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SPACIOUS FIREPROOF GARAGE STORAGE, CAR WASHING &

POLISHING

(Service Day and Night) AT VERY LOW RATES MECHANICAL REPAIRS BY

EXPERT ENGINEERS. Motor Accessories, Spare Parts, Gasoline & Oils.

THE NATHAN GARAGE Wing Lock Buildng, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Telephone 56948.

THE

China" Mail

BLUE FUNNE

LINE

"REGULAR AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

"PASSENGER SERVICES |

LONDON SERVICE.

"PERSEUS"

"AENEAR"

29th Apr. For Pori Said. Marseillor, Casablanca

London, Rotterdam and Bamburg 12th May For Port Faid, Marmilles 1.ondon, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Glasgow SERVICE.

LIVERPOOL

TELPENOR" 20th May For Port Said, Gonos, Havre, ['pool

"THESEUS"

and Gilanow

2nd June For Port Raid. Havre 17 pool and Glasgow

PACIFIC SERVICE.

( KOBE & YOKOHAMA.)

"TYNDAKEUR*

PROTESILAUS "

2nd May For Victoris, Vancouver & Sestile 28th May For Victoris, Vancouver & Fentile

INWARD SERVICE.

"SARPEDON ** True 30th Apr. For M'hal, Tiau, Taku & Dalny "MENESTHEUS“ Dus 5th May From New York

PASSENGER SERVICE.

"SARPEDON Sail 2nd May For S'hai, Ttao. Taku and Dalay "AENBAS" Sait 12th. May Forpore, M'des and Loation

Also cargo ateamers with limited passenger accommoda. tion at specially reduced fares.

For freight, posinge rates and information apply to the undermentioned.

All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Company's Bill of Lading.

Butterfield & Swire,

Agents.

ENTRA

THEATRE

TO-DAY TO FRIDAY

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

IWAR (@

Wednesday, April 29, 1931. Third Moon, 12th Day.

1931 PARAMOUNT SPECTACULAR OUTDOOR ACTION-ROMANCE)

Zane Grey's He-Men Talk!

Roaring cowboys—

A tremendous wild

horne stampede

The feverish gold ruch Frontler love

in his Greatest Outdoor Action- Thriller!

ANE GREY'S rousing Western stories thrill millions! Now his great- est comes, to life on the talking screen. Hear his heroes love and fight in

Zane Grey's "THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS

Starring Richard Arlen Mary Brian Harry Green A Paramount Picture

-STARTING BAT. MAY 2--- ́A ̧ Cannonade of Laughs!

SEE T AMERICA

THIRST

Harry Langdon

Blim Bummervillo.

Booking at Anderson's & the Theatre (Tel 25720).

1846

GIRLISH CHARM

by a

SAFE METHOD

Beautiful women have now an op-

portunity to gain and preserve

figure loveliness In an entirely

harmless, etsy way.

LEICHNER SLIM FIGURE

AND

ESTA:

(119EB 大英四月廿九號

中華民國辛未年三月十二日

禮拜三

BEAUTY BATH "1001."

THE PHARMACY

Anlatic Building,

Tel. 20345.

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931.

TRADE EXHIBITION CONCLUDES.

Visited by Over One Million People.

CAMERONS "PLAY IT OUT."

Buenos Aires, Yesterday.

The Band of the Cameron Highlanders gave a spirited touch

ROYAL VISITORS TO MAYOR VINDICATES

TOUR CANADA.

Broadcast Arranged by C.P.R. from Tokyo.

ARRIVAL AT QUEBEC.

Quebec, Yesterday, The Prince and Princess Taka-

HIMSELF.

Charges Against Jimmy Walker Dismissed.

15,000 WORD DEFENCE.

Albany, Yesterday. Governor Roosevelt has dis- missed the charges against

to the closing of the British matsu, on their arrival from the Mayor Jimmy Walker, after con-

Empire Trade Exhibition, play- ing the Argentine and British National Anthems and "the Last Post."

Subsequently the President, Senor Uribúru, and the British Ambassador were present at a "farewell supper." It is estim- ated that 1,500,000 people visited the Exhibition.-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.

LOST IN ARCTIC.

SEARCH FOR MILLIONAIRE'S SON.

BRITISH RESCUE.

United States, were received on behalf of the Government by the sidering the latter's 15,000 word Licut.-Governor, the Premier of document defending his adminis- the Province, the Federal Solici-tration against allegations by the a pri- tor-General, and the Secretary of City Affairs Committee,

leading State. The Royal salute was fired vate organisation of

citizens. - Reuter's American from the citadel.

Service.

Their Highnesses will tour Canada as the guests of the Cana- en route to dian Government Vancouver, where they will em burk for Japan. A feature of to- day's entertainment was a broad- cast from Tokyo arranged by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Reuter.

$360,000 AT STAKE.

(Continued from Page 1.)

the issue arises. You can put in any evidence you like, then.

Stockholm, Yesterday. Within a few hours the British Captain Rayner, in a Swedish

Mr. Sheldon: My submission is machine piloted by the Arctic air-

is no evidence makes the man Ahrenberg, expects to be there heading towards the Greenland documenta evidence admissable ar What is the subtle icecap to search for his friend to the issue. Augustine Courtauld, a son of the difference between Mr. Biggar's millionaire silk magnate, the miss- affidavit, and the accounts, both ing member of the Royal Geo-filed in precisely the same manner? graphical Society expedition which The only admissions in this case by us are first, that entries have' is planning an Arctic air route.

The Danish Government has In-been erroneously made, and that structed a fishery inspection ship Mr. Choa owes us some $500,000. The accounts must be looked at to proceed to the ice margin to

as a whole. It is no use trying to act as a petrol base for the rescu-

split them up. era-Reuter,

VIOLENT 'QUAKE.

VISITS REPUBLIC IN THE CAUCASUS.

Moscow, Yesterday, A violent earthquake occurred this evening in the Republic of Nakhichevan, Transcaucasia. Much damage vas done but the number of casualties is not yet ascertained.-Reuter.

CINEMAS AT SEA.

Successful Demonstration On

Booth Liner.

INDIAN AIR MAIL.

INCREASE IN NUMBER OF LETTERS.

crease

Rugby, Yesterday. During the first quarter of the present year a 20 per cent. in- on the corresponding period of last year was shown in the air mails from Great Britain, over 22,000 lb. of letters being! carried in the period. The mails India were again larger than to any other country.-British Wireless Service.

PROMISED NOT TO GAMBLE.

But They Did-And They Won £6,250.

Two married men who had pro-

on lotteries have just been an- mised their wives never to gamble nounced as winning a quarter share, worth £6,250, In the Prussian State lottery.

people who could well use the money. One quarter went to a group of Informed of workmen in Mainz.

Credit Not Admitted.

German law prohibits the publica- Counsel then went on to answer

tion of the names of the winners, Mr. Potter's submissions for plain-but it is learned that the shares in tiff. Mr. Potter had said that the the £25,000 first prize have gone to bank had admitted giving a credit upon which plaintiff was entitled to draw, by showing it in the ac count. Mr. Sheldon replied by quoting certain authorities in Up port of his contention that the mere fact of an entry in a bank's ledger was immaterial, as such an was not communicated to entry

It did not confer the customer.

to the right upon the customer draw against it nor bind the bank

to pay out money

his luck, one of the workmen asked the lottery official why he had taken

call when he might have written. the trouble to pay him a personal

Another share was won by an im poverished woman who was facing the prospect of having to enter & workhouse.

Her joy verged

on

hysteria when she was told of her on his behalf.; good fortune.

If the entries appeared in a pass- book, then the matter was differ-i ent.

to

The remaining quarter share was won by a Mainz clergyman, who said Mr. Sheldon asked if in this he would use the money to build a

new church. case the very act of crediting could be said to be, an acknowledgment: of receipt? He contended that Mr. O. K. Yui, Secretary-Gen- While the Booth liner Hillde- plaintiff was-not entitled to draw

eral to the City Government of brand, which makes the 1,000 mile the monies unless he was induced Greater Shanghai, returned cruise up to the River Amazon to do so by representations of the Shanghal on April 21 from a short from the Mersey, was berthed in bank that they had been placed to visit to Hangchow. the Queen's Graving Dock, Liver his credit. Was there any evi- pool, recently, her first class din dence that a passbook or account ing saloon was temporarily con- had been sent to plaintiff in this verted into a miniature picture: case, so to induce him? There was not a correct one, the reverse house for a demonstration of an was none. On the other hand, Mr. entries not being transactions be- all-British portable talking picture Biggar's affidavit said no money tween the parties. machine. The saloon proved had ever been paid in at all.

A Discrepancy! eminently suitable for such s demonstration, and on the invita- The Chief Justice: There is a tion of Mr. Charles Booth, the slight discrepancy as to whether ly have happened if the "abort chairman of the Booth Line, who the money was recolved by the circult" method of settlement had In that was prepont with Mrs. and Miss shroff, fan't there? Mr. Davidson not been attempted. Booth, representatives of the White has said that it must have been event, the accounts would have

You bean fled, Mr. Biggar Star, Canadian Pacific, Pacifio other money of the bank. Steam Navigation and Anchor lines say that the reversals were proper examined, and possibly the issue Mr. Biggar, in that event, witnessed the display of the film. unless plaintiff was either induc- tried,

The apparatus, which can be in- ed to draw, or unless it was ad- could not, and would, not, have ad- stalled with one projector for mitted that the money was paid mitted that the monies in question had been received for and on be £600, proved no satisfactory that; in?

half of the plaintiff.

Counsel went on to suggest that the true solution of the dispute lay in finding out what would real-

cross-

the Booth Line have decided to in- Mr. Sheldon, on another point, stal it in the Hildebrand for her repeated the contention in his Mr. Sheldon, at the conclusion Amazon cruise leaving the Morsey opening address that the account of his submissions, asked the In May, and if the results are filed was a perfectly true one, and | Courf to consider the question of favourable than it is likely the com- a correct statement of affairs be costs. Mr. Fotter suggested that pany will at it in all their vessels tween Mr. Choa and the bank. It the matter might well be-consider- for the benefit of the passengers had so been sworn to. Mr. Potter ed at a later date, and after some and crew.

had suggested that the statement discussion, the, Court concurred

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