1937-04-27 — Page 7

CORONATION REVIEW

(Continued from Page 1.)

In charge of the review will be His Excellency the General Officer Commanding. Major General A W. Bartholomew, who will be ac companied on the parade ground by Brigadier H. G. Seth-Smith, A.A. and Q. G. in Charge of Ad- ministration, Col. N. M. S. Irwin. G.S.O. 1, and his A.D.C., Lleut. P. J. Howorth.

This year's review will be held at 8 a.m., earlier than those of previous years, and the ceremonial will follow the procedure univer- sally adopted in England in that the March Past before His Excel- lency the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon." Mr. N. L. Smith, will open the proceedings and not terminate them as has been the practice in Hong Kong in the past,

ALTERATION TO ARTICLES

Wing On Bank Petition

Sitting In Original Jurisdiction In the Supreme Court yesterday, the Chief Justice, Sir. Atholl Mac- Gregor, granted an application, petitioned by the Hon. Mr. Lea d'almada, Junr., instructed by Mr Peter H Sin. for alterations to memorandum of association at the Wing On Bank Limited.

Mr. d'Almada, said that the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27,

H. K. POLICE RESERVE

(Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King,

Inspector General of Police)

will attend

LOSS OF THE PARINGA

Recalled By Court Application

The tragic circumstances 'under which the 5.5. Paringa disappeared on the high seas in December, 1935, were recalled in Probate Judisdic- tion of the Supreme Court yester- day morning when application was made by Mr. E. H. Williams, Anals- tant Attorney General, instructed by Mr. J. P. Murphy. Deputy Registrar, before

CHINESE COMPANY

Training Course-Part II.-The undermentioned members of the Chinese Company Chinese Company Headquarters on Tuesday,, April 27 at 17.30 hours for Part II of Training Course:-

Constables R2 Chan Tak Chiu, R4 Tam Hlu Fung, R5 Woo How Ching. Rẻ Chan Shik Chun. R9 Wong Yue Shun, R35 Lee Chee

the Chief Justice, Sir Bank sought confirmation by the Leung. R34 Napoleon Leung Pan. Atholl MacGregor, to presume the Court that the

and R37 Leung Wing Cheung. memorandum of

death of James Greig. Matthewson association of the Company

Inspection Parade.-All ranks of Yulli, marine engineer, who was a DO

the Chinese Company will parade member of the crew of Chinese National currency" for altered by substituting the words.

the ill- at Central Police Station ou

fated Paringa.. "Shanghat currency" and "Chinese

Thursday, April 29 at 17.30 hours National" for the word "Shang"

Mr. Williams, who appeared on for a general inspection of equip-behalf of the Official Administra- ment etc., by the Company Com-

tor, said that the application was mander. Dress White Uniform.

to presume the death of Mr. Yuill Cap with White Cover, Beit with on or since December 25, 1935. Brace, Truncheon, "Focket Police- man" and notebook to be carried! The Equipment Officer will make a point of being present,

hat."

Mr. d'Almada added: The pro- posed change of terminology 19 necessary for, the purpose of may

History will be made at the May 12 parade in that the newly-form-eilminating disputes that ed Infantry Brigade will be pre- sent under the command of "Bri- gadier F. W. L Bissett, who is to be accompanied by Capt. R. H. Bower. Brigade Major, and Capt. J. C. R. Pitzgerald Lombard, Stoff Captain.

THE PARTICIPANTS The units taking part, together with their commanding officers, will be as follows

Royal Navy: Two seamen com- panies and one platoon of Royal Marines under Cmdr. C. D. Arbuth- not, of HMS. Tamar.

Army: 8th. Heavy Brigade R.A.: three batteries under Mator F. L F. F. Roupeli;

5th. A.A. Brigade R.A.: two bat- terles under Lieut. Col. W. T. O. Crewdson;

H.K.S.R.A.: comprising the 1st. and 2nd. Mountain Batteries and the 3rd and 4th. Medium Batteries, under Major 3. C. Currie;

Fortress Royal Engineers: three sections British, and one section Chinese under Lieut. Col. L. C.

Reld;

4.

The 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers: 480 men under Col. D. M. Barchare:

arise out of possible differences in exchange and of giving adherence to China's new monetary system in consequence of China having stabilized her currency and adopt

FLYING SQUAD Training Course-Part II-The.

undermentioned members of the Flying Squad will attend Chinese

Counsel had before him affi- davits of Ng Man, merchant, Con- naught Road Central, and owner of the Far East Shipping Company. and Tam Tai, seaman.

On November 5, Ng Man char- tered the Faringa and among the

ed the Chinese national currency Company. Headquarters on Tues- crew be engaged, Yull was chief

as legal tender.

JUST ANOTHER NAME Mr. d'Almada" referred to an affidavit by Mr. Young which in fact disclosed that the Shanghat dollar equalled the Chinese dollar. His Lordship: A rose by another name! (Laughter).

Counsel also referred to ah affidavit by Mr. Philip Gockchin. Chief Manager of the Wing On Bank..

day, April 27 at 17.30 hours for Part of Training Course:--

Constables R323 Loo Kook Ho. R327 Sung Shu Chee, R341 Tsun Kam Cheung, R342 Leung To Hing, and R359 Ho Wing Kan.

Instructiona! Patrol-The in- structiona patrol for members of the Mying Squad will take place on Friday. April 30, 1937. Members will parade at Central Police Station at 17:15 hours hours,

There had been no opposition to sharp. Dress White Uniform, and

the motion.

His Lordship granted the order also an order for the proposed deletion of clause 6 (c) and (d) which was desired as matters con- cerning the distribution of profits may more conveniently be regulat- ed by the articles of association of the Company

The 1st Battalion Seaforth High CRUELTY PROVED

landers: 480 men under Lieut. Col. 3. Muirhead;

1st. Battalion Royal Ulster Rides: 480 men urider Lieut. Col. R. M. Rodwell; the 1st. Kumaon Rides: 480 men under Leut. Col. J, H. L. Hindmarsh.

Royal Air Force: a detchment of 25 files.

The Hong Kong Volunteer De- fence Corps. Une Company of 35 Oles under Major H. R. Forsyth,

Also on parade will be the bands

Norwegian To Pay Costs

Judgment was given by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Ma-. gistracy yesterday when

3 Nor- wegian, Albert Anderson Warild appeared on a charge of persistent cruelty to his wife, ida Warild, at

of the Hong Kong Infantry Bri-No. 183. Sal Yeung Chci Street. gade, less that of the 1st, Kumaon Rifles. under the command of Bandmaster H. A. Hole, of the 1st. Bn. the Royal Ulster Rifles,

The Kumaon's band will play for its own detachments while the massed bands will play for the march past of other units.

Cap with White Cover.

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE Revolver Instruction-Revolver Instruction will be given to mem- bers of the Emergency Unit Re- 2 Police Station at 17.20 hours. serve on Friday, April 30 at No. All members will attend. Dress Mufti, and members who are in possession of revolver wil cärry

same.

C. CHAMPKIN,

D. S. P. (R) Hong Kong. Monday. April 26.

engineer. The ship was chartered for the purpose of a journey from Melbourne to Osaka and the vessel was to take in tow the tanker Vincas which was to be broken up in Japan. Tam Tai was employ- ed as a sailor aboard the Vincas and he joined in October, at Mel- bourne

TYPHOON ENCOUNTERED

The Paringa left Westernport on December 23 with the" Vincas in tow and after three days they en- countered a typhoon the following day about 9 p.m., and it continued through the night and in

the morning the tunker was cut away from the Paringa. The Vincas managed to get to safety outside ther was Victoria Harbour and nothing fur- Paringa.

heard or seet of the

Telegrams received by Ng Mar disclosed the fact that the Vincas saw the Paringu for about three hours in heavy seas, obviously in great difcully. There were three lifeboats on the Paringa and it would have been very difficult to lower them and even if they had were too heavy for them, to be of assistance. The Paringa eventually foundered. An enquiry was held before the Chinese Consul at Melbourne on January 8, 1936.

NEW MEDICINES been lowered the seas

ON MARKET

German American Laboratories Enterprise

Mr. F. G. Nigel appeared on be- half of the plaintiff.

A newly established agency has In his judgment his Worship commenced operations in the Co- sald: Complainant in this case lony. It is the German American alleges that the defendant, her Laboratories with offices at 33. husband, was between July, 1935, Jordan Road, Kowloon, where the and January, 1936, guilty of per-warehouse is also situated. sistent cruelty towards her and as a result caused her to leave him and live separately from him.

The units will then reform op- posite the saluting base in front of the Racecourse stands and cheer The form which this cruelty is the departure of His Majesty. This said to have taken is: blows and will be followed by the departure abuse, unfounded accusations of of H Excellency Mr. N. L. Smith. unfaithfulness, damaging furniture

SEATING ACCOMMODATION

and coming home" late the worse Accommodation will be provided for drink. The allegations test near the saluting base for (a)principally on the complainant's those holding special invitations; (b) officers of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, H.K.N.- V.F.. H.K.V.D.C., their families and friends and members of the Q.AI- M.N.S.; (c) general public; (d) Chlef Petty Officers and Fetty Of- Alcers, Royal Navy, Warrant of- Acers, Sta-Bergeants and Ser-

own evidence, but they are corro- borated in part by ather indepen- dent witnesses and, in part, b defendant himself.

In the few days during which I have been considering this judg ment. I have thought it necessary to make certain tests. But as the result of these tests I am

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REDUCTION OF

CAPITAL

Ho Mun Tin Land Investment Co.

On the application of Mr. H. C.. Macnamara, Instructed by Mr. P.

Ng Man nad singe received in- surance claim from Lloyd's for the total loss of the Paringa. Yul had $1,000 odd lodged to his credit in the Hong Kong and Shanghaly. Woo, the Chief Justice, Bir Banking Corporation.

His Lordship granted, the motion and made the order accordingly,

DEATH INQUEST

Athoil MacGregor, at the Supreme Court yesterday, granted an order for the reduction in capital of the Ho Mun Tin Land Investment Company Limited.

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The petition was as follows:- That the capital of the Company

A car accident on March 14 had consisting of $400,000 divided into

a sequel at the Central Magistracy 4,000 shares of $100 each of which yesterday when a death inquiry

The telephone number of the was he'd by Mr. K. Keen into the $00 per share has been paid, be

new agency is 50050.

Mr. Francis Olfon Ls managing director.

the

MOTOR MISHAP ON TAIPO ROAD

Mr. J. S. Dinnen, of the P.W.D., has reported to the police that while driving his car along the con- Taipo, Road, on Sunday, near the

reduced by paying back to share death of Yuen Tak Hing, aged 82. who was knocked down in Hennes-

holders the sum of $10 per share By Road, near O'Brien Road, by the Company and that the nominal out of the accumulated profits of private car No. 3928 driven by Ser- geant William James Campbell of reduced from $100 to $50.

amount of the sald 4,000 shares be the HK. Police Force.

Mr. Macnamara said that the

Ng Tze, 54, of No. 162 Jaffe Road, Company had more money than ground floor, widow of the decea-

It required. The reduction in sed, stated that her husband had been in the Colony for three capital could not in any way af

tect creditors, and the Company months, and was in good health had a balance of over four lakhs. before he met his death.

On March 19, she identified the sum of $40,000 would be pald

back to shareholders.

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DAMAGING CABLES

geants of the three Services, their vinced that defendant's account of sixth milestone a taxi proceeding body of her husband at the Mor- familles and friends; (e) naval this incident is not merely impro- from the opposite direction sud- ratings and other ranks of the bable but fantastic. And a great denly swerved into the centre of tuary in the presence of the doctor Army and Air Force; (D) Boy deal of defendant's evidence was the road and collided with the off- and police aficers. Scouts, Ciri Guides and school- of a similar degree of impro-side of his car. damaging the off

William James Campbell then children from the Garrison bability,

rear mudguard and running board.

gave evidence and stated that on I find, therefore, on the balance No person was injured. Schools; and (g) schoolchildren

March 14, he was driving car 3928 from the Colental Schools.

of evidence, that the allegations of

along -Hennessy Road at about

Li Koon, unemployed, appeared Applications by the pubile for physical cruelty on many occasions

twenty miles per hour.

before Mr. W. Schoheld at the seating accommodation

Central Magistracy yesterday on a In en- are proved.

Defendant's case was that the ROAD IMPROVEMENTS a Chinese male cross from the War Department and the yards west of O'Brien Road, he charge of damaging property of closure "O" should be made to the Secretary Review Committee, events complained of were not

north to south. He sounded his P.W.D. and the larceny of a tele- Branch, Headquarters, China Com- part of

The alterations to Garden Road horn, which the Chinese male graph cable from Mount Parker. a course of persistent. mand.

cruelty, but arose through his just by the Peak Tram are going apparently heard but still wife's unfaithfulness. From time on apace and there is no doubt inued to walk across the road. Sergeant Morgan, R. E. was the to time he would be told that his that the added width will even-

He then swerved to his right and

complainant. wife was deceiving pim; on these tually be a great improvement, the Chinese male was struck by his

Sub-Inspector O'Conner in pro- occasions he would become de- but motor drivers are anxiously left mudguard. He then pulled up brand new and damage to the ex- secuting stated the cables were wondernig it will be finished in and Sergeant Jaimeson alighted His Worship remarked that this time for the Coronation festivi- from the car and attended to the tent of $20 had been done. The was'a and example of a marriage wrecked by gossip. It was as

Injured man while he parked his iron rods which were stolen by the * There wil! undoubtedly be a tonishing that any

car on the left hand side of the defendant were valued at $10. The husband very great deal of trame up and road, and came back to where the cable had not been recovered. should allow his affection for his down the road leading to and injured man was lying.

Defendant admitted the charges. wife to be undermined by rumours trofi" Government House, and It of this nature and most unsuitable would indeed be regrettable if half that he should later seek to justify the road was out of action at such himself by repeating them... a time.

Complainant is no longer bound

WOODCUTTERS FINED

...

A few cases of unlawful posses- sion of tree branches were dealt with by Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday.

Lai, Yuk, a 41-year-old unem- ployed, was fined $15 or ane month's imprisonment for the possession of 70 cattles of bamboo tree obtained near the 5 mille stone at Tai Po Road on Sunday."

Taung Sam, aged 50 and Mok But, aged 20, married woman were each fined $10 or three weeks in gaol when they failed to giva 'h satisfactory account for the tree being in their possession.

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tles.

On his return Sergeant Jaimeson For maliciously damaging the went and called for the ambulance, cable the defendant was fined $25 and the injured man was sent to or one month, and was also or the bospital. He then went to the dered to pay $20 amends or serve Some people wonder if Hong No. 2 Police Station in Wanchal hother firee weeks. For mall- to co-habit with defendant; legal Kong will ever be finished, As and made a report.

clously damaging the PW.D. pro custody of the children committed fast as one building goes up, some to the mother, defendant to pay adjacent one seems to be pulled statement made by Bergeant imprisonment, and for the larceny

His Worship then read out a perty he was fined $10 or 14 days a maintenance, and to pay the down. Pedestrians are always Jameson who has gone on Home of the from rods defendant was fees for his children's education, dodging scaffolding in the streets leave. At this stage, the hearing enter

to 2 months hard 14- and a sum of 390 for the costs and motorists are always trying was adjourned til May 1, for the

Defendant applied for an appeal to circumnavigate roads under doctor's evidence as he was unable -All sentences to run consecu- which was granted.

to attend yesterday afternoon. tively.

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