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TROUBLE "AT CANTON 'CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
[TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The recent expulsion of three students by the Canton-Christian College for con- duct detrimental to the interest of the student body--a step taken at the request of the student body itsell-appears to "have played into the hands of the Kuo-f
mintang.
The three students who have been ex- pelled are alleged to be paid agents of Bolshevista, and ring leaders of the "agitatörs who assisted the workers of the College several weeks ago to make the many demands with which the College tactfully complied sufficiently to avert a strike. Unable to cause
an issue
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 12rπ. 1926
HONGKONG LEGISLATION OUT OF DATE.
THE VALUE OF “FUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.
Sir Henry Golan, the Chief Justice, sat in Bankruptcy Jarisdiction on Satur- day.
THE WING HING BANK.
THE TWO EXTREMES.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION.
The second meeting of the new Com-
In the case of Kopg Siu Then, described aa proprietor of the Universal Electric Company, Mr. Nash, applying for amitted of the Kowloon Residenta' Also, receiving order, said that his client's ciation was held on Friday, 9th instant, the Rev. J., Horace Johnston presiding. assets amounted to $13,000 and his.
All the members, with the exception of liabilities were $19,000 He submitted.
two, were present. that there were substantial asseta. ***
The Ocial Receiver objected to the granting of an order, and said there were no substantial assets for distribution. He In the case of the Wing Hing Bark, did not think that debtor would be able and Li Wing Kwong and Li Shan Fan, to collect many of his book debts. There partners thereof, Messrs. D. McCallum. was an item of 27,000, owed by a Chinese T. Prior, and G. T. Bennett appeared restaurant, which was certainly a bad for respective creditors.
debt. The restaurant was in considerable The Official Receiver (r. E. difficulty and had applied to the Govern Agassiz) said that a misunderstanding
ment for a trade loan." He had ascer had arisen regarding the appointment of a trustee. At a creditors' meeting it had
tained that the Government would not The manager of the grant a loan. restaurant had called upon him, and
·Correspondence, was first dealt with alter which the Secretary stated on the. subject ol connecting Mongkoktauf Police Station with the public telephone, that he had been advised that it was hoped to have this done bat as it in- recommended to the Colonia! Treasury. volved expenditure, the matter had been
- PRIVATE MEETING3 OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Mr. Wylie who has represented the.
special request, in order that he might Kowloon Residents' Association on the Education Board, was present by report to the Committee before leaving for Home. His report was private and confidential because the meetings of the
between the Kuomintang and the College. been unaufhously agreed to appoint Mr. stated that if he could secure a trade Board have latterly been held in camera,
these agents early in April interrupted a meeting of the Canton Students Union. The student body resented it and request- ed the College authorities to expel the offenders.
Chau Ng Tin, the compradors of the P. & Ó. Bank as trustee. Mr Chan him self was not present at the meeting, but it was understood that he was willing to act as trustee. He later called" on him (the Official Receiver) and stated that he was not prepared to accept the position of trustee, as he was a very busy man, and would not have the time to devote to it. Owing this, according to the local. Ordinance, an order for adjudica- misrepresenting tion' could not be granted until a trustes
That having been done the expelled students sought the aid of the labour union within the College and the other day, this union circularized ·Canton that the Canton Christian College was ousting Kuomintangites from its student body The student hady, however, issued a statement supporting the Kuomintang policy but denouncing the conduct of the expelled students 83 Kuomintang desires and interests.'
The Kuomintang have now deemed it wise to and by the expelled students and has ordered the College to re-admit them. In the "meantime, the workers siding with the expelled students have threatened to go on strike and call out their comrades to blockade the College, as they are doing with the Canton Hos pital, the compound of which is still being cut off by strike pickets. The students who refuse to fall in with the extreme.
views of the Kuomintang, have declared their loyalty to the College, and pledged themselves to side with the elements defending law and order.
was appointed. Neither was it possible under the Ordinance to appoint & trustee after the debtor had been adjudged bankrupt
loan, be would pay his debt to Kong Tuen.
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by
Sining the advantages gained by holding the The Committee, while fully appreciat
Another debt of $1,000 was owed person in Canton, and it was very un- likely that it would ever be paid.
Still another irretrievable debt of $650 was owed by a man in a village in Hoi how. He had started a cinematograph in the village, but it had closed down
over a year ago.
Mr. Nash thought that the Oficial Receiver had taken a very pessimistis view of the matter. The restaurant would he certain to pay the debt. Ilis client had also stock-in-trade valued at $2,300 chent, because he has failed through His Lordship: I am sorry for your
genuine misfortune.
But I am afraid
that if the Official Receiver is 100 His Lordship: We are hopelessly out pessimistic, you are too optimistic. of date in our legislation.
The order was refused.
The Oficial Receiver: I realize that more and more as I go on. Almost every day I come across instances of it.
His Lordship asked how the local Ordi- ance had been framed.
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The Oficial Receiver replied that it was based on tue original Bankruptcy Act at Home, hut apparently about three-quar-
ters of it had been left out.
ADJOURNED.
In the case of Hing Loong Shing Kes, Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, appearing for petitioning creditor, asked for an adjourn ment. The Ocia! Receiver offered "no objection, and adjournment was granted.
AT
A TEA HOUSE.
"Mr. J. T. Prior, on behalf of a peti- Ligning creditor, asked for a receiving order in the case of the Tai Yat La Ten House.
His Lordship: I have had many years experience of drafting and found it very "advisable not to leave out a single word. Ho Yan; the petitioning creditors
The English law was the result of ex-manager of the Tung Tai Firm, of No Perience extending over many years, and previous falsities have been remedied. The existing Act is as near perfect as it can possibly be.
ANOTHER HOSPITAL THREAT ENED IN CANTON.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ). Following the Canton Hospital and the Stout Hospital at Wuchow, two well. known foreign managed missionary in- stitutions in South China, which have had
The Ofacial Receiver asked for, an to be closed owing to labour tyranny, the
that another trustee Hackett Medical College for Women in adjournment so Canton, with its affiliated hospitals and could he appointed before adjudication nurse training schools, may have to take was made. similar action. The Kuomintang agitators have been actively working among the umployees of the College and also suc- ceeded in enlisting the support of certain students for such service as led the closing of the other hospitals.
Another educational institution under foreign management in Canton which is facing trouble is the Holy Trinity College of the China Inland Mission. The stud-
An adjournment was granted.. PRACTICE WHICH MUST STOP.. In the case of Pang Chik, truling as Luen On Company, the Official Receiver applied for an order for adjudication.
Mr. P. McCallum represented debtor, and Mr. O'Donoghue was for one of the petitioning creditors..
1.
Mr. O'Donoghue submitted, that a public examination of debtor should have
Lower Lascar Row, said that the manag. about January seth. The debtor firm's ing partner of the debtor firm absconded
assets were 86,000 and its liabilities, $17,000.
A receiving order was granted CREDITORS ABSENT.
meetings in private was nevertheless of Community in Kowloon as well as else opinion that the general interests of the where would be better served by giving publicity to the discussions and it was resolved to ask the Government to con sider the advisability of permitting the meetings of the Board of Education to be held in public as before.
further set of swings, eee-saws, etc.,
CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS. The Children's Playground Sub-Com- mittee reported, that they had elected to apply to the Government for the plot of railway ground next to Holt's Wharf the extension of the playground in Chatham Road, and requesteal that a should be erected there. It was ex- rial et present on the ground would be plained that the piles of railway mate.
fenced off.
A schedule of suggested rules and re- gulations for the Children's Playground, received from the Captain Superinten dent of Police, was referred to the Sub- Committee.
A
The attention of the Committee yas drawn to the fact that the plot of waste ground adjoining the Diocesan Girls' School, which had been formerly used by ground, was shortly to be enclosed and the Chinesa as common recreation.
appropriated to the use of the girls of the School. As it was felt that those who had been accustomed to using the ground would feel the loss of it, the to find some other place for them to take same Sub-Committee was asked to try
their sport, a bit of vacant land near Homuntin being suggested.
STRAIGHTENING NATHAN ROAD,
letter regarding the straightening of Acknowledgment of the Associations" Nathan Road at the Po Hing Theatre had been received, and it was gratifying to
gressing. note that the question was being recon- sidered and the work apparently pro-
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KOWLOON HOSPITAL.
A letter of complaint respecting the Kowloon Hospital was read and the Se- cretary instructed to communicate with the Principal Civil Medical Officer on the subject.
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The Official Receiver made an applica-
THE STÁL FERRY WHAEF tion for adjudication in the case of Lee
The Sub-Committee to which_the_pro- Chak Man. He said that creditors' meet-posed alterations of the Star Ferry ings had been called on two occasions, Wharf had been relegated for considera
tion and report, brought forward a sketch but not a single creditor attended.
in which were embodied a number of The order
was granted, the Official further improvements which they wished Receiver to act as trustee.
to recommend. It was agreed to approve the Company's scheme in its main out- Mr. J. T. Prior represented debtor.
lines but to suggest that it be modified OBJECTION WITHDRAWN. · to include the further improvements re-
éommended by the Sub-Committee.
Ti
In the case of the Wing Shing Shun Firm, the Official Receiver applied for ent body is now on strike, alleging that a
permission to complete a contract of sale. lady member of the European staff has preceded the Official Receiver's applica- He stated that a receiving order bad insulted one of the students. The real tion for adjudication. The creditors had been previously granted, and he was ar reason, of course, has been that the no opportunity of cross-examining the dered to carry out a certain sale. At the Kuomintang has decided to take under debtor, as he was not present at "theast Court, Mr. E. S. C. Brooks opposed its control all educational institutions in creditors' meeting. The creditors were the firm had no knowledge of the affair, anxious for information, and particularly He now understood that there was no So far only the Kung Yee Medical Col- so as to why debtor stated that he traded objection to the carrying out of the con- lege and Hospital have been taken over under the name of the Luen On Company, tract. and made a branch of the. Kwangtung whereas some time previously he had- University, which has been regarded as described himself as the managing part "a hot bed of Bolshevism and a school ner. The creditors were therefore desir for the training of Bolshevist pro-ous, of information with regard to the pagandists."
partnership,
Canton.
DOG. REGULATIONS.
ANOTHER OFFICIAL
NOTIFICATION.
The Official Receiver said that it was Almost impossible to examine a bank rupt on matters which might be to his detriment without first having handled the administration of the estate. In such It is notified in the Government a case be considered that adjudication Gazette that the regulation dealing with should precede the public examination.
stray dogs at night which was made Mr. O'Donoghue asked for an absur by the Governor in Council on June ance that the public examination would 18th, 1925, is to be suspended from to-day be held. (the 12th inst.) antil further notice,
His Lordship remarked that in England
This regulation gave power to police the public examination always preceded officers to destroy dogs found at liberty adjudication. between the hours of 10 p.m. and d a.m. The Official Receiver: The practice in The above regulation has how been re- Hongkong has been extraordinarily loose placed by another which requires that with regard to public examinations; in All dogs be either placed on a lead or muzzled as from, to-dag, failing which fact, in many cases they have not been they are liable to be shot. It is now held at all notified that this regulation shall apply. only to the Island of Hongkong. Low- loon and New Kowloon,
ANOTHER DOG, BITE.
A messenger coolie of No. 02, Pottinger Etreet, was bitten by a black and white dog while walking along Broadwood Road on Friday night. The coolic went straight to hospital, but could not state to whom the dog belonged.
was granted.
Permission to complete the contract
OTHER BUSINESS. Owing to the lateness of the hour, it was found impossible to complete the business on the Agenda, and it was de- cided to call an Extraordinary Committee "Meeting next week to deal with the mat ters left over, which include a letter from the Preserved Ginger Manufacturers As the sale, because his client, a partner in sociacion complaining of the effect ga their trade of the water restrictions in Services in Kowloon, which was referred Kowlood, and the Question of the Bas to at the previous meeting together with correspondence on the subject.
The Committee again wish to state their willingness to receive communica tions from residents expressing their views on all questions affecting the wel AN IRREGULAR PROCEDURE.
fare of the community. Such communi.... Mr. E. 8. C. Brooks applied for a cations may be addressed to any officer receiving order in the case of the Yau of the Amociation, or to P.O. Box No. Hing Cheong Kee Firm. He said that
346 the assets consisted of two houses' worth $30,000, and $3,000 in book debts. There was only one partner of the firm in Aoog kong, There was another who lived in America, and it was very unlikely that he would ever return. He was only a sleeping partner.
Hi Lordship: I am bound by the Statute.
The Official Receiver said that he had
no evidence that debtor's assets were substantial. He would also want to have it shown that they were the debtor's assets and not the firm's
• firm..
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ALLEGED THEFT AT MESSRS, POWELL'S.
William Powell, Ltd., was charged before A Chinese employed with Mesare.
Major C. Willson at the Central Magis. tracy on Saturday, with the theft of six pairs of ladies' silk stockings,” valued at $8.50 a pair.
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Mr. W. A. Eustace, the Managing orious losses from the department, Director, stated in evidence that owing. Mrs. Stainfield. the assistent, had sus pected the defendant Ore of his duties was to take away shoes every evening to
resistant to pressure, fewer joints). the shoemaker for alterations or re- His Lordship said that no proper peti- pairs. On Thursday evening, the unusual tion had been presented in respect of the shape of the parcel which he was taking
away attracted Mrs. Stainfield's atten His Lordship: That, of course, must houses which debtor had were bought in boxes containing silk stockings were The Official Receiver said that the tion. The parcel was opened and two top. Public examination is one of the 1919 for 816,340. Property had risen in found. When a check was made, it was most important things in bankruptcy price since then, but not to the extent discovered that 18 pairs of silk stockings
cent. en mortgage. claimed. Debtor was also paying 20 per were missing.
Mr. J. A Leask, who had only been Mr. Brooks But there might be more just instructed to defend, arrived after Mr. Eustace had concluded his evidence. His Lordship: If there are, he should Mr. Leask applied for remand, which have disclosed them at first I must was granted until Tuesday, bail being dismiss the petition.
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The Official Receiver said that a public examination would certainly be held in connection with that particular case..
An order for adjudication was then granted.
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