NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
WING to the FALL IN EXCHANGE the Undermen- tioned Rates not previously adjusted have been Revised as follows as From 26th InstaNT:~~~
*****.. 30.65
French Indo-China. Siam
Netherlands East Indies...$1.10
20791
S. LACE,
Superintendent
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
NO LATE CARS Will Run After
12.05 A.M. on The NIGHT of HURSDAY, TH 271¤ InstaxT.
[3075
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD
STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE. TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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INTIMATIONS.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930..
GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the OFFICES of Mrs. DOUWELL & COKTANT, LIMITED, on MONDAY, THE 10 MARCH, 1930, at 11 ... for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to Bist Deca- ***, 1929.
The TRANSFER BOOKS' of the Company will be CLOSED From the 1 MARCH TO 10TH MARCH, 1950, 30th Dates inclusive,
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General fasagora.
[9027
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS,
LIMITED.
FOR THE RACES
12
WEATHER REPORT, general election would take place, Owing to the bad condition of the Govemment and Vehicular Forry,
and there seemed to be a possibility track, another train of the Canton- We have been notified by the of reaching a working agreement Yesterday's weather report fore-
between the two parties. From the Hankow Railway was derailed yes Colonial Secretary that the ques- cast and remarks, issued by the moment an election was decided terday, near the Tai Hang How tion of providing a vehicular ferry THE SPORT OF KINGS Royal Observatory at 5.15 p.m., upon, however, the Japanese them station. Considerable damage was between the island and the main-
stated:-
marked differences between the two done to the sleepers and one tele-land has recently received the fur- A weak anticyclonic area in cen-great groups. The Seisukai (the phone pole was knocked down. ther consideration of Government, and it has been decided that, while it is desirable such a service should
FINE CHAMPAGNES
THE KING OF WINES!
tral over S. Japan pressure is rela tively low over Chins to the South of the Yangtaze.
Local Forecast:-E. or variable winds, moderate to light, cloudy, fog.
Editorial and Business Ofees: 11 Ice House Street. Tel. Central DE" ST. MARCEAUX & CO. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
"
REIMS
(Vintage 1920)
12.
Tel. Contral 4511.
London Office: £1, Bride Fleet Street, B.C. 4
selves seo or affect to see very
Opposition party) is described as having always stood for a construc tive economic policy at home, and Imperialistic diplomacy abroad (The word "Imperialistic" here used, by the way, is not applied by A Communistic observer, but is em ployed by an editorial writer in one of Japan's great daily papers) The Minseito Government party), on the other hand, is des cribed as having always upheld policy of prudence in economy, and
(the
There were no casualties.
On Monday the turbine-vessel be instituted with a minimum of Venezia reached Canton from Hong delay, it would be in the best in- Kong at 1.30 p.m., and commenced her career in the river in a rather teresis of the Colony that respon- unauspicious manner. In swinging sibility for the construction and too near the U.S.S. Helena her maintenance of the piers should be ensign-pals got foul of some of the Helena's upper-works, and the flags retained by the Government, and with which the Venezia was dressed that the questions of building the were pulled down. The Chinese a necessary boats out of Government. scrupulous liberalism in diplo- sign was also torn away. Fortunate Lane,macy, These differences are describly no serious damage was done, but funds and of the most satisfactory method of running them, if so built, ed as fundamental and as being it must have been a close shaeve,
should be further explored. The quite obvious to those who examine the records of the parties. That In 250 years Vienna will be dead methods of financing the construc being so if so it is-it should be according to the figures of antion of the piers and boats out of
Vin Brut and Very Dry. The Daily Press.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Per Dozen Qts. NOTION ORDINARY YEARLY
GENERAL HEATING of HONG LIMITED, KONG TRAMWAYS.
will be held at the Offices of Mesura, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD, Hong KOK, on TUESDAY, the 18TH Day of MARCH, 1930, at 12 O'Clock NOON. transact the Ordinary Business of Company AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF
to tho
NOTICE FOURTH MEMBERS of the Company will be
"}
Pints
$104.00
$ 54.00
AYALA & CO. (Vintage)
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OLOSED From TUESDAY, the 47 Per Dozen Qts. of the SHAREHOLDERS in the to TUESDAY, the 18TH MARCH, 1930 Company will be held at the Company's Both Daya inclusive.
of
TOWN OFFICE, 2, LowEK ALBERT ROAD, ON FRIDAY, THE 14TH MARCH, 1980, at 11 A.M.. for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the Year ending lit DECEMBER, 1969. declaring a Dividend and re-electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From the 4ta to the 14TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Hong Kong, 25th Feb. 1930. (9074
By Order of the Board
W. F. SIMMONS.
Secretary. Hong Kong, 24th Feb., 1930. [967
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,
LIMITED.
Pints ...
11
“GOLDEN GUINEA
Sparkling Muscatel.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Per Dozen Qts. NOTICE IS IT ORDINARY
Acting SecretaryANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will bo hold At the Offices of the Company, Sr. Grondz's BUILDING CHATER ROAD. Victoria, Hong Kong. оп WEDNESDAY
BANK HOLIDAYS.
THE EXORANGE BANKS will be THE
OPEN for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSINESS at 9.50 AM, on WEDNESDAY, 26гa Instant, and CLOSE at 19 NOON (RACE MEETING).
-Hong Kong, 19th Feb., 1930. [9057
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, THE FINAL DIVIDEND declared
for the Year ending 31st DecEM- BLS, 1929, at the Rate of THEEF POUNUS Sterling together with
ཐ Bonus of ONE POUND Sterling, is Payable on and after the 24TH FEBRU ANY, 1930, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. C. HYNES.
Chiof Manager. Hong Kong, 22nd Felt, 1930. (9066
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
HE
ANNUAL MEETING,.
ANNUAL GENERAL
TWEETING of the above Society will be held at the "CHEER O" CANTEEN on MONDAY, MARCH 3, at 11.15 x
the ISTE DAT of MARCH, 1930, at Noox, for the purpose of receiving Statement
and Report
་་་
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 20, 1930.
41
At the
a very simple matter to make a Austrian mathematician. choice between the two, based upon present time the death rate exceeds public funds are engaging the im the relative merit of their respective the birth rate. Monthly figures mediate attention of the Govern- policies, but we read that the guid-show that deaths exceed births ment. ing principal for electors to follow was moral rather than political.
At this point it is interesting to examins the latest available returns showing the number of alleged violations of the Election Law re than 219 charges of the sale and purchase of votes were reported,
by even 1,700. Vienna's traditional suicide tendency is still on the in- crease. Last year the number of Burma's Bad Reputation, suicides. 880, surpassed the number
A „Straits. Timer correspondent
CLEAN POLITICS IN JAPAN. THE general election which has been ported to the authorities. No less an average of three suicides to every | List that great satisfaction was ex-
its opponents.
a
of deaths, 567,, caused from epide-writing from Rangoon remarks with mics. At the present time there is regard to the New Year Honours hundred deaths.
pressed at a number of awards to police officers for distinguished sor- vices in capturing dacoits, etc. Burma has the unenviable reputa- tion of being the most criminal country in the world next possibly to Mexico, and it will he realised that the police have a none-too- attractive occupation at times. In- deed, its dangers are almost equal. to those of an army conducting guerilla warfare. This is especial. ly so in the wild jungly regions of Upper Burma where dacoits lurk in desperato gangs. Despite strenu thorities these dawits somehow ous efforts on the part of the au- manage to secure arms, and the skill with which they can use them is testified to by the number of
held in Japan has given the party in power a large majority over all as against 23 at the previous Mr. Joe C Hay of Brockton, The Government general election on a correspond: Mass., who was appointed adminis ing date. Many other charges of trator, is having his troubles in $95.00 has won 101 seats and lost only two, minor character brought the total settling the estate of Joe Yick Shoo,
up to 273 offences this year, ns
a Chinese who died in Cambridge, and the net gain of 99 gives it a
against 163 at the previous election. Mass last year. It seems that $50.00
majority of 80 over
all other It has been repeatedly charged Shoo was known as Water Chew, parties in the House of Representa against the Seiyuka that it re- Joo Yick Chew, Joe Tick Coo, Joe sorted to questionable and even Yet Coo, Jos Yet Shoan, Ah Gow, tives. Mr. HAKAGUCHI may well y criminal methods in order to get At Now, Noe Now, Joe Gow, his party has the confidence of the support, All the crimes in the Walter Joe, Ah Joe, Charlie Joe, country, seeing that the Opposition political calendar, and quite a Joe Lee, Joe Bee, Jee Y. See, has sustained so serious a defeat. number from the criminal, have Joe Y. Su, Joe Y. Sno, C. Yick. C. been alleged against the Seiyukai,
administrator has asked the Court Speaking on the eve of the election, yet in the list of political offences. See Yick and Joe Y. Shu. The the Premier said he was confident during the recent election campaign that all 22 names be incorporated we find 123 Minscito men prosecut in the petition by which he was ap of winning 240 senta. The final cd, and 121 of the Saiyukai! The pointed to facilitate settlement of
their victims. The Government's figures show that the Minssito party fact is that in Japan, no matter the estate.
policy in regard to the prevention has secured 273 seats. Rarely does what party is in power, politics is crooked business-and it must
of dacoitics is to encourage a defen. the result of an election reveal be in the circumstances of the case.
Is there, or is there not, a rule sive spirit among the villagers successes in excess of these optimis- This is not to say there are no that vehicular traffic at the Star themselves. District Commissioners tically anticipated by a party honest men in Japanese politics. Ferry wharf on Hong Kong side are instructed to provide the names leader. Naturally, during the in their credit that they can keep landed are crossing the road on
There are, and it is greatly to should stop when passengers just of all villagers who display any courage in combating dacoits and tersive speech-making inseparable their hands clean in spite of the their various ways? A fortnight the Governor's awards are usually from a general election, every poli-opportunitat and sarong tempta ago we expressed approval of the both prompt and liberal. The suc to indulge in graft. The long (presumed) police order to hold up cess of this policy is apparent in tician declares his complete confid-list of scandals recently revealed in traffic for a minute until the crowd the decreasing cases of panic where ence in the result. The flowing Japan shows the extent to which had dispersed. Lately we note that a village has been attacked, tide is with us!" he invariably corruption exists in official and some policemen stop approaching where the police are subjected to political circles. Whether there is vehicles, and others do not. The most danger is in tracking down declares, whether he really believes likely to be any process of puri consequent confusion, not knowing and capturing the dacoits. Not in- WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.it or not. In the present case, fication under the Minsaito Govern whether motors and carts will be frequently a polico party has to act
however, there is no doubt the
stopped or not, makes matters much like an invading army in the track PHONE C. 616.
political tide in Japan has changed,
dangerous point. worse than they were before at this less jungle using scouts, a
If it has been guard, etc., as was the case recent- and the party formerly associated
ordered that vehicular trafic shouldly in the Shwebo district. with the late Baron TANAKA has
he stopped for a minute or so, the sustained a defeat which must have plexion. It will need a very strong order should be carried out. If no
State of Aor the year ended 31st A. S. DECEMBER, 1999
"
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from BATURDAY, 8TH MARCH, 1980, to WEDNESDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930. Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1937.
C0056
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE IS REFIRST OR
of
Pinta....
$65.00
$35.00
WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO, STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
AMENDED NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE
DINARY GENERAL MEETING will
HUNDRED AND be held at the Company's Officer, P. & TENTH ORDINARY MEET O. BUILDING, on WEDNESDAY 12TING of SHAREHOLDERS la the MARCE, 1930, at 11 A.M., for the par- Company will be held in the BOARD Roox pass presenting the Report of the of MESERS. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Directors together with a Statement of Co, LTD., P. & O. BUILDING, VICTORIA, Accounts to 31st Decemвrt 1928, and Hose Koso, on TUESDAY, 4TH electing Directors and Auditors. MARCH, 1930, at 11 AM, for the purpose THE BEGISTER of MEMBERS of of receiving Report of the Directors, the Company will be CLOSED from together, with a Statement of Accounts, FEBRUARY 1930 to 12 Declaring & Dividend and Electing MARCH 1990, Both Days inclusive Directors and Auditors. during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
29TH
By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.
Agents. Hong Kong, 19th Feb., 1830. [9055
WHEN IN DOUBT
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Annuals for 1930
WHITAKER'S ALMANACK
THE CUINA YEAR BOOK
$4.80
.$15.00
THE JAPAN YEAR BOOK
$18.50
BROWN'S NAUTICAL ALMANACE ...
32.40
THE ADMIRALTY NAUTICAL ALMANAUK
34.00
THE DAILY MAIL YEAR BOOK
80 Centa
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS
....$31,50
AMERICAN ANNUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
34.50
PHOTOGRAMS. OF THE YEAR
$4.00
BRITISH JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ALMANACK
$1.69
GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ANNUAL
$9.00
CULTURE OF THE NUDE IN CHINA".
$8.50
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
(Incorporated in Hong Kong),
22
been much more heavy than was feared-or hoped for. It is signi-
that the ficant
"proletarian group in the Dict has lost ground at the last election. Three seats were gained, but five were lost, and the proletarian "element in the House of Representatives numbers only five members all told. The ex- planation of this is not that Labour in Japan takes no interest in politics, but that its political machinery is neither extensive nor efficient. There is keen rivalry be tween the many small proletarian organisations which has the effect
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 1977 FEBRUARY to TUESDAY 4TH MARCH, 1930. Both of dividing their forces, and is fatal Days inclusive, during which Peried to the cause at an election. As time No Transfer of Shares can be Registered.goes on, however, there is certain
By Order of the Board of Directors,
to be - much stronger Labour element in the Diet. The movement
8977]
JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary.
ment it is too early to say. Such & is done properly the men exposed cleansing is long overdue, but if it and discredited will be found not to be all of one political com man indeed to start such operations, and he will require the support of many more determined men to sen that the job is done properly. Whether Mr. HAMAGUCHI in the man, and whether he has the neces sary backing, we may discover as time goes on. Meanwhile it is good news for China that a party pledged
with Japan's differences China.
Traffic Control.
such order has been given, then it should be!
Spurgeon's Tabemacie.
Spurgeon's Tabernacle in South Loudon, one of the largest and most famous of Nonconformist churches, has until now retained one curious
Looking Back 25 Years,
But
rear
services of these two gentlemen have just been recognised by E.I.M. the Tear of Russia, who sent for each
The wounded officer and men of the Russian warship Varyag, which was sunk by the Japanese at Chemulpo in the first stages of the war; had the benefit subsequently of the professional care and atten- to a liberal foreign policy is re- feature which derives directly from tion of Dr. Atkinson, P.C.M.O, and turned to power, for Sino-Japancee the idiosyncrasies of the great Dr. J. Bell, superintendent of the relations call for careful handling, preacher from whom it is named. Government Civil Hospital. The and it would be very unfortunate This is the absence of an organ, if there were any revival of the Spurgeon's Tabernacle must be one
method 'positive"
of dealing of the very few chapels that has had
with no organ, and the reason was that a cigarette-case of solid gold, with Spurgeon, a man of most decided the Imperial coat of arms set views about everything, would not in diamonds." These have one. Spurgeon was an enthu souvenirs were handed to the re siast for what is now called comcipients at Government House on munity singing that is to say, he Friday, by His Excellency the Gov- liked everyone in the congregation ernor.-Hong Ky Daily Press, to make his or her voice heard in February 27, 1905. the hymns, and he thought than an organ was an obstacle, perhape, aa concealing the backwardness of the non-singers. At any rate many people who used to flock to the Tabernacle to hear his vigorous and
News and Views.
On March 14 the 34th annual meeting of the Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Company, Ltd., will be held at the offices in Lower Albert Road. Further details will
pearing elsewhere.
Looking Back 50 Years.
handsome
is still very young in Japan, and be found in an advertisement apdownright sermons must remember take many people by surprise. It
A report has been made to the Police by Mr. D. W. Minshall, of Room 62, European Y.M.C.A., that
has many obstacles to overcome-- not the least of which is the stern and strong disapproval shown by THE HONG KONG, CANTON & the authorities of any political MACAO STEAMBOAT opinions tinctured even in the
CO., LTD.
mildest degree with what used to be known in English politics as that An EXTRAORDINARY Radicalism... GENERAL MEETING of the HONG-
The election just concluded in KONG, CANTON AND MACAO. STEAMBOAT COMPANY LIMITED, Japan has been fought on no really was given as 815. will, on the Requisition of Bir ROBEAT outstanding issue, beyond the claim HO TUNG, and Messia La Toz Fors,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
T N. Executor of OHAU SHIU KI deceased,
some time between the hours of 3 and 5.20 p.m. on Monday, some altered, and now Spurgeon's Taber- person entered his room and stolenacle has been provided with a fine a small silver cup and an ebony new organ. stand The value of the cup, which belongs to Dr. Anderson, of the London Hotel Changes. S.L.I (now in camp at Fanling)
The decision of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in reference to the proposed circulation of the Japanese yen in this Colony will that in his day the singing was led was not generally thought that any by a man who used to stand in the very strong feeling in favour of the pulpit beside the minister with a step existed here among the mer tuning-fork, which he struck on the cantile community, but the result pulpit to lead the congregation on makes it evident that such must to the correct noto. Times have have been the case, for the resolu- tion pledging the Chamber to me. morialise the Government to take steps to that end was carried with only one dissentient. The very'. decided discouragement given by Another London hotel with a big the home Government to the iden reputation is suffering change." The of the dollar being coined in Eng Princes' in Jermyn Street is to be land for the use of Hong Kong, the After having delivered an ad- pulled down and rebuilt in more Straits Settlements, Labuan, etc., It overlooks the and the small prospect existing of CHAU, M. K. LO, T. N. GRAU, that the Government stood for a dress to cricketers is Andy Ducat, modern form. KENNETH CHAN as Trustee of CHAN"negative" paliey of retrenchment who is coaching in Brisbane, volun garden churchyard of St. James's the establishment of a mint here, Answer questions about Piccadilly, and on the Piccadilly have tended to create an impression KAT MING deceased. Tune Cauna and economy, while the Opposition teered to
LI KOON CHUN, WONG YUX TONG advocated a positive policy of cricket. One was: A side it occupies the lower part of that it is of little use waiting for 40. A. 94 Boza, being Shareholders which ceaseless denunciation of the tower deliver question had the very handsome building which a coinage of our own. Mean- the Royal Institute of Painters in time, es the Hon. W. Keswick re- holding in the Aggregate Upwards of removal of the embargo on gold which would drop, if allowed to, on 1/10th of the Issued Share Capital of exports is about the only really the baile. How should such a ball Water-colours erected at the end of marked, when suggesting this pos derived from the introduction of the Company in pursuance of Article positive argument we have been be played " Ducat smiled, so did last century. The Piccadilly build-sibility, there pre advantages to be 65 of the Articles of Association of the able to trace. Readers who follow his audience." I should play suching will not be affected. "It was one Company and in exercise of the potrer the course of Sino-Japancas rela a ball just as a lawz-tennis player of the three of four most fashion- the yen into the Colony, and the conferred by
red by Boction 67 of the Cam tions, however, will recall that smashes a lawa-tennis ball, but I able restaurants in London in the question of the permanence of its panies Ordinance 1911 BE HELD IN THE Japan's "positive" policy toward would hold the bat with two hands, early part of the century, and supply should perhaps hardly be
always had a close connection with raised as an objection to its legisla GIBB, China during the TANAKA regime was Ducat's reply. BOARD BOOK OF MESSEN.
tion. We trust that if the local LIVINGSTON
the stage. Probably that was the & Co., Lin, P.&O. BUILDING, VICTORIA. Hose Kore, on Proved rather disastrous, and the
incentive to its first success through Government-as is exceedingly pro- TUESDAY, the TD DAY OF MARCE, in Japan's dealings with her neigh- "negative" policy since followed
The following item of news from the introduction into London of the bable-accedes to the memorial of 1930, immediately after the Conclusion boar has at least proved much less Danton will be read with interest short dinner, at a time when other the Chamber and takes action to of the Annual General Mesting.
expensive than the more aggressive by many readers. Mr. Galloway's restaurants gave very long dinners, make the Japanese yen current in For the purpose of considering the methods. To the foreign observer shooting-party up river last Sunday In these days society and the stage Hong Kong, it will also and simul "general policy of the Company is there is little to distinguish one found the duck gone no doubt did not mix very much, but liked taneously forbid its defacement by the neutral chopping... That the legislation regard to its farming out of the political party from another. Not owing to the much warmer weather to look at one another "Chinese freight and passage money "of its steamers and to the recent many weeks ago Mr. IRUKAI, the of the last three days or so. They ground of a restauraot. It became of the yen will facilitate the con- "tenders sent in to the Company in Opposition leader, himself declared came upon a pond which had been favourite place for theatrical duct of business and that in time "respect thereof, and for the purpose that the political differences between emptied for repairs to sluice, and a dances of the grander kind. It had it will supplant the chopped tokens now in circulation is a general de-" "of passing ruch Ramolations in rela.his party and the Minscita were great number of snipe rose from it one of the early cabarets in London "tion thereto so may be thought fit. so small that the Beiyukai could before a shot could be got at them. restaurants, and latterly became a sire. That the supply of the coin Dated this 17th day of February, 1930. support the Government with an Out of 10 snipe bagged subsequent favourite place for people from the will prove to be of a permanent easy conscience. It must be ad- ly from this one spot no less than North who wanted a night's gaiety character we trust may be satisfac By Order of the Board of Directors, mitted, however, that when Mr.7 were "painted snipe," which in London. It is to rise again with torily shown by the Japanese
JOHN ARNOLD, INUKAI made this illuminating.con- seems a very high proportion for ideas that will give it a new in- Hong Kong Daily Preis. February
dividuality.
40, 1880. fession it was not certain that this variety.
9042)
Secretary.