Messrs. Cecil McBain & Ca, were summoned in H, MIN, Police Court, last Friday, for allowing an over= Josded motor truck to be driven in the Settlement. Evidence given that a truck authorized to jerry 4,480 1b, was seen in Seward Road with a cargo of ten bales vf Paper, each weighing 590 Ib.
Mr. McBain admitted the offence and said his chauffeur was to blame, The tally-clerk was well aware of the regulations. "He would have the {tyres of this particular track chang ed to solid tyres, to that the load [could be increased, The Magistrate, Mr. G. W. King, imposed a fine of $5, "remarking that, if there should be a repeti~ of the offence, he would have to make the penalty heavier. It was 4 very necessary regulation on ace Jcount of the road India. The evidence could brought here and the witnesses also, ut such a procedure would be absurd. Further, counsel did not believe that the statement made to the detective on the train by accused, that he was a Batavia man, could be doubted by the Court, Sub-Inspr. Tinkler had also seid that "accused told him he was Dutch. Counsel ridiculed accused's statement that he had been born esr Hongkong, because he could ret remember his father and had adopted parents. The fact that act a Chinese passport _memt bething as" accused had said in evidence, ""I did not get a Dutch Tasspor! ay I was going to China." He also had a certificate which indicated that he was a Dutch sub-submit that have established a ease that he is, or was, Dutch. The rights of the Netherlands Government to extradite him cannot be altered by anything he has done in China, because their rights to extradite kim were made effective' the monent he arrived in Chi Dr. Fischer replied to several statements of opposing counsel and the Court, reserved its judgment.
Although Dr. Fischer urged th is client be placed in the house of detention, the Court held that he must be returned to the Central alice station, a ited without permission.
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