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HE Offices and Stations of the

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TOMS for Kowlook and DISTRICT will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on the laT JUNE, 1950. -

J. M. E. OSBORNE,

Commissioner of Chinese Customer,

Kowloon and District,

YORK BUILDING,

Hong Kong,:6th May, 1930. [9470-

KOWLOON.CANTON RAILWAY.

NOTICE.

ON and after MAY 31ar the

Additional Train Leaving Kow. Looy on SATURDAYS and SUNDATI for CAFTON at 8.43 ax, will be dis continued.

From the Same Date Train will leare KOWLOON for GANTON on SATURDAYS at 1 P.M. and Return from CANTON on SUNDAYS at 5.18

P.M.

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R. BAKER,

Manager.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO.,

LIMITED.

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE

HOLDERS in the above Company will

be held at the Company's Offices, P. & 0.

Bailding, on WEDNESDAY JUNE 4TH

at 11 A. for the purpose of receiving

the Report of the General Manageri

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1930.

together with a Statement of Accounts an old favourite, and still

to

the 31st DecERER 1929.

WEATHER REPORT,

11.

States which composes, the Common- wealth would be quite a simple

Yesterday's weather report, fore-matter, but it would have very cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m., stated:-

TYPHOON WARNING.

The following typhoon warning has been received by the American Consulate-General from the Manila Observatory:-

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Manila, May 26, 9.30 a.m.--Cyclone or typhoon W. of Balintang Chan- nel, moving E. or E.N.E.

BIRTH.

far-reaching consequences. Western Australia would bave to maintain

has a

*News and Views *

Flam the

meant for the "Old Vic" is Sur reyside now in the sense that it is most representative of the theatre across bridges. And as for 11.33. Adelphi heroine the phrase has no meaning at all for the Londoner of to-day.

with a broken coping-stone beside him, on February 23, and had been in hospital ever since. *

It is revealed that Capt. Walter Hom. Eisic Mackay, daughter of George Hinchliffe; who, with the Viscount Inchcape, was lost during

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Genuine pleasure may be taken in has basely tried to achieve a informing an America father who

A badly injured fox-terrir was recently found crawling toward the entrance of the Wanstead Sanatorium of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. its own currency system, its own

The news that the Adelphi ; Acat" burglar who fell andIt had apparently been an over, The anticyclone remains central tariff, its own old-ngo pension and Theatre in London is to be pulled smashed bones in both feet so that and had painfully traveled some near Tokyo and the typhoon ap- invalid pensions, and its own down, reconditioned, modernised he will never be able to walk pro- distance. Officials at he кли pears to be stationary about 330 measures of, defence. The State whatever may be the precise inten-perly again was bound over at torium did not recognise the dog, miles S.E. of Hong Kong.

public debt of 67 million tion-is another reminder of the Greenwich recently, the magistrate but believed that it must have been Local Forecast:-Moderato N. sterling, and produces about 13 speed with which phrases once saying he thought he had been treated there previously, and that

generally understood "drop out of winds; cloudy generally.

millions worth of wheat and wool our language. Everyone before the punished enough. The man entered is why it was making for the place." annually. Not a very big list of war know what was meant by

court on crutches He WILS "The dog is very badly bruised, but Adelphi melodrama and An assets on which to start an inde

Adelphi hero" or an "Adelphi Bells public house, New Cross-road, weeks' treatment,"

found lying in the yard of the Five we hope to cure it with about three pendent business.

heroine," though the glory had even

an official said Possibly the real motive behind then departed from the theatre of

"There is no clue to its owner." the Western Australian agitation is the war knew what "Surreyside"

that name.

So, too, everyone before a protest against the tendency to

meant as applied to theatrical fare. Surreyside had any centralise political power at Can-To-day, berra. There is now in contemthe antithesis of what was formerly meaning it would represent almost plation a scheme to amend the Commonwealth Constitution where by the Federal Parliament will

or artty on toy to America, ef property valued for probate Et enly have full powers over industry,

£19 13 10d. Captain Hinchliffe Another suggested alteration in the

Aerodrome on March 13, 1928, and and Miss Mackay left Cranwell were never heard of again. Their existing system is that the Federal

deaths were officially presumed. legislators should be given power From the Hollywood Film Mer-Miss Mackay's estate has already to alter the Constitution as occasion cry: Our pictures to-day are been proved at £652,317.. Letters of arises. This means surrender of detectives, revue monstrosities, and life's estate have been granted to a composite impression of legs, slick administration of Captain Hinch- the referendum system whereby menly-mouthed hams sobbing theme the widow, who now lives at Acton, direct popular approval of such a songs."

W., and recently benefited from the step is necessary. Opponents of

$10.000 fund established by Lord these and other important proposals awarded a cook £4,500 damages as daughter's attempt

A New York Judge has just Inchape for, sufferers from his

Ay declare that with so much power compensation for the loss of her Atlantic. centralised at Canberra the various sense of taste and smell after a States in the Commonwealth would ing the good lady her award, one according to the latest statistics motor accident. Without begrudg Germany has now 45,332 doctors,

According to a message from practically cease to be political may well wonder by what process issued by the medical organisations. Paris, "French entomologists have entities. It is possible, therefore, the learned Judge arrived at his This total is 35 per cent. more than discovered that mosquitoes are at- that the agitation in Western Aus-

verthet Beethoven wrote some of in 1913, although the population of tracted by anything blue in shade." his finest music when he was stone-the country has diminished. TheAnd since it is their victims who gesture rather than a serious pro- super-cook should be able to pre- doctors is that many of them have the attractive but vicious circle posal. Meanwhile Australians in out the aid of her palate or her ing warnings by the medical asso- same inquiring exports have also pare the most exquisite dishes with very small incomes. Notwithstand seems to be complete. However, the nasal organ. all States are asking, "How are

Presumably, bow-ciations, the profession continues to ascertained that mosquitoes "dis- a bedroom de- we going to pay our way?" and ever, this judgment establishes the attract more and more students, like yellow and the question is not easy to answer. is in the tasting. There is, there 2.362 women doctors compared with from the nuisance." The great ad- fact that the proof of the cooking especially women. There are now curated in this shade should be free "Wages must come down," says the fore, a remedy for afflicted cooks. 950 in 1913. Dentists have also. vantage about this is that if you

There is als! no remedy for greatly afflicted employers whose employer;

increased in numbers, paint your bedroom yellow and are cocka: There are have lost their sense of taste and women), compared with 8,800 before the experts can always reply, "Ab, Dow 34,000 (including still savagely mauled by mosquitoes smell without a motor accident.

but yours must have been colour- blind!'

ROBERTS.-On May 21. иt

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Tileng Road, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. FRANK C. Roesers, a

MARRIAGE.

HYSLOP-NOELSTON.On May 22, at Shanghai, Misa MARJORIE GORDON KIRKPATRICK HYSLOP, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. K. HYSLor, of Toronto, Canada. to ALLEN NOBLSTON, elder son.of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. NOLSTON, of Shang hai, at Oshawa, near Toronto.

DEATHS.

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to

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the

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ing sixteen baptismal designations on his child, that bis fell attempt longest, naane record" by bestow-

has failed. The record of iniquity remains or so one must hope-with a misguided Liverpool man who, daughter a otme for every letter forty years ago, inflicted on his in the alphabet-Anna Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Ger- rude. Hypatia Inez Jane, and so on to the final Zuleika. For an- ful names it would be difficult to other string of weird and wonder- beat those given by the Rev. Ralph Lyonel Tollemache Tollemache to his oldest son-Lyulph Yderallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toed mag Hugh Erchenwyse Saxen Esa Orme Nevil Dysart Plantagenet.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the popular at most London, Chubs ARTHUR.-On May 19, at Hang-tralia is designed to be a political deaf. By the same reasoning the consequence of this plethora of are likely to suffer from the blues.

Company will be CLOSED from 29 and Hotels, where the Call

of MAY to Art of JUNE, Both Days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK &CO.

General Managers. Hong Kong, 17th May. 1930.

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(INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND.)

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NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF lutely pure."

FINAL DIVIDEND,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Net & FINAL DIVIDEND of A. S. WATSON

1s. 6d. por abare on account of the year sanded 318 MARCH. 1830 bar been. declared by the Directors of the Company in BRISBANE, "payable to Shareholders on the Regilers # BRISBANE and SINGAPORE O THUÊS- DAY, 16TH JUNE, 1930.

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the SINGAPORE Transfer Registers will be CLOSED from THURSDAY SZ JUNE to THUIS. DAY 197% JUNE, 1930, both lays inclusive for the preparation of Dividend Warrzata.

By Order of the Board, DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries. Hoogkong Bank Chambers,.. Singapore, 17th May, 1930,

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Aerated Water Manufacturers

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

NOTIUE.

THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL

MEETING OF VOTING Mem. bers will be held at the CLUB HODAY, HAPPY VALLEY on WEDNESDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1930 at 5.30 P.M.

By Order,

U. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th May, 1920. [9488

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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Forms for the SIXTH EXTRA

REMOVED to No. 60, SATURDAY, IT JUNE, and on MEETING to be held MONDAY, 9TH JUNE, 1930 (Weather QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Permitting), may be obtained at the Racz COURSE, HONG KONG OLUB, and CAUSE WAY BAY STABLES,

Entries to CLOSE at 12 O'clock NOON on THUESDAY, 29TH MAY

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chow, Chekiang, Mrs. JANET ARTHUR, dearly loved mother of the Rev. J. HILLCOAT ARTHUR, Hangchow, and grandmother of Mro. B. H. M. B200MHALL Shanghai, and JAMES" R. and GEORGE H. ARTHUR, Vancouver,

B.Q.

Hon-On May 29, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, Mrs. ETHEL LEE Hox, aged 44 years, widow of the late SHIU LAU Hos, former General Secretary of the Hong Kong Chinese YM.C.A. Funeral services and burial will be held in Hong Kong. No flowers by request. Rocas. On May 19, in Shanghai,

· EDITH MARGARET, the dearly- loved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Roche aged one year, 8 "months.

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 27, 1930.

AUSTRALIA'S TROUBLES.

The news that in Western Australia there is a strong movement in favour of seceding from the Com monwealth is a reminder to the outside world that Australia has

n big load of trouble on her hands. During the past twelve months the

the-war.

trade &

our standard of living must be maintained," declare the employed. "What about us?" de mand the 14 per cent, of organised.

Lord Macmillan, speaking at the workers who are without employ.

There are some defects in British ment. Here are all the familiar London, told the story of a man

Railway Benevolent Institution in business methods that can be, How a child was suffocated as the and should be, cradicated by result of a cat lying on its face economic factors of the Old World from Aberdeen, who turned up at action from within. Mr. Alfred was described at a Hackney inquest developing in the New, and the the traffic superintendent's office in C. Boscom mentioned опе of when Dr. Edwin Smith recorded a

London and said, "Would you tell them, "at

dinner in verdict of accidental death on a boy mere act of withdrawing from theme what is the return fare for a London recently the secrecy and aged eleven months. The mother, Commonwealth will solve none of corpse from London to Aberdeen jealousy with which firms in the said that she left the child in his them.

The clerk looked up the old same line of business guard their cot, and later found the cat fring schedules and said, "We have o processes patents and products. asleep across his face. She called rate which we can quote you for Another is the "Take it or leave in a doctor, but the baby was dead. THE ZEPPELIN FLIGHT,

a corpse from King's Cross to Aber-attitude of the ordinary manu- The cat used to play with the child deen, but we have no return ticket. facturer. He is very far from and she had often had to shut the We have not been asked for a re- having assimilated the golden rule door to keep it away as she hid REUTER reports that the great turn. Why do you ask for such a of American business practice | seen it on the cot before. - On this: occasion she bad shut the door but German airship, which recently rate?" The man from Aberdeen The customer is always right."

third shortcoming, from the cat must have been in the room replied, "That is a very fair ques- Yet crossed from Europe to Brazil bastion. It is just this way. My which also German and American at the time. Dr. Brontcathe patho- started on the next leg of the friend is an Aberdeen man, and he competitors are free is the re: logist, said that death was due to cruise, bound for New Jersey by are up in Aberdeen, and they all listen to and be guided by his sales-ed for by a cat lying on the baby's died in London, and all his folke | luctance of the British producer to asphyxia, which could be account- way of Cuba. Her movements will want to see him before he is buried, man on the spot. Salesmanship is face." He had had three cases," he be followed with great interest, for and we thought it would be cheap still too often treated as an in- said, of young children being as the question whether a dirigible deen and back."

er if we brought the corpse to Aber-¦ferior; negligible cog in the wheel phyxiated by cats sleeping on their

of business. It should be the hub.faces. air-lice can compete with airplanes ia regular service between the *Americas and across the Atlantic will be partially decided by the Zeppelin flight now in progress. Such a dirigible lias would be established only after long study of its possibilities and disadvantages.

It would in all probability follow the organization of regular and commercially profitable Zep-i pelin, service between "New York and Europe. Parsons interested in dirigible development believe that a trans-oceanic service would pay its way between New York and the

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Local Notes and Events ★.

Among the passengers arriving by the R.M.S, Empress of Canada were members of the Interport Eleven.

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Viscount Ikeitin was among the passengers arriving here by the N.Y.K .8. Hakusan Maru from

Europe.

The presentation of prizes in

The theft of a pair of trousers from a fellow-lodger was mentioned against a Chinese at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. He was seo- tenced to two months' hard labour.::

The total output of the Kailan

Mining Administration's mines for the week ending May 10 amounted to 119,683 tons, and the sales during the period to 104,288 tons.

400-

A Chinese youth who wa victed of stealing a dollar piece The Hon. Treasurer of the Hong from the pocket of a pedestrian was Kong Benevolent Society acknow- sentenced to twelve strokes of the ledges with grateful thanks the sum cane by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith në of 35 from an anonymous donor, in Kowloon Magistracy. The youth, memory of the late Mr. Capple-in reply to the Magistrate, said that he knew the man had the dollar coin because he felt it before doing the deed. N

Old World sooner than between any connection with the annual Volun- man. other two pointe. Further develop teer Rifle Meeting takes place, at success of a service across the North Friday, 30th instant, at 8 p.m. ment, then, must depend on the the Volunteer Headquarters, on Atlantic. Even so they are proceed-

an Army Panic market value of shares has fallen by over £100 millions, and 140,000 A 'froat line' War book written by a Soldier, born wage-earners are unemployed, ex and bred to war, and experienced in the art of Killing cluding women, children, and part-

time workers, Australia's income ing with great caution. The recent

A BRASS HAT IN NO MAN'S

Only two Chinese cases of noti-

A Chinese who was banished from the Colony for ten years was ar rested on the mainland and sen tenced by Mr. Whyte-Smith. to 10 months' hard labour and 15 strokes

has fallen by fifty millions sterling, announcement qf.a combination befiable diseases (typhoid) were in-of the birch. and receipts from sales of wheat tween the German Luftschiffbau cluded in the report of the Medical

LAND and wool look like bringing in 32 and American interests including ending at midnight on Sunday.

Officer of Health for the three days

By Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier, C.B., C.M.G., D.8.0.

$6.40

This anti-war propaganda book will certainly evoke storms of protest from those who have not shared the author's experiences. As a whole it is a realistic picture of War as it is to-day..

There are some startling passages.

General Crozier, himself a teetotaler, holds violent opinions about drinking in the Army. Ha bitterly attacks the pre-war type of officer —"good mess-presidenta and judges of wine, but menaces to our safety. Despite the sensational attacks made in the book, no greater tribute to British heroism has yet been written.

NOW ON SALE

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

(Incorporated in Hong Kong).

A Chinese who pleaded guilty to possession of ten taels of prepared opium sought to justify himself in the eyes of Mr. R. E. Lindsell, be- fore, whom he was charged, by ex- up by him from a deck chair aboard plaining that the opium was picked the steamer Venezia. In imposing

said, "You should receive two fine of $300 or two months' im prisonment in default, Mr. Lindsell sentences. You are guilty of steal- ing, tod, for it is not your opium:

Stated to have been travelling at three times the speed limit to his millions less than last year. In the National City Bank, United

motor lorry (19 m.p.h.) a Chinese Western Australia, it appears, Aircraft, Goodyear Zeppelin, and the Canadian Immigration, Van Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magis Mr. H. Wilson, connected with driver was fined $20 by Mr. T. S. there is a feeling that membership Union Carbon and Carbide Cor couver, arrived aboard the RM Stracy yesterday for excessive speed- of the Commonwealth is a very poration, means that plenty of Empress of Russia. He will relieveing in Waterloo Road. expensive luxury, costing the State money is available. But no dates Mr. D. F. Warren, Commissioner of eight millions sterling every year. for starting service are mentioned migration for Canada, who is pro- Another youth who had previous

eeeding home on leave. This is a tremendous burden for a publicly. Careful study" is the

ly received twelve strokes of the Looking Back 25 Years. cane for stealing, was ordered to community of only 400,000 people, slogan.

The ceremony of laying the receive another dozen and a month's At the Supreme Court yesterday nearly half of whom are living If the tri-continental flight now loon Union Church takes place at at Kowloon Magistracy for stealing Francis Taylor Figgott, M.A... foundation stone of the new Kow hard labour by Mr. Whyte-Smith morning, the commission appoint- within a ten-mile radius of the in progress is successful, the dirigt p.m. to-day at which the Hon. ing a clock from a house in Nanking Chief Justice of the Colony of capital of a State covering nearly #ible advocates will he further en Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., will Street.

Hong Kong, was read by Mr. A. million square miles!

couraged in the idea that lighter will assist in the service:-Tho preside. The following gentlemen

Beth, Registrar of the Court, in That there is no suggestion of than-air craft may be made a big Rev. W. Walton Rogers M.A., the the King's Birthday Reception at solicitors, and a number of ladies. We are asked to state that, at the presence of local barristers and disloyalty in the secession move- factor in trans-oceanic communica- Rev. J. Horace Johnston, B.A, the ment is obvious, but Lord SOMERS, tion. The Zeppelin's intended route Rev. Frank Short, and the Rev. J. Government House on June 3, white The members sitting at the Bat were Sir H, B. Berkeley, Dr. Ho Kair-and- mesa-jacket may be worn Many Knight Anstey, the Governor of Victoria, did well in from Friedrichshafen across the

gentlemen will greatly appreciate Messra. E. H. Sharpe, K.O., H. E to declare there is no reason why Atlantic to Brazil, and then to

His Excellency's consideration in Pollock, K.C., H. G. Calthrop H Mr. E. Asano, of the Japanese causing this announcement to be N. Ferrera, F.A. Hazeland, C. D. State abould not discuss the Lakeburst, Nobelter which the, schooner, Jine Maru, where, and JW Lanes Day Lauestion of withdrawing from the will ill on the return tein, RCEDAR BN Mening drachgesteron

puty Registrar-long Kong Daily: Commonwealth. At the same time, the ocean to Germany. Covering day for leaving the harbour of At Kowloon Magistracy yester- bo emphasised the necessity for altogether 17,500-miles, much of Hong Kong without a clearance day, four beggars were fined $5 Looking Bark 50 Years,

permit Asked if he had anything of seven days' hard Inbour for By the last French mail a Parsco examining very carefully any pro- which will be over water, the flight to say, defendant replied in the being an annoyance, on the Penin-trader left this Colony with goods posal of that character, in view of will be one of the longest in history negative. The Magistrate statei sula. Special watch is being kept to the value of about ten thousand the fact that Australia is becoming and in many ways one of the most that he considered the offence very by the police against these mendi- dollars, which he procured from seriously and imposed a fine of $200 cants, who pay particular attention sundry. Chiness on credit. His des so international a community. To difficult ever "attempted

or, in default, three months hard to congregations leaving the chur-tination is not known-Hong Kong withdraw from the federation of Zeppelin.

labour,

ches on Bunday mornings.

Daily Prete, May 27, 1880.

was summoned