INTIMATIONS.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that £3 Per Share, subject to deduction of
Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR Ending 30TH JUNE, 1928, at Rate of 2:04 Per Dollar.
The DIVIDEND wil be Payable on
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THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 231 JULY. to SATUR *DAY, 470, AUGUST, 1928 (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directare,
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager. Bong Kong, 10th July, 1928. [6486
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
CO., LIMITED.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND
TWO DOLLARS Per Share for the Six Monthe ending 30th Jusz. 1999, will be Parable on THURSDAY, 2ND AUGUST, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on Applica fion at the Company's Office, 3, CHATEX ROAD.
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JULY, to WEDNESDAY, the 1st AUGUST (Both Day inclusive), during which Period No Trassior of Bhares can b registered..
By Order of the Board of Directors, L. 8. GREENHILL.
Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th July, 1928. [199
HAI HO CONSERVANCY, COMMISSION.
VACANCIES FOR THE POSITIONS OF ASSISTANT DREDGING SUPER INTENDENT AND ASSISTANT WORKS SUPERINTENDENT.
PPLICATIONS are invited from Mechanical Engineers for the
above portions.
Applications are required to give the following Particulars-Namo, Nation ality. Date of Birth, Married or single, Qualifications, Previous Training, Posi. Lions held, Testimonials.
The following requirements AYG necessary:-
Age about 27 Years. Certificate of Mechanical Engineer with know. Jedge of Marine Engines, Workshop Equipment, Welding and Electrical Machinery, Photograph and Medical Certificate of Stness, The conditions of appointment are:- The successful candidates to take up
their appointments immediately. The appointments may be terminated with 3 Months, Notice by either
The initial Salary of the employe will Tl. 250 with triennial increases be until a muximum of T. 425 is reached. (The possibilition of further promotion depend upon the employe'squalfications for promotion to the rank of Superintendent as well ay upon vacancies in that rank). A Heat Allowance will be issued to
the employe
A Superannuation Fund will be kept
employs.
in the name of the amp with second. class passage paid will be allowed for a period of 9 Months after every 5 Years of service
All applications for the position must
be in the hands of the Undersigned by
the 15th August, 1928.
R. S. CAMPBELL,
Secretary.
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[6501
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questionnaires calculated
and Marshal „Cutina, K. SEEK TRIBUTE TO SIR C struggling to All up their income
tax forms correctly, and we should not envy the task of the Government
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inspector whose very unpleasant duty it might be to criticise the returns which these eminent gentle- men sent in.
The more we study the activities of the political groups the more we are convinced that the task of rehabilitating " China is one
entirely outside of their power. They pass resplations which look very fine on paper, but they must all be intended for export purposes only. No one in the country ap pears to take the slightest notice of them and they certainly do not have any effect.
to the general situation. The root of the trouble apparently is that the politicians will not face practical issues. They want to govern according to the text-book and they do not, or will not, realise that China is not yet
CLEMENTI.
EULOGY BY SECRETARY OF STATE.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S
OPTIMISM.
REPRESENTATION FOR
KOWLOON.
THE TYPHOON.
PASSES 100 MILES TO
THE SOUTH.
NO SERIOUS DAMAGES.
The Colony was lucky in escaping the typhoon which was expected to strike bere on Saturday morn- ing. It passed 100 miles to the South but had the storm held on in the anticipated direction we should have caught it badly. As it was the high wind did very little damage, "all possible precautions having been taken in good time.
Beyond a few guats of wind and driving rain the morning passed gale rose and it was blowing very quietly hat during the night the
strongly about 9 a.m. on Sunday morning.
ed.
RETIREMENT OF MR. H. T. JACKMAN.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENT.
TO-DAY'S PRESENTATION AT
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
Mr. H. T. Jackson, the Assistant Director of Public Works, has re- tired from Government Service and, with Mrs. Jackman, is leaving for Home by the Rawalpindi on Satur- day. In the normal course "of events Mr. Jackson would not have left the Colony until next year when he would, have completed his full. term of service, but he has been suffering from ill-health for some advice that he is now retiring a few time past and it is under medical
months earlier than was anticipat ed. His many friends sincerely hope that he will quickly recover his strength in England, and will live long to enjoy a thoroughly well- earned pension for it is recognised in all quarters that when in office he was a particularly hard and con-
scientious worker..
Sir Cecil Clementi, the Governor in England on of Hong Kong, no snotter arrived well-deserved holiday, says the China Express Telegraph, than he had a very high compliment paid to him by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Speaking at the Corona Club
The Star Ferry boats stripped of their awnings maintained the dinner, and before an audience service and the Chinese ferry ser which included about a dozen pre-vices were only slightly disorganis sent and past Colonial governors, Mr. Amery and the success and
Motor buses and trams ran as achievements of the Crown Colonies interrupted for a short time.
usual but the Peak tram service was
Mr. Jackman came to Hong Kong had been due to the exercise by At sea, all precautions having and was appointed Second Assist- na an executive engineer in 1903 their overseas Governors and Pro-been taken there was, little to fenr.
ant Director of Public Works in Consuls of good-will and common sense in the performance of the felt most at the eastern end of the The strong north-easterly gale was
1920. He acted as Director of a member high duties entrusted to them. In harbour where, the wind prevailed Public Works, and as this connection he specially eulogis- at gale force for several hours. The of the Executive and Legislative cd the work of Sir Cecil Clementi, 2.8, Kishan which should have Councils for the first time for a who weathered the storm in sailed for Canton on Saturday short period in 1923 and again for Hong Kong To Sir Cecil's tact night had to leave the wharf at 8.30 a longer term when the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy was on leave last his unsurpassed knowledge of the shelter where the Company's other and accessibility, not to mention p.m. and went to Shamshuipo for
language and literature of the three vessels were already "at people, was due the great improve anchor. ment in the relations between Can- ton and Hong Kong, and to such an extent had conditions improved that he had been able to come home
on a short boliday.
During his stay in England it
is understood that Sir
On the Peak the typhoon wind was felt very strongly, a gale biow. ing rain, but so far as could be ascertained no damage has been
done.
There will be a gathering of the members of the Public Works De- partment at Government House this (Monday) afternoon when there will be an official leave taking and Mr. Jackman's colleagues will make him a presentation to testify to their goodwill and to mark the esteem in which he is, and always will be, regarded by them.
in a fit state for text-book govern meat.
The one way of salvation lies in granting very" liberal amount of autonomy to the pro- vinces. The military leaders in the provinces will take it whether it is granted or not and the politicians, therefore, if they were wise, would make a virtue of necessity and strengthen their own position by so doing. Marshal LI TA HIN's
The wind was still strong yes- suggestion that the two Kwang
Cecil terday morning and typhoon. signals provinces should be given a free Clementi will consult with the were displayed at the usual stations, Colonial Office on matters which Ax the day wore on the wind hand to govern themselves and to
have an important bearing on pro- moderated and from noon onwards. tax themselves for one year was a posals for increasing the commer-
cial intercourse between the British ther, was enjoyed.
a fine if dull day, as regards wet- practical" proposition, but it was
and Chinese of South China, as foolishly rejected. The local gov well as matters relating to the WHAT HAPPENED IN HONG" ernments are in the best position constitution of Hong Kong which are intended to give progressive to tackle local problems and if they Kowloon, on the mainland, a voice
in the affairs of the Colony.. were openly granted a full measure-
All accounts, says the paper, of liberty they would be more in-speak glowingly of the tranquillity enjoyed by Canton since the clined to work harmoniously with a
elimination of the central executive committee in Nan menace. To quote the words of Sir Communist king or Peking, whose authority, Cecil Clementi himself:- in any case, must for some time
to come be merely nominal. There would then be a prospect of order being restored and gradually the central group of executive officials might be able to establish some loose form of control out of which, a stable government might evolve. As it is now they are merely a debating society.
The late Dame Hefter Hart, of the Imperial Hotel, Bournemouth.
17th, 1903, at Manila, Comdr. BABIL TAYLOUR, R.N., second son of the late Col. the Rt. are called upon to pit their in- Hon. T. E TAYLOUR, M.P., to telligence against that of the Income HARRIER, daughter of General Tax commissioners. The result in H. B. OSGOOD, U.S. Army, and
England has been the elaboration widow of Sir Robert Hart, Inspec. to tor-General of Chinese Imperial drive the average householder to Maritime Customs, left £49,778, ne: SMITH-On or about July 13th, at frenzy, and the establishment of a personalty o
Barmouth, H, PERCY SMITH, formerly of Messrs. Percy new professional class known as Smith, Seth & Fleming. Hong income tax experts who obtain C.LG., of Nanking, and of The The late Mr... Bertram Giles, Kong. Aged 70 years. (6504 STEWART,On June 15th, at Ouchy, handsome fees for helping their Bushice, Oatlands Chase, Wey
Switzerland, WALTER BOWER clients in this constantly waging bridge, one of H.M.'s Consuls. BANK ORPEN STEWART, late of the Eastern Extension Tele. war of wits. graph Co. WATSON-On June 15th, at Melrose, MARGARET STEDMAN, daughter of the late Dr. T. BoswALL WATSON, of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House
Street.
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS London Office: 91, Bride Lane,
No. 7 or 1928.
IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM'
POWELL, LIMITED. (AND REDUCED)
Fleet Street, E.C...
The Daily Press.
General Li Chi Sen seeks to maintain order in Kuantung pro- vince and all the officials are working hard for the rehabilita- tion, of the southern provinces Kuangsi has been free from war for some time, and I understand that they are doing remarkably well in that province. If the Canton officials succeed in sup pressing brigandage and piracy in Kuangtung, that is all that can be expected of them at the present time and under present conditions. And I believe that they will make a sincere effort to do it. The people of Kwangtung want to turn Kwangtung into a model province." With regard to Hong Kong Sir Cecil is an optimist. Hong Kong, he says, has made a remarkable re covery, trade is doing very well indeed, and the revenue in a proaching the best years before the troubles.
MR. H. W. LOOKER'S CONFESSION.
VICTIMISED BY A "WELSHER.”
no
KONG.
INDIAN WATCHMEN'S
ORDEAL.
TROOP MOVEMENTS IN FAR EAST.
:
from
The following moves of troops in addition to those already announced during 1928-29 have been approved by the War Office -2nd Bn. Wilts. Regt.. from In ia to Shanghai; 1st Bn. Northants Regt, Shanghai to Malta; 2nd Bn. Welch pore; 2nd Bn. Suffolk Regt, and Regt., from Shanghai to Sings- 1st Bn. Beds and Herts Regt. from Shanghai to Indis 1st Ba. East Yorkshire Regt., from Tientsin to India; 2nd Bn. the Duke of
A patrol around the Colony yes- to house property. There were also terday revealed no serious damage Landslide reported. In the harbour, however, one small sampan turned turtle on Saturday at 2 p.m. but all the occupants were saved.,
About that time, two Indian Wellington's Regt., from Singapore watchmen employed on Kellet to India. Island nearly lost their lives. They were returning to the Island in a small row boat from the Praya WAR SONG OF THE SOUTH. East Reclamation, off Percival Street, and when half way out, a (Translated-very roughly-from sudden gust of wind drove the boat the original Chinese of a soldier in out of its course. The tide was
the army of Yen Tsi-shan, which, running very strongly against the according to report, has entered two Indians, and as they were not Peking carrying more unbrellas than experienced boatmen, they were rifles.")
soon in difficulties.
#
When orders were " Unfold"; Where'er the battle drifted,
A large crowd of Chinese gather-In days of sunny weather ed on the embankment watching the We keep them tightly rolled, struggled with the wind and waves two helpless men in the boat. They We faced the rain together. for about half an hour, and every wave looked as if it would capsize them. The crowd of Chinese closed their eyes in fright when a parti- cularly big wave came along and four little boys were calling lustily upon Allah.
The two watchmen are doom-: ed," said the Chinese" solemnly. The boat was carried further and further westward, until a friendly gust of wind drove it close to the new Praya wall near Tin Lok Lane. One of the watchmen at once leaped for the wall and managed to chamber up on all fours. Once on
Where'er we walked or ran, We kept our brollies lifted Until the glass had shifted-
The army of Tsi-shan!
Oh mighty were the splashes. Of footsteps facing forth, When, having no goloshes,
We started for the North; The maidens wept their follies,
The boys observed us goj The rain came down in volleys When first we opened brollies Mr. Looker, MP. for South-East
To march against the foe. Essex, confessed to
the Parlia- mentary Committee on the Totali terra firma, he lost no time in. And torn was many a cover, sator Bill that he had been the undoing his turban, and tying a And many a rib was bent, victim of a welaher.”
stone in one end of it, he threw it Before the tray was over Among the ladies rammoned to
"It was at & point-to-point meet out as a life line to the other man That left our hearts content. the Court held at Buckinghaming near where I live," he said. in the dancing little boat. Palace by the King and Queen on There was a long row of book several attempts, the life line was
After For Chang has left the fighting, And would not wait to hear June 13th was Lady Addis who makers, and I made a small invest sccured and those or ahore pulled The sound of our affrighting, presented Mrs. D. G..M. Bernard,ment with one. The horse won, and it to a place of safety. her daughter.
Victoriously smiting. the man disappeared."
The two men who had gone Umbrellas on his rear- Mr. Looker for many years had through the trying ordeal wept By E. V. Knox ("Evoe") in the Two Chinese cases of enteric were his home in Hong Kong where in like children when the four little London Morning Post.“ reported yesterday.
those days there were no "bookies" Indian boys rushed up to them and where the pari-mutuel and cash crying with joy at seeing their
General in China, in charge at Nanking during the recent trouble Consul-Genera} It is characteristic of the Chinese and before that
successively at Tainan and at Can- politicians to ignore these "difficulton, who died on March 20th, aged ties in the way of income tax 54, left unsettled property of the
gross value of £1,638, with net per collection and to resolve quite sonalty £38. casually that an income tax shall be promulgated in China in ac cordance with the latest foreign practice.” · The advisability of in- an income tax has been troducing canvassed on more than one occasion both in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the general, opinion, we be lieve, has always been that the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
scheme was impracticable, or at that's Petition for confirming the Reduction of the Capital of the above
any rate that the results would not' Company from $350,000.00 to $100,000.00
be worth the tremendous adminis was on the 4th Day of JOLT, 1829, presented to the Supreme Court of Hong We believe in the principle of trative expenditure and trouble Kong and is now pending. the Persone Edmitted to have been income tax, but we hate it in involved. Of course, we are re Creditors of the above Company 13th Day of Juzz, 1928 (the Date Practice Admitting that public ferring to a tax collected upon a fixed by the Registrar in pursuance of revenue must be raised from some fair and accurate assessment of the the Order of the Court in this matter where dated the 6th Day of JULTI
we agree that taxation of income of each individual. To incomes, upon a graduated scale, is secure that, an army of inspectors
AND
IN TUE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES
ORDINANCE 1911.
A List of
Do
the
19081
may be inspected at the Offices of Messrs. DEACONS, the Solicitors to the Com
Hong Koxo, Juix 16rx, 1928.
„AN INCOME TAX FOR CHINA.
Company (Hong Kong), Ltd., has been struck off the register of com panies.
1
The name of the Drienta! Trading sweeps provide sufficient ontlet for fathers save ashore. It was fortaan miles S. of Pratas on the after-
He isnate that before setting out the two one's money at the races. now & resident of Great Baddow, men decided to leave the boys be noon of July 13th on a N.W, or Chelmsford.
hind telling them to seck shelter W.N.W track; thus threatening with some friends as the night was
Hong Kong. too rough for them to be taken aboard the boat. Hampered by four children, there would have been hardly a chance to make the shore. The River Service.
Sergt. M. A Johnson, M.M., has' in the H.K,V.D:C., with effect from been appointed a Second Lientengat
July 4th.
The appointment of Mr. B. F. Church as Assistant Government Marine Surveyor with effect from July 5th, is gazetied. a reasonably fair method of secur- would be needed and it is not pany at No. 1, De Vaux BOAD CENTRAL, Hong Kong, at Any Time ing the money, but at the same time difficult to imagine the resentment Colonel H. A. Stewart has been
Any Person who claims have been on
a Creditor of the Company and who is
and South China Commands..
of Supplies and Transport, North
during Usual Business Hours, it is a complicated procces if the which would be aroused when they appointed to be Assistant Director the Last mentioned Day and still to be burden is to be distributed equit were let loose from one end of not entered in the said Last and Claims ably upon all members of the China to the other, armed with the
1928,
Ab a
to be so entered not on or before the community earning more than the necessary power to examine the 20CH DAY of July heartieniars of merest subsistence allowance. Some books of every trader. We are in- Langham thering of friend at the Name and Address bis. Claim and the Naine and Address of
bis Solicitors (if any) to the Undersigned people, of course, will readily clined to think that it would be
Stuart Holden were prestated with
a portrait of Dr. Holden by Mr.
at No. 1, Da Yeux ROAD CENTRAL furnish the fullest information re sufficient to start another national F. O. Balisbury, The presentation aforesaid or in default thereof he will be precluded from objecting to the proposed garding their incomes and, in ques-revolution. The confusion, illas made by Dr, F. B. Meyer, who referred to the service Dr. Holden Reduction of Capital.
tions of doubt, may even give the feeling and possibilities for fraud hind rendered to the cause of Evangelical religion in connection" State the benefit. But these are of are terrible to contemplate but, with St. Paul's Church, Portuga the elect. The majority, wo are even so the subject does not lack square, the China Inland MimiÓN, and the Keswick Convention, as afraid, look upon
the income tax its humorous, side. It is amusing well as China, the United States, form as a battle-ground where they. to picture the Christian General and elsewhere.
Dated the 13th Day of July, 1928
DEACONS,
Bolicitors to the Company,
No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoris, Hong Kong
[0500
WEATHER REPORT:
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, stated:-
Pressure le highest to the east
The Hong Kong, Canton and of Japan. The typhoon is now, 200 Macao Steamboat Company resum- The milee W.S.W. of Hong Kong, moved their service last night. ing westward.
Lungshan sailed at the usual' time Local Forecast:-8.E. winde, for Canton and the Kinshan was moderate, generally 'cloudy.
to leave at the usual time this morning. THE WEATHER DURING * JUNE.-
OFFICIAL REPORT. GREATEST SQUALL VELOCITY
76 "M.P.H.
According to the meteorological observations made at the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, danas
The Royal Observatory report June the maximum temperature was 89.3 on June 27th and the issued at 10 a.m. yesterday states: minimum temperature 71.6 on June This typhoon formed on July 6th. There were 176 hours of sun- 10th, in a trough of low pressure shine during the month. The rain-between Guam and the Philippines. fall was 15.130 inchics.
At 6 am on July 10th the centre The rainfall for the month at the was in about latitude 14 N. and Botanical Gardens wae 13.84 inches longitude 132 E. It reached the on 16 daya, at the Matilda Hospital, coast of N. Luzon on the morning Mount Kellett, 10.80 inches on 21 of July 12th, travelling on days and at the Police Station, W.N.W. track, and passed about Taipo, 16.81 on 21 days.
(Continued on next Column).
Its course then became more westerly, however, and it appeared that Hong Kong might escape with only a strong breezy. But by about noon on the 14th until about 2 am. on the 15th, it remained nearly stationary, 100 miles to the South of Hong Kong, and increased in. intensity,
Greatest Squall Velocity. After 2 am on the 15th it began to move again on a westerly track and is now, 10 a.m., more than 100 miles to the South West of Hong Kong
The greatest squall velocity at the Observatory was at the rate of 76 m.p.h at 11:20 p.m. on the 14th The wind being then due East.
The typhoon appareatly caused aome damage in N. Luzon, no obser- vations from Aparri having been received between 3 p.m. on the 11th and am on the 13th,
The wireless station at Pratas was out of action between a p.m. on the 13th and 6 pm, on the 14th. One ship reported winds of hut, ricane force to the North of the centre, and another force 10 to the West of the centre.
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