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MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,
IMPORTANT NOTICE
BE SECOND EXTRA RACE MEETING advertised to take place on Sunday, the 3rd April, 1982 has been postponed to Sunday. the 17th April, 1939.
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By Order.
WL ALEXANDER,
'Secretary.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Meta- bers of the above named Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hong- Long at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon onATURDAY the 2nd day of APRIL 1839 for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing as Extra- ordinary Resolutions. the following Resolutions.
1. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following:--
(a) by the deletion of Artiole 84 and by the substitution of the following Artials to be
πάνη: as Article 84 in its place. (84) Each Director other than the ex-officio Director shall be paid out of the funds of the Com- pany as remuneration for his services the sum of 8200000
I such remunera par antern and
im shall be deemed to accrue de die in diem and be payable br half yearly instalmonts. (b) By the insertion of the figure $15,000.00 in the place of the figures $10,000.00 in the ifth line of Article.
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That the foregoing relation
shall be retrospective non shall
take effect Brom the 1st., day... of -January 1972.
AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above named Company will be held at the same time and place on MONDAY the 18th day of APRIL 1339 for the purpose of receiving Report of the proceedings at the abovementioned, meeting and of con- firming if thought fit as Special Resolutions the above, mentioned Resolutions.
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Dated this 15th day of March 1032.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON, General Managers.
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WRITES
"Cursed with an appetite keen I am
and I'll subdue it--- (several repetitions) with Gold Boast Lamb 1”
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That's the spirit that grips the person who, sandes him goose with Pan-Yan and tickles his appetite with the Plokle. He dema't even get the repatitions!
You remember the model «for. Caporal in the "Pirates How the dear old rad faced square- pusher would hava bouelted by having a bad drawn on
Pan-Yan
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WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather raport, forecast and remarka, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.20. p.m., stated:-
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consideration "subsequently.
If the former provision is en- forced. Le if goods, manufactured in Hong Kong have to be mado from raw materials produced in
Tale of the Day,
News and Views
Golf Widow: You think so much of your old golf game that you don't even remember when we were married
Judge Ready to Taos Alf Criticism, Mr. Justice MaCardie answered his critics una speech at the Con sulting Engineers dinner as the St. Stephen's Clubyekto,
crinolines, tearing round a cinder track. Bookmakers laid the odds and women, clapped their hands,
British territory, it appear at Duffer" Of course I do, my I do not tail, he said, wore driven by men dressed like
first night that the profcronos tariff will be of only mall bemoft to Tocal exporten. In recent years, however, then has sprung up, especially in Kowloon, a large and" over-increasing "Industry in certain kinds of cotton knitted and woollen textile goods manufactured from raw materials imported from India and other British territory. This industry, of course, would be directly affected by the prafezenco tariff. As pointed out by a member af the Chinese Chamber on Wedne day there is quite a large export trade from Hong Kong of sweet ginger manufactured from ginger uultivated in the New Territories, and this trads would undoubtedly receive a large and much desired Alip
If, however, a preference tariff in granted to goods manufactured in British teritory from foreign raw materials, the effect
on the futuro industry of the Colony, with its cheap labour and living con-
done, it wha a day or two before I Bank that 30-foot putt,"
Preached With His Hands.:
In North London church clergyman preached a sermon with his hands to a congregation of nearly a hundred.
Every man and woman worshipper in the church the Church of St. John of Beverley, Green-lanes, Finsbury Park, N-was deaf and dumb but the words of the sermon which they were not able to hear were translated with eloquent hands. into a language they all know.
There was no "musicg or singing,
but the service was most moving and impressive, «
The preacher, the Bov. Vernon Jones, stood in a pulpit in a circle avery member of the congregation. of light focussed on him so that
had an uninterrupted view of his hands.
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The Navy's Worklöss.
The animals, shafted to buggies,
"to jockeys-except that they worn white trousers lastead of knas breeches-and they lashed", their whips as the horses dashed round
recognise the great fact that after all the principles of law and the applications of law must vagy with the times. He added.
corners.****
Slow Motion Racing,
The low must adapt itself to "the new outlook, the new vision,
Bobwean the races a man who and the new instinct of mankind.
The path of the reformer noces stood on an old soap box let me sarily involves the path of criticis,into the secret of the hopple but in my own opinion the man who is afraid to face criticism is not the man who does credit to the English nation or to the English. Bench
"In spite of all criticism, whether it be wise or unwiae, fair or unihir,
honest or malicious, I, myself a resolved resolutely to perform whit I deem to be the duties of judge
a judge not in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth centuries but a judge who is born to deal with the facts and the realities of the year in which we live."
The Fourth Pyramid,
"The crinoline," he said, fia d contrivance that, loarne the horse to trot or amble, Women like the hopple because it makes the horse so slow,"
The Greenford Trotting races do not attract the elite of the turf, but. everything was done in the classic There were race cards, a manner. totalizator, a grand stand and
ticktackers.
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Professor Borróws Twins.
A pair of nine-year-old "identi 'cal twins wore used se living modèle in a demonstration by Fro fessor J. B. S. Haldane in his lec ture on Heredity at the Royal Institution..
Though the boys definitely renam- bled one another, they were not
A great now pyramid has been discovered by Professor Selim Hassan. As its axistence has long Ten thousand officers and men.
been suspected it is curious that have had to leave the Navy ju the it has not come to light earlier last four years owing to reductions One would think that a pyramid quite "alika,as two pena,”
with a superficial area of 3,000 square yards could hardly be over looked, but this one has been effec It is believed to be the tomb of a tually hidden for about 20 centuries:
"Let me see your teeth," said the Professor.
in personnel. It is, expected that the estimates this year will show a further reduction. This means that arge number are looking for civil ditions and it facilities for obtain-work, and an appeal is made oa, Fifth Dynasty queen, and may hold Haldane, pointed out that their
ing raw materiais:" from China,behalf of officers. An Admiralty would be far reaching. The matter Fleet Order announces that, to
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Two broad grins showed imme- diata obedience, and Professor
teeth were extraordinarily alike.
"Now we will take your pulse,"
is now being given tho considera.enable employers to get into touch But, even if it does not, it will pro; said the Professor as he held, tho
tion of the members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce whose expert view will be awaited with interesti
A. PALACE. OF HEALTH.
A. NEW
was
The anti-cyclone extends from Central China to SW. Japán and has decreased slightly in intensity.
"Palace of Health Local Forecast-N.E. wins recently opened in London. This is moderate; fair.
the London Clinic and Nursing Home, which has been erected to provido. people of moderate means. It has medical treatment for
a mile of rubber-paved corridors; a floor apado...of twenty acres, and it contains one thousand rooms on ten
Editorial and Business Offices 11
Los House Street. Tal. 3095). Night Editor (Wanchai Office) :
Tal, 94511.
London Offer K, Flant Stroot,floors. It is the largest nursing
The Daily Press.
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HONG KONG, APRIL 1, 1932.
HONG KONG AND PREFERENCE TARIFFS.
THE majority of Hong Kong mer- ebants, both Chinese and European, have in the past concentrated on imports; purely local exports have heer practically negligible, though vast quantities of transhipment HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. Ergo from Canton and South China are shipped from Hong Kong for distribution throughout the globe. At first glance, therefore, it would seem, that the now tariffs which have recently
come into operation in Britain would have little, if any, effect on Hong Kong trade. This, ne matters stand, ip more or less true, but the proposal to grant a preference under the
TENNIS TOURNAMENT. SEMI-FINALS AND FINALS, OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES: AND DOUBLES.
LANS will be open at the Pavilion PLANS
to Members and Subscribers for the Booking of Reserved Seats from 6 Pim, Wednesday 30th March, to 8th Pm Friday 1st April
Un and after Baturday, 2nd April booking will be at Mears. Moutrie Price per ssat 3:00 including tax.
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NEERING FION COMPANY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the TENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Shareholders of the Hong Kong Engineering & Construction Company, Limited, will
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Building, Chate
new 10 per cent. tariff on all goods produced and consigned from British Colony to Britain has not, perhaps, been fully appreciated by local merchants
with suitable men, a committee has been formed which will work with the Admiralty Naval Personnel Committee..
Some Qualiications.
Naval officers, says the con1- mittee, have many qualificatione making them valuable in business, and it is pointed out that their training and service have bred in, them
Integrity. Loyalty,
Discipline.
A broad outlook. Good bearing. Adaptability.
Initiative,
Tact,
The newly appointed, committee
officers. Commander J. O. Wyatt. will, upon application, select and submit the names of suitable
home in Grat · Britain. It was will if necessary visit any prosper opened by the DUCHESS OF YORK. intive employer.
The committee's address is RN. the presence of some of the most and R. M. Officers' Civil Employment distinguished physicians and sur Committee, Queen Anne's Cham geons, including the King's phy.bers, Dean Farrar street, S.W.1. sician, Lord Dawson of PESN, and
Lord MOYNIHAN
new treasures for Egyptologists. vide & new theme for philosophical meditations on the vanity of human Erentoess and a fresh rebuke to our
self-conscious civilisation.
Ten Words in One.
One station name on the Southern Railway comprises ten words with out any alteration in the order of the letters being necessary, says the Southern Railway Magazine.
The name is Norbiton and the words are No nor, or orb, orbit, bit, it to, ton, and on..
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Horses Run m. Orinolines.
Have you ever seen a hoppled "horse race?
Women have gone in for this new form of sport, and seem to like it better than going to the dogs.
The word toppled" is another" form of "hobbled.”
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wrist of one boy while the father
Then the finger-prints of the boys of the pair timed the other.
were flashod on to the sorcon:
"Aho," exclaimed the Professor, "now we are going to talk about two twin, boys, like you, who be ramo burglars! I think you had better go now!"
And they wont,
Professor Haldane, who is fond of unusual demonstrations, pro- poses in his next lecture to take blood from two people in the on- dience.
"L.G.'s Book On War Debts.
Mr. Lloyd Georga is to publish almost immediately an important book on war debts and reparations, the title of which he has not yet chosen,
The book, running to some 35,000 wards, is not only a lively and com- I went to a race meeting at prohensive, record of international Greenford, Middlesex, seven or negotiations, of which the author night miles. from Paddington has intimate knowledge, but also (writes a London correspondent,) a marching examination of the and say hoppled horses, in leather whole field of controversy.
★ Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar was yes- terday quoted on demand at 19, 3fd.
made by the coxetin of the motor-boaty damage amounting to $500 was done to his craft.
In the cours of his short address Lord MOTNI made a few re- marks which came as a surprise to many people. The poor had always had in their hospitals, he said, the very best in medicine and surgery that the country, could provide.. The rich were not so well off in their nursing homes, for they had not available all'methods of clinical, rudiclogical, and bacteriological investigation with every facility for appropriata relevant treatment. Only the larger hospitals could provide that hitherto. Now the now
One enno of small-pox, one of elinie will provide something com-diphtheria, one of enteric fever parable with the finest hospitalware reported on Wednesday.
and four of cerebro-spinal fover
treatment. Lord DAWSON expiain-
The Right Roy, Bishop Valtorta celebrated the silver jubilee of his the priesthood on ordination to Wednesday,
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At St. John's Cathedral Hall on Tuesday, April 3, at 9 p.m., the Red Triangle Concert Party will prorent A Village Concert, Proceeds will be devoted to St. Peter's Church Funds.
From the files.
When a Chinese was brought be. Looking Back 25 Years, fore Mr. W. Schofield at Central China's diplomatic Magistracy yesterday on a charge ⠀⠀ of disobeying a deportation order against the migration into "Tibet of made in 1924 for e period of ten a body of missionaries brings into
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POLICE POWERS IN MURDER CASES.
MP. SUGGESTS A SECRET INQUIRY.
The question of the power of de-. tectives in questioning murder sus pocts was raised in the House af Commons: following the failure of the police, to solve the Vera Page. mystery...
Sir Charles Cayzer (C., Chester), asked if the Home Secretary will consider the advisability of setting up a small committes with power to take evidence in private from ma
Department, with a view be ascer taining whether the existing power of these detectives to examine and question suspected persons, in such cases as the Vera Pago epse in quiries neod AMA Alteration or revision,..
Fealing in the Force.!! Sir Charles Cayzer said to a press representative.
I know that the Home Secre
bers of the Criminal Investigation
years, it was stated that the man consideration the present position had five previous convictions for
atme uffence and three for of, that country. It is open and yet larceny. This time he was given not open. The British Government, one year's hard labour.
strange to say, is responsible for a cd that the clinic would try to meet xity Law and Commerce Society
The annual dinner of the Univer
On Wednesday, the R.A.P.C. held quite typically Chinese policy of the needs of people whose incomes has been arranged to take place
tennis at Home.
at Happy exclusion just at present, for which ranged from 100 to £800 a year, at Lane, Crawford's. Restaurant on Valley the whole Corps, officers no reasons other than sentimental
and men and their families being This, as another speaker said, hadSaturday, April 9, at 8.30 p.m.
present. There was bear and some ones can be guessed. Various peo days of high blood pressure and low nan, No. 12, Bhan Kwong Road,, was to provide an informal introsion of the Indian Government, and become a real necessity" in theas The forthcoming wedding is an very nice exhibition tennis was ple anxious to explore Mahatma
nounced of Mr. Leung Hau scen. The idea of the at Home land have been refused the permis.
Hong Kong to Miss Mary Quan duction for several newly arrived Dr. Svon Hedin, in order to maketary has stated that he is not aware Tog, No. 9, Leighton Hill Road, members of the Corpe and their the latest journey, about which he of any handicap to the work of Hong Kong SA
families
has sent such triumphant messages, the police, but I understand that had practically to start by defying the feeling among the force is far the authorities-Hong Kong Daily different from that expressed offic- Press, April 1, 1907,
ally
bank accounts."
WEIGHT LIFTING.
The subject was discussed on Wednesday at a meeting of the Chiness Chamber of Commerce, CLUB OPENED AT QUEEN'S during which it was intimated that
a letter had been received! bm the Colonial Secretary regarding
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ROAD CENTRAL.
Falling from the top of a retain. ing wall in to a lane below, a Chinese youth named War Ka Cheung was on Wednesday taken to the Government Civil Hospital
for treatment is a kin
Looking Back 50. Feara.
According to a report made to the police, some person or person gained entrance to Mr. M. Akbar's residence, 8, Jordan Road, in the early hours of yesterday morning and atole money and property to the value of 8250. It appears that According to a police report an Those interstid in physical cul- cklerly Chinese woman has been to the kitchen through the backyard the intruder reached the entranos ture will be pissed to hear that a removed to the Government Civil door and broke a piece of Elle probably has been in possession of the Secretary of State for the weight Lifting dub has been open- dose of opium which she took to him to get his hand in and draw Hospital suffering from an orse panel sufficiently large, to mable Colonics. The Chinese Chambered at 19, Queens Road Central, first lawing a quarrel over gambling back the bolt. was asked to forward ita opinion floor, under the direction of Mr. A. natiers. to the Colonial Secretary on the
D. Spoors, well-known locally as the
Strong Man."
be held in the Board Room of Missars, qucation as to whether there were Shewan, Tomes & Co, St. George's any preferences in any Domialen
Hong Kong Mon Tuesday, the 5th,
1032 at 13 market which would be of real receiving the Report of the Board of value to the Colony, and would o'clock noon, for Directors and a Statement of Accounts likely to foster inter-imperial for the Year anded on the 31st Decem-trade, as this question would soon 1881, and electing Directors and be discussed at the negotiations be Auditore.
The Transfer Books of the Company tween the United Kingdom and the will be closed from the 24th March to Dominions at the Ottawa Confer the 6th April 1989; both dayu inclusive.
By Order of the Board ALYES
'Secretary, Hong Kong, 17th March, 1939,
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The Club is fully equipped with all the modern appliances for seien tifo body Building and the tuition given my Mr. Broors is guaranteed to improve one's physical condition in the shortest possible time.:
Classes are held daily after p.m. There are a few vacancies at It is believed that the preference prosent for You European males "will"apply "only" to goods manifie l'intending to four the classes, and tured in Hong Kong from raw application shed he made to the materials produced in British_tor-Club by letter er in person,
The police believe that their position has not been clearly defini ed, Such a committee as I have it, might do a lot of good in allay suggested could de no harm, and ing the public apprehension on the
subject.
FLAG DAY TO MORROW.
ORGANISED BY ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE
The first act in the Tonquin drama has taken place A Franch Bangkai to the city of Hanoi, and Expedition sailed up the river
the Tonquiness capital for some days. The force" collected for the purpose appears at first sight Judi Ab 11 pm on Wednesday a fire crously small, but it must be re- While the motor boat Australia broke out on the ground floor of membered that the French go to was lying alongside Queen's Pler 45-40, Main Street, Aberdeen, oc oust' a Government that is obñoxi- on Wednesday, it was involved in dupied by the Tai Sting rice and ous to the people of Tonquin, and collision with the Kowloon Dock grocery shop, owned by Mr. Li will meet with no resistance save ferry launch, Kowloon Shan-O It You Taun, O.B.E the well-known from Annamite mandarins and the
The St. John Ambulance Brizade was alleged that the launch was local merchant. Both the ground undisciplined rabble that they are pier and according to the and Set Bore of the hitting piste to call soldiers No dif- has arranged a Flag Day for
to a report were severely damaged and gutted. Faulty was therefore anticipated in morrow between the hours of
whilst house No. 47 niso suffered seizing the city which could be held am and noon, the proceeds being Charged before Mr. Schofield at slight damage The fire, it is by a small body of troops occupy." in aid of the Brigade's activities Central Muristracy yesterday with stated, originated in a heap of fire ing the citadel with great ease in the New Territories where there the theft of two sheets of neth wood, but the actual cause of the Moreover, as our correspondent are maintained already two dromine from the Tung Wah Tastern How outbreak is at present unknown, says, further reinforcemente were stations two nurses and one dresse fined $50 with the alternative of despatched to the scene and it is not imprepable that the Annamiter In nital Mortuary, a Chinese was Two apliances and a Breflost were expected from Baigon, and it is working wogst ood month's hard libon. It was stated that the latter took met asutiofities will surrender without cookie stated that the cloth was used as little over 5 minuten for the trip striking a blow, directly they e M shrouds to cover dead bodies in the from Hong Kong, This is unid to the French horn, buaines, Hour w Mortuary.
be the record time for the trip. Hong Daily Preus April 1, 1882