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EXHIBITION.
EXHIBITION of Dinner Services, Tea Sets and other domestic china of the well known manufacturers. Willia Rae, Kobe, at Kumor & Komor for five days only.
TUITION GIVEN
BALLROOM DANCING taught by AILEEN and DORIS WOODS, recent-
from ly returned
HOLLYWOOD, California. Perfect and rapid tuition nssured. 23, Humphreys' Buildings, Kowloon, Tel. 56661.
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE. Within
an hour
In healthy
from London. neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders recolved in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
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For
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(National Frodel Highor Certificate).
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Tale- Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. phone 20022.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger and Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies and Gentlemen,
Pedder Bldg 1st floor. Room 5. Tel. 25169. Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS. and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C Hong Kong.
FOR SALE
POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES FOR 1931.
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Each
Stanley Gibben's Part I....$5.25 |
II. ..$8.00 .86.00 .$6.00
Yvert Et Tellier's Scott's
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Accessories, Religious Gooda, Garden Seeds, Toys, otcy, etc. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box. No. 620. HONG KONG.
Hotel Strathcona
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Make this Hotel your headquar ters while visiting Victoria, B.C. Ideally situated and within easy access to all the famous Beauty Spots in and around Canada's Island Resort.
The Hotel where personal, service makes your stay enjoyable.
RATES MODERATE. LIEF:34] MOBILEMBIUMA
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Clab. Four minutes from forry by bus.)
Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.
EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, get casily accessible.
Terms very moderate. Reser vations by letter or cablo.
CLAREMONT Tel: 67380 & 57385 (Private), Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE.”
NEW
BRIDGE COATS
at:-
KASHMIR
SILK STORE
30A, Queen's Road, C. Opposite Queen's Theatre.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO, LTD.
The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the E.E. Tele- graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:-
Eduardo Coseteng, from Manila. Regentnell, from Glasgow. Songsingar, from Ibo.
S. LACK,
Superintendent
Hong Kong, December 4, 1930.
COMPANY MEETINGS
THE CHINA MAIL.
UNION WATER BOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
GENERAL NOTICES A. K.C.
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
HOOK YOUR SEATS:
your Tables, a Booking Plan of Tables may be seen in the Hong Kong & Peninsula Hotela,
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Com-TF you have not already booked pany will be held at the Ofices of Messra. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Queen's Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong at 11 o'clock In the Forenoon on MONDAY, the 8th day of December, 1930, for ment. the purpose of considering and, if | thought fit, passing the following resolutions as Extraordinary Re solutions:-
1. That the Articles of Asso-
Bock early to avoid disappoint-
R. A. O. B. CLUB.
ON LEAVE AND DIVORCE.
Women "Less Faithful Than Men.”
CRUELTY TO HUSBANDS.
Love, marriage, 'divorce, and the complexities of human passion are discussed from an angle new to most people and with the weight which only a famous lawyer can give to their problema by Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, the eminent King's Counsel, in his autobiography.
"The World, The House, and
ciation of the Company be amend-THE ANNUAL MEETING of The Bar" (Murway, 128.) telle of
ed as follows:-
(a) By the insertion immediately after Article 43 of the fol- lowing new Article, namely,
43 (A) The Company may by ordinary resolution cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of such resolu- tlow bave not been taken or agreed to be taken by any per-: son, and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the shares so can- celled.
or
or
the R.A.O.B. Club will be experiences which will challenge held on THURSDAY, December the attention of men and women 18, commencing at 7 pm. It is the world over. hoped all members will attend.
•
THEATRE ROYAL.
December 12, 13, 15,
18, 19 and 20 at 9 p.m.
Matinee: Wednesday, December 17 at. 4.30 p.m. (Children half price),\,
"THE YEOMEN
OF THE
GUARD."
Booking at Anderson's,
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(b) By the insertion immediately after Article 102 of the fol lowing new Articles, namely, 102a. The Company may at to and from time Any time time in general meeting by resolution authorise the Gen- eral Managers to capitalise any profits of the Company not. required for the time be- ing for payment of dividend upon any preference shares of the Company
other shares issued upon any special conditions, whether standing to the credit of the Company's reserve fund otherwise, and including pro- fits arising from the appre- viation in value of capital assets, and to allot to the members holding shares of the Company in respect of the net amount capitalised fully paid shares of the Company of equivalent nominal amount, "and the GeneralManagers shall give effect to any such resolution accordingly, and any shares allotted pursuant shall to any auch resolution be distributed among the members holding shares the Company so far as prac- to the ticable in proportion number of shares held by them respectively, and shall Now on sale at be credited as fully paid by means of the capitalised and the General | WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW Managera may make such EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE. provision by the issue of frac and at the Publishers tional certificates or by the
of
DO profits
COASTWISE
by -“-ALGIE”—BENNETT.
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on. the China Coast
PRICE $1.00.
BREWERS
payment of cash or by aale The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. and distribution of the pro-
China Mall Building.
ceeds or otherwise as they may think expedient for theÆTTEDE £1 <¢ð] £Ð}}} | | case of fractions. The Gen-
"It is one of the curious features of a barrister's life," writes Sir Ellis, "that for a short time--par- ticularly, perhaps, in divorce cases he has bared to him almost the very souls of men and women, the secrets of their hearts are his, the spectre of their passions, with the attendant Nemesis of satiety, hovers over every consultation.
"The infamy, often the nobility, and, in the case of women, some-] times the almost Divine unselfish. Iness of their actions, has to be dis-
cussed, weighed, and dissected.
A GOOD COCKTAIL MIXER
IS ALWAYS POPULAR
But always use
SEAGER EVANS
GINS.
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No doctor, no parent, certainly no them again an altogether eLATIN husband or wife, knows so much; roneous impression, but one which and then the trial comes or does often affords a better safeguard not come, according to the advice against matrimonial offences than given, and we all drift apart and any words which human ingenuity
could devise.
I could name even now a dozen
meet no more.
"I am often asked," he proceeds, "whether, striking an average, 1 think that men or women are the more faithful. It is difficult to answer, for I remember so many glaring cases of infidelity in both sexes; but on the whole, and look- ing back over many years, I think, strange as it may seem, that women are less faithful than men.
Boredom's Danger.
There are so many phases of life through which most of us pass which affect a woman in an alto- gether greater degree than a man, and which make easier the path of Ja would-be lover; curiosity, bore dom, love of change; love of adven ture; even the risk of an illicit liaison with its plotting is some- times better to a woman than the sameness of uneventful demesti- city.
Also, a man with a busy life! and the occupations either of business or of sport may possibly live without the affection of a woman-there are happy if usually selfish bachelors. But the average woman cannot live a life of even moderate happiness without love, affection and attention.
women who, am sure, would elope to-morrow were it not for the certainty in their minds that to do so would be to lose their children for all time.
Sir Ellis bus comething to say. about the divorce law of this coun- try, which he describes as wholly illogical.
AMERICA ON THE CARPET.
Insufficient Interest in Fighting Drug Trade.
A SERIOUS GAP.
Geneva, October 25, Latin America is to be cited to the Council of the League of Na- tions for failing to show the pro- per degree of interest in the Lea- the illicit gue's efforts to abolish trade in cocaine, oplum and other harmful drugs.
The failure of the great bulk of..
American countries the Latin
to
Either it should be impossible to dissolve a marriage at all (he writes), or, if the interests of the community require that a divorce should be permissible, then it should be permissible in supply the League's Central Opium all cases where the relations of Board with statistics renders im-
be possible the board's officers to ar the spouses are proved to such as not only to wreck their rive-first of all at-just-what-quan- own happiness but to provide a tities of these drugs are necessary danger to the community-the for the world's legitimate medical danger being open and unasham and selentific needs. ed illicit connection and the shedding on the world of bastard children.
The report which the board has adopted for submission to the coun- cil relative to Latin America reads as follows:
"One of the most serious gaps in the statistics of the Board is the almost entire lack of information about Southern and Central Amer- ica. Only one state-Uruguay--- has furnished the Board with all the figures it requires.
. At present if one party has committed adultery the mar ringe may be dissolved; put if it has proved such a hopeless failure that both have committed adultery then they muat remain man and wife unless the 'judge thinks there are such extenuat ing circumstances in the miscon- "Venezuela and Salvador have, duct of the petitioner that ha however, sent in their figures of may exercise a discretion in his the stocks in hand at the end of or her favour-surely a ridicu- 1929, and their estimates for 1980. lous condition of things.
Regrettable Silence. Although these extracts from the The absence of information is book will probably attract most at the more regrettable as South tention and excite controversy, Sir America is one of the chief pro- Ellis tells of many things of inducing centres of cocoa leaves, and terest in a long and useful life em- with her large and rapidly develop
ing population her consumption of bracing politics and law.
From the vastness of his ex- drugs is far from negligible..
Without reliable information as perience he remarks: "It is not a bad old world. Life is very much to her consumption, it is impossible like golf. One knows one's mis- to calculate how much of these 8. That the Directors be and to what ia, in modern language takes and is quite unable to cor- drugs is needed throughout the they are hereby authorised to called a "sex urge," but the visita rect them. I am quite sure that, world for medical and scientific pur-
tion is generally periodic, by capitalise the sum of $77,630 which I mean that it often endures until I die, I shall go on lifting my profits of the Company stand-
eral Managere may appoint ----- any person on behalf of the members to enter into any agreement with the Company providing for the allotment to them of such shares credit- ed as fully paid up, and in satisfaction as aforesaid and un ler any agreement made such authority shall be effec- tive.
reserve
102b. The General Mana- gers may, with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting, declare a dividend to be paid to the members ac- cording to their rights and in- -tercats in the profits, and may fix the time for payment and may with the like sanctioni declare and pay a dividend or
any bonus out of fund and fix the time for pay- ment thereof and may with the like sanction declare and pay bonuses to the Company's employees or any of them. AND NOTICE is hereby further given that a further Extraordin- ary General Meeting of the Com pany will be held at the same time and place on TUESDAY, the The following unclaimed tele-23rd day of December, 1980, for grams are lying at the office of the purpose of receiving a report the Great Northern Telegraph of the proceedings at the above Company (Limited) of Den.
mentioned meeting and of confirm. ing if thought fit as a Special Re- solution the above mentioned Re-: solution.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,
HONG KONG HEIGHTS mark:
OF DENMARK.
Phi Hon-ong, from Amoy. Helen Bonsall, Peninsula Hotel,
For the information of visitors highest palata - on the Island and from Marlboro, Mass. the following Het of some of the Mainland is published:--
Island.
Victoria Peak...
F. V. JENSEN,
Superintendent Hong Kong, Deemeber 8, 1930.
Fect.
18237)
Signal Station
1774
Mt. Parkor
1784
Mountain Lodge
1725
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel
1805
Trikoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Davis
Bowen Road (terbeds) 297
Mainland
Feet.
Kowloon' Peak
1973 8124
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by:
A. IL. CROOK, O.B.E.-M.A. W. KAY, ILA.
QUALITY PRINTING
AND NOTICE sa hereby further given that a further Extraordin- ary.General Meeting of the Com pany will be held at the same place on TUESDAY, the, 23rd day of December, 1930, at 11.05 o'clock In the Forenson or so soon there after as the above meeting shall have terminated, for the purpose. of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolutions, namoly
4.
It is the food of her soul, and without it her spiritual being drops and withers, just as her body would without nourishment; and if husband cannot or does not realise what affection means to the woman, and does not both possess it and show it show it by tender $7.00 each, to $560,010 Hong ness and constant care for bere Kong Currency divided into is not entitled to be surprised if 71,480 shares of $7.00 each she takes a lover. Those who are and that such additional starving must find food where they shares shall rank in all res-can.
Thet in Marriage. pects pari passu with the ori-
Men are, it is trus, mora subject ginal capital of the Company,
in life. Daily Mail. ing to the credit of the Com-only for a period-and a tactful head at golf-may it be the same pany's Reserve Funds ant to woman can usually deal with it. In the ordinary rough-and allot to the members holding
tumble of married life, my ex shares of the Company as or
perience is that a woman who fe the first day of January, 1931,
careful to preserva her physical In respect of the net amount
attractions and will take a little capitalised fully paid shares
trouble to understand and sym of the Company of equivalent
pathise with her husband's work nominal value in the propor-|
or his pleasures can keep him tion of two shares for every
just as long as she likes. fivo shares of the Company
Of course, the troubles usually then held by such persons rĘS-
are brought to me, as patients pectively and that such shares bring them to a surgeon (Sir so allotted shall rank for
Spellitis- A new Ailment Sympathetic Old Lady to Small Boy: "What is troubling you, my little man7"
Small Boy: "Boo Hool Dyspepsia and rheumatism!
Old Lady: "Oh! Surely not-at your age
poses.
"The want of adequate informa- tion at the disposal of the Board is also to be regretted from the point of view of the South. Amori- can states. The amount of drugs- exported to soms of these countries appears to be greater than, their probable medical requirements.
"If the Board were provided with their statistics of consumption and exports, their large imports would probably be explained, without the Board being obliged to trouble the Governments for further explana- tians.
"It is also particularly regrettable that several countries have been unable to report the quantities of
Small Boy: "Yes, tencher caned me because I couldn't spell them."
The old lady may well have been Ellis goes on), when they are far dividends as from the lat day advanced. There is generally al-surprised, yet, although it is n
commonly known, there are kindred of January, 1981.
ready a third party on the scene, ailments to dyspepsia and rheumatism the very young often That if on such distribution and the affections of husband and from which as aforesaid any person would wife are already strained to break-suffer. It has recently been authori- the stocks of narcotics held in the tatively stated that there is no such country for other than Government be entitled to a fraction of a ing-point.
thing as "growing pains" but that purposes at the end of 1929, for the share the General Managers One thing is certain: if the this is a form of thoumatism in chil absence of these figures concerns aball in Heu of issuing frac-woman is already in love with andren, the blood acidity being caused tional certificates causo the other man she cannot be persuaded by faulty digestion. And though on whole share to be allotted to or argued into a rekindled affec-is accustomed to apply the word a person or persons to be nam-tion for her husband.". ed by the General Managers and such share may at such time da the General Managers think fit be sold and the pro coeds distributed amongst the persons entitled to the trac- tions making up the share...
"dyspepsia" to severe Indigestion in Once a woman who has loved adults, yet none the less this condi-
tlon exists in many children. one man has fallen out of love Of all the ailments that besat in with him and into love with an- fante and young children, by far the other, there is no cruelty known vast majority arise from derange ments in the food-tract, the stomach to any created belag human or and the upper and lower intestinor. animal to equal that with But if infantile indigestion and con- which she will treat the first stipation are treated efficiently in their early stages the internal organs mán.
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not only the year 1929, but also makes it impossible for the Board to calculate how much of each substance is accumulated in the country at the end of each quarter br, 1980.”—United Press. :
REALLY WANTED TO DIE.
Man Who Kept On Hanging Himself.
While walking in a wood outside......... Potadam, a man found another man
5. That the Directors be and they are hereby authorised
I always advise himbe he hus-soon re-adjust themselves and the natural processes become normal, and out of the profits of the Com- band or lover to leave her at this flip to what might be called pany standing to the credit of once. If he remains and tries to the beneficent cycle, in turn, gives the Company's Reserve Funds storm or remonstrate, or on the renewed strength to the child to to pay to the members hold other hand to appeal to her pity or fight off any constitutional weakness may baye in these organs. ing the 27723, existing shares her former love for him, the only Modern science has at last devised hanging from a tree with his bracea round his neck, and released him of the Company as on the 1st result will be that her feelings will the ideal corrective for children's 1. That the Company do hereby
day of January, 1931, a sum soon be those of absolute hatred stomach and Lowel troubles in Baby's and ran for assistance." cancel all shares (namely,
Own Tablets. Infantile indigestion, When he returned ten minutes equal to 86.00 for every five and loathing. 22277 shores numbered 27721
collo and constipation readily give later, with a helper they found the. The Deterrent. shares of the Company then
this pleasant-to-take and would-be aufcide had again hanged way to to 50000) which at the data
held by such persons respec The highest deterrent, the thing gontis corrective The tablets – Bro, hereof have not been taken or
tively by way of a bonus divi- which keeps together, many a also designed to check diarrhoea, cx himself, ceded agreed to be taken by any
He was again cut down, and as dend out of the profits of the couple who would otherwise gel worms, allay fever, colde and person, and do hereby
separate and who indeed might be croup: During teething they are she still gave aigua of life one ran Company amount of Its diminish the
pecially invaluable, eating the paina Dated this 27th day of Novers happier apart, is the love of the and than inducing sound natural sleep, for a doctor and the other for the share capital by the amount - pf the shares so cancelled-ter, 1980.
Over woman for her children-glove although there is nothing whatever of police, 2.That the Capital of the Com-per Pro. DODWELL & CO., LTD, which, as a rule, moves a woman the old-fashioned and harmful nar When they returned once more cotic "soothing" elements among the after another ten minutes the man far more deeply than a man... JP. WARREN, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.pany be increased from its
Ingredients. They are the greatest diminished capital of $14
Most women believe that if they boon of the age to both children and was again hanging from the tree, are divorced toey must lose their parents alike. Obtainable from chem- and this time was found to be Kong Currency
dead. children altogether, and never see its everywhere. divided in 27/723, shares of
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