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ACTION AGAINST NEW JOB FOR MR. THE FIRST TEST
HOTEL CO.
CLAIM BY ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO.
COLD STORAGE MACHINERY
ALLEGED FAULTY.
BIG COUNTER CLAIM.
THOMAS.
BECOMES MINISTER FOR THE DOMINIONS.
OFFICES SEPARATED.
London, June 3.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Ram say MacDonald, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government proposed to separate the offices of the Dominions and the Colonies and that the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas, at present Minister in charge of unemploy
*Dominions. He
ence
TRIAL.
ENGLAND'S BATSMEN IN FORM.
WEATHER CAUSES GAME TO BE ABANDONED.
COUNTY FIXTURES.
London, June 3. In the first Test Trial, England scored 375 in the first innings,
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The. Hongkong dollar to-day reached a new low record, the official rate on opening, both for T. T. and demand, being 15. 34. nominal. Business, However, has HUGE SHIP PLANNED. been done much lower than that, at least one bullion broker having
RESIGNS.
EARL OF CLARENDON GIVES UP POST:
POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR.
* London, June. 3. In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Mr. H. B. said he had received the Earl of Lees-Smith, Postmaster General,
Clarendon's resignation from the Chairmanship of the British Broad- casting Corpora tion.
A legal action concerning
London, June 3. machinery supplied to the Hong-
made a transaction at 18, 21⁄2d.
Lord Thomson the Secretary The fresh drop, which repre- kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.,
sents a decline of 1.1/8d. on the for Air, made a statement in the commenced in the Supreme
ment would
be the match being abandoned to-last official rate, is due to a fur-House of Lords regarding civil Court this morning when Messrs.
Minister for the day on account of the weather, ther slump in silver, which has aviation. He said that here in He added that Andersen, Meyer and Co., of 67
said that the Hendren, Hobbs, Hammond and fallen markedly during the past this small island we could not the Premier, Des Voeux Road Central, claim-
Larwood batted very consistent two days."
develop civil aviation to quite Mr. Ramsay ed $25,000 from the Hongkong
approaching Imperial Confer-ly, the four making a total of As a consequence, the exchange the same extent as the larger MacDonald, has and Shanghai Hotels. The
On the whole the market in Hongkong is in a state countries with less good com- Ex-Speaker, the recommended the and the 307 runs. claim is in connexion with cold
nature of its busi-bowlers were more prominent of complete disorganisation, one munications. On the other Right Hon. J., H. storage plant supplied for the
ness necessitated than the batsmen in the County broker summing up the situation hand, we had a far-flung Empire Whitley, to sue- and the defendants have filed the offices which had already been having the distinction of taking especially since is seems that tories and to do that we had to Hongkong and Peninsula Hotels,
the separation of matches. Root of Worcester saying that it was now very which we could only reach by reed Lord Claren-
dangerous either to buy or sell, crossing other peoples terri- | don.--Reuter. several counter-claims including made by declaration but not in nine Kent wickets for 81 runs."
bottom has not yet been touched. one for $30,000 in respect of fact. provisions which, it is alleged,
The outlook for silver is very bad, enter into a variety of agree be says, and he would not
ments with the Governments of had to be destroyed. The case
other countries. see it decline a is expected to Inst for several
further d. to-morrow. weeks.
In Shanghai, the market is in a panic, the tael being quoted at is. 51⁄44d,, nominal. In Hongkong, Chinese are willing to sell tacls at 85, and business has been done at 83. The gold bar. market in Shanghal is. rising, quotations being between 588 and 590.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon. instructed by Messrs Deacons, was for the plaintiffs and Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. F. C. Jenkin instructed by Mesars, Johnson, Stekes and faster, appeared for the defen
dants.
two
At present there were Under Secretaries of State for these offices, but they still had one
head in common.
He proposed now to put one over each office. This work ought to have been done before, but it was so inconvenient that his predeces- sors as well as himself had delay- ed it. Economic relations with the Dominions had always been a matter of great interest to this The claim is by Andersen, Mey-¦ Government. There had been er and Co., Ltd., electrical engi-exchanges of views on this subject neers and contractors of Des with the Dominions and the whole; Voeux Road, from the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., for the sum of $25,385.20 being balance alleged to be due from the defen- dants for work done and material supplied between September 11 and November 27, 1929.
The claim refers to the installa tion of an fee cream hardening in the Peninsula Hotel. room creamery machinery, including cork insulation, tilling and pipe ronnection etc: 50 gallon 20 batch mixer, with 350 watt, three-phase 60 cycle motor, refrigerating plant, ice water system and fitters for De Hongkong Hotel, the whole of the work amounting to $50,385.20, of which it was atreed that $25,000 had been paid, leaving the balance as stated in the claim.
Statement of Defence.
The statement of defence states that plaintiffs had expressed and guaranteed the said plant to meet fully the defendants' ments; that the machinery was
require
JUBEZNIENTE,
MISHAP TO HERMES
PLANE.
Smashes Under-Carriage In Attempt to Land.
SAFE AT KAJ TACK,
We are informed by the local naval authorities that Flycatcher No, 4 smashed its under-carriage whilst deavouring to land on deck of H.M.S. Hermes yester- day forenoon.
The Results.
Brief results of the matches are surprised to given below!
Test trial between England and the Rest abandoned.
Northants beat Sussex by 60 runs.
Kent beat Worcester by six wickets.
Notts. won on the Brst innings against Lancashire..
Warwickshire won on the first innings against Gloucester.
Derbyshire beat Middlesex by seven wickets.
Surrey won on the first innings against Essex.
Oxford, beat Glamorgan by 171
runs.
4
The Honour's List. The principal batting and bow fing performances are set out below:
Batting
Townsend (Derby) Smith (Warwick) Hendren (England) Gregory (Surrey) Lilley (Notts) Pataudi (Oxford) Whysal! (Notts)
241
132
101
9-1
94
ch- the
and
Hobbs (England)
Hammond (England) Kingsley (Oxford)
79
.75
73
73
63
A successful landing was subsequently effected at Kai Tack Aerodrome.
O'Connor (Essex) Dipper (Gloucester) Todd (Kent) Gibbons (Worcester)
* Not out.
Bowling
Root (Worcester) Thomas (Northants)
and
and
and
amply large for the duties requestion was being thoroughly ex- quired for it: that the complete amined in preparation for what plant was capable of operating would be one of the most impor- efficiently and in a thoroughly tant discussions at the Imperial Matthews (Northants) satisfactory manner; that
the Conference. plaintiffs also undertook to supply
He was anxious that contacts al- Cook (Sussex) three triplicate compressors, with;
ready established between Mr. cach unit of B-tons capacity, and Thomas and the Dominion Minis-C. Hill-Wood (Oxford) that the plaintiff's expressly re-ters should be further and more
Gover (Surrey) presented that two of those ma-effectively used by both for Im Hardinge (Kent) chines would be ample capacity perial purposes and in connexion Wensley (Sussex)
Freeman (Kent) for all refrigerating work and with our own unemployment pro- Paine (Warwick) that the plant would operate to blem. full capacity in 90 degrees summer
Shufield (Gloucester) weather, and would manufacture Thomas to take the
He had therefore asked Mr. Dominions
The Tests Trial. 250 gallons of ice cream from it.Office. The defence also contended that i
01"
9 81
for
be
It is pointed out that the Hong- kong dollar rate is not yet down to parity, and there is much con- feature as to the future policy of the Banks in this matter.
The Earl of Clarendon is the
Mr. Whitley. sixth holder of the title, and hag been Chairman of the He explained that there were British Broadcasting Corpora differences in various countries tion since 1927. regarding the Interpretation of tain of the Gentlemen-at-Armis
He was Cap freedom of the air as defined by from 1922 to 1925, and in 1925-25 International Convention.
This was Under Secretary for country, however, had not had the Dominions Affairs. From 1922 to least difficulty in reaching agrée 1925, he was Chief Conservative ments with those countries over Whip in the House of Lords. He which the air route to India pass owns about 500 acres, including ed.
the ruins of Kenilworth Castle.
The Right Hon. J. H. Whitley was Speaker of the House of
of Dunlop
Stringing, ob
tainable from any Sports Dealer.
KING TO SEE THE DERBY.
TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY QUEEN.
ODDS SHORTEN DURING THE FINAL CALL-OVER.
PARTHENON'S RIDER.
London, June 3.. Definite arrangements have been made for His Majesty the King, to go to Epsom to-morrow to witness the Derby. He will be accompanied by the Queen and possibly by the Duke of Gloucester and HR.H. Prince George.
Derby betting to-night was, as follows:
Diolite. Three to one.
Rustom-Pasha-Fifteen to two." Silver Flare. Hundred to eight " taken and offered,
Trews-Hunded to eight and offered.
Blenheim-Fifteen
to
aken
offered, hundred to six taken.
Ballyferris.-Hundred to six. Noble Star-Twenty to one. Scout Second.-Twenty-five ta
one.
.
one,
Iliad. Twenty-eight to taken and offered.
Dick Swiveller. Twenty-eigh to one, taken and offered.
Italy took a more restricted in- terpretation of the freedom of the air. The difficulty of reaching a satisfactory arrangement with exped Italy was due to the fact that we could not find a basis of recipro-
AMY JOHNSON TO SAIL city because we had nothing to give Italy in return for the privi
FOR HOME. leges we enjoyed on Italian terri- tory.
Shanghai, Junė 3.. There was a sensational rise in the exchange value of gold dollars and gold bars in Shanghai to-day in consequence of an official an- Inspector General of the Chinese nouncement by Mr. F. W. Maže,
India Line Success. Maritime Customs, with Head- quarters at Nanking, to the effect Meanwhile the position was not that, beginning from to-day, all at all bad. The mid-European or payments made to the Maritime Balkan air route to India Customs at Shanghai should be functioning with remarkable suc- on a gold standard.
STUDENT SHOOTS
PROFESSOR,
SENSATION AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
DETECTIVE WOUNDED.
London, June 3.
A Cambridge Professor and a young undergraduate are dead and 5 for 34a detective wounded, as a result of affair sensational shooting + for 17 a 5 for 18 which occurred at Cambridge 5 for 24 University to-day.
4 for 12 for 42
for 20
for 60
was
cess and punctuality. The British Empire had now 22,350 miles of air route in regular operation. As n people we were rather apt to de- cry our own achievements, but we had the second largest mileage of air route in the world, second only to the United States. Our ser- vices were manned by the finest machines and certainly. by many of the best pilots in the world.
It was a feature of Continental
air travel that passengers always tried to fly in British machines whenever there was choice. That was a tribute to our ground or ganisation, our pilots and the efforts taken to avoid risks aris- ing from faulty structure.
Leaving, Brisbane Aboard P. and O. Liner:
PLEASED WITH C.B.E.
London, June 3. Miss Amy Johnson sails from Brisbane for England in the P. and O. liner Naldera ou June 25th.
She expressed to-day her gratification at receiving the honour of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, conferred upon her by the King-British Wireless,
Seer. Thirty-three. to. ane. Bargany Forty to one. Sta Rover. Fifty to one, offer-
Sponger-Fifty to one offered," sixty-six to one taken,
Grand, Salute.-Sixty six to one. Lansdowne Hundred to one.. Parthenon.-Hundred to one. Adlon Two hundred to one offered.
Tetragem. Two hundred to one offered.
The Final Call-Over. The final call-over on the Derby to-night was as follows:
Diolite.-Eleven tó four offered, three to one taken and wanted.
Rustom Pasha-Eleven to two. Trews. Thirteen to one Silver Flare.-Fifteen to one taken and offered:
Scout SecondHundred to six. offered twenty to one "taken.
Blenheim-Seventeen to one.. Ballyferris Twenty-two to one. Noble Star-Twenty-two to one. Iliad. Twenty-five to one taken and offered.
Dick Swiveller-Twenty-five to one offered, twenty-eight to one taken.
Seer-Forty to one taken and offered
to
one
SeaRover Forty offered, fifty to one taken.
Sponger-Fifty to one offered, sixty-six to one taken.
Grand Salute.--Fifty to one
offered.
Bargany-Sixty-six to one taken
Commens from 1921 to 1928. Prior to this he was from 1911 to 1921 Deputy Speaker and Chair- man of Committees, a post in which he won a high reputation by Coming Developments. Professor Alexander Wollaston
his tact, his enormous acquain- tance with rules and procedure, was shot dead in his rooms al
Developments of air services and his pleasant vein of dry 0 for 74 Cambridge by a first year under- now being arranged were an ex- humour. 4 for 25 graduate named D. N. Potts. The tension of the India route to Aus- Committee on industrial problems, He presided over the Intter also shot at and wounded tralia, the exact date of which de- and the "Whitley Report" is a for 26 Detective Sergeant Mills of Cam
pended to a large extent on the foundation of various reconstruc- and offered. for 70 bridge and then shot himself.
He resigned the Potts was removed to hospital Australian Government, but which tion plans. in a critical condition and he died it was hoped to have in operation Speakership in 1928 and declined shortly afterwards. Detective by the end of next year, and an à Peerage. Last year he was Sergeant Mills is recovering from air service through Africa from appointed Chairman of the Royal
Cairo to Capetown...
Commission on Indian Labour, absent from College for some days It appears that Potts had been without leave... He was in his tutor's rooms being interrogated with regard to his absence when he shot the Professor through the heart and killed him instantly Rouler,
The first test trial was played at the plaintiff's made certain stipula-justment of the machinery set up Rest, but there was no play to-day
That would necessitate a read-Lord's between England and the his wound. tions with regard to the mainten- o denling with unemplosment and the match was abandoned. ance of a certain temperature.
The defence filed counter-claims due course.
and that would be announced in England, however had shown good as follows: $195,790 paid by them
balling strength in their first in- In regard to the contacts estab-nings. The Rest went in first and for the Peninsula Hotel plant,lished by Mr. Thomas with the were dismissed for a modest 138. damages amounting to $5,390 in Dominions mentioned by the Pre-Geary took four wickets for 20 and respect of the Hongkong Hotel mier, it is recalled that Mr. Thomas Robins four for 69. plant, damages amounting to $30 was Secretary for the Colonies in G77.75 sustained to provisions the Labour Government of 1924, 375, the majority of the runs be- England's first inning's total was which had to be destroyed; reThere was at that time no separate ing made by four batsmen. Hen- Imbursement of damages for the Dominion Office. Mr. Thomas has dren was sent back to the pavilion storage of meat and sundry ex-also visited penses and consequential damages present term of office as Minister his century. Hobbs got 80, Ham
Canada during his when he had scored one run over in-Charge of Unemploymentmond 79 and Larwood 47. British Wireless.
For the Rest, Stevens took three wickets for 80 and White three for 50. The match was abandoned shortly after the Rest had opened their second innings with the acore at six for none:
for the loss of profits.
Severe Losses Suffered.
In opening the case, Mr. Sheldon referred to the various claims, counter-claims and statements by the defence,
AMERICA & NAVAL TREATY.
Frederick Richmond Wollaston
The late Professor Alexander F.R.G.S., was horn in 1875 and was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge (M.A.,
as the great lakes of Central That would be completed as fer Africa at the end of this year, and extended to Capetown by the DEATH OF MR. T. KAWA. spring of 1931.
Finally we were now beginning
SUCCUMBS.
to see light in the opening up of M. B. K. ASSISTANT MANAGER Atlantic airways with the co-
ernment. operation of the Canadian Gov-
Atlantic Prospects.
The Japanese community of Hongkong has lost one of its best- known and most capable business
B.Ch.). He later entered the reported very sympathetically on Mr. T. Kawa, Assistant Manager A Consultative Committee had men as the result of the death of London Hospital, and became. M.R.C.S. and LR.C.P. He was a the Western Atlantic airway well-known explorer, having been. scheme and he was confident that of the M. B. K., which occurred at a member of the British Expedi- we should be able to do something the Government Civil Hospital at tion to Ruwenzori, Central Africa of that kind. The Canadian Gov-8.30 this morning. and in 1905-07, of the Expedition ernment, whose co-operation was to Dutch New Guinea,. 1909-11, essential, was also very sympathe whilst in 1912-13 he was leader tic.
Memorial, Royal
was awarded
The late Mr. Kawa, who was
43 years of age, entered the Hos- pital on Friday last, suffering from
on the same day. Complications, appendicitis, and was operated however, set in and he passed away this morning.
Lansdowne-Sixty-six to ола taken and offered.
There was no change during the
the other horses entered in the Derby.
final call-over in the netting on
Horses and Jockeys. Golding will ride Parthenon, runners and jockeys being as under:
Trews (R. Dizk). Sponger (R. Perryman), Silver Flare (Elliott).: Sca Rover (M: Wing). Ballyferis (Canty). Grand Salute (Clifford Richards). Landsdowne (Gordon Richards) Diolite (Cecil Ray), Bargany (Carslake). Rustom Pasha. (Beary). Blenheim (H. Wragg), Parthenon (Golding). Noble Star (Harry Beasley). Seer (Jellis).-
Tetragem (A. Wragg). Adlon (F. Winter), Scout the Second (Joe Childs). Dick Swiveller (Pat Beasley).
-Router.
Diolite's Chances.
He said that it was a claim by Menara Andersen, Meyer and Co.,
Northants. Sussex,
of another expedition to Dutch Lord Thomson said that if the against the Hongkong and Shang-
PRESIDENT AGAINST ANY
Northants beat Sussex at Ket R.N, during the war, being men in June and of the R101 to India New Guinea. He was Surgeon final flights of the R100 to Canada hai Hotels, Ltd., for work. and
DELAY,
tering by 60 runs. Bowlers had tioned in despatches and receiving in September were satisfactory it labour done and materials sup
much their own way in a very low the D.S.C.. decoration, whilst in might be urged that construction plied certain contracts for the
Washington, June 3, scoring match, there being no even 1921 he was Medical Officer and should then proceed immediately erection of machinery in the President Hoover has refused average batting performance. Nor- Peninsula and Hongkong Hotels. to consider a plea by a number of thants made 162 in the first in Naturalfat to the Mount Everest with n 7,500,000 cubic foot air-
Expedition.
The deceased gentleman had ship which was about the size been in the Hongkong office of the to Diolite's appearance was notice A great diversity of opinion as The writ was issued in Decem- Senators to postpone the Naval nings, Cook taking five wickets for
He ber last year, whilst the reply by Treaty debate until December, in 24 Sussex went in but were sogn
the Gill that would be a commercial proM. B. K. for about, three and a Geographical position. The collaboration of balf years, prior to which he was Newmarket recently. Some of able among the paddock critics at to enable them to return sent back with only 84 on the board, Society, in 1914, and the Patron's the big shipping companies would employed in the Now York and them declared that he was de in order February 24, 1930. It might be home for the approaching cam thants bowlers, shared the wickets, years past, he had been Fellow probably be invited in this con- Osaka offices. He was very popficient in bone and too Hight of
Thomas and Matthews the Nor- Gold Medal in 1925. For some Thomas taking five for 22 and and Tutor of King's College, Cam- The President has informed the Matthew's four for 47.
lar amongst the Japanese com frame ever to make a really great. Senate leaders that he will call a
munity, and recognised as an ex horse. On the other hand, there bridge. His publications includa The Sussex bowlers came into "From Ruwenzori to the Congo," special session to consider the their own when Northants went in Pygmies and Papuans," and a
tremely able and shrewd business is assuredly a great deal to admire Treaty the day after Congress again; however. Wickets fell rapid. Life of Alfred Newton, MA.,
stands over a good deal of ground man,
in him Measuring 16 hands, he adjourns-Reuter's American ly and Northants were all out for FRS. He married and
and possesses unusual length of Service.
(Continued on Page 7) leaves one son and two daughters.
(Continued on Page 12.)
the defendants was
filed
necessary for the defence, in paigns. answering the case, to be rather technical, but so far as he was concerned he would not worry. His Lordship very much with technicalities.
(Continued on Page 8.)
nexion.
Zeppelins Compared.
House that the building of the Lord Thomson reminded the R100 and R101 was an experiment. (Continued on Page 12.)
Much sympathy will be felt for This widow and four young sons in
their bad bereavement,
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