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CHINA COAST OFFICERS'
GUILD.
AND
MARINE ENGINEERS' GUILD OF CHINA:
A SPECIAL COMBINED MEET
ING will be held at the GUILD OFFICES, 67, Das Vävs ROAD, Central (DAVID HOUSE), TO-DAY, THURSDAY, 24TH JULY, 1930, ni .6.00 P.M.
All Members are requested to attend.
T. T. LAURENSON,
Juist Branch Secretary. (9612
BAGLUND & THISELL,"
A. B.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.
EXPORTERS OF PAPER. CONNECTIONS SOLICITED.
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HONG KONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GİVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., PEDDER
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considering, and if thought fit, passing the following refreshing effect, enhanced Resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions, by its exquisite aroma.
purpose of
viz.-
(1) That the Directors be and "are hereby authorised to offer forthwith 60,000 new shares of "the nominal value of 825 each constituting part of the nnissued capital of the Company (in the "propertion of one new share for "every complete number of four "issued shares held by them
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, JULY
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'Yesterday's weather report, fore- east and reamrks, issued by the Regal Coservatory at 5.33 p.
stated :-
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Local Forecast:-East winds; freshening; generally averenst; rain.
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Manila, July 23, 8.43 0.m. Typhoon in niat 119dig. Long. E. and deg. Lat. N., moving WNW. Manila, July 23. 6.30 p.m. Typhoon in about 117deg. Long E. and 17deg. Lat. X., moving. W.
BIRTH. CHRISTIE-At the Victoria Hos pital, Hong Kong, on July 2, to Mr. and Mrs. T. L CERISTIE of the Chartered Bank, Saigon, a son. Straits papers please
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The
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respectively) to the persons who Sole Distributors:-
"on the 7th day of August, 1930,
"are registered in the Company's
gbare register as the holdes A. S. WATSON
"of the 240,000 issued shares jo
"the capital of the Company at a premium of $35 per share and
"so that on acceptance of the offer the nominal valne due in respect
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"of each of such new shares plus THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY
the said premium of $35 per
share (making $60 per share) THE KOWLOON DISPENSARY "shall be payable in full. Such "new shares shall rank for dividend
"as from dates of allotment.
(2) "That such offer as afore-
"said be made by notice specifying "the number of new" shares to "which the member is entitled.and)"
NOTICE.
Daily
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HONG KONG, JULY 24, 1930.
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sandalles apart. The police- stations in the New Territories are naturally lacking in all those com- forts and conveniences which make
24, 1930.
The ultimate aim is to increase exports, but the effect of this meл- sure would be to promote produc tion of a commodity which, in
a tropical summer tolerable to larger quantities, may not be
town-dwellers.. Days are full of economically exportable. At the
ducers The latter, unaccompanied
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A now method for landing air- | A protest against income-tax is in monotony and discomfor: for those same time it would set a barrier who are compelled to spend them against lower food prices in Aus. planes in fog recently tried in the will of Mr. Frank Glendow, of a definite Englefield Green, Surray, who left indoors, and the effect of such contralin. Yet, behind the tariff wall London, is claimed as ditions upon a woman-without oc- the existing Australian industries advance on anything of the sort £87,291. eupation for her head and hands will produce more dearly unless attempted. A captive balloon is almshouses to be established under canust be good. No married police- they can effect a reduction in costs tethered at a selected spot near the my mother's will are now erected officer should be sent for duty in of which high wages are the out- airdrome, so as to be above the and occupied, and I do not add Higher prices fog beak, and the incoming pilot anything to their endowment, be- the New Territories-not because of standing element. the risk of such lamentable tragedies and lower ecets, decreased imports has a weight suspended a few feet cause the unjust sliding" sale af to obtain the proletarina vote, as that which has just occurred, and increased exports, can only be below his machine which, on touch-income-tax, invented by politicians but because it is not fair to expect reconciled by a great improvement ing the ground, causes a red light leaves me neither the will nor the women to live under the conditions in organisation, or by decline in to appear on the dashboard. The means.
balloon indicates where the landing which are unavoidable in isolated the standard of living of the proground is and the pilot learns by Are English women fairer to lock upon nowadays than they used to stations along the frontier.
by the former, would be rightly wireless what is the balloon's height be Mr. Registrar Friend, of Cler- termed a national disaster. All above the ground. Finally the red konwell County Court, thinks they
light enables him to flatten out and are, and said so in court. turas, then, upon the hope of p
Desses in a case, and "one said: rationalisation, or reorganisation, land smoothly, although then actu.pretty girls were called 43 wit- The Air "Without wishing be personal, of the business of Australia. That ally in the fog bank.
easily forgotten." Mr. Registrar, is the rea! problem facing the Com- Ministry's tests this week were with the defendant's face is not one monwealth, and Sir OTTO NIE balloon tethered 400 feet above Friend. Then he is like me we not exactly oil paintings. and half a mile away from the are
"She is fair to feet thick. The pilot made five look upon. So many women are
Registrar said: airdrome, the fog bank being 00 Talking of one of the girls, the successful landings without any fair to look upon now that she is difficulty. It is anticipated that nothing remarkable. It is only.. the method will be easily adapt ugly people who can be remember- able to commercial aviation.
ed." After remarking that "mere man is not as good to look upon as a girl," the Registrar asked one of the girls:Would you not be likely to remember a handsome young man rather than an ugly old one? The Girl-Not neces sarily.
DODGING THE ISSUE.
SOME financial experts work with amazing speed Last month Sir OTTO NIEMEYER and two colleagues left London to investigate Aus- MEYER's arrangements for forming tralia's financial troubles. The ex- a central organisation for borrow perts went on behalf of the Banking more money scarcely solves it. of England to give advice to the Commonwealth Bank on matters re- lating to exchange. The Australian pound stood at a discount of seven per cent, when Sir Oro and his
A demonstration described as a Rout the Reds" rally drew a crowded audience to the Albert About 100 miles up the Kagera Hall last month. Queues formed River in Uganda and about 200 companions left London last month. early ontside every door and mem-
feet above the present river level, Now a message from Sydney tells bers of the Fascist organization dis ancient remains of fresh-water oysters have been discovered. They us a tentative agreement has been tributed leaflets bearing the words lie in the gravel and shingle de A proces posit on the valley side of the river, reached between the British and "Hoscow Unmasked." Australian bankers providing for a sión with the Union Jack at its and probably belong to the middle
time of exchange. The head escorted the speakers through Pleistocene period. There were at Pluvial the centre of the ball to the plat periods, and it is likely that the various Governments of Australia form. Major-General Sir Altred will have the first call on all avail-Knox, M.P., who presided, said the esters were deposited in the second. This find, which is of considerable able funds in the hands of the meeting was a protest against the interest to natural scientists, may cringing, fawning attitude of the"! banks in London, and the adminis-Government towards the Soviet open up. fascinating avenues of tration of such funds will be in Commander Locker-Lampson, M.P., research. It follows on the dis the hands of the Australian Loan
mobilisation
Council.
said that the Government was con- trolled by a handful of incompet- ents and cranks, but its days were numbered. It only and one friend --Mr. Lloyd George-bat be would rather have the frank hatred of anyone in the world than the friend- ship of the Wizard of Wales. He would, in fact, rather be hugged by a boa constrictor than be em braced by Mr. Lloyd George. The Heavily Government had one thing to its
credit, the "Lansbury Lido had i of the New Territories is no place | indebted to British and other been a huge success. Trade may
may be down and out, and ship ping and iron and steel may have the annual interest out of the pro-gone for good, but never mind. ceeds of a new debt. It is a simple mixed bathing, had come to stay! process, and not a new one, but, while successful for a time, there
Does this, then, settle Australia's economic problems. It does not, The Commonwealth has to increase TARKE is one aspect of the ghastly its output, decrease the cost of tragedy at Lok Ma Chau which producing it, and give up the bad needs emphasising. An isolated habit of borrowing-or at least, police-station in the distant sections restrain that weakness.
for an Englishwoman to live. Dis lenders, the Australian Government have vanished, the cotton industry cussion of the relative reliability have been in the habit of meeting of Indian, Chinese, and British members of the force is beside the point. Englishmen have been kaown to run amok at times and not only in tropical climates. There are limits beyond which it cannot can be no positivo guarantee against be carried. Thus the oversca in- any man becoming suddenly de- debtedness of the Governments in-
t
that
two
great
covery made recently when the top of the Luzira gaol was being level led when pottery figures, som 18 inches long, were discovered. The only similar figures known are very
are specimens in Nigeria.
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Lord Luke of Pavenham, ad-
dressing the sixth annual conven- tion of the Advertising Association on the selling power of newspapers, at Hastings, said:" Speaking from experience, I say that th pulling power of the great daily papers, as well as the great Sun- day papers, is absolutely undoub ed. Possibly the advertiser has a better chance in these media with the mass regarding public, because a large percentage of the readers of big circulation papers read as a pastime, and do not desire whar they consider highbrow matter."
Victor Stanwhite, aged seventeen,
The wedding of Miss Kyrle Bel- lew, the widow of Mr. Arthur Bourchier, the actor-manager, and who was arrested in New York Mr. John Beckett, the Labour mere-after shooting a pawnshop proprie- ber for Peckham, will shortly take tor in the leg, extricated himself place. Mrs. Bourchier has been three times from a strait-waistcoat netively associated with the Labour and escaped. He had attempted to Party ever since her late husband commit suicide a number of times and was then stripped and forced into the waistcoat. Stamwhite later made his decision to stand for Par- linment. At the time of his death in South Africa during, a theatricstole the keys of his cell from the al tour, Mr. Bourchier was Labour guard sleeping outside the grating randidate for Gloucester. Mrs. and, wearing only a smile of satis Bourchier is actively interested in faction, unlocked five doors and The boy A Southend taxicab driver, fined the Strand Theatre, which she has 1 regained his freedom. 25 by the local magistrates, for frequently given for Sunday even: bandit had on a previous occasion a reformatory, and damaging the cab of a fellowing presentations of plays with a been sent to driver, was stated to have put half Socialist and political interest. Mr. there he attempted to commit sui- a pound of sugar into the petrol John Beckett formerly sat for cide from disappointment, claiming and has represented that he was an "educated burglar mented, or against the consequences creased by £100,000,000 from 1923 tank. He was ordered to pay £15 Gateshead
Peckham since the last election.
who did not need to go to school." of his affiction. There can be no to 1927, and the interest bill in the damage recepted by members in the Far ANY PERSON desirous of mbt absolute certainty that the "most rame period by. £3,000,000. This East and outside the Far East TIONS for effecting ECONOMIES in trusted officer--or even the most can be learned from figures sub-| respectively either on behalf of the ADMINISTRATION of ang staid and sober-minded of civiliansmitted by the Commonwealth to the 'such member his nominee will "be deemed to be declined and should communicate with the SECREwill not without the alighest League of Nations. The Premier that the Directors be at liberty TARY at the TREASURY SOLICITOR's..warning become a raving madman. of Victoria recently estimated the to fix such respective times and OFFICE, POST OYPICE BUILDING. [9669 Such things have happened, and Australian State indebtednëse to "to extend such times to such date. "or dates and upon such terms 15- "they may think fit and further "that any of the said new shares "which shall not be taken up by "the Company's shareholdere in "manner aforesaid, be disposed of in such manner at such time or
"limiting the respective times RETRENCHMENT COMMISSION.
within which the offer, if not
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branch of the PUBLIC SERVICE
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Local Notes and Events
will happen again, but there is no Great Britain at £500,000,000, or
For mooring their boats during Kowloon Inland Lot Nos., 640, and reason why a woman should be ex- more than half of the total of the prohibited hours, the masters of 1267 which were to have been sold pected to take risks which men must British State Debt to America, two sampans were each fined $3 orat, Mesars. Lammert Brothers yes accept in the ordinary course of adding that Australian individuals 5 days at the Marine Court yester-terday were withdrawn owing to
day.
the fact that there were no bidders. duty. In half a dozen police stations owed half this sum to British
The areas of the lots, which are between Kowloon and the Chinese lenders. This year it has been The total output of the Kailan situated at 31a Tau Kok, are 94,500 frontier there is only one European virtually impossible for any AusMining Administration's mines for sq. feet and 16,402 sq. feet-respec
the week ending July amounted tively. officer, and when it happens that he tralian body to issue a large loan to 115,887 tons, and the sales during is married, bis wife has to be left in London or New York on the the period to 63,149 tons. alone when he "goes out "on patrol kind of terms, say, up to 6 per
ghare in respect of any odd Boy at the Club House, or from the or special duty, day or night. If cent, which the Commonwealth had Jens on Monday night a Chinese the appeal against a judgment of doubtful about the story, and asked
“issued share. held by him."
Dated this 22nd day of July, 1930.-
9663)
By Order of the Board,
L. 8. GREENHILL,
Secretary
[9670
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NOTICE.
KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB. times and upon such terms as the WILL ALL MEMBERS who are desirous of PLATING FOOTBALL either the First or Sesond "Company's Directors. "shall" in for "their absoluto discretion see fit. Teams during the coming season kindly (8) "That shareholder fill in a registration form as soon as *shall be entitled to claim for possible.
Forina can be had from the No. I "a fraction of. an additional
Hon Secretary, Mr J. Smith, Kowloon-it were a fact that two European been accustomed enjoy. Canton Bailway.
officers were appointed to every Meanwhile, Australia is trying station, in the New Territories, out some economic experiments. A there would be at least a possibility big list of importa, has been pro- of a woman having protection inhibited outright by decree. An- an emergency, as one officer could other big list was subjected to a remain at the station while the other 50 per cent. increase in tariff. The went out on patrol.
prices of manufactured articles in But quite apart from the dangers Australia are already 24 per cent, to which an Englishwoman living above the British level, so that near the Chinese frontier is expos 20 per cent. tarif is quite in ed—and there is much more risk of effectual. These mensures were pro violence at the hands of desperate visional, and have roused protests lawless characters than most people from shippers, Chambers of Com realise there is another point which merce, and all who are dependent does not appear to be fully appre upon foreign trade in its twin ciated. A woman living in a police forms of exports and imports, but station out in the New Territories the Canberra, Parliasaent is sitting is much more lonely than one living upon a new project for a permanent in the back-blocks of Australia 40 per cent. increase in the tariff
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Looking Back 25 Years.
On Saturday night, as Sergeant Sullivan was walking along the road between Hunghem and Kow loon City, his attention was attract ed by a Chinaman whose movements indicated a desire to avoid observa- tion. On questioning the man the Sergeant was informed that he was an accountant in a tea shop, and The Full Court of three Judges had been to Kowloon City to collect had another sitting yesterday hear some money, with which he was' In a kiosk at the Botanical Caring legal arguments connected with returning home. The Sergeant was attempted to commit suicide. When the former Chief Justice which was the native to accompany him to the gardener visited the kiosk, he given in favour of a plaintiff shop where he had collected the found a man with a handkerchief whose son had mortgaged certain money. As they walked along the tied around his neck. The hand-house property held by them under Chinaman told the Sergeant he had kerchief was attached to the beam
deed of assignment as joint-ten- $1,000 on him, and would hand over and the man had his feet clear of
ants. Defondant (the mortgagee) $500 if the policeman would let the floor. The Chinese was taken was ordered to restore the property it be alright. He was locked up, down in an unconscious state, and to the plaintiff free of the mortg and later the police learned that removed to the Government Civil age for 825,000 and he is appealing he Wai Tan Bank, who is he was Yau Kai, formerly a cook Hospital. A later report mention against the decision. Mr. Eldon ed that the man's condition is not Potter, KC for the respondent, wanted to answer a charge of serious,
addressed the Court on legal embezzling $837, the property of the points and will at a later date deal July 24, 1905.
bank tăng Kong Daily Prem, Love, Live and Laugh," pro with the facts of the original case. duced by Fox Movietone, marks the return, to the screen after a long
Looking Back 50 Yearn, Miss Three of Paramount's most power-
"Siz-What a misfortune it is absence of Marcin Manon, Manom a former screen favourite ful actors will be seen and heard in to have inconsiderate neighbours! with a considerable following, had "The Virginian," at the Centra! I happen to reside in very close heen in retirement for several years Theatre from to-day to Monday, proximity to a house from whence a never-ceasing piano but was lured back by the offer of They are Gary Cooper, Richard emanates
Each has noise. Every day in the week, (Sun- a good sale in Love, Live and Alen and Mary Brian. Laugh. Others in the cast include had phenomenal success in the new day not excepted) one gets quite Lila Lee, Kenneth MacKenna, medium of talking pictures and disgusted with what is nothing Henry Kolker and David Rollins, each is a grent favourite. Cooper more then a repetition of a couple Will K. Howard directed "Love, plays the role of the Virginian, of tunes, more agreeable to the ears Live and Laugh," which is the Arlen is Steve, and Miss Brian is of the Chinese than the Europeana.. On a farm a woman has' work to of a very substantial list. Aus- current attraction at the Queen's cast as MollyWood, the school Up to half-past ten o'clock in the.
ccupy, her mind too much of it, tralian prices are meanwhile so Theatre."
teacher with whom the Virginian night this tong, tong, tong does falls in love. Walter Huam, not cease disturbing the rest of very often, but the wife of a police much higher than world prices that
Appearing before the Kowloon veteran of the Broadway stage, and those who go to bed early I do officer stationed in the outlying those who possess commodities in Magistrate yesterday on charge a great movie favourite, will be not think anyone would object to there of possession of a stolen bangle, heard in the featured role of hearing good music; but when a parts of the New Territories has the Commonwealth think no such distraction. However must be something wrong with three Chinese failed to explain Trampas, the ring-leader of the thing is carried too far, day and Lustixe and "house proud" she may world prices. The farmers are unsatisfactorily as to how the hangle cattle rustlers in the play. The night, daily, it ceases to be pleasant, De into their scion The talking picture brings "The Vir- and becomes a nuisance; much more E is little she can, perform willing to sell wheat at prices first defendant intimated th
that the giman to the public new and so there I have above sonred. I hope tated Yew Hice will meet in the way of ordinary household they can get abroad A million article was given him to pawn by more engaging medium medium duties, and time hangs heavily, bushels of last year's crop is still a friend. He handed the bangle that gives this romantic theme a the eyes of Venus or dandy who to the second defendant, who, in fullerscape and much more worries the poor piano, and will There is practically no social (unsold, while this year promises a
turn, handed it to the third de realistic treatment. All the authen take warning, ceasing to be a intercourse available; the nearest bumper harvest, yet the Australian fendand to pawn. The first defen- tic sounds of the cattle range, the nuisance. There is a time for English woman may be only ten Government envisages guaranteeing dant, when arrested, told two dif-dialogue of the principles; the everything, which implies there is
ferent stories to the Porice. Fines third dimension, one might say, is a limit as well for everything miles away, but for all they see of a minimum price in the beme of 825, or three weeks hard labour, brought to the screen in this New Yours, etc., O.X-Hong Kong
"were inflicted on each defendant ShowWorld-production...
Daily Pres, July 24, 1880
each other they might be thou-market for wheat.