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NEW ADVERTISE

MENTS.

WILKINSON, HEYWOOD &

CLARK.

E hare Appointed Massz6.

at AKOY..

H. W. MAXTED,·

Acting Manager.

DIVIDENDS NOTICE.

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

THE Directors of the HONG KONG TAND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Announce that

subject to Andit, the DIVIDEND and BONUS for the HALF YEAR Ending 3let DECENTER, 1928, will be

Dividend £3 Per Share.

Bonus 2 Per Share.

Write off Bank Premises $750,000.. And carry forward to Next Year

about 83,100,000.

7:29

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED, TUTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Nthat the FORTY-FIRST OR- DINABY GENERAL MEETING of

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that An EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS HAI

BANKING CORPORATION will be held on

Ton SATURDAY, the D DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1999, at 19 O'CLOCK NOON at the CITY HALL, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong for the purpose of considering, and if thought, tit, pasting the following Resolution,

That the Directors of the Hong AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR KONG POSATION be and they are hereby requested and authorised by and on behalf of the Shareholders of the Corporation to take all such steps as may be necessary for the intro- duction of an Ordinance into the of

Legislative Council of the Colony

Hong

Long and for the enactment,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1929.

INTIMATIONS.

Wins gives the lever vigour, Makes glow the cheeks of beauty,.

Hakes poets write,

1.

And soldiers fight. And friend.bip-de its duty.

Fower, wealth, Beauty, health,

Wit and mirth, in wise are crown'd.

Joys abound,

Flosure's found,

Only when the glass goes round.”

Fine SHERRIES

the Governor of Grown, Bottled and Shipped by

of KOBE

the same by the advice and Bongo

consent of the Legislative Council thereof, in the terms of a print which, for the purposes of identi fication, has been signed by the Chief Manager of the Corporation, in substitution for the existing dinances (axcept as in auch print is mentioned) and Deed of Settlement of the Corporation."

NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO AND GIVEN that

A FURTHER EX

of MEETING the TRAORDINARY

COR SHAREHOLDERS of the PORATION will be held on SATUR- DAY, the 23xD DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1929, at 12.45 in the AFTERNOON, at the for the purpose of re- Bame Place,

GEO. 6. SANDEMAN

SONS & Co.

Xeres de la Frontera and Oporto.

SBAREBOLDERS in this Company ceiving a Report of the above menLight Dry.

will be held at the Offices of MESES JARDINE. MATHESON & CO. LTD., on TUESDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1829, at 12.30 r. for the parpes of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the Year Endir 31st DESEMBER, 1928.

The BEGISTER & SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from

DUTY PAXE.

For Case: Per Bot.

WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- vatory, Hong Kong, at 3.15 pm.

yesterday, state

The anti-cyclöne has weakened and another appears to be develop ing to the NW of Shantung Freah monsoon may be expected along the coast and over the North China Sca

Local fresh, fine.

forecast-N.E.

Mr. & Mrs. C. PLUNKETT-COLE

·P.P.C.

- That Australia has spent too much money unprofitably on development schemes nabody can deny. Whather | the expenditure was in itself un warrantably reckless, however, is

another mater. During the last ten years there has been a tre- mendous increase in loan expendi- eure, but there is no reason to doubt the ability of the nation to sustain

News and Views.

The London Explosion,

Was

were

One

People who were in the sion area in London last month could only think of one thing when The round-the-world liner Em. they tried to talk about it. press of, australia is now at Boisboy was just like one of the old Zep- and, is expected on the morning of pelin bombs going of nearly split your ear. Nobody scors to have Wednesday, February 13th.

been thrown out of bed,” na is Nine, cases of small-pox. "four customary in big explosion reports, winds, the burden with comparative ease. from Victoria and five from Kow- but several aid that they'

Even the British Mision, severe loon were reported on Thursday tossed up several inches. though its criticism is, does not There was also one case of enteric woman in Broad Street said that the bad a dog chained to her bed, suggest otherwise. The points at All the patients were Chinese.

and the little crestare shot right issue, than, appear to be the charac

The forthcoming wedding is a¤¬

into the air and was yanked down ter, efficiency, and consequences of

nounced of Mr. J. D. Marques, î this loan expenditure, and the

by its chain, howling like anything. clerk of the Kowloon Dicks, and

The first explosion seems to have wisdom or folly of the enormous who is residing at No. 11, Ashley inc rase in this expenditure since Road. to Mias E. M. Souza, of 29,

been heard as far away as High- gate. Although the only casualty the war. Now, although, it is true Ashley Road. that State enterprises should stand.

the death of a horse, the over- the test of being measured up by the same rule that would be run over a private concern, there are many instances where such a com- parison would be unfair. More

At the 2.30 matinee performance over, even when it is equitable to to-day at the Star Theatre is an greatly disturbed the man of the

"The exciting picture

Woll' atreet. The results of the catas apply the same test to a State as Trial. Tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. to a private concern, the fact that Betty Bronson will be seen in Sir trophe were more public than that a loss is shown must not be regard James Barrie's famous story "Peter of any Zeppelin explosion, for

Pän."

streets were abut to all, traffic for ed as something peculiar to Govern-

Final showings at the cinema hours and the open space in ment enterprises. Hard-headed and theatres to-day are as follows: Shaftesbury Avenue opposits the keep commercial men, financiers. At the Queen's The Way of All Prince's Theatre was closed. Elec- and industrialists sometimes make Flesh" a powerful drama starring tric current was shut off, and Or

Star:

ford Street and Shaftesbury Harold Lloyd's factories. liquidations, and bank Safety Last.' mistakes, and the closing-down of Emil Jannings; at tar ruptcies is the result. When such famous comery; and at the World: Avenue at the north end, were in casualties occur in the business "On Your Toes," with Reginald darkness, and later in the night. one side remained in darkness It | world, they are regarded as inevit. Denny.

was a curious sight to see small able, but when a State enterprise gets into similar difficulties, there The Directors of the Hong Kong hops on one side ready with their

Christmas wares of toys

and and Shanghai Banking Corporation estables lit only by a few candles announce, subject to audit, the in the windows, giving a queer following dividend and bonus for

MPS BROOME

P.PIO.

DEATH. LILEY-On January 4th, at Shang

hai. Dozon ISOBIL LILEY, aged 26th.

Kong Office: 11, Ice House Street

$37.00 $3.15

Hong and. of considering, Meeting and, if thought fit, confirming the Very Pale Dry 42.00 3.60 Article 86 of the Corporation's Deed Pale Dry Nutty 46.00 9.95 London Office: 91. Bride Lane, 10ve Resolution in accordance with

Fine Old Brown 53.00 4.50 Brown Bang *. 57.00 4.85

of Settlement.

Dated this 1st day of January, 1995.

By Order of the Directors,

A. C. HYNES,

Chief Manager.

and Fine PORTS

SATURDAY, 1978 JANUARY, NOTE-A Copy of the proposed New and Fine

TUESDAY, 6TH FEBRUARY, Both Days inclusive, during which Period No. Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

L. 8. GREENHILL,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 11th Jan, 1929. [7230

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The Daily Press.

Hone Kowe, Janvant 12th, 1929.

ADVICE TO AUSTRALIA.

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14. 3 tendency in some quarters to complain of reciclesa expenditure and rash experiments in cialism."

so

Waited. Much of the work, done

The 41st ordinary general meet- ing of the Hong Kong Land Invest- turning of the cab and the breake at different ment and Agency Co., Ltd., will baling-up of the street held at the officer of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Tuesday, parts over a mile, and the fire that broke out at Denham Street "and February 5th, ac. 19.30 p.m.

continued after six o'clock, have

the half year ending December 31st. Santa Claus effect, although the The Commonwealth and State 1993. Dividend £3. per share and anxious faces of the shopkeepers in Governmente have all embarked Bonus £9 per share. $750,000 will the candlelight were not at all like

Santa Claura.“ upon schemes which were admittedly be written off the Bank Premises unprofitable in the ordinary, busi- account and about $3,400.000 will be THE report of the British Financial,ness sonke, but this is not to say carried forward to next year.

In The Gassed Area. that the money so expended was

The traffe of Oxford Street, The Chinese who was reported swollen by Christmas business, WAS or begun is such that private enter in the Daily Press to have comdiverted through many channels, prise would not have attempted, but mitted suicide by jumping over and the bus dislocation extended it was essential that it should be board from the Hong Kong, Canton for miles. The explosion at this done. There was the problem of Macao Steamboat Company's centre point was like throwing a settling ex-soldiers on the land-vessel Sui An whilst on her way spanner into the heart of a great only the Commonwealth and State to Macao last Tuesday, was Amachine. Crowds of the curious: Governments could deal with that, wireless operator. His name was thronged to the danger area, and There have been mistakes made in Chan Siu and he lived at No. 3. did not find much dificulty in carrying out this work, there have Prince's Terrace, Caine Road. He finding it if they followed their nose, for the gas stench spread been losses incurred, but if the re was 21 years of age. pective Governments had not taken

some distance. The most charac action, certainly no private enter

There was a happy gathering at teristic London touch in this affair prise would have done anything for the Roof Garden of the Peninsula was the notice written in big hand- the men who returned to Australia Hotel, Kowloon, yesterday evening writing that had been put up be- ia Oxford after completing their voluntary on the occasion of the birthday of hind the barricades. military service. Unfortunately, it Dr. Eugene L. de Souza, L.S., Street: PLEASE is in connection with ex-soldier M.B., B.S. (H.K), of the L.M. settlement that very serious losses Rotunda Hospital Dublin, and of have been incurred. In June, 1927 the Hong Kong University. There were in all about 60 friends pre- (the latest figures available) over-

NO SMOKING GAS.

due repayments of capital and in- sent, including a number of Univer; The police were less polite terest amounted. to over ninosity undergraduates and personal stopping smokers as they entered the danger area, and a careless millions sterling. This, unsatisfac friends of Dr. Souza.

man who struck a light as he came

Old Tawny licitors to the said Corporation, and Very Old Tawny 64:00 5.50 Mission recently visiting Australia

MASTER Prince's Building. So- in Shanghai at the Office of the CORPORATION, from the Date hereof Oldest & Finest 66.00 5.75 recalls the rule that State enter- until the Date of the above men

Vintage 1911... 135.00 11.50 prison should be measured by tioned Confirmatory Meeting,

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standards consistent with recognised business principles In other words, a white elephant is D white elephant, whether owned by the State or by an individual.. Accord... ing to a Reuter message, the British Mission considers that too much money has been spent un profitably in Australia during re- ent years on development schemes. These projects, it is declared, have been undertaken, regardless of the probable financial and economie results of the ventures. At the same time, the British investigators to the high prices charged for land

An International Dance Festival out of the British Museum station admit that the financial position of of clearing and improvements, and February 20th, at the Club Lusi-bours. There was a good deal to (private profiteering), excessive cost will take place on Wednesday: was almost mobbed by his neigh Australia is sound. Revenues are unsuitability both of holdings and tano, and on Saturday, February see, for here and there in the ample to meet the requirements of settlers for not every native son is 23rd, at the Club de Recreio, Raw streets were "open shelters under which the workmen were hacking suited for life on the land. In loon, commencing each day at 4 public services, and to repay in order to put the ex-soldier settle- p.m. A thoroughly representative and smashing to enlarge gaping:

extreme were busy at terest on the sinking-fund for publicenta on a sound basis, the capital Committee of ladies has been form wounds in the road, and others. value of the land and improvements ed to organise the festival.: Mrs. must be rigorously written down, Soutborn is taking a leading part working with expert fingers on the Huge and arrears of paymentsdealt with in arranging the entertainment, the entrails of wires and pipes and The Commonwealth treasury" has proceeds of which will be divided cables under the surface. offered to bear ten millions of the between international charitable bags for the reception of gas were piled beside them, and lorries loss under this head, but what the organisations in Hong Kong and at total deficit will be is not yet Macao. The goodwill and services piled with mysterious ammunition, and reinforcements for the work- of Mme. Tamagnini Barbosa have The Commonwealth Beet was an- been enlisted for the part Macae en were hurrying in to the bar- ricaded spots, firemen and salvage other costly experiment, increasing will contribute towards the festival.men yere busy, and the roads were the national debt by nearly ten Mrs. Wyatt is the bon. secretary. millions. There have been losses on

The two Chinese who were recent State mining operations in Queens- land, State electricity in ly convicted and, sentenced to six South Australia, on tramways in the servants' quarters at Mr. N. Victoria, on experimental farms in months' imprisonment for entering Tremania, and on railways through Drummond's out the Commonwealth. The gh-Quarry Bay, residens, No. of

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FANLING HUNT, Suction Rare and Connections

STEEPLECHASES...

SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY.

FIRST RACE-3.00 P.M.

ADMISSION

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CARS. PARKED ON THE COURSE $10.00 Each.

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FIRST CLASS RETURN Fane inalading ADMISSION TO PUBLIC ENCLOSURE:--$2.00, FREE PARKING FOR CABS.

SOCIETY.

and also One "Y" BRANCH PIECE

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Order from Date of

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tory state of affairs is attributed

Before coming to these concla- sions, the British Financial Mission travelled very extensively through out the Commonwealth, and dis-known. cussed facts and theories not only 'with representatives of the Central and State Governments, but also with various other public bodies, not excluding labpur organisations. The recommendations now made No.3 No. 16A, QUEEN'S after 20,000 miles of travef through

The Council does not bind itself to aco-pt the Lowest or any Tender. Neither does the Council bind itself to MESSES. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, pay any Expenses which the Tenderers

SUGAR BOOK OFFICE, may have incurred in Tendering.

CHAS. E. WATSON,

Secretary.

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COUNCIL BOOM, SHAMZEN, CANTON, January 8th, 1929.

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NOTICE..

HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S TESANIA attention of the BOARD wishes

Public, and especially of those who bare recently come to this Colony, to the URNS ANNIVERSARY possibil

ef acquiring Diseases, ég.

Faver by eating VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS of Uncooked Ve HALL on FRIDAY, 25 JANUARY,

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from human sources and their custom The Cost will be $400 Per Head is to pour the manage or spray it exclusive of Wines,

from watering pots in liquid form over Members desirous of being present are the

Plants. growing Panty Parasites are, there- requested to send in their Names as soon

DAY, BEST INSTANT to:-

sa porsible and Not Later Than MON-fore, possibly present on the surface of Plants, a.g., Lettuce, over which the gardener's spray falls.

.J. WATSON, Secretary, SANITARY BOARD.

E. ML BRYDEN, W

Hon. Secretary,

c/o INTE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

5. Queen's Road Central.

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January, 1929.

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Australia and an unknown number of hours of talk and investigation are not strikingly original. We are told that the tariff should be re- daced in case where the "infant industry protected gives no promise of becoming a lusty youngster, there should be a uniform railway:

pressure:

broken into waves and whirlpoola at several points. The explosion scarred London worse than any Zeppelin did.

9. Signalling To Merchant Ships,; ·

Extracts published in Fleet

ness undertakings under national committing a felony, were yester- Orders from the quarterly returns and State control showed total day brought before Mr. B. E. of signalling practice with merchant deficit on June 30, 1997, of nearly Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy, vessels show that in the period so millions sterling, but he would when their case was re-heard. Mr. ended June 30th, 1929, a total of be a bold man who would say that CA. S. Russ who appeared for 1,489 exercises were carried out, sa the "whole of this was due to reck the convicted men tendered fresh compared with 1,919 for the pre- vious quarter, and there 'were", 21- jess expenditure, or even spent evidence to show that the men were wholly without profit. Australia is asked to go to the servants' quarters failures to establish communication. a country where natural conditions to collect a debt. They were not make it imperative for certain work there to steal, and if they had been, to be done before there can be a the jewellery which the amah bad, possibility of sound and healthy would not have been left untouched. development The ever-present dan His Worship, after hearing the evi- dence, reduced the sentence to three months hard labour each.

The total of exercises shows a large falling off. especially as compared with the corresponding period of 1927, when there were 2,240 tests. carried out, but the special move ment of ships to China at that time provided more opportunities, and the five top ships and fotillas in to devise and carry out elaborate schemes for catching the vast

order of merit were either in or volumes of water that run to waste, Air Pilot's Terrible Death. and distributing it. Such work is A verdict of accidental death was proceeding to the Far East. On expensive, and cannot be done by returned at Bicester aerodrome on this occasion, first place was taken private enterprise. Distances are Sergeant Pilot Lockwood, who was by the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, enormous, necessitating roads and killed near Gawcott (Bucks) through China, with 128 successful exercises: railways-unprofitable undertakinge his machine striking a tree. Flying and then como the Emerald, East in the beginning, but essential as Officer Buckley said three nero Indies, with 114; the Dahlia, Red arteries. The State: must provide planes were returning to Bicester Set, with 94; the Concord, on troop- means for transportation. Water from Northolt in the late after ing duty, with 71; and the Argus, in China and on passage home, with On the mercantile side the

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news.

works and irrigation undertakings noon, and the pilots lost their way. in Australia show an accumulated Lockwood's machine, & day bomber, BI deficit of nearly 14 millions sterl was leading. They lost sight of the China Navigation Company took ing; railways show a deficit of third machine, which landed at Wol- first place with 167; the British about 44 millions enormous figures, verton, and the two other machines India Company, was second, with admittedly, but scarcely to be des landed in a feld to discover their 1; the Ellerman Lines, third, with cribed as reckless expenditure. It position. Both ran through a 100; British Tankers fourth, with is too early yet to look for profit strong barbed wire fence parallel 97 and the Ocean Steamship Com able financial and economic results with a hedge, and Lockwood either pany, fifth, with 91. Among exer from ventures undertaken in such lost his head or thought he could ciscs deemed worthy of special men- circumstances and upon such as clear by taking of. A wing of his tion was one between the craiser enormous scale. The process of plane hit the top of a tree and Effingham and the steamship Cale development is slow, and the conse burst into flames, Lockwood being donia by semaphore and flags, tho quences of Australia's financial pinned under the tail of the fuse steamer being very anart and policy of the last ten years cannot lage which had swung round and prompt with replica during & period be judged until time has been given turned over. His skull was free of two hours at distances of from

one to ten miles. tured, and he was burnt to death. for results to show themselves."