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Forms for the Twelfth Extra Race Meeting to be he'd on SATUR DAY, 22nd OCTOBER, 1932 (weath r permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Clah, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Roul
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 137 OCTOBER, 1932,
By Order,
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Asting Secretary
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HONG KONG, Ocтony 10, 1938.
News and Views
Safaty First.
Witness, asked at West Ham to- day if he saw anything of the asault," Not guilty, my worship.
Magistrate at Tottenham to inan charged with assault: What have you to say Defendant: Only that I got my 'hit in flrat.'
Rival Attractions.
Clerk (to defendant at Totten ham): Is your witness here?
Defendant: No, she prefers wo see the Prince to coming here. (The Prince of Wales was visiting the hospital opposite the pourt.).
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The Silent Financiar.
Mr. Montagu Norman does not generally go out of his way to talk to anyone who is connected with a newspaper. But be paid a warm compliment to the work done by the
Press for tho
Conversion Schema
Referring to the importance of: bringing the facts before the pub
lic, Mr. Norman remarked that everything now depended on the bankers, the stock brokers, the soli citors, and the Press-an unusual grouping of the professions, but perhaps it sheds new light on the. present meaning of "The Fourth Estate."
A Chinese Bowl at Oxford.
Now. College, Oxford, can pro- bably boast that it posseHICG A Chinese porcelain bowl, with cla-
A Surprise for the Kmg.
When the King visited Broad.borate silver mounts, of a date car. casting House recently (the Radio lier than the silver Ming cup sold Times says) they played him a re- at Sotheby's last month for £1,000 -cord of one of his own broadenet to Sir. Percival David.
speeches.
ماچھے
"Dear me," said the King, "I must have had a cold?
Hobbs Not to Betire.
Cricket followers who Have boen delighted by Jack Hobb's form with the bat during the pass se- son will be pleased to learn that tho great Surrey and England player has again postponed his re- tirement from first-class cricket Hobbs has informed the press that he will not make any definite plans for the future until his return from! Australia after the M.C.C. tour. I But I certainly hope to play a few times for Surrey next sum- mar; I feel as fit now as I have bean for some years," he said.
The Lie Detector!
The Conservative majority was over 33,000, and on the morning after the declaration of the poll Mr. Wallace said to his secretary
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"Well, we have saved our deposit, any way. Find out what time the returning officer comes on duty and go and collect it."
'ST. PAUL'S GIRLS'. COLLEGE BAZA'AR
MRS. SOUTHORN OPENS FUNCTION
The annual charity Bazaar the St. Paul's Girls' College was bald on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Southora declaring the function open in the presence of a large gathering..
Beyond the slightest elevation of
In calling upon Mrs. Southorn his eyebrows at what must have seemed our almost indecent haste to open the bazaar, the Hon. Dr. to recover the money, the official R. H. Kotewall, CM.G., LL.D. made no comment, but handed Mr.
addressing the gathering said— Wallace three £60 notes,
Mrs. Southorn, ladies and gen "Thanks," he said when he was given the money. 'Now I can go tiemeu,-Yesterday, Mrs South- to Newmarket and see the Cam- or had a strenuous, tiring after- bridgeshire." He stepped into his
long yellow Rolls and was driven noon, and yet she is here to- away.
day, cheerfully shouldering another burden of public service! Her un- bounded enthusiasm for good ob-
The Footlights,
Of the inany attractive plays jects no doubt gave her that on- now being presented at the London orgy which is the envy of even the theatres, one particularly is receiv- stronger sex. Her practical in. ing high praise from the critica.
According to tradition, Archbi- shop Wareham presented it to his Tho play in question is "Orders terpretation of the Girl Guido's old college, his name being scratch- are Orders," by Ian Hay and An aim-to do one good deed a day- ed on the foot, Wareham will be thony Armatrong, Ian Hay (Beith) has exceeded the mark ever since remembered in art circles on ac- is a brother of Mr. B. D. F her arrival in the Colony for we
Wareham, who officiated at the Coronation of Henry VIII, and Calberine of Aragon in 1500, died "incredibly poor after being the most generous and lavisl. among prelates,
A Natural Advocate.
that Mrs Southor
count of the magnificent series of Beith, well-known in Hong Kong
does Gothic tapestries which he gave to and at one time local taipan of know Knole when the famous house was Messrs. Jardine Matheson. Play many good deeds every day; and in his, occupation as Archbishop of, ing a leading part in the play is by coming here to open this Bazanı Canterbury,
Basil Foster, one of the Foster she had added another to the family of cricketing fame, who is amazingly long list that stands to
near relative of Mr. Rupert Fes her credit,
"Yet, it is only to be expected- tor of the Asiatic Petroleum Com
the one this pany. Rupert Foster is now at that a function which has such being mostly afternoon-to benefit charitable in- eign community Kwang chow-wan where, the for worthy objects as French, he has started an Amateur stitutions such as the M.C.L., the Dramatic Club and is at prosent Blind Home, the Victoria Orphan- rehearsing a French play. He will age and the Nethersolo Hospital, the College Library and long be remembered here for his and The district watchman who was elever charged with the wilful murder of The Middle Watch" and "Art Southorn's sympathy and support. character portrayals in Sports Funds-should have Mr. a fellow watchman, after a dual, and Mrs. Bottle," plays presented I hope that those who have. quite on old-fashioned lines and, by the Hong Kong ADC, and gathered here to-day will give for an old fashioned reason, prov-also for his own production of the many attractions their patron- ed a very clever advocate on his "Dear Brutus" played here last age, and this contribute the need- Police of European cities listen- vn behalf. Quite unperturbed by winter. Another actor making aed money and gladden the hearts. ed with profound interest while the presence of the acting Assis successful hit in Londen is Mr. of the hard-working ladies and Assistant Attorney General Emory Attorney-General, for the pro- Jack Barty who plays Colonel girls who have put in so much of J. Smith of Illinois explained the secation, he quietly cross-examined
i ele "Casanova," Jack Barty, taar lie detector leveloped at North each witness on one point, "Which Waldstein is that gorgeous specta their time in getting up this Ba- best way to bring The New mid-day.
western University. Delicate ine, one opened fire first." No one whose real name is Bartlett, is a smiles of pleasure to their faces roads have led to the erection of
truments register the changing know. The prosecution threw up! emotions of a witness as be responds the sponge under this attack, and brother of Mr. O. W. Bartlett will be to leave the stalls hare and
(Dick Barty) who was popular in the collecting bags full. country houses, and Mr. BRAGA
to questions. Not only does the the case was dismissed.
Hong Kong as an entertainer sonis "I now have the pleasure of has in mind a similar, more inten-
machine instantly record an up-
two years ago..
calling upon Mrs. Southoru declare the Bazaar open." sive, development on the Kowloon truth, but indicates, inversely, that
overy man is basically honest. An Experienced One. Hills. A note of insistence comes.
False pretense and falsehood aro into his speeches on this subject mero shell and mask--the dial because he realises that now is some shows even the hardened offender wincing when he deliberately con- thing of a turning point.
The Peak has sandry disadvanceals his conduct behind a lie, tages. Many of the houses are perched on picturesque but inacces aible eyries, They are off the main road and in these days people pre fer a roadway, either public or
Territories
and the other villages round the foot KOWLOON HILLS AND THE private, past the front door. Even hills East of Shek Ku Ling Road will be interrupted between the hours
of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
BANK HOLIDAY.
Rocordance
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PEAK
Buckfast Abbey Bees,
One of the great advocates of the Victorian Age, Sergeant Bal lantine, wrote in his reminiscences The monks of Buckfast Abbey, that the average barrister often in Devonshire, have an amazingly does more harm than good by a fine apiary. Brother Adan, who torrent of irrelevant questions, The undertakes the care of the beer, Bergeant himself frequently shat has not less than 200 hives to look tered case by few witharing after, and the honey gathered this When Sir Cristopher Wren built questions, and a sarcastic speech of year weighs nearly. fifteen tons, St. Paul's Cathedral (1675-1710) he a few minutes duration. left a note giving the distances at which speakers could be heard from Edgar Wallace and A Deposit.
Microphone in St. Paul's.
ย
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the pulpit.
His instructions Eave been ren- When the late Edgar Wallace
Local
and
The
SHIP COLLISION LAWS
LOCAL ORDINANCE AMENDMENT.
to
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Queen bees from Buckfast, it
-The Gazette contains the draft scoms, are greatly sought after inf an Ordinance to amend the hee-keeping circles, and provide a
side-line remuncrative
to the Supreme Court (Admiralty Pro- arduous work of the apiary itself. cedaro) Ordinance of 1890.
It is explained that Rule 53 in Away on Dartmoor, three miles!
the Schedule to Ordinance No. 6 from any other bees, is an apiary of 1890, contains fourteen para devoted to raising pure Italian queens without risk of the intergraphs of particulars required to be filed in preliminary acts in ac unwelcome of vention
nativa. tions for damage by collision. drones. These queens are cold, to Though there are. immaterial dif bee-keepers all over the country.
General
asuall matter of fifty yards up ordered obsolete by the installation stood at the last General Election down steps and patha is a grave of a microphone in the pulpit, and as Liberal candidate for Black disadvantage. Perhapa people to system of loudspeakers concealed pool, he stretched his bank over In the course of his vigorous ples
in the choir. Hitherto, it has been draft to the extent of £150 for de- day go out of an evening more than
difficult to hear a speaker 'owing posit with the returning officer. for Kowloon during the Budget
in the past perhaps it is merely to the resonance under the great On repayment of the money be
doma. Debate, Mr. J. P. BRAGA criticised
went to a race meeting with it.. that we have grown softer and the Government for not pushing on
fonder of comfort. About the fogs with Government with the Sai Kung Road. In view rothing now can be said, except IN Ordinance,
The EXORANGE of the world economic position and that these fogs, aided by white ants BANKS will be GLOSED for the tho urgent need for conserving our and other vermin limit the life of TRANSACTION-of PUBLIO BUSI NESS on MONDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, Loures the Government in the average building in Hong Kong 1933. (TH ANNIVERSARY or a doubtedly right in not embarking to fifty years. For all their spaci CHINESE REPUBLIC).
upon any work that is in the
ous solidity many of the Peak Hong Kong, 6th Oct., 1932,
slightest degree speculative. Where houses need severe, renovation if roads are made, however, dwellings not re-building. The question is spring up rapidly and as
whether people would not prefer to ond leads further and further rebuild out on the Kowloon Hills. from the city the houses tend to especially in the Eastward dires become larger and more expensive. tion. While the Peak geta all the In these days people like to live wind that is going the mid levels in the country and go in to their that offer many possible sites are work in a car.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
the
Two cases of enteric (one im- ported) were reported on Friday.
At to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club, Mr. H. A. Boyce Coombe will give, an address on
Java
Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto was among the passengers -bound for left last night....
From the files.
Cooking Back 50 Yeats."
The announcement. of the death of Mr. John Noble after a short illness, which we made in these
forances in phraseology the first thirteen of these paragraphs corres- pond with paragraphs (a) to (a) of Order 19 rule 28 of the English Rules of the Supreme Court. The fourteenth paragraph required" statement. of the fault or default, if any, attributed to the other ship. This is not required in England and has given rise to difficulties an the Courts of the Colony.
This amending Ordinance repsala the paragraph and substitutes two paragraphs, corresponding in effect with paragraphs (o) and (p) of the English rule, which deal with sound signals and which were added. to the Order 19 rule 28 in 1898, about two years after the date of the principal Ordinance.
As the repealed paragraph in rule
THE
THE ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, ST OCTOBER, and on MONDAY, 10TE OCTOBER, 1932, sible for the fortunate minority, Lyemoon breeze that is one of the commending at 2.00 pm, on both days. but a growing number of people sets of Kowloon. No one would.
This is only posto a large degres shut off from the Europe by the Conte Rosso which Judicial police and the appearence columns yesterday, must have been 63 was in the nature of a plead-
1.30 p.m.
is
BANK RETURNS, "
According to the Shanghai Chin- ose Press, the Chinese Government will notify the Governments of Great Britain, United States, France, Japan and the Netherlands next month of its intention to revise the agreement for the rendi- tion of the law courts of the In- ternational Settlement. Among the important changes it is proposed to make are those dealing with the
of foreign lawyers.
a great shock to his wide circle ing rule 54 has been redrafted so Part of the US. Obina Fleet
The China Times reports that of friends and acquaintances. r, as to make it clearer that an up- The First Bell will be Rang at live on the outskirts of a town, it suggest that the Peak will ever be arrived in the harbour early, on Tientsin merchants are terrified but Noble was a very old resident, hav. plication for pleadings shall not
Saturday morning. The arrivals the activitice of the Bloody Group. Colony, and was for some years.
ing been twenty-one years in the he deemed abnormal; MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE the transport is reasonably good. deserted, for its tradition has a comprised the U.E.S. Canomis, the Last Thurday night, it is said, two manager in Messrs. G. Falconer & Members are notified that they and In England prosperous men in the solid backing in the excellent serU.B. Destroyer Pigeon, and Submissiles which had bean placed in Co.'s establishment, until he start their Ladies must wear their Badges City take up their residence at
marines 33, 37, 38, 30, 40 and '4", a cloth shop in the Chinese City ed business for himself three or prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be Haslemere or in Essex, their senior vica of roads. But a supplement They made frath to buoys in the exploded, killing one man sad in four years ago. He was generally i
juring four others, The shop was admitted to the Members Enclosure,
ing Kowloon is a probable develop-
badly damaged. The second in respected by the community. An
excellent musician himself, he was FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER. Badges admitting Non-Members to assistants live at Richmond, Sutton area of large houses overlook-Naval Anchorage. the Members Enclosure and Clab Rooms or Surbiton and their clerks still
mote its cultivation in the Choral at $5.00 per day for Gentlemen and $800 closer in, at Golders Green and Hent, always assuming that the The Government is inviting ten-stance occurred shortly afterwards, indefatigable in his efforts to pro- |
Colony prospers and advances inders for the erection of a wireless also in the Chinese City, when o per day for Ladies (Both inciadlar Tax)
brandcasting station in Kowloon. bomb left in, a silk store exploded, Society, with which, we believe, The return of the average amount the future as in the past. Electric The work consists of the erection injuring four persons. In the third he was identified from the first by of bank notes in circulation and through the SECRET Sydenham. The same process Bro obtainable ARY upon introduction by Momber, more or lese apparent in Hong train services are no monopoly of of a block of workshops and offices instance, a bomb was left in the classes, and by the encouragement spetie in reserve in Hong Kong,
for wuch Biember to be responsible
Kong. Until recently the Peak has the West, and a branch line might at Hunghom. Tenders are also Chung Yuon Co., & large depart of the diffident. Union Church has dusing the month ended September being invited for the erection of s ment store in the Japanese Con- in him lost an active office-bearer, 20, 1938, as certified by the Man- payment of all Chits, etc. Hadges admitting Encloante will NOT be on sale at the net care Rond and Robin- easily connect with the main line, three storey addition to the exist: cession, but it failed to explode, while to the choir, whose director gers of the respective Banks are.
Mombers heen the European residential die-
Martial law has been declared by he had been for many years, his
Average Specie Banks, the Municipality and the Japanese loss will be almost irreparable. He
Amount. in Reserve. Baco Couree.
On no pretext will Children beson Road the site of the houses giving a speed down to the ferrying P.W.D. offices in Hong Kong.
Mr. N. Ellis, of the China Light authorities have proclaimed, a state took a deep interest in the St. Chartered
of emergency.
Bank --... $ 21,098,662 -
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8,300,000* permitted in either Enclosure during owned by wealthy members of the quite beyond the range of a car
passing through a big town. The and Power Company, had a nasty
Andrew's Society and anticipated aba Meeting, Ma
the happiest results from its form H.K. & b, Tillas are obtaieable at the Olab Chinese community. The Peak as harbour crossing is at present on accident on Saturday afternoon
ation; he was also always willing Bank 130,822,218 118,000,000₫ when be fell off his eycle in Prince Hense provided they are ordered from a residential district was made by the slow side, but the speed boot. Edward Road and hurt his legs and sung by Mrs. Belilios, Mrs. Kew, to aid in the musical meetings got Mercantile
Bank Boy in advance Telephono the No. 1
1,340,000 § 2,973,347 the Peak Tram, in ste day the best is not merely a trippers' toy. Even hody. He was able, however, to goire, Parkins, Messrs E. B. Ayres, up for our sailors and soldiers at Hall, Hong PUBLIC ENCLOSURE instrument of transport in the the short distance-air-taxi is no to the Kowloon City Police Station Moor E-8 Carruthers and the Teraparance
Colony. Since then, however, we impossibility. Time was when Sir to make a report of the mishap H. B. L. Dowbiggin. The Rev. M. Kung Daily Press, 1882,
Longbridge received great apflig have seen the coming of the modern PAUL CRATS was almost alone in fore going on to Kowloon Hospital. road and motor transport. The possessing a country residency on It is notified that the Agreement plause for his songs, "Tis night," Looking Back 15 TORTH,
Under the distinguished patron- small car, the motor 'bus and ade the Mainland, Now his graceful between His Majesty's Government and "Myra" which was sung with to quate ronde have crated Kowloon bungalow has gone and the site is in the United Kingdom and the great feeling and impathy, while in the Precincts of Tax Hone Kong Tong, though even now it is dime he given over to urban Hats, Spanish Government in regard to Mr. Denman Fuller was at his age of His Excellency the Gover†
while the farmans are still retreat the reciprocal recognition of load-beat in a scherzo of Chopin's, nos and Lady Lugard, a very suc- JOCERY OLON during the Race Meeting.cult to see why the Kowloon-Canton ing outwards. It would be in line cerflicates has been extended-composer of whone work Mr. Ful cessful concert was given at the
By Order,
Railway do not open setation teresting to get a glimpse of the to Hong Kong with effect from: Maylor is a worthy exponent, The Theatre Royal last evening The
Hong Kong BongMy love is like a red rose, st the Garden City and run its Colony attom years hence and see 20, 1932 copy of the agreement second part of the programme, wa Urogramme opened with a Dart § B. A. SLEAP
(Continued on Previous" Colemin.) Daily Press, 1907. where they have pitched their may be seen on application at the of a lighter “nature. Acting Becretary.
King and camp.
Colonial's Secretary's Office Hong Kong, 3rd Oct, 1932020 [2011 motor train morning,
to
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The Price of Admission to the Public
Knoloware is $2.00 per day imolading Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gato
Boldiers and Bailors in uniform are admitted Half
Bookmakerangkatan
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***Total: 0164,804,427-$191,080,000–
In addition Sterling Securities ars, deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,143,700. In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straita Government, valued at
192,747,000
with Crown Agents valued at £190,000. In addition Securities deposited