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DEATH
ROSSELET-On 16th July, 1930, Eileen Margaret Rosselet, beloved wife of Charles S. Rosselet. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.30
Can it be a record? There was not a single larceny case called at: the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- lag, the only cases being those con- corning hawkers and rubbish dumpers.
A Chinese woman named So Fat (21),"described as a servant in a house in Prince Edward Road, Mongkok, was yesterday admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital auffer- ing from opium poisoning. She was stated to have taken the oplum in mistake for medicine.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930-
present.
MORE CAPITAL TO which it is not intended to issue at
PAY DIVIDENDS.
Affairs.
Underwriting Plana
I might add, gentlemen, that your Board has entered into an under-
Public Utility Company's writing agreement in connection with this now Issue of capital whereby the capital will be assured to the Company, the consideration being a commission of 1 1/4 per cent. on such portion of the capital as may be taken by the shareholders and a commission of 2 1/2 on the
INCREASE SANCTIONED.
portion not accepted subject to a minimum commission of $25,000.
Proposed by the Chairman, both
At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Leung Kan (31), a seaman of the China Provident Loan and Mort- 8.5. Yuen Lee, which is undergoing gage Company, Limited, held this acutions were passed; first being repairs at the Cosmopolitan Dock, morning at the Company's Bourd seconded by Mr. Morty and the Mongkok, was yesterday admitted Room, sanction was given to the second by Mr. Xavier. to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffer capital being increased from
Proposed Amusement. Mr. S. M. ing from injuries received through $3,000,000 to $1,600,000 by the
Churn proposed an accidentally falling into the dry creation of more shares.
amendment to the second resolution Sup which read as follows:- dock from a staging on the ship. porting the proposal, the Chair-
man said that the step was decid-tion being passed, 294,789 shares "In the event of the resolu-
Many friends gathered at the ed upon so as to place the Com- Union Church, Kowloon, last night, pany on a sound financial basis shall be issued and offered in the to bid "Good-bye" to Mr. and Mrs. conducive toward the payment of first instance by the Directors at G. T. Layton and family, of the dividends which the Company Far to existing shareholders on the Naval Yard. The Rev. J. Horace was unable to pay since 1925. register of the Company as at from Johnston paid tribute to the work! Mr. C. A. da Roza was in the August 9, of which $2.50 per share of the family for the Church dur chair, and supporting were Mr. shall be payable on acceptance, sub- ing the last three years, and Mrs. N. Hodgson, the Hon. Mr. J. P.ject to a further $2.50 payable Johnston made the presentation, Braga, Mr. S. M. Churn, Mr. A. L. at auch time or timės as the which took the form of mounted Alves and Mr. D. L. King (Secre- Directors may by call or calls think' pieces of jade for each member of, tary).
fit rateably in the proportion of one the family.
*.
CHOIR ON STRIKE.
TROUBLES OF RECTOR WHO WANTED REFORM.
The following shareholders share for every two shares held by were present: Messrs. A. P. euch shareholders. In the event of Samy, F A. Xavier, H. the said 294,789 shares not being Figueirido, P. C. Rendall, F. M.taken up by shareholders within the Ellis, A. J. Edgar, A. Zimmern, time stipulated, the Board shall be Li Yat-choi, Leung Kam-cheung, empowered to allot or dispose of J. Soares, P. M. N. da Silva and think fit. W. Morley, O. Hechtal, Fung Yau, them as they in their discretion
A. Gilliard.
The Chairman said that he Addressing the meeting, the agreed with the amendment as it did Chairman said:-
not alter the material points at A disagreement between the ree-the meeting for which purpose we to August 9, and
Before putting the resolutions to issue. It only extended the time he thought that meet to-day
The I think shareholders was advisable.
amendment kendon, one of the most delightful would like to be informed of the rea. was seconded by Mr. Ellis, and
the increase in capital.
which have actuated Board in placing the proposal for
tor and his parishioners at Chec-
of the South Oxfordshire villages which nestle Chiltern Hills, has caused some at the foot of the embarrassment.
sony
your carried.
In short, gentlemen, it is another
A
In the House of Commons on Monday the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs stated that the Soon after the rector, the, Rev. Chinese Government had not R. D. St. G. Edwards, arrived two step towards placing your Company MRS. C. S. ROSSÈLET. opened negotiations with regard years ago the bellringers went on a financial basis conducive to strike because of differences of wards the payment of dividends to the rendition of the Inter- opinion with the new incumbent. which have not been possible since DEATH OF YOUNG HONG KONG national Settlement of Kulangsu. By the introduction of new talent the disastrous days of 1925.
grent deal has been done since 1925
LADY. China had in recent years sub-this difficulty was overcome.
Now, however, there is a choir in the liquidation of loans made by mitted various proposals for an strike, and, a proper choir cannot the Company and the sums BO increase in the Chinese represen- tation in the municipal adminis- tration, which had been effective- ly dealt with. Any further pro- posals which the Chinese Govern- ment might make would meet with a sympathetic response from His Majesty's Government..
It can fairly safely be concluded that the questions and the reply in the House of Commons have their source and inspiration in that minutely small and uninfluen- tini clique who would urge the im- mediate rendition of all the Bri- tish and international Settlements irrespective of whether
or not China is in a position to give ade- quate safeguards for the due pro- tection of the lives, and property of Britons and other foreigners throughout China. Whilst China is still in the throes of a civil war it must be regarded as premature
be obtained for the grey twelfth realised have been applied towards It is with regret that we learn century Church of St. Peter and payment of liabilities-in ilustra- of the death of Mrs. Charles S. St. Paul, which preps out at the tion of this I might state that the Rosselet, of Fung Fai Terrace, passer by through a shower of yel-liabilities of the Company which Happy Valley, at nine o'clock this low laburnum blossoms.
had taken the shape of more or less morning.
Village leds who were
Sometimes there is one choir boy a permanent nature stood at over The deceased, who had been at the Sunday service, sometimes $3 1/4 million when the manage-il for about a year, was in her there are two-but usually the ment was taken over by the Board, twenty-seventh year. choir stalls are empty..
but to-day liabilities under the She was the wife of Mr. C. S. once same head approximate in round Rosselet, Secretary of Hong Kong members of the choir stand outside figures more than half of that Amusement, Ltd., to whom, as on Sunday, leaning against the amount in the sum of $1 1/2 m-well as to the members of both families, sympathy will be ex- tended. We have still A few loans to The funeral will take place at
Happy Valley this afternoon.
church wall, and their remarks' canlon. be heard with disturbing elearness by the worshippers Inside.
Few Loans Left.
pos-
At one time there was a large liquidate, but these are secured on choir, and it was difficult to get a roperty which although difficult to seat in church. People came in realise at present, Indicate motor-cars from some miles away.sibilities of a satisfactory realisa- Now only a handful of faithful tion on an improvement in property adherents remain. :
values, signs of which have appear- ed during the last few months.
But however favourable those
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Stormy Meetings. Feeling in a section of the con
gregation and the Church Council been runs high, and there have
some stormy meetings.
$10,000 FINE.
A Chinese who was arrested on realisations might be in the future, the ground floor of 96 Connaught they cannot under any conceivable Road West yesterday afternoon, circumstance provide the necessary was to-day charged before Mr. reporter:-
One of the villagers said to a funds with which to extinguish all R. E. Lindsell for the unlawful liabilities which I have just placed possession of 110 taels of prepared "The rector is a blunt, outspoken at $1 1/2 million by which figure non-Government opium. На man who says what he thinks and we are at present under espitalised, pleaded guilty." Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 16, 1930. and unreasonable to raise ques-rector made more fuss of people. ing largely on borrowed capital will that ten taels were Macao opium
J.M.
KULANGSU.
is afraid of no one. The previous thick the point that we are work- Revenue Officer Grimmitt said
track.
COTTON QUEENS' RIDE IN RIKISHAS.
It must
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "China Mall,"
July 16, 1920.1,
To-day's dollar in worth 3/m
tions in the House of Commons
"This is an unusual village. We be better appreciated when I state and the rest Kwong-chau-wan on such minor matters as the ren-
are miles away from a railway that against a sum closely border-opium, which was concealed in the station and are without gas dition of Kulangsu, the adminis electricity, and many of our in- necessary to a large extent to the of a travelling trunk.
oring on $5 million employed on assets cunningly constructed false side Even in the absence of any tration of which has hitherto been habitants have never been to Lon-working of the Company, the capital Magistrate (to accused): Where detailed report of the proceedings eminently satisfactory to the don. We are right off the beaten is not quite $3 million. That is to did you get it from?-I brought in the House of Commons it is not Chinese themselves. "But to a cer-
say 75 per cent. of the under it from the country. "When Mr. Edwards arrived he capitalisation, or $1 1/2 million is Mr. Grimmitt: He had booked difficult to imagine the source of tain class of person at Home any suggested that things had become borrowed money on which we paid £ passage on the President inspiration of the questions thing will serve as a peg on which too slack, and that he was going almost $130,000, in interest last Pierce. addressed to the Secretary of to hang questions intended only to alter the ways of the village. year.
Mr. Lindsell (to accused): State for Foreign Affairs regard to affect the relations of Britain trouble.
That was the beginning of the
be abundantly clear, Taking it to America, are you?- gentlemen, that we cannot carry this Yes.. ing Kulangsu, which was declared and China, to the detriment of "Ife altered the services and load and also meet the legitimate
Accused was fined $10,000 or by the Chinese themselves to be the former. They who do not people would not come, because demand from shareholders for a re- nine months' hard labour. an, international settlement on know. China, unless from more and had to stand there like mugs." there should be a boom in trade. they could not understand them turn on their investment, unless January 10, 1902. Kulangau, as hearsay, would be better advised
in the lines we specially cater at any student of encyclopaedias to confime their activities to the BLACKPOOL'S FETE: West Point, enabling us to pay a can tell, is an islet of only a little many glaring instances of malad
dividend after providing for in- terest on borrowed moneys. over a square mile and a half lying ministration in the British Isles.
Re-Organization. W.S.W. of the island of Amoy.
Your Board has, therefore, taken Previously to 1926 the only
the present favourable opportunity 814d. Chinese, representative on the
to reorganise. the capital of the One of the most brilliant spec- Company by bringing it into line Municipal Council was nominated
A local American friend of ours ticles Blackpool has ever presented with the value of the Company's who is rather keen on the liquor by the Taotai, in addition to whom
was the Pageant of Progress, a fixed assets, and two, resolutions, question, Invested the sum of $16 the ratepayers elected, five or
blaze of colour over two miles long which have, been given full publi- in an assortment of drinks here. six others. By a telegram re-
on June 11. It attracted 200,-city, will be put before you shortly. In due course he had the array of Quarantine restrictions have 000 people to the Promenade The first is of a formal character bottles photographed and has. ceived by the Senior Consul on been imposed against arrivals and took an hour and a half to to comply with our Articles which since sent copies to all his thirsty September 24, 1926, from the in- from Cebu on account of cholera. pain Happily a stormy morning require the consent of the Company pals in the States. To make the terested diplomatic representa
turned to glorious sunshine.. in general meeting to an increase blow. all the harder, he had writ Owing to inclement weather the The pageant represented scenes in the Capital. It is proposed to ten tives authority was given for the Band concert at the Kowloon from English history. One scene increase the capital to $4 1/8 mil"This is what $10 will do for you! underneath the picture, appointment. of three Chinese to Football Club this evening has been represented Haddon Hall, on the lion by the creation of 800,000 new in Hong Kong." membership of the Municipal
postponed.
lawn knelt Colonel Tyldesley, and shares of $5 each, and by resolution moure, giving the accolade, stood | No. 8, 294,789 of such shares will Council. No Chinese members Found by the Police abandoned Charles II. After history came In- be offered to shareholders. In the were appointed to the Council for in Chungching Street, yesterday, a dustry. These were the bathing ratio of one new share to every two 1928 owing to their mistaken in three-year-old Chinese female child girls of 1930 in a tableau fashioned shares now held, ska ge
was removed to the Tung Wah Hos- In the semblance of the dome of terpretation of the telegram in pital
Owing to a legal difficulty which Blackpool's open-air bath, beneath will prevent the immediate repay question, the Chinese desiring to
which a fountain played. Along-ment of our mortage loans, it is not limit membership the Council to seven members, of whom three
News in Brief.
One case of typhoid fever and one of diphtheria (non-Chinese) were reported yesterday.
Ten Years Hence.
[From the "Chins Mall” of July 16, 1940:3
Owing to the entire dearth of
It is understood that application side was an ancient bathing-van. intended to call up more than half news the morning papers have licensing of a cafe in Hong Kong, well represented. After scenes of shareholders, and it is proposed, has been made to the Police for the Lancashire's own industry was the value of the shares offered to been reduced to four pages ench. to be run on cabaret lines. Per Lancashire towns came the eighteen therefore, to call $2 1/2 per share; The circulation of all silver dol mission is sought for the cafe to cotton queens of Lancashire in to resolution 2 is desirable, and an lars is now banned in the Colem remain open until 2 am. The matrikishas on which were emblazoned amendment to the resolution will wter is still under consideration by the coats of arms of the towns they be submitted to you accordingly. The Government is to be asked the Police, whence it will pass represanted. In all there were 79 When you have accepted these re in the Legislative Council to ac
were to be Chinese, whilst the intention of the interested diplo matic representatives
Chinese
the to the Licensing Board, with whom tableaux, with two thousand people
tions gentlemen, the unissuedirgint.
will consist of 16688 ahares owing to higher cost of living