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As illegal gold smuggling was in contravention of India's Sea Customs Act, the ship was liable to be confiscated, despite the gold having been smuggled on board by a crewman without the company's knowledge. ICSNC lost a subsequent court case and appeal and ended up paying 25 lacs (2.5 million rupees) in lieu of confiscation. [9]
William Jardine and James Matheson, the firm's founders 1846 view of Jardine's original building from Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.. The firm of Jardine, Matheson & Company emerged in 1832 from an evolving process of partnership changes in the trading business Cox & Reid, a partnership established in 1782 between John Cox and John Reid, the latter having been agent of the Austrian trading company ...
Ship Bottom is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore, within Ocean County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,098, [9] a decrease of 58 (−5.0%) from the 2010 census count of 1,156, [18] [19] which in turn had reflected a decline of 228 (−16.5%) from the 1,384 counted in the 2000 census. [20]
James Matheson, one of the two founders of the Hong Kong-based Jardine Matheson trading company, founded Matheson & Company in 1848 after he returned from China. [1] The company was created in a reorganization of Magniac-Jardine and Company, which had come close to liquidation in the 1847 financial crisis. [ 2 ]
Sylph was a clipper ship built at Sulkea, opposite Calcutta, in 1831 for the Parsi merchant Rustomjee Cowasjee. [2] After her purchase by the Hong Kong–based merchant house Jardine Matheson, in 1833 Sylph set a speed record by sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours.
The 68-year-old retired woman pinned her hopes on the project after another residential ship scheme – Florida-based Life At Sea – filed for bankruptcy, owing her $30,000, The Telegraph reported.
The thistle and the jade:a celebration of 175 years of Jardine Matheson. Francis Lincoln Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7112-2830-6. Online version at Google books [permanent dead link ] Lampton, David M.; Ji, Zhaojin (2002). A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-1003-5.
Jardine added sixth graders in 1988, and in 1989, its ninth graders were moved to high schools. In 1996, the school was closed, and students were sent to Mead, Truesdell and Curtis middle schools.