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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928.

Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED

ADVERTISING

NOTICES.

NOTICE.

(RADUATES of the University

G of Hong Kong who are at pre-

|sont resident in the Colony and who wish to attend the Congrega- Twenty-five Words three insertion are requested to send their names and addresses to the Regis- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for trar as soon as practicable. three insertions,

WANTED.

WANTED.-English Woman seeks daily employment. Reliable child's

W. B. FINNIGAN,

Registrar. 19th December, 1928.

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nurse. Apply Box 674, c/o "China THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB Mail"

TO LET.

TO LET Offices to be let in

ANNUAL RACE MEETING.

25th, 26th, 27th February and 2nd March, 1929.

EN

Tueen rol Central. Apy to DRAFT PROGRAMME and B

E. D. SASSOON & Co., Ltd., and may be obtained at the Race French Building.

Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.

TO BE LET

HOUSE at Broadwood Road-Two bedrooms and bathrooms-Two 're- ception rooms-Garden and tennis court. Apply to Johnson, Stokes

Master, Prince's Building-

Hong Kong, 15th. Dec., 1923.

MISCELLANEOUS. A

FANLING HUNT.

LL HOUND FIXTURES are cancelled until further notico owing to an outbreak of distem- YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly per. and promptly

printed, "China The Meet on SUNDAY, 23rd in- Mail" Office, No. 3a, Wyndham St.,stant will be at the Hunters Arms nt 11 am. and will take the form Telephone Central 22.

of a "Cross-Country Scramble."

LAMMERT

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE CLYNO

TAXI

will get you home wherever stranded. 'Phone C. 6180. Day & Night Service.

PETITION TO GOVT. Transfer, Your Petitioners desire to refer to a 'statement contained (Continued from Page 2)·

In Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 27, page 245, which is quoted transfer specifying the secur in paragraph 21 (5) hereof, to the ities and executed by the effect that the transfer, in the registered holder, but in case of a purchase on a Stock Ex- blank as to the date and the change, contains the price payable "YELLOW-BANDED" name of the transferee, by the ultimate purchaser, and that Such a

transaction consti- this price, where the transaction tutes an equitable mort-, has, passed through intermediate gage,"

purchasers, may differ from that to "If the registered holder be received by the transferor:: That of securities gives a blunk statement quotes the Stamp Act, form of transfer, together, 1891, section 68 (4) as governing with the certificates for the the amount of Stamp Duty pay- | shares, to a creditor by way able in such cases, which sub-sec of security, he thereby on-tion is as follows: fers upon him authority to complete his security by fill- ing up the transfer and ob- taining registration."

"(4) Where a person having contracted for the purchase of any property, but not having ob-1 'tained # conveyance thereof, 1 contracts to sell the same ip any i

(Halsbury's Laws of Eng- land, Vol. 27, para 483 and other person, and the property 484, pp. 236 and 287). is in consequence' conveyed Im- (c) "Sometimes the articles re-medintely to the sub-purchaser, |

quire a transfer to be by the conveyance is to be charged deed; but this requisition with ad valorem duty in rešpact causes inconveniente and of the consideration moving from accurities nó benefit. Thus the sub-purchaser." where the transfer may bel 11. That the Bill Becks to pre- by instrument in writing as, vent any transaction or dealing above, the shareholder may in shares unless the same is fol- sign a blank transfer, and lowed by a formal registration hand it over to a purchaser or with the Company; in other words, mortgagee, with authority it seeks to abolish the universally to the holder of it for the recognised and long established time being to fill in the name practice "Blank Transfer."!. of a transferce and such a.

And

VAPEY

CURES

COLDS BANISHES HEADACHES

Prevents CHILLS

AND

INFLUENZA

.` ·Price :

$1.00 Per Bottle.

To be obtained from 'all Drug Stores.

transfer when filled up can bet 12. That upon the receipt of sent in for registration, and an application for transfer, the re- no objection can be raised gistering Company has certain by the company to ila valid-duties to perform in ascertaining ity" (Authorities quoted). that the transfer is valid. "But where a deed is require that "in order to ascertain whether ed, this convenient plan is transfer is valid, and as to whe not properly available; for ather, when there is a discretion to deed executed in blank is in- refuse registration, the transferes operative as a legal trans-ought to be registered, the direc- fer" (Authorities quoted).tors must have a reasonable time "Nevertheless, such are the to consider the matter. Usually of business, the directors notify to the register- that even where a deed is re-ed holder that a fransfer has been quired blank transfers are lodged for registration. If the re- frequently, resorted to, in the gistered holder does not reply to expectation that the com-such a notification and a forged pany will not notice or take transfer is registered, he is not advantage of the irregular- estopped from having' the register ity. It seems, however, de rectified by substituting his name "CHINA” sirable to make the articles for that of the transferee." accord with the general practice."

exigencies. BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions--

THE Undersigned have received

Auction

ON

SATURDAY, 22nd December, 1928, commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Room,"

Duddell Street.

(for account of the concerned)

1 Case Fancy Worsteds

2 Cages Wool GabardinesTM

1 Case Wool Herringbone

& Cases Wool Coatings

1 Case Herringbone Coatings

2 Cases Saroons

2 Bales Old Newspapers.

2 Cases Mason's O. K. Fickle

and

A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS Terms: Cash on Delivery.

FANLING HUNT

Steeplechases.

SATURDAY, 22nd December. First Race 3 p.m.

Admission to Public Enclosure $1.00 (Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price).

Cars parked on course $10.00 each, Special train leaves Kowloon 1.50 p.m.

Returns 5.40 p.m. First class return fare including admission to. Public Enclosure

$2,00.

Free parking for cars.

HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. (In Voluntary Liquidation.)

AN EXTRAORDINARY

LAMMERT BROS., A GENERAL MEETING of the

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 20th Dec., 1928. .. THE Undersigned have received

Auction

ON

MONDAY, 24th December, 1928, at 11 o'clock am.,.

at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon.

2 Cases Machinery 20 Steel. Barrels

and

28 Iron Drums-Godown No. 2b,

Kowloon Godowns, Kowloon. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 20th Dec., 1928.

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A Trial Order is Solicited

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NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.

The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has men available to ship 'n watch- men, seamen, &c.

Our men are employed

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above-named Association held on 14th December, 1928, it was resolv- ed that the Association be wound

Archibald Ritchie, Chartered Ac- countants, be appointed liquidatora.

Notice is hereby given that Creditora of the Hong Kong Gen- eral Chamber of Commerce are re-i quired on or before the 31st day of December, 1928, to send in par- ticulars of their debts and claims, if any, to, the undersigned at Char- tered Bank Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, when claims admitted will be paid in full.

Dated this 15th day of Decem- ber, 1928.

, JOHN FLEMING,

A. RITCHIE,

Liquidators.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

G.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Be

(d)

i.

Court of Appeal Case

(Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5, page 193).

(Palmer's Company Pre- 18. That, at present, when re- cedents, 11th Edition, Part 1,|gistration of transfers la optional p.p. 669 and 670).

and not compulsory, the period taken to, perfect a registration A Court of Appeal case varies with different companies Stubbs v. Slater (1910 1from a couple of days to one week C. D. 632).

or even longer. It would, Your That case involves cortain Petitioners submit, be a fair as- share, transactions between a sumption to make that, under the broker and a client and in which new provisions, the number of re- the client deposited with the gistrations will increase and not broker as security a certificate decrease, and that the time taken for 890 Gas shares and signed a to perfect a registration will cor- blank transfer of the same. respondingly be lengthened and

At the bottom of page 638 not reduced. et seq. Cozens-Hardy M.R. зays as follows:-

Numerous Difficulties

"The plaintiff handed over mit that the practical difficulties 14. That Your Petitioners sub- to the brokers one certificate in the way of carrying out the for the 390 shares together

with a transfer executed by the provisions of the proposed enact plaintiff in blank, in which the ment are too numerous and com- numbers of the shares were plicated to be exhaustively set out, specified, but the name of the and they ask leave to state a few purchaser and the considera-hypothetical cases by way of ex- tion were, of course, not speci-ample:

am

I

fied. It was the ordinary well-(1) Suppose A, wishing to buy known transfer in blank. Now some shares, has arranged what is the effect of that?

with a personal friend B, to astonished

lend him part of the purchase that there: should be any doubt about it. price, on the understanding that B was to have an equit- So long ago as 1899 Stirling J. in London and Midland Bank

ble. mortgage on the shares v. Mitchell (1) dealt with a

for the loan. How would the case of precisely this nature

transaction be carried out and indicated what was the under the new provisions? legal effect of it. That was a (Continued on Page 4) case in which certain shares to- gether with a blank transfer had been deposited with a bank to secure a debt, and it was held that the bank had not lost their

· right against the shares al- though their simple contract} remedy against the client was lost by reason of the Statute of Limitations. The Court there pointed out that the whole transaction was a mort- gage as to which the bank were entitled to the ordinary re- medy of foreclosure."

Lord Justice Buckley, in deal- ing with one of the points raised in that case, namely, that the broker in the circumstances should not have sold all the shares ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS in one lot, anys:-

Pthe Sale by Public Auction

to be held on MONDAY, tha 24th day of December, 1928, at 3pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land! at Shamshulpo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st) July, 1898, with the option of] renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years loss three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

*

Registry

Sort, and Tea Chon

Street, Sham

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Boundary

Measurementa

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the the the råbrat

A per sale clau. 20,000 125

"That leaves a third point.

It is said that the brokers sold

WILLIAMS

JEME MATHEUK

Persons who are subject to rheu too many shares.. I confess matica should avoid above all things that is a contention which sur- an excess of meat in their diet, prises me. The plaintiff had for flesh food is productiva of uric given the brokers à transfer of acid in the blood and uric acid is 390 shares together with one the cause of rheumatism. share certificate for 390 shares.

The tansfer was signed by the consisting of fruits and grafns--and Simple, wholesome diet-manly transferor in blank. The brokers were therefore in pos-

a thorough cleansing and building session of an instrument which up of the blood by means of Dr. enabled them to sell and com

Williams'. Pink Pills make up the plete the sale of 390 shares, and treatment essential in all such cases. no less. It is said that they ens of thousands of cases of ought to have sold only 800 out rheumatism, even in its worst stages of the 890, that they should and where the sufferer has been first have filled in their own pronounced incurable by all ordin names as transferees of the ary means, have been cured in this 890 and then have sold 300.way and by these World-famous Suppose the. shares had been Pils during the past forty years. :: partly paid shares. Were the If you are a rheumatic sufferer, mortgagees bound to put the or if you have any other form of shares-into their own names? disease or sickness traceable, to im. Certainly not."."

pure or watery blood, Dr. Williams' Registration of Transfers Pink Pilla for Pale People will do 10, That in support of Your for you all that they have done for Petitioners contention set out others. Why not begin your cure | above that the English Revenue to-day? Your chemist sells. Dr. Law has made provision for the Williams Pink Pills. But don't ¡operation of the system of Blank accept a subatitute

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