SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918
THE CHINATM MAIL.
Hughes and Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALIT,
General Auctioneers.
LYD
Share, Coal and
General Brokera.
PROPRIETORS, TO-KWA-WAN
COAL STORAGE.
Codus aed
A.B.C. TH & STH EDITIONA
A 1. Titans pats Cook,
Tolegraphe Address
MEIRION HONOKONG,
PUBLIC
P
AUCTION,
|HE Undarsigned have received instras. tions to hell by Public Auctiva.
T
TUESDAY,
the 15th Jamury, 1916, commencing-ab- 2.30 p.m., a thei: Sales Rooms, No. 8.
Des Faux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street.
ANTARCE QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE BITES FENDERS, FIKE BRASSES, CURTAIN POLES, CARPETS, RUGA, &c.,
As Follows: Upholstered Suites. Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Table, Bedroom Furniture, Double and Single Brass-mounted Bed- steads, Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Exten- sion Dining Tables and Chairs, Tos and Occhial Tables, etc., etc.. Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Glass and E-P. Wato, 2 Cooking Stores, Cutlery. Braas Fendors, Curtain Poles, Toilet Sets and Bath Room Utensils, etc, etc.
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C.&B.ENGLISH SOUPS
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Prices in England.
1/11, 29, 4/6.
ENTERTAINMENT.
VICTORIA THEATRE
Blackwood Screen, a quantity of Blackwood SATURDAY, 15th JANUARY, 1916.
Furniture, etc., "etc., etc.
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) Term:-Cash..
HUGHES & ROUGE,
Auctioneers
Hongkong, Jan. 12, 1918,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
E Undersigned have received instrac- tions to sell by Public Auction,
оп
WEDNESDAY
1
the 19th January, 1916, at 2.p........
an' the Spot, The Several Lots Numbered 1 to 19 an Plan to be seen at the Auctioneers' Office, for erection of
BOOTHS AND MATSHEDS
on the Government"Ground adjoining the Race Course, North of the Grand Staud Enclosure.
Terms ---Cash.
Fox Plan and Conditions of Sale.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Government..
apply to-
Hongkong, Jan. 12, 1316."
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NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
INSURANCE.Co.
IN WHICH ARE Tzeged th's sharza or THE QURAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LED...
and
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
- ASSURANCE ON,
(OTAL FUNDS AT SÍST DZSEKIKE, 1914,
TOTAL F
£23,970,287.
I-Authafied Capital £6,000,000
Bubscribed Capital £4,500,000
Paid-up Capital £2,437,500
II-Fire Funda...
MEMO 5837,047
III-Life & Arianny Funda... 17,587,580
Sinking Fund Account
Revenue Fire Branch
128,230
£23,970,987
£2,881,156 2,141,593
Life awl Anuity L Branches! Revonse Marino Dapartmani... 997,239 Other Receipts
478,940
£5,390,228
The Accumulative Funds of the various Branchen are separately invcatod.,and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet the claims under the respective Depart ments of the Qumbany's "Bremness,... · SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
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SCOTCH WHISKY IN THE 'FAR EAST.
In the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Bessien judgment was given on Decem ber 8 by Lord Bacter in sa setion in which Mars Ledger, Sons, & Co., merchants And whisky tienders: St. Mary's Are, Lander, sought to interdict Messrs James Munro & Sons (Limited). Constitution Street. Leith, and Black wind & Hay, at the same address, from selling or pussing eff whisky nut of the pursuer manufacture as the pursuers whisky by using any labels, capsules, shape of bottle, or mode of get-up in a manner calculated to represect that the defendors whisky was whisky of the pursuers, manufacture. The pursuers also Bought damages laid at £2,000,
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in the Dutch East Indian, and also in all the Eastern markets where you prade, wo andartaks forthwith to withdraw from the markets the use of the labelsat presunt Afixed to our whisky known as Thres
and gives a perfecs
Monks." At the time when the pursuers reproduction of the world's
word
accepted that undertaking they uns ware that the defendars, traded in the East under any other came, or that they sold whisky under any other designation than Thres Morks" The defenders, having deliberately considered the matter, retained from giving any andertaking with
regard to any other whisky sold Karely
than the
after that undertaking had been given by the dofanders, the pursuers ascertained that whisky was boing sold in the East ander the name of Blackwood and Hay in a "got ap" similar to that of which they had complained to banand S . appeared that they m de inquiries, "which resulted in the ascertaining that Blackwood and Hay was camu under which Munro and Son traded. An undertsking was asked that that sh uld te stopped. This WSA refused, and the present action WEA raised, The
defeaders mid cn record
that the shape of bottle and the capsules and ecals used by the parsuers were com mon in the whisky rude and had been used by the defenders in the course of, their trade for many years. To pursuers alleged that the delendars traded under different names, and used aovend diarent designations for their whisky," which was sold in battles with a "get up" similar to that complained of, in the case of thes Three Monks whisky," The defenders admitted that they sent out to the Durch East Tadice and other actuen markets whisky of the brands and under the cames mentioned, and also admitted that the "get-up" of these brands sold by them in. these markets prior to 8th May, 1914, under the name of Jas. Munro & Sen, pr under the name of Blackand & Ray, or the other names mentioned in the con- descendance. a closely resembled the "got-up" of the parmers' whisky as to entitle the puraners to interdict in the event ita being proved that the defen
of ders had used the said "
"get-ep" for the sale of whisky in these marketa subseqaoot to that date. There was evidence led showing males by the defen dera subarquent to 3th May, 1914. On the other hand, his Lordship had no doubt that the "get-up" of the defend-re whisky was so closely similar to the "get up" of the pursuers whisky that it must have been adopted with a view to passing off the defenders' hissy sa the pursues whisky His Lordship th aghe, therefore, that tas pursuers were entitled to interdict and damages unless the defenders established. as they averred. that the questions at issue between the parties were settled extra judicially in Bay 1014, when the pursuers accepted, the defenders' under, taking and payment of their oicitors' That depended upon the con-
Lord Hunter granted interdict, and gave "coats." decres for £100 damages. Expensei were struction to be given to the undertaking. swarded to the pursuers, arcept the The pursuers accepted it as referriak to the expenses of an adjournment of the proef. brand of Three Monks," And the His Lordship said that the pursuers had for a period of over 23 years exported annually a considerable quantity of whisky to the Dutch East Indies and to the Straits Settlements. The goode appeared to have acquired a reputation in those maiketa: parsaers had a registered trade mark, and in connection with the sale of their goods they adopted a distinctive “gat-up” The bottles were not the ordinary bottles
defenders oxpressly limited it to that brand. His Lordship was of opinion that, that undertaking was no defence to this action...
The
ia
which whisky was sold and a
BRITISH AND GERMAN SHIPOWNERS.
Many shipping people in this
sond and three labels, two dark colored 5174, 5, Home, paper, some of them with and one red label in the centre, were great influence, are
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zed to the bottles. The whisky which the formulation of policy, rywhich was known as Tale of Shre whisky, Austrian and German vessels shall be was sold very largely to the natives, excluded from British ports, including those who were unable to red English of our overseas dominions, when the war characters, and wore said to rely upon comes to an end, while it is also contended the general appearance of the bottle that the Suez Canal should be closed to the and labe's and the "get-up therent. preseas enemy. The only retaliation In the beginning of 1914 the parzuers Germany, it is anderstood, could poss ascertained that the defenders, bluar & would be to peralise British cargo bosta Son, were selling whisky in the East trading to Bremen or Hamburg: hat under the name of "The Threa Monks,” neither of them. Gernin ports happens the "gat up" of which, as regarded the to be in moch fast with British freedom of selection in the matter. As far kind of bottle, capsula, and arrangement of owners. For a number of years before the as Scandinavia is coccerned, as Fervices three labels, closely resembled the get outbreak of hostilitica several German have been established from Norway: of their whisky. They instructed steamship lines had ancceeded in conclud. Sweden, and Denmark during the past their agents to take steps to put a stop ing agreements with British shipping com twelve months, while Russia already bas to an zetion which they considered to be an panies for the regulation of passenger and German companies shall to longer have decided that when hostilities cease the infringement of their rights. The posters, cargo traffic on various routes. At the
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OWL ON VICKIA and the IAK
after a correspondence between the parties, same time, the Garmad, Governtout, by y share fa hor sea-borne tande. Italy, SCHOLS Ra-Upsn on MONDAY, agreed not to take proceedings uppa, well-derived restrictions, arestad barriers ikewise, has of late been showing a ropy the 17th instant at 9 a.si, receiving an undertaking and payment of at the Russian frontier for the purpose of nationalistic tendencias in shipping, and, £10, 10 towards the expenses which diverting to German boats a stream of the movement is extending, important they had inca red. That undertaking was emigration which would largely have goce developments in this connection are expect. dated 8th May 1916, and was that "in by way of British ports if there had been
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Mr S. A. Smith, addreseing the Fol lows of the Auctioneer's Institute “last month on War risks to property," said. that he had mok- any unterwar insurance laasd which provided in express terms for the contingency of war damage, sithough in the case of property in the City of Leu- don which was let to a German firm iz 1912 for a term of 2 years, a request wa made by the lasses during the negotiations that the leases should be determinable at three months notice in the event of was with this country, which ab. the time was regarded as a sbaard a suggestion that it was not given serious consideration.
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