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CLAIM FOR SHARE OF $200,000.

ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF LOCAL FIRM.

PARTNERS AT LAW.

ANCIENT · AXEHEADS

AND POTTERY.

INTERESTING FINDS ON LANTAO ISLAND,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

Thibaud, the "Gipsy Fiddler" (7)' Shepherd Fennel's Dance "Tristan and Isolda"--Columbia

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Records.

[BY "ALLEGRO."]

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928.

POWELL'S REDUCTION GENERAL NOBILE'S

OF CAPITAL.

RESOLUTION CONFIRMED

THIS MORNING.

CONDITION.

́ALLEGED INABILITY TO TELL COHERENT STORY.

CONFLICTING CABLES.

It is recorded in the annual re-,[ Appreciators of music do Shareholders of Megara. Wm. port of the District Officers for the not always see eye-to-eye" and Powell Limited this morning con- Southern District of the New Ter-I question whether the description firmed an extraordinary resolution ritories that several finds of an of Thibaud by the Daily for a reduction of the Company's An application for an order for clent atono nxeheads and pottery Press musical critic na the dissolution of a local firm and were made on Lantao Island by Dr.ddler is a correct one. He wrote:

gipsy-capital. the payment of respective capital leanley; these

Berlin, June 27. Mr. M. Manuk (chairman), was are of great "Thibaud gives the impression less and profits due to the claimants archeological Interest and should of the great master, but rather of supported by Mr. S. J. Jordain at King's Bay have telegraph- Newspaper correspondents now from a sum exceeding $200,000 help to throw light on the early the gipsy fiddler who is a welcome Messrs. Deacons (solicitor), and General Nobile on board the "Citta (Director), Mr. R.A. Wadeson, of ed that nobody is allowed to see, was adjourned by, the

Chief history of South Chinn. A mono-figure wherever he wanders. It is Mr. A. C. Howell (secretary). di Milano" owing to his serious Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, in the graph on the subject by Dr. Hean- this quality of the gipsy which Shareholders present ware Mr. H. condition which is alleged to be a Supreme Court this morning, beley is in course of publication.

makes him so attractive; you feel Overy, Mr. A.. Ribbiero, Mr. E. J. completo nervous breakdown. cause the various documents had Early in the year the ground that he plays because he loves giv-Ainslie, Mr. D. M. Goodall, Mr. H. not been properly served on the survey in connexion with the airing pleasure rather than because E. Scriven. Mr. A. W. Brown Mr. a coherent account of happenings It is stated he is, unable to give defendant, who was absent from survey of the Colony made by he loved is rather my mind Leung Fo-shan and Mr. Yay Fook-since the wreck of the Italia

H.M.S. Pegasus, was completed. "gipsy fiddler" is a term of ling. The plaintiffs were Chan Pu- All the local village and place reproach to the leading violinist of hin, and Chan Yu-hau, alian Chan names were carefully checked and the French school, who has devoted After the secretary had read the Subscriptions are pouring into Ol Yan-tong, both of No. 15, Peak have been forwarded to the carto-his whole life to serious study of notice convening the meeting the newspaper offices to assist a private Road; Chan Chok-chau, alias Chan graphers, so that the resultant surely one who plays "to the girls" object for which this meeting has to search for Captain Roald Amun- his instrument. A gipsy fiddler is chairman said Gentlemen, The expedition which is being organised. Man Sul-tong, and Mak Sik-tung, maps, when ready, may be expecat the lesser restaurants of Paris; been called is, as indicated at the who have been missing for ten days. both of No. 44, Ko Shing Street, {ed to be extremely accurate.

sen and Commandant Gullbaud, a Bohemian with long hair who notice for the purpose of receiving merchants. The defendant was Dr. Brock of the University of plays chiefly by ear and who cannot report of the proceeding of the Chan Chak-kwan, alias Chan Sul-British Columbia also completed boast of any considerable technique, extraordinary general meeting held mediately on board Norwegian The expedition will start im- hing, ofis Chan Ki Wo-tong, the geological survey of the New Thibaud is a great master and does on the 9th. instant and of confirm whaler under an experienced Are- alian Chan Yee Wo-tong, merchant, Territories, during the spring, so not fit the description at all. Al-ing as a speial resolution the relie skipper-Reuter, of No. 41, Des Voeux Road West, that the final report thereon muy though I recognise that the term solution, which was then passed as third floor.

be expected shortly.

was intended as a compliment, some an extraordinary resolution, of our French friends did not un- derstand it in that sense.

Court.

Mak Sik-tung claimed us the ad- ministrator of the estate of his

father, Mak Kit, alias Mak Kiet, MARINE COURT CASES. alias Mak King-yu, alias Make Chun Hang-tong, who died intestate on November 11, 1907.

The Partnership.

LAUNCH OWNER & MASTER CHARGED.

It appears from the statement of claim that sometime during At the Marine Court this morn, August and September, 1904, asing, before Commdr. J. B. Newill, the result of the amalgation of Lave D.5.0., R.N., Wong Taksing, firma, the Kwan Wo Chan, and the owner of the steam launch On Fat, Fat Lee Kwan, a trading partner was charged with failing to report ship was formed under the name to the Harbour Master the name of the Kwan Wa Lee. The part of the master and the number of nership carried on business and hid, certificate within 48 hours of rised all three names both in Hong-engagement Tang Kuen, as mas kong and elsewhere.

ier, was charged with failing to The partners were the defen-produce his certificate for regis- dant, who was also the general tration within 48 hours of engage manager, the first three plaintiffs, ment. Both accused pleaded not the fourth plaintiff's father, and others some of whom had inco died and others retired.

Demand for Dissolution,

gulity.

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Reuter.

Impact Described.

That resolution you will rement-

Rome, June 27. ber concerned, your approval of a count of what happened when the

General Nobile's detailed ac The size of the audience at his reduction of the Company's capital. "Italia" crashed on the ice concert was mest satisfactory, and You will also remember that at the shows that the Impad was taken floo the majority of them will no previous meeting I explained to you by the engine in the front of the doubt take the opportunity of hear why your Directors thought it

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General Nobile says that the dirigible re-ascended' and was seen to drift about six mes, when a trailing astern, small plume of smoke was seen

one

ing him for the last time at his essential to reduce the capital of the gondola (which became detached, extra concert on July 2nd, when he Company, and I do not think it thus marcuning the Nobile party), will play the Vivaldi Concerto in Aecessary to deal any further with др a consequence of which the minor, Mozart's Concerto in G, and those reasons except to state that chief mechanic. Sig. Pomella, group of five miscellaneous solos at the meeting in question the rewas. fatally injured He was solution approving the reduction of subsequently given an honourable. I wanted to recommend Balfour capital was unanimously passed as burial by the marooned party, Dance" (1.M.V. Orchestral) to my Gardiner's "Shepherd Fennel's an extraordinry resolution. gramophile friends, but all the re-

Tho Resolution. cords are sold. However, they can besiege, Moutrie's and place an or Companies Ordinance it is neces To comply with the Hongkong der with them; and they might care sary that to keep the following programme resolution shall be confirmed by n such extraordinary

General Nobile's Directions. note, written by Mrs. Rosu New-majority of shareholders entitled march for the first performance at to vote as are present in person, tions for the Anding of the party General Nobile is giving direc Queen's Hall in 1911: Police evidence showed that the "Those who have read Thomas ordinary general meeting and con- seaplanes, two Italian and

or by proxy, at a subsequent extra-with the airship hull, and three launch had been boarded on thrée Hardy's Wessex Tales will remem-sequently this meeting has been Swedish, will start immediately occasions, but it had never Been ber the christening party given by convened for possible to find the certified mas- Shepherd Fennel and his wife on enabling the extraordinary resolu- bad, permits,

the purpose of the weather, which al present is The plaintiff's case was that ter. A warning had been issued, March 28th, 1820, in honour of tion passed at the previous meet they demanded a dissolution of the but no notice had been taken and their second daughter, so raphicaling to be confirmed as a special walking party, regarding whom General Nobile states that the partnership when the accumulated neither the certifiente nor the many and humorously described in the resolution. undistributed profts and assets had been registered.

story of "The Three Strangers.propose the, confirmation as

I accordingly beg to there is at no news, was pro of the partnership exceeded $200,000. That, demand was modę

The owner stated that he had long between the sit-still party.extraordinary resolution, namely: out tents and firearm.

Shepherdess Fennel had wavered special resolution of the said truments and maps but were with- Avisioned for 40 days and had ins on about June 20, 1927, for pay, engaged the second defendant as which experience had proved cun-hat the Capital of the Company ment of respective shares and capi- seaman, although he held a coxs-ducive to an unconscionable deale tal together with proportions of wain's certificate, for he could not of toping, and the dancing party divided into 50,000 shares of $7.00 miles a day, but they did barely He says that Dr. Malmgren profits, but their demand had not afford to pay wages to both men with its counterbalancing dead each of which 42,000 have been three miles

from $350,000.00 enlculated that they could do six! been complied with.

at the higher rate. The accond vantage in the matter of The plaintiff's therefore asked defendant decisionally acted as victuals, the ravenous appetities issued, to $100,000.00 divided into reached Foyn Island, since when a day when they for a decree for a dissolution as coxswain in the absence of the engendered by the exercise causing 50.000 shares of $2.00 each and nothing had been heard of them. from February 12,,1026; and for an other,

immense havoc in the buttery. that such reduction be effected by necount to be taken and payment of His Worship adjourned the case "Finally, she compromised be cancelling capital which has been Captain Ravazzoni hna arrived at An Italian senplane piloted by the aniounts found due. They fur-until tomorrow morning, for the tween short dances alternating with lost or is unrepresented by avail-Tromsoe in search of Captain ther claimed their costs and such purpose of looking into legal talk and song. And so it came able assets to the extent of $4.50 Amundsen and Cominaler Guil- other relief as the Court thought fit. paints of the case.

about that while the increasing per share upon each of the 42,000 Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., in-

March rain was buffeted against shares which have been issued, baud-Reuter. Leung Yan, master of the steam the unsheltered hilltop dwelling of and by returning to the extent of structed by Mr. D.L. Strellett, of launch Ping Po, was charged with Higher Crowstairs, the candles 50 cents per share and by reducing Messrs. G.K. Hall Brutton and Com-

The Hobby to Return, pany, was for the plaintiffs. Mr. carrying 60 passengers in excess twinkled in the cosy dwelling-room the nominal amount of all the F.H. Loschy was also in Court, of the number allowed by licence. where, at seven o'clock, the shrill shares in the Company's

Oslo, June 27. Mr. Alabaster said that Mr. He pleaded guilty, fis launch tweedle-dee of the bay-ddler had from $7.00 to $2.00."

The Norwegian Goverment has capital Loseby had informed him that he was Heensed for 119 and he was begun, 'accompanied by a booming

accepted the offer of the "merican, had no further instructions from carrying 179 at the time of ar-ground-bass from Elijah New, the

I shall be glad if some share-scaler Hobby, which was thus, Mins Boyd, who had hired the the defendant.

parish clerk, who had thoughtfully holder will second the proposal. obliged to return from the search A fine of $120, with the alterna-brought with him his favourite

Mr. II. Overy seconded and the of the "Italia" party, to send back nont, was inflicted. tive of three months' imprison-musical instrument, the serpent. proposal was carried.

the vessel to Spitzbergen, free of Good Mrs. Fennel, hospitable yel

cost, to search for Captain Amund- thrifty, had intended to Hmit the exhilaration of the dance to a quir-

sen and Commander Guilbaud.---. Reuter. ier of an hour at a time. But she reckoned without the enthusiasm of her musicians. Elijah and the

Defendant Alisent. The defendant's name was called, but he did not appear.

In considering the procedure to be followed in the event of a de- fendant being absent, his Lordship held that the defendant had not been properly served. The solicitor for the defendant, said his Lordship, had only undertaken to accept ser- vice of the writ and not for general

process.

His Lordship adjourned the case for the documents to be properly served on the defendant.

rest.

EASTER ACCIDENT

SEQUEL.

CASE AGAINST CAR DRIVER

· DISMISSED.

CROCODILE IN STRAITS. II. White was knocked down and

CHINESE FISHERMAN CAUGHT ON SANDBANK. Bathera off the Tanah Merah and Changi beaches should take

The esse concerning the driver of public car No. 442 who was ummoned for negligent driving as an alleged result of which Mrs.

Injured in an accident which oc eurred on Enster morning in Queen's Road East, was again be fore Major C. Willson yesterday afternoon after an adjournment

cumble the Magistrate to in- spect the scene of the mishap, warning from the fact that a Mr. D. L. Strellett appeared on Chinese fisherman was caught by behalf of Mrs. White, while the a crocodile and fatally injured in defendant was represented by Mr. this locality recently, says the F. E. Nash

Straits Times.

In his decision, his Worship

It appears that a party of fisher- found defendant not guilty of men from a village on one of the negligence, and accordingly dis- falanda near Changi were operat- missed the case.

ing off the 14th mile on the East Copat. They anchored their boat on a sandbank und rot into the water, which was only a fow feet deep. Suddenly one of their num- ber shouted for help and was seen to be struggling to retain his hold on the not. His comrades rushed to his assistance, and found that a large trocodile had seized him around the waist and was attempt- ing to drag him away.

The men seized the victim's hands, and by shouting and atriking at the crocodile with moles

NEW GOVERNMENT LAUNCH.

ORDER FOR HONGKONG AND

WHAMPOA DOCK CO.

An order has been placed with the Company for the contruction of a Hongkong and Whampoa Dock teak motor launch for the use of the Harbour Department.

the brute eventually was induced The dimensions of the boat are.

to release its hold, and the man was lifted into the boat. He was terribly wounded, however, and

to be:-Length, 60 feet, beam, 11.3 feet; and deplis, & feet.. She is to be fitted with Gardner semi-Deisels

died in hospital the next day. to 72 B.I.P. at 400 rpm., these en.

gines being supplied by Messrs. Dodwell and Co., the local agents.

The fishermen were something liko milo from the shore at the time, but the incident cannot but Construction is to start im-. give rise to a certain uncasiness, mediately at the Cosmopolitan and caution is obviously advisable Dock and It is anticipated the craft along this coast, particularly in will be completed in approximately bathing where the bottom fe five months. The estimated cost is muddy and the water not clear... $25,030.

good

reduced

"FAIR TO SHOWERY."

boy, in the excitement of their posi-| To-day's Observatory report

The local office of the Neder- turi, quite forgot the injunction states:-"Pressure is highest to landsch Indische Handelsbank ... And so that dance whizzed on the east of the Bonins. A shallow are in receipt of a cable from the with cumulative fury, the per-depression covers China. The Amsterdam hend office to the formers moving in their planet-Japanese depression has filled up." effect, that the Bank has declared like courses, direct and retrograde, The forecast up to, noon to-mor. A dividend of 10% for the year from apogee to perigree, till the row is:-"South winds, moderate;

(Continued an Page 11.) fair to showery.

1320, BY KEA SERVICE DIG

"Don't worry, Miss; I've got a strong leash on him.”

1927.

Powell

Telephone C. 4578.

12, Des Voeux Road.

ANNOUNCE THEIR

CLOSING SALE

will commence on

TUESDAY, JULY 3rd

when the entire stock will be offered at:

33%

3% Discount

off all goods in the

Ladies' and Furnishing Departments.

In the

Gentlemen's Department

we shall hold our

ANNUAL SUMMER SALE.

For full particulars see Saturday's Edition of this paper.

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