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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) per pro DODWELL & CO., LTD.
J. P. WARREN, Director, Liquidators.
statement of Accounts to 31st De- jcember, 1933.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1933..
Drama Of London Divorce Court
D.S.O. Major To Pay £5,000 Damages
London.
WIFE WITH £900 A YEAR
Ther. She said she wrote loving because her husband A petition in which a retired letters Army officer cited a man who was cabled requesting her to do so.
and once his superior officer
That was her case, but the asked for a decree for the disso-husband alleged it was because lution of his marriage was heard of Major Dyer's influence that by Lord Merrivale and a special his wife would not join him. Was jury in the Divorce Court re- the husband really cruel, as the cently.
wife alleged, or was his wife an- Petitioner, Major Capel Richie xious to keep him in India be- Langstaffe Capel Smith, Col-cause, in England, there was an- ville mansions, Powis terrace, other man who had become the THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER London, W., alleged that his object of her attentions?
wife Mildred Mary (nee Naylor) Through this painful and dis- CO. (1918), LTD.
had committed adultery with Ma-tressing trial the parties had sat QUBJECT to fine weather pre-jor Bernard Alfred Saunders in the court and, side by side, ST
valling the supply of electric-Dyer, D. S. O., against whom da- had been Major Dyer and Mrs. Major Dyer had ity to the New Territories will be mages were claimed. Major Ca-Capel Smith.
into the witness-box Poor Persons Department. and respondent did not help very
The jury found that there had much.
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an GENERAL MEETING of the Unit-i TUESDAY, 28TH MARCH. ed Asbestos Oriental Agency, Talpo, Fanling, Sheung Shui, been adultery by Mrs. Capel Major Capel Smith had alleged Limited (in voluntary liquidation) Kwantl. Sha Tau Kok, Un Loong Smith and Major Dyer, and as-that, since 1926, his career, life ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS. will be held at the Offices of Ping Shan, Castle Peak and ad-sessed the damages that Major and fortune had gone. At first Messrs. Dodwell and Company,jacent districts.
Dyer should pay at £5,000. he tried every means to get his Limited, at Queen's Building, Vic
THURSDAY, 30TH MARCIL.
Major Capel Smith was grant-wife away from the co-respondent toria, in the Colony of Hong Kong.
All districts supplied under Newed a decree nisi with costs. that she might resume her life on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of
Although both Mrs. Capel with him. "I wanted to break March, 1933, at 3 o'clock in the
Supply will be RESTORED be- Smith and Major Dyer put in an-this association first for afternoon at which Meeting the
fore dusk.
swers denying the adultery it wife's sake and then for the sake Liquidators will lay before the
was announced on their behalf of my young son," petitioner had that adultery since 1929 was ad-said.
Lord Merrivale added that the Imitted. The plea was put for-
ward that there had been unrea-wife had £900 a year and a house THE GOOD PRESS DAY will sonable delay in bringing the in which Major Dyer was living
petition. Talence at the Catholic
Major Capel Smith with her. Major Capel Smith had been assisted in bringing his denied delay,
The marriage was in May, 1920, suit by the Poor Persons De- at All Souls' Marylebone. There partment. He should be award- was one child, a boy, of which ed such damages as would repre- sent the substantial, but not sen- Major Dyer was godfather.
Major Capel Smith enlisted es timental, injury he had suffered. a private in the R.A.S.C., became The jury asked Lord Merrivale lieutenant in 1915, and received what had happened to petition- his majority before the war end-er's Army career since he came led. He met his wife in 1917 home from India in 1926.
Mr. Willis, K. C. (petitioner's) when she was 18, and, after the war. he obtained a regular com-counsel): He is a retired major thiesion in the RAS.C., at Al- on the reserve of officers, but he SQUEAKS MI has nothing at all in the way of by a new process:- dershot.
evi-means.
For Major Capel Smith, Mr. Willis, K.C., Mr. Norman Parkes, Mrs. Capel Smith also gave and Mr. Patrick Devlin (Kenneth) evidence.
Brown, Baker, Baker and Co.); for Mrs. Capel Smith and Major} Summing up, Lord Merrivale Dyer, Mr. Terence O'Connor, K. said it was admitted that, since C., and Mr. Noel Middleton: 1929, Major Dyer and Mrs. Ca- (Peacock and Goddard). pel Smith had lived together. The real question was how far Major Dyer had been the cause of the present unhappy situation.
Hong Kong, 22nd March, 1933.
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS! in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, 1, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong) Kong, on TUESDAY, the 4th April.j 1933, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Direc
together with a Statement of
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THE Undersigned havo received:
Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
MONDAY, March 27, 1923, commencing at 10.30 am., at "Norman Cottage," No. 2, Peak Road.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
On View from March 26, 1933. Terma: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneera.
Hong Kong, March 21, 1933.
and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 20th March, 1933, to TUESDAY, the 4th April, 1933. Both Days inclusive, during which period NO Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
G. E. ELLAMS,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 20th March, 1933.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
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TH
Auction
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A Large Quantity of PROVISIONS, etc, etc.
and
1 Case Milton Mouth Wash 1 Case Art. Silk Trimmings 470 Doz. Straw Hat Linings
1 Barrel Salted Beef
1 Barrel Corned Pork
also
A Quantity of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND SUNDRIES.
On View from Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, March 24, 1933.
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
of Shareholders will be held at the Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on THE Undersigned have received Offices of the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 23rd of March, at
instructions to scЯ by Publis MONDAY, the 10th April, 1933, at 6.30 p.m.
THE
Auction
ON TUESDAY, March 28, 1933, commencing at 10-30 a.m., at No. 29, Humphreys Building A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
On View from March 27, 1933. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMELT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, March 22, 1933.
TH
HE Undersigned have received] instructions to sell by Public! Auction
ON THURSDAY, March 30, 1933, at 10.30 amy
at No. 14, Chatham Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
· FURNITURE. 7
On View from March 29, 1933. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, March 23, 1993.
Major Capel Smith gave dence, and called a number witnesses.
of
Took Her To Dances.
Major Capel Smith saw much service during the war, and in 1920 went to Aldershot, where his superior officer was Major Dyer. That officer, who was some years older, became on friendly terms) with Mrs. Capel Smith, and took her to dances, which, in ordinary circumstances, should have been perfectly harmless.
TIENTSIN ARTIST'S
EXHIBITION.
Pencil And Pastel Drawings.
AMERICAN GIRL REVEALS TALENT.
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Children's Shoes from $2.69 pair. FACTORY DIRECT TO TÔu, Boleing a specialty
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Miss Blanche Mary Grambs, a G 17 year-old American girl from T Tientsin, is holding a two-day In 1926, so the petitioner said, exhibition of pastel and pencil 0 there was an incident in the gar-drawings in the board room of N
age of his house at
Farnham.
His wife and Major Dyer were the Gloucester Building.
The 23 exhibits may be divid-| GENERAL NOTICES. seen by him late one night sit-
ting in a car with the lights out. ed into two classes-portraits Major Capel Smith was very un-of Chinese and portraits of Fili set, and he had related how he pinos.
Misa Grambs spent some time told Major Dyer that he thought he was too much in association at Fanling last February, and GENERAL with respondent. Major Dyer most of her Chinese studies were She shows herself) MEETING will be held in (he had said) had agreed to cease made there. THE SIXTY-FOURTH ORDIN THE ANNUAL
well capable of handling colour GENERAL MEETING the Board Room of Messrs. his attention to her.
and her pictures though some- Alleged Enticement,
times highly coloured are never from ser- After he returned vice in India, having heard that too bright. the association of his wife with Major Dyer had not stopped. Grambs has been the guest of A Major Capel Smith instituted Mr. and Mrs. L. Dunbar.
pencil drawing of Mr. Dunbar la His proceedings for divorce. explanation was: "All I did that included in the exhibition.
Later, Miss Grambs will be the for was to get Major Dyer out of my wife's life, that she might guest of the American Consul-
General He did not come back to me." continue with that suit, but. In 1927, brought an action against Major Dyer claiming damages have for enticement. "ereased from $16,000 to New Lady Instructresses "$24,000 per annum.”
the latest arrived. All NOW
Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Mana gers, together with a Statement of Accounts for, the year ended the 31st December, 1932.
The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting:
By Order,
B. D. EVANS, Hon. Secretary.
PAULINE
(1) "That as from the 1st day DANCING ACADEMY.
"of January, 1933 the "remuneration of the Con- "sulling Gommittee be in
(2)
Latest Ball Room Dancing Nightly,
While in Hong Kong Miss
AVOID SPRING COLDS The changeable weather of the early Avold coldi That action failed because the months is treacherous.
no by keeping your internal organs clear "That as from the 1st day Dancing Steps taught. Classes jury held that there was
and cican. It is the conatipated people "of January, 1933 the Afternoon;. Practice Nightly 8-12. evidence to support the claim who catch cold quickly, so safeguard There was no doubt that Major yoursdf by an occasional dose of Pin- Newly redecorated and many
passionately kettes. "tors be raised from $1,200 charming. Hghts to lend enchant Capel Smith was
fond of his wife, and his great desire seemed to be that she
"remuneration of the Audi-
"to $1,600 per annum for "cach Firm.”
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The Share Register and Transfer 7th fl. KING'S THEATRE BLDG. should go to India to join him. Bocks will be closed from the 27th March to the 10th April, 1933, both days inclusive.
There was no need to read the affectionately expressed letters which passed between the pair,
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