ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.
TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN NOT THURSDAY, 22nd instant, the supply of electricity to Kowloon Tong Estate will be diseon tinged between the hours of 9 am. and 5 p.m. The current will also be disconnected for short period within these hours from Prince Edward Road and Waterloo Road, North of Argyle Street.
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HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS.
LIMITED.
NOTICE ELEVENTH OR-
YOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS In the Company will be held at the QUEEN'S THEATRE, Queen's Road, Central, on WEDNESDAY, 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1032, at NOON, to pass the Directory Report and Accounts, to elect retiring Directors and Auditors, to declare a Dividend, and to transact any other Ordinary Busincas of the Company.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25TE to the 261 day of SEPTEMBER, 1932, both days inclusive.
Dated the 19th day of September, 1932.
By Order of the Board,
CHAS. S. ROFSELET, Secretary.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
HE NINTH EXTRA RACE MEETING is declared abandoned with the exception of the race for the Fifth Aggregate Stakes, which will be incorporated in the TENTH EXTRA RAOE MEETING to be held fweather permitting) * HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 24tл BEPTEMBER, 1932.
Entrance Fees and Gate money will be refunded on application.
By Order of the Stewards, S. &. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary. [2669
17th September, 1922.
NOTICE.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-
ANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.)
ERTIFICATE No. 8422 for Ton
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1932.
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GROWN, BOTTLED AND SHIPPED
By
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"So-l drink it then, and let us always be Quite free and jovial and all happy. Should we know of a friend who is
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Give him wine, and for choice, the best
to be had."
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With Backs Appeal,
News and Views
Ottawa, it is said, may write a Now chapter in the history of wheat marketing. That would be a cereal story, of course,
The Extra Hand.
A weekly newspaper, reporting kn adventure with a bull, states: --
Mrs. S.-beat off a bull that had attacked and knocked her hus- band unconscious with a pitch- fork." A hul; like that ought to come in handy in the harvesting
season.
Civil War in U.S. 10377
generous.
the Government about the end'An Actor's Passing. of September. How to place No profession is more and keep the fund on an acturial, hearted in its appreciation of por- basis has been the chief com gopality than the stage. And the sideration, and it is now general-memorial service to the late Dennis ly anticipated that the Commis Neilson-Terry sion will recommend bringing poignant one, about a million more people into, the ambit of insurance.
Black Goats". to Dome In?
WAS
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DEMANDING MONEY WITH MENACES.
SENTENCE OF ONE YEAR AT SESSIONS.
APPLICHAU CASE
Sentence of one. peculiarly
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It was obviously no merely formal occasion of mourning, and it was clear that a very large section of the congregation had been touched with a vivid reuse of personal loss These will probably include in the passing a young actor who "black-cont" workers earning up in recent years had exhibited to £ a week, for such now classes, bright a promise of future great- being more sheltered in their oc- cupations, would greatly streng- then the fund. Many guesses have been innde as to the Commission's likely recommendations concerning "transitional benefit,"
A civil war in 1837 will be the elimax after four more years of the financial depression in the United States, according to a horoscope of the country pro Cheap Travel! sented at the National Astrological ! · Association's Convention.
nest.
Laurel and Hardy.
year's hard Inbour was passed yesterday by the Puisno Judge, Mr. Justice Wood, on a Chinese who was found guilty of uttering a letter demanding 11 at Aplichau. money with menaces, on August
The jury comprised Messrs. J. G. Meyer (foreman), Low Hak Kwong, W. Sanderson, G. F. Gilbert, E. V. M. B. de Soun, M. A. dos Remie dieos and Lam Fit Long,
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, assist- ant Crown Solicitor, outlining the case, said:—" The lotter reforced to was received by a man called Ho Kam. The entelope was actually Mr. Fred Terry and Mies Julia addressed to Mr. Ho Me Chi, and Neilson, the parents, carried them. I should explain at this stage that selves stoically through the service, Ma Chi is Ho Kam's nickname. but the strain of their bereavement double thunt" and he is 90 Ma Chi, I understand, means must have been very great.
nicknamed because he has an extra There was one moment, in the ad- finger on the right-hand. Ho Kam is a merchant who lives at Apli- Enterprise, if nothing else, is re-dress, when the rector of St. chan, vealed in at advertisement in a Paul's, Covent Garden, référred to
The Letter, Dr. Henry Gordon, a Pittsburgh British paper which says "Young the inflexible determination of the
The letter mside the envelope astrologist, emphasised that his
man accepts pillion Passengers. Detor never, to disappoint his pub- commenced with the address of Mr. predictions were perfectly "Ber-!
Ma Chi and the lotter states, To Penny a mile. Week-ends." Such lic," when Miss Phyllis Neilson. Ma Chi:There is a tong out ious."
cheap travel, even though avail, | Terry's arm crept round her here. It has not enough supplies able only on Saturdays and Sun- father's shoulders in an eloquent for provision. Ah, Ma Chi, it de- days, is not to be sneezed, but gesture. what do the big transport con-
A ray of light shone through the gloom, however, when, he forecast that beer and light wines would be legally available three years hence,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Shakespeare's Will
CO.,LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
Est. 1841.
Editorial and Business Offices: 1
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 21. 1932.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES.
You can no longer see Shakes- peare's will at Somerset House for a shilling. It appears that the authorities have had a photostat copy made of the will, and this is what you are now shown for the old sum.
that you can do so on payment of
two shillings.
Four safe water supply, control of
If you demur and ask to see the food vendors and adequate noti-actual original, you fication and isolation system there
will be told
was nothing to fear. This view was justified, but Dr. G. W. POPE warned the public, that while the chances were that all would be well; [ State Insurance. considering the conditions in Hong Kong, no assurance to that effect could be given.
:.
sires to borrow from you the sum of $500. If you have no money, Mr Laurel when in London talk-give us a reply in three days. Your reply can be sent us care of the Yau. Tai grocery shop. You are to give us a reply in three days whether you have money or not.
17 you hava no money, Ah Ma Chi, you should be careful of your life in your going out and coming in. Wo will deal with you with guns. We, are afraid you will lose your bont." men and cargo.” The letter was dated August 10, 1932, and bore several names stated to be the leaders.
cerns have to say about it! Ited of his earlier days with Levy sound. lika the opening shot in and Cardwell's Juveniles and of yet another phase of the road-rail ' the pantomime, "The Babes in the war. Can we look forward to the Wood," in which he played a golli railway companies, if not the 'bus wog with Wee Georgie Wood. "You companies as well, putting their see," he explained, "it was easy men on the highways with motor for me to get on the stage becaUBS cycles specially equipped with my father had theatres in North "flapper" seatė
Shields. Mr. Hardy said: "Well,
He Was Right.
it was like this. I tried law and I failed at that. I tried medicine and I failed at that. I could sing a bit so I studied music and went.
There have been many retorta to the English schoolmaster who do- into variety. That took me to Los clared recently that the modern boy i Angeles, and I bad a fing at the has no initiative, There was one films. concerning a youngster whose bright į
"Ho Kam lives at a rice shop Accused is a distant relative of and is, I think, a general merchant.
Ho Kam's wife and in October,
1031, accuser came to stay with theo He stayed with them for a mauthor a tla over. While he was staying with them he some- times asked for the loan of money. At the end of about & month accused left them and went to stay
Scorn no man's love, though of on a fishing boat where he got 'a mean degree;
job on the revocomendation of Ho Kan
Love is a present for a mighty king-GEORGE HERGERT,
After its two years of exhaus-ideas about applying for posts got Today's Quotation. tive inquiry into every pham of him a job. On the outside of his the unemployment insurance pro letter of application he had print The references in the Report to blem, the Royal Commission is ex ed-"Open this-it will save you plague also jolt one out of comm-pected to present its report to time." placency. Plague is caused by the bite of a certain species of rat fen. "In spite of the continuous cam- paign against them.
there
Silver Shares, H.K. $25 per Bhare paid up, Numbered 2368). 23670 in the China Traders' Insur-
still is, and probably always will ance Co., Ltd. now converted into :
be a sufliciency of rodents in the Thirty four Gold Shares in the British Traders' Insuranco Co., Ltd. THE extensive and interesting report Colony to light up and maintain standing in the name of KHO0 for 1931 of the Director of Medical an epidemic."-Until 1924 plague BENG CHONG (Dacazeed) of Singa- and Sanitary Services shows that had always been endemic in the pore has been declared LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the health of the Colony is good, Colony. There were 1,181 cases in the date hereof the above Document judged by Far Eastern Standards. 1952. and between 1018 and 1993 the be not forthcoming the Said The death rate is 24.59 per 1,000 lowest figure was 139. There were Certificate will be deemed cancelled and of No Effect, and & NEWmong the Chinese population, or 145 cases in 1923; then for the next Certificate for the Thirty four Gol alut double the death rate of four years there were none at all. Shares will be issued in its stead by Great Britain, where it hovers In 1928 there were four and the the Company,
round the figure twelve. It has to next year two! We have come to be remembered, however, that many believe ourselves out of the weed, sick persons return to their own but Dr. WELLINGTON warns country when they feel that the bluntly that such an assumption is end is approaching. The European not warranted by the facts. death rate is 0.79 per thousand, or
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 16th September, 1982.
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very appreciably lower than Eng land.
Even when we discount the fact HE TENTA EXTRA RACE that most people are adically T MEETING will be held (Weather examined before coming out, and
Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER therfore the proportion of heredi- 1932, commencing at 3.00 p.m.
Malaria, the former scourge of the Colony is well under control, comparatively speaking. Cases ad. mitted to government hospitals have been halved since 1923, but 586 is still n large figure, and it
is to be hoped that any well meant economies at the expense of the
Local and General
The quarantine restrictions im- posed by Shanghai against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera have been removed.
Mr. J. Watson, representing Messrs, Arthur and Co., of Glas gow, who left the Colony last year, has returned to Hong Kong to take charge of the firm's interests.
A fine of $24 or 12 days' impri, sonment was imposed on a Chinesa woman, who was arrested on Men- day for possession of a quantity of Chinese tobacco on which duty had not been paid,
For driving up Wyndham Strest, without the permission in writing of the I.G.P., Miss C. W. Preshaw, living at 320, The Peak, was sum- moned before Mr. Schofield yeater- day. Pleading guilty through a ro presentative, she was fined $10.
from the files.
Letter Found.
On the 1th August, at about i am., Mrs. Ho was in bed at the back of the house which is near the back entrance. The back entrance is protected by bars of some sort. and there are gaps between and one can see out.. Mrs. Ho will say that au vil lamp was burning and that there was me moonlight. She will also say that at about (hat how she saw the accused standing by the well which is in front of the back entrance. She wondered what he was doing thero and called out to him. He ran away. When she got up the next morning at about Gam. she found the letter lying' on the ledge of the well. She took The Bill to prevent the publica-it to her husband to whom it was tion in Hong Kong of seditiouse will tell you he recognised the addressed and he opened it, and Arrested leaving a house in Nam matter, introduced at Tuesday's ses Kwok Street, a Chinese who appear.jsion of the Legislative Council ig doubtless well-meant, and intended ed before Mr. Schofield at the Cento satisfy a "long felt want." We he knew accusal was working and tral Police Court yesterday, charg- hope that its terms will be care ed with possession of two sticks of fully studied and weighed,
there can be no possibility of any dynamite, a detonator and fuse, abuse, arising therefrom in the fu was fined $50 or one month's hardture. labour.
tary invalidis s smail, and again Malariologist, .cs proposed by the is expected to visit Miyajima from on a charge of negligent driving,
home
The First Boll will bo Rung at that most Europezas go
permanently during late middle life, there cannot be much wrong. with conditions in Hong Kong. I
1.30 p.m.
HEMBERF ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Hembers' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms. at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $5.00 for Ladise (Both including Tax) Bre obtainable througs the SECDETALY Member, upon introduction by a anch Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, etc.
Badges admitting to
Race Course.
the undue bent tires us in summer, we are spared the influenza and pneumonia epidemics that sweep England in winter,
onomy Commission, will go where they belong. It is no use having
ing his wrok. Diphtheria remains 4 maleriologist and then hamper-
The driver of a public car, which Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, Com- had injured a pony in Queen's mander-in-Chief of the British Road Central, near Seven und Six naval forces on the China statios, penny Hill, was fined $50 yesterday
failing to stop after an accident and failing to report the case to the police. It was stated that civil action was being taken in respect of damages amounting to $300
October 10 to 13 and Kobe from October 14 to 24...
↑
Mr. B. L. Falcomer, of Exchange
the Government is remiss in having the loss of a Licin camera, valued 2 menace, and in this connection Building, has reported to the police no special accommodation for young at 8240, which he left on the coun-, children, where they can have the tor whilst purchasing stamps at the olone watching necessary in cases of General Post Office. this disease.
Sentence of six and seven weeks' hard labour were imposed by Mr.
Schofield on two Chinese who were arrested for trespass on H.M.S.
Dr. WELLINGTON's report suggests strongly that while epidemics have Health passed us, the Public
The Public Health Services are The Colony had a clean bill of Devonshire. The men were arrest Members Service gives no guarantee that doing their work well. Dr. health for Monday. During lasted following an order which was Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the this happy state of affairs will WELLINOTON's report conveys a mass week there were four cases of given to the effect that no Chiuere
Report insistence is made upon sented.
At the outset of the of interesting matter lucidly pre- cholera (three deaths), one case of were to be allowed to leave the There is statesman-like diphtheria, three cases (one fatal) ship. The order was given after three things: 1. That there is bad, vision of the problems, and the of enteric, one case of meningitis a "boy" on the ship had discover and increasingly bad, overcrowding facts are stated without varaishing. and 18 deaths from pulmonary ed a Chinese inside an officer's in Hong Kong. That Chinese Ther is nothing of an alarmist tuberculosis. traditional beliefs and habits nature, but it is firmly conveyed (particular expectoration) do not that while we
shall probably be all
On no pretext will lildren be continue. permitted in her Enclosure durios Iba Meeting.
Tiffing are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from
the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone PUBLIO ENCLOSURE.
21920
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladive, and is payable at the Gate,
Boldiers and Sailors in uniform aro admitted Half Prics.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, oto will not be permitted to opombe with in the Precincts of The Hoxe Kono Jockey OLUB during the Race Meeting.
cabin
After hiring a mah jongg set and Banished on September 14this make either for prevention or con right, we are in the position of ú
a table top, a Chinese pawned the year after a conviction for larceny trol of disease. 3. That proper man who has taken out no insur cards and a charge of larceny by and another for a breach of the quarantine against Canton, Mamoances against quite possible dangor, bailee was brought against him be- Opium Ordinance, a Chiness was and the interior, is a practical Even the Economy Commission, it fore He Schofield at the Central arrested on Monday and charged be
will be remembered, recommended
"fore Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon impossibility.
no curtailment on medical and Police Court. The defendant who Magistracy, yesterday. In passing During the recent outbreak of sanitary services. Over population lived at Mallory Street, removed sentence of nine months hard Lis a problem that must always cause the day after reating the got, but i labour, his Worship said You cholera the affair attitude was, anxiety to the medical profession, was seen in the streets by a foki must have come straight back. De Asting Secretary, bellove, that Canton often had an especially as they know the wise who had gone in search of him. A fondant had been banished for 10.
2568 outbreak of cholera, but that with difficulties in the way of solution fine of $50 was imposed.
By Orderin
8. A. BLEAP.
Hong Kong, 10th Sept., 1932.
years
Looking Back 25 Years,
thut
At present its wording a pears to us suspiciously wide, and capable in the hands of some_too- zealous official of the future, of ap- plications not at present intended
Hong Kong Daily Prese, Septem- ber 21, 1007.
Looking Back 50 Years,
writing as that of the accused. He went around to the hut where
questioned him shout it.
"Accused admitted that he know who had sent the letter: Ho Kam then asked him if he would try and know what reply was given, but get the amount reduced. I do not
anyhow it was arranged that they should meet the same evening in tea house;
In the meantime, 'Ho the police. They met that night at Kam had reported the matter to
the tea house and continued the conversation.
Accused's Statements. An extraordinary general meet- After some time necused, went
shareholders in the ing of the Union Insurance Society of Can-polies and pointed the accused out away and Ho Kam fetched the 'ton was held yesterday afternoon.
to them. He was arrested and since Ryrie (Chairman), Mesars. F. D. The first statement was to the effect There were present: Hon. Mr. then had made certain statements. Sassoon, H. Hoppius, W.H.F. that accused did not intend getting Dary (Directors), A. Coxon, A. 80 from Ho Kam. Wemyss, J. H. Cox, D. McCalloch, A. O. Morris, J. Macgregor, C. D. Bottomley, E. F. Alford, IL G. James, E. George, C. U. Stuart, C. W. Holliday, T. G. Williamson, A. da Silveira and Douglas Jones (Acting Secretary).
He and his
wife scolded him and he had only written the letter to frighten Ho
Kam.
"Before the Police Magistrate,. acessed made another statement when the case was being heard,
which was to the effect that the The Secretary read the notice | letter was not written by him. Ho
convening the meeting. The Chair. Kam and his wife told him his man said-Gentlemen, you have brother owed for provisions sup heard the notice convening the plied during three months and meeting read, and it also contains wanted him to pay. He only cara- the resolution which to form the ed six dollars a month and so was Company into a Limited Company. unable to pas. The mother and I don't think I need enlarge hers son abused him and demanded pay- on the advantages of limited liabila ment. They had a letter written ity, or its disadvantages. I don't demanding 8300 and then accused think there are many people now him of being the writer. The police opposed to limited companies. But came and arrested him and a police I may mention that from a tale officer told him to confess. When gram received today we learn that he refused, said the accused, the the shareholders in England ap- police beat him and he was forced prove of the course we are now into confession because he could not adopting and that the Company suffer the torture.” should be limited. I propos that In reply to the Judge, defendant this Company, now registered unsaid he had nothing to say, ami des the Companies Ordinance, No. was found guilty lip, a majorit 1 or 1868 to 1881 as a Company five to two Limited by theres."-Hong Kong Daily Press, September 21,
He wantenced, to one year's imprisonment with hard labour.