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HEAVY RAING
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1926.
CROWN LAW COSTS SCANDAL
THE COAL DEADLOCK:
TERRIBLE DISASTER IN JAPAN,
Tokyo, Sept. 12. Hiroshima messages state that a severe rainstorm atruck the city and district last night. A
Reports vary, but it appears that about twenty thousand houses ro submerged and a hundred are
demolished. Thirty are dead, 20 injured and 30 missing
Fatal Landslides. Jarm
Later.
COMMITTEES FIVE YEARS
OF SILENCE
PROSPECTS FOR NEW CONFERENCE 14
London, Sept. 11, When will Parliament take into The coal-owners of South York consideration the Iniquitous, legal shiro and Wales have passed a re- anomaly under which litigants who solution against a national arree- are successful in the courts in pro-mented, bu cess against the Crown receive no The Notts and Derby miners aro costs?tion was called to delegatos à froo hand-Reuter.
understood to have, given their
Public attention this question, on which a Govern- The main railway line connectment Committee has been sitting
Committee Meets To-day." ing Kobe with Shimonoseki is cut. since. 1921, by Mr. Justice Tatrao
11. There are also numerous land in
Ragby, Sent the course of an argu- alides and bridges down. The ment, on
The first, decialons of the Dis- costs in the trict Associations of Coalowncra city is described as a "son of King's Bench Division when he in reply to Mr. Churchill's proposal: swirling mud.”
said that under an old decision in for the resumption of national [Hiroshima is a port on the In- the Court of Queen's Bench the negotiations and a three-party con, land Sea, famous for its Sacred plaintiffs, although successful in ference were announced yesterday. Island. Ita population is 160,504 an action against the Collectors of They are, as had been thought (1920 census), number of house-Customs and Excism were not en probable, all unfavourable, though. holda 84,558.1
titled to costs because the Cray the West Yorkshire owners re- was an Interested party Mr, solution would accept, "principles. Justice Talbot aduled
Me of general application to be em- It appears to be a lamentable bodied in district settlements," The Home Ofice Has been, off-thing that an injustice of this kind Meetings of other owners' associa-. cially advised from Hiroshima should be still in existence. The tions will be held to-day, and o that the floods have subsided. difficulties of a subject who seeks Monday the Central Committee of The deaths number 49, missing 52, to enforce his rights when the gow coalewners meets to consider the injured 32, houses destroyed 242.ernment officials take the opposite replies and to report to Mr. The damage is estimated at a.
view are formidable enough, and it
Churchill-Britial Wireless. million yen.
seems to be a glaring injustice Railwaya and telegrahpa are be that when a man has been wrong- ing restored.'
fully charged with duty and has, Apparently most of the deaths succeeded in vindicating his right were caused by landslides. In a court of law, he should not be Router.
entitled to the, ordinary right of a successful litigant to have his costs. It is, á matter which might well engage the attention of the Legislature. Discussing the mat- ter with a Morning Post represen-for tative, a well-known barrister said that the whole legal profession would like to acp, the law altered. "Under the existing law the Attorney-General, when acting on behalf of the Crown, neither pays nor receives costs, and apart from special statutory provisions, nei
CHINESE BISHOPS.
SIX INTENDANTS VISITING
HONGKONG.
In honour of six Chinese Bis- hope-elect who are passing through the Colony on board the a.s. President Adams, on their way to Rome for consecration, thother the Crown. non any person Chinese Catholic community is suing on its behalf pays or re- holding a celebration in the com-celyes costs," he said. pound of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at 8 o'clock this even-
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·BRITISH TRADE,
BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.
B
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Across.
2. Shop-keeper.
9. Succession of things.
10. Rubber,
11. Person's will.
14. Boxes..
18. Cotton passed under skin,
19. Professions.
20. Quick.
21. Brietle.
22. Beverage.
25. Place.
26. Demonstrative Adjective, Gemon
27. Cook.
k
28. Wet.
London, September 11, The Board of Trade, returns
August show:
N." 30, Summit... Imports, £101,137,000; exports, T. Raw motal. 40,787,000-an increase of £847,000 38. Bird..
35 Colton gauze. in imperts and a decrease of 37
Discourage. £177,000 in exports-Reuter. 38. Spoken.
The figures for this year, are na under: January February
March
April
May
June July August
39. Door. fastening.
1 pull of gas.
42. Those who make wills.
45. Spanish dance,
£117,680,000 £80,380,000
06,846,000 62,814,00010. More conceited. 106,864,000 66,399,000 47. Mesingos. 102,402,000 - 52,748,000
81,190,000 46,704,000
100,201,000 57,204,000
Sheriff's officer.
15.
Narrative.
Same as 42 deross.
18.
Without affectation.
Commence.
24. Frovide food
29. Handle
ad
32
34
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'' body:
Q1
Motive:
Part of a tap,"
36. Composition for eight ginger
*8
Fortile spot.
40. In this pince.
41. Weight.
43. Sun."
44. Eggs.
07,504,000 51,107,000 1. Tako care.
PE |
2. Positions
101,187,000 49,787,000
3. Small mounds of sand.
4. Donkey
5. Born.
RE
6. Sen Eagles. 7. Taxes,
8. Dedicate.
13.
Mensure.
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He went on to explain that on The Bishop of Canton and the the Revenue side costs might be connection with the dacoity case Seven of the men arrested in Prefect of Kongmoon, who have given against the Crown ander the in the village of Kemmendine, four 12 Employment. come to the Colony, especially for Crown Suits Act of 1855 and the miles from Rangoon, on February the celebrations, will each give an Queen's Remembrancer Act 1859. 20, when 30,000 rupees, belonging Opposite 'kong Hotel Building address, while representatives from
Any Bill brought forward into Bulloch Brothers, were carried the Chinese Catholic Ladies' So the House of Commons with a view off by motor bandits, have been ciety, the Chinese Catholic Men's to altering the common law as it sentenced to four years' rigoreus. Society and the St. Joseph's So-xists in the case of the Crown imprisonment for dacoity, and ciety will also make speeches. with regard to Costs should," he eight to seven years for receiving
Archbishop Coustactini, who maintained, "make the Crown sub stolen property is accompanying the Blahopa-elect,ject to the ordinary rules that ap- as well as the latter themselves ply as between other parties in an will reply.
ordinary civil process." The six Bishops-elect are,-Mon-
"The arguments in favour of signers Chiu (Chilli) Sun, Chih-revision appear to me to be un i), Shing (Hupch), Chu (Kiang-answerable. Apart altogether su), Wu (Cheklung) and Chan from its archaic nature, the pre- (Shansi).'
sent law tends to discourage lit
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The party will arrive by the Pre-gants from taking their casc to the Lord Decies, Director of the In- sident Adams to-day and leave by higher courts, since they know come Tax Payers' Society, told a the same vessel for Rome to-perfectly well that even if they Morning Post representative that win they will have to bear the In the case of income tax proceed- burden of the heavy costs them-inge it was the custom of the selves. This appears to me to in Crown to pay, coste in the event volve grave dangers of miscar-of their losing the caso, riage of justice, and is in fact, an being so, why on earth should not obstacle of doubtful morality be the custom be extended to other tween the citizen and his rights." classes of cases?" he asked, "It The whole, question is one on is iniquitous that this. firm should which the Departmental Committee. not be able to obtain its costa after Crown Proceedings was ap- it has fully vindicated itself in the Rugby, Sept. 11. appointed nearly five years ago, courts, and the whole matter re- Instructions have been issued by on December 30, 1921, under the quires speedy legislation.” the Admiralty that in future all chairmanship of the then Aftorney- The terms of reference for the officers and man of the Royal Navy General,. Sir Gordon Hewart. It Departmental Committee provided. and Royal Marines may be ordered has not even produced an interim that "it should consider the posi to take casual fights in aircraft report, and officials of the Lordtion of the Crown as a litigant as necessary in the course of their Chancellor's Department question and make such proposals for the ordinary, dution.
This order indicates that aircrafted by a forning Post representa indification of the existing law has now reached the status of being tive, could give no indication when upon the subject as may best con- part of the routine life in His pronouncement might be expect-duce to efficiency and economy Majesty's service at sea.
on.
ed.
with due regard to the special The Morning Post's naval corres- The Committee was composed necessity for safeguarding the col pondoat romarks that one need not as follows: Sir Gordon Hewart lection of the revenue.""" look far ahead to the time when (Chairman), Justices Rowlatt, Hill Inquiries showed that no officials every ship of any size will be equip and Branson, Sir J. PMellor, Sic of the Committee were in town, ped with aeroplanes which will be J. L Barstow, Sir Claud Schuster, and it is, therefore, not possible used by her own crow for ship's Sir E. Pollock (then Solicitor-Gen- to say yot how many sittings it duties, in much the same way as ships' boats are tow used-British cral Sir W. Trower, Sir Thomas has had during its life, long even Wireless.
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