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NOTICE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

INTIMATIONS

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of F

cente (50 centa) per Share on the Qld WNERS and DRIVERS & MOTOR Shares (Felly Paid) and Three cents (3 conts) VERICLES are hereby Notised that par Bhare on the New Shares, ($1.00 Paid) has On and After TUESDAY, the Torn SEPTERISE, 1924, Motor Vehicles travelling along Case declared for the Half Year anding, 30th Bear in an Easterly Direction past Gov-June, 1994 KANT House will follow the Road to the Loft

HOAD.

reund GOVERNMENT Boss GROUND and thence by way of Lowes ALBERT ROAD to GARDEN

E. D. C. WOLFE.

Capt. Supt. of Police Hongkong, 12th September, 1924. (1247

NOTICE.

T. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE REOPENS for MICHAELMAS TERM on MON. DAY, SEPTEMann 157, 1024 Boarders return on 13 INSTANT. Entrance Examination for New Boys will be held ca SATURDAY, Bartas 19t¤; 1924, at 9 a.v, (1943

NOTICE

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

per

CANTON, LIMITED..

JERTIFICATE No. 718 for 23-Share, £4 Stare Paid up, number 55126/53150 in this Society standing in the Name of ROBERT JOHN JACK SNEDDON, of Hongkong, has boan Declared LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the above Document be not furthcording the said Certi Scate will be deemed Cancelled and of No Effect, and a N&W Certificate for the 25 Shares will be issued in its stand by the Society.

FAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Boagkong, 8th September, 1924.

(1235

BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An INTERIM DIVIDEND of $3.00 per Share has been Declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th Jane. 1994

The Dividend will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the 15ta DEPTEMBER, 1924, at the Offices of the Company, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warranta,

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED libm MONDAY, the 8 SEPTEMBER, to SATURDAY, the 1971 SEPTEMBER, 1924 (both days inclusive), during which period No Transfer of Shares can be registared.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

LI TSE FONG, Acting Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 1st August, 1924.

[1103

THE CHINA SUGAR" REFINING"

CO., LTD.

【TOTICE' IS HEREBY GIVEN that An

No EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING of the above Company will be held

Bush Interim Divideḥal will be payable an

and after TUESDAY, the 25RD SMP,

the Offices of the Company, where Sharaboldare are requested to apply for Warrants. pany will

The BEGISTER OF SRARES of the Com-

be CLOSED from the 13 SEP rskaza, 1924, until the 23an BESTEAK, 1924 (both days inclusiva), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, Jan September, 1924 (1220

THE HONGKONG CHINESE MER. CHANTS STOCK. & PRODUCE EXCHANGE MART.CO., LTD..

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

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INTIMATIONS

WATSON'S

15TH, 1924

ADMIRALTY COURT. CHARTER PARTY CLAIM AND

COUNTER-CLAIM.

if the Powers abandoned their long stand-f ing policy of non-intervention and them- selves took the measures they may derm to be necessary to ensure protection for

A case was opened in the Court of those interests, pending a settlement of Admiralty Jurisdiction yesterday before the personal quarrels among the leading Mr. Justice Trompertz, in which the Ler

AERATED WATERSitarists which has again plunged the country into what threatens to be wide The great mass of the spread civil war. ARE PREPARED FROM REAL Chinese people certainly do not want the

FRUIT ESSENCES.“

GUARANTEED

ABSOLUTELY PURE.

the

war, and auch "imperialism as may be expressed in any intention on the part of the Powers to protect their trade in- terests would, we believe, be welcomed by the mass of the people of China. So far as Great Britain is concerned it can confidently be said that no "interven tion" that may be contemplated woud have territorial aggression in view. The "mexuiag" and purpose" of the "ges tures of British Imperialism," at Canton and Wanhsien are perfectly clear to any

with the juice of raspberries ton official circles pretend to believe," a grown in England and reassertion of the supremacy of British Tasmania.

interests in the great Valley of the Yang

LEMONADE-Has

essence *--- obtained

real from Lemons grown in Southern Italy.

BREWER AND CO. SUED.

INTERESTING SCENES AT THE

·MAGISTRACY.

www.

SUMMONS DISMISSED

CONFISCATED.

BUT BOOKS

At the Central Magistracy yesterday

afternoon, Mr. R. E. Lindsel beard a

Feng Kro firm sued the Dong Lee SS Co., of Shanghai, as owners of the fina

summons brought by Mr. E L. Bentley, Lee No. 1, otherwise known as the hof 4. Fenchurch Avenue, London, against .... Lee No. 1 for necessaries. The defend the Hongkong firm of Brewer & Co., for

alleged infringement of copyright.

It was alleged that American-printed copies of the work "Bentley's Complete Phrase Code "had been wrongfully sold by the defendant firm,

ants counter-claimed for the gun" of 85,661.98 which they said was due to them under a course of dealing,

At the outset of the proceedings, his Worship asked if the manager of Mosers." Drewer & Co. were in Court. Mr. N. I. Brewer, who sat in one of the public seats with Mfr. D. Pasco, of Brewer & Co.. stood up and said that it had not been made clear who actually was the manager of the company. Mr. Pasco, he added,

Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., appeared for the plaintiff and the Hoo. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., for the defendants. -

According to the statement of counter claim, the ship, by charter party dated April 18th, 1922, was chartered by the Chop Soon Seng Heng Rice Milk of Bangkok to make three voyages from Hongkong to Bangkok and back, and the defendants counter-chained for 83,681.99 which they said was due to them under was in Court. a course of dealing which was established

quest of the charterers the plaintiffs collected the freight payable in Hong kong on the cargoes carried from Bangkok to Hongkong from the consigneck of the 7th, be served a summons issued against cargo and accounted to the owners for it, the manager of Messrs Brewer & Co., setting off remittances and disbursements at the bookstore of that firm at 14. Ped- ̈ made on the owners' behalf. As a con- sideration for the charter the owners were der Street. He gave it to a young Euro-~. entitled to the freight. Accordingly on pean lady who was in charge, and said or about July 10th, 1993. the plaintiffs it was for the manager. She told him drew up statement of account in res.

Sergt. Chevalier was thereupon, called

MEETING of the above named Company will ] RASPBERRYADE-Is prepared unhiassed mind. They are not, as Can whereby at the express or implied to give evidence of service of the sum

be held at No. 28, Dis Vove Road Central, on WEDNESDAY, the 177 SEPTEMBER 1934, at 12 Noos; when the Subjoiced Rasala tion, which was passed at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Company held on the 1st SEPTEMBER, 1924, will be submitted for con- frmation as a Special Resolation.

RESOLUSION:

That the Company be "Wound up vol- untarily and that MA CHENG MAN PO bu appointed Liquidator for the purpose of sock Winding sp

By Crier

WONG KWAI EI,

Amistant Manager. Dated 1st September, 1824.

THE

HONGKONG CLUB,

NOTICE.

(1204

HE FOURTH TEARLY DRAWING of TWENTY DEBENTURES of the RONGKONG CLUB (1920 issue--$500 each) held in the Chua Hataz on MONDAY, the 878 SEPTEMBER, 1924, when the following Debentures were Drawn for Redemption

416

17

266

757

62

291

76%

04

375

764

179

398

600.

213

012 411 207

826 937

and will be Payable at the HoxoxaNG AND

mons.

WARNANT. MENTION OF A He said that on Wednesday, August ·

FORMAZONE THE NON-tze and in the hinterland' that feeds

ALCOHOLIO

and nourishes England's vital ganglion in CHAM- PAGNE. It possesses the the Far East-Hia Britannic Majesty's characteristic stimulating Colony of Hongkong"; they were solely and refreshing qualities of and simply protests against nets of sheer Champagne and

has a barbarity either accomplished or threaten. delicious flavour,

ed, and in so far, as they represented "re-assertion" of anything. It was a re-assertion of the claims of Humanity, against this freight, leaving a balance person in charge of the business at the

of 8329.01 due to the owners. In respect time. It is arrant nonsense to say that the T-of the second voyage, plaintiffs, collected At this point, his Worship again asked " are responsible for $14,079.20 as freight and made disburse-in a loud voice if the manager or person perialist Powers

STONE GINGER BEER-The only genuine Stone Ginger ".. Beer in the East. Prepared

by a special

process of fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour which is so pleasing to the palate.

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SOLE AGENTS:

SHANGHAI BANKING CORPOLATION OF TUES. AS. WATSON

DAT, the 30 Sartenza, 1924, in exchange

for surrender of Same.

By Order,

T. A. ROBERTSON, LT..COL., Secretary.

(1239 Hongkong. Eth September, 1524,

DOUGLAS

and

STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

TICKETS be issued for BOUND

(a) Te consider, and, if thought fit, approve New

the draft new Articles of Association of

CO., LTD., Aerated Water Manufacturers.

Established 1841.

BIRTH. RICHARDS-At Newchwang, on August 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. RICHARDS,

DEATH

at the Registered Ofier of the Company TRIPS during the Months of JULY 20 PEDDEN STREET. Victoria, jn, they Colony of Hongkong, on TUESDAY, ta 10 par of SEPTEMBER, from HONGKONG to Foocow SEPTEMBER, 1994, at Noox, for the purposes (Pagoda Anchorage) and Retara, Calling following, namely

A ŚWATOW and Amor on both the Upward Downward Voyage, by the Company's Well-appointed Beamer at the Boduced Bate of $80, the Company which will be submited for the Round Voyage, including Meals while in to the Mesting and in the event of the the Steamer is approval therof, with or

The Special Tickets will be available for modification.

Batom (LT by this Steamer, either by the Voyage for which shows Deration of Stay it is issued or by her follow- ng Bailing t at. Foochow -48 hours.

Steamer

without

(b) To consider, and, if thought it, to pass at Extraordinary Resolation to the

effect:-

(1) That the new Articles already appear- ed by this Menting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by

occupies 8 to 9 days and the

The TTS HONGKONG from the Clones-

paay's Wharf si 5pm, Arriving at Daylight the Chairman thereof, be and the in her Beturn (Weather permitting),

me are hereby adopted a the

to

The Company's Steam Launch will convey Articles of the Company to the exchange from PAGODA ANCHOLISI

FOOCHOT CITY, if required. sion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles theront.

A prizt of such draft new Articles and a print of the existing Articles of the Company may be seen at the Company said Registered Office and at the Office of Messrs. Dricos, 1, Dew Vox Road Central, Victoria aforesaid. Solicitors for the Company. and the portions of the proposed sew Articles which differ from the existing Articles are indiented by underlining

in red

(c) To consider, and, if thought it, to panu an Extraordinary Revolution to the Effect:-

(2) That the name of the Company be changed to "CHINA SDean Reviving GOMFANT, LIMITED.”

"AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A SECOND EXTRAORDIN. ABY GENERAL MEETING of the Com- pany will be held at the Registered OfEce of the Company, PEDDER STREET foresaid, on FRIDAY, THE Sad day of OCTOBER, 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving's Beport of the Proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and of

and of confirming, if thought fit, no Special Rosolations, the above mentioned Re salution and 2L

ÍS HEREBY ÁLSO. GIVEN that the mail SECOND "BLA TRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be held as aforesaid will be continued for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, passing the following farther Resolution Extraordinary Besolution, namely:-**

AND

(3) That each of the existing 220,000 fully

paid up shares of $100 each con

titating the Company's present Capital of $2,000,000 be divided inte four fully paid up shares of $25 each so as to make such Capital $2,200,000 consisting of 80,000 fully paid up shares of $25 each.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A THIRD EXTRAORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING of the Com pany will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, PEDDER BTREET Loremid, en MONDAY THE 20TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1924, at Nou, for the purpose of receiving Report of the proceedings at the above men tiqued Meeting far nå regards Resolution No. 3 above and of confirming, if thought fit, anch Resolation sa & Special Resolution.

Dated this 16th day of June, 1924

By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Agente.

B98

50

For further Pantera to

and Eater of Bailing,

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & O

General Managers, DOUGLAS STALKзKİF Öo., Lab,

(908

Hongkong, 17th June, 1924.

OFFICES TO LET.

Loos, No, 14/18, PADDLE STARZZ,

NO LET-OFFICES on 1st and 3D

1196].

Apply-

PROPERTY OFFICE,.. JALDINI, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

FOR EUROPE AND, AMERICA. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c.

Comprehensïre and Complete Record of the NEWS OF THE FAR EAST Is given in the

· HONGKONG, WEEKLY" PRESS with which is incorporated *THE CHINA OVERLAND

TRADE REPORT.”

Subscription, paid in "advance-$12 · per sarums Laduding Postage to any part of the world-$14.

TO-DAY AD TO-MORROW

LAST SHOWING ZU OF

KICK IN

This ■ NEW Paramount picture in 7 reels, and NOT the 5-reet comedy drama wal ahowed in 1919. Although

they have the same title they have nothing in common.

THE CORONET.

JSON.

A (CIS), FARMER, 6th, CECILIA (C18818), wife of G. ELORD GRIFFIN

fi

pect of the first voyage showing freight that the manager was absent in Eng- collected in May to 41 11,630.50 and land, and witness then told her that he remittances and disbursements made be left the summons with her to hand to the tween May 1st and June 16th set off

ments of 83,938.93 The defendants there- |

the ills that afflict. China Where "Im-fore claimed to set off the plaintiffs' claim in charge of the business were present.

perialist Powers" exercise any authority in China the Chinese people derive ad vantages which are denied" to them by We commend to Dr. their own rulers. SEN YAT SEN a quiet study of the extent

against the freight and counter claimed For the balanco $5,661.28 which they said was due to them. Defendants also claim el interest on the amount at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum up to the time of payment of judgment.

"

CLAIM ADMITTED.

COUNSEL'S SURPRISE,

Mr. Alabaster expressed surprise that this point had not been raised in the pleadings for the plaintiff and as the plaintiffs had not pleaded the point the counterclaim should be allowed to pro- cred. They had no right to take the defer dants by surprise and he was quite sure

Receiving no answer, the Magistrate, addressing Mr. Brewer, asked whether bo

wanted a warrant issued

...

ir. Brewer the replied that the per- soa in charge of the business was pre-

Bent.

SUMMONS PROPERLY SERVED. His Worship held that the sumAZIONE had bees properly served, and the hear- ing of the case proceeded.

Mr. Leask, for the complainant;"' put, in a copy of the Government Gazette în which a list of copyright works was in- cluded. The list contained the name of Phrase Code," Bentley's. Complete sbowing Mr. E. L. Bentley as the author and owner of the copyright.

The Magistrate at this pointed asked Mr. Brewer if he was appearing for the defence, and received an answer in the negative: His Worship then ordered Mr. Paseo to take up his position in the well of the Court as defendant in the action.

Mr. Brewer at first made some appar- ent protests which were inaudible, and on a peremptory command from the Bench, Mr. Pasco rose from where he was sitting, and went and stood in front

of the dock.

Mr. R. S. Danerberg gave evidence that

Bir. Potter said the action was brought of his own responsibility for the deplorby plaintiffs for necessaries, which clair able state into which China has drifted the defendants admitted. The defendants since the Revolution. No one can look on the other hand had laid a counter- claim against the plaintiff. This counter back over the last twelve or thirteen claim, he contended did not come within years of China's history and fail to re-the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court

He therefore submitted that it was not cognise that a momentous error was competent for the Admiralty Court to committed when the Thrane was suddecide a claim of this kind and asked his Lordship to make a decision on this denly swept away and the whole powerpoint Lefore Counsel for the other side of government vested in a people before should be allowed to proceed with the

counter-claim. they had undergone the necessary educa tion which would qualify them to effce- tively exercise it. If the sovereignty of China, has been reduced to mere farce, Dr. Sus Yat Sex, more than any other belovedman, is responsible for it. And when the the point never occurred to them inntil he went to Years. Brewer de Co.'s shop talks of the Russian Revolution as having quite recently. He submitted the counter in Pedder Street, and asked for a copy set an example to China of how a nation claim was really a defence to a claim of Bentley's Code," He bought and which did come within the jurisdiction paid for the pocket edition produced in may free itself from the shackles of the Court and that the Judicature Court, and was given a receipt, also pro

Act made it possible for any right to duced. foreign aggression and injustice. we can be enforced in any Division. The posi

UNAUTHORIZED EDITION, only conclude that his mental condition tion in the present case would have been

Mr. A. Glóver, manager of the Hong- that they would have had to have con- in such that he ought not the at large.

sented to judgment, for they admitted kong branch of Messrs. Kelly & Walb, the claim. and issued a new claim for said that he had been with the firm sinec Messrs. Kelly & Walsh the amount to which they were entitled, January 1900.

During his service with them, the witness & procedure which would have been very were agents for Mr. E. L. Bentley, inconvenient

Replying, Mr. Potter said he had been had handled many copies of the Code, and was familiar with them. Witness through all the authorities" and he was unable to find a single case of the kind had examined the copy produced in Court. that had ever been heard before the and found that it was not an authorized Admiralty Court. The Judicature Act edition. On the title page appeared the did not create jurisdiction where there wards American Edition, and a state was none before. It was for his Lord-ment that it was an exact reprint of the

Brst. edition. It bore Mr. Bentley's. ship to decide whether the Admiralty name. The price of the genuine work Robbers stole a bangle inst Thursday Court had power to try a case of this (standard size) was £4.4.0. In the course desperation by the failure of his efforts from a woman whom they accosted on a kind before the Judicature Act was pase of business witness frequently received

ed. It not, then the counter-claim had footpath between Kennedy and Bowe been misconceived. Roads.

Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Bond. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC.

The Daily Press.

HONGLONG, SEPTEMBLE 157, 1924.

DR. SUN'S RECENT RAVINGS.

Tus recent Bolshevist utterances of Dr. BUN YAT SEN are clearly the ravings of a disappointed man driven to a state of

แ

Falling into the hold of the s. Kata Maru, a cargo coolie was killed on Thurs- dar.

Three Chinese cases of typhoid were notified to the Medical Ofleer of health

on Thursday.

His Lordship. reserved his decision on the point and called on Mr. Alabaster to open the ease on the counter-claim.

ZVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE,

..:.

offers of American editions. As far as to achieve the impossible in China.

he remembered, the price at which they were offered was five dollars gold, with Twenty years ago Dr. Sc# YAT SEN, wo

some discount. Scouts, Guides and Cubs will parade

Mr. Pasco, in answer to his Worship. venture to say, entertained a very differ.

for the morning service at St Andrew's

said that he did not wish to as the ent view of the Bozer Protocol than be Church, Kowloon, to-morrow, and will In the afternoon cridence for the de- witness any questions,

my case, your fendants does to-day. We should be surprised to | të addressed by the Vicar.

Mr. Leask That is given by Mr George was Grimble who stated the usual fee paid Worship. learn that he has declared in any pre-

For travelling on the train without to ship's agents in ports, was $75 a Mr. Pasco said that his defence was

month. vious utterance that the Protocol makes paying their fares, two Chinese wore

that the copies of the Code sold i his Mr. Verent Rein, of Messrs. Wallem shop were bought in good faith in open futilo every attempt as the part of the fined 8, with ten days hard labour in& Co, ship owners of Shanghai, told the market, and sold in open market. He Chinese people to unite and govern default, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday. Court that his Company find the manage- had no knowledge that they were not

ment of the vessel in question, which genuine editions of Bentley's work. themselves. The absurdity of the state.

$1,000 fine, or six months hard labour, belonged to the Dong Lee B.S. Co. He BREWER FORMERLY IN CHARGE."· mont is too transparent to call for serious was the punishment meted out by Mr. Europe and 17 years' experience in the Brewer to give evidence on his behalf, had 10 years' experience in shipping in Defendant said that he wished Mr.. discussion. The Protocol, in point of R. E. Lindsell yesterday on a Chineno Far East.

and Mr. Brewer accordingly went into fact, offers no obstacle whatever to any in respect, of 10,000 cigarettes on which Mr. Vein was cross-examined at con- the witness-box. He said that up to siderable length by Mr. Potter as to the 1919 he was in charge of the business of attempt on the part of the Chinese duty had not been paid.

methods of engaging ship's agents in Mesara. Brewer & Co. Before, that time, various ports, after which the case was he had copies of the American edition of people to unite and govern themselves. "We notice that it has been deemed in

adjourned

"Bentley's Code," Messrs. Kelly & On the contrary, the obvious intention Shanghai to be paychologically, chrono

Walsh used to buy American editions from Brewer & Co., when their stock at the back of it was that it would make logically, and geographically the proper

The out for good government in China, which is and fitting occasion to bring up the

Mr. Leask,

an address to the Magis trate, submitted that though the Ameri the one thing above all others that the question of Extraterritoriality. A corres

can-printed copies of the work were good Powers desire, alike for the effective pondent writes to the NC. Daily News:

in America, they were not good in Hong protection and security of foreign lifeIt is a question of great importancong

A young Chinese on Thursday morning kong of any country signatory to the which has been before the public for many took off his jacket to play football near Berne Convention. Though he asked for and property in China, and the

years and which ought to be settled now. the Diocesan School, Yaumati, and placed a conviction, said Mr. Leask, he pressed general interests of the Chinese people Questions of this kind should not be put the garment on the ground. It contained even more strongly for an order by his Worship that the infringing copies still The foreign interests that have been off indefinitely, and as we are n Republic cigarette case and

Looking round in the course of his to the possession of Hesers. Brewer & built up in China during the past eighty where the democratic spirit runs high, game, the youth saw a young coolic run Co. should be surrendered or a hundred years are too vast and it seems to me that we should have a ning away with the coat, and promptly Holding that the prosecution had fail- plebiscite vote including colier, servants, gave chase. The result was that the thief, ed to prove guilty knowledge against the important to be sacrificed, and if the high class, low class, all Chinese who against whom a previous conviction was defendant company, his Worship diamins- Chinese people themselves cannot give have suffered the oppressions of Extra-recorded, was sent to gaol with harded the summons. At the same time he territoriality, and refugees. Those wear- labour for three months by M. E. W. made an order of the nature requested. to these interests adequate protection and ing uniformis might be excluded from Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy by Mr. Lensk with regard to the remain-

ing copies of the work, security, it should occasion no surprise voting.

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