NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO.,
...LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From SUNDAY, 2ND JUNE, to TUESDAY, 24TH JUNE, 1930, inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,.
• JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 14th June, 1930. [9535
"CHINĂ SUGAR REFINING CO.,
(2)
LIMITED
(IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION),
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of Section 187
0 of the Companies Ordinance 1911 A GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held in the BOARD BOOM of Messrs. Jardins, MazUBSON & Co., Lrn., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, or FRIDAY, 27re JUNE, 1930, at II NOON, for the purpoes provided for in. the said Section.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., JOHN FLEMING, CA.
Joint Liquidatora, Hong Kong, luth Jane, 1:50,
[9534
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MERTING.
Dewar's
White Label
Wonderful
Whisky
Awarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals
also
Dewar's
Whisky de Luxe
Victoria Vat
SECOND DAY of TENGDA Dux. Fized for
the As supplied to the Houses
SATURDAY, 14TM¤ JUNE, 1930, al of Lords and Commons. 2.O'CLOCK F.M.
First Saddling Bell: 1,30 r.."
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, (9524.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SE FORTY NINTH ORDINAKY TGENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Manazura, Masana JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.. LTD.. PEDDER Staxir, Hongkorg, on WEDNESDAY, the 18TH JUNE, 1930, st NOON, for the purpose of receiving ike Beport of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11TH JUNE to 2ND JULY, 1930, Both Daya inclusive.
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By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD., General Managers.
Hong Kong, 28th May, 1930. [9481
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at
EX CHANGE BUILDING, Des Vœux ROAD, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, 21 JUNE, 1930, Ki.11.30 AM.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED, from 12 JUNE, 1930, to 218T JUNE, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. W. BROWN,
* Secretary,
Hong Kong, 7th June, 1930. [9620
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTH.
Established 1841.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO, LTD.
NOT
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OBDIN. ARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the HONG KONG BOTEL, Hong Kong. | on SATURDAY, the 1478 JUNE, 1930, at 11 Ax, for the purpose of receiving with statement of accounts for the the Reports of the Directors together
year ended 30TH APRIL, 1930,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON. DAY, the 90. PAY "of "JÜNE, to SATURDAY, the 14th Day of JŪNE, 1930, Beth Days inclusive.
HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS," SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore enst and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.,
stated:-
Pressure remains highest to the north-east of Japan. It is relative ly low over China generally.
Local Forecast:-S.W. winds; moderate; fair generally; some
showers.
L
BIRTH. HUGHES.-On June 3. at Chinwang tao, to Captain and Mrs. Ë, H. Huones, a son...
MARRIAGES. '-
somewhat superior class of native females " .to the blessings of Christianity became wholly a boys' school. And in 1883 there was a day boy attending, the school who subsequently became known the world over, as SUN YAT SEN. Those who wish may follow in Mr. FEATHERSTONE's interesting volume the detailed study of the steady development of the institution over which he has presided for thirteen years. For ourselves, we confess to finding more entertainment in the extracts from minute-books dating down from 1863.
Thus we read that Miss EATON (who afterwards married Dr. E. J. EITEL, the talented German mis-
★ News and Views *
The announcement of the increased duties came as an unpleasant sur- prise; the news of the B.A.T. plans as a very pleasant one.
We may begrudge the extra dollars and Well-known novelists, headed by Mr. Short (Parliamentary Under cents taken from us by tobacconists Mr. Hugh Walpole, are to broadcast Secretary, Home Office), recently in London this month a detective stated that during 1920 motorists in disguised as tax-collectars, but we story in six instalments. Each Great Britain paid $201,313 in fines must welcome the prospect of very writer will take up the story where for all kinds of road offences. many more dollars coming into the his predecessor left off. All that Colony as a result of the establish its title
they know about the story now is Honorary degrees were conferred " behind the screen." upon Henry L. Stimson, United ment of a new industrial establish- Mr. Walpole will start the story. States Secretary of State, and the ment on a large scale. It is hoped but will abandon it at a thrilling French Premier, Andre Turdieu, that the new tobacco duties will and then they get the story carried tion ceremonies of St. Andrew's, point. Listeners will wait a week among other notables at the gradua bring in an additional three- on I stage farther by Agatha Scotland's ancient university, last quarters of a million dollars an-Christie. She will drop the story month. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, former to permit Dorothy Sayers to con Prime Minister, was installed as Hong Kong) received in 1863 an
tinue. In succession come Anthony allowance of 815 a month for board-Let us hope that the new tobacco Ronald Knox with their idea of the ing one of the lady teachers. In factory will bring many times that developments that should ensue. 1863 it was decided that the teaching amount into the Colony, developing There will not be previous col- of English be not made compulsory, terests in the only sane and sound on with the story without interfer its industrial and commercial in-laboration, and each writer will get 11 as several cases of girls being offered for, safe at a high price
ing with the work of the previous (A. Wung, $500), on the recom occurred." The following year the mendation of speaking English, bad
nually to the local treasury, which
HOPKING-WALSHAM.-On June 9, atsionary who wrote a history ofis in urgent need of replenishment Berkeley, E. C. Bentley, and Father Chancellor of the University after
Shanghai, Hvar RICHARD HOP: KING, M. B. E., to GLADYS NEWELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. PERCE R. WALSHAM, and grandaughter of the Jate Sir British Minister to China, 1886.
JOHN WALSHAM; Bt., K.C. M.G.,”
1992.
RICHARDSON-MASSON-PUTHODO June 7 at Shanghai, MAR GUERITE MARIE, eldest daughter to FREDERICK AUBREY, elder son of Mr. and Madame A. PUTEOD,
manner possible.
The new tobacco duties will not chronicler.
those called upon to pay it?-yet ordered to be removed from the be popular what tax is among
All dial telephones have been
the conferring of degrees. In the the office Mr. Baldwin took the oath amid loud cheers of the stud- enta
traditional vivid scarlet robes of
A statue of Paul Robeson, the negro actor recently appearing in "Othello" in London, has been re-
might cause strife over the problem delphia Art Alliance because it jeeted for exhibition by the Phila-
of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. MASSON terrifying discovery was made that more money must be found in order Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol of the colour line."
of Purbrook, Hants.
BOWLER-LEE-On June 9, at Shang. hai. GEORGE WILLIAM, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs W. BOWLER of Bramhall, Cheshire, to EVA. (Naney), younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD LEE, of Dulwich, London.
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the teacher of Scripture in the to carry on the work of adminis- school, was not a Christian-and tration, and it is only right that the unfortunate Jewish gentleman luxuries should be the first to be in question speedily lost his job! taxed. There may be some who will In 1860 it was also solemnly resolved deny that tobacco is a luxury, and, that no lessons should be given so far as the Chinese are concerned, by pupils to their friends. It was it may be conceded that for an in the following year that there
cama
enormous
number of them a
This is ordered by a special resolu tion of the Senate, members of which have complained that auto- matie 'planes are a "nuisance."
Birmingham Corporation Tram and 'Bus Department are experi menting with an automatic stop light. for trams, similar to those An Imperial statute of 1876 has carried on motor-cars, to Warn beer successfully invoked in the traffic behind when the brakes are police court at Brantford, Ontario, fully applied. An official stated in defence of a man who refused that the experiments had not yet to allow a police officer to enter his reached the stage when it could be cigarette seems as essential as a house on a Sunday. The policeman decided whether the device. was meal if, indeed, it is not frequent was armed with a warrant to search practicable, but he pointed out that the house on suspicion that liquor an automatic stop light was being ly substituted for one.
was kept there illegally. There was fitted to every new 'bus sent on the in many lines paralysed by civila struggle, and the householder was road. wars and a heavy drop in silver arrested for obstructing an officer. exchange, during the month of The magistrate dismissed the case
on the ground that no subsequenter champion ski-jumper of New Ingvald Ding Anderson, form- March the largest foreign tobacco legislation overruled an ancient England, was hanged recently for Scotia) hotel clerk. Friends of "An- striven in vais to secure a post- derson in the United States had
ponement of the execution.
With trade
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a stirring passage-at-arms between the School Committee and their President, the Bishop of Hong Kong, over financial affairs, in which his Lordship appears to have come off second best. In 1871 there was L really appalling
The Headmaster of the company in China reparted that statute of the British Parliament the murder of a Sydney (Nova
sales reached the Eighest figure in which provides that no writ, pro,
cess, order, judgment or decree The Chinese evidently shall be executed on the Lord's history,
Bress scandal.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JUNE 14, 1930.
THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS."
4.5 ап
Day.
prefer to have tobacco, even if they
neccssarios." must cut down on
Coolies who exist an fifty cents & The authorities in St. Briac are,
investigating. story of a woman who was sold by the extraordinary her husband to another man for the equivalent of 16s. The subject of the sale was unwilling to stay with her new owner, and it is alleged that for a long time she was locked up in his house.
School offered his services as or- ganist at St. John's Cathedral without first obtaining the consent of his Committee. They eventually gave the necessary permission, but it was solemnly resolved that the day, and support a family on this Headmaster be slightly repri- amount, manage to buy occasional manded" for his temerity. They cigarettes. Tobacco companies manu- facture cigarettes suit the kept strict control of the tutorial
humblest purse in China. If every profession. in those days; thus, in 1878 we read of a third master being coolic, enn manage to buy but one promoted to the position of heat-cigarette a day, the total in this master on condition that he married within six months, his wife to le appointed matron. And it was so!
to
Fast population becomes very large. One of the most deadly aerial Chinese women, too, are fond of weapons yet devised an especially fast torpedo seaplane has been moking, and contribute a sub-hought by the Swedish Government, stantial quota to the total con- It is the combined product of the German aircraft firm of Heinkel, sumption.
aad the British Armstrong Siddeley Cigarettes have become universa! Aero Engine factory at Coventry. in China within a generation or This new torpedo scaplane has a 700
send their men into the remotest two. Foreign tobacco companies.p. Armstrong Siddeley engine, and can carry a torpedo weighing interior, where only missionaries great that it is practically invisible, over a ton, Flying at a beight so have penetrated, and these intrepid the machine can swoop down at a salesmen find an increasing market wards an enemy ship, launch its speed approaching 200 m.p.h. to for their wares. Chinese bandits display a fondness vertically out of range of the ship's Oddly enough, torpedo, and rise again almost for kidnapping missionaries, but suns seldom bother tobacco salesmen.
$70
Zane Grey, the American novelist, and author of "The Angler's El- who is a keen deep-sea fisherman, dorado," recently has caught, of Papeete, in the Central Pacific, a record swordfish. The weight of Mr. Grey's fish 1,040lbs. Hitherto the record had
was given
been Captain Mitchell's 9761b. swordfish, hooked, played and taken off the north of New Zealand in 1926. That had been accepted as the biggest fish ever taken with rod and line.
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A hundred and one aeroplanes have entered for the round-Europe flight, which will take place from July 20 to 31. The entries include 17 German machines, 16 each from France and Poland. 10 from Spain, zerland. 8 from England and 4 from Swit-
But we must take leave of the good old days, and take a long jump to more modern times In November, 1917, the Committee at one sitting decided (1) to appoint the Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE as Principal and (2) to find a new site for the school. Whether this
sia, son of the ex-Kaiser, states the
Prince August Wilhelm of Prus-" was an association of cause and effect we do not know, but certainly
to have joined the German Nation Dortmund General Anteiger, is said during the last thirteen years the
aliat Socialist Workers' Party. the Diocesan Boys' School has made
Facist organisation, of which Hitler great progress. In 1928 the school For bandits, too, are smokers, and plies all the brain food a univer years, both Prince August and bis Half a peanut, or a biscuit, sup is the head. During the past few moyed from its old home in Hong, apparently appreciate the men who sity professor needs for an hour of brother Prince Oskar, have taken a Kong to the magnificent new build bring them tobacco. During the continuous thought. That is the prominent part in the notorious ings in Kowloon (turned over the past year scores of missionaries diet, of the Nutrition Laboratory Following military manœuvres
claim made by Dr. Francis Bene- **Steel Helmets " organisation. following year to the "Shaforce "have been killed or kidnapped, but of the Carnegie Institute. He Dear Cologne, at which members of to be used as a military hospital, foreign.
foued that a professor absorbed in the ex-Kaiser's family were present, tobacco salesmen, who This interference with the School's have escaped scot free. and handed back again in 1923). travel constantly in the interior, need for food than the charwoman last year prohibited in the Rhine- the deepest thought bas no greater the Steel Helmet organisation was
who scrubs the floor for five minutes. land." normal activities was rather
Noruing is more, disappointing than to pick up what is described by an imaginative publisher or an undiscriminating reader amusing story, and fail to find therein a single phrase which raises A smile. Contrariwise, nothing is more delightful than to find assortment of rich plums concealed in what at first sight may appear an unappetising dish. The Prin cipal of the Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage has recently pub lished a volume giving the history of that excellent institution from 1869 to 1920. This book (which is on sale at local book-stores at 85) for those who have been associated with the school either as students, tutors, or administrators, must be of very great-historical interest, and importance. In a foreword the Bishop of Victoria pays tribute to preserving." memorica of days that the Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE for
are rapidly passing beyond the re- call of human memory." We would serious setback from which it is OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN offer an additional word of thanks only now slowly recovering. But
that at * MEETING of the Directors of HONG KONG TELEPHONz to the Principal of the Diocesan nobody who reads this record of the COMPANY, LIMITED, held on the 17TH DAY Boys' School for giving us so many Diocesan Boys' School can fail to of FEBRUART, 1980, a Call $2.50. per Share, was made upon all the Mambera delightful glimpses of life as it was have confidence in its future; de- holding Shares upon which only $2.50 in Hong Kong in those "good old spite the difficulties it has had-and call will be payable to the Banker of days of which we hear so much the Company, The Hoxo Kove AND but can learn so little. SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION at their Head Office, No. 1, Queen's Boad Central, Victoria, Hong Kong, on the 30TH DAY of JUEZ, 1930
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 4th June, 1930. [9502
THE HONG KONG TELEPHONE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & per Share has been Paid and that such
MINING CO., LIMITED.
PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND Or SHARES FOR THE YRAK ENDING
30TIL
JUNE, 1930.
THE Board having declared An TINTERIM DIVIDEND of (e Shilling Per Share, Free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 30th Jork, 1930, Holders of Bearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Warrants received from Lan- don ou account of Hegistered Shares will be paid their Dividends on present-
94893
By order of the Board,
W. L. MoKENZIE,
Secretary,
ing Coupon No. 37 of the Bearer Share, CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares, to either of the following Banks
at Bhanghai or Tientsin:
The Hose KONG & SHANGHAI
· · BANKING „CORPORAZION.
THE CHARTERED Bank of INDIA,
«AUSTRALIA & China,
THE BANQUE BELGE POUR L'ETRAN-
ORIENT.
MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AGENTS.
"PEAK MANSIONS" :
still hav-to-face. Many Old Boys have gone to schools and universities No dryasdust record is this, but in Great Britain and other parts a whole series of documents of in- of Europe, and some have gone to tense interest," and by no means America. Others in turn will follow lacking in humour. It appears the them, while others less fortanate original foundation of the Diocesan will take their places in this com Boys' School was the Diocesan munity to face the battle of life Native Female Training School. trained to AL degree of moral, That is a curious fact to start mentel, and physical efficiency as revelation that this latter institu- teachers can bring them. with; then comes the interesting high as keen, able and earnest
tion was founded to introduce among a somewhat superior class of native females the blessings" of Christianity and religious train- ing." It is not difficult, to picture
MY LADY NICOTINE.
the "somewhat superior" attitude In spite or because of the fact
Local Notes and Events ★
The health returns for the 24 hours ending June 12 show that there was only one Chinese case (fatal) of typhoid fever.
There was no sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday, the Chief Justice dealing in the afternoon with cases in chambers. The action brought by Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Company against the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., which is attracting considerable attention; will be continued on Monday morn- ing..
In a report made to the Police, Cheung Sek Chuen stated that he
Ho Sai, a Chinese woman, aged | Looking Back 25 Years, 20 was removed to the Government The excessive beat of Monday last Civil Hospital on Thursday, and caused a coolie to take a header.
into the Shaukiwan reservoir, later transferred to the eastern where he was enjoying the cooling: branch of the Tung Wah Hospital, influence of a swim when be was cine oil. It was alleged that the day, he was ordered to pay a fine suffering from an overdose of medi- arrested. Charged before Mr. F. A. Hageland at the Police Court yester- woman had resorted to the drug of 825 or go to gaol for six weeks- with the purpose of committing Hong Kong Daily Frea, June 34,
Looking Back 50 Years,
The
Lanouncement made Hong Kong theatre-goers, who Reuter that Gordon Pasho has by have seen the tremendous alege started for China is a surprise to success, "Journey's End," at the dwellers in the Far East, for which the statement that he had rezigned. Star Theatre--and few have failed the post of Private Secretary to
suicide.
1005.
to do so will welcome the new of the Viceroy of India failed to pre- Colonel, Gordon first which will be due back from the laurels, by the signal succees which the return of the Salisbury Co., pare them.
won notoriety, if not his earliest North at the end of this month. attended his organisation of the Chinese Imperial Forces against the
Payment will be made in Dolla Six-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments. of the Victorian ladies who decided that it all goes up in smoke, the was driving his motor lorry, along This versatile company will present Taipings. It was inainly due to his
at the Buying Rate of Exchange of the
THE KAILAN - MINING ADMINISTRATION,
General Manager.
NorThis Dividend is payable on the issued - Capital. (inolading, the 580,000- Bonus Shares to be immed by Resointion of the Company passed on the 16th December, 1929) of 1,960,000
£9518
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, KOWLOON,
Detached and Semi-detached Villes Modern Construction, with Garage.
** CAMBAY BUILDINGS".
Flats with Modern Conveniences,
tobacco business is more prosperous Arsenal Street on Wednesday after some of the latest London plays as exertions that that most formidable today than it ever was Just now noon, when a number of women of well as the most successful of the rebellion was crushed and the Man- my. Lady Nicotine is very much in the labouring claes attempted to musical comedies. "at the limelight, firstly hezura af the Laxnes iba yaad in fans
the Starchu dynasty saved from destruc
"Theatre, Kowloon,
to devote some of their energies to the work of introducing, the bleas ings of Christianity to a "some what superior" section of their sex. However, as time went on, boys, as new Customs duties imposed upon Au An, aged 44, however, suddenly Salisbury is well known through power of the child-Emperor Kang. very serious risingmenaces the well as girls were admitted to the tobacco imports into the Colony, ran back and, in so doing, was out the East as a theatrical man Bu; and for what purpose, then, is institution. Then, in 1878-9, it was and secondly because of the news struck down by the lorry. The car ager who handles only first class the English officer in whom the decided that no more girls be ad that the British-American Tobacco rolled over her leg, and the un companies, and in view of the Peking authorities feel such mitted, and so it came about that Company is busily engaged in fortunate woman had to be removed his last visit, full houses should Chins-Hong Kong Daily Fre
tremendous success he met with on, supreme confiderice coming to the scheme for introducing a equipping a factory in Hong Kong. to the Government Civil Hospital. greet the artists during their stay June 14, 1860.