NEW ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE.
IT is hereby announced that the
representation of Wilkinson Haywood & Clark will be transferred to Mesa, DODWELL & Co., ́LTD., as from ler AUGUST, 1989.
All customers are kindly requested to address enquiries, orders, ste, to our new Agents instead of to Messrs. 9. C. Lay & Co. after that date.
For WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK,
H. W. MAXTED,
Manager in the Far East.
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CHINESE ESTATES.
LIMITED.
NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Not the NINTH ORDINARY
YEARLY MEETING of SHARE-
HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Office at China Buildings (6th floor), Hong Kong, on Friday, the 29th July, 1982, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and á Statement of Account for the year ending 29th February, 1932, and of electing directors and an auditor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 15th to the 29th July, 1982, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors, HENRY LOWCOCK,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th July, 1982. [2377
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
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IN THE MATTBE OF THE STATE OF BERNARD RICERARD MOOREHEAD, LATE or VICTORIA IN THE Colony or HONG KONG, ARCHITECT, DE
CRABED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates "Ordinance 1887 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order Fimiting the Time for sending in Claims to or against the abore Estate to the 11en Day of AUGUST, 1932.
Creditors and Claimanta ars hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Dato,
Dated this 14th day of July, 1932,
Ba/. E. P. H. LANG,
Official Administrator.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JULY 18, 1939.
CANTON CRISIS SURMOUNTED.
T is to be hoped that the com- HONG KONG & SHANGHAI |paratively amicable settlement of BANKING CORPORATION. the dispute between the Canton Commander-in-Chief, General Cors TT-18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that TA TONG,.and the former head of
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1932.
without a proper base and no sources of supply the Admiral's resistance could not have been
pro- tracted. In former years, however,
★ News and Views
he might have settled down in the Face Pidgin! Island of Hainan,
French Firms Come to Britain.
One of the effects of the British Customs duties on textile goods has been to cause certain textile firms in the Nord Department.ta.manu facture in England. ---The woollen spinning firm of Matte and Parisse, established at Fourmies, near Roubaix, is now The U.S.A. has not only more rending a good deal of its machin telephones than all the rest of the
erg to Mossley, in Lancashire, world put together, but with six- Other machinery has been sent from teen telephones for each 100 of the the mills of Alfred Motte, at Rou population the prevalence of telebaix.
Private Enterprise.
probably The expenditure on dignity ap imposed & personal dictatorshippers to be highest where the popu- lation is smallest and the means Times have changed and
to baur it are least. Mr. St. John sudden raid by aircraft caused the Ervine. rapid discomfiture of the Admiral's forces, the and cruiser Feiying, once of the Imperial German Navy, being sunk by aerial bombardment. If the Feiying were thus vulnerable the older vessels, and capecially the gunboats in refuge near Macao would stand a poor chance! More over, as often happens to Chiness military leaders, the" Admiral was
TO CHINA MARU.
GOES AGROUND. ON PRATAS SHOALS.
The China Maru is the latest ship to run aground in the treacherous Shoals. The news did not reach Hong Kong until the arrival of the vessel on Wednesday, but this was probably due to the fact that al- though the vessel grounded on the shoals at p.m. on July 10, she suffered small damage and floated off again the following morning at high tide. The accident happened on a voyage from Dairen to Sai
phones is more than eight times. The idea is that the French spin- that in Europe. In the U.8.A. all, nors should manufacture in Lan-: gon. telephones are operated by private cashire goods which they cannot companies.
On arrival in port on Wednes export to England owing to the day, the China Maru berthod at new tariffs. Furthermore, they the Kowloon Wharf, and yesterday hops in this way to employ machi-morning left for Taikoo Docks,
whore an examination is nery which since the falling off in their export trade has remained damage she sustained was conduct almost idle,
The China Maru is owned by the
The position of the textile manu-
ed.
to
the
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Company of Kobe, and was on a voyage from Dairon to Saigon with a cargo of
taken ill and has for some time
Through the Butler's Eyes. been away from his ships and re- cuperating at Hong Kong. Now
In "Momories of a Long Life," Lord Rathcreedam tells a story of the whole affair has been settled an aged Irish butler:-"An old A payment to meet the expense of Colonel calling to see her (his six-facturing district of the Nord De sending his ships and men to Amoy tor) was wearing white spate. Go-partment may be indicated by the has been made to the Admiral, anding upstairs the Irish butler was fact that Roubaix and Tourcoing beans. She is a cargo boat, and] his followers are to transfer their before ushering the guest into the kilogrammes of woollen yarns per puzzled by these, so on the landing, used to export to England 5,000,000 fallegiance, and to support the drawing room, he said: "Excuse year. Last year this district sentoistod of about Afty men. The Nineteenth Army in their campaign me, sir, but I think you ought to only 100,000 kilogrammes.
know that there is the least little against the "Reds."
below your trousers." taste of your drawers just showing
It is signiâcant that despite the constant tension between Nanking! and Canton, and
the natural Popular Haggis..
fragility of General CHEN TEAI Tono's alliance with the Kwangsi Clique, the Admiral has not been able to fish in troubled waters.
Canada's Gold,
Canada's total production of gold increased from 2,102,068 fine ounces in 1930 to 2,008,210 fine ounces in
Is haggis about to cease to be! mystery ? And have the English 1931 and growth in value was from taken to eating this essentially £8,750,000 to £11,150,000. Scottish delicacy Lately haggis has been prominently displayed inf mony West-end stores.
chaard.
Moreover, Wild Animal Preserves.
they are being extensively pur
carries no passengers. Her crow
vessal is commanded by Captain Mayeda.
The China Maru was built in 1920 by the Kawasaki Dockyard Com- pany, Kobe, for the Kawasak’ Risen Kaisha. She is a steel scrow vessel with a gross tonnage of 5,870 and a net tonnage of 4,200. Shr
measures 365 Inst in length; 61 foot in breadth, and is 30 foot deep Her port of registry is Kobe.
A sorry account of the rapid de Actually, of course, haggis is no crease among wild animals in our ALL IN A FEW SECONDS. more a mystery than the average West African colonies was given sausage. In some cases much less
Cynical students of Chinese affairs would have said that many interests
would have inevitably found a re volt of the Canton Navy, and a 80, for who will tell the inner story at a meeting of the Society for the
of salatai 1
Preservation of the Fauna of the PICKPOCKET WHO WAS NOT considerable part of the Air Force,
QUICK ENOUGH. Haggis is composed of the plack British Empire by Colonel Hay- far too good an opportunity to of a sheep-the heart and liver-wood, who has just returned from finely chopped and mingled with a miss. A year ago there would have judicious mixture of paiment and a mission undertaken on its behalf
"It all happened in a few se herbs. Surely there is nothing very in Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Goldconds," said the police officer who bern reactions from Kirin to Yun-recondite in such ingredients.
Coast, and Nigeria. The Colonel prosecuted in a case in which a naniu. Just at present China's
has now brought home a report of Chinese was charged with stealing War Lords are gruescent, FENG YUA War-time Trio..
conditions of life among the animals eighty cents from the pocket of an HBIANO, YEN HSI SHAN, HAN FU The recent death of Sir William who live either in the wide belt of other man who was listening to & Mille, the inventor of the bomb dense forest near the West African fortune teller in Hollywood Road that bore his name, must have coast, in the orchard and farm near Queen's College. stirred memories in the heart of lands beyond, or in the open sorub The officer told Mr. Wynne Jones
Cue and the dozens of other big provincial notabilities are out of the news. It would be interesting
every old infantryman..
There were three names constant- country.
that the defondant watched the to know whether they are all conly ou the infantryman's tongue-- He suggested for the animals that | victim's jacket for a while and then
Mills, Maconochio and Tickler.
live in the dark forests certain sites was seen by a Chinese District Maconochio stood for a tinned) centrating on the suppression of the "Reds." Perhaps they have other ration of stew; Tickler was jam; where they were known to congre- Watchman to extract eighty cents
Mills was a grimmer word,
gate and similar reserves in the from the pocket. He was immedi There were dozens, if not scores, orchard lands for their launa. He ately seized by the watcher who ask- plans on foot. It is difficult to be
doggerel sung in dugouta
lieve that they have abandoned their
old hopes and ambitions,
Ian Interim Dividend of £3 per the Canton Mars, Admiral cases Share, subject to deduction of CHAK, indicates a more reasonable Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th June,aad patriotle mentality among the - 1982, at rate of 1/3, 1/8 per Dollar.. military leaders of the Republié. THE DIVIDEND will be payable Admiral CHEN CHAK has held his
and after MONDAY, 8th post since Marshal Li Tea HEIN FRANCE'S AUGUST, 1992, at the offices of the assumed control of Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
од
the Canton Government in the spring of 1927. There have been a good many political changes in Canton since
THE KEGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY, 25th July, to then, but the Admiraj: remained at SATURDAY, 6th August, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
́OF DIRECTORS,
Hong Kong, 12th July, 1982.
the head of his fleet.
From all
accounts he appeared to be n popular and efficient officer, with many foreign friends. He appears
and Billets in which couchie showed on a map where there might ad the victim if he had lost any
"Eighty cents," replied
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und Tickler were humorously, be a good chance of preserving the money. ironically, and even scandalously, elephants that still survive, and said the victim after he had felt his INDIAN dissatisfaction with the pressed into the rhymester's service.
But the name of Mills did not there would be a proposal to pro- pockets. Hardly had the words left appear in any of these lighter com toct the gorillas the Cameroons.
There were things one did not jest) NATIONALpilation of the war years.
about.
DAY.
LOCAL OBSERVANCE BY FRENCH COMMUNITY,
Misquoted!
Amusement.
Home Government's recent deci- his mouth when the' pickpocket pu. sion to adopt speedier methods of his hand in the victim's pocket dealing with the Indian constitu- again and restored the money!" tional problem than the Round The defendant was convicted and Table, was reflected by Labour A French manufacturer of ball his record showed that he had five speakers during the debate in the bearings has found a novel way of previous convictions for the same Commons on the subject tonight, Dean Inge, in his introduction to displaying the high degree of ex kind of oflence. His Worship sen- "Humour among the Clergy." tells how an old clergyman wished to cellence attained by bis product. tenced him to twelve monthe hard send a telegram to a young girl He has disposed in a shop window labour and two years' police super who was being married. He chose, in the Avenue de l'Opéra eight steel vision." as his message, a Bible verac, which
Tan, "There is no tear in love; disks placed at such angles that a
The French national holiday, but perfect love custeth out fear." small steel ball bearing released
1792 but unfortunately, the clerk who
crowds..
The exhibit attracts
V. M. GRAYBURN,
to have kept the somewhat anti-July 14, commemorating the storm. The reference was 1 John, IV, 16, above the first of these dicks bounces
in quated material of the Cantoning of the Bastilo Chicf-Manager.
took the telegram left out the 1. from there onto the next, and goes Navy in a satisfactory condition, was fittingly observed yester: Imagine the hysteria of the poor on until it has bounced off the eight [2865 and though there have been several day by members of the local Fronea girl, when she looked up the clergy disks and disappears into a central
man's message and read, "Ho rather curious incidents the flotilla community and their friends.
whom thou now hast is not thy hus. container. seems to have acquitted its peace The French Consul-General, M. band.". time taak of policing a pirate R.. Soulange Teissier
#fat infested area, quite satisfactorily, home to friends and members of and when the Kwangsi-"Ironside" the French community at his re army attempted to take Canton in sidence, Victoria Mangions, Peak the year 1830, to have the shallow | Rond. draught ships helped considerably
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS AND CONSIGNEES OF CARGO FOR RIVER PORTS, HUNAN LINE PORTS AND LAKE PORTS.
WING to danger of Floods,
woo
The tomat of His Majesty the
LID. CERTIFICATES.
placements, Basle. (Local agents Massis, Gocke & Co.).
Wednesday's (July 6) oficial quotation in Basle. £2 124. #d..
Local and General
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary
of State for India, defended the
decision, but said he would be glad
to have suggestions from the other side which would improve his pro posals.
Mr. George Lansbury, in an in- terview with Reuter after the de
bate, emphasised that the Labour Party could not co-operate with the Government while the present policy remained.
He hoped that even yet the Viceroy would take action to end; the present impaass by arranging | to' miqet Ghandi and his colleagues
to discuss the whole situation:
Owners of Cargo consigned to in defending the West and North King" was proposed by M, Teinier The Hong Kong dollar dropped Coming out of Soares Avenue on ¦ Four hawkers were charged be- WAR LOAN
River Ports, Hunan Line Porta and Fake Ports, are warned that goods
Ttivers.
CONVERSION
FAR GREATER THAN EXPECTED
THRONOK REVIER'S
and that of "Lo President de la yesterday to 18, 3d,
abioycle, hoy, Lai Wing Chul, fore the Marine Magistrate yester
day, with having boarded the 8.a. Tying in the godowns of the under For a long time, however, there Republique Francaise" by Com
collided with a lorry in Prince Ed-Tjisadano without permission. Three mentioned Steamship Companies are have been rumours of tension bemodore A. Walker.
Miss. Monteiro, of 10, Pilkem ward Road, and sustained injuries of them were fined $20, or two ...; at their own risk, and are advised to tween the General and the Admiral,
take auch measures as they may the latter evidently considering Webb, representing His Excellency port to the Police of the loss of a
Those present included. Captain Street, first floor, bas made a ro- to the right leg. He was removed weeks each, while the other, who
to the Kowloon Hospital,
Immitted a previous conviction, was consider advisable to safeguard their
sentenced to one month's imprison- goods, m
Quarantine restrictions have been ment. that instlequate appreciation of his
the Officer Adminntoring the Gov- blanket and a counterpane, valued Any steps taken by the shipping services have been shown. It was
imposed by the Governments of the Federated Malay States, Straits : Before Mr. Schofield yesterday, will be taken at the risk of cargo-CHEN THAI TONG ordered Admiral Commanding, Commodore A. Walk nounced of Mr. Georg Fritz Johann Kong on account of cholera. companies to anfeguard such cargo not surprising that when General stament, Captain Cameron, repre- at $100.
senting His Excellency the Officer
Settlements and French Indo-cight Chinese were charged with. The forthcoming marriage is a China against arrivals from Hongergating disturbance outside the Owners, and any extraordinary
Wanchai Police Station on Tuesday
LONDON, July 13, expenses so incurred will be collected: CHRN ORAX's dismissal, and the re-
For and bis A.D.C., Hon. Mr. Al- Sulzbach of 4, Loock Road, How- against delivery,
night. All of them pleads not THE success of the War Loan organisation of
of the floating forces
The following are amongst those guilty. The first defendant was die conversion ...... scheme has been BUTTERFIELD & WIRE, of Canton under his own direct abaster, Members of the Consular loon, and Miss Ids Gertrud Laso
Naval Long Service and Good Con- | all convicted. The second, third, berlain or his advisers had expect- Hon. Mr. B. W: Tio, Hon. Mr. W.
duct Medals: P.0. Tal, W. S. fourth, sixth and seventh defendants | ed. (2) LTD. T
Demininino Buban, a Filipino, was Sirley, Titania; P.0, Tels. A, I were bound over in bonds of $25 This statement was made by the committed to the House of Deten Hewitt and J. Mend, Shropshire; each to be of good behaviour for six Chancellor of the Exchequer, before tion by Mr. Wynne Jones yesterday: Ldg. Bon. H. A. Davy, Torn; Ldg.- months, while the fifth defendant be left for Ottawa, in a letter, to morning, Tending his deportation to Smn. R. Tayler, Witch; Ldg. Sma. was bound over in the sum of 50 General Sealy, the Chairman of the Manila. Sergeant G. A. Carruthers H E. Hope, Wren; and Able Smn. (one surety) for a period of one National Savings Committee,
Mr. Chamberlain added that he stated that Buban had just com C. J Dewing, Wren; R Holland year. The eighth defendant, who pleted a ponti in gaol for stowing and W. H. Wrench, Vivid; D. J. Isharomed deafness in Court was has every confidence that before away from Manila to Hong Kong on Milne and A. E. Overett, Witch, fined 15 or three weeks gnol, and the end of July the vast majority. the Tatsuta Marung Akande and C. Theraton, Moting
of holders will have converted.
Agents, CHINA NATIGATION Co., control," that the Navy and its Corps, Hon. Sir Henry Pollock,einze, of 2, Loock Road, Kow who were recently awarded the charged, while the remainder were greater than Mr. Neville Cham
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., | way,
LTD.
fenders should pursue their own, L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotowall, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Admiral Chew Coax has family Mr. Kwok Bin Lau, His Lordship affiliations with the Inland of Bishop Valtorta, Rev. Bro, Aimar Human and thither ho took his Director of La Salle College, Mr. fleet. Command of the sea is J. M. Noronha, French residents, (2361" formidable factor, bup án this, caso, and many others.
General Manager, I. C. B. N.
Co., Imm. CHINA MERCHANTS S N. CO., NISSHIN KISEN. KAISHA.
loon,
bound over.