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COMPANY REPORT.

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL

AGENCY, LTD.

The report for presentation to the shareholders at the eighteenth ordinary annual meeting is as follow-

The General Managers have the plea” sure to lay before the shareholders the accompanying statement of accounts for the year ended 31st May, 1914.

ACCOUNTS.

The balance at the credit of profit and los account, including $073.95 brought forward from Inat year, is #15,309,07, which it is proposed to appropriate as follows:-

To pay a dividend of 15 per

pent. on Ordinary Shares, $5,940.00 -- To General Managers' 'Re-

munoration

To pay a further dividend of

7 per cent. on Ordinary Shares

To pay $29.70 per share on 100: Founders' Shures

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 31er, 1914.

WM. POWELL,

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H

Decanters 2

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Decanters,

2,970.00

2,970.00 To carry forward in new Afo. 1,429.07

AUDITOR,

The accounts now presented have been audited by Mr P Maitland in the absence of Mr. W. Hutton Potts. Mr. | Maitland, being eligible, offers himself for

re-election.

DODWELL & Co., LTD,,'.

General Managers, Hongkong, 24th August, 1914.

·BALANCE SHEET ON 31ST MAY, 1914,

¡LJADILITIES,

Capital 8,900 Ordinary Shares of $10, of which 34 per share paid. | 166 Founders Shares of 810 fully

paid

Reserve, Fund

(888

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ABBETA

Launch Gladiator** Furniture and Fittings:- As per last account... Since expended

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$500.00 817.26

$1,357.25 857.26

Value of material on hand Unexpired portion of Insurance

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none of the matters mentioned were neces The respondent by her answer said that

sary to the validity of the said ceremony 1,000.00 of marriage, and that the said marriage 46,000.00 was valid

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(2) That in the said pretended marri; | and Japan, it was agreed that at the ox- age none of the requirements of the said piration of five yeare Great Britain Act were: complied with.

should give up its consular jurisdiction in Japan had been subject to the ordinary in Japan, and since 1899 British subjecta

Japanese law. The facts as to China were entirely different. The Order-in-Council vi October 24th, 1904, constituted in China and Korca a Supreme Court and certain provincial courts, which had jurisdiction over British subjects, and administered, in respect of them, the Eng. fish law. These courts had jurisdiction in matrimonial causes except in suits for nullity and jactitation of marriage.

1,024.30 The petitioner's affidavit declared 15,041.43 Some time in 1900 my attention was called 1,000.00 to rumoura in circulation in Ching to the 2,500.00 effect that marriages contracted as my 18,809.97 marriage had been were not regarded as valid either in China or in England, and $121,475.701_mado efforts to ascertain the truth of

these rumours. I wrote first to Mr. L. C. Hopkins, HB.M.'s Consul General at 1,000.00 Tientsin, and he replied that he was for

bidden.

to indicate an opinion on the matter,"

but strongly advised toe to go

sular Court.

I wrote also on Sept. 28th, 1809, to the British Minister at Icking and received a circular dated Supreme Court, Shanghai, February 27th, 1905

600.00

ITQ¥17-AND-LGIA-ACCOUNTS-FOR-YEAR ENDED 81ST MAY, 1914.

1:50.00

857.28

To Auditor's Fee

To Depreciation for year ended

STUNA.

91st May, 1914

To Reserve for bad and doubtful

debts

To Bad Debts written off.

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Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane drew attention to the fact that although the mission hall at Shan Hai Kwan, in which the alleged marriage was celebrated, was not licensed for the performance of cate" was numbered 1," and purported to be an extract from the Marriage Register of the Church Hall, Shaa Hai Kwan, the said Register being legally in my custody. Extracted this 25th day of July, 1912, By me, Crichton McDquall Clerk in Holy Orders. The learned Judge inquired whether any subsequent marriage ceremonica had been solemnised there, and said that he wished to know SHIPBUILDERS,SALVORSANDEEPAIRERS, BOILERMAKERS,

through the marriage again at the Cum marriages, yet the copy of the certif THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD

how Mr. Willane came to celebrate a inarriage there.

Mr. Archibald: I am not instructed Dy Lord.

66,867.08 This set out an extract from a dispatch received from the Foreign Office in reply 200.42 to a dispatch from the Court transmitting 22,143.91 an inquiry from one of His Majesty's Consule concerning certain marriagesat 31,454.30 his port. The extract is as follows:-

279,99 The Law Officers of the Crown, in giving their opinion on the validity of a certain $121,475.70 marriage which was solemnised in 1880 in the cathedral in Shanghai by a clergyman of the Church of England, reported that a marriage between British subjects in Shang hai celebrated by a clergyman in holy orders (en per presbyterem sacris ordinibus een stitutum), whether American or English, was valid marriage. ** Lord Lansdowne does not feel justified in expressing any opinion as to the validity of the marriage in question. If you are applied to for your opinion with regard to such a marriage you 2,000.00 should decline to offer any opinion as to the 15,809,97 | validity of the marriage, and should suggest

that the parties should consult their own pri-way depends upon place, but only on $18,892.75 vato legal advisers in the matter. You may, however, point out that in all cases where it 973.95 can be done advantage should be taken of 1.230.02 the facilities offered for the legal solemas 2,00 tion of marringes under the Foreign Marri 16,686.79 age Act and Order in Council, 1892"

By Balance from last Account.... S By Interest By Transfor Foey

By Profit no Trading

500.00 25.59 50.00

$18,802.75

DODWELL & Co., LTD.,.

General Managers,

I report that I have audited the above balance sheet with the books and vouchers of the Company in Hongkong and that in my opinion such balance sheet is properly

THE RESPONDENT'S CASE.

The material parts of the respondent's affidavit stated:-I was born on Febru- ary 21st, 1888, the daughter of John Henry Carey, a British subject, who has been resident in China for 11 years. In the year 1905 I was living with my father at Shan. Hai Kwan, when I became engaged. to be married to the petitioner. The peti tioner is a British subject, brought up as

Mr. Cecil Walsh read a letter from Bishop Scott, of North China, dated, Pering, March 19th, 1913, which said the Rey. O. P. Williams was a clerk in baly orders of the Church of England at the time, that the Church Hall at Shan Hai. Kwan was licensed for the administra tion of Sacraments and other rites by the Bishop (myself), but so far as my memory. goes (I have not a copy of the Act to which you refer) the validity of such marriages as we are considering in no

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At this stage the case was adjourned. over the Long Vacation for the produc tion of evidence as to the licence and 100-Ton ELECTRIC CRANE ON QUAT-ELECTRIC OVERHEAD CRANES general circumstances of the Church Hall, throughout the Shops ranging up to 100 Tons, Shan Hai Kwan, and whether the marri-50.Tan Hydraulis TESTING MACHINE for Chains, Wire Ropes, Rivets, etc. age was valid according to Chinese law or would be recognised by the Chinese AGENTS FOR Courts.

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HOLLAND AND THE WAR,

We notice in a Rengoou paper

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can be seen between the hours of 11 . and 12. Noor

drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correcta Wesleyan, but used to attend the Eng interesting letter from the Consul for Dookyerő ・・ Manager,

view of the state of the Company's affairs at the 31st May, 1814, according to the best of my information and the explanations given, and as shown by the books of the Сокорану. The stocks have been certified as to quantity and value by the super intondants. I have obtained all the informa- tion and explanations I have required..

F. MAITLAND, Auditor. Hongkong, 24th August, 1914.

VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE IN CHINA,

PHILLIPS v. PHILLIPS, OTHERWISE CAREY.

fo

at the Town Office.

TELEPHONE No 212,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE HONGKONG, CHINA, AND JAPAN, AGENTS,

Telegraphile Address :="TAIKOO DOCK.”

FRANCE'S BLACK TROOPS.

lish Church (when he attended any) since he has been in China. In the month of the Netherlands regarding the report that "part of Holland is .10

of War.

Of course no April, 1905, notice of banns was given to Bishop Scott, the Bishop of North China, and banns were duly published by the part of a country can be in a state: Rer. Sprent, a priest of the Church of of war unless the whole country is England, in Shan Hai Kwan Church, involved. The Consul says in state of which is considered as in Newchwang war is a literal translation of the parish. On April 24th, 1905, a marriage Dutch word for martial law." So he between the petitioner and myself was takes it that in some provinces of celebrated in the Church Hall, Shan Hai Holland, bordering Belgium and Ger- Kwan, according to the forms of the many authority has passed into the Twelve forts were so constructed at Liege, hands of the military. The Consul adds: six on each bank, at an average distance Church of England. I was given away by my father, and a Mr. Lindsay, now in We have received other reports a few between each of something like four miles. the service of the Chinese Government days ago that strayed patrols of the casemates and the heavy guns are raised They are constructed in concrete with Railway Shan Hai Kwan, acted as best

German army had crossed Holland's.

and and lowered automatically. It has been man to the petitioner. A marriage certi border and had been disarmedt ficate was given by the Rev. C.

detained until the war is over. I think estimated that 25,000 would be required on experiments. P Williams. No suggestion was made by

that is the action a neutral Power has to for the defence of these forts. take. Furthermore, I ean inform you the petitioner that the marriage was in valid until September, 1909, when he that I have private information that an wrote several letters to the British army of 200,000 men and the whole fleet are quite ready to defend Holland's authorities at Tientsin and Peking n-

neutrality. Moreover, all reserves have quiring as to its validity..

been warned to be in readinese for any emergency.

THE FORTIFICATIONS AT LIEGĘ.

THE COST OF WAR.

The late August Bebel- calculated that every day of mobilisation would cost Germany from £2,250,000 £2,500,000.

As it would cost France at least as rauch, the two combatants would be launched upon an expenditure of five millions a The capital of the Belgiau province of day, or £150,000,000 a month.

combatants.

But

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A recent issue of a home contemporary says:-Both the French Ministry of War and the Admiralty are

bout

Not so long ago we were informed that the then Minister of War contemplated draft- the Probate. Divorce, and

ing black Colonial troops in some Admiralty Division of the High Court of

of the home regiments. The idea was not favourably Justice, before Mr. Justice Bargrave

antertained for various Deane, on July 30th the above case was

sons, and was finally abandoned. We commenced. John William Phillips, of

now learn that the Admiralty proposes Chinwangtao, China, traffic superinten-

COUNSEL'S STATEMENTS.

to sprinkle a few black sailors in the Mr. Cecil Walsh, K.C., for petitioner, dent of the Kailan Mining Administra

French Navy, We are informed by La tion, petitioned for a declaration that a said that the ecclesiastical authorities

cruits have been drafted into the French France Militaire that 100 Sonegalese ro- ceremony of marriage through which he attached great importance to the question had gone on April 24th, 1005, with the whether a marriage celebrated in China

Mediterranean fleet, and up to the pre respondent, Annie Florence Phillips, between two British subjects was valid.

sort with the greatest satisfaction. If otherwise Carey, at the Mission Church where neither the provisions of the

The cost of mobilisation been promised by the Governor of French | Consalar District of Tientsin, which requirements of the ler loci contracties, position of far greater strength than is only in Austria, Russia; Greet Britain Western Africa. In point of temperaturo. Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, nor the Loige that bears its name is a fortified France and Germany are not the only necessary, an annual contingent of 200 has Hall at Shan Hai Kwan, in His Majesty A

had been complied with In the case of generally appreciated. In the wars of and Belgium would cost as much more. the South of France is the nearest ap- ceremony was performed by the Rev. Charles Philip Williams, a clerk in Holy Marshall v. Marshall a marriage between the 18th century Liege played but a small These war costs, be it remembered, are proach to the African climate, compo Orders, in the Anglican Church, was null

part. It was then defended only by the two British subjects solemnised in Japan before a clergyman of the Church of Eng- citadel and a detached fort on the right direct payments out of pocket. They do and void, on the grounds:

The latter could not live in Boldiers. page of trade and other consequences of

According to Colonel Boucher's the pick" of Freneb native troops,

Paris in the winter, and as they represent (1) That no licence was obtained for land was held to be invalid, the marriage side of the Meuse, but at a short distance pot include the indirect loss in the stop-quently suitable for black bluejackets and the celebration of the said marriage and being invalid by the law of Japan, and from the river, called the Chartmas

book, La France Victorieuse dants

for that no notice thereof was given to the the requirements of the Foreign Marriage Marlborough captured these furts in 1703 marriage officer of the district; that Act, 1892, not having been complied with. in preparation for his advance in the Guerre de Demain." France would put would only be sacrificing them

following year

which into Germany Mr Archibald, for respondent, 810- petitioner nor the respondent hed at any time appeared before the said mitted that though, as a general ruk the reaulted in the victory of Blenheim. The 1400,000 troops into the first line of nothing to come to Paris to stay. The only or any other marriage officer and made fer loci contractus governed the formal citadel and the Chartreuse were still the defence, opposing 20 army corps to the time France's black troops are seen in the and subscribed in the proper records an validity of a marriage, yet where through only defences of Liege in 1888, when, after 23 German army corps which would cross French capital is on the occasion of the Russia would, in twenty-five specially brought over to take part in the

The weather five review at Longchamps.

in oath as to the facts required by Section 7a difference of religion and civilisation it long discussions, the Belgian authorities the frontier ten days after the declaration Fête Nationale, the 14th of July; they are of the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892; that was impossible for the parties to comply decided on adequately fortifying the two of war. XASY TO TANU THERAPION SA the Mission Church Hall at Shan Hai

them of home, sweet home." They never with the ceremonial prescribed by local important passages of the Mense a Liege days despatch 27 arms corps in Kwan was not the official house of the law, they were entitled to be married in and Namur. A number of detached forts armies to the frontier, and in ten days then sufficiently summer-like to remind

were constructed along a perimeter drawn later 13 Ramian army corps would be on marriage officer of the district of Shai any form recognised by their own law.

now which is child's play to the one

comes to them through changes in the temperature, ⠀ Hai Kwan, and that the Rev. Charles The case of Marshall. Marshall could at a distance varying from four to six German soil. The war of 1810 is mere stay very long in any case, lest harm Philip Williams was not a marriage be distinguished from the present case. miles of the town, so as to shelter it as

from hombardment, proceeding.-Singapore Free Press. officer within the meaning of the said Act. In: 1894, by treaty between Great Britain far as possible

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