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the plaintiffs sent 2 bales of white Bonins and relatively low over cotton yarn from Liverpool to China and Luzon.
Bahia by a stramer belonging to the defendanta At Bahia the goods had to be discharged into a lighter, and after the plaintiffs' goods had been safely placed in the lighter case of heavy iron pipes was raised from the hold to be placed
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in the lighter also. While the case was being lowered by the steamer's derrick its bottom broke and the pipes fell out into the lighter and haled it. Sen water thereupon flowed into the lighter and damaged the plaintiff's goods. Counsel for the defence submitted that at the time of the accident the carriage by the ship was finished and the defendants' responsibility was over, By the bill of lading lighterage at Bahia was to be at the risk of the SOME SHIPPING PUZZLES. plaintiffs. Even if it should be held
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WHAT is a day-dind when is a ship's voyage ended. from a con- signee's point of view. These are two questions which have been argued, and pronounced upon, in the English Courts recently, and the attendant facts are of very con-
siderable interest to merchants and shipping agents generally, The judicial definition of a day is of particular importance to those cerned with charter-parties. It de-- pends mainly, as cases of the kind often do, on the interpretation of isolated words. A vessel was char-
tered to make a number of trips, 15 to 20 at the charterer's option, and the charter-party contained a clause stating "the cargo to be leaded" and discharged together within five reversible working days
that the carriage by the ship had
not finished the defendants, would not be liable even if they were, 'negligent because it was expressly provided that the Hghterage was to be at the risk of the owners of the goods. Counsel argued that the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act did not apply to lighter transit. The process of discharge was ended with regard to each afticle of "goods when the article itself was dis
charged from the ship.:
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News and Views.
One Japanese ense of paratyphoid fever was reported on Thursday.
Col. J. McD. Hastard, C.M.G., D.S.O., was among the passeTRE IS arriving yesterday by the Kashgar from the Northı.
Palice investigations into the,
At Pwllheli Police Court Robert murder of Chinese cook at 12,
Jones, Gwyndy, Lianystrumdwy. Quarry Point, on March 1, have not pleaded guilty to a charge of shoot- resulted in any arrests. A rewarding salmon in the Dwyfor River of $230 is now offered for the arreat and was åned 33. He expressed, re-.
information leading to the gret at his action, and told the arrest of the person or persons who chairman that he gave the salmon attacked and strangled the man. to a sick person in the village.
Tyred Pedestrians.
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The new
racecourse at Northolt Park, near Harrow, which apens re
A meeting of the Water Emer-cently for pony racing, will be, gency General Committee will be when fully developed, one of the finest racecourses in the country, held in the Council Chamber ut
The Park has an area of 170 acres, p.m. on Monday.
and five grandstands are being ex- pended on the course, and it is con
A houseboy at 23, School Street, Causeway Bay, has been arrested ou a charge of stealing a sum of $260 from his employers.
The store-keeper at Lyremun Barracks, has reported, the theft of number of cocking utensils valued at. 8, from the cook house.
The Police Branch of the M.C.L. is having a Ladies Whist Drive at the Helens May Institute. Garden Boad, on Thursday, July 11, at 2.30 p.m. Entrance fee, which includes ten, 81.
A brisk trade in a new type of footwear is being created by the cobblers of Albania, Turkey, and parts of Persin, They are making' shoes out of old Dunlop tyres by the simple process of cutting well, worn motor tyres into the required a fowlengths, fashioning a toe and fidently expected that in years' time pony racing will tongue, and lacing a thong of lea- develop into racing under Jockeyther around the top, to bind the Club rules. The Betting Control whole together. The finished article Board have recently inspected the resembles a Duch subot and a travel- course, and a totalisator is to be ler who has just made a tour of the erected shortly,
Near East reports that in the bazaars the demand for the,, new shoes is grent because they cost less and wear longer than sandals or the
Lady Tree, speaking at the recent annual meeting of the University College Hospital Ladies' Associa
the Medical School. Lion,
at
University Street, London, begged the Association not to ask her to join their working parties, because she confessed that she was no good at all at sewing. I did once join Gordon's, the well-known ladies.
a working party, "she said, "and shoe shop has opened new pre attempted to make a nightdress. risey
the ground floor That was in 1900, and in 1020 that Kayamally Building, with an nightdress became a rag bag. Some tractive display of goods. The sum how I had put the left sleeve into mur sale is now in progress.
the right armhole and the right sleeve into the left, and I had sewn up the hem at the bottom so that I could not get into it."
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There will be an Open Day" at the Kowloon Junior British Counsel for plaintiff submitted School on Wednesday next from 10 that according to the evidence the a.m. to soon, and from 2 p.m. to 3 case which broke and allowed them. Parents and friends are ivit- Pipes to fall into the lighter was
ed to see the children at work... made by skilled makers and was of the kind which they had made for years and was of good materials.
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The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John Ambulanse Brigade begs to was not, therefore, acknowledge receipt of the balance within the exception under Article of the part proceeds of the Benefit
The matter
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more modern boot.
X-Ray for Smugglers.
In future, people suspected, of smuggling jewels into New York will be X-rayed. Should the agents of a shipping company in Europe report that a wealthy woman has bought a lot of diamonds in Paris, and she fails to declare them when the ship arrives, she will be asked to step inside a specially constructed booth in the Customs shed. As sho stands there, the expert in charge will be able to see at once if any solid objects are concealed. Should she have hidden a diamond just be- dele-fore leaving the ship, it will be seen, as also will any jewellery hid- den in the heels of her shoes or in her clothes.
Lady Simon addressed the gates to the annual conference of the British Commonwealth League at a recent luncheon" at the Cri- terion Restaurant. She said that until the women of India took their A Chinese Princess of Long Ago,
If twenty of the best actresses on responsibilities towards their own people as A serious matter, the London stage had been, at the the true greatness of India Theatre Royal last night they not appear before the would have learnt the lesson of world. The heart of India was be their lives in how to be daintily ginning to beat in its womanhood, and she thought the women of India deserved the highest praise. Mrs, Sarojini Naidu, (India) said that she thought the crown and climax of the feminist movement should be the absence of any further sex
IV., Rule 2, of the Act relating to Theatrical "Performance th thc insufficiency of packing. The de- Ko Shing Theatre, amounting to would fendants admitted that it was re- 843.85.
ta, commence from first high water ator of loading or discharging Berth" and a further clause allow ing the charterer to keep the rescrived in apparent good order and on demarrage at a stated rate for condition. The fall of the pipes into the barge was not a peril of a period not exceeding ten days The clauses were of a kind which'! are not infrequent in such docu-
menta.
`..
the ara..
Speakers
the European Y.M.C.A. " quiet hour" ut & p.in, every Sunday will be as follows during the current month-July Mr. J. H Hunt; 14, Mr. J. L McPherson; 1," Mr".P. Sands; 29. Rev. F. Short.
8500 will be offered for information It is understood that a reward of
leading to the arrest of the person
consciousness...
Mr. Edward Laurillard, manag- Theatre Company, on behalf of a ing director of the Piccadilly
syndicate, has made an offer of
The ultimate wetting of the yarn might by itself be a perit of the sea, but the real cause of that wetting was the fall of the Two questions arose for decision. pipes. Counsel submitted that the One was whether under the charter shipowner was bound-to deliver thei party a
fraction of a day must goods undamaged unless he could count as a day. As is well-known, bring himself within the protection the law in dealing with ordinary given by one or other of the clauses duys does not take account.of fraoof Rule 2, Article IV. There was
or persons responsible for the double murder in the Harbour tions, so that for instance, a period only one clause of Rule 2 which brought to light on Thursday. 30,000 for Daly's Theatre, Leices commencing at 1 p.m. on one day could protect the defendants, and Police investigations have so far and finishing at the same time on they had not discharged the onus the succeeding day would in law which that clause laid on them: normally amount to two days The accident must have been caused Such period in actual fact includes by negligence on the part of the
Mr. JUSTICE Rocar, in giving that the defendants contended that when the goods were put into the arge the sea transit had ended and
a fraction of each of two days; bút ship.
scornful, especially in their entries and exits. Miss Lo Pan. Yee float- ed on to the stage like a slender garden on an Ancient Chinese vase. Painted figure from some fairy In her broended white, silks and skirt of sunflower yellow she was dynasty, of the time when we the princess of some legendary
Westerners-wore woad and carried instruments of stone. It was evi- dently a sad song that she sang
gardening of the kind that would with a little silver hoe she did some in her high plaintive voice, and
have made Marie Antoinette in her audience our princess was uncor Trianon appear bucolic. Of her
ter Square. The offer has been scions: she was in some Royal declined by the Westminster Bank, palace, pouring out her grief in The willowing young solitude. with whom the negotiations took princess made all Republics seem The Social Committee of the place. Mr. Laurillard stated that little cheap; made one wish for i Furopean Y.M.CA., Kowloon, has if the deal had gone through it was Royal Chinese
the and
This dignities of opcient days. was one of the items of the "Grand a'tranged a social evening on Thurs intended to turn the theatre into a
Ladies are invited.
We should have had to spend a the Shansi famine fund. it was a The occasion further £120,000 од alterntions. pity longer notice was not given will be in the nature of a farewell] The lease, moreover, has only an- and adequate advertising done. other forty years to run. We can
The audience was pear, but we are
been fruitless.
Face
the law does not count fractions.judament for the chipowners, said day, July 25, at 9 p.m. to which "talkie," cinema. He added:-) Convert held last night in aid of
Home at the end of the month.
www.
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young
Chinese committed
European community would be only a large section of the
too delighted to see a good Chinese programme and to support so en- tirely worthy
it counts the whole of the unit to which the fraction belongs. The Judge who heard this case, however,
that the Carriage of Goods by Sea | to Mr. P. Sands, the very popular not see our way to increase our sure that beld that this normal principle was Act no longer applied to them. If Assistant Secretary who lives for afer, and the matter is at an end not applicable to the charter-party that wero so, the defendants would in question, because the charter-be protected by the exceptions in the bill of lading, In his view, party in referring to "days" was
A however, the discharge into the not referring to normal days. "Oaighter was part of the operation, suicide by jumping into the the contrary, it defined what it of discharge frota the ship and was harbour from Queen's Pier in full not completed while the other goods meant by a day-n period "to com.
were being loaded into the same view of a crowd of people yesterday mance from first high water." If, lighter. He held, therefore, that afternoon. The man was known to therefore, the vessel were to arrive the seu transit had not finished and be a resident at 109, Wellington that the Act still applied. The real Street. His body hed not been at its berth ut, say, 4 p.m. on dispute in the case was how the recovered at a late hour last night. certain day and high water, was acident happened. His Lordship Another death took place at Monx said he had come to the conclusion | kok, when a Chinese crossed the
containing the pipes fell out while the opposite direction.
Rule 2
the air.
cause.
so far as we are concerned. "
"The future success of the talkies lies in musical plays of the operetta flm magnate, said to type," Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, the
Д London Looking Back 25 Years, "At break- Correspondent recently. fust this morning I signed a contract with Rudolf Frim, to my mind the greatest living composer Marie and The Vagabond King, who wrote the music of Rose
A Peking letter states that a Portuguese gentleman is now in the expitni trying to get the permission of the Shangpa and Waiwupu to construct & railway between Macao He is now on his way to Vienna to and Canton. It seems that this.
not until p.m., then the day, that the defendants were right in road behind a lorry and was crush.write the music of the first talkie gentleman first went to Shanghai within the meaning of the charter saying that the bottom of the case ed by another lorry coming from operatta, production of which will and approached H. E Sheng Kung- party, would commence at 5 p.m.
be put in hand as soon as I return pace with the object of making the to America. I have my artists in Proposed railway a private one, and continue until the correspond it was suspended in
and a modus vivendi had even been Article III. of the Act put a
mind and also the story, which will settled upon when, it is reported, ing part of the following afternoon; general obligation on the shipowner Artistic Publicity..
be historical Jazz has no future H. E. Viceroy Teen Ch'ung-hauen, and where only a part of a day was to deliver the goods safely, subject Kesa business men realise that it in talkies, I am convinced. Good of Canton, wrote to H. E. Sheng pays to advertise, but successful class musical talkies will be out Kung-pae asking the latter to delay used in loading that part only and to the provisions of Article IV., to the whole must be counted. lieved, inter alin, from liability for medium of the advertising. A re-
The shipowner was re- results depend on the manner and standing always. "
signing an agreement Concerning the railway. The Portuguese gent- Having thus decided what the loss due to insuficient packing,markable combination of art" and Children of severat of Britain's leman, therefore, wearied with the charter-party meant by a day, the and it was contended for the plain-originality is seen in the bockle outstanding public men are begin delay in getting things settled in til that that provision only ap just published entitled "Shopping ning to follow in the footsteps of Shanghai, went to Peking to work Judge had next to decide the mean-plied to the packing of the parti- Round the World on the President their parents. Miss Ishbel he his scheme officially through the ing of "reversible daya." The cular goods which were damaged. Liners." The literary and pictorial Donald and Mias Megan Lloyd Boards of Commerce and Foreign George, daughters of two former Affairs."-Hong Kong Daily Press, charter-party stated that the cargo No doubt the packing referred to work has been done by two women, would chiefly be that of the goods and the pamphlet is intended to was to be loaded and discharged themselves, but the words were appeal to women particularly, but Donald and David Lloyd George,
Prime Ministers, Ramany Mae July 6, 1904. within five reversible" days, and wide enough to cover the packing no man es fail to be impressed by have long taken part in public Looking Back 60 Years, the charterers contended that the of other goods, and he held that the striking beauty of it. Brief affairs. Oliver Baldwin, son of An advertisement in another- they did so. The case containing and brightly-written descriptions of Stanley Baldwin has also stood column announces that the General allowances for each of the trips the pipes which fell into the lighter the porta called at by the President for Parliament, though being Agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson were so to speak, cumulative, sowas made by competent people, but liners are combined with novela Socialist, bis politics are in op- & Co.) of the Canton Insurance. that for 15 trips an allowance of 75 he was satisfied that it must have illustrations utterly unlike those position to those of other members Office have declared an interim with all Modern Conveniences, Drying days should be made. But the initially defective, and he seen in the usual folder" issued of the family to which he belongs. bonus and dividend of 25 per cent. held that there had been insufficient by shipping companies. Apart from Diana Churchill, daughter of the on contributions and 8262 per share Court held that, on the construc packing within the meaning of the anything else, as a specimen of ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, has respectively on account of the year tion of the document, the five re- exception. But he did not decide first-class printing this pamphlet is just made a speech in public, in 1978.
the case on that ground. There worth putting in the library. The presenting awards at a musical The British steamer Japan, Cap. versible days referred to were can-
was nothing in the appearance of Dollar Steamship Line has set a competition aniong choirs. Antain T. 8. Gardner, which arrived fined to tach particular voyage, the case containing the pipes which standard in artistic publicity, that other rising young politician is here on Saturday from Calcutta, and time lost or gain. On one voyage ought to have aroused the suspicion is a credit to al: concerned in its "Quintin Hogg, son of Lord Hai-reports having passed a week ago Isham, the Lord Chancellor, who to-day, in Lat. 4.09 long 105.31. Her could only be set off against time of the defendants, who accepted it production, and the money spent
for carriage in the ordinary way of on distributing such a pamphlet has been elected president of the Majesty's screw sloop Pegasus. gained or lost an that vorage. The business, and he held that the de- will surely prove a good investment. Union Debating Society at Oxford, Commander Hon. Horatio g decisioyektrotres ne fundamental fendan's had dwharged the part366 ply compris and orest-in-the-postlar heller
flood The Fegasus was standing legal principle, but it has an obwhich the clause laid on thema of reader, whether acquainted with the during their student careers by to the North, and was under can-
showing that the accident happen places mentioned or not, and once William Ewart Gladstone, Lord vas; she is now probably within vious importance for those engaged ed. without any negligence on the such interest is aroused the rest is. Salisbury, Lord Curzon, and other few days of this port-Hong Kong ih.shipping practice.
part of themselves or their servants. easy.
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