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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.
COMPANY CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE
REDUCTION
COLONIAL DISPENSARY
tion
PETITION
Punishment And Crime
(To The Editor.
does not interest them.
TROOPS RELIEVE
LEGATION
(Continued from Payo 1.)
fifty aeroplanos
Loneously, while circled overhead. entered the city-Renter
During the afternoon 25,000 troops
Seven
CAPITAL OCCUPIED
ILL-TREATMENT OF MUI-TSAI
WIDOW FACES TWO CHARGES
In a
Issued amount of $100,000 to $75,000. But the transaction really only Starting their march at noon, the At its inauguration in 1913 the remeant. parting with parental rights gistered authorised capital of the company was $50,000, made up of over the card for money, not selling
shares of $30 each. In 1930, int into slavery. anticipation of, an extension of the company's business, the authorised form of adaption is recognised by capital was increased to $150,000 by Chinese custom, by the law of this Legation without halting. They were s.C.A. office the girl appeared to be
Colony in the case of Chinese, and by the laws of England if the sanction of the Court is obtained.
Į apecin! resolution of the shore- holders, though only $100,000 was in fact issued. The depression, un
Just after fortunately, Intervened
·
A transaction of this kind in the.
It is a defence to the particular charge if the defendant proves thet the transaction was entered into In
steelded upon a policy
of caution offence.
cution rather than one of extension. Circum- therefore having changed, alances the company found itself in posses sion of an issued capital for an un- extended business three amount of what it used to be since Its inception.
AT ITALIAN LEGATION
Honglong Telograph) The reduction in the capital of Sir, I am sorry to trouble your
Addis Ababa, May 6. A sordid story was revealed In the Mesars. Colin Mackenzie & Co., Ltd., readers again with this question since
months after crossing the Central Police Court this morning proprietors of the Colonial Dispen-it would appear from the complete sary, from $100,000 to $75,000 was absence of comment that the subject Mareb River, Italy's legions completed when Kong Young, 68 years, widow, the occupation of Addis Ababa. appeared before Mr. S. F. Balfour, confirmed by Mr. Justice J. J.
Meeting the Invaders under a white charged with keeping an unregistered Hayden, Acting Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court this morning, follow-
But this may be accounted for. Ang fifteen miles away, I rode into mul-teal at 10 Wing Li Street, ing a petition made by the company, friend of mine remarked on my last the devastated city with the vanguard, ground floor, and illtreating the girl. in answer to the charges, defondant Appearing on behalf of the peti- letter that while he agreed that the which came not as conquerors bat as tloners, Mr. George She, instructed assault case was too leniently treat- deliverers of the beleaguered foreig-stated' the girl was not a mui-trai Advised of tho Legations' It was reported to the defendant that by Mr. H. K. Hung, said the appllen-ed, he did not think that the other nors.
was for an order confirming sentences were too severe for selling plight, Marshal Bloglio ordered his the girl had been fighting in the
troops to proceed to Addis Ababa na atreet, and she punished her. the reduellon of capital from the a baby.
quickly អភ possible. They did. previous fight the girl had been taken
to the police station. main force entered the city at 4 p.m.
Inspector JI. W. Fraser, of the and in an hour the occupation was Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, stated that on May 3 the girl, who lived complete.
The vanguard, mounted on twenty with defendant, reported at Central had been motorcycles, roared past the British Police Station that she
Kaulted
At the by the defendant. and followed by three baby tanke,
loaded within a very filthy condition later military trucks, white
Brulse marks were found on her the staff troops. Then came care, carrying Marshal Badoglio and left arm, leg and back. According to the girl's statement, she was Bila and since then the company hind So it is not in itself such a beinous his generals, with protecting cortica) Fanded by her mother to the defen-
of Carabinlers fanking parties; of Askaris. Infantrymen of the 62nd dant about ten years ago as security for sums of monoy, totalling $30, Regiment followed.
which the defendant had leaned to her mother. The girl had worked for the defendant, but her principal job was to collect vegetable leaves, sell
turn over them unl
the proceetis to the defendant
HIT WITH CANE kitchen when the defendant entered On May 3, the girl was in the Recently 300 shares were offered to the company to be surrendered at
and suddenly assaulted her by strik- Ing her with a case, The girl stated $10 ench and the directors, after due
that when she first went to the defen- consideration, decided to make this offer the basis of an arrangeinent to adopilun.Boys are not notd for ser- station and bazaar section. They dont she regarded herself
hoisted the tri-colour over the adopted daughter, but she now con- reduce the capital to the extent of vice nor for prostitution and this $25,000 by accepting these 100 ghates child was only 5 days old. The Imperial palace.
By dusk the troops commanded For a considerablé period, the giri and by rec
Recuring 200 more shares, reasonable explanation sems to be
every vantage point, every road and had wished to return to her mother also at Sif each, fram the general that the woman wanted a son,
trnil, and the city was very calm un- but was unable to to so as the lattear body of the shareholders,
Inspector Andrew said "The trans- der rigid military rule.-United Press. could not raise money to repay the On February 28, 1935, - extra-action was casual in the extreme and
loan to defendant. She had been ordinary general meeting was held could not in any sense be considered
afraid to report the matter. at which formal sanction and assent a proper adoption." By proper he
defendant hai A money and could was given for the reduction of the presumably means in accordance with
not raise bail. She was a widow capital to the extent of $25,000 by Chinese custom. I daresay it wasi
with two grown-up sous, and 26, the extinction of 500 shares nt $10 not, but if the offence was a matter
and lived in Wing Li Street which each. This, briefly, was the position of form that is to say if the defen-
was in a poor locality. of the abareholders, and the position dant Chan Kam really wanted to of the creditors was even more bring up the child as her own, but simple, because there was only one, would not, or could not go through namely the bankers of the company, the necessary formalities what is the the Chartered Bank of India. Aus- justiBeation of the sentences. Iralia and China. Formal assent was also given by this bank, so that the shareholders and the creditors hind approved of the reduellon.
Marshal Badoglia proceeded in
to the Italian Legation where he
his Reneral: headquarters,
times the good faith for the purpose of adoption imediately ablated
SHARES SURRENDERED
its name 14 days, hence.
KENT WINS MATCH GLAMORGAN
in accordance with Chinese custom.
It is true that the defendants in this case pleaded guilty, so the question of adoption did not nose, but does any one suppose that They knew their rights?
It seems kely that I was
Edgar DaviDSON.
Share Transactions
His Lordship "ave his confirmatina and directed that the petitioners be Sir-Through the medium of your offer to the given liberty to dispense with the paper I would like to words "And Reduced" attached to Committee of the Hongkong Stock Exchange and Shareholders' Associa. tion the following suggestions:
(1) That all shares
cash or for ing the day, whether transacted dur forward, deliveries, n
must be reported to the Secretary before closing of that day, to be published in the papers..
(2) Failure on the part of a broker 10 report his transactions made liable to a penally to be decided by the Committee in If the above forced it will un Valuable source of information to shareholders in gen- Later Kimpton earned the dis-eral. Shareholders in Manila
and thetion of being the first batsman other places are being served by daily of the season to compile two cen-publications in the papers and radio turtes in one inatch, thr Oxonian announcements as to the exact umount helping himself in another 100 in the of business transacted during the day, and the system in being strictly these and successfully enforced.
(Continued from Page 1)
wicket, aggregated 348, · Kimpton scoring 101 and Murray Wood 106
not out.
second innings.
Gloucester's responses scores were 215 and 300, a magni- fcent effort to win the game in the fourth innings only just failing Neale topped the individual batting honours with An innings of 194 -Reuter-
COURT COMMENDS
FOKI
THIEF SMARTLY
CAUGHT
en
Tho Decupation was orderly and there was no demonstration. It was demonstration of efficiency and few Ethiopians were
were visible. Belachments proceeded direct to the House and the railway
Customs
ent.
ITALY CLAIMS ALL ETHIOPIA
sidered she was a shui-tadi.
as af
The
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Inspector Fraser added that there Newspapers were forbidden to was a stocument regarding the loan publish the fuct earlier.
Officials explained that Sir and it was at present in the country; Sidney Barton, the British Minis. Defendant asked permission to send
Bon to the country for
of
the
ter at Addis Ababo, and "scooped" her Marshal Badogtlo In reporting document. the fall
The defendant was remanded for Ethtopinn Tho enital due to the existence of the $5 hours, bail being allowed in $50. stationary
ANOTHER CASE British radio facilities
Summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, there. The nessages by Italian field. wireless had to be relayed from Addis at the Central Magistracy this morn Ahaba to Dessive, to Asmara anding, for keeping an unregistered miltai, Sze To-tni, 48 years, married then to Rome-United Press,
woman, residing at No. 105 Queen's Road West, second flour, who was re- presented by Mr. D. L. Strellett, fendered a plea of not guilty.
Italian Entry
London, May 5. The Italian troops have entered Addis Alah News nt their entry was contained in a brief message to the Foreign Oilice from the British Minister, Sir Sidney Barton. Jarries, entering Addis
"A large force of Italian troops and,
Ababa, has been phasing the British Legation since pin.", his Hessage rend.-- Renter.'
Official Statement
Rome, May 5.
An official announcement of the alian troops entry of Addis Ababa
made by Signor Benito Mussolini In a broadcast message from his office in the Piazza Venezia at 7.45 p.m. to-night The street was thronged with a cheering crowd.
There are cases in which only a small number of shares are being transacted, due to forced liquidation,
"I announce to the Italius people and this has caused prices to do precinto considerably, thus affecting and the world that the war is finished. thousands of shareholders who would. "I announce to the Italian people have been rightly guided if the exact that peace has been reestablished. It number of shares transacted are bes not without emotion that after og published.
pronounce these great words," he said. In her thirty, cen- turies of history, Italy had lived many memorable hours, he said, and this was certainly the most solenn of them all-Reuter.
I am certain these suggestions would meet with opposition as naturally samo brokers would like to keep their business secret, and I would like to have some of your readers who are interested in this to offer a few
sug-
gestions. I am sure if this could be done more business and confidence in
At the Kowloon Magistracy thin the market should be the result, and morning, Mr. E.
Himsworth
com-everyone concerned benefited thereby.
SHAREHOLDER..
seven months
PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING SHAKES
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11.70 12.00 1.00 1,05 17 .50 70
mended, Bo Yun, 47, a foki employed nt the Jade Tree Store, 9 Salisbury Road, for causing the arrest of Chan Hing, 30, who pleaded guilty to steal to him, but seeing Chinese characters Benguet Con. ing a ladler from the store.
Antamoks for "Jade Tree Store" on it, the foki 1:0 Crown Sergeant A. F. Coclirane, mnde defendant accompany him to United Paracales proscouting, said the foki saw defen- the store, where it was discovered San Mauricios. dant enrrying the ladder in Canton that he had stolen it. Road on Tuesday afternoon and asked where ho had obtained it. Defendant Sentence of two months' imprison. Demonstrations declared that a friend had glyen it ment was imposed.
1. X. L.'s. Masbates
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Inspector H. W. Fraser, of the S.C.A. and the girl, Ah Nui, alias Wong Hg, had stated she had been presented in the country, whon she was nine years of to the mother- in-law of the defendint, and a sum had been well treated by defendant of money had been pald for her. She
and did 'not wish toʻreturn to her parents.
Hearing was fixed for 2.30 p.m. cs May 26.
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