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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED,
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 40 Conts Per Share has been declared payable on TUESDAY, 25 AUGUST NIг, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon application at the Registered Oloe 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, 1171⁄2 AUGUST, to MONDAY, 24TH AUGUST, 1981, Both Days inclusiye.
By Order of the Board, W. F. SIMMONS, Becretary.
Hong Kong, 1st August, 1981. [1015.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
THE Undormentioned Certificates for 150 Old Shares in this Com- pany registered in the Name of "the
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Late ISAAC SAVUEL PERRY hare DESTROYED d been LOST should these Certificates not be produced to the Company before the 20 AUGUST, 1931, New Certificates for and Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates Nos. 6748 dated 2nd. June, 1911, and 6765 dated 27th July, 1911, will be thereafter treated by this Company as NULL and VOID.
Certificate No 6748 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos. 35501/39650.
Certificate No. 6766 dated 27th July, 1911, for 100 Shares Nos. 36901/36956. and 129845/199804.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON, General Managerá..
Hong Kong, 20th July, 1931.
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BRITAIN'S BIRTH RATE.
The population of England and Wales is close upon forty millions and the increase for the last ten years is a little over two millions. There are on an average 685 persons to the square mile, which is the highest in the world for a similar area, except, perhaps, for parts of
caso of mental effort, "slightly less efficient work with noise, whether continuous or discontinuous, but
mere children to survive. In fact in the middle classes out of the normal family at eight to 'twelve, probably seventy-five per cent, the difference was hardly statis reached maturity. In those daystically significent." Much would
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the average professional or business seem to depend on the sense "in gir John Reith's Return.
19 statistically was doing well and the big which
is used.
Sir John Reith, Director General and belligerent shopkeepers, cau family, besides being a national Statistice, it is often said, will } asset, imposed no undue strain upon prova anything; if they cannot of the B.B.C, would make an ex-anly constitute a real menas to the future pence of the world. To make cellent Ambassador. He has a pro- "the head of the house." Educa prove that a loud-speaker, a gramosence. Dominating hu is, and yet matters worse, young Petor-as tion was cheap, and the rough and phone, or a barrel organ will replant; courteous, ut moments even result of the influence of the des tumble of the well-filled nursery duco to anger and impotence many condescending, and yet one is awazeed and abetted by a pretty shop criptions of the l'ageant, and aids bended to develop characteristics a man who is trying to write any of some hidden strength. And with
and initiative thing from a sonnet to a sermonit all. this iron will mates with aeroplane and anti-aircraft gun.
assistant-set his heart on among young people, the excessive their testimony must be far less ac faculty for compromise which is tho parental control from which child complished than is commonly sup- very essence of diplomacy. He has In vain I suggested that a nice pair ren of to-day suffer badly being nosed. Or is it that the average returned from his mission to the of stuffed doves would be a far more. obvinted by fores of numbers. writer is an impatient weakling United States. He has resisted the amusing and beneficial gift. But,
compared with these valiant inves-
believe it or not, the assistant -as- In the working classes, however, tigators of the Industrial Health blandishments of the princes of
sured me that she had no stuffed where wages were low, housing bad Research Board! Instead of wail-Western Commerce. Unscathed, un and beer-drinking excessive, the biging aloud for the offending instru- tempted, be returned to his beloved ment to be suppressed, ought he to family was the cause of misery and ask for. it to continue until, in the Savoy Hill. degradation. Things were bad incourse of time and by application the rural areas, in the great towns, as the novel (now nearly forgotten) of RICHARD WRITING and ARTHUR Monnison, showed us, life was brutish and miserable, especially for the women. Every sensible person agreed that smaller families among the working classes would mean a far better standard of living, less crime and drunken ness and a lower death rate. This was soon grasped by superior ser
vants and as ARNOLD BENNETT.Once put it, “When a válet marries a lady's maid the effect upon the population is nil." Unfortunately, the big fall in population has been in the able (formerly) paritannical, and self-respecting middle classes, Once there were jokes about the size of clerical families though many of Britain's most useful Bona and daughters were born und brought up in manse or vicarage. Now ministers of religion have smaller families than any other class of mea.
Dean Ixae bitterly laments that the birth rate in highest in the slums and lowest in the suburbs, and blames & grandmotherly gov- ernment that gives free boots, schooling and doctoring to these young, defectives; It is notorious that feeble-minded women are apt to have large families of illegiti mate children, but anch cases, though numerically large, do not really effect the population. Britain's numbers are kept up by the sturdy mechanic and small shop-keeping class, where families of four or five are still common, and, by the fact that the hard pressed middle classes
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doves as there was no sale for thein. So Peter got his desire od has now gone quito militarist. I must warn the League.”.
The Lost Ornament.
One of the most interesting ex-.
the hibits at
Exhibition of Canaanite and Hyksos Antiquities at University College, London, was
of will power, the once embarras Lites 'Little Irony.' sing strains pour away from the When Mr. McGovern the Gins untroubled Ego like water off a duck's back? The prospect is magni-gow "wildman" was finally ejected from the Home of Commons," after ficent-but most unlike authorship.
a childish and unscamly soufle with the attendants he was some what the worso for wear. His socks were damaged, his tie ruined and his garments were minus", several buttons. His first visit was to the beautiful little gold ornament, Strand to have buttons sown on lost by some lady of fashion in the and to buy a new tie. Then he muddy street of the City of the went to St. James's, Park, where he sat for an hour roading. The Shepherd Kings 1,000 years ago. It remainder of the evening he spent is a model of a falcon-with spread- at the 1017 Club. This is a resorting wing-in granulated gold, of of Socialist intellectuals, and had fine workmanship; and after forty its origin as" a pacifist 'organisat tion during the war, Mr. Mac- centuries the grief of the lady who Donald, was one of the founders, lost her trinket in the romantic and he is the star turn year after city of Tell-el-Ajjul will be com- year at its annul dinner. For Mr j McGovern to go to the Prime Fensated by the pleasure and inter- Minister's pacifist club after a fight cst its exhibition afforded to hun.. over his suspension moved by Mr.reds of visitors to prosaic Gower- MacDonald was the casence of 1 iTony.
street.
The famous Livery Companies of London" are known the world over for the excellence of their dinners, At a recent banquet of the Glaziers Company there was pea soup and grilled trout and stewed cels. Then came sweet-breads, and after that lamb and duckling and peas and the Company's traditional dish of gaminon of neon and broad beans, For those who could carry on there were sweets, such as gooseberry tart, Madeira jellies, and straw- berries and cream.
Local Notes and Events
The crew of E junk which A street thief snatched a coat
Judge Sir Peter Grain will leave. foundered on Saturday made a from the arm of Takaji, a Japanese Shanghai for Hong Kong by the distressing discovery when they steward on the Terukuni Maru, as RM.S.Empress of Canada on landed on the beach at Tsun Lu he was walking along Peking Road August 5 to sit as a member of the Kok. They found the bodies of at 12.40 am. yesterday, and stole Full, Court, four children that had been washed a wrist watch and money to the!
on to the beach, and were later value of $52, identified as being brothers and sisters.
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The Colony had a clean bill .of.. health for Tuesday. For the week Sze Ching Teh and Li Wen Ching, ended. Saturday, there were two At its meeting on July 2, the who were sentenced to death by cases of diphtheria, five cases of Shanghai Municipal Council adopt Judge Feng in the Shanghai Special enteric fever and 70 deaths from ed the proposal of the chairman District Court recently for being. pulmonary tuberculosis. (Brig-Gen. E. B. Macnaghten) that concerned in the attempted kidnap- a reception be arranged about the ping of the late Mr. Zih Loh Sung, middle of August for the purpose former compradore of the Hoog of presenting the Rev. Pere Froc, Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- retiring director of the Siccawei coration, on December 6, 1920, were Observatory, with a memento of his brought before the Court to express long association with the Council.their last wishes, after which they.. were escorted to the Tsaohoching
Mr. D. 5. Edward has joined the Prison for execution. It may, be number of golfera recalled that Mr. Zih was fatally
From the files.
DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE China where the census returns are realising quite well the unsatisfac- rapidly growing nur the hole in one wounded when he resisted the at-Looking Back 25 Years.
CHINA," JAPAN, COREA, INDO. CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STÄTES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc.
This Large Volume of approximate- ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition
:
to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical Lists of Residenta
in the Far East containing the Names of nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initials as wall as Surnames in strict alphabe tical order.
CLASSIFIED LIST
MERCHANTS,
AND
MANUFACTURERS
not very reliable.
At a glance one would have thought that this would satisfy the most ardent adherent of the an- cient command to "be fruitful and multiply, particularly when the unemployment ɓgures for England are remembered, and the fact that therò is colossal surplus of
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1,670,000 women Over men.
But
tory nature of the childless mar- feat, having done this on Monday tempts of the gang to carry him off. The members, of the Hong Kong ringe, and the handicap imposed on at Deep Water Bay, Mesers, Cald
Volunteer Troop had an enjoyable the only child, generally have two or local agents of the well-known and at the Kowloon Police Court yes features: The rehearsal was at beck, Macgregor & Co., Ltd., the Three Chinese pleaded "Guilty rehearsal on. Sunday of a Gymkhana they are getting up, with novel three children, whatever sacrifice popular Johnnie Walker Whisky, terday, when charged with being may be involved. It is easy to call have duly presented him with an unlawful possession of three jars Deep Water Bay. The event is ex-
commemorating bottle.
of Chinese wine and 25 packets of fortnight, but whether on this or pected to take place in about a to mind couples who do not "đo
Chinese tobacco. Revenus Officer their duty to the state," but, like
Humphreys said he hailed defend the other side of the island is not divorced couples, they ard a
ants' simpan in Capsuimun Pass et settled. Many civilians would minority. Britain's problem is not
and saw one of the men dump some gladly watch the proceedings, it the birth rate, but the transplant-
jars of wine overboard. These were permitted. From all accounts they not recovered. The two defendants, are calculated to improve the ser- ing of her surplus millions to her
who were alleged to be fuis of the vice officiency of the Troop to a remarkable extent. We hear that Australia, New Zealand and South
people other nationalities will fill the vacuum.
A young Chinese was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday with placing the Shaukiwan Road. It was in dicated that quite a number of ob jects were daily placed, on the tram The defendant was remanded for
milk can on the tram.tracks on
though the first impression is that in the matter of reproducing the grant heritage overseas. If Canada, lines by mischievous Chinese youths, boat, were fined 850 ench, or, two His Lordship the Bishop is protest-
species the British Race is carrying on with more zeal than discrimina- Africa are not filled with British 24 hours to enable further inquiries heat, was fined $300 and $300 on viously his ópinion ia a conscien- .
IN DEFENCE OF NOISE.
to be made.
II.
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weeks' imprisonment. The other defendant, who was master of theing at the breach of Sabbath ob servance in this connection, Ob his respective offences, or, in de- tious one, if rather out of date; but Fatal results terminated a fight fault, two months' imprisonment.
such matters should be left to the between two Chinese in Nathan
discretion of the gentlemen interest- Rond, near Nanking Street, at 1.30 What was alleged by the police ed. Supposing sufcient influence p.m. on Tuesday, One of them to be a case of spiteful theft was can" bo brought to bear to prevent suddenly collapsed and was found told to Mr. Williams at the Magis- these Sunday affairs, not much good to be dead when picked up. In his tracy yesterday when a Chinese can resalt-Hong Kong Daily pocket was found a letter addressed charged with the larceny and Prese, August 5, 1900.- to Wing Fat a sub-contractor to damaging of a risksha. Det. Sergt. the Seen Shing contracting firm at Fitches told the Magistrate that the Shaukiwan. The other man is now in police custody.
ricksha, which was owned by a Looking Back 50 Years farmer, was tied to a post in Pot-1 We have just learned, says the tinger Street during the typhoon,
tion, our statisticians see the matter in very, different light. They have discovered that our birth rate is falling, and if the present state" of things continue we shall reach our maximum population in 1950, and then the population will begin to decrease! But there is no need SCHOPENHAUER once said that his for despair. Nothing is likely to idea of hell was a place of noise, go on unchanged till 1030, and particularly of hammering and the while the birth-rate may possibly cracking of whips. But a report The Chinese steamer Foo Kong, but was missed in the afternoon Punchow Herald, that Peng, the decrease faster oven than the pessir issued by the British Industrial which used to be on the regular and later found in the harbour at Min Magistrate, has been requested run between Shanghai and Tientsin Shaukiwan. The farmer had dis by His Excellency Viceroy Ho, to mista expect, it may well recuperate Health Research Board does not and which seemed to have a run missed the defendant five daya be- resign his office at once. The cause of to an equally astonishing extent.
and much support to the view that of bad joss when entering the port fore for gambling. Defendant, who his resignation has been made known The factors governing the rise and noise impairs industrial or even collisions with other vessels in the five weeks' imprisonment on each Bachelor of Arts, or Haui Tsai, of Tientsin, through unfortunate admitted the charges, was ordered to us and is as follows: A certain full of population are both coonomie mental efficiency. In factories the Haiba, and which was more ned charge, the sentences to be run con- had incurred the displeasure of the j magistrate and the latter ordered and psychological. Malthus held investigators found that after a in the ice a short distanco from secutive.
him to be beaten on the hands. that as power of producing susten day or two they themselves were Tangku last winter, has been sold. She has been taken off the Shang-
This was done without the magis once increased so did population, na little affected by clamour as the hai-Tientsin run, and it is the in- The fame of the Hong Kong and trate referring to a higher autho-
workers-which is but when a certain high water
what one would tention of the new owners a Chi-Shanghai Bank's lions in Shanghai rity which ha is directed by Chi- mark was reached; natural checks, expect, since, if noise permanently concern to change her name, has spread to Great Britain. In nese law to do. A Haui Ta'ai can-
in the hope that she will no longer a recent copy of the Sketch, a not be punished by any magistrate. such as wars, famine, vice and reduced output, wint a very thin be a "hoodoo" ship.
photograph of the credit side one without the consent of the Literary. appears on the "Wo take our hat Chancelier of the Hsiao-toi unless List of Agencies held by plague put matters right. He was, trickle of cloth would emerge from
Cant. T. Kvadime, the master of off to " page, with the follow, he be, first stript of his rank. It however, haunted by a fear that the the average weaving thed! It is the Norwegian steamer Kronviken, ing information:The lion of seems that the aforesaid Bachelor -:Far Eastern firms.
world might become overcrowded, rather more surprising to be told appeared before the Hon. Comdr. the Hong Kong and Shanghai of Arts bad but a personal quarrel England's population was small that the playing of a gramophone Hole, at the Marine Court yes Bank, for being one of a British with the magistrate, and upon the and static until the beginning of actually accelerated the working terday, to answer, a summons of pair which have their paws mani- former being punished, he made,
having left port without having cured daily by Chinese passers-by, petition to the Literary Chancellor, the nineteenth century. The birth out of test sums in multiplication obtained a clearance. He produced The portals of the Hong Kong and who, in consultation with the rate was large, but infant and and division; if music is an incen- a receipt for light dues, and said Shanghai Bank are guarded by two Viceroy, requested the Viceroy to maternity mortality were high, as tive to mental effort many and that it covered arrival as well as British lions Time and weather, have the magistrate removed. The departure. Comdr. Hole, however, have dulled their pristine bright- Viceroy, however, seems to have in Russia and China to-day, and many & writer must have issued said it was not a clearance, to whichness, except for their claws, which, taken a lenient view of the cass most people died yang In the earses when he ought to have been the defendant replied that his agent,shing, 4B 00 per cent of the Chinese and dirested the magistrate Lo Victorian Age families continued returning thanks. However, the was responsible for that. Remark-stop for a second to touch the claw, rest, to the the bitter would not to be large but improved medicins general conclusions of the inves-ing that the master of a ship was as they believe that strong animals forfeit his future chances to hold
responsible for its clearance, Conidr. can transmit strength through ofoe.Hong Kong Daily.
August 5, 1881. and hygiene enabled more and tigators seem to have shown, in the Hole fined the defendant 810.the touch:"
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