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DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 15TH DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 3 r., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY TÜR Govz. KOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at ong Nai Chung, in the Colony of
Kong, fors term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Úrown Beat to be fired by the Surveyor of Hia MAI2877 Tax Kixa, for one further term
of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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Registry No
Locality.
Inland
Near Inland Lot
No. 3030,
G.
Wong Nai Chung.
Boundary.
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ments.
ft. ft. ft. ft
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sala, plan.
About
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Annual
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 16T DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the Public. Works of Kre Department, by Order EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One
Lot of CROWN LAND st Tei Kok Tani, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 18 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fred by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY TAX King, for one further terri of 75 years...
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Yesterday's weather report, fore- enst and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3,15. pm; stated:
The anti-cyclone over N. China has strengthened slightly. An area of relatively low pressure covers the southern Philippine Islands.
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ANNOUNCEMENT. The wedding arranged between Mr.
Miss JOSEPH MORRIS and BEULAH STICH, will take place at the St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at 2.30 p.m. on Sep- tember 23, 1930. No invitations are being issued, but all friends are welcome at the Church and the reception to be held after of Mr. and wards at the home of Minden Villas, Mody Road, Kowloon.". [8833"
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people" can be given definite ex- pression. Party Conferences and Committees crop up in various places, all claiming to uphold the
11, 1930.
* News and Views *
The cruiser Caradoc, late of the
Captain Alcock, brother of Sir John Alcock, recently flew from Basra to Karachi in 24 hours a dis- tance of 1,450 miles.
Was
The novel proposals that young offenders, instead of being sent to prison or let off unpunished, should be deprived of a certain amount of leisure, was made by Mr. Alex. ander Paterson, one of the Com- missioners of Prisons, at the Magis- rates Conference at Bournemouth last month. Mr. Paterson suggest- ed that where a young fellow had been a thorough nuisance in his neighbourhood, he might be com- pelled to report three or four oven- inga a week after his day's work, or might be deprived of his teisure Saturday afternoons. That would do him ao harm, but it would remind him that he had broken the law and must be taught to obey.
on
San Min Chu. I" of SUN YAT Sex, but their ideas as to the best method of putting these Three Principles of the People" into America and West Ladies Squadron, is to relieve the Caster on the China practice vary very considerably. Station left Dovonport on July 28, Men claiming to be national leaders called at Colombo, on August
27-September 3; and Singapore, Surprise has been expressed in speak on behalf of the Chinese September 5-10; will arrive at Hong lawn tennis circles at the omission Captain of H. W. Austin from Great people without having credentials Kong on September 15. which would satisfy an investigator H. T. Baillie-Grohman, D.S.O., Britain's official team to play in who was appointed to the the American Championships The accustomed to Occidental political
Caradoc ад commissioning, was toam, consists of LA.. Godfree systems. These matters, of course, promoted in the recent midsummer (captain and manager), H. G. N. and has hitherto beenLeo, F. J. Perry and J. S. Oli. "are China's own concern, but they list,
afterwards learned that Tiger, He
was in command of Austin was asked to make the trip, have a very strong reaction abroad. executive officer of the battle-cruiser The world would welcome a united small craft throughout the late but declined on his father's advice. and peaceful China, but unification War, serving in the destroyers Mr. Austin, senior, felt that an and the peace which spells national Lively and Gurkha from March, American tour, following his son's 1914, and July, 1815, respectively; strenuous season in England, would prosperity seem as far off as over. the sloop, Geatain from February, be too great a strain. Betty Nut- The establishment of the "Peiping 1916; and the minesweeper Totnes bail, accompanied by her brother
from September, 1917.
of He was Jim, is going to America for the State Council is another outward made D.3.0. in April, 1918, for ser Championships in an unofficial cap and visible-tiga of disruption, vics in minesweeping operations. neity. Last year in the American which may or may not have far-In 1921-09 be passed through the Championships Betty reaching consequences, both polistaff course, and afterwards com- Wills-Moody (then Miss Helenary of the tournament, said:
manded the sloop Grocis in East Wills) to 8-6, 8-8. tical and international. The outer Indies. While there he was promot world as an American, diplomated to commander in June, 1923, and said recently can only look sadly on at the chaos in China, and hope
London Office: 33, Fleet Street, for the best.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.
YEARS ago it used to be asserted, with an air of finality, that the camera cannot lie. The fact re- mains unshaken; but with the ad. vance of photographie, science and
It is well known that models of the requisite stature and slimness,
in January of the same year was appointed O.B.E. He commanded the Minesweeping Flotilla at Port land in 1993-93, and served at the Australian Navy Office in 1925-27,
recent
ran Mrs.
The cost of unemployment relief is approximately £220,500 a day in England and Wales, Miss Margaret Bondfield (Minister of Labour) stated in the House of Commons.
:
Colonel J. S. Bistock, Comman-
On the occasion of the inter- national aeronautic congreas sit- ting at the Hague at present the German giant Junkers monoplane "G. S9" made several fights over the capital with delegates to the congress a passengers.
Women are protesting against a decision the Brighton. Open Boris Tournament Committee, that they cannot take part in the cour petition. Mr. A. H. Clark, scere-
"There are raany good women bowls players, but men object because they don't like to beat women. Four women whose entry fees were returned have written to the com- mittee,
They state" Many men have asked us to join in the tour- nament, as they say we are eligible. We pay subscriptions and green fees."
The mystery of a "haunted wond at Amerham (Bucks) has been solved after nine months. People walking through the wood were startled by a voice which shrieked "You fools!" Birds more driven away by the thricks and twigs my- steriously snapped off and dropped Food disap- on people's heads. looking. A keeper solved the my- which escaped, from its owner, Miss nine months ago. The bird avoids. all traps and has become savage.
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President. Hoover last week re- viewed the annual parade of he Veterans of Foreign Wars at Bal- timore and was later a luncheon guest of Mayor William Broening Everywhere that the President ap peared, he was cheered by en- thusiastic crowds.
The chairman of a negro delega The tunnel under, the Detroit tion visiting Russia has submitted DOOM OF THE MANNEQUIN, River between Detroit and Windsor, to the directorate of the Third In-
Ontario, which has been under con- ternational a report on the resur- The French Ministry of War has straction for several months, was gence of the black race which has confirmed the reports regarding finally "boled through." The new caused consternation in Moscow, heavy French casualtice in Morocco tunnel, which is the first between The entire coloured intelligentsia where on the Tafla tableland rebels Canada and the United States, will of America," states the report, ambushed the French expeditionary materially help trade and tourist reject Communism in favour of force "who lost 48 dead including traffic at this active point of junc-racial uplift along strictly national one officer and three non-commis- ture between Michigan and Ontario. American lines. In Jamaica,sioned officers while 25 were wound- Barbados, and Trinidad the cired. The losses of the attackers cre art the camera can be made use
A sensation was caused et Buda- cumspect British administration not known but are believed to ex- OATHS AND ADMONITIONS. of when necessary to suppress the
nest recently by a newspaper report does not impede the political, educa-ceed one hundred. truth and suggest the false. The that the ex-Empress Zita has sent tional, and commercial develop- WHAT is called "the State Council" lens does not lie; it still records a circular letter to all members ment of the coloured population. exactly what it sees-but in the of the Hapsburg family summoning whose feelings are entirely British." them to her home at Steenockercell, has now been established in Peiping, skilful manipulation of that "see in Belgium, on November 2, to A petition has been presented for the President and two colleagues ing" there is an ever-increasing swear allegiance to the Archduke the winding up of the Sporting having sworn publicly to discharge field for profit. The latest develop Otto her son, who on that day Times Ld. (the company publishing
celebrates his eighteenth birthday the "Pink 'Un.") ment in trick photography is the and, according to Hapsburg law, faithfully the duties of their office.
A crowd outside a cinema in conversion of
π comparatively attains his majority. The ex-Em The oldest member of the Kuomin-
etumpy mannequin into a tall and press states in her letter that those Bear-street, West London, recently reared when picnic parties were not. who cannot take the cath in person amazed people on the other side of tang Conference read an admoni- slender one such as is needed for should forward a written declara- the street by suddenly starting to stery by seeing in a tree a parrot » tion, explaining the significance the creation of an effective fashion- tion of allegiance and an under- jump about like "cats on hot of the establishment of the State plate. The system is of Parisian taking to do everything to restore bricks." It was discovered after a. Pusey. of the Market-square,
Otto to the throne of Hungary as few minutes that the cause of the
" commotion "
WiLS leakage of as possible. In 3 Council. It meant, he declared, in origin. but, as the appliance for
carrying it out is being manufac-speech, Count Bethlen, the Hun-electric current from beneath the the first place, definite opposition to tured in quantity, its wider use is garian Prime Minister, said the pavement which penetrated the Great Powers and neighbouring scles of their shoes, causing them the dictatorship of CHIANG KAIextremely probable.
States were still opposed to a Haps to cut capers" which astonished
SHEK. The State Council stood for
burg restoration. Any attempt to those outside the "danger zone." enthrone Otto would therefore en- An urgent call to the local power danger Hungary and the Govern station brought a squad of electri- the materialisation of democratic
who can wear fine clothes as they ment was determined to take pro cians, who broke up the paving in principles, for the suppression of should be worn, and who also, photo-ceedings against those who would order to discover the leak. corruption in public affairs, and graph well, are not at all readily dare to make the attempt. was intended to assist in establish available, and those who have to a sound economic prepare high-class catalogues of ing China on
feminine apparel are put to serious expense accordingly. A means of utilising even rather squat figures for the production of attractive costume studies will certainly be welcomed in many establishments, not, perhaps, of the highest grade. Trick photographe showing faces elongated vertically or laterally are new, distorting mirrors by which the same effects are produced Aside from the personal refer-visually being an old attraction at ences, these are aims and objects to fairs and other places of amuse-often regarded as soulless bureau King was to be present at the meet which nons could take exception. ment. But such primitive methods crats, People think," he said, ing, and so, because of six "kings," that their only pleasure in life they plumped hard on Cherry Cherry King, ridden by China is sadly in need of peace and are quite useless for the making of consists in devising harassing re-king.
any but more or less comie pictures..gulations to curtail our personal Steve Donoghue, came in at seven, order. Chinese polities are sadly in
In the Paris device the method liberty. My own experience as a to one 1
Civil servant has taught me other. need of a thorough cleansing. Much of elongation employed is fairly
wise." [Prince George took up more publicity "is certainly neces scientific and unquestionably in-work at the Foreign Office about year ago, but had to give it up genious. It consists in affixing to the ordinary camera lens an attach-3 every grade from every Govern for health reasons.] Civil servants ment containing two prisms and a ment Department contributed pic
field lens, the function of the tures and photographs to the ex- latter being merely to render the use of large prisms unnecessary by increasing the convergence of the entering. The elongation is carried out by adjustment of the aro hinged and prisms, which angled so that when they come to
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basis. In reply, the newly-sworn
held at LANE, CRAWFORD'S CAFE, members of the State Council in- EXCHANGE BUILDING, on TUESDAY,
2310 SEPTEMBER. 1930, at 10.45 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from 17TH to 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1930, Both Days, inclusive.
1.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
M. MANUK,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1930. [9912
dividually pledged themselves to carry out a policy which would
meen peace for the people, clean politics, "limitation" of taxation, and the disclosure of full details of all public expenditure."
NOTICE. TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN The Business Hitherto Carried On by me under the Name of "YEE BANG FAT" at No. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, which Pre mises have been Recently Demolished sary in regard to the expenditure and upon the Site of which the New Theatre of THE CRISA ENTERTAINMENT of public monies and this remark & LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED applies to local as well as national is being erected, has been wound up.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER disbursements. Just what "limita GIVEN that I have no concern with
nor am I connected in any way with the tion" of taxation means is not Business now carried on under the Name
of "YEE, SANG FAT st TAI PING clear. Probably re-distribution"! BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL BÜ
OHANG FATA
(9810
L&NDat Wong Nel Chung, in the Dolony COMPREHENSIVE AND COM of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years,
PLETE REPORT with the option of renewal at a Crowa Rent to be and by the Burveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further
term of 75 years,
- FARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
["No, of Sala. ↑
Registry No.
Locality,
OR
faland Lot
No. 3089,
Adjoining
Inland Lot No. 2863,
Wong Noi Chang,
Boundary
Measure-
menta.
X...
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rale plan
Contents in
Square foot.
About
0913
Annual
Bental
5
32,600
1. Upot Price.
19830
of the
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST
is given in the
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able
not
Councillor George Hall was fined 20s, at Manchester Palice Court recently when summoned at the in- intendent for playing cricket in stance of Corporation parks super- Platt Fields on a Sunday contrary Councillor Hall to the by-laws. said that he would not pay the fine, and when told that he would be allowed seven days in which to pay he remarked that it would give him time to see the fourth Test match.
Opening the sixth annual ex- hibition of the Civil Service Arts Council at, the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, Prince George said that Civil servants were too
hibition
dant of the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, and formerly principal Medical Officer at Hong Kong, died at Oxford suddenly, at the age of 55.
The P. & O. Company announce that orders for two steamers, to be
built for their Straits-Ching-Japan mail and passenger service, have been placed with Alexander Stephen and Son, Ltd., Glasgow. They will The dinning-car staff of the be vessels of 14,500 tong gross, Southern Railway boat train which length 620 feet, beam 70 feet, and brought King Alfonso of Spain to they will have a maximum draught Southampton, homeward bound for of 30 feet. Completion of the coincidence. The steward of. the 1931, and of the other in the follow- Spain, were fortunate believers in earlier one is expected by August, car was named King, so was his ing October. chief, and so was the pantry boy. They had a king on board the train, and they knew that one of the at favourites in the first race Sandown that day was Cherry King. They heard also that the
Captein Honda of the Japanese arrested steamship Kokusai was last week, by the U.S. Coast Guard, officials of which boarded his vessel at Unalaska and found that part of its cargo consisted of fish caught, in American waters countrary treaty provision...
An attempt to perform the wed- Eding service in an aeroplane was frustrated in Adelaide by a notifica In memory of the 20th anniver- tion from the Attorney-General to pary of the death of Florence the effect that the marriage would Nightingale, Miss Clara L. Jones, be illegal. The bride and bride- gale, Institute of Honourables of ordinary way, but they took part representing the Florence Nightin-groom were therefore married in the in an aerial service Inter on, in Los Angeles, placed a wreath on the tomb in Wellow Cemetery, order, so far as possible, to carry
out the original idea.
Hants.
*Local Notes and Events *
The total qutput of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ended August 23 amounted to 102,463 tons, and the sales during the period to 90,111 tons.
The local branch of the Yokohama ↑ Looking Bäck 25 Years.
About twenty minutes past, one Specie Bank has received a cable grum from their head office stating o'clock on Saturday afternoon, that at the half yearly meeting of slight earthquake was experienced shareholders of the bank held at on the island, but it was so trifling.
as to pass undetected by many, Yokohama on September 10, it was Badounced that the net profit was Yen 13,354,666.63. This sum includ. though inquiries show that the shock ed Yen 6,231,848.08 carried over was more pronounced in the higher from last account. A dividend of regions. So far, no damage bas ten per cent. for the first half of the been reported, while the extent of year has been declared.
the disturbance is not yet known.- Hong Kong Daily Preu, September
1905,
view to lessening I will not be responsible in say way for is meant, with a any of the liabilities of such business.
the burden falling upon those least
An unclaimed telegram from Dated this 6th day of September, 1930 able to bear it, and transferring gether they form practically a solid
that share to men much better. plate with two plane surfaces. Con- Osaka, addressed. Yamaguchi, is to contribute liberally to the sequently in this position no dis-lying at the office of the Great
Northern Telegraph Co. national treasury—and without extortion takes place. But the more pectation of special favours in the prisms are separated, the more recognition of their "patriotic" the image transmitted by the lens is sacrifice. Finally, there is the elongated, with the result that quite matter of overthrowing an alleged a dumpy model becomes tell and dictatorship and setting up in its graceful in the photograph, the dis place a system of government tortion of the face being hardly which will be a materialisation of noticeable. The results obtainable
During the early hours of yea democratic principles.
are remarkable, a satisfactory terday, three men went to a brothel
A 22-year old "Chinese girl was Probably, it will be retorted very elongation of 18 per cent having at 11, Swatow Street, and there sentenced to three months' imprison-11,
robbed one of the inmates of jewel- promptly from Nanking that the been achieved Nothing approachlery to the value of $10 before de- ment by Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Looking Back 50 Years.
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for
In a recent issue we gaye only place in the Republic where ing this is feasible unless specially camping. One man has been arrest stealing money and jewellery to
list the value of 8250 belonging to her of the vessels in course of construc- there appears to be any attempt to and very carefully constructed aped in connection with the affair.
mistress. It was stated by Sergt. tion for the P. & 0, Company, establish a dictatorship is Peiping paratus is used. Anyone who has
In order to effect repairs and Meadows that the girl in order to This aspect of the amazingly mud had to deal with prisms in photo died condition of Chinese politics"graphy knows that they are tricky overhaul to the transmitter, there put the blame on others, informed aggregating 32,000 tone. The Com- will be no broadcast from ZB.W., her mistress that she had been pany has now contracted with is one which foreign observers tools, in the handling and adjust the Hong Kong Broadcasting Sta robbed. The mistress on going to Messrs. J. and C. Thomson of Glas
750 horse power. The vessel, which have great difficulty in following ment of which a very slight error tion, on Sunday next, September her room found her box broken.gow, for a weasel of 4,100 tons, and,
14. The Station will therefore be open and the jewellery and money Judged by Western standards, may produce a deplorable want no closed down from 11.20 p.m. on missing. The police were informed is to be built of steel, will be de there is no machinery existing in merely of precision but of ordinary Saturday, the 18th to 11 p.m. Mon- and the property was found tied livered in ten months.--Hong Kong
around. the defendant's body. Daily Prem, September 13, 1880. day, the 15th. China by which the voice of the
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