THURSDAY, MARCH 6 1924
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HONGKONG ENGINEERING. & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
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NOTICE OF CALL
Larue of 95,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10 each, ($7.50 paid up). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Final Call of $2.50 per Share on each of the 95,000 Shares allotted on the 8th day of November, 1822, has been made by the Com pany, and that such call will be payable to the Company's Bankers, The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, in Hongkong, on the 16th day of March, 1924,
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 8th_to 15th March, both days inclusive,
For and on behalf of the
Hongkong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Dated this 22nd day of February, 1924.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG & WEALPOS DOCK. COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Building, Hongkong, un THURSDAY, the 20th March 1924, at Noon, for consideration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending. 31st December, 1923. ·
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER Books will be closed from the 8th to the 20th March 1924 (both days Inclusive).
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYER
Obiel Manager, Hongkong, 4th March, 1924,
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held in the Hongkong Hotel on MONDAY, 17th March at 7.30 p.m.
Price per person $4.50 exclusive of Wines.
All those wishing to attend please, send their names to the undersigned before 14th March,
-HM-MCTAVISH, Hon, Secretary. '. · CHINA SUGAR REFINERY.
Hongkong, 4th March, 1924.
MES
ANNOUNCEMENT.
ESSRS. HOLYOAK MASSEY & CO., LTD., have this day been appointed SOLE AGENTS for Hong- kong South China for the sale of our products which include all! descriptions of Enamels, Paints, Varnishes, etc...
PARIPAN LIMITED, Sherwood House, Piccadilly Circus,
London.
Makers by appointment to His Majesty The King.
R. FAIRLIE HOBSON,
Overseas Director.
Hongkong, 5th March, 1924.
REUTERS LIMITED.
(COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL SERVICES)
HAVE REMOVED TO PRINCE'S BUILDINGS (3RD. FLOOR) ICH HOUSE STREET. TBL. CENT. 4572.
TORA INOKUCHI QUALIFIED MIDWIFE, No. 2, 1st Floor Chee Wo Street, Kowloon, (Facing Diocesan Girls' School.)
Telephone E. 754
DAISY O'KEEFE Qualified. Teacher
TEOM MISS RELER HARDINGE ACADEMY, LONDON, PARIS, BRUSSELS, THE HAGUE « And Madame Judith Espinoza's Academy of Stage and Operatio Dancing, London
Miss O'Keefe gives lessons in the latest Ball' Room dances, including The Blues, Old and New Tangoy Exhibition Work, Ballst, Classica Eurythmics, ste! Catididates profi pared for the London Technical Byllabus Exams Corrbes Techniques! taught or
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Made to order. ROYAL & CO...
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DARTICULARS and Conditions of TO LET-Furnished. For term to tha Balo by Bubis Auction to "be agreed. "Carndonagh. 409, be held on MONDAY, the 10th day of March, 1924, at 3 p.m., at the Severn Road, Peak. Newly built Diess of the Public Works Departmut Furnished throughout by Lane, by Order of His Excellency the Covernor, Crawford Ltd. Flush Sanitation of Two Lots of UROWN LAND at Facing N., E. and S. F. C. Jeakin, Ho Mun Tin in the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 75 years, with the option of barrister, Prince's Building.
renewal at a Crown Ront to be fix by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further torm of 75 years.
LET-No. 2, Queen's Road Ceral, the premises at present occupied by The "Pharmacy." Apply. to CHINA & JAPAN TELEPHONE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
N future all Race Meetings held after the Annual Race Meeting will be known as "EXTRA RACE MEETINGS" and will be Official.
Griffins having run at one of these " Meetings will not be eligible to run as such at any aubsequent Extra
Meeting or Annual Meeting unless the conditions of a race specifically provide therefor.
.By Order
C B. BROWN.
Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1924.
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WHY THE COURT OF APPEAL ORDERED NEW TRIAL.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Prince of Wales was the guest of the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club when the 136th anniversary of the first British settlemennt in Australia was celebrated.
The will of Rt Logoburn. Fing been sworn at £15,079 grom. Te tator boqueathed everything to Me wife: absolutely,
Personal property of the value of £100,473 was left by Colonel Sir Mark John MacTaggart Stewart, formerly M. P. for Wigtown Burghe and the Stewarty of Kickcudbright,
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The credit of a customer, con- tinued his lordship, depended the strict very largely upon obaervance of confidence, and, he repeated, "that confidence was
Reports from the Thames Valley. not confined to the information derived from the customer or his show that the waters are subsid account. In his opinion the ing. Submerged islands betweed In the Court of Appeal Lords jury must inform them what, Hampton and Staines are becom- Justices Bankes, Scrutton, and under limits and qualifications, ing visible again. Atkin gave considered judgments was the duty of the bank as a matter embodying their reasons for order of law, leaving to them only the ing a new trial in the action question of ascertaining whether brought by Mr. Edwin Frederick the information came under any Tournier against the National of the four heads of which he had Provincial and Union Bank of mentioned.
In his view the appeal must be England, Limited.
The plaintiff alleged that Mr. Jallowed, with costs, the judgment G. Fennell, the acting manager of entered below for the defendants the Moorgate Street branch of the set aside, and a new trial ordered, bank, made a statement to bis em-the costs of the first trial to abide ployers which resulted in him los-the event of the second. ing his post as a commercial OTHER JUDGES IN AGREEMENT Lord Justice Scrutton, in concur traveller and salesman, and he
.The hearing was commenced of brought the action, claiming dam-ring, said it was clear that a bank ages for alleged slander, for breach might disclose information to an
Something like forty foreign the action brought by the Perform of confidence existing between extent which was reasonable and
Prime Mitchell and Booker (Palais de bankers and customer and for proper for its own protection, or to Ministers and Envoys-attended aing Rights Society. Ltd. against £108, 10s. for consequent loss of give a reasonable time to honour reception given by the
cheques, or to answer questions in Minister, who was accompanied Danse) Ltd., alleging infringement employment and commission.
law courts, or to prevent frauds or by his Parliamentary Under-Secre of the copyright of two pieces of
tary, Mr. Arthur Ponsonby,
dance music which was admittedly crimes.
the property of plaintiffs.
Lord Justice Atkin also agreed.
M. Venizelos has been taken suddenly ill, and has been ordered a period of complete rest. It is expected that an Acting Preinter
appointed until will be recovery.
Various suggestions are made in a further portion of Ken Wood for the report Issued by the War the public, the new area compris Office, of the Committee appoint ing twenty-three acres of wooded to inquire into the system of innd. It is described as one of the education and training of Army chotcest bits of the northern up-officers. lands.
Efforts are being made to secure
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Following the conferences be- tween Ganeral Souts and repre- sentativeGermans from South-West Africa, the citizenship problem bas been arranged. Various conces sions were made to the German Goverment in regard to its nat ionals in arriving at the agreement...
Wiring from Coblence, a special correspondent states that as a result of inquiries, he finds that a sincere effort is being made to get back to industrial activity. He pays high tribute to the work of Lord Kilmar 1.nock, the British High Commission-
er, and his staff.
The trial before Mr. Justice Avory resulted in favour of the bank, the jury finding, among other things, that the words com It appeared to him that some term A pair of ant-bears, or aard plained of ware not spoken, and of secrecy must be implied. Awarks, as they are called in South Africa, their native that if they were they were not de bank bound their servants to
arrived secrecy and communicated this land, have
at the famatory,
On another Mr. Tournier's complaint was fact on passbooks, and he was Zoological Gardens. that Mr. Fennell informed his satisfied that if they were asked if page we publish a picture of one employers that he was overdrawn they were under an obligation of these curious animals. with the bank, and that a cheque without hesitation they would say over which he had control had: "Yes.".
Speaking at a luncheon of the To leave to the jury the question City Livery Club, the Bishop of passed to a book-maker. The fact was, explained the plaintiff, that what was justifiable and proper London said that in his opinion he was slightly overdrawn, and was no guidance. To do so was there were six churches in the that the cheque in question related to leave the question of the rights City of London, of little archi- to a commerical transaction. The and duties of banks to customers tectural beauty historic interest, main ground of appeal was alleged to the variation of individual views, which could be dispensed, with, misdirection by the learned Judge. To what information did the obliga and the money devoted to pro-
viding churches in outer London. Lord Justice Bankes, having re- tion extend? It clearly weat viewed the facts and the ovidence beyond the state of the account.
A letter was read from the Earl as to the conversation hetween Mr. It extended to all information that!
account, to the
With the arrival of the Com. Fennell and the plaintiff's employ went to
securities, if any, in respect of the of Balfour at a meeting in support crs, said that the two accounts
Bowater. Referring to the action they commenced: their labours are devoting to this no doubt differed in sub-account, and it must extend beyond of the candidature of Sir Vansittart mittee of Experts in Berlin, where
and if Mr. Fennell's the period when the account was evidence were to be submitted at closed. It was inconceivable that of the Liberals in supporting the the newspapers
mons, Lord Balfour expressed the Reparations, emphasising the point all to the jury it should have been either party would contemplate that Socialists in the House of Com-much space to the question of by a series of questions and not when the customer closed his, ac hope that so perilous a manoeuvre that the country cannot continue
"Were count the bank was at liberty to simply by the question. the words complained of spoken?" disclose any particular transaction He did not, however, take the while he was a customer. It view that there was any material might also extend to Information misdirection on this part of the obtained from other sources than case; but as the other members of the customer's actual account. But the Court thought that there should he should not extend it to informa- | ☀ be a new trial on both branches of tion as to the customer after he had the claim-slander and breach of ceased to be a customer. duty-he agreed.
stance,
The claim for damages for breach of duty was important, and he did not think that the Judge sufficiently directed the jury upon it.
'On the other hard, it was clear that there must be limitation upon the obligation not to divulge such information as he had mentioned. A bank was entitled to secure itself in respect. of liabilities incurred. It was difficult to hit LIMITS OF DISCLOSURE.
formula to define the The plaintiff's contention was upon that the bank was absolutely maximum of the obligation; but it pledged to secrecy in regard to was safe to say that the obligation his account and to matters in-was subject to the qualification cidental thereto, and that they that the bank had the right to were under an implied contract disclose to an extent that was for the not to reveal anything of that reasonably nature. In his summing-up the protection of its own interests, say either as against a customer or a Judge asked the jury to whether the communication with third party. He did not express a regard to the plaintiff's account at tinal opinion as to bankers giving the bank was made on a reasonable one another information in respect
necessary
ORCHESTRALTUNG SANG and proper occasion, and added of a customer, but if it were
CONCERT.
The full Band of the let East Surrey Regiment (30 parformstal in a choica selection of light classical compositiona.
Aleo: Professor Gonzalez:
Mr. E. G. d'Aquino.
MARCH 13th, 9.15 pm.
Booking Anderson Music Co., Ltd. $3, $2 and $1.
lat PUBLIC RECITAL.
MASTER EMIL DANENBERG. (Age 64 years)
Assisted by Mrs. D. R. Brown. and Professor Danenberg.
St ANDREW'S HALL' (CITY HALL).
March 11th, at 5.30 p.m.
Under the patronage of Lady Stubbs.
Tickets Anderson Music Co., Ltd. $2. $1.
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that if, in the circumstances of a justified it must be on a basis of particular case, it was reasonable the implied consent of the to make a communication,, there customer..
was no breach of contract
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That, in the Lord Justice's opinion, was not a sufficient ex- planation, of that branch of the subject.. At the present day it might be assorted that the duty on the bank was a legal one arising out of contract, and was qualified. It was not possible to frame any exhaustive definition of it. In his opinion it was necessary in a case like this to direct the jury as to the Hmits and qualifications of the con- tractual duty to secrecy implied in the relations of bankers and customers. There appeared to be no authority on the point, but ho thought the qualification could be thus classified
(a) Where the disclosure was under compulsion of law. (b) Where there was a duty to the public to disclose. (c) Where theinterests of the bank required disclosure; and
(d) Where the disclosure
THE WATER SUPPLY.
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the 1st February 1914--
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was made by the expressaliated populating van 107,300 or implied consent of the customer. Buka SECRECY AFTER ACCOUNT 15 CLOSEO
dry vannbadrums Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Disudats durine. Jaubry 1923,
It was very difficult to state what the limits of the duty were
Constant Supply in all districts during January 1994, S BANG KOWLOON WATEK MOSKI LETNE" SA
low frietjes tart, Vila Baler tft, sia, załów
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Bogen Koroloon, from Nice, Sukyoki, from Waksrests, Bhimodayaku
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hoian p/p Lon Ching Co., No. 4 Arsenal Street from Heije
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nature of the disclosure. He thought it did not cease from the Kolon du mo
Consumpsies vor water is howloon in moment the customer closed his account. The confidentialtillons and doelmsis of gallons during the relationship was not confined to does of Decembars here we keppir olga the actual state of a customer spending the account but extended to informa tion derived from the account itself. But a more vital question was whether it extended to information in reference to the customer and his affairs, derived, not from the customer's account but from same other source, as from the account of some other customer.
The Information which M Fennell was said to have disclosed In breach of duty came to the bank in this manner. A cheque was drawn by a customer in favour of the plaintiff and was paid into
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