NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
"REMOVAL NOTICE.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
and after the 11th instant,the business of the above Corpor tion will be carried on in the Old City Hall Building "adjacent to the present Building
Entrance to the premises will be from Queen's Road.'
IN. MURPHY, Acting Chief Manager.
NOTICE.
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THE Acting Consul General for
Portugal and the Portuguese Community in Hongkong will be AT HOME to friends at the Clab Lusitano to-morrow the 5th of October from 11.90 to 12.30 p.m.
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THE HONGKONG REEL
·CLUB.
MONDAY the 9th inst., being a Public Holiday the Reel Club
will hold a practice at the Helena May Institute on Friday, 6th inst, at
5.80 ..
D. L. Prophet;
Secretary.
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ROYAL "HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 4 1933
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cluding the occupation of Peiping, has also been averted. Nor does there appear to be much founda-
OBITUARY
Lady Elizabeth
Butler
PAINTER AND AUTHORESS
If Gossip We Must
IF GOSSIP WE MUST
London, October. 3
- The past week turned out to be a The death has accurred of Lady rather quiet one. Some people Elizabeth Butler, the well-known might put it down to the disagree- painter-Renter.
[ga] able weather but whatever it was, Lady Butler, who was born in we simply cannot afford to waste. Lausanne, was the daughter of the time like that. It is a well-known late Mr. T. J. Thompson and sister fact that here in Hong Kong " of the late Mrs. Meynell, the well we have any number of pretty known poet and essaylat." She girls: ail of whom are ready to married in 1877 the late Eleut.-| make life a little brighter, for all General Blr William Francis Butler | cancerned, but if the mere mare who died in 1910, and spent some will sit back in arm chairs, that years in Florence, and Rome study- are so plentiful in the Clubs, and ing art. In 1873 she first ex-casually remark that it is too hibited her paintings in the Royal damned wet to do anything." Academy to be followed by many what is going to happen to all the in the following years Bife was dresses these pretty girls are so
also the authoress of sévère pub-andous to show? AN lications, the best known of which ATMOUNTAIN LODGE " were: Letters. from the Holy Land" and "From Sketchbook and Diary."]
I was one of the privileged ones who was at Mountain Lodge" last Saturday when His Excellency the Governor and Lady Feel gave aplenic tea-party #to Scouts and Guides. It was a very enjoyable affair and the way the
оп
ANOTHER TRADE le Cubs and Brownies entered
AGREEMENT
Landon, Oct 2
into the spirit of the thing made one longed to be young agunt, N
Sir William looked very well in a navy blue double-breasted jacket: and white flannels. He wore a grey hat and I had not seen him
The text is samed of the Anglo-looking so young for some time. Finnish Commercial Agreement signed Lady Feel favoured a navy blue" at Helsingfors last Friday. The agree and white morocain dress with a ment comes into force three days after tight-Atting hat to match, and she the exchange of ratifications.
was also looking very well. Ade
"Finland Imports about £19,000,000 worth of goods sunsally, of which at present between two and three millions are taken from Britain Britain on the other hand buys about £10,000,000 worth of goods annually from Finland.
The present treaty runs for three years and is terminable at six months notice. It assures to Finland for the period of the agreement, a continuance of the most favoured-nation trèstment together with an additional concession on Finland specialities, whereby the present ten per cent. duty on birch and plywood is consolidated and the duty on wooden sewing reels is reduced. from 20 per cent. to 15 per century to
Finland also will reserve a suitable regulate entry into Britain of agri- share of say quotas introduced to
cultural produce.
NOTICE is hereby given that an Vightel, Basil. (Wanchai Office): ton in the report quarrelled "ans figure of 198,000 cwta. a year which
Extraordinary General Meet-
Tel. 24511.
ing of the Club will be held at the London Office: 53, Firet Street,
Board Room of Messrs. Jardine│" Matheson & Co., Ltd. on Tuesday
the 24th day of October, 1988 at
5.30 pm, to consider and (if thought
fit) to tion:
pass
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the flowing Readly The Bally
The
That the Committee be authorin." ed to proceed with construction of a new Club house and swimming. pool at Fanling on the lines of the provisional plans which have been open to inspection to Memberi að the Club's office during the past three weeks.
That the Committee be anthorig-
ed to expend upon the construction
Daily Press.
Hosa Kosa, OctoRke 4, 1935
SUPPRESSION OF DISORDER
of the Club house and swimming In times of crisis and difficulty
Ching has with "The Boong Dynasty," and weaken- Fed the prestige of the Nanking Government by his resignation. On the contrary. Mr. Wang's meet- ings with General Huang Fu, the Sino-Japanese mediator, and gov- ernor of the-Peiping area, appear to have passed of amicably.
Regarding butter the minimum represents a reduction of ten per cent. is guaranteed to Finland.
On the other side of the
agree- ment Finland has conceded ̈ ̈ ex- tansive reductions in customs duties to a long schedule of British pro- dacta notably-woollens, jute, linen, tin plates, galvanised sheets, small automobiles, tyres, whiskey, gin, gramophones and records.
Among
other goods accorded similar benefits are salted horrings, the duty on which for the first year has been
per kilo for a fixed quantity. After the first year the duty will be raised to one mark per kilo and the quantity of Herrings taken increased.
The position between the respon-reduced from two marks to half mark sible governmenta" In China is now one of equilibrium, though" what scientists would call unstable equilibrium. Recriminations over the postponement of the Kuomin-
Capt. Walter, the charming A:D.G. and Mr. Flicher Fitvate Secretary, were both very busy making the youngsters feel at home. That they enjoyed them selves, could be judged by the cheerful way they went about things
Some of the Scouts who were entertained by His Excellency, and Lady Peel last Saturday.
Photo by Leica. REPULSE BAY
... H. K the Governor addressing the Scouts "and Guides on Satur= day.
Photo by Leica.
Walking further along the beach, saw Major-General and Mars: Borrett, and with them were tha Hon. Mr. R. I Love all the Har. Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, the Hon. Mr. E. D .C. Wolfe, Mears L N. Murphy, [8. H.. Dodwell and Tang Shiz Kin. This party appeared to be very cheerful until some of them were asked to act as judges in the beach pyjamas paradet P-Mrs. J. E. Taggart was also there, as were". Miks R. Hancock and the Misses Soares." I saw one lady in three different suits of beach - pyjamas during the after- noon. - I do not know how, she”, managed to keep so cool and fresh when the other people were feel- ing the heat rather badiy, but that, I suppose, is one of the few beauty. secreta, which is a real secret! OUR A.D.CREA
With the approach of the winter, our thoughts not unnaturally turn to theatricals and in the hope of Anding out what the Amateur Dramatic Club are planning to give us this year, I went to see Mr. E. Grossman, one of the most active members of the Club. He told me that most of the com- mittee were away on leave at the present, but would be returning in November and would be, bringing (with them, some of the latest plays
from London,
Mr. Grossman sounded a rather pessimistic note when asked about a suitable theatre. The -old City..
·Hall - was, an admirable place for 'them," for not only did they stage their plays there, but they were also able to use it for rehearsals":{" Mr. Grossman said that there
BY REGULAR"
To revert to the subject of the *hatless brigade." This particular fashion has now got a frinhold. The reason is, perhaps, that the men feel here at last, is a fashion which the ladies cannot follow and consequently it will be one belong- ing exclusively to themselves. For s time it looked as though this would be the case but man pro- poses and soon the ladies. adopted the fashion, for reasons, of both beauty and comfort.
That, however, Is by the way.
| Geing about without à hat is 30, convenient, bit - what is more im- [portant still, it-is-economical- ((there is no danger, of losing it in, a = restaurant!) Many older men. |are adopting the fashion (in the plaus hope that sunshine, like rain, makes the hair grow. Thid:)". The most recent recruit to "theTM“Hat-
·lesá Brigade" is 'none other than the Hon. Dr. RH Kotewall. |_ C.M.CE,^">who was seen walking along Queen's Road: Central 'one' morning: last week without a hat and looking very young. - We take ↑ off our hats to him! -
Happy Guides Lodge."
Photo by Leica.
BEAUTY CONTEST.
We have," been told, more than once, that this is an incredulous age, that we moderns will believe - - nothing that is not handed to us on a plate, vouched for by an afidavit, and registered with the Inspector General of Police as first-class believing matter.
Many of you must have blinked the other day with astonishment when it was announced that we are going to have a beauty con- Ringside test in Hongkong! seats I hear, have been all book- ed up and the hotels and restau- rants are arranging special We
was some complaint about the ac-Beauty Contest Dinners. Repulse Bay was the scene of
much merriment last week, when
pool, and on the furnishing of the a government cannot be expected tang National Congress, the alleg-dactes such as bananar and tea and the" Ministering Children's League
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made
of 1931...
held their annual beach gala." The kiddies, were, of course in their had a great time. I was out there element, but the grown-ups also fairly early and after dressing myself up beach fashion" "Es pair of trunks and sun glasses, complete with camera). 1 strolled along the sands and took stock of what was going on, who was there, and what they were doing, A MAJ
Mrs. E. D. G. Wolfe and Mrs. H K Butters were both extremely busy, for while the former is the
Fixation of the existing duty has been agreed to "regarding various goods, including certain colonial pro
ed rapprochment with Japan, and case of coal and coke,
freedom of duty guaranteed in the Club house a sum not exceeding to deal leniently towards those $950,000.
That the Committee be authoris who plot its overthrow. The Can- the United States Wheat and Regarding coal, Britgin nine years the Finnish market, but the figure ed to borrow funds for the above ton Authorities have been reticent Cotton Loan continue with un-go provided 95 per cent. of coal for abated, vigour, and their exact dropped as low as 29 per cent in 1881. purpose from time to time up to about the recent Blue Shirt plot, the total of $500,000 at a rate of but their counter-measures were significance is hard to guage. The finland now agrees to take not less than 75 per cent of her coal from Britain which should amount interest not exceeding 5 per cent effective and ruthless, some nine great question is whether a reaf per annum to, be secured by the
effort will at last be
to increase of 175,000 tons on last year's figures and 700,000 over that issue of Debentures charged upon offenders, at least, evidently having the Club's assets and undertaking faced the aring squad. It is to suppress the Red movement in
Regarding coke, a British tunde That the subscriptions of play cult to see how a comparatively Klangs and Fukien. No one has ing members and subscribers fixed small group of conspirators could as yet assessed the strength, or delegation is going to Finland, shortly purchase agreement, similar to that by the Resolution of the 15th. have overthrown a well established even the nature, of the Red move-uri discussion on coke imports. A
ment. It gives the appearance of negotiated in the recent treaty with is the hon. secretary, so one can December, 1980' be increased by
Denmark, has been included 33.00 a month is from the 81st government backed by reliable December, 1988 and that the troops, and having strong alles in sporadic agrarian uprisings, main affecting inter aliasheet, mud imagine what a lot they had to to the leaders of the Kwangs! Gový against the landowning class, note, jute and salt, and arrangements do Miss Woo, the popular head- increase the subscriptions of ladies,emment, but the history of con-
and at the instigation of a small also have been started to increase the mistress of St. Paul's Girls' College amount bought of British Iron, steel, was there with a party of charming other than lady relatives, by: #1.0.
spirators, in all ages and places, nucleus of more or less genuine motor cars and commercial vehicles Chinese ladies while Mrs. Ho Leung and Mr J, D. Bush were a month from the same date.
is at least a lesson in the extreme communists, whose headquarters British Wirdess
also present, Dated the 3rd day of October, 1983. optimism of the human mind.
move from place to place. There By Order of the Committee,
Claim has also been made by are big areas under Red control, E. D. MATTHEWS, LA. CoL., General Mias Pel Nan, Chier of and many districts change hands
Secretary R.F.K.0.0.
Staff of the Canton First Group Perpetually between Red and Gor [1856 Army, that the cause of peace has ernment troops. There are deser- been advanced in the south, bandittions of whole regiments in either gangs having been reduced to direction according to the ebb and
Committee are authorised
DISARMAMENT PROBLEM
negligihic quantities in Kwang-dow of the fortune of war. If France's Latest Offer IN THE SUPREME COURT OF tung, though they are still a significant, however, that despite
HONGKONG.
FROBATH IURISDICTION.
Beuter is authorita that France is prepía
her
th
of military service
menace to the civil population on desperate efforts by the Reds to the Kwangs-Hunan border. force their way to the coast, at The rival government at Nan-Foochow and Swatow, these at THE GOODS OF ALINE king also seems to have the situa- tempts have invariably been foll WALLACK LATE OF NORMAN tion in North China fairly welled by the ocal garrisons. The This latter concess
made by France, : proj COTTAGE NO. 2 PEAK ROAD, in hand. Whether General Fang advantages of access to the sex are type of service is/1000 VICTORIA IN THE COLONY O
so great, and the efforts made so countries, including German: HONG KONG, WIDOW DIURARY Chen Wu is to be regarded as à
***Itda, however; stated genuine patriot, leading a last persistent that failure in this nothing the commuki TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court is by virtue of hope both against the invaders of direction discounts reports of the by Paul Bonsor
concerning Section : 59 ; of Probates Urdinance | his country, and the Got
strength, efficiency and enthusiasm
policy 1997, made an Order limiting the Time
the Red movement."
in the
The Beho ored Prance End
and to
wn that has betrayed
for Oreditom and others to send la
their asima #gainst the above Estate cause, or whather he
to the lar Day of NOVEMBER, 1833
All Creditors and others are doord
adventures trying to:
ingly hereby required to end the confilet between Chint
claims to the undersigned on or before so that he may
that date.
trom ing him
MASTER
Dalid India of October, 1928,
JOHN
the figur
president of the M.C.L. the latter
coustics in the King's Theatre, for when they were there last winter, the poor girls were bellowing: at the top of their voices and when they came out, some kind soul, fold, them they could not be heard in. certain parts of the housel
THE
HATLESS BRIGADE **
A year or two ago, when the young men about town discarded their hats, older people shook their Hends sorrowfully, saying that's not done. Youth, however, scorn ed all criticism, and the fashion spread slowly but surely,
Hong Kong is an odd place. New styles and fashions are regarded
with reserve and suspleion; but suddenly without any warning, like
Baby Austin coming round one of the Peak bends, everybody comes out of his shell and placidly follows the fashion-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Over an ch
Tain was tered ab: the Royal Observatory hours ended at
Home
dog out fo MY fined $9 at the
Consul General for Portuguese com
Hongkong will be at nds at the Club Lust
tomorrow from 11:30 to 12.30)
on
G. H. Gandy
are not yet told whether the beauty parade will be in bathing costumes on whether it will be in more feminine attire, but even if It is to be run on the lines of the recent Marlene Dietrich com- petition, we will cling to our ringalde tickets
Of course there is plenty of enthusiasmË about the coming hinese: version of show and the "Miss Hongkong" will have to be very pretty indeed. In a recent beauty mpetition, the Judge received neteen, criticalerand. somewhat abusive letters after We understand exact- the event: by twenty girls entered the com-
petition! Now then, any lion- hearted applicants for the judge's jub?
NEWS SUMMARY
Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Offi... cial report and other commercial and financial news appears on Pages. 12 and 13.
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