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THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION."
THE
HE LAST MEETING of the Season will be held in THE HELENA MAT «Instirues, að 5.80
"TUESDAY, APRIL 5 (To-morrow) PROFESSOR C. A. MIDDLETON SMITH, M. Sc., M.I. Mxox. E., A.M.LE.E.,
will speak on' 'BOOKS ABOUT CHINA,” Those who wish tas in the leature room must order it the day before," from the Matron of The Halens May. Institute (Telephone No. 22160).
BOBERT K. M. SIMPSON,
Hon. Joerotary & Treasurer.
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NE E THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING will be, bald (wasihar permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, STu APRIL, 1932, com- mencing at 1.45 pm Brat saddling bell 1.15 p.m.
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much more
reaching change
nature.
To leave out of account the roat of the country for, the moment, one hundred foreign industrial enquiries have been received in Liverpool, and progress is being made with the negotiations arising from them, According to a writer in The Pinica, the inquiries fall broadly into four groups.. "They come from arms which require čapital to establish themselves, firms which can start Operations without capital or other nasistance, arms which propose to have their products manufactured under license by British manufac turers, and foreign firms which shek partnerships with English firms." Negotiations havo· advanced almost [to the final stage in a number of cases where Anancial help is not needed. The products range from perfumery to pumice-stone products, and no fewer than fifteen of the enquiring Arms are associated with wireless and electrical accessories...
To turn now to the county generally, Lancashire has an Indus trial Development Council which Includes representatives of thirteen
33.00 for Ladies (Both including Tar) TELrun-On March 7, at Shang Chambers of Commerce, d. numbër
are obtainable through the SECRE TABY apon Introduotion by a Member, such Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chiis, etc,
to.
Badges admitting
Merabern
Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the
Race Course.
hai to Mr. and Mrs. ALEX TELFER, ⠀ #17,
MARRIAGES.
of local development organisations, railway companies, banks, olec- tricity and gas undertakings, the
Coretext will Children be SPADDING-Rquara. At. Los Anesal industry, the Mersey Docks
goles, on March 1. THOMAS ARCHIBALO SPEDDING, son of the and Harbour Board, the Man Into Captain SPEDDING and chester Ship Canal, and the Trades Mrs. SPEDDING of Shanghai, to
permitted in ather Ensloanra daring the Meeting.
Tifias are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Tolophone 21:920:
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Publis Enclosure is $3.00, including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors is Daiform aro admitted Half Prics.
Bookmakers, The Two Man, ato., will not be permitted to operate with. in the Preninats of Tas Hong KONG JOCKEY OLUs daring the Race Meeting. Tifins will be obtainable in the Ros taurant in the Publio Enclosure"
By Order,
O B. BROWN.
Jr #Soorotary.
Hong Kong, 4th April; 1982.
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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.
THE Summer Term begins on April 11th. Examination for New Students at 9.30 A.M. For Prospectus, for Boarders and Day- boys, apply to Mr. Li Hai Tanz. Banker & Co., 20, Des Voeux Road. Central or to
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY,
HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
of the Hong Kong Engineering &
JANE DARWIN ROBERTA onlyUnion Congress General Council daughter of JoHN G. RODENTS
and Mrs. BonorHT KITCHEN, of which is now dealing with many Hollywood, Cal
enquiries relating to now industries,
MOLLAND-COUTTS.-On March 19, ut Peiping, Mr. H. H. MoL
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Deputy Commissioner, Postal Service, and WINIFRED MARY COUTTS, the Hermitage, Barkhamsted, Horts.
Editorial and Business Offices: 1
Ice House Street. Tal 20251.
Night Editor (Wanchal Office):
Tel. 94511.
London Office: 43, Flant Street,
K.O. 4.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, APRIL 4, 1932.
LANCASHIRE'S NEW
INDUSTRIES,
So far Manchester has received about eighty inquiries relating to possible sites, factories and facilities for distribution. The industries! involved include the production of toilet goods, dyes, knitted goods, velours, carpets and textiles of
various kinds."
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Tale of the Day.
News and Views G
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She (a novice): "Why should wet What are the caddies for ?
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"World's Worst Navy,
Desorbing at the Disarmament Conference the Navy of his cous ry, M. Garay, the representative of Pangana, said it consisted of
"One ship, moored in a kako and manned by two caretakers.". filly, speeches outlining the Vari. ous nations plan for distrament, have been delivered since the con- ference opened.
When the last had been delivered Mr. Arthur Henderson, as President, rose and declared that all the speeches had given evidence of a spirit of hope- futnices and determination, Honte des Alper Open.
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wins now wouding as a Inbourer. Ho added:
The
A Cure for Stammering.
Whatever pitfall, the microphone may possess for the unprofessional Bathing profession is very broadcaster, it has one positive
The beach refused to vary the claim in its favour. It appears to order, which is for 306. a week.. provide an effectivos cure for stam.. mering.
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At least one of the ametour broadcasters occasionally employed by the B.B.C has found that his habit of stammering yields to the gentle persuasion of the micro- phone.
Trousers His Wife Ordered,
A man who sent his wife to order a pair of trojsera for him refused to wear then
When the tailor sued him at West London County Court for the value of the trousers, the Registrar The Registrar:Are the trousers was told that they did not at
in court?
"Yes," said the tailor and hand-
Some practiced sponkers are slik reduced to the most abject stage fright by the grim little black box, Not even tho wistful groon of the walls in the voice-testing rooms on Savoy Hill, per the sight of the books and engravings artlessly dined them in. tributed about them to reassure the soothe perspiring amatour an
them.
A Moralist from the North......
A certain Northern magnato who had come to London for certain im portant business conferences found himself at a looso end one after- noon, and asked a colleague to ne company him to a matinés of a musical comedy.
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Put them on," said the Regis trar to the unsatisfied customer. "You can use my room,"
Soon the man came back wear ing the trousers and was invited on to the bench. The tailor accom, panied him.
"They look very nice," wae. the Registrar's comment.
"Yes," said the man, but I would be afraid to sit down in thom"
The Register was convinced, They were too tight. So judgment was given against the tailor."
The Route des Alpes, which runa over the High Alps between Grene blo and, Nice, has until this year been impassable from November 13 to May 13 owing to the depth of mow on the Col du Lautares, which is as an altitude of 2,200 metres—7,230 foet. But now will The colleagus declined. I'm no longer interrupt the trade going to take the opportunity," he The Lautaret Pars fee between the said, "of seeing, the French pic- small vilinge of Menotior and tures. Why don't you come with Briancon and caterpillar cars have me! You'd enjoy it more than
Princes Elizabeth Bibesco judg been put into service over this theatre," section of the route M. Petsche, 1 "Well," the magriate replied ing the entires in an entertaining. Under-Secretary of State for Fine doubtfully, "I'd like to see them, literary competition set by a week. Arte, recently inaugurated this new and I'm sure I should appreciately review, cites an amusing this Après moi lo service.
them, as you say. But, in my posi- translation of
after tion, do you think I ought to déluge "The deluge was You see, I've got to remember that my time." I'm a magistrate.
The Hidden Firo..
While a dance was in progress at the Motal Metropole, Brighton, fire: men dealt with an outbreak in the offices and the dancers and 'gueste never know that the firemen were in the building."
known, broke out in the office of The fire, the cause of which is not A guest, the assistent manager. who was the first to notice the fire gave the alarm so quietly that the news did not spread round, the hotel
Rather than antar the front of the hotel the tremen went through a side street to the seat of the fire, add quickly did their work. The damage was not serious. Norves Wrecked by Air Bald.
Experiences in a war-time air raid were said to have ruined the nerves of Edith Adeline Fathers, aged 60, of Lower Cross-road, Hampstead, NM
She was found lying below the the Bith Boor.. window of her room, which was on;
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A. Tenor Intervenes.
But
Impromptu performances in rel staurants by non-professionals äre ing or becoming otherwise exuber rare in London, whore angono sing ant is apt to be ejected. cabaret artists of sufficient stand- ing have been known to spot stage. or musical celebrities among the dinera and to invite them. to come forward and perform..
Essays in English.
But no wilfed attempt to render French into humorous English, can, be se comic. as the unaided ecorts. the Frenchman who innocently, relies on dictionary English,
A correspondent sont the label
which gravely counsels the sufferer to swalle the tablet with a few on a French patent medicine bottle
water without crackle."
A Rowing " Blue's' Romance
Broken.
It is announced that, the engage- ment between Mr. Thomas" An-
One night at a restaurant in Regent-street Mr. Fannis Titterton thony Brocklebank, who stroked was dining with a B.B.C official; the Cambridge eres to victory for Tempted, perhaps, by the succese the third successive time In Bo of a Hungarian violinist who wan- | University boat race last year, and ders from table to table, he sud- Miss Florence Anne Chichester has denly burat into "Heart's Delight" with true Tauberian fervour.
People seem all the cheerier for this assault on the usual decor of the place.
Singer Turns Labourer,
been broken."
Mr. Brocklebank, who is the only son of Captain H, C. R. Brockle, bank, of Marsh Court Mashull, Dorset, became cousged to Miss Chichester in April 1981. She is the daughter of Captain 0, 0, Chichester, of the Royal Navy, and Ellis Vizard, formerly a singer Hvos, at Marston Manor, Maraton Her sister told the Coroner (Mr. in light opere, applied to the Ox-Moana," Fomerset, She Se an e- Bontley Purchase) that Aliss ford magistrates to reduce the Fathers and been unable to work amount of & maintenance order since she was in an air raid in granted to his wife, He stated 3917. A bomb passed right through|that his earings had decreased the building, plunging it into dark from £14 a week to El 10 He dees) and wrecking, a dinner-wegon. was paid by his father, a Chelten near her..
ham market gardener, for whom he
It is also reported in The Times, thay an important Dutch Brm intend to produce at Accrington cotton plushes that have "not pre viously been manufactured to, any
extent in Great Britain. · The machinery has arrived, and the firm is expected to engage a considerably number of operatives. At Oldham In German firm is to manufacture elastic webbing, while another
During last month, rain fell only. German company is to produce on eight days, the total amount for wireless accessories in the Mau- the month being 183 inches.
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thusiastic follower of rowing, o
Mr. Brocklebank has been de scribed as one of the most brilliant" strokes Cambridge have ever had During a remarkable towing career he has won almost every possible. honour.
Local Notes and Events
One cass of diphtheria, one of enteric fever and two of cerebra spinal fover were reported on Friday.
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After lingsring for three weeks in a serious stute, a junk foki who sustained govere injuries when a cargo junk caught fire on March ́ 0p succumbed to his injuries ois Fri- day last. The outbreak of fire oo.
ourred of Stonecutter'i Inland when the junk was alongside the B.E. Wong Shek Kung, loading rice.
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years.
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MODERN PIRATES GLAD TO RETURN HOME.
Mexico City, Feb. 20Survivors of the small band of Mexican youths who left in September on a" Olibustering expedition to Vene- zuela and have just straggled back relate adventures involving "ahdus, tion, piracy on the high sout, and desporate fighting in uncharted jungle water.
Sailing from Vera Cruz aboard the Gulf Navigation steamer Sup- asperior, ostensibly "on an
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THE introduction of tariffs in Great chester district." The greater num Britain is already leading tobar of the inquiries received, in [2014 industrial developments in many Lanenshire, apart from the Liver directions. Several foreign firms pool area, are ih respect of the are now busily engaged in establish, pruduction of textile specialities, ing works in Great Britain, or in for which the situation" of the
The total output of the Kailan arranging with British firms for the county is peculiarly, favourable,
to the territory of Quinatana Roo, Mining Administration's mines for
the group of 140 Mexicans, some of the week ending' March 19, amount- mabufacture of their wares. This There is also greater interested to 100,038 metric tons, and the
A brilliant conclusion to a The following forthcoming wed-
whom were in ignorance of the real is a welcome change wherever it is being shown in agricultural pos males during the period to 85,091 dings are announced:-Kwan Ma ed last night at the fancy drees the seizure of the ship by a half- cessful series was the verdict pass purpose of the voyage, witnessed TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN taking place, but nowhere in it sibilities, and the re-organisation metric tons.
Wai, No. 207, Sung Wong Toi, dance which brought the course that the TENTH ORDINARY welcomed more than in Lancashire, of agricultural marketing is being YEARLY MEETING of Sharobolders the sout of the cotton industry. I discussed. It is proposed that at 56, Stanton Street, a nine-year-, Kwan, No. 2, Bonham Road: Lim! Quadrille Association to a clase. were on the high scas,
During a visit to a friend's house Kowloon City, to Cheung Tsz promoted by the Scottish Masonic dozen ringlenders soon after they Construction Company, Limited, will For of all the depressed areas which centre should be established for the old Chinese girl named Loung Woon Kuan, No. 1b, Elgin Street, Sibbet were M.C., and Mr. J.
Mosse, J. Macleod, Harvey and With the crew. and, captain in be held in the Board Room of Messrs. have suffered from bad trade during collection and handling over a wide Yaumati, "fell over the verandah to Lyc Kum Mooy, No. 2, Squaro Blake was responsible for the gen irons, the vessel was sailed bap. Shun Yee, of 98, Woosung Street, Shewan, Tomas & Co., St. George's
Chater Road, Hong Kong the past few years, Lancashire has
area, of such products, as milk, and received serious injuries. Street: Chih Ki Sau, c/o C.M. cilent music was supplied by the Venezuela, where the members of eral arrangements. As usual ex-hazardly to the port of Bellavista onday, the 6th April, 1932, at 12 been perhaps suffering more than cream, eggs, cheese and poultry. |
Customs, Fork Building, to Lau Calcutta String Band-Hong Kong the group received machine-guns, receiving the Report of the Board of any other. Her far eastern markets, In the Flyde district of Lancashire
noon, for the purpose of
The Gazette contains the draft of Shiu Ching; Liu Yan Mun, No, Daily Press, April 4, 1907. Directors and a Statement of Accounts in India, in China, and in Japan, there is a large and growing Ordinances, to provide for the incor 10, High Street, Hong Kong, to.
rifles, and ammunition, which had for the Year ended on the 31st Decem have shrunk, in some cases, most poultry raising industry, but the Chinese Young Men's Christian Lu Yuk Lin, No. 0, High Street.
poration of the Directors of the
Looking Back 50 Years.
been concealed in the hold of the ber, 1981, and alecting Dirotors and to vanishing point: Russis also has marketing of the product has not Association of Hong Kong, and of Anditors
ship. There can be little room for The Transfer Books of the Company almost disappeared as a pustomer; been fully, organised and develop. St. Stephen's College.
The expedition, according to the will be closed from the 24th March to
Under the auspices of the Hong doubt that Sir John Pope Hennes and Jack of purchasing power based; so that also is now receiving
Kong University Engineering Bosey has been virtually recalled. reports of the survivors, was head- caused a shrinkage in the home careful" and earnest attention.
His Excellency the Governor has ciety, Prof. W. Brown, M.A., B.So.., After expressing the view conveyed by Rafael Simon Urbina, a form market.
appointed Mr. Lo Man Kam to be F.R.S.E, A.M.I.E.E., will delivered inbe despatches which we All these activities should help to a member of the Sanitary Board lecture on." The George Bennie publish to-day, the Secretary of er Venezuelan General, who had be, Now there are signs of a trade find work for the thousands of for a term of three years and bas Rail-Plane" (which is an over Government of the Colony to u
State could hardly entrust the come bitter opponent of the ad- nominated him as a member of the head, high-speed train) on Friday,
ministration of revival owing to the establishment unemployed cotton operatives. That Court of the University of Hong April 8, 1932, ut 8:30 p.m. in Roam of now businesses. And the im- the Lancashire business man is now Kong for a period of three years.
"K" of the Main Building. The provement is not entirely due to a fully awake to the necessity for
lecture will be illustrated with fan Itern slides. All interested are wel change in tariff policy. Lancashire branching out into new lines of The garrison lecture hall at: come. manufacturers have been werking industrial and commercial activity on Friday night, when the ship's
Wellington Barracks, was crowded lecture. Ten will be served after the other outlets for their enterprise for there is no doulit. He secs clearly company of H.M.S. Cumberland: some time. During the past five that the country is ontering upon held a highly successful dance. All years of industrial depression sixty. a new phase, and that now ideas enjoyable evening was spent by the big crowd, which continued the five manufacturing busines have and new methods are needed dancing until 1 a.m.
with the rickshaw in which he was necessary to appeal to the Bocre disabled. been started in the Liverpool Indeed during the past few months
travelling near the
H.K.C.C.tary of State, and the number of The retreat began, and after district, During the past year the spirit of the whole country in
ground. It was stated that the appeals sent home during Bir months of hardship the survivors. Sentence of six months" hard rickshaw was hidden from the view John's administration has been reached the coast again. The Vane twolva new industries have been general, and of Lancashire in labour was passed on two Chiness of the driver of the motor car by quite unprecedented. Such a suste zuelan rebels released the Superior, founded in the same area, and particular, has beu quickened and field on Saturday for possession of corner the car collided with the the fact that he was quite unit to When she finally docked in Vera
who were convicted by Mr. Scho a trura ehr and in rounding of things could not fail to disclose and the ship returned to Mexico: subitantial-extensions have been encouraged, and a feeling of quius forged bark notes. The men ware rickshaw, throwing Lt. Vallance to govern, iscking, as he did the Cruz, the wharves were crowded unpadla do as many existing factories confidence in the return of British arrested on information and m one the ground. The offloor sustained necessary arose of justice and strict with anxious mothers and fachers But it is confidently believed that prosperity is evident on every to be of the Chartered Bank, and moved to the Royal Naval Hosong Kong Daily
was a bogus $100 bill purporting injuries to the head and was reseracy in his official statements waiting tearfully to see if their sons.. the change in fecal policy will lead hand.
set, April 4 were among the handful-of-sur- on another was a bogus 810 note: | pital.
vivora
the 5th April, 1999, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
B. ALVES,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 17th March, 1932,
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Under the direction of Urbinny fail to weigh very strongly with the aptitude for governing which has forests and jungles to engage in Colonial Office is the extreme, fa- the armed youths were led into the been displayed by Sir John Pope an active campaign against the Hennessey. He was constantly at Federal Army. Unused to such issue with his officials, and, almost - hardships, the Mexicans fought variably he has been found to bravely, but discase and rifle buj-
involved in an accident last night have been in the wrong.
Lt. Vallance, H.M.S. Sussex, was when a public motor car collided individuals also have found it band, while as many
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