NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GIRL KILLED BY GOLF BALL
COMPANY, LIMITED.
CLAIM AGAINST OWNER OF COURSE.
A daim by Hugh Lawrie, Great GREEN ISLAND CEMENT | Junction Street, Leith, against the
Earl of Wemyss for £000 damages - in respect of the death of his daugh- ter, Christina Dickson Lawrie, was dismissed in the Court of Session,. Edinburgh.
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the MEMBERS of GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at EXCHANGE BUILD ING, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 13TH DAY of OCTOBER, 1930, at 11.30 O'CLOCK in the FORENOON, for the purpose of considering and, if thought ft, passing as Extraordinary Resolu- tions
the following Resolutions, namely:-
1-That the authorised capital of the Company be reduced from 38,000,000.00 divided into 400,000 shares of the nominal value of 87.50 each fully paid up and 400,000 shares of the nominal value of $7.50 each with 88.00 paid up (or dus and payable thereon) and $2.50 uncalled to 84,000,000.00 divided into 800,000 shares of $5.00 each and that such reduction be effected:-
(a) By extinguishing the liability in respect of the uncalled capital on the said 400,000 shares, on which 85.00 only has been paid up (or which is due and payable thereon), to the extent of 82.50 per share on each of such shares in the capital of the Company. (U) By returning to the holders of the said 400,000 fully paid up shares capital to the extent of 82.30 per share.
(c) That such reduction be without
Miss Lawrie was struck on the Longniddy golf course by a golf ball in July, 1928, and 'died the same night, and the purquer claim.. ed damages on the ground that it was the duty of Earl Wemyss, who is the proprietor of the course, to protect members of the public from the danger of flying golf balls. The pursuer admitted that the ground in question was fenced off from the public road, but he said that there. were two wicket-gates in the fence
giving access to the eleventh teeing Around and hole and to the seashore beyond it. It was through one of these wicket-gates that Miss Lawtic had entered the ground on the day of her death.
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Giving judgment, Lord Fleming said the pursuer's counsel founded upon the existence of these gates, but he (the Judge) could not think that the public were entitled to assume that a proprietor who had fenced off ground gave them implied permission to enter upon his lands because he left unlocked gates in the tener.
After all, to enter upon land with.. out permission from the owner or occupier was prima farie an illegal act, and it was not essential for the. proprietor to warn the public of its illegality.
prejudice to the Company's CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME.
Hight to sue for and recover all
arrears of Calls now outstanding and due in respect of the shares referred to in Resolution 1 () hereof or any of them.
and also for the following further purposes, namely:-
For the purpose of considering and if thought fit approving the draft new Memorandum of Association of the Company which will be submitted to the meeting, Aprint of such draft new Memorandum of Association and a print of the existing Memorandum of Association of the Company may be seen at the Company's Registered Ofice, Exchange Building aforesaid and
at the office of the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Deacons, No. 1, Des Vaux Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, and a com Memorandum of of the print of the existing Association with a print of the draft new Memorandum of Association will show wherein the draft of the new Memorandum of Association differs of from the existing Memorandum Association. Should the Meeting approve of such new Memorandum or without of Association with modification, the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely:
2.That the provisions of the Company's Memorandum of As- aociation with respect to its objects "be altered so as to read as shown' in "the print'signed for the purpose of "identification by the Chairman of
this Meeting."
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO A SECOND EX- GIVEN that TRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the same place on WEDNESDAY, the 12TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 1930, at 11.30 O'CLOCK in the FoRENOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and f confirming if thought it as Special Resolutions all the before mentioned Resolutions.
Should the before mentioned Re- solutions be confirmed as Special Resolutions by the requisite majority, the said reduction of capital and the alterations in the. Company's Mem- orandum of Association consequently involved will be submitted to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong for confirmation.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said SECOND EX- TRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING to be held as aforesaid will be continued for the purpose of consider. ing and if thought it passsing the following further Resolutious Ordinary Resolutions, namely :—
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That the mid 800,000.shares of $5.00 each fully paid up created by the reduction of capital effected by the before mentioned Resolutions Nos. 1(a), (b) and (e) be as from the date of con- firmation of the Enid reduction By the Supreme Court of Hong
consolidated in Kong
Büch that every two of auch manner shares shall constitute ena $10,00
share upon which the sum of $10.00 shall be credited as fully
paid up...
That the existing Certificates of Shares after the said date of confirmation of the skidro- duction by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong be called in by the Directors and cancelled and that new Certificates be issued subject to the provisions comi tained. -in-- the-Articles of Association of the Company, That on such consolidation, as aforesaid no shareholder shall
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Dated this 16th day of August, 1930.
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DISPLAY OF FAMOUS TREASURES.
The Honourable Artillery Com pany" the oldest fegiment in the British Army, possibly the oldest in the world"--was house-proud last month. At its headquarters in Finsbury, E.C., it celebrated four centuries of history with a full- dress military pageant, which con- cluded an afternoon of sports events,
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OBJECTION TO PUBLIC INQUIRY.
ASSURANCE COMPANY AND INSPECTOR.
REFUSAL TO GIVE INFORMATION,
An objection to the inspection being public was lodged by the Hearts of Oak Assurance Co., Ltd., when the inquiry into their affairs which opened recently at Newcastle. on-Tyne was resumed by Mr. John Fbx, Deputy Industrial Assurance Commissioner, at Cardiff."
GOOD-BYE IN THIRTY LANGUAGES.
GIRL GUIDES CAMP BREAK UP.
HOMEWARD TREK.
It would be hard to find an English country house whose por tico has overheard so many tinguis tie variations of "Good-bye" and Foxlease Park did recently, when Thank you, as the mansion at
the delegates to the World Con- ference of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts dispersed to their 30 differ. eat countries.
The business of the conference has been conducted in three lan- guages English, French and Gor. an-but in the excitement of part- ing everyone spoke in her native tongue.
The company's solicitor read a letter written by the secretary of the company in which it was stated that certain statements made by Mr. Fox at Newcastle regarding the company, its servants and ex- servants, had had considerable pub- licity and were calculated to dis-revele-sounded here by whistle
Long before the usual time fon credit the company and do it serious. înjury.
there was intense activity in all the camps, which
are picturesquely named after mountains, the Alps. Atins. Rockies and Blue Mountains.
With that urbans courtesy which has established its right to be called a "company of gentlemen," it show- ed throngs of visitors the treasures of Armoury House, including a rane 1360 suit of tilting amour, in sured for at least £20.000, and its famous vellum book," containing illustrious signatures from the time of Charles II-even
Private Inquiry Demanded. those of Samuel Pepys and Christopher Counsel, the letter continued, had Wren,
since advised the company that the Everyone of its present 2,000 mem-inquiry must be private and that bors, "whether, City youth or City reteran, had to constitute himself learned antiquarian as well as gallant soldier for the benefit of those to whom the rich history of this corner of London, hard by qually historic Bunhill Fields, was unfamiliar.
Archery Display.
The pageant, which was chiefly under the direction of Major G. Goold Walker, D.S.O., opened with an archery display, circa 1337, by gentlemen in Tudor doublet and bose-members of the Guild Fraternity of Saint George, to whom the H.A.C. traces its obscure .origin.
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Then followed. in picturesque succession. "Caliver-men," other- wise "Captains of the Artillery Garden," of the Spanish Armada days, a detachment of heavily armoured pikemen and musketeers in leather jerkins, of the year 1641, when the Company obtained posses- sion of its present ground, and Grenadiers of 1702 in buff coats braided with scarlet and crimson mitre hats.
All demonstrated drill-book exer- cises of their period, which in the
case of the musketeers included loading and firing to no fewer than thirty distinct commands, and in that of the pikemen meant a series of "postures" which must bave taken an immense amount of time and patience to memorise.
Plumed Halmets.
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the inspector had no authority whatever to publish broadcast matter which came to his knowledge at such private inspection. Further. the general public should not be permitted to attend, and the com- pany, its officers or servants, were justified in refusing to attend a public inquiry or furnish informa
tion.
The letter added that unless the inspector gave the company an assurance, that the inspection would be private they would not allow their officers or servants to give evidence.
The company's solicitor informed the inspector that they had no wish to avoid publicity, but an import- ant legal principle was involved, which it might be necessary to test before another tribunal.
Having regard to the intimation by the inspector that the inspection would be continued in public the company regretted they could take no part in the proceedings that day or furnish the information required.
Inspector's Protest,
The Inspector replied that any- thing which, had appeared in re-
ports was not information which hê had broadcast either to the Press or the public, but evidence given by his opinion was material to the certain people on outh, which in
matter being investigated. strongly objected to the suggestion He that he requested information from the company in regard to its agents and ex-agents with a view An Artillery detachment of 1800, to passing that information on to in great plumed helmets, and then the Press or the public. He could the dear old oleograph prints of only take it that the object of one's boyhood to the life in the per-writing the letter was to inform the son of stalwarts of 1880 in white public that the company objected shell jackets and mutton-chop whis to publicity. kers and carrying Snider rifles- surely as pretty and ladylike a bunch of dandies as ever went to war with three-cornered bayonets to the tune of Tommy Atkins" and with the blessing of the best Kip lingese!"
Next" 1900 "-mounted gunners of the South African War in felt batted khaki; "1913-pre-wer full dress, with some stolid slow-time drill. Then our own little shom, 1914 "a platoon marching out to rest billets after a spell in the trepones (and the mud, especially the mud to the tuaes-o langer so historic of Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "Pack Up Your Troubles"; and 1916"-a fourteen-horse gun-team in helmets taking the sandy trail in Palstine, with one of "Allenby's white mice for rearguard-one of those little" Sudanese donkeya, who did their bit carrying officers' batmen, cooks, etc., when the supply of horses and mules ran out. A fractious little fellow at that, who raised laughs from the spectators because he wouldn't go the way good donkeys should.
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The solicitor replied that that was not so.
The Inspector added that the considered opinion of those respon- sible for administering the Act was that in the interests of all concern- ed an inquiry of that nature should be carried on under that full light of publicity.
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The Inspector stated that in the meantime he was not prepared to give the undertaking asked for, so that it would be necessary again to adjourn the inquiry.
After taking the evidence of several policy-holders the inspector adjourned the inquiry until a date. in September, to be fixed.
NEW CUNARDER.
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Finally, a smart display by A" and "B" batteries galloping into action against a very demure-look- ing tank and a realistic "dust-up "ing a greater draft on the skill and between a machine-gun platoon and one of infantry,
The Countess of Denbigh, wife of the Colonel Commandant; presented the sports prizes. An expert-com pany of organisers under Capt. C. B. Broome, chairman of the com- mittee, contributed to the success of real show day"
FOSTERING THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
PRIZE FOR ENGLISH CHILDREN.
A serious effort is being made at Trefriw Spa to popularise the Welsh language amongst children of English parents, and prizes are offered to suck children who show satisfactory progress in learning and writing the language, bij
The suggestion that the Cunard liner about to be built on the Clyde will mark a new epoch in transatlantic travel was made at à luncheon given on the Cunard liner Franconia to the members of the. Institution of Naval Architects. "The Cunard Company are draw-
enterprise of the art and craft which your institution represents than ever they have done before in the designing of a now ship which is to mark a fresh epoch in trana atlantic travel," said Mr. T A Bates, deputy chairman of the Cunard Company, who presided. "It is interesting to- reflect, that naval architects and engineers would design for us a ship of any size or speed, and the limitation is not that of naval architects but of economics, of policy, and of dock accommodation. We cannot. build bigger ships than docks will take."
Lond Wester Wemyss said the new. Cunarder would carry all their wishes for a successful career.
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Lawrence Holt) said it was the hope of everyone in port and in the country that the new Cunard ship should be the last word in naval enterprise, and that it
The initiator of the movement is would be such a ship that would be Mr. Henry Higgins, who was born not a challenge to someone else to
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bho Lizited States and peatge was better but such a hin that lisonta catre farer coming to England, and afterwards to Wales, where he mastered the language. Mr. Higgins claims that by lineal descent he is a Welshman.
that after bis retirement from business he secured his M.A. degree
at Liverpool University, at the age
So great is Mr. Higgin's interest of 82, for a treatise on The Welsh in the language and the country | Forts." He is chairman of the Tre- (Continued at foot of nezt column.) friw Parish Council,
Souvenirs,
The campers had no need to stow away equipment and teals, as these the tmining school for the British were provided by Foxlease. House, Girl Guide movement. They had lots of souvenirs to pack away in personal kits, however, and last night's campfire lasted until long after the usual "Fghts out." "Packing done, the 120 delegates, 50 guiders and numerous British camp orderlies. made their way to the portico of Foxlease House. Up crowded into cars, future meetings to the last minute before they
were
heing hurriedly arranged. Egypt was hoping to see America again, and Japan was discussing rendezvous with Poland.
and thanks, with a three-fingered Then a hurry of spoken good-byes salute and a left-handed handsake
Seeing England.
left to embark at Southampton. Several of the American delegates Many ether delegates from abroad Commissioners in various parts of xet off to the homes of County
England for a glimpse of English home life and English Guiding.
"A great success," said one of the officials in describing the Con- ference, which, among other things. has drawn up the constitution for the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
Delegates have mingled in the. agreed that guiding has something. most friendly way. They have all
to give the girls of the coming generation that nothing else can. The only thing holding back the eprolment and training of even grown-ups to come forward to take more guides is the slowness of charge of them."
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