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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1931.

February 28, March 2, 3, 4;

and 7, 1931.

N SATURDAY, February 28, the rat race will be run at 1.30 p.m., and on all other days at On the first day the Arat bell will be rung at 1 pm. and on the other four days at 11

11.30 a.m.

a.m.

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COMPANY MEETINGS

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

WOMAN CASHIER TRICKED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Husband Takes Keys

N°

that the TWELFTH ORDIN- ABY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Re- gistered Office of the Company, No. 10, Frs Voeux Road Central, at 3.00 .m on SATURDAY, Felruary 21, 1931, Lor the pur- the Report of pose of receiving the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year endlag December 31, 1930.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Į SATURDAY, February 14,

SATURDAY, February 21, 1931 (both days inclusive), during which perind no transier of shares can be 19gistered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manage Hong Kong, February 4, 1931.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

.FINANCE CO., LTD.

to

and Steals £229.

A MEAN TRICK.

TRIAL OF PENANG EUROPEANS.

Tragic Sequel to a Driving Lesson.

FRESH HEARING.

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A husband's mean trick on a

Penang, January 28. The re-hearing of the case in sleeping wife was described at 24

Tower Bridge police court when which Mrs. Ellen Jane Mason and Charles Henry Adrian Saunders, Mr. Matthew Reid are charged with 22, naval telegraphist, of St. Agnes causing the death of a Tamil, Kup- Place, Kennington, was charged on passamy, at Green Lane on Novem- remand on his own confession with ber 14, by driving a car in a rash breaking and entering a building and negligent manner, was began In Tower Bedgie Road and stealing to-day before Mr. Justice Sproule £229 from a safe, the money of and a Special Jury, with Mr. F. J Messrs. Best, butchers. The charge Hubble Foreman. Altogether, was reduced to one of larceny, to | Ave of the jurors had served on the which accused pleaded guilty, previous jury. The case was pre- Evidence given Inst week showed viously stopped as it was discovered that Saunders, who was home on that the foreman of the jury, Mr. leave, and

bad spent that night Walshe was an employee with the with his wife, a cashier at Messrs.same firm as that by which Mr. Best's shop, got up early on the Reid and Mrs. Mason's husband are pretence that he was returning to employed. Chatham, took the keys of the shop At

outset, the Deputy from her bag without her know- Public Prosecutor, Mr. Gibson, ledge, went to the shop, took the raised a point of law on the ques- money; and returned home, telling tion as to whether those proceed.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

the

refused andings were in

ARY GENERAL MEETING of mission to the railway as he was the fact that he had entered a SHAREHOLDERS will be held at not in uniform. He returned her nofle prosèqui under the Civil Pro- Or whether they the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong: keys without her knowledge, and redure Code

on TUESDAY, the 24th February, later went back to Chatham, where should start the proceedings en. 1931, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose he bought a motor-bicycle for £58.tirely de novo. of receiving the Report, of the The Master-at-Arms now said His Lordship sald It was Intoler- Directors together with a State- Saunders told him he had secreted able that the two accused should go a further preliminary ment of Accounts for the year end-130 in a wallet in the wireless through fed 31st December, 1930.

cutfit. He informed his superior hearing. In the interests of the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the officer, and with him searched the two accused, he thought the casa Company will be CLOSED from wireless set, the men, and the ship. should go on. MONDAY, 16th February to They found no trace of the money, TUESDAY, 24th February, both but discovered the wallet (pro- days inclualve.

duced).

Saunders: The Master-at-Arms JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

said he would try find the money General Managers Hong Kong, 9th February, 1881.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

The Deputy Public Prosecutor then outlined the case and called the witnesses for the prosecution. The case for the prosecution was closed at the timin interval.

The Defence.

and hold it until the affair had blown ever."

Mr. Hume, in his opening address Witness: Nothing of the sort said this funeral procession was My superior officer was with me most disorderly that had ever been the whole time.

eeen. Mrs. Mason, giving evidence, The Magistrate (Mr. Oulton); raid that in November it was ar "There are two good features in ranged that Mr. Reid should give this case; that you have not been her lessons in driving. Before that

LY MEETING of the SHARE- borne a good character. The bading. On November 14 she was hav- HOLDERS in this Corporation will ones are: that, having committeding her fifth lesson from Mr. Reid. She be held at City Hall, Hong Kong, this theft, you cast suspicion on They went to Green Lane. on SATURDAY, the 28th February, your wife and then on the Master- had all her lessons in Green Lane, 1931, at 11.30 am. for the purpose at-Arms. I can do no less than as that was a quiet and a straight | of receiving the Report of the send you to prison for five months, road. She took the wheel from Mr. Board of Directors together with a with hard labour. Statement of Accounts for the year

ending 31st December, 1930.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of MOTHER GOES TOO. the Corporation will be CLOSED |1rom MONDAY, the 16th February

to SATURDAY, the 28th February, BRITISH GIRL'S PART IN PARIS

1931, (both days Inclusive), during| which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th February, 1931.

Club Rooms at $10 per day includ- By Order of the Board of Directors, ing tax-or $40 Including tax for the Meeting (ladies 6 and $20, respectively), are obtainable through the Secretary upon Intro- duction by a Member, such Mem-

REVUE.

Roid after they got into Green Lane. She had been driving for jabout 300 yards when she noticed a funeral procession in front. Sha

asked Mr. Reid if it was safe to

drive through the procession, and Mr. Reid said, "Yes," if she drove carefully.

She sounded the horn several Paris, Dec. 18. times and approached the protes- Miss Dot Shirley, of Nottingham,sion. The crowd moved to both has arrived in Paris to take a part sides of the road, opening up a in Miam, a new revue which is a channel in the middle. She proe- French version of "Followed the crowd at the rear of the Through."

hearse and she also passed the

Miss Shirley is only fifteen, and hearse. is said to be the youngest British. She could not remeber hitting

ber to be responsible for all chits. THE HONG KONG. CANTON & actress ever to appear on the Con-anyone immediately after passing

&c.

Badges admitting to Members'

Enclosure will NOT be on sale ut) the Race Club.

MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

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the hearse-it was possible that "Before I could come I had to get one or two men might have barged a special order made by a Bow into the car-but the first she saй Street magletrate, and my mother was when three men suddenly On no pretext will children bef NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

had to deposit a guarantee of £100 ¡jumped in front of her car. They permitted in either enclosure dur-}

ONE HUNDRED AND before I was allowed by the British moved to the centre of the road ing the first four days of the Meet-ELEVENTH ORDINARY authorities to come to France," she from the left. It was impossible to ing.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS said, on her arrival.

avoid knocking the men down. She She it chaperoned by her ran over one man, and the rear left The price of admlesion to the in the Company will be held at

wheel rested over his chest. She Public Enclosure is 34 per day in-Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong

the Office of the Company, 1, mother.

stopped the car at once within its |cluding tax for all persons, includ-

Kong, on THURSDAY, 5th March,

own length. Sho did not Awerve to the right or left; it was impos- sible to do so owing to the crowd on both sides.

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The Broken Bells of Bow.

'She could'not say what the thres men were doing; they suddenly Science is to come to the aid of danced in front of the car. There

will not be permitted to operate the Company will be CLOSED from the ancient Bow Bella of St. Mary-were no drums being beaten at the within the precincts of the Hong FRIDAY, 20th February, 1931, to le-Bow Church, Cheapside, which time. The rest of the procession Kong Jockey Club during the THURSDAY, 6th March, 1981, for five years have been silent be was orderly. In her opinion, the Race Meeting.

both days inclusive, during which cause three of them are cracked and three men who danced in front of period NO transfer of shares can the other nine need expert atten- the car had been drinking. be registered,

SERVANTS' PASSES. Passes for Servants will he is- qued on application to Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings.

Employers are requested to dia- tribute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passer.

Servants are not permitted In the Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties, But must remain in their employ- ers' stande.

Any persons found loitering with Bervants' Pasaca in their pos- acasion will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclo-

By. Order,

Bure.

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

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Mr. Reid's Evidence, The Lord Mayor (Sir Phene Mr. Mathew Reid, an assistant Neal) has become president of the lat Mansfield's, Perang, sat! Repairs Committee and, to call af-he had been driving for the tention to the endeavour an ekc-past 10. years or 80. It was trical gramophone is to be installed agreed that he should give Mr. in the church so that the music of Mason driving lessons. She basi famous peals may again ring out lessons previously, and he was to from the ancient belfry,

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instruct her particularly, as to the backing of a car. When he gave Mrs. Mason her first lesson it was: evident she had been instructed be- In witness's opinion, Mrs. Mason was perfectly competent to [drive in a straight line, so that when Mrs. Mason asked him about passing the procession, he at once Baid

she could. Witness pro-- ceeded to corroborate Mro. Mason on the other facts, and aid that even if he had been at the wheel it would have been impossible to avoided knocking themen down. Mrs. Maeon was able to stop the car at once. That was one of the first things he had taught her, and when he said "stop" that day Mra. Mason did stop at once. SNEERIN

Mrs. Phyllis Batchelor said she Had passed the procession that evening. The procession was very disorderly and the men ap- peared to be drunk. She had to shout to her driver. "For God's Bake, Saiz, go plan plan." The mer did not seem to notice her car at All

At this

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