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that the FIFTY-EIGHTE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29T MAT, 1981, at 11 O'oLook A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 8)at DECEMBER, 1930. and declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the 'Society will be CLOSED from 11tu MAY to 29 MAY, Both Days inclusivo.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be hold at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1981. at 11.15 .., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the'Statements of Account to 81st DECEMBER, 1930, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11TH MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Days inclusive.
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that the SIXTY-FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1931, at 11.20 AB, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 81st DECEMBER, 1930, and of declaring Dividende, etc.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.
'dog. It is not unnatural that the daughter of the Marquis Geonos NATILANIE CURZON should have Labour tendencies, and we believe that Sir OSWALD's father took the drastic steps of first cutting off his son for showing Socialist sym A feeble anti-cyclone is contral topathies, and then writing to tell the N.W. of Shanghai. A V shaped the newspapers all about it. How depression is shown to the S. of much more acnsible is Mr. BALDWIN, Kobe. The depression over Indo-who refuses to be ruffled by his China has deepened slightly.
xtated:-
Local Forecast: Variable winds, "moderate" to light;"fair to showers.
BIRTHS.
GARDENER.On April 21, at New- chwang, to Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
B, GARDENER, a son.
REID. On April 25, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. MORLEY C.
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MARRIAGE
son's nonsense, realising that no one seems a penny the worse, for what young Mr. OLIVER says or does,
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Marriage.
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is earthly. It includes cold winter mornings and tiring days, boredom illness, bond age, worry and financial stress"- Miss Barbara Blackburn'in “ Mar- ringe and Money,”
Evans of the Broka,
Advance 1
A London store buyer is stated to have placed a preliminary order on a contain day last month for 20,000 pairs of shorts for women castomers.
Sammy Words,
"
were a
\SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Week-end wireless programmes.
Pago 4.
By River to Wuchw (contd.) by L. Forster.
Pago. 1.
Pago 5.
H.K.0.0.
Tennis
H.K.V.D.O orders. Weekly roview of the local stock market by Mesars. Benjamin & Potta.
Page 11, The late S.M.J. ("Bammy ") Hong Kong Stock Market: When Rear-Admiral E. R. G. R. Woods was in his days England's Croucher Co.'s daily report
Page 7 Evans (Evans of the Broke", Rugger captain, and one of the Australian Navy, ho will be succeed the game! A man of unusually retires from the command of the finest forwards who has ever played ed, it is announced, by Captain powerful physique he was some Sport. LS. Holbrook, of the Canberra. thing of a terror on the field. At Captain Holbrook will be the second cricket too his "expresses Australian to command the Aus thing to be feared, and as a bats: Resulte. tralian Navy, the other being Rear-man he could hit nearly as fiercely as Jossop himself." Sammy" was Admiral Hyde.
captain of Somerset County Cricket eleven many years, and the team had the reputation in thoed by-gone days of being a hearty and hard- drinking crew, and about the most sporting side in the country. This intier reputation the West Country eido still retains under the leader to the age of 63, and 'in his latter sporting subjects. A sportsman of years was quite a prolific writer on the old type his death-will be re- gretted by lovers of outdoor pur- suits all over the British Empire.
The Waitros).
It is sometimes suggested that Sir OgwALD MOBLEY, and even Lady CYNTHIA, were subjected to social ostracism and persecution for their political beliefs. The inner history of London Society during the Inst five years has yet to be written, but pictures of those two young people on the Lido and "in yachts at Cowes, which appear regularly. in
Barmaids, hotel waitresses and tho illustrated Society papers,
not suggest suffering. Lon-refreshment room attendants have good deal to put up with Their don society is far too clever and calling has been the butt of ribald cynical to take them seriously, banter ever since highwaymen look- inn.-A waitress in a Cardiff hotel WILHELM STEPHEN, Second son of had their legs pulled as much as har found dead in her bedroom. Mra, and the late Mr. Christian they deserved." After all, they She was kneeling by the side of her Peter Christensen Lonborg.
made no great renunciation, like bed, and appeared to have died
while praying. that, for example, of BooтH TUCKER, the Salvationist, who left the Indian Civil Service and lived
LONBORG-LENT-On April 25,
Shanghai, DOREEN MAY, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
do
HARRY LENT of Shanghai, to i though no doubt they have bothed for a bright-eyed wench at every ship of J. C. White. Woods lived
DEATHS.
hai, Rosar VICTOR PEARSON, aged 40 years.
}:
It Happened in America.
Tournament Page 10, To-morrow's starting times at Page 13. Fanling.
To-day's lawn Bowls fixtures.
Page 10. Review of local cricket by R. Page 10. Abbit. day with a full list of Lengue The lawn bowls season opens to
Page 10. Home football fixtures and Second Division match result.
Page 10. Notes and Selections for to-day's race meeting: by Morning Dow.' Page 7.
games,
22
Latest Cables.
Nanchang and a number of dis- been flooded.
Page 9,
THOMPSON.-On April 20, at Shang- tion than his original career offer, the fish the engine of their 40 signs of impoverishment when they triets along the Han river have
ed
hai, Roy EDWIN THOMPSON, aged 4 months. Dearly beloved infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. Woods-At London on April 30, S. M. J. Woons, beloved uncle of AILEEN and Donnis WooDsing out: (by cable),
Gaol Preferred!
PEARSON.-On April 23, at Shang for years on the scale of an Indian went fishing at sen in a motor-boat. Mr. J. D. Jennes and his son fakir, until he was called to a They hooked n bass weighing 350 position greater in public estimaba, and during the struggle with boat was disabled. But the has made a beeline for shore, towing the boat, and the fish, with a little The MORLEYA went down well in outside assistance, was eventually the East End of London, parti- | landed. cularly Lady CYNTHIA, but 'Sir OSWALD found the official pnee too slow. His innate Toryism is com He wants tariffs, and Empiro Reciprocity and a Dictator- ship. He has let his imagination run away with him, a thing that will never do in the hum-drum game of politics. The angry shouts of the Ashton-under-Lyne voters will bring him back to reality:
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More Income Tax Payers.
Visitors from abroad are often surprised to find how few are the
visit the British Isles. They have rend reports of trade depression and unemployment. They have seen statistics designed to show that Great Britain is losing or has lost her old commercial or industrial supremacy.
But on visiting the country, except in one or two "black" arens, they find a prosper ous looking people. The explana- tion would seem to be that, although many workers are unemployed, the
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Four Course won the One Thou- sand Guineas, winning by a head from Lady Marjorie. Page 9,
The cruiser Vasco da Gama bom. barded Pico Cruz, Madeira, but the rebels' artillery did not reply.
Page 0.
Page D.
France has at least one citiren who is deeply disappointed because
The German dying-bont Do-X, he is at liberty instead of being in
which has been undergoing repairs geol. He is Emile Renone, who was rest are producing almost the same at Las Palmas, resumed its flight arrested a little over two months ¦ value of goods. With modern tech | to South America to-day. Page 9 ago for having stolen articles worthnique and equipment production is
Though four Wafdists and two 90s from a perfumer's shop. Fend cheaper and easier than it was; ing trial he was lodged in the really the country is na rich na pulics are reported injured as the Fresnes. Prison. Instead of being or richer than ever. This is re
result of an affray at the Railway depressed he was delighted. In a flected in the income-tax and other Station here today the affair had letter to his cousin ho wrote: returns.
Pago 0. In spite of the heavy a comedy ending. "To-day I have eaten bailed beef taxes and the vast sums, spent on
Continuing his flight from Eng- and some excellent soup. At last unemployment pay, the revenue con land to Australia Stack set out have done with vagabondage, Here tinues to increase. The gross in from Singapore yesterday, but one is well fed and clothed, and come of the country, as revealed owing to engine trouble returned we have central heating and run- in the official taxation returns, was ning water. It is a splendid place estimated £3,170,000,000 Inst to the aerodrome within twenty-
five minutes. THERE was a scene at the Marine in which to pass the winter. Mare-year for the tax paying classes. aver, on leaving it one has a certain That is the highest figure reached Court yesterday not without
What more since 1022, when Southern Ireland amount of money. certain humour of the "Beggars could you wish for!" When the ceased to be included. For 1920-30 Opera" type.
a quarter An elderly Mrs. governor of the prison censored this there
missive he suspected that Renone million people chargeable for in- PEACHUM of n sampan woman was
might be mentally deficient, and come-tax, ap increase of 50,000 over arraigned before the Harbour had him examined by a doctor, the previous year. On the other Master for taking two young But the latter's report indicated hand, there was a falling-off in the women out to the gallant ship. HA that the prisoner was in full posts-recipients of large incomes. Last La LAN (the. 8.x. Hiram, of Llovision of his faculties.. On being son year the number of persons drawing wiser if she decides to let this tem tenced to a month's imprisonment an income of £100,000 and over register). According to Inspector Renone left the court with a smile. was 130, their total incomes being Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, It is impossible not to feel a certain CHEVALIER they were dressed in The smile vanished, however, in the £21,885,034; wherens the previous unte-room, where he learned that year there were 133 persons, with made an Urder limiting the Time for Creditors and others to send in their sympathy with the Ashton-under-light coloured silk, and this, to his he was not going back to prison as £100,000 a year, whose incomes years past have
When he his month had already been served.totalled £20,970,071, " Claims against the above Estate to the Lyne crowd of voters who deman mind was conclusive, 98r DAY OF MAY, 1931.
IN THE SUPREME COURT of HONG KONG,
IN THE GOODS or SONG WING, alias JUNG BANG WING
** LATE OF 10, Mort STREET, MANHATTAN, New Yoni, 1N THE UNITED STATKA AMERICA, LAUNDRYMAN,
DECEASED.
OF
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of
that Date.
Hoya Konʊ, May 2, 1931.
THE ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
INCIDENT.
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All Creditors and others are accord.strated against Sir OsWALD MOSLEY, spoke to our local Lucy LOCKITT ingly hereby required to send in their Bart., and his New Party candi-am POLLA PEACHUM, they were Olaims to the Undersigned on or before date, Mr. ALLEN YOUNG, They told obligingly candid about their oc- Sir Oswan that he was a "dirty cupation. The Inspector to make dog," that he had "let the Tories his case complete had the said Luck in," and they even went so far:as and POLLY, in the precincts of the traitor," and to Court, still in the array of Thurs- assume a threatening attitude. It was very reprehensible, but elections are elections, and we have not yet outgrown the Eatanswill spirit of "Pickwick." We should be a milk
Dated this 2nd day of May, 1931.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrators.
Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
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Franco is doing a wise thing in not requiring visitors to produce passports for the five months of her International Colonial Exhibition
t Vincennes, and she will be still. porary measure become permanent, Should this happen France will be brought into line with several other European countries who for some not required foreign visitors to have passports.
Local Notes and Events ★
One case of typhoid was reported
A memorial cervice for Mr. day evening. The Harbour Master during the 24 hours ended April 30. Stanley T. Smith, the second mem
At the Rotary Club Tiffin Tuesday, Lient-Comdr. Dymott, R.N., will speak on." Meteorology."
Mr. and Mrs. R. M., Dyer re- turned from Shanghai yesterday by the B.M.S. Empress of Russia..
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bor of the famous. "Cambridge Seven" missionaries to Chins, who died at Tselichow, China, on Jan. 31, was held on April 17 at Eccles- ton Hall, near Victoria Station.. Lord Radstock, a site-long friend of Mr. Smith, presided, and three of the "Cambridge Seven," the Per, Sir Montagu Beauchamp, 'the
Looking Back 25 Yearg,
Not till yesterday afternoon did it transpire that a prisoner in Victoria Gaol had that morning been murdered by a fellow prisor- or. So far as cun ascertained, the two men, who were shoemakers, had had a diflorence of opinion over something, and, waiting his cpportunity, the assailant suddenly attacked the other soun, as he sat
decided, however, that it was not necessary to brighten the prucced- ings by the production of the two FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
young women and their gala silks. He took the Inspector's word. But that the FIRST ORDINARY
water nation if we had. GENERAL MEETING of SHARE,
Tempere always run high on these was the old lady abaired Not a HOLDERS will be held at the RE-
bit of it When the charge was GISTERED OPPICES of the Company; KING'S THEATRE BUILDING, 5TH
asperating to lose a seat because read over she exclaimed boldly that
in front of him in the shoemakers' FLOOR on SATURDAY, the 16TH
shop, plunging a shoemaker's knife, DAY of MAY, 1981, at 11 o'crOOK in GENERAL MEETING of acute When Lords Beaver spoor to it." She said, with equal spirit, HE FIFTIETH ORDINARY a member of your own party splits she would rather die that admit
a sharp bow-shaped instrument, H. E. Sir William Peel will lay | Kov, Arthur Polhill and Mr. Cecil | twice into the neck of the unfor- the VORENOon, to receive the Direc- SHAREHOLDERS will be held at and RornERMERE performed the that she did not ask her female! tors Report and Accounts for the the Offices of the Undersigned on
tunate man. The victim was car period ended Slat DECEMBER, 1980, TUESDAY, the 19 MAY, at
ried to the hospital, where he ex- sure office for the Conservative passengers if they belonged to the the foundation stone of the new Polhill, were the takers
pired shortly afterwards. An in- to Elect Auditors, and to Transact NOON, for the purpose of receiving Party such mild mannered men as profession' in question. It is not West Wing of the Y.M.C.A. at
Kowloon on Thursday the 7th inst Miss Evan Marjorio Rainey, aquiry into the circumstances of the such other Basiness as may be Pro- the Baport of the General Agents, Mr. BALDWIN, Lord HAIRHAM and etiquette," she explained" perly Transacted at an Ordinary together with a statement of Accounts Major DUFF COOPER indulged in
nt 6.30 q.m.
missionary, who retired from work death of Li Shing, alleged to have She was not called upon to die,
been murdered in Victoria Gual, General Meeting of the Company, for the Year ended the 81st
in China last year, has died at And Notice in further hereby given DECEMBER, 1981.
was conducted by Mr. F. A. sotne very creditable Billingsgate, but to pay $50, or, to do six weeks' The following evilion appoint Beaconsfield. She was born at Haseland yesterday afternoon at that the Register and TRANSFRE
The SHARE REGISTER and It is an Englishman's right to do imprisonment. If it had happened mnt has been made Wii Paignton in 1800, studied at Bed the Magistracy. The jurors were BOOKS of the Company will be
3. Wedlock, first-grade clork, Naval will be so under certain forms of provoca in London in those moral and Store Department, Hong Kong ford College, London, and Carey Perry and W, Barrett-Hong Messrs. G. P. Curry, E.V.D. CLOSED from the 9rk to the 16тg
of MAY, 1931. Both Days LOSED from the 5TH to the 19TH tion, a right enjoyed by all, regard- enlightened days when the Beggar's Dockyard. DAY
Hall, Birmingham, then left for Kong Daily Press, May 2, 1908. MAY, 1981, Both Days inclusive. inclusivo.
less of class and upbringing. Opera was written, they would all JARDINE, MATHESON &
According to the Botanic Gar-China under the auspices of the Looking Back 50 Years, CO., LTD.
Whatever we may think of Labour three have been condemned by a dens record 8.00 inches of rain fell London Missionary Buciety in 2015,
Professor. Payne, who describes General Agents.---
Parly policy it is impossible to Mr. HENRY FIELDING, author of in April. The heaviest fell was on
She did valuable edusational work himself as the "Champion spiritua 2.69-inches doll and 1.24 inches on
at Tingchow-Fu, Fukfen, but her list and sleight of hand performer Labour fights cleanly and woll, novels, or some other worthy magia the 20th. There was no rain at all school and the mission station were,j of the World," gave two entertain- putting forward decent and honest,trate, to a public shipping. Now on 12 days and only a sprinkle on, sovorely damaged in 1920 by Comments in the Garrison Theatre on munists, and still remain in their Friday and Saturday evenings. hands.
The audience on both occasiona men and women of all classes as they get off more lightly. But six other daya.
Group Captain H. M. Care. candidates. In the case in question Commander HOLE uttered & suvere
was not by any moans numerous, Mr. A. T. Chapman, a prison but the professor carried out his W Our MOTH PROOF BAGS
the outburst was entirely ngainst wärning. As a "Disgusted," cor- Irown Cave, D.8.C., D.F.C., who E regret that the ManufacturerE
was formerly Commanding Officer official on leave from Singapore, programme with unflagging, spirit. the eggregious New Barty, the respondent to our morning contem, the Far East Command, Singa fell from the boat-train from Ply Many of his tricks were new and hure Delayed Shipment, the Consiga.
all were done with a cloverness, Tories being recognised as fair and porary aptly put it, these young pore, has succooded Air Vice-mouth to Paddingcon on April 2, maat will arrive on JUNE 10TH.
All Dry-cleaning Order Liata will b
proper opponents. A little publie women are provided with their Marshal Holt as Director of Techni. Mr. Chapman, who weighs 17 stone, neatness, and dexterity which justi
was travelling with his wife and lips the assumption of the rather specially stamped, these Liste must be Bix-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartments anger is not a bad thing and one proper places, and there is far too cal Development at the Air Minis-
try.
daughter. Apparently he opened high sounding title he has selected. returned to Our Depote or Works, when
the earrings door by accident, fell | The professor gives another enter- on the permanent way, turned a tainment in the Garrison Theatre summersault, and landed on his this evening and will appear dur fiet. Mr. Chapman was founding the course of the week in Ht. walking slowly toward the station, Andrew's Hall, when no doubt his and in hospital it was found that efforts to afford a pleasant hour's recreation w1.60 rewarded by good he had received only slight bruises and a small out ores the right houses-Hong Kong Daily Press,
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Vice Admiral Asulan J. Lady Overuia-Mosinx-e-lesson--end-Wanchai, as mitasinike Stirling, C... whose “retirement Both of those talented young Harbour. Commander HeLs and took effect on April 3, has been in people will in time find their place the Water Police are, however, the Navy since 1883. In 1924-26 he They are clever as can be and doing their best to stop it, in the
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