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IN connection with TO-NIGHTS
BALL At the FENINSULA
HOTEL Arrangements have been made to Run & 15 Minutos Ferry Service between 1,16 A.M. and 3 AM. A Five Minute Bervice will be main- tained between 9 P.M. and 0.90 P.M. Late Pook sms will run Every 18 Minutos from 1 10 A.M. Until 8.10 A.M. The
will forms Official Supper Party immediately after Dance No. 8 and those wishing to be present at the Offeint. Sapper (Dining Room)_ro requested to be seated in Good Time Before Thir
E. M. DRYDEN,
Joint Hon. Secretary.
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THE ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of THE ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB will be held in the BOARD ROOM of Mrs388. JAB- DINE, MATUZBON & Co., LTD., Hong Kong, on MONDAY, the 16TH of DECEMBER, 1990, at 6.30 P.M,
To receive from the Committes a Report, Balance Sheet and Ntatement of Accounts for the Year ended 30th SEPTENSZIL, 1930.
To considor and if thought fit, pass the following Resolution--
From and after the 31st of Decam. ber, 1930, the subscription of a playing member who uses all the lub courses and Clab beuses shall be -87. month. The Subscription of a play." ing member who does not use the courses or stay at the Club houses at be $5 a
a month. Provi Fanling ded that if a member paying the latter subscription desires from time to time to use the conreer, or atay at either Oloh house, he shall pay green fee of $I per day.
To clest Officers, Members of Com- mittee, and an Auditor for the ensuing
To decide on any. Resolution which may be submitted fo the Secretary four
days prior to the Meeting.
Any other Business. ·
By Order of the Committee,
E. D. MATTHEWS, Liant: Col: Secretary, Hong Kong, 25th Nov. 1030.
It is requested that Nominations for Members of the General Com mitteo duly proposed and secunded may reach the SECRETARY Not. Later Than WEDNESDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, though Nominations will be accepted at tlio Mesting.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930.
WEATHER. REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, forc- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.m., stated:-
The anti-cyclone conditions over China are uncertain. Moderate monsoon along the S.E. coast of Ching and over the N. China Sea. Local Forconat: -N.E. winds, moderate; Buc to cloudy.
The loss to the nation is estimated at millions of you.
Relief measures appear to be well in hand and the military are helping civil organisations in doing all that la possible to relieve suffer- ing. Unfortunately, cold spell has settled over the country, and is adding to the discomfort of those whose homes have been destroyed. News is still scanty and no abser vatory statement of the earthquake |has been received, beyond the fact that 1,500 shocks have been record BELL-On November 21, at Shanged. But what we do know suggests
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. J..G. BELI, & FÓN.
BIRTH,
that the Government of Japan was well prepared for events of this nature and the country has escaped a devastation which might have rivalled that of seven years ago.
ST. ANDREW'S DAY.
★ News and Views ⋆
The young clerk gazed out of the window. Look at the sun, sir,
said to his employer. We're going to have a wonderful Novem- ber.' "We" exclaimed the head of the firm. My I ask, young man, since when you have been a partner in this.frm 1"
in
The Chinose Press relates how joko ondod in tragedy. A village volunteer in Shuntak was taking a nap under a tree one day inat week when a young farmer came up and tied a string of fre-crackers to the sloper's logs and set fire to them. The volunteer sprang up in a rage, words were followed by blows and eventually the volunteer wiped out his revolver and shot his friend dead. The volunteer is now in gnol.
The official returns rendered to the Electricity Commissioners show that 833,000,000 units of electricity dentskers in Great Britain were generated by authorised un- September aa compared with 755,- A "Reno ring," to distinguish women, 000,000 units in the corresponding divorces from married
h of 1920. During the nine single women, or widows, has been of 1930 (up to the end of put on the New York market. The September) the total amount of It is a plain one of black onyx. oleotricity generated by authorieod It is worn on the third finger of the undertakera was 7,721,000,000 units, left hand, and inside it, where in ns compared with 7,291,000,000 | America the initials of bride and units for the corresponding period bridegroom are usually engraved, are the four significant letters "Free,"
month
of 1929,
For his work in making possible the holing of a Japances painting exhibition in Romo last spring, Baron Kishichiro Okura has been. presented with a high decoration: by the King of Italy. The prosenta tion ceremony took place on Novem-- bere at the Italian Embassy Tokyo, when the Italian Ambassador, M. G. Majon, representing the King: of Italy, personally handed over the deconstion to Baron Okura.
Scores of foreign Prese represent- atives descended upon Lugano last work to attend the trial before, the Swiss federal court of the anti- Fascist Italian aviator Bassanesi who crashed on the St, Gitthardt: glacier on July 11 last, on return. ing from Milan whore he had drop rod thousands of anti-Fascist. Ica lots on the city. Ho in charged with an infringement of the Swiss: air daffro regulations in gonorm nad with dying over a prohibited fortified zone in particular.
Telogram Trap for Husbands.
MARRIAGES, HUTTON-MORGAN.-On November 22, at Shanghai, VIOLET HILDA second daughter of Mr. R. MORGAN and the late Mrs. R. R.. MORGAN, of Shanghai, to VicroR ERNEST, Gly son of Col. and Mrs. E, W. Hurtos, of Ex-
Another husbands""good excuse" mouth, England.
is threatened with extinction, Tho SIMON-BICKERTON-On November ST. ANDREW's Day recalls an in-
Tumultuous scenos marked an
French Post Oleo is exporimont 22, at Shanghai, EDWIN ALEX-cident of the fifth Imperial Press
auta-Sovint moohing held at Ber-
ing with a system of antographed ANDER, eldest son of the Rev. conference held in Britain Iastlin ist week under the auspices of Prodigious Mysteries.
telegrams which will bear the- and Mrs. J. E. SIMON, of Ross
List month an "infant prodigy" signature in facsimile of the sender. on-Wye, Herefordshire, to Min June. It is an indelible memory the Longue for the Protoption of
European Cultura at which digni- played the violin în Albert It the experiments are successful Jonis (née MOODIE), only dough which is probably being recalled taries of xil thren denominations Hall, Ho was one of a crop of it will be impossible for a husband ter of the late JAMES MOODIE just now in all corners of the Em: ounced the religious persecution these uncanny children who are to send a "wiro" to his wife say-- and of Mrs. MOODIE, of Hale, pire. The delegates were entertain id to be going on in the Soviet about to be heard in London this ing that he is engaged on business Cheshire, England.
Union. The disorders were starisd sonson. There are many curious in Orleans or Lyons, for example, Novembered to a dinner and dance in the by Communist hecklers who retus things about "prodigice," not the when he is actually viking tea with SMITH-SWINDELL ----ON
Great Northern Hotel, Edinburgh, ed to keep quiet and finally attack-least of them being that they in his typist in Paris, by the Lord Provost and the Cityed the audience with chairs where variably arrive in great numbers Fathers. At the end of a long and upon the police appeared upon theas about the same time. Then there pleasurable evening, a young indycene wielding their truncheons and ensues a long period during which
arresting 25 people.
29, at Shanghai, DoRIS ALICE, daughter of Mr. and Mra. E BWINDELL, of Putney, England, to HARRY DAVID, only son of Major H. J. SMITH, of 'Great Ryburgh, Norfolk.
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| entered the ball roonf, and, taking ber. position before the band,
I
Catherine the Creati
in
cert platform.
the
Young Convicts' Prison.
When Cholmsford Prison, which... they are never seen at all. Equally mysterious is the reason for dreasing has been closed as a penal estab............. was those musical ings of nine or ten fishment since the beginning of the of the first poople
like Hittle Lord Fauntleroy, The war, is reopened shortly, now ex- 12,sang "Loch Lomond." The chorus to world vaccinated. What is specimen alluded to was robed in perimente will be tried in the re- was taken up by the hosts, a band more, she paid the English doctora velvet suit, with a lace collar and formation of young criminals. I who vaccinated her £10,000, in ad- white socks a child's costume will be reserved for convicts be of elderly gentlemen, who had done tition to £2000 a your for life and utterly obsolete enve on the con-tween the ages of 20 and 30, who Tel. 94511.
Full justice to the feast, and who a variety of most costly gifts with London Office: 53, Fleet Street, had proved themselves most gallant which he returned home laden.
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and unflagging on the floor. They The Empress, since mallpox WIS sang not with the gruff roar whichnging in Russia, sent to England for certain-Dr, Sutton to go out might have distinguished a similar and vaccinate her. He was rather occasion in England, but with deep, old and refused, but a contempor- melodious melancholy. Memory re-
ary, Dr. Dimsdale, was approached And nocepted. calls the figures of the singers, some! what crumpled as to shirt fronts but singing with tears in their eyes
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 28, 1030.
THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN.
that
A Left-Wing Success,
will be taken from Dartmoor and the Isle of Wight, to prevent them from association with "old lng" and demoralised criminale. Lieut.--. A significant move has ber mude Comander D. N. Venabite, nariz-.. by the Maxtonites in securing the tant-governor of Maidstone Prison, reconstitution of the I.L.P. group will be in charge of the new Chelms in the House of Commons. It is ford. Mr. W. O. Lester Smith, now confined to those who last sea- Director of Education for Essex, sion were known as the Left-Wing has promised to act as educational Our recent article on the smoke crs. Moderates have been. "excoin- adviser, and an appeal will be- nuisance in the Colony has brought municated," but they will still be made for men and women to volur- toer to conduct classes in the even- us spirited reply from the Hong welcomed and recognised ca tuna. Kong and China Gas Co., Ltd., who They must swear. allegiance to the ings faside the prison walls Visi antisfactory for steam raising and Conference declare that gas enke is perfectly policy laid down by the I.L.P. tore who have Home Office approval Last Easter. That will be allowed to go inside the not the policy of the cells and talk to the convicts with- could be used by all building con- policy is
cut any official supervision. tractors in connection with pile Government. The now group num. driving or hoisting. "There are bere 20. The I.L.P. nt the last is hoped that this experiment, with The genuine emotion, like the gon-Hong Kong each belching its daily for 30 Labour members.
hundreds of coal fired boilers in election were financially responsible its gesture of friendship from the The 16 outside world, will help to enocur-- they de-are now in the wilderness. The new nhe convicts to make a fresh start quota of smoke which, clare, *could be
operated ns group retains Mr. Maxton' when they are relanseil, efficiently, more cheaply and with-leador. While its members protest out producing any amoke if gas their desire to remain within the coke was used as the fuel, All the Labour Party they are reserving boilers on the Hong Kong and Kow to themselves freedom of thought, loon Gasworks are coke fired," they speech and voting. added, and no difficulty whatever is experienced at any time.”
"I and my true love will never
meet again,
On the bonny, bonny banks
Loch Lomond,"
of
crous hospitality gave an emphatic "no" to the most unfair sugges tion that Scots are "dour" and
The sympathy of the world goes out to the Japanese people at this time of earthquake disaster in their land. Fortunately, the loss of life and of property, serious as it has
"nehr." been, is in no way comparable to
The delegates were the recipients the catastrophe of September, 1823, when a large part of Tokyo and of most generous hospitality every where they went, during the month practically the whole of Yokohama
but nowhere were they more liberal- were destroyed, over eighty thou-which the Press Conference Insted, sand people being killed.
ly entertained than in the country of which St. Andrew is the patron saint.
The events of the past few days call to mind the fortitude of the Japaness people in their hour of greatest trial, the coolness of the Government and the steady faith and persistence that enabled them to rebuild their capital on the scene of the ruins. Extremely careful in-
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Their Own Epitaphs.
Destructive Playwrights."
Mr. H. G. Wells confessed, re- cently to the acute pleasure he in writing his own epitaph the derived from "chucking things of iate Dean of Winchester, Dr. Hut other things and seping them ton, followed the example of Dean break," The propensity of the Switt, who, fearful lest someone literary, mind to derive satisfac would write something agreeable. tion from a good wash is well The output of the Raub Aus-coinposed as unflattering an inscrip illustrated in Mr. Maugham's
tion as could come to mind. He Breadwinner" and Mr. Coward's | tralian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., for ordered the inscription to be " cut amounted to 1,834.30 ́ors, gold.
the four weeks ended November 5, deen" and "heavily gilded." Time/Private Lives," The destruction
Doctor of Divinity, Dean of this
Cathedral. Church:
Gono where wild rage can tear the
heart no more.
Go, traveller, and imitate if you
Can an earncat Manly champion of freedom. Swift was a good hater. Hutton was a kindly man
Dr.
NOVEMBER IN ENGLAND.
It
D'you wonder that I love 'yea
etched black trees, And gate intent upon those dark
grey skicot
Heera's calling to
breeze,
in the
And through the mist I see her.
soft grey eyes.
Sometimes reluctant Sun breaks
briefly out:
Through clouds, a transient gleam of blus I view, magneti And then, I see,with equal charm
they flout
The shine of Pen-Mur-Barbara's
eyes of blue.
night, the gibbous Moon looki
brightly down,
Bymbolism of Mr. Maugham's mas sacre of an inanimate object which 1560 painful. Night after night at the audience shudder, at the ruth- less trampling of an immaculate top: hat. On being reproach- fod for auch wilful extrava Lite's
Mr. Maugham replied
that it was not as bad as it looked. A neighbouring hattor, for a small remuneration, enabled the hat to serve for three or four nights.
The
countryside and cloud affects to vary:
consummation's reached, I. gladly drown
Myself within the deep dark eyes
of Mary..
has softened the starkness of its witnessed in Mr. Maugham's play is loss promiscuous, than that with form, but the defant cesepte re-which Mr. Coward has enlivened Mrs. Evans, the Duchess of York's theins. It was in Latiu, but thin his comedy. It is the concentrated
e the translation: earthquake and the fires arising from housekeeper, who is retiring shortly
Hore lies the body of Jonathan it were undertaken by scientist alter a lifetime of service with the
Swift, Royal family, is the best-known and officials whose reports and Welsh representative in a staff that recommendations greatly assisted has been recruited from England, the Government in its task of re. Sootland, Ireland and Wales. The construction. Particular attention maid and Princess Elizabeth's nurse Duchess' cook and ber personal
was paid to the matter of firo pre- are all from north of the Tweed. vention, and a memorandum by the The Duko's butler and valet Arc English. Another Welsh representa- Director of the Meteorological Ob- tive, who will remain after Mrs. servatory, Tokyo, received the most Evans' doparture, is the Duke's careful attention.... "The idea! stud groom. building," it was stated; "must be,
A British film "Young Woodley" fireproof and "quake proof. When has received high praise in New the tiles were shaken off a build-1 York. One paper there pays of it: ing it was left at the mercy of If Young Woodley is an aver
age example of what the Britishors approaching fire." The new Tokyo are doing nowadays in their cinema
Yesterday Americana in the With the intention of committing J.Looking Back 25 Years. has-been-designed to withstand the plants we have loto to expect in
the future. Frank Lawton and Colony observed Thanksgiving Day euicide, a Chinese woman jumped The Nippon Yuson Kaisha hayo seismio disturbances recurrent in
Mara on the Kobe-Korea North Japan. The work has now been Madeleine Carroll both gave charm Tho celebrations, locally, were, of off from an upper floor of 31, Shan-placed their now steamer Sagami ing performances. "The New York a private nature, and in somo of kiwan Road, on Wednesday. The Chino run. She is 1,934 tons re- City also says Young Wood-
JOIN WILLWYN.
*Local Notes and Events *
tested and justified. Telegrains has been made into a fine the American firms the office staffa woman received a number of in- gister, was built in England thres
juries and was admitted to hospital in an unconscious" condition.
White Horss Distillers, Ltd
+
from Japan state clearly that sensitive talking picture by the were granted a boliday.
years ago, and has all the comforts of modern passenger boats, includ though severe shocks, were felt in Elstree Studios in England. The
ing stoom heaters and electric lights. Tokyo practically no damage was adaptor has lost none of the mood
This steamer is not to be confound- An application was made by the dona Destruction has overtaken or mirit of the original-in fact
which was blown up near the mouth ed with the old Bagami Maru, the result is an intelligent and Police yesterday to Mr. B. E many of the neighbouring, districts mature little talking picture, which where is was not to be expected that is far and away the best Screen Lindsell for the withdrawal of the have forwarded us through Merers of Fort Arthur last year-Hong charges against a Chinese who was Jardine, Matheon & Co., Ltd., Kong Daily Press, November 28, precautions enforced in the capital offering of the week.
arrested by the authorities for their local agents, two neat little 1005. could be made general, but the
armed robbery at No. 10, Costle pocket book diaries for the year Looking Back 50 Yearning
1931-Much-useful information, M:: de Lesseps has so far succeed. population of Tokyo is safe," "the
This evening's local radio pro- Terrace, in the early part of 1920. sporting and general, is contained ed in his efforts to repost his fabrics of the Government and com-gramme will include a lecture by The Police stated that they were not in the little volumes including the Egyptian achievements
thin mercial buildings remain intact, Mr. Braine Hartnell, of Hong Kong
Andrew's Day, that there is not to announce to the Aendemy of and the business of the nation gets University, on that most amusing offering any evidenes against the news, suitable for release on St. Iziamus of Panama as to be abla and fascinating of all Englishmen défendant. The man was according headache in ahogrhoad of Sciences that the work is about to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnsonty discharged.
"White Horse.!!
begin, after some delay and in epito was one day abusing Scotland when
of some hostile criticism. The chief
on as usual.
Though the present tragedy might have been far worse than is actually
Dr. Johnson,
Boswell ventured to say After For having stolen a watch and all, sir, God made Scotland."
on
The two Russian lads, Wirth opposition to the scheme has come the case, but for the foresight," replied the old autocrat, chain from a fitter on board the Constanten and Shaiduro Leomid, from America, and has been at least and thoroughness of the precautions he made it for Scotsmen." But LMS. Empress of Japan, a Chi- after having, spent one week in as much political as commercial. taken after 1923 by the Japanese Dr, Johnson went to Scotland and nese was brought before Mr, Buttera prison, wore brought before Mr. The Panama Canal was denounced authorities, the death-roll, nocord enjoyed himself there! Even the at the, Kowloon Magistracy yes Butters at the Kowloon Magistrady in the North American Review as. The an infraction of the accepted, prin-. ponderous dictionary compiled by terday. The defendant, who was a second time yesterday. ing to latest reports, contains two Johnson contains jokes that have found to be a banishee, was further Magistrato was informed that a cipal of the politics of the United hundred-and-fifty-two names, ono become classics-notably the defini- charged with having returned to guardian had been found for the States known as the Monroe Doc zan two-lade, who would-have-to-bo trine, moro.even than as a wild hundred and forty-tures perdens which figured to the Colony Defendant
in a cause celebre, when the forced to Euro” ubator" "gion" "TOT (SONU DECK Vơ dubgrind have been injured and over 6,000 old definition seemed fairly well stealing and six months on the other accordingly discharged the dafrudKong Daily Press, Novemborg
charge.
ants with a caution. buildings, destroyed or damaged, justified.
1890.