NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PROCLAMATION issued by
THE TAX BUREAU of the First Area undar THE KWANGTUNG FINANCE DEPARTMENT
We have received instructions from the Kwangtung Finance Department to the following effect:-
on
"In accordance with records on file, a transit tax should be all goods passing: Jovicd the locality. It is our under- standing that goods are some- times shipped to Hunan and Hankow direct from Kowloon by train. On passing through this province, a transit tax should be levied on such goods in accord- ance with regulations in order that a large amount of revenue However, not dwindle. may there may be considerable in- convenience felt by the mer- chants who are required to pay tax in Canton, transit the wwwhereas these goods are shipped For the by trains at Kowloon.
the to convenience sake of merchants, we have decided to establish an offre at Sbumchun for tho special purpose of! collecting this tax, so that mer- chants can pay it at the spot. The rate of transit tax on all goods will be 60% of the Cus- toms duty paid on such goods." Pursuant to the above, it has been decided that effective us fromı the 15th July, 27th Year of the office at Chinese Republic, our Shumchun will begin to function. In addition to notifying all con- cerned, this proclamation is issued with a view to Its being noted by all Chinese and foreign merchants as well. Should they have goods forwarded to Hunan and Hankow by train from Kowloon hereafter, after paying the Customs duty, they are requested to send their men with funds together with the Customs papers to pay the transit tax to our office at Shumchun.
In order to ensure that there will be no delay, no objection to pay this tax shall be tolerated.
CHOW SING -NAM, Director of the Tax Bureau
of the First Area
July
13, 27th Year of
the
Chinese Republic.
THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
Nolice is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of $2.00 Per Share has been declared, for the half year ended 30th June, 1938, payable on Monday, 8th August. 1938, un
Dividend Warrants may be obtained application at the Office of the Company, Kowloon.
which
date
on
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 30th July to Monday, 8th August, 1938, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. M. MANNERS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 10th July, 1938.
EXCHANGE
Selling
T.T. London
Demand
T.T. Shanghai
TT. Japan
T.T. India
7.US.A
T.T.
Manila
T.T. Batavia
T.T. Bankok
T.T. Saigon T.T. France T.T, Germany T.T. Switzerland T.T. Australia
Buying
4 m/s L/c London
4 m/c D/p do,
4 m/s L/c U.S.A
4m/s France
30 d/s India
U.S. Cross rate in London
.1s 2% .15. 27% 150 nom. 1001
SHARE PRICES
The following, is the list of local share quotations issued this morning. Banks
H.K. Banks, $1,510 b. cum div. H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.), CIO D.
ex. div.
Chartered Banks, £11% n. Mercantile Bank, A. and B. £23 n. Mercantile Bank, C., £13 Enst Aala Bank, $83 n. Insurances
Conton Ins.. $240 St Union Ins., $495 D. China Underwrites, $2 n. HI.K. Fire Ins., $210 n.
Shipping
Douglas, $80 n. H.K. Steamboats, $211⁄2 n. Indo-Chinas (Pret.) $60 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $24 n. Shell Bear, 13/0 n. Unton Waterboats, $9 b.
Docks Etc.
m.
HK. & Wharves, $130 b. H.K. Docks (old), $21 90. H.K. &. W. Docks (now), $20 b. Providents (old), $3.37 b. Providents
(now), $3.30 b.
New Engineerings, Sh. $3.00 n. Shanghal
Kallan Mocks, Sh. $115 n.
Adm., 15/- $1.
Raubs. $0.80 Venz: Goldfield, $3 b.
Mines, & cis. n. Hongkong
Philippine Mining Antamoka, P. 40% sn.
Atoks, P. 30 sn.
Benguet Consol, P. 11,20 su.
Benguet Explor., - Big Wedge, P.
Coco Grove,
Grove, P. 431⁄2 8. Consolidated Mines. P. — Demonstrations, P.-
Mindanao, P.
Gurnaus G'fields, P. ---
Gold,
Ipo
*
IX.L., P. Itogons, P.
i
Min. Resources P. — Northern Min.. F. — Parneale Gumaus, P. --- Salacot Mining. P.- San Mauricio, P. 52 su. Suyoc P. 18 s United
Conscics
P. 33 il. Lands, Hotels, etc. 11, and S. Hotels, $6.55 b. ILK. Lands, 3354 b.
ILK. Lands, 4% Deben $100 b Metropolitan Lands, Sh. S'hai Lands, Sh. $0.40 n. Humphries, $9.35 m. K. Reallles, $6 n. Chinese Estates, $100 n.
Public Utilities
HK. Tramways, $17.85 m. Peak Trama (old), $6% b. Peak Trams (new), $3% n. Star Ferries, $70% b Yaumati Ferries (old), $24% n. Yaumati Ferries righ
rights, $2314 . China Light (old), $11 b. China Light (now), $8 b. HK Electric, $80 b.
$18 n.
Macao Elchts, $015 n.
Sundakan
(old), $20% 0. Telephone Telephone (new), $0.00 b. China Buses, Sh. Singapore Tractions, 28/3 n. Singapore Pref., 28/3 n.
Industrials
www
Cald: Macg. (old), Sh. $14 n. Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $14 m.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
THE BURNS PHILP LINE
From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, SALAMAUA, RABAUL and MANILA,
The Motor Vessel
"NEPTUNA" Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazar- dous and/or extra hazardous Go- downs of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gorlown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th July, 1938, will subject to rent.
be
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 15th August, 1938, or
they will not be recognized.
To comply with the General Bond- ed Warehouse Regulations consignees must have Д Revenue Omeer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 20th July, 1938, at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect-
Bills of Lading will be counter- 8211 signed by,
.30%
.61
5536
140%
.100
10.05
.75/
133
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1938.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
1/0 The Steamship
.1/33% 1/3.5/32
"FELIX ROUSSEL"
No. 18 A/38
Marseilles
Bringing Cargo from 31h via Saigon etc., arrived Hongkong on .11.80 | Wednesday, 20th July, 1938. .847%
Consignees are hereby informed .4.02 fr that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow-
whenee delivery may
Passengers In Liner Watch Yangtse Action
Shanghai, July 24. Confirming rumours of guerilla -motivily in the vicinity of Shang- hal, passengers aboard the M.M. liner. Felix Housesi
Rouse reported on "arrival here to-day that they wit- [nemed :.‚'s. (Japanese · destroyer
shelling the sharoneir
-mouth of the Yangtao.
the
#Japanese - troops - ishore---were- (also, wing artillery-Reuter.
bo
joon. obtained Immediately after landing. All claims must be sent in to ma on or before 30th July, 1938, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examin- ed by the Company's Surveyor Mesars: Goddard" and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 nm. on Tuesday, 20th July, 1030.
Consignees must have a Revenue attendance when any Officer in dullablo goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance, will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R: OIL)
Agent........
Hongkong, 20th July, 1938..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"
"MISSING" VISITOR FOUND
Mr. Willam C. Sage, 45-year-old American visitor to the Colony, who was reported "mlosing" in a contem- was located this porary yesterday, morning by the Hongkong Telegraph. Mr. Bage, who arrived in Hongkong on July 4 from Manila, is now resid- ing of the European Y.M.C.A. in Kowloon.
Mr. Sage booked in at the Glouces- ter Hotel immediately after his ar- rival and remained there until July 18.
Interviewed by the Telegraph this morning Mr. Sage said: "The news- papers. seem to have made a moun- infh out of a molchill. I have been nway in Canton and informed the Reception Desk at the Gloucester Hotel that I was going away for a few days.
"My
My original intention was to leave Hongkong for Manila by the Empress of Asia and this I am doing.
"Reports that my wife is 11} in Manila are Incorrect. I received a cable this morning saying that she was quite well."
NOTED WRITER VISITS HANKOW
WARM WELCOME FOR MISS FREDA UTLEY
Hankow, July 25.
Miss Freda Utley, noted British journalist and authoress of "Japan's Feet of Clay," was welcomed by the China Branch of the International Pere Campaign at a reception here yesterday.
Mr.
Shuo Li-tse, former director of the Central Publicity Department, presided at the gathering and deliver. ed the welcoming address in which he emphasized that China will con Linue her war of resistance against Japan.
Mr. Shao recalled that during a re- cent interview Miss Utley expressed the view that if China keeps on this war for another six months, Jupan would be forced to abandon her aggressive designs, He
WIN glud hive that China can fully guarantee ability to prolong the war until Bnal victory is gained-Central Neuss,
Cunton Ices. $1.70 n. Cements, $16.00). H.K. Ropes, $4.00 . Stores, &c.
Dairy Farm, $20% n. Walsons, $7.10 b. Lane Crawfords, 58.70 n. Sinceres, $2.20 n.
Wing On (HK), $80 n. William Powell, Ltd., 70 cts. n. Cotton Afflia
Ewo Cotton, Sh., $10 n. S'hal Cotton (old), Sh. $87 11. Zoong Sings, Sh. $27 n. Wing On Textiles, Sh. $42 n.
Miscellaneous
H.K, Entertainments, 50% b. Constructions, $1.75 b.
Vibro Piling, $5.10.
Ch. Govt. 4% 1025 G$Bonds..
07 prm. n.
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 8% prm. n.
H.K. Govt. 34% Lona 3% prm. n. Wallace Harpers. →→ Marmans (Lon.), a/- 13/6 n. Marsmans Ins. (H.K.), s/- 2/0 n Consolidated Chinn
(nid), $7 L. Consolidated China
(new), $6% b.
Ride
with the
Toxas Rangers in PETER B.KYNE'S
"now adventuro picture!
The master writer.
spins a touring yarn of the Lone Star Statal
THE
Providents
Providents
MYSTERIOUS AVENGER Starrett
Jean Perry
A COLUJABIA PICTURE
TO-MORROW
ALHAMBRA
MONDAY,
GOVERNOR OF MACÃO HONOURED
Does Much To Aid
Colony's Charity'
JULY 25, 1998.
to
Junk People Cautioned
Against Dredging In Harbour
1
A handful of cockles were shown the Marine Magistrate, Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood, at the Marine Macao, July 24,
Court to-day by a police officer, Ser- An important ceremony took place geant Medley, this morning when in the presence The cockles were the sequel to of a large gathering a
portrait of Hig Excellency the Governor of Woop by water police in launches on Macao, Dr. Artur Tamagnini Bar- day morning.
several Junks in Yaumall Bay yester- bosa, was unvelled, in the assembly To-day at the Marine Cour! the room of the Holy House of
Mercy. dock
overcrowded when six- The honour thus conferred on Dr. teen fokia, Junit men and women Barbosa is one of the highest that charged with illegal dredging.
be
citizen la to any Macne, and the assembly holl 16 thu dredge for shell-fish, but the fact "It is not so much that they graced with the portrait of the
соп
offered
pre-
were
sent Governor of Macao and that of that they block the fairway to ship- his late father,
Colonial ping" said Sergeant Medley produc- who as
ing. Treasurer in Macao, did
the cockles, much to
The Magistrate dismissed the case contribute to the restoration of the
were
SNATCHER TO BE CANED
Sentence of three months'
cach
the
con-
hard
then decadent Holy House of Mercy, and cautioned the defendants. In 1892 and 1993.
Two other junkmen The Holy House
of Mercy in fined $5 for coal dredging in Macao dates from 1689, when it was barbour. Their fishing gear, tackle, established by Dom Melchoir ropes, baskets and hags of coal, which
Bishop of Nices, who took were produced in court, were Carneiro, charge of the Bishopric of China fiscated. and Japan, and who was responsible for a great deal of the early social activites of the then young colony of Macao. Besides the Holy House of Mercy, the bishop established, at the same time, the Lazar House and St.labour, and 12 strokes of the cane Raphael's Hospital, as branch netivites was imposed on Lam Yick, unem- of the Holy House of Mercy. Both Ployed, by Mr. R. Edwards at the the Hospital and the Lazar House, Central Magistracy this morning on the latter now removed to Colowan remand, charged with larceny of a Island and Dom Jono island, still metal wrist watch from Wong Sau- survive,
ying, a woman, at Conduit Road, on The proceedings of the unveiling Friday. of the portail of the Governor uf Maeno consisted in the reading of the the means for charity. Minutes of the General Assembly of by saying that it was Macao's good
fortune to have a Governor the Brotherhood of the Holy House could and the time to think of the of Mercy by Mr. Paulino da Silva,
needs the Holy House of Mercy Hon. Secretary of the Cominítice. and contribute substantially, so that
SKETCHES HISTORY
services rendered by Lieut. Manuci Corte Real, as Pre-institution might be extended. ud-
GOVERNOR MOVED sident of the Committee, then
E. H. Dr. Barbosa, returning dressed the gathering and sketched the history of the Brotherhood and thunks, suld that his emotion and his referred to the services of the father gratitude choked his utterance and he of the
of Macno felt that no thanks were due to him present governor of who gave new life to the Brotherlod fur merely carrying out the wishes of and provided the Ossociation
the Government so with
ably presided
the
He concluded
who
the
the means for carrying on a good over by Dr. Salazar, whose express work. He then referred to the efforts wish it was that all charitable work should be provided with the means made by the present Governor of should Mac to help the Brotherhond to for its
proner maintenance. He referred to several of the re- carry on, of the remodelling of the ancleat St. Raphael's Hospital, and of cent Presidents of the Committee of
and Holy House of Mercy the legislation introduced by the the
the Governor of Mucao to centralise all many other sons of Macno who had the charitable services in Macao, and done so much for the institution.
He concluded by saying that the Broiler-
gald that legislation recently the centralisa- hood counted it an honour to be able introduced aimed
charitable work in the to include a portrait of H. E. Dr. tion of all Barbosa among the other benefactors colony, and he hoped that it would of the Institution. Prolonged ap-be possible to group all this work plause greeted the unvelling of the under one economic administration that could co-ordinate ull the services portrait.
ess expense. His Lordship the Bishop of Macao, and avoid waste and useless D. Jose da Costa Nunes, then nd-He hoped that the Holy House would dressed the gathering and after re-take the lead in this important matter. He concluded by thanking the ferring to the good work done by the
centuries! Brotherhood for the signal honour Brotherhood during four among the poor and needy in Macao, that they had done him and asked said that it would always go on be- the assembly to join him in his cry cause God put it into the hearts of ja "Viva Portugal."Our Own Cur- generous men and women to provide respondent,
Send
in
your Entries now
for the
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CUSTOMER NOT ALWAYS RIGHT
Lau Sang, 20-year-old shop fokl, apparently does not subscribe to the theory that the customer is always right, A woman entered his shop in Shanghal Street on Sunday after- noon, and, after touching a leather sult case, said it was made of paper. He slapped her face.
Taking a lenient view of this out- burst of hurt pride, Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyen put a bond of $10 on Lau to keep the peace for a year at the Kowloon Magistracy.
Crowds Weep As Queen Is Laid To Rest
Beloved English-Born Dowager To Lie Beside Her Husband
Bucharest, July 24:
Queen Marle was conveyed with
of
"I thought it was clementary that funeral pomp through the streets of if you wanted to do good business Bucharest to-day, en route to her last
Cathedral you hud to be polite to your resting place in the customers," commented His Worship. Curtea de Argesh.
The casket was borne on 4 gun carriage, which was followed by
EUROPEAN FINED King Chrol, Prince Nicholas, Crown
FOR SPENDING
Prince Michael and the Duke of Kent, the latter representing King George VI.
red
By the late Queen's wishes, A new-comer to the Colony, Mr. Allen Patterson, 30, residing at Dinn flowers and violet draperies were House, was fined a total of $55 when displayed along the route, which was a million men and he. appeared before Mr. H. R. But-lined by half ters at the Central Magistracy this women, some kneeling and many in
lears. morning, charged with driving a car
Fifty planes of the Rumanian Air at Stubbs Road at 5.30 p.m. yester
negligent and careless man-Force formed an aerial Guard of day in
Honour. Thousands of mourners ner which was dangerous to the knelt in front of the Railway Station public, and with driving without
Ds cavalry officers carried the casket ilcence.
Inspector S. C. Saunders prosecut-o the violet-draped rain.
Queen Marie was burled near her ed, and said that at 5.30 yesterday husband in the Cathedral-Reuter. afternoon, he had followed defendant.
A
in the rontrolled portion of Stubbs Road. Defendant was doing about 40 m.p.h., and in his opinion, was delving too Inst. The car was powerful type, and could stop in a short distance,
A fine of $50 was imposed on the frst count, and $5 on the second.
PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL ON COLONIAL TOUR
Lisbon, July 25.
Morgenthau Sees Lebrun
Paris, July 24.
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, was received by President Lebrun yesterday, and was the guest of honour at a dinner af Elysee Palace last night.
Mr. Morgenthau revealed in a press statement that his Arst conference with M. Marchandeau, the Minister Ending a ten-day voyage in the for Finance, would take place on Monday morning. He refused to dis- steamer Angola, Senor Antonio close the purpose of his mission to Carmona, the President of Portugal,
landed on the island of Principe yes. France, merely stating that he had terday on the first leg of his tour of crassed the Atlantic on a vacation.
"My conferences with Portuguese colonies.
President Carmona received an en- statesmen will be purely Informative Morgenthau
thusiastic welcome from the Inhabit
સ્થા ants of the island and was officially welcomed by the Governor of São Tome.
He will continue the tour on Sun-
day evening, and is expected to arrive at Sao Tome on Monday morning- Trans-Ocean,
MAJOR BENOY ON LEAVE
In
Mr. character." declared.-Trans-Occan.
French
BURGLAR CAUGHT
IN CRIME
Lam Kan, 24, unemployed, charged with burglary at a tea-shop in Main Street, Shouldwan, on Sunday night, was sentenced to six months' hard labour to be followed by two years' police supervision when he Major J. F. Benoy, D.A.A.G. of the appeared before Mr. H. R. Butters China Command, left this morning at the Central Magistracy this morn- for England where he will spending.
three months leave. He will then Lance Sergeant V. Morrison said return to Hongkong to resume his that the defendant had entered the appointment for another year. shop by forcing the, front door.
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