CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896 — Page 429

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ance to that effect can then be passed

present I advise that nothing be done.

Fifth charge

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but for the

"The registry practically turned

"into an agency for the administration of estates which

"should have been wound up within the legal term,-

This again is as baseless as the other charges

Calvert, Lindsay, Jowzoyd

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Kyshe ciues five estates

biz

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not Umroyd, Scott and Pan Yan Yun

Calvert's Estate was the first one I had to deal

with, as he died the day I arrived in Hong Kong the

sums due to the estate were collected without any delay

and the debts were paid this done, there remained a

sum of 4,000 for the children who had been sent to

a "factor lcco tutoris" was appointed there,

Scotland

See

George

he applied for the money, this was refused by

Phillipo who ordered the Registrar to invest the same

for the benefit of the children and remit the income

every three or six months until the children came of age.

Capital to The Chief Justice declined to send the

one the

jurisdiction of the Court, or to entrust it to one who

he did not know and over whom he had no control, this

precedent has been followed in the cases of Houtoyd and

capulal Scott where the belongs to infants. In the

case of Lindsay the official administrator must hold the

minoris estate for the reversioner and in Pan Yam Yun a

also concerned.

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It must be remembered that all these estates give

the Registrar a certain amount of trouble and that if

he could,consistently with his duty, have got rid of

to endeav- them, he would gladly have done so long ago

our to attach any blame to him is to bring a charge

utterly devoid of reason or foundation

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