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In the above match to-morrow, the following will represent the C.R.C. on home ground-Ng Szo Kwong (Capt.). H. Ching, Un How! Fan, J. Wong, Geo. Lee, Shin! Man Ping, Lo Man Pun, Ho Wing Kin. Choa Man Fing. Wei Lee Son and Wong Awok Kwong.
70 YEARS AT THE BAR.
LORD HALSBURY'S WONDERFUL CAREER.
It was seventy years ago on January 25, 1850 that Lord Halsbury was called to the Bar: and the following letter has been sent to him by the present Lord Chancellor:--
Dear Lord Halsbury, To-morrow January 25, will be the 70th anniversary of your call to the Bar.
It is amazing to contemplate the long historical perspective which that reflection evokes. You were boru during the Lord Chancellorship of Lord Sidon. You were called to the Bar inh the Chancellorship of Cottenham. You took silk when Westbury was Chare ur incidentally Pay remark that you had been practising as a leader for eight years when I
was born-and your immediate predecessor on the Woolsack was Selborne.
Only the ther day when the House of Lords was engaged upon a case of the first importan- ce, involving a consideration of or legal theories of crime, you came to my room and suggested
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COMPANY REPORT.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. | The report for presentation to the thirty the shareholders at
Regere. Fand Sundry Credi
tors Investment De-
previation ab 0.215.25 'Since added 20,000,00
29.215.23
12,513.11
Profit & Loss
قتالند
Axth ordinary General Mexing of Less Deprecia the Hongkong Rope Company, on Thursday, 18th inst., at 11 a states:-
10
Annexyd we have the pleasure
Account. Jay before shareh dders a
Brought fore statement of accounts made up toward
1st December, 1919,
The balance at Credit of Prost and Logs Acrnust after allowing | for the Interim Dividend 65 $60,-1 099.00 paid in August last and in- cluding the Balance of 850,570.48 1918, Is broukht forward from $141,540.70 which it is proposed to appropriate as follows: To place to Reserve
Fand
Te place to Investiment
Depreciation Account
$10,000.00
100,000.00
'from 1918 Proit for the
50,570.43"
Fear 2013... 150,070 27
201,540.70 Less Interim
Dividend 60,000.00
Assets.
$ 心。 Land 10,581
Square Sec) 13,09:00 of 1 per share ... 60,000.00 Less Deprecia-
To pay a final Dividend
To put a bonus to staff 10.923.81
and to carry forward to
the credit of wext
tion
Factory, Mach-
inery, &c. Consulting Committee.-Mesers, Less Deprecia-
year's account......
69.51189
II. P. White and A. 0. Lank resign-
in
Factors.
tion ed on leaving the Colony, and Mes srs. G. W. Barton and J. W. c. Rope & Hemp Bonnar were invited to take their places on the Consulting Commit- Lee.
In accordance with the Ar- ticles of Association Messrs." G. W Barton, J. H. Wallace and J. W. C. Bonnar retire, but offer them selves for re-election.
Auditors. The accounts have Leen audited by Messrs. F. Mait- land and H. Percy Smith who are: eligible for re-appointment.
Valued at
di Stores,
Fuel, Gunnias & Spare Gear. valued at .... Rope on Zon-
signment, valu-
ed at... Unexpired pre-
mia on policies Sundry Debtors
Profit and Loss Account for investments as
the year ending 31st. December, 1919.
Consulting Committee's
fecs... Auditors' fecs Depreciation for 1919 Balance, Profit for the
year
discussion drawn from your re- collection of a cass in which you yourself had beet engaged forty-six years ago.
Success in the profession of the law and that vitality which pro-! duces length of days must have! some intimate connection if, we may judge by the span of lifel allotted to the Chancellors of thei 18th and 19th centuries. Ter :of none of them was it given to look back on soprolonged a professión-i al experience as to yourself. St. $9,000.00 Lennards at the age of ninety-! four looked back on sixty-eight. 20.025.67
years. Brougham at ninety 10 sixty years, Chelmsford at eighty- two to sixty years, Lyndhurst at ninety-one to fifty-nine years.) Selbourne at eighty-three to fifty- eight years, Hatherley at eighty to fifty-four years, Eldon at eighty- seven to fifty-two years. These records seem to shrink when com- pared with your own evergreen and vigorous life.
9.701.11
$
C.
This long period has been passed
by you in active professional and
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
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political work. For forty-three] The Maula Balletin has the
years you have been a member of following to say regarding the ついつ or other branch of the trip of Dencio, and Flores (who Legislature for thirty-five years left Hongkong yesterday) to the you have held the office of Judge, United States:-
and you now possess. not through There are many reasons why age and experience alone, a posits this trip of Dencio and Flores will ion in the esteem and affection of
islands, against mediocre op- ponents, has been such. perhaps, as to warrant a good deal of faith in him. But men like Brown, and Ingle are not top-notchers,
or anywhere near it in the states.
Against Liew Edwards, Dencio
did not look very well, while
Flores looked like a veriest novice
and even Edwards has not yet
demonstrated how he compares
With the good boys at his weight in the states. The same general description could cover Harlem Eddie Kelly, Eddie Wallace,
was."
First and 141,540.70 every member of the profession, not be successful. $821,267.45 whether on the Bench or at the foremost, they are leaving under
Bir. which is wholly unexampled, the managership of a man totally Young Brown and George Ingle. I could not allow this memerignorant of the boxing game As to Joe Mooney, he is a "never-
Reyes, in the United States. able occasion to pass without
while possessing 2
They have our best wishes, pleasant sending to you, on behalf of al my brethren on the Bench and personality and several of the notwithstanding all this, and if all my colleagues at the Bar, attributes of the successful fight they are successful, the Bulletin 1,000.00 14,000.00 these few words to express to you maneger, is a veritable infant in will be glad to pull in its reck." matters of the ring. His only But we repeat our prophecy- our hearty congratulations upon knowledge of Estic affairs comes they will not be successful, this anniversary and our fervent
from the local arena pitted because the man who is handling and affectionate regard.
against the wile and guile of the them: does not know the ropes. Yours sincerely and respect-
shrewd heads who handle boxers fully.
in the United States, Reyes will be a babe in the woode. He has no knowledge of boxers in the United States; does not know the
inside" of the game, in fact, and THIS BABY SUFFERED GREATLY. if there is one business or pro- fession where an inside know. Ideze" is necessary or desirable,
75,000.00
5,500.00 63,500.00
per last ac- count
.204,150.82 Since added.. 786.20
....$ 4,000.00 700.00 6,500.00 Less, Deprecia- tion .150,970.27 $162,170.27 Market value et 31st Dec- 17.171.04
ember 1010 6,441.41
Cash: --
-Dividends from Invest-
ments
Interest
Exchange
Balance of Working Ac-
count.
27.78 At Bank
204,896.03
19,514.14
129,640.57
..150,000.00 50.00 250,20
At Bank (fixed 138,520.04 deposit) $162,170.27 At Factory Balance Sheet 31st December, 1919. In Hand
Liabilities.
$ C. $
*.
Capital 60,000
shares at $10 each fully paid up.....12
600,000.00
€0,097.69
10,474,52
BIRKENHEAD.
House of Lords.
it is boxing.
By this is meant that a poor boxer, under a clever manager, money sometimes make oodles of
WHEN CUTTING HIS TEETH
BABY'S OWN TABLETS WERE ALL THAT HE NEEDED.
Mrs. W. Pelham, McCreary, Manitoba, writes:-"I consider Baby's Own Tablets a splendid medicine for children. My baby was very ill when cutting his tooth-rash, inflamed mouth and nervousness: He was unable to take food for two days owing to ulcerated mouth, but after giving
January 24, 1920. Lord Halshury continues in excellent health, considering his great age, and his mind is remark- ably clear and alert. It is now thirty-four years since he be- came Lord, Chancellor in 1885, holding the office for six months till his party went out in January. 125,284.96 1885. He retained the position
from August, 1895, to December, may before his bubble is pricked.teeth and greatly troubled with 6.609.67 1905, undisturbed by the death of Joe Beckett le a case in point 43,968.84 Queen Victoria or the resignation On the other hand, a really good under an inexperienced of Lord Salisbury. His years of office, all told, were seventeen. manager, may never attain suc
There Are shoals The most famous of the early should be steered clear of-match-mouth soon healed and his health cases in which Lord Halsbury was engaged was the ejectment ing Dencio with dangerous men, action of Tichborne v. Lushing-right off the go, for example, is ton. He was led in by Sergeant Ballantine, on behalf of the claim- ant, and his examination-in-chief of that worthy, Mr. J. B. Atlay tells
185,381.94
man,
cess.
that
him Baby's Own Tablets the scre
improved in every way. Another thing in favour of the Tablets is опе of them. The writer that they are much easier to give to a young child than a liquid
medicine."
has maintained several times
Dencio that
is over-rated. The advertising be would
Baby's Own Tablets, the Cane- children's remedy, are us in his "Victorian Chanceliers," receive, due to the fact that he is
But he guaranteed perfectly harmless "was a masterpiece in an art the Filipino boxer, would make dian difficulties of which are strangely him a drawing card: under-estimated outside the legal would be a drawing card only even to the youngest infant, and recommended for simple: profession. Taking his client in while he won his houts. And to are hand after a decidedly slipsbod win his bouts he would have to be fever, indigestion, constipation opening from the Sergeant, and matched by a man who knew the colic, diarrhoea, croup, eczema after his best witnesses had been the states, and knew what men to also to expel worms. They make badly battered for ten days by Sir game in eide-step. Of course, after teething easy, induce soothing. 279.949.86 John Coleridge and Mr. Mawking, he had become thoroughly acclim-healthful sleep in a natural way, $824,267.48 he skilfully spliced the unravellated, and familiar with conditions aid the appetite and promote J. IL Wallace, J. W. C. Bonnar ing strands, and coaxed "Sir in the states, it would be all well normal growth. Members of Consulting Committee. Roger' a plausible end and good to match him against
Shewan Tomes & Co., almost coherent narrative of his all comers.
The same holds true of Flores. General Managers.
strange edventures,
Dencio's showing, here in the
into
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