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BANKRUPTCY OF MR. R. V.
DENT.
ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE GRANTED DEBTOR.
HONEST FAILURE DUE TO BAD TRADE.
نیئے
Mr. R. V. Dent, formerly of Dent & Co., Shanghai, who was adjudged bankrupt in August, 1923, successfully applied for his discharge at H.M. Supreme Court, Shang- hai, on the 8th inst. The set liabilities of the company on its failure in 1923 amounted to Tis 706,908.
In answer to Judge Sir Skinner Turner, Mr. A. C. Holborrow, for Mr. Dent, xaid that no creditors were present, and fr. McLure, the trustee, raised no objections to the application.
影
LOCAL SPORT
FOOTBALL.
R.A. DEFEAT THE POLICE.
Playing in Division I. of the Hongkong League on the Kowloon F.C ground yesterday, the R.A. beat the Police by
a goal to nil
·HONGKONG EIFLE LEAGUE.
.M.S. TITANIA " D. H.M.S.
A! HAWKINS.".
The above match was shot off at Stone- cutters Range on Saturday, December 5th, and resulted in a win for H.M.S. Hawkins The scores were as follows:
EM. HAWKINS.";
200 300 600 yds. yda yds. tal.
31
30
28
31
25 83
204
Totals, 904 99% Plus 6% for need sigghts.....
TITANIA"
Naras A strong wind blowing across the field P.U. H., Page......... took the hall out of play. The B.A. had Sgt. W. J. Atkins.
AB. L. Ring the advantage during the first half and Sgt. W. J. Shaw 20 score the only goal of the match. LS. S. Trowbridge 92
P.O. A. Lewry They took the load after twenty-five P.O. A. C. hoday minutes' play, when Pullord, meeting a Col.-Sgt. W., Gossett 20 forward pass from Milos, gave Clarke no chance. Following this Brittain, who was pushed forward to lead the attack, missed by inches only and later lifted the ball over the bar from a pass by Simpson, Half-time: R.A., 1; Police, 0.
Playing with the wind the Police put the R.A. on the defensive but the inside forwards failed to take advantage of good openings.
The Oficial Receiver (Mr. D. R. Cooke, in his report, after, referring to the state of bankrupt's affairs, said that Mr. Dent had paid regularly Tls: 100, out of his carnings. The failure of the bankrupt was an honest failure and in the "main was due to severe trade depression from
Johnson, who changed places with 1921-23 He had all along readered the trustees and bimself (the Official Re-Brittain in the second balf, failed to turn ceiver) every assistance. The bankrupt's to account a good centre by Simpson. assets were not of the value of 10s. in the Milee had a good chance to put the £ on his unsecured liabilities. In the Gunners further ahead but, with Clarke' judgment. of the Official Receiver no re-
out of goal, be miskicked and the ball flexion rested upon the honesty or went outside the posta. tegrity of bankrupt.
Pulford later netted for the RA. after AN EXPERIENCED BUSINESS MAN. the whistle had gone against him fer Mr. Helborrow, in applying for Mr. outside. There was no scoring in the Dent's unconditional discharge under the second half, the R.A. winning by the Bankruptcy Act of 1914, said that the only goal scored.
Simpson.
report of the Official Receiver covered the Police A. E. Clarke; Wynne nad whole of the ground upon which wayarle; Johnson, Oramand Randall; questions might arise. The bankruptcy Cornwati, Post. Brittain. Noonan and was caused by the most innocent misfor tune on Mr. Dent's part. He was a man who had had long and careful training frem as youth upwards and there was no doubt that he was an experienced busincas man. Some of his biggest credi- tors bad expressed their sympathy for Him, wule others had written to that effect to the Official Receiver.
H.A.Stanton: Trim and Excell; Rachell, Reade and Viccars; Grew, Miles, Pulford. Sargent and Murphy
Referee:-Mr. Smyth.
SUNDAY HERALD CHARITY,
CUP.
The following will represent England
Name.
Lt. H. W. Keymer. 30
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ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. CASE AGAINST CHINESE DISMISSED.
The case in which a Chinese named Tse Hing was charged with conspiring with others to defraud another Chinese of $2,000, was concluded before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when defendant way' discharged..
Mr. D. McCallum prosecuted, and th defendant was represented by Mr. L. D. Turner.
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A Police interpreter gave evidence. that at the Police Station when ho
T.
asked the two shop fokis whether they saw complainant hand over money ta defendant they said they did not see the money handed ovek hut beard their 87 mistress speak about it.
Та
tal..
H.M.S.
200 500 600 yds. yds. yds.
98.
21.
33. g
·92
86
31
28.24
83
器 24
19
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Mre. Vince
AB. Hammond ... 19 Cpl. Kier
Totais
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205 197
50€
H.M.S. IROQUOIS v. H.M.S.
HAWKINS."
Alter further evidence, Mr. Turner ad- dressed the Court drawing attention to
74 contradictory statements of witnesses
regarding the passing of the money. Re ferring to the woman who turned up at the Station two days after the Police hal rejected the case, Mr. Turner said she apparently had subsequently developed a marvellous memory for details. The caser for the prosecution had been most oh. vicusly worked up and could hardly Le credited.
The above match was shot off at Stone- December cutters Range on Saturday, 12thy and resulted in a win for H.M.S. fackin. The scores were as follows:-
14
Name.
300
H..S. HAWKING."
900- yda yds
30
30
30 -30
Sgt. W. J. Shaw......30
P.O. A. Lewry....... P.O. H. Page 30 Col.-Sgt. W. Gossett as U. A. C. Thoday. 27 A.B. L. Ring....... FB. S. Trowbridge. Sgt. W. J. Atkins... 24
Totals
939
4.M.S."1ROQUOIS.
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Mr. McCallum, replying, said that a far as the prosecntion was concerned the To faets were very simple. There was only tal.complainant's evidence of any
13
88
26
money
$0 having been passed. The two fokis hail snid in the Police Station they only heard about it, but they saw complainant with money in her hands. The woman who gave evidence said also that she saw the 668 money in the complainant's hands but did not see it pass. His Worship knew: how confused Chinese got in these car- 200 300 200 yds. yds. yds. talters, and there was nothing very 'extra' ordinary about the fact that the worin A.B. F. J. Hoare.... 23 P.O. C. Stace........ 26
was not called when the fobin went to S.P. A Patton. 29 E. Lobb....... 23
the Police Station for the first time. He
A.B. H. Hawker.... 25 A.B. W. Barnes .... P.O. G. Vincent......
Name
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To
30
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24
76
46
72
60
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..187 185 178
558
Mr. Dent's salary, counsel went on, was against South China on Christmas Day.B. E. Webb... 31 at present Tis: 500, per month as sub-kick-off at 11 a.m. :— manager of La Générale Soies. Out of that money he had to support himself and his son.
His son was 11 years old, and counsel thought his Lordship would realize that without a certain income it was quite impossible for him to pay anything. Any. thing that he could do, supposing he paid A similar sum, would mean absolutely nothing to the creditors. Supposing he were to pay Tis. 100 per month it would represent something infinitesimal and his Lordship knew that living was expen- sive in Shanghai..
ASSISTANCE TO TRUSTEE
"Mr. Dent," counsel went on," be- longs to a very good and old Shanghai family which has been connected with China for over 100 years. I submit that benefit would be derived by the credi- tors, whereas it would be a hardship on Mr. Dent to contribute anything
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Out of office hours he did a little photo graphic work which really amounted to nothing in the way of remuneration. During all the time since his bankruptcy
Wavish (Temur)> Wheeler (Kowloon)
and Wynne (Police); Mitchell (East Sarreys), Sims (Kowloon) and Watson R.K. Club); Charlesworth (East Sur- reys), Mason (Kowloon), Humberstane, Batted and Mackleworth (East Surreys). England will play in white.
HOCKEY.
SIM SHIELD.
ARMY DEAW WITH NAVY.
The Army and the Navy met, in the third match of the triangular contests for the Sim Shield on the U.S.R.C. ground, Kowloon, on Monday evening, and drew with three goals each. The teams were as under :-
Totals
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
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submitted that this was not the first time that defendant had taken advantage of bis position as being entirely in charge of the shop.
His Worship after consideration," said he thought the whole charge was con cocted, and defendant would be dis charged.
MARINE COURT
THE NEW COMMITTEE. The following were elected to the Com mittee of the R.H.K.G.C. at the annup! general meeting on Tuesday:-Messrs. At the Marine Court yesterday, Lieut.- GS, Archbutt, D. G. Bruce, J W Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., dealt with Franks, A. K Henderson, C. Bulmer the following cases: Johnson, C. D. Lambert, R. L. "Moncrieff, T. D.-E. Pendered, J. M. Walker.
GOLF.
When the Happy Valley golf course was not fit for playing on, owing to the floods, the members of the Junior Section were entertained to an all day match by the
he bad been assisting the trustee and had Army: Sergt. Clark; Sergt. Phillips, done all in his power to help bir He Lt. Smith; Capt. C. D. Armstrong Kowloon Golf Club. The Happy Valley was, counsel submitted, justified in ap-Capt. D. J. Allfree (Capt.), Lt. Webb, plying for an absolute discharge.
The Offcial Receiver made no objection. Cpl. Masters, Lt. V R. Wright course being now in good condition, the The Judge said it appeared to bum that Neville, Pte. Burgess, Lt. Jacob-Larcomb, Junior Section will entertain the Kow there was a proviso in the section of the 2nd-Lt. C/ H. Dickins Act. which enabled him to disregard the fact which had been proved that the assets in the bankruptcy did not amount to 10s. in the 2 on the unsecured liabili Lt. Nicholson, Lt. Hill, Lt Sillitoe, Lt sixteen aside and play will commence at tica. That proviso covered this report Fleet
9.30 m, singles being played in the and in that sense the trustce in the bank- Referee:Cupt, C. H. D. O'Callaghan morning and foursomes in the afternoon. rupter reported in exactly the same way. The play on the whole was disappoint None of the creditors had come there to
Off-sides suggest anything else. Other matters ing and did not approach the standard which had to be taken into account were of the wo previous matches.
Navy:-Lt. Garwood; Le Wauchope, loon Golf Club to an all day match on Lt. Emley Lt. King, Lt. Simpson Sunday, January 3rd. The teams will be (Capt), Lt. Broume Fay-Sub Lt. Wilson,
not suggested by anybody to have been were very prevalent and good movements WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION. done by the bankrupt. To all intents and generally ended weakly. purposes it was improbable that my The Army were slightly superior in the KOMOR & KOMOR'S DISPLAY OF
his Lordship might make granting conditional discharge would lead to any benefit of the creditors. In thero circum-
opening half, but on the whole the game was evenly contested.
The master of an unlicensed junk was fined $90, with the alternativs. of two weeks hard labour, for failing to take out a licence for his junk, as required by the Hongkong Merchant Shipping Ordi-
nance.
Another master of, an unlicensed junk was fined $30, or three weeks" hard" labour in default; for (a) failing to re- port the arrival of his junk to the Har bour Office; (b) failing to take out a licence for his junk, and (e) leaving port- without obtaining clearance.
Four masters of cargo boats were each Sned 83, with the alternative of five days hard labour, for mooring their boate inshore at a distance of less than 100 yards from low water mark
OBITUARY.
MR. H. E. STEARNS.
"It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. H. E. Stearns
ton, Ltd. Mr. Stearns, who until recently of the Union Insurance Society of Can
Kobe, had been-in poor health for some was Manager of the Society's Branch at time and only recently passed through here on the Mantua on his way home on
JAPANESE ART. Following up their recent print and art the A few minutes after the beginning stances it seemed to the Court, in view Army scored through Dickins, The Navy exhibition, Messrs. Komor & Kamor sick leave. He was, however, unable to of all the facts disclosed, that it ought
exhibi. entered hospital and, following an opera- ia Alexandria Building a te grant, and his Lordship was glad to squalised ten minutes later through opened yesterday at their premises proceed farther than Colombo where he
Nicholson. Continuing to press etion of
water colours which will tion, he passed away on the 14th inst. do it, the discharge.
Army again scored through Wright- be on view for a period of ten Neville twice,
| days. These water colours are by cele
SHANGHAI * CHINA AGAIN IN DEFAULT" On resuming the Army were penalised brated Japanese artists. They are of all THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT
and from a pass by Simpson, Hill scored sizes and variety, and have been excel- for the Navy. The Navy put more vim lently arranged on a well-lighted wall in Under this heading appears the follow-into their play, the Army custodian put the centre of the art-room upstaira ing city.
note in a recent London ting up a very fine game. He was, how. Then are a variety of views, embrac. FOREIGN POPULATION DOUBLED paper.
beaten by a fast shot from Nichoking landscapes and river scença at all China is again in default, the money ever natt by the scores were levelled, seasons of the year, and the collection for the Tientsin-Pukow. (Bupplementary) There was no further, scoring. Loan not having come to hand. There
have been delays before, but this time it
The position now is
Army Club:
is feared that the wait may be a long one. The price at which the bonds stand NAVY recognises present insecurity, and many others of the Chinese Loans are quoted at figures which suggest that all con fidence in interest payments. Has been lost, It is not surprising. having regard to the chaos existing in the country, and it can only be hoped that the Powers, with the assistance of America, will be
Goals.
5.4 3 433 021-30
H.K. CLUB 2ND XI. 9. RA
IN FIVE YEARS. includes a number of delightful sepiasThe census of the Foreign Concession and impressionist pictures. The cat at Shanghal Laken, in October showed a population of 297,072, made up of 7,811 logue shows that in all 120 pictures aro on view and these can be purchased at foreigners and 289,561 Chinese, British, represented by 9,312, are the most nume- very moderate prices, ranging from the small sum of $2 up to $80
rous among the foreign population To pick out just a few; there is a very Russians, come next with 1,403, then fine view of Hakone by Tornuchi, at the American, 1151; French, 802; German, very moderate-price of $8. Then there
is a very attractive view of the well- 270; Danish, 161 Japanese, 110; Portu known Uyena Park, Tokyo, famous for guese, 118. No fewer than 23 different its celebrated old temples, which would nationalities are represented in the
The Hongkong Hockey Club 2nd XI. be au adornment to any room A beauti- foreign population able and allowed to find a way to restore playel the Royal Artillery on the Marina ful picture of Nikkoby Yokopchi, and The census taken in 1920 showed a the country's finances. Unfortunately, ground, Kowloon, in a friendly match another picture of a Temple in a grey foreign population of 3.562; so that in
doubled, the continued political unsettlement and were victorious by 6 goals to stil. winter setting are irresistibly fascinating five years the foreign population-of- makes it very difficult to propose any The goals were scored by Lyons (2), Price The exhibition is well worth a visit by the French Bettlement, has more than
all lovers of art (2) and Garrod. scheme that promises immediate success.
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