THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929.
SHOPPING GUIDE
Felix Hat Shop
DECEMBER SALE FELT HATS from $8. JUMPER SUITS from $20. AFTERNOON GOWNS |GREATLY REDUCED. 7, Iee House St.
Bolande Sarrault
MODES-COUTURE
HAS REMOVED TO 3rd Floor, PEDDER BUILDING ROOM.No. 3
TELEPHONE: C.-2252
A SEK & CO. PHOTO-SUPPLIES
26, DESVIEUX Ro, C. TRL C. 3459
NAKAMURA
MASSAGE
No. 3, LI TUNO STREET, - 1ST FLOOR, WANCHAL, Hồng Koo
RADIO SUPPLIES
Mackintosh and Co., Adon
Men's Wear, Specialists.
Alexandra Bldg. Dis Vaux Road,
Fresh Flowers, Fruit
and Vegetables
The Clover Flower Shop
10, ICE HOUSE STREET
PIGGILY WIGGILY
TEAS & REFRESHMENTS, HOME MADE CAKES
The Home of Fashion CHILDREN'S
LADIES' DRESS MAKING
KAYAMALLY BUILDING
FROCKS
FILL YOUR FOUNTAIN PEN
and write a Chit to 11, Ice House. Strest
BEFORE YOU SAIL
Press to be sout to you Oversea. It conte
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and order the Weekly
CARDS
SEALS
$3.75 for three months.
TAGS
GIFTS ETC., ETC.
-$7.50 for six months.
$15.00 for a year.
DER A. WING & CO. (1923); LTD.
ELECTRIC GRAMOPHONES Madame S. LEITE
AND MOTORS
SUPER ELTO OUTBOARD
MOTORS
RUDGE-WHITWORTH MOTOR CYCLES TENNIS RACKETS
RUDOLF WOLFI & KEW, Lai.
54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. 1st Floor.
Tel. 0. 2178.
Ladies' Wear Specialist
SILK PIECE LACE FOR EVENING FROCKS
JUST ARRIVED
ASIATIO BUILDING. 1st FLOOR
TELEPHONE C.4474
QUALITY
PERMANENT WAVING
The Most Up-to-date. Beauty Shop in Town, MRS. BETEN, TEL. K. 681. PENINSULA HOTEL EX. 34.
A. YUN
TAILOR & OUTFITTER 40, POTTINGER STREET, CESTRAL TEL C. 8060.
Hoso Koso.
WIFE
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POWELL'S
Gentlemen's Tailors and Outfitters.
BESPOKE ORDERS » Executed In 24 Hours,
10, ICE HOUSE STREET.
'BUY FROM US AND
SAVE MONEY.
Large assortments of 'Xmas Cards, Calendars, Diaries, Stationery Gifts, Streamers, Decorated Papers Fountain Pens for Sale at mast Reasonable Prices.
CHE SAN & Co., 58, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
LEOZN
FOR CAR HIRE
FOR HONG Korg: C. 4768
FOR KOWLOON: K. CSL-
THE DAIRY FARM
ICE HOVER STREET
FOR PURE MILK
FARM- AND IMPORTED FROZEN
MEATS. "HOUSE FRD POULTRY
INTEGRITY
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
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THE DEPARTMENTAL STORE OF THE EAST.
TEL. C. 4567 (6. LINES).
ESTABLIBRED 1888.
AHMED DIN
Tak CheongCIVIL, MILITARY & NAVAL TAILOR
Gentlemen's Tailors, Outfitters
and Dealers la all kinds of Fancy Goods
50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
PHONE: CENT. 1317
HONG KONG FURNITURE CO., LTD.
MANUFACTURERS OF
TEAKWOOD, BLACKWOOD
AND
RATTAN FURNITURE-
8, QUEEN'S ROAD Central
SHOP
AT
THESE
SHOPS
ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED
PRICES MODERATE FITTING GUARANTEED
* MAIN SHOP:
4. D'Aguilar St.
HONG KONG Tel, C. 1670
BRANCH SHOP: Peninsula Hotel KOWLOON
Tel. K. 681. Ext. 28
EXCHANGE BUILDING.
AUCTION!
IF YOU ARE FURNISHING
TO AND WANT
PICK UP GOOD PIECES OF EITHER EUROPEAN OR ORIENTAL MAKE AT ADVANTAGEOUS PRICE, GO TO
LAMMERT BROS.,
DUDDELL STREET
Mac's Cafeteria
HONG KONG HOTEL
Finest Selection of
+
CHOCOLATES
in FANCY GIFT BOXES
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FRESH CALIFORNIA FRUITS
ALWAYS ON SALE
BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT.
CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS !
BOOKS FOR YOUNG AND OLD LARGE ASSORTMENT OF CHINESE LITERATUEZ.
2, WYNDHAM STREET.
P. O. Box 1, Hong Kong
...
is the Address. Write an Order for
the Weekly Press to be sent you for Three Months or Thirty Years. "THE
-cost you $3.75 and the Annual Subscription is $15.
The SUN Co. Ltd.
DEPARTMENTAL STORE
DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL
H.K. TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.
FURNITURE REMOVALS AND GENERAL TRANS- PORT BY
TRUCK
LIGHTER,
OR
BI DEOBOES. BUILDING.
L. E. 8. Hodge.
.. K. 1422
HAVE YOUR EYES. TESTED AND FRAMES FITTED
*
By"
THE HONGKONG OPTICAL CO.
Qualified Opticians
53, Queen's Road C. Tel. €. 2232
J. Ullmann & Ch
High Class Jewellers Est. 1860
Alexandra. Bldg.
Chaler Road,
FRIGIDAIRE
fr (1
SOLE A¤xATE DODWELL & Co., Ltd. QUEEN'S BUILDING. TEL. C. 1000
MELTING POINT
OF WAX.
SELLER AND PURCHASER DISAGREE.
pursued; and not any arbitrary figure assumed to be its equivalent.
A sample of the paraffin wax here considered was submitted by M. Franklin both to the English and The ants live here upari the plain-. the American teste. The figure re-
tiff to show that this interpretation sulting from the British test was has been recently displaced by a 125 degrees F. This, with the ad- novel commercial custom in this dition of 3 degrees F., becomes market which he contends to be ap 126.5 degrees F temperature plicable to his contract. Thiq onus which is within the specification he seems to me not to have dis- in the contract. The American test charged.
For this reason I hold that the PUISNE JUDGE'S DECISION. (being the average of three experi.
ments gave, the result 194 degrees American Melting Foint" of this F.. which is below the specification: paraffin wax for the purpose of
? Question for Decision,
this contract is 14 degrees F.. which is not in accordance with contract specification; and the plaintiff's claim for damages there. fore Inils My judgment is for the defendant with costs.
Judgment was delivered for the
The question for decision is which defendant by the Fuisne Judge)
ie the proper test applicable to de (Mr. Justice Wood) at the Sumcide the American Melting Point" mary Court yesterday in the action in the present contract brought-by-1p Tak trading under the style of Ip Tak and Company, 36A, Queen's Road Central, to re- from the Tee" Lee cover 81,000 Cheung firm, 20, Wing Lok Street, as damages for breach of contract to accept and pay for tons of paraffin wax,
Mr. A. W. E. Davidson was for plaintiff and Mr. H. C. Lee for defendant.
The Judgment. Giving judgment, his Lordship said:The plaintiff is the seller and the defendant the buyer under a contract for the sale and purchase of paraffin wax. The buyer has re-
jected the goods; and the seller
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ADVICE FOR INVESTORS.
The parties have had a course of dealing in paraffin wax extending over 30 years. During this period the transactions have been occa- sional only. All eontracts have been "A.M. P." .e. have had no American felting Point in the READERS specification. No similar question has arisen between the parties in respect of any other contract in the series... A recent contrnet (subse quent to that here involved) has been mutually performed, without discussion.
Had this eontract heen, of a date prior to 1922, it could not have been contended that the "American Melting Point mentioned therein was anything else than the result of the American method exactly
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of contract. The buyer submits that he is entitled to reject the specification contained in the con- tract. The contract is in writing. It contains the following specificn- tion: "A..P. 125 deg./127-deg." It is agreed that the meaning of this specification is "American Melting Point" between 125 de- grers and 127 degrees Fahrenheit." The melting point" is the tem perature at which solid wax melts, which temperature is the same as that at which the same, wax, when molten, will selidify.
Melting Point Tests.
Baytri
895
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION.
Bellers Balm Nominal
]WEDNESDAY,
DEC. 11.
Bayers Suiters Bales Nominal
81,330
bre
£125
£183 15301 14104
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Banks
H.K. Banks
Do. (London) Chartered Banks Mercantile Bks. “A'
5 Do.
Bank of East Asia... $95
$1,310]
Insurances
3895
Canton Ins...
***
5880
$2.20
Underwriters
$2.05
North China
T160
$357
Union Ins.
3358
M.880 Yangtze Ins..
$60
$310
China Fires
$310
3816
H.K. Fires
$816
*
Shipping
$25 Douglases
$25
8266 846
Steamboats Indos (prof.)
3203
860
$TO
Do. (def.).
200
144
07/
Sbell Transports
100/
saa
Water-boats
$217
Mining
It appears from oral evidence given, and also from scientific text Looks (which are necessible to the Court under Ordinance 2 of 1580, 26. 4), that the American Me thod" of ascertaining the, melting T160 point of paraffin wax is to immerse 7-8th of the Lulb 'of a thermometer in a given quantity of molten wax, and then allowing the wax to cool to note the temperature c which a "spider" extends on the surface of the wax from the edge of the quid to the bulk of the thermome
The American Melting ter. Point is the result ascertained by The English Me this method. thod is different. In this method. the bulb is completely immersed, the wax is allowed to cool, and perindical readings (each period being sixty seconds) are noted. It 34.70 is known that, when the solidify
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ing point is reached. the wax gives out heat, which arrests the fall of the thermometer for a time. this stage in the process the read- ings of the thermometer remain constant for a series. The station- ary' figure is accepted as the melt- ing point,
It is obvious that the English method will register a later stage in solidification than the American 'method, that it will record a lower temperature and that it will be less liable to error. The difference between the results of the two me thods is not constant. It averages 2 to 3 degrees.
In recent times dissatisfaction. has arisen in the United States of America with the use of the Ameri can method. There is in Phila delphin a Scoiety named "The American Society, for Testing Ma- terials (incorporated in 1902). This Society adopted in 1922 na ite standard definition of the melting point of paraffin wax the follow ing: The temperature at which melted paraffin wax, when allowed to cool under definite prescribed conditions, first shows a minimum rafe of "temperature change." thug approved for its constituents the English method of test. its official publication, the Society adds the following note to the de- finition: "The so-called Ameri ran Melting Point is an arbitary figure 3 deg F. higher than the A.S.T.M.. Melting Point."
Evidence of Analysts.
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Benquets.... Kailans
T13.60 Langkats (comb)
Do. (single) bon
30%
1.74
T1.30 Explorations......
T5
Shanghai Loans
$12
Raubs
8103
91/-
Tronoh Mines
Docks, Wharves,
$143
H.K. & K. Wharfs....
8142
85.35 5323
Providents..........
$5.35
H.K. Docks
$33
T.04
Shanghai Decks
T.55
T.7
810.00 $11.10)
· $64. $65
T.14
Godowns, etc.
T New Engineerings Tiso Hongkewa .....
T.40
Cotton. Milla
Ewok
1.77 | Shai. C'tons_(old)... Do. (anw)... Zoong Sing
T.
***
*
T.161
$7.90 $141
14.35/40
$£8
54
Lands, Hotels and Bulidings
H.K. & S. Hotels... H.K. Lands Shanghai Lands H.K. Realtys.
Humphreys... Chinese Estates
T.14
મં
10.80/.(90
863)
$8
$14.40
Public Utilities
Τε
$181
Tramways
In
8/13
Peak Trums (old)....
85,05
2691
Star Ferries $80
$16.60
Fr
$10.10
305 306 823
SLY
87.80
T.15h
10/-
19
Mr. A. C. Franklin, an Analyst, with long local experience, states
in his evidence, that 'in, ascertain. ing the "American Melting Point"
it has been his invariable practice
to test by the English method and. add 3
degrees F. to the. re-
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sult. ..On the other hand, $12.70 Mr. E. R. Dorcy, Government Analyst, has used the American only for this purpose. Method Mr. H. K. Prossor, employed in the sales department of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Limited; with
BRUNSWICK HOUSE right years local experience, has
BRUNSWICK PANATROPES
AND
RECORDS
DE HOUSE STE TEL C. 403S
T.II T.10
$124
Dr. (new). 354
C. Lights (old)............| $18.60] Du. (Bow).... $16.50 H.K. Electrica ......
Macao do.
Sandakan Lights ...
Telephones
China Buses' Tractions
Do. (pref.)......
Industrials
Caldbeck, Nord.)
Macgregorffprof.)
Carton Ices
Cementa (comb.)... $12.60
Do
T9.40
$18.60 18.40/60
311.65
16.60/75
$2.75
(old)...
Do..
(new)...
Ropes.......
$7
$71
$0.00
China Sugars *********
827
tek
$6.
Malabon Bugara... United Asbestos ...
Miscellaneous
859
stated that his practice has been in comparing his company's pro- duct with an American product to add 3 degrees F. to the figures re- sulting from an English test to find the equivalent of a quoted American Melting Point. His sale $18 contracts are made without "speci fication"-specification being used in the male of American wax in which he does not deal. His ex- perones is that the 12085-bARZE WALL make use of the same calculation at the present time.
2201
Dairy Farms.......) $201 $0.80 Der A. Wings.........
Amusemente €27) $1.30 Constructions
8287
$1
312
812
41% prem
Lane Crawfords ........... Mackintoshso Nanyang Tobacco... $4 Sinceros (old).<................{; $101 Do (new) (A) 281,- Watsons.com. $IN Wm. Powelle
B.K. Govt. Loan.
82.50
$1,30
$1,00