NEW MAGISTRACY,
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; FRID. Y. JULY 6, 1923.
$3,000,000 ROMANCE.
Londoner Left Fortune By a Woman.
American
It was predicted that the fringe worn by Lady Elizabeth Bowes-
An astonishing story of a for In the course of our articles on Lyon at the time time of her mér, interpreter st Bow-street the need for police reform, last engagement to the Duke of York Police Court having been left the week, we referred to the urgent would set the fashion in hair vast fortune of an need for & magistrate's court at dressing for the agason. The fringe millionairees, who made a will in Kowloon in order to relieve the is commonly supposed to have his favour four montbe after) officers concerned of much extre, had its origin in the Victorian meeting him in a Rome hotel, has and really unnecessary, work in
Age, and few people realise just been made public. bringing cases for trial. It is that it dates back to ancient with the greatest pleasure, thera- Rome. This can be verified, a cor-
Captain H. L. Zeitun, a modern fore, that we learn of the Govern respondout points out, in the soldier of fortune, whose career is ment's intention to use the present Greek and Roman section of the remanio se that of any charac Yaumati Police Station as British Museum, where a female tor in Botion, is the man who is Magistracy in about two monthe mask, used as
said to have had this amazing A vizor for a time, as soon as the new Yaumati Roman holmst, shows the female,
stroke of luck. station be comploted, which it is brow adorned with a fringe tør- expected to be ja September next minating in two bewitching little
Later, we learn, it is the intea-curls above each ear. Doubtless) tion of the authorities to build the mask represented the fashion permanent magistracy for of that period, which was the Kowloon, most probably next to second century A.D. the new police station at Yaumati
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The site of the present station
will probably then be used for We are now accustomed to the the erection of a market.
amusing critique of the Royal
He is said to have been left-an amount that has been estimated at as much as £3,000,000, under: the will of Mrs. Julia Stone Wood Davies, the daughter of Dr. Will- iam Stone Davies, the millionaire basker of Missouri, who died about eight years ago.
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Captain Zeituo, who is an un- discharged bankrupt, states that The Acting Colonial Secretary, Academy portraits from the if and when he actually comes the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, modern sarturial point of view to into possession of the money, biTHE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. CM. G., who gave the foregoing which the Tailor and Cotter" first care will be to repay his information to a representative of treats its readers every May. creditors with interest. the Telegraph, stated that the Now another professional In his fifty years of life ho has Government had had the idea of journal has been criticising the met with many adventures in many parts of the world. By turn he has allowed the occupations of soldier, inventor, merchant and secretary.
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A clever linguist, he was for sixteen years interpreter at Bow-) stress Police Court, and he is well-known in Wost-end circles.
a magistracy at Kowloon in mind pictures from its own particular for some years.
standpoint. We are told by the Our representative recalled that "British Medical Journal" that in an interview ten days ago the in "The Invocation" one of the Acting Captain Superintendent figures "shows marked deformity of Police said he, personally, of the hip," and that in Mr. de would be delighted to
Glebo's The Sisters" -" the magistracy in Kowloon, but anatomy of one of the sisters is "the question of building one defective and the superasternal
rested entirely with the Govern-notch resembles a pit. The writer There is something of the my. ment, and, so far as he wae also protests against the "corpse aware, there was no intention of like colour" of two of the figures proceeding with one at present. in Mr. Olyn Philpot's * Little Dancer" and enlarged tyroids" in The Colonial Secretary ex- Mr. Groiffenhagen's "The Mesa- plained that corresponde'fice in
age." connection with the new magistracy ind not passed through the Acting Captain Superintendent's hands.
eticism of the East about his life and character, writes a Daily! | Chronicle representativă who bas
met him on several ocossions.
Much of his youth was spent, so his frienda understand, in the Orient, and in his younger days he is said to have inherited and spent a great fortune.
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In January of last year he was in Rome, and there met the lady who subsequently made him the beneficiary under her will.
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The London 'coffee stall' holds an innocent place in fiction. The kcoper is generally painted as a
Very romantic ie the story of being of benevolent humour, how he is said to have been made SIGNED BLANK PAPER. capable both of beneficence and the legatee of the wealthy Mra.
magnauimity. His customers, Daries. C with few exceptions, are dukee "A Moneylender's Clients
on their way home to the early morning from noble festivities; Thatthey wrote their signatures old university. friends of the on blank pieces of paper was the dukes, who meet them by chance story told Mr. Justice Gompertz, and are enabled over a cup of Seized with illness, and a stran in the Summary Court, this morn coffee to tell them how misfortune ger to Italy, she was in ing by the three Chinese clients has dogged their honourable foot awkward plight, when Captain. of an Indian monoglender, when steps through life: gentle Zaitun proffered his services, sued for the amounts on the daughters of pious parents who secured the sick woman the beat 1.0.U.3.
nd at the stall that wise zuid- possible medical attention, and anoe and material bolp denied saw her nursed back to health The claim against the first man them by rich but selfish uncles. and strength. was for $100. Plaintiff said he A snapshot of Sir James Barrie gave him that sum. Defendant protested that he signed a blank
where near Charing Cross was secretary, and four months later, piece of paper and the moner printed got very long ago in a whon in London, made two wills lender advanced him only $40 He thought the Indian would put picture paper; but Sir James in his favour.
Barrie has never done this down $60 on the I.Q.U., he said.
How the wills were made was: In the second case plaintiff the coffee-stall in his published Henry Dollman, of the firm of aristocratic and moral justice to told to the Daily Chronicle by Mr. Again "Holemnly, sincerely and work. Perhaps he knows botter. Messrs. Firth and Co., of Chan- truly declared that he gave hir However that may be, the Tower cery-laue, who was instructed to client $100, the amount on the Bridge magistrate has had to call prepare the documents. document. Again the defence attention to the number of times
are
Grateful for his services, abe
drinking coffee at a stall some offered him abort .15 ber
Mr. Dollman said that the lady
was that only $10 was paid over coffee stalls have figured in recent had given her name za Mrs. Julie and there was nothing on the proceedings at the Tower Bridge Stone Woods Davies, and had told paper when it was signed: This
Court. Several crimes seemed to him she was a millionairese, defendant thought the Indian have been hatched at them, he would put down $50 on the note said; some of them seemed to be Hotel, where she occupied a big She was staying at the Savoy His Honour-How old
the nightly resort of the crimins! suite of rooms," said Mr. Dollman, you?
classes; and it would be well for She was
a pleasant woman- the police to keep an eye on thom. very talkative, but not particular After this hint the literary ly distinctive in appearance." character of the coffee-stall may change.
Defendant:-Fonly two. Haven't you sense enough yet not to sign a blank paper-We are both fokis employed by the same firm.
His Honour: He is not even
of the same nationality.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
"She said apart from cortain charitable bequests to St. Dun- stan's and other institutions and to hospitals, she wished to loave The third defendant was sued Authors, like some other people, all her money to Captain Zoitun, for $160. He also signed a blank are concerned for the protection and I drew up two wille according paper, he said, and received $75. of their interests in broadcastingly. It seems that she had became His Honour believed the three The Society of Authors has estranged from her husband, for defendants stories, and gave passed a resolution, recommend she expressly stated that she judgment for plaintiff for the jing membera nat to give permis- wished him to be cut out of her amounts.defendants had admitted sion for their work to be broad- will, they received, $40, $40, and $75. cast without payment of a fee. As soon as I heard of Mrs. with costs.
lan Hay," who prosided over the Davies' death, which I believe meeting, said the socioty had took place on December 11 of parted company with the last year, we entered a cavent, at, theatrical managers, who wanted Somerset House against any broadcasting stilled as they said one taking any steps to prove it kept people in at night, another will. I have heard that | Authors who held the copyrights the widower of Mrs. Davies] of their works were, in the intends to contest the two wills opinion of the committee, protect in Captain „Zeitna's favour, and jod. by the law. The society that the matter will be fought out |
would be willing to help the in the Missouri courts. British Broadcasting Company if "I understand that most of it paid, a reasonable fee, by sup Mrs. Davie's property was in plying lists of authors willing to America," and I have heard it have their works broadcast, or to stated that the total value of her assist in any other way. The estate may be about £3,000,000. British Broadcasting Company "Personally, I have no know- was not at first prepared to admit lodge of what property she has in that there was any copyright law England, but I have been told by in a broadcasting "turn"; it con- Captain Zeitun that there is about sidered the advertisement was £45,000 lying at a bank. quito sufficient. Eventually, how- "It was necessary for Mrs. The diagram represente a maze ever, it agreed that if an author Davies to make two wille. There of ronde passing through a small would come and broadcast one of had to be one in respect of her park. Can you trace the shortest his own short stories it would pay property in England, and another course from A to B 2.
him fee of five guineas. Mr. in respect of all property sho Yesterday's answer:
Bernard Shaw amused this meet-owned outside this country." If a bam weighed 16 pounds on log by his declaration that en one side of a falsely balanced author who does something for scale, and 9 pounds on the other, nothing in a blackleg. He sug its true weight was 12 pounds. gosted that it would be worth the The correct answer is obtained society's while to, erect its own by multiplying 16X9 which equals wireless and keep a man on night
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