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WAGES CLAIM.
THE CHINA MALL
CIRCUS EMPLOYEE'S ACTION.
A DESPUTED CONTRACT,
WAR OF THE JAZZERS.
DISCONTENTED COMPETI-
TORS.
STRANGE SCENES IN PAKK,
VIOLIN THAT SPEAKS.
SCIENTISTS ENCORE AN ELECTRICAL MELODY.
To play as a violin without strings, the violinist being in a distant room. was one of the miracles of a new electrical discovery demonstrated at
A claim for $578, representine
There has been a remarkable scene salary earned as a performer in the at the final judging in the competithe Institution of Electrical Engineers circes which appeared recently attion for the championship of modem by two Danish scientists the Ming Yuen Gardens. Hoogdances at the Théatre des Champs kong. was brought forward by Elysées. The tumultuoua manifesta- Jack Kokernoot at the Summary |tions of the discontented competitors Ccurt this morning.
Mr. Macnamara appeared for the plaintiff and the defendant, J Fredeni, was represented by Mr. Leo, D'Almada. |
Alfred Johnsen and Knud Rahber, of Copenhagen, have been making and developing many wonderful! appliances based upon an electrical principle they discovered in 1917, and they have come to England to demonstrate the principle to British electrical experts.
WONDERFUL EXPERIMENTS.. Briefly, the principle discovered is that when an electrical "pressure" is appled between certain substances
phic stone and a piece of metal will rent appiled in this way to a lithogra- cause the one to stick firmly to the other.
{and their friends showed that it music sweetens manners it is not quite the same thing with the dance. The jazz band had played for ive mortal hours, until two o'colck in the morn ing in fact, and when the decisions of vided that nothing in this section
It was explained to the Judge by the jury, of which the president was shall affect any rent which became Mr. Macnamara that there. André de Fouquieres, the arbiter GOVT. REVISES BEFORE GOING /dne before the colcmencement of was a written agreement herweer of fashions for men, were sunounced, they will adbere firmly. Thes a cur this Ordinance, and provided that the parties, made on May 13 at there were volleys of protests from the cothing in this section shall entitle Manila, under which two rates of galleries, and a groep of black-haired any lesser, during the currency of pay were provided—30 pesos per day: say written lease of any domestic while in the Philippines and £3-10 men resorted to acts of obstruction. tenencat for a deficite and unexpiredrer day day elsewhere. The only Farsons and his partner, Mademoiselle
dispute
to whether Pontvianne, were proclaimed the term, to czy rent higher than the|
the azr/ement meant that world's champion dancers among rent reserved in such lease.
vzper stow should be paid professionals, and immediately their 3 10s per day for every day since names were announced Lydor, a pro- the circus left the Philippines or fessional, rushed into the arena, 3rd, whether he should be paid only when with dramatic gestures, issued a
ON.
The current Gatelle notifies that amendments in the Rests Bila proposed. Here are some:-
Amead sub-clause (1) of clause 4 by the addition of ": or" to the
last in therest and by the addition of the following paragraph after
paragraph --
14 In case a lessor of any domestic tenement has expended or shall ex- pend after the 31st day of December, 1920, the sum of five hundred dollars If the lessor bona file requires or upwards on additions or improve Possession of the domestic time-aents thereto by which in the opinion int in order to pull down such of the court the rateable value thereof domete teneraent or in order shall have been or shall be incressed, rengstruct such domestic the court may on application by the renement to such an extent as to lessor for such purpose order that the make such domestic tenement rent of such tenement shall be in- new baling within the mean-creased beyond the standard rent by ing of the Public Health and an annual sum equal to 8 per cent Ordinance. 1903, and shall have on the count so expended by the given the tenant three months lessor on such additions or improve betice to quit.
ments, provided that nothing in this section shall affect any rent which became due before the commencement
9. Acad clause 4 by adding the following sab-clauses at the end
thetrol
of this Ordinance.
(6) Where a lessor has obtained 13 If any lease of any domesti an ostes or judgment for possession tenement. s portion of which is or ejectment on the geurt that he occupied by the lessee himself or by requires a domestic tenanest for his his family or servants, shall expire own occupation, and it is subsequent. after the commencement of this ly made to appear to the court that Ordinance, cathing in this Ordinance the order was obtained by misrepre-shall be construed as enabing such sentation or the concealment of lessee to retain possession of any material facts; the court may order portion of sách domestic tenement the lower to pay to the former tenant which he does not occupy himself ench sen as appears sufficient as or by his family or servants. compensation for damage or loss sustained by that renant as the sult of the order or judgment.
(Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as affecting the "peration of sections 205, 206, 207, or
2074 of the Public Health and Build- ing Ordinance, 1903.
161) No person shall, a7 A re-condition or pretended condition of the grant, renewal, or continuance, by bimself or by any other person of a tenanes of any domestic tenement, demand payment of any sum of money whatsoever, in addition to the rent.
(2) Every person demanding any Add the following clauses-payment in contmvention of this 12. -(1)
Notwithstanding any section shall be liable upon summary thing contained in the Pating Or-conviction to a fine not exceeding dipaber, 1901, it shall be lawful for one thousand dullas, and the ma- the assessor, in his absolute discre- gistrate by whom such person is con- tion, on the application of the owner victor may order the amount paid to or occupier of any tenement, to re- be repaid to the person by whom the duce the valuation of such terement in same was paid. any case in which the rent actually paid in respect of such tenement shall have been temporarily reduced in consequence of the operation of this Ordinance.
(2) Such reduced valuation shall
(3) This section shall not apply to any fine, premiura, or other like sum, which any per.on, befor: the com- mencement of this Ordinance, shall have agreed in writing to pay.
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the defendant
actually performing.
Mr. D'Almada: We say that be is only to be paid on performance days-that is, no play no pay.
The plaintiff gave evidence that be! had been engaged in several other circuses before and the arrangement had always been that there should be co lest work. He had understood that the same would apply to this contract,
To Mr. D'Almada: Plaintif had supposed that he would be paid for every day except when travelling.
All of the other artists in the Circus were paid only for perior
mances.
challenge to Parsons, who, it was alleged, was an amateur and not a professional.
The president of the jury was not in the least dismayed by this clamorous ebullition of dissent. He let it be known that he accepted full re- sponsibility that had been reached. There was the decision
for
another demonstration of disapprov. al when the announcement was made that Georges Clemencean and his partner, though they had not carried of the championship for amateurs, which went to John Roskilly and The defendant, in his evidence, Mademoiselle Andrée Fabiani, had said that the arrangement was that been given the price of honour. There Kokernoot should be paid £3 10. for were only two points of difference be- each performance outside the tween Georges Clemencean and Fernand de Huertas, who, dissatisfied Philipines.
nival to darça all the dances. Georges with the decision, challenged his Clemenceau is a grandson of the former Premier, Showing the state; of excitement that prevailed, the father of one of the competitom had declared that if his daughter was not given the prize she merited he would His Honour held that the contract. kill a certain member of the jury, must be interpreted as meaning that who, he imagined, was hostile to her.
Kokerpoot was the clown and there Mr. MacNamara explained that fore a very important feature of the circus.
The defendant: No, excuse me,
was the clown.
too:
The plaintiff: So was I a clown
I
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Besides this store, some kinds of slate, limestone, flint, agate, skin and Efects can even be got with gela the same results. tine, tone and animal membranes, but there is no electrostatic attrac
tion in the case of true Insulators,
SINGING VIOLIN.
The experiments on the violin were the mast eerie. The violin was an ordinary, instrument with the string! taken away. It was clamped high up, in full view of the audience, to a table, and in front of the instrument was
which was the direct player. placed a rotating cylinder of agate rubbing against a piece of metal
When the real violinist, a lady. played in another room the reproduc tion control was perfect, and Dvorak's
Humoresque flooded the theatre with
melody. The applause was so long that an encore was given.
After that the violin was made to reproduce the human voice, and to the delight of the audience the first part of the speech delivered by the Siemens, on February 28, 1872, came first president of the association, Mr.
out of the instrument.
DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY,
HEN you fail to provid, your family with a bottle of barber- lain's Colic and Liarrhoea Remedy at this season of the year, you are neglect- ing thera us towel complaint is sure to malady to be trided with. This be prevalent and it is too drugo on a espcially true if there are children in medy will place the trouble within
lenst a diaror's bil For sale by al Chemists and Storekeepers.
per day except when travelling while that length, for the fair dancer obtain-ontrol and perhaps mase alfe, or st the plaintiff should be paid so much It was happily not necessary to go the family; Aloe or 1n of this reme the circus was outside the Phillipine ed her prize.
Islands where the headquarters of the circus were.
Counsel agreed to have the case adjourned sine die in order to settle the exact amount for which judgment should be given.
PRETTY GIRL SHOT.
INQUIRY IN DESTROYER.
Miss Winifred Bellamy, a pretty young Edinburgh shop assistant, has 17 Where any sum shall, after died in hospital as the result of a the commencement of this Ordinace. rifle shot.
apply to the quarter in which the reduction is made, and, subject to the have been paid on account of any On a Sunday evening, with a giri provisions of the Rating Ordinance. rent, being a sum which is by virtue friend. Miss Bellamy, who belonged io, with regard to interin valua of this Ordinance irrecoverable by to Stamford, Lincolnshire, visited tions, shall continue to be in force the lessor, the sum paid shall be sme naval friends at Queensferry. while this Ordinance is in force and recoverable from the lessor who re- The women were seated in a cabin. until the coming into effect of the ceived th payment or his legal per-
when, it is understood, a caval man first annual valuation made after this gonal representative by the lessee Ordinance-shall have ceased to be in by whom it was paid, and any such sum may, without prejudice to any other method of re.overy, be deducted by the lessee from any rent payable by him to the lessor.
force.
(3) If the valuation of any tene ment is reduced under the provisions of this section, and if the rates in respect of such tenement for the quar- ter in which the reduction is made: shall have been paid to the Treasurer before the making of such reduction, the Treasurer shall refund the sum by which the amount of the rates pay- able under the former valuation ex- ceeds the amount of the rates payable under the reduced valuation.
CHINESE VIEWS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING,
who was a friend of Mi-a Blamy came in and in fun pointed a rifle at
her
the horror of all present, Miss Bel There was a loud. report, and, to lamy fell. Unknown to the man, the rifle was loaded and the buller passed through Miss Bellamy's neck. She was taken to Edinburgh Royal In firmary, where she died.
An inquiry was held on board the destroyer "Sorceress," to which the man belonged. One of the witnesses was the young woman who accom-
A meeting of the Chinese General panied Miss Bellamy. Chamber of Commerce was held yes-
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13 the rent of any domestic | terday afternoon to consider proposed tonement shall be not higher amendments to the new Rents BuL har that payable on the 3lat including a suggested clause provid day of December, 1917, it shall ing that where a lessor has obtained be lawful for the lessor of such legal authority for possession or eject. tenement to apply to the court to fix ment on the ground that he requires such other rent than the standarda domestic terement for his own occupation through misrepresentation rent as the court shall think it as the a court may order him to pay com against the R.G.ALremon) team at Local and -General
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New clauses proposed to give the, this Ordinance, provided that nothing. in this section shall affect any rent assessor authority to reduce the valua succeeded in reversing to some extent Prisoner's Escape......... which becam due before the com- tion of a tenemer t the rent of which the defear it sustained earlier in the Trones Wood Battle
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a distinctly improved regard for provided that nothing in this section result of the Ordinance; to make it combination and the gunners defeat shall apply to any omestic tenement lawful for the lesser of a domestic was mainly attributable to their during the currency of any written entment the rent of which is not
watch" their opponent higher than that payable on Decem lease of such domestic tenement for a
ber 31. 1917 to apply to the court to Rodger (4) and Logan were the goal definits and unexpired term.
fix fuch other rent than the standard ALTERNATIVE DEAFT OF CLAUSE 13. rent as it shall think fit; to give the 13 If the rent recoverable from the court power to increase the rent by an annual sum equal to 8 per cent. tenant in actual occupation of any on the amount xpended, beyond the domestic ten:rent, on the 31st day standard reps of a domestic tenement of a $1,000 fine. of December, 1320, either (a) ES D on which, the lessor has spent, or The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak, who reat which had been agreed upon in shall epend, after December 31, 1920, pre-ided, said that the Government writing at some date before the 1st $500 or upwards on sétitions and had decided to adhere to December 31, day of January, 1918, or (6) was not improvements ir creasing the rateable 1920, as the date on which standard higher than the rent recoverable value of the property; to make it rent was to be fixed. Replying to Irons, the tenant in actual occupation clear that a lessee shall not be en-questions he said that tenants had on the 1st day of January 1918, titled to retain possession of any no right to recover any excess in for the portion of a domestic tenement not rent paid since December 31 to the it shall be lawful lesser of such tenement to apply occupied by himself, his family, or present month. Asked if goden his servants, the lease of which has owners practice of charging - shot to the court to fix such other an expired after the commencement of money should be allowed to com than the standard rent as the count the Ordance soit dry endorse or land by shall think fit as the rent to be paid illegal for any person to demand a the Bill, Mr. Lau Chupak thought in respect of tuch tenement during the monetary consideration in addition the lessee could refuse to pay and centinosace of this Ordinance, pro-to the
reat for allowing the report the matter to the authorities.
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