General NEWS.
SINGAPORE BANKING
SENSATION.
Question of Reconstruction of Kwong Yik Bank.
·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1913.
NEW AMERICAN. CONSUL
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Dr Wilder's 'Successor
at Shanghai.
Government Expense in October,.
During the month of October last, the Ministry of Finance akogether drew from the Quint- A spraiul meaning of directors A telegram received yesterday' tuple loan a sum of $7,431,594 and shareholders has been ar at the American Consulate Gen- 34 which was the amount of the range to take place on the eral announced the appointment expenses of the Government for seventh of next month in connec-of the Hon. Thos, Simmons, the whole month of October.
tion with the Kwong Yik Banking now stationed at Yokohama, to and Iusbrance Company who exacreed to the Shanghai post Stolen Jam Costs $7,900. uspension of payment on Thurs made vacant, by the resignation A verdict of $7,000 damages day cansed A considerable Dr. Amos P. Wilter; says the sgainst a thirteen-your-old boy latter in financial circles in N. 6. Daily News of November bos been returned by the United Singapore, say the Singapore Free 27. Mr. Sammona was born in Etites Supreme Court The plain- Press of November 24.
New York State fifty years ago, tiff was a servant employed in the Since the bank closed its doorn studied law in the law family of the boy's father. She it has unceasingly been-obools of Albany and Wasbing sued his son Walter, for $25,000 besiegel by customers, whose to. For some years he was eng on the ground that three years eposits; the ugh for the most part (aged in journalism, and for soven ago he struck her when she re molest in amount, represent a reals was private secretary to a proved him because ho was good deal to persone arcustomed United States ronator. His con- helping himself to jam in the limited incomes and there sular career began with the ap pantry, Her testimony showed have bren many repetitions ointment to Nowohwang on March 8,1905, fle was designed c that cincer developed, from the of Thursday's boy's blow. As the by will have large proportion of the bank's Mukden ud Antung in May, 1906, no property from which the depositors are drawn from in connection with the negotin judgment can be collected until the native working population tions for the opening of these after be is of legal age, says the of the Clony, and it can readi ports under the Treaty of 1003. New York Sun the plainly ba imagined that the present On March 30, 1907, he was ap- will be compelled to wait for deadlock in tho company's pointed to Cosul as Consul Gen- some years unless the julgeperation has engendered a conal, where his work attracted is settled in his behelf before siderable amount of anxiety
that time.
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favour the comment, and on Aug With that patience and endurance 1st 27, 1909, he was appointed to which are, perhaps, she chiel Yokohama. Mr. Sammons' fam- characteristics of the oriental ly consists of a wife and a son, temperament, the rame little band the latter of whom recently grad- if Chinese and Indians may be usted, frota Harvard. Mr. Sim an each day gathered rund none' experience in the East, the doors of the building in Kling ombined with a wide knowledge Street engerly watchful for the of men and affairs and a pleasing teintest hopeful sign.
perec nality, almirably equip him The dog are still guarded by for the difficult post in Shanghai. a small forse of native police le is expected to arrive shortly to under the superintendence of
Luke over the offices from Dr.
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Scientific Burglary, An exceelingly ingenious method of sale breaking was recently adopted by a gang of burglars in Peunsylvania, who blew open the sale of a local je office, and secured several on died dollars in c. sh and postage stamps. Near the post office is a stone quarry, and the burglar timed their bloat to the explosivu European inspectora and none Wilder, who will sail for Cali-with Wha of a dynamite charge in the bat Europens and those having fonia to join his family. quarry. Although the explosion immediate business with the Bhook the postmaster's private.tblish ent. are allowed admit residence, he did not discover
tance: The entrance of Buch in the robbery until the next morn-viduale creates much expectancy ing, as he in common with the
Hmongst the waiting group and other inhabitants of the tow coming out the visitor is thought that the detonation wDB
pestered with inquiries us to how -caused by a quarry blast:
It is notified in the Government matters are progressing within
tazette, in a netice issued from and what is likely to happen. Up His Sleeve. There was once a onto in tha Acting under the advice of the Colonial Secretary's Depart heir solicitors, Messrs Sisson and ment, that the pen-ion minute. Borth country of 'n man who won two fishing contests in succession, lay, the company have appoint- ated 1st January, 1902 is to be
mended by the addition of the It, represented His Majesty on each time with large eels. When, under power of attorney." Mr
following clause :-
horseback trampling on alaves. 10. Danman
Attorney next he participat in a match a
"If any person, to whom af Originally it was intended for a careful Fearch was made of his Iteceiver and Mannger" to "take
pending pension has been granted under state of John Sobieski, the Polish clothing and creel. A live pol, charge of allaire.
this gentle this minute alter the 28th day of King, and was purchased in an which weighed over 2ib, was reconstruction."
Novembar, 1913, becomes, on his unfinished state by Sir Robert foand sewn up in one of the inan, temporarily, is to prepare sleeves of bis nackintosh. Ile statement of the assets and inal retirement from the service Vyner, a City Alderman. By subsequently confessed that habilities of the company and the Colony, either a Director Vyner's orders Subiceki'a hoad .having access to waters where balance sheets for the purpose off any Company the principal was removed and the head of exict financial part of whose business is in any Charles substituted; while the eels were plentiful, he bad caught showing the a number, kept them in a tab of position of the company." The ay directly concerned with the turbaned Tark, on whom Sobieski 'olony, or an officer or a servant trampled, becam› a discomfited water at home, and used them document concerning this tem from time to time as matchporary appointment farther says mployel in the Colony by such Cromwell.
catches." Of course his subtle hat: "We have in contemplation Company, without in every such scheme was aided by the fact that scheme for the reconstruction use the permission of the Gover- eels will live a long time out of of the company with the objret nr in writing first had and of discharging our liabilities." obtained, then in every such wator.-Daily Dispatch.
A meeting of such shareholder-cse it shall be lawfal for the Metal Sign Posts.
and directors as could be gathered overnor, with the approval of When the motorist societies together was held on Saturday the Secretary of State, to direct begin their task of reforming evening but no definite course of that such pension shall forthwith the system of finger-poste they ction was decided upon. The ease; provided always that it might turn an approving eye available funds have been depleted -hall be lawful for the Secretary upon the kind used in some parts to the extent of Rome $1,500,000 of State on being satisfied that the unexpected run "the person in respect of whose of North Derbyshire and certain by other districts. In these the pu the bask. The company pension any such diseotion shall int.y been given his cered to be letters are of soli-l metal set in an has large uma invested
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The Convertible Statue, pened to have one with me at that there will be no diffionky in
Mr. Walter Emanuel was nearer fimce of difficulty on the roads; curing fresh capital and that, few tramps carry them." Man ewly constructed, the creditors the truth than he know when he will be paid and the business-uggested that statues of public' chester Guardian
will furiah in the futuro, man should be provided with Indian Post and Maud Allan,
The Straits Timce says Mr Omovable heads, to be change l as PRICE To discussing the visit of Mies C. Danmen has been appointed public opinion sltered. Some Maud Allan to India, Mr Tagore, receiver and manager of the affaire hing of the kind has been done.
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the Indian poet on whom the of the Kwong Yik: Bank, which At Yarmouth, Lale of Wight, Now is
payment recently there is a statue to the memory
Nobel prize for literature has suspended just been conferred, said that the and is now having the accounts of that gallant Beaman, Sir R. dances, if they were giving ex-examined with a view to prepar-Holmes, Governor of the Isle from pression to beauty, could not be ing a balance-sheet, which is ex- 1667 to 1882. It was originally considered bad, but if they werepeated to be ready for presenta- intended to represent Louis XIV., of deliberately voluptuous char- tion to a meeting of shareholders and was being conveyed to France Boter they were barmful. If they on December 6. It appears that in an unfinished state when it and were good for the English people during the raa on the bank for its sculptor were captured by they were surely good for Indians. the week preceding the suspen- Holmes. Seeing that the statue As for loss of European prestige,sion the withdrawals of osh was unfinished, be ordered the Mr Tagore could not ace what amounted to $1,000,000. The artist to ohisel it into bia likeness, Maud Allan's performances could directors are evidently confident and when Holmes died, the tran- have to do with this, for, he said, of meeting their liabilities in full smogrified work of art was pat the whole community is not and being then in a position to ap to his memory.
A still more carious case was judged by the individual artiste reconstruct the busit.esson
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giving her own expression founder basis. To facilitate the that of the "noble great statue" beauty. If Englishmen are mind-work of reconstruction the dire of Charles II, which ofios: stood ful of their prestige, Mr Tagore tors have approached Towkay near the site of the Mansion House. ooked why do they not stop their Loke Yow, the well known mil- social dances, which are against lionaire of Kuala Lumpur, and
of big Variety of all Indion ideas of the fitness of we understand that be wil go you have lost your appetite
things, and in which men and to the acounts of the bank a id fan by dishes of the ALRY women join and take part before also atend the meeting of sharo DRA CAFE is Sure to tempt
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