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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1913.

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The Hongkong Football Associa tion is apparently an energetic body, for all its youth. There WEAFON OF DEFENCE I'M SORRY "REMEMBER THAT AS A was abundant need, for some time IS A FAR BETTER MEDIUM THAN before i a birth for such a con-IT WASN'T MY FAULT!'" trolling body, and it is, sing

* The Malls, ** **|*

taken seriously. It is good to note, however, in an oficial hand- Silarion Mail Dao per

Hainchang to-day

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book which the Association has| just issued, that the secretary remarks, "we must play the part German Mail-Arrived per 8.8. of guide rather than that of

Balow last evening. schoolmaster. That is the proper Siberian Mail.-Laft per e.s. Tosa spirit provided that the Asaccia- Maru at 6. p.m..yesterday.., tion does not forget that it must Siberian Mail-Lift per s.8. not very promptly and sternly as Below at noon to-day.. schoolmaster when necessary. The young body is to be con- Australian Mail.Arived pors. gratulated, by the "way, on the

Eastern this morning. handbook which has just been in Siberian Mail-Olosos per s.a. sued. It is very neatly got up

Eastern at 5 p.m. to-day. and is a readable and helpful handbook which is full of good things.

Pulsne Judge's Interesting Judgment,

Yours Faithfully,

A DEAL IN LANGKATS. of 100 shares of the Lang-Ho says however that his con- kat Co. For delivery Intract with defendant was to deliver Shanghai on 20th. instant. He no specifio abares, but merely neka whether defendant will 103 Langkita as the Jaly et retain the abares in Shanghai or tlement and that he could always have them here and states that lay bis band on Langkato, il The l'uisno Jugs, Mr. Justice his Shanghai agents would the market had risen, the client Gomperis, to-day suve judgment draw on him at 3 days sight, so would have had the benefit of his Potte, broker, sued Li Kin-tong, due about 9th or 10th. August intermediate sale falling on the in the cars in which Patrick C. that the bill would probably be purchase, the loss due to the

43 Connaught Road Central, On the 2nd. August the broker. If on the other hand the claiming the sum of $1,000 plaintiff sent the following Meme. market fell, as it did, very heavi damages. The claim aro e out of to the defendant.

ly, before the settlement, the defendant's implied indemnity Li Lin Tong Esq.

olient would have the benefit of contained in a contract dated Hongkong, 2nd August, 1913.

the June sale whether he took up May 9, 1012, whereby the defen

the shares or not. And, the Dear Sir, I tag to advise that plaintiff hoped that the, defer- dant instructed the plaintiff to

bis tabal 100 the 100 Langkats you pur dant gratitude at being saved purchase on Langkats at Tis. 82 par share for phaead from me on the 9th May from a heavy loss would influence delivery on July 18 and on at 11962 for July have nor him to fulfil his earlier contract such contract the plaintiff to the arrived and the relative bill has to deliver Cemonte. knowledge and with the consent been accopted to mature on the

Now the claim being by an of the defendant, made himself 8th instant, which please note:

agent for an inderanity the plain- personally liable to the sellers**

tiff must show that the lose he ereks to recover was incurred by failed to perform the mid con- The plaintiff eays that about him, while soting in socordance traat whereby the plaintiff had this time defendant kept out of with the mandate of his employer. his way to that he could not meet If the plaintiff has broken the Hints to Referees.

vill leave Blake Pier at 8.15 p.m. suffered damages. Some of the hints to referees, Latest Advertisements.

Mr. Steavenson, of Mosera. Dea- him. However, bia clerk Mr. contraorth his principal ho for instance, are agreeably in The s.e. Japan leaves for Yoko-con, Looker, Deacon and Harston, Pestonjce went to the defendant's cannot claim indemnity, nor can CRACKERS..structive. We quote one:"On hams on the 15th inst.-Page 5. appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. hoor add found him there. he recover any loss due to bia

leaving the field, do not explain Consigness' notices concerning Reader Harris of Messrs. Wilkin- Mr. Pestonjes tells us that he had own unauthorised dealing, your actions, especially to prese- the Monadnock and the Bulow son and Griet for the defendant, several interviews with the defend The plaintiff's contract was to men. Your slightest remark is appears on Page 5.

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1913.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S TRIUMPH.

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Kowloon Dock Ball. Kowloon Dock ball takes place on the 31st inst,, the programme opening at 8.45 p.m. A launch

Silk Cargo.

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The cargo of raw silk shipped on board the 8.8. Atlantique which left this port on November was delivered at Lyon on the

December

Referee's Loss,

ferce makes mistakes, and, if one made, the less said about it the better. As for the handbook, we Mr. R. C. Barlow of Queen's should judge that the Association College reports to the Police that has made a financial succ 225 of it. while he was refereing a foot It is sufficiently well advertised to ball match at Causeway Bay on ensure that there will be no loss Wednesday he lost a silver watch at least, and is so good a ten valued at $10. cents worth that it should find many purchasers. The young A number of German soldiers body is doing good work for the arrived by the Buelow this morn game in the Colony and sports-ing, and commenced sight-seeing men wish it a long life..

without any waste of time. Be fore nine, a'ock they were as cending the Peak.

Relics: for White House.

Americans the world over will

German Soldiers Arrive.

Unpaid Duty. For bringing into the Colony be glad to learn that the collestion quantity of Obinet wine without

To-morrow's Auctions.

of sagh shares; defendant had

(S.) P.O: Potts.

His Hohour" said:- Thie ant, but he specially remembers bay 100 shares at his diraretion is a claim by the plaintiff that of the 7th. August, the day and to give delivery of those to be indemnified in reep at of before the bill matured. On shares at the July settlement. liability incurred in his employ- that ocassion be pressed the de- He gave his client notice of a ment as broker, to recover moneys lendent to take up the shares. purchase on 9th May. which he has had to pay on be The saswer was that an earlier It is clear that these same half of the defendant.""

letter had named August 10th. shares were sold by the plaintifi The facts of the case are simple, as the maturity day of the bill on the 24th June. This is pro- The plaintiff is a broker in and that 7 days grace was usual. red by the plaintin's books and Hongkong.

Up to now it is clear that the by the account furnished da There had been previous defendant knew nothing nor August 8th. which gave the de transactions between the partice could be have known anything fendant the benefit of 1bpt sale and on the 8th. May the plaintiff of the esle of July 24th and also by the correspondence. received an order to purchase 100 In fact he was being continually The mere omission to send to the Langkats on behalf of the defend-pressed to take up the shares and defendant & sold note on June ant. The plaintiff made a con- always deferred giving a definite 24th does not affect the fact that tract through his Shanghai agente reply. In the end he did nothing. the shares then sold were sold on to purchase at Tasle 62 for the Finally, on the 8th. Augnat the his behalf and it does not I think July settlement. The contract price having fallen to 30 Teels, the much affect the case that the note from Shanghai dated 9th. plaintiff wrote to the defendant original mandate was not given May was in the usual form. Dear Sir,Enclosed I beg to in respect of any specific stook, The plaintiff sent to the defend-hand you a memo relating to the because when these shares were ant a Memorandum advising him 100 Langkats bought and so'd purchased and ever since they of the contract which was confirm for you, from which you will see were treated by the plaintiff as be ed by defendant on a printed there is eum of $1,578,84 das ting the property of the defendant form which reads as follows: me, and I shall be glad to receive Mr Potta asid very clearly tha Hongkong, 9th May, 1913. yeur obeque for this amount in there was only one lot of 100 To P. C. Potts

settlement.

Langkats coming from Shangha Broker,

The memo of so. reads sa in respect of the two bought note. Victoria Buildings.

followe

delivered, one to the defendan on 9th May, the other to Li P. Lung the subsequent purchaser on 24th June

a

Dear Sir,

of historical relica at Waite paying duty of 60 centa, a Chinese I am receipt of your Memo, of House have recently in aug-was fined $8 or in default sen-even date advising that you have mented by some distinctly inter-tenced to impriment for seven contracted to buy on my behalf esting gifts. After a search days, by Mr J. R. Wood at the and in accordance with my in- covoring several years, household Police Court to-day.. relics of the Administrations of Presidents Tyler and Van Baren To-morrow Mr G. P. Lammert have been secured and placed in is selling suit lengthe, etc., at his safe keeping. The new collection sales room at 11a.m., and a fine includea certain dishes and collection of Chinese porcelain on other personal effects used by the the first floor of the Old Post two former occupants of White Office at 2.30 p.m. House named above, and we

Whatever may be the merits or the demerite of the new learn that Mrs. Wilson, the American Tariff Act, which is now in full operation, the fact cannot wife of the present President,

(COPY)

Li Kin Tong Esq.,

43 Connaught Road Central Hongkong, 8th August, 1913,

In account with

P. O. Potta. Debit. Credit

purchase of 100 Langkata at Tis. 62 at Ex. 731 plus per cant, brok erage $8,506,48

- sale o£100":

struction one hundred shares in the Maatschappij tot Mijo., Bosch en Landbouwexploitatie in LANG KAT, at Taela 62 (Taels Sixty May 9. To two) for delivery, on

July settle ment day in Shanghai, which contract you have rendered your- self personally liable to carry out. I hereby confirm the transaction. "The Court Cleared.

Youre faithfully, This morning in Mr J.R. Wrod's

(8.) Li Kin Tong be gaineaid that its passage into law represents a great personal steps which have resulted in the came on for hearing in which

has taken a deep interest in the court at the Police Court, a case

Now, on a. previous occasion, riumph for President Wilson. This great question of a revision squisition on these sites, and Chinese woman was charged with that is to say, in May, the defen- June 4, 180

dant had sold through the plain of the tariff was the first work to which the new Democratio ad- has expressed her thanks to the an offence against Chinese mar

· ministration put its hands, and no-one disguised the fact that the donors. These ancient reminders ringe law. The court was cleared tiffs 1,000 Cements for the June Langkats task which President Wilson had set himself was one of enormous of past days will greatly enhance on the magistrate a direction, the settlement. The defendant failed to give delivery and the plaintiff magnitudo, He was very much up against favoured interests, the value of the fine collection press having also to leave.

sustained alosa of about $2,000.00. strongly entrenched as a result of previous legislation, and from the House, and it is only fitting that. While the police were executing and the plaintiff was uneasy now accomodated at "the White

The market for Cements was ris first, compromises and defeata were the subjects of daily prophecy. they should be mecured for the ing a gambling warrant at 31 about this contract.

He had By But by steadily plodding away at the goal in view, the desired and nation.

Circular Pathway, & Chinese, heard of other persons having has been attained, and the remarkable fact about the whole business

during the raid, in order to trouble with the defendant and as is that the attainment is so complete and has been reached with

second floor window and was ing he asked the defendant to The Gifts

avoid arrêat, jumped from the market for Langkats was fall- soli promptitude. The result is a measure which constitutes the

killed. The body has been removed give him some margin; but with- firat approach to an honest piece of work in tariff revision known

to the mortuary." to the present generation.

It is interesting to note the nature of these new gifts. The Fre- sident Tyler relic takes the form

Gambler's Eird..

of a dinner plate, one of a set es- The Injured Innocent.

at Tie. 51 at ex. 731 less per cent.brok- erage

balance due to me

The defendant's shares having been then already sold, the plain- tiff's lettera of 28th, July and 2nd, August suggesting that the de fendant was still liable to take them up, were în fact mers bluff, The plaintiff wished he, asys, to put pressure on the defendant wo as to induce him to give delivery of the Cement shares he had sold. It is, I think, clear from the facts, as they have been stated, that the Bale was wholly unauthorised, and a breach of the contract the plaintill had entered into with the defendent, which was to deliver at the proper data the share bought on 8th May,

maken I think no differance that the defendant would not have been prepared to take up, 6,927.64 his contract at the settlement, br that, if he had, the plaintiff would 1,578.84 have been able to give him de- livery of 100 Langkata. To do

$8,506.48 $8,500.48 60, the plaintiff would have had to go into the market as, he talla

(Sd.) P. O. Potts,

out result. He dicoussed the mat- This was the first intimation

us, to make a fresh purchase on

behalf of the defendant. He could ter frequently with the defendant defendant had that the shares no longer deliver the shares the One outstanding feature of the deliberations on the Bill was Tyler, and in addition to this blue singlet from another, ex every day, and finally as Langkata

pecially prized by President A Chinese who stole a pale whom he met at that time almost had been sold.

plaintiff had contracted to buy, the powerlessness of protected interests in the Senate, where almost we notice that Judge Gardiner plained that he merely picked up continued to fall, the plaintiff this afc. Mr. Peltonjee again aw

Sometime after the delivery of those shares having been sold.

The case of Ellis and Pond from time immemorial they had had their stronghold. It was Tyler, a son of the late Pre- the garment to look at it, when being apprehensive of further the defendant, who complained 1898. 19. 426., which was anticipated in many quarters that when the measure came to be sident, also intends sending ho, was seized. Mr. J. B. Wood loss, sold on June 34 the 100 that he bad not been credited relied on by Mr. Harris, is very dealt with in detail these interests would be able to wreck it, but, two silver fruit-baskets which at the Police Court to-day sen- shares he had bought on May with the dividend on the shares much in point. A. L. Smith L. 3. contrary to expectations, most of the changes made in the conference were used in White House, and tended-das-dulprit to fourteen Dih. The plaintifik did this Consequently on 19th, August says page 4 stage were in the direction of lower duties. As one of the leading which were rescued from the days, imprisonment and four without previous notifi ation to supplementary slo, was furnished New York journals put it, even the clamour of the localities and ashes of the Tyler home when it hours stocks. Democratic localities at that failed to check the tendency, and was burned, after the surrender "the metal, wool, cotton and chemical schedules have all been of Richmond in the Civil War. Rear Admiral Tuke,

B

„Af cannot be denied that down

the defendant, nor did crediting the defendant with the La November 19th, 1998; the he appriss him subsequently that dividend, and showing a balance defendant was under liability to the plaintiff to indemnify, him emasonlated of the old extreme protection. For, good or ill, the The Van Buren relic is a hand-N., who has just voluntarily reson was that he feared that if the $1,442 33, which is the basis of

Rear Admiral J. A. Tuke, he had sold the shares. Hia re in the plaintiff's favour should be the defendant, break United States comes out from behind its tariff ramparta," Of somely engraved silver water-

hie contract with the plaintiff. course, the revision has not been so complete as the Free Traders pitcher, a gift from. Benjamin F. tired at the age of 56, was Oom- defendant thought the plaintiff the present claim would wish, but a sufficiently definite step has been taken to allow Hatler to the late President. Sir Edward Baymour on the might fail to stand by his Oc-briefly as follo

I do not doubt that if the Now the plaintiff's case is of something like a fair trial of the new policy. The extreme Pro-This has been contributed China Station in 1888, and took ments contract. Also the plain-t

mander of the Centurion, flagship had lost confidence in him he

plaintiff had upon November 19th. tectionista dilated gloomily on the dire ruin which would result, MH; Singleton Green, of Co

He admits that the defendant, 1896 rightfully sold against the when the Bill was first advanced, but it is significant that so far lumbis, who received it from part in the Boxer Expeditton, ti considered that it would be of contract was for the July settle defendant although it was be. there has been a complete absence of any profound disturbance of want the wife of President Vane commanded the craiser Montice: and he was bimself propar- agreement for cover or margin, indemnified by the defendant for fore the settling day-be no use to give the defendant no-ment, and that, there being no

would have been entitled to be business such as was predicted,

Boren's sop, who for two years 1000 to 1908

moath on the arme station, from There is much, of course, to be said for both Free Trade and served as mistress of the White

ed if the market rose to give the the broker was not entitled to Protection, whether we look at the question from the standpoint of House, the President being a

defendant delivery of: 100 Lang-demand any from his client. He the difference between what he Scorpion Dancing Club.

kata at the Settlement,

admits also that the sale on Jono America or of Great Britain. But candid, level-headed observers widower.

then sold at; and what if anything

will admit that both countries have too long been following extrome

Under most happy auspices, The plaintiff says that he had 24th. was unauthorised by, and he had to pay policies in opposite directions, of course. In this, as in other big

the Scorpion Dancing Club was no confidence in the Langkat, indeed wholly unknown to, the de-But this is not what the plain- issues, it is the happy mean which should be kept in view, and, for

revived last night, when a market, He says also very frankly fondant, and that the defendant til has done. He has before the that reason, the enactment which has been passed into law in America

thoroughly enjoyable dance was that he did not trust the defen. had no notice of the sale until the next settling day, wrongfully sold must command widespread approval. And the lesson to be learned

held in the City Ball. Despite the dant and did not believe he would 8th August. He states that on against the defendant, and he by England is not, as superficial thinkers would urge, to adhere to

Summory Court, this inclement weather, some thirty take delivery in the event of a the 9th May only one lot of 100 now sake the defendant to indem morning, Mr. J. H. Gardiner couples tok the floor, snds well heavy fail. He therefore sold to Langkate was sold to him from nify him against the consequences, The Trade because America is lowering her tariffs, but to aim, like mentioned that the case in which ohcam programme was carried limit a probable less taking the Shanghai, that these wore the not of his sightful but of his the United States, at the golden mean. These points apart, there the Hongkong Land Investment through with every success, the risk of having to buy in again on shares the price of which was wrong ole can be notionbt that; by his speedy handling of the tariff problem Company were the plaintiffs, dancing continuing until well on a rising market at the cattlement. debited to the defendant on that President Wilson has gained freeh prestige and honour for himself and for whom he appeared, after midnight The next dance On the 26th July the plaintiff date, and that the same shares it will I thin It shows him as a man who knows his mind and who is sufficiently against J.O. Sopiess, for the sun will probably take place shortly wrote to the defendant referring were sold to another purchaser base of an agent

purchang on Viby May" on the 24th June,

At

Bottled.

a statesmen to see that his intentions are translated into actualities. pagy, had been petileda after Christmas

When this case

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