ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
COMPANY, LIMITED.""
AN INTERIN DIVIDEND of
TWO DOLLARS Per Share
BRITAINS BEST
BEER!
for the Six Months ending 30th WHITBREAD'S
"JUNE, 1981. will be payable on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12TH, on which Dato Dividend Warrants may. be obtained on" application at the Company's Office, 3, CHATER ROAD.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 320 AUGUST. to TUESDAY, the 11 AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be. registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
H. A. RODGERS,
Acting Secretary.
Hong Kong, 21st July, 1981,
(987
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LTD,
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NOTICE.
THE Undormentioned Certificates Torso On Shares in this. Com- pany registered in the Name of the Late ISAAC SAMUEL PERRY have beez LOST OF DESTROYED; and nhould these Certificatos tot be produced to the Company before the SAR AUGUST, 1941, New Certificates for eaid Shares will be issued and the Old Certiflostes. Now 674 and 6765 will be thereafter treated by this Company na NULL and VOID.
Certificate No 6746 for 50 Shares Nos. 3K501/38550.
Certificate No. 6765 for 100 Share Nos. 30901/38910 and 129845/120894.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON:
General Managers, foto Hong Kong, 20th July, 1931.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION,
MEMBERSHIP.
PALE ALE
KEWED BOTTLED I
WHITBREAD &
Loupon
(979
YLUB Secretaries are Reminded
that Applications for HEMBER SHIP, to the ASSOCIATION and Entries for the LEAGUE COMPETI TIONS CLOSE on AUGUST 17...
W. E. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Secretary. [972
18th July, 1931.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
SOLE AGENTS:
A.S. WATSON & Co.,
:
LIMITED,
EST. 1841.
NOTICE.
CO., LTD.
of the Sale by Public Auction to THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE ba hold on MONDAY, the 277H DAY of JULY, 1981, at 8. r., as the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hu EXCELLENCY THE GOVER
(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG),
THE CERTIFICATE duted Ist
ROB of One Lot of CROWN LAND FIBRUARY, 1899, for Four
at Shek Shan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIB MAJESTY TEX KING, for one farther term of 75 years.
PARTIUULAES OF THE LOT,
No. of
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon Island Lot No. 2558.
South of
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 219?,
G
Ma Tau Wai Road.
Boundary
Measure.
mente.
As per
sale plan
Contents in
Square feet,
Aanaal
Shares, $20 Per Share Paid-up, Numbered, 5646, 9995, 11970 and 17876 in this Company standing in the Naine of FRANCISCO MANUEL DA CUNHA (aineo. deceased) of MACAO has been declared" LOST, and "if at
the Expiration of One Month from the" Date hereof the above. Document bo not forthcoming the Said Certificato will be deemed CANCELLED and of No Effect, and a NEW Certificate for the said Bhares will be issued in' 33 its stead by the Company..
Rental.
About
19
R
1992
096'6"
PUBLIC AUCTION," ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
the Bals by Fabio Anction to be held on MONDAY, the 27TH DAY OF JULY, 1931, at 3 P... at the Offer of the Public Works Department, by Order of Bis EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Sai the Colony Ying Pan, Kowloon City, in the of Hong Kong, for д term of 75 years, commenting from 1st July, 1808, with the option of
st & Crown renewal Rant to be fired by the Surveyor of His MAIESTE THE KINO, for one further term of 24 years loss, the last thres" days thiored!
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No, of Sale
Begistry No.
Locality.
Nav Kömicos Zaland
Let No. 1598.
(Kowloon City) near Sailing Pux
New Kowloon
Inland Lot No. 1418,
Boundary
·Monnure
JADALA.
As per
ale plan.
Contents in
¿quare-fort.
Anngal:
1,230
Rental.
130
5,655
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The Helgat of Monotony
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Communist "Swells."
one
Furry Beasts for Japan,
became a Greek subject. After their marriage they lived in Vienna, and six months later the husband informed his wife that," aince he was under the age of twenty-five and had married with out the consent of his parents, his
Guest (wanly, to owner of small Large-scale exports of wool-bear marriage was not a valid one yacht): Don't you think we caning and fur-bearing stock from according to Greek low. He then turn round and go back now? British Columbia to Japan are scon left his wife and returned, to wave you've soon em all'
After all, when you've seen as a possibility resulting from the Greece. The wife, penniless and
visit to the Pacific coast provincs of 5, Chiya of All Brothers, Tokio, without a passport, sought the aid
who is conferring with the market of the Greek Consul, who told her A cap and a muffler are no longer branch of the B.C.. Department of
Agriculture with the view to got-1 that she was not a Grock subject good enough for communists; theying in touch with reliable breeders and gent her to eco the English their cultural and material, post-muskrat and pure foxes,
must dress in a manner bontting of Angora and Rex rabbits, mink, Consul Here she wne, told that tion, not like mendicanta.
This she had lost her English nationalis & passage from a spooch by the ty, and the Austrian authorities the control commission of the Com Soviet leader Yarostavaky, made to likewise declared that they could munist Party." not grant hor a passport. It was only three months later that, through the aid of the British Consul, she was able to return to England.
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Hands Off the Young.
Bables--By Order."
Prehistoric Oystara.
Sententicus,
Humour?
Mr. Rohort MoWhirtor challenges in his own dry and inimitable manner the three trets stories for
sense of humour given in an article in the Daily Press by Mr. Tindal King But what would the Hon. Member for Linkumdoddie say to the poor wraith of a "test".
iven by that euperior and in- tellectual person, Max Beerbohm, the author and caricaturist." Max's little story was as follows:-Scene, an overcrowded third class carriage,. at a standstill in the station of the smoky little town of Nuneaton, One faded spinster to another, ditto.
“Ah poor, Julin. She had good reason to remember Nuneaton..
Max could have written an amua ing story or essay on the aubject but it needs his skill to give it life. Andrew Lang once kept an' audience in roars of laughter for half an hour on the subject of the last remark he had heard shouted by a severe looking lady as his train drew out of Padington earlier that day. The remark was: Tell Maria to writeo"!
Football-Cricketers, dura
Followers of Home Association
A message from Alberta states that oyster shell, great beds of them, have been found on the Old A Test of Seamanship Recailed. man river near Hillspring, Alts, and will be developed commercial- Lieut. Commander C. D. Martin,. The oyster shell, according to aged 75, a retired naval officer, who was gunner of the cruiserts made at the University of Alberta laboratory, is almost pure Calliope when she steamed out oflime and will be marketed by Apin Samonn Islands] in the teeth The accond bill will affect every ide hurricane in 1980, bas syndicate as fertilizer, poultry feed home, for it decrees that every man died at Portsmouth.
and lime. The shella are deposits The naviga from prehistoric times, vestiges cl must leave a certain proportion of tion of the Calliope in the terrible marine life when this portion of his property to his wife and gale was a masterpiece of scam the west was the bed of a great sea. children. Other nations have had ship this law for many years, but in
General Pershing's comments on' England & man has been free to
A protest against societies and the British and French troops in leave his property as he wished, organisations, which were always France, which appear in his re with the result that in some enaca endeavouring to propagandise thecently published book, have arous football mutat he gratified to see 8. was made by the leaded a certain amount of feeling in many of their favourites doing well the wife and children have been master of Sherborne, Mr. C. L. F. London and Paris.. One paper on the cricket fold this season. G.
young" left penniless while someone with Boughey, at the school commemom counters as follows:Foch was D. Kemp-Welch, the Cambridge no claim whatsoever has benefited. tion day. This endeavour of every asked his opinion of General captain, is a notable example. His Often this has meant that the conceivable interest to get hold of Pershing. His reply was given in batting has improved out of all
the young is a growing evil," he his usual sententious way. If knowledge, and among the ama widow has been left to maintain said.Boys are young only once, General Pershing were Freach," tours he stands second only to D and educate the children of the and I object to those who try to he said, 'I should have him shot R. Jarding in the averages, with marriage without any assistance which is their right."
steal from the young the youth for disobedience. If he were Eng-51 for thirteen innings, Cook, the lish should ask Sir Douglas Haig | old Brighten and England centre, from her husband. In nine cases
to send him home.. As he is is another whose batting has im- out of ten she is out of touch with
American I shall gave him the proved, and Arnold, Southamy- Croix de Guerre,"
ton's outside left, is maintaining the business world, having given up. Signor Mussolini's campaign for
the form which last season caused her post to look after the house and overwhelming succes
more and more babies" is an.
him to be regarded as one of our The birth Mr. Lansbury Enjoys Himself, children. In the present state of rato in Italy during the fast
future Test hopes. Sterer, late of Mr. George Lansbury at 78 is the Burnley and the newly appointed unemployment, what chance has mcnths has risen by 9 per cent everlasting boy. His juvenilo manager of Coventry, is also bat- the of getting a ich at all, let Italy's population to-day, accord-high spirits are irrepressible. Durting as well as ever for Derbyshire, ing to provisory but official figuros ing House of Commons business and James Laagridge, after a quiet alone a post carrying a salary suf- of the Inst census, is 42,118,435, this member of the Cabinet and start, is getting runs and wickets ficient to meet the needs of a young an increase of 3,407,850. on. Figures pillar of the Constitution proceed freely for Sussex, R. W. V Ro family ?...
for 1021. The dominant personal-ed to amuse himself with a long bins, of course, has some good per- lity behind the campaign for more paper spill Bitting, in the third formances to his credit in the few These cases are few in compari-babies" has been Mussolini. In a row, Mr. Lansbury first tickled the first-class games he has played, and son with the number of wills pro-speech to a gathering of women in ears of Mr. William Henderson. Hodgson and Hulme, the "stars" WOMEN AND THE LAW.
ved each year, but it is the duty May, 1926, he appealed to them to Then he tried to tilt the top hat of Liverpool and the Arsenal, aro bring Italy's population up to 40 of Major Graham Pole over that coming on well. The Lancashire Autovon the British Parliament of the law to prevent them from million by the beginning of the immaculate member's nose, and man Jocks like becoming the legiti
mate successor to Macdonalā na has always been extremely interest arising at all. To those who are second half of this century. Every succeeded in hooking the ribbon of ed in women the effect of that in afraid that the bill would mean encouragement to motherhood hea his glasses. While he was thus a fast bowler, and Hulme has been been given in Italy. Large fami-occupying himself Mr. Lansbury's promoted in the Middlesex batting terezt has taken many forms. In that people would think that, they los are granted special fares on face was a study of benignity, order. Watt, Kent's promising. the Middle Ages the intention was could not or should not leave any railways and the fathers of big solemnity, and simulated attention now bowler. ia another footballer
he assista Eolkestone. to suppress women, and in 1817 amore than the portion fixed by families allowed to travel free. law was passed decreeing "that Parliament to their family, it' women should not meet together to must be pointed out that the bill bablo, and talk, and that all men leaves a man free to do what he should keep their wives in their wishes with the rest of his pro- houses. Evidently the men were perty, and he may leave it to his not very successful in their efforts wife and children or to friends, to keep their womenfolk at home, and attach whatsoever legal con for in 1848 another enactment pro-
The Daily Press.
Hosa KONG, JULY 23, 1931.
to business.
Local Notes and Events
ditions he likes with regard to it The forthcoming wedding is an
to
Pleading guilty to the theft of a The mister of the steam launch claimed that "the commander-in- For instance, we are all accustomed Lionel Alfred coat and a pair of cuff links valued Kwang Yat, pleading guilty at the
Hurlow, of the Chinesa Maritime at 822, a Chinese boy was sentenced Marine Court yesterday to chief and the guard that do guardļed the clause whereby the Customs, Lintin Station, to" Miss at the Kowloon Magistracy yester the House of Commons from time widow forfaits a part of her legacy Eulalia Wong, of Macno.
day to three months' hard labour charge of unlawful use of the steam and ordered to receive 12 strokes whistle, was fined $10, Sergeant to time do keep the clamorous) on remarriage, and this will still
of the birch, The man was caught Stewart explained that the whistlo was sounded to attract the atten- women from coming up the stairs be possible provided that her share leading to the House of Commons does not fall below the legal
tion of cargo boats alongside sti which might want to be towed to door, and, from coming into and minimum.
shore. clamouring in Westminster Hall on the Speaker and members of the House."
SOMETHING WRONG
SOMEWHERE?
Two hundred years later the at- titude of the House had changed and the prevailing desire was to protect wonen. Therefore we have the doctrine of the restraint upon Crewe, where the locomotive, men anticip tion whereby property may of the London
Houe papers arriving by the last mail teil of a little contretemps at
be left to a married woman on trust Scottish Railway "cut up rough"
A Chinese coolie was killed when by Mrs. Seramblin at her residence, fell from a height of 30 feet 504, Nathan Road, at 7 a.m. the where he was ailing some shafting; previous, day.... at the Royal Naval Yard. His body was removed to the Public Mor tuary.
A foki in the employ of the M. Y. San Company has been reported to the police as having absconded with posed to have collected from the Yu a sum of $370:84 which he is sup Wo Yuen shop.
Two fire" engines were despatched
Midland and to the Royal Naval Hospital yester day forendon on receipt of a call. A quantity of tar which was being boiled in the grounds of the hos ly put out with sand.
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One Chinese case of typhoid and one non-Chinese ease of diphtheria were reported on Monday, and one non-Chinese caso, of scarlet fever
on Tuesday. During the week end-Looking Back 25 Years. ed. Saturday, there were six coses
Things are not working quite
diphtheria, one fatal of enteric fever, one fetal case of smoothly set amongst the managers CABO of and supporters of the Canton-
cerebro-spinal fover and 60 deaths Hankow Railway scheme, and but from pulmonary tuberculosis,
for the firmness of the Viceroy the whole business would soon fall At the Marine Court yesterday, through once more; Trom the tone Commander G. F. Hole remarked of recent meetings it is evident the that the offence of lying inshore was board of directors are anxious to becoming a common one. Two of the get the work started so as to instil neensed, who were first offenders, confidence in the hearts of the
so that the cannot anticipate her over the prospect of wearing income or touch her capital during dumped foreign overalls. In the marriage. This doctrino was devi-end everything was settled amepital caught fire, but this was quick were fined $5 each, and two others, numerous small subscribers who aro
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eed to prevent a woman being per cably for it appears that the goods
who had previous convictions, were growing weary of the delay and fined $20 each. A warning was who have lately expressed pretty Bunded by her husband to give him
were not of foreign manufacture
An 18-year-old servant girl was issued that from Monday next the truly their opinion of the matter. her property, leaving her penniless at all, although they arrived, by injured when she attempted to fine for such offences would be in- It is reported that the board con- should he desert her after spending some mischance, in crates bearing while it was in motion at the junc penalty of 35 was not suffuient to Japanese an engineer in chief, and alight from a Hong Kong Hotel bus creased to 810 as apparently a templates the employment of a the money aho gave him.
the name of a German steamship tion of Des Voeux Road and Ice put a stop to the irregular prac at a banquet given on July 19 to a To-day we seek complete freedom
men refused to Blouse Street, She was removed to tico.
Javanesh engineer by the railway. company. The and quality, and there are two accept the clothes for the reason the Government Civil Hospital Chinese, who stated that he ments are said to have been made.
authorities the bills before the House which will that in their opinion one of the
had been working at Taikoo Docks Owing to the numerous contradic vitally affect the legal rights of causes of unemployment among our girl was found in a scavenging lane by Inspector Stimson as a casual various papers the Chinese have The body of a newly-born Chinese for ten years, but was described tory reports appearing in tho women. The first, the Nationality colleagues in the wholesale dump at the rear of Yu. Wah Street and labourer, was sentenced to grown very reticent of late and it of Married Women Bill, will give ing of foreign goods. Rather removed to the Public Mortuary month's hard labour by Mr. Scho- is very difficult to obtain reliable English women who terry foreign than be privy to
Its mother, residing at 17, Morrison field at the Central Magistracy information. Hong Kong ere the right to choose whether they traffe they were prepared to buy Hill, was arrested for dumping and yesterday for the theft of a quantity Prest, July 24, 1906. --- will retain their Englishi nationali- their own working shita. Fortunt has been taken to the hospital. of brass from the Dockyard. The
thia nefarious
ever favours: tho brava) - Without
A.
Daily
ty or take that of their husband losing anything by it, these Crewe
police officer stated that the defend-Looking Back 50 Years Summoned by the Sanitary De-ant was arrested by a watchman Rumours have reached Amey of The prudent woman will keep her railwaymen have had the satisfac partment for failing to affix labels 4 bo was carrying the brass in
an insurrection on a considerable. English nationality because, at tion of making a notable gesture, on tins of milk to the effect that parcel under his arm. A search soale in the province of Chekiang. which will be lost on nobody but the milk was skimmed and unft brought to light another piece of The inhabitants of that provinco though by English law the wife the most bigoted of Free Traders. for children under the age of one the metal tied to the man's leg. are notorious for their independent
character, and they are usually pro takes the nationality of her hus. We wonder what the Socialist doc-year, Leo Lai Kiu, of 11, Cochrane
Poor people can not afford to pared to back, their resistance to trinaires had to any about this Street, was fined $20 at the Central band, other countries, insist on humiliating stab in the back. It is Magistracy yesterday.
got sick, remarked Mr. Bebofield oppression by forcible means if tain conditions and formalities all very well for "bloated British
fat the Central Magistracy yes-mbro legitimate agitation fails of being: complied with before the industrialists" to clamour for the
terday in imposing a fine of $20 on the desired "effect. Two or three An unmarried woman named Feach of two licensees of cating years ago, an official tried to levy bride is recognised as sharing the interdiction of sweated foreign nationality of her husband. Thus foods, but that the British work Wong, Siu Lam living at the Lokhouses in Stanley. It was stated a new import in a district, near ing-man should repudiate his obli- Hoi Tung boarding house, was re-that the houses were patronised by Ningpo, when the people audekly there might be a period when the gations to the world proletariato is scued by a seaman of the ferry the poor class, and that the tables broke out into a riot, and the at- woman who relinquished her monstrous. As the inestimable ad launch Meridian Star when she and utensils were in a filthy contempt, we believe, to levy the new vantages of the unrestricted in jumped overboard in an attempt to 'dition. The licensees were sum tax was abandoned.." The rising re- English status had so nationality.
port of foreign produce have been end her life.... Another woman moned gör failing to comply with ported by our Amoy contemporary at all. The following illustration proved over and over again to the named Ng Mei. Lang, living at: 151, 3 m Sanitary Department/order to is probably due to some such cause, shows how inconvenient that can satisfaction of highbrows there Johnston Road, who also contem. clean the premises. In addition to though, if the accounts given be be. An English girl married must surely be something gravely plated suicide, was admitted to the fine, the defendants were order-reliable, it has nasumed much more the matter with Socialist prapa hospital, suffering from the effects ed to clean their premises thorough serious proportions Hong Kong Greek and by the law of England "gando among the masses.
of opium poisoning."
ly within seven days.
Daily Press, July 26, 1851,
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