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Winding Up Adjournment
Adjourned in October for three months the winding-up petition in respect of the Banque Industrielle de Chine was mentioned in the Supreme Court before the Puisne Judge Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz) yesterday.
In making an application for a furthar adjournment Mr. F. C Joakin (instructed by Manirs Des- coo. Looket, Deason and Harton)' presented an adidarit by the local Manager, Mr. M. J. Montargis.
Mr. Montargis, in his affidarsit, said that on December 29th, 1021, the Bank's head office in Paris wired Shanghai stating that the French Chamber of Deputies had adopted by so overwhelming majority & motion proposed by Mr. Outrey (representative in the Chamber of Deputies for Indo- Chias) expressing its determination to preserts from any attack the prestige and credit of France in the Far East and their confidence "in the French Government, and authorising the French Government to take all nacemary stopa ko`re- float the Banque Industrielle de Chino. A Bill introduced in the Chamber of Deputies containing mesaures for the necessary re- organisation of the Bank, had been accepted in prit cipla by the Cham ber sad had been referred to the Financing Committee who were now considering a scheme to finance such Bill and reorganisation. From a perusal of the Shangbai telegram, of which he had received a copy, and from other sources of informa tion open to him, he was convinced that the French Government had bean authorized by the French Chamber of Deputies to Rosacially
TUESDAY, JANUARY
1922
FLOWING SLEEVES AID ILLUSION OF HEIGHT:
By Marian Hale.
Basiat the Banque Industrialle de No style lends more to the over the hand almost to the Chine sad all that remained to be illusion of height than the long done was that the Finance Com-lowing sleeve. mittes should forward its propoes.ly
This grass-green chiffon is a for financing the scheme of remodel of extreme gracefulness. organisation for the foal approval of the Chamber of Deputies. After wards it would be submitted to the shareholders and creditors for their approval. To his opinion the cre- ditors of the Bank in Hoogkong
would be wail adrised to swait tue Government's proposals a they would in any event obtain a larger refund than if the Bank were forth. with wound up in Hongkong and a distribution of assets made.
Mr. Jenkin said that so far as was known no order had yet been made in London. Neither had any order been made in ang other Court in any jurisdiction in which the Bank operated. Altogether
finger tips are also embroidered.
Green, by the way, is, one of the most popular of colours, both for afternoon and evening wear. Jade is, perhaps, in the fore- ground of popularity of all the green shades The With the bandsome afternoon worn green brocade gown are islippers with the new sandal. strap effect and green silk hose.
The slightly bloused effect with sash, finished with huge tassels and the simply hung skirt are extremely youthful also. gown is heavily embroidered in the same tone.
The biz wide sleeves falling
NATURAL WONDERS OF CHINA.
Survivals from Old Animal
Groups.
At a meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society (North China the Bank had 26 branches which Branch), at Shanghai, Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, FZ.S., F.R.G.S., gave operated under British, American,
s most interesting lecture on the Japanese, Belgian and Chinese subject on which he is one of the | law.
leading authorities of the day- The Puisne Judge: Chinese lawThe Natural History of China." -it would be the French law
He said there undoubtedly re- wouldn't it?
mains a vast amount of work to Mr. Jenkin agreed that it probe be done before it can be said that ably would.
even the vertebrates of Chins are
from China and periodically som· were discovered.
He mentioned specimens of peculiar jigger en found in the ear of a rat caught in South Chine but which were lost and simila ones had never again been dis covered. Whilst with the Clark Expedition in Shensi Mr. Sowerby himself shot a roedear and from enriched the British Museur with some fleas of a species which also has not been found since.
it
THE HAUNT OF THE GRIZZLY. The lecturer passed on to that topic of never failing interest- the world as it was once upon a time. He told how the face ot China was vastly different ant there were land bridges with other countries which bave now disappeared and, just as other
Proceeding, counsel said a com- all known, whilst a much greater munication had been received from time must elapse before the in- the Official Receiver in Londoni vertebrate fauna have been which took the same line as that thorooghly explored. Neverthe set out in the affidavit of Mr.less, it is atterly erroneous, scientists can prove this by their Montargis-that it would be to Dot to say unfair to past workers/special knowledge, so he showed it with illustrations from animal this wide field of the benefit of the creditors to in
to 145. 83 has life. await the proposed re-organisa-research,
While exploring in Man- been done recently, that the pa- tural bistory of China is practic.churia," he said, "I sacured & ally unknown. In certain groups specimen of a large bear which mostly orders or tamilies of **s undoubtedly a grizzly, but up invertebrates the Chinese rep-to that time the living grizzlies were supposed to be confined to resentatives are unknown, but
North America. I was able to show that this bear was indeed a
tion.
Mr. Jenkin then asked that the petition should be adjourned to Monday, July 3. That would not prejudice anybody, he said, be- cause His Honour could again the knowledge of others, birds, direct that any person interested for instance, is actually nesting might apply to the Court by sum
completion. mons for the restoration of the
BACK TO THE DIM AGES.
hearing of the petition. Should The wonderful variety in the the French Court make an order fauns of the country was due to before July 3 for the winding up China's vast territory, varied to
of the Bank an application would pography and many kinds of
true grizzly and also that there were other grizzlies in Asia. This very clearly shows how the grizz lies came to be present in North America, for these Asiatic forms are undoubtedly connecting links
be made to His Honoor forthwith climate, and especially the age of between the prehistoric grizzlies
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The Paisne Judge: I see that inary, when discussing the Chinese which became extinct caly after the 'affidavit you bave read to credit them with a very ancient the fourth glaciation, and the to me the manager of the Bank civilization, but geologists averred living grizzlies of North America. The only way in which the refers to a certain cable he has that the antiquity of China's
You civilization paled into insignif. latter could have acquired their exhibit. icance as a world wonder when Present distribution was by the their ancestors from Europe Personally, I do not wish to see compared with that of ber rock, migration, or the gradul spread of formations- He did not mean
received from Shanghai. have not made that an
it, but in a case of this kind it is
as well to have the atmost public that animals found in the ancient across Siberia or Central Asia rocks have survivad to the pres to the American Continent by ity and it would be as well to state fent time, but there are still ani- way of the land bridge that once that any person interested may male living in Chins belonging to /existed where the Behring" Sex}
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now lies."
The crocodilidae, he said, rep-
very old groups. There are even Mr. Jenkin: Yes, a certified copy warm-blooded vertebrates, geolog. will be filed on the Court file and ically considered very recent, of resent almost the very oldest to inspection a species belonging to a bygone living group of reptiles. The new world members of the group are
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The Puisne Judge: I have had Animals had been found bell alligators or caimans, so izas the advantage of seeing the cable longing to the Paleolithic Age, crocodiles being found in Amer- used only stone can waters. Since the only other received by the Official Receiver in when Man
alligator to be found in the world and lived ia Hongkong and purporting to be implements. from the official Receiver in Lon-caTe shelters and which is that from the Yangtze, it is dou. On that, as I construe it, it had only survived through obvious that, at one time, this taken shelter, in the genus enjoyed a very wide distri is most emphatically in the in-baving
bution in both the old and the as
a very serious handicap led are adequate funds for the terests of the creditors that no- bighest mountain ranges, these dew worlds. It was also believed to research and said: "I should purchase of books and papers and
including the famous taken thing should be done at present.
Mr. Jenkin. I understand the (Budorcas), the giant panda, or that China formed a centre of like to see an awakening of the to send collectors out into the Official Receiver is willing that catbear (Ailuropus melanoleucus), dispersal for the great carp fami- interest of the members of the field to gather more material: the lagomorphspikes and bares 13-osting at the same time on Royal Asiatic Society (North The Society's Museum already this cable from Lond should be certain sodaniec such as the influx of catfish from the Indian Chins Branch) in regard to this has a considerable amount of matter, for this institution de zb valuable material, but much open to the perusal of any person lactage, or jumping rat, and interested.
some of the voles. Thus, salā | MOXE LOCAL INTEREST, NEEDED viously the one to lead the way, more is needed before it can be The bearing of the petition was Mr. Sowerby, it had become Sowerby mentioned the in this part of Chins, at least, considered as a genuine working then adjourned to July 8, at 10.15 customary to look for and expect lack of literature and of properly in the study of the zoology museum rather than a "show
all sorts of remarkable animals labelled specimens for comparison of the country. All that is need- pisos.”