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THE HONG KONG S DIRECTORY
1928 Issue
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NERVOUS. TRADERS.
New York, Yesterday.
WIRELESS & CABLES LANCASHIRE COTTON
REPORT.
NOT YET TO HAND.
MR. BALDWIN MAKES A STATEMENT.
EXPEDITING REPLIES.
London, Yesterday.
The Prime Minister, in the House
TRADE.
A QUESTIONNAIRE.
INQUIRY INTO FIRM'S FINANCIAL POSITION.
INFORMATION WANTED.
London, Yesterday.
The advance in the Chicago
A questionnaire, issued by the of Commons to-day, said the re Master Cotton Spinners' Associa- Federal Reserve Banks re
port of the Imperial Wireless and discount rate, which as anticipat-Cables' Conference had now to be tions to members concerning the ed immediately affected the stock examined by the Governments of capitalisation of the Mills, asks market, prices fell off sharply several parts of the Empire con- details to be supplied not later following speculative selling and cerned, but he hoped that it would than July 24, and announces their Jiquidation by nervous traders. be possible to publish the report intention searchingly to investi- Losses ranged from five to twenty and arrange for it to be debated gate the present financial position points and also embraced invest in Parliament before the end of of the spinning industry with a ment issues. Call-money rates ad- ¡the Session. He added that he view, ultimately, to establish it on vanced to seven and the market had to-day a very urgent cable to a sounder basis. It urges that
closed weak. It was felt that it
CASE STRUCK OUT.
UNUSUAL SUMMARY COURT INCIDENT.
A WORLD RACE.
MEARS AND COLLYER NOW IN TOKYO.
was merely a matter of time until every Dominion asking them to the information should be freely expedite their reply. British and correctly given and em- the other Federal Reserve Banks Wireless Service.
phasises that privacy is assured. followed Chicago, Reuter's
Details are sought only with re- American Service.
gard to reconstructed firms re- lating to over-drafts, loans, debentures interest and rates on the share capital, etc.--Reuter.
FRENCH POLITICS.
PARLIAMENT ADJOURNED UNTIL END OF OCTOBER.
Paris, Yesterday. Parliament has adjourned until
12 DAYS TRAVELLING.
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PARTIES ALL ABSENT.
When the usher called "Court" as usual in the Puisne Judge's Court at 1.22 a.m. to-day, every body present was facing the dock. That is to say, no party or solici tor was present on the far side of drome on the outskirts of Tokyo at secure the voting of the budget by
Tokyo. Yesterday.. Mr. John Mears and Capt. Col- lyer, who left New York on June 29, in a race round the world, left Mukden by air at 4.10 this morning and landed at Tachikawa Atro- the end of October, when M. Poincare will do his utmost to
counsel's table to face the Judge. Nor was there anybody in the body of the Court,
In accordance with practice, the names of the parties were called twice, as follow:-
"Summary Action No. 767 of 1928, N. B. White and Mrs. P. C. White, No. 8. Wanchai Gap-road, v. Wong Chik, No. 8, Yue Kwong-terrace."
"All the parties are absent, my
7.46 p.m. They are leaving for Canada to-morrow on the "Empress the beginning of the year.
of Russia."-Reuter.
VICE-MINISTER.
The five weeks' scasion since the general election has been notable for the stabilisation of the franc and the passage of the Housing Bill, which is a corollary to stabilisation as it proposes to coun- teract the menace of the Increased cost of living due to stabilisation. Shanghai, Yesterday, Though the Government secured Nationalist Government a big majority on each occasion.
MR. CHU CHAO-HSIN'S
APPOINTMENT...
The
lord," said the interpreter. "The Council has appointed Mr. Chu, the session has been troublesome for
case is struck out," His Lordship ruled.
Just then, Mr. F. E. Nash of Messrs. Woo and Nash (who had acted for defendant) entered Court, not in his gown, to speak to the Puisne Judge's clerk.
"The Same Thing.” His Lordship asked: You are engaged in this case, I believe, Mr. Nash?
Mr. Nash: Yes, my lord. The solicitor for the plaintiffs tele- phoned me last night that he would withdraw. the case this morning."
His Lordship: I have just struck it out.
Mr. Nash: It amounts to the same thing as far as we are con-i cerned.
His Lordship: The Court has not been informed that the writ was withdrawn. I have sat.”
The case was a sequel to pro- ceedings at the Magistracy, when! Mr. R. E. Lindsell (First Police Magistrate) informed Mrs.. White! that if she sought damages she must go to the Supreme Court.
Motor-Car Collision.
Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, who is being congratulated on his latest appointment. He has been Charge d'Affaires in Lon- don and delegate to the League of Nations.
the Government owing to the guerilla warfare waged by the ex- trema. radicals and socialists.—} Reater.
ASKED FOR AGENTS.
EUROPEANS IN FRAUD CHARGE.
DEALING IN OIL..
Bombay, June 20. What promises to be a prime sensation is being investigated by the Calcutta C.LD., who have al-' ready arrested man named Minion, and are believed to be about to arrest a number of other Europeans and Anglo-Indians, to- day or to-morrow.
The complainants are Janaki Saran Agarwalla, of Meerut, Lala Rattan Lall, of Agra, and Premchand Katawan, of Katiawar, who allege that they have been cheated by a Calcutta firm known ns Messrs. Miller, Blyth and Co., Chao-hsin (at present Commission-of No. 32, Free School-street.
Affairs.-Reuter.
for
er for Foreign Affairs at Canton) The police case is that Miller, Foreign Blyth and Co. began business in November, 1927, with their head office in Calcutta, and branches in BENGAL COUNCIL. Rangoon, Madras and Lucknow.
The firm advertised largely all over India, asking for agents to aell in their respective districts a special kerosene oll known as Lewis petroleum oil.
In the statement of claim (for Vice-Minister $1,000) filed by Messrs. G. K. Hall Brutton & Co., solicitors for the plaintiffs, it was alleged that' Mrs. White had been struck down by public motor-car No. 422 out- side the Wanchai Post Office, Queen's-road East, on April 6. $1,000 was claimed as damages for negligence by defendant, his ser vants or agents
It was further alleged that Mrs. White was rendered unconscious, suffered shock, injuries to the head and right knee, and had a nervous breakdown.
Mr. White, whose name appear- ed as joint plaintiff, is employ- ed by Hong Kong Amusements,
Ltd.
AWAITING CALLS.
TELEGRAMS NOT YET DELIVERED.
WILLING TO CO-OPERATE WITH SIMON COMMISSION.
1
Calcutta, July 10,
The price was said to be below The Bengal Legislative Council. market rates.
by 72 votes to 50, has adopted & In answer to these advertise- Government motion to appoint a
ments, scores of applications were Committee to co-operate with the received, and, after correspondence Simon Commission.
with the firm, it was stipulated that! The Mohammedan members sided each agent had to make a deposit with the Europeana
of Rs.1,500, by way of security for The Labour member, Latafat the 760 gallons of oil.
Agents requiring a larger supply Hossein, attacked the political ac-1 tivities of Chaman Lai and others would be asked to make a corres- who withdrew from the Common- pondingly larger deposit. wealth Labour Conference in Lon- The police state that a number don last week as a protest against of would-be agents sent sums of the British Labour attitude. Hejmoney to the firm, but failed to re- said 90 per cent. of the millions of ceive any oil.
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the Labour, supporters they were The police investigation, it is re- The following unclaimed tele-supposed to represent know nothing ported, revealed the fact that the grame are lying at the Eastern Ex-of Sir John Simon or the Com- firm had no oil of any description
at their disposal., mission-Bouter.. tension Telegraph Company office: George Allen, c/o Repulse Bay Hotel (2), Melbourne: Bishan- naran Barda, Tacloban'; Jardine, Salgon; Sinclair, steamership "Pro-
"ANGAMOS" DEATH ROLL.
Santiago, Yesterday.
tesialus," Blue,Funnel, Eastbourne; The "Angomos" death roll is now (Retransmitted from Shanghai)| 201, in consequence of the discovery Farnell, Chartered Bank, Bradford; that eight more survirors escaped Woo Annie, Tientsin.
from the vessel in a launch. Reuters American Service.
According to reports from North- Eastern Brazil, more than 100 per eons have died of starvation there as a result of severe drought, and Largo numbers of cattle have perish- ed.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The clearing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16,
The C.I.D. alleges that the firm received over Rs.100,000 from would-be agents, and that the pre- deposited Bent complainanta. Rs.6,000 between them.
In connection with the report made to the Shaukiwan police by Mr. Wong Kwai of the loss of $200, which he left in the depealt room of the South China Athletic Associa tlon's bathing matshed at Taat-tai- mul; a paragraph in this morning's police reports stated that the money had been recovered.
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