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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL MEETING of the above Boolely will be held at the BOARD ROOM of Mora JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lan, on WEDNES DAY, NOVEMBER 1971, at 5.16 P.M.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT of HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS OF COLONEL AL-
FRED HERBERT TUBBY,
BM C.M.O. LATE OF TOX ALBANY HOTEL BASTINOB IN THE COUNTY OF BUSSEX IN
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Nhat the Coort liss, by virtue of
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the Time for Oreditors and Others to kend in their Claims against the above Estate to the 10TH DECEMBER, 1050.
All Creditors and Otherà are accord- ingly borsby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before That Date.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Hong Kong meets only the second of these requirements. It is not
Yesterday's weather repart, fore.in n kry position should there be cast and remarks, issued by the Boyal Observatory at 5.03 p.m., stated :-
The anti-cyclone has moved to the eastern part of the Sen of Japan. Fresh monsoon will con-
Local Forecast:-N.E. winds, fresh-fine.
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* News and Views ⭑
Captain William Colbeck, tho Antractio explorer has died in Lon- don. He was a meraber of the Southern Cross expedition in 1808,
·which was 'the fire to land on the Antaratio continent. He also comi manded the Discovery in Captain Scott's first expedition.
Pride Ocean conflict; it is not 8-supporting and it is incon- veniently close to foreign territory.
Miss Elizabeth Bouden, of Man- Singapore's position could not be
Qold, in 'addition to petrol, in improved upon. It is the proper said to be contained in the tanks celtor, near Atherstone, Warwick- hire, who was to have been mar- outpost for the defence of India, of many motor-cars crowing the fried at the pariah, church one day Australia and New Zealand, and it | border * ́from Mexico 10 the last month, did not arrive for the ceremony, and was later found by has behind it British'territory. No United States, and the Mexican police in a field one mile from her que wants war, and no one wants Government is reported to have home. She was greatly distressed, land. competition in armaments, but a issued instructions for double vigi-and was sent home and put to bed. cause for optimism owing to the strong naval en at Singapore isance to prevent the unwarranted the bridegroom, Mr. Ernest Char-natural buoyancy of the country,
les Morris, of Mancelter, drove reminder that the British Empire expertation of gold coina. tales in search of her, after wait
ing two hours.
is in a position to delund itself against aggression, A base cannot
London Office: 53. Fleet Street, attack or phil potential anyone, but it gives facilities
opponent can afford to ignore.
E.C: 4.
The Daily Press.
"Australia has nothing to worry about," declared Lord Stonehaven, the former Governor-General of the Commonwealth, on leaving Auck- land after a holiday in New Zea Austrália, he added, had
The ren] Australian realized his1 responsibilities to his country and was determined to get down', to work,
Night aluba, na London used to Lord Byng, the Commissioner of the know them, havo Leon swept away.
A recent visitor to South Africa Metropolitan Police, declared war number of Albion buses in use there.
was vory interested to observe the Thou Shalt Not Laugh,
A new religione scot has come to on them two years ago, and the flo found Albions in use by the grief in Dehresin, Hungary. The battle las ended in victory for Scotland-yard. The sale of intoxi- South African Government Railwaycuk of the sect was laughter, and Harbours on their route from members were encouraged to roay stopped, bribery has been put down. to the City, more Albions the vices. Unfortunately the excellent and sentences of imprisonment, in-
various services of the Cape Elec. tonic values of this now religion stead of fines, have been adopted tric Tramways and on visiting Pre- failed to find favour with the po by the magistrates.
itoria, ho found the Pretoria Muni- lice, and the sect was disbanded for cipal Tramways also using Albions, irreverence and general lack of
seriousness,
BIESS. MR. INSTONE BROWER AND eating dunk after hours he been the patenger quays at Cape Town with thigh when they actended son-
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 10, 1930.
THE SINGAPORE BASE,
the Singapore base is to go forward. Expenditure on the docks and the defences is delayed for five years,
but the JACKSON contract is to
HIS BENCHERS,
www.
the
Pasillo Island's Plight.
Niue Island, in the Cook group,
is suffering from the effects of a severe drought, which has lasted Fine months. The island has no unning streams, and very little
is the lowest for thirty-five years. The season's banana crop has also been spoiled by hurricanes, and the resourcre of the island were so re- duced that the nativea · weic' de- pending on the banana shipments for cash to buy food.
Error at Military' Funeral.
Tue aequiftar of ME. INSTONE BREWER by the Benchers of the
King Fuad scored the greatest Middle Temple is another 'example personal triumph last wock of his of the many wise anomalies"reign when he returned to Cairo Protecting the Whale.
from Alexandria to the thunderous Further developments in under which our legal: system is salutes of artillery. Denso crowds League of Nations plan to protect ONE satisfactory detail that emer-
thronged the etroots which wore the prosperity of the whaling in governed. Every aspirant to the beflagged and unguarded. King dustry are expected at a meating ges from the flood of eloquence bar is attached to one of the four state accompanied by the Premier, the first replies to n
Fuad drove through the city in of the Economic Committed when
draft con- which finally extinguished the Im-Inns of Court, the Middle and Sidky Pasha, escorted by the royal vention submitted to all countries soil covers the porous rock. A long bodyguard. Europeans on the hotel interested in the industry will be spe of dry weather has disastrous perial Conference is that work on Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and terraces joined in the cordial wel-considered. The convention, which results on the natives' foo
plies. In addition, the price of Lincoln's Inn. He has to attend come.
has been formulated by a body ofine copra on the London market. experts at Geneva, will, if adopt lectures, to eat dinners (probably
Mme. Galli-Curci, the famoured, prohibit the killing of imma the best in London) and to pass operatic singer, was involved in a ture whales and female whale ac | stiff examinations in such subjects motor accident at Gay Hill,, near companied by calves. It is hoped on her by a no eyatem of paying crews ny conveyancing. Roman Law, and King's Norton. She was stand. Responsibility of office is a the various branches of English law way to Selly Oak, King's Norton, to eliminate an inducement to in-
when her car, in trying to avoid discriminate slaughter, hard tencher, but the Labnur Gov-before being admitted to the pro-another vehicle, ran into a ditch.
The occupants ornment has certainly learned some. fession. After he has been called and turned ovET.
severe shaking. Latest European Station. to the Bar a barrister still remains cuped with a
Work on the now Milan railway thing of the task of maintaining
Mma, Galli-Curci returned to Birm- a member of his Inn, which has ingham in another car.
An undertaker's error led to the The ao station, which is to be one of the British sea power. No part of the certain disciplinary powers
over cident will not interfore with her largos in Europe, is advancing burial of poor old woman with full Two apidly, Already miles of lines military honours in Bruan. naval programme has been more han. The government of the Inne
have been laid in the goods yard, cofins, one containing the body of attacked both by leaders and back of Court is vested in the benchers,'
A space three miles wide, to be this woman, the other the body of traversed by eighty-one miles of a soldier decorated for valour in Lenchers of that party than the committee of the most eminent A Modem Dick Whittington.
Chinese prisons are not exactly rails. A fan of fifty tracks will the great war, lay side by side members of each particular Inn.
nursing homes for the delicate and bring together the cars for despatch in a mortuary. Soldiers who came Singapore base, and the credit There is no election to the post,-year-old boy surprised the in all directions. The cars will to fetch the romains of their com rade for military burial took the must be given to the Prime Minister the benchers co-opting any dis-polies in Kongmoon by asking to be launched from the top of an
woman's coffin, and the mistako be locked up in the local jail. Ho incline, one by one, and will run | and Mr. ALEXANDER, the First Lord tinguished lawyer among them- said I have not broken the law themselves to the desired points.was not discovered until the cere of the Admiralty, for their pertinn selves. The Prince of Wales is an but I want you to put me prison!" Every modern invention to expedite rony at the grave was finished, As the coffin was lifted out of the grave city in insisting upon due provision honorary bencher of the Middle He then told the police that he was the loading and unloading of goods it was then late in the day, the
Temple and the benchers include the naruntless, and had been ill-troatod trucks will be employed in
will band laid aside, and the soldier's by hts uncle. He had run away to yards. The new station being made for this most necessary Lord Chancellor (Lord SANARY), Kongmoon in search of work but opened next April...
body was suitably buried the fol- lowing morning. adjunct to our firet. Australia and Lords PARMOOR and CARSON, Lord could not find a job. He was home- New Zealand were both firm in their Justice SCRUTTOS, Justices Hon-less, hungry, and at his wits end. The officer in charge of the police demand for this long distance out-RIDGE, ASTBURY and MCCARDIE, and station took pity on him and took
host of leading E.C's, among him on a's a domestic servant. post for their own defence, and the them Sir WILLIAM JOWIrr, – the representations from the two Prime Attorney-General. No meniber ac Ministers in question may have quires a right to lecoms a bencher, helped to stiffen the Home Cabinet's the selection being entirely in the
attitude,
British sea power was built on,
a
hands of these august bodies.
A member of the bar is reported to the benchers, of his Inn should and has been maintained by the professional misconduct be alleged against him. The hearing comes be provision of proper bases where fore the "parliament" of the Inn, ships, under the shelter of ade- consisting of a number of judges, quate forts, could be overhauled, king's counsel, and leading members of the junior bar. If the charge and supplied with stores. It was
has been substantiated the Ino can the capture of Gibraltar that gave apply to the Divisional Court of access to the Mediterranean, the King's bench-consisting of two while in the first half of the eigh- of more judges for the removal of teenth century the ports of Jamnica the member in question from the and New England turned the seale in profession. our struggle with France and Spain
A barrister on being convicted of for the trade of the New World. an indictable offence is automatical In the Great War we were able toy reported to the benchers of his hunt down the German cruisers an Inn. Usually in such cases the pro- the high seas because these ships ceedings before, both the parlin
had no place where they could lie ment" of the Inn and the Divisional
tour.
A Munificent Body.
America's Most Eligible,"
Mr. John Nicholas Brown, the Dance. Dispute Tragedy. multimillionaire, who has been.
known as America's most eligible Sergeant Schmerse, of the Ber- death. bachelor, was married recently atlin police, was stabbed to Baltimore to Miss Anne Seddon and Constable Winkellang was seri- The Hong Kong Chinese Chamber Kinsolving, formerly a roportor cusly injured in a dispute which of Commerce has a great tradition and feature writer on a Baltimore followed a recent dante competi of munificenoc.
the Many are newspaper. Mr. Brown inherited tion in Brandenburg attended by two policemen Bergeant appeals made to it on behalf of three fortunes while an infant the sufferers in China, and the response from his grandfather, his father, Sehmerse, who was on leave and in. mufti, took the first prize in the was known
His partner was is always generous. The city of and his uncle-and Nanning has suffered severely from the world's wealthiest baby." competition.
estimated at given a box of chocolates, while he aerial bombardment, during the His fortune is
than £10,000,000. The was presented by the management, inter-Kwang War, and the local more
authorities are asking for help from bride is # daughter of the wish a board of punch. The run- Hong Kong. The matter came be. Rev. A. B. Kinsolving, rector of ner-up in the competition, a hal- fore the Hong Kong Chamber yes. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Balti-cher, named Krueger, claimed ha'f terday and help is to be gent, as it more, where the marriage ceremony the award. The sargeant refusal has in the past been sent to Canton, was performed. The words of the his request, and when the butcher The at the time of the great Communist processional hymn for the ceremony grow, angry accepted his challenge upheaval, to Yunnanfu when half wore written by the bride and her to accompany him outside, the city was devestated by an arsen
nother. The honeymoon was spent inscher is alleged to have drawn al explosion, and to the sufferers in Europe, and included a Meditera kaife and stabbed both the er in the great faminca in the northern lanean cruise in Mr. Brown's palagoant and the constable, who went
tial yacht,
with him to see fair play. provinces.
Local Notes and Events *
and then will be distributed be twoon the stud farms in different
To-night at 8.30 the Chinese The case in which a young mun Catholic Community will hold a and two women were charged with parts of the country. A military a meting at staff officer, roferring to this sub- reception in honour of the Apostolic participating in Delegate to China, Mgr. C. Costan. Happy Valley without a permit jest, says that the expenditure of mony on the scheme will prove a tini, at the premises of the Chinese was resumed before Mr. Lindell very wise investment in the end. Catholic Young Men's Society, 16, at the Contral Magistracy yester The cimate and other conditions in Japan are well suited for cross- day. A district watchman, stated Caine Road..
breeding with European horses, and that he saw one of the women, de there is no reason why... Japan..
should not become the Hungary of the Enst in this respect before many years hans elapsed-Hong Kong Daily Press, November 10, 1903. Looking Eack 50 Years.
table.
up in safety, neutral ports being Court, are brief and formal, but barred under the provisions of every opportunity for a full hear international law, which give onlying is given. The standard of pro a day's respite to visiting men-of-fessional conduct at the British bar war before internment regulations is a high one, and the benchers come into effect.
vindication 1873 BREWER is of A glance at the map of Europe the utmost significance. It does not and Asia shows that Britain has legally effect the decision of the
We would call our readers atten- fondants address & crowd of work no naval base between Malta and Hong Kong Court; it is merely the Hong Kong, There are useful bar opinion of a chartered body, with tien to the Kowloon Canton railwayers from the Nanyang Brothers $7.50 boure, where ships can fic under the out encial power to the effect that time table or page 1. Train No. 15 tobacco factory. She urged them protection of land artillery, but a Mr. Brewen has done nothing that in future leaves Sumdun at 11.44 to go on strike and follow her to the works in order to foron the merchant port is a very different calls for disciplinary action by the tustead of 1118, and gets to proposition from a naval base. Middle Temple. But in view of Kowloon at 12.44 instead of 19.18. management to accede to their de The North China Daily News a Colombo ar Aden would be, hard this decision by a group of the Full details appear in the time mands. His Worship sentenced the few days ago published an docount
from its correspondent. at Chin put to it if a net ricamed in after most distinguished lawyers in Eng
young man to four months' hard kinng of n pienie" given to the action, and in need of replenish-land the matter cannot be left where
Jabour on a charge of assaulting officers and men of H.M.S. En ment and repair Hong Kong is it stande Mr BREWER's legal
An unfortunate motor accident in the Police, while the case against unter, but apropos of this affair f-a-mott-amusing bit of information a dockyard port. There are dry court of appeal is the Judicial which Mr. A, T. Hamilton, the the two women was adjourned until has come to hand, which we sup
headmaster of the Ellis Radoorle. Friday, docks for large and small vessele, Committee of the Privy Council, Indian School and his wife ware workshops and stores. A. Bret could and that alone has power to reverse involved, occurred nonr Fleming operate from here with the assur the decision of the Hong Kong Street, Wanchai on Monday. Ac Looking Back 25 Years. Anco that it could get everything Court, but the position will be in cording to a Police report, Mr. it needed to keep it "in being." teresting if Mr. BREWER does not Hamilton was driving his car in ment has decided to embark on the It would also, if necessary, find himself go to that Court. There shelter here from a superior force.should, undoubtedly, be a court of Admiral MAHAY, the great Ameri- criminal appeal in this Colony, for can strategist, layan down that a very few convicted persons can
be wall and take ificir vesso so the Judicial Com strategically that it must have a good harbour, and, hinterland ment" is only for members of the from which it can draw supplies. bar.
The subject is perfectly planned, appropriate and interesting. The author knows her subject thorough- ly and is a gifted writer. The illustrations are colourful and intriguing. Marginal decorations of pencil sketches of the beauty spots of Okinn add to the charm of the book. In "Coat of Many Colours binding, and boxed ready for mailing. The whole ensenible has that
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pose the editor of our morning con. temporary did not feel at liberty bo publish. In the course of the rambles on the hilla, a sailor came across a missionary dresed a la Evidently the Japanese Govern Chinais, and believing him to o
veritable nat ve, he entered into which, Mrs. Hamilton was a passen. improvement of horse breeding in conversation with him in pidgiu gor, along. Hennessy Road, when rent enruest. For this purpose it English. But the missionary, in- suddenly an Imports and Exports is proposed to catablish & Hom: formed the sailor that he was, 05. Department van cams round the Administration Office, and a Bill much an Englishman as he was, corner, dauang Mr. Hamilton to providing for estimates of the scheme which dumbfounded" Jack," and, the right the car over will probably be introduced in the 1 with the bluntness characterislig were both throw out into the road of horses for breeding purpoker Wit Why and received slight injuries. The car was extensively damaged. ·
imported from Eurone more under false colours-Hong Kong especially from Austria-Hungary, Daily Press, November 19, 1880.