TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931.
COMPANY MEETINGS
'Phone 20022
LANE; CRAWFORD,-LIMITED.
FOR
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY,
Twenty-five Words three inser-JUNE, 1931, at Noon, ----- tions prepaid $1. Every addi tional word four cents for three insertions.
All replies under this hending must be called for.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th JUNE, 1931 to 17th JUNE, 1931, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. W. BROWN;
-Secretary
WANTED TO BUY.
WANTED FOR IMMEDIATE ·CASIL. -Touring or Saloon Car, 16 cyl pre- ferred. Not earlies than 1023. Mechanical colition must be
good. Apply Dox No. 692, c/o "China Mail."
POSITION VACANT.
KUROPEAN ASSISTANCE required for lady and child proceeding London per Ranpuru sailing on June 29. Apply suiting terms, Box No. 691, c/o "China Mail"
MISCELLANEOUS
JUMBLE SALE-Union Church, Ken- nody Rond. The postponed Spring Jumble Sule will take place in the Church full on Friday, 10th inst, at
p.54
2.30
.
YOUR VISITING CARDS nently and promptly
printed "China" Mai Omre, No. 3A. Wyndham St... Tele- phone 20022.
FOR SALE.
MORRIS OXFORD TOURER.-Re- cently rebared und DOW pistons. Mechanical condition, palet and tyres as new. Any trial. $1,100 or near- est offer. Apply Box No. 893, "China Mull,"
TUITION GIVEN
PRIVATE LESSONS in
c/o
Hong Kong, 1st June, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GENERAL NOTICES
LAMMERT BROS.
CHINA
MOTOR BUS COMPANY.
SCALE OF FARES.
17th
Route Nos.
1 & 12
1 & 12.
1 & 12
1 & 12
1 & 12 ,1 & 12
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
T
HE: FIFTIETH, ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Compang will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Pedder Street. Hong Kong, ón WEDNESDAY, the 17th June, 1031, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc tors. passing the Accounts, and Electing Directors and Auditors.;
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from the 10th June to 1st July, 1931. both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINĖ, MATHESON & CO.. LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.
GENERAL NOTICES
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
English, M CHAU SHING-WO & LAU
French, Music, Shorthand and Type- writing. Terme moderate. C, Aimai YAU-KEE are no longer connect- Vilina, Austin Road, Kowloon.
[ed with my firm, and have no au- thority to act on my behalf in, any ENGLISHI LESSONS given to capacity whatsoever, and I am not Students with particular attention to pronunciation, by English Barrister responsible for any of their debts. (Middle Temple). Apply Box No. 680, c/o "China Mail
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE, Within, an hour from London. In healthy usighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS, A few Boarders reerived in the House of the Principal.
·Inliyidual cure, and attention. Particulars apply to:
For
A. W. MILLAR, Building General Contractor, No. 134, Lockhart Road, Wanchai
Hong Kong, June 11, 1981.
B
NOTICE.
ILL OF LADING No. 51 issued.
by the NIPPON YUSEN KAI Camb. Teachers' Diploma).SHA and covering 5 Drums Cable
MISS RUTH CULLEY,
(Camb..High Local,
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER, Marked
(Nation Frolet Higher (Certificate).
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger and Marcel Waves. Hair Catting and Manicure for Ladies and Gentlemen.
Pedder Bldg. Tal floor. Room 5. Tel. 25169.
Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.
CLAREMONT -PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon... (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry by bus.) Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water gyalam, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible. Torms very moderate:
Reserva-
tions by letter or cable, CLAREMONT
„Tals.: 57880: &:57885 (Private). Telegraphic Addin: "Fern" H.K, Our motto, La "SERVICE."
QUALITY PRINTING withQuick Service
THE NEWSPAPER: ENTERP)
C C.
C.C.C.C.
COMMENCING JULY AI, 1931.
SECTIONS.
Siar Forry Star Ferry Star Ferry Pakhel Street Pakhoi Street Argyle Street Star Ferry..... Star Ferry.. Star. Ferry Star Ferry Pakhol Street ... Pakhol Street ... Pakhol Street
Pakhoi Street Argyle Street Sham Shui Po Argyle Street, Sham Shui Po Sham Shul Po Pakhoi Street Argyle Street' Prince Edward Road Kowloon Tong Argyle Street ........ Prince Edward Rond... Kowloon Tong ...... Prince Edward Road.. Kowloon Tong
U.S.R.C.
¿Ist class 2nd class
10 cts. 5 cts. 15 c18. 19. cts. 15 els 10 cts.
AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions to sell by Public.
!
Auction
ON WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, June 17 and 18, 1931,
10 eta. cta. commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. 16 ets. 10 cta.
at No. 22, Ice House Street 10 cts. 3 cts, (Former premises of the 10 cta. 5 c18.
Metropole Hotel). 15 ca. 10 cis, 15 cta. 10 c18: 20 cts. 10 cta. 10 eta, 5 cts. 15.cts. 10' cts.
5.eta,
15 eta 10 cia.
15 cis. 10 ets.
Argyle Street
10 cls.
15 ca. 10 cts. & cls,
Argyle Street
15 c18.
10 cts.
7
Pr. Edward Rd...
Kowloon Tong
10 cta.
5 18."
·To Kwa Wan
10 eta.
11
To Kwa Wan
Yaumati Ferry
· 11
To Kwa Wan
Argyle Street
11
To Kwa Wan
*11
U.S.R.C.
U.S.R.C.
11
U.S.R.C.
11
11
Yaumati Ferry.. Yaumati Ferry.. Argyle Street
MONTHLY TICKETS
Sham Shui Pa Yaumati Ferry Argyle Street Sham Shui Po Argyle Street Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po
20 eis., 10 ets.
10 cts. 5 cta. 15 cta. 10 cts.
1 ca. 10 eta. 10 Cía.
cts.
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Comprising
FURNITURE.
CENSUS THRILL FOR SECRET
PRAGUE.
Will Million Mark
Be Passed,
NEW CAPITAL.
3
OF CHARLES LAUGHTON.
"Criminals Are Just
Ordinary Men."
SOMETHING SNAPS!
Britain is not the only country Charles Laughton has no pre thrilled with figures. Czecho judices against murderere. W Slovakia is shortly expecting all made of the same stuff," he census, as thorough as our own, and saya; "it's' foolish to imagino' ali its people are eager to know whe-murderers are brutes. ·They're ther Prague has yet passed the nearly all mild, respectable little million mark.
men in whose brains, one fine day, If it has, it will be a close shave, something suddenly snaps..."
He rubbed a fat hand across his Prague is one of the new capitals
that have sprung into importance in face. Almost I expected to see the the last twelve years, since the col-round, mobile features emerge lapse of Austria-Hungary and its under his sleepy Angers as some- ramshackle empire" that was once thing different-one of the crook's, Central Europe.
murderer's, crafty fool's faces that have made him. But it remained vast pale, expressionless, kind.
Laughton was dog-tired, and he was being himself.
Teak Hatstand, Morocco Leather At the beginning of the war, Covered Couch and Armchairs, lying to the north of gay Vienna, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, was the provincial city of Prague, Teak
or
a
Bookcases, Side Tables, with some 400,000 inhabitants. In the revolution. Tho Brass Ware, Fenders, Ornaments, 1918 came
The secret of Charles Laughton Pictures, Screen, Teak Flower new republic of Czecho-Slovakia as the man who can become a mür......." Stands, Filter, Wall Clocks, Car-proclaimed itself independent, with cerer, a dangerous ruffian, pets, Rugs, Curtaing, Blankets and Prague as its capital. .
charming, simpleton by the flicker Linen, etc...
of an eyelid or the tilt of his hat, is that he has no horror of the atrocities he plays, and believes we all have potential crimes under our skins.
Population Doubled.
F
Teak Dining Table, Dining
All the Czechs and the Slovaks Chairs, Teak Sideboard. Teak ice who had been living in Vienna and Chest, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Budapest the capitals of the old 15 cts. 10 cts, Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Gut Empire-cane hurrying back to
lery, Ceiling and Table Fans, Elec- their old homes.
"If you knew to the dregs," he trie Lights, Electric Heaters and
The housing shortage was untative, "the reasons why every said to a Daily Express represen- Fittings, etc...
precedented. The Government had
10
Adults ..Students
.$9.00 .$4.00
5 cts.
THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS COMPANY, LTD.
SCALE OF FARES.
COMMENCING JULY 1st; 1931:
Kowloon Tong. Kowloon City Ngau 'Chi Wan Yea Chow Street Wong Yuk Village- Lalchikok
Argyle Strect Waterloo Rand Pr. Edward Bộ Kowloon Tong Kowloon City Ngau Chi Wan Yen Chow Street Wong Yuk Village | Lalchikok
Waterloo Road Pr. Edward Rd. Kowloon Tong Kowloon City Ngau Chi Won Yen Chow Street
(1st class 2nd class
20 cts, 10 cis. 20 cts, 10 eta.
crime was committed, you'd never
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors to force people to take lodgers be able to blame any one again.
Every one who could went into the Dressing Tablea, Chests of Draw-building business, and a new city
ers, Marble Top Wash Stands, Desks, Toilet Sets, Gas Stoves, Kit chen Utensils, etc.
also. Several Enamelled Baths and Porcelain Wash Basing and
One Piano Player with Rolls of Music.
Catalogues will be issued.
grew outside the old walls to accom modate the new citizena.
That is one of the things that make Prague so interesting. In the middle, round the Charles Bridge ings that made Prague beautiful in the old days.
Land the river Vitava, are the build
Too Easy To Resist. "It might happen to me, or you We're all ordinary people (more or less) until a certain set of circumstances breaks us down, or a crime is too easy to resist."
He is one of the few actors who believe in having brains. Prepar-
ing himself for the part of the murderer, William Marble, in Then there is a gap of 300 years. "Payment Deferred" he soaked There are few houses; just pre-war himself in the history of ordinary no "Victorian architecture as we guburban murderers (who far out-- Op View from Monday, June 15, know it. 1931.
.. Then comes the modern city, the and discovered they were men number the "vampire" variety), new quarters that house the surplus much like himself. population of a small city that has
The fruits of that discovery doubled its population in twelve made his audience shiver on the
first night.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 8, 1931.
years.
Here are
.
the great steel-and-
concrete factories and offices, service flats, and large residential estates.
The old city still holds its sleepy,
THE Undersigned have received instructions from Messrs. 15 cts: 10 cts. Sennet Freres to sell by Publiemediaeval air in the midst of all the
20 cte, 10 ci8. 20 cts. 10 cts.
Auction,
10 cts.
6 eta.
15 ets. 10 cts.
15 cts. 10 cla.
15 cts. 10 cts.
20 cts, 10 cts.
15 ela. 10 eis.
15 cls, 10 cta.
ON.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, June 23 and 24, commencing each day at 10.30 a.m., (with interval from 12.30 p.m.
to 2.30 p.m.)
at their Store, York Building.
The Whole of their
hubbub.
With all the vicious calm of a Tony Perelli at his finger-tips, Charles Laughton' is A nervous man. He was toe unatrung to go to bed after the first performance,
| next performance.
And then, when the curtain goes
The visitor wakes at dawn and and stayed up restlessly all night. His hands shake; he is exasperated looks from the window of an Amer for want of sleep, he is afraid of ican hotel in the Square of Saint his voice; he goes out all day and Wenceslaus. . He can see the river falls on his bed in the evening for blue between its many bridges, and two hours' useless rest before the beyond the dark green of the Petrin | Hill-Prague's' Hyde Park.
He presses a bell: A smart cham- ber-maid opens the door and bringe up, the plastic face undergoes
change. A different look hot water and the morning's news into the eye, and the brain behind Gold & Silver Watches (pocket & papera. He dresses and goes down the eyes seems to have become wrist), Jewellery, Silver' and Plat- to eat an "English breakfast" of
pathetic, respectable with A ed Ware, Cups, Cigarette Cases, bacon and eggs and strong tea. A
twist. 10 cte. Clocks, Fancy and Leather Bags, waiter holds out his hat and stick, 10 ets. Porcelain Ware, Cut Glass, Lalique and accepts a tip with true Western
alaerity. That is modern Prague, 10 ct.Glass, Fancy Goods, etc.
20 eta 10 ets.
SURPLUS STOCKS
ESSRS. CHAU CHIK - SUN.
Route Nos.
SECTIONS.
2, 6, 8, & 10 2, 6, 8, & 10
6, 8 & 10
Between Star Ferry Star Ferry Star Ferry
and 'Fakhoi Street Argyle Street Waterloo Road Fr. Edward Rd.
10 ets. cta, 15 cte. 10 cta.
15 cts. 10 cts.
. 8
Star Ferry
20 cla. 10 cts.
G & 10
Star Ferry
10
Star Ferry
2
Star Ferry
2
Star Ferry
2
Star Ferry
2, 6, 9, & 10 "6,.8 & 10
8
6 & 10
10
Pakkol, Street ... Pakhot Street ...
Pakhui Street ... Pakbol Street ... Pakko Street ...
2
Pakhoi Street
2
Pakhol Street
2
6, 8 & 10
Pakhoi Street ...
Argyle Street...
8
6 & 10
10
2
2
Argyle Street... Argyle Street ... Argyle Street.. Argyle Street ... Argyle Street ...
2
Argyle Street
Wong Yuk Village Lalchikok
25 cts. 10 cta.
15 cla. 10 cts.
g
Jen. Wloo Rd. .1
10 ct. 5 cts.
30 cta. $ cts.
15 cts. 10 cis.
10 cla 5 cts.
10 cts. 5 ets. 15 eis. 10 cts. 10 cia.
5 cia.
Good for
Children
P. Co.
HONG KONG FOR KOWLOON.
Shipped from London per 8.8. Kashima Maru destined for the Port of Hong Kong dated 21ST NOVEMBER, 1930, (original copy only) has been LOST and sume is now considered null and void.
GOVERNMENT NOTICES
10
10
2
Q.
·Pr. Edward Rd. } | Kowloon Tong
Waterloo Road .. Waterloo Road.. Kowloon City .. Yen Chow Str. Yen Chow Str. Wong Yuk Vill..
Kowloon City
Ngau Chi Wan Ngau Chi Wan Wong Yuk Village Lalchikok Laichikok
10 cts, $ eta. 15 cts. 15 cis. 15 cts.
10 cte. 5 cts.
J = Junction.
MONTHLY TICKETS
Adults ........Students
.$9.00
.$4.00
SALE OF STEAM TANKER VESSEL "KHARKI."
ENDERS are invited up to the
T26th June, 1931, for the pur
chase of the above named vessel as she lies in the basin at H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong.
Full particulars of the vessel and conditions of sale, and por- mits to view, may be obtained on application to the Naval Store Oficer, H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong. Tender forms' will be issu- ed on payment, of a deposit of $200, returnable when declalon on the tenders has been reached.
The vessel will be on view at H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong. from the 15th June.
KAI TACK MOTOR BUS CO. (1926) LTD.
REVISION OF FARES.
COMMENCING JULY 1st, 1931,
SECTIONS.
jet class 2nd class
10 cta. .5 ct.
15 cta. 10 età.
comprising
Also
A Quantity of Shop Fittings. On View from Monday, June 22. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMENT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 18, 1931.
Route Nos,
Retween
and
B
Star Ferry
Star Ferry
The vessel is sold without guarantee and without restrictions àn to nationality of purchaser or subsequent resale.
3
Star Ferry
9.
Star Ferry
.8.
Austin Road
Austin Road Kowloon Dock Gato Ma Tau Kok Road Kowloon City .... Kowloon Dock Cate
15 cts. 10 cla 20 ets. 10 ct. 10 cts. cfa,
ROSES
15 cta. 10 cts.
15 cta. 10 cta.
ORANGE SQUASH
3 & 4
15 cts. 10 cts.
10, cts. š sta.
10 cts. 5 ct..
15 cts. 10 eta.
Tenders will be recalved in the office of the" Nayal Store. Officer, H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong, up to Noon, on THURSDAY, 25th June, 1981.
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.'" ".** Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging ZIESS" and "BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order in Solicited.
A
SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459, 26A, Des Voeur Road, C. Hong Kon
Austin Road.... Ma Tau Kok Road Austin Road ............ Kowloon City K'loon Dock Gate Kowloon City Ma Tau Kok Rd. Kowloon City Yaumati Ferry. U.S.R.C. Yaumiati Ferry ..
Bailey's Yard Ma Tan Kok Road
Kowloon City
15 cts. D. cts, 20 ets. 10 ets.. 10 cis,
5 clu. 15 ets. 10 ets.
Ynomati Ferry..
Yaumati Ferry
U.S.R.C...
Balley's Yard
U.S.K.C.
U.S.R.C.
Ma Tau Kok Road Kowloon City
Ma Tau Kok Rd. | Kowloon Dock Gate Star Ferry
Austin Road
MONTHLY TICKETS
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
The following unclaimed tele gram is lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Den
.Adulto .Students.
15 cts. 10 cts."
10
cis.
5. cts.
19 cta. 1st clank
only
59.00 $1.00
The following unclaimed tale. grams are lying at the E.E. Tele- graph: Co. Office, Hong Kong | "Alimony," from, Hampstead.
Anderson, Huntington, Stubbs Road, from London.".
Balfour, University, from Burn- ham Market.
Rita Wylle, Empress Lodge, Kow-
Honabcoteo, from Shanghalloon, from Kensington, N.B.W.
HEFFERSOE Astg. Buperintendent Hong Kong. Juno 10, 1931,
BLACKNE
Manageri
Hong Kong June 11, 1981
and
They like it.
Simple People..
comes
Charles Laughton has vanished, and for three hours the murderer is born..
END OF THE WORLD.
Constantinople, May 23. Thousands upon thousands of
It is interesting for the visitor to Prague to see something of the fo of the Czechs themselves, a simple, hard-working people. Let him go to a pivnice (beer-house) near the citizens spent the night anxiously Bethlehem Square:
The room is crowded with work city walls, waiting for the end of watching, and praying outside the people, students, clerks of both the world, which some astrologer
gexes.
had prophesied. Between prayers A waiter staggers to where he they rang up the Observatory to sits at a crowded table, and deals enquire from the weary scientists out a foaming tankard of beer.
whether they had yet observed in Every one chatters or dances. the heavens the terrible face of the There is a space, six feet by six, Avenging Angel of the Apocalypse cleared between the tables, in
come with a voice of thunder to which half a dozen couples are turn herald the Judgment Day. Ing round and round, vaguely to found a relieved yet somewhat dis- time with the band.
There is probably a dance in
progress
at he hotel when the
sightseer. returns. Tall, graceful
appointed multitude.
Dawn
women in beautiful gowns are walk Is Your Blood Up To
ing to and fro sedately on the arms
of their partners.
Quality?
He does not go into the ball-room, tion rather hard to answer,
If, Perhaps you will find this ques-
as he has not dressed. Round the however, you suffer in any degree corner in the pivnice that would from headaches, listlessness and have been out of place.
GHOSTS OF A LAW CASE.
Ten Years' Toll Of Death.
general lack of energy you will know that your blood la -below par. If you have frequent attacks of indigestion, or suffer from | nerves and irritability, your blood is considerably below normal. whilst rheumatism, neurasthenia, physical weakness, emaciation, or A remarkable toll of death over] prostration indicate, that the blood a period of ten yeara was revealed in in a very bad state Indeed. In an appeal to the House of Lords | And even if your health appeare Farising out of a dispute concerning to be normal, that is not to as- la cargo of flax and tow which Infsume that you have a blood supply 1918 was consigned to Britain from that is rich, red and abundant, for Ruonia and requisitioned by the War a continuous battle is going on all Office.
the time in the blood-stream and
The head of the firm of Scottish] you may be. living on the border- shipbrokers, agents for the ship Inline.
In order to be perfectly sure which the cargo was consigned, and the sole partner, who superintended that your health is safeguarded the transaction, is dead. Another by a healthy, rich and plentiful member of the same firm, who also supply of pure blood you ought to took part in it, the chief clerk, and take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the the principal typist have also died, world-famous blood
and nervo, and no one in the firm who had tonice. direct contact with the negotiations. now survives.
*
This remiady, which has proved by Its continued popularity over
A War Office official who had forty, years, to be absolutely offf- charge of requisitioning the cargo is cacious and genuine, builds up and dead, the Russian who attended to maintains the blood in such a way the matter. In Russia is dead, and that disease" can obtain no foot-·· the Russian firm'e agent in Scotland hold in your system. Keep your to also dead, S
blood-stream up to quality with
++
• The action was not started until Dr. Williama Pink Pills and en- the end of 1927, nearly ten years joy abounding health, vitality, and after the transaction over which the happiness. All chemists can sur dispute arose took place.
ply you
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.