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THE PARTNERSHIP CASE.

FUTHER EVIDENCE CALLED

THIS MORNING.

DECISION GIVEN. *

The partnership issue regarding the Ying Fat firm of bankers and money changers was again before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) in the Supreme Court this morning, when further evidence was called for plaintiff and when defendant dented partnership in

SUGAR PRODUCTION REDUCTION.

CUBAN PLAN OPPOSED IN THE UNITED STATES.

New York, Aug. 26. Senator Gutierrez, on behalf of Cuba, has offered to limit sugar production for five years provid- ing that the United States, Porto Rico, Hawali and the Philippines follow auit. Under the plan the Cuban exports to the United States in 1931 would be 2,800,000 long tons, which would be the basic figure for the following four years.

cerns in

Mr. Burguleres, on behalf of the the witness box when cross-e-American Sugar Cane League, amined. The Ho Shing firm alleged that Mak Ying, widow, carth-con- says that the larger sugar con

Louisiana tractor, was liable to pay a debt of $2,200 under a judgment against the firm which is now closed, on the ground that she was a partner,

but this was denied.

Plaintiff was not represented by counsel but was advised by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, senior, of Messrs. D'Almada and Mason, while de fendant conducted her own

case,

Young Yu-chung. No. 237, Wing Lok Street, in giving evidence in support of plaintiff's allegation, said that at the end of May, last year, he went to the Ying Fat firm for the purpose of obtaining Hong- kong money with Cantonese cur-

uniformly oppose the proposal and declares it would be the height of folly for us to enter into an agreement to curtail production, inasmuch as we produce only half of what we consume. Let Cuba, Jaya, India and the other countries producing more than they consume solve for thémselves the problem of dis- posing of the surplus."-Reuter's American Service.

MEAN THEFT. FROM A GIRL.

rency to the extent of $2,000. HeFRIEND STEALS BANGLE AND wanted the money in order to pay passage for himself and family to New Zealand.

WRIST WATCH.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930.

1

THEFT OF BULLY

BEEF.

THIRTY TINS VANISH AT SHAMSHUIPO.

WOMAN SENTENCED.

A

enge

HANDBAG SNATCHED

· FROM · LADY,

STORY OF CHASE TOLD AT

POLICE COURT.

CANTON'S "RADIO RULES.

NO CHARGE FOR LICENCES OR REGISTRATION.

YEARLY RENEWALS.

The victim of a handbag anat- cher, Miss S. Remedios of "The Hut," Castle Road, was the com- plainant before Mr. Butters, at the Central Police Court this morning,

Canton, Aug. 26. when a Chinese was charged with

At the 26th meeting of the the theft of a handbag which had

a foun- Canton Municipal Council, the contained $12 in money,

stallation of radio sets were read- tain pen, a string of beads and regulations governing the in-

The defendant denied thejusted as follows: other articles. charge and intimated that he was unable to see; as he was partially

blind.

That citizens who instal radio

ter at the Bureau of Public Utility sets in their premises must regis-

and obtain licences.

in which Detective

a Sergeant Meadows charged Chinese, Chan Fuk a cook at the Shamshulpo Military Camp, with the larceny of 30 tins of bully beef, and a Cinese woman, Chan Toi, with having received the stolen property, came up before Mr.

According to Sub-Inspector Mc- Whyte Smith at the Kowloon

Walter, the complainant, together

2. That the registration and The prosecution stated that the with a friend, Mrs. Alfreda de licence will be free of charge. Magistracy this morning.

3. That the licences must be re- woman was arrested about 2 p. Roza, of Kowloon Tong, was walk- on August 25 in Shamshuipo. She ing along Des Voeux Road, near newed once a year and are not was carrying two baskets contain- the Central Market at about 130 ing potato peelings on top, then p.m. yesterday, when the defen- to be handed over to other persons. empty ting and underneath 30 tins dant snatched her handbag and of bully beef. When questioned ran into Wing Kat Street. The to be utilised for any purpose by the police she said she had re- complainant gave chaaç, and, on other than that for receiving radio ceived them from a cook at the raising the alarm, a Chinese gen- broadcasting programmes. camp. She was taken by the tleman, Mr. W. H. Tong, went in police to the cook house, but it pursuit of the defendant, who was was found that two cooks had ab- caught with the handbag still In-any sconded and only the first defen- side his jacket. dant remained there.

4. That the radio sets are not

5. That the 'Bureau of Public

Utility is in a position to inspect

the

radio set installed in Eity when it deems necessary.

6. That licences are to be sub- During the chase, the $12 in

and mitted to the Bureau of Public money, the fountain pen string of beads had been dropped Utility for correction in case of and were not recovered, although changes in address or in radio set) an extensive search was subse-machines. quently made.

Sergeant Meadws said he was prepared to drop the case against the first defendant because he had no evidence against him.

Sergeant Hugh Higgins, of the Owing to the absence of Mr. Argyll and Sutherland High-Tong, who was stated to have only landers, said he was in charge of recently arrived in the Colony, the Once case was adjourned for twenty- A particularly mean theft from the cook-house at the camp. a girl inmate of a house in Woo-a week 85 tins of bully beef four hours for his attendance as a

given as rations and the witness. He handed a document to a man

sung Street came to the notice of were at the counter of the Ying Fat the police yesterday when a report cook had been given instructions firm, who called out "Mistress,was made to the effect that an that he had to prepare the dinner come out and pay the money." A cartwhile frfend who had promised

woman.

Money Paid.

who had an umbrella, to make the girl a present of a then appeared and after scanning pair of bangles induced her to part the paper paid the money over to with a gold wrist watch and a the accountant who, in turn, hand-bangle to the total value of $21. ed it to witness.

In describing the method adopt-

In reply to his Lordship, witnessed by the man to relieve her of her said that he could recognise jewellery, the girl intimated that defendant as being of the same he had visited her house at 31, size and build as the woman he Woosung Street and had promised saw in the Ying Fat Witness to make her a present of a pair of added that he returned from Newbangles. He induced her to ac- Zealand in May, this year.

company him to Hongkong. They Cross-examined by plaintiff. took a tram and alighted at the defendant denied that she was the Western Market, but the man had proprietress of the Ying Fat, previously obtained a gold watch anying that she had nothing to do and bangle from the girl. with it except as a customer. She

They adjourned to cafe in explained that her real name was

Queen's Road West, but the man Ah He, the name Mak Ying having subsequently disappeared and was been her late's husband's name.

not seen again, leaving the girl a She adopted that name because

sadder but much wiser person, everybody knew her by it.

Judgment Given.

After further evidence had been called for defendant, the witnesses testifying that the woman was not employed in the office as accour- tant, but that she visited the works outside and issued instructions, his Lordship said that although he thought some of the evidence for the plaintiff had been exaggerated

KIDNAPPED A BOY OF SIX.

TWELVE MONTH SENTENCE ON A CHINESE.

Pleading guilty to a charge of

OBITUARY.

Lon Chaney, the well-known cinema star, whose death is reported to-day.

.

it would mean that if defendant's kidnapping a six year old Chinese atory was true, many witnesses had boy at 47 Park Street, a Chinese come forward and deliberately was sentenced to twelve months.

imprisonment and 24 strokes of as well as tea with these rations. committed perjury,

the birch by Mr. Whyte Sraith at If the tins had been found in the

Kowloon Magistracy the

He was not prepared to say that defendant was sole manager of the firm, but he was satisfied that she a partner, and judgment would therefore he entered for the plaintiff with costs.

was

CHIEF SECRETARY OF NIGERIA.

PROMOTION FOR MALAYA CADET.

London, Aug. 26.

morning.

BREAKING OUT OF PRISON.

(Continued from Page 6.)

Cell windows are protected by fixed iron bars placed at such a distance from each other that it is thought to be impossible for a man to squeeze his body between them. However, this man did so in

set

7. That the wire of the erected on the roof is not to be connected with telegraph and telephone wire, so as to avoid damage.-Canton News Agency.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Trade Statistics.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir. Can you or anyone else in- form me what use is made of the trade statistics when they are com- piled?.

Under its present form, the some way or other, and, as his cell

Classification List can give little was on the ground floor he had no

or no information of a specific na-" difficulty in detaching; a ladder and

ture to anyone. Take for instance, getting on the top of the wall.

Unfortunately, a road well light-No. 406Covers, Bed and Table. include down ed ran alongside the wall, and,No. of pieces, to looking along the road, he saw quilts." Supposing a consignment

includes:- someone coming towards him at some distance. As he knew he would be seen if he waited to pull up the ladder he resolved to make a jump for it.

He alighted on the hard road, but had received such an injury to his leg that he could only craw! across the road. He had some

friends living close by, and to them he managed to scramble:

But his luck was out, for the passer-by at once reported what he had seen to the nearby police station. On the alarm being given the prison cells were searched, and his was found vacant, and, on the police inspector on duty being in- knowing his haunts and habits, despatched two of his men to this

40 pair sheets

36 white Marcella quilts 72. cotton bedspreads,

48 damask table cloths. 12. teapoy covers 15 down quilts.

This is shown as 263 bed and table covers value $1,135.00. Can you tell me, Mr. Editor, if the fore- going information is of any use to a manufacturer or merchant at Home or anyone else?

covers a

NB. 504, "Wearing Apparel not otherwise enumerated" multitude, while "Haberdashery" can include anything from a needle to an anchor.

this woman's possession he would not formed of his identity he at once, ticular Department might prove of

his return from Canton where he

house.

He was found in an outhouse and taken back to prison within half an hour-the only reward for his daring attempt being a broken

In ankle.

have known of their disappear ance. Evidently the tins must The defendant, when asked by have been acccumulated from the Mr. Whyte Smith why he had kid- four cook houses for some time. napped the boy, said that after If they had been taken from one had gone to get some money from week's rations the theft would his brother, he was keeping two have been detected at once. wives, one in Hongkong and the the cook-house there were three other in Yaumati. On August 21 cocks and the first defendant was he came over to Yaumati and there the No. 2 cook. At 12.15 p.m. on met the boy who asked him for August 25 witness went into the money with which to buy fruit, dining hall and it must have been After buying the boy some pears during that time that tins were he took the boy to Hongkong. He removed. detained the boy for three days

I would suggest that this parti- interest to the Retrenchmest Com- mittee Yours,, etc.

TRADER

KOWLOON BAND CONCERT.

DETAILS OF PROGRAMME" FOR TO-NIGHT.

The programme of the public con- of the Argyll and Sutherland High- cert at Kowloon to-night by the band landers is as follows:

SANDWICH RULED NOT A MEAL.

(Continued from Page 1.) A police sergeant arrived about 2 p.m. and informed after the entry of the two other Mr. George Hemmant, Under- in a house where his concubine him about the theft. He went officers, he was served with a sand- into the cook-house and there wich-such a tiny and stale one Secretary of the Straits Settle-lived.

found that two cooks had abscond that he would not have thought 1. March-"Father Rhine," ments, has been appointed to

of taking it. He noticed that 2. Overture"Egmont," Beethoven. ed. succeed Sir Frank Baddeley, Chief

at one table 3. Selection "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni. sandwiches placed Secretary of Nigeria, who is

were left untouched by the men

Two Hungarian Dancea, Brabus retiring in October-Reuter.

seated there.

Scottish Saite by Combined Band

and Pipes.

Mr. Hemmant, who educated at Tonbridge and Pem- broke College Cambridge and is 50 years of age, has held various posts in all parts of Malaya, having been appointed a Cadet In 1903. He has acted as magistrate,

in Cantonese in 1900 and

FIGHT OVER LOAN

OF MONEY.

HUSBAND, WIFE AND SON FINED.

Part I.

Lincke.

4.

The Magistrate (to defendant): You can say that one tiny miser- able sandwich costs 10 cents?

Defendant:-Yes.

5.

6.

Selection-Looking Backwards;"

You stili dare say that?-Yes. His Worship:-Even then it is 2. quite clear that one sandwich does

1.

Part II. March "Keroique,” Scena-"In a Monastery Garden," Ketelby.

Finck.

Massenet.

3.

4.

5.

Scottish Suite by Combined. Band

and Pipes. Novelty "John Brown's Body," Selection of Drinking Sons,

Finck. Monk.

A Chinese detective who arrest. not make a proper meal. You morning, ofed the woman, also gave evidence were trying to evade the law on assault upon another Chinese and

The first defendant denied all the face of it.

Hymn "Abide with me,"

Regimental Slow March "In the Garb of Old Gaul.” God Save The King.

Conductor: Mr. C. S. Beat, A.R.C.M.

An action for damages and loss

WLB

The usual procedure in the was eamp was that the swill collected by a woman who came round. There was a contractor in the camp who employed the woman. There was one European cook at the camp and while he was in the dining hall distributing the food Three Chinese, two men and a the stuff was removed by the district officer and Colonial Secre-woman, were convicted by Mr. woman. tary. He was recently co-opted a Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon member of the Central Committee Magistracy, this to carry out the proposals of the Colonial Office Conference for the were fined $5 each and ordered to knowledge of the theft and put

Naval Customers. unification of the Colonial service, pay the complainant $1 each the blame on the men who had Mr. Murphy pointed out the

Sir Frank-Morrish Baddeley has They were also bound over in a absconded.

coincidence of this rush of busi- been Chief Secretary of Nigeria bond of $50 to keep the peace for The second defendant also put ness at an hour after the Naval aince 1924, prior to which he had six months.

the blame on these two men and Canteen had closed down at 11 p.m. much service in Malaya. He was

Inspector L. P. Lane said the said that she had only removed The Ghitose Kwan, he said, was appointed Cadet in the F.M.S. in 1897, passed his final examination fight was over a loun of money and the baskets after putting the above Queen's Road Central, and

was the woman assaulted the complain- potato peelings into them on below Kennedy Road, in an isolat- of professional reputation called to the Bar at the Inner ant when he was leaving the instructions from the No. 1 cook. ed part of the district. He sub-brought at Middlesex Guildhall by The other two Mr. Whyte Smith discharged the mitted that, aware of the closing Dr. Bernard Leggett, a radiologist, Temple in 1913. During his ser- cement works. vice in Malaya he received the defendants, her husband and aon, first defendant and imposed two hour of the Naval Canteen, the de- of Romford-road, Forest Gate, thanks of the Government for ser- also. came to her help. In the months hard labour on the second, fendant had profited from the op- against Messrs. Hope Brothers, of portunity to cater to late custom High Holborn, London. Dr. Leg- vices in connexion with the Ula struggle. The woman inflicted a Selangor riota

by the sailors. The present was gett said that he bought a bat in. in 1902, and cut across the conplainant's left

the first offence under the car defendants' shop for 8s. 6d., and amongst other pusts he held were eye. There were some pugnacious of people in this locality, and the

rent licence held by the defendant. later a rash broke out on his fore- those of Superintendent

His Worship fined defendant head, which was diagnosed

dermatitis. Ha contended Government Monopolies Depart- Inspector asked

$60. ment, S.S., Postmaster General, penalty.

this was caused by the imperfect S.S., Food Controller, and Under-

dye in the lining of the hat. He Secretary, 33]"

puerumo "I Do

aid that for three months several types soy doctors and a dentist declined to purposed patients to him in case his affliction might be a danger to them, Hope Brothers admitted Apauon H Allability for having caused Dr. discomfort, u yoquos Leggett temporary

same but denied that his professional upon a reputation had been affected. The spory jury awarded Dr. Leggett £10 damages, including 21 special damages..

The weekly return of the

نوع

for a heavy

A return issued by the Ministry of Health states that the total

THEFT OF MOTOR CYCLE.

MACHINE STOLEN OUTSIDE PRESIDENCE,"

number of persons (men, women, The loss of his motor cycle, No. and children) in receipt of poor-260, was reported to the police yes- ed three cases of typhoid and law relief in England and Wales terday by Mr. Anthony Gill, of 11,

Medical Officer of Health contain-

three of puerperal fever. was one death from typhold.

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There on the night of January 1, 1990, Humphreys Avenue.

Of was 1,205,417, or 304 per 10,000 of It was stated that the machine, non-notifiable diseases there were the estimated population-a de- a B.S.A., had been left outside the 62 deathe from tuberculosis, 16 crease of 35,249 as compared with owner's residence at 8.10 p.m. lasted from malaria and five from in- the corresponding number for the night and when he went out ten or

preceding 1st January.

minutes later, It had disappeared at a p fluenz

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