TUESDAY, JUNE
49
1931.
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FOR SALE Victroln Cabinet Gramo- phone in excellent conditlash with 200 records. No reasonable, offer refused. For further particulars apply to B No. 088, c/o "China Mali."
TUITION GIVEN,
THE CHINA MAIL.
JAPANESE STEEL,
PEAK TRAMWAYS ÇOMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL -ORDIN- ARY GENERAL MEETING of Shardholders will be held at the
Gêneral Managers. · · Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1931.
FOR SIAMESE
RAILWAYS.
Builders'
4
BOGUS DOCTOR'S
CAREER.
Six Months' for Aged Swindler,
SWEDISH MATCHES.
CHINA MARKET PRACTICALLY CLOSED.
of
Each year the Government rail-
In the annual report of the Svenska Tandsticks Aktiebolaget Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on ways of Siam call for tenders for
(the Swedish Match Company) tho MONDAY, the 15th June, 1931, at the supply of steel, which are open! 11 m. for the purpose of receiv-to all steel makers, and during the An extraordinary career of crima directors state that after showing ing the Report of the Directors to past three years, the Japanese was outlined at Tower Bridge when for sight consecutive years a con- Association, George William Dixon (75), of tinued increase in the annual ex gether with a Statement of A Bridge counts for the year ended 30th through its agents, the Mitsu! Bus- Onslow Gardens, S.W., a man of port of matches from Sweden, tho san Kaisha, Bangkok Branch, has venerable and aristocratic appear company has for last year to record | April, 1931.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the submitted estimates. In two sue- unce, was charged with obtaining a decrease of about 10 per cent. com Company will be CLOSED, from cessive years the French were suc 2s. 8d. by false pretences from Mr. pared with the previous year. MONDAY, 8th day of June, to cessful News has been received Arthur Cooper, of the Blind Society, This, it is stated, has not been MONDAY, 15th day of June, 1931, that this year the Japanese tender Waterloo Rond. He was described caused by any diminished consump both days inclusive.
is the lowest and the fact of this on the charge-sheet as a medical tion of matches nor by the ac JOHN DHUMPHREYS & SON, success in open competition with the practitioner, and he pleaded guilty.quieition of match concessions in
world's makers has caused elation
various countries, but whs due to Detective-Sergt. Peasley said in Japan, said the Minister of State
Customs tariffs prohibitive
in an Mr. Cooper and several States. Dixon called for Railways, Dr. ́Egi, adding his
Since the issue of stated that he was. "Dr. George the last congratulations and speaking hope-
report two important INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA-fully of Japan's future prospects in William Dixon, senior honorary markets for matches--China and The Japanese surgeon at St. George's Hospital Egypt-have become practically TION COMPANY, LIMITED. the work market:
and a member of the Junior Carl- closed through the increase bid was auccessful against Aamo
of Belgian, ton Club, living at No. 6, Onslow tariffs, and therefore, a further PRIVATE LESSONS in English, THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY forty competitors
Gardens. Ho said he was out reduction in the export of Swedish Pa, Musle, Shorthand and Type: GENERAL MEETING of the Czecho-Slovakian, French, Ger.
visiting patients and wanted 2s. 6d. matches is looked for during the writing Termis moderate. 0, Aimai
Company will be held at the man, American
The contract, is for the to make up a sum of 163. he owen | current year. Villas, Austin Road, Kowloon.
Offices of the General Managers, tionality.
his cabraan. Mr. Cooper, taken in
It is, however, pointed out that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., supply of five hundred tons of steel Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, for new construction and replace by Dixon's appearance, lent him the any loss in the export trade is more on WEDNESDAY, the 17th June, ment-plate girders, Inttice girders, money, Noticing, however, that counterbalanced by increased sales
Mitsui's bid was not Dixon got into a tram instead of a 1931, at Noon for the purpose of culverts, etc. receiving the Report of the Dires less than Yen 100 per ton delivered cab, he followed him and called the eral, in fact, the business of the tora, passing the Accounts, and in Bangkok. A German bid was police, At the station Dixon per
American bids sisted that he was Dr. Dixon, of St. Company appears to have developed favourably, particularly in view of Electing Directors and Auditors.second lowest.
George's Hospital, but inquiries the general economic depression, The TRANSFER, BOOKS of the were highest.
The Government Steel Works in showed that no one of that name and the total sales of the company Company will be CLOSED from the 10th June to 1st July, 1931, Kyushu will supply the steal, which was an hon. surgeon there.
The detective added that since have been the highest in its history. will pass Japanese Government rall
The report also expresses the view both days inclusive:
way speelfications, which are severe. 1895 Dixon had been sentenced to
ing.. reports indicating that for While there will be but small profit terms of imprisonment amounting that Russian competition is deelin- in all to twenty-seven years and
last in this, the first, Japanese contract
year the export of one month. There were other con- for the supply of steel to a foreign
cent. less than for the preceding government it will be of advertising Victions before that date, but as matches from Russia was 40 per these could not be certified by. value. Railway engineering In
year. Referring to the agreement finger prints these had not. Japan has come much to the fore in
entered into with the German Gov- Among the railway shops of Moscow and been taken into account.
ernment last year, the business of. four terms other Russian centres, and, a Japan-
his both of the monopoly company, which is exclusively a sales com.
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Within hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS: A few Boarders received in the, Houre of the Principal. individual care and attention. Farticulars apply to:
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By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., .LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.
and British .na-
these were
LAMMERT BROS.ese has been engaged by the Persian penal servitude. Generally
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For the hest Permanent Finger and Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies and Gentlemen.
Pedder Bldg. 1st loor. Room 5. Tel. 25169. Opposite entrance 1.K. Hotel.
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowlood. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club, Four minutes. fram ferry by bus.)
Suites of rooms (single and double); bat 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, yất caslly accessible,
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PHOTO-SUPPLIES
· Kodaks and Cameras." Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price, Moderate.
A Trial Order la Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 22459. (26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hon Lon.
I
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, June 11, 1931. commencing at 2.30 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms,.
Duddell Street
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:-
for
of local-made matches. In
gen-
Government as railway adviser.
panies owned by the Swedish The Slathese deal will be so hundled similar to the present charge, but any of the manufacturing com as to enhance the reputation of the there had been convictions
Match Company, must, it is "con- He was really sidered, be regarded as quite satis- Island empire of the east, which is fraud and forgery.
There were con- factory. a draughtsman. making a name for itself in a devictions all over the country, in-. The report also states that, in partment of petivity hitherto con- fined to a few Western nations, cluding Dublin, Edinburgh; North- whose one-time monopoly in so allerton, Belfast, Drogheda, Liver- spite of disturbed conditions In Indla during last year, sales in- Portsmouth, Birmingham, creased by about 15 per cent. now at an end. many branches of engineering is pool,
Bedford, Bray, Fleetwood, Wolver- hampton, Brighton, Hastings, Worthing, Gosport, Winchester, BURIED FOR THREE DAYS. Tunbridge Wells, and the London Guildhall. He had represented Man Aged 90 Asks Rescuers For
SIAM COMMERCIAL BANK.
5 Per Cent. Dividend
Declared.
The forty-ninth general meeting of the Siam Commercial Bank, Ltd., was held in Bangkok, Phys Jaiyos Sompati occupying the chair.
Velvet and Cretonne Cover Ches- terheid Couch and Chairs, Teak
The directors' report and Balance Dressing Tables, Teak Wardrobe with bevelled mirror doors, Teak sheet for, the half-year ending Dining Table and chairs, Teak March 31, 1981, is as follows:- Chest of Drawers, Desks, Chairs, etc., etc.
himself
"Dr. 18
Tobias" of Brighton, W. J. Watson, F.G.S.,"
ete.
Mug of Beer.
Bledisloe, the Governor.
area,
Dixon said he had been living by Lord writing the Lord's Prayer on the General of New Zealand, tells a re- He had been markable story of an aged roan's space of a sixpence. medically trained but had never escape in the earthquake at Napier, qualified.
on February 3 in un official de- Mr. Oulton (the magistrate):spatch to the Secretary of State for From your appearance I should; Dominion Affairs. say it was a pity you did not stick The Governor-General, describing The net profit, after providing can do no less than send you to states:--
to that calling. With your record his visit to the stricken for all bad and doutbful debts, de- Gramophones and Cabinets, Re- ducting rebate on bills not due, Prison for six months. cords. Engravinga, Water Colour, allowing for interest accrued to Filter, Curtains Mosquito Nets, date upon Fixed Deposits, and for E. P. Ware, Cutlery, Glass Ware, other contingencies, amounts to:- Ice Chests, Enamelled Bath, Porce-Tés: 817,491 including Tea. 141,845 Iain Wash Basin, Lanterns, Electric hrought forward from the last ac- Table Fans, Hanging Lamps, Gas (count,
A Nice Selection of BLACKWOOD WARE
including:
poys,, Table
and
follows: Transfer to
-GRAMOPHONE MERGER.
New Holding Company Registered.
"Among many striking cases of rescue from death amid the wreck- age of fallen structures, perhaps the most remarkable was that ot an old. man named Janies Collins, ninety years of age, who was found! debris beneath the
of the Old People's Home at Napier on Friday, February 6, three days and nights. after the disaster, not merely alive, bat in good spirits.
In a tribute to the work of the) navy at the time of the earthquake, Lord Blodialog writes:
"But for the presence and be haviour of those on board the sloop
Stove, Overmantels, etc., etc. .! The Directors beg to recommend Teak Hatstand, Sercende Geyser, that the accrued profit be dealt
A holding company to be known Bookcase, Coal Scuttle, Skeboards, with as
reserve Tes. 17,564 as Electric and Musical Industries Porcelain Jara, Cloisonne Vases, Statutory
"When found he asked, for a I saw him and talk- Flower Pots, Dinner Crockery, Toi-Dividend for the half-year at the has been registered for the pur- let Sets, Teak Glass Top Round rate of 5 per cent. p.a. Tea. 82,500; pose of acquiring shares in the mug of beer.
Limited ed to him the following day in the Table, etc., etc.
Bonus of one Tical per share Tes. Gramophone. Company; also
33,000; Statutory remuneration to (ILM.V.), and the Columbia Gramo-Napier Field Hospital". the Board Tce. 8,782; Bonus to the phone Company:-- Staff Tes. 15,832; Write of Bank, Jordan's daily register of new Premises account Tes. 10,000; companies, gives the following Transfer to Staff Provident fund particulars of Electric and Musi Joss Tables. Chests, Desk, Tea Tcs. 20,000; Carry, forward to the cal Industries:-The company has Chaira, Jardinieres, Opfum Stools, Tes. 317,191,
Screens, Sleeping next account Tcs. 129,812; Total, been formed to acquire not less (H.M.5. Veronica) there is no than 90 per cent,, or such less pro-, doubt whatever that widespread Folding Tables, etc, etc.
The report and balance sheet portions of each class of shares re- panic would have prevailed," and spectively as the company shall the deaths and injuries. would were adopted.
think it, of the issued share have been far more numerous.
"Within. fifteen minutes of the Canada's trade with South Amer capitals of the Gramophone Com- ican countries Increased from a pany and the Columbia Gramophone catastrophe a party of bluejackets total of $58,007,919 in 1928-29 to a Company; to carry on the business had landed and marched in perfect wrecked streets, of manufacturers of and dealers in order up the total of $65,688,007 in the fiscal
apparatus and machinery used, in spreading confidence everywhere as year 1929-30.
the generation, accumulation, and they went." supply of electrical energy; makers
musical, of scientific,
surgical, therapeutic or medical instruments or apparatus, Including machines for recording, reproducing, trans mitting or receiving. sounds, and vision pictures; manufacturers of and dealers in gramophone, radló sets, &c. The nominal capital is Kong for June, 1981, Stan- £100 in £1 sharest Spa
dard time of the 120th Meridian
One Cottage Plano by John Brinsmead and Sone.
Five Underwood Typewriters, Terms: Cash on Delivery,
On View from Wednesday, Juna [10, 1931
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 8, 1931.
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