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where Officers of the Company will be FEBRUARY, 1930, at 11.00. A.M., for
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to FRIDAY, the.. 14ru FEBRUARY, 180. Both Days inclusive..
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAFNELL,
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Hong Kong, 3rd Feb., 193). [8976)
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Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, "issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.33 pm stated:-
The anticyclone remains central over eastern Gobi. Fresh monsoon along the S.E. coast of China and slight to moderate monsoon over the Chira Ses.
Local
Forecast E winds. moderate, generally cloudy, some rain.
Owing to the suspension of Stuck Exchange business last week in consequence of the New Year holi days, the usual commenta by Kufaa" on stocks and shares will not appear to-day. Answers to inquiries sent to "" Kufna"
will appear next Tuesday as usual, to- gether with his comments upon
Members of the Horticultural at the time. One thing is certain- that sentiment against the dictator Society will be interested in a letter ship has been rapidly spreading of which appears on page from a late, and not solely among Socialists former resident who, through the and other sections of the Left move-Weekly Press, has read of the recent ment. The former are definitely in doings of the Society. favour of the establishment of a Republic, but critician of a very strong character also comes from Conservative sources and, incid entally, carries much more weight, for the General Union of Workers represents only about one-fifth of the workers in Spain. Labour in the mass is unorganised, and with- out power to make its influence felt other than by resorting to the market conditions. crudest methods. Conservative DEATHS.
criticism, therefore, is much more JAMESON.-On January 20,, at the significant and important than that General Hospital, Shanghai, coming from Socialist sources. Count PHILIP SUTHERLAND JAMESON, OF BUGALLAL, & Conservative statesman, lecturing recently in Madrid, de Tientsin. LowRIE-On January 26, at Pac-clared that Parliament and the Crow have equal rights, and if Lingfu, Rev. J. WALTER LOWIE, the King should annction any act D.D., passed away of acute
not accepted by Parliament; it is bronchitis at the age of 73,
a tradition of the Spanish Cortes Lowry. On January 29, at the
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When a Conservative statesman talks so boldly about the respective rights of King and people, it is clear that any attempt to reform" the Constitution by unorthodox metheda is certain to arouse the Bercest opposition. Equally obvious is the impossibility of submitting a draft of the proposed new Con atitution (running to 43,000 words)
a plebiscite of people hall of whom are illiterate. General BEREN- GUER, the new Dictator, declared that one of the ärst nets of the new Government. will be to have a general election, and to-day's news Parliament is to be dissolved,
At the Crown Land Office yester-
A diary kept by the late Lord Esher during the War is said to contain information of the highest historical importance. It has been deposited at the British Museum and is not to be opened until 1981.
A message from Rome states that, owing to inaccurate comments, par- ticularly abroad, Premier Musso- ini has ordered publication of the whole proceedings of the Court of Inquiry into the illfated Nobile Expedition.
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Announcement was made last week that the National City Bank of New York is importing Yen 18,000,000 in gold from Japan. This 1304, situated at the junction of comes as a result of the recent lift- day, New Kowloon Inland Lot No. Om Yau Street and Shek Kip Meiing of the Japanese embargo on Street, was sold to Messrs. Lau gold, but is not expected to be the Cheung, Lai Cho Tim. Sin Ming start of any extensive withdrawal and Cheung Ping Sun of 150, Nan of gold from the Island Empire. Cheung Street at the upset price of $6,750. The land comprises an area of about 5,400 sq. feet, and its an- nual rental is 938.
meeting last week of the Shanghai After a very lengthy Council Municipal Council, decided that for thers shall be no change with re- fercace to the closing hour cabarets, with the exception of Saturdays. The closing time will be 2 a.m. daily and, on Saturday, they will be allowed to remain open
4-.
Wiley Bros., à leading firm of salvagers in Juneau Alabama, re- cently announced that they had lost
PIES. confirms his intention. The puppet equipment valued, at G350,00 and
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 4, 1930.
Ition with regard to & Number of GOLD & PRIZE THE MYSTERY OF A KING'S paigning for the coming elections,
Share Certificates which have been Fraudulently obtained from the Com. pany All Holders of Shure Certificaten of the Company are requested to rend in Full Particulars of their Holdings, Number of Certificates, Name of Owner, the Actual Distinguishing Numbers of the Shares covered by the Certificate, tho Date of Issue of Such Certificates and their Folio Namber, to The GENERAL MANAGERS A Boon As Porrible.
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. BUMPHREYS & BON,
General Managers
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For some time there have been per- sistent rumours that King Atroxso has decided upon abdication in favour of his youngest son, Dox GONZALO. How much, if any, truth there is-ör was—in these reports it is not possible at this distance to say; but there have been some curious stories in circulation which rather tend to give colour to the suggestion that the King is-or was
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN ARNOLD,
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
'Is
THE GOODS OF HENRY WESTMORELAND PARRY, LATE OF TUZ 8.9Koso Bo OF THE TUNG TICK STEAMSHIP COMPAST OF VICTORIA IN THE Kose, Нокс COLONY, MASTER MATIZZE, DZCZABED. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
OF
No the Court has, by virtae
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Dictator
were,
therefore abandoring their attempt to recover millions of "dollars worth of gold buillion from the steamer Islander, which aank cft Douglas Islands in 1901 with a carge of Alaskan gold.
we may expect soon to learn that the Cortes has resumed its normal functions and authority. The dic- tatorship in Spain is clearly doom- ed, the old political parties are to be encouraged to open active cam- Bo that present indications are that the change to normal conditions will not be long in coming. Senor CAMBO, a politician of the old school, recently summed up the situation very tersely. ship, he says, paralyses citizenship by imprisoning the citizen within the circle of his personal occupa- tion, tending to render more neute the conditions from which dictatorsionala. ship springs. No dictator, however great his own honesty and vigilance. can make up for the loss of the combined powers of Parliament, the Press, and free opinion. Dietator, ships spring up only in countries where the sentiment of true demo- are incapable or unwilling to accept the duties as well as the rights which democracy, confers. It is upon the educated classes in Spain rather than the democracy that the future of the country depends, and the aristocracy and intelligentsia have been no more enamoured of the dictatorship cultured advocates of repablican governinent.
for
The vernacular papers report, says the fankou Herald, that the Social Affairs Bureau and the Pub- lie Safety Bureau will shortly issue a joint proclamation prohibiting labour strikes in Hankow.
The
the is
M. Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed and constructed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, now planning erection in New York of an 18-story apart-
tically all made of glass. tent building which will be prac. plans, which carry out whemes which Mr. Wright has been work- ing upon for several years past,
These
provide for use of barely enough conerete to held the structure toge- corte t
the outside surfaces a special glass will be used which will admit the ultra-violet health-giving rays which ordinary glass "strains out"
Motor Ships.
The Motor Ship Reference Book for 1930, the sixth annual volume, has been so greatly revised and so many additions made that it is practically a new work.. Two im- portant features arc the table
"The
In regard to the visit to Shang.giving details of 350 motor ships hai in April of Hagen and Kirk now on order" with the names of the owners, builders; engine build- wood, the golfing champions, and ers and particulars of the machin the possibility of arranging. some exhibition play, Mr. Takata,ery. A similar table details the motor ships constructed previous to president of the Kiangwan Conn motor ships built in 1999, whilst all trys Club (Japanese Golf Club), is
that time are also included in the confident that his fellow members
volume. Every motor ship built or could guarantee at least 8300 to-
the sun required for. two building is thus listed in wards
1030.'
Every important marine oil exhibition matches by the profer-Motor Ship Reference Book for engine of large size now constructed is described and illustrated, in- clading the notable Diesel motors. turned out in 1928 for the first time. There is a review of motor ship. building during the past year. when so many important developments were made, and the statistical lions existing in the country, tracy is weak, and where the people authorities, it is understood, have action is very complete. Oil bunk notified the workere through their ering is dealt with courprehensively unions that any dispute between by the inclusion of details of the employers and the employees all the large bunkering stations should be referred to the govern throughout the world, and a special ment officials for peaceful settle bunkering map is added. The Motor Ship Reference Book for 1830 is compiled by the staff of Directors of the B. F. Goodrich The Motor Ship, and is authorita- Rubber Co. in New York recently tive in every particular. It is pub- approved the proposal of a merger lished by the Temple Press, Ltd., with the Miller Rubber Co., whose London, E.0.1, 5. 6d. post free. directors had already given their approval to the move. The Good- rich Co. is to pay 113,801 shares of common stock for the Miller Looking Back 25 Years. ⠀ Co. stock outstanding, assuming liabilities of the Miller Co:
The Ferndene put into Hong features of the transaction are sub- Kong in distress yesterday. ject to approval by the Goodrichs on a voyage from Japan to Java with conl... Shortly before leaving shareholders.
Japan the chief officer died from small pox, and at sea the captain, chief engineer, and steward all caught the same malady. The sc and officer brought the ship to. Hong Kong, and the three sick men were transferred to the hulk gated, and is kept in strict quar- Hygein. The vessel has been fumi. antinc.-Hong Kong Daily Press, Feb. 4, 1905.
About two months ago his Majesty attended & banquet given by a number of infantry officers, but received a very cold reception there. It is known that the King gave expression. to his deep disappoint- ment at the frigid deference paid Officers to him on this ocension. from all parts of Spain came to Madrid for the function, which was attended by representatives of other branches" of the army besides the infantry, who organised the affair.
than
the less
News and Views.
The MARQUES DE ESTELLA in a His many friends will be glad m speech, declared that it was the learn that Mr. A. H. Ferguson is King's wish that sincere and reported to be making "very good noble cordiality should reign among all arms, and the Govern- ment would make every effort to.
compatible with the
.progress."
ment.
All
Influential persons in Buenos On the arrival of the Empress of Aires recently proposed to Presi- dent Irogoyen, that Argentina, CHRONICLE wards that end so far as was
Asia from Vancouver "yesterday, maintenance of discipline. Shortly afterwards the authorities on board handed Brazil and Chile intervene imme- over to the police $1 tins of pre-diately in an effort to settle the dis ALFONSO met General PRIMO DE RIVERA at a hunting-party, and the pared opium, each tin containing pute between Bolivia and Paraguay announced the two were seen to be in animated fivo taels, which had been found un-concerning the Chaco grazing lands the Bolivian discussion. What they were talking claimed during the voyage to Hong dispute. It was
Government had ordered that an Directory and Chronicle about is not known, but the story
previous day that attack be made upon the Barag gocs that the King was heard to consisting of 203 toels, is worth over
eayan position in the central part say, in tones of great excitement. 83,000,
of the Chaco territory, indicating If things are going on like that,
that extensive bloodshed may result
OF THE
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HONG KONG,
THE TREATY FORTS OF
Kong on January 20. The opium,
-
I shall have no other alternative A Chinese passenger of the Pre- but abdication." A Cabinet meet-sident Grant, which arrived in ing held just after Christmas dis-Hong Kong on Friday, reported to CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO cussed in the presence of the King the police that, whilet his baggage SIAM, STRAITS plan for creating a single was being removed from the chip CHINA, SETTLEMENTS, "MALAY Chamber, and the idea was general- to trucks, he found that one trunk. ly approved. Prior to this Cabinet containing property to the value of STATES, NETHERLANDS
He intimated the King had caused private in-8150, was, missing. INDIA, BORNEO, THE quiries to be made as to the that he thought the trunk had been
new stolen at sea- possibility of establishing a PHILIPPINES, Etc.
Ministry ready for the return to
This Large Volume of approximate ly 2,000 Fages gives, in addition
to the Umal Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of Hearly
OF
MERCHANTS,
MANUFACTURERS
The
at once.
Looking Back 50 Years.
She
It
Our neighbours in Singapore are in some matters ahead of us. was only the other day that we al luded to the successful Debating in" that Whilst on their usual round laat Society, which exists
We note werk, two patrol boats of the Woo flourishing settlement.
now the establishment of a widely sung water police came acYORS & suspicions looking junk outside different but still of an essentially Woosung. The junk was immedi-useful institution there, namely a The Laundry is ately captured, and four pirate Steam Laundry. leaders were arrested, together with at this moment, our Singapore con- The temporary states, in course of erec- ten members of the gang.
The
constitutional government, and it A Chinese passenger of a Kow.pirates were removed to. Woosung. tion, and laundresses have been en- was felt then that the Dictatorship loon-Canton Railway accommoda. They admitted being involved in a gaged in England to superintend
number of piracies committed out the getting-up of the clothes. was rapidly dying, and De RIVERA tion train- died in a 3rd class. ear
ide Woosung. One of the ringlea dhoby nuisance has long been a sad was among the first to realise the when the train was arriving at
ders told the police that they had thorn in the side to the Singapore -* | fact.
Taipo from Kowloon on Sunday The train had to stop So persistent were these rumours morning.
in their possession a number of community, and they have at length in Madrid of an imminent change and information was telephoned to
rifles, but these were thrown into apparently determined to dispose experiment has not been tried in of government that the Prime the police station in Taipe. The the seca upon seeing the approach of it. It is a pity that a similar this Colony. Some three years ago 20,000 FOREIGNERS. Minister (the ManQUES DE ESTELLA) lifeless body was removed to the of the police boats.
an attempt was made to start a Always on the look-out for new Steam Laundry, but it fell through Arranged, with, the initials as well found it necessary to issue a state- Mortuary
as Surnames in strict alphabement regarding his plans.
ideas for the entertainment of its chiefly, we think, because it was on National Consultative Assembly was tical order.
Two parties of round-the-world passengers, the Canadian Pacific has to be reopened in January, and tourists are due in Hong Kongquipped its Atlantic passenger fleet too ambitions & scale. But there preperations made for establishing shortly, one on the C.P.R. Empress with sets of newly-devised marinela no reason why one requiring less capital should not be tried. There CLASSIFIED LIST in September a mere complete legis of Australia, arriving on the 14th bowls. These are made of lignum are few of the British and foreign
lative body, with wider. fiscal
instant, and another on the Belgen-vitre, bemispherical, with B flat
residents who would not be glad powera The Dictatorship, however, IMPORT AND EXPORTs to remain until the day land, due on the 18th Both parties smooth surface to face the deck, and to take shares in such a concern in are making the usual trips round a small convenient handgrip on order to set it going. So much as- when, with the help of honest men, the island and the New Territories top. On sended deck surface they noyance and discomfort is daily ex a bridge shall have been constructed between the past and the future. and to Canton. The Empress leaves slide perfectly, and it has been dis-perienced from the native washer. covered that the camber of the deck men, that the relief from the worry This may become possible within the on the 17th for Keelung, and the coming year concluded the Prime Belgenland saila on the 20th. for and the roll of the ship in ordinary would be well worth the effort to
Manila,
weather will impart the necessary start & Laundry, Moreover, tho. Minister, little dreaming that with-
hiss to make all possible demand fact that the dhobies are in a habit in a few weeks the Dictator him-
The Canton authorities have been upon the skill of the bowlers. The of occasionally disporting them. self would resign. It was thought that the more conciliatory attitude and are taking energetic measures jack is a white hemisphere, rather selves on the slopes of the hills in shown by DE RIVERA would lead to to enlighten the peasants, and six larger than half the size of a re foreigners' pyjamas is uncomfort patriotic constitutionalists, both free schools have been established in aulution jack of the bowling green. ably borne home to the conviction Liberal and Conservative, co-operat- the outskirts of the city for the The bowls for sea service are about of the unfortunate owners by the ing with the Government in its education of the peasants. Pea- the same size as an ordinary lawn sudden discovery, now and again, acheme for creating a new system cants and their children, irrespec- bowl. The game is played in re that a disgusting skin disease has of administration. The events of tive of sex, are admitted, and thegulation manner with certain necesbeen thus communicated to them, $8 last week indicate that DE RIVERA's students are furnished with books sory adaptions to meet exigencies of It is said, too, that some of the of play aboard ship. The innovation washermen are in the habit of lend efforts in this direction were not so and stationary articles free
The Bureau of Education promises to be tremendously popu ing out their patrons' clothes, but successful as anticipated, and his charge. sudden resignation suggests that is about to issue an illustrated lar with passengers travelling by whether this statement is founded there may have been more truth in journal for the peasants, and action Canadian Pacific, and threatens to on fact we are unable to the story about his angry discussion has been taken to encourage them put the old fashioned shuffic-board tain-Hong Kong Daily Fran
in the shade.
Feb. 5, 1880. with the King than many believed to read and write,
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