NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE PEAK CHURCH.
THE
HONG KONG.
THE ANNUAL MEETING. of Worshippers will be held in-the- CATHEDRAL HALL on Wednes--| -day, May 25th, 1982, at 5.80 p.m. -
BUSINESS.
(1) To adopt the Hori, Secretary's
Report.
(2) To pass accounts,
(8)* To clock officials.
Any other business,
ALFRED SWANN,
Hon. Secretary.
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
tho ANNUAL OR
No that
DINARY GENERAL MENTING of SHAREHOLDERS will be hold at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hongkong, on Batardy, the 4th June, 1982 ut 11.80 m for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ended 80th April,
1982.
The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will be closed tron Monday. 30th day of May to Saturday, the 4th day of June, 1982, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1982 (2223
A. S. WATSON & COMPANY, LIMITED,
LL Shareholders are reminded.
that the EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING called for the purpose of confirming as a Special Eesolution the Resolution altoring the Company's Articles of Association which was passed on the 19th May, 1932 is to be held at the Hongkong Hotel at 11.30 o'nlock in the Forenoon. on SATURDAY, the 28th MAY, 1932; and are requested to attend.
JOHN. D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers,
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should South Africa have remain THE EMPIRE FAIR.
COLOUR, GOODSPIRITS AND VARIETY.
News and Views
Dance Tunes.
In vegne for American dance:
years
the
red' sneroseant to the Zulus and the Kafirs! No ono denies that thean peoples have in, the pand anffered grant wrongs and " Im- purialiam certainly goes wrong when the aborigines are exploited.
The Empire Fair, opened ven- and enslaved, but no people has terday afternoon hy
HE. the the right to stades an immense caira Offer Administering the Govern music, so triumphant several and then put it to na. use Every mont, is the Peninsula Hotel, is age, strms to u deituely in
a sucess, there can be no doubt wane. Imperial nation of to-day now of that. It reflects the spirit
At a smart supper restaurant ons secks, to guard the interests of the which has dominated England those
determined night five out of overy six dances original inhabitants.
last few months, courage and cheerfulness. Empire products, of all corts, are displayed affectively but with no flamboyance, In attendance at each stand ars members of the exhibiting firm, ready to explain and answer ques tiens; roody, if the visitor wishes, to sell the goods shown.
of
to
Not only does this question unfilled spaces crine buti also the perpetuation of barbarity. Is Peivilisation forbidden either
spread or to defend itself! The noble.savage has no humane idens, nove and let live" theories regarding his neighbours In North America the white race had either to conquer or to leave.
This hatred of Imperialisin " perhaps arises from too much study of the past for, in ancient times the conquerous led their armies to
Gathered here in this big hall are products of the Empire which can be bought in Hong Kong, prob- ably many of those who were pre- sent were surprised to find how many of the things, they use daily ure Empire goods, and others that many godds they had thought could not be bought were obtainable. here.
played were English or Frendit and all fox-trots.
rocorda ATO
Those Clackers.
Children at the Empire Produce Fair thoroughly enjoyed the din they made with the au slackers distributed by a local firm. We fool auro, howevor, that the Arm in question will take pity on adult visitors to-day, and still more on attendants at the stalls, and give away no more of these nerve rack-
ing toys.
At private cocktail parties fowar and fower American gramophone A Row in the House,
honrd. England, Dr. Salter is equally sincere and France and Germany are at the emphatic in his views on alcohol. These led him to make some little moment providing the world's time ago
a charge of insobriety against his fellow-members of the House of Commons,
dance tunes.
Romantic. Minatlas Recalled.
A prague of flies has descended on London. But they are only arti feial flies, and their purpose is
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SIXTY YEARS IN CHINA!
At last month's first night per- formances quite half of the most beautiful women in the theatre ware not ons but several mouches,
affixed adhesively to strategic parts of their forehead, cheeks or chin. This is a return to the romantic nineties with a vengeance.
A Startling Likeness.
same way.
Promptly there was a tremendous "pother. Challenged by Sir Arthur Helbrook on a motion which sought to convict him of breach of pri vilege, Dr. Salter reiterated his charges while declining to give particulars.
"
After a display of feeling the Houss was disposed to tront the matter humorously, and members took to offering on other in the smoking-room Holbrook, 'and Salter.
The waiters knew what Was meant-and brought it
Penguin Eggs.
A consignment of 3380 penguin eggs are expected in London from South Africa saya a. Homo paper."
These are declared not to be faby in favour. But unless they are, seasoned in some way during, or
The scene was reminiscent of one bley; not only in the laying out of ated. the vanquished Cities were laid the display stands but in the cosmo. waste, the survivors were sold into politan erowd that circled round slavery, and the rural districts them, and every Briton must have folt a pride of race when he looked ruled with an iron hand. The ob round. There was no shoddy on jest was pillage for the adornment display, everything bore the hall of a capital, and the clearing of mark of British goods-quality and no attempt was made to listract the now space for the home popula-eye. and mind by undue trimming, tion. Thus Egypt, Arsyria and The setting that magnificent, solid the Timur, the Tartar King, sought building the finest hotel in the Far East, witle glimpses through the conquer the known world. windows of vessels of all flags ALEXANDER THE GREAT dreamed of moving slowly in and out of one of a peaceful empiro, a federation of the finest harbours in the world.
Anyone at the Queen's Hall on Hong Kong has served the Empire" Eastern and Western lands per well in this Empire Products Fair. April And not armed with a pro-after, the cooking it is hard to see Night Editor (Wanchai. Office)mented with Greek ideals; but the full report of which appears on gramme and the facts of life might how that fishy Havour is to ba have imagined that the Duke of avoided, since it is the natural London Office: 52. Fleet Street, Macedonian" Empire died with its another pago.
founder, being even BO. 4
York was playing the piano. Pro- concomitant of all sea bird's egge. kovieft, the famous composer, JA & That is one reason why the 'true. lived than those of Cyrus and
sort of Russianised edition of the commoisieur is never decoivod by Ramassa Romo, was by no means.
Duke; but the likeness is really the substitution of gull's eggs for regardless of the welfare of subject
uncanny. The facial expression is the forbiddon plover's, aggs—though the same, the two are the same the shells are almost identical and peoples, and in the preservation of
height, and they walkin the though the method of serving be peace, and the oven handed ad-
the same, avon to the inevitable ministration of justice Jay the
Prokovial is forty
now and pinkish salt,
A certain amount of quiet law musically, is in more restrained secret of her long survival. Spain
mood than when he startled Loneaking goes all over plover's eggs. destroyed the civilisations of Pera
The death occurred at the Matilda don and Paris with his "Chout," A famous to seven friends. There and Mexico in a frenzy of greed Hospital on Saturday of Mr. S. produced by Diaghileft. The Reve was nothing fishy about it: and fanaticism. If only France or de Biere, at the age of 74 Belution broke out in Russia just England had been firat in that leaves a widow and several chilwhen he was coming to be recog: field what difference there might dren who wore the chief mourners rised, and since then he has lived have been In India British power int the funeral, which took place the in various parts of the non-Rus- grew slowly, and, till the middle of last century, that vast country was to us mainly a commercial pro- position. It was Ruskin, perhaps the greatest of the Victorians, who expressed the growing sentiment that Britain had no justification for being in India except that the people of ladia benefited from her occupation and administration.
He had been a member of the The lesson went home Our Eastorn Hong Kong Club for many years. uyment for Collectors, of As a Freemason, he was Master of employment "Collectors," and the
Perseverance Lodge" (Hong a field for merchants and commer Kong) in 1805 Master of the Star
We took up the of South China (Canton) in 1800 burden of coping with famines of and M.E.Z. of the Cathay Royal policing, of administering justice, Arch Chapter (Hong Kong) in 1907. The of eradicating disease, of educating the native populations, af bringing i m.li. Our main celebration into them the advantages enjoyed in
in our own land.
HONG KONG, MAY, 24, 1932;
TRUE.. AND FALSE IMPERIALISM:
EMPIRE Day is the occasion when we consider, tiks nature of the British Empire, its vast problems and the responsibilities that lie upon both citizens and rulers. It Eis not a day for boastful words, statistics, and comparisons, If NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Empire Day were such an exercise in self-complaisance its eclebration would do more harm than good.
The occasion is, significantly, not und for military display. Royal Navy, dressen ship, and that
.cial houses,
h
that a FINAL DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING' per share on account of the Snancial year ending 81st March, 1932, and an INTERIM DIVIDEND of TWO SHILLINGS per whare on account of the Snancial your ending 31st March, 1993, have been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, both payable this Colony is an Empire Products
Beyond the British Empire, in to shareholders on the Registers at Fair, a friendly invitation to Algiers, in Moroven, in the Dutch Brisbane and Singapore e WED-Ching to come and see what we can East Indies and the Philippines, NESDAY, 8th June, 1992,
the same work goes forward. This sell her. This Fail is a symbol of in the Imperialiam denounced by NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY, GIVEN that the BINGAPORE the British Empire, and what it stay-at-home sentimentalists who TRANSFER REGISTERS will be sete out to do to-day. A happy cannot see that no flower has CLOSED from THURSDAY, 2nd detail is that the Chairman of the British Empire is a grent
from ugly *prung June to WEDNESDAY, 9th June, 1982 (B th Days inclusive), for the organising committee, should be a federation of civilised people and preparation of Dividend Warrants. member of the Portuguese nation, the main buttress against forcen
By Order of the Board,
Britains most ancient and con- and throw is back to primitive that would destroy all civilisation
DERRICK & CO.,
stant ally, who has made his home barbarity. Chartered Accountanta,
in Hong Kongl Local Secretaries.
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Hong Kong Bank Chambers; SINGAPORE, 18th May, 1982. [2214
EMPIRE FAIR
PENINSULA HOTEL
Our branch store in the arcade of the. Hotel will remain. open all day on TUESDAY, MAY 24TH.
It is well, however, to remember: that never have there been more
determined and more unscrupulous! attempts than at the present time to malign the Empire and to reuse-
roote. Tho
con-
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
its political and commercial leaders LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.
of militant imperialism and the exploitation and expropriation of other races. In Britain itself there
MONDAY, May 16.
PASSING OF AN OLD
RESIDENT.
same afternoon at the Protestant Cometery, Happy Valley.
After receiving his education in Singapore, the late Mr. de Biere came to China where he had spent nearly 60 years of his life practical- ly in the service of the Chinese Maritime Customs, until he reared in 1991,
sian world, including Japan, Paria, and Olaraninergau.
Anti-Tobacconists.
Stalin and Doctors.
Stalin was examined last month. by Dr. Zondeck, the German specia list it is rumoured that, Zonderk did not find the Soviet dictator an easy patient, for he has no great respect for the medical profession.
He has been seriously ill only once. The speech of Dr. Alfred Salter, before, when he was a cobbler's as M.P., at the meeting of that worthy sistant, in his native Georgia. He body the National Society of Non- and a Ukrainian apprentice were Smokers won a perfect example of stricken by a strange fever... how a brilliant and sincere man,Į The local doctor was malled. can be led away by maticism into During their delirium; however, he overstating his case.
noticed that they raved continually Dr. Salter compared the use of for food. As a last resource he de tobacco with "going on to the roof cided to give them a rich meal of of a building and leaning over a kebab, smoked ham, red cabbage
However thu enoky chimney, speaker suddenly admitted:
The Futter foolishness of the naslogy is too patent, to need any Of the Societe Internationale de disproof; "it is not possible to Placements, Faale. (Local agents demonstrate statistically that to-
bacco-smoking is having Messrs. Gocke & Co.).
dele Wednesday's official quotation interious effect on the race." Basle.-£2 114, 661
So why all the fuss?
ILD. CERTIFICATES.
-
and vodka.
The results of the treatment were immediate. Within twenty-four hours the Ukrainian was dead and Stalin was cured.
So the conscientious doctor enter? ed the new treatment in his note book, with the comment: "Excel-. lent for a Georgian fatal for a Ukrainian."
Local Notes and Events ★
The Hong Kong dollar was yes- terday quoted at 12. 24. on demand.
One case of paratyphoid fever and one of merlingitis were report ed on Sunday,
This evening at 3.30 p.m. the draw for the open Championship of the Lawn Bowls Association will take place in the Board room of the
A fine of 88 was imposed on a Chinesd by Mr. A. W. G.-H. Grant. ham at Kowloon Magistracy yester day when the man was charged with
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SEQUEL TO PEAK BURGLARIES.
ENTERED SAME HOUSE THREE TIMES.
The driver of a Kowloon Motor Bus Company vehicle, who accident Canton Road, was set up by some ally knocked down a small boy in POLICE OFFICER ASSAULTED.
coolies in the neighbourhood. Et
bathing in a nuilah, in full view was the complainant at the Kow Three different charges of bur- of the public. In passing sentence loon Magistracy yesterday when glary and an additional charge of one of his assailants was charged assaulting a Police Officer were Mr. Grantham, addressing the de-with assaulting him and causing preferred against a Chinese at fendant, said:" You ought to be damage to the vehicle. Defendant Central Magistracy yesterday. The member of the Nudist Society." was fined 880 or one month's hard man was accused of breaking into
labour, When Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse,
is a pernicious school of petty on Mr. T. Yoshida, Consil-General South China Morning Post office. the retiring Deputy Superintendent of an Indian constable,, the detee the 3rd instant he again broke into
of Japan.
Mr. F. Reynolds Jones, manager of the Singaporen offices of Messra, Kong on Thursday on the N.V.. Router's, Ltd., will arrive in Hong 5.5. Hakusan Maza. He will be so- companied by his wife and child,
the residence of Mr. L., F; Black- burn, 6, The Peak, on the night. Capt. F. W. Wabb, A.D.C., called
of April 22 when he stole a suit of cloths and a fountain 'pen. On intellectuals, who affect to near at of HE. the O.A.0., and of the Co- for Japan, to express the sympathy
of Police, left by the s.s. Chitral on Saturday, a large number of Police tive took the man to the station: the place, this time stealing two the British Empire and to see in lony of Hong Kong on the death holders of Messrs. Lane, Crawford's bye and bon voyage. It is announ iruck the detective several times third churge was in regard to a
The annual mating of share Officers gathered to bid him good before this, however, the man it no romance, and no call for of Mr. T. laukai, Prime Minister Ltd. is advertised to take plaed ced that the vacated post will be in his effort to escape.
rings from Miss Blackburn. The pride. They want to know why TUESDAY, May 17:
in the Company's board, room, Ex-
burglary on the 18th instant defen- one people should take the territory Admiral de Divinicae Cavagnari, change Building, at noon on June up by Mr W. la Barton the first of the burglary dant stole three silver supe, ene
Sparrow.
charges sentence of three month brass vases, two brass cows and a of another and rule it↑ Thỏ ans Commander-in-Chief of the Italian
hard Labour was imposed with ad- Naval Forces in the Far East, call. awer is plain. Most of the landed at Government. House. HE the
contingent of the local police force on each of the other two counts, all Leharges but entered a plea of not
A tea party at which the Indian ditional sentences of four months' rattan basket.
Defendant adoitied the burglary of the world, until the rise of OA.G, attended by Capt. FW
will be the hosts, will be held in Evidence was later taken on the guilty in the tanult charge terms to run consecutibly, modern civilisation, was sperly Admiral Cavagnati in the Italian
Thursday in honour of Mr. Ghulam his Worship imposed a line of 825 bis Sergeant Fitchen said that the Webb, A.D.C., retarded the call of
Lane Crawford's Restaurant on charge of assault and on conviction Regarding the last charge, Detes- occupied by wendering tribes per Cruiser, RN. Tranto..
Mustafe, Chief Indien Wardor of or one month's hard labour in duty near Upper Lancar Row laat petually at war. This was the H.E. the O.A.G, presided at
officer who was assaulted, was on the Victoria Gaol, "who will shortly default condition of North and South meeting of the Empire Day Com
bo leaving the Colony on ratizo mittee at Government House:
Friday evening about 7.30 p.m America (apart from Mexico and WEDNESDAY, May 18.
At the Crown Land Offloes yeater-
when he saw the defendant carry- Peru Australia, and most of HE. the O.A.G.. entertained Ad-day, Inland Lot No. 3454, situated
In connection with the case, the ing a basket. Da examining this, miral Cavagnari at a small lun on Tai Hang Road, was purchased As the Kowloon Magistracy yes marine hawker, who bought two he found it contained a silver cup Afrien. A few small states rather choon party at Government House by Mrs. Leng yow for $10,000, terday. Mr. P.BC Marton, Ap mall silver cups and two brass and when asked for an explanation, more advanced, like the semi-pirate THURSDAY, May 19.
The upset price was 845,000 and pearing for the Texas Company, vesse from the defendant was the man said that it had been given uitica of North Africa the inhabit- H. E. the O.A.G presided at there is an annual rontal of 8550. applied for withdrawal of charged with having done so, know him. ants of Arabia, and the border meetings of the Executive and The area is about 30,000 square feet. charge of making fulge entries in ing that the articles were stolen |
Legislative Councils."
Lecount book brought against a properity, tribes of India proyed pitilessly H.E. the .A.G. attended by
Not satisfied with this answer, clark, Fu Sai Ching, pointing out Mr FX d'Almada appeared for the detective decided to take the MACKINTOSH'S, LTD. upon their neighbours. Do senti, Capt. T.W. Webb, A.D.C. dinsd On Thursday, May 20, at 6.30 that two material witnesses were the defence, and on returning a man to the Police Station and it p.m., H.E. Major Genetal Bandi not available. Mr. Peter Bio, for plea of guilty, told the Court that was on the way that the Faesnule mentalists really weep for the woes with Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Cransy.
landa, OBCMG, D.80, will the defence, ubmitted that he had the hawker was an old man of sa took place, of the Red Indian and bewail the the OAG entertained Mr. Jay the Foundation Stone of the maintained all along that his chand it was only due to bis-nervous- The man was stated to have existence of Chanda and the United and Mrs. P. P. J. Wodehoue at a local, Girl Guide Headquarters (at won an junocent, mair, and was in new that he did not pradhes the thrown the officer to the ground. States 7 And should Australia
small luncheon party on the Garden Road, opposite the Cathe party to those who defrauded the Articles when first asked to do so. before running away bub, he was sion of the retirement of Mr. Wodo-dral), when all friends of the more Company. His Worship discharged. * A fine of 50 or one month's hard later caught and with the nasistabonit I have been left to her aborigines; house from the Government Service, mont will be warmly welcomed. the defendant.
labour was raposed.
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