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DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12т. 1918.
LEARNING FRENCH.
JOY DANTLEY CAPPER.]
sant, copia.
To this day. like a litans, the jingle ing in his head Connaitre, nair je connais
Jo Con** Wrthout rhyme, certainly without reason, part obetonte as the firm nursery dogkevel. thre dd says, there it has been siten, | soinen lære bhut the age of twelve-40 shira . the schoolboy festmide the negacintaner ad the Table de Verbe Frugal Irregudros In those old days There wered postthing magical about die
There was a full blooded aming. why the writrastu kontide though artfully Imampons that son elrow, cajitivated the en
ried lustily, with a challenging note in thin vetre, at pang est with anvil strokes. #elanghig slogan Herited within Cele
Sunster the thing nequired the
And there Strangeresk of all inratilation. were murs witen 1 saftened mio e lutinby Now this had drɛge like a Jabout for ang schul learning winch” års thos pofsibir days be so intoriously. avglared and Kiwe has an unjalpuriously. Jong tim
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tas christian manis, William Estat
His later Muthently indicate his epoch.
thai Traded perind schooldays hell 20 Education
all to Arms deal
Unfor which neter fell on Funadelos
diers were those of politicians and prelates, who interpreted the cah in theor several ways, and in their struggle
schools
battle at the fog spremny,
id which the contending armies halted and sorged round the banners of
Hectarianism Paste Relative,,
Pagrats મં Casper People 1841. Rights Somehow, in the none nad dust of battle, the Besh and bone of contention, the child. was fost sight of You couldn't Ax ducation for the eduentionints. atura! 24 114 the wools old
their mattained bishiotted
Exart was yet in the Eton collar and knickerocker stage when the old fashioned lugher grade school was sup plemented by the secondary schod, and he was privileged to become one if the orginal benelearns of a new tional order. Many new
ly
ALLEGED WRONGFUL
DISMISSAL
EVIDENCE REGARDING THE ETHICS OF EMPLOYMENT.
resumed 10 the The hearing has been Kobe Chines Saihaushe before Judge Kajua and two Associate Judges, of the caer in which Mr H Blough chime damages amounting to
V 20,000 from the North West Trading Company, Kobe. Mr Clough was formerly mannses of this concern. Rad elains the damages
oned for alleged
disasl BBB BB fut Heal demands from the defendant e pusa statesient of the seasons for his d:xsl
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AUDITORS AS BUSINESS ADVINERS.
the
An
COMPANY MEETING.
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER
thuen
CO, LTD.
To many business men the mere arith- metical necurney of a set of books conIIUM
extenordinary general meeting of for everything. If the auditor has care.
Ltd. bana Eight and Power Co fully checked the entries anal all posttags
was held, yesterday, at noon at the uhren and additions, and an evertity that the
[of the Compuos, St. George's Buildings. Jhongkong M R Shewan tehamna) lance-sheet and profit and loss necou show the true position na disclosed by the Hooks it is considered that he has done presiding, and there were also present
Messis B P What Comsuding euromat. his duty No me remains to be suid
G Gordon, WA Adamson, H. The discovery of a compansaung etter fee). A.
Cordein, Toak Lai xbach has no vital Temerge on the real Tampbell, A A
(shn rebaiders). 11 W Looker gro of affairs as build with satising
Cl
to the Company) and T Taon, and the auditur i aerounted a prall
jmka! (secretary } Rood TVR1 For what other rebut s
argues the cou an auditor appointed !
E merend head of a past generation. well known case a velebrated just bet
1 adeleine that no auditor is not
ni large perhaps, unfortunate wer of lucuness excentives do not re given him, he would find it very difficult cognise the wisdom of the Searned Judge's to obtain another pematon the damage remark.
is quite true that the perters dung Very consoldernisle thus sustained being
The returned proceedings consisted of
Mr W The examination of witnesses Stephenson, questioned by the President Judge, mated that if is reson was given for the dismissal of a bun, he would home
vial cyrdt, and if FIOL
In
reference
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It was difficult to estimate the extent of of an sudnog is the check the records pre- such damage in terms of money, but
sented to hm in order to enstaly to the must be very diffients in such
of Mr. Clough's final amounts as disclosed by the breaka stanees for a peri
But in order to do this a skilful pro standing to secure a muitable position As far in Wiess knew, it was the custom
Washington to give pasons whenever fessional accountant med no servssardy Ta the majority Check every transaction any amplop is dismissed
course would in With most businesses of of cases, indeed, suete a impracticable
as possible for a any magnade 1 erning auditor to arrange a system of ed. ad mated that he had been engaged miernal check which olis sates mucho neesk
In answer to questions by eunused for!
ན་ ་ ད defendant, M. Stephenson stated that he knew plaintiff though he did not know, what position he had held with defendant colapuy, bur the reason for his dismissal.
Mr Alfred Schofield was next examin
l percentages can be utilised tready nut usually 16+ But we need not stress the many auditors by
in shipping business for about 30 years work on his part Again, a syste
the nited States When an coplage. especially one in an importaal position,
th resul was distinged.
$48.
was not a legal cbigation on the part of the employer, but if the methots known to sedute
which the neeurney af lalamu sheet on demand for a statement of the reason
JL11 i tried were refused, the emplage had the right either financial state to go to law in order to enforce demand This san berBLUESE a reason for dis msal in gaven, it is
is possible for the
position employ dismissed to btain a elsew bure not to mening the great dam
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The
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to his ken, in smel Hunt WITH Age sustained in regard to bother and nuditor and revives or other assistance
cause of 136
sun that pay man who could not state the he should be paid. Apart altogether from reason why he had been dismissed by his the question of remuneration, an auditor former employer would not be employed of a firm should be the business adviser of by any other man.
No une is, or should be,
personal credit The amount of damagete information as the result of the audi! drew the astronomi
less novel.
be claimed in such 11)
cases naturally
He is only obtaining cal methods employed were
Janismes a good deal ough varied scrording to the amount of nithough History tea-hig
hall value, or ever less. For his toney 1 bad advanced, a litle beyond the old but in the case of Mr. Clough a sunt cor would entrenchments of date lists and the responding to two years salary On the other hand, and we consider this gealogical trees of royalties. had been not be sufficient to cover the damage
witness were dismissed, whether the to be nearer the truth in many cases, the brought to a staustalill before the Hindest
In dir United States or Japan. he would ask the auditor only obtaing about half of what burg line of the Hanoverians
of his dismissal, for the obvious rea enlightened curriculum geography had no likewise was relegated to pinc
On the other hand, theenties and
were exalted Ncience almost to a religion, and the squ
squnrest of
In reply to questions by counsel for the institution. literary pegs were ruthlessly werewed into the roundest of mathematical holes. The defendant, Mr Schofield said the custom regarding the exposition of reasons when teaching of languages followed the same
6 man is dismissed was general in its arbitrary, old fashioned methods. Gram-
throughout. the United mer was the be-all and the end-all here.application It was taught by a process similar to that States, it of course held good in Wash
trude ington. by which a nail 3 persuaded to intru
Mr. Takale, counul for plaintiff, asked into the prichey of a pace of wood. Take Hversa.
the Court to secure the opinion of Pro ware of the conjugations and the
fessor Kauffmann, of Tokyo Imperial tion will take care of itself that seetued
University, as to whether the said custom to be the guiding principle Learning a language maut getting by heart inter has any binding and obligatory applica tion, or is merely a custom, which may minable lists of exceptions, the grananati
or may not be observed, cal rule bing like a net and the excep tions the teabes thereof.
All these hurdeg William Ewart. shouldered with the light
You are to re-
in a better position to proffer information or advice. Besides, being a record of past achievements, the Trading Account, Profit nnid Loss Account, and Balance Sheet for as an index to any year should serve
Comparison of que future proceduire
res with another should disclose year's figures
in the case of a sell weaknesses or gatis. ng organisation the totals of une district can be set against another and a com
a population basis; parison set up on or the selling cost per unit in one section can be compared with another in seine facts like these can be brought Mr. Yamashita, counsel for defendants.
light by con
competent accounting ability
infe with the organisations. Edness of his years.
said that according to a statement made by the manager of the head office of the state, though, that rarely is information gard him as being neither uncommonly
Seattle (which was of this character brought to bear-in Il chap defendant pingpany clever nor particularly dull,
submitted to the Court as an exhibit), nection with the running of the average ed
well, his schoolmaster used to say of bim He had good foundation an employer is under no obligation to business. Ask any business friend what red indicate the reason for the dismissal of it cost him to de bustness and in nine lad. Supercharged Why n
promising with French irregular verbs and
sions and the governing peculiarities of prepositions he walked into his matri culation examination with a brain well. nigh bursting with mich mnemonic jingles
ак
This application was granted by the Presiding Judge
concerns
N
1.
The Chairman sardi t log to proje thank the first resoluttiste be pussal,
That
as desirable Thompany, and, accordingly, that this Compuang be wound up voluntarily. and that Wugh Frank Campbell, of St.
Vjetorin, Building. Geotges Colony of Hongkong, rerelamust, he ap panted Laquodatter for the purpose of stel w moding up at a remuneration of one hundred dollises
1J1
Thes
M II P White es den and 1845 mal irri was carried manimously. The Chairman next proposed -
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That the General Managers of this Company, he authorised and requested to form and jaseure to be tearinated, Jame a ve 4ompany to be enfled the Light & Peter Company 1919, Ltd God which they shall be appointed in agreement Viral Mannges) with th abgests Tote utan af
unds raking. machinery, art, book debts and
this Com other assets. Whatsavet
and ferrying of business on Bithy or nem Kowlion, and, on elsewhere E thought desirable, with Alessas Shewan," Tones & C, Hongkong.
ther :i preses in Lustuess ne General Man agas su long as the General Manngers For the time leng if a euijoration), um of an surporated firm any of y Hure partner or partners in the fru of the General Managers individually or collectively shall hold to less than ong thousand shares of the Coroquiny, Mr. H. P. Campbell greonded, and the motion wie entried anumously
The hairman proposed.
That the proposed Memorandum and Articles of such new Compras sub raattend to this meeting be, and the sanie are hereby, approved, and that the iquidator authorized to consent to the registration of such new Company with such Memorandum and Articles Recordingly.
M. W 4 Adamusont seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
The Chatman proposed .
That the draft Agreenetil subst:lef to this meeting marked A and be made between this rapressed to Company and the Liquidatur, of "thus one part, and The China Light and Power Folijay
Ls of the her part, be approved: and that the Liquidator be authorised, pareant to Section 18 of the Companies nater, Bil, to enter into an Agreement, with stelt new Company (when mar ported) in the terms of the said aft effect with and to carry the same ipte Hoch (if nu) mudifications before or after the exerntion thef ap be with the approval of the Generd Managers of the new Company whisky
Mr. Gordon seconded, and the motion 1 214 carried onanimously.
inent is not fixed. Counsel applied to the centage. tival abnormalities, with Latin drele 13 employé if the term of his employ-eases out of ten ho anit fell you the per
With
the experience of other organisa Court for the examination of Mr. A. D). Read and Mr. H. L. Reid as witnesses. tions to guide him, and because he can This application was granted, and the bring an outside view point to bear, an auditor who knows his work is capable pregeedings were adjourned indefinitely
Unless a set of of giving sound counsel. ugures can they
can be used as a guide to futuro What afe xf lith is lost, by petty pilfering on the part of emplopes 15 14 bagatelle compared with the The following Government warning is what is lost year after year because busi
new men do not make the best use of issued: %
Justend of them. Lo records presented (1)From German charts 110 mines expecting the auditor to discover slight have been laid between 4 degrees errors, look to him to use his judgment north 105 degrees 17 cast und 3 degrees in pointing out the lessons to be learned 52 north, 108 degrees cast on September from the past year's business. If you are mution was carried oonnimously- 2nd, 1917. Nhips have
crossed this area conducting several departments in your with safety since. Ships approaching business, make sure that every department
A, ah, absque, coram, de, Palam, quam, cum, ex and e Ante, agud, ad, adversus, Cireum, dres, ciste, Cuf Latin
cis And over through the woof threaded the wefthof French: **Con naisagat, connu; je connais, je connus. It had now nequired the solgun cadence of a funeral march.
Having dis gorged to the satisfaction of his examin ers, William Ewart walked out well con- Lent
a
WARNING TO MARINERS.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 29th.
(2.)
loft by his good the deficiencies of which information
RUTI SU
of
The Chairman, finally, proposed: -
That the Liquidator be authorised to obtain advances from the General Managers of any monies requisite upon such terms as be thinke fit.
Mr. A. A. Cordeiro seconded, and the
This was all the business at the pect-
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERN IBNUED BY MR. P. C. JENKIN, C.D.K
SERVICE RIFLER.
Servies rifles held by members of Now and Platoons must be re- turned to Armoury between the bours of 5.16 and 5.43 Friday, December 13th, or Tuesday, December 17th.
REVOLVER DUUREK
is mined. Ships are in pase 10 miles to power. And so it is with accounting. the north of 115 degrees north drawing The average business man needs to have less than 15 feet bound to and from his returns analyand and the Gigures shown Tucorin and may pass between Wadge in a comparative way if they are to help sounds will be warned for instruction at bank and Cane Cameron.
him.
If he is wise he consults his pro (4.) Mastfiend lookouts are to be cin fessional nuditor, Mercantile Gazette, ployed in dunger areas and ships fitted New Zenload. with Otter gear are to use it.
Headquarters Club during the week commencing Monday, December
16th.
EXEMPTION
According to popular notions he left or leaving this area are to follow the pngs. Keep proper records and have the ing terminated. school a well-educated young man. A track of Horsburg's light to a point. 23gures analysed. Your auditor can show quickly as posenble he forgot all about the miles due cast, then to a position one you how If the returns one safesman binomial theorem and the calculus of degree 60 north 105 degrees 15 cast. appear higher than the others, find out. infinitesimal increments, and
consigned
German charts also reveal that large why. It may happen that the expens Carnot's perfect-seat-ngine, along with number of mines still remain to be swept rate of the man you rounder the star osmosis and the formulae of inorganic and up off Bombay The full information is out of all proportion to the otters organic chemistry, to a place where com-
conjures up con. Modest thus obtained shows that no alternation The word "efficiency bustion is the normal condition.
is required in the prompt swept channel siderable awe in the minds of most ly he sought to
ill be given by us. After all, is only applied business in English literature. tho authorities.
port
if a man has a bad tooth be All Now and then, with an English French,
(3.)- The of Cape Cameron between wisely consults a competent dentist. The French-English dictionary at his elbow,
7 degroes 20 north 77 degrees 10 12 onat self, but he has more faith in the other's man could, perhaps, fix that tooth him. he would plough his way through a
7 degrees
21 north and 77 degrees east French novel er newspaper with the object of enlarging his vocabulary. For several years He urged the delusion that he had some knowledge of the Fronch language.
in the fulnces of time a war broke out, and presently William Ewart found him- Belf in France with a pocket, dictionary where his rat-aid dressing should have been, and an absurd jingle in bla bend
MANY RACES IN TURKEY. Connaitre, connaissant, connu; je con- nais, je ratnus.
***Thus it was ten years Marie, sime ničine na' look showp. Down't
The Toot Awoel 1" or after matriculating that Willian wanter miss mi tara! 'bus.
population uf Ewart's delusion was dispelled. The
Righto
Mademoiselle. Empire, not including Arabia, is about Amall extruni- scene of his downfall was
In William Ewart gracefully 18 million, or was before the war. Comin'!" net where a young French, girl fitted subsided,
giving statistics on any subject regard wing from tabla to table with bottles of
Nowadays, wearing three blue chevrons Ing Turkey uns speak approximate and Jugs of what she humorously called on his right alene, he reads Le Telegram terms, for only emptiles, can be given,
Mierra William, the veriant of green of the Pas de Cainis with facility but
other no thorough census is taken or hornn, Addrowned her thun: Bonjour, when an interpreter is required he leave statisties systematically gathered. Among Voulez-veten me donner de Inhithe job to a West Riding man who never the varioue races this total wae dig Mademoiselle Comment-vous
bierre si
tributed as follows: Turka. 7 million: vous pinit? Her reply surprised him, learned French in his life but has a won
dorfal knack of so smploying such phrases Syrians and Arabs, 46 million: Karda, 'ow do Bottle or Jack,
Loot wrot
pre million; Armesinus, 2 million; fireeks, embarrassed, Willissa ed chili Brest-ce que vous parlez Ang-rums CA, aut the chance 15 million; Jews, & millius; other races, c. 13 Adullah is permitted to resign pree, Maieu 1 remarked Mademoiselle. the French Innguake. William Ewart million. All the people get traer console himself with the cynical reflee their history back to the period when Bushing he repented the question. Oh, tion that they don't talk French in fable and legend blend with the begin you, a bit," said she don't you?"
Frater. And in in not for wrong. When ing ht historja facts, and all, except the At that moment a little Cockney at the inlking to member of the HET. s Turks, hash finhabited, from time im [lither end of the ruum sang oul?, of the natives talk English-Tauchrater memorial, the districts in which they are
now luund (Continued at feat of neat column.)
Cn.
:-
Inis done. Mademoiselle?
Guardian.
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Ottoman
Au Exemption Board will sit xt 6 pm. on Thursday, December 18th.
VISITING INSPECTORS,
Visiting Inspectors, Central District, ure required to visit the wharve at least once during their tour of duly, and lo enter their visita in ibo Occurrener Hook at the Harbour Office.
BAND.
There will be a Band practice on Thure- day, December 12th at 8 p.m.
STRENGTH.
Baving the Colony.
FANCY DIGAR DANER,
Members of all Committees are requested fumunt nt the City Hall at 5.15 pm, on Thursday, the 19th innt. December 1146, 1915.
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