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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1936.
BANKRUPTCY COURT
Two Europeans Seek
To Vary Orders
Singapore, Feb. 1.
COUNCILLOR MARRIED
Lt. Col. G. D. “A. ́ Fletcher And Miss E. E. Rowe,
Fenang, Jan. 30.
OBITUARY
Long Service On "The Times"
London, Jan, 17.. Mr. John Brainerd Capper, who died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 80, was assistant editor of The Times ali "through
An endeavour to remedy what was
St. George's Church was the r. Buckle's editorship. described by Mr. E. N. Taylor. Official Assignee, 23 & grotesque scene of three fashionable wed- anomaly, was made in the Bank-dogs this morning, the first of which was most elaborate, being Tuptcy Court, yesterday before Mr.
that of Lieut.-Col. George Dougins Justice N. H. P. Whitley. Acting Chief Justice, when the Omcial Alexander Fletcher, manager of Asalgnee sought to vary the orders Harrisons Barker Ltd., officer com- or court made in connection win manding the Penang and Province the bankruptcles of J. S. Mis Wellesley Volunteers and a mem- and E. F. Stewart, employees of ber of the Legislative Council, and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Miss Ellen Elizabeth Rowe, Co.
de cas or a family of millow- nora. established in Bermingham since the sixteenth century; but his great-grandfather, Jasper Capper. a younger son, started in Grace courch Street a linendraper's busi- ness, which was reputed in the nineteenth century to be first house ut the kind in the City. From the older branch were desconded Major. General Sir Thompson Cappor, who The church had been converted was killed at Loos; Major-General Mr. Taylor said that for many into a veritable bower with palms Sir J. E. Capper, who is wall years the practice in fixing in- and flowers of various bue in pro-nown in connection with military to arriveeronautics and later with tanks; talments to be paid for the bene-fuston. Guests began
and the late Colonel W, B. Capper ft of creditors wOA somewhat from an early hour and were
Mr. Capper's father, Jasper Jean Raphazard and it could be illus-shown to their seats by Messers Capper, & younger son of the ten irated in the cases of the two R. D. Hume, W. H. Findlay. A bead of the Gracechurch Street firm, bankrupts before the court. They H. Holmes and F. Densham, who were, both employed by the East-acted as ushers. aru Extension Telegraph Co., and they came before the bankruptcy court one by one on different oc- casions when there' was no settled practice or principle existing to guide the court "as to the fixing o instalmeuts,
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NO POLICY
That would illustrate the post
The bride was excorted to the cËurch and given away by Mr. E. Newbold, general manager of the Eastern Smelting Company.
The Rev. E. T. Loader officiated at the service, which was choral.
MEMBELA =
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CORRESPONDENTA JOH
WHITE, WELD. S 00,, NEW YORK
COCHET'S OPINION ON TENNIS MATTERS
interview stated that it will not be
the
The bride and bridegroom then
tura being made in the following United States will be the only Road, the residence
wooden paddle countries capable of winning of Mr. E. December in 9, Newbold where Mr. and Mrs. Nel-wheel liner, which took 11 days trophy-
Reuter's Bulletin Service. son Walter were host and hostess from New York to Liverpool. at a largely attended reception.
MOVED ABOUT
PERKINS-TAYLOR
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SOVIET PREPARED FOR INVADERS
MORE MERCHANT
SHIPBUILDING **
London, Jan, 15. An important increase in the merchant tonnage under contruc- Hon in Great Britalu arld Ireland at the end of December is shown in the quarterly returns of Lloyd's
The total shipping Published. now being built is 743,000 tons.
in hand at the end of September which is greater than the amount
by 213,000-tons and is more than the corresponding totaj a year ago
was
was an artist of taste who bad three sons, The second son, Stewart Henbest Capper, was Professor of Architecture, first at McGill Uni-
London, Feb. 9. versity. Montreal, and afterwards at Victoria University, Manchester; Henri Cochet, famous" French the youngest, David Sing Capper, tennis player, who has arrived in was for over 30 years Professor of England from Australia, in an Engineering in the University of As the bride and bridegroom London, J. B. Capper, the eldest There were cases. said Mr. Tay-stepped out of the church, they son, was born at Loughborough on long when there be an open la Register, a summary of which wa
tennis championship for both peo- where one man who was passed under an archway swords November 4, 1855. A curious ex-
the drawing 5237 1 month pald
of the Guard of Honour formed perience of his childhood, which befessionals and amateurs on
same line as the world's open golf monthly instalment of $20 while by Capt. Ridout, Capt. Somerville, described in interesting letters in In another case a mat. drawing Capt Mortimer, Capt. Goh, Lieut.The Times of August 28 and Sep-championship. Public opinion will miliar salary was asked to pay Toolseram, R. S. M. Bellik, Capt. ember 9, 1933, was to share, in the demand that this step be taken.
Commenting on France's chance $42.
Oliver, Lieut. Pawan and Capt.pring of 1801 when he was di in a family crossing of the Atlantie in That might be accounted for by" MacNeice.
& sailing-ship, which took a month for the Davis Cup, Cochet said he by 148,000 tons. The present total the fact that the circumstances" were different, but at first glance drove to Mayfield, MacAlister from Liverpool to Quebee; the re-believed Britain, Australia and the is in fact the best recorded for the last five years. It is actually a better figure than had been ex- pected by competent authorities, During the quarter work started on eighty-nine vessels, ag- gregating 311,000 tons, compared While the family were still young
with forty-seven, vessels and 119,.. their father moved in 1869 to Edin-
000 tons during the previous quar- Hardly had the last car in the burgh, and the boys all went to the
ter. As there were Ofteen oll first wedding got out of the church Royal High School and afterwards
tankers amounting to 114,000 tons compound when the first car to the University. Boon after the
under construction at the end of bringing people, for the next wed establishment of the family in
Moscow. Feb. 8.
the year, against only six repro- ding arrived. The second wedding Edinburgh their mother died; and
"We have to keep the whole seating 41,000 tons on September was that of Arthur Lionel Bertle their father married Anna Coven- Perkins, of the Asiatic Petroleum try Blyth, of Glasgow, who proved army on the Manchurian frontier 30, it is clear that orders for new n order to prevent promenades of tankers have made a notable former Well- most devoted second mother to Co., Bangkok, a
into Soviet territory by Japanese contribution to the larger amount known Penang and Colony eric- the children. John was a good se
cond at school for the position of tourists with machine-guns," says of building now in progress. Leter and Miss Margaret. Taylor,
"dur" to his lifelong friend the "Izvestia," referring to the re- Evidently no time has been lost in. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Seth, the philosopher (afcent frontier incidents. It adds beginning work on these tankers Taylor, of Woodcote Road, Read-
terwards Pringle-Pattison,)
that no expeditions to Manchur and on other ships for which con- ing
ubtained at the University first. class honours in Humanity, that is, la territory are being. organised tracts were lately placed. A good
on sovlet territory, Latin. Even before taking his de-
The article utters the warning gree he did occasional writing for
the that anyone violating the peace of the Scotsman and aroused interest of C. A. Cooper, its editor, the Far East is playing" with who introduced him to J. C. Macare.
then manager of The Reuter. Donald, Times.
MacDonald promised to give him, it he would learn shorthand, a trial in the Parliamentary Gallery. Accordingly, at the opening of the Following the ceremony in the Session on December 5, 1878, he church a reception was held at began, as a Parliamentary repor the residence of Mrs. A. 8. An-ter, his long connection with this thony at MacAlister Road, where the usual toasts were proposed and cordially pledged,
tion in Singapore many years ago, sald Mr. Taylor. There was no con- sidered policy. The tendency now was to order the payment of $5 where a man earned" $50 or $60 and $5 to $10 where a man earned up to $100, the sum of $10 to $15 being ordered in the case of those who drew salaries exceeding $200. In actual practice it was harder for a man who earned $40 or $50 to pay $5 than, a man who earned $80 to 100 to pay $10.
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The Government had prescriped a scale for the guidance of heads of departments in the exercise of their power under section 53 (1) of the Ordinance, and he thought that in the case of people in the same
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The bridegroom is the second son of Major Bertie Perkins and the late Mrs. Perkins, Llanfair Manor, Wales.
The
Rev. Loader officiated L the service, which was choral.
The bride was escorted to the social status, though church and given away by her private employment, there should | brother,
Lesille Taylor: Ronald not be any difference.
Perkin discharged the duties of
In the case of Mulis, said Mr Taylor, he was a bachelor drawing a monthly salary of $175 and he was ordered to pay $20. The Official Assignee was of the opinion that he could well afford to pay $34. His employers were consult ed and they supported the Official Assignee.
If a bankrupt could afford ic
best man.
HALL-WOODCOCK
The third wedding which took
journal.
and
Before many months Capper was transferred from the Gallery to the office as a sub-editor, and he was speedily constituted chis! hoine sub- editor. He had shown a remarkable aptitude for the editorial side of
SINGAPORE PLANE TO THE RESCUE
pay more than 20 per cent. of piace to-day was that of Alexan- i journalism, and early in the office, who was seriously ill there. der Walker Hall, of the Prisons tights he was promoted to an as- Department, Taiping, and Missistant editorship. When Mr. G.
his salary it was in b's own lu- terests to do so as he would be
The plane landed on the river near the district.
given his discharge much earlier. wisie. Woodcock, daughter of Mr. E. Buckle became Editor on Thomas Reuter's Bulletin Service.
SALARY REDUCED
The two bankrupta in question had their salary reduced by ten per cent and they, naturally, said $5.60
that it was an inconvenient time
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their instalments en-
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POSITION OF RUBBER
Dutch Native Exports
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and Mrs. James Woodcock, who arrived from home this morning by the Rawalpindi. The Rev. Los
der officiated.
Chenery's death in February, 1884, Capper was associated, et Buckle's sistant Editor, with the responsi request, with him as Principal "As- bility of taking charge of the paper during the Editor's absence, Bad he held this post for the whole term of Buckle's editorship, years,
hanced. He sympathised with them unemployed and the one who, was, and for one year afterwards, retr but they had been paying far employed was in the Dutch Easting in 1913 on a pension, less than they could afford to pay Indies but he contributed nothing.
said Mr. Taylor.
for all I know.
$92. my lord.
#71
$21
Mr. Taylor: Mila is a bachelot, there is an orders of court that strength of a good journalist. An- His lordship said that every that he has paid $42 regularly?ment of Capper's was a meticulous
deal of the new building must now- be in a very early stage, a consi deration' which augurs well for a better volume of employment in the immediate future,
еп-
A GREAT RISE. While undoubtedly it ia couraging för the shipbuilding in- dustry that after two years the merchant shipping under- con- struction at a quarterly date has risen sharply to nearly 750,000! tons, there are various relevant Eingapore, Feb. 8.
facts which tend only too affec- A plane from H.MB. Hermes flew tively to restrain optimism. · At from Singapore with medical sup the end of 1929 the tonnage being plies and two doctors to a district built in Great Britain and Ireland near Pahang la reply to an appeal | was more than double the present for medical assistance for a police total The output for 1935, based on the four quarterly totals, was only 487,000, tons; the production has been" far less in recent years, but in 1930 it was three times as much. Throughout last year bare- ly thirty per cent, of the building berths were used, and when the considerable amount of contract- ing during the last quarter of 1935 (assisted by the Government's "scrap and build" scheme) and also the expected naval work are London, Feb. 8. The King, who is still living at taken into account, the Industry York House but spends part of will probably be gratifled 1 about each day at Buckingham Palace one-half of the berths should.on in transaction of public business, the average be occupied this year. has gone for the week-end to his That means only half of a total country
already much reduced by the house Fort Belvedere, Sunningdale. His Majesty is ex- elimination of berths which it has pected to return to: London on Monday-
British Wireles
KING GOES TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE'
needed in future. There has als、
ABSOLUTE LOYALTY Mr. C. J. Bein worked with him His lordship; What is there to in the same office but he did not
Absolute loyalty, both to the show me that they have
been know what Mr. Bein's salary was paper and to his immediate chief, paying less than they can afford f the Assistant Divisional Mana- was one of Capper's marked charac I have not the least idea as to ger said that Mr. Bein drew a teristics, and to this he added that what their
been thought could, hardly be circumstances are, salary of $237 in December last whole-hearted and informed in They might be having children he would accept it as correct terest in all kinds of human
Me: Taylor:
Do you know that activity which is the sign and Bein should pay $42 a month and other invaluable editorial endow case must be considered on its
accuracy; few mistakes was proofs rscaped his searching eye, Follow- individual merits. The mere fact I am't know,
Do you know how many chiling the Delane tradition, he, though that the Government had in-
possessed of a graceful and easy dicated to its officers that a cer-dren he has?-No
style, wrote little; bat he was felicitous in correction. His indus try was unsparing, his judgment was sound: his ideals for The Limes were high. He was a warm friend a pleasant companion with a real
hibitive at the price level of 6tain scale would help them as to pence ruling at the time of the what a man could afford should not preclude the court from in- imposition. As
quiring into the circumstances of each particular case.
While it is admitted that the Netherlands appear to be proceed-
ing with all speed with the regle- Mr. Taylor: Certainly not, but the absence of a scale has led in
You know he is married? Yes.
BANKEUPT'S OFFER Will you take it from me that Bein 18 married and has three children? If he can pay $42 a month what is there to prevent
been a serious restriction of mer- chant and naval work for delivery overseawork which at one time was a very important part of the Mr. E. I Wynne-Jones, the Kow-activities of the British shipbuild- loon Magistrate, left the Colony ing and associated industries. 5. This restriction is partly bound up. last Wednesday by the Calchason leave. He will join with the use which is being made Mrs. Wynne-Jones and his family, in Germany, of the control of cur
rency to secure orders for all tank- who are siready in England
ers and trawlers from trading. companies having headquarters in this country very disquieting
tration of gardens, most circles
sense of fun, and a conscientious, Capper de Emily Sophia Spald development of which much more feel that another excess of native the past to a grotesque anomaly on trom paying $34 I cannot lighminded man. Marth A ing) had three daughters by her will certainly be hard, Mean-
Capper was a great lover of the first Husband, who were fully
exports, is still possible before the successful conclusion of the operation. Reuter,
SUPPORTED FOUR SISTERS
His lordship: Still it seems to me, subject to anything more you may say, that I have to consider the respective merits of the two
CODES.
give any reason, it is left to his sea, Anding his favourite recreation sdopted by their stepfather as his while, although all the troubles of lordship. My present salary is till late in life in yachting and boat own. Shortly after big retirement the British shipbuliding are not $172 and I am not a member of a sailing, and he had always a keen from the Assistant Editorship of things of the past, and the im
desire to travel. Immediately after The Times, he and his wife settled provement is only relative, it co-operative sxiety."
Is it within your knowledge that his retirement he went round the at Teigate where he interested him would be foolish to deny that the members of thrift and loan socle world by way & Moscow, the self in local administration. He present agures indicate, a distinct. ties pay 25 per cent of their Siberian Railway, China, Japan, edited the early political columes step forward towards recovery, Mr. J Reid, senior Banitary His lordship thought that they salaries when repaying loans? Canada and the United States, of "The Times Documentary His- contributing occasional, letters to tory of the War and he published
In 1918 little volume of dainty Me H. G. Willams, the popu Inspector in Kowloon, left the should take the two cases separate No.
Continuing the bankrupt said The Timer
He had a very happy domestic and musical poetry Twenty five lar manager of Messrs. Dodwell's Colony on Saturday, by the asly and accordingly Mills was Chitral for England, where he examined. He said that he sup- that he knew if he raid a bigger life. He married in 1864 the Trifles in Verse His only other wing and Spirit, department, win It is pointed out that the price wil spend nine months holiday ported four unemployed sisters, instalment he would be to get his widow of his first cousin, Harold published work was au introductory proceeding on le having now reached 7 pence, Others on home leave included all of whom were over 40 years discharge sooner. His abilities Henbest Clapper, and they bele memoir of the author prefited to native exports are once agato Mr. GW. Bowden of the Banitary of age. They lived with him in totalled $2,800 and he was anxious brated their golden wedding on it friend Charles Grante pos September 28, 1834 There was no thumous volume (1800) of Stories stimulated, despite the present 29 Department. accompanied by Mrs. bis house and they were unmar to get his discharge,ISO
ge, but Mrs of Naples and the Camorra sue of the marriage, The matter was adjoumed. cent duty which is almost uro- Bowden.
London, Feb. 8. Many Mincing Lane operators confidently expect the Netherlan Indies export duty on native rub ber will be increased in the course of the next few days.
ried He had two brothers. One was
the end of this month. He will be way from the Colony for about
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