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HE F. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

THE F

***NOVABA,"

Arrived Hongkong on 22nd December, 1915,

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO

STRAITS.

AND

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vossel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THUR BIGK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where enok Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo --

From London, &c., ex 8.6.

Kashgar

"Arabis" and

From Persian Gulf, ex xa. B. LS. N.

and B. & P. S. N. Ca's SteamPACKS, Optional Goods will be landed here nulem instractions are given to the contrary within:

6 hours.

Goods net oleared within 8 days iuslading dste of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any ssie whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyor, Messrs. GODDARD and Dorelis, at 10 a.. cn Mondays and THURSDAYS. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's serával hore, After which date they cannot be recognised, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.

E. V. PARE For Superintendent

Hongkong, 22nd December, 1915.

UG

"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM MIDDLESBRO', HULL, LONDON, GENOA, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

||\HE Steamship.

** GLENLOGAN;"

Captain H. J. Honda zoo, having arrived from the above Porta, Consignees of Cargo are hereby

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER SOYE, 1915.

[81-4

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY REGULATIONS.

DAVID SAB800N & CO., LTD. SUMMONED AT SHANGHAL

YARN MARKET.

had lost his German nationality and an application was made for a recommen tion for a special licence, On September 28th the services of Wondgemuth were dis- pensed with, the application for special walls & Kotwall, cotton and are brok licence not having been granted. Wohlge

The circular issued by Mosers Polish

ALMA ESTATES, LTD.

THE ANNUAL MEETING,

As the annual genral meeting of the

per cent., which makes twenty per cent. for the year ended September 30th,

Mr. E. T^ Byrne (Chairman), said:- Ae rigards the estate everything is going on well, and we have now arrived at

math had been told in July when there for the period Dember 15th to Alma Estates, Ltd, held at the office of the socretaries, Messrs Hugo Heins. & regulations were published that he would December 20th says:---

Immediately follow the issue of our Co., Shanghai, last week, wolutions wer At H. M. Folies Court, Shanghai, last no longer be paid any salary, but he week before. Mr. G. W, King, Magia continued to assist the defendant com last circular there was a sprinkling of ensed declaring & final dividend of ten pany even after September, to the extent quiries for Tunnan chops resulting in trate, Messrs. David Bacon & Co. Ltd., of winding up affairs and seeing to pend business, in select styles, to the extent of were summoned for brendues of the Trading contracte which had to be dealt with 2,000, bales at about the foregoing quota

Mr. Albert Howard, the defendants tions. Barring this short span of ing with the Enemy Regulations. In all

In all manager said that the compradoro did demand, transactions, during the fort there were ben summonses.

not enter into Lay contracts on behall night, bare been few and far between, being of the firm, nor had he any permission connned to retail parcels of 20/50 bales; by doble he never geen the com- and, all told, there has been no enlivening books before coming to Court feature to the merket, which has continued Biate the departure of Wohlgemuth the in almost the same disappointing state as export business in hidos, eta, had been previously reviewed, Monetary stringency left in the hands of the compradore and is reported to prevail in the interior and there was no foreigner in

charge of it

business, The immediate outlook is far from cheery, and we do not look forward to any substantial improvement in business before the Chinese New Year

petion when we may expect dus rewar for the many years of waiting. One production for the prosent year is ati- mated to be 250,000 lbs., and in view of the high price of rubber. I hope this will be exceeded; our estimates at the same which should therefore bring our all-in coat below the ahilling mark

dants 2-purchased: 67 packingen" of: duck 1 &t the present momentamente tends to retards both clearances and froehtime only promise an increase of $10,000,

Mr. Mckean-Before Wohlgemuth join ed Sassoon's s

know where he was beleve he was employed by employed ?--I Soyka

The Bombay market has ruled quiet but

and we hope by next year our area under

Mr. Mokean appeared for the prose cution and Mr. R. N. Macleod defended

Mr. McKean said that he proposed to deal with the summons relating to a offenoc alleged to have been committed on August 10th of this year. This was one in which the Crown alleged the defen-

feathers containing 205.27 picula at a price of Tis. 21.20 por pical. They had paid Tis. 4,531.78, less a commissions to the compradore of one per cent, so that the enemy actually received TI 4,308.20. On December 13th the Court inued warrant directing Mr. J. E. Bingham to search the premises of the defendants st No. 23 The Bund. He searched the pre wise and, in the course of his search, seized the compradors's ledger drclosing purchases of feathers. Mr. Bingham would show the Court, that on, examina- tion of that book he found an account which showed transactions from time to skine That is a big order date and Aberecalled that at the close of last your 10 por cent, whilst the soil is excellent

Ho was wanted for inspecting hides! Yes.

Is he inspecting your cargo now 1-No. You are sure of that I don't believe And you mill are doing business --- We are trying to do it; the compradore has taken charge of it,

on the firm side in sympathy with Cotton,

Total salas-2,000 bales Stocks-Unsold and undelivered in the godowns 61,000 bales,

We have decided to plant up the 177 nores now under cocoanuts, with rubber, rubber will be about 1,450 asres: We homs spent very littlo money on this 177 acres sud to bring the coconut trees into. profitable condition, we find it would ost about us much as we are now going to ***** YARN REVIEW, 1915.

pay in removing them and planting up. Though marked by violent fluctuations in rubber. We find to make coconut plant You have purchased 2,000 pieces of prices, the year now coming to a close hea ing a suporss, we should have consider- racoon, 3,000 sivet cat and 10,000 other been a fairly profitable oxe, both to foreign ably to increase the area, and even then, I be importers and to native dealers. It will the most we are likely to get is about time, from February, 1914, down to lievo que

Of the on thousand skins, you have our market was in a deplorable state, when for rubber, and adjoins Lot 30, which August of this year, with a firm called Soya, and on August 10th he found an only accepted 8,9401 I suppose they the majority of the native dealers were actually came into bearing in three and known to be very shaky. As the Chinese a half years. You are, of coures, avare

entry

which showed that Messra, Sassoon could not be delivered,

Were they not good enough; rojected New Year approached, however, (in Febru- that amongst our assets there. Bra 2,000 & Co, had purchased the ducks feathors and that the compradore'a charge for the because they were not up to quality ary), some of the dealers made desperate Senawang shares, which in the past have purchase was one per cent. The actual The compradore will be able to give you efforts to arrive at a selement with the been the cause of some tribulation. importers, who, on their part, rather than Since the accounts have been made up the that. note of one per cent. was disclosed in You employ Messrs. John Liddell & bring about a general collapse of the trade we have gold 1,000 at an average of Tis. books themselves, and Mr. Bingham would also tell his Worship that he found Co. for presepacking, do you notf-Yes. had perforce to accept the terms submit 17.81 net, and for the time being are Do you know that this German during tod, thus enabling some of the principal holding on to the balance as we have among the foreign papers of the defen- dants one showing that they did in fact the mouth of November requested Meners, dealers, on the resumption of business after no need for the money, but at the saIDE pay the compradore the amount get out John Liddell for more room for you in the Now Year, to start with a clean sheet. time those shares would form an excellent He would their godown No. This settlement contributed in no small nucleus for a reserve fund, and your in the compradore's book.

Were you in want of more room at degree to the more sound trade conditions directors want to start such a fund breed on such securities which would not be satisfy the Court that Boyka was Liddell's godown-Not that I know of which obtained during the rest of the year. BEER Chinese name for a well-known Austrian And you are in charge of the business? Looking at the back files of our fortnight affected by a fall in the price of rubber. firm carrying on businees in Shanghai-Tex The compradore attends to that, by circulars we find that the lowest pou You will see from the report that wo that the produced tom, at the I do not and he touched during the year was in March, who have at last commenced to instal rubber-

were him, time of the search, correspondence and Mr. FD, K. Farnan, who said he best "Tons" sold between 380 and 300 and preparing machinery, and I think it re- exercised a certain amount of control best Twenties" said between $50 and $105, fects grest credit on our manager that papers showing than the defendants had, over of the book-keeping of Messrs. D. From the mouth of April and onward, prices

ho has been able during the past two at the time of passing the regulations and for some time subsequent to the tame Sassoon & Co., produced copies of an began slowly to recover until latter part years to cope with 12 to over 20,000 lb. when they had been put in force, gen- extract showing the debit and credit of September, when the highest point of the monthly with hand labour only, and what year was touched, best Tens then reach is more, to turn out fres-clase sheet which theman named Wohlgemuth, a German sides of the compradore's current sowunt subject, who was in charge of the exam for feathers. All the contract notes pro-ing 811 and Twenties $143. During compares with the best on the marke nation of cargo for export ducks fea duced had been between the company and the latter month the excitement in the Owing such a satisfactory year's busi- n, your directors have naturally de- the compradore. thers and hides. A letter was produced transactions in hides for a considerable very high owing to reports of short crops cided to increase the bonus paid to the showing that on September 28th his ser time, the last lot on hand being dealt with of cotton. Fortunately, however, our local staff, which we are sure will meet with vioes were dispensed with

adopted After hearing evidenes to this effect, last year. Wohlgemuth was takes on as dealers were not carried off their feet as your approval, gdy popot

The business in feathers avoided launching out in args forward and it was decided that for the financial

The report and account were the Magistrate framed a charge that the hide expert.

for the year amounted to Tis. 56,000 odd. tracte, as they had hitherto always done defendants did directly or indirectly. The feather business was very small com-when they learnt by bitter experience the cbtain from an enemy goods, wares or nared with the hide business, which in disastrous effects of a sudden setback with merchandise, under regulations 2 clause.

the previous year must have amounted to large stocks on their hands still undigested 6 of the Trading with the Enemy Amend about four lakhs, defined Such a setback was not long in coming the men Regulations: 1016 answer to Mr. McKeen witness excitement having quito misided by the

Mr. Macleod said there were two de fences which he had to bring before his

middle of October, when prices commenced Worship a notice. In the first place the

steadily to recede defendants did this business with their compradore: They bought from him and ho in turn bought from third parties. That was the first anewer to any of these chuurges. The second was that the man described in the compradore's book was a Chinese and not an Austrian firm. To prove

The defendant's compradore in the the latter fact, it would be necessary for witness box, recognised his ledger, pro- him and the defendant company would duced. The "Soyka written at the Bale prefer to do it, to trace all these moners head of one account was Tu Nan-ken. Deliveries into the possession of the Chinese and He was called Boyka? because Tou Comparative prices. 10s 830-$ 97, 800-8105. satisfy bis Worship that there was no Nan-keee signboard bore those charac-

De 20s 808-81.15. 8115-8130. ground for saying that the Boyke men bers. The account was go with the In our last annual Review we drew at- tioned was an Austrian firm. be done, but it meant an immense amount Austrian firm of L. Soyka, and had no- tention to the great strides which Japanese of translation of books. Yet the question thing to do with them The account was yarn has been making year by year of whether Soyka were an Austrian firm charged by witness for office expenses, special feature of the year just closing in the account not having been settled up to this connection is that Japanese No. 20 has or not, went to the root of the whole the present Teu Nau-ked carried on entirely driven out this count of Botabay question.

The compradore bad instrue business in feathers and skins in Nan yarn from the local market, so much so that OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. tious not to deal with Germane, Austriana King. Witness did not know whether during the past three months not a single or Turks or any enemy subject aud, Tau was connected with L. Soyka, per- bale of Indian 20s has been negotiated in SOLE AGENTS:

far as the defendante knew, he had not done so. He hoped to be able to prove hape he was began daith mpenzi

he MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA.

that Boyka was a Chinese, but, if not, further hoped to show that his clients knew nothing about any trading with

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

LAGER BEE

COMPASS

HONGKONG,

CO. TOKIO

JAPAN

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an enemy.

There had been no Bombay market, ne well as in China, ray

admitted that had it not been for the war Wohlgemus would be inspecting fute, feathers and hides. He was not aware who examined them now.

Below we append a comparative tahle of will be won that, while the sales for the Arrivals, Sales, and Deliveries, from which current year are about the same as those

Mr. McKean Who inspects the fee thers and skins That I cannot tell you, unless it is the compradore.

And the compradore is the seller of 1914, the deliveries show an encouraging

improvement of more than 20,000 balos':

· 1014. Arrivals

the local market.

175,000

1015. 169,000 109,000: 105,000 155,000 177,000

The defendants bought their feathers He had never bought gools for them as from witness, and had always done so. their agent. Witness and another Chinese (an old coolie) inspected the feathers He did not know whether Wohlgemuth TERRIBLE SUITERINGS AT THE HANDS OF THE

His Worship-You are going to prove that Soyka is a Chinese. If you do that an answer to all the charges is found bad inspected hides since September or Mr. Macleod said that he was, but pot. The firm entirely trusted withies to

inspect the feathers. of added that all the books, qecessary for "THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS & İhim to do that were not in his chenta'

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All Claims must be presented within Fırtain DATS of the Steamer's arrival here, after which

date they cannot be recognised.

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Mr. McKean-Who inspect the skinu was in the hands of the Chinese T has had experience, and I inspect them,

You bought ten thousand sking and Nan-kee his passbook. He proceeded to cold ten thousand after inspecting them quote documents the effect of which, hoo Messrs. Bassoon !—Yes, submitted, was that the defendants bought How is it you only delivered 8,9403 from the compradore goods at a price Since I was trusted, I was more parti- agreed upon between them. He offered cutar and I rejected them the goods at a price and you got meny You say you purchased these skins found that entisfactory they bought which you paid for and sold them to Dealing with the transfer in September Mesere. Sassoon's on your own count last of the Soyka account to the name of and after you hau sold when, your con Tea Nan-key in defendants books counsel science struck you and you rejected these said that the two names represented one is this what you want the Court to and the same person. Otherwise there believe It is the truth, was a liability of the seller and that liability had been transferred to someone dee and it was not likely that the tum. pradore would be able to easier the liability, and therefore, to meet the Crown, he was quite prepared to seres that the transactions winch took place after September 1st were with the same person as he who appeared under the name of Boyits. If was part of the case which he had to put before the Court that every single item in the account of Soyks could be traced in the account of Teu Nan-keo Tau Nab-krb and the compra dore were in a joint account. The former purchased good, in Nanking on behalf of the joint account. The goods having been bought were then treated ant sold to the defendants by their compra done at a price agreed between them, and

man" troops are now engaged in routing

Serbian people out of their houses and installing themselves therein.

The inhabitants of the little towns and villages have got to find shelter wherever they can find it. The correspondent pro- oeeds to drew a picture, evidently much to his satisfaction, of some twenty of thirty old men, women, sud small child-

goes

sitting packed close together in a pigsty, open to the wind and rain, which poura down upon them in torrents, officers and men sitting comfortably Inside the adjoining farm are German

-About two or three years

freezing and without food, the Germans How long have you known Teu Nan round cheerful fires awaiting & smoking meal. Though crowds of people are lying Will you deny you told Mr. Bingham, when he came to your office, that you cannot help them Whatever food there

to the German army. Nic knew, -Tau Nao kto was employed by Boys and had since left? I don't deny All Serbian men under fifty, se rel in

In endless columns they are moving so young lads are being driven away. Will you deny that he is employed by northward escorted by Ublans and fol Boys now if I tell you that the Hong, lowed by their womenfolk fo kung and Shanghai Bank my he iThe Ublans push the women back, but only know that when I deal with Tsu they persist, and follow their loved ones Nan-kes I deal with him individually.

until they sink by the roadade worn out Will you deny be is engaged with by fatigue and hunger and watch the

captives receding in the distance. Boyka now-I deny that wan

Central News

You know Messrs. Bassoon rent godown space from Liddell & Co. Yeown Did you want an extension in Novem ber last 7-Yes,

Do you know that Wohlgemuth went had not received aus salary from them; to Messrs. Liddell and applied for that 1 that he had been paid a commission Ho

That I don't know.

produced another book which he said con-

the compradore's book showed the pay- ments as between the compradore and Tau Nan-kee. The importance of this

Teu Nan-kee was called by Mr. Mac tained a statement of all his dealings was that it was a matter entirely unlood. He produced, two books kept in with Baisoner's compradore; he was pre the name in pared to leave these two books in Court.

year 1914/15 a final dividend of 10 per cont, equal to 0.80 el cents per mare, be paid on the capital of the company to shareholders on record on December 23rd, 1915.

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Bunday, January 9th-All Inspectors Brid Borgeanta will fire Part 3 of Muskatby Course

known to the defendanta They, did not / Chinese. The first book barren and the He gave evidence of the entries in All Members, requiring uniforÍN OF BUY

say the books and knew nothing about, Chinese characters of Boy these contract, until they saw the tran book contained a statement of his se- book bearing the name of Boyka of The Shanghai Kelantan Rubber Estates,alations the previous day ----

counts with firms and person to whom osrtain payments received by him on Limited.

With regard to Wohlgemuth in the be had sold goods; that the book con- several days in the 7th Moon of this year.

He said that he was doing this be month of August correspondence took tained an account of his

dealings with place between British Consul Generay the Compradore of D. Bacon & Co, with Sassoons in joint account with and the defendants. The facts of the case Ltd.; that it also contained accounts of compradore, that no one else weng stated to the Consul General and he his dealings in the same kind of goods any interest in his transactions. said he would be willing to recommend spd in the same manner with other firme Mr. Macleod applied for an adjoura- the granting of a special licence to the be mentioned Mesars Jardine Matheson ment of one week to have translations man to trade, if the defendants, would&Co., Ltd He said that he was in ne made of Teu Nan-kee's books, or to come kafy him that Wohlgemuth had way connected with the Austrian firm of to some agreement with counsel for the Subscription: glâ per annum, payable nounced bie nationality. At the end of L. Boyka; that he had been connected with Crown as to the contents of these books, August the defendant handed to the that firm in the past, and that he had Mr. MaRaan meds no objection, and Las io advance; postage extra.

Consuls certificate to the effect that be sold goods to them as a dealer; that he case was adjourned until December 30th.

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Defeuiters wil attend this office at 5 pm.

___ to-morrow (Friday)

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faspector Mow Fung is appointed to take

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