NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG TUG & LIGHTER CO., LTD. (IN LIQUIDATION),
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
In pursuance of Section 188 of the Companio-Ordinance 1911 that A GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the above named Come pany will be held at the Offices of M. PEROY SMITH, SETH &
DIS
ROAD FLEMING, B CENTRAL, OD SATURDAY. the 39ra DAT 97 APRIL, 1930, at 18 COLOUR NOON, for the purpose of having an Account laid before them showing the mauner in which the WINDING UF has been conducted and the Property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing say Hxplanations that may be giren the Liquidators and also of determining by Extraordinary Resolution the manner in which the Books, "Accounts sad Documents of the Company and of the Liquidators thereof shall be dispored. Dated the 13th day of March, 1900. J. HENNESSEY SETH, 8. HAMPDEN. ROSS,
LI Joint Liquidator.
[9158
HONG KONG FOOTBALL
CLUB,
Final of the Triangular Rugby Tournament.
CLUBY THE NAVY, This game will played on the Club Ground on SATURDAY, 14 MARCH, 1930. Kick of-3.30 P.M. ADMISSION :-
Covered Stand
Services
Open Stand
... $.100 ... 20 CLs. ... 38 Cts.
W. PRYDE,
Hon. Secralary,
(0183
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KON
PROBATE JURISDICTION...
IN
OF
INTIMATIONS.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930.
FINE
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.15 p.m.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. BRANDIES stated:
HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE IS THIRTY-FOURTH RDINARY YEARLY MEETING the of the SHAREHOLDERS in Company will be held at the Company's TOWN OFFICE, 2, LOWEL ALBERT Roar, on FRIDAY, THE 14TH MARCH, 1930, at 11 AM. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DrozaEER, 1929. re-electing declaring Dividend and Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From the Tu to the 147 MARCH, 1990, Bath Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 25th Feb, 1930. [9074'
HONG KONG TRÀMWAYS, LIMITED.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED, will be held at the Offer of Mess JARDECE, MATHRAON & CO., LTD., Hoog Kong, ca TUESDAY, the 18TE DAY OF MARCH, 1930, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, to tract the Ordinary Business of
the CICE IS HEREBY ALSO
AND
GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED From TUESDAY, the 4TH to TUESDAY, the 18TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusire.
By Order of the Board,
W.F. SIMMONS.
Secretary. Hong Kong. 24th Feb, 1970. 19067
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,
LIMITED.".
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the 41ST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING or SHARE.
will be held HOLDERS
at the
Distilled and Bottled by
Renault & Co.
Established 1835.
Cognac,
Three Star
Five Star
grd
France,
R.V.O. Very Old
Liqueur Brandy
OF cos of the Company, ST. GEORGE's BOLE AGENTS: BUILDING, CHATEA ROAD, Victoria, Hong
on WEDNESDAY
THE GOODS OF GEORGE EDWARD STEWART, LATE
Keng, AULDERWOOD, WYLCHAX ROAD. HASTINGS, IN r COUNTY OF SUzsazX, EXGLARD,
DIOFASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICES HERE, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordin- Ance No. 2 of 1207, made As Order Limiting
the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the ubore Estate to 10TI APRIL, 1930.
All Creditors and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.
91047
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Exèentrir, I, Des Vur Road Central,
.Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION. IN THE GOODS OP MARCOS DE GAMAUBES WOLFF, LATE OF VANCOUVER, BRITHE COL UMBI, CANADA, DECEASED,
the 1974 DAY of MARCH, 1930, A. S. at Noos, for the purpose of receiving* Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 318T DECEMBER 1999.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, STE MARCH, 1930, to WEDNESDAY, 19 MAROH, 1930; Both Days inclusive....
By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers. [9056
*
Hong Kong, 20th Fab., 1930.
NOTICE. CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
in
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES the THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING SHAREHOLDERS the Company will be held in the Company's BOARD ROOM 2ND FLOOR, ALEXANDRA BUILDING, Hong Kong, on WEDNES. DAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930, at .30 ..
Auditors
અક્ષય
NOTICESTER, by virtue offer at and the Report of the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN for the purpose of receiving a Statement the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordin- Directors for the Year ended Deczule ance No. 2 of 1897, made An Order 31st, 1929; electing Directors Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Olaims against the above Estate to 9TH APRIL, 1920.
All Creditors and Others are accord. ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before That Date.
DEACONA,
Solicitors for the Executrix, 1, Des Voeux Road Centml,
Hong Kong
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY, 10TH MARCH, 1930, antil WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH, 1930, Bath Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,"
D. L. KING.
Secretary, Hong Kong, 8th March, 1930. (9127
& CÓ., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
PHONE C. 616. KOWLOON 19.
THE HONG KONG FIRE '. INSURANCE CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE SIXTY-FIRST ORDINARY
MEETING GENERAL
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at OFF of the Undersigned on WEDNESDAY, the 26TH MARCH, 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended the 31st
DECEMBER, 1929.
The SHARE REGISTER
TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED) From the 12r to the 26 MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,
General Managers, THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. Hong Kong, 5th Mar, 1980. (910R
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The Daily Press.
Liberia, Burma,
News and Views.
Mr. Papys in Hong Kong.
Today to the Club, where I did seek to get me free passes for the
Three cases. of small-pox and one Play, but to my great discontent" of diphtheria were reported, on the Treasurer mighty shap at me Wednesday,
and do say it is my money they'
There will be a public lecture require. Which grieve me mightily given at the Helena Alay Institute and I did call him a poor fashe." on Tuesday, March 18, at 3.30 p.m.
The Care of Children in the But later when I do hear from Mr. Tropics" by Dr. (Mrs.) Davey, Prodgers of the charges the Com pany are as for all the menstrous Mrs Southorn will take the Chair.
fine clothes they must provido, I
Announcement Bas been made et the forthcoming marriage between repent me and do vow to go at least Mr. Francisco Xavier da Silva twice at my own charges, and as Remedios, clerk, Hong Kong Elec-often more as anyone may bid me trie Company, and Miss Armida de Servo Monteiro, operator, Hong go with him, I hear that apart Kong Telephone Company.
from the silks and satins and came-
The Fascist League of North flat clckes, there are a vast, of perri- "America, which came into being wiggs which do cost a fortune. So with a great flourish of trumpets towards my home and past a lawn five years ago, was recently deciar-where they do play at tennis. But ed dissolved by a unanimous vote
the delegates attending a closed to many it astonishes me as I heard meeting at New York. The mem the naughty cricketers did keep them away. But I mighty pleased. Fership of the League was 12,000.
Eroeat Dunme, who, was to die to find they did not fell, the trees Back in the electric-chair in Now York which are His Majesty's. last month for murder, was told home where I find a and rogue doth that his sentence had been com drink my strong waters and talk The with my wife, which did disquiet muted to life imprisonment. first question he asked was Dome like a fool, and ran in my mind I lose my chicken dinner?" The a great while. And so to bed. principal-keeper ruled "no execu tion, no chicken dinner."
work so nobly begun by WIEDER FORCE and CLARKSON The author recalls that the League of Nations is pledged to affect the total aboli- tion of slavery in all its forms, and ahe appeals to her readers to sup- "The depression remains central part the view that slavery in what- over Korea and the anticyclone to
over form is a crime against the the North-East of Japan. A wenk anticyclonic area covers S, China. human race. If all men are creat- Moderate North-East winds willed equal, with an inalienable right prevail along the SE. Coast of
to life, liberty, and the pursuit Ohina and over the Ni Caina Sea,
of happiness, then it follows that Local Forecast:--N.E. winds; moderate; fine generally..
the acts of seizing, trading, and dire offences owning slaves are against humanity.
Lady Sox deals with slavery in Abyssinia, the Sudan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Ceyloh,and China, and in this latter chapter wo come up against a very familiar problem, that of the mui-tsu, Turning from the book for a moment, we note that Lady Stuox recently addressed the Junior Liberal Club in London on the subject of slavery, and made a special appeal to young Liberals to help in tracing the world from slavery. Lady Stoy was reported to have spoken as follows:- It is sometimes argued by people that there are such things as happy slaves. This is not so. In China little children are made to suffer terrible tortures through slavery. They are punished when they do
What is believed to be 'the "first It is good to know that the wrong by having boiling water poured over their hands and boiling case of suicide within the walls of British military authorities are now the 100-yeard-old convent of the reconsidering their decision to with oil poured down their throats. Be- fore we start preaching to other Good Shepherd at East Finchley draw the troops carried on certain was the subject of an inquest last ships as a guard against Chinese people, however, we must clean up
month. It was stated that Mrs. pirates. As we pointed out some our own house first. This sort of It is asserted that there are sixthing is going on in Hong Kong Marion Brady, aged C, who had weeks ago, when it was first report- and in Ceylon," Now that asser-been having treatment at the coned that these guards were to be million slaves in the world-nut tion about this Colony is very vent for alcoholic excess, was found withdrawn, nothing has happened. ao mention in drowned in a duck pond in the to warrant such a stop being taken. unfair.
A sister of the convent On the contrary, there is every "'wage-slaver," but men,
Lady Sox's book of boiling oil grounds. being used in China for the torture said that it was possible for the reason to anticipate trouble the woman to have fallen in accidental moment present precautions are of lives. Reference is made to burn-
Chinese ly. Verdict: Suicide while of Un-relaxed. During the period mili ing with hot irons as
tary guards have been carried there form of torture, te pouring boiling sound Mind.
has not been a single attempt at water over the hands, to flogging.
Speaking of the increase in drink-pirney on the ships so protected. and to suspension by ropes. She cites one case of a little girl so. ing in clubs and urging that they This is not to say no pirates have treated who had both. arms and should be under greater police con been aboard-probably they have, of trol. Sir Arthur Spurgeon. the but the sight of khaki-clad soldiers. legs amputated as
a result mortification consequent upon such chairman of Croydon County licens. has been sufficient to persuade them torture-but this was not in Honging magistrates, made this revela to make the trip as peaceful pas tion. Recently a club in this eengers. On ships carrying Indian division was suspected of serving guards, however, there have been drinks during prohibited hours. To piracies--some successful, others get the necessary information anot: The fact has been clearly-de- police officer had to make love to monstrated that the provision of the woman holder of an off-licenec military guards is the most effective below the club. The courtship led measure against piracy conceivable, to the officer being recommended and it would be criminal folly to by her for membership of the club. withdraw this protection to ships' Then he found that far more liquor officers. responsible for the safety of was being consumed upstairs than a ship and her passengers and at an ordinary public house of about cargo." the same size. Proceedings were taken."
HONG KONG, MARCH 14, 1830.
4
BOILING OIL FOR SLAVES.
Women,
and children definitely regarded as "property" by their owners Strange reading, this, well on in the twentieth century, but the state ment appears to be well authen- ticated. Strange, too, to read about "forced labour" in various territories controlled by oce other of the Great Powers.
Governor,
These
[
or
A
There is
.
rival
Piracy Guards,
The David Greenwood Case.
CASO
Kong. In her speech to the young WATSON writer in the Depiche l'oloniale re- Liberals, however, Lady SIMON re- cently declared that colonisation is ferred to the boiling water and boiling oil forms of torture as no pretty, sentimental business, but the sort of thing" which goes on a serious matter-of-fact job. If in Hong Kong. By inference it Colonics in Africa are to be develop was suggested that these practices were winked at by the authorities ed, forced labour is absolutely responsible for the administration essential, otherwise the European of the Colony. nations concerned can at once aban-:
We feel certain that Lady SON has no intention of misrepresenting don their efforts Only through the facts. Her case against slavery force, this French writer declared, in general is so strong that there
D. Margaret Tyler has secured, can the natives be persuaded to is no necessity either for exaggera Elval to Southend.
That tion or misrepresentation.
over 25,000 signatures to the peti Shoeburyness hopes to. work, and only by their forced the mui-teal question has been
tion she has hreri eirculating pray- £ senside resort. labour can civilisation be advanced. badly bungled in Hong Kong is Southend as
wood, the young ex-serviceman who with the facts, but it must not being work on an extension of the was sentenced to death early in 1918 The same argument was advanced quite obvious to those acquainted Shoebury Urban Council are starting for the release of David Green- at one time by the British in thought that conditions in this frost, and are making a stone for the murder of a girl on Eltham
apron from the sea wall to the Common, and whose sentence was Kenya, and was formally approved Colony are so bad as Lady SIMON'S by two Bishops and a missionary, spoken words suggest. In her book beach. They propose to build an commuted to imprisonment for life. she keeps much closer to the facts, up-to-date bathing pool and a boat Dr. Tyler is convinced of the man's among others, to say nothing of the pointing out that the operation of ing pool. A modern estate is being innocence and had been trying for
long time to secure his It to happened, how the mui-tani system in Hong Kong laid out The Rev. W. E. Toft, ever, that another Bishop-WESTON, once again illustrates the difficulty chairman of the Common and Fore- The petition, which has beencase. of suppressing a custom which has shore Committees. said:--The Shoe-livered to the Home Secretary, con- of Zanzibar, held the contrary centuries of domestic sanction be-buryness of the future, we hope, tains some notable names, includ and
opinion, and was bold enough to bind it. No one has ever disputed will be one of the foremost sea-ing that of Lady Raig. Some other that in some enses-perhaps many side resorts in the country. It has signatures were obtained by Green- express it. "We hold," he said, these girls are better fed, clothed, fine air, three hours more tide than wond's sister, who has always been "that forcing Africans to work in and cared for than they would be Southend, and a beautiful country-convinced that her brother was in- side. But let Southend take noceat. Dr. Tyler's interest in the the interests of European civilisa- by their own parents. Nobody heart. for the winter at any rate.
was aroused when the girl knowing the peculiar social and Shoeburyness, with a ground tem- enime to her as a patient and she tion is a betrayal of the weaker to economic conditions existing in this perature of 50 deg, during the night, learned that the ill-health was the financial interest of the stronger. Colony denies that any attempt to
grapple with the nitrai problem was one of the coldest places in the largely due to distress aver Her race."
brother's long imprisonment. The fact that Greenwood. had enlisted "bolshevistic views of is fraught with great difficulting British Isles to-day.
many of which are not understood THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
"before reaching military age, had Bishop Wearox caused a flutter in by those unfamiliar with life in The "Last Car."
The last cara crowded, a good war record, and had en- TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN official quarters so much so, in Hong Kong. All these aspects of
the subject have been dealt with stuffy little single-decker with dured shellshock was of special. NOTI
that the NINETEENTH OR deed, that the Colonial Office chang-in our columns many times, and steamy windows and faded paint interest to the doctor, who is the DINARY ANNUAL GENERAL ed ita mind about approving forced are well-known to our readers."
work-rambled through the Kings daughter of a General and the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the Company will be held at the labour in Kenya, in spite of the Still the unpleasant fact remains way tunnel, London, a few weeks grand-daughter of the General who HEAD OFFICE, No. 6, Das Veux blessing already bestowed upon it that slavery, though not recognised, age and out or to the Victoria Em-introduced the use of sandbags as "Old Joe" stood out protection for the artillery during docs exist in the Colony, and will bankment, continue to exist until the Chinese his red lantern, and the white arm-Great War Dr. Margaret Tyler or
in the middle of the roadway with the Crimean War. Taste, not price, makes a book the perfect gift, WEDNESDAY, the 26TH MARCH, by two other Bishops and
Daring the 1930, at 2.38 74, for the purpose of Governor. The story he recent realise the iniquity of the system. trafic to stop. The little tramcar of scores of women, who provided in who offend in this respect come to lets of a policeman semaphored the ganised and directed the energies receiving the Report of the Directors. detail by Lady Simoy in her recent And from what has happened re- together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DECEMBER, book on slavery, and it is well cently, it would seems that realisa rattled en towards Westminster. the British troops with enormous
worth the reading. In the end the tion of their offence will come about The policeman's arms dropped numbers of sandbags.
Old Joe." carried his lantern to British Government went on record only as a result of much more pressure being brought to hear upon-
the pavement underneath Waterloo as definitely stating their considered offenders by the Government. Three Bridge, blew it out in one brave opinion that the interests of the months ago it was officially in gast, and went home. The Kings. Looking Back. 25 Years,
way tunnel is closed-for, twelve
Lord Hawke, whose presence on African natives must be paramount,
must register their girls, who are months at least. Eighty London the cricket ground last Saturday and that if, and when, those in-estimated to number 10,000. So far. County Council, single-decker tram: attracted an unusually large field, cars will either have to be scrapped had that ill-luck which seems to dog terests and the interests of the only about a hundred names have immigrant races should conflict, the the law is being deliberately, dis deepened for double-deckers.
the steps of celebrated cricketers been recorded-proof positive that or remodelled The tunnel is to be
who have won famous victories, and former should prevail. That de-regarded. Now the crucial ques Mr. Chamberlain " Marooned."
from whom ever afterwards great things are expected at the wickets.. claration rings in accord with real tion seems to be," says Lady SIMON,
"whether these sections of the 1923 Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Dismissed for is not as bad as British sentiment, even though it Ordinance] are in fact being obformer Minister of Health, while being dismissed with a duck egg- does not carry a general episcopal served and enforced. It will in visiting East Africs to obtain first but very nearly. Lord. Hawks will DRAFT POND EXTRA bonediction. It is a definite ad deed be a shameful thing if we hand knowledge of territorial prob know now where to look, when he console ourselves by the reflection lens, was merooned on the wants another team to go to the BACE MEETING to be held de mission that might is not right a that such enactments could be found nisins in Kenya Colony Mr. and Antipodes --Hong Kong Daily SATURDAY, 22ND MARCH 1930 frank and honest confession of a printed in the Ordinances of Hong Mrs. Chamberlain and their daugh'ress, March 14, 1005. (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, Hoxo KONO OLU, blunder, and a pledge that it will Kong while the system of mui-taniter accompanied by Captain Ritchie, Looking Back 50 Years. and GATEWAY BAT STABLES.
The various subscriptions for the Entries CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK book is an exhaustive study of a Colony who own mui-tani are re
not be repeated. Lady SIMON's continues unaffected." Between.now the Game Warden, left. Nairobi to and June 1 all persons in this watch big game! Captain Ritchie
favourite spot relief of famine in Ireland: are took the party to NOON on FRIDAY, 14TH MARCH,
-19.49. phase of affairs which reflects credit quired to register these girls, under of his known as Lone Tree, where getting on famously. The one start- upon many European Governments. penalty of $250. The rate at which they saw plenty of game and haded by the Chamber of Commerce has registration has gone on during the the luck to spot a rhinoceros-an been headed by Messrs, Jardine, Her object is to direct public atten past three months in ludicrous It. unusual sight for that district. In Matheson & Co. with $1,000, and tion to the survival of various has been suggested that one ex crossing a river bed, however, the the Masonic Fund is, wo hear, forms of chattel slavery in different planation of the fact that only about car stuck in a mud pool, and the likely to prove a very handsome a hundred girls have been register efforts of the men for three hours contribution: We hear that Indian parts of the world, and to appealed is that many have left the Colony
to move it were, vain. When dark subscriptions, through the exertions to this generation to complete the since the authorities announced ness fell attempts were abandoned, of Meuers Mody and H. M. Mehta
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"Slavery: By KATHLEEN SIMON: With a Preface by the Right Hon. Sir John Simon, E.O.V.O. Hodder and Stoughton, Lon don,
timated that owners of· mili-trai
their intention of tightening-up the and the party settled down to await have been brought up to some" regulations affecting these girls. It rescuers. At midnight Capt. Rit $2,000. Altogether the various sub- ia as difficult to produce proof of chie's wife, who had an iden where scriptions will foot up to an amount. that statement as it was to find a her husband had gone, set out in that will well maintain the reputa Chinese who would not, under pres- search of him. Accompanied by a tion of Hong Kong for benevolence. aure, declare that his mui trai was chauffeur in one of the Governor's-long Kung Daily Press, March not a slave but an adopted daugh cars, she eventually traced her hus 15, 1880. (The dollar was then
worth 38. 81d.). ter
band by the lights from his car.