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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1930.
RICE DEALERS IN TROUBLE.
FIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL SHOPS..
A fight which occurred in Shang- hai Street on August & between jubi of two rival rice shops had its aquel at the Kowloon Magie- tracy yesterday when 13 Chinese were charged with disorderly con-
duct.
The two shops in question are the Tuck Tai Cheung, at 62, Shanghai Strett, and the Hip Choung 18 63,
Shanghai Street.
M, M. K. Lo appeared for the former, and Mr. A. Covey was for the latter. Detective Sergeant Fitches prosecuted.
Wong Suk, a ricksha coolia, said that at about 3 pm. on August & he saw two trucks containing rice The one in Reclamation Street.. belonging to the Tuck Tai Cheung tried to overtake the, one belonging to the Hip Cheung. When they drew abreast of each others, words were exchanged and a fight follow- ed. One of the fabia of the Hip Cheung was wounded by a Ero-wood chopper.
Another fight was described by Chang Kam who stated that while he was walking along Shanghai Street on the evening of August 7, he saw two rice trucks The one belonging to the Hip Cheung was in front of that shop and that of the Tuck Tai Cheung wis pass ing it. Words were exchanged and One man from a fight followed. each party was arrested.
Chan Chung, a partner of the Hip Cheung Erm, told his Worship that the cause of the fight was The probably due to jealousy. Tuck Tai Cheang was in business some months before his bra was established, and friction might have arisen by their having taken away. some of their rival's business.
The case was" adjourned till Co- tober 2
HOTEL FIRE RECALLED, ESTATE OF MR. DOUGLAS.
JAMES ROBSON..
Estate in Hong Kong worth $1,200 and net personalty in Eng- land to the value of £1,360.55. was left by Mr. Douglas James Robson, who, together with. Mrs. Robson, were, among those who lost their lives in the King Edward Hotel fire in the early morning of March 11, last year. Mr. Robson died intestaté and had no children.
Re-sealing of letters of adminis. tration to the local estate have been granted to Mr. F. H. Fosse, assistant armament supply officer, as attorney for the late Mr. Roh- son's father, who is the adminis- trator.
Miss Finto's Estate. Miss Esther Piato, who died at Middlesex, on 163, Maida Vale.
estate of April 8, 1930, left $11.00 in Hong Kong, and net per- sonalty in England amounting to £4.698 3. 1d.
Re-sealing of letters of adminis tration have been granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, of Messrs. John- son, Stokes & Master, as attorney for deceased's nephew.
Besides family bequests, testator directs the payment of £20 to the Spanish and Fortuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks.
ROBBERS ACTIVE IN LANTAU ISLAND. GANG OF SEVEN, MEN.
A successful attempt at robbery with violence in which no fewer than seven men took part is men- tioned in a report made to the Police.
Only méigre
details of the rob-
bery are at present available, but it is known that the victims are two Chinese, Cheung Chuen (50) and' houses in Lee Piu (3), living Cheung Sha Lan, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau district. Armed with choppers and bamboo poles, the seven men entered the houses" at. 10 o'clock on Monday night and laid their hands on practically everything they could get a hold on. Besides taking away pigs owned by the victims, the plunder- ors left with such articles as blaa- keta, electric torches, canvas bed, chopper, and scythes. The men decamped in a soutterly direction, with a haul valued at $152.
Descriptions of the robbers, all of whom spoke the Boklo dialect, had been given to the Police.
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ADVERTISEMENT
HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS, LIMITED.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ordinary shares the sum of 85,00 N that an Extraordinary Gen-in respect of each deferred ordinary eral Meeting of the members of share held by them respectively Hong Kong Amusements, Limited, and that each of the said 8,000 will be held at the Queen's Theatre, preferred ordinary shares and the Queen's Road Central, Victoria, in 8,000 ordinary shares issued with the Colony of Hong Kong, on preferential rights shall be convert- Saturday, the 37th day of Septem-ed into one ordinary share credited ber, 1930, at 10.15 o'clock in the as fully paid up; all the said or afternoon, for the purpose of cop dinary shares to rank pari passu sidering and if thought it passing with each other in all respects and the following Resolutions as Extra- that all arrears of the non-cumu
lative preferential dividend whol ordinary Resolutions: --
-That the Articles of Associather declared or not on the said 8,000 preferred ordinary shares tion of the Company be altered by and on the said 8,000 ordinary deleting the words "by Special
shares issued with preferential Resolution" in the second line of rights shall be cancelled and ex- Article 58 thereof and by deleting tinguished but if this reduction and scheme of arrangement shall Articles 197 and 188 thereof and substituting therefor the following not be confirmed by the Court on or before 30th day of June, 1931, new Articles:-
this Resolution shall on that day no effect and that be void and this Resolution shall be conditional on a scheme of arrangement be- tween the Company and its mem- bera holding deferred ordinary shares between the Company and its members holding preferred ordinary shares and between the Company and its members holding ordinary shares issued with pre ferential rights being adopted un-" der Section 121 of the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance; 1911-1929, for giving effect to the provisions of this Resolution; such scheme of arrangement to be framed in ae- cordance with the terms following:
167. The Directors may, before recommending any dividend, set side out of the profits of the Company such sums as they think proper as a reserve fund to meet contin- gencies or for equalising dividends or for special dividends or for repairing improving and maintaining any of the property of the Company and for such other purposes as, the Directors shall in their absolute dis- cretion think conducive in the interest of the Company and may invest the several sums to set aside upon such than (other investments shares of the Company) as they may think fit and from time to time deal with and vary such investments and dispose of all, or any part thereof for the benefit of the "Company and may divide the reserve fund into such special funds as they think it and employ the reserve fund or any part thereof in the busi- « ness of the Company and that without being bound to keep the same separate from the other assets.
166. (a) The Company in general meeting may at any time
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pass
a Resolution to the effect that it is desirable to capitalise any sum or sums of money being the whole or any part of the undivided the Company prosta of standing to the credit of the Company's reserve fund and accordingly that such sum or sums of money be distribute ed as a bonus amongst the holders of any particular class or classes of shares in the Company's capital in -proportion to the shares held by them respectively and that the Directors be authorised to distribute amongst them any unissued ordinary shares of the Company in like pro- portion.
When such Resolution has been passed the Directors. may allot and issue any in- issued ordinary shares credit- ed as fully paid up to the holders of such particular class or classes of shares in satisfaction of the said bonus and as nearly as may be in to the shares proportion held by them respectively with full bower to make such provisions by the issue of certificates pr Iractional otherwise as they think ex- pedient for the case of frac lions, and prior to such allotment the Directors may authorise any person on be- half of the holders of such shares to enter into any Agreement with the Com- pany providing for the allot- ment to them of such shares. credited as fully paid up and in satisfaction an afore said and any Agreement made under such authority shall be effective.
(e) It shall be no objection to Resolutions passed under paragraph (a) of this Article that they are passed at the meeting at which the Re
this solution introducing Article was confirmed as á Special Resolution provided that due notice of the inten tion to propose such first mentioned Resolutions, shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory Meeting afore
That the capital of the Com- pany be reduced from $200,000 con sisting of 8,000 deferred ordinary The ancient and picturesque cerr.hares of 25.00 each on which the mony of presenting a pair of white Bit of $5.00 has been paid up, gloves to the Chief Justice to mark 8,000 preferred ordinary shares of the absence of cases at the Criminal $10.00 each on which the sum of Sensions this month will be observ. $10.00 has been paid up and 8,000 ed at the Supreme Court to-morrow ordinary shares of $10.00 each morning
inued with preferential rights on which the sum of $10.00 has been paid up to $160,000 divided into 18,000-ordinary shares of -810.00 each and that such reduction be effected by cancelling the 8,000 de ferred ordinary shares and by pay ing off so capital in excess of the wants of the Company the capital paid up on the said 8,000. deferred ordinary shares and returning fo the holders of the said deferred
A foken was presented to Sir Joseph Kemp last month, and in his absence the holder of the office of Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wood, will share in the honour.NA
Since November, 1844, the: custom has been observed five times, but this is the first occasion that there have been clean calendars at the Beerion for two months in succes
(1) The capital of the Company is to be reduced by the can- deferred cellation of the ordinary shakes and by the repayment to the holdere of the said deferred ordinary shares of the capital repre- sented by such shares.
(2) The provisions of clause 5 (b) of the Company's Memo- randum of Association re garding all the preferential rights attached to the pre- ferred ordinary shares are to be cancelled and the prefer- red ordinary shares are to be ordinary shares and are to rank part pour for dividend and in all other respects with the other ordinary shares of the Company and all arrears. of preference dividend are to be cancelled.
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And Notice is Hereby Also Given ¿ further Extraordinary that General Meeting of the members of the above named Company will be held at the same time and place
(3) The preferential rights at- tached to the 8,000 ordinary shares issued with preferen tial rights are to be cancel led and the said ordinary shares issued with preferen- tial rights are to be ordinary ber, 1930, for the purpose of receiv. shares and are to rank parting a report of the proceedings at pass with the other ordinary the above mentioned meeting and shares of the Company and of confirming, if thought fit, as all arrears of preference Special Resolutions the foregoing dividend thereon are to be Resolutions.. cancelled.
(4) The capital of the Company is to be increased by the creation of 8,000 ordinary shares of $10.00 each to be issued to the holders or the deferred ordinary tharos in substitution for the cancelled deferred ordinary shares. (5) $40,000 part of the undivid- ed profits of the Company standing to the credit of the Company's reserve fund is to be capitalised and applied by the holders of the deferred ordinary shares in part pay ment of the 8,000 ordinary shares issued to them.
(8) The return of capital of
in the proportion of one of such additional ordinary shares for every one of the said cancelled de ferred ordinary shares held by such persons respectively but this Re on Monday, the 13th day of Octo-solution shall be conditional on and shall only take effect in the event of the reduction of capital deter- mined on by the Special Resolu tion which has been confirmed at this meeting being confirmed by the Court and also shall be con- ditional on a scheme of arrange- members holding preferred ordinary ment between the Company and its shares between the Company and dinary shares and between the its members holding deferred or.. Company and its members holding ordinary shares issued with pre ferential rights being adopted under Section 121 of the Hong Kong Companies' Ordinances, 1911- 1929, for giving effect to this and Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the foregoing Resolutions:
In the event of the resolution for reduction of the Company's capital being confirmed the reduction, con- sequent thereon will be submitted to the Supreme Court of Hong Kang for confirmation.
And Notice is Hereby Also Given that such last mentioned Extra- ordinary General Meeting will be continued for the purpose of con- sidering and, if thought fit, passing as an Ordinary Resolution the following Resolution:
3.-That in the event of and
6.-That 24,000 shares part of the forthwith after the reduction of said additional ordinary shares, be capital to be effected by the, fore-offered in the first instance at a going special resolution being con- firmed by the Supreme Court of premium of 82.50 per share to the persons who immediately prior to Hong Kong the capital of the Com- this meeting were registered as the holders of the deferred: ordinary 85.00 per share made to the pany be increased to $1,000,000 by holders of the deferred or the creation of 84,000 additional shares the holders of the preferred dinary shareholders is to be ordinary shares of $10.00 such ordinary shares and the holders of applied by them in paying ranking for dividend and in all the crdinary shares issued with pre- the balance of $5.00 per share other respects pari pasru with the ferential rights in proportion as on the 8,000 ordinary shares existing ordinary shares of the nearly as may be to the number of
Company.
shares held by them respectively issued to them.
shares pa 4.That 8,000 shares part of the aad upon the footing that the full (7) The Special Resolution pass-
cd.and confirmed on the 13th said additional ordinary shares be amount of each share taken up day of October, 1930, and issued to the persons who immedi- plus the premium (making together the ordinary resolution pass- ately prior to this meeting were 312.50 per thare) shall be paid to ed on the 13th day of Oc-registered, as the holders of the the Company on acceptance of the tober, 1930, providing for 8,000 deferred ordinary shares in offer and that such offer he made the matters aforesaid shall substitution for such shares in pro- by notice specifying the number of be binding on the Company portion as nearly as may be to hates to which the member is and on the holders of the the number of shares held by them entitled and limiting a time within preferred ordinary shares and respectively and that their names which the offer if not accepted by be forthwith after the said con- payment will be deemed to be declin- on the holders of the deferred armation of the reduction entered ad and that the Directors be em ordinary shares and on the
the ordinary in the Company's register of share-powered to dispose of the shares not holders of shares issued with preferen- holders as the holders thereof and tial rights and shall be car upon the footing that $3.00 part of the full amount of each share ried into effect accordingly issued be paid to the Company in- The holders of the preferred mediately on the entry of their ordinary shares, the holders names as aforesaid. of the deterred: ordinary
B-That it is desirable to shares and the holders of the ordinary shares issued with capitaliso a sum of $40,000 being preferential rights shall ac part of the undivided profits of cept the provisions made by the Company standing to the the aid Special and Or credit of the reserve fund and ac dinary resolutions in satis cordingly that a Special Capital faction of their existing Bonus of 840,000 be declared and rights with respect to their that such bonus be applied on be preferred and deferred or half of such of the persons holding the cancelled deferred ordinary dinary shares.
shares of the Company whose names of shareholders of the Company as the holders of the said 8,000 ad ditional ordinary sharesin payment of the sum of $5.00 per share unpaid on the before thtioned, 8,000 dd- them and that, such sharca be ac-, ditional ordinary shares issued to cordingly allotted a fully paid up shares to such persons respectively
as
faken in response to such offer they consider expedient in the in- terest of the Company.
7.-That 26,000 shares part of the said additional ordinary shares, be offered to the public at a premium of $10.00 per share upon the foot- ing that the amount of each sharo applied for and allotted plus the premium (making together 320.00 per share) shall be paid to the on such dates as the Directors may Company by such instalments and subsequently decide
by the Special Resolution i have been entered in the registermium of $10.00 per share, at such
(9) Unless the reduction effected confirmed by the Court be fore the 30th day of June, 1931, this scheme is on that day to become void.
any modification or condition (10) The Company may assent to which the Court may think it to approve or impose.
-That 28,000 shares the balance of the additional ordinary shares be offered to the public at a pre- times and on such conditions as the Directors may think fit.
Dated this 16th day of September
1830
By Order of the Board,
CHAS S. ROSSELET;
Secretary
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