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having arrived, Consignons of Carro by AWARD SET ASIDE WITH her are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-saxardons Godowns of Holt'. Wharf, whence Delivery may be obtained. Ho Claims will be admitted after the
be
Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaini ing undelivered after 7th February
1927, will ne subject to Rest Olaims
against the Steamer must presented to the Undersigned on before 14th February, 1957, or ther will not be recognized.
All broken,
'chafed and damaged Goods are so be left in the Godowna, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the boure of 20.45 and Noon, within the Free storage period
of Une Week,
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At the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) gave his judgment in the case heard before him on January 13th and arising out of an nabitration between Chinese parties. to a building contract. The appli cation was to set aside the award of the arbitrator on the ground that there had been legal misconduct." His Lordship, in a lengthy judg tent, set aside the award with
costa..
Mr. Eldon Potter. K.C. (instruct. ed Mr. R. A. Wadesor) applied for the setting aside of the award of Mr. Colbourne Little, of Messrs. Little Adams and Wood, on the ground stated above.
Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy represented the other party.
The Chief Justice gave judgment
under
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1927.
A POET'S "HAUNTED **-
HOUSE.
HOW MR. STEPHEN PHILLIPS WAS SCARED BY A MOUSE.
THE PLUMBER'S DISCOVERY,
An Egham plumber, Mr. S Wells, has just revealed a ghost secret he has kept for fifteen years. A house at Egbam (Surrey), then occupied by the late Mr. Stephen Phillips, the dramatist, became notorious on account of a ghost." Whit to the Continent his wife in When Mr. Phillips returned from a formed him that the ghost bad driven everybody from the house The servants, even, had gone..
Nothing would induce Mrs. Phil. lips to go near the house again.
Hundreds of people visited what became known as the haunted house," and it femained empty for a long period.
Wells it appears, was commis sioned at the time to do plumbing repairs at the house; and in the garret be ran the "ghost" to earth. The noise nearly scared him to death before he found a partially emptied cotton reel on the garret floor, resting against the wain. seating.
Cotton from the reel ran from a crack in the woodwork to where a mouse bad made a nest. Periodi- cally the mouse would tug at the end of the cotton to obtain material for its neat," and the reel would revolve, making a weird noise in Naturally, the hollow wainscot.. when anyone approached the mouse acampered away and the noise ceased.
This is a motion to set saide the award of "Alexander Colbourne Little, the Arbitrator, under an agreement to refer dated 2nd July, 1024, made between Ng Hing & Company (hereinafter called' the respondents") of the one part, and the Hang Lip Company Limited, thereinafter called "the appli. I think, have made it clear to the cants"), of the other part.
Arbitrator that his clients desired
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by bar are informed thatall Goods are being isaded at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and The first ground put forward on Godown Co, Ltd, whance Delivery may No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, sad all remaining undelivered after 7th Febru
1987, will be subject to Kant. All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned, on or before 14th February, 1927, or they will
a recognised. All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be leto in the Godown, where they will be examined on Monday, 7th February, 1947, at 10 a.m.
not be
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
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BIG ROBBERY AT HARRODS.
Waiting until all was quiet, two of the men set of from their hiding piace to the jewellery department, £10,000. HAUL OF JEWELLERY. while the others began clearing away the tons of cretonnen which blocked the door by which they in- IRON PARTITIONS FORCED, tended to escape.
The *
mea who were to steal The most daring and perfectly to sliding iron doors between the jewellery had first to open planned burglary of recent years the Furnishing drapery depart was carried out between Wednesday ment and the "book depart night and Thursday morning, Department, they had to open two ment Passing through this" de- cember 29th-30th, pt Harrods Stores, folding doors leading into the fruit, Brompton Road, S.W
department. At the other and of this
department they encountered beavy iron shutters, which make a great noise when raised.
Jewellery estimated to be worth nearly £10,000 is missing, and at Daily Mail of December 31st. present there is no clue, says the
At least three men must have been engaged in the burglary. Con cealing themselves somewhere inside before the stores were closed to the public, they spent nearly twelve hours in the building and during
that time:-
Broke through 14 "doors; Prised open 12 strong jewellery
CADCE P
It was here that they obtained two boxes, and raising the shutters only two feet rested them on the boxes and crawled through.
They then passed through the pro- vision department, opened two more doors, walked through the cafe, and found another pair of steel shutters, Here also they rested the phutters an two boxes and crawled through.
wine department, opened two more They next walked through the doors into the portmanteau depart ment, and then forced the iron lead- ing to the jewellery department.
B-Suit-Cassà Filled.
Stole at least 2,000 articles of "Jewellery and packed them in
fodr stolen suis-caves; Had a meal of stolen fruit on a divan in the furnishing de
After this they snatched up five partment;
suit-cases, and, while one man bored Remored two tone of furnishing holes in the jewellery casca and fabrics which impeded. their prised the glass covers open, the escape through a secret door
other took out the trays of watches, rings, brooches, cigarette-cases, and other articles and tripped them into
leading from the back of the stores into Hans Road; Entered & waiting motor car with their booty under the eyes of a policeman-and vanighed,,
The Escape.
It was the policeman who gave the alarm. He was on his regular beat in Hans Road at 5.a.m. when the appearance of men from a back door of the stores struck him as unusual. He was yet some distanco away, but counted at least two men | carrying suit-cases. To him they appeared to be drunk, but this was probably because they were stagger- that if he ignored this desire being under the weight of their booty. (the arbitrator) would be acting "rongly.
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the case
Meanwhile the other men, having cleared the eretonnes away from the entrance to Hans Road, forced open the padlock on the door, and then took fruit and nuts from the fruit department.
It is assumed that all the men then met again, in the furnishing drapery, department and, settling themselves on a settle, ate many apples, oranges, bananas, and nuts while waiting for their car to-ar- rive.
AWAY.
Where Did they Hida?
"It was obviously the work of met who knew the interior of
behalf of the applicants is that the to have the points of law mention Arbitrator misconducted himself in rd him decided by the Court, and not stating his award in the form of staticis case, and in not delay.
Just before this an empty car had
Mr. C. E. Wiles, the merchandise passed him with its rear number manager; told a Daily Mail re ing the making of the award until
Without giving any previous plate unlit. It pulled up at the parter that there are many places in he had notified his intention of not stating the award in such form, notice of his intentions, the arbit door. The men got in. The con- the vast building where men could and thereby precluding the appli- rator, by a letter dated 20th March, stable, suddenly suspicions, shout conceal themselves, but the near- cants from applying to this Court 1026, informed the the solicitors ed to it to stop. The driver took cat place to the jewellery depart for an order for the stating of a for the applicants dated 23rd no notice, the car sped away, and ment is the furnishing drapery de- case or for the stating of the award March, in which they called his that is the last known of the bur.partment, which is about 150 yards
attention to the statements of glars. in the form of a Special Case.
The powers and duties of Messrs. Jenkin and Zeitlyn, above Arbitrator in the above respects are set out, and asked whether he had, Bill of Lading will be countersigned by set in s. 844 (lb.) and 1. 560 of the as part of his award, stated the Code of Civil Procedure Under questions of law which had been the former provision the Arbit raised in the form of a Special rator is given power to state an Case, the arbitrator replied by thereof, in the form of a Special wrote that the remarks of Mesurs award, as to the whole or part atter, dated ford March, 1926, Case for the opinion of the Court; Jenkin and Zeitlyn supported his and under . 560 an Arbitrator may recollection that there was not a and if so directed by the Court de Balle request from both parties shall, state in the form of a Special that I should state a Spesis Cate Case for the opinion of the Court, rather than make an award direct"; any question of law arising in the and went on to add "I have taken course of an arbitration.
this course in the hope of avoiding unnecessary expense to both par
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The duty of an Arbitrator to Where the Arbitrator Went Wrong, The Arbitrator expressly relies state, on request, a Special Case or, if he refuses to do so, to delay on the fact that the request for the his award until a party to an statement of a Special Case had arbitration can apply to the Court not been made by both parties," at are hereby nosided that the Cargo will for an order directing a Special obviously incorrect ground be ducharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow. Case, provided that the application which to base a refusal to state lean, where is will be at Consignees for a Special Case or for an ad- a Special Case and neither in risk and subject to l'erms and Uandi journment is not frivolous and this letter, nor in his afidavit, tions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The made merely for delay, in clear; does he allege that he did not Cargo will be ready for Delivery from and if an Arbitrator refuses to realise that the applicants desired, Godown on and after 1st February. comply with either of such requests in one of the three ways above Optional Cargo will not be landed he is guilty of misconduct and the mentioned, to have the decision of here, unless Nouce has been given prior Court may set aside an award made the Court on the points of law to Steamer's arrival, bat carried on from by him
which had been raised in the course port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.
Harrods thoroughly," added · Mr.
Wiles
The constable, ran to the door, which be found open and called the night firemen who had been
The men must have worked out¦ patrolling the atores at intervals. their courer from the jewellery de it was then that the trail of the the exit to the rifed jewellery store, shortest, cut, Harrods at night is burglars, extending 150 yards from partment to the door in Haas Road with minute care, for they took the was discovered.
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Damaged Fackages must be left in the Godown for stamination by the Con signees and the Company's Surveyors,
at 10 m.) Mours. Anderson d on the 5th of
316, of February, 1927, No Claims will be admitted after
Har the
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The obstacles ayersome and the like a tomb. Even I, who know the precautions ben show that the place would have no hope of get- burglary was the work of experts ting out if I were locked in one of who
must-have been for long How they accomplished their
the departments. engaged in planning their crime. task without making a noise is an- They had a better knowledge of the building even than most of the other mystery. ataff, for the door through which lifting up the four steel shutters they escaped has not been used for separating four of the depart the WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH 19 IMPOSSIBLE.
can be in many parts of ten years. Its existence was 33-
It takes two men to building. known to 99 per cent. of the em ployees It was completely conceal. ed on the inside by bales of cloth.
Its appentance from the outside
move the heavy sliding steel doors dividing the jewellery and leather bag departments. As far as I know
of the building might not, of this is the first burglary we have course, have been overlooked by had in 70 years" prospective burglars planning a raid, but the circumstances lend the police to the view that someone DETACHABLE HELICOPTER, who had an intimate knowledge of the building-possibly a discharged
A patent has been granted to s employee--was concerned."
Danish electrician, M. Rasmusscu, Fingerprints on the rifled cases for a helicopter device which he Counsel for respondents did not of the arbitration proceedings. have been examined, but are prob claims can be fixed on any sero- In the opinion these facts shewably valueless as cluca, since they plane, and by means of which the All brakes, chafed and damaged Goods dispute this bus argued that, in are to be left in the Godowns, where fact, no application had been made clearly that the Arbatrator was per- may have been made by innocent machine is able to ustend or des- they will be examined on way Tuesdays to the "Arbitrator to state any fectly well aware that the appli- visitors who in the daytime throng cend perpendicularly and if desired and Fridays, between the hours of Special Case for the opinion of the cants desired to raise certain ques the stores or by shop assistants who can land on, the top of a chimney.
The special propellera, which are 10.45 A. and Noor within the Free Court, and if it had, it was made tions of law in the form of a nightly padlock the cases. Storage period,
on frivolous grounds and for pur- Special Case; and that being so The stores are patrolled by fire- No Claime will be admitted after the pugns of delay; and consequently be was guilty of misconduct in not mon during the night, but it takes fixed on the top of the plane, can Goods have left the Steamer Godown, the daty above referred to had giving the applicants the opportu: them nearly two hours to makes lie hat during a fight so as not
all Goods remaining undelivered never come into existence. In order nity to come to thie Court if he their rounds, and it was probably after the 9th February, will be that I may decide as to the exist not intend himself to submit these between 3 and 5 a.m. that the theft subject to Beat
All Claims against the Steamer met ace of this duty it becomes neces-questions for the decision of the wea committed.
mast sary to consider carefully what was
At that time the burglars must Court. be presented to the Undersigned on ar said by Mr. Jenkin, and by Mr. A second ground of objection to have been confident that the patrol before the 23rd Febrany, or they Zeitlyn, the Counsel for the appli- the award was raised that it is was far away, for they did not will not be recognized.
cants and for the respondents, re- bad because it is on ita faso fear to make a noise. To open the No Fire Insurance will be effected.
spectively, before the Arbitrator; erroneous in matter of law and jewel cases they bored holes near BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, as well as the letters which, aub fact I think that this award is the top and prised open the lids
Agests.
sequently to the close of the eri-also bad on the ground of an error with some sort of crowbar which dence, passed between the solicitors of law on the face of it but in view has been found. No one heard the for the parties and the affidavits of my decision on the first point I twelve loud reports incidental to rande for the purposes of this sp. do not think it is necessary for me this operation. plication.
to deal at length, with the argu- foenta on this ground.
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An Arbitrator's Powers. „ Mr. Jenkin, it appears to me, stated clearly the three alternative ways in which the opinion of the
In my opinion this award should be set aside, with costs.
Mt. Alabaster applied for the matter to be remitted back to the
Court on the various points of law same arbitrator for another deci
Crawl Under-Door,
At another tims they evidently had cause to fear: the ears of the patrol, for la making their way to the jewellery store they did not raise a sliding iron fireproof door to its fall height noisy task-but
he enumerates might be obtained. ion, and quoted authorities in supted it only 2ft and propped it
If the Arbitrator decided to state port of his application.
'crawl underneath.
A curious fact is that though several bottles in the wine depart- meet were moved, no wine seems to have been drunk,
his award in the form of a Special The Chief Justice replied that he with boxes so that they could The SteamshipBENLAWERS." Case, or to submit points of law had simply dealt with arguments for the decision of the Court, that laid before him at the hearing of ONBIGNEES of Carys are hereby would have satisfied the applicants; the case, and it would mean giving informed that all Goods are being but Mr. Jenkin goes on to sak, a new judgment if he conceded the landed at their risk into the hazardous in express terms, that before points raised by Mr. Alabaster. The atolen goods included watches, and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the actually making the award, the His Lordship added that he could Hong Kong and Kewloon Wharf and Arbitrator should state what purse not refer the matter back to the Godown Co., whence and for from he intended to follow so that we arbitrator unless the parties agreed. the wharves, Delivery may be obtained. may have an opportunity of asking Mr. Alabaster said he raised the No Claims will be admitted after the you to state a Special Case," Mr. point of referring back in order to Goods are left the Godowns, and all Zeitlyn emphasised the right of an save special costs. Goods remaining undelivered after the Arbitrator to decide questions of
1027, will be subject to law as well as fact and suggested agree to the course suggested by showroom to strong room in the that, in view of the facts of their, Alabaster. He thought special basement, and, thus escaped the bar- case, the Arbitrator would be
costs would be avoided by the giving
Bent,
7th February,
#All Claims against the stammar
rings, brooches, ear-rings, cigarette cases, and other small articles of personal jewellery.E
The more valuable jewellery, such as diamond and pearl necklaces Mr. Potter said they could not are taken every night from the
be presented to the Undersigned on or enabled to dispense with the ex- of judgment in the form his Lord- The curious public who came 'dur.
are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 7th February, 1927 3 10.3.
pense and delay to the
ab.
viously felt that what Mr. Zeitly had said might lead the Arbitrator
before the 21st February, 1927, or thay will not be recognized.
All broken, elafet and damaged Goode 3 Special Case Mr. Jeanic ship had given it. He thought it ing yesterday to looie at the broken was quite possible the parties would cases found them filled again with
afrosh stock. PARAS agree on the matter
Alter further argument by Mr. Crime, Reconstructed to believe that ho had the right Alabaster, his Lordship said he
Though no, one knows definitely to make his award without giving mest allow his judgment to stand where the men concealed themselves the parties the right to apply to as it was, he had only had the during the evening, it was probably the Arbitrator to state, & Special hearing of the case to deal with ment. Assuming this to be the case, this Court for an order directing arguments laid before him at the in the furnishing drapery depart Case, and used words which should, and could not consider any other the police have reconstructed their
(Ointiniod in woni Uslumn), point now.
procedure as follows:-
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