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LIANG CHI-HAO, Managing: Director, parauant to thei power vested in me under Article 5 of the Articles of Association of This Company intend to offer to The Shareholders' on the register an the 20th April, 1931, the re- maining 20,000 Ordinary Shares of the nominal value of $10.00 mach issued by the Company atj par in proportion to the existing shares held by them respectively
on that date.
Dated this 13th day of April.
1931.
LIANG CHI-HAO,
Managing Director.
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Austin Road, Kowloon. (Pacing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Pour minutes from ferry by hus.)
Suites of rioms (single and double), hot and cold water system, a 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, yet onsily accessible.
Terms very moderate. Reserva- tions by letter or cable.
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
- Public, Auctions -
THE
THE CHINA MAIL.
HE Undersigned have receive:t instructioné to sell hy Public
Auction
ON
TUESDAY, April 21, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m.. at their Sales Room.
4. Dyddell Struct.
A Large Quantity, of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.
Comprising:--
and
Arm-
LEGACY FOR ENEMY A PALACE IN A
EX-SOLDIERS.
Gift Not Against the Public Policy.
LEGALITY QUESTIONED.
HURRY.
And a Mix-Up in a Suit of Armour.
REAL ESTATE REALISM,
"A trust for helping ex-enemy Captain Pocock's latest book soldiers disabled in the war is more "Chorus to Adventurers," which is likely to tend towards peace in the actually an autobiography, embraces future than it is to encourage people a very wide field of adventure and to adopt bellicose ideas."
is written in the amooth, mature This observation was made by style of a man whose immense ex- Mr. Justice Mrugham in the Chan-perience enables him to see a great cery Division when he pronounced deal more of things that appears on in favour of a bequest of £7,000 to the surface. "the German Government for the, The b k covers his weirdly time being for the benefit of its varied and vastly Interesting ex- ploits and experiences during the Marble Top Jardinieres,
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, soldiers disabled in the late war."
The sum of £7,000 represents the last thirty years, and deals with two | chairs, Mah Jong Tables, Cabinets, residuary estate of Mr. Otway expedi na to the Arctic and a year Bedstead, Marble Top Opium
Robinson, a retired master mariner, or more of adventure in the deep Stools, Cheats, Half Round Tables, who died in February, 1930. In sea fisheries, Tea Pays, Oblong Tables, Desks, his will he expressed the opinion He gives a fine description of the Lampstands, Marble Top Round that "victorious and wealthy Bri- founding of the famous Legion of Table, Table Sereen, Chairs, Lantain is well able to provide for its Frontiersmen and then his service: with the Royal Horse Artillery, the terns, Lying Chairs, Couches, etc. soldiers disabled in the late war.
Mr. Justice Maugham was asked Labour Corps and the Royal Air to decide the validity of the bequest. Force.
In the event of its being held to be vold for uncertainty or other wise, Mr. Robinson made an alter native gift of £1,000 to Gen. Jan
Lowns and a Lake. Christian Smuts peracnally, and the remainder to him to apply "at his
"One of my earliest jobs was to discretion and in such manner as he design, for a real estate man, a may think fit for the benefit of any British village in the half-timbered disabled Boers who have suffered style. My picture showed the moot through the South African War." hall and the inn, the church, the
cottages, the village green, nil to bo' set up in the aching desert. The questions were raised by Mr. "Tep it up. said my employer. Arthur Robert Besant, the sole Make it snappy. So I added a main executor of the will, the respondents street two hundred feet wide with being the German Reich, Gen. lawns, fountains and parterres of Smuts, Mr. Hamilton Dansey, a flowers down the middle, a lake in testator who the foreground, a bronze statue to a half brother of the
ornamental claimed to be interested in any pro- local celebrity, and perty as to which there was an in- lamp-posts--which could not fail to testacy, and the Attorney-General. astonish Brit. clients.
Gen. Smuts and Disabled Boers. "The vendors of real estate wers
Mr. Fergus Morton, K.C., for not to be denied, for harmless pas On View from Monday, April 20, Gen. Smuts argued that the gift sengers in the city streets were 1931.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Including:--
Chesterfield Couches and Arm- chairs, Bookcases, Glass Cabinets, Dining Tables. Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror. Dressing Tables, Chest of Drawers, Card Table, Marble Top Washstands, Iron and Teak Bedsteads, Ornaments, Pic. tures, Hand Paintings, Crockery, Glas Ware, Ice Chests, Gramo- phone, Records, Brass Ware, Table Lamps, Table Fans, Vases, Brass Gongs, Cutlery, Blankets, Linen, Mosquito Nets, Rugs, Cloisonne Vasys, Cooking Utensils, etc.t
One Gulbransen Cottage Piano
and One Pair Binoculars.
Terma-Cash on Delivere
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
'Hong Kong, April 16, 1931,
The validity of this bequest was also challenged.
In an
But nothing in the book is more interesting than the accounts of his experinces after the war in Holly- wood.
was void, so far as the German seized by minions and spirited away Government was concerned, because in char-a-bancs to free chicken din- of uncertainty and impracticability. ners and orations out in the forlorn affidavit, Gen. Smuts had wastes where only lunatics could be signified his intention of accepting induced to live, nor did they escape the trust should it come to him. He until they bought town lots." said that there were still many dia- For a time he was, in his own abled Boers who fought in the Boer words, "half-author, semi-typist, HE Undersigned have received War. THE
scene and costume, technical and art instructions from Mr. John S.
If the money went to the German direction, second in command, office Smith, the proprietor of the Sta- Government," said Mr. Morton, "it boy, script clerk and actor. tion Hotel, to sell by Public Auc-would appear that by the terms of
Finding a Palace.
tion,
ON
THURSDAY, FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, 'April 23, 24, and 25, 1931, commoneing each day at 10.30
Įthe will every one of the huge num- "I would be sent off in a hurry ber of German soldiers who were with a spare car to find and rent a disabled in the late war will have to palace. for a garden scene; then receive a portion of it, The Ger- make friends with a school mistress. man Government is not given power taking her scholars in char-a-banca a.m.tribution is impracticable."
of selection, and the scheme of dis- to locations; get a contractor to upply them with refreshments and
at STATION HOTEL,
Nos, 65 and 67, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:
Mr. Justice Maugham: f the some sort of special police to keep British Government were handed a crumbs from defiling the lawn. sum of money, however large, they "Another little errand was to could find numerous organisations hurry up and take a spare car to the to assist them to help disabled costume company's place in Los soldiers.
Angeles, rent a ruit of plate armour
Mr. Morton: If the testator had and come back quick. On my way mentioned any German charitable back to the studio my car got in the Teak Hatstand, Chesterfield organisation then it might have way of a lorry, so I had to dis- Couch and Chairà, Large Arm- been difficult to challenge the gift, entangle the armour from the other chairs, Bookcases, Side Boarda, The testator gives the General the wreckage and get away quickly in a Folding Screens, Long Mirrors, fullest discretion of selection. taxi before the police arrived. Pictures, Clocks, Brass Fenders,
Mr. Morton also argued that the
"Plate armour is not comfortable, Brass Ware, Ornament, Carpets, gift to German soldiers was con- for to look down is to cut one's
etc.
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LOVELY SILK STORE Rugs Curtains, Flower Stands, etc. trary to public policy, as it might throat, to look up is to break one's Teak Dining Tables, Round and strengthen and encourage Germany neck, whereas the rest of one's body Square Tables, Dining Chairs, for another attack. The testator is merely bruised all over." Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, was of opinion that the German.
Resting. Ice Chests, Filters, Dinner soldiers were not getting sufficient Captain Pocock now lives in Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. pensions, and he desired to restore Charterhouse and says: "Like to the Cutlery, Table and Ceiling Fans them to health and keep them from windless votex of a cyclone the want. Although Germany was not sweet ailence of this house of rest, Teak and Iron Bedstead, Teak now an enemy country, bequests of set in the very heart of roaring Double and Single Wardrobes with this kind might assist that race to London, so that one hears the ring- Bevelled Mirror Doors, Mantle make another war.
doves and the bells. Pieces, Dressing Tables, Marble His Lordship: On the same prín-
"It is set apart forever by our Top Washstands. Chest of Drawers, ciple ald to a discharged prisoner memorable Founder for the promo- Deaks, Rattan Ware, Liuen and might encourage him to commit an- tion of piety and good literature, 20 The following unclaimed tele
Blankets, etc.
other crime.
some of us practice plety and some grams are lying at the E.E. Tele- graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:-
Electric Lights and Fittings, Mr. Stafford Crossman (for the literature, while others are painting
music or he the pictures, making quiet supported Carmichael, Kremlin, from Glas. Porcelain Wash Basins, Shanghai Attorney-General)
Bathe, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, proposition that the gift for the reating in preparation r life's Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Kong Pol, Hotel Cecil, from Water Tanks, Plants and Ferns in benefit of disabled German soldiers great adventure."
"Chorus to Macao.
Pots, etc.
Adventurers," by metres. Yardarm, from Birmingham Po.
Mr. Roxburgh (for the German Roger Pocock (The Bodley Head, T. H. WILLIAMS,
Reich) observed that if the bequeat 128. 8d.). Ag. Superintendent. Hong Kong, April 16, 1991.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,
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The following unclaimed tele- HONG KONG HEIGHTS grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph
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For the information of visitors Company the following. list of some of the mark'
bighest points on the Island and Furleun; from Shanghai.
Mainland is published:-
Victoria Peak
Island.
Vendor, from Shanghai.
also
Chubbs Safe. Piano by Moutrie,
and
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD WARE.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
On View from Tuesday, April 21,1 1931.
Den
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Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 13, 1931.
Feet. Murata Soichiro Fukudakan 1828 Nihonaokaf, from Tokyo. --
F. V. JENSEN,
Superintendent
Signal Station
Mt. Parker
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Mountain Lodge
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The Eyrie
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POSTAGE STAMP IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS AND IN APPROVAL SHEETS.
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was held to be valid the German Goverriment would give an under- taking that the money would be applied in accordance with the wishes of the teslator.
Public Policy.
VACCINATION.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE'S WORK.
Mr. Crossman declared that the The number of people vaccinat suggestion that the gift was against ed-free of charge-by members public policy was ridiculous. Ger- of the Ambulance Brigade, up to many was a friendly country, and and including Thursday, April 16. we were not contemplating another was:--
war.
The following programme will the broadcast to-day from
Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 253
7.02-7.33 pmConcert Items. Instrumental Trio-
The Prince, La Sorella,
Victoria Trio (68028). Song-
Solveig's Song (Sunshine Song),
Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Soprano (4014).
Slavonic Dance No. 8
(Dvorak & Kreisler), Indian Lament (Dvorak & Kreisler),
Fritz Kreisler (7224).
Violin Solo-
Song-
The Hazel Dell (Root),
Olive Kline with Male Quartet (4005).
Ave Maria (Schubert & Wilhelm)),
Mischa Elman (7103).
Chinese Y.M.C.A. (Hong Kong) 8,510 F48 Mr. Justice Maugham, giving King College (Old)
13,7 King's College (Prozent) judgment, said that Mr. Robinson Railway
5,270 Violin Solo was a bachelor, who had no near Indian
3,815 10,800 relatives except Mr. Dansey, his Kowloon
Mongkok half-brother.
Shaukiwan His lordship thought the testator St. Joseph's College
8 pm-Weather Report, Local 6300 Time, etc.
28.741
461
intended that the German Govern- Chinese V.M.G.A. (Kowloon) 14,375 ment should have a wide discretion Chinese Athletic Association as the trustee of the fund to benefit Motor Drivers each of its disabled soldiers ad reY.W.C.A. Narsing
Victoria Nursing
quired assistance. There was no Un Long uncertainty about the gift, and it
was not against public policy that
the gift should be made for the bene-
7.38-8.15 p.m.—Variety, Piano Solo-
Thomas Waller (22108):
Evenin'....The Revellers (21807)
1.801
1.481
Sweet Savannah Sue,
147
Ain't Misbehavin",
ить
Chorus
Total (for 19 weeks)
1,062 ... 92,421
Harmony Whistling Swanee River, Hawalian Guitar
Minnehaha,
To preserve in perpetuity a tract at of persons who lived in a once of primeval B. C. forest, Frank enemy country."
A
Bob MacGimsey (V22),
Sam Ku West's Harmony Boys (21708).
Barnjum of Montreal, recently, pur #1 see no difficulty in holding that chased 200 acres of old growth
Chorus the fund should be handed over to timber on the Cowichan Lale road
Etiquette Bluca, the proper officer on behalf of the between Duncan. and Lake Where Did You Get That Name. German Relch, concluded his lord- Cowichan; this tract being the last
The Happiness Boys (21707), ship.
of the old growth timber in the Plano Solo
I'm Yours, Hie lordship ordered that the area and containing fine, specimens costs of all the parties should be of Douglas fir and cedar. The paid out of the residue.
tract will be kept inviolate.
If I Could be th You One Hour
To-nigh
ght,
Horley Kaylor (22570).
Song-
Ja, Wyndham St.
Cowboy's Lament,
Harry McClintock (21761). 8.16-9 p.m.-Orchestral. Variations Symphonique (Franck),
Alfred Cortot & the London Symphony Orchestra (8734).
Daphnis Et Chloe (Ravel),
Boston Symphony Orchestra (7143-44). Spanish Song (Mendelssohn), Beautiful Night (Offenbach),"
International Concert Orch,
(25830).- From the Rhine to the Danube
Medley (Rhodo),
Gerhard Hofman's Orchestra (60000), -9-9.30 p.m.-From the Studio- Planforte Recital by Mr. Harry Ore.
1. Gavotte with Variations
(Rameau).
2. Sonata No. 32 First Movement
(Beethoven).
3. Fantasy Impromptu (Chopin). 4. Movement (Debussy). G. Javanese Song (Seelig).
6. Shepherd's Hey (Grainger).
9.30-10 p.m. From the Studio-
A talk on the "Society for Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals" by one of its Members,
10-10.30 p.m. Operatic
Song
Mignon-I'm Fair Titania
(Thomas),
Song-
Madam Amelita Galli-Corel, Soprano (7110).
Bohemian Girl-The Heart Bow'd
Down (Balfe),
Clarence Whitehill, Baritone (0732).
Orchestral
Margarethe--Potpourri (Faust Belee-
tions) (Gounod & Weber),
Marck Weber & His Orch. (38900), Les Huguenots-Noble Size I Saluto
"You (Meyerbeer),
Sigrid Onegin, Contralto (2146). Martha-Like a Dream (Flotow),
10.80 p.m.
Beniamino Gigli, Tenor
(7109).".
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