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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore east and remarks, issued by the
equipped marquees and canteens sprang up in every camp. It sup- plied a need that the War Office had overlooked and its amenities played no small part in showing
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF EAU DE COLOGNE Royal Observatory at 6,25 p.m. England that if you joined the
HONG KONG
COMPANIES (WINDING UP.)
No. 2 or 1931.
IN THE MATTER or The Com- PANIES ORDINANCES 1911 To 1929
THE
AND
MATTER
Or
THE
LAI WAH. COMPANY, LIMITED.
(OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for the Winding Up of the above named Company by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong wis on the 8th day of Mar, 1981, presented to the said Court. by Meinra, John D. Hutchison of King's Building, Connaught Road, Contial, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, and that the said Petition is directed to be heard before the Court at 2.30 P.M. on the 22xD Day of MAY, 1981. and any Creditore or Contributory of the said Company who is desirous to support or oppos the making of an order on the said Petition may appear at the time of bearing by himself or his Council for that purpose; and a copy of the Petition will be furnished to, any Creditor or Contributory of the said Company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for Banie,
WILKINSON & GRIST,
9, Quern's Road Contral,
Har Nok
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HONG Kosa, MAY 8, 1931,
THE Y.M.C.A..
Army at least you would be pro- perly looked after.
★ News and Views ⋆
Bervice Men and Hong Kong
People.
4
A Man of Power.
A certain Mr. John Curry, is
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Mr. M. J. Quest, the Crosl General for the Natherlands in Hong Kong, leaves for home 10-day Page 6.
H.E, the Governor yesterday inid the corner stone if the new west wing of the Y.M.C.A. building in
Page Kowloon.
Only Five!
According to 1 Government re-
The coming of peace has seen
port there are five arses in the "managing director" of Tam-on furlough. no relaxing of Y.M.C.A. progress. Colony, three in Hong Kong, two many Hall, the Democrats' party Having, proved itself the friend of in the New Territories and none headquarters. He is also said to be the power behind the throne in the fighting man it is now fulfilling in Kowloon!
the government of New York, Tam the role for the man overseas. In
nny Hall is no longer the old red There was an interesting discus all parts of the Empire, in fact,
brick building which Irish-Ameri- |sion yesterday at in meeting of the throughout the civilized world, in
With regard to the recent com-can politicians once made famous land at Fanling Golf Course,
the Government's resumption of practiently every town of any size, plaints by a few Service men about It is a modern structure, in which is a YMC.A. to be found a first the welcome, or rather alleged lackJohn Hall site in a glass-walled
Fuge 7. rate hotel for men of all ages, of welcome,
Today's wireless programme. accorded them by where a personal-interest is taken Hong Kong wo took the liberty of business is to be a business amunger. room. Curry is no politician. His
Page 4. in each guest, and where help can consulting Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy. And his power is indicated by the and dances at the Diocesan Girls
To-morrow's festival of folk songe be obtained if ill fortune be en Chairman of the Ladies' Section of
Tags 1. countered. In Hong Kong the the Cheero Club, who made the fol-
fact that as many as 200 people School. Y.M.C.A. has expanded with changlowing statement: It is in con- wall of his office to await an inter-into Hong Kong during the first sometimes queue up outside the lines Canarative figures of imports
businesses which require one or two feeling which exists between service time allotted to an interview. ing conditions, with the advent of sequence of the harmony and good view Thirty seconds is the average quarters of 1025 and 1931, Page 11. young Europeans on the staff, and men and Hong Kong civilians that with the coming of a steadier type this Club is able to do the good of man in the merchant service work that it does. Ladies attend The Y.M.C.A.✅here, and all over regularly-every night-to be sa the world, has behind it not only ciable with the men. Dances are May, who was born in Paris in religious and philanthropic enthu-held every Monday and Thursday June, 100, has at present to legal siasts, but the best and most evenings and ten dances on Tues-existence owing to a law passed in successful types of business men and days. The City Hall is taken mee officinks. They see in it a pillar of monthly for big dances at which birth her father, an Englishnan decency and steadiness, without about 150 ladies turst up to dance who had been settled in Pars for narrowness, and a real friend to the with the servicemen. In addition many years, went, lo register it. sconger generation.
to the above we arrange a monthly The authorities at the Mairie de concert. So far as I can see nothclined to gept his declaration an ing but friendliness prevails be tween civilians and service men."
Tale of the Day.
RUSSIA, TURKEY AND THE
BLACK SEA.
Tu trenty which has recently been concluded bolween Rossin nad Turkey, to the effect that neither power will increase its naval furces in the inner sons without giving six months notice to the other did not attract much interest. Yet it may very well prove to hold a degree of significance which is not suspected. The Russinu Binek Soa Fleet to-day cannot be regarded as n formidable force, but it might
vive Red Tapel
A little English girl, June Lisette
Year 11. of the Revolution. At her
the names of June and Lisatie áre
Latest Cables.
Flight Lieut. Waghorn sitecumbed to his injuries yesterday. Page 0. The engine and coaches of the
Bumbay-Peshawar Express were de railed yesterday.
Page 9.
It is reported that the British, French and American Ministers are innuing is go to Peiping. Page 9. Rumania has suddenly broken the negotiations regarding the Com. mercial Treaty with Germany.
Page 0.
The British Economic Mission,
Cairo railway station yesterday
Page 9.
pot recognised under French regis | which visited · Japan and Ching tration laws. Mr. May replied that ate months ago, has issued its
report.
Page 9. Young Wife: **I want à eigar he would wait until his daughter for my husband." Tohneponist;ecill be registered under the names There was another fracas at the
Fairly strong. Young Wife wished to give her. The autho Yest plunge, The last one, broke frifies thereupon neensed him of when ex-Premiera Nahas Pasha and in his jacket.
having failed to register the child. | Mahanual Pasha attempted to enter He retorted that both the surgeon the station, and the matron of the nursing home in which Lisette first saw the light had duly reported the birth in the proper quarter. He has now in structed his lawyer to bring a suit for permission to have his daughter registered under the names he has chosen.
Buy!'
A round-up is being made of 20,000 will hores still at large. in the plains of Nevada. Oregon, and dinon. Horses caught will be killed and canned for export
West End Clothes.
There is a considerable drop this ring in the prices of London
tailors.
That formidable item in
A "Freak's" Fortune,
Recollections of "the man with
a calf's head” are about to be
A Jutland Figure,
There is no more intrepid sailor than Captain Malogim Göldsmith, - [P.S.Q., who, has been appointed· Naval Aide-de-camp to the King. All through the war he held -des-
troyer comaianda in the North Sen.
The Governors of Hong Kong'have always, taken a, personal interest in that excellent institution, the Y.M.C.A. The foundation stone of the familiar building in Salisbury Rend was laid in June, 1994, by Sir RoiNALD STuins, and it was forinally opened in November, 1025, by his sucessor Sir Cren CLEMENTI. H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr." W. T. SOUTHORN, opened the Chinese Y.M.C.A. in Waterloo Rond, and, in keeping with this tradition, H.E. Sir WILLIAM PEEL yesterday laid the foundation stone of the new wing at the Salisbury Road branch. The work should be com pleted by next year and no doubt His Excellency will again perform the inaugural ceremony. If that grave and worthy London mer chant, Sir GeoRGE WILLIAMS, who ledge of the composition of the began as long ago as 1927, but until where he figured with the bearded cruisers, he had to stay on the founded the Young Men's Christian Soviet naval forces in the inner this year it has been gradual. Now woman and other human peculiari engaged side of the big ships or
fourteen guinens for a lounge suit ties." Despite his malformation the drop matern. Association, in the year 1813, bad sens, appears to be available, but may be regarded as an outside man with the calf's head had an been present at yesterday's function it is interesting to recall that about price, with from ten to twelve inventive brain. He was interested where I was," he wrote in his re-
grinces as a normal charge for mechanics, and a device in con he would have been immensely 4 year ago severnt warships were good jinteria and brst-rate work- nection with wire drawing which he of making a torpedo attack."
invented was taken up by an gratified to see that the seed sown transferred from the Baltic; it was by himself, ninety years ago, when reported that others were to follow,
American who had an iron foundry was a perilous decision, but the in Connecticut. Dosseret accompaní-attack was inade, and it succeeded, he was a young man of twenty- and i Pimes correspondent stated
ed him to the United States and,When Captain Goldsmith was ap- three, had grown to so great a that the Turkish Government was
participating in the profits from his tree. No doubt the tree, in full perturbed over the matter and was growth, differs somewhat from that making representations to Moscow, pictured by the originator, who Since then there has evidently come probably regarded dancing ami a a' change of heart at Angora, and game of cards, for example, in the probably we may associate this with way that the heads of most Evan- the representations made to the gelical households of the Victorian British Government. not very long ern, looked upon such vanities, since to the effect that the frequent Being a wise and sympathetic man, visits by the Mediterrancan Fleet with knowledge of the ways of to Turkish islands in the Egean young men, he would, however, Sen must not be continued, as it MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931 have felt justifiable pride in his was out of the question for British creation, and complete confidence in warships to treat these islands as the men now carrying on ita tradi-naval bases. tion.
be very troublesome under the bene- male'' oxpenditure, the eightem or volent neutrality of Turkay, which twenty gainca lounge suit, is now revived in one of the Paris courts. During the Jutland Battle, he would ensure it free passage. of most exclusive firms who allow long one of the great draws" twenty of his smoke impeding the battle- au extreme rarity, even among the Paul Dosseret, as he was called, was found that, owing to the possibility the Dardanelles. No definite know-credit. The genuine fail in prices five years ago at French faire,
ATOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THE KOWLOON DISPENSARY. NOT SHOW LAN O'HOY, having applied to: the Court for bi discharge. tho Court has fixed 'SATURDAY, the 3RD DAY of MAY, 1831, at 10.99 O'ctook in the FOREXOOM for hearing the application,
No, 17 or 1927.
As JOBE AUGUSTO LOPES, VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG, CLERK,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JOSE AUGUSTO LORES, having applied to the Court for bis discharge, the Court, has Axed SATURDAY, the 23 DAY of May, 1831, at 10.80 O'CLOCK in the FORENOON for hearing the application.
Dated the 7th day of May, 1931.
7071
E. L. AGASSIZ,
Official Receiver.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HỒNG KONG.
TROBATE JURISDICTION.
GOODS OF WILLIAM IN THE
DODS, LATE or No. 1, COMISTON DRIVE; EDINBURGIL SCOTLAND, MERCHANT, DICEA-
KED.
OTICE IS HEBERY GIVEN Nthat the Court han, by virtue of
the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and other to sand in their Claims against the above Estate to the 4TH JUNE, 1981.
All Creditors and others are accord. ingly horoby required to send their
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Claim to the Undersigned on or before / IN THE SUPREME COURT the big towns. It is easy to see, preparations for
that Date.
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Trong Kong.
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At Armingh Quarter Sessions Judge Green awarded Missinvention, prospered exceedingly, pointed Captain of Malta Dock...... Elizabeth Ross 1900 comperisation The freak, to gaze on whom prople yard he spurred all conventional for injuries caused to her in the had paid their pennies, became methods of renching his destination,
He married and execution of her duty. Miss Ross was man of substance.
and sat out from Plymouth in wardress in the women's prison in had a daughter. But there came a Armagh, and while in the yard was day when, in a fit of nostalgia, he | 15-ton yacht, Rame. Sailing her attacked by a woman prisoner, left his new home and returned to single-handed, he reached Malta along the ground for several yards, and had another daughter. He after seized by the hair, and dragged France. Here he married again
11 thrilling time. During As a result of her injuries, she was died two years ago leaving about seventeen days no tidings were compelled to retire from service on £14,000. His first daughter has now heard of him. He was blown out
small pension. She would in the come to France, and has entrusted. present matron.
rdinary coarse have succeeded the her claim to at least a part of the of his course and nearly wrecked.
money to an eminent lawyer. off Cape Spartel.
⭑
Local Notes and Events
One case (non-Chinese) of re- lapsing fever was reported during But the rent the 24 hours ended May 6.
cessories.......
↓ billiard tournament has been. arranged at the King Edward Hotel and a committee has been elected from those interested to con- duct the competition.-Hong Kong Daily Press, May 8, 1906.
Our one time great trade with The Y.M.C.A. from the first the Black Sea has now shrunk to expanses will be devoted to sharitable justified itself. The youthful dealer very slender proportions. There
in dry goods, who has originated fore, Soviet neval policy in that
Mr. M. J. Quist, Consul-General | friends have now first class tabler one of the biggest institutions of son has
for the Netherlands, will be glad in their housca, and among the direct reference to
to receive his friends on board the native population cueista can be the modern world, saw that young British interests.
5.a. Empress of Russia to-day from counted in hundreds. In this con men, in business needed what was meaning
10.45 u.13.
nection, I am informed that a series of this Russo-Turkish
of billiard tournaments between the essentially a club. He gave his treaty must be sought in the ro
A circular issued yesterday noti- fee that a reward of 825 will bo foundation a religious basis, and markable reconciliation of tradi paid to any person giving informa- of the South Wales Borderers, were Cricket Club have been inaugurat- Privates II. James and P. Brian, Water Police and the Kowloon to it he attracted decent and sober-tional political antagonisms. Russia tion leading to the arrest and con- remanded for a week when theyed, and that the first game-300 up minded young fellows. How many and Turkey used to be hereditary viction of any person charged with appeared befors Mr. Williams at played on Thursday between Ser- stealing or receiving moter car so the Central Magistracy yesterday resulted in a win for the former geant Earuer and Mr. Beuzwville of England's public men w enemies, and Turkey stood as a
on a chargo. of“ nasaulting Chan wonder, learned the arts of lectur- barrier against asian naval
Kiu, a detective. Inspector, K. W, y 90 points. The tournament, I ing and debate at Y.M.C.A.? egress from the Black Sea into the: At the Kowloon Magistracy yes-Andrew informed the Magistratem told, is not to be confined to billiards, but will include tennis The classes and the libraries also Mediterranean. Whilst we are not terday Mr. Hamilton ordered a girl that the doctors were not yet in and bowls.. That reminds me that
to be sent to the Secretariat for 1 position to report on the condition fulfilled a ren), noed, expecially in impressed by the stories of Russia's Chinese Affairs. The girl, who was of the detective, who was still in
a world war, maid servant at 721, Nathan [hospital. however, that in its contrast with the Soviet nutlook is anything but Road, was charged with the theft of $75 and jewellery worth $10, the In Tag GOODS or SONG WING, the political clubs,' and their peaceful. Fortunately, Russian sea property of a mui-tani working at
alias JUNG BANG WING wholly sccular atmosphere, the power is of a disorganized, and in sanie address. LATE OF 18, MorT STEST, MAXUATTAN, NEW Yong, INY.M.O.A. should, beconie the butt [disciplined character, and Turkish THE UNITED STATZE or of certain forms of humour and sea power is equally motley and LAUNDETMAN, even of superficial reproach. In very much smaller. But the in: point of fact, Y.M.C.A.'s were tegrity of the highway to the Suct always extremely happy and active Canal is a matter of such vital im centres, generally running excellent portance to us that we cannot afford cricket, football and athletic teamz. 10 regard lightly any, development But, on the whole, it went down which might menace it. Tina Russo better as an institution in America | Turkish treaty indeed, comes as a and in Germany than in the country timely reminder that, whilst our of its origin.
attention is mainly directly towards It was during the War that the Italy and France, and British Y.M.C.A. found itself, and shook attempts to placate the two great itself free from any suggestion" of "Mediterranean sea powers, there provincialism. It stepped in quiet, are other influences at work in the firmly and ubiquitously s the Middle Sea which need a watchful friend of the soldier. Its well 1602
AMERICA, DECEASED,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nat the Court har, by virtue of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to send to their Claims against the above Estate to the 98TH DAY OF MAY, 1991.
All Creditore and others are accord- ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date,
Dated this and day of May, 1931.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrators,
Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
eye.
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Looking Back to Years,
A Chineso was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. Hamil ton at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday on a charge of loitering with Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on stated by Detective-Bergeant Good. Aleong wore charged with gambling A fine of $5 was imposed at the intent to commit a felony. It was Kwan Atuck, Fung Ako and Mok Leading Aircraftman Jackson for in that the defendant was first before the Hon. Mr. Ng Choy at allowing a dog to be abroad in sten in the sumuner-house of Mr the Police Court yesterday. P.C. Kowloon City without a muzzle. Fernandez's bungalow at Old Kow-275 said:" On Saturday last I In another case, Sister Julia, of St.loon Tong at 2 o'clock in the morn saw the defendants and a number sence was noticed and an hour later Praya West. The first defendant Mary's, School, was cautioned for ing. He escaped when his pre- or others gambling at fun-tama kcoping a dog without a license, the animal having in the meantime been he was found on the verandah of managed the game. I arrested them sent to the Dogs' Home."
the bungalow itself.
and found four cents on the ground and some pieces of bricks for Mrs. H. T. Creasy has consented
markers." The first defendant said to distribute the prizes to the Looking Back 25 Years.
he only went to look at some people there, the second said he went there successful competitors at the cen clusion of the' 7th annual athletic Some time ago I made reference for the same purpose, and the third sports of the Sacred Heart College in the mopularity of billiards in declared he was only passing by whefrow at mm. on the Kothe Colony for that this game when he was arrested They worn loon Football Club' ground. The ie popular is only stating the sentenced to be exposed in the stocks 120 yards But race open to the obvious, but there are indications for four hours at the scene of ch Colony (man) at 3.45 p.m. Entrance | that its devotees are becoming more offence-Hong Kong Daily Press, free, post entries.
Our wealthy Chinese May 6, 1881.
numerous.