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"THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 1930.

NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & 32175 32181 39224 32212 38464 39043

MINING CO., LIMITED.

8 FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN TURES (KAILAN BONDS).

SEVENTEENTH DRAWING, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN vonditions endursed upon the Deben turos, the undermentioned Numbers of Debentures of the total value of £24,000 were drawn on the FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBEN, 1020, nt the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Loudon Wall Buildings, in the City of London, in the presence of WALTON PITZAMES TURNER, one of the Directors, Anxo WILLIAM BRA Secretary of the Company, Rad NICASIO ROBERT JAURALDE, of 9,. Bishopsgate, London, EC., Notary

Public.

The said Debentares will be paid off at Par on the 31ST DECEMBER, 1989, at either of the following places

IN LONDON': At the Offices of the Company, No. 3, London Wall Buildinga, E.C.2.

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The drawn Debentures, with Cou- pons Nos. 38 to 40 attached, mut be left four clear days for examina-

tion.

1 BRUSSELS: At the Offices of

the Local Board, 13, Tue 3, Brédérode, Brussels;

IN CHINA: At the General Offices of the Company, Tientsin.

6 Bonds of £600 Each, Numbered:

71.83

36

07

128

174

By order,

ALFRED W. BERRY,

Secretary,

Countersigned

N. R. JAURALDE,

Notary Public.

LONDON WALL BUILDINGS,

LONDON, E.C.2.

5TH NOVEMBER, 1929.

NOTICE: The following Deben- ture Bonds drawn at previous draw- ings have not yet been redeemed and should be presented for, pay-

70 Bonds of £100 Each, Numbered:ment without delay :-

* 390 364 456 517 564 575

586 594 650-

939

957

1032 1074. 1104

1120

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700 Bonds of £20 Each, Numbered:

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£20 Bonds Numbered: 3698 3874 7180 7527 7878 7890 6103

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At

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CHOICE WINES

"for

THE FESTIVE

SEASON.

Champagne de St. Marceaux

Vintage 1920. Vin Brut &

Extra Dry

Ayala. Vintage. Extra Dry

Golden Guinea. Sparkling

Mascatel

Sherry, Ruiz's Fall Golden,

Amoroso Extra

Ports. Robertson's Choice Ola

Bandeman's Vintage 1911 Clubland White

Bilva & Cosen's Very Fine

Old Tawny

J.

Brandies. Finest Old Brown ("E")

Renaulte Reserve Grande "Champagne 100 years old Courvoisier Napoleon 80

years old

Cocktails in Bottle

Liqueurs in Fancy Carafes

in great variety Sauternes, Clarets, Hocks.

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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & | Whiskies

MINING COMPANY, LTD.

4092 4003 4115 4144 4310 4468 5%. FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN.

4757 4770 48-43 4007 4089 5000

TURES (KAILAN BONDS). *

5648 5085 PAYMENT of The HALF-YEARLY 5058 5071

INTEREST due on the jar JANU- ABY, 1930, will be made ci Presentation

Dewar's White Label and Victoria Vat Glen Moray '93 Liqueur

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remark issued by the Royal Obervatory at 5.33 p.m., stated:--

The anticyclone remains central over N. China. Fresh mansoor along the SE,"coast of China and over the N. China Sea.

Local Forecast : — N.E. winds, fresh, overcast with drizzle, and mist at first, improving later.

| Chinese and foreigners, at the same time promoting better relations be- tween them. We most sincerely hope that Dr. C. T. Wang's optimism will prove fally justified by events, but we must confess to having grave

doubts about it.

vary

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank has opened a sub-agency at Muar (Johore) as from to-day.

Successful trial runs have been

made over the damaged bridges of the Chinese section of the Canton Kowloon railway. The service is

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The "principle involved "«is | to be resumed to-day. surely a very plain and straight- forward one. A contract has been The St. Stophen's Girls' College entered into, and one of the parties is holding its annual speech day wishes to

its terms. The and prise giving on Thursday, other party has intimated willing January 10,

3 p.m.

Lady ness to meet the wish expressed but Clementi has kindly, consented to only after arranging terms to be present the cups and certificates. mutually agreed upon, whereupon the contract is promptly declared

Mr. Road, null and void! The principle here involved seems to be simply that

DEATHS. ANDERSON,-On November 25, in London. Capt. CHARLES PEAKE ANDERSON, M.C.. R.F.A. of Hong Kong, aged. 40. CARBINGTON,On November 18, at

Sunnyside, Chamber Hollinwood, the resident of his grandmother, GEOFFREY SCHOLES, in his 15th year, only child of the late THEODORA and WILLIAM CARRINGTON, of Shanghai. KNIGHT-On November 21, sudden-

"

ly in London, Percy Lister, husband of Lucy A. KNIGHT,

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

Ice House Street, Tel. Central

18.

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. Central 4511.

The engagement is announced between Graeme Douglas. Nicholl, of 174, Gloucester-terrace,

of putting the cart before the herse. W., and Miss Barbara Mary Kerr The Powers have aangred China of Silby, elder daughter of Mrs. R. M. their willingness to surrender extra-Saker, of 360, Yu Yuen, Road, territorial rights just as soon as it Shanghai.

is demonstrated that their nationals

Three Chinese porcelain vases can safely reside and carry on business in China, with adequate in the Temple of Hai Ling over which formed part of an altar set protection of their lives and prothree hundred years ago have re-

perty, without the intervention of

Consular jurisdiction. The Powerscently been taken to London.

Flaming Youth.

"It is not a pleasing sight to sco the way the young manhood of our day is living its life," writes the Rev. Canon J. A. Cooper, Vicar of St. Peter's, Belper, in a letter. He goes on to say: "It (the young addressed in the Parish Magazine. manhood) walka up and down the | brightly-lighted streets of the towns; it goes off in its thousands to watch the twenty-two men `who are in swift merement up and down the football field; it has its hours of fruitless talk about horses and tips and stakes; and it spends precious hours in trifling talk with girls who know so little about the domesticities of homo; it is not de voted to study, self-education, ser. vice, but fritters life away with no sense of responsibility." "There are men," he continues, in the world who would sooner know Derby, than they would know. Plato jockey, who was the winner of the or Shakespeare or Beethoven it they were upon earth."

London's Luxury Flata.

in London, has been brought homo The shortage of middle-class fals to a man who has just spent seven months in incessant search for what he wanted-namely, a dat let at between £200 and £250 a year, with, four bedrooms and three, living- He complains that very

room 5.

London Office: 1. Bride Lane are ready to surrender to China Among their admirers have been little is being done by the builders

Fleet Street, E.C. 4

just as they surrendered to Japan- the treaty rights and privileges enjoyed by their nationals when the Chinese Government can show that TESS, it is not only willing but able to give equally effective protection to foreigners residing in its territory.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JANUARY 1, 1930.

THE RISING CURTAIN.

With the advent of every January it is the pleasant though largely futile custom to speculate as to what will happen before the end of the coming but distant December. It is a perfectly harmless pastime, and one which gives each in

That is the whole "principle in- volved in this controversy over the abolition of extra-territoriality, but Dr. WANG wants to reverse the process. The existing protection is to be withdrawn, and then the fact demonstrated whether other men. sures can be devised to give equally adequate protection. Seeing how difficult it is for the Chinese Gov ernment to exercise authority over its own nationals, we would imagine

the Queca, Princess Mary, and Lady Patricia Ramsay

commands in the Royal Navy on- Certain changes in captains'

nounced in September are now tak ing effect. been relieved as Commodore of the Captain Shipway his

R.N. Barracks at Chatham by Cap- tain A. L. Snagge, late in command of H.M.B. Cumberland in China."

worth Meux, a former private Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hed-

secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, formerly commanding the Royal Yachts, and successively Commander-in-Chief in China and at Portsmouth, left unsettled pro- perty in his own disposition of the personalty £73,263,

At the

to meet reasonable needs of Lon- doners with moderate incomes. During the acute shortage after the war the middle-class folk were will- ing to pay rentals at this figure for poor accommodation in "convert- ted houses or lodging over mews, and so on, which they are no longer ether end of the scale are the great willing to put up with.

of flats which have been built in luxury residential hoteds and blocks

the last few years, some by Ameri- can syndicates, providing fists at anything from £750 to £1,200 a year. The question arises how it is people able to pay such rents possible to continue to find sufficient "part, of course, from rich foreign- view is that & ers in London for short stays. One English residents are now living good many of the above their incomes the matter. of rent. To pay the rents of the most expensive flats in the new

disproportionate amount of income, to rent man' would need to have' an income round about £3,000 a year net.

Gilbeys Spey Royal Watson's dividual very liberal scope for exer- that responsibility for" protecting gross value of 2010,405, with net London blocks without devoting a

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5300 5451

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of Coupon No. 35 at Any of the under A. S.

mentioned Banks, viz. --

HONGKONG AND Suangmat"

At

*925

7245

BANKING CORPORATION. CHARTERED BANK

OF

7484 75-45

Tientsin, Shangbai

& CO

INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

of

Hong Kong.

L'INDO-CHINE

Tientsin and Hong Kong only. Tientsin and Shanghai only.

The Interest, leas Income

in the £, will be

O £20 DEBENTURES:

6958 7200 7351 7201

7357 7473 7810 76-19 7535

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BANK HOLIDAY.

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presented.

By Order,

THE KAILAN MINKO ADMINISTRATION,

P. O. YOUNG,

General Manager.

NOTICE.

THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY 20134, 20136 20177 20257 20413 20181 wishes all Their POLICY HOLDERS 20497 20612 20577 90631 20783.20773 A HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW

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cising both critical and imaginative the persons and property of for Faculties. Long-distance prophecy eigners would be gladly felt where is also fairly safe, for by the time it is for another few years.

However, for reasons best known to himself, Dr. WANG, considers to

the appointed date has arrived, few

people will know or care whether the forecasted event has also come to pass. False prophets will remain discreetly mute, while more fortu- nate ones will emphasise with vary ing degrees of modesty the accuracy of their usually fortuitous guesses. The events of 1930 can be known follows the trend of current affairs to none, but any observer who

with interest can picture some of the possible happenings without venturing too far into the field of actual prophecy. For us in this Colony the march of events in China will be watched with very

this

moment an opportune take action to re-establish Chinese savereignty, and events must take their course. Already there is un-

comfortable tension between China

The engagement is announced be- tween Lieutenant Patrick William Humpreys, R.N., H.M.S. Furious, and Zelia Mary, elder daughter of Sir Eric Hambro, K.B.E., and Lady Hambro. In consequence of Lieutenant Humphreys being un- der early orders to proceed Chinn the marriage was arranged to take place quietly in December,

to

Sir Esmond Ovey, the new Bri- and Japan in regard to the nomina-

tiah Ambassador to Moscow, will aa bis right-hand man and tion of Mr. OBATA as Japanese he Minister to China. The Nanking Acting Counsellor Mr. F.. T. A Government has intimated that Ashton-Gwatkin. sn ex-Balliol man, who began his official career Japan's nominee is non persand grata, but there is no indication at present that his name will be with drawn. Now comes news from France that the immediate total abolition of

NOTICE. TOTICE IS HEREST GIVEN close and anxious interest. The extra-territorial rights will not be that the Undersigned, Now year just closed has been a difficult accepted. From Washington comes trading na HABBY O. ODELL & Co.

the intimation that the United will, as From JANUARY 18, 1930, one; the year now begun seems trade under the Name and Style of L. likely to be no less difficult, for it WEILL & Co., FLOOR, EXCHANGE opens with an act by the Chinese Government which is deliberately

BUILDING.

L. WEILL.

NOTICE.

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O. HECHTEL and Ma. L.

MMCHLE buthorised by me to SIGN My Firm as From 18

JANUARY, 1930.

The Former for HONG KONG, the Latter for Canton and BwaTOW.

零 G. E. HUYGEN,

NOTICE.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.

Fraudulently obtained from the Com

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

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provocativa.

in the Far Eastern Consular Ser- vice, and entered the Diplomatic Service proper after the war. Mr. Gwatkin's service abroad has been mostly, in Japan. Hitherto his chief claim to fame has been in the field of fiction, and under the name of "John Paris" he has written at least one best-seller.

States is prepared to take stringent measures it its treaty rights are infringed. Britain's attitude is one of unwillingness to believe that the sonment, and the Magistrate agre China has chosen to

Chinese Government is not prepared

sentenced to one

Yet the official figures relating to super-tax show that there aro. only 6,000 people in the United Kingdom with incomes of between £5,000 and £6,000 and only 10,000 incomes between £4,000 and £5,000. The question, therefore, arises who- ther the saturation point" has not been reached in the supply of these very expensive flats, and yet one hears that American interesta are still trying to buy up property in the West End of London for the purpose of conversation into more luxury flats. Someone is going to burn his fingers..

Looking Back 25 Years,

It is "olo

In light.

custom"

on "the

threshold of a new year to reflect on one's sins of omission and com- mission during the old year, and to make good resolutions for the new. Individually, we have ño - doubt all have done this. But there A Chinese laundryman, Paul Ku,

are corporations who, as somebody has explained to the world, have charged at Salford with failing to

no bodies to be kicked or souls to report change of residence, was

be condemned. For them We month's impri-pray, and a few prayers which the

experience of ed to recommend that he be deports have suggested may be briefly set the past few days take a step to-day which is certain to lead to difficult complications in to negotiate on the subject of extra-ed. The aliens officer said that Ku down as follows

came to England in 1917, and bad To the Gas Company-give us her diplomatic relations with the territoriality." At the time of writ

lived at 60 different addresses. Powers. The curtain rises to revealing there is no indication of the Liverpool he attended a Chinese

To the water Authority--give us himself as a missionary, but the moments of an expiring year, but manner in which the Nanking man- Christian church, frequently ad-

water when we need it most. There dressed meetings, and designated is something tragic about the last no reason to suppose Japan will be superintendent repadiated that the Gas Company's assistance in

Occasionally he had up adding to the gloom of the occa The able holder of the Foreigny more inclined to accept this claim.

peared attired 18 1 elergyman, siont wat Minister's portfolio declares that declaration without protest than the Salford regarded him as

39 unwelcome as it was a hum- unsolicited. Not only New Year's the question of Extra-territoriality

other Powers concerned. It seems, bug..

Eve, but on the night of the first day of the year in some parts of the Colony, candles and lampa bad to be requisitioned to supplement the feeble glimmer of the gas-bur- ners. The favourite song after din- ner was:-"In the Gloaming." My «

against the Water Brievance Authority is that they will give

a darkened stage instead of.a bright date has been received, but there is and pleasing scene suggestive of peace and progress.

a model ship's hold being laid down

us no water when we want it most. From 7 to 8.m. is a much more

is no ordinary diplomatic problem, then, that 1930 is unhappily to

"i commence with considerable friction A Ship in Mid-Kent. which is true. But that is not to

between say it cannot be discussed and dis

China and the Treaty Londoners who escape into the posed of by ordinary diplomatic Powers-friction which could have country are not easily surprised by IN onder to facilitate the Investigar methods. The Foreign Minister also been most easily avoided, and which architectuntisi at the new rural Share Certificates which have been declares that extra-territoriality may lead to very serious complica novelty about a building just finish- Pay. All Holders of Share Certificatex touches the life of the Chinese tion. The real attitude of the ed at East Malling, in Kent. It is of the Company are requested to send people in so many intimate ways Powers on this question can be out of sight of nea. The purpose in Fall Particular of their Holding, that it must be regarded by the easily represented in such a way of this ship's hold, stranded in the Hamber of Certificates, Name of Owner Chinese Government as a domestic as to give the impression that Dr. country, is to allow the latest scien- the Shares cavered by the Certificate, the question of immediate moment. WANG's way of handling the situa for reducing wastage in fruit dur- 1905. the Actual Distinguishing Numbers of Date of Issue of Buch Certificates and For this reason the Government is

tion is the only way which is quite thair Folio Numbers, to The GENERAL

untrue. It is most unfortunate that MANAGERS As Soon As Possible. compelled to declare the actual

the new year should begin so in process of re-establishing Chinese

suspiciously, because this incident sovereignty by abolishing extre territoriality as from January 1.

will shake confidence in the good faith of the Chinese Government in The Foreign Minister also says

its relations with foreign Powers, his Government, relying upon, the

and without complete confidence sympathy already shown and assur- ances given by the. Powers concern-

real friendship is impossible. ad, believes there is no difference of

China regarding the principle in- opinion between those Powers and

volved, and is willing to discuss within a reasonable time" any

"A happy and prosperous representations made in reference to Tear to all our Readers!. TO LET

some "plan" under preparation by FFICE (2 Ruoma) TO BE LET Nanking. Finally, the Foreign From 187 JANUARY, 1990, 'in Minister thinks this action by the

The Hong Kong Daily Press will HONG KONG OLUB (AzWnx).

Chiness Government should be re- not be published to-morrow (Thurs „APPLY SEGRETAB Loving day, que dick Este will be on

garova" ar towarda" [8763; a cause of constant conflict between Friday morning.

CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL.

CHOOL will EE-OPEN on 'MON. DAY 6TH JANUARY, 1930, An Entrance Examination will be bold JANUARY, at 9.30 AM. when all Now at the School an FRIDAY, SAD Pupils are requested to attend.

OF

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that

News and Views.

convenient hour for our ration of water than from 7 to 8 p.m. tific tests being made of methods Hong Kong Daily Press Jan. 1, ing, ita voyage from the distant Looking Back 50 Years. orchards of the Empire to Covent Garden and other great markets. 1879 has, on the whole, been less Although there is no means of per- disastrous commercially than its suading a quiet Kentish village to predecessor, 1878 was a year of imitate the motion of the sea, in disaster; and, though the year just which is to be stored in the build ous one, an improvement has been. every other way possible the fruit gone could not be called a prosper- ing will be tricked into believing apparent in trade all round. that it is on the way from, say, New Freights have been better, and Zealand. The model hold is really stocks have to a large extent re- part of the equipment of the Cam- covered their value, and are in a bridge Low-temperature Research thoroughly sound condition. Every- Station, pow, with the financial where in the Far East there are support of the Empire Marketing signs of a slowly reviving trade, Board, the centre for this kind of and in Great Britain, the Contin- research for the Empire. The new ent, India, and America a recovery Cambridge campaign aims at reduc- from the great depression of 1878 We Newing waste, due to deterioration and appear to have commenced.

disease, which occurs in fruit and therefore look forward with hope meat shipping in cold storage. The for the future if not satisfaction, abject of the East Malling cold store with the present. "A good broad to try out on a commercial scale rift is discernible in the commercial some of the improvements devised sky, and we trust it will in the Cambridge laboratories. It widen until the sun of prosperity cold store in the Empire, and will us-Hong Kong, Daily Pretty Jan. hold up to a hundred tons of fruit. 1, 1880.

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