NEW: ADVERTISEMENTS
GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
TENDERS for
SPECIE and MEXICAN DOLLARS Carrens In this Colony, for Telegraphic Transfer. on the Lord Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the Sam of £40,000, will be received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, COMMAND PAY OFFICE, unil 11 18rà MAY, o'clock
the 1933.
The Tenders to state the Total Amount (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for less than £100.
a Tu on
The Tanders to be in Duplicate, and in Sealed Covers, addressed to the TREA SURY CHEST OFFICER, COM MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, etc."
The right to secopt or reject suy or all of the Tendern is ressered,
Copies of Forms of Tender can be
had on application.
Persons tendering for (Bills) are hereby Noiided that, having regard to the provisions of the Acts 92 George III, Cap. 40 and 41, George III., Cap. 52, the acceptance of any such Tender is subject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Con- trot thereby made for the allotment of
ush (Bill)."
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company.".
P. A. GEDGE,
Major, R.A.PC.
Trossurr Cheat Offer.
His Majmiy's Trossary Ofce,
Hong Kong
CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
[299
LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN Hoxe Koxo).. TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the Ninth Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Obing Underwriters, Fimited, will be held at the Offices of the Company, Hong Kong Bank uilding, 44, Des Youx Read Central, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 25th day of May. 1993, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1832, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 18th May, 1933, to 25th May, 1933, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
HERBERT R. STURT,
Managing Director. [823
Hong Kong 15th May, 1939.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE Fifty-second Ordinary Gen THE
eral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersig ed on Thursday, the 251 May, 1933, at Noon, for the porpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1932,
The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting:-
(1)
That as from the Jet day of "January, 1933, the remunera. "tion of the Consulting Com "mitteo be increased from "$18,000 to 824,000 per annum." (2) "That as from the 1st day
January, 1933, the remunera: tion of the Auditors be raised from $1,250 to $1,500 per "annum for each Firm."
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed fron the 11th to the 25th May, 1933, both days inclusive.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents.
Hongkong, 4th May, 1833
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MR. S. T. WILLIAMSON'S
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Mr. S. T. Wiliamson's gave the following talk on New Zealand from the Studio yesterday evening.
* News and Views
Compound Interest!
About 10,000,000 treas were planted last year, in connection with the George Washington bicen- tennial celebrations." according to Science News Letter. That seemY. enough to pay, with compound in terest, for the mythical cherry tree.
Over the Cups,
Mr. Williamson.said in part:- To-night I have been asked to give listeners some of the main
It is computed that the tea con- features regarding New Zealand.
The main Islands of New Zea-sumed in Great Britain last year British totalled 485,000,000lb., or 220,000,000 land. 3 self-governing Dominion of the South Pacific pups every day. Figures of the
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Local.
Poor Fish!
In response to the wishes of a Two-snippets of unnatural history, large number of car owners, the was caught in Yaumati Ferry Company is again ex- A 10-foot shark Singapore Harbour. Inside it were tending the vehicular, ferry service. found three empty whisky bottles. From to-day the ferry will leave The crew of the drifter Sedulus, every so minutes between the hours while fishing off
Kowloon Supplement. "XIT." tattooed in red on its back." caught a large skate with the mark of,7.20 am, and 10 p.m...
"Two new solicitors were admitted One does not mind the fish imilating us, but they might do it a to practice in Hong Kong yesterday, ittle more flatteringly.
They were Mr. W. M. Brown and Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, Page 2.
Edward Charlie Anderson, a Hong- Kong born resident was sentenced to ten weeks' hard labour for ob-
..
The Mayor Regrets." When the craiser Norfolk was
Vice-Admiral Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-
The Nazis, in their determination to rid Gennany of anything anyour ing of Semitism, are nothing, if not thorough. The persecution has even entered the field of the Ger-awaited an explanation. It arriv- ed later in the form of a telegram man telephone service.
from the Mayor apologising for the omission and asking to be excused as he was in custody on a murder charge.
Orean, lie between the parallels of total number, of words of scandal paying a visit to Mexican waterstaining $110 from two Chinese by 24 and 46 and the meridians of talked over the cups are not yet Dr. Commander-in-Chief of the false pretences. It was stated he America and West Indies station, obtained the money through pre- 166 and 170 cast longitude, about available.
had a surprise. The ship anchored tending that he would teach the com- 1,200 miles to the eastward of Aus
off Vera Cruz" and the Vice-Ad-plainants to drive a motor ear, tralia. Including remote islands Thoroughness!
Page '7. miral, expeeling the customary call in the North and the Ross Depen
from the Mayor, had the necessary Yesterday was "Doga Day at dency in the far south, the reach of New Zealand is from the tropics
orders issued. But no Mayor came. Central Magistracy, several owners Puzzled by this apparent breach being fined for letting. their dogs to Antarctica.
the Vice Admiral abroad being muzzled. Page 6. New Zealand has a remarkable
of etiquette. liversity of landscape- plains, downs, and brond valleys, extensive tracts of hills and mountains, num- erous rivers, and many lakes, At no part of even the largest plain (Canterbury), more than a hundred miles in length, with a width up to forty miles, is the landscape monotonous, for this spread of fertile country is traversed by many streams and is Banked by the majestie Southern Alps, monumen- tally visible from all parts of the plain.
New Zealand's average annual share of sunshine may be stated broadly as 2000 hours, which is about equal to Italy's and about 600 hours more than Great Britain. Population.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.lation of New Zealand proper was
BIRTHS
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above all, air-craft, are weapons of attack. To talk about reducing offensive power and increasing de
PHILLIPS-On May 8, 1933, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. PHILfensive power is to give the experts LIPS, a daughter.
a meal of lights and liver. They will rejoice in it, and bolt it in POLLARD. On May 8, 1933, at Pau- mouthfuls. Will any nation scrap Hospital, Shanghai, to air-craft, or submarines, poison AUDREY, wife of F. C. POLLARD, gas or torpedoes? The record of ason, RICHARD GREGORY.
the disarmament conferences is the
lun
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HONG KONG, MAY 18, 1993.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
APPEAL
the appearance of
answer.
No
The World Economic Conference will be called next month. doubt America will be asked to "forgive us our debts"-bul for give our debtors" There is no sign of that on any side. Mention
The
German hello girls" hafa now been ordered to stop using old Jewish names to facilitate the work of transmitting telegrams, girls have been in the habit of say ing D for David, J. for Jacob, for Nathan, S for Samuel and Z for Zacharias,
St. Joseph's field nino men, several: of whom were last-minute inclusions. from the spectators, in their match against South China yesterday. The latter won by goals to 1 to win the league by one point from R.A. Page 10. and the Borderers.
The recent intervention of the Federal forces in Vera Cruz had
After a number of unavoidable- led to the disarming of the Agra- rists and the arrest of the Mayor delays the lovemment is proceed- In future they are to say D for for alleged complicity in a crimeing with the construction of a new Deutschland, N for National, Scommitted two years ago." for Siegfried, J for Joachim, and Z for Zeppelin, although some these words are not so satisfactory from the point of view of enuncia tion.-Exchange,
Better Beer!
of
Professor Einstein.
Professor Albert Einstein has ne cepted an offer to occupy the chair of Mathematical Physics at the Col- lège de France-a chair which has been specially created for him in view of his declaration that he cannot return to Germany.
The South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye has achieved the first At the beginning of 1832 the popu- steps towards better and all-British
The Chamber of Deputies last beer. It must come, however, as a night voted unanimously in favour 1,522,000. Altogether, about 04 per shock to lovers of the Keat lands- of a bill for this purpose presented cent. of the population is of British cape to hear that the traditional by the Minister of National Educa- and Irish descent and 8 per cent. past house is threatened. It has tion, M. Anatole de Monzie, Maori. That is why the Prince been found to be woefully uneven
Professor Einstein, who was in of Wales described New Zealand as
in its drying of hops, and in ad Belgium at the time has already "more British than Britain." Thedition is said to waste up to nine-stated that he will be delighted to population is widely distributed, tenths of its heat. with a density of less than fifteen per square mile.
Admittedly there are modern oast houses which are more efficient, but The birth rate, which has shown a the enthusiaste at Wye have more declining tendency, was 18.4 per revolutionary aims. They want an 1,000 of population in 1831; the entirely new kind of drying house, marriage rate was 6.79; the death-ane in which the hope are rate was 8.34 (the lowest in the world). The death-rate of infants under one year of age-32.15 per 1,000 birth was also the lowest in the world. Altogether the rate of expectation of life (83 years from birth of males and 651 for females) is higher in New Zealand than in any other country where trust- worthy statistics are obtained.
which
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accept the hospitality thus offered him by France.
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Magistracy at Kowloon. It will be in Gascoigne Road near its. junction with Nathan Road,
Kowloon Supplement. The Empire Fair Committee have, forwarded us conditions governing the exhibition of poultry, pigeons.
Page 2 and canaries.
Father G. Byrne's weekly article "Everyman's Psychology Ap: pears on Page 1.
on.
Mr. G. H. Potts, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange laid the foundation stone of the new nine storey building they will, wher completed, house the Stock Ex-. change on its ground floor. Page 7. According to official figures the Colony's imports during April amounted to 8.8 million dollars as: against 44 millions last April." Full details appear on Page 13.
General.
The second instalment of the las-
He has first, however, to carry out promises to lecture at Oxford, Madrid, and Princetown, U.S.A... and it is expected that he will take cinating record by the Catholic. con up his duties at the Collège de Bishop of Hanoi of his journey by tinuously passed through and no France towards the end of the year. Air-mail from Marseilles to Saigen He will be called upon to give 20 appears in this issue. The journey lectures a year. The number may from Corfu to the Persian Gulf is recharging is required when the
described.
Page 7. eight hours' work of drying is over.
The death is announced, in Lon- This, it is said, will reduce the pro-soci, small, but at the Collège de ducer's cost and give the consumer France it is a tradition that all
lectures shall be original ones.
don, of Mr. T . Whitehead, former manager of the Chartered a better-flavoured been...
Bank of India. 2)
Page 9. "America has boldly and openly eut her moorings and launched herself io full Bail with courage and fine determination into new Page 9. waters.
Local and General
One case of meningitis was re- ported on Tuesday.
The young son of the Princess Der Ling (Mrs. Thaddeus C. White) died in the United States recently,
The Hon. Treasurer of the 8.P.C.A. acknowledges with grate ful thanks a donation, of 70, being the proceeds of a play organised by the pupils of Miss Lloyd, assisted by Mrs. Greis.
noon
in
A certain bloody "?. corps Peiping has issued a statement say ing that the corps has more than thirty members who will make it their duty to assassinate any person who dares to serve the Japanese or Manchukou.-
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Damage to the extent of about 81,000 was caused by a fire which occurred on the first floor of the Man On Pawnshop at Tsunwan.
The wedding will shortly take place between Mr. Hector Sulli. van, of 3 Dragon's Terrace, and Mies Eileen Chu, af 4, Seen Keen Terrace.
38 Queen's Road Central.
Tuesday's heat. claimed twe victims who collapsed and died while working Yim Ki, a fireman on the s.s. Fat Shan, collapsed and died in the stoke hold, while Tse Pui Kai, a street hawker died, in Aberdeen Street.
In a lengthy speech, Herr Hitler.. defined Germany's standpoint on questions affect not only Germany but the whole world." Full parti culars will be found on Page 0:
A serious explosion occurred to- day at the West Cannock Colliery. one of the most famous in England, near Hednesford, Stafford, Page 2.
The Joint Parliamentary Cam-" mittee which is considering the question of Indian constitution re- form met in the King's Robing Room at the House of Lords
Page 9.
Far East.
Latest cables on the situation in the North will be found on Page 9.
MOTOR ACCIDENT NEW NORTON COMES TO GRIEF
The total area of the Dominion (excluding the Cook and other the word disarmament " and Pacific islands) is officially stated
68.390,282 acres. of chorus will thunder," that has as nothing to with it," "our national 43,233,583 sems were in occupation honour is concerned," and "we in January, 1001.
New Zealand is mainly a farm- yield nothing." Nor is there really much greater hope of a tariff truce. ing country-particularly grassland The special circumstances of each farming. The development of agri- Power make general agreements cultural and pastoral industry has almost impossible. The German- gone along three main lines: (1) Austrian customs union was 'vetoed The pastoral occupation of very for political reasons, and it is most large areas of native tussock coun- unlikely that the leading nations of, mainly in the South Island,
A Council meeting of the Hong for the production of woob; (2) the
Kong International Amateur Swim: Europe will make aay extensive concessions to each other. Britains of tillage implements to convert large areas of easily, ploughable
The Canton Insurance Office,ming Association has been called muy agree to buy Danish butter fertile land into cropping and graz. Limited, are holding their send for to-morrow evening at 5.30 p.m. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT's speech has (instead of Irish) but anything being farms; (3) the clearing of large ordinary meeting at the offices of at the Association's Board Room,
final appeal yond that kind of minor bartering areas of subtropical rain forests of the Company;
No, 18, Pedder to the nations of Europe to sub-is only to be expected if a sudden the North and South Islands and Street, on Thursday, May 25, at stitute wisdom and enlightened self- torrent of goodwill springs, appar- the sowing of European grasses on interest for unbridled savagery.ently from nowhere, and cleans the the rich soil, thus making probably It may be said that the United Augean stables of ancient entities. the world's best pastures without
the Continental the tee of a single tillage imple States having been the prime If, however, mover in ruining the banking and Powers are unable to respond to ment.
Sheep Tarming. currency systems of the world, in- President ROOSEVELT's appeal, and
A motor accident occurred near For decades the sheep held the cluding their own," were about due his gesture of goodwill is received
In a statement made to Chinese the Hongkong Hotel last night for a show of generosity. More with the icy suspicion accorded to supremacy in the value of exports
reporters, a spokesman of the Chi-when motor cycle No. 106-a new nese Customs Administration de Norton-ridden by Char Ki [79 over, it may be added that Mr. Mr. HooVER's moratorium, with (wool, meat, tallow, pelts and ROOSEVELT is still extremely eau recriminations for the past offences sausage-casings) by a large margin,
Charged before. Mr. Wynne-Jonesclared that beginning from May 16, building contractor, collided with tious not to commit himself on the of his country, and with destruc- but during recent years the cow question of war debta. On the tive criticism of his principles for bus put in a challenge with butter yesterday for hawking without when the Sino-Japanese Tariff Hongkong Hotel Bus No. St. For- and cheese, and is now giving the licence, a young Chinese stated he Agreement expires, all Japanese tunately the cyclist received only other hand, America has not been disarmament, no doubt he will sheep a close run for brst place. committed the offence so that he imports will be taxed according to light injuries to the arms, while could see his father who was in the Chinese Government tariff the light and bandie bas of the entirely ungenerous in the matter pursue an alternative policy. It is For the year ended March 31, 182, gal Defendant was fined 84 or schedule.
machine were smashed. of moratoris, and, considering the to the advantage of the whole world the value of dairy produce export four days.
The bus received only a few amount spent on armaments, the that the nations should co-operate, ed was about £100,000. The de
Light is thrown on the commopoliseratches, in the rear mud tard. European countries could perfectly that the League" should bevelopment of dairying during the Mr. Bruco Jenkins, who has longtan nature of Paris by the report The cause of the accident was ap 'permitting), may be obtained at the wall have afforded to pay, ak more than a shadow, that armapast ten years in the principal won a reputation in Shanghai as for the past year of the department parently dae to the failure of the ments should be reduced, and tariffs feature of New Zealand farming skilled, amateur photographer, has Britain has paid, had they wished.
Leaving aside the embittered modified. The hope of all who take In this period the total output of teen successful in having three of past, what is the position to day more than the narrowest view of dairy-produce has been doubled, the four prints he submitted, ac A Disarmament Conference is still world affairs is that the Great and the annual average of butterfat cepted for exhibition at the Chicago next in session seeking an allround Powers should stand together for yield per cow has risen from 152 lb. World Fair which opens reduction but not abolition of the peace and sanity on the earth. to 218 lb, by improvements in the ionth armed forces that are an intoler But if the leading nations of management of stock and farms.
Mr. Andrew F. Thomas, British able economic burden, and inevit Europe cannot forget their animo Farm animals-mainly the sheep. ably lead to "War. No sanc insities and embark on policies that and the cow-provide about 80 per professor in the Tokyo Bunri Uni- cent. of New Zealand's exports, versity resoned a Japanese woman é17 dividual in the world wants war, must end in bankruptcy and War, which amounted to £34,490,211 for from an attack by a rufian in front Because parental consent was and no one wants to pay taxes for those who stand outside that narrow the year ended March 31, 1832. of his residence at Fujimi-cho, said, to have been withheld from
THREE CLAIMANTS BEEK armaments. Yet despite the world orbit must seek to save something This was a drop of more than Tokyo H caught the man and his marriage with a young wo
84,000 HONG KONG & SHANGHAI wide wish for agreement and settle from the wreckage. Great Britain £3,000,000 from the tally of the handed him over to the police man of his choice, Tam Wai, Chuen, still in his teens, living at 183, BANKING CORPORATION. ment, n plan ng only to be pre has accepted the band of friend previous year-a decline due chiefly An to falls in the prices of dairy-pro-
According to a Hangchow tele Hollywood Road, the younger son Four claims totalling 84,000. TOTICE 18 HEREBY duced, for the delegates, and the ship held cut by America.
gram received here, the Hangehow of a butcher, drank a bottle of against the Tai Hing Knitting that the Provision GIVEN hired publicists, to fall on, it like a Anglo-American agreement for com- duce and frozen mic
“The Sportsman's: Paradise." Mint, which was closed for some poison in the presence of bis Factory of Lo Long Hang, Hung No: 57/4909 dated Hongkong, 14th pack of wolves and tear it to pieces. mercy and defence is the alternative
time past, will reatane operations mother, at the same time telling hom, Kowloon were heard by the January, 1918, for one are of this No disarmament plan can be entire if the Disarmament Conference
Rainbow and brown trout are shortly an. order having been her the reason for his act. The Paine Judge, Mr. B E Lind Bank numbered 65953 reg'stered in lý hand without sacrifice to in fails, and by its failure renders. the name of Mrs. Josephine Callata terests and dyiduals, and these the solution of the major problems abundant and big in numerous framed by the Central Government attempt was made in the house sell at the Supreme Court yester Thom, has been Lost.or..
streams and lakes of the North and for its reorganisation as the No. 2 yesterday morning and the would- day: Stolen, and Thold this certificate not be produced difficulties or hystys be exploited before the World Conference im South Islands Ten-pounders are branch of the Shanghai Contral be suicide was in a serious state. All the claims were for 1,000 when rushed to Hospital each and the plaintiffs were Lo to the Bank before 27th May, 1933, They have been ploited ever since possible Great Britain has no
Lan Shi of 277, Heunsásy Road, new certificate for the share will be the Conference mists In the present wish to break old friendships and reeled in sotently that the Mint.
catch causes no surprise.. ised, and the aforesaid Frovisional mood there is not the least chance to withdraw the help that she is in Quinnat salmon run in big shoals The International Bourist Com Madame Manouse, the Belgian who was represented by Mr. Horace Certificate No. 57/4509 will be there of success for any plan that human a position to give in Europe. But up mow-fed rivers on the cast of mittee of the Japanese Railway woman journalist noted for her Le Chung Kam Kui of the same after treated by this Corporation as ingenuity dundegias
10 other course is possible hen the the South Island. Usually the runs
dangerous trip alone into Jehel, address, and Lo Chan Shi of 48, Null' and Void. ·
President BoDEVELT's statement, Powera show a mad distrust of eroh, bian early in Febz
left Peiping on April 29. Although Jervois Street. The last ture for all its breadth and generosity other and in the furthering of attentio
she had planned to remain there for claimants were represented by Mr. is full of strategic and tactical immediate advar
the summer, she was called back, F. C. E. Hendal!.
Judgment was given in thron absurdities. The great weapons of return to the armed militarisms that
to Europe by the news of the serious illness of her husband.
of the plaintiffs. tanks and subos
and has one insvitable.
RAFT Programmes and Entry Dorny for the Seventh Katra Race Meeting to be he'd en SATU DAY, 277 MAY, 1983 (weather
Secretary Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, ad the Stables, Village Road,
Entries close at 18 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 18TH MAY, 1033. By Order,
-0. B. BROWN,
Becretary
By Order of the Board of Directors.
LAN MURPHY, Acting Chief Manager.
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Department has decided to build Tourist Hall in front of Tokyo in Station. The building, having ave, ake Ts floats and covering, an area of 900 siau tubo. in expected to roost Yen
$3,000,000%%
of the Prefecture of Police which is cyclist to stop in time. At the time responsible for the surveillance of, of the accident, he was going. foreigners. It is revealed that, laat, from East to West along Queen's ar, no fewer than 47,990 aliens Road and the bus, on receiving the applied for the first time for frenimal Go" from the policeman tity cards. They were of a differ on duty, was coming up from Ped- ent nationalities, with 9,674 Italian der Street into Queen's Itnad. heading the list, followed by ,883 Foles
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