NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,
HONG KONG
REMINDER.
DHE ANNUAL
GENERAL
T MEETING will be held this
·Evening in the Board Rocar of Mr. JARDINm, Marumson & Co., Trp., at 6.00 p.m.
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HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY..
ANNUAL GENERAL. TMEETING will be held at the CATHEDRAL HALL OFFICE on Wednesday, April 6th at 5.80 p.m.
H. J. BEST;
Hon. Secretary,
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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that
I SEALED TENDERS in Tripilents, which abould be clearly marked Tender for Pier east of Eastern. Street will be repaired at the Colonial Buretary's Office nntil Noon of MON. DAY, the IT day of APRIL 1939, for the occupation for a period commencing from the notisation of acceptance of tender and ending on 3'at December, 1982, of a pier as shown soleared red on a plan signed by the Director of Public Works and dated 16th Haroh, 1982, and subject to the con- ditions which can be ascertained at the. office of the Director of Pablo Works;
Upset monthly for $200,
Each tender must be accompanied by a regrips to the effect that the sum of $250 bar boen deposited into the Colonial Tressure, which, sam shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the scoopled tenderer refusing to carry ent the terme of his tender,
The deposits of the unsuccessful"ien- derers will be returned to them.
Form of tender and further particu
Jare can be obtained from the office of
the Director of Public Worker,
The Government does not kind it eli
to scoopt the highest or any tender.
HAROLD T, CREASY,
Dienator of Public Works. (2025
24th March, 1992.
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"PUBLIC AUCTION
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MUNDAT, the 4TH DAY
of APRIL, 1939, at 3 1.2, at the
Offices of the Pablic Works Department
by Order of HI EXCELLENOX THE
ANTONY:
AND
CLEOPATRA
SHAKESPEARE.
WROTE
"Epicurean Cook sharpen with eloylees F106 bis appetite "m Doorn't that sound great? Boy, if I could just get the once over on that guy Shakespeare. I'd tell him he'd spill a plateful Why. I reckon. he knew, somethin' red but in the way of Fauce.and plokian bizonelf, the old play setor 1, But he'd have fair best bis third volume if he'd know what I do about Macono ahis
Pan-Yan
The King of Piokies
GILMAN & Co., Lun., AGENTS,
MARCH 30) 1932
News and Views
top rapidly (At the same: třina restrictions of one kind or another wore placed on Stock Exchange Tale of the Day. doalings. These have all been with-
Brown was in interested visitor "If you do not like a country, drawn, as no speculative tendencyo Wilson's earpentry shop....... there are a thousandi changer tirat beaame avident, so it may be con*
"By the way
Wilson, he said, | the fails is not in the country, but sidered that part of the argument picking up a plank, "what are these in you."—Sir Arthur W. Lewis, for a high Bank Rata la no longer holes in this wood ?" valid. It is avident that the Court
"Those are knot holes," Wilson'
explained,
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
On the resumption of business. after the holidays, the mar opened yesterday morning mo what quiot but steady, with material change in ratos.
N.B-Attention is drawn to the two companies, vit., The Ameri- can Oriental Finance Corporation!! and "The Asia Realty Company," a shorthand journal. Her father | both, of American registry, being
Shorthand Prodigy. Brown, threw the piece of wood. At the age of nine, May Goodwin, on the foot
Jittle girl living in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, has written a neat and acoursto letter in shorthand to
"They are holes," he insisted. Don't you think I know a hole when I see it re
Questi Wilhelming. Exhibits Own
:1
is himself a shorthand enthusiast. now officially listed on thin Ex- He says it nook his little daughter
sight months to learn to write in this way and during this time she Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether.. lande, who is a painter of merit, did not interrupt her school work has for the art time arranged Bin any way public exhibition of 86 of her own works as the Royal Art Hall Kloy.
amp at The Hague, the proceeds School Bowlera.. to go to niding needy Dutch artints.
Most of the picture are oil paint- ings and water colour drawings of landscapes done when Queen Wil- helming was on holiday in Switzer Jand, Norway, and Frames, and in the neighbourhood of the royal summer residences in Holland at Hot Loo and Ruigenboek.
"The Russians were not allowed to keep a standing army on the Black Sea.”
Who was the Merry Monarch? "Old King Cole."'-
A curve is a straight line which has been bent."
"Herrings go about the sea in | shaw }s,
of the Bank of England think that the riak of a widespread withdrawal of foreign balances (with damaging effect on the exchange rata for sterling) is now much less than at the time of departing from the gold basis. It must be remembered, however, that curtain restrictions. on the export of capital still remain. The second interesting aspect About the reduction is that it was | for a full paint. It is customnary, when the Bank Rate is changed, to raise it by a step of 1 per cent but when this rite in lovered tha i stops are of half per cont at a time As a matter of fact a reduction of a full ons per cunt, has not boen made ainoo 1914. The reduction therefore of a full point, mude also at a time when a reduction was not widely anticipated in the City, had in it something in the nature of a gesture of confidence in the future by the Bank's Court. This gave a
Guenther Greenhoff, Germany's filip to the stock markets, and most popular and successful glider pilot, who holds the world's record apart from the automatic, riss offor cross-country flying without an gilt-adgod scourities, there was engine, 208 kilometers, has just reinto a special collection at a Paris. general upward movement in Fall sections. Another encouraging feature of the new year has been the repayment by the Bank of £30 millions jointly to the Beak of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This was the remainder of the £25 millions credits placed by each at the disposal of the Bank of England last August,
A third most encouraging feature of the crisia has been the manner in which the Government has been assisted in its collection of revenue All Canada's Debts Will Be Paid by, the taxpayers. It may be re- called that when the emergency budget of Mr. SNOWDEN жав London. Oftus: 32. Flest Street introduced he made an appeal to
WEATHER REPORT.
The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, Inst evening, statoa-
The anti-cyclone remains sta- tionary to the North-west of Shanghai, and has increased. slightly in intensity.
Local forecast-NE winds, fresh, cloudy generally, some rain.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11
Ice House Street. Tel. 2025). Night Editor (Wanchai Offles):
Tel. 24811.
KO. 4
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, MACH 3, 1992.
individuals and firms to pay promptly their income and sur-tax. This appeal was printed and sent ous with each income-tax demand note. The response was remarkable
and called forth from H.M. the King words of commendation in which he made an analogy between the fortitude of the British people in the face of their prosent difficul-.
GOVERE02, of Ons Los of CROWN BRITISH TRADE IMPROVING ties and the spirit of unity and
LAND at Waterloo Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
with the option of renewal at a | Theng is a British proverb that one Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor wallow does not make a summer, of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one
but when three or four swallows are Farther term of 75 years.
sech "then it is a fair inference that winter is about to take ita departure.. After the many dis- appointments of recent months one becomes chary of predicting tho elose approach of trade revival
Locality.
No. 2319. Registry No.
Waterico Boad
Cowloon Inland Lot|Revist
Boundary H
Measure.
menta:
As por
sala plan..
About
23,350
Sqaure feet
Beat
Upact Price
PUBLIC AUCTION.
290
*(2018
But however remote that desired
recovery,
it is safe to say that e certain rocent exonomic events would not hava taken place had the ebbing tide not ceased. to flow as atrongly as, say, six months ago. Prominent among these happenings was the reduction of Bank Rate, on February 18, from six to five per ∙gent.....
Bank Rate, of courer, is the rate at which the Bank of England re-discounts bills, and, it is always taken by the money market as the
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS standard by which the price of of the Sale by Public Auction to money or accommodation is "fixed. be bold on MONDAY, the TK DAY A six par sent. Bank Bate maant of APRIL, 1982, at $ ... at the Offices of the Fublic Works Department, that industry had to pay a pro- by Order of His EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERhibitive price for bankers' loans HOL of One Lot of CROWN LAND
Waterloo Bead, in the Colony of and, at the same time, the four per with the option of renewal at Crown accounts has tended to keep money Hong Kong, for a term for cent. allowed by bankers on deposit Rant to be fired by the Barreror of Hi Markert tas Kino, for one further out. of investment channels.
mutual service shown by them during the War
/
Glider Pilot Wins Prize.
ceived a prize offered by the B.. Z am Mittag, a Barlin newspaper, for the first successful cross-country fight with a tailless neroplane, The young airman, at the close of last year, few in his baby plans consisting of one wing only with no tail attached, from the Wasser- kuppe, the summit of the Rhoon Mountains, to Berlin, eovering the distance of about 320 kilometers in just below two hours His little machine bad only a 24-horsepower engine and its wings are not arrow shaped, but practically straight, Alexander Lippisch is the designer of this all-wing plane.
in Gold,
Canada will pay ita debts in gold, Mr. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce, told the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce at ita annual dinner.
We have the gold and we will mine it," he declared..
Mr. Stevens predicted the for- sign exchange problem would be solved at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa next summer, with a con- acquent stabilizing effect through-
out the world.
Royal Giving.
A blind woman had put 27 francs church meeting, and a friend was remonstrating "You cannot afford so much out of your small carn- inge.!"
Oh, yes, I can," she answered. I've worked it out and know just what I can afford to give.".
When asked to explain, she said:
am blind and I said to my fel low straw-workers How much da you spend in a year for oli in your lampa when it is too dark to work dark to work at night,. They have figured it as an average of 27 franes "
"So," added the woman, I found, that I save that much in a year because I do not need, a lamp, and I give it to send light to others,
Finland Calling."
change
Sales.
Hong Kong Bank $1,455/1,450: Union Instiranos. $447/450, Hong Kong Realties, $10.50. Hong Trams, #2142
China Lighta (Old) $913. Star Ferries, 109,
Buyers.
Hong Kong Bank $1,440. Union Insurance $445. Underwriters, #4, Douglases $284. Benguets #19. ( Providents (Old) 24.70 ex div. Providents (New) $2:20 ex div. Hotel (lights). 824. Hong Kong Lands $75. Hong Kong Besities $10.95.
Chinese stator 200 Hong Kong Trams #214" Star Ferries, #92). China Lights (Old) $21. China Lights (New) #20}, › Hong Kong Electrice $72].
Talephones (P.P.) #234, Caments (Old) €13. Cements (New) #5}, Watsons, $15 Constructions (New) 11,88
Bellery.
South China Motors "B" $12 Malahon Sugazs $29. Entertainments $14.90. ex div.. South China Enterprises $10.
making a determined effort to, ba- come known as a tourist country..
In order to give people abroad ari idea of Finland's beautiful scenery, Finland Calling was ordered a new Alm, "Finland Calling," has been made, ilustrating a typi- from Aho, Bolder & Co., one of by the Ministry for: Forsign Afairy cal tour from the Gulf of Finland the most modern of producing to the north, along the world's only companies. It was recently shown motoring road to the Arctic Ocean. for the first time at a meeting of With its picturesque scenery, its the Finnish-British Society in Higl. innumerable lakes, rapids and issingfors with great muccess, but is lands, Finland offers great attrac- chiefly to be shown abroad, a copy tious to foreign visitors, and in of it having already been sent to
(Continued on, next column.) America.
Local Notes and Events ★
The financial year ends to-morrow, March 31, and every week during February and March the Treasury
The Hong Kong dollar dropped a halfpenny yesterday and was issues a return showing how taxa-quoted at 18. 3d, on demand.. tion is coming in. The effect of the
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CROWN PRINCE, AND PRINCESS OF BELGIUM..
The Crown Prince and Prinessk of Belgium, travelling incognito,. arrived in Hong Kong yesterday morning on board the new M. M... liner Georges Philippar. They only stayed a few hours in the Colony shiling later in the day by the JOJL liner Tjinegara for the will later visit the Dutch East Indies.
A motor accident occurred in essentially a spring disease which Philippines. The Royal couple
Queen's Road West on Monday reaches its height in March and when a Hong Kong Hotel Company April 'bus knocked down an elderly Chi
Those present were: Mr. anese. The man was removed to G. R. Sayer, (President), 'Hon, Mr. Creasy (vice-president), head to which he succumbed later.
Mesars F. C. Hall, Wong Kwong Tin, M. K. Jo, Dr. Castro Basto, the s.8. President Wilson yester Gelling (secretary) and Ng Mai Kal
Among the passengers leaving by Mossrs L. C. F. Bellamy, J. day was Mr. Robt. Ripley, the well- known American cartoonist Mr.(assistant Secretary). Ripley arrived here last week by the Matson liner Mariposa
appeal to pay up promptly was dance at the Cathedral Hall at 8.15 hospital with serious injuries to his H T
The Cheero Club are holding
well shown in the return for the p.m. to-day, week ended February 31. Silico January 1 of this year up to day, there were 14 cases of small- For the five days ended on Mon- February 13 the Treasury has pox, 2 of diphtheria, 4 of entric
fever and 2 of cerebro-spinal fever.
received from income tax and sur. 'bax sources alone £167 millions as compared with £111 millions in the corresponding period of last year. For the remainder of the financial year from that date it only needed of twelve millions A averago
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from the files
Looking Back 25 PORTE
The Prince and Princess, spent Colony's shops and showed interest some time yesterday visiting the
in curios and other wares.
Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of
interesting to note that during the Brabant, eldest son of Kong Albert of Belgium, was born in 1901. It is
Great War, in 1915, he enlisted in the Belgian Army when less than 14 years of age, being the youngest soldier, then on active service. He Inder joined the Military College and attained the rank of Captain in 1927.
Pritics: Leopold was marhed in November 1928, to Princess Artrid of Sweden, and a daughter w6S born to the Royal couple In Ontolber of the following year
At Central Magistracy yesterday the driver of a motor lorry, who pleaded guilty to a charge of speed- search of material for his Believe ing in Shaukiwan Road, was fined It or Not serice of cartoons. As 125 by Mr. Wyme-Jones the Mariposu bas omitted Chang
bai from its itinerary, owing to the During the month of April the unsettled state of affairs there, Mr. 10.30 am, Friday moming meetings Rinley, who is accompanied by, his pounds a week to yield the sum at the Helena May Institute will be wife, disembarked here. budgeted for. Optimistista even taken by Rev E. CH. Trinbeck count on": budget surplus. Subject Five articles of a work Britain has, of course, a very long
ing creed."
"The case in which Wong Kan road to go before the "!
Leung is faced with the charge of Prosperity The British picture, Canaries manalaughter was continued, be- is definitely ranched. But these in- Sometimes, Bing, which drew side fores de lyday (3.3, O. B. was fitted with the most moderators dications taken with the quietly unge crowds to the King's Theatre tracy yesterday. Mr. R. E. Lindeel tracy yesterday. He was formerly ment for the comfort and safety of confident tone of the bank chair screened at all performances at the E. Rendall appeared for the de- ment at Chefoo, and a Magistrato during its run recently, will be was for the Crown while Mr. F. C. agent for the Transvaal Govern- men's annual addresses, suggest that same theatre fo-day,
fence. It will be recalled that the in the New Territory, BUT MA the British industrialists and people
defendant was the driver of the Ph ke lorry which knocked down a Chi generally are nearer the turn of the
nese coolie in Waterloo Road on last year. tide than appeared as the end of
the murming of February 17" and the man died later. Hearing was adjourned until to-day,..
The
born
of 75
reduction of the Bank Rato is bound-
1
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to be a considerable help to British
1. No. of Balls.
Registry No
Wateribo Hosil,
Locality.
Beondary
Monstre-
ments.
As per
jlan
#18 trade,
Contanta i
Egnare foot.
Apaval
Rental.
Upeet Price
380019
66,000.
The movement up and down of the Bank Rate is always an im portant event, but two aspects made the February reduction of more than
CROWN LAND SALE.
ONLY ONE BIDDER YESTERDAY.
19
During the month of April at 10:30 am. Friday morning meetings at the Helenn Máy Institute will be taken by Rev. E C. H. Tribbeck Subject - Tive articles of a work- ing creed."-ADVT, WAR
Report has been made to the police that a boy Kwok Juf Yu has been missing from 233, Hollywood Read since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon The boy is 14 years of age, and is dressed in grey cotton jacket and
grey trousers.
The 4.8. Georges Philiopar, is the latest addition to the MM. fect Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe took his seat She is most luxurious ship, being
passengers.
ایرانی بازار امید بیاد
Yesterday three well-known polico
Disarmament Necessary. officials were promoted InspectorYou cannot have dangerous "Withers, second class, promoted to pons without anti
acting frat inspector Third class time, to use them inspector Dymond takes the posi tion of acting second clean and Sergeant Fenton is now an acting Buddhist Collection. third class inspector-Hong Kong Daily Fren March 30, 1907
Fears of another outbreak of Cerrebal Meningitis in the Colony
For the first time, all the sacred were expressed by Mr. M. K. Lo
works of the Buddhiste are to bo at the meeting of the Sanitary
printed in one publication, socord Board yesterday Mr. Lo said: Looking Back 50 Years.
ing to Mlle Suzanne Karpeles, the founder of the Royal Library (68.) Before the Board rises may 1. aak kostum key ka whether the Medical Officer of Mr W Y Deane, Captain Sup Pom-Penh Thi taik Has been- Health could make any statement erintendant of Police and Mr undertaken by the Institue de s usual interest. First, it was tha
The annual general" meeting of with reference to the outbreak of 8 Tonnochy, Buperintendant of the France, the Cambodians being asked At yesterday's sale of Crown the Hong Kong Philharmonic Bo Meningitis in the Colony. I under- Gaol, left by the French mail to pay only for the paper and ink initial change in either direction sinics Great Britain's departure Land, Lot No. 1, situated at city will be held at the Cathedral stand, that several cases have al steamer yesterday for a trip home used in the printing. The manu
Hall at 5.30 p.m., on April 8. -The ready occurred in Hong Kong, and on furlough During the absence scripts have been land by Buddhist from the gold standard. When that Mount Cameron, 18,000 square feet report and statement of sexvents the last outbreak some years ago of these offisers Mr. Horspool will priests and when printed will form
Estaten The Committee regret that was a very alarming one. The be Acting Captain Baj
Acollection of ninety, books, wo revent took place five months earlier ---in extent, with
aparatsioowing to the lack of support by the letter Omer of Halth, in reply, Mr Grey Aching the Bank Kate was raised from 44 8212, was sold to Mr. W. IL Scott public, the serious (one of 81,7icas stated that he could not give any tendant, and Mat Orade
dered by tamp to 8 per
cent. This was an ex- for $2,720, this amount being the was made on "Mins Hook of Holstatement off hand. He said the Chief Inspector of Pol
ECCambodia Mine" land”! the result being that the bugh the prevention of the - Hayward will be captional rate due to the anormal upset prica. Ther were no other balanes at the Bank te now only
was rather hopeless, there's tendant of the Ga conditions. ing at that
sign in that it was Daili Pres
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