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·DIVIDEND NOTICE.
·HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE Directors of the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion announce that, subject to audit, the dividend for the half year ending 31st December, 1939 will be
Dividend £3-per share @ 1/3 Write off Bank Premises $1,500,000. And carry forward to next year
about $3,438,033.30.
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HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
REMINDER.
I ANTRIES CLOSE on SATURDAY
Nors, 14th instant.
I
NOTICE.
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have This Day opened my office a
A Solicitor, Notary Public, Proctor, Conveyancer, Patent & Trade Mark Agent under the style of Dennys & "Company. My temporary office will be Chung Tin Building, Dea Voeux Road Central, First Floor.
Dated the 3rd day of January, 1833,
"H. L. DENNYS:
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
NOTICE,
THE Committee have decided that Toomest days will be fixed for Forward Settlements. These must be arranged by Members themselves when booking a Forward contract.
By Order of the Committee,
A. NISSIM,
Secretary.
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HONG KONG SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE.
INRE Committee have decided that
THE
no special days will be fired These for Forward Bettlements. must be arranged by Members them- selves when booking a Forward Contract.
By Order of the Committee.
SOO PUI CHEN,
Acting Secretary.
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to:-
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.
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The Daily Press.
up,
HONG KONG, JANUARY 11, 1933
THE UNIVERSITY
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SIR WILLIAM SHENTON
RETURNS THANKS TO
ROTARIANS
me on
*News and Views *
The One Exception.
At Willesden Police Court- The MissionaryThis man wants his wife, wants his children, wants his home, but he does not want his creditors to know his address.
The Magistrate-He wants quité lot.
-
The Fireside Critic,
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY (January 11).
(XII Mpon 16th Day) Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Meeting, 3 pa
A German writer naked for a divorce from his wife because she
Kowloon Catholic Y. MA Mest- not only told him his books were bad but told neighbours as welling, Rosary Church, 8 pm. It was killing his self-confidence,
H.K.V.1.C., Committee Meeting, he said, and his creative powers | Mess, 6' 11.ul. were being slowly sapped.
The wife was no less indignant She had married a diplomat with the hope of presiding some day over an embassy, but her husband
Whist Drive Seamen's Institute;
p.m. Lecture. Methodist Church, Wa chai, 8
PORN Arictions.
m
Sport.
Sir William Shenton, who was present at yesterday's Botary Club luncheon, took the opportunity to thank Rotarians for the letter of congratulation which the Club sent him en announcement of his knight hood. Sir William said: On my return from Swatow last Thursday,
received a very welcome letter Hard to Swallow. from the President of our Club, Dr. Tuo. It was a letter con A Congressman, striving for re- gratulating
write trash." As it was on her the very election, was described by a friend had retired from the service to Crown Land, Sale, Taipo, 11.30 Lammert's Auctions, leasehold high honour which His Majesty as having wrought like a demon income that he had retired to satis- the King htta recently con unchained, as Kipling's Mabaly his literary ambitions, she felt property, sales room, 3 p..
Hughes & Hough auction furni ferred on mo-an bonour which I ranee said.”
doubly justified in telling him the
tur sales room, 9.30 p.m. very much appreciate and which I Then an unkind eritic pointeu truth about bis work. regard as one of the great mile-out that the Maharanee said it of stones in my life. We in Hong | a pill1. Kong are. I think, more fortunate than people at Home, for many rea- sons. One that at Home it is more difficult to reep in touch with one. another. Here in Hong Kong, we
Four. American states have had are a small community, we live to Jewish Governors since Jan. 1. gether, we meet each other con- Herbert H. Lehman was inaugu tinually, not only in our private rated in New York, Henry Homer lives but in business, and a very in Illinois; New Mexico alreamy close brotherhood grows up between has Governor Seligman and Oregon us. We carry on, year after year, Governor Meier. Up to the recent and grow older together, and, when election there had been but eight something comes into the life of one in American history. Twelve legis of us, such as came into mine 'relatares will have 78 Jewish mem- cently, it is a very great pleasure bers; there will be 10 in the new to feel that there are so many per House of Representatives Who was sonal friends to offer. congratula
it that called the Jews a people tions.
without a country i
I want to thank you all very much indeed and I appreciate the letter very much, it will be kept by me in my records. (Laughter and "ap- phuse.)
America's JaWL.
Aviation in America,
The judge agreed that she had some ground for complaint, and extracted. from the husband a pro- miso to give up writing if his wife succeeded in persuading him that the books were really worthless The wife left the court, looking hopeful.
Sons of Westminster.
their
Billiards-Open Championship F. Brimblecombe v O. P. O. Sim monds (St. Patrick's Club), 8.30 p.m
Chess:Victorta Chess Club German Club, 518 p.m.-
Hockey: Mamak Tournament: University R.A.3.0. (Bookun poo), 4 p.m. Friendly matches: Hong Kong Hockey Club, seniors 1. Navy (U.A.R.C, ground), 5 p.m.
Hunting: Fanling Hunt Hounds Meet (Keanels), 3.15 p.m.
Theatres...
King's ̈“Lily Christina.” Central Pench of Reno." Queen's "Unashamed.
Oriental:"Scotland Yar World: "Lost Pearl." StarDeadlock."
Wanted.
Old Westminstera will be inter ested in the news that Mr. F. Gor don Roe is to succeed Mr. C. Re- ginald Grundy as Editor of The Connoisseur. In the seventeen- fifties there appeared another ma "gazine of the name, whood joint Editors, George Colman the elder and Bonnell Thornton, had both HK Ladies Hockey Club 5th been at Westminster School, as had Annual Dance, Lane Crawford's
famous contributor, Restaurant, 0 p.m. mors The United States comes back to William Cowper, the poet. West- Tea Dances at King's Restaurant, world leadership in aviation, says minster has a good literary record Hong Kong Hotel Gloucester an American diarist. A memorial with Ben Jonson, Abraham Cow Building, and Majestic Dancing pylon has been unveiled at Kitty ley, John Dryden and Nicholas Academy, Hawk, N. C., commemorating the Rowe, both Poete-Laureate, John first human flight by Wilbur and Locke, Matthew Prior, Gibbon of Orville Wright on Dec. 17, 1903, the Dealine and Fall," and and the Department of Commerce among others, the modern novelists, has issued a report showing how William Caine and Stephen Me America has moved to first place Kenna, on its roll. An old form in civil and commercial aeronautice on which Dryden's name is boldly during the past six years. Even carved is still preserved at the general stump conditions have not School. halted a steady progress. The na- tion now has three lighted trans- pontinental paralleling both Atlantic and Pací- Australia's Founder, The fio coasts, and one through the fares have been reduced and the Mississippi Valley. Thus 19,500 following rates have been fixed-miles of airways are lighted-Main 1st class, £10; 2nd class, £19; 3rd aitics in America come and go, day class £r; including table money and night, at two miles a minute. and fees.
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
Trieste Route: The Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Com pany's steamers ply regularly be tween Alexandria and Trieste, cor- responding with the monthly and bi-monthly Indian steamers.
Arrangements have been entered into between the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and the Di actors the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company, that |—1st, passengers, intending to pro- ceed from China via Trieste, can receive tickets from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's agents for Alexandria.
air routes,
An Unofficial Chaplin Film
routes
There is in existence, for private showing only a motion picture of Charles Chaplin minus the famous
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Prince George recently unveiled.
in Breadstreet London, a long-over. due memorial to one of the great- ext of Empire builders, Admiral Arthur Philip, whose eminence as a. coloniser has never been acknow- ledged in Britain.
...
Dinner Dances at King's Restau rant, Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and Gloucester Building.
Frincipal Kails,EZAROA Outward-Europe via Brindisi, Conte Verde, 10 5.m
Europe via San Francisco and via Siberia, Asema. Maru, 9:30, Sunrise:7.00 alm. : Sunset: 5.87
Tides:-High at 10.46 and 20.56- Low at 3.43 and 13.54
THURSDAY (January 12).
(XII Moon=17th Day). Smoking Concert, K.C.C., 9 p.m.
CuAnctions, „Laminert's!” – Chrysler
sales rooms, ka noon... Lammert's House Property, sales rooms 3 pm.
Yet he was the man who sur-Car, mounted every difficulty, in found ing the first settlement in New South Wales.
moustache and baggy clothes.
Philip was born in the Ward of. His leading lady" is Lady Broad-street and entered the Navy Louis Mountbatten, and the sone early, although he failed to calch is set in the mows high above the eyes of his superiors until Moritz, where Mr. Chaplin demon-
of founding the first colony in Aus strates that, though not unskilled given the not very enviable task 2nd, Passenger baggage can bu skis and toboggans, winter tralia, where Cook had explored shipped from Alexandria by the sports offer a magnificent medium Botany Bay, & fow years before. Peninsular and Oriental Com for comedy says one who saw it: Philip disembarked his convicts, pany's steamers for Southampton;
And I found myself wishing on January 20, 1788. He display the freight being 10s. per Cwn that the fates had ordained for ed the highest genius in organisa 3rd, Receipts for cargo and Lady Louis the necessity for earn- tion, encouraged exploration, build necie intended for shipment to ing a living on the pictures. Ofing and agriculture, and endea Trieste, will be granted by the few people, without even the aid youred to get any convict who had Peninsular and Oriental Company's of make-up can it be said that served his time to settle and clear
provincial, ranking in the world as an English country town. We forget that Victoria Kowloon is Breat city. We are prone to let the size, of Shanghai and Canton over shadow us, failing to realise that in point of population we rank with cities like Brussels, Liver poot, Boston and Manchester, while as a port we stand sixth in the world. There is probably no place of corresponding size and import ance without a university. In the English mind a university calls up the vision of a peaceful Oxford and Cambridge, where the colleges dominate the city, and we forget No local institution has been more Landon, Glasgow, Cardiff, Liver- keenly criticised than Hong Kong pool, and all the great towns of the University. The attacks on it have Empire each of them numbering a hardly been notable either for se- flourishing university among its in- curracy of fact or breadth of vision, stitutions. In America the same COMMUNICATIONS to the but they may have served the ente story is told. America, the ficient, Agente to Alexandria, instead of the rival the stars of Bistres and the scrub. At one time the little ca Association, should now be sent pose of putting staff and students the land of bustle, believes into Buez as formerly, but each Hollywood Of Lady Louis I have lony was within a few days of stra- apon their mettle. Universities, as universities, and in opening her package is to be provided with the no hesitation in saying that she vation, but the timely arrival of an white label, on which is distinctly would score an instantaneous and other convict feet with supplies The Hon. Secretary.
the Vice-Chancellor admitted on universities to students from over marked in print. “In transit for phenomenal 'success.”
Bayed it. Philip treated the abori HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE Monday, sometimes need stirring seas! In China, the land of the Austrian Lloyd's steamer.
The picture was one of a number grues with humanity and quickly Oxford has constantly been sobolarship and culture, it is easy, 11th 1888.
Hong Kong Daily Preis, January made when on holiday trips by won their trust. There is little Capt. A. 8. Cunningham-Reid and doubt that, Philip ranks as one of in such state, as three of her dis- at the present time, to anser at
hig wile, who is Lady Louis' sister. the greatest of Empire, pioneers.. tinguished sons, Jonx COLET, the mushroom universities, low standard Greek scholar, Hoses, the philo- degrees, and the political turbul The rat return of last year was sopher, and EDWARD GIBBON, the ance of the student movement. But, laid on the table at the meeting of historian, divided as they were by the Chinese people have re-affirmed, the Sanitary Board yesterday, and long periods of time, pointed out in no uncertain manner their belief though inore rate were caught few- it is interesting to note that al-
with some acerbity. In Hong Kong, in education and in universities.er were plague infected. In 1907, however, the line of attack has been If Canton has two flourishing that a University is an expensive universities, and Wuchow supports luxury, and a technical institute, one of its own, is Hong Kong to mainly charged with producing remain content with a technical engineering apprentices, and, hav institute? Is that the way to main- ing, perhaps, an arts section, and tain the prestige of the Colony in a commercial section, somewhat on Chinese (eyes? Polytechnic lines, is the most that. It is well to take other views of is needed! Do we not get our en bur University. Let us not forget, gineers from Scotland and our first of all, that, without discount senior grade teachers from Eng-ing Government aid, Hong Kong land? Why then have a univer. University was made possible by [177sity for turning out doctors, the generosity of Chinese financial
engineers and teachers destined magnates, who have steadily backed Europe, where a merging of two for China, and of no
in this institution by cultures, vastly different in tradi- use to their belief int Hong Kong! Let China produce donations on a scale worthy of thoirtion and outlook is being attempt ed, patiently and excefully Whe hor own professional and business fortunes and their status of ther European and Chinese oultures men! Why should we subsidise chant princes, Successive Gover university for China's bencht: nora, men of vision and experience, Sale of a quantity of obsolete and unserviceable goods pon-
There is further, an iden, that the have had its welfare at heart, Lord
LUGARD was soldier bub his en household and naval University is a pleasant litt typewriters, iron-tools, to Oxford and Cambridge a quiet thusiasm was no less than that of new -2 motor boats; 1. backwatery providing posts for Bir OECIL CLEMENTI, DIS minently
eta, will be held on. 14th day of January, group of lucky men, engaged upon a Binologue. The Vice-Chancellor,
[iss
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY -CLUB."
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1933.
ENTRIES CLOSE SATURDAY, 14TH JANUARY, at-8.00 P.M.
O for the Annual Race Meeting. WNERS are reminded that entries 1933 must be in the hands of the Becretary on or before the above date.
By Order of the Stewards.
Secretary,
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 9th January, 1933.
MACAO PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE.
the premises of imparting a final polish to the sons in the courm of his speech on Mon- Department, Ed and daughters of local million- day, referred to the gener
aires
The Universit Lacte an
Messrs Alfred Holt, in com by with Butterfield and Sw
vider local agents, in
sager to Hong
tol
stud
Looking Back 25 Years,
Local
25,265 rats were caught in Hong Kong and 13,955 in Kowloon, s Mr. G. P. de Martin has promis total of 38,620, of which 28 were ed to give away the prizes na Yau- plague infected. In the preceding mati Sebool on Tuesday, January year, 30,701 were caught, of which 17, at 11 am- 679 were plague infected. For the
Touring
Lammert's Postage Stamps, salęš ∙rooms, 5.1$.p.m
Sport
Billiards:-Open Championship" JA, da Luz v. D. C. Durham (St Patrick's Club), 8.30 p.m.
Lawn Tennis: Ladies RC- American Tournament, 9.30 p.m.
" Theatres," Central: Old Dark House," Queen's: "Inashamed." King's Lily Christine," Oriental:: "Scotland Yard,” World: "The Dazzling World." Star Beggar Student," Majestic,The First Year."
Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel. Gloucester Building, and King's Restaurant.
Dinner Dances at Penintsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and King's Restaurant
page Principal Malls,
· Inward:— Europe." vía Naldera
and General
Beven members of the Bloody Corps at Wuhu, Anhuel, have been arrested by the Bureau of Public Safety there, and sent to Wuhu District Court,
first four days, this year the 466 The Hong Kong Cricket Club rats caught, were all free of plague issues a reminder to local tennis sentence of 20 years imprison -Hong Kong_Daily Press, Jan players that entries for the Tennis ment each was passed by the Tournament close on Saturday next, Second Special Distrial Court 11th, 1800,
GRAVELMAT Rthe 14th Inat, ugen Shanghai upon two Clivese, charg
ed with kidnapping, on November 24, of an eight-year old boy in the French Concession, de
a shipping port and a trade em porium. The Colony is a common China and mikting place of
will tend t agres to differ that the
A concert is to be held at the Kowloon Cricket Club next Thurs day when the presentation of the year's prizes for cricket, tennis, bowls, and bridge will be held.
The head of the Russian Ortho- dox Church in China, the Rev. Archbishop, Simon, has A stonebreaker named Cheung in Shanghai from Perpi Ko, aged 29, of Thi Hang Village, he was met by a large num received severe injuries to his hands the clergy and laity His Stonecutters land of a charge of some days and face through the explosion at enos is to remain in Shangi
or to dynamite which he was packing pre- Lin Hong Kong paratory to blasting operations of the two ways: Headquarter
only China Command,
Royal
in terms of material amenities, but 8.8 inch Gon Practice
ried out from gaged:
Enst 10 am
ipớn-the-
stern-approaches
Channel
have
For driving his
Strict measures for opium sap- Hon in Kiangsu, Chekiang, „Hukian and six other prov- have been reiterated in an order inued by the Executive Inan, The measures were formerly pro
the Government by Gen:
Kai Shok, Chairman