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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
ORDINANCE TO FORM LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
At to-morrow's meeting of the Hong- kong Legislative Council. the Hon. Sit Gland Severn. Colonial Secretary, will
more the following Resolution:-
Whereas the Governineat has had an- der consideration proposals for the forma tion of Teal Company to acquire the undertaking of the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company Limited and to provide an improved telephone service: This Council hereby approves the following conditions, subject to which and to the terms of an Ordinance such Company shall be permitted to operate-
-Such Company shall be styled The Hongkong Telephone Company. Limited, and it shall be registered under the Companies Ordinaner 1911.
-Directors of such Company therein. after referred to as the Company) shall be not less than tour and not more than eight in hamber, and all the Directors shall be bona fie resident in Hongkong. 2- The Oriental Telephone and Electric Company Limited, during such period as it holds not less than 1000 Eully maid shares in the Company, shaft beat berty..to ominath two Directors, provid-¦ ed always that such Directors shall he ban for resident in Hongkong and that the total number of Directors shall not exceed eight.
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4-The Capital of the Company shall be $5,000,000 divided into 500,000 shares of $10 each.
5-The capital of the Company shall not be increased, except by permission of the Legislative Council.
G.The consideration in respect of the acquisition by the Company of the undertaking of the Chin and Japan Telephone and Electric Company Limis ed shall be :-
(a) $1,125,000 for the plaut (b) The landed cost of additions to the
plant and property between the 1st January and the 30th June, 1823 (e) $491.63 for land and buildings. (d) The value of stores in ham or seuntracted for on the 30th June
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Which consideration shall be met, as 10 $1,100,000 in the allotment of 110,000 fully pail shares, and as to the balance in custs.
-The Company shall have the sole right to supply a public telephone sees vice during a period of fifty years from the 1st July, 1925.
A-The Company shall within Mu period as the Governor in Council may
determine to be reasonable, provide an improved telephone service to be ap- -proved by the Governor in Council.
9. The Company shall be authorised to charge the following annual rates to aubscribers, with effect from the 1st July,
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2018, 1925
CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
[BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (1
HENRY GOLLAN), }
CABIN BOY SENTENCED. Pang Yiu," a cahin boy on the President Cleveland was charged at the Criminal Sessions yesterday with the possession of an automatic pistol..and 206, rounds of ammunition.
Mr. H. K. Holmes (Crown. Solicitor) prosecuted, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (in- structed by Mesura Lee & Buss) appear. ex for defendant
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The Jury comprised. Messrs. J. A. Watson, P. A. Cordeiro, G., H. Hainteon, J. A. Gonialves, S. A. Ismail, A. W Hayward and J. A. Alves.
Mr. Holmes, outlining his case, said that a police picket in the charge of Sergeant Dangry accosted prisoner in Praya East 41 9:50 pm on April 23rd, and the man was searched by an Indian Sergrant, who discovered the weapon and cartridges in a parcul which he was carrying.
SANITARY BOARD. KOWLOON CITY MARKET.
FATAL OPIUM.
CHINESE WIFE, COMMITS SUICIDE.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board took The wife of Wong Chi Ri, the Master of place yesterday afternoon, under the the wing Cheong cagar and cigaretteshop, chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith, but 38, Queen's Road Cectral, who resides at! there was little business of public in 44, Stanley Street, third floor, became terest. The members present comprised: Apparently so upset after a quarrel with The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy (Director her husband, that she ate a quantity of of Public Works), Dr. W. W. Pearse opium, which made her so ill that she (Medical Officer of Health), the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C, Mr. Wongment Civil Hospital. "The incident oc- Kwong Ting. Mr. S. W. Tao, Mr. G. Scurred on May 6th. Kennedy Skipton (Secretary), and others present were Dr. Severn and "Mr. M. Davies (Assistant Secretary),
CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND. The CHALAMAN said that with regard to the first item on the agenda "Letter from the Government on the subject of the provision of a children's playground
Chatham Road, at
Kowloon," Dr.
therefore the matter might be left until McGown was still unsble to attend, and,
the next meeting of the Board.
OFFENSIVE. TRADE LICENCE On the recommendation of the Chair.
died a few hours later at the Govern-
An inquiry into the circumstances sur- rounding her death was conducted by Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, sitting ns a Coroner, at the Central Magistracy yes- terday afternGOŃ.
jury Messrs. Kew. P. R. Kwok and Lei
In Tong.
The
wer
Medical evidence given showed that the quantity of opium taken by the de erased had caused her death..
Evidaoce given by Wong Chi Ki, the bus- band, was to the effect that he had been married to deceased for "about 23 years They had been in Hongkong" for about Prisoner said that when he was in
5 years. His wife and his concubine. Wanchai herurt a passenger. Ho Mingman the meeting refused to grant an
the Offensive Trade shared a big room on the third floor and who previously had promised him to application for
His wife did 17, Cooke Street, he slept in the cock-loft cumshaw. This man told him that he Licence for No. would give him the money. if he carried
not smoke opium and be had never known Fground" "Boor,
ber to eat the drug. - On the 6th-instant, a parcel for him. He did so. and did know know what the parcel contained. The Board authorised Sanitary Inspec- he asked his wife, early in the evening, When the Indian stopped him he told tors E A. Lyne, R. H. Thomas and why she had not told him that a cer- Him no belong my. him in English:
опе This parcel.A. W. Charity to enter premises and tain friend of his had called the previous Him give me Ho He give me
Lake Ho pay me inspect and seize unwholesome food, inday to see him. $10." He also told him the same thing accoriance with Section 83 of the in Cantolar. The Indian constable Public Health and Buildings Ordinance. denied this.
Ming.
SANITARY INSPECTORS.
His wife told him that she had, and, then got angry when he remonstrated with her. Witness told deceased that she always got angry, and With reference of the proposed erection that he had been ill and that she was His wife ther of a twenty stall market in Kowloon the cause of his illness.
Later when he City, the chairman said this market had got up and went away. been included in the Estimates for this was in the cock-loft, his concubine and year, which had been approved. When a servant girl came and told him that he quoted the Director of Public Works his wife was vomiting and had fainted. as saying that it was hoped to proceed He told them that there could be nothing with the work early next year, he mean;
wrong with her and that she was angry.
Mr. Jenkis said this it Wilg zot " „PROPOSED KOWLOON CITY MARKET. challenged that this passenger was under an obligation to defendant, and he would therefore submit that this He Ming be came a real personality in the case. This lent truth to the prisoner's story, and he would ask the Jury to believe prisoner's: story that the parcel was handed to him by Ho Ming.
The Jury found prisoner "guilly," and be was sentenced to even years
hard labour.
BEFORE THE POISNE JUDGE (ME. JUSTICE WOOD).J
ROBBER CONVICTED,
to say the minute of his was dated Later he went downstairs and saw his She had December last year, so it really applied wife in a fainting condition.
to this year. At the same time he had collapsed. When asked what she had been told it might not be possible to taken, his wife replied"Nothing." Wit- proceed with the work as a certain num-ness suspected that she might have taken The case against the third prisoner ber of items of public worka were not opium. A doctor was summoned, but concerned in a robbery at Kowloon City,
to be proceeded with at once, and the when he "arrived she could no longer was re-beard yesterday, when Chau Ki pleaded that he intended going into the matter in question was included in the speak. The doctor said that judging
house to discuss the anle of sorte stoves,list sent to him.
from her eyes she had taken nothing.
and found the robbery in progress. He Hon. Mr. H. T. CREASY: We have Another doctor was also summoned and ran away when the police arrived, and had another letter authorising us to start when he arrived he asked if deceased
uw shot down.
He was found guilty," and was sen-
is tenced to five years' hard labour.
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some works, and I think this can go on
The CHAIRMAN: I am glad to hear that, and I shall press for this being in
question.
TROUBLE AT TAIKOO DOCK.cluded in the more urgent works injection, but said the case was hopeless.
DISPUTE BETWEEN FITTERS AND BRASSWORKERS.
(a) 108 within (1) Victoria and Kow-
loc. as defined by the interpreta tion Ordinance, 1911, and (ii) with in the Peak District, as defined by There has been a little trouble between the Peak District Reservation the Brass Department and the Fitters Ordinance. 1904, ut substituting Department at the Taikoo Dockyard "To fect" for "58 feet".
during the past few days, which has (b) #109 within', as radius of one mile resulted in between 20 and 30 of the men
from any exchange that may here-abenting themselves from work, after be opened outside the areas referred to in (a).
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has been subject to fainting fits and wit- ness told him that she had had fits be- fore, The second doctor made an in-
He then ordered deceased's removal to Mr. Tsu: May I ask how long it wil the hospial, where she died before the Lake i
next morning, Witness in reply to Hon. Mr. T. CRASY: We have not questious, said that his wife and the had permission yet.
concubine were on very good terms and That was all the business of public never quarrelled. They usually played interest.
dominoes together every night.
In the Daily Press yesterday, com- DIOCESAN BÖY'S NEW SCHOOL. ment was made upon the fact that many
of the workers in the local dockyards PROGRSS OF WORK ON NEW SITE. accuse the "Number Ones" of "Squeeze." The disputa at Taikoo, as far as the details can be ascertained, has arisen over something of this kind.
Good progress is being made with the construction of the new DioceALD Boys School-
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(c) An additional charge of $50 per mile or part of a mile measured outwards from the nearest point of the boundary of the areas ferred to in (a) and (b). (d) For extension telephones, bells, Recently, it is stated, a Chinese in the
switches, switchboards, power-Fitters' Department recommended 1 The area is 23) acres or over one million ericuits, removals, and other ser worker to the Braas Department, The square foot, and is situated on three hills vices of like nature, such charged newcomer obtained the job and the man as the Governor in Council may commending him apparently consider to the N.E. of Yaumati Railway Station.
ed he was entitled to $18 from the first month's wages a payment for the trouble he had taken in the matter.
approve.
When pay-day came round, however,
In reply to the Coroner, witness said that his wife had been in the habit of Purchasing several pots of prepared opium for him to smoke every day. Be had been in ill-health for some time and his wife had charge of all the money and the household.
Thi concubine, 'Kwok Pat Kui, giving evidence, said she had been a concubine to the previous witness for the past The school buildings, which will cover twelve years. She shared a room with
-Should the charges above referred to be insufficient to pay to the share holders of the Company a minimuny dividend of eight per cent. per annum a the paid-up capital of the Company for the time being after making provi. sion for maintenance and efficient ser vice, depreciation, reserve or sinking fund and managing expenses, the above rates shall be raised so as to enable the shareholders to receive a minimum of his wages to cover the demand being blocks linked up by a large hall; each naked her what was the matter and de- eight per cent, per annum after making
made upon hin.
Asked what "sho block of buildings three storeys high, ceased said nothing. the aforesaid deductions.
The European replied that under no about two hundred and forty feet long had eaten, deceased said "sweets." A circumstances would any such deduction and facing South, along which side there little later witness had to prop her up, be made, and as there seemed to be there to bo verandahs. possibility of a conflict between the two In addition to the cost of preparing the although deceased endeavoured to lie down again. Witness tried to get de-
an area of land about the same size as deceased. They were on very good terms the Hongkong Cricket Club ground, are
On the evening in being placed at the North end of the site with each other.
on the foth inst., the money was not and face the South; in front of the question, she saw deceased drinking a forthcoming. The new man repented of buildings will be about twelve to fifteen cup of water in the kitchen and later his bargain, if such a bargain had been acres of playing fields on one level. Imsaw her wash her face. Deceased appear made. Accompanied by about twenty of mediately in front of the Buildings will his follows, he reported the whole matter be a terrace about two hundred mod forty ed to be all right then, did not say any to the European in charge and requested feet long and 90 feet wide. The build thing and went and lay down. Witness! that no deduction should be made fromings theruselves will be in three parallel.
11.The net profits of the Company after providing as aforesaid shall be used firstly in payment to the Government of royalty of four dollars in respect of each direct exchange line telephone which has been used and paid for during the whole previous twelve months by a bona fide telephone subscriber or onc Dollar per direct exchange line tele phone for each period of three months
or less.
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12-The said net profits shall second ly be applied in payment to the share holders of the Hongkong Company of the minimum dividend of eight per cent. per annum rising to twelve per cent. per annum.
for the fitter making the site ($150,000) the cost of the buildings ceased to play dominoes, as they usually parties. demand was supported by his mates, now being erected to be completed by did every night, and deceased consented he telephoned for the Police. The Police February, 1926, is 3030,000. In addition to do so, and told witness to get the arrived very shortly afterwards by motor about 834,000 will be required for table ready and she would then get up car and there was no untoward incident. architects' fees, bringing the total cost and play.
But since then a number of the workers, up to $714,000. as stated, have absented themselves, from the Dockyard and have presumably been occupying their time at the Chinese Engineers Institute devising means for smoothing over the difficulty."
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BILLS.
In the event of the net profits The Orders of the Day will consist of -exceeding twelve per cent por annum the following, which will be moved by then as to the difference between twelve the Hon. Attorney General. per cent and eighteen per cent. half Second, reading of the Bill intituled thereof shall be distributed in further An Ordinance for the incorporation of dividends and the remaining half by way the Trustees of the Sailors Home, Hong- of reduction of the subscription rates; kong.. the dividend payable to shareholders Second reading of the Bill intituled being limited to
A maximum rate An Ordinance to provide for the incor- fifteen per cent.
poration of the Mother Superior in this 14Any additional surplus shall be Colony of the Society of the "Petites used solely for the reduction of subscrip- Securs des Pauvres, St, Pern, Bretagne, commonly known as The Little Sisters of the Poor,
tion rates.
of
15. The rights and obligations of the Government and of the Company shall he set out in detail and embodied in a hill which shall be introduced as soon as may be in the Legislative Council:
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
Witness went to make a In addition the following further sums fused to drink. -
cup of tea for deceased, which she re- are needed:-
Deceased ther got
that deceased had eaten some opium and The Coroner said it seemed quite clear
died in consequence, de
Additional site formation for
the third hill-about Equipment and fittings about Margin for extras, .., cricket and football grounds, rail
ings, turf and unforeseen. expenditure Edadmaster's house
$30,000 70.000
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70,000 40,000
$210,000
The total sum for the whole scheme will therefore be 8024,000.
Towards, this $650,000 iz available from
worse.
The July agreed, and the Coroner ra- corded a verdict that deceased committed, suicide by eating opium and that no blame attached to anyone.
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SAFETY FIRST."
SAMPAN MAN'S STORY..
the sale of the old site of the school in
The master of a sarapan has reported Bonhamn Road, subscriptions, Govern- to the police that at 9 p.m. on Sunday meat grant and the school reserve funds, when off Stonecutters Island, on the way A sum of $205,000 has still to be raised from Cap Sui Mun to Yaumati, be to carry out the scheme, in its entirety. noticed a large junk in front of him. To The scholars of the school are trying avoid a collision he altered his course to raise 812,000 towards the equipment a little and swerved to one side. At the Second reading of the Bill intituled of the School. Every boy who gives or same moment a strong wind capsized bis An Ordinance to amend the Legal Prac-collects at least $100 has big name put on craft and he and his wife and child were. titioners Ordinance, 1871.
a record board. Donors of $1,000 or more thrown into the water. The master swun will be called founders. Donors of $3,000 to the 8.8. Arabestan and was picked up or more will have part of the buildings by the crew of that vessel, but he does called after their names.
Inot know what happened to his family.
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