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INTIMATIONS

WANTED.

TUROPEAN LADY, resident or daily, to look after 9 children of

7 and 8 years

Apply

Man GALE

100 The Peak.

Hongkong Mar. 28:1918

259

WAR CHARITIES COMMITTEE.

MEETING of the War Charities General Committee, which the

British Community is invited to attend,

will be bold at 5.30 pm on MONDAY,

INTIMATIONS

BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP

•

OF THE COLONY.

To be played at the VICTORIA RECREATION

CLUB

TO-DAY (Saturday), 8th To begin Sharp at 8pm.*** Between GR. & R. LORD

and SOT. FITT 1,000 p

Admission

Members:

Soldiers & Ballers

8th April 1918, in the Uhamber of Reserved Seats.

$2.00

1,00

.50 cts.

$3.00

Commerce Room, City Hall. His | Members, Holdiers & Ballors $9.00 Excellency the Governor will preside..

BUSINESS

1. To receive the report of the

Executive Committee.

3. To add further members to the

General Committee

9. To invite and disques suggestions. The election of sa Executive Com ittee by the General Committee will

take place after the meeting.

E. R. HALLIFAX,

Hon. Secretary,

War Charities Committee

Hongkong, April 3, 1918.

Booking at:

VICTORIA RECREATION

CLUB.

ST. JOHN'S

304.

THE CHINA MAIL

WILLS

"CAPSTAN

NAVY CUT"

CIGARETTES.

CATHEDRAL.

Fresh Stocks of

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD. ORGAN RECITAL.

APPLICATION has been made to the

A Directors of this Cempany to issue to WALTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM

f Hongkong (deceased) Duplicate MONDAY, 6 p.m.

Certificate of Sixty Shares in the Com-

pany or other Certificate or Certificates

in lies thereof upon the statement that the Original Certificate No. 1909 for shares numbered 28775/28834 and dated 11th January, 1909, has been LOST.or DESTROYED. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it within 30 days from the date hereof no claims or repre sentation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Directors they will proceed to deal with such application for a Certificate.

M. MANUX,

Secretary,

Dated 4th day of April, 1918.

NOTICE

VOCALIST:

MRS. MURIEL.

MARATHON RACE.

[299

PEN to all SERVICES, UNIVER-

[OPERTIES, COLLEGES, SCHOOLS

TTAVING RESUMED charge of my

and the PUBLIC generally.

STATUE-SQUARE' (Law Courts)

to SHAUKIWAN and BACK. Distance about 10 miles.

ja

Starting at 3 p.m.

HBusiness carried on under the SATURDAY, April 13th, 1918 Style of Messrs. S. C. ISMAIL & CO., 1. the Undersigned, hereby give notice that from his date all Cheques on Bankers, Contracts and other matters in connection with the Business of the Firm will be SIGNED by me

S. C. ISMAIL Hongkong, April 2, 1018.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

I

HAVE This Day RESUMED Busi- ness as a SOLICITOR and NOTARY PUBLIC under my former Firm Name of GOLDRING AND PHILIPS at NAT Queen's Road Central (top floor)

PHILIP, W. GULDRING. Hongkong April 2, 1818.

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WHITE

dc.,

Prizes according to number of Entries. Conditions: Go as you please. No

stopping, Minimam clothing, singlet and aborts. Katrance fee One Dollar, to be sent with

name and rant (if any) to

Staff Inspector J. C. WILDIN, Hongkong Police Reserve Headquarters, Princes Buildings, Ice House Striet, Entries close on Saturday, April 8th.

Hongkong, March 23, 1918.

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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONGKONG,

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St. George's Day, April 23rd, 1918.

THEATRE ROYAL "THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE”

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AUCTION OF DRESS CIRCLE

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"CAPSTAN NAVY CUT" CIGARETTES

HAVE ARRIVED IN THE COLONY AND

ARE NOW ON SALE AT ALL TOBACCONISTS.

THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., LTD.

THE RECENT FRAUDS IN blank transler, The stockbroker in

SHANGHAI,

stead deposited them with a bank as security for an advance. It was said that there would be an estoppel in auch circumstances. But Lord Watson, said "the true owner of such documenta of JUDGMENT IN OLD DOCK SHARE title is not held to have parted with his

CASEJ

Mr. White Cooper also asked if him Lordship would make in order that the existing bare certificates, which were in tho possession of a Chinese, bazi be returned to Mr. Thoresen..

His Lordslip-It is really difficult for me to make an order.

Mr. White-Cooper-I think your Lordi. ship can make an order against Mr. Anderson and he can see it carried out.

His Lordship-If he will submit to an order I would be prepared to make it..

After further discussion his Lordship said he would make an order for the certificates to be returned to the com

With

interest except where he intended tö have passed such interest; or, where by some act of omission he has stopped himself from saying he did not intend to Judgment was delivered in . Mes it The transferer must, therefore, Supreme Court at Shanghai in the case have been taken to have intended to arising out of stolen Dock Company pass his interest or, to have been estop ped by some But ommission denying shares of stolen

his intention There would have evid regard to coats, his Lordship said The applicant was Mr. Olof Thoresen, ently been in the suppoosd case an who, by his counsel, moral the Court intention to transfer, and, if it was it seemed to him that the applicant in to restore to him to the Register of men- intended that the right delegated to the this case should pay his own costs up to agent to transfer should be limited, the the time of his actually moving the bers of the Shanghai Dock and transforer would have been estopped Court; that he should also pay the com Engineering Co., Ltd., in respect of from denying such a limitation conveyed pany's couts up to that date; and from that time, that the costs of all the partien In that case and in the case of Fry . safe and sold.

Smellie it is clear that hat is first to be respondents. Hia Honour Judge Bir Havilland de regarded is the relatives between the Saumarez was on the bench; Mr.D transferer and the person with whom he McNeill appeared for Mr. Thoresen, Mr. dealt. In the present case the relation W. A.C. Flatt for the Dock Co., Mr. A. P. was that of mortgagor and mortgagee, P. White Cooper for Mr. L. Anderson and the transaction was ons of every day occurrence where securities Para pledged for an advance of follows that there was no intention of the applicant to pass his interest in the shares, and I cannot see that there was

certain ahares stolen from the Bank's privately.to bi broker) to this application should be paid by the

Hongkong Hotel, Tuesday, April 18th, and Mei Kee, Mr. E. W. Godfrey for Mr. B. O. Marshall, whilst Hr. G. E. Wright at: Noos.

watched the case on behalf of the Bong Long and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion

JEDOMETE

€5

By H. P. WATE, Esq. Englishmen requested to attend.

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His Lordship said :—

money.

DEARER PAPERS.

Within the past month nearly a dozen in the transaction with the bank any Irish newspapers have increased, their

omission which erould, as I * or

him from prices owing to shortage and increased. saying so The estoppel

act

knd

from a penny to twopence; the Cork Exsunner, Newry Reporter, Bray Herald, Mid Ulster Mail, Wicklow News Letter, and Northern Constitution from a penny

three halfpence.

This is a motion to rectify the register understand The Colonial Banic v. Cady, price of paper. These include the Ros of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering have arisen if the Hongkong Shang: common Herald and Leitrim Observer Company, Limited, by catering the hat Bank bad" perfected their security boure of the applicant thereon as the by filling in their own names and had owner of 226 shares standing at present them dealt with the pledged shares in the names of Mr. Acderson, M Mr. Further this appears to be the law Marshall and Mr. Mei Kes.

stated in the passage Ihave quoted from "The material circumstances are very Lindley on Companies.

There is no estoppel, and the applicant Mr. Teaor short. The applicant

Thoresen, was the owner of these 25 shares and he is entitled to have his une restored to Saturday, and, as beretafore, the Irish Dest

deposited them with the Hongkong and the register.

Irish Independent will be a penny in- stead of halfpenny mail. clays, but

Times is twopence on östurdays. All from a halfpenny to a penty some months ago. (Et.)

When You come Home... Tenor Shanghai Bank with a blank transfer Mr. McNeill asked what order his Dablia evening papere raised their prices

attached to them as a security for an Lordship proposed to make as regards aristing advance and for future advances. costs. He suggested, or aathority quot The Bank never filed in its name as ed, that the parties resisting the applic transferee. The documents were fraction should pay the costs.

Mr. Godfrey said the the question con delently

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the bank and the shares were sold to the costs was in his Lordship's thres gentlemen mentioned, who got and the position he would urge on them transferred into their names in the Lordship was that it had never been hooks of the company. Their answer to questioned that the repondents were Mr. Theresen's claim is that he is estop the innocent parchasers of the shares.. ped from saying that his the routed the shares by the fact that be executed s blank transfer of the shares to the bank and left it in ite ountrol. They rely on the cases of The Colonial Bank 3. Cady and Fry v. Smellie

The law as summarised in Lindley ca Companies (8th edition 661, is divided

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SINGON & CO.

pledges in the first cas" the quareholder has transferred his right to the documents, and although he remains the legal, owner of the shares, he is trustee of them for the bayer in the second case, the mortgagee disposed of the transfer and certificate whilst they are in the state in which he received Ahem from his mortgagor, the documents show that the mortgagee is disposing of what is not his own, and the purchaser from bim acquires no better title than the mortgagee himselt bad, unless he (FÁTABLISHED "A.D. 1880).

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