INTIMATIONS.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LTD.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
6%
NOTICE
NOTICE.
FIRST MORTGAGÈ DEBEN. TURES (KAILAN BONDS). TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN !
that AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MERTING of SHAREBBEST due on the 1s7 JULY
MAYMENT of The HALF-YEARLY HOLDERS in the CHINA PRO- VIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE: 1930, will be made on Presentation of COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held Coupon No. 98 at Any of the underwen
tioned Banks, viz. ——— on WEDNESDAY, THE 16TH DAY OF JULY, 1930, in the Company's Board HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI” Room, ALEXANDRA BUILDING, HONG Koxo, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of considering and, if thought Et, passing the following Hasolations:- 1.-That "the Carital of the CHINA
PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY, Loren, be increased from $3,000,000 to $4,500,000 by the creation of 30u.f00 Shares of $5.00 each and that the 300,000 Shares of $5.50 each shall each rank for dividend and is all other respecta pari pasu with the existing 8hares of the Compasy,
2.That in the event of the above
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Resolution being passed, 204788 Sharan shail be issued and offered in the Brat instance by the Directors at par to existing Shareholders the Register of July, ONE Shar the Company as at 1930, rateably in the propof
Shares held by
the 16th day
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BANKING CORPORATION, CHARTERED BANK
INDIA, ATTRALIA AND CHINA
• Banque De
L'INDO-CHE
BANQUE BELGE POUR
At Tientsid, Shanghai Hong Kong.
OF
Tientain and Hong Kong
only.
f Tientsin and L'ETRANGER. Shanghai ogly, The Interest less Income Tax at S. 4/6 in the £, will be— ON £20 DESENTURZA I
Per Coupon (Grows) Less Tax at 8. 4/6 in the £
I. d. 12. 0.
28.9/5
9. 3. 3/5
Not Amount Payable or £100 DRESTULIS:
Par Coupon (Gross)
... £3. 0. 0. Les Tax at S. 4,6 in the £ 13. 6:
Net Amount Payable 22 8. 6. 2500 DENTURES: Per Coupon (Gross)
£15. 0, 0. Lens Tax at 3.4/6 in the 23 7. 6.
such Sharabsiders, and in the events of any of the said 294,789 8 not being taken up by the f holders within the time stipulated by the Director, the Board shall be empowered to allot them or dispose of them as they in their discretion deem expedient in the interest of the Company.
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF JULY, 1830, to WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH DAY DF JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June. 1930.
"
By Order of the Board of Directors,
- D. LA KING,.
"Becretary.
(9579
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Net Amount Payable £11. 19. 6. Payment will be made in Local Currency at the Demand Buying Rate of Exchange of the Day the Coupon is presented.
By Order,
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,
P. C. TOUNG,
*General Manager.
(9693
NOTICE.
"AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF THONG KONG will be at HOME to Their Friends on the 4ra JULY, 1980, 11.30 AM. to 1P.M., at the AMERICAN OLUB. DUDDELL STREET.
[9697
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
8 From the 18 JULY, 1930,
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS A INTEREST will be Allowed to
the by Public Auction to DEPOSITORS on Their Minimum Monthly Balancer at the Rate of 20% Per Annum
be held on MONDAY, the TTU DAT of JULY, 1930, at 3 r., at the Offices
BANKING Cours.
of the Public Works Department, by For Tex HONG KONG & SHANGHAI Order of His EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND near Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Tong, in
the
the Dolony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal
be fixed by at & Crown Reat to Surveyor of Hu KAJESIT THE KING, for one further term of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
*No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Inland
Locality,
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2836.
Lot No;! Adjoining Korlogg ........ Kowloon Tong.
G.
Boundary.
Measure-
ments.
A
As per
male plan.
Aboot
Contents in
18,500
Square feet.
B.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Annual
itental.
Upset Prico.{
128
19604
0,230
RTICULARS & CONDITIONS
Y. M. GRATBUEN,
Acting Chief Manager Hong Kong. 30th June, 1930. (9596
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO.,LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. FOR
OR Beasons given to Sharobalders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company. held on 7th MAY, 1930, the Directors have decided to CANCEL all the Existing Share Certificata and to REPLACE them by. New Share Certificates of a different Colour,
All Shareholders are therefore re- quested to send their Share Certificates in the Registered Office of the Company at ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, in the Colony of Kone, forth with so that the New Share Certificates may be prepared and issued to them in liga of the Certificates now held by them which will be Cancelled
Hora
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHRETS & SON,
General Managers, Hong Kong, 20th Jane, 1920.
[9565
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930.
"SAILPLANING.""
A NEW AIR SPORT FOR BRITAIN.
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
BIRTHDAY TO-DAY.
[UNITED PRESS,]
VENDETTA IN PARIS. CORSICAN SCENE ÍN
MONTMARTRE.
Two Corsicans, actively engaged in vendetta, introduced the fall drama of their native island to a Parisian cafe one night last month. A taxicab, carrying two men, was
slowly ..up
towards the Pigalle, when suddenly, as it pass- ed a cafe, the occupants stopped the taxi.
Producing revolvers, they fired a number of shots towards the terrace where many persons were seated.
A panic followed. Two men
the terrace fell wounded, while others fed in all directions.
A aories of great exhibitions of
Northampton, Mass., July 3.-going sailplaning a sport developed from elementary gliding-have been or-Calvin Coolidge, only living ex. These President of the United States, ganised in Great Britain. exhibitions will be held during the celebrates his 68th birthday to-mor summer at many seaside resorts row alier completing one of the and other important ceatres.
busiest years of his life.
Since his last birthday, Mr.
numerous Coolidge has written magazine articles, started a 600- A sailplane is an engineless fly word history of the United States, ing machine, which, like a sailing become director of six different car buat, is dependent on the wind orporations, made a trip to the Pacific air entrenta,
Coast and Florida, dedicated the Coolidge Dam at Globe, Arizona, and moved into a new home.
The world's cleverest exponents of the art will give brilliant de monstrations of the now sport.
Given a slight up-current of, say, fifteen miles per hour on the side of a hill, a mailplane or soarer can' be taken off the ground and be flown to as long as the wind holds. She can further be landed on the spot whence she took off. More people have heard of gliders. Å glider is really an aerial toboggan, and is purposely designed to gide or slide down the side of a hill a few feet or inches off the ground. It is an instructions). "safety frat prelude to the sailplane.
The first half of the, 500-word history has been, completed and al [ready is chiselled on the face of Mount Rushmore, North Dakota, awaiting the unveiling ceremonies to take place there to-morrow. This is part of a written and pic torial history of the United States being emblazoned on the mountain by the State of North Dakota.
These exhibitions of soaring in The first 230 words of the history engineless aeroplanes will not only aroused many, imitators, who tried foster interest in a healthy sport, to tell the story in fewer words. but will assist in promoting a new H. I. Philips, of the New York and prosperous branch of the avia-Sun, said that Air Coolidge could tion industry, and develop "air-have written the summary in eleven 'mindedness throughout Great Bri-
words, Columbus, Washington, Lincoin, Volstead, up two flights, and ask for Tony.
tain.
America and Germany, where the sport flourishes, have already proved this. They have proved also that the art of sailplaning is the ideal elementary flying train- ing for those unable to afford the cost of learning to fy" in engine- powered aeroplanes.
1
Mr. Coolidge also wrote a series of articles on his boyhood and life in the White House for the Cosmopolitan Magazine, at the rate of one dollar a word.
on
to
Two Corsicans, one of whom bad a bandage round his head, rushed out of the taxicab and ran away (without waiting
pay their fares).
A hue-and-ery was raised, and Jone of the men was arrested by two
detectives who were passing.
"Jaques Mondolini, 30, a native of Corsica," is the description given of the captured man.
He said that he had been playing cards, on the previous evening, in Montparnasse night club, with a man whom he found cheating and who afterwards assaulted him in the street.
So be decided to avengo himself. He knew that his man was in the habit of taking an apertif in the evening on the terrace of a cafe in Montmartre, so, he and his friends hunted for him
Having found him they opened
fre.
The Corsican refused to give either the name of the man he fired at or the name of his companion who escaped.
[The vendetta is now almost as obsolete in Corsica as brigandage. in recent years the Freach. Govern ment has successfully bought out- right a number of prominent long- standing vendettas between islan- ders.. In return for Bums money the principal participants honourably keep the peace.].
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It was in one of these that he said he was through with politics. Manufacturers' Chance.
"I will never run for an office Factories have been built in again," said Mr. Coolidge in the
"When Cosmopolitan. America and Germany where glid-Washington I left public office for ers and sailplanes are produced and
good." sold cheaply, and it is hoped that British manufacturers, will follow the lead and produce a type of enginelesa aeroplane which all enthusiasts for the sport will be able to afford.
In the spring of 1930 the Coolidge
their home'! family transferred from a modest dwelling which they i had occupied for 25 years on 21, assasoit Street, to the Beeches, a 16-room English-style mansion sur rounded by large grounds.
At the first exhibition of the new sport thousands of girls and boys,
Mr. Coolidge assisted Alfred E. men, and women will see the sail-Smith, Democratic candidate for plane soaring above them, a silent, the Presidency in 1923, and Julius winged transport obeying the wishes of an expert whose know. Rosenwald in distributing the estate ledge of prevailing winds and air of the late C. Hubert, ashlight king, to organizations and charities currents will enable him to keep last winter. aloft for long periods.
The sailplane of the type he will use holds records for duration and distance of flight, and for landing within a given arca.
It is anticipated that these ex- hibitions will lead to the forma- tion of a chain of sailpläne clubs, the memers of which will learn scaring from the early stages of gliding.
In America and Germany the sailplaning sport and industry have thrived beyond hope. There are eliding clubs already in existence in Great Britain; but they have no sailplanes.
Healthy and Sate,
He is now director of the New York Life Insurance Company and five other large corporations.
PASSENGERS
Arrivals.
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The following passengers arrived yesterday by ss. Kalyan-Mr. C. R. Rozeskwy, Lt. T. V. Beer, Mr. and Mrs. A. Jarman, Mr. A. W. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. E. Self, Miss and Master Sclt, Rev. W. F. Crosthwaith, Mr. E. Tayler, Maj. C. Willson, O.B.E., Miss G. M. Johnson, Mr. R. Gilbert, Mr. J. de Vries. Mr. Goh Keng Aliang, Miss E. Jacob, Mr. A. E. Wyatt.
Departures.
"I am convinced, after a close examination of what is happening in Germany. and America, that the sport, science, art-it is all three
The following passengers left yes will capture this country," said torday by ms. Asama Mary for Wing-Commander G. F. Pretyman, San Francisco:-Mr. J. W. Stack- the famous air-pilot, ·
"It will do more: thousands will house, Mr. A. Miyashiri, Mr. and Mrs. Hennequin, Mr. Vavdyraky, leam the rudiments of engine Mr. Werner Krieger, Mrs. H. de powered lying in safety; their co-Villard, Mrs. A. Woller, Mr. Hsu fidence will be increased: air- Tehun Ping, Miss Eleanor M. mindedness will be their normal wyman, Miss B. Powers, Mr. Y. mental outlook; and "those who Terai, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Thomson, have learned to glide and sailplace Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Guterres, Mis will pick up engine-powered flying. Guterres, Mr. H. Watanabe, after the shortest possible training. Mr. H. Matanabe, Mr. T. Satoh, Mr. L. Calderon, Mrs. A. P. Cal It will only be necessary to give Mrs. K. Okure, Col. A. S. King,
deron, Miss P. Calderon, Miss E. Calderon, Miss Y. Tomura, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kurosawa, Mr. T Sakai, Mrs. A.SKing, Mr. T. A. Mathani, J.P., Miss. D. Y. King, Capt. A. E. Bevna, Mr. J. L. Jacob, Mre. C. H. Forster, Mias Forster, Master C. Forster, Mr. M. G. Hui- dobro, Mr. Jose Villa, Mr. and Mrs. Strohm, Mr. D. C. Marquez,
PARThe Sale by Public Auction IN THE SUPREME COURT OF pupil who can sailplane time to
to be held on MONDAY, the 7TH
DAY of JULY, 1930, t 7.1. at the Offices of the Public Worki HIN Order of Department, by EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of Two Lola BE OROWN LAND at North Point, Shaukiwan Road, in the Colony of Horg Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Ria MAJESTY TE Kino, for one farther term
of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Inland Lot No. 2918.
| Registry No,|
East of
Marine Lot
No. 431, North Point
Locality.
No.1706, North Point Inland Lot No. 2919. East of Inland Lot
Boundary
| Moreure-
ments.
As
per
sale plan
About
About
Contents in
Square feet
1,000
248 j
[0695
Upset Price.
€3,850
HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
Is Taz Goods or ALEXANDER DEWAE MACTAVISH, LATE OF INVERNESS, JAPAN, AND 10. CLAYERTON STEZET, ST. GEORGE'S BOLD, PIMLICO LONDON, DECEASED.
?
Nh the Court bas, by virtue
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of Section 58 of Probate Ordinance 1897, made an Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 25TH DAY OF JULY, 1920.
All Creditors and Others are sccord- ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or befor That Date.
Dated the 26th day of June, 1980. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors for the Execatrin, Prince's Building,
Hong Kong.
(9584
HONG KONG WEEKLY
PRESS.
CONTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S LOCAL NEWB.
The Poper to send Home
accustom himself or herself to the engine controls.
It is a healthy, safe sport, from which + great industry should spring."
Filots who love flying, but are tired of the noise and the expense, are thrilled with the sport of sail- planing. Its technique, its silence, broken only by the "hush" of the breeze, and the need for them to match their wits against natural force without the aid of engine. power all these make an irresist ile appeal to them.
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لرحيم
On account of missing tide con- America and Germany have been struggling for the records for asil ditions at Shanghai the Empress of
Canada
necessarily de. planing. Last October Lieutenant Dinort soared, for 14hrs. 43mins. layed, and did not reach Hong 25secs. at Rossiten; and last sum. Kong until 7 a.m. to-day; she will mer Robert Kronfeld made a cross- sail this afternoon at 5 pm. for
Manila. country flight over a pre-detar. mixed course d ninety-two miles at Wasserkuppe Germany... He also captured the altitude record by fixing 7,300 feet above the point of start.
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Mrs. Lindbergh: Colonel and Mr. Lindbergh have qualified for first-class American manufacturers are "ris recently ing to the occasion.
licences with pilote' They are sailplane building gliders, intermediate-etage flights made in the neighbourhood Mrs. instruction types, and sailplanes to of San Diego, California.. meet the ever-growing popularity Lindbergh is the first woman in of this thrilling sport,
the United States to qualify, and her success basinspired other women with no knowledge of flying to start training,
It is estimated that between three and four hundred" trained pilota of engine-powered acro-
The U.S. Government are expect- planes in America are already training for Baßolanes. Mr. Bowed to make a financial grant short- lus has five schools devoted to the ly to foster the new sport, and sport in California. New schools American universities are consider. are being opened elsewhere.” ing the inclusion of gliding and (Continued as foot of next columa).
allplaning in their curricula,
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