THE CHINA MAIL EXTRA.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920.
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVALS
The as. Sequoya, Capt. Phillips, 3318 tons, arrived yesterday at 10 am. from Beaumont with 3000 tons of petroleum.
"BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION."
STORY OF ACTOR'S IMPRISONMENT.
AWARDED $1,000 DAMAGES.
DANGEROUS ROADS.
[Contributed.]
Some of our roads are dangerous. particularly to motorcyclists, owing to the depth of sand the Public Works
In the Supreme Court this morning Department seems to think it neces The as. Kwai Sang, Capt. L. Mc. before the Chief Justice. Mr. HL H. sary to put on the surface to prote C. Hussey, 1,435 tons, arrived yester. Gompert: a case ras mentioned the macadam. A rather nasty act day at 7 pm. from Singapore with in which the Hon Cheong Company,ent is reported to have happened
pared Chan Fung Shan alias the New Territory on Sunday fro Kwai Fi Man for $33,000 this cause. A motor-cyclist was ro ed with him by the plaintiffs and the whereof $3,000 was money depositing a corner at moderate speed wir
1,385 tons of oil and general cargo.
theatrical proprietors, sued an actor
1919.
The ss. Toyen Maru, Capt. Tokio Shimazaki, 217,555 tons. arrived yes terday at 11 am. from Sandakan remainder damages for breach of a the sand caused the machine to "ch" with 5 bags of mail and 2.43 tons of contract of service dated June 25th He ski dded along until the mack coffee and glass.
Plainti's statement of claim bed with a cut-and probably a broken slipped down a bank. He is now a The s.s. Loong Sang. Capt. J. V. set out that the defendant agreed Simpson, 1,093 tons, arrived yester to serve them for six day at 8,20 am. from Manila with as 161 bags of mail and 1,429 tons of general cargo.
DEPARTURES.
The ss. Suiyang, Capt. Gibbs sailed for Shanghai via Amoy at 4 p.m. to day with 1,500 tons of general cargo.
21 -actor in
years
lega heavily bandaged wrist ang a of the sum of $51,000. The plaintiffs The passenger on the back of
consideration face decorated by various bruis deposited with defendant a sum of cycle got an injured ankle. No d $3,000, it being provided that on a objects to roads being seen after, hui breach of the agreement by the de is all this sand, sometimes put doka fendant ten times the amount of the to a matter of inches, really neces The defendant had not served deposit should be paid to the plaintiff.sary? the plaintiffs as an actor. Plain- tiffs claimed the return of the deposit and the sum of $30,000 as THE SHIPPING ENTENTE liquidated damages or in the alter- native plaintiffs claim to bave suffered loss and claim $33,000 as damages.
On the file was a statement by The as. Lai Sang, Capt. Mooney, Cheung Tsz Hing of Wong Sha, sailed for Calcutta via Singapore at described of assistant manager 3 p.m. to-day with 3,000 tons of of the Pat Wo Guild, that is general cargo.
the
The sa Choysang, Capt. Baker sailed for Shanghai at 6.30 a.m. to day with 1,000 tons of general cargo.
The ss. Haiching, Capt. Stewart, sailed for Foochow via Swatow at 2 p.m. to-day with 1,800 tons of general cargo.
actors' guild, which was
NEW ANGLO-FRENCH COMBINE.
With the
establishment of a
formed for the protection of actors "Baltic" Shipping Exchange in Paris and their employers, it being part on English lines, and the opening of of its functions to settle all disputes; the shipping links in official quarters a Paris office by Lloyd's Register. He remembered the company called Hon Cheong. In 1915 the company and England.
are growing stronger between France closed and all agreements made by
It is only quite the said Company with the recently that a link has been formed actors engaged by them were can-
on the purely business side. But the celled, with the exception of that of magnitude of the commercial in defendant.
terests concerned point to a very The defendant denied that he en useful future of this combine. It is tered into an agreement with the
known as the Sociate Franco-Anglaise partners named as belonging to the d'Affretement, bas a capital of three Our opulently emolumented Judges business and did not give him an freights for the interests concerned. firm. The Company went out of million francs, and has been formed to centralise the organisation of engagement
THE LAW AND THE
PROFITS.
in the Straits Settlements may be counted among the few to whom the
This will save a lot of waste and
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by real and universal rise in the cost Mr. M. K. Lo, appeared for the overlapping. Monsieur Andre Lebon of living has meant little or nothing. defendant and Mr. J. H. Gardiner, president of the Messageries" With what feelings of envy indeed solicitor for plaintiffs, filed a letter Maritimes, is president of the new must a Judge of the High Court at stating that he had no further in- company, and Sir Frederick Lewis, home, with his income reduced by structions.
Bart., chairman of Messrs. Furness, taxation and prices to less than a Mr. Alabaster said in this.case the
Withy and Co., Lad., is vice-president, quarter of its pre-war purchasing defendant was arrested at the instance and the managing director is Count power, bave noticed the glowing and of the plaintiffs and in consequence of
O. de Lubersac.
grateful terms in which reference is being unable to put up security for the Messrs. Furriess, Withy and Co.'s
now
was of
French company will represent the
.Copel and Co., Ltd., Paris.
The French companies included
made by Sir John Buckmill himself, amount claimed against him, he had we believe in the report of the had to remain in prison for 100 British interests in France, and the Civil Service Salaries Commission days.. The plaintiffs had
brokers are Messrs. H. Clarkson and to the splendid magnificence and failed to turn up to proceed Co., Ltd., London, and MM. A ample emoluments enjoyed by the with their claim and it Chief Justice and his colleagues in this evident. that the putting country. Small wonder that the local defendant in prison was an attempt are Messageries Maritimes, Com- press should sometimes timidly enquire to blackmail and set some squeeze pagnie Fabre, Compagnie Furness whether the public purse can proper ont of him in order to get his release. (France). Compagnie Generale Trans ly carry such a strain or that Chinese He did not pay this squeeze and he atlantique, Compagnie de Navigation and British merchants and miners was entitled under section 571 of Sud-Atlantique, Chargeurs Reunis, should aspire to an income equal to the code to $1000 damages. Fe Dior et Fils, L. Dreyfus et Cie. Paris, the salary of a Puisne Judge as the (Mr. Alabaster) submitted that this pagnie des Forges et Acieries de la Etablissements Kuhlmann, Com height of their ambition.
Silence, oh voices of envy! It was
Marine et Honnecourt, Compagnie ? perhaps a trifle indiscreet of the His Lordship: There are two des Forges & Acieries de Miechevike, Chief Justice to insist so lyrically on grounds. One is that the arrest was Compagnie des Forges et Acieries de the opulence of the Bench, the free-applied for on insufficient grounds. Pont-a-Moosson, Societe Franco-Indo- dom which its members enjoy from Mr. Alabaster said the other was Chinese, and Transports Maritime. all financial cares, and their generous if the action was dismissed or the Journal of Commerce- pensions. But one thing we may case went by default. safely say and it should silence all critics. Just as it is axiomatic that a country has the judges it deserves, so is it a mathematical truth that judges are paid as much as they are worth.Strails Echo.
TEN LARGE STEAMERS,
was a case where the full to $1000 should be exacted.
His Lordship As to the first I do not know what the grounds are.
Mr. Alabaster: I to that.
am coming I shall have to teli you the facts. I shall submit that we are entitled to judgment for $1,000 an all three grounds.
His Lordship: Has the plaintiff had notice of this application? It is a very special application.
Mr. Alabaster: I am told the plaintiff does know of this application.
solicitor knows of this application.
His Lordship: The plaintiff
Mr. Alabaster :-Yes, he say's he
ARRIVALS,
March 30.
The . KWAI BANG, Brit., 1,435
& Co. tons, from Singapore, Capt. Enasey, J.,
The 6.a. SEQUOYA, Brit, 3,318 tons, from Beaumont, Texas Cart. Phillips, Standard Oil Co., Lai Chi Kok.
The s.s. PILSNA, Ital, 4,848 tons from Shanghai, Capt. Bednarz, Dodwall & Co.. A6.
The s& TOYEN MARU, Jap, 2,175.35 from Sandakan, Capt. Shimazaki, 0.8.K. Hanchai
Ten large steamships, cartying more than 65,000 tons of cargo left Puget Sound for the Orient, South America and Honolulu in one week in Febru did.
The 6. SINTAH, Chi, 1,340 toas, ary. These vessels carried lumber, machinery, copper, canned goods, case and put the defendant in the The s.. TEIKAI MARU, Jap. 734 from Shanghai, Capt. Glen. C. M. S. N. Counsel then shortly reviewed the
Do.. CAL... grain and other products of the box. Pacific Northwest and other sections
tous, from Keelung. Capt. Kawabata, cf the United States.
At the conclusion of defendant's 0.S.K., Wanchai. The "Kobehun Maru,' in the new would like the agreement held by evidence Mr. Alabaster said they trans-Pacific service of the Ocean the plaintiffs to be given to defendant Transport Company of Japan, reor impounded in Court. presented here by the Trans-Oceanic steamed from Seattle for Japan and China with a full cargo.
The
His Lordship: Where is it?
to-morrow.
CLEARANCES,
March 30.
Mr. Alabaster: I think it is in The as. TATONTSE, (Fr.), cleared to day and will sail for Saigon at 6 am possession of their solicitor. steamship Eastern Guide, recently allocated by the United Sta-although he did not think an action cleared to-day and will sail for Saigon
Counsel proceeded to state that The E
KEAO SAMUD, (Siam) tes Shipping Board to the Matson could be commenced in Canton on at 7.m. to-morrow. Navigation Company, sailed the same this agreement they might start one The BS JAPAN, (Brit), cleared to- day for Honolulu with a full load of in Macao for instance. The docu- day and will sail for Calcutta vis Bing- lumber, grain and general merchan ment had been used here for pur-
dise.
poses of extortion but had failed. The steamship West Ivan, operated by Frank Waterbeuse & Company, any order with regard to the docu
His Lordship declined to make left Seattle with 7,500 tons of cargo ment. He dismissed the case with for Japan, China and the Philippines. costs, awarded the defendant $1,000 The steamship Robin Goodfellow, and ordered his release from prison. of the Robin Line, chartered to the
Pacific Steamship Company, left in
the same week on her maiden voya Maru and Chicago Maru, Osaka Shosen Kaisha mail-passenger-freight
ge with cargo for the Orient.
apore at I p.m. to-morrow.
The .. PILANA, (Ital), cleared to- day and will sail for Trieste via Singapore at 9 am to
· ΤΟΥΤΟΥ,
DEPARTURES,
March 20.
Speed, Agents E. & 8, left for Bang
These CHINBUA, (Brit)
swatow to-day.
In the South American service of vessels, sailed for Japan; and the The KS OYLERIC, (Brit.), Capt. W. R. Grace & Company, the steam-steamship Valdez, chartered by Newton, &genta Bank Lise Lui, left for ship Santa Inez sailed with a load of Thorndyke & Trenholme took a full Miri to-day. lumber for Callao, Peru.
cargo of lumber for South America, Mitchell, Agents J.-M. & Com Left Lug The La FOOKSANG, (Brit.) Capt The steamship Eldridge of the The Valdez carried 1700,000 feet of Robe to da Pacific Steamship Company's line lumber and Its sailing, marked; the
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