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WAREHONGKONG, TADES
TO-DAY'S
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
NOTICE-On and after this date, 28th April. 1919, all communications for the under signed as Hony. Secretary of
Hongkong Gymkhana Club Hongkong Horticultural Society
• Constitutional Reform Associa-
tion of Hongkong should be addressed to No. 1B Chater Road
(Hongkong Club Annex).
H. B. L. DOWBIGGIN.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
We have this day removed our office from Beaconsfield Arcade to the Ground Floor of 15 Chater Road (Hongkong Club Annex).
STEWART BROTHERS. Hongkong, 28th April, 1919:
TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.
OFFICIAL PRICES Banks.
H.K. & S. Banks b. $685 sa. 690
Marine Insurances.
Cantons
h-
North Chines
sa.
9.15
Unions
Dr
Yangtzzes
b.
Far Easterns
n.
$150 $220 $1080 $255 t. 26
Fire Insurances.
China Fires
H. K. Fires
53.
A.
$160 $330
Shipping
b. & 88 sa. 89 b.
2216
Indos (Prof.)
$ 32
Indos (Def.)
şa..
154
Shells
b.
170-
b.
$ 33
Refineries.
6a. $147/149
IL.
$ 35
Mining.
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TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Douglases Steamboats
Ferries.
Sugars
HANDELMAATSCHAPPIJ "TRANSMARINA" Malabons
+
("Transmarina' Trading Company.)
REMOVED TO
G.
Hongkong Hotel Mansions
3rd floor, Rooms 6, 7 & 8.
PARTICULARS and
R.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
CON.
Kailans Langkats Shanghai Loans S'hai Explorations Raubs Tronohis Urals
b.
S.
b. t. 20 s. 21
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c. H.A. Wharves b. $125 sa. 12316/8 K. Docks b. 8152 s. 154 s. 153
11.
S'hai Docks
t. 127 N. Engineerings 8. t. 24 Lands, Hotels & Buildings.
Centrals
$107 699
NOTICE-At the forthcoming H.K. Hotels Annual Meeting of the Land Invest. DITIONS of the letting by Public Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd., to be phreys Est. Auction Sale, to be held a held on May 17th. the Board of Kloon Lands Monday, the. 5th day of May. Directors will recommend &L Reclamations 1919. at 3 p.m., at the Offices of Dividend of $2.25 per share and a West Points the Public Works Department, by Bonus of 75 cents per share. Order of His Excellency the
Office Administering the Gor- ernment of One Lot of Crown
Land
Yauma.i in at
the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
Colony of Hongkong. for COMPANY, LIMITED.
term of 75 years, with the
#
uption of renewal at a Crown
Rent to be fixed by theNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that
the THIRTIETH Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 ORDINARY GENERAL MEET. ING will be held at the Company's years.
Offices, St. George's Buildings, on PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Saturday, the 17th May, 1919, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of presenting the "Report of the Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts to 28th Febru- ary-1919, and electing Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 3rd May to the 17th May, both days inclusive,
Bondary
the foot
Annual Rost,
By Order of the Board of
Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& CO.
Agents.
Hongkong, 28th April, 1919.
b.
b
D.
$105
да
$7.90
n.
b.
$37 $175 $69
Cotton Mills.
Ewos
1.
t. 24214
Kung Yiks
Lau Kung Mows a.
S.
t. 34
t. 170
Orientals
b.
t. 91
S'hai Cotton's Yangtszepoos
п.
n.
1. 180 t. 12
Miscellaneous.
b.
$ 7.60
$13.20
A DEAL IN PEARLS,
INTERESTING LAWSUIT.
In the Supreme Court, this morning, before Sir William Rees. Davies, K. C., Chief Justice, a
counterclaim by Mr. F.P. Mus for $7.814 against Mr. Martini was heard, the claim arising out of an action brought by the latter against the former, in June 1915, the circumstances of which were as follow
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(Wah Ta Yat Po Service)
Peking, April 27.
A marriage between, the Pre- sident's daughter and the ex Emperor Hsun Tung has been arranged.
Negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of a Chinese Customs House in Hongkong.
The President announces that the holding of the position of President is immaterial to him; he only desires an early peace.
and
In June 1915, Mr. G. Martini, merchant, of King's Buildings, claimed from Mr. F. P. Musso, of Hotel Mansions, the sum of $4.181.84, being the amount due
Shanghai, April 27. ss balance of two promissory
On the 25th inst, the Confer notes for $8,000, and $1,300.
ence had a committee meeting to respectively, dated May 11, 1914
the financia! also for goods supplied and money consider paid to Mr. Musso The defend- 'administrative questions. ant paid into Court, on July & During the last few days the 1915, the full amount claim- Conference, whenever any legal ed (4.81.84). The defendant problem was brought up, has had claimed from plaintiff the re-to drop it because the members turn of ten pearls deposited were unable to sele it them-
on selves. with plaintiff for sale
clair- 'commission. Defendant
The editor of the Kung&o Daily : ed to have suffered damages dueras, the Shanghai organ of the to the non-return of the pearls, South, has been charged for pub- owing to a fall in price on the lishing an article alleged to be an incitement to murder Chang King-yiu. The case will be heard to day at the Mixed Court,
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TO-NIGHT
RORACE ANNISLEY' VACHILLY GREAT PLAY
The Case of Lady Camber.'
TUESDAY, 29th April
WEDNESDAY,
THE THRILLING CANADIAN DRAMA
"TIGER'S CUB. **
TIGER'S CUB............. DORIS FEILLIPS
STANLEY, HOUGHTON'S BRILLIANT COMEDY
30th April "The YOUNGER GENERATION.”
THURSDAY,
WALTER HOWARDS ROMANTIC DRAMA
1st May THE STORY of THE ROSARY.” FRIDAY, 2nd May
SATURDAY, 3rd May
MONDAY,
5th May
TUESDAY, 6th May
market. Defendant counter- claimed the sum of $7,814 as damages therefor. In the alter native, defend ant counter-claimed from plaintiff the sum of $7,814 as damages for breach of duty as agent for the sale of the pearls. and negligence. Plaintiff's defence of the counter-claim is a denial of the acts complained of and the detention of the pearls (if any) was not wrongful" inasmuch as he held the pearls as sécurity for
The American Consulate Gen- defendant's indebtedness to plain-eral has received instructions tiff. Furthermore, plaintiff, with from Washington which enable it defendant's authority, forwarded
to relax somewhat the regulations the pearls to one Cattanco, (resi govering the visa of passports dent in Italy) for sale, subject of persons of Allied nationalities to defendant's authority.
proceeding to or through the but offers were Dot United States. Under the mo forthcoming owing to the war.
dified regulations persons may The pearls were returned to proceed to or through the United Hongkong arriving in the begia-States for health or recreation if
Plaintiff ning of May, 1915.
the Consulate General can be
蜜 further denied that he sent the satisfied that their presence in pearls to America. They were
the United States would not be taken to America without plain dangerous or inadvisable., tiff's knowledge or authority. the
pearls being given to
Poli
Cattaneo, with Mr. Musso's authority and on his behalf.
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by
Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed
The Consulate General retains full control of the matter of visa and under the regulations may still require fourteen days' notice and alien declarations, but such
by Messrs. Goldring and requirements may be waived in Phillips, appeared for Mr. Cases of persons of Allied or Musso and the. Hop.
M.neutral countries travelling to C. G, Alabaster, O.B.E., instructed points by way of the Philippine
Islands.
Manila. to
arrang.
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Messrs. by
Wilkinson and 50-Grist, represented Mr. Martini.
Mr. Potter said the plaintiff's claim had been settled and they Martini.
The defendant's case now had to deal with the de
was that the pearls were handed PEACE 24 fendant's counter-claim which over for sale. Early in June the 41 was for a sum of $7,814, being the
pearls were handed to plaintiff 40/- amount of damages suffered by for the purpose of sending them
the defendant through the plain-
to the plaintiff tiff's wrongful detention of the there, who might be a purchaser, PEACE pearls. Counsel said that he held but they were were sent back PEACE that the pearls were subsequently again to Hongkong. The next sent or taken to America and as a consequence of that could not be step was that it was
ed between the plaintiff and got back to Hongkong in time,
defendant that the pearls should PEACE Per Case of 500 whereby the defendant lost an
Per 100 be sent to Italy for sale by one opportunity of selling them. In
Cattaneo. Those
Mr. were March, 1914,
defendant the
Per dozen Musso's instructions. No sale purchased certain pearls from the
was effected and the pearls were plaintiff at a price of $8.000 and in May of the same year the subsequently banded to one Poli PEACE.
who took them to America defendant purchased further
without defendant's knowledge. pearls for the sum of $1,400, and in
Poli subsequently returned them respect of these two transactions
to Hongkong by registered letter defendant signed two promissory stating that his act in smuggling notes which he gave to the plain-the pearls into the United States tiff and which were repayable in three months. In May, Mr. might lead to his financial ruin.
Mr. Alabaster said, that the Musso being in certain financial difficulties a result of an translation of the word from the "unfortunate shara transaction. Italian did not mean smuggling.
interviewed the head manager of Mr. Potter said it did not the plaintiff's firm and as a result matter much as regards his case, of that interview it Was and there was nothing really in Green Islands
arranged that Mr. Musso should it. His case was that had the China Borneos J
give to the plaintiff a charge, by pearls not been sent to America C. L. Borneos 5. cum rights $54 way of security on his furniture they could have been got back to $74 and curios which were in his Hongkong in time for sale, the China Providents b. Dairy Farms b. & sa. $30
house, for a loan. Counsel would defendant having received an H. K. Electrics
$78
ask His Lordship to note that offer here for their purchase. Macao Electrics
$3314
there was no mention of pearls $314 in that transaction. As a matter Robes
$7.60 Trams, Low Level sa.
of fact the pearls had been hand- $7.60 Trams, Peak,.old b.
ed to the plaintiff's manager Trams, Peak, new b cts. .75
before ever that arrangement was Laundries
b. $.3% arrived at. It was a most cur- [Steel Foundries
$12
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$134 that the pearls should be security Watsons
64 and that such a valuable item $114 should not be specifically men- $27
tioned, because they were valued at abou: $10,000 or $12,000, which
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Mr. Alabaster further argued that the pearls came originally from Manila and. were therefore not exciseable in America, and no act of smuggling took place.
Hie Lordship:-The dis- tinguished Chancellor of the Ex- discovered chequer was once
to
cigars.- trying, smuggle (Laughter.)
Mr. Potter then proceeded to read correspondence which pass-
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