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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
May 26, 1939.
By Walt Disney
PORT BOARD YOUR STAR HOLM!
WHAT DOBO
PORT BOARD MBAN,
UNCA DONALD?
ENGLISH
and
Possession Claim
Chief Justice Decline
To Raise Rent
1912, Wakery Produwaka
Mr. Justice Lindsell, in the Sum- ingry Court yesterday, heard a case of B between
Chung
Man-hing
AIR MAIL ARRIVES
·RADIO-
The Imperial Airways Dorado ZBW, 355 metres (845′k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) arrived in Hongkong yesterday after- noon shortly before 5.30 pm, with une passenger from Hanol, Mr. H. C. York business Herzfelder, a New
home and men who is returning mails from Europe,
Mr. Herzfelder will catch the Manila Luard Road, and Po Ying-tong of Pan-American Clipper for 108, Ausun Road, Kowloon. Chung on Saturday. claimed possession of Po's premises.
The plaintiff is
owner
the registered
The Dorado (Capt. A. B. Dykes) and until made a direct run from Bangkok.
of the premises, December 31, the defendant was the On November 20, the plain- tenant. tiff gave notice for the defendant to quit and deliver up possession of the premises on December 31. This the und stlt defendant refused to do occupies the premises.
Mr. S. Ng Quinn represented the plaintiff, and the defendant conduct- ed his own case.
I
Li Kwak-cheung said that he had been occupying the ground floor of 100, Austin Road aince May 1936, Residing in the house were his step- mother, his wife, himself, and, eight of his children. No part of the flat was sub-let. At the end of Novem- ber he received a notice to quit the premises at the end of December.
Originally, continued Li, his rent was $57 but it was reduced to $54 In November 1930. In April 1938, the rent was raised up to $80, and
ccepted.
His Lordship: Did your notice to quit give you any alternative?
Mr. Ng handed a copy of the
MEXICAN'S RECORD
New York, May 25.
the Mexicun Francisco Sarabia, airman, arrived at Floyd Bennett Airport at 6.44 p.m. (ED.T.) thus Alght from completing a non-stop Mexico City in ten hours 52 minutes.
Amelia Earthart's previous best
time was 14 hours 10 minutes, which she established in 1935.
Sarabia flew from Mexico City In order to participate in the opening ceremony of the Mexican Pavilion at the World's Fair on Saturday,
The plane was named "Conqueror of the Skies."--United Press,
JAPANESE PLANE'
Osaka, May 25.
The Japanese monoplane "Soyo kaze" left Bangkok for Canton on its return fight from Tehran to Tokyo notice served on the defendant, was at 8 a.m.
Staying in Canton for the night, the given to His Lordship to read.
to Talhoku to- After reading it, is Lordship re-plane will proceed
to Tokyo on the morrow and return marked: "Yes You did have option of paying $20 rent, making a Saturday afternoon-Domei, $100 in all."
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No House Available
years.
an area
Recital by Barbara Gilmar Thought, My
And Father Riganti THE HONGKONG SINGERS
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W, on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. on 0.52 m.e's, per and 8-11 p.m. second.
H. K. T. 12.00-12.20 p.m. of Intercession Cathedral.
Relay of Service St. John's from
12.30 Ralo da Costa (Plano). "Stand Up And Sing"-Medley (Charig); "King Of Jazz-Medley.
12.43 Bob Crosby and Its Orches fra.
One Desire (from 'Giuditta-Lebar); Loveliest Women (from 'Gludiita-Lehar).. Richard Tauber (Tenor) with Or- choutea; Valse Romantique (Max Heinecke); Die Hochzeit Der Winde, Waltz (John T. Hall).. Boheme Orchestra.
and 1.30 Reuter Rugby Press, Weather and Announcements.
1.10
Mendelssohn-Tro
Minor, Op. 40,
Cortol, Thibaud and Casals. 2.15 Close Down.
.Vienna
In
D
6.00 Relay of the Danco Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Ilong- Kong Hotel.
everything; (b) (a) Thanks for Could be; (e) Salling at Midnight; (d) Swingtime in Honolulu.
6.14 Record: If You Love Me Cross Patch-For-Trot; Big Chief De Soto -Novelty Fox-Trot; Dixie-
(Noble); A Couple Of April Fools land Shuffle-Fox-Trot; You're Love-Kennedy and Carr)....Carroli Gib- ly Madame-Fox-Trot (film 'Artists and Models Abroad'); What Have Gets Me Fox-Trot You Got That (81m Artists and Models Abroad').
1.00
Time and Weather. 1.03 Richard Tauber (Tenor) and Vienna Boheme Orchestra.
(Lincke); April Spring Woltz Smiles, Waitz (Depret) .....Vienna Boheme Orchestra; Vienna, City of My Dreams (film 'Heart's Desire'); Let Me Awaken Your Heart (Alm Richard Tauber IIcurt's Desire')....R
bons
(Piano) and His Boy Friends. 6.21 (a) Rose Room; (b) Black arms; (d) When you're smiling. Eyes; (c) Only when you're in my
0,35 Records: Jan Kiepura Flim Melodies. Marcel Palotti (Organ); A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (flim The Great Ziegfeld)....Frances Day (Soprano) with Orchestra.
6.44 (a) Ileart and Soul; (b) Miss Annabella Brown; (c) Love is where you find it; (d) When Pa is Courtin'
(Tenor) with Orchestra; Liebesfreud M 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- (Old Vienna Walt-Kreisler)......tions. Vienna Bobema Orchestra; My Every
A Look Through The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
May 26, 1889,
now being made by the Government
7.02 Elsie and Doris Waters, Lexile Hutchinson, Frances Day and The Mills Brothers and Others.
The Pretty Little Patchwork Quilt -Fox-Trot; Too Lovely To Be True -Fox-Trot (Blm The Sky's The HUGE AIRPORT
Limit)...Jack
and Illa Ver- Wilson satile Five with Vocal Refrain; I Feet Tokyo, May 25.
A Song Coming On (film "Every The Ministry of Communications
Night At Eight'); Whenever I Think Li then said that on February 1,
Of You (Hany Woods).....Lesle he went to see the Registrar of the to-day announced a plan for expand-
The Plano; Hutchinson (Vocal) at Supreme Court and as a result of ing the Fukuoka Airport in northern this he tendered the $50 rent to the Kyushu, the most important junction
Oh, Isabella-Waltz (Telch); Moun
Tessin tain Life-Waltz (Stucki).... lundlord, and the money was refus in Japan of the Japan-Manchukuo
Band; A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Fitz- ed. After receiving the notice to China air service, at a total cost of
As a sign of the timer, the art and gerald and Feldman);
Music,
Maes- quit he searched through various yen 2,500,000 for a period of three
These Foolish parts of Hongkong for a house to
(Vocal) Upon completion of the plan, the the railltary authorities to form a Elle tre, Please (from
Day. of 250 Volunteer Corps in the Colony calls for Things')....France Brats. Beils go to, but could find none because: the rents demanded were too high. airport will have
consideration and comment. Along with with Orchestra; the din of industrial and commercial Novelty Quickstep; Eccentric acres.-Domei, The rents asked for had been be
pursuits, in which this money-making tween $120 and $140.
colony is deeply engaged there are Novelty Quickstep....Henry Hall and heard now and then ominous rumours His Orchestra: Sleepy Head (alm Jungle Fever (film 'Spy of possible wars, now is spread of in- 13'); JangBrothers (Four creased and hasty armament...and. mobilisation of troops in
the region (Lang-Kress). Eddic Feeling Russia's aggressiveness in of Herat, on the one hand, its deter Lang-Kress). mined Intention to seize and occupstar) with
accomp by Carl and D. Waters); of Kress;
Waters) Doer Island in Koren, on the other, are seriously occupying the attention
Waters with .Elsie and Doris shadows of coming events. It is quite
Your Arms statesmen and thinkers. These are the The Tule Of a Hat (E. and D. within the natural order of things that Piano; Take Me In Hongkong, the reputed Gibraltar of the Far East, should taks (Roncoroni); There's Rain In My Lealle Hutchinson (Vocal) at the time by the foreleck and make active Eyes (Ager-McCarthy-Schwartz)
8.00 preparations to face and even vanquish
Questioned by His Lordship. Li said that he had an income of $80 a month his position being-n. sales- His wife had manager of a firm.
this Some property in Macao realised an income of $300 a month. the onus His Lordship held that
and t
HIT WITH HAMMER Seaman Attacked In Wanchai Teahouse
in the first instance fell to the tenant defendant to show that he was en- An attack on a Chinese inside a occurred at Wanchal titled to the
the Or-tea-house protection of dinance on the ground, that to have shortly after 9 p.m. yesterday. The to vacate his premines would cause incident created a great deal of ex- him exceptional hardship. That unus citement and hundreds of spectators was discharged and exceptional hurd-crowded around the shop.
if the defendant The victim of the ship established
attack, Yu Tung, could satisfy the Court that he had 30.
be a seaman, was having made reasonable but unsuccessful
England;
'Malta and
de
Guitar); Pickin' My Way Way
efforts to find other accommodation tea in company with a woman, when i an inimical advance on this Infand. Life Po Time, Weather and Announco-
to
In the Colony has been so dull and a man, who is believed to be a car prosy for years past that a brush with ments.
8.03 Philadelphia Symphony Or- enter, arrived
on the scene and an chomy would probably give us a new of the same kind and about the same
penter,
clicsita. on the head with a lease of energy. Like Essex before, rent. As to what amounted to rear struck him
Cadis, wo would be apt to throw our
Song Without Words (In A minor, was a question of hammer, sonable efforts
causing a nasty cut. fact in each case. Once the onus The assallant attempted to escape, hats into the sea the moment we heard
events are, moreover, pointing in the lochito Russian Sailors' Dance (from was no discharged it then shifted to but the alarm was raised, and the that a good fight was imminent. That Op, 40, No. 6-Tchaikowsky); Yab-
A man was arrested Police arrived. the complaining landlord, who,
direction, there cannot be the slightest The Red Poppy Ballet'); Hungarlon
1; Gavotte ("Mignon' succeed in his claim, must enlisty
..cond. by Leopold The victim was taken to the Queen doubt, and the proposed Volunteer Dance No. the Court that he would suffer
clear proof that we aro slowly, but greater hardship through being un- Mary Hospital where he is in a organisation in, as we have said, ansther Thomas)......
serious condition.
8,15 Relay of a Recital by Barbara It is believed that the motive foruroly, and, let us hope, successfully, Stokowski.
drifting into sume kind, or other of Gilmar (Soprano) and The Very Rev. squabble. the assault was jealousy on the part
Father A. Riganti (Organ) from St. 25 YEARS AGO
Joseph's Church.
In A Mr. Ng then said that he did not of the assailant, who alleged that the
Beethoven-Sonata propose to put his client in the wit-man was keeping company with
Major, Op. 68. лess box, and His Lordship said: his wife.
Emanuel Feuermann ('Cello) and
9.05 Schubert Songs. Myra Hess (Piano).
The Eri King, Op. 1; Hedge Rose,
able to obtain possession of his pre- mises than would the defendant through being dispossessed,
"You don't really want possession at
Gaston
8.45 May 20, 1914, Messes. Inglis are building the St. Solriol, which will be propelled by Parsons turbines transmitting their all," Mr. Ng replied in the affirma- tive and said that he was asking the er was to have possession of the power through mechanical gearing. The premises for reconstruction, follow-St. Beitial will be 200 ft, in longth, Court to fix a reasonable rent.
ing which the tenant would have the with engines of 2,000 h.p, a speed of
18 knots and accommodation for 1,000 Op. 3, No. 3; Impatience, Op. 25, No. Alexander Kipnis (Boss) with Owned Two Houses
right to apply for re-occupation..
passengers. The performances of the 7....
Moore. Geroid Plaintiff seld in evidence that he
Woo Chi-tuen, new vessel should be specially interest Piano accomp. by The parties were
9.10 London Relay The News. was the owner of 108 and 108 Aus-
9.30 Handel's "The Blessiah”. tin Road. Tenants of both houses the owner, and the Fung Kat Keeing, as she will have to run lá, co-
frequent (Relayed from St. John's Catho- were paying $100 a month. He had firm, the tenants. The owner sought operation with paddle boats, the merits
calls Aro
and песеннику n relative living in one of the houses possession on the ground of recon-of which, for services where numerous who paid only $80, but that person struction but it was alleged by the manoeuvring required, are admitted by dral); The Hongkong Singers. Solo- Channel lats: Eva Turner (Soprano); Helen previous hearing all owners of passenger defendants at a
(Contralto); at Lockhart had shifted and the new tenants were that the purpose was to increase the steamers. They are betier than now paying $100,
dinary turbines, but it has not yet d'Aquino (Tenor) and L. T. Ride rent from $40 to $85.
boon, proved that they are better than (Baritone) with E O'Neil Shaw at to fix a In asking His Lordship
Mr. J. M. Hall appeared for the geared turbines.
the Organ. Conducted by Rupert reasonable rent, Mr. Ng cald that
D'Aimada from the evidence of the defence it defendants and Mr. C.
The paddle-atcamera have not yet Baldwin.
11.00 Close Down been superseded for Channel services is was quite clear that houses in that was for the plaintiff. locality had rents of $130 and over. When the case was resumed yes proved by the fact that old-established He suggested that the rent of a $100 terday, Yip Hing-fong, a qualified companies continue to have them, built, ST. JOHN AMBULANCE was reasonable; the house was of architect, gave evidence for the de
10 YEARS AGO European style.
fence, saying that the premises, 163
Report on Activities For May 20, 1920,
Last Month His Lordship pointed out that the Laichikok Rond, were in good con
Despite the fact that the ship is now. rise of rent from $54 to $80 Inst dition and needed no repairing.
Evidence was also given by two more than 10 days overdue, hope bas April was in itself an increase of over 40 per cent. Apart from evi-other tenants of the building to the not been abandoned of news being T- ceived this year of the Danish training dence showing that a recent ellent same effect. They added that thes
to pay more. rent hip "Kobenavn which left Buenosed by the St. John Ambulance New
Aires on December 14th, for Adelaide, Territories" and an old tenant were each pay-had been asked ing $100 there was no evidence to under threat of notico ta' quli.
50
5 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1934,
A total of 11,251 cases were treat-
Medical Benevolent Branch during the past month. Of these casos, 2,711 were from the Cheung Chau: Haw Par. Hospital,
A revolutionary change has been de- 1.169 from Tsuen Wan; 042. from
show that that was a fair econo- Following this evidence, the parties. mical rate of the premises at all. went to Chambers for the purpose His Lordship: It seems to me that of arriving at a settlement. On the if $80 was a tals rate a year ago, case being resumed in open Court. elded by the stewards of the Tun Mun: 605 from Ho Truen: 027 that would be a fair rent now. His Lordship announced that the longkong Jockey Club in reducing the from Kam Tia: 622 from Takwu-
partles had reached hold."
an agreement price of all east-woep-tickets to the ling, 1.209. from Shataukok; 1,000 Lipak! his arrears of rent in whereby the owner was to have pos- Bat rate of one dollar per ticket, effec- from Fanling: 477 from Shain; 950 Court-
A new tenancy, under the name session, within 14 days, for seven tire as from the next Laira fiace bloot from Shum Chun and 075 from Nom weeks to reconstruct the premises. The reason for the change is to Besides these, 1,805 persons were of Li, was ordered to begin as from When the premises have been recon-
hape that seen by doctor, and 120 adults and January
structed, the awast was to apply to stimulate sales, in the Court to Ax a new rental anould prix bich have latterly shown SETTLEMENT REACHED “
falling off by reason of lack of support, Infants admitted to hospital. There
ment cases, In another case, the parties arrive the tenant decide to go back into will rasch: the old levels, or go oven! were 110 maternity and 55 GovEIN-
blgher. red at a settlement whereby the own-/re-occupation.
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