1926-01-16 — Page 20

14

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

J

Telographic Addross: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. felegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI”

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, '

First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor. L'els, K.008 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong. Under the Fersonal Suruvisier ard Management of

FRANK L. COOKE Propoictor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

POENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS, AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR, “ HOTEL LAUNCH MENTS ALL STEAMERS Dentral 373.

Tolographio Address "Vioronya”

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

Terms: A la carte er Inclusive.

Telephone in every room. After-dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. GRILL ROOM.

Telograms Europe Singapore"

Telophone 2740,

ARTHUR E. ODELL,

Managing Director.

TO AMERICA

Booking made on all Trans-Pacific Lines.

Through tickets to any destination in United Ttates or Canada.

Through tickets issued via Suez Route and Europe. All tickets issued at tariff rates.

Overland trips through North China, Korea and Japan arranged.

Baggage and Accident Insurance.

Carry American Express Travellers Cheques.

BY THE

WAY THE

CLUB CAME OUT

OF

THE

PAVILION

ON

For complete information apply,

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., Inc.

4A, Des Voeux Road, Central, Telephone C. 4625

OUR FOOTBALL CARTOON.

SATURDAY

LAST THEY MEANT TO LEAVE

NO STONE, PLAYER UNTURNED

THE RAD

HAVING AT LAST FOUND··

"THE BALL

-AND AS SONE

・OF THE NAVY

HAD BEEN

THROWN OUT

OF THE

GROUND

MAY EVIDENTLY

WANT US

THERES

THE

NAVY

میخور

THEY INHEDIATELY WENT AFTER THEM

WATCH

SCORE!

WIRELESS IN HOSPITALS.

SOME 11,000 BEDS EQUIPPED.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926.

TAIKOO BALL.

THE ATHERLEY TRIAL,

AN ENJOYABLE FUNCTION.

SPEECHES BY COUNSEL YESTERDAY,

Some three hundreds attended) the annual Ball of the Taikco; At the afternoon hearing the Club last ovening, the company speechos for the defence and for Rapid progress is still being including a large number of the prosecution were delivered. made in England with voluntary well-known residents, As in Great Interest was shown in the offorts to provide pationis in formor years, particular atcase and the front public benches! hospitals with wireless apparatus, tention WIB prid to the1

'were crowded with Europeans | enabling them to listen in to the decorations, and the effects evolv- anxious, to witness the closing broadcast programmas.

ed from a scheme of black and scenes of what has been in many

Entertainments.

To-day Only

JACKIE COOGAN

Alroadly sixty-three have boon gold, produced a very harmonious rospecte a remarkable trial, Little Robinson Crusoe

equipped, and fearly 11,000 beds appearance. Tharo Was also Mr. Zeitlyn, for Atherley, said now have had phones allotted, soon a novel illuminated sign the charge consisted of four

A wireless eet oxpressly sti-announcing the dance numbers tabla for the work has been de- which were distinguishable from counts, that the accused on four signed and in use.

all parts of the hall. The function for and on account of Getz Bros., specific days, received four sums Apár from the appreciation of was in very capablo hands, al the patients, the doctors state highly enjoyable time being spent and it was upon those charges that the provention of introspec- by all. tion and the improvement in the spirits of the patients resulting from listening in roduce the aver- hge stay in hospital by about one day in sixtoen.

ARE WE SAFE AT SEA?

NAVY LEAGUE LETTERS PUBLISHED,

He was

If

The QUEEN'S

WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS

Everyman's Wife

AT

The STAR

HOPE HAMPTON

IN

LOVE'S PENALTY

The WORLD

that the jury's verdict must be, Among the 300 guests who During the case they had heard thronged the Olub rooms were Mr. good deal about what his, learn- G. M. Young, the Hon. Mr. P. H. ed, friend called coincidence, Holyoak, Mrs. and the Misses The coincidence had been the pay- Holyoak, Mr. J. Reid, Mr. R. Ming into Athorley's nicount of Dyer, Mr. E. Cock, Mr. G. M. Shaw, cheques similar to cheques paid Mr. S. Baker, Capt. S. Robinson, by him into the Company's në. O.B.E., R.N.R., of the Empress of count.

not concernod Canada, Sir Eric and Lady Staart with whether Atherley knew whe Taylor, Staff-Captain Noyell, ther such sums were in repay- Empress of Canada, and Mr. E. L. ment of particular amounts taken

out of the company's funds. Matteson.,

The evening will long be remem-the jury.believed that the money bered as one of the most success-was advanced by the Compradore ful and enjoyable ever spent at the it would not matter at all whether London, 21st December:. The very popular Talkoo Club. After or not it was the company's Loudon Times publishes corro-, the festivities came to an end, money. spondence between the Navy' launches from the Dock conveyed The jury had seen the compra- League and Mr. Bridgeman. The guests back to Hongkong and dore in the box. They had seen Marquess of Linlithgow and Sir, Kowloon. All the catering he was a man of considerable will Cyril Cobb, on behalf of the arrangements were in the hands ness and that he was by no means Longue, fully appreciato the of Masars, Wiseman.

a gullible person. "A man of that necessity of prudent economy inf The dance programme was as class, was not easily taken in and naval expenditure, but view follows: Walta, Honest and Truly, there was every probability that with grave alarm the recent and Fox Trot, Ohi Flo: One Step, Ohi the story told by Atherley was the projected reductions of

the Katherina; Fox Trot, Rose of real story for the reason that the strength of the fleet,

Waikiki; Lancers, Horacy; Waltz, compradore had made the money Mr. Bridgeman, replying om- Silver Moon; Fox Trot, Seminole of the company his own and hand- phasizes that the navy is not Fox Trot, Honolulu; One Step, La. ed it to Atherley, and when hel being reduced below the safety La-La; E. Reel, De'il Amang the came to pay the money back was limit, pointing out that the one- Tailors; Waltz, When The One You it not probable that he paid LO.U's power standard" only applies to Love Loves You; Fox Trot, I Want and bills making up the amount] Capital ships and aircraft carriers, and the number and tontage of to be Happy; Fox Trot, Flapper which he had previously hande these is fixed by the terms of the Wife; Lancers, Put and Take: over to Atherley? He suggested Washington Treaty, from which Waltz, Miss You; One Step, Swiss that in the light of the character RUSSIAN IMPERIAL LIGHT OPERA CO. the Government has no intention Mies; Fox Trat, Beautiful Sea; E of the compradore in the box it of departing.

Reel, Selceted; Fox Trot, Burning was a true explanation.

He urged that, what passed be- "The League can rest assured Kisses; Fox Trot, I Want You all that the Board of Admiralty will for Me; Waltz, Sleep; Fox Trottween Atherley and the compra- advise the Government to resist Show Me The Way to Go Home. ùny proposals of reductions of the] strength of the fleet incompatiblo with the security of the Empire and our sea communications."

"

The Committees, The committees responsible for the successful function were as Tollow:

32, butler, who pleaded "Guilty Card Rooms: Messrs. W. Weir. to robbery, being armed, robbery and G. McLeod, with violence, theft, and inducing! Bar: Messrs, A. J. Russell, M. H. Mrs. Richardson, wife of Colonel Wallace, W. Robertson and J. Richardson, the

well-known, Simpson,

dore were loans, and that he re- celved the money on behalf of himself and not the company. 1, when the compradore band-į

ed the money to Atherley, hej had finished with it there Decorations: Messrs.. J. Simp-

have W.

been an Grimshaw, son, T.

entry E. Would Sentence of seven years' penal Price, M. H. Wallace, T. Young, it showing it was paid to Atherley. His Lordship had aak- servitude and 20 strokes of the W. Warnock and Jas. Sloan.

cat" was passed by Mr. Justico Buffet: Messrs. H. J. Muirhead, ed the compradore if he expected Avory at the Surrey Assizes at P. M. Stewart, W. Warnock and repayment of the money from Atherley and he had said 'yes, he Guildford on John Henry Clarke, Howell.

did. In the light of that state- ment what were they to say.. If he had nothing else in the ense he would urge upon them that statement by the compradore.

He reminded the jury that whatever they might think of the He was also charged Guests were received at the conduct of Atherley that the court with demanding from Mrs. entrance by Messrs. Weir, McLeod, was not a court of ethics but a Richardson to by menaces and Grimshaw, Price and Simpson court sitting in criminal jurisdic- forging and uttering a choque for The general secretarial work was £78 with intent to defraud. Ida ably carried out by Mr. W. Robert- Clarke, who

similarly Eon.. charged, was sentenced to three years' panal servitude.

breeder of degs, to execute a Dance M. C.'s: Messrs. W. P. cheque for payment of £45 by Senth, C. Young and W. Robertson, threats.

Was

(By Stan. Hill)

-AND SHOOK THEM ALL VERY THOROUGHLY, AND THREW THEM ALL OVER

..THE GROUND.

THEY SHOWED THE

NAVY

HOW A TYPHOON COMES IN WHEN

IT'S LATE,

KEEP IT IN OUR END

BUT THE CLUB THEN HEELED OUT NAVY AND

AND

WERE

NOT

WATCHING,

SOMEONE

DID IT AGAIN FOR.

THE CLUB v. NAVY RUGBY MATCH.

THEIR BENEFIT

BY THIS TIME THE NAVY". HAD HAD ENOUGH AND. TRIED TO KEEP THE BALL

HIDDEN IN THE SCRUM

ALL. STAN Hill 1976.

STRUCK OFF.

tion.

The Prosecution.

Mr. Jenkin, for the prosecution, Baid the jury might form an opin-

THEATRE ROYAL

TO-NIGHT at 9.15 p.m.

SHANGHAI THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES (L. LADOW--Managing Director) present

and their beautiful Ballet

Directed by.

M. BAKALEINIKOFF

in

GIPSY LOVE

STAR THEATRE

To-morrow Sunday, at 9.15 p.m. THE MERRY WIDOW-

Monday, January 18th.

THE DOLLAR PRINCESS

30 ARTISTES TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL 30 Prices $3, $2, $Ĩ Hooking at Moutrie's.

ion of the key to the solution of wore not so paid. The two items made. If it had been the real den the matter before them in aye or in question equalled exactly, the fence in the case then Atherley nay did Atherley know, in fact amount of the cheque, and Atherley had had more than one opportunity WEST-END SPECIALIST that the monics of the company asked them to believe that he did to state that the document had

not know to what use the cheque been faked. It was a desperate". were going into his account and would be applied. Could the jury statement, made by Atherley in his AND AN ARTICLE.

did he know that when he drew believe that every time Ather stress. The General Medical Council cheques he was refunding to the ley drew a cheque on his private

His Lordship then, adjourned sitting in London recently dires. company money which had reach account that the compradora shoul until this morning. ted the Registrar, to remove from his account by means of the go to him with I. O., U's and bills

compradore acting structions.

on his

in-

the Medical Register the name of

paid and that it should so happen Mr. William Lloyd, nose and

that these iteme outstanding to the If he did know, then there was company's account should always throat specialist, of Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, on the ground only one verdict open to the jury equal exactly the amount of the of unprofessional conduct.

to bring in.. It was an affront to 10. U's.

It was charged against him that their intelligence to ask the jury.

Envy of the Bar.

+

CORRESPONDENCE.

LAND INVESTMENT DIVIDEND,

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

he sought to obtain patients and to believe that Atherley, from Counsel went on to deal in a to promote his own professional start to finish cared not and know similar way with the cheque drawn advantage by means of an article not where this money. Came from by Atherloy on April 7 and said published in the Daily Mail, of and knew not the true purpose he thought there could be no doubt June 5, 1925, entitled "Hay to which every cheque he drew in the minds of the jury that Atber- Fever New Treatment-Specia-was directed. On a memoranda ley know, of what he would call this list's Report-Patients Cured,"slip they found some intricate "system."

Sir,As a shareholder of the which was based upon materials calculations of five Items and a He passed on to the account Hongkong Land Investment Co., supplied by him.

deposit allp for May 28 which Atherley opened into which "monoy Ltd., I am very disappointed with Mr. Lloyd, in reply, said that contained the items supposed to was poured in a way which makes the fual dividend of $2, as he discussed his treatment for have been collected that day, even a member practicing at the against $4.50 last year, which is * hay fever with a journalist who The five top items were the same Bar envions," and which was opened less more than half for the year called on him as a patient, and as those on the slip exactly and It was opened on the eve of the day the bull by the horns instead of on the eve of the March sottioment. 1924. Our Directors seem to take the latter said it would make an on that day Atherley drow o interesting article. "I asked cheque for that exact him," said Mr.. Lloyd,

C

amount

on which he had to pay a large sum helping the shareholders in this to Ellis and into which account the hard time and live and live policy, on which was paid into the company's day after it was opened the com- knowing very well the millions condition to disclose my name in account. In face of that Ather-pany's money began to go. It was alone which we have in reserva uny shape or form."

ley asked them to believe that coincidence that the amount of for the rainy days which must- Ho saw the article only when he had no idea that his cheque had money paid into that account during bring us at least $6 lakhs a year, it appeared, and when the jour- nalist again came for treatment: y reference at all to those the first seven days it was opened, which is equal to $2.50 per

intricate caculations.

The complained to him seriously about it. Later he was asked if ho would soo a fow selected cases. and consented. At the same.

Effrontery.

DISGUSTED.

agreed with the sum which was share; and what about the returns colleetod for the company. He went of our valuable property? If the on to comment on the charges re Directora really think we have a There was Atherloy's cheque for garding the document bearing the hard time before us, let them be time he rang up the paper and 1213.29 on April 1. It was drawn signature and chop and said that sports and waive half of their told them that they were not to on hia private account and he had nothing had been brought by the fee for the last yearYours, etc... disclose his name to anyone.

the effrontory to say that he had defence to support their allega He had no need to seek profes- not the remotest idea that he was tions. It was inconceivable that sional advantage by such an really refunding the company's the charge should ever have been! article, as he was already too money which had been paid into his busy his practice ran into many account Yet he was faced with the thousands a year. In as far as fact that the deposit slip indicated he had exceeded the limits of pro- that there had been a refund of two fossional etiquette he apologised items which appeared to have been to the Council..

paid by dealers that day but which

Hongkong, Jan. 15, 1926.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 11, Ice House Street, in the City Victoria, Hongkong.