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IN H.B.M. CONSULAR COURT AT AMOY,
BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION
No. 3 or 1928.
Re TAIT & Co.
[OTICE 18 EEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE IS GIVEG
of CREDITORS of the above named Debtor Firm at 10 O'clock in the FORINOON in the COURT Rook at H.B.M. CONSULATE, AMOT, 00 FRIDAY, 14 DAY OF DECEM. BEB, 1928, Creditors wishing to attend should send in their Claims to the Undersigned, at the Firm's Address, Amor,
Dated this 29th day of November, 1998.
W. D. RUSSELL, A.CA.,
Beceiver.
[7079
IN H.B.M. CONSULAR COURT AT AMOY.
BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION No. 3 or 1928.
E. TAIT & COMPANY... VÕTICE -IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the above named Court ha appointed the 18TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1928, at 10 O'CLOCK in the FORENOON for proceeding with the Public Kraming tion of the above named Debtor Firm in the Covar Boox, st CONSULATE, Axor.
H.BM.
Dated this 28th day of November, 1928.
"W. D. RUSSELL, A.C.A.,
Eeceiver.
"[7074
*
IN H.B., CONSULAR COURT AT AMOY.
BANKRUPTCY JURSIDICTION
No. 9
for 1929,
"IN THE MATTER OF TAIT &
COMPANY, DEBTORS..
"HEREAS A¤ Order dated 162H
WTOBER, 1928, was macr
against the above Debtors on the Petition of JAMES LARDEN BROM. FIELD representing himself to be the Sole Partner.
And Whereas it now appears that FREDERICE BROUGHAM MAR- FRED »SHALL is still a Partner in the Debtor.
Firma.
Now upon concurrence of the FREDERICK BROUGHAM MAR- SHALL in the said Petition,
It is ordered that the Receiving Order of 16th OCTOBER, 1928, be amended to include FREDERICK BROUGHAM MARSHALL s Partner in TAIT & COMPANY.
Dated this 26th day of November, 1928. By the Court,
70750
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I am concerned with the needs of
young people. "I have spent my lifö in aiding the morals of young people. This book is not obscene." Counsel went on to say that he had ir Court distinguished people in every walk of life who desired to go into the witness-box and testify that the book was not obscene, that it was a misuse of the world for the prosecution to call it obscene,
Twelve more cases of small-pox, eleven from Kowloon were reported during the weekend.
Sir Raginald Stubbs, Captain General and Governor of Jamaica, returned to the island from Eng- land on November 9th and resumed duties,
Sir Ronald Ross, who announced | INTERNMENT IN HOLLAND. a month ago that he had been com pelled to offer his malaria research archieves for sale, stated that Lady Houston, the widow of the shipping magnate had bought them for £1,000, the price he named.
SOME INTERESTING WAR
REMINISCENCES. '
ADDRESS. AT ST. PETER'S CLUB.
At
and that the Act of Parliament Childhood" is to be given to-mor- motored monoplanes. who left half of the Club thanked Mr.
The Japan Aerial Transportation Company, which is going to open a regular service between Tokyo and Dairen in April next year har
A very interesting lecture~OR~~ Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Keijo, and started building five aerodromes at
Life in an Internment Camp" Dairen, and has just ordered six was given by the Rev. G. T. machines from Holland and six Waldegrave, M.A., from America. From Holland, the
the St. company is buying three-motored Peter's. Young Men's Club last- the company is going to buy single introduced the speaker, and on be monoplanes, while from America night. The Rev, N. V. Halward
Nishina president of the company under which the proceedings are
Japan for a tour abroad towards taken was never intended to touch
the end of October, is to 'retura some time during February, a book of this character. Counsel A report has been made to the
police by Sister Davis, of the The strength of America's óver- said he wished to call ministers of Government Civil Hospital, of the seas garrisons cannot be depleted, theft of 890 in notes froin her dress-Secretary Dwight-F-Davis of the religion critics, reviewers-well-ing table in the Sisters' Quarters in War Department declares in his
High Street.
SCIOS,
known authors of both publishers, and people from the libraries of London to support his contention. Mr. DESMOND MC CARTRY, the well-known critic and writer, did, as a matter of fact. enter
dence of the other witnesses would be similarly inadmissible.
A concert catitled Music of row at the Helena May Institute, a number of children are taking part, besides will known local artistes.
Those attending the Dinner Dance given by the H.K.A.A. at the Peninsula Hotel on Friday next may leave their cars at the rear of the Hotel, where a patrol will be in attendance.
On a charge of cruelty to pigs which were being carried in a small crate, two Chinese were fined 8 The animals legs were found to be cach by the Kowloon Magistrate. bruised and bleeding.
Two Chinese were taken to the Government Civil Hospital on Sun day to be treated for fractures of the leg.
One man fell from
£
annual report. It further redue tions are found to be necessary, thes must continue to be made within the United States, since the outposts contain strategic points and vital areas immensely important at the moment of the outbreak of war Early hours of such an emergenes are crucial, the Secretary empha- sized in reviewing military en- gineering and a variety of non military activities of military im Portance.
Lord Birkenhead is getting into his stride. He is already on the
Waldegrave for kindly consenting to speak of his experiences.
During the hour and a half that he spoke Mr. Waldegrave-held--his- audience's close attention with the grim interest of the life had by the 2,500 men of the Royal Naval Brigade who were interned in Hol- land following the fall of Antwerp in October, 1824. The men were ratings from the Naval Reserve and were drawn from all stations of life, from a baronet's son London taxi cab drivers' and Scot- tish fishermen. Many, knew little or nothing of warfare, while others were from the Royal Yacht, and incidentally the very best Naval men obtainable,
to
at
the witness box, but the magistrate said he could not admit his evidence as to whether the book was obscene or not, as it would be "only an expression of opinion "I Mr. Edmund Waller Nock, Palace | board of the Cable merger and on The magistrate added that the evi-Gate, Kensington. who died in that of Chemical Fadustries. Limit estate of the gross value of £60,559, of the sugar manufacturers, Tate August, aged 55 years, leaving cd. He has now joined the board gave a bequest of £300 for charit. and Lyle, Limited, and of the
The Internment. executors may select. able objects in Shanghai na the Johannesburg Consolidated Inves
At the time of the outbreak of ment Company, one of the South African mining groups of which the War..the men from the Naval Mr. Solly Joel is head. Supposing Reserve who were in camp that each of these three appoint meats brings him in £5,000 a year. Walmer were sent, after a month's his income from directorships must land training, to help to defend already be in the neighbourhood of
30,000; and then he has his pension Antwerp. However, the fortifie as an ex-Lord Chancellor as well. tions of Antwerp were no match Thas in a fortnight or so he has for the German 17 inch Howitzer leaped from the genteel poverty of The engagement is announced at Cabinet Minister on £5,000 a year Artillery, and, under the command Home vier Robert Davenport, to the comparative affuence which
of Commodore W. Henderson the F.R.C.S., of 39, Devonshire-place, he enjoyed as a successful barrister W.; son of the late C. J. Daven before, in a weak moment, he suffer garrison.had to evacuate the town. port, F.R.C.S., of Shanghai, and ed himself to be lured into accept- Helen Mayfield, B.SC., R. Cing the Woolsack. There would be part of the Naval Brigade were eldest daughter of Mr. P. Mayfield something invidious in the discus. left behind owing to faulty, staff and the late Mrs. Mayfield, of Hull. sion of these personal details if work and were forced into Dutch The marriage will shortly take Lord Birkenhead himself had not territory. Under the existing Neu- canvassed in the most public man- place, very quietly.
ner his dissatisfaction with his lot as a Cabinet Minister and the ren sons for it, which were entirely *pecifiry,
The magisterial decision on the case was reserved for a week, though there was no doubt as to what that decision be. The books were order. ed to be destroyed. His Worship denied that any question of censor- ship was involved; and declared that the literary merit of a fictional work did not exease the obscenity ef such a production. The more palatable the poison is," he said, "the more the insidious it is." This "expression of opinion" from the Bench recalls an experience of Sir HERBERT BEERDOAM. TREE. He was once producing a play by a distinguished author, and had some difficulty with the Lord Chamber announced A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd,|lain in getting the necessary per
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in
ladder while engaged in limewashing at 38, Connaught Road Central, while the other had a fall from some scaffolding.
New floods in the Antwerp region on November 30 drove thousands from their homes. The sea swept inland in a monster torren: through holes which breached the dykes, ret sulting in a total storm damage which is estimated to be in excess of a million sterling, Temporary to prevent further destruction. repairs in the dye are expected
What's In A Hane? '/
trality Laws they were held vir
tual prisoners in a camp at Groningen, Holland. The camp was actually designed to accommo- The revelation, contained in the
date 300 Dutch ratings, but some ocial notice of Mille. Delysia's 1,500 men were squeezed in. Mr. forthcoming marriage, that that Waldegrave then related how, as a delightful, actress name is really Lapize, will interest her many
Naval Chaplain, he was sent to re- admirers. The real names of lieve another Navel Chaplain at the Lee Yea Kee hardware shop, of known to the public, and few are "A report made to the police by French actresses are not generally
the camp for a period of six 40, Queen's Road Central states Spinelly bears the surname
aware of the fact that Mile months. He arrived at the Camp that on taking stock for the year Fournier or that Mlle. Mistinguett in January, 1015 and left in July 328 dozen steel files, valued at 8999.27, were found to have been was born Bourgeois. The cogno; "the same year.
mins of English actresses are easier stolen. Another report by a mer chant was to the effect that a foki to discover, and many of them had collected 8258.13 from the Tak gure in Debrett. Miss Densis Cheong Loong Arm without his Orte, for example, formerly Lady authority has since disappeared.
Churston, was called Jessie Smither, and Lady Drogheda, known on the stage as Olive May, was a child of the house of Meatyard.
Miner's View of Coal Problem.
of
12
were
Faid
If such grotesque things happen- ed in China, we should be greatly
well drawc plans were shown to the During the lecture, two exceedingly amused; when they happen
audience and a very clear insight into the hardships and monotony London they do not seem quite so
endured by the men during the amusing. Plays like "Our Betters"
four years of internment was given. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1190 was
A few of the methods and tricks and "The Vortex" are readily put up for sale by public auction approved, but a serious play con- at the Land Office yesterday, but
whereby the men, obtained their freedom were also related. cerning a wife who cannot under there being no bidders it was knock
The camp was ed down at the upset price of $7,440
not without its stand why she is.childless is banned. to Tse Cheung, Lar Cheong and
Hubert Tunney, a working miner, serious side and on the evening of in an address to the West Hartle January 24th when the echo of the The Lord Chamberlain actually told Cheung Chui Pak, of No. 2. Bow- pool Rotary Club, said that there guns could be heard at the Dogger
rington Canal Road. The land is was the author of this play that there situated at Shamshuipo and adjoins miners that what was happening nearly all Naval ratings,
a growing opinion among Baik Action, the men, who were was not a word or an action to another lot at Yu Chau Street. in the British coal industry was singing the hymn For those in
The area is about 4,930 square feet. not depression but decline. which he could take exception, "but annual Crown rent $34, to be held mistake which owners made was the chapel. I have never heard this The Peril on the Seas in the camp I cannot allow the theme." This for a term of 75 years with the failure to recognise that they were hyran sung so beautifully,'
option of renewal for appears to be the line of reasoning term of 24 years.
a further dealing with decline, and that the that speaker, "because they were which was recently followed by the
machinery hitherto employed to singing from heart and soul." meet the depression would not Much amusement was caused by The news received in London that necessarily tide them over it. The the descriptions of the Dutch sen- Home Secretary in dealing with Miss Grace Mariel Mann has died industry would never prosper by in- tries who were posted around the FLOOR.The Well of Loneliness." The after being attacked and shot by creasing hours and reducing wages Camp. These men, obviously of Bow Street Magistrate did, in fact, Hsinchow has come as a great shock markets by this means, Continental cents per day and any time when Shansi bandits when on her way to if they captured the Continental the farmer type, received about 15 say that the book might be a very to her relatives and friends, says owners would adopt the on the ground that they were of fae piece of Hiterature, yet be was the daughter of Mr. F. Cworse than the first. The owners always did the trick
a Home paper.
same the men wanted to leave the Camp Miss Mann, who policy, and the last state would be for a "drink," a 50 cent bribe. an obscene character. On the de- obscene. "I admit," he said, "it Mann, of Ferme Park, Hornsey, should emulate Continental ecun- centa," said the speaker, "the For. 75 fendant attempting to respond to has considerable literary merits," was born in 1881 at Crouch End. tries and bring the collieries up to sentry would hold the barbed wire
and was in China with the Baptist date. the challenge to show cause" by which incidentally is more than can Missionary Society. Miss Mann was
for you as you got under it and calling about forty"witnesses to give be said of what are known as the educated at the Central Foundation Dog Racing In Germany.
-out of the Camp.'"
expert evidence in defence of the
School at Spitalfields, and recrivel
Spiritual Help! 'best sellers."
The majority of her missionary training at Carey Dag-racing, which was started on
Hall, Selly Oak, Birmingham Beef this year, has proved a complete camp approached him presumably two tracks in Berlin in the spring Roman Catholic, member of the One day, said the speaker, a fore she went abroad she was for d time in the service of the Post failure, chiefly because the or with the intention of discussing during the troubles there, when the cession to have totalisators, so that speaker referred him to his Father Office. She went to China in 1925, ganisers omitted to obtain a con- matters spiritual controversy. The and others of the staff had to
the public, unable to bet, found no Confessor, but received a reply to evacuate the station on more than attraction in seeing, dogs racing for the effect that Mr. Waldegrave's one occasion.
one minute or so and then having to map of Rotterdam (the only port wait half an hour for the next race. of escape to England) was much The company which started dog better than his own padrés
grave's interesting address Mr. racing has ceased to operate, leav At the conclusion of Mr. Walde- Halward thanked him again on be- half of the Club.
+
book, the Magistrate (Sir CHARTRES people in England are not reading BIRON) said he could not admit books about sexual aberration, but their evidence! The book in ques books about "crooks "their thril tion, The Well of Lonelinces," ling murders, robberies, abduc baving already incurred the distions, and all the rest of it pleasure of the Home Secretary, the Strangely enough, nobody ever sug- London publishers had withdrawn gests that censorship should be
A competitive examination for it from sale. The volume, however, applied to such books, which is surveyor under the Board of Trade ing behind 120 fine whippets which
one or more appointments as ship was reprinted in Paris, and it was extremely fortunate for the authors will be held in London on January had been imported from England. 22nd, 1929. The limits of age are The question arose as to what was an attempt to send copies to London and publishers of these highly from 25 to 40 years; the salary is to be done with the animals, and that led to the police-court pro- popular works. Policemen and
from £300 to £500 plus bonus, at one time it was seriously thought which in at present £114 on of poisoning the lot. They were ceedings. Counsel for the defend-super-policemen, such as magistrates salary of £300. Every candidate saved from the fate by an ex-major IN London last month a policeman .ants said the case was important and Jixotic Home Secretaries, seem must have been, trained in the in Potsdam, who kept them in his went into the witness-box at Bow
not only to the publishers not only only to get excited about books Street police-court to "prove" that to the authoress, but of vital im- which deal with sex problems and two hundred and thirty-seven copier portance to the whole of literature only then if the author is foolish of a certain book had been seized. "in" general." He hoped to call a coough to treat the subject serious
to London, and the consignées were
magistrate, who would say, "Iy. There is, of course, no censor have read this book. I have a great ship of books in England-the police summoned to show cause why the seized copies should not be destroyed the Morality Council of London. I do not please them.
experience. I am connected with simply confiscate the volumes which
The books had been sent from Paris
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p.m.,
theory and practice of ship design, kennels until he found the expense construction, and repair for not of feeding them too great. He less than five years and have had then tried to sell them by auction not less than three years' practical without success, but finally he got experience thereafter. He must rid of them by advertising that have attained a position of respon he had 100 dogs to give away. The anticyclone over China is repairing establishment and raust owner in the neighbourhood of Boon may be expected along the sibility in a shipbuilding or ship- Almost every farmer and land- unchanged. Fresh to strong moo- also postess a university degree in Potsdam now has a whippet born B.E. coast of China and over the naval architecture or furnish other in England in his possession, little China Sea evidence of satisfactory educational realising the value of the present Local Forecast:-N.E attainments
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