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BOOKING OPENS SATURDAY, 72 FEBRUARY.
TICKETS............$2.20 EACH.
I. M. MOTAVISH,
Hon. Secretary.
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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
NOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MESTING OF HONG KONG TRAMWAYN. LIMITED, will be held at the Officer of Massa. JARDINE, MATHESON & 00,, LTD., Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 27TH DAY OF FEBRUARY. 1831, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, to transsol, the Ordinary Business of the Company.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY: the 18gu, to FRIDAY, the 27TH FEBRUARY, 1031, Both Days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary.
Hong Kong, eth Feb, 1931.
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HONG KONG FOOTBALL
CLUB.
RUGBY INTERPORT DINNER DANCE
Will be held in
THE PENINSULA HOTEL
сп
MONDAY, 16T¤ FEBRUARY, 1981,
At 8.15 P.M.
TICKETS: $7.50 Each
can be obtained from→→
B. GAMMELL,
c/o ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO.,
or from-
THE HON. SECRETARY.
RUGBY INTERPORT DINNER Will be held in LANE, CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT
.on
TUESDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1981, At 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $5.00 EACH (Exclusive of Wines but including
Aperitifs), can be obtained from
E.R. WEST',
c/o THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA; or from-
Tux Hos. SECRETARY.
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H. M. MOTAVISH, Hon. Secretary.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
INTERPORT PROGRAMME.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH--
HONG KONG v. SHANGHAL' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST-
BHANGHAI D. CHINESE. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD-
SHANGHAI
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PRICES: COVERED STAND$2.20. UNCOVERED STAND..........1.10.
(Including Tax).
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Hon. Bocretary,
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
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IN THE Goons or LO KWAI FONG, LATE OF NGAW Be WAN, KOWION CITY, Kow "LOON, IK TOZ COLONY OF HONO KONG. MARRIED WOMAN, DZCHASED.
“AYOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that
No Court has by virtue of that provisions of Section 59 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the time for Creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate.
thin 80 days from the date hereof...-.. All Cliton and others are accord
ched by and 10 that
the 2880 DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1931.
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WEATHER REPORT. Yesterday's weather. report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.35 p.m.. stated:--
Depressions are situated over Japan And Tongking. An anti- cyclone is developing to the N. of Shantung and the monsoons will probably be re-established Uuring the next 24 hours."
Local Forecast:-Light 8. winds, freshening Inter; cloudy generally; with drizzle or mist.
BIRTH.
6, 1931.
*News and Views ⭑
Sir Edward Lutyens Goes Over,
country for miles around, and a chasm nino miles long was opened in the earth. Besides the volcanoes, innumerable Inkes and pools of boiling water, geysera, solfutanas and mud-volcanoes are warnings His "Good Deed."
A London clerk, who had just that the earth's crust is not firm. Around North Island also are the completed a sentence of six months great depths of ocean that geolo-in Dorchester Prison, was sent gists consider a factor in weakening back again for 28 days for throw the adjoining land. We do not ing a packet of tobacco over the know what steps the New Zealand wall for a fellow-prisoner. Government takes to have the study. of seismology placed on a sound Lee-On Jantiary, 18, at Nanking, basis. It is a matter of as a vital to MAVIS, wife of O. R. Lat, nimportance to that country as it is daughter.
to Japan, where well subsidised scientists are perpetually at work upon all branches of research and the application of their data to every-day life. It was the scientists of Japan who minimised the losses due to the last earthquake in November, 1930. If the Govern ment of New Zealand has no state department at work on this matter of life and death, importance to large areas of North Island, it would do well to send a mission to Japan,
DEATH. STADTMANN. On January 30, at Shanghai, JonN STADTMANN, of the China United Apartments, agod 47 years.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG FEBRUARY 6, 1931.
THE NEW ZEALAND
DISASTER.
THE Aympathy of the whole world will go out to the sufferers in the New Zealand carthquake disaster. No safe estimate has yet been inade of the number of casualties, but it is now feared that over a thou- Band lives have been lost. To
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Crusoe's Island,'
To
|SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Local.
Mr. A. l Areulli distributed tho prizes at the Ellis Kúdoorio School Page 6. for Indians yesterday."
Five men appeared before the Kowloon Magistrate on larceny. and other charges yesterday.
Page 7 A Bill to amend the Estate Dutica passed ita,rst reading at the Legis- lative Council yesterday. Page 7. Interesting evidence was given at the continued hearing of the Bro
Assuredly our modern age is destructive of all romance. of the older generation the island of Robinson Crusoe glimmered al- ways under a light that never was on land or son. It remained for
those "impossible" ono "of Ecbatanas" which we never rench. Sir Edwin Lutyens has left for But to-day you can visit Ecbatana India to take part in the inaugurina limousine, and Tobago there When he returns it will be probab. are many excellent hotels. Twenty-Yap Steamship ly as President of the Incorporat two schoolboys haye just been pack-
d Association of Architecta and Burveyors, Bir Edwin gave up his membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects last year, and his taking office in the more com prehensivo association will be re garded as a definita scaling of this renunciation.
al ceremonics of the new Delhi.
England's 'Phones, '
nation in the Page 7. Supreme Court
Twelve months' hard labour and
ed off by the Public Schools Em-strokes of the birch was the sen
on each of two Chinose convicted pire Tours Committee to visit tence passed by Mr. H. R. Battera Pago 7. Trindad, Tobago and the rest. They of kidnapping.
An unknown European walked will call at Robinson Crusoe's Is- land.
off the end of one of the Kowloon. Godowns piers and is presumed i have been drowned. Page 7. Sweets and Alcohol.
Details of now services and Most children are firmly ration-schedules have been issued by the ed in swools in these days, and one Dollar Liuc.
Page 11.
T
out.
The Postmaster-general of Eng-hope that the theory put forward land bag announced that, as from by
In answer to calls from Canton, sortain Dr. Loonard. H.M.S. Sandwich left for Hoihow January 1, the additional charge Williams's that gwect-eating in for the new pattern of telephone childhood may produce a desire for Yesterday where, it is feared, a Communist, uprising has broken has been reduced from 18. to 28. alcoholic stimulation later on does
Page 11. a quarter. In this pattern the not bring about still further 'ro
To-day's 'Wireless programme. southpiece and receiver: are corn- ductions in allowances of chocolate
Page 4. bined in one light instrument, pigs, butterscotch and other nursery which is held in one hand, lear- delights. It is difficult to follow ing the other band free. The now professional minds at times. First Sport. typo is accordingly much more con- we are told that the childish cray- veniant for many purposes than ing for augar is national thing
and should be indulged, now the standard candlestick pattern.
are warned that if it is so indulg ed a dreadful result may follow. Doctor Williams' argument is that the palates of children are over- stimulated by awceta, but if this reasoning is carried to a logica! conclusion all the sweet things which children. love would have to be cut down in their dietary Adult sweet enters are rarely, if
The R.A.C. and Its Members,
where more is known about earth. quakes than in any other part of the world. Perhaps everything possible is being done. Now Zen- land has been one of those caun tries with no history," except of steady development, and most of us havo little enough knowledge of those far distant islands.. The
The action of the committee of tragedy of last Monday shows that
the Royal Automobile Club in in this peaceful land may have a prob-forming certain members that they lem as grave as any of those that have not been re-olcted is surely For vex the troubled nations of Europe unprecedented in clubland.
this means that those members have, in effect, boen turned out of the club, a step which hitherto, has never been taken except as the re ault of some offence or in the event! of bankruptcy. A member of the Bverage London club who becomes a bankrupt automatically resigns, though the committee may consider the circumstances and refuse to ac- cept the resignation oven before the member's discharge.
and Asia.
WHAT OUR WARSHIPS COST:
English people there is added In the course of the first programme poignancy in this visitation falling of the proposed naval construction upon what must have been one of in the United States under the the most favoured places in the London Treaty, we get an interest- world: New Zealand calls to minding insight into the much higher of warship building in a country of surpassing beauty and cost good fortune. It is & land of America, as compared with Eng glorious, scenery, equablo climate land. A cruiser of 7,500 tons, armed with Gin. gung, is estimated and pleasant farms and towns on the model of the unspoilt West at £3,302,000. Our own Leander type, which will practically corre- country of England. There is no
spod with the American cruiser, is "black country," with grimy
cost £1,500,000. expected to factories, no unemployment and a
flotilla leader of 1,880 tons is put remarkable standard of health.
down at a round million pounds Items of news of the carthquake sterling: destroyers of 1,500 tons confirm this picture of a prosat £840,000 apiece. On a tonnage perous community, pursuing happy
basis these figures appear to be
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His Mother's Faxit.
The suggestion that more harm can be done to a child through letting it hear quarrels between its parents than by the cinema, or lurid postera was put forward by Dr. conference Lotitia Fairfield at of health visitors and school nurses at Bedford College for Women. Very often," she said, "you find a child being punished for bad temper, rudo manners and noisi mess when it is only doing in its smail way exactly what it sees its own parents doing every day of their lives. She mentioned the case of one child who developed thier ing tendencies which were said to ther go through his father's trous the average cost of British vessels or pockets! (Laughter.) of the same classes. A 10,000-ton
ever, excessive drinkers.
Varsity's Queer 'Mon
We
Cricket Notes; by R. Abbit
Page 10.
Golf Notes, By Guan,
Page 10.
Home Football results. Details of boxing events nt City Hall to-morrow night.
Page 11.
Page 11. The Emergency Committee of the Hong Kong Association has re solved to forthwith reinstate the two Chinese players who wore re-
Page cently suspended.
Latest Cables..
The Prince of Wales and Prince George departed from Kingston (Jamaica) on board the Oropesa bound for Cristobal, (Panama) on Tuesday..
Page 0.
Mr. Cameron Forbes, US. Minis. ter to Japan, is a passenger on board the incoming Empress of Canada en route to Manila on n visit to the Governor-General of the Philippines.
Page: 9.
Army and business readers who have been through a university are likely to reply strongly to the re- marks made by Professor H. J. Paton at the International Students' Congress in Glasgow. Profesor Paton, who is Professor of Logic at the University of Glasgow,
Of the two flying officers who were rescued from the flying boat. thought the small amount of brains in the country was not being dis which sank in Plymouth Sound tributed in the best way. So far yesterday, one is recovering, and as my experience of university men the other is still in a critical con
the clever and dilion..
Fage D. goos," he said, ambitious ones go to the Bar and
The Municipal Council at Shang- into politics. The clever and cau bai has sent a letter to both grey- tious ones go into the Civil Service hound associations stating that dog or into university teaching. The racing will not be permitted in ones go into the International Settlement after clever and queer
Page . museums, or else write poetry. At March 31.
The Australian Arbitration Court. the other end, the stupidest, and often the most charming, members has dismissed the application of of the universities go into the Army the Commonwealth Government for and into business. If we depended the suspension of the reduction of in the Army and in business on university men we could never have to per cent. on the basio wage, cx- position which we have in the ect dealing with the present condi- tions must comprise such reduc world to-day.
tion.
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uneventful lives, when the great about forty per cent, higher than have come from watching his mo attained the military or the business pressing the opinion that any pro-
disaster strack them. There are pathetic stories of young girls and women killed and mutilated while
shopping, of school children meet- ing with the same fate in their class-rooms, of a hospital falling like a house of cards." Fire was soon added to the horrors of the shock, and at Napier fifty oil tanks exploded.
sin. gan cruiser, fitted with a flying
Local Notes and Events
dock, is estimated at £1,270,000. Presumably, these prices represent the most economic selection from tenders submitted by the Navy yards and private firmas America is a rich country, and can afford to pay as much for her warships, there were two case of corcizo
spinal meningitis and one case of typhoid.
The story at least shows how as those who build them can manage the resources of civilisation can to get. But if the quotations to alleviate human suffering and foreign Governmenta by American minimise loss of life when natural shipbuilding yerde are on the same forces bring disasters of this kind, relative sealo it is not difficult to The gallant Captain and crew of understand why these get such H.M.S. Veronica, a sister ship of comparatively small share of any the little sloop Cornflower, now in orders that are to be had nowadays. Hong Kong Harbour, not only ren Probably the most expensive war-
For the 24 hours onded February |
Mr. Lindsell yesterday sentenced Fan Sing at the Contral Polion Court to a fines of $3,000 or five months tard labour, for having in his possession 25 taels of opinra.
Among passengers leaving the Colony yesterday, by the ss Em- press of Japan was Mrs. O. Os home, Advertising Manager of the Hong Kong Daily Press, who is proceeding to England vid America. Mrs. R. T. Barrett is taking over Mrs. Osborne's work.
Whilst walking down Dock Street on Tuesday at 0.40 p.m. Mrs. U. E. Millard of 3, Waverley Terrace, Kowloon Docks, had her bag snatched by a Chinese who made We understand that the good his escape. Mrs. Millard bas
"
Looking Back 25 Years,
It is particularly regretable that.
the views of the two new members of the Sanitary Board should have been inadvertently misrepresented at the outset of their public career, 17. The minuto, objecting to interfer- ence in methods of manuring vegetables was made by Mr. Henry to Mr. Shelton Hooper. The sub- Humphreys, and wrongly, ascribed
Ject matter promises to become a burning question, leading to Gov. ernment action. Hong Kong Daily" Press, February 7, 1000.
dered most admirable service, but ships ever yet laid down is the new Kincan Maru is very little damag-roported the matter to the Police Looking Back 50 Yeaza.
ed through her grounding near stating that the bag contained money and other articles to the Amoy, and is expected in port in value of 820.
the course of the next day, or two.
"
were able to wireless for help when German pocket battleship" Ersatz all other means of communication Preussen, which is expected to cost with the outside world had been £340 a ton by the time she is destroyed. Two cruisers with completed. The final cost of the doctors, nurses and supplies have original Dreadnought worked out
The ordinary annual general been rushed to the scene of the nt about £10 a ton, and he was moating of the Hong Kong Tram earthquake and other help also admittedly a very extravagant ship ways, Limited will be held at the came in rapidly by road. At The Hood ran into £140 a ton. officers of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe Napier a serious situation arose Of our latest classes of warships, son & Co., Ltd., on Friday, Febru owing to the destruction of the the 10,000-ton cruisera vorage 27, at 12 noon. sewage system and five Moth aero- £2,200,000, and the "B" class of
Mr. Butters psterday, sentenced planes aro taking chlorinating 8,400 tons, £1,780,000. These figures Ng Nang, at the Kowloon angie plant to the town. A complete balance at a little over £200 a ton, tracy, for snatching a roll of cloth evacuation has been ordered, how-which indicates that if the Flood from & Chinese child in Shanghai ever, for fear of an outbreak of were built, to-day she would cost a Street, to twelve strokes and three
months' imprisonment. disease. A relief fund has been great deal more than when the storted and, in a well ordered and came out
..
prosperous community like that of the wortly after the end of The forthcoming marriagos are
The two Nelsons cost announced.
Mok Ying Kay, 11, New Zealand one can rest assured close upon £6,000,000 apiece, and, Max Chung Fong, Happy Valles that everything possible will be averaging their displacement of nay O'Hoy, of 133, Bonnessy Hood; and of Charles Ying, amis donc, both for the injured and those 33,000 tons, this would work out tant in the firm of Messrs. Hast who have suffered grave material at a trifle less than £182 a tonings, Dennys and Bowley, to Rita
Clearly the cost of a warship docs Wong, residing at 8. Fung, Fa
Terrace, Happy alley, not increase in proportion to her size, for battleship construction is
toss.
With reference to application for increase of salary or for promotion by Civil Servants, the following documents are published in Satur day's Gazette:-Extract from Des T. Matsui, master of the Karumo patch No. 8 of 28th April, 1855, Maru, a fishing trawlor, which from the Right Honourable Sir arrived in the Colony on Monday, George Grey, Her Majesty's Frin bas reported to the Harbour Office cipal Secretary of State for the that the Mikaze Maru, another Colonies, to Governor Sir John I consider the know- fishing trawler, went aground in Bowring.. the Hainan Straite. The Karumo ledge of the Chinese language as Maru stood by for a few days, and essential generally for the Civil after repeated efforts managed to Service at Hong Kong, and have to lay it down for your guidance get the stranded vessel off.
as a rule, subject only to such vers special exceptious as you may deem necessary, that no application for increase of salary in Jhat service is to be made for any person who has not learnt Chiness!
A Weihaiwei police officer yester- day arrested in Bedford Street, Moongkok, w Chinese, who was found to have in his possession three daggers tied round, his legs and some gags. As the result of the arrest all ranks were notified to keep a sharp look-out as appar- ontly an armed robbery had been écntemplated in Kowloon.
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- [Cory.}. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, His Excellency the Governor, has received a despatch from the Frin- cipal Secretary for the Colonics, calling his attention to the great The Rugby Interport Dinner importance which Her Majesty's Dance will be held at the Peninsula Government attaches to the acquire- Hotel at 8.15 p.m. on Monday, ment of the Chincee language by February 10. Tickets are $7.50 anch all functionaries in the public ser and may be obtained from Mr. E. vice in this Colony; and His Ex- B. Gammell of the A.P.C.. or the vellency is instructed to state that,
To scientists the disaster prob ably caused no surprise North
A married woman of West Point Island is a volcanic region, there obviously very much more expen-was yesterday before Mr. Lindell Hon. Secretary, Hong Kong Foot in claims for promotion, a know- action at the Central Police Court charg-ball Club It is also announced ledge of Chinese will be considered being four elve vo
ed with assaulting for four-your- time the Tirport inter
elaine to the undersigned on or before pinhon at home, they will call | pöhu, Ngauruhoe, Egmont and the Britain still leads the world in old child Itins stated by the pro- held at Lano, Crawford's, Restaur- able consideration of the Autho”),
Dated the 23rd day of Jan., 1981.
TEMA EL AROULUI, - Solicitor for the Administrator,
12 Queen's Road Central, Becond Floor, Hong Kong
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or telephone to the above addrem, the will receive the utmost assist ance and the latest available infor mation on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal •-
three-peaked mountain of, Tara cheapness of noval shipbuilding,secution line the infant was found ant on Tuesday, February 17, at 8 ritics. By order: (Signed) W. T, wara. There was a great eruption whatever she may be losing in other to have two black cya da well as p.m., and tickets for this function Mercer, Colonial Secretary. Colonial several bruises on its body. The at each may be obtained from Secretary's Office Hong Kong, 1866. of the last in 1886 when masses directions in consequence of the
casa was adjourned until next Mr. E. R. West, Mercantile Bank Hong Kong Daily Press, Feb-
or from the Hon. Secretary; Thursday.
ruary 6, 1881. of mud and dust
stated the competition of lower wages.