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LANDLORD SUES TENANT
Action To Recover Possession Of Premises
ground floor.
COURTS
BANKRUPTCY DISCHARGES
Chief Justice's
Doubts
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938.
TRAFFIC CASES | Europeans Charged With
AT CENTRAL
Peak Resident Fined
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Breaches Of Aliens' Law
Before Mr. B. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday four Europeans were charged and convicted in connectión "with breaches of the Registration and Passports Ordinances.
Colony.
Three applications for discharge Capt. R. 9. P. Hopkinson, of
Otto Wollak, 38, a Czech, was of Detantion, but later left the He returned from bankruptes, one of them an Peak Mansions, was ned $3 by Aned a total sum of $35 for not, Colony for Canton.
valid after several days and was arrest- An order to vacate the premises immediately. were granted by the Mr. R. Butters at the Central being in possession of a within seven days was made by Chief Justice. Sir Atholl Mac-Magistracy yesterday for leaving passport on April 20 and failing ed and sentenced to one month's the Pulsne Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. Gregor, in Bankruptcy Court yes-nis car outside the premises un-to report to the police within 72 hard labour. Lindsell, in Summary Court yester-terday.
attended for nearly five hours on hours of hia · arrival in the WENT ROUND THE WORLD day in the action brought by Mr.
In the case of Rahmat Din, Mr. April 4.
Dorman said he had gone 'round ' Faustino Antonio Xavier against LR. Andrews, Official Receiver, Sergt. Davies said that numer- Wollak was said to have arrived the world twice during the part Chow Kung-choe to recover said he had seven creditors, who ous complaints had been received here eight days ago from Chung-year by stowing away on steamers. possession of No. 481. Nathan Road, had been notified" and "who did from residents of the Peak Mari-Ling by plane. He reported his Pleading gulity, Barder WES
oppose the application. His total sions.
arrival after he had renewed his fined $50 or one month's impri- dividends had been $625 against P. W. Burton, of the P. and Opassport.
sonment, and three months' hard abilities of 31.129, a great deal Banking Corporation, pleaded Rita Dzirno, 24, secretary, re-labour on the second charge. more than 50 per cent.
guilty through a letter to the siding at Chatham Road Kow-Sentences to serve concurrently. Im-trafic
summons for parking his toon, was convicted on the charge Dorman was sentenced to serve car beyond the time limit of two of entering the Colony on April 15 a simfar term on the first charge. Some time in January last, plain- George Carlos Sonza was grant- hours at the Chater Road car without a valld passport. Defen- and on the second a term of six I asked him to clear cut his sub-ed a discharge xbiect to three park on April 11. He was fined dant is a Latvian subject and had weeks' imprisonment. tenants in order to repair the pre-months suspension. He had paid 55.
a passport, but it bore no visa for an expulsion order was made in mises and promised that after up 28 per cent in dividends and The case against Lau King-shlu, Hong Kong. A fine of 550 was each case.
his bankruptcy was six years old. a public car driver, who was sum-imposed.
moned on two counts of falling DOUBLE BANKRUPT Regarding Augusto Arthur Mat-to produce his driving licence and
Defendant stated that he had been residing for nine years in the premises, the ownership of which was taken over by plaintiff in September, 1935.
this was done he himself would take over the front part as a show- room, leaving him the rear por- tion.
Hils Lordship granted" an Įmediate discharge.
tos, who was applying for a dis- failing to obey a traffic signal at DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
charge from a double bankruptcy. Queen's Road Central on April Five days after he had received His Lordship said, the only difwas adjourned til May 11.
Mr. A. el Arcull! appeared the notice to quit, he spoke to{ficulty here was whether the
the defence and pleaded plaintiff of this promise and re-bankrupt would be equally foolish
gulity. ceived the reply that, he wanted in the future. the whole place for himself.
Mr. Andrewes: Perhaps a warn big from Your Lord.
Plaintiff also asked to pay all the, arrears of rent before he would
His Lordship: I think you over- tell him definitely whether We estimate my plausibility or the could stay on or not. He asked weight of my words. (To Mattos), plaintiff what he was going to do If I grant your discharge. will in respect of the money he had you try and behave yourself and lost by clearing out the two sub-live on your salary?—Yes. tenants, who owed him (defen-- His Lordship remarked that he dant) two months' and three and was rather doubtful in this case. a half months' rent respectively. One reason was that the bank- and was told that the matter ruptcy was & very recent one. would be looked into later.
He could hardly overlook the fact While the repairs were being that. having gone bankrupt in effected, camage, was caused to his 1935. be was again involved only property and when he presented two years later... plaintiff with a bill for this, the latter told him he was crazy,
NO PROMISE
In reply to Mr. Andrewes' re- mark that there were certain cir- cumstances in the case. His Lord-
His Lordship pointed out that ship said no satisfactory system according to the evidence there would ever be devised to allow a was no promise by piatatiff, after person earning $250 to live on the notice had been served, that $500, as this case." defendant could stay on, as had been alleged at the previous hear-
Ing.
SUSPENSION
Mattos was granted a discharge subject to 12 months' suspension Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Jor, who and warned solemnly that should appeared for plaintiff, said that he incur any further debt during actually three notices had been this period an application may be served on defendant, the first on made to annul the discharge, and December 7 and the last on Febru-if such application was made ary, 25. Ample time, had been fafter this warning he would re- given, and his client was willingmain a bankrupt,
Tudo
to waive everything. including A receiving order was granted mesne prosta, so long as he could is the case, of Fo Ca Silva. gain possession of the premises. against whom there were promis- Remarking that defendant had sory notes for the face value of been treated with extreme kind-$700. Mr. Andreves sald he ness. His Lordship gave judgment, offered #20 a month and it would with costs, for plaintiff.
take him about three years to pay 50 per cent...
FURTHER CASES
Six similar actions were men- tioned in the weekly calling-over
list of cases. Two were adjourned SHOP FOKI SUES
to Chambers for proof, on defen- Cants failing to appear; two. were postponed for further instructions, one was stated to have been set- tled and hearing of the other was fixed for May 11 at 10' dim.
YOUNG GIRL
FOR ASSAULT
Refused To Join Association
Charges of demanding money with menaces and common as- sault were preferred against Man
ILL-TREATED in before Mr. H. R. Butters at
Step-Mother Appears In Court
For Ull-treating her step-
the Central Magistracy yesterday. Mr. M. A da da Bliya: appeared for the defence and pleaded not guilty. Mr. F. E. Nash was for the prosecution.".
It was alleged that on March daughter, Ngan Sau-fong, a mar-20, while complainant, Li Fai, fok! ried woman, residing at No. 17, of a salt fish shop, was unloading Eastern Street, was yesterday anedah from
$50 or, in default. to serve, a term
the Cheung Chow launch. defendant approached
of one month's imprisonment by him and told him that he must Mr. H. R. Butters at the Central join an association if he wished
to work in the West Point dis Magistracy:
trict, failing which Li would be beaten to death. Defendant then left, saying that Li was to meet him at a restaurant to pay the subscription of $10,
The girl who was only seven years old, was covered with bruises on her legs and cuts on her tore- head.
Inspector BW. Fraser of the 8.C.A., who appeared to prosecute,
Li did not submit to the threat, said that a letter was sent to the and it was alleged that on March 18 C. A. on April 27 informing the 23 he was assaulted by defendant. authorities that a girl had been The case was adjourned till May 111-treated by defendant. A sur 12.
prise visit was paid to defendant's
haust and the girl was found in
1. sorrowful condition.
Defendant pleaded that she had TWO ROBBERIES IN punished the girl for stealing bls- cults,
CORRECTION
In our report yesterday of a case
TERRITORIES
According to a police report, an armed robbery occurred at Ha Tsun Market," Pingshan" district, New Territories, early yesterday morn ing The victim was Keung Yung, 84, who said that four men, one
house
at the Kowloon Magistracy in armed with a dagger, entered his
volving infringement of trade mark
money.
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and stole $189.10 in Hong
TAXI DRIVER
ROBBED
on playing cards, we wronglynk money and $143.20 in Chinese stated that Koo Kwok 8hun, mazinger of the Lau Lee Bang Firm, was the defendant and Tuen Tong Keo was the complainant
Actually Koo Kwok Shim was the complainant and Yuen Tong Kee the defendant...”
We regret the error.
-k-taxi driver, Leung Chung. 38, eported to the police that he wag robbed by two men in Taipo Road, near Bheang Wo village, Shatin, about 12.10 am. yesterday.
STOWED AWAY
.
Was
David Barder, alas Manevitch STOKER ILL: CANNOT
and Isadore Dorman,
ATTEND COURT Zarko, 25, alias Isadore Pitz were charged
George Hogg, 24. Leading Stoker for with entering the Colony without
of HMS. Parthian, who not valid passports and with having charged with driving a private car |stowed`away from Shanghai to without a llence, driving the Eing Kong on board the 5.5.vehicle without the owner's per- Soochow
missior, and with causing malicious. First, defendant, it was A fatal traffic accident occurred
stated, damage to the car, failed to ap- here in July, 1936. The pear at the Central Magistracy in Causeway Bay Road on Thurs-was day when a seven-year-old girl Jewish community particu- yesterday owing to illness. The named Kwok Fo was fatally injur-larly kind to him and assisted hiin case was adjourned for one week.
The police withdrew the third ed through, being knocked down by in many ways. On that occasion a motor lorry,
he had been ordered to the House charge against him.
GIRL KILLED
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