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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. WATSON'S
TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN
that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBERS of the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB will be beid at the OLUB HOURE. HAPPY VALLET, Victoris, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY the 4TH DAT of JUNE 1830, immediately after the HALF YEARLY MEETING of VOTING MEMBERS, for the purposs cf considering, and if thought fit, parsing the following resolution
"That the present unincorporated Members Club known as the Hoxe KorS JOCKEY GLUB be incorporated
THE
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KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
over S.W. Japan.
*
News and Views
Fernand
A wildly excited crowd of 5,000 people awaited. Dr. Asuero, the Spanish "mirnele doctor," who claims to cure paralysis and allied diseases by cauterisation, when he landed at Buenos Aires last month Pr. Asuero had to be escorted through the Customs office to a side entrance, where he escaped by
from motor-car
the throng of
writer admits this situation will not be so dangerous when the Govern- ment complètes its frontier forti. Yesterday's weather report, forefcations but until then he believes east and remarks, issued by the the situation is grave.
It in Royal Observatory at &
pestimated that France's, total army
This is the story told by a 30-year Booths for the working of the stated:-
if forced to defend the frontier from old clerk when he was charged at Pari-Mutuel authorised to be set up Bow-street with shopbreaking in the in Paris will be ready within a few The anticyclone remains central Dunkirk to Nice would only furnish Strand. He said that en a Sunday weeks, according to the Minister would-be patients: Mounted police
A depressiou
Agriculture, 3. one soldier for every 4 yards at night he went to a church service for
Racing experts say the covers the Gulf of Tongking. The the 750 miles of frontier. For this 4 Sutton (Surrey) and then walk-David.
When he reached booths will not necessarily mean a ed to London, typhoon is about 400 miles S.E. of reason the French Government con- the Strand at four o'clock in the reduction in the aurabers attending Hong Kong, moving west,
siders it vital that her steel and morning he was in rather a bad the racecourse. Local
Forecast: E.
mood. The hour between darkness concreto" fortresses along the moderate to fresh; fair at first; frontier be completed as soon as possible. The Commissions are working night and day on this task, and slowly France is developing rugged line of defence between her- self and Germany, the rigid fort resses being connected by mobile artillery and air units.
some raia later.
TYPHOON WARNINGS,
་
winds;
The following typhoon warnings have hoon received by the American Consulate-General from the Manila
Orange Squash Observatory:-
Lemon Squash
Lime Squash
and registered in Hong Kong under Carbonated GrapeJuice
the Hong Kong Companies Or dinances as a Company limited by guarantee and that the name of such Company shall be the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB and that the draft Memorandum and Articles of Asocis inted doen.
tion contained in the Pting and
ment submitted to the for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof the be approved and adopted as Memorandum and Articles of Associs tion of the Club as incorporated and that the same be subscribed by the existing Stewards of the HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB and registered as such and that the Company be registered without the addition of the word.
are manufactured from the Real Fruit Juices, and pure Cane Sugar.
Limited to its name as being an A. S. WATSON
Association which intends to apply its
ants in
profita 1 pre oting its objects sad and that the dividend to its ament of any
which probibits the
existing
Stewards of the Hong Kose JOCKEY CLUB do forthwith after the incorporation and registration of the
-***
Manila. May 24, 10.40 Cyclone or typhoon E. of Northern Luzon less than 300 miles distant, moving W. or W.NW.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
4
リ
THE WOMEN PIONEERS.
a
dodendr
were necessary to clear the streets, which were packed with cheering crowds of the doctor's admirers. Dr. Asucro was in practice at San Sebastian, Spain, when he attract ed attention by his claim to cure- and dawn always had a peculiar. Mr. Fenner Brockway has recent paralysis, sciatica, and other dis- effect on his temperament. While ly helped to throw some light on enses, by cauterisation of certain theatre the trouble in the Labour camp. nerves in the patient's nose. Amar- he stood brooding outside a sudden fit of aberration of mind The quarrel between the I..Ping cures, numbering over fifty, came over him and, caused bun to and the Labour Party," he says, were claired, and the doctor be- think of doing some rash net to "is not a divorce, but a separation came a national hero in Spain. - spoil the quietness of the morning. There is a dispute over the custody So he went over the road, broke of the children, the latter being in
Mayor Curley of Boston has cáll- a window and took some clothes, this case the parliamentary can When that was done it relieved the didates. Those candidates in the ed upon Government authorities to tension on his nerves, and as day 1.L.P. who advocate whole-hearted speed up action on the new Federal light was approaching he could
ly the Maxton policy will continue Building and so provide employ- think clearly. Then a policeman to receive the financial support of ment Therein he has put his came up and took him into cus-
the I.L.P. Those who do not will finger on the crux of the unemploy tody. Of course, after that it was be deprived of that benefit. The ment situation, since on all sides plain sailing to Bow-street.
obvious conclusion would seem to be available work may be seen; it is said that he committed the same
that those members of the ILP..only waiting to be done. kind of offence in the same way six years ago. He was committed who do not see eye to eye with Mr.
Maxton, will secede. for trial at the County of Londen Sessions.
Не
ANOTHER name has now to be added Manila, May 25, 11.30 am.to the illustrious list of women who Typhoon in about 119deg. Long. E., have been the first of their sex to 17deg. Lat. 3, moving W.
accomplish a noteworthy achieve-
Mra. Desmond Humphreys, the ment. Miss AMY JOHNSON has author, will in future, owing to the earned the right to be included constant public use by other people among those wonderful women who of her long-employed nom de plume, **Rita," publish any books or short The engagement is announced be-are recognised as pioneers in stories as "Rita L. Humphreys,
tween EDWARD CAIRNS THOMAS,
(Mrs. Desmond Humphreys). of the Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong, and Miss MADELINE MAY CLARK, of the Diocesan "Girls' School, Hong Kong.
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aid Company transfer and assign all Aerated Water Manufacturers the property effects benefit and
Habilities of the present unincorporat ed HONGKONG JOCKEY CIT to the Company to incorporated and re- gistered.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A Further EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the, HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB will be held at the Same Place on MONDAY, the 23xD DAY of JUNE, 1930, at 5.30 O'clock in the AFTERNOOF, for the purpose of receiving & Report of the Proceedings of the above mentioned Meetiar and of confirming, if thorght it, the above mentioned resolatios.
Copies of the proposed
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HONG KONG DEVELOPMENT
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(IN LIQUIDATION).
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HONG KONG, MAY 26, 1930.
THE WATCH ON THE
RHINE.
ACCORDING to a recent cable, by June 30 the lest French soldier now keeping watch on the Rhine will have left German soil on his way back to France There are still 30,000 French soldiers and about
centre. The other zones,
various spheres of activity-mostly regarded as masculine monopolies. The additions to the list during the last few years are really amazing, from swimming the Channel, to a judicial seat in a High Court of Justice and membership of Cabinet. The old question as to whether women are the equals of men has been now answered so many times that none but the mest ob stinate of "die hards" dares to raise the issue.
reserves.
Mr. W. J. Morton, chairman of the Public Committee of the Los- An important Napoleon relic will don County Council, speaking at disappear when house wreckers go Camberwell, described some of the to work on the six-storey building ruses adopted by unscrupulous at 3, Qual de Conti, epposite the traders to cheat their customers. Louvre Museum. Bonaparte lived Among them were: Melting out there when he was a young artillery, the adjusting lead from weights officer. His quarters consisted of and substituting blackened cork. three snall rooms on the fifth door. Using measures with false bottoms: He could pay the monthly rent of Using elastic to pull down the pans a few francs only with the greatest of weighting machines; Fastening Mr. Horatio Bottomley has been difficulty. Paris is rapidly grow
ase a split sausage beneath the refused permission to visit Canada ing, and room is urgently needed Pennies, pieces of fat, and, in one and the United States where he for new and modern structures, so goods plate: Keeping one hand ca had intended to give a series of the first Parisian habitation of the bag while it is on the scales; and "tilting the weighing machine lectures by the immigration autho-Napoleon will have to be sacrified. rities of both countries. Mr. Bot- tomley said: "Surely no one can Referring to hank statistics publish-
Action of the Ink Spot, publica deny that I have purged the ed in New York, the French paper. office for which I was convicted. Le Matin points out that on Decem- tion of the Brookline Young Peo- Why, therefore, am I stil! persecuti ber 31 last the Bank of France held pic's Inter-Church Council, in going ed in this fashion? I approached nearly one-sixth of the world's directly to the young people of that world's town to find out how much truth Of the the immigration authorities, armed gold with introductions and recommen- £2,100,000,000 in gold, the U.S. there is in charges of drinking dations from eminent public men possessed
France, among youth, is in the right direc of all parties, who felt that my tour with £325,000,000, surpassed the tion. There is too much talk and not enough fact in present pro- could result in nothing but good. combined Miss Jonsson'a Feat in aying Under the terms of the immigra- Great Britain (146,000,000). Ger- hibition charges
counter- and alone from England to Australia tion laws any person who has been
and Italy chargés. is not the first long-distance flight in prison is not eligible for admis- sion, and I suppose this is all pant accomplished by woman. of the general boycott I have had The battalion's privilege of June, 1028, Miss EARHART crossed to suffer for three years. I am a marching through the City with the Atlantic,
I expected that when I bayonets fixed, colours flying, and but that great sad man.
had purged the offence for which drums beating was exercised recent authority on aviation, Sir SEFTON was convicted my own country; ly by the lat City of London Re BRANCHER, has declared that Miss and our Dominions would not try giment (Rayal Fusiliers), Territori
af Army, returning from Easter JOHNSON's feat was more difficult to to keep me down."
training at Sborncliffe. The bat- accomplish than LINDBERGH's fight
talion, which was under the com- across the Atlantic. She left London
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel M. K. After nearly four months' work, on May 5 and arrived at Port
Mathews, proceeded from London which could only be done during. Darwin on May 24-starting her
Bridge Station to its hrad,quar calm weather, the serious damage to ters in Russell Square. Upon en- the foundations of the famous flight in a dense fog, and finishing
tering the confines of the City the Needles Lighthouse, Isle of Wight, in a gale Australia has “ gane
troops haited, and the regimental has been made good by concrete... mad," says a Sydney cable, over
colours bearing the arms of the During the gales last December a City were unfurled. Marching to portion of the rock base of the Miss JOHNSON's achievement, and
the strains of the drum-and-fife lighthouse was torn away by the the women show "fierce pride" in
band, the battalion swung through heavy seas, and masonry at the foot
of the tower was disturbed. They have their daring sister.
↑
a
1
woman of twenty-two who, in a tiny Moth" airplane, has accom- plished one of the longest and most difficult fights imaginable. We are | told that the first thing-Miss Jour sox did on landing at Port Darwin was to tidy her tresses! That is a touch of feminity as charming as it is characteristic. After Bying across the world, the only thing slightly ruffled was her hair!
The body of Mr. Edward Hibert Binney, a popular master of the City of Oxford School for Boys, who lived at Woodstock road, Ox ford, was found on the railway near Oxford last month by a goods train guard. It was believed that Mr. Binney was struck by the Worces ter-Oxford express train. He was second master at the school and on of the oldest members of the staff in point of service.
£813,000,000,
gold
(£112,000,000)
many (£38,000,000).
the streets.
reserves of
Gene Tunney, the former "heavy- weight champion of the world, re- cently denied a report that he was training to return to the ring to fight Max Schmeling, the German boxer, in the event of Schmeling defeating Jack Sharkey" in their bout for the championship, title on June - 26.
Local Notes and Events
Dr. Ralph S. Begbie has been ap- pointed Assistant Medical Officer of has been added to the list of authe-ed to appoint Mr. George W. A.
and Articles of Association are open to the Inspection of Members and can be seen during the usual Business Hours at the Office of the Secretary. Ma C. B.THERE being No Onorum Present, BROWN,
LINSTEAD MEISES.
the EXTRAORDINARY GEN 4,000 officers on the Rhine, occupy every right to be proud of this & DAVI Alexandra Buildinga, Hong. ERAL MEETING convened for the kong. and at the Office of M73888 234D MAX. 1930 was adjourned to ing the third zone with Mayence as DEACONS, 1, DES VOEUX ROAD FRIDAY, the 30TH MAY, 1930, at th its OrTRAL, Hong Kong, the Club's Same Time and will be held at the Solicitors, and at the CLUB HOUSE, Offices of MESARS PERCY SMITH, Cologne and Coblentz, were evacuat HAPPY VALLTT, Hong Kong.
ed in advance of the dates set by Dated the 21st day of May, 1830.
the Versailles Treaty. France must By Order of the STEWARDS. C.B BROWN,
find room to house these 30,000 troops, and this will be a hard! task, for her casernes are now crowd- ed, and the troops cannot be sent to the colonies. Homes must also be found for 4,000 officers, many of whom had moved their families to Germany,
Secretary.
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SIDELIGHTS ON PEACE CONFERENCES.
Health.
Pending instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. George B. Lane is provisionally recognized os Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Hong Kong.
It is notified, in the Gazette that the valuation lists for the Colony for the year 1930-1931 will be open 1 day's commencing on Thursday, May 09
The name of Mr. lu Nin Chau,
rized architects.
H.E. the Governor has been pleas
Tufton to be his Private Secretary.
A large black fibre trunk, which In a report made to the Water was found lying on the No. 1 Kow- Police, it was mentioned that in loon Wharf on Thursday by Detec trying to avoid running over a dog tive-Sergeant Kellett, was removed in Middle Road on Saturday, the to the Water Police Station. It driver of a Kai Tack motof-bus bad bore the name of "Ng Hung" in to awerve to the right. The driver Chinese characters and initials averted the accident but collided
with a lamp standard, which was
swashed
E.H.W." The trunk has not yet
"
been claimed, but it is thought, that the luggage was probably the pro- perty of someone aboard the Presi- Attention is drawn to a notice dent McKinley from Shanghai. With the moment fast approach. CHARGES that Admiral HILARY P.to inspection at the Treasury for appearing elsewhere in this issue the extraordinary general appe meeting of the Hong Kong Develop Looking Back 25 Years. ment Building and Savings Society i will be held on Friday, May 30. The meeting was convened for May 22 but had to be adjourned, as a quorum was not available.
on'
الله ابر
JONES, of the United States Navy, ia a notorious trouble-maker" whose continued presence would Mr. T. H. King has been appoint have resulted in "something serious ed to act as Inspector-General of happening to the London Naval ice and Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, during the absence from Conference" are made by ORINOHU the Colony of the Hon. Mr. E. D KAYA, an official of the Ministry of C. Wolfe.
Finance, who was in charge of the Miss Maria Gomes, the well-existing arrangement of the Kow-
known dramatic soprano, is making arrangements for a concert to be held locally. It is stated that a group of amateurs from Macao will also make their appearance on the
1
Commencing from June 1, the loon-Canton Railway for the addi- tional train which leaves Kowloon on Saturdays and Sundays för
Canton at 5.43 am will be discon tinued. As from the same date, train will leave Kowloon for Canton every Saturday at 1 p.m. and will return from Canton on Sunday at 6.15 p.
ing when France withdraws her last troops from the Rhineland, nervous
A Chinese lady was walking down Frenchmen point out that Germany
one of the lanes running off Queen's Road Central with her hair adorn- has 330,000 trained soldiers who,
ed with a brass hair-pin which Tai Sing, a rogue, mistook for a gold with one blow at Metz or Stras
one. Tai snatched at the hair-pin and endeavoured to escape with it. bourg, could eross the frontier into
He had probably not considered Alsace and Lorraine and crush financial accounts of the Japanese
any trouble possible from a mere France's army of 120,000 men almost Delegation at London. He is quoted
woman, and was, therefore, rather surprised to find that he could not by the vernacular Press as saying overnight! French fears of such an that the departure of Admiral
disengage himself from the iron grip with which the pinioned his invasion are based
arms, at the same time calling for the knowledge JONES, “who has been accused of concert stage.
the police, who were soon on the that their eastern frontier forti- wrecking the Geneva Conference
It is notified in the Gazette that
spot, and took Tai to the lock-up. Charged before Mr. G. N. Ormb fications are not completed and by picking a quarrel with British
at the expiration of three months delegates," was a leading factor in the Ming Yuen Recreation Garden,
at the police-court- yesterday be was The final dance of the season sentenced to one month's hard probably will not be before 1934, the eventual harmonizing of the Wing Fat Company, Ltd., will, LOUIE D'ORIGNAC, writing in La views of the various delegations, unless cause is shown to the con arranged by the Cheero Naval and labour-Hong Kong Daily Press, Liberte, a Nationalist newspaper, Admiral Joxes is said to have in-trary, be struck off the register and Military YMCA. for Service men May 26, 1905.
on Friday last proved & great Looking Back 50. Yearn. the company will be dissolved.
success, and a most enjoyable even- estimates that Germany is capable sisted that Japan should receive not
His Royal Highness Prince. more than 60 per cent of theIn answer to a call on Saturday ing was spent. There was a large of mobilising an army three times as
night, the Kowloon Fire Brigade, attendance of over 350 people. Both Heinrich of Germany, as her American auxiliary strength.
Station sent out two appliances to St. Georges and St. Andrews were Majesty's grandson, and His Ex- strong as anything France could
The Japanese financial expert de Woosung Street, but when the fire-used and, the floor presented an celleney Sir, John Pope Hennessy, put into the field. He figures that clares there is little chance of at the cause of the alarm was that evening a hearty vote of thanks sentative in the Colcay, presided men arrived on the scene, they found animated appearance. During the K.C.ALG, as the Queen's repre- France has only 120,000-fighting Tokyo being the acens of the Naval Chinese lantern became ignited in was proposed to the ladies' com- on the 24th instant as joint hosts, men which she could use for the Conference in 1935, because the the middle of the street, and their mittec, under the chairmanship of at Government House, on Her
services were not required.
Mrs D. J. Lewis, for arranging the Majesty's birthday to His Royal protection at her frontier Japauca capital has insufficient
dance, and this was endorsed by Highness Prince Thomas of Bavoy, lewemmodation word get adsortant in this these hearty Charge, han er kaf digger
extraordinary also expressed to all the Indies who Subsequently their Royal High- French pessimist, occupy without enough golf-links! Mr. KAYA is notifies that an
general meeting of voting members attended, and to the band which, nesses, with His Excellency the difficulty Metz, Thionville, Stras reported to have added that Japan, of the Jockey Club will be held at under the direction of Mr. G.. W. E. Governor and Lady Hennessy re- bourg and the valley of Briey be in acting as host to the visiting the Club House, Happy Valley, on True. acquitted themselves well. corved the Naval and Military fore any declaration of war and delegations, would be placed at a Wednesday, June 4, for the purpose Mr. True had been able to form a officers, the foreign Consule, and during the period of political ten-disadvantage when it come to secur- of considering the registration and very efficient orchestra of men from a number of the British, foreign incorporation of the Club under the various units; the saxophonist and and native residents in celebration sion. Havo we thought of this ing the proper amount of
Hong Kong Companies Ordinance drummer playing by courtesy of the of the day-Hong Kong Daily
Astral Orchestra.
Prea, May 28, 1890, asa company limited by guarantee. The Nationalist strength. eventuality"
"
naval,