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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS or HAHRY JAMES LAMB, LUTH OF VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG, MERCHANT, DIOBASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Not the Court har, by virtue of
the Provisions of Buction 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an order limiting. the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Clima against the above Estate to the 3nu Dar of NOVEMBER, 1932, "
All Creditors and Others are accord. ingly required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.
Dated the 11th day of October, 1932.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Er entors, 1, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.
NOTICE.
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that MB. IP: PHILLIPS has resigned from our employ as from the 30th September. ·
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that on TUESDAY, the 18th October, 1932. a drawing for the redemption of thirty (30) Debentures will be held in the Pavilion, at 0.80 p.m.
The numbers' of the Debentures drawn will be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and the local Nowspeners, and holdere of drawn Debentures may, upon giring | notice to the Treasurers waiving the six month's notice to which they are entitled, apply on the 81st October, 1432, to the Treasurers, Messrs, Peroy Smith, Beth & Fleming, for payment
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VAUQMAN-FOWLER,-Ûn October 7, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. VAUGHAN-FOWLER, a daughter,
It is arguable that the best way
TRADE MARK INFRINGEMENT
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
COMPANY LAY CHARGES
THREE CHINESE CONVICTED
Three Chinese, Lài Sang. Shih On, and Lai Kam Tung, were charg ej before Mr. Butters at the Kow. loon Magistracy yesterday with being in possession of a number of bags of cement purporting to be the product of the Green Island Cement Company. The cement was contain- ed in Green Island Cement Com pany haga, but on examination proved to be Japanese coment. Mr. O. E. O. Marton appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. B. Prentis for the deferto, DE
In opening the case, for the Cement Company, Mr. Marton said that a notice offering a reward of $100 for information leading to the apprehension of persons selling in ferior cement in bags bearing the trade mark of the Green Island Cement Company had been publish. ed in several Chinese newspapers on October 8,
As a result of, information receiv
Doubls Villain.
News and Views
Woman at Willesden: I want a summons against Mr. Maaviah for not paying my wages. Magis trate: Is he your employer? Wo man: No, my husband.
Taking the Cake.
The postmon recently delivered a piece of wedding cake to Mrs Jane Watt at Gulong, New South Wales.
when her grand-daughter was mar It was posted in a nearby village
ried six years ago..
Amsterdam's Rubber Roads.
Experiments are being made at Amsterdam in the mixing of me; chanically pulverized rubber and ssphalt for paving,
A Bowing Hustle.
Hawaiian Authorities, who have sown nearly fifty tons of tree seeds in the last ten years, find one air- plane can efficiently sow as large the ground could in ten years. Reforestation necessarily is a slow Process, but now it can at least get off with a flying start.
an area in one hour as a man on
Cathedrals?
proverbial song some time ago. He an appoal is made to all inhabt- did not know he had such a trea tants to co-operate in reducing auro until he took it to a pawn noise to a minimum, broker who discovered the great maker's signature and the date
1717.
-It is estimated to be worth about £10,000, but may not be taken, out of the country.
"Stole " His Own Car..
Here is a story of the occasion- French police. sily embarrassing efficiency of the
Repentance too Lata.
There is something almost pathe. tic in the official declaration of the Argentine Governmout that its attention is concentrated on com- mercial relations with Great Bri tain, says the Evening Standard, Lord Beaverbrooks paper, and an ardent exponent of Empire Free A week ago 1, motorcar was Trade. The writer continues." stolen, and the owner daly report- "The question may well give it ed its loss. The next day a tole something to think about, but it phone call from the Surété Génis rather late in the day to begin rale-the Bentland Yard of Paris thinking. All these years the informed him that the car had Argentinians have sold to us and been found abandoned by the road. used the money to buy from other Ride the city. He recovered the nations, and they are not unren- car, and spent the same evening! sonably alarmed at the prospect at a night-club. ...
of the cessation of this agrosable arrangement.
At the Point of the Revolver,
"But the peoples of the British
When, about 4.m., ho attempt Empire are now intent on another their itention by the last-minute ed to drive his car home, together plan, and will not be diverted from with some companions, half dozen policemen suddenly sprang sature of repentance of the out of the darkness with levelled Argentine Republic." revolvers, ordered the astonished ravellers to put their handa up,
and then searched them for con- Loss of the Niobe.
} cealed weapons,
After which the unhappy owner was ordered to take the steel, and, with the cold nozzle of a gun in the back of his neck, to drive his
tors to the nearest police sta
tion..
Details of the sinking of the Niobe show that the sloop was struck beat on by a sudden, fierce squall.
J
She heeled over until her serup- pera were buried and the water poured into her open hatches. She never recovered, and in Ave
A correspondent to a Home pa por writes:
On all sides we hear of depres ed, Mr. Beck, of the complainantsion and hard times. Yet there company, visited two junks lying off appears to be plenty of money for the wharf at Shum Shui Po. They of the fact that so many churches all parties realised that the re churches and enthedrals, regardless
There it took over an hour before were loaded with bags of cement are almost empty. Guildford's is covery of the car had not been noti. minutes had foundered completely.. bearing the Green Island. Cement to cost £200,000 Liverpool's Ged by headquarters, and that Only the man and lads on deck
£1,500,000
Dublin is trade mark but the cement was not asking for £3,500,000 for
these zealous police officers wers or aloft had a chance of escape; & new a product of the Company. As soon cathedral. Leeds is placarded accusing the owner of having ato- all who were unfortunate enough
len his own car.
to be below decks were trapped as witness appeared, the occupants asking for £250,000 for now chur
like rats in a cage. ches And all this when there are of the junk turned tail and fed, He then reported the matter to the police and 200 bags of cament were seized.
Difference in Price. Mr. Marton went on to say that of achieving disarmament is to the inferior cement was being sold abandon all discussion and negotia- at $1.26 a bag, while the price of tion on the subject. At different Green Island Cemont was $3.25. periods of the Victorian age it look- Mr. Prentis at this stage intimat ed as if armaments might die ofed to the Magistrate that be ad inanition. After Waterloo troops mitted the bags were. Green Island Editorial and Business Offers: 11,
Ice House Stroet. Tal. 30251.
and fleets wore demobilised and Cement bags, and that they were Night Editor (Wanchai Offlos); | such fordes na ́were retained tended filled with Japansko cemont
Tel. 34511.
to become flaccid. But always some London Offie: 62. Fleet Street,thing happened to cause a revival
K.O. 4
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, OCTOBER 13. 1032
DISARMAMENT
of the principal and interest to the A CONFERENCE on disarmaments is 81st October, 1932.
now in progress at London though,
By Order of the Committee. L. 8. GREENHILL
Hoa. Becretary. Hong Kong, 11th Ogtober, 1923.
and ΠΟΥ
so many unemployed and starving people.
Anti-Noise League in Budapest,
Prominent citizens of
The Niobe, a ship of 880 tons, three-masted and sloop-rigged, was the cruising in the Fehmarne belt, the In many countries principal things to be seen are cathedrals and Hungarian capital have organized channel between the Isinad of Feb- themselves into a nati-noise Jea- marine and the Danish island, of churches, in the midst of the direct gue. They complain that the Laaland. poverty. The cathedral step is
The giant seaplane Do X had been ́ the rendezvous for beggars, Would sounds from loudspeakers, traffic
on the streets, and particularly out for a spin from Kiel and pass not the money be better spent on sounding of automobile, horne en ed over the Niobe, being greeted hospitals and the relief of dis all occasions, are making things with cheers and waves of the hand. unpleasant for the ordinary in-. A graphic story of the disaster habitaut.
* was given by Captain Muller,
tress?
A Cheap Stradivarius.
Milan.-A violinist named Sals claims to possess a Stardivarius violin which he picked up for the
A committee of experts has been skipper of the Therese Rust. This appointed to suggest bow on anti- vessel picked up 40 survivors of noise campaign can best be in the Niobe and handed them over augurated and put through, and to the cruiser · Koeln.
1
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar was quot H.M.S. Caradoc, which arrived the uniformity of detail, such as ed yesterday at is 3-7/8.
from Singapore on Tuesday, will the using of the same kind of ropa. leave in the forenoon to-morrow tor and jar by various smugglera who Shanghai, carrying on board the have come to their notice from time advance party of the 2nd Battalion to time. Spirits of wine thus im of the Argyll and Sutherlands ported, it was stated, could be con- Highlanders. The Caradoc will du verted into Chinese wine on the duty in the Yantan River.
spot.
The quarantine restrictions im- posed against arrivals from Shang. hai on scooung of cholers have bren
removed.
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years,
The wedding will shortly take place between Mr. Joseph Mark, ac- The graduation function of the countant, of the Mercantile Prin pupils of the Chun-Shing Type- tore Supply Co., and Miss Betty! writing School will take place at Kane, 58, Rebinson Road, Hong the Hall of Hop Yat Church, Kong.
Bonham Road, on Saturday, at 7.30 p.m. Mr. Ma Ying Pis, the manag- The Colony had a clean bill of ing director of the Sinero Co., Lealth on Tuesday, During Inst Ltd, has kindly consented to dis week, there were three cases of tribute the prizes and certificates to enterit, one of paratyphoid, two of diphtheria, eight (six imported) of the successful candidates.
noningitis and 63 deaths from pul-
There was an unusual little social For storing 70 gallons of gasolene function at Government House yes- monary tuberculosis.
in premises at 318, Lockhart Road, terday when Lady Lugard was "At Wanchai, without a permit, a Chin Home from 4 to 0 p.m. to the ess dealer was fined 8100 on a sum leading Chinese residents of the mons taken out by the Fire De Colony. About an equal number of partment at the Central Police European ladies and gentlemen Court yesterday. It was stated, were invited to meet them. It is that there would have been no of scarcely necessary to remark that jection to a permit had one been the Chinese was an entirely mascu applied for, provided that certain line assembly. His Excellency and safety conditions were discharged. Lady Lugard welcomed the guests
Mr. T. C. T. Beck, the first wit ncas called, said that he gave in.' of militarist efficiency: Once it was structions that the notice of a the Crimean War, then the wars reward be inserted in the Chinese of the sixties, in Italy, Austria and newspapers on October 6. On the America, then the Franco-Prussian 7th he received, cortain information, War, and after that the Boer as a result of which he went to War, the Russo-Japanese War and, Shum Shui Po where be mw two finally, came that hectio decade bejunks (Nos. 359V and T1813) con fore August, 1914. If history is any taining bags of cement. The men guide laissez faire will never solve on board the junke left hurriedly on the disarmament problem. The only his arrival. At about 230 p.m. the thing is to continue worrying at the same day he went back to the Police problem, and forcing knowledge of Station where he saw the first de it upon statesmen and citizens of fendant who admitted the owner the World. Wars are engendered ship of the cement. during peace, because there is
Witness was present at the scarab at the time of writing there seems ignorance of the nature of war and on the junks on the evening of the to be some degree of doubt as to its causes. No one wants war, but 7th. In junk No. 332V was a quan who will attend and what will be to abolish both war and the instru-tity of cement in bags other than discussed. It will be remembered ments of war is a task of enormous those of the Green Island Cement that a week ago the British Govern- | magnitude, Success will only be Company, but the mark on these ment suggested a meeting of the achieved slowly, and it is not sur-baga was indistinguishable, Sergt. lending naval powers to discuss prising if there are a few initial Goodwin and one other witness then Germany's claim to quality of failures. The present day fear and submitted corroborativ› evidence, armaments, and the important issue hatred of war is a good guarantee as to whether, if this claim were of peace between civilised powers. accepted, Germany should re-join The task is to maintain peace when TOTICE IS HERENT GIVEN the competition of armaments or the horrors of war have been for employment of a man named Lethe Kowloon Hospital on Tuesday | Harry Wicking and Co., was fred, mixed groups were soon formed, and
that the ELEVENTH OR whether the whole of the highly in- gotten, and a new caumo for ill. she shareholders in the Company will teresting, expensive and technical informed ardour is tending to sweep be held at the Offices of the General struggle be abandoned. Managers, 8; Lower Albert Road. on STANLEY BALDWIN put it, with his of madness and destruction.
As Mr. the nations into another outbreak WEDNESDAY, 19rit OCTOBER,
usual felicity in expressing the 1839, at 11 AM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors simple thoughts that occur to us bring a Dividend and Reacting all," Europe has come to the part been no attempt made to sell the Declaring
ing of the ways." Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the
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HONG KONG AND CANTON ICE
MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of
with Statement of Accours.
SIX OCTOBER to 1912 OCTO `BER, 1932, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors J. D. THOMSON,
"
Bécretary. "Hong Kong; 1st October, 1932, [2012
THE C
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS 4 – SHIPBUILDERS. OF HONG KONG
A Paper entitled · "POWER ECONOMY” will be road in the Instituțion by
ME GEO, BUCHANAN (Member) on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, at 6.45 P.M. Members and their 'Friends are invited to be present.
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This Conference in not, se a War
goods under false pretences.
Office minute would put it, in lieu witnesses, but the Magistrate in Mr. Prentis then called several of the Disarmament Conference at timated that he could not accept Geneva, but in addition thereto." the defeaco's story about the gentle In spite of the bland optimism of man frota Singapore building a Sir JOHN SIMON, it was generally house at Canton. agreed that when the great Confer- ence adjourned on July 23rd that
Story for Defence.
Prentis said:-Lai Song is in the In addressing the Magistrate, Mr,
Cheung, who has recently returned from Singapore and who is building
informs us that he has received n The Inspector General of Police letter from the Commissioner of
Police, Macao, to the effect that a carrier pigeon, with a link attached bearing the initials CR. L8 there- or, has been caught in Macao.
A married woman, Wong Mun, of 3. Kai Yee Road, was removed to
The bandof
suffering from burns to her face, 810 yesterday by Mr. Butters at His Excellency and Lady Lugard Mr. Sydney West of Mosers. on the lawn which was dotted with refreshment tables around which
said to have been caused by her the Kowloon Magistracy for failing assidously sought to promote the a house at Walchow on the outskirts husband, Chan Ki, throwing some to appear in Court when summon- success of the little reunion. Lady ed na a juror on an inquiry con- Lugard is generally acknowledged. heid over her during a quarrel. of Canton. Lee Choung sent, this
ducted on Thursday Mr.) employee to this Colony to purchase Australia and China, announce that attend because he was very busy; genius in this respect to say that The Chartered Bank of India, West explained teams to be an ideal hostess, and it is no mean tribute to her ladyship's cement, and for that purpose gare Mr. J. & Crockett has been ap-on that day having been ill for two the gathering, proved both pleasant. him $1,000. He came to Hong Kong pointed one of the managers in their daya previous to that. He added and interesting. and met a man named Ho Tak from London office, in place of Mr. G. that he had no intention, by his Middlesex Regiment was present Japancar cement. (Receipts for this for a time. whom he purchased 602: bags of Miller, retired. Mr. Crockatt was absence of showing contempt of the and added to the afternoon's en-
manager of the Bank in Hong Kong Court.
joyment.-Hong Kong Daily Presi," sale were produced in Court). The
October 13, 1907: cement bore a Japanese trade mark had a set to with revolvers en Francis Deans Harris, Royal Navy. The engagement is announced be- Customs Boldiers and smugglers, tween Sub-Lieutenant (E.) Roger Looking Back 50 Years. Ho Tak told Lai Bang (the pur Tuesday night at Bhataitkok,, as a only son of the late E. C. Harris, I wonder if the Chinese have any chaser of the cement) that owing to result of which one Ohinese soldier L.M.C., China, and Mrs. Burgis, objection to the planting of Mount the Japanese embargo in Canton it his comrades to, the Kwong Wah grandson of is. Deans, of Riccar for placing their graves in the was injured. He was removed by The Vicarage, Cheddleton, and Davis?. They seem to have a fancy very little had been achieved. Ob- His Worship found all defendants would be impossible to get the bags Hospital where it was found that ton, N.Z., and Margaret Brodioznost isolated and bleakest spots bullet had entered bis stomach, Hope, clder daughter of Lieut.-the Fung-abia man can select, from servers said with gogaging candour guilty of having in their possession through to Canton while bearing &
Japanese trade mark. I then sug. Passing out through the buttock... Colonel A. G. Coullie, MD., which I gather that trees would be that the Conference had besa “goods to which a false trade mark
FI.C.S.E., LM.S., rotd., and Mrs. an objection. I am strengthened in failure so far." That was not to had been applied. He also found ferred into Green Isipad. Cement a nine-year-old girl, Wong Fuk, of Staffordshire.
gested that the cement bo trans Fatal injuries were received by Coullie Butler's Hill, Cheadle, this view by the fact that when the remains of the Hon. Whampoa were say that all hope was lost. The first defendant guilty of applying a
brought all the way from Singe 150, Main Street, Shaukivan, on bags The cement was transferred. Franch elections and the German fales trade mark to goods and delivered to the two junks. down by a motor car in Main six months' hard labour, were the the vicinity of his native village, "Tuening” when she was knocked -Fines of 82,000 or, in default, pare to be laid in their last home in élections had been disturbing, and possession, b
They were sent on October 7 at Street. The vehicle was being sentences imposed on two Chinese from which he derived the name by so had the Far Eastern crisis. First defendant was fined $100 or When the Conference resumes the six weeks' on the first charge, and about 11 o'clock. At 12 o'clock the driven by Ho Tum Kong, whilst members of a fishing junk who wore which he was so honourably known, heing taught to drive by s Hoensed convicted of possession of dutiable his relatives bought up the entire Fresidential election will be dis950 or one month on the second police came along and seized the driver. He was travelling in spirits. It was revealed the hill on which the grave was placed.
bage.
westerly direction: and when near spirit was contained in a jar which and ruthlessly removed every tren turbing the calm, and, in fact, if charge, sentences to be consecutive. Prentis went on to say that the Hong Long Electric Sub-war walmerged in the water and and shrub from its surface; which the Conference has to wait till the The second and third defendants the owners of the junks were merely Station the girl ran across the road was attached to the sangan byt bar had the effect of by no means polition! sky is clear the world were each "fined $100 or six weeks employed as carriers, being engaged way from behind a tramour She means of a rops. This device, it improving the view from the Con to carry a quantity of cement from received injuries to her. face and would appear, has been in general sular residences on Dane's Island.... over, it might as well adjourn sie imprisonment. The Magistrate allow Kowloon to Waidhow, There had head and died a fow minutes after use by the smugglers for some time Hong Kong Daily Press, October 13,
ed them 48 hours in which to pay. - - (Continued on: Brevious: Column, I this accident.
and Revenue Officers have noticed; 1899,
Magistrala Gonvicts.
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