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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT ON
HONG KONG
FROBATE JURISDICTION..
IN THE
OT
Goods GEORGE WASHINGTON SELLANS,. LATS OF 105, THE PAE, IN THE COLONY OF Hoxe Koxe, ACCOUNTANT, DROBASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court kas by virtue of the Provisions of 8ection 68 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1887, made an Order linting. the Time for Creditors and others to Band in their Cintros against the above Estate to the 2nd day of April, 1939.
Creditors and Othors are scoord ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before 'that date.
Dated the 4th day of March, 1992.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Bolicitors for the Executrix, Prince's Building, Ice House Street, Hoor Koan.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS
DVERTING to the Circular dated 27th January, 1989, a Meeting of Members will be held at the Olub House, Happy Valley on Thursday, 10th March, 1982 at 5.15 p.m. to discuss next year's supply of Subscription Griffins. All interested are invited to attend.
By order of the Stawards.
O, B. BROWNT,
Secretary..
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Hong Kong, 4th March, 1932.
MACAO RACES
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,
SPRING BACE MEETING.
SUNDAY, 13th MARCH, 1992.
There will be 7 Racos.
The Macao Derby is the THIRD Race.
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The Bacos will commence prompt- Jy at 1.30 p.m.
ADMISSION Non-membere Members" onclósure $7.
to
Public enclosure Centa 40. Members MUST show their Badges (1932 season) to gain Admittance.
Each Member can obtain 2 Indios: badges free on application to the Secretary.
Tiffin, Tos and Refreshments will be obtainable at the Race Course.
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THE CATHOLIC PRESS DAY will take place at the CATHEDRAL
on SUNDAY, the 6th MARCH. MORNING SERVICE --- High Man 8a m. BVENING SERTION;~~
Sermon and Benediction at 4 p.m.
Catholics are cordially invited.
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
DOUBLE BARRELLED
OPPORTUNITY
HILLMAN WIZARD
BUMBER SNIPE
This seasons pheno- menal, successes gained by the Hill manWizard" and the Humber Snipe cars put them at the "top of all competi- tion. We congratu- late ourselves for having "bagged ' them both
HILLMAN
WIZARD SNIPE
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HUMBER
AT THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932.
the construction of a dam below! Sukkur,“
stone.
*News and Views
Quick Fishing.
A Home correspondent_writes to give some details of fishing in Chile,
was
Point of View
The curious logic of the East is charmingly illustrated in a story of the Maharaja of Nepal.
During his rpcont visit to Cal- eutta-which goincided with that of the Vicuray-the Maharaja attended the State Ball Covarnmont House.
at
After watching the State Lancers --that most formal and serious of ceremonies-ho discussed them with the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Philip Chetwode.
it.
A Matter of Opinion.
CRICKET IN NEW ZEALAND
SECOND TEST MATCH SCORES
(THROUGH REUTERʼN-AGENOY, }' '
FINE SHERRIES
Amontillado.
WELLINGTON, Mar. 4
the Second Test Match between New Zealand and S. Ahdon.
First Tanings..
The following are the scars in Amontillado Superior.
Now Zealand
Vivian 100 Dumpster 84 Badcock
53
.. MacMillan 5 for 195 S. Africa 78 for 3 wickets,
304
RETURN OF LINDBERGH'S BABY SON PROMISED-
***AL" CAPONE OFFERS BIG
REWARD
Fortunately Sir Groxan (now Lord) LLord had just boan appoint Governor of Bombay, and he deter minod that Sind buld have an effective system of irrigation. Ho instructed Me. A. A. Musro to Tals of the Day. propare now plans. The problems of Anance was a serious one
Cook: "I didn't get the lobster, Sirf GROTOR LLOYD tackled it with malam-pal I told him-1 anys energy and his persistence stomily your pricus is altogether too,exu- overenme all financial and other bernut, I say. Uficulties. The sanotion of the Bombay Legislative Council was obtained in 1923, and work on the barrage began in the same year.
The barrage, which now has been built is appropriately named the
Lloyd Barrage."
The quantity of fish along the It is about a milo in length, consisting of sixty. const has to be seen to be realised," six arched spans cach sixty feet he says Shoals of small herring wide, and it is built of white limo six to nine inches in length, so
The Viceroy danced," said the The archon carry a law densely packed that they have the Maharaja, and the Clovernor and level road bridge and also a high appearance of affording foothold, their ladica. Why? Why did they tovel operating bridge with the infest the bays and harbours" clowdance and make exhibitions of necessary alcotrient and hand inshore."
thomselves before all these people? machinery for raising and loworing
The method employed by sailing Why did they not have someone to the stool gaton-two of fifty tone ship crows in the old days to catch do it for them f
fish under each of the sixty-two arches, these delicious
callad Eo simply could not understand When the river is low during coldligging"; that is, three hooks weather the level of the water above bound back to back let down over the barrage on be maintained at the side of the boat into a shonl and the height necessary to supply the jerked sharply upwards. This im- seven canals there by keeping the pairs them, sometimes two, and oc- barraga gatem closed; and this will casionally three, at a time. not seriously diminish the volume of water that will pass on to the Jowor roaches of the river. When
HOPEWELL N.J., Mar, S. the animer un molts to Hima
Colonel Charles Lindongh has lagan snows and the volume of Wealth From the Stage.
beon assared this his nine-months- old son will be reesprod. to him a will be allowed to pass. When the
Should the report from America
midnight, and is now anxiously river is in full flood pl: the gates that Mr. Noel Coward has conclud wil be lifted clear and the greased a 2000,000 deal for the film rights A nigger was applying for a job, waiting the passage of the hours, river permitted to flow down to the of three plays prove to be well and, after listening to all he had hoping against hope that the pro. sea as before.
The world-famous nirman: is very Including all the branches, feed will have amassed, at the age of 38, said:
founded, it soome probable that he to say, the prospective employers will be carried out...
You can have the job, and
reticent regarding the details of era, and minor channels the system a grenter fortune from theatrical you will get what you are worth."
the kidnappers" promises. gives nearly 7,000 miles of water-work than any other Englishman. "That's no uso to me, baas, re- ways, while the small water-courses Undoubtedly he should be goingplied the nigger," I'm getting more eus by private individuala are on welltowards the millionaire than that already!"
stimated to total 35,000 miles, mark. In any case, it is doubtful This vast irrigation system covers whether even the prolific and sao- over 8,000,000 nores greater dreaccesful Mr. Edgar Wallace can have than the whole of the cultivated achieved, from theatrical work Innd of Egypt-of which 6,000,000 alone, so strong financial position. cares will be devoted to valuablo Mr. Froderick Lonsdale haa, of success. But his plays do not lend themselves to presentation in such large houses as do productions auch as "Bitter Sweet” and cada,"
DURO GARAGE water increases, additional water
in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
GILMAN & Co, Ltd., Agents.
AFB. 4
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.40 p.m., stated
"
A feeble anti-cyclone appears to be central over the Eastern Sea, moving eastward
Local Forecast -E. winds, moderate; fine to aloudy.
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The Daily Press.
"I have Alled a bucket with fish thie manner in top minutes," adda the writer of this letter:
and
Sir Austen Chamberlain other at the dinner of the Primrose, Capt. Douglas Hucking chaffed each League on the foot that neither is a member of the Government.
It's their loss;" commented Bir Austen, And then, lost he should be inclined to dwell too much on that side," he recalled a story...
Unconscious Humour
(Reuter's Special Service.)
The reason for his silence in the matter is stated to be a threat in note which reached him, warning him not to talk too much or 30. allow the contents to be publishód,
Solera Fina.
Solera Fina Superior.
Superior Pale Dry.
Full Golden. Amoroso Extra. Fine Old Brown.
of very superior quality grown and bottled by Anto. R. Ruiz Y. Hermanos Xeres de la Frontera. Specially selected.
**One sip
otherwise the baby will be put to will bathe the drooping
spirit in delight
One of the best. unintenticual | death, laughs over honed in a talkie was The shocking affair continues to that brought forth by the Ameri- oxcite nationwide interest, one of
Noah's Ark": paifect English."
crops, such as cotton, wheat, rice, course, had an astonishing rum of can's assurance to the German in the most vema kable develop Beyond the bliss of
41 Bottles a Day,
Caval
Is any man able to drink. 35,680 bottles of wine in twenty-two years
The answer is that an 18th-century worthy, one John Van Horn, a ham which used to meet at the Bull Inn, bone merchant and a very active member of the Amicable Society,
"You speak
But this is easily surpassed by the effect of a single word in Miss Tallulah Bankhead's new fim, "The Chont. The climax is a court scene in which Miss Bankhead's crime, is being tried for wounding husband, taking the blame for her the villain.
Unable to endure the vilification of her husband, she springs to her
tora, and concludes her indictment feet, takes charge of the case, tolls her story (uninvited) to the specta-
being the offer of a roward by “ÁP”! Capone, the notorious gangster, from his cell in the Penitentiary of Illinois, for information leading to the recovery of the Lindbergh baby unbered, and to the apprehension of the kidnappers,
Capone is £2,000.
The reward offered by "A1"
"Baby Will Die." ERKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICN;).
ל כי
borgh stating Baby will die," the
LATER. Another postcard to Colonel Lind-
kidnapping case.
dreams."
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Established 1841.
PHONE 20016.
millet. and sugar cand
It is estimated that the value of these crops will be between (£25,000,000 and 230,000,000 a your, "and their weight over 2,300,000 tons. The total cost of the Lloyd Barrage, including the seven great canal system was £8,440,000. Angient and modern methods were used in the work of excavating the canals, Forty-six machines were in opera- tion which could remove seventy while in some places the primitive four tons of earthwork a minute, way of scraping up and depositing. the earth outside the canal bed by Bishopsgato-street, achieved this of the villain by revealing a scar: the latest sensational elue in the WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS racans of bullocks drawing a metal feat in his day. In 1743 Joseph" He branded me!" Ledge board-scoop was adopted,
Highmore (whose picture of Hagar At this there is a frenzied howl, In the course of an interview and Ishmael is in the Foundling strong men rush, upon, the villain,police of all districta around New Despite the tireless efforts of the which he gave on the opening of Hospital) painted this minor hero's he is saved from prestat lynching York, they are still unable to pick the dam. Lord LLOYD pointed out portrait, and shortly this is to be by fighting policemen, and draggod up the track of the kidnappers, al very significantly that through seen at Christie's
out of the court-house the centre of though they have announced that out this work British and Indian Highmore did not forget. the ne-
& struggling mab, mgineers have been co-operating,cessories of a flask of wine and a Then comes the laugh. After five have now narrowed down the search after questioning 625 people, they There were no quarrels, no misglass, and it is to be presumed that minutes of deafening pandemonium, to two unknown persons, understandings. The chief engineer Van Horn had a sip now and again the judge draws himself up and was an Englishman and the super during the sittings to keep up his sterly cries, "Order!" intendents were all Englishmen. average, The Indians were working as dis trict or assistant engineers, INDIA'S GREAT BARRAGE.
But Sovereign at, a Premium. there was not the slightest ill-feel-
vands, the daughter of a Swedish ing. On the contrary, there was
It seems as if the promise of nine-marchant, contrary to the wishes THE political difficulties of India always that willing spirit of opence for fourpence is almost being of the King of Sweden, the Prince's have for a long time monopolised operation without which
roalised at last. Those who possess grandfather. publia attention. The claims of the scheme of this kind cannot be gold sovereign can get for it 275. various sections of Indian opinion
carried through." English and
2d. in Treasury notes and silver by Indian for varying degrees of self-govern-
engineres, working to presenting it at an assayer's offer ment, and the British Cavernment's gather, have completed the largest in Hatton Garden. attempts to reconcile their confict-irrigation system in the world, and ing interests have filled many it is to "be hoped that this is a columns of the world's newspapers. good anzury for the peace co-oporn- To such an extent has this been the tion of Englishmen and Indians for eas that there has been a natural the greater development of India in tendency to overlook other aspects the future.
HONG KONG, MARCH 3, 1932.
of Indian development. New comes
In welcome relief in the recent open-
ing of the great daan nerces the
vnst 13
The assayers offices are one of
"free" shows. If you and at the counter for half an hour you will
eo all kinds of precious metals be-
LADIES' HOCKEY,
'ROYAL WEDDING
PRINCE LENNART'S MOTHER TO ATTEND CEREMONY
(Renter's Special: Service.)
LONDON, Mar. 9.
DEATH
OF OLD RESIDENT.
MR. W. LYSON
Many residents will regret a bear that Mr. W. Lyson, a resident in the Colony for almost the whole of his 71 years, passed away at his residence a 20, Kai Tack Bund, Kowloon, on Thursday night. The the most interesting of London's RECREIO TEAM FOR TODAY. son who had not seen each other noon and the remains will be
The meeting of a mother and funeral will take place this after- for eighteen yours took place in terred in Chiu Xue Cemetery, The following have been chosen the Solent near Southampton to Mount Davis,
reprenant Club
Mr. Lyson was, the father of the de Recrsic's day, aboard the North German ing bought and gold across the coun-ladies hockey team against the Lloyd line: Europa.
Tate Captain C. H. Lyson, who The assayers buy metal by
They grooted one another joyfully served with distinction in the Grena weight in accordance with its Hong Kong Ladies Hockey Clus when Prince Lennart of Sweden War and subsequently returned t quality, whether it be in the form to-day on the Sookunpoo ground at ran up the gangway of the liner Hongkong to practise as a soliciter,
p.m.-B. Romedios, C. A friend who preferred a silver Osmund, E. Rosario, H. Guterres, mother, the Grand Duchess Maria Messrs. Lyson and Hall.
from a tug, to be met by his ultimately becoming principal of cigarette caso which had cost him M. Alves, E. Xavier, C. Botelho, of Russia, who has come from the £3 was offered 7s. for it, this re- C. Silva, L. Silva-Netto, A. Alves, United States to attend her son's presenting the actual value of the M. Remedios. metal
wedding in London to Mise Niss (Continued on previous column.)
ter,
A$ from MARCH 1er., 1992, my River Indus at Bukkur.in the pro- DRIVER ON SERIOUS of ingots or teapots.
Office will be situated on the vince of Sind, a piece of engineer- SED. FLOOR, ST. Gzonas's BUILDING.ing work which is of enormous im-
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H. A. LAMMERT, Share and General Broker.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
RTOTICE IS HEREBY GİVEN that the 43rd Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Officon of the Company, Ex- change Building, Des Voeux Road Central,
Victoria, Bong Kong, on Thursday, the Blat day of March, 1922,
Noon,
for the purpose of receiving Statement of Ac
Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1931.
at
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 12th March, 1932, to Thursday, 31st March, 1932, both days inolasiye."
By Order of the Board of Directors,
· ALLAN KEITH,
Soorotary.
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Hong Kong, 1st March, 1993.
HỒNG KÔNG & SHARDHAI 'BANKING CORPORATION.
THE Final Dividend declared for
the Year ending 31st Deguber, 1981, at the mito of Three Pounds Sterling at oxchange 1/51 is payable
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portance to India and deserving of the attention of the whole world.
CHARGE.
SEQUEL TO FATAL ACCIDENT.
"Would swaying, give an impres sion of speed
"A stout woman swaying along doesn't gavo ср impression of speed,"
to
4.15
Reserve: T. Noronha,
Local Notes and Events ★
the weekly article on photography Owing to pressure on our space
has been held over.
8.3. Taishan with the theft of a Charging & Chinese stoker of the
quantity of goods, Inspector Bhai- tain told "Mr. Williams at the Central Magistracy yesterday that
from the files.
Public Works Department for a Mr. Lyson, senior, served in the number of years but left to join Mr. Hazeland, architect. Latterly ho had lived in retirement at Kow- loon City. His very cheenfik na- ture won for him a host of friends in Hongkong, from whom sympathy will go out to the deceased's family.
-NEW HOME FOR PO LEUNG- KUK.
(Continued from Paye )
Sind, which is about the size of England is watered by a single river. As the whole "province in practically rainices; the supply of water from the river is a matter of life and death to most of the three and a half million inhabit- anta. Fortunately, the Indus flows through the whole provine, a dis. tauce of four hundred miles. from Thus a question put by Mr. F. O. North to South.
Bind is u vast. Rendall to a witness as the Xow alluvial plain, the northern par-loon Magistracy yesterday after- tion of which in barely two hundred noon, and the witness's reply.. feet above sea level, and the Indus The case was that in which a. Chi- flows not, as might be expected, nest lorry driver named Wong Kam in a valley, but on the top of slight ridge. For ages the people slaughter of another Chinese named Loung was charged with the man-
One case of diphtheria, one of of Sind have dug canals from the Lo Chun in Waterloo Road on the Paratyphoid fever and banks of the river to their various morning of February 17. The dead cerebrospinal fever were reported smuggle them ashore at Canton
the man had been engaged to Looking Back 25 Years.
But without the aid of any visible incalition Himalayan snows has filed the ed down by a Chevrolet lorry driven
The melting of the man was alleged to have been knock on Thursday.
Mr. A. Hosie, the Commercial reminder, there will over live in the without, the knowledge of the Cus: Attache to the British Logatiometry of this generation-and-the- Indus and then the farmers have by the defendant, and to have died
toras, but instead had pawned there.Poking, arrived in Hong Kong fenerations to com, the name of had water for their crops, but the frem hia injuries.
A meeting of members of the It was a case of a man who had yesterday, from Shanghai..
one who gave the scheme the first uncertainties of this form of sen- Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the new Hong Kong Jockey Club will be intended to rob the Customs being Inspector
ipulee, who direpted all the stages sous irrigation and the silting up Publio · Promouter,
William
of its development with infinite of canals mada farming enterprise while the defence was conducted by Valley, on Thursday, March 10, at employed. Sentence of four weeks in the Hong Kong, police, lenvos prefers to yield to othars the credit prosecuted, held at the Club House, Happy robbed in his turn by, the agent he after twenty-three years service care and wise guidance, and, withal, Mr. F. O E. Rondall. Inspector Mason, of the Traffic Polite, wae 6.15 p.m. to discuss next year's hard labor was inflicted, while the Hong Kong Daily Prem, March 6,
for home to-morrow on furlough, that is his. I refer to the Hon.
Mr. E. B., Hallifax, owner of the goods valued at $133, 1907.
in chargs of the polics evidenc...
one
supply of Sabucription Griffins,
Mr. Bourchier, Bailiff of tho Supreme Court, gave evidence of
of
under the primitive conditions pro- vailing an unsatisfactory gamble.
When the British entered the country they promptly initiated
and consisting of two rolls of cloth, Looking Back 50 Years. improvements Old canals were re- designed, silt was methodically and having chorved the lorry driven by { Two special preachers are an 15 dozent.powder puffs, and a dozen regularly cleared away, and at this nccused pass his house a few monounced for tomorrow's services at heads of cunnis good masonry rements before the accident of a apted the Union Church, Kennedy Road. mouth-organ, was warned by the gulators were built. In 1940 nn of over forty miles an hour, and of The Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, Bench against the iniquity of the enterprising subaltern of Engin hearing a crash just as this lorry president of the Brown University, net he had contemplated. esra, destinod Inter to achieve high overtook another..
Providence, Rhode Island, USA, command. prepared an excellent The witners proceeded to the will give a sermen at the morning
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Robertson,
The Gorman gunboat Iltis, Con- mander Klausa, returned to this port yesterday from Canton.
Wo are exceedingly sorry that. His Excellency the Governor, who takas auch a dosp interest in the Po Leung Kuk, has been prevented by indisposition from performing this ceremony. We are, however, very fortunate and pleased to have with us Lady Pool whose gracious Yesterday morning a private tel presence, especially in the circum gram was received in town which stances, adds yet another oblign- leaves little doubt that Governer on to the many under which the and ordered in hearty welcome to the Hon.
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on and after the 20th February, 1982, at the Offices of the Corporation, memorandum on the possibilities of scene and found the lorry wrap. service and in the evening the where abarebolders are requested to | irrigation în Sind: The iden of ped" round lamp standard, pulpit will be occupied by Dr. pany a steam dredger for the pur- Sir John Pope Hennessey has been has placed us. I should, like to join apply for Warranta
barrage across the Indus was while overal poopia sppeared to boRufus M Jone profesor of Philopes-of-dredging the entrance to virtually recalled difficulties in the way were con as afterwards transpired, "oft officially discussed, but the injured, one-the deceased-Intally, sophy, Harvard College, Penny- Macao barbour. The dredger is to home...
Ivania, USA. The importance of lit 100 tons per day, and should. We hear that the Macao govern sidered too great. Finally, in 1916, At the conclusion of Mr. Bour Dr. Barbour's position, can be therefore perform effective service ment have ordered from the Hong the Government of India approved chior's evidence the cams was adjudged by the fact that Brown in Macao, harbour-Hong Kong Kong and Whampoa Dock Com the preparation of a scheme for journed.
University has 9,000 students. Daily Pren, Marh B 1882
(Continued en previous Column.),
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN, « Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 27th Feb, 1982. [1835
Exceline deputy, but also for Colonial Boaretary, not only as His the more than ordinary interest which, fse and Mrs. Sathorn havo always taken in the Institution.