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The Sixth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on Saturday, 23rd and Monday, 25th May, 1931, com-
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Fiftieth Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on Tuesday, the 19th May, 1931, at Neon, for the purpose of of the the Report receiving General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the the 31st December. year ended
1930.
Share Register and The Transfer Books will be closed from the 5th to the 19th May, 1931. both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
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Consignees per Company's Vorsel,
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Members can obtain upon ap plication to the Secretary. Badges 4limited to ONE) for the free Admission to the Members' Enclo- ! sure of wives, lady relatives and friends. Sumes must be stated when applying.
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PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price al admission to 13- Puldie Enclosure is $2 per day. nelading tax for all persons including indien and, is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted half price.
Booksmakers, Tie Tac Men, &c. will not be permitted to operate within the prerinets of the Hong. kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.
LEE THEATRE.
GRAND CONCERT, REVUE AND CINEMA.
TO-NIGHT,
at 7 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.
Professor A. Barna,
World famous Hungarian Cymbalist.
nssisted by
MISS LUBA PECKER,
and Speciul engagement of Miss Dot Fny, Classical Dancer,
Miss Goldin and Miss Bella. Acrobatic and Orientai Dances.
etc., etc., etc.
Admission 60 cents and 80 cents,
Booking at Lee Theatre and at Anderson Music Co., Ltd.
FLIT
· KES-STERED TRADE MARK
THE
CONQUEROR
KILLS
FLIES
FLIT
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Tiling will be obtainable in the MAN'S PROGRESS FROM GUN RAIDS ON DOPE
Restaurant in the Public Enclo sure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
THE HÔNG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Subscription Griffins and
Australian Ponies,
The list of Subscribers to the on above will close at noon Saturday, 30th May, 1931.
BY ORDER OF THE STEWARDS
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
an
NOTICE.
CAVE.
DENS.
PARIS POLICE MAKE
ARRESTS.
200
PROFESSOR MATHER
"AFRAID OF THE FUTURE.
Just as the cave man developed
Paris, Apr. 17. into the man of to-day through co-
Two hundred arrests were made the
during an all-night "clean up" of operation of the members of species, 20 will the present man the Paris underworld by armed develop through coming awes detectives. that same helpful cooperation, the keynote of progress, according to At 10 o'clock last night they be F. Mather, chair-gan their sweep of night clubs, Prof. Kirtley
darice halls, dope dens and smail; man of the department of geology cafes, and it continued until the and geography at Harvard Univer-
jearly hours of to-day. Hity.
The
.by
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day: · Banks.
Hongkong Bank, $2020 na. Chartered Bank £13 n. Mercantile A. and B., £2214 n. East Aain 8120 b.
Insurances.
Canton Ins., $1415 m. Union Ins., 3638 n.
Chinn Underwriters, $5.85 я. China Fires, $600 b.
1. K. Fire Ins., $1800 b.
Shipping,
Danglue, $26 n.
H. K. Steamboats, $28 n. Indo-Chinas, (Daf.) $30 b. Union Waterbents, $271⁄2 s.
Mining.
Benguets $9% n. Katlans, 32/6 n.
S'hui Explorations, Tla. 4 n. Raubs, $38.
Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $165 b. Whampon Docks, $34 .n. South China Motors $10 n. China Provident, $5.85 b. Hongkews, Tl. 282 8. New Engineers, Tis. On- Shanghai Docks, Tis. 112 n.
Cottons
Ewo Cotion, Tls, 13.75 s. S'hal Cotton Tls, 102% an. Zoong Sings TIs. 114 n.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
11. K. and I. Hotels, $17.50 6. H. K. Land $92 b.
S'hai Land Tls. 41% b.
Humphrey's $17.75 b.
Realties, $1334 h.
Public Utilities.
Tramway, $19.40 b
Peak Trams, (old) $141⁄4 n.
Star Ferries, $94% b.
China Lights, $20
b.
I.K. Electrics, $80 b. Macao Electrics, $23 m. Telophones, $53 n.
China Bukes, Tla. 18.60 n. Singapore Tractions, 6/6 n.
Industrials.
China Sugars, 80 cts. n, Malabons $39 n. Canton Icea, $3.50 b. Cement (comb.) $15.85 b. Ropes, $23 b.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $27 b. Watson, $14.60 b. Der A. Wags, $1 n. Lane Crawford, $61⁄2 n. Mackintosh, $18 n. Sinceres, $141⁄2 n. Powells, $34 8.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $25% n. Construction, 38.40 b. B'que Ind. G. Bonde, 70% b.
IN WHAT WAY
IS AN APPLE. LIKE A BANANA?
Distinguish Four colours.. Give the number of fingera on
his hands.
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Den after den in the Bastille Speaking at the second session quarter in the notorious Rue de of the Institute of Natural Sciences Lappe
in -and neighbourhood Professor Montmartre at Bowdoin College
Was forced by the con-police. Mather affirmed that "With tinued cooperation we dare not pre-
"Hands Up." M. Priollet, Chief of the "Public THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,dict what things will be accomplish-
ed.
1.bs. man.'
Morals Brigade" of the French To understand himself is man's Detective Service, led the swoops
TEST QUESTIONS FOR most pressing need,
Professor on the garishly-lit dance halls!
A CHILD. Blather sald, and to this end he peopled by "apache" men and girls' The Half Yearly General Meet-urged a closer study of the past dancing
Tests made to ascertain whe- ing of Voting Members will be history of the earth as written in "Hands up" cried M. Priollet
while his men ther an eight-year-old boy was Japan and South American Ports Bokuyo Maru Chipshing ... held at the Club House, Happy its tablets of stone and interpreted pistol in hand,
rounded up everyone present, in-mentally deficient were described Foochow vin Swatow
Bristol Swntow, Amoy and Formosa. Canton Marú Valley, on Wednesday, 27th May, in geology.
Fossils are the relies of ancient eluding the orchestra, for a scru- by a school doctor at 1931, at 5.15 p.m.
Police Court.
Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, Enst and South Africa, Aden, ALL members are cordially in.fc preserved in the rocks of the tiny of Identity papers.
Girls in dance frocks, men in Dr. Dalby said that he asked the
Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Sphinx vited to attend and participate in earth's crust," he explained. "In
vagabond boy to and dress each case the relative age of the evening
handcuffed any discussion which may ensue.
Give his age away fossils is deduced from the physical youths were led AND NOTICE is hereby given relations of the rocks in which they to waiting motor vans. aro hereby notified that their cargo that Extraordinary General, are
geologist entombed.
Months of preparation had gone will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Mecting of the Voting Members of knows that primitive types of an-to the organisation of last night's Kowloon, where it will le
Con-
the coup, and a heavy blow is believed signees' risk and subject to terms and the Hongkong Jockey Clab will be imals and plants lived upon
complex and to have been struck nt the drug conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. held at the Club House an the earth before more
had dealers and gambling touts long The Cargo will be ready for delivery 27th day of May, 1931, immediate highly organized creatures from Godown on and after 18th May after the half-yearly meeting of developed, not because the former hunted in the underworld of Paris.
Sifting the Catch. The lengthy process of inter- their remains are found exclusively Optional cargo will not be landed the Vating Members when the sub-are the more primitive, but because here, unless notice' has been given joined resolution will be
pro-in rocks which on account of their cogation and sifting of the rüid- prior to steamer's arrival but carried posed:--
physical relationships are known to era "caich" went on through the be older than those in which the so-day. Pale and sleepless men and called higher forms of life are re-women were summoned one by one from the cells before the tireless) corded,"
In another test the boy was aak. Sandokan slides of various M. Priollet. He showed
Some of those arrested will, ited to give the similarity between Shanghai and Europe via Siberia.. Yasukuni Maru.... the words "Ordinary Members fossil finds unearthed in various
an apple and a banana. Ho re- may be unlimited in number" parts of the world and showed by is understood, be set free, but and substituting therefore the comparative photographs and draw-prison, expulsion and even banish-plied that one was round and the had developed ment to a penal settlement will other long, which is the difference words "The number of Ordinary ings Members shall be one thousand through hundreds of thousands of menace the remainder. two hundred or auch greater years to his present state..
here seems to be no escape number as the Voting Members From the conclusion that shall from time to time deter-future history of man will likewise mine."
be ander the sway of environmental AND NOTICE is also hereby factors," he concluded. "Ability to
1931.
on from part to port to the final of call to which the option extends.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on nny Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th May, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 8th June, 1831, ur they will not be recognised.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong. 18th May, 1931,
MASSAGE HALL
"That Article 6 of the Articles of Association of the Club be altered by deleting therefrom
how man
the
No Fire Insuranco will be effected. given that a further Extraordinary respond to these factors is largely ts General Meeting of the Voting a matter of inheritance, and man Members of the Club will be held there. In his ancestral lineage there in a peculiarly fortunate position In the anme place on Wednesday, is no creature which when tried in the seventeenth day of June, 1931, the balance was found wanting. We at a quarter past five o'clock in the have an ancestry of which we may Afternoon for the purpose of well be proud. It yet remnine to be receiving a Report of the proceed-on whether we shall be equally ings at the above mentioned meel-proud of our perigrity and they of ing and of confirming if thoughts. fit as a Special Resolution tha above mentioned Resolution. BY ORDER OF THE STEWARDS,
. C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hongkong, 14th May, 1931.
MRS. S. UZUNOYE 67, Queen's Road Co., 2nd floor, Expert Masseuse.
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Describe three pictures. Give the difference between a
fly and a butterfly. Choose a pretty face from pretty
and ugly faces.
Straits, Egypt and Europe via
Marseilles
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.. Canada, Central and South America Francisco and Europe via San between
and Europe via Siberia
Tell how he would attempt to
And a lost ball in a field. Give the similarity
wood and coat.
Define a tiger, a football and
a soldier.
between an apple and a banana.
A Good Line?
"mother says you have to
draw the line bret just how
someplace
and you going.
p.m.
.1.46 p.m. .2.30 p.m..
Calchas...Tue., May 26, 2 p.m. (Duc Marseilles, 27th June).
Asama Moru ..... Wed., May 27.
Registration...May 20, Gp.nl.. Letters... May 27, 8.30 a.m. (Due San Francisco 17th June.) Mausang....Wed., May 27, 10.30 a.m. Wed., May 27, Registration
27th 5 p.m..
Letters
27th 6 p.m..
"Superscriped Corzsspondence only.
to keepe other people from stepping over it?