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INTIMATIONS.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
T IS HERERY NOTIFIED that An INTERIM DIVIDEND of Per Share subject to Deduction of Income Tax, has been Declared for the HALF YEAR
Per Dollar 1529, at Fate of 11g 30TH JUNE,
The DIVIDEND will be Payable on and after TUESDAY, 6TH AUGUST, 1929, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to
for Warrenta
REGISTER OF SHARES of The the Corporation will be CLOSED Fro MONDAY, END JULY, TA SATUR. DAY, 30 AUGUST, 1929 (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,"
A. O, HYNES,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th July, 1900 (8093
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NOTICE.
TE the Attention of the
THE SANITARY BOARD wishe Public, and Especially of Those who bave recently come to this Colony, to th possibility of acquiring Diseases, og. Dysentery and Typhoid fever by esting of Uncooked Vegetables.
Chinese Market-gardeners use Manure from Human Bources and their custom is to' the
pour
manure or spray it from watering-pots, in liquid form, over the Growing Plants
Disease-producing Parasites are, there- fore, possibly present on the Surface
af Plants, e.g., Lettucer, over which the Gardeners spray falls.
July, 1999.
J. WATSON,
Secretary, SANITARY BOARD.
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PART Public Auston to ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS be held on MONDAY, the 10TH DAY of JULY, 1929, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Departments by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND & Sham shuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 76 years, commencing from fat July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Burveyor of HIS MAJESTY TEY Kro, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 13,
WEATHER REPORT.
(Saturday).
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Captain K. B. T. Miles has been appointed to succeed Captain H. R. Sawbridge, O.B.E., in command of H.M.S. Comus, Captain Miles was promoted at the end of 1927, when in command of the sloop Hollyhock
Within
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Rain Making in England.
1929.
colours of the nations will futter The Tung Wah Hospital is help Fears are evidently entertained forth, as each contingent carries outing a number of refugee Kwangs that Italian measures for the pre- Frayers for rain are now being Yesterday's weather report, fore-its camp routine, its cooking, its soldiers, who flocked into this servation of "morality and public offered in North Country churches, cast and remarks, issued by the gatues, its dancing and singing in Colony alter their defeat, to return decency at bathing resorts have been but there are still no attempts to distorted abroad, and may keep assist Providence on the part of Royal Observatory at 8.20 p.m..its own national way. An open-air to their native villages.
away intending visitors. Accord professional rain-makers such as A weak anticyclone is central theatre and cinema, with perform-} hetween 8. Japan and the Boninsances throughout the day, and a
ing to an agency report, which practise not only in Central Africa" Depressions are situated to the north of Hokkaido over the Gulf vast arena, complete with covered
shows signs of official inspiration, but in the Western States, of of Pechili and over Tongking. stand, with a daily performance on
it is pointed out that while sup America. Only a few years ago a Local Forecast: S, W, or variable week-days at 2.30 p.m., and the
pressing conduct and costumes that Californina "expert" was appoint. winds, moderate, cloudy.
week-night cump fre sing-songs
offend decency at places outside ed official rainmaker, with a salary- from 9 till 10 p.m., will provide for
actual bathing establishments such of ten thousand dollars a year, the more et pertion the amuse in China, and new takes up hiss the promenades and dancing payment, however, being contingent DEATH.
floors, the Government has no in upon his producing certain It is, however,¦ ärst command as captain. Ware-On July 12, at the Frenchment programme.
tention of imposing unduly severe measurement of rain. "As, At the Hospital, following an opera- the freedom of access around the tion for appendicitia L M various national camps that is ex
year there will be regulations on persons taking sun end of two months, the heavens re- WHYTE of Messrs. Donnelly&pected to appeal to the thousands standing among the peaks of War sen baths on the seashore itself. mained unresponsive to his efforts Whyte. Funeral will pass the
chiefly bombardment with high Monument at
street the tallest and largest By- p.m. to-day of the public who are expected.
Before leaving Dalmatia, Mr.explosives, he WAS compulsorily Within the first four days the scraper in the world. This strue- camp will have welcomed the Dexe ture, to be known as the Bank of George Bernard Shaw wrote the retired. But in spite of this and Cr CONNAUGHT, who will formally Manhattan Building, is to be soft following letter, which is published numerous other failures profee- declare the Jamboree open; the high-30ft. higher than the Chry in facsimile by the Forest of sional rain-makers still contrive to PRINCE OF WALES, representing the ser Building, now being orested in Zagreb: Englishaven, Irishmen, gain confidence, and a fair, income, King, will arrive to spend twenty-end-street, and 4ft. higher than Scots, Americans, holiday-makers of in, some of the fruit-growing dia
all civilised nations,-Come in your tricts of Califomia. four hours in camp; and Prince the Woolworth Building. It will Grohor, as Commodore of the Sea occupy all the black bounded by millions to Jugo-Slavia. You'll be Scouts, will watch a display at Wall-street, William-street, Pine treated like kings. The Govern Probst, Hanbury on Chins Trade.
The report of Probst, Hanbury West Kirby open-air marine lake, street, and Nassau-street, except ment will pay half your hotel and Among the troops at the Jamboree the sites of the Sub-Treasury, the motoring bills and provide you with& Co., of London, fer 1928, just TES. will be the blind, deaf, dumb, and Assay Office, and the Bank of a perfect climate and finest scenery issued, shows an increase in the net crippled members of the organist America buildings. It is to be of a of every kind for nothing. The prot from £10,810 to £17,008. tion, striking testimony to the modernized French Gothic design, people' ate everything you imagine The preference" dividend, requiring brotherhood spirit which inspires and the 3 storeys which make up yourselves to be and are not. They £8,000, has been paid out of this the movement, and excludes none-the main body of the building will are hospitable, good-humoured, and not even the afflicted-if they are in be surmounted by a number of very good-looking. Every town is a any way capable of observing the additional storeys and an observa- picture, every girl a movie star. Scout Law. The boys from abroad tion tower. At the pinnacle of the Come quickly before they End us will be able to visit not only all the tower will be a silvered cut-glass out. It is too good to last." chief industries of Great Britain finial to reflect the sun in prismatic
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"BROTHERLAND.”
TWENTY-ONE years ago twenty-one Boys gathered on Brownsea Island, in
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sum, and the directors recommend that 47,250 of the balance should be used in writing down the holding of ordinary shares in a Lancashire cctton mill which has declared no dividends since March, 1938. This the little harbour of Poole. This was coul, steel, cotton, etc.,-but, also colours. The upper portion of the
After having undergone 44 opera will leave £1,738, and it is proposed the first "Beout" camp, and their some of the most picturesque cour-building will be flood-lighted at tions in England, as a result of to transfer that sum to the general leader was then-as now-Sir ROBERT try in the Lakes, the Peak Dis night to serve as a beacon for which he has been given a new reserve, making it £8,547. A wider BADEN-POWELL. It was the small,trict, and North Wales. "Today aeroplanes and ships at sea.
lower jaw, Major" James Gillies, interest which the report will at almost miscroscopic, beginning of a we are practically a C3 nation," Sir
who came over with the first Cana tract attaches to the directors' com- movement which has taken the real ROBERT BADEN-POWELL said "recent
dia Expeditionary Force, lefments on the cotton cloth trade in spirit of brotherhood around the ly, but this could be altered if Mr. Justice Hill, sitting with Tri- Southampton recently for Canada China, which the company are in- world. In a fortnight's time Arrowe we tried. The Scout movement nity Masters in the Admiralty Divi- in the Calgaric. He is the last terested in as merchants. Trading say, have been Park; near Birkenhead, will be the exists to help in this attempt by sion on June 12, gave judgment in member of the Canadian forces to conditions, they scene of a World Jamboree. Here making the boys responsible for the action brought by the owners of proceed home, and is looking for-assisted by the steady improvement some 50,000 Boy Scouts from 25 their own health and by encourag: the Japanese steamship Kitano-ward to the reunion with members in political conditions in China. parts of the "British Empire and 41 ing such activities as tracking, maru against the Orient Steam of his family after an absence of There are still a good many dif- other nations will transform the camping, and nature study. Allow Navigation Co., Ltd., owners of the 15 years. Majos Gillies came over ficulties to be faced there, but the meadows and gardens of Arrowe ing for the inevitable minor difler liner Otranto, claiming for damage in 1914 and proceeded to France in directors regard the prospects in into "Brotherland," in a fortnight's ences the Girl Guide movement caused to their vessel in a collision 1915, where he was wounded severn? 19 with quiet confidence. They celebration of the coming-of-age works on much the same lines." between the two tessels,off the mouth times. He was engaged at Cambrairely in a large measure upon the of the Boy Scouts movement. They
Some people are puzzled as to the of the Humber on August 11, 1928. a month before the Armistice and continuance of those friendly rela will go to Arrowe as brothers, no
renson for the existence of Rovers. The Otranto at the time of the col was badly wounded, the whole of tions which existed in 1998 between matter what their language or their I was, the Chief Scout explained, lision was on a voyage to Copen-his lower jaw below the lip being the British and the Chinese, and colour, bound by the one universal movement which had grown up bagen in the course of a pleasure blown away. Major Gillies said particularly the merchant class, Scout Promise of loyalty to God spontaneously and automatically trip to various northern capitals, that he could not speak too highly where trade considerations are con- and their country's ruler; of help without any rules or organisation. and had not long left the Imming of the treatment he had received fulness to other people, and of Now they had reached a stage when ham docks, having on board 565 in England. He wished to allegiance to the tenfold Scout Law.organisation could be developed. passengers. Both vessels sustained press his thanks to the staffs at the Some 400 Indian Seout visitors are That it met a real need was proved serious damage and the Otranto had hospitals at Rochampton, Sidcup, on their way: 1,500 Scouts are ex-by the fact that Sir ROBERT had to abandon her trip.. Mr. Justice and Brighton, and especially to his pected from the United States of over 1,000 letters from young men Hill found both ships to blame in namesake, Major H. D. Gillies, who America, and 173 from Canada, asking for advice as a result of his equal degree, and entered judgment performed so many facial opera while 1,500 Danes are preparing for book "Rovering to Success." They accordingly. He characterised the tions at Sidcup during and after their voyage on a specially charter needed help on those four big sub etory of the Japanese witnesses as the War; to Major Arthur, of ed liner. From countries nearer to jects, huries, wine, women, and to their earlier action before the Canada House, who did everything England will come 1,000 Scouts humbug," which every man
was collision as a concoction. He ue possible for his comfort; and to from France and 1,000 from bound to come across and on which cepted the evidence of the witnesses Captain Murdoch, of the Brighton Belgium, with parties of German no one would advise him. A side of the Otranto, who, he thought, Convalescent Hospital. and Russian Scouts, while from the line in which they were very much were telling an honest story against Far East there will be 31 Japanese interested was the services for themselves of what took place. The The Tyranny of the dollar.
men's dress reform and 80 Chinese From Australia mental, physical, and mooral de master of the Otranto, recognising come 200 and from the Union of ficients. In Ceylon the better the position as very dangerous, party, which has issued its appeal reduction
signed by the Dean of St. Paul's South Africa 400. The Scouts of behaved of the young prisoners are owing to the action of the Japanese and other distinguished peopie, has Tristan de Cunha cabled that they allowed to entel as Scouts, and are vessel, decided to take action in started a bold crusade against col Looking Back. 25 Years. would have attended it only an air-
which he was quite right, but then lars and long trousers. One of its
The following cards were return- leading spirits is a doctor who lives
The new
cerned. Japanese incursion into the ex-trade field was felt less severely in 1928 than before, owing to a rigid boycott of Japanese goods by the Chinese, but Japanese competition still exists and makes for smaller
Silver showed little
margins. change, the average price being 203. There has since been a sharp setback, with the Shanghai tael rate on London quoted down to 23.
the elves, wild, what the quieting. The reports adds company has made no provision for. stock depreciation, as its commit- ments on December 31 averaged lesz than market rates and the carry-over afforded room for satisfaction, des. pite the substantially larger figures. Trade expenses showed a welcome
ship could have been sent to fetch even allowed out on parole to make unfortunately he took the wrong up to his principles so far as toed at the monthly meeting held at them: Scouts from Iceland and learn to draw maps of their route. artion and starboarded, instead of eyele to his consulting-rooms in an Happy Valley from July to 11:-
a 24-hour solitary "hike" and to
from Persia will represent countries ¦
percolated.
which he should have followed" the Surprisingly enough, the best map where Scouting bas more recently drawn was the work of a boy who golden rule" and have taken engine action by reversing to stop his ship.
Musical England."
ment in international friendship..
News and Views.
ad.
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Mr. H. C. Reynolds Mr. E. J. Grist Mr. J. Rodgers Mr. C. M. G. Burnie Mr. C. W. May Mr. T. S. Forres Mr. Douglas..... Mr. K. T. Sayle
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open shirt and shorts, but who compromises with conventionality by changing fate the irrational ene tume when he is seeing his pati was in prison for murder! The
ents. Most of the crusaders "who Originally plans were made for a Ceylon contingent, by the way, are
have given their views to-day are camp at Arrowę, Park alone, to being provided with two elephants
united about the tyranny of the Sir Landon Ronald, de composer collar if they are a little vague on hold 15,000 foreign and overses for their part in the great pageant, and conductor, giving last the other items in the policy. "The but so great has been the demand will have horses, dogs, and sheep tries Convention at Folkestone re rather remote. At any rate, Mrs. Scouts "and 15,000 British Scouts, while various other oversea troops lecture at the British Music Indus. I prospect of Dean Inge's appearing in the pulpit.in shorts seems to be that two auxiliary camps at Upton with them. Altogether it seems
Mr. H. C. Sandford. 03-18-75 and Overchurch have been arranged that this year's international Jam- told us that we were not a musical he will do nothing of the said, cently, said there were those who rge has stated that she hopes
Mr. E. J. Grist..... 601-79 Mr. T. S. Forrest...... 77+ 3=80 to hold an additional 20,000. The borce (the third) must be a huge
Bishops and deans," she said, nation, but he could not see how are the only men who still keep
Mr. J. Rodgers 89-9-81 main camp at Arrowe will be divid-success if only the Clerk of the
Mr. C. M. G. Burnie ... 83-0=83 Mr. C. W. May 863-83 ed into eight sub-camps, the whole Weather is kind. Rain will not anyone, knowing cur history and to the beautiful "od seventeenth- According to an- century dress." our musical activity of the prescot other spokesman of the party, the
Mr. John Johnstone ... 68- 5=83 General GODFREY acknowledging
worry the Scouts, but it may
Mr. T. C. Gray ... 97-14-83 FAUSSETT as their Camp Chief. In damper the enthusiasm
of the day, could dismiss us as not being chief attack will be concentrated
30 entries. cach of these sub-camps, holding general public who are expected to
a musical nation. "If Germany upon waistcoats-jumpers are
It was very really hard lines for vocated and superfluous buttons.r. E. J. Grist. He was second in three or four thousand, there will patronise this remarkable experi possesses a wonderful musician. in It is easy to be frivolous about this both events, failing to carry off one, he foreign, oversea, and British
Richard Strauss, we possess a won movement, and it has been wel the Captain's Cup, by one" pip."-- derful musician in Edward Elgar comed with a burst of facetious-flung Kong Daily Press, July 13, Scouts, intermingling in the every- day duties and joys of camp life. It
and many composers whose music,ness, but it is, of course, both sea- sible and long overdue. There will is this intermingling-this forging
it does not show the genius of he general support for Mr. Guy Looking Back 50 Years.
master 0. of "Brotherland "that is to be
Elgar, has very distinctive merits. Kendall, the head
On the morning of the 11th University College School, when instant the Kailung passage bont gives first place among the objects
In fact, we are go far abreast of One Chinese case of enteric was the modernist movement in music boys should not have the
asks why English school from Aplichow (Aberdeen) while on of the Jamboree. To this end the
same her way to Hong Kong was capsized public, who will be welcomed daily reported on Thursday.
that nearly everyone of our writers freedom as boys in Germany and during the squall off Pokfulam, and France in the matter of open necke her crew, consisting of seventeen from July 31 until August 12 will It has been approved for H.M.S. can write discords as hideous as and free knees. He also wants to men, had to hold on to the bottom not be admitted before noon, so Medway the new submarine depot those of any Continental freak com know, and many others want to of the fank, and after being about that during the mornings the Scouts ship completing at Barrow, to poser. (Laughter.) In short, there know also, why men should be con- two hours in this trying position tent with drab and colourless clath- were relieved by the steam” launch. of the nations will be able to con-commission with an entirely new is evidence among us of vigorous ing--in fact, why both in the matter Early Bird, which was engaged by centrate on "looking wide "seeing crew when ready. The original activity in composition." Referring of colour and in that of light and Inspector Grimes of Aberdeen, who, the other fellow's point of view and intention that the Crew of to jazz, Sir Landon said theirs was bygienic dress women should bave on noticing the critical position forn many-sided art, and quite a aum- all the fun. The party has taken of the "junk, started at once to forming friendships with their H.M.S. Titania, depot-ship fellows of other nations. From early submarines on the China Sintion, ber of people were content to listen on a stiff job in opposing the ob the rescue, accompanied by P. c.
over should turn to the Med-Lo inferior music or to music ae an stinate conventionality of mankind. Barms and four Lukongs. morning "rouse" until the last of way has been abandoned. The accompaniment to their singing or but they have all the health experts great ink they succeeded in res- on their side when they talk of men cuing all the seventeen mon after. the eight gigantic campfire sing Medway was expected to be ready dancing. "But, even in countries num for delivery in Hong songs-clock, the cany whobout the and of June-definitely regarded as musical there being overdressed in the literal two hours struggling against the
Captain Colin Cantle,
the dismal cargo is cstimated at 81,000,-Hong Kong $13, including Postage to of action and kaleidoscopic colour in command. The Medway, when proves nothing, and I look upon it draw attention to
simply as a passing craze.”
rigidity of the normal male attire. - Kong Daily Press, July 14, 1904/ _any_part_of_the_world-315. _|_ing. From hundreds of masts the ready, is to go the China Station.
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