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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
HONG KONG ENGINEERINGTM & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
ARY
of
INTIMATIONS.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY (1918), LTD,
NOTICE 18 ·HEREBY GIVEN
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929.
WATSON'S
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Dry Ginger
Ale
that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the 'above TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the SEVENTH ORDIN SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Company will be held at the Offices of MEETING YEARLY
the General Managers of the SHAREHOLDERS of the HONG
Company
44 ST. GEORGE's" BUILDING, KONG ENGINEERING & CONS-
Hong Kong, on MONDAY, THE GTA TRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED, DAT or MAY, 1939, at 19 O'CLOCK A WELL ESTABLISHED FAVOUR-" will be held it the
the Rous of
Noor, when the subjoined Resolutions
=
SHEWAN TOMES & & COST will be proposed as Ordinary Resolu- Grones's BUILDING, CHATER BALD,
vikių | tienā. Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, THE APRIL, 1929 at 11.00 am. for the purpose of regering the Report of the Board of Directors and
Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the 31st. DECEMBER 1928 and cleating Directors
and Anditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from the
Days incluairO,
1-That the authorised Capital of the Company (which is now $3,600,000 divided into 720,000 Shares of the Nominal value of $5 Each, the whole of which have been issued) be increased to $5,000,000 by the creation
ation of 290,000 Additional Shares of the Nominal vaine
aft Bach ranking as from Dads of
17TH 1999, allotment for dividend and in all
By Order of the Board,
J. BUCHANAN,
Acting de retary. Hong Kong, 5th Apr., 1929. [76808
CLUB LUSITANO,
CIRCULAR.
·COMISSÃO DIRECTORA do CLUB LUSITANO tem
respects pari paaru with the Shares constituting the Company's present issued Capital.
2--That 80,000 of the said 290,000
ITE OF PROVED HIGH QUALITY:
Own
Prepared from our special formula, flavoured with real fruit essences and the finest Eastern spices.
WEATHER REPORT. Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6 pm,
stated:-
A weak anticyclone remains cen
tral over the Eastern Sen. Moder- ate monsoon will continue along the South-East coast of China and over the North China Seni
Local Forecast:-East moderate, fair.
winds,
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During the last twenty-one years it was possible only in 1915, 1890, and 1991 to give a full supply of water throughout the twelve months. From 1920 to 1999 Hong Kong had a run of good luck, inasmuch as
of
The ninth annual dinner of the Queen's College Old Boys' Associa tion wil take place on April 20, at 8 p.m. in the College hall
University Arts Association is being A meeting of the Hong Kong held at 8.30 p.m. this evening in Room K of the Main Building when Father D. J. Find will lecture an Raphael, the Vatican pictures."
day a reception in being given by At the Club Lusitano next, Satur- the Portuguese community of Hong Kong in honour of His Excellency the Governor of Macao. The pro- and a large attendance is expected readings will commence at 4.30 p.m.,
family. to meet His Excellency and his
Many are the claims to the title of the smallest baby in the world, The 7th ordinary yearly meeting but those of Jean Whiteman want of shareholders of the Hong Kong some beating. At birth, Jean When Engineering and Contruction Co.. weighed fourteen ounces. Ltd will be held in the offices of three weeks old ber mother's wed- Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., St.ding ring passed easily over her Now, at four George's Building, Chater Road, on hand and wrist. Wednesday, April 17 at 11 am. months, she weighs only 4lb. 19cz. Although she was physically par feet at birth, it was feared that
Jean would not survive, but it ix thought now that she will develop along normal lines.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, referring to trade with Russia in a speech at Derby, said that if the British trade: unions were inclined to embark their funds in trade with Russia fits, and he would even facilitate he would not grudge. them the pro- their efforts by admitting Russian trading agents to this country, 10 long as they behaved themselves. "It will be no Government of
excuse," he said, "that will go to but a Government that will say, the country at the next election. We believe that we have done well."
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only in 1893 was the rainfall below the average, yes only in two out of the seren good years was it possible to give a full supply of water to the city. This is not a record to be proud of. Granted that the ex- cessively hilly formation of the island makes the problem supplying Hong Kong with water more difficult than it is in eome parts of the world. Granted that scattered reservoirs at varging elevations and circuitous service pipes make the problem of distri- bution exceptionally difficult. Yet the fact remains that a serious
The Victoria Diocesan Association water shortage has been prevented is holding a meeting at the Helena only by a most fortunate series of May Institute on Tuesday, April 9, rainfalls above the average, and at 4.30 pm. For inaugurating the these fortuitous circumstances can- new Victoria Diocesan & Mission- not be expected to continue. It is ary Association and appointing obviously necessary to provide the committee and officials. Ad against a combination of circum dresses on Remedies for Racial stances the reverse of fortuitous, Friction will be given by the and it is to be hoped that Mr. Rev. Rouald D. Rees and Mr. Y. H. Additional Shares he offered forthwith
HENDERSON has been instructed to Tao, M.A. in the first instance (in the proportion
THE DANGERS OF GOOD
make the facts quite clear to the of one New Share for every complete
Secretary of State for the Colonies. Two Chinese youths appeared be- Number of Nine existing Shares held by
LUCK.
The Waterworks Engineer is now fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the them respectively) to the Members of
The
non-alcoholic
on his way to London to obtain the Central Magistracy yesterday on the Company who on the OTE DAY or
azun of extraordinary approval of the Colonial Office of larceny charges. The record of the MAY, 1929, ATO Begistered in the Champagne. An excellent Campaay's Share Regiate as the hol-substitute
sparkling good luck has prevented a very works on the mainland, and for purse from the pocket of a Chinese, projects for extending the water-younger one, who had picked a ders of the said 720,000 Shares at rar wine, possessing the same serious water shortage being experi-laying a pipe-line along the bed of showed that he had received four and that on receptance of the offer the fall Nominal amount of $5 due in wonderfully stimulating and enced in Hong Kong. Is that long with water from Bowloon. If the He was sentenced to three months the harbour to supply Hong Kong floggings before for similar offences hours de convider of Exma. So. Socioyect of Each such bare taken a refreshing qualities.
shall be vaid Not Later than the fru
spell of good fortune about to be Secretary of State approves the hard about. The other, who stole * Exmas, Familias • os demais
broken? Long-range weather fort scheme, it is hoped the work will a jacket, was also a previous offen Membros da Comualdade Portugues DAY OF JULY, 1929.
be completed before the end of this der, and he was ordered twelve para se reunirem na "LUIZ DE
casts are unreliable. The problem year, and that by January water strokes -DAMOES" do CLUB LUSITANO Do
has engaged the attention of from Shing Mun will be available SABADO, 6 DE CORRENTE, às 4 Hons
in Hong Kong. If the Secretary of meteorologists for many years. but State does not approve the scheme DE TARDE,
nothing definite has been achieved. as explained by Mr. HENDERSON,
what then This pipe-line has been Forecasts for four, six, and oven' talked of for years, and in 1928 twelve months have been frequently the scheme was postponed on the ground-not of economy, but be- published in Europe and America, cause it was considered that the and the actual number of wet and water would be needed for Row- loon! Now, three years later, Mr. dry days has sometimes proved very HENDERSON is sent post-baste to near the total forecasted. Careful London to pray for immediate np proval of the pipeline, scheme! In examination, however, has shown 1918 the then Governor of the Colouy that successful "scientific "
declared that "the Government has pro-
inade up its mind that never again Two Bridge parties are being phecies of this character are will the water supply be allowed to giver in the near future in aid of better than could be obtained lag behind the increase of populathe funds of the H.K. Women's
tion but it has lagged, and the Guild and Ministering Children's dimensions any of the vases of purely fortuitous predictions. We deplorable result is to be seen to-day League. The first is to be held on H.M.S. Tamar on April 15 at must face the fact, therefore, that in the depleted reservoirs, meteorology will not help us with
In November, 1926, a correspond-1.20 p.m. Tickets, price 82 per ent wrote to us saying that, with player, and full particulars, can be information as to what sort of wea a rainfall table for the last forty had from Mrs. Byron, Peak Hotel ther is coming next month or next years before him, he predicted that On May 2, a bridge party is being centaurs, satyrs, fauns and dryads, year, but it can help us by providin Hong Kong a water famine which can be obtained from Mrs. within five years we should have given at the Taikoo Club tickets for ing information as to what has which would remind us of the McCormack, Quarry Bay School.
good old days" prior to 1918. In happened, and therefore, may be that year the Government made up A charge of assaulting Private brought expected to happen again. The in its mind or the subject of water Staples, K.0.5.B.,
supply. In 1928 the Government against Stoker Chin, of HMS. HOUSES AND FLATS. formation published in our columns again made up its mind, and then Titania, before Mr. E. W. Hamil yesterday regarding the drought-promptly changed it. In 1928 the tou at the Central Magistracy yes Government has gone back to the terday. The complainant, whose cycle theory is decidedly disquiet- opinion it had before it changed its face showed marks of rough hand ing. There is not much more than mind, and considers the pipe-line ling in a fight between soldiers and from Kowloon to Hong Kong a sailors, told the Magistrate that he two months' supply of water now available in Hong Kong, and we are
measure of urgent necessity. We was not in a position to recognise i
It must have occurred to many,” can only hope that the Secretary of his assailants. The defendant was State will be convinced by the discharged, the Magistrate remara writes a correspondent to the Mer- told that an abnormally dry. arguments Mr. HENDELSON submits ing that he had evidently tried to chest peculiar to China could be cantile Guardian, that the ten- may be experienced this in support of his cnet. The Water- act as mediator between belligerants replaced by something modern,
Am de assistirem RECEPÇAO om honra de ms EXCIA. GOVERNADOR DE MACAU SENHOR ARTHUR TAMAGNINI DE SOUSA BARBOSA 105 Exms. Familia.
Havera em seguida Cha e Dança. A fim de que esta ferta seja revestida do maior brilho postirala Direção perle
And that such offer be made by Notice specifying the Number of Shares to which the Member is entitled and Limiting the Time within which the offer if not accepted by the Member on behalf of himself or his nominee will be deemed to be declined, and that the Directors of the Company be at liberty to fix such time and to extend it to such Date or Dates and upon ruch Terms ZA they may think St. And farther that
a comparencia de todos os Sra. Bocicsany of the mid-80,000 Shares which 1011 Exmas. Familan. os domais Membros da Comunidade Portueguas.
M. A. SIMÕES,
Secretaric. Hong Kong de Abril de 1929.
[7607
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
BOO
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
OOKING of Reserved Senta to witness SEMI-FINAL matcher of the OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES Now Open at Mears. MODTRIE & CO.
Sabject to weather conditione, there matches will be played on MONDAY and TUESDAY NEXT, Bri and Pr. APRIL
FINAL of OFEN CHAMPION. SHIP SINGLES, 1177 APRIL.
TINAL of OPEN CHAMPION SHIP DOUBLES, 15‰¤ APRIL.
[7611
FANLING HUNT.
TH
DRAFT PROGRAMMES
and
ENTRY FORMS for the SPRING MEETING to be held on SUNDAY, 21st APRIL, may be obtained from "MEMS. THÚMSON & CO., YouK BUILDING."
ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK NOON 00 WEDNESDAY, 10T APRIL, 1919.
17600
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Programmas
shall not be taken up by the Com pant's Bhareholders in manner afore said be disposed of in such manner at such time or times and upon such terms the Company's Directors shall in their absolute discretion think fit,
3.- That no Shareholder shall be en- titled to any offer of a fraction of an Additional Share in rear ect of any odd Share or Shares held by such Share.. bolder.
SPARKLING
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A Delicious Table Water, healthful and refreshing.
Blends excellently with Wines and Spirits, especially Whisky.
"IN QUARTS, PINTS & SPLITS.
said 280,000 Additional Shares to issued A. S. WATSON
-4. “That the remaining 200,000 of the in such manner at such time or times and upon such Terms and conditions as the Company's Directors in their absolute discretion shall think fit. T
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON DAY, THE 16TH DAY OF APRIL, 1929, to BATURDAY, Tz 4TH DAY OF MAY, 1929 (Both Days inclusive), daring which period No Transfer of Shären cut be registered.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March, 1929...
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
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Further, we are told that next year there may be another very light rainfall-in which case the situation in regard to our water
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A remarkable deformity in a family was disclosed at an inquest charge of armed robbery against a
At the continued hearing of the on a boy aged two years, who died St.. Bartholomew's Hospital Chinese, named Lam Hop, who is London. It was stated that the alleged to have taken part in a child had a twin sister, and that robbery, attended with fatal results, both children had an extra finger at a rice shop at No. 1, First on each band, and these were web- Street on March 14, a Chinese feki bed. They also had an extra big yesterday deposed that the defen toe and webbing on each foot. MT. dant disappeared from the shop on Richard Dyer, a printer, of Gos- the night of the robbery and was well-road, London, E. C., the father, next seen on board the steamer said that the deformity affected in Turg On as it was about to sail for a similar way his eldest brother, Canton on March 16. The case was
who had six fingers on each hand adjourned.
and webbing and six webbed toes on each foot.
wig
ever
:
One of the largest ornamental vases
made surpassing in. Egyptian, Greek, Roman manufacture is shortly to Etruscan OF
Rome. The giant vase, decorated he placed in the Pincio Gardens.at with classical figures of nymphs,
pedestal is some eighteen feet high weighs one ton and, including the
The work is by the sculptor, Pro- fessor Conte Lorenzo Cozzo who personally directed the making of the special clay furnace in which" the vase was baked. The furnace was kept alight four days and five nights. The vase is of polychrome.. character and three inches thick. So This Is China!
.
cheaper, stronger article, perhaps,
works. Engineer knows what the-with the usual result. situation is-both meteorologically and financially-in the Colony. He Mr. Robert de Billy, French plywood. But the Chinese probably knows something about the Ambassador in Tekyo, who succeed dealer in tea cannot change. He is drought-cycle theory, and that all cd Mr. Paul Claudel three years
not allowed to make or provide his the known facts point to a rainfall go, is leaving Tokyo for home tail
own cases for packing his own goods. month. It is reported that he will this year well below the average, retire from the diplomatic service with possibly another dry year to follow. The theory-it is pot pre- and take up farming in France. tended that it is anything more Like his predecessor. Mr. de Billy is an interesting one, and should be has done much towards the promo- very carefully tested. It is worth tion of Franco-Japanese friendship
and understanding through
the ings, and it appears to be a fact for getting rain out of the clouds the Franco-Japanese Institute in property of a new eaw-mill or lum-
able for the establishment of that there is a exule of from 30 to enveloping the Peak Excellent |
ter company, of course adequately chest serves
the saw-mill owner
That is the right of another guild. e as supplied with as many chests s he needs, paying only for those seat away and after" they had been despatched. He can bor row without charge as many chests. he likes in which to store unsold: tea. In some places the packing-
supply would become serious in. deed. These opinions are not at tempts at long-distance weather TO LET FLATS in HUMPHREYS forecast; they are based upon Kowloor. No. 5, BANKCOME TOWERS, reliable records of actual happen.much more attention and critical medium of art, and he was respon case guild is now practically the
and CARNARVON BUILDINGS.
DRAFT THIRD EXTEX THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD BLAT ROAD.
RACE MEETING...to be held on SATURDAY, 1326 APEIL 1800 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the Rack COURSE HONG KONG CLUB,
and Catheway Bay Stables,
Entries CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK NOOK on FRIDAY, 615 APRIL, 1929.
17589.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
DEAFT PROGRAMME
32D EXTRA RACE MERTING CONDITIONS 6тe BAOB-
D'AGUILAR FLATE.
THE
HE Word "Wizpers" Winners at any time.
By Order,
MERAR
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FOR SALE.
Apply to .. -HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
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examination than was the scheme
work is being done up in the hilla Japan. He also made an effort to financed The oldfashioned tea
Restoration Silver.
Well"
stara made.
33 years between periods of very behind Kowloon of which the public arrange an exhibition of Japanese light rainfall. This cycle is now knows little and sees less. Dams Paintings in Paris. The Ambassador about completë, "and a period of and reservoirs are being built, filtra- a member of the Genre Picture tion plants have been installed, Society of Paris, and collected 10 LET.—"ON LEE,"Detached drought is consequently expected.
surveys for future extensions are many objects of art while in Japan Meteors that Feed Stara.
The retirement of the French Am- House
POLTTION ROAD, Twelve months ago Mr. HENDER scheme will take about twelve years many friends in Tokyo, by whom sor Shapley in Circular 317 of
being made but the Shing Mun
bassador will be regretted by his has just been announced by Profes- A discovery of great significance Commanding Excellent View, Within Ten Minutes of Town by Bus. Semi-SON, the Waterworks Engineer, call- to complete, perhaps more, Had OR SALE.-Six Cylinder 2-Seater Modern Sanitation. Garage. Extensive rather appear to confirm this theory. claration about the water supply
furnished. Gas, Electric Light, and ed attention to some facts which the work been started when Sir he is held in high esteem.
Harvard College Observatory. Ob- BUICK
HENRY MAY made his famous, de
servations made at that Observa- Perfect Condition. Grounds-Apply: ARNHOLD & CO.,
tory bave Mileage: 19,000, Owner driven.-Apply: LTD.
yielded authentic: The dispersal of old English evidence not only of the presence He pointed out that during the being always kept up to meet the LINSTEAD & DAVIS. 17560
of meteoric increase of population, the Kowloon family treasures continues apace. preceding eight years the Colony Works would be now almost com- One of the most interesting of the but of ita infallinto
matter in spres had experienced only one year with pleted. As it is, Hong Kong awaits forthcoming sales will be that of The discovery has been TO LET. Unfurnished FONDA rainfall below the average, us
with some anxiety receipt of news Lord Brownlow's silver, dating by means of the spectroscope. BALE-One Morris Oxford FMOTOR CAR 1928 model, No. 194, THE PRAX. Reet Moderate, against an approximate average of Engineer has obtained the necessity nineteenth centuries, at Christie's called
HACIENDA"
from London that the Waterworks from the seventeenth to the early The objects which are popularly shooting-stars,' or more senter, in perfect condition Oware Apply to Property Office. JARDINE, one year below the average in every official approval of the pipe-line the thirteenth of this month, correctly meteors, are only visible driven. Apply: Box No. 7496, c/o Hang MATHESON & CO., LTD. (7491
two. In other words, Hong Kong scheme, and has purchased the Belton House, Lord Brownlow's in the last stages of their existence. Kong Daily Prem
[7496
had seven good years of rain out of necary material. Mr. HENDER-seat near Grantham, was built by The meteors which shoot across the eight, instead of the four which 50's instructions are to return to one of his forebears, Bir John aky and disappear are simply those To
NO LET OR FOR SALE-At were to be anticipated. Such, Hong Kong as soon as possible after Brownlow, the first and last which have been caught in the up-
FANLING (in Or Lex Village), good luck cannot be expected to his mission to London has been Baronet of Belton, from the design per regions of the earth's atmos HOUSE with
HENDERSON, rearkably will be succesful in Avoiding the the end of the seventeenth century Farnished or Unfurnished, 4 Boomed continue indefinitely," said Mr. Fallled. We earnestly hope he of Sir Christopher Wren, towards phere and vapourised through fric- tion. Little can be done on the Moderate Price. Apply KWONG small rainfall recorded this year red-tape entanglements of White- and a notable item in the sale will spectra of objects so
transient. BANG HONG, LTD., 260, Dis Vaur arouses anxiety lest the good luck hall, for at best he will have only be the pair of silver-gile dishes, But this is not the only oppor BOAD CENTRAL.
[7966 be about to break before effective six months to carry out the work dated 1664, specially wrought for tunity for the observation of
his.ancestor. relief measures can be carried out.
meteors and their spectra. It is de which is to bring some measure The Waterworks Engineer has ca
finitely established that the objects of relief to Hong Kong by the new timated that the requirements of year. After that the deluge, or the Pyramid of Gains Cestius,
which go by the name of cometa TTAGE, East, BETH'S Corner, water increase at the rate of 0.4
of which several are discovered LET. NORMAN COT Hong Kong's daily full supply of drought i
The pyramid of Carns Cestius, every year, and a number are Candidates may obtain ApplicationOR SALE. 1924 ARMSTRONG Furnished 6 Roomed House. Garage million gallons yearly. The estimate
the well known Roman landmark known to be regular members of Forms and Copies of Prospectus from BIDDELEY 14 H.P. TOURE, for Austin "7" the BOCAL SECRETAEY, care
which standa by the Protestant the of Owner leaving Colony. What Offers Apply to:-PEROY SMITH, SETH & for 1830. 10.8 millions; and for 1931, Early occupation. for 1925 is 10.4 millions per day;
solar system-are cemetery in Roman where he the clusters of meteors.
actually EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
(7605
-Reply: Box 424, c,o Hong Kong Daily FLEMING.
body of Keats and the ashes of isolated meteors
Conversely, Prase.
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Shelley, is to be isolated so that it which have become separated from
are stragglers.. will stand in the middle of the their parent comete or remnants of The city plan of this section of to exist. When comets approach Rome is to undergo alterations, and the vicinity of the sun and become square known de Caius Cestius cometa which have long since ceased the trustees of the Protestant visible to terrestrial observers they cemeteries will be asked to build a exhibit a characteristic spectrum, new, enclosing wall for the old Pro- af, which the chief characteristics: testant cemetery. This quarter are the ersission bands of cyanogen of the city is in the official and carbon monoxide. Individual realogical zone, and the first comets hare, of course, their indivi- operations of isolating the pyramid dual peculiarities, but the cyanogen will be entrusted to the city spectrum is common to comets as archeologista.
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Three cases of small-poz (Chinese) were reported on Wednesday. One case of diphtheria and one of teric were also notified.
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The monthly meeting of the Hong Kong Foatial Referees Association Bundal for the Friday nail it Scandal Point, on Friday, April 12 at 6 pm prompt All interested are cordially invited.