MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1930.
Russo-Asiatic Bank.
(Continued from Page 1)
of their claims as regards the Hong Kong rurplus.
With regard to the queation of eosts in the Court below, I am of,
of the
Mr. Justice Wood's Views,
These proceedings arise in con-
RECORD FLIGHT.
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Thirty Centa 'per Share, in respect of the year 1930, will be St. Louis, Yesterday. payable on THURSDAY; the 4th airmen Jackson and September. 1930, on which date O'Brien landed to-day, having Dividend. Warrants may be obtain- Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- flown for 647 hours, 28 minutes,ed on application at the Comformed that ail Goods are being land- 30 seconds,--Reuters American pany's Office, Exchange Building a chair risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Service.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the & Godown Company Ltd., at Kowloon, Company will be CLOSED from whenco and/or from the wharves de-
be obtained, Optional
Lack of Enthusiasm.
THURSDAY, the 28th August,livery, Cargo will be forwarded St. Louis, Yesterday, The flyers came down owing to 1930, to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd unless notice to the contrary be given
flying field for several nights,
The crowd put up only a slight
C. F. V. RIBEIRO,
Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, 9th August, 1930.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Gonds are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 21st inst. at 10 am, by our surveyors Messrs, Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersign- ed by.
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plea for a party which has had opinion that the decisions" in "New AVIATORS REMAIN 647 HOURS ir opportunity of being repre- Bew" (1899) 2 ch. 467, and sented at both hearings but has "Harpham v. Shacklock" 19 ch. D. refrained from doing so. And 1215, prevent this Court from inter am inclined to think that it is a foring with the discretion argument that we need not have learned Judge in the Court below; listened to as coming from the therefore the ruling as to costs in Shanghai Liquidators. Because the Court below must stand and the what it comes to is this the appeal against that ruling be dis- Shanghai Liquidators say "we ac-missed. cent the decision of the learned
Sir J. Kemp Agrees. Judge below against ourselves, It appears that a formal order was but we do not like the London not drawn up on the judgment in ereditors touching the surplus, so the Court below; but I consider we will say a good word for our that a formal order should be, Paris friend and see if that can drawn up on the judgment of this stop the London creditors putting Court and that that order should the engine misfiring and losing cil. September, 1830 (both daya inclú before 15th instant. in proofs and participating in be approved by a Judge of this it was first thought to be due to sive) during which period no No claima will be admitted after the
Court. the surplus." But I prefer to
a cracked crank case, but a cur transfer of shares can be rogis-Goods have left the Godswn, and all decide this case on other grounds.
Sir Joseph Kemp:-I agree gen-sory inspection
Goods romaining undelivered after the generally with the judgment I have failed to reveal the cause of the
after landing tered.
21st instant will be subject to rent.. A Bald Statement.
By Order of the Board of
All claims against the vessel must just read and also with the judg- trouble.
Directors, Now what is the evidence on ment which is about to be delivered
be presented to the undersigned on or The sudden descent startled u the file that Paris is the head by my learned brother.
before the 81st inst. or they will office.
not be recognised, crowd of 500 drowsy watchers, in- First of all there is the creditor's petition dated Septem-
cluding a flock of reporters and ber 28, 1926, of Mr. Au Fung-Judge, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood was sleeping on improvised beds in the
The judgment of the Puisne photographers, who have been f chow, who says in paragraph two follows: that "the head office was trans- ferred to Paris in, 1917." A bald neetion with the liquidation of the demonstration, oddly contrasting, statement with nothing to sup- en branch of the Russo-Asiatic with the delirious greetings of a port it. Mr. Candlin's affidavit Bank, a foreign corporation. After crowd of 25,000 when the couple of March 22, 1927, paragraph payment of the local creditors landed on the same field last year, four "certain of the Directors surplus remains in the hands of the after establishing their first rebroadcast to-day from the Hong Kong escaped from Petrograd to Paris Official Liquidator, who has ap-cord of 420 hours continuous fly- and assumed control of the plied to the Court for directions as ing, which they lost to the Hunter branches of the bank in Paris and to its disposal. The Court direct- Brothers last month. London." This statement is amed that the liquidators of the branch biguous and far from definite, as in Shanghai should be notified of terested in the remarkable per- Aviation circles are greatly in- it may mean that some Directors the summons for directions, They formance of the engine, whose assumed control of Paris and some were represented of London. Mr. Candlin further of the summons.
at the hearing propeller is estimated to have run says "the Hong Kong branch has of the branch in London, who was American Service.
The liquidator 55,000,000 revolutions-Reuter's never been managed or controlled permitted to represent creditors of by the Paris branch."
[A message of August 13 stated, Candlin represents the Shanghai to the proceedings. The Officin?to-day by a flight of 54 hours 41 And Mr. the bank in London, was a party a new world's record was sustained branch which is now suggesting Liquidator adopted a neutral post-minutes, made this morning by the that Paris is the head office...
It was admitted for the airmen Dale Jackson and Forest Shanghai liquidators that the Russo-Eries, beating by one hour the "The Merry Widow Vocal Gems Asiatic Bank, which had been in record established by the hunter corporated in Russia, had also been brothers of Chicago last month.
(Lehar)...Light Opera Company
(C1301). dissolved by state action in Russia,
"Captain Harry Morgan" (Bantcek); that subsequently its directors had "Greater St. Louis," equipped with
The record breaking acroplane, "Gargbes" (Shaw), continued operations of the banka 170-horse power engine, has so"Samson and Delilah-Bacchanale"
Peter Dawson, Bass Baritone in other places
(B2884). through branches far fown 33.000 miles and has used
(Saint-Saens), which were formed into mutually 5,000 gallons of petrol. The 'plane "Damnation of Faust-Rakoczy. March (Berlion)..Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra (082JA).. "Miserero" (Verdi),
Mavis Bennet and John Turner (Vocal Duet). "Trovalore"Vocal Gems (Verdi), Grand Opern Co. (C1692). "FausSelection (Gounod),
Mr. Fleming. Chartered Ac countant of Hong Kong, states in his affidavit of January 17, 1927. that he had examined the books and records of the Hong Kong Liquidation and was satisfied that neither Paris nor London "directed or controlled", this branch.
tion.
A letter, March 2, 1927, from independent but co-operative units refuelled aerially 125 times.] the Judicial Administrator în Paris states: "Liquidation of the Group, with the Shanghai branch as one of which was a Far Eastern Russo-Asiatic Bank, Paris. is en-its head office, and, consequently, tirely distinct from the liquida-that the proper disposal of this sur- plus was ite transfer to the-liquida- tion assets liquidation there being a principal in Shanghai. the liquidation, to which that in Hong Kong was ancillary,
tion of the Far Eastern branches." This is an answerte a letter of
ern branches.
The London Equidator merely de-
$50,000 LOAN.
FINAL ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL.
The following programme will be
Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. on 365
metros:-
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned have received
by
of Victor and H.M.V. Records 67 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
Programme selected and supplied by Messrs. Auction
7 p.m.-European
Moutrie & Co.
giver Wings"-Vacal Gems,
Light Opera Company (C1858).
Know of Two Bright Eyes" Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”
(Quilter),
(Clutanm).Derek Oldham, Tenor
(B2870).
The Band of HM. Cold. stream Guards (G1877). "What is Done" (Cuvillier). "Nocturne" (Chopin),
Winnie Melville and Derek
Foster Melodies"
Oldham, Vocal Duet (C1690).
Mr. Fleming in which a surges tion of co-ordination is thrown out between Hong Kong and Paris, but Paris will have nothing to do
The case in which the Lau family with it and emphatically cut them-sired liberty to prove in Hong Kong alleged lour of $50,000 said to have and the Un family are disputing an solves adrift from the Far St claims of London creditors in re-been lent to the Un family from an "Stephen
spect of this surplus. In the judgment hero The Paris branch have had from
appealed the learned Chief Jus- executors, was resumed this morn-The Glatter of the Clogs" (Flynn), notice of the winding-up proceed- tice rejected the
ing at the Supreme Court before "A Little Love, a Little Kiss", contentions ings of the bank in Hong Kong of
the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph H. the
Gracie Fields, Soprano Shanghal liquidators. which gave Parks an opportunity He held that the bank had not been
Kemp, K.C
(B3515). Mr. H. G. Sheldon for the plain- "Shepherd's Lullaby" (Hewitt),
"At Dawning" (Cadman),
F. Rowland-Time, Organist (B3021).
Attitude of Parle.
pos-
estate of which the Lau family were
Nat Shilkret & The Salon Group (C1652).
(Holliday),
ot saying that they desired to be dissolved in Russia, and that con- tiffs, instructed by Mesars. Wilkin- represented or of making any sequently, apart from the gestions they chose. The only an-sibility of proceedings in Russia, of sea and Grist, addressed the Court swer that Paris gave was to re-which the Court had no notice, the on the question of law and facts. "Hinton, Dinton and Mere" pudiate any connection with the local liquidation was not ancillary Final reply is being made by Mr.The Curtain Falls" (D'Hardelot), Far Eastern Group, It is true, sa in
Eldon Potter, K.C. who is appearing character, but must pro- Mr. Potter states, that they have ceed as a principal liquidation with for the defence together with Mr. received no notice of the surplus, liberty to foreign creditors to F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. A. el "Le, Hure the Gentle Lark" (Bishop), but as t had already stated prove their clims. that they were "entirely distinctment was delivered; but no order from the liquidation in the East" was drawn up.
were,"
A formal judg.
Arculli.
The case is proceeding.
Peter Dawson, Bass Baritone (B2930). "Solveig's Song" (Grieg),
visiennett, Soprano
(C1229). "Five O'clock Girl"-Selection, it is hardly to be expected that Motion Out of Order, they could have turned round and
The New Mayfair Orchestra (01659). From this judgment, the Shang- said "Oh, you have got a surplus hai ligaldatore here appeal. It has
"The fish was so big," said the "Homeward Bound". (Stanford), have you? Well, we are not sa been noticed that the motion was in let me haul it into the beat for four
angler, "that the others would not "The Old Superb" (Stanford), entirely distinct as we thought we its inception out of order by rea- it should swamp us." "The same "Lilac Domino-Vocal Gems
Peter Dawson, Bass Baritone
(C1479)... The Pis branch never sana of its non-compliance with have appeared in any of the pro- sect. 174 of the Companies-Or- thing happened to me once," said his (Cailivier) Light (Opera Company ceedings nor have they suggestedinance! (Ordinance No. 68 of friend, "in the Mauretania
(C1705). 9 p.m.-Weather Report, Time 1011); but this Court has now
and Local News. "Storning, Noon and Night in
Vienna (Suppe),
Vienna Philharmonic Orch. .(C1067). From the Studio Mr. W. Balley (Baritone):-- Lindon Lea", "The Vagabond"
R. Vaughan Williams. Sergel Rachmaninoff-Fritz Kreister (8168A).
that they should.
that little reliance
time.
(6652A).
ON
FRIDAY, August 22, 1930, commencing at 2.30 pm. at their Jales Room, Duddell Street
A Large-Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinets, Chesterfield Couches and Arm- chairs, Desks, Gramophones and Records, Pictures, Ornaments. Curios, Vases, Flower Pots, Table Fans, Carpets, Rugs, Pianos, Wardrobe Trunks, etc., etc.
Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled' Mirrors, Dinner Waggons, Ica Cheat, Dinner Crockery, Glass Wure, Adding Machines, Kitchen Utensils, Stoves, Bookcase, Brass Ware, Cabin Trunks, etc., etc.
Teak and Brass Bedsteads, Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chest of Draw- ers, etc, etc,
and
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. including:
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, Tea Poys. Jardinieres, Chairs, Opium Stools, etc., etc.
On View from Thursday, August 21, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
·LAMMERT, HROS
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, August 18, 1980.
THE Undersigned have received instructions from the Eseen-
trix of the Estate of the late Mrs. Brotherton Harker to sell by Public Auction,
ON. MONDAY and TUESDAY, August 25 and 26, 1930, commencing each day at
10.30a.m....
at-No. 9, and 4, The Albany. & Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Comprising
FURNITURE.
'I have now dealt with the evi- granted the necessary extension of dence on the file as regards the argument that Paris is the, head office, except statements made in clear issues, but in proceeding upon pellants has argued that he is
The mation of appeal set out in Paris, Mr. Potter for the ap certain pleadings in on action it, the appellants have followed an entitled to revise his case in view
Teak Hotstand, Chesterfield which was withdrawn by mutual almost tortuous course. Before the of a new situation which has arisen
Couches and Chairs, Bookcases, consent of the parties. I consider hearing they announced to the re- from the flading by the learned
Side Tables, Pictures, Silver, and Brass Wares, Fenders, Ornaments, can be put spondents an liftention to apply to Chief Justice now accepted by all upon statements of facts in plead this Court for an adjournment.. At parties that the bank's existence "Sonata in G Major" (Beethoven).
Carios, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, ings. They may have been drawn the hearing their application was still continues in Russia, which was
Mauritius Palms, Plates, etc., etc. up upon wrong Instructions or merely a suggestion to the Court a disputed issue at the hearing. I From the Studió Mr. W. Baller Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Teak Ice Teak Dining Tables, Dining they may sometimes be an unin- that any distribution the surplus
do not agree. All that ho has (Baritone): tentional misrepresentation of the under the order of the Court below urged here, it was open to him to "Can't Remember" Alma Goatley. Chests Dinner Waggon, Dinner facts placed before Counsel. The should be deferred pending the as-urge below; but it, did not suit his "Don Juan's Serenade",
Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Cut- whole of the evidence on the file, certainment by the Court of the then contention to do so. The ob- Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 & Fittings, Kitchen Utensils, etc., Tachalkowsky.lery, Table Fans, Electric Lights In my does not status liquidator taken support, the contention, but deitus and wishes of the thuiger valid. From the Orchestra (08534) Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak
la in my opinion (Last)....Philadelphia Symphony étc. finitely rejects It.
to the local liquidation, with liberty
Overwhelming Evidence. As regards the further sug-to apply to the Court for further Furthermore any claim possible"The Two Grenaders".Schumann: Dressing Tables, Chest of Draw
(Baritone)-
Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirrors, gestion that this Court: should, directions of its own
Further they have to the branch in Paris to be re-
Liddle.ers, Washstands, Desks, etc., etc.. initiative, ad- contested none of the fundamental cognised as a principal office in this "Lohengrin-Prelude (Wagner); journ this appent in order decisions in the judgment. "Ac-liquidation has been negatived ever-
Philadelphia Symphony.
-also that Paris may be lavited to cepting the conclusion that the bank whelmingly by evidence already on "On Wings of Bong" (Mendelaschn),
Orchestra (6791).. appear with evidence in support of has not been dissolved in its coun-record, whether the matter is con- "Jota" (De-Falls), their being the head office, or to try of origin, they have also spidered as governed by a history of supply information on the subject, abandoned any submission that this actual control, or by situation in pack" I am of opinion that it la not with surplus should be transferred to the country of origin, or by the Faust in the duties of thla. Court to do themselves.
course of action followed in, the so, and the definite repudiation of Having thus thrown over the liquidation by the liquidating any connection with the Eastern terms of their motion they never officers in different jurisdicitions. Group by the Paris office would theless prosecute this appeal In No case has been cited to us in DOWD. Justify us in not doing so.
order to submit to us here (as they which the Court has pronounced a might have in the alternative aut liquidation of a branch to be
Diemise Appeal.
It appears to me that there, have mitted in the Court below, but did ancillary, unless to a liquidation been no serious arguments against not do so) that the liquidation in conducted in the country of origin the London creditors being allowed Hong Kong must be considered of the Corporation.
(Grieg),
Jascha Helfets, Violin Solo) (6848A). Ballet Maale (Gouned),
Royal Opera Orchestra
*!! (01462)/2 (Approx.) Close
10.80
p.m.
to pul in their proofs here, beyond ancillary to that in Paris, or, as 1 With respect, the Judgment of Sir DUKE OF the argument that Paris is the head understand them, feiling Paris, then! Henry Gollan, C.J., upon the merits office therefore have no reason to the liquidation in some other in this matter, seemaer to me to be todisagree with the finding of the Jurisdiction vet to be identified.
Toarned Chlef Justice in the Court
Inconsistency,
Hight; and it should in my opinion
be, affirmed.If it does
the interests or vertain
fors to ation
this point therefore It was formally objected that this, prove In the Hong Kont
snt with the finding submission being
below
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of the
below and am of and cont
this appeal should
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