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(Our Own Correspondent.)
Singapore, May 17.
The P. & O, steamer Assaye was found to be afirs in the after hold while entering the port.
Cotton, opium and tea in the hold have been damaged. The Assaye is not expected to leave for Hongkong to-day. [On enquiry at the local office of the P. and O. Company this morning, we were informed by the Superintendent that a telegram was received by him last evening stating that the Asanyo was afire, but no details were given,
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The Assuye is well-known in Hongkong. She is, as is koowo. a mail steamer, and her tonnage is 7,376. She was built by Messre, Caird and Co., Grenneok, in 1899, and her dimensions are as fol low-Length, 450 feet; breadth, 54.2 feet; depth, 31.6 feet. She is commanded by Capt G. W. Cockman, R.N.R.]
ALLEGED EMBEZZLE-
MENT.
Defendant Who Walved
Extradition Proceedings.
THE ADAMASTOR.
Refloated and Brought to Hong
kong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
Partner who Tore up the Books
and Left.
This morning, the Chief Jus tice, Sir William Rees Davies,
K.C., out in Bankruptcy jurisdic-
tion at the Supreme Court, Mr. H, A. Niebot appearing as Official Receiver.
A receiving order was applied
for in the case of Chan Ka Heung, but, on the application of Mr. O,
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I put it to you that you said on oath that you bought them on On the application of Mr P. W. your own account and not for the Goldring, of Messrs Goldring Kwang Heung Co.?I did not PAGAL GYMKHANA FIRST
Morrell, the say that.
Within a week of being wrecked, the Portuguese cruiser Ademas Barlow and tor, which struck a rock in the channel between Lantao island adjourned
hearing
At the Police Court this mor ning, Harry Thurber, a mining
of the Was it not held as a fact that engineer of Manila, was brought
you were a partner in the Hong before Mr. F. A. Hazlland, on a and Cheung Chau, has been sac-petition in connection with the Eing? Yes, but I did not admit charge of embezzlement, the off-cessfully salved and brought into effeire of Sing Mow, was again it; it was a judgment of the
Hongkong. The work was per- adjourned. On the same solicitors court. ence having, it was alleged, bcn formed by the Hongkong and committed in Manila. The Whampoa Dock Co., "and the request, the hearing of the peti amount alleged to have been em- harbour late yesterday afternoon, of Cheung In Kow was also Adamastor was brought into the tion in connection with the affairs bezzled is said to be between ten in charge of the company's tugs adjourne 1. and eleven thousand pesos. Edith and David Gillies, with the
On the application of the Yesterday as the se. Hang Portuguese gunboat Patria in Official liver, A. A. da Silva Sang was about to leave Hong-close attendence.
The Adamastor was still low was adju licated bankrupt.
kong for Shanghai, Chief Detec- down in the bow, tive Inspector Collett, Sergeant Wills, and acting Lance Sergeant Cockle,
went on
board and Sergeant Wills arreat- ed the defendant. The baggage was searobod, all papers seized and Ps. 10,400 recovered. Do fondant told the police he would waive extradition proceedings and return to Manila to stand bis trial at the convenience of the police. It was proposed that de fendant should sail on the s.. Zafiro, which leaves this after
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noon.
C.D. I. Collett stated the case to his Worship.
His Worship:Is your name Henry Thurber ?—Yes,
You are arreated for the com- mission of the crime of embezzle- ment within the jurisdiction of the American Court of Manils. You must either plead guilty or not guilty. Not guilty."
You want a week's remand? O. D. L. Collett:-I understand
in this cars he waived extradition.
His Worship-I am not sure that he can waive extradition. Has it been done here?
I have no objection to the charge being withdrawn. He has signed an undertaking to return. Well if the charge is with- drawn, prisoner is discharged. He said he is quite willing to go back,
VICTORIA THEATRE.
મ Les Miserables" Continues to Draw.
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TH
The Picial Receiver said the meeting if creditors had been held.
His Lordship: He undertakes to pay $15 per month.
The Official Receiver: Yes, my Lord; It is a money lending
сана.
They were purchased from
45,000?---No. Messrs. Marty for $30,000 mort gaged for $20,000 and sold for
MEETING.
Open to all members and sub- scribers and their friends.
Programme for Baturday, 24th May, 1913:
1st Event 3.45 p.m.-BEND- ING RACE. (Mounted.)
2nd Event 4.00 p.m.-AFFINI- TY · RACE, TELEGRAM STAKES. (Mounted.) The figures I put to you are 3rd Event 4.20 p.m.-DIS- incorrect? Twenty-five thousand MOUNTED LLOYD LINDSAY. paid down and a mortgage for (Dismounted.)
4th Event 4.50 p.m.-TENT twenty thousand.'
PEGGING. (Mounted.)
What Eccamb of the proceeds when the ships were sold & NEEDLE RACE:-(Affinity.) 5th Event 5.15 p.m.-THREAD don't know they were sold by (Dismounted.) other fokis,
6th Event 5.40 p.m.-“ULTA- I put it to you that you got PULTA" Race on Mules. (Mount- your share of the profits?-Mar-ed on Mules, bare backed.) tys wrote to my fokis and pressed for payment. They did not pay him and Martys sold the boats,
They were sold for $45,000 ?—
continues to draw packed houses Official Receiver said, had abs-For $50,000."
The big film "Les Miserables
Wong Lai Tong, who, the at the Victoria, and Messia. Ramos conded, was adjudicated bank. and R. H. Stephenson, under whose joint management the pio-
rupt,
ture is being produced, are to Outstanding Debts. be congratulated on the success
Chan Lam, 87 Aplichan, Aber-
of their venture. Hongkong the dean, in public examination, said please, but the crowde that are atre goers are not always easy to be started as a grocer with 3800
are sufficient evidence that "Lea flocking nightly to the Victoria
here. Miserables" is not thrown away
this afternoon at 4.30.
There will be a special matince
TWO NEW J. P.'S.
capital. His liabilities were now $2,400, including book debts and 82,800, and he had assets of furniture. He attributed his in- solvency to inability to collect (outstanding debts from "junk
people.
And the procesde after pay ment of Messrs Marty were divid- ed between the partnera of the Hong Hing? They owed people what strangement had been made a lot of money and I don't know
Marty."img"and beate between the fokis and Mesars
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7th Event 6,00 p.m.--GEN- ERAL KNOWLEDGE STAKES.
(Affinity.) (Mounted.)
8th Event 6.20 p.m.--PURDAH NASHIN STAKES:—(Affinity.)
Entrance Fees 50 cents each
event.
No Entrance Fees for Ladies. The Ladies of the Indian Begi- ments will be "at Home."
A. L. BARRETT,
Hon. Secretary,
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LTD.
Heung steamship company was
Your share in the Kwang} $7,500?—I did not take up NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN 87,500 I had 500 share in it.
that Sorip Certificate with In your statgiment of affsira you respect to 5 shares numbered 5134/ have not disclosed any furniture 5138 in the above-mentioned Office The examination was closed. B. M. O. Gutierrez, in public furniture nor jewellery.
nor any jewellery--I have no standing in the name of Mr. FURDOONJEE COWASJEE- examination, said he was a clerk
How is it that I can bring POSTWALLA of Bombay, has The Gazette notifies that His June last year he started the
drawing $130 per month. In several witnesses to prove that been lost, and should the same Excellency the Governor has buisness of Oliver and Co, ship large dismord ting within the be issued to the said Mr. 00WAS not be produced before the 29th. you have been seen wearing n
inst, a new Scrip Certificate will been pleased to appoint Mr. chandlers, with two partners. last three weeks?No; It is JEE FURDOONJEE POST- William Logan to be a Justice of One of the partners, the one who not con
WALLA, - and no transaction
Colony of Hongkong.
126th
A further notification states that the name of Mr. Frederick Joseph Halton is deleted from the List of Justices of the Peace.
the Office.
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the Peace for the Colony of Hong-supplied the capital, tore You are still living in Caine taking place under the old Sorip I would have to withdraw. It is also notified that His Ex-up the books, and left the colony. Road in a very expansive house? Certificate will be recognised by
When is he going back to cellency the Governor has been amounting to $7,000,
leaving debtor to pay the debts It is my father's Manila?-On the Zafiro this pleased to appoint Captain Claude
You smoke opium don't you? afternoon...
His aacets were a clamp album I have abstained from smoking Gregory Woodhouse, At any rate I shall have to Baluchistan Infantry, to be ato pay a monthly sum of 830 a two weeks,
worth $100. and he had agreed opium for the last several days make a report to the Governor of Justice of the Peace for the month for the benefit of his the proceedings-Well, if the
You knocked it off without any charge is withdrawn.
creditors. He had also borrowed trouble; it was quite easy to you wife and two children to maintain, from money-lenders. He had a I got rid of the habit quits saaily.
You were in the habit of Mr. Goldring, who appeared for smoking 32 worth of opium a Mr. Harding, elicited the fact that day--No, debtor sold his piano for $120, Do you remember the occasion FALSE COINS.
and used part of the money to pay of your father running away some of his debts. That was when the action was brought PARTICULARS and CONDI
TIONS of the letting by Public Inspector Fenton charged two before the filing of the petition.
against Robert Jack & Co. ?--Yes. Auction Bale, to be held on Mon- Chinese at the Police Court, this Debtor was adjudged bankrapt
And at that time your father day, the 26th day of May 1918, morning, one with tendering bad and the public examination was transferred: various properties in it 3 p.m., at the Ofices of the ten cent pieces and the second closed.
certain names?Yes. Only one Public Works Department, by with having in his possession
Order of His Excellency 'the Go- three false British coins, and
In your name?No. Have vernor, of Two Lots of Crowa also with having in his possession
Cheung In Chong was adjudi- you na share in that property 2 Land at Condult Road, in the Biz false Chinese coins.
cated bankrupt, and submitted to Nola ummals, soda
Colony of Hongkong, for a tenn The first defendant was fined
his public examination.
What names were they Pat renewal at Crown Reate to be
of 75 years, with the option of $25, or in default one month; n answer to the Official Be into?-Chan War Xi
fixed by the Surveyir of His
There is no objection to the charge being withdrawn if you are satisfied the man is going
back..
Defendant then left the Court in the company of the polios officers.
NEW POISONS.
''
Sharp Questioning.
name. w:
J
R.
torn of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
and the second man was fired ceiver, the debtor. Baid that he. Do they still stand in the same Majesty the King, for one further 825, or in default one month on lived at 318 Caine Road and that name? When the law suit was the Grat charge, and $18, or in he was at one time associated with settled and my father returned default six weeks on the second the Kwong Heung Steamship the same were handed back, to charge."
Company, in which he had
my father. shares to the amount of $500 When the action was settled That firm was closed down in you got a commission of three October of last year. Ho had now thousand dollars ?-No...
ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.
Before Mr C, D. Melbourne, at
By an order made by the Governor in Council nuder Seo tion 9 of the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, se smended by the Phar- macy Amendment Ordinance, 1910, the following are hereby
no assets; he had lost everything Mr. Goldring explaining to declared to be poisons within the
and bid not a cont left."
His Lordship, said that the action meaning of the above Ordinance
The Official Receiver:The was brought by one of the share and are added to. Part H. of the Police Court this morning, a only resta that you have is holders against the debtor's father Schedule A thereto :---
Chinese was charged with fraud- $81,000 which has been paid to who was Robert Jack. The father Sulphonal and its homologues, ulently converting to his own the Official Receiver for the bene-, ran away when the action was whether described as Trional, uss 84.400 which had been en- fit of doreditora ?-Yes.
settled he came back, E4 (4A Tetronal, or by any other trade trusted to him to buy opium, and name, mark, or designation.. also with attempting to obtain Diethyl-Barbituric Acid and 85,000 by means of fales pre- _other, alkyl, aryl, or metallic tences.
derivatives of Barbituric Acid, whether described as Veronal, Proponal, Medinal, or by any other trade name, mark, or des The defendant said he wanted
What is the amount of your. debia? Six thousand dollars.
To what do you attribute your insolvency ?-Loss in business and also law suite.
:-
Mr. Goldring You were partner in Bobert Jack and Co? Noth goangat besa en Mer Mr. Oly Kong Sing also asked Mr O. A. 8 Boss, of Mosers
questions relative to the pale of Goldring, Barlow, and Morrell, Mr Goldring on behalf of one the two meamboats, at the con- prosecuted.
of the creditors In July 1911 clusion of which Mr. Nesbit sak you bought two steamboats from ed that the examination should be them on behalf of somebody else. Koug Sing objecting, the onse
was adjourned,
**Iguation and Poisonous to be legally represented and a Mesars Marty and Co. bought closed but, Mesure. Goldring and
Urethaned and Ureides,
formel remand was granted.
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