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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

NOTICE.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE 00., LTD.

N order to facilitate the Tnvestiga IN to t Number of

Shares Certificates which have bean Fraudulently obtained from the Com- pany, All Holdem of Share Certificater of the Company are requested to read in Full Particulars of their Holdings, Number of Certificates,

Owner. the Actual-Nu Name of

of-the

Shares orared, by the Certificater, the Date of Issue of Such Certificates and their Felic Nambors, to The GENERAL MANAGERS As Soon As Possible.

to

RFUME

GIFTS

By the leading

makers

COTY GODET CARON RIGAUD

VIVILLE

By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

D'ORSAY

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BOURJOIS

G.

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

OD MONDAY,

the

bo hald 16TH DAY of DECEMBER, 1929, at 3 x.x st the

Offical of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hie EXOLLECT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND Shamahnipe, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, com mancing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty TES KING, for ons further term of 24 years less three days.

No. of Sale.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locality.

Sha Wan Road &

Junction of Choong

Kweilio Street,

| Registry No.

Boundary

Measure-

ment.

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дя рег

sale plan

Contents in

Square feet.

4.

Annual

Rental,

| Upot Price.

About

15,800

23,700

GUERLAIN JEAN PARY

HOUBIGANT

Chocolates

THE HONG KONG DAILY

In beautiful caskets.

FOSS

MELTIS

NEILSON

MAISON AMIEUX

[8734

A. S.

B.

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PUBLIC AUCTION..

PARTICU

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 16TH DAY of DECEMBER, 1929, at 3 FM., at the Offices of the Public Works Department,by Order of His EXCELLENT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at WODE Nei Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE Kısa, for one further term of 75 geurs.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Rogistry No.

Locality,

No. 2270, Village

Inland Lot

No. 2481.

Eset of Inland Lot

Road.

Boundary

| Measure-

menta."

Дарог

sale plan

Contents in

About

Equare feet,

Annual

Rental.

068 01

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

[6735

39,780

Upset Price.

ARTICULABS & CONDITIONS

Pale by Public Auction to

be held on MONDAY, the luru DAY of DECEMBER, 1929, at 3 r.., at the

WATSON

Ltd.

ESTD. 1841.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore cast "and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.m.,

stated-

miat.

PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929.

News and Views.

should be formed was ruled out of order.

The chairman stated that the financial position would be fully revealed when the scheme for re- organisation was put before share- holders.We do not pretend." he European Y.M.C.A. debate,

to it."

Conditions over China are uncer- tain. Fresh monsoon may be ex pected over the S.W. position of the China Sea and moderate mon- soon over other portions.

These and many other similar Local Forecast: N.E. winds, incidents of late seem to suggest moderate clouds, some drizzle or that shareholders are beginning to wake up to the facts, first, that they have some rights, and second, that directors have some respon. sibilities. In this connection it is interesting to note that the new Companies Act, which come into fores in Great Britain last month, contains many of the reforms first enacted by last year's statute, only

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Tel. Central 4811. London Office: 91. Bride. Lane,

Fleet Street, E.C. 4

The Baily Press.

Hoso Kova, DECEMBER 12, 1020.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

OF DIRECTORS.

LONDON papers recently have con |tained many references of a critical character, to compary directors, their duties and responsibilities. That these criticisms have had some

19.

"Non-Stop" Manis.

Memphis has a plague of endur- ance contests. No sooner had a 106 hour' bicycle-riding contest ended

Joys of Steeple-chasing."

The antiquary follows many. carious pathe. One of the most curious is surely that of bell-fiunt-

We are asked to state that the than two young men started outing, with all its labour of tracing ar- on a non-stop refuelling gumches founders and deciphering inscrip-

said, " to have achieved success, but ranged for this evening has beening endurance contest. They gave tons. Yet one of its great joya, as we do pretend to be on the way postponed to Thursday, December up for sleep after fourteen hours Mr. E. H. Cheetham, of Southport, Then told the Lancashire and Cheshire of continuous jaw motion. Evelyn Walker (15) started her non-Antiquarian Society in his lecture At Lane, Crawford's this after-talking contest, and set a date on the church bells of Lancashire last month is that it is like steeple- noon, from 4.30 to 6.30, the string twenty-four hours away as the time chasing is, in fact, steeple-chasing unusually literal sense. octet from H.M.S. Hermes will play for breaking silence. Murphy Gray, in an

to see what bells there are," sid a number of selections. On Satura typist, was confident that he had-When you go out for the day от other after Mr. Cheetham, you are always day next these talented musicians done something wil make another appearance at pounding a typewriter for thirty satisfied with the result, because, Lane, Crawford's, playing from 7.45 one hours, with a total of nearly even if it is a negative result, it

telis you something; but when." half a million words. And then, to 9.43.

just as it appeared that the endurwithout any expectation, you drop upon a mediaval bell, you come Shareholders in the Humphreys doce contest term had been routed, home in an extraordinarily good group of boys started out in pur Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., are requested to sead the general man-suit of the fos-hour bicycle-riding

record.

two sections of which ever became operative. The interesting point; about this new law is whether these reforms give the public better pro- tection as shareholders, from fraud by directors and promoters. It may be observed at the outset that no Act of Parliainent can directly pre vent rogues entrusted with money from embezzling it, whether they are trustees, agents, solicitors, stuck. brokers, or company directors. The law can only punish the wrong-doer after he has committed his offence; and, to some extent, prevent rascals from obtaining money by false pre- tences. This is done in respect of effect is evident from the proceed-public companies by the require ings at various company meetings ment of a prospectus, in which cer- Some weeks ago shareholders who tain statements of fact are compul- attended the first ännual generalsory, directors being fully fiable meeting of a company operating for their truth, unless they can multiple fruit-shops were told that show positively that they have had instend of a profit of more than good reason to believe a false state- £35,000 (as estimated in the pro-ment. This requirement, being an spectus) there was a loss on the awkward one for swindlers, bas year's working of nearly £5,000. hitherto been evaded at home in two The chairman of the board of direc ways: (1) House-to-house share. tors said he and his colleagues view-hawking

pushing, made illegal

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agers full details of their holdings.

"Sale" of Land on the Moon. It appears a number of share cer tifientes have been frudulently

A strange case of rural innocence obtained, and the managers are

is reported in the Warsaw Press, anxious to make a thorough inves A well-to-do peasant went to War- saw from his native village to do tigation of the situation. Further some shoping. At the market he details, will be found, in an adverheard two men discussing the bad.

tisement elsonbere.

conferred.

!

to

the

moon.

contract was

When he awoke. the

After Ten Years.

"

humour," Mr. Cheetham drew at-"

tention to the recommendations of

the Central Council for the Care of Churches about the recasting of bells, especially those by famous founders, which was that the en richment and inscription should be reproduced in facsimile. The Man- chester, Advisory Committes, how- ever, he said, had allowed the Cathedral bells to be recast withous regard to those recommendations. and the same thing bad occurred at Sacred Trinity, Salford, at Eccles Parish Church, and at Leyland. It was really very easy thing to reproduce the hell in absolute facsimile so that, except for the newness, one could not tell that it was not the original bell..

W

"Is There Not Wel Ch' I."

times. One man said he had de cided to emigrate to the United States. The other man was not im- His Excellency the Governor and pressed; and, assured him that Lady Clementi are giving a dance America was no use now for those seeking fortunes, and that the moon was to be the next grent paradise at Government House to-night, to which a large number of residents for ambitious emigrants. The pea- sant opened his big ears wider, and heard what wonderful things bad. have been invited. It will be the first pecasion on which the new

been written in the newspapers

"There are," wrote Confucius in ballroom has been used. During about airships and projectiles going Apparently that

600 B... "muny who think of eating the evening, . E. the Governor poetic planet had already been without applying their mind for the will invest Majer D. G. Cheyne, reached, and revealed land rich with entire day to any occupation, M.C., R.A.M.C., with the O.B.E. gold and silver. Ineinuating him. What a life! Is there not wei

self into this highly interesting disch'I Meng Tzu. the divine also commended it. eussion, he soon discovered that, the Mencius," decoration, recently Prior to the dance, there will be man of knowledge was a mining en- This ancient Chinese game, of which a dinner party to which about gineer, who had actually had the very few English people have heard, good fortune to acquire some of the

was recently played at the Waldorf" forty guests have been invited, in-valuable land on the moon. Soon Hotel by Captain Pullein-Thomp- the peasant was offering the en-

son, who is introducing it to the... cluding Major Cheyne.

gineer a large sum of money for public. Its antiquity, unlike that just a small portion of the land of mah jhong, is indisputed. which was to make him a million Traditionally it is supposed to have Canon Streeter's Visit,

Canon B. H. Streeter, Reader in aire. Finally the engineer agreed been invented by the Emperor Yac Christina Origins in the University to this. A lawyer was found. About 2350 8.c., but it has been drawn up. Money essentially an aristocratic game for But the drink the last 2,000 years. It reached its ed the position with grave concern, about a year ago; and (2) offers of Oxford, Fellow of the Queen's changed hands. and had endeavoured to ascertain for sale" of shares already issued, College, Oxford, and Fellow of the which accompanied all this legal highest pitch during the Tsing business sent the peasant te sleep dynasty of the seventeenth century, to the promoter's British Academy, is due to arrive the inn where the transactions and champions received the title of the details upon which a certificate. but merely

"First Band of the Empire." of past profits (published in the nominees and for the purposes of frem Shanghai by the Empress of took place.

The the offer. The new Act requires a Asia to-day. As already reported, strangers and lawyer had disap- Chinese literature and art abounds prospectus) was arrived at.

he informed the police, who at first the advantage of being exceedingly board of directors had also instruct", prospectus to be issued by persons Canon Streeter came out to the Far reared with his money, and when with references to the game. It has ed the company's auditors to in offering shares in this way, and thus Fast as delegate from Great Britain took him for a lunatic, he discover simple or exceedingly complex, ae- the makes disclosure of facts compul to the Institute of Pacific Relations, ed sadly that his innocence and cording to the skill of the players. vestigate and "report upon various businesses purchased for the sory in this case also. So much held in Japan last October. At the cupidity had cost him a large, sum Half an hour's study will enable

of hard-earned money.

anyone to play, but to play like a master takes years. Wel-ch'I is years covered by this certiäcute. money, however, has been, and can request of certain groups in Chinn

played on a square map on which The chairman's statement failed to be, made from selling worthless he has spent the greater part of the

are drawn at equal distances nine- placate the disappointed share. shares to the public on flamboyant latter half of the year lecturing in

teen interesting lines, thus forming 381 intersections, the number of helders, and instead of passing the statements as to their value, that China Canon Streeter went up to

days in the ancient Chinese calen- usual resolution from the chair an it is difficult to say that the swind Oxford in 1993, and originally in

dar. The map represents the an inhabited world and is divided into amendment was unanimously car-lers and their legal advisers have tended to enter his father's profen ried, directing that the directors' beer entirely checkmated by the sion of the law. At the University

four sections, and the game is syn- report be viewed but not adopted new law, though they have certainly he became an agnostic, then found

bolic of the conflict of nations. The number and variety of moves is in an intellectual basis for religion; suffered enormous damages during finite. Wei-ch I, or, "the surround- Further, this amendment directed been checked.

ing counters," consists in elaborate that four independent preference A very significant statement was read theology and took Orders; the invasion. The total has never been determined, but it is put some

stones." A brilliant player may shareholders he appointed as a com-made recently by Sir MARK WEUSTER nearly resigned his Orders on dis-

where between six and twenty mil-strategic movements of the men of mittee of investigation, independent | JENKINSON, one of the directors of covering that his position did not lions. The ratification is the result retrieve a hopeless position at the of the directors, with power to Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd. Speaking seem watertight, but finally gained of negotiations which have been ac end of a game simply because he employ accountants and solicitors, on the general subject of appoint-renewed confidence that in religion tively pursued for over ten years, knows the position of perhaps two After the war the French Govern gross of counters. Wei-ch' has and, if necessary, to take the ing directors of public companies, man can attain to a genuine appre- ment recompensed their nationals many stories connected with it, the opinion of counsel; that the chair-be said that so long as boards of hension of reality, and has given up out of their own war indemnity best of which is that of the well- nan, and vice-chairman be invited directors are constituted without his life to working out and passing funds, and also paid compensation mannered players. Two players of

to English firms trading in France

the chess," to place their resignations in the regard to the qualifications of those on to others the truth he has seen. under French registration, but variety of our game, quarrelled hands of the shareholders' committee selected, and so long as shareholders He is at the present time one of could not accept any responsibility violently over the move of a castle. if, after full investigation, the com- prefer a man with a nume to a man

with a future, so long will other Oxford's outstanding scholars, and for indemnifying English firms in They shouted at the top of their France. The matter was taken "up voices, and then, feeling sehamed, mittee should so desire: and that nations continue, to beat Great enjoys an international reputation. by the Federation of British Indus said, "Our friends who are play- the committee submit at the ad-Britain in competition for trade. During his stay in Hong Kong tries on behalf of these firms. An ing wei-ch I upstairs give no sign "If as much attention were devoted Canon Streeter will address an open attempt to persuade the British of life, being intent on their game journed meeting the names of two

Government to pay compensation and well mannered." Going up- to the boards of limited companies, gentlemen of practical experience in many of them of national import meeting this afternoon at 5.30 out of reparations came to nothing stairs they found the weith'I play-

second method of approachers silently strangling each other. the trade who would be willing to ance, as was given to the selection (not 5.15, as previously announ- and join the board.

of a Test cricket team, then there ced), at the University on "Inter. was to press the Government to com SATURDAY, DEC. 14TH

Directorial resignations seem

would be no lack of leaders in the national Questions Arising Out of Pensate the firms out of the War industrial struggle upon which this

Indemnity Fund. The British au- From 7.45 Till 9.45 P.M.be fashionable these days in London. country relies for its existence the Pacific Conference." To-morrow thorities would not admit their res

It is not usual, however, for a' com- This advice should be taken note at 5.15 he will address an open meet-ponsibility to pay compensation for. war damages as an act of right, but of by prospective purchasers of

as an net of grace agreed to se plete board of directors to retire, shares, and remembered. Eminenting at St. John's Cathedral Hall on

“God, Pain, and Immortality." "Onside £3,000,000 to cover all wer especially when they have been persons who lend their names as

directors of companies launched by Friday, the 90th, on returning from losses incurred by British firms all functioning for only nine months,

a fraudulent promoter are by the a visit to Canton he will conduct a over the world. This was manifestly yet this in what happened a feve ordinary at board meetings, he is conference for Ministers of Religion was to urge the Treasury to get the utterly insufficient. The next step x.ceks ago in London, when five their votes at gentlemen resigned their positions enabled to misappropriate money and Educationalists at 4 pro. on matter inert in the dent settle

They can at present, however, be on this board. The chairman stated | exonerated from the consequences of

"Education and Religion," Canon ment, between Great Britain and reached by this road. Provisions for compensation were included in in the course of his farewell speech their own carelessness or negligence Streeter leaves for England on the France, and in the end success was that one of the things the directorsby a regulation in the Articles of Malwa on December 21.

the Churchill Caillaux agreement, Association to make them liable for

and this has now been ratified by wilful default only-that is, know-

Francé. ingly conniving at irregularities.

BY KIND PERMISSION OF CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS

THE

STRING

OCTET

H.M.S. "Hermes

LANE,

Will Play at

CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT

ON

THURSDAY, DEC. 12Tu From 4.30 Till 6.30 P.M.

AND ON

"PEAK MANSIONS."

ITUATED within Two Minates' DEOs of the Public Works Department, Walk from the Tram. Station and by Order of H EXCELLENCY THE Serlooking the Southern Side of the GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshnipo, in the Colony Island. Ready for Occupatica.

of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years,

commencing from 1st July, 1888, with

Five-Boomed and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS

the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to with all Modern Conveniences Drying be fixed by the Surveyor of His Aizstr| Booms and Out-horses, Two Lifts. THE KING; for cue further term of.

24 years less three days.

[No. of Sale, |

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

New Kowloon In Registry No

land Lot No. 1791.

Junction of Ya

Chan Street and

Locality.

Maple Street.

Boundary,

Measure-

menta,

ftft, ft. ft.

A a per

sale plan.

Contents in

Square feet.

Upset Price.

About

neo

Annual

Bental

18736

6,975

of the

ON SALE.

SOUND VOLUMES

HONG KONG WEEKLY #PRE88, Jopony to Jung, 1928,

On Bale at the Hoxo Kona DAILY PARIS OFFICE.

ALSO

PRIVATE GARAGES

... TO LET. Bitnate at the Bear of PEAK MANSIONSĮ Separate Compartments including Light and Water,

Apply to- CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 4TH FLOOR, FRENCH BANK BUILDING,

THE TIME FOR

BLANKETS

to

Voronoff's Magic Doubled.

i

The ratification by France of the agreement to compensate British in Northern firms domiciled France for damage suffered during the war is of great importance to Lancashire. A very large number of the claimants are textile firms in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which

The following message recently found in a tin on the seashore has

been

Letterkenny

handed to (County Donegal), police,

Going down in mid-Atlantic. Engine trouble.

elephant

Looking Back 26 Years."

Chinese

The Rt. Rev. J. C. Hoare, Bishop of Victoria, last evening gave a lecture at the Y.M.C.A. rooms on "Coincidences of modern discovery with the Bible.' His address, he

said, was not any kind of an argu- merely wanted to give a few coin- ment in defence of the Bible; he cidences in which the Bible was borne out by modern discovery. For example, it was a curious coin- cidence that a viper hung to St. Paul's hand in Malta. Who ever heard of a viper doing such a thing as that. It was a fact, however, that the only anakes in the world with this peculiarity were in Malta.Hong Kong Daily Press, Dec. 12, 1904.

Looking Back 50 Years.

had learned (which they should have known before) was that ample and

Articles of Association'

Mr. W. H. Ogilvie, F.R.C.S., detailed knowledge of the fruit and

drawn up by lawyers on the in- greengrocery, trade was required of structions of promoters and the writing in the Fortnightly Review doubts the possibility of the graft the management. It was for this future board of a projected com- reason that the non-technical direcpany, with the consequence that this ing of glands in man. While it is article has become Z "common tors proposed to retire in favour form," copied by a clerk or taken apossible to ignore Voronoff's of others who were experienced in from a printed precedent, and in- method of rejuvenation by the trans

The note is written in pencil on rest. An plantation of monkey glands into the multiple shop business. Ife corporated, with the

what appears to be a leaf from a article exonerating a director or men, he contends that his public diary. It is thought possible that added that since the first manage any officer or servant of a company ment had been changed there had from the consequences of his own tions are not calculated to con- it may have come from Lieutention by persons wearing a large

Heant Commander H. C. Macdonald, been a definite improvement in the incompetence is now forbidden for vince the scientific critic."

new companies, and, five months adds: The longing to recapture who disappeared while attempting gross profits made week by week, hence, for old ones as well, thus a vanished youth is as old na to fly the Atlantic in a small but the point has not yet been giving directors now in office time humanity itself, and the powerful plane last year, Lieutenant Com- to consider whether they will prychic effect of a dramatic opera mander Macdonald, who was on reached when the business is being shoulder this responsibility. But tion purporting to transfer the the emergency list of the Royal carried on at a profit." Several the law does not yet require a diree spirit of anthropoid youth into the Navy, left Newfoundland a year MEMBERS of the Committee at. Shareholders urged that the director to attend any board meeting or body of human senility is sufficient,ago in a Moth light nerouane to his back for him. Made of bamboo,

tend at the Society's Hoom, tora' resignations should not be perform any duties, shareholders when acting on a mind buoyed up

having it in their power to dismiss by such a longing, to explain ally the Atlantic. He was seen seven CRY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and accepted until a report had been

a director who draws money with the reports of renewed energy which and a half hours later by the crew of a ship 600 miles from land, but THURSDAY, at 10,80 to receive GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worn made by an independent firm of ne out giving any return for it. If he bolster up the mehed Old age; nothing was heard of him after

Nothing e

countants into the position of the docs attend board meetings here concluded Mr. Ogilvie, is not a

after however, he will have to exer- matter of the degeneration of one that, Leave to presume his death →RONG ZONG BENEY LEFT"

yes granted by the Probate Court BOCIETY.

"Conipany further suggestion is le Intelligence in Young grane vede vargung

last February, (EST. 1889.)

body, and is part of life itself. that a committee of shareholders' pain of personal liability:

18 HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL

BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM?

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During the winter months one constantly sees, in passing through the strecta of Canton, & curious little instrument in the shape of a hand, which is in constant requisi-"

number of conte, "it heing under- stood that said garments are pretty well supplied with certain unmen- tionable creatures. This instru ment is known as the Par k'au vin, because the owner does not need to trouble his neighbour to scratch

they may be obtainable at two cash apiece and unwarda, according to their finish. Bone ones cost a few cents, but foreigners zenerally buy a superior kind made of ivory. Hong Kond Daily Press Des 1870%