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A BROKEN SEAT,

SIR KOWARD PEARCE

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And a Lying Gardener.

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The conduct of a gardener who Sir Edward Peace, Chairman. When, more than fifty years attempted to shift the responsibi.of the Shanghai Municipal Couo-ago, the Duke of Argy!! married. lity a broken seat on to acil, presented the address to the the Princess Louise, daughter of Portuguese schoolboy by a dis-Prince of Wales on behalf of Queen Victoria, he was reverting tortion of the facts, whilst the Treaty Ports at the reception to a precedent last fallowed more giving evidence in the witness bere last week. His Royal High-than fivo canturies before, for the bar, came in for censure by ness apprised the Treaty Port last occasion on which a subject the Magistrate this morning, representative that the King had had married the daughter of the when Henrique Pinna, the decided to confer a knighthood reigning Sovereign in England lad in question, was

charged upon him.

had been in 1359, when King with damaging

When Sir Edward Pearce re-Edward I. gave his youngest a seat at the Botanical Gardens to the extent feeived the freedom of the city he daughter Margaret to Joha

said that he regarded it as & com- Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. pliment not so much to himself The gardener said that yester-las to the Council. And when a marrying a King's daughter in To find the last precedent for day six or seven boys were on one few days ago he was decorated England it of the iron benches in the with the cross of the Legion ofsary

was only Gardens, and when they rose he Honour, he said, at a luncheon 1515, when the young widow

back saw a number of them take hold given in his honour, that he look of King Louis XII. of France in of it and turn it over on its backed on it as a tribute to the British sisted on marrying the Englis The two front legs of the sea community. That, of course, is Ambassador in Paris, Charles were snapped in hälves.

just Sir Edward's modest way. Brandon Duke of Suffolk. al- Mr. R.E Lindsell asked how and neither the British commun-though she had been married by this could be. and Mr. Spinks,ity nor the Council would for an proxy to the King of the Romans ap officer of the Forestry and instant arrogate to themselves one and he still had one wife living Botanical Department, said that tittle of the honours so justly his.sthough the death of a second it was possible that the breakage At the same time the knighthood had left him partly & widower. might have been caused by the conferred upon bim has a mean-It was, however, a genuine mar legs coming violently into contacting for the British community on riage of affection, and King with the concrete surface of the which it is worth while to reflect. Henry VIII. had agreed that his ground. The legs

of It means that public services even sister should have her own way cast-iron and hat been cast in this far distant part of the as a widow when she sacrificed together with the body. To globe are observed and recogniz herself to serve Wolsey's polies repair the damage would mesofed and in this way it may well by becoming Queen at the age the entire recasting of one bench, prove an inspiration to others of 15 of the elderly King of France. This would entail a sum of $10 and no: $5 which Mr. Green, the brad of the Department, estimat ed the probable damage.

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King Edward II. did not reign (SHANGHAI'S ELECTRICAL not, of course, mean that anyone the Conqueat that the marriage daughters married, although the will put up

for the Council of a King's daughter to a subject second, the Lady Joan of the with the deliberate idea of lin this country took place Tower, found a husband at the getting a knightboed or The gardener, in reply

the was when King Henry II's

Net Profit over T.1,000,000. toireedom of the city. But it sister

age of seven! further questions regarding the is an encouragement in the dusty Lady Eleanor had been promised was the bride. The the breakage, gave the explana-path of public duty to feel that to the all-powerful William Margare, fifth daughter of King and industrial centre is evidenced The wedding of the Lady Mar-Settlement both as a residential The remarkable growth of the tion that the sea: swayed back patient bearing of the white shal Earl of Pembroke in hopes Edward 11, to John Hastings, into position before finally rolling man's burden does not go unre of securing his support for the Earl of Pembroke, in 1359 failed in the annual report of the Muni- completely over. I was due marked at Home.

young King, whose throne had to turn the bad luck of that cluded in Part three of the Mozi- to the contact of the front legs

cipal Electricity Department, in- It is rather important to dwell been menaced by a French Pre-fortunate but gallant warrior. the ground with that they gave on thoughts of this kind at the tender and factious Barons, and He lost Way..

his 13-year-old cipal Council 1921 report. present time, when there appears when the wedding took place she Countess before she The defendant, whose age is an increasing disinclination for was Daly 10 years old. Widowed was defeated by the French, thirteen, denied Eaving been respublic service of any kind. That at 15, the Countess of Pembroke. taken prisoner by the Spaniards ponsible for the breakage. He applies not only to the Council who was on the point of becom-after a long sea tigh, and is said he was not one of those who but in volunteering, national ing a nun, was suddenly married believed to have died of poison upset the seat. He caught the societies and public institutions by the King in 1235 to a young and few days after the payment of the wrong persan," continued the de-of all sorts. Committee men and handsome French favourite Simon first substantial instalment of a fendant. indicating the witness. | chairmen are certainly to belde Montfort, who was soon invest-beavy ransom. "He caught me by the neck as if found without rauch apparented with the Earidom of Leicester. I was a thief."

d:culty. But when we begin 10 He afterwards became a mostim- THE SIRE DE COUCY. "Well" queried bis Worshp.

look over the list of names, it is pertant figüre in the Coustitu. curious to note how many of tional development of Parliament, The response came with force,them appear to have been doing and foally was killed when in **I object to that."

the same so: of work in one arms against his brother-in-law His Worship:--Oh, you object, direction or another for years at the Battle of Esesham. do you? It is not a question of past. It would seem as if there whether you object or not. It is were one set of men to whom his day to arrest persons for everybody turned for the doing committing offences against the of administrative jobs and that the law. Your abjection does not set in spite of the growth of the come into the case. Have you population generally, has hardly got any witneszes?

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NET PROFIT IS OVER TAELS 1.000,000.

Contribution to muni-

cipal funds Equalisation account General reserve...

Balance forward

Tis.

625,000 104,900! 318,500 225

Department for the year armount- Capital outlay of the Electricity ed to Tis. 20,1,159 and on plant actually in operation the capital outlay was Tls. 17,654.- 556. Some indication of the progress and development made many elements of romance. When in the past two decades is to be The next Royal marriage had in the International Settlement King John II. of France, taken gathered from the fact that the prisoner by the Black Prince at capital of the Electricity De Poitiers in 1355. returned to partment twenty years ago was THE GLOUCESTER MARRIAGE.

France in 1350 he sent bostages Tls. 254,526. The return оп The first occasion on which the for the due falfilment of the capital outlay at the end of 1921 signing ing gave his own conditions of release. One of these on plant in operation was 10.53 daughter to a subject was in 1290 was Enguerrand, Ste da Cucy,per cent, as against 10.34 per cent. the Lady Joan, who had been King Edward developed a strong when King Edward I. married whose mother was a Hapsburg. in 1930. increased in size at all.

We born at Acre, in Palestine, while liking for the French hostage and The question was nutely re assume, conveniently that they plied to be an indication in the like delas such work, although her parents were on Crusade, to did his beat to persuade him to be- direction where a number of other i

Gilbert of Clare Earl of Glou-come one of his awa subjects. He is rather a big assumption.

The gross profit of the depart schoolboys, scarcely bigger than Sut

thing at least iscester and Hertford. The Princave him his daughter, the Lady ment for the year was Tls. 1,563- the defendant, were sitting. certain, namely, that they

and had been Isabella of Woodstock, to wife 610 and the net profit after The defendant's father.

betrothed to the King of Romans.in 1365, invested him with the provision for interest on loans) GD meeris reward Mr. Pinna, living at No. 24 B-lilios

son of the Empero: Rudolf of Garter in 1366, and made him and depreciation was Tis. 1,047,- D: 12. On the contrary. Terrace,

Hapshorg. asked permission to pod

ill-natured things Imany

The Austrian bad. Earl of Bedford later in the year. 508. The estimated net profit make a statement on behalf of his are often said of them. There however, died, and King Edward: The Sire de Concy politely a was Tis. 1,029,816. From 1916 son. He said that he could explain is a certain clique, one hears, means of this new marriage. quiesced in the wishes of his to the end of 1921 the sam of better than

This Caption the that wants to run everything hoped to secure the loyalty and father-in-law, but when Richard, Tie. 2,170,000 has been turned facts, which were that

and nobody else is allowed to support of the formidable Glou-11. became King he renounced his over to the Council's general cester. who had been in arms English honoars and left his wife funds out of electricity profits. Pinna was not the person respon. have a chance. It is a fair qges- sible for the damage. From what tien how many have tried to against him and had but recently and one daughter, who was to be The 1921 profts are to be ap his son revealed to him last night, a chance, how many of the Lusignan and at times refused to Duchess of Irelsad, in England,

divorced the King's niece Alais de come Countess of Oxford andpropriated as follows: it appeared that young Pinna was Krumblers have ever shown the not one of those who upset the slightest disposition to do a pas taxes. The wedding, although while he returned to his native saat. Having a clear conscience hand's turn, as the saying is, for successful did not entirely the country. There he rose to be in regard to this he did not run the community at large, even that in the following year the a crusade against the Turks, was the great noblemen, and we learn Marshal of France, embarked on away as the other bars did, the extent of attending at the King fourd it necessary to fine taken prisoner at the battle of ba: stood

bis son-in-law very heavily (about Nicopolis, and died in Brusa, then τα gee what woul happen, which they belong, or of studying when the gardecer came up and the annual reports of municipal 150,000 of our money) for having the Ottoman capital, in 1367.

Total

...Tis. 1,948,525 conducted a private war with grabbed him by the neck. The departments which they are so his neighbour the Earl of Here-

According to the report the gardener then freed him to sat ready to criticize.

Thereafter, until the reign of estimated net profi: for the cur ford, devastating Breconshire in Queen Victoria, no Sovereign's rent year is Tis. 1. 151,818, which These the upturned seat on its lege, and

are eerious questions,

the process. whilst this was being done, the because Shanghai is becoming a

daughter was married to a subject would eat another new mark. When the Countess of Glou-during the rein, but it fell to the man gave the boy a jerk, with the very big ba-iness for the manage.

THE SETTLEMENT'S GROWTH. result that the latter had to relin- ment of the few men who are ceater became a widow at the aze careful King Henry VIL to quish his hold on the seat before willing to give their services un-of 23 she secretly married Ralph marry off his three sisters-in-law, Indicating how really extensive it had been properly not on its paid to it. Fifteen years ago de Monthermer, handsome daughters of King Edward IV, to Shanghai's electrical equipment leg. The impart which resulted when the Budget first passed the squire who had been in her hus-discreet and unambitious men now has become a comparative when the front les descente on two milliontal mark it occasion- band's service. The King was who would not be likely to aspire table is included in the report the ground causari the breakage.ed far more comment than now furious as soon as he knew of this to a Crown Matrimonial in right showing the output of the five when it exceeds six and a half. and imprisoned his new son-in-of their wives. Thus the Lady largest municipally owned plants Henrique Augustus Ribeiro. These facts are trpical of the law, but, after a little, yielded to Anne Plantagenet was married in Great Britain and it may come who next went into the witness enormous growth of Shanghai: bis daughter's persuasion and no: in 1495 to Thomas Lord Howard, as a surprise by some to learn box, caid that he was # St. of the proportionately greater only released the young man but afterwards famous as the victor that Shanghai in 1921 sold very Joseph's College boy.

need of public interest in its summoned him to Parliament of Flodden, as Earl of Sarry, as nearly as much electricity as was His Worship: Were you one affairs: and, unhappily, of the in his wife's Earldom, made him Lond High Admiral, Lord High Bold in the city of Manchester, of the boys that kaöcked over the growing indifference to them that a Privy Councillor, and invested Treasurer, Lord High Stewerd, which bas the largest municipal,

becomes visible among men of the him with a variety of lucrative Earl Marshal, and as the Duke of plant in Great Britain.

In this Witness replied that six or type that are wanted to carry on appointments.

Norfolk who so narrowly escaped connection the report sets forth seven other bags did it; not be. the burden sanely and soberly. It So useful had the Gloucester to the unexpected accession of partment now is supplying cur- decapitation in the Tower owing that Shanghai's Electricity De- He did not run away as the is often said that Shangosi has marriage been to the King's King Edward VI. others did, but walked away from outgrown its system of govern-policy of getting control of the

rent 33:334 premises... the

From а distance Cent. But this is not nearly so great fiefs that in 1302 he gave The Lady Cecily Plantagenet At the end of the year the de- he Saw what took place true as that the average resident his daughter, the Lady Elisabeth was given to the Lord Viscount partment's foreign staff number- hetween the gardener and the has failed to keep pace with the of Rhuddlan, the 20-year old Welles, K.G., one of those who ed 135 and the Chinese staff defendant. He corroborated the expansion of the town. The Land widow of the Count of Holland, had supported the Earl of Rich-2,797, increases over the end of statement which the defendant Regulations provide a surprising whom she had married when 15, mond in arms and had helped him the preceding year of 30 and 590 made that the legs of the seat ly flexible and elastic instrument to Humphrey de Bohuo, Earl of to become King Henry VII. on respectively. In the course of were broken when the gardener of government that will last for a Hereford and Essex and Lord Bosworth Field. Sir William the year the net sales of electri- made the defendant restore it to long time yet, if there are men of High Constable of England. As Courtenay, son of the Earl of city for all purposes increased its proper position.

the right kind available to work in the case of Gloucester, all his Devon, was selected as the hus from 144,539,632 units in 1920 to The Magistrate (to

it-North China Daily News. honours and estates were sur band the

of "the Lady Katherine 185,351,746 and follows: gardener): Is this true, that you

rendered, to be regranted to him Plantagenet in 1495, but soon fell Private lighting sales, 10.61 made the boy push back the seat?

and his wife jointly and out of favour, as his suspicious per cent; public lighting, 17.07 Is it not a rather heavy seat to direct contradiction to the state their children. The Earl was brother-in-law imagined that be per cent; heating and cooking. mske one small boy push back?ment he previously made in the somewhat unfortunate in war, was plotting treason. The un- 5.79 percent; power, 32.57 per

The gardener-He had

being taken prisoner by the fortunate young man was im- cent; and traction 6.06 per cent. assistance.

Mr. Spinks, in reply to an ob- Scots (to be exchanged against prisoned in the Tower and The report states that expecta servation by the Magistrate, said King Robert Bruce's Queen, held atteinted, and only just lived long tions regarding the increase of The gardener finally had to that he was.not informed of this, captive by the English), and was enough to recover his liberty and demand for new industrial admit that the lags were broken the report made by the gardener killed in battle at Borougbridge honours from his cephew King enterprises in 1921 fall below whilst the seat was being return to him in his office heing entirely in 1322 when in arms against his Henry VIII. dying, 8000 after a estimate, but the demand for ed to its position by the boy different.

brother-in-law, King Edward II., magnificent tournament, in which current from enterprises already under his direction. This was in The defendant was discharged and that Prince's favourites. he played & principal part in in operation exceeded expecta

1511. His widow became a nun. tions by a notable figure.

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