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MACAO CEMENT TO HONG KONG.
LOSS ON DEEP WATER BAY WORKS.
At the 30th ordinary annual meeting of the Green Island Cement Company, Limited, held yesterday at the offices of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., the Chairman, Mr. R. G. Shewan, said that owing to the demand in the Colony for cement, it was found necessary to import Macao cement to Hong Kong.
It was also stated that the works at Deep Water Bay showed heavy loss, and that during the year under review, the works had to be closed down in order to minimise expenses.
Eresent at the meeting resterday were Mesars. R. G. Shewan presiding. Allan Keith (Secretary), J, H. Taggart, J Scott Harston, C. F. Mendham, Allan Cameron, and Li Tse Fong (Direc ‚tors).
Shareholders present were Messrs. F. M. Ellis, E. M. Raymond, G. H. Potts, A, L. Shields, N. V. A. Croucher, I W. Shewan, P. F. C. Prato, E. L. Sim, D. M. Goodall and J. Coulthart."-
* CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.
IMPROVEMENT ON PRECEDING YEAR.
ATTEMPT TO KILL DR.
COMMUNIST SENT TO
PRISON FOR LIFE”
EMISSARY OF THE PARTY.
·SINGAPORE, March 14th.
I was sent here by the Com«'
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The Clann delegation to the munist Party in China to bring Jerusalem Conference, together with light to the labouring classes in that from Japan and the Philippine reach China," said Cheong Yok Kai, the Islands is due to reach Jerusalem would-be assassin of Dr. C. C. Wato-day. The Enlarged Meeting of and the shooter of Dr. Lim Boon the International Missionary Coun Keng, when in the dock at the l is to convene in that city on the 24th instant. This delegation Singapore Assizes this morning on
of seventeen two" charges of attempted murder.
members, passed The accused pleaded guilty, and through Hong Kong on February the Deputy Public Prosecutor (Mr. 24th and were entertained here by N. H. P. Whitley) repeated the various bodies,
The leader of the delegation is facts regarding the Hill Street shooting which are already fam Dr. David Z. T. Yui, Charman of shareholders in general meeting liar to the public. He added that the National Christian Council of, having first been obtained.
a Malay car driver named China and General Secretary of Deep Watar Bay Works Closed.. Mohamed bin Shariff, who saw the the National Committee of the With regard to our Deep Water accused and two other men follow-YMCA The South China mem Bay Works, I regret to say that ing Dr. Wu and also saw him fra ber is the Rev. Y. S. Tom of Addressing the meeting, Mr. R. the results again show a heavy loss, a pistol, and throw two boobs, Canton. Other members are Dr. C.. G. Shewan said:
Tour Board gave a great deal of at- chased the accused, and in spite of
Y. Cheng, of Shanghai, General I am pleased to state that the tention to these works during the the fact that the accured twise Secretary of the National Christian result for the year under review year and, after careful considera- turned and pointed his pistol at Council of China, Prof. T. C. Chao shows a marked improvement on tion, it was decided in August last him he continued to chase and ran of Peking, Rev, Li Tien Lu of that of the preceding year, and with that the most prudent course to the man to earth in a compound Tainan, Mrs. C. C. Chen and Dr. Bode of the is in the more settled conditions prevail. pursue was to close down. It was on Fort Canning Hill. Another Y. Lo of Shanghai, Mr. T. C. ing in South China, it is to be hoped not possible, however, to shut down Malay named Bepoh bin Wahid Bau of Hungchow, Rev. Donald that such improvement will not say entirely until December 31st, as we joined in the chase and assisted in Fay of Chengtu and Mr. E. C. he maintained, but that in respect had contracted to supply Govern the arrest. Six rounds of ammuni- Lobenstine, another Secretary ofoon' and hear the Intest of the current year we shall be in ment requirements for the year 1977;tion were Igund on the accused, the National Christian Council.. 2 position to present you with a So. soon, however, as your Direc and a pistol which was found near- more satisfactory showing.. tors were able to reach a decision, by showed signs of having been
The profit for the year after pro- notice was given to the Superinten fired in all six chambers. viding $70,660.50 for depreciation dent and to one of his assistants, accused's Statement, amounts to $121,593,36, and after and charges reduced to a minimum
The accused, asked if he had any deducting from this sum the debit commensurate with the maintenance thing to say, stated that he came balance brought forward from the of the installation in a condition to Singapore with previous", year amounting to rendering it capable of being ope- from the Communist Party in $29,662.55, there remains a credit rated again should conditions so Chins to kill Dr. Wu, Mr. Sun about two hundred leaders of Chris balance of $91,960.71 which your warrant. Since the first of the Fo, and Mr. Hu Han Man (memtian work in some twenty countries, Directors recommend be dealt with as follows
To transfer to a contin-
gehey reserve against... Deep Water Bay, sales. #20,000.00 To carry forward... 71,060.71
$91,060.71
current year, the works have been completely closed down, thus effect- ing a material saving; in this con- nection your Board have deemed it prudent to recommend the alloca tion to a contingency reservo out of the profits for the year 1927 of an and I trust such recommendation amount of $20,000, against the pos- will meet with the approval of sible contingenes of loss in the work- shareholders.
ing for the currant your on sales of such stocks as remain on hand.
Turning to the accounts, you will notice we have transferred the mum of $125,000 from the reserve for new plant" to buildings and machinery at Hok Un, thus writing down the old plant there to 846,999.55. We are also trans ferred from our reverve fund the sum of $100,000 to buildings and
- Fortunata Tò Show A Proft. Trade during the year under re- view was, zs you are aware, far from normal, but taking into considera- tion the vicissitudes through which we have passed and more particular ly the stagnation in general con- struction set with which the sale of our products is so intimately identified coupled with the severity
of competition for such business as machinery at Deep Water Bay, has been passing, I venture to think which now stand in our books at that we may regard ourselves as $53,005.77. Our cash at the bank fortunate in being enabled to show at the end of last year amounted a small profit on the year's work to 8287,000 but on the other hand I would point out that our stocks of ing.
raw materials have been consider ably reduced,
The two new kilns at our Macao works are now working satisfac
Investments. Foduced. torily and, together with the two Fabler kilns which were transferred
Our investments are now reduced from Hong Kong and are in course to 8564,658.82, as $150,000 Hong of erection, should, on completion, Kong Government War Loan Bonds place us in a position to meet the were drawn for re-payment during demand from Canton and the West | 1927.. River Districts when trede becomes normal, thus conforming with our policy to concentrate our Macao output on that particular market.
instructions
bers of the Nationalist delegation) The powers of the Communist Party in China had recently been greatly reduced.
His Lordship: I don't want to hear about the Communist Party in China We are dealing with Singapore.
Accused said his instructions were to tell the people in Malays and to enlighten them as to what the ideals of the Communist Party were.
His Lordship (to the inter- preter): Tell him that nobody. the people as much as he pleased would object to his enlightening-
The China delegation is carrying | banner to be presented to a church in Jerusalem, the, translation of
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SINGAPORE, March 14th.
in these countries. This is the firs: KILLED BY FALLING PLANK. conference in which repremntatives of the Orient have sat down at the coumell table on equal terms with those of the Occident, each to con tribute their experience to the building op of the churches in the Various lands.
CINEMA NEWS.
SEVENTH HEAVEN.
"Seventh Heaven" continues to
The Right Reverend Monseigneur Emile Joseph Mariette, Vicar General of the Diocese of Malacca, and Vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Queen Street, Singapore, died at the General. Hospital last night as the result of en accident
It appears he had just taken the catechism class at the French Con- vent and bad driven down to Kum pong Bahru to inspect the work at
long did not them to break the law, courage excuse to tell me that he was sent here by the Communist Party or by anybody else to do murder. He draw crowded houses to the Queen's, the new Church of St. Teresa, is responsible for his actions. He and has made a very deep impres. While in front of the building a sent him here to do murder in this certainly picture which no one striking his head with such force cannot plead to me that anybody sion on all who have seen it. It is niece of plank fell from the steeple, country.
SINGAPORE CRIMINALS.
ARMED GANG ROBBERS TO
BE FLOGGED,
that his akull was smashed.
The Rev. Father was at once, re- moved to the General Hospital where an operation was performed, but it was found that the injury was fatal and he succumbed, about
Father Mariette, as he was com only known, was born in Ar aches in Normandy, in 1883 He arrived in Singapore in January. 1887 and served successively in Batu Gajah, Penang, Machang Bubo, and Taiping
should miss, more especially those His Lordship sentenced the 'ne-. used to penal servitude for life. who are apt to consider that the Accused said he did not intend | art of the screen is trivial and of to shoot Dr. Lim Boon Keng, and small account. apparently he had more to say, but he was removed. from the dock. A
very attractive part of the pro Straits Timex?
gramme is the singing by Miss Aileen Woods of the title song 9 "Diane,
Miss Woods sings with the skill that is so well known-and appreciated in the Colony, and the haunting melody has made the song The stock of limestone was agai
i well known all over the world.
At The World: checked by independent surveyors
SINGAPORE, March 21th
Described as delightfully dif towards the end of last year, and the result showed that our own Justics. Deane, four Chinese, Cho In the Assize Court, before Mr.
ferent You Never Know Women To Falil Local Demands. estimate was still a conservative Chce, Teo Oh, Ban See and Ong which will be shown at the World Turning to our Hek Un works, one. As our stock of stone was Ang were found guilty of assem-Theatre from to-day to Saturday, li owing to the plant in use there be getting low, your Directors, at the bling to commit armed gang rob combines drama, romance, and spec-
bery, being in possession of arms. coming gradually obsolete, the cost end of last year, entered into con- and being
of an unlawful tacle. The cast includes Florence of manufacture there is increasing tracts for a further supply from assembly,embers of an unid Vider, Lowell Sherman, and Clives Some sansational matter, it is and we have found it necessary to Indo-Chins for delivery spread over transport Macao Cement to Hong this year. Kong in order to fulfil the local and I do not think I have any further export demand; but transportation remarks to make and I now there costs are too high to enable us to fore have pleasure in proposing that compete successfully with other the report and accounts for the year brands in these particular markets. ended December 31st, 1927, as pre- In this connection, we cannot anti-sented be adopted sud that the und 15 strokes of the cat, and the by Ernest Vajda, the Hungarian cipate any improvement in the pre appropriations recommended by fourth to four years and 10 strokes playwright, and would be notable vailing state of affairs until such your Board as above indicated be of the
LATE LORD OXFORD.
MEMOIRS SAID TO BE
SENSATIONAL
The first accused his Lordship Brook, besides a number of famous understod is contained in the late sentenced to five years' rigorous, im-
en har upphetsander Lord Oxford's book, “ Memories prisonment and 15 strokes of the vaudeville artists who appear in and Reflections: 1882-1927, which cat and two years rigorous imperson. The story centres around is to be published in two volumes prisonment, the sentences to Fun the romance of an actress who is in the autumn. concurrently. The second secured
Mr-Newman Flower, of Mesara. : was sentenced to six years rigorous loved by the magician in the com-
Cassell and Co., Ltd., who are pub imprisonment, the sentences also to pany and by a wealthy idler. You liabing the book, said to ele eased was sentenced to five years run concurrently The third Never Know Women was written Mail reporter:
time as we are able to install an carried into effect; and when this € 2 enne for the vaudeville turns alone, which
Tân Boon Boon, was the
entirely new factory capable of has been seconded, I shall be pleas, charged with armed robbery and are the real thing, turning out the high grade producted to endeavour to answer to the with wilfully causing grievous hurt which we have hitherto maintained, best of my ability any questions at the same time and places Hold That Lion," Douglas Mec and ensuring its being marketed at shareholders may wish to ask. According to the evidence the se
"a materially lower price. The cost
where, he was
The book contains 150,000 words, and Lord Oxford was at work on it for two years and up to within a few weeks of hi death He wrote everything he intended to write with the ex- ception of a preface. This he had hoped to do, but unfortu nately was prevented by his ill- ness and death. It has not yet. been decided who will write it
The book deals with the whole range of the great statesman's life, including intimate extracta from bir diary, and from a great inmass of correspondence some of the letters were written during the time he was Prime Minister in the early stages of the war and are very critical in their Comment ANY
cused was one of a party of Chinese Lou's latest picture, is being who chased Bukit Paulane Chinese at screened at the Star Theatre from sit Panjang. The fugitive Fan today to Saturday. * It shows the wounded in the chest by his as smiling comedian, breaking all the sailanta Several more shots were rules of big game hunting, in a& then fired one of which wounded
loved with
utilu
ANOTHER BUSINESS of an up-to-date factory would, we believe, approximata to $3,000,000, After the adoption of the accounts and its installation would, we think, and reporte had been seconded by occupy a period of two years. Mr. JH. Taggart the election of Your Board are at present inves Mr. Taggart to a seat on the board tigating this matter with a view to was proposed by EM Ray- placing a concrete proposal before mond and seconded by Mr. G, IL the coffee shop, proprietor in the most amusing fashio You for consideration in which re- Potts, dan pertama, sind back. The party then riffed the till lation the question of location is a On the proposal of Mr. Haymond of the shop and left, wo matter of paramount importance, and seconded by Mr. Potta Mesars... In his deschen the accused said especially having regard to the fact CA, da Roza and Li Te Fong that he owed two witnesses in the anally reache that our Hok Un property has to were re-election to the board, b
CLES 810 as. e gambling debt and where Mac materially improved in value that Messrs. Liontend & Davis, and he said that it was because he had to discove it may be found expedient to con-Messrs Lowe, Bingham & Matthews not paid them they had brought a centrate elsewhere. Whilst on this were re-elected to be auditors of that charge asiat him,
samo, hunter's subject, I deem it opportune to the Company at a remuneration of « The accused was found guilty.
and
All the papers left by Lord Oz state that no scheme involving $750 a month each on the proposal and was sentenced to seven years the jungles
ford have been covered by this beavy capital outlay will be embark-] of Mr. E. M. Els and seconded by rigorous Imprisonment, and 18 of a 1
lion, win him, a stake of book, and some of the contents are ed upon without the consent of M N VA Croucher
strokes of the cat.--Straits Times. $10,000 and the girl of his heart. of a' sensational nature."
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There are also letters from is a big famous people, including great.
generals in the warhy