1920-06-10 — Page 2

PLAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONERES, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

11:45 Undarsigned hars received instruc- tiems to sell by Public Auction,

од

SATURDAY, June 12, 1920, Commencing al îl am."

at their Salsa Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Large Quantity of Winss

and Spirits,

Comprising

-60 cases Australian Fock,

35 do Claret "Vedoc

20 da Champagne "Dec de

Monaco"

20 do Peppermint.

20 de Salamander Cognac, 3 shara,

50 de Salamander Cognac, No. 1

5 do Burgundy,

20 do Sherry (various bran is) 20 'do Dry & Old Tom Gin,

14 do Oorla Gio,

etc.

eton

etc.

NB. A large quantity of the above

will be sold without reserve.

On view Dow,

Tarms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Jane 7, 1920.

INTIMATIONS.

WE HAVE

Just received A New Seppir of WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPE.

Many varieties and value of

NEW EUROPE also

CATALOGUES and ̈ALBUMS

for sale.

·GRAJA & 00..

No. 10, Wyndham „Street,

P. O. Bax $20.

Hongkong,

"JAPANESH MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

The

IE CHINA MAIL.

"Three Castles"

Virginia Cigarettes

MAGNUMS

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Ask for the

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920,

NOTICES.

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HEALTH

against

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THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. 00.; ITD. Head Office: Hongkong, Nos. 47 & 13, Connaught Road Central. Tel. No. 2230. BRÄNOR OFFICE : Shanghai, Nos. 430 & 431, Nanking Road. FATORIES: Hongkong, Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay and Shanghai, No. 71, North Soochow Rand

41

on

SATURDAY, June 12, 1820,

mending at 12 o'clock (noon).

at Messrs. Yue Fat's Godown, Kennedy Town,

(For accout of the concerned)

1676 bags Tonkin Rice.

(Stored in abore godown;

110 bags Tonkin Rice,

Stored in Wah Kee's Godown, Kennedy Town).

135 bags Tonkin Rice,

(Stored in No. 12 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, Kennedy Town).

200 bags Toakin Rice,

(Stored in No. 30'Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown, Ca, Ltd., West Point).

150 bagi Tonkin Rice,

(Stored in No. 9 Godown of the Hongkong & Rowle Wharf & Godowa Co., Ltd., West Point).

Txans :--Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Jane 9, 1920.

MESSES LAMMERT BROS. are

instructed to sell The Steamship

"JEHANGIR"

Mying in the Harbour of Hongkong, under an

Order of the Court

PUBLIC AUCTION

啦

MONDAY,

the 28th day of June, 1920, st

3 o'clock r.x.

IN ONE LOT

At their Auction Rooms, in Duddell

Street..

The ship is a British ship registered at Bongkong of 5206 tons Gross and cf 3360.71 Registered tonnage and was built by W. Denny and Brothers,

ambarton.

For particulars to view apply to Mears. Lammert Broe, the Auctioneers.

For further particular

Apply to

HEESE. JOHNSON, STOKES

& MASTER,

Prince's Building,

or to

MESSES, LAMMERT BROS,

Dord WOTTS

I'm here!

RITICA

The Auctioneers. Duddell Street.

household.

A Welcome Visitor

at any time in

every Every

Bug, Flea, Beetie,

Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with

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Hongkong, March 23, 1914.

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FILM TRADE SECRETS.

PICTURES FOR THE CORONET..

RAY LOSES APPLICATION IN

SINGAPORE COURT.

A judgment of interest, especially to owners or lessees of picture theatres who hire their films from different towns, was delivered on June I in the Supreme Court" by the Chief Justice. Sir John Bucknil, K.C. The case originally heard was the Middle East Films Limited, against

H. W. Ray.

His Lordship said that this was a summons taken out by the defendant for an order that an order made by the Registrar on the 26th April, under which the Registrar gave permission

their writ upon him in Hongkong. the jurisdiction. The first part of the Now the service of writs out of the performance of the contract would be jurisdiction is governed by Section the selection and despatch from Singa. 105 of our Civil Procedure Code, pore by the plaintiffs of the weekly Then would come 1907. The defendant is a British supply of films. subject, and the only sub-section of other portions of the contract, such as Section 105 of our Code which could the receipt by the defendant of the possibly be invoked in this paragraph films in Hongkong and the purchase (e) of sub-section (1) which reads as there of the drafts in favour of the followsService out of the jurisdic- plaintiffs; then would come another tion may be allowed by the Court or part of the performance of the con- Judge wherever. (e) the "action, is CRCT, namely, the encashment by the founded on the breach or alleged plaintiffs in Singapore of the dratts breach within the jurisdiction of any sent to them by the defendant. Al- contract wherever made, which ac- though there is no evidence of a de- cording to the terms thereof ought to finite course of actual dealing between be performed within the jurisdiction." the plaintiffs and the defendant. I Now turning to the contract itself think it is obvious from the contract it should first be noted that it is made itself that what I have said above was in Hongkong between the plaintiffs' the clear intention of the parties. Company, stated to be of Singapore,

In the case of Rein v. Stein the acting through Joe Fisher in his defendant, who was a German subject capacity as their General Manager, carrying on business as a shipbruker and the defendant, described as of the at Hamburg, used to give orders for Coronet Theatre, Hongkong. It re- broken glass to the plaintiff who care cites that as the plaintiffs control cer- ried on business in London. The glass zin um exhibition rights for Hong-was shipped from the Thames and the

writ in

to the plaintiffs to serve the writ of kong and China and that as the de bills of lading were forwarded to the summons in this action upon the fendant is the lessee of the Coronet defendam at Hamburg. The defen. defendant at Hongkong, should be Theatre. Hongkong, and is desirous dant used to sell the glass and remit set aside. The circumstances are of receiving supplies of films from the the proceeds to the plaintiff by grahts simple enough and they may shortly plaintiffs the parties agreed, (1) that drawn on a London Bank and payable The defendanr did nor te thes summarised. The plaintiffs the plaintiffs undertook to supply and in London. are a limited company carrying on the defendant undertook to hire from pay all that was alleged to be due business in Singapore as the hirers out the plaintiffs some 7,000 feet of cer- from him to the plain, and the of cinematograph films, whilst the thin films per week:42) thar the de- plaintiff thereupon issued a defendant apparently carries on the fendant would pay the plaintifs 500 England and asked for leave to serve business of showing cinematograph Mexican dollars per week; (3) that it out of the jurisdiction. The Court "Nims at Hongkong, particularly at a The defendant would pay all the of Appeal decided that as payment was. place known as the Coronet Theatre, freight, shipping insurance, and duty according to the course of dealing. of which hall he is stated to be the charges on films and posters supplied made in London, there was a breach Jessée.

On the 30th June, 1919. the to the defendant by the plaintiffs; (5) within the jurisdiction. The Court of General Manager of the plaintiff com- all accounts should be paid weekly by Appeal decided that the failure to pay. pany, who was then in Hongkong. sigh draft drawn against bank docu- was a breach within the jurisdiction entered into · a somewhar curious ments; (12) that the agreement and all and that leave to serve out of the agreement with the defendant. To questions arising thereunder should be jurisdiction ought to be granted. I this agreement. I shall have to refer interpreted and governed under and can see very little difference, if any, presently in detail, and I will here say by the laws of the Straits Senfe. between the principle in that case and the principle in this. I think there- that the contract, generally was for the ments, regular weekly supply of filins by the New-it is quite clear that the fact tere if we here insert instead of fans paintiffs to the defendant. The that the contract was actually entered burg Hongkono, and instead of Eng land, Singapore, and state that it is Plaimiffs now allege that the defen-ino in Hongkong is not necessarily clear from the contract that the party dant has repudiated the contract and material to the question whether ser resident in Hongkong should remit the that the plaintiffs have suffered dam vice out of the jurisdiction is permis value of the goods to Singapore, we age thereby. The plaintiffs issued a sible or not. It is argued however

the contract.

writ in Singapore for service out for the defendant, that clause 12 of have almost identical principles.

His Lordship quoted various the jurisdiction on the 29th April this the contract is intended to indicate a year, ciziming damages for breach of choice of forum in the event of a dis-cities the latest one of which he On the 26th of April pute under the contract. Personally ssid was in favour of service out of jurisdiction. For those reasons he the plaintiffs issued a summons which have come to the conclusion that it

•Was heard by the Registrar, for ant does not, but it only constitutes a per-thought that the order of the Regis- order that they might be a liberty to fectly legitimate arrangement between rar must be affirmed, and this sum- serve the writ of summons upon the the partics as to what law is to beans would be dismissed with costs. defendant at Hongkong and the Re-applied in the event of a dispute. Singapore. Free Press.. gistrar the same date gave the think there can be no doubt that, un- plaintiffs liberty to do so. On the less a choice of forum is clearly 26th of May the defendant, through agreed upon in the contract, a mere his solicitors, Messrs. Drew and arrangement as to the law which Napier, entered a conditional appear should be applied in the event of a THIS disease is so dangerous and sy rapid in its developpent that every ance without prejudice to his right to dispute under the contract is not

mother of young children should be make an application in ser aside the necessarily any more material to the prepared for it It is very risky to wat order made by the Registrar, by which question of service out of the jurisdicunal the attack of croup apnears and the plaintiffs were riven leave to serve ton than is the question of where the thes send for medicine and let the child contract is made In my view what I suffer until it can be obtained. Cham berlain's Googh Remedy is prompf saặ go to be looked at is, first of all, effecral and has never been known to Two new Launches are being built as to whether the whole or any part in say casa Always hava a bottle for the "WALLA WALLA" of the contract either expressly or by in the home For sale by all Comic te Boot Phon No. 3519,

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