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IN THE MATTER PY THE COMPANIES

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IN THE MATTER OF THE WA ON STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

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the Petition for the Winding-up of the above named Company by the Court was on the 12th day of / EGUST,, 1926, presented to the said Court by LEUNG WANG, dent Creditor, of No. 2, Unston Road (ad is r), Kowloon, Hongkong, and that the said Feti tion is directed to be heard before the Court NO ON sitting at 10.30 'CLOCK in the FORENOON ON WEDNESDAY, THE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEM. BEB, 1916, and by Creditor or Contributory of the said Company desirous to

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SEPTEMBER 8TH, 1926

A consignment of silver amounting to $800,000 has been conveyed to Nanking from Shanghai Chinese banks for Mar- bal Sun Chuan Fang, to pay his troops.

Robert Young, a Chinese youth, was fined respectively $10 and $8 at the Central Magistracy yesterday, for riding a motor-cycle without a licence, and with using a wrong number-plate.

British wharves and the British naval authorities have announced their inten- tion of preventing them from Aring, in future, upon passengers by British boata the Government might have completed the rout by insisting upon the surrender of arms, and the disbandment of the organisation. There is no doubt such, a step would have been popular with all sections of the community-with the ex- A gold watch, valued at $250, has Been ception, of course, of the pickets them-stolen from Mr. Russell, Government selves and it would have been the Marine Surveyor, who states in a report quickest method of securing the removal to the police that he left the watch in the pocket of his coat hanging in the bed of the naval guards. If instead of waste room. ing time in making vain protests the Government had offered the British Consul-General reasonable guarantees that it would maintain law and order the bluejackets would unquestionably bave been immediately withdrawn. The British Government has no desire to undertake police work for which the Canton Government itself is responsible, but having adopted a defaite policy after fourteen months of weary wait ing it is unlikely that it will change that policy without some assuraure that the conditions which led up to it will be radically changed.

The language used by Mr. EUGENE CHEN in his letter to the British Consul is vigorous and vituperative, but, as he himself knows very well, he does not, and a good case. "The cannot, make out wharves are leased to the Hongkong,

Cantor and Macao Steamboat Company and are therefore British property British subjects have been denied access to them by the Strike Pickets who have used them as a point of vantage from which to harass British shipping and to prevent the loading of British goods. To argue that no British lives have been endanger. ed is puerile in face of the shooting that has been a nightly occurrence for months

Freight service on the Shanghai-Nan king Railway has been suspended. Tho reason for this is the coniscation by the military of freight wagous for their own purposes. Some 150 wagons have been taken away.

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Capt. Laurenson, Secretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild and Mr. Stokes, Secretary of the Marine Engineers' Guild of China, left in the s.s. Siechten for Shanghai. They expect to return about the 21st inst.

In the report of the trouble on the dagers, in our issue of September 2nd, it was stated that the gangway was hauled up by the crew and not lowered until 11 o'clock. The French official re- ports state that the gangway was lowered a: 9.30,

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Among the passengers on the Patroclus, which is due abortly, is Mr. Alex. Ross, of Alex Ross & Co., Manchester, Hong kong and Shanghai. It is 44 years since r: Ross first came out East to the service of the then important and highly spected firm of Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co.

Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, ncted American explorer and archeologist, who has recently emerged from his third Mongolian expedition in search of pre- historic remains and evidence of the missing link," left Shanghai on the 4th inst., for the U.S.A. where he intends

to proceed on a lecture tour.

A drowning fatality was reported from the New Territories, on Monday. A group of small boys had gone into the stream behind the Taipo Railway Station and whilst bathing one of them, named Lai Chi Wan, was scen suddenly to go under. Attempts to rescue the boy were unsuccessful. The body was recover

ed some hours later.

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Moreover, as MECHEN must past realise, there is absolutely no resentment of the Navy's action among the Chinese

Another batch of 25 students has left people. The majority of Chinese traders expected such action long since. Their shanghai to join the Shun San (Dr. wonder is that it has been so unduly Sun) University at Canton, says the delayed. Now that it has come it is N.-U. Daily News of the 4th inst. welcomed, and the Canton Government may be remembered that more than 160 students, whose Communistic tendencies will be guilty of the gravest error of were too much for their college in Shang.

carly in the summer.

It

judgment if it allows the Strike Pickets bal, left for this particular university

to stir up any ill-feeling among th:

A meeting of the Sanitary Board was baser elements of the population. Evi- held yesterday, there being no items of dence is steadily accumulating that the public interest on the agenda. Those people are sick and tired of the present present were Mr. N. L. Smith (Presi dent), Hon. Dr. W. V M: Koch, Hos. administration, or rather lack of a Mr. E. T. Creasy, Dr. J. C. Macgown, The turning point has Dr. S. W. Tso, Col. Boylan Smith, Mr. ministration.

Worg Kwong Tin, Dr. A. G. M. Severn almost come. Only a spark is aceded to (M.C.E.), and Mr. R. A. D. Forrest start a conflagration which would cer- (Secretary);

The concert in aid of the Alico "Me- merial and Affiliated Hospitals, which is to be given at the Theatre Royal on Monday, September 20th, is under, the patronage of H.E. the Governor nad Lady Clementi, and the programme for it is being arranged by Professor Harry Ore. The programme will be contributed to Mr. V. G. Darrow, the well-known local Russian baritone, and other local artistes are also giving their services for. the benefit of the hospitals. Booking may be made at the Anderson Music Co Ltd., Ice House Street.

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Mr. R. F. Johnston, tutor to Pu-Yi,

the young ex-Emperor of China, has returned to England for the first time in thirteen years. He has gone in con- nection with the winding up of the Boxer Indemnity business, and is acting as secretary to the British Delegation. It was Mr. Johnston who saved the boy- Emperor after the coup d'état of Feng. the Christian General, in November, 1924.

The Daily Graphic says that in spite of the thrills of life in the Far East, Mr. Johnston Anda much to astonish him in Wonderful Londos. He even canfosses to feeling awed by the moter-"buses.

Mr. Sion Hanania, reputed to have been very wealthy formerly, was found dead, in his residence at the corner of Seymour and Bubbling Well Roads yes- terday morning, says the .C. Daily Arus of the 4th inst. Deceased's servant, who came into his master's room found him hanging from the cross-beam above the bedroom door. His loft arm was also slashed. At an inquest conducted by Mr. G. W. King, O.B.E, Mr. Somekb, who had known him for a long time, identified the body. Mr. Hanania came to Shanghai about a year ago and is thought to have been very wealthy, some saying he was worth Tis. 10,000,000 at Among his effects were found one time. certain papers which indicated that he had been speculating in sugar.

Messrs. Komor & Komer, art dealers, have taken possession of their new pre- mises on part of the ground door of St. George's Building. Their new shop is situated in what was until recently part of the late Café Wiseman. The necessary reconstruction has been quickly carried out and a partition wall between the other part of the ground floor put up. Large windows of Mesara. Komor & Komor's shop face both in lee House. Street and Chater Road. Yesterday the various curios were in course of being displayed and exhibited in prominent positions in the shop. Next door, in thể- adjoining part of the late Café Wiseman, Messrs. Anderson Music Company have taken over. A notice in their old shop at the opposite side of the road indicates that it is to let The other part of the ground floor of St. George's Build- ing is rapidly approaching completion, in its reconstruction and will be taken over shortly by the other occupiers who have previously been mentioned as re- moving there.

*OBITUARY.

MRS. ARCHIBALD LITTLE.

A great reformer, traveller, writer, and pioneer of British interests in China has passed away in Mrs. Archibald Little, whose death took place on July 31st, at the ripe age of 81 years. Until a year

or two ago her energy was unabated, but latterly her health failed and the end was not unexpected. The ties of many years were "broken in 1908, when Mrs. Home and European mail vid Siberia | Little left China to settle in the old coun try. She was accompanied by her hus Tjikarang, which also brought Shanghai band, and they took up residence at Fal- mail. The total number of bags landed mouth, where Mr. Little died in Novem- was 225, of which 36 were from the United ber of the same year. Kingdom, and 28 from the Cortinent. The Empress of Russia brought. 426 bags. of mail from Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai, and the ss. Sarpedon 25 bags from Shanghai.

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LADY WADE.

Lady Wade, the widow of Sir Thomas Francis Wade, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., at one time Minister in China, has died at. Lieut. Col. Ronald" Macclesfield-Heath, Tunbridge Wells, after a short illness. mand of the British forces in North William Herschel, the distinguished as- CM.G., D.S.O., who is taking over com- She was Amelia, granddaughter of Sir China, is a member of a famous military tronomer who discovered the planet He has received many Wade in 1668, who three years later be in the army. family and has spent all his adult life Uranus, and she married Sir Thomas came British Envoy at Peking and held military honours, including the much

fesenr of Chinese at Cambridge Univer coveted Queen's Medal, the Distinguished the post till 1883. Later he became Pro- Order and, during the great war, the

sity. French, Croix des Guerre

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CORLEY-METCALF-On August 7th, attainly end the Kuomintang's career, and

Paul's, Knightsbridge, Jour any attempt at engineering a demon-arrived yesterday morning by the s.s. ROBERT FULTON COLLEY, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia stration would probably supply it.

No one knows better than the Canton and China (Hongkong aud Hurma),

HARRIETTE DOHOTHY, youngest Information Bureau that for weeks past daughter of the late Captain W. H METCALF, of Douglas, 1.0.M., and the people have been buored up with Mira. E. B. METCALF, of Vancouver. lies. The truth is now beginning to

DEATHS.

trickle through. Wuchang has not yet RENTOVL-In Ireland, on August 25th, fallen and members of the Kuomintang

the Rev.. R. W. R. RENTOUL B.A., of the English Presbyterian Mission, themselves admit that unless it falla Shanghang.

[3934 within five days the retreat of the DE SAUSMAREZ.-On August 8th, at a

nursing bome in London, ARTHUR Southern Army will be imperative. The THOMAS ST. VINCENT DE SAUBMARzz, capture of Wuchang was celebrated with Guernsey, aged 40. FRAME.-On September 3rd, at Linsbu, great ceremonial days ago and people Shanghai-Nanking Railway," DAISY, do not like being fooled.: It has been beloved wife of ROBERT FRAME

The next term of the Diocesan Boys' repeated time and again, with ever greater vehemence, that Marshal SUN School, Hongkong, is announced to begin

The death occurred on August Zad, at " CHEAN-FANG would co-operate with Canon Monday, September 13th. All news

boys should attend the school on Satur Salisbury, of Surgeon-Captain John ton or remain neutral. General CALANG day, September 11th at 9 a.m. Parents Charles Groscort Reed, R. N., retired, KA1-SHEE has at last burst that bubble, and guardians can see the Headmaster aged 53. Dr. Reed became a surgeon in.. Surely his statements must be accepted day, September 10th and 11th, from 9 years later was in the digerine at the in the school office on Friday and Satur. the Navy on May 13th, 1800, and four With Marshal Sun's army bombarding am. to 11 am The school prospectus taking of the Taku Forts during the war the lines of communication to the Yang. and general information can be obtained in China, receiving the China medal and Taku clasp. He was on duty at the time from the Bursar.

in a temporary hospital between the at- taze how can General CHIANG retreat.

tacking ships and the forts. Afterwards It is probable that the responsible officials

be accompanied the first water party for in Canton knew that he went with the

the relief of Tientsin. intention of never returning. But what of those who remain behind? A vigorous session of a certificate giving ber birth THE LATE MR: ERIC YOUNG.

LOPES.-On September 7th, 1920, at 53, Granville Road, Kowloon, ALVARD MANUE, aged 3 months, the dearly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. 5. A. LOPES.

Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.15 p.m. (Shanghai papers please copy).

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Boxeroxs, SEPTEMEZA 87¤, 1926,

A young Chinese woman was detained on board, the steamer Taiping, when she arrived from Hongkong at Sydney on August 10th. Although, she was in pos place as Melbourne, she could, not speak She travelled on administration is needed but it must be a word of English.

board with her father, and it was stated an "administration in which, the Strike that. her husband was living in Sydney. pickets play no part. The Canton After questioning her through an inter- Foreign Office had a priceless opportu. Preter, Customs officials decided against

permitting her to land. nity of getting rid of these encumbrances, who will ultimately bring about their downfall, and they have thrown it away in order to write glibly, but insultingly

SURGEON-CAPTAIN REED, RN.

Mr. Eric Young, who, according to s recent Reuter's cable, was reported as missing on the President Polk, shortly before the vessel's arrival in Manila, was the second surviving son of the Iste Mr.

CANTON'S LOST OPPORTUNITY."

Ma. Etamy Carr's protest against the British naval action in Canton was, perhaps, to be expected, but we regret that it was made.. It would have been of rough-neck sailors." It was noted throughout its interior in Chinese He had a nervous breakdown a few weeks

statesmanlike. It was not clever. It was not common sense."

a far better move on the part of the Kuomintang, from every point of view, it they had taken this excellent opportu- nity of dissociating themselves from the

A suit of clothes and $147.60 in money pickets once and for all. The pickets have had their day. They are hated by have been stolen from a carpenter's shed

in Seymour Road. the people and no Government cati possibly carry on permanently in part According to a Reuter's telegram, pership with them. Now that British dated September 7th, a boy has died of bluejackets have cleared them from bubonic plague in Liverpool.

Robert Young, the well-known founder and editors of the Japan Chronicle, of closely with China and the Far East, he married some four years ago in Lon Io its effort to identify itself more Kobe. Accompanied by his wife, whom Seattle is opening on September with one don, Mr. Young left Kobe on the 21st the United States, which is being decorat to Europe for the benefit of his health. of the facet motion picture theatres in ultimo by the President Polk on a trip

design. It will present a riot of colour ago, following a long spell of indifferent in its efforts to portray symbolic themes health, and the doctors assured him that from old Chinese legends The dragon, he would be quite fit again in six montha the phenix, the lotus, the peory and the after a change and rest. Mr. Young aaw chrysanthemum all have their place. The service in the Great, War, serving on the beauties of Chinese architectural design, French and Italian fronts as a despatch- which is so elegantly featured in the con-rider. On his return to civil life he struction of Peking, have served as became associated with the business side models for the decorativ features in this of the Japan Chronicle. He was very unique bit of China as portrayed in popular in Kobe, and took a keen interest good cricket and Seattle's new theatre. It has a seating in athletics, being capacity of about three thousand, which football player. In addition to his wife, means that as many as two million people he is survived by his mother and brother can be entertained there daring the year in Kobe, and a sister in England,

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