WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934.
COMPANY MEETINGS
H.K. LAND
INVESTMENT
AND AGENCY
$10,000 Bonus To
The Staff,
$538,485 CARRIED FORWARD
¡OFFICIALS
FOR H.K. IRON
MINING CO.
Directors Re-Elected.
The annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Iron Mining Co..
Ltd., was held this morning at the
Board Room of Messrs. Jurdine, The annual general meeting of Matheann and Co. Ltd., and we the Hong Kong Land Investment presided over by the Hon. Mr. J. J. and Agency Co. Ltd., was held thie Paterson, chairman. He was sup- ported by Messrs. H. H. H. Priest- morning at the Board Room,
|ley and A. B. Compton, Directors, Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. and Mr. L. S. Greenhill, Secretary. Ltd., and was presided over by the After the Accounts had beca Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman, judopted Messrs. H. H. H. Priestley who was supported by the follow- and A. H. Compton were re-elected to the Board of Directors, and ing Directors: Messrs. A. II. Comp-Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and ton. H. H. H. Priestley. Felix A. Fleming and Linstead and Davis Joseph, T. E. Peare and S. T. Wil. were re-elected auditors liamson, and Mr. L. S. Greenhill,
Secretary.
Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is now!
in Switzerland. was an absentee.
The following shareholders were present:-
were,
The Bon. Mr J. J. Paterson pre-
those present Hided Messrs. A. 1. Compton. H H. H. Priestley, Felix A. Joseph.
Pearce. S. T. Williamson
T. E.
(Direc
tors). Mr. 1. S. Greenhill Secre
Lary), and Messrs. Oscar Eager. L.;
ensuing year.
for the
SUPPLEMENTARY
EXPENDITURE
Soviet Tennis Fan
Alexander 't'royanovsky All work and no play makes even an Ambassador a dull boy. So
APPROVED Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet
Legislative Council Meeting.
$39,873 FOR 1934
At a meeting of the Financial
G. Front, W. S. Bailey, J. Choi, J. Committee
D. Danby, E. G. Smith. A. H. Chum-
of the Legislative
Council this afternoon. supple
bers, W. Raillon, L. C. F. Bellamy,mentary expenditure amounting J. Tarrant, F. Austin, P. S. Cassidy, to $1.493 for 1933 and $39,873 for W. J. Keswick, N. VA Croucher, 1934. was approved.
The Colonial Secretary, the E. Struthers. A. C. Kennedy, 14.
Hon. Sir Thomas Southorn. pre-) Summer, A. Summers and G. Pan-sided, and was supported by the
choon.
Chairman's Speech. The Hon. Mr. J. J. Patterson, the Chairman, spoke as follows:
Ambassador to the United States, relaxes from his duties and takes professional tennis match be ween Ellsworth Vines and William "Big Bill" Tilden at Washington.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story.
A TRIP TO CZARDIS
By Edwin. Granberry.
Iwoods when the two brothers him around the body. TT still dark in the pine)
The other soothed him, holding
awoke. But it was plain that "You won't have e're chill or day had come and in a little while malarie ache to-day, Dan'l. Hit.' there would be no more stars. a fair day——————”
Day itself would be in the sky "I won't be cold?"
and they would be going along
"Hit's á bright day. I hear
the road. Jim waked first, com- mournen doves starten a'ready. ing quickly out of sleep and sit-The sun will bake you warm.... ting up in the bed to take fresh Uncle Holly might buy us somethen hold of the things in his head, new to eat in Czardie." starting them up again out of the corners of his mind where sleep had tucked them.
"What would it be?"
"Hit ain't decided yet....He hasn't spoke. Hit might be some- Then he waked Daniel and they then sweet. May be a candy ball sat up together in the bed. Jim fixed onto a rubber string.” put his arm around his young "A candy ball" Daniel showed brother, for the night had been a stir of ́happiness. "Ob, Jim!"* dewy and cool with the swamp But it was a deceit of the imagina- wind. Daniel shivered a little and tion, making his eyes shine wist- whimpered, it. being dark in the fully; the green of his flesh was room and his baby concerns still against it. He settled into a still- on him somewhat, making sleepness by himself. heavy on bis mind and slow to give understanding its way.
"Hit's the day, Dan'l. This day that's right here now, we are goon
rain- You'll recollect it all in a ute."
"I recollect. We are goen in the wagen to see Papa"
"Then hush and don't whine." "I were dreamen, Jim." "What dreamen did you have?" "What dreamen did you have?" "I can't tell. But it were four- ful what I dreamt."
"All the way we time. We won't stop at any places,
are goen this
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Country Born," by Eric Linklater.
"My stomach would retch it up, Jim.... I guess I could't eat it."
"You might could keep a little down."
"No.... I would bring it home and keep it...."
Their mother when * Ajent to A whist drive will be held at the but we will go all the way to Seamen's Institute to-night at 9Czardis to see Papa. I never see bed had laid a clean pair of pants
and a walet for each on the chair.] such a place as Cardia."
p.m.
The Empress of Asia will carry Colorfial Treasurer, the Hon. Mr. M. J. Breen; the Director of the Home mail via Siberia to-day, Public Works, the Hon. Mr. R. M. closing at 5 p.m.
Mr. W. B. O. Middleton was
your mind."
"And lemonade with Ice in it 1
a saw"
"I recollect the water tower-Jim crept out of bed and put on his "Not in your own right, Dan'l, clothes, then aided his brother 、a. Hit's by my tellen it you see it in with his. They could not heat any noise in the kitchen, but hickory firewood burning in the kitchen etove worked a smell through the "That too I scen and told to you."house, and in the forest guines fowls were sailing down from the "Then I never seen it at all?” "Hit'a me
were there, Dan'l. I trees and poking their way along The Annual Dinner and Dance of let you play like, but hit's me who the half-dark ground toward the went to Czardia. Yet I never till kitchen steps, making it known the of the
door was the Portuguese Company
this day told half how much I aps.
open and that within someone was stirring about at the There's sights I never told."
getting of food.
Henderson; Hon. Sir Henry Pol- Gentlemen, in the matter of the lock. Kt., K.C.. Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Profit and Loss Account, you will Mackie, Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, passenger for the North by the m.s. notice that there are some increases Hon, Mr. S. W. Ts'o. O.B.E. Tatsuta Maru this morning. in expenditure. "Charges" has nd- LL.D., Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau. Hon. vanced by about $14,000, which is Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., due, purtly, to an exgratia payment and Mr. R. A. C. North (Deputy made to the sister of our late ac-Clerk of Councils.) countant, Bir. H. A. Rodgers, who
died in June last.
your
As a consequence of this, Directors have decided to inaugurate! a Staff Trust Fund which is design- ed to meet further charges of this nature and to provide for the future of the Staff.
Provision is being made now for depreciation of Gloucester Building. first which item appears for the time.
CONSUL-GENERAL APPOINTMENTS.
Sir Harold Satow
For Tunis.
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps will be held at the Club Lust- tano on Wednesday, March 7, at 7.30
p.m.
Ladies will be invited to the Dance at 9,30 p.m.
Facing a charge of being in un- lawful possession of a radiator cap
They stopped talking, listening for their mother's stir in the
kitchen. But the night stillness
was unlifted. Daniel began shiver again.
"Hit's dark." he said. "Hit's your eyes
to
stuck," Jim
in Upper Lancer Road on February said. "Would you want me to drip
tenced to two months' hard labour
stairs
Jim led his brother by the hand down the dark way of yellow-pine;
that went narrowly and without banisters to the rooms be. low. The young brother went huddling in his clothes, aguelike, knowing warmth was near, hunger-
19. L Shing, unemployed, was sena little water on your cysa?" ing for his place by the stove, to
"Oh!"
cried the young one: London, To-day. by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-pressing his face into his brother's The following Consul-General aptral Magistracy this morning.
side, "don't douce me, Jim, no The last year seems to have been pointments were announced yester.
The cold aches me."
abnormal in the amount of damage caused by white ants and this, tn- gether with rather more repair work than usual, has helped to swell the total under "Repairs" Account.
On the Credit side a profit of $100,000 is shown by the Residen- tial portion of Gloucester Building and I think that you will agree that) this is a very satisfactory result considering the times through which we are passing,
Attractive Offer Taken, The Aasel side of the Balanec Sheet shows a new honding. "Re- novations of Buildings", it having been decided to spread over a periodļ of three years the cost of "doing-} up" our buildings.
day:
more.
RISE AND DECLINE OF WORLD TRADE.
the bricks in the sit in peace on floor by the stove's side and watch the eating, it being his nature to have a sickness against food.
They cams in silence to the kitchen, Jim leading and holding his brother by the hand. The floor was Intely strewn with fresh and that would bright sand, sparkle when the daybreak got above the forest, though now it lay
For discharging fireworks in Ar- Mr. C. A. Goodwin from Rio debuthnot Road without 41 permit Janeiro to Zurich.
Cheung Hin, a licensed chair bearer, Mr. J. Lowdon from Cologne to was fined $5 by Mr. S. Balfour at Rio de Janeiro.
the Central Magistracy this morn-{ Mr. J. E. Bell from Basle
to Ing. Cologne.
of Japan Index Number To Be dull as hoarfrost and cold to the Sir Harold Salow from Beirut to The r.ms. Empress Tunis.
which left Yokohama Tuesday Published Each Month. unshod feet of the brothers.
on Mr. E. G. Lomas from Tunis to lust for Vancouver, is expected to Sulonika.
reach the latter port on Saturday,
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MRS. OXBERRY HAS FRACTURED SKULL
Thrown From Car In Nathan Road.
severe
He recalled how at the out- break of the war in 1914 this door to the firebox of the stove quiet and unostentatious
man was unshakeable in his COLLISION WITH BEACON The publication of an index was open, and in front of it their Mr. Havard, who has been OrienMarch A. She is expected back in number on the 20th of each mother sat in a chair, speaking low devotion to national liberty tal Secretary at Teheran and who the Colony on Friday, March 30.
month, which will afford a valuas they entered, muttering under
and his loyalty to obliga-
Mrs. J. H. Oxberry, proprietress was recently at the Department of
tions. [able indication of world trading her breath. The two boys went
of the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, sua- Oversens Trade, in London, to Bei-
Kong University and commercial activity, has near and stood still, thinking she was responsible for the tained
injuries yesterday rut.—British Wireless Service. Graduates Association will hold its been arranged for by Imperial was blessing the food, there being embodiment of his people and afternoon as the result of being Annual General Meeting on Friday and International Communica-mush dipped up and steaming in was one of the most powerful thrown into the road when the car at 5 p.m. at Lane Crawford's Res-itions. Ltd.,
two bowls. And they stood cast personal factors in the conduct in which she was travelling collided aurant, Exchange Building. Тел
The index numbers represent down until she lifted her eyes to of the war. As the months with the traffic beacon at the junc. will be served at 4:30 p.m.
the estimated. monthly receipts them and spoke.
passed he grew in stature in the tion of Nathan Road and Jordan from traffic as related to the com-
"Your clothes on already," she eyes of all who had dealings Road. An interesting exhibition of mo-parable traffic of 1929.
said. "You look right neat” with him. He was patient in The car, which was driven by dernistic art sculpture is at pre- The index for last month was She did not rise, but kapt her suffering and restrained in Mr. A. Bower, manager of the sent being held at the Nippon 71.8 as compared with 69,9, chair, looking cold and stiff, with triumph. Through the whole of Palace Hotel, was badly damaged. Club, Whiteaway's Buildings. Mr. 73.4, 76.3 and 96.0 for the corres the cloth of her black dress that terrible time he was faith- On being picked up, Mrs. Oxberry K. Kido, the artist, opened the ex-iponding month of 1933, 1932, sagging between, her knees. The ful to the charge of his kingship. was unconscious, her condition After being GO hours aground hibition yesterday afternoon. Final It is proposed to pay
1931 and 1930 respectively, sons stood in front of her, and ahe Throughout the years of his reign necessitating an operation at the Dividend of $2, per Share absorbing the Norwegian, motor-ship, "Yes- on the Goodwin Sands, off Deal,
laid her hand on first one head and King Albert had fulfilled the pledge Kowloon Hospital. $600,000 which, with the Interim
then the other and spoke a little given in the first speech he deliver- Enquiries at the Kowloon Hospi- trard", Was Dividend, will make a total of $4;
re-floated yesterday folkloristic interest will take place ANOTHER RADIATOR about the day, charging them to be ed from the throne when he de-tal this morning revealed the fact afternoon.
There were no sales of property
during the year under review, but Hauled From Sandbank
your Directors took advantage of an attractive offer and purchased Nos. 17-19 Queen's Road Central, at about
$55 per square foot
per Share for the year.
A
By 14 Tugs.
London, To-day.
An exhibition of Italian films of
at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow For three hours a fleet of 14 under the patronage of the Royal
It is proposed, also, to pay a bonus steam tugs pulled steadily on the Italian Consulate General.
to the Staff of $10,000, appropriate $39,029.99 to "Special Repairs and Renewals" Account and $100,000 to our "Rebuilding Reserve" Account, thus leaving $588,485.62 to be car- ried forward to a new account.
I now beg to propose the adop
tion of the Report and Accounta.
Election Of Officers,
Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, soconded
the proposal which was unanimouely carried,
The
vessel before she was towed clear. performance will commence at 11.30
She ran on the Goodwin's during
a thick fog-British Wireless Ser- vice.
H.M.S. ADVENTURE
6.m.
H.M.S. Berwick and II.M.E. Wia- hart are to be open to the public
visitors.
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sober and of few words, as she had clarod: raised them.
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Jim sat on the bench by the table
and began to eat, mixing dark molasses sugar through his bowl of mush. But navsez began in Daniel's stomach at sight of the] unemployed sweet, and he lagged by the store,
"A sovereign must be uncers- ingly attentive to the voice of his country, and must watch with sympathy over the state of the humblest. He is the ser vant of law and the guardian of Bocial peace."
"In
that Mrs. Oxberry sustained a | fractured skull and has returned to
consciousness,
Her condition is reported to be fairly satisfactory,
Mr. Bower was attempting to overtake two buses when the soci- dent occurred.
Six Months' Sentence For Chinese.
Wong Yui, between the hours of 2 p.m. and Chinese, was charged before Mr. gazing at the food as it passed into The Prime Minister added DUE ON MARCH 5.
4 p.m. on Sunday next. The ves-E. W. Hamilton, at the Central his brother's mouth.
bidding him farewell one can but SILVER DECLINES IN NEW YORK sels will be, moored at their respec- Magistracy this morning, with Suddenly a shadow filled the say he was a fine man, a izrost King, |tive buoys," Service boats will not stealing a radiator cap from car back doorway and Holly, their and a noble citizen.”, N
(Continued from Page 1). Kent Arrives In Colombo be available for the transport of No. 3646, belonging to Mr. Yu To-uncle, stood there looking in. He On behalf of the opposition Major
aang, 65. Bonham Road. He was was lean and big and dark from C. R. Attlos Lábour, mamber for "Wheat, Fear of moisture in the JL M. S. Adventure, à mine-lay-
also charged with receiving and wind and weather, working in the Stepney, Limehouse, slap expressed Bouth West induced liquidation of . On the proposal of Mr. Bailey anding cruiser, left Colombo for Sin The following forthcoming wed-being in unlawful possession of timber as their father had done, heartfelt sympathy when describing new-crop - months. Support was seconded by Mr. Towner, Mr. T. Egapore on February 19 and is ex-dings. have been' announced:-Mr the radiator cap.
He had no wife" and children and the late King as a man who in adver- lacking, except in the case of shorts, Pearce and Sir Robert Ho Tung pected in Hong Kong on or about George Puncheon of 8 Almai Villas, Pleading not guilty to the steal would roam far off with the timber slty and, war had displayed, high: "Cotton: Market Basler on March were re-elected to the Board of March 5.
Kowloon to Miss Elas Eobson Belling charge, he was sentenced to gangs in the overgladen. This courage and constancy, and in diffi- long liquidation. However, there is Director.
The Adventure is the first ves- of 5 Highburgh Terrace, Kowloon six months' hard labour on the later year he did not go far, but cult times of peace both wisdom and an element of strength in the fact The auditors, Messrs. Percy sol of her type to be commissioned Dock; Mr. George Cook, of the C. inst two counte.
stayed near them. Their mother understanding,
that "spot" cotton continued to be Smith, Seth and Fleming and to the China Station,
M. Customs, to Miss Jesale Hard R
stopped and looked at the man, and Other apeskars Included Sit. Her hard to buy-Beuter. Mesars. Linstead and Davin, were H. M. B. Kent arrived a Colom- of- 110 Crown Street, Aberdeen,|||| Among the passengers who left he looked at her in allence. Then bort Samuel the leader of the ----- re-elected.¦ at ^ à remuneration of bo on February 19 on her way Scotland; and Mr. Poon Kwong- by the ma. Tatauta Maru this morn- he looked at Jim and Daniel Liberal Party, who during the who came to Britain, and who after $1,250 each on the proposal of Mr. Homé,
at ho, of 99, Caine Road, to Miss Casting for Los Angeles, were Mr. and “You're goun toʻlake them after airly stage of the "war" was the the Armistice. went to Belgium An G. Frost, and seconded by Mr. I The French sloop Algol arrived rolius Kwok, of 16, King Kwong Mrs. Beaucarnet and Mr. and Mrs,
| Ministar ́ responsible for the wol- the special commissioner appointed Allison,
from Shanghai yesterday.
Street, Happy Vallay,
H. W. Sunderland.rs
(Continued on Puga: 10) Itare of 250,000, Belgian refugees to aid in her restoration.
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