NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
'PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE Goons.or THOMAS CLARK, LTE or Rook VILLA, MILLFORT,
K. THE ISLAND 07 OUMBRAN, AND RETIRED COUNTY Or Dorr, EXGINEER, DECLARED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nat the Court has, by virtue of Hoction 58 af Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to and in their Claims against the above Eriste to the 11TH DAY of JUNE, 1981,
All Creditors and others are ascord. ingly hereby required to wind in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before
that Date.
Dated the 18th day of May, 1931. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Bolicitors for the Executors,
Prince's Building, Hong Kong,
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
Ire
Goong. OF
SUSAN
THE POCOOK, LATE OF MANOB HOUSE, KING FURY, Briscort, SOMMERSET, ENGLAND, WIDOW, DEOKAARD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the Court has, by virtue of
Section 68 of Ordinance No. of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Ureditors and others to snad in their Claims against the above Entate to the 11TH
DAT of JUNE, 1931.
All Creditors and others are accord. ingly hereby required to end in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.
Dated the 12th day of May, 1931.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Krocutors, Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
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CHINA ENTERTAINMENT & LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Re- OISTERED OFFICES of the Company, KING'S THEATRE BUILDING, TH FLoon on SATURDAY, the 16TH DAY of MAY, 1981, at 11 o'clock in the PONEROON, to receive the Direc. tors Report and Accounts for the period ended Elst DECEMBER, 1930, to Elect Auditors, and to Transact such other Business as may be Pro- porly Transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, sued by the Royal Observatory at 3.40 pm, Minted:-
An elongated, depression covera the eastern and Yellow Sea.
moderate; fine to showery.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Bombay. A huge factory w rushed together and equipped with every modern appliance known tą the engineer.
Patha's wore carefully recruit: ed from the wilds of Waziristan and taught the work required af them. So it was that there, in the
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News and Views *
Too Much Grinning.
Where Our Bost Brains Are.
The old English suspicion of Mr. Theodore Dreiser way, or clever people is not without aut may not, be right in asserting that
Leal Forecast:--Variable winds, middle of the jungle of the Bombay
Presidency, the pipe-line was stance. A man who earned a living fashioned by natives..
by inscribing the Lord's Prayer on Nowa of this accomplishment sixpenny bits has been went to The engagement is announced be
reached Brazil, 8,000 miles away, prison by the London courts. tween Lieut-Coramander ARc1. In 1920, Americans. Germans, BALD HOPE FINLAY, R.N., son French, Belgians and Poles com- of Mr. and Mr A. CHABLESpeted with this same London frm FANLAY. of Twickenham, Eng. land, and Miss DAPINK FLOR-for the supply of 20,000 tons of ENCE STANIGN, daughter of Mrs. pipe-line to carry water to Sao
S. MCEACHRAN, Lare of Ohartered Bank of India, Aus tralia and Chita, Hankow, China.
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DEATH.
Paulo. The London firm won.
What the Public Wants.
|SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
The death is announced "of Col Arthur Chapmia.
Page 7. Messri, Crouchers day report of the share market appears. Page
Messrs. Benjamin & Potts weekly report of the Hong Kong share Pago 11.
there is too much kissing in the talkies. My criticism, writes a she respondent to a London paper, is | market appears of that there is too much grinding. 1 A bloodstained chopper has bert have been analysing one, or two found in the sampan of the man murdered at Cheung Chau, Pago 7. popular films lately" and all of
The present month's Criminal Two books are reported to bo them suffer, in my opinion, from Sessions open, on Monday, but the the bestsellers of the week, says a too much" dentifrico "grinning by murder trial' on the calendar is
Ons is the ne Tome by Sir James Jeans on the heroines. Many film heroines ap- pustponed
Pago 7. Charged with attempting to steai mysterics of the universe, The pear to have only two fixed ex- a watch from a boatwoman, ♫ Once again it was decided to other is a book by the fashion depressions. One-the most common-soldier was fined $23 my the Kow- take the factory to the job. A comigner, M. Poirot, on the mysteries is an imbecile dental display, und lpon Magistrate.
of women's dress.
the other is the expression of an The Hong Kong Volunteer De- their annual old-fashioned landlady demanding feues Corps gave 83 Weds 75,
arrears of rent. Any intermediats oking concert and presentation "Mr. Jólin Austin, of Sheffield, nt
of prizes last evening in the the age of 84, was married at the facial expression appears to be Armony Hall.
Page 7. Ecclesall registry office to Mr.beyond their histrionic capacity, Weed-end wireless programmes, Eliza Jowett, who is aged 75. Mr.
Page h Austin is the oldest bridegroom to In the Americans' own words, be married ht that registry office. "Can you beat it'?"
plete factory was shipped out to | Sao Paulo; and local labour train- CHAPMAN-On April 10, 1811, ated to the work, Fourteen months
Hampstead General Hospital, Lieut.-Colone! ARTHUR CHAP later the factory was dismantled MAN. V.D., of 81, Thurlow Park and brought back to England. The Road, West Dulwich, and late last pipe had been laid. of the Civil Service of Hong Kong,
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 10, 1931.
THE BRITISH ENGINEER.
Now consider bridgebuilding. Not many years ago it was de cided to extend the port of Calcutta by the erection of wharves and
rm undertook to supply and erect warehouses. A British structural
the 38,000 tons of steelwork needed for the work.
Then it was found that the en-
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of
Guileless?
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Sport.
Lawn bowls fixtures and prospects are discussed on
Page 10.
Latest Home cricket suorca,
Page 0.
Both he and his bride had been An apparently guileless young previously married, and there were | lady interviewed her medical practi- several grandchildren
both tioner one day on account of parties present. The couple's romance began four and a half troblesome cough which caused her years ago at the bowling green at inconvenience, especially in the Latest Cables. the Bole Hilla Park, Sheffield.
mornings. During the course of the consultation the Joctor asked her how many cigarettes she smoked, a A new Papal Encyclical on social day. Realising that he would pro and labour questions has been unlily cut them by half, she said.
The Board of the Suez Canal "Forty." He consequently advised
Company after reconsidering the her to smeke no more than twenty questina condimed its decision not They both went away satished, for
to reduce the canal dues at pre- she was still able to buy her custoin
вель.
Page 0. Chiang Kai Shek yesterday rub-.
Page 0.
Do Gangsters Make GoodFaterar This question is raised by a re port that Mr. Al. Capone is to send gineers had to cope with the madis son to school in Ireland, because of the Hooghi River, carried bun attempts to kidnap hun from his school in Miami have been threaten. dreds of miles in the river'sd. The lot of a small boy whose tortuous, course aross India. So father is a gangster must be a liar. the engineers invented special one, if his school-fellows know about machines for Brewing piles into it. But perhaps there is a compen machines are in use to-day; they sating inherited ability to dent with ary daily, packet of 20 gaspers. mitted three dates to the People's have revolutionised the science of any opposition. Perlaps one da. Which only goes to show, what you Contention for its choice when the we shall soo Mr. Al Capone mer may already have suspected, that Provisional Constitution should he constructing foundations for heavy forming in the Palers' States nt
you can goinctimes, pull the duc
enforced. 'Che Convention un- In the meantime, construction an Irish school in his ballet-proof tor's leg for one thing, and that no aušmously selected June 1. Page ..
this mud. The successors to those
lords.
work had started on the new King George Docks in Calcutta
vest, and Old Racketeers blazer.
Snooze-Grabbing."
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one can set hard and fast limita tions on smoking, for another, Secret Telegrams.
A cruiser was ordered from Stock- holm to proceed to Andalen, where the Trade Unions have ordered a general strike in ympathy with the saw miil strikers in the Vester Norrland area, where five people Ava seriously wounded in an encounter, between the strikers and troops. Page 0.
I was Mr. RUDYARD KIPLING who
The & CO., LTD.
taught us, in a series of remark-walls and floor of the work were able skont stories and poems, that lined with vast monoliths, each of Two American professors who
which weighed 8,000 tons. The have been conducting research on The principle of seercey for all there was high romance in modern are British arm provided 6,000 sleep, claim to have proved that telegrams handed in at French Aerated Water Manufacturers. engineering. Schoolboys had always tons of steel to bind these ABSCH
post offices has just been upheld by were killed and the more sweets and sugar that one suspected it, but when they them together as they sank into the Calents, the better one sleeps. Plents the Fifth Chamber of the Tribunal,
cutta clay,
of enrbo-hydrates, they assert, are Recently a young woman stained essential for restful sleep and paternity order against a man, sweet dreams. The research, accord. despite his declaration that he had ing to a sprightly American con nothing to do with the case. The
We are once again in the wedding temporary, also proved that women young man's father, after an in- are 18 per cent. better "snooze quiry, appealed against the order,season and the modern girl-jusb grabbers "than, men. "The girls," declaring that he could furnish as she is gradually losing her feur green and the "un- it adds, "had a great time and abundant proof that the girl who of unlucky mocked all artificial methods of hnd secured it was a person oflcky." month of May-pays less and anooze-attainment. They hit the loose character. In order to catab-less attention to the superstitions. nay each night with their tuminieslish his case, the father asked that about days. The ancient wedding. full of cookies and candy. They duplicates of a number of telegrams day rhyme which runs-Monday for captured shut-eye quickly, had Bent or received by the girl should health. Tuesday for wealth, Wednes either pleasant dreams or none at bo produced in court, but the relay beat day of all; Thursday for all and they bounced out spryly quest was refused on the ground losses. Friday for crosses, Satunday at the clock's first yelp." The moral that the secrecy of all messages on worst day of all, has no terrors for trusted to the Post Offier must be present-day rides. So we have of all this seems to be to eat more
inarriages the whole week through. sweets.
safeguarded.
HONG KONG
20419.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS AND AUSTRALIAN PONIES
List of Bubscribers to the above will CLOSE at NOON ou SATURDAY. 30TM May, 1951,
And Notico in further hereby given that the Register and TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the Pri lo the 16TH 734] DAY of MAY, 1931. Both Days inclusivo.
LIANG CHIL HAO,
Managing Director.
·Hongkong, 30th April, 1931.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
THE MEETING
THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE be hold will (Weather Permitting) st HAPTY VAL- LEY on BATURDAY, 16TH MAY, 1931, Commending at 2,30 PM
The First Ball will be Bung at 2 P.M.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE, Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badge prominently displayed.
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
TH
NOTICE.
:
HE HALF YEARLY GEN- ERAL MEETING of VOTING MEMBERS will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLET, on WEDNESDAY, 27TH MAY, 1931,
15.15 P.M.
All members are cordially invited to attend and participato in any discussion which may ensue.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, of the VOTING MEMBERS of the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB will be held No One without a Badge will be at the CLUB HOUSE on the 27TH admitted to the Members Enclosure. DAY of MAY, 1931, immediately after Badges admitting Non-Members to the Half-yearly Meeting of the
the Members Encloanre and Club Rooms Voting Members when the snbjoined
at $6.00 for Gentleman and $3.00 for Ladies (both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for
of All Ohite, &c.
to Members' Enclosure will not be on sals at the
Pedges admiting
Courne.
Bace
Members can obtain, upon Application to the SECRETARY, Badges (Limited to One for the Free Admission to the Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady Relatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On No Protest will Children
Te
resolution will be proposed:
"THAT Articlo 6 of the Articles of Association of the Club be "altered by deleting therefrom the "words "Ordinary Members may "be unlimited in number”, and "subsitituting_therefor the words **The number of Ordinary. "Members shall be one thousand "two hundred or such greater "number as the Voting Members ** ghall from timo to time "determine".
AND NOTICE is ALSO HEKEBY
permitted in either Enclosure during GIVEN that a further EXTRAOR
the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The Price of Admission to the Publis
DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBEES of the Club will be held at the same place
Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax on WEDNESDAY, the SEVEN-
for all Persons, including Ladies, and TEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1981, AL a
payable at the Gato
quarter past Five O'ctook in the
is
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, ko, will not be permitted to operate with
AFTERNOON, for purpose of receiving a Report of the proceedings at the aborê móntioned meeting and of
a the Precincts of the Home Koye confirming if thought fit as a Special
JOCKEY OLVE during the Race Meeting Resolution the above mentioned.
Tiffin will be obtainable in the Restou. Resolution. ›rantin Abs Pullie. Enclosure... benignasamskipa
By Order,
** C, B; BROWN.
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 9th May, 1931.
By Order of the towards, C. B. BROWN,
Becretary. 791 Hong Kong, 14th May, 1931.
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selves becano engineers,, whatever
What has been done once can be they may have felt, they said, done again. Engineers were not and they continue to say, nothing. slow to learn the lesson of the Calcutta jetties and its screw-pile As in war the Royal Navy was foundations. In India alone, dur- the Silent Service, BO in ponceing the last five years, four miles of bridges have been built on screw miles and cylinders. One bridge: 3,000 feet long, carried a train 50 weeks after the construction work began. This was another world's
the engineers of Britain form the Silent Industry of the nation. Quietly, without any blowing of trumpets, they have gone out into the world bridging rivers and railways, curbing the sea, sinking mines and laying pipe-lines.
So well have they worked, and such is the prestige of British ski!! and workmanship, that there are few spots left on land where the British structural engineer could not stand and say as WREN said in St. Paul's: "If a monument you require, look around,"
And everything has been done so quietly, everyone bending to the anek.
record.
At Calcutta to-day the same firm are building the great Bally Bridge, the bridge which will link the greatest city of India with the rest of the land by road and rail.
Seventeen thousand tons of steel are being used in this massive bridge, each of the seven spans weighing 2,300 tons.
When this engineering feat is accomplished the British builders will once again have justified their policy of taking the factory is the job.
Local Notes and Events
In for Assam 200'bridges are now under construction and the North in the Colony on Thursday.
There was a clean bill of health
West Frontier is being covered with
n network af military bridges,
EDUCATION.”
Mr. G. K. Oliver has taken over the duties of organist at St. John's Cathedral, replacing Jr. F. Musen who is at present on home leave.
A warning has been issued to Tus English Board of Education mariners to the effect that the end has for some years been engaged of the breakwater recently con- ions into certain problems of be marked day or lighted by night. in a series of scientific investiga-structed at Cheungshawan will not education. An important consulta-
The prestige of British bridge- builders in other countrica is one THE AGE FOR "PRIMARY of the most prized possessions of the industry and to maintain the supremacy of Britain in this feld, bridge-builders have allowed con- tracts to go elsewhere. Always they have insisted that the bridge on which may depend the lives of thousands--should have no element of risk. They insist on the use of the finest steel; and the, result is the confidence all over the world that the British standard is beat.
But British engineers have not been content just to slog along, hoping that quality alone will win them contracts. From America ons is continually hearing of wonderful *hustles." But here are a few exploits of the British engineers that will compare with any record from the United States.
firma.
This Arm not only provided 90,000 tons of pipes, but laid them through the tropical jungle to Bombay at a speed that created a new world record for construction
Quarantino restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Saigon on account of cholera, ¿
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Owing to the persistent catering of vagrants and non-authorised golf caddies on the roads and la the vicinity of the Fanling Golf Mr. Kup Wai Fong, the
Courses, the Hong Kong Gioit Club managing-director of the China bera that these loiterers are thera
Committee have had to warn mem Merchants S... Co, Shanghai, for the specific purpose of stealing having promised to consider their stray balls. Although the civil demand for a bonus, over 900 wharf authorities have the matter in hand, coolies of the company, who went the Golf Club Committee emphasiss strike during the last week-end, the point that unless all players have resumed work.
A Chinese who was arrested during A raid at 113, Woosung Street, was brought before Mr. Hamilton yes-
tive Committer recently published A Golf Match, to take place dur- the results of its enquiries regarding the present month, lus heen terday when he was sentenced to a ing primary education, and its arranged between the Machine Gun | year's hard labour. It was stated Report is a document of great im Company, Ifong Kong Volunteer the man was deported from the portance to parents and ionchers Defence Corps, and the Kowsoon Colony last year for a period of
ten years. everywhere. It was recommended Golf Club. by a previous Report of this Com- mittee that the primary education The Mercantile Marine Officers of children should end at the age Club, Shanghai, have moved into of cloven; and now it is stated their new quarters at BC, Yuen that it should begin at seven years Ming Yuen Road. The telephons of age. Thus, there is a clear-cat number of the club has been chang- period of four years for primary fed to 10004. education. There are the strongest
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co-operate with them, and anguga only caddies recommended by the 'caddie master, it will be impossible
to improve the prescut situation.
Looking Back 25 Years.
Reports have been range of dis- turbance in Southern Hounn and Westorn Shantang aused by the Beforn Mr. Schofield yesterday, a Big Knife Society, which is a sort Chinese coalie, was charged with of relic of the Boxer invement causing obstruction on the water-Nominally the hathlities of the front with a load of firewood and rioters is directed against the new was fined $8. It was stated that educational scheme and the lloman when arrested, the coolie made Catholic Christians, but in practic some excuse to a police constable it takes the form of the pillaging scientiâc reasons for believing that Pleading guilty to the charge of who allowed him enter a shop in of towns. The bandits in Honou primary education should not begin driving a mator-car without the vicinity but after a long wait
are said to number 12,000, and they earlier than at seven years of age, licence, Br. W H. Hawes, of the the officer found that the man had carry banners inserthed
"DOWNL nor end inter than eleven. The Hong Kong Flying Club, was fined run away by the back door. He with the Manchu Dynasty" Many Report discuses the whole ques-825 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton yester was arrested again later.
towns are rebuilding their ancient tion in the light of this newly dis day,
walls for protection The scene inf covered fact,
Mr. W. J. Simpson, of 1. Edward the disturbances in Honau je obrat The forthcoming wedding is an; Building, Prince Edward Road, wast
the Hankow Peking Railway, nounced Mr. John Robert fined $10 by Mr. Hamilton yesterday and travellers on that line can, hear Foster, of the Chinese Maritime for failing to report a motor cycle the sounds of firing. Troops have Customs, R. L. Leung Tsing, to accident within a reasonable time been sent from Hankow and are Miss Simonna Madeleine Helene after colliding with and injuring & expected to quell the fisturbances -- Desert, of 14, Wing Lok Building, Chinese in Nathan Road. He was Hong Kong Daily Press, May 16,
also summoned for failing to have 1008 Kowloon,
two independant and efficient
of
Charged before Mr. Hamilton brakes on his cycle, but this was Looking Back 50 Years, yesterday with snatching a bangle dismissed owing to an error in the from a child, which was being car-form of the summons. ried by its mother in Mongkok Market on Thursday, a Chinese was sentenced to twelve months
labour with hard
twenty-four strokes of the birch,
The city of Bombay, in India, was short of water. Engineers from The period from seven to eleven. years of age has been much less all over the world were invited to studied than others, and the find quote for laying 100 miles of waterings of the Committee though in- mains, six feet in diameter. The complete murt be considered as contract was awarded to a London authoritative and probably the best ever formulated on this subject. According to the Report, the period is an extremely important one of development, and one in which
A numerously signed farewel address was presented to the Han, mixed schools-that is achools con- sisting of boys and girls-may be
W Keswick yesterday afternoon, Three Chinese were charged at The ceremony took pilnos in St. hold to be without educational or sociological objections. Much at
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with Andrew's Hall, which was filled tention is given to a new survey
trespassing on Stonecutters Island, with the honourable gentleman's The first two were also charged friends and admirers, Cond never. of elementary curriculum, and, in Such results are not achieved by this is emphasised the fact that
with the larceny of a suit of cloth has a more numerous or enthusia Class for instruction in life ing and a pair of trousers from a tie gathering assembled in Hong humdrum methods. To accomplish the acquisition of book-knowledge this feat the London firm, instead of leas importance than the saving are being conducted at the boy in the LA, Mess Pleading Kong on any similar occasion. The development of mind and body by Central Police Station Gymnasium guilty, they were both sentenced attendance included members of of sending material out from the finalector pisical culture and Police Traming School, Mong to ens month's hard labour or the more race represented in tha works in England, decided to take Exceptions to this general rulo nre kok, every Tuesday and Friday at larceny ebarge and cautioned on the Colony-Europeans, Indians, and the teaching of the mother tonguo p.m. Books on the subject may first count. The third man pleaded Chinese-and a sprinkling of adiny a factory out to the job. A sits in all its branches, and of arith-be had on application to Sergt. that he was brought there by the was noticeable.-Ilang Kong Daity 50 acres in extent was bought near metic”
R. J. Hunt, Central Police Station, accond man and was fined $2, | Fren, May 10, 1891.
work. "
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