8
NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
"RESORCIN"
THE HONG KONG DEVELOP. MENT BUILDING & SAVINGS SOCIETY, LIMITED
No
(IN LIQUIDATION),
TOTIČE 15 HEREBY GIVEN,
that An EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the Company will be held at the CITY HALL (MUŠIO, ROOM) on FRIDAY, the 430 Dat of MAY, -1930, at 1.30 O'CLOCK, in the AFTERNOON, when the following Resolations will be
having in view the opinion of Two Counsel dated the 31st March, 1930, no setion be taken by the Liqui dators against the inte Directors of the
for an indefinite period.
given for
be
Co notion the Liquidators to accept compromise offered by Soo Pa SHAO & Co. of $6,000.00 in Fall settlement of their debt to the Company of 396;372 (0.
3-That sanction be given for the Liquidators to nocept such compromises from any of the debtors on such torna
the Liquidators consider advan tageous,
N
Dated the 19th day of May, 1933.
J. HENNESSEY SETE, 8. HAMPDEN KOSŽ,
CHINA
Liquidators
[9419
A UNDERWRİTERS, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG..
NOTICE the SIXTH ANNUAL TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERE of CEINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED, will be held
at the Offices of the Company, Hong Kong Bank Building, A, Des Yonex Boad Central. Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 14TH DAY OF MAY, 1930, at NOUN for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Director and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DecaMBIA, 1929, and of siseting Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 6TH MAY, 1930, to 14rx MAY, 1930, Both Days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Director;./
HERBERT R. STURT,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 5th May, 1920. [9458
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FORTY-NINTHTH ORDIN TARY GENERAL MEETING et
SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on FRIDAY, the 18TH MAY, 1930, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a state. ment of Accounts for the Year ended
DECEMBER, 1929.
SHARE REIGSTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be ULOSAD from the 3D to the 16TH MAY, 1930, Both Days inclusive,
THE HAIR LOTION
FOR MEN
Delightfully soothing, and contains those antiseptic and germicidal properties. Specially suitable for this climate.
MAY BE HAD
WITH OR WITHOUT OIL
per bottle $1.50
DULCIPEL
DAINTY DUSTING
POWDER
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A delicate antiseptic for preventing and elimina- ting the odour of pers- piration.
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In Elegant Tins,
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930.
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY Phone 20016.
and
KOWLOON DISPENSARY,
'Phone 57019. .--
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., DRAFT Programmes and str
General Agents:
Hong Kong, 26th Apr., 1930. [9346
HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB.
KACE THE NIPTH EXTRA THE
MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 17TH MAY, 1930, Commencing at 2.30 r.M.
The First Bell will be Rung st 2 PM. MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No one without a Badge will be admitted to the Membera Encionare.
Badges admitting Non-members to the Mambera' Enclosure and Ohl Rooms at $5.00 for Gintlemen and $9.00 for Lalios, are obtainable” through the SECRETARY upon introdno- tion by a Member, auch Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, &c. Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain, upea application to the SECRETARY, Badges (limited to Twa) for the Free Admission to the Member's Enclosure of Wives, Lady relatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.
Da no pretext will Ohildren be permitted in either Enclosure during the Race Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $1.00 for all Persons including Ladies, sad is payable at the Gate
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Hall Price.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mer. etc. will not be permitted to operate with. in the Precincts of the Hore Kono JOOLEY CLUE during the Race Meeting! By Onder,
C. B. BLOWN,
Becretary.
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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY (1918), LTD.
REMINDER.
HAREHOLDERS in the Company
Dividend in respect of the Financial Year ending 30th SEPTEMBER, 1930, is Payable by the Company on MONDAY, ER MAY 1990 gs and after which date Dividend Warrant may be haa, on
KACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY. 7TH JUNE, and on MONDAY, TH JUNE, 1930 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONG KONG CLUB, and CAUSZ WAT BAY STABLZO.
Entries to CLOSE at 12 O'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 29TH MAY, 1930.
[0408
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING &
MINING CO., LIMITED,
ISSUE OF FULLY PAID BONUS SHARES.
NOTICE TO H LDERS OF SHARE
WARRANTS TO BEARER..
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by Besolution of the Com- pany passed on the 18th December, 1929, it was resolved to capitalise the Sma of 2580,000 being part of the Undistributed Profits and Reserve of the Company, by the Distribution amongst thell embers of 50,000 New Shares of One Pound each, Fully Paid, at the Bate of Two New Shares for Every Five Shares held.
The New Shares are now ready for issue, and. Holders in China of Share Warrants to Bearer meat deposit their Share Warrants (with Coupons Nox, 38 to 40 attaobed), listed in Numerical Order on a Form to be abtained from the Ad- the KATLAN MISING ADMINISTRATION; ministration at the fentein Cffice of
The Administration will datach Cou pon No. 88 from the Share Warrants deposited and will issue a Baceipt to be exchanged Later for the New Share. Warrants.
P. O. YOUNG, Agent and General Manager. NOTE: Share Warrants must not-be sent by post, but must be lodged by the bokler in person or by Banker or other Agent.
Separate applications must be lodged by or on behalf of each Shareholder in order to ensure the issue of suitable denominations of Bhars Warrants.
[9407
REMOVAL NOTICE.
UR. SHOP has now been
application at the Company's Head QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Office, Sr. GronoR'S BUILDING, Hong
Kong.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 10th May, 1930.
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KWONG WO, Jewellers & Silk, Dealers.
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WEATHER "REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- enst and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory
p.in., stated:-
Pressure is highest to the North of Japan. A trough of low, pressure extends from Indo-Chine to the Pacific to the East of Formosa. The typhoon which has formed in its Eastern extremity to the South of Naha appears to be moving slow. ly Northward.
Local Forecast:--W. or variable winds; moderate; cloudy; some local showers.
we have not observed any cessation of building operations in Hong Kong, and down to the time of writing conditions in the Colony generally appear to be quite normal, undisturbed by the news that China intends to establish a free-port of her own fty miles away,
THE QUESTION OF
IDENTITY.
* News and Views
"The decision to erect new Govern-
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Two of the late Earl Balfour's sayings, though well known, per- haps deserve repetition. On the occasion of the first he was being shown the Woolworth Building jä New York, and told its size, value, accommodation, etc., the enthusias tie narrator winding up with the information that ment offices on the site of White the cows contented, and now comes
"it is, every Radios have been used to keep part of it completely fireproof.
"Really said Lord Balfour. hul-gardens and Montagu House an Associated Press dispatch from "What a pity!" was announced in the House of Germany telling of experiments occasion an enthusiastic person, On the second Commons recently by Mr. Lansbury. indicating that radio waves makes rather scandalised at the description A Bill will be necessary, and the crops grow at double speed. No of a Jewish Palestine as an inter intention is to introduce it in the mention is made, however, that any esting experiment," autumn. The project involves the, particular type of programme is pre- Lord Balfour, don't you know that said:" But, destruction of fine old houses offerred. much historic interest. Near them
many people believe that when the is the Banquetting Hall from which
chosen people recover Jerusalem the Nor for the first time lately have Charles I. passed to the headsman's
Day of Judgment will immediately Wonderful are the complications follow "
1 police methods been very severely Whitehall-gardens, which are most
The present houses
Lord Balfour adjusted block.
in of advancing discovery, and the his glasses with a familiar gesture, criticised, and Mr. F. C. JENKINly late Georgian, formerly had now to be added to talkies
announcement that "amellieš are and gazing at him fixedly, replied." That would make it still more in- has done good public service "in Embankment
spacious gardens that, before the forecast happenings in the picture teresting." Interest was what he again exposing those methods so
was constructed, house
as yet unimagined-apart demanded of life, and one stretched to the riverside. At No. altogether from the difficulties im- imagine him envisaging death with 4 Sir Robert Feel lived; there he posed on censors by the necessity the hope that it would be "still effectively Some months ago Sin was carried after the fatal fall from of deciding whether smells as well more interesting.". HENRY COLLAN spoke very empha- No. 9 from 1874 till towards the end they should be. And what about his horse in 1950. Disraeli occupied as spunds and pictures are all that Editorial and Business Offices: 11, tically on this subject, and express of 1877. In the same house Mr. the possibility of new and terrible Irish Republic will receive an i
Lloyd George installed his War mistakes? What would become of ed surprise that previous comments Cabinet The Ministry of Muni- grand bridal scene in which the mediately payment of 25 per cent. of his on the matter; did not ap-hall-gardens. Montagu House, no came
tions also began its work in White- mingled scents of the bouquets decision announced by Mr. Justice of their holdings under a recent. pear to have been taken heed of tenanted by the Ministry of Labour, fried onions? Imagine, again, one
across in the form of Peters in New York. Enough funds What the former Chief Justice in Whitehall. It was built by the the films served by incredible foot as of the receiver and to cover is the newest of the great mansions of those magnificent banquets of have beca reserved to meet the ex- would have said had this latest The Air Ministry and other Govern the old gentleman's question about which is now the subject of litiga-
then Duke of Buccleuch in 1958.
the claim of 100,000 dollars (£20,000), men in dining-roonis reminiscent of by friends of the Irish leaders, example of irregular police methods ment departments, now scattered, the great dining-hall added to will be housed in the new building. been brought to his notice can be
Knowsley Derby, will these huge doors have to be opened every time easily imagined by those who know how sternly Sir HENRY could speak on the Calcutta Sweep every year, shall have to smell the banquet as result has been to make its errors
I wish them to put 10 shillings a pat of butter is brought into the
room?! For real "truth" hoping that they will be, luckier well as see it; what would become than their mother has ever been," was a clause contained in the will of a Londoner, the Heaton, who left £9,000 to her two
late Mrs. children.
BIRTH. XAVIER-On May 7, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. VINCENT L JAVIER, a son.
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Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 24311. London Office: 3, Fleet Street,
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 13, 1930.
HONG KONG'S "RIVAL."""
wben
occasion warranted. Mr. JENKIN'S scathing denunciation of the manner in which an identifica- tion parade was arranged by the
THOSE Japanese observers who con-police was a masterly exposure of sider that the establishment of a the system prevailing in
this free-port at Chung Shan is intend- Colony, and should lead to early ed to deflect trade from Hong Kong action being taken to remove the
are probably right. The Chinese Gov- objections to which attention based-up to 1947. Their nominal ernment can have no other object | been called.
Without
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Holders of bonds of the defunct
tion,
The clock face. of Big Ben, has recently been washed-but, accord we ing to Mr. Remer, M.P., the only
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Local Notes and Events
kindly consented to become a Patroned for the 48 hours ending mid-Looking Back 25 Years.
His Excellency the Governor has A clean bill of health was return! of the Hong Kong Automobile As night, May 11.
sociation
Among the passengers leaving by the President Pierce was Mr. G. C. Moxon, the prominent local share broker, who is going to Shanghai.
a fine of $80 on
of the desired effect if, instead of more apparent. According to Mr. the rich odours from the tables of Remer Big Ben is two minutes the great, the only smell available slow compared with, every other were fish and chips? And should clock in the country," but Mr. we really enjoy ourselves the more Lansbury's retort was that in that if, in addition to seeing and hearing case Big Ben must be right and all A sign of the annual spring, motor race, we had to smell it the others wrong, since the West- revival of the market in Wimbledon too!
minster horologe is checked daily tickets is an advertisement offering
by Greenwich Observatory. On the two "B" Debentures for £955
face of things it seems like another case of all out of step but our each. These debentures each carry
right to one centre court seat made to the two high-speed Gloster Ben (and presumably Greenwich . Modifications which are being Jock"; if Mr. Hemer is right Big Royce racing seaplanes built for the to break the magnificent uniformity from the year 1921-when they were Napier and Supermarine Rolls Observatory) are doing their best value is only £50, but they are Schneider Trophy contest in an of all the other clocks in the coun in planning the development of a
worth several times that sun. Years ago there were strong comis said that they have parted | are
It attempt to obtain still higher speeds try. But obviously Mr. Remer can't new deep-sea port within fifty miles
now nearing completion, and be right; his acquaintance with plaints in England about the ownership at as high a figure as the machines will shortly be sent clocks is appallingly limited if he of this Colony As to how much
£310, As years pass by, one would to Felixstowe for trial flights, thinks that every one of them is trade will be diverted from the farcical character of identification expect their value to diminish; but Although the High-speed Section of a modest two minutes ahead of Big British to the Chinese free-port we parades conducted by the police.ch is the interest in the cham- the R.A.E. has been disbanded two Ben. Mr. Remer has put himself pionships that the tendency baa pilots specially chosen from the right out of court" as an authority must wait and see. The State A dozer hefty policemen in civilian been in the opposite direction. Council in Nanking has decided to attire would-be-drawn-up-in-a-line.
Fighter Squadron are now training on clocks in general, and Big Ben in high-speed fying at Felixstowe, in particular. He falls into the grant a charter for a period of sixty
using the Supermarine and Closter- sama category · as Mr. Winston objection; the with the alleged criminal standing
U.S. Napier seaplanes built for the 1927 Churchill, who, at the end of a yeurs to the authorities responsible
Senate on May ordered the Schneider Trophy race. After fur particularly purple passage in his for the administration of the new among them.
Scnate Usually this in.
Banking Committee to ther practice on these 280-mile-an- reminiscences of the war, described port, and plans for its development dividual was so conspicuously un- and federal reserve
investigate the national banking hour machines they will transfer to the emotion with which he heard
systems. are to be put into operation forth like the stalwart," upstanding men Justice would not interfere with which, it is calculated, will in their be reminded that Big Ben had been It the modified Gloster-Napier and Big Ben atrike eleven on the morn was learned that the Department of Supermarine Rolls-Royce seaplanes, ing of November 11, 1918-only to with. Presumably arrangements have been made to provide the beside him that the witnesses had coming stockholders' meeting at new form be capable of speeds ap- silenced as well as darkened for necessary funds to carry out the not the slightest difficulty in pick which will be presented plans for pranching or perhaps exreeding 400 fear of his raids and that the atrik- a merger of the radio interests of miles an hour, and "will use them, ing apparatus was not restored to work, but on this point information ing him out, and thus identification the Radio Corp., General Electric aa flying laboratories for research in action until some weeks after the is lacking. In a
few days several was very easily established to the and Westinghouse.
high-speed fring.
first Armistice Day, high officials from Nanking are complete satisfaction of the police, expected to be in Canton, and it not to the person identified." possibly will then discuss the Enan-As a sequel to several instances cial aspect of the scheme.
where the case for the prosecution Chung Shan, we are toldy has broke down on the question of sveient depth of water to allow identity-this "fact" having been ocean-going steamers to anchor duly established in the mannër there. That is certainly one described-instructions were given essential for a port, free or other by the authorities that such parades wise. Chung Shan is also linked
"The China pony, it must be ad- up by road with Macao and Canton.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes mitted, has few if any of the points terday, Mr. Whyte-Smith imposed which are considered characteristic Transport facilities by land are also
a Chinese cook essential for the handling of ship
employed at Tung Choi Street who of the racehorse at home, but he ping freight.. What other advan-
pleaded guilty to a charge of un- has one quality which redeems tages there may be in favour of
lawful possession of one tael of every other defect and which is prepared opium. making Chung Shan the deep-sen
often absent from his costly home gateway of Canton we are not told, A few months ago there was a
In discharging a Chinese who brother-pluck. While it is impos- ner is it indicated why it should cake heard in the local Courts dur.
possession of a lady's fan, Mr. was charged with the unlawful sible to deny that the China pony be considered necessary to establishing which the magistrate-referring
Whyte-Smith remarked that it was
has often an inordinate proportion. another free-port to serve the to cerain injuries found on the
absurd to expect anybody who found of vice, we cannot refuse to record. Canton delta. Inferences of various holy of the accused-said they must
matter to the Police. such a small article to report the a meed of praise to the staunch kinds may and will be drawn, of have been inflicted by "an expert
spirit and unflinching endurance. which he often exhibits in the most course, but no explanation has been in a mild form of torture." That
Development, Building, and Savings of all horseracing is, of course, to The affairs of the Hong Kong adverse circumstances. The object. given so far 13 to the motives is not a very pleasant comment today.
Society, Ltd. (in liquidation) are to improve the breed of horses, and prompting the State Council to be heard in a British Court, nor
be discussed again at a meeting to although we have not the same close embark upon this scheme. Granting was it reassuring to hear Dr. Fer returning to the Colony after be held on Mar 23 in the City Hall. touch with breeders here in Shang- that Chung Shan has all the ad- CANNON say that he used to get 1925,
he had been banished for life in Details will be found in an adver- hai as the turf at home has, and
a Chinese was sentenced to tisement in another column.
have not, therefore, the same in- vantages of a natural harbour, in three or four complaints a day from eight months' hard labour and 15
Buence, there can be little "doubt what way would foreign trade with prisoners who made charges of ill-Strike you the birch by Mr. Whyte of the American Bureau of Ship has had the effect of bringing a Mr. John Martin, representative that the demand for good ponies. Canton beneft by being diverted treatment.
yesterday.
ping, New York, arrived in the handsomer and better animal into from its present channels?
Colony by the President Pierce the market. In this connection we other proceedings in open Court)
Appearing on the, charge of un-yesterday. He will shortly proceed think it is fortunate that the Waler No doubt the State Council has that police methods of identification lawful possession of two daggers, to Kobe, where he has his head has been entirely dropped out of its opinions on the subject, and
four men from the Tin Sham Wai quarters in the Orient. With him the racing programme, in due course will disclose them.
are open to question, and a jury-Village were remanded for a week is Mrs. Martin.
as "the raison d'etre of a tace Club in. Meanwhile there will be no alarm
without waiting to hear the end of Mr. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon
China must be promarily the im Magistracy yesterday. or even anxiety in Hong Kong at intimates to the Judge its desire the address for the prosecution-
A report has been made to the provement of the equine race in Police that at three o'clock on China." The foregoing is quoted A Chinese who was charged with Sunday morning, cargo boat No. from the Shanghai Mercury. It is the appearance upon the scene of Chung Shan as a rival port. If, that the proceedings be stopped. cruelty to pigs, namely, transport Typhoon Shelter with a cargo of object of our Race Club is to im- causing needless and avoidable | 2394V was lying at Yaurati nonsense to suggest that the first. as time goes on, shipowners find Counsel for the defence declared ing them on crates which had no 750 piculs of firewood, when the prove the breed. It is not even a there are no undue risks attached that a more unsatisfactory parade matting in the bottom, was fined bottom of the boat came off and the secondary object, sport being first to navigating vessels to and from could not be imagined, and the jury by Mr. Whyte-Smith yesterday. junk became waterlogged and sank and last their only sim; an aime
All of the crew were saved and most Chung Shan, and exporters and evidently agreed with him. His Major C. V. Simpson, U.S.A, of the firewood recovered. The excures. Horseracing in England we may add, that does not need importers and their goods are more Lordship, too, expressed the view passed through the Colony yester-junk was valued at 82,500, and the has improved only one breed, the expeditiously handled at Chung that had it been necessary for him day aboard the President Fierce cargo at $700.
breed of racers-Hong Kong Daily Shan than in this Colony, and more to sum up, he would have comment States He was accompanied by
on his way back to the United | w
Press, May, 13, 1905. safely stored there pending delivery ed adversely upon the methods em Mrs. Simpson and two children.
Looking Back 50 Years, or shipment, and that better, played by the police, These facts facilities in regard to banking, in- point very clearly to the urgent surance, and scher incidental y necessity for carrying out long yes, or to ten aboue, Who jump? help? They find to bee commercial business are available overdue reforms in police methode, ed from the first floor of 63, Con-is the present attraction at the naught Road West, was removed Queen's Theatre. Sppporting Rogers at Chung Shan than in Hong Kong, and so maintaining that reputation to the Government Civil Hospital. is a cast that includes the scintil then undoubtedly some of the trade for fair dealing which is associated The boy sustained the injuries in lating Fifi Dersay, Marguerite Chur- of this Colony will be diverted to with judicial administration under into the street after he had com- Owen Davis, Jr., and many other his attempt to escape by leaping chill, Irene Rich, Ivan Lebedeff, the Chinese free-port. Meanwhile British rule.
mitted a theft on the premisen.
should not be conducted on these primitive lines, and that persons other than police officers in plain clothes should be included when witnesses were required to establish the point of identity.
Now we learn, from
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Mr. Paul Kong, the well-known Chinese tennis player, was a passen- Pierce. Mr. Kong is travelling to the out-going President Shanghai.
ger
Aboard
which arrived in the Colony yes the President Pierce
terday was Mr. W. A Parker, is staying here for a week's boli retired bank'specialist. Mr. Parker
.......
shoulder, Chinese lad, aged 15 Suffering from injuries to the
Modern youth is convencingly de- fended by Will Rogers in They Hnd to See Paris, his first all romantic comedy-drama with a talking picture for Fox Movietone,
favourites.
We were somewhat started last night to see a fire engine draw up in front of this office, jurning to the colon wat we were to be burne cut forthwith. The engine, was placed by the hydrant in case a fire broke out at the German Club. The precautions taken on such oc- Hong Kong Daily Press, May 13, casions are highly to be commended.
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