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ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT
CLUB,
TREVESSA" TROPHY.
HE 16TH BI-ANNUAL RAČE
NOTICE.
E have THIS DAY authorised.
Our Firm BER PROCURATION.
¿BRANDT & CO.
W M. H. LIERMANN to 8igti
for SHIPS' LIFEBOATS Hong Kong, 21st Sept,, 1991,
will be Sailed TO:DAY, WEDNES DAY, 284 SEPTEMBER, starting at 4 PM.
Any Ship of Company having Offices or responsible Agents in Hong Kong and which is in Port may enter any Number of Boats.
NOTICE
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MR. HENLY SEIFERT bas bren appointed Manager of Our CANTON BRANCH as from THIS DAY,BA
'
BRANDT & CO.
All Entries should be in the Hands of the Hon. Secretary, R.H.K.Y.C., by Noox TO-DAY and competing. Boats should be at the Starting Line Hong Kong, at Søpt.. 1471. by 8.80 Pt. Post Entrieg however will be received,
NOTICE
£1203
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
Course-Start from CHANNEL Rocks thence to KOWLOONROOK (P), Mark off YAONT CLUB (3), Mark Boat off OUST ROCK BEACON (P), Finish Across YACHT CLUB Line leaving Mark Boat to Fort and
THE Undermentioned Certificate continue sailing unti? Gunfire for for 50 Shares in this Company, Flaish.
A Launch will leave QUEEN's STATUR FIRE ab 3 P... for the convenience of Members and the Goneral Public.
-RJ. VERNALI.......... Hon. Secretary, R.H.X.F.C. Hong Kong, 23rd Sept., 1981. [1214
HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS, LIMITED,
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the QUEEN'S THEATRE, QUEEN'S BOAD CENTRAL. ON WEDNES DAY. 20TH SEPTEMBER, 1981, at NOON, for the; parponse following, namely:
(a) To receive and consider the Annual Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the Year onded Blat March, 1981.
(b) To sleat, rotiring. Directors and
Anditors. (a)
To notion the Declaration of a Dividend.
(d) To transnot any other Ordinary
Business of the Company
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULOBED from the 27TH to the HOT DAY of SEPTEMBER
Days inclusiva
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e 22nd day of Soph, 1931. By Order of the Board,
OHAS. S. ROSSELET, Secretary.
TENNIS.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE
ENTE
COLONY.
LADIES DOUBLES.
TANTRIES for the above Event sbould be sent to the TENNIS SECRETARY, U.S.R.C., by 'OOTO- BER 1ST.
.
Entries can be made by Lotter or on the Usual Entry Form, which can' be obtained from Club Secretarics.
All Matches will be played at the U.S.R.C.. Dates and Tinas will be notified to players direct and will be published in the Colony's newspapers,
Play, in the let Round, will com mence on or about OCTOBER 12.
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THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, LTD. "
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..
NOTICE TENTH DEDINARY
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
YEARLY MEETING of the SHARE. HOLDRES in the Company will be held at the Offices of the GENERAL MANAGERS, 9, LOWER ALBERT ROAD, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 9TH OCTOBER" at 10.45 A for the purpose of receiving Report of the Directors together with a hitatement of Accounts,
A
eating Directory Dividend and re
and Anditors. The TILANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the. 25 SEPTEMBER to the Pra OCTO- BER, 1931, Both Days inclusjro
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary, "
Hong Kong, 19th Sept., 1831.
HUMPHREYS ESTÄTE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
N NOTICE.
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HE Undermentioned Certificate fr 100 Old Shares in this Company registered in the Name of Mrs. ANDREWS has been LOST or DES TROYED; and should this Certificate sot bo produced t to the Company before the 23RD SEPTEMBER 1961. Now Certificate for the Shares will be lassed, and the Old Certifiente No. 5141
VOID
registered in the Name of KWOK BIN HING, hne been declaret LOST. It at the expiration of One Month from the Dato hereof the following Share Certificate be not produced to the Comproy, namely, Certificate for 50 Shares No. 20,191 to 20,240, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the aid shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter NO OTHER will be recognised.
A. 8. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hong Kong, 3rd Septi, 1981. [1147
NOTICE
are invited from British State-registered NURSES for the Forthcoming Vacancy of DEPUTY ASSISTANT MATRON in the MEDICAL DEPAUT- MENT of tho KAILAN MINING Applicants
APPLICATIONS
ADMINISTRATION
should be aged 30 to 85 Years and preferably have had some Experience, Training Probationers, and in all Branches of General Nursing.
Details of Emoluments may be had. on. Application to the PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER, e/o The KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, BASE HOSPITAL, TONGSHAN, HOPEI, NORTH CHINA.
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IN MEMORIAM.
false ideal of self-sufficiency bisting innovations and regarding France, for example, protects her with suspicion and dismay those corn, and, is consequenes bread in few of their fellows who have the Parin costs far more than if courago occasionally to essay some wheat were bought from Canada minor sartorial mutation,
egats;
News and Views *
Tale of the Day,
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Aupther Fish Story.
For America, where agricultural If, thus we examine the three machinery can be used to full decades since the turn of the cen- effect. On the other hand, vetoes tury, we find that women's clothes Bho was always trying out, her
Acman took a Bah-shops and her and savage tariffa Have
have cut down in that time have undergone per French on tablo.com
companions. When export of the wholesome and de hape a dozen fadiend and insrquena gallant asked her if she tooked on it the sign, "Frenl fish sold here. His first custom licious wines of France, and have til revision, while those of men sugar, she said, "Oui." What deer said Why do you say Treah.. prevented a development of the havo followed a very slow, logical you mean by wo a!" he asked fish sold hore 7:
Surely you vineguards of Bordeaux, Burgundy evolution wider and longer trou-, u and I," said the actress. wouldn't sell it if it were not and Champagne that would redbund
sers; longer and easier
fresh." Out came the word "fresh the pleasure and health of man-shorter and more gentle collars; Unscathed Ensign of B.101.
Next day a man said, "Why d kind. But France, very rightly, oft hats to compete with bowlers. Nearly a year ago the R.191 you any fish sold here' You're will not sacrifice ber earn fields These changes are slight, and of crashed in France, and her ensign not selling it anywhere else, are while battleships (pocket and magnitude not remotely compar flow, untouched by fire, over its you Out enme the word "here." super-size), submarines and aircraft able to those in women's attiresniouldering wreckage. Now that On the third day the fishmonge carriors roam the sen. The viciana and it the men of 1831 appear con ensign is to be deposited for safewas aked why he fish, sold." process can be traced in every siderably different in appearance keeping in Cardington, Church, and y you're not direction. Great Britain and from those of 1000, it is not because a tablet, presented by the staff of away Out came "sold." Final" America could probably supply the their garb has been greatly altered, the Royal Airship Works, will be ly man came nong, saying, "Do world with luxury and cheaper but preponderantly because it was unveiled at a service to be held you really need that word fish motor vehidles, but eduntries within the intervening period that the when the ensign is revived into the up there Good heavens, you ca out either iron mines or an engin safety razor was popularized.
churel. pering tradition are building up unwanted industries behind tariff
walls,
At a time when production calls for mighty pivers of trade, through out the world, the natural streams have been damned by, petty nation alism and strategic alarma. The staple products of the modern
In fact, when one considers how rigorously men stick to their steamy conts, and sometimes even. vesta also, in the warmest weather, the question is apposite whether men or women are the more servile Axity of their modes, women to, the "slaves, of fashion "-men to the
transiency of theirs.
Australian Apples.
world, from wheat to rubber, are ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERS. tory of the apple was carefully
the despair of their producers, when, all the "time, humanity is rendy to take up limitless quan tities. But every nation wants to producs a little of everything, when commonsense cries aloud for division B.I.Pof labour,
In loving memory of FRANK SUMMERS who was killed in action at Ypres, Flanders, on September 23, 1917.
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Based on this principle of self-sufficiency," there has been an artificial concentration of gold, the fubricant of trade, in a few centres to the detriment of the free play of trade. Great Britain has not, we believe, helped the world situp tion either by adherence to Free Trade or by the reversion to gold standard, which has now been sus pended. Foreign nations have been encouraged to dump their goods on us, and, instead of accepting ours in exchange, have milked us of gold and foreign epcurities. As long as this game could be played taxis and gold grapping were encouraged ECONOMIC SANITY NEEDED. Now the latter has been stopped, as far as Britain is concerned, and The world is receiving a rough and a few tariffe may convince the world
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 23,1031.
A FRUSTRATED RAID.
Licences for Allen Boxers,
Professional boxors from foreign
smell it a mile away. It is sug gested that this is really the way sub-editors work,
Humour in Business.
In-1029 230,000 of Australian apples went bad while being trans- ported to England. The cat of Mr. Holbrook Jackson, leeming This was discovered to be the wea en humuar and philosophy in ther. The arop was shipped in a business, contended that English time of unusual calm, and so suff people were particularly proud of cient ventilation had not been pro their sense of humour." "II. you vided on the ships. The apples were told an Englishman that be was discovered to have been literally not a philsopher, he would agree suffocated, and so the natural his with you. If you told him thas he was not a gens man he would studied. An entirely new method probably smile, but if you told of fruit storage was evolved. By him that he had not a sense of using carbon dioxide, apples dur, humcur he would become as enrag ing shipment are now transferred ed as a prima donna who could At Central Magistracy yester day, Cheung Teung. Yip Po and
to a sort of H. G. Wells' world, not get all the limelight. “I am which all life is slowed down. Kent inclined to think that the loss of another not in custody, were
farmers are taking to those methods. sense of humour is one of the charged before Mr. W. Schofield, by this means, inst year added punishments of success, and after with assaulting Ko Ho. married
£30,000 to their takings.
listening to speeches by successfub weman, at 12, Catchick Street, on
mon I am sure that this is true, "1 September 13, with intent to rot
have noticed, too, that those,, who- her. The first defendant was re-
aro loudest in their praise of a. presented by Mr. Horace Lo, who
sense of humour are often those returned a plea of not guilty, countries in future will not be able who lack it". while Detective-Sergeant Mendows to fight in Great Britain without ccnducted the case for the. Police any restrictions. A resolution pass- More Ambiguous Testimonials.
Outlining the chao, Sergeanied by the administrative_stewards puan mand v Meadows said that the house whereof the British Boxing Board of, When an Indian servant recci- the alleged robbery was supposed Control makes it necessary that ven achit or testimonial it is to have taken place consisted of #all klien boxera, before appearing taken to the translater in the three "cubicles and a front room.
in Great Britain, must first take bazaar to learn the "character: his. It was occupied by the complai out licences of the B.B.B.C., the employer has given him. If it is anther husband, and another licences to be exactly similar to unfavourable, of course, it is never married couple, but unfortunately those issued to boxers in "Great ["shown: „when fresh employment is the Inst two had since disappear Britain." The Board of Control "sought. But one "chit" is known ed and could not be callot.
state that the fact that all British to have beaten the translator. The. About 2p.m. on September 13, boxers when appearing in foreign testimoniil praised the servant's complainant was asleep in her rings are charged feck for licences intelligence, industry, willingness,- cubicle when she was awakened determine the Stewards in this and other good qualities, but the by schody calling for her hus-tion, and ask for the assistance of last sentence the export could nat band. She got up and saw a man licente promoters and boxers agents understand, and, since the rest of Bittingen had opposite bers in this matter.
the chit was so laudatory be while two other men were outside.
assumed that the word which ha The former had a short conversan
eguld not understand also signifed * praiseworthy accomplishment.. tion with her regarding her hus band after which he produced a
The last sentence ran; and at dagger and threatened her. At the
petty larceny he is unrivalled.'
Experience Will Decide...
PERFUMES drastic "lesson in the fundamental that when all parties play that same tiro; the men who were out-of Theatres. His conversion took
Remembrance is born of a multitude of little" things a lift of the shoulder, a lilting laugh, snatch of song-a breath of perfume.
а
The woman of to-day chooses her perfume with. this truth in mind. Like a master in the art of mosaic, she enhances the delicate pattern of her personality with a fragrance that gently points the way to remembrance.
WE HAVE THE LATEST.
AND BEST URBATIONS BY”.
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Company NULL & A. S. WATSON
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& CO., LTD.
Tan Hongkong DISPEKBABY,
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JOHN D. HUMPHRETS & SON,
General Managers, 520
Sir Gerald du Maurier has at last been converted to Sunday Opening particular game it is time to call side came in and the frightened place through practical observation Agalo.
halt. It would be physically The men teok fright and bolted in are; a fact, one might have thoughts which is worth recalling. This winan, began to shout "anve life of how crowded Sunday cinemas Then there is the famous one, possible for Great Britain to pre-different directiona hut after lead
that a manager of his position is the testimonial given to the
"Ahmed Moham duce a very large portion of her ing. a police constable on a longaight have known before. Bir
Egyptian cook, chase, the first defendant was 87 Gerald wishes to soo "The Smiling food, and a system of tariffs, with rested in Hill Street. When chargLieutenant on a Sunday. He, med was, in my service as cook for preferential treatment for our owned he said he never intended to therefore had a Carlton Theatre one month. It seemed much long- er. He left for reasons of heati Dominions, might, sharpen the wits end be was going to collect some through to his Club, and a bay was mends itacit to one's sense of hu commit any robbery. His friend rung up, without result: He got mine. But the one which com- and stir the world-sense of Middle money and asked him to go along sent to wait till the box-office open-mour most is the judgment of a ed. Sir Gerald turned un in time Professor at a Welsh University. West farmers and Chicago pork with him.
Continuing, the officer said this to take the boy's place in the queue, on a literary composition sent in ackers, France has already provid-second man was arrested in Yau- but when he arrived at the box-office for an Eisteddfod. One effort from ed ĉomic relief in this hour of mati on September 17, upon in be found that there were no scata local celebrity was particularly tragic crisis by expressing solemn formation. received, and when left, not even for so distinguished, bad, and it was difficult to know charged, he admitted the crime an actor-manager. So he made a bow, to criticise it without hurt- disapproval of British tariffs, and and added that he had nothing to pilgrimage. He went to five cine. Ing he author's feelings. The we believe that the only way to say.
mas, and at each he discovered the Professor, with the quintessence of After the complainant bad given samo story. And now Bir Gerald tact, wrote across it in bold red- corroborative evidence, hearing is at last in favour of Sunday ink, "Good is not the word for
Theatres. was adjourned.
end this economic. mädness of tho nations is for Great Britain to re- move, by herself, falling into line, one of the few sources from which
profit is derived.
*Local Notes and Events
laws of economics. The principles involved are not vastly complex, but their comprehension involves some degree of broad and unselfish thinking in place of the cowardice, fear and stupidity that cloud the minds of modern democracies and their political leaders. As long ago as the eighteenth century, the nations of Europe saw that internal custom barriers were bad for trade. In the nineteenth century educated opinion in Great Britaán réalised
that calightened self-interest was served by investing heavily abrand, hy concentrating at home upon industries most suited to our climate and resources, and by en couraging a big stream of imports.. Had other nations followed this The new mode in women's clothing,
Mackey's Melody Makers," the lend ench would have found its characterized by daive historicent deservedly popular local danco or place in the sun; consumption inaccuracies that with equanimity Crawford's tea dances on Wednes- shestra, aro to play at the Lane, would have kept pace with produc tion; the standard of living would Eugénie," " 1880 " and "First day and Sunday, have risen the world over, and the Empire"-all three, when in fact The tenth annual general meeting. national rivalries that resulted in
it is not even any one of these of the Hong Kong Amusements, the Great War, and all that has of o sudden has thrust itself into Lid, will be held at the Queen's followed, would have bem averted the scene, And women, apathetic Theatre on Wednesday, September There is, in fact, truth in Cobden's to the historical truth of their 30, at noon. saying that Free Trade is the attire, but mightily concerned with The Commissioner of Chincio Law of God." While-Britain pur its looks, are in "a great to-do ac Customs advertises that the offices sued her Free Trade policy," other:
quiring hats that aspito with widely and stations for Kowloon and Die nations built up Industries behind
trict will be closed to public busi tariff walls and a period of inten-varying success to achieve a saucy ness to-morrow, which is a customs
downward tilt over the right eye, holiday..., sive competition, was started. Eng
THE NEW FASHION.
describe, & given hot de Empree
from the files.
Locking Back 50 Years.
It is with much satisfaction note, by the last few files of Aue tralian papers received, a resolu- tion on the part of the authorities there to punish severely the assaults The annual general mecting of the on Chinese by ill-disposed persons, Civil Service Cricket Club was held | Just as in California the Chinese at the hated herday, have been the butts and victims of evening. Hon, W. Chatham. presided over a well attended meet the detestable hoodlum class, so i
opening remprks the the Australian colonies the Celestial
Looking Back 25 Years.
in
ing. In his operated the Club Inve been persecuted by the larri-
on its financial position:considering | king there. Happily there can bo the increased rate of the dollar, no comparison in this treatment re- and on its membership list which ceived by the Chinese in the two showed an increase of seventeen for countries, for whereas they have the year. The following officers been foully massacred in cold blood were elected for the ensuing year: several times and frequently serious- land, moreover, sacrificed her agri It is all very thrilling indeed report made at the Yaumati Captain: Mr. H. T. Jackman, ly wounded in California, in Aus- culture to Free Trade, and the for women. Men, for a consider Police Station yesterday is to the Secretary Mr. E. W. Dawson,tralin, they are subjected more to fact that wealthy and domineeringable part, are engaged in their effect that Chan King Fu, the Treasurer: Mr. J. A. When, Vice- cruel practical jokes, pettings with manager of the Yaumati branoh Captain: Mr. F: Bider Captain stones, and occasional beatings. Great Britain was dependent upon traditional role of again inveighing the National and Commercial H team: Mr. H. W. Kelly, Com Still it in abominable that peaceful, ships for her food gavo an inevit futilely against this strange tide Savings Bank, has absconded with mittes: Messrs. PT. Lamble, P. II. law-abiding Chinamen cannot, in a able impetus to militarist policy on of new feminine apparel. To them 818,000 of the bank's money. Chan Adams, W. Parkinson, E. O. Sted free country, go about thoir avoca the part of rivals, to which she was it ever has been inexplicable that has been missing since Sundayman, L. Bret, M. McIver, G. tions without being exposed to the Anlageplay Play Hoggarth, and W. Goat. A hearty gibes, "insults, and blows of a set not alow to respond. This pleno otherwise generally intelligent crea A Hungarian, B. Vulscil, appear- | yoto of thanks was accorded Messre. of lawless young rufians who are menon of Great Britain's strategictures should uncomplainingly-nay, ed before Mr Williams at the E. Brett and A Carter the an unmitigated curse to their couns weakness in this respect has proven gladsomely heed the whisus Central Police Court yesterday, secretary and treasurer for last try. To idle to work themselven, after having given himself up to year for the able manner in which they hate to see others enjoying the the authorities as a destitute, The they had carried out, their respec fruits of their industry and toil, antl man stated that he had stowed away tive duties, and the meeting closed try to prevent them gaining an from Shanghai by the Sphinx with a vote of thanks to the chair, honest livelihood. For such a claen. His Worship made an order for his carried with acclammation:—Hong the lach is the best, instructor - committal to the House of Deten-houg Daily Preas, "September 23, 1 Hong Kong Daily Prces, September
*99* 123, 1881X
foundly influenced the course of and dictates of couturiers in Paris modern history. It has prevented For men do not do such things at the antique of the world from least, po hurriedly So far as cloth allowing trade to flow in natural ing is concerned, they adhers tena channels, and, in place, has set up ciously to the things that are, ro "tion."