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Hongkong, 28th July, 1926.
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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926.
MORE MOVIES.
THEATRES AND MUSIC-HALLS
TAKE A BACK SEAT,
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local All the world and his wife (and share quotations issued to-day-
'children)
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc-more especially his
would seem to be turning to "the tion,
movies according to facts and figures to hand..
TO-DAY,
the 30th July, 1926, commencing at 5.15 p.m..
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps.
Particulars from Catalogue.
On view from Thursday, the 29th July, 1926,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS...
Auctioneers.
Liabiliting-1340.
Of the entertainment houses in the United States, 97 per cent. are cinemas; the other three per cent. include both music-halls movies, and theatres-17,000 and less than 1,000 theatres and music-halls.
And of the theatres two-fiftha fure concentrated in New York City, In Britain the comparison is leas are 13,760 startling, but there cinemas and 400 theatres and music-halla,
U
Banks.
Hongkong, $1.130 Chartered, £201 b
sa.
Mercantilo A. and B., £30 Moroantilo C., £13 n. P. and O., £91 b. East Asia,. 684 b.
Marine Ing.
b.
Canton Ins., $630
China Underwriters, $1,80
North Chinu, Tis. 145 n. Unions, $290 Yangtze, $35
E. b.
Fire Ins.
China Firos, $200 Hongkong Fire, 3020 b.
Shipping
Douglas0s, $25 b.. Steamboats, $261 b
$21. 11. Indo-Chinus, (Profi $30 b.. Sholl Trans., 83. n. Star Ferries, $671 8. Waterboats, $15
Refineries China Sugars, $241 Malabons, $33 b. Mining
20 Year's Change. Twenty years ago, Mr. Monte. Bayley, secretary of the Variety Artists' Federation, said theatres and music-halls numbered at least
Tugs Assets-100 per vent. more than they do to- One pair of gold suff-linka, value day. This year there had been £2 108. This was stated at Barnet full in the activities of the all- Bankruptcy Court to be the post-bscorbing cinema proprietors, but The Hongkong Dispensary, Distion of Captain Lord Plumer, on within the last two, mouths in pensing Department, will be open of Field-Marshal Lord Plumer.London the Olympin, Shoreditch, for dispensing prescriptions from who appeared for his public ex- and the Popular Hippodrome have 10,n.m. the pan, and from 6 p.m. amination. He stated that one both Been turned into pleturd to 7.30 p.m.
of the causes of his failure was laces,
The fendency nowadays, added expenses of n polieu-court case in London last year when he was Mr. Bayley, is to combine. vaude- cinema pro- fined 15 guineas for dangerousville turns With motor driving and acquitted ofgramme, and many houses intr- being drunk in charge of a motor. palate singing and dancing turns His expenses of the action were between the pictures. about $1.000, and he borrowed
Fr
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Hongkong, #1st July, 1926.
HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION.
Mr. P. M. Hodgson having signed the Honorary. Secretaryship of this Association, all Communi- cations and letters, in future should be addressed to the under signet who has been appointed Honorary Secretary of the Asso- ciation.
G. E. S. UPSDELL,
Hon. Secretary,
Morning Post Building. P. O. BOX 1:6 Hon, kong, 29th July, 1926.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
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LIMITED.
An INTERIM DIVIDEND of 50 ens per share has been declared anyable THURSDAY, 26th AUGUST next, on and after whi h date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company, Canal Road East, Bowrington- Hongkong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN MEM- that the REGISTER OF BERS of the Company will be FRIDAY, 13th: AUGUST to THURSDAY 26th AUGUST, 1926, both days in
TO LET.-One European PLAT Wanghai Gap Road, Hongkongclosed from Apple to 32, Kennedy Rotid
то LET-GROUNDS FLOOR elusive. Offices. 11:17 Kowloon ferry, Apply to Box No 47,-cure "Hongkong. Telegraph."
of.
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TO LET-Four roomed FLAT, furnished, Ilumphrey's Buildings, Kowloon. Please apply Box No. 91, care of "Hongkong Talegraph."
By Order of the Board,
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Secretary. Hongkong, July 26, 1926.
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half of that sum from money- lenders.
Debts from a former In 1825 about 42.47 per cent of bankrupter had been paid in full coffee imported into the United by selling his life interest in his Kingdom came from Empire coun- father's grant from the nation. tries.
le lived on an allowance from his
father,
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per cent..
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TRANSFER OF RADIO COUNTER.
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5.
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Cottons.
1.
D.
Ewos Cottons, Tis. 9.10 b. Orientals, Tis. 2,70 s. S'hal Cottons, Th. 52 b
Buses, Trams. -China Buscs. $101 "Tramways, $25.75
Peak Trams, fold $16 h S'pore Tractions 10/8 1 Taxis, $3
.
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.August 1.
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August.
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President Lincoln
.August 5.
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PAINTINGS AT COST- PRICE.
NOVEL IDEA FOR SELLING GOOD PICTURES.
ALLEGED SHORT DELIVERY.
A PRINCIPLE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
H. E. M. Supreme. Court for China sat in Tientsin on July '14 and 15, when the case of the Ualon Trading Corporation Ld. against the Tientsin Lighter Co., La. was heard by His Honour Judge Potor Grain. The statment of claim alleged that in October 1923, plain- tiff purchased of Kerr, Gifford & Co., Inc.. of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., 2,000,000 pounds of wheat In 14,794 sacks, and engaged the services of defendant to receive, lighter and deliver it to plaintiff at Tientsin upon its arrival at Taku Bar, and that defendant altort deliverad 66,393 pounds of the value of G:$1,410.15. Plaintif claimed for the value of this short- tige, costs, and further and other. relief.
Mr. T. E. Simmang appeared for plaintiff and defendant was repre- sented by Mr. P. H. B., Kent
Mr. C. P. Ma, tally man, who was on board the Pawlot when she was discharged said the cargoca" wore separated by old, narrow planks and old tarpaulins. The boat notes or summary of the tally sheet pro- duced was his, but his staff kept the taily-shoot. There were, ankl witness, plenty of broken bags in. the cargo. Aaked as to whether the number of broken bags were usual or not, witness said they wore quite unusual.
Mr. Kent read the evidenęs jöf Messrs. J. Stirling, W. E. Leckie, and A. E. Herdman. The last- named stated that he had a dis- tinct recollection that the bags
were fragile in one of the lighters And that there was a loss by look....
age.
Mr. Kent said that this conclud ed the evidence for defendant's caso.
The Question at Issue. Mr. Kent in his address to tho Judge said although the sum in- volved was not a considerable one the principle involved was one of very great importance to people engaged in trade in that and other In this case ha Mr. K. K. Wang, Manager of the ports of China, Union Trading Corporation gave submitted the issue was a very evidence as to the fnets contained simple one and it had been very in the statement of claim. Cross-clearly defined. The question was | examined by Mr. Kent he said they had defendants taken delivery at did not weigh each bag before it Taka Bar, of more than 1,933607 went on the ship, but calulate each pounds of wheat?" Plaintiffs and bag na weighing so much, and pay to prove that they received at freight according to the average Taka Bar a larger quantity and if amount in cacir bag. There was a they (defendants) could show by calculation of average.
their receipts that they did not receive a larger quantity then his A Summary of Tally.
submission was that the finding of the Court must be for defendants. Mr. T. W. Lee, in charge of the In his opening, he had drawn at shipping office of the China Im-tention to the fact that the ques port and Export Lumber Co., Ld..tion of weight be opposed to the who were agents for the shipping number of bags had been over-em- company that ran the str. Pawlet phasized. There had been no which conveyed the wheat from evidence in the case to suggest Portland, Oregon, to. Taka Bar, that the standard should be that said they had declined responsibi-of weight instead of bags. Mr. lity for the alleged shortage. Lee, the most important witness Witness produced figures to show for the plaintiff, the previous day that the wheat was delivered short made some suggestion that the in Tientsin by 1,509 bags. He laws of Oregon made some special agreed with Mr. Kent' that they requirement but could not give any were not the tally but a summary iden of the method of obtaining
of the tally.
J weight and his evidence did not Askcil as
to whether in the add anything on this particular The plaintiffs had done course of transport it was expect-point.
The defence had produced the evidence of men of considerable shipping experience maintaining that the custom was to ship and collect, by bags instead of weight, Although they had to estimate in pounds because ge much of this whent was eventually delivered in bulk he did not think there was any real discrepancy between figures. `
ed that there would be some loss, nothing to support their connec- Some bars broken,, witness, said tion except a general sort o. sug- that was unavoidable. He did gestion that they were looking for not think that the percentage of pounds rather thin bags... broken sucka would be, more than five or six per cent. He agreed that in this case there were about 3,600 broken sacks, which would be roughly 24 per cent, of the total. Mr. Simmang. handed in affida vits from officers of the Piwlet in which they stated that the wheat was delivered intact at Taku Bar.
Mr. Kent submitted that the loss of 33 odd tons out of so big ja ahipment was no more than in accordance with expectations. He stressed the manner in which the cargo had been estimated which only gave a rough estimate. They Find delivered much more than that
for which they were liable.
An affidavit by Mr. T J. Fisher was road for the defence, in which he said it was not customary to weigh grain cargoes, the weight being generally arrived at by the declaration of the shipper to the ship owner.
Agent's Evidence.
Loss in Transit.
This loss was 66 add thousand pounds and that represented 3.3 per cent. actually of the total ship- ment. Of course it was a matter of commonsense that any cargo like grain must suffer some loss in transit. Mr. Lee, the plaintiffs' witness, said quite clearly there must of course' be broken bags but he did not think they would exceed five per cent. in ordinary circum- stances. In this case they had 1,000 empty bags which represent-. ed 7 per cent. of the total number of bags and they had 2,500 broken bagy which represented 17 per cert, of the total number of bags, and these added together (empty and broken bags) made a total of 24 per cent. of the total number That was to
In reply to Mr. "Kent, Mr. Lee said he did not suggest that the Grapling firmly with the pro-missing bags were full. blem of selling pictures instead of only painting thom, the L3.A. by Mr. Kent, said he was agent of bags in the ship.
Mr. Robert Kerr Rodger, called Club is doing good service of it for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, say there was in this case some- self, and also to the public, by its who were agents for the Tientsin thing like one quarter of the grain organisation of the Artists' Own Lighter Co., and he took over in a loose and mobile state, Now, Exhibition, at the Spring Gardens charge from Mr, T. K. Fisher in if in a normal timo a 5 or 6 per- Gallery.
February of this year.
י.
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stipulated that the consignces AC- 100 on the 900 broken bags, and Mr. Kent pointed out an additioncept sweepings in settlement.
cent. of breakage of bags meant Here the general public in to
Summaries of the tally sheets one and a half per cent. loss what bid for pletures by such painters as Sir John Lavery, Mr. A. J. for Lighters A3, A10, and B4 were might not be the loss in the caso Munnings, Miss Sylvia Gosse, the produced and identified by Mr. of 24 per cent? It was quite Rodger Witness sald the tally clear from the Bill of lading ef only limit on the bid being the sheets recorded the number of the shipping company (condition Tues., Aug. 3. minimum price of the picture..
the 5) that the dompany did expect Registration .1.46 p.m.
Sir John Lavery's "Derby Win-packages lightered from Letters
.2.00
p.m. ner, 1925, cost $7 10s to paint and steamer to the lighters. There there would be a loss of grain as (Due Marseilles 4th September).
frame. No bidder, therefore, will weight of broken packages.
were weight lists which gave the a result of broken bags when they Fooksang....Tues., August 3, 5 p.m. Hopsong Wed., Aug. 4, 10.30 a.m. have the chance of securing it for. Hogart
Wed., August 4.
less than that. On the other hand, Parcels
Noon.
in the absence of a high bid, a Letters
el pan. Huichow....Wed., Aug. 4, 230 p.m. picture is bound to go for what- Soochow .....
Wed., Aug. 4,6 p.m.
ever is offered above this price. Kwungtung Thurs., Aug. 6, 5 p... There is a large proportion of Kingyuan
Fri., Aug. 6, 4 p.m.
good material at the show. Mr. In reply to Hie Lordship witness Shantung
Fri., Aug. 6, 5 pm,
Robert Greenham's "View from could only account for the differ 6th & p.m.
the Railway Bridge, Dulwich,"ence in weight of the packages, Snt, Aug. 7. with the Crystal Palace far away by the packing being done quickly Registration...8.45 a.m.
in a rich light on the hill shows and some package being zuller on the lighters was safely placed. Letters ......10.30 nm. (Due Muracilies th September). how much beauty there may be in than others. Namaan.
a suburban road. Miss Gosse's. Sat, Aug. 7, 5 pm Mingsang Sat, August 7, 5. b..
Delta
Parcels.
Suiyang ... Sat., Aug. 7, p.m. Yat Shing Wed., August 11, 10.00 a.m. Kutuang... Mon., August 18, 6 p.m. Wong Sher Kung. Sat, July 17,5 p.m. Hin Sang Tues., August 24, 1280 p.m.. Kum Sang****
Tues., August Parcels
Mr. Kent went on to contend witness said they had been repack that the question plaintiffe had to ed, the reason being that they were prove to establish their case was of varying wolghts.
that the defendants had charged themselves with the amount of two million pounds of wheat which he submitted they had not done. He contended that whatever was put
under the hatches,, covered with Cross-examined by Mr. Sim- turpanjbs and locked up, and that "Girl at the Plano" and Mr. John mang, Mr. Rodger said he had no it was perfectly clear from the Farleigh's "Interior" both show records with him, of the bags be tally sheets and attached docu- an eminetly satisfying treatment ing weighed on arrival at Tientsin,ments that defendants only ac of light. Mr. "Borough Johnson's
His Lordship suggested that Mr. cepted a certain measure of re- fine "Bridge at Etaples" and ir. Rodger might send his records to sponsibility and as regards the Charles Shannon's "Study for a the Court in the afternoon if he quantity of grain with which t Portrait" are among other items had any and they could be con- charged themselves a larger qu of this novel form of auction for veniently found, but Mr. Kenttity was actually deliverodi. which, no doubt there will be pointed out that these figures His Lordship reserved Wong Sher Kung Sat, July 7,5 pm active bidding.
were not contested.
ment *Correspondence bearing vessel's name only.
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