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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
T MEETING will be held (Weather, Hermitting), at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY. 24TH OCTOBER, 1931, Commencing at 7 pm.
THE TENTH EXTRA RACE,
The First Ball, will be Rung at 130
p.m.
MEMBERS, ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badgan prominently displayed.
No one without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclcanre,
Non-Members to Badges admitting
the Members Enclosure and Club Room at $5.00 for Gentlemen snd. $3.00 (Both including Tax):
for
ATO die through the SECRE
TABY upon Introduction by Member, such Momber to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, etc.
admitting ta Mensiers'
To will not be on sale at the
Race Coures,
to
Members on obtain, upon Application the SEORETARY, Badge (limited for the Fres Admission to the
to ONEnclosure of Wires, Lady
Members
Belativo and Friends. Names must be stated when applying......
On No Protext will Children be permitted in other Enclosure daring The Mooting, sa
Tiffua are
SOME
PABAMOUNT: BEASONS
WHY YOU SHOULD
GIVE YOUR DOG THE
"QUORN"
chtainable at the ClubDOG REMEDIES
House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy by a p.m. on the 23an. OCTOBER Telephone No. 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The Price of Admission to the Publio Enclosure is $2.00, including Tax, "for All Person, including Indios, and is payable at the Gato.
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, eto, will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of Tom HONG KONG JOCKET OLUS during the Race Meeting. Tine will be obtainable the Res taurant in the Public Enclosure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Sporelary!" Hong Kong, 19th Oct, 1931, [1348
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,
DRAFT PROGRAMMES
and
ENTRY FORMS for the SECOND EXTRA RACE MEETING. to be held at MACAO on SUNDAY, lar. NOVEMBER, 1991 (Weather Per- mitting may be obtained at the Broers OLO, TAS Loss KONG JOCKEY CLU STAZLIK, or at the Offices of Messrs. PEROX SMITH, SITE & FLEXING 6 Des Vosur Road "Centrál."
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amicable Premior: Beflor ZiMORA, Señor Mauna, and fifty-two Catholic. members of the Cortes have resigned, the choice of Seller AZANA, the War
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★ News and Views
Howlers from Australia.
Horowith some autlientia, samples.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
SATURDAY'S TRANSAC-
TIONS.
The market on Saturday morning:
lower rates,
Banks changed hands nt. $1,550. Underwriters were the medium of shles at $42.
tremists are evidently riding on Tale of the Day. the crest of a wave of popular Waiter, how many times are you disaffection. In the provinces the going to pass without taking my supplied by an Australian corres ruled quict but steady at slightly peasants are seeking to enpropriate order "
pondent, and vouched for by an off- the landlords; Syndicalists are or-
"Sorry, sir: I don't know. We're per of the Victorian Education De- ganising strikes in the town; the so busy I haven't time to count partmentar Multi Institution of marriago has been placed on Communist basis of divorce virtually by the wish of either party, and the Jesuit order is being threatened with "confisca tion of their vast property. Civil war is now "expected between the Povolutionaries and the docent elements in the State.
Yer the Duration.
One of the most depressing aspects of the crisis in the return of that phrase of bainous memory "For the duration writes a London corres pondent. He says: "I have seen it six times. today in papera.
Who was the girl who saved France, and was beloved of "the" French soldiers - Madamoisella from Armentieres.
What King came after Queen Eli- tabeth1-Philip of Spain, but she was not having any.
Why did the poor oraven bride news-groom" in "Young Lochinvar" say "netor a "word" -Because he was going to be married.
It only remains for our hoardings to be covered with grim, posters
Snowden, Wants You for the dreary illusion to be complete.""
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And here is some Australian his tory, from an examination paper-
Early in the history of the penal buttlement at Sydney, convicts, ware
Ireland'n trouble is less serious. There has merely bean a suspension of the constitution, and are clamation in the style of the old Coercion Acts when BLOODY BALFOUR (a strange transformation of “A.J.B.") applied the remedy DURO, GARAGE six years frm government pre scribed by his uncle, Lord SALIB. BURY. How fortunate that the task is now in the hands of Irishmen them-chasing a lion who affected nevar to have heard of him, when he called selves! President CosmAVE is a
on Gandhi recently, w strong man, and while the gunmen On the whole, the meeting was New Guinea) are cannibals. They may claim a few victims, it is un-most appropriate. And there is no live together in tribes and are ruled
knowing what good may result from by their chefs." these little informal talks between ||
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IRELAND AND SPAIN.
likely that the Free State will be greatly portarbed. Perhaps, when the whole trouble is analysed, both the Spanish and the Irish peoples, ensy going artistic and imaginn tive are kicking against an over- done of efficiency, standardisation and muss production, on the trans- Atlantic model.
الرحمن
Wharves were done at 152, closing
demand at $150.. Douglases were wanted at $94. Raubs were in requesti ut: #35}, Providents (old) were in the market at $51, and the new shares. were dealt în at 82.45, with fur- ther sellers at the last-named rate.
Hotela (old) were done at $14.10 and $14.20, closing in demand at sharen "obanged $14. The new hands at $136, at which they closed in demtad,
Hong Kong Lands wanted at 880 Ewas could shave been obtained!
Mr. Chaplin Goes Lion hunting.-
Mr. Charles Chaplin, whp for sometimes assigned to their own at Tla, 16.30 years has been chased by lion-hunt-wives, but afterwards the system ers whom he has never heard of, was made more humane," must have enjoyed the experience of
And some geography: "The natives of Papua (British
the groat minds of the earth, pro- From Algeria to America." vided they are sufficiently informal.
he ought not to listen to cynical: A great-granddaughter of Abd-El- people who whisper the word "pub- licity. It would have been unkind to refuse the photographers anyway
Death Rays
Zoong Sings were in request at
Trams had buyers bidding: $191 without response.
China Lights could have been pur- chased at $274.
Telephones (part paid) were offer ing at $28.
Cements (combined) were riund at $191
Kader, the Algerian chieftain who CORRESPONDENCE. caused the French so much trouble when they first commenced to colon- ize north Africa, has been visiting. Paris on her way to America. She Startling posibilities in warfare are suggested by the results of ex- is a journalist by profession, and is periments, with Deatli Rays" made on the staff of a French newspaper. at Lake Constance by Herr Schim- published in Istanbul. Educated in: kus, n Berlin chemist,
With an electric apparaus which an American school in Turkey, the took him several years to perfect, Princess Esma has always been Horr Schimkus flashed over and in familiar with western ways and to the waters of the lake rays of mannera. She speaks French, Eng- such strength that any solid surface lish, Greek and Arabic, upon which they might have fallen would have been instantly destroy Yellow Metal.
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OUR VERSATILE CIVIL SERVANTS!
SIR-I hear that there is a shortage of medical men' in Govern mentorvice. I understand also that public servants receive free
A miniature mine moured below Behind and beyond all the com-medical attention.
As it is, I believe, a condition of the surface of the lake was blown up plexities and international excite in the instant that the Death ments concerning the Gold Stand-service in the Government that Rnys, emitted at a distance of ard is one simple fact the restricevery officer should by virtue of, concentrated, upon it."
out 200 yards from the bank, were tive influence of Nature, who, with his appointment, be capable of turn seeming stinginess, demands an alring his hand to any job no matter how technical, why should not somet most unvarying price in human me tal from her clutches."
of our surplus public servante be So at the back of this spectacular appointed to medical posts parti. struggle of the financiers and politicularly those which deal with the ailments of publie, sérvants only bý cians of the nations is the simple,
I feel sure the results would be: never-ending contest between human muscle and human brain and the agreeable to the public and the living rock in the bowels of the appointees. Yours, ste p
"Ain't Nature wonderful!!!
Burled African Olty.¦¦
Investigations at the buried city, which has been found near Heil bron, have shown that the city is comparatively modern. Neverthe
PUBLIC WEAL P.S.Perhaps, as the appoint ments would be very popular, for obvious reasons, there might be a Not Happily Phrased.
raster-but this has obvious objec Mr. Ramsay MacDonadl's Lifetions as it would tend to shake the cheaper."-Bookstall announcement. condence of the nurgoon for the This, as Mr. Punch would say is time being if he thought that the one of those things we would have position might be reversed at a expressed differently.
HORNS OF COURTESY." TWENTY years ngo the automobile Ir is a curious" coincidence that driver who dashed down the village serious eivie trouble should break street at the reckless rate of fifteen out simultaneously in Spain and miles an hour announced his com- Ireland. The pooples of these an- ing with a raucous blast from a cient, romantic and religious lands wheezy horn which he operated by have much in common with each pressing a rubber bulb. The note cther, the majority being loyal was distinctively aggressive, and children of the Roman Catholic subsequent issues of automobile Church, and" tillers of the soil horns have not entirely removed rather than city dwellers and in-that quality. Voicing such warn dustrialista Being so largely ings as "Step lively, old chap, or agricultural and self-supporting, you'll lose your cont tails," the au- and having recently acquired the tomobile horn often is looked upon political liberty, for which patriots as an unfriendly institution." had long been shouting and suffer- Although advances have been less it is the most astonishing dis ing, it was to be hoped that they made in varying its lone and multi-sovery of recent times, and is be-gold-mines of the world. would set an example of content. plying its carrying power, no pro-lieved to have been built by Bantus
Bushmen. ment and good government in these grees whatever has been made in three centuries age with the aid of troubled times.
making it an instrument of better The curious stone houses with The methods, the eficiency, and understanding among the inhabit their stour roofs, a typg hitherto unknown, stretch for at least six even the honesty of the Spanish ants of the highways. A more vermiles, making a vast settlement, Dictatorshij ander General PRIMO entile, a tactful, sympathetic born which is believed to have been wiped DE RIVERA, General BERENGUEN and needed a horn that can say out by an invading army...
"Good morning" to a passing mo. ALFONSO XIII, are still a matter of controverey. Good democrats torist, or Thank you, sir," to a not only in Spain, but in neigh driver who courteously has given bouring countries, excerate the one the right of way. What a world of good feeling would radiate from name of King ALFONSO, and history
a million or so friendly horns an will alone decide whether he were indeed the able and magnanimous the highways--horns devoted to pro monarch, whom BERNARDS SHAW moting courtesy and good will.
The human voice in pot powerful took no jhe model for the hero of
the unenough to carry above the din and his latest comedy, or Night Editor (Wanchsi Office); scrupulous and incompetent self- roar of a city's streets, though some necker that advanced politicians in one has suggested a kind of ampli. England and Spain would have us fier. A talking automobile horn is believe. It is very certain that at needed, one that can yell out least in material things Spain went "Hello Bill; you bought a 'baby', ahead when PRINO DE RIVERA held too?" or similar greeting whenever one meets a driver exhibiting one's own weakness. And when an einer
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CHINA HOMEWARD CONFERENCE.
Freight Tariff No. Dated 1st January, 1981.
ADDENDUM No,
INCREASE IN RATES OF FREIGHT.
Shippers are informed that, from this date, all rates of freight quoted in Part 2 of the Tariff and/or nal rates for direct in Addenda thereto and all additional shment quoted in Part 1 of the Tariff are increased by 10 per cent. Also that all oncarrying additional transhipment rates quoted in Part 1 of the Tarif are increased by 20 per cent. Hong Kong, 19th October, 1931,
Streety
the power.
Beneath the surface, however,
later date.
Local Notes and Events ⋆
Two cases of typhoid were "re During the early hours of Sun- ported on Friday.
day morning some person or per- sons unknown broke the plate glane Nominal cable services to Shang-window of the Juliette Beauty hai, and beyond, have been re Salon in Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tho police are investigating thr established.
affair, as the incident is consideren to be somewhat unusual.
At "tomorrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, Mr. J. Russell will address 'on "Animal deliver an Welfare."
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years.
An inquest on the death of Lui Captain William Roberst, muster.. Chi Wing, alias Tai Chi Bo, who mariner, prosecuted a rickala coolie, died in Victoria Gaol on October for refusing to accept hire. Mr. A Chinese stovedoro was removed 16, where he was held, en de Hazeland convicted the defendant to the Government Civil Hospital portation order, was held by Mr. and imposed a fine of $3... aufering from fractured ribs and Williams at the Central Police 1.
volcanic forces were gathering dur. Reney demanding a sudden warning internal injuries, which he received. Court, on Saturday. The jury re-t Yesterday an. Indinn was killed by ing the dictatorship. The rigido a enreless, pedestrian docs arias through falling into the "hold of j túrned a verdict of "death from a fall of earth at the cutting which
orthodoxy of the Church, provoked
Run!" that would clear a back
the as, Kweichow.
Two stock? twin-scrow motor vessels, the Hai Fook and Hol Hong, will be launched on Monday, October 20, at 6.45 h.m., from th South China Motorshiv Building Wan, Kowloon.
natural causes."'. It was stated is being made for the Kowloon-Can-. that the prisoner died of advanced ton railway at Taikoktsui, and two pulmonary tuberculosis.
coolics who were injured were re-
hospital
a virulent atheism, in the cities alley of a cat party instwo seconds Syndicalism was rife, Communists would prove an even more efficient
were in a position to speak for their attention to the refloating of
At last the owners have directed" worked like moles in town and signal than the monotonous and un- country alike, and the politicians, expressive Honk, honk" of the and Revairing Works, Ltd., To Kwa them, but as we have no sart of the s.s. won Chow, which sank off: presentative Government here, it the Kowloon wharf during the follows that the community, if they |
whose corruption and incompetence present instrument. had made dictatorship inevitable,
The next general meeting of the wish to chow due respect to the sons typhoon of September 18th. Yester while posing as patriotic martyrs, Lord Byng.
Hong Kong University Arts ABC- of our future King, must themselves day the sulvera, were hard at work. ciation will be held on Tuesday at take some action in the matter. At were in flaxon with the forces of
Few appointments can have been 5.30 p.m. in the Union Assembly the same time, anything liko divi Thess. Thaba Maru, which arriv blind destruction. Another source of unrest and discontent has, boca responsible for more criticism-most Hall, when the Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, sion hetween the Government and sd in port yesterday, brought sever of it ill-informed than that which will deliver a lecture on The the community on such an occasion recruits for the local police: It is City of Rome, where Historios could not be too severely deprecated, stated that the men of the old. the separatist movement in Catalen
followed the acceptance by Lord Meet
nor is there any reason why it brigade" extended their sympathy, should exist At Singapore, the and informed the newcomers of the and Audalusia. The monarchy was Byng of the Commissionership of nt lead a rallying point for the the Metropolitan Police
Whileta Willys-Knight cur own Governor of the Colony has invited high price of the dollar-Hongkong ed by Mr. W. Hyde was standing a representative committee to take Daily Press, Oct. 17. steadier elements, but the monarchy
Now, when his pending retire unattended outside Humphrey's part in the arrangements. This is, nue ignominiously banished. The ment is announced, few, if any, of Buildings at about maven-thirty setting up of the new Republic was his former orities would fail to pay last night tools to the value of heralded with wild rejoicinga, but tribute to him. Such is the power 816 were stolen from under the
of personality whon linked with 0 driving seat." when the tumult and shouting had scrupulous honesty of purpose and aga died men found that life, was no en strict impartiality. An abnormally high tide which better than before, Morcover, un- Lord Byng, when he took office occurred on Saturday night was employment increased and prices much against his will, set himself responsible for the disappearano the thankleek task of purging the of a sampan from the share at Wes: utarted to rim The extremists Force of its undesirable clemcats. Point it had been drawn up out have not been slow to persuade and of "cleaning up" the West-end. of reach of the normal tides by ita humble townsmen and villegers He has done both, and in so doing Chinese owner, who on returning has proved himself not only a great to the shore on Sunday morning, that there had been, the be soldier but also, a fearless adminis found that the boat had been warn ginnings of a Revolution.
ed away
The trataráma 17.1
the plan which we would suggest be. Looking Back 50 Years, adopted in Hongkong. But the
preliminary consideration of the Now that the time for the visit of matter, ahould be entered on at once, the Princes draws near, the question he time in growing short, and, the as to what steps shall be taken to so arrangements for decorations, etc., cord them a fitting welcome suggests will take at all events some wecks itself. That the Government will do to elaborate. The committes would its part may be taken for granted, also require a little time to ascer but it is eminently desirable that tain the views and wishes, of the the community should have a direct community as to how their Royal veice in regard to the festivities.ne igneuses should be entertained tending, the Royal visit. In the during the short time they will bo Australian towns the corporations here.Haugkong Daily. Press, Dot as representatives of the people (Continued on previous Column.