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DAY BY DAY.

THE POLICE ATTACKED

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Number of Indian fuld to be

Detained.

IT IS ONLY A POOR SPORT OF HAP PINESS THAT COULD EVER COME BY CARING VERY MUCH ABOUT OUR OWN NARROW PLEASURES. WE CAN ONLY HAVE THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS BY HAVING WIDE THOUGHTS, AND MUCH FEELING FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD AS made into the attack on the Police le WELL AS OURSELVES AND

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Supposed Case of Rabies, The Police shot a dog rester-

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE, BALL.

far na I can nee will get nona. Be stabda to lose jast we du by the sule which doesn't inoluded the sale of the right of Rucoession. I cannot conceive Brilliant Function Last Evening. I frankly say I cannot con-

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Partnership Dispute: Appeal on Dissolution Action,

Yesterday the Full Court of Ap Stringent enquiry is still being pool, consisting of ir Havilland having is sold in the way be dir-House last night was a brilliant ceive any possible benefit by The official ball at Government Sausmarez, president, the SORT OF HAPPINESS OFTEN HRINGS near Lo Lung-hang valley. It Chief Justice, dir w

eals. If there are two ways open success. The arrangements for BO MUCH PAIN WITH IT THAT WE will be rememal red that na the Davies, and the Puiane Judge and one beneficial to both part- the function, down to the most CAN ONLY TELL IT FROM PAIN BY result of an attack by Indian Mr Justice Gompertz; resumed les, the other not, beneficial to both minor detail, were complete and CHOOSE

BEFORE EVERYTHING soldiers, following an arrest the hearing of the motion parties, I trust your Lordships careful. Mention must first be ELSE. BECAUSE OUR BOULS SEE IT for gambling, one European con- of appeal, in 19 GOOD.-Eliat

atable had his collar bone broken les Alexander Tomes is the ap another point on which I wish to had been carried out will a fine which Char-will adopt the construction which made of the scheme of decoration: banetita both. There in Outside and inside the House it and others were injured,

pellant and Robert Shewan the We understand that a parade respondent, that the Court be address myself and it is this. eye to colour and eff(st. Hun- per 8 of the regiment-the

120th moved by counsel on behalf of Clause 13 of the articles of the dreds of Chinees lanterns, illu Australian Mail--Closes per .. and other enquiries were made, the judgment dated the 26th. day it in partnership at will.

Baluchie was made yesterday the appellant for an order that agreement is inapplicable because minsted the lawn, but it was on Prinz Waldemar at 8 am. No official statement has been of January, 1914, of His Honour

entering the House itself that the The Chief Justice: What wealth of decoration wis most made, but it is stated that some the Chief Justice on the hearing

Clauss ?"

fully recognised, Everywhere YOU под are now. in custody of the

Mr. Jenkin: The, retirement thearrangement of flowers, palme, ummons dated 4th. and that further development October 1913, and the order (clauso. Retirement a clause in ferns, flags, bunting and the like are expected.

my) signed pursunut thereto, be the agreement which I think has had been carried out in most arti- reversed and that it may be been put quite clear. The stio faebion. The flags, by the djudged that the appellant is Chief Justice says this. Their way, were lent by the figship ntitled t have the business, of argument is you

must, if Minotaur. day in Gage Street. It was GAOL WARDER'S SUI-IDE Company aid as a going con- other clause. If it is true the was that the colours of carpets and

the firm of Shewan Tomoe and you want goodwill go under the supposed to be suffering from

What was especially noticeable ceru; and for an order that the clause is inapplicable it follows bunting and flowers, blended do Enquiry Held this Afternoon. the costs occasioned by this ap the partners if they want the form a most artistic picture. There espondent pay to the appellaut at the present moment neither of deftly and harmoniously as to

7held an ouquiry into the circum-think fit.

Mr. Hazalsad this afternoon other order, as the Court may They couldn't get it under 13 pleasing in the least degree. In peal, and for such farther or goodwill can get it in any event. we not a note which waH un- opstances attending the death of

because it is inapplicable, under the main hall, the verandahs, and Henry Stephens, aged 23 an ex-plaintiff was Charles Alexander Chief Justice engs that clause will especially were profuso. In the In the original action the the last clause because the learned the supper-room tho. decorationa warder at Victoria Gaol who was, Tames, merchant, and the defend-ut permit it. found hanging from a tres on the int obert Showna, merchaut. fore is that at this s age after the and the effect of baskets of beg The result there-upper room were a dozen tablos hillside at Wanchai on February Tan chain was we followe:-

partnership has been carried, on nonise hung over the table, of 1. That the partnership bo- for these years, and after marguerites and strings of beg- The jury s composed as won the plaintiff and the de- the partners have placed follows: Mr. R.

aonias on the tables and of the as- Mr. Mason Lakiú, Mr. Alisa J. Tomen and Company be wound neither party can possibly get is striking..

Henderson, fendunt auder the style of Shewan, very high figaro on this goodwill, usl table settings was peculiarly Bussley.

Dr. Macfarlane said that he up.

now even if he wanted it, notice The ball-room itself was a Disobeyed the Order.

2. That an account be taken or no notice. Now my Lords on memorable scone while dancing A Chinese who disobeyed on of the deceased on February 5.ween the plaintiff and the de-13-the partnership at will, and ary uniforma, the toilettes of the mado a post mortem examination of the partnersuip dealings be the inapplicability of clause was at its height, naval and milit The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to order of banishment was sent to There was a deep ark of the fendant.

messenger. Poak subscribers can have their copies delivered at prison for six months and or-ligature round the nok. The

the present partnership, first ladies, the more dull dresses of their residences without any extra charge. On copies went bydered four hours stocks by Mr. cause of death, in his o; inion, he sum found to be due to him case of Neilson and the Moss End and moved, and

3. Payment to the plaintiff of give your Lordships the the male civilian guests, mingled post an additional $180 per quarter is charged for postage.. Hazeland at the Plice Court was Darliyis due to strangulation. the taking of such account. The postage on the weekly sue to any part of the world is $1.00 this morning.

Dr. Kock said that deceased

fron Company Il Appea! Uases, such a flashing of colours as is

· rendered.

was admitted to the

lunaticeiver.

4. The appointment of s

289. My orde in that case the seldom to be seen. article under construction Revolver Possession."

asylum on January 14 last. He

was At the far end of the ball-room this. The clauses of the contract senta were provided on a raised revolvers and 800 rounds of the 20th, but no signs of sanity For being in possession of two was kopt under observation till

16. Further and other relief. of partnership drafted three mondias for His Excellency, the Go- ammunition a Chinese named So showed themselves and he was the Thief Instics in Chambers hat

The action was dismissed by the before. (Quoted Clauses). vernor,, and Lady May, Major- Chi-shung was fined $500) by Mr.sferred to the Government on deaury 26, but general liberty with

Дора оп to deal General and Mrs. Kelly, Admiral Hazeland at the Police Court this Civil Hospital on that date and

mode the and Lady Jerram and Commodore morning.

was finally discharged on the

given to apply on the assete shall be valued and the und Mr. Austruther, Above the 22nd. Witness said he had been summons.

division that shall take place. This dias was a fine portrait of King held up at West Point through a but decessed told him he re- and Grist, appeared for the sphere one partner to have big share which were made additionally informed that decoused lind pre-. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. Moss End Iron Company wound

Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mr. was an application to have the George Iv. Yesterday thren tramcars were viously attempted to commit sui Wilkinson of Messrs. Wilkinson up and the partuorship assets sold supper room on the ground floor Supper was served in the main track getting into the tram lines, membered nothing about it. Depellant, and Mr. E. H. Sharp,

and divided amongst the part- and in marquees ou the lawn and passengers were put to some censod was morose and sullen K., and Mr. Eldon Potter, in- inconveneizce. Mr. Hazeland at But showed no the Police Court, this morning other signs pointing to insanity. of Mesars. Deacon, Looker, Deacon the assets shared among them had their wants carefully antici- delusions or struoted by Mr. J. Scott Harston, agreed to have it wound up and ing. Those who did not dance Neilson and Company attractive by pot plants and bunt- fined the mau in charge of the J.W. Fraucks, assistant saper truck $17.

intendent of Victoria Gaol said

selves. This was objected to in patod. The billiard room and that deceased at the time of his

these words (quoting the case). verandah had been transformed Shopkeeper's Loss.

Mr. Jenkin quoted Lords Bel-into smoking rooma where a ‹ death had been retired on medic A shopkeeper living at 18 al gounds and was not a warder.

borne and Watson on pages 305 game of cards and 311 respectively.

could be Des Veoux Road Went reports too was allowed to live in the

enjoyed.. Light refreshments the police that someone stole from quarters. He was retired because

The Chief Justice:-I had n were also served in the dinner- a show case outside of his shop

idea that the position taken up room. It might be remarked that yesterday two rolls of clothing

was that when the partnership in order to soo that every guest wag had expired upon the effluxion of carefully attended to Mr. Collett valus 800 and ten pairs of shoes value $26.

time it became a partnership" at of the U. P. R. steamer Empress will, anbject to auch terms as are of Japan had some forty "boys' applicable.

under his charge.

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BIRTH.

CROOK-On February 19 to Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Crook,

a daughter.

DEATH.

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SMITH. On the 12th February, 1914, at 23 Kungping Road, Shanghai, Amy Edith, daughter of the late Edmund J. Smith, late of I. M. Customs, aged 30 years.

GRAY-On the 13th February, 1914, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Ernest Walter, son of Capt. & Mrs. James Gray.

PATERSON.-We regret to announce the death of Mr. William Paterson of Broomlands Dumfriesshiro who during the years from 1875 to 1886 was a partner in the Firm of Messrs Jardino Matheson and Company.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1014.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION PROBLEM.

ports;

Trams Held Up.

was thought undesirable to have in the prison service ap officer who was liable to fits.

A verdict of suicide while of unsound wind was returned.

INTERM DIVIDEND.

Trouble on the Tram, A Chiness, who created some trouble on a tramcar yesterday, travel inside, wound up by as- who refused to pay his fare or to saulting the conduct or. He was final fifteen dollars in all at indo China Steam Navigation the Police Court this morning.

Co., Ltd.

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Re-

and Harston for the respondent.

Thin 'President: Isn't there generally in such a contract the Provision for the retirement of the managing director or manager on ofice being given?

there is my Lord..

Mr. Jenkin: I have no doubt The Chief Justice: It is in the articles.

Mr. Jenkins: Yes sometimes in articles, sometimes on the con- tract and I think on some it is said that may be so on giving certain amount of notice. Now my Lorde the next stage.

The Chief Justice: In con-

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tracta?

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sold out.

the

Mr. Jenkin Yea.

The decorations were carried The Chief Justica:And it is out by the Botanical and Forestry now strictly a partnership at will Department under the superten- and if either partner likes he can deace of Mr. J. Tutcher, F.L.S., give twelve months' notice as he assisted by Mr. H: Green, As- is entitled to do.

elatant Superintendent.

Now that the schole in the Colony' are about to reopen after the recess, it is permitted, with something like timeliness, to rotura to the old question of secondary education in Hongkong. The

Mr. Alabaster: We have bad

Mr. Jenkin: I was quoting to electrical effects were arranged The matter has been discussed many times, but up till now deeda have

the articles of association of show clauses that cannot be by the Public Works Department never taken the place of words, and there does not see any im-

We are informed by Mossos are not in..

various companies. here, but they applied to partnership at will. under the supervision of Mr. R. mediate prospect of their doing so. Yet it has been clearly maui-

New Territory Affair. Jardino Matheson & Co Ltd,

The President: How is it a J. Stevenson. fested, time and again, alike by written and spoken words, that the

About half past two yesterday the General Managers

Mr. Sharp I don't object to partnership at will?

For those who sought escape Mr. Jenkin: - Under state of education in the Colony does not satisfy the majority of

a Chinese was seized by a shop-tho

of these going in if it will assist above Company, that your Lordships.

the for a time from the ball-room parents, and it is more than time that it was tackled with some in the Tai O district. The shop from the Board of Directors in I was going to say so I cannot That term expired in 1006 and be enjoyed, under ideal condi

partnership agreement of 1800 there were many attractive little keeper in Sha Lowang village, they have received a telegram Mr, Alabaster :They are not in. the period was to be ten years corners where a quiet chat could thing like spirit. Is it to be said of the Colony that it knows what keeper alleged that the man was Loudon declaring an interim go nu. is wrong, tees how the matter could be remedied, and has not guilty of larceny of clothing dividend on Preference Shares of

the partnership has been simply tions. energy enough for the tank? That is what it seems to amount to.

and an Indian constable took him per cent. payable on 28th inst,

Mr. Sharp: We don't object. carried on.

The guests were received by We are speaking now, of course, of the need for secondary plained that he had been assaulted be closed from Monday the 23rd companies and with the other

to the station. There he com- The Books of the Company will articles of association of various year?

Mr. Alabaster: We have here

The President-From year to His Excellency and Lady May and the ball opened with the education. It is safe to say that at least half of the European by the shopkeeper. Later in the int, to Saturday the 28th inst. side's permission I will put them

Mr. Jenkin:-Well, from day official lancers in which the parents in the Colony are anxious to secure for their sons something day he died.

to day The shopkeeper both days inclusive,

following ladies and gentlemon better than a mere elementary education. As matters stand, if that has been arrested on a ebarge of

The President:-So that either took part: is to be secured, the parent must send his boy Home, although that, manslaughter.

The President: Any objection? partner is entitled to give notice? Mr. Sharp: No, no objection at

Mr. Jenkin :-Yes, exactly at all.

any moment. The President: My experience inconsistent with clanso 13 which The President:-Then that is is of companies mainly composed of Chinese.

provides for twelvo months' notice?

ary

a better education than is possible for them to receive.

!

Rubber,

London, February, 11,

#OLICITOR'S GARB,

No Recognition Without the 'Black Crat.

in.

JP

Mr. Jenkin Quito so; that is my argument,

His Excellency the Governor and

Mrs. Kelly. Admiral Sir T. H. Jerram and Major General . H. Kelly and

Lady May.

Lady do Saumarez. Sir Havilland de Sausmarez and

Mrs. Buoknill, Commodore Anstruther and Mrs

Chatham.

Landalo,

in many cases, costs more than he can well afford. He does not care to have his boy ten thousand miles away from him at an age when home influence is most essential for the well-being of the lad, but in the present condition of things that is unavoidable." Here.

Mr. Jenkin: If your Lordships in this Colony, it is not possible for a bɔy to receive the same kind of

desire any more of thie mem- secondary education that he can receive at Home, and what sscon !-

morinda we have plenty of them, education he may receive is not imparted in the same atmosp- Fine, Hard, Care, February and mary Court this morning, and in

The quotation for Para Rubbar, It was settling day at the Sum- but not here.

Mr. Sharp-As I understood here. If this were a British Colony where British children were March, is 34.2td. sellors. The tone one of the many cases called Mr. manager shall be able to withthey put it in their osee below.

The President: A lew in number, this state of matters could be understood, but it is of the rubber share market is firm. Tencon, Loker, Deacon and giving notice in writing of the of time and becomes a partner-Hon. Mr. Chatham and Mrs. it, my Lord, that was the way Hon. Mr: Claud Severa and Mrs. general

Mosser. a Colony where hundreds of European children live and deserve a

D. V. Stevenson, of Vesera draw from the management on

The Chief Justice :-The part-Hon. Mr. Backmill and Mrs. The total quantity sold at the

nership expires by the effluxion Pollock, It seems to us that it is for the parents of the Colony to exert tons. The tone of the auction gown, but had not the customary what you mean is that the case?

Mincing Lane Duction was 1,100 Hareton, appeared. He wore his intention to withdraw. Is that ship at will? themselves in this matter. If they are waiting to have done for was firm. them what they should do for themselves, they are acting worse

black coat underneath, bei g Mr. Jonkin: Yes. than fooliably. They are wilfully negligent. If British boya here of valuos

attired in a light grey suit. The President: By consent; took up was that it is now a part-plied by the D. C. L.. I. band un- are la be educated in something like the same atmosphere as did

The Puiene Judge (Mr. Justice without presumably the company nership at will except so far as der Bandmaster Roberts. There their fathery, and inspired by something like the same traditions,

Gompertz) intimated that he was would be entitled to damages in necessarily modified by becoming were sixteen dances and supper an all British higher school should be provided; but not at the.

Jafraid he could not recognise Mr. lien of notice. It would be debt? partnership at will.

was perved mid way through." expense of the rate payers. If the Colony could find the money for

Stevenson as he bad a black Mr. Jenkin: Yes, Now even in!

The President-It strikes me The menu was as follows :--- cost, and he had better appear by these varinas forms of what I ven- the arguments that the old clause University it can surely find it for a school where British boys)

as being relevant to one of Mayonnaise of Lobster. shall receive such an education as they deserve. All that is wanted

some-one else.

fare to oall hardship, what have 13, giving twelve monthe' notice ia to have the master tackled energetically by those who are

Mr. Gardiner

Galantine of Capon. accordingly we on the otherside. What poss primarily interested,

appeared on Mr. Steavorson's ible benefit is the defendant going breaking up the partnership, ap

Shanghai Game Pie. Pato de Strasbourg. behalf,

to get by the ale piecemeal co

!plies to these local Agencies of Turkey and Ham

(Continued on an Extra) | Roast Chicken and Ham,

The following were the course

Lowest Price 2. TH

Strite Finest Smoked Sheet

Highest Price 20. 8d.

Straits Finest Smoked Sheet

Lowest Price 28. 6d.

Straits Finent Unsmoked Crepe

Straits Finest Unsmoked Crepe |Highest Price 28. 74d,

Mr. Sharp-The position they

Musio for the dances was sup