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HE TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company will be CLOSED From SATURDAY. PTH-AUGUST. 1970, To. SATURDAY, 18TH AUGUST, 1930, Fath Days inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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Hong Kong, 17th July, 1930. (9852
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"INTERIM DIVIDEND of TWO DOLLARS per Share for the Six Months ending Sura Juve, 1930, will be Payalle on FRIDAY, ETH AUGUST, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained an applica. tion at the Company's Office, 3, CHATE ROAD
The REGISTER of SHARES of the from Company will be CLOSED
THURSDAY, the 31ST JULY, to THURSDAY, the 7TH AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), dating which period No Transfer of Shares can bo registered. "By Order of the Board of Directors,
1. 8. GREENHILL, Becretary. Hong Kong 17th July, 1930. [9658
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD,
NOTICE TO SHÄBEHOLDERS.
FOR the Angual General Meeting "of the Company, held on 7th MAY 1830, the Directors have decided to CANCEL the Existing Share Certificates and to REPLACE them by. New Share Certificates of a different
Reasons given to Shareholders
Colour.
All Shareholders are therefore re-
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m., stafed
The typhoon is situated to the W.N.W. of Oshima, moving N.N.W. A depression remains to the NNW of Hong Kong.
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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.
Municipal Council by three mem- bers nominated by themselves, who assist and advise the Council on all matters affecting the local Chinese community. Kulangan,' în
Two small publications of great short, appears to have proved an ideal example of the effective interest to philatelists have been manner in which foreign and compiled by Captain L. T. P. Chinese citizens can co-operate to Joaquim, of Penang. One is a offered £40,000 to meet Johnny their mutual advantage when they Check List, with notes, of the Risko at Detroit for the title next
* News and Views ⭑
Max Schneling, who recently won the world's heavyweight title on a foul from" Jack Sharkey, has been
Whisky!! Local Forecast:-S.W. winds; are so inclined-which, perhaps, is stamps of the Straits Settlements September-
Dewars.
White
fresh; squally; overcast; rain.
TYPHOON WARNINGS,
The following typhoon warnings have been received by the American- Consulate-General from the Manila Observatory:
why the Nanking authorities are in no great hurry to disturb so happy a situation.
THE BRITISH FARMER'S TROUBLES.
Manila, July 16, 3 p.m.-Typhoon AT this season of perpetual per- or cyclone over or near Naha, mov.spiration and prickly-beat English people find it pleasant to recall ing N.NE or N.E.
a.m. memories of glorious summer days Label Manila, July 17, 11.15
Typhoon in about 197deg. Long. E. among the fields and orchards, at and 29deg. Lat. N., inclining north-home. No doubt the countryside ward.
is as picturesque as ever, but there is considerable doubt as to its prosperity. A Reater message re cently stated that the Labour Gov erament is giving close attention to the farmer and his difficulties,
All divorces granted in the Mexi- particularly along the lines of
pro- can State of Morelos during the better organisation among ducers and improved methods of past three years, which were recent
Finest Scotch Whisky of
Great Age.
Victoria
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Whisky de Luxe.
Awarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals
quested to send their Share Certificates AGENTS
to the Registered Office of the Company
at
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
VICTORIA, in the Colony of HoNG
Kove, forthwith so that the New Share A. S. WATSON
Certificates may be prepared and issued
to them in lien of the Certifientes now held by them which will be Cancelled,
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1930,
B.
[9621
THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPART-
MENT is prepared to receive TENDERS for the Purchase of a
QUANTITY of OLD MATERIALS comprising Metal Scrap, Old Motor Tyres, Empty Drums, Lidgerwood Piling Engine, Various Quantities of Glass, Barvey Instruments, &c., &c.
For Form of Tender sad further particulars apply at the Office of SUPERINTENDENT OF ACCOENTS & STORES, FUSTIC WORKS DEPART
MERI.
[9644
& CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
NOTICE. "THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
TOT CE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 12235 for 60 Sharon Nos. 591629/36 878 iesmed in the Name of MUK KING TAK has been declared LOST and should the same not be produced before the 22nd JULY, 1930, it shall be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD, Agenta.
Hong Kong, 7th July, 1930. [9625
BIRTH.
VALENTINE-On July 17, at Victoria Hospital, to Dr. and Mrs. D. J. VALENTINE, a son, JoHN..
(9656
Editorial and Business Offices: 11, Ice House Street. Tel: 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office);
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The Baily Press.
The estats of Mrs. Caroline Bor- rett (Marie Stadholme), the noted actress, of Finchley-road, Hamp stead, N.W., is valued at £88,308. She left everything to her husband. Miss Marie Studholme was the owner of considerable, property in the neighbourhood of her home.
Sixty thousand tons of cliff at Sidestrand, near Cromer, on the Norfolk coast, fell last month. The well-known spot known as the Gar- den of Sleep has disappeared, with the exception of one corner. A stretch of more than 250 feet in length was affected. The beach be- low has been blocked to such an extant that very little is left upon which visitors can
walk at low water. This is the seventh fall of
and the Fedorated Malay Stabes. It should be of especial value to
Profiteers who buy seats at the those stamp collectors who speci- Wimbledon tennis championships to alise, as it contains much matter re-sell them are now turning their which is not given in the standard attention to big cricket matches in catalogues. The other is a mono- their efforts to make quick and easy graph on the stamps which were money. An advertisement in a overprinted during the Malaya-Londen paper stated that scats Borneo Exhibition held in Singn-were available for the Lord's Test When inquirere rang s pore in 1999 in honour of the visit match. of the Prince of Wales. Captain certain telephone number and ask cliff on the North Norfolk coast in Joaquim has made an exhaustive ed the price of a 136. grandstand three years. The cliff now resem study of these stamps. The publica seat, all of which were booked bles half of a figure eight tions can be obtained from the months ago, they were astounded the Egure quoted. Two
Germany's export figures, which author, whose address is 195, Westat
was the reply. Lord have been rising at
B rate of ern Road, Penang, S.S. The Check guiness," List is priced 10d. or 35 cents Harris, the chairman of the Eont 250,000,000 annually during the (Straits), and the monograph 6d. Cricket Club and treasurer of the past five years, show an astounding or 20 cents (Straits), both post free.M.C.C. said "If people like to increase for the month of May, the buy tickets up and other people are trade figures for which were publish- willing to pay the increased priced recently. Exports in that month for them we cannot do anything showed a surplus over imports of When somebody buys a ticket it is more than £12,500,000. The botak his own property to do what he value of exports in May amounted to £31,825,000, approximately pleases with:
£6,000,000 more than in April. Im- ports during May, on the other hand, decreased by £2,550,000, and ports in the month of May amount- ed to £80,087,383, as compared with £54,705,519 in April-an increase ut £5,382,074. Imports: totalled £91,037,363 in May and £83,922,401 in April-an increase of £7,114,902 The British figures show a depress- same period of last year. ing drop, when compared with the
marketing. Prices for British ly outlawed by decision of the
The British bave beaten the Americans by six years and also four minutes 10 seconds," says the Imperial International Communica tions Company referring to a claim by delegates to the American Elec
agricultural produce during the Supreme Court, have been made first half of June were 34 per cent. legal once more by a new law." The above general levels of pre-war matter is one of great interest to days. Contrasted to this increase numerous Hollywood film folk who' are the coets of farm laboar, which had taken advantage of the liberal range from 100 to 110 per cent, divorce laws in Morelos to make above pre-war levels. Comparison quick changes of partners. of the two sets of igures, according
Dr. Asuero, whose new system of trical Convention at San Fran- to agricultural experte, explains the present plight of the British healing has attracted considerable cisco recently, that they had estab- farmers. The failure to develop a attention both in Europe and Southlished a cabling route exciting the globe in 330 seconds. The company sound economic basis for agricul-America, was arrested last month recalls that the opening of the ture is the most commonly accepted in Buenos Aires. The warrant for Wembley Exhibition in 1924 was THE FUTURE OF KULANGSU. "reason for the present slump. It is his arrest was signed by a Judge marked by a message being banded the old story so often connected at the very moment when Dr. to the King after it had encircled
Asuero was making a call on the the globe in, 80 seconds. with agriculture.
President of the Republic. The
HONG KONG, JULY 18, 1930.
FOLLOWING the many rumours emanating from Chinese sources
During the present year prices of agricultural produce have gradually fallen. In January prices were 48
charge was that of illegally prac- Bradman is making centuries in tising the medical profession. On England because part of his hearing of the matter Dr. "Asuero brain is highly developed. This, in at once went to the judge and sur-effect, was what Professor H. Tas rendered. He was formally arrest man Lovell told members of the
Queen
In the Memorial Cemetery of Ar. Hington, Virginia, have been buri- ed side by side two veterans of the American Civil War who ran away from school in England nearly 70 years ago to seek adventure. These two lads were Bidney Hebdon and Alfred Guiton. Making their way to America in search of adventure, they enlisted in the Union (Nor- thern States) Army for the Civil War. They were placed in differ-
totalled £41,545,000: British - ex-
+
The most remarkable fight ever
made in an engineless plane in England was accomplished by Herr Kronfeld, the Austrian gliding "ace." Herr Kronfeld few in straight line along the South Downs, landing near Portsmouth, over 70 miles away, in just over three hours. Mr. Gordon England, chairman of the British Gliding Association, aaid. "It is a truly that England is an ideal country marvellous performance. It proves for gliding."
器 woman
which have appeared recently in the Press throughout China in regard to Kulangsu, the International per cent. above, pre-war prices; ined, but was immediately released insicut Association of New South Settlement at Amoy, it is gratify- February they had fallen by 4 per on bail. Dr. Astero is somewhat Wales in a lecture on The Pay ing to learn through Renter that cent; during March the general of a popular hero in his native chology of Speech Training." the Chinese authorities have not average fell to 35 per cent. and in Spain, where he has treated the Bradman, he said, was born with of Spain. He became a highly developed muscle sense. yet approached the British Govern" May prices averaged 37 per cent famous for his method of theating The lecturer made this point to At an inquest at Haltwhistle ment with regard to the rendition The June percentage of 34 is the nervous disorders by pressure on illustrate the important functions (Northumberland) on of the island. Those who have lived lowest index number to which the nose. Public belief in "miracle of the brain in all human actions.killed in a motorcar accident it in Kulangsu, or in any of the agricultural produce has fallen cures led to pilgrimages of Nature, he declared, was actually was stated that she was having her crowds of people from all parts of
woman, Hiss foreign or International Settle since the decline set in early in Spain to the doctor's house. Police as silent as the grave. Noises really last driving lesson when the car
were only vibrations until they were overturned. The ments throughout China, will January, 1995, after reaching the have had to be called out to control caught by the ear and transmitted Kathleen O'Hagan, aged 25, of understand our use of the word peak figure of 71 per cent. above the crowds, and when Dr. Asuero to a certain part of the brain. Rowlands Gill, near Durham, was
landed at Buenos Aires recently Language involved all the higher "gratifying." In the case of pre-war levels. Recent agricultural mounted police had to clear away functions of the brain, and failings in speech were directly traceable to Kulangau we have a once barren- statistics showed that 2,500,000 acres for him in the streets.
some defect in one or another of island situated about half a mile less of the three principal cereal
its functions. perces the harbour from the busy crops were grown in 1929 as com- The present and prosperous (but rather dirty) pared with 1998. town of Amoy. This inland has acreage planted is even less than in been developed and beautified by 1999 by almost a million acres. Mr. succeeding generations of foreign J. F. WEIGHT, Secretary of the traders, mostly British, and lattër-Norfolk branch of the National ly by many wealthy Chinese busi Farmers' Union, says that the de- ness-men. It has its own muni cline in acreage given over to cipality with increasing Chinese cereals represents a loss of at least representation, its own police force, 19,500,000 to the country, while it
with an experienced British Super 100,000 fewer men than in 1918. intendent, its own waterworks and
Foreign competition at impossible electric-light plant.
rates is given as the explanation The handful of foreign residents of the British farmer's troubles have erected beautiful homes there, Dutch and French fruit is sent into as have also scores of wealthy the London market at prices which Chinese-there are said to be at the home-grower cannot compete. least fourteen Chinese millionaires From Germany, Italy and Russis living on the island. But Kulangay come fruits and vegetables in large contains a big Chinese town and quantities and of excellent quality. many villages where thousands of Jam-makers are buying Russian Chinese work and reside under con- raspberry pulp in London for £2 ditions which they know they cannot per ton-line which costs
phout. enjoy in Amoy city, only half a £43 for English and Scottish, pro- mile across the harbour. The duce. Holland is selling goose-
driving with her fiancé, Mr. Hugh Davies, a draughtsman. Asked by the coroner if it were wise to allow Mies O'Hagan to take the wheel when inexperienced. Mr. Davies said: "The same thing would have, A new theatre in New York is happened had I been driving. It was perfectly safe to allow her to to be named after Edgar Wallace drive. It was stated that Miss and one of the first plays to be put O'Hagan had driven for only e on there will be, a Wallace play-urile when the car got on the grass Mr. Lee Shubert, the American and overturned. A verdict of Ac- theatre magnate, who has returned cidental Death was returned. from London, was so impressed by Mr. Wallace's play about Chicago gunmen. "On the Spot," that he The engagement will shortly be bought it for production in New announced of the Archduke Otto, en companies. Hebdon died, but York at his new theatre, which be claimant to the Hungarian throne, Guiton searched for his schon, Mr. Shubert is enthusiastic about Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The friend, and, though he learned of the London stage and says that the Archduke Otto is Hiving at present Hebdon's death, he could not find European theatre in general has in Belgium, where his mother, the his grave. When Guiton died be experienced an astonishing rebirth. ex-Emprese Zita bas, made her left to his wife the task of finding The plays he bought in London home. He will be eighteen years. Hebdon's burial place. It was not include. new one by Sir Arthur of age next November. There are until after Mrs. Guiton's death Finere named Doctor Harmer's only two unmarried princesses in that their daughter found the grave Holiday." "From Nine to Six," the Italian royal family-Princess Honeymoon, "The Giovanna, who is twenty-three years for which her parents had huntedAlmost a The two adventurers have been Man in Possession, Insult" and of age, and Princess Meria, who
is sixteen. buried with full military honours. The Last Enemy."
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Local Notes and Events
The forthcoming marriage is Mr. J. M. Jack residing at No. announced between Mr. Josaph 6, Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong Wheeler Morris, residing at the was fined 88 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, and Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy Miss Beulah Stich, of 6444, S. Al- yesterday for allowing his dog to basy Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, be on the road uamuzzled and un- U.S.A.
leashed.
Chinese population of Kulangau berries at £7 108. a ton--which will be the last to demand the just over the bare cost of picking rendition of the Settlement to the the fruit in England! The decling Chineze Government, and they, in the arable farming has brought generally speaking, are the people many corn-farmers into the fruit who count in Amoy-the big mer- and vegetable industry, where they chants, the clerks, the artisans, the find conditions worse than in the retired towkays from the Straits wheat-growing business! A Cabinet Another electrical fatality occur Settlements, who wish to end their Minister recently stated that red at Shapo Road, Kowloon City the poling by a seaman of the Yau- days in their
native land, but who, Britain imported nine millions on Wednesday when Cung Chi (28) at the same time, also want to enjoy sterling worth of fruit annually was killed, through coming into the peace and security to which which could be grown at home, but contact with an electric cable in the they have been. accustomed under it is one thing to grow produce and course of his work in a new build foreign methods of government. another to sell it at a profit. The ing When in due course, the Chinese Crusaders, are
Government. Joea sulmit further empire Freetrade Crus English According to report made to
According to a report made to
Looking Back 25 Years, Company hope to have the wires, at Early next month the Telephone Kowloon in full use, as the board is just being finished off t
South Point to the Hungbom marine cable has been rim frond
Docks," and "armoured underground: cables are run from the Hunghom Docks to Cameron Road Exchange, and from this exchange to Yauma ti. Telephone wires are also zun like nerves about the Albion Road
the Company intends to run the wires underground from Kennedy Town to North Point, and opera tions in connection with the laying off the cables have already been-com- menced in Queen's "Road.—Hong Kong Daily Press, July 1 18, 1905. solence Looking Back 50 Xocado
mati Ferry launch Man Ying, district. On the Hong Kong side, Chinese woman about 65 years of age suddenly jumped overboard and disappeared while the vessel was at the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter on Thursday,
proposals to the British Govern farinera grievances, but there is one the Foffee yesterye survivortazgāt ment, which will meet with a aspect of the question vaid juf a transgods on the Heilian cat trahinese boy, were hanght – Chinaga sappy to be doing well at sympathetic response from His extremely puzzling to Free-traders Strait were brought into the Colony before the Kowloon Magistrate yes the gold diggings by latest ne couts, good evidence of which is Majesty's Government, it will be and Protectionists alike. The by the . Ulrikka The report forday, when they both pleaded the fact that the British steamer interesting to observe the reaction British public gets no advantage stated briefly that owing to bad guilty. Replying to the Magistrate Crusader, Captain Rowin, which re- as to their purpose in stealing the cently arrived at this port from of the thousands of Chinese con from cheap prices for foreign weather thres junks capsized in the tentedly residing on this beautiful grown produce, for the retail prices strait. Thirty-five, people are as cat, the two boys said that, they Sydney, N.8.W. brought, no less wanted to rear the animal up.than 10,000 ounces, of the precious. island settlement. The Chinese remain the same. Who gets the yet unaccounted for and no hope Both defendants were ordered to metalHong Kong Daily Press,
1-roccive-12-strokers! is held out of their safety,
July 18, 1880. ratepayers are represented on the difference, and why?