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STEAMER DAMAGED."
The Pathan Collidos with Holt's Whart.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO arrangment shall bo come to between the partnera the property and effects of the firm shall be realised and the proceeds applied,
The Chief Justice's Decision
*Unhold.
Yesterday evening the s, s. This morning in the Fall Court first in paying the debts and lia Pathan ron into Holl's Wharf, of Appeal, judgment was given in bilities of the firms, secondly in while berthing there and did a the motion of appeal, in which paying to each partner the
appears that the manoeuvre to
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India at 11 a.m. to-morrow. DISINFECTANT & DEODORANT. which will surely be appreciated Siberian Mail. Uloses per s.s. Yingehow at 5 p.m. to
The Malls. {"ovcle-riskabs", which is real-Siberian Mail-Arrived per 9.8 large amount of damage. Itaharles Alexander Tomes is the amount of osch ospital then stand-
India this morning. ly a basket-obair bicycle com- bination propelled by a coolie Siberian Mail.-Closes pers.. get alongside consists of dropping appellant and Robert Shewan the ing to his credit, in the books of riding behind and completely Davanha at 5 p.m. to-day, anchors and swinging round respondent, that the Court be the firm, with such interest, if shielded from the passenger. It English Mail.Arrive per s.8. until the boat is alongside the moved by counsel on behalf of the any as may be owing thereon,
Devanha this morning.
and the surplus (if any) shall be whark. The auchors, however, appears to be nicely upholstered, has good springs and is fitted with American and Canadian Male.failed to bold, and instead of appellant for an order that the divided between the partners in
Close per s.s.. China at 10 following the usual course the judgment dated the 20th. day of equal shares. pneumatio tyres. It is named.
Tessel was carried down bows on Chief Justice on the hearing January, 1014, of His Honour the
The question is, I think; “In the whart. The damage of the summons dated 4th. Osto-view of the provisions in the the "Hygienetta"-this from
are Informed by Messrs. Dadwell ber 1913, and the order (if any) whole of the articles read toget hind the fare, an innovation |
and Company, is about $10,000, signed parsnant thereto, be her, do the words property and the stem of the boat being injured, reversed and that it may be affects' in article 15 cover good- by those who have many times
and some damage being done to adjudged that the appellant is will." There is, I think, no doubt been made very conscious,
the wharf,"
entitled to have the business of that the goodwill of the business through another sense than that
The .. Pathan belongs to the firm of Shewan Tomes and is of exceptions! importance at of sight, of the presence of the
Mogul line and arrived from Company sold as a going con. the outset it was valued at 850,- coolie in front of them.
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DOUBLE PIRACY,
Daring Attacks in Local Waters.
cern; and for an order that the 1000, and that value, has twice respondent pay to the appellant been increased and is now agreed the coste occasioned by this ap- by a deed between the parties of peal, and for such further or other the 24th. September, 1906, nt order as the Court may think fit. $300,000. Mr. Alabaster has In the original notion the applied the words in Trogo v. plaintiff was Ŏharles Alexander, Bantas to the goodwill being "the Tomes, merchant, and the de sap and life" of this business, fendant Robert Shewan, merchant. and the defendant's Counsel has said that it is of little value'to À serione case of double piracy The claim was as follows:
anyone else: and so the Chief in Hongkong waters has been 1. That the partnership be- Justice thought. It is argued for reported to the police. It tween the plaintiff and the the defendant that it has been appears that trading jank No. 10 defendant under the style of specifically dealt with in con- with a cargo of bricks. bolong. Shewan, Tomes and Company be sequence of its importance, and 69, ing to the Wing Wong Firm, wound up.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914..
A LESSON FOR BRITAIN.
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One Use for the Cinema.
Theft of Bangle.
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weapons,
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5. Costs.
mons,
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F. O. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. is that is exactly what was Mr. O. G. Alabaster and Mr. the partnership deed. The answer Wilkinson of Messrs. Wilkinson meant; the partners were the and Grist; appeared for the ap-only people that were at all polleat, and Mr. E: H, Sharp, likely to be interested structed by Mr. J. Scott Harston, so the deed was drawn to give partnership, and K.U., and Mr. Eldon Potter, in-in the
building contractors, of Obser 2. That an account be taken in articles 11 to 14, it is vation Place, Hongkong, destined of the partnership dealings be not to be thought that the parties for Sin. Wai village, Pingshan, tween the plaintiff and the de-meant to include it in the general New Territories, left Hongkong fendant.
words "property and effects" in at 2 pm. on the 9th inst., and
The result of this when suling off Mui Tai-shan the sum found to be due to him seems to me to be that the good-
3. Payment to the plaintiff of article 15. Deep Ray, a boat containing eight
will, which is of great value to men, three of whom were armed on the taking of such account, with rifles and revolvers and the
4. The appointment of a Re-the partners, and of little to any- ceiver..
one else, is not to be dealt with rest with revolvers and daggers,
at all under the agreement in the drew np to the side of the
case of a dissolution of the part- junk and came aboard, threat 6. Further and other relief.
cership. The only words which ening those on board with the
The action was dismissed by concern it, if "property and "The pirates told the Chief Justice in Chambers effects" in article 15 do not, are the junk people to remain quiet, on January 26, but general liberty the words "in the absence of any A young Chinese woman living
or they would be shot, and then at 2. Yes Tik Loue has reported they processed to ransack the was given to apply on the sum-arrangement to the contrary to the police that some time last craft, taking possession of $5!
which is an arrangement outside Ma It is a well-known fact that dif-night some-one stole from a toxin miner, jewellery to the value ferent people see things in a belonging to her a gold bangle of $15 and clothing worth $37. different way. A farmer, a pain-valued $35.
On leaving the junk the robbers Mariner's Loss. ter, and a geologist, for instance,
took two of the crew with them M. W. A. Attwell, of the may take a walk through a field
to carry the spoils, landing them and see it in entirely different Empress of Russia, bas reported at Shek Wan, in Chinese ter lights. The geologist would to the palice that he left in a
ritory. speculate as to the minerals under ricksha, which he engage) from
Incidents which occurred prior of Mera Deacon, Looker, Descon an option to a partner to take the ground, the farmer on the the Kowloon Ferry, a teabu iesl to this piracy throw some light and Hareton for the respondent. over in some cases, but that it quality of the soil, and the artist book on marine matters."
thereon. It la reported by s
The Chief Justice-This is was intended they should come would value the pictaro it
Jewellery Theft.
Chinese boatman of oyster guard the judgment of the learned to an Arrangement ne to the The police have received
goodwill in the O-Be presented. We had this mat-
B boat belonging to No. 5 oyster president,
'solution. ter brought home to us again report from a Chinees shopkeeper bod, Deep Bay, that at about 1 By an indenture dated the the other evening whe a of 9, Cochrane Street to the
the 9.h.. inst, 23rd. July, 1896, the plaintiff and The plaintiff, on the other friend told us of a visit to a effect that some person has stolen P... small boat containing defendant entered into partner hand, contends that the earlier cinematograph theatre not in from a drawer in his house oight men, armed with rifles, ship for ten yeare carrying on articles give a partner who wishes Hongkong. In one picture, he jewellery valued $60.
revolvers and daggere, boarded business as Shewan Tomes and to continue, rights which will said, sensation was piled on Statue Square trees done. his boat and threatened to kill him. Company. The partnership was secure him in his enjoyment ef sensation hot and strong. until S'athe square bae now assumed: the audience was finely worked a bare aspect, the trees in the They chased all on board into the prolonged until 31st December, the business, including the good- as will, and that article 15 is up. The story ended properly, roadway which might have been hold and looked them up, and 1908, and has continued
with the a partnership at will since the outaide them and regulates the of course, and people ast back as dangerous to traffic as they then sailed away The changes which have occurred in China since the establi- of cound The bis neighbour, were pleasing to the eye, having craft. It was this boat from extended term expired, and is position in default of an agree which the robbers made the subject to so much of the originalment independently of them, chment of the Republio have, as we have many times had occasion who had stown a deal of interest, been cut down.
attack on trading junk No. 10. agreement as is applicable to a consequently the words "rroperty to point out, been largely external and superficial. The people turned to him und said, "I like To-morrow's Auctions.
at will. Unfor- and effects" have their natural themselves are, in the bulk, just the same bland, shrewd, osiculat-these pictures. You get a lot of Mr. G. P. Lammert has two After the latter attack the robbers partnership ing race as aver they were. And they are likely to remain so for bints for furnishing 100me from suction siles to-morrow. At 11 landed the crew of the oyster guard tunately, differences have aricen meaning and include goodwill, very many years to come. In matters of fashions, however, there time."
It is obviously important to He is a hotel manager, a me he is selling a large, sumber boat at Shek Wan, together and it becomes necessary to close the affairs of the present concern. is no lack of evidence to show that they are stiv ng after Western It has always been claimed for of English boots and shoes, and with the two men from trading On the 11th, June last the de- understand the nature of the effects. That is mostly apparent, in the Treaty ports and here in the cinema
that it had an at noon be ia disposing of junk. They then made off abard Hongkong. A walk down any of the main streets of the Colony educational v-lue.
eevera' lots of liquor of various the oyster boat in the direction fendant, Shewan, gave notice of goodwill in this case. The busi will reveal young Chinese ladies wearing clothing approximating
kir de.
of Canton.The oyster boat is dissolution as from the 30th, ness is described in the partner-
the 9th,
ehip deed sa that of merchants, somewhat to Western styles and with hair done after the European
valued at $200, while the value September, end on Navigation Hempered. fashion; while the young bloode of the other sex have long sinco
This morning a thick fog hung of the personal effects on board is September the plaintiff, Tomes, commission agents and general.
filed a suit asking for agenta in Hongkong and else been decking themselves out in the latest cuts of European clothing,
over the harbour, and navigation pleaced at $50.
winding-up order, for accounts where. The partnership took to say nothing of variegated socks and ties and bull-nosed shoes,
was in consquence extremely
and a receiver. On the 14th. over the leases, controls etc., The student of world politics will see nothing in such external Whilo honours were shared in difficult. The Ferry afsame a hnd
October he took out a summons belonging to Shawan and Com- transformations as these; he will possibly pass them by with a the two games played last evening to proceed very gingerly, and in
in the action, asking for an order pany, and, three weeks after the ancer. But there is another class of people to whom movements of between the Hongkong Volunteer come instances the boats, on
appointing a receiver, and for an commencement of this partner this kind mean much the commercial men who have an eye open Reserves and R. E. (B) team, in reaching the Hongkong side,
order directing him to sell the ship, valged the goodwill at to extension of their trade. A change in fashion, even among, ey, the Soldiers' Club Billiards found themselves far. on
partnership business as a going $50,000 (article 12.) This value the compartively small acction known as the upper-classes, always tournament, the R. E managed western side of Dongins pier.
concern. The defendant objects was later increased to $100,000, provides business for somebody. When such a change may affect to secure a load of 51 points on Latest Advertisements, practically a whole nation, the opportunities are all the g ester, the total.
Mr. G. P. Lanimert is selling a It was baud night at the Royal that the Court cannot make the and finally, by the agreement of That is why, keen and alert business men are always on the look-
Mr. Heathcote for the Reserves quantity of Linusehold furnitte George Hotel, Kowloon, last order under the agreement, the 24th, September, 1906, three because article 15 thereof months after the original term had out for developments of the kind which are now transpiring in went down badly to Lance Corpl. at 7 Wongreicheong Road on the night, and the enterprise of the
does not provide for the sale of expired, it was fired at $300,000. those parts of Chius where the people are being brought into con- Scott, being off his usual form. 21st inst Page 6.
management, was rewarded by a
admission of a new partner and talt with Western influences. Yesterday we reproduced in cur Not once did he score over twenty, Public works have necessitated fall dining room during the die the goodwill, and, further, that This agreement contemplates the columns a recent report which had been written by Mr. G. E. while his opponent only did i the closing of D'Aguilar Strest to ner hour. Music was supplied the Court holde that it does; the signatures of new articles of Anderson, the United States Consal General in Hongkong, on the once with a break of 21. The through trafficPage 5; **
by the band of the 8th. Rajputs, changing dress of Chinese women. Apart from its commercial value, socre 250-157 represented the Tho Arratoon Apear leaves for who rendered all the latest the terms of article 15. Article partnership, neither of which the partnership as existing, sub- the report made most interesting reading, but that, of course, was play but not the form of the Shanghai and Japan on the 17th selections with admirable taste. 15 is admittedly the only article events happened, but continues not the object with which it was penned. It was written as part Reserves mau..
inst.-Page 5
The programme lasted from eight which applies to the present and parcel of a sound and widespread eoheme which the American Mr. Bond on the other hand The Gregory. Apcar leaves for o'clock to eleven, and after circumstances. The summons ject to a slight modification. In in the States where there are openings for the goods which they baring the game well in hand inst, Page 5). Goverment follows in all parts of the world, to aid commercial people bett Sapper Mudge by 42 points, Straits and India on the 17th dinner many of the guerissat out was heard by the Chief Justice the top years of the partnership in the well-appointed sitting a Chambers, when there were the goodwill had therefore pr manufacture. And, as such, it, and articles like it, cannot fail to be of throughout and playing some
Consignees notice concerning rooms and the verandaba listen. Several adjournments in the creased to six times its initial the utmost usefulness. For example, it would assuredly be valuable pretty
billiards cocasionally, the es. Pathan is issued.-Pageb. ing to the happy strains. The hope of a settlement, which the value. The business, as describ- information to certain traders to know that as a result of the change The heat breaks were Mr. The Yellow Drager...
menu at dinner was comprehen- learned Judge encouraged to the ed in the deed, is very much that which was under discussion in in Chinese wemon's dreas there are now growing demands in the Bond 21 and Sapper Madge 22.
This month's Yellow Dragon sive and well chosen, and the all-furthest extent of his ability. Stuart v. Gladstone, but the East for knitted underwear, foreign wraps, ribbons, trimmings eto., while it would be of equal moment to others to learn that leather
the Queen's College magazine, round excellence of the cuisine They broke down at the last ow- contains, among other things, a was a compliment to those in ing to the plaintiff withdrawing parties avoid the result of Stuar; is supplanting cloth in the making of boots and shoes, and that
photograph of the echolarship charge of the kitchen arrange when his demands had apparent Gladstone by putting a valug foreign hair ornaments are now rought-after by Oriental ladies.
winners 1913, and a full report of ments. A special feature was the ly been met, with the result, on the goodwill. It seems to me, the prize distribution. The Tadian curry, for which this hotel that the summons was heard however, that, oopable as they may pavilion fund now stands of is justly famed. It may be and the Chief Justice delivered be of valaing, as between them- the goodwill, they $1,171, An intereating letter is mentioned that the hotel has written judgment, from which
cannot impose this value on alec published from Mr. M. recently undergone complete this is an appeal,
a third party, and, as the good Hiros, principal of the Govero-renovation and is now spick and The fifteenth, artiole, the con will of business, if sold subject ment middle School, Taipeh, apan. It has a big number of strustion of which is the orax in to the right of the vendors to Formos, thanking the head master large, airy rooms, and the terms this oase reads as follows continue in business in the same for the opportunity of seeing over for boarders are eminently Upon the determination of place, it is not likely that the the College,
reasonable.
the partnership, if no other goodwill
Reports such as the one we have referred to are being constant- ly written by America's Consular servants, and their value would be hard to compute. The useful work done by Consule scattered all over the world in this way is bound to be helpful to the nation's trade, and supplies a striking object lesson to Britain. Trade does not come to a nation; it has to be sought, and systematically sought, too, That is what the Americans have realized, and it is about time Britain made greater use of hor Copsalar service on the sam
BILLIARDS.
The Soldiers Club Tournament.
The scorea to-date are
H.K. VOLARES. Mr. Hostheoto 157 Mr. Bond.
250
407
R. E. (B). Lance Corp! Scott 250 Sapper Mudge
208
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