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CRIMINAL APPEALS.

In-

DAY BY DAY

1930.

assurance that the Privy Council would hear the appeal, since it knu again and again lald stress on the point that it is not a Court of Criminal Appeal. If, however, the

WHEN WE READ THE LIVES OF DIS. exceptional TINGUISHED MEN IN ANY DEPAKT- circumstances are so that the Privy Council cannot wellMENT, WE FIND THEM ALMOST AL

WAYS CELEBRATED FOR THE AMOUNT: refuse, it will hear an appeal, as inOF LANDUR THEY COULD PERFORM

the case of Dr. Knowles, who wasEverett, sentenced to death for the murder

HE

WILFRID JELF o'n

THE STALK THAT FAILED.

YE WAS LOOKING at me! strained my eyes in the gloaming I My left leg in two inches of could see a hundred hinds with just The Government-is-inviting-ton water, the point of a rock infileting a small atag here and there, pour- fourth ing in single filo down, down the of his wife in Ashanti, but whoeders for the erection of a matern-unspeakable agony on my

with devilish deliberation on the conviction was subsequently quash-ty block at the Kowloon Hoapirib, a cohort of midges settling slopes, now to the right, now left .. across the burn, a water jump for ench in turn: behind them thoir. sweat of my brow, re He was king, in stately dignity, whose re

Well, there you are!

gal hend in at me. formerly of Hongkong, left estate There is always something frigid

кля

in

The Inte Mr. George M. Shaw,

value at £3,877 £3,766.)

poraonaity

ed by the Privy Council. One of the tal. exceptional circumstances in that

in my poor fevered dis- appointment grew with the over case was that Dr. Knowica

atnre: growing distance. tried without jury: Here

to distraction about that

And last of all the faithful out- Romething of the "et tu, Brute?" Hongkong, kowever, We are 40

His Excellency the Governor which cannot fail to stir the con- post, saviour of her sovereign, now situnted that, in ordinary criminal

Ben has appointed Mr. John liar-science of the hardlest veteran, the rearguard of his Grand Army, convictions involving prison

greaves to act an Assistant Secre- and, in fact, convicts him na of all cantered along and barked at me! ainners assuredly the most miscr tences, nothing can be done but bowlary to the Sanitary Board.

able.

Did you ever walk that long six to the findings of the local Court.

But it was really very trying! 1 miles all down the pony truck in His Excellency the Governor has declared Dr. W. V. 1. Koch, had been after him since day-break. dusk and falling shadow, over the to be duly elected a Member of the and was getting near him towards little trickles where the heather evening: but the mlats had come softly strokes your anides, and on where the

These facta anggest that there is A stap in our criminal law provisions

England, the Court of Criminal Ap. peat sits every Monday morning, et during Vacation, and, despite

the fact that the cases with which it leaks have been conducted by able

over

mort.

uf

❤

passenger

The half yearly general meeting of voting members of the Hongkong Jockey Clul is advertised to take lace it the Club House, Happy Valley, on Monday, 24th November, 1930 at 5.15 p.m.

at

my

An election of a member of eutirely.

the Sanitary Board is to be held to crouch and crawl to beat the the City Hall on December 8th filing light I want I might have from 10 am to 1 p.m. Nominations must be in not later than 1 pm. on the 26th instant.

known.

***

"Dinner ready, Kenneth!" my answer. Nough aald.

"Prince

Was

It is notified that at the expira-very point of vantage, and this one wine

missed. The Monarch's safety morrow's the last day, and with

1

1stilling. I tried to think

me...

which badly needs bridging. In lernsing Doard for three years.Ikweeping down the mountain-side along the stony pathway

crunching of your boot disturbs the A bankruptcy notification states upon us both, and he had moved

liness into outraged scuffle and pro- that a second and final dividend of across me! Ilence my predicament. rightful tenants of all this lone- $2.25 per cent, has been declared in There he stood at thirty yards...testing cry?

I did that night. and I caught unawares. To my And have you ever known a long- the case of G. P. and H. A. Lam-

relief, he started feeding again, but last bond beakle. A lake which of. welcome It is notified that the period behind a boulder which would short-

through a bothie window barristers, heard by eminent Judges within which tenders for the, con-ly hide him from my line of sight.ought a tiny light

of Slowly and

hand stole down and then a wondrous smell feeling for the rifle burning peat slowly

which roused your and pantered

by capable struction over

buoyancy are quashed vehicles ferry berthage may be jurora, convictions

submitted bas been extended and which I knew lay just within its lagging steps almost

reach, though I dared not turn my Have you known that? I have! 1 practically every week. We make December 11th,

hend to see. My fingers touched flagged that night, for the worst was still to come that agonising mention of this point to show the

the muzzle and drew.it gently up.

Up went his head again. Again meeting with the ghillle, McLood. exist at Home safeguards which

He was standing in the doorway to prevent miscarriages of Justice.

the devastating stare those cursed

chind the cover of his rock, and, face-not on his lips; ho knew too ptarmigan this time! Another step with the burning queation on his The rights which are enjoyed by

over the sights. I could no longer much to have it there. see him. Now he was lost to view weetsed persons in England do not.

In desperation I began however, obtainy here. So vital are

If I could get a meal like bothie the issues involved, deeply affecting

dinnera a McLeod part of the morty of the subject, that it

time flue there every night. One remark, and only one, passed: seems high time this Colony was

She had seen me long ago. The and that not before I had dined and looked upon the brought into line with Home condi-

minions of the harem had picketed like

it was... yellow, "To- The vindication of Mr. Instone |tions. The matter me upon Brewer by his brother barristers of which public sentiment should notion of three months the English was their daily task: and when be this wind he'll be bidin' pretty near

Electric Company, Limited will, moved towards evening he'd called the Little Corrie."" the Middle Temple, men who are be glow in expressing itself.

unless cause is shown to the con-them in and driven them ruthlessly And he was. We were on the amongst the highest legal lumin-

trary, he struck off the register before him to secure his royal pro-rocks over the bothie by half-past aries of the land, raises issues of

India's Future.

and the Company will be dissolved.

all except the rearguard, five. Below is the mirror of the wider publie interest than those

Lord Irwin's despatch setting H.E. the Goverior (Sir Williard Napoleon that he was! While lake was showing the hillside just

1. less

skilful in my tucties, had as clean as any picture, while over which affect Mr. Brewer personally-forth the constitutional changes res

Feel) and Commodore A. H. Walker rushed straight into the trap head there on Bosman hung the faintest.

intention long-

Too late I knew what I had tantalising mist. We say so much after fully wlis commended by the Government of av signified their

For half an hour we lay on our ing the importance of the matter India as a basis for discussion at being present at tonight's open done-nd dropped.

Th presentation

Mid lle

Too late! The hind was up be-backs with eyes glued to our apy- Watch" by the Amateur Dramatic tween me and her royal master: glasses. For half an hour we to the gentleman concerned, who the Round Table Conference, faces

staring, disgusted at my never spoke. Then McLeod closed has suffered the obleguy of imprl-up to the issuca in a statesmanlike Club,

This with the snap of a great deci 1 E. the Governor of Macno is wasn't there at all. Was it a bun-sion made: sonment on a conviction which the manner and disarms much of the eriticism of the Viceroy, which bay

or only Middle

"Aye, he's your staggie a richt." Templo Benchers

feature of paying an official visit to the Co-dred years that passed been such a marked

lony on Wednestiny. ite will be just a lifetime? And all the time animously declare to have been political comment in the past year entertained to dinner at Govern- the veils of night were bringing The mist was still persistent, and. without justification. Happily for Contrary to to the alarmist suggestment House on Thursday, when [down the curtain; while she, there were many stags and hinds Mr. Brewer, he has been able to re- tions of Tory "die-hards" there is the band of the Volunteer Defence milady, coldly took her stock of inside the march: but we had apled and he, my Royal, fed away and found him independently, close establish himself in the eyes of the evidently ruthing further from the Corps will he in attendance.

just over the top, of course.to the Little Corrie, miles away! responsible British

"It will take rue all day to get up The rand commencing at the just over that boulder. community, and can therefore face thought of

And then she sounded the alarm to him, Kenneth," was my comment. the world just as if the conviction leader in ludia than the throwing north-east corner of S.L.L. 534.

of the Simon Commission's running in a north-westerly direc-such exquisite creation endowed | He looked across the valley, had ever been registerel and he

"He'll no be easy to get in at, Sir, Report. On al important points of tion, parallel to Shaukiwan Read with that portentous bark, Three had never served his Mentence. policy, the views of the Simon Com-and terminating at its junction paces at the walk and then This, whilst comforting to himself, mission are accepted, even where it with a new street at the north-perky tret behind that blessed before nicht."

west corner of Shaukhwan Lot 184, bouller... and away. I could cannot wholly alone for the is recognised that serious risks are

has been named Nam On Street. hear the rattle of the stones. As I | mental and physical suffering inherent in so great a change. which he experienced and which, fact, the despatch répresents, rather according to the Masters of the than an alternative scheme to tire excellent proposals of Sir John Beneb, be should never have been

Simon's coterle of British Purlin- called upon to bear.

mentarians, a very necessary de- The point which accis stressing | velopment of their programme, is that a man with less determina-dealing more particularly with the tion and courage than Mr. Brewer.relations between the House of Commons and the Government of India, which the Commission court as that of which he could avail ignored. We cannot attempt here himself. would. if similarly соп- un exhaustive examination of Lord Victed, have practically no re- Irwin's views on the further pro- dress whatever. That is sogress which is now possible in the exist development of responsible govern- adequate ment in India. A courageous nt- machinery for right of appeal from tempt is made to offer a practical scheme by which the first definite criminal convictions. It is true impress of Dominion Status can be thint A

convicted person

in

achieved. A fundamental Magistrate's Court can appeal to sideration is the willingness the Full Court, but as he has to put Great Britain to show, by her a measure of concession, up a bond for the Crown costs as liberal

that she well as find his own costs, the ex- desire to invest India with the con- does not falter. In her

pense is so great that the majority stitutional status that she seeks apd of Puller Court defendants cannot which appears to be justified to the psibly make use of the facilities. lending British officials on the spöt. So far as Criminal Sessions cases The Government of India aska to are concerned, there is no provision be conferred with a distinct entity, for appeals against convictions, capable of acting in domestic mat- ters on ita initiative and with the The Judge can, of course, reserve mbit. of uncontrolled.powers, free n point of law for the Fall Court, to pursue its own polley. The time but that does not cover questions has come when the Government of of fact. The position in fils rea- India should cease to function as pect is comparable to that which the agent of the Secretary of State existed at Home prior to the crea- for India, according to the despatch, tion of the Court of Criminal Ap and it la a view which will be wide- peal, when there existed a Court of ly endorsed. It remains to be seen whether extremists who have re-

OF DIRE without necess to such a

i because there docH not

in this Colony

y

La

con- of

| Criminal Causes, Reserved, which fused to join in the London Con

was competent to deal with purely ference can also take a liberal point

legal points on which doubts arose. of view.

As we understand the general poal-

tlon, it would be possible for a per-

1

Royal Observatory returns show

son convicted by the Criminal Ses- that during October the average sions to apply to the Privy Council mean temperature was 70.8, the for leave to

appoal; provided highest being 86.6 and the lowest 60.1 There were 271,8 hours of tho time factor made this sunshino and 0.41-inch of rain. Tho practicable, but there is no average humidity was 78.

4 wit this wind. But yo'll i

have him

(Continued on Page 9.)

"This building only one of Jack's whims? Oh dear, no. Wee Sin simply wasn't getting

enough air."