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INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG & NEW TERRITORIES FERRY CO., LTD.

FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Oca CHINA Buildings (5th Floor), Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the FEBRUARY, 1930, at 19 O'CLOCK Noom, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the period from lat NovEMES, 1928, to 31st DECEMAER, 1999, and of electing at Auditor.

4THI

THE TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED From the

to the 29 JANUARY FEBRUAY, 1930, Both Day inclusira

By Order of the Board of Directors.

HENRY LOWCOOK,

Secretary.

Hong Kong 22nd Jan, 1930. [8949

NOTICE.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.

Norder to facilitate the Inventiga-

Tender te lato

Share Certificates which have been Fraudulently obtained from the Com- "pany, All Holders of Share Certificates of the Company are requested to read in Fall Particulars of their Holding", Namber of Certificates, Nama of Owair, the Actual Distinguishing Nembers of the Shares covered by the Certificate, the Date of Inne of Buch Certificates and their Folio Numbers, to The GENERAL MANAGERS As Soon A Possible.

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

General Manageri.

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Yesterday's weather report fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.29 p.m., stated:-

The anticyclone is central to the north of the lower Yangtze Valley The typhoon in the vicinity of Yap appears to be moving northwards. Fresh to moderate monsoon along

the S. E. Coast of China and over

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It is a most useful little produc- tion, information that would cost- a deal of time and patient inquiry to obtain-and, no doubt, did. The book has been prepared primarily As a text-book for school children, but most of their elders will find much in it that it quite new to them. Until now there has been no sort of handbook to which one

could refer for reliable information

the China Sea.

about the New Territories. It has Local Forecast:-E winds, mode-been most difheult to get verifiable rate, fine at first, fog later.

facts-even the compilers of this A TYPHOON.

little book came up against that obstacle and gratefully acknow-

1930.

News and Views.

The moral value of whistling is dealt with by the Chief Scout in an article appearing on page 2 of this

issue.

Martin law was enforced in the French Concession, Shanghai, last week, when all iron boundary gates were closed.

Mok Shiu Nam, assistant manager of the Chung Tai firm, of 18, Lee

Fire destroyed the home of FUNERAL OF LADY

Senator Key Pittman of Nevada last

week. The residence is located in

LAMPSON.

the outskirts of Washington, and available water in quantities was "MOUNTAIN OF FLOWERS..

Lóas was some distance away. estimated at $150,000.

There was a very simple but im- pressivo scene at the Protestant The authorities, in Madrid aro taking extensive precautions thus Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday forestalling possible trouble which afternoon, when the remains of inay arise out of the strike by Lady Lampson, were interred. students of Madrid University. The strike was proclaimed last week na protest against the dissolution by

A typhoon is reported N.W, of ledge the assistance given them by Yuen Street West, has been arrest-Royal decree of the students' 1950-

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DEATHS.

public officials, whose duties bringed on a charge of embezzling $2,000

of the firm's money.

them into close contact with on- ditions in the nearly 300 square miles comprising the Territories. Lows. On January 18, suddenly,

Kelmscott

It is interesting and surprising Gardens, Shanghai, FRANCIA HERIERT to learn that there is no extent of Lowe, dearly-beloved husband of | plainland in the New Territories LAURA C. LOWz, aged 54 years,

more than three or four square DRUMMOND-On January 18, at mites in area, so hilly" is the coun-

131, Avenue Haig, Shanghai, CHRISTIAN MITCHELL FoRnEs try. Mountains they cannot be DacMMOND, widow of W. V. called, for the highest peak in the DRUMMOND, aged 84 years.

area is Tai Mo Shan, only 3,050 fect high. In the Kowloon range Lion Rock is 1,000 feet, Beacon Hill 1,500 feet, and Kowloon Peak 1,000 feet. Castle Peak is 1,000 feet above sea-level, "and" Lan Tau Peak (on 'the island of that name) is over 3,000 feet. Lan Tau is the largest island within British territorial waters. It is about three times the size of Hong Kong, and a couple of centuries ago there was a Dutch fort on the island. In those days the Dutch ships trading with China went to Lan Tau during the winter

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HONG KONG, JANUARY 25, 1030.

to careen.

There are in the New Territories about 500 villages, raany of which THE NEW TERRITORIES.

are walled, while some hare moats for their protection, made of course WHAT do they know of Hong Kong, long before the British occupation who only Hong Kong know Let as defences against bandits and it be granted without cavil that rival clans. Walled villages are the island of Victaria is itself as always built on a square or rec-

delightful place, and offers the

this little book that a thousand years ago the New Territorim were inhabited by a people akin to the Anuarites, but Chinese adventurera gradually forced their way into the country, and the newly-acquired land was added to the San On

prefecture. The first of these ad- venturers was a member of the TANO family, and in course of time the clan built five walled villages at Kam Tin (three of which are meat- ed, as already mentioned), and their descendants live there to this day. Later the Hakka people (whose woman wear a blue curtain round their hats) penetrated into the New Territories, but being less civilised than the earlier settlers were driver

"The Directors of the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., have declared a final dividend of 2 per share. This, with the interim dividend.of 8 already paid,

makes in all for the year 1929.

Mr. J..P. Molisen, of Yokohama, one of the oldest residents in that golden port, will celebrate his wedding on February 9

at his Kamakura home. More than 150 friends will attend the ceremony.

Peping papers of January 14 re nort that Mr. James Barton, of the British Legation, is suffering from

milk attack of scarlet fever. Un- should run its courke in about a less complications develop the fever

month.

A report has been made to the police by Liu Shiu Pun, master tailor of 197, Queen's Road Central, to the affect that someone gained entrance to his shop between 8 a.m. and 9 am yesterday and clothing to the value of 1136 is missing.

Subject to audit, the directors of the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd.. recommend the payment of a dividend of $1.50 per share on 200,000 shares, absorbing $300,000. It is also proposed to add to general reserve 830,000, and carry forward $2,439.68.

Yesterday a theft was reported from the first floor, 197, Queen's Road Central, when clothing valued at $80 was stolen. A report made to the police by a resident of the ground floor, No. 30, Eastern Street, stated that a thief on Thursday evening got away with jewellery to the value of over $130.

Capt. Torrible, one of the best known shipping masters in Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's service has retired after twenty eight years with the company. He had been master for twenty-three years. Capt. Tor- rible intends to proceed from Sharg hi to British Columbia in March to make his home there.

ciation.

Mr. N. V. Lloyd, of the General Motors Co., Ltd.. died of preu- monia at the Kole International Hospital on January 11, following a. ten-day illness. Mr. Lloyd was Sfty years old and had been a General Motors since last July. He is survived by his wife, who is at

present in Bermuda.

The house in Gough-square, Lon- don, E.C., which Dr. Johnson oc- cupied for over ten years, and in which he compiled the greater part his Dictionary, is to be preserved for the nation. It was bought many years ago by Mr. Cecil Bis- shopp Harmsworth. He has now formed a body of governors to hold the property in trust.

Policaman Wanted!

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The oak coffia was

conveyed

carriage drawn by men from H.M.S. from the French Hospital on a gua-

Berwick, followed by Sir Miles Lampson and bis Secretary.

H.E. the Governor (Sår Cecil.

Clementi), attended by his A.D.C., Capt. Sillitoe, the Hon. Mr, W, 2. Southorn, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, CMG, CRE., The

Hon, Sir Shou Son Chow, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, C.M.G., LL.D., the Hon Sir J. H. Kemp, K.C., C.B.E, the Han, Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shen: ton, Col. Brownrigg (D.A.A. and Q.3.G.), Lt. Col. F. Hayley Bell (Commissioner of Customs), repre- senting Mr. F. W. Maze (Inspector- General of Customs). Lt-Col. T, A. Robertson, Mr. A. H. Ferguson, and Mr. M. T. Johnson, were among the many others present at the graveside.

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stopped rickshaw-men, turning off Since last week, when a constable Nathan Road into Peking Road on their way to the ferry, the coolics have taken to using the road behind "short the Peninsula Hotel as a cut." This practice means that the dangerous turn into Salisbury Road

The burial service was conducted -at the side of "the YM. Č.A.-is made just as though the Peking by the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy, Road route was open. A policeman

is needed for a few days at the D.D. (Bishop of Victoria), assisted road between the Marble Hall and the Peninsula to prevent this by the Very Rev: A. Swann. imaginary but highly dangerous Among the very large number of

short cut" being used. Everyday there are hair-breadth escapes in beautifal wreaths were tokens of front of the Y.M.C.A. as a result of contes trying to cut across two sympathy from the British Lega streams of oncoming traffic. Pas- tion, Peping, Friende in His sengers can help in stopping"this practice by insisting that rickshaw men take them straight down the Nathan Road, where there is ample room to turn in perfect safety to ward the ferry. Bat it is a police- man that is really needed:

Locking Back 25 Years.

Majesty's Foreign Office and Diplo-

matic Service, the Commandant, Officers and all ranks of the British legation Guard, Peping, Members of H.B.M. Consulate General, Shanghai, Mr. H. Aali (Chargé Norwegian Legation,

The inquiry into the Elgin Road, ¦ d'Affaires, Kowloon, fire was continued before Peping), Mr. Henrik de Kaufmann Mr. H. H. J. Gomperta at the Magistraey yesterday afternoon. (Daaleh Minister, Peping), L-Col. Lam Chi Fung, the person who was and Mrs. L. 3. Cosgrove, Shang-" alleged to have written a letter to the insurance companies interested hai, British Women's Association, stating that there arson in Shanghai, Mr. J. C. Steradale connection with the fire, having re-

Bennett Capt.. Brien Harding' and turned from Macao, was called as

WAB

a witness. He stated that he had Mr. A. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. been, informed of this fact from Teichman, Major-General J. W. other sources, and his informants

An Englishman named Howard had told him that they were willing Sandilands and Officers of bis Staff, Edward Jones was killed and an-

to appear in Court as witnesses but other. Ramsay Muirhead, had a leg had since changed their minds: and arm broken as a result of the His Worship concluded the inquiry, cupsizing of their bobsleigh in and ordered that the premises for Muerren, Switzerland, last week. { released.--Hong Kong Daily Preve, They were No. 2 and No. 3 respec- January 25, 1905, tively. The pilot and the fourth Occupant were slightly injured.

tangular plan, and their streets are Kantin the eldest nature-lover a wide choice of beauty very narrow. spots-yet on the other side of the village in the New Territories-is harbour there is an even wider really a group of villages of which range of scenery, lesser known but three bave moats, and one of these certainly no less attractive. The has further, defences in the shape ioreshore of Kowloon does not, of ancient iron gates. We read in admittedly, offer a very inviting prospect. The stranger within our gates may be forgiven if seeing the majesty of the Penk from his. incoming steamer-and comparing it with the unattractive foreshore of the mainland--he bolts pre- cipitately towards the ferry and on landing the other side inquires his way to the Peak tram. The stranger must not be blamed for acting upon a perfectly natural impulse-but what of the established resident in the Colony ? What excuse is to be offered for his ignorance and neglect of the New Territories—a terra incognita to the vast majority 1 Everybody knows that such places exist ng Fanling and Castle Peak, and oc- casionally the name of Taipe cornes ia for a little publicity, but com- paratively few residents of Hong Kong realise either the extent of, on the interest attaching to, the

About 600 feet up the eastern New Territorica. It is true that slope of Castle Peak is a monastery not everyone is in a position to whose history goes back to very explore this area from the comfort-early times, though the present buildings are modern. Discovery of able cushions of a private motor fossil remains led. to the legend of car, nor able to indulge very often a big whale that crushed the moun- in the luxury of a long ride in a tain and knocked down part of it

The monastery has a lovely garden, fact there are ways and means of famous for its hospitality, possibly hai, but he has lived many years reaching these back blocks within some of those who read about its in England and expects to 'return reach of even the humblest. And long history will visit the pious after completing his investigations

in the Straits Settlement.

into the hills, where their villages are generally to be found. The Hakkas continue to cater the New Territories in large numbers, and comprise the greater part of the poorer class of the peasantry. The fishermen und boat-people are most- ly Hoklos.

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a statement ? Is it

His Lordship Bishop S. Valtorta, Capt. and Mrs. G. S. Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Creasy, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ferguson, Mrs. W. Looking Back 50 Years.

D. S. Brownrigg, Mrs. B. Thora- Who, we should like to know, told hill, Mr. D. H. Clarke, Committee the London Ech that the moral and Members of the Shanghai The Chinese Shipowners Assncia-tone of Hong Kong society has tion has telegraphed to Waichinopu, vigorously protesting against he never been of a very high order." British Chamber of Commerce and and what right has that journal to China Committee, Mr. and Mrs. Japanese encroaching upon China's make such fishing rights, and requesting that founded upon. hearsay evidence of Calder Marshall (Shanghai), Com this matter be taken up strongly an extremely doubtful character ||mittee and Members of the Hong. with the Japanese Government. or is it based upon the specious The Waichinops has ordered the pleas put forward in some quarters Kong General Chamber of Com- governments of the various coastal in support or extenuation of the merce, and the China Arecciation, provinces to submit reports to the system of domestic slavery or Ministry in this respect.

servitude as some prefer to call it, which Sir John Smale bas so vigorously denounced 1 ever foundation he may have grounded his attack upon Hong Kong, however, the writer in the land to the Straite Settlement, where he will study the rubber Echa is most distinctly condem- industry for the Society. Mr. Kim natory without cause or reason. Ho hired vehicle--but na mniter of and since it is described. ns being is a Chinese and was born in Shang. / has no right to assume that the

let it be noted that within an hour's ride of Kowloon one can-if so inclined-see a little of the real China. Some of the villages dotted along the road are as "Chinese"

as anyone could desire, and if there is in the party one who can talk freely to the villagers, it will be found there is much to see and hear of interest.

Buddhists who "ive "at Tsing Shan on the "Mountain of Good Omen." The little book before us contains a most useful section devoted to descriptions of walks in the New Territories, elnasified in accordance with the time needed to accomplish

them. Those who are fond of walk-

Mr. S. Kim. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, passed through Japan en route from Log

European

Or what GOVERNMENT HOUSE

BURGLARY.

community of this Colony approve of the system which

sanction of the Government, of has grown up here, with the tacit keeping female children and women in a state of servitude. The system The Discreet Lord Esher.

ought never to have been allowed According to a British Wireless to exist for a single moment on British oil. The Chinese came message the late Lord Esher was Victoria, King Edward and King habits, while they at the same time A close personal friend of Queen here strangers to our laws and alike oblivious to our ideas or George. He was an intimate of

LADY CLEMENTI'S LOSS.

No further details of the bur

Thursday were available yester glary at Government House

day beyond a detailed list of the articles stolen. The burglar, by some meaze, managed to gain ac cess to Lady Clement's bedroom. Lady Clementi's losses comprise the following articles:

Gold

1.7d platinum brooch, mounted with uncut star' Бар- The

ing but have little or no knowledge Lord Kitchener's during the war clung tenaciously to their phire, pale blue in colour.

and the diary he kept in those years

customs. The Government ought

sapphire is about the size of a marble: held to the light it shows a sparkling cross, like a St. An-

of local topography will find some very valuable information regarding is stated to contain information of speedily to have detected this the highest historical importance. peculiar institution and put it It had been deposited at the British down at once. It has now, after museum and is not to be opened some thirty years of non-inter. butterfly, the wings being studded until 1881.

The Old New Year,

he

routes, distances, and elevations. How many people know that there is a 40ft, waterfall, and even a 70ft. A most informative little hand-Kowloon? And how many are ne

ference, naturally come to one, in the hilla "back of beyond "

regarded by the Chinese here, as on book dealing with, the New torri- quainted with the English meanings

the mainland, as an established tories has been recently published, of Chinese place-names-know that

custom, and under it thousands of Tai Mo Shan means "big hat moun. A Canton paper says that in girls and women have been bought compiled by three gentlemen con- tain," that Shing Mun moans" city spite of the Government's order and sold. To put it down all at nected with the ELLIS KADOORIE Kale," that Sha Tin names "sandy abolishing observance of the lunar ones with a stern hand now is prac- School,-who-have-had-the-friendly fields" and Sham Shui Pojetty calendar, residents in the city are tically impossible, and the attempt assistance of various Government scores of other most interesting for the observation of the Chinese the European community are not in the deep water" These and making lavish preparations as usual would be most inexpedient. But officials in checking and adding to little items of information are to New Year. This has compelled the responsible for the shortcomings of Bureau of Social Welfare to take n Government in which they prac- the information they have brought | be found in the book compiled by

Messrs. F. J. DE ROME, N. EVANS,. further action. The police have tically have no voice. The head of together. These "Notes on the and E. C. THOMAS.. Those who like been therefore instructed to pro- the Executive here is really an New Territories" can be bought at

to know something of the place hibit the printing or sale of old-style autocrat, upon whose actions the residents can bring bookshops in town for fifty cents, in which they live, and of the people New Year cards, and it is under European

stood that the post-office authorities scarcely any check to bear, as has and every resident of the Colony living around them, are under an

obligation to these gentlemen for have been also instructed to con- been repeatedly proved, to their "'who takes ar inwiligent interest-in) äfending so much time and trouble frente such cards entrusted to the chagrin Hong Kong Daily Press,

his environment should get a copy. T'in compiling this valuable booklet.

January 27, 1850.

mails.

drew's Cross. It is shaped like a

with diamonds and sapphire. The back of the sapphire is uncut and hae a rough appearance.

Gold ring mounted with green diamond, surrounded with small brilliants.

Pink coral necklace. Peping carved wood neck chain, Oblong English silver hair pin

White enamel St. John's Am bulance badge.

box.

Pink bead bag. Sik printed Japanese handker- chief.

Mias de Paasorio lost a gold chronometer watch, round pattern. Popen face, by Senner Trefer d

$30 in notes,