1929-06-18 — Page 2

Columbia

RECORDS

New Standard of Realism

VOCAL GEMS

9554 The Yeomen of the Guard 9581. The Mikado

9622 The Pirates of Penzance

9565 The Gondoliers

9580

Lilac Time

9579 The Bohemian Girl

9555. Faust

The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

G.E.C.

GRID & OUT DOOR

SWITCHGEAR.

S.E. ENGLAND ELECTRICITY SCHEME.

BRITISH MATERIALS TO BE USED,

The whole of the material used in the contract placed by the Central Electricity Board with the General Electric Co., Ltd., for one section of the overhead trans- mission lines in the south-east of England, will be manufactured in Great Britain.

An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would cover the erection of the 182,000 volt line in the district north of the Thames, stratching from Reading on the west to Peterborough on the north, and Ipswich and Colchester on the cast. The total mileage of the overhead trans- ́. mission would be 254 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be 1,300 miles.

The contract would be carried out by the General' Electric Company with the assistance of their associated company, the Pirelll-General Cable Works, Ltd., of Southampton, the latter company carrying out all the actual erection work. The work of erection would take In all three years, and employment would be given in the actual erection work to between 500 and 1,000 men, In addition to that employment would be given to large numbers in the manufacture of the steel towers, steel aluminium conductors Insulators, and other accessories. The overhead Hines are one acction of the system of overhead lines covering the whole of England and Scot- land which are being erected by the Central Electricity Board with the object of linking up the main generating stations throughout the country and affording a cheap supply of electric power in all districts.

LIENERAL

IRELLI.LENERA

Estimates for underground Cables up to 35,000 volts & overhead ||

Transmission schemes up to 130,000 volts given by

[

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., OF CHINA

Queen's Building, Hongkong.

HOME LEAVE

FULL PROTECTION AGAINST ACCIDENT & LOSS WHEN TRAVELLING MAY BE OBTAINED

BY A

BAGGAGE INSURANCE

&

PERSONAL ACCIDENT

POLICY

ISSUED BY

CHINA UNDERWRITERS LTD. Hongkong Bank Building, da Des Voeux Road Central.

HONGKONG.

Avoid colds

28

By taking SCOTT'S

Emulsion which pro

motes the strength to resist coughs, chills, colds, influenza and all bronchial affections.

Ask for

SCOTT'S

Emulsion

The protectieoflife

Tel C. 1121/2. ·

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHINESE MARRIAGE

CUSTOMS.

CLAIM FOR MAINTENANCE

FAILS TO SATISFY.

The rival claim of two women to be the kit-fat or principal wife of a Sookunpoo marketman, was further investigated by Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday afternoon, In connexion with a summons for maintenance which one of the women had instituted against the

man,

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1929.

are documents- which anyone could prepare?.......

Witness I cannot speak an to thoir genuineness.

Husband Speaks.

Young Sam, the husband, testify- ing from the witness-box, said that f the complainant was only his first concubine, he having previous to meeting hor, contracted a kit-fat marriage with one Shum To. This was seven years ago, and since then, he had never gone through a similar ceremony with any other.

womati.

When he was married to his con- Both women produced what appeared to be genuine and iden-cubino, there were no cakes or any other ceremonial, adopted in a Lical sots of marrings documents; kit-fat wedding: His principal but assuming that the proper ritual had been followed in both wife was present at the wedding, cases, was the Court justified in and he thought the position was clearly defined, when, according to making an order for maintenance, Chinese custom, the concubine when the Married Women's Ordin-served the principal wife with a cup ance, under which the claim was of tea. brought, takes cognizance of only one wife?

J

Three days after the wedding, the three of them returned to Several other questions crop Hongkong. After living with him ped up in the course of the pro- for some months, the complainant ceedings, and there were aub packed her things and went away. missions that, the man had com-He did not know why who did that, chased back to the mited bigamy, and alternatively, but she was had married his other wife under house by someone in the Market. false pretences.

an

Called as

authority on Chinese marriage lawa and customs, Mr. Li Sheung-ming, member of the Committee of the Po Leung Kuk, benevolent institu- tion, was shown a act of documents in the possession of the com- plainant on the summons. In reply to Mr. A. E. Hall, he agreed, that any woman who was in a position to produce those documents, was entitled to call herself a kit-fot wife. Certainly, they were nover used in a marriage with a con- cubine.

Mr. Hall: Supposing it in proved that the same man had previously married another wife under the name conditions, how doen, she stand?

to

the

Witness: According customs of our country, the second marriage cannot be recognized as legal, even though the same docu- ments were used.

Mr. Hall: On the face of the documents shown to you, you would, of course, come to the conclusion that the parties went through a legal marriage, granted that you did not know of any previous kit-fat marriage?

Witness agreed.

The Bridal Chair. Examined by Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, for the husband, witness agroed that marriage customs differed' in many parts of the country, but with the use of proper documents, their legality remained the same. The joint worship by bride and bride- groom at the ancestral. joss-house and the ride by the bride in the red chair, were necessary conditions to a kit fat wedding. The dowry need not enter as another necessary condition, for the parents were not compelled to make one, if they did not want to.

+

In the end, he decided that the betier course was to allow her to leave, and had his sister-in-law take her back to her mother in the coun- try. On May 23, she came back with the old woman, and set up a row

Accusations Denied.

Mr. Brooks: Is it true as alleged that you introduced your kit-fal wife to her as a fellow-lodger?- No. She knew all along that I had a kit-fat wife..

..

Mr. Hall (cross-examining): Where are your first marriage dorumenta?

The documents were produced. Mr. Hall: When did you con- ceive the idea of taking unto your- self a concubine?

Witness: Last year.

Mr. Hall: Did you get your wife's permission?

Witness: She knew.

Assuming for a moment that this young woman in your concubine, did you give money to her?--Yes,

Witness, in reply to another question, pointed out that the fact that all the three of them had boon sharing one cubicle should obvious- ly show the real state of affairs. His concubine should not say that she did not know the other woman had precedence over her ori a matter of domestic statuş.

Mother-In-Law Unknown.. There was a break" in the cross- examination at this stage while an old woman was summoned to come forward. Mr. Hall, resuming, ask- ed the man: Do you know this woman?

Witness: No.

Mr. Hamilton. exclaimed: But she is the mother of the girl, she is your mother-in-law f

Witncas: Is she? I have never Been her before.

/

Mr. Brooks: Suppose man takes unto himself a concubine,

Mr. Hall! Do you mean to say what does he do?

that you never saw her in the coun- Witness: The concubine istry ? Never, brought to the husband in an er dinary chair, without trappings.

Mr. Brooks: There won't be such documents дв have been shown to you?

Witness: I have never seen or

heard of such documenta, being

used in the case of a concubina.

Mr. Brooks: In case of a kli-fat

It transpired, from witness' next! remark, that the marriage was ar- for him by his mother. ranged Smiling broadly, he explained: I asked for a concubine, and my mother arranged it for me.

address a concubine, Mr. Hall?

Mr. Hamilton: How does one

Mr. Hall: I haven't got one, 00

wife, there must be a bridal chair? I cannot say, but I will ask the man,

-Yca. A concubine is not entitled to, ride in a bridal chair,

Witness said that in the case of

a secondary marriage, a small slip of paper only was the legal docu- ment effected, It Was distinct from the papers used in the case of a kit-fat ceremony, when the four characters nuen fung wo ming ("to unite with the phoenix In harmony") were prominently ten- tured. According to Chinese cus, tom, such papers were never pre- pared by the husband. He got Domebody else to do the job.

Mr. Brooks: Your evidence really amounts to this, that those documents are not evidence of any marriage whatever, but that they

SALESMAN SAM

(HELLO, SAM! I HEAR YOU'VE LOST YOUR JOB AS A BILL POSTER -

CARS Tat Here

(Continued on Page 11)

WE STOCK ALL SPARES

INCLUDING Short Wave EQUIPMENT: COMPLETE SETS

RADIO

DEST MAKES, LOWEST PRICES

NOTETHE ADDRESS-

THEUNION STORE, 37, Dan Vaux Road.

YEAH- BUT I GOT THAT'S FINE, BUT WHY

AREN'T YOU WORKING

ANOTHER JOB

NOW — (33 TH"

KLASSY KANDY,

KITCHEN -

POST

BILU

NOW?

COFFEY

TEA

ROOM

Like a Cooling Breeze

When you are feeling run- down and tired after a full day's activities, when your nerves are "raw" and on edge, then "4711" Eau de Cologne will act like a cool and gentle breeze, sooth- ing, refreshing, and re- juvenating.

To ensure getting the genuine, however, insist upon "4711" with the Blue and Gold Label. It is sold all over the world..

"4711” Eau de Cologne- Soap

"4711" Eau de Cologne-

Bath Salts

8:4711. Eau de Cologne

4711

Bole Agents in China: MELCHIERS & CO.

GLORIOUS WALTZ ROMANCE!

A delightful story of life and love in Vienna before the war: based on

of the most

me

•

popular operettas ever written!

THE

WALTZ

DREAM

A GERMAN PRODUCTION: A FILM AS JOYOUS AS THE PLAY!

COMING TO THE ...

QUEEN'S

Fast Worker

OH, THIS IS PTY LUNCH TWO HOURS.

·BUT SAY -

THAT ~LORE HAS THE THATS WHAT

BEST CANDY IN

"TOWN --

SELL

•SEE US

THEY ALL SET, SAM!

THURSDAY TO SATURDAY

By Small

BUT I'M SURE IN THIS CASE- : SAMPLED EVERYTHING IN TH’

PLACE!

J.GUZZLEMT