FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY SALVATION ARMY'S GANDHI'S
WORK
Nearly $3,000 More.for
Relief,
APPEAL TO CONSULS.
WINDFALL.
£200,000 Bequest of Brass Founder.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MEETING
WITH VICEROY.
Lord Irwin to Obtajn Home Opinion..
NO PROPOSALS MADE.
Mr. John Bromilow Holt, of Hey- wood, Lancashire, # brass and
New Delhi, Yesterday. The diet prerual meeting of the aluminium founder, left estate of
of £219707, with Mahatma Gandhi had a further Benevolent Saciety was held inhe grusa value
interview with the Viceroy to- the City Tix this morning, under not personally £216 349.
After quests mounting to less day, after which Gandhi held im- the chairmanship of Mr. P. S.
than £20,000, he gave all his pro-portant discussions with members Cassidy.
Hon.perty to the Salvation Army for its of the Congress Working Com-
social and emigration work
mittee. Colonel F. B. Chapman, a secret-
Mrs. Helen MeCormack, Secretary, read the report 1930, which referred to the en-
for
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
Dance at Hong Kong Hotel.
To-day--Ten Dance and Dinner | TAROM Dato Mr. G. E. ELLAMS I will act as Secretary to this To-night-Dinner to British Company. Economic Mission. Кат Ling Restaurant.
Tomorrow-Concert and Dance
at May Hall, University.
Te-morrow Football Interport
Sunday--Tea Danco at Repulse Bay Hotel.
Entertainments. Today Qicon's Way Out Weat."
Central
It is thought in political circles deavour to discourage the beg-hry at the headquarters of the Sal-that the pourparlers between the Dinner, Peninsula Hotel, 8 p.m. ging type of applicants for relief, vation Army, said in an interview Viceroy and Gandhi should be s118- could not remember pended for a few days to enable In that he who are not in real distress. this connection the Society apo large a bequest having been Lord Irwin
to obtain opinion peals to the various Consuls for made to the Army before in Greas from London.
Britain.
Ghandi has denied the rumour assistance in investigating the
"So far," said Col. Chapman “we [that Lord Irwin submitted coun- eases of their nationals.
During the year under review have only received official notifica-ter-proposals, and said that there 708 visits were paul to the City tion of the terms of the will. It is had been no proposals or counter- Hall as against 408 in the pre-by no means certain the Army will proposala.-Reuter.
receive anything approaching vious year, and $5,947.09 was: paid out in relief us against £200,000 after all the legacies and $3,041.46 in 1920. There were 78 heavy death duties have been new cases as compared with 60 l."
in 1929.
Alding Social Work.
The bequest will, Cok Chapman There had also been an in- crease in requests for assistance, added, prove an immense boon to the Army's social work, which is although the amount which was) spent in 1930 for this purpose langulahing for lack of funds.
and
"The extension of the Mothers'
amount.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
To-day
www
Theatre
Theatre
Theatre;
Theatre.
"Big Pond."
To-day Majestic "Paris".
To-day
'Star "Jim The Conqueror,"
To-day-World Theatre. "The Fortune-teller's Daughter," (Chinese picture).
Lammerts' Auction. To-morrow At Sales Room, Dudeli St., miscellaneous goods, 11 JL.TT.
Home Maila
To-day-Outward for Europe vin Marseilles (Yasukuni Maru), 6 p.m.
By Order of the Board,
R. HO TUNG,
Chairman.
Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1931.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Not the FORTY-SECOND
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Buliding, on WED- NESDAY, 18th March, 1981, at 11 alm, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors to- gether with a Statement of Ac- counts to 31st December, 1930, and electing Directors and Audi tors.
The REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from 5th March, 1931, to 18th March, 1931, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Charlie Chaplin Visits His Birthplace. shows a decrease of $416.01Iospital in Hackney, for instance,
BOYHOOD FRIENDS, on the 1929 figure
for which we need £30,000, is one seems to contradict this.
Rugby, Yesterday. In this connection the
item which will probably benefit," So-
Thousands of people thronged "Another object is ciety is indebted to the Directors explained.
To-morrow-Inward from Europe Paddington of the Diocesan Boys' School, he establishing of a Women's the approaches to
via Negapatam (Fushimi Maru): Diocesan Girls' School, Canossia Shelter to accommodate 300 women, Station, London, this afternoon
from America and ports (President) Institute. St. Joseph's College,in lonbury Street, Whlechapel, and accorded Charlie Chaplin a
Agents. and St. Francis School for accept which requires about the same great welcome. In the forefront Monroe); Outward for Europe via GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Siberia (Fushim Maru and of the crowd were several of the i ing reduced fees.
and 5 p..
Hong Kong, 19th Feb, 1931. Rent and Passages.
"We have nequired the property, famous film star's companions of Somali), 3.30 p.m. The amount spent in rent, etc.. but have no money for the building. boyhood. He greeted them warm-respectively.
Sports. for destitute was $1,342.17 There are also several new hostels fly and assured them that he would i
in 1030 as against $778.25 in 1929, required, both in London and the make an early visit to his birth- Only $954.36 was required for provinces, in districts where the place at Lambeth-British Wire- passages as against $3,145.31 in General has wanted to meet the less Service. 1929. This was because in most needs of the poor for a long time. If no conditions are attached to cases only short Journeys were called for, or else the expense the legacy rome of the money, said was shared by other societies. the colonel, would undoubtedly be Medical fees, etc., show an in-devoted to the soup-kitchens and crease of $15.30. A special fund free food stribution areas was collected for Christmas boxes Wales, and other parts of the coun- for the children cared for by theiry needing urgent help. The poor of the district in which the testa- tor lived would also not be forgot Iten.
Fiancee
(to burglar lover):
"What's this? I goes to do a bit
of
Mr. Holt's other gifts to charities Included:
£1,000 to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
£1,000 to the Bury Infirmary. £1,000 to St. Dunstan's Hospital.: £1,000 to the N.S.P.C.C.
£760 to the R.S.P.C.A.
4750 to Dr. Barnardo's Homes. £750 to Lord Mayor Treloar's Cripples', Hospital.
£250 to the Heywood Crippled Children's and Holiday Home, Con- gleton.
£250 to the Heywood Mission Christian Society.
BAD OLD YEAR.
o window slashing with yer en- STUPID, UNDISTINGUISHED AND
gagement ring-and it don't glass."—Passing Show, London.
cut
DEPRESSING
London, Jan. 2. Nobody has a good word to say
FORD'S NEW POLICY.
FIVE DAYS WEEK NOW INTRODUCED.
New York, Yesterday. Wall Street brokers cheered the report that the Ford Motor Com- pany had introduced a five days week after running a three days week for two months.-Reuter's American Service.
DUMPED GOODS.
LEAGUE COMMITTEE TO MAKE ENQUIRY.
Rugby, Yesterday.
A Geneva messago states that the Economic Committee of the League of Nations has appointed | a sub-Committed to examine the dumping question.-British Wire less Service.
WATCH ON EXTREMISTS.
Communist Activity in Bulgaria.
See Diary or plice 9. - Meetings. To-morrow-Meeting of the Bank of East Asia, 3 p.m.
March 5 Annual meeting of H.K, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., Queen's Bullding, 11 cm.
A WEEK'S DISEASES.
THIRTY-EIGHT DEATHS FROM TUBERCULOSIS:
The official return of discases and deaths during the week ond- ed February 14 is as followal
Smallpox Diphtherla
Cases Deaths
2
1
4
4
Entere fever
2
Puerperal fever
1
Tabordplosis
38
Summary To February 14. The returns from January I to February 14 give the following Agure:-
Typhoid
TUITION.
ENGLISH LESSONS given Students with particular attention to pronunciation, by English Barrister (Middle Temple) Apply Box No. 680, c/o "China" Mall."
TUITION.
YOUNG Chinese Lady, educated in Amerles, desires position as teacher of English in Schools or as private tutoress.Box No. 681, c/o "China Mall"
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by cutic
Auction
ON
SATURDAY, February 21, 1931. commencing at 11 a.m.,
at their Seles Room,
4, Duddell Street,
1 Case Glass Ware
Cases Deaths
278
Smallpox
8
1
1 Case Ford Ware
Scarlet fover
2
1 Case Raising
Diphtheria
27
10
1 Case Hollow Goods
Cerchro-spinal ferer
4
2
1 Camera
Puerperal fever ........ Tuberculosis
2
1
311
Eight of the typhoid cases were ron-Chinese, as were two scarlet A great revival of activity on fever cases art nine diphtheria
casts.
Society The Society is most for the old year which newspapers the part of the Comintern has grateful to the Government for agree in describing as "one of the been noticed recently in Bulgaria, increased grant.
Imost stupid, most undistinguish- Recently the Sofia Court had Mr. Cassidy said that he haded and most depressing" in post-before it a group of 17 young taken an interest in the Society War history. Even as regards Communists arrested for organis- for many years, but more closely the weather it has established ajing a Soviet conspiracy. The pri- during the past two years when record for too much rain, too little ouers maintained a provocative he was able to see for himself sunshine and appropriately closed attitude towards the judges and something of the work which went with December a month of prac- received severe sentences. Later on behind the scenes, and thetically continuous fog and gloom. the police discovered another sub- sympathetic manner in which that Hence it is not surprising to find versive organisation, and 30 Com work was undertaken. The an unusual note of optimism in munists, inciding the advocates Colony was very fortunate to have anticipation of what 1981 (the Gheorghieff and Kostoff, were ar- so many ladies willing to under-first year of the new decade) will rested. take the responsibility.
bring forth. The New Year mes-The death is announced in Ber- More Public Support Required. ages of politicians glow with tin of the notorious Bolshevist This work was not done in the cheerful expectation. Mr. Mac- terrorist Abelle. who was the limelight but it was good work. Donald, who declares that never chief perpetrator of the outrage The Society had an opportunity before in the world's history has in Sofia Cathedral in 1926. to beat its drums and cymbals there been such a tragic demon- Abajieff, who escaped at the time only once a year, at the annual stration as 1930 of a breakdown to Moscow, left there recently for meeting, and he had no doubt of the machinery of capitalism, Bulgaria, where he was to organ- that when the public read the re-describes himself as an optimist les another cospiracy, but fell ill port they would get a glimpse of but says the realisation of his while passing through Berlin and the work that was being done, hopes for more comfort and hap-did not recover d and he hoped that they would piness depends on the strength In view of these Indications of come forward with their cheques and determination of the Labour subversive activity the police for $12-the amount of an annual movement that Labour shall con- have redoubled their watch on ex- subscription. It was not a big Unue to control the country's in-tremists.⠀⠀ amount but it was useful for the Lernational and domestic policy. Society, and if the public would Mr. Baldwin expresession- only realise what could be done by fidence in the early return the Sudety if they received more Conservatives to power in spite support their $12 would be forth of the Liberal plot to keep the coming. At present the Society Socialists in power, and promises was unable to give adequate help immediately to introduce an because of lack of funds, Appeals emergency for the protection of for relief, he mentioned, were in manufacturers. creasing and, therefore, he hoped Mr. Lloyd George. says: for the fullest support of the Liberalism...so far from going public during the current year. under, is gathering strength. It is the only party with a practical
of
In its report upon minor fold programme and Liberals have crops in the province, the Mani reason to be of good heart, next toba Donartment of Agriculture year.
says: "Sveet clover has shown the Mr. MacDonald at last had a most spectacular Increase in acreaggood omen fer the new year. It during the years of any of the is known that it is general super- minor feld crops. The growth has stition in the north that the first been from 94,841 acres in 1924 to person to ceass the threshold on 235,400 Leros In 1930. Other us New Year's morning should be timated acreages are: Fodder corn, either a dark wan or a fair lady. -14,000; Sunflowers, 8,188; Peas, In Downing Street on New Year's 4,208) Buckwheat, 2,994; Mixed ove the Prime Minister was enter- **yrains, 14500; Polatčna, 81,700; faining a few friends when u-note › Marigolde; 908; Sugar beets, 837; was hanged to him two minutes Turaips, 1,651; Other roots, 1,360; after midnight saying that a dark Clover other than sweet clover, rentleman wishan to sechim/Mr, 500 Timothy, 82,500 Broma MacDonald asked the visitor to grasa 10%,2001 Rye Grasa, 19,800 lowhown in and tha. Maharaja Cand Allaha, 12,260. † S Cakeel Alwar entered the room is die T
Tak
WHARF CO DIVIDEND, '
$1,035,504.29 AVAILABLE FOR APPROPRIATION,
Subject to audit, The Hong
Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd., report that the balance at Profit and Less Account for the year ended December 31, 1980, Is $666,884.52, which together with $370,119.77 brought forward from the previous year, makes a total of $1,036,504.29 available for appro- priation.
The Directors will, at the ap- proaching meeting of shareholders, recommend the following distribu- tion-
To pay a dividend of
$5 per share...$480,000.00 To pay bonus of $3
per share
To carry forwardi
240,000.00 315,604.29
$1,086,514.29
2 Field Glasses
and
A Quantity of
Old Clothings and Trunks, etc
Terma:-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, February 20, 1931
TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON.
LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. 18th JUNE, 1931.
The Last Day of Entry for Forthcoming Examinations in THEORY & PRACTICAL' will be 10th March, 1931. Entry Forms may be obtained from the Local Secretary.
WM. ANDERSON, c/o The Anderson Musle Company, Ltd.
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