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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
ANOTHER RENTS CASE.
Landlords' Application.
Mr. Justion Wood, to the Sam- mary Court, was oocopied for thi greater part of this morning in deciding what is a fair rental for the second and third floors of Nos. 203 and 205, Hollywood Road, Plaintifs were Ho Kai-obi and Ho Kai-lai and were repro- sented by Mr. H. K. Hong, and defendant was Wong Cheung-kee,
who conducted his own case.
The action was brought under section 13 of the Rents Ordin-
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plaintiffs in respect of the pro-Gouda (Full Cream)
mises above mentioned. The rent recoverable on Jan. 1st was!
$78 and in June last defendant,
was claimed, agreed to pay $100 rent and had actually pak that
Australian Cheddar
amount in respect of the 5th Picnic (own make)
Chinese moon. Plaintiffs asked. the Court to make an order firing the rent at $100.
Plaintiffs purchased the pre- mises some 16 years ago, Mr. Hoog told the Court, and had only increased the rent once, when in 1913 it was raised from between $60 and $70 to $80. Owing! to the high cost of rice, the rent was reduced $2, bringing it down to $78, and plaintiff's now wished to raise it to $80.
The principal winess called WAS Mr. Basio of Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood. Mr. Basto gave massurements of the premises occupied by defendant and comparing them with other premises in the district, said he thought a fair rent would be $120 month, which would be 10 cents per square foot This witness also estimated the value of the property and from that and other calculations gave a higher figure" A38 7059ouable rental Ha considered that the $100 a month asked by plaintiffs was quite fair. Defendant said he was willing to pay an extra $10 a month. It was suggested to him by Mr. Hung that he W&S aublet- ting the cubicles a big
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His Lordship thought that as the landlords had fixed the rentaboo tiny of these premises at $100 in Track Urrez the middle of the year, fair rent to be £ted in respect of December 31st, 1920, would be a little less, and he suggested $95 as a reasonable Sgure.
Plaintiffs agreed to accept 895) a month and His Lordship made an order accordingly. With re- gard to costs, Mr. Hung thought| they would come to about $200, and defendant was ordered to pay $35.
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The present methods of coking admit, of much improvement and coals, says a technical writer, an important step has been taken by costog under low temperature the Mond process), thereby ob- taining a larger production of ammonis. If the latest cataliza- tion processes turn out successful
OCUS 19295 not thrown on the defence and the prosecution | must prove that the defen- dant was
possession of the arms. The evidence was clear the arms were smuggled on board at London, or anywhere else for The case in which the head that matter, and the defendant fireman of the Blue Funnel was not than on board. It must
Already large quantities of liner Elpenor was charged with be proved that the defendant Quid fuel are being obtained from should be read. She is a For-being concerned in an attempt knew the contents of the pack-i coal, and farther experiments are farshire lady and. I think, an exile to smuggle over 200 Mauser ages which be handled. Gntit from Scotland but she Canna pistols and a large quantity of that onus has been discharged
still being made in England. break the bonds that God decreed acrounition into the Colony was the prosecution must fail and he America and in Germany. The to biud." D. S. Meldrum's resumed at the Police Court submitted that the defendant was need is great and urgeat.
Tue Conquest of Charlotte." this morning before Mr. G.N. entitled to an acquittal as he had published sous
years ago by Orme. Blackwood, is also well, worth Mr. Leo d'Almada, who bad His Worship:-On the night If Mr. Rob MacWhirter will!
reading. I need hardly mention bees retained for the defence. previous to the ship's arrival in allow me tosay so. De is familiaris the late George Douglas Brown's said that he did not propose to part it was made out in evidence ing-lois-of-people-who are not The House" with the Green call witnesses, but argued that in that defendant supervised two or Scots (bur way seem to bear up Shutters" which stuck the Kail arms cases the onus lay with the more mea in transferring those wonderfully, jus: the same) with yarders like pigs, as some one prosecution to prove the charze.packages from the engine room to a number of Scottish words and once wrote. In none of these is On the evidence taken at the the stern. A man in the dead of Scottish idioms. He is not writ the Scots dialect at all fearsome previous bearing he submitted night carrying heavy packages in producing fluid feel from coal ing Scots as be might do, and can and all of them are eminently that that onus had not been dis-out and not knowing the contents do. for a very obvious reason. As worth reading. There are others, charged. The defendant's state is too much for me to believe...
in complete change 1 I see it, be wishes to reach alike tut they will keep till it becomes ments were to the effect that a Mr. d'Almada said that before result.
coal industry will naturally be the the man whose knowledge of necessary to speak of them.
named Hop But man
Hoi had his Worship passed sentence he Scots is limited and the Scot him- avoid tae
him Wee Macgregor" instructed
to dump would submit that self. He provides a sort of half and "Ob! Christina "stuff; also the packages into
Now the coals of the East Indies no doubt the way training house for the uos. the Robbie Doo" stuff.
Je defendant was the tool of another are almost without exception ex- The outside the entrance of Lyemuo man whom the Police undoubted-traordinarily rich in volstile Scot which is also a meeting man who wrote "Robbie Doo place for the Scot. True. Ocorge produced a history of Thornhill that he knew the contents. The If they had got hold of him pro-ity of fossil gum, up to 2 per cent. Pasa. He made no admission ly would be glad to get hold of matter, gas and tar. Borneo coal especially contains a large quant Douglas Brown, warns us that years ago 200 hardly anybody arms were discovered in con-bably this case would not have whereas English cosi does not ex- "it's the half-and-balf that fell heard of it though it was a sound sequence of suspicion. This been brought into Court. gapes for and owre they Bap." bit of work. Yet he makes a suc-suspicion had been of long stand- The Magistrate remarked that but that lively place will gape a cess of Robbie Dao" because ing and the whole previous crew the defendant was rather "heit long time before Mr. MacWhirter Hodder and Stoughton (as usual) of the Elpenor had been discher to the other man, from whom the need "tak a thocht and mend." boosted sloppy sentiment. That, and a new one taken aboard arms had been "inherited."
Some Hints.
kind of stunt may be readable en- before the ship left Hong: The defendant was sentenced A remark made to me the other ough, but it is not the real stuff. kong for Shanghai and Northern to eight months' hard labour. day, theo, set me wondering how If you don't believe ma, ask Mr. ports. Before the voyage back
many of his readers who have MacWhirter to whose pen more given Scots' books a wide perth in power!
the past are now almost persuad- ¦
ed into trying them. I know of
one, for he has asked me to sag.
gest something at once modern
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and typically Scottish. I should TYPHOON WARNING.
recommend Neil Munro's "Daft
the ship had already been searched in Shanghai and in Japan, and nothing was found.
THE WRONG WAY TO READ.
On the return trip seesTIRI If you have to hold the print named Turner saw two packages too far away to see clearly, the hanging over the stern while eye will be strained to make out others were found in a tank. In the fine print. If you have to a case like this, when a whole hold the print too close that will Days," "The Lost Pibroch,"
arsenal was brought into Court, strain the muscles of the eye. "Jaunty Jock," and "Giban the The telegram quoted below was the Court was apt to say that Either way is bad. When you Dreamer." It is a black mark received by the American Con- the man brought in connection cannot read any fine type held at agajast English people that very Bulate General, Hongkong, from with it must be the man proper distance say 14 inches faw of them know Neil Munro's the Manila Observatory. work though he is true of the balfa zen leading novelists of fue day and s
master of English prose. But, then, he has always resisted the lure of London. and has not blown his own trumper.
The laterloper Violet Jacob's
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ceed 0.1 per cent, which naturally has a considerable infucace upon distillation.
Proofs made at Batavia show Ombilin coal to contain 45 per cent. of gas, Middle Sumatra, Now Guinea and Poeloe Lacet 40 to 47 per cent, and Djambi coal 45 per cent.; coal from West Celebes and
Ceram gives as high as 56 to 63 per cent of gas.
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It is thus already worth con sidering whether some of the otherwise useless coals of the Archipelago might not with advantage be worked solely for their high percentage of by- products, tar and its derivatives, and no other. That was human from your eye, have your eyes pure ammonix or ammonium nature. But that did not get examined in the Hongkong sulphate and coke briquettes, the 9.30 a.m. Oct. 5. Cyclone or typhoon in about away from the fact that the Optical Co., Buocessors to Clark last made of the most powdered 139 deg. Long. . 16 deg. Lat. N. onus lay with the prosecution. & Co. Refracting and Manufac-or loose cokes with the final re moying N.N.W.
In opium cases the law of 1918 taring Opticians, located in 53, sidue of the tar distillation as decided to throw the onus on the Queen's Road Central, and have binding medium. Lp mining the 10.45 8.m. Oct. 9.
defence, but in connection with the satisfaction of using a pair of coals undoubtedly's large quantity Typhoon in about 137 deg. Long. arms садев the E15 aeg, Lat. N. moving N.W was entirely different.
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