VALUABLE PEARLS CASE, REDUCTION OF CAPITAL.
Dofendant Again Before the Court.
Petition by Crystal Limited, of.
Tiontain.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY
OPIUM BOILERS AFFAIRS.
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The affairs of an old establish- "BARGAIN COUNTER
At the Police Court this after- noon, Wong Yat Ming was again sitting in Original Jurisdiction, This morning the Chief Justice, arraigned bofure Afr. Dick Mol-hoard n'petition in the matter ofed firm of opium dealers were | bourne in connection with boing Oryetal Limited, of Tientsin, Mr. agnia before the courte to-day, in unlawful possession of, and G. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. when the Chief Justice and Mr. pawning, knowing the same to G. K. J. Brutton, appeared to Justice Gompertz sitting in Ap havo boen stolen-six pearls valued $1,200, the property of support, u potition to the effect pellate Jurisdiation heard the that the court should confirm a appeal, from 's judgment of the Yuen Lin.
resolution passed by the company Mr. Russ prosecuted.
ex-Chief Justice in the case of the Mr. Brutton, of Messrs. Brutton for the reduction of its capital.
Mr. Alabaster, anid that the Fook Lung Firm v. the Lai Yuon sid Heit, defended, whilst Mr. potition was brought under eco Firm, the Shiu Lung Firm, the. Shenton uppoared for the pawn-ions 47 and 49 of the Companies Cheung Yuen Firm, nad the broker.
Chinese Detective 193 said he Ordinance passed Inst year, The Shiu Koe firm, partners of the remembered Friday, July 17. At company was incorporater in Yan Wo Firm, and Chan Kit
1902 under the Hongkong Com Shan.' noon that day a sergeant in-
panies' Ordinance of 1865 with structed him to search the pawn-lices situated in Victoria. The shops. In the Kong Choung pawnshop he found six paris object of the company The pearls were produced and he acquiro and take over as a go asked the complainant to identifying concern the Tientsin Intora them. Complainant said they
were bin.
Identifying the Man.. Oo the 20th defendant was at the station and he was placed in
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The original case was an appli cation by the plaintiff for an or dor dissolving the partnership and asking that an account of the partnership should be taken.
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BURGLARY AT SIR C. ELIOT'S RESIDENCE.
Practically all his Orders Stolen.
The burglary epidemic still
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Hongkong's Trade with the › Philippines.
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The oppost asked that the The capital was then Tis. 37,500, judgment of the late Chief Justice divided into 375 shares of one in the action, whereby it was hundred tavle cach, with power to ordered and adjudged that an increase the capitulia such man account be taken by the Registrar a row with five other mon. Theyor and at such tímos astro um of the Court of all the partnership were drewed in all kinds of any may think fit. The capital dealings and transactions between different clothing. An account was increased in Jan. 0 1903, and the plaintiff and the defendant ant from the Kong Clioungpfirmed on Jan 23, of the same co-partners in the Now Yan Wo
In a recent consular roport pawaship was asked to identify year. The capit I was increasel Firm, from and altor August 4
Anderson the man who had pawned the 50,000) by the issue of one 1900, the date of the luat balance continues in the Colony, und the Consal-Gontcal
hanitred and twenty-five new sheet of the firm, on the assumptest person to suffer from the Hongkong invites the attention of poarls.,
By Mr. Brutton-He was the shares of The 100 ench. Subsetion that all the balance sheet "ttentions of the light-Angered Philippine businessmen to the man who went to the Ling Sung quently, on Jan. 14, 1005, the cap of the said firin from the com-entry is Sir Charles Eliot, the possibility of developing consider and searched the premises. Nu tal was again increased to Tls. mencement up to and inclusive Principal of Hongkong Univer-able and profitable trade in boche pawntickets were found on the 75,000 by the issue of 125 new of the last balance sheet are sity, who has been deprived of do mer, bicho de mar, or trepang, defendant,
shares of 'Tis 100vách.
accurate, be so varied that the practically als his decorations, as as it is variously known between
China Detectivo 928 next!
On Dec 28, 1911, a resolution said accouts shall be takon from well as of soveral other articles the Philippines and China by
way of Hongkong, gave evidouce and stated that on passed that the capital should and after March 1885, and in the value.
The burglary took place during In the fiscal year 1011: the July 20 he went to 4 Wing On be reduced to Tls. 62,000 making alternative, the plaintiff may be at Afroot. He went there to make the shuros stund át a value of Tis liberty to surcharge the aid Saturday night at Sir Charles's Philippines exported beche de 70 ouch. This was confirmed on accounts in regard to this matter. residence, which is situato in the mor to China via Hongkong to niversity grounds, and so far the value of $36,615 gold in con- enquiries about pearls. They in fan. 12, 1912
The appellants also asked that quirod if there was a man meil Wong On there. He mw several
Continuing, Mr. Alabaster eat the costs of the action other than men in the front part of the that the assots of the company the costs of the appont might be bad bon over valued for some taxed as between solicitor and shop, pointed out the io.
he fendant, and said
gonsiderable time, and had never client and might be paid out of pawned the pearls. He asken ren written off from the profits
hari
arrests have been made in trast to $302 the year before, and connection with the matter, none previous thereto. The total though the police are doing their exports of the product from tho utmost to get on to the track of Philippines to all countries in the the assets of the Yau Wa firm burglar or burglars and, if fecal year 1911 amounted to the defendant his name and hele potition had been advertise and also that the judgment & Thaipossible, to trace tlie stolen arti- $50,725 gold as compared with
The articles stolen include the and 85,095 in 1909. of Justice, in the actions.
$7.274 in the provious fiscal year which was not given and circu
said it was Wong Yat Ming. He asked defendant if he had pawn- od six pearls on the 16th at the Kong Cheang pawnshop and he replied that he did not pawa anys! thing. Witness asked him if he was Wong On and he replied in. the negative.
papers as directed by the court and there was no objection to the petition,
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A Light, Palatable, Nourishing Stout. It is a Brain, Body and
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isted to the parties until Doo /Order of St. Michael and St. While there are no figuros Note our Price $12,00, per or, 610 1011, but was incorporated with George, the Order of the Bath, available at present at the Manila in order dated Dec. 4. 1911, bo/the Jubileo Silver Medal, as welt [eustom house for the fiscal year orderail and finally settled, and as a watch and chain, a safety 1912, it is believed that the ox- that such order, dated Jan. 19 razor audi a gold safety pin. 1912, whereby it was hold that The value of the stolen articles, Told Him Not to Worry
the Statute of Limitations applied exclusive of the decorations, is Witness then went back to the
to the plaintiff's claim, and it place at about $80; but the
The product is a sna slug, om- Kong Choung and føtched Wong;
was ordered and adjudged that value of the Orders and medal the accounts to be taken of the is not known, though, of course, bracing several specios of the Ki. ~ On returning to the shop he
A representative of asked Wong Ki to show the place
the partnership douling between the they have a greater worth to Sir echinoderms. The non alugs ara "Hulletin" who called on Mr.plaintiff and the defondants should Charles than their more intrinsic 6 to 16 inches long, are shaped where the money was passed over. Frelorick W. Taylor, the director be taken by reason of the Statute valdo,
(somewhat like cucumbers. Five; He was taken upstairs, Thoro deof the buroau of agriculture in of Limitations, only since Jaa.
It is a mist unfortunate and varieties or grades are known to fendant toki Wong Kis to identify Manila with a view to eliciting 18, 1904, may be revered and unwelcome experience for Sir the trade. The first grade or that the costs of the appeal may arrived in the Colony, and it is teat, the second, large binck, the Charlos, who has only recently prime variety in the brown with be paid by the dofon lante
The Hon. Mr. II. E. Pollock, hoped that the stolen decorations third small black, the fourth, rod KO., with whom was Mr. Eldon will bo ultim stoly roovered. bellied, and the fifth, whito, The B. 32 and told him all about it honf or mouth disease in Houg Harris of Messrs. Wilkinsov and Did you see any rinderpost, Potter, instructal by Mr, Rønder
smooth varieties or grades aro PHILIPPINE HEMP. aleo known as closed, and those He then went back to Wing On kong, during your visit, Mr. Grist, appeared for the appellants
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with the feet an open sluge. Street. The people in the shop Taylor No.
and the bin. Mr C. G. Alabaster, said defendant was on the first Did you hour of or see any ap-instructed by Mr. Holborrow,
and for the different grades: run- Norvo Revitaliser. A True Food Tonic, increasing the energy and floor of 3 Gilman Street. The thrax outside of the cleven cases appeared for the respondents, the the 22nd inst. are to the effect ning from P25 to 1'150 por pioul, giving fresh vigour to body and mind. polico sergant went there and which Mr. Walker, manager of Yaon Firm, the Cheung Yuen that the hemp market is some- Becho do mér is used all over naked the defendant to go to the the dairy farm, stated occurred onfirm and the Shiu Keo firm. what easier. This slackening in China and is very popular in station. At the station the sur-thair promises (the dairy form) Mr. Pollock said that the appeal strength did not affect the Philip-making soups and similar dishes. geant produced the six pearls which was brought in through was from the judgment of the pine market because there were The goods are handled in Hong- and asked the defendant the agency of imported food?
Into Chief Justice, which was practically no offerings and no kong largely by commission if ho pawned Wom at
No. Upon arrival at Hongkong delivered on March 28 last. It transactions of iuiportance. The houses which make a specialty of the pawnshop. Defendant re- I went to the authorities ther was an action, which, their Lord. local market continued strong and the trade, and who have their plind "that he lind not pawned and was informed of the provnil-ships would see from the state the prices quoted were the same buyers and representatives in any pearls. Then the sergeant ing diannses throughout China. inont of claim, was brought by as at the close of business on the Manila and other porta in the naked Wong Ki and Ngan Sun il
Philippines. they had seen the defendant benaywhere during your trip in firms composing the Yan Wo firm
Did you see any sick animals the plaintiff, being one of the five previous Saturday.
Ono dealer, who discussed the Most of the becha de mer como's fore and they said they could rebina --No,
against the other four firms. He situation with a "Manila Times" to Manila from the south, prin- cognise bim. They said another
"Our advice in eipally from southern Luzon, foki could recoguise him.
Quarantine for Cattle. `· might say, before procending reporter said: then went down to the Lawnshop:
How about quarantine facilities further, that the man called Chau that London is easier but we feel Samar and Leyte ports. and fetched the foki-Chu Sui-in China ?-The only place thera Kit Shan, the managing partner very conâdent about the strength of the market. Just now no hemp: to the charge room at the station. is quarantine for cattle is in the of the defendant firm, They, were six mon standing in a British Colony of Hongkong, originally made a defendant is being offered in Manila, but row-defendant was included. As which is very good. The cattle in the action, but his name there will be ready Bala for all Chu Sui got up to identify the upon their arrival at Hongkong hind been man who pawned the pearls re taken to the quarantine sta-order ho pointed to the defendnat, tion, where a nominal sum fifty Justice. The Yan Wo firma came ent about the future."
By Mr. Bratton: He had made cents per head is charged for ex-into existence some time in the enquiries about Yuen Kan Yan, amination. If any of the hard are spring of 1885. They did a expressed the belief that the year He had found that he was missing suffering with rinderpest the business in opium, both in Hong- would eventually show shortage. since the 16th and tlist he had whole lot is killed. If they are kong and Macao. The course of He said he was aware that pro- THE Steamship taken pearls, jewellery and other suffering from any other kind of their procedure was to take raw duction for the year was in
of the production "'ARRATOON APOAR,”- property handed to him by the ailment their temperaturo opium, which they bought from advance complainant. He could not say is taken and the cattle are dealers in Hongkong and send it at the same date last year, Capt. F. M. Antin, will be deanstche what time the man left the Colony. segregated and kept apart a to Maono, where it was builed and but he is convinced that the for the sbor ports on TUESDAY, the On the 20th at 11.30 a.m. the waiting developments, and if prepared for export-to California drought did seriously affect the 8th August, at Noon.
Te Steamar has, superior asong- defendant was arrested; - nothing develops within the and Australia. He thought that hemp districts and that they
The case had not concluded as period prescribed, the caule are they wore correct in saving that would show a considerable short-dation for passengers, is installed we went to press.
released. I visited the matadero the statute not only entitled the "ge.
MARINE COURT.
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BLruok out by that comes in. Prophecy is rarely
of the Into Chief profitable but I feel very confid-
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at Hongkong and learned that partners to an inspection of the there were a few cattle there that books but also entitled them to had a slight temperaturo,bat I did have accounts rendered.
Tho
not have time to stay to await defendants in the action put in
Still another man in the marketį
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Beckwith R.N., Ho So a boat cattle are quarantined. In and to show that the plaintiff was not
Thursday, Aug. 1.
woman, was charged with carry-amand Ilongkong there are a few entitled to that prima facis right. | K. O.Y.LL, Minden Day.gouv. ing passengers in excess of the dairy farms; I should say not over
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