Among other formation of the reasons for the company, the evidence reveals that the brothers desired to obtain extraterritorial [rights for their business and also that since dissensions had arisen between them it was thought a corporate organization which included third parties might tend to a smoother and more neutral conduct of the business.
Mr. Happer the president of the company, is a friend of both brothers who has sold them American tobacco for some time. Mr.
Allman, the secretary-treasurer, is attorney of Mr. S. C. Cannelaki: bortly after the inauguration of the company it developed that Messrs. Happer, Allman and Kendall had transferred the six shares of Fire broke out in the Hongkew Police Station shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday, the premises involved being officers' quarters. Firemen remained on the scene for less than 30 minutes. A chair and the flooring of the first floor were damaged. Another fire broke out in Lane 289
Wayside Road at 4.21 p.m. yesterday. Here one house was gutted and several houses were damaged. Yangtszepoo firemen extinguished the outbreak in an hour and a half.
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