Confirming the contents of a letter which appeared in the columns of the "North-China Daily News" on January 29, a French Consular ordinance has appeared in the latest issue 6f the Concession's Bulletin Municipal, providing for fines up to $2,000 for short-weighing and short-ordinance, a notice telling the public of the offence must be posted at the entrance of shops found guilty of such unscrupulous business ethics, while hiding or mutilation of the notice in question will be punished with fines up to $100.
Merchants who should attempt to deceive prospective customers with false statements regarding their merchandise such, as for instance, erroneous statements in connection with the quality or identity of the goods, will be lable to fines up to $1,000.
The possession of false weights or measures will be punished with fines up to $50, while suspected goods may be analysed by the French Concession authorities. In the event of their being found in conformity with existing regulations, the owners shall be indemnified in' accordance with a fixed rate, and they will be entitled to seek redress in the French Consular Court in the event that the indemnity received from the Concession authorities should be unacceptable to them.
In addition to the fines payable by offenders to these newly promulgated regulations, they will also have to Pay for: advertisements appearing in approved newspapers detailing the offence, Tenants Refuse Increase In Rentals Negotiations between the Sassoon-controlled Cathay Land Company and an executive committee representing 120 tenants of the Changchun Road, Dixwell Road, and Shanghi Ca-operative Society Apartment have reached deadlock with the landlords refusing to compromise in a rental increase, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
The landlords raised rentals 35 per cent.. recently, arousing the tenants, vho banded themselves into a union which held a meeting at the Japanese Christian Church, Darroch Road The tenants announced that they were willing to agree to a 10 per cent. increase in rentals Another of the programmes spon-toted by the Alliance Francaise was played on Sı Orchestra, with Mr. featuring as solo pianist. Viewed as a whole, it must be regretfully re-coreed that the concert was a disappointment. This statement excludes the group of plang solos. It is a mean affair to pick holes in a gift, and a}, reviewer is placed in the awkward and unsatisfactory position of feeling that he should withhold the more heretical. sections of his opinions, And yet, Auberts Habanera and d'Indy's Symphony for Piano and Orchestra, the two main props of the programme, have so very little to say for themselves. Nothing tangible is carried away, save the obvious fact that the composers, masters in the limited and scholarly sense, have written two works which, at the outside, command. respect-'The "Habanera" commences with possibilities, but in developing it gets chromatically blue in the face, and consequently suffers from incoherence; d'Indy's Symphony is a garrulous work in plain and easy speech. Tt is a pleasant piece, although you detect even at first hearing that @Indy is an adept in endless Sequential treatment of the same theme, suitably disguised in the accepted Franckian modulatory method.
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