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China
The
Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1931.
SZE YAP S.S. COMPANY.
Appeal to Privy Council Desired.
APPEAL COURT CASE.
SHARE SETTLEMENT
DAY.
Monopolises the Local Market.
PRICES UNCHANGED.
The official summary issued by Sitting in the Appeal Court yesterday afternoon, the Chief the Stock Exchange to-day states: Justice (Sir Joseph H. Kemp, Prices are more or less unchanged K.C.) and the Puigne Judge (Mr. this morning, the market being en. R. E. Lindsell) heard an appli-tirely taken up in putting the cation for leave to appeal to the Settlement through. Privy Council in connection with the long drawn out litigation over the affairs of the Szé Yap S.S. Co., Ltd.
The trouble originated with a dispute between two sets of Directors of the Company as to which constituted the rightful Board. One set, suing in the name of the Company, sought an injunction from the Supreme Court to restrain the other from interfering with the manage- ment of the Company, and the then acting Chief Justice (Mr. J. R. Wood), found for the plain- tiffa.
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Raubs were wanted at $38. Wharves were in demand at $155. Hotels, after sales being put
$15.20, closed in de through at
The new mand at this quotation. shares were wanted at $14.
Lands were on offer at $84. Humpreys (old) were done $18.
Realties were the medium of sales at $12.70 and $12.90.
at
Ewas were in demand at 716.35, with sellers asking T164.
Trains were in demand at $21. China Lights were dealt in $2734 and $282.
H.K. Electrica were wanted
at
at
The case was then argued in the Full Court when an appeal | $771⁄2. was brought by the defendants in Cements (combined) were in re- the original action. The Full quest at $19.40. Court, which comprised Sir Peter Constructions (old) were in de- Grain, Sir Joseph Kemp, and Mr.mand at $4.80, and the new shares, R. E. Lindsell, reversed the deci-after being done at $14, closed in sion.
demand at $1.15.
Government Loan was in demand at $5 per cent. premium.
THEFT OF BRASS FITTINGS.
The present application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council is brought by the origin- al plaintiffs, whilst the original defendants brought a motion to have the proceedings stayed as
(Kowloon Magistracy,) the appeal had been instituted
Lau Kwal, an unemployed Chin- without the authority of the original defendants, the originalese, was this morning convicted of the theft of two brass Attings appellants.
from a Government launch on the slipway at the Kwong Hip Loong shipyard.
tion
Defendant pleaded guilty" and pondents (defendants), while said he picked the Attings up and
In put them in his pocket.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., in- structed by Mr. Leo d'Almada, Senior, argued for the mo- behalf of rea-
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, structed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, senior, for appellants (plaintiffs) urgued against the motion.
"Founded on Precedent."
Three months' hard labour was imposed.
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and
Mr. Jenkin submitted that the Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, and mation was founded upon precedent not by Messrs. D'Almada
It was issued in the name and war based on a sincere desire, Mason. to prevent the Company from being of the Company and rightly so, as possibly ruined by further and it could not have been issued under It was clear, he senseless litigation. The petition any other name. Involved the internal management submitted, that the writ was pro- in the name of the of the Company, and he put it for- perly issued
the then Directors. ward that the Court did not allow Company by either Directors or Shareholders to Any other name would have been Involve the Company in costly improper.
tigation about its internal affairs. The calling of a meeting was practi- eally the only remedy which the Courts allowed either the Directors or Shareholders to take to solve the troubles of contesting parties. Further, Mr. Jenkin contended that the appellants were not authorised and had no right to use the Com- [panya name, and the Court could, of its own instance, terminate the Iltigation.
The Chief Justice pointed out that the point from Mr. Jenkin's Mr. argument was that before Sheldon's
INDIAN FEDERAL. COURT.
European View of Scope and Function.
PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL.
It
Rugby, Yesterday. Discussion on the Indian Federal 'Court was continued to-day in the Federal Structure Committee of the Round Table Conference. will conclude" to-morrow when the debate will be wound up by Sir Muhammed Shafi. Speaking for! European delegation to-day Mr. Gavin Jones agreed that a Federal and that it Court was necessary should ordinarily be an Appellate Court. with original jurisdiction in such matters as a dispute between the Federation and its units and between the States. It is essential that there should be a right to ap- peal to the Privy Council. High Court judges must be independent of political influence, and their ap pointments should made by the Governor-General in consultation with the Chief Justice. As wide a field as possible should be avail- able for the selection of personnel and the English and Indian bara and judicial services should be in- cluded.-British Wireless Serice,
MISSING CAR FOUND.
car.
The Morris Oxford sedan valued at $600, belonging to Mr. P. K. Lew, 775 Nathan Road, which' was taken from the park stand op- posito the Fire Brigade Station, Kowloon, on Sunday night. was found in Kimberley Rond yesterday, apparently undamaged. MYSTERIOUS BULLET
WOUND CASE. LOCAL BROKER, FOUND SHOT.
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Mystery surrounds the dis- covery yesterday afternoon in his home, at 2, Excelsior Ter- race, Robinson Road, of Mr. M. P. Lo, a well-known broker, with a bullet wound in the chest. A bullet, which apparently pasS- ed through his body was found embedded in a bookcase in the room.
Mr Lo, who is a cousin of the popular solicitors, has been Committee member of the Hong! Kong Sharebrokers' Association for seven years, and, it is under-i stood, was to have attended a meeting of the committee yester- day afternoon. When Mr. Lo did not put in an appearance a tele-| phone message was despatched to his house, and it was then learned that he had been found Mr. Shaldon suggested that a with a bullet wound in his chest. Shareholder must uses the name of An ambulance was immediately a.Company and would continue to do summoned to take Mr. Lo to hos
The pointpital, but it was later decided not so until he was stopped. was which was the correct view toto move him from his home.
Last night Mr. Lo was uncon- Mr. Sheldon replied that If Mr. take, get permission first, or use the
scious, and his. condition was Jenkin's contention was correct, Company's name until stopped?
Counsel also suggested that the considered critical Enquiries there was no right of appeal by any aggrieved Director or Shareholder proper way and time to file such a made this morning elicited the was when the writ was information that he is progress- from a judgment delivered in an motion Original Jurisdiction action. He issued in the original action, Heing as satisfactorily as can be submitted that such a contention pointed out that it might be fur-expected, and that he passed a was wrong. and submitted that hls ther argued from the line taken by fairly good night.
It is further learned that the clients were justified in using the Mr. Jenkin that the Directors never Company's name.
clients could use the name of the Company they had to get the authority of the Directors or the Company.
had authority to start litigation at bullet, while passing through the the solicitors concerned body, did not penetrate any of all, and In Company's Name. Developing his argument this might find themselves called upon the vital organs, but great care morning, Mr. Sheldon aaid that the to pay the cost of all the litigation, has yet to be exercised with the writ KYRE issued by Messrs. which was absurd,
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Joan Bewness Florence Arllas..
Anthony Brabell
David Torresón
From the
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Serson play by
Josephson Directed
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