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The Report to the Shareholder at the Fifty-sixth ordinary meeting on Friday the 12th May, reads:
The Board has now to lay before the Shareholders a Balance Sheet
co taining a summary of the property and liabilities of the Company on the of Accounts to the same date. 31st December, 1921, and a statement
1920 Account-After payment, of
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CORRESPONDENCE.
APPEAL TO REASON.
[To the Editor of the "China Mall.""}
FRIDAY, MAY 5. 1922.
CIGARS AND LIQUEURS.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN.
INTERESTING COMPARISON IN INAUGURATION ANNIVERSARY
TRADE MARK DISPUTE. -
CELEBRATIONS:
To-day is the first anniversary of Sir-When calling upon Dr. Wa FRANCE MONK'S CHARTRETVE SECRET.
the inauguration of Dr. San Yat-sen Canton on the 1st inst, Dr. We're Ting-fang, the present Governor of
as President and A dispute concerning the ownership to the Canton Times elaborate pre according marked that one of the reasons that of the trademarks of some of the best parations had been made to celebrate known brands of Manila cigars, includ the day. Government offices and led him to take up his present appointing the "La Perla del Oriente" WAS ment was the hope that during his the subject of a long judgment by the incumbency he might be able to assist Chief Justice (Sir W. Rees Davies The Chief Brecative was to receive in the consolidating of official and C) in the Supreme Court this government officials this after- noon at the Treasury Bailding, where Cari Franz Adolfotto Inganohl, pro-speeches are to be made and refresh-
morning.
public buildings were decorated in
honour of the occasion.
been bogus and worthless. Ther Fassed at the last annual meeting Canton and Hongkong. "I am sprietor of the Orient Tobacco Masaments served, Governor Wu Ting-fang
produced, in consideration of way leave for a pipe line across territory under French influence. This we are doing, it seems, on the strength of certain claims acquired from the the interim dividend of 9- per share Deutsche Bank, which Gecursu claime
aird the bonus of 20% to contributors commercial relationships between are declared by the Americans to have
there remains a balance of £163,949. Hongkong man and wis educated in factory at Mongkok was the plaintif declared the holiday. refer to secret German correspon1. 1 as pir annered statement. dence seized siter the war, for proof The Board recommends that this of the spariousness of the German clain:s. Since the Armistice them be appropriated as follows:- U.S. Government has been insisting that these prior rights of Ameican Concessions.res must be respected. So far as the sress in Mesopotamia are concerned, the British represent atives at Washington Conference referred the U.S. Government to the new Arab King, Emir Feieul, saying that matters relating to concessions in that country must be negotiated with him direct. As already noted, this ignores equally valuable American claims in other areas.
LOGAL AND GENERAL..
Fire totally destroyed two houses in Saikwan, Canton, early yesterday morning.
Messrs. Hairy Gifford and John Taylor yesterday passed examinations as mastem for steamers.
A chronometer worth $200 was stolen from the cabin of the Chief Officer of thee.s. "Cadaretta" yester day afternoon.
As the Hon. Dr. Cland Severn,
day, the Annual General Meeting of the Victoris Recreation Club is called! for this afternoon.
A final dividend. to
shareholders of 3-per- To be carried forward to
share on 96,000 shares £38,420.00
Underwriting Suspense Account to close the account for the year 1920.
the
Msny beautiful arches have been
Hongkong. Nearly all the people in and the principal defendsats were
Each of the different labour guilds Hongkong are Cantorese: there ought Walter E. Glen and Co. Inc, tobacco and public organizations of the city merchants." The Registrar of Trade were to sead representatives to con to be to friction between the two Marks was joined as the defendant to gratulate. President Sun st places. The prosperity of Hongkong is the suit and he undertook to abide by Tressary Building this afternoon. that of Canton. I wish that the Hong the order of the Court. kong residents would oftener visit
Both parties claimed to be the erected in the main thoroughfares by Canton, ge: to know what is being asked for the usual relief customary houses and factories in Canton were owners of the disputed marks,and
public organizations. Most business done here and meet us all face to face. in trade mark cases, inclad ng dam-expected to suspend work to-day. The 125,549.1.1 They do not come often enough. ages, and injunctions.
gunboats of the Navy were to be dress- Mr. Eldon Potter, with Mr. F. Ced with flags, and on their masts were And instead of repeating rumour £163,949.1.1
picked up here and there, Hongkong Jenkin (instructed by Mr. M. H. to be suspended lamps and buuting. 1921 Account-The Balance of should get its information firstTurner of Messrs. Deacon, Looter! This afternoon all gunboate were to Deacon and Harston) appeared for fire a salute. Printed pamphlets were the plaintiff and Mr. H. E. Pollock, i
to be distributed from seroplanes C, (instructed by Mr. D. H. Blake baring characters of good wishes to of Mesars. Wilkinson and Grist) ra President San presented the defendants,
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In the coarse of his judgment, the Chief Justice said -
hand; we always open to on the 31st Working Acconst
Such WB$ the December, 1921, was £343,972, 19, 1 be visited."
tenor, and in part the words, as per annexed statement.
The Board recommends that an of Dr. Wa's opening remarks, given interim dividend of 9 per share be with every appearance of genuine feel paid to shareholders, absorbinging and desire. With his approval £43,200 and that a bonus of 200; be this letter is sent out and an invita
In this action the plaintiff claims to paid to contributors, absorbing about ton extended to men in both business £25,000, sad that the remainder be centres to form associations and to be the proprietor of certain trade exchange occasional visits. The marks in connection with cigars al- Eongkong Chamber of Commerce took leged to be manufactured by him and & great step when classes for the study he asks for an injunction to restrain
the first defendant, his servants and. of Chinese were inaugurated: it
carried forward.
Directors. In accordance with Cause 79 of the Articles of Association the Hon. Mr. A. 0. Lang and Mr. J. 4. Plummer retire, but offer them selves for re-election.
Auditore-Messrs Love, Bia ham and Matthews, and Mr. C. Bernard Brown, Chartered Accountante retire, but ofer themselves for re-election.
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AX
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HUMOUR FOR KOWLOON. HAROLD LLOYD AND MADGE
KENNEDY.
Harld Lloyd and Madge Kennedy share the honours sa laugh wakers in this evening's Kowlcon Theatre
to Mouth," and the other in "The
First of a new series of Harold Licyd comedies, "From Hand to auth" is a picture which finds the
form. A girl, a kidnapper, a robber gang, and sundry policemen provide the foils for his effervescent humour. -
girl with the Jazz Heart."
mine to continue the work begun agents from selling cigars in boxes and to realise its logical outcome-bearing the trade marks in question mutual gatherings fer. intercourse and from passing of goods not of Programme-the one in " From Hand- Way should not the two Chambers the plaintiff's of Commerce have their annual the goods of the plaiatif. He also
clairis damages. gathering and dinner, now hire, now in Hongkong? So likewise with the After traversing the material facts C.M.G., is leaving the Colony on Mon THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Lotters; with Bankers; with the that varicas arguments had been famous comedian at the top of his
Association of Importers and Ex-of the case, the Chief Just ce said Press; with Educational Circles; with imported into the case bearing inter Pable Works, Sanitary and Medical alis on the following matters: Circles. All these and other groups are represented here by live men, engaged in tasks of greater or less difficulty and "pursuing Public Ser- vices and business callings with The present times keen intent
not those of Parkes and Alabaster when the number 1920 Account-This socount shows of Chinese and of Foreigners
A small Portuguese boy natied Bernardo Xavier, was charged before Magistrate Lindsell this morning with having ridden a bicycle on the foot path in Chatham Road, Kowloon He said that he did not know that it was an offence to do so. A fine of $3 was imposed.
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Occupying several hearings, the case in which five Chinese were charged with the possession of 1,892 Hongkong and 36 Chinese counterfeit coins, has been concluded before Magistrate Lindsell. All fve accused were committed to stand their tria! at the forthcoming Criminal Sessions,
Having repeatedly refuse to move away from the Hongkong, Carten and Macao Stearit cat Com pany's wharf where her boat was obstructing access of other vessels, the mistress of a cargo boat was fired $20 by the Marine Magistrate (Commer. Beckwith, R.N.) this morning.
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The Report for presentation to the shareholders at the Fifty-Third Ordinary Meeting on Friday, the 12 May, reads:
The Directers have new the pleasure to submit their Annual Report. and Statement of the Company's Account are made up to the Sist December last.
Benus of $3.00 per Shate 00 20,000 Shares
a net profit car working of $617,272.05 | understanding each other's language which sum it is proposed to apportion were few and openings for intercourse rare. Times have changed and it is as follows:-
possible to exchange ideas in both Dividend of $7.00 and
tongues and with an ever increasing understanding born of intercourse and 200,000.00 good-wil. The late Governor C'han Chiung-ming is animated by a similar 100,000.00 spirit. Leaders may change, but friendly relations once established continuity of sentiment and common 317,272.06 interests will not be broken thereby.
The transfer to Building
Reserve Fund..
To carry forward to En
derwriting Suspense
A c
1921 Account:-The Balance at Credit of this
Account is..
The gul with the Jazz Heart" presents two diametrically opposite
&
(a) The question of the owner- ship of the Hongkong marks and whether plaintiff's position in re lation to them, taken in conjunction has never left her home town, and characters, one a good little girl who with the articles of association, is to the other a New York girl" with a be determined by Belgis of English fazz heart. The trouble begins when law; assuming the plaintiff to have
the
Answers country girl the right which the defendant
matrimonial advertisement and leaves challenged, of raising the issue of for the city in defiance of her outrag- Belgian law without specifically ed family. Madge Kennedy play pleading it.
the leading rola with distinctive (b) The construction and effect of The assignment of 1919. to the charm and the other characters, each
careful study, ste capably. defendant, and the further question
portrayed. whether that assignment was the outcome of a peral act which deprived the defendant of the right of relying on it in these courts. Now the plaintiff's claim is resisted secret of their manufacture and the by the defendant cu the ground of power of securing the becefit reputation which their this assignment by virtue of which he of the
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Chartreuse carried with them the
I venture with diffid-nce to add my claims his title. It is in fact the skill bad gained for them abroad $617,272.06 own appeal, privately expressed over turning point in the case, and I have To me it seems perfectly plain that it many years to my Hongkong friends, without difficulty arrived at a con must be beyond the power of any... to that of Dr. Wa and close with a clusion as to the legal construction to foreign court or any foreign legislature remark lately made to me by an old be placed on it in regard to the trade to prevent the monks from availing friend and perhaps Hongkong's oldest marks in question which in my judg themselves in England of the benefi $1,234,790.11 | business man: Harris, if I had my ment determines the question of of the reputation which the liqueurs of
Life over again I should learn Chinese
their manufacture have acquired here, and see much more of the Chinese
or to extend or to communicate the benefit of the reputation to any rival · than I bave done. I have a great
or competitor in the English market." " admiration and respect for them."
To apply this decision to this case,
The Canton authorities have granted a large piece of land near the
Directors: The Hon Mr. A. O, West Gate to the Ching Wu Athletic Lang and The Hon. Mr. P. L Club for the erection of a permanent Holycak retire by rotation and being that which brought Lord Charles building. The ares land granted is thigible offer themselves for re-
more than 100 chenge. It is reported election.
Auditors:-The antered accounta
at Beresford to China, to report on ways that the Club will build baseball and
of increasing British trade. It had the football fields on this land in addition bave been audited by Messrs. Lowe, express expport of the American Gov to the gymnastic grounds and office elmet, which is still actively building.
The China Mail. Sultan was deposed by the Young hasband could net advance any reason
• IKUTE, JUSTICE, FURLIO DI EFICA."
LCFGKONG, FRIDAY, May 5, 1922,
OIL RIGHTS RESERVED.
I aim,
-&c.
"A. H. HARRIS.
Bingham and Matthew's and Mr. C. Canton, May 3, 1922.
Bernard Brown who offer themselves for re election.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON,
A MURDERER PARDONED.
that
assignment in the Hongkong marks and makes it unnecessary to decide some subsidiary issues in the case.
After dealing with the question of the sassignment of 1919, the Chief Justice said that he had to consider the Chief Justice continues, the trade
in what would be the effect in law if he marks
question had been his residance, Babington
accepted Mr. Pollock's construction registered many years before in Path, Hongkong, the Hon. Mr
that the assignment by the Custodian Hongkong. The cigars admittedly Lau Chu-pak, aged 10 year
of the words cited gave or reserved had for a long time acquired a Funeral, leaves Babington Fath-
the right to import the cigars to putation in the Hongkong market on Sunday, May 7, at 2 pm. su; perting the claims that came of it.
Hongkong and to trade here in thera. and the assignment by the Custodian An 18 year old Chinese married arriving about 4.30 pm at the The Fultan sold to the American in-
This case, the Chief Justice of the assets in the Manila firm "Farewell" Pavilion, Kennedy terests concerned very large oil con mitted suicide yesterday morning by woman living in Ngaushewan, com- Town, for the ceremony of paying cessions, covering Mesopotamia and hanging herself.
{To the Editor of the "Chine Mall, thought, was covered by the Char cannot have any extra-territorial truse: Case-Bey v. Lecouturier effect so as to affect the rights of last respects.
The tragedy was
(1908) 2 Ch. 715, (1910) AC. 362 the concerned whoever that party the fields on the Persian border, in pot discovered until her husband came
The report for presentation to the Sir,--By pardoning a man convicted This case arose out of the manufacture may be. The effect of the assign. addition to other rights. After the home for tiffin at 1 o'clock. The shareholders at the forty-ninth ordin- and sentenced for the murder of his by the Carthusian monks of Charment was clearly to deprive the
couple were newly married, and the
aty meeting is as follows:-
wife, merely because that man has a treuse by a secret process and it was owner, whether, the plaintiff Irgenhot Turks, these concessions wete con- for the rash act.
The Board has now to lay before big political backing. President San held that, although under French or the Societé as the case may be, of He said she the stateboiders & balance sheet con- has put the seal of cynicism on all his penal law the property of the monks all interest in the Manila property, firmed by the new government The appeared to be in her usual high taining a summary of the property past pretensions, except, I must in France became vested in Locou- but it cannot affect the rights to the new contract drawn up covered the spirits when he left home in the morn
and liabilities of the Society on the suppose,
of Christianity, tarier, that law did not affect the good-trade mark in Hongkong. If my oil fields in the Mosul, Mesopotamis,ing
31st December, 1921, and a statement But was it Christian forgiveness or will in England nor the English trade construction of the Chartreuse case is Kirkuk, Chemihemal and SelimaLys
(of working accounts.
truckling to the Trade Unions, who marks.
correct it can give the defendant no districts. This, was confirmed by the t The new programme for to-day 1920 Account-After payment of appear to be taking over absolute Lord Macnaghten in his judgment right under the assignment on which Torkish Parliament in June 1911, at the World Thestre will be a very the interim of 24/- per share and the control of Canton's affairs Is Sun's said: The monks were forcibly ex his case is necessarily based, to the One very important matter that was
cmusing comedy-drama in eix parts, bonus of 20 per cent. to contributors position so precarious that he is pelled from the country and their property in the marks in Hongkong. not settled at the Washington Coo-Meanwhile the Germans were shoving The Floor Below," in which the passed at the last annual meeting obliged to pander to these people, property in France, including their Alter dealing briefly with the ques ference was the question of oil con-
trade |tion of ownership prior to the assign- their oer in, and the war between famous star Mabel Normand and Tom there remains a balance of £131,626 even to the extent of frustrating the distillery and their French
justice of his own judiciary 1
marks, were confiscated and sold. ment, the Chief Justice said: There ari- pessions in former Turkish territories, Turkey and Italy caused further Moore lead the principal roles. It is 0s. 9d. as per annexed statement.
a mort delightful play ever produced The Board recommends that to this
I am, Sir, Turkey ciaimed by both America and Great delay in development.
The particulars of the sale purported ses the question whether the evidence on the screen and its production is balance of £431,526. 06. fd. be added
to comprise the commercial business relating to quenhip is governed by Britain. It is settled that the two was unly notified by America from Goldwyn's. The story tells of a £55,500 from Equalization of Dividend
of the monks and the English or Belgian law. The position- countries are not to quarrel over them, that further action would await the newspaper clerk with mischievon Fand giving a balance of £487,126.
customers sad goodwil at in that where a defence on the ground and any statesman who assumes an end of war conditions. Then followed habits and a continual source of annoy-08. Bd. which som the Board recome
tached to the business. The two of foreign law is set up it mass be things that belonged to them-the specially pleaded....The evidence as statude tending that way must be the war with Bulgaris and Serbia, suce to the office "groach," but latar mends be appropriated as follows:
on she becomes the heroine of the dis- A fina dividend to
December 1923, was £725,799 15% Od secret of their manufacturing process to the construction to be placed on promptly dealt with. The more with Greece, the war we call the second covery of a planned conspiracy.
as per annexed statement.
and the reputation which their liqueurs the articles by Belgan law is, publicity the matter gets, the lees Balkan war (1913), and the Great
The Bosad recommends that an had acquired in foreign countries and I think, so wholly at varizace with Tikelihood will there be of any World War. I is Decimary to men
88,800. 0 0 interim dividend of 24/- per share be notably in England-were incapable the construction which this court shareholders, absorbing of being seized or confiscated. Ex- would plass upon them as to each stupidity. The story takes tion that none of these wars, although
£133,200 and that a bonus of 20 perelled from France and exiled from make it impossible to construe them as rather a long way back, to the they all deferred the exploitation of
cent be paid to contributors, their old home, the monks of La Grand mission to Turkey in 1899 of an the concession, affected its validity. Fifteen cases of "plague (ten fatal),
absorbing about £50,000, and that Americen rear-admiral called Colby By a special article in the contract, two of mall por (both fatal) and one To be carried forward to Charter, who established very friendly based on sa accepted in ernational of enteric Lever (also Estal) comprised alations with Sultan Abdul Hamid-law laid down by de Vaitel the Swiss Yesterday's return of notifiable disease for the Colony. They were Nine years later he was induced to authority, this was provided for, all Chinese return to Thr By whim of sex is a * * * (The Canton Times reports that two Commission from the New York G..ce) and the Americans can wait cases of plague were detected among and other American Chambers of until that is over, if they like, getting aver steamer paceenges from Hong Comm$5.7.23.200ml man like, an equivalent time allowance. To kong on Wednesday. They were
PLAGUE.
shareholders of ·16j- ̈ per share on 111,00) shares...
A bonns dividend to. shareholders of 20/- per share on 111,000 sbazes.
Underwriting Burper-
se Account to close the account for the year
1920.
111,000.00
paid to
Yours tuly
LEX TAZIONIE.
the remainder be carried forward, ?.
Directors In accordance with" Clanse 80 of the Articles of Association, the Hon. Mr. A. O Laug and Mr. J. A. Pammer retire, -but offer themselves-for-re-election
Auditors-Messrs. Lowe, Bagham and Matthews, and Mr. G. Bernard 1921 Account The balance of Brown, Chartered Accountanta retire,
287,326 0.9
£187 126. 09
in the light of the law of Belgium, qualified by the law of England. The conclusions at which I have arrived, as to (1) the effect of the FOE A LAME BACK.
assignment to the defendant as to the- When you have pains or lameness in trade marks in question and (2) is to- the back bati e the parts with Chamber the right of the plaintiff in the trade ain's Pain Balm tries a day, mackaging marks make it unnecessary to deal with the yam of the band for eve
Then with the subsidiary isenes in the case.. minutes at each suplication dampen a piece of flannel slightly with
I g.vn judgment for the plaintiff on this iniment and bid it on over the seat of pain. For sale by all Chemist the claim and conn ́er claim withs