ADVERTISEMENTS.
KEKY EDULJI MOGRA IN BANKRUPTCY.
RE
ECEIVING order made on 26th JULY, 1982, against Keky Edulji Mogra residing at 120 British Concession, Shameen, Canton, and latoly carrying on business at 114 British Concession, Shameen.
Date of first meeting of creditors 10 o'clock in the forenoon on 12th AUGUST, 1982, at British Consulate- General, Canton.
Date of public examination 2 P.M. 12th AUGUST, 1992, at British Consulate-General, Canton.
All debts due to the estate should be paid to mo. -
C. E. A. CARNET,
Receiver,
British Consulate-General,
CANTON.
Dated 3rd August, 1932.
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(several repetitions)
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That's the spirit that grips the person who sances, bis gross with Pan-Yan sad tickle his appetite with the Pickle. He doesn't even got the repetitions!
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process of evolution, and that if one section of workers bettered their wages and conditions they did so at the expense of their
follows.
* News and Views *
Boys
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London
British Coat in France.
The Ministry of Cominerer an-
There was much to be Hard-Boiled Ivans.
Last night
a slight increase in the diarist "I was introduced to announces American engineer with three days' British quota, of coal imports.. growth on his chin and a stringe The new quota is raised to 70 por glint in his eye. He had just re- cent, of the average imports for turned from Russia, where he had the three years' period that has been installing a huge incubation been selected as the standard. plant.
I said for those views; sufficient, in fnet, to develop and maintain the terrible conditions of labour in England during at least the firet fifty years of last century. Learned exponents of political economy were positive that modern labour conditions, such as are nowjenjoyed in a successful motor works, or by the employees of, for example, Selfridges, were an economic in possibility. The thing could not
pay.
We are facing in Hong Kong the problem that confronted Eng- land last century. The place has grown enormously. Immigrants from China have settled in their
thousands.
the Unfortunately
wealth of the Colony has not kept pace with its growth, Ever since the boycott things have not been Before then quite the same." Hong Kong could afford the best that war going. Hospitala, schools. sanitary services, and the general
the
Hitherto the quata has been 00 He gave me his own first-hand per cent., plus 130,000 tous ex- account of the Five Year Plan. Iclusive of the quota, which brought repeat it without vouching for its the fictual quota to 68 per cent. truth:
"I set up a cute little plant," he
said, "and from 60,000 eggs 1 pro- Georgle's Fast Crossing.
duced 49,727 chickens. They died,
liner
The White Star motor because nt first those 'durned' Į Georgic, on her mniden trip, passed 14 hours Rooshies were sceptical and bad Sandy Hook at least
ahead of hor scheduled time, provided no food/-
ין
Then, impressed by my success, they pushed me aside and handed over my plant to their long-haired scientists. They thought they could haster: the process by increasing the temperature."
"Did they succeed?" I asked. "You bet your Shaw they did," replied the American gravely. "They produced 50,000 hard-boiled eggs."
The Two Princes.
Members of the Reading Rotary Club were recently told two new
The station sergeant, without Second pub, on the left over the looking up from his desk, replied: canal bridge."
An Untold Scots Story.
Men who were patients in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, when it
Was A
war hospital, were among 000 members of the St. Martin's Association from London who visited the building last month,
One member of the party recalled that he underwent An operation there. "Just before the opera-. ¡tion," he said, "the surgeon asked me if I had heard the story about the Scotchman and the penny. A With under the anaesthetic, and I have beca won-) dering ever since what the story I was."
minute inter I
Investigation into the "bomb"
Lord Lloyd's visit has now reached discovery at St. Bees School during
a stage when immediate action can
scale of social life were on a pro-stories of the Prince of Wales, by digal scale. No European walked Mr. H. T. Fitch, formerly a Scot land Yard detective-inspector at in the streets, but all took ebairs tached to the Special Branch. and rickshaws. To go to
The door of Paddington police station was opened one afternoon market or to carry a parcel was to and a voice said: "The Prince of School Bomb. Inquiry.
Unfortunately Wales." contravene custoin. Juring the time of depression the need for modernisation has come. The Water Department calls for a nine million dollar scheme; the Harbour needs survey- ing and dredging; the hospitals and the gaels call for rebuilding the City Hall and Government House aro in similar state, and our Government Offices are not on the of classico-ferro-concrete Singapore's Municipal Offices. Even our dustchrts are grossly inade quade ! Bayond these material needs the whole problem of destitu-
attention.
Then he looked up and saw the Prince smiling at him.
Not Allowed to Stand Ball.
Mr. Fitch also told n story of the
Dewar's
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be taken on the instructions of the A Tariff Lesson, Director of Public Prosecutions, says a Home paper.
Darwen, a robust citadel of Free
BANK "APPEAL CASE.
The Director is considering the Trade doctrine, with Sir Herbert 15,000 word special Scotland Yard Samuel as its member of Parlia LOWER COURT'S DECISION
report revealing the whole truth in ment, is benefiting more than most this amazing case.
UPHELD.
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The Full Court on Saturday gave
Prince's Oxford days. The Prince
Lancashira centres from the heard that a fellow-undergraduate Detective-Inspector Kitchener, of|
Yard Special Branch, Government's tarif policy, bad as a result of a harmless ad- Scotland Bullo
with Divisional A Dutch firm has completed the venture been placed under lock and who, together
Melville, sent in purchase of the Southend Mill judgment in the appeal by this key. He saw the Chief Constable Superintendent and offered to stand as bail. the point report to the Home Office containing nearly seven hundred Banque Franco-Chinoise pour lo
after
fortnight's extensive in looms, for producing fancy cottons Commerce et l'Industrie against The police official, who preferred to hand the young man over to the quiries in all parts of the country, hitherto manufactured on the Con the udgment of Mr. Justice Wood
was suddenly recalled to London. tinent. tbus addressed the Prince: proctors,
It is rumoured in the town that This follows the recent acquisiin favour of Mrs. Chu Shuk in a a charge ander the Explosive Subtion of the Anchor Mill by a Swiss mortgage dispute involving sum "Your Royal Highness can't stances Act, 1883, is likely to be firm, now producing artificial silks 842,000. stand as bail. You are not a house made against a person or persons. holder yourself; you live with your Under one section of the Act the father at Buckingham Paluyo."
maximum sentence in twenty years The Chief Constable had his way ¦ ¦ penal servitude.
The Hon. Dr. WELLINGTON's schemotion in Hong Kong is calling for for the complete re-organisation of Hong Kong's public health services and the reception which it has been accorded, express an aspect
We are faced with the inexorable alternatives of progress or decay. The old Hong Kong, wealthy, ex-
of what may be called the problemclusive, solid, but of moderate pro-
of renovating and rejuvenating the portions, has gone as complutely Colony, Everyone realises that the as the jaily days of the Canton Director of Medical and Sanitary factories. We have got to be moro Services in asking for things that like Shanghai and less like an would, in the end, save money as English Cathedral City. Either we well as achieving what some would | shall have to sicze the new opportu enll the luxury of raising the nities and square up to the big general standard of human health task of renovation, or
we sball and happiness in Hong Kong. have to fall behind. We have
members The Unofficial
to of either
grow, as Republican ths Sanitary Board, Chinese and Rome grow into, Imperial Rome, European, lay and medical, or the immense emporium neces- were warm in their approval of sitated by the awakening of South- the main outlines of what the ern China will not be Hong Kong
D.M.8.8. proposed. They know and the Colony will become, like that disease and poverty are bad Venice, a pleasant and interesting liabilities, and sources of loss and reliu of the past. danger even to the wealthiest and most exalted members of the Com-: munity. All over the world a fight against bad conditions of human life and work is in progress. Good employers realise healthy, content-
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The Court dismissed the Bank's with other Continental concerns for taking over derelict Darwen under appeal. takings.
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar was quoted at. 18. 3d. on demand on Saturday,
Four cases of cholera, five of enteric and one of moningitis were reported on Friday.
At to-morrow's meeting of the bert will give a talk on motor-cars, Rotary Club, Rotarian C. D. Lam- entitled "How Did It Happen?""
Mr. Philip Jacks has resumed duty as Land Officer on the ter- mination of his appointment to boj an additional Judge of the Supre- me Court.
1932.
MRS. BRUCE FAILS
FORCED TO DESCEND AFTER 15 HOURS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, ]
LONDON, Aug. 6.
It is reported that cholera and The annual convention of the bubonic plague are raging hand in China National Anti-Opium As- hand in the three districts of sociation will take place" this year Ichan, Huangkung and Kungan, at Hangchow from August 20' to in south-western Hupch. The September 2, according to an offi local authorities are doing their cial announcement issued by the utmost to prevent the epidemic from Association. Telegrams have been MRS. VICTOR BRUCE, the wel! spreading to neighbouring districts. despatched by the Association to
known airwoman, to-day fail. · its branches in the various provin-
Court for China Shanghai, who saying that arrangements have been ing forced to descend after fifteen Ees, asking them to send delegates ed in her attempt to break the Judge Milton D. Purdy, U.S.to the forthcoming meeting and world's air endurance record, be- has been in hospital suffering from made with the government railways,
an attack of cholera, has improved by which delegates to the Hangehow hours in the air by a leak in the sufficiently to be discharged from conference will be granted a 50 per main petrol tank.. Hospital. The Judge has now re- cant, reduction in travelling ex- sumed residence in his own apart penses. ment in the American Consulate.
The Rockefeller Foundation have
The plucky aviatrix commenced
her arduous task at noon yester-
partment of Phonetics and Lingu- owing to the inability of the tanker. istics of the school can now be planes to discover, the whereabouts expanded. In this field of research
of the amphibian.. the School of Oriental Studies acta
Mrs Bruce hoped to remain in
day in the three-engined amphibian Mr. K. Yamasaki, the Manager offered to the School of Oriental machine City of Portsmouth, ac- A small boy was knocked down of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Chn- | Studies, University of London, an by a motor car in Queen's Road son, has just been transferred to annual sum of £3,000 for a period companied by two co-pilota, Flight- East on Friday and sustained Manila. He left Canton on Satur- of three years for the furtherance Sergeant McCleary and Lieut. J. bruises to the head. He was not day and Mr. Takahasi took his of research in African linguistics. E. W. Pugh, the flight being made a good economical proposition, and
seriously injured and refused to go place. Mr. Yamasaki has been in The School of Oriental Studies in
off Portsmouth. to hospital.
Hong Kong and Canton for 10 cludes in its activities the teaching. the firma built upon those prin-,
years, and will be much missed by and investigation of the languages Dense fog also contributed. to tho ciples are weathering the economic
It is notified that the rate for his many friends of all nationall of Africa, and the research that has failure of the refuelling operations, limewashing in Hong Kong and ties Mrs. Yamasaki left Canton hitherto been carried on by the De storm. What has now been accept-
Kowloon under By-law 4 of the some time ago for a holiday in ed in fenlightened quarters has been
Domestic Cleanliness and Ventila- | Japan. bitterly contested in the past, and,
BERLIN, August 6. tion By-laws shall be 83.80 per floor for the year starting October 1, by no merns prevails every MORE drastic penalties for the
The death has occurred in Lon- I in conjunction with the Internation- where to-day. The old justification uso of firearms and explosivos
don of Mr. Honry Macpherson al Institute of African Languages the air for a month, which would for perpetuating bad conditions ara expected to be decreed very
Dr. Frank Freeman of London, Tibbey, who came to Hong Kong; and Cultures.
have necessitated the covering a was two-fold. In the first place it shortly. Official figures show that chief engineer of Messrs. Dorman, in 1808 do represent the Sun Life was accepted in Europe as unwise since the von Papen Government Long, the famous Middlesborough Assurance Co., and in 1909 joined As a recently announced plan of nearly 80,000 miles, breaking the firm responsible for the building of the Hong Kong office of the Glen the police to make the former for present record of 23 days, held by and even perilous to do anything, assumed power on May 31, There the Sydney harbour bridge, has ar Line. In 1904 he was transferred eign settlement of Kobe a noiseless the Hunter brothers in the United that, "might make the poor uis-have been 130 persons killed and rived in Shanghai by the Empress to Shanghai, where he eventually zone has failed to materialise owing
became the Manager of the "Glen to the intervention of the higher States. contented."To maintain illiteracy: over 1,000 seriously wounded in of Russia.
Line Eastern Agencies, Ltd. He authorities at the Prefectural Office and class privileges that prevented, political classes throughout Ger-
When passing the Italian Con- retired in 1928 after a severe attack to whom a delegation representing. vent in Chine Road on Friday morn- of sunstroke.
the taxi-drivers made a strong Charlie Chaplin's Fortune. those born among the "lowermany.
protest, Mr. E. W. James, who orders" from rising in the social There have been 322 cases of ug, Mr. P. Ryan, warder of Vie toria Gaol, who was driving his
played not a small part in securing With his income assessed by the scalo was hold in the first century terrorism in Prussia" alone, exclud- motor car, knocked down a Chinese. The various Hongkow District the sympathy and understanding of tax-officials at almost $8,000,000
woman, aged 84, who sustained a branches of the Greater Shanghai the authorities toward the foreign-Charlie Chaplin may be pardoned of the machino age to be the essen- ing Berlin, the culprits in 203 cases
slight wound. to the back of her Citizens' Federation have address. ers' complaints of the increasing if he thinks that he knows some- tial foundation of stable society, being Communists, 75 Nazis and 21
ed a joint letter to the Chinese honking noise, has again approach thing about finance. and for the ultimate good of richRepublicans
General Chamber of Commerce of ed the authorities concerned and
Except for a few hundred thou- A football team from the Argyll Shanghai, requesting that native good results are expected. In view and Sutherland Highlanders de merchants be forbidden to take ad of the increasing honking in Kobe, sand dollars which are invested in putised for the E.M.S. Tamar vantage of the boycott to reap pro- the prefectural authorities in charge property, the whole of his enormous against the Canton Combined Air fits by increasing prices of domestic of traffic are planning to hold an fortune is invested in stocks and Force and Navy side at Caroline products, and suggesting that dras anti-noise campaign for three days, Hill on Saturday and won a very tic measures should be adopted by The authorities are expected to deal Douglas Fairbanks, on the other evenly contented game by the odd the Chamber to deal with these with the latest type of horn, which hand, has only 8789,000 invested in
"selfish goal in three,
is unnecessarily noisy.
and poor. The second and intel The outbreak of terrorism con- lectual justification for this curious tinues to spread throughout all creed was that the laws of political Germany, sometimes Communists economy were such that conditions being responsible, but apparently, could not be improved, except since the elections, Nazis are more perhaps over the course of a slow frequently the offenders.
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