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VACUUM OIL COMPANY,
Ĉ C. STARK, Arting General Manager. Hong Kong, May 10, 1931.
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL- MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V. Netherlands Trading Society),
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SPORT NOTICES
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING Will be held (wen- ther permitting) at Happy Valley on MONDAY, 25th May, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
The first bell will be rung at 2 p..
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that the and their Ladies must wear the bufgez prominently displayed.
No one without a buddye will be
A FAMOUS WOMAN MINISTERING ANGEL PHILANTHROPIST. AT OLD BAILEY.
Death of Mrs. Ada Travers Lewis.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S FRIEND.
Lady Probation Officer Talks About Her Job,
BIGAMOUS WIVES.
Luside the coll, dignified pre-
Mrs. Ada Travens Lewis, the vinets of the Old Bailey there is n
a friend! philanthropist, who was
bright little room, cheery and cosy, Queen Alexander, d'ed in Lundon with bright-coloured walls and
well-beloved
lowers on the
an
kast Month aged 91..
table-a room thati When she was an art student in could only have been furnished by a admitted to the Members' Enclos-Miss Ligh--decided to devote her
rs. Travers. Lewis-then warman's hand, Paris
ure. Badges admitting 1101-
It is the office of Miss R. M. A. members to the Membera Encles- life to making a smooth path for Green, whose appointment as the QFC and Club Repms at $5 Junely British and American girls first permanent full-time woman per day for Gentlemen and in the French capital.
probation officer at the Central She announced her intention of Criminal Court has just been pass- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN $3 per day for Ladies (both IN
tax) that a new Netherlands East including
Her relatives ed by the Home Office. are obtainable taking up this work. gynge, tennis lawn. For further de-Indian lean of F1.100,000,000 (hun- through the Secretary upon intro- were absolutely against the project, Miss Green, whom the Recorder, Sile apply to 10), Box 178, Yokohama, red million guilders D.E.I. Cy.) duction by a member, auch member and the Eari of Shaftesbury wrote sir Ernest Wild, always calls his
bearing interest at the rate of to be responsible for payment of advising "our
andinistering Angel," talked to 10 LET. To proapostive visitors to 15% pa. is being lasued by the fall chits, &c.
enterprising Ada not to be too Evening News correspondent about Enginal Ideal accommodation in ti Government of the Dutch East Bas admitting to Membersventuresome."
ber work. It was a talk with many West End of Louken, Centre
In spite of this, 58 years ago, the interruptions, however, for shel theatrlar. cte. Good English farsIndice through the intermediary of Enclosure will not be on sale at
Ada Leigh homes in Paris Lamu Mediato charpes 41. Clarendon the Nederlandsche Handel-Mant- the Rare Course. Road, Holland Park, Fondan, W.11.schappij at Batavin at the price
upon anto belag. They were a complete items to be the most sought after person in the Old Bailey, Every of 97156.
plication to the Secretary badges success. It was always said that other minute messengers dash into The Hong Kong Agency is pre-limited to ONE) for the free ad- their foundation was a subscription; her office to tell her that
she is pared to receive applications andinission to the Members Enclosure of one frane that came from a home- to supply further information. of wives, lady relatives arless girl whom Mrs. Lewis befriend wanted.
When a Jurywoman Faints. friends. Names must be statedied. when applying.
Mrs. Lewis was born in Man- Sometimes it is a nervous girl On no pretext will children bechester, the daughter of a man who, who is overcome by the terrois of permitted in either Enclosure dur-revolutionised the cotton spinuing the witness-box and needs Miss ing the Meeting.
industry with an invention he for, threen's sympathetic presence at her
side to reassure her as she gives, gui ta Dalent.
evidence.
GB Colvin
FOR SALE,
of
FOR SALE-Victrola Cabinet Granto- phone in encellent condition with 200 Fegords. No regronable offer refused. For further particulars apply to Hox No. 098, 67% China Mail
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HOME TUITION,
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ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE
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Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
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A Trial Order is Solicited.
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- Public Auctions
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Agent.
COMPANY MEETINGS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD, Incorporated in Hong Kong). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Mombers can obtain
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
Chucen Alexandra's interest.
Or it may be that a jury woman
Something to remember!
Jot it
Down
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BANKS' BURIED
The Price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $2 per day in- 1t was whilst Miss Ada Leigh was has fainted or that some stranded cluding tax, for all persons includ- engaged in work for her homes, girl, having been discharged by the ing ladies and is payable at the that she met the man who was to be court, is without the money to buy Gale.
husband-Dr. Jolm Travers a meal and is in urgent need of help.) Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Lewis, Archbishop of Ontario and "One of the chief delights of my are admitted half price.
Primate of Canada. He was great-¡work," she said, "is the fact that Rokmakers, Tic Tac men, &c., interested in her rescue work, it enubiles me to help lame dogs," TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the permitted to operate Not long afterwards they were mur-1 find work and clothes and lodgings N°7 that the FIFTY-EIGHTH thin the precincts of the Honried. Archbishop Lewis died some for them through the London Police
Rong Jockey Club during the Rare time ago.
[Court Mission, but have also at Mosting.
It is only about a month since my disposal a private fund establish. Tifin will be obtainable in the Mrs. Lewis's brother, Mr. T. Leigh, ed by the Recorder a year ago, and| Restaurant in the Public Enclos-died suddenly on one of the Mersey so I can also help many who have!
ferryboats at Liverpool. She was no one else to turn to. very distressed by his death, bei "This fund has been of great use) cause they were greatly attached 10 in many desperate cases.
Gold in fabulolís quantities, aur- each other.
bigamous wives who have been ab-passing the dreams of mediaeval Queen Alexandra, then Princess solutely without means have come alchemists, is piling up in the of Wales. met Mr. Lewis many to me for help, and I have been able vaults of American banks. years ago when she visited the first to do something for them.
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING ot the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE. Union Building Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 20th MAY. 1931, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Re- port of the
Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st De rember, 1930, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 11th MAY to 29th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1931.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
NOTICE
COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the SIXTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY. 29th MAY, 1931, at 11.15 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Re- part of the Directors and the Statements of, Account to 31st De-
cember, 1930, and of declaring
Dividends, etc.
ure.
lly Order,
C. B BROWN,
Secretary Hong Kong, 18th May, 1931.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Subscription Griffins and Australian Ponies.
THE LIST of Subscribers to the SATURDAY, 30th May, 1931.
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1931.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
of the homes in Paris.
Several
Women Who Never Forget. "More than 75 per cent, of women are placed on pro.
A
When she heard that Mrs. Lewis had married, the Queen said, "Bring him to me at Marlborough House fenders who and I will ask him who is to careation make good afterwards.
woman who has made only one mis- for our British girls now?”
The Queen was assured by the take a generally so grateful for a
prove the Archbishop that he did not intend second chance that she is determin-
work.
Difficulties Overcome.
"F
→
WEALTH.
Embarrassment of
Sterile Riches.
Never before has one country possessed such treasure as is dia- elased by the latest Federal Re- serve Bank report, which showe record holdings of £937,000,000— twice that held by France and more than six times greater than the reserve reported by the Bank of England.
Every paper dollar in circulation in New York is now backed by
more than its own value in gold.
Efforts made to turn this golden
the judge has not been misplaced.
"I visit prisoners in their cella and, while they are awaiting trial, All manner of difficulties beset see them at their homes. I try tide have not been successful, and the first of the Adn Leigh homes to understand them
and to meet during the past 12 months richly Mrs. Lewis was informed that such them sympathetically. Almost in frighted argostes from other lanes
Harbour
The Paradox.
a charity in a rented house was variably they receive me well for, have been steadily eailing Into New. Illegal in France, and the British when they have the idea that every-York
bringing fresh Government advised her to buy the one is against them, they are only treasures to be buried in the banks' building. With great courage Mrs. tog glad of a friend and a kind armour-plated cellors. Lewis signed a contract for £10,000 word." lo purchase the building.
Miss Green's life, however, is not
The previous high record of Her devotion to her cause was one peaceful round of quiet, chari-American metal reserve has been such that she raised the whole sum table effort. Sometimes she has to surpassed, yet countries in econo- aix weeks before it came due for be very much the woman of action. mic difficulties are forced to con- Recently she had to soothe five tinue to pour gold into these over-
coffers. Possibly the
THE HALF YEARLY CENERAL payment.
MEETING of VOTING MEM- More than 50 years ago Mrs. hysterical women, all screaming to flowing BERS will be held at the Club Lewis founded a church at Neuilly ether in different parts of the policy of fresh loans to foreign House, Happy Valley, on WED-sur-Seine, the foundation stone of building. She dashed round with countries now contemplated may The TRANSFER BOOKS of the NESDAY, 27th May, 1931, at 6.15 which was laid by King Edward and restoratives and amelling salts and, help to redress the balance in a
Queen Alexandra, then Frince and by the time all the patients had been situation which Company will be CLOSED from P.m.
is alarming the All members are cordially in-Princess of Wales.
ralmed, was almost on the verge of Federal Reserve. 11th MAY to 20th MAY, Both Days inclusive,
vited to attend and participate in
collapse herself. any discussion which may ensue. AND NOTICE is hereby given
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1931.
|BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the SIXTY-FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 1981, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Re- port of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st De- cember, 1980, and of declaring Dividenda, etc.
Mrs.
World-Wide Travels.
Lewis for
many years
her homes. When 88
that ал Extraordinary General travelled all over the world making Meeting of the Vating Members of appeals for the Hong Kong Jockey Club will she periodically travelled from Lon. be held at the Club House on the don to Paris, and just before her
she said 27th day of May, 1931, immediate 90th birthday
she was ly after the half-yearly meeting hoping to go to Egypt to see the of the Voting Members when the pyramids.
Among her most prized posses- subjoined resolution will be pro-
sions was a dorothy bag which had posed:-
That Article 6 of the Articles been worked by Queen Victoria and of Association of the Club be given to her. altered by deleting therefrom
Members shall from time to time determine,"
There are five homes in Paris now
LESSON SERMON.
It is part of the topsy-turvy state of affairs that, while the banks are choke-full of frozen gold, the United States Treasury is empty.
Worried
Government officiala
are facing the spectre of a deficit
Industrial depression has played
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CHARM
SUPPOSED
FOR SNAKE-BITE.
Magician Committed to the Assizes.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
of £150,000,000. SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
havoc with income-tax returns, in "Soul and Body" was the sub-spite of increased taxation, and a ject of the Lesson-Sermon in all drop of £34,000,000 in revenue from Churches of Christ, Scientist, on this source is feared.
Dasarathi Kajuria, of Bhand- It is said Sunday, May 24.
that high officials of the Revenue urimal, a snake charmer by profes-
elon, is awaiting trial in "If ye Department have been over-wholm- through the Spirit do mortify the ed with dismay as they watched Sabalqur Court of Sessions in con- deeds of the body, ye shall live." the returns coming in during the nection with the death, from snake (Romans 8; 13.)
The Golden Text was:
past few days. Among the citations which com- ; rrised the Lesson-Sermon was the
Debutante's Guard. At last the real economic con-
the
the words "Ordinary Members as a result of the efforts of Mrs. may be unlimited in number" Lewis. and substituting therefor the
After the death of her bushand.
bite, of Ufal Kanda, a co-villager. words "The number of Ordin-Mrs. Lewis continued her work with
Dasarathi is alleged to have told ary Members shall be one renewed vigour.
the villagers that he was an adept thousand two hundred or such A Story of King George. greater number as the Voting She met most members of the following from the Bible: "Re- sequences of the trade depression in snake charming and could cure Joice evermore. Pray without and the high tariff policy are be- The villagers belleved in the asser- anybody suffering from snake bite. British Royal family, and was well ceasing. Prove all things; hold
coming visible. Nor is it much known in Court eireles, Her fund fast that which is good. And the comfort to the unemployed worker berg to learn the art. In order to tion and visited him in large num- of atories was a big one. AND NOTICE IS ALSO HERE-
very God of peace sanctify fond of telling about wholly; and
you in the bread-line to know that the create further confidence in his She was BY GIVEN that a Further Extra- King George who, as a boy of 12, whole spirit and soul and body be 42 per cent. of all the gold that the thing which he called gada, or snake I pray God your country is now glutted with over friends, Dasarathi produced some- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the ordinary General Meeting of the went with his father and mother to presented blameless unto the com-whole world has been patiently ac- Company will be CLOSED from Voting Members of the Club will the opening of the Neuilly church.ing of our Lord Jesus Christ."
(1 cumulating for centuries.
venom, and asked them to swallow 11th MAY to 29th MAY, Both be held at the same place on WED: After the ceremony the Royal party Thess. 6; 16, 17, 21, 23.)
These
it. This, he said, would prevent NESDAY, the Seventeenth Day of visited one of the homes, but King
aterile treasureb locked up in Days Inclusive,
June, 1931, at a quarter past five George would not go inside.
The Lesson-Serman also includ-vaults, as securely as though the them from being bitten by any By Order of the Board,
reptile. o'clock in the afternoon for the
When confidence Pressed for a reason, he said; ad the following passage from metal had been returned to its PAUL LAUDER, purpose of receiving a Report of I'm not going in there; that's a "Science and Health, with Key to ease his plight.
the Christian Science textbook: original mines, can do nothing to tablished in them, the man offered. General Manager, the proceedings at the above mea place for girls."
'to give Д practical demon- Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981.
tioned meeting and of cenfirming
the Scriptures.". by Mary Baker And he stayed outside, swinging Eddy: "A demonstration of the dered by the conditions is indicated charm on one of his friends Something of the feeling engen stration of the effect of his If thought fit as a Special Resolu- his legs whilst sitting on a window-facts of Soul in Jesus' way reby threats of violence from work who had taken the gada, tion the above mentioned Resolusi. He whistled loudly to pass the solves the dark visions of material less women received by well-to-do took Ujal Kanda to a sugar cane tion.
sense into harmony and immortal-girls holding posts in Fifth Re-
AH KWAI
SHIP and HOUSE PAINTER
GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Formerly at 36, Pottinger Street- HAS NOW. REMOVED
סיני
62, LOCKHART ROAD, WANCHAI. Telephone 22049. :
time. By Order of the Stewards, Mrs. Lewis wrote a book of
C. B. BROWN,
reminiscences,
and
called Secretary. "Homeless in Paris."
Hong Kong, 14th May, 1931.
COMING ? ? ?
JUST MAGINE
It
was thus es-
He
field, where, although repeatedly
Ity. Man's privilege at this venue shops for amusement or pin- forbidden by the others present, he supreme moment is to prove the money.
brought out a cobra from inside his
В
has
cure him, but all in vain. who fell unconscious.
Jjal
to the house of Dasarathi,
The, victim was thereafter taken who
words of our Master. "If a man One debutante working in keep my saying, he shall never see dress-makers' establishment Along the shores of Digby death." To divest thought of been granted a police guard. County, as well is the counties of false trusts and material evidences Yarmouth, Queens, Shalburne and in order that the spiritual facts of Lunenburg and along the coast being may appear, this is the The recent meeting in Calgary of chanted mantras (Incantations) to line to Cole Harbour, in Halifax great attainment by
of the Alberta Branch of the Canadian cure him, but all in vain. Ujall County, it is estimated there are at which we shall sweep away the Manufacturers' Association showed died, in spite of the medicines and least 400 fishermen engaged in false and give place to the true. more than $101,000,000 invested in mantras.. trapping lobsters, and the number Thus we may establish in truth Alberta industries, with 12,800 om- The next chapter opened with the of traps will likely reach 200,000 the temple, or body, "whose build-ployees drawing wages and salaries arrest of Dasarathi, who has been
er and maker in God." (p. 428.) amounting to $10,000,000.
committed to the Sessions for trial.
jor more.
means