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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE

AND

AMERICAN MAIL LINE.

JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE A Regular Weekly Sailing TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE THE "PRESIDENT LINERS."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED METERS.

JUDGMENT FOR THE

DEFENDANT,

JTO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, judgment, but His Lordship

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE SUNSHINE BELT."

PRESIDENT LINCOLN

PRESIDENT MADISON ...

PRESIDENT JACKSON

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY ... PRESIDENT LINCOLN

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Monday, July 18th, Midnight Tuesday, Aug. 2nd

Tuesday, Aug. 16th

Tuesday, Sepl. 13th

Tuesday, Aug. 30th

THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.

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HONGKONG TO EUROPE

SPECIAL LOW RATES

Via San Francisco or Seattle

£120 £112

DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES.

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JULY

16, 1927.

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by the defendant was empty. motor connexions had probably Witness considered it was im-beon mixed during the strike and possible that the Company had might have been wrong all along. mado a mistake with the installm His Lordship remarked that it tion. The other flats Wero on seemed to him that on the evid- Judgment was given for the meter '21040,,

enco, motor No. 24040 had baon dofendant by the acting Puisne Mr. Prior pointed out that from connected to Mrs. Madden's fat Judge, Mr. P. Jacks in the Som May 16th, until August the meter during the whole time under dis- mary Court yesterday afternoon, did not register anything, and at puto, and that No. 26219 had boon to another. He Was when the case in which Mr. 3. H. the end of August it registered attached

afraid the plaintiff could not re- Ruttonjeo, of Messrs. Rutionjee thirteen units. and Son, wine". merchants, sued In reply to other questions wit-cover.

Mr. Prior said the whole thing. Mrs. D. A. Ross, late of No. 7,ness sald meter No. 26219 was in Duddoll Street, for $173 on an im- Mr. Maddon's name until the plain-had obviously been caused by a plied contract for the supply of tiff took it over, and meter No. mistake on the part of the Electric electric curront.

24040 was re-installed on October Company. He was claiming $173 Mr. J. T. Prior, who was for the 4th, last year in Mr. Ruttonjes's based on meter No. 24040, but ho plaintiff, contended" that a mis name. It was put in Mr. Wetton'a would submit that the claim was not really on any particular meter, take had been made by the. Elec-name on April 1st. tric Company and asked His Lord-

the as he was really claiming on the unt duo. He said he thought ship to make that fact clear in his change of meters was made when

re- Mrs. Madden moved out and the the defendant was liable for $41.50, fased to do so, saying that the defendant moved in, by the con- which was the amount due Company had not actually admit- tractora transferring the wires in meter 26219, and he said he con- ted a mistake, but a representa-making alterations. He had seonsidered that judgment should be amount. Both tive had said a mistake had pro- that two pairs of wires connecting entored for that bably occurred during the strike flats Nos, 3 and 4 had been altered, parties had been misied by the Company and the plaintiff should of 1925.

The Contractors.

not have to pay the costs. $. The case concerned flats in

Mr. Prior said as a matter of Duddell Street, and it appears that fact Mrs. Madden was in No. 1

Whose Bill? the meter connexions had boon altered so that they were not re-flat practically on the day of the Mr. Owen said he did not think gistering correctly. The plaintiff application for the installation oft was proper that the bill

nieter 26219. He asked where $11.50 should be paid by his said he had paid the bills for the was her current coming from if client on an order of the court. defendant's Bat, but she had not repaid him as agreed. The de-meter 26219 did not register. Mrs. She was quite prepared to receive fendant, contended that the later Madden was burning current, and the bill and pay the amount. It hor surely, he added, the Company had been shown that the bills she bills were far too high for

on had received were not

her must have made some mistake. consumption,

to pay. Witness replied that it current meter. She was willing The Meters.

was burned the contractors must the bills for the correct meter if Yesterday afternoon Mr. S. have connected the wires to an-they were tendered to her and not Longfield, of the Electric Com- other meter.

made the subject of an action. "

delivering judgment His pany produced an application for Mr. Prior contended that there. In the installation of meter No.must have been some mistake, as Lordship said the claim had been 26219, which showed that Mr. and if the Company had been repre-reduced to $144 by payment inte He said the Mrs. Madden applied to have the seated to see that the work was court of $29.21.

current meter installed in No. 4 fat. It done properly there would have plaintiff had paid for was installed on July 22nd, 1925, been no mistake about connecting supplied to an adjoining fat. He considered that Mrs. Ross WAS and until November 30th, it regis- the flats to the meters. tered nothing. Thirteen units Witness said the time was the quite right in resisting the claim. were registered in November. period of the strike when there he gave judgment for the defend-

In reply to Mr. Prior witness was but little current consumed ent with costs.

During the said he did not know that Mrs. on many meters.

.

for

Mr. Prior asked is Lordship to Aug. 20th-C'brg A Madden was using electricity at strike, said Mr. Longfield, they make it clear that he was giving

SUR Sept. 3 brg Shupin Sept. the time when the meter was regis-employed a "pretty scratch crew" is judgment because of mis- Company. Sept. 6-Org Sept. 12 tering nothing, and he did, not who did not test anything, and intake by the Electric

17 beg Shuph Sept. 27know that No. 3 Hat, later occupied reply to a question he added the This is Lordship refused to do.

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Wed., July 27th Wednesday, Aug. 10th Wednesday, Aug. 24th Wednesday, Sept. 7th. Wednesday, Sept. 1st

THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON WEDNESDAYS

TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK.

VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-

PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLE

→GENOA-MARSEILLES,

Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK,

Tues., July 19th, 6.00 a.m.

PRESIDENT HAYES

PRESIDENT POLK

PRESIDENT ADAMS

PRESIDENT GARFIELD

PRESIDENT HARRISON

Tuesday, Aug. 2nd 8,00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16th 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 50th 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13th 6.00 a.m.

THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.

TO MANILA.

PRESIDENT HAYES

July 19th, 6.00 a.m,

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

PRESIDENT MADISON.

PRESIDENT POLK...

PRESIDENT PIERCE

July 10th, 600 p.m.

July 25th, 6.00 p.m.

Aug. 2nd, 8.00 5.m. Aug. 2nd, G.00 p.m.

For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to

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·GENERAL ACENTS.

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BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Destination,

Stoamer.

Bailings.

Fooshing Satur. 16th July at 7 p.n. TSINGTAUSwatow & S'hai Hopsang Satur. 16th July at 10 am.

CANTON

7.1.

Yusang Sun. 17th July at TSINGTAU Swątow & S'hai Fooshing Wed. 20th July at 10a.m. SHANGHAI

..Yusang Thurs. 21st July at 10a.m. SHANGHAI

Chaksong Fri. 22nd July at, 10 a.m. OSAKA Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe Fooksang Batur. 23 July at 7 a.m. TIENTSIN

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Yokohama & Kobe

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S. 9. "CHANGTE"

Passenger and Cargo Vessel Built and Engined at the KOWLOON DOOK by THE HONGKONG

& WHAMPOA DOCK Co., Ltd. to the order of the AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINĘ, Ltd For Australia-Hongkong Service.

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OF THE

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AND

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