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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

COMMERCIAL UNION ASSUR.

ANCE CO., LTD.

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

8 From MARCH

8. DR. T.

A YAMASAKI9 Dental Surgery

will be Situated in PEDDER BUILD.

DURING the Abronce of MARKING, Gru FLOOR.

HEPBURN, MR. HLS. WEBR

Will Act an LOCAL

of the Company.

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MANAGER

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.

RECEPTION will be held in the CATHEDRAL HALL on THURSDAY, 15TH MARCH, whan a FAREWELL PRESENTATION l be made to M. W. PATTENDEN. Tes will be served from 5.x. The Hos. 81 HENRY POLLOCK, LO, will take the Chair at 5.50 7.3. All Interested are Cordially Invited.

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View to come to with Firm Arrangement for the SALE of SWISS WATCHES in HONG KONG and POST Neighbourhood. Reply to

[91s OFFICE BOX No. 1442, Suanqual

NOTICE.

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

Larited for the of are TENDER ABOCB and LIGHTERAGE for Admiralty Cosling for a Period of 12 Months certain from 1 APRIL 1930,

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Forma for Tebuering can be obtained to the NAVAL ACE, H.M. DOCKYARD, STORE Hong Kong, sed Tenders should be lodged in the NANAL STORE OFFICER'S OFFICE Not Lator Than NOON on MONDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1930..

H.M. NAVAL YARD, Hong Kong.

FOR SALE.

OR SALE.-No. 27,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the THIRTY THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING in the SHAREHOLDERS Company will be held in the Company's BOARD ROOM 2ND FLOOR, ALEXANDRA

WEDNES BUILDING, Hour Kong, an DAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930, at 30 for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the and

Directors for the Year ended Decrari 31st, 1929; alreting Directors Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOCKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY, 10TH MARCH, 1930, until WEDNESDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

D. L. KING,

Necretary.

Hong Konu, 8th March, 1930. [9127

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE SIXTY-FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undervigned on WEDNESDAY, the 28ra MARCH. 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Generał Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year auded the 31st DECEMBER, 1999.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on SATUR DAY, the 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1930, st

the BOARD ROOM of

the

Company, SzCOND FLOOR, EXCHANGE BUILDING, Hong Kong, at 11 O'Clock AM.. for the purpose of receiving a Sistem at of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the cial Year ended 31st DECEMBER 1929, and re-electing Two Directors and the

Auditors

From the 12TA to the 25TH MARCH, 1950, Both Days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Managers, THE HONG KONG FIRE LESURANCE."

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 41ST ORDINARY OF SHARE- ANNUAL MEETING HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD. Victoris, on WEDNESDAY

Hong Kong. Finan

The TRANSFER B0085 of the Company will be CLOSED From the 10rn 3LARCH, to the lotu MARCH, 1930, Both Days inclusive..

Dated this 17th day of February, 1930.

By Order of the Board,

W. L. MCKENZIE,

-Secretary. 14. Des Voeux Road Central,

[9105 Hong Kong.

the 19TH DAY of MARCH, 1930, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31er DECEMBER, 1999,

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will he CLOSED from SATURDAY, ST MARCH, 1930, to WEDNESDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1930. Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers, [9056 Hong Kong, 20th Feb., 1930.

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HONG KONG, MARCH 10, 1030.

Bearing the signature Franz Hals,' a portrait inscribed "Man Miss Mary Perry, of Cromwell with a Glove" has been found in Little tradeaman's house. Bel Except for slightlygian art experts who examined the Rond, Wimbledon, S.W., was 101 on February 7. failing sight and hearing she is in picture declare it to be a genuine excellent health. She was born at work by the Dutch master. It has Portsmouth and belongs to a family lain for over fifty years in a connected with the Navy for several ad attic. generations. Her two grandfathers fought at Trafalgar. They were victims of the press-gang

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Mi bartamented blipre quisina Mr. Pepys in Hong Kong.

But.

Mr. TaFT won the honorable posi- Under the auspices of the Univer- While laughtering a fat pig tions he held in public service assity Engineering Society a lecture purchased at a local cattle sale, Mr. J. Hough, a Sheffield butchst, Yesterday's weather report, fore-a result of being appointed on his entitled "Elements of Television " caat and remarks, issued by the merits as a man, and net on his will be given by Professor M. Hound a 20 Bank of England note

Roffey, D.B.O., M.Sc., 1.1.E.E., Royal Observatory at 855 pm, pull as a politician. In spite of on Friday next at 8.43 p.m. in the in the pig's stomach in perfect con-

his jovial appearance and pleasing main building of the University.dition. The anticyclone remains station-personality, he was never in the The general public are invited to

game," which probably attend.

A Sunderland prospective brideg ary to the North of the Yangtze political

room, ал unemployed ahipyard Valley, and has increased slightly explains his defeat at the election

Prof. R. Robertson, M.A., Pre- in intensity. Fresh monsoon will whereat he sought re-election to the prevail along, the South East Coast Presidency. The greater part of aident of the Arts Association of labourer, failed to turn up for his of China and over the North China Mr. Tarr's political career was the Hong Kong University, will wedding and kept the bridal party, closely allied with that of Rooss- deliver his presidential address on the best man, the minister, and fifty VELT. In the Republican campaign Utopias, Ancient and Modern "guests waiting in the rain at the Local Forecast:-N.E.

of 1908 Mr. Tarz, with the support on Thursday next at 8 p.m. in the church, Later he said he was will- fresh; cloudy.

of ROOSEVELT, won 321 electoral Union Assembly Room of the Uni- ing to get married when he found votes out of 488-a tremendous versity. The lecture open to the work.

all interested Ax landslide. In 1919 he sought republic, and * BIRTH. d

nomination for the Presidency, and cordially invited. WHEELER-On March 3, at Ballance, he got that far, but was decisively New Zealand, to Mr. and Mrs.defeated at the subsequent election, STANLEY H. WHEELER, a daugh receiving only eight electoral votes out of 531. This was the year in which ROOSEVELT withdrew from the Republican party to lead the so-call ed Progressive party-a move which split the Republican, vote most dis- It was during Roosz astrously. VELT's term as President that Mr.

This day I do spend at the Office. TAFT was made Governor of the Philippines-the first maa to hold

The United States Circuit Court But Lord for all the business I do, that post-and he held the War De- partment portfolio in ROOSEVELT's of Appeals recently gave its decision I might be at the Club.. So I fall TAT's in the case in which the descen- to going through the news sheets, Administration. During term as Fresident the two men re- dants, numbering some thousands, looking over the account of the numbers which did win at the Lot- mained close friends, personallyot John Nicholas Emerick are na and politically, but later came the serting their claim to the fortune teries held over the last Horse

at Wong-Nei-Chong. rift when the restless-Rough Rider left by John Jacob Astor, who Races took it into his head to establish a founded the wealth of the Astor however I persuse them, I cannot new political party, with the disas family Emerick was a contempor- and my through ticket to have woz ary of J. J. Astor. The Court de- a prize. Whereat I make a yow. trous result already mentioned.

During his long public career cided that the Astor fortune belongs nevermore to buy through" tickets, Mr. TAFT came into close contact to the descendants of John Jacob which the Lord,help me to keep with Far Eastern problems, and Astor and not to the descendante of better than some of my vows, Later his visit to Japan in 1907 is still Emerick. The amount involved is to my buuse, where, to my great estimated at from vexation I find upon computation WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. remembered as an important event variously

of my books that my boy and cook in international politics. At that $7,800,000 to $100,000,000.

are full of knavery and dissimula- time there was considerable irrita

An attempt was made by a pum-tion. They do write down therein ONLY a month ago the news was tion in Japan regarding the treat- given out that Mr. Tur had re- ment of Japanese settlers in Caliber of children on a recent Sunday much that God wot we never had, signed the post of Chief Justice of farnia, and it fell to Mr. TAPT on afternoon to use the swings in Lam- yet how I may prove this I know his way to open the first Legis mas Park, Ealing, which are chain- not. Which puts me in great grief. Now the U.S. Supreme Court lative Assembly in the Philippines-ed up on that day in accordance for all servants are the same, yet I the announcement of his to break his journey, and explain to with the Ealing Town Council's cahill afford my present charges. death, after nearly fifty years the Japanese the American view of prohibition of Sunday games. The My wife still stubborn not to go to the itaation on the Pacifc Coast, children managed to unchain one the play, save in a new gowne. On His recent During his four years of office asof the swings, but were stopped at which, I being vexed aver my ac of public service. resignation of the highest judicial President of the Philippine Com- their play by park-keepers. The counts, we do have words and I do mission Mr. Tarr made many action of the Ealing Town Council swear I will go by myself. But post, in the United States, came.

Filipino friends. The work he had in prohibiting Sunday games was Lord what a pother among the result of a breakdown to do was to construct an entire recently the subject of comment in gossips if I did! But my wife, earsed by overwork, for in spite system of Government, and in con connection with Gunnersbury Park, poor wretch, do believe me, and of his massive physical build, structing to take into consideration The Ministry of Health has stated mighty cross.

the super-sensitive feelings of many that there is no by-law preventing Big Bill" was a tireless worker.jealous and conflicting factions. In Sunday play in this particular The fact that at the age of 29 he this difficult undertaking he showed park.

Considerable disantisfaction is be- ing expressed by foreigners in the became a Judge in the Superior sympathy, firmness, and tact, and

"One-way" Oxford-street. although many disapproved his

One-way Court of Ohio is testimony to the policy. it was generally conceded

traffic for London's employ of the China Merchants S. As to that he handled a most complicated famous shopping-centre, Oxford. N. "Co. Last week, says the N.CO. man's ability and energy.

na Daily News, some foreign situation with great skill. Finally, street, is foreshadowed by tribute must be paid to Mr. Tarr's official of the Ministry of Transport.ployees received a notice from the work in the cause of international The Ministry is considering the cost management to the effect that 15 peace. In the days when that ques of installing and working an auto-per cent. would be deducted from No expression of tion was not so widely and eagerly matic system of traffic control which their salaries to "soothe the soldiers

it now is, MT. TAFT employs coloured lights at important at the front." was an active supporter of various crossings. If this is prohibitive, the opinion had been asked from the movements designed to bring about experimental trial will not be made foreign employees and the question international, amity and under in Oxford-strect, and the one-way is asked: What right has the standing. He was a man of broad at stem will be proceeded with. An management to deduct such a levy views and wide knowledge, and had official of the Ministry said: The from our salaries" The position a warm regard for the British road tentatively chosen for one-way is further aggravated by the fact. nation and its general policy. His traffic in conjunction with Oxford that salaries are much in arrear, death will be mourned in many street is Wigmore-street (on the and in some cases even the latter countries, where his name has been north), which runs parallel." The months of 1920 have not been paid always associated with those quali- alternative one-way street would in full The more fortunate ones an upright man, whatever his mour-street into Wigmore-street, January, but many others are even ties of character that zo to make run from Edgware-rand along Sey have, however, received salaries for opinion or nationality.

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his integrity, his record stands the closest scrutiny. Mr. Tarr was not anaatute" politician; he was a typical example of the better-class American citizen who takes to politics nut as a means of serving his own ends, but with an honest and sincere desire to serve his country. His last years. of public olic were devoted to designing plans of judicial reform whereby the working of legal machinery might be expedited, and for adding dignity to the deliberations of the Washington Courts. For more thas a century the Federal Courts 'have bad to work in cramped and un- comfortable quarters, and it was the intention of the Chief Justice to make plans for a beautiful and dignified building in which the Courts may function.

UNION WATERBOAT CO., LTD, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TEE TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL of GENERAL MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the OFFICES of Messrs. DoDWELL & COMFANT, LIMITED, on MONDAY, THA 10TH MARCH, 1930, at 11 4.x., for the of receiving the Report of the purpose

neral Managers together with Statement of Accounts to 3lat DECEM Ezn, 1920,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Campuses will be CLOSED From the 18T MARCH TO 10TH MARCH, 1930,

Both Dates inclusivo.

DODWELL & CO., LTD...

General Managers.

[9027

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

N° that the FORTY-FIRST OR.

discussed

News and Views.

The name of Mr. W. C. Felshaw

rised architects in the Colony.

has been added to the list of autho-

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The resignation is notified of Lieut. H. C. Macnamara of his com mission in the Hong Kong Volun- teer. Defence Corps.

"

WILLIAM HOWARD TAIT WOs born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1837, and was admitted to the State Bar in 1880 For a time he

The Medical Officer of Health's acted as law reporter on two local return for Friday shows that 4 cases papers, but he was an ambitions of small-pox, 1 of diphtheria and young man, and a year later secur- of puerperal fever, all Chinese,

were reported. ed an appointment is assistant prosecuting attorney. His progress thereafter was rapid. He becaine

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"Soothing" Soldiers!

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after crossing Baker-street. through without that. With the further Mortimer-street and Goodge-street commandeering of vessels by the into Tottenham. Court-rond, where Nanking Government, employees traffic would turn right into St. take a very gloomy view of the . Giles's-circus at Tottenham Court future.

road.

Last May the authorities were considering a system of auto-Middleman Cut Out.” matic traffic control designed to nilow continuous movement at the

maximum speed from Marble Arch to Tottenham Court-road. Christmas Day Tragedy.

Employees of John Howell & Co., Ltd., warehousemen, of St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C., numbering about 250 were last month give notice of dismissal. It is stated that the firm How a man was found to have is closing down. Howells, which has taken poison while a party was being been established for more than 100 held on Christmas Day was des yetre, was some time ago bought ribed at a Fulham inquest on by Cook, Son & Co. (St. Paul's), ward Watts, master builder, of Ltd, whose extensive premises, are Meadora Rond. A daughter said only a few doors away, Comment another firm of warehousemen said: that while the party was in progress ing on the situation, & member of her father called out to her for a "There is less room for the ware TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

cigarette. She found him in the kitchen, and he said to her:-"I've house people nowadays. The big DINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, P. &

done it now." Last July her father buyers like the stores and large had put his head in a gas oven. He shops are going straight to the O. BUILDENS, ON WEDNESDAY 12TH

was worried about his work. The manufacturer. They will not wait MARCH 1930, at 11 A., for the par. State Solicitor-General at the age

widow said that Watts had tried to for their orders. The middleman is

being cut out," kill himself with a razor during the pose of presenting the Report of the of 24, Governor of the Philippines Directors together with a Statement of at 43, Secretary for War at 46, and According to the Canton Gazelle war. It was stated that Watte had Accounts to 31st

DECEMBER 1929, and

President of the United States at the Bureau of Social Reforms of swallowed the contents of a four- electing Directors and Auditors.

onnce bottle of poison. Mr. H. R. THE REGISTER of MEMBERS of 31. It is interesting to note that that city proposes to establish a the Company will be CLOSED from 28TH FEBRITARY 1930 to 197 Mr. Tarr received his education in Women's Relief Home, on the tame Oswald, the corner, in recording a' Looking Back 25 Years.

lines as the Po Leung Kuk in this verdiet of suicide during temporary Lord Hawks and souther celebrat- insanity, told the widow that poison MARCH 10, Both Days inclusive, the public schools of Cincinnati, Colony.

ought to be kept locked up, and ed cricketer, name not known, are during which Period No Transfer of and graduated at Yale in 1878. He

reproved her for having left it about expected, at Hong Kong, and will Sharea can be registered,

carelessly. By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Lr.,

Agents. Hong Kong, 18th Feb., 1930. [9055

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD............

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HEREBY GIVEN

Silk forwarded from here by the Empress of Russia on February 12, arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on March 5, having been 21 days in transit.

Publishara Failure,

14 hoami's hat wotegole

take part in a cricket-match on Saturday. A special tiffin and other arrangements have been made:- Hong Kong Daily Press, March 10 1905. Looking Back 50 Years.

It is notified in the current issue was the only man in the history of of the Government Gazette that the the United States-to-have held the following tender has been accepted: two cock of Chief Executive and Messrs. The Hong Kong Excava tion, Pile Driving and Construction

Under the compulsory liquidation Chief Judge, being the 27th Pre Co., Ltd., 833.305.30 for the con-

ferry pier near of the Piccadilly Magazine, Ltd, sident and the "10th Chief Justice struction of a

the statutory meetings of creditors and shareholders were held at the Silve.. Klampermeyer, $5.-This of the Supreme Court. In his Wilmer Street.

"Court last was a claim' in the Supreme Court younger days Mr. Tart was known The following appointments are London Bankruptcy as a brilliant lawyer; he was an notified in the Government Gazette: month. The statement of affairs before Mr. Justice. Francis for tun-

which

piano. Last week His Lordship re- able speaker, and his legal, know- Lieut. Col. C. D. Myles, O.B.E, filed in the proceedings showed ing and raising the tone of

R.A.M.C., to be a member of the liabilities of £58,400, of ledge was profound. Of late years Sanitary Board for three years £28,101 is unsecured, and assets quested Mr. Sangster to look at the NOTICE IS FIRTY-FOURTH-since his appointment as head of tice Majax D. G. Cheyne, O.B.E., £7.430. The winding-up order was piano. Mr. Sangster now reported ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the. Supreme Court by President M.C., RA.M.C.; Mr. Julius Ring to made on December 24 on the pets that he had done so, and that he act as Assistant Assessor, End Mr. tion of a creditor. The company found it an old instrument and very was incorporated on December 14, much out of tune. The plaintif of the SHAREHOLDERS. In the

HARDING in 1921-be had almost C. G. S. Mackie to be a member Company will be held at the Company's dropped out of the public de except of the Harbour Board vice Mr. M. 1523, with a nominal capital of 2500 had raised the pitch three or four to carry on the business of printers, notes, and be considered it. would LOWER ALBERT TOWN OFFICE,

publishers, and booksellers, and be impossible for an old, piano to ROAD, on FRIDAY, THE 14TH MARCH, for a few days in 1928. He was T. Johnson. 1930,

at 11 AM, for the purpose of spending the summer vacation in a

A Canton paper describes a very particularly to publish the Picca stund such a test; it could not have receiving the Report of the Directors little village in Quebec when the

BACCO

and neat capture of a would-be burglar dilly Magazine. The failure is at remained in tune. after being rained together with Statement of &ccounts for lawyers defending

in tone, and as he did not tell the the Year anding 31st DZCEMBER, 1929, VANZETTI in the notorious case The man bored a hole through the tributed by a director to the failure so much, even if plaintiff left it declaring a Dividend and re-electing petitioned him to return to the clay wall of a farmer's hut and in-of two other undertakings to carry

United States to hear an applica-serted a hand to take what he could out their, promises and form another defendant he was going to raise it, tion for a stay of execution of the get-the hole having been bored company, thus depriving this com- and as he (Mr. Sangster) consider capital sentence... Three Associate opposite certain valuables, Un-pany of the necessary capital. In ed it was bad judgment, to do so. Judges of the Supreme Court hav fortunately for the thief the farmer the opinion of the Official Receiver he did not consider the plaintiff ing already rejected. the petition, awoke, and at orce seized the it was also due to the lavish and was entitled to payment, but the The him a dollar for his trouble Judg the Chief Justice, declined to leave offending hand, despite much wrig extravagant manner in which the defendant appeared willing to give Canada and hear argument on an gling the farmer held on till his sons company began business."

Kong Daily Press, March 10, 1880. issue, which he considered to have had time to rush round and catch liquidation is in the hands of the ment for plaintiff, for 81-Hong been finally disposed of

the owner of the offending limb. Oeil Receiver.

Directors and Auditors.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From the 4r to the 14TH MARCH, 1850, Both Days inclamire.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. D. THOMSON,

Acting Secretary Hong Kong, 25th Feb, 1980. [9074

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