1937-08-21 — Page 7

The

Hongkong Telegraph

SEVENTH ANNUAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937.

NEW GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

NO

NEXT YEAR Incurable Insanity, Cruelty

And Desertion

RELIEF FOR THREE YEARS SAVE IN SPECIAL CASES

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC MR. A. P. Herbert's Matrimonial Causes Bill, as amended

COMPETITION

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COUPONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS (Donated to the value of $125 by Helmut Nocht and to the value of $50 by Agfa China Company).

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

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SECTION ONE:

COR STORY-TELLING PICTURES

First Prize: Bell and Howell Filmo Straight Elght Movie Camera, with case, valued $250, donated by Filme Depal, Hongkong.

Second Prize: Coupon for Photo- graphic Goods, valued $25, donated by Helmut Nacht.

Third Prize: Coupon for Photo graphile Goods, valued $10, donated by Agta China Company.

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GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LANDS- CAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN AND ANIMAL STUDIES).

SECTION THREE:

STUDIES IN STILL LIFE

by the House of Lords, which was passed without a division by the House of Commons recently, has received the Royal Assent. It will not, however, take effect until January 1.

The measure extends the grounds for divorce nullity to include:

Desertion for three years; incurable insanity of five years' standing; cruelty; and insanity or epilepsy at the time of marriage,

or

Except in cases of special hardship or depravity, divorce may not be granted until three years after the marriage. One clause, making it unnecessary for evidence given in securing a judicial separation to be repeated in the Divorce Court, is likely to reduce the cost of divorce to certain applicants. MR. A. P. HERBERTS' TRIUMPH

Tribute By M.Ps.

ecution. With Me discussion and

WAITING PERIOD ·

No Bargain With Opponents)

JURY SYSTEM FAILS

IN INDIA

UNWILLINGNESS

CONVICT

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"QUITE UNSUITABLE TO MENTALITY

Calcutta, July 29, The comparative failure of the monted by the acting Chlef Jury system in India was com- Justice, Sir I. W. J, Costello, of the Calcutta High Court, when! he referred to the unwillingness guilty in murder eases in India. of Juries to return a verdict of

In a case in which Shaik Gaffur was charged with murdering his wife, the Jury unanimously found the accused not guilty, but the sessions Judge was of opinion that this verdlet was perverse and

that the view taken In delivering wrong. his lord- by the judge was correct.

This, his lordship continued, was one of those instances which un- fortunately occurred only too fre- quently in India of Juries declining, or at any rate, being unwilling to conform to the cath which they had laken to do their duty to the com- munity and the country.

The question would arise whether the whole Jury system was not totally unsuitable to the mentality of the persons who were likely to be Jurors in India, or whether some other system ought not to be put Into operation in cases of persons charged with serious offences, His lordship added that the pro- recution established their case beyond all possible doubt, and the Jury to have found the accused

The accused was sentenced

Debate was concentrated on the Lords' amendment to the famous first In 1tle more than an hour the clause, substituting three years for House of Commons agreed to the five as the period after marriage dur- Lords amendments to the Marringeing which divorce ennnot be obtained, Bill-now, at their lordships' desire, Mr. Herbert insisted that the clouse entitled the Matrimonial Causes Bill had never been a bargain with oppo- There could hardly have been anents. It was in the original bill, it shorter consumption of parliamentary had been in a former bill, time for settlement of the final isstres

He said in the Commons that ve of a question which lus been vexed years might be too long, while he in and out of Parliament for a gen declared that be could not consent to without a single division the amend any fundamental alteration.

A tremendous barrage" had been

ought ments, which filled some six pages, fred upon the unfortunate clause" in

guilty. were accepted,

the Lords by

laymer, bishops death. by lawyers, Not in our time has ony private and even the Archbishop of Canter- number hatt such a legislative success bury. The Archbishop, opposed the as Mr. A. P. Herbert when he saw revised clause. Not for the Brst the bill thus pass triumphantly its time, Mr. Herbert found himself "un last fence. The records of Parlia able to understand the workings of

Kel that ment are strewn with the failures of

hat great mind." measures of divorce refur. Mr.

The Speaker then warned him not Herbert, who entered the louse of tu quote too literally from speeches Commons only two years ago, brought in the upper House. the cause to victory in his second sression.

VALUE OF BILL "Most Important Of Session"

No one

could have been more modest when the hour of achievement struck. He was content to thank the Government for giving the time of the House, his associates in the conduct of the bill for their work, all members for their co-operation and kindness und Mr. De lu Bere, who

First Prize: $45 Cash, donated by used his luck in the ballot to give

the bill its opportunity. "Hongkong Telegraph."

Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "Hongkong Telegraph,"

Third Prize: $15 Cush, donated by "Hongkong Telegraph."

Fouri Prize: Coupon, for Photo- graphle Goods, valued $10, donated by Agta China Company,

SECTION FOUR:

SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS

Furs

of

Dr. Denma proceeded to congratu late him on his remarkable success.

were Stre There applause at the pronouncement that many people would consider the bill the most important of the session and all would agree that it was of major importance.

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insanity, mental deficiency, or epi- lepsy at the time of the marriage: venereal disease in a communicable form at the time of the marriage: and pregnancy of the respondent at the time of the marriage by some person other than the petitioner. in the last three cases the petition- the first time, Mr. Herbert, con- tinued, they had in the divorce law aer must have been ignorant of the declaration that marriage was not a facts alleged.

temporary alliance. This clause COLLUSION AND

would be in the minds of everybody who

contemplated marriage

DELAY

Should Relief For Clergy

It was originally intended

intended thot the Matrimonial Clauses Bilt take effect as soon as it had been Placed on the Statute Book. As the

House of Commons It will not now. result of an amendment passed by the

come into force

next. January until By its main provisions the measure: Extends the grounds for both di- vorce and nullity proceedings;

Judicial separation ns

Other provisions deal with;

Dissolution of marriage en pre- sumption of death;

Financial provision for children; The position of wives whose hus- bands leave the country; and

Refusal of divorce where there has been connivance, condonation. collusion or unreasonable delay in

Prohibits divorce for three years after marriage, except in cases of special hardship; and

ting the petition; court is empowered to grant Empowers the Court to treat divorce before expiry of the three- decree of

year period after marriage where the proef in subsequent divorce pro-petitioner has suffered "exceptional ceedings, of the grounds un which hardship" the separation was granted.

the respondent DIVORCE AND

shown "exceptional depravity."

NULLITY

OF

HAS

In such cases application may be made to a judge to allow the present- ation of

of a petition before the three years have clapsed.

that

Mo

Both Church and State-some ehuckles were heard at this-had kept New Grounds For Decrees studiously aloof. That showed what

A Anal clause

provides reason, Deistrasion and consciousness; Ground for divorce under the bill clergyman of the Church of England of representing a large measure of will be:

or the Church of Wales shall be com- opinion would enable a private mem-

Adultery, desertion for three pelled to solemnise the nurringe of a ber to accomplish.

years, cruelty, Incurable Insanity of divorced person whose former spouse five years' standing, and unnatural is still living or to permit the solem- offences by a husband.

nisation of such marriage in his Grounds upon which a decrre of church. nullity may be obtained are:

The bill does not apply to Scotland Wiltul refusal of consummation; for Northern Ireland,

First Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "Hongkong Telegraph."

Prolonged it quiet applause ar Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by claimed the passing of the bill and. "Hongkong Telegraph."

us Mr. Herbert went out, a number Third Prize: Coupon for Photo- [of members gave him their contratu- First Prize: $75 Cash, donated by graphic Goods, valued $10, donated lations. "Hongkong Telegraph."

by Agfa China Company.

Second Prize: Coupon for Photo-. grophle Goods, valued $50, donated by Helmut Nocht.

Third Prize: $30 Cash, donated by: "Hongkong Telegraph."

SECTION FIVE:

FOR FICTURES OF HONGKONG | (ÄVARS

CORONATION CELEBRATIONS

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Fourth Prize: $20 Cash, donated by dounted by Dr. F. Bunie and Mr. "Hongkong Telegraph."

J. C. M. Grenham; Coupon for Photo- graphie Goods, valued $50, donated by Helmut Nocht; Coupon for Photo-

Consolation Prize: Coupon for Photographic Goods, valued $10, graphie Goods, valued $10, donated donated by Agfa China Company. by Agta China Company.

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