In answer to further questions. witness admitted that 15,000 shares: Tls, 25 each were taken up, though only Tls. 5 were paid up on each share.
Then they did raise over Ts. 100,000, the shareholders being liable for the balance not paid up Only Tls. 5 were paid.
You could have called up the balance?—We did not need money.
After the death of Mr. Tsou Mr. King made a demand on you in connexion with this agreement, and your answer was: "Oh, the company has not enough capital.'—That is not true.
Did you not ask him why he was in a hurry, and point out that the monies were all invested, and that he could get a large sum on the expiration of the agreement?—That would be ridiculous. Mr, King was a smart fellow.
Witness denied that since the death of Mr. King he had attempted to got his copy of the agreement, or that he sent an employee to make an offer for it. Plaintiff took some documents to him on which to raise money, but ho told her that he did not want to do any business with her, as she had been talking around and telling people that the company owed her a lot of money. As she took up that position, witness did not want to do any business with her at all.
Did you ask her for that paper I don't think so. It would have been useless, At this stage, the hearing A was adjourned, A pIAMoND ring said to be worth $4,200, was stolen from a Chinese woman in Hankow Road shortly after midnight on Sunday. She was riding in a ricsha in company with another woman, when two or three loafers dashed at her ricsha. One of them held the woman by the throat whilst another attempted te snatch away her diamond earrings and then her valuable finger ring. She clenched her hand, and being thus prevented from drawing off the entire ring, the robber applied his teeth and so removed the diamonds and their setting.
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