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Offew of the Public Works Department, by Order at His EOBLLENOT THE GOYE MOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, option of renewal at a Crown with the Bent to be fixed by the Burveyor of HI MAIESTY TRx Kiss, for ano further terms of 78
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No. 2561.
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•HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 40 Cent Per Share has been
declared payable on TUESDAY, 25TH AUGUST Nxxr, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Office of the Company, CANAL ROAD EAST, BOWRINGTON, Hong Kong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 11TMπ AUGUST, to MONDAY, 24Tű AUGUST, 1981,¦ Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
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Becretary. Hong Kong, Jat August, 1981. [1015
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Tor 150 Old Blinos in this Com- pany registered in the Name of the Late ISAAC SAMUEL PERRY have been LOST or DESTROYED; and should these Corti fantes not be produced to the Company before the QUE AUGUST, 1931, Now Certificates for said Shares will be issued and the
Old Certifiontas Nos. 6744 dated 2nd. 1917, and 6705 dated 27th July, June, 1911, will be thereafter treated by this Company as NULL and VOID.
Certificate No 6740 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos. $8501/39650,
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Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin, says 2 Home paper contamplater deserting Holly. wood and setting up a film studio Dear Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera where he has been enjoying. sub-bathing. He has discovered what he thinks will be an ideal spot
Someone has been commenting on the fact that while most eminent men have a popular nickname of for a studio de luxe-tha, Chateaus fons sort or another, Mr. Snowden de Juan-les-Ping, owned by Mr. R. has nene, On the analogy of one. Hudnut, the American perfume of his predecessors at the Treking" step-father of Winifred sury, "Prosperity Robinson- called because he inherited a mar Hudnut, who married Rudolph vellous year of prosperity and a Valentino. It is said that the brimming Exchequer there is no price of the chatonu is "about difficulty in suggesting how the omission should be rectifed, "Dole £00,000. The Chicago Tribune" hús ful" is the obvious epithat... also announced that Charlie Chap. in is engaged to marry Miss Marin Muller, the actress, who is at Nice.
Mistletoe as Medicine.
A Hugby Ohange.
an esplanade, lawns and terraces, We red no reason why these ameni- ties should spoilt the appearance of the place. They enn perfectly well be made as presentable as the hotel, and the promoters of the
On the Quiet! scheme know that its success must
"Didn't the burglars wake you depend largely upon the preserVR-
No, they took things very tion as far na ponsible of the natural charm of Repulse Bay.
quietly. Once a place has become popular The Eucharist Congress, and attracts a crowd of people the
The
annual Eucharist Congress best thing, from all points of view, of the Roman Catholic Church will is to organis healthy and whole be held this year at Ehodes 1sland some amusement. Hong Kong has in the Aegean Sea, it was a reached the stage when a resort nounced from the Vatican. The upon the projected lines is needed, venue, according to the announce where people can enjoy swimming, ment, was decided upon by the Pons dancing, out-of-door meals and the tiff in order to commemorate the Medical men are impressed by pleasure derived from forming one fifteenth constanary of the "ac- the claims of Dr. Werner Kaelin, a of a crowd. A large number ofcumenical council at Ephesus.
Swiss expert on enncor, who, in residents are no longer unsophis
his lecture before the Royal 50 Mr. Vaughan, one of the most ticated, and content with the old
ciety of Arts, stated that he had obtained very good results in cases distinguished of modern headmas time matsheds and lunch pienies, Of all functions imposed on man of advanced cancer with injections ters, has taken his cficial farewell but for those who still wish to be by his own accumulated conven-
at a preparation made from mistle of Rugby. Mr. Vaughan is leav tos. The doctor also claimed that he has not still years of good work ing Rugby deliberately, not because far from the madding crowd there. tions the most ghastly is without this preparation causes a return to win him, but because he believes that are still lonely and lovely places in question the school speech day, normal of the blood in early cases, man should retire before he is Lamina and Lantao Islands and in How kind the masters ap and that by this means an early past his best. At first sight Mr.. Tolo Harbour. It may seem hard pear, how
diagnosis of cancer may be made Vaughan seems a stern and in- clean tho boys!
and possible cure accomplished. posing figure. In reality he is the to have to surrender Repulse Bay How distinguished are the boots of In early times mistletoe occupied a most human of men, with a to modern development, but the the visitors as seen between the high position in the apothecary's markable understanding of boys' people must have their amusements, tubs of hydrangea! How busy for the bites of mad dogs, and ant, he is entirely human in his treatment. It was used as a speci- problems. What is more import and the best way of keeping them and bland becomes the Warden or for affections as far removed as attitude towards boys. He is a tro contented and in one particular Headmaster! One Saturday last epilipsy and tumour. It is recommendous stickler for work, but ha area is to make a really attractive month. Mr. Malim assured Wei-mended to this day in certain cases believes that on every staff there of bleeding. It is significant that should be at least one master who rendezvous. Hong Kong has, oflington bow military they all were in the lists of conditions for which is capable of being ragged" Ha courac, sadly deteriorated in the Sir Austen Chamberlain assured mistletoe was found in days of old believes that it is good for the boys. cyen of many an old 'Far Easterner, Rugby that they should be proud to be of ne tumours were regarded His successor, Mr. P. H. B, Lyon, FRASER.-On July 26, at Hankow, but it will have its points, even of giving their name to the world' as being likely to benefit. Strictly is a young man who is still in the speaking tumour is simply the name thirties. He is an Old Rugbelan, when the new swimming pools are finest pastime; the Lord Mayor a riven by scientists to a swelling; a and has been guilty of writing alive with noisy bathers, and the Bured Christ's Hospital how much malignant tumour usually desigpoetry. Among his subordinates he a classical nates cancer." Hitherto mistletor will find his old housemaster, his raucous echoes of a jazz band, float he himself owed to
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Local Notes and Events *
Mesars. Croucher de Co., the well- The rainfall in the Colony last known local stock-brokers, have re-month amounted to 11.94 inches, moved to new offices in the National City Bank Building.
THERE has been a good deal of speculation in England as to whe ther or not Mr. GANDHI will attend the next session of the Round-table Conference, which is due to open early in September. There has also
The General Electric Co., of been a good deal of speculation China, Lid, advertise that they as to what will happen to him, what have removed their offices to the
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The late Madame K. T. Soong desired that, in the event of her death, no floral or other tributes According to a report made to be tendered but that any such ex- the police," a blind girl, who en- pressions take the form of con gaged a coolie to carry a basket tributions to charitable organiza from her house in Nathan Road to tions, In accordance with her. the Mongkok Ferry, was victimized wishes, a group of Government
with the basket. It contributions in her memory to the money, clothing and sundries to the Chungshan Hospital. Any friends, value of $20.
who desire to do so, may make auch contributions through the. medium of the Central Bank of China
Daily Press. be will wear, and what, he will eat Chater Hond side of Queca's Build by the coolinho walked away oficials, and bankers are making
HONG KONG, August 6, 1931.
REPULSE BAY,
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HONG KONG ENGINEERING, & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD,
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if he does come to London. tually, the Mahatma's pronounce ments on the matter have been somewhat ambiguous. At first he seemed to imply that everything depended on reaching, a settlement
For stealing steel drill from the Green Island Cement Company's the Company was sentenced to four works at Hunghom, an employee of teen days' hard labour,
Two Chinese cases of typhoid of the Hindu-Moslem problem.fever were reported on Friday. For That problem is as far from being the three days ended on Monday, settled as, ever; Mr. Garon'a there were two Chinese cases of attempts to deal with it have not typhoid and one of diphtheria,
proved at all successful. The
Repulse Bay as we have always Mahatma is always astute; and no known it. The curving beach, the doubt he is leaving his final de sands, the matsheds and the back-cision about attending, the Round ground of gloriously wooded hilla table Conference to the last moment hold memorice that link up with for very good reasons of his own. scasido days at home in one or other He has always got to take account of the villages and little towns on
of the extremist element amongst his own followers. There can be
England's shores that have remain
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The Y.M.C.A. Hockey Club are
holding a meeting in the rooms of the institute at 9 o'clock on Thurs day evening. Interested members are; therefore invited to attend.
A series of laws governing the suppression of superstitious beliefs and practices being drawn up by the Minister of Interior, Nanking, National Government for approval and will be submitted to the
shortly.
etric fuses from a kiosk in Fuk.
Yvonne, younger daughter of Mr. The engagement is announced of
and Mrs, "Ivon Tuxford, to Mr. Tan Cunningham Meiklejon, of the The new premises in Gloucester Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, only son of Mrs. E. Building of Messrs. Brown, Ltd., G. Meiklejun, of Whinstance An- tailors, were opened yesterday crum. Scotland, and the Inte Mr.morning when a number of guests 3. H. Meiklejon.
were entertained in the slow room. The decoration and fittings are "by According to a report made to the Arts and Crafts Ltd., and thờ, police, a Chinese shroft, employed equipment is of the most up-to-date by the Lee Hing moneychanger's kino. On the ground floor is the shop, is alleged to have absconded show-room, the cutting room and
with $1,100 in Canton Central Bank the fitting room, while other depart- noten, which were entrusted to him 'ments are on the mezzanine floor. with instructions to have the money. Mr. C. N. Brown, who has been
a tailoring changed at the Yu Kee money conducting
under his own name is the Manager changers of 7, Bonham Street.
civil officials was held at the Shang- A conference of military and
bai and Woosung Gendarmerie Commissioner's Headquarters nt preservation of order along the Lunghun to discuss measures for the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai- Hangcho-Ningpo Railways. The thecassions were not made public.
busines
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years
ed unspoilt At Home we have seen question but that the personnel of place after place change its quiet-the Conference would be strengthen- ness and informality for the noisy ed by the addition, of Mr. GANDHI constructed at Lockhart Road, sud Scaffolding around a house being and cheap commercialism of the He has a full mandato to speak for denly collapsed on Monday, throw pier and the band, the public Congress, far and away the largesting a number of workmen to the garden, the motor coach and all the political movement in India, and ground, one of whom, Li Sang, & modern amenities which democracy he is the only educated Indian who, and was taken to hospital.
stonebreaker, was seriously injured demands. Fears that Repulse Bay in any real sense may be said to
A Chinese, twenty-eight years of Ke succumbed following a fight It was proposed to the Chinese is` to go the same way, are, there represent the peasantry.
A Chinese carpenter, living at with another toan yesterday in Governmont some time ago, anya fore, not unreasonable. But on the Miss MURIEL LESTER, who will be 218, Portland Street, was knocked Nathan Road, near Nanking Street, L'Echo de Chine that the Euro- other hand the fate of Bridlington, Mr. GANDHI's hostess if he comes to Nathan Road near the Oriental To- fortunate man was removed to the The Ministers were on the point down by a motor bus on Monday in at 1.30 p.m. The body of the unpean calendar should be adopted. Brighton and Blackpool does not London, has stated that if he comes bacco Factory. He was removed to Mortuary. The victim is believed of consenting when the Director overtake every town by the sea, and he should arrive in England on
the Kowloon Hospital, where it was to be a sub-contractor by the name General of Atmospherical Studies ascertained that he had a fractured of Lee Fat. His assailant is miss- persuaded them that the Chinese there is no reason to bewail the August 20 or 30. His two secro-leg.
ing. taries and his doctor are to accom march of progress in Hong Kong.
talender was much more rationa! and: superior to the European cal. From a distance, Repulse Bay, Pany him and stay with him at ten, manager of the In a report to the police, Mr."
Leung Bam, a hawker, was fined ender. The project was ther in this year 1981, still has the air Kinsley Hall Miss LESTER has China Light and Power Company, $4 at the Kowloon Magistracy benbandened. Hong Kong Daily of a native village in sonis sleepy been amused by the statements that stated that between 6.45 and 8 Ping his wares in a prohisited aren..
fore Mr. Fraser, yesterday for cry Press, August 4, 1906. she was puzzled to know how to on Sunday, some person stole six It was mentioned that the defen isle of the Pacific. But closer con- tact soon dispels the illusion. The arrange for him to hatho daily in Tsun Street. The fuses are valued dant committed the offence in the Looking Back 50 Years,
"|| heart of the European quarter and sands are crowded; one can hardly the Thames, for that really has not at 800.
many complaints had been received When the news of the collision: find a billet on the bathing rafts, concerned her. All he will need a Suffering from injuries to his by the police of this type of which occurred between H.M.S. there are young women in the latest be easily provided-one pail of hot head, stated to have been nech offence.
Tapwing and the China Merchante
Steam Navigation Company's varieties of beach pyjamas, rubber water and one of cold. Three of dentally received, Shigeru Maeda.
(30), a fireman on board the La. Ng Bun (29) a married woman of steamer Hochung on April 17 Jast swans, ice-cream vendors, tents, the cubicles on the roof that are Toyohino Maru, died on Monday. 27, Shing Wo Road, went to a came to hand some stir was causcu publio bathing cubicles, a petrol
usually occupied by Settlement On arrival of the ship here the house under construction in Village the vessels being familiar to our filling station, ranks of cara, and workers will accommodate Mr. body was conveyed to the Kowloon Road, Wong-Nei-Chung, and faston-residents; and the occurrence, wax
Mortuary. A
ing a rope round her neck, is generally regarded as another of companions. the ratsheds themselves are hud GANDHI and his
alleged to have attempted to com- the many and varied preventible. died close ne the houses of a Chinese supply of goat's milk has been pro-
According to the Chinese Press,mit suicide. However, the noose catastrophies to which the British village. Any idea of sweet ecclumised, and another friend will send the International Labour Bureau did not tighten, and she was in Navy has for some time past been BiGu
needs hasty revision, Repulse Mr. GANDHI a gift of South African has appointed two delegates to act stead removed to the Government subicct. This latter impression oranges and lemons. Many people as advisers to the Chinese Govern Civil Hospital suffering from in- was the more naturally entertained Bay is not what it was, and a little have thought that the question of ment in regard to the enforcement juries to her neck.
from the more fact that the Ho chung was ran into and sunk. The more of the inevitable growth of its the Mahatma's costume might safely of the factory laws. These two
theory that the seamanship of the The Editor of St. Andrew's Royal Navy was suffering A pro- popularity would mean discomfort be left to the discretion of London's delegates are duo here from Europe
Church Magazine in the current ces of degeneration, received in the weather, and Miss LESTER chares about September 1992. without rusticity.
this opinion. She thinks that he
number appeals to his readers to first instance, some support from The proposed development follows will find it comfortable to wear a In an alleged attempt to end her forward to him any old photo-the unfortunate result of the In the natural course of events. couple of blankets after the fashion life, Lau Kit Ming (20), stated to graphs, records, etc. of St. An collision, but, after varý exhaus
of an Indian visitor who some years be a unitress of 220 Shanghai drew's Church. It is hoped to retive inquiry into the circumstances There are to be, we understand, on
ago used to appear in the British Street, jumped into the harbour produce these in future issue of which led to the dinastor before, the the Eastern side of the bay, swim- museum reading-room in that garb, near the Yaumati Slipway on Mon- the manzine, and they should be Supreme Court for China '; and
Probably, however, the Mahatma day. She was rescued by Fung of interest both to St. Andrew's logon in Admiralty, the ming pools available all the year will do as Romo, dose and wear a Yat, A widow residing on a cargo congregation and to those who have tibility has been clearly removed round, solidly constructed bathing morning cost if he actually comes funk, who dragged her out of the a feeling for the past history of the from the Lapwing Hong Kong boxes, a dance hall, a roataurant, to London.
o Daily Press, August 4, 1861-
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