NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
ST. ANDREW'S BALL.
ALi Meiners who have not yet returned their subscriptio lists in connection with the forthcoming Ball ard requested to do as at their
in order that invi carly convenience
tations enabling them and their gaesta to attend the final Practice Dance on Tursday, 2nd instant at 5.30 pm. in the Peninsula Hotel may be maund. For the convenience of thos attending this Practice Dance ton will be served in the Roof Garden from 5' pan.
F2TOB
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE NONERAL BIHEPING of VOTING MEMBERS will be bold at the Club House, Happy Valley on Monday, 28th November, 1932, 5.30 p.m.
THE NOVEMBER HALF YEAR-
ALL MEMBERS are cordially in vited to attend, and participate in aay discussion which may ensue.
By Order of the Stewards,
S. A. SLEAF,
FOSS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932.
CHOCOLATES
A SWEET THOUGHT AND A SWEET GIFT! DELICIOUS ASSORTED CHOCOLATES IN A CHRISTMAS BOX MAKES A WELCOME PRESENT. AND THE NAME FOSS ON THE COVER MERNS AN IMMEDIATE EXOLAMATION OF A JOY FROM TUE RECIPIENT.
WE HAVE JUST RECRIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF THESE FAMOUS CHOCOLATES. PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY.
7.50
Acting Secretary Hong Kong, 18th November, 1832.
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7.50 "TRUE VALUE " *SUPREME"
...10.50 QUALITY ASSORTED " 5.50 5.60 “FIFTY-FIFTY 21 "PREMIER SPECIAL" 5.50
"CHESTERFIELD "QUALITY FIRST" "OPEN END" "POPULAR" "CYPTIIA SWEET"...10.50
5.50 6.50 5.50
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THE SOUTH CHINA SUNDAY STAR, LTD.
THE
EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
Ai an
HE following Extraordinary Re-
solutions were THIRSCH Extraordinary General Mesting of the above Company held at Mr. Ho Kwong's Office, 2nd Floor, Glouceste: Building, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 12th day of November, 1932, at 10.30 o'clock in the Forenoon:-
(1) That the Company cannot, by reason of its Habilities continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and that the Company he wound up accordingly.
(2) That Frank Gordon Maunder, Chartered Accountant, and Wilfrid James Cole, Chartered Accountant, be and are hereby appointed Liqui dators, each to have full power to act severally in the conduct of the Liquidations.
110 KWONG,
Director. Hong Kong, 18th November, 1832.
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THE SOUTH CHINA SUNDAY
STAR, LTD.
IN Sudion 181 of the Companies IN accordance with the provisions Ordinance 1911 notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Creditors of the above Company will be held in the offices of Messry. Thomson & Company, Chartered Accountants.
Building, Hongkong, York December the 17tb., 1932 at 10.00 O'clock, in the forenoon
of Inspection.
on
claim, and the names and addresses of their alicitors, if any, to Frank Gordon Maunder and Wilfred James Celo of Mesura, Thomson & Company,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
HONG KONG & KOWLOON, ESTABLISHED 1841..
DEATH.
BELL-On October 2, at Broad stairs suddenly, after operation for acute appendicitis, ELIZA HET, beloved wife of Groner HERBERT BELL, P. & C. Banking
Corporation, Madras.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11,
Ice House Street.. Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel, 24511. London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
E.C. 4..
The Baily Press,
Hosu Kago, NOVEMBER 19, 1932.
BRITISH BUILDING
EXHIBITION
section arranged by the London Here Housing Societies under the name of "New Homes for Old." were shows ingenious models of houses demonstrating how a good dwelling for one family, having become a shum for three families, could be turned into decent and adequate accommodation for three families.
Other modela. showed flats of four rooms, scullory, and bath, which can be built and lot at a profit for ten shillings a week. Another section was devoted to the solving of the shortago-of-space problem which unavoidably arises in large cities. Here one saw an attractive one-room flat with a bed Suilt inside a decorative panel in the wall which at the turn of 4 handle opens and lets down the b. Partitioned off by similar decora tive panels were bath and dressing tablo and a small but efficiently arranged kitchen. Thens was even an electric fire built inside the wall! For a reasonable sum it is apparently possible to convert any fairly large single room into a flat of this description, and this ar rangement would seem to be the ideal solution for a person who wishes to live comfortably in the centre of town but cannot afford the rent of the usual fint of several rooms.
The Englishman has always been a grent home-lover, and the urge to mossess the house in which he dwells is one of his strongest characteris ties. Successive British Govern- ments and various public and pri
MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG
12th. This day up betimes, but Lord, when I come to take my bath the water is of an ochre hue, the rast of the empty pipes coming away upon the row flowing of the water, Yet I do console myself by the thought that I be a martyr lo the publick wasil. Yet I am fain, to tria myself in clean hot water, the iron making the water so sufi. To the office very betimes, my partner being away and I to open all the safus. Later I do call upon the King's great shippe the Kent and renew old acquaintance, drinking a glass of Mr. Sharkey and Mr. Robert, the one of whom I have known these many years afloat, and in the Alleys, while the other pinya very doftly. at Krickett. To the office and back to Soakumpon where I
do reg. i good piece of the Krickett bu Lord! 'toras a pity the entchen Craigengowor did drop. Myself did hat without pads seeing that the hour grew late and therent did gaan some sympathy from the bowlers who knew not that to my inind the pads be the least vital piece of a batsman's armour;, for indeed I can skip to square leg as swift as any man. Later to Kow Joon where I drink a glass or two
of
Mr.
with Hollands waters Northern mid hia Lady and so back
to dinner at the Clubbe
13th, Lord's Day. This day very fine one and I fall to order- ing my garmente against the cold weather, and Lord! to find all my winter shirts to be so touched with the damp that I fear they are beyond hope; yet it may be soup and water and a strong sun may mand the matter. But as I say to Mr. Povy over a glass of sherris #ack before muncheon, it does but go to show what a poor and helpless creature a man becomes when his wife is away from the ordering of
his house. To this he replies that he supposes I managed well enough as a bachelor, which indeed be true enough seeing that thest I could but afford one clean shirt, one at the wash, and one done on my body, so none lay neglected in my chests, This afternoon, playing at Kric kott, where I meet with more good fortune in half an hour than I have dove in all these past three seasons. Dined, and so very tired
bed.
The Worst of It!
News and Views
The worst of it is that disarmin- ment has been left to pacifists, and pence has been left to militarista Mr. Lloyd George.
The Scot's Holiday.
An Edinburgh man, while boli day-making on the Scottish border, travelled 1,700 miles with a 109. seven-day L.M.S. ticket. This re- presents travel at the rate of over 14 miles a penny.
Waterproof Hats.
Since last year the fashionable art of disguising waterproof hats has made strides. At a Berkeley Street establishment there shown a dozen winter models which might have
Alaska Furs.
Alaaka fur sealtkins are selling for the lowest prices in the history of the U.S. Government auctions. More than 25,000, akins brought only $14 each for blacke, 813 for browns. This is 12 per cent, lower than the June sale in New York, only one-tenth the peak price paid in 1920. Blue fox skins bring $17, white fox 813.50.
Triumph of Surgery.
Sydney-A brilliantly successful operation has given Australia's air chief every prospect of returning to his normal duties a fit non. Col. Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, was seriously injured in
Calties in Madrid.
Madrid sees famous palaces of nobles and grandees displaying
For Sale" signs. The sudden bids for new owners for landmarks along the Boulevard Castellana have caused a sensation. The Ro- public has nationalized only agri- cultural lands, but, the aristocrats are fearful that their city holdings will also be seized. Some have.put their homes under foreign flags -by leasing to embassies, but more seek a quick sale at a low price. A sad picture this, yet a bargain opport- unity to make dreams come true-, Your castle in Spain for a song.
the Dutch Air mail crash near Omon of Victory. were Bangkok, Siam, last December. If any faith can ho placed in For a time hopes oven of saving ouens the Englanil M.C.C. team been manufacture his life were abandoned. Later should be successful in bringing paralysis overcome him and it was back "the ashes" from Australia thought that his speech would be on this ocension. They have with them, the M.C.C. flag which has permanently impaired.
Now Cbl. Brinsmead has been done duty for 30 years, and which, discharged from the Randwick so far, has never been flown at a Military Hospital following a cri- Test match that has been lost to this country. It was taken to Aus ticnl operation performed by Sydney specialist. Col. Brinsmead tralia twice before, in 1903 and 1911. and in each of these, yours is almost cured of his paralysis,
the England team had triumphant wiua. Whether the cricketers are superstitions or not, they cannot but regard the inclusion of the flag in their equipment as an omen of victory.
from the usual materials, but, were really of mackintosh origin, care- fully camouflaged. At least eight different colours had been brought into use, and the few cloth attach ments which had been included in the creations were capable of wea thering the average rainstorm, The tints were said to be fast, and the chief mission of the dozen styles displayed was to show that protec tive headwear need not have that 1 forbidding aspect associated with waterproof wear. In every case, oxcept two, the models had brims.
Gold and Platinum.
When
passing
j
gal Version of "Spare the
Bod-!!
Manna in the Wilderness.
The stern German father of the future will say to his erring son:
Fritz, I am about to administer what for centuries past has been a popular means of requital, and which; applied at the right moment
Mnuna in the wilderness has on the right spot, with justified vigour and with justified inton been experienced in Algeria. In tion, is unequalled in its educa- the desert in the southern portiosi tional effect, and cannot be substi; of the Department of Oran thore tuted in certain cases by mild has been unusual barometric de- warnings or Draconic punishments pression with much dry, dense He will then spank the child,, mist, making visibility very bad for fortified by the knowledge that he flying, and followed by severa would have the approval of a sandstorms. These mists Lave been Frankfurt court which has just de accompanied by falls of a whitish fued the rights of fathers in those substance of a farinaceous nature, both tasteless and odorless, that exact words.
covered tents and vegetation every moming. Some of the older na tives remember a similar occur 80 years ago which reuce some they still refer to as "l'antier de
recurrence of* la farine." This manna in the wilderness has come at a time when there is a good deal of distress among the Afge rian natives owing to the fall in agricultural values.
Gold and platinum, which had been lost in Russia for years is re- ported to have been discovered. In 1904 the treasuro was being trans- ported from Middle Russia to North Siberia. Lake Baikal the transport was at tacked by robbers, who killed the accompanying Cossacks and escap with the treasure. Their boats, howover, sank during a storm. The Govorament had never been able to determine where the tren
But German youth is not deter sur lay, but a man recently came
Two small boys at Warmsdorf, to the State Bank claiming to have ed a map with the whereabouts of the sunken treasure marked. He said Bohemia, fought a duel with enor he obtained the map from the robineus theatre sabres which they had ber. It is now reported that a discovered when rummaging behind the stage during the performance diver who was sent to Lake Baikal has discovered the treasure, the of a travelling troupe. One of the value of which is estimated at near- boys lost his eye and the other had
his head gashed, ly £1,000,000..
14th. This day my partner re- turns of which I am heartily glad, SGIL for I have missed him much very busy at my office, and Inter un the Clubbe verandah I do find Mr. Ashby and others, where we east the dice, and the talk falls upon correspondence in the Nowes Sheute, which Mr. Ashby says he finds to be much facking upon a Monday morning. Mr Povy then anys that as there be much of note in the doings over a week's end, there needs not that the staff should work overtime in writing these fet- ters. Upon which 1 do seprovo
One case of meningitis was report- him, showing that the greater part of these lasters be so foolish thated on Thursday. they could not be feigned by a man of such intelligenre as to keep his place upon the staff of a Newes Sheete.
•
•
Local and General
Among the passengers who arriv- od by the ss. Rampura ori. Thursday WAB Mrs. C: A. Middleton. Smith.
Mr. C. T. Woodruff arrived in Shanghai last week from Harbin, vid Dairen, by the D.K.K... Dairen Maru, with his children.
15th-Roading in the Newes Sheetes I find that at Shanghai the Army do beat the Navy in the Bowling Alleys, and would that there were such competition here, for since the Queen's Regiment of foot do leave the Colony there be fow if any of the Army bowling.
Lieut. R. W. Anstice, R.N., until But, as Colone! George afterwards shows me, there be so many Army recently attached to H.M.S. Corn game, all played at the same sea-flower, is returning to the United Fon of the year that the Officers Kingdom in the P. & O. s.s. Corfu have hut little leisure to indulge their own taste in Sports. I rend too that the mill arranged by the
Two special delegatos have been sent by the Ministry of Railways, Boxing Association falls, through,
to Taiyuanfu for the purpose of in- the purse not being Receptable. But to my mind the amateur mill-specting conditions on the Chengtai ing here is beyond all compare for Railway which was recently taken sport, and it would be most recept
to-day,
the secret preserve of builder and architects. The private house-tion, when admiring the lavish toll me many of the most strange practice dance on Tuesday, the
in Polish subjects
Shanghai eligible for military service have heen ordered by the local Polish authorities to register at their Legation.
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Yonra.
Another batch of 12 alleged Com- manist leaders, arrested in Shang. hai during the past few weeks, have
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club; been taken to Nanking on Sunday The second Club race was sailed on After their the 17th inst. in a breeze varying under heavy guard. arrival in the capital, they were in direction and in strength from
string. removed to the gaol of the Nan moderate to
COUTBO king Garrison Commissioner's office North Fairway Buoy, Trocas Rock where they will be held pending boy. Kowloon rocks, Channel rocks, all to the atorboard-12 further inquiries.
mailea.
The championship class (the 24 footers "Vernon," "Dione," and Ailsa" with "Alannah" under o handicap of 30 seconds per mile). started at 11.30. The times of finishing were
Dione, Hon.
Mr. F. H. May Vernon, Mr. Tooker Ailsa, Hon
b. m. sec.
A fine of $300, or in default two months' hard labour, was imposed on the driver of private car No. 217, who was convicted of a charge of dangerous driving in Canton Road It will be re- on September 27. called that a motor car ran into a rickshaw from behind and Mr. N. Blumenthal who was a passenger on the rickshaw was injured at the time. It was stated in Court yes- terday that the motor driver did not stop after the accident and that and gave up.-Hong Kong Daily he was arrested by a fireman..
1 44 45
1 40 33
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Mr. H. Keswick...... 1 49 00 Alannah carried away some_gear
Press, November, 10, 1007. Looking Back 50 Years.
At this meeting the Creditors will be asked to determine whether an application should be made to the Court for the appointment of any
Among the newer materials there person as liquidator in the place of,
waz a most impressive display of the so-called armour-plate, glass, or jointly with ourselves, the liquida-vate, bodies have done mucli to en- tors appointed by the Company, or courage this tendency, for as a produced in Lancashire. This glass for the appointment of a Committee gemera trait it undoubtedly adds is of great strength, and when it to a nation's stability. No wonder does break it does not splinter but Notice is also hereby givan that therefore that the Building Trade shaters into very small fragmenta
over by the Chinese Government the Creditors of the rexhibition, which was recently held without sharp edges. It bends three
at Olympia in London and is prior four times as far as ordinary ale could the Association sponsor
from, the French authorities. a trade show glass before breaking, and resists some of this. Company are required on or before marily arranged as the 10th day of December, 1932, to for architects and builders, also blows equally well at all tempera 18th. This day as busy a ever
Members of St. Andrew's Society send in their namos und addresses attracted from every part of the tures. This remarkable material
I was, for the Christmas mail falls and particulars of their debts or xuntry large numbers of private covers the entire, facade of the due on the Saturday, and I would who have not yet returned their Gone are the daya building of one of the largest Lon- fain post early to lessen the strain subscription lists for the forthcom individuals.
When the case in which a Chinese when technical details of house on daily newspapera in Fleet upon the officers of His Majesty's ing ball are requested to do so as
A Cricket match will be played mail.
Took my muncheon at the Boon na possible, so that invitations instruction and equipment were Street.
No private visitor to the Exhibi- Clube with a gentleman who did enabling them to attend the final mun and woman are charged with
nt eleven o'clock defrauding Leung Sui Chuen of to-morrow, Irained. The World
following LTC the the liquidators of the Company; and,
be issued. The practice dance will at Central Magistracy yesterday, sharp. The if so required by notice in writing real or potential evinced at display in every section, would have things of North China and Turkennd at the Peninsula Hotei may 8500, came before Mr. Wynne-Jones commencing
the Exhibition un anything but guessed that the present economy
Mr. Hin Shing Lo (instructed by names of the players:-. perficial interest in the standard campaign on the part of the British
17th-Up very bades and did held in the Roof Garden and
Mr. J. M. Hall) made an application Ireland:-W. Hynes, W. O. Wal- of material and workmanship, often Government and local bodies in ponder in my mind for some time starts at & p.m.
for bail on behalf of the second de-seley, A. Wilson, C. Holliday, A. by Phrowd observations giving housing and public works has hit
the, strange powers of childhood,
On November 25 the sixth floor fendant. After Detective Sergeant W. Russell, Y. Bunbury, A. K. points to the professionals which the building trades very severely having one at sport upon the Krie
of the Peninsula Hotel (Roof Fitches had stated that the Police Travers, A. Coxon, G, 9. Coxon, would serve as bases for future The building industry is the second kett ground below my windows who
Garden and Kose Room) will be re- had no objection, His Worship 11. G. Rice and W. H. F. Darby. largest in the country, employing doth imitate a screeching para-
The World: W. M. Deane, H. developments in house building.
And there was much at this year's directly or indirectly two million keet to the life, and that for ten
served for St. Andrew's Society allowed Mr. Lo's application, bail
A. Newington, R. 8. Hedley, B. exhibition to arouse interest, for people, and its ramifications extend minutes at a time. And in the end Bull, and the usual dinner dance being granted in the sum of 8300 E. Wodehouse, W. H. Dobson, F. it was by far the beest and most
to every conceivable trade and oc I do perceive in the end that the will not take place that night. For and bearing was fixed for Monday. comprehensive building show ever cupation: The new economies in chief difference do lie in the fact those attending the ball a special In connection with the case another. Bird, A. H. Jackson, W. de St. Womati was brought before the Croix, V. A. C. Hawkins, A. N. held in Great Britain. No single materials and methods which were.
that one may shoot a parakeet. dinner is being served in the 1st
spiracy.Hearing was fixed for With reference o this match a material or accessory for any type so amply demonstrated at the Ex-But when I tell Mr. Povy of this floor lounge at 7.30 p.m. Tables Magistrate on a charge of con- Other and O. N. E. More. of building was missing. Steel, hibition formed an excellent means he says it but is my naughty liver should be reserved in advance.
Tuesday, bail being fixed at $2,000, contributor sends us the following [2796 concrete, glass, wood, rubber, round of bringing back business, and there is at fault, and threatens me with
note-Wo understand the eleven proof materials, tiles, and electrio is already good evidence that this the Society. But to my mind there
will be selected from descendants, ystems for light and heating, all sim will be achieved to a consider should also lie a Society for pro rested at the Railway Station in formed contres of attraction for able extent.
ing Hibernian Princes and Chief- Childrop. This day to the preview the express from Canton on Thure-truth to the reports. We are happy tainsKing Brian Boroo; the picture day morning, was caught in the to state that they are groundless. O'Mulligan of Ballymulligan; The tors. The most noticeable feature
& mosb exellent Socially interested groups of visi
from the liquidator, are by their Solicitors or personally, to come in and prove their debts or claims, at such time or place as shall be speci. fed in such notice, or in default theroof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debie are proved. ·
F. G. MAUNDER, A.Ç.A., W. J. COLE, A.0.A.,
Liquidators.
IN THE ESTATE OF Mrs. A. G. H.
wherever possible.
A Chinese soldier who was "DZ-"
fecting Adulte against cruelty by Kowlood, following the arrival ofonding to give some colouring of more or less remote, of the follow-
WISE KNOWN AS Mrs. A. to introduce colour and brightness pressing and intellectually anim-entitled Viennese Nights" which possession of, 285 taels of non-Gov- When the steamer Ann left on the, O'Rafferty, Miles No Coppalean; TROMP DE HAAS (OTHER this year was perhaps the attempt Burden in the East, as being de of
TROMP), DECEASED,
heavy constructional scotion there and othem, skill in concealing this beyond compare, being a light before Mr. Buttera yesterday, and sion being stil) entertained of the O'Gahagan; Cornelius.O'Dowd, And I resolve to see it fined $5,000, or in defanit ten Chinese attacking double Island, Darby, the Blast; Captain Fogarty which every precaution was being together with a fow large landed persons having claims was an unwonted variety and strik feeling when they do drink our opera.
taken to avert. The Chinese still against or property or effects ing beauty in the principal struc. wine, eat our victual, and enjoy our again when it be played at the months' imprisonment.
"There was a further sequel, be held for ransom the master and proprietors who are absent from belonging to the estate of the above. tural materials. There were colour hospitality, Which when I eny to Queen's Picture House Talking named deceased, who died on the 4th ed concretes and tiles to countorant Creed, and ask him if he yearns with Mrs Fay I learn that the
lords-Hong Kong Daily Presa, October, 1992 at the Peninsula the greyness of dull days, bright not to dine and wine one of our play Payment Deforred" makes tore Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central four of the crew of the wrecked their states until Mr. Gladstone
The 'November' 19, 1882. Hotel, are requested. to forward the steel and shiny glas surfaces to younger members of the home intel- excellent headway, and I am mont Magistracy yesterday, to the recent British brig Kitty--whom they had introduces a close time for land-
lend clean elegance to a simple ligentsin. when next one shall bum thankful I did remember of buying burglary at the Bible Book and removed into the interior. same to the undersigned immediately room, while the timber and formers around the East, he replied pretty my seats for my parties upon Mon Tract Depot of s, Wyndham Street. man who came to negotiate for a
A-Chinos,-described as an accom- ransom had been detained The Looking Back 75 Years, Fection offered a most beautiful col- short that be had rather boave half
18th-Roading tins day in the plice to the, man already sentenced release of these unfortunates. 12. Bumours have been font of GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON
lection of polished and unpolished a brick at him. And this I take Nawes sheetes I learn that Mr to four months hard labour in con-probably the object of the Inflexi & CO.,
to be due to his unimportant inte)- wood, mostly of Empire growth, for
pened at Swntow, the middende, doors, panels, mouldings, and the lect. Very busy at the office, and J. Erskine approves Mr. N. nection with the burglary, at these hin's visit. She had arrived about melancholy occurrance having hari-
premises were brought before the half an hour before the Ann left. Fike.
lator writing my Christmas mail Coward's picture of all thore, who
shoulder the White Man's Magistrate and was given a similar Hong Kong Daily Press, November Parture of the Inflexible: rather Of special interest to town-plan- until I fall asleep over the letters, antinued on Previous Column) scntence.
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(Continued....on Previous Column. J. gers and local authorities was a And so to bed.
St. George's Building, Solicitors for the Executor,
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