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that the FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offers of MEATS. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., I.. on TUESDAY, 11th FEBRUARY, 1930, of at 12.30 P.M., for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the Year ending Slot DECEMBER, 1949,
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED From TUESDAY. 21ST JANUARY, to TUESDAY, 11TH FEBRUARY, Both Days inclusive, during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,"
L. S. GREENHILL
Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th Jan, 1930 [1905
G.
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NOTICE..
THE SANITARY BOARD wishes!
To draw the Attention of the -Public, and especially of those who have
recently come to this Colony, to
the possibility of acquiring Disasses, eg.. Dysentery and Typhoid Fever by eating of Uncooked Vegetables.
Chinese Market-gardeners use Manure from human sources and their custom is to pour the manure or spray ́it from watering-pota, in liquid form, over the Growing Planta.
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really need a woman to explain women properly, but whether this Yesterday's weather report, fore-is so or not, Lady DonoraKA HOBIE cast and remarks, issued by the has certainly succeeded in doing of twelve men was years. Royal Observatory at 6.20 p.m., it.* Every foreign resident in stated:
China who takes an intelligent in- terest in the tremendous social and political changes which are taking plece on every hand should make
In a recent case in H.M. Supreme | Lost Balls Comedy.. Court, Shanghai, the average length The losing of two footballs led' of residence in Shanghai of the jury to the abandonment of a football match in the Westmorland County Challenge Cup Association Cou-" As a result of the recent heavy petition recently. Windermere and snow in the north, it is expected Temple Sowerby were playing on that good crops will be guaranteed. the Ulswater club's ground when Chinese press a back kicked the ball so heartily this Autumn, states
The anticyclone is stationary te the north of the Yangtze Valley Fresh to strong monsoon will pre vail along the S.E. Coast of China and over the N. China Sen,
a point of reading this most fas- telegram from Peping, because the that it soared out of the field over Local Forecast:-N. winds, fresh, cinating book. It is as entertain-locust pest has been destroyed, and a road and plumped into the Grise- overcast, come drizzle and mist ating as a novel, and informative as the ground is now sufficiently damp, dale River. Before anyone could first, possibly improving later.
reach the ball it was carried by the rain-swollen stream far into Lake Ullswater. By the time a second football, was obtained only eight minutes remained to play. Rain
BIRTH.
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HANSEN-On January 11. nt the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. T. HANSEN, a daughter.
DEATHS.
an encyclopedia. The portraits drawn are vividly real, and, so cleverly depicted as to make one feel they are quite old and dear friends of the reader no less than of the author.
Lady Hosie writes of the women, and met, who are busily engaged BOWES-On November 25, at Stock-in making China so different from port, England, after a long ill-what it was. There will be some, ness, WILLIAM THOMAS BOWEN. For many years a member of of course, foreigners as well as "A" Co. S.V.C.
Chinese, who deplore the passing of ELLI,On January 11, at Dr.
the allegedly good old days, and Noll's Hospital, Shanghai. EMANUEL EZEKIL ELLIS, aged 41 will question whether Lady HosIt's years.
friends are well-advised in seeking GROSSE-On January 10, at the to change that which for so many General Hospital, Shanghai, centuries seemed unchangeable. We ELLA PAVLOVNA GROSSE, wife of need waste neither time nor sym- the former Russian, Consul-pathy upon such critics. The fact in China is moving, and moving General; Mr. V. Gross.
fast, whether we like it or not, and it should be the desire of those who are in close, but inactive contact with these changes to understand as much as they possibly can of the ideas and ideals prompting that
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Among passengers arriving here yesterday by the as Hai Ning from Focchow, Amoy and Swatow were the Rev. Bishop Blois, Father la Gouneice, Rev. Hilbert, Rev. Davis, Messrs. Plammer, Simpson, Jorden, Bergengrien and Michael, and Misa Miller.
Dr. Tai Chi Tau, President of the Examination Yuan of the Nan- king Government and concurrently President of Sun Yat Sen Univer- sity, is expected in Canton this morning from Nanking He ex- peets to remain in Canton for a month to straight up the affairs of the University.
as falling heavily and the light. Was very poor when the referee kicked the ball. It vanished. No other ball was available, and play- era and spectators joined in a search for the missing ball, which was given up for lost and the referee abandoned the game. Three minutes: from the scheduled time for close of play someone discovered the half high up in some holly bushes. But now the referee had vanished. He had gone home.
Lest Home Life.
Those who say that home life is. threatened by the hotel and board- ing house will gain an additional As a result of the intense cold, the creek connecting Shanghai with lished in last month's Ministry of argument from the statistics pub- the various rice-producing centres Labour Gazettes The number of have become frozen and rice junks insured. persons in the "Hotel, the interior. On account of this, vices in England was 258.960 in are unable to reach Shanghai from Boarding house, and Club Ser- the price has again gone up and July, 1923. Last July the total had grown to 333,700. This is equival quotations were 210.20 per picul for
ent to a growth of 314 per cent, the best grade, which is 03 cents
or almost one in three, in six years, higher than last week.
When all the page boys and other
103,780 to 133,030, an increase of 29.9 per cent. Restaurants are not shown separately in the tables, of those figures, too, would indicate
With Lady Hosie as our guide we come into intimate contact with all sorts and conditions of folk, most of them delightful people, and many of them quite News is received from Home of juniors under sixteen come within amusing. Among the Chinese char- distinctions won by two sons of Sir unemployment insurance the figures. more remarkable still, acters are several ladies associated Francis Agleb, formerly Inspector will be with the educational movement, and General of Customs.
Mr. Edward Again, more and more people are three gentlemen of intellect"; Francis Aglen, a graduate of Mng-crasing to wash their clothes at other interesting people are an dalen Callege, Oxford, is one of 12 home; the laundries are getting the English Viscount and his wife, candidates selected for appointment Work In the same six years the several missionaries, and a doctor to the Sudan Political Service, His laundry employees have grown from
The lively conversations younger brother, Mr. Anthony John between these various characters Aglen, Marlborough College, has and Lady Hosts give the reader been awarded an entrance scholar some most vivid glimpses of real ship of £100 for Mathematics at Chinese life and thought-experi | Trinity College, Cambridge. ences which rarely come to the NEVER was it more essential for average European or American.
It is reliably reported that the engaged in the instalment busi- We meet young Chinese ladies
Lai Wah Co., the Shanghai departness and those buying by the foreigner to understand the work-worrying themselves quite unnecca. ing of the Chinese mind than it is sarily because they cannot fully ment Store at the corner of Nan-ments." to-day. The outer world is kept We read of the dinner given by r
appreciate the "Forsyte Sagaking and Honan Roads, has been fined a large sum of money by the Shanghai District Kuomintang for dars, free of charge, which bore lunar dates. This step was taken to prevent others from following their example. The management of the company were reticent when questioned.
LADY HOSIE'S FRIENDS.
1
a similar increase. What I should dearly like to see (declares a cor- respondent) is a total of the people
instal-
of Planis, c.g., Lettuces, over which the A. N. WAISON | fairly well informed regarding the noted Chinese preacher to a visiting distributing date blocks and calen-Looking Back 25 Years.
Gardener's apmy falls.
G.
J. WATSON,
Secretary," BAKITARY BOARD
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
IS EXCELLENOY Tor
Sir CECIL CELMENTI, K.C.M.G.. will preside at the PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction CONSTITUENT MEETING to be to be held on MONDAY, the 20TH Eeld in the OITY BALL on TUESDAY of JANUARY, 1920, at 3 P.M., DAY, JANUARY 21, at 5 p.m.
Ladies and Gentleman who are interested are invited to Attend.
to adopt a Constitution for a Society The Business of the Meeting in be
elect Officers and General and Executive
for the Protection of Children, and to
Committees,
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Reminded that
WNERS
Ara
ENTRIES for the
ANNUAL
RACE MEETING must be in the
Hands of the SECRETARY on or
before SATURDAY, 18TH JANUARY,
1930, at 3 P..
Hy Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
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CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING.
2ND, 24TH 25TH, 26TH FEBRUARY AND 1ST MARCH, 1930,
DRAFT PROGRAMMEES and
ENTRY FORMS are Now
at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Ho EXOXLLENCE THE GOVERNUE, of Due Lot Taui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for of CROWN LAND at Mong Kok ▲ term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be ized by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY TO KIvo, for one further terms of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 2296. Registry No.
2500, Tung Choi
Locality.
Street.
Adjoining Kowloon Inland Lot No.
G.
Boundary Measure-
menta.
NB.E..
[ft. st. ftift.
As per
salo plan.
Contents in
About
B.
Square Test
Annual
Kental.
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991't
(8900
17,075
<< }Upset Frics.[
Beady and may be obtained upon Pale by Public Auction Application to the SECRETARY,
Hong Kong, 8th Jan., 1930
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NOTICE.
RECEPTION TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR AND LADY ́ CLEMENTI ON
WEDNESDAY, 22ND JANUARY, 1930
At 4 P.M.
ON
THI ONG KONG CRICKET
CLUB GROUND.
Toketa may be obtained from the
Leading Clube in the Colony or from:
T
HE..L WYNNE JONES, ...,--
1, Dix Vaux Boán Centzat,
Joint. Hon. Secretaries.
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NOTICE.
130
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers,
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V.B.C. Carnival.
With the departure of Mr. Chat- terton Wilcox from the Colony yea terday for England, we have to re- cord the closing of the firm of Messrs Turner & Co., one of the oldest firms in the Colony, with which Mr. Wilcox has been identif-
The exact date of the foundation
1873, Hong Kong on January 8, coming out from England as Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press in which capacity he remained, with credit alike to the paper and bim-
self, for fifteen years..‚ ‚After
plans and prejudices of the more Western divine, at which the host important Chinese politicians and asked-in tones piercing enough to penetrate a battleship- I suppose, military leaders, bat little is heard. sir, you have read the book we are of what is in the minds of the all talking about. "My Sex Ex masses. Still less do we know bowperiences, or is it not translated into English yet?" We read of a the women of China regard the pro- Buddhist temple, where prayers are gress of events-the constant clash said for the souls of all who died in A Peping telegram to the Shuned during the past four years. the Great War it will surely says that the Great Northern of the firm is not known, there he between Western and Eastern
help to stop wars, will it not?and the Eastern Extension Tele-
ing no clear record, but Mr. methods, and between Oriental and asked the neophyte.
graph. Compatica, are carrying on There are thirty-seven chapters in negotiations with the representative firm, was in business in Macao in Richard Turner, founder of the Occidental ideals. Yet if the in fluence upon
their men-folk of Lady Hosie's book, every one of of a certain government organ 1928... Mr. Wilcox arrived in
which is an independent cameo of for the renewal of their contracts wives and mothers-und daughters- modern Chinese life, exquisitely with China. The telegram denies really counts for anything at all, fashioned by a master hand. A wide the report that the Chinese Govern- it is obviously most important to variety of topics is discussed by a ment will purchase the two cable most varied group of individuals of companies with part of the pro knew what these women are saying different, nationalities and sexes. ceeds of the sale of the proposed
teresting and, at times, most niaus and thinking concerning current Out of it all we get some most in- $10,000,000 telegraph bond issue. Some denials are necessary: other ing impressions of China as it is reports refute themselves. to-day-torn by the conflict of ohl and new ideas, and tortured by the
"Some different" is promised to: poverty and misery of the masses. More particularly is revealed, the struggle which is going on among night when the V.R.C. holds a the young women of China in their Fancy Dress Carnival, commencing efforts to free their sex from the at 8 pm. The dance will be in the fetters which have bound them for spacious hall of the Club, the whole so many centuries. To what extent of which will be available for dane the voice of China's modern woman ing, as the billiard-table has been echoes that of her Western sister removed to another part of the those interested in the subject may building. The old dressing-room. be left to ascertain for themselves. has been cleared of lockers, and will We warmly recommend Lady Hosir's be used as a lounge. The Club book to all who appreciate goed premises having been recently re- writing, and particularly to those painted, all is spick and span. who wish to follow more intelligent Music will be provided by the Lyric ly the swift social changes which Band, which is well known to local
dancera. are taking place in China to-day. To meet Lady Hose's bright witted companions with their keen desire for progress and their warm of sincere foreign appreciation sympathy is to get a glimpse of China which forms a pleasant con- trast to these aspects which, to most of UK, are unfortunately more familiar.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
Norder to facilitate the Investign
on with regard to A Number of Share Certificates which have been Fraudulently obtained from the Com- paay, All Holders of Share Certificaten in Fall Particulars of their Holdings, events and contemporary influences. of the Company are requested to send Number of Certificater. Name of Owcer, the Actual Distinguishing Nambers of It is no easy matter, however, for the Shares covered by the Certificare, the a foreigner to establish that close Date of Issue of Buch Certificates and their Folio Numbers, to The GENERAL and cordial intimaey with Chinese MANAGERS As Boon As Possible. which is essential for a proper understanding of what at best is usually a viewpoint most difficult to understand. Much more difficult is it to get to know at first hand what the women of China are saying and doing, yet it is most important that we should have this information, since it has a vital bearing upon the development of political and social events in the country. It would be too much as yet to say that what Chinese women think to-day, their men will ad- vocate to-morrow, but the fact that wives and mothers and daughters- in China to-day have very much more influence upon their 'men than they ever bad before is so obvious as not to call for submission of evidence.
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PUBLIC AUCTION, DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS MONDAY, the to be beit On 20TH DAY of JANUARY, 1930, 1 3 PM at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Ela EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shan- abnipo, in the Colony of Hong
TO LET. Kong, for a term of 75 years, com mencing from 1st July, 1898, with the
FFICE (2 Rooms) TO BE LET option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be
From 187 JANUARY, 1930, in fired by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 24 HONG KONG LUB (ANKZI).
Apply -SECRETARY, years lus three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale,
Nor Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 1299,
Registry No.
One Yau
No, 332,
Locality,
Street.
Adijening Now Kowinon
Boundary
Measure-
monla.
As per
sale plan
Contents in
Square feet,
About.
5,400
Annual
Hentai.
Price.
38
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Hong Konć CLITY.
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News and Views.
ад
How, then, are we to get in touch with
the thoughts of Chinese
Four cases of small-pox and one women-not many of whom have yet of typhoid were reported on Thurs appeared on the public platform to day. All were Chinese. veice their views1 How can the In his talk to Scouts this week interested foreigner who earnestly (appearing on page 4) Lord Baden wants to know how Chinese women Powell quotes some popular mottces regard the swift march of events for the benefit of those who need a
little moral stimulant, satisfy his curiosity if he is unable to meet them and discuss affairs at Mr. Gordon Mackay, son of Mr. first-hand? The services of some E. F. Mackay, late of Butterfeld
& Swire, Shanghai, has won ufficient go-between are obviously entrance exhibition at Clare College, called for one who can interpret Cambridge, for Classics, from Marl not merely words but ideas. Such borough College. interpretation calla för sympathetic A theft of clothes, valued at about 18 HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO understanding as well as expression, thirty dollars, was reported from Street Yaumati, CANNOT AFFORD THEM?
and persons with these qualifica 300, Portland
early yesterday morning. It is FEMBERS of the Committee attions well developed are not too understood that the thief get into Med at the Society Room, frequently met with. Perhaps it the flat from the roof.
An aged Chinese named Tang To Shun suddenly collapsed while walk Lars pie plot Wincas Lady, eading plank. Connnuga korming Road at about By LABY HOBIL-Kelly & Walth, He was taken to the Tung Wah Hong Kong $15.
Hospital for treatment.
THE TIME FOR
BLANKETS
CITY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and THURSDAY, at 10.80 to receive GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worn
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT 80CIETY. (EST. 1889.)
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Gertain of her Contemporaries
eight
A Chinese Railway Loan.
was
fifteen years of journalism Mr. Wilcox sought a change of occupa. tion. He tried the house and estate business, but gave it up on his ap pointment a Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, into which institution he infueed new life and considerably increased its member- ship. Any movement calculated to benefit the trade of the Colony al ways found in him a warm "sup. porter. On resigning the secret, aryship of the Chamber of Com merce to take over the business of Turner & Co.. Mr. Wilcox appointed a member of the Com- niittee, and up to the time of his departure continued to take the closest interests in its affairs. In addition Mr. Wilcox has rendered useful service as chairman of the local branch of the Ching Associa tion for, the past year and a half, and also as a member of the Navy In the course of an interview League Committee, not to mention with the Chinese press, Mr. Sun his services as director of several Fo, Minister of Railways, made a public companies-Hong Kony interesting_disclosure. He stated | Daily Press, Jan. 19, 1905, that Mr. Ho Tseng, former diree- tor of the proposed Tsangchow-Looking Back 50 Years. Shih-chinchuang Railway, had se Catalepsy does not appear to be cretly negotiated for a "loan" of frequent in Hong Kong, but that $10,000,000 from Japanesec mer-
it is occasionally heard of bere there can be no doubt. Some few chants without permission. As the #greement
unfavourable to years ago an old, lady living in China, it was cancelled and "Ho Jardine's Bazaaz stretched herself The out for a trip topside. The custom- was dismissed from office, agreement nominally was for the ary ceremonies were being proceed- construction of the proposed railed with by the usual priests, and way, but actually it was intended everything seemed comfortable and to facilitate the opening of coal regular. After some hours, how- mines in Shansi, and the Japanere ever, the supposed corpse said:
"I am not dead yet!" Thereupon were to obtain most of the coal.
a general stampede took place of priests and mourners, the former by no means being the last down- stairs Now the story goes that on In connection with the advertise Friday night & lady left her dwel ment which appears in another ling in Aberdeen Street and pro- column, we are requested to state ceeded to some ceremonial banquet
is Staunton Street. While partak that all residents who desire to be hosts on that occasion can do so ing of the good cheer, she suddenly by chtaining tickets in the manner felt obstruction in the breathing stated in the advertisement. Apart apparatus, and being at once re- from His Excellency the Governor moved to her own habitation, she and his Stail and Lady Clementi, shortly became comatose and the only guests will be the foreign mained in that condition so many Consuls. It may be added that it hours that it was deemed she was was His Excelicney's wish that the dead. The obsequies were then reception, in the course of which the proceeded with, the coffin being. addresses will me delivered, should taken to Mount Davis mortuary. be held on the cricket-ground rather The Chinese are puzzling them- water pinter daring act of the big than than at the theatre, so as to give selves over the alleged phenomenon freely among and conversing with the limbs somewhat pliant-Hong those present.
Hong Daily Press, Jan. 17, 1880.
W18
Reception to the Governor and Lady
Olementi
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