'A novel point of law was raised in the Shanghai Provisional Court, on Tuesday morning, when the man: ager of the Sung Dah Sung food-shop, at the corner of Nanking and Chekiang Roads, was charged wit'. stealing electricity, the point involved being whether a person could take cheaper current from an electric heat meter for lighting Purposes than the ordinary light current, Accused was alleged to have tampered with his meter and to have caused it to fail to register the units used correctly.
At the last hearing Messrs. Murphy" and Furness, meter inspectors of the Electricity Department, S. M. C., explained the thefts. and gave demonstrations with a2 actual meter, showing how the alleged frauds took place. Accused, they stated, secured cheaper than the lighting current. [,,08 Tuesday morning, Mr. S. E. Clark, of the Accounts Department,
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