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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE CO..

LIMITED.

NOTICE OF INTERIM DIVIDEND,

OTION IS BEREBY GIVEN

INTIMATIONS.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL

ASSOCIATION.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929.

LURS are Reminded that ENTRIES for the EEAGUE COMPETITIONS OLOSE on the S1. No Entries will be accepted after that

W. E. HOLLANDS,

Nthat An INTERIM DIVIDEND Date

the

of FOUR Per Cent (42) on Nominal Amount Per Share Paid (he FORTY Conte Per Bharb on the Shares of the Company $10 Fully Paid-up; and TEN Cent For Share on the Shares $9.50 Paid-up) for the Six Months ended 30th JUNE. 1920, will be Faid on WEDNESDAY, THE 18TH DAT or SEPTEMBER, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on applica- tion at the Registered Office of the Company, EXORANGE BUILDING,

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From WEDNESDAY, THE 11TH SEPTEM BER, to TUESDAY, THE 17TH

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Hon. Secretary,

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

SEPTEMBER (Beth Days inclusive) THE Undersigned have meeived

during which Period, No Transfer of

Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. P. SHERRY, Manager.

Hong Kong, Aug. 80th, 1929. (9207

IN THE SUPREME COURT of

. HONG KONG.

(COMPANIES WINDING-UP)

No. 2 or 1923,

IN THE MATTER OF THI COMPANIES

GADINANCES, 1911-1921,

AND

IN THE MATTER OF REISS BROS.,

LIMITED.

THIRD AND FINAL DIVIDEND OF 7.36%.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that A THIRD AND FINAL DIVIDEND of 7.38 Fer Centum has been declared in this Matter, and that the Bame may be

be received at my Office, on the 9TE DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1929, or any Subsequent Week Day between the Hours of 10 A X, and + P.X.

Dated the 30th day of August, 1929.

JOHN FLEMING, GA

Special, Manager, CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, Hong Kong,

EDUCATIONAL:

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ST. CROSS. WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, SURREY..

Frep. School for Fubllo Schools and Royal Navy. Situated on Surrey Hill. Instructions in Usual Subjects and

Instructions

TO BELL BY

י

PUBLIC AUCTION,

CX

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND

THURSDAY, Taz 10, 11t

AND

12TH SEPTEMBER, 1929,

A

H.M. NAVAL YARD, Hoxo Kors,

AND AT

KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT, COMMENCING EACH DAY AT 9:30 AM.

WITH AN INTERVAL FROM 1 NOON To 1.80 7.M. OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES,

&C.. &c.

رسال

Comprising

Anchers,

Chain Cable Gear, Torres, Firehearth, Ships Bells, Iron Real Davite, Air Purifying Plant, Catter Sampan, Oak, Whaler, Dinghy, Old Lead, Battery Plates, Electrical and Wireless Telegraph

Fitting

Glycerine, Ok Electric Cable, Bakery Oven, Iron Matrossos and Bedsteads, Water C Closet PADR

Hydraulic Jacks, Carpets, Rugs, Tables, Ice Chests, Chairs, Desks, Orna mental Stoves, Cooking Pots, Water Cao, New Carpet

Matting,tting Old Steel

Thermometer...

Lavatories,

THE

BEST

ANTI-MOSQUITO

LOTION

"MOSCATINE"

"B"

MADE FROM A

NEW AND IMPROVED

FORMULA

In Bottles

$1.00 $1.75

Old Tin Foil, Old Twill, A.S. WATSON & Co.,

Old Lignum Vitae. Curtains Overcases, Blankets, Unglazed Tiles, Metallic Hoses, Old Cordage, Old Coir Mats, Canvas Bag Old Indis, Rubber, Old Leather and Desine, Glass Plate, Tarred Rags, Old Woolen Bagi. Old Cork, Cocoa-Nut Canvas Cuttings, Old Iron

Matting New

Games, so Boxing, Drill, Swimming. Drom Asbestos Packing, la 400

Shooting. Entire Charge of Boys under

Steel,

Metals of Serta, Brann and

taken during Holidays if desired. 250 » Lead. Z Uld Berap Brass, Oapper, Term and Extras. For further particulars Apply Box No. 81004, ejo Hong Kong Daily Gun Metal Borings, Zine Bottoms and

Press.

be bald

R.

@,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to

on MONDAY, the 2x DAY of 8EPTEMBER, 1929, at

I.M at the

Office

of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hu ExamLECT THE GOVERNOR of One Lot of CROWN LAND af Foxfalam, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with option of renewal at a Crown Kent to be fited by the Surveyor of His Max Tas Kino, for one farther term of 75

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

years.

| No, of Sals.

Registry No.

ing Lot No. 214,

Locality.

Pokfulam Bosd.

Kural Building Lot No. 324.

8.E. of Rural Buijd.

G.

PARTIOU

Boundary 9

Measure. ments,

N

ft. ft. ft. ft.

As per

sale plas.

the

Square feet.

Annual

Rental.

Aboat

66,000

20,070

Upset Price.

B.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 2ND DAT

of SEPTEMBER, 1929,

Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of HI EXCELLENT TIDE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Wong Nei Chang, in the Colony of Hong Kong. for term of 75 years, with the option of Crown Rent to be fixed by Inewal at the Burveyor of Hu MAJESTY 72 King, for one farther term of 75 years,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale. |

Begistry No

Locality.

No. 2914. Inland i

Wong Nei Chung.

Boundary.

Measure

ments.

As par

ulo plan,

About

5,000

Aantal

Bentai.

10,000

* Upset Frice.

18297

Zinc Ashes, Brass Tubes Tron Blocks, Candle Tubes, Ganges, Old Steel Shorela, Olá Cut-

Lamps, La Rope and

Old Steel Gines, Old

Dirty

Mineral Oil and Oil Fuel,

"LIMITED.

Hong Kong-Kowloon-Canton.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore „cast" and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.40 p.m.

stated:-

Pressure remains highest near the Baning and as relatively low over the China Sea. The depression is crossing Korea.

winds,

Local Forecast: - E. moderate, fair, generally,

A report from Manila at 7 p.m. on the 30th reports a typhoon in about 114 deg. Long. E. and 16 deg. Lat. N., direction unknown.

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, AUGUST 31, 1929,

A PROPOSAL OVER-DUE.

ONCE in a while a suggestion is put forward for public consideration which is not only received with wide approval, but provokes the friendly question as to why nobody had ever thought of it before! Such an idea is that now submitted to re-

sidents of this Colony by Professor

SIMFBON the formation of an oṛ-

ganised group of people of all nationalities interested in English language and literature. We warm- ly welcome the suggestion to estab

and

ordinarily intelligent men

More than 200 entries have been | The Royal Empire 'Society'. women to whom the publication of received for the U.S. Amateur Golf a good book is an event quite as Championship, which will be play. thrilling as the defent of a tennised at Del Monte, California, on champion or the scratching of the September 2, and following days. favourite for the St. Leger. The Mr. C. J. H. Tolley, the British meetings of the English Association amateur champion, has entered. will provide an appropriate atmos phere "for interesting book-talk-a comparison of impressions of cer- tain books, discussion of debateable arguments advanced therein, and critical comment upon the author's manner of expressing his ideas. In sort, a most agreeable opportunity for all interested in English lang

age and English literature to meet and exchange ideas with others whose views may be very different but whose interests in one direction are identicnl.

Torcats Roosters, the novelty "traupe" of 60 game fowls, will open their season at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. There will be two performances daily through out the week, at 7.13 and 9.20, with a special matinee to-morrow at 2.30

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During repairs to the signal-mast on Blackheads Hill, the non-local code typhoon signals will be dis played on the premises of the Go down Co. only. Repairs are also necessary to the local sigdala and hoisting apparatus at the Royal Observatory.

Notice has been given at the local Registry of the forthcoming wed ding between Mr. Alfred Alexander Luther Young (of Messrs. Eli Lilly & Co., Manufacturing Chemists A little book has been recently and Biologists, U.S.A.), residing. published in London, which went 7, Pratt Buildings, Kowloon, doubt has yet reached Hong Kong and Miss Olga G. Olsen, of 13437, if it ever does in saleable quantity: Enclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, It is entitled “The English,” and its author is H. W. NEVINSON-L veteran penman who has a repata tion for fearless expression of opinion regardless of its conformity with what at the moment-in con- sidered orthodox and "proper." It might be well to make Mr. NEVINSON's work 'the subject of early debate by the English Asso- ciation in Hong Kong-it is an essay rather than a book, but it is full of good things which most English folk will appreciate. For example:-"The chief point about our climate," says Mr. NEVINSON, "is that we never can tell what is going to happen next, for on the same day we may be driven to sit

Should occasion

arise before the completion of re- pairs, the night signals only will be displayed.

In well-informed Chinese quar- and Japan came to an agreement ters it is understood that China

some time ago to elevate the status

of their respective Legations in Tokyo and Peping to Embassies, but that this would not be realized until after Mr. Sadao Saburi suc- also learned that the Nanking Gov- Minister Guang in Tokyo to the

The Seal of the Royal Empire Society was affixed last month in the presence of Members of the Council to the transfer of a bond for £1,000 in the 4 per cent. Fund- ing Loan, which sum with interest coupons thereon to October 31, 1927, has been presented to the Society by Mr. T. H. Whitehead. Mr... Whitehead, who at the end of last, year made a generous gift for the creation of twenty scholarships for " Scottish Boy Scouts, has for the past 35 years been a Life Fellow oft the Royal Empire Society, and from 1505 to 1009 served as its Honorary Corresponding Secretary at Hong Kong. After 29 years" work in the East with the Char- tered Bank of India, Australia and China, he returned to England in 1009 as London Manager of that. Bank and retired from its service in 1990. On two occasions he has read papers before the Society.om the position of British trade in oriental markets The £1,000 now. given to the Society by Mr. Whi tehead is earmarked for its New Building Fund, the Society having decided to commence the work of reconstruction upon its present site. in the early part of next year.

Aviation in Malaya.

Mr. C. C. Blacke, writing to The Times from Singapore, inquires. · what is wrong with British nircraft - manufacturers "Here is Singa- pore, a British Colony," he says, "possessing a Government subsi- dised flying club, willing to buy and preferring British goods. Yet the largest firm importing British

in the shade and to light the fire: ceeded Minister Yoshizawa. It is motor-cars into Molava is being in-

lish in Hong Kong a branch of the on the same day we may be stiffedernment has decided to promote undated with American aircraft

by motionless fog and swept by shrieking gales. We must hold our-

selves ready for anything, and the readiness is all."

English Association, and believe there will be many men and women in the Colony who will gladly avail themselves of the opportunity of joining such a circle. The move.

As for the English race, he recog; ment is one which deserves support for more ressons than one. Not nises its unusual diversity of types, only is it designed to encourage and is a member of that increasing reading of English literature, and party which refuses to believe either discussion of the views and senti-that the Saxons exterminated the ments expressed and the manner of Celts or that the Roman occupation their expression, but it will bring of Britain, which was solid for four into friendly contact people, of hundred years (a period as long as various nationalities having one that which separates ourscives from interest-the roading of HENRY THE EIGHTH) left no per English books, and the study of manent traces. "Without wander- English literature.

ing into the maze of prehistoric As Professor SIMPSON has already conjecture, where some infuriated

common

rank of Ambassador.

loon

WAS

advertising matter, offers of agen

ca to lead in the neroplane indus-

manufacture of automobiles" In try as she already does in the all probability, the correspondent of the Federation of British In-

cies on attractive terms, cle. This same firm has not received 5 sinule advertising pamphlet from a Bri- A Kowloon Concession.

tish firm unless they have first writ- Some time ago attention

ten asking for same. Are we cosi- drawn in our columns to the intent to sit back' and allow Agri- convenience experienced by Kow- season-tickets for bus services. It residents in getting their is good to learn that the Kowloon Motor 'Bus Co., Ltd., has now On and after September all monthly taken steps to remove this difficulty. tickets will be renewed and sold at the Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon, from the 1st to the 15th of every month, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Transactions after the 5th of each month will be dealt with at the Company's office at Nathan Road, Mongkok.

Compass, Watches, Binomlars, Clocks, 1929 Edition pointed out there are very many professor will confront us at every Your Support Asked For.

Air 'Pipes and Breast Ropes, Photo-

OF THE

graphio

Materials, Firewood, Old Steel Circalating Pamp, Tools, Oil Pump Motors of Burts, Ebonite Old, Electric Fans, Lamp Ende, Gymnastic Gear, Indienters, Boilers, Wood Working DIRECTORY

Machine, Cordage Machine, Lathes, Douglas Engines, Binnacle, Waterproof Sheets, Etc. Eta

Also lying in FLEET AIR ARM RESERVE STORE, F.M. NAVAL DEPOT, KOWLOOK:---Old Fabric, Old Clothing, Waterproof Coats. Old Flying Clothing,

Old Sparking Plugs, Old Rabbor. Old Aluminium, Enginn Steel, Old Bru, Old Copper, Old Lead Phosphor Bronze, Old Fabric, Steel, Tin, Old Tanks, Old Airscrews, Old Aera

(Containers), Etc., Etc.

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LOTS MAY BE INSPECTED ON MONDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1929,

AND

The 67th Annual Issue

OF THE

OF

HONG KONG,

THE TREATY FORTS OF

when

д

the recent naval disasters to H.M.

tickets is 82. .

com-

headquarters of trade openings for dustries in Malaya has informed aeroplanes and accessories in this country and firms at Home have been appraised of the possibilities of developing their business, ments the Straits Timer. At all events, traders in the United King- dom are not so backward in the dissemination of advertising depe as one might be led to imagine; they are far ahead of the United States. During June advertising matter was imported into British book-lovers in Hong Kong. Grant- turn, we may say with some certain-

A grand concert under the aus CAESAR invaded pices of the R.A.O.B. Club will be and British Possessions to a total Malaya from the United Kingdom ing that the majority in the Colony ty that

Britain he found it inhabited." A held in the R.N. Canteen Theatre value of 815,484 against 84,113 from аге murc interested-actively or passively in the various forms of deft touch of dour humour, as in on Wednesday evening. The pro- the United States, and 86,563 from

gramme will be provided by "The the this: It has sometimes happened Buzzers" Concert Party, by kind next few mails will probably find Continent of Europe. The corporcal agility, yet there is a large minority who derive great that members of the Episcopal and permission of Lt. Col. C. H. Little, local houses inundated with busi zess" literature" of British aero pleasure from being in the quiet Ministerial Benches appear to owe D.S.O., O/C. 1st Battn. Somerset

L.L It is hoped that a gener-plane manufacturers. CHRONICLE company of books. Their range of their position chiefly to their re-ous response will be made both by reading is a wide one-from EDGAR corded prowess on the river or the service men and by the general a rule the public, as the proceeds are to be in WALLACE to ĠALSWORTHY in fiction, cricket-feld; but, as and from BERTRAND RUSSEIL to the scholars have taken the lead in thean aid of dependants of the victims of Looking Back 25 Years.

Dr Carreira d'Azevedo, who BISHOP OF LONDON in more serious professions, such as the Church, the Submarines H.47 and L.18, and arrived in Hong Kong by the Wheels, Packing Cases, Assorted Dr Directory and Chronicle directions, tt in spite of such Bar, and political life, in which... Devonshire. The price of Chusan, has started practice in the city. He is not without experience- divergences they have a common corporeal agility plays but

in the Far East, having been on bond in their fondness for reading.eccondary, part." The most con- Echo of Anking Piracy.

three previous occasions on board What could be more pleasant than spicuous virtues of the English According to the Chinese Press, the Portuguese gunboats Bengo, Diu, and Zaire as surgeon captain. an opportunity for book-lovers to educated classes Mr. NEVINSON finds one of the five passengers kidnap He is still attached to the Pertu-

ped from the s.s. Anking (Butter- CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. meet together and discuss their to be incorruptibility, self-control, feld de Swire) when the ship was guese Navy, and is out here on CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS favourite books and authors? What the sense of fair play, and a will-pirated in July last year escaped furlough with the permission of his For the MALAY Professor SIMPSON calls the "turing fulfilment of public obliga from his captors and has arrived Government to practise.

in the Colony. Mr. Yuen Yi Hung. last two years Dr. d'Acevedo has been engaged in several of the little opportunity for the discussion ship of Good Form in its worst native of Foochow. He says that

has made &

special study of eu ordinary social occasions of such shapes and a disdainful attitude two of his fellow captives were re-

leased some time ago, but he and tropical diseases. The medical pro- subjects as literatura or language. towards the rest of the world. His the other two were imprisoned in fession is not over-represented in At the average dinner-party the upper middle" class he finds to Teeting, ahout eighty i from Hong Kong, and Dr. d'Azevedo success,-Hong Kong man or woman who endeavours to be less insolent as wealth declines Bins Bay. One evening & week ago. Daily Press, August 31, 1904.

their guard was reduced to two turn the conversation in the direc- and less smug as the narrower robbers the others having gone out Looking Back 50 Years. tion of books does not meet with kinds of religion wine. His lower 'on business." The "guards" fell much encouragement always ex-middle class is notable as possessing asleep and Mr. Yuen managed to escape, and get to the Colony. He cepting references to a "best seller" less humour than the others, and said that his two fellow captives containing some particularly purple the chief vice of the working classes were still in the robbers' hands and

he alleges to be a general indiffer- $20,000 ransom is demanded. patches.

As we understand the position,ence to "the obligations of promise! the Hong Kong branch of the Eng and engagement." English people fish Association is not intended to will not be unanimous in accepting be the close preserve of those Mr. NEVINION's appraisals and pedantic persons vulgarly dubbed classifications, but this will make a "high-brows," whose mighty in-discussion of his book all the more IMPORT AND EXPORT tellects scorn the trivialities of the interesting. We present this sug- MERCHANTS fiction-writer and concentrate solely thion to the English Association in and solidly upon books dealing with Hong Kong, together with a sincere the most abstruse and recondite wish for its rapid growth and pro- subjects. Bather do we picture. alonged prosperity. friendly gathering of "men

ALSO SALE OF OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES

AT KOWLOON ON FRIDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER... Comprising:-Serge, Fiannal, Clothing Remnants, Manufactured Pipe Tobacco (1,000 lbs.), Sandry Articles of Mes and Table Gear, including Electro Plate. Cutlery, Hardware and Table Linen,

Also Condemned Provision Poultry Feeding, &c.

TERMS OF SALE-A detailed in Catalogue.

for

LAMMEET BROTHERS,

By Appointment Auctioneers

to the Admiralty, Hong Kong, 19th Aug., 1929. [8282"

**PEAK MANSIONS.”

CITUATED within Two Minutes" Walk from the Tram Station and werlooking the Southern Bide of the Lland. Ready for Occupation.

Five-Roomed and Sir-Roomed APARTMENTS

....

with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Booms and Out-bopass, Two Idfis.

ALLO

PRIVATE GARAGES

TO LET. Situate at the Bear of

PEAK MANSIONS Separate Compartments including Light and Water.

Apply to-

CEEDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT

4TH FLOOM, Txirca Banx BUILDING.

SETTLEMENTS,

STATES, NETHERLANDS moil of modern diversion" gives tions: their principal vices a wor- the gentleman in question, is a principal hospitals in Lisbon, and

INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc.

This Large Volume of approximate ly 2,000 Pagos gives, in addition to the Usual Lista of Firms, at Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of Hearty

20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initials as well ss Surnames in strict alphabe tical order so that any name can be found instantaneously.

CLASSIFIED LIST

OF

AND

MANUFACTURERS

IN THE

FAR EAST.

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and

News and Views.

women who are just fond of read- ing, and are wiebful to discuss what. they have reed, with other book. lovers. A social, cosmopolitan ai sembly-English people predominat- One Chinese case of enteric was $8|ing, probably, but with a goodly reported on Thursday.

proportion of European, American,

LARGE EDITION (WITH

MAPS & TREATIES)... $12 SMALL EDITION

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS Ltd. 11, Ice House Street, Home Kong.

and Asiatic men and women who A meeting of the Chinese Cham have cultivated a liking for English ber of Commerce has been arranged literature. » A gathering not of for Monday, September 2, at 2.00 morose, intellectual giants, but just ''p.m.

should make

The following is the report sub- mitted to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Hong Kong and hampos Dock Company, Ltd.- "The directors bare much pleasure in laying before you their report with a statement of accounts for the half year ending June 30 last. Japan's Summer Ghosts,

Ghosts are very popular with the The gross earnings for the six Japanese, during the bat, sultry monthe summer months and magazines go, amount to 8289,928.85, on in earnestly for stories relating to which there is a profit the spirit world, while theatres re-. gard ghosts plays at this season as the best attraction. What is the reason for this seems difficult to say, but a writer in the Japan Times

thinks that

of

..... 887,415,88 to which has to be added the balance brought for- ward from last account 2,651.15

870,067.03.

just as heat-produe- making available ing meats are substituted by veget- of which the directors will com- ables and lighter foods during the mend the following distribution, warm season, so stories and plays ti

that give rise to hearty laughter or A dividend for the half- intense anger are left for cooler year of four per cent... $40,000.00 times, hair raising and shudder- Bonus to contributing inducing stories and plays being

shareholders

substituted because they tend to Directors' Fees have a cooling effect mentally as | Auditors' Fees well as physically." This explan- ation is given for what it is worth,

"6,000.00

2,500.00

250,00

848,750.00

but there is no gainsaying the fact. Leaving a balance of $21,317.03 that, instead of remaining in the Out of this sum the directors pro-

open the ill-ventilated theatres are pose to place $15,000 to Reserve packed with a fanning, perspiring Fund, and to carry forward the audience whenever dismal and gha-¡Enlance 80,317.03 to new account.-— sily, even ghoulish dramas are pro- Hong Kong Daily Press, Septem- troyed-N-O, "Daily News.

ber. 1, 1870.