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THE HONGKONG DAILY

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HOUSE OWNERS' MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS.

PUISNE JUDGE'S FINDINGS IN

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HOMUNTIN CASE.

The Puisne Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood), following his verdict for the plaintiff,- hna delivered a considered judgment in the Hamuntia Bungalow case, in which the Rev. Father Henriques sued Mr. G. T. Lam for compensation for damage, to his property, alleged, to be due to the defendant's building operations:

The parties are adjoining owners on a site which had been filled in. The plaintiff built a bungalow on his portion of the ground; the defendant, later on, put up a larger building. The plaintiff's boundary wall then gave way, and he suggested that the weight of the defend- ant's building, had caused compression of the soil, with the result that the foundations of his wall were shifted.

The amount of the claim was only $200, 'or no; but a great deal of expert evidence was called, pro and con, and the hear- ing lasted many days, one of which was spent by the Court on the site itself.

THE JUDGMENT,

After discussing the various expert theories put forward, the Paisne Judge said:-The theory which seems to me most convincing, and most in accordance with the facts to be observed on the site, is the last, viz., that the settlement of the soil under plaintiff's boundary wall, which, led to the injury, was mainly" caused through compression, by the defendant's building.

The defendant had a duty to the plain. tiff, in building, to exercise ordinary care to prevent injury ensuing to the plain- tiff's property. This is an absolute duty, indicated by the circumstances in which the parties acquired their properties. The particular act of negligence which I find proved against the defendant is his failure, to erect his building on a hard foundation. Mr. G. G. Wood, architect, in his evidence, stated that he himself, had he been advising the defendant, would have insisted on taking the founda- tions down to hard ground (13 feet at the deepest point); or he would have in- sisted on reducing the size of the pro posed building. The compression of the soil, caused by the erection of so heavy 4 building on a foundation which was mainly on soft ground, is, to my mind, an affect which should have been fore seer and prevented.

I have found that failure to take thess precdations has been the cause of the injury to the plaintiff's property. In my view, this failure constitutes actionable Faegligence.

THE FOG FIEND OF HONGKONG

Alss for weeks and weeks on and

The Fog Fiend is my closest friend.

1 do not seek his fond embrace,

I wish him in some other place

The Fog, Fiend of Hong Kong.

And yet one morn when I look out He circles all my house about

I shut my windows, bar the doors, His breath bedims my polished floors. The Fog Fiend of Hong Kong.

I say, "If you must come inside

Then all my treasures I will hide, My books and pictures put away Until there comes a sunny day, Oh Fog Fiend of Hong Kong.?

The silence round me is intense, Bich duy the mis becomes more deng I think, "Why did I leave my home

Tn'foreign lands like this to roam,

I hate the Hong Kong Fiend"

And

so for weeks and weeks my grouse

Is heard about my gloomy house

Until I nearly grow resigned And feel I really do not mind The Fog Fiend of Hong.

of Hong Kong,

But when I find that he has fled I almost stand upon my head, My spirits then bound up so high

I bless the bright sun in the sky

And quite forget my foe.

And though, when March cumce round

again,

He enters with his servant, Rain,

Once be is ousted from this place. I-soon forget his diamal face, The Fog Fiend of Hong Kong,

FIRE ON GOOD FRIDAY.

The Fire Brigade received a call on Friday evening to a knitting factory at Causeway Bay. It was found that à dynamo had burat out, otherwise no damage was done. Native alarm, at the unusual manifestations of the electrical machinery come to have been reaponsible for the call upon the Brigade's services.

hroo motor appliances turned out and Queen's Road was thrown into a state of excitement. Most of the people who throng that thoroughfare make for the covered sidewalks when the sirens of the fire appliances are heard, but a Chinese child, who would play last across, narrowly escaped being run over,

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