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OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

SCIENCE TESTS LIQUOR'S EFFECT.

DRIVING WITH SAFETY,

£300,000 LEFT TO A COLONY.

ECCENTRIC CRIPPLE BARON'S WILL

"I have enjoyed my life; nover experiencing an unhappy day, and

I hope I die happy" is a passage in the will of Baron Henry Edward

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

́MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14,

1927.

£30,000 IN GIFTS TO A WOMAN.

A ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS FINE.

AN EX-MAYOR'S STRANGE BANKRUPTCY.

!

OLD-AGE PENSION.

Remarkable statements

were

Court recently, when Thomas H.

OVERCROWDING IN A THAMES STEAMER,

a menace to every one and every. Ernest Victor Bliss, of Belize, made at Scarborough, Bankruptcy the Old Bailey,

A Fool driving a motor car is

thing he pasues. Ho

is bad onough when in full possession of such senso as he has; when

British Honduras,

Central

of his company.

The General Steam Navigation Company were last month indict- ed for overcrowding their Margate boat, the Eagle, before the Re- corder, Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., at Good, a former mayor and paper. John, pleaded guilty on behalf The secretary, Mr. Willoughby merchant of Leeds and now resid- ing at Newby, near Scarborough, examination. At the first hearing he admitted abilities of £7.933 and assets nit. His only income, he is 70 and a few shillings a old-age pension week allowed him by a friend and by a Masonic fund.

THE BEECHÁM TRUST LIABILITIES.

MR. JAMES WHITE'S DEALINGS.

MORE THAN 51,000,000.

A warning to the creditors_of_ the Beecham Trust, Ltd., not to expect a dividend of more than by Mr. 11. E. Burseded at a few pence, in the £ was uttered. Official Receiver, who meetings of creditors and share- Buildings, Carey-street, W.C., last month.

under the influence of alcohol he who died in March 1926, aged 57. appeared for his adjourned public for the Board of Trade, said the holders of the trust at Bankruptcy

America, formerly of Brandon Park, Suffolk, and of Quarry Court, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, leaving personal estate in England As indicated by Godfrey Carter, now valued at £330,497 and pro- charged with examining all arperty in British Honduras valued

Sherlich, about £2,800. ----

may do untold in jury.

persons

in

rested to determine their competency, safe motoring depends upo 1 clear and afert mental outlook. When driving, quick and accurate decisions are neccessary. Judg ment must be immediate and certain.

Brain Centre,

Since the higher, brala centres are the first part of the nervous

system to be affected by alcohol, they may become disturbed long before the

co-ordina- grosser tions of the "body are involved. Intoxication is a matter of degree but police officers and courts are not likely to declare a man drunk ut until he has lost all sense reason or balance.

now

Was

art Iis father is said to have held the Portuguese title of Baron de Baretto and the testator to have changed it during the war to Baron liss,

After various personal bequests he left the bulk of his property

to be administered by trustees

tincluding the Governor) for the benefit of the Colony, among the conditions being that

No subject of the United States of America shall be a trustee, employed by them,

Any trustee or employee known to be even moderately intemperate, or who has the appearance of being so, or who is inefficient or shall accept commissions, shall be dismissed sumatarily.

All materials, etc., used for any of the work of the Trust shall be the produce or manufacture of the British Empire.

Experiments carried out in the laboratories of Sheffield Universi ty showed that the concentration

A Bghthouse is to be erected as of alcohol in the blood was an in-

#monument over his grave over- dication of the state of drunken-looking Belize harbour.

ness.

In a consideration of the views of Dr. Carter, it was pointed out that the concentration of alcohol in the breath may also be deter- mined and that it approximates closely that of the blood.

education OT

The Trust fund is not to be devoted to churches, chapels, dancing-halls, schools (other than agricultural or vocation training),

It is understool that the total value of the bequest to he Colony, after the falling-in of various annuities, will not be less, than $300,000.

Replying to Me. F. S. II. Ward, solicitor for the trustee, Mr. Goodl said he believed he was solvent

in

1923. Ils wife died in January, 1925. She had obtained a judgment against him two years before for £5,000. She owed him at the time £7,000, but he could raw against his own wife.

Mr. I, D. Roome, "prosecuting ertificate of the Eagle entitled her to carry 1,369 passengers, but on August 3 she carried 611 in ex-

Mr. Burgess said the winding- ceas of that number. At the Man-up order was made as a conse- sion House the statement Wis made quence of the death of Mr. James on behalf of the company that the White. The company was incor

and the nominal capital of passengers, got out of control and porated at the beginning of 1917, rushed the gangways

£100,000 was divided into 300,000 Preference shares of £1 each and 20,000 Ordinary £5 shares.

Since then the prosecution had received evidence from the pier master and berthing master at

So long as dividends were re- Southend to the effect that there was no foundation for the sugges- gularly paid to the Preference tion that the gangways were rush-shareholders they were not en- or that anything of that kind oc-titled to vote at general meetings, and that proviso became import-

not find it in his heart to go to curred.

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Mr. John Charles Herbert, South-ant because Mr. White, the chief el piermaster, describing the holder of the Ordinary shares, was method of the embarkation of pain a position to control the trust, He said he knew Mrs. Catche-sengers, said one of the steamboat dividends having been regularly side of Tynemouth, and had companys oficiale gave notice as paid on the Preference shared.

to how many fresh passengers could

British Controlled. known her as a child thirty years ago. From time to time he had be accommodated in the vessel and

The balance-sheets showed n 15 Portable house." made advances of money to her. the required number was allowed to

loss of £86,549 from the company's 16 Jains. When she was left badly off some pass. On August 8 no request was years ago he took her two sons received to stop the influx of pas-inception until June, 1919; a pro-18 Robber. under his wing, educated them, sengers,,,

Mr. G. St. Clair Pilcher, for the fit of £10,112 during the ensuing 10 Songsters.

Fixed. and did everything for them.

Mr. Ward What consideration company, addressing the court six months;, a loss of £259,132 in 20 Fencing position. has there been for the money said there was a breakdown in the 1920; profits of £106,483, £13,591,26 English bird.

1023 respectively, and a loss of valua advanced?-Nene, except friend- liaison between the ship and the and 430,310 in 1921, 1922 and 24 English bird.

You would agree you have were rushed in the strict sense of £275,903 in 1924. The operations ship, advanced her money or money's the term it was not for him to say, between January 1, 1925, and the worth to the extent of £30,000 or rather doubt if they werk," he date of the winding-up order re- after making adjustments the total more? No, not so much as that. added, "but there was certainly a sulted in a loss of £690,459, but

do not think it would be as much very unusual crewd."

deficiency came out at almost as that.

double that amount.

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For some time you have been Some persons are affected by

living with Mrs. Catcheside as much smaller quantities of alcohol

Dr. Thomas Gayn, formerly man and wife?-I have not. than are others and it is therefore necessary for the courts to take chief medical office of British have visited her but never lived into account the reartions of the Honduras, writes to an exchange: there.

British Honduras produce porson arrested as well as the amount of alcohol that he may mahogany, rosewood, and all thei

most valuable woods if the world, have imbibed, Not infrequently | the shock or excitement of being and bananas, coconuts, maize, and arrested serves to steady the per-mons, and grape fruit. But it from that at the time when the ac-arks reads and other methods, of cidunt occured.

son to a condition much different

Excitement..

This renetion

£300 for a Necklace. Heimittel he bought Mrs. Catchside a house, land, and garage in Tynemouth 15 years ago for about £1,500. He had given her furniture, pictures, and silver

shore. Whether the

gangways

Sir Ernest Wild, addressing Mr. John, who went into the dock, said the evidence showed that the fault, not only legally but morally, was "The result has been that you with the company. took out to open se 641 passengers for whom there was no life-saving appliance had there been a ship wreck or other disaster. That is

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28 Margin. 29 Structure at east end of a church. 41 Despatch. 32 E 34 Genus of the lily." 37 Those who tease, 36 Negotiated.

38 One who speaks derisively. 11 Fatter.

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In April Inst. fr. White, on the 44 Rip asunder. behalf. began to 45 Wooden ping company's nequire large numbers of Pre-46 Bog.

48 Not at all. forrod Ordinary shares in British 47 One masted vessel.

(Limited).

40 Spoil. Controlled Oilfields Apparently his abject was to 50 Progeny.

51 Costly, controlling interest, acquire create a shortage on the market, and then sell the company's bold- He imposed a fine of 100 guineasing at a handsome profit, but hik and ordered the company to pay plan was not successful. the costs of the prosecution.

a terrible responsibility." the citreous fruits-oranges,

transport.

but not the whole of his household. belongings. He had given her a diamond and pearl necklace which' she afterwards returned to him: and he sold for $500..

Mr. Ward: Did you give her brooches and rings worth about 2500 each?---Ne, nothing of the kind. They were weigh about £120 each.

motorear rosting about 21,000), but ut that time he was well off and able to make such a present. He later gave

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Mr. White had drawn extensive- ily on the company's fundis, and at the winding up his indebtedness to He was the it was £458,853. SMUGGLING "BY AIR.

19993 Ordinary holder of shares in the conany, 10k, per £270, SULK IMPORTER FINED

share called, hich there was That London, Oct. 14. a liability of £89,968. Abraham Max Flatto, an im-liability was probably of no value. parter of silk goods. of 65, Com- mercial-street. E., appeared at the Mansion House yesterday to answer

"Based on Hope."

Down.

1 Domestic animals,

2 Mentally sound,

& Punishable with death..

4 Accompanies.

5 Ruminant quadruped.

6 Consumes.

7 Laughable.

B Narrow mouthed vessels.

9 Advise.

SMILES AND LAUGHTER.

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HOME PARCEL MAIL.

The

The late haron recognised this. He was an eccentric man and through an accident, a cripple. Prof. J. T. J. Morrison of Bir- His money might have gone to He used to lish mingham found that the person the Bahamas. who had indulged, too freely in round there: But they, somehow, alcohol was likely to fall into annoyed him in that neighbour terhoud. So he wrote to Belize ask profound slumber. Within

AN INCREASE ON LAST YEAR. minutes after being placist in the ing if the fishing was good, and

Did you purchase furs and when he came along to Belize the cell,

The statement of the company's

COMFORT FOR THOSE UN-

Posting was very heavy for the serves to show Governor. Attorney-General, and dresses for her?-I bought her aning summonses for being know-affaire showed available assets

IIome Christmas parcel mall ABLE TO LAUGH, " whether the person arrested is the rest of us went out to his yacht fur coat and I bought her dresses ingly concerned in fraudulently 2134,467, but he, (Mr. Burgess) We all became from time to time. I treated her evading the duty on silk and thought that every item WR

which closed on Thursday and the Indeed, he suffering from shock or excite to welcome him.

as my daughter.

Those solemn faced individuals staff of the parcel department artificial silk garments imported based on some hope."

the from ment or from actual intoxication. friendly. His wife, a tall, dark,

special, Woman, was very

Mr. Good said he liqught her a

at the Croydon nerodrome. The

understood "The excite person is likely to be handsome

oo much excited to fall asleep popular,

treble value of duty concerned manger (Mr. Russell Kettle) that who are unable to laugh may reap worked at high pressure from the amounted to £1,782 soon after being placed in the cell,

Mr. Gibson, prosecuting said the creditors should hot depend on certain comfort in the findings of time the mail began to pour in,

sity of London who makes the launch to the Macedonia. KING ALBERT'S HINT.

Mra. Cateeside that when a Customs officer made receiving a dividend et more than Professor F, Aveling of the Univer-until it was finally taken by Regarding the cause of failure, statement that it is only the mail is due to reach London on

man December 18th. inquiries at Flatto's premises with "some few pence in the "

"superior" or discontented BELGIAN DEFENCE NEEDS.

Mr. Ward: Did you give her regard to goods imported

The parcel mail this year shows Brussels, Oct. 13.

He suggests that "perhaps that £5,000 of war stock? gav her Brussels he found that all the the manager said that it was who really laughs:

the first instance almost entirely Members of the Belgian Sonate some, but I do not think as much things which came from a

due to the big speculation in the is why laughter, like tears, is ugly a net increase of 479 parcels and Chamber were received special-ai that.

named Finkelstein, had two Mr. Good said there was nyuices, one in franes and the other shares of British Controlled Oil-being made up of grimaces and above last year's figure, which was ly at the Royal Palace this morn-

in sterling. The lower invoice was ing to express their congratula-agreement between himsel and

The figures for the two years embarrassed for some time, but, The Professor thinks that smiles With the setting old Barcelona. tions to the Royal Family on the Mrs. Catcheside, who he thought produced for the Customs to evade that the trust had been financially contortions, the mask of a hard or a record at that time.

birth of a daughter to Princess was now in Germany, that if his the duty.

Mr. Myers, defending, said it stich was the reputation enjoyed are beautiful, as marks of human are: and the plot "young love in old Astrid, wife of the Duke of financial position became involved Spain," the picture at present Bralint. King Albert's heir.

was evident that Finkelstein had by Mr. White that he never experi- sympathy and understanding. In a the gifts were to le returned to

never appearing at the Queen's Theatre has attracted full houses, and ber that when the new

King Albert reminded the Cham- him, and he thought they should carried on a system of fraud on the eneed any difficulty in obtaining heart that is at peace with itself United Kingdom

The really happy man session be returned for the benefit of his Customs, not only in this but also subscriptions for anything he pre-and with the world.

only seldom, in other cases, but Flatto did not posed.

Mr. Burgess said that the laughs, or at least "fans" have been delighted by the starts shortly they would have creditors. beauty both of the story and the several important problems to

was wrong until The examination was closed.

know anything

figures of the liabilities would re- though he may smile. He does not the visit of the Customs, official. picturisation.

tackle, notably that of national de- Mae Murray as the "heroine, fence. He added:

Mr. Alderman Greenaway said quiré amendment, but the total need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental ten-

Valencia,

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Both meetings left the liquida- could not believe that Flatto was returned at £1,098,850..

strung. knew nothing of the Frauds and

"VALENCIA.”

A FINE PICTURE AT THE

QUEEN'S

another car.

I am certain our legislators will

Robert Browning's early assock

he

Spanish dancer, Roy D'Arey as the be intent on giving Belgium a de new Governor of the seaport city, fensive organisation that will not tion with Walworth and Camber

from

man in-

fields.

The manager considered

selfish mind."

1926. 1927.

3,457 3,735

Other European

ports.

Total

243 444

3,700 4,179

The mail last year was dis-

in 300 bags.

who casts his roving eyes on the only definitely ensure the security well in well known. It is hored | Flatto would be fined £270 and tion in the hands of the Officft/Bion and the happy are not-over-patched in 275 bags, and this year

is full of tense moments, and the takes a solems oath.

Club premises are to be built for

£10 10s. costs.

Owing to the indisposition of

Receiver.

The popularity of the

Cafe

the

He continues. "The unhappy man cannot laugh. He is too much wrapped up in his misery to see the drollery of his own case or to enter into the tragedy or comedy

girl, and Lloyd Hughes as her and integrity of our territory, but there are still enough admirers of sailer lover, to whom she gives her also preserve it by virtue of the his poetry to raise £50,000 for the heart, are the outstanding figures Constitution, for the maintenance reconstruction of Browning Hall, Mrs. Fercy Younghusband, she, of a well-acted piece. The story of which the Chief of the State Walworth, where he was baptized. will be unable to appear at the Regent, Pedder Building, was de-

"Laughter is a kind of be- haviour, exceedingly curious were ending entirely in keeping with The King has thus expressed his the settlement associated with the vocal and piano recital to be given monstrated on Saturday night, of any other. what one expects in such high-anxiety for the security of the hall. The Lord Mayor of London this afternoon in St. Andrew's when, on the occasion of class scenarion,

country two days after M. Vander- joins in an appeal which has been Hall, the City Hall.. Mrs. R. Sans officia! opening, a special dinner it not so commonplace, which be-

ger, Mr. Li Chor-chi and Mr. John menu was offered to the public.

ends in jelly-like convulsions of The supporting comedy, dealing" veide, the Sucialist Foreign Issued: and with a view to with the adventures

Minister, advised his party to fight teresting Browning societies in the Braga have consented to contri- The cafe was well patronised, and gins in a puckering of features and of human kind escaped convicts, is an excellent for six months' service for soldiers. project the Rev. J. W. Graves, the bute solos at very short notice. many indulged in dancing to the the whole body. Moreover, it is

United Mr. Harry Ore's pianoforte pro-strains of a well balanced orches- an idiosyncrasy ape, and patrons. are sure of a The Catholic and Conservative warden, is to visit the

States:

gramme remains unaltered. very hearty spell of laughter. parties, want it to be 8 months,

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