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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED, (Indoriorated in Qorrayland),
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND,
NOTI
TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that A SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING Por Share on Account of the Financial Year ending 31st) Rom. 1931, has been declared by tha Directors of the Com pany in BRISBANE, payable to Share holders on the Registers at BRISBANE and SINGAPORE on THURSDAY, 18TH DECEMBRIL 1930.
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the SINGAPORE TRANSFER REGISTERS will be 8TH CLOSED From MONDAY, DECEMBER to THURSDAY, 18rk DECEMBER, 930 (Both Days
inclusive) for the preparation of Dividend Warrants
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & ! 0...,
Chartered Accountants, Local Secretarios.
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 10th Nov., 1930..
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NOTICE.
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MOTOR UAE. DRAW SOCIETY OF BT. VINCENT DE PAUL. THE Committee BEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the under. mentioned Tickets which have been Reported LOST are CANCELLED:~ TICKETS Nos. 1101-1125.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
annum. That was the time when industry grew steadily and, as one
Yesterday's weather report, fore- [ imagined, recording to the needs cast and remarks, inated by the Royal Observatory at 8.45 p.m., stated:-
of the age: Since then the increase- in trade has been prodigious but the world's gold supplies have The anti-cyclobs is now central to fallen off. Unless new sources are the north-east of Shanghai and has found, and this is not expected, the decreased slightly in intensity. The depression is patsing into the Fac-production of gold is estimated to fic to the north-east of Hokkaido. | fall during the next ten years from Fresh monsoon will continue along 404 millions of dollars per conum the 5.E. coast of China and over to 370 millions. Banks require
the China Sea, ·
Local Forecast:-N.E. winds, Iresh; fino.
BINTHS. RIVERO.-On November 12,
from 33 per cent. to 40 per cent gold reserves to recover notes and sight liabilities, but by 1940 the deficit of gold for this purpose will be anything from 34 to 238 million.
★ News and Views ★
Student riota spread throughout An examuation is being made of Cuba last week, spreading through the Fronch reply to the British me many places of society and indicat-morandum on the subject of British ng that the recent South Ameri- holdings of French bonds issued can wave of revolution might cause serious repercussions here.
attacked and injured in the course The Italian Consul at. Paris was
of a clash between Fascist and anti- assist sympathisers. The police intervened twice to save the Consul trom the fury of the anti-Fascists
during the war. The reply being unfavourablo, it is expected that new appropriate measures will be adopted.
Christmas saving, clubs through- out the United Stats now have a total Christmas saving fund anwusting to G.8632,000,000, it was announced last week following a process of taoulation which was de- * signed to ascertain how the -cuf- ent "hand times" might affect holiday shopping,
A plan for despatching a trado mission to the countrica of West Africa is being considered by the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and -Industry for the double purpose The State Department in Wa- of investigating the coonomic situa shington announced last week that then and opening new markets for with Dr. Wu Chao Chu, Chinees the world. The previous plan of It has renewed its convormations Japanese products in that part of Minister to Washington, locking to the same Chinber to open a semple M.M. Coste, and Bollonte on the abolition of American extrater- fair on bot-il steamers has now he board the Question Mark sot off
that the Government is unable to grant subsidies.
at dollars according to the extent to last Wednesday to make a tour ofitoriality in: China when China come difficult, because of the fact Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. which trade increases and credit friendship throughout the interior ins mot cortain conditions.
A. RIVERO, & son TAYLOR-On November 10, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. WALTER H. TATLON, a daughter. VINCENT-On November 12, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. M. VINCENT, a daughter.
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The Daily Press.
Opal colonial authorities, the- capital rondering aid in various Iorms. The public administrations. will be instructed to use only co- lonial woods for their needs to the exclusion of foreign timber.
can be stretched. High brows, like Franco. They landed at Douni
Sir Percival Dewhurst Porry. at the end of their first stogo and Mr. H. G. WELLS, many fums at the were triumphantly welcomed by chairman of the Ford Motor Com The French Government will futility of the human, race letting some thousands of persons.
panies of Europe, on arrival in shortly introduce a proposed law New York from a trans-Atlantic for the protection of the products itself be held in fetters of gold, but,
The first of the Dollar Steam-crossing declared that the Soviet of the French Colonies. The scheme according to the financial, experts ship Company's new 0.88,000,000 Rusian "Five-Year Plan" pro- will include a special temporary human enterprise must still be based liners is to be christened the Programme of intensive achievement tax on the imports of rubber, cafire on gold coin, upon which it can sident Hoover. The Ceremonies of is doomed to failure. Realizing the and manioc. With regard to col VAN Dongsen-On Sunday, Novem
christening are to take place at collapso this progranine, Soviet ton and ground nute; the solution ber 16, at his home, 8, Aigburth draw in time of need. Every new Newport Naws on December 9. A Russia will revert to the status of of the question will be left to the Hall, May Road, CORNELIS enterprise needs, in fact, a certain bottle containing water from the capitalistic state within a year, WILLEN Опа VAN DOUBBEN, gold backing for the account that oven seas" will be smashed across according to the chairman. Manager of the Netherlands it opeus at the bank. ́--
the ship's bow in lieu of the time- honoured champagne forbidden The Press states that the Swiss Industry, if the experts he cor- now by national prohibition, railway Authorities have been *****rect, is based on a foundation of!
sounded by representatives of the Belgium's chronic political crisis | Hungarian royalist camp regarding Editorial and Business Offices: 11,gold. If the superstructure be
suddenly become acute when, fol- their attitude towards a journey Ice House Stroot, Tel. 20281 over-heavy instability results with owing the Armistice Day celebra of Archduke Otto, the eldest son of Bir Austen Chamberlain, who Night Editor (Wanchai Office) the consequences known and visible tione, the five Liboral members of ex-Empress Zits, through Switzer was 67 last mouth hoe sat in the
Tel. 24511,
continuously. to us all. Lord D'ABenson calls the Cabinet, Foreign Minister Hyland on route to Hungary. It is House of Commons London Office: $3. Fleet Street,
mana, Minister of Justice Janson. understood that they were told now for thirty-eight years; and in for a more careful and scientific Minister of Posts E.C. 4.
Forthomme, that if the Archduke traveled as this unbroken word he is junior use of gold, for loss hoarding by Minister of Education Vauthier an ordinary passenger no el jection only ta. Mr. Lloyd George. Had any one nation, and for a with. and Minister of Communications would and could be raised and it he possessed a mare pliable charac
Lippens, presented their rosigna- is therefore genorally resumed 'hatter and a larger modieum of purely drawal of its use either for ormation to Premier Jaspar who there Otte will make the unrey abortly personal, anibition he would have ment, or for private hoarding. upon informed the King.
after November 20, the date wher| "reached the premiership; bùt-an- he attaini nazority.
inflexible loyalty to his associates: Every country, Fs contends by im-
In order to end the continued·
and a capacity for placing his plication, needs its ration of pre-parliamentary deadlock in Rumaanis A widespread growing impres party and his country before his pious metal, and only then will King Carol last week sent hission that the Wickersham Law En. own personal interests live operat Hosa Koxa, NOVEMBER 18, 1930..the grent rivors of trade flow evenly private secretory to the leaders of forcement Commission intends to ed against that consummation. He
throughout the world..
the two opposition parties, Brati- advocate change in the nationalis the soul of chivalry in an age anu of the Liberal Party and prohibition laws was heightened when chivalry is at a discount. Avoriceu of the People's Party, to as a result of admission by Sonn- THE RIDDLE OF GOLD.
convey to them the King's desire or Simeon Fess, Republican spokes | WILL KWANGSI FIGHT ON? that the opposition return to Par- nian, that prison terms fail to de- Child Blavery in Okina,............
fiament and again take an active ver bootleggers. Senator Fess con The Anti-Slavery Society has ro interest in the political life of the ends, however, that advocacy ofceived a letter from Chinese mis- country. It is expected that the the repeal of the prohibition Inw sionaries in Yunnanfu inviting at King's unusual step will be sue.
would mean the ruin of the Repub-tention to the deplorable plight of cessful.
'ican party so it remains doubtful children who are sold into slavery. as to whether the party will take, in China. The writers, who draw a definite stand in that direction. a pitiful picture of the conditions.
of the children, mainly girls, China Truth at the severity of the The Shanghai Power Oo.
Great indignation is expressed in
victims of a practice which is uni- fines imposed in the Hong Kong
vorsa, Bay they have decided to The Shanghai Power Company establish a home in Yunnanfu for The Government is also blamed for ment (page 2 of this issue), full dequipment, and running expenses of nolice courts for opium smuggling sets out in a full page advertise treed slaves. The establishment, being itself the opium monopolist, tails of its offer of Tis. 6. cumula the home for three years would be and the old charge is repeated that tivo preferred stock. These shares, about £500. As, however, their re- the Colony is trying to make money according to the prospectus. sources are limited to their private Keng Government's policy is per- and the yearly payment of Shang and America for help. out of the opium trade. The Hong are also preferred as to dividends incomes, they appeal to England afectly clear, the sale of opium 18 tai Tis. O is made in quarterly in
controlled by the Government, stalments so that owners receive which acts as the wholesaler, no ono Tls. 14 per share on the let of being allowed to possess apium not January, April, July and October. bearing the Government mark.. These dividends are cumulative so By keeping the price high the sale that they must be paid in full be af opium is practically restricted fore anything can be distributed Divorce Court judge, who is shortly sional addict and the experimenter stock holders. The net earnings of ed as the judge who always speake to the confirmed addict. The occs to the second preferred or common retiring, has been rightly describ are deterred both by the high price the Company for the twelve months his mind His appearance when of the licensed article and by the ended June 30, 1030, after deduct-un the bench is almost Pickwickian
LORD D'ABERNON, one of our grent authorities on international finance, Our Canton correspondent takes an has emphasised the vital part optimistic view of the Kwangsi played by gold in the industrial situation despite the fact that the machinery of the modern world. "Ironside" remnants'number about He goes so far as to say that trade 5,000 men, that the two Kwangsi. depression and unemployment are militarists, PEI CHUNG HSL and due to instability of gold as the WoNG SHIU Hexo also have con- standard of value at the present siderable forces under their control, time. It is an axiom of economics and that to carry a campaign of that trade and industry need extermination into the heart of the sound monetary currency if they Kwangsi mountains is an almost are to flourish, and our modern impossible taak. The anti-Govern civilisation with its amazing and
ment, clement can maintain intricate system of credit cannot guerilla warfare as long as the cscape from this fundamental law. countryside supplies the "rebels" It is a strange paradox that with food, shelter and information, the life of the murky towns of but with peace in the North the Lancashire, the huge factories of Canton, authorities will no doubt Germany and the vast industry of order a stringent occupation of all America should depend, upon there Kwangsi towns of importance which
Oplum in Hong Kong.
A Benevolent London Divorce
Judge.
Mr. Justice Hill, the London
being sufficiently large blocks of should have a. decisive. bearing on really heavy penalties imposed on ing operating expenses and total in its benevolence, but like "that
sold:
wishes for futuro happiness.⠀
*Local Notes and Events ★
ANNUAL EXHIBITION. yellow metal lying in the sealed the position of the rebels"
vaults of the banks of London, New
the smuggler and on the possessor interest charges and deductions, man," he can be very severe on ac- Kwangsi has fought very gallant of illicit opium To abolish the were more than two and one quarcasion, and his castigation of sun- York and other financial centres ly against Nanking, but the time Government monopoly would be to ter times the annual dividend re- day delinquents (who entirely de- put a premium on smuggling, quirements on the total amount of served it) has come in from time und stores affect, as they un Kwangsi."Ironside" army can hard one knows that there are far too standing for this is of the world. Why should these has come for a settlement. The already far too prevalent. Every Tia 6 preferred stock to be out to time for a good deal of atten- The tion. But Sir Maurice is, au fond. doubtedly do affect, the lives af ly hope to re-conquer China, the many addicts, for opisa to be stack of which this issue is a part the kindliest of men. He is, in- every miner and mechanic-of every 1 people of the province havo`suffered suddenly banbed. There is no justi- ja listed on the: Shanghai Stock videntally, the 'only judge who has ever given a petitioner asking for fication for suggesting that the Exchange and, judging by the ex worker who is a cug in the great greatly in the conflict, and if Per Hong Kong Government is not perience of the previous issue, the the discretion of the court his judi- machine of international industry Case Her does not of his own doing its best to reduce the opium shares will be netively bought and cial blessing, adding paternal Credit, for all ita clastic; strength, accord come to an agreement with evil in this Colony to a minimum.. must be based on some commodity Nauking, the common people will whose value will not fail, and whose probably start to exercise pressure bulk is illimitably great compared of a kind that no military leader with the demands that any in- can resist. dividual enterprise can put upon it.
Terms of peace between the Kwong From a bank we can have; in the provinces will no doubt prove, a lact resort, the value of our goods, diloulty. The ideal solution would in gold, a thing which men always be for LI TSHSIN, who is a have, and always will, treasure. Kwangsi man, to take over the Nothing can alter this paychologica! Kwangri Government. CETARG CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME fact of men's trust in gold. Here, in KA, Sur unlikely evor to re
all the shifting sands of modern life employ either PEL CHCKO HI- in such permanence and stability fine soldier but arsties spirit--or that even minor fluctuations in its Word Saiv Husa who have resist value have an earthquake effected him with unyielding determina the market. Science claims tion. General Woxo did great on to have solved the problem of prothings for Kwangsi before the duction. In fact industry has over-miserable quarrel between his party stretched the mark, and is produc- and CHIANG KAI SHEE led to this
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NOTICE. THE HALF YEARLY GENEBAL MRETING of VOTING MEM BERB will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLEY, on MONDAY, JANU 24ra NOVEMBER, 1930, at 5.15 PM,
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, KOWLOON,
Looking Back 25 Years.
'.
Mozart
"Soldaten,
The forthcoming wedding, is an Au Shun Hing, manager of the nounced of Mr. Hugh. Cecil Rab-Lee On firm, of Shing Street, was
By kind permission of Lieut. Col A. G. Fitton,D.S.O., and officera, beste, of Shanghai, to Miss Lucille charged bafora Mr. Williams at the the Band of the 2nd Battalion "Tho Blogman, also of Shanghai. Central Magistracy yesterday with Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent defalcations amounting to 81,000. Regiment) will play the following programme, of music during dinner Mr. T. G, Bennett appeared for the at the Hong Kong Hotel: this even- forged 810 Hong Kong and Shang-While Mr. F. C. E. Rondall was
For being in possession of ten complainant, Cheung Wai Hing,ing:— hai Bank notes two Chinese were for the defence. Hearing of the
March, "Peanon, and Plame"
Buealousi brought before Mr. Williams at
Overture to: Die Zauberflote": співа was fixed for November 23 The defendants were arrested at the the Central Magistracy yesterday.
and 20. Hing Wah Cafe, Don Voeux Road Central, on Saturday. Detective Kowloon Magistracy yesterday that there should be a glut of wheat nearly two years, and it is regret inspector John Murphy, who pro Mak Yun Lam, an employed in a world where men are hungry; able that he cannot resting his that there should be too many task. But that is the tragedy of cured, asked for the case to be Chinese, was charged with stealing motor-cars when the vast majority Chinn; there are good men in hard summasily. Defendants were articles, valued at 8200, from Mr. of men would be only too willing plenty, but few of them are content romanded until next Monday.
Chung Kung Im, mavager of the with a pubordinate rule, L TAL HSIN would, however, make an ad-
Great Eastern Tobacco Company, mirable governor of Kwongai and A statement to the effect that on and Mr. J. Law. The defendant A the European community in China account of the cold weather there admitted the two charges and was would be delighted to see bim re
Labour on both counts.
ALL Members are cordially invited Detached and Semi-detached Villasing too much. It seems strange war which has now dragged for so aftond and participate in any
disenaxion which may ousue,
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B BROWN, Secretary, 1030.
Hong Kong, 14th Nov,
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lubricant of exchange, The indus peace in the province and carrying down trees to serve as fuel was
which General' BuiU HUNG
trial machine is now held up like oh merisation movement made by Mr. G. B. Twen'ow, As- a steam engine inadequately oiled began, is a task sufficient for thesistant Suparintendent of the 1850 and 1010 the increase in world ordinary man. That Marshal La suented three women before Mr. at the bearings Between the years energies and the ambitions of any Forestry Department, when he pro
will consent to return to public life trade was about 3 per cent. per is doubtful, but more surprising Lindsells the Central Magistracy
incidence, that the fiercase of:
world's gold store during that period was also 3 per cent. per
Douglas, Lapraik & Co. that a telegram was received yesterday morning announcing the loss of In an attempt to emuggle 260. Their steamer Douglas, Captain B cigarettes into the Colony with the Ashton, by striking on an unknown duty; a moss boy of the st. Kwang lives, wore lost, but no further intention of evading payment of rock in the Haitan Straits. No
Tung fell into the hands of revenue particulars are given. The Douglas offers Appearing before Mr. E. left this port for the east const on
sedang making han apa tuj.
task it would do much to restore and were fined 810, or two weeke month's hard labour. It was sint dredth and twenty-ninth trip confidence, in the future of the pro-
ed, that the cigarettes were hidden Hong Kong Daily Presi, November I concealed next-his skin..
16, 1860.
vince, and of all South China. hard labour, saca