispelled, from to the end of 1916 when impor Kowloon might. possibly

a knowledge of the fact that we tation would cease. In the event enquire whether there is not are just entering upon our wel of any one of the old firms already a park there, following conson and as the months going out of business it seemɔd up the query with the mention of May

and June, under that the permits allocated to Ring's Pork". To such, the normal conditions, contribute a them would have been distributed reply is that King's Park in plentiful enough, supply of rain, among the other dealern." At the not a park at all! The it is about time the Authority same time although there was We understand that Miss Miri-statement may seem strange, considers the adviesbility of apparently an intention to con Monteith, who windmitted at it has the merit of being restoring the constant supply tinue permits to bona fide im- Victoria Caol on June 28th last true. Why the place was ever throughout all the districts in the porters, the Customs appeared not year, was released on Saturday, named "King's Park" is some- Colony. By this means, those least to have scanned too olerely in the and left for England the same thing in the nature of a mystery capable of bearing the heavy case of old established businesses, day..

to everybody who has ever seen burden of providing for the daily arrangements under which the Bishop Lander Returns it. Maybe it was intended to necessaries of life will be relieved importation was financed by The Right Rev. Bishop Lander bs eventually laid out for such a of, at least, one item of their others than the original permit returned from Shanghai this purpose. We do not know. But monthly expenditure bill, viz., holder. Of this nature were the morning by the Prinz Eitel Frie at present it is best described as that for water for potable pur-arrangements made by the firm drich. He has been North at-a straggling wilderness of bills tending important missionary and rocky mounds. Moreover, conferonces.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong..

Telephone: No. 1

ABC, 5th edition.

Western Union

The Hongkong Telegraph. HONG KONG, TU SDAY, ARCH 18, 1913,

SLAV v. TEUTON.

At the present moment there is no more burning question in European politics than that of Gormany's big forward plunge in military expenditure. in secking the real reason for the abnormally large voles made, commentators have advanced numerous explant tions, but in most instances those have naturally been little els thon shrewd guesses, built up on varying bases according to the pet theories of the particular writers. Muny have hold the, into that it is primarily against Franco that the new movement has been directed, and those who have thought "thus aust have poisted as proof of their beliefs to the robert sensational article printed by the "Koolaische Zeitung", wherein it was vory pointedly observed that Germany and her near neighbour were bound to cross swords; when, none could tall,

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half an hour on cad. But the We would direct our readers' irony of the situation is, that attention to the new advertise- while these vote-at-any-price woment of the Taikoo Dackyaril mea openly defy the law in fur-and Engineering Company ap chering their aims, thoy are only pearing on Page

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too glad to fly. to police pratec Reported Release of Miss tion in the hour of their extremity. We are not a little bit sorry for these madcaps when they are mobbed and huuted as they were on Sunday, What they need in ubishment of the type met out to Chinese offenders in this Colonya period of rigor us imprisonment and four hours'. stocks!

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THE COURT CARDS. No figer tribute to any company of entertainers could have been

College Sports Postponed.. paid than the crowded house which gathered at the Theatre. Owing to the unfavourable Royal last night, despite the in-weather of the past few days, the clemency of the weather, to give sports organised by St. Stephen's the Court Cards" a right royal College, and arranged to take send-off. Amongst those prosent place this afternoon, have been were His Excellency the Governor postponed. and Lady May and family. The Chess Tournament. programme, needless to say, was

A. Y. M. C. A.

"knook-out'

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it is far too isolated ever to bo come of any use to Kowloon child- ren, while the shooting ranges ronder it dangerous in the extreme.

posos.

Yours faithfully, JENEMENT FLAT Hongkong, 18th March, 1913 ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

HEALTH BILL.

Foggy Weather.

of F. P. Talati, first with the Sea soon's and Apcar, and later with Kadoorie and Gourgey. All this - was well understood by the plaintiff's agent, Apoar, who was himself a dealer in opium.

Later his Lordship said that there was, of course, no doubt An Urgent Question.

The Ilon. Treasurer of the Alice that the plaintiff's representative It will be remembered, however, that it has since boon declare

fa addition to the feel that the

Mmorial and Affiliated Hospitals Apoar knew very well that the European population of Kowloon in Borlin that the article referred to was in no wise officially inspired

is steadily on the increase-largely begs to acknowledge with thanks defendant was not a partner in and it was denied that the increase in the Army was due to any

due to the circumstance that the the following donations to the the new firm, which he also know to be a one man concern. At the change for the worse in the relations betwesa Germany and her

W. Powell & Co. of the highest standard of excel-Tournament for n set of chess. Large blocks of flats there are funds of the Flespitals - neighbours. The "Norddeutsche Zeitung" explains the Army fence, and all the artistes oxcelled men is now being arranged: attracting a class of people who

$15 same time his letters to the plĝin. Thoreson & Cert

$10 tiff in Bombay made it plain that The bank- Bills by the shifting of the balance of power, in the Balkans".

in their particular spheres. Handicaps will be fixed by the find the high rents of big houses

W. N.

#5 Apcar believed that the This explanation, coming from such a well-informed quarter, is The ladies, of course, had Committee. All entries should be prohibitive,point is given to

ruptcy of the defendant would. charged with deep significance in view of some recent comments magnificent receptions. Miss out in Saturday, the 15th the urgency of the question

mean the loss of the permits. This in that the day u

fast

opinion was shared by Mossre, from the Barlia correspondeat of the London Morning Post Marsden Owen was in splendid instant.

approaching when such spaces The return of cases of com- Kadoorie and Gourgey who con Defective Scales. After dilating on the point that for years past the Gorman people voice, while Miss Maude Fane

was as clever and vividious ́as Inspector Withors prosecuted as might at present be suitable manicable diseases during last sented to give up 140 permita and have been told that the British Empire is the obstacle in the path ever, she made a great bit in her a Chinese, before M OD for the purpose ander considera-week shows that four cases of pay 12,000 la cash to the fear of which leads to their proper place in the world, the writer asseris song anent the naughty little Melbourne, at the Police Cour, tion are being rapidly bailt upon. diphtheria(Chinese) were reported losing everything.

In the end it was decided that that politicians have suddenly realized that another factor exists twinkle," which was given by this morning, for using defective The matter is one, thus, which and two deaths. There was one

was fined needs to be taken in hand at the case of enterio fever and four of judgment should be entered in which is not merely an obstacle, but a moving force which it my special request, A word should cles. Defendant be difficult for the German nation to withstand. This factor is the also be penned of the concerted 810. Mr C. D'Almada e Castro earliest possible moment. There smallpox (one British and three favour of the defendent with

can be no doubt as to the duty of Chinese, one of the latter being conte roanimation of the Slav. That there is something in this submis-farm-yard" effort, which was defended. * *

the Government in the matter. imported.)

The full text of the judgment splendidly done. Mr. Reginald V.M.C.A. Tonnis Club. sion, appears evident from the oircumstance that many German Palmer also, did his well-known An Extraordinary General The average British taxpayer here

will appear in to-morrow's issue. newspapers candidly admit that what is happening to day in the military officer "turn" in inim Meeting on the Y.M.O.A. Tennis gets little enough consideration

The P. and O. intermediate

A BAD CASE Balkone is merely the prelude to the preparation for a great decisive mitable style. All the otbork Club is called for to-morrow at for himself. He cries out in vain atruggle between the Teuton and the Slav. Turkey is being scored big successes as well; in 5.30 p.m. which all who intend for some relief against the ever steamer Namur, which arrived demolished, it is pointed out, by the Southern Slave, and a country fact, it was an evening of brilli to join the club should attend. rising cost of living and the to-day from the North, reports disappears which would naturally have fought on the side of ent schievements, and repeated Business to be dealt with includes steadily upward tendency of that, from Shanghai to Steep Is A Chinese was obarged before the election of officers, adoption how e rents. But surely he deceland, light to moderate 8.E. winds Mr F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Germany in case of a European war. Another fact which is being At the close of the performance of a constitution, and matters of ves to be listened to when he asks were encountered, and from Court this morning, with the much commented upon is that while the birth-rate in Germany is there was a marked demonstra-importance, relating to the de- that the health and happiness of thence to Tornaboat Island there larceny of clothing at Taumati beginning seriously to doulino, the Slay race is prolifio. In this tion of approval by the audience, velopment of the grounds. his little ones shall be ministered was heavy rain. Off Ochsen Is Detective Brown said that this to by their being provided with a land dente fog was experienced was a bad case, and there had connection the steadily advancing Russian birth-rate in ospecially and, in response to repeated calle, Junk Capsized.

M. Elgar Warwick appeared

The polios report that the mas happily-luid out park or playing for four hours with variable winds, been a series of larcenies in that -emphasised.

before the footlights and in a fewter of a fhing junk has born ground where they may romp and then moderate to fresh N.E. wind locality Without doubt, the trend of events in the Balkans is such that brief words thanked the public picked up by a police launch and play to their heart's content and overcast, hazy weather to mefondant was sent to go for it must command the attention of a country like Germany. Slay of Hongkong for the liberal pat kon to Tai O, hi junk being Loked at in right sense, this is arrival here. predominace in central Europe is slowly coming about, and, in ronage extended to the company towed. He reported to the sa much an Imperial obligation

Halfpenny Rale for view of the tarn which events are taking, it is not surprising to

authorities, that whilst suling on as the building of railways or the read that the seriousness of the situation is recognised, though it Oplum Smoker.

the 15th, from Cheung Chau beautifying of "finest silos, And Feeding Children. be used for the present only to assist the passage of the new

Nine Chinese were charged by I-land to Tai O, and when if it has the supreme recommenda- Mr. Oyril Cobb stated at Two Chinese were fined $25 Army Bills through the Reichstag These words were writton Inspection Goulay, before Mr. Fatt Lou, a squall sprung up and tion of not being a costly under-meeting of the London County each by Mr. O. D. Melbourde, at quite a month ago, and, when placed side by side with the observe FA Hazeland, at the Pulice the junk exposed. He afterwards taking. As to fluding a suftable Counil that the cost to the Coun: the Police Court, this morning, tom of the " Norddeutsche Zeitung that the new Billa are rendered Court this morning, with smok- 1

• managed to right; the junk and sile, that could easily be done cil of feeding necessitous children for being in unlawful po necessary by ''the shifting of the balance of power in the Balkans

ing opium is a house at Shauki-, the crew were saved. A girl aged once the intention to take up the to March 31, 1912, 287,182 of arms and ammu they are pregnant with significance. The similarity of view point wan. They were each fined $5 or three years, however, who went matter were manifested. For This was equal to a' rate of a X. D'Almada del

lipenny in the 81. in default fourteen days. overboard, was not recovered. where there's a will there's a way!

may be

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a month and ordered four hours. stocks.

Arms and Ammunition.

the men