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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1924.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THAMES CROSSINGS.

RENTS CASE,

LANDLORD FINED $250.'

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsoll at the Hongkong Magistracy yesterday

Waterloo Bridge to be.

Rebuilt.

HONGKONG YARN

MARKET.

A SLIGHT REVIVAL: Reporting for the period ending May 21st., Metare. Polishwalla and Kotwall stato concerning the local yarn market:

The London County Counell, | Au Yeung-yuen, a merchant of 00.

Bonham Strand East, appeared on are going to take down Waterloo remand on a summins for demand-Bridge and rebuild it wider. Aj

Our Inst report was issued on tho million pounds are necessary to ing and receiving from Ip Sau, à widow living at 13 Becond Street, Carry out the work, including the 2nd ultimo, since when our market ground floor, $24 in excess of the bridge to sorve during, the ro

construction of a temporary an experienced no marked-changa standard rent for the eleventh building operations. The decision the market was in a stato of supond. In the early part of the period mopu last year. The standard rent does not please everybody. The ed animation, with scarcely any was $24 a month.

given Londoners small merelos to influenced by the advance of Ameri County Council, Indeod, have business passing Latterly, however,

ordered brand now three-docker from Bombay, bo thankful for. They might havo can cotton, and higher quotations bridge with tramways on it. The established, resulting in toin! sales slight advance was Port of London Authority might

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Mr. H. C. Lea prosecuted and Mr. A. E. Hali defonded,

The evidence of Ip Han was that she had occupied the ground floor of 13 Second Street for the past saven years and had regularly paid have insisted upon a now bridge of 2,000 bales only. rent at the rate of $24 a month of three arches only; citizens

The tone at the closo may be said On the 30th November she received will have the old numbers of to be steady, but with little business froin the defendant nolive to quitarohes, of the old hoight and passing. Unsold stocks 6,800 bales. the premises on March 7th. In on interview at 60 onlum Strand on pan. But Waterloo Bridge will Bargains in Chinese hands, 3000 December 1st., the defendant suit over be the same again, al baies,

though its two riverfronts, will to her:

you pay more rent

Shanghai:-An uncertain tono the house will not be demolished.presont to the eye the very same prevails.

atonos arranged in the very samo Stie agreed to pay double rent away as now. In London they are

Japanoso Yarn-Sunil sales at from the ist. of the 11th, moolooking for the last time on ono

quotations though she did not pay over $48 of the most famous and most

Raw Cotton-No miles Stock 100 until the 8th. of the 12th. moon. beautful things in the city; and bales Bengal only. She paid the money to the rent the year in which they are to be collector and received a receipt robbed of it is the from him, which she produced to of

the British Empire the Court. Witness went on to Exhibition, when thousands of Famous As a Young Man. say that in consequence of the visitors are expected to come increase of rents the tenants of the and look upon the famous and One of the most hard-working seven housen owned by the defen-boautiful sights of London. The of the world's naturalists and a dant made representations to the now blunder comes from the old noted British Zoologist, passed Secretary for, Chmere Affairs, as a causo; want of foresight and of away at Calcutta last month, result of which the defendunt plan. It should have been poss. after a short illness, in the por reduced the rent to the original blo to discover the danger to the son of Dr. Annandale, Director of anunt. Consequently when she bridge in time lo obviate it by the Zoological Survey of India pall over the rent for the first the under-pinning now declared and Superintendent of the Indian finom, it was, accepted as payment to be impossible.

for two months rent.

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Museum at Calcutta. Dr. An nandalo was only recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Dr. Thomas Noleon Annandale was the eldest son of Professor Thomas Annandale, F. R. C. 8.. Ho WAS educated at, Rugby, Edinburgh University, and Balliol. After travals in the Malay Peninsula in 1899 and in 1901-2, he was for two

years

Another tenant of the detetulant

ANOTHER PROJECT. [testified, to paying $48 to the rent.

As for the projected St. Paul's poflector of the defendant after he Bridgo, the opposition to it shows hand received notice to quit and no signs of being placated, says freeviving receipt for it. The tho Times. The scheme bas boon frumunt in the recipt was later discussed at a mooting called by

altered, however,

Sir William Bull, M.P., and held One of the tenants who neeon.in B Committen-room at the panied the deputation to the 8.0).| House of Commons. There were A. 's office stated that be informed prosent members of the dopata Resourch Fellow in Anthropology the defendant of what transpired tion representing the Royal In-in the University of Edinburgh. nt the interview with the Secretary titute of British Architects, the In 1904 bo was appointed Deputy for Chinese Affairs.

London Socioty, the Town Plan-Superintendent of the Indian

In his evidence the defendant ning Institute, and the Architec- | Museum, Calcutta, and, in June, denied asking more than $24 or ture Club, who recently stated to 1916, bocama Director of the anthorising his rent collector to the Minister of Transport their Zoological Survey of India. He get more. After he had served) case against the proposed bridge, wrote 趄 number of anthro- notices to quit on them, some off and members of Parliament for pological and zoological works the tennuts como, to see hirs and certain London and Home Conn- and a history of the Indian nid they were prepared to pay ties constituencies. The mooting Museum since 1814. In 1923 ho pore rent if the homes were not was addressed by members of the was appointed C.LE. demolished. He heard nothing recent doputation; and the ro Jabout my appeal to the S. C. A marks of the members of, Partia- The management of the seven nient present, with one exception, houses was in the hunds of his son, indicated general agreement with who received the deputations of the arguments advanced against the tenants. The reat receipt the bridge. Sir T. Vansittart profund was given for two months Bowater was the one speaker rent.

in support of the schomo, bls The rent collector corroborated main point being that the whole his onster's statement that a question had been settled long -mistako-buil-beau-male-in-the-rent ago. Tho discussion onded with receipt.

Defendant was find $250.

D'OISY WILL CONTINUE.

EFFORT TO PROCURE NEW MACHINE..

the carrying of a rosolution, proposed by Viscount Curzon, M.P., to the affect that tho moet- ing urgently recommended that bofore the matter went any farther thie Minister of Transport should give an assurance that no money should be spent on the schome until Parliament had had an opportunity of going into it.

BRIDGE HOUSES?

An unexpectedsuggestion on this subject of Thames bridges comes (Our Own Correspondent.)

from Mr. A. S. Comyns-Carr, M.P. Shanghai, May 21.

It is that we should rovert to the Capt. D'Olay is seriously.con- praction of our ancestors, sidering accepting the offer of an exemplifled in Old London Bridge airplane from the Cheking Gov-and build one or two of them wide

to enough

make ernment to proceed on the Tokyo

room for substantial buildings of shops, fight within a week. A survey offices, or flats on the sides or reveals only what D'Oisy calls even at intervals over the road., "reconnaisance airplanes" avail-way. In a lotter, to the Times] able but of the Breguet type, and Mr. omyns-Carr statos the case) he believes it is possible to pro- for such & revorsion as follows:- ceed by shorter jumps, going to "That it is not impossiblo for Nanking, Tainan, Paking, Mukden, such a structure to be designed Scout, Fasan, Nagasaki, and in auch 凸 way Ak to be thence to Tokyo: 'Oisy strongly n thing of beauty anyone recommends the amphibious type can satisfy himself who will study of planes for similar undertakings, some of the prints of Old London Bridge which, havo' come down Accepts Chinese Plane,

to us. That it is not an impossi bility from an engineering point of view is, I think, proved by the fact that it was strongly recom- mended to the London County: Council some 20 years ago by

Shanghai, May 21. Captain D'Oisy after a trial flight in & Chinose owned airplane pro- vided by Ho Feng-lia has announced

his intention to resume his flight their then chief engineor the late

to Tokyo on Sunday or Monday. Sir Alexander Binnio, when the

His first stop will be at Nanking

Maclaren Reaches Akynb... ́.... Akyab, May 21. Squadron Leader Maclaren has

roconstruction of Lambeth Bridge, now about to be under- taken, was originally proposed. That it would be financially pro fitable is, I think, at least render od highly probable by the enornmous prioos which are boing| paid for sites in the neighbour- town 'In

lower hood of the proposed now bridges Burma, at the mouth of the Kulan- and on banks of the river." dan, River.].

| arrived, here.-Reuter.

[Akyab Iso

But what of the traffló, which has both increased' and altered in kind since Bir Alexandor Binale was the counsellor ?

may m

Americans Still Delayed. “

Tokyo, May 21. The latest from Hitokappu at ton o'clock last night' anys; the weather conditions for the flight available here says to-morrow, are still unpromising. The destroyer Ford, which arrived from Kashiwabara Bay..! proceediarito Kulbiroju Tintout

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