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BANKRUPTC

THE HOME STRIKE.

IDAY, MAY 7, 1926.

Firm'a Partner Charged.

LONDON'S ANCIENT

MONUMENTS,

43 ESPECIALLY WORTHY OF PRESERVATION".

Paris, May 6: Further evidence was taken at The papers unanimously consider the Central Magistracy yesterday tho further decline in French, in the csan: in, which Chau Sui-: Belgian, Rumanian, and Polish hip, managing partner of the The Royal Commission, appolat- currencies as a result of heavy Wing Shing Shung Firm, Kood in 1908, "to make an inven sales and depreciated moneys in Shing street, is chargoed with tory of the ancient and bistörical | the London market, in order to making false statemonts to the monuments and constructions: uphold and keep the sterling Omeinl Receiver in connection connected with or illustrative of parity with the dollar..

The Petit Parisen statos that reports compiled by the Finance Ministry distinctly reveal the ope rations effected in this s160 foreign markets.

in

with the affairs of the'flrm. the contemporary culture, cívi- He is also charged with falsify, lization and conditions of life of the poople of England, excluding ing, destroyink, concealing, or Monmouthshire, from the earl- mutilating certain books of the est times to the year 1714, and to firm.

specify those whion seem most Mr. E. S. G Brooks appears for worthy of prosorvation," have the prosecution and the defendant published Volume II., an inven- represented by Mr. L R. An-tory of the historical monuments in West London, excluding Wost- minster Abbey..

drews.

M. Raopl Porat had a long con forence with the Governor of the Bank of France and financial per-

Yesterday the managing part sonalities. The Council and Cabinet

The Commissionors have in will consider the question thisner of another firm was called,

and said that ho payment of $0,000 spected 259 monuments in 16 meroing-Huvus.

was shown to have been paid to boroughs, and recommand 43 of them by the defendant's firm dur- them as +

especially worthy of ing the last Chicae year.

prosorvation." Ton are ecclesins. With regard to another alleged tical monuments and the romain- transaction, a witness said his der secular.... Arm had never received surns of

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4

AMERICAN SAILOR IN

TROUBLE.

$1,000 and $500. The defendant's arm still owed them money, but they had never had, dealings in volving $1,500.

"I have no money, no place to

A former accountant. of the live and no friends," said Albert Welsh, in answer to His" Honour Wing Shing Shung firm was Judge Milton D. Purdy, in the shown a book, which purported to United States Court, Shanghai, one the rough cash book. He said the 30th ult, when he was charged with having been drunk and dis-i was not the bock he kept dur, ing the first four months if 1925. orderly on the 24th.

He also spoke of entries relatini: to deposits which were alleged to be false.

Inspector Mackenzie informed the Court that the accused had been arrested at the corner of Woosing and Wooching Roads in a drunken condition, and after a complaint had been made by a Chinese that the accused had struck him in the face whilst walking along the street. When taken into custody the accused bai, used bad language and also at the station.

The case was adjourned.

"PROPERTY SALE,

CENTRAL CITY LOT POR $12,250.

With few exceptions, it is stat- ed, the medieval parish churches of West London liave been partiy or wholly robuilt, and the excop- tions have hoen "so drastically restored as to be of little architec- tugal interest. Fifteenth-Century towers survivo at Putney, Fulham, Lamboth, and St. Clemont. Danos.

Seventeenth and Early Eight- eenth Contury church-building is best represented, the Com- missioners state, by the rebuilt St. Paul's Covent Garden, Inigo Jones's design; by two churches of Sir Christopher Wren, St. Clement Danes and St. Jamer, Piccadilly, and by St. Mary lo Strand. Other work of the period includes the nave and tower- of Chelsea Old Church.

of

BEAUTIFUL CHAPELS In answer to His Honour, the Property sold by order of the

Privato chapels include accused had stated that he had mortgagee was put up for sale at Thirteenth-Century example at been in Shanghai for seven the China Auction Rooms yester- Lambeth Palace, the Early montha and arrived here by a day by Mr. B. V. M. R, de Sousa. Fourteenth-Century chapel steamer as a seaman. He had no With a small attendance, bidding the Bishops of ly, Holborn, thai money and had no place to live and was more brisk than was antici-Sixteenth-Century chapel of also had no friends in Shanghai.pated and the lot quickly rose Gray's Inn, and of St. James's His Honour. Where did you get from its opening price and was Palace, the Barly Seventeenth-

knocked down to Mr. Kan Pak the money to buy drink?

Hing for $12,250. Accused.- pawned a suit of clothes to get the liquor.

His Honour then fined the cused G$15 with the option of days in the American gaol.

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ABRQUERIA FILIPINA

LEADING TOBACCONISTS

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SUIT FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT.

Century chapel of Lincoln's Inn. und the late Seventeenth-Century The property put up for sale Marlborough Chapol, and Chelsea was that known as Sections O and Hospital Chapel. The first two! ne-P of Inland Lot No. 795, together are excellent works of their

the period, and

Chapel of 16 with the messuages erected there Lincoln's Inn is a remarkablo on and respectively known as Nos. example of Jacobean Gothic. The 28 and 30 Clarence Sttreet. Area Fourteenth-Century crypt of St. 1312.0 square feet each Section. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, Annual Crown rent $5.75 each Sec-also survives.

In . . Supreme Court, Shang hai, on the 1st inst., Judge Peter Grain delivered judgment in the ault for breach of contract brought by the Scanghai Import and Export Company against Messrs Mac Kenzie and Company, the suit In- volving the sum of $137,482.

tion, with a lease extending for Apart from the Abbey of SC the unexpired residue of a term Pater, Westminster, the chief of 999 years from June 1862.

monastic houses in the district Opening at $10,000 with hids of are the Charterhouse and the $200 acceptable, the closing, price Priory of St. John of Jeusalem,i was reached in three raises of Fat Clerkenwell There was, too, $500 cach and three $250, the euloa small Bonedictine Nunnery a being concluded in less than fivé Kilburn, of which a fragment of minutes.

ROBBERY SEQUEL.

brass is the only survival. Tho Hospital of St. Giles in the Fields and St. Mary Rousevall have left remains, but it is possible that portions of the hospital may be

CHARGE FOLLOWS RECENT incorporated in Henry VIII's

THEFT.

Palace,

His Honour gave judgment for the defendants, with costs. The plaintiff company alleged that the defendants committed a breach of

The secular buildings of West contract, which was untered into It has now been discovered that London are of particular im- between them, in which the dethe total hauf of the robbers who portance. Thoy include tho fendant agreed to finance a lumber deal through a letter of credit. broke into No. 35, Connaught Royal Palaces of Westminster, Plaintiffs further alleged that de- Road, West on Wednesday was St. James, Whitehall, and fendants wrongfully altered the over $4,000. Money andjewellery Kensington. The episcopul pa- terms in the letter of credit from to the value of $1,900 was taken laces of Lambeth and Fulham, an agreement to pay over the from the ground floor, while the and large houses, such as Holl money for the shipment at Vladivo-haul from the first floor is valued and House, Kensington, stok upon shipment of the lumber. Defendants, they alleged, asserted at about $2,000. In addition, the Lindsey House, Chelsea. that they would not pay until after robbers stole $137, from one of the The volume (which can be ok- the limber reached Shanghai. shop fokis.

tained from H. M. Stationery Defendants, in their

beautifully The promissory notes, which Office, £1,1s.) is claimed that they received Informa were said to have been stolen were illustrated. tion that certain dificulties tight later found lying on the shop arise in Vladivostok and that they floor. They had apparently been believed that, though the money

answer.

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