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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

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that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be bold st CITY HALL, Hong Kong on SATURDAY, the 2 FEBRUARY, 1930, at 11.30 AM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the Tear ending 31st December, 1929,

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corrention will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the JUTE FEBRUARY to SATURDAY, the ND FEBRUARY, 1930 (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Irectors,

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Chief ausger, Hong Kong, 3rd Feb., 1990. [8979

THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HUNDRED AND

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ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Quzz's BUILDING, Connaught Rond, on TUESDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1930, at 11 am, for the purpose. of receiving

Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, Declaring a Dividend and Electing Directors and Auditors.

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TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 10# FERRTARY to TUESDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive, during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,

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Mombers Badges may be obtained by those Members who bave not already received them on Application to the SECRETARY.

Bach Badrer will also ensure Admis." sion to all Extra Race Meetings during 1930.

Members are Notified that They and Their Ladies must Wear their Eadges prominently displayed.

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Members can obtain, upon Applica. tion to the SECRETARY. Badges (Limited to Two) for the Frea Admission to the Members' Enclosure of Wires, Lady Relatives and Friends.

Names must be stated when applying.

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CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL N by a Resolution of the Board THE

GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDER8 will be held in the of Directors of CHINA UNDER “તેમ on the OFFICES of Merars. DoDWELL & WRITERS. LTD. COMPANY, LIMITED, on MONDAY, THE THIRTEENTH INSTANT, A CALL 10TH MARCH, 1930, at 11 .., for the of ONE DOLLAR Per Share has been purpose of receiving the Report of the made upon the Members of the Company General Managers together with a payable on or before the TWENTIETH Statement of Aecannts to 91st DrCE. DAY OF MAY, 1930, to the Company's Barkers, THE HONG KONG AND REB, 1929.

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The ENTRIES for the FLOWER

WEATHER REPORT. All the leaders of the now warping factions were still allies a year ago, Yesterday's weather report, fore- and had fought'side by side for cast and remarks, issued by the unification and the ending of "the Royal Observatory at 5.40 p.militarista." The "Big Four" of

stated:

The anticyclone over Chins is un- ebanged. A depression is situated to the South-East of the Bonine. Fresh monsoon will prevail along

the S.E. Ocast of Chins and over the N., China Sea.

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Soma 57 piculs of opium, soixed by the Customs from December 21 to January 22 and valued at 8181,800, were burnt at the Pootung furnaces last week in the presence of a number of local officials,

Mr. W. H. Donald, former co director of the Bureau of Economic Information, and now adviser in economic

relations to Marshal

Chang Hsueh Liang, has gone to Japan for a rest cure. Mr. Donald, has been in ill-health during the past few weeks.

the Ewangsi alique ruled in Peping, Cantony Hankow and Kwangi, Feya Ye ASIANG had borne a heavy part in the final campaign against the Northern militarists, and Xxx Har Shan had occupied the capital in the name of the Kuomintang. What had they to do but to divide the inheritance, and set to work restoring prosperity 1 They were all men of proved courage and ability, | and each of them seemed fully equal

to his task. They preferred-or At an auction held in New York perhaps circumstances" forced last week, the Chinese art collee them to fight among themselves, tion of Leo Wan Ching of Shang- and bring vast areas of potentially hai brought a total of 0.897,657, wealthy country to the verge of The highest-priced object was utter desolation. The situation is dark green jade mountain on & such that the American Red Cross white jade stand, of the Chien Lang Society reports that while two period. This sold for $825. million people may be expected to Tessa famine it is useless to attempt relief measures, because money and supplies will not reach the sufferers, and the problem is one which only China herself can solve Now comes news from the North that YEN HI SHAN has called upon Marshal Caixa KA SHEX to full THE MELTING SNOWS AND soft-made promise to retire from

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Hoxa Koxo, FEBRUARY 17, 1830.

WAR.

office. More significant is YES's expression of regret that disciples of SUN YAT SEN should be still To the foreign observer of Chinese slaughtering one another, and his affairs prospects of peace and re-expression of doubt as to whether turning prosperity in the Republic unification can be ever accomplished are no better now than they were by the "mailed fist" methods of the present. Administration, Yax's a year ago. A general opinion is declaration is a defnite challenge that when this exceptionally long to Nanking, and has drawn a de fiant reply from CHIANG KA SHEE and sovere winter ends, and cam-

that he does not intend to resign, paigning conditions become easier, nor to abandon his efforts to sup the smouldering embers of press completely "all reactionary elements" throughout the country. As each faction regards the other as reactionary, there seems to be no prospect of peace in the Republic The sole refuge of the optimist is still the consoling reflection that in China it is the unexpected that happeña

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throughout the land will again burst into flame. Last year, about this time LI TAI HSIN was setting out on his desperate attempt to settle the Hankow dispute, and it was felt that could he but succeed the land might have peace. He did not, and the war atarted by Li TSUNG JE's coup in Hankow, when, as Commander-in-Chief, he turned out the eivil government, on the ground that it was of a Com munistic nature, has been waged intermittently ever since

whole country is involved, from Kwangtang to Manchuria, the im- broglio with Russia over the Chinese Eastern Railway being but one of the many reactions of this colossal struggle. Not long ago Britain was regarded as the arch-enemy of Chian

While last year's pros

pects of peace turned abruptly into a reality of useless war, the appear. ance of inevitable conflict may see

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The Greater Shanghai Health Bureau has started a class for the training of midwives. According to an order issued by the Commis- sioner, all midwives who have been engaged in practice will be requir ed to take a month's coarse, fail- ing which they will be forbidden to pursue their calling...

Mr. H. Nyhuus, who is believed to be a Norwegian, was found dead at 2.15 a.m. on Saturday morning in a chair in the billiard room of the Kowloon Hotel, Dr. J. E. Dovey, examined the body and certified that death was due to Da tural causes. The funeral took place on Saturday Afternoon.

Reports were current in financial circics in New York last week that officials of the Dollar Line and the Americon-Hawaiian Steamship Co. have held several meetings at which they discussed various phases of operations, including a possible merger, but it was stated "that_no thing, definite can be announced at present.

Chinesa

GA cable has bean received by the H.K. Automobile Association from the Auto Cycle Union, London, or- ganisers of the Tourist Trophy Races in the Island of Man, jug- gesting that a competitor from Hong Kong should come and com- pete in the Races in Mid-June. Freo passags and a machine will be pro- vided. It is learned that the offer will be considered at a meeting by the Committee of the local Associa

tion.

The following appointments are notified in the Government Gazette

E, the Officer Administering, the Government has appointed Mr. Robert Andrew Dermop Forrest to netas Chief Assistant to the Be cretary for Chinese Affairs, with effect from February, and also to be a Member of the Beard of Ex- aminers, with effect from February, 6. Mr. Walter Schofield is to act a Assistant Head of the Sanitary Department, in addition to his other duties, with effect from February, 10.

Ceh Men who He Things

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The lecture giving by Mr. Cock, M.B.E.. A.M.L.C.E.. 31.1.N.A, at the University on Friday last a summary which ap- Peared in our laat issue) was held under the auspices of the Univers- ity Engineering Society, and was the first of a series of lectures which will be given during the session, The meeting was well attended, not only by all of the engineering students of the University, but by

engineers and shipbuilders. Mr. Cock men- many well-known local tioned that he was the third of a line of shipbuilders in his family, and had had be queathed to him and accumulat ed

many books and pa pore in, connection with this sub- ject that his great difficulty had been to condense so much material into one lecture. Before introduc in the lecturer Prot. Middleton Smith, who presided, congratulated the University engineering stud- ents upon the plucky effort which. they made during the recent_mno- There tor-cycle reliability trials. were eight entries from the Univers- ity out of a total of 51 competitors, five finished, and the third prize came to the University. The two rst-year engineering students who finished were especially to be con gratulated. In introducing Mr.

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Cock the chairman said it was the

A marriage will take place in March, in Shanghai, between John Erederick, second son of the late some form of compromise. In spite Erskine Travers Pym. of the somewhat threatening tone Maritime Customs, and Mrs. Pym, of his recent message, TEN HSI and grandson of the late Genera SHAN is fortunately of a naturally E. L. Pym, and Patricia Mary peaceful disposition and CRANG eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. HEUER LIANG realises the economic Mair, of 3, March-Wood-Crescent, potentialities of his vast domain of Ealing, and grand-daughter of the The Manchuria They seen between late J. G. Mair-Rumley.

them to have eliminated FENG TU ESIANG, the stormy petrel of the North. In the South CHIANG KAI SHEK should see by this time that he cannot hope to subdue Kwangsi, and the only practical course is pence by negotiation. Peace and war are still in balance though the are heavily weighted in scales on in the secrecy of the yamens is beyond European knowledge. We can only hope that those unon whom the decision rests will call to mind the great military figures, Wo Per Fu, SUN CHUAN FANG, CHANG TSO LN, and a host of others who have It is learned that the Aviation This may weigh with them more in Nanking has granted permis-Looking Back 25 Years. passed from power to obscurity. Department of the Ministry of War heavily than any thought of famine- sion to stricken Kanau and Shensi, or even the steady deterioration of their own country.

News and Views.

One case of small-pox, one of scarlet fever ("non-Chinese ") and one of puerperal fever were report-. ed on Friday.

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first occasion on which a member of the staff of any local shipbuild- ing and ship-repairing yard had H.E. the Officer. Administering accepted an invitation to lecture the Government has made the fol at the University, and ho sincere lowing promotions in the Hongy hoped that this precedent would be followed by others. The Kong Volunteer Defence Corps to University engineers wanted to see date from February, 1. Lieutenant

mere of the practical men who do Manna Alfred Johnson, M.M., to

things: At the conclusion of the be Captain; Lieutenant Henry lecture Mr. Pas Yue Lum, Chair- Russell Forsyth to be Captain; man of the Society, moved a vote and the source of all her ills from favour of conflict, But what goes Second Lieutenant Alex Hution of thanks, and expressed the appre-

Potts to be Lieutenant; Second Canton to Manchuli. Then it was

Lieutenant Jose Simao Rodrigues ciation of the engineering students to Mr. Cock for giving up his HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL Russie in general and Bononin in

to be Lieutenant; Sergeant Lealie valuable time in the preparation Frere Nicholson to be Second Lieut-

of such an instructive and interest- particular. Next Japan had a turn

enant.

ing lecture, 8 Hewin the fole of a national 1400, and THE T FLOWERS and VEGET now it is Russia's second innings ARLES will be held in the CITY

as the villain. The possibility of HALL, on THURSDAY, 8TH MARCH, 1930,

China being her own worst enemy

The Merionethshire, Captain C France to fly to China for the pur The SHOW will be OPENED to the has not received from Chinese ob servers the study and the attention

pose of giving aerial demonstra H Burch, put back here yesterday which 'it merits. As things have

tions in China. The application towing the Oscar. II. (Captain R. been they remain," the cynic is

was received at the., Ministry of Olsen), of Bergen, with her maint tempted to exclaim, adding that the

Foreign Affairs some time ago shaft broken. The Merionethshire only thing upon which the Chinese

through the French Consular autho- left Hong Kong for Shanghai on in lenders are agreed is the elimina-

rities in Shanghai. The Russian Tuesday, and at six o'clock on Wed- tion of any of their number, such

stunt Alier will be accompanied by nesday morning, when ten miles a French pilot and will give de south-west of High Lammock, the na Wo Pei Fu or Li Tea: Hein, who Leems genuinely imbued with a

monstrations at Canton, Focchow, disabled steamer, fying signals of distress, want immediate assist- patriotism that puts the good of

Shanghai and Nanking.

ance," was sighted Captain Burch the country first and seeks to stamp

A large delegation of prominent proceeded to get a tow-rope on out the brigandage and corruption

Chinese of New York, together with board by means of rockets. The sca which is bleeding the country white,

There is still a complete inability Mr. James West; for seven years many Americans including news being so heavy, however, it was to face the situation. Nanking and chief of the Washington staff of the paper photographers and reporters, found impossible to get close enough to successfully carry out this Canton both make light of their Associated Press, was last week apgreeted the famous Chinese actor,

manœuvre. A boat, in charge of enemies. The situation is always pointed Public Director for the Re- Mei Lan Fang, when he arrived at "well in hand." "Our" "troops publican National Committee. the Grand Central station last week. the third officer, was therefore with are monotonously victorious and

A grand reception was held in the great difficulty, launched, and after every General, until he is de- It is notified in the Government hall of the station, where contin- a heavy pull sho arrived to leeward nounced as a Communist, a re- Gazette that the following tender gents of Chinese boys and girls sang of the Oscar II. while alongside the. UB TAXI SERVICE in KewLoox actionary and a traitor to the has been accepted: Messrs. Dodwell the Chinese national anthem and beat on two scensions narrowly,es- présented Mr. Mei with large floral caped being capsized by the steamer has been Established for the Past Republic, is entirely loyal and & Co., Ltd., for cleaning and re-

Isoving troops in accordance pairing typewriters in all Govern- offerings. Mr. Mei was subsequent-sheering on top, of it. The connec Two Years and From Now on We wish with orders. Simultaneously the ment Offices at 83 per machine perly the guest of the Chinese colony tion being made the boat returned, to." BUTTO

Our Customers with Ministries Announce

of New York at a banquet in the and a hawser connection was made grandiose annuin... The Canton-

Ambassador Hotel.

between the vessel. The Merioneth- BETTER RATE by Issaing TICKET schemes of reform.

shire towed the Oscar II. to port, Hankow Railway-a matter of A third consignment of scro FORMS, EACH BOOK of Tickets great interest to us in Hong Kong planes ordered by the National A surprise visit was paid to a distance of 200 miles, arriving at Costa FIVE DOLLARS and contains is to be completed and work is to Government from America arrived | Dar-es-Salaam by the Prince of noon yesterday. The Oscar II had TEN 10 CENT Tic, FIVE 20 start at the end of the month, in Shanghai & few days ago, and Wales Inst week from the steamship left Hong Kong for Bhanghai on How many times has that pro- have been sent to the Hungjao Modasa. Without hat or coat and Monday-Hong Kong Daily Press, CENT-TICLETS, and TEN 40 CENT nouncement been made! There are Aerodrome to be assembled. A wearing evening dress, he went February 17, 1905. TICKET. These Ticket Books can be other railway projects; telephone, fourth consignment will arrive on shore in a launch, which carried Looking Back 60 Years.

him for five miles through, a obtained from Our Office at the Conra telegraph and wireless systems are the 17th instant.

tortuous channel of coral reefs to Tang Asing, a boy, fourteen years to link up alt: important towns; NATHAN and PAK HO coastal and river shipping is to be Shortly after 9.30 last night, a the romantic town of waving palms, old, was charged by Henrique Hynd- ' STREETS, YAUMATI.."

taken over by the Government and small fire broke out in the front Books will be Ready for Sale at the foreign concerns will have either verandah of 01, Parkes Street, How End of the Month:

TE925-to-hoist the Kuomintang-flag or to loon. A call was received at the seck new spheres of operation. The Salisbury Road Station, and three currency is to be put on a gold engines were sent to the scene of basis, likin are to be abolished, a the outbreak, which, however was CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME modern legal and prison system is put out without the aid of the

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to be made a reality. It sounds ne A motor car accident occurred though ACLADIN's lamp had found yesterday along the Castle Peak its way to Nanking, and that the Road at Laichikok, opposite the fortunate Chinese Ministers can prison. An Erskine, No. 338, call spirits from the vasty deep." driven by a European ran over the na of course they can.

But the side of the road into a ditch some Apirits will not answer, and China's twelve feet below when the driver leaders hold in their hands no attempted to pass a stationary bus, imagic talisman-not even that of It appears that the bas had pulled steadfastness of — purpose.

The up at the side of the read, and a country is unified," the "Nanking public vehicle. coming from an Government has quelled many plots opposite direction noerlerated in an and one after another of its enemies effort to get through first. The has been eliminated." But in fact driver, however, changed his mind these "enemies are hydro-headed, and pulled up behind the bas because no one will put country be instead. His back wheel was pro- fore family and clan. Each man jecting on to the road and it is attains power at the expense of his believed that the private car struck colleagues, and the friends of one this, and was deflected into the enterprise are enemies in the next. ditch. Nobody was hurt.

hathed in moonlight. His Royal man, a clerk, with absenting himself Highness visited a dance in the open from his employ without just cause, air on the Club verandah, surround- on the 14th instant. The complain. d by palm trees and facing the sea.ant and prisoner has been in his The Prince enjoyed many dances employ since January and received before returning to the ship in the 81 a month. On Saturday last he ~! went out at 2.30 and did not return early hours of the morning.

until five o'clock. He had often The wedding was solemnized at absented himself. before. When he the Union Church, Shanghai, last returned on Saturday witness told week. when Miss Barbara Margaret him to look at the clock and sce Smith became the bride of Mr. how long he had been absent, and William Watson. Campbell. The he laughed at him. Mrs. Hnydman marriage ceremony was performed then given him a light blow on the by the Rev. E. F. Borat-Smith, shoulder with a cane and he left the The bride wore a gown of white house. The prisoner's mother told satin charmeuse, trimmed with a witness to beat him. The prisoner diamanté belt, and a veil of em- said that his mistress was in the broidered tulle, held in place with habit of beating him. There were orange-blossoms and white heather. formerly two servants in the house, She carried a shower bouquet of but now one had gone, and they white roses and pink carnations. expected him (prisoner) to do all She was attended by Miss Ianbelle the work. On Saturday, when he Lawson, who wore a dress of pale was beaten, he came to the station green silk and a hat of beige and to complain, when the complainant green, and carried a bonquet and followed and charged him. His deep ping carnations. After the Worship discharged the prisoner. wedding the couple left on their Hong Kong Daily Press, February

17, 1880. honeymoon trip for, Tringtoo.