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CURRENCY CHARGES ON
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ENDERS OF TELEGRAMS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Owing to the Heary Fall in Exchange this Company is reluctantly compelled to collect CURRENCY CHARGES on TELEGRAMS at the Hata of Dollars 0.70 to squal Fr. 1.00 commencing 201¤ INSTANT and until Farther Notice.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.“
DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
PART br Publis Anction
to be bold an MONDAY, the 2335 3.P.X. DAY of JUNE, 1930, at
the Offices of the Public Works
of Order
HE Department, EXCELLENCY THI GOVERNOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at Bate Street, Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent the fed by the Barreyor of Ea MASTI TAI Kia, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Bale.
Registry No,
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot
2342.
Al janction of Bate Stroet, Fa Yuen Strest
and Sai Yee Street
PA
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
-As per
Bale plan
Contenta in
Ananal
Renial,
Tipnet Price. '
About
8,840
Square fent,
15,912
PUBLIC AUCTION.
19350
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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held or MONDAY, the 23RD DAY of JUNE, 1980, at 3 r.., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCT THE GOVERNOx, of Ore Lot of CROWN LAND at Tang Choi Strest, Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 year, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Burveyor of HA MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years..
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Registry No.
Locality.
No. 2343. Adjoining Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2215,
Kowloon Inland Lot
Tung Choi Stroot.
| Boundary
Measure-
ments.
As per
sale plan,
About
Contents in
3,100
Square feet.
Anncal
Rental.
Upest Prico.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.. stated:-
The northern depression is cen- tral to the north of Japan and is moving northward. The southern depression is stationary over S.W. and W. China
Local Forecast:-E. or variable winds; light to moderate; cloudy; occasional raie,
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* News and Views *
A big aeroplane constructed by the Handley Page Co., which fully loaded weighs thirteen tons and is able to carry 43 people at 100 miles
Robert Wark of Seattle will at terapt a non-stop fight to Tokyo within a month. He will conduct test flights of his monoplane on an hour; is soon to undergo its June 23, according to present first flying trials. This giant ma- plans. chine is the first of a super-fect to be employed by Imperial Airways, Ltd. It will be driven by four motors developing a total of 2,240 horse-power. The 'plane has been designed and constructed entiraly by the Handley-Pago Co.
The life of the 21-year-old Prisco Tomislaů, younger son of King Alexander and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, has been saved by the prompt action of a auldier, the Lokalanzeiger reports in a message: from Belgrade, Her Majesty was standing on the baleary of her sum mer residence at Dedinje, with the child in her arms, when he slipped from her grasp and fell over the edge of the balcony. A soldier on guard in the courtyard sprang for. ward as the Prince fell, and caught. A peacock was the first visitor to him uninjured. King Alexander the Crystal Palace one morning rehas released the soldier from mili
tary service, presented him with cently, Bored with the monotony about £100, and settled a pension of his enclosure in the grounds, the on him for life. bird decided to see the sights of the building. Chased by attendants he few round the Greek atatuary and other exhibits. He alighted on the old post office. Just as attendants on ladders tried to seize him the peacock flew to the top of the box office. From the box-office he awooped through a pane of glass, barely a foot square, into an enclosure by the front entrance. Then be strut. ted majestically back through the Palace into his own enclosure.
A message from Szolnok (Hung ary) regarding the mass poisoning trials there states that one of the accused women, Julia Majzik, uas been sentenced to hard labour for life. She had poisoned her father- in-law with arwain. This is one of se trials of women in the district. They have been accused of killing their husbands or lovers (or re- latives with property) with arsenic or other poisons. The poisons were supplied by a wise woman" (since dead by poison, self-administered), who undertook for a few pounds to rid women of undesirable friends.
are faced with proposals for new taxation which, no doubt, will be bitterly resented but which in the circumstances serru inevitable: More money obviously has to be found by the Government to meet current expenses. It may be that important economies can be effected in regard to administrative services, but it will take time-first, to locate the points where extravagance existe, and second, to devise ways and means of obtaining equal efficiency at leas expense. Increased taxation for the moment will fall upon those who use tobacco and those who use "light bydro-carbon oils, which in the main means motorists. These proposals do not by any means ex- haust, the possibilities of raising Dow revenue; there are a dozen other sources which could be easily tapped-if the money is, in fact, needed. That is the point on which opinions differ very widely, and will continue to disagree until the actual facts are disclosed. In justice to the members of the Civil Service, and to the community which, directly or indirectly, con-
Sunday games at Brighton were TO-DAY'S MONEY DEBATE. tributes to the upkeep of that vigorously denounced by the Rev, has been a set-back in Canada nulment of a divorce decree is be- Pitt Bonarjee at the Countess of following the Stock Exchange fore the Paris Courts. Four years service, we would like to see an im- Huntingdon's Church at Brighton collapse last autumn and the ago a Parisian, living apart from partial investigation made on the last month. Referring to the Town country is having its share of the his wife, auggested divorce, but the
suggested by Mr.
Council's decision to permit Sun-general world depression. Canada, wife, opposed it. The man, it is Huarts. The mere fact that the jee declared that this was
day games in the parks, Mr. Bonar however, is in a remarkably good alleged, then persuaded another There is divorce purposes. All the papers. Hong Kong dollar now stands at deadliest form of Sunday desera position to recover as soon as that woman to personate his wife for
depression clears up. more than 33 per cent. below. the tion." and said that Sunday was every reason for optimism in the concerned with the case ware ad-
made, hideous by courting couples future."
dressed to her. No defence was put standard taken as a basis by the hugging one another in an unseemly
in, and a divorce decred was grant- Salaries Commission for its calcu-way in public on the front. "If A grain of rice has been sent as ed. Later the man tharried an lations shows how necessary it is we are not on the alert there will
soon be no Sunday at all in this present to the parish priest in other woman, His first wife made for the whole question to be re-great and beautiful town hasi Lucaina, Spain, by a school teacher inquiries and was surprised to hear now bringing an action for the an- Are we doing our visitors anys Huerteles, Segovia. Examine that she had been divorced. She is good by allowing the town to be it under a microscope" said an ac- converted into a Babylon by the soa," Mr. Bonarjee added that it seemed the brainless policy of some people to make Brighton notorious as a gay giddy pleasure-loving
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JUNE 18, 1930.
THE report of the proceedings at to-day's meeting of the Legislative Council will be read with the same
keen interest as was taken in the
lines
viewed.
OWEN
RUSSO-CHINESE AFFAIRS.
The German-American Mired Claims Commission has awarded a sum of $74,000,000 to Germany for vessels seized by the United States in Ameriena ports at the outbreak of the War. The award covers merchantmen. The ninety-four largest valuation
was placed on the steamer Vaterland, now the liner Leviathan, at 814,000,000.
the
Sir William Clark, British High Commissioner in Canada, arrived at Liverpool recently on holiday; In an interview he said: There
A remarkable suit for the an-
companying letter. Under the minulment of the decree. croscope it was seen that the Lord's Prayer had been inscribed on the surface of the rice grain.
are
"
more BUS-
power.
cables describing the progress of the recent test-match. The Government ix submitting for approval some important proposals, and the Un- offcial Members have some no less
Reviewing the record of Ameri important counter-suggestions to
can administration in the Philippine Islands, Raymond L. Buell, re- bring forward. All the material
THE representatives of Russia in town.
search director of the Foreign People with straight and concave Policy Association, declares that necessary for a most interesting and
North Manchuria apparently are
shoulder blades
while with a comparatively few ex- informative debate is provided, and not greatly concerned regarding the
Miss Caroline Ellis, aged 70, ceptible to disease than those with ceptions the actual management of the community will be greatly dis-outcome of the present Sino-Russian found dead at Yarmouth near a gas the convex type. Dr. William W the native government is in the cooker of which all the taps were Graves, director of the Department, hands of Filininas, they are subject appointed if the discussion does not Conference in Moscow. The in-
turned on, was said by neighbours of Neuro-Psychiatry at St. Louis to a series of checks and limitations materially cortail their prove as enlightening as it should pression is obtained that so far as to have been worried because she University School of Medicine, has which
"Altogether," Mr. Buell Moscow is concerned the Sino-Soviet could not get on with her spring made this discovery after an ex- be. The Government asks for 16 condict of last summer and autumn painted. One witness said the wo-of human skeletons in the world and 20,147 Filipinos in the Govern. cleaning, as the house was being amination of the largest collection declares, "There are 503 Americans lakhs in order to carry out the re-is over, and that the terms of the man's passion for spring cleaning Criminals, the feeble-minded and ment service. About 80 per cent. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. commendations of the Commission agreement signed at Habarovsk are
recently appointed to go into the the basis of present relationa question of Civil Servite salaries. Dr. KOTEWALL will oppose this ap plication, but will advocate con- tinusace of the temporary high cost of living allowance, while Mr. Oway HUGHES will suggest the appoint ment of a Committee to investigate the report of the Salaries Commis sion and submit fürther recom- mendations to the Government for
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was like a disease. A verdict of men and women liable to tuber of the Americans are employed in Suicide during Temporary In-culosis, are included in the class the Bureau of Education, the major sanity was returned.
possessing concave shoulder blades. Iity as teachers."
* Local Notes and Events *
It will be recalled that China expelled many of the Russian em- ployees of the Chinese Eastern Rail way, and assumed virtual control of the line last summer, charging, the Soviet citizens, with engaging i in Communist propaganda in
Only one Chinese 'ense (fatal) of violation of the 1924 Treaty between diphtheria was
included in the the two countries. The conflict was health returns for the 21 hours end- settled only after Soviet troops haded June 17. consideration. Further, Mr. Ow been massed on the border, and Huques will suggest the appoint- ment of what he calls a Retrench-
engaged in military operations
For maliciously wounding a fish- monger with a chopper, a Chinese, described as a member of a Triad Society and a man, who lived only on his wits, was fined $25 or three A snatcher was sentenced to one weeks hard labour by Mr. White, ment Committee to investigate and which took them well into Chinese year's hard laiur and. 13 strokes Smith. advise the Government as to bow territory. An agreement finally was of the birth by the Kowloon Magis- CREDIT FONCIER_D'EXTREME and where economies in public ex-signed at Habarovsk calling for trate for snatching a handbag con-
formal settlement of details at the taining $21.10 from penditure could be effected,
conference. Dow Moscow.
way in Shanghai Street.
Cheung Shan, master of a bas at last arrived for debating Harbin seem inclined to favour a ing junk, was yesterday before the them in public, we hope there will policy of "realism" in dealing Marine Magistrate for failing to
ORIENT.
MORTGAGE BACK AND ESTATE AGENTS.
"PEAK MANSIONS"
It is unfortunate there has been so much delay in the discussion of. these issues, but now that the time
under
The Soviet representatives in
a Chinese lady
trad-
In the report of the Police Magis- trates Court for 1999, which has just been published, it is stated that the number of cases was 31,588 as compared with 28,488 in. 1928, and that, the revenue was $140,810.13 as compared with $163,216.82 in 1928.
For the theft of a rattan chair,
A heavy sentence was passed on a. watchman at the property of a.
Chinese postman, who was brought Housca under construction in i
before Mr. Lindsell yesterday, on Shanghai Street, a Chinese was j
charge of possession of 28 taels of sentenced to six months' hard
opium. It was stated that the de-. labour when, be appeared before.
fendant was in his uniform when fr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon
Six-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartmenta. be a full, frank, and free exchange with China. They would settle "enter" bis vessel upon arrival Magistracy yesterday. On looking the drug was found concealed an-
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up defendant's record, it was found that the man had been banished from the Colony for life.
derneath his jacket. A Sne of 83,000, or nine months' imprison- went, was imposed.
of opinion. There is much to be cach problem as it arises, and prob in the Colony and also for leaving said in favour of the proposal to ably would not be opposed to a port without a clearance. He have an inquiry into the report of show of strength when considered pleaded guilty to both charges and
necessary. Commission by a
was fined $10 on each count, Lengthy treaties and
-A report was made by a Chinese Detached and Semi-detached Villas committee representing both the agreements, they seemed to feel, are
junk-master yesterday to the effect Looking Back 25 Years. There Far allowing mosquitoes to breed that while he was steering his ves The Chinese, whose front stoops Government and the community not necessarily desirable. True, it may seem to set a question appear to be no indications that in a swamp in the kitchen of his sel inte
the Yaumati Typhoon overhang the public ways at various the Russians, following their victory quarters, at the back of Kowloon Shelter and while the junk was op heights, have, a careless and very able precedent, inasmuch as it leaves the way open for yet another in the conflict regarding the rail- Tong, a Chinese contractor was posite the Naval Yard Wall in Kow. dangerous habit of dropping Committee to be appointed to report are adopting a high-handed fined $30 by Mr. Whyte-Smith at loon, a Portuguese gunboat ran things. Sometimes accident is re- on the report of the proposed attitude towards the Chinese. Sur- Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, into her.
The junk, which was sponsible; sometimes: in- mischief Committee, and so start an endless face appearances in Harbin in The Sang Lee frm were also fined carrying a cargo of firewood, etc., some light articles, or a cup of tea, ehnin of reports upon reports, But dicate that co-operation in the for breeding mosquitoes opposite at the time, was sunk. The damage will be aimed at a foreign devil passing boneath; and sometimes, no there is no doubt that an inquiry management of the railway has been the Kowloon Hospital.
restored, and that both sides-are-
doubt, reckless malice puts the pedestrian's life in peril. & Daily Press representative was within nese, who was charged with un-as her hobby. She swings a wicked three yards of the spot where an lawful possession of 3,000 heroin golf club, is a good swimmer, and earthenware crock struck the ground pills, when he appeared before Mr. few can beat her on the tennis- on the bill leading up past the gaol F. F. Lindsell at the Central court. She likes baseball, but has some weeks ago. This sort of thing" Magistracy yesterday. The man never attended a prize-fight. Miss ought to be rigorously suppressed; Russian officials declare Moscow was searched and arrested when he Clarke keeps herself fit by constant and it seems a pity that à prosecu is quite willing to abide by the landed from a Kongmoon boat en exercise including long hikes, and tion should fail for want of give good results should bring agreement to sell the Soviet in- Tuesday,
she is one actress, who has never evidence-Hong Kong Daily Press,
June 19, 1905. about the definite disclosure of facts terest in the railway to China at
smoked a cigarette. Her versacility
Looking Back 50 Years."
COMPREHENSIVE AND COM
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conducted or the lines suggested by
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is estimated at $600,
A fine of $500, or three months”.
Mae Clarke may be a little lass,
to clear the air. There are many attitude. Foreign observers genhard labour, was imposed on & Chi- but she describes. outdoor sports who consider the Civil Service to erally seem to feel this is the case, be over-paid and over-staffed. There but they agree there still exist many are others who are equally con elements of danger and that the vinced that neither salaries nor possibility of a new conflict should
not be ignored. atas are extravagant. An inquiry by a Committee representing both tax-collectors and tax-payers should
which aro
At present somewhat any time China wishes to buy. The The hon. treasurer of St. John is not confined to sports, however. obscure. The other, suggestion that price they mention; however, was Ambulance Brigade begs to acknow. She is one of the leading dancers We hear that yesterday' an in- a Committee be appointed to advise enormous, approximately one billion ledge the receipt of the following of the stage, has a splendid singing terim order was served on the Com the Government how and where four hundred million gold roubles, donations towards Brigade funds voice, and is an actress of more mittee of the Hong Kong Club re economy could be effected in public or about $700,000,000 gold. This (collected by Mr. Woo Hay Tong): than ordinary ability. She recent atraining them from publishing any-
efficiency is also one which must amount Russia has spent on the $50; Eam Dore, $25; Chu Chung (in Big Time, the Fox all-talk-ordinary meeting held yesterday appeal to the ordinary business-railway since it was first projected, Hin, 820; Ho Man Hon, $15; Lai ing drama opening at the Queen's afternoon, anil, as will be seen by: man and seems well worth trying. plax interest. Foreign observers in Yuet Chan, -815-Au-Yeung-Fung Theatre today Ice Tracy,of the Law Notices, a notice in Pitman Front. Keswick and. Others will come "What will"be" the Tate of these Harbin consider this figure imPak, $151÷Choy-Hoo-Sang, $10; Broadway and "The
various suggestions this afternoon possible, and believe there is no Mok. Hing Kiu, 810; Mok Hing Page" fame, portrays the role of on for hearing at eleven o'clock it is not possible to forecast. Wo possibility of China accepting adch Cheung, 810; Chan Lum Kwan, 610; a song-and-dance man who, sad to this morning-Hong Kong Daily
Fand Wong Pik Tung, 810.
relate, has his brains in his feet. ↑ Presa, June 19,1850, must wait and see. Meanwhile we terms.
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