I
CEMENT COMPANY
MEETING.
APPROVAL OF NEW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
RE-USE OF WINE LABELS.
FINE OF $150 ON MANAGER OF DISTILLERY.
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REMOVAL OF 80 JARS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930.
REBELS GIVE UP KWEILIN.
BAD SARDINES IN DISPUTE OVER A
KOWLOON.
LOAN.
CANTON TROOPS TAKE OVER POLICE COURT SEQUEL TO | FIFTY THOUSAND ACTION IN
THE CITY.
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NANNING SEIGE,
the
Canton, Aug. 5. The 2nd Air Squadron, which is stationed at Wuchow, for the purpose of carrying out operations against
Kwangsi-Ironside rebols, was recently obliged to return to Canton owing to the by the West River which overflow ed its banks. The floods having subsided, the squadron has now returned to Wuchow.
THE SEIZURES..
COUNTRY CAT FOOD,
SUPREME COURT.
OUT OF AN ESTATE.
the
this morning
As reported at the time, a large An action concerning a loan of have been quantity of sardines which were $50,000, alleged to pronounced to be unwholesome was repaid, was commenced in seized in different shops in the Supreme Court Yaumati district during the middle before the Chief Justice (Sir of last month and at the Kowloon Joseph Kemp). Plaintiffs are Un Magistracy this morning five sum- Ting-tsun, Un Ting-kwong and monses were mentioned before Mr. Un Chung-ahi, executors of the Whyte Smith in connexion with the will of Un Hoi-U, deceased, who are living at No... 59, Bonham seizures.
Defendanta Strand.
сте Lau Lam-shi, No. 7, Wyndham Street, and Lau Yick-cheuk, No. 58, Kennedy Road,
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by
RESOLUTION PASSED.
Chiu Kwong-sang, manager of Confirmation of the special re- solution passed at an extraordinary a distillery at 68, Tung Hing vil- general meeting of the Company age, Kowloon City, was summon- for the purposa of adopting new ed before Mr, Whyte Smith at the Articles of Association was express- Kowloon Magistracy this morning ed at a meeting of the Green Is by Mr. H. A. Taylor and accused land Cement Co., Ltd., held in Ex-of having allowed forty jars of change Building this morning, when spirits to leave his distillery with-flooding of the Wuchow aerodrome Mr. J. Scott. Harston presided. The out & pass. Chairman was supported by Sir Ro Mr. F. H. Kwok appeared for bert llo Tong, Messra. C. A. de the defendant and entered a plea
Mr. L. R. Andrews, Assistant Roza, Li Tse-fong, C. F. Mendham.
Crown Solicitor, appeared before (Directors), Allan Keith (Secret-of guilty to a technical offence.
Ife said the distillery had certain News reported by the Military his Worship and accused Ho, Leung ary), R. A. Wadeson (solicitor),
confirms lars of wine on their premises and Headquarters
the and Ho Sit of 32, Shantung Street Mr. M. Figueiredo and Mr. F. Ethey had been delivered to a cer- evacuation of Kweilin in the of having 12 tins of the sardines Silva, (shareholders).
In addressing the meeting, the tain old customer of the firm. The northern part of the Province by in their possession while. Ho Sit Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, of Messrs. usual counterfoil had not been is- the Ironsides and the entry into was also accused of having been Wilkinson and Grist, is for plain- Chairman said:-Gentlemen, The
ducted by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., object for which this meeting has sued. He understood, however, the city of three Brigades under in possession of 1,180 tins of the tiffs, and the defence is being con- been called is, as indicated in the that the defendant was out at the Colonel Ip Shiu, Colonel Wong unwholesome food."
Ho Leung intimated that the tins together with Mr. F. C. Jenkin, notice which the Secretary has just time and his fokis had sent the Yin-wah and Colonel Wong Chap-
had been entrusted to him by Ho instructed by Mr. A. el Arculli.
Plaintiffs state that in August, In the South it is claimed that Sit. The fish were not intended 1914, they were lent the sum of read, for the purpose of receiving liquor to avoid delay in delivery, man. a report of the proceedings at the intending to issue the pass immo- extraordinary general meeting held diately. He thought a caution the 8th Route Army is actually for human consumption but were to $60,000 out of the estate of Lau beseiging Nanning, which is ex have been sent back to the country Ping, the administrators then on the 16th ultime and of confirm would meet the case.
Mr. Taylor stated that on July pected to fall at any moment. for cats. The other defendant ad- being Lau Yu-fong, and Lau Yick- ing, if thought fit, as a special re-
The rebel troops at Nanning are mitted possession, but claimed that cheuk. 'On December 20, 1927, solation the resolution which was 21 Mr. N. J. Young passed 80 jars reported to be few in number; when he had tried to dispose of the Lau Yu-fong died and his affairs passed as an extraordinary resolu- of wine at the distillery and in the they are under the command of tins they had been rejected, first were administered by Lau. Lam-
when he (Mr. Taylor) General Wai Yung-chung and by the Sanitary garbage cart and shi, tion at such meeting. That resolu- evening
his concubine, who also tion, as you will remember, con- himself paid a visit to the pre- General Lu Fu-hsiang.
then by the boats.
administered the estate of Lau cerned the approval of the draft mises he found no traces of the
Admiral Chan Chak, Comman- Two summonses against Li Siu-Ping deceased. On December 16, new Articles of Association of the jars. A pass had been made out
for 40 of the jars, but it was found dor-in-Chief of the 4th Navali fal and Li. Woo of 58, Reclamation 1927, plaintiffs state, they repaid. Company.
Squadron (Kwangtung Provincial Street were also mentioned, It be the loan of $50,000 for which they You will also remember that at that the balance had been sent Fleet) left Canton to-day on boarding stated that the first defendast gave an undivided half share in the above-mentioned meeting I out to wine, shops without a pass. shortly explained to you why your The duty had not been paid but his flagship, the gunboat Chung had gone to the country. The sec- Inland Lot No. 1324 as security. Directors thought it essential to would have been paid in the usual Shan, to make a tour of inspection ond defendant stated that he was alter the Articles of Association, course on the following Wednes- throughout the southern part of the accountant of the firm and the
Kwangtung. He will be absent 3,200 tins of sardines which were entitled to the property free and I do not consider it necessary day.
about three weeks and will visit the subject of the summons had of all encumbrances created to deal further therewith except to
Hainan Island, Lui Chow, Kochow been given to him for safe keeping by the debt, or an order add that at the meeting in ques-
and Yum-lin-Our Own Corres- by a friend who had asked him to tion, the draft now Articles of Asso-
pondent.
find a place to store the sardines, that defendants execute a certi 'ciaion were unanimously approved,
He had accordingly rented 16, Reficate of satisfaction or other and that the resolution recording
clamation Street where the fish had proper form of re-assignment or such upproval was unanimously passed as an extraordinary resolu
been kept in preparation for de- release, or that a vesting order be livery to the country after the tins made, and further, that defendants must deliver up to plaintiffs all had been cleaned.
documents of title relating to the property.
tion.
THE MONTMARTRE FOLLIES.
SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY.
His Worship (to Mr. Andrewes): I think you regard it as a serious case. Have you considered whe ther they should not be on bail?
Mr. Andrews: I have, with the Head of the Sanitary Department,
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Plaintiffs are ♫ declaration that they are
convened for the purpose of en-of the wine shop had since ab-pany of Russian singers and but I don't think that it is neces- tion
There was no question of avoiding the revenue on the wine, but the point was that the labels could be re-used if no paas were issued with jars which were sent out of distilleries. That day there was a certain quantity of wine which could have been put into Under the Hongkong Companies the jars again if they were taken Ordinance, however, it is necessary back to the distillery. He thought that the approval of the new Arthe defence that the order came ticles of Association shall be signisuddenly was rather thin, as all fied by special resolution, and con- the fokis knew they had to stand sequently this meeting has been by the regulations. The master abling the extraordinary resolution above referred to, to be confirmed as a special resolution, and I ac- cordingly beg to propose the con- firmation as a special resolution of the said extraordinary resolution, Mr. Taylor:--Yes, that's the namely: "That the new Articles suggestion and that is why the already approved by this meeting master of this other shop has and for the purpose of identifica- cleared out. tion subscribed by the Chairman thereof be approved and adopted as the Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Ar- ticles thereof." I shall be glad if some shareholder will kindly sec- ond that.
Mr. M.A. Figeuirado seconded the resolution, which was carried with- out dissent, this concluding the business.
ECHO OF SHIPPING MISHAP.
CREW BROUGHT HERE FROM
THE PHILIPPINES.
sconded.
His Worship:-Do you suggest that it was done for the purpose of re-using the labels?
A fine of $150 was imposed.
SEQUEL TO LAUNCH ·
COLLISION.
COXSWAIN ON CHARGE OF
MANSLAUGHTER.
When mention was again made before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning of the case of To So-tai, coxswain of the Cheung Chau ferry, Sun Tai, who is charged with manslaughter following a collision with a junk and the subsequent drowning of a child, Mr. Hin-shing Lo intimated that he had been retained by the defence and asked for a date for Arriving here yesterday morn-the hearing to be fixed. ing, Capt. S. Miyairi, master of Mr. Lo remarked that he under- the as. Atago Maru, reported to stood certain circumstances might the Harbour Office that ahe justify the release of his client. brought in 12 Japanese from In reply to his Worship Mr. Lo Iloilo, from which she sailed for remarked that he did not think his this port on August 1.
These 12 men. it is believed, Yau-tsun, his employer, might comprised
the
client was on bail. Perhaps Mr. Li
The Montmartre Follies, a com-
dancers, are due to open a short season at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday. M. Bakaleinikoff, musical director of the Queen's Theatre orchestra, organised the company on a recent visit to Shanghai and will open at the the season
Queen's on Sunday night, the com- pany appearing at the four daily performances.
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sary.
Mr. Andrewes: No.
The summonses were
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A satement of defence, fled by first defendant, states that she has: no direct knowledge of, and had been refused any proper informa- about, the money being advanced, or that it came from the His Worship: You are not ask-estate of Lau Ping, deceased, or ing for bail?
that it was repaid. Prior to the proceedings, ahe asked, as condition precedent to her releas- ing the property, that she should be furnished with proper acesints concerning plaintiffs' allegations with regard to the money, but, MAN WHO WED HIS defendant declares, she has not been furnished with them. First defendant further 99serts that the documents of title to the property have never been in her possession.
all ad- journed for hearing on Thursday, August 14 at 2.15 p.m.
AUNT.
INDIAN CEREMONY, WHICH WAS NOT LEGAL.
Included in the company is the Olympic Trio comprising Vera: Volkova, George Goncharoff and Serge Toropoff which in its eccen- tric dances has made a name for
When the case opened this itself in several theatres' in the
morning, the second defendant North. Other members of the An interesting question of was absent and he was not repre- company are Vera Fynn (acroba-marriage laws was decided when sented. His Lordship gave leave tic dancer), Alla Nedler, a clasai- Lord Merrivale, in the Divorce to Mr. Sheldon to proceed against cal dancer who has performed at Court, heard the cross-petitions him ex-parte. several Shanghai theatres,, Nona | between Captain Daryl Robert Ganin, a singer of jazz and a ma- George Peal, of the Indian Army, dern dancer, Tasia Goldin, char- at present residing at Langley, asteristic dancer and Herta Zand, Bucks, and his alleged wife, Delp dramatic soprano who has appear hine Monica (formerly Peal); of ed in grand opera in several Rus-St. John's-road, Harrow-on-the-
Hill sian theatres.
The Follies will appear at the Queen's in an act between pic- tures.
NO WARNINGS AT. KAI TAK.
AUTHORITIES.
Mrs. Peal sought a decree of resiltution of conjugal rights on the ground of desertion. Captain Peal petitioned for a decree of nullity of marriage on the ground that the marriage came within the prohibited degree, she being his
The case is proceeding..
NO SACRISTY FOR
THE ABBEY.
PLAN WHICH DONOR DECLINED TO ACCEPT.
The scheme for the provision of a Sacristy for Westminster Ab bey, which has aroused consider able controversy since it was first The couple went through a put before the public two years ceremony of marriage in India in age, has been abandoned,
aunt.
Both were Roman Catholics, and a special dispensation, it W63 alleged, was obtained with regard to the marriage.
the come forward but the man himself MAGISTRATES HINT TO THE 1921. There was one child. crew of Japanese steamer kinshu Maru, could not afford the sum.
Inspector Ogg informed his Wor which met with a mishap on her way from Takao to Borneo. They ship that he had consulted the Pub- were handed over to the master oflic Prosecutor and the Crown were the Atago Maru by the authorities asking for another week's remand
to consider the case.
at Iloilo, to be taken back to Japan, Answering his Worship, Air. Lo These were all the details avail-said that he had no objections but able at the Harbout Office and he hoped that this time next week even the Japanese Consulate could his client would be released. give no further information about the matter, An official said no report had been made to the Con- sulate by the 12 members of the crew of the Kinsho; they only knew that the 12 men were being taken back to Japan,
VOLUNTEER CONCERT
ON FRIDAY.
ARRANGED.
SOLICITOR'S CHEQUE FOR BAIL.
Five villagers of Kowloon City appeared before Br. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of trespassing on the Kai Tak Aerodrome.
Sub InspectorA. H. Elston point ted out the attendant dangers of people trespassing on the acrdrome and intimated that the arrests were made in consequence of complaints received from the authorities. The women were found drying grass on the aerodrome grounds. Warn- inga had been previously issued to the villagers, but it could not be said whether the defendants had been personally warned.
Law of Henry VIII Lord Merrivale asked if it was agreed that the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church governed the question.
.
The reason for this step is given in the following official statement: "The Dean and Chapter of West- minster have for some months, with the assistance of their ar- chitect, been trying to make an effective scheme out of the plan recommended by the Advisory Committee presided over by Lord
"This site was one of the first
The Judge said it was agreed "The project has, however, now. that husband and wife came with been brought to an end because in the prohibitive degree of mar- the donor declines altogether, not riage according to English law without resson, to accept this plan laid down under the Act passed in place of the complete scheme
Davidson for a small Sacristy on Mr. Cotes-Preedy contended it the South side of the Abbey, near did not.
Poets Corner door. Serjeant Sullivan (for the wife): Not the canon law 08 considered, not only by the pre- such, but so far as the canon law sent Dean but by his predecessor. is the governing law of marriage It is not feasible to make an in India it becomes Indian law, adequate Sacristy in this position, and the parties being domiciled but the Dean and Chapter felt MONEY DEPOSITED BY
in India at the time of the that as it had been deliberately CLIENT IN OFFICE.
marriage the question of the chosen by so weighty a committee, His Worship, on being told that validity of the marriage has to be it was their duty to go into the An application for bail was made by Mr. M. K. Lo before Mr. there were no notices informing the determined according to the rules whole question once again and see
what could be done." Whyte Smith at the Kowloon public that the Aerodrome was prc. of domicile, AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME Magistracy this morning in a case perty on which trespassers would in which a Chinese passenger of be prosecuted, intimated that the the President Jefferson, which authorities, if they were going to arrived in port on Friday last was bring prosecutions, should warn the The public is reminded of the arrested for being in possession of public by posting notices around the promenade concert which is to an
automatic pistol, a Lugar Aerodrome. take place the Volunteer pistol and
a quantity of ammuni Parade Ground on Friday at 9.30tion.
Mr. Lo said the police had His Excellency the Governor, gone thoroughly into the case and who is Honorary Colonel of the they had no objection to bail. Corps, will be dining with the They suggested that the sum In our report of the case in officers that night, and during din-should be $5,000. Mr. Lo asked which Mr. A. Michel, of the ner. the Volunteer Band will play his Worship to fix bail at that eum Peninsula Hotel, was summoned
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, and will also bear the brunt of the and also requested his Worship to yesterday 'for' unnecessarily
speaking at the Practical Pay subsequent programme.
accept his (Mr. Lo's) cheque for sounding the horn of his motor
Ten minutes after his admission chology Club Convention at Leices The Band, whose members are the money. He explained that the car in Caine Road, it was inadvert very keen, has greatly improved of defendant had deposited the money ently stated that the summons was to the Government Civil Hospital ter declared that nothing annoyed late, and the object of the concert at his office but, not wishing to taken out Mrs. Scott, wife of a Chinese lad, Kwon Hoi, aged him more than criticism of girl In point nine, of No. 1 Kan Yu-fong, sucpullon riders. They took certain is to secure adequate Band funds. run the risk of being robbed, he Mr. W. R. Scott, A.S.P. Tickets will be $1 each.
had not taken it with him to Court. of fact, the summons was issued cumbed to injuries received as risks, but they were driven out into A most attractive programmé
His Worship granted the appli- by Mr. Scott in the ordinary result of a fall from the roof of the the country, which was better than has been arranged, of which we cation, the Police raising no course of duty, and his wife was premises while dying a paper kite, sitting in cinemas holding young
men's hands and eating chocolates. hope to give details to-morrow. objections.
in no way associated with the case. yesterday afternoon.
p.m.
on
The defendants were all caution- ed while a sixth who failed to ap pear had her bail of $3 estreated..
was
no
re-
in the reign of Henry VIII. There for, which the generous gift was.
The Abbey, trace in the
Indian originally offered. Statutes of any intention to relax therefore, is left not only without the marriage law as relating to the accommodation that it British subjects living in Indio, quiries, but without the necessary. and the Court decreed that this means to provide it.” marridge ceremony was null and vald.
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