THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, «SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 16,
BANKRUPTCY COURT pplication Concerning a Wife's
Shares.
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to the petitioner to the extent of PHILIPPINE CARNIVAL. $1,000 for interest and money lent. The act of bankruptcy was that four months prior to the presentation of this petition the debtor gave a notice in writing The Ulief Justice, Mr. W. Rees that he had suspended the pay- Davies, K O., held a bankruptcyment of his debts. court this morning at the Supreme
An order was granted, the Court when in all elevent cases Official Receiver offering no ob hold the First Far Eastern were denit with.
jootion...
Olympiad, and already there is The first case in the list to be
Order *Made, w
promised a large list of entries for dealt with was an application
Re the Siu Lung Firm Mr. the various sports which will made by Mr. Leo D'Almada e
Fairbroiler Mason of Messrs.make the event memorable. It, Castio in the matter concerning wilkinson and Grist appeared for us already been arranged to in- M.A.A. de Souza, on behalf of
clude an Aviation Meet, and alto- Mrs. de Souza. Vy
the positioning creditor,
Ho ssid that the debt due to gether the Fortival will afford an Mr. D'Almada said that tho
10 visit plication was for a vesting order ho oroditor was $536 principal unique opportunity in respect to certain sliares men-and interest on money lent. Four Manila, tione in the application which was months prior to the presentation The City of Manila is the heart. before his Lordship. There were of the petition the managing of the Philippines; not geogra thirty-five shares in the Hong-partner of the firm had sent out phically, indeed, nor because it kong Canton and Macao Stanma notice to the effect that they is the centre of population, but boat Co., and four in the Hong-were suspending payment of because ever since the first Euro- pean settlement, now nearly three kong, and China Gas Co. He their debts.
conturies and a half ago, its fa would ask his Lordship to dis
vourable situation on the largest regard the application with res "Not in the List.
island of the Archipelago, psat to the thirty-five because he
When the case of the affairs of and its poistion as a political. intended to make another appli the Tang Suiki firm came up capital have given it a supre cation later on, but he would ask
for consideration Mr. Leo maoy in nearly every respect, him to consider the four shares ia D'Almada asked that the matter which never has been, and the Hongkong and China Gas Co. be allowed to stand over. The probably never will be, mena- This was rather an ancient bank-
potition had not been served and ced. It is the point where the tra- he did not know why the matter veller almosts invariably gets his had been put in the list at all. first impressions of the Philip The Official Rocoiyor said he pines; and, though it is indeed would ask for directions to be pity that many see so little save His Lordship: Thirteen years. given that steps be taken to this one spot, this city, of all Mr: D'Almada -Yes; this apscertain how far there were places in the Islands, has anques plication is made on behalf of the wife in whose name these four any assets. He understood that tionably the most to show.
the stock in trade was sold for shares stand. The debtor was
$12.10. married before tho Married Women's Property Act came into force is the colony and in fact became bankrupt before that
ruptoy the debtor having been made a bankrupt in 1800 and the application was on behalf of the debtor's wife~
perty of the wife.
The order was granted.
The case was allowed to stand.
Large Liabilities.
over.
"A receiving order was made in
ed
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The fine old churches alone ways known locally, which have led some, with a good deal of ex-make a visit to Manila one to be aggeration, to refer to Manila as long remembered.
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One of the most interesting and in the world is that of the Central important sections is the Old Observatory of the Philippine Walled City (still very commonly Weather Bureau on Calle Padro known by its Latin name of Faurs. This was founded in ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
Intra-Muros"); This is the 1865 by the Jesuits and operated
time. The shares were the pro the case of Lai Sing on tho apal Pagan Temple may be traced Original Manila, of which every continuously since then, even in His LordshipThey wore replication of Mr. J. H. Gardiner underneath Medieval and other part of the modern city, is 1898, while hostile armies were gistered in her name?
who appeared for the petitioning modern Christian Church, for historically speaking, a suburb. It contending for the possession of Mr. D'Almada: Yes; the wife creditor. He said that the assets which it served as foundation. covers a tract something less than the city. The practical founder will appear before your Lordship were about five thousand dollars. First, there is the Manila of the a mile long and half a mile wide, and director for many years was The present and satisfy you that they were there was three thousand dollare Primitive Malay, which, with its and is surrounded by a battle-Fra Frederic Faura, after whom paid for out of her money and incourt and the liabilities amount aipa shacks, its carabaos, and its mented wall a little over 2 miles the street on which the building
to twenty-four thousand quaint fishing boats, exists much in oironis. Thie latter is still for stands,, is named. ware bought for her separate use.
has made for himself a world- as it did in the days of Raja the most part in an excellent head is Fr. Jose Algua, who
Its age They were paid for by the wife dollars.
On the application of Mr. John Lacandola, save that an intrad-state of preservation. and have remained so over sinco
His Lordship: What do you son of Messrs Dennys and Bow-ing civilization has prescribed is hard to state; its oldest exist-wide reputation as want me to do; to order that they a receiving order was granted a certain minimum, of clothing portions were undoubtedly teorologist. It is still direct- shares be vestor in the wife? in the case of Shiu Cheung Woing and made necessary a fair built before the end of the six-ed by specially trained Jesuit
Mr. D'Almada:-Yes.
who was said to owe the petition- day's work. Secondly, there is the teenth century, but it has been priests and supported financially The Official Receiver, Mr. A. G.ing creditor $1,550. The act of Manila of the sixteenth and continuously patched and added by an arrangement with the "M. Fletcher, said lie thought bankruptcy alleged was that the seventeenth century Spaniard to, almost up to the present Government. Its greatest renown that notice should have been given debtor had notified that he had adventurer, merchant, and. Cru-generation. Parts of it are from has been gained through its work While we haya aur own in- in the case to the creditors. The suspended the payment of his eader in equal parts who in the 20 to 30 feet in height and thick in the field of earthquakes and
churches and convents, the walls nees. Considering everything it typhoons, sum of money was considerable.
and gates, and the half Morrich makes this district one of the best and they had only received.88
beautiful spot in Manila is the cents in the hundred dollars. Fo A clerk named Xavier was next domestic architecture, has left examples of a mediayal walled teresting "Happy Valley," a most
called up to undergo his public ineftaceable memorials of the fact town in existence.
The Walled City is laid out Paco Cemetery. This structure, far.
His Lordabip intimated that he examination. The debtor said his that this, the oldest of the European would hear the matter in chamlary was $110 per month and settlements in the East that are on a very nearly regular checker-built by the City in 1810, is the total amount of his indebted-at present of much consequence, board plan. The visitor who en- the best designed and best as was two thousand dollars. was in its day among the chief ters it, whether from the docks preserved of a number of the The Official Receiver:-This is glories of the "once imperial or from the Bridge of Spain and same type, all of which have In the case of the Chun Shing principally owing to, money len race." Finally, there is the the retail district, will ordinarily their origin in the fact that the|
lors ?-Yes.
Americanised Manila of to-lay, do so by Calle Aduana, and, about site of all the older portion of of macadamized midway between the western and Manila is far too low to admit of And I understand that you the town guarantee your into mother in a roads and sewers and steel brid-eastern entrances on this street, the digging of graves. The loan of $800?-Yes,
bore.
Order Rescinded.
delta.
Indian Moneylenders.
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oheung Kung Wo the Official Receiver inado an "application for the rescission of the receiving order. The matter lie enid first
ges, not ancient nor picturesque, he will come to Plaz 1-MoKinley, general plan is that of the Cam- THE CONNOISSEUR'S CHOICE came up for learing in June and
And you guaranted other peo- but fairly on its way, as the which is the official heart of po Santo of an it was adjourned on his ropre-
elaborate plans laid down by Mr. Manila and the most convenient Bentation that there would he plo?-Yes.
In order to pay your debis youD, H. Barahato, the well-known point from which to start on an probably no available assets for the creditors. In August last began borrowing from Indian architect, are gradually carried inspection of that part which lies out, to become one of the beauti within the walls The plaza bis Lordship made a receiving moneylenders?—Yes. orilor vith permission to Mr. In the ordinary way you borful cities of the world. These are forms a small but pretty park, in Stephens, to attempt to collect rowo $50, signol for $100 and the elemente of the Manila of the the centre of which stands a the assets, viz, certain book debts. paid interest on that sum at ten present. They can hardly continue statue of King Charles the Fourth altogether separate, and what the or Spain (1788-1808) erected in Mr. Stephens had informed him per cont. per month ? Yes.
The debtor said that a small product of their fusion will be it commemoration of the original amount of the money had been would take a rash man to predic. introduction of vaccination Tato used for private purposes, and But, in its present transitional the Islande daring his reign. Mr. Stephans said that the only when making the order His Lord-state, the city has sights to show The street running north be- book debts were secured by a
NOTICE is also given that neither promissory noto for $447.58 of ship advised him when he got out that will make it, ones it is fairly tween this site and the plaza leads which $210 had been paid in of his present difficulties to keep known, another Mecca for the to Fort Santiago the oldest part
of Spanish Manila, long the the said Fang Wahin nor the sid instalments. They had been paid clear of money-lenders if he could. tourist.
W. H. Edley, who also came Manila may be reached by any citadel of the place, and now the Fung Shiu Wa nor any person on their punctually and he had no reason to think otherwise than that the under oxamination by the Official of the local lines, who will make head quarters of the United States behalf is in any way authorises is alleat Receiver, put his indebtedness at attractive rates for the Carnival Army in the Philippines. It pro-any monies or to receive payment thereof sam would be recovered. A
bably stands very nearly on the in any manner how.oerer en behilf The Official Receiver said that $1,000 which he owed principally Season. the man's design appearol to to Indian money lenders. He be that he would be made had borrowed $830 and had paid bankrupt so that he would not back in interest $920; to one man have to pay his debis in the alone.he had paid $400. futare if he become rich.
that he had taken a good deal of a further sun to be collected.
The order was rescinded. Protecting the Estate.
The public examination was was declared closed.
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The City lies on the inland shore site of the native fort, which theither of the said Shewan Tomes & Co of the great bay of the same name; Spanish reconnoitring expedi- or any of the underm ntioned Com- Hongkong Hope Manufacturing which sweeps around in a.com-tion carried by assault in 1570, tanius which they represent, as mely pressed circle with a circumference It is the oldest part of the Walled
China Provident Loan & Mortgage of something over a hundred City and has undergone com- miles. The distance to the water partively little external change in front from its Northern and most three centuries. There are plenty Ohins Light & Power Co., Ltd. His Lordship's Sympathy.
Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. The managing partner of the used-entrance; between the Island of traditions connected with Mr. W. B. Hind appearing for Hing Tai firm said he was suffer- of Corregidor and the frowning the old place-stories of cells Wei San Knitting Co., Ltd.
Philippines Eteamship Co. China & Manila Brosmatiip Co., Lt. the petitioning ereditor in the ing from bad sight. He attri- headland framed by the foothills below the river level for the Case of the Sang Choung Firm bated his failure to that fact and of Mount Mariveles, is some thirty" Unintentionel execution of inconvenient persons, and of asked for the granting of to the fact that he was unable to miles.
Solow are the inner shores chambers filled with dislocatedItd.jpg receiving order. The debtor owed read or write. He believed that
Yangleze Insurance Aitio Price per the petitioning creditor about his shroffs and fokis had collected of the bay and the land on which skeletons. Though none of these $600 and the act of bankruploy accounts and had then kept the the city itself is built that little places are now identifiable it is a
North British & Mercantile Insur Price was departure out of the colony money, telling him they had not ie scen of them until they rise historial fact that one call, either The Official Receiver land some been able to get the customers above the horizon with startling in the fort or in the wall to the ance Co. money in his possession and an to pay.
sudeness, when the ship is with east of it, (sinco removed) was or any other person firm Company or interim receiving order had been
Some of his accounts were within a comparatively short distance the scene, as late as the night of Corporation in any way comnosted with Price the garrison sorgeants' wives and of the breakwater. This general the 31st August, 1896, of or represented by Mesurs. Showan The order was granted.
Dated this 15th day of Nov., 1912. when they had left the Colony on lowness of the city's site is one tragedy much resembling that of Tomes & Co Mr. FX D'Alumada put in an transfer he had been ausble to of its most noticeable features, the Black Hole of Calcutta Fifty-
(Signed) SHEWAN, TOMES
& 00: application for costs for the pro- get his money..
the average elevation of the six out of sixty Filipinos who had teotion of the estate, and the In answer to the Official Re-central portion being but three been crowded into it, on being
suspicion of com-
TO LET. Official Receiver not objecting; the ceiver the debtor said that his or four feet. Through this flat arrested on Bame was granted.
liabilities were in all about expanse runs the Fasig River, its plicity in the insurrection then
ROOMED BUNGALOW at the Payment Suspended. $16,000 and $3,000, had been tortuous course dividing the town raging, were the victims of the
Peak with Tennis Court to let In the use of the Wong Ming-collected, while the atook in trade into the two roughly equal poisoned atmosphere or of the
desperate struggle that took place furnished till end of February, immedia oho, Mr. Davidson of Mesars, had brought in about $400. portions, Hastings and Hastings appeared In closing the examination, his It is however, by no means only within. One of the most interest-ste sutty. Moderate rent. Apply "B" for the petitioning creditor and Lordship expressed sympathy the districts which border on the ing single relics is the ancient Hongkong "eleginpa
outer Plaza Hoogkang, 10th Mar. 1912. [917 river that have abundant drainage gate between the said that the debtor was indebted | with the man.
made.
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