An interesting claim has beea filed in the Mixed Court, through the Italian authorities, by. Messrs. Musso and Fischer on behalf of Mr. G. A. Bena against a General Liu for the sum of Tis, 300,000.
an Italian subject, and the defen-The petition shows that plaintiff, dant, entered into an agreement to form a Sino-Italian company (registered in the local Italian Conisulate as the Sociate Asiatica di Commercio ed Industria and known as the 8. A. C. I.).
The capital of the company, a3 agreed upon, was to have been $1,500,000. Of this, defendant agreed to put up one-half, ie, $750,000, but later failed to do so. Wherefore plaintiff claims damages in the sum of Ts. 300,000.
Frve men appeared at the Mixed Court, before Messrs. Loh and Jacobs, on Tuesday charges with being concerned with others not in custody in the murder of {one Toh Dah in Ming Wei Lea, off East Seward Road, on April 3. After a lengthy hearing, the case was adjourned.
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