NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IF
HONG KONG REALTY & TRUST You still yearn for that taste of real beer which you had at
COMPANY, LIMITED.
(INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES OF HONG KONG).
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEABLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the HONG KONG REALTY and
home.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
The anti-cyclone is centrál over the Eastern Sea. A depression lies over N. China and fog. Light variable winds along the B.E. Coast
Local Forecast:-E, or variable winds, moderate; generally over cast; somo rain and fog.
Don't count up the days before of China. you go on leave.
TRUST COMPANY LIMITED, will be Just ring up :- hold the Registered Office of the Company, EXCHANGE BUILDING
at
(2ND FLOOR), Dza
Hlong
VOEUX ROAD
Kong, on WEDNESDAY,
the 10TH DAY OF APRIL 1931, st
20616
11.80 A.M., for, the purpose of receiving and order a case of A Statement of Accounts
and the
of the Board of Directors for
Report fonded 3lit DECEMBER, 1930, and re-electing Directors Auditor
and
tho
The TRANSFER BUOKS of the COMPANY will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 9T DAT of APRIL, 1931, until WEDNESDAY, the lor Day of APBIL, 1931, Both Days inotasivo:
By Order of the Board,"
d. F. V. RIBEIRO,
Acting Secretary,
Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1991,
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AN-
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY-SIXTH
NUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of Mesars, DODWELL & Co., TAD., on TUESDAY, the 31sr MARCH, 1931, at 3 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together withi A Statement of A counts to let DECEMBER, 1990.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 23RD MARCH to 81er MARCH, 1981, Both Datos' inclusive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., 4863 General Managers.
'T
THE HONG KONG & WHAMPUA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED, TOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN
NOORDRARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will
WHITBREAD'S
PALE ALE
- SOLE. AGENTS
be held in the Office of the Company, A. S. WATSON & Co.,
QUEEN'S BUILDING, HOUR Kong, on MONDAY, MARCH 1931, at NOON, for consideration of the Direo tora' Beport and Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DEGREE, 1930.
SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 9230 to the 80TH MARCH, 1031, Both Days includire.
The
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYER
Chief Manager,
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Hong Kong. 17th March, 1931.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOT
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the be held in the Company will Company's BOARD ROOM, 2ND ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
FLOOK,
Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, 31er
LIMITED.
MARRIAGE.
FISHER-HONES-On March 18, at Shanghai, JESSIE ELIZABETH HONESS, of Shanghai, to FREDERICK JOIN HORMAY. FISHER, of Kobe, Japan..
deepest affection for her now mother," and all that sort of thing.
•
*News and Views
Our Painters.
China Realty Company,
Page 4 of this is devoted to the advertisement by the China Realty Company of Shanghat of their new (additional) issue of a per cent. ten-year debentures, to a total of
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- The real as apart from the cant- east and remarks, issued by the ing defence of the avalem'" is that Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m.,you can get the services of n] stated
young girl (and absolute power over her person) at a dirt cheap
A certain painter who is one of rate. It is a good business proposi-
Hong Kong Realty Co. report. tion! We all know the arguments the fow after whom our period may
Page 11. be named by posterity has not at in favour of slavery, and every
Rotary Club tiffin' address,
Page 7. civilised antion rejects them. The present a single commission. Some letter of the law in Hong Kong does yours ago, his fen being then £1000,
Judgment was reserved by the everything in its power to dia he had a waiting list of "seventy Tia. 4,500,000. The China Realty Full Court yesterday when argu- countenance the mui taas system, would-be sitters. There are also Company is one of the oldest Realments on the Pedro Bianco piracy
two mature RA.s who have had Estate Companies of Shanghai, its case were concluded.
Page 6. the Nanking Government has ati
Mr. and Mrs. S. Ashworth were least effected a theoretical aboli. work which was to have occupied business being that of Realtors, tion, and it is up to the British(and supported) them during the acting as the medium for bringing fortunate in being extricated with
averturned into the nullah in Water- Authorities to carry out the spirit next two years recently cancelled. buyers and scilors together on a out serious injury when their car
Page 6 commission basis. The company in lon Road. Hawarden Castle Robbery.
over 20 years has negotiated inore
To-day's wireless programme. Howarden Castle, once the home than 40 millions in mortgages and
Page 8. Shipping intelligence.. Page 12. RASMUSSEN-On March 24, 1931, at sede the mui tai by free domestic of Mr. W. E. Gladstone, has been the total business has been over 100 Victoria Hospital, Hong Kong labour. If the remarks of His Ex-entered by thieves, who carried millions taels. The debenture has to Mr. and Mrs. V. A. J. celleney seem a little vague, do not away several art treasures. The been underwritten by Messrs. Ben- Rasmusse, a son.
(590
Full details are Sport. WOODWARD. On March 23, at Bir- let it be forgotten that Sir WILLIAM articles included cameos and carved jamin & Potts.
mingham, to Mr. and Mrs. PEEL went on to say, there are ivories, the bases of which were dia- given in the advertisement. WOODWARD, a daughter. [523
obvious defects in the system and covered broken in the shrubbery." Entrance was obtained through. the the Government decided that it Library, Mr, Gladstone's Temple Actress With Too Little to Eat. 'should gradually be eliminated." Pence." The gnatle is now the
residence, of his last surviving son, on the London stage earned last Bults. Mr. H. N. Gladstone, Lord
This Lieutenant of Flintshire.
year the sum of £187 10s, included a short film contract. Her
BIRTHS.
DEATHS. Rosents. On March 18, at Shang- bai, ERNESTINA CAMILLE ROBERTS, aged 40 years,
SCHMITHALS.-On March 18, at
Shanghai: ELSE SCHMITELALS,
Co.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
of its own laws and to support the efforts of the best section of the local Chinese community to super- |
NAVAL DISCIPLINE.
Income-tax and Borrowing.
One of the best-known actressce
Trevessa Trophy Race. Page 31AE Home Racing Notes. Page 10: H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament, re- Page 10.
caso, is not exceptional. There Latest Cables.
" grost deal of distress
Latest Lincoln world London's Theatrical
and Graad Page 10. Unless Australia obtains funds from London a public default is in- evitable.
Page 9. The draw for the mammoth Irish Sweepstakes on the Grand National took place yesterday, Page 9.
aged 28 years, of Siemseen & Moor of us, will remember the severe measures taken by the Ad- miralty against three officers of ity of the current income tax drive. today. Apother actress whose National betting. H.M.S. Lucia, following an in-One good citizen found himself name is equally well known has Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kwong have
pleasure in announcing that cident" aboard that ship. Opinions
been out of work for months, and the marriage of their eldest differed as to the wisdom of what
still saw little prospect of an en- daughter Many to Mr. SA1-WA was done, and to the manner of
gagement. "Our tragedy in the theatro, she said, "is that few LIANG, B.A., Oxon.,will take place on Monday, March 30, doing it, but the general view was,
people realise how poor an actor when, a Reception will be held we believe, that good officers do at the Roof Garden of the not provoke incidents and that Hong Kong Hotel at four there is sufficient good feeling in officials take it as in the ordinaryager would look twice, at anyone first mortgago debentures. Page 9.
o'clock the BADID afternoon:
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All friends are cordially in the Navy to tide over the exi- vited to the Reception. No gencies of the Services." On the cards will be issued.
other hand, it is quite possible to fail to give proper support to officers faced with difficult situa-
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MARCH 25, 1931...
H.E. AND THE MUI TSAI SYSTEM.
Ono hears at Home just now a in good many stories about the sever-in
This is one of the most remarkabio, unable to pay and asked for time. In reply he was asked whether he had exhausted all possibilities of raising money and, in particular, whether he had yet raised a loan on his life insuranos policy. And if not, why not? It seems that we are in a serious position when course of things that the cititen should resort to borrowing in order to meet his obligations to the State, The Chorister.
The career and attainments of Ivor Novello are remarkable, Some
The public
or an actress can be. The reason is that we are compelled to dress as amartly as we can, for no man- with shabby clothes. can only judge from outward ap- pearances, the unfortunate reality being that there are scores of nc- tors and actresses in London to-day who have not enough to cat. H
a true that many young netresses
But no one seomy to want
The Lancashire Colton Corpora- tion is issuing £2,000,000 worth of
Both the Labour Union and the Labour Dispute Bills wero shelved in the Japanese Upper House dur
Page D.. ing the Committee, stage.
In protest against the execution. of the Lahore conspirators, the Legislative Assembly at New Delhi..