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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the, Company will be CLOSED From the or to the 22xp APRIL, 1930, Both Days incluzive.

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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be bald on TUESDAY, the 22ND DAY of APRIL, 1930, at 3 m., at the Officer of the Public Works Department, by Order of His ExcELLEEGI TUS GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND. 点

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Bealed Tenders in of 75 years, which should be clearly marked **Tender for Quarry”, will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Ufce anti Noom of TUESDAY, the 9239 Day or APRIL for the occupation for a period, Deci, 1931,

from the Date of Notification of Accept- ance of Tender of the Piece or Parcel of Ground at TA PO ROAD. containing hown coloured Red about 5'08 acres, as shown

on attached Plan, signed by the Director of Public Works and dated 18th MARCH, 1930, at an upset annual Fee of $500, hat #ubject to certain conditions which can scertained at the Office of the Director of Public Works.

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Tender must be accompanied by receipt to the effect that Tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treauery a Sum of 3300 ka Pledge of the bona fices of his offer, which Sam shall be forfeited to the Crown, if the Tenderer refuses to carry out his teader and comply with the conditions, should, the Tender be accepted.

Form of Tander and farther partienlare can be obtained from the Office of the Director of Public Works...

The Government does not bind itself 1o,nocept the Highest or any Tender. HAROLD T. GREASY,.

Director of Public Works.

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WEATHER REPORT. guarantee her against the danger of blockade. These.. claims by Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the neighbours on the shores of the Royal Observatory at 6.15 p.m., Mediterranean to guarantee their stated:-

"security" are impossible to The anticyclone remains central adjust, based over the lower Fangtsze Valley.

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Local Forecast:-Variable winds; moderate; generally cloudy; some rain.

The depression is central near mutual jealousy and suspicion. Kobe.

The failure of France and Italy to follow the example of Britain and the United States in removing misunderstandings has made a com- plete Five-Power agreement on the

BIRTHS.

BERRY-HART-On March 18, at Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs, R. BERRY-HART, a daughter, GILLIAN. BOTELHO.-On April 10, at Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. M.. BOTELHO, a daugther. -

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News and Views.

Greatly impressed by Australia's vastness and the opportunities it. affords, Messrs. Godfrey Phillips, Ltd., of London, have decided to form a company with a capital of Three cases of small-pox, all £300,000 to establish a factory in Chinese, were reported to the Melbourne for the manufacture of Medical Ofeer of Health on Mon-hundred bands will eventually be tobacco and cigaretics. Several day.

employed Mr. Arthur Phillips, managing director of the firm, who

A meeting will be held at the has been visiting Melbourne, is of

opinion that all British manufac Chinese Chamber of Commerce re-turers who do not establish the Thursday, April 17, at 2.30 p.m. lative to the currency question on elves in Australia are missing a.

wonderful opportunity,

According to statistics compiled lines originally contemplated quite by the Canton Education Bureau, impossible.

there are 241 primary and middle schools in the city, with over 36,000 students.

Meanwhile it is interesting to learn from the Tokyo correspondent

of the United Press that the adviser to the Shanghai Municipal Mr. Justice R. Feetham, legal Japanese and American Govern- Council, left here for the North Editorial and Business Offices: 11, ments" have started preparations by the President Grant, accom- panied by Mrs. Feetham, after a for a navil limitation conference | brief tour of South China. in 1935 American effort, so far as it is apparent in Tokyo, is under the direction of the United States Ambassador, who was appointed to Japan for the period of the present conference in London. He will re- turn shortly to Washington, and will carry with him detailed re- "ports on Japan's reactions during the conference and with recom- mendations for preparations for

The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, APRIL 16, 1930.

14,000 a Minutà in Talkies,

and

Unique in the history of busines agreements, a term contract between Mary Lewis, Metropolitan Opera Studios was consummated by re Company star,

the Pathe

cording the obligations of both parties on a sound film. No other

executive vice-president were made. contracts of written agreements. With E. B. Derr, Pathe Studios, and Laura Hope of the Crews, studio executive, as repre-

sentatives of the film company, and Miss Lewis and her business man-- ager seated in front of the micro- A villager, who tried to walk phone, the terms of the contract Shiu Pin Station, was knocked and movement of the principals across the railway track near the

were repeated verbally, every word down and killed instantly by being recorded. After appearing Canton from Fatshan on Monday train which was pulling towards

for a number of performances in New York, Miss Lewis, who is still under contract to the Metropolitan, Mr. S.. V. Boxer has been ap-will return to Los Angeles to start pointed to act as Registrar of the her first Pathe picture. By the University of Hong Kong daring terms of the studio contract, Miss the absence on leave of Mr. W. B. Lewis will receive approximately Finnigan, who is proceeding to-day $4,000 for every minute in which her on nine months' leave to England.

voice will be heard in her frst picture.

When found guilty of the theft of a piece of piping valued at $10 which was lying in an alleyway off

THE CONFERENCE OF 1936. the 1936 parley. When that confer-Nathan Road, a Chinese was sen-

ence is held, it is hoped the em- For the last twenty-one years barrassing situations which have NORMAN ANGELL has been trying to marred the present London gather- dispel a great illusion. It was ining will be avoided. It seems like- 1009 that he published his famously that a special effort will be made book "The Great Illusion," which to harmonize divergencies of a has had a vast circulation in a serious "nature in advance of the score of languages. By some extra formal opening of the new parley ordinary mischance in every ecun- There is little likelihood, however, try the iden seems to have been created that Mr. ANGELL Wrote this book to prove there could never be another war. The fact is, of course, that he never suggested any

that the American Embassy will recommend that the 1936 conference

teaved to a month's hard labour by Mr. Whyte Smith yesterday.

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Bridegroom's Early Troubles.

A Young couple who were mar- ried in the parish church at -Mal- vino, a village near Tortosa (Pied- mont), had an exciting wedding. In connection with the robbery As the couple, accompanied by at Ng Chin Wai last Saturday, the small group of relations and Police have effected a third rast, friends, were entering the church, The man was brought up before young woman pushed her way Mr. Whyte Smith yesterday and through the crowd and attacked the was remanded till next Monday, bride, tearing off her veil and try- when the other two defendants willing to strike her. It was not with- also be brought into Court.

Mr. M. J. van Schreven, Vice- Consul of the Netherlands, has been attached to the Netherland Con- to-day, and Mr. H. Bos, 2nd class sulate General at Hong Kong from

sulite, went on home leave on the 8th instant.

Robbers on the upper reaches of the East River, who were suppress- be the cadets of the Whampon Military School a month ago, have again become very active. The people's militia are now operating against hem and river traffic has been suspended.

out difficulty that the woman, who was shouting that the bridegroom. had betrayed her, was led away. The ceremony took place, but the newly-married couple had only just motor-car waiting for them, when left the church and approached the

ed to have been abandoned by the young man, caused a second noisy scune, and tore the bride's gown. The couple saw that the only way out of this difficult situation was to make for the nearest railway-station- and to leave by the next trip.. This they did.

Animal Beauty Parlours.

There are beauty parlours for dogs and cats in London, but none take place shortly between Mr. The marriage is announced to

to rival in sumptiousness one which Edgar Ledger Williams, engineer, specialists, who conduct it care for is to be found in New York. The residing at Empress Lodge, Mody the personal appearance of the pets: Cossar, of 110, Trinity Road, Edin-en and women. They claim that Road, Kowloon, to Miss Norah of some of America's wealthiest burgh, who is now on her way to three times as much money can be Hong Kong on board the

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be held in Tokyo, although re-interpreter attached to the Con-another woman, who also pretend- construction of the capital now virtually has been completed and auch thing; his contention was not accommodation for the delegates that war was impossible, but" must will be ample by 1038. Although be unprofitable-even for the victor. Embassy officials will not admit it, The events of the last twelve years here is little doubt but that one have made it painfully plain even

of the reasons they do not care to to the least observant how right envisage the 1933 parley in Japan's Mr. ANGELL was, in his forecast capital is the existence in that written ve years before the 1914 country of so-called patriotic encie catastrophe. Far from being anties which do not stop at violence exploded optimist-as so many have when they feel, or are induced by regarded him he has lived to see interested persons to appear to the complete fulfilment of his pro- feel, that the Empire's prestige is PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS phecies instead of an exposure of being menaced.

These groups of Antenor. the by Public Auction fallacies.

apent in beauty treatment for a ent to be held on TUESDAY, the 22ND

It is unfortunate; in- "ropin" or "soshi," posing as

or dog as for a woman. Twenty- DAY of APRIL, 1930, st 8 r.x, at the deed, that Mr. ANGELL's arguments patriots, frequently have created

two of their customers are griffons. Ofces of the Public Works Department, have been so misunderstood-or, grave disturbances in the name ofed with triplets that are probably son, the film star, sends her sheep A white couple living at Vega Alta belonging to the much-married Miss (Porto Rico) have just been present-Fegg Joyce. by Order of HIS EXCELLENT TEX

Miss Gloria Swan- GOTEENCE, of One Lot of CROWN rather, that his attitude has been patriotism, and the very fact they the most extraordinary in history, dog to be shampooed regularly six LAND at Shamabuipo, in the Colony of to misrepresented. However, in exist as units so strong that at

One child is white, the second an times a year, Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, come these days there is a much wider times they virtually can defy the They have been christened Kaspar, hair is so long that it louches the He is charged the mencing from 1st July, 1898, with the

Indian, and the third a negro. maximum price £3 3s-because Eis spion of renewal at a Crown Rent to be and more intelligent interest taken police is felt sufficient to bar Tokyo Melchior, and Balthazar, after the ground. Cats cannot be shampco- Led by the Burveyor of His MAJESTY in international questions than was THL KERG, for one further term of 24

existing twenty-one years ago, and Conference.

as the seat of the next great Naval Three Wise Men-the Magi.

ed, ax they are liable to become jurs less three days.

rheumatic. Instead, they are dry- especially in regard to matters re-

Mr. R. B. Salisbury's players cleaned by a secret and expensive Japan's preparations for lating to armaments.

the concluded their gun of Journey's process, used elsewhere only for the Conférences

next meeting still are, of course,

End" at the Star Theatre last sacred cats of the royal household between nations for the purpose limited in scope, but they have being prescht. "Young Woodley,"

evening, an appreciative house of Siam. Health as well as beauty of restricting expenditure upon started with the fling of world- the famous public school play by experts. They conduct & country is cared for by these enterprising armies and navies, for humanis-wide reports on the London Con- night, and to-morrow a musical jaded by the hectic luxuries of city John Van Druten, is billed for to- sanatorium, where dogs who are ing" and even "outlawing" war,ference, the reactions of public comedy entitled "So This is Love" may not actually accomplish much,

life go for a few daya rest cure. opinion but at least are signs of a forward

will be presented. movement which will gradually Japanese delegation, headed by the

It is learned that Señor Calles, gain momentum.

former Premier, Mr. WARATBUKI, the former President of Mexico, and Admiral TAKARABE, Minister of and Señorita Leoner Llorente in- The Five-Power Conference which the Navy, and the grave differences tend to get married shortly and to highly-placed official in the Public is now drawing to a close in towards the compromise proposals Señorita Llorente is 28, and lives spend their honeymoon Europe. London is represented as having regarding Japan's naval strength with her mother in Mexico City, been a great success. In the sense which arose between the Navy De-

where she studies singing. Señor that a complete breakdown was partment and the Foreign Ministry. Los Angeles three years ago.

Calles is 52. His first wife died in avoided it ogrtainly has been a These divergencies for a time tremendous triumph, considering endangered the possibility of a the difficulties encountered, but it three-Power agreement and even is futile to pretend that the Con-threatened the existence of the ference has accomplished anything Cabinet. Even now, according to PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS like what was hoped for. The re- a Reuter message in yesterday's bold on TUESDAY, the 22ND DAY presentatives of Great Britain, the issue, there is serious friction be-

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Taking advantage of the inatten- tion of a shopkeeper at 132, Shang- hai Street, on Monday afternoon, a daring thief removed a pane of glass from a show-case and stole 31 Swiss watches, valued at $282. The thief escaped before the loss The proprietor, Mok Tse Kee, has was discovered by the shopkeeper,

reported the matter to the Police.

Looking Back 25 Years,

A rumour is current that when

Kowloon one day last week he was Works Department ventured over to surrounded by a menacing crowd of irate residents, who demanded to know there and then when the roads in Kowloon were to be put in decent order. On receipt of satisfactory assurances the official was allowed to return wahurt to his office.- Hong Kong Daily Press, April 17, 1505....

Looking Back 50 Years,

Cantonese wiseneres affirm that of "APRIL, 1934, at 8 r., at the United States, and Japan have tween the Japanese Cabinet and

the exact hour (shi shan) of a child's birth can be told by the Office of the Public Works Department, reached an understanding which is the Navy Department disagreement

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of the head whence the hair parts. GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN hopeful so far, as it goes, but the LAND at Wong Nei Chung in the Colony Agreement reached between the prefers not to put his signature to

so serious that Admiral TARARABE The Ferfect Detective.

(tan). This point or tan (so call ed from its gimlet-like appearance, for of Hong Kong, term of with the option of renewal at Crown delegates has to be confirmed by an agreement which, his Govern- classical mythology, has a serious

Argus, the hundred-eyed hero of the hair forming the worm) is said Best to be fired by the Burveyor of His their respective legislatures beforement

to have positions wit. exactly in the KAZETY THE KINW, for oss further term it becomes operative and at the colleagues strongly disapprove. On of railway detectives. Even his le determined by the position, or approves but his naval rival in Madrid in the person ut centre, or on the left or right Don Braulio Santos, an inspector side, and the time of birth may moment the prospects of such rati- the other hand, the Japanese Gov-fawn wedding could not interrupt the position is determined by the fication are not too encouraging. ernment is said to be very desirous the detective's habit of vigilance. time of birth. Some people have As for France and Italy, the that the gallant Admiral should side his bride, he suddenly sprang child is born at an unlucky hour. As he was kneeling at the altar he- such firm faith in this that if their position of these two Mediterranean not only sign the agreeinent, but to his feet, saying to the officiating the fear lest they should be detected Powers is not at all clear. The be kept out of Tokyo until the pricat:- Stop the ceremony for by the above means in their decep- only fact which does stand out special session of the Diet is over. Just a minute. Then, while the tion prevents them giving the A strong attack is anticipated by congregation gasped with surprise, fortune-teller a false hour. Simil- plainly from the meagre news avail the Opposition against the Govern- be calmly strode across the church arly, the pupil of the cat's eye is" able is that Franco-Italian rivalry ment's policy toward the London and took three banknotes worth affected in the same way, and a cat has almost wrecked the Five-Power Conference, and it is feared Ad- 3,000 pesetas (about £80) from a which shows a stripe of a certain miral TAKARABE may be forced to man, and handed them to a woMEJI colour in the eye cannot have been Conference. France wants a navál make some damaging" admis-sitting in the next pes. "Con-horn at the same time as the ent Brength sufficient to protect the sions. That a friendly conference tinue, Father," said Don Santos whose eye has a round appearanes line of communications with her

between five Powers could produce to the priest, as he returned to the of a stripe of another colour. These so much unfriendly feeling one alter African colonies, and Italy de- of those grim ironies which make ing to violate the eighth command-exist respecting them--Hong Kong That pickpocket was try beliefs are. so popular that rhymes manda a navy strong enough to life so interesting.

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