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THE Offices and Stations of the
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TOMS for Kowloon and District will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on the T MAY 1933, being CUSTOMS HOLIDAY.
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Commissioner of Chinese Customs. Kowloon and District.
York Building,
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1933.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.} NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Society will b hek at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Railding, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1932, at 11 o'clock A.3., for the purpose af receiving the Report of the Directors and the State- ments of Account to 31st December, 1932, und of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be. CLOSED from th MAY to 26th MAY, Both Days .inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1933.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
(INCONFOLATED IN HUNG Kora.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE HERE-FOURTH
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1933, at 11.15 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1932, and of doclaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 28th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May 1933.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the SIXTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26ra MAY, 1933, at 11.20 AM, for the purpote of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 132, and of declarig Dividends etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9 MAY to 20TH MAY, Both Days inclu Hive.
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Prosecuting in a case in which a Chinese was diarged with malicious wounding, Inspector Chester- Woods told Mr. Wynne Jones, at Central Magistracy, that: When the defendant saw complainant he side his wife's bed, be suw red and got hold of two choppers which he used in whirlwind fashion.
The wounded man was in Court with his loft arm bandaged and he had four injuries on his head
and face,
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the defence,' and asked for .n date to be fixed.
His Worship decided upon Mon day next at 2.30 p.m.
Mr. Rondall: Is it to be taken summarily i
The Magistrate: I don't know. Usually nos with malicious wound-
ing.
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Inspector Chester-Woods anid there were about four witnesses.
His Worship: Pressumably it is for committal 1
Insp. Chester-Woods: Yes, your Worship..
-Mr. Rendall: Will your Worship consider the question of bail1
His Worship: Any objection! Insp. Chester-Woods: It will have to be very substantial, your Worship.
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Tale of the Day.
Father"Why won't you marry
Charlie
Daughter-I will only marry a man who knows life and has learnt its sorrows,”
Father-see-n widower.”).
Voice of Israel."
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
London Bayings,
Mr. M. C. Hallums of the Chinese Another war would not settle Maritime Customs was charged as Central Magistracy yesterday with anything Lord Arnold,
the manslaughter on April | We are improving our Parlia three-year-old Chinees girl mentary manners.-Mr. Cosgrave. board a trading junk outside Lyee
I feel a free man.—Mr. Lloyd moon Pass. George.
This nation suffers from consun ing. too many sweets.-Colonel Applia, M.P,
Not five per cent. of the hotels in London to-day are using British meat.-Dr. Sälter, M.P.
The League of Nations,, by their attitude towards the conflict in the Far East, have largely weakened
on
Page 7. Further evidenes was given by Kwok Hang Ki, the driver of the ear in the Coroner's enquiry into With the few films of historical
the death of a young Chinese value must be ranked, an unusual
schoulmistress. who was killed as a production entitled, Voice of
result of a motor crash in Victoria Israel," which was released recent-
Read on March 11.
Page 7. ly in London. This picture is a
Entries and weights for the serious, effort to tell the dramatic
Macao Races on Sunday appear on history of the Jewish people from
Page 10... the Egyptian captivity to the pre- their authority.-Lord Ponsonby. The feial report of the Hong sent day, including the persecution" The tank is an essential weapon Kong of the race throughout the nges. of the British Army-Lord HailMessrs. Roza's Exchange Market Four generations of the world's
Report appear on
Page 13. greatest Jewish cantors take part
A description of than "busy" in this film, and while the singing
Whitfield barracks. is in Yiddish the dialogue is in
little town" English. "Voice of Israel," should
where some 1,300 troops, mainly. Indians are housed, appears in our appeal to all serious-minded cine
Kowloon Supplement.
magoors.
Fewer Lynchings.
In its annual report on lynchings in the United States, the depart ment of race relations of the Fede- ral Council of Churches. strikes a distinet,note of encourabement, Apparently this blot on American civilisation is fast disappearing.
The Conncil's body of inquiry has found that, during 1992, there or curred just eight of these mob Outlining, the case, Inspector murders. Six of the victims were Chester Woods, said that defendant | negroes_and two of them white and the woman had been married men. There was no geographical for eight years. Last year, he and significance in the report. complainant were partners in an This number is to be compared opium business, which was closed with thirteen for the year preceding
dant had occasion to warn the com-
that. plainant to keep away from his wife. On April 10, defendant, in the course of his work went to the
sham.
When potatoes are very cheap they are despised by the poorest of the poor and the consumption goes rapidly down. Mr. Andrew M'Dowall.
Camilla Lacey.
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Stock Exchange and
Mlle. Maryse Hiltz. the French aviatrix whi. arrived here from Saturday - took off
The Camilla Lacey which has Shanghej on been sold for building development from Kai Tak for Hanoi yester
day.
Page 7. is not the house built by Fauny,
Six of the British warships in Burney out of the profits, of her novel, "Camilla," That was burn Hong Kong habour departed for the North yesterday." Page 12. ed down fourteen years ago.
An interesting point as to whe- ther a merson sitting in the hack of
But one can still see the garden, much less wooded now, in which she wrote and where she strolled with Talleyrand, the Duc de Berri, who met there Miss Amy Brown, the lady who was to become his morganatic wife, Mme. de Staël and other celebrities of the Revolu- tion and post-Revolution period.
Most of the furniture, some of it saved from the fire and sold by
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. down after a Palice raid. Dofen- and thirty-one for the year before the property of the novelist, was
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car which was being driven with- out the permission of the owner. was aiding and abetting" in the offence was raised at Central Ma- gistrary yesterday.