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GENERAL NOTICES
THE SPANISH REVOLT HABITS WHICH NEED
FIASCO.
REFORM.
LESSON SERMON.
NOTICE.
(1918), LTD.; beg to,
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE CHINA CUT & POWER Orders Which Did Not Our World Language to
WHY IT FAILED.
that the TWELFTH ORDIN- Notify their Consumers that, owing Reach Madrid Leaders ARY MEETING OF SHARE- ALTERATIONS in the Generat- HOLDERS will be held at the Re-ing Station, the SUPPLY OF: giatered Office of the Company, ELECTRICITY will not be avail- No. 10, Pes Voeux Road Central,able between the hours of & A.M. 3.00 p.m. SATURDAY, and 8 AM. on TUESDAY, the 17th Fel ruary 21, 1931, for the pur-February, 1931. pose af receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending December 31, 1930.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY. February 14, to SATURDAY, February 21, 1931 (both days inclusive), during which perid no transier of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, February 4, 1931.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LTD.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO., General Managera. Hong Kong, 12th February, 1931,
Paris, Dec. 21. Le Temps publishes a remark
respondeat, summing up the rea able dispatch from its Madrid cor
aons why the recent Spanish up rising failed.
Be Simplified.
DECIMAL CURRENCY.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
"Soul" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, February 15,
The Golden Text was:-"1 have and thy law is my delight. longed for thy salvation, O Lord; - Let
Discussing some of the changes in old habits which have proved inconvenient, Mr. Harold Cox in my soul live, and shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help the Sunday Times, says there is no real difficulty in reforming me." (Psalm 119; 174, 175.)
calendar,
our
He also argues the cass Firstly, the Government received for altering the rule of the road for timely warning through the impedestrians, who should, he thinks, prudence of Captain Bangalan, who walk on the left. started the rising in Juca three days before the date set.
Secondly, through some bung
BANK HOLIDAYS. N Accordance with Government Ordinance, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, 17th and 18th February. New Year Holidays).
the leaders of these sections of Hong Kong, 12th February 1931, which had received arms and were Madrid's working class population
to have uprisen at the same mo ment us tho rebel aeroplanes ap peared over the capital.
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Among the stations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the allowing from the Bible: "Dear- Ty beloved, beseech you as A third desirable reform which rangers and pilgrims, abstain
from fleshy lusts, which would greatly benefit our trade abroad is the adoption of the metrie rainst the soul; Having your con-
versation honest among the Cen-. (China ing, the final orders failed to reach system of weights and measurestles: that, whereas they spook
All countries in the world rapidly succeeding one another in against you as evil-doers, they the adoption of the metric system. hay by your good works, which Nearly the whole of Europe adopt they shall behold, glorify God in
the day of visitation." jed it. before the end of last cen-
2; 11, 12.) .. tury.
The Lesson-Sermon also includ. Friends of Britain in foreign The correspondent states that though the Army as a whole stood countries, anys Mr. Harold Cox, the following passage from Christian Scicura textbook, by the Government, large parts of have recently been pointing out how the troops are really disaffected difficult it is for them to give orders Science and Health with Key to and strongly sympathize with the for British goods when prices are the Scriptures," by Mary Baker rebels. This is shown in several quoted in a complicated system of Eddy:-"So long as we believe that instances, such as the fact that the weights and measures with which soul can sin or that inmorial Soul can never quite unfamis in mortal body, we planes sent up in pursuit of Major most countries are
understand the Scionce of being. Franco carefully abstained fromlar.
When humanity doua understand catching him, and also that the N SATURDAY, February 28 Artillery in the Cuatro Vientos and
this Science, it will become the the arst race will be run at Ayerbe
It would facilitate this reform, law of Life to man, even the engagements purposely and many other reforme as well, if higher law of Soul, which prevails ment of Accounts for the year end. 4.30 p.m., and on all other days at fred away over the heads of the simultaneously
11.30 a.m.
we could adopt a over material rense through har- On the first day the
revolutionaries.
decimal currency. Arst bell will be rung at 1 p.m.
Here the change mony and immortality." (p. 31.) These facts, also that the rebel needed is a small one. All we have nationwide movement of this kind vantages of a decimal currency without the Government secret ser- slightly to raise the value of th vice being able to get wind of it, show, the correspondent believes, pennies or "dennies"--to a shilling penny so that we may have ten that the Government's position is instead of twelve, by no means as strong as might ap follow automatically. This re
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
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February 28, March 2, 3, 4, and 7. 1931,
.
Improved Spelling.
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MEMBERS' BADGES &
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Members are reminded that they JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, end their ladies must wear their
General Managers
badges prominently displayed. Hong Kong, 9th February, 1981. No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enelo-
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Aure.
pear.
Air Force To Be Disbanded.
Madrid, Dec. 20.
The rest would
form would immensely simplify our business life. The saving in office expenses would alone be consider- able. It would mean a very great) centages, and much of our indus. economy of time in calculating per trical life nowadays
seenis to be
Badges admitting nor-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10 per day includ-ernment has decided to disband the It is understood that the Gov- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in tax or 340 Including tax for Spanish Air Force preparatory to
that the ORDINARY YEAR- the Meeting (ladies $5 and $20.15 reorganisation, with only those based on percentage calculations. Tele-LY MEETING of the SHARE-respectively), are obtainable
HOLDERS in this Corporation will through the Secretary upon intro-officers and men who remained In view of the difficulties we now te held at City Hall, Hong Kong, duction by a Member, auch Mem-loyal to the Monarchy during the have in pushing our foreign trade, revolt. The decision which is re- these are roforms of the first im on SATURDAY, the 28th February, ber to be responsible for all chita,
10 be approved by King pertance. {ported 1931, at 11.30 am. for the purpose &c. of receiving the Report of the Badges admitting to Members Alfonso, illustrates the extent to
Finally, we could greatly simplify Board of Directors together with a Enclosure will NOT be on sale at secured a hearing in the Air Force, when it is learning to read if wo which the republican sentiments the work that every child has. to do Statement of Accounts for the year the Race Club. ending 31st December, 1930.
On no pretext will children he and is believed to be the fore were to adopt a few obvious re- The REGISTER OF SHARES of permitted in either enclosure dur-runner of sweeping changes in the forms in our present chactic spell-
ing..
Here, again, unthinking con- the Corporation will be CLOSED ing the first four days of the Meet other services as well. trom MONDAY, the 16th February | Ing.
Meanwhile the revolt for the servatism blocks the way.
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to SATURDAY, the 28th February, which period no transfer of shares 1931, (both days inclusive), during
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th February, 1931.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
If peo
time being has completely subald-ple would only trouble to look back ed. The ex-Premier Zamora and to our earlier literature they would Public Enclosure is $4 per day in-ed responsibility for the revolt, re-very modern date, and haa, in fact: The price of admission to the Andre Maura, who publicly accept sea that our present spelling is of eluding tax for all persons, includ-main at Hberty while the ex- no historical value. ing ladies, and is payable at the deputies Delos Pies, Largo Cabel- Soldiers and Sailors in uniform admitted complicity in the plot, lero and Saachez Roman, who also are admitted to the Public Enclo-have been arrested and transferred sure at $1 per day, including tax to the capital's military jull
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Employers are requested to dis.
In the Company will be held at tribute them with discrimination the Once of the Company, 1, and to endorse their names on the Queen's Buliding, Victoria, Hong passes.
Escaped Rebel Pilots.
Lisbon, Dec. 20. The Spanish pilots who escaped from Madrid after the revolt and
were interned in Mafra havo
evinced their intention to leave the country for France and South America. Ita understood that the Government is prepared to facili- tate their departure provided France and the Argentine are will- ing to receive them.*
Lisbon, Dee. 21.
But the practical point is that by ing letters, such as the final e in getting rid of useless and mislead-
have, the b In debt, and the ugh in though, we should not only save the time of our school-teachers and. school-children, but we should make English an easier language for the foreigner to learn.
CHURCH UNION IN INDIA.
A Great Adventure In Faith.
Madura, Jan. 12. The Madura Church Council has accepted the proposed scheme of Church union as now revised, and recommends to the General Aa sembly of the South India United Church that it is a move forward into union on the basis of the pro- posals and a great adventure in
Kong, on THURSDAY, 5th March, Servants are not permitted in 1991, at 11 a.m., for the purpose the Members' Enclosure except for An extraordinary Cabinet Coun- of receiving a Report of the Direc-passing through on their duties, cil on Sunday decided to grant the tors, together with a Statement of but must remain in their employ. Spanish revolutionary officers who Accounts, and Electing Directors ers' stands.
took refuge here passports for and Auditors.
Any persona found loitering abroad. Majors Franco and Rada The TRANSFER BOOKS of (with Servants' Passes in their pos-received A ying for France faith. the Company will be CLOSED from session will forfeit the same and Germany, Argentine and Uruguay The Council rejoices at the move. FRIDAY, 20th February, 1931, to will be removed from the enclo- and are erected with the intentionment for Church unlon in North THURSDAY, 5th. March, 1981, sure.
both days Inclusive, during which period NO transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of
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Secretary. Hong Kong, 6th February, 1931.
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