NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE
HE Athletic Sports will be held THE
at Stanley on Saturday, Feb. 20th at 2pm Ali Friends, Parents and Old Boys are warmly invited,
Bus (31 rotarn) leaves Blake Pier 1.45 p.m.
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IN. THE MATTER OF THE CM. PANIES ORDINANCE 1032
AND
IN THE MATTER OF CONSOLI
DATED HOLDING AND SAVING
CORPORA-
TION, LIMITED. (IN VOLUNTARY Liquidation).
THE Creditors of the above named Company are required, ou or before the 15th day of April, 1936, to send their names and addressça, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to the undersigned, of No. 7. Queen's Road Central, the Liquidator of the said Company, and, if so required, by potice in writing from the said Liqui. dator, are, by their Solicitors, ar personally, to come in and prove their said debts or clains, at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the bene- At of any distribution made before such debts are proved.
A. RITCHIE, C.A.,
Liquidator." Hong Kong, 27th February, 1936.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE Goous OF SAMUEL BAKER, LATE OF 23, CHURCH ROAK, ÜSTERLEY PARK ILE- COUNTY OF TRX WORTH IN MIDDLESEX 18 THE UNITED
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
JOTICE is hereby given that the Natured Office of the Ea Wah Savings Bank, Ltd, will be removed to No. 24, Wing Lok Street, "Hong Kong, on 1st March, 1936. THE KA WAH SAVINGS BANE,
LTD.,
(In Voluntary Liquidation)
CHAN TAT 8AM FUNG IU WING
WOO YEE TUNG
(Liquidators).
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HONG KONG TELEPHONE.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
No
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lbe LEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be beld on THURSDAY, the 12th day of March, 1986, at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, Second Floor, Ex. change Building, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the financial year ended December, 1983, and re-electing. two Directors and the Auditors.
31st
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 2nd March to the 12th March, 1996, both days inclusive
Dated this 4th day of February, 1936.
Order of the Board,
W. L. MCKENZIE.
Secretary.
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14, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1934, 22ND, 24TH, 25TH, 28Tв AND 9TH, FEBRUARY, 1936.
KINGDOM RETIRED MARINEN Saturday 22nd, Monday 24th,
ENGINERE, Deceased.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE SHE by viror the provisions of Section 59 of Ordig ance No. 2 of 1897, made an order Emiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 21ar MARCH, 1938,
All Creditors and others are accord ingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Administrator
with the Will annered.
1. Der Veux Road, Central, Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPReme court
HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
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Tuesday 25th, and Wednesday 26th February, the fret bell will be rung at 11 a.m., and the first race will be run at 11.30 am. On Satur day, 29th February, the first bell will bo rang at 1.80 p., and the first race will be run at 240 p.m.
The tin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE.
Members are reminded that they
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936.
TENNENTS
A
PILSENER
BEER OF
$8.00
PER CASE
OF PINTS
DISTINCTION
Sole distributors
E
FAR EAST MERCANTILE COMPANY Exchange Building-Tel. 21458.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEY!.
that the ORDINARN YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be held at the Offices of Mesara. Jardine, Matheson & Co, Ltd., Hong Kong. on FRIDAY, the 28th day of February, 1936, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVE that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 19th to THURSDAY, the 27th February, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Becretary. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1936.
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:
Editorial and Business Office; 11
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchal Office):
Tel. 24511.
AMBASSADOR TO EXPEDITION TO
CHINA
Sir Hugessen Due In October
notable
POLYNESIA
Study By German Ethnologist
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Berlin, Feb. 27.
tribes.
accom-
The noted German ethnologist, Dr. Huge Albert Bernatzki wift shortly depart for Indo-China to further study the mystery of the origin of the Polynesian Bernatzki, who will be panied by his wife, has. Ir prev- lous years extensively traveled in West Africa, as well as in Austra- a New Guinea and the Malayan Archipelago investigate the of Polynestan early migrations peoples, and has come to the con- clusion that their earllest abodes will probably be found in Indo- China.
"London, Feb. 37. The new Ambassador to China, 5.
called Knatchbull-Hugessen,
2 on Mr. Quo Tal-chi and had long friendly conversation. He asked Mr. Que Tai-chi to recom- mend a Chinese teacher. He, his wife and two daughters are an- xious to study Chinese thoroughly.
Sir Hugessen 13 Naguist and speaks Russian and Turkish fluently. He takes a short vacation, and expects to return to Teherai in the summer, thence direct via Bombay to China in His wife and daughters will accompany him, while his son remains in England.
Mr. Que Tai-chi pays WALTE tributes to Sir Hugessen's charm. On his forthcoming journey, he and prophesies he will have great will first visit the "Mergul Archi- pelago near the southern coast of lower Burma to see the remote 13- land race of Selungs, and "proceed to the so-called
October.
success in Ching
It is understood that Sir Huges- sen WES Mr. Eden's personal choice for China.- Lieuter.
to
the" "Four Starn. Indo-
Nations Corner" between Burma, China and French China, which, like the "neighbour- ing Shan regions, is inhabited by
PROF. JEZE AND numerous and highly interesting
STUDENTS
Temporary Peace
("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)
tribes, whose origin has not yet been determined.
Dr. Bernatzki hopes to establish contact with the Chinese moun- tain tribes of Miao and Yao 35 well as with the Tibetan peoples of
Lahu 48 and Akkha,
The expedition will presumably take more than one year, and the Governments of the various coun- tries the explorer expects to visit The long struggle between have promised their wholehearted student and university authorities co-operation.- respecting the lectures of Profes- Tranincean News Service.
Paris, Feb. 27.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street, sor Jeze in the faculty of law,
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
though still going on, is no longer characterised by violence, the numerous arresta made by the police having apparently shown the students that other tactics are
Tess. advisable.
HONG KONG. FEBRUARY 29, 1936.
COAL PEACE
The coalowners and the miners will be universally congratulated on the spirit of mutual conciliation which has enabled them to avert an outbreak of industrial strife in the hour of national mourning. For the sake of peace both sides have receded a considerable dis- tance from the sticking-place
and their Ladies MUST wear their THE HONGKONG & KOW: reached as recently as a fortnight Badges prominently displayed LOON WHARF & GODOWN throughout the Meeting.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax-or $40.00 ineluding tax for the Meeting (Ladies $5.00 and $20.00 OP respectively) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon introduc- tion by a Member, such Member to be responsible for all Chits, etc.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.
IN. THE GOODE or COURTNEY
CARLING, LATE OF 17, Coust FIELD ROAD, SOUTH KENSINGTON IN THE ODURTY OF MIDDLESEX IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, GENTLE MAN, DECEASED,
The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, EXCHANGE
BUILDIN (Tel. 27754) WILL CLOSE AT 1000 am. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAT.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
A limited number of tiffins will be that the Court has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Ordinobtainable each day at the Club ance No... 2 of 1897, onde an order House, provided they are ordered
Telephone No. 21820.
CO., LTD.
ago. By agreeing to a joint con- sultative committee for regulating the affairs of the industry the NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. owners have abandoned their rigid Insistence on negotiation by dis- THE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN-ericts only. They have also raised ABY ANNUAL MEETING one shilling their previous offer OF SHAREHOLDERS. will be held of an advance of ninepence in the at the Office of Messrs. Jardue, Yorkshire coalfields. On the other Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thursday, hand, the joint consultative com- the 6th March, 1998, AT NOON, for mittee falls short of the national the purpose of receiving the Beport negotiating machinery hitherto de- of the Directors and the Statement of manded by the miners as the price Accounts for the year ended 31st of a settlement: nor December, 1985.
amended wage-offer satisfy the The Transfer Books the miners' clalin for a larger increase Company will be CLOSED from the exporting districts. In the Friday, the 21st February, 1985, to Thursday, the 5th March, 1986, both days inclusive.
of
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
limiting the time for creditors and in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Hong Kong, 12th February, 1986. others to send in their claims against the above estate to 21ST MARCH, 1936.
All Creditors and others are socord ingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before
that date.
DEACONS,
Bolicitors for the Executrix, 1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
On no pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the first four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is 82.00 per day including tax for all persons includ ing Ladies, and is payable at the
Gate.
Baldiers and Sailors in uniform
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THE BAUR AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND),
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.
NOTICE is hereby given that
FIRE IN COPRA
CARGO
Liner Gneisenau's Experience
The course of lectures which had been so violently disturbed this term ended on Wednesday when Professor Jeze hade goodbye to 17 loyal students, expressing the hope that he would see them all again when the next course started in the coming week and hoped that
Singapore, Feb. 27. by that time the trouble would Fire broke out on the new Ger- have subsided. Jeze added that man liner Gneisenau here in one he knew what students were pad of her holds where corpa was
them
4
crew
NEWS SUMMARY
The action brought by Tam Wal, claiming the return of a loan of $3,000 from the Hing Nam Com pany und Tam Cheuk, was con- tinued before Mr. Justice R. E Lindsell, Acting Chlef Justice, at the Supreme Court yesterday.
Page 6.
Retiring to his Kwangst after spending, severni years abroad, Cheong Yan-chiu, a fur dealer, was robbed of his purse containing 55 plastres all the money he had.
*
Page 6..
attempted crate containing 39
Charged with the theft of a chickens, Li Yee, 28, an odd job coolle, was remanded for 24 hours by Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, upon the application of Inspector W. R. Page 6 Chester Woods.
Figures and statistics for the Colony's trade for the month of January, 1936 have been issued by
the Import and Export Department
and will be found on
ed
Page 7.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliat- Hospitals have once again Issued their Annual Pound Day Appeal particulars of which appear Page 7.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bullock arrived in the Colony yesterday from Kobe by the sa. Tilawa,
St. Stephen's College Sports will be held at Stanley on Saturday afternoon. Lady Shenton has kindly promised to distribute the prizes.
Telegrams addressed to Tyrrell Colonial Secretary from Gibraltar and Geddes from Melbourne res- pectively are lying unclaimed at the Offices of the EE. Telegraph Co., Ltd.
4
The fifth session of the English Association will be held on March 3 at the Helena May Institute when.. Miss Kathleen P. Curtin will speak on Music In Words."
There will be no dinner dance on Saturday, February 29, 1938 at the Repulse Bay Hotel, but the usual tea dance will be held on Sunday, March 1, 1938 at 4.30 p.m.
One case each of Calcken-por did not hold any grudge against stored. The Ore fighting
took three hours to extinguish the and Cerebro-Spinal Fever were re- ported to the Health Authorities for the 24 hours ended on Wednes- day.
Shortly after the Professor had fire. left the bulding crowds of
The passengers were calm and students began to pour in from remained on deck, watching the every entrance to the Sorbonne. firemen fighting the flames. Most one group bringing a paper effigy of the passengers were Europeans of Jeze which they burned in the returning to Europe on holiday.
central courtyard
prevent another
run.. -
The steamer will probably con- The university authorities de- clare this escapade as "childishtinue her voyage to-morrow. The Gneisenau is returning on her maiden voyage on the Far East behaviour." The only precaution being taken to demonstration in the lecture room is for instance that every student on entering should show his mem- bership card entitling him Transocean News 'Service."
attend the lectures-
to
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
FRANCO-SOVIET PACT RATIFICATION
סט
Wal Kin, a coolle working at Taikoo Docks, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital Wednesday suffering from injuries received as the result of a fall from HM. submarine Phoenix to the dry dock below..
Two motor accidents, one of which proved fatal, occurred in 'Queen's Road East on Wednesday, according to police reports.
A woman. Cheung Kam, of 38 Lee Tung Street, died at the Government Civil Hospital from a fractured skull as a result of being down to car No. 2043. She succumbed shortly after, ad- mission to hospital.
knocked does the
earnings. It might, indeed. bëj ("Hong Kong Dally. Press" Special) possible to surmount this dificulty
Paris, Feb. 27. by the systematic closing down of
The Cabinet Council, which is to redundant" collieries, but only, of
take place in the Palais des temper which prevailed two or three course, at the expense of curtalling Champs d'Elysees on Thursday, will months ago it would have been employment. Moreover, employ- definitely decide whether the con- dimcult to imagine either the ment is likely to suffer from an
Adence.question is to be raised in owners offering so much or the other cause; for the wage increase the Chamber in connection with miners being content with so little, in the exporting districts are" al- the vote on the ratification of the The ground on which they have most certain to hasten the process Franco-Soviet Pact. Political quar- now diet is somewhere about half of mechanisation. In the net re-
ters here are inclined to believe, way between the original extremes, sult it would seem that the minez
that the Cabinet, if only by ↓
They
small majority, will decide to de-
and conndence.
Another woman, Liu Yan, re- ceived slight injuries" when she was knocked down by car No. 3469. She received treatment at the hospital,
In an accident in Kowloon, a woman. Shum Wai-ching, of 289 Reclamation Street, was injured slightly when she alighted from a moving motor bus in Nathan Road.
she was removed to the Kowloon
Hospital.
The provisional programme of the nagship HMS. Kent with
The His Excellency the C.-in-C. aboard has been slightly altered. present programme is: Departs
circumstance which sufficiently is bound to suffer either from low testines to the restraint and good earnings or from unemployment sense of both gldes,
and it is to be feared that increased
Premier Sarraut again conferred likely to be It would, however, be premature unemployment la tc assume that there are no fur- among the consequences of the with the Soviet Russian Ambassa- dor to Paris, Potemkin on Wednes- ther pitfalls to beset the future present settlement. The miners' demand for a higher) These dificulties cannot be cured day evening. The Soviet envoy, either by nationalisation or by any it is stated, once more voiced, the dissatisfaction of his. Government wage was based ot so much on the sufficiency of the wage per shift other ready-made specific. as on, the insufficiency of total are the inseparable accompani- at the "lukewarm" manner in Singapore March 7, arrives Bata- French Government before the arrives,Singapore March 18, de [1243 are admitted to the Publie Enclosure
earnings. Low earnings are due to ment of a contracting market, and which the pact is defended by the via March 9. departs March 18, Third Interim Dividend of short time, and short time, in turn, It is one of the misfortunes of an at $1.00 per day including tax.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc., Four Pence per share on account of is due to the lack of markets. Now industry which supplies a contract- Chamber, and even intimated that parts March 20: arrives Hong
the financial year ending 81st March, the present settlement puts into ing market that it cannot dictates Government would consider Kong March 28. 1980, has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Bris- the pockets of the miners an ad- to its consumers. It will appear in an "unfriendly act" if the con- bane, payable to Shareholders on the dional annual sum of £7,000,000, due course how far the impending adence question was
able to counteract the vote on the ratification of the must be found by the inland.con- agencies is practically the whole of which experiment with central selling by the French Government during sumer, When the central selling economic forces. In the short run pact- scheme comes into operation next the industry will, no doubt, derive ransocean News Kervinn
GERMAN OBJECTION July it may be expected to lay on sume immediate benefit, but in the
Par's, Feb. 28. The Government may itself take the consumer a burden of several unlikely event of those benents re- able effect will be to "encourage blem of the industry will not be more millions. An almost inevit-maining permanent the basic pro both economies in the use of coal, solved. However that may be, the the initiative in consulting the In- where coal is indispensable, and whole nation will be profoundly ternational Court at the Hague re- the adoption, where practicable, of grateful that a confict has been garding Germany's objections to alternative fuels. In that case the avoided at this particularly inaus- the Franco-Soviet Pact. contraction in demand will in-picious moment, and can only hope Provision for such procedure is crease the amount of short-time that the respite which has been included in the Franco-German Hong Kong Bank Chambers,
working and thus, presumably, gained will presently lead to more Arbitration Treaty annexed to the BINGAPORE, 18th February, 1986. cause fresh, dissatisfaction among durable foundations of peace and Locarno Pact
Reuter Bulletin Bereice. (4248 the minera with their aggregate goodwill in the industry
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
THE Final Dividend declared
for the Year ending 31at December, 1985, at the rate of Three Pounds Sterling at exchange 1/8 5/8 is payable on and after the 24th February, 1986, ut. the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
V.. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1986.
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will not be permitted to operate with in the precincts of Taa Hore Kore JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Publio Enclosure.
SERVANTS' PASSES
Passes for Servants will be issued Floor, Exchange Building. on application to the Secretary, 1st
Any persons found loitering with Servants passed in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure. By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Becretary. Hong Kong, 17th February, 1986. ̧
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Registers at Brisbane and Hingagore on Saturday, 14th March, 1998.
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Registers will be closed from Monday, 9th March, to Saturday, 14th March, 1936 (both days inclusive), for the preparation of Dividend Warrante.
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountanta, Local Secretaries.
Tot raised
Among recent appointments in
the Hong Kong Police Force are
those of Sub-Inspector T. O'Con- nor to Acting Inspector and Ser- geant. J. Orem to Acting Sub- Inspector.
INTER-SERVICES
·HOCKEY
Army Beat Navy
Lodon, Feb. 21. The Army beat the Nayy in the inter-Services hockey champion- ships by gonia to nil — Reuter's Bullcha Bervien
P