INTIMATIONS.
RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD
MINING CO., LTD.
DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND.
THE
HE "Directors of the sbors Com-
will pany
recommend, at the Forthcoming ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Payment of A FINAL DIVIDEND of 1 Per Share and
A
BONUS of BD. Per Share on amount
for the Year ended MARCH 31st, 1929, Payable to Shareholders on
SINGAPORE REGISTER
AUGUST 10TH, 1929.
The
the
SINGAPORE SHARE
TRANSFER REGISTER
CLOSED From
JULY
be 27TH to AUGUST 10T inclusive. (6106
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
AL INTERIM DIVIDEND
43 Per Share, subject to Deduction of Income Tax, has been Declared for the HALF YEAR Ending 80TH JUNE, 1929, at Rate of 1/11 Per Dollar,
The DIVIDEND will be Payable on and after TUESDAY, 6TH AUGUST, 1929, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Wesrants.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of "the Corporation will be CLOSED From MONDAY 220 JULY, SATUR- DAY, 3RD AUGUST, 1929 (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong. 9th July, 1999. [8093
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
IN THE MATTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN P. SOMERVILLE, LATE 03 S.S. "CHUEN CHAU." VICTORIA. IN ΤΗΣ COLONY OF HONG KONG, CHIR ÜYFICZA, DECEASED,
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virice of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897 (No. 3 of 1897), made An Order Limiting the Time for sending in Claims to or against the above Estate to the 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, 1929,
Creditors and Cisimanta are hereby required to band their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Date.
Dated this 6th day of July, 1929.
C. D. MELBOURNE,
Official Administrator.
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Mzsana. LAMMERT BROTHERS HAVE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS.
TO SELL BI
PUBLIC AUCTION
TEX 23
IN ONE LOT
IQ
TUESDAY,
DAY 07 JULY, 1929, AT 3 O'CLOCK P.M.
AT TEZIE AUCTION ROOMS,
No 4, DUDBELL STREET,
VICTORIA, HONG KONG.
THE FOLLOWING
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
rising
PROPERTIES
The premises known as Nos. 22 and 24 LYNDHURST TERRACE two four storied Chinese samps and dwellings situate in the Centre of the City on the piece or parcel at ground registered in the Land Office as LAND LOT NO. 201 having an Ares of 1276 square feet or thereabouts. The premises are situate on the South vide of Lyndhurst Terrace, à portion
of the ground floor only of No. 22
yad
hurst Terrace consists of an entrance to
there
# a Private lane about 3 ft. 5* wide known TUN WOH LANE through which is a right of way. The Annal Crown Rent payable in respect of the premises is $10, and the premises aro hald for, the residue of a term of 899 years from the 22nd JantART, 1844.
Further information and Copies of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from
MESSES. HASTINGS, DENNÝ & BOWLEY,
Vendors' Bolicitors,
8, Der Voux Road Central
可
03
Maze. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
The AuctioneerR,
ON SALE.
ORANGE
SQUASH
WATSONICO HONGLONG
Made from
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 16,
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.45 pm, stated :—
Pressure continues highest in the vicinity of the Henins and relatively low in a trough extending from Tongking across Luzon to the Paci Ac. A typhoon is situated about 300 miles E.N.E. of Manila, moving
W.N.W.
Local Forecast:-S.E. or variable
1929.
sell Farm at prices comparable to A theft took place from the steam those of Japan. What is wanted] launch Tung Choi lying in the in the textile industry, as in many Yaumati typhoon shelter on Sunday others." is "rationalisation. British night. It was discovered by the renaufacturers and merchants are coxswain in the morning that 953 slowly realising how much money in bank notes which he left in the and effort is wasted by following cabin was missing, together with old but irrational methods of pro- an electric torch.
Young duction and distribution. blood and new ideas are needed in management. A few weeks ago, at
At the Crown Land Office yester- day afternoon, New Kowloon In the annual meeting of one of the land Lot No. 1954 situated at winds, moderate, cloudy with show. best-known cotton manufacturers in Cheung Sha Wan Road was sold ers, improving later.
Manchester (Mesars, ARMITAOC) to Mr. Ewong Weng of 1, Wong loss on the year's working of nearly Chuk Street for $5,916. The upset £20,000 was reported. Reserves have) price" was 84,716. The land has an dwindled from £150,000 to £50,000, area of about 3,144 sq. feet and the
From Manila.
|
Burnley engineers have sent à request to Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Foreign Secretary, to take im mediate steps for the resumption of trading relations with Russia, and a request to Mr. Showden to re- place the present motor taxes by a tax on petrol.
Dust From Varyius,
According to reports in the Frankfurt newspapers recently, the sky in the highest régions of the atmosphere in Southern Germany was observed to be covered during the last three days by a whitish veil“ which, it is contended, could not be due to clouds The Director of the For exhibiting a poster contain: Heidelberg Observatory OT. the ing the word "damn," a man in Königsstuhl, Herr Wolf, presumes curred the maximum penalty at that this phenomenon is caused by Govan (Glasgow) Police Court very fine dust from the recent erup- when he was fined £1, or 10 days' tions of Vesuvius, which has pene- imprisonment in default of pay-trated the highest regions" of the ment. It was intimated that there atmosphere, and was being diapers- would be an appeal.
ed by winds. It was expected that and the shareholders urged the annual rental is 800
this phenomenon will be followed
management to get some young
The Committee for Propriety in shortly by a glowing of the sky, blood into the company if they The Chinese chauffeur of No. so, Women's Dress, sitting recently in such as has been noticed in connec- hoped to get the concern on its feet La Tung Street who was summoned Milan, has issued the following tion with former volcanic erup, again. One gentleman present re-by his wife for maintenance was rules: -(1) Drosses must be neither tions, more especially after the called the fact that there was a yesterday ordered to pay her 84-a close-fitting nor transparent, and Erakatos disaster in 1853, when a time when the firm was one of the week and to allow her to live with must not be low cat, and the sleeves faint reddish glowing was seen in Rowers of Lancashire industry, his mother. The order was to take must cover the elbows; (2) girls' all parts of the globe for several They were then in a position to effect from to-day and Mr. E. Wakirts must come below the knee weeks. sit in the office and orders came Hamilton, who heard the evidence. (3) for women and young ladies the IPES through the letter-box, but those told the defendant that he would skirt must cover the call; (4) trans
Bays had gone. They have indeed, get into trouble if the order' was and will never return.
disobeyed.
Manila, July 15, 11.30 Typhoon in about 127deg. Long E. had 17deg. Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
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The Baily Press.
Hesa Kosa, JULY 16, 1829.
MORE TROUBLE COMING
IN LANCASHIRE.
The operatives' lenders have all along expressed uncompromising The Federal Government are offer- hostility to the proposed wages reing a price of £5,000 for the best duction. Mr. F. W. BIRCHENOUGH, film produced in Australia between president of the Operative Spin-January, 1929, and March, 1930 ners' Amalgamation, said recently: They are also giving a second prize REUTER reports that the ballot "I think the employers are very of £8,500 and a third prize of the Lancashire spinning anwise at the moment to publish £1,500. Two prizes of £500 each are among
proposal asogered for the two best scenarios operatives in connection with the)
this I think it will affect trade written in Australia.
CALIFORNIAN ORANGES Proposed reduction of wages so far
This Squash is made from Ripe Fruit; Pure Cane Sugar and Aerated Water only is added, resulting in a Perfect Beverage. .
broadcast such
A
ite detriment. It materially to ooks to me that business will be held up in the expectation of lower
prices. I do not think there will be any change in the attitude of the operatives from the last occasion. I
Dogs and Chinese,'? -
A. S. WATSON & Co., necesary, according to the by-laws, them materially. In my view they art's recollection of what he anw
LIMITED,
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.
TEL. C. 436.
is difficult to
conflict with a statement issued a
parent and flesh-coloured stockings Dust be abolished. Who wants to live in Italy?
National Mark Shops,
National Mark shops, where the housewife will be able to buy guar anteed British produce with the minimum of trouble, are the latest development planted in connection Five soldiers of the Middlesex with the National Mark movement. Regiment stationed at Catterick These shops would be run by private enterprise, the State baving bo Camp appeared before the Rich-eial interest in them. There are mond magistrates recently charged now 150 packers of graded eggs, and with warehouse breaking. Benson more are waiting to come in, accord- ing to the Ministry of Agriculture. and John Smith, who were given One large buyer has increased his good characters, were discharged: sales by 85 per cent, since dealing AHred Smith and Hockley were dealer, who has dealt hitherto only with National Mark eggs. Another sent to prison for two months with with foreign eggs, is looking now hard labour; and Swan, who said for an opportunity to make con- that he wanted to get a bad name
tracts for 200,000 English eggs a week all the year round. It is hint- in the regiment and a discharge; ed that before long a scheme may was sent to prison for three months' be in working order fur standardia- ing the sale of table poultry also. The National Mark fruit scheme. has also prospered and has had the At a conference of the Ministers desired effect af enscuraging quality of Agriculture of the States of the reduction. Preparations are ready Australian Commonwealth at Melo supply 500,000 of the specint passed recommending that legisla is packed, whereas last year's Egure bourne recently a resolution was boxes in which National Mark fruit'
tion be introduced ordering the was in the neighbourhood of 300,000. Alsatian dogs-German sheep dogs berries, plums, and gooseberries destruction or sterilisation of all It is more than likely that straw-
This resolution follows a recent de will be brought under a similar "cision of the Federal Government scheine at a later date. The pos- prohibiting the importation of Al-sibilities of the National Mark for satian dogs for a period of five an all-English loaf and English years owing to their alleged pro our are being considered. The pensity for worying sheep and the Ministry will introduce National danger of their interbreeding with Mark British meat in at least one
TEL. C. 486, the event of the operatives refusing has cost the operatives of Lance authoritatively declared in Shang-dingoes, the wild dog of Australia. large ment market next autumn.
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ITUATED within Two Miantes Walk from the Tram Station and Tatlocking the Southern Side Island. Ready for Occupation.
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to agree to the reduction. Last year neither the spinners nor the manu- Facturers could get the backing of
their members for a lock-out on
shows an overwhelming majority in favour of resistance. Everything points to a fight between the Master
We have received a letter from a Spinners Federation and the opera-
Chinese gentleman who takes ex- ception to the designation" notori-bard labour. tives on the proposed cut of 12 per cent. in current wages. The
cus lie applied to the story re fact that the General Committee expect uncompromising opposition.lating to an offensive notice said of the Federation was unanimous One would have thought the employ to have been exhibited at the en- in suggcating that the earliesters would have realised that the
trance to the Bund gardens in possible steps" should be taken to operatives bare suffered severely Shanghai. Our correspondent says encugh without trying to crush them the exact wording-as seen by hith secure this reduction makes 1.
down further. I do not see how struggle almost certain. It will be
in 1916-was "Chinese and dogs, to the Federa- what they are demanding can help are not admitted:" Our inform-
to obtain a ballot vote of 80 per could get greater relief in other thirteen years ago is in direct cent. of the members in favour be directions. It fore any lock-out can take place in estimate what short-time, working few months ago, when it was
shire, but, speaking roughly, has that no such notice had been should say that during the last six ever displayed by the municipal or seven years their earnings have authorities. People abroad, who been reduced by between 30 and 35 hail cited this alleged example of longer hours and lower wages, and per cent. That, in the aggregate, racial discrimination in their now that the spinners are alone it amounts to a good many million speeches and writings accepted the remains to be seen whether they pounds sterling!" Mr. MACDONALD, denial, and regretted quoting an will be more successful. A lock-out in a recent broadcast speech put the imaginary incident. We feel that in the spinning section would soon maintenance of peace in industry our correspondent's memory must mean the closing of the mills in the high among the aims of the Gov-be at fault in this matter. Accord manufacturing section, and for that erpment, and explained that in.
ing to this official refutation, the story was a he; that it subsequently reason there are many who believe the carrying-out of its schemes of that the manufacturers will fall national development the Govern became notorious nobody will deny. into line with the spinners and make ment will call in the help of repre- the wages reduction applicable all sentatives of employers and employ. round. The question, however, has ed. Mr. THOMAS, on whom will fall 1,000 Miles an Hour.
Non-stop flying for months at a not yet been before the manufactur-the responsibility for dealing with ere, but it is expected that it will employment policy, is one of the time, at a speed of a thousand or be raised at the next meeting.
most active members of the Mond more miles an hour, is envisioned Statements made by cotton trade Conference," and the proposals put by an imaginative scientist in 'operatives' officials have indicated forward in its recent report will be Leningrad, says the United Press. that the employers were likely to among those to which the Govern- Professor Rynin, working in the meet with opposition no less stukment will give its first attention. Institute of Communications, claims born than they met last year, and industrial questions may prove the that he has developed a method that, if they persist in the demand hard nat which the Labour Govern- whereby fuel for an airplane can for a reduction, a general stoppage meat has to crack, and its fate wille extracted from the air, so that of work will be difficult to avoid. depend not a little on the success there is no need to descend for fuel,ployer in filling vacancies when the The employers have done nothing with which it handles the trade The catch in the theory is that this to try and reduce either total costs unions. It is not only in the textile self-fueling is possible only where or labour costs since their last at industry that trouble is developing, the air is extremely rarified, 15 or tempt to reduce wages, and they Skilled guidance will be needed if 20 miles above the earth. This are not even able to say that the the miners' demand for shorter factor would involve the necessity operatives have lost no wages in the hours and the general progressive of some device for "shooting" they have no likelihood that a need! interval through short-time work- demand for more rapid reorganisa-plane that high, and some arrange ing. The only change in the case tion of the coal industry are to be ments to enable the avintors to live which they can, make out for lower met without industrial conflict. and breathe comfortably.
These wages is that unprofitable trading The Miners Federation, as Tory minor difficulties, being overcome, conditions have now continued for Ministers have found, must be per the professor then sees two interest-
Judicial Ban on Marriage.
A parachute jump from his blas ing 'plane while at a height of 2,000 Force pilot. Flying Officer E. D. ed by a ban on marriage is causing A judgment just delivered in a feet saved the life of a Royal Air Berlin Court which was accompani Turner, of the 17th B.A.F. much discussion in the Berlin
quadron stationed at Upavon, was Press and legal circles.
The case nearing Hawkinge aerodrome after was that of a girl, 22 years old, having flown from Lincolnshire who, dressed in male clothing, ac- when the machine caught fire. The costed her former employer, threw 'plane quickly became a ball of fire pepper in her face, and made off chute, climbed over the side of the Prosecutor demanded 18 months and the pilot, adjusting his para with her hand-bag. The Public plane and jumped into space. A imprisonment. The defence asked few seconds later the blazing ma- chine nose-dived and crashed into a
for probation. The Judge agreed field. Flying Officer Turner made separated from a man of her own to probation, provided the girl a good descent, but hit the ground age to whom she was engaged and rather heavily when landing and who he, considered too young to broke his arm. He walked unassist- look after her properly. The girl ed to the aerodrome, where he was medically attended, and was after sentence of a year's imprisonment, agreed, and the Judge delivered wards taken to Shorncliffe Military to be suspended during a proba Hospital,
tionary period of three years and to lapse at the end of that period Joba on Trial.
if she had been of good behaviour. The National Union of Students! The conditions of the probation has lately been asking employers if were that she should undertake not they could arrange to give employ to marry during the three peare ment on trial" to undergraduates and to remain in domestic service during the long vacation. This in an institute under official sur- would give the students an insight veillance. German Judges have the of their future accupation and might power to make probation dependent assist both themselves and the em- upon entry into homes and insti- tutes, but the ban on marriage is university training was complete. something, new, and jurists are dis- Manchester seems obviously a place cussing whether it is legally sound. in which this request might suitably The same judge recently granted be made. But there are difficulties probation to a young man accused of disfiguring a girl with vitriol on It would be one of them that cr players are not easily able to find condition that he married his temporary employment, and certain victim. would coexist with the long vaca tion. Nor is it clear that the Looking Back 25 Years... students would be useful or would find useful such a hurried acquaint-
another year, and, as wage carners suaded, not driven, and an emphatic ing possibilities:-First: the "air fortunate disturbances, especially if therein an instance of cause and.
News and Views.
have suffered at least as much as pledge has been given to it. shareholders from this cause, their case has hardly been strengthened by this circumstance. It has been stated, during the last few months, that even a soundly 6nanced and well-managed spinning mill cannot
sell at a profit under existing con- ported) was ditions, but this is not necessarily notifiable disease on an argument for lower wagen. The return for the week end. fact that a sound mill cannot
Mr. A Rumjahn believes that ance with business. It is thought plague is not so prevalent when to be not unlikely that a sudden flush and cleanse the drains, and, there has been plenty of water to increase of staff would create un-
like our Canton correspondent, secs. resistance being negligible, enor- the arrival of the learners were to effect. The President of the Hong meas speed could be developed, per. cause, discrepancies in pay either haps several thousand miles annical knowledge would be necessary otherwise. At any rate, when Mr. one way or the other. Some tech Kong Sanitary Board (Dr. J. M. Atkinson), we deduce, beltever hour. At this rate a plane to make the students useful, and it Ramjahn called his attention to a could
round
and round is noticeable that where such tech statement in the Hong Kong Daily aical knowledge is most strongly | Press to the effect that the total dis the world many timea in
marked, and where, therefore, stu
go
make a profit may result, not from The new Mayor of Peping, Chang its own high costs of production in Wu, has decided to spend a but from the necessity which it is large part of the city's revenues on under of selling its output in the repair of roads in the city. market where the price is made by Even if Feping is no longer the the weakest producer, and it has capital, he declares, the city bouses yet to be proved that, with existing a million people, and good roade wages and hours, but with sound are necessary to their comfort. He finances and management, and im
ence and sagement, and the appropriated a comicradle derde de cadien cool them awkward enter that he had been linke proved buying and selling arrange sum for an immediate start on the which would mean flying without monts, Lancashire cannot profitably work.
stop at long as desired.
One Chintre case of enteric (im-month (although it is not quite dents are most capable of profiting Pearce of pingue at Canton was attributed to the recent heavy the only case of clear what good that would be to by actual experience of a trade, rains, he (Dr. Atkinson) said he the M.O.H. him). Second: at extremely high exists. The engineering schools up had been shown between drains and
there the arrangement already
was unaware that any connection altitudes the hydrogen and oxygen and down the country have for long plague.-Hong Kong Daily Press, in the thin air is available in pro- practised alternate studies within portions that will enable the mak- The proposal is not at all parallel Looking Back 50 Years.
the department and in a workshop. July 10, 1904. ing of oxy-hydrogen gas, which in with the customs of students in Yesterday a matricide was behend turn could be used as a substitute Canada, America, and Scotland, ed on the Canton execution ground.
who earn their keep and part of It appears for gasoleae. A compressor would their fees during the vacation. They killed his mother while she was, in- that he accidentally be needed to reduce the gas to the take up any work they can do which tervening between him and his required density, after which the will support them, irrespective of wife, whom he was beating. The gas would run the engine, the enthat the experience of the world to suffer the lingering death c.. their destination. It may be thought Government said the prisoner ought gine in turn run the compressor they thus gain is at least of as much the slicing process, but considering
into a cotton warehouse. But the mitigated the sentence, which was proposal is interesting, and will accordingly carried out-Hong laoubtless be discussed with care. Kong Daily Press, July 16, 1878..