NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.
THE
E electricity supply in the fol lowing Brass will be discontinued between the hours of a.. and b p.m. on Friday, 17th instant for the purpose of ohanging the frequency of supply:-
CHEUNG SHA WAN, LAI CHI KOK,
SHEK LAI PU).
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Not Provisional Cerliliente No. 57/495 dated Hong Kong 20th February, 1929 for Four shares" of this Bank numbered 197041/127044 inclusive registered in the name of LU A SU has been Lost or Stolen, and should. this certificate nat be produced to the Bank before 16th April, 1933, a NEW certißeate for the shares will be issel, and the aforesaid Provisional Certif cata No. 37/495 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Noll and Veld.
By Order of the Court of Directora,
V. M. CRAYBURN,
Chief Manager.
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE
HONG KONG
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THE Annual General Meeting of The Society will be held in the Board Room of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (3rd Floor), Glenester Building. on Thursday, 23rd March, 1933, at 5.30 p.m.
For the following purposes:— (a). To receive the Report of the Committee and Statement of Accounts for the past year. (b) To elect the Officers and Com mittee for the ensuing year.
(c) To consider the manner in which
St. George's Day at all ba cele
brated.
(d) To transact any other business of which due notice has been given.
All Members are requcited to attend. LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretaries and Treasurers. Hong Kong, 15th March, 1933. (697
THE MACAO JOCKET CLUB.
SPRING RACE MEETING,
OFF DAY,
SUNDAY, 19th MARCH, 1933. First Saddling Bell at 1.80 p.m. First Race at 2.00 p.m.
ADMISSION:-
To Members Enclosure $2. To Public Enclosure 40 Cents.
Members MUST show their badges to gain admittanen. LADIES. are cordially invited to attend the races without charge.
M.
NO Ladies tickets will be issued. Tiffins, Teas and Refreshments will be obtainable at the Race Course at reasonable prices.
HONG KONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE
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THE Eighty-Ninth Yearly General Mesting of the Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on Friday, the 24th March, 1983-at: 5.30 pm,
By order,
T. A ROBERTSON,
Lieut. Col.
'Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th March, 1933.
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"ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mr. Lo CHRUNG SHIU begs to an
nounce that the marriage be- tween his daughter GERTRUDE and Dr. K. W. CHAUN will be solomnised at St. John's Catho- dral on Wednesday, the 22nd March, 1933, at-3 p.m. and that a reception will be held at the Gloucester Restaurant at 4 pixe
OBITUARY
MR. L. URQUHART
MINING DIRECTOR
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
* News and Views
A Hundred Miles at 200 m.p.h.
When the ordinary motorist! thinks of a driver travelling at over 900 miles per hour he is liable to add the mental reservation that the speed is maintained only for a flash of time over a measured mile.
£375 a Line.
The sum of £20,000 to be paid to Mr. Winston Church for his new a shilling a book works out at word. But it is not the greatest amount ever paid.
For instance, there was one James Smith, the author of "Rejected Addresses," who met Mr. Strachan, the King's Printer, at a dinner that Strachan forgot that ho hud party, and talked so brilliantly the gout
RuGay, March 14. THE death has occurred in Lon
in of Mr. Losho Urquhart,
Sir Malcolm Campbell, who has aged 18 yours, Chairman of Russo just raised his own world's record Asiatic Consolidated Limited.
He was prominent a few years by the further margin of 18 m.p.h., go in the efforts to obtain for can certainly claim to have covered their original owners, large oil-well oovr 100 miles at this tromer-
dous velocity. felds then and
Next day Smith sent. Strachan a in Soviet wow possession,
Since 1929 he has been making | jeu d'esprit of eight lines, which sa [Mr, Joba Lralie Urquhart, those records at regular intervals, pleased the King's Printer that M.Inst.M.M., M.I.M.E., M.I.P.T. Each full run accounts for some he added a codicil to his will was a director of many mining con- eighteen miles, and. frequently leaving the author £3,000. cerns, including the. New Guinea several practico spins have pre- |
This payment works out at £75 Goldfields Hd studied mining en reded the record attempt.
a line. zineering at Glasgow and Edin
at burgh Universities and the Baku Oilfields, >- Canensen, He owned and operated mining enter- priacs in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and Russia rutil the Bol shevist revolution in 1917.
In 1500 he was awarded the Albert Gold Medal, First Class, by King Edward, and in 1915, was awarded the Silver Medal of the Real Society of Arts,]
CORRESPONDENCE
[All letters intended for publi- cation must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless an desired, but as evidence of good faith.-ED.]
**NINE TILL SIX
A Noteworthy Advance,
He
So wis
was disappointed with the maximum speed attained. the A.F. when it put up the werk's air speed record. That is in the nature of things.
one
But when consider the. atruggles that have gone on at Brooklands to raise the lap record, by even a fraction of a mile per hour-the alarming extent to which resistance increases with each addi- tional noteh on the speedometer even at, say, 100 m.p.h.-this latest leap towards the 300 m.p.h. mark is remarkable.
Ferdinand's Birthday.
Col. Watts-Morgan,
The House of Commons has lost its deepest voice by the death of Col. Watts Morgan. It hardly had so musical abase as the late Sir Laming Worthington-Evans possess- ed; it sank to a lower profound.
Watte-Morgan spoke rarely, but he had a pleasant way of barking an indignant comment sotto race, which boomed like the triple voice of Cerberus blithely chasing in a dream an intrusive cat.
It is strange how few really musical voices are heard in Parlia ment. Of all over heard there many liked John Redmond's best. It caressed the car. So in rather more feminine a way did George Wynd-
Ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria.ham's. who is at present in Egypt, cele brated his 2nd birthday on Feb. 27. Ho has lived in exile since 1918, when he abdicated in favour of his son Boris.
Most of his days in retirement [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG have been spent in one of the minor
DATY PRESS "]
palaces at Coburg, comfortable on the pension of £6,000 a year which Germany pays him as the price of his coming into the war on her sido. The story runs that he was in Munich when the Hitler Fascists were clearing out suspected Bol- sheviks and Jews. When a mob of mad Hitlerites saw him they ex- claimed : "Look at the old. Jew profiteer. Let's kill him and pinch his car.”
Dear Sir,-As Producer of Nine till Six," allow me to ex- press my sincere appreciation of the critique appearing in this mor- ring's issue of your paper. Your general review of the play and the players will be read with extreme gratification by all concerned in the undertaking; but for my own leaders, it would appear that depart, I feel I cannot accept the lopments on these lines are in mind. full measure of applause you have In Manchuria itself
Without drawing undue inferences from recent statements of Chinese
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
At yesterday's mooting of share holders of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., a net profit of $1850,000 was reported on last year's work- ing
There was $1,091,000 for sp propriation of which 3000,000 was carried to reserve.
Page 11. An interesting lecture on Quack-
Kowlcon Supplement.
by Mr.. F. Key appears in our Hong Kong Stock Exchange offi- Page 12. cial report appears on
The wedding took place yester- day between Mr. David Lyon and Miss Jean Anderson, daughter of Mr. J E. Anderson and the late Mrs. Anderson.
Kowloon Supplement
The two Chinese bird dealers charged with inflicting unnecessary. cruelty by overcrowding cages of birds for export wore fined $eso and 8100 respectively, at Central Magistracy, by Mr. Wynns_Jones.
Page 6.
two
em-
The enses in which ployees of the Bats Shoe Store charged each other respectively with theft of papers and embezzle.. ment have been withdrawn. '» A senior official of the Company has come down here to go into the whole trouble. « Page 11.
Hong Kong University came of'.
Pame + age yesterday.
General.
At least 23 people were killed and 200 injured by a violent tornado, Notable Voices.
known as a "twister," which swept Rosebery's voice, for all its ex- Tennesso, Missouri and Arkanens quiste modulations, was A shade during Tuesday night. Page 1. over-elegant and refined. Asquith's had senority, rising at great
A tense political situation exist moments even to Olympian majesty.
in Vienna.
Page 9. Snowden's engaging and disarming tones neutralise a sharp acidity of manner and word.
Far East, Fighting around Heifengkow is Lord Grey of Fallodon's is the reported to be increasingly despe evenest and the finest and the most rate, both sides aro suffering heavy compelling of belief-perhaps the casualties.
Page 1 finest character of all.
The Finest of All,
Gladstone's voice was
"' trans-
figured by his tremendous per somality the more fastidious dis liked the northern accent which it' retained to the end. John Bright had an organ-a chapel organ- voice, with all the stops.
From the files.
But by general consent the most LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS perfect voice of modern times, was lawyer's Coleridge, LO.J. Even
The Editor of the Friend of
"I know I have a prominent given me, and must at least share, nasal organ," drawled Ferdinand, the pre with Miss Butterfield the triticism" but I am no Jew. I am Tsar dominant factor is the overwhelm-you have lavelled against her in Ferdinand of Bulgaria-tempor ingly Chinese character of the terpretation of Freda" The rearily, elas 1 without a throne." No invitations are being issued. Population. There no sparate sponsibility for that, interpretation The Fascista passed on, and did to be sentenced by him was to re- China has been in Canton during
is entirely nine Mies Butterfieldnot avea pinch his car. colses a benediction Manchurian race, and, so far, aos an amateur actress of more serious infiltration of either Japan- than ordinary ability: she places esp or Koreans. Sooner or later, according to the progress made by China herself, Manchuria will gravitate back to China, unless, of
bat all friends will be cordially welcome.
MARRIAGE.
The marriage between Miss Flon ENCE HO TUNG, daughter of Sir ROBERT unt Lady Ho TUNG, and Mrs. YKO KIM HONG, of Penang, will take place on Friday, March 24. No formal invitations are being issued but all friends will be welcome at the reception which will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel at 4
and Dr. K. C. Yso, son of Mr.
p.m.
Editorial and Business Office: 11,
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel: 24511.
London Offee: 33, Fleet Street
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MARCH 14, 1963.
THE NEXT MOVE?
course, the Republic, following the oxample of Europe in the Dark Ages, breaks into a number of in- dependent states.
hands and is as capable of repro- herself entirely in the producers during his ideas of a character, as any amateur it has been my good fortune to meet. If, in your view, her Freda is not as it should he, the fault lies with me,
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THE PRODUCER. March 15 1833,
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
ORGAN RECITAL BY MR. F.
MASON.
China most inevitably turn to one of her two adjacent neighbours; Russia and Japan, once peace is declared and the task of reconstruc. tion continued. The position of theso Powers gives them an econo An organ recital by Mr. Frederick mic advantage that no fear of Mason, AR.CO., LT.C.L, will be political danger can entirely counFriday, March 17, at 6.36 p.m.,
given in St. John's Cathedral on teract. Mr. WANG CHING WE and The programme will be as fol Marshal CHIANG KAI SHER, as dis laws:-
..
ciples of SUN YAT SEN, may still 1-Prelude and Fugue in C minor
Bach favour a rapprochment with Japan, 2-Aria, from Suite in D... Back and the elimination of CHANG 3-Passepied, from Suite in E
Bach, HAVER LIANG whose pursuit of
4.-Allegretto in B minor vengeance for his father's death has coloured Manchurian policy for the past three years, further, makes for such development. One advantage
of such an orientation is that it 7-Le Cygne would be easier for the Chinese 6 Rhapsody, No. 2 in D. Rowley
WAR flames in the Far East have a habit of dying down as suddenly as they, spring up. The Jchol defence Government to keep Japan with has collapsed, and while Japan is in bounds, by a judicious dalli- quite prepared to advance within
ance with America, Britain and
the Great Wall there appears to be
ST
JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE
Local and General
A dog owned by Sanitary Inspec tor H. F. Old has been removed to Kennedy Town for observation after biting a postman, - -
morning.
There will be concert at the Helena May, Instituto at 5.30 p.m. to-day. Those wishing to have tea most notify the Matron carlier, telephone 22100.
5
Another 8 cases of small-pox, from Victoria and 3 from Kowloon were reported on Tuesday,
the greater part of the week and has collected intelligence of a high- ly interesting character, which it is intended shall appear in his Over- land Issue. We do not hint at the nature of it as we consider his zenl and industry ought to earn for him as his reward, the exclusive benefit of the news he has gleaned. The in- formation he communicates may be relied upon and will bo purged of the ridiculous and puerila twaddle in which our other overland News- papers abound-Hong Kong Daily
ren, March 16th 1858. LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
Finea totalling 8175 were imposed ed by Mr. Schofield at Central Jewellery to the total value of Magistracy yesterday on two fokis 8720 was stolen from 188, Des Voeux of the new Wanchai market and a Road West, sometime between confectioner for having defective p.m. on Monday and 4.30 yesterday eenies. In imposing the fines. His Worship remarked that it looked as
An extraordinary meeting of the it the defendants had bought the shareholders of the China Sugar scales specially to defraud the Refining Co. was held at the office public.
of the General Agents, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. on Satur- Invitations have been issued by day morning. There were present the Consul-General for Italy, Comm-Hon. Mr. F. B. Johnson (Chair- A. Bianconi, and the Commander of man) Messrs W. Reiners, F. D. The Troopship Lancashire and, the 8.8. Conte Verde to a tes dance Sassoon, A. McIvor, W. K. Hughes Submarine Rainbow which, on the ship, to be held to-day from (consulting committee) J. J. Bell HM were expected to arrive here yes 4 to 6 p.m.. (18th March). It is Irving, W. M. Morgan, E. Georg, terday morning have been delayed learned that many prominent people A. E. Vaucher, E. F. Alford, H.G owing to rough weather. They will have responded to the invitation, James, T. G. Williamson, Douglas and a special Italian band will play Jones, H. C. Maclean, G. C. Cox arrive at noon to-day,
in the dining room.
and V. H. Deacon (solicitor).— Hong Kong Daily Preu, March 16th, 1880.
Cooking Back- 25 Years,
PAN Guilmant, 5-Lamentation .................................
The management of the Hong Guilmant * Hymn 197.
The weddings will shortly take Kong Hotel advise that the regular Collection for the Organ Fund.
dinner dance in the Roof Garden place between Mr. Frank Seal Hol 6-Folk-tune Whitlock will not function on Friday, March croft, a broker, of Shiu Fai Terrace, Saint-Bauns. 17, but Chinese dinners will be, Stubbe Road and Miss Edith Maris
de Lourdes Soares, Temple Tower The ordinary meeting of share- served se usual from 7.30 pm.
Terrace, Stubbs Hood; and between holders in the Hong Kong Hotel There will be a Shakespenzian | Mr. Henrique de Graca, clerk in the Co., Ltd., was held at the Hotel entertainment at the Helen May employ of the Hong Kong and on Saturday. Mr. W. H. Potts was Institute on Thursday, March 23, at Shanghai Banking Corporation, re-in the chair, and there were also 5.30 p.m. A short play and songs, siding at 12, Lochiel Terace, Kow present Hon. Mr. E. Osborne and Those wishing to have tea, must Icon, and Miss Celeste Maris Dr. Noble (directors), Captain notify matron 22160 the day before, Xemer, of 21, Jordan Road, Kow- Clarke, Messrs. P. C. Potte, E.. 8.
loon.
Kadoorie, J. Arnold, F. Maitland, The marriage of Miss Enid Lo,
E. D. Haskell, A. Turner, E. JA the local tennis singles champion, For failing to pay wages to her Chapman, Lo Cheung Shiu, Chan and Dr. K. W. Chain will take mus year and failing to notify Nam and Mr. Mooney, secretary place at St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday, March 2 at 3 p.m. Later à reception will be held at Gloucester Building,
NEW TERRITORY CASES FOR FEBRUARY.
no great desire to take that step. Bustin, than to escape the case- Despite recent successes by the quoes of a whole-hearted
accept Chinese troops the lesson of the Jeho mountain passes is that if ance of the crushing ombraces of the Tapah wishes to take Perping and Russian Bear Russia is a danger.
·Mater Sent to Tiontain she can do so without ous proposition as China knows Lu much difically, Meny of the Chi- her cost
Vito, Station Ceneral,nity. Hospital Tai: Ku 410- 10 [591] nego troops fought with great gel-- A Sing Japanese entente would he
Tai Long
953 Inaky, but the inevitable deduction, no bad thing for the world. Once
Fanling 952 is that the Japanese military Japanese trade with China started machine is more than a match for again pressure enough would be Kam Tin 981 the Chinese armies. Mr Sux Fo, brought to bear on the militarists to
Cheung
Chow...1,434 A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, ORING, WEI, have all admitted the ance. Trade breeds more trade, and Sen. Tin 433
Mr. T V Sooro and Mr. Wang, do nothing to 'create new disturb. NOTICE IS HEREBY al post-Bone Kong, would have, te shart that the Forty-Eighth Annual passos bad been held China's posi- of such revival. If Japan has full Ordinary General Moating of the tion at Geneva, and in the eyes of play in China she will cease to cause Company (since its registration) will the world, would have been dif- trouble elsewhere, and a beneficial
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be held at the Hong Kong Hotel,ferent. As it is the National Gor use will be found for her energics Hospitable Olubs, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the sternumont has to consider whether the and ambitions. Of a military alli March, 1933 at 11:30 AL for the situation would not be worsened inco, between the two there is no Foreign visitors to Olympia are purpoen of resolving the Report of the by further resistance, especially in practical danger. As well might the sincerely appreciative of the action General Managers, together with view of the Communist rebellion. world long least Britain raise an of several London clubs and associa Statengist of boots for the year If the tremendolisly important, army of a hundred millions from tions in granting honorary member aided 31st October, 198
factor of national feeling and India! Immediate peace in the Farship to them and to their wives for
eliminated there East cannot be expected, The sea the period of the Fair.
pon. Among the clubs which have done atting the loas, of. Ma But the
iwar-weary, this are the Royal Automobile, the both of
"and Fort and the Lyceum. Set upon The Overseas League and the English Speaking Union have anted
The Bagister of Shares of the Company - will be closed from AKUFIZIKY, the 18th day of March Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, 1993, both days inclusive, during which "period 'no-transfer, of aliarēs can be registered
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON
Geners Hongkong, 9th March
Finte
Jiny
one under
reco
In the
Hong Kong Daily Press, March 16th, 1908.
change of address, a Chinese womuna was fined $20 and ordered to pay the girl $39.50, by Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday, In- spector Fraser, of the S.C.A., in- The meter of a trading junk formed his Worship that during the Police Camera Experiments. (No. A2813V) has reported to the recent registration period, between st Police that at 9.30am on Tuesday, two kid three hundred mui tear It is unlikely that Scotland Yard the steam Innnch Fee Hing collided were not located owing to the will follow the experiment of the with the stern of his boat, doing, failure of their employers to notify Berlin police authorities and supply slight damage No one was injur the 8:0.4, of a chenge of address. officers with pocket camone for use at the scene of crimes and necid ed;
The Un Long Government School enta.
A Chinese pedestrian, while walk held its annual prize. distribution Rigid economy preventa auch. ing along Queen's Road Central, in the school hall on Tuesday experiments. Recently a scheme yesterday at 2 o'clock in the after There was a large gathering of for taking a short film of all arrest noon, collapsed fuddenly, falling parents, guardians, supporters and ed motor bandits, in addition to heavily on the road. Despite prompt pupils of the school. Among those the usual full and side-face photo- assistance, the man died within are present wore Mr. N. I Smith graphs, whs tabooed on these minutes of his fall. -
Director of Education; Mr.A O grounds... Brawn, Inspector of English The miggestion was the film A report has been made, to the Bchools, Mr. A, Morris, Headmaster should be -" shot as the prisoner · Police by Mr. 3, F. Wright of 208, of King's College," Hr. Hon Kai, ran across the polico station yard, the Peak to the effect that while Fangformer Headmaster of and as the only glimpse witnesses driving car No. 1760 along Queen's Cheung Chau - Government, School, usually have of smash and grab♬ Road East, a Chiness suddenly ran Mr. Tung Bo, Headmaster of Taipo aids is of men in a runamg, post- cross the road and was struck by Government School and Mr tant on the schanie, might have shown the car. He was injured and taken Pak Esu, one of the Heads of Kaloud results from the point of view
of identification. fongs. to hospital bus was not detained...
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