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Crowds "Congo Star' diamond
"The Congo Star," a $400,000 pink diamond of over ten carats, recently flown in from Africa, is now on show in the window of Sennet Frere's jewellery shop in the Gloucester Building.
Reputedly the most expensive diamond in the Far East, the pear-shaped stone in mounted in the centre of a cushion and is watched over by two uniformed Gecurity guards.
Pedestrians, three deep. gathered outside the window to Ket a glimpse of the precious diamond.
A similar stone was presented to the Queen as a wedding gift. The rose coloured dlamond has 57 facets.
GOOD LUCK
Mined in the Conga, the da- mond has the reputation of bringing Laud, luck to da sue- cessive owners.
On shew on the cushion also were a CU-curtt sapphite warh $200,000,
seven-and-a-half
iT
cart cabechen ruby with cal's eye worth $3,000, and
Siberin emerald.
Pinic clothes detectives rent by the Police mingled with the crowds cutside the shop.
Tax claim
Los Angeles, Jan, 11.
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A lax Ben for $24,831 fled today against actress Belle Davis and her former husband, actor Gary Merrill,
The US. Internal Revenue Service claims the two owe ad- Alllonal taxes for 1957 and-1058. Miss Davis and Merdi were divorced last July.-AP.
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LANDLORD GRANTED LEAVE TO APPEAL
The Full Court this morning
granted leave to a land- lord to appeat against the judgment of d District Court judge.
The Court also ordered that notice of motion be filed within 14 days.
The applicant was Mr Loc
| Bing-keung, who was re- presented by Mr Brook
Bernacchi, QC, art Mr A.
CORRECTION
In a report on an appeal
lating to an eviction case which appeared in yester- day's issue of the China Mail, the name of the ap- pellant Was Incorrectly given as Mr Lee Bing- keung.
before the Full Court re-
in
The appellant WAR fact Mr Lok Pak-wal, who ALK stated in yesterday's report, was not represented by counsel or advised by solicitors.
Zimmern, both instructed by Mr J. N. Smart, of Messra Wilkinson Grist.
E The applicant acks for are order to set aside on order by Judge A. A
A. A. Huggins and that an order for possesion of 511 recond floor, Shur Ning-road,
be granted. Alternatively, ne
asks for a retrial of the case.
The Full Court comprised the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Hogan, and the Puisne. Judge, Mr Justice A. D. Scholes,
Local costs increase
HK BREAKERS SCRAPPED
FEWER SHIPS
Hongkong shipbreaking yards bought fewer ships for scrapping last year because of increased prices for old ships, competition from other breaking centres, and increased local costs of breaking.
Kafablished 1845
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1961.
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PICTORIAL PARADE
ABOVE: Mr G. L. Manuel
(left) of the Philippines trado: mission, that visited the Colony recently, seen chatting with prominent Hongkong businessman, Mr. Tat-choo.
*
RIGHT: A dinner was hald at. Loke Yow. Hall by the University of Hongkong this week. Pictured (I-r) are Mrs A. M. Rodrigues, Lord Bridges, Mrs L. T. Ride, Sir Robert Black, Dr L. T. Rido, Lody Black and
Dr A. M. Rodrigues.
HAWKER SQUABBLE ENDS IN COURT
This was stated today itz ='were constructed both for locní | A squabble between two report on slip sale and pur- and overseas clients,
chase and chartering in Hong- The report said Mainland kong in 1900, prepmed b. Harlĝy · China nequired more than ten Mullien & Co (Hongkong) Lid. 'Liberty or similar type ships The report said the telange, ut prices in the region of scrapped "ws in the region of £115,000 each, and these were 400,000 gro:s Ions, compared all bought during the Arst with about 500.000 gress tons few months of the year. In ad- In the previous year.
dition to these, slig also bought some small second-hand cosmial vessels.
The Agurs Included dry cargo ships, large number of tan- kers, stine passenger ships and I seven obsolete US alreraft
carriers,
China's chartering programme was comparatively quiet during the year and had no effect on HK purchases
world freight rates as in some previous
The years.
M001 shipping interests bought 700,- Interline features concerning China wero the chartering of ways between
The
report sald
Herskong
60 dw tons of second hand tonnage both
the
engagement
of vessels to
shi for further trading. Most Cuba and China in the autumn; Hongkong buyers, were mainly Interested In acquiring "low espital" wor-bulit cil-burn Indoresla
and more than 30 ships of this yra were purchased.
over
TH. CĦANET
LEFT: Roy John Foster pictured officiating at the funeral service of the late Mr R. A. Wadesan at the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, this week.
生先華區陳
BELOW: Mr A. A. Bouwes drinking a toast with Mr H. W. Chen at a bangunt celebrating the 25th anni- versary of the establish- ment of the Friesland Trading Company in Hongkong.
From the Files
25
years
AGO
January 1936
After. By years the last meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board under that Nante 1008 hrid yesterday. Reference to the happy re- lationship between Officials and the Unofficials was mado in speeches made by Mr W. J. Carrie, President of the Board and the Hon Mr M. K. Lo, representing the Unofficiala,
FOLLOWING the
ap-
pearance of tigera on the mainland, news now comes of the sighting off Repulse Bay on Friday even- ing of what appeared to be a small whale.
Capt. F. A. Swoffer, a re- sident of the Hotel was looking out of his window when about half a mile from the shore he noticed a dis- turbance on the water.
Watching closely, he saw In few minutes later a black object which appeared to be from eight to twelve, feet long, moving about.
It then went. down but later resurfaced and had an appearance somewhat simi- lar to that. of a porpolste although the movements were not those of such a creature.
It
la likely that the visitor was a baby whale, sald the Morning Post..
In the early days of the Colony, American whalers used to put into Hongkong but in consequence of the slaughter of whalea in North Pacific waters they have become very scarce and a visit to these waters nowadays is a rarity,
DRUG PEDLAR COMPENSATION whate appeared in Hong-
GETS THREE
YEARS JAIL
►
hawkers onded with one Two men were sentenced to three years each for man being sent to hospi-
tal with a wound requir ing ton stitches, and the other going to jail for two weeks.
The one who went to Jail- accused of striking the other with a bowl-was Cheung Ho. 42-year-old shoemaker.
The one who went to hospital was Yu Siu-kle. He stayed there eix days.
OF $30,000 AWARDED
Compensation totalling nearly awarded this
Wis
Mr Lam Chik-ho.
W89
In February 1868 a stray
kong harbour and chased by the crews of amateur whaters, but it made good its escape to
Bea.
☆
A marked increase in the
$30,000 morning to tenants of No. 2. Nelson-street, Kowloon by Tenancy Tribunal, Mr Brian V. Rhodes, (President), and quality and quantity of ex- members, Mr H. Sidbury and {hibits was a feature of the
New Territories Agricultural. Plans for six-storey build-Show at Shak Wu Hui, which possession of dangerous drugs by Mr T. L. ing costing $95,000 to replace was opened by Mr Lawrence the premises, described as an Kadooria ONL Saturday and "old-fashioned Chinese-type continued yesterday when Mr house" in Mongkok, were pre- T. Megarry, District Officer chitect on tuong-yu, North, distributed the prizes. Mr Kwan Tung-sin, applicant There were almost 6,000 ez- represtated by Hastings and Co. ibita on view, bettering last Mr Lo reported that the exist year's total by one thousand oplum Ing house was in a poor state of and that of the previous year
repair.
by 3,000,
Yang at Causeway Bay Court this morning.
The
defendant
under
Yi Wah. 44. unemployed, tone. living in a rooftop hut on 124 caution admitted they belonged Gloucester-rund, pleaded guilty. to him.
Inspector S. Y. Lam sald that He had two previous similar at 11.50 am on January 30 at Li convictions for heroin posses-
de❘ sion and three Gn Chit-strect, Wanchal the fendant, a heroin pedlar, wus smolting. under observation by detectives. They handed him a marked $1 note to buy herom.
Taking the note he picked up a bundle of firewood and took Dot-Insp R. B. Bayless told out a plastic bag containing 40 Centralinagistrate Mr Derek packets of heroin and gave one Cons that the fight, vitnessed to the detectives. by a traffic policeman, was over a site in Elgin-street which
Both men wanted to occupy. carry Chinese repatriates from and the recent reported sale of about 300,000 Yu got their first. Cheung tena of wheat from Australia claimed he had a prior right to This was an increase
to China which, presumably, it. 1930 despite the fact that values will be Il fund by chartereri were generally at a higher level
and tonnage,
which could than theee prevailing last year influence rates in the East. spid the report.
Optimistic
"With #protracted summer rectalon in charter rates and a While the level of freight lack of peiled employment, rates at the close of the year is not Hongkong trading oper- below that obtaining at the end 13:8 withdrew from the market of 1959, many experienced ship during the latter part of the uperators were optimistle in the [yout."
long view as, with expanding- The report said there had economies in Asia and Und East, been some increase of interest | given political stability, they
salpowners in. by locat
consider that the demand buildings, and several contracts tonnage in these areas should were placed during the -year increase.
now
for
Upon revealing their identities the defendant admitted selling and possession of heroin.
He had 12 previous similar convictions, the Inspector added. POLICE RAID
The other man convicted was
After an armament Cheung Ng Chok-nang, 27, unemployed
struck Yu with a bowl.
JAILED FOR STEALING
FROM CARS
A 30-year-old unemployed man, Chu Man-wa, of no fixed
of hus 190, No 4 Section Chal Wan, who pleaded gulity to possession of 2.4 grams of heroin und 21 cars of berbitane.
Inspector S. Y. Lum said that at 2.15 pm on January 10, a polles search party raided rocm 478 "B" block Chai Wan ressitie
•ment area and there they found a cigarette pocket and a plas- tle bag containing 30 pockets of horain and 21 grams of barbi-
mostly with European and The report closed on this address, was sentenced to 18 No love in Cuba,
Japanese yards.
note: "However, in view of the month jail by Mr, Derek Cons Locol-constructionTM – number of deep-sos-tramp ver-at-Central Court this morning scia now owned and operated for stealing entices from threz
consul resigns
As far as new copatruello in the Orienf, Far Eastern own parked cars, work wrs concerned Högkong |ers should become more inter- } Chu pleaded guilty to stealing
San Francisco, Jan. 11. shipyards concentrated on nationally minded, and, bo pro¬ ̈'a pair of shoes worth $65, Cuban Consul in San Tran- small, specialized craft in which pared to charter their tonnage lady's Chinese style jreket worth circo odrigo Parajon resigned they are particulatly, experienc-to other parts of the world: $30 and a jerday worth $50 from from his government's diploma-. ed and competitive, and a con- when, as is bound to occur with three parkod cars in the Centrales service today because, ho riderable number, offerries, | trelatit, cycles, there laɛ period district between Decard 15"xald," love la dissppearing from lugs, barges and similar erati i of excess tonnage in the Keil" and January 7. this year.
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