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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.

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MOTOR CAR SALE.

CURIOUS CASE IN SHANGHAI.

Shanghal, Feb. 24. Judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff, by His Honour, Judge Purdy, in the U.S. Court yesterday, in the case R. A. de Souza v. China Finance Corp., Fed., Inc., U.S.A.

Plaintiff, a Portuguese citizen brought action against the defond. ants for return of his Buick four door sedan motor car, and for damages amounting to Tls. 1,000 and cost. Judgment was given for the plaintiff, for Tis. 986.85, with- out cost to either party.

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SHANGHAI HOTEL RUMOURS.

ASTOR HOUSE.

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A representive of "The Shanghai Times" learned that:-

defendant refused to perform and carry out this contract, was the. Bum of Tis. 1,600, but I find as a fact that on said 'date the automo- 'bile was of the reasonable worth. and value of Tis. 1,400, and as a JUDGMENT AGAINST COMPANY conclusion of law I hold that the plaintiff is entitled to a judgment as damages against the defendant in the sum of Tls, 1,400. A

Shanghai, Feb. 24. Persistent rumours that the Astor "Defendant has, however, set off as against the cause of action of House Hotel, operated by the Hong the plaintiff, a counterclaim in the Kong and Shangha! Hotels, Ltd.. nature of an indebtedness due from had been sold or was about to bel the plaintiff to the defendant aris-sold to a group of Japanese cap- ing out of another matter.

Italists, yesterday were definitely Weeding "It seems to me quite clear from dispelled by. Mr. R. Section 1563 of the District of Skinner, Shanghai Manager for the Columbia Code, That the claim of concern. the defendant should be properly considered as a set off against the damages which the plaintiff has established, and I find as a fact that Finding of facts in the case were defendant's counterclaim and set off that on or about September 20, amounts to the sum of Tls. 413.85, 1926 plaintiff entered into a con- which sum will be deducted from tract in writing with H. 8. Honigs-the Tls. 1,400 as damages allowed berg & Co., Inc., for the purchase to the plaintiff, leaving a balance of the motor car described in the of Tls. 986.65, the amount for which action. The contract called, after judgment will be entered in favour an initial payment, for monthly of the plaintiff payments at the rate of Tls, 107, beginning on October 3, 1926, the Jast promissory note to fall due on September 3, 1927. The title of the car was not to pass to the pur- chaser until after payment of all promissory notes or any other out- standing accounts at H. S. Honigs- berg & Co. Plaintiff had duly paid the monthly instalments as they fell due.

CHINESE IN U.S.

LARGE SUMS RAISED FOR NATIONALISTS,

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1. The Astor House Hotel has not been sold.

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2. There are no negotiations pending for the sale of the hotel.

3. The Astor House Hotel has not been placed on the market.

"The rumour crops up regularly regarding the sale of the Astor House Hotel," Mr. Skinner stated yesterday. "There is not a grain of truth in the report."

Mr. Percy H. Suckling, General Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., is expected to arrive in Shanghai shortly from Hong Kong, it was learned yester- day. Mr. Suckling, it is under- stood, is paying one of his regular business trips to this city in con- nection with the hotels operated here by the concern.

House Hotel rumours a very strong In connection with the Astor

Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 23, Chinese Nationalists in Buffalo and vicinity have sent between On or about, August 25, 1927, Nationalists in China, according G$50,000 and G$60,000 to help the however, defendant in the action to a statement made to-day by had purchased from Honigsberg's the last promissory note and took Joe Wu, a restaurant proprietor. one had it that a group of Japan- and Chinese leader. He estimated an assignment of the contract, De-nearly G$5,000,000 had been rais-place and planned to convert it into fendant had notified plaintiff ined in the United States by Chin- an office building, writing of the purchase and re- ese to aid their compatriots at

minded him that the note would be

due on September 3. On Septem- ber 7 plaintiff had failed to pay the last promissory note and thereupon defendant had seized the Buick car while it was standing in one of the public streets of Shanghai.

On September 12, plaintiff hdd tendered payment to defendant who refused to accept the payment un- addi- less plaintiff would pay an tional Tls, 413.35 which defendant claimed was owing form plaintiff оп an old account, Defendant elaimed, also, that the car would not be returned unless plaintiff made payment of a further sum of Tia. 100 for expenses incurred in connection with the seizure of the car, and of Tis. 10 on account of one month's storage of the car.

A Breach of Contract. In summing up, Judge Purdy stated that the action on the part of the defendant amounted to 'a breach of contract for the purchase of the automobile, and created a cause of action in favour of the plaintiff for a breach of contract and for damages resulting there- from:-

home.

Even the telephone upsets one when the liver is out of order or the intestinal machinery is not functioning properly. Just a little of Pinkettes to-night will dose make telephoning seem a pleasure, and work a joy, to-morrow morn ing. Pinkettes, the dainty little "Plaintiff has offered evidence natives and liver regulators, are tending to prove that the reason- to be had of all chemists, or post able worth and value of this auto-free, at 60 cents the vial, from mobile on September 12, 1927, the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60 which was the day upon which the Kiangue Road, Shanghal

ese business men had purchased the

DANCING PONIES.

LORD LONSDALE HIS OWN TRAINER.

After one brilliant evening among some of the greatest per- forming horses in Europe a shoot- ing pony belonging to Lord Lonsdale, which performed. at the circus at Olympia, Kensing- ton, W., will return to its normal life at Lowther Castle; Lord Lonsdale's place at Penrith, Cumberland. It is an ordinary shooting pony, trained personally by Lord Lonsdale, yet it danced as well, bowed as well, jumped as nimbly, and picked up handker- chiefs like ita professional bothers. "Merlin" is its name. Its mother "Usury," a royal cream Hanoverian at Bucking- ham Palace, was given to Lord Lonsdale by the King,

Lord Lonsdale, who was 'an in- terested spectator at Olympia, said to a reporter:

I have 32 shooting ponies at} Lowther and I trained them all to do tricks. Some of them are just as good as "Merlin." They dance, roll on the ground, and twist their legs like "Tishy." "Merlin"! is going back to Lowther."

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