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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930.
Money and Markets
A TRADESMAN'S BLUNDER.
CALL AT WRONG HOUSE TO "RECOVER GOODS.
The mistake which a furniture dealer made by calling at the wrong house had a sequel at the Manches
Ia Springtime Overture (Carter County Court recently when Goldmark), Chicago Symphony | Mr. Harry Flockton, a clerk, of Orchestra.
Old Trafford, claimed £25 damages | for unlawful entry and trespass from W. J. Pender, house furnisher and furniturer.
Serenade (Shubert) and Only a Rose, Reginald Foort Organ Solo. Mirelle-Valse (Gounod) and Mignon Polonaise (Thomas), Luella Kelius (Soprano). Salut D'Amour (Elgar) and I Kiss Your Lips (Rudolphs), Marek Weber and His Orch. Thank God for & Garden (Teresa Del Riego) and Jean (Burleigh), John Turner (Tenor). All Thro' the Night I Think of
You and For You Alore, De Groot and the Piciadilly Orch.
Liebestraum (Liszt) and Naila- Waltz (Dohnanyi), Wilhelm Bachaus, Piano Sole. Mountain Lovers (Squire) and Nirvana (Adians), John Turner (Tenor).
Serenade (Korankow) and Valse Triest (Sikelius), Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra.
Son of Mine (Wallace) and Ethio- bia Saluting the Colours, Stuart Robertson (Baritone), Rienzi-Overture (Wagner), Phil adelphia Symphony Orchestra. Que Alone. (Romberg) and It Romberg) George Baker (Baritone) Rienzi-Overture Part 3. Phil
adelphia Symphony Orch. Gotterdammerung-Closing Scene,
Philadelphia Symphony Orch. I Think of You (Weston) and Is It British? (Weston). Norman Long, Humorous. Mignon Overture (Thomas), Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I Love the Moon (Rubers) and Jeunesza (Barry). Walter Glyn- ne (Tenor).
Hungarian Fantasia-Parts 3 and 4 (Liszt). The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra.
9 p.m.-Weather report.
Mr. Rhodes, who appeared for Flockton, said the plaintiff did not seck to make money. out of the action, but, although a complete and abject apology had been pro- ferred, it was felt that a man who went into another man's house and went upstairs against the wishes of the occupier should not be allowed to get away with it without some penalty.
Ineffective Protest.
Mrs. Flockton stated that on
SAIGON RICE.
BUSINESS REVIVES.
The Société Indo-Chinoise de Commerce, in its market report. dated July 27, saya
During the week our market has shown some activity.
There has been regular but not very large business with Shanghai and France for Rice No. 1 and Japan.
DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Buyin
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
1.180 $435
Brokens also have been in fair demand from France.
$400 9935
Consequently the firmness of the market, reported in our last cir- clar, has accentuated, and though enquiries received from Java were below the best price obtainable, the market has still further ad- vanced, and closes firm at the fol lowing prices:
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No. 1 Long 25 per cent. and No. Round 25 per cent.-159 france per 100ks; 7.60 guilders per Java pikol; 6.20 yen per picul; 107 shillings per ent
Brokens No. 1 and 2-114 franes per 100ks; 7 guilders per Java pikol 5.70 yen per picut; 9/9 shill ings per cwt.
No 2 Japan 40 per cent.-118 franca per 100ks; 7.33 guilders per March 24 she was in the house alone pikol; 6 yen per picul; 10/3 shill- when there was a knock on herings per cwt.- door, and the found a man in over; ells standing on the step. He said he had come for the furniture: She told him he had a mistake and that he had come to the wrong house. He told her he was going to have the bedroom suite, and when she" protested and assured him that he had made a mistake he replied, "We will see." He then told her she was Mrs., of Moorland Road, and when she pointed out that he was in Reynolds Road he still would not believe het.
"The Witness went inside to get h
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coat, and when she came out the not very bad after her very trying first man had been joined by an- Song of the Volga Boatmen and other and had gone upstairs. Ap
Replying to Mr. Rhodes, the wit- ness said this was his first, transa The Dear Homeland, Peter
parently they found out at onortion with the hire purchase system Dawson (Baste-Baritone), Evening Song (Schumann), Pablo that they made a mistake; and they and it would be his last. The wo
Casais.
seemed only too anxious to get out man who had had the suite, he said, Jocelyn Berceuse (Dodard) and
Tannhauser-Overture (Wag- of the house as soon as they could. had gone away with it so he had
lost its value." ner), Symphony Orchestra. "When," Mrs. Flockton added, Pagliacci (Act 1) (Leonvacallo) the first man would not listen to
and Thai-Meditation (Masse. | net), Mary Lewis (Soprano). my assurances I did not know what L'Arlesienne Prelude (Bizzet), to do. I could only think he was aod and withdrew,
Royal Opera Orch, Covent Garden.
The Two Grenadiers (Schumann) and Midnight Review (Glinke), Feodor Chiliapin (Bass). A Day in Venice (Nevia), Victor
Salon Orchestra. Narcissus (Nevin) and A Shep herd's Tale--Lullaby. Victor Salon Orchestra..
lunatic, and tried to pacify him."
Mistake Admitted.
Mr. Pender explained that he had told a bedroom suite to a woman who lived in Moorland Road, and from something he heard he decided
10.30 p.m. (Approx.)-Close down.lect the instalment of the suite. He
PEER FAILS IN BUSINESS.
"LIVING BEYOND HIS.
INCOME."
Sidney Pender, the younger brother, denied that he entered, the house. As soon as they realised their mistake, he said, they apologis
Mr. Whitehouse, who defended, admitted that an unfortunate mis- take had been made, but "he sug gested that the damages would be inet by a payment of 238.
Judge T. B, Leigh pointed out that one of the men had in effect
called Mrs. Flockton a liar when to send his younger brother to col-she declared that she was not the woman they were seeking. A man, be said, did not grovel by letter when if, as it was claimed by the defence, all that had happened was
accompanied his brother in a van, and by mistake his brother went into Reynolds Road, instead of Moorland Road As soon as the witness went to the house he saw that a mistake bad been made and he apologised. His brother, he do
The first meeting of creditors|clared, did not enter the house at was held in London last month un- der the failure of James Cecil,all and he himself only went a yard Lord Glenarthur. of Carlung, or two inside the front door. Ayrshire, and of Pont-street, W.
Mr. Rhodes: That is all that The Official Receiver said that, happened, and yet you write to Mr. according to Lord Glenarthur's Flockton hoping that his wife is
(Continued or next Volumn). atatements, he served during the war with the Ayrshire Yeomanry. He afterwards lived in Paris, where he dealt in motor-cara (unprofitab-; Jy) as a hobby. He received. an allowance of between £1800 and 22000 a year from the father,
In the autumn of 1921 he return- ced to the directorate of a Glasgow company, but retired in January 1929, receiving an $2000.0
of
He had since been without o cupation, except a director of a wireless company in which he in vested 23000. He received no re- muneration. That" company now in liquidation.
Asset
was
Bad Book Debt as Lord Glenarthur, who estimated his liabilities at 280,000, attributed his insolvency to living beyond his. Income, heavy interest on borrowed money ill-health, and loss in the Swireless company. His assets com- prised & bad, book debt of $1500. and a life policy.
A trustee was appointed to ad- minister the estate in bankruptcy. Lord Glenarthur is the second baron, His was given a peerage in 1918. He was Mr. James Ar- thur, founder of the Glasgow firin
housemen and manufacturers.
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The present peer married in 1907 Evelyn, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Henry Minch Phillipp, of Tiverton, Devon. He has a son, Matthew born in 1908, and daughter, Tamela, who was marri ed in 1927 to Mr. Jack Drummond Rudd
call at a house, the discovery that a mistake" had been made, and a withdrawal. The mistake in the houses was one that was easy to make, and he had to take into ac count the absence of publicity and the existence of an apology. The plaintiff did not want to make money out of the action; but he did want to maintain the right öf z man to regard his home as in- violate.
He awarded the plaintiff £10 106. damages and costs.
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