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DR. WU AND THE CANTON FUNDS.

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MIXED COURT HEARING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DISCOVERY ON A

ISLAND.

BIG HAUL OF ARMS.

deal

extant

TO PONY OWNERS.

AUSTRALIAN THOROUGH- BRED PONIES.

WEDNESDAY MÁY ĐỂ TRAO

NOTICE.

NEW ADVERTISEMEMENTS

NOTICE.

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

CHALLENGE ROUND,

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES,

Booking at Montrle & Co.

NOTICE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th.--

ADVERTISE YOUR WANTS.

WHAT YOU WANT SOMEONE HAS—WHAT YOU "DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE DOES.

ONE CENT PER WORD PER INSERTION

Two Cents I not. Prepaid.

A SMALL ADVERTISEMENT IN These COLUMNS- WILL BE PRODUCTIVE OF MANY ENQUIRIES

REPLIES AWAIT. BOX No.:--

WANTED,

WANTED. "

WANTED -EXCHANGE OF WANTED-By large English OFFICES. Tenant of office in Concern, first class Interpreter- Prince's Building facing lee Salesman for Hongkong& Canton.

Busineam. House Street) wishes to arrange || Cantonese preferred, exchange with tenant of office in connection with foreign medicine Prince's Buildings (facing Law dealers an advantage. Must be good translator. State terms and give local references to Bar 363 EcoHongkong Telegraph."

Hongkong Telegraph.”

The Management of "The Hongkong Telegraph " desires 10: inform the public that its tariff for advertisements received on and of Residents in the Far East who after this date will be increased The British Assessor (Mr. There has been a Blackburn) and Magistrate Li surmise in Palice circles over the bave gone in for racing have

This increase is rendered im- in the mixed court at Shanghai, capture of a dump of ammunition usually been content to think per cent, last week, listened to lengthy yesterday by Detective Inspector only of the China pony, but there perative by the constantly grow- legal argument in connexion Grant and a number of other is a probability that the time is not

(of paper alone having advanced with

the injunction recently officials of the Police Department. far distant when we shall also in cost of production, the price

of the hanl see thoroughbred ponies rom- granted restraining Mr. WaThe

M. W. Lo v. Ne Sze Kwong| five years

tholder 19183 & 1919) Weather Ting-fang from dealing with estimated at over fity revolvers peting on the courses of the Far 100 per cent during the past moneys of the Canton Govern- and thousands of rounds of East.

We have been paid a visit by In order to meet these con- ment for which be

re-jammunition, besides a consider *19

Ona Mr. R. B. Kelley to-day, and he ditions newspapers and magazines ermitting, this match will be

4.30 p sponsible as Minister of Finance able quantity of opium. and now deposited in the Hong very plausible theory is that the is one of a number who have in- all over the world have been played on Friday, May 28th at The Prizes wan during the kong and Shanghai Bank at arms were intended for a rising augurated a movement for the obliged to raise their subscription exploitation of the and advertising rates-in some Shanghai.

in Kwangtung Province, while greater On behalf of Dr. Wu, & motion other conjectures relate to the ponies of Australia. He talla na cases by as much as 100 percent-Tournament will be presented was entered asking for the dispossibility that they formed the how they have already succeed and at the same time, to curtail after the match. solution on the following grounds: stock of a systematic traitic dyed in doing business with facing the size and number of pages. Far (1) That these proceeding have undesirable characters into the people in India, the Philippines, the present, however, it has been Japan, and Shanghai, and that decided, in the interests of the been instituted for the purpose Colony,

Yesterday, the detectives pro-the Shanghai Racing Club has public generally and of advertiser- of supporting alleged political power, and prerogative and a reeded in a launch to a secluded taken the matter up with great in particular, to leave the price of In fact he is now in The Hongkang Telegraph" an such should not be entertained by island near Capsuimpon, and interest.

search came upon a Hongkong for the special purpose changed. the Court; (2) that in accord-after a

Hongkong, 17th May, 1920, ance with this principle the lonely habitation which was in of taking up to Shanghai three Court has refused to decide or the occupation of three women, of his ponies, now Indged at hear evidence upon any of the who were immediately put under Kennedy stables. They are go material issues in the action arrest A search was then con- ing up by the .. Sinking to TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS TEA DANSANT FROM 4 TO Court Apply Bax 365, and in particular has refused to ducted in the hut and prove pro marcus, and in order to give AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.P.M. decide whether or not the plaintiff ductive in the unearthing of Hongkong racing men a chance (Chang Shih-cbsol is entitled to valuable haul of arraunition.of seeing them, Mr. Kelley will sue in the name of the MilitaryAt another hut in the vicinity, be at the Kennedy Stables this artested another afternoon, as is announced in our Government, and in the absence of the official

in favour of the woman, and in the process of the advertising columna. decision

A few words of detail about the far insertion in the news columns plaintiff on this issue the case search, a brick kiln attracted! should be dismissed: (3) that in attention as being a likely place ponies will be of more interest of "The Huagkong Telegraph"

They will be charged for at the rate of DINNER DANCE FROM S P.M. The absence of a decision in favour for the concealment of the articles than a general statement.

If SUNDAY, MAY goth.~ of the plaintiff on this issue, he they were in quest of. When the are all thoroughbreds, with real $1. each. providing they do not

A Kennedy Townjoccupy more than four lines.

Orchestral Concerts during bas no interest in the moness in kilo came to be inspected, the re-pedigrees.

In be placed in the advertising Tifin and Afternoon. the hands of the defendant, and velvers were taken from a deep there is one by "Lancaster," out this space is exceeded they will

of No. 6" by AmhersL" the injunction should not there-jearity in it.

The four women will be produe-height the pony is 15,11⁄2 hands, columns at the prevailing rates. force have been granted and should-

Hongkong. May 17, 19), Anicher ja by Mr. now be dissolved: (4) that if the ed before the Magistrate pending and has won £1,100 in Austra- money in the hands of the de investigations which the Policellia.

NOTICE fendant are in the nature of a fare conducting with a view to John- trast fund, the only persons who the arrest of the male Chinese and is 147 bands high. The third (a mare) is by "Mary Oliver "out can apply for an injunction in concerned in the case.

Further enquiries reveal the of Shortie" by Predominate": respect thereof are a costai trast

in the s co-trustee, and that the fextent of the seizure to be 130 This last was actually sold as a Phillippines plaintiff is neither; (5) that the revolvers, 80,000 rounds of amriffin

It is modified for the information efect of the injunction, is ret munition, a considerable quantity for 150 Pesos, but Mr. Kelley manently to restrain the defend-of explosives, 900-the-of-2AM flucht her in again for the pur-

by the opium, and 300 taels of pre-Dose of having something to shaw of the public that Motor Car em- who ant

of pared opium. The presence of the the Shanghai peuple. I will be aged Number Plates Nos. 301--

height and Court ID

500 and Motor Cycle Number) these manera from controlling explosives lends support to theiseen

overview that the arms were intended price there is not a great deal of Plates Nos. 201-300.can be obtain or exercising authority the same until he shall have for use by Kwangtung Revolu- difference between these ponies ed on application at the Licensing a favour and the China animals: in facts Office. Central Police Station. compromised the proceedings tionists, who awaited with the plaintin, which would able cecasion to take possession the matter of price is in favour. The price is $1.00 per plate.

of them be improper and illegal and breach of trust,, the plaintif having no interest therein.

✡

is be

found

2

truplee

A POUTIAL AFFAIR.

of the dump.

Mr.legal foundation

out of Pickaninoy

that

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DINNER DANCE FROM 5 P.M.

As from today, all preliminary SATURDAY, MAY 29th. notices of forthcoming meetings. lectures and entertainments, sent TEA DANSANT FROM TO

MOTOR CAR & CYCLE NUMBER PLATES.

the

P.M.

NOTICE.

LOST.

Co

LOST.-Leather Attache Case

WANTED.-European Chem-

Rapulse Bay, on Mondayist and Druggist as locam for a afternoon. containing silver- mounted Mirror-initials engray-few weeks, afternoons and even- [ed "M.Z.C."-silver Powder Box,ings. Apply, The Pharmacy.

Bathing Kit and various other articles. Will Linder kindly re turn to Mrs. Conner, No. 1 Basiles;

WANTED. - Competent stenda Terrace, Lyttleton Road. Hong-typist, many years experience kong? Suitable reward.

open for immediata engagement. Capable correspondent and code expert, conversant with filing and office work. Apply Box 359 clo

Hongkong Telegraph."

FOR SALE

Indian spring FOR SALE. "Chief Petty Officer Edwin frame power plus. Motor Cycles Harris, HMS "Tamar" why bought 1915 new, with camion-

been the recipient fable side rar, fitted hood, wind-i has

WANTED.-European Nursery numerons presents on his recens screen &c. Guaranteed in per- promotion, desires to heartily fect condition. $450.00. Apply Governess for two girls by family thank the donors.

Box 364 's Hongkong Tele-Jon Peak from early June. Apply

P. O. Box No. 6. Graph.".

NOTICE.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY

LIMITED.

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at No. 45 Lyndhurst Terrace

NOTICE.

THE MACAO HARBOUR BOARD.

Supply of stories faced at the sides for the pavement of the Patent Slip by the jetty # Patana, Macao.

Tenders will be received for 30 days from this date for the supply

faced at sides of the pavement of the Patent Slip by the jetty at Palane, Macao

+

PUBLIC AUCTION.

NOTICE is hereby given tha: T

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public the Annual Ordinary General, Mr. Kelley is certain that he P. P. J. WODEHOUSE,

Meeting of Shareholders of the Auction on. above Company will be held at the Wednesday, the 16th May, 1970 can supply subscription" ponies tapt air Superintendent Police

Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on forth in5nitely better quality than!

bought Hongkong, 20th May. 1920.

Saturday the 29th May 1920 as Mr. S. Fessenden and

If Shanghai

11.30 am, for the purpose of re- Reader Harris appeared in suo ceaune to justity the continuatre anything that can he

the port of the motion and Mr. R. Sof the injunction, the out ought from the North.

matter favourable The new programme arranged ceiving the Report of the Directors Inut to make it what it now gives Magleod represented plaintiff.

or attention, it would seem that by the Hongkong Theatre is most together with a Statement of AA Quantity of Valuable Household of $4.50 lineal meters of stones

Furniture comprising: appeared the, u mie

thing. The Hongkong is almost bound to attractive. The main feature is a counts for the year ending 30.h iless permanent

Teak batatand, plush covered mat follow suc

fine picture-play, “Jim Bludso." April 1920. in which Wilfred Lucas takes The Transter Books of Die drawing root saites, fer engrav Mr. Fessenden, addressing the Court. BrUDEIGN

the injunction

the leading role. The play Company will be closed from ings, water colours, offasional Court in support of the motion. by continuing

for a time the parties might be

poems Tuesday the 4th day of May to tables, bronze figures, brass flower said, the whole question, was

Hay.Monday the 1st day of May 1920 pois, brass and brass mounted political uneand was not properly brought together and presure pur would be done by leasing the is adapted from

State during | bort days inclusive.

fenders, white lace curtains, car within the jurisdiction of the on them to settle the matter, barmones in the back, but that was of

President Court. These were trust funds its action had had precisely then a principle which should Secretary

McKinley's adminiJOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON pels, rugs, etc. etc. traclon. and tells the story, in

General Managers.

Teak extension dining chairs.

The Tenders will be opened ac and should be administered as opposite effect. As far as he could influence the case.

teak sideboard with bevelled mir-the Flora Palace" to Macao, on must realistic fashion, of how an

Hongkong. 19th May, 1920. engineer sacrifices his life that

ror, teak dinner waggon, marble the 8th June 1920 at 3 p.m. others may live and be happy.

clock. leather covered armchairs.

In order to be admitted to will be shown at

teak overmantel with berelled tender, a provisional deposit of mirror. brass electric standard $200,00 must be made with the This film

the lamp, electric fittings, etc.

Banco Ditramarino" to Glass, Crockery and Electric-order of the Harbour Board, up Double Stuns bedsteads. teak the tenders. plated ware, Household linen etc. to the eve day for the opening of

double wardrobes with bevelled glass doors, teak marble to bureaux, marble and tiled #go?

A SIMPLE AFFAIR OF "PROPERTY.

such according to the rules of laxa-certain there was no present generally applicable to trust funds. Prospect of the case being settled It was admitted that the funds if the injunction were continued. were deposited with Dr. Wu.Ting-the parties resenting what they! fang by the Peking tiovernment considered to be an interference Court on behalf of plaintiff, said

Mr. Macleol. addressing the

the late John

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

By order of the Mortgagees

received instructions to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Messrs. Lammert Brothers bave

etr.

He did not Friday the 10th day of May, 1920sands, Indies desks, upholstered

at 3 p.n

concbes and easy chairs, toilet crockery, Japanese silk embroid-i ered screens, etc. etc.

Requisites

Bathroom. Pantry and Kiteben

Also A-Fine Selection of Canton

Blackwood ware

comprising:

-The specifications and forms of tender may be seen at the Office of the Harbour Works, every working day from 10 am to "I p.m." and "from 230 ̄pom. "to"

5 p.m.

Office of the Macau Harbour Board.

-Macao Bih May, 1920

Secretary to the Harter Board ̈·

NOTICE.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

**Larsen Subscription Griffins,

Lists for intending subcribers

to the above are now posted at Marble tomond round tables, the Race-course, the Hongkong

as trust funds, and there was no with their own rights afif prero- a great deal had been heard con- matinee and night periösmaares

political rights and up to Friday night. It was con-verning allegation in the petition of any gative in the matter. misuse of the fund. He would trary to all modern policy that a privileges, but the defendant was go further and say that the Court should lend itself to inter-mot sved in connexion with any plaintiff would notdare to sugges: ference in a political dispute of political right or privilege at all. Government, and whether or no In the absence of any Defendant had in his hands or there was a quorum now, a Canton raisuse or misappropriation. The this kind only matter in dispute ans us to charges against Dr. Wn, the in-under his control a very large Government bad got to be found which party WR entitled to terests of public policy and of the sum of money, and it was in some day. His client had made eustody of the moneg, and this Chinese people themselves de-respect of that money that he was an offer of a settlement, but had was a purely political question,manded that he should continue being sued. Had Dr. Wu te received no answer.

Ato hold his office until removed by mained in Hongkong he would suggest that defendant was wrong nat legal one at all.

at their Sales Rooms Duddell the previous hearing the Court some legally constituted hody, have been sued there. He was in not accepting the offer, bur on coming mentioned this to show that they

Street. Victoria. Hongkong. Bo au-which certainly was not the Mix-sued in that court stated that it had

Counsel went on to

The following valuable lease- thority to decide whether or noted Court. Unless the Court was to Shanghai because it was the were trying to find a solation of

assume the respon-only crour: baring jurisdiction. the matter. plaintiE was the proper repre- willing tre sentative si the Military - Isibility of deciding the merits of Without deciding the point, the say that the Canton Parliament hold property situate at Victoria Southern Government. It also the Cafe, if trut no right onder Cried suited for prenapel hall had a meeting and had elected in the Colony of Hoogkong Viz:- ound situate grat Victoria afore- took the position that it was not any existing recognized law or purposes that plaintiff was the three men to take the places All that piece=or pascol ail within the province of the Court public policy to grant what was representative of the Southern Mr. Sun Yat-sen.

Mr. Reader Harris objected to said registered in the Land Office to decide whether Dr. Wu was orjia effect at a permanes: injune-Government. It could not be dis-

unted that as a whole that govern the information being given, and an Inland Lot No. 346 together was not the Minister of Finance tion.

ment was the trustee of thismoney. the Court sustained the objection. with the messuage erected there

on known as No. 15 Mosque armchairs, THE QUESTION OF TITLEM

The money was entrusted to the

DECISION, RESERVED. Street. Victoris aforesaid. Term etc. Mr. Reader Harris argued that Government, not to the defendant. rbis nature. He

Mr. Macleod, in the course of 999 years created by a Crown ventured to suggest that the the Court had no right to take and he had been given control of Court had interfered in a purely sides in a political dispute. He the money, hot not of its expendi- further remarks, observed that Lease thereof dated 11th April

There was no question of Dr. Wo had dislocated every-1855. Annual Crown Rent $1.24. by Rachalst Chinese political question. From pointed out that an injunction tore.

For further particulars and the foreign point of view it was could only be granted at the misappropriation, asing the word thing by leaving Canton, and had Area 1,440 square feet.

his colleagues wishes. If

conditions of sale apply to not matter ef extreme import-stance of a party having su in its ordinary sense. but techni-not paid the slightest attention:

interest in the relief sought, bot cally, any use defendant made to alore who held the modey.

JOHNSON, STOKES & But from the Chinese point plaintiff was a stranger to this now of this money in opposition there was no other solution, the fund and had no interest in it. to the wishes of his colleagues in Canton Parliament must meet brought a of view, the case matter concerning the Chinese He had shown no title, and the the Government would be a mis- and deal with the question, and people and their government Court had said that it would not application. Dr. Wo did not sug- obejously the Parliament must within the purview of a Court decide his title. In the absence of gest that he could do what he bave time to meet. Council coo- which was not purely Chinese decision on that point, which liked with the money whilst be cluded that if the injunction and bad a foreign element in its went to the root of the matter, was in Canton, but he did suggest discharged on the ground of lack the plaintiff application ought that now he was in Shanghai he of evidence. he must claim the Constitution.

to be dismissed. A decision should was entitled to do as he liked with right to be given an opportunity not have been given in the it. This was not a political ques to make out a cafe. absence of evidence on the vital tion at all. It was a legal ques Mr Reader Harris briefly re- The Court tion as to the control of the money.plied, and the Cours reserved its issues of the case. probably thought that no harm Te money belonged to the Canton decision.

of that Government. The Court declined to receive evidence on points' of

AGREEMENT.

INJUNCTION PREVENTING Counsel suggested that unless strong ressons based on some

MASTER

Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street. Elongkong Solicitors for the Mortgagees

or to Messrs. LAMMERT BROS. The Auctioneers. Hongkong, 14th May. 1920.

per stands, stools

And

Jockey Club Offices and The Hongkong Club.

2 Kastner Auropianos (Pianos subacribed for reach a total of

Gondge

5 electric ceiling fans 4 electric table fand

Should the number of ponies

this.or more, the Stewards will adequately provide for same in. Cottage Piano by Farrell and next year'a Programme. It is proposed to arrange that the

in ponies arrive

Hongkong during the month of October

In order to make the racing | open as possible no subscribe. shall be permitted to take » financial interest in more tha two of these ponies, the cost of which will probably not exceed | $300 landedẫn Hongkongz

her Order,

1 enamelled bath

"Baldwin" Refrigerator. Chubb's Combination safe On view from Monday, the 24th inst

Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers

Acting

15'

W. GEGG.

-the Course

MUSTARD & CO.

MAGNETIC

STOVES RANGES

wand HEATERS

TEL. NO. 1186.