COMPANY REPORTS.”” HUNGKONG TRAMWAY: CO., LTD.
• The result of the year's working, subject | to audit, is a follows:
Gree profit (after
charging depre
ciation) £84.083. 0.10 Lose loan Interest,.7,787, & 0
Brought forward from 1919.
Contingent lin--
bility a/c... £50,000. 0.0 Interim dividend
dftd. per share 19,187.100.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1991,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR THE ACTING CEILT JUSTICE (MR. E. E. J. GOMPERTZ).)
CARGO FILFERINO CASE,
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A SECRET SOCIETY BOOK.
COOME FINED FÖR ILLEGAL POSSESSION."
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SPORT.
YOOTBALL
HONGKONG LEAGUE
·DIVISION (I
HONGKONG POLICE, 0.
At the Alagistracy, before Mr. Orme, yesterday, Pak Tin Kai, coolie employed At the adjourned Criminal. Sessions, by Mr. J. H. Wallace, 134, Plantation yesterday, the trial took place of Lai Lai, Road, The Peak, was charged with being 288, 205.14.1 | xhip's tallyman, one of the defendants
unlawful possession of the writings of 7,116 0.3 in the Holt's Wharf cargo pilfering
Csecret society. At the outset preparations were made 203,411.14.4
to try the cases of Lai Lai, and Li Ming together. Both were charged on two counts, for the theft of four cases of piece goods and three balea of blanketed the defendant's box. He found at Mollagh, running through uponed
62,197: 10.0 Li Ming was charged on the additional
count of receiving stolen goods.
Mr. Wakeman, Crown Solicitor, pro- secuted, nad Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared for the defendant Li Ming."
Balance £31,294, 4.4 Anal The directors now recommend va dividend of 1. 3d, per share, mounting Mo£90,312.10% (to be payable in April sx exchange of 34.-2d. 19.47 cents par share), tonying $10,911.14 4 to be car
ried forward.
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BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. The report of the directors for the year ending 31st December, 1920, statts:-
The profit for the year after deducting hall expenses amounts to 2643, 7.10 which deal with as your directors propose to follows:- To pay a dividend of & per cent en the paid up capital absorb
ing i
$190,000.00 To pay a bonus of 8 per cent. on the paid up capital absorb
Capitol 40,000.00 ing To pay a bonus to directors, holders of founders' shares
and staff To write off, organization mez penses (Bhanghai Branch) To write off Back premises
„niecount f
To transfer to roservo fund." To carry forward
63,665.32
#243,749.10
Directors.--In- accordance with the Articles of Association Messa. Fung Ping Shang, P. K. Kwok and Ng Chang Luk now retire, but being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. JUTA NA
Auditors Tho accounts have been audited by Messrs, Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, who retire, but being cligible, offer, themselves for re-election. HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF
Mr. Jenkin objected to the two men. being tried together, and asked that separate trials be held. It developed that, owing to a misunderstanding, the Crown though Mr. Jenkin had waived ob jection to the trials going on together His Lordship directed that the two men be tried separately. The trial of Lai Lai proceeded.
The following jury was empanelled: E. U. Smith, O. R. Benson, J. F. Smirke, H. Dreyer, J. Sloan, L J. Davies, H. Davis. In place of Mr. Silva, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., who was empanelled as a juron Mr. Dragg was cpanelled, as the Crown Solicitor pointed out that Me Silva's firm was interested in the case.
Mr. FE. Nash defended. Sub-Inspector Calleyford said that on ary 10th, he went to Mr. Wallace's house, 14, Plantation Road, and search
the top & bock relative to the Triad Society, Defendant snatched the book front him and tried to set fire to it in the stove. It was rescued, partly borned, from the fames..
In cross-examination the Inspector and he went to the house in connection with the reported loss of two diamond pins. At first they thought the pins were hidden
This match postponed from January 18th was played, on the Club ground yesterday afternoon. The Police started the game against a strong wind and facing the sun. They look up the attack and forced a corner which the R.G.A. cleared, the scoring The BGA again took up the attack and Wilson, running down the wing, centred for McHugh head into the net. Wilson amo again and, beating the back, wens in and scored. Kooping up the pressure, Mellagh, receiving & Floss from Watson, pu, the R.G.A. four dp in ke than twenty minutes play No fur- that scoring Book place before half-time
their side and with the wind in their favour had a fair share of the game. No scoring took place in the second-half and the R.Q-A left the Beld winners by gsala
Mr. Jones was the referee.
Fin the book and that that sccounted for n renming, the Police re-arraiged
the anxiety of the defendant to get rid of it. A Chiness police officer with the witness called his attention to the nature of the book
Wong Cheuk Kai, clerk in the Chietto si. Detective Inspector's office, said he had made a study of the writings and signs of the Triad Society. The book pra- duced contained five poems of the Triad Society. The witness directed the Magis- trate's attention to passages in the book which corresponded with references in Mr. William Stanton's standard work, "The Triad Society, or Heaven and Earth Association," Kelly and Walsh (1000)
HONGKONG LEAGUE TABLE,
ition in Division I. up to January
27th.j
CLUB.
Cross-examination, he said the book Wiltshires was in ordinary Chinese character; › but|1:0.AS
The Magistrate pointed out to the de- fendant that the evidence was that the book was at the top of the box.
Mr.- Nash handed in a Tettei from Mr. Wallace speaking to the defendant's good character.
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The Magistrate: It would be no as persion on his moral character to be a member of a secret society. The society Hawking is objectionable and dangerous because Tamar the members are banded together, not Ambrose one for good but for evil.
77,703.09
Mr. Wakeman, outlining the case, 7,898,73 described the process of unloading a ship
at Holt's Wharf. Before the thip some of the signs had a hidden meaning. Hongkong (30,000.00 To transfer to the staff protonat arrives a list is made out in a check The defendant, giving evidence on his Kowloon
vident find
2,684.36 book of the goods expected and handed own behalf, said the book was not his Tamar
but belonged to a friend. He was keep 8.0.Arag 300,000.00 the godown keeper. The No. 1 tallying it for him and had not read it; he Hongkong Police 016 3
to. man, in this case Lai Lai, is in charge was not a scholar. He would have des Ambrose" of the tallymen. As the cargo is unload troyed the book if he had known it was Titania ed, it is checked off on the sheets and illegal when completed, the sleets are collected by the No. 1 tallyman. As the goods are taken in the godown they are called out and marked off in the check book. The book submitted in this case shows there were expected to arrive a number of cases of piece goods, and bales of blankets of distinctive marking. It was Lai Lai's duty to collect the various tally sheets and hand them over to the office. The unloading of the ship look several days On December 28th the manager of Helt's Wharf, on, information he had received, scat for all the books concerning the Rhesus. He saw that certain marks in the book and on the taily sheets did not correspond, and that certain marks in the The profit on working was 1061,010.06 check books appeared to have been as compared with $008, 120 in 1919, erased. A witness, Ke Yu, would tell that The nett proht for the year after de- Lai Lai proposed to take some of the ducting Directors and Auditors' fees, goods, and conceal the theft by manipu and paying for repairs is $364,631.71 Istion of the marks The amount brought forward from last Mr. Charles Butler Higgs, Wharf year is $180,906.23 making a total of manager of Holt's Wharf, was called: $1,051,637.94 available for appropriation. He identified Lai Lai ise ship's tallyman, The directors recommend the following representing the ship's company on board.
the ship. He was in charge of the tally To pay a dividend of 36 per
men at the hatches. Three of the tally sheets purported to have been signed by a man who was not in the employ of the company. These tally sheets have no 5,000,00 entry of the goods feported missing. 8,450.00 These goods were not entered.
AND GODOWN CO., LTD. The report for the year ending Decem- ber 31st, 1920, states :---
share
To pay a bonus of $2.50 per
share
To write off launches
To write off lighters.
To write of machinery and
plant
480,000.00
200,000.00
4,832,00
The prisoner was found unanimously
3/Wiltshires
Mr Nash urged that unless there was Carlisle proof that the defendant was actually a RG.A member of the Triad Society he should Curley
not be convicted...
The Angistrate replied that the law assumed that the possessor of a book was member of the Society, unless there was direct evidence to the contrary, A Society like this was a danger to the the celente Colony. Having regard to the defendant's good character and 17 years' record with one employer he would be given the option of a £ne--100 dollars or one month's imprisonment.
PEER'S LIFE MENACED, ALLEGED THREAT TO KILL LORD INCHCAPE
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10 0 3 $ 0.17 10.6 232 2001 18:14 614 22.10
19 147
6 7 23-26 ... 8 82319 13 3 9 18 3
The 2nd Division fixtures for Saturday, January 29th
Kowloon v. Rectalo. St. Joseph's ground, at 4 pm
South China ground, as Carlisle, South China
Club India, Club ground, at 2.30 p.m. Oilers United ». Punjabis, Navy “A” ground, at 2.30 p.m.
The RGA / St. Joseph and United v. Staff and Depti, matches have been post- poned.
KOWLOON R.G.A
To write off Kowloon wharves 67,088.64 guilty, and His Lordship sentenced him were read at Horncastle during a chars Kowloon will be represented by-W
To write off railways and roll
jag stock
To write off buildings
To carry forward
account
to three years hard labour on the first count of simple larceny and five years on the count of farcear from a wharf, 25,000.00 the sentences to run concurreéntly,
10,000.00
to
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950,167,30
$1,081,537.04
Directors. The directors have to record
win
with much regret the death of Mr. D. K. Moss. The vacancy was filled by Mr. D. M. Graham.
COOLIE'S SUSPICIOUS
CONDUCT.
A FANCIFUL EXPLANATION
DISBELIEVED.;
At the Magistracy, before Mr, Orme yesterday, a Chinese coolie employed at the Naval Dockyard was charged with
Letters of an extraordinary character B ground, tomorrow (kick-off, 4 p.m.): In this first, drision match on the Navy
against Mervyn Ivor Holden, 17, motor engineer, Woodhall Spa, of demanding Crocker; F. Wheeler and T. L Knight; money by menaces from Lord Inchcape, J. Coupland J Mair and B. Pasco; W chairman of the P. & C. Company Taylor: C. E. Millard. R E Townsend, Supt. Rawding, for the prosention, er. Evelyn and P. R. Beczley, plained that two letters were received at
Leadenhall-street, London, dressed to KOWLOON CLUB DE RECREIO, Lord Inches pe, and after being, opened they were handed to his lordsup. The.
matter was reported to the London police, In this second division match on St and de-up package was placed in the Joseph's ground on Saturday (Lack off, ruins at Kirksted Abbey, as indicated inp.m.) the Kowloon team, will consist of --- the second letter. A continuous watch was H. McKay, H. Mason and S. Adams; kept on the abbey ruins, and accused was B. Roberts, 8. H. Hover and A. Spry seen to go to the spot and take out the E. Donovan, A. Palmer, J. Coombs, A. package. He was detected by police Estorffé and A. Blythe man, and then threw the package back in the hole again, "In' nnswer to the polico-
Dunng the year. Messrs. 1. W. C. Bonnar, S. H. Dodwell and C. S. Gubbay resigned and their places were taken by being on enclosed premises for an an-man's question of What's the game Messrs. A. C. Lang, G. M. Dodwell, and lawful purpose at 5 am., on January
12th.
A. 8. Gubbay.
BILLIARDS.
Holden replied. "I am a parson's son, and don't want to be mixed up in this
as follows ang business." The first letter recived was night, B. Cave (125) beat C... sich In the Palace Hoted tournament Int
scores 250 and 68, respectively; (100) Headquarters,Bir, We have the honour of addressing you in your capa and 8. de Silva (-200) beat B Harding city of chairman of the P. & D. Com (50), scores 150 and 81, respectively: pany | For Wome time pas you havs
Hon Mr E V D. Parr and Mr. A. H. Two European police sergeants gave Compton retire amording to the Articles évidence that when patrolling Queen's of Association and being eligible offer Hoad they say the deferidant descending themselves for re-election. Y
by a drain-pipe from No. 69, Queen's "Auditors.-Messrs. F. Maithad and down. St. Francis Street. He was miled – been under close obscrvaikų, "your por- Percy Smith, F.0.A., have audited the upon to stop but did not do so; a shot accounts noow presented and offer them-wa, therefore, fired over his head. Still Belves for
election
DISCOVERY IN GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE..
The excavations at Ascalon, undertaken by the
rectly formed Department of Antiquities in Palestine, have yielded some
Boad East. When he saw them he ran
sonal character being noted in" """overy detail, The profits of the company dur-
he did not stop, so second shot waving the last few years have also been
fired which struck him in the back of the neck. Ho was then taken to the Police Station and thence to the Hospital
Inspector Kent said the defendant was discharged from Hospital on the previous day. His story was that a rickslis ran er his foot; he threw his shoes at the ricksha coolie; they went oror, the man's head and caught on the signboard of shop, and be chin bed up to get them. A constable was sent to investigato, this satisfactory finds in the form of gigantic story but could find a shoes marble pillars and statues
The defendant repeated this story to the An interesting discovery made in the Garden of Gothsemane, at the foot of Magistrate with a wealth of detail, and the Mount of Olives. The garden is in the banda of the Franciscana, who in the Cours of digging the foundations for a new chapel cape across the remains of a medieval church, and later on of a fourth Bentory church of which it has been poe Bible to make out the whole of the original design, while added interest has been afford ed by the discovery of some of the original
mosić pavements.
with great seriousness.
The Magistrate The shoe story does not appeal to me. I have tried that on at school myself.
On Thursday night, November 11th, 1920, the money” is" - to be placed at Kirkstead Abbey ruins as stated before, excessive to the less degroo..... We now demand that you: hand-over to na the It is to consist of £100 in currency notes. sum of 2100, without fail. This sums only. On the left-hand side of the to be paid to us on the night, of Novem Abbey you will see a deep ross, about bor 8th at 7.18 pm at Kirkstead Abbey the centre of the wall; the money is runs You will off a white chalk to be placed here. This is to be carried mark on the brick. where the money is out precisely at 10 pm and you or consonlod Take notice that if you any other person found in the vidnity approach any police authorities on this after 10.30 pm will be fired on. Take matter you will be shot without mercy. notice that here is to be no mark oo You are also warned that if any person the wall, Conceal the money so that is employed by you against use the hole in the bricks is not suspected at once, loot and sink any vessel that by anybody. Keep everything in con Teaves the British Isles. Therefore nection with this, a secret, and re beware as to how you carry this matter. member the warnings which we have through or italy and in poedley blood.. given you, Failure this time will spelt shed. Proceed to Woodhall Spa, Lincs death, to you and many more innocent We remain yours truly The War people, Forewarned is foreamed, Prefte Liquidation Syndicate. Your truly; War Profits Liquidation The second letter, or final warning marked urgent was im the following
Syndicate,
Evidence of the package being secreted
Inspector Kent: It seems impossible. for the shoes to stick to the signboard.
The Magistrate: Perhaps he had some terms other motive he might have been after the ladies for instance.you with second and final warning. How can they prove it against me 1.2
A previous conviction for larceny was As the foundations of this fourth-century proved against the defendant. church extended beyond the garden, iu- The Magistrate said that in consider terests of other communities came into tion of the damage he had received be question, but the Department of Antiqui- would let the defendant off more lightly ties has bean abis satisfactorily to soutlethan he would otherwise have done," and erhatever difficulti might have arisen, and only sentence him to 21 days' imprison- -the remains will be properly conserved. ment."
Was given, and Inspector Skinner remark Bir We regret that we have to supply of that when charged accused daked,
We beg to inform you that you will not Holdon had in his possession a pocket Book increase the prosperity of the company containing an advertisement of the P& by playing foals Uricks We took note 0 Company and a newspaper cuting ro of the proceedings on the night of No porting the robbery of £12,000 worth of vanher 60b, 1920, Therefore, if you jewellery from Lady Inchcap's London value your position and life you will residence, Defendant pleaded, pos guilty, Carry out these instructions without fail and reserved his defence. He was 6000+
(Continued at foot of next column>mitted for trial on bail
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