THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 22, 1939.
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DEBT FOR RENT COMES BEFORE RATES
FOR THE FIRST TIME since a Statute was passed 230 years ago it was ruled recently that when a tenant owes both rent and rates the landlord has the right to rent before dis-
traint for rates.
It was stated in the Court of Appeal that the point had never been raised before, though it depended on a statute passed in the reign of Queen Anne which provides that no "execution" of any kind shall be permitted unless rent in arrear to the landlord for one year is first paid.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courte.-- Woman at Marylebone: He re- fused to see Sense... In fact he.. just looked straight past me.
Witness at Tottenham If I can- not find work my wife will find it for me. She's that type of
woman.
I sell a nobody
Man at Tottenham: useless article which wants, 30 don't make much money.
She Wrote
"The Curfew"
The question for the Court. was the meaning of the word "execution," and arose on an appeal from a judg- ment of the Wolverhampton County Court Judge that a distress warrant for rates, which was executed on the goods of a Wolverhampton woman, was a "distress" and not an "execu- tion."
The landlord of the premises sued the Corporation bailiff who had seized and sold goods, and claimed that, after deducting expenses, the balance must be applied for rent.
The County Court Judge rejected this contention.
The appeal was allowed with costs, and judgment entered for the landlord.
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2,000,000 Private
Cars Now
The total number of private cars in Author of "The Curfew Shall Not the United Kingdom on May 31 ex- Ring To-night," Rose Hartwick ceeded 2,000,000. The total number of Thorpe, the noted American poet, died mechanically propelled vehicles in all yesterday at Sau Diego (California) classes exceeded 3,100,000. aged eighty-nine. She wrote it dur- ing her school holidays.
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Premier In The Barber's Chair
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Drug Ban Denial
SWINGING HIGH. At first glance it appears as. if an attempt is being made to put the huge locomotive down the funnel. The picture was taken at Glasgow when two 63 ton engines and tenders were ship- ped aboard the s.8. "Northumberland" for the New Zealand Railways. Photo shows:-One of the huge locomotives being shipped aboard by the Finnieston Crane, Glasgow.
Suggestion by Dr. Edith Summer- Blazing Yacht
skill (Soc., Fulham) that the Minis- ter of Health had refused to allow the
new wonder-drug, M. and B. 693, to In Thames be generally used for patients treated under the National Health Insurance Acts, drew a sharp denial from the Minister.
It is not often, says a proverb, that a man is a hero to his valet; but South Africa's Premier, General Hert- zog, is a hero to five barbers in Cape-
Mr. Elliot said insured persons town. He has been their customer were entitled to the drug-now play for thirteen years. He is a good cus- ing a vital part in treating pneumonia tomer. He never stops short at a whenever their doctor considered it haircut, but goes on to a singe, an oil necessary. massage, and a shampoo. Finally, he has his moustache trimmed.
Best of all, General Hertzog never
treatment, but waits his turn.
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King's Cup For Sport
Five young men in the motor yacht Leonie dived overboard when
The 40th Bn. (King's) Royal Tanic yacht caught fire in the Thames near Regt, has won the cup for sport in Regt. formerly the 7th Bn. the King's Putney, and another was saved before the Territorial Army presented by the the yacht drifted down to Wandsworth Park and was taken in hand by a fire float.
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Mr. George Bridge, who has been Two women, Miss Higgins and 50 years with Lt.-Col. G. J. Fitzgerald, Miss Oakley, of Tottenham, and Mr. of Ridge House, Hindhead, Surrey, as Paynter, of Newquay, cut off by the groom and gardener, is to be present- tide on the face of a 200ft cliff near ed with a silver inkstand in ecogni- Newquay, were rescued after their tion of his long and loyal service. companion, Mr. James Brenton, had swum for assistance.
discourages his barber from talking, The Recorder of Bridgewater, Mr. From Cliff especially about the Government. He F. A. Wilshire, played "Love's Old. visits the saloon about once in three Sweet Song" as an organ solo at the weeks, and never allows differential wedding of Mr. William Sheppard, 91, and Mrs. Allice Brown, 74, residents Since the Union of South Africa of the Kingswood district of Bristol was founded in 1910, it has had only Mr. Sheppard's wife died in 1937, and three Premiers, all Generals who (as he proposed to Mrs. Brown, whom he Dutch) fought against the British: had known for 60 years, when
he Botha, Smuts and James Barrie Hert- heard that her cottage had been con- zog, who is partly of Scottish descent. demned and that she would be home-
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Signor Mussolini, piloting his own 'plane, paid a surprise visit to Fiume, which he had not visited since 1925 on the occasion of its cession to Italy..
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One soldier was killed and six in- jured when an air liner crashed on to a ̈millitary hangar at Amsterdam Aerodromé.'
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A new landing-ground for seaplanes of international lines on the East-West
route was inaugurated at Beirut, Syria.
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Capt. George Winnall Blake, a Lan- doner, fell from the balcony of his -hotel in Rouen and was fatally in-
jured.
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Mr. Claude Gernade Bowers, form- er United States Ambassador, to Spain, has been nominated by President Roosevelt for the post of Ambassador to Chile.
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Sentences of imprisonment passed on 39 Hungarian Nazis.
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THEIR MAJESTIES VISIT THEIR GUEST CAMP. Their Majesties the King and Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, paid a visit to the two hundred public schoolboys and Industrial lade who are camp- ing together at the King's Camp on Abergeldle estate near Balmoral Castle. Photo shows. The King & Queen accompanied by the two Princesses singing the chestnut tree,
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Made frenzied by swarms of gad- flies, 500 horses on the Puszta Bugac stud farin, in Hungary, rushed off in a mad 20-mile gallop spreading terror through outlying villages.
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Miss Pamela Stirling, a 17-year-old English actress, has gained an honour- able mention at the annual examina- tion in comedy at the French Con- servatoire of Music and Dramatic Art.
Two instructors at the Danish Air Force School, Lt. Harboe and Lt. Han- sen, both 28, were killed in a crash at Copenhagen airport.
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Members of the Prague Football Club, Slavia, were greeted with an ovation at Belgrade when they played a match against the Belgrade Sport Club..
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