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THE BOYCOTT. SUNNING RAILWAY UNABLE TO OPERATE.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDEST,]
Strike Committee is not only hold ing up trude and traffle in the city of
Canton but in the inland districts. The Sunning Railroad, of which Mr. Chin Gee Hee, one time well-known on the Расійс Coast of America, was the
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10TH ~ 1926
SANITARY BOARD.
MEASURES AGAINST RABIES IN
THE COLONY.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday, when the following were Present:-Mr. N. L. Smith (President), Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., Dr. W. W. Pearee,, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, the Hoo. Mr. H. T. Creasy, the Hon. Mr. D. W. Tratman, Dr. S. W. To, Mr. Wong
Mr. R. Ar D. Forrest. (Secretary).
BANKRUPTCY COURT. PIECE-GOODS DEALERS AS
DEBTORS.
HIS LORDSHIP CRITICISES CREDITORS METHODS.
The Chief Justice, Sir Heary Gollan sat in Bankruptcy Jurisdiction yesterday,
DEBTOR WHO ABSCONDED. With regard to the estate of Pang Ini
Two other creditor wore present at the time. He agreed that they could not find. the key of the "safe, and said that the manager of the firm had absconded and taken the key with him w
The Official Receiver: There was no one in control of the management of the debtor firm when the goods were packed up -There were several fokis there. "I thought they were in control.
His Lordship: I don't understand this procedure What right had they to take these goods1
Mr. Hugh-Jones: They arranged with the folie that the goods should be pack- guard.
builder, is now unable to operate on to wong Tin, Dr. A. G. M Severn, and Ting, who had absconded following bised up la cases, by way of special safe-
count of lack of coal. Three shipments have been seized by strike pickets as
Pei-kai, Kongmoon, on the ground that the coal was imported through Hong- kong Consequently, all tow-boats since February 27th were running between Kongmoon and Canton irregularly, as they were unable to make.connections with the Sunning train by which most of the passengers and freight for Steyag or the Four Districts 'reach the inland
towns.
On March 4th, one of the many tow boats to run for the first time from Canton to Roagmoon after several days of detention, the Heng Wo, was sunk near Kum-chok-tan, West River, because
said to be not less than $200.000:
Since the settlement of the Customs
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THE ESTIMATES roz 1997.
On the motion of the President. "Dr. Koch, Dr. Tso, and himself were appoint ed a committee La consider the estimates of the Sanitary Department for 1997.
CASES OF BABIES.
The Official Receiver: It is rather un- satisfactory, my Lord.
public examination, the Official Receiver (3r. E L. Agassiz) made an application
His Lordship: They had no earthly for an adjudication order. He said that a meeting of creditors had been held, and right to do it. It is a most objection- that a trustee had been appointed. Fro-able procedure. Supposing some of the assets had disappeared, they would have vision had also been made for the carry placed themselves in a very serious posi- ing on of the business until it was dis- tion. posed of.
Mr. Hugh-Jones: It was done with the best intentions..
"An order for adjudication was made.
His Lordship: It is an improper pro- cedure and it should be stopped. Credi- EUROPEAN FIRM AS CREDITOR.
tors have no right to take upon them. Mr. Hugh-Jones, appeared on behalf selves the duties of the Official Receiver.
The Official Receiver: The goods were of Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co., one of packed up in boxes, when no cre wag in the petitioning creditors, for a receiving control order against the Kwong Luen Hing firmness was closed. of piece-goods merchants, of 37, Jervois Street.
Mr. Hugh-Jones said that the petition was presented on February 6th and the Oficial Receiver was appointed interim Receiver.
The claim
was for $78,51867
the business. In fact the busi-
Mr. Hugh-Jones: The salesmen there were in charge!
His Lordship. The creditors, swooped down on the business, intermeddled with it, and seemed to have taken charge of the whole situation I do not think there was arrone in control at the time. They had been ousted before then. I am going to diamiss this petition.
"A VERY SAD CASE" Wong Au Shi, sole proprietress of the Tai Fung Kee firm, came up for public
examination.
The PRESIDENT said that Dr. Koch had asked for a statement with regard to the existence of rabies in the Colony, and what steps were being taken by the authorities concerning future action. He had only received the question that morn ing and had therefore little time to con- salt the Government. He had, however, seen the Veterinary Surgeon on the matter. There had been no case since last May until December 9th, 1995, she was over-loaded with delayed cargo when one case was reported and that case and passengers upwards of 370 people was followed by two others in January, were drowned, while the less of cargo is and two early in February. Ave cases being the amount due under various con- in all. They were all on the island side of trouble in Canton City, the Strike Com the harbour, and all five had occurred in a small area in the centre of the town mittee pickets have had their
The last case was, on February 9th, and examination shed and prize court. " to detect and confiscate
there had been no case since, although goods. Their method of examination, a great many dogs had been taken to Kennedy Town for observation. As soon however, has been very unsatisfactory, and many complaints have been made by as the first two cases had been discover- merchants. There are now hundreds of the Veterinary Surgeon put notices junks full of goods which cannot be an in the papers intimating that he was loaded owing to inability to pass the restricting his permission for dogs to be pickets who are short-staffed in men taken across the barbour, as he thought able to read and write They have but that would be one way of isolating cases, two clerks in their examination shed Consequently he had given very few handling applications for inspection and, permits since them. The police had also enforced the order. Notices had also been inserted in the newspapers with regard to inoculating dogs. question was reported to the Govern rent with the merits of the various way's of stopping an epidemic. These were muzzling, poisoning, compulsory inocula- tion before. licences were granted, and the shooting of any strays.
No. 49 Nathan Road, Kowloom. "imperialist"
- some 100 or more words have to bo
alled in giving data of the goods, source of import and production and the like, in each form, not very many cases can be completed in a day. Moreover, the pickets have been exceptionally careful in their inspection and this causes für.
ther delay.
tracts for the sale of piece goods. Against that debt, the petitipping creditors, had still in their hands goods to the value of $30,000 for which debtors had con- tracted. Debtors had also goods in their shop valued at $12,000. Their total assets were $332,000 against liabilities amount. ing to $480,000 a defcit of $148,000.
The Official Receifer said it could not be specifically stated that the goods in the shop were worth $12,000. It seemed to him that their value depended solely on the state of the Piece Goods' Market. He did not consider the assets to be very substantial.
Mr. Hugh-Jones said that if there was an improvement in the piece-goods mat ket, the assets would be increased. It might be that there were other assets also. His Lordship said that it was depen- deat on chance. He regarded $12,000 as He considered that substantial assets did not mean assets giving a
substantial dividend, but, a substantial amount available for distribu- tien. It was in that light that he was inclined to take it. The chances were that there were substantial assets to be divided.
The whole a substantial amount.
said that she was a widow, residing at Replying to the Official Receiver, she
Her husband died about fifteen years ago and she eventually became sole proprietress of the Tai Fung Kee firm. It was an old- established business and carried on the manufacture of rattan work. She did not take any part in the management of the firm herself, because she could neither read nor write: She had therefore ap pointed a manager, and he had turned out to be dishonest. He eventually began business on his own account, and made use of her firm's chop which was in his possession. The manager carried on an identical business,, and as he used her firm's chop she became liable for goods which we had bought for his own use. He brought an action against her, claim- ing that he was a partner of her firm, but he had lost the action He also embezzied certain sums of the Company's monies In the Company's books he had put down a sum of $2,492,90 as owed by
firm in the Colony, but when inquiries were made, it was found that no such firm Mr. P. S. Cassidy, pariner of Messrs. ezisted. There were also several promis J. D. Hutchison & Co., stated in evidence sory notes chopped with the thep of her that that the debtor firm owed his from Actions in respect of them had beer about $78,000, due in respect of various taken and judgments had been secured Some of thess against her. Her liabilities amounted to piece-goods contracts. goods had not been delivered to the pur$10,000, a large portion of them being chaser, since they were kept to answer due to the account of her manager. She debt. The goods held were werth did not know his present whereabouts. Mr. Hugh-Jones put in the original con
Her assets were $3,000. tract, and, said that under the contract the goods were overdue.
$30,000
is that the debtors had been called Replying to His Lordship, Mr. Cassidy
upon to take delivery of the goods, but Replying to Dr. Koch, the PRESIDENT they had not done so. The goods were said that one dog sufering from rabics. The compradore of the creditor frin
still available for delivery. · had committed suicide by leaping into the harbour" The other cases which had carred were in the area comprising Praya East; Ice House Street, and Wellington Street,
He understood that the Government THE TROUBLE" IN SHEKKI.
had given full ceraideration to the whole [TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ↑
question, and had come to the conclusion that at the present time there was no Mr. Hui Jik Soa, known in Honolulu need for anything more than the as H. Jackson, a former newspaper vigorous measures adopted. Poisoning editor and teacher of Chinese in the was not viewed with great favour by the Hawaiian Islands, was recently appoint Government. The measures could be ed Magistrate of Heungshan, his native enforced at any moment, but the time district, the birthplace of Dr. Sun Yat had not yet come fur doing wo Sen and other well known Cantonese. His assumed office the other day while a serious conflict was in progress be tween the proprietors and the workers of the Vegetable and Fruit Guild of Shokki, the seat of district government in Houngshan. The last few days aaw the situation a little improved, bat dur ing the trouble many shops in Shekki had to be closed to avoid the mobs at
MORE, REFUGEES" ARRIVE. tacking the vegetable and other mer- chants Many people left Shekki to seek YESTERDAY'S INFLUX" FROM safety in Macao and Hongkong. Mr.
SHEKKI DISTRICT. Jackson for a time was placed in a position of much embarrassment, as the
As mentioned in the Daily Press Labour Commissioner in Canton, appar ently not being fully informed of the yesterday, some thousands of refugees facts, ordered the closing down of three are arriving in the Colony from the firms, whose members were vintually made Shekki District, the majority of whom defendants, found guilty and punished without a bearing. Latest reports indi. are reaching Hongkong vid Macao. cate that peace has been restored.
CANTON'S GREAT MONEY- MAKING SCHEME. AN EX-COOLIE'S WEALTH.
Yesterday we reported that on Mon day no fewer than 2,500 had arrived by the steamers reaching here up to mid-day from Macao, most of them in a pitiable plight; while there was a further large influx by the steamers arriving on Mon day evening..
These arrivals were further increased yesterday, when no fewer than 2,031 arrived by the mid-day steamers from
said that the debtor firm had until re- cently carried on business in the Colony. He had attended a meeting of creditors but no partners of the debtor firm were present. He did not know their where abouts, but had been told that they were still in the Colony.
A clerk in the offices of Messrs. Wilkin son & Grist deposed to having on Febru ary 6th served the petition (produced) at the debtor's shop in Jervois Street He had given it to the accountant of the firm, Replying to Mr. Hugh Jones, le id that that he could not isy whether the man on whom he served the petition was
in control of the business.
His Lordship: Was he in apparent con- trol-He was smoking in the office at the time.
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His Lordship: Is that evidence, that he was in charge? (Laughter.),
The order was granted "OBJECTIONABLE PROCEDURE.”
The Official Recaivar said that he was perfectly satisfied that the debtor was perfectly honest. He asked that the an application for adjudication examination be closed, and also made
In granting the application, His Lord- ship said "This is a very sad case."
QUESTION OF ASSETS. Petitioning on behalf of Mak Yu Tsai, Ming Kee Shipway, Mr. C. A. S. Russ sole proprietor of the Kwong Fuk Hing said that it was one of those cases where, if debtor was given time he would
be solvent He mentioned his chief assets as being the slipway and machinery,
The Official Receiver said that the land- lord had informed him that debtor merely rented the slipway. If that were so, the assets would dwindle to almost nothing.
The case was adjourned to that the meo, who claimed possession of the slip- way might give evidence,
TWO TRUSTEES.
Mr. J. T. Prior, applying for an ad- judication order on behalf of a Chinese firm, said that two trustees had been appointed.
Hit Lordship thought that there was 10 provision with regard to the appointment of two persons as trustees. Only one trustee should be appointed.
bad been appointed.
The Official Receiver said that he could Mr. Hugh-Jones made a similar ap-not recall a case in which two trustees plication in regard to the estate of the Ling Loong Firm, when he petitioned on behalf of Messrs. W. I. Loxley & Co.,
of the creditors.
ofte
He said that the debtors were piece. goods dealers of No. 4, Wing On Street. The claim by petitioning créditors was in regard to the sale of piece-goods, being goods overdue for delivery. Debtors had
In the course of an article based on, an interview with a resident of Shameen, the N-C. Daily News says:
How much money is actually coming into the treasury of the pickete at Can Macao. Of this number the B.. Sui Annot paid nor taken delivery of the goods, ton it is impossible to say, but it is now brought 1,057, the as Tung On 738, and which were still available and in the considerable. One significant fact is that
Fossession of the creditors. The claim
small
the
Was
His Lordship' said he would grant an adjournment to consider the matter as it very important point He almost certain that only one trustee was allowed
WAS
The Official Receiver said that if only one trustce were allowed, another meet ing of creditors would have to be called
The cate was adjourned.
SOLVENT
"An application for adjudication on be- director of the Asiatic Trading Co., Ltd., was made by Mr. Russ
those at the head of it are cooks, coolies, the Sun Wing 238, and again a further was for $22,470 but goods da their hands half of Wong Po Keung, the manag shroffs, etc., formerly in foreign employ, number, although not by any means so were valued at $17,000. There were eet
tain goods on the debtors' premises which large, arrived last evening by
bad been valued by the compradore of steamers
the petitioning creditors at between $4,000 and 85,000, but they were now worth from $6,000 to $7,000. The managing partners had absconded and the firm was inable to pay its debt
and one instancé is on record of fortune having been made by a man who for 20 years had been no more than a
So far as can be ascertained these un- coolie in the employ of a foreign firm He left this job to undertake work with fortunate people have taken fright by the strike pickets, and after no more than reason of trouble with the pickets in the nine months is now reputed to be worth.
GERMAN MERCHANTS' STAND.
The Oficial Receiver objected and said that the man's assets had not been filed. It was a case, in his opinion, were debtor was solvent.
Mr. Russ Baid that his client. was up in Canton.
The case was adjourned.
The compradore of W. R. Loxley & Co. a lakh of dollars. That a man who a Shekki district and have left the dis year ago could probably only compute his trict in consternation, being scared lest said that the debtor firm were indebted capital in cents bas the reputation of such the position now existing may prove a to his firm for $29,670. This sum was wealth must be an incentive to others to golden opportunity for banditry to being on contracts for the sale of piece-
goods. join in the game, and it can well be under come rife. They have made off to what had been overdue for a long time. The Delivery on all these contracts stood how the moyement has spread.
they consider the safest and best place debtors were "apprized of the arrival. of of refuge and in their anxiety to escape the goods but had not taken delivery As showing how the trade of nations as quickly as possible have only stopped He knew the proprietor of the debtor other than the British is affected by the to gather hurriedly together what they firm, but he was told that there were He could not accept these figures at pre- action of the boycott organization, men could in the way of personally posses other partners." tion must be made of a meching of Gersions, such as clothing or money."
merchants which was held recently majority have very little of the latter to consider the situation. At this meet and few, have very little in the way of ing it was proposed that no further cargo clothing should be unported unless 20 per cent. of It is expected that there will be an the price were paid by the Chiness dealer other large influx of similar refugers by at the time the cargo was ordered-and the steamers to-day. RO the balance forthcoming prior to the A very large number of these people arrival of the cargo, the dealer thereafter are acumen; while the others are mostly taking all responsibility for clearing it of the peasant and poorer classes.
The
A WIDOW'S ASSETS. An application for an interim receiv behalf of a Chinese, widow ing order was made by Mr. Russ on The Oficial Receiver said that the ap- proximate assets were given as $13.706 and the approximate Habilitles at $17,942
sent. A lot of old matsheds had been His Lordship: I have never heard it put down as being worth $10,000; whereas suggested that because one partner is they might not be worth $500. Their insolvent, that it is a case for a firm's cost price had been put down. But at bankruptcy.ran
Applen be such a price they must be extraordinary. Continuing, witness siid that none of matsheds, Goods on the premises were the partners were present at the creditors put down as being worth $1,000, whereas meeting
...he und been told there was about $20 worth of stull there. He considered that there would not be much to distribute.
The case was adjourned.
Replying to the Oddal Receiver, wit ness denied that he had superintended the packing of the goods in debtors' shop.
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