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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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the Sale by Public Auction to be held on TUESDAY, the ST DAY of AUGUST, 1990, at 3 r.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of HIExELLEŃCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at Prince Edward Boad, Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAISTY THE KERG, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE
Kow'oon Inland Lot No. 2322.
Prince Edward Road,
Mong Kok Tani,
G.
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
As per
sale plan
LOT.
87,600
Contents
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Annual
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About
60,000
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DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Hale by Public Auction to be held TUESDAY, the STH DAT of "AUGUST, 1939, ut 8 r., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of En EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shemshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 year, commencing from 1st July, 1998, with the option of renewal at a Crown Heat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE Kme, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality.
|∙No. of 3
New Kowloon Inland Registry No Lot No. 1463.
Cheung Sha Wan
Maple St.
Boundary
Measure.
ments.
As per
cale plan.
Contents in
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| Square foot.
About
24,840
172
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48,470
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.40 p.m., stated:-
A deep depression is situated about 30 miles to the N. of the Bonins, moving northward. -
Local Forecast:-S.W. winds; fresh; cloudy; showery.
DEATHS.
GODDARD. On July 18, suddenly at Shanghai, CHARLES SAMUEL GOD- DARD, Chinese Maritime cu toms, aged 52 years. HEIMANN-On July 20, at Shang- hai, SERGE SAMUEL HEIMANN, aged 51.
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HONG KONG, JULY 31, 1839,
ANOTHER BOGEY GONE.
I is rather amusing to read, in a Reuter message from Peiping, that the foreign Press correspond- ents who met Mr. WANG CHING We were impressed by the fact that he appeared to be in sympathy neither
with Communism
or
Sovietiam,
"What sort of a man did they ex- pect to meet A person skilfully "made-up" to represent the incur- ably hostile caricaturist's idea of
a
CANADA FIRST, EMPIRE
SECOND."
A FEW weeks ago the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. MACKENZIE EING, considered it quite possible that the general election would result in a deadlock, in which case, heid, he would call Parliament together immediately. Instead, of a tie between the two principal political parties, there has been a landslide, Mr. KIxo's party losing thirty-four seats and the Conser vatives gaining", forty-five. results have yet to be declared, but in any case the Coneeratives will have a majority in the House of twenty-seven over all other parties combined. The constitution of the new Parliament, so far as is known at the moment, as compared, with the previous House, is as follows:-
NEW. OLD. 85 "119 130 80
Liberals
Five
3:12
Conservatives
United Farmers
10
11
Progressives
12
Liberal Progressives. Labour
33
3
Independents............... ...Undeclared.........
*News and Views
The inventor of pingpong left £106,115. He was Mr. James Gibb, of Southwold, St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, late chairman of Messrs. Gibb, & Co. Ltd., contractors and engineers, of Fenchurch Street,
A Temarkable story of a triple Rear Admiral Harry H. Rosseau, | E.C. murder was recently reported by of the U.S. Civil Engineer Corps, Berlin anwspaper as having occur died on July 24 on board the steam- red in the small Polish town of ship Cristobal, en route from New Opato. Three pretty German sisters York to Havana, according to radio were engaged as trapeze artists inhessages received in Washington. a circus there. The eldest girl was
The Turkish porter Zaro Aga, Pestered with attentions" by the circus electrician-also a German. the oldest man in the world-he
One day the man bid himself in the claims to be 160-has arrived in girl dressing-room, but was dis Athens from Constantinople, before covered, given a good thrashing, travelling to America, where he and dismissed by the management. will take part in a temperance cam- Brooding revenge, the man secretly pain. He was received by M. connected the three trapeze on Venizelos, the Prime Minister, who which the sisters worked with a asked him many questions about the powerful electric current which he four wars in which as a soldier in turned on when the girls were the Turkish Army he took part giving their "performance bigh Zaro Aga has been invited to the above the heads of the audience. All three girls, as if struck by lightning, fell dead into the arena, In the panic which followed the murderer was able to escape, and fled into a neighbouring forest, where he shot himself.
United States as a temperance" ex hibit." He has never touched, á drop of alcoholic liquor or smoked throughout his life. He has been married eleven times, but all his Fives have long boen dead, and some time ago it was stated he was looking out for another.
The investigation in Bukharest of the attempt to assassinate the Minister of the Interior, which re- sulted in the shooting, by mistake, of the secretary of his Department, Mr. Angevaseu, revealed the exis tence of an anti-Semitic terrorist whose ramifications organization extend all over the country. The persons involved in the plot to kill police have arrested a number of
riota. Amongst those implicated is the Minister of the Interior because he tried to stop the anti-Semitic the editor of the Fascist newspapor
Epoca.
A reference to cocktails in the to say: "I am ignorant about cock- Divorce Court led Mr. Justice Hill tails. I am an old duffer, and know nothing about modern habits. my house, or ever will, and I hav Nobody has ever had a cocktail in nover been to any place where peo- ple consumed cocktails."
Judge Crawford told a debtor at Court Just County Southend month: "You should not have sign-: ed this agreement. You people imagine you are very clover. You
In some parts of the Dominion the fight has been very bitter. The Ku
Floods of an unprecedented scale The governing director, the secre- go to a stationer's and buy an Klux Klan and rivalries between.
Australian Federal Life and Gen-you have bought a lawsuit. The Christian churches led to "much wrought havoc. in Turkestan where tary, and an accountant of the agreement for id or d. and think communications arc completely eral Insurance Company appeared Incorporated Law Society and the. friction in Saskatchewan, which re- turns twenty-one members to Farlin- paralysed and many thousands before the court in Sydney recently. Inns of Court ought to set up a rendered homeless while the mater-charged with conspiracy to defraud. memorial to show their gratitude ment. The United Farmers' Party jai damage, it is feared, is extreme Prosecuting counsel alleged that the to those stationers supplying the governing director drew £9,388 public with agreements, for they ly heavy. It is reported that the between January last year and invariably lead to litigation.” foods also ravaged part of the but April this year, while the company. recently opened Turkish railway was insolvent. He also described linking South-Eastern Russia and the case as "one of the worst frauds Turkestan with Siberia and, at ever perpetrated on the public of Novosibirek, with the trans-Siberian New South Wales." railway.
of
interest
common
..
Presidrat Hoover last week pro- mulgated an order providing enter suls and diplomats in smaller cities tainment funds for American Con- such as Algiers, Danzig and Jera- Ernest Black, aged twenty-three, salem which have not been provided with such resources beretofore.. A five-year-old girl had a remark and George Stanley Robinson, aged able escape from death recently, nineteen, members of the Talkin Purchase of liquor was forbidden, when she fell from an excursion Tarn (Cumberland) Rowing Club, however, except with the personal train in which she was travelling who were drowned when their boat funds of the officials in question. to Blackpool with her parents to was swamped during a race at the spend a holiday. As the train was Tees regatta at Middlesbrough re- travelling at over 30 miles per hour cently, bad arranged to send a tele- at Whitebirk; near Blackburn, the gram to their boatman if they won. carriage door flew open, ant the The son of Mr. Rutherford, the little girl, who and been standing boatman, ran up the streat to his near it, fell out. Her father im father a few hours, later waving mediately pulled the communica a telegram, and he remarked, tion cord, and when the train had They've won." When he opened been stopped he ran nearly a mile it he found it contained the news along the track before he found of their death. his daughter crawling between the metals. She had no bones broken. but was badly bruised, and was taken to the Blackburn Infirmary sufering from shock.
That the effect of an attack by aavage Airedale dog had, totally altered a woman's outlook on life was contended in a case heard at Notta Assizes. Judgment for £1b5 with costs, was given against Wi- liam Henry Bright, of Carlton, the owner of the dog. The animal, it was stated, sprang at Mrs. Gertrude Ellen Derrington and bit her cheek: while she was going up the drive to Mr. Bright's house. Her hus- band said that since then her sleep, nerves, and eyesight had been affected..
in that province demanded, among other things, Free-trade instead of Protection, and the nationalisation of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Farmer and Labour groups, by the way, are allied in a fight against what they call "a strongly-entrenched system of spe cial privilege, functioning through the party system.".
From the broader point of view of the outside observer, the chief about the point Canadian election is its reaction upon the Empire Trade movement. The defeated Liberals appealed for Bolshevik! Some of the journ-
a renewal of their mandate on the alists gathered in Peiping probably strength of their political record would be equally impressed if they during the last eight years, and
The special commission of the were to meet some of the leaders particularly their fiscal policy. The Conservatives, however, while pro-
League of Nations for the investiga. of the Russian movement but this testing that their loyalty to the
of the Wailing Wall dispute has completed its labours. The Arab leaders remained adamant in by the way. Coming back to Mr. Crown is undiminished, have de- WASG and his attitude towards clared that the increasing preference
The Chief Justice of the Supreme their refusal to allow the Jews to PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, Communism, there is no occasion given in the tariff to British goods Court of Canada, Mr. Justice pray at the Wailing Wall, conced- for surprise in his avowal of feck grave danger to Canada's Francis Alexander Anglin, astonishing them only permission to visit
The Conserva-ed the Lords of Appeal in the the, Wall, on the grounds that if measured a distance of seven yards. infant industries.
Judicial Committee of the Privy they were permitted to pray there with a tape. The officer: No, with of sympathy for Communism., There tives bitterly attacked the whole Council recently by taking his scat, they would soon claim the Omar my stride. Counsel: I don't want rather long stride. are fundamental differences between tariff structure of the Liberal at the board dressed in a hot mosque above the Wall too. The to be thought personal, but police-
weather suit of light khaki drill. commission gave the two parties men have a the Chinese Communists (and by Government. They claimed that the He looked cool, despite the fact that concerned until September next to Judge Owen Thompson, K.0-A
conventional recommendations to the League of not mere gangs of bandits) and the satiaty Free-trade opinion in the attend a sitting of the Privy Coun- failing which it will make certain
Nations mandates commission, Western provinces, and pointed to cil in other than
clothes. Left Wing of the Kuomintang. The one group is interested in Chinese the enormous increase in the im- affairs" merely as a phase of the ports of Canada, especially from the world-wide class struggle part of United States, and to the decrease in articles of home manufacture, the hoped-for World Revolution.
as proof that the tariff policy of The other is concerned with secur-
the Kine Adminstration was hurt- ing for China that power and prestige which they consider is due to an independent nation.
LIMITED,
NOTICE.
SUSPENSION OF SERVICE.
When a police constable gare. evidence in a collision' case at Bow County Court he was asked if he
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. } { the Engine House, the PUBLIC this term we mean Communists. tarifi has been written largely to he is the first Lord of Appeal to try and find a basis for an accord, dignified stride. The officer. The
REMINDER..
Y Kind Permission of Major J.B.
B TAYLOR and OFFICERS the
BAND OF THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY will give a CONCERT ou the CRICKET GROUND on THURS. „DAY, 313: JULY, at 5.20 P.M.
Members and Subscribers will be "AT HOME" to Their Friends.
(9667
HONG KONG FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION,
WING to Nectary Renewals in ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that NO CARS Will Run After MIDNIGHT on SATURDAY, the 2D AUGUST, Until MONDAY, 48 AUGUST, at 7AM.
By Order
JJAN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
"General Managers.
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NOTICE.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
ing rather than helping Canadian industry. The Conservatives want a general increase of the tariff, partly to stop the exodus of a
So far as Mr. WANG CHING WEI
repeat the view expressed in these left the country during the last ten
distance was eventually measured by someone with a tape and exactly coincided with my stride.
Local Notes and Events *
The master of a trading junk was before the Marine Magistrate yes terday on the charge of leaving port
We have received from the Hong Kong Jockey Club an interesting book giving the racing record for
Traffic Sergeant Melunes met with an unusual experience en Monday night when riding his
himself is concerned, we need only million working-people who have during prohibited hours. He plead the first half of 1830. The volume motor-cycle along Shekko Road at
was THE Attention of Those Clubs conE TRANSFER BOOKS of the columns early last month, when it years, and also to secure regular ed, guilty and was fined $25 or includes full race results in their 10 p.m. Fascinated by the head-
ENTRIES for the AMATEUR FOOT BALL LEAGUE for the Forthcoming Beason CLOSE on AUGUST 18T
ENTRIES for the OHALLENGE SHIELD COMPETITION CLOBB on OCTOBER 16T.
W. E. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Secretary,
FAN LING HUNT AND RACE CLUB.
Tis proposed to hold og AUGUST 820, at THE HUNTERS ARMS, A FAREWELL DINNER to the
# "HERMES SUPPORTERS of THE HUNT. The Dinner will be on a Subscription, Bagia. Will Any Member desiring to attend adrlee either BEOK or STANTON ?
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SERVICE TO READERS.
HE HONG KONG DAILY: PRESS, LAD, and the HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through "their" Londen: Office,
Base Godpare prepared tá, siya Subscribers and Visitors advice regarding accommodation available, motoring facilities, suitable shops ping centres, etc
I when at home, they will call or telephone to the above address they will receive the utmost saint- ance and the latest available infor mation on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal.
By Orier of the Board of Directors,
D. L. KING, Secretary. Hong Kong, 17th July, 1930. [9652
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT.
MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE ACENTA.
three weeks.
chronological order and also accord- light, a deer came into the roadway ing to distances. Jockeys record and was struck by the motor-cycle. and the list of ponies entered are The body of the animal was found yesterday in a nullah, about three yards away from the scene of the also included..
accident
native
SATURDAY, 9TH AUGUST, 1930, To likely to resume an active part in factories. With a definite majority
For leaving port without a clear SATURD Y 18TH AUGUST, 1930, Chinese politics. The leader of now in the House in favour of such Toth Days inclusive
the Left Wing of the Kuomintang
a policy, the attitude of Canada ance, the master of a cargo boat
The master of a cargo boat was is a very able man, and so far as at the coming Imperial Conference who pleaded guilty to the charge
before the Marine Magistrate yes before the Marine Court yesterday foreign interests in China are con in London is not likely to encourage tarday was fined $20 or two weeks'
on the charge of leaving port with- cerned, we believe Mr. WANG, would very greatly the advocates of
imprisonment..
out a clearance. He pleaded not be just as fair in his dealings with Empire Trade the Powers as any other of his countrymen." Reuter's summary of the interview with foreign news paper correspondents in Peiping naturally favours revision of ROTHERMERE, but li
little about the China's treaties with the Powers, opposition. Here is a characteristic salary per hour being paid for all but he is a staunch supporter of Canadian Conservative opinion, ex. time worked after 60 hours. constitutional methods-even to the pressed by Mr. BENNETT during
At to-day's meeting of the Legis extent of accepting the will of the the Budget debate, who made no lative Council, the Colonial Beere majority though he may believe secret of the fact that he puts tary, will move, inter alia, the that decision to be wrong. In re Canada first and the British Em-
Pleading guilty to having fought second reading of an Ordinance to
We are requested to state that Villagard to relations with Russia, Mr.. pire second :——“If this country has
authorise the appropriation of a in the street, a Banitary Depart Wang takes the sensible stand that, attained equality of status
with
supplementary sum of 8304,528.83 to meat coolie and a hawker were both unless the incoming French mail bound over in bonds of $50 each to per Oxus be on shore by eight whatever may be the view held of respect to constitutional matters, defray the charges of the year 1929.
keep the peace for six months, when o'clock on Monday morning (which Soviet methods of government, this country stands to maintain there is no reason why China its economic life as against the The master of a rattan shop they appeared before Mr. Whyte is hardly probable) it will not be Magistracy yes distributed until after the mail for should not be on friendly diplo-world. What is more, the develop
appeared before. Mr. Whyte-Smith Smith at Kowloon
Looking Back 25 Years.
We hear much of the alleged
The present 70-hour standard guilty, saying that the tide had I wanted to see the time, was enthusiasm in the Dominions fork in the Koyloon-Canton Rail carried him outside the harbour the impudent remark of the Empire Trade movement which
way is to be abolished, and a 60 limits although his intention origin when charged before Mr. G. N is being boosted in Britain by the hour week instituted, overtime at ally was to anchor in Kennedy Orme, at the police-court on Satur- "fully confirms that view. Mr. WANG Press Barons BEAVERBROOK and the rate of 1/31-20 th of annual Town. After listening to the evi. day with the larceny of a watch
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that he thought there was some-France at Kowloon His Worshipy dence, the Magistrate remarked from the residence of the Rev. J. H. thing in the defendant's glory and sentenced the man to two months'
hard labour and six hours stocks. accordingly let him off with
Hong Kong Daily Press, July 31, caution.
1905.30
Looking Back 50 Years.
matic terms with her neighbour.ment of the British Empire lies in
ties in at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, terday. The quarrel arose when, Europs has left. We are mortorer "It appears them, that those who the development of each unit com- shadye with administering
favourably impressed by his manner the best Britisher who loves Canada and by his declaration of policy
the BOHONG KONG WEERZY and so it comes about that the man who has been regarded by the Com- munists as a most dangerous enemy is at lust recognised by foreign observers for what he is.
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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
to:
on completion of the coolie's job of oaked to remind our renders that
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some rubbish into the drain. The possible, avoid sending most, and any legislation that sub- apprentice by beating him with a ordinates Canada either constitu rattan cane. It was stated that tionally or economically to any country, whether it be within or the chastisement, although severe, without the British Empire, is bad was lotus Berious as at first legislation," And it is the party thought. The defendant was caution to which this gentleman belongs ed against giving his apprentices
severe beatings which is now in power!
father, the hawker, carne along and coolie remonstrated, but the boy's the Post Office as such, timeshe there was a fight. The coolie struck the incessant questions about the the hawker on the left eye, and the distribution of latter pushed the coolie over an old are serious hindra ship's propeller, causing a deep cut despatch of, that
Kong Daily Press, July, in his leg
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