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ME, W. A. SHOLLERS, | THE U.S. STOCK EXCHANGE. | nete, with a sugar content of 17.1
LATE OF HIRO, NEVADA, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTESTATE, DECEABLD,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the Court has, by virtue of
Bection 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, minde an Order limiting the Time for Croditors and others to end in their Clairas against
the above Estate to the 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 1891,
All Creditors, and others are moord- ingly bereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.
Dated the 13th day of May, 1931.
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THOMAS OBABLES CRANE, LATE OF MERKVALE Crowborovan, IN THE CITY of Bussex, England, DEOKAZZE.
HEAVY DECLINE IN. THE
RAILS SECTION,
New York, May 14.-Weakness was the dominant note in the trad ing on the New York Stock Ex- change and kerb market today, the Dow Jones Financial. News Agency states in its daily review of the conditions prevailing in the Wall Street district. Price losses wero suffered in all divisions.
Sweeping declines among
the
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per cent. The Mason challenge eup was awarded to Arthur Deptford, of Wishceh, for a crop of 21.01 tons per nero, with a sugar-content of 10.88 per cent.
Mr. Wilfred Parkow, director of the National Institute of Agricul- tural Botany, told the meeting that seeds were available equal to the
BOOKS and READERS wharves, reella for his readers the
MYSTERY IN THE CHANNEL, By F. Wills Crofts. (Collins, s. d.) THE FLERT HALL TEHERITANCE By Richard Keverne... (Constable. 78. Gu.)
FIVE DETECTIVE:
NOVELS.
At 60 years of age Doherty, now Your modern boxer would not. a patrolman on the Freemantle { dream of bringing his scionoo down.
to such a fine point as this.- F. wild days of the Malbourne boxing Dartnell in News Chronicle. booths in the 'eighties and the fierce battles of the goldfields.
With a vivid touch the grand figures of the Australian era pass through the pages. Frank Slavin he thought the greatest of all Aus; not the faintest motion what is betralian barn fighters, but Peter ing aimed at. And apart from Jackson, the negro, "the kindliest, that, he can write.
gentlest and most chivalrous boxer that over 'drew on a glove," and Bob Fitzsimmons, the fighting freak from Cornwall, nto his chief heroes of the ring. He tells also
giant, gambler, fighter and prac Barrier Champion," u rough, tough tical joker, who was shot later on in an American election.
In Murder of a Lady" Dr. Eustaco Hailey, a character whom Mr. Anthony Wynne has shown us before, finds himself mixed up in
A BLACK KINGDOM,
"A SUDANESE KINGDOM." By C. X.
Meek, Kogan Paul, 25. Mr. Merk has chosen as his sub- jeet the peoplo.of a. singular king- dom, particularly well worth study- ing because it is the only surviv-". ing example of a civilisation which oxisted in the Western Sudan in the pre-Mohammedan era.
He confesses that his studies of
a period of not quite live months. But his special gifts as an anthro- pologist have enabled him to col- lect and arrange more significant facts than an ordinary man would gather in a lifetime.
best Continental seeds and that MURDER OUT OF. TUNE. By Maron an extremely sinister business while of the mighty Joo Goddard, "the the Jukun people were confined to
Great Bi-tain' could produce sugar as efficiently as any country in the world.'
THE BOAT-HOUSE RIDDLE. By J: J. Connington (Gollancz. c. 63.) MURNER OF A LADY, By Anthony Wynnc. (Hutchinson, 72, 68.)
Magill. (Hutchinson, 78. Gd.) A Fifty-Foot petrol, launch, ex. pensively fitted and beautifully kopt adrift in mid-Channel, with
railroad shares served' to weaken SIX PER CENT. INDIA LOAN, two dead man os board-both shot
the entire market. The decline in rails values affected the list and made it especially susceptible to unfavourably reaction to other ad- verse news developments.
U.S. Steel Rumours, There were unconfirmed rumours that the United States Steel Cor NOTION
wages. It is also reported that the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENporation is planning to reduce
to
Section 68 of Onlinance, No. of 1897, made sa Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others
send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 1931.
All Creditors and others are socord. ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that.Date: :
Dated the 13th day of May, 1931, JOHNSON, BTOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the, Executors, Prince's Bailding, Hong Kong.
CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
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By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT, Beorntary,
Hong Kong, 11th May, 1931.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.'
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THE MEETING (Weather Pormilting) at HAPPY VAL LEY on SATURDAY, 2D and MONDAY 25TH MAT, 1991, Commen- cing at 2.30 P.M. on Bath Days,
The First Boll will be Rung at 2 P.3.
SIXTII EXTRA RACE will be held
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE, Members are noliâed that they and
their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without & Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badgon admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Clab Rooms Gentlemen $3,00
United States Steel Corporation is planning to pay dividends on the basis of G.85 annually for each share instead of the present 0.87 basis.
There reports, upon which u cials of the United States Steel Corporation have not yet comment. ed, served to depress stock prices still further; Throughout the tire day's trading cession prices drifted steadily lower.
Trading was somewhat more ne tive with the volume of transac tions. aggregating 1,200,000 shares.
Credit conditions .emained easy with the call money late continu ing to rule at 1 per cent, Bank rate reductions were announced in London and Dublin and, after the market had closed hera reductions were announced in the brokers
jonna total.
According to the figures compiled by the Dow Jones Financial News Aguney for the Wall Street Journ al the average price for 30 of the most representative industriala stocks was 146,01, off 9.90. The average price for 20 of the lending rails shares was 80.6s, off 2.03 and the average price, for 20 of the foremost utilities issues was 50.13, off 1.20.
Low Levels.
United States Stect dropped to a new low level to-day, closing at 100. Westinghouse Electric was off at 61 7/8 and Anaconda Copper was weak at 201. Cartins Wright was steady at 3, while, Du Pont declined to 834. At 134 Eastman Kodak was of 1 and Radio Cor- oration of America lost a point to close at 189. At 105 American Can was off 5/8 and American Tole-
at 45.00 Per Day for Contending phone and Telegraph dropped to qer Day! For Ladies
are obtainable through the SECRE- 1701. TARY upon Introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for Payment
of All Chita, ku. Badges Enclosure sitting to
Members'
not be on sale at the
Race Course
Members can obtain, upon Application to the SECRETARY, Badges (Limited to One) for the Fros Admission to the Members' Enclosure of Wives, Lady Bolatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On No Protext will: Ohildren be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
The commodities markets word generally weak to-da. Silver and cotton were off. The sugar market
was steady,
BRITISH SUGAR "BEET.
350,000 ACRES DEVOTED TO
REET GROWING.
(THROUGH REUTER'O AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 19; £10,000,000 of the six per cent, Indin Loan, redeamable in 1933-34, the issue price, of which is £100, is being underwritten to-day.
IMPORTANT SHANGHAI
LAND DEALS.
TAELS 1,273,400 INVOLED.
The completion of negotiations For the sale of two important pieces of land in Shanghai was announe- od last week, the tota sum involved being Tis, 1,275,400.
One of the sites is that of the Shanghai Hera Bazar and Motor Co., Ltd., in Burkill Road, in the rear of the well-known premises, of the company in Buddling Well Road, recently sold, and separat- ed from them by Burkill Road. The Eren of this property is 10.840 me, and the purchasers, who are Chineeo, have bought it at the rate
of Tim. 4,000 'mow.
The second site is the property opposite the French Municipai Bailding in Ruo da Consulat, F.
by an unknown hand. Such is the groundwork of the problem which presents itsoli in Mystery in the Channel," first to the officers of the Newhaven-Dieppo Passenger-boat Chichester, and subsequently to thase of the C.I.D.; chiefly, of course, to that painstaking alibi. ammsher, Inspector French. The preliminary difficulty of finding anyone to have an alibi once solved, the good work proceeds according to the Crofts rules, which are, as all amateurs of detection know, of the soundest.
This story of City Fraud and an attempted get-away' is original and ingenious, the working out an thrilling as it is thorough; the sur. prises-there is more than on really surprise; the little, long averlooked detail that gives away the criminal is admirably simple. And Mr. Crofts concludes with something quite fresh and fearful when it comes to the risks atten- dant on capturing the guilty man.. I should place this story among Mr. Crafts very best.
..
Mr. Keverno provides first class mystory in "The Flest Hall Inheritance," a story of dark do
C. Lots 85 and 95, measuringings, with a pleasant background of East coast life. Young Peter now 3.3.8.5, which was sold for Tis, 625,000 together with the build- Bavent, who had taken Admiral ings thereon. . This transaction Milden's house for the summer so was put through by Mr. A. E. as to have pence for the writing Shahmoon of Messrs. E. E. Shah- moon and Co,
The North-China Daily News is also informed by Messrs. Shang- hai Land Investnet Co., Ltd., that that company as negotiating for the sale of Cadastral Lot 807 in the Northern District at Tis. 150,000 a row. It is the intention of the directors to apuly the entire proceeds of the aalo to the business of the campany and the prafts will, not be included in any recommen. dations nåde for distribution of dividend
THE IRISH BANK RATE.
Dublin, May 14. Following the action of the Bank England in London in reducing its rediscount rate from 3 per cent to 2 per cent, the bank rate in Dublin to day was reduced in the amount of of one por cent. uom four per cent, to 34 per cent.
It is ected that in other finan cial centies there will be bank ratu
reductions A week ago the New York Federal Reser. Bank reduc, ed its rediscount rate to 15 per cent, the lowest in histor
staying as a guest among "the nobility, gentry and inhabitants" of Mid-Argyll. The murder of Miss Gregor of Duchlán takes place in surroundings of Highland old-
family tradition that invest it with a peculiar grimness, well maintain ed by Mr. Wynne's individual and telling style of writing.
Y
Horo we have detailed accounts of the life of the native from the
Boxing in the Night. They took infinite pains to learn their profession these old-timo fighters. The author tells how he toured in South Africa with the cradle to the grave; of his ro famous Kid McCoy, who would ligion his dedication of his King, wake him up in the night in order his ceremonies at the time of birth, There are other deaths, as violent to practise a novel blow which had marriage and death; his food, his and mysterious; there are hints of occurred to him. McCoy, who in-language, his games, his stories... vented the Corkscrew Punch, was We are told that trial marriage, something more, or less, than hun wonderful boxer, a dandy and which is advocated in the United States as a novelty, is one of the man, at the bottom of it all-hints, a bit of a philosopher. He is now I rejoies to say, that are not sub in Sing Sing serving a sentence for institutions of this ancient people.
manslaughter 1
We learn,, to, that beer is looked stuntinteil. And the solution is,
on as a first necessity not only by I should say, completely unsuspect
men but by women and children. able-in spite of the fact that the strange central idea of it has been used, perhaps not more than once,
before.
The young women in "Murder Out of Tune" are equally modern, as are the young men; but they bo long to what one of the less modern characters calls "a rotten crowd," occupied wholly in amusements to which money and cocktails in large quantity are indispensable, The murder of one of them introduces
new note.
The introduetion of
a poor and obscure youth by chance into this gilded company, with which the trouble begins, recalls Mr. Dreiser's "American Tragedy" in its social effect; but Ronald Popper does not-though he nearly does-pay for the privilege with his life. Mr. Magill, as one knew before, can write; his persons are alive, his dialogue excellent, his situations well-managed. And in the conclusion of his story there is a pungent-irony.-E.C. Bentley
FIGHTING GIANTS OF OLD.
"IN THE DAYS OF GIANTS." By W.
Jim
1. Doherty. Harrap. 108. Od. Although Primo Carnern be. strides the world like a Colossus, the great days of the noble art are for the moment in suspension. Its heroic quality has vanished.. Jefferies, the old champion, anys that money is killing the game, that it is becoming too commercia liard, and his old rival, Jack John- spn, a dusky holder of the world's title, attributes the falling off to big purses and the laziness of the modern fighting man.
of a drama, found drama discon in London Daily Telegraph, certingly rife in his new surround. ings, but no pence worth mention ing. What was it that was going on in the strange household of Fleet Hall, where the blind old mari whe had lately inherited the place lived with his smooth secretary?
Mr. Kuverne's characters are al- ways excellent, like his mystifica tions. Bayent and the suspicious Bocky Sherwood, the blind man and his satellites, the world-wise Darley, the strange crow of the local artist-colony, the ex-marine manservant, make a thoroughly in- teresting company. As for the mystery, Mr. Keverno adopts, with n success not always attained, the tantalizing device of allowing an
A Calculated Science, to hear much of the private con-
Boxing is more of a calculated versation passing between the eus.
science than it was in Bill Doher pect persons, but not enough to
ty's days. They were greater There is a give anything away:
gladiators, though, in the time of satisfactorily swift and desperate finish to the whole adventure.
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In that oventful area of our
The Fighting Quarreyman,” as be was known. When Gona Tunney rose from his famous 18 seconds. count at Chicago be fan backwards from Dempsey. A man near
me
at the ringside yelled: "Look! hoʻa. doing his bicycle act!" They did.
country whore Mr. Cennington's Sir Clinton Driffield in Chief Con- stable, his old friend Wendover, the owner of Talgarth Grange, has built himself a lordly boathouse nothing like that in Doherty's days, It was grim toe-to-toe fighting for beside the lako, On the opposite. shore a disagreeable gamekeeper is supremacy and his book tells of Clinton, a guest at the Grange, to murdered just in time for Sir some epic battles that stir the blood
give the matter his personal atten. tica. The boathouse, its boats, its
gramophone, and other appurten
of the reader..
London, April 24-More than PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
348,000 acres were devoted to grow- The Price of Admission to the Publis ing sugar beets in Great Britain
LONDON MONEY MARKET. Enalogare is $2.00 Per Day including inst year, according to figures sub- Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies,mitted at the annual meeting of and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Bailors in Uniform are the British Sugar Beet Society changes:-Movements of rates have London, May 14.-Foreiga Ex admitted Half Price,
This represented an increase of been somewhat erra e Tie Tac Men, 2,
He was only a boy when he first Bookmakers,
during the will not be permitted operate with 113,000 acres of the 1000 acroage, weck, especially following the ro
saw the great Jim Mace.. The Eng. in Las
Presinete of the HONG KONG and the production, 400,000 tons of duction of the bank rate. Chinese
lish champion was talking to his JOCKIT OLUB during the Race Meeting.
Tifa will be obtemable in the Restau- sugar, exceeded the 1929 production and Japanese rates are steady.
father when Young Bill, returning ances are found to be involved. rant in the Public Enslosure,
of 130,000 tone.
The Money Market: - Fairly Soon the plot of The Boat-House from a school fight, displayed", By Order,
According to, Col. E. Royds comfortable credit nditions bave Riddle" thickens with the appear.
black'eye that earned the approba- chairman of the meeting there are prevailed, but the market at pre- ance of new characters in 'addition tion of the old warrior. This firedi ****745]
now upward of 40,000 sugar-boetsent is disorganized.'
to Wendover's domestic staff and the youngtor's fistic ambition, growers in the country, including. The Discounts Market-Much the young couple just come to live which eventually gained for him CREDIT" FONCIER D'EXTREME-Ball-holders, "for whom" declar unsettled.
on the adjoining state; and the Heavy-weight Championship of ORIENT.
ed Col, Royds, there is no better
cannot say too much for the un-
Australia. erop." Great Britain, he said, now!
usual manner in which one of those produces about one-fifth of its na
new characters makes her, or ita, tional requirements. He urged. New York, May 14. Fractionally "ppearance. that, the Anglo-Duten group of fac- easier tendencies hevailed in the tories should adopt the same con- trading on the New York silver tract torins as the other factories. market today. At the close-
During the meeting the Countess of Denbigh presented her challenga oup for the best crop of sugar beat to the Spalding Bulb Company for 431 acres yielding 17.5 tons per at 281.
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Price of a Medal.
As an amateur boxer he had to The mystery can fairly be called tread a thorny path, indeed. At an impenetrable cus for readers; yet there are all the facts, includ: the age of 18, overcoming an in fing a disappearing screw driver, credible handicap of weight, bo won and Bir Clinton takes you with a tournament for a medal alleged him every step. of the way in his to be of gold and worth five guineas, investigation, while leaving Wen- After the final bout ho had collect over and you to wonder what heed black dye cracked nose is at. Mr. Connington's smooth split lip and a damaged rib, while technique of detective work at its the medal proved to be made of most fascinating when you have lend!
Twenty years ago I met McCoy at Nice, where he narrowly escaped
As regards the religious.concep. breaking our recka in a mad water dash along the front. I remember. tions of the people, Mr. Mock has him saying that he never allowed discovered remarkable parallels be himaolf to get angry in a boxing tween these and the conceptions of contest beacuse an angry thought the ancient Egyptiana. The illus set up poison in the blood and trations. of the book, if not mathe honce affected his fitness for fight-tieally delightful, provide an ill-. ing.
uminating commentary on the text,
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