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HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 8th March, 1905,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MARCH 13,
Intimations.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
"HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY
HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, on THURS- DAY, the 23rd March, at Neon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 311: December,
-1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 10th to 23rd March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents.- Hongkong, 4th March, 1905.
[321 LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY TANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on THURSDAY, the 23rd March, at 12.30 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts to 315 December, 1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to 23rd March, both days inclusive,
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO. CASE.
CHANG YEN-MAO V. MORRING, AND OTHERS [Continued from Saturday.]
..
THE ELEVENTH DAY.
Division, resumed the hearing of the action of When Mr. Justice Joyce, in the Chancery Chang Yen-mno v Mareing, and others on 7th ult, Str. C. A. Morcing was further cross examined by Mr. Levett, K.C, on behalf of
Chang Yen mao,
He stated that on the completion of the negotiations Mr. Hoover telegraphed that the capital was to be £1,000,000, that the old share holders were to get: 375,005 shares, and that £100,000 working capital must be provided by March 1. He then assumed that the working capital was le come out of shares capital. He did not think the difference between mising it by the issue of share and by the issue of de bentures was appreciated out there. He arrived in Tientsin at the end of 1899. He thought Detring had in his mind at that time the rais ing of working capital by the issue of shares. lle returned to England in May, and in August received the telegram from Hoover announcing that he had succeeded in getting the agreement signed.
A report purporting to be made by Hoover for the defendant company was put to the wit- ness. The report stated that the inspection was made in June, 1900. It gave the value of the coal which might be won as 8,125,000, taken at 6d. per ion. Witness stated that report was not inade for the company, but only as explaining its position on behalf of the Oriental Syndicate. No doubt it was intended 321that the working capital was to come out of the nominal capital. It was thought possible at the time, but had proved impossible.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 4th March, 1995. THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY, LIMITED.
"HE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL SONG OF BHARE HOLDERS in the above Company, will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building. No. 6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on SATURDAY, the 25th March, 1905, at 11 A.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 32nd March, to SATURDAY, the 25th March, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, roth March, 1905.
P. & O. S. N. Co.
NOTICE.
1905.
|all He was told the first thing, he had to not move a limb. Utter collapse followed, "do was to come over here and take proceed- and I couldn't eat. I went to stay with my ings to get the registration completely cancell niece near Hereford. She had been suffering ed The lawyers who had considered the case realised they could not get an English court of from gastric ulcer, and was taking Dr. Wit law to decree cancellation, Consequently, they'liams' Pink Pille and finding in them a com -framed the pleadings in a more plausibe man- plete cure. She strongly advised me to take. ner, and asked for a declaration that the the pills, so I bought a bottle. I followed the memorandum was binding. He was, and al directions, and look at me now," said Mr. ways had been prepared to undertake to carry in which it could be made binding. His Ex- out the memorandum in any reasonable sense cellency's real object was to get rescission of the contract, and that he was attempting, to do indirectly. It was useless to have a declara
Priday, very proudly, as he sprang to his feet,
"Before two bottles of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were finished I began to eat with a relish strength through the pills, and in a month I -a thing I hadn't done for years. I gained
tion that the memorandum was binding unless the memorandum gave his Excellency power
was back in Ebbw Vale. Soon 1 went down to go back to the Chinese Court and say the mise again, and I have worked regularly he had power to rescind this transaction. If since then. I have been delivered from the the company had been shy about recognising large powers in the Chinese board, it was begrave, thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. cause his Excellency had been trying to get in something which was not contemplated under the agreement, The ultimate control of this company must be in the shareholders at general meeting. Chang was not to go back and say he had powerta takeaway from English people the property for which they had paid. The Chinese Court said his Excellency never had any authority to sell. The Court must put an interpretation on the memorandum, and the whole controversy was as to what the interpreta tion was. Chang really desired a recission of the contract and to be restored to a position under which he could sell the property, unde contracts, not be amenable to law, and be plenipotentiary. They were really fighting the construction of the memorandum to prevent the company's affairs falling to the inercy of Chang. His Lordship: The case is getting more mysterious every day.
The hearing was again adjourned.
THE TWELFTH DAY. The case was continued on Hih ut, when Chevalier de Wouters was called by the defence, and examined through an interpreter.
Was the property worth £10,000,000 without the coal ?-i believe it to be worth 10,000,000 with proper working capital. The company pos He said that in 1900 he was in Japan repre
essed a great coalfield magnificently situated,senting a Belgian company. In November of but it would require a large amount of working that year he went to Shanghai, Mr. loover capital to turn it into a profitable enterprise. showed him a copy of the agreement of July Without capital, it would be worth nothing at 30 between Detring and Hoover. He had all
Several interviews with Mr. Dering and Mr. You; wrote to Lord Salisbury in October, Hoover. He was aware that the document of 190t, "I have the honour to inform your lord. July 30 was altered in January; but he had no ship that my firm have entered into a contract." discussion with Mr. Detring on the matter. Was it the firm's contract?—It was slated on Asked what Detring said about the altered the contract that it was the firm's contract, but agreement, witness said that Detring did not have said, "I have entered into a contract "tions; but he produced certain Chinese doct. it was my own business, Why could you not say that Chang knew anything of the altera.
ments to him. There was no special discus- sien between his Excellency and himself about the altered agreement; but his Excellency said that the value ofthe old shares was 79.100 each, and they would be exchanged for 25 shares in the new company. Witness pressed his Excellency to sign the transfer to the new company, but Chang refused.
The reason was that the name of the firm was mentioned. Do you now draw any difference betweeen yourself and your firm in the matter 349 of responsibility This is my responsibility, and not my firm's. Does the firm dispute its liability under the contract?--I should certain- ly consider that the firm had nothing whatever to do with it. The agreement was ratified on my behalf. The agreement says:-" If the said Bewick, Morcing, and Co should not ap- prove the terms of this agreement and condi. tions therein contained, they may refuse to ratily it." Was not that a ratification by the firm?-On my behalf.
UN
INDER instrutions from the General Managers, M. L. 5. LEWIS will be in Charge of the Company's business at this Port during my absence from the Colony on leave.
E. A. HEWETT.
Superintendent. Hongkong, 11th March, 1905.
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ASSOCIATION OF YORKSHIREMEN IN HONGKONG AND CHINA.
THE ANNUNGKUNG NOTE L on S4 TUR. HE ANNUAL DINNER will take place
DAY, the 18th of March.
Yorkshiremen intending to be present are requested to communicate with the Under signed.
As decided by the Parent Society the term
"YORKSHIREMEN includes the following (3) A person born in Yorkshire. (2) A person of Yorkshlie parentage on either side. (3) A person who is identified by residence with the County of York.
ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 28th February, 1909.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE wil be carried out as under:-
On MONDAY, 13th March
From Pak-slin-wan, towards entrance to Junk Bay, at ranges of 600 to 4,000 yards, commencing at 930 A.M.; and finishing at it A.M.
On WEDNESDAY, 15th March :-
From Pinewood, in a North-Westerly direction, at fanges of 2,000 to 6,000 yards, commencing at 930 A.M., and finishing at 11 A.M.
On FRIDAY, 17th March-
From Pinewood, in a North-Westerly direction, at ranges of 2,000 to 6,000 yards, commencing at 930 A M., and finishing at 15 A.M.
Witness first consulted with Mr. Davis and Mr. Turner as soon as he received the tele- gram. He left the financing of the company to the Oriental Syndicate. He could not say when he first knew of the intention to is ue debentures. His profit worked out at the shares he got, in respect of the conversion £41,000 in the company. That did not include If the Oriental Byndicate made a large profit out of financing the company, it did not affect the company, The investment of the money in the company was what made it valuable. Witness was advised that the agreement of July 30, 1900, required alteration soon after he got it. W. ness could not understand why the provisions for carrying out the memorandum of February 19.were not put into the articles. There was no agreement or promise by the Oriental Syndicate that they should go in.
of the old debentures.
Witness was then severely cross-examined [304 upon his letter to Deiring, dated November 9, 1900. He said that he knew at that time that the Oriental Syndicate were to get 1,000,000 shares to fiance the company, and make what profil they could ont of it. He did not know at that time that the whole capital was to be issued as paid up He could not say whether, if he had told Letting the true position, Detr ing would have gone on. He had not deceived Detring. Cross-examined as to the necessity of raising money by debentures, witness said that it was very much to the advantage of the company. It was true that the bankers balance to the credit of the company had never been less during the past three years than 200,000. In witness's opinion that money ought to have been spent in sinking fresh mines. It was parily owing difficulties raised by Chang Yen-man that additional pits had not been sunk. The raising of the money by debentures was advantageous to the company, and was ao able piece of finance. Cross-examined as to certain agreements entered into between him- self and the Oriental Syndicate, the witness denied that they were fictitious. They were the legal machinery for carrying out the transactions relating to the business in ques tion. Witness bec me a director of the com- pany in July, 1901. He was not off the board purposely until these matters had been carried through. He had from the first consistently endeavoured to get the provisions of the memorandum loyally carried out. The Chinese [342 shareholders had equal rights of voting. The difficulty was that their shares were hearer shares. That was a difficulty which was ap- preciated all over the world Referred to a resolution passed by the shareholders for an increase in the directors' remuneration, the witness admitted that the Chinese shareholders had not been consulted as to that, and that he himself had not objected to it. agreed that the company had not carried out the memorandum as Chang Yen-mao under- stood, it, but they had tried to carry it out as it ought to be understood. Some of the directors took the view that the memorandum was out
If the weather is unfavourable on cither of the above dat s, Practice will take place on the
following day,
All ships, junks and other vessels are to keep clear of the range.
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c. Harbour Department,
Hongkong, 8th March, 1905,
WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at the Head Quarters Office, Fletcher Street, until 12 o'clock Noon on THURSDAY, 16th March, 1905, for the undermentioned SUPPLIES and SERVICES, for the period of twelve months from 1st April, 1905 (---
1. Hospital Supplies and Medical Comforts, 2. General Supplies and Provisions. 3. Coal, Wood, Oil, Scavenging, and other
Barrack Supplies and Services.
4. Washing.
5. Transport Services (Supply of l'aunches,
Junks, Coelies, &c.).
6. Forage. Forms of Tender and any particulars can be obtained on application to this Office either personally or by letter, addressed to the Officer Commanding Army Service Corps between the bours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.
The Tenders must be properly filled up. signed and dated, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered upon the proper form at the Head Quarters Office by 12 o'clock Noon on the above date, in a closed envelope, marked "Tender" on the outside.
The right to reject any or all Tenders is reserved. Head Quarters Office,
1338
Hongkong, 7th March, 1905. TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES, 48, DES VEUX ROAD.
HIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest SHI
notice, and with all possible despatch. Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 329. [35 | Hongkong, rat October, 1904.
Witness
vital, but they still endeavoured to carry it not It was true that the majority of the board thought the memorandum had no legal effect, but witness had always dissociated himself from that view.
|
His Lordship: It is admitted he would not sign the transfer unless the other thing was. signed. I will tell you what is in my mind that you (not personally) are not pursuing a straightforward course. There is no dispute about it. If there is a dispute about it, for heaven's sake, say so, and go ahead.
Mr. Hamilton said that, after that intimation, he would not trouble the witness on that part
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Cross-examined: On his retum he knew the Oriental Syndicate received 625,000 fully-paid shares. The shares were employed in making a legitimate profit on the transaction. Whilst
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in China he had his salary; but he made no profit out of the transaction. He subscribed for £1,000 debentures, and received 2,000 shares in respect of that. He received no shares in the Oriental Syndicate. He endea voured to carry out the inemorandum of Feb., 19, 1901. He signed it because it was to carry out agreements which had already been entered into. Chang insisted that a promise which had already been entered into should be put in JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERIES AND writing. The memorandum contained no new engagement in his opinion, and for that reaso he signed it. Together with Detring and
inover he formed at first a provisional board. HE Undersigned has received instructions Detring was consulted in every important step that was taken. The China board bad real powers. Witness said they did all they could to establish an honest administration. He remembered the regulations of June 4.
What did you mean by writing to the com pany: "It has permitted u to constitute a hoard of directors which has no power"?---To understand that you must take into account my fame of mind,
Were you in the frame of mind far telling the truth? Yes.
Was not what you wrote true?-It is not true that the board was without any power.
Why did you write an untruth to the board of directors of the Chinese Company?-I was accused of having gone too far in the regula tions in favour of the Chinese in connection with the administration.
His Lordship: 1s what he says now im-
portant? This is what he wrate, and nothing he says now would make me disbelieve it. FE says the board at home blamed him for giving way to the Chinese.
[To be continued
SONGS OF AGONY.
DELIRIOUS WITH SCIATICA, THIS MAN FINAL LY COLLAPSED. DE. WILLIAMS' PINK
PILLS MADE HIM AN ACTIVE
WORKER AGAIN.
"I am told that when delirious with pain I actually sang songs," said Frederick Priday, and those who have suffered from Sciatica know what he endured.
"For years," he said to a Merthyr Express reporter, "1 was u martyr to Sciatica, and suffered more than I can tell you," Mr. Priday put his hand to his hip with a sigh
In a letter to Detring you say, "Chang was made director general for life," was that true ?- Yes, it was an arrangement with the Oriental Syndicate. I fully thought he was director general for life, provided the agreement was altered and the whole thing carried through.
Did you know that at the time you wrote that letter the company had not been register. ed 2-Yes; but I meant that arrangements bad been made to appoint Chang director general of relief. "I went al- for life.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hamilton on behalf most mad with the of the defendant company, the witness said that pain. I fainted con his view of the memorandum was that there tinually, and became was nothing in it which the company could not safely carry out, but that did not mean that as thin as a rake. Se- Chang Yen-mao could be put in a position of veral doctors attended absolute control of the company, Theme, but for twenty memorandum, in witness's view, could not mean months I could do no
After some re-examination by Mr. Hughes,work,. the case for the new company was opened by
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"The Selútica in my hip My nerves at least was something fearful. Mr. Haldane, K.C. He said the whole story were completely shat was cured completely by Dr. Williams Pink of the memorandura was the merest after- thought. The real question was whether histered, I was so ex-
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