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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE HONGKONG BANK.
A PROFIT OF $16,841,492 LAST YEAR,
The net profits for the year, to- gether with $3,411,480.90, Halance brought forward from last ne- epunt, after paying all charges, deducting interest paid and due, and making provision for bad and doubtful accounts and, contingen- cies, mount, to $10,841,492.51.
The Directors recommend writ ing of Bank Account the sum of $750,000.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929.
NOVEL SUMMONSES.
| RESTAURANT KEEPERS BEING CLOSELY WATCHED.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL TYR- WHITT'S BROTHER.
London, Jan, 17. Mr. Beauchamp Edward Tyr- whitt, a well-known solicitor, of Oxford, and brother of Vico- Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. died yesterday.
- Colonel Malby E. Crofton.
Colonel Malby Edward Crofton, renew whose death at Bath at the age of
The court of Directora of the
On the eve of Chinese Now Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Year, the Treasury has taken Corporation in their hundred and steps to ensure that licence fees thirteenth report, to be presented due to the Government by restaur- to the annual meeting of share-ant keepers are duly paid this holders on Saturday, February year, and no fewer than twenty- 23, state:
seven firms were suntmoned yes- terday afternoon before Major C.) Willson for failing to their food and wine licences. 82 yours is announced, was ad- The prosecution' was in thejutant of the 2nd Battalion of the handa of Detective Sergeant Fit Royal Lancaster Regiment in the ches, who explained that the li-Zulu Campaign of 1879, and com- cences, in each case, expired on manded the battalion in the South December 31 last, and that the African War in 1899-1900, buing Treasury insisted that unless the present at the battles of Spion firms carrying on business ng res-Kop, Vaal Krata, and Tugela taurants and eating houses paid Heights, and at the Relief of After making this transfer, de- their fees by to-day, the last day Ladysmith. He was wounded in ducting the Interim Dividend of of the present Chinese year,
South Africa. £3 per share, paid on 7th August they will have to close down. In last, viz.:-$480,000 @ 2/-%-$4 former years, it was explained, 726,163.86, and remumeration to many firms carried on until the Directors, there remains for ap- Chinese New Year, and then, I propriation $11.815,338.68, out of the business prospects were not which the Directors recommend bright, closed down, and thus the payment of a Final Dividend evaded taxation for two months. of per Share, viz., £480,000 and To put a stop to this practice, the a Bonus of £2 per Share, t, Treasury instructed Sergeant Fit- £320,000 amounting in all to £800,ches to apply to his Worship, in
Colonel Prothero, who was 000 which, at 2/-4, the rate of each case, to make an order that educated at Westminster and the the day, will absorb $7,917,525.77. the fees due be immediately paid, Royal Military College, served in Tic Balance $3,397,812.89 to be or else the firm in question bethe South African and the Euro- carried to New Profit and Loss Ac-prohibited from doing any further Peah wars. In the Great War he
count.
The Sterling equivalents of the Assels and Liabilities are shown ul 2/-4, the rate ruling on the last day of the year.
Branches' and Agencies. A Sub-Agency of the Bank was opened at Kowloon on 2nd Jan- unry, 1929.
Directors.
business.
Proof of Sincerity.
Lt. Col. Archer G. Prothero. The death has taken place in Switzerland of Lieut.-Colonel Ar cher George Prothero, late of the Welch Regiment, of Abbeydore, Pontrilas,, Herefordshire, a bro ther-in-law of Colonel Sir Joseph Bradney, of Talycoed Court, Mon- mouth.
was taken prisoner on the Western Front, and confined to German prisons for three years. For a time he was in command of the 2nd Battalion Welch Regiment on active service.
An old man, representing a firm in Des Voeux Road West, having pleaded guilty to carrying ou
Dame Sophia Wintz. business without either a restaur- ant or a wino licence from the whose death occurred at Devon- Dame Sophia Gertrudo Wintz, S.C.A., explained to his Worshipport yesterday, at the age of 81, Mr. Nellage S. Brown has been that, due to the grounding of the was well known not only at Ports. alerted Chairman for the years. Sanning in the West River mouth and Devonport, but among 1929, and Mr. W. H. Bell has been recently his funds were delayed, sailors all over the world. With. elected Deputy Chairmanë
However, the steamer had since the late Dame Agues Weston she Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Mr. A. been refloated, and he had receiv-had worked for fifty-years on MacGowan and Mr. P. W. Masseyed his. remittance and was in a their behalf. The former died at resignal their seats on leaving the position to pay for his licence Devonport in 1018, and since that Colony and Mr. J. A. Plummer. Tenewal. He had a thousand dol-time Dame Sophia had directed Mr. B. D. F. Reith and Mr. R. Lan-lare on him and would like to pay the work of the Royn) Sailors' der Lewis were invited to join the immediately ag he wanted his Board,
Worship to be convinced of the sincerity of his tale.
These appointments require con- Armation at this Mecting.
MAH. P. White, Mr. T. G. Weall and Mr. W. H. Bell retire in rotation, but being eligible for re- election, offer themselves, accord- ingly.
Auditors.
The Accounts have been audited by Mr. C. Bernard. Brown, A.C.A. and Mr. John Fleming, CA, whe offer themselves for re-election.
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THE LOCAL PROGRAMME
FOR TO-DAY.
The following programmo will be broadcast to-day from the Govern ment Broadcasting Station Z. B. W.
on 360 metres,
1,48 p.m. Weather Report, 5.30 p.in. Demonstration gramme.
7.48 pm. Evening Weather
port.
#p.m. Evening Programme lumbia Records). "Praeludium,"
"Scottish Funtansia,"
Pro
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His Worship ordered the defen- dant to pay il fine of $5 on each count, and informed the defen- dant that if he hnd the money it must be paid at once at the Trea-
Bury,
Another man explained that al- though he answered the summon, he was not the licensee, who was away in the country because of
ness. He added that business during the year had been duli and it was difficult to raise the $1,000 required, but he was now able to pay and naked his Worship to treat him generously. His Wor- ship imposed fines of £5 on ench charge and made a similar order.
The Fee Ralsed. ·
Rests, of which she was trustee and hon, director, while Lieut. Colonel C. H. Weston, nephew of the late Dame Agnes Weston, Ja hon. financial secretary.
Neither Dame Agnes Weston nor Dame Sophia Wintz accepted a salary for her work, and each contributed largely to the funds of the institution every year.
ROBBERS FOILED.
SCARED AFTER ENTERING
FURNITURE SHOP.
Two armed robbers were foiled. lust, night in an attempt which they made on a furniture shop at No. 107, Hollywood Rond.
The shop had closed for the day, Yet another man told his Wor their way in through the door, when at 10 p.m., two men forced ship that he received a notice which was closed but not barred. from the Treasury that his Brence A servant-girl, 18 years of age, fee had been doubled. This de-half-dazed with sleep, involuntari- Ro-fendant claimed that his fee wany screamed, whereupon one of the
formerly $500, a sum which he men (Co-was quite able to pay, but when that amount was raised to $1,000 the matter was quite different. He had the greatest difficulty in raising the remaining $500 and The Police, including a number had only just completed his task. of European officers, arrived at the His Worship dealt with this de-shop shortly afterwards and start- fondant in exactly the same man- ed investigations.
The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. "When The Sergeant-Major's On
Parade."
"The Company Sergeant-Major,"
Baritone, Harold Williams, "Hark, Hark, The Lark," "Quartet in B
The
"Strike The Art Quartel.
"(a) The Sen Hath Ite Pearls, (1) A Secret,"
The Shelfield Choir.
"La Paloma," "O Sole Mio,"
The J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. "Home To Our Mountaine," "Miserere,"
Duet, Gertrude Johnson and William Hesaltine. be thinking of you,"
ner as he dealt with the others.
striking the girl's left wrist and fired a revolver, the bullet
causing a flesh wound.
The robbers then escaped into the street.
The injured girl was sent to the Government Civil Hospital.
In several cases, the bad state of business was given as the reason for the delay in renewing licences. A restaurant keeper at added that if the defendant want- Causeway Bay said that he could ed extenuation he could see the not raine the $600 required and officials at the Treasury. asked to be treated with indul- Another man, who did not pay. gence. His Worship fined him S6 in time, said that the business on each charge and told him he was a sinking concern and that must close down if he could not the proprietor had gone to the pay by to-day. The Treasury was country to raise funds by mort-
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2nd Chairs
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$4.00
$8.00
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Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Half Prices to Second.
Chairs and Stalls only.
Booking and plan at Moutrie's.
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"The Miser,"
Talking by Billy Bennett.keepers to "play fast and loose" for a week within which to pay, "This Year Of Grace." Selection, with licence fees.
but, ns in other cases, this exten-
The London Pavilion Orchestra. 9pm. Dange,music relayed from the roof garden of the Hongkong Hotel.
10 p.m. News. Bulletin. 10.10 pan. Dance Music from the
Hongkong Hutel.
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