TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
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BTRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
£1.8.
Tous
From Hong Kong About
18th Dec. Noon
6,273 10th Dec,
4 p.m. 10,980 21st Dec. 9,114 28th Dec.
*BELTANA
*ALIPORE
MALWA *EBYBER
RAJPUTANA
LAHORE'
1930 10,508 4th Jan, 5,304 11th Jan.
Destination
Marecillas, London, Hull, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Straite, Colombo & Bombay.
Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamborg
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
THE CHINA MAIL,
O'INSTONE BREWER
IN COURT
EVIDENCE OF MR. S. H. ROSS
"UNCALLED CAPITAL"
1
-Cross-Examination":
Rising to creas-examine for the defence, Mr. E Davidson said Mr. Roup, I am not going to quarrel with you on the subject of accounts. 1
MINERS FIGHT WITH
SYDNEY-POLICE-
am prepared to accept your views WILD SCENES FOLLOW SHOOTING
a to the proper way of accounting.
You appreciate that In dealing with this report we are not considering
IN N.S. WALES
LEGISLATOR INJURED
Sydney, Yesterday. Four thousand minera at Rothbury
it is a correct account from the Mr. S. Hampden Ross, Liquidator accountant's viewpoint.
The ques- of the Instone Banking Corporation, tion is whether it was a perjured calliery viciously attacked the pollee resumed his evidence before Mr. report with which Mr. Brewer is early this morning. The police used A. W. G. H. Grantham at the Cen-charged. In your own point of view, tral Magistracy yesterday in thewhere a Company's shares
revolvers, and three minera wero ease in which Mr. Noel Instone allotted, the Company in practice with stones.
are wounded. Several police, were injured Brewer, President of the Bank, is don't receive any cash at all, do charged with alleged offences under they? I am taking the literal mean-groups of furious miners repeatedly Wild scenes followed the shooting, the Perjury and Larceny Ordin-ing of "cash." In effect, cash in and desperately attacking the police, ançes in connection with the anan-never used, in the strict sense of the the affray lasting twenty minutes. jcial position of the Bank.
term, and what is done in practice Trouble recurred later in the morn Questioned by Mr. Somerset Fitz- is that a cheque is paid by the ahareig, with miners trying to force their roy, Assistant Attorney-General, holder and that goes into the Com-way into the colllery. Mr. Baddeley, a legislator, was injured in the melee the witness said that 90% of the pany's banking account? $1,420,950 stated in the balance
while attempting to pacify the minets. sheet to be uncalled capital, had
Resolute Resistance never been allocated.
Later. One miner has been
killed, nine
Mr. Ross: Yes. It's not a question here whether the Instone Bank is properly con Mr. Fitzroy-As an experienced ducted, or pether it is a sound, wounded, and 45 have minor injuries, auditor, would you have passed that substantial concern. The quea-also & police were injured, in the dia- balance sheet with the amount term-tion is whether they had adopted, jturbance at the Rothebury mine.
Ap- jed "uncalled capital" as an asset?-rightly or wrongly, this particular Parently the miners intended to occupy
No, I would certainly not.
method of inviting shareholders: the mine, but did not expect much a It should never have been in- A gull way
resolute resistance. made by the Bank eluded 7-No..
which was not paid, except in the there is no question but that law and Mr. Chaffey, Minister of Mines, says The statement that it was an books. Money was lent to the order must be maintained. asset is absolutely. false?—Yes. shareholders, and in exchange for police reinforcements have left for the Large Mr. Fitzroy pointed out that it one of these documents. I am sug-mine from Sydney, and the Newcastle: was stated the Company lent $761,-gesting the actual process was districts. 000. How much money would the this: The shareholder goes to the, The Federal Cabinet has resolved Company have up to the time these Bank and says: "I want to pay immediately to intervene in the dis- loans were made?
90 much in advance of call, In ad-pute, and the Commonwealth Arbitra- Witness's reply was that the bulk vance of shares..
tion Court has summoned the parties The Company to an urgent compulsory conference in of the loans were made on June Says "We don't want it now, but Sydney at rbon to-morrow. 10 and the last one on July 15. we will take it and lend it back." During the whole of that period the That, I put to you, was the tran-
Leaders Promise Company never had the cash to make saction as shown in the books?graphed the miners leaders strongly The Premier, Mr. Scullin, has tele- the loans. It was a physical im- No. I cannot agree that they paid requesting the miners possibility.
to withdraw money and were lent it back. from the vicinity of the trouble, and No Mortgage Held Dealing with the Mortgage and Long Term Loans, which were stat ed to be $266,630, the witness said he could see no mortgage held by the bank, and if there was none, the
I am not asking you to say that. avoid further clashes. The leaders re- 1. ask you to say that the matter plied that they would do everything was treated in the books as if that possible to comply with the request. had been done. That was done,
Mr. Scullin has also requested Mr. was it not? Yes, that la the idea. Bavin, Premier of New South Wales,
And the result was, that insteadmine; but the Now South
to suspend measures for opening the Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg, statement made in the balance shee.of having a right to make a call Cabinet has decided not to alter its Wales on the shores, on their sharehold-plan to open up the mine on Thurs
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Rotterdam & Antwerp
jwas absolutely false.
Answering questions with regards, the Bank got a definite day. They will not participate in the
promise to pay on demand, that conference to-morrow-Reuter. was the effect of it?-Yes.
Cargo only. Calls Casa Blanca.. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to shares originally Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrnu and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TILAWA TALAHBA
TAKADA
TALMA
SHIRALA TAKLIWA TILAWA
1930
10,008 lat Jan
8,018
7th Jan. 0,948 10th Jan. 10,000 28th Jan. - 7,341 5th Feb. 7,036 18th Feb. 10,000 3rd
Mar.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Fennng & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Cakutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
BI. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
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to the Item showing a block of 4,800 alloted to Mp3. Brewer and subsequently shown in the books as having been acquired by the Instone Trading Company, Mr. Ross said that he could not find any information in the books as to the value of these shares.
Insufficient Assets
*ST. ALBANS 4,500 Brd Jan. NELLORE
0,953 Blst Jan. TANDA
0,058 28th Feb. Calls Port Holland.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday, Island, Cairns, Townsville, Brisbane, Syd- ney & Melbourne,
HONG KONG TIDE
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Company was better off that the I-think you will admit that the right of call on shares was convert- ed to a call of payment on de Assuming that the shareholder was mand from any shareholders?-
a substantial person, yes.
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ating Estimates furnished on application. Hong KongTM" Apell\\3/1924;**
effect of this week's spring tides on THE GIRLS TO, RULE
the Thamite in low-lying parts of Lon- don, and it is confidently anticipated that, with the additional precautions London, Yesterday.
taken, the high tides will pass with- red sun, dissipating the font flooding in these areas.--British
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Fierce Storm
CARLYLE AND UNEMPLOYMENT
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LORD ALLENEY ON THEIR TASK: A STRIKING TRIBUTE
WORK OF THE Y.W.C.A.
.. If it is the Iaw that that tran- Mr. Fitzroy: What do you meansaction would be cash, if money slight night frosts, and
A large by "payin; their fabilities?" is passed backwards and forwards unusual December warmth confers & Their assets were not more than over the counter in that way, if welcome change from recent gales sufficient to pay their abilities. that is the law, that formality" of Floods are gradually subsiding, re- Proceeding, Mr. Ross said that passing cash can be dispensed vealing terrible havoc, especially in Loans, Mortgages and Investments with and the transaction, can be the Rhondda Valley where streets and as shown on the Balance Sheet were a cash transaction, even if no houses need complete rebuilding at a employed
No one has appealed for the un- as the Directors must have known. a dollar note can be made always bankment near the Tate gallery, the are out of work on public under the girls who are growing into
more zealously than obviously worth practically nothing, money passed at all? In that case
cost of millions sterling.
Carlyle. He Insisted on the duty Their bank premises in Hong Kong to pass round; t
"The future management of the London dwellers on the riverside em- of the State to employ those who British Empire la in the hands of were mortgaged. It followed that I am supposing that this is remained awake all night, watching the hour. No one has insisted more count Allenby, speaking at the scene of tragic floods two years ago, takings, as is being done at this women," said Field-Marshal Vis with the shares of the Instone Bank-bona fide. It is a cash transaction, abnormal tide creep up specially re-strongly on the need of a Ministry annual bazaar of the Y.W.C.A. in EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). the Instons Trading Company was with of passing the money for-when tear the top It mercifully re of Education, and of compulsory London.
ing Corporation as its only asset, if the formality was dispensed inforced concrete barricades, until worth nothing,
wards and backwards across the cede.
"And for the women, in education. No one has more addition to the burden of the Em- counter? No, I cannot. quite
cogently urged facilities for State-pire, there is the responsibility of agree that it was a cash transac-
"Paris, Yesterday. aided emigration.
the home," he added. tion. To say: that the "Company The black flag, denoting distress, He advocated vigorously the bet "I have not much wisdom, and received 72 lakhs from share-ying at the lighthouse at La Vieille ter housing of the poor. Ho set no wit, but I give way to no one in holders and they paid it back to trated most courageous efforts. of restom that made harder the hard lot of this association and the enormous this week when & fierce storm frus himself against every law or cus-my admiration for the great work the shareholders in one day. No cuers to be approached, has been at of the poor; but at the same time work it has done and is doing. This The tide-table given below a cannot agree that it was a cas length hauled down. Regular monthly sailings from Bong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre-transaction. It would not be a to Australia.
dieting Machine, which includes 40 genuine cash transaction.
A relief vessel, rudderless and bathe distinguished clearly between organization spreads over 48 coun components for the better prediction The E. & A. 8.S, Co., Ltd, steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hollo, of tides, from the result of the
tered, succeeded in passing food is true and false philanthropy, and tries, and is a miniature League of Cabu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timer, Darwin, or other porta en route as intaken at the Kowloon tidal observa in which case it can be a cash tran-
We have got to assume that it waterproof sacks-front distance of was intolerant of indolence and Nations. As the League of Nations analysis of the "tidal observations, is genuine (until it is disproved), twenty yards. Reuter. ducement offers.
waste.":
holds nations together, so this on tory ander the direction of Dr.saction?-Yes..
Imroved Prospects
Carlyle foresaw many things. Heganization holds the girls of the Deberck during the years
Rugby: Yesterday. 1887, 1888
anticipated the League of Nations, world, together. All those payments were treated During the week-end the height of the bridging of the gulf between The times and heights are given. In the books as cash?—Yes....
the Thames and the conditions in the races, and the binding of men to and heavy responsiblilties now that "The girls of to-day, have now for Kowloon; but they may be used Assuming the transaction to be flooded valley improved. The volame men. He adumbrated genoral dis- for the Victoria Naval Yard and genuine, and having treated the show a reduction, and, as the weather
lot water from the upper reaches armament too-Sir James Crich- Aberdeen, the differences being very payments as cash payments in the forecast indicates the likelihood of
ton-Browno. The times of high and low-water books, how else can they be treat-loss rain, the Authorities are: very must not be considered to coincide ed in the statutory report than as satisfied with the improved prospects.director of the China
Mr. Chao Teh-chiao, managing with the times of slack-water and such? If they were change of current, the two phenomena transactions, then the report was has diminished anxiety regarding the 8. N. Co., le visiting Nanking.
genuine The reduction in the River "Jevels
Merchants being quite distinct.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New and 1889. Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal,
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and small London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
TAKADA
Shanghal, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji & Kobe
Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka.
KHIVA
0.195
21st
Dec.
"MIRZAPORE
8,715
24th 6,949. 27th
Dec.
Dec. 1980
HANTUA
10,946.
NELLORE
6.853
TALMA
Brd 7th 10,000 7th Jan
Jaz
*KIDDERPORE
Jan.
5,334 10th Jan.
Mojl, Hobe, Osaka & T'hama.
Amoy, Moll, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal, Moji & Kobe.
S'hai,' Moji, "Kobe & Thams,
KARMALA.. P.128 17th Jan S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yhams. -
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
TAKLIWA"} 7,938 28th Jan.
Cargo only,
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All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundri Parcels measuring not more than 1% ft. x 3.1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day preslogs to making.
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treated correctly.
I. take that point a little fur- ther. We put it as high as this: December 17 to 23, 1929. If they were genuine cash transaci tions and they had been treated in DHHH WATER Lows WATER, the report otherwise, Mr. Brewer might have found himself in the Standard. Et
Bt. dock on a charge of perjury the Tiancé
other way round? That may be Tues.":17} m_1184 48 ̧m2 4·17 |oi|the law. unge front Wed. 182
That is, the law. He might have 0 4.5 m_6_4] U. put himself in very great civil 1096.8 Thore 13 1444m 350 liability if he does not put in the 10:18 864 1637 statutory report what has been Fri. 20
$54.3 $480treated as caahed in the books? 1-11-64 7.95 199 *9 43 44 m 7 45 0.9
The hearing was adjourned until this afternoon."
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