HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
24, 1937.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. Being Impressions On First Seeing
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION
NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING,
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1937
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION
NOTICE.
Race
The Stock Exchange will be Notice is hereby given that closed at 12 Noon on the 22nd.
24th. Inst. the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of 23rd. and 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th the Shareholders in this Corpora Days.
"February, 1937.
The Seventeenth Annual Gen‹ | "* Cral Meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association will be held in the St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Thursday, 4th March, 1937, at 6 p.m.
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On Saturday, 20th, Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd Febru ary, the first bell will be rung at 11.00a.m.. and the first race will be run st 11.30 a.m. On Wednesday, 24th February, the first bell will be rung at 11.30 a.m., and the first race will be Election of Officers and Com. run at 12 o'clock 'NOON, and on mittee.
BUSINESS Adoption of Report and Ac counts for year ended 31st Dec ember, 1936.
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Any other business.
It is earnestly requested that Members and all others interested in the welfare of Kowloon will
make an endeavour to be present at the meeting.
G.
R. BALDWIN,
Hon. Secretary.
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Saturday, 27th February, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race run at 2.00 p.m.
The tiffin interval will be taken after the Bith race on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and alter the fourth race on Wednesday,
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURES
tion will be held at the Head Ofice of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong on Saturday, the 27th February, 1937, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together, with "a" Statement of Acconuts for the year ending 31st December, 1936,
The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday, the 15th February to Saturday, the 27th February, 1937 (both days inclusive) dur. ing which perlod no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of
Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.
Members are reminded that Hong Kong, 8th February, 1937. they and their ladles MUST wear
their badges prominently display
R
ed throughout the Meeting.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 1st day of March, 1937, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsui in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis- posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with a authorised officer who will be
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
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HONG KONG TRẢMWAYS,
LIMITED
NOTICE
DEATH
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BOTELHO-On February 23, 1937.
at her residence, No. 35 Qran- ville Road, Kowloon, Nelania Joanna, aged 83 years. Funer al will take place on Wednes day, February 24. Cortege will pass the Monument at 5 pm. Macno, Manila, Shanghal and Saigon papers please copy.
Editorial and Business
The Death Sentence Passed
BY E. MacN,
It is said that a newspaper reporter experiences practically everything; "covering" a funeral and a wedding on the same afternoon; interviewing a business magnate and then attending an auction of leasehold property; often waiting for hours for the arrival of some famous eirman, then being present at a farewell dinner to a visiting personage.
but it was not until last week that it fell to my lot to witness
the passing of the death sentence.
The trial, in which the central Agure was a young Chinese accus- ed of the murder of his adopted mother, lasted the whole day and it was a few minutes after 6.30 p.m. when the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl MacGregor, pronounced the dreaded words.,
Murder trials, sordid as they may be, never fail to hold a certain Office:inexplicable fascination: call. It 15-19. Queen's Road Central morb1-mindedness, if you like, but Tel 30251,
the fascination is there. Night Editor (Wanchal Oce):
Tel 24511.
From the moment the Court assembles, and the trial judge has London Omce: 53, Fleet Street taken his seat and the jury of
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The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 24, 1937.
IS HEREBY The Recorded Word GIVEN that the ORDINARY
Badges admitting non-members- to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day YEARLY GENERAL MEET- including tax-or $40.00 Includ- ING of HONG KONG TRAM- ing tax for "the Meeting (ladies WAYS, LIMITED will be held 55.00 and $20.00 respectively) at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, are obtainable through the Secre. tary upon introduction by a member, such member to be res ponsible for all chits, etc.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
The Secretary's Office. Ist foor, EXCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel, 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10:00 am. ON THE FIRST NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.
Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hong Hong, on FRIDAY, the 26th day of February, 1937, at 12 e'clock noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Com pany.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the RE GISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 13th to 1937, both days inclusive.
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seven members have taken their oath of service to "hearken to the evidence and to ascertain, whether the prisoner be guilty" or not guilty," there is unbounded in-.. terest, an interest that is main- tained and becomes more potent as the various witnesses for the Crown are called to the stand to testify.
There is interest created in the demeanour of each witness for the prosecution and for the defence.
The charge having been formally read on this occasion by the Clerk of the Court, and the prisoner's plea having been recorded, learned counsel for the Crown proceeded to open his case with, "May I please your Lordship: gentlemen of the jury." and so was raised the curtain to the drama enacted in a house in the New Territories.
The decline in the art of letter writing has long been deplored by those who fail to find in any other form of literary exercise the sense of freshness and inti macy that the letter establishes between writer and reader. Yet
The Jury were told that the vic- it has to be admitted that letter um, a fairly well-to-do widow, war strangled to death. The accused. writing was for more leisurely the prosecution would have the ages than ours. The talent for jury and, had assisted in the self-expression is probably as murder. strong to-day as ever it was, but
As the day wore on, and after
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Sir George Clerk, British Ambassador in Paris, leaving the, Elysee with the Chinese Ambassador after paying an official call on the President of France.
paper reporters and spectators ex-
it has found new outlets. The the luncheon adjournment. coun- pressed in whispers their views on assiduous correspondents of the sel for the defence called hits client the case. The life of the man in
to the witness-stand where he told
present at the sale, the sum off FOUR DAYS, "und at 12.00 FRIDAY, the 26th February, eighteenth century have become the Court and jury his version of
one thousand dollars, $1,000.00 in cash. This sam will be refunded on payment of the porchase
price.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary.
A limited number of tilins will be obtainable each day at the Clab House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. Hong Kong, 1st Feb., 1937.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT 1 Boy, Tel 21920.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 3877.
Junction of Canton Road and Mong Kok Road,
Tai Kok Tsui
Boundary
Mesaare-
monta.
K.18,
As per
cuis lau
ilout
Contents
24,080
Square feet.
Rental.
Upest Price.
54,150
Oa ao pretext will children be elther enclosure permitted in
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the novelists of the twentieth, but it is far from being certain that we have gained on the roundabouts what we have lost on the swings.
Tell your story in the first paragraph is the prevailing dictum, and not infrequently is
the tragedy.
Both counsel then addressed the Jury, after which the Judge re- viewed the case and directed, the "seven men" on the law.
the Donning
black cap.
the
Judge said in clear. Arm tones: "Prisoner, you have been found.
the dock was in the hands of those guilty of murder. The sentence of the Court is that you be taken seven men in the room
hence from whence you came and thence to a place of execution. there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead: your body to: be buried in a place as directed by His Excellency the Governor.. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul."
"We have," was the reply.
The last stage of the trial came when the jury returned. The Court had resumed. There was a silence... heavy and unbroken. """Mr. Foreman, have you agreed "The cardinal principle of Bri-en your verdict?" asked the Clerk. tish Justice is this; that if you of the Court. have any reasonable doubt, give it to the prisoner", his Lordship
Then, ・・・ emphasised. and only. Thus does condenar- Within a few minutes, the gen- tion make martyrs of us all, tlemen of the jury had filed out although under Hong Kong's of the Court-room and retired to welgh carefully every ounce of climatic conditions it has much evidence. to commend it.
during the first four days of the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC that first paragraph" the one
Meeting.
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Public enclosure -
Notice is hereby given that The price of admission to the the Forty-eighth Ordinary Yearly Public Enclosure is $2.00 per Meeting will be held at the day including tax for all persons Company's Offices, P. & O. Of course, the letter "writer of should be including ladies, and is payable Building, eo Thursday, 11th an earlier age who at the Gate,
March 1937 at 11 am. for the brought to life again in this one Soldiers and sallors in uniform purpose of presenting the Report would find half her occupation are admitted to the Public En-of the Directors together with a gone. The newspaper and the the closure at $1.00 per day including Statement of Accounts to 31st telephone have usurped
December 1936 and electing Discribe's Fanctions and left ber with nothing more than scraps Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc, rectors and Auditors.
of domestic gossip t
to fill the will not be permitted to operate
closely written sheets. Yet, such trivialities are often of great mo
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HONG KONG EVENING INSTITUTE.
The -Institute will re-open ́on Monday, 1st March, 1937. Pro- vision will be made for Instruc. tion in Book Keeping, Electrical Engineering, English, Field 'Sur. veying, Shorthand, Teachers' Classes and Trade Classes.
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within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclosure,
SERVANTS' PASSES. Passes for Servants will be Issued on application to the Secre tary, 1st floor, Exchange Build-
Entry Forms and copies of ing. Prospectus may be obtained at Any persons found loitering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfeit the same
the Education Department, Cen tral British School or Trade School,
J. RALSTON,
Director.
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They were absent for twelve minutes; twelve minutes with an- xiety growing more and more tense every second. Police officers, news-
RUBBER STOCKS IN U.K.
London, Feb. 23. Replying to a question in the
"Are you unanimous?" and to this the reply was in the affirma- tive.
"Do you find the prisoner guilty or not gulity?" asked the Clerk..
"Guilty" the word fell from the lips of the foreman of the jury and the prisoner's fate was known. The prisoner took the verdict stofcally. He had nothing to say as to why sentence should not be passed according to law.
BILLIARDS WINNER
In a few minutes, the prisoner was led from the dock to the cell below; the Court had adjourned. and counsel and spectators had dispersed.
The Jury strongly recommended mercy. That recommendation will be duly considered.
Meanwhile the prisoner is con-
fined in the condemned cell where he awaits his fate. To live or to
HUT VISITED BY ARMED MEN
The Anal of the Cheero Club
An armed robbery was com~· billards tournament was played mitted at about 4 o'clock yesterday when four Chinese, off last night when Rineman T. afternoon
of the Royal Uistler three of whom were armed with
The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 27th February to 11th March
Commons whether attention has Managh,
Rifles, defeated hle opponent, revolvers, entered a hut near New 1937, both days inclusive, dur. ¡ment and interest to those for been drawn to the decrease of Petty Officer Doidge, of H.MS. Pok, dpposite the Bhek Mel Village.
ing which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.
Hong Kong, 18th February, 1937.
and will be removed from the HONG KONG/AUSTRALIAN than the two friends, one living Enclosure...
By Order,
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C. B. BROWN,
:: Secretary, DR. FILOMENO MARIA Hong Kong, 15th February, 1937. GRACA · OZORIO, late of No. Torres Building, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong, Medical Practi- tioner, deceased.
LADIES RECREATION
CLUB
The Annual General Meeting
All persons having claims of the above, Club will be held at
p.m.
against the estate of the above the Ladies Recreation Club on named deceased are requested to Friday February 26th at 5.30 send particulars thereof forth- with to the andersigned.
The anction of newspapers & Dated the 22nd day of Feb magazines will be held at the
conclusion of the meeting. ruary 1937,
LEO. D'ALMADA & CO., Solicitors for the Excentrix. David House,
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́M. E. OLIVER, Hon. Secretary & Treasurer.
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FREIGHT CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND
RATES OF FREIGHT
rubber stocks in the United King-Tamar, by 100 points to 183. dom during the past five years from 158,500 to 65,800 tons and
ICE HOCKEY
London, Feb. 23.
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
travel for
and succeeded in making⠀⠀ away with lost in cash amounting to $235.80.
The intruders held up the oc- cupant of the hut and, after thoroughly ransacking his pre- mises, decamped towards the shum Chun River which they crossed by
whom they are intended, and if is a pity that so many intelligent People have a real aversion to letter writing. But while so what steps he proposed to take in many of us hate sitting down at order to secure that the United a desk to write to distant friends Kingdom stocks were adequate to there is scarcely one who is not meet any eventuality. Mr. Walter We have received from Imperial only willing but eager to talk, Runciman replied he was aware Airways (Far East) Limited, Hong taking the Shek Mel ferry, In and it is curious that the idea of there had been a substantial de-Kong, two interesting pamphlets, ther hurry to get away the rob-
concerning air
bera dropped behind them a gray- (5053 exchanging gramophone record-crease during last year, but he one
ings of conversations has not did not think the present condi- business, and the other giving the felt hat, belonging to their victim, winter service European time table which was later recovered by the occurred to many
more people tions need cause any alarm.-
from January 1 to April 17. 1937. palice. Reuter,
in Australia, the other in Eng- land, who had not met for 52 years and who, according to a recent report, maintain a corrės. pondence by this means.
In the ice hockey world's cham- There is much to be said in plonship series Canada beat Ger- the effect that rates on cargo for favour of these recorded mono many 5-0. Great Britain, beat Po logues, which, since they repro-land 11-0, and Czechoslovakia beat New Zealand transhipped at
France 8-1- duce the living voice, achieve an
Reuters Bulletin Berisco Australian ports after 15th April
eloquence and intimacy that per will be increased by 10 per cent.
a friend in a letter that one bas Through rates will accordingly be and ink could hardly do. To tell increased from Hong Kong as
a gold will hardly move him to from 16th March. 1937.
pity, but the adenoidal inflexions AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL
Merely to like talking is no of a sufferer, who need not even LINE;
mention his complaint to the guarantee of obtaining an audi EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN recording apparatus, will emence, and he who is unable to phasise his plight more effectively get a hearing at home would wel come with open arms this means BURNS PHILP, LINE. than & page of writing. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA And for those who, as the of finding a sympathetic listener OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. saying goes, find it hard to get a abroad. It might even make the [5062 | word in edgeways, this means of thought of emigration attractive.
NOTICE has been received to
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correspondence would be a perfect boon.
Picture taken of Lieut. and Mira, Blater, at the Valley Racing Carnival