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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.- MONDAY, DECEMBER

9, 1935.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID 50 cents for Every Additional Day Alternate Insortions 20% Extro.

If Not Prepaid a Booking Fee of 50 cents is Charged.

TO LET

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

GODOWNS TO LET One, large THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.

concrete 2-storied godown, floor space about 14,000 sq ft. at No. 200

Henngery Rond.

"Two

large godowns

each about 8,000 sq ft, at

Non

45

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

"DENALDER". Consignces of Cargo

and 147 Gloucester Rend. Occupation The Steakh from 1st January, 1936. Two largo

are hereby

ате

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

CHINA LIGHT & POWER RECREATION CLUB,

Members and Friends are advised that our XMAS CARNIVAL DANCE will be held at King's Park

on

SATURDAY, 21ST DECEMBER, 9 p.m.

Mrs. Nura Kanle' Orchestra will provide the music.

CHINESE ESTATES, . LIMITED

THIRD INTERIM DIVIDEND

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

DEND for year ending 29th February, 1936, of two per cent, that is $2.00 per share, will be paid on all shares in this Company on Thursday, the 19th December, 1935, at the Company's Office at China Buildings, 6th floor.

godowns each about 2,000 sq. ft. ininformed that all Goods being that a THIRD INTERIM DIVI. King Ming Road, Causeway Bay, op posite Bieszra. Butterfield & Swiro's Coal Godown, Apply:-Kwong Sang Hong, L., P. O. Box No. 320.

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landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may obtained.

be

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th December, 1935, will he subject to rent.

The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersign the 13th to the 19th December,.. ed on or before the 28th December, 1935, both days inclusive.

By Order of the 1936, or

To cam will not be recognized, 1 with the General Bond-

Directors,

a

ed Warehouse Regulations consignees must have Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined,

chafed, and damaged All broken, Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th December, 1935, at 10 a.m., by Mesars. Goddard and Douglas.

No Fire Insurance Ins heen effected. Billa of Lading will be counter-i signed by,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.

Agenta. Hongkong, 4th December, 1935.

N. Y. K. LINE (Nippon Yusen Kaisha.)

From EUROPE and STRAITS.

The Steamship

"KATORI MARU," having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in formed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and

14th

Board of

FUNG PING FAN, Director and Secretary. Hongkong, 9th December, 1935.

HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society, which had been adverlis- ed for the 10th December, 1935, has been postponed to Tuesday, the 17th instant, ut 5,15 p.m. at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. (by kind permission.)

J. T. BÁGRAM,

Hon. Secretary,

NOTICE.

THE PUBLIC RECEPTION to

Kr., G.M.G., c.B.E., will take place |

Godown Company's Godowns at Kow-H. E. SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT loon, whence delivery may be obtained.

Cipods not cleared by the December, 1936, will be subject to at the Volunteer Hend Quarters Lon the 12th December, 1935, at

Noon.

rent.

ง.ทท.

Damaged packages must left in the Godowns for examination by the Con- AN ADDRESS OF WELCOME to signee's and the Co.'s representatives His Excelloney will be presented;

nahy Tuesdays and Fridays at 2.30

within the free storage period. by the Honourable Sir Henry For the examination of damaged Pollock KT., K.C., LL.D., and the dutiable goods, the consignees must Honourable Sir Shouson Chow KT.. arrange for a Revenue Officer to be LL.D., on behalf of all residents of present.

the Colony of Hongkong.

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here,

SEATING ACCOMMODATION

After which date they cannot beWILL BE PROVIDED FOR ALL recognized.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

No fire insurance is been-effected.-

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 7th December, 1935.

Including To-Day

Only

14

Shopping Days To Christmas!

THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BE PRESENT.

Special provision has been made in case of wet weather.

POLICE

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RESERVE

ORDERS FOR CURRENT

Kt..

C.M.G..

WEEK

C.8.-The

HONGKONG HOTEL

COWAN

ANNOUNCING

NIGHTLY

AT THE ROOF GARDEN

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PATRONS

ARE NOTIFIED THAT

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DANCÉS

WILL BE CONTINUED AS USUAL

EVELYN

DIRECT FROM THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS

· AND - ESTELLE DAVIS

MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES.

RESERVATIONS:- TELEPHONE No., 30281,

HARBOUR COLLISION

DECISION

POSITION SUMMARIJED

The position, therefore, may fod - (summarised quite shortly as followsi.

On the one hant, if the Afrika, the overtaking vessel, had kopt a proper look-out, reduced her speed, and held back for the President a sho should have done,

would have been no collision,

(Continued from Page 1). movement of the other of thenx On the one hand the President Jefferson, in carrying out hor anchoring On the other hand, if the President manoeuvre in the waters and in the Jefferson had not let go her port manner she did, would have been pro-acher in the manner and at the ceeding normally and properly had it point she did, there would have been not been for the presence of the no collision

tho

with view ultimately to rott i Jamage. For the

A

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"Afrika" which she, up to the moment Finding, as I do, that each vessel of letting go her port anchor, wrong was guilty of negligent navigation in fully assumed to be making a course these respects, the question that remains is whether it was the the Central Fairway to the down buoy No. A.7 ani the

of one or both of the "Everett". On the other hand the

which caused or contributed Afrika in directing her course north to the collision and to the resulting

maxim of buoy No. A.

ulin and

prozíma non remota spectatur applies to port and fetching up to the tide to distinguish negligence for the con- at buoy No. A4, would have been

xequences of which a defendant is proceeding normally and properly had fishle from that which is merely. it not been for the presence of the collateral and immaterial upon the President Jefferson which she, up to linte the moment of arriving nearly abreast of buoy No, A.0, wrongfully assumed to be proceeding to a berth at the wharvca,

AFRIKA'S NEGLIGENCE -

I am of opinion that the Afrika was guilty of negligent navigation in each of the following respects:

The

movements of

(1) In falling to observe the Y signal and house ning hoisted on the godown signal mast. Both the mas ter and the pilot of the Afrika know of the existence of this signal mast and the use to which it was put in the unavailability of ignalling the berths, but neither of them considered It necessary to pay any regard to it. the President Jefferson were of particular interent to the Afrika, in view of the latter's decision to pass north of buoy No. A.7 and the

and it was Everett, therefore the duty of those in charge of the navigation of the Afrika to use all possible akis to ascertain the President Jefferson's intentions. One of those aids was this signal, and it should have been observed.

(2) In proceeding at an increased speed from 11.37 nm, to 11.43 a.m.

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the

question of liability.

The following passage from the judgment of Lord Birkenhead L. Ch delivered In the House of Lords in Admiralty Commissioners Volute (1022) 1.A. C. 129 at 136 may be quoted here as being in paint:

4.0.

"In all cases of demago by collision on land or aan, there are three ways in which tho

question of contributory negligence may arise. A suing for damage thereby received. He was neg

but his negligence has about a state of things in which there would have been no damage if I had not been subsequently and severably negligent. A recovers in full.

At the other end of the chala, A's negligence makes collision só threatening that though by the appropriate measure B could avoid It has not really time to think and by mistake takes the wrong measure. 13 not held to be guilty of any negligence and A wholly

fails.

In between these two termint come the cases where the negligence is deemed contributory, and the plaintiff in common law recovera nothing,while in Adiniralty damages are divided in some proportion or other."

the President Jefferson's intentions. avertaking vessel, The Afrika, the

ay proceeded at an excessive speed after passing Kowloon Point and followed

ASSESSORS' ADVICE too closely on President Jefferson. She should have held back until the

Our nautical assessors are overtaken vessel was at a safe dis-animous and emphatic in advising us Lance, and her failure to do so was that notwithstanding the prior breach of Articles 23,-21 and 20 of negligence on the part of the Afrika, the Regulations.

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(3) Prlar to reaching buoy No. the President Jefferson with ordinary A.0, in

altering her course to one care could have avoided the collision by her own independent action if she which was more usrtherly before she had deft:itely ascertained the Pre had not elected to let go her port anchor in the manner and at the sident Jerfferson's intentions.

she did. I feel satisfied that point. (4) In failing to observe the Pre this view of the matter la the correct sident Jefferson's porting mariovac one, for it seems clea

clear that carlier than in fact she did. I concur

the

in the view expressed on this matter President Jefferson had not chosen by the learnet Chief Justice in the to let go her anchor. then, she would penultimate paragraph of his judg-have had ample time within which to put her engines full ahead both und proceed

course down the channel between the pile dolphin and

ment.

JEFFERSON'S GUILT

on her

I am also of opinion that the Pre- the "Everett. sident Jefferson was guilty of negli I arrive at the conclusion, therefore, gent navigation h each of the follow-that the Afrika was negligent, but ing respects:

that her negligence had brought (1) In falling to sound a signal of about Atatu of things in which two short blasts when she changed there would have been no damage- if direction to part at point J. The the President Jefferson had not been President Jefferson thereby deprived subsequently and anverably negligent. ! the Afrika of the warning that vessel And this being so, must find that otherwise would have had. The it was the negligence of the President sigual, had it been sounded, might Jefferson alone which caused the have induced the Afriku to correct

daniage her own wrong manoeuvre at that time.

For these reasons, I think that the

(2) In letting go her port anchor appoal should be dismissed and the in the manner and at the point she-cross-appeal allowed.

In my judgment tho President did, having regard to the nature of Jefferson was alone to blame, and the her intended anchoring manocuvre

and to the then position, course, and judgment of the learned Chief Justics

should be varied accordingly. speed of the Afrika. In coming an anchor caution must be used not | to injure

other vessels: or embarra. 250. The Ceres (1857)

JUDGES CONCUR

Hnd the The Chief Justice: I will only say President Jefferson paid, proper at that in view of the very definite and tention to the Afrika immediately emphatic advice given to the Court before letting go her port anchor, she by the nautical nasessors, I entirely must imve realised that by so doing concur with the judgment of. Mr. she would be seriously endangering Justice Mossop which I have just both vessels,

rend.

TEXAS FLOODS

Practice Parade Indian Campany.-25 members of

A Practice Parade will be held at (3) In sounding a signal of three

Mr. Justice Lindact: I alsó concur. Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, the Indian Company to parade at

response to the

It was deckled that the question of Inspector General of Police, state: Central Police Station at 08.18 hours 07.15 hours on Tuesday. December short blasts in Arrival of 11.F. Sir Andrew Caldecott to draw arms. Drets-Blue Uniform, 10th, 1935, All members taking part Afrika's first signal of two blasts costs should be argued, at a Inter Can with White Cover, Delt with in this parade will fall in Club Street. and failing thereupon to put her date, after counsel for both parties

engines

speed astern. following

desire to had probed the judgment. Dress Blue Uniform, Cap with White Brace

and Truncheon.

Belt with Brace, and add, however, that although this was Police Reservists will parade for duty Flying

Squad-10 members of the Cover,

Truncheons.

a misleading signal in the sense of in connection with the arrival of H.E. Flying Squad to parade at Central!

Indian Company

having a tendency to mislead, it was Sir Andrew Caldecot K., CM.G., Police Station at 08.40 hours to draw

tal Aid Classes All members not in my vity a slumat which did CRE, on Thursday, December 12: arms Dress-Blue Uniform, Cap

with White Cover, Belt with Brace, taking this course will report at the in fact mislead the "Afrika" in the Indian Company Headquarters on situation in which that vessel was Chinese Company.--20 members of and Truncheon.

then placed.

I consider Accordingly.

Houston, Dec. 8. Emergency Unit Reserve.-12 mem- Tuesday, and Thursday, 10th and 12th then

given by Three are reported to have drowned the Chinese Company, to parade at Central Police Station at 08:40 hours bers of the Emergency Unit Reserve December, 1935, at 18.30 hours for that this misleading signal

are homeless, and the President Jefferson could not in and hundreds to parade at Central Police Station instruction. JESECE | to draw arms, Dress-Blue Uniform, at 08.45 hours. Dress-Blue Uniform,

degree have been a cause of the millions of dollars in damage to pro- collision, and that it may therefore perty has been done by the Buffalo, Cap with White Cover, Belt with Brace, Truncheon, Holster and Re

he disregarded when considering the Bayou and other rivers, in the in- question of causes contributing to the undation of a wide area of this state, I damage. (See The Gulf of Suez, 1021] Houston itself has suffered severely.

P. 318).

United Prcas.

D. L. KING,'

D. S. P. (R)

any.

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