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DINNER TO MR. HILL.
HEID BAILIFF GOING ON LEATE,
AN ENJOYABLE FUNCTION
A dinner in honour of Mr., A. W. Hill, the popular heað dailiff of the Sipreme Court, prominent in Masonic activities, and one of the best-known residents of the Colony, was given at The Astor House last night by the bailiffs of the Court. Mrs Hill is departing on leave on Sendry, and the occasion was for the purpose of wishing him a pleasant journey and sale reham. A very enjoyable even- ing was spent, and several compli- mentary speeches were made.
The menu was as follows:
Hors d'OeuvrCS.
Semolina SoED:
Grilled Fish, Butter Sauce. Fillet of Beef and Copes. Aspic of Fole Gas in Jelly.
Roast Turkey.
Iced Asparagus, Moscovite Sauce.
Salid.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
THE CORONET
THE
TG-DAY TILL-THURSDAY.
At 230, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15
BURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABE LY OF AN UNKNOWN· BRITISH WARRIOR
MITCHELL LEWIS
IN
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GERMAN NEEDLES.
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Vanilla Cream Jelly.
Chestnut Pudding. Desert.
Coffee.
Mr. Thomas O'Sullivan acted as Chairman. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Hill, the guests of hocour, those la slicedance were Mr. and Mrs. O'Sul livan, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stainfickt, Mr. ad Mrs. J. Castilho, and Sub- Inspector W. W. Cooper.
$20,000 FINE.
止
FOSSESSION OF OPIUM.
BOATMAN GOES TO JAIL.
مرد
A fine of $20,000 and six months' imprisonment with hard labour, was the sentence passed by Magistrate Grase this morning on the boatman who was yesterday remanded on a charge of baring unlawful possession on board bis sampar, in the harbour,
ernment opium, and 140 txels of raw opium, valued at $58,000. In default is to serve a further 12 months. The of payment of the fine the accused
opium was confiscated
The insured parti service to satchwan which was previously suspended si of 4,816 tacle of prepared non-Gay-
now resumed.
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MONDAY, JANUARY ZŁ.
URCENT APPEAL TO HONGKONG.-
The following telegram has been received by His Excellency the Governor from His Majesty's Minis ter at Peking -~-~~-
Judgment for the defence was given in the suit of R. Negre against Joe Moraes for $7,799, involving needles that were said to be of German manufacture, by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz, in the Supreme Court, this morning. The suit alleged a breach of contract on the part of the defendant in failing to take delivery of 50 cases of posidon now desperate Money needles.
**Warmest thanks for Government grants for famine relief. Millions are facing death from starvation. Avail- able funds are totally inadequate and
urgently required. Government Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by earnestly begged to make appeal to Mr. Crew, appeared for the plaintiff people and open subscription lists in Mr. Eldan Potter, instructed by Mr.] newspapers and elsewhere. Tea dol- Hind, appeared for the defendant. " lars saves a life. Expenditure under At the opening of Court, Mr. closest supervision., Kindly wire re- Potter resumed his argument for themittances periodically for Famine re- defence. He denied that the fact lief to the Treasurer, British Lega-
had asked the defendant
the ton. Peking." plaintiff to re-sell the goods The Colonial Treasurer will be constituted acceptance. The pleased to remit to His Majesty's. defendant, he pointed out, had never Minister by telegraph any contribu- had possession of the goods. Every tions sent to him. thing the defendant had done bad, been on the assumption that the goods satisfied the warranty, which was that the needles were of German manufacture and the original "Cock actually been "Cock on Crown" on Crown brand. He presented a brand they must either have been im Dumber of authorities, including, a ported with the permission of the case in which it was held that even holder of the trade mark, or they if there had been specific godds.dhg could have been seized. He inquired possession had been taken, the goods of the Court whether it could be found might be rejected.
as a fact on the plaintiff's case that If a person accepted goods and said the zeedles had been made in that he would take the risk, it would Germany and that they were the be another matter, Mr. Pötters aid. In true "Cock on Crown" brand-Le. this instance everything the defence Jebsen's brand, as they were called had done had been on the faith that on the face of them,
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the goods satisfied the warranty. His Lordship said that he regretted There was not a suggestion in the very much that he had to find the case that the defendant had intended plaintiff was not entitled to his claim. to take the goods for anything other In his opinion, Mr. Potter was right, than what they were tendered to be. and there was really no evidence on It was not a case of accepting goods which a jury could find on the facts and keeping them past the due date that the needles were of German of delivery. Everything done by the origin and the "Cock on Crown dafer dant had been done before the brand. He might give a short writ- daterol delivery and while the goods ten judgment, which would only wre still in the possession of the mean more delay and expense. seller. It was only an acceptance "As I have no doubt, I shall give my when one tock the goods and disjudgment now. Judgment for "de- I Saigon.arcass posed of them in such a way that fendags."
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Fuissog *Bwabow, "A may and Keelung Keijo Maru ... .
Hailong they could not be returned to the The defence had subunitted Swatow, Amoy and Fachowrunnsane seller, or when they were taken with counter-claim for $6,250, on the watov, traits and Bangkok Huicho MONDAY, JANUARY 24 out regard to the fact whether the ground. that the plaintiff had sold conditions were satisfied or not. the goods elsewhere before the Dairea, Japan, Canada, United States. Bod *Central & South America. Taking up the question of the date of delivery, thus causing the
evence, he said that there had not defendant to lose the opportunity of Jara Porta via Bataris
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Swatow and Bangkok
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20.
been a witüess who could have accepting an advantageous offer. proved that the needles were of Ger- Mr. Potter announced, fellowing the man manufacture, nor had there judgment, that he would like to have Amoy, Shanghai, and been a scintilla of evidence to that the counter-claim stand. If the case. effect. If the needles had actually went no farther, on appeal, nothing bren of German origin, nothing would more would be heard of the Hollow and Haiphong... Taktang have been easier than for the plain-counter-claim," Mr. Jenkin said | "Shanghai, *North Chins, *Japan, “Canada, tiff to have proved it. The evidence he could be no party to the was merely that they had been counter-claim standing shipped from Antwerp. There was It was then arranged that Counsel nothing to show that they had been should meet the Acting Chief made in Germany. Furthermore, the Justice in chambers. At this, coca- original “Cock on Crown" brand ferénce the defence abandoned the belonged to Jebsen's and was now to counter-claim, and Mr. Jenkin, för possession of the Custodian of Enemy the plaintiff, applied for judgment in Property, atd if these needles had his behalf,
Kishima Maru
Mr. J. M. Hall, who yesterday appeared for the defence, while admitting that the opiam www.
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the boar, pleaded that his client was deceived by the smuggler who had hailed him from shore and employed him to take parcels to a ship in the fairway. This his client undertook to do with out knowing the contents of the parcels.
The Magistrate pointed out that| the onus was on the defence to prove. Innocence.
Mr. Hall said that his client could not possibly have known the contents of the parcels unless he examined them. If he examined every fare's luggage, would it be possible for him ever to get a job? Counsel said that he might himself at any time be given a parcel by a client and accept it in good faith, without troubling to examine it, and the next minute be arrested by the police for carrying contraband.
The Magistrate: Would you accept a parcel from a client at 4 am?..
Mr. Hall admitted that he would not, but at the same time submitted that the offence was a technical one in that in was committed uncos- sciously.
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SATURDAY, January 22nd., at 9.16 p.m. STUPENDOUS ATTRACTION,
MADAME LOTTIE GORDON'S GRAND CHARITY CONGERT
in aid of the Blind Home, Kowloon, and Pokfulum Home:
Under the Distinguished Patronage and in the presence of
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TICKETS AT MOUTRIES, ANDERSONS, KELLY AND WALSH,
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“SHE WALKED IN HER SLEEP."
A Farer to Three Acts
What the Papers Say of "She Walked in her Steer
“EnglishmanTM Calcetta.
The title is good, as a Farce, and as played by the Company Let night, it is really good goods. Go to it, to-night, if you can get sent, and you will bless the man, who told you
to go..
"Statesman Celestia,
As the Company produced the Farce last night at the Empire Theatre, it was a furore. Laughter rippled througout the proceedings, to my nothing of breaking out into roars every few minutes.
"Advocate of India” Bombay.
V
She Walked In fier Sleep is one of the faintest Farces Bombay has seen for long time. It is Faree pore and siorale, full of amusing scenes and witty lines. Times of India Bonita
Ehe Walked in her Sleep" played it was in that happy-go-lucky manner, which evastitutes so largely to the scccess of the DENNISTON COMPANY, was altogether the funniest Farce, we have ever seen in Bombay,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH..
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