1934-04-30 — Page 9

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934.

CLAIM FOR $81,188 BY MR. CROUCHER

ALLEGED SHARE DEAL

WITH MR. WOO

EXECUTORS DENY LIABILITY

with Mr. Woo.

The claim by Mr. N. V. A.Įtook it to Butterfield and Swire's Croucher for $81.188.93 against office, where he read it through the estate of the late Mr. Woo

Transaction Closed. Hay-tong, compradore of the As far as Mr. Croucher was con- shipping department of Messrs.cerned the transaction was closed, the shares. Butterfield and Swire, Ltd., who Mr. Mok having sold

and Mr. Woo bought them. was shot dead in his office on!

On June 18, 1932, Mr. Woo was June 18, 1932, was commenced shot to death in his office, and the became vested the estate ultimately before the Chief Justice. Hon. Mr. A. D. A. McGregor, at with Messre. Forsyth and Butlin,

ins executora.

the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Croucher later called on Mr. The defendants, Messrs. S. T. Forsyth, and was told that the Butlin and H. R. Forsyth, char-executors knew nothing of the ctered accountants, of Gloucester transaction, no record having been found in deceased's books, and it

Mr.

Building, executors of deceased's was only after he had seen Mr. estate, are represented by Mr. Forsyth several times that Eldon Potter. K.C.. Mr. F. J. Jen-Croucher was told that the letter kin, K.C., and Mr H. Macnamara, had been found pinned to a book instructed by Messrs. Woo and Opposite Mr. Woo's record of the

(transaction with Mr. Mok. This Nash. Mr. H. G. Sheldon ap record also, showed that the 1,000 peared for the plaintiff.

"Realty" shares had been released Opening his case, Sheldon to Mr. Mok. said that on February 18, 1932. Mr.

Bir.

Correspondence had passed in which the executors had asked for

N. 4. C. Croucher, a stock and particulars of the transaction, and sharabroker, purchased for a client, later that they had taken legal ad- Mr. Mok Ying-kwai, 4,000 shares invice, and that

Messrs. Watson and Company, at $16.30 each, to be delivered at the May settlement.

issite

During April 1932 a new was mudy by Messrs. Watson and Co.. and in respect of the 4,000 shares already held, a block of 1,000 shares was taken up at pur, making i

the total holding of Mr. Muk, 5,000

shares.

New Agreement.

there was insuf- ficient evidence to admit plaintiff's claim.

(Continued on Page 7)

{

GAMBLING RAID SEQUEL.

Twenty Fined.

A fine of $25, in default

сле

month's hard labour, was imposed

Prodigal Gandhite

THE CHINA MAIL,

Nila Cram Cook, daughter of an American dramatist-poet, who be came a disciple of Mahattan Gandhi only to tire of the ascetic life as a daughter of "Mother India," aTTİYES at New York with her son Sirioa She was deported from India after she had left Gandhi's seminary and started to "enjoy life.”

DEAF MUTES PLOT AT SMYRNA.

Armed With Revolvers,

Smyrna.

To-day's Short Story.

LOST

MINES

By Douglas *Newton,

THE thing happened on Can-. He did not mind in the least Tter's last survey.

He was free and outside the apron

On that last journey of his strings, and adventure was already through the Cordillera Oriental, commanding him. He had been at which was more than a last journey, tacked by the glamour of the Lost which was, in fact, the definite ges. Indian Gold.

ture with which he abandoned all. In Colombia, that universal thril the hopes and theories that had is served up rather more dramatical- ly than elsewhere in South America, been the mainsprings of his very existence in Latin America, the un-because-well, the gold did vanish expected, the ironic thing happened, more dramatically. The thing was He found the thing he had been almost magical as the old story set hunting fifteen years. He found it out. Here was old Don Pedro de the thing he had been hunting fif-Heredia, violent and yet splendid, The first teen years. He found the old mine harsh and yet generous. workings which he had definitely conqueror, pushing with a force as IL was and finally decided to cease looking ridiculous in strength as for.

brave in spirit into the heart of the:

Canter had gone to Colombia, to unknown. One day, unexpectedly, Cartagena, as a youngster of twenty. he was in the midst of a city of He had used sugar as his excuse for tumult, a plain covered with the getting there. He had to employ a little humped graves of great, dead solid, commercial-looking subter chiefs. And on the left side of fuge, because he happened to be a each chief, buried with kín arms and member of a solid and commercial jars of chica, was gold. family. What he actually wanted

:

a

In South America was adventure,| but his father would never have dreamt of buying an outfit and

hare- passage

for anything so brained.

He had set out in a "fruiter" for the city that springs like a creation: or dreams from the quick, blue love- liness of the very ses, to be an as-! Įsistant manager in a new sugar ven-·

even

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be

Of "Towers

Fame," by Elizabeth Irons Folsom.

Astounding quantities of gold---| ture that was a rival the plantations Heredia and his handful only just and mills of British Georgetown, scratched at this dead city of wealth; further along the coast. The mills before their longing for wider landa

Georgetown never of

ex-and new conquests carried them on, [perienced a thrill of alarm. The but they gathered no fewer than courteous and labour-evading cabal-300,000 crowns. They had gone on leros of Cartagena, and the negroes to conquer rejoicing, for, after all, and dumb Turks who took their cue from them, were they had only just sampled a great have been arrested at Smyrna for not the factors to give such a con- find. They would return, and at plotting to kill the Director of the cerna commercial success. In less their leisure reap the real riches than a year Canter found that there Hocal Deaf and Dumb Institute,

was no estate to assist in manag.

Twelve deaf

Each mute was to be armed withing. a revolver.

The arrested mea complain that

on Tam Mei by Mr. E. W. Hamil the Director was not looking after;

were

Alsu Fines of

MADE BANKNOTES

from the place.

They returned.

IN PRISON.

Austrian's Method Of gold itself.

Diversion.

They plundered the graves-and there was no gold. The gold had vanished entirely. It had been spirited away, and since that day it had never been found.

But that was not the greatest thrill of the business. The true romance lay in the presence of the From whence had it come? From what fabulous rivers for mines had come gold so plentiful

that idols weighing over 120 pounds. The Leopold Kuchn found his five of solid gold were common? year's sentence dragging along ter- river, the mines, that yielded that ribly slowly in the Steln Prison.

prodigal wealth were unknown to They had never- So he started to make Austrian the Christiane. |10-schilling (68. 8d.) notes

|been found.The Indians who held The One of these was smuggled out of the secret had held it well. A gang of burglars broke into an the prison and was accepted with-gold itself told of mines somewhere

-the mines themselves were office here. They smashed throughout question by a post-office.

WHEN CRIME DOES

On settlement day. May 25, 1932, ton at the Central Police Court the children in his charge.--Reu- Mr. Mok did not wish to take deli-this morning. for keeping a gamb-ter. very, and agreed with plaintiff to ling place at No. 16 Tai Hors carry the shares at $14.00 for the Street, ground floor. old shares and $13.50 for the new Nineteen othera shares. On that day the balance charged with gambling. due to Mr. Craucher was $73,210, $2. in default four days' imprison-) and a new agreement was made toment were imposed on 16. .While carry the shares. 1 per cent. per the $3 bail for the three others

month, the customary rate of in-was entreated. terest for carrying shares, being

payable. The interest paid Was

$3:710.

The transaction proceeded on this;

BOY RUN DOWN BY TRUCK

basis until the end of May, when thef

Ma

NOT PAY.

Burglars Raid Safe For Twopence..

Geneva.

Vienna,

4

third party. Mr. Woo Hay-ong, Į Chow Hol a five-year-old boy steel shutter, broke a patent lock When the note was traced back to splendid myth. came into the case. Mr. Woo Hay-of 245 Tokkawan Road, Kowloon on a window, struggled to break Leopold he told the judge that he The mystery of the Indian gold) tong was a well-known business man City, was admitted to the Kowloon into a safe, failed, and smashed all only used pen and ink and that he had fascinated Cunter from the be in Hong Kong, being compradore of] Hospital, - suffering from

Injuries the furniture.

"did it for fun."

ginning. He used to prowl the sea Messrs. Butterfeld and Swire's ship-to his left foot when he was ran Then they collected the booty, The Judge was not amused,wall of Cartagena, staring inland at ping department, and a large dealer over by an earth truck when cross-It was one

coin: value 20-Reu- Leopold's sentence is one year long. the immense massing of jungle, the on the stock market.

ing the trick yesterday.

er now.Reuter.

Mr. Mok, a relative of Mr. Woo.|

is also employed at Messrs. Butter field and Swire,

Mr. Woo held 1,000 shares in thej Hong Kong Realty and Trust Com- pany, the property of Mr. Mok, as security on a loan. Mr. Mok make representations to Mr. Woo to re lease these shares, and offered to make a payment of $4,000 for them. The "Realty" shares, being worth

Iter.

Press Views On New Rubber

PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF SCHEME

(Continued from Pape 1.1

experimental

$12, Mr. Woo declined the offer. 2. It prohibits

Mr. Mok then offered him the 5,000 planting in any country exceeding Watson and Company shares, car- ried by Mr. Croucher, in addition to one-quarter of one per cent, be- the $4,000.

DIRE THREAT TO PRODUCERS.

Effect Of Excessive Price On Industry.

London, earlier.

I

.

Agreement

PIVOTAL PRICE NOT BELOW NINEPENCE

(Continued from Page 1).

AR

great trees, their leaves glittering like greened tin in the savage suri- light, crowding densely into the mysterious distance of the vast con- tinent, their secret ways scarce changed at all since Cortes and Heredia themselves marched; sufför cating in their armour, through their heats and 'swamps.

Somewhere in that almost sinilater silence of "Jungiè, must Jurk the secret of the treasure mines. Can- ter felt it must be there. The gold A Mincing Lane authority, in an interview with the London mines must be here, perhaps in the mountains over towards Ecuador, "Morning Post." expressed

perhaps in those that hemmed the opinion that the scheme was cause "the present supply will

Guíanas. A statement Issued with the satisfactory and workable. It is "Realty's" Released.

When the sugar venture falled, be| more than estisfy any probable rubber

agreement, most probable that the Govern had stayed on and not gone home. production The position of the Watson and world, demand for a few years to which was announced by the Hub-menta concerned have unofficially He had tried his hand on the cattle Company shares was that they were come."

[ber Growers' Association, yester expressed. general agreement 3. It limits replanting to 20 day, shows that the uneconomic with the terms, so there is no rea-camps of the Sinu, for a time, har- the payment of $69,500, whereas per cent. of the existing eres, thus only to rain producers but to dls be put into operation on June 1 the unsubdued plains of the Rio price of rubber threatened not son why. the scheme should not dening himself, picking up facts. He had from there made a dash into their market price WILK about $74.500. Mr. Woo agreed to take providing for a depreciation. locate regular supplies to world he declares. the Watson & Company shares and 4. It prohibits the export of consumers.

being carried for Mr. Mok against

shares.

It is unlikely that a pivotal price will be mentioned, but the price aimed.will, proḥ, ably not be below ninepence per pound, though it might be some time before such a price is reached.

the $4,000, and released the "Realty" planting materials from countries. Representatives' committees in

On June 1 or June 2, 1932, Mr.

under the scheme in order to pre-London and fa the East have un- animously approved the principles Woo telephoned Mr. Croucher ask-vent planting by countries outside of the scheme. ing him to call, and in á sub-the scheme,

Throughout the industry is а sequent Interview Mr. Croucher 6. It obligates. producers, and widespread recognition that an He

Cesar on the call of a faint rumour.

The secret of the gold was not in the Cesar lands, but in the swainps

POWELL'S CHANGE

BUSINESS

ADDRESS.

•

We have now opened our

doors in the new STOCK EX-

CHANGE BUILDING and have

resumed business at 10, Ice House

Street.

We give you a cordial invitation

to inspect our new store and the

new goods displayed.

WM. POWELL, LTD.

Gentlemen's

TAILORS & OUTFITTERS."

HOLD PRE-EMINENT LEADERSHIP

BY THEIR SUPERLATIVE

QUALITY.

STATE EXPRESS

CIGARETTES

555 333

ARDATH TOBACCO CO., LTD., LONDON.

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG) LTD.

WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS.

DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (opposite G.P.O.).

Agente for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS," ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

RAIDS

beyond he had picked up an entirely GERMANY AND new orchid, which had not only made for him a very useful sum of money, but had been christened after-bim,

With the money from the orchid:

AIR BARI'S FAIR OF THE EAST

In the Autumn, a Fair of the East will be held. In Barf, Italy. The Fair which will be called Mussollaf's ·

was asked if he carried any "Wat- also dealers, to keep stocks at the excessive price will not react to questiointed out that the vita be bad fitted out a small expedition Populace Learning To Fair will be oficially opened by the son's" on behalf of Mr. Mok. normal percentage of turnover to the permanent welfare of the tnments had not been dealt with up and had crossed the Venezuela bor.

On his declining to discuss his prevent. abnormal accumulation. dustry. client's business in hla absence. 6. It provides for an Interna-The following are the export

shares,

and

to the present. Reuter

Head of the Italian Government. Guard Itself.

| Aby person wishing to exhibit any der, to chase a rumour through the

|wares at this: Fair, should. ' com.... stark hot valleys of the Merida, Cor-

SCHOOL" AT "COBLENCE municate with the Italian Consulate Mr. Mok was called, and confirm-tional Rubber Regulation Commit-quotas fixed for the naxt five 1988-485,000 tons.

{dilleras): "His guided and poons had

where they will be given further ed that Mr. Croucher held the tee, constituted of Government de lyeırat rajan

Ceylon1984-77,500 tons, 1985 | holted to join in 'âne of the quarterly

London. particulara. Mr. Woo then said that legates, which will principally de- India-1984-4,850, 1985–8,250,-79,000 tons, 1988-80,000 tons, révolutions, and he had lost every

Two messaged from Reuter he wished to take the shares over, cide on an exportable percentage for 1936-9,000, 1987-9,000, 1988 1987-81,000 tons, 1888-82,500 penny. But he did not come an illustrate how Germany is prepar holders will be issued in due

the transaction was put each country's quota.

1,250,0

badly out of that. He had set up in trate and Grant from possible course, no s :through,Asked how long ha 7. It invites rubber manufac-|| Dhurmu.-- 1984 - 5,150, v1 1936 ---- North Borneo, 198412,000 in revolutions of his own, and for air raider

In Coblence, a School of Instruc- wished to carry the shares, Mr. turers in Europe, and the United 5,750, 1980-8,000, 1987-8,000, tons, 1985-18,000 tons, 1886 ishteen months had lorded it over In Cologne, a warning has been tion Against Air Raids has been Woo said that if they improved be States to nominate a panel to advise 1938-9,230) VAN

14,000 tonn. 1987-15,500 tons, district as large as a small British issued that some time during the opened in the presence of a num- would probably sell them through the Committee regarding stocks ex- - Malaya. -- 1984 --- 504,000 tons, 1988—16,500, tons. ---

county. He had managed to get night April 27-29 an alarm will be ber of Government representatives Mr. Crouchery if not he would take portable at percentage etcetera, 1985-688,000 tons, -5.1986-360,000 BATAWAN. ---- 1984 —— 24,000-tona, away with a canh balance, in

and various local officials, them up on June settlement day. The scheme duration is from tout, 1987-639,000 tone, 1988 198528,000 tons, 1986-80,000 favour and the sure knowledge that sounded air raid Imminent!

All street lights will then be ex}. The school will supply informa- Being asked by Mr. Woo to con- June 1, 1984 to December 11, 1988, 502,000 toak...). 3 tond, 1087 $1,500 tons, 1938-82 the secret of the lost mine was not tinguished. Alf traffe must stop; tion as to "general protective men firm the transaction by letter, Mr. subject to the Committer a recom. Dutch East Indien, 1984-852, 000 tona, a

and cars must put out their lights, sures" in the event of an attack by Croucher returned to his office mendation to extend --Unlbad Prass, 000 tons, 1985, 100,000 tons, 1936 Bim 1954-38-15,000 tons each typed a confirmatory letter, and per 8.6. Gold Bar Ch. 1514

“Further Instructions to“ konse-hostile aircraft.--Reuter. 443,000 tons, 1957-487,000 tons, yaar-Renter

(Continued on Paje 101)

गम