NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GREAT NORTHERN
TELEGRAPH
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NROM 14th
„THS. BASTENK...... EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA: AND CHISA TELEGRAPIE COMPANY, LIMITED TO ASSOCIATED WITH IMPER•· "IAL AND INTERNATIOKAL. COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
Docamber to 6th. Jaunary, telegrams in plain language containing Christmas .or Now Year greetings will be accepted to Austria, Belgium, Czecho Slovakia, Dauzig, Denmark, Finlaud, Franco; Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britalo, Holland, Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Li thuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzer- land, Irish Free State (posted from London), United States, Canada, New- foundland, Mexico, South America, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Indin, Burma, Ceylon, Btraits Bottlements, Malay States, Dutch Indies, Sarawak, Labuan, British N.. Borneo, Siam, Japan, Formosa, Aden, Ferim, Irug, Philippines, Hawaiian Islands, Union of South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and certain other plucos.
The rate will be approximately one "third of the ordinary rato, subject to
minimum charge for ten words. During the same period Greeting telegrams in plain Chinose or English will be accepted for places in Chine at ons quarter of the ordinary "rate" with a minimum charge for ten words. Further particulurs regarding these services may be had on application to the abure Companies.
F. V. JENSEN
S. LAOK" Manager.
Manager.
11565
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONGKONG
་་
MEMBERS are requested to send in
as soon as possible their applie ations for tickets for the Ball, to be held at the Pen raula Hotel on Wednes day, 6th January, 1951.
Englishmen wishing to join the Po ciety may obtain particulare from the under-signed.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Sesveteries and Treasurers, Alexandra Building.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. ASSOCIATED WITH IMPERIAL & INTERNATIONAL COM. MUNICATIONS, LTD. Hong Kong Branch..
FROM
IROM December 18, 1971, and until further notice, Mr. C. C. Clarke will be in charge of the abovo Company's Branch at Hong Kong.
1500)
S. LACK.
Manager.
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION..
THE ANNUAL DINNER DANCE will be held at the PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON, on TEIDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, (931..
Tables may be booked at the Peninsula or Hong Kong Hotels. Charge for each person $3.0" Payment must be made when booking' tables, tickets will be issued.
1020
By Order,
B. D. EVANS,
Hon. Secretary.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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WIZARD
SNIPE
WATCH THE STARTLING PAIR You mostly see their tails as they overtake:- you-as they always will.
Get & look
At the real
comfort and magnificent engineering.
Considor a
HILLMAN WIZARD
OR
HUMBER SNIPE
AT THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931.
OWN CENTER.The stockbrokora, başi CUPD ON gan to transien a good tent of! their business in the neighboring goffee-houses nathana" And. " Godraways.”” Jonathan's Coffac House suffered the fato which WAA. apparently common to many build. 'ings" in those days; it was burned
don in 17-18. It was robuilt nai
Now Jonathan” And in 1973 the
THE DOLE
From the earHTAR - GENERAL'S statistical roview for 1980, (pap nears that the number of marriages. in England and Wales solemnised within the year was the highost re- corded since 1921. This phonome nou is the more notable because of the severo economic depression
*News and Views *
Tale of the Day.”
Husband: baronetcy ut last!"
Hore it is
Tasty Wifo: You, it would come now I'm too deaf to hear peoplo
1
nembers. derider to call it this which has prevailed, and which 54y Your ladyship.' to me.."
Stock Exchange. In 1801 the foundation stone of a new building. was laid in Capel Court and the following year the now Stock Exchange was
opened. In the
might have been expected to act as a deterrent to matrimony, Love, apparently, laughs at economists zin much as at locksmiths; and, like Richard
"Bleak Carstone in
Enterprise.
Thieres naing a motorcar took an automatic cigarette machine from its concrete base in Reading one night Lator the machiny waa found at Wokingham-without the cigarettes and money.
..
Dr. JamSS.
middle of the century it was onbire House," Asly convinces itaolt porience of office work; experiene.ters of all time he was a worthy;
Ty rebuilt and since then additions have been made.
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where"
Prematurę.
Buronet Wants Work-
An advertisement in a London papor
Young Irish baronet, aged 23, is seeking employment. Some ex that it positively cheaper driver; good horseman go any for two people to be married than enain single. But appearance would be deceptive. It is not fond "Woman nt Stratford Police illusion but cold calulation that Court-My husband wrote to me accounts for the facts. Thoro wa and said I would find his body a time when the mirringe rate was in the River Len. After the police appond to fluctuate with the price had unsuccessfully dragged the of wheat, but now it is linked wit: river, I met him in the street and another Factor: That factor is the he asked why I was not in mourn- accessibility of the dole, for which ing. both bride and bridegroom for this past two years have been abls re adily to qualify, and so to live Harold Gilligan's Health. happily ever after at the expense! Mr. Harold Gilligan, the Suss of the State. When Unemployed cricketer, has been ordered abroad
If the late Dr. James will agt be counted among the great headmas (though, of course, not immediate) Sincesser at Rugby to Arnold. Ha was a good deal mure broad-mind- ed than his predecessor. Dr. Por cival
of (subsequently Bishop Hereford), and expressed great indignation on being told that Percival had made a boy who had played bruent in order to have a day with the hounds-write put two thousand times "Fox-hunting is the amusement of the devi
That boy, neidentally, beenras an M.F.H.
Stamps and Oricket.
In its early days the Stock Exchange
regarded with neither liking or respect. Dealers in stocks were considered odious perkons, and in 1720 resolution was passed without opposition in the House of Commons stating that nothing could tend more th the establishment of public credit than the prevention of the infamous practice of stockjobbing, Grent DURO GARAGE changes have taken place in the popular attitude since these days
There are now more facilities and greater protection for the investor, and the service is more efficient. There have been many reforms even since the Great War. Before tosta and inquiries are being in. M.C.C. cricket team which tqure of Good Hope with one's own band.!
Now Zealand in 1909-80 and played in the statistics issued a year some games in Australia en ronto. In 1930 he succeeded his brother hence, a notable fall in the nun. ber of marriages. Matrimony will no icnger be a batter investment than the Post Office Savings Bank.
in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
GILMAN & Co,
Ltd.. Agents
BIRTH.
APB. 1
ANEY-On December 8, at Shang- hai, to PAULETTE, (ncé Puthod), wife of Lieutenant J. F. Arboy, a daughter, EvUQUETTE.
MARRIAGE.
CRESSY WILBUR.-On October 24, at
Chicago, ILIZABETE GRIM BALL WILBUR, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hollis A. Wilbur, of Seoul, Korea, to PAUL FREDERICK CRESSY, Ph.D., son of Reverend Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Cressey of Granville, Ohio.
DEATH."
Twigo.-On December 8, at Shang- hai, ELLEN ADELAIDE, TWIOG. widow of P. O'Brien Twigg aged 50 years,
Editorial and, Business Offices: 11
Ice House Street Tal. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 88, Fleet
.E.C.. 4.
Streat,
The Daily Press.
Bosa Kend, Decazanen 14, 18317
LONDON'S STOCK EXCHANGE.
the war it was possible for anyone to introduce shares on the Stock Exchange; now no shures may be introduced without the permission
of the Committes for Genera Purposes, which requires the publication of responsible state ments about the concerns when shares are to be introduced. Other salutary changes in the rules hare been made, and in all probabilier the laws and rules will become still more stringenont.
Only special clerks are allowed in the Exchange, and if by yopte trick a stranger manages to enter his presence is bitterly resented, and he is able to be roughly handled. The different Markets," such as those for Government Stocks Mines, and Railways,, nre located in various definite places which runtly facilitates business. The members are divided into "Zoblery and Brokers. The ordinary buyer or aller deals through a Broker, who in turn deals with the
Jobber. As Mr. S; W. Dowling, the author of an excellent book on the subject.The Exchanges, of Landon," explains, "The Jobber is a principal who buys or sells to make his profit. The Broker is an agent whe bays or sells nct for himself but for his client from whom he retsives a commission.”
The
prices
eniled are
iy "Waiters," of whom there are
11
may regard the Royal Ex- Stock persons who are now or my become change as the parent of most of the reputation throughout the world before the lat day of Jeanary, 1932
Benefit was instituted, it was never for reasons of health and has gone
to Switzerland, for at least Ave but months.
Mr. Harold (A.H.H.) Gilligan one of the famous Sussex cricket brotherhood. He captained the
intended to provide a dowry for
married people; young
it has worked; that is the way under the indulgent conditiona laid down by the late Socialist Government; and now that stricter sisted on, we may expect to see.
Difters Too Much!"
The banning in France of Cap tain Liddell Hart's biography of Marshal Foch is a curious mani festation both of past history and of French sensitiveness to all cri ticism. The reason for the ban is that it "differs too much from the view of the Marshal hold in France"
I
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Arthur (A.E.R.), the old England captain, as captain of the Sussex County side. Harold, served as
ilot in the R.N.A.8. during the war. While flying over Kiel Caft his plane, was hit by a shell, GEE gan and his companions were fore- ed down on to the son, and spent three days and nights at the mercy of
the WAVER befora H.MS Haleyon rescued them.
Best-paid Unemployed."
A motion demanding that steps be taken to obtain a rovision of the financial settlement with the
In the decade before the war;
House of Hohenzollern has been when Foch himself presided over. the French Staff College, the works rejected in Committee of the Prus sian Diet, Fifteen ex-princes are of the most profound military drawing £83,500 a year (at par) historian in Trance, Colonel Grouard, vere virtually boycotted between them from the German Re by the official rulers of French public, and are described in the Republican Press as the "best-puid military thought.
unemployed in that country.".
I
had the schoolboyisi hobby of
It was partly because Dr. James.
stamp-collecting that endeared him to so many of those under his charge; there is somethink in being able to compare perforations and the marits of a three-comered Cape master. Like Dr. Thring, of C pingham, he considered that it was. more important to play gampos than to watch them, and, bearded like W. G. Grace, he could often he seen at the nets at Rugby in the earlier days, bowling in a styla peculiarly baffling.
Another Hitler Saccess.
The Hassinn elections, nt which. the Hitler Part increased its vore by over 100 per cout, ia a further indication of the tendency of Ger- man politics towards extremism. The moderate bourgeois parties are losing ground to the Hitlerites; tie. Socialists' raaks are being deplat- ed by desertions to Communism.
THE CHOICE OF
THE CONNOISSEURI
SOUTCH WHISKY WHICH
EEMS TO HAVE CAPTURED
THE SUNSHINE OF THE
THE TANG
BARLEY.
OF. THE. PRAT SMOKE.
THE MELLOWNESS OF GREAT
AGE.
WHISKY
WITH A FRAGRANT BŐDQUET,
A GRACIOUS MELLOWNESS, AND
A GENIAL FLAVOUR THAT
WARMS THE HEART-SUCH
IS DEWAR'S, A RARE
OLD SCOTCH WHISKY.
"
DEWAR'S
WHITE LABEL'
AGED IN THE WOOD AND BOT-
TLED IN SCOTLAND, THE
UNVARYING QUALITY OF
DEWAR'S
OTHIN
LEAVES
TO BE DESIRED.
SOLE AGENTS
Very soon we may see the Eitleri A. S. WATSON & Co.,
tes and the Communiats the two strongest parties in the Reich.
is significant that Herr Hitler's latest triumph was, achieved in
State which hitherto has always | been Liberal and democratic in its
political sympathies:
* Local Notes and Events
pharoys, dental surgeons, has been The name of Dr. E. C. Hum ailded to the Dental Register..
th
appointed Mf. L. R. Andrewes to His Excellency the Governor has
be an Official Justice of the Peace
גג
of
appointments
A qualifying examination for Probationer he held in Queen's College cu Clerks in Government Service is to
January 5, at 10 am,
from the files.
LIMITED,
.. Established 1841.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.
MONDAY, December
The following hunched at Gov- ernment House
H.H. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Lind
soll, Mr. and Mrs. Wills Moody, Mr and Mrs. Taggart, Mr. Stan-
ton..
TUESDAY, December 8.
At
His Excellency the Governe
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H. M.S. Cumberland returned from har Summer visit North on The Government fivtefle contains Saturday. She has been relieved a new genle of charges for medical by HMS. Beswick.
treatment and maintenance Government hospitals: Private At" to-morrow's meeting of the patients will be subject to addition Rotary Club, Mr. William Kwaial charges for medical attendance Fong-yuh will give an address on and for surgical operations..
The Chinese of Hawaii.?
A report of an armed robbery Mrs. R. M. Dyer is to distribute was reported to the polien by a about fifteen, each at a stand with the Kowloon Junior School prizes married woman on Saturday. It Looking Back 25 Years. DENG the present difficult period sounding board" which helps. Wednesday, December 18, 'nt was stated that three armed men I entered the woman's fat at 293,
In a recent conversation the financial and commercial
to make their voices heard. Th0.30.
Hung Kong 0 xan was rudely world the Stock Exchange in Lon-closing hour is four o'clock, whey The death has occurred in Lon. Tai Mam Street at 3 pm, by stat TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN den, is of considerable interest, for the "Watters" sound their an cf Mr. A. W. Still, who was ing that they had a message to laughed at for, using the phrase, and Lady Peol attended the exhibi-
deliver: One of the men thresten- "depreciation of gold." The talk that the Dirustors of the above-
for nearly 20 years editor of theed the woman with a small knife was on the everlasting question, of tion tennis match given by Mrs. named Company have resolved to issent it is particularly affected by every rattles," and no one else
Straits Times, Singapore. 80,000 shares forming the remaining financial crisis and by any inter- allowed to enter. When business is
and stood guard over her while the course, and the man who laughed, Wills. Moody at the Kowloon part of the unismud Capital of the ference with commercial activity. good it is continued outside, in
other two ransacked the place, cocksure that gold being the It is notified in the Government eventually leaving with property standard could neither, depreciate Cricket Club. ̧," in the first instance be offered to the For that reason it may be of some the street "-Throgmorton Street next, the fees payable at the Cap used on the woman. Company and that such shan shalt
Gazette that, an; from January valued at $50. No violence Tensor appreciate, had: none of that.
humorous humility which made WEDNESDAY, December 8. persona
sons appearing in the Company interest to outline its history and and often this narrow thorough Rond School will be 800 per an
the late John Bright confess that register of members ne shareholders on
the conditions which have created fare is crowded long after the num..
His Excellency the Governor the 1st day of January, 1939, nt
Par
A chauffeur, in the employ of the he did not understand the currency and on terms and conditions which it.
close of the Exchange. The London will be communicated to such parannu
Christmas and Now Year great Japanese Consul was fired 832 by question, though he wax credibly dined with the President and Men-
infcrmed there are people who do. bors of the Rotary Club of Hong" Exchange has at a later date. The attention of all
higning cablegrama will be received by Mr. Williams at the Centrel Mar This little anecdote in revived in a
the Eastern Extension, Australasia, gistracy on Saturday for being, in suggestive article in The Monthly Kong, at the Hong Kong Hotel and China Telegraph Company at possession of eight bottles of duita
and the New Era." The writer, of the fountlation of” the Club," named Company in respect of which Stock Exchange. During the six-after the strictest scrutiny by the January, G. Minimum for each dant stated that he purchased the promising that the world is. their names hare not ie entered in teenth century there was a lively Committee. and the strictest message will be ten words.
liquor from a man in Ice House the Company's register of uombers
Street bus he could not now find at present" abruptly ascending THURSDAY, December 10 particularly directed to the above spirit of adventure and enterprise discipline is enforced, the penalties Me Justice R. Wood has been him. The Magistrate said that the tail only fe price level, His Excellency. the Governor resolution and to the fact that in the New countries were being discover-being, apapension or expulsion; The elected a member of the Royal Em- liquor was bought at the defendant's in quo set to forests all presided at the meeting of the event of suof persons wishing to
nire Society. Mr. R. George, own risk and that he should have the professors will be busily dis Legislative Council, participate in the aid offer ther shoulded and explored, and foreign trade present entrance free is five take immediate steps to have their increased. Sir THOMAS GUESIA hundred guineas, the
Hong Kong, is among the members been able to prove that the duty cussing the Depreciation of Gold." annual who arrived Houie last month. Mr., had been paid. Tames entered in the Company's regis aw the need for a central bourse subscription one hundred guiness, P. Jacks and Mr. J. Barrow are
So the Hong Kong man who was FRIDAY, December 1 A young Chinese named Wong laughed at, if he see these lines.
Hi Excellency the JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, or exchange in London, and as the and candidates for membership members who have left Home.
result of his initiative the Royal must
Kong, who was charged with ob may be cheered to find that he was be supported by three
A patient. of the Kwong Wan taining goods valued at 8344.95 nearer the mark than the scoffer.-presided at the meeting of the Exchange was built. It was open-guszastors who are membera of th: Hospital, who disappeared on from the Empress Store, Kowloon, Hong Kong Daily Press," December University, Council: dd by Queen ELIZABETH iz 1571, + "'House.**
Thursday, was found hanging in by false pretences, and with leaving 14, 1900.
SATURDAY, December 12 The Great Fire of London destroy-
En unoccupied house in the Sham a forged draft for 89,600 B There aro Ɛnow about. four ahuipo district on Saturday The guarantee after purporting to be Looking Back 50 Years. ed it in 1806, but it was promptly thousand members, but there are man was dressed in hospital cloth the nephew of General Wong, THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No rebuilt and opened in 1671 by King alac a certain number of Brokers ing and is balloved to have com- Keung, was sentenced to six month's We are glad to be able to an hard labour by Mr. A. Frater, nounce that the Reception Com SHARE CERTIFHUNDRED CHARINA 11. In 1826 this second who are not members of the Stockmitted suicide.
In mittee have, decided, na wat at the Kowloon Magistracy.
an 100 SHARES numbered 6090/0739, i building was burnt down, and ro- Outside Brokers. In many waganda methods, Shanghai Chin-stated that the man was a danger to call upon the British and For As one of the anti-Japanese pro- passing sentence the Magistratenounced in our columns yesterday, they AYA in 年度 adyantageous
can advertise ne public bodies have addressed to the community.
eiga residents in the Colony to Lady Peel attended the 14th Extra Mame of FRANCISCO XAVIER Different portions of the Ex freely. which members are
position. They
illuminate their buildings on the not latter to the Printing Shop Pro- BOARES having been reported lost.
18 HRERRY GIVEN that change were used in the seventeenth allowed to do. They are not pristors Association, suggesting The second consignment of the night of the 54th inst, and to mark Race. Meeting at Happy Valley. NOTICE
His Excellency the Governor in 1 mines the unions ORIGINAL CERTIFI century Ly different trades, and subject to the discipline of the that anti-Japanese slogans should now postage stamps bearing the the visit of the Detached Squadron CATE in produced within
ONE
Committre, but with this goes abe printed on next year's calendar portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen has with the Princes among thera by Lady Feel dined with the Bon. Mr. MONTH from the data thereof, it will them were known as Walks. There certain lous of prestige:, for the blocks.
been brought to Shanghai from giving a ball in welcome to them. thereafter he held by the Company as were the Silkmens Walk, the Ham- outside, Broker may be perfectly:
England. It consists of approx European residents have through Shenton, President of the Hong NULL AND TOID, and NEW burg Walk, the Brokers and Stocks straight forward and reliable, but The Right Reverend the Bishop mately 100,00,000 stumps. It is out been anxious to take a share in Kong. Philharmonic Society, at the CERTIFICATE for the said sharea
the public feel that when transact of Victoria, yesterday, in the learned that the now stamps bear any festivities that might be or will be issued
Walks, and so on, As trade ex ing business with him, they are Church of Our Saviour. Canton, ing the portraits of other revolu ganised, and had the original pro. Hong Kong Hotel, and afterwards panded the Royal Exchange, became less safe than when dealing wit ordained to the priesthood the ticnary martyrs, which are now gramme been adhered to, there can attended the performan too small to meet the needs of the recognised members of the Stock Reverend Lit Po On of the Tsang being prepared by the Ministry of ba little doubt that a brilliant and Miss Hook of Holland
Exchange, who "ILTE liable to Shing district. The preacher, at Finance's Printing Bureau Pai effective illumination would have various industries, and a number penalties for infringement of rules the service was the Rev. C. I. ping, will probably be put on sale been carried out Hong Kong by the Borinty at the Theatro
Blanchett [1539, of them moved and opened their and regulations.
on New Year's Day
Daily Press, December 14, 1861 Royal.
the holders of shares, in the abora. precent exelianges, including the New members are admitted only reduced fates from to-day up to able Chinese liquor. The deteni Review, satitled "The New Gold 'en the occasion of the anniversary
iter of members.
' ד' .
General Managers,
₤1887
THE STAR FERRY CO..
LIMITED.
tha
7839/7898 and 89190/39214, in ebovo Company and standing in the placed by the present structure.
By Order of the Board of Directors, BH CRAFNELL, Begrotary ong Kong, 4th Dec, 198),
4-
Exchange. These
are known
within the next
Governor
Captain T. A. H. Coltman. re-.
Governor at the funeral of the lath presented His Excellency the
Mr. Wong Kam Fook, J.P.
His Excellency the Governor and