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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1928.

HERRING HALL MARVIN onjoy under the British flag, and

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The installation of a Herrlig Hall Marvin Vault Door fa s form of insurance which cannot be duplicated. The name itself is the best proof of the hi-h quality of the product-the loader of, its kind for over three quartere of a century.

in this way they help to maintain the friendly relations which

DAY BY DAY.

THE BLUE OF HEAVEN. IN

for so long have existed between LARGER THAN THE CLOUD.- Britain and Portugal.

Browning.

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day was 28. 4.9/160.

All too feldopi do we think of the ossential and important part which the Portuguese of Hong- kong play in the commercial and

A Chinese case of diphtheria social life of the Colony. They fill was reported on Wednesday,

a most valuable role in the sphero

of business, and we know them to here yesterday by the .s. Pres Madamy Sun Yat-son arrived be citizens of the very best typo.]ident Lincoln. So Mr. Fletcher, when he took the opportunity to express thanks to-morrow is: N.. winds, mode. The Observatory forecast for for what the Portuguese have rate to frosh; fair. done in helping the Government on innumerable occasions was not uttering mero platitudos. He spoke for and, on behalf of the authorities, and we are sure that

The P. & O. 9.8, Kalyan, from Hongkong, arrived in London on the 6th January, at 9 a.m.

ATHERLEY CASE.

(Continued from Pago Fi

BORROWING IN ADVANCE

Did you ever borrow money from the compradore?-Borrow my own

antary Fhave.

you received such a large amount from the Manager-I would leave it in the safe if it was too late to bank it on that day.

But you ultimately banked it? Yes.

Witness was asked to look through the counterfoil of the bank paying-in book for the amount for the 22nd and sub- Did you borrow from him?-No. scquent dates, but he was unablö What do you mean by borrowing to discover the amount your salary?--Sometimes befors due date I had advances.

Counsel: Now, Mr. Cheung, I put it to you specifically that the Did your advancus, sometimes Manager on the 22nd April gave, run into months? Sometimes you a cheque for $1.949.09. have borrowed one or two month Witness:I have forgotten." ahead.

I put it to you that the cheque You never happened to borrow was in respect of 1.0.U.'s and your salary a whole year before OK,'d bills? Perhaps it may be due-No, never;

80,

Questioned in regard to the com. Take Exhibit "B." Will you tera pradore books, witness said that the to the date of the 16th - April? only books in which he made] Have you got collections for the entrion were the book Exhibit "B16th April in your book-Yesj Stan Hill's football cartoon ap-find the Disbursement Book, He From whom did you get that col his words will find general approba-pearing in to-morrow's Telegraph made all the entries in the book action? From Mr. Atherley!

will don! with the Club v. South "B." The only entries in the You told us yesterday, that you tion, and nowhere more so than Chine match.

|Disbursement Book concerned deposited against that amount a amongst British residents, who

commission of the compradore, sum of $64.93 in cash, a cheque cor know the trio value of the large

the expenses of the department $743.55, making this total of. wnges of compradore staff and $1.140.60 and another cheque for SPECIFICATIONS AND PR CES Portuguese community to the

Mr. Zeitlyn:-Were entrica of $1,949.09. You sald you deposited loans to anybody made?-No; we these sums against draft No. only look scknowledgements,

23/10457-Yes

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FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1926.

A MERITED TRIBUTE.

As was only to be expézted, the Hon. Mr. Fletcher, at the recep-

Colony,

Big Development.

Australian mails, left Manila on The . St. Albans, with the the ovening of the 6th instant, and is due here lo-morrow morning.

Amongst the passengers who

The tremendous activity which yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. returned by the President Lincoln

·

Yes,

Why did you deposit that agair Traft 23/1045, when in fact it was leposited against the three items? -I was told by the manager to do

30.

Did many people borrow money? -not outsiders; only the fokis.

Were post-dated cheques cashed?]

Do you remember a book-keeper named Joseph? Yes."

Witness was directed to look up.. He left in February, 1928 the entries for April 16th in Exhi

bit "B,"

Counsel-What were your total. collections on that day?--In here it is stated as being $1,949.09.

From whom did you collect that

books that the collections came?

From whom was it shown in the

the development of the outlying Walker. is to be noted in connection with Arthur Leach, and Mr. George A.No. portions of Kowloon and Yaumati. gives the lie direct to any who

Major L. Cussel. O.B.E., and! state that tho present stress has put a stop to the growth of the Mrs. Cassel, who are on a visit to Colony. From Kowloon City to Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. Messer at 275, the Colony, are staying with the Laichikok-right along the foot- hills and in the area shorewards- there is a transformation scene being enacted which must be un-i procedented in the annals of the elsewhere shows that the Hong-Yes Colony Hills are being removed,kong Philharmonic Society are

The Peak.

His place being taken by a Mr. Humphreys?-Yes,

Advances were made to Hum-

An advertisement appearing phreys and he left without paying amount?-From Mr. Atherley.... Whose money did he borrow?

low-lying plots are being raisod, 20king the services of an honor. It belonged to Mr. Wang, the rhere is nothing in the book to.

reclamations are being filled in,ary Musical Director, and houses are springing up in]:

guarantor,

how where the collections came 'rom

The money was eventually paid by the firm nu a special favouri— don't know anything about the

His Lordship inspécted the favour. It was repaid. I do not book and confirmed that there were no particulars except that After Joseph had left, did Mr. 28/1049 with the amount of twas entered against draft Atherley personally take charge of retiring drafts?-i do not know, 1

51,045.09.. never took any interest in what was going on in the office.

parallel lines which reveal a Major General C. C. Luard, the close conformity to. a. well-General Officer Conimanding, re- lion given him at the Club du considered develpment plan. And turned from Home by the P. & O. Recroin on Wednesday evening, the great thing about it all is the liner Mulwa to-day, having em-know who paid it. tock occasion to refer to the loyal fact that it is Chinese enterprise barked at Marseilles. manner in which members of the the development. It is true that which is largely responsible for

The forthcoming wodding is Portuguese community have in the Government is doing a con- annquneed of Mr. William Henry variably come to the aid of the siderable amount of work as Bowler, of Wellington Barraoke, Governmont in times of stross but the building of houses and man, residing at No. 371, The regards rond making and filling. to Miss Lily Mary Anne Peach- He asserted that that the Govern-shops represents the investment Peak. ment owed very much to the of Chinese money, which is a fact

Among the passengers due to handed Portuguese of the Colony, laying of the greatest significance. Even

in the small village of Chaung arrive on the Hakone Maru, which exchange in respect of the note. examining the counterfoil of the particular stress on the services Sha Wan, formerly just a knot of left London on December 5, ara After several questions leading up they had rendered during the farmers huts, there are How Dr. V. Early, Mr. H. Hampton,

ay you deposited in the bank a Counsel (to witnear)-Did you

that he wanted to get from witness

Mr. Zeitlyn went on to explain cheque for that amount here.

heque for $1,949.097-I don't see

that two days before promissory ness if a deposit was

Counsel was going to ask wit- notes were falling due Atherley was that day for the amount in ques

made on statement covering] tion, when his Lordship, who was

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bank paying-in book, observed that

he saw a sum and two different theques given therein.

houses. It is some two or three child, Mr. R. Rennett, Mr. G. G. WITNESS ASKED TO WRITE which have taken place since that years ago since the intensive de Wood.

ATHERLET'S SIGNATURE.

Counsel, in pursuance

of his [time. This ready acknowledgment volopment of all this New Kow-

Mr. Zeitlyn: Do you know previous question, asked witness? of help, willingly offered and loon district commenced and Passengers leaving by the Em-Atterley's paying-in book? Yes. Did you make a, deposit in the

there was a prophecy made that press of Asia to day included Mr. I have seen it. gladly accepted, was very timely within a few years this portion of P. A. Cox, Mr. A. H. Lay, Mr. J.

bank on the 17th April for $1,049,- and we know that it is much the mainland would be peopled L. MacPherson, Mr. P. W. Mas.

Who kept it? It was kept.by the 09-Yes, I did pay that amount

into the bank on that day.. manager himself. appreciated by the Portuguese by thousands of Chinose living sey. Mr. C. E. Peacock, Mr. and

on the new industrial undertak Mrs. B. A. Proulx and Mr. R. R. here interrupted with a statement wall he gave me that amount on A Chinese member of the jury celved $1,949.09 on the 16th- And you told us that you re- community.

ings which would be attracted to Roxburgh, Whilst residents generally are the district. It may be that the

that the interpreter had not kiven the 16th, but as it was too late wall able to recall the excellent complete fulfilment of that pre-

alteral interpretation. He stated in that day, I left it in the safe Eight arrivals and nine de- diction has been somewhat de-partures constituted the move-

that witness had said "It was given and paid it into the bank on the work done by the Police Reserve layed by recent events, but it is ment of shipping in Hongkong back to the manager."

Further following day, in Hongkong during the war, undoubtedly certain that within yesterday. The total number of questioning of the witness failed there must be many to whom it a few years from now there will vessels in port, this morning at to make clear what he had original by one great and continuous nine o'clock was seventy-three, of ly aaid "though he stated that it will come as news that during its township, industrial and residen-which thirty-six were British. was, in the manager's custody. lengthy, period of existence this tial, extending over the whole of

cast.

Kowloon City,

"

Mr. Zeitlyn, addressing

sjon.

or by cash and cheque?--Paid as How was that paid? By cash stated here in the counterfoil.

How did your manager pay you his back advances made to him, was

Was

body rose to a strength of some the triangular aren between A Harbour Office notification Lordship, asked whether it would it by cheque or cash, or by si hundred officers and men and Laichikok, Kowloon Point and states that it is proposed, to man be a convenient stage for him cheque alone, or by cash alone?

the defence searchlights on Janu- to ask witness to write several When I made the collections from was able to do much of the polic-|

áry 14th at all Stations. The times "J. E. Atherley" and some the customers, sometimes they ing of the Colony at a time when Climate Changes, lights will be on from 6p.m. to 9 figures. large numbers of the regular Force:

were paid by cheques or cash and- Witness went to counsel's table the monies handed to me by Ather- Extremes of climate aro from p.m. approximately and the lights were on active service. This was time to time reported in various will probably be operated once a to do so and Mr. Zeillyn remarked ley were sometimes made up in

week for some timo.

that, curiously enough, although cash or cheque. a purely voluntary organisation, Parts of the world, and it may be there is intense cold, or રા

he had been asked to write J. E. composed of men who, outside heat wave, or excessive rain and

Amongst the passengers who Atherler, witness was writing J. back? Did he pay you by cheque How did Mr. Atherley pay you. business hours, "gave their flooding. This winter has been arrived by the P. & O. liner Edward Atherley.

Mr. Zietlyn then gave witness a In various ways. Either by cash or by cash, or by cheque and.cash? services to the Government. It characterised already by unusual Malwa from Home to-day were

differences of weather, and severe Mrs. Potts, Mr. and Mrs. D. Aus- smaller piece of paper and told him or by cheque and sometimes cash WAS composed af British, gales and heavy rainfall have tin, Mr. and Mr. P. Todd, Mis to write J. E. Atherley with a and cheque, Portuguese, Chinese and Indian been reported recently from A, H. Crook, Capt. G. Byors, Capt. different "A" and much smaller. [contingents, all imbued with the large part of western Europe, D. Milne, Mrs. Rattey, Mr. and After this had been done, Mr. on April 17th, or 16th,-you have I put it to you, Mr. Cheung, that with disastrous floods in Holland, Mrs. T. D. Mudio, Mr. and Mrs. Zeitlyn and Mr. Atherley were seen explained that you paid the amount desiro, to "do their hit during Belgium and France. There was D. L. Lyle, Mrs. Forster, Mr. to compare the signature with a on the 17th as the bank. those anxious days, so far as a prediction not long ago, by Marshall, Mr. D. Lyon, Major they wore able in the particular certain, eminent scientists, that and Mrs. E. O. Alabaster, and document in Mr. Atherley's possca- closed the manager never gave

the 1925-1926 winter would be än Mrs. Gillingham,

you by cash $64.93, or cheque Witness was also asked to write $1,140.60,orcheque $743.56,making sphere in which their lot was unusual one-probably the

In that Force, the coldest for nearly a century. From the Catholic monthly "forty hundred and forty-sevefi" this total of $1949.00 7-He did give Portuguese displayed the keenost They put this down to a cycle. Religious Patria we have received and in figures 303.64, and 14.401.00 these amounts, the first in notes

Mr. Zellyn said he would and the last two in cheques, whon apparently the earth re-a copy its almanoo for 1920, which of interest and it can be said that turns to a position, in relation to is being distributed to subscribers come to the point of getting those The Court at this stage adjourn no section more enthusiastically the sun, appropriate for intense and friends. It contains articles signatures, and figures later.

ed for the tiffin interval," atered into the duties attaching extremes. Investigations have by. His Lorship the Bishop of A DATE AND AN AMOUNT. It membership of the organisa-proved that those periodic cycles Macao, the Vicar General of the

Mr. Zeitlyn, (referring witness and same diocese, and Mrs. A. da to Exhibit "B") With regard to WIDOWS AND ORPHANS, tion. Then, also, during the seemingly there are many of Luz, and amongst the illustrations this $1,949.09, was this paid on racont. strikes, our Portuguess them, of varying length of time. is one of St. Teresa of the Child the 22nd?I have forgotten the The greatest cycle of all probably Josus, surrounded by her sistors. friends again rallied to the call of runs into many centuries, and The design on the cover is the duty when it came, and they accounts for yast limatic work, as in former years, of the wore to be found not only on changes the ovidence of which late Mr. E. H. de Aquino.

survivos in geological romains, special police work but also com-Thus Iceland was at one time ing forward freely to offer them much warmer than it is now, and ditions prevailed in England. solves in connection with the several hundred years ago was a Onco only a surmise, it is now maintenance of essential services comparatively wall-populated and accepted as a fact that the earth had received a cheque for $1,949.09 under the new Wigws and Orphans

pleasant country, Another in: zis cannot be constant, the "tilt"' In fact, it can be said that thero feresting fact is that the world, occasionally altering, but very, cents?-I have forgotten whether Pensions Act, which came inte is no section of the Colony's though its core is presumed to be very slowly. Most of us will be Let this be quite clear, if you The umber of claims received

cparation, on January, 1st. cosmopolitan community more molton but gradually cooling, is glad to know that it will pro-

warmor so far ne surface plimate bably take many centuries more have received such a cheque from 1s 168,000, and the panaigns award- loyal to the cause of pouco and goes than it was thousands of to make a really big change in the manager it would be entered ed. 103,000. The noulications good order than the Portuguese; yours ago, at the dawn of man's the general climate of the world in that book?--It is not certain rejected or withdrawn number

aro no more theory;

date.

Mr. Cheung, if you received a cheque for that amount, would it be entered in that book of yours? Yes, I had received it, I would enter it here (indicating the exhibit)

Did you do so then, when you

I have received it or not..

WORKING OF PENSIONS SCHEME.

London, Jan. 7.. It is learned officially that 806,000 widows and children are hitherto benefiting by pensions

they are ever ready to show their that ice once covered the British that tropical summers might or not.

summers, not, would be in this slip under investigasian are 14,500 in

appreciation of the benefits they Isles, and that Polar winter con-actually grow hotter!

It

What would you do, then, when number-Reuter