TO-DAY'S WANTS. | New
26 WORDS
...$1.00,
($1.50 If Not Prepaid.) The following replies have been received:-
614, 545, 547, 650, 556, 599, 595, £98, 618, 634, 698, 699, 612, 650, 067, 671, 678, 683, 685, 691, 695, 702,705, 709.
LOST,
LEATHER TRAY PURSE' containing small sum of money and three key Finder please communicate with Box No. 701, "Hongkong Telegraph."
WANTED.
LIGHTWEIGHT MOTOR CYCLE Must be cheap exterior immaterial providing engine goed. Write Box No. 702. "Hongkong Telegraph."
SITUATIONS WANTED.
STENOGRAPHER
(lady) desires
position in Hongkong, experience with filing systems. Write Box No. 794, "Hongkong Telegraph."
YOUNG MAN (British) seeks posi
in clerical tion as salesman, or capacity. Good references. communicate with Box Na. "Hongkong Telegraph."
PREMISES TO LET.
Please
748,
TO LET-Office Rooms, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building. Apply to Sang Kee, same Building.
MRS. MOTONO. Massage. Hand and Electric 31b, Wyndham
New
Street.
Victor
Records
FOR
August.
Advertisements. NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
THE HONGKONG “ TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
From 1st September, 1930 our address. will be No. 17, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong...
N. S. MOSES & CO., LTD. HONG KONG CLUB
An
NOTICE.
Extraordinary
General Meeting of the Club will be held is the Club House on Friday, the 3th September, 1930, at 5.30 p.m. Business:---As set forth in the notlee posted in the Club. By order,
T. A. ROBERTSON,
· Lieut. Col.,
Secretary, Hongkong, 27th August, 1930.
NOTICE.
DAIREN KISEN KAISHA.
(Dairen Steamship Co.)
Lammert's Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction,
on Friday, the 5th September, 1930,- commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Fine and Valuable collection of Postage Stampa
Comprising:-
China, British Colonies and Especially Honkong Jubilee issue in Singles, Pairs, Strips and Blocks, mint and used varieties with Six different errors Includ- ing tall "E".
On View from Tuesday,
the 2nd September, 1930. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers
ORIENT.
Under authority of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS, I have this day opened a BRANCH OFFICE of the CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. above COMPANY in HONGKONG at St. GEORGE'S BUILDING 2nd Floor (Telephone No. 20872), hav- ing taken over the company's business from MESSRS. MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, hitherto acting as agents.
M. YAMAZAKI,
Manager. DAIREN KISEN KAISHA
(Hongkong Branch) Hongkong, 1st September, 1930.
GUIDE TO THE COMPANIES' ORDINANCES OF
HONGKONG.
In The Form of a Detailed Index
(131 PAGES), COMPILED BY
WALTER J. HAWKER, A.C.LS. HONGKONG. Below are some opinions by pro- fessional man who have been favoured with advance copies.
"I have tested it in several instances, and found that in each of those instances, the work fully meets the test."
Mortgage Bank & Estate Agents.
"PEAK MANSIONS" Prince Edward Road, Kowloon
Detached and Semi-detached villas. Modern construction with garage.
"Cambay Buildings" Flats with modern conveniences. MASSAGE HALL.
MRS. S. UZUNOYE 37, Queen's Road C., 2nd floor. Expert Masseuse
BLOW AT THE DRUG TRAFFIC..
DOPE RINGS SMASHED IN AMERICA.
The heaviest blow yet struck by the Government at the organised drug traffic was revealed when the arrests of 26 wholesale deal. ers in narcotics at New York, "For years have complained Washington, Philadelphia and bitterly of the lack of an Index to Wilmington became known.
Ordinances of the Companies Hongkong. The volume will be of great service."
"We completed the biggest haut of sources of supply in the his- tory of the country," the United "The work in excellently con- States Attorney, Mr. Tuttle, an- Government ceived and very well worked out." nounced and the
"Every solicitor, barrister and agents pounced so suddenly that auditor and company secretary one man was arrested in the act will find the work indispensable." of posting a packet of narcotics
"I heartily congratulate Mr. to Hollywood.
TSANG FOOK PIANO Hawker on his work
COMPANY.
8, Des Vœux Road Central. (Entrance Ice House Street) Telephone C. 4648.
ASAHI BEEP
Sole Agent
MITSUI BUSSAN
KAISHA
.LTD. (SENER BED HONGKONG
*KD PRIZES -
ACER BEER
SPECURITY BREWS EXPORTA
EWERY.COM
Price $5.00
Printed and Published
by the
Five international rings engag- ed in importing heroin and morp- hine from Turkey havo been smashed as a result of these raids. One of the principal sources of was Mrs.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, supply of narcotics
LIMITED.
"Morning Post Building,"
3, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
Tel. No. 23431. ·
THE JADE TREE INC.
Pazinania Hotel and Alexandra,Bldgs.
Jade Treasures of the Old Dynasties, Superb Chinese
Pictures, Fine Carvings, Peking Jewellery, Famous Jade Tree Bugs. BNew Shipment on Display
BEST
ODALIEX
T
Y
METALS
of all kinds especially for ship- building and engineering work. Complete stock. Best Terms, Immediate delivery.
SINGON & CO.,
ESTABLISHED A. D. 1880,
HING LUNG $1,
CAR REPAIRS!
BRING YOUR CAR TO USAND YOU WILL
BE SATISFIED.:-
FIAT GARAGE
$7. Des Yosux Rd. Tel. 24821
Henrietta Espesito, who was ar- rested on the large estate she owned 20 miles from Norfolk Virginia.
Anthony La Pinta, a leading figure in the underworld, who was another principal arrested, nearly slipped through the Government's fingers on the steps of the New York Federal building. Gunmen surrounded him in the doorway in an attempt to rescue him, and the agents were forced to draw their guns to keep him, prisoner.
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of lecal skare quotations issued to-day:
...Banks,
"Hongkong Bank, $1485 b.
Chartered Bank, 416) n. Mercantile A. & B., £28 n. East Asia $121. v.
Insurances.
Canton Ins., $965 b. Union Ins., $440 b
North China Ins., Tis. 160 Yangtaze Ins., $50 n. China Underwriters, $2.65; b. China Fires, $400 b. H. K. Fire Ins., $1000
Shipping.
Douglases, $281
12
H. K. Steamboats, $25, b. Indo-Chinas (Dof) 843 n. Union Waterbosts $32. n.
Vining.
Kailane, 26/3 n.
Benguets, $8 n
Langkats, Tia. 81.
Rauba, $228
b
1930
MARVELS OF A BANK.
“MOST MONUMENTAL IN LONDON."
CORRIDOR PATROL
To be lost in the heart of Don- don, within a stone's throw of the Nows-Chronicle City Office, was the fate that befell me writes the News-Chronicle City correspon.. dent. As I wandered about in the great new Lloyds Bank Head Of- fice I found the chairman, Mr. J. W. Beaumont Pease, in a similar predicament unable to find his
room.
Mr. F. J. Camp, clerk of works, over the who was showing me building,
me trustingly left behind n solid steel door weigh ing 11 tons, which made me feel like Bill Sikes.
£400 Carpets
In the chairman's room, high up on one of the top floors, the
S'hal Explorations, Tls. 1.30 b. two carpets cost over $400 each.
Tronoba, 21/- ̧ ̈ ̈n.
Docks, etc.
B.
Kowloon Wharves, $165 Whampoa Docks, $381 8. China Providents $5.20 5. Hongkows, Tls 260 b. New Engineerings, Tle. 7 n. Shanghai Dooks. Tis. 118 n.. Cottons,
Ewo Cottons, Tls. 12. $. S'hai Cottons, Tis. 83 (old) n.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and 8. Hotels, $10.60 s. H. K. Lands, $791 s.
n.
n.
do. 75 B. I Rights do. Rights 13 h, S'hai Lands Tis. 300 Humphreys, $16. s Realties, $9.35 b. Chinese Estates $87
Public Utilities.
D. Tramways, $18. Peak Trams (old) #13 b Star Forrios, $84. n. China Lights, (Old) $24.40 s. H.K. Electrica, $78
D.
For four years 600 men have been working at this giant build- ing which faces on to Cornhill and Lombard-street.
Altogether there are 11 floors, but only five entrances, and Mr. Camp told me there were advan tages in auch a smail number of entrances and exits!
The bank will open for basi- ness the day after August Bank Holiday.
After that date cashiers will no longer need to feel embrassed when a client presents a big cheque.
Instead of asking him to wait while he sees from the ledger whe- ther, he is good for so large an amount he will scribble down the query on the tele-writer at his side. This automatically repeats the written message on a pad in the ledger room downstairs. The reply comes back in similar fa- shion.
Bombproof Doors.
Here are some of the other marvels of this vast building:
Strong rooms with bombproof
· Macao Electrics, $23, n
steel doors weighing 1 ton, but Telephones $351 n.
movable 'at'a finger touch. China Buses, Tla. 181 b.
Corridors incesantly patrolled, Singapore Tractions. 10/..with mirrors at the angles giving the patrol "eyes at the back of his head."
.
Industrials. China Sugars, $1.25 Malabons, $27. Cald: Macg. Ord: Tls. 10.75 n. Canton Ices, $2.75. Cements (Comb.) 817 85 s.. Ropes $10.80 b.. - United Asbestos $5 n..
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $27) s Watsons, $11 95 n. Der A. Winge, $1 b. Lane Crawfords, $24, ̈ n Mackintoshs, $181. 51 Sinceres. $11.60 n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, #26_n. Constructions, ·$1.85 B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 62% n H.K.G. Loan 8% Prem.
WATER LEVELS.
ON WEST, NORTH AND BAST RIVERS.
21 lifts and 500 feet artesian wells which deliver 12,000 gallons of water an hour.
can
Kitchens for the restaurant entirely run on gas-which prepare 1,000 lunches a day,
Round the main hall there are beautifully carved plaques re- presenting ancient and modern Honey coins, designed by Miss Harris, daughter of Sir stin Harris the bank's deputy-chair-
мал.
The new office has been describ- ed by Professor C. H. Reilly, the great architectural authority, as the "most monumental of our English banks, not excepting the Bank of England."
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris Geneva Berlin The following table, fasued by Oslo...
Helsingfors the Kwangtung River Conservancy Athens Commission, shows in English feet Buenos Aires the water levels on the West Hongkong
and East New York Mesara. Dorman, Long and Com-River, North River
Amsterdam pany subject to the approval of Biver, on the dates named:
Stockholm the Ministries of Health and
Vienna Transport-have secured the cor-
Madrid tract for the strengthening of the Scotswood Bridge over the Tyne, Newcastle. The bridge, which is owned by the Newcastle
near
Corporation, is of the suspension type, carrying a roadway and footway. The work, which will take approximately 36 weeks, will
cost £30,343.
require 350 tons of steel, and will
-Shiuhing
Tsingyuen Samshut Sheklung
London, Sept. 1.
123,725
25.035
.20.39 .18.165
193
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Individuals and
RADIO NOTICES.
firms are recommended to register their telegra phic addresses at the Radio Ofes. No charge is made for this..
NEW POSTAGE BATES.
The following rates of postage are now being charged on letters (other than postcards, addressed to the following destinations:-
Destination
Places in the Colony United Kingdom and
British Possessions and
• Protectorates Macao
China proper, excluding
Sinklang, Mongolia and Thibet
Foreign Countries generally
Kate of Postage
8 cents for each as, or
part of an oz,
8 cents for each of
part of an oz.
cents for each oz. or part of an o
A
14 cents for the first oz.
and 8 cents for each additional os. or part of än os
The special rate of 2 cents per 4 ozs. on newspapers published in the Colony and addressed to Hongkong, United Kingdom, British Possessions and Protectorates, China and Macao has been abolished and the rate of 2 cents per 2 ovs. substituted therefor.
Circulars for addresses in the Colony or Wei Hai Wel, which are posted in batches of not less than ter of uniform size and weight, and which are posted by being delivered to an officer of the Post Office, are now charged postage at the rate of 2 cents for each 2 oz. or part of: 2:02. instead of 1 cent per 2 dozs, as heretofore
Fron Java via Batavia Japan
INWARD MAILS.
Shanghai and Europe. via Siberia
(London 18th August) Shanghai and Swatow Japan and Shanghai
Per
Tjikarang Tanda
.September 3. .September 9.
Oldekerk Sui Yang Katori Maru
Takada
September 4.
..September-4.
.September 5.
September 5.
.September 7.
.September 8,
.September 8.
,September 1.
Europe via Negapatam, (lotters and
papers, London 7th August) U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang.
bai (San Francisco 8th August). Pres. Adams USA., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-
Pres. Pierce hai (San Francisco 15th Aug.).
St. Albans Australia and Manila
Mantua Japan and Shanghai
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 18 minutes earlier than the. time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to clase at or before 9 am, registared and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
For. Sam Shul and Wuchow Manila, Australia (except Thursday Island) and New Zealand via Brisbane
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles-dus Marseilles, 1st Oct.
Swatow and Amey
Shanghai and Europe via Siberia
Swatow, "Amoy and Foochow Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong Saigon Amoy
Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America and Europe via Vancouver B. C....
Manila Swatow
Wei Hai Wei via Swatow and Foo-
chow
Per
Kochow
Sydney Maru
Date and Time.
Tues., Sept. 2, 4 pm.
Registration Letters
Tues., Sept. 2.
4.15 p.m.
.5 p.m.
(Dae Brisbane 16th Sept.).
Tues., Sept. 2. K.P.O..
.4.30 pm.
.4.80 p.m
Sarpedon
Registration Letters
Registration Letters
G.P.0.
... p.m.
6 p.m."
Cremer Berrima
Registration
Haiching
Halvard
Letters
Tues., Sept. 2, 5 p.m. .Tues., Sept. 2.
..5 p.m.
.6 p.m.
Wed, Sept. 3, 3 p.m.
Menado Maru Thurs., Sept. 4, 8.30 am, Thurs., Sept. 4, 430 p.m. Wed., Sept. 3, 4.30 p.m
Toinian
Emap. of Canada
Parcels
Thurs., Sept. 4.
Sept. 3, 5 p.m.
Registration. Sept. 4, 9.15 a.m. Letters
......10a.m.'
(Due Vancouver B. C. 19th Sept) Kentucky.Thurs., Sept. 4, 2.30 p.m. Hydrangea Thurs., Sept. 4, 2.30 p.m.
....Fri., Sept. 5, 10.80
Kulchow
Manila, Sandakan, Australia and
New Zealand via Thursday Island Tanda
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Cebu
Parcels
Registration
Letters ...
Fri, Sept. 5. .Noon. .......146 pm.
.2.30 p.m.
(Due Thursday Island 20th Sept.)
Fri., Sept. 5, 2 p.m.
Haiyang Nelens
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt And Europe via. Marsellles Katori Marú
.375| Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong 30% Sandakan 1/3.13/16 Rabaul ...
486.13/16 Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
.12.08% Amoy
.18.105 Straits and Calcutta
.34.445
.45.90
.815 Swatow, Amoy and Poochow
Aug 31 Sept 1
9.5 8.0
*
6.5. 2.8
4.8
Bombay $2.7
Brussels record Milan
7.4 Bucharest
.1/5/
.34.84
.92.955
.18.165
.164.1/16
.108.25
4.11/16
The highest levels on
re:-Shiubing, 41 fect: Teing Copenhagen
en, 29.2 feet; Samahui, 27.3 feet Prague Lisbon Sheklung minus 2.7 feet.
Río The lowest level on record at
Shanghai Sheklung 15.5 feet.
hulle minus 5 feet and at Silver (spot and forward)
.1/0% .10.7/16 ritish Wireles9.
ZIMBALIST
GALA
PRICES
$5, $4 & $2
THEATRE ROYAL
AT THE PIANO:
HARRY KAUFMAN
Booking at the Theatre
RECITAL
Management
A. STROK
TO-NICHT
Fri., Sept. 5, 1 p.m.
.Fri, Sept. 6.
K.P.O.
Registration Letters
Registration Letters
4.30 p.m..
.4.30 p.m..
G.P.O.
(Due Marseilles 6th October).
p.m. p.m.
Tean.....Sat., Sept. 6, 8.30 a.m. Hinsang....Sat, Sept. 8, 10.30 am.. Bremerhaven ...Sat, Sept. 6, Noon. Hozan Maru...Sun, Sepc. 7, 9 a.m. Yuen Bang Mon., Sept. 8, 6 p.m. Kutsang
Tues., Sept. 9,
!' Parcela Letters
Hai Ning
superscriben Porrespondence only.
TO
BE SOLD.
.100%.
.1 p.m.
Tues., Sept. 9, 2 p.m.
55 The Peak, lately occupied by Dr. Harston and adjoining the Peak Hospital Unfurnished. Con- venient, comfortabla "and cool. Six rooms and Dressing room. Four bathrooms, hot and cold Gas water. Modern sanitation. and Electric Light. Use of Tennis Court. Suitable for a Mess of five, or could be easily divided to sult two couples. Close to Tram Station and Motor Road,
-Apply:
THE HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED. Exchange Building,