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SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE. Victoria Buildings, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th JANUARY, 1904, at 14.30 o'clock 'a.m, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc torn together with a Statement of Accounts for: the year ending 31st December, 1903.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURS DAY, the 1st JANUARY, to WEDNES- DAY, the 27thJANUARY, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 19th Jauzary, 1904.
THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NOTICIENT ORDINARY MET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, Victoris Buildings, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th JANUARY, 1904, at 11.45 o'clock A. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statenient of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1903.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 16th JANUARY, to WEDNESDAY, the 27th JANUARY (both days inclusive), daring which period no transfer of Bhares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, A SHELTON HOOPER,
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Co., La
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, Vioteria Buildings, on WEDNESDAY, the MACHINES 27th JANUARY, 1904, st. 12 o'clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1903
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The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 16th JANUARY, to WEDNESDAY, the |27th JANUARY (both days inclusive), during which period no. transfer of Shares can be registored.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 1904
SUPREME COURT.
Saturday, 23rd January,
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM
M. GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE),
PRESUMPTION OF A SEA-CAPTAIN'S DEATH.
Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.Ü., barrister-at-law (instructed by Mr. Victor Deacon of Messra, Deacon. Looker and Deacon, solicitors), appeared in support of a motion for leave to swear the death of Captain David D. Keefe of the Santa Crus, Mr. H. Hursthouse of Messrs. Dentys and Bowlay, solicitors, watched the case on behalf of the widow and daughter, both
of whom are in Amerion.
Mr. Sharp said the motion naked bis Lord. ship's leave to prosoms the death of Captain O'Keefe sa having occurred sa or about 31st Mag, 1901. There was no opposition to the motion. It was the desire of all parties that the death should be presumed,
His Lordship-The two sons were on hoard the ship also?
Mr. Sharp-Yes: There were other children of the family, he went on to say, in Yap, in the Caroline Islands. There was only one child of the family in America; that was the married daughter. The American wife was still living. This application was matie on behalf of Mr. George P. Lammert who was the Hongkong executor appointe 1 by Captain O'Keefe by his will and codicils, and there were before his Lordship offidavits made by Mr. Lammort and Mr. Deacon giving the particulars of a violent typhoon which occurred at the time in question, His Lordship-What struck me in this affidavit was that they say that on the 3rd May Captein O'Keefe left Hongkong.
tion of death for the purposes of probate In the case of missing ships the Couri gats such leave in from one and a half to two years.
His Lordship-That is in a case of insurance ? Mr. Sharp replied thu for insurance purposes a ship was supposed to bare fondered if she was missing for one year. He went on to quote the cases re Hutton, 1 Curtis, p. 595; re Alston, 1892, Probate 142; re Jobason, 78 Law Times Reports, 1885, and Watson and King, ↓ Camp- bell, p. 272. The last case was dated 1915. A ailing ship on a voyago from Jamaica to Eng land was last seen at sea on 7th March, 1814, a letters of administration were produced in Court on 14th December, 1815. This case was referred to in Taylor as a anthority on this point. In the case of Hutton this was a sling ship from Manila to Londor. She started in July, 1835, and was not heard of agais. In February, 1837, the Court presumed the death of the captain. In the case of Alston (1892) a sailing ship from Liverpool to Peru was last heard of on 6th September, 1890, and eighteen months later leave was given to presume de th. In the case of Johnson-it was also & sailing ship case-she was last heard of on 2nd February, 1897, and on 20th December next year leave was given to swear death. They only saked for leave to awear death. There were some questions about the will which they did not enter into at all. just now.
Mr. Lammort then went into the box and
gave formal evidence to the effect that the ship was not insured, nor the cargo either, us this particular voyage.
His Lordship said he would give leave to This was a case which did not swear death as having occurred on or sinos 7th May, 1901.
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some before the Const in Hongsong ofte, I THEODORO VAFIADIS seamed that the ordinary law was that when a man bed not be heard of for a period of sever youre his death might be presumed, but there which seemed to be exceptional cases ja death had been presumed at a less period, and of which Alston was of comparatively recent among those cassa he had been referred to four date. There the ship was last heard of on 6th September, 1894, and he found that in March, 1892, about sighteen months afterwards, the Presidurt gavo leave after hearing counsel to
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wear the death as having occurred on or after 6th September when the ship was last heard of. He did not think he wond to doing anybody any injustico by following the course in that case, and therefore he gave leave to swear death after 7th May, 1901, which was the date when the ship no:nally, left na having occurred on Hongkong Harbenr, baring takes out her clearance some four days previously. Probate would be dealt with separately.
The Court adjournal.
CORRESPONDENCE,
THE HONGKONG SAMPAN NUISANCE
70 THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS,
Mr. Sharp explained that he cleared on the 3rd but actually sailed on the 7th. The boat was delayed. The testator, Captain O'Keefe, Hongkong Land Investment and Agency lived for very many years in the Caroline Islands, at Yap, one of the most westerly of the group, a little south of Lat. 10 and about Long. 3139; that was a little way south of the Philippine Islands, Captain O'Keefe traded there and amassed a very considerable fortune. Yap was 1,500 to 2,00 miles distant from Hong- kong. The property, valued on 21st May, | 1901, at over $120,000, was at the tims of Captain O'Kuele's death in Hongkong, which he had been in the habit of very frequently is tong his y the It was a small and visiting on his schooner the Santa Cruz during rather old boat, 12 tons burden, and at least 30 years old at the time of the voyage in question inasmuch as they knew that this was the boat formerly called the Southern Cross on which Bishop Paterson was murdered in the South Seus in 1871. Thereforo in 1901 the schooner must have been at least 30 years old. In the year 1890 on the occassion of one of his visits to Hongkong Captain O'Keefe made the will which was now before his Lordship and also two codicils in 1895. By one of those codicils Mr. Lammert was appointed Hongkong executor in lieu of the previous one. In May,
Hongkong, 21st January, 1 1904 Captain O'Korfo wng again in
SIR-You would, I ain sure, confer a great Hongkong and on the 3rd of that month, benefit on a large number of your readers if. according to the Harbour master's books. you opened your columns to a discus-ion of the Santa Cruz cleared for Yap. Four days the sumpan naisance in Hongkong barbour, later she was towad out of Hongkong. Barbour, which might thereby be relied. After 3 since which ime neither the ship nor anybody years spout between the port of Chim and on board fia.. been heard of. The cargo con Japan, one is forced to ackoowledge that, in the sisted of a quantity of dynamite, fuses and matter of the sampan service Hongkong in detonators. As his Lordship would see from by far the wors of all. Owing presumably to the second affidavit there was a report from the the number of naval officere and men Hongkong Observatory to the effect that a using the ssmpans during the day and evening, violent typhoon had occurred apparently just the occupant of the sampans earn enough Mix. In in the path of the Santa Cruz on bar voyage to warly in the day to satisfy their Yap. Un the 15th and 10th Mr. Figg of the consequence it is almost imporible to get a Observatory reported that a typhoon crossed samper after 9 o'clock p.m., the difficulty the Philippines from the Pacific in La 12, increasing every hour; aud it is not an which would take the typhoon throughthe Sulu exaggeration to state that many arskept waiting 2 hours or more for a sampan to get off to Sea in the midst of the Philippine archipelago. Then it got into the China Sen west of Mindoro, a ship; to get a sampan alongside a ship at a and was still in the China Boa west of the islandi lats hour is even more hopeless.
Os 14in of Luzon, at that time moving north.
10s.to.. and after bailing & sampan for a quarter 19th the typhoon bad got farther north, stift of au tour, seroral being quite close and within to the west of the Balintang Chatinol and call, I have bad to give up my idea of getting SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
was re-curving to the north-east.
ashore. When hailed from the pier the person, General Managers,
noxt day the typhoon apparently returned to in charge of the sampau either refusor to budge Hongkong, 18th January, 1904. 27 the Pacific through the Bashee Channel. These until a large uumber collect, or naks the name of two channels together formed the Formoss the ship to which It is required to go, probablo HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO Channel. They did not know whether on this saying "muchse far and remaining at atebor.
STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. particular, voyage Captain O'Keef want to
The Policeman at Murray Pier seams quito Yap by the west of Luzon or by the south of unable to assist one. There would seem to be Luzon through the Sala Sen. Appareatly the two remedies for the existing state of affairs, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
One is that the men-of-war in the harbour should proper course was by the south of Luzon HE SEVENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY during the northerly monsson and by the other
use the ship's boats exclusively if possible, the HALF-YEARLY MEETING of cancel during the southern. What wver route her that Pere direct control should be exerte
the Santa Cras followed she would almost over the sampars by the Police uathorities; SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be
cents fure might be adopted, and the regula held at the OFFICE of the Company, No. 18, certainly have encountered this typhoon The Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central, on average time for the voyage to Yap was about tion fares in detall required to be posted up in
52 days, and ike minimum about four weeks, each sampan.-Yours, etc.. SATURDAY, the 6th FEBRUARY, at 12 o'clock Nous, for the purpose of roo-iving a If she went by the Sala Sea she would probably Report of the Directors, together with a Statement the typhoon coming up just as so got to the south of Mindoro, The weather report in ment of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, con-
the Gazette was that easterly winds were firming the appointment of a Director and
prevailing at this time making it more probable eleoting Auditors.
that the Santa Crus went south by which sheTHE NEW AMOY HOTEL. would get to Mindoro Strait about the 15th or 16th when the typhoon came through.
TWENTIETH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held in the COMPANY'S OFFICES, No. 14, Des Vaux Road, Victoria, en SATURDAY, 6th FEBRUARY, 1904, et 11 AM. for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1903, declaring a Dividend and electing a Consulting Committee Bad Auditors.
The TRANSPER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY, to SATURDAY, the 6th FEBRUARY, both days inclusive,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 23rd JANUARY, to the 6th FEBRUARY, inclusivo.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD, Secretary. Hongkong, 18th January, 1904.
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His Lordship Has anybody bee to Yap? Mr. Sharp-Yes, several people have been. There is a regular service from Singapore and now there is a stoner running dicoot from Hongkong to the Carolines calling at Yap, though it was not at that time.
His Lordship--What is the most recent news you have got?
Mr. Sharp said the most recent news was in October last from Yap. Since May the petitioner had got several letters from there, the last of which was dated February, 1903. This was filed on 15th May, 1903. Since May, 1901,
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be had received several letters stating that NOTICE TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS. Captain O'Keefe had never returned to the Carolines nor had his ship been seen by otherXTRA COPIES of Daily Press are ou Return tickets are issued at a fare and a half ships trading to that group and the southern sals daily at Mr. H. BUTTONJEE'S available for 2 years.
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His Lordship said it amounted to this, that neither Captain O'Keef, nor his two sons had besu heard of. There were also on board s Scandinavian, Mr. Hoff, a Mr. Gillespie, und a Chiness carpenter who seemed to avo been accop'ed by his family as dead. Of cours the general proposition was that you required to wait seven years before you could get presumption of a man's death.
Mr. Sharp remarked that that period had bean very mack cat down. He could refer his Lonship to a case where presumption of death was made after three years, There was a cass in 1893 of that kind, but he was not going to rely upon that. There were no special circumstancer. The case he was going to cite was almost on all. fours with this, the case of a missing ship- Matthews, 77 Law Times Reports, p. 6914,
His Lordship said that it seemed to him that if 50 or 60 years ago seven years was a run- abla time when it took four or five months for information to travel from India and a voyage man almost oat here was a matter that made
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