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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

ST. ANDREW'S BALL, 1929.

CT. ANDREWS BALL will be

hebil in the PENINSULA

HOTEL TO-NIGHT at 9.30 PM.

Thero wili bo a FIVE MINUTES SERVICE of FERBIES From 9.00 to 9.30 P.M. and SPECIAL LATE FERRIES at 1.15. 1.30. 2.00, 2.30 and 3.00 AM.

SPECIAL LATE BEAK TRAMS Will

Bus EVERY HALF HOUR From 100 to 300 A.M. inclusive.

It is requested that Those Intending to be Present at the OFFICIAL SUPPER Sexied it Good Time before the Formatien of the OFFICIAL TABLE PARTY, which will be Formed in the FIRST FLOUR LOUNGE at 11.20 P.M.

18058

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

"O LATE CARS Will Ran Alter 12.05 on The NIGHT of

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SUNDAY, lar DECEMBER.

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

TOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN

NOTI

That pareant to Articles 33 and 31 of the Articles of Association of the CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD., the Diretora for the purpose of Enforcing and in exercise of the Company's fica there upon have Sold the Undermentioned 6,659 Shares in the said Compasy and have CANCELLED the Undermen. tioned Serip namely:--

Scrip No.

7230

·8240

INTIMATIONS.

WARNING

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929.

HE Directors of the above Com-

pany HEREBY WARN the PUBLIC" that A NUMBER of SHARE CERTIFICATES Have Been Fraudulently obtained-from- the Company and the Holders of the Share Certificates representing. the Undermentioned Shares are re quented to forthwith communicate with the General Managers of the Company, Messrs, JOHN D. HUM PHREYS & SON:-

"Shares Numbered:~

2301"

2802/2810

2311/2360

2861/2883

2886/2900

04701/84750 64751/64790 64791 64800 106321/106353 106354/106420 126876/128921 124922 125946 126047 126976 145490/145514 145515/145564 145565/145589 11301/11500.

19301/19350 19351/10385

19368/19400 24801 24650. 34251/34300 34301 34350 40501 40550

56705 56894

40551:40600

47801/47825

56301/56324

56325/56371

56375/56400

58201/58294

63295/68300

59795/50894

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$3601/93650

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96201/96300

4C401-48500

103705/103729

10312-10341

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10725

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10726

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By Order,

L. E. GUTERRES,

Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, 26th Nor,, 1929, 8409

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE

THE NINTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING will be held (Weather- Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER, 1929, Commencing at 1.30 P.M.

'The First Ball will be Rung at 1,00 r.M. The Charge for Admission by the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all fermon including Lolies.

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Half Price.

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members" Enclosure.

Each Member has the right to in- troduce 2 Non-members to the Members' Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be abtained from MuSTE, LINSTEAD & DAVIS, at $5.00 Each Up to FRIDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER, 1929.

The Chargo for Admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.00. Each Member can obtain, upon, Ap-

to

plication the SECRETARY. Badges for Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge. Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men. BLC.. will not be permitted to operate with- in the Precincts of the BoNG KONG Jazz OLUB daring the flace Meeting,

NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.

139776/139862 29401/29500

29501 20600

4830142880 48851 48875 48370-48900 70401/70600

87195 '87200

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139413/139462

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

STANLEY.

HE NEW

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TUESDAY, 3RE DECEMBER. There will be An EN- TRANCE EXAMINATION for NEW BOYS-Boarders and Day-Boys-at 9.30 AM. on:: SATURDAY, 307H NOVEMBER.

There is Increased. Accommodation Information may be obtained from the WARDEN or from Mx. LI HOI TUNG, BANKER & Co., BANK OF

[8678 CHINA BUILDING.

121343/121442 20801/20900 20901/21000

93201/99300

120788/120387 106749/106773

85701/85800

62401/62500

63695/58896

*38681/38600

By Order of the Board,

JARNA Boty

& SON, General Managers, November 27, 1020.

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Local Forecast:-E. winds, fresh to moderate, cloudy.

News and Views.

One Chinese case of small-pox was reported on Wednesday,

has been formally prohibited, the Chinese people persist in smoking Yesterday's weather report, fore-it-and growing it! Here in Hong cast and remarks, issued by the Kong it is estimated that from 20 Royal Observatory nt 5 p.m.,to 23 per cent. of the adult Chinese population indulge in the habit. stated:-

Moreover, there appears to be no great volume of public opinion among the Chinese cominunity. of The Helen May Institute is Hong Kong which is either hostile holding its annual meeting to-day. or even critical toward the use of opium. This being so, the only at the Institute at 5 p.m. possible, way to prevent use of the drug in this Colony is to diminish or stop its production elsewhere. There is no poppy-growing within the territory administered by the Government of Hong Kong, but of the illicit opium seized by the authorities last year no less than

The Legislative Council yester three-quarters of it was of Chinese origin, while most of the raw opium seized bore Chinese revenne labels day, adopted the Supplementary These frets prove that no effectivo Estimates of the Finance Commit- control upon the production of the totalling $2,338 and also the opinm 18

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HONG KONG, November 29, 1929.

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The Scottish Company of the church II.K.V.DC will attend parade on Sunday morning next at the Union Church, Kennedy Road.

RETURN OF THE SAMOANS.

AN INTERESTING TOUR..

As will be seen from our adver- tising columns, the Samoan Dan cers are to give two entertainmenta | next Monday and Tuesday in the Theatre Royal: The troupe arous- ed auch enthusiasm lost March hat its doings since may be of interes

From here the Samoans went to

Shanghai, afid for four weeks play." ed at the Majestic Hotel, the Embassy

Theatre, and several other theatres and cabarets. Just before reaching. Tientsin, they were detained owing to serious illness in their troupe, one boy dying of peritonitis. But. handicapped as they were, they played so well up North they never got more enthusiastic audiences in

the course of the tour

Then came a long engagement.

Details of the estimates have al-with the Shochikuza, the biggest

ready been published.

The Governor of Macao.

:.

Dismal Russia.

theatrical circuit in Japan. Dur- ing the summer months they play- ed the resort's, hotels, and clubs. in that country, always with the success one has come to expect t them--"the "best show since the earthquake," was the plaudit of the Secretary of the Yokohama Cone- try and Athletic Club. At one of he entertainments the president of the Columbia Graphophone Company of Japan was so pleased that he asked them to make seven

Was the first time Samoan music had ever been record-

in

from Shanghai, ready to give their Hong Kong friends an entertain- nient even better than any they gave last March. The programme will

the include all

And Samoan. Hawaiian dances that proved most nonular before Princess Roselani will sing her Hawaiian songs, the begs have learned new steel guitar lectiona; little Lei lima will sing several popular songs in English; and the two little girls will dance &

umber of new dances that specially well in Peping.

went

neighbouring Chinese provinces, in Crimmitter's Reports (Nos. 15 and LES, spite of various edicts and Ordín 18 dated October 31, 1909. and ancea How many persons there are November 99, 1020 respectively." in the Colony given to the habit of opium-smoking it is impossible to say, any more than it is possible to estimate the quantity consumed. In the first place there is the im

At the conchision of the ex- THE USE OF OPIUM..

possibility of ascertaining the exact population of Hong Kong, and hibition tennis match between M. Asvose who hĩa a shadow of doubt secondly, there is the impossibility W. Lo (champion of the Colony) as to what happens when an ir- of estimating the amount of opium and A. L. Rumjahn, which is resistible force meets an immovable smuggled into the Colony. It is

believed that the quantity smuggled scheduled to start at 3.30 p.m." body can satisfy his curiosity bys at least equal to the amount to-morrow on the C.R.C. ground, Here in legitimately sold, and probably very Miss Kwok Sheung Man, daughter coming to Hong Kong. this Colony we have daily demon largely exceeds it. Government strations of such conflicts, though pium costs 814.50 per tael, while of Mr. Kwok Sui Lau, will dis- probably few people fully realise the fact. Slavery has been abolish the smuggled drug sella at about a tribute the prizes won by the Club records. "It

quarter of that price. This dis- ed in territory under the British parity, coupled with the ease with members during the past year.ed, and judging from the test re- flag, yet slavery exists in Hong which smuggling can be carried on The Chinese Recreation Club will cords several will be quite equal

to the finest Hawaiian records. Kong. The use of, and traffic in owing to favourable geographien he holding their annual "At Home"

On their way to Peping they opium has been long ago prohibited, conditions, obviously points to an

during the afternoon.

second successful stopped for a suppressed, and abandoned in China, enormous illicit traffic going on

The engagement

Tientsic, yet the Chinese throughout the coun- which may be assumed to exceed

crowds that gathered to see them in try continue to smoke their pipes very considerably the volume of

the Grand Hotel de Pekin were the and the Chinese in Hong Kong are trade rigorously controlled by the H. E. the Governor of Macao, largest the manager had known for

It is to be Government. The population of among the number.

five years and besides four perform- hoped that the anti-opium crusaders the Colony has increased very con- Senhor Barbosa will arrive in in England will not be in too great siderably since

the Hong Kong on December 3 or 4 by ances there and nine at a local a hurry to condemn the Hong Kong amount of the opium sold by the MM, steamer "D'Artagnan." theatre they were called upon for

several private parties.. Government for encouraging this the Government in these years when, with Madame Barbosa, he "vice'

dropped from As well as slavery." The has

At Shanghai they "again played 639,000 tö facts should be first very carefully 247,000" taela. This is not to say

will be the guest of H.E. Sir Cecil three nights at the Majestic Hotel examined, and they are clearly set that opium-smoking has decreas Clementi, and Lady Clementi for and six days at the Embassy out in a Memorandum just issued ed. proportionately. A memoran two days. The Portuguese com-Theatre.

arranging an On Monday morning they arrive. by the Government of this Colony. dum just published by the Hong unity here are It would be a very simple matter Kong Government gives the ap-afternoon reception in honour of to issue an rdict from Whitehallproximate number of consumers as the Governor of Macao on his re

tara from leave in Portugal. that the use of opinm in Hong 195,000-but surely this is an ex- Kang shall be prohibited as from cessive figure? It represents April or any other appropriate per cent. of the estimated entire HE. Sir C. Clemati Remaining THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Here I February 1. date in the calendar," but the task population of the Colony as showa af preventing evasion of the pro- by the census of 1921, whereas the

His Excellency, Sir Cecil Clemen, Phone C. 16.

hibition would be beyond the power figure given should represent one- of man so long as there are thou fifth of the adult population--a ti, K.CMG., and Lady Clementi KOWLOON DISPENSARY, K. 19. sands of acres of poppy-fields within very different matter in this highly are not leaving Hong Kong, till easy distance of the two hundred prolific community. At the same February 1, when they will sail for miles of coastline which ne Bong time, it is certain that the popula-Singapore by the 3.2. Mantua. Sit Established 1841.

Kong Government could effectively tion figures for 1921 are very much Cecil will take over his duties as patrol. Exeter Hall has been long below the present number of Governor of the Straits Settlements pulled down, and the site occupied residents in the Colony, and if the and High Commissioner of the by a building used for more popular population may be approximately Federated Malay States on arrival.

The body of a Chines was purposes, but what may be called estimated at about a million and a There is, as yet, no news as to who the Exeter Hall spirit" still requarter. 20 per cent. of the adult will he appointed Governor of

recovered when a junk which be- rame submerged in the southern mains, and occasionally makes itself section of it might give a total Hong Kong veral. The vision of a British of 80,000 opium-smokers, Rut in

fairway during the week-end was Colonial Government filling its matters of this kind it is quite im- coffers with revenue from the sale possible to reach any concrete con-

The two hundred British tourists raised yesterday. The man was re of opium may provoke an outburst clusions. The population of the who visited Soviet Russia during ported to be missing at the time. of indignation which is not war Colony is an unknown quantity, as the Baltic cruise, concluded by the ranted by the facts therefore the is the amount of opium smuggled Royal Mail Steam Parket Com- NTI Certificate for 8 Sharex facts should be first carefully in, the only definitely known factors pany's liner Arcadian at Southamp-Looking Back 25 Years.

Yesterday, in Mr. Gompertz's in the problem are the amount of ton, were not greatly impressed by examined.

Just as there is a very wide enium sold by the Government, and their experiences. In practically Court, while a case was prosceding, every instance they declared the and several policeman standing by, difference of oninian-medical and the amount seized by revenue-

soune Chinaman had the audacity of officers and searchers. Official sales country to be devoid of ambition. ethical-regarding the

An advanced state atechol, so is there is a marked have gone down very considerably, and in

of to steal a European's hat, nimost divergence of view concerning in which probably means not that the dilapidation. Mr. T. E. Crion, of from under his Worship's nose. dulgence in aptum. The results of opium habit is less popular, but Bryn-y-Mor. Road, Swansea, said:

would surely be hard to imagine a excess in both cases are painfully that smugglers have been more if you carry a parcel through the more cheeky theft than that: al chvinus; the feeble and fragile form | successful.

streets you are immediately stop- of the vietin of opium is recog

The position of the Hong Kongped by a policeman, who wants to though it is on record that a China- man une marched into Court with rised as easily as the trembling Goverment in regard to the opium know how and where you got it, ladder, and stole the clock.- limba and fuddled mind of the dip traffic is an exceedingly differt and the manner to retain the goods Hong Kong Daily Press, November somaniac. But what of those whose one, but it has done its best to you have purchased is to produces, 1991. indulgence does not go to excess comply with the obligationis imposed the receipt. The people are toler- declare that the great majority of of 1912 and the Geneva Opiure visitor with a certain ammat of Careful and competent observers under the Hague Optum Conventionably civil, but they regard the Locking Back 50 Years.

There is a good homely proverb those addicted to a moderate Agreement of 1925. Production of amazement. The country is devoid arent the folly of cutting off one's. amount of upium-smoking find in the drug in the Colony is proof ambition, and under the present now to spite one's face, which some the habit a stimulating influence hibited: ita importation and distri conditions Russia will nover recommanities, as well as individuals. which enables then, to withstand hation is a Government monopoly; nyer. There is no incentive to the would do well to lay to heart. The A moderate the sale of opium to miners is pro- people to work. There is, in fact, people of British Columbia, accord fatigue and hunger.

general impression that there willing to the latest accounts received smoker of opium who has plenty of hibited, and childrer in the schools active work to do is said to be no are warned against indulgence in another revolution before very from that at present rather isolated country, are bent upon showing more affected by the habit than the the opium habit. Very heavy long. People walk about with an

who indulges in tobacco. penalties-fines and imprisonment expression of seriousness on their fatuity of the kind mentioned. It When, however, opium-smoking is are imposed for infringement of the faces. I did not see a single smile, appears that the agitation against the Chinese, who have for the last carried to exeres it becomes an in-laws relating to opium, and grent but only sullen looks." veterate babit-ns does indulgence expense is incurred in the mainten-

two or three years been rapidly in oleobotic liquor and the weak ance of a preventive service against The Manchurian Muddle.

augmenting in large numbers in the willed victim of the craving drifts smuggling-but the task is well-nigh

Colony, to the dismay of the Cer- While Chinese, diplomats abroad Caucasian population, helplessly and hopelessly to ruin.impossible of achievement.

bas · noy The official Memorandum just pub: tainly it is beyond the financial are busily engaged in explaining taken the shape of a definite protest ished says the general physique of means of the Colony to enrry but reasons why the Powers should do against their being employed in the Chinese population of this completely and efficiently, and so something to protres China against constructing the proposed Canadian Colony does not appear to give any it comes about that we have one alleged Russian nets of aggression Pacific Railway.... It would indication of the ill-effects of the more example of what happens in Manchuria, an arrangement is indeed be a great pity if the com- reported to have been reached be-pletion of a work that will un- use of opiuin. The habit is common when an irresistible force meets an

an immense in who are engaged in hear manual total suppression of the use of and Eastern Provinces and the Soviet duence on the fortunes of that vast among members of the coolic class immovable body. Failure to achieve tween the Governor of the Three doubtedly have

Chinese Eastern territory known as the Dominion of Inbour, and among rural workers traffic in opium is not due to in- regarding the in localities where fever is pre- difference or inefficiency on the part Railway dispute. If this news is Canada should be deferred through valent. By these folk, and alen by of the Hong Kong Government, and true-and there are more reasons the unreasoning folly of a coin- those suffering from pulmonary dis- it is to be hoped that anti-opium for believing than doubting it-yet munity which numbers less than ease, opium is regarded as of grent eruanders will reengnise the fact. another complication arises but of twenty thousand porzons. Unfor medicinal value. It is beyond ours-If they read the official Memoran- this wretched controversy. China, tuuately they will not be the only tion that there are a large number dum carefully they will realise how rightly or wrongly, complains that sufferers by the delay. The growth of "persons regularly indulging in imposible it is, in existing circum-hostile nets have been committed of the inland province of Manitoba, opium:moking who are no more the stences, to prevent Chinese in this in a certain area of her territory. even now fast rising into import worse for it than are those who Colony indulging in opium-making. The local Administration in that ance, would receive a great impetus derive a pleasant stimulating in- Prohibited or not, there is a great territory, acting independently of by having railway communications fluence from drinking a glass or demand for the drug within a few the Central Government, reaches an with the two oceans, while the en- two of wine.at meals or even be-hours of the Colony there are amicable understanding with the tire Dominion world be quickened tween mealtimes. There are very abundant supplies to be bad. Over alleged disturber of the peace. In into more active development. We many

carnest men and women 4.000 persons enter the Colony by such circumstances an appeal by sincerely trust that the authorities who do not themselves indulge in rail or sen every day in the year; China to outsiders for sympathy of British Colugin will be deaf alcoholic drinks, and who would, if a thousand junks enter the harbour and help is not likely to meet with and blind to this ill-advised protest, Certainly and engage as many Chinese as they they could, prevent others from every month from various points an any cordial response,

their bodies and the China coast; more than 23,000 the Power most interested, Japan, wish for such employment, to assist poisoning" brains. So it is with opium-there junks and sampane are actually re- will be very pleased to learn that a in the construction of the railway. railway in The British Columbians will doubt are many earnest people, Chinese gistered in Hong Kong and are con- dispute relating to'

an less, in the not very remote future, as well na foreigners, who sincerely stantly moving up and down a const-Manchuria operated under believe opium to be the curse of the line in the Colony, and New Ter agreement with "China" has been perceive the egregious folly and the demon rum" is re-ritory which is about 200 miles long settled on terma which re-establish injustice of their opposition to country as of their well-known Wines and Spirits in presented to be the root cause of all fishing-fleet of several thousand the situation which existed before Chinese labour when the supply of Hong Kong. None out date Firmedvidenozoikea poduzetealazzianka logic. Am pos2 Milisis for the Central other labour is a limited and the considered. Please give Trade Hefer but they are both wrong.

call it nothing more of assistance Government, its position will be an RCCBSity for the WOT TO ONTO ences in the United Kingdom if possible. The fact remains, then, that to smugglers. These half-dozen impossible one if this agreement be- and urgent.-Hong Kong Daily

tween Mukden and Moscow stands. Press, November 28, 1879, Preference given to a General Store. although the use of opium in China peints explain the whole situation.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Non. 20085/20092 inaned in the Name of

OK GIDEON BALLOCH

bran declared LOST and should the Sain aut be produced Before the DECEMBER, 1929, It shall be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT. GIBD, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.,

Agents. Hong Kong, Nov. 20th, 1929. [8851

Re HONG KONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING & SAVINGS SOCIETY, LTD.

(IN LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ADJOURNED MEET ING of CONTRIBUTORIES will b held at the CITY HALL (MUSIC Rooms) FRIDAY, the 29 NOVEMBER. 1929, at 2.30 P.M:

J. HENNESSEY SETH, S. HAMPDEN ROSS,

Joint Liquidators.

8588

INVESTMENT.

ONEYS, Amounting

to

M $300,000 Are Available for Investment on First Class Mortgage Security Proferably for Short Periods.

Apply to 'Mzssus, WOO & NASH, Nos. 4 & 6, Queen's BoAD CENTRAL, Hong Kong. (8668

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AGENTS WANTED.

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