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BRITISH INDUSTRY.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1926.

THE SILK CASE.

PREMIER'S APPEAL TO COAL INTERESTS.

JUDGMENT ENTERED FOR DEFENDANT.

Railwaymen's Wise Decision.

Rugby, Jan. 29.

Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minis-. ter, speaking at Sunderland last night, dealt with industrial af- fairs, and referred to the signs of improvement in the outlook, which had been apparent during the

last few weeks.

endorsed

Pulane Judge on "Extraordinary Material."

FANLING HOUNDS.

FUTURE.

He measured the rolls himself buyer to reject the goods deliver- and found at that time four were fed and to repudiate the contract less than the correct width. The of sale, the onus was on the buyer. buyor refused to accept the goods. It was for him to satisfy the LARGER PACK IN THE NEAR The seller would not accede to a court that the material did not repudiation of the contract and conform in width with the stipu the action followed. His Honour lation in the contract. No one

It is not generally known perhaps. had himself mansured the rolls who had hot himself handled thir

that the moots of the Fanlings and there appeared to be eight material could fully realise how Hounds are run on similar linon places less than tho contract serious a burden of proof was to those at Home. Here, they are laid on the buyer. The material limited in their captures; never

It had been suggested by, the responded to tension and man- tholes the hounds moot twice each extraordinary wook usually, and the meets provide

to an

Yesterday morning Mr. Justice width. Wood delivered judgment in the action in which Kwok Wah Com-seller that the buyer's acceptance pulation

any sued Messrs. P.M. Pinguet was complete on receipt of the degree. One roll after a series excellent sport.

The Fanling Hounds wore of Queen's Road for damages for case from the godown and he was of very gentle movements varied non-delivery of goods under a con- not entitled to reject the goods at the same point between 26 and inaugurated by Dr. F. Pierce Grove The seller also 30 inches. Before the first ox and Mr. H. Birkett about eighteen tract. The amount claimed was subsequently,

could amination by the buyer the stuff months ago. Meets are now held $662, the amount paid for goods. said the right to examine He said there were at least. The case was one in which plain have been exercised at any time had been unrolled. by machine every Saturday and Sunday, and of the After the buyer's examination in usually something like twenty-fivé good reasons for sober confidence tiffe agreed to buy ton pieces of after May 22, the date and moderate optimism. While artificial silk jersey. After, re-initial contract, and that the due which the places were unrolled take part in the hunt.

In many cases a drag is laid, refraining from any anticipation ceiving the goods they complained place of delivery in the absence and rolled again by hand the of the report of the Coal Com that it was not up to the width of evidence to the contrary, was apparent width of the mutorial] trail of some mixture being set for the hounds to follow. There is, of miazion, the Prime Minister specified in the contract and re-in the seller's gadown, and that must have considerably alterad.

he had accepted the goods by the the words of Lord Jected' it..!

Requisite Skill and Experience. course, no kill on these occasions, Londonderry; n large Dur- In the course of his judgment; act of removing them from the

The question for decision was but the following of the drag

'In one merely of fact.

Tho his provides interesting sport. ham coatowner, who a few days the Pisne Judge said the parties godown. ago declared that there ought to were two merchant firms. The Sale By Description.

Honour's opinion the uncorrobor hunting of a civot-cat adda attrac be direct and frank discussion be-action was by the buyer for non- He had found that sale was by rated evidence of one witness for tion, as these are followed with enthusiasm by both hounds and tween the owners and miners in delivery of goods, the price of description and it had been shown the plaintiff had not proved that hunters. Following the usual hunt- the districts on the new local which was paid by the buyer in that the custom existing in the deficiency existed at the time of ing eastom, one of the foot is taken agreement in place of the national advance of delivery. The ques trade was for the buyer to con-delivery. He was not satisfied off when the kill is made.

greement, that the initiative tion arising for decision was duct the examination of the goods that the plaintiff's witness had the should be taken by individual whether the seller had or not made in his own premiaca after the de-requisite experience and skill to

At present there are eight. owners, and that there should be a good delivery under the con-livery to ascertain whether the ensure the material as the width

been couples of mixed hounds, including a greater output on a decrease tract.

goods delivered conformed to the orginally could only have

ascertained by an expert. On that a good proportion of fox hounds of wages and no increase of houre.

description in the contract. The

more .fox ground the plaintiff's case failed. It is hoped to secure The Premier appealed to both The circumstances were that examination by the buyer WAB

It was not necessery for him to hounds in the sides in the coal industry not the date of the contract was May completed within reasonable time decide whether the evidence given Springfield, who is prominent in the lightly to inflict further losses 22, 1926. On that day a broker, and was followed by prompt re-for the seller established his claim running of the Shanghai hounds, is upon other trades; and speaking the agent of the defendant, projection.

convinced pacifist in in-duced a sample of dress material Extraordinary Material,

that he had made a good delivery now on his way home, and while in under the contract. He was not England he will scoure Fürther called upon to decide that point. hounds for Shanghai as well as some He entered judgment for the for the Fanling Pack, and by cext defendants with costs.

winter it is hoped to have between

08 2

The Circumstances.

dustry, he expressed approval o "artificial silk jersey" to the On the issue of whether it the wise decision just reached plaintiff and asked if he was pre- has been shown that the delivery by the railwaymen.-British Wirepared to buy ten pieces. Plaintiff made was such as to entitle the

lesa.

EVE AND THE SERPENT.

HEATED DISCUSSION BY

DUTCH COMMITTEE.

said he was. The broker was only authorised to obtain offers and he informed defendants who gave him a document stating that the goods had arrived and stating the number of the packaga in the godown. The broker then on in- structions accepted the offer of the plaintiff and nanded him the document. The broker was now absent and it was not possible to get his evidence and in con- sequence it had been difficult to lecide facts. He had been able) Assen (Holland), Jan. '28,

to establish, however, that the There was a dramatic incident at offer of the buyer contained 1 a meeting of the committee' com ipulation that the stuff must be sidering the compitence of the 28 inches wide and that necep- General Synod of the Dutch Rotance the offer included an formed Church to decide whether fee of that express' condi- the well-known Amsterdam clergy- ) to ED man. Doctor J. C. Geelkerken, was

Chairman's Sudden Death.

4!

The Wrong Case.

rightly declared "suspect" owing In his Honour's view the con- to his alleged unorthodox views tract was one of sale by descrip with regard to certain narrativeation, followed immediately by In the Old Testament, especially allotment of goods by the seller," whether the serpent actually spot the defendant. At that time the to Eve in the Garden of Eden,

seller had in the godowne six The discussions of the committee cases with identical contents, any were very heated, and speakers of which might have been select- Indulged in personalities. Whened to make delivery under the the excitement was at its highest, contract. Nothing material hap- the chairman, Doctor De Moor, Pened until June 9, when suddenly collapsed, and died price was paid by the buyer, who almost immediately, apparently following day he sent his agent

received a delivery order. from apoplexy.--Reuter.

to the godown and was given delivery of a case on production of the order. In accordance with the custom in the trade the buyer had not examined the goods) and proceeded to do so that day.

THEFT OF SILK.

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The case he received was not in fact the one allotted by the seller but another one of the scries. The "buyer noticed this It ady been discovered that the case and thereby estopped himself error but nevertheless opened the gang who robbed the Popular Silk from making a claim for non; delivery on that mistake. On night did not escape with all of opening the case. he found it to their booty. In a lavatory on the contain ten pieces of material. Afth floor there were diacovered on He unrolled most of it and Monday-some of the stolen silka, measured it for both length' and and yesterday in the same lava-width, obtaining a measurement tory bundles containing 39 shawia of 25 Inches in some rolls. worth $2,531, were discovered. Some of them had been damaged

On June 11, he wrote to the by water,

defendants a letter of complaint, Two iron bars, used in forcing The seller went to plaintiff's the trap door, through which entry premises and then inspected the was made, were also found, and it goods. He told plaintiff that no is expected that a heavy cash box claim could be made as by unroll- which was included in the looting the material accurate measure- will also reappear.

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