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MENTS.
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Is Authorized to Sign Our Firm Per Procaration.
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Hong Kong, 13th May, 1899. [7774
CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED.
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION).
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TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Com- pany will be held in the BOARD ROOM of 23. JARDINE, MATHE SON & CO. LTD., Preza STREET Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, 14TH MAY at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of considering, and if thought fit, passing the subjoined Extraordinary Resolution,
viz m
That NR. ARCHIBALU RIT OHIE, Chartered Acconstant, of the Firm of Messrs. Lowe, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, be appointed to act a the Liquidator of the Company in conjunction with fesun. JARDINE MATHEBOX & COMPANY, LIMITED,
ORANGE
SQUASH
Crappe
Made from
during the Absence from the Oolony CALIFORNIAN of M JOHN FLEMING, CA, one of the originally appointed Liquids. tors of the Company."
AND
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that in portance of Section 187 (9) of the Compania Ordinance 1911. A GENERAL MEETING of the Com Dany will be held at the Same Place on TUESDAY, 14TH MAY, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON. Immediately after the Termina tion of the aforementioned Extraordia- ary General Meeting, for the purposs provided for in the said Section.
JARDINE. MATHESON&CO., LTD. JOHN FLEMING, GAḤ
Joint Liquidators.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929,
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.m, stated:
The anticyclone to the north-west of Japan is stationary, A trough of low pressure, extends from Indo Chira to the Ladrones with deprea sions over Tongkong and to the south of the Loochoos.
Local ForecastS.W. or rari able winds. light to moderate. cloudy, local thunder showers.
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DR. WANG'S APPEAL TO THE POWERS.
This is a very skilful presentation of the case, but Dr. Wo's special. pleading will not appeal to those who have any knowledge of the facts. There is no suggestion that China should alter her basic in stitutions entirely to the liking of foreigners. What is suggested is
News and Views.
cases
One case of Small-pox, and one
both of Diphtheria (in
were reported in the Chinese) Colony during the 48 hours ending May 13.
Once again Mr. Churchill has Mrs. Batcher, whose death at Suez on Sunday was reported from returned to his beloved bricklaying, and he spent the greater part of Port Said, embarked on the P. & Q.
a day, recently, building a wall Naldera from Singapore, with her on the fruit garden of his country, son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and home, Chartwell Manor, Wester- him, in Kent. He was not the only Mrs. Douglas Butcher, bound for bricklayer on the job, but he was home, where she was to undergo certainly one of the quickest. Bis 27 BOM time ago with treatment for indifferent health, little tiff which had confined her to the house the Bricklayers' Union had by no, means cramped his style, and his that the laws and customs of the The new Austrian Chancellor for a long veriod. She was in very country be so amended as to bring Strenwitz has sent a message of good spirits when she left but ap old felt hat and traces of cement.
Chancellor them into line with standards of goodwill to German
parently at her advanced age the on his working clothes, with the absence of waistcoat and Western civilisation. Fucidentally, Mueller emphasizing the close and journey proved too great a strain.
Butcher hearty relations between the two Mes.
posicased
collar, helped to make him the pic- the Chinese must benefit by the nations.
friends in Singapore, where she had cure of contentment. But, though ha chango far more than foreigners;
lived about 18 years, for the greater peared to be just laying bricks, ho ал eficient and independent, The late Mr. Francis Harry part of the time at Keppel Har- was undoubtedly thinking about the Budget all the time. Mr. Churchill Judiciary, unafraid and unaffected Owen Wilson, of The Towers, bour. She had spent many years will grobably remain at Chartwell Oxford-road, Colchester, retired in the East, in India and Hong by outside considerations of any solicitor, formerly of Hong Kong Kong, where her son was employed. Manor until Parliament sits again kind, would be a boon to the masses and Zanzibar, left £13,309 (net per- Her death when so near home will after the Easter recess.
be deeply regretted by her friends. Smuggled Eum in Hen-run, sonalty E3,804). of China.
Mrs Butchr was a half sister of Dame Mary Scharlieb, the woll known doctor.
A dinner is to be held in the Heng Kong Hotel on May 30 to which all serving and ex-officers of the Royal Engineers are invited Details may be obtained from Capt. C. A. de Linde, R.E. Headquarters, China Command
the
Chidia will take 150,000 tons of Cuban sugar, this coming year, in opinion of Miguel Angel Campa, Lader-Secretary of State. The estimate gathered in the study of a new! trade treaty between the two coun-
tries..
came
from data
It was reported to the Thames Conservancy that a man summoned for shooting fish in the Thames had been fined 10s. The chairman (Lord Desborough) asked what the fish was, and was told that a man had shot a pike while it was on top of the water, with an airgun,
many
The discovery of four large bottles of rum and five packages of cigars. in a hen-run at Goole resulted in Henry Gabriel being charged with The Paris Municipal Council has smuggling Police Constable King decided that the fine thoroughfare said that he noticed an unusual stretching from the Are
de package in a ben-run around which Triomphe to the Bois de Bologneens were scratching. With Cus- will henceforth be known as Avenue toms officers he investigated the Foch. Instructions have been given package, and found that it contain- for the nameplates to be changed. ed unopened bottles of rum and Paris will, of course, have a statue | quantity of cigars. Gabriel admit- to Marshal Foch, and it would be ted having smuggled the goods when ¡ in accordance with the fitness of on a voyage from Boulogne to things that it should stand in the Goole, and he was fined £7, 56. Con- Avenue Foch. Thus, while under stable King was.complimented by the Arc de Triomphe reposes the the magistrates on his vigilance. Unknown Soldier, a symbol of French bravery and sacrifice, the avenue leading from it will be n permanent memory of the great soldier who led the Allied armies to victory.
A Shanghai Innovation,
ORANGES way to meet the wishes of the Chinese Government and people in this regard, it is certain that an other obstacle to the full and frank co-operation between the Chinese people and foreigners would be happily removed Dr. WANG, how ever, is preaching to the converted; it is to his own people he should address an appeal for the removal obstacles to the abolition of extra- 1927 included coffee 833,000,000, prejudiced and one-sided, but he
This Squash is made from Ripe Fruit; Pure Cane Sugar and Aerated Water only is added, resulting in a Perfect Beverage..
territoriality for which Chinese, not foreigners, are solely responsibis, They are obstacles which only
No Demand for Perambulators,
Perambulator manufacturers i Birmingham are blaming the teach- ers of methods of birth control for the present slackness in their in- dustry. They declare that there has been a serious decline in the de- mand for perambulators since birth control instruction became general, and they are contemplating a cam paign for an increase in the birth rate.
* Perambulator manufactur-
ers are determined to lend their aid
But the difficulties surrounding
The list of donors of prizes at the question of extra-territoriality
the St. Joseph's College, sports, in are not simply concerned with the addition to those mentioned in the substitution of Western for an report of the function, includes Dr. Eastern legal code. That is only. 4. M. Sepher, Mr. W. G. Fitz- one phase of the probleman im Gibbon and Mr. Ah Thwong portant one, certainly, but not even the most important. The first essential is for the Chinese Govern ment clearly to demonstrate its pover and authority over its own people. What guarantee is there, as matters now stand, that a pledge Once again the able Minister formade by Dr. Waxo in Napking Foreign Affairs has addressed a to-day will be honoured to-morrow 1"series of identical Notes to in Shantung and in Canton With variona Powers regarding the the constant friction and jealousy | abolition of extra-territorial rights which exist between various pro vincial authorities and the Central and privileges. Dr. WANG says.
Government, what prospect is there
Mr. Hiram Bingham, a promin that if the Powers could see their
of establishing that undisputed
ent member of the United States administrative authority through-
Senate, visited China and the out the country which is essential
Philippines, and, as is the way with tourists, formed some very definite for conadence both at home and
opinions about problems which he
to any movement for increase in abroad? Not a week passes without
only partially understood.
said Mr. T. W. directór of news of trouble between the autho
main criticism was of what he the birth rate, called "Nordic snobbery," and he Luckett, managing rities at Nanking and some distant
now hails with pleasure the fact Thomas Luckett and Son, Ltd., one. that the American Club in Shang baby cara in the kingdom. "It of the largest manufacturers of province, arising out of refusal to
Brazilian exports in 1928 were hai has decided to admit Chinese will be suggested at the next meet- instructions from the, werth £188,000,000, exceeding im tu fall membership. The worthying of the Perambulator Board of act upon
These are ports by more than 833,000,000. | Senator would have made more Central Government"
Products showing an increase over friends in the East had he been less Trade-our official organisation-
that we ourselves should organise a movement to encourage a rapid of such obstacles as exist to hinder
frozen meat 83,000,000, and hides,
was right in believing that the reincrease in the population. We Decreases lations between European and full and frank co-operation with
manganese and fruit. were recorded in rice, sugar, rubber, Asiatic can do with a good deal shall, of course, seek the alliance. cotton and dried meats. foreigners. The Great Powers "all
of improvement, and the Shanghai to bring pressure to bear on can
of the Churches, und, probably seek experiment will be watched with didates for Parliament with a view move. And they are obstacles which
great interest. It is doubtless no privileges now enjoyed by their special pleaders, like Dr. We in hear that Mr. D. J. Evans, the membership will remain predomin- should be made larger with each more than a gesture, and the club banefit which, we shall suggest, se cbtaining an increased maternity nationals must, in the nature of New York, take very great pains manager and editor, and Mr. Rantly American, Chinese members child born to the family" Mr. things, disappear from China as to avoid mentioning. They prefer to Barratt, the news editor of the being restricted to persons of great Luckett added that if such Govern- they have vanished from Japan and sent a ne being the victim, Daily Press, are on the and the importance in trade or politics ment aid was forthcoming the per-
of ruthless Western domination, the former with sciatica other countries. The one pre-instead of the victim of the incom latter with influenza. Despite this whom it is advisable to know. liminary essential to the surrender Petence, dishonesty, and treachery serious depletion of the editorial
of her own leaders. Probably few staff, the of these trenty rights is a guarantee of those who listened to Dr. Wt's the fore with, plenty of bright and
'D.P." is still right to Employed Men on the Lord
Mayor's Fund. that the interests of foreigners inmoving address in New York were interesting news...
Mr. Duminico told a London re- China could and would be ade-acquainted with the, tragic-comic
port that he discovered in his own conditions actually prevailing in quately protected. Ia Dr. WANG China-where not only individuals There was a diversion, at Kow- constituency of Consett that a prepared to say that the Govern- but armies and navies are brazenly leon Magistracy yesterday when number of people were being re ment of which he is such a capable bought and sold to the highest Inspector Stimson charged the wife lieved from the Lord Mayor's Fund and respected member is in a posi-out, to make the best of his case, to Mongkok Police Station, with days a week. The explanation, he bidder. The Chinese Minister was of a Shantung constable, attached, who were working full time six tion to guarantee security of the but his presentation of the facts wasting water on police premises. aaps, is that the limit of income persons and property of foreigners would not be accepted so readily at A fine of 83 was imposed. In cases for those who are to benefit by the was held in attended reception throughout the country? In his Washington as they appear to have in which various defendants were Lord Mayor's Fund is that any taurant yesterday following the
charged with washing clothes with household relieved should have less Note, the Foreign Minister says, the As we write comes news that the in 100 yards of a street fountain, than is 6d a week per head of the wedding of Miss Lily Leung to Mr.
Carton Kwong. household. No relief can be given
The bride is the daughter of legitimate rights and interests of United States is expected to reply fines of 82 each were imposed.
where the income per head per Mr. and Mrs. Leung Yuen Wo. Her houschald is over that modest father, is well known as the Chair that, while ready to, discuss "the foreigners will not be unfavour to Dr. WANG's Note to the effect
The annual general meeting of the ably affected in the least by the issue raised, the Government must Canton Masonic Club was held in people in the Consett Division are Chinese
amount. Yet a large number of man of the Associated Union of Seamen. MT. Carton privileges they now possess.". We in 1926. It will be remembered that in the chair. The meeting confirm relieved from the fund. The money port and esport merchant.
four years earlier, at the Washing-ed the new bye-law drawn up by was given to the Lord Mayor's Priembers are advised that they must JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. do not doubt Dr. WANG really ton Conference, the Powers repent the Committee which will empower Fand, of course, with the intention charming compromise between Chi- The bride was dreesed in a abow Badges to obtain Admission
means what he says; we do not ed their willingness to surrender ladies to use the Club at all hours of assisting those who were unem nese and Western styles, wearing a to the Members Enclosure..
doubt that his colleagues in.. the extra-territorial rights as soon as except when a Masonic meeting is ployed. Mr. Duanico suggests that Each Member has the right to in
adequate guarantees, were forth:
"Shanghai dress" of richly brocad- i progress, and also voted certain this means that the relief is in facted white silk, with a long veil of trodace
2 Non-members to the Members'
Cabinet sincerely desire to carry coming that foreigners would and minor alterations and improvements becoming in these cases a subsidy silk tulle secured by a coronet of Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be
out to the full the Foreign Minis could be adequately protected. In to the building and interior decors to inadequate wages. Needless te orange blossom. obtained from MessTS, LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
She carried a ter's assurance-but what we do was appointed to make an inquiry
1928 an International Commission tions.
say he does not want the relief to bouquet of white flowers. '' at $5.00 Esch Per Day Up to FRIDAY,
doubt very seriously is their ability
be stopped. He wants to draw at 17TH MAY, 1999,
The usual congratulatory speeches” tention to the wages. The for Admision for Ladies
te do so.
were made and the bride and groom toasted with much acclamita tion.
Hong Kong, 6th May, 1939. [7747 JA: S. WATSON & CO., | recognise that the special rights and Chinese, and not foreigners, can re
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
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. By Order,
3
Secretary.
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 30th Apr., 1929. [7716
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
EXTRA BACE
TEFTING weld (Weather Permitting at HAPPY VALLZT on SATURDAY, 18TH MAY, and on MONDAY, 0TH MAY, 1929, Com.
at 9 P.X.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TARY GENERAL MEETING THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN. of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, THE 23RD MAY, 1929, NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a Statement of Accouds de Year ended the 31st DECEMBER 1928,
and
been in New York.
Readers will no doubt regret to
+
ambulator manufacturers might formulate a scheme to provide a free baby-car to every mother on the birth of her seventh or eighth child.
* LOCAL WEDDING.
LEUNG KWONG.
A very well
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Half From the 911 to the 23an MAY, 1929 relinquishment of the exceptional, stand by the conditions laid down the Club. Wor. Bro. Hofmeister was being quite rightly and regularly Kwong, the bridegroom, is an in-
their
Per Day.
The SHARE REGISTER TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED
Both Days inclusive.
General Agents. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1929, 7724
"PEAK MANSIONS."
➡ITUATED within Two Miantes to the Neuer Ecosse will be $2.00 Walk from the Tram Station and Each Member can obtain, apon Ap-overlooking the Southern Side of the plication to the SECRETARY, Badges Island. Ready for Occupation. for Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge. Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc.
will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of the Hong Koxe JOCKET Orun daring Race Meetings. *- NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN EITHER
ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.
[7780
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING CO., LIMITED.
PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND ON. SHARES OR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1929.
THE Board having declared An DIVIDEND of Two INTERIM Shillings Per Share, Free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 30th June, 1999. Holders of Bearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Warrants received from Loa doa an account of Registered Shares,
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to ascertain whether any immediate queer Advice. modification of the system was
possible. The result of that inquiry A very remarkable suggestion is The assimilation of Western legal showed that although great pro- put forward with all seriousness conceptions by Chinese jurists, and gress had been made in regard to in a letter appearing in our mora- the judicial system, the members of ing contemporary. The writer pro-
China
ia
Why Churches are Boring.
A dinner was given last night at Besuming his consideration of the Tung Yat. Restaurant, West
1
MASKED ROBBER STABS WOMAN.
REPORT FROM SHEUNG SHUI.
the incorporation of Western lega the Commission-in view of pre- poses that Hong Kong be made the, Mr. Arnold Bennett's survey of Point, by the bride's parents to principles in Chinese have proceeded very rapidly, says generally were unable to suggest to the exclusion of all other im-writes in the Evening Standard:- Dr. WANG, Courts and prisons any appreciable modification of the port trade. All British exports for If religion means, as I have said, extra-territorial system. This was the China market are to be shipped the communion of the soul of man along modern lines have been and three years ago. Have conditions to Britain's "Godown," and none but with God, or with the Spirit Christ, are being established throughout in China changed in any appre- British goods are to be admitted is it so certain that it is rarer the country. This is all to the ciable degree since 19281 Is there Chinese. merchants in Cantor and than it used to be? The question any more evidence of unification Shanghai will have all their pur-is impossible to answer confidently, good, showing that
to-day than there was three year chases of British goods consigned to I am inclined to think that our steadily following along the lines ago? Have recent events in Shan Hong Kong, where they will be generation is somewhat less re- defired.ligious than the last, but I am not stored until delivery is taken by Japan and other countries tang and Canton shown that pre- Hong Kong will thus become the si ali zure that I am right; and it A case of attempted robbery' and
vailing conditions in China are in which extra-territorial privileges auch that any foreign Power can gedown of China" the stronghold would be absurd to decide the ques wounding was reported from Shui were formerly recognised. But look to the Nanking Government from which British trade can once tion by appealing to the statistics Han village, Sheung Shui, yeater- something more than wise and up with complete confidence in its again become paramount in China" of church attendance. I think the day
Neither the Germana aor the aftermath of the War has left peo- It appears that a Chinese widow right judges, and more even than ability to loake its writ run in say Italians have any colonies any-ple careless and reckless; out I and her sister-in-law were asleep
and every part of the country? clean and comfortable prisone, is We have suficient, regard for Dr. where near China to serve as a base think this mood will pass away. when one of them was roused by: the noise made by an intruder in ateded before the Powers can feel WANG, to believe that, if directly for retaliatory measures, and the To be quite honest, I am not sur
challenged on the point, he would French possession is too far away prised that our young people are the cockleft.
When the alarm was raised the justified in meeting Dr. WANG's frankly confess that his "Govern- to affect the scheme. Possibly so, in bored with our church services wishes. That "something is tangiblement has not got that power and which case our Portuguese friends Why should we exhort the working robber made a hurried exit without HOUSE" No. 11 proof of the power, as well as the authority which is necessary to would be very quick to seize the man to think upon Rahab, and having gathered anything, and be Coupon No. 54 of the Bearey SharedDBAREROR BOAD, KOWLOOF: desire, of the Pration, at Government permit of the immediate abolition opportunity. With Hong Kong de Babylon," when he wants to think bore his departure he stabbed one. He knows finitely closed to all but British upon America and Germany? Why of the women in the wrist. He had Apply to
If I forget thes, his face masked... to give foreigners, the protection that the main obstacles to that trade, would Britain's competitors should he sing, SPANISH DOMINICAN
when it is London |-· they have a right to, expect in a full co-operation between Chinese for China business meekly quit the O Jersalem, civilised country. The Chinese and foreigners for which he hopes, field, or would they-like keer busi- that he wishes to remember? Half
are" those erected by his
ness-men-seek another base of of our services are as antiquiated. Minister to Washington, Dr. Wu, countrymen, but, of course, as their operations, and transfer their offices as battle-axes and crossbows. And has been speaking in New York on spokesman, he may not my so. The and their freight to Macao? More yet-if attempts are made to bring
(Wah Ti Tas Pao.) this subject, but his attitude is not change, which he wants to see will over, what of the British firms in the Frayer Book up to date, the a very helpful one, When a man come and must come, but the date Hong Kong holding very profitable tremendous conservation of the
SHANGHAI, May 13. goes to another country and does of its coming depends upon the en-British agencies? How would churchgoer comes into play; and if
The Ministry of Finance has sanc not like conditions there, he is not Chinese Government, more than any they regard a proposal to admit the laity in Parliament try to use obliged to stay," says Dr. Wu. other. Having given plain proof only British goods to Hong Kong their undoubted rights over a book tioned the request of General Ho China should not be compelled to of its ability to uphold its power Local merchants are urged to "seize which is really the schedule of an Chien to set aside a sum of $700,000 alter her basic institutions so that and prestige among its own people, with both hands the opportunity Act of Parliament, the bishops and from the salt revenue for the ex they will be entirely to the liking let it then demonstrate its ability which lies at their feet," but such a clergy are on their hind legs at penses of the attack on Kwangsi,
Mr. T. V. Soong the Minister of of guests who may choose to reside adequately to protect foreigners fatuous scheme is not worth the once, screaming about Erastianism within her boundaries," says the and their property. The rest will effort of stooping even to examine and the independence of the Finance, has wired to General Ho
more closely..
Church."
Chien to this effect. Chinese Minister to Washington. I be easy.
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at Shanghai or Tientsin-
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