A Dentist's Affairs.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1911
He wanted to securo na interest in the firm.
ILLEGAL CIRCULATION OF BANK NOTES.
MAGISTRATE'S DECISION,
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THE UNION CHURCH.
Mr. Hickling's Successor
the word "ipo" In the prosent ordinauce refers to the restricted powers of the bank to issue bank notes. The construction to be placed on the words "issue of a bank-note was decided in ho
A special meeting of Sout- This morning Mr. F. A. Haze case of Attorney (feneral v. E
beck 120 B.D., page 991. Lord holders was held last night in the land delivered judgment in the Coleridge, in his judgment, stated Church Hall at 5.30 p.m. Mr. case in which Mr. A. V. Apear as follows:-The words monn A. Mackenzie presilled. Mr. Davip wrs charged with circulating the delivery of the notes to per- Wood proposal “That in view of hotes payable to bearer on desons who are willing to receive the expiry of the agreement of niand, without the pormission of them in oxohnunge for value in the Rev. C. H. Hickling ne Pastor person who delivers them being November, 1912, and of his in- the Secretary of State for the gold in bills or otherwise; the of Union Church, Hongkong in prepared to take then up when timation that he does not wish to be considered for a further term Colonies,
Mr. F. H. L., Bowley appeared they are presented for payment,' Why?-I borrowed the money to prosecute on behalf of the Now, this is exactly the position of The defendant in the present caso; Crown, and Mr. Render Harris His legal position is not altered by Goueral Committee of Manage- the fact that he has no appointment of the Church to appoint a Mr. Donald Mao- defondled.
inent in writing, and that his successor." ་ ་ appointment could be terminated donalil seconded. There was no any time, I would point out the counter proposal and on the uio- defendant has been agent of this tion being put to the meeting the bank sinée Sept. 1st, 1907. I am Chairman declared it carried by therefore of opinion that the the the necessary two-third majority. fondant issue banknotes within The Hon. Seo. then presented the the moaning of section 2 of the draft of the proposed Ordinance ordinance. I convict the defen- for the incorporation of the lant of the charge and order him trustees of the Church and this, to pay a line of $100.
BANKRUPTCY COURT. There was a sitting of the On one occasion you drew two Bankruptcy Court at the Supreme nonthes salary, besides $200, Court this morning. Part of the Why did you do that?-Some proceedings took place before the times I used to go for months.and Chief Justice, Sir Franois Pig-months without drawing a regu gott, while part of them were lar salary. tukon by the Deputy Registrar of Those are large sums?-They the Supreme Court, Mr. C. A. D. are in the books but I did not Melbourne.
netually draw them..
You also drow $500 and $900, No Wong Tai Fong. (1) Pub-on another occasion?-i distinct lic examination. (2) Application y remember the $900. for adjudication. (3) Applion- Why did you do that just bo fore your bankruptcy? To pay tion for costs.
Examined by the Official Re-ny sitor. coiver, Mr. A: G. M. Fletcher, debtor stated that he was a don-from-hor tist and also a landed proprietor, Why did you borrow these Bo built the Tai Ping Theatre, sums from the firm and pay them
After reviewing the ovidence which provod unprofitable. He back to the firm?-Pirms are
His Worship said: The first Jost $40,000 through the con- sometimes in difficulties. corn. The money with which If firms are in dilliculties, thoy question I propose to deal with he built the theatre he ob- don't go on. lind to pay whether the defendant is a "bank tained from his other bust-friends, from whom I borrowed within the meaning of section nes. There was a partner in the montes theatre named Wong Tae Yin, You had very large doulings two of the ordinance. The word who was the munging parinor of with the Russo-Asiatic Bank-bank includes any person carry the Wah Kay firm in Bonham Yos.
The Bank gave you a promising on the business of banking Strand. He did not toll Lemm that certain and in the Newsory note for $2,619.977-Yey. Territory belonging to his wife was his own. Ho said he was agent for it...
What for? Coods supplied. You hypothccatod ji?—Yes. Did you tell your compradore?
You did? Yes.
"The examination wasadjourned.Yox.
A Scheme of Arrangement Re S. A. Marican, adjourned hearing of petition:
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within the Colony, Mr. Harria referred to to the definition of **banker" which is given in the leading case of Foley versus Hill, 2 House of Lords cases, prigo 33, The definition is as follows:--A banker is one who in the ordinary
Mr. Shenton at this point pro- ego-led to cross-examine debtor.
Your firm used to obtain com- It was announced by debtor's solicitor that a soleme of arrango-mission and no profits?-Not al-ourse of his business receivas ment had been come to with the ways. Sometimes we used to get money which he repays by hon- creditor and loave was asked to withdraw the petition,
No objection forthcoming from the Official Receiver, the applica tion was granted.
tion.
Protecting a Creditor.
at
IN APPELLATE JURIS
DICTION,
Green Island Cement Co. v. Tsang King.
„Before the Full Court, consist-
commissions without the know-uring the choques of the personing of the Chief Justice, Sir ledge of those for whom we acted from or on yhose account here:
agents.
Mr. Shonton-Without their knowledge? You
your actions as misappropriation?
Debtor-No. ^
After further examination, the proceedings wore adjourned.
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Saturday, September 16. Entertainment, Mount Austin.
Sunday, September 17. Ilarvest Thanksgiving Service, Hongkong, 17th June 1911. St. John's Cathedral.
Monday, September 18. Annual General Meeting of the Hongkong Cricket League, long- kong Cricket Club Pavilion, 6.30 p.m.
Auction of Crown-Land-
Thursday, September 21, V. R. C. Sports.
Friday, September 22. V., R. O. Sports.
A telegram trom our Simnghai Francis Piggot, and the Puisue Saturday, reported that an attack correspondent, published on ceive it. I am of the opinion, however, having regard to the Judge, Mr. Justice Gompertz, in had been made on n Baptist Miss0 p.m. wording of the oction, that the lie Appelluto Jurisdiction of the sion. The scene. of the trouble Mr. Shenton then went on to Fegislature intended that a wide Supreme Court this morning, Hon. was Taungsz. According to the
"N.C. Daily News" of September Hongkong, Fith Sopt., Ito the Tai Sung Firm, peti-mention several rams of money in and extended mouning should be Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.; instructed, one of the evangelists of the lotail and put the question to the given to the section. It mentions by Mr. J. S. Harston, of. Mesars. American Baptist Mission with
which means any Mr. Crowther Smith said he debtor-Would you not describe <appeared on behalf of the peti-
que person. It does not say a Ewens and Hurston, appeared on his wife and colporteur arrived a fuker, but the words used are behalf of the Green Island few days before in Shanghai, tioning creditors, Messrs. Sonnot Freres: The assifts of the doptor
carrying on the businous of Cement Company (uppellats) banking within the Colony." The against Trang King
They reported that the people lirin were $5,000, while the
construction to be placed on the Hon. Mr. G. G, Alabaster, in- were absolutely famine stricken, liabilitios as far as he had on
word banking come up for deci atracted by Mr. H. J. Gadge, of and towards the Sunday be- able to ascertain were $12,000,
sion in the unes of Tonnant versus Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mas fore they had risen against The manager of the firm, with in-
the officials and the Self lent to defeat his creditors, de-
Union. Bank of Canada, 1894, Ator, represontol Tsang King.
31 This was an appeal Mr. Pollock said that this was Government Bureaux. To start parted from the Colony His Lordship had previously mado in
before the Privy Council. The in application of a purely formal with they had looted the rice The
British North America Act, 1867, character, on behalf of the shops, some thirty of them having interim roceiving onder.
391, gives to the Parliament of Green Island Cement Co. in re been practically destroyed in the manager left the shop at the
Canadu exclusive logislative spect of an order by his Lordship neighbourhood, and the Magi- mercy of anybody. The position the Blitar of "This mugton authority over matters relating to the Chief Justice some time ago, strale laving fled, they hand turned was that anybody who was willing to pay the ront to the landloni, Sir,-Will you be so good as to banking in the Dominion. Lord There was one point which bo their attention to the building of would have charge of the gods grant us space to express our very Watson, who delivered the judg-ought to mention the Chief the Self-Government Bureau, and that application was being gentino gratitude, fest to Mr. F.ment of the Board, stated Bank Justice decided that they were which they broke up along with made with the object of protect-1 1. Bowley for his alle presoning is an expression which is wide entitled to a residuary sum be- a public school. They were sim- ing the creditors.
tation of the needs of the Sailors' enough to embrace every trans-tween $8,000 and $0,000. He ply the country people, reduced to and Soldiers' Home at the recent action coming within the legiti- took it that that sum could be desperation by hunger and dis- public meeting of the subscriberstate business of a banker, 6.g., paid over to the Green Island To H. M. Silva, public exuni- towards the Coronation Culebra ending money on security of Cement Company.
Mr. Alabaster-There is_the Lions Fund; and secondly, to the goods or documents." I am of
If the other Dohtor stated that he was meeting itself for its generous the opinion that the following question of costs. clerk in receipt of a salary of and unanimous, voto of $4,500 laties performed by the defenside gives us an undertaking to $100 a month. In 1910 out of the surplus of the said lunt could be described as refund.
The Chief Justice-I don't received 5 a mouth His fund in liquidation of the debt, transactions, coming within the debts amounted to $1,200, that has so long rested upon this legitimate business of a bunker, (a) think you are entitled to it. mostly due to Indian money-Institution. It may perhaps ju- Collecting as agent of the bank londors. From Bhaghat Singh, torest the public to know that at the Macao notes brought to him, ho borrowed $100 and sign the beginning of the year a fund for, which he puts in clieque or ed a promissory te for was started for the purpose of ro Hongkong money (b) Selling, $300, at the rate of 10 per cent moving this debt, and an appealus agent of the bank, Macao notes per month.
The total annual was, to have been made to the to the public who wish to buy Interestumounted to $300. From public of Hongkong for assist such notes; (c) Receiving, as Hernam Singh he borrowed $100 anco in regard to this object. agent of the bank, application for and signed for $200 at the same Happily now no appeal will be drafts on Portugal which he refers rate of interest. From a man necessary, and therefore will not to Mayao. On receipt of the draft named Abdulla he borrowed $85 bo mado. Four thousand four from Macao he conds the said and signed for $140. From hundred dollars have already draft to the applicant, the money Oyaga Singli ho borrowed 500 bean paid by the Chairman of the for the draft is sent to the do Mr. Alabaster-It comes to the and signed for $100.
Coronation Celebrations Com-fendant and defendant either The Official Revolver-Didmittee, and the balance will be reinits the money to Macao or these Indian people come to offer landed aver, when it is certain credits the Macao bank. I am of you money or did you go to them? that all claims upon the said fund the opinion, therefore, that the
Debtor went to them. have been sont in and paid. We defendant is a "person carrying till the last Monday in November. Adjourned.
are moreover greatly culearten- on the business of banking within Jed in our work by this gener-the Colouy" within the meaning
The application was granted. Indiscriminate Borrowing-
.imation.
Heavy Liabilities.
Re Dady Burjor & Co., adjournous sympathy shown therewith of section of the ordinance. The by the public of Hongkong. next question I propose to deal
od public examination.
FC. Mowfang, in answer to the Official Recaiver, stated that a debt of $2,600 was proved against the firm due to his brother. The debt: was incurred in Folruary. His | brother's salary was $125month. He got the money from the Race sweeps. There wing no outstand *ing account before that.
The Official Receiver-I find in
Yours, etc., C. Bone, President, Engiar. Lieut. Smith, Hon.
Secretary September 14,
THE HOUNDSDITCH MURDERS.
A Strange Report.
Mr. Alabaster-Certainly, my Lord,"
tress, and led ou by a few roughs and bad characters, and it was no rising against the local govorn ment. Having started on the rice shops they did not desist an- til they destroyed all traces of authority and institutions, of whatever kind they might be. The last place they came to was the Baptist mission, and breaking Mr. Pollock-The costs can be through the glass doors, they pro- axed. There is no attachment, ceeded to destroy everything they The Chief Justice-The costs could lay hands upon. Any cloth- to come out of the fund, but noting that was found was rent into shreds and flung into an adjacent in respect of the appeal.
Mr. Alabaster Only the costs creek, while the furniture was completely broken up. Then we are entitled to.
The Chief Justice--I don't there was a cry raised by some of think you are entitled to it. This the more extreme spirits to burn down the plece, but to this extent money is Tsang King's,
they did not go. The only occu pant of the building at the time! was the colporteur, and he received severe mauling at the hands of the mob, but escaped without erious injury although bisclothes were torn off him to a large extent. The evangelist, by good luck, luppened to be absent fron
same thing. We are entitled to tax coats against the Green Island Cement Company.
Further hearing was adjourned
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THE HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE.
Annual Report
Saturday, September 23, Douglas Steamship Co.meeting, pu V. R. U. Sports.
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TRY IT
with is whether the defendant issued or circulated within the
uso sayings to the effect that is u ed in cases of Debility, Nervous- Colony these bank-notes. Mr. Harris raised the point that in
- The eighth annual report of the ho had preached an end to order to carry out the intention Hongkong Cricket League, which heaven and ourth, and they' of the Legislature it is necessary will be presented at the annual also said that the congregation ness, Sleeplessness and Indigestion. to read the conjunction "or" as general meeting on Monday next, of converts had been receiving "and" in section 3, and that the line been issued.
money and sending it away. They words should read "issue and The report states that for the scom to have become infuriated, úirculate" instead of "issue or fourth season in succession nine and instituted a search for the tha cash hook lonas in. respect of A special New York telegram circulate." I am also of that clubsontored the competition, and man, calling out for him. Evi- your brother to the sum of $2,250 to the China Pross," datoil Sept. opinion having regard to the there have never been fewer than dently they meant.him no good, since February last. What are 8, is as follows:-The coterio of wording of the ordinance. Mr. eight clubs during any season. so it was fortunate that he was these? How do you account for international safebreakers com-ilarris further referred me to the The pine Clubs ware the R. E absent. His wife was in the these?
posed of the Goldberg brothers interpretation of the word "issue" and Depts, Craigongower, R. G. town, and there was some. fear Debtor-Tint is the balance of and Harris Rothstein, have ar-in section 2 of the Bille of Ex-A., Hongkong A Kowloon, that the mob might have vented the loan. Lots of money wore paid rived in Boston, Javing been clange ordinance, 1885, which is Yorkshire Regiment, the Ho their wrath upon her, and for the brought from Australia, where as follows:-Issue means the first mnants, Civil Service and Hong-night she was hidden in the house they word captured by United delivery of a bill or note complete kong Police.. The R. E. and Depts of a friend who, it may be mon- Statos secret service men. They in form to a person who takes it were successful in winning the tioned, was not a convert. She You told me just now that there are to be arraigned in Boston as a holder. The word "isane" shield with a porcentage of 75, then managed to escape from the was nothing more borrowed? charged with n crime committed in the Bills of Exchange or-winning 12 out of their 10 town, although in so doing she It escaped my memory,
in the United States.
dinance, 1885, and the word matches, drawing 2 and losing 2. fell into one of the creeks, and, Has anything else escaped your It is said by the police that issue in this ordinance are two The prize given by Mr. Draw deep as it was at the time, she memory? Was there any other they will make a full canfossion, different the former ordinance bor of catches made during the from drowning. She whimelt different things. The word Braidwood for the greatest nummust have had a narrow escapo Bum lent to the firm?-My brother which will include participation used to borrow and pay the firm in the famous Houndslitshi mur-refers to the rule of law that every season was won by Mr. R. Car- joined by the evangelist himself aud the colporteur, and together **** You don't mean to say that he ders in London. The London contract on a bill or note is in-valho.
The Bocounts allow a credit they went to Shanghai to borrowed simply for the pleasure police are watching the case here complete and revocable until of leading the money tothefiimi?e with great interest,
completed by delivery, wherona halazion of $19.90.
| report the siste of affairs,
back..
There is a difference of $2,000 $1,500 was borrowed.
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