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BANKRUPTCY COURT.
MR. H. A. CASTRO'S PUBLIC EXAMINATION.
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News of the sudden death of Mr. Several potitions for receiving D A. G. Alison, of the staff of the The Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, K O., sat in the Supreme orders to be made and applications Hongkong Englivering and Con- Court in Bankruptcy jurisdiction for adjudication in bankruptcy struction Company, Ltd., will be were heard by Sir Henry received with sincere regret by his on Saturday, when Mr. Henry Arcases
Death took place mando Castro
was publicly Gollan in the Bankruptcy Court many friends.
while the deceased was having his examined by the Ofielal on Saturday morning.
Br. G.A. Leask, on behalf of two bath at 6.30 on Saturday night at Receiver. He stated that he was 32 years of age, having creditors of a Chinese firm, sald his residence, 3, West View,
in Hongkong. He his clients had misunderstood the Coronation Road, Mongkuk,
The late Mr. Alison was 52 years became 1 stenographer to wording of a resolution asking for Messrs. Bradley and Co. in adjudication. There were only of age.. Hg bag been a resident 1909 and remained there for eight three creditors. Liabilities were of the Colony for the last twenty years. He later became an assis-estimated at 52,400 and assete at years and was very well known. He tant in the Hongkong Mercantile 8300, and there was an agreement was formerly in charge of police Co. Ltd., and had charge of the for instalments of salary. His arrangements in Shameen, and was export side of their business. He clients understood that the reso- at the Talkes Dock for some time. then went to a firm of importers lution was to put forward a scheme He was a Freemason and belonged and exporters run by Messrs. of composition but they did not to both the Kowloon Football Club Beaumont and Co., but that firm understand that it was asking for and the Kowloon Cricket Club.
Deepest sympathy will be extend- failed. He was chief assistant adjudication."
The Ofcial Receiver stated thated to Mrs. Allson, and her four on a salary when that occurred.
le understood there was a great children. He then started on his
deal of discussion at the creditors' The funeral will pass the monu- meeting to whether therment at five o'clock this afternoon should be adjudication or not.
Firm Reconstructed.
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account in the name of H. A Castro and Company. He put the firm and two $20,000 into
Mr. Lensk said it was because Chinese partnere $20,000 Betwee there was so much discussion that them. He controlled the firm.they did not understand." They exported and imported His Lordship: I confess that goods, "anything" said witness in cannot understand your clients. reply to the Official receiver.
I take it they are businessmen.
The Official Receiver said he thought it would establish After two and a half to three undesirable precedent if creditors years the firm was reconstructed, were to puss, resolutions and then it being sold, to a limited liability if some of them thought better of company. The firm had been lost get them cancelled. It would ing money and more capital was reduce these meetings to a farce. necessary and this led to its ré
The order for adjudication was construction. He got $10,000 in
made. shares for his partnership, but they had never been realised and' were valueless to-day as the com pany they referred to was now in liquidation.
Mr. J. H. Hendle. "The death of Mr. J. H. Hendle occurred at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghal, on Monday, the 25th ult., after a brief Hliness.
The late Mr. Hendle, who was
PACT.
Sir A.. Chumberlain's Conversations.
Commenting
Rugby, Jan. 30.
Sir Auston
en
"BLOOD.·
Saturday's Ceremony.
of
The annual distribution prizes in connection with the four schools at Shaukiwan, Wanchai, Shamahuipo, and Yaumati, con-
Chamberlain's conversations with ducted by the Sisters of the Proci-
Briand, the Times remarks that a doubt a good deal was entus Blood, took place in the hall of the Catholic Men's Society, in about, the present position of Ger- Caine Road, on Saturday after-
noon. many, the occupying forces in the Rhineland, and the prospects of
A very large gathering of the entry of Germany into the
Sisters and friends were present, League of Nations.
Including both Chinese and Euro- "As to the Rhineland troops, M. peans. The proceedings were Briand has indicated quite plainly conducted in Chingan and consist that the intention is to reduce their cd of a short concort and songs by number as soon as possible, but as the children of the schools and Sir Austen Chamberlain remarked, the reading of the report by the spirit of Locarno must be Father Shek, who was introducet mutual, and the unfavourable im- by Mr. J. S. Shek (Hen. Secretary). pression made-In spite of Horr Luther's courageous efforts--by The report recorded a most suc- this week's debate in the Reichstag cessful year among the four" can be most readily modified by an schools and great satisfaction was early and emphatic vote in favour expressed with the number of of immediate formal application scholars receiving awards and the for admission to the League," number of pupils who had gradu- Dealing more broadly "with theated. The Wanchal school, with
ten graduates, headed the list. implications of the conversations, the Times adds that they In- Before presenting the prizes, dicate the growing realization of Mr. Y. P. Law, B.A., Inspector of international, particularly of Schools, briefly spoke in apprecia-
After congratulat-
28 years of age, was a journalist European, unity which took in tive terms of the excellent work... by profession, and went to Shang- Locarno the form of a definite performed by those in charge of hai several months agoafter work-political act, and is being interpret the pupils, and said that he had ing in Hongkong. His principaled more widely, and perhaps more always been satisfied with the " journalistic literest lay in sports speculatively, and with an eye or standard of the work achieved by and in this field he showed much the more distant political future, the scholars. Promise as a writer. During the in extending the work of the ing the successful children, Mr. Law encouraged the pupils to reach brief period of his residence in Lengua of Nations. Shanghal he appeared in several
This tendency, it adds, is patient-higher standard of success dur sports competitions and madely constructive. It is, or should being the coming year. No Substantial Assets.
many friends.
directed to the steady encourage- A Chinese play concluded the Australian by birth, hement of every element of stability ceremony. Mr. J. T. Prior asked for a re- An celving erdor in the affairs of served during the war at Gallipoli that exists in Europe.-Brilish Kwong San Cheong. He said the and in France. He was on the Wireless.. The Official Receiver-How do liabilities were $15.000 and the staff of the Brisbane Daily Mail you account for the failure of the assets $700, which had been paid and other papers. He married. old firm. Times were good?-into court. He understood the two years ago, but his young wife big slump in rice Official Receiver would oppose the died, leaving a little child. His order being made because there bereavement was a heavy blow to Mr. Hendle and was, he said, his were no assets.
principal reason for coming ta China.
There was a then.
The Official Receiver: No sab-
The company he had the share. in went into liquidation as a restantial assets. sult of over buying sulphate of ammonia.
In 1928 witness joined Sander Wieler and Co., Ltd., at a salary of $400 a month and ten per cent. commission on yearly not profits of the export department. He had not received แก commission. ailabilities were now $11,000. They were in respect of loans made to pay off the debts of the old frm.
Left With the Liabilities.
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The Officia! Receiver: That does not seem a very good transac- Lion, Mr. Castro.
?
Mr. Prior: Bat $700 is some- thing in the way of assets.
His
Lordship: One almost needs a microscope to see them.
The Ofcial Receiver remindel His Lordship that costs would have to come out of the $700 paid into Court.
Affairs of R. M. Castro.
Iu connection with the affairs
Mr. Hende got his Rugby blue at Brisbane University, and turned out for the Hongkong Football Club.
A Well-known Author..
London, Jan. 31. The death is announced
of
Mr. W. L. George, the author.— Reuter
·
Italy Adopts the Pact.
Rome, Jan. 30.. In a secret ballot the Chamber adopted the Locarno Puct by 201 votes to six.--Reuter,
The Entente.
Paris, Jan. 29.
CHEUK KWAN SCHOOL,
A SUCCESSFUL. YEAR REPORTED.
The Cheuk Kwan English and Chinese School held its annual
The newspapers observe that concert on Saturday, before a between Sir large audience. An entertain- the conversations
and M. ing drama was acted.. Austen Chamberlain
Mr. Wong Kwal-tam, the head- Briand were above all a new con- firmation of Franco-British soli-muster, in presenting the 17th darity.
annual report, said the total They point out with regard to number of pupils enrolled during the Disarmament Conference that the year was 225, and the school days on 269 the Ministers are entirely in accord, remained
disclose the There was at present accommoda- but that they will
овел
Mr. W. L. George was born in of Mr. R. M. Castro, the Official Paris on March 20, 1882. He was date at the proper time. It is tion for 234 boys, and applica | Receiver made application for ad- educated successively as an ana-probable that the meeting will be tions for adminalon judication. At a creditors' mest-lytical chemist,, 'w engineer, a
London
were 90
numerous at the beginning of the The Official Receiver: Whening on January 18, a resolution barrister, a soldier and a business postponed to the end of May.
The papers add that the Minis-year that they had to refuse you transferred the company, was passed and the meeting had man, but took to journalism in
Owing to the strike the bumber they took over the business and been losed. Debtor was paying. 1907. He contributed to most ofters considered in a spirit of loyal many.
on collaboration the different qUES- publications, instalments out of his salary. the left you the liabilities?
topies ranging from the art of tions interesting Morocco, Egypt, of boys was considerably re- Witness: Yes.
The order was made.
the troubadors to the financing of Syrin, Mosul and in what mea-duced after the mid-summer vaca railways. He was specially insures they could follow the Italian tion, when there were only 116 terested in feminism, marriage claims touching the territories present on the re-opening day, He was himself bordering on Abyssinia and the but the attendance improved, and at the end of the term: there were married three times. During the Red Sea.-Indopacifi.
155 boys. war he served in the French Army as Section Officer In the Ministry of Munitions. He wrote many
in "Who's books, chiefly novels. Who" his recreation is given na self-advertisement.
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In answer to further questions, ; witness said he was married and had four children. His present. monthly expenses were $300 and it was his proposal to pay $100 In month for the benefit of eredi |
tors, also any commission.
The Official Receiver: Which up to the present has amounted to nothing.
Witness added that there was: bookdebt of $2,000 which was in Gispute. He could produce one his earlier partners to speak as to this.
U. S. NAVY ESTIMATES.
THREE AIRSHIPS TO BE BUILT.
Base on the Pacific Coast,
and divorce.
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
AN APPEAL TO PEKING.
1.
Was
The annual examination held on the 1st of December and every the following days, and pupil was examined. The boys of all claseca obtained very good marks. No boys "falted in the upper classes.
With a view to making the boys strong and healthy much attention was paid to sports, and football.
with
:
Washington, Jan. 30.
Moscow, Jan. 30. Admiral Moffett has discussed
The Chinese Chargé d'Affaires with, the llouse of Representatives
delivered a 'Note to M. Chicherin, Naval Committee the Navy's plan
the Commissar for Foreign Af for expending fourteen million
fairs, stating that the latter's dollars in the next five years on a
telegram was twice telegraphe and other games were played. Geneva, Jan. 31.
arranged programme including the con-
to Marshal Chang Tso-lin urging Matches were The American Secretary of struction of two dirigibles, of sis The Official Receiver informed million cubic feet capacity, cost-State, Mr. Kellogg, "has formally the necessity of settling the dis- cther schools.
the President pute.. England may soon be called a his Lordship that the first meeting four million dollars each, the communiented, to
M. Chichern replied hoping the "milk-fod" nation. Officialng of creditors had been held and construction of a trading dirigible.and Council of the League of agricultural statistics published a proposal for composition wald to cost me and a half million, Nations, America's acceptance of Chinese Government would take and the establishment of an air- the invitation to participate in the steps definitely to settle this re- show an increase in the milk come before his Lordship.
ship base on the Pacific Coast; to work of the committee which is grettable incident" and preclude consumption in England und Walos during the last year of The public examination was cost, four and a half million-to prepare for the Disarmament any possibility of Its recurrence. were carefully given and ex-
Renter's American Service. more than 10,000,000 gallons.
then closed.
Conference-Reuter.
Reuter.
The aim of the school,
Was ta. train the boys to a proper, standard in Chinese literature; and to prepare them for a high standard, so that Chinese lessons
cellent results were obtained.
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