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SS, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933
ECHOES OF 1858
VICTORY FOR THE HONG KONG PRESS
slative Council Thrown open
to the Pubile
An Orfer of Admission.
Council Room, Victoria, Hong Kong June 10, 1868,
Sir-Her Majesty's Government having approved of a resolution of the Legislative Council to admit the Public, under certain conditions, to be present at their proceedings, His Excellency the Governor has direct ed me to forward to you an Order of admission for a Reporter to the Daily Press.
I have the honour to be,
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POMPEIA HAIR LOTION
UNDUE SIMILARITY OF RIVAL'S TRADE MARK
The trade mark of "Pompoia" hair lotion.formed the subject of a summons at Central Magistracy yesterday when Leung Sun Kee (shop-keeper) was summoned for selling brand of hair lotion-The Girl Brand-with a label so simi- lar to that of the Pompeia brand
sufficient capacity to be fervently bated, and we can assure our con temporary that he need not be un der the slightest apprehension of being classed in our minds in theas to decive. “ same category as Sir John Bowring Mr. O.E. C-Marton appeared We maintain that we have re for the complainant firm (Meseta stricted" "our remarks, however Loxley and Co. who are the sol stringent they may have been, to agents for the Pompeis brand) His Excellency's public acts The while Mr. F. X. D'Almada e Cay sanctity of the privacy of himself tro, snr., appeared for the defence. and all belonging to him we never invaded In fact, apart from His Excellency's political career we know nothing but good of him. We firmly believe that the tone and con- L. D'ALMADA E. CASTRO.sistency of our remarks upon Sir Clerk of Councils. John, which have proved so galling The Editor of the
unanswerable, have derived much Daily Press,
force and effect from our having avoided all reference to his unot-
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Our Libel Case."
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Outlining the case, ft. Marton said that the summonses were brought in respect of an infringe ment of Messrs. L. T. Pivers trade mark. The trade is well known in Hong Kong although it is not registered here. It was f gistered In France as well as in England.
Continuing, Mr. Marton said that Mears Loxley and Co., found the defendants selling bottles best. ing a trade mark resembling that of the Pompeia" hair lotion and (From the Bengal Hurkaru of Maya search in the two shops owned
Alas poor Yorick Scandalous bottles of the lotion.
12, 1658).
by the defendant revealed eight-
A foki in put by the Judge to the Jury, whe- the goods from a shop at 10 your libel was, for it was specially the shop said that they obtained Bowring had suffered in character there showed that the shop wits a ther they thought that Sir John Queen's Road West, but a visit by the publication of your letter, tailor's establishment and is no and they found that, he had. That way connected with the hair lotion
business.
We hail with delight the admis.cial sion of the Press to the sittings of the legislative council. The abuses which have latterly been the Town's talk, could never have reached the height they have done, had the press not been excluded from, where it was urgently wanted, and where ite presence though dreaded, was ca sentially required. We were both surprised and pleased at the receipt of the above letter. We hope to give a good account of the privilege thus unexpectedly decorded.
Dally Preas and Sir John Bowring. It starting on our career of Journalism, having long been dis
was three parts false evidence was given; but no finding of the jury
After Mr. Duncan of the come
on this head is recorded in the re-plainant firm had given evidence port, before us, and that you know bearing out Mr. Marton's opening, it to be so remains highly doubtful the case was adjourned until Mon
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London. July..3. Rear-Adm. P. L. H. Noble, who has been in command of the Second Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet, sin- co last December, will shortly trans fer his flag from the Dorsetshire to the Leander, which is still carrying out trials.
She is a new ship of 7,000 tons, armed with eight Gin guns, and is thus considerably less formidable than the 10.000-ton Dorsetshire with her sin, guns. Ultimately the squa dron will consist of the Leander and her sisters Achilles, Orion and Neptune, and will thus be a homo- geneous force with a speed of 32′ knote.
COMMAND OF THE HERALD
rived from England with a new equipment of Osprey and other ma- chines. The Berwick, with her one aircraft is up the Yangtze at Han- kow and the Cumberland leaves. Weihaiwei to-day to relieve her there. Since the Norfolk became flagship on the America Station na- val aircraft have made their ap pearance in the West Indies and North Atlantic. This ship is at pre- "sent at Montreal Naturally the wider the distribution the more va ried are the flying conditions and the greater is the experience they afford to pilots and observers. coto-WING-COMDR, ORLEBAR
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Wing Cmdr. A. H. Orlebar, who commanded the High Speed Flight during the period which covered the British victories in the Schneider Trophy contest in 1929 and 1831, has been appointed to the command at Primary Arm has control of other military forces.
NEW SUBMARINE COMMAND agreed that one assasin should aim Helbert has been selected mand the Starfish, the new subma- rine which is due to be completed at Chatham Dockyard about the end of October for service in the eth Flotilla, Portland. He is to assume command to-day, Hitherto in com- mand of H27 at Portland, Com- mander Helbert commanded the sub- marine Oswald in China in 1931-32 He entered. Keyham College as a
adet from St. Paul's School in Orlebar has been on the staff of No. For nearly two years Wing Cmdr. September 1916, and was a mid-1 Air Defence Group, a great chan- shipman of the battleship Revenge ge from the highly advanced flying from March, 1917, to January, 1818 and responsibilities of the High He took up submarine duty in Jan Speed Flight. Aden will provide uary, 1921, following the University further opportunities to add to course for junior officers at Cam what is already wide experience. bridge.
In 1928 the responsibility for the de- fence of Aden was transferred from the Government of, India to the British Government.
The Royal Air Force
NEW AIR MARSHAL
LONDON, July 4.
Commander E. F. B. Law, hither. to Superintendent of the Chart from to-day to command H.M.8. It was announced yesterday that Branch, Admiralty, is appointed Herald, the surveying ship on the Air Vice Marshal Robert Hamilton China Station, at present at work Clark-Hall, DBO., has been pro off Labuan. He success Commun- *možed Air Merihal der N. A. Hardy, who goes to the Air Commodore Richard Edmund Chart Branch in his place.
Charles Peipe D.S.O., Deputy Di Commander Law, the son of Com-rector of Operations and Intelligen mander E. G.F. Law, RN, enter ce, is to be Air, Officer Command- ed. Osborne College in the year foling, Palestide, and Tranajordan, lowing its opening-namely, 1904 vice Air Vice Marshal Wilfrid and took up, farveging work as Rhodes Freeman, D.8.0, 1.0. sub-licutebant in May, 1913, when he joined H.M.S. Endeavour. At the outbreak of the War he was ap pointed to the cruiser Bachante, in the Southern Force, North Sea, but towards the end of 1914 joined the Challenger and later the Astraca, in which two endisers de serped đüf-
Algernon-Portal, D.8.0., is to be Group Capt Charles Frederick Officer Commanding Aden, vide Group Capt Owen Tudor Boyd.
THE FLEET AIR ARM Aircraft of the. Fleet Air Arm are
ing the campaign' at the Cameroons at the present moment mɔ̃re widely
He was dien on surveying work for
distributed among the ports and
& timenn H.M.S. Father, and from sans of the world than ever before June, 1917, commanded successively
owing to the fact that the majority the destroyers Garry, Scourge, and 1 of vesels carrying aircraft happen Relentless. He was promoted to to be cruising, at the same time, commander in June, 1927,
The Courageous, flagship of the NEW CRUISER DELAYED Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers, is expected to-day at the Scilly Isles,
H.M.B. Achilles, the new cruiser and her sister ship the Furious at fitting out at the Birkenhead worker Tenby. Between them they have of Carumell Laird and Co., Limit-seven squadrons of aircraft. Of the ed, will commission for acceptance Home: Fleet ships other than car trials on October 5, 1933, and not riers which are equipped with air- on September 14, as previously noticraft, the York is at. Stockholm, the fied. Captain Calin Cantlie, DS. Exeter Karlskrona, the Leander at C., How Chief Staff Officer to the Portland, the Valiant at Large, and Rear Admiral of Submarines, is to the Renown is due today at Bourne- command her. The executive officer mouth. The Dorsetebire is prepar is Commander P. E. Cooper, from ing to go to the Cape the' Osprey, anti-submarme school, and the engineer officer, Engineer. Commander D, H, L. Gill, formerly engineer officer at the works of the
Five ships of the Mediterranean Fleet in addition to the carrier Glorious, now have aircraft, and
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