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NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nom, 26085/20092 issued in the Name of

had GIDEON BALLOCH

been declared LOST and should the Same not be producerl Before the STH DECEMBER, 1929, It shall be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.,

A gente,

Hong Kong, Nov. 20th, 1929. (8651

"IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION MISCELLANTOUs Panceedings

No. 39 or 1929.

IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG KONG AND CANTON IDE MANUFACTURING COM- LIMITED (ÅND

PANY. REDUCED)

AND

IK THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCE, 1911.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That & Petition presented to the SUPREME COURT of Hong Kong on the EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1929, for Confirming the Reduction of the Capital of the above Company from $400,000.00 to $200,000.00 is directed to be heard before Bis HONOUR SIR HENRY COWPER GOLLAN, -Knight, ca x., Chief Justice on, THURSDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1929, at 10.30 CLOCK in the FonzOON.

Any Creditor or Shareholder of the Company desiring to oppose the making of an Order for Reducing the Capital the said Company under the above Ordinance should appear at the Time of Hearing by Himself or his Counsel for that purpose.

of

A Copy of the Petition will be furnished to any Creditor or Shareholder of the Company requiring the same by the Undersigned on Payment of the Regul-. aled Charges for the Same.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Company, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong.

г8650

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

RAFT Programmes and Entry DR

for the NINTH EXTBÅ Formu RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER, 1929 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the Rick Connar, Hong Kong Ülux, and OAUAWAT BAT STABLES,

Entries CLOSE at & P.M. on FRI. DAY 22ND NOVEMBER, 1929.

[88-47

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1930.

THE

HE OFFICIAL RACE MEETING will Commence on SATURDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1930, and will con- tinue over the Four Day already Advertised—namely 24TH, 257 and 26171 FEBRUARY, and Ist MARCH.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

GENERAL MEETING of SEAT- HOLDERS and SUBSCRIBERS will be held in the CATHEDRAL HALL on THURSDAY, 2187 Instant at 5.30 F.M.

(1) To consider, and if thought neces- Niry, approve of the proposed Caurch of England Trust Ordin ance, a copy of which can be scen at the Cathedral Ball or on

application to the Hon. Secretary.

(2) To elect two persons to represent

of Trustees to be constituted by the proposed Ordinance.

St. John's Cathedral on the Body

By Order of the Church Body,

W. L. PATTENDEN.

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 11th Nov., 1929. [8625

THE RAUE AUSTRALIAN GOLD

MINING CO., LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND).

NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF

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THE HONG KONG

DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929.

WEATHER REPORT. rapidly, if only South China ean be rid of the disturbing influence Yesterday's weather report, fore of ambitions soldiers of Tortune,

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HONGKONG v. SHANGHAI,

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3 SINGLES & 2 DOUBLIA.

I do not wish to have this affair reported in the newspapers," said Clifford Baxter, a blacksmith, when

Women Land Sharks.

Brothers in"Adversity!

Hong Kong is not alone in its After tense struggles two women. musical barbarism. Singapore is recently landed two large sharks at.

Royal Observatory at 8.30 p.m., district does not and cannot grow crap metal from Armthorpe Colphilistine. One of the Cherniavsky hand lines Many early surfers

East Const of China and over the Northern China Sea.

Local Forecast:-N.E. fresh, fidë to cloudy.

winds,

Editorial and Business Offices: 11, Ice House Street. Tel. Central

12.

Night Editor (Wanchai Oce):

Tel. Central 4511. London Office: 91. Bride Lane,

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quar-

liéry. * That is part of your punishment," remarked the Magis trates' Clerk,

Trio, before leaving our genial neighbours opened his heart to would have aided the women, bus « Straits' Times representative, | their offers of assistance were scorn---

Musically speaking he saided Mrs. Buhmeyer and Miss Allen, the people of Singapore · are,

The Nationalist Congress at

children, and we do not expect too 9f Bower-street, Manly, were walk-" Pretoria recently passed resolutions much of children. We were a little ing along Shelly Beach shortly after

women's franchise. against

One hur to see such poor audiences, a sunrise when they noticed the fins. delegate declared that the only we are accustomed to playing in women who wanted votes were those places where people really appre-af a number of barks above the with short skirts, low heeks, and red

ciate music and turn out to hear it water close to the shore. Mr. lips. Woman's place was with her have only lost & little money, and fishernian, set a fine for the women, But we are not the real losers. We George Sly, a well-known Manly pots and pans.

and they waited patiently for about. half an hour before the bait was

we can make that somewhere clae. Singapore has lost the chance to

Patated:

proportionately. The anticyclone remains over S. Japan and has weakened. The de- between hills and sea, with an essen. To begin with, it is hemmed in pression has moved Eastward to the North of Hokkaido, Fresh montial open space on one side and soon will prevail along the South-the Chinese shopping area on the

other. European business ters are aprending westward, but the need of a good central position for any firm doing business grows greater and not less, despite tele phones and taxie. Hong Kong must, like the rest of the world,

The proposal to replace by ahear good music which is much more follow America's example and build bridge the free ferry over the rerions and cannot always be got Thathes which connects East Oxford

for the making. We are not likely her business aren upwards and not with South Oxford was recently if we are in this part of the world, tu return to Singapore. Java, yes, outwards. There are still thinly discussed by the Oxford City Coun- covered sites the West side of Icecil. The Council adopted a recomat Singapore! No!" And that's House Street, for example, in the mittee be asked to reconsider the mendation that the Highways Com- heart of the city and others, where question of the construction of the invaluable. ground floor is not road connecting Enet and South used to advantage.

Oxford with a bridge or tunnel It is almost

under the Thames. In a letter to impossible to conduct retail business the Mayor Alderman T. Baszon without a ground floor shop-win-wrote: Ferry punts, besides be dow, and the need for attractive ing out of date, are entirely inade quate to present-day requirements. shop-windows is the most pressing Three punts plying across the river one in the Colony. Building is going at this point are not only obstrue on rapidly in Kowloon, but Kow.tive to other river traffic, but a dan loon is not the Colony's business in themselves to the loads of

people using them." centre and is unlikely to become A wholesale transfer from the

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 21, 1929,

RENT RESTRICTION-OR BUILDING?

ALL sections of the community

BO,

The new North German Lloyd

|

that.

יז

last

taken. The women were drawn into

to release the line. Gradually they the water by the shark, but refused

wore the monster down, and hauled

him in. Once the shark, which was. Eggs and Their Little Ways, ten feet in length, touched the Amusing explanations of the dis-beach, it was clubbed to death by tinctions in eggs were made during members of the crowd which had the hearing of an action at the collected. "Soon after the line was Manchester County Court month. A barrister concerned in

reset, a second shark was hooked, the case said there were trade" eggs and “bad” eggs Trade eggs were åt for sale, but not fit to eat.

I believe they are used for cook women were dragged into the water ing," he said. Judge Leigh asked up to their waist, but they grimly trade" | persevered, and eventually gained how long it took for egg to become a "bad" egg. After ground. They were heartily cheer consultation counsel said be was in- ed when they landed a 14-footer. formed that the process took from

should be grateful to the Twenty Island is unthinkable, any moreliner Europa; a sister ship of the six to eight weeks. An expert on four Merchants Guild for their than in London "the City" could Bremen, will make her first voyage Kgs said the "life" of a fresh egg

action in raising onco more the

from Southampton to New York on be taken up and planted on Wim March 20. No revelation as to her perennial question of Hong Kong bledon Common. Small businesses speed has yet been made, but she, rents. Not long ago wo referred of all kinds are springing at Kow-like the Bremen, is listed to reach in this column to the great burden Icon, but practically no European Southampton. Her first trip from New York on the fifth day out from, of excessive rent laid upon the refirm has a shop, far teas an office, New York will start on March 29 tailer, especially the European who across the harbour. Even the well When she starts her maiden trin has, of necessity, to pitch his tent

from Southampton the Bremen will situated and moderately-priced also be in that port on the same in the central district. But accord-

shops in the Peninsula Hotel haveda, homeward bound from the ing to members of the Guild the

The Columbus, another not been wholly taken up. In the States. load falls equally heavily on the

North German Lloyd liner which Island buildings are not growing has been re-engined, returns to ser Chinese business community, and if

like the proverbial mushrooma ca not alleviated is likely to cause &

the New Reclamation area. There grave economic crisis. Official ac- tion is demanded, for landlords-as is a slow and steady development, a leading Chinese merchant, Mr. certainly, but nothing in the nature of a rush. It will be an area of CHC CHIP FAN emphasised-are good-class tenement houses, of go not going to surrender their profits downs, and ever factories, but no

readily. No doubt landlords-or investors in real property, as they would prefer to be called-will deny the existence of excessivo

one is going to set up an office or n European shop in such a remote district.

"trade "

The struggle which ensued was even. more exciting than the landing of the first monster. This time the

A Real Wireless Wonder.

was from 14 to 21 days, according After that it became a to the condition shown by tests.

unfortunate trade" egg was fresh egg Judge Leigh: I suppose the once upon a time, but it had bad companions; Witness (amid laughly as any public spectacle that fas

ter): Yes, your Honour.

N.Y.K. Australia Service.

The broadcasting of Mr. Mac- Donald's arrival in New York last month appears to have been one of tory-as relayed in Great Britain it. the major triumphs of wireless his-

eecins to have come through as cicar-

ever been reported in the new manner. The salute from the steamer sirens

the water- Aide, the voice of the descrip- tive announcers at various points. the cheers of the crowd, and the speeches from the City Hall including the magnificent slip of the speaker who described Mr. Mac Donald as Prime Minister of the United States "were all perfectly

The replacement of the thres .YK.

Vessels engaged in the passenger and cargo service between Japan and Australia, the Aki-maru, vice in December. Her speed has Kaga-maru, and Tango-maru, by been increased so that now she will three larger vessels has been an be able to make the crossing in six days against her previous speed of nounced. The alteration to the

And it is hardly eight days. Three three ships will service, which will take place in transmitted.

Septeraber next year, will be car- seven years since some of us used maintain a weekly service, and Plied out with the Kitano-maru, to sit up anxiously at midnight and from mouth has been entirely omitted Atauta-maru, and Kemo-maru, far later only to be rewarded by a

the

Southampton will be their sole

British base.

three vessels of 5,000 tons gross roar and a tumult and fow faint register, well equipped for passen- uróaks and squeaks that were just ger service in tropical seas. The recognisable as Pittsburg doing its chief improvements to he provided | best to entertain two continents, az Mr. A. V. Álexander, First Lord will be increased speed and new once. If television makes the same of the Admiralty, speaking at Burs- equipment for the refrigeration of strides in as short a time we shal Rent restriction, when it cones lem last month, referred to the de cargo. A sen speed of 13.5 knots soon be secing as well as bearing profits, and paint to the increased down to practice, is extraordinarily parture of the Prime Minister for will be maintained, instead of the

our Premiers ns they respond to cost of building due to more expen- difficult, both to fix and to adminis become an epoch-making event, not will make possible longer stays in

America as a step that might well present speed of 117 knots. This New York welcome. It is a far sive labour, greater cost of mate-

|more remarkable, effective, and pro- rials, the fall in the dollar, theter. It has been tried in England only in the history of this country. ports for the benefit of tourists bably useful annihilation of time

but in the history of the world. | The Kitano-maru, Atauta-muru, and more stringent requirements of the with indifferent success-such de We propose," he said, that there and Kaio-maru are now employed

space than Mr. Kipling's vices as the premium" and exter-should be a real rapprochement be in the N.Y.K, European, service.

faster than the sun can rise. Lionate charges for fixtures "pro-tween the English-speaking peoples Nor is it to be denied tha viding yet another scourge for the of the world, and I profoundly be

lieve that down in the hearts of the The New Claridge's, “ room-space. nation there is a feeling that is The number of large and Here in Hong Kong a careful in-perfectly sound. There is no reason among the guests at Claridge's last Prince Arthur of Connaught was

There is great jubilation is elaborate buildings now going up ventory of the land at our disposal tards peace should not be guided staurant, in the centre of which a railway concession, just ns there why the world in its orientation month, when the reconstructed re- Maeno over the confirmation of the on some of the most valuable sites for various purposes, and a well by the opinion and direction of the dance floor has been installed, was in the Colony show that a big pro planned lay-out of those resources, English-speaking peoples.

in Hong Kong when the If the opened for the winter season. He Chinese Government granted the United States desire parity in naval was the guest of Sir Herbert concession for a line from Canton

Public Works Department, and so

un.

there is substance in such conten- tions.

secker of unhappy

imaginary airman trying to By

Looking Back 25 Years.

was

portion of these profits is going pushed on with, steadily and per-armaments we are willing to agree, organ. About three months ago te Kowloon. Six years have been Play on H.K.C.C. GROUND commencing back into the Colony, in a formsistently, is more likely to reduce but she must remember that we have the approach to Claridge's was flopped off the span of my natural

at 3 P.M., Sharp.

WEDNESDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER

THURSDAY, 1ST FRIDAY, 22ND

On K.C.C. GROUND, SUNDAY, 24 NOVEMBER. MORNING"

commending 10 A.M. Sharp. AFTERNOON

commencing 8 PM. Sharp.

TICKETS

י.

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nut

modernized, the vast, unnecessary life since I first revelled in the colonnade removed, and the en- prospect of a railway ride from trance brought flush with the street. Kowloon to Canton, and I have not This has saved a great deal of been able to procure my ticket yet. space, which has been used for a It may be hoped that the Chinese- large entrance hall beautifully de Portuguese syndicate will signed and lighted on the most emulate the masterly inactivity of modern lines. This air of spacious the British and Chinese Corpora ness has now been passed on to the tion. But I hae me doots," --- restaurant, from which the centre Hong Kong Daily Press, November pillars have been removed to give | 21, 1904. ... The

room for a dance flour. These are

close

urgently needed and of the greatest rents than any elaborate legislative ships on 80,000 miles of sea routes utility to the whole community. machinery, Half Hong Kong could and that some security for that But if this development is to con- be demolished and rebuilt before must be provided until some alter tinue it must be paid for, and that the necessary legislation could be

native means is at hand."

paythent comes in the form of rent,

passed, let alone interpreted by The training ship Warspile was The questions remain, are rents

fending cases in our Courts and moved recently from her position really exorbitant, considering out-

off Greenhithe, Kent, to 2 new eventually before the Privy Coun- berth south-east of, and lay, and is the present business cil! The report of the strong Com-astern of the training ship accommodation of the Colony in-mittee appointed by the Twenty- Exmouth, off Grays, Essex. adequate l

four Guilds should provide a-mine Port of London Authority found Most of us would agree, especially of useful information regarding this for owing to

is necessary to make this trans- not the only changes. The whole Looking Back 50 Years,

In the course of his remarks upon atmosphere of pomp and circum trade expansion those who pay them, that rents are problem, but we venture to pro-in the neighbourimod of Greenhithe entrance, which had rendered the significant terms to the necessity of stance associated with the former finances, His Excellency referred in too high, and that only greater phesy that the recommendations of and increated activity in the river, ground flour somewhat gloomy, has keeping up a balance. He says: accommodation or a vigorous scale this very able body will be on the Wales inaugurated in 1023, is the graciousness and light. The decora a considerable sum to our credity

The Warspite, which the Prince of vanished, and in its place are of legally, fixed charges can reducer lines we suggest-namely that only descendant of seven earlier training on is subdued. There is a dado and with respect to that I can only There will still remain, no doubt, them. Sky-scrapers (if hy such mort building, and not more Ordin-ships which have been maintained of onyx dorato, pale yellow and say I adhere to the opinion I ex- by the Marine Society since 1780, we may designate our ances, will reduce rents. We hope when their Brst ship, the Beatty cream in colour but tinged with pressed, that it is very desirable in modest Bank of Canton, Asiatic, the Committee will be also able to was monred between Deptford, and

pink. Above this dado are cream tbear timer, especially in every Kayamally, Exchange, and other persuade Chinese merchant princes Greenwich. In 1848 a move was

plaster walls with no other colour Crown Colony, the Governor should but their gilded, enrichments. The endeavour to keep a certain balance "hutments") seem to be the ob that a very comfortable income, venient moorings off Charlton Pier emphasized by the lighting from dollars. It is very desirable to do made to more healthy and con- greater height of the room is in hand, a few hundred thousand vious solution. The Government even if not quite on the present Woolwich; and it was in 1901 that

triglypha in the Iricze. These so. We may be called on at any can certainly play a big part scale, is to be obtained from money village of. Stone, near Greenhithe triglyphs, are made in England moment to incur heavy expenses not overlooking the Southern Side of the rin seeing that our resources are invested in real property of a class was chosen. The present Warsnite froin a new kind of glass, which is calculated in the Colonial expendi-

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN with all Modern Conveniences, Drying NA INTERIM DIVIDEND Rooms and Cut-houses, Two Lits.

of 19, 6p. Per Share on account of the Year ending 31at MARCH, 1930. has been declared by the Directors of the Company in BRIANE, Payable to Shareholders on the Registers at BRISBANE and SINGAPORE on THURG. DAY, ÉT: DECEMBER, 1929, -

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that

BINGAPORE the TRANSFER REGISTERS will be CLOSED From THURSDAY, Brn NOVEMBER To THURSDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1929, Both Days inclusive, for the Preparation of "Dividend Warrantar

By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, Local Secretarios. Hong Kong Bank Chambers,

SINGAPORE, 6th Nov,, 1929. (8635

HONG KONG ART CLUB.

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PRIVATE GARAGES

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Situate at the Bear of PEAK MANSIONS, Separate Compartments including Light and Water. Apply to

CREDIT FONCLER D'EXTREME ORIENT.

4TH FLOOR, FROM BARK BUILDING,

THE TIME FOR BLANKETS

18 HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEMP

name

used to best advantage, but it can do more by suggestion and veto than by elaborate legislation. It' can, for example, prevent valuable space, ideally situated for, shops and offices, being wasted on super- Euous hotela and bars. The re

which they will be proud to own.

News and Views:

One Chinesa ense of diphtheria building of the central district of was the only entry in the M.O.E. the city is, however, an expensive return of patifiable diseases for method, and the very fact that Tuesday. every new block must tend to reduce

the rent of its neighbours.no doubt recently arrested in Shanghai on a Mr. Instone Brewer, who was puts 11 curb on the investor. charge of perjury, is expected in Capital is waiting until the effect the Colony to-day by the Empress of the new edifices on the old Hong of Russia. He is in custody of Kong Hotel site, in Queen's Road Sergt. C. Mottram. Centrul, and the former King Ed- ward Hotel can be satisfactorily

The first race on the card for the guaged. Hong Kong is not, after Ninth Extra Race Meeting at MEMBERS of the Committee at all, a very large place, and it je Happy Valley on November 30 is s tend at the Society's Boom, possible that present enterprise may race confined to the staff of Messrs. OnY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and appreciably relieve the pressure and Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., and GIFTS of BLANKETS, Fart-worn lead to a real reduction in rents. the Jardine Engineering Cornern On the other hand, tremolari winners. Are barred

The race is not for any stake, but "HONG KONG BENEVOLENT-

that while everyone hopes to see the the winning jockey will be present BOCIETY.

ed with a cup. Colony's commence grow, and

THUBSDAY, at 10.30 to receive

(EST. 1889.)

[8348

grow

the more open situation off the

also used in the laylights that on ture," What these expenses are was formerly H.M. cruiser Her-the opening night dooded the new likely to be His Excellency does not mione. Her new berth is about 2 dance floor with varying shades of indicate, but it is very possible that miles from the old one.

colour. At the north end of the Re refers to the contingency of a main portion of the restaurant foreign war, which is still by no Canon Alexander, addressing the there is an alcove of delicately means an improbable event. Wo St. Paul's Lecture Society in the carved plaster, from which any. should like to see the surplus spent crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral specially engaged artists can entery useful works, but of course if there is any real necessity--un- last month on "How St. Paul's the dance floor and which a other has been preserved," said that in times forms a comfortable dining known to the community-for stor- view of the entire reopening of the recess. The old engraved mirrors,ing up for a rainy day, then" we Cathedral in June next all who which have always been admired, can only concur in the wisdom of eared for it should take an intelli. and the silver pagodas on the the remarks made by Mr. Hen- gent interest in the historic work elephants' backs have been retained nessey. At the same time, i which had been accomplished in the new scheme. The rest is all trouble is apprehended, it would be work which had taken 17 yours. new, and bronze windows have been wiser to defer the commencement of "An engineer of the greatest put into the south wall to give more unnecessary works like the conten eminence has recently assured me colour and light. The furnishingsplated now folly [a prison] où from independent study of the are charming; the curtains are al- Stonecutter's Island, and employ question that the Cathedral was most white with a delicate pattern; the money in securing ou, efficient taken in hand only just in time. the chairs are light green and up water supply for the Colony and I appeal, strongly to the men of holstered in rose pink, and the car- improving the sanitation of Tai- London," Canon Alexander said, pets are in two tones of rose. The pingshian. There is very much to as the Cathedral is now about to delicacy of the result gives little be done in this direction, and it has been neglected only too long. The he handed back in increased vitality idea of the engineering work en- to London and to the Empire, totailed, in the removal of the six water supply is notoriously inade-- do your utmost to prove yourselves columns in the centre of the restaur-quate, and although the cost of Mr. St. Paul's has a great future before structure, all of which was carried very heavy it would be far better to worthy of your glorious inheritance. ent and the support of the super-Price's low level scheme would be. it, and it is your part to identify cut by Messrs. Derman, Long & spend the money upon such an un- yourselves more and more with its Co. under the supervision of Sir doubted benefit than to expand it worship and to help in every way Johur."Wolfe-Barry and Partners. | upon criminals, whe Biready cost possible to extend its usefulness and Mr. Basil. Ienides was responsible the Colony too much.--Hong Kong io deepen its influence."

for the decorations,

Daily Preis, November 21, 1878,