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THE ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
TOTIJE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the MEM BERS of the above Club will be held the Registered Office of the Club,
YORK HELLDING," on the 14T DAT of AUGUST, 1928, at 615 O'clock in the AFTERNOON when the following resolu tion will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution:
"That the regulations contained in the printed document subraitted to the Meeting (Copy whereof may be seen at the Club Registered Office) and f the purpose of Teentication subscribed by the Captain thereof be and the same are hereby approved and that such ngulations be and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Club in salatitation for, and to the exclusion of, all existing Articles thereof."
And NOTICE IS HEREBY also GIVEN bata farther EXTRAORDIN. ABY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the above Club will be
held at the Registered Office of the Club, YORK BUILDING foresaid on the 30T DAT of AUGUST, 1998, at 5.15 O'clock in the AFTERSOox for the purpose of receiving Report of the Proceedings at the abere mentioned Meeting, and of confirming, if thought fit, as a Special Resolution the above mentioned resola. tion.
Dated the Third day of August, 1905, By Order of the Committee,
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Acting Secretary,
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in his glory to reap what profits he can and the puritans who object most vigorously to the Government having anything to do either with horseracing or betting. The one 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER party believes in private enter. prise, the preservation of ancient rights and privileges, laisser faire and non-interference by the Govern- ment, the other wishes to obliterate racing and betting altogether taking the view that recognition by the Government of what is considered to be an evil is tantamount to an
inducement to indulge in that evil. But between these two extremes there is the general desire for the regulation and improvement of an accepted factor in English life. Racing and betting may not have as strong a hold on, the affections of the community, as they had in the past, but it is impossible to envisage the time when they will Cease altogether to have their derotrea.
The fact that the Government at home secures a percentage on the luxury of gambling suggests that the Hong Kong Government might add to its revenue by claiming a small portion of the sums that are invested in this way at the Happy Valley Race meetings. We have
not the excuse of the Non-conformist conscience, for we already tax
vice in the form of opium..
MORE WET WEATHER EXPECTED.
YESTERDAY'S STORM AT
MID-DAY,
The long period of drought since July 16th ended abruptly on Satur day. The Royal Observatory's wen ther forecast, which for the last seventeen days had been, "winds moderate, fine," or something to that effect changed on Friday ever- ing to Fair to showery," It was overcast all Saturday morning but the rainfall up to 2 p.m. was only .00 inch.
In the afternoon the downpour was sufficient to stop all games and though it cleared in the evening practically an inch ell between a pm and 8 a.m. yesterday morning, the actual figure being, 945 inch.
From 6 am to 9 p.m. came the really heavy fall, totalling -3,105 inches for these 8 hours.
The
BIG FIRE AT SINGAPORE.
$330,000 DAMAGE BY FIRE.
TREMENDOUS BLAZE AT
QUAYSIDE.
SINGAPORE, July 30th. There was a tremendous blaze at the Telok Ayer wharves yesterday, when a godown filled with rubber, drums" of oil and paint, and other materials, was completely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $350,000, and the owners of the godown are the Straits Steamship Company..
CHINESE MERCHANTS.
RESTIVE.
QUESTION OF NATIONAL FINANCE.
KUOMINTANG PRECEPTS AND
PERFORMANCE.
·SHANGHAI, August 1st. In reply to the telegram of July ist from the Chinese National As sociated Chambers of Commerce, regarding the enforcement of new taxes and assessments to take the place of likin after its abolition,., the Nationalist Ministry of Finance
The Fire Brigade had to fight telegraphed back last Friday warn- hard to prevent the flamer catching ing the merchants not to oppose the in the neighbouring godovna, and as it was the roof of a Straits Trad-Government's financial policy, and ing Company godown was damag pointing out that it was the duty ed. while sparks were carried by of every citizen in the country to the breeze dangerously near three pay tax. other godowns leased by a rubber
firm,
The Chinese National Chamber The first call to that Fire Brigade again wired to Nanking yesterday was made at 12.15 p.m., and it was stating that taxes will be paid if not till eleven and a quarter hours the merchants consider them appro- later that the last engine was re turned, while firemen were, engaged priate, but no tax will be paid un- even later in damping down the leas the merchants are rat con- smouldering ruins The godown sulted, in keeping with the Kuo- Was A mass of dame when the Brigade arrived. Two engines weatmintang principle of a Government out in response to the call, but of the people and by the people. directly they arrived the officer in
Like The Old Militarists. charge telephoned for two more. It was obvious that to save the The telegram pointed out further store was an impossibility, but the that, unless the Nationalist Gov- downs was grave, and all effort was voice in its financial policies, it danger to the neighbouring go-ernment lets the merchants have a concentrated
this fighting menace
will be in no way different from the Water Supply From The Sea. old military régime. The National The Brigade..had an illimitable Chamber of Commerce, represent- supply of water from the sea, ining the various Provincial Associat- close proximity, and no less than
in
The heaviest fail was from 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. for which the re- cord showed 1.64 inches. This storm was also accompanied by heavy thunder and dazzling lightning from almost directly overhead streets were soon flooded, and the nullaha, dry for so long, were now roaring with a torrent which the Bishop Renaud arrived in the dryness of the soil prevented from heat was intense. Despite the pro-ed its right to supervise the Central Colony from Shanghai on board the percolating to any depth and so
collected rapidly in all water
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Among passengers who arrived bere on Friday by the sa Kalean. were Lieut.-Comd:. G. Worth, Col. and Mrs. Badham Thornhill and Col. B. Woodhouse.
The only brewed Gingertheris and one of paratyphoid Two British cases, "one of diph Beer in the Far East.
fever figured in Friday's returns of notifiable diseases. There was also one Chinese tase of enteriè..
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courses.
Happy Valley flooded during this period, but the big new water course had drained it before the evening.
About a foot of water collected in were partly flooded, though no Queen's Boad and several premises serious damage was done.
In the harbour the wind was blow- ing at force 4" with occasional squalls. The rain, however, beat
waves
8,000 feet of hose were used. The Chambers of Commerce, declar
men many of them suffered scalds tective measures used by the fire-Government-in-matters of taxation,
from spurts of fame and cuts and for the protection of the merchants bruises from flying debris. There of the country. It informed the were loud explosions when barrels Ministry of Finance that its tele of tar and drums of oil and paint
exploded, and when the rear wall gram of July 21st necessitated no collapsed with a terrible crash re-correction by the Government, bat men in the vicinity had a narrow that the merchants were right in escape.
It was one o'clock which the their demand for a voice in regard Singapore Harbour Board's fire to taxation, which is in harmony float arrived.
with the real, Kuomintang prin. ciples.-Kua Wen.
The flames were still as intense as ever. The wind had increased, to the consternation of the fire
doubled.
A. S. WATSON the wing to the threatening weather down yes though there was a fighters, and their efforts were re-
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The Daily Press.
Horo Kore, August 6xx, 1928.
THE TOTALISATOR AND
THE BOOKMAKER, -
card sharper, the-tout and the pick pocket. A nation's social habits,
have been given by the Queen's Regiment at the Kowloon Cricket Club ground had to be postponed.
Mears. Wm. Powell, Ltd., ars to petition the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court Wednesday morning for the reduction of their capital from $350,000 to $100,000
оп
Mr. A. Rollin, the manager of the Banque Franco-Chinoise in Hong Kong, has gone on Home leave and Mr. L. Bernis is acting ne manager of the bank in his place.
At the expiration of three months from date, unless cause is shown to the contrary, the China Mining and Metal Co., Ltd., will be struck off the register and the company dissolved.
men had a very pleasant time during the hour's storm but no casualties are reported.
The stormr was over by 1.30 and though it continued to drizzle on and off for the rest of the day, up to 8 p.m. only .120 inch had fallen.
The rain during the week-end has thus totalled just over 4 inches and in the opinion of Mr. Claxton, Director of the Royal Observatory, "everything is now unsettled and a good deal more rain is to be ex- pected." The forecast for to-day is S.W. winds ¡moderate, overcast,
rain.
HONG KONG'S WEATHER.
MR. T. F. CLAXTON'S_VIEWS.
Mr. Claxton in an interview with our representative made some inter- esting remarks about Hong Kong weather and the science of mete-
A piece of land, approximately 8,850 square feet, at Ngau Shi Wan, will be used as a cemetery by theorology. charitable organisation the Little Bisters of the Poor." It will be known as New Kowloon Cemetery
No. 1.
'Three motor car touts were dealt
"It is curious lact," he said, but the records, taken now over a period of 44 years, show that the first week in July is generally dry. This dry period is quite a recog- nixed feature of our rain chart. June and August vie with each other for the greatest rainfall but July stands up well"
UNCLE AND A WAYWARD .....
NIECE.
The case against a Chinese wo man residing in Peel Street who is charged with harbouring and pro- curing a girl and also with using her house for an immoral purpose, was continued on Saturday morn ing at the Central Magistracy be- fore Major C. Willson,
the roofs of the threatened.
The sparks dying over HARBOURING AND PROCUR-
godowns were Aying dangerously low.
ING CHARGE. It was not till another hour had i passed that the fire began to die? down. A rain of sparks fell on a portion of the adjoining godown roof. It caught alight, but was put out almost immediately afterwards. Soon after this it was obvious that, though the danger was by no means passed, there was every prospect of saying the threatened godowns, and that prospect gradually became a certainty." On the side of the gutted godown toward which the
Mr. Hin Shing Lo appeared for wind was not blowing stands a petrol and benzine store. But the defendant. against just such an eventuality as Evidence was taken from the that of Sunday, it is protected by uncle of the girl concerned, who a14-inch concrete wall and was at said that his niece disappeared last no time A source of danger.month. Witness was then request
ed by the brother of the girl to institute a search for her. On Thursday last, the girl was seen going up to No. 12, Feel Street. Witness then sent a woman decay. Later the girl was seen earning to the house on the following night. down the street with another per- son whom witness" did not know. Witness had in the meantime hid- den himself in a store close by and
Straits Times.
"There are some rather good Claxton drily. The verses he turn verses on the subject," added Mr ed up to were as follows!
THE RHYME OF THE RAIN MACHINE.
when the girl came near to his hid- ing place," he came out and stop-
Said Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones, So I reckon I'll have to stir myned her,
bones
And try the effect of concussive
tours.
upon the lazy sky."
race-courses has deteriorated or rather that there has been a disproportionate increase in the undesirable element in the attendances Formerly, and per- haps even to the present day in the case of the Derby, the race- course was an epitome of English society. It contained representa tives of all classes, except the extreme puritanic and was, in fact, In one department of social life the nation itself in its sporting with by Mr. B. L. Lindsell at the Hong Kong has that which England aspect.
"The weather is far too dry, At one end of the scale Central Magistracy on Saturday morning. Two of the offenders were fined $5 each and the third man had to pay $12, as he had three previous convictions against him.
After boisterous quarrel with attempted to end her life by jump her husband, a Chinese woman normal conditioning into the street from the first Boor of her house at No. 14, Pelman Street. She was removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from a number of broken bones.
Charged with stealing a hand bag containing 828 in money, a gold ring and a fountain pen from a Chinese girl, a Chinese was ser- tenced by Major C. Willson, on Saturday morning at the Central No, anything beyond, twenty- Magistracy to seven months hard four hours, is entirely speculative, labour and 18 strokes of the birch and even within that time you can't
The following Hong Kong re- be anything like certain.";
"I think we have all learned to sidents left on Saturday by the rely very much upon your forecasts, P. & O. Kashmir for London in airang
picnics and games, Miss K. Buckley, Miss C. Checkett.
is striving to introduer, namely, a was royalty and at the other the system of betting which does away to a large extent with the book muker. There are several reasons however, can change especially when for this change, which it is pro- the upheaval of a great war has phesies will come about either is made change a this session of Parliament or the of life. Habits which were believed next, either through the privata to be fixed and ingrained yield to members bili being sponsored by the charms of other alluring pas- WAT économic the Government, or by a new times, even if post government bill The principal conditions do not compel a shift demand for the totalisator comes of interest. Motoring has opened from the Race Course officials who up fields of activity which hitherto see in the percentage to which they were non-existent.Dog racing now would become entitled under the Provides a cheaper and purer new system a source of revenue gamble than a horse race, for which is badly needed. The courses although the favourite dog may would be made more attractive, be doctored it cannot be pulled by charges lowered and money would the jockey. A company recently
I have," he continued, “spent a long time trying to solve the reason for our winter drought. I examined any number of theories, but the reault has been negative. We say is that during the winter simply do not know. All we can
months, from about the first week in December until March we never get more than a drizzle."
So Jeremy Jonathan Joseph went And there his money, was quickly Away to the nearest town:
spent
For queer contraptions all intent
"There is no sign of a change in To make the rain come down.
our climate, nor is it possible to deduce any laws 85. to so-called cycles of dry years or cycles of wet years. The fact is that we work
from day to day.””-
There is no foretelling beyond about forty-eight hours 1
There were cannon, and mortars,
and lots of shells And dynamite by the ton; With a gas balloon and a chime of
bells
And various other mystic spells To overcloud the sun.
He fired a shot, and barely two, When the sky begun to pale; . The third one brought a heavy dew, But at the fourth tornadoes blew With thunder, rain and bail.
It rained all night and another day And then for a week or more It flooded the farm in a scandalous
TWAY, WAHANA
And drowned poor Jeremy sad to
Bay,
Who couldn't stop the pour."
How Aviation Could Help. Hole, Mis C. M. Hopkinson, Dr. "The trouble is replied Mr. and Mr. J. Kirk, Miss D. Kirk, Claxton, that we only know what Master James Kirk, Master John is happening on the earth's surface, Kirk, Mr. Wm. Marahall; Lieut. and not as much as we should like W. R. Pope, Mr. and Mr. R. of that. Now if we could get a service, "of : observations. ut - 1,000, Boskruge, and Miss C. Williams.
5,000, 10,000 and 20,000 feet we Of Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones, Among passengers arriving here could really do something, but the Your farm was fair to ses; on Friday by the ... President cost of that and the organisation But now a lake lies over its stones, Madison were Mr. N. W-Benton, it would require are hardly what can From whose dark bosom horrific. of the Yukon Gold Company, Mr. be expected yet awhile G. 8. Kirkland, Far Eastern re- That will be one of the big presentative of the Corbin Lock services of aviation in the future: Company Comdr, F. Blingluff of Has wireless effected the weather To check the flood you started I've
heard the U.8, Navy while another U.B. at all our representative asked. Naval Officer, Comdr. G. 8. Gillette Not as far as I can see-Nor All efforts were in vain and Mrs. Gillette, were on board en in my opinion did the Great Wer. Until the Bureau at Washington route for Manila. The Madison Gin fire may bring down rain ittirred had on board as cabin passengers, there are clouds about, but syen And stopped the storm with single 141" steerage passengers, and 418 that I doubt.
(Continued on nest. Column). mail bags,
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be available for general improve formed to promota dog racing has P. Harding, Mr. H. C. ments. It is estimated that at some raid a dividend of 200 per cent. One Month from the Date hereof the "meetings which formerly were most If the Government has recognised following Share Certificates be at forthcoming, Other Certificates for the
popular, the attendance has declin- the existence of horse racing and Baid Shares will be farmed by the Compsey and thereafter No Other willed by a third 'owing, it is said, to its inevitable concomitant-betting, be acknowledged -
the competition of the new form it is under an obligation to sec of sport-dog racing. Others con- that the meetings which produce its Certificate for 15
sider the loss of interest is due to three or four million in revenue the popularity of motoring. More are conducted with a decency and people seek their recreation in propriety which it is believed can Careering about the country in a be brought about by the introduc- car, instead of studying the careeration of the totalisator. The oppo of horses in a newspaper or in sition to the present bill come watching them canter round a from the extremists, those who wish the bookmaker to be left alone
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Mr. Lo (cross-examining): You seem to have taken a great deal of interest in your sister's family have you not-No, I seldom paid her a visit since her removal, To Shamshuipo.
has been on good terms with her husband -As far as I know they are all right
Do you know whether your sister
Do you know that since her re- moval, your sister has had no money to support her family and that her daughter has been, earning money for her? My brother-in-law always took money back to bis family every month as far as I know.
Did you know that your niece went "with a man named Cheuk fo the Asia Hotel ?—No,
Do you know your niece had had
acquaintanceship with a surnamed Cheung --No.
I put it to you that before the night of the girl's arrest, you KZ- Leung, Ank --No, I did not ranged with some one to put her receive advice from anyone.
When you were living in No.. 10, Peel-street, ground floor, did you know anything about the teannta of
No. 12 of the same street I knew that it was "aly brothel."
The Case was adjourned until next Saturday bail being allowed at 8300.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and romarki, iented by the Royal Observatory at 4.30 p.m, stated
The Loochco depression deepened slightly.
Local Forecast 1-5.W. moderate, overcast rain.
winds