NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GOVERNMENT STORES CONTRACTS—1952.
I hereby notified that Sealed Tenders, in triplicate, which should be clearly marked “ TENDER FOE STORES" will be received nt the Colonial Secretary's Office, until noon of Thursday the 29th day of October, 1981, for the supply and delivery of Stores required by Govern=" ment Departments during the year 1982.
For Specifications and Forms of Tender apply at the office of Superin. tendent Accounts and Btores, Public, Works Departmont, from whom further particulars may be had on application.
The Government does not bind itsall to accept the lowest or any tender and rasorves to itself the option of nasopting FOR ALL OR ÁNY PART of each Specification,
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Goops or WILLIAM SPILLER BIRDWOOD, Lats OF COLMER IN THE PARISHZ OF NOETO Buisk Aru: Loddiq. "WELL, IN TON COUNTY OP DEVON, ENGLAND, A COLONEL IN THE INDIAN ARMY on qua RevinED LIST. DECEASED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in thoir' Claims against the above Estate to the 7TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 1981,
All Creditors and Others are accord"" ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Dato AGAIN
Dated the 13th day of Oct., 1981. - JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Bolicitors for the Executors,"
Prince's Building,, Hong Kong.
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TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtus of Bestion 68 of Probate Ordinance No. 3 of 1897, made on Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to sand in their
· Claims against the shows Estate to the
7TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 1931.
All Creditors and Others are accord ingly hereby required to, sand in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Datang
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Automatic
Zain Control,"
ists, ho nakel, has not been cun- With the fitting of the last six by a gadget which has gadgeted, in fused and speedily put to shame units on the Weston-super-Mare most unseemly manner at the loop line shortly the £250,000 most inopportune time? The schame of the Great Western Rail-about restlessly like cattle stung by English word Gad means to rove Way Company to bring the whole the gadfly, and the way that some Lan, Wolverhampton, Swansea and among the multifarious gadgets of the main lines between Padding-organista rove about restlessly Plymouth under the company's which peppor the console, makes ons" aystem of automatio train control wish that they too had been stung will be completed. The system by that mischievous, gadfly.. A. of the state of the signals, and in to tonal gadding about, besides bo- gives audible warning to the driver multiplicity of gadgets tempts ope the ovent of a distant signal. being ing un insufferable tax on the passed at danger will ensure that memory. For church organa, ab It is sarealy necessary to point to train in stopped, cat signal devices should be eschewed, and
the combinations
the treatment of 2,130 miles of track sible." Its full instaliation has involved everything made as simple as pos and of 2,500 engines. It is claimed that the wide installation of the Twin Tarties. system will bring an oven greater has proved of special value during degroo of safety to train travel. It fog or conditions of poor visibility
King George's sacrifice of £50,000 now brings
brings hie Civil List below that of the Emperor of Japan.
such the murder of Captain NAKAMURA, wilful damago to the. Bouth Manchurian Railway, a con- tinual resort to the boyoutt weapon, which is against Treaty assurances, and by an avowed polley of Under- mining Japanero rights in Man churia. The present activities are, Tale of the Day. according to Tokyo, no more than An actor had been visiting the a. reminder that treaty rights have agent's office for nearly five years: got to be respected!!!
Listen," he said. Can you book Deapito CHIANG
CHIANG KA BAEK's demo or not?" The agent shook his claration to the contrary China has, head. "Well, then," said the The unfortunately, mot military forco plan in disgust, give me back my by other forms of force, by boycott name and address!” and mob demonstrations, by threata of war and intensive
propaganda Moreover, ORANG KAT SHEK HA summarily invoked the assistance of the League thus, assuming that the Icarus.com be used as von useful ally. But the League is not in a position to say that China is unreservedly in the right,
he right, and will certainly not pass judgment before trial. There must be investigation before the League car issue its authoritative pronouncement on the Manchutin problem, but CRIANG KAI SHEK in the meanwhile is uttering threats of war and in so doing in repudiating the very authority which he seeks to enlist on his side. His action has made it yet more difficult to break the (1.2 D. 3
vicious circle under which in cer- tain areas the Japanese refuse to relax"precautions" and the Chi- nese refuse to assume responsibility for protecting Japanese lives, and property.
the same to the kid. Sho dosen't know the Impore danger of
sweets.
Batayisd mother keeps Chocolates handy Rowntree's of course." "There's no better kiddie's awaet than our
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To ask for a cessation of hos tilities-including the activities of the boycott societies and of the student mobs against Japanese
higher standard of living (and out that, quite apart from the consequently of salaries and all other expenses) enjoyed in this country, the King's unavoidable more than that of any other Euro
nouncements of the month is the oxpenditure is very considerably
Among the really significant an- Dean Roya House Novertheless,
news that twin turtles have been his income is much smaller than
hatched from a single egg on a that paid to some other monarchs in the days when costs were less."By Gadgets,"
Florida farm. The mother turtle The late Tsar of Russia was the Dr. Reginald Dixon, of Manches In an interview the father turtle
is 200 years old and the father, 900,
ciso income was never made known, ference of the Incorporated Associa. strongest criticism of youthful mar millionaire among rulers. His preter Cathedral, addressing the Con- is understood to have expressed the but it was reputed to be in the tion of Organists, at Huddersfield, riages, and have stated that ho neighbourhood of £4,000,000. The said that "many organists to-day promised William the Conqueror ally, and is still, of course, a very gadgets to left of them, gadgets in tle-to take his time about it and ex-Kaiser received £770,000 annu- have gadgets to right of them, when he was quite a stripling tar- rich man, while the King of Italy's front of them, and, by gad, through not rush into basty wedlock. It is income was at one time about their gadgets they blunder." delightful to observe that pationes £000,000.
(Laughter.). Who of us organ has been so richly rewarded...
Local Notes and Events
PIPES goods and nationals-is to make a between Hong Kong and Shanghai, charged before Mr. Fraser at the
HONG KONG, OCTOBER 14, 3031.
DRIFTING INTO WAR!
Senders of telegrams are inform- Three coolies employed at the ed that, owing to one faulty cable Shamshuipo Military Camp were
and beyond may be subject to slight larceny of quantity of clothing telegrams to and from Shanghai Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with delay.
from the Camp. They were alter- nutely charged with unlawful posses-
big demand upon nation already worked up by propagandist agita tion to a mood of dangerous anger. But unless the Chinese Government can call a halt to sporadic violence, and can give protection to legiti mato Japanese interests, inci-80,562 metric tona,
dents" by erowds will be met by disciplined reprisale and war will be inevitable. Moreover, if Japan is indeed bent upon, aggression,, China will have played into the hands of and her foo, by permitting incidents which give a semblance of justifica tion for the continued use of force. Already the view of many impartial observers in that both sides have been spoiling for a fight for months if not years pant.
from the files.
Mining Administration's mines for given, the Magistrate convicted de
The total output of the Kailan jaion. After evidenes had been Looking Back 25 Years. the week ending September 20, fendants on the charge of unlawful amounted to 104,280 metric tons, possession, and sentenced the first labour, and the other two to six
So Chow of the Water Police has The Gazette notitles that Bergeant the Government on the Boy, our and banished from the Colony for five years for: cor rupt practicco,
The forthcoming wedding is, an-weeks each y Yvanovich Vieira Ribeiro, residingmer engaged at 360, The Peak, nounced of Mr. Guilherme Alberto
A serious affray between work- ute, Minden Avenue, to Miss took place on Monday, The house. Hortencia Maria D'Aquino Jorge, of was under construction at the time
St. Andrew's Anglican Church has Saifee Terrace, Kowloon.
and a fight, broke out between a been added to the list of places Cantonese and Shanghai workman, licensed for the solemnization of nection with the death of Sira fight ensued, resulting in two
It is interesting to note in con Both sides assembled their men and marriages in the Colony.
tor, that he was the creator of the juries. Six of the combatants were Bertram Mackennel, the noted sculp-men being sent to hospital with in- statue of Sir Henry May which oc cupies a prominent place near the Hong Kong Cenotaph.
As the Police emergency squad van was passing the tram terminus
brought before Mr. Schofield yester day and wors remanded for a week pending the discharge of the two injured men from hospital.
When two elderly Chincp wers.
at Shaukiwan yesterday morning, charted yesterday before Mr.
H.B.M. Consulate General, Tien
"Mr. H. F. King, Vice-Consulat tsin has been promoted to be Consul at Wuchow and was to leave Tien- tsin, on October, 10.
Ir is very unfortunate that not a single Chiness lender, from Mar shal CHILANG KAI SHER downwards, seems to understand the nature, and the limitations, of the help that the League of Nations in able to give in the Manchurian crisis. If a nation considers that it is suffering injustice at the hands of another power it has the right to appeal through its Government for an im- SMALLER BOOKS.
a tramcar collided with the vehicle Williams with disorderly conduct, the losses of the Mitsui Bussan A message from Moir states that partial arbitration by the League
and caused slight damage to the they hastened to assure the Magis Kaisha in the recent typhoon at of Nations on the points at issue."
THERE is, apparently, a movement mudguard. The van bad left the trate that the squabble hnd nothing Hong Kong total about Y.130,000, THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY. But this request for help carries Thoss prodigious volumes of me
on foot to make books smaller.ratrol, when the mishap occurre pickers and they came upon a ten lighters have had to be forward- Shaakiwan Police Station on general to do with anti-Japanese demon- The whole of the company'a lighters strations: Both men were rag and steam launches were lost, and with it certain obligations. A moira or of travel, whose paper and suerperal fever were reported on ment. Not being able to decide
One case of typhoid and one of cigarette stump at the same moed to Hong Kong from Moji willingness is implied to state the whose bindings are heavy and whoso Monday. During last week there who should keep the stump, they grievance, to submit to the umpire, general form suggests rather a per- were two cases (one fatal) of fought for it and a large crowd soon and to accept and carry out the manent place in a library than enteric fever, two cases (one fatal) collected. His Worship fined each the extradition to China of Fan The hearing of the application for decision, even if it should he un-casual reading, are to be seduced. from diphtheria and 51 deaths from
of cerebro-spinal fever, three deaths man 84 or four days' imprisonment. Ning and Fan Chung on the charge favourable. The power of the If they are reduced in size, is it pulmonary tuberculosis.
There was nothing of public in H. H. J. Gompertz at the Police of murder, concluded before Mr. League of Nations lies in the fact too much to hope that they may
terest at the fortnightly meeting of Court on Saturday. The defen-r that if a country refuses these also be reduced in price! We have in possession of 100 taels of non- business coming up for discussion dants were committed to gaol pend
Convisted on the charge of being the Sanitary Board yesterday, the terms and insists upon taking the long suffered from expensive books. Government opium, a young Chi being of a routine nature. The ing the order of HE, the Governor. law into its own hands, judgment The most frivolous novel is publishese was fined $3,000 or one year's Chairman (Mr. G. Sayer) wel- on the merits of the case goes by ed with the solidity of a classic. terday. It was stated that defen- Board, Mr. L. CF. Bellamy which have thickoned on the walls
imprisonment by Mr. Fraser yes-comed, tho may member of the default, and the moral support of Shakespeare and Edgar Wallace arodant was arrested at the Kowloon Those present besides Mr Sayer of the Man Mo Miu Temple in The cobwebe, dust and gerina the League, and of world opinion, given equally weighty bindings, and Railway Station.
were: Hon. Mr. HT. Crossy, is automatically against the power light roading for, the sufferer from The annual prize distribution at Kwong Tin, Mr. P. N. Chau, Mr. years have at last been washed DP.W, Dr. G. W. Pope, Mr. Wong Hollywood Road during the last an that has so little faith in its cause insomnis is as cambersome as an the Craigengower 0.0. will be hold F. C. Hall, Dr. R. A. de Castro away Sanitary inspectors have not that it will not submit to an "im sncyclopedia, The public has come on Sunday at the close of a pro- Basto, Mr. L C. F. Bellamy and entered this temple in the past partial court.
gramme of sports in which the Mr. J. H. Gelling (Secretary) terfere with the jose, but on Satur-
as it was thought they would in-. to expect certain
things of a book
majority of the events will be for It is almost impossible, however, stiff cover, such a thickness, so children. The sports will commence for the League to intervene in a many pages. If the s
day morning Inspector Gidley with words of the at 3 pm,,members and friends
a gang of coolies passed the hallow dispute until the situation has been book do not run to so many pages,
being cordially invited to attend.
ed portals and thoroughly washed The Recreation Club are having the walls with chloride of lime stabilised. When an international then the print must be spread out For keeping sly brothels in two new four-cared out riggere built Hong Kong Daily Pre Optober * incident" occure the Longue ap- A novel is not a novel if it will various places in Kowloon, two for the forthcoming regatta. The 13, 1000, peale to both sides, and particularly fit conveniently into an overcoat weeks hard labour by Mr. Fraser, regatta during the visit of the Looking Back 50 Years.
women were fined $100 or idea is entertained of holding the to the apparently aggrieved party, pocket. After all, reading matter at the Kowloon Magistracy yes Princes, which would be a week or not to retaliate until there has is not, like butter, to be measured terday. Another woman was fined two before the usual time, but no It is satisfactory to learn that been investigation and a suggested by weight. A very good book might offence. She was stated to be only the subject
$50 or one month for the same final decision has been come to on the question of the administration, HONG KONG » SHANGHAIitlement. The League bar no bo mnall and cheap and a very bad of cervant, but she had foil, charge veretly entioned that thin or maladministration, of the Gov-
material fores with which to call a book massive and dear. The size of the premises.
rocently mentioned that His roment of this Colony by Sir John halt, and if incident is answered of a book has no relation to its "When a Chinese was charged proceed with the Tytamtuk water brought before Parliament,
Excellency has been instructed to Popo Benney will shortly be by incident, the chances of success quality, and there is no reasons why before Mr. Williame at Central schemin, but His Excellendy having ful intervention steadily diminish the publishers, if they made a con Magistracy yesterday with stealing taken the responsibility of not
The Chinese are evidently deter Moreover, the League makes no certed effort, should not wean the woman, it was stated that the com- peremptory orders have now been mined to contest the fold of onter
n handbag belonging, to a Chinese Giving effect to these instructions, WEDNESDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, claim to prevent war if a nation reading public from its present ob plainant was trying on a pair of forwarded from Downing Street en following upon the expedition to pribo with foreigners, for, closely refuses to submit to an award and session with size and solid covers shoes in a shop and left her bag joining the immediate prosecution establish direct trade with England, prefers to settle the issue by orden! As things are, the purchser of on the counter when the defendant of the scheme. of battle. It was suggested in the now book is too serious an under-arrested by a district watchman who We understand that, in "oouse-
gulked in and olcked it up. He was two how hear that a dock will be "constructed" "at kepung-wan under Protocol of 1921 that the Powers taking for risks to be taken. Only caught him in the act.
quence of the serious disagreement native auspices. | În high quarters regarding "saDİ. should pledge themselves to support the very rich or the very rockiess League decisions by armed force, will experiment at, say, ten dollars of 25 acis of raw opiam in Con Sanitary Engineer line been ap that the Peninsular and Oriental
Charged with being in possession try matters in Hong Kong, o but the proposal was rejected and a time New books should go naught Road Central a Chiness pointed to enquire into the subject.
of THE BOY,
THE ANNUAL SWIMMING
SPORTE SCOUTS ASSOOLATION will be hol in V.B.O. Bath at 3pm on SATUE DAY next, OCTOBER 17. The host will be awam off at 480 pim, on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,
All friends are warmly invited to Attend.
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Mitchell's Aldritime. Ronster sigs
All Baukiwan Cara piss Taikoo Club
is obviously, not in the realm of through an experimental stage when who appeared before it. Schofield This officer will shortly arrive here Steamship Rome went on her official at the Central Police Court yester to make the noocssary investiga trial on the 6th September when she Special Launch will leave Police practical politics.
they are cheap, enough and light day was fined 83,000 or nine months tions and will report the result to attained a mean speed of 16 knots, Old Pier, Howłopy, at 2:13-
Fun has dectur "that no agrey enough for "us"Low be ble to try hard labour in default Revenue the Colonial Offie It is and thich was considered highly satis isotory by all concerned especially sion against Manchuria is intend them out. Then wo could make up fleer-Ward informed his Worship the Military Authorities exer ed that action has been forced our minds as to whether they were at when arrested, the defendant some pressure to bring about the she has not been docked since
anid he had been given the opium *Ingttiry —Hong Kong Daily) Prest,
she was launched four months ago. upon her by a number of incidents worth keeping and, binding
by the pilot of the Ka-Yust On October 13, 1881.
(Continued-on-previous Column.
ADMISSION 81.10 Including Tax.
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