FRENCH MISSION
AT LAW.
Dispute with Nanyang Tobacco Co.
The Procureur-General Hongkong of the Societe des acted
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After reading some authoriiles on this point, Counsel contioned that they wookt prove that the mischief which the Ordinance. aimed at was the scaruity and; The Daily Chronicles increasing renta of private column man is responsible for the domestic dwellings, which randet fallawing: Totest the Oriental say, es it difficult for people to get ing. "Women bare no patlance." in domestic dwellings and which takeyourzistar--oranyoldfellow's inducement sister you prefer to spend a day Missions Euangers WAS the to owners of dammatio as Lord's N.K.A. (no koitting plaintiff in an interesting rents dwellings to turn out lanants an allowed) should be of the essence action against the Nanyang soon as their leases, expired of the contract. Should the girl] Brott as Tobacco Co., Ltd., of 153, These tenants, turned out, had be a cricket enthusiast so much Des Voeux Road Central, which not a roof under which to live the better for the commenced in the Sopreme That was the state of affairs at ment;
experi Court, before the Chief Justice the time the Ordinance was chance. Even then, the chances
it will give bor (Sir W. Rees-Davies), this passed and the difficult position in favour of her yawning morning.
was accentuated by the vast in the first hour, tattooing with, Plaintiff claimed to recover influx of Chinese into Hongkong. Dar feet all through the second, possession of that portion of refugees from Canton.
and remembering • abopping section A” of inland' lot No. The result was that houses and just after lunch 2,147, praciously leased to the Lecame very scarce and the rents hundreds to one. Chartered Bank of India, of such houses as were available, Australia and Chios by the became higher and higher. That plaintiff, under a lease dated June was the mischief which the Rents
The custom of "running thei Is, 1918, which expired Aug. Ordiosoce was passed to remedy. brass," which has just besn 31st, 1921. Defendants were the They said most emphatically, observed at a Border wedding, is sub-lessees of the Chartered Bank. continued counsel, that whilst probably connected with the The action was brought on the that was the object of the ancient practice of running a race ground that the premises did not legislature towards private houses for ribbon, as still practised in the come within the Rents Ordinance, in which to live, it was not the North, or, as it anciently was, for 1921.
object of the legislature in the the bride's garter. It was Secondly, plaintiff claimed to passing of this Ordlance to customary for the bride to stand at recover possession of such prem- provide cheap godowns, or offices, the winning post and to award the isas as were not now occupied jor factories, for trade or profes first runner to meet her with a by defendants' servants domestic purposes, under Section applied such Ordinance to the 15 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1921. case he was trying he would see Flaintiff asked the Court to that the result of the case would fix such rent as the Court should be that his Lordship was giving think fit as the rent to be paid by jlo the defendants huge godowns the youths of a tribe and buying the defendants for that portion and factories at a rent which was occupied by defendants' servants at the present time abeord, them off. for domestic purposes.
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The train. a dwelling house buildings which. Plaintiff also claimed damages, at the rate of double the yearly had never been used as a dwell-favour as part of Court dress, has Talus of the whole of the premad only to look at to see that from very early times. The Book ing house and which his Lordship been a fexture of woman's dress ises during the period of deten- they were not a dwelling house-of Precedence of 1600 deals with tion by virtue of 4 Geo. 2c. 28.
Alternatively, he asked the There were pine wooden beds not entitled to have her train they were factories and godowns. it, decreeing that a baroness is Court to fix such other rent than but his Lordship had only to borne, but "ought to beare it her- the standard rent as the Court walk through the factory to see self," and another volume of the should think fit as the rent to be how absurd it was to call it a period records how even citizens' paid in respect of the whole of the dwelling house because of these wives affected "gownes with premises referred to in the first beds.
traines which they pin up in the paragraph during the continuance
Describing the origin of the house" Even earlier mentions, of the Rents Ordinance, 1921.
Ordinance, Counsel explained that too, can be found, 'Richard II.”. committee of the Legislative reign being supposed to be the action against plaintif for specific Council was appointed, with the lime when they first came into performance of an agreement Attorney-General as chairman, vogue in England.
Nanyang Brothers brought an
years.
The probability of an alteration
made between the parties, in and as a result the Rents Ordia- which the Procureur General in ance was passed, to provide living Hongkong of the Societe des houses at a fair rent. Missious Etrangers agreed to lesse Referring to the beds on the
in our role of the road for to Nanyang Brothers a certain premises, Counsel contended that Pedestrians raises the question of portion of section "A" of inland if two or three fokis were living chosen as the correct side for wby the left was originally lot No. 2147 for the term of three on premises that did not turn wheeled traffic, remarks a London| the place into a dwelling house, Mr. E. Potter and Mr. F. C. On the premises in question in sa paper. The estly driver is sup- Jenkin (instructed by Messrs, outhouse Counsel explained, were order to have the necessary space posed to have chosen that side inj Deacon. Looker, Deacon and pine Chinese beds, occupied by Haraton) represented the Societe Juice overseers. Nine overseers the right band. But a still earlier in which to handle his whip with des Missions Etrangers and Mr. were given beds in this cut-trace of the rule is probably to be C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. building, but in no sense was it a found: that keeping to the left G. K. Hall Brusque appeared on home or a dwelling. These men would give the sword arm room. behalf of the Nanyang Tobacco were living there for the purpose for work on meeting a hostile per-
of their employer. At the outset, Mr. Potter ex- Mr. Potter said the owner of a
son, and of course when mounted plained that there were two writs, godown could give a friend six knights charged. lance in rest. they would necessarily keep to the left.
Co.
one issued by the plaintiff on feet square of space and turn it Sept 13th. 1921, in Summary | into a domestic tenement. It was Jurisdiction and the other issued quite simple ta turu large by defendants on Sept. 15th. in factories into domestic tenements Mr. J. Oldham, who told the Original Jurisdiction. On Feb in that way. But that, Counsel British Cold Storage Association 18 b. 1929, these actions were contended, was not the intention that he has eaten an egg that bad consolidated.
of the legislature. If that was so been 12 months in cold storage. Coming to the facts, Mr. Potter there was not a building in Hoog-apparently thought he had estab continued, that by an sgreement kong that was not a domestic listed an egg record. Certain for a lease dated Sept. 4th, 1916, tenement. plaintiff agreed to let there pre- mises in question godowns i go to press. Caroline Road-to the Chartered Bank. The term of that lease was for two years, from Sept. 1st. 1916, and the rent
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A Genuine Superproduction.
BLACK BEAUTY.
GERMANY'S TRADE MISSION TO F. E. R.
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agricoltural country with inex- haustible resources. whereas Germany has very highly devel- oped industry; thus Russia and Germany have to go band is band.
German mission to the Für Eastern Republic. The informa- tion about the Far Eastern Republic which bas so far reached
members of the Royal Zoological| Society of Ireland know better.. Some of these members inspect the Dublin Zoo every Saturday, and breakfast together. On pas occasion eggs were on the menu, and were declared by the zoo- logists to be of exceptionallyi A month. There was an option of renewal for a period of
delicate favour. They were
As to his tasks, Dr. Asmis said; "either two or these
"We have before us a great task years.
somewhat surprised. however, to That option was exercised Peking, June 2-General Wabe told by Sir Charles Ball that
of putting into effect the park- Chita, June 20.--The German June 1st, 1918, and the premises Pei-fa has sent circular teise the eggs they had eaten had been mission to the Far Eastern Re- graphs and poicts of the Rapallo were let for a further three years, gram to all the provinces asking brought by him from China whee public arrived here and has been convention. It is quite natural
that from Seat. 1st, 1918, to Aug. 31st, their advice and help on the dis-touring the Far East forty years received by
io this respect the the Minister of 1921. Clause of the agreement, bandment question. He asks for before.
interest Foreign Affairs, Mr. Yanson. In
which "Germany has Counsel mentioned, laid down a conference of all Military Gov-
Su Siberia and the Far
■ conversation, lasting an hour, Eastern Republic and in their that the premises should be used jernors, Civil Governors, Defence Marwood, the hangman, whose the chairman of the mission, Dr. only for a factory, warehouse or Commissioners, from the pro- fondness for the Castle Inn at Asmis, informed Mr. Yanson of innumerable riches will be direct- dwelling bouse.
viuces and from Peking he would Lincolo, now to be closed, gave the tasks with which the Gered at the beginning mainly to Although this agreement was bave all the Ministers and Vice- the old place a curious fame, must man Government has authorized getting first-hand information. made with the Chartered Bank. Ministers. The purpose of this have been & less reticent practi- the mission to accomplish in the This will be the first task of the Counsel went on, the people who would be to establish a definite tipner than another executioner. Far Eastern Republic. actually occupied the premises scheme for abolishing Tuchons Colcraft, who also had a favourita throughout were the defendants. Bod disbanding superduose ind, the Pescock, at Islington. Dr. Asmis, -interviswed, zaid This lease with the Chartered troops. Among bis suggestions There he had a special chair, and that his mission reached Irkutsk Bank having expired on Aug. is that all soldiers willing to go to many weat to see him, but they on May 31, where it made a stop Berlin is very poor and incensis- Jisi, 1921, continued Counsel, the their homes should receive three were careful to address bim as for about eight days. The partent The material which the question
2.3 to the months' allowance.
"Mr. Smithson," and not only exposes of his mission is to get mission will getber will be sent position of the defendants, Others wishing to join the police ecutions, but even crimes of all acquainted with the economic directly to Berlin.” ~ who четв the people in could be recruited for that por-kiods and she resultant trials condition in the Far Eastern Re- occupation. In the ordinary way pose. All sick or crippled were rigorously excluded from all public, with the object of bringing they would be merely tenants at through their army service should conversations in his presence. about close economic connec will, but they claimed by virtue be put in institutions to be cared His favourite topic was the old tions between. Germany" and the ́ of the Rents Ordinance that they for.
mail coaches and their famous Far Eastern Republic. Dur- had a statutory tenancy which A central organization for this rans.
fog the war and after gắty was indefensable as long as the disbandment process will be in
said Dr. Aamis, Germany "has Rents Ordinance lasted. Plaintiff's Peking with sub-offices through- This, by waggieh London lost many markets, in which Since they were introduced to was that defendants were out the provinces. Genersi Wa scribe:--Fishing in the Zambesi, the manufactured goods of Ger- the public over thirty years ago, outside the Rents Ordinance. would fir & definite time for the says Mr. George Graves, is many's industry, ware formerly Dr. Williams' pink puls have They had been served with consummation. He mentions merely a matter of dropping the sold, as well as the sources of raw maintained a fine record by the notice and must quit." Defendants four months as sufficient for line in. But for the crocodies materials of which the German thousands of cures they have said they were within the making the preliminary invas-and hippopotami getting in the industries are in great need. effected in young and old of both Rents Ordinance. Defendants said tigation aver the country, six way of the fish there would be no AN ECONOMIC RAPPROCHEMENT, will be found people who have seres. In every town and village the buildings they occupied were months after which he would have difficulty at all. Probably George G a domestic tenement within the the first disbandment made, with was provided with notice, The Russo German agreement bean restored to health by these meaning of the Ordinance,
the final word accomplished tan Foot passengers must not cross concluded at Rapallo, in Dr. excellent tonie pille The reason This case
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at the outset, months later. A National Army the Hae. As he will probably Asmis's opinion, lays only is that Dr. Willems pink pills Counsel continued, involved should be formed with the imtell us before long construction of the Rents Ordia-mediate preparation of a budget ence. Counsel submitted that for the control of its finances, the Court should, ascertain theThis National Army would be exact mischief which the legis divided into military posta located. lature was intended to remedy. in various Provinces.
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