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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.

ECHOES OF 1860

18. A Few Items Of Daily News

The following are a few items

atken from our files of 1860-

We learn that the Gun-boat "Grasshopper

on her passage Canton down from

yesterday. stumbled upon four pirate boats plundering a junk. She brought them into Harbour, plunderers and plundered, boats, crew and every- thing."

We should like to know why the proceedings in such a case should not be instantaneous and summary. Delay can do no possible good and creates a great risk of the ends of justice being defeated, besides plac ing the plundered parties to great in convenience and loss.

The trial of Nursee Sewjee and Company versus Russell and Com- pany occupied the Supreme Court all day again yesterday. The de- fendant's evidence was got through. and Mr. Pollard, the Counsel for the Plaintiffs address the Jury thereupon. This was close to six o'clock when the Chief Justice stat- ed that as he had nearly a book full of notes, and as there was a large

mass

of

KOWLOON SLUMS

Forty-Five Persons In

..One Flat

For allowing more persons to live in 108 Canton Road than allowed by law, the principal tenant was sun- "noned before Mr. Wynne Jones yes-

Corday

Senior Sanitary Inspector Rekl questions which have been bones told the Court that there were 20 of contention to the commercial adults and 36 children living on community for many years. We therefore conceive it a paramount the second floor, and 24 adults and 11 children on the third. "Bath duty to attend it.

these floors were entitled to have only 13 adults altogether, two child- irea counting as one adult

We suppose the meeting of the Executive Connell fixed to take place to-day will be postponed.

NOTICE

Police Department

Victoria, Hong Kong

September 4. 1860. Found by the Police early on the morning of 2nd instant drifting

in the Harbour of Warts, & amall pleasure Wherry-also during the same day, brought by a gentleman to the Station a green Paroquet.

Owners of both may obtain them by application to

JAS JARMAN, Act. Supt. of Police.

The principal tenant of the second

OTARD'S

ESTABD 1793

THE BRANDY WITH A PEDIGREE

floor pali 825 in rent, and collected TO-DAY AT KING'S

The

$25.50 from her subtenants. principal tenant of the third floor paid 824 and collected 822:50.

When be visited the premises. In- spector Reid went on, he found some of the children lying on the floor. some under the beds and others all over the place. The floors were far too crowded. The Sanitary Depart- nient was aware of the overcrowded condition of some of the houses in Kowloon, but only in the worst cases was action taken...

His Worship-It is not that thera is a shortage of houses on this side of the harbeurt.

IJ

Inspector Reid.-No, your Wor- ship. There are plenty of vacant houses over here.

A fine of $25 was imposed on each

We do not know whether the man on the Peak was seeing too much" yesterday, or whether he spied the Powerful napping in the distance, but he certainly signall

Mille steamer tö correspondence ed a

Eastwards! to read, he should defer his suma and holsted the "Flery Cross", defendant ming up til ten o'clock this numbers. It may be that the stea- į morning."

mer has run short of Coals, or has broken down and is becalmed. We cannot say, we simply state facts and leave our readers, charitable or otherwise, to draw their own conclusions.

Our attention to this case must be the excuse for our shortcom- ings. We conceive it to be a mat- ter of great importance in a mer- cantile point of view, involving

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and he could not tell whether the tablets found in his shop were genuine "Cardan" or not,

His Worship, however, pointed out that the onus was on the defen- dant to prove, that he had taken all reasonable precaution to satisfy himself of the genuineness of the articles.

Defendant said he had been buying "Gardan" tablets before from the same salesman, and he had no ren- son to suspect that the tablets were not the genuine article.

and three others, appeared before Mr. Hosegood at the Marine Court yesterday morning, charged with

Mr. Kurt Haase, assistant mana- unlawfully anchoring their boats at ger of the China Export, Import a distance of less than 100 yards and Bank Co. then gave evidence from the Low Water Mark during showing the difference between the prohibited hours, last Tuesday even-genuine tablets and the alleged

imitation. He said the "Gardan mark was registered in Hong Kong about five years ago.

"

boatwoman, Cheung Tai Tai, aged 45 years, of Boat No. 3786V, was changed with (a) unlawfully anchoring. ing her boat at a distance of less. All the defendants pleaded guilty than 100 yards from the Low Water and the magistrate Imposed a fine Mark during probibited hours be of 10 or ten days hard labour on tween the Po Tak Wharf and the the first defendant who had been Ping On Wharf and (b) failing to previously convicted, and $5 or five produce the bont licence when re-day on the second, third and fourth quested by the Water Police.

defendants respectively.

FORGED NOTES

The defendant pleaded guilty and told the Court that she only mored Der boat to the above mentioned vicinity in order to avoid a sudden Three Months For Possessor strong wind, and as for the second charge, the defendant said that the Sentence of three months' hard boat licence was carelessly put away labour was passed by Mr. Wynne somewhere in her at by her cqu-Jones, on a Chinese for being in sia. she failed to produce it to the Water Police Officer at once when being requested.

Water Police Sergeant Robinson, whe prosecuted, told. His Worship that he had given nearly half an hour's time for her to search for the licence, but eventually, she failed to produce it,

A small fine of $ or five days hard labour each was imposed.

BOATWOMAN FINED

Wong, Yung Mui, aged 48 years, mistress of Cargo-Boat No. 3763V,

unlawful possession of a forged Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank $100 note and, a forged. Mercantile Bank $10 note.

At a previous hearing, the $100 note was described as an "ex- tremely clever forgery," and it was sent to the Hong Kong and Shang- hal Bank for inspection.

Detective Sergeant Lamont pro- duced a communication from the Eunk yesterday moming testifying. that the original of the number on the alleged forgery was destroyed in 1929, and that the note itself was a forgery.

information as to where he had pur

TRADE MARKS chased the goods was obtained by the

CASE

police in Batavia. Since the predent summons had been taken out in fringed Gardan trademarks had been found at three different places and"

Imitation of "Gardan" proceedings were being instituted.

Tablet

Defence View

Mr. Lo:- do not say that the complainant has acted in any way male fide, but the fact remains that the defendants bad, nothing to do with the infringement at all. Tha fact that the defendant as con- nexions with Java, of course, does.

Mr. O: E. O. Marton appearing before Mr. Hamilton on behalf of the proprietors of the "Gardan' trade mark, asked for leave to with draw a summons against The Take in the least mean that they Ou Wo firm of No. 24 Bonbam had been guilty of infringing the Road for infringement of trade marks of the complainant. In ad mark.

these trade mark cases, your Wor- Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the ship bas power to award costs to thes defendants and applied for costs. complainant or the defendant and In explaining the complainant's the principle is that costa invari- good faith in taking out the sumably is awarded to the successful mons, Mr. Marton said they had party. In this case the complainant used the Gardan trade mark in has withdrawn the summons against Hong Kong for the last five years the defendant and I submit I have aad for some time pust there were right to coste. suspicious that the trade mark Mr. Hamilton after hearing.fur. was being infringed in Hong Kong, ther arguments by Mr. Marton ad- Canton, Swatow and Java. In-journed the case for a wick, structions were given in all these places to take out proceedings im- mediately on finding a party in The manager of the Kam">Pin presession of infringements Re-Drug Store, of No. 514. Shanghai cent cables from Java to the com-Street, Kowloon, was summoned be- plainant firm implied that pro-lore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kow- ceedings had been taken out, and loon Magistracy for an infringement that the defendant had, stated he of the Trade Marks Ordinance in purchased the goods from Tak Wo that he had in his possession" ori On firm in Hong Kong. As a re- March 8 for sale, or for the purpose ault, information was sworn by of trade, medicinal tablets contained Mr Hapse, the local agent, but in parkete bearing the “* Garden" unfortunately the scorch of the trade mark of LG, Farbenindustrie defendant him revealed nothing. Atkingesellschaft of Frankfort-am- On defendant's premise were main, Germany, for whom the China, found some advertisements which ! Export, Import, and Bank Co., arg ghowed conclusively that they trad- į the agente in Hong Kong. od with Jars. They voluntarily Mr. O. E. C. Marton appeared on produced two genuine packets of behalf of the complainanta, mara Gardan. The defendant in the Java Defendant said he purchased the prosecution was Limy Au-chi and tablets from a travelling ülesmati

A KOWLOON CASE

The hearing was adjourned until Friday morning.

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