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Until MONDAY, 15TH DECEMBER
1950, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
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Hong Kong, 21 Nov., 1930.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be hald (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 29 NOVEMBER, 1930, Commancing at 1,30 P.M.
The First Boll will be Rung at I P.M.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies most wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Mombern to the Members Encloento and Club Rooms at 15.00 for Gentlemen and $200 for Ladies
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ob.
tainable through the SECRETARY Introduction by a Member, such be responsible for Payment to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the
of All Chits, &c.
Radges admitting
Race Course,
Members can obtain, upon application the SECRETARY, Badges (Limited
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* News and Views
The Passing of the Tram.") - There is no question that more and more Municipalities in the United Kingdom are finding that the modern bus will meet their re-. quirements better than the tram car and not a few have already super- The breeze" which has arisen A Great Egg Mystery. from the proposa) to remove the
Aro brown oggs rely more nour-seded the team by the more modern
One Asks method of transport. drew Square, which is in the centre
per, South of Manchester, this ba of Edinburgh, to the comparative correspondent to a London pu- the pioners in this respect is Glue- obscurity of Baughton Park, in the lief exists strongly. Is there a Longow Corporation, who have been suburbs, has resulted in the organ- 1sation of a protest meeting. The don housewife who will not chanes gradually adding to their already organisors are the Young Scots
WEATHER REPORT. Canada is going ahead with amazing speed and sureness. Her Yesterday's weather report, fore-griculture and her industries 'arc cast and remarks, issued by, the Royal" Observatory as 5.35 p.m.,like prosperous. Scientific survey and exploration are revealing more stated:-
The anti-cyclone central to the and more sources of minerst wealth. north of the lower Yangtsza Valley fler statesmen and magnates pro- statue of Gladstone from St, Anishing than white ones!
Fresh has strengthened slightly. nonsoon along the S.E. conet of thery & development as rapid and as startling as that of the United China and over the N. China Sea.
States during the last thirty years.
white, if both are the same price t China and Canada, though divided
brown 58 in preferance to a large fleet of dose-deck buses. Yet in the north it is quite the Leyland Motors Limited has again by the full width of the Faciße
other way. Glasgow will not look een entrusted with their order for at an egg unless it is snow white.eventy-fivo 51-seater double-deck
·BIRTHS.
Ocean are nevertheless close neigh. Liverpool's Housing Plans.
Speaking at a meeting of the wonder if any of your readers Titan buses, which represents the BALLARD-On November 15, at
should Liverpool Housing Committee, Sir has reached any scienifie opinion on seventh order from this Corpora Shangbai, to Mr. and Mrs. J.baurs commercially and
Hugo Rutherford, the chairman, what is evidently a voxed subject. tion, who will have almost three BALLARD, 6071,
do increasing business. Shanghai nid that the Corporation had erect A South African egg merchant tells hundred of the vehicles in services. DISSMETER.On November 17, at
to have shown a grentered more than 20,000 houses. Con-me that as far as he is concerned, at the completion of this order. tracts had been let for 500 houses eggs are eggs; just that, and noth- Another Corporation to dreide to Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.
Brown or white, they scrap their rams altogether is JOHN A. D188MEYER, & 300, apprecíition of the importance of in the Dovecot Estate and for ing more.
900 houses on the Speke Estate.come over in millions, and neither Wigan Corporation, and this Cor- has selected the the visit from these Canadian trade Threo public halls were to be pro-colour has the advantage. For my-roration foo prospectora thin Hong Kong. But vided, and at Norris Green a tem-self, I confess that I do like a Titan" as the most suitable bus
porary public library, a tram shel-brown egg. But I don't know why.for their parpess. it is the custom, perhaps an un-ter, and a clinic were being built. The new Housing Act. to said, fortunate, custom, for Hong Kong would be operated with energy.
MARRIAGE. COQUILL-HAYWARD. On November 15, at Shanghai, Mr. ALEXANDER COGHILL, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER COORILL of Greenock, Scotland, to GLADYS GERTRUDE HAYWARD, daughter
scents
of the late Mr. and Mrs Sanly. Official welcomes and specia! MAN, of Gt. Yarmouth, England
decorations of quays and buildings are not its usual method. But we
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HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 24, 1930.
THE CANADIAN TRADE MISSION.
Society.
A Carvalho Yeo of Calro!
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Sir Charles Trevelyan and Harrow!
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The Undergraduette,
Undergraduettes who on reading them in attack. Treent n
Isis (the Oxford University very indignant. magazine) were
This goes further than any pre- vious tilt at us," declared one girl.
to take things easily and informal-More than 400 tenements would be
The Trevelyan family have always orocted in the centre of the city. The committee were now able to been noted for the courage and-in offer well-planned houses, posscasing dependence of their convictions, but a good garden, hot water supply, the Minister of Education recently and electric light, at the low in-overstepped the bounds oven of his clusive rental of 88. 10d. per week. own family tradition! In the club My opinion is that jealousy is smoking-rooms it will be agreed at the root of the trouble." Here are some of the nice things said that Sir Charles Trevelyan is not
of the undergraduettes in the article merely a traitor to bis class but a Big frauds on Cairo banks have traitor to his old school. For sure-in the Isis"; The women are not decorous but unseemly, un- been revealed by investigations in ly it is dreadful that a Minister the case of Aldo Ventura, who was of Education should criticise our dignified and unfledged. Riding recently arrested in Italy and public schools; that an old-Harrobicycles in the streets with a shock- charged with the attempted bribery vian should cast a slur upon Haring display of black worsted. of passport officials Large sums of row itself. At Harrow," said, Bringing belated breakfasts of cho- money were found in his possession. Sir Charles," the evils of the school colates and biscuita into the lecture and Ventura Inter confessed that wore the football and cricket cap room. "The men, poor dears, are he had swindled the Cairo bank by nine." That was a startling thing obviously jealous of us, although which he was employed. Inquiry to any. True it is that our public they won't admit it," commented 'They think has shown that Ventura substituted schools concentrate to-day on brawn the undergraduette. false serip in clients' dossiers for rather than on brains. The masters themselves go very superior because the originals to the extent of in this policy are supported by the they have been coming here for £10,000. This has led to all the parenta. And yet, if the public hundreds of years." Another un- Cairo banks investigating their schools desire to compete with the dergraduette at Lady Margaret position, with the result that agrammar schools, they will have to Hall said: "Many mon munch cho other bank has discovered false offer some slight inducement to the colates and even chew gum at the scrip to the total £30,000. How far boy who wants to work. This is lectures. There are plenty of other sach fraudulent transactions extend I done without loss of character-points on which we could criticise is not yet known. All the banks building" at Winchester and Eton them, especially in matters of dress, are hay examining their clients' and in many other more modern and their habit of wandering about.
public schoola.
the streets half-old." dossiers,
can assure the members of the Chamber of Commérée Delegation to China that the significance of their visit is understood; that the local commercial world offers them the warmest of welcome and is thoroughly ready to talk business and to take full advantage of any opportunity to increase trade be tween ourselves and the Dominion. Hong Kong has grown in righty years from a barreh rock to the sixth port of the world, and it has ng intention of letting its usual rate of progress be checked.
The Canadian Trade Mission to the Far East, which arrived in the. THE REAL HOME-SIDE Colony on Friday, after visits to
Japan and Shanghai, returned here SHANGHAI AND THE DOGS. from Canton yesterday afternoon.
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The Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure -$1.00 for 1 Parsons, including Lading; and is payabilo... at the Gato
Boldier and Bailera in Uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of the HONG KONG JoOLET CLUB daring the Race Meeting. By Order,
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C. B. BROWN,
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& CO.,
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These distinguished, representatives SHANGHAI Municipal Council de of the Dominion are to stay here serves congratulation on its decision
Thursday, and during that time
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drome in the French Concession is to stay, but that is not the respon- sibility of the Council, and the French authorities will probably come into line with their colleagues sooner or later. The French are a
to abolish dog-racing. The Cani-
they will investigate, with thoroughness characteristic of their natim, what Hong Kong stands for in the trade of South China. Now that there is a real possibility SUBSCRIBERS and
of peace in the Republic all the the Attending PRACTICE DANCE TO-MORROW nations of the world will be seeking practical people and have always (TUESDAY) Hindi Note that TEA
ST. ANDREW'S' SOCIETY,
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will be served in the ROSE ROOM the markets of the Far East. Hong Kong is a free port, and all are welcome. It claims to be the sole deep-sea harbour" with modern facilities in South China, and the
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WELCOME TO THE CANADIAN TRADE
DELEGATES.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce Delegates to China' and Japan returned to the Colony yesterday afternoon from Canton, where they had a cordial reception from the Municipal and
Provincial Governments.
We take this opportunity of welcoming them to Hong Kong? It is needless to emphasise that they will be received with friendship and hospitality. That is the tradition of the East. We are sure they will find an active and enterprising community, fully alive to the possibilities of trade be- tween Canada and Hong Kong, and ready to take in hand any form of enterprise conducive to the prosperity of the great Dominion and of this emporium of European trade in the East.
Local Notes and Events
The name of Mr. Henry Jemson Tebbutt has licen added to the list of authorized 'architects.
distributed along the great river to supply spirits or wine to the Red system of Kwangbang and Kwangsi, Indians. That tradition has been and far into the interior. Here, maintained, and though in, France under British administration, is the betting laws are easier, and more ecmmerele meeting place of East logical, than our own it is most un- and West, the sure base from which likely that Frenchmen would allow merchants can advance into the any form of gambling to jeopardise their big commercial stake in immense aren of South China.
Hong Kong's link with Canada is Shanghai."
What may be termed puritanical a close one. The great liners of the Canadian Pacific S.S. Co. ply onslaughts are always dangerous. The Municipal Council seems, how regularly between Hong Kong, and the prosperous and rapidly ever, to have in mind a "clean up" of their area. They have been ready growing port of Vancouver convey- ing huge cargoes and vast numbers in the past to call in experts from of passeners of all races. In the outside and perhaps they may send
valuables, estimated value 8214, the Agures of the statistical branch invitations to Lord BYNG OF VtMy
property of Mrs, Tinson, of 11, The Peak, is mentioned in a report made to the Police. The handbag of the Hong Kong Imports and and Lord BRENTFORD ("Jix ") who
was lost in the Helena May Ineti have done a similar job so thorough- Exports Department the value of
It is notified in the Gazette that tube on Saturday night when the October imports from they in London. It is difficult to make British Empire is given as nine proplo sober or virtuous either by the sum of 810 is prescribed as the function was being hold and which
remuneration to be paid to each was attended by Mrs. Tinson and a half million dollars. The act of Parliament or municipal examiner, not being a-salaried offi United Kingdom, India and the decree, but the solid business in-cor of the Government, in respect Straits account for about eight terests in Shanghai, Chinese and of each examination conducted by millions, but a big proportion of foreign alike, would no doubt wel: Board of Examiners under the provisions of Section 5 of the Pilot the remainder is from Canada.
come something of the alleged dull-Ordinance, 1930. Last year the value of the whole Sino-Canadian trade nmounted toacas of Hong Kong. We have to G.$10,500,000, but political peace work too hard in these days to be
His Excellency the Governor has scope and organization of the So appointed Subedar Major Shah ciety will be discussed at the meet- ing and it is hoped that as many Zamaan Khan, 3rd Battalion Oth ladies and gentle.n as possib That Regiment, to be one of his will attend in order that a dociety Aides-de-Camp, vice may be formed which will meet The names of Mr. Frank Ikin Ifonceary.
with general acceptance.Yours.. and Mr. Ling Man-I have been Sudan Hikmat, 3/15th Punjab cie, S.T. Dunn, Superintendent of Botanical and Afforestation De.
Kong partment-Hong
Daily added to the list of auditors under Regiment. the companies Ordinances..
The loss of a handbag contain-Prits, Nov, 24, 1905, Lieutenant-Colonel L. G. Birding a gold cigarette case and other Looking Back 50 Years. ... 1.8.0., O.B.E., on return from leave has assumed command of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
Every sent at the Theatre Royal
A
Considerable delay and much.
sexatious annoyance was caused at the inqueste he'd youterday after noon, by the unpunctuality of the Coroner in his attendance." The time fixed for the inquiries Was three o'clock and at that hour, the s
her of witnesses, and the usual jurors, two medical ufficere, a num Government officials, inspectors and interpreters, were present, but the Coroner failed to put in an appea= ance till fifteen minutes to four o'cock, just three quarters of an A public meating will be held in hour after the time for which the the City Hall at 4.30 pm, on Fri summonses had been issued. On day, December 8, for the purpose, his arrival Mr. Northcote express- ed his regret at the delay and ex- of forming & Horticultural Society rained that it was unavoidable an
Looking Back 26 Years.
in Hong Kong. His Excellency his part as he had been detained on
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in Chine should see a big rise in able to be sprightly after midnight, was taken on Saturday night when Sir Matthew Nathan has kindly business by the Colonial Secretary.. complaining in no measured terms, the A.D.C. gave their final perfer consented to preside. Should such The jurors meanwhile had been the Chinese imports from Canada Millionaires no longer grow like mance of "The Middle Watch a society be formed His Excellency and Mr. Meymont protested most which have only totalled 83,000,000 ||79|
two comman poppies in the Far East, The play wont with a swing and the Governor and the following vehemently against such an un- precedented unpunctuality on the per annum for the last years. There is room for develop and people who struggle hard for the generous applauso showed the other gentlemen have signified their part of the Coroner, pointing out ment. China needs the oil and the living have to forego the plesandience's appreciation of the exwillingness to support it, the a number of gentlemen had aninsed in those good old cellence of the production. From Patrons H.E,, Sir Matthew Naheen detained most unnecessarily 12 Maiar General Villiers from their business, at a consider-
Clater, C.M. Gresident:
Hong Kong bany-2 fanour Sir Francis Piggott. The 21, 1880.
while her own produco always ?
its markets in the civilized countries regretfully, to be slipping away for sentation was an unqualified suc of the world,
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