1936-02-13 — Page 9

THE CHINA MALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936

PEPPER CASE TRIAL

Liabilities Of Over

£1,000,000-

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT'S

EVIDENCE

London, To-day.

ST. JOHN'S PARISH MAGAZINE

To-day's Short Story

The Uncooked

Goose

By H A Manhood

BANKRUPTCY COURT

Partners Fail To Agree

NEW

Colum

WE RECO/

February Number Of St. John's Review"

ACTIVITIES OF PAST YEAR The February number of the "St. John's Review," the parish Losses in the neighbourhood magazine of St. John's Cathedral of £1,000,000 were mentioned at which has just been issued, con- the Old Bailer when the Char-tains, as usual, much that will be tered Accountant. Mr. Duncan of interest to, parishioners." McKellar,

gave evidence for! The address of the Chaplain

signposts at the time WAS employed in painting “AR experienced driver—yes,

Ijsuh! That's what he told me.”

to

DISSOLUTION SOUGHT

the prosecution in the pepper in Charge at the annual meeting you return the next day to pick backed it ready to run down to the ing represented by Mr. Eldon

Case

dare say you know the routine. the negro swore. All he wanted At the Bankruptcy Court this Most of the time is spent in was a couple of hars to clear his morning, before the Acting Chief cycling from one to the other letty and he'd be proud to drive Justice, Mr. Justice Lindsell, s with a short ladder over one's for Professor Mambut yes, suh! winding up petition was brought by Odharmal Girharimal against shoulder and some pots of paint the damned geampher in a carrier in front. A quick I didn't stop to listen

the Messrs.

0. K. Gidumult and I started the lorry and Watmall, Ltd, the petitioner be- lick over with white paint and rest.

lout the lettering. Not exactly police station-

Then I slung the Potter. K.C and Mr. Leo is reproduced in fall, in which exciting, for I was 21, hearty bits of my bicycle aboard and made D'Almada inr, instructed by Mr. He stated that the total pepper sympathetic reference is specially enough to burst a tumbler with room for the unconscious driver. M. A da Silva, while Mr. H. G. and shellace commitments at made to the loss, sustained by the a laugh and with a great hairy "Hey, boy, what's the pro-Sheldon, instructed by 'Mr. M. M September 3, 1934, were $1,400,- commanity in the departure of fist that looked like a French 000. Of the total subscription of Dess Alfred Swann, and to the poodle once the paint brush was $412,500 to James Shakespeare and splendid work performed by the stuck in it. I certainly hated Co. as a result of the issue of the Cathedral

Addressing the Court Mr. Shel Women's Guild under that ladder-it was like travel

idon said that he raised the ob- prospectus $209,000 had been the understanding and inspiring ling around with the skeleton

jection that the petition could not That pay-leadership used to buy shellac.

Pollock of your worst enemy-but be- ment was actually made before Other subjects include the pro-tween us we made that bit of

be heard, on the ground that the

of John

petitioner was $10,000 in arrears the proceeds of the issue were duction-

Masefield's countryside fairly tingle" with

Jon his share capital. He went on; received, by means of a loan from Passion Play. "Good Friday." directions so that you'd have

Ito say that he submitted that the Midland Bank.

the Silver Jubilee of King George thought that all men were bei

either the petition be hot beard. James Shakespeare and Ca's V, the dedication of the Canter-come friends and eager for your gramme?”

for dismissed, or that it be held Hiabilities to the date of liquida-bury Cross and. lastly, the company.

I told the negro, but he shock over until such time as the amount tion were £755,000, and the assets Memorial Service for the late Up on the moor one day I'd just his head. "No time for the splits, owing had been paid up were estimated to realise £235,- King.

In addition the

000.

was

ward pepper

whole

of

Lady

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "A Broadcast Talk," by S. P. B. Mais...

•

every There's He

Watson, was for the opposing parties.

that

£1,000,000, the estimated profit entitled "Glimpses of Manila." Facross to crack a nut or two, "Dragon's Juice Ointment: The the partnership could be carried

would have been $75,000 if thei

got to the point of inventing a son. There's a gaff st Gordontop | After hearing the argument ad-| of combined cycle, stand and ladder to-day and Ab'm ou a' way.” An interesting comparison

vanced by both sides, however, Mr. share capital of £425,000 the two productions of "Lady" when a lorry came bumbling along, į He looked me over and it was Justice Lindsell over-ruled the

lost. These figures were Precious Stream," in London at hesitated as the four ways and like being robbed and tickled stị objection. based on the directors' estimates, the National Theatre and in Hong charged the signpost like a dog the same time: "Hord you like

Leval Position Stated bat the position was working out Kong by the students of the angry at a stick of celery. The to drive for me regir, ten bob

Mr. Potter then said is con- signpost broke like celery, all rights day and five bob extra very much worse.

Hong Kong University. It was the pepper position that tributed by B.P. and Lucy A. Lock fand, although I looked like a saint time we make a stand?

according to law the Court should brought them down. With for provides a brightly-written arti-|with white paint all over me, Ithe lark and momiker.” not deal with allegations or conn-!

ter-allegations but should confine commitments of cle, illustrated with photographs, didn't feel like one as I hopped spread a hand towards the lorry itself to the point as to whether

But when I reached the lorry Unfailing Fanacea. Professor

negro was hammering the driver manter Extraordinary.” The

He weat on to say that the with a bit of the signpost not the painted words were, appropriately, thinnest bit either, and the driver like queer skeletons racing each partnership started in 1927 bat shortly after that there were some was already wrapped in hymns.

He disputes regarding the employ

ment of assistants. Ar

agree- ment was subsequently reached whereby it was agreed to remedy the irregularities and to establish branches, în Canton and Shanghai. Eventually, however, the partners

on or not under the circumstances

market price had held, as when H.K. BENEVOLENT the job was done. An angry Mambuka, Specialist and Necro-he was going to mention.

the contracts were made. The witness agreed that Bishirgiani paid £90,000 out of his own pocket! in 'respect of the pepper liabilities. -Reater.

MURDER AT DAVOS

Hitler's Funeral Ovation

PURE RECORD OF NAZI PARTY IN GERMANY

· CHINA MAIL," SPECIAL

Schwering, To-day.

SOCIETY

ANNUAL REPORT

ISSUED

CONTINUED NEED FOR

PUBLIC SUPPORT

FRENCH PACT WITH SOVIET (Continued from Page 11

BRITAIN'S ASSURANCES London: In the House of Com-

zons

other over a cliff.

it.

"I looked at the Professor. seemed tough, but genial with fashy in his dress, but with supple kind of dignity as if he'd mixed with princes.

a

The offer was a good one. I yesterday afternoon the thought I glimpsed the helping railed to work together in harmony The annual general meeting of Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony hand of Providence the Hong Kong Benevolent So Ede, was asked if he would give had lately married again and I

My father and the petitioner decided to ask ciety will be held in the board

an assurance that the provisions didn't like his choice. No need to

for a dissolution of the partner- room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe of Locarno requiring that Great!

jship. son, on February 20 at 5.15 pm Britain should immediately come the Professor grinned and soften- say good-bye even. I nodded and Sir William Hornell, C. L. E, has to the help of France or Germany ed.

We left the driver and thei kindly consented to take the chair in the event of a flagrant breach bicycle and the ladder and paint- The report of the Society for by either of Article XIII or XLots all piled in a heap and made 1935, just issued, recounts several of the Treaty of Versailles con for Gordentop.

bad

LABOUR IN MEXICO

President's Advice To Employers NO COMMUNISM IN THE COUNTRY

The funeral of the murdered instances in which deserving cases cerning the demilitarized zone, It worked well to begin with, too. National Socialist party leader of have been helped by the Society would be rigidly adhered to as we hopped from one fair-ground Switzerland, Herr Wilhelm Gast-Last year was a very busy one, long as the treaty remained to another like a wasp after jam, loff, took place here on Tuesday, the report shows that the expenses operation, sud

not been selling this Dragon's Juice Oint- the ceremony being attended by under each heading have appre-abrogated by general consent of

ment at half a crown a pot and] Herr Hitler, several members of ciably increased each year since the parties.

doing good business, too. The the Cabinet, representatives of 1932.

Mr. Eden, replied: "The obliga Professor slept in the jam-jar, as the defence forces and 3,000 party. The income of the Society dux-tions of His Majesty's Govern he called the lorry, and I camped ing 1935 exceeded that of the ment are specified in the Treaty out under a side cans. He was After the funeral oration by former year by over $4,000. How of Locarno itself. His Majesty's just a quack, but he certainly had Mexico, the leader of the foreign or-jever, a large part of this money Government stands by those style and considerable nerve. :- Cradenas, addressing a mid-

members.

ganisation of the Party Herr was derived from non-recurrent obligations, and, as has been pre- Eftler mounted the steps. --

sources, and an appeal is made to viously stated in this House, in- "Since 1918 all those that have the general public to continue its tend, should the need arise, faith- stood up for their country, out of generous support of the work fully to full them.* pure love for Germany, have been the Society is doing. constantly menaced, menaced by

Wireless Service.

British

the ghastly secret of international LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

power," he said.

L

many National-Socialists.

**Never has the

A dance is being held by the One case of enteric fever was

Mexico City, To-day- There is no Communism in declared President

After a week's grafting we night meeting of iron and stopped out on a bit of open coun-steel workers at Monterrey, try to renew stock I'd been where activities have been curious about this famous Dragon's brought to a standstill in the Juice from Nicobar till then. The last two days owing to a number Professor · bad bought several of strikes. gross of little black pots and half The President indicated that a hundredweight of lard.

he did not consider the labour troubles to be due exclusively He simply melted the lard down to labour demands but rather

gross of Ettle black pots and half

**The instigators of the „mur-i ders were in every case members! of this same power, which was Australian and New Zealand As-reported to the Health authorities in an old bucket, stirred a drop to the unreasonable attitude of responsible for the murders of sociation to-morrow evening, com-in the 24 hours ended on Tuesday. of almond oil, some turpentine and the employers.

a dash of sulphur into it, and mencing at 9.15, in the Associa-

The President said that own- The RMS. Empress of Japan poured it into the pots. It raters who were tired of Mexico's National- tion's rooms, Gloucester Building.

is due here from Vancouver and tled me quite a bit to see what a social struggle could hand over Socialist movement employed the!

Mr. G-Duncan, M.B.E, of the ports on February 28, and will frand it was I even said some their industries to the workmen weapon of terror, and not one murdered opponent mars its re- Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock leave the same evening for Manila. thing about it, but the Professor or the Governorat. That would had a line of talk all ready. The be patriotic, but not a general cord. In Herr Gustloff's case the Co., with Mrs. Duncan, left the

Mrs. Alfred N. Macfadyen will ointment, be argued, was purely a stoppage or a closing down planner of the murder was Colony, on retirement, by the ss.

be the speaker at today's public guide for faith: faith went with for

The owners should take care the first

also Patroclus yesterday. time

lecture at the Lodge Boom of the its application and through faith that the agitation did not place perpetrator. I is not!

There is to be a bridge and mah Theosophical Society, Hong Kong anything could be cured. He said them under any political fag. Germany that is being harmed by

entire medical profession for that would lead to an armed this, but the power behind it, for jongg drive at the Cheero Club on Club Anner, Chater Road, at 6 the which it is committed.

Thursday, February 27 inst, be-jpm. Her subject will be "Kagaworked on the same principle. movement — Renter "The German nation has lost inning at 8:30 pm; admission 50 wa” one of its number in the year cts each, which includes light re- 1936, but thereby gained one in freshments.

mortal for the futureTrack- Ocean Service.

(Earlier cables on Page 31

BRITISH TRADE FIGURES

Returns Issued By Ministry

Landon, To-d

The preliminary returns of the British overseas trade in Janmar issued by the Board of TE show that imports totalled, £10, '024,000,′′ against . £74,481,000

December, 261,316,00. 1995, and a monthly

∙1985 of £63,078,000.

- Exports" "totalled.

azzinat 294,017,000.0

:£35,481,000 in Jamary, 2935,

a monthly average of

Re-exports totaller against 35,432,000 -

(605,000 200

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at Holt's Wharf, was among the Cious Stream," in Chinese, at the "I swallowed it at the time, but pessengers leaving for England Tai Ping Theatre last night. In I couldn't help thinking about it yesterday by the as Patroclus, response to many requests a reafterwards. The Professor seem- accompanied by Mrs. Herdman peat performance will be given oned amid enough fellow apert and their four children.

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Madame Lottie Gordon gave fed himself well and me, too, but The fourth annual prize distri-

On Saturday next, the Minis- bution of the Chong Kan College broadcast of Australian and Hong every time I ate, after a while, Itering League is holding a Flag": is to be held at the King's Thea- Kmy music and songs, including couldn't help thinking where the Day, and though flag days gre tre at 10 am on Sunday next. the Hong Kong Boat. Song" and brass had come from.

so numerous that most people Professor C. A. Middleton Smith, the "Canton Boat Song" from the He was superstitions, too, and are heartily tired of them, it is St, Dean of the Faculty of Government broadcasting station careful with his fands I used to hoped most sincerely that every- Engineering, Hong Kong Univer at Manila on Tuesday, February 4 wonder why two of his suitcases one will be generous to this, one were so strongly made and heavy, of Hong Kong's oldest and most The next whist drive of the I found, aut why one day when he deserving of charities Cheero Club will be held on Tues was sleeping off half a bottle of The Hong Kong Branch of Dr. D. J. Valentine, MC, day next, beginning 8.30 pm brandy. One of her, at least, the MCL was originally organ- MB, BS (Lond) DTM & H. admission 50 cts, exf, whichźne aux, derme full as, half-lised by the Countess of Meath, Ottershaw, and {{Eng.), JP-wall deliver a course cludes light refreshments.

he wis with Lady May's help, 25 years Nethersole, Hospital here

ago, and ever since has helped, year the funds were allocated tor for the most part, the legs The Hong Kong Benevolent So well-known Charities, bath elety, the Hong Kong Society for Chinese and non-Chinese and Protection of Children, the CMS

always stood firmly in “2 [Victoria Home and Orphanage, the

for others."

Home Pokiniam, the other activities the Sa and Soldiers Home, the dged fizeit to Loep CM8 ~ Village, School Fund, the

armacalar School Fund, donors will give

(of lectures (for women) on Fire

All, beginning to-morrow at the

On Monday next"

ding a dance.

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