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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING
1931.
FEBRUARY, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH AND 7TH MARCH, 1931.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
INTERPORT PROGRAMME.
Saturday, February 21st.
Shanghul
H. K. Chinese!
On Saturday, 28th February the I
Club Ground, Kick off 3.30 p.m. first race will be run at 1.30 p.m., | Booking at Moutries, opens Friday,! and on all other days at 11.30 n.m, 13th.
AND CONDI-
Public TIONS of the Sale by Auction to be held on Monday, the rd day of February, 1931.28TH at 3 pm, at the Oilces of the Public Works Department, by Order of Ha Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsui, the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 13 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Exed by the Surveyor of His
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO. LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Ordinary General Meet- ing of Shareholders will be held
Dairen and Amoy
Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghal (Vancouver B.C. 31st January)
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for the year ment of Accounts ended 31st December, 1939,
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will be CLOSED pany
froni Monday, 16th February. to Tues- day, 24th February, both days in- clusive,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong. 9th February, 1931.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Bank of Canton, Limited, will be held at its Head Office at No. 6 Des Voeux Road Central on Satur- Passes for Servants will
day the Seventh day of March 1931 issued on application to Messrs. at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon or Linstead and Davis, Alexandra (so soon afterwards as the 20th Buildings.
ordinary yearly meeting of the suid Company (which is being held the same day at the same place at 12 o'clock nunn}. shall be con- (cluded, when the sub-joint Resolu- i
Lion will be proposed:--
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That the Articles of Association.
he altered in manuer following:--- (R) By substituting in Article 94 for the figures "104" the figures "105".
(b) By substituting in
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(c) By substituting in Article 131 for the words "6% out of the annual net proft" in the 9th and 10th lines thereof the words “10% of the balance of the annual net profits after providing
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CINEMA NOTES.
"THE 'GOLDEN CALF" AT
THE QUEEN'S.
young-man-about-town
ฟงช
Paramount's "The Big Pond," comedy-drama with music.
4
There is something about this - ex- Luberantpurveyor-of-gay songe-and- | witty dialogue that lifts him miles
above his fellow-stars of the alma." No matter what the role ho essays, he always gives it his best and Ufts it up to the grandost heights of amusement
value.
Enacting the role of in Greenwich Village not particularly difficult for Jack Mulhall in "The Golden af us Maurice is seen and heard, of course,
a sufficient amount for pay- Movietone Comedy with music, coming
capital of the Company for the time being."
In The Big Pond" the fascinating
Maurice as a fortune-hunting "foreign-
and
Notice is hereby given that the
ment of a dividend at the on Sunday to the Queen's Theatre young Frenchman of poor but of the
In the Land, at Shanshuipo. in the Ordinary Yearly Meeting
rate of 0% on the paid-up ↑ beginning his stage career, he Beajected into American business. As a days when u was just honourable family who is suddenly pro- Colony of Hongkong for a term Shareholders in this Corporation
guide to party of Americane in in the famous bohemian quarter of of 75 years, cummencing from will be held at City Hall, Hong-
New York and numbered many artiste, Venice, Maurice becomes enamoured of Claudette Colbert, daughter of an DB Saturday, the 28th 1st July, 1898, with the uption of kong.
writers and metu na his frivmis. for
Should the above mentioned In "The Golden Calf he has the American chewing gum manufacturer, renewal at a Crown. Rent to heFebruary 1931, at 11.30 n.m. Axed by the Surveyor of His the purpose of receiving the Resolution he passed by the part of a Greenwin Village advertis. Her father and her rival, secing
·will
ing artist, in search of the golden concoct a scheme to make him mujority, It Report of the Board of Directors requisite Majesty
the King For th
sabmitted for less together with a Statement of Ac-be
confirma-alt" in use as a model for a hustry! further term of 24 years
counts for
the year ending 31stion as a Special Resolution to advertising campaign. Su farul haregret that he ever planned to visit
further Extraordinary
General the leading fentinine rule. Whers in the States. They offer him a job in the December, 1930.
The Register of Shares of the held on Thursday the 26th day of Milani Webb directed.
Meeting and such meeting will be the cast include El Brendel, Marjorie uns factory. Maurice accepts
White, Richard Keene and Paul Page, shortly afterward finds himself doing the toughest tasks in the plant. But the plot to make his work disagreeable Corporation will be closed from March 1931 at the same time and
"Way flat West" Full of Bughs, and thus belittle him in the eyes of Monday, the 16th February, 1 place for the purpose of consider-
William Haines, as a big homnul Claudette, goes awry, for the plotters Saturday, the 28th February, 1931, ing and, if thought fit confirming
both
day inclusive). during such Resolution as a Special Re- the wide open spaces, furnishes had not calculated on the ambition and
giggles and guffaws, a few thede, genius of Maurice.
The luckless fellow makes the best which period no transfer of shares solution accordingly,
and incidentally figure in a ramentic enn be registered.
love story in his latest pletor", "Way of lile surroundings, and, by a happy By Order
Out West".
playing the twist of fate, rises from the ranks.
He becomes Queen's Theatre.
power in the factory and The story in 1
west, comedy of the modern
guins renown when he writes adverti- with Haines as a cirvus barker who gets sing lyrics, exploiting the gum, for a into trouble and is forced to go to love song he used to sing in Paris, Of work on a Western rack. His love course, he wins Claudette, by apply affair with the feminine "boss" ising high-pressure business tactics to unlivened by his education as a whis romantic cause.
"You Brought a New Kind of Love buy, a thrilling rescue race, an n-
No, ni sale 1
Registry No.
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Say Y
New Kowloon Inland
Got No. 1480
between Fak Wing Street
and Fisk Wa Street
B
Meath: £1.
As per sala
phatt
ORIENT,
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Contents in
About
11,550
ZIZS
Rental,
Upset Price
* $17,325,
Mortgage Bank & Estate agents.
By order of the Board of Directors,
Y. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hongkong. 9th February, 1931.
THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MAGAD STEAMBOAT CO, LTD.
Nolice to Shareholders.
The ONE HUNDRED
ING
at the Office
LOOK POONG SHAN,
Chief Manager. Dated 9th day of February 1931
Bank of Canlon Building
Victoria, Hong Kong Notice is hereby given that the Twentieth Ordinary Annual Gen- eral Meeting of Shareholders of the Company will be held at the AND Head Office, No. 6, Des Voeux
How
many thrills. Tinines, Incidentally, is
tempted lynching, and rume riffing to Me" In the hit song of the produc- tion. It is bound to become one of feats that amaze.
Unique settings were usel. The those tunes that everybody hears ancient pueblos in Now Mexico, mal a everybody else whistling. Maurice xings it several times, along with famous Western ranch.. were
Claudette Colbert, heading the sup CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEET Road Central, Hongkong, on Satur "location", and real cowboy's stage other melodies almost as catchy.
OF SHAREHOLDERS in day, the 7th March. 1931, át 12 an expert rider himself, as becomes port, in exquisite. She is forging It is ahead rapidly in the field of scroon. the Company will be haid o'clock noon, for the purpose of apparent in the new picture.
the Roport of the said to be the first comedy Fred Nibla favourites. Others who give splendid Cem-receiving of the pany, 1, Queen's Building, Vic- Directors together with a State has directed in seven years. If that character portrayals are George Bar- toria, Hongkong.
ment of Accounts for the year end is so, comedy lovers will insist that let Frank Lyon, Marion Ballou. on Thursday,
they won't wait seven years more fur. another of the same brand, for Niblu's 5th March, 1931, at 11 n.m., for the ing 31st December, 1980.
The Transfor Books of the Com-deft touches are everywhere apparent. purpose of receiving a Report of
pany will closed from the 24th Leila plays the heroine in the story, the Directors, together with a February, 1931, to the 7th March, an the fominine "bons" of a cattle Statement of Accounts, and Elect 1981, (both daya inclusive), dur-ranch. and is very easy to look at Ing Directora and Auditors. ing which period no transfer of as well as a very clever delineator WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER & ENGRAVER.
The Transfer Books of the Com shares can be registered. pany will be, CLOSED from Friday, 20th February, 1981, to Thursday, 6th March, 1931, both days in- clusive, during which period NO, transfer of shares can be register- od,
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of the role. Haines rompe through a characterization that clown, then turns serious, shown fight, and finally wins the lady. In the pueblo scene he offers some ne dramatic acting us a contrast to his whitonleul comicall les in the opening of the pleture."
"The Big Pond." Maurice Chevalier, the big happi- eroles
66," "Nathan Band, Kowloos.,
Buis and Hopstring of Gold and Biver Goods, |Axr_klad_M Takcha, Chronometers, Chepeo»
ATI delom szereted · <sromptly at modersta SL ́BOGDÁTOKE.
Artistic culture is a highly dan-ness boy from Paris, whose followers in the foyer repair and gerous thing unless it is oxgenat are legion in America, scored a knock P ed by fresh air from the everyday out with audiences at the Contral Theatre yesterday when he appeared Iffe, needs, and conditions of our in his third American-made pleture, own time. Mr. J. E. Barton.