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to the Colony resumes duty as Secretary, of the above Club as from
this date.
E. D.. MATTHEWS.
81st October, 1932.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1871 and 1913, Christopher D'Almonda Castro of the 1st floor of David House,
Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, who was articlext to his father, Solicitor Mr. Leo. D'Almada e Castro of the am place, iurenda, at the expiration of one units from the date hereof, to apply for his examination and admission A Solicitor and Proctor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.
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THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS OF
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A Papor antitled
THE HIGH SPEED AND IN. TERMEDIATE SPEED HEAVY OIL ENGINEB"
will be read in the Institution
by
Mr. F. EDWARDS, A.M.I MECHE.
(Member)
on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 280,
at 5.45 P.M.
Members and their Friends are invited to be present.
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LORD METHUEN
the war, and of the kind that saw him no nearer Kimberley, his ob- jective. The enemy inflicted serious losses and then recaped, leaving METHUEN's forces in possession of a useless position and too exhaust ed to carry on the pursuit. METHUEN WAs one of the men who
London's Birth-Rate.
"Make British Bost."
News and
Views
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She added that she would not since the middle of 1998 as the re.
a date, whether it is to be suit of increased production in next year or in the next hundred mines and the release of private holdings in Australia, China, In- years."
dia, and Russia.
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Cats from all over the country were exhibited at the ninth cham pionship show of the Siamese Cat Clubs in London last month.
CHINA ASSOCIATES CORPORATION, LTD.
FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. CHEN
A farewell dinner to Mr. R. W. K. Chen was given by the Board 'of the China Associates Corporation, Ltd., last night at the Hong Kong Hotel.
The report of the County Modi- cal Officer of Health to the zon don County Council for 1031 shown a birth-rate of 15 per 1,000, against ' 15.8 in 1030. This is the lowes!! A Tale of Old Wars. birth-rate recorded in London. A Frenchman who beld a fort for The Patriarch!
Mr. Chen has beep visiting China There were 5,202 fewer births last ! the British for 30 years is year than in 1018, when the memorated by a memorial which
during the just weeks, during which fluence of the War was at its height. has been unveiled at Annapolis
period he has been the guest of vari ons Chinese official and commercial Royal in Nova Scotia.
Two hundred years ago Jenn Among the 300 entries was Cham. bodies at Shanghai, Nanking and Whilst at Nuuking the Paul Mascarene, Huguenot pion Bonzo, which, it is claimed, Canto. Lord Leverhulme, speaking at the
Frenchman, showed a hundred Bri-has won more championships and Chines Government commissioned inaugural luncheon at the 36th In-1
tish soldiers and several hundret prizes than any other Siamese cat him to fulfil an important mission ternational Grocers' and Provision
At the dianer given in his honour, Dealers' Exhibition at the Agricul farmers how to raise, earthworks in the country. During the 11 to Australia. tural Hall, Islington, said that he and strengthen the walls of the fort years that have elapsed since he the Chairman Mr. A. Aug-chen a mischievous kitten Bonzo statel that it was the desire of his organisation to develop interna- approved the slogan "Buy Brint Annapolis Royal against at was
tional trade on a reciprocity basis tish, but suggested that perhaps tacks by the Frencli from Louis has been a champion 17 times,
Stretched out on his soft cream and a practical solution has been For thirty years, until Canada blanket, with his blue eyes half arrived at since the visit of Mr. keenly alert to force trade and turers saw to it that British goods finally became British by the treaty closed, Bonzo took life easily-he Chen. The Board of Directora was of Paris which ended the Seven can do that now he is in the vete there would be no lack of co-opora- Years War in 1703, Mascarene heldį ran class-while around him in tion. the fort for the British.
a beltor motta would be "Make British Best" 1f British manufac-
remained the best, then the rest would follow automatically.
Princess Margaret.
We are to have a miniature bio graphy of Princess Margaret, as, n year or two ago, we had one of her sister, Princess Elizabeth It will, in fact, be an addition to a new edition which Sir John Mur-
ray is bringing out of "The Story of Princess Elizabeth."
That most popular volume was writton, with authority, by Miss
burg.
New Lawn lor Bridge.
The date for publication of, the new code of laws for Auction and
Contract Bridge has now been de finitely arranged for Noember 1.
The code is the result of agree- ment, after long negotiations, be- tween the Portland Club, London, the Whist Club of New York; and Commission Francaise the
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numerous wero
WAR
The toast of "Our Qunat "* sons and daughters of his, as well as grand. proposed by Mr. Chan Cheuk Yin, LL.D., a director in China Asso children and great-grand-children.
ciates Corporation, Ltd., and Luk Ninety-five per cent of the Siam- Hoi Tug Banking Co., Lt. Mr. ese show cata in Great Britain, it Chan said he had been associated with Mr. R. W. K. Chen for the is claimed, can trace their ancestry past twenty-two years in Chinese official and Academic circles. The many reference mado and tributer Bongo.
paid to Mr. Chen by hit would evince particular interest in their former polleagues present and prove interesting to other guests.
Mr. Chen's Reply...
The Gulls and the Cat,
Cruisers equipped with nireraft- catapulting machinery carry aéro- planes exposed to wind and weather
The Guest of Honour in response thanked the Board of Directors for
Anne Ring, a member of the house. Bridge of Paris. It is in fact at for long periods. These aircraft the honour they had conferred upon
hold of the Duke and Duchess of York.
Now there is more to say as a double happy study of childhood for there are stories of Princess Margaret, young as she is.
Christabel the Prophetess.
All the signs which it was pro-| phesied would berald the second coming of Christ can be discerned in present world conditions. So said Miss Christabel Pankhurst, the Bui Evangelist and former Suffragette, addressing tho Fundamentalist Baptist Conference ILE Atlantic City.
Governments tottering through out the world, mankind obsessed by fear, the prospect that Jewish na- tion may be re-established in Pa latine, chaos everywhere-these are the signs, said Miss Pankhurst,
were able to grasp the situation and to modify his methods: He was employed to the end, and it the War brought less fame to him than THE death of Field-Marshal Lord to ROBERTS and KITTIENEH, BADEN Macnues at the great age of eighty-POWELL, PLUMER and FRENCH, nt seven breaks an interesting link least it cenfirmed his reputation as in British military history. Larda apable and useful soldier. A
METHUEN was born in 1845, when the Duke of Wellington was still
CONAN DOYIE says in The Grext Boer War of the final stages of the struggle, "If in the early phases of the war the Boers had given PAUL METHUEN som evil hours, he certainly got his own back again."
Lord METHUEN's last command was Malta, from 1915 to 1918, a post of no small importante whil
Shipped from Osaka per TOTTORI MARU destined for the port of Hong Kong dated 7th, spry veteran, and it would be September, 1932 (Original only), interesting to know whether as a small boy he ever saw or spoke to NAPOLEON's conqueror. If he did he must have been nearly the last living soldier to experience that honour. It was in 1881, ne a young man from Eton, that Lord Merves the Gallipoli campaign was in pro The gress. He was then in the seventies foined the Scots Guards. Crimean War was, therefore, far and beyond the age for service in closer than is the Great War to-day. the field. Crimean and Mutiny veterans still Fow men can seen greater changes LI CHI CHIU at No lice dominated the Army, and the Iron in their profession than Lord
THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD. HONG KONG.
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PPLICATION has been made to
A this Company to inue to Mr.
• proceed to deat
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clubs and the Commission Frans çaise are to be congratulated upon bringing to a successful issue so important a project. It is a signi- ficant event in the history of cards,
are convenient, for seagulls, and him on the eve of his departure for international code of laws which is likely to be accepted by all club apparently excite emotions which Australia and assured them of his wholehearted co-operation with the players in all parts of the world, are more disturbing than
mere, company's interest abroad; he was. and the acting committees of the curiosity. The gulls peck the fa particularly indebted to Mr. Aug- chon for his untiring efforts to- bric of the wings, and in a short wards making his trip a successful The toast of the Guest of time do so much damage that com- ow.
Honour by his old friend and cal lengua Mr. C. Y. Chan indeed plete re-covering is necessary.
Recently some artificers in one of moved him and his mentions of our aircraft-equipped cruisers, in. enterprise and progress recalled n dignant with these mischievous and remark passed by himself some. twenty years ago to Mr. Chan con- work-increasing birds, decided to cerning the impossibility of moving For the first time since March set-up scarecrows. They made out' Kowkon's hills with hand labour. hut on his return to China found the Federal Reserve reports a sub of light sheet metal the effigy of a open uninhabited spaces giving way modern buildinga and stantial decrease in gold hoarding very rampant cat, and set this up to new It estimates that about 885,000,000
thoroughfares a remarkable achieve- (approximately £17,000,000 at par) on one of the aeroplanes in auch aj
ment and a tribute to the Colonial was returned to credit channels be position that it could not escape Government's administration, which tween July. 6 and August 31, and the sharp eye of any aerial tres could be accepted as a model exnin-
" recent this roughly reflects the
le to much of the unknown Great subsidence of banking disturbances passer.
East beyond. and increased activity of the secu- rities and commodity market.'
Gold Hoarding in 1.8.-
Unfortunately the gulls other misunderstood,.. or deliberately ignored the hint. Possibly they
It also reported that the world's monetary gold reserves have in- creased by 81,800,000,000 (£300,000, had no knowledge of the cat as a 000), or approximately 30 per cent, hostile creature.
Local and
One ease of diphtheria was re- ported over the week-end.
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The quarantine restrictions impos-
cu by Formosa and Indo-China against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera havo been ro moved.
Mr. M. J. van Shreven, who has been Vico-Consul for the Nether landa in Hong Kong since 1930, left yesterday for Bangkok, where he will be Chargé d'Affaires.
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From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years,
Probably this also inspired Mr. Chan's retirement from the post of of Industry, Labour and Commerce Departmental Chief of the Ministry
China, Li Shen, when the lattér under the present President of was at Canton, and his concentra- tion on the development of the Luk Hoi Tong Bank, Insurance and Hotels Companies, which has many millions of dollars invested in this Colony, one of its properties being the well known Queen's Theatre. Concluding Mr. Chen said he would lonvo with the goodwill of the Chi- nese Government and convey its international felicitations to the people of Australia.
The Chairman then presented the Guest of Honrar with a silver cup- as a token of goodwill from the Board of Directors.
Described as a menaco to seamen going ashore from their ships, a Shanghai Chinese ex-fireman was sentenced to four months' hard labour by Mr. Schofield at the Central Polios Court yesterday on charge of assaulting a gompatriot.
Among the guesta present were :---- Mesars. Barrett, Ainslie, I. N. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 3040,
Chau, 8. M. Churn, Y. C. Lau. Y. situated at Prince Edward Road,
It is to be hoped, that the new P. Lo, Li Bing Koon, D. M. May- was sold at the Crown Land Office departmental arrangement, which, hard, Ma Luk, Thompson and Wong yesterday to Mr. Hui Ka Cheung it was sometime back announced, is, Hock Son. c/o Mr. A. J. Lane, the well-known to be made at the Colonial Office, architect, at the upset price, of 812,263. The land has an area of placing the self-governing Colonies Chau, Chan, Y. C. Chan, Lo, May-
under nard, Thompson and Wong. about 16,350 square feet and its and the Crown Colonies
separate departmicats, may have Misses Churn, Chung Chi Nam, annual rental is $188.
the effecy of somewhat improving Chung Wai Lum, Gooey, and Wong. the manner in which the transfer
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Mesdames
Aug-chen, Barrett,
BOGUS INSPECTOR
POLICE INVESTIGATING ON MAINLAND.
A Chinese woman was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital during the week-end, the victim of a motor Recident in Queen's Admitting stealing scrap iron Road West, when she received body from the Taiyo Maru, lying at the; of governors from one Calany to injuries resulting from being knock Taikoo Dockyard, an odd job coolie another is decided upon. Hitherto ed down by a P.W.D. lorry. was scateneed to six weeks' hard it has been a complete mystery to. Lano, Hongkong, a duplicate certiff
labour by Mr. Schofield at the outsiders how such transfers are: cate for 20 ordinary shares in this Duke's memory was green. LordMETIVES, for it must be remom.
His many friends will regret to Central Polico Court yesterday regulated. Indeed so far as can be Company numbered 3518.3535, or other certificate in lion thereof, upon METHUEN was a typical Victorian bered that he lived to see the
hear that as the result of a motor Inspector G. A. Stimson said deren, no principle whatever has been statement that the original certificate No. 170, dated the 1st December, 1923, soldier, who learnt his profession modern developments, of serial and mishap near his residence, Dr. fendant created a song by knock gone upon or at least nesta in or the Empire as a whole are the has been lost or mislaid; and Notico
Germany, crushed his leg rather arrested.
main consideration. Certainly is horoby given that, if within thirty in the "Little Wars that extend-mechanised warfare, that were still Bruno Hahn, Consul-General for ing his hend on the ground when which the interests of the Colonies there has hitherto been nothing to days from the date hereof no claimed and consolidated our Empire, in their beginnings when the Armis. badly on Sunday night. He is at
Following reports to the effect Outlining the circumstances of a make it appear that such appoint- or representation in respect of suoli and was finally tested in the Boerties was signed.
present confined to his bed and will A wide stretch probably be absent from the con- charge of assault brought against ments have been regulated by any that a foreigner, posing as an In- original certificare is made to the
a youth of Aberdeen, Acting Sub-
estimato of the special fitness of a spector of factories has been going Company, the Company will then War, at end of the century.
Inspector R. Cunningham told Mr.
squeezʊ the police Ito deal with such application Gold Coast campaign of 1873 and from the parade uniforms and suinte for some days.
On a charge of being in posses Schofield at the Central Police given governer for a given post, round fadtories on the mainland
that he may have acquired through demanding the Ashanti War of 1874 gave muzzle loading weapon of the sion of 1,000 heroin pills on the Court yesterday that complainant. his experience in the governorship have investigated into the matter waterfront, & Chinese who appeared a fisherman of the district, had tried which he is relinquishing-Hong and are led to the conviction that Maraves his Eaptism of fire. Later sixties to the tanks and the sero- he took part in the Egyptian war planos of to-day! There are some before Mr. Schofield at the Central to pick up a ten-cent piece which Kong Daily Press, November 1, the man who is responsible is a Portuguese, of short and thin build, but with an elegant appear of 1889 and was at the hard-fought men, like Admiral Fishta, who Police Court yesterday was fined the defendant's master had drop-107
8250 with the alternative of thre, pod. A crowd of fokis chased com-
ance with his hair well combed and battle of Tel-el-Kebir where the revel in change, and are never more months hard labour in default. plainant, who ran up the stairs of Looking Back 50 Years.
a neat auit of grey serge. The man Famous admiral, Sir ARTHUR happy than when turning cherished The defendant gave the excuse that a house. One of the pursuers pull-
I observe that jiaricksha coolies is alleged to have gone around with WILSON, then a post-captain, wan traditions upside down. There are he was trying to rid himself of the od his leg and he fell down, causing
are fined very heavily for running & Chinese interpreter through whoin. fendant, a youth of sixteen," was the Vistoria Cross by rallying a others, like WELLINGTON who dis opium habit by taking heroin pille. injuries to his back and legs. Do
One of his victima, Lau Wai On account of the great difficulty cautioned while the bail of $15 of over persons. In view of the aim he had spoken to his victims.
leas, idiotic kind of way in which |broken square, and fighting & groap like and resist innovation, Lord of Dervishes, first with his sword, METHUEs evidoully inclined, though experienced in keeping the redno a second man arrested was catreat Chinese saunter about all over the Kuen, manager of the Yust Yee thoroughfare I think this most uns Lung Knitting Factory at Mong- word condition, although many
just.
If I remember rightly, the kok, who was induced to part with and, when that broke, with his bare not violently, to Lord FISHER's Parking" kerb signs in reasonably ed.
view. Wailo laying a claim to the different kinds-of-paint-have been
law gives even miles an hour as the money, describes him as of singular- tried, the Shanghai Municipat I was, however, in the Boer War qualities of a great general, Lord Council has authorised the substitu- sequences of not getting out of the lawful rate of progress for wheeled ly youthful appearance, sainy The area of Mongkok where aro „that METHUEN's name figured pro- METHUEN was of the finest type of tion of black and white glazed way, or in fact trying to obstruct vehicles; and in justice to there not more than 25 years old,
A police poor, persecuted, but it cannot be. minently A brave and energetic British officer, brave and chivalrous, tiles for red paint to mark the, the path of progress.
places whore, vehicles are not per-notification requesting pedestrians denied useful, jinricksha coolies, situated a large number of factories, soldier, well versed in native war-careful and painstaking one of the mitted to stop or park Experito walk at the sides of the road some effort should be made to get has been the "Inspector's" field fare, he found trimself as a divi-men, who, because they are found meats are heen made with glazed and to keen children and infirm or the natives either to walk on the of exploitation within the past few sional general against an able and in plenty in our land-have made tiles, and it is considered that blind or deaf persons out of the footpath or sides of the road, or daya, but it seems that not many conspicuous marking than any Hong Kong Daily Press, November over and themselves bear the con- The police have the matter under
(Continued on Previous Uolumn close investigation, determined for. At the sharp battle our Empiro and our traditions black and white will be a more carringo way would be useful else to run the risk of being run have been imposed upon.
other combination of colours,
1,.1962. of Modder River he gained a possible.
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