longing to the J. G. Transport The members of the British
Company of Willesden, spproach-
he influenced by the opinions of the. Inwyer." Eller in the debate M CHURçun challenged the Attorney-General to any whether opino he was legalising the prio- epint of the General Strike. Sir WILLIAM JOWIT, who had intro- duend_the ́Bill, 'refused to nuwer, but the new Solicitor-General Sir Cricket's GIO.M, STAFFORD CHIes, declared that in
The Countess of Aylesford was his opinion the strike of 1926 would
Lord Harris, who was 50 last be deemed illegal under the pre-month, celebrated his birthday by awarded £450 damages by Mr. Jus ant Measure. The Manchester saying of cricket: "I might aptic Branson at Berkshire Assizes ing
for the loss of n racehorse nained Guardian says significantly, "This ply to it Mr. Jorrocks's commen-
An attachment order on the Po defmise opin an obviously stented dation of hunting-'It's the image Silver Idol. Sir Reginald Coventry
of war without its guilt, and 25 (for Lady Ayleaford) said three Hing Theatre was net aside at the no little perturbation among the
racehorses were being exercised Supreme Court resterday and the Trade Unionists" It is very doubt per sent, of is danger.' ful if the Solicitor-Géheral is right.
along a country rund between East. owner (defondant) was awarded Page 3 Sir JOHN SIMON does not think so.
cote and Northolt when a lorry be- damages. "The intention of the Bill," : he sayin to legalise the general The suggestion is that frike." the political extremista still look to enforce their demands by direct nction," but they wish to give "direct netion" a cloak of legality. It is, however, most important to declare the illegality of the strike TOLEDO O February 21, at Shnug-which has a whitical object. The ni, CANDELARIA REYES TOLEDO, only people who oppose this most aged 55 years.
necessary precaution 27 the t group of revolutionaries, for their avowed object is to set up Govern ment by strikes and disorder, in place of "Government by Parïía- ment. The genuine industrial strike cat, in most instances, be, mitded by negotiation between the pirties, or by an impartial' arbitrator,
But industrial nence is the last thing the political extremists want, for they have, as Dean INGE 21 no desire for true reme- puts it,
en for, social illa."
NICHOLS,-On February 20, at Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A.. to Mr. and Mrs. B. NICHOLS, а son DoxALp ANTHURS
DEATH.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. · · Mrs C. SCHHOETER and family sincerely thank all friends who have sent floral tribute to the funeral of Mr. C. SchmortER ON 23th init
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, February 28, 1931.
MR. RAMBAY MACDONALD'S Govern- ment has had a sharp defeat in Committee on the Trade Disputes' Liberal' members plucked up courage to treat the measure its merits or rather demerits and an amendment has been passed, which, netording to Reuter, would
on
WELL DONE THE TRAMS!
Mr. STEWART
HONG KONG tramways have found an eloquent and convincing defen- der in Mr. A. B. STEWART, Many of us may have, had doubte as to the future of electric trana in Hong Kong but Mr. Stewart'S facts and figures should remove them. For a poor and a crowded district the tram still holds its own. It is superfluous to argue whether LAW AND NOT MOB LAW. for no it would bo wise to start a tramway service in Hong Kong today. The fact is that, we have got one, it is paying its way, and proving an inestimable boon to the also had some shrewd remarks to five-cent. passenger.
make about Kowloon bus services. At present they are excellent, but can they continue to give this ser- vice? Mr. Stewar thinks that the pace is too hot and he enrs at DAY. the 1976 MARCH. 193 THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY have the effect of making most
a warning given by this paper five years ago. NOON, for the purpose of receiving
Under the Tramway Ordinance the Report of the Directors together
large strikes illegal." There is, neof to the liong Kong Tramways, with Statement of Accounts, declar-
question of the defeat using the Ltd., have a concession until 1952, ing [L
and it now seems abundantly clear Directors and Auditors.
that unless some new yuhield is in- vented which can move the millions of Hong Kong passengers more than the tranear the obsequius of efficiently and more economically that apparently ubiquitous vehicle will not be observed until 1632 at the earliest. In this counretion we set out below from the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch part of a kading article commenting on the report of the Royal Commission on Tran sport:--
held at the Company's TOWN OFFICE, 2, LOWER ALBERT ROAD, on WEDNES
·
Dividend and re-electing THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI resignation of the Government, but
The TRANSFER DOOKS of the Company will be CLOSE from the 7ru to the 18TH MARCH, 1931, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting. Secretary.
·Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1931.
(394
THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE RE TR NSFER OF SHARES.
"
HOTELS, LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG).
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of
of Dirotors for the Year
The
Director and the Auditore.
Gentlemen will prefer plitinum biondes this year. This is the fore east of the Ladies Hairdressers Association of Now England, The gold, the bronze, the red, and the henna blondes have given way to the silvery-white beauty of the platinum blonde, they, any. platinum blonds is created by washing the hair with white hen na, then with indigo bluring,
Where the Prince Failed
*
The
The New York Evening Jaurant anys: "The only important langu- ឯ ប
that the Prince of Wale has failed to master is American. He says he has novor heen in the United Statea long onough to learn it. Many of us who have lived here all dur lives have the same trouble--it changes
too fast,"
Francis Lorang's Appeal Dismissed. The Court of Criminal Appool has dismissed the appeal by Fran- Lorang, the former director of the Blue Bird Petrol. Companies against his conviction nad sentence seven years' penal servitude for fraudulent conversion and issuing A falss statutory report. Lorang was sentenced at the Old Bailey in November. Loning was pre- sent in the custody of two ward- One ground of the appen: was the alleged misdirection of the jury by Mr. Justice Swift who, it was contended, overlooked the fact that at the time of the alleged offences it was legal for A company to lend money to a director to buy its shares.
CTS.
Breading the Monotony,
common
ed. The riders of the homes signal-Feonomic Mission were hosts yes- led the driver to stop, but he earns terday to a large number of Euro- on, narrowly missed the first two penn and Chineso merchants at the horses and ran over the hoof of Peninsula Hotel when the mission Silver Idol. The horse hai to be gavn a farewell dinner. Page 10, destroyed." Lady Aylesford gave
Week-end wireless programme,
Page 3.. evidence that she would not have ad the horse ter less than £800.
The Ingenious Photographer.
y
Sport.
Racing sensation, Page Week-end sports fixtures. Page 82 Today's local football and prak-
There are London photographers who write to celebrities and near- celebrities asking for permission to take thein photographs and promis. ing to give the sitter une copy free. The celebrities mostly throw pects. those
invitations away. The near-celebrities often Mer to accopt
but forget. Apparent-. at any rate, acceptances are not sufficiently frequent, since. one firm has adopted a new and It axedingly ingenious device. consists of a letter addressed to the wife of the person whom it is desired to photograph, asking her to use her influence with her hus band so that he may accede to the request, and promising to send her' the free copy. So much enterprim rally deserves a rewird.
Mine Picketing.
Page 81 Racing Notes: By Morning Dew."
Page 8. Golf times at Fanling to-morrow. Page 9.
Page 9. Hoon FootballCap and League» matches for to-day.
Pago #1..
H.K.C.D. tennis tournament.
;
Latest Cables.
The talks between the. Vienray
cor-
Page
Four officials and 26 members of of India and Gandhi were the Bedwas Lodge of the South eluded yesterday. Wales Miners' Federation were sued The American Consulate at Nan in the Chancery Division by the king is to be raised to the status Bedwas Navigation Colliery Co. of a Consulate-General. Page 7. (1981), Ltd. The Company asked for an injunction to restrain the
The late Earl Birkenhead's will men from watching and beset-shows gross estate of £63,223 and
ting," or from obstructing persons
7.
at the colliery from performinguet personally of £10,450. ** Page 7. their work. Defendants denied in-
The Government of the Dutch terference, and alleged that such of East Indies in introducing a Bill No tendency has been more the acts complained of as were nd- marked in the world of British mitted bad been done in exercise of for a temporary restriction of the school sport in recent years than a right preserved by the Concilia sugar expants, from April 1. Page 7. the increase in the popularity of Lion Board Agreement, 1928. Sir One hundred cases of Soviet gold herkey. The reason is not far to Gerald Hurst, for the company; passed through Riga last night from seek. The monotony of football is said that the trouble arose out of forcow en mile to Berlin, making broken by a game which, having what he contended was an abuse of nearly 30 tons during the last few
Wlant chameteristics in
with the custom of show cards.. beth Association footbal and took place on February 24 and weeks. ericket, is comparatively simple to March 1, 1930, was an organised Karn and most enjoyable to play, conspiracy. In the ease of schools where there is pressure of ace upon the play ing fields another factor may well be that hockey is less damaging to ball, Furthermore it demanda a future cricket, outfields than foot
smooth, well-rolled surfive, and the labour involved in the preparn- tion is extremely beneficial in the
SUDIMET.
Britain's Tourist Traffle.
it has taken much of the poison out of this Bill; more is likely to TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN be extracted, now that the process Nthat the ORDINARY YEARLY has been started, and this cobra THE HONG KONG AND SHANG of legislation, if not left to die of HAI HOTELS, LIMITED will be its present wound, is likely to be held a
Office of the the Registered Dance of Company (EXCHANGE BUILDING, DEB fairly innocuous when it comes Vores ROAD G'extrat,
Horg
The on THURSDAY, the Kong) for the Third Reading.
DAY OF APRIL, 1981, at 11.30 AM, for the point that has been at issue is the purposs of receiving statement of legal status of the sympathetic Accounts and the Report of the Board strike and the general strike. The
"We are not going, to scrap plant worth millions. That is r saded on the 31st DecEHBER 183
argument caugh in these straight confirming the General Strike' of 196 was ruled
ened times. But on the merita appointment of a Director and ralegal by a Chancery judge, and
of the tramway systra nione elisa Livorno the Sir JOHN SIMON, Britain's foremost there is reason for holding to it Company will be CLOSED from Coung, strenuusly endorsed that
till-years kence, perhapa-some WEDNESDAY, the 18 APRIL, 183,
thing better comes along. It has until THURSDAY, the 16tu APRIL, view. Three opinions, though in a
Hot come yet."* * sense nendemie, had a profound
Mr. Srewar admits (by implica effect on the British pable. The tion) that tramways inust give way to other, forms of transport in Trade Union Council was shown to towns of or or even tedium be an outhw; and acting in defiance traffic density" The vehicle which [877 of the principle that everyone inis attempting challenge the trame.
car in towns of high tradic density bungalows and ugly hoarding. HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
Eugland, from the King to a tramp in the trolley bus, but even when BANKING CORPORATION. on the ronds, is bound by the law. trolley buses-provided that theas It is a great principle, and one to tyres as in Shanghai-we do not hid pneumatic tyres and net solid TOTICE 18 HER BY GIVEN NOT ORDINARY YEARLY which British people, with their think it would be possible to retnin MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS profound political instinct, cling the present low tramway fares. M in this
oration will be
held t
with all their strength. The per-point: that the fare (3rd class)
STEWART might have made CITY
Hong Kong on SATURDAY, the 25TH FEBRUARY, nicious and cruel dain for the from Shaukivan to the Western 31, at 11.30 A.M, for the purpose supremaey of the "will of the Market is only five cents, the die 1031,
receiving the Report of the Board
SHAREHOLDERS as Requested 1931, Both Days inclusiv
to that NO "NEW ISSUE" Shares will be transferred until after the TRANSFER BOOKS have boen RE-OPENED on the 19TH MARCH, 1931.
By Order of the Brard of Directors.
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Beretury. Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1931.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
1883
THE EXCHANGE BANKB will
OPEN at 9.30 AM. and Will CLOSE at 12 NOON, for the TRANS.
ACTION of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY TUESDAY and WEDNE DAY. the 2D, 3RD and 4TB MAROE (BACE MEETING)..
Hong Kong, 26th Feb., 193!..
THE HONG KONG, CANTON
MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LÍMITED.
By Order of the Board,
F. C. BARRY,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 26th Feb., 1931.
of
DECK BEN, 1930,
the
ent rate of exchange five kents
Rare Vintage.
Page The Chinese Telegraph Adminis liation took over the control of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies at Peiping yesterday.
Page 7.
Herewith a cautionary tale, told by a great, expert on vintages. Being in Belgium one day he ask- Mr. E. 0. Theodore, Federal ed a friend to dine ag a famous Treasurer, expects that the Senato restaurant. He scanned the wine, will reject his Fiduciary Currency... list, but found nothing very excit-Bill, which will then be made the ing. Ho ent for the proprietor. issue for the dissolution of both.. The latter, incognising a real ex-Hauses of the Commonwealth Par port, informed him that in his hament..
Page 7. private cellar were two dozen of the finest burgundy
in Europe. The ** World "* newspapers Nothing to equal it. But the price New York have been sold to the of course, was three pounds a Scripps-Howard Syndicate, follows hottle. He agreed to try a bottle. ing a midnight ruling of the Court Shortly afterwards another Eng that the will of the late proprietor hshman, accompanied by a large of the papers did not prohibit their Page 7. party of guests, entered the res sale, taurant. Ile recognised the expert
It is a hopeful sign, that British tourist agencies are already able to say that the coming summor will bring mare American tourists than ever to England. They will not all be of the millionairish sort, but will include many who have had to save the money for their English tour. It is a solemn and when it came to ordering the Reuter's correspondent with the thought that this ple-set and wine he summoned the proprietor. Prince of Wales and Prince George. profitable invasion hus been "Give us," he said, "Exactly the in Chile emphasises that. Their brought about by the lare of the same wine as is being drunk by Royal Highnesses are mingling at- Ittention to. British commercial in- beauty of rum England, which that gent.emu over there."
faat destroyed by was only after the party had .con-terests with the pleasures of lavish
the price.
alny in Chile