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NEW ROUTE No. 5: STAR FERRY—AUSTIN AVENUE.
COMMENCING FRIDAY, JANU-
A NEW SERVICE Between STAR will be Operated FERRY and AUSTIN ROAD via:- SALJURY ROAD, CHATHAM ROAD, MODT ROAD, HANOI ROAD, CARXARTON ROAD, KIBIRLET ROAD St Avarin Road, Retorn eia Avery AVENUE and thence as above.
First Bus 7.00 a.m. Last Bus 11.1◊ p., Serrics (antil 9.25 r.) Every 10 Minutes Except Between the Hours of
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Charges due.
Bill of Lading
Antwerp
Descrip. Ez tion of Steamer Cargo
Corrective
Foot
Appliances and
Preparations
of
Dr. SCHOLL
Toe Flex
Zino-Pads Foot Eazers Bunion Spring Bunion Reducer No-Grip Heel Liner
Toe Right
Walk Strate Heel Pads
stated:-
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarki, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.33 p.m., A'strong 'anticyclone is centrol to the north of the Yangtze Valley Strong monsoon along S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
Local Forecast:-N. winds, fresh, cloudy.
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and industry assembled to review It is motifed in the Government The Lord Mayor of Leeds (Mr. the situation-it is a disappointing ] Gazette that, at the expiration of Morrison) recently unveiled sequel. Everybody knows that the three months The Gracco Egyptian bronze memorial tablet on a shop- payment of a few shillings a week Tobacco Store, Limited will, unless front at the south-east corner of to any unfortunate man and woman
cause is shewn to the contrary, be Leeds Bridge, recording the fact unable to find work is no solution struck off the register and the com- that in 1847 at a meeting in these of the unemployment problem. Re-pany will be dissolved.
premises the Band of Hope move-- organisation of factory and sales
ment was founded. Its title was methods will not solve it; indeed,
A confrmation service was held suggested by the Rev. Jabes Tunni- the trouble may be still further yesterday evening at St. John's cliffs, a prominent Leeds temper. aggravated as a result of labour Cathedral when twenty candidates ance worker. The Band of Hope- being displaced in order to effect were confirmed by Bishop C. movement is now world-wide, with economies. The previous Govern- Duppuy. Of the twenty, twelve 12,000 societies. ment - regarded unemployment in were men and eight women. The Britain as a chronic and incurable men were all from the services, malady, but that is an unduly while four of the women candidates pessimistic view. Most of the were nurses of the Government trouble arises from Britain's loss Civil Hospital. of a large proportion of her export trade, and that in turn raises the question as to why that trade has
On Tuesday, January 25, at 9.30 p.m. H.E. the Governor and Lady
farewell
been lost. Rationalisation and re. Clementi will hold Д organisation of industry may-prob- reception at Government Hause, ably will result in some of this No individual invitations are being lost trade being recovered, but there issued, but His Excellency and are other factors to be considered.Lady Clementi will be glad to see Methods of marketing have to be their friends of all communities. amended as well as methods of Those intending to be present are manufacturing. The interim re requested to send in their names to port of the Committee appointed the Aide-de-Camp beforehand. by the Conservative Government in 1028 to investigate the methods of selling British goods and services
HONG KONG, JANUARY 13, 1830.
AFTER THE TIFFIN-PARTY.
ABOUT a month ago a luncheon was given at No. 10 Downing Street to a number of the leading men in British financial and industrial circles The Prime Minister, who Foot Powder
was the host on this auspicious pe-
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Corn Salve
Marks & Nor.
L. C. F. BELLAMY,
No. 1.
General Manager.
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3,800 Beranohr "Farrela 4/6/20 Comment
No. 14.
Kwangi 342 bdles Bonyra-
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{'ement Factory
21 Crates 4/7/28
Gale'd Sheets &
Bunion Lotion
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF Antwerp
HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN
THE
EDWIN
GOOD! OF HERMAN TUSKA, LATE or PLEARANTVILLE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK STATE IN TUE UNITED STATIA OF AMERICA.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 38 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897, made An Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to 7TH DAT or FEBRUARY, 1980.
Acces.
6 Crates Steel Sheets.
19 cases Bolts
Nuts & Washers
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.,
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All Creditors and Others are accord- CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME
logly bereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on cr before
That Date.
DEACONS,
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MEMBERS and Notified that
BOOKING for the DINNER. DANCE to be held at the PENINSULA HOTEL on 17TH JANUARY is NOW OPEN at the Office in the MAIN ENTRANCE of the HONG KONG HOTEL, Whera they may Parchase their TICKETS and Reserve SEATS.
C-P. MARCEL,
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According to the Canton Gazette
a notification issued by the Depart-
while collection of all kinds of torates or Revenue Offices in the various cutlying districts of the province, will be effected with simi. lar currency on and after the 16th
Government revenues at Collec-
A man who bit another man's ear-
c was sentenced to six months' im- Prisonment at the Leeds Assizes. Joseph Young was charged with maliciously wounding Ernest Coop- er. Young, in evidence, said: "I got hold of his ear and had 'no- intention of biting it off, but be dragged his head away," Young" said the trouble arose through Cooper making statements about Mrs. Young. Mr. Justice Hawks: You are not justified in biting his. car off, even if he had something- to do with your wife.
Perhaps it would be hopeless to- attempt to parallel the story from Rumania of the prize-books for
diligent children which turned out
to be handsomely bound copies of A novel which had been confiscated by the Ministry as unfit for adult reading, but there is a fable which
of the Rumanian tale. This con
makes mcat dismal reading. Itment of Finance, states that on and shows that the complaints made after January 11 payment of taxes forty years ago regarding the at the various Government depart ments will be made in Central casion, was also the only member defects of British methods and since Bank notes instead of 80 per cent might be described as the converse repeated almost annually still re-in silver and 40 per cent. in notes, main uaheeded. British goods no longer "sell themselves," and so far as anyone can see, they never will do so again.. British trade must either go forward or back. It has the possibilities of steadily increas- ing prosperity, but only if obsolete methods are discarded and others substituted which fit the conditions
of the Government present, and the proceedings were quite private. So secret, indeed, was the affair that nobody outside the charmed circle knew exactly who was present; the guests arrived and departed in such strange and mysterious manner that the most alert watchers were foiled, and no official statement was made beyond the admission that Mr.
MACDONALD had in fact given a luncheon-party. What transpired åt
of modern trade.
instant.
It is notified in the Government Gazette that information has been received from the Consul-General
for the United States of America
cerned Farrar at Harrow. Farrar had a way of paying unadvertised visits to boys' rooms to supervise their Sunday evening reading, and this was very reasonably resented. One evening he was making his un- ostentatious round as usual and came upon a boy apparently read-
(should this: ing a yellow back be explained for the new genera- tion ?) of a type very unsuitable to youth. Ah, wretched boy," Far- Far is alleged to bave cried. "so-
*
at Hong Kong, to the effect that In such words does this Committee from the December 23, 1929, inclu- this is the abominable stuff you read, is it? "Give me that horrible the table is simply a matter of aur. express its views about British sive, all cabin and steerage pas hook." The boy banded over the
Bengers entering Philippine ports Mean-
on vessels from Hong Kong will book, and Farrar ran his eye down misc, but we suspect Mr. THOMAS's methods of salesmanship.
page, discovering something announcement last week-end is the while the United States and a be required to be vaccinated against familiar. The graceless youth had
smallpox before quarantine authorities at the port Philippines or to present to the bad the bright iden of enclosing of entry satisfactory evidence of the yellow boards of a book of a vacciuation within one year,
dozen European countries are sequel to the Prime Minister's mysterious party a month ago. It successfully pushing their trade in doo that the subject the world's markets. The French then discussed went beyond the output of motor-cars during 1929 was 10 per cent. larger than the topic of unemployment, its cause British.. Germany is "exporting and cure, and included references more machinery than Great Britain, and is rapidly catching up to to British industrial and commer-British figures in other lines cial methods in comparison with Japan every day is becoming a those of other countries. The Prime more formidable competitor for Lancashire. Mr. THOMAS has been Minister, it was believed, made a
pressed for weeks past by members speech in which he referred to his of his own party as well as the long-cherished plan for bringing to Opposition to say what he is going the service of the State the help of to do about it. He has made the usual plaintive retorts-that he can- experts in all fields of industrial not
work miracles-that six months
Arrival in the
"Eric, or Little by Little within
very different character.
Barristers as Solicitors.
The following appointments etce ters are notified in the Government
The number of young men recent- Gazette: Mr. Michael James Breen ly called to the Bar who are de resumed duty as Postmaster Genereiding to become solicitors is in- al on December (. Lieutenant.
faitely a "luxury" profession, Colonel Frederick Eaves, D.8.0., asing. The Bar nowadays is de- reaunted duties as Assistant Land Officer and Deputy Registrar of advisable only for those of adequate Marriages on January 3. H. E. independent means and unusually the Governor has appointed Mr. patient spirit. This realisation is men seeking to make the Bar an William Sprague to be an Assistant re quickly dawning on young inmediate, or even reasonably car-
Government Marine
Surveyor
Surveyor), Harbour Depart
(hip with ferot From January 3.ly, H. E. the Governor has appoint rd Colonel Robert Bruce Skinner, D.B.E., and Mr. Edward Mercer icon, M.I.C.E, to be Members of the Authorised Architects. Com
mittee.
!
means of livelihood. To become activity. It is also understood that of office is a very short time--and
barrister involves a considerable initial expenditure. There are he urged his guests, frankly to dis- that he never claimed to be able to cure unemployment. Last month a
Government stainps and Inns of cuss the economic position of the White Paper was issued in London
Court membership fees and "dues," country and the possibilities of showing the results to date of Mr.
the wig and gown and other neces- sary paraphernalia. Also there is direeting economic research to its THOMAS's efforts to solve what is
is the guarantee of fees to his clerk, probably the most obstinate and improvement. Mr. MACDONALD dificult
of economic
the furnishing of his chambers problems. Ships' Balls for Sale. CHRONICLE seemingly had in mind his scheme Critics complained that his future
and filling his bookcase. He must For the third time since the war certainly, lace three or four years for a non-party National Eennomio plans were even more nebulous than
the Admiralty are offering for sale, before he can hope to possess the his immediate ones. Now that wet prices ranging from £1 to £3, beginnings of any really competent Council for debating schemes of have had revealed to us his latest bells out of famous ships, but the knowledge of his job. There is also national industrial development, scheme, we see no evidence of any ofer is apparently restricted to a falling off in work is attributable and wished to get the opinions of inspired creative policy on the part naval men and institutions. To
of the Minister for Unemployment anyone who has served in a ship industrial and monetary condi- chiefly to the generally unsettled Instead, wo his guests on the plan.
see rather timidite bell has an intense sentimental tions, and, arising out of this, to Csion of the real issues, and the value, and that is true of the hells the growing eagerness of people to situation now appears to be as got men-of-war and merchant ships serle their differences out of court. satisfactory as it was before the alike. The bell is the most per-The solicitor's side of the profession Prime Minister's tifhn-party.
The 68th Annual Issue
OF THE
Directory and Chronicle
OF
HONG KONG,
Now comes "Mr. J. H. THOMAS with a ponderous announcement that the City" is prepared to THE TREATY FORTS OF
give most sympathetic consideration CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO to any schemes which are recognis- CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS ed as likely to put British industry SETTLEMENTS, MALAY upon a broad and Bound bagja STATES, NETHERLANDS by reorganising and modernising INDIA, BORNEO, THE methods of production and distri- PHILIPPINES, Etc,
This Large Volume of approximate ly 2,000 Pages gires, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an "Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the
Hames of Hearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS.
News and Views.
ed than that at the Bar
Looking Back 25 Years,
manent part of a ship, and suria far less affected by these outside vives every change of construction conditions. The flow of work is gr ownership, outlasting masts and steadier and more evenly distribut spare, and swinging on poop or fo'dele with the ship's name en- graved on it. Old ships' figure Five Chinese cases of small-poxful, but a ship's bell touches a heads may be more visibly beauti- were reported on Friday.
deeper chord of romance than any
We are officially authorised to bution. But is this attitude of
it is eerving as a dinner gong its Directors of the Hong Kong and wooden effigy can, and even when state that subject to audit, the "the City" so startlingly new
mellow sound is a reminder of past Shanghai Banking Corporation will Mr. THOMAS says he now is in a
voyages, with their pleasures and recommendat the forthcomings position to state that the financiers
perila. Old ships' bells must find meeting a dividend of £1.10s. per n haven somewhere, for they never share,, a bonus of £1 per share, arc. "deeply interested in the
reach His many friends will be pleased Everything that once formed part write off property account $200,000, the ship-breaker's yard. add to the reserve fund 81,000,000, task of reviving British industry. Surely there is nothing very,new in night, the Rer. F. C. Young ho of a ship can be found there except and carry forward about 81,500,000. that. Then the Lord Privy Seal a slight improvement, and accord-lect them, or perhaps landlubbers 13, 1005.
a hell, Perhaps old skippers col-Hong Kong Daily Press, January says "the City" will provide the ing to his doctor, is now holding who have discovered their charm necessary financial accommodation his own."
and their cheapness.
!
During last year the Directors of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank transferred fire million dollars at 26-equal to £300,000-from silver to sterling reserve.
to hear that, at a late bour, inst
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mation in the Government Gazette that, His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, January 20 at 10 a.m.-
approval. Certainly there is no thing new in that! Then what does it all mena-this important AD- nouncement of a plan to cope with the problem of providing a million and a half idle workers with em- ployment? Simply that "the City" is extending, for the first time on record, an open invitation to busi- ness and industry to come forward columna," with real schemes of organisation.
On page 4 to-day will be found an announcement by Mears. Lam. mert Bros. of the forthcoming sale by auction of a valuable collection of curion. These announcements in future will appear regularly in our
Information has been received If such plans meat with the ap from the Eastern Bureau, League proval of those who control the of Nations, Singapore, to the effect purse-strings, financial assistance that Hong Kong has been declared LARGE EDITION (WITH will be forthcoming, on terms; but by the Straits Settlements Govern ment an infected port on account MAPS & TREATIES). $12 if not-not!
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We really cannot see anything
From Friday next, a new bus very startling about Mr. Thomas's service will be operated between the has resulted from announcement. If, this is all that Star Ferry, Kowloon, and Austin the Prime Avenue. Details of the route to be Minister's tithi
tilin-party a month ago be found in an advertisement else when eminent experts in finance where in this issue.
"Good-Bye to the East""
Looking Back 50 Years.
Tylor, in his "Primitive Cul- ture, I. 130, has a number of re- Among the passengers leaving the marks on superstitions connected The Chinese of Colony to-morrow by the Saar- with sneezing. brucken are Mr. and Mrs. C.
course partake of these superstitu- Mancini, proceeding to Southous feelings, and persons acquaint- America by way of Europe. Mr.ed with this fact will have been pre- Mancini, who has represented pared for certain remarks made on Messrs. Lyddon & Co., Ltd., paper the occasion of a person sncezing. and pulp merchants, in Hong Kong Visiting a temple in Canton one for several years, has been appoint-day, I noticed an old matron with to take charge of the firm's in- a young child in her arms, and tereats in South America, and will whilst looking round on the idols establish his headquarters at San and the temple service. suddenly Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Mancini has observed that the child spected. spent about forty years in the Far"Ah!" said the old dame, "Tai East, and in his younger days was kat" great prosperity, or good an excellent all-round athlete, being luck. A fuller phrase in frequent particularly proficient at rowing use is tai kat, li ahi, may you and swimming. He took part in prosper in business." Of course it many Interport contests in Japan, is Tery doubtful how far any and we believe was the first man to stress can be laid on the community drive a motor-car in Kobe. During of these superstitions, to prove that the ten years he has been closely the races holding them in common associated with business-in-Hong-must have been at some time or Kong Mr. Mancini made very many other intimately related. They form. friends, and on his departure from eno small link in the chain of evi- their best wishes for success in his Hong Kong Daily Press, January new field of activity.
13, 1880.