NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
THEMANNUAL
GENERAL
MEETING of the HONG KONG ORIOKET CLUB. will be hold in the PAVILION at 5.80 pan. on'- MONDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, T′931, and notico is hereby given that, on MONDAY 20TH OCTOBER, 1981, immediately after the Annual General Moating, a drawing for the redemption of thirty "debentures will be made. The number of "the debentures drawn will be published in the Hong Kong. Government Carette and the Local Newspapers, arid holders of drawn debenturos may, upon giving notice to the Treasurers waiving rix months' notice to which they are entitled, apply on 81st October, 1931, to the Treasurers, MEMS. PERCY SMITH, BETH and FLEMING, for the payment of | principal and interest up to the 81st Datober, 1981.
By Order of the Commitiée,
E. J. R. MITCHELL,
Hon: Becretary.
L1901
GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
TENDERS for SPECIE and
MEXICAN DOLLARS Current In this Colony, for Telegraphie Transfer, on the Lords Commilopers of His Majesty's Transury, London, up to and for the Sum of £60,000, will be Roseived by
the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER COMMAND PAY OFFICE, mat!! 1 O'CLOCK A.M. on the 1 OCTOBER, 1931.
The Tenders to stale the Total Amount. (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for loan than £100,
The Tenders to be in Duplicato, and in Sealed Cavors, addromod to the TREA SURY CHEST OFFICER, COM. MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT, BILLS, ute.
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.
Coples of Farma of Tender can be had on application,
"Persons tondering for (Billy) are hereby Nelified that, haring regard to the provisions of the Actes George III., Osp. 46 and 41, George III, Cap: 52, the acceptance of any such Tender is subj sot to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benallt to arise from the Con- tract thereby made for the allotment of mab (Billa).
The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered Into by any incorporated Company, in its corporated capaolty and made for the general benefit of the Company."
E, A. LANG, Colonel, R.A.PO,
Trossiry Chest Ooor. His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hồng Kong
(130%
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GOVERNMENT STORES CONTRACTS—1952,
Tis bereby notified that Soalod) T
Tenders, in triplicate, which should be clearly marked "TENDER
· FOR 'STORES," will be recaived int the Colonial Secretary's Office, until moon" of Thursday the 29th day of October, 1981, for the supply and delivery of Stores required by Govern- ment Departments during the your 1982.
For Specifications and Forms of Tendor apply at the office of Bupotiu. tandent Accounts and Stores, Public Works Department, from whomi further particulars may be had on application.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender and reserves. to itself the option of accepting FOR ALL OR ANT PART of each Specification.
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REUTERS, LIMITED.
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RW. O'NEILL is appointed: Manager "of our Hongkong Branch, na from OCTOBER 15TH, during the absence of ME." JE HENRY.
REUTERS, LIMITED.
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CLUB LUSITANO,
CONVITE.
A Direção do Club Lusitano tema honra de convidar ne Ermos.. Bru. Boulos do Club de Recreio, - da "Associação" | Portuguesa de BocorTOJ Mutuos, da Liga Portugucze do Clab Lusitano & SILKS Bemar
Families eos demais Membros de Comunida Portagners para en rocnirom na zala "Laix de Camboa" do Club Lusitano an. Quinta-Falms, 15 de comsate, all „3,15 horas, da tarde, a fim de munistirem
Recepcia em honra de Sus Excelencia Governador de Macau, Benkor Josquin Anselmo is Matu » Oliveira,
Haverá om egnida Chá e danga. A fim de que esta acepção seja revestida do malor; brilho "possivel a Direcño pede a comparencia de todos For Bosiose ?sung Kimas:-Familias; e of demale" - Membros da Comunidade Poringuma
BANEN 8, ALVES, Becretario. Hongkong, 18 de Databro de 1981;
SOME
PARAMOUNT REASONS
WHY YOU SHOULD
GIVE YOUR DOG THE
QUORN"
DOG REMEDIES
CONDITION AND
TONIC POWDERS.
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FAMOUS KENNELS RELY
UPON THE " QUOEN BREEDERS AND OWNERS
USE THE "QUOEN BOTH THE EXPERT AND THE AMATEUR ARE BUYERS OF THE "QUORN””
WHILE CHAMPIONS OF
·ALL BREEDS HAVE BEEN
KEPT FIT FOR YEARS' AND YEARS WITH THE QUOEN" DOG REMEDIES.
THEY COOL THE BLOOD, REMOVE ALL IMPURITIES
AND ACT AS A TONIC TO
THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
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News and
The Shark's Trophy.
Views
The reported discovery of
Cverheard in Trafalgar-square.
First Visitor (rather wearily) ||
mun at Far Eastern universities Tale of the Day. and the British typo, of Oxford A flapper was pillion riding with and Cambridge undergraduate, her fianco. They were going at 40 sailor's identification dick, dated, Shall we go to the National Gallery, The latter pursues his even and pleasant way amid a gentle and other ton 1" he aske
m.p.h
Are you game for an- 1667; in the stomach of a shark now, doar 1 Second Visitor (egin highly cultured society, to which in Rather," she said, as she swal- vides something of a problem. It say in, when you've seen one gallery,
caught near Galveston, Texas, pro- fortably): No, we won't. What these days entrance tests are Blowed another mouthful of dust, is hard to believe that the shark is you've agen the lotSE severe and conscientiously applied I'm full of grit.” that a young British Duke failed
really as old as all that, but if to gain admission because he had,
sharks at other sharks when dondas to lose. like Shakespeare, “small Latin, and
and presumably such things in A very amateur violinist complete pon-the disk may have been passed lesa Greek. It is a wealthy.com-with instrument and music was en- down by generations of sharks. munity, all students being supplied countored wending her way home- Even so ono hesitates to believe with ample income by their parents ward one evening, and was naked that a copper disk could have sur or front scholarships and grants.
Self-Oriticism.
But the Chinese student can how her bedridden old aunt vived gorrosion under such circum- either rich or very poor. He is reply. I've just unen playing the doubt be found that it is all a "She's wonderful was the stances all these years. It will no drawn to the university by love of violin to her for an hour. It's exput up job to advertise a film learning and by no other motive; traordinary what the old lady can about sharks or something. he is akin to the Medieval students, stand.”
of the West, who lived in rough
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The Unpolitical Razor,
and ready fashion, and generally Brood of Cals to Killed Bats. Here is a true story of an incident lacked two coins to rub together.
A. breed of super-cats as rat cnt-
in a barber's shop at the corner of We all know of the turbulence of chara is claimed to have been evol- the Square of the Revolution in poor clerks," of Oxford and ved by Dr. Loir, a nephew of Pas Moscow, described as "The Hair Paris and how the frequent riot tour. He is said to bave bean dresser of the Workmen's Co-opern
the "
Portsmouth Prison is to be closed at the end of October. Long term offenders are to go to the reapened prison at Lewes, and other offenders to Winchester Prison. It is hoped by closing Portsmouth Prison to save £10,000 a year.
Arrival of the Super-Cut.-
Now that a French seientist has perfected a super-cat capable of dealing with rats, and you peaceful. in the home, it is understood that Professor Smugwamp is putting out
great effort to win for Britain model with a smaller chassis for the credit for producing a similar dealing with mice really efficiently.
ings wore in accord with the spirit working for four years on the pro-tive." A young man entered thawtrey and D'Orsay,
Lawrence D'Orsay the resear old actor who has just died, was very popular in the United States because he played the "Hay! Hawally as Englishman as the Americans picture English Peers. Ho had been in America several
doah old Chorley, how ah you! came over for a tour: The two met in the Lamba Club. Well, my said D'Orsay. Why do you speaks with such an American ascent ? ! replied Hawtroy. The tale of Haw trey'a dumbfounding retort is told to this day in the Lambs Club, One side of London.
of the age. But in those times blem of breeding a cat strong and shop and annoyed the barber by re- government, and, on the whole, endowed with deres rat-hunting iu fusing everything except a shave stincts, and yet so tame that it can good government, was imposed by be kept in domesticity. Es lias So the latter selected his bluntest kings and feudal lorde, by the how obtained satisfactory results razor and set to work on his cus. Bishops and other ecclesiastical and is about to begin a campaign tomer with true comradely sur- against the rats that infest the The funeral, of the late AUGUSTO princes. There were no burning walls of Le Havre, against whose liness, The razor rasps," comycara, when Mr. Charles Hawtrey
ALBERTO DA Roza will be held questions of modernisation and hordes poison and other weapons plained the young on Friday, the 10th instant.nationalism to engage the minds of have proved useless. A breeding replied the barber, indifferently,
man: "That, after a Requiem Service at 8.30
station is to be erected and with- .m.at the Roman Catholic young man, when European civili in a few months Dr. Loir hopesis of no political importance!" Camelory.
sation was young, and they fought that Le Havre will have sufficient It is presumed that this retorts instend over the unorthodoxy of super-cats to start the battle. The the polite Soviet equivalent of ABELARD and as to whether Boon true wild eat, but without the lat new animal is said to resemble a
Oh, yeah?" BACON's experiments were true ter'e savagery where human beings! science or black magic.
Enre concerned. In those days the technique of Rod Flost Manoeuvres. war and government was less com-
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HONG KONG, OcroBER 15, 1031.
THE CHINESE STUDENTS.
CANTON students are again on strike and devoting themselves, ful} time, to anti-Japaness, propaganda These young men were mainly re
A. S. WATSONsponsible for last Saturday's shoot
& CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY.
THE BOY SCOUTS'.
ASSOCIATION.
Stoamers in the Gulf of Finland
The Schneider Trophy Planes.
Do the seaplanes built for the Schneider Trophy contest belong to
plex than in the twentieth ec- have sighted a Soviet squadron of Houston, who gave £100,000 Two well-dressed men entered an
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tury, and youth had its chance eighteen ships, including EDWARD I. and the BLACK PRINCA Dreadnoughts and several cruisers, of England, to give two familiar destroyers and submarines. On the instances, were commanding armies approach of the steamers the squad- and presiding over governing coun- ron avoided a meeting by changing cils when scarcely out of their teens its course. This is the first time A peasant girl led the French the manoeuvres of the Red Fleet in armies and showed shrewd percen the Baltic have lasted for more than tion of the uses of artillery. Con-a month. turies later NAPOLEON won his Italian Campaign at twenty-five - and the younger PITT was Primo Minister at twenty-three. With theso, examples in mind can it be doubted that thousands of young men and women in China feel to-day, I can save the country and no one else can." The great
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to defray their costs? This is a Houston's gift was unconditional. question many are asking. Lady and suggestions that after the con- test the machines should be handed over to her ensinot be entertained. engine and aircraft design, and The machines embody secrets of France or Italy would pay a big price for them. They will enable the Air Ministry to cry on further exporiments.
The following dramatic-and pathetic-incident comes from a source which cannot be doubted.
expensivet cocktail bar in the Bond-.
question from one. have1" came the time-honoured street district. What will you
whisky, neat," said the other, who **A.. doublo then added quickly: That's rather an interesting print over there." he pushed back the untasted drink While his host's back was turned with lightning need to the bar tender, and received some silver in exchange. He didn't want a drink. He was starving.
Local Notes and Events
Entries close to-day at noon for the 30th Extra Race Meeting.
One case of typhoid and one of the spheres of poetry and music, diphtherin were reported on Tues but there must be many who are day. inspired with the notion that they can lead armies and govern. pro- rinces. Is anyone bold enough to say that all these young men are victims of illusion? It must not be forgotten that the trained and Lissiplined cadets of Whampos, the tionised warfare in China. military university, have revolu
ing affray, and thanks to the preenchievements of youth are mainly in sure put on WANG CHING WEI by the mob the Canton police force. are also threatening to come out. Until the Mahchurian crisis arcaa little had been heard for about three years of the Canton studenta. The part that they played in the incidente of 1925 and 1920 is: well remembered, but Marshal LI TSAI,, HSIN sent them back to their books. and General CHEN MING SHu had HEADQUARTERS. LOWER ALUERT BOAD.
oqually' firm ideas as to the proper concerns of these young men and NOTICE.
womon. For the past month, how ever, the lecture balls of China's ANNUAL SWIMMING forty-six universities have been SPORTS SCOUTS ASSOCIATION will be held dearted, while the students rango in Y.R.O. Bath at 3 p.m. on BATUR up and down the country stirring DAY next, OCTOBER 17. The heat national feeling against the
HONG KONG BRANCE:
THE
of THE BOY
will be swam off at 4.30
pm. 02 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,
All friends are warmly invited to attend.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DRAFT PROGRAMMES
aggressor.*
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Augueto Alberto da Roza will be Tha funeral of the late Mr. held to-morrow after Requiem Service at 8:30 am. at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley,
were
From the files.
Two charges of theft brought against a youth of Chinese and Filipino parentage, before the Central Court Magistrato when he was fined $75 or five weeks hard labour for stealing a bicycle and Looking Back 25 Years..
watch,, purse and 885 from an remanded on a count of theft of Indian constable at Police Head- and Mrs, Hatton reached Mar
Major-General Villiers Hatton quartera.
Beilles safely on September 9.
For the past few days the price
The annual swimming sports of of eggs has been soaring and The Yuct Han Railway Co. have the Boy Scouts Association will be whereas in normal times eggs could reported to the Kwong Chow Pre- held in V.E.C. bath at 3 p.m. on be obtained at about three to four fest, that as they are busily en Saturday. The heats will be swum cents, a piece in the market, they gaged in railway work they havo off at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 15th cost as much as tem to fifteen cents no time to devote to the bridge, October.
on Monday and Tuesday. This is says the Canton Daily News, Thin Injuries to her head were received in Swatow and other supplyingness to allow the bridge to be
due to foods in the poultry farms is taken to signify their willing GANDHI TALKS OF LIQUOR. by Sum Cho, aged 12, when she centres and also, to some extent, constructed by other parties.
fell into the backyard of 58, Argyle to an unusually big demand for eggs.
WHEN MAHATMA GANDHI delivered his first radio speech he de- voted a considerable portion of it to the advocation of the prohibition of intoxicating liquor. One strik: ing statement made by the Indian leader must have impressed millions of his listeners That statement made was that in India, the curse
of drink was, "fortunately for us accepted as a curse.
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Street, from the first floor. She was in the Philippines. The situation, A Glasgow business hous, Baye takon to the Kowloon Hospitali however, has been eased by fairly & home paper, bas received a com- where she is reported to be pro- large consignments of eggs to the munication from Baghdad, Turkey, gressing favourably.
Colony yeaterky and the day be deted August 6, which states The fore.
European mail due bera on July. 26th has not reached Baghdad, as Before Commander Hole, at the the post carrier's camel' is said to Marine Court yesterday, Sergeant have escaped while he was sleeping, Morris charged the cozarain of the and it is supposed it perished in steam launch Chang Shan, with the deserted: Consequently the mail having failed to show regulation is lost,Hong Kong Daily Press, lights when under way in the har. October 14, 1900. University Christian Association for said that when he saw his light
bour on October 10 at 8:30 p.m. 14, 1800 The last Sunday Service of the The accused pleaded guilty, and Looking Back 50 Years.
Falling into the street from the first floor of 24, Matauwai Road, an eight-year-old Chinese girl was removed to the Kwong Wah Hos pital Into on Tuesday night zuffer ng from injuries to her head. Her condition is not considertd serious
Few persons of mature intellig ence will fail to endorse the astion of the two Governors of Canton, The duty of a student is to study, Unions and debating societies, and perhaps some measure of "self- and government are proper adjuncts ENTRY FORMS for Lào TENTH EXTRA RACE MERTING, to university life and valuable to be bald on SATURDAY, 24TH OUTO-training in oratory and the conduct, BER, 1981 (Weather Permitting) of public affairs. But the general may be obtained at the Ram COURSE, HONG KONG CLUB, CAUSEWAY BAY opinion sa that even after universil could have been more forceful elsewhere in this issue, it is an- posed. STABLES and the SECRETARY'S ORPIOR
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When the history of these remark. able years comes to be written, and the human passions now rending the world have long been cold, and inre only oð. academia interest, Detached and Bent at Villar nothing, we think, will he regard
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*CAMBAY BUILDINGB* Tints with Modern Conveniences.
The Mahatma might have taken the entire time allotted to him in describing the evils of drink as he haa witnessed them in his own country, but nothing he could have
curse.'
18th October, 1931, at 0.39 a.m., in it when the polies arrived. The Kinshan, which was purchased by this year will be held on Sunday, was out he stopped and was fixing The hull of the river steamer St. John's Hall when Dr. G. A. C. Sergeant said the accused had a Sing Hong, was towed up to Con Herklots will deliver talk on funk in tow and was going into the ton yesterday by Seng Lee's steam "Science and Religion.' cordially invited."
"All are Yeumati shelter. When witness Jaunch Kaiter to be broken 'np
went alongside the accused Was fixing his light. A fine of $95 or In an advertisement appearing three weeks imprisonment was im The gunboat Kestrel was des and graphic Just the simple nounced that the annual general
patch at daybreak yesterday morn- statement of fact accepted as a meeting of the Hong Kong Crickot.
ing, on a cruise southward in searah of the steamer Quinis, of which no Club will take place at the Club's¦
Turther tidings have been heard y However much or little the 1931. After the meeting a drawing steamer Solway, which arrived here Yesterday afternoon about half
premises on Monday, October 23, Captain Jarvis, of the British Western world may agree with all for the redemption of thirty deben- yesterday from Haiphong, reporta paat one o'clock, MrF-C Ditt the aim of Mahatma GANDHI, that are will be made.
About.m18th init 20 miles mer, & clerk in the amy direct' utterance will find an endur-You don't mind being provided Chinese in a very exhausted state, bouse of Mr. Stolterfoht (the bead from Hong Kong picked un three Hasse & Co., shot himself at the of Mfr ing plan in the thoughts of many with Japanes property that is not they were floating upon the wreck of the firm) in the Albany An who will wish that je might with paid for Mr. Schofield observed of a junk bottom up. A strong inquest will be held to-day. equal truth be afirmed of the two months hard labour at the time and we had some difficulty in to & Chinese whom he sentenced to strong swoll was running at the nations of the Occident, Central Magistracy yesterday for getting our boat to them. They
That millions of the followers of stealing a Japanese spaniol be- stated that the junk capsized in the wich left this port on the morning the Mahnima leak upon, the bondagging to Mr. Hookwares late typhoon. I at once ardered dry of the 13th inst for Swetow, had of drink as a curse to be lifted is StrochSub-Inspector Rozenkwy food for them. The poor fellows from that porty and the China,
"taurant" "kóépel, of 18, Bampan clothing and mediescomforts and ubt, heen heard of af lest i
Tast, ndvices
gratifying indication that they ro stated that the dog was stolen dur, soon recovered and appeared very which lols here, some hours: Tater cognize some of the responsibilities urbanock, and was recovered on last evening-Hong Kong Daily passing through a severe typhoon
ting othe›rocent anti-Japanese din grateful. They were landed here on had arrived there, and reported which fall to a free people.s Tuesday at 16, Ship Street
Press October 14, 1991
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The German steamor Bellona,