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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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GRIPPED BY A PYTHON.

Menagerie Proprietor Nearly

Crushed to Death.

THE ``HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY. JULY 30. 1922-

JAPANESE LAW OF CONTRACTS.

Messrs. Dodwell's Appeal.

A commentator writes in the Manchester tiwanlian as follows: It seems possible that some of the Gripped in the coils of a 30ft. Judgment has been promised Labour conferences to be held python, Mr. E. H. Bostock, the in the case in which" Mostra during this summer may throw famous managerie proprietor, bad | Dodwell & Co, sund the, Japan some clear light on the exact a remarkable escape from being Steamship Co., Ltd. (Nihon Kisen reason why acceptanca of a Privy crushed to death last month. Kabushiki Kaisba), for the re- Councillorship by Labour leaders The constrictor was one of covery of ovar 12,800,000 which is so great a stumbling-block tɔ so three enormous specimens form- bad bean advanced on account of many advanced members of the jing part of the record consign-a contract to build ships which, party. Opportunities are being ment of wild animals which Mr. the company never executed. The given for the discussion of this Bostook has imported from the case is a characteristic item in topic at several of this year's] East.

the history of a couple of yours" conferences, and those Labour It was while the crate was foverish_activity in shipbuilding leaders who have accepted the open for Mr. Hagenback of the by which Japan made a profit of distinction will be able, if they so Hamburg Zoo," to inspect the many millions of y'en as a result wish, to state their case. Labour occupant that the incident hap of the war. Some extraordinary has no objection to the inclusion pened.

things were done in those times: within its ranks of King's Coun-

Tho Kawasaki Yard, for instance, sel, but objects, as it appears, to

did some remarkable work, break- giving any allegiance to King's "Six or seven' assistants were ing the record for speed, it was Councillors. Can it be that the engaged in bapling out the head claimed, in the time taken from real function of a member of the and anterior coils of the snake, so the laying of a keel to the launch- Privy Council in these days is that Mr. Hagenback might ex-ing of a big steel hull. The misunderstood? Tradition may lamine the mouth to see that this achievements of some other con- have handed down, or hasty was quite healthy-very neces-cerns were hardly so creditable. reading may have presentad,sary, seeing that snakes are liableThere were a number of cases) pictures of the Council as it used to fatal disease of the teeth, where ships had been built to order to be when it was an instrument and each python is worth about of the King's will. No doubt £100, great deal of oppression was wrought by the Privy Council st

I was standing by looking OD one time or another in our history when the snake threw a coil be in the days when the Privy tween my legs, and I was nearly Council wielded real and ex-swept off my feet.

Describing his adventure Mr. Bostock said :—

LUCKY ESCAPE.

and, when finished, were sold to a higher bidder instead of the con- tract being fulfilled. When a pan- ber of ships were ordered for made not only that a bigh price America, the stipulation should be paid, but that three times the necessary amount of

Was

ecutive powers and did not often Using my legs as a sort of materials should be supplied be study the well-being of comfort fulcrum, the python was able to fore the work was undertaken. of the common people.-It may use its be noted that alo

enormous strength to This was a piece of hard bargain- Labour advantage, and it was as muching which cost some of the ship- conference the other day there as the aen could do to keep the builders dear in the end, for the was a large majority against re-writhing reptile from throwing a fasing Privy Councillorabips.

cell around me when it could came to a close before they have crushed me quite easily.

bad completed their contracts, easily as a result. In the case and the price of steel dropped of the deal which is still the sat- ject of litigation, no attempt ap- pears to have been made to build the ships at all. Orders were placed, and a large sum of money was taken in advance, on the,

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The surmise of Dr. C. A. Smith, “I managed to extricate myself the biographer of O. Henry, that from its folds, and conside: my this paradony in was derived from self very fortunate in doing 80. force standard pharmaceutical "I have not forgetten-though work bas received an unexpected it was 10 years ago how I was confirmation. He has received bitter by a Diamond Box. from French correspondent teeth broke off in my hand and it copy of a book published in Paris was months before I got them all In 1858, entitled "Traite Practique out." d'Analyse Chimique des Eaux, Mineralee, Potables e: Eco- omiques," and written by "Ossian Henry pere et Ossian Henry fils." On the back of the volume the combined names of the author two full-grown elephants with more profitable work. The ships ever long the war lasted, for the But even if it confirme the It bad become so attached to being that it had been used up on with more profitable work, how, the Court of First Instance. appear simply as "O. Heory" which it travelled that, when were more urgently needed than longer it lasted the betler paid judgment and in the second chapter alone forming up for the route march to ever. the name O. Henry" occurs Messrs. Price and King's yard at Dodwell & Co. acting on behalf end of the war could bring about | defendant

and dismisses 30 the agents (Messrs.

the was all kinds of work. Only the apeal, the resources of the 24 times *5 the author Hackford-road, Brixton,where the of

sre Dot exhausted. the British Government conditions where the fulfilment There is the Court of Cessation, or authors of pharmacen acimals are quartered, it refused extended the term of the contract of the contract could be under which, if a technical flaw can tical articles. Now, the popular to walk otherwise than by their and used diplomatic influence to taken without the sacrifice of be short-story writer who used the side.

obtain the materials required. more profitable opportunities. pseudonym of "O. Henry" w As this arrangement was apt Among these

the for many years a clerk in a drug to prove a nuisance to traffic, it thirty boilers, and the builders in which this case was tried In any case, the plaintiffs must It is to the credit of the Court round proceeds to sil eternity. store. During this period he was tied by the neck to a horse had the impadence to demand that it did not for necessarily had a copy of the ambulance filled with "United States Dispensatory" animals.

a moment suffer a heavy loss. At the time. other eighty a claim which was cut admit the very dishonest ples when the money was advanced ways before him, and in this book

down when the requisition went that To this method of progression before the British experts for action that could not have been today, and the plaintiffs (respon WAS ured to justify exchange was higher than it is the name "O. Henry has been it objected so strongly that it sanction. Even after the obtain-better calculated to assist the dente) can only recover in yen found to appear just as it ap pulled the vehicle from one side ing of the materials, however, the enemy if the instructions for it not to speak of the heavy ex- pears in the "Analyse Chimique "of the road to the other, and ships were not built. -23 that of the originater threatened to overtura il. Con-

bad been received from. Berlin. penses which they have had to of some of the commonest presequently it had to be released Japanese

While all this was going on Some scathing remarks from the bear in connection with the case scriptions. Dr. Smith accordingly and, on the return of the ambul warmly declaring that Japan was acceptably with the judgment. As for the losses occasioned

diplomatists were Banch would have gone very

and which are not recoverable.: considers it an irresistible-con-ance from beadquarters. clusion that the French pharms placed faside it and drives home. and the last shilling. We need traders resort to shady tricks full the

was with the Allies to the last man. It is often said that while petty through the deliberate failure to cist furnished the pen-name

contract, which has lately become famous.

not take the contrast between through lack of education in beyond calculation. The lack of

they words and deeds too seriously, a commercial morality, the larger ships cost brave men "their lives] The last line of the chorus of A TITLED NONAGENARIAN. degradation of war-time in all honourable in their dealings. speak of the economic losses. it is characteristic of the moral Japanese concerns are strictly every day in those times, not to "ward, Christian soldiers." * Witb

countries. It is considered per- Making all allowances for theWs do not expect any great cross Jesas golog on

fectly honourable to "profiteer" damoralisations of war-time, here amount of honesty in war-time. before." With Mr. Gladstone 53 still continues to offend Pro-

at the expense of one's own was an instance of gross dis- but this litigation is going on Years Ago. testant sentiment so much that in

countrymen in war-time. It is honesty in a very large concern. nearly four years after the waƯ, more than one bymn-book it in

positive virtue to make money The Lord Eversley. the veteran out of an ally. This case was Japanese firm freely admits that fighting for its spoils. The case representative of the and the war-time morality is still emraded, not indeed as its author Liberal statesman, and the only worse than most, however.. suggested, but to "Looking unto surviving member

The be took the word of the British will not, however, be without its Jesus, who is gone before." For Russell's Government of 1865-6. ordinary measures adopted for thority without question or veri-ing that nothing can be taken for Lord money paid in advance, the extra-agent as to his powers and au- advantages if it serves as a warn a similar reason one of the verses reached his 90th. birthday last the supply of materials, and the Bestion. It is notable con-granted. of Baring Gould's well-known month.

It is true that some of translation from

free extension of the term of the fession, because be the Danish. Better known to the last gen contract, all bespoke the urgent himself acting in

was not the biggest business deals in thaj Through the night of doubt and eration, at least as Mr. Shawneed of the buyer. Men were justified the smallest reciprocity of mutual trust, and that mutual sorrow," is excised from some Lefevre. Lord Eversley is the ready to risk their lives in the in trustfulness.

way that world are put through on a basis hooks altogether owing to the originator of the first two lines of it, which zun:

sixpenny ships for the sake of conveying was something of the confid-buslases than all the contracts in Indeed, there trust affords more facilities to Onward, therefore, pilgrim Born in 1832. the son of Sir J.during the war. It was a quer-The

supplies from America to England ence trick about the proceedings. the world. But, there are cir- brothers.

G. Sba-Lefevre. Clark of the tion of whether ships could be deal, knowing that he was quite to take anything whatever for Japanese party to the constances in which it is na wize Onward with the Cross our aid. Parliaments, and Another interesting alteration Viscount Eversley. Speaker of was sinking them. It might have with a frank trust, asking for no

nephew of obtained as quickly as the enemy safe, treated the British agent granted however certain assevers for doctrical reasons is to be seen the House of Commons, he was been supposed that even a war proofs of authority. The agent insulting it may appear to de- tions appear to be, and however in some versions of Milman's bred in a legislative atmosphere. profiteer would enter into the apparently thought thist the mand ocular demonstration of well-known hyma "When our He entered the House of Com-emulative spirit of the desperate management of so large con races heads are bowed with woe "mons as member for Reading in adventare. Where in the lines.

1863. His frst speech there was sort occurred.

But nothing of the cern would not declare that it hadirou-bound contracts. Japan| When the sulles death bell tolls. an attack on the Government for made to fulfil the contract of ready when it had not an ounce,

No attempt was hundreds of tons of materials Chronicle, For our own departed souls. allowing the Alabama to escape. which the preliminary advances and he did not suppose that an departing" substituted for "de.

PUBLIC WORL puted" in order to avoid any

in themselves had been so profit-extension of time would Three years later, the future able, and when the end of the war recapted only as a trap sad not ber Baggestion that prayers for the Lord Eversley became & Civil termicated the need for the ships, as an opportunity to make a real dead are legitimate...

Lord of the Admiralty, and after and the agents, who had waited effort to full the contract. It the public over thirty years ago, Sioe they were introduced to a period in opposition, he served in vain for so long, cancelled the was a piece of chicanery of which Dr. Williams pink pills have However much one may obiectas Secretary to the Board of order, the Japan Steamship Co cardsharper would be ashamed. maintained a fine record by the to tampering with what the Trade, under John Bright. With refused to refund the Y2,800,000 author of a bymo originally the exception of Lord Lansdowne, that they

Some time ago we had occasive thousands of cures they have had received wrote, there are certain cases he is the sole survivor of Mr. expenses that they bad never between foreigners and Japanese sexes. In every town in almost for to remark on the fact that cases effected in young and old of both where alleration or omission is Gladstone's first Administration incurred.

The facts were all but_imperzlive,, as in the 1869-1874.

100 in which a large sum of money every civilized country of the plain to be denied, but the plea is involved are never brought world will be found people who universally accepted emendation Over 50 years of the second line of the Test Everesley founded the Commons effrontery. It was argued that, The foreign claimant's purse or these excellent tonic pills. The

ago, Lord used was surely unique in its to

an end by litigation. have been restored to health by were of "Rock of Ages," which Preservation Society,

since the buyer had refrained patience is exhausted by inter-reason is that Da Williams pink}; originally was.

During a short term of service from cancelling the contract on minable delays, and at the pill make new rich blood and When my ayestrings break in on the London County Council, expiry but had extended the term, either abandons the claim or attack the actual root of disease. death, instead

now be was responsible, as chairman he had no longer any right to compromises at a heavy loss, Hence their great succes in cur familiar..

of the Improvements Committee, cancel it at all. This is rather s and the Court feels that has ing so many cases of anseris, **When my eyelids close in death. for carrying through the Strand confession of dishonest intent conducted the case in manner indigestion, rheumatism, and And the modern congregation is to Holborn scheme. He has been than a defence. It explains why worthy of Salomon to have nervous disorders. ARE Your too sophisticated to sing with a First Commissioner of Works, no attempt was made to fulfil brought the litigants to a friendly chemist for them. straight face that verse of St.President of the Local Govern the contract, and it demonstrates agreement. The came under Throdulph's All glory, land, and ment Board, and Postmaster- how impossibis it was that the notice may possibly be an

General.

contract should ever be fulfilled exception to the rule. We have Lord Eversley lives much in voluntarily by such contractors. yet to me. retirement at Abbot's Worthy With a contract that they regard- of the Chak An

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