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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
(Incorporated in Hong Kong.)
No. 27,918
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931.
SIR T. LIPTON IS DEAD
FOUNDER OF NOTED
TEA FIRM
FAMOUS YACHTSMAN
AN IRISHMAN WHOSE NAME WILL LIVE THROUGH THE AGES.
NATIVE OF
GLASGOW
SEARCH
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
FOR CZAR'S Only a Few Transactions GOLD.
Mission to Moscow.
A world-wide search to clear up the mystery of what became of the $600,000,000 in gold which the Czar Nichoins of Rusela had distributed
throughout international banks has been ordered by the Soviet, it is learned in Paris.
Recorded.
TO-DAY'S FEATURES.
TO-DAY'S
DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the dollar ont demand, to-day was 18. 1d. .
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
MACAO RACES TO-MORROW.
Wattle Expected to Lift Main Race.
FULL SELECTIONS.
[By "Wombat."I
The official summary issued by
It would require a very severe the Stock Exchange to-day states:
The market opened quietly this downpour to interfere with the morning with only a few transactat extra race meeting of the tions recorded. There was a firm Macao Jockey Club which will be demand for Ropes and Trams, and conducted at Macao to-morrow
afternoon.
A mission is to be dlapatched led at $1,500. from Moscow, including financial Underwritera and other experts, to confer with $5. various banking, Institutions to
ware on offer at Hong Kong Firea at $1,485 were also on offer.
Wharves, after sales being re-. in 1898, Sir Thomas was created which the gold was entrusted be-
fore the Bolshevik revolution end-ported at $152, closed in demand four a baronet in 1902.
ed the Russian Royalist regime.
at $151.
Providenta (old), after being The Soviet estimate that French
done at $5.70, were on offer at
London Yesterday. In the presence
· of doctors and several old friends, Sir Thomas Lipton, at the age of 81, to-day passed away peacefully in his sleep through heartfailure.
-Reuter.
After a career of strenuous commercial activity, such as few men have surpassed, Sir Thons, only four years ago, relinquished active control of the great busi ness
banks.a tone time stored in their vaulta 648 millions in gold francs which to-day bears his belonging to the Czar. If the name, a business which is a standing monument to him.
money is nut still in the bullion in Parle, the Soviets When the firm became Lipton, rooms Limited, Sir Thomas was elected wish to know if it Was Life President and Chairman. handed over to the Burviving
Regret will be universul at the news cabled by Reuter of the 'death of Sir Thomas Lipton. He chill while out contracted 11 motoring a few days ago, and, though he rallied and relieved
On the occasion of his last but somewhat the anxiety and con-recent visit to America he was cern that was being felt for him, accorded a reception the like of the rally, it would seem, was but which had seldom been given to in the nature of a final flutter, a flash in the pan. For, yesterday. he passed away peacefully in his sleep through heart failure. This is not surprising when it is re membered that Sir Thomas had by eleven years exceeded the Paulmist's allotted span of life for man.
His Career.
was an
Sir Thomas Lipton, who was born in Glasgow of Irish parent- age, at nine years old errand-boy at the weekly wage of half a crown. At 26 he start ed in Glasgow the little provision shop from which grew the vast organisation which bears his
name.
Describing his work in the little Glasgow shop, Sir Thomas once said:
y
members of the Romanoff family, if not, what exactly became of it.
As long ago EU 1924, questions were asked in the French Senate about the fate of Russian Czarist god), the object being to discover whether it could not be used to re- imburse French holdere of Russian bonds who had received nothing from the Bolshevike and had there- fore lost their investments In Russia. The debate did not result in any definite decision and the Soviet mission will now endeavour to have the entire question reopen- ed.
mark of honour, the special pri-poned vileges of the port.
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4.
Supreme
DUNLOP
Local Branch Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24654.
JAPANESE AND MANCHURIA.
Denial of Two Chinese Points.
U.S. DROPS QUESTION.
Geneva, Yesterday.
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DEBTOR'S JAIL SUBSISTENCE.
Maximum Raised to $2 Per Day.
ORDINANCE AMENDED.
In the Government Gazette is
whose in- has boen
The Japanese representative on published the draft of a Bill to the Council has addressed a note amend the Code of Civil Procedure, The object and reasons are as to the Secretary-General of the League for communication to under:-
Under section 439 of the prin- the Council denying the two points raised by the Chinese re- cipal Ordinance, when a judgment are now listed as Constructions "old" and "new"
There will be eight events on presentative at the last Council debtor is committed to prison in
of the meeting.
execution of a judgment,, the Court. Bank of East Asias were in de.the card and as most
ponies have been well handicap- The note saya no Chinese fixes whatever monthly allowance it mand at $134.
Cantons could have been obtain-ped it is pretty certain that win-civilian has been arbitrarily ar- may think sufficient for his sub- ners will be hard to find. Many rested; that property has been sistence, not exceeding twenty-five- improvements have been made strictly respected and protected; cents per diem, which is to be to the building since the last and special measures for protec-pfiid by the person at meeting, and there is every rea- tion taken to prevent damage to stance the judgment son to believe that many more public buildings and valuable executed to the Superintendent of visitors will be present as the monuments.
Prisons by monthly payments in The note adds that naturally advance. This, maximum we the racing combined with the delight- ful trip to Macao make the visit as order is restored all these mea-rate fixed by section 79 of the Hong
of sures will be repealed, and de- Kong Code Civil Procedure a very happy change.
It is seldom you see a race clares that no train has been (Ordinance No. 13 of 1878) which
has been replaced by the present' meeting with every event on the bombarded on the Peking line. card a handicap, and the beauty It concludes with the text of Code of Civil Procedure (Ordinance The maximum is of the whole thing is that small the telegram from Tokyo dated No. 3 of 1901); owners who are unable to afford September 30. in regard to the insufficient to meet the cost of situation at Mukden, stating that maintenance; the average cost per since September 21 Chinese prisoner in 1930 häving being in Police have been directed by excess of $1.25 per diem, In 1981 Japanese gendarmes To assure it is expected to cost more. This the policing of the town which Ordinance raises the maximum to will be transferred immediately 82 and substitutes the words "aup to a committee of Chinese not-ports and maintenance," which in ables formed for the maintenance relation to prisoners have been held of order.
to include the salaries of officers. It adds that Policemen on Sep and the expense of keeping up the tember 21 replaced armed sen prison as well as houseroom, fond, tries on the roads between the clothing, bedding and fuel (The open town and the railway zone, Queen v. Gravesand Borough Coun and that Japanese sentries were efl 5 E. and B. 450), for the word. withdrawn from all gates of the "subsistence" which does not ap- Chinese town excepting two, on pear to have been the subject of September 28-Reuter.
judicial, interpretation.
$6,80, and the now shares were in request at $2.60.
Hotela (old) were done at $144, and at the close were in demand at. $142.
Lands were on offer at $84. Realties could have been obtain- ed at $144.
Ewo Cottons were in demand at $17.
Zoong Sings were wanted at $13.
Electrics were in the market at $70..
Telephones (fully paid) were in request at $432.
י.
Cements (combina !). were, want- ed at $18.
Ropes were in demand at $17. Dairy Farms were offering at $31.
Lane, Crawfords (old) had buy- ers offering $6..
+
Constructions (old) were bid up to 85 buyers, and the new shares were on offer at $1.80.
TENDERS ACCEPTED.
The following names of success- ful tenderers (without the amounts divulged) are notified for general Government information in the
Police
· EMERGENCY REGULATIONS.
Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on Thurs- day under the Emergency Re gulations Ordinance, 1922, are published in the Government Gazette.
The effect of these regula. tions is to consolidale, with minor, amendments, those al- ready in force, but to omit the water shortage regulations,, which are no longer required.
a big stable are able to send a pony up and in most cases ride it themselves which, after all, is the beat part of amateur racing. For no matter whether your pony is a turf, star or otherwise the best part of the fun is when you are able to ride your own ponies.
More than 70,000,000 pounds been aterling ($350,000,000) had lodged in the bullion rooms of the Bank of England by the Czar before his fall. Of this, 68 millions in gold was sent during the war from other notability. He was Russia, via Archangel, aboard a Gozette: given a civic welcome by New Japanese cruiser. The Soviets Construction of a store and fork and granted, as an especial have never learned what hap-lavatory at the Tai Po Land Office, I simply worked 25 hours a
to the. huge Kum, Mesars. Chung Lee & Co, day, and studied all the time
although they suspect it Winter clothing for Prison staff. how to please my customers, 1 is understood that when his may have gone to satisfy the claims-Messrs. Heo Hing, used to sleep on the premises. will comes to be read it will be of British investors who lost their Making, clearing and repairing Some happy advertising on a found that he has provided for a money in the Russian upheaval. forestry paths and fire barriers, small scale brought about sue- fund which will permit the There were millions of yen placed 1931.Mesars Sam Kes." cess, and I was soon able to building of Shamrocks until the by the Russian Royalists in Japan Furniture for the new maternity get branches and put them in Cup again reposes in the Royal and other countries in the Far East, bisck, Kowloon Hospital-Messrs. Į ・・ charge of men who had worked Ulster Yacht Club in Belfast." while New York Banks were, also Tak Hing & Co. under me. With my theories
entrusted with some of the Czar's
Repairs to S/L No. 7 and practice, and always buy-
gent hordes of gold. The Soviet launch.-Messrs. W. S. Bailey & ing for cash, and selling for
Born in Glasgow on May 10, treasure hunt will therefore, take Co., Ltd. cash, and trying to get into 1860. He was created a Knight the investigatora all around the direct relations with the actual in 1898; had the K.C.V.O. con- globe. producer. my prosperity has ferred on him in 1901, and the
following year was created Sir Thomas's, later activities Baronet. His Christian names spread all over the world-tea-are Thomas Johnstone. He was gardens in Ceylon, jam factories, a Grand Officer of the Crown of bakeries, tin, paper,, printing, Italy and of the Order of St. and soap works.
Sava (Serbia); Hon. Col.late 6th His philanthropy 18 well Volunteer Battalion Highland known. He gave, for example, Infantry; one of H.M.'s Licuten- £100,000 to establish the Alexan-ants of the City of London. He dría Trust for the erection of was a member of many famous ther the Arms and cheap restaurants.
Clubs, yachting and otherwise, Ordinance, 1900, is published in Everybody knows of his efforts and only this year was elected a the Government Gazette. to win the American Cup with Member of the Royal Yacht The objects and reasons are self- Yat Fee, Hip Yick, Yan Yick, Lam
come.
Some Personal Details.
his Shamrock yachts. Knighted Squadron of Cowes.
50 FEET FALL.
Son of Mr. J. R. Suiter Injured.
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ARMS LICENCES.
Licence of $10 Introduced.
Ammunition
Hong Kong Public Gardens ser- vice reservoir.--Mèsera. Yee Lee & Co.
·
Indian Supply of rations for Polite, 1982.-Messrs. Abbas Khan & Co.
Purchase of waste paper from the Prison Department.-Messrs. Chan Ching Kee.
Purchase of a quantity of old material-Mesars. Cheong Wo & The draft of a Bill to amend fur Co., Cheung Chun Yee, Yee Woo Shun Kee, Wing Yee-We, Whampoa Sam Co., Fook Hing Cheung, Wong
Cheong and Shing Kee Hop.
BRITISH SCHOOLS' FEES.
7
Arms
SELECTIONS.
let Race:-
Thunderous Stag, As You Like It. Broombridge.
2nd Race:-
Celerity. Choctow II Movanagher.
3rd Race:-
Mongolian Stag. Blue Boy. Vamoose.
4th Race:
Wattle.
Kilrea. The Bustard. · 5th Race:
Lobster Bay, Little Thunder, Christmas Frolic.
6th Race:-
Blue Plane,
New King. Tải Ping Yang.
7th Race:-
Thunderous Stag. Sunloch. Country Club.
8th Race:
It is notified that on and after
explanatory, namely,
This Ordinance establishes a fee roof of house No. 24, with the in- of $10 for the issue of tention of concealing himself. Hellcences under section 3 of the prin acidentally lost his grip and fell cipal Ordinance from the begin- into the adjacent backyard, Hening of 1932. It has not been the January 1, 1982, the annual fees was unconscious when picked up, practice hitherto to charge any fea, Payable for each child at the under-
but regained consciousness when even under the Official Signatures mentioned schools will be at the
It is belloved that a fractured taken to the Kowloon Hospital..
Jaw-bone as well as other injuries
of a less serious nature were 're-
colved by Tommy, the younger son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sulter, of B1,
ECONOMY ACT.
London, Yesterday..
Fees Ordinance, 1888, for such following rates:
Uconces. Section 27 of the prin- Central British School elpal Ordinance is: amended so as Junior British School
$ 90
60
105
to revoke, altor or add to the Table after its publication that he de-
to enable the Governor in Council Peak School
of Fees in the Second Schedule.
Ashley Road, Kowloon, yesterday evening, when he fell a height of Orders-in-Council for the The Governor in Council fixes fees cided to give his relatives only suf- about 50 feet into the back yard of carrying out of the provisions of in the case of many other Or- ficient money to enable them to live the residence of Mr. J. M. Noronha the Economy Act are gazetted dinances. Compare No. 1 of 1873, reasonably and to devote the re
the
* Celerity or Choctow IL'
Movanagher. Fernleaf.
TYPHOON COMING?
The anticyclone he strengthened and le central over the N,W. of Tokyo, mov- ing E.N.E..
The depression on the South China Sen has doveloped into a typhoon with its centre be-
It appears that Tommy, together tonight; also a Treasury minute 5 No. 8 of 1887, H. 8: No. 7 of mainder to helping others in tween the Paracels and Tour-
with other boys, was playing hide authorising the Bank of England 1906, s. 6; No. 40 of 1912, s. 8; way which seemed best.
Mr. Smith used to say that all and soek" on the roof of a block to issue fiduciary banknotes to a No. 22 of 1919, n. 6; No. 15 of 1922, of houses at the extreme end of total of £275,000,000 for a fur- . 16; No. 30 of 1923, s. 8, No. 21 he inherited was "the name of ters, and the cut-down clothes of Ashley Road, and had climbed over ther period of four weeks. Reu- of 1927, s. 3; and No. 11 of 1980, Smith, the broken toys of my sis-
5.4. the parapot on to a ledge on the ter.
my brothers."
ane, moving north.
Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh;" cloudy; some rain.
Washington, Yesterday,
·
The United States is taking no further action in the Sino- Japanese dispute announces the State Department, and adds that| Mr. Stimson had studied all the available reports and has come to the conclusion that the parties concerned are doing their best to conform to his advice-Reuter's American Service.
Moscow, Yesterday. The Foreign Commissar had another long conversation with the Japanese Minister in regard
conditions in Manchurin
to Reuter.
MACDONALD FACES MUSIC.
Seaham Electors Drop Pilot.
NEW CANDIDATE.
BLACKHEATH BOY'S ROMANCE.
Died Worth Two......
Millions.
New York, September 2. The death of Mr. C. Harold Smith, the self-made millionaire and carbon king" of America, ` which occurred on Monday at a
London hotel, was announced to- day.
About two years ago Mr. Smith offered a prize of £400 for the best advice on how to spend £2,000,000 for the greatest good of humanity,
Not until his will is opened will it be known whether he has fol- lowed the advice of the winner, Dr. Henry E. Garrett, Professor of Psychology at the University of Columbia, who recommended him to found an institute of men- London, Yesterday. tal hygiene, where young delin- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald "faced quente could come for advice and the music" this evening when he where crime would be studied. addressed the constituency of}. To "judge the merits of the Seaham, which has already dis- various suggestions, offered by owned him.'
thousands of newspaper contest-
In spite of the fact that extra ants, Mr. Smith arranged for a Police had been drafted in to pre- State Committee, and each day. vent possible disturbances there for thirty days, as sponsor of was an absence of disorder. this unique contest, he paid ' a Large crowds outside the hall | prize of £2 for the best letter of gave Mr. MacDonald a mixed re- the day. Many latters came from ception. There were cries of persons who thought humanity "Good Old Ramsay!", mingled could best be served if they them- with booing.
relves received a share of Mr. Smith's fortune.
Others suggested that, the money might be used to cure can- cer, eliminate war, or improve Government education.
Almost complete silence pro vided in the hall when Mr. Mac- Donald entered, but when he rose, pale but determined, to ad- dress his constituents his speech was given a perfect hearing. It
Born in Blackheath seventy-two was punctuated with bursts of op. years ago, Mr. Smith left London, plause from all parts of the hall. at the age of 15 and went to work Mr. MacDonald outlined the for an uncle in New Zealand. While cause leading up to the crisje änd a lumber camp, there he was lost the necessity for economies; also in the bush, and for three days lived he explained the attitude of his on the roots of ferns, which he dug former colleagues,
up with his hands. Eventually ho reached a Moari encampment and fell in love with a Maori girl, who Mr. Coxon, Branch Becretary, gave him on her death-bed, a New stated at the conclusion of the Zealand greenstone charm, which meeting
the ever after were on his watch- "The position of the Party is chain. that it proceeds with its previous Some years ago ha published his decision to secure another can- | autoblography under the title of didate."-"Reuter, /^
"The Bridge of Life."
His speech lasted more than an hour. A
It was