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Intimation.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

REDUCED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1906.

EMIGRANTS FOR SINGAPOREK

FARMERS AI WOULD-BE STOWAWAYS,

not necessarily disputed, although the Mer; chael Service Guild will not accept thai dicium. But the longer period allows of pro- motion for the senior officers who in turn pro vide places for the younger mon. What the * DetectiveTM Sergeant Grant, of the Central owners seem to want is a plethora of officers Police Station, paid a visit on board the steamer Gregory Aptar in the harbour yesterday after/ at cheapjack rates, officers who might possibly soon and arrested three boarding house men, be more ornamental than useful, but who would who, it was alleged, were about to rath five give that touch of eplour to a ship which would farmers to Singapore After questioning the lall the nervous passenger into security. The farmers for n while, the officer (ook charge of secretary of the Guild in expressing the views the gang, including the boarding-house me

sad marched them to the station. Three of of that body observes that the scheme if adopt the farmer's were charged with being on board ed "would be entirely against the interests of the Gregory Apcar with the intention of slow. safety in the merchant service. It is not training away, thereby defrauding the company, beinging alone that is required for officers. Ripened Lo Ting Fui, a boarding house runner, No. experience and an adequate sense of respon. 245, Des Voeux Road Central, was put down ai apply sibility can only be secured through sufficient alling and abelling the three men above-men- tioned to go on board theship with the intention have length and width of service, and four years getting thein to Singapore without the know

PRICES.

We beg to invite your attention to our Price List which is now sent out. Please for a copy if you not already received one. The reduced prices which take effect as from the 15th instant will be found to compare favourably with those of other

restores

qualifying service--as'at pregent-for a second mate's certificate of competency is in reality duties and immense responsibilities which too short to prepare a man for the important

must be reposed in him." There are few on for the difficulties of matters and chief officers the China coast who would support the scheme, are sufficiently grest at present without their.

being saddled with new responsibilities in the shape of incompetent second mates. Mare inover, the prospect of any reduction in the pay would only further embitter the lot of those

the Colony whether European or Chinese.

We have also just issued separately a new wine list with prices based on rate of Ex-1 change now ruling, reference to which will show that substantial reductions have been made.

All prices are strictly net..

who already are in many cases underpaid would in all probability have the effect of fill:

ing the seamen's homes and in the end affect

the prospects of all concerned. niess the owners have stronger arguments to offer in favour of their proposal it is to be haped thai presentions to the Board of Trade will prove

to be still-born.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuz French mail of the 30th Oct. was. de

vered in London on the 25th inst. wis are requested to draw the attention of

readers to Mr. G. P. Lamment's advertisement of the sale by public auction of dress materials, etc, removed from Fairall & Co.'s, "The sale

now commences at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow and will be

continued on Saturday,

An Indian seaman, Shilk Babno, on board the steamer Cardiganshire, was charged before A. S. WATSON & CO., Mr. F.A. Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning, with behaving in a noisy and dis- LIMITED,

arderly manner in a house at Wanchai last

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1843.; Hongkong, 27th November, 1906,

NOTICH,

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in

night. He pleaded guilty to the charge and a fine of $3 was imposed.

SANITARY Inspector J. T.. Cotton, who is in

charge of the Kennedy Town Slaughterhouse, fucated two wild boars on the west side of Mount Lavis ni ejeven o'clock this morning After an exciting chase he succeeded in shoot-

of

ledge of the officers of the ship. Cheung Sam, a boarding house keeper, 162, Dei Vaux Read Central, was booked as having obtained the ship." ment of two emigrants on board the Gregory Afcar by fraud, and the indictment against Tam Hing, another boarding-house runner, was that ship the two ami rauts, of aiding und abetting the said Cheung Sam to

The boarding house men on being placed

before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court.ghis morning, pleaded guilty to the chargen.

The complainantfin the case said that while he was aboard the Afcar steamer te met the

farmers and asked for their tickets. They had none, but pointed out the boarding-house men as having put them aboard. Further inquiries proved that the farmers only arrived in the Colony from the interior yesterday, and they Na tickets were procured for them, none was were rushed aboard ship immediately after,

required, as the farmers had already been

schooled as to the safest way to stow away,

His Worship discharged the farmers with, a caution after they bad each been examined. He fined the first boarding house man, $too and the remaining two $25 each, which was paid..

C.

THE INDIAN SOLDIERS.

AP, LOGY FROM REGIMENT REFUSED.

Ever since Mr. P. W. Goldring, and Mr. F.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAM

[Renter's,]

The Congo.

„LONDON, 27th November. Lord Lonadafu asked in the House whe ther the Congolese had evacuated Neahrel Ghazal, in accordance with the Anglo- Belgian Convention.

Mr. Runciman replied that now the aga son had become 'sultable, he trusted no further delay would occur.

The Mutiny at Sevastopol. Two hundred and twenty-eight partici

“HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SERVICE,

THE SHANGHAI WHARF

AND GODOWN SCHEME,.·.

LEGAL PROTEST THREATENED.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

CHUNG SHUN FOOS BANKRUPTCY.

THE JUDGMENT.

la Bankruptcy Jurisdiction this morning, ba- fore. His Honour Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., instructed by Mr. Steavenson, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, appeared for the trustee, in the matter of Chung Shun Keo. Mr. M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr. R. F, C. Matter (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) and Mr. F d'Almada e Castro' represented a number of creditors, when his Honour the Chief Justice delivered the following judgment -?

His Honour said. The unfortunate debtor In this case has been the victim of a perfect comedy of errors. Up to the time of judgment him the errors were of his own making; since in the action brought by Mr. Ho Tung agálost

Shanghai, 29th November,

3.15

p.m. It is stated that it is Doctor Gil. d's intention to enter a legal protest against the adoption of the Two were shot, and one civilian hanged. Wharf and Godown Scheme passedness box. I am not at all surprised that the

pants in the last mutiny at Sevastopol have disciplinary battalions to penal servitude for

received sentences varying from terma in

life.

Mr. Chamberlain.

Later.

"

Mr. Chamberlain's health shows a marked improvement, and he hopes to return to political life after a visit abroad.

Aoronautics.

The French steerable balloon Patrie

Medical Scienos.

bart Reid's

To those who have followed the interesting report of the proceedings in reference to the covered 94 kilometres in 6 hours, returning scheme Dr. Reid's proposed action appears to the starting point."

rather curious. Atthe first extraordinary meeting of shareholders on the 1st inst, when Dr. Kei had criticized Mr. F. E. Taylor's exposition of Ten, out of 24, native prisoners in the the new Company, Mr. Taylor parked origin and development of the proposal to Philippines, who were experimentally inocu-Perhaps Dr. Raid would make an offer to lated with cholera virus, died. The opera reng the land at the opposite side to feed cows tars explain that the virus was contaminated Dr. Reid's interest at to-day's quotation on. Mr. Read-I am prepared to take 'oyer by bubonic plague.

straight off. Dr. Reid is reported by the N. C. D. News 16. have accepted the offer, and it is safe to conclude that Dr, Reid's interest in the Dock Co. accordingly ceased.-Ed., H.R.T]

The Governor-General has exonerated the scientists, and the Government will care for the families of the dead.

Reading for the Blind. The Daily Mail will publish, on the st December, weekly penny edition for the blind, printed in Braille characters.

THE "FRONDE."

This morning, ut precisely 9.30, the French

assistance of the Protector, and supported by that vessel and the Chinese junk which has assisted in raising her, left the spot where she has so long lain near the Naval Cambs, Kowloon, and was taken to temporary resting place in Hung Hom Bay close in the crippled Monteagle, where she will be until to-morrow.

torpedsidestroyer Frande moving with the

At the No. Slip of the Kowloon Docks a

then they have been made by his opponents;

and having already seen the man in 'the wit»

by an overwhelming majority of Trustee should have found him so upset as to be' unable, jo give any coherent account of shareholders at the extraordinary himself of his affairs. This judgment will dis- confirmatory meeting of the Shang.pose of some of these errors; but there is ona final set of errors said to have been committed hai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., by the debtor and those who allege themselves on the 27th inst.

to be his creditors, "which will have to be un- ravelled hereafter. Further, as if it was to com plete the chair oferrers, I have the misfortune to take a view of the law applicable to the debtor's motion to discharge the order 1 made ex ports, which neither Counsel engaged in that case felt themselves able to support. Having given the matter very careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion, for reasons which I will presently state, that a judgment creditor

special case. I must therefore work out the is not a secured creditor, except in one very.

consequences of my view myself and giva judgmeni accordingly. But as it is perfectly | possible that either party may feel aggrieved by this view, and may wish to appeal, I think it advisable to argue the points involved an they were argued." First, then," I will assume that, a judgment creditor who has secured a judgment is à secured creditor. Mr. Ho Tung on 25th June, 1936, obtained a judgment, and on a9th June obtained a prohibitory order, when he came to prove his claim in the debtor's bank- ruptcy, swore on the usual form, that be held no security, the fact that he was a secured cre- ditor to the extent of the value of the property. attached having gone out of his mind. It also escaped the recollection of his soliciter. From this mistake he sought to be relieved on the made to me ex paris and, the Trustee consent ground of inadvertence. This application was ing, I made the order, which the debtor now. seeks to set aside. The inadvertence of the soliciter being sworn to, I am willing to accep

THE YUE-HAN RAILWAY,

A.E. CHOW FU WANTS PROPER accounTS KEFT.

[From a Correspondent,}

"The HONGKONG TELEGRAPII" #bould be j ing one, the other having escaped. The vanishing. The thief or thieves could not be not; but as we pointed out in our last night's as those funds are the property of the share. Say I do not find the law applicable to the

addressd to The Eding, 1, Ice House Road, wat

should be mecanjanied by the. Writer's Name and Addrom,

Ordinary Trusinews ouumimications saould be addrowned

to The Maniger.

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WRkz.-$18 per annum, The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional. The dally have in deliveral free when the address

Rebellile to messenger. On cuplai pat by post on

is

additional $1,80 per quarter is chargod for putage The postage on the weekly inue to any part of the

world i 80 cents per quartor,

Bingle Copies, Daily, ten canta Wookly, twenty

Ára cost.

animal on being weighed tipped the scale

pounds and has a tusk two inches long,

Barlow, solicitors, were assaulted in the garden of their house at Kowloon by Indian soldiers, matters have not been allowed to remain idle. It leaked out this morning that, im mediately after the assault was alleged to have taken place, Mr. Golding demanded an apoloby from the regiment for the conduct of two of their mies. This was refused, and Mr. Goldring. has placed the matter before the Court, where it will be settled in a few days. The particulars of the affair which led to the trouble, and which special cradle has been constructed for the Tetection, and it was not a semi-official concern, were given publicity at the time by us, were a coption of the Fronde, and in this she will be follows:-During the month of October, a hauled up to-morrow, to allow of a thorough previous to that, Mr. Goldring, with who survey of her hull by experts from the DE resides Mr. Barlow, discovered that his stark frecaster, the rench flagship now in port. of poultry had been growing less each day, and

Upon their verdict will cost the decision as other things in and around the house bad been to whether it is advisable.be attempt.repairs or 87 found. n the morning of the 15th October Mr. issue, we very much doubt if the frightfully Goldring saw two Indian soldiers, one of whom battered condition of the vessel will be con- was carrying a gun, trespassing in the garden.sidered to justify the necessary expenditure, we might mention here that there is a fence around the property. Mr. Goldring approach.. ed the soldiers, asked them their business, aud on getting no reply, they were told to "get out." One of the soldiers, we are informed, tuned on Mr. Goldring nud struck him on the mouth with his fist, while the other soldier made an attempt to bring the bust end of his gun in contact with the gentleman's head, but the blow was warded off in time by Mr, Goldring raising his arm above his head. The blow struck his forearm, and caused him some pain for several days after. The assault was wil nessed by two ricksha coolies, who were wait ing to drive the two gentlemen to the ferry wharf.

An extraordinary plea was entered in a divorce wife, who was the petitioner, said that the suit recently tried in Calepita. Counsel for the

.husband refused to live with his wife or have

Anything to do with her, because she made statement before the clergyman who married them that she was older than the respondent. Therefore she ceased to be his wife. The husband had left his wife absolutely destitute, and she was obliged to seek assistance from

friends.

A CHILIAN Jad named Diaz Guerra, residing at No. 84, Praya East, swore but a warrant a few days ago for the arrest of one Frank Silva, i whom He alleged stole from him a gold finger

je Hongkong Celegraphing, valued at $20, on the 4th instant, Silva,

Che

CLAIM STRUCK OUT,

PLAINTIFF ABSENT.

In Summary Jurisdiction at the Supreme Court this morning, his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisne Judge, presiding, the case in which Cheang Lai of No. 7 Larmota Linn contractor, sued Cheang Tsui of No. 19 Elgin Street for the recovery of the sum of $1000, being damages in the nature of trespass by false imprisonment alleged to have been suf fered by the plaintiff by reason of the un. lawful act of the defendant in causing the plaintiff to be arrested on 15th September and confined in prison until the 17th idem,

when he was allowed out on bail until the 25th September, and then again"confined in prison until the 26th, when he was exain let out on bail until the 9th October.. On that date he was brought up at the Central Folice Court and charged with embezzlement of the sum of $514 from the defendant on the roth January, whereas plaintiff was not and never was a clerk or accountant to defendant as alleged by him. Plaintiff was discharged at

:

Canton, 27th November. Yesterday morning H. &. Viceroy Chow Fu sent a message to Mr. Li Shiu Yuen, asking him to call at the Yamen, as he wished to dis- way. Upon receiving this message Mr. Li cuss with him the affairs of the Yuct-han Rail at once repaired to the Yamen, as requested, aid a long interview took place between him and H. E. Chow Fu. In the course of this interview H. E. said that the affairs of the

it so far as he is concerned: though the debtor Yue-ban Railway Co. Ld., were under mer is justified in reserving the right to ask for for Teng himself should it become necessary. cantile administration, with Government prother evidence of the inadvertence of Mr. Ho but the Government could not interfere in the But in the view that I take of the consequences matter of the employment of the stag, por, of the mistake it is unnecessary to go into this which was more important than all, could be question: for he is not entitled to rollef if, his Government in any way control the finance of proof as an unsecured creditor has been pre- the company, or the disposition of the funds, judicial to the debtor, though I am bound to bot H.E. wished to see proper accounts.kept holders. The railway would be of very great clear in the cases cited.

particular circumstances of this caso very advantage to the Empire, and therefore all its

In exp. Clarke re Burr (47 LT. 232) the affairs must be managed with great care. Efudge undoubtedly lays down this principle that › Also intimated his intention of calling a meeting a creditor who has voted and omitted to value of the shareholders of this rallway, as he wished his security ought always to be allowed to to address them, and he asked Mr. Li to withdraw his proof; and to be relieved from notify them on HE's behalf, and request being deemed to have surrendered bis security. them to hold themselves in readiness to attend unless he has, elected really to abandon his when summoned. H.E. also said that as soon security; t át is, unless he hai omitted to do as he had arrived in Canton Chang To Chai, that which he did omit, deliberately, and on U.E. refused to see him. Later on, however, ought, on such terms as the Court may think president of the company, called upon bim, but purpose. If it has been done accidentally, be H.E. telephoned to him to come to the Yamén, fit to impose, to be relieved from the loss of his and Chang arrived very shortly afterwards. Mr. security. In that case it is true the creditor Chang then offered to show H.E. a hand-book had voled, but his vote seems to have had co full of information regarding the affairs of the influence on the result of the meeting one way Yuet-han railway, at the same time stating that

or another; and this being so, the principle is it was his sincere desire to retire from the

elsy to be understood. This canė seems to lay presentship of the company. The interview stress on the necessity of the creditor having then closed and Mr. Li left the Yamĉo. acted advertently..

H.E. CHOW FU DISSATISFIED.

[From

a Correspondent.],

Mr. Goldring, on receiving a reply to his letter who lives at 108, Macdonnell Road, and is demanding an apology from the regiment, teak employed as a carpenter repairing the wharves out summonses against the soldiers, and we HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1906, of the Godown Company, was arrested yester- learn that there are five cross-summonses to day. He denied stealing the ring from the come from the other side. Mr. G. E. Morrell, of A QUESTION FOR MARINERS.

boy, but said it was given him as a present, and Messrs. Dennys and Bowley (Crown Solicitors), he could produce witnesses who could speak appeared for Mr. Goldring and Mr. C. E; 1. Shipmasters and those who have the best charge of the case, put Silva before Mr. F. Aintimated that he appeared, for the soldiers to that effect. Inspector Langley, who had Beavis, of Messts. Wilkinson and Grist, interests of the shipping community at heart Hareland, nt, the Police Court this morning, when the case was called on before Mr. F. A. will view with considerable misgiving the Guerra stated that defendant borrowed the Hazeland, this morning, at the Police Count report that it is proposed by a number of pro-ring and never returned it. Accused said that He applied for a remand, remarking that he mincat Liverpool shipowners to exercise their Guerra 'presented him with the ring, saying he did ont know what was going to be doan in the the Police Cauit as defendant failed to appear railway. As a result of this it is stated that ing the position of the Company that it would".

hid two more at home. He dropped the ring into the sea two days later while, at work on a

after it. His Worship discharged accused. wharf. He could not swim, so he did not go

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influence in inducing the Board of Trade to reduce the qualifying time for second mates. certificates of competency from four years lo three years. It appears that these shipowners have inaugurated a training scheme for ships! CHINESE thieves seem to be practising the officers, with the object, according to the chief hausk-nate trick more often than usual during representatives of the Merchant Service Guild, the past week, for no less than three women have been duped. Yesterday, a boatwomas re-

of obtaining a greater supply of officeis. Obviously the scheme itself is open to condem- ported to Inspector Richie at the Central Po

lice Station that she had been robbed of $77

case. His Worship formally adjourned the case until to-morrow at 11a.m.

A RICASONABLE VIGERØY.

CHAU TUNG SHANG'S FAMILY RELEASED.

(From a Correspondent.)

www.

Cantony 27th November,

It will not have been forgotten, doubtless, by

But in re Safety Explosives Co. (1994-Ch, at p. 335) the same; Jearned Judge, then L. J. Vaughan Williams, said that it was not dis- puted that an amendmint fa proof ought not to be allowed if the posili in of the parties bas Canton, 28th November,

been altered since it was μm upon the files and As I stated in a previous communication, the same principle is alluded in the jud, ment II.E. Viceroy Chow Fu'has interested himself of North J, in re Lester exp. Huddersfield very keenly in railway matters, making close Baok. There also the creditor had voted; and personal investigation into the condition of

the learned Judge said: "No doubt. be affairs, more especially those of the Yuel-han might by his vote have succeeded in so alter. Mr. E. Lang, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and H.E. is very much dissatisfied with the con- he unfair to say that he should be released Deacon, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. C.dition of the affairs of that concero, which, it from giving up what he has given up in con- I said, he considers very unsatisfactory. Onsideration of securing the advantage which be F. Dixon, of Mr. John Hastings' office, re presented the defendant.

this account H., the Victory in merchantoor had got by his vote.

I'do not find the When this case was called on Tuesday last vene a meeting of the Elders and merchants of vote really came to anyibing. The vote he Mr. I ang asked for an adjournment as his Canton, as soon as Shum Tung returns from gave did not alter the position of things so as client had ant turned up. Mr. Dixon opposed, Swalow, where he went to be pr sent at the to entile the creditors to hold him to the vote saying it might go on being adjourned for ever opening of the Chao-chow.fu railway, in order for that reason." and he must ask that the case be struck out.. to discuss the railway affairs, and consider His Honour: No, I will adjourn this case ways and means of improving the existing

coaditions. a second time; your client ought to have been

to prosecule.

A BIG OFFER.

FROM A "TOOR MAN."

[From a Correspondent.]

Canton, 27th November. When II. E. ex-Viceroy Shum was leaving

pation by those who arɑ most interested in the in bank-notes and Sta in silver, by two men in your readers that, failing in secure the arrest here. The case is struck out with costs against sealaring profession, the ships officers them-

Des Voeux Road. She related, the same old of Chau Tung Shang, who was alleged to have the plaintiff. selves for it must be apparent to them that story of meeting the men in the street, who ask embezzled large suma from the Native Customs the influx of raw and immature men

musted her to change some money—a large amount at Canton, that gentleman having quietly van- injuriously affect their status in the service, so for them. The woman, with the idea of getished to safer climes, HE, ex-Viceroy Shum far as the general public are concerned, and atting a present from the men, after doing, them had Chau's family arrested and thrown into the same time affect their own pockets. With of the men, which was said to contain the the favour, in her head, took a parcel from ogs

a temporary prison-house, while at the same time he seized all their estates, and had them an abundant supply of officers possessed of a money, handed over to them $87 as security, disposed of by the Sin Hau Kuk. This tem ticket of sorta, salaries are bound to be seduced and saunters off to a money-changer's shop. porary prison-house is situated in Kam Wing all round, sad only the certificated master She discovers on 'arrival that the contents of Street, in Canton' city, and was placed in Canton, he declared himself to be "a poor mariner will be in any thing like a position of the parcel are only rags and that the strangers charge, under the special control of a welyuco, man," It has therefore been surprising to learni safety, But, of course, there are many youth have disappeared. A lukong was despatched There they remained, under guard, uplit H. | here that il. E Shum has wired to the manager who would readily take advantage of the In

with the woman to look for the thieves. On E. Viceroy Chow Fu arrived in Canton and of the Capton Waterworks at Tuang Fo that he board the steamer Howam she pointed out two novation and accept the qualifying period at the

took up reins of office. Upon his arrival, the | will take up 5300,000 worth of shares in that Imeo, whom she alleged were the thieves, and matter, was brought before H, E. Chow Fe, Company. The directors of the company have behest of the owners. Only when a new gang they were arrested, but nothing was found on with the result that, after making-necessity taken this offer into consideration, and are dis. bad qualified and were pitchforked into second them to corroborala har statement. The men inquiries into the matter, H. E. decrees cussing the advisability of accepting so much officers' places would they begin to realise were charged before Mr. F. A., Hazeland, at that ex-Viceroy Shum had been wrong in money and allotting so many shares to a single the foolishness of which they had been the Police Court, this morning, but a romand causing the arrest of Chan's family, and shareholder.

was applied for by the police to enable them to immediately ordered their release, as they were guilty. The point that an officer may be go deeper into the case. They are of opinion not the wrong-doors, Chau being himself the

fully qualified after three years' ex

that as soon as the woman was robbed the money only one in, fault, and the result of his faults perience as he would be after four in I was handed to a third party who escaped.:: could not be visited upon his family

I Borneo, when a child fails sick, its name is changed, the idea belog to deceive the evil, spleit which is supposed to be tormenting it.

WE should try to make ourselves very desery ing of some sort of employment. The rest is Do concern of oure. It is the business of other people.

SHIPPING AND MAILS. -

MAILS DUR German (Below) 3rd prox., p.m. German (Prins Bitel Friedrichy 5th prox. Indian' (Namsang) 8th prox.

American (Hongkong Maru) gth prox.

The H. A. L. 11, "Ambria left Singapore on 27th inst. p.m., and may be expected here on 3'd prox

So it is clear that even if there has been in- advertence, if the effect of the vote has been to alter the debtor's position the creditor will bä held to it with the result that he will be held to have abandoned his security; but I am dis posed to add "unless things can be put straight,”

Now let us see what happened in this casa; If Mr. Ho Tung had voted at the creditor's meeting for his debt, lesu hin estimated value of his security, the special resolution, would- have been passed. The figures are conclusive", on this point.

As to this there is a point in the procedure which was adopted by the Official „Receiver, which I think needs Improvement, He wrote, on the minutes of the meeting: podlas "Resolved as follows: „Mr.'S, Disney, proxy. for Mr. Ho Tung dissenting, that the debtors, proposal for a composition credit forth set- The C. P. R. Cols-es. Emprèix of China | above be accepted."..." left Vancouver pm on 27th ult, for. Hong. This looks, and both Council, for Ho Tung kong, via the nnual P'ona of Call,

The C. P. R. Cole s.s. Empress of India. left again at 2 am, Wednesday for Yokohams, arrived at Kobe pizsamp hijou "zyth>"inst", and where she is due to arrive at midnight on 28th

last.

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and I, at first thought this meant that the bac solution having been adopted, the rondiripa af, 18 (1) had been fulfilled and that this was A "Special resolution. But it was not, p, In order to be a “special resolution " it must be