Having regard to all the circumstances, I am not prepared to agree that this submission is reasonable, the more so since no fully conclusive evidence is adduced Again it must be borne in mind" that the defendant admitted receiv. ing in the Post Office a printed notice in English calling upon ina to take his parcel to the Octroi office for examination snd payment of duty, and his statement that he believed it to be in Chinese and 9 did not trouble to look at it, can hardly be accepted as an excuse for disregarding it, In any case the evidence clearly established that he was in no doubt as to the obligation sought to be imposed on him, and it appears to the Court that, if the defendant believed this obligation could not legally be enforced on him,—though no grounds for such belial have been put forward—his proper course as a prudent man under all the circumstances would have been to submit under protest and subsequently to enter a complaint with nal authorities, "Por the reasons set forth above I am of opinion, therefore, that the defendant has' not made a. good answer to the charge and that the complainant must succeed,
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