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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND), NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN FIRST INTERIM that a DIVIDEND of One Shilling Per Share on Account of the Financial Year ending 31st March, 1931, has been Declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, parable Shareholders on the Registare at BRISBANE and SINGAPORE FRIDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1930.

NOTICE IS

BEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the SINGAPORE TRANSTER REGISTERS will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 12TH SEP- TEMBER, to FRIDAY, 26TH SEP- TEMBER, 1930 (Both Days inclusive), for the preparation of Dividend War

rants,

By Order of the Board, DERRIOK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretariss.

Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 13th August, 1930.

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NOTICE.

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THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY IN. FORMED that Berised TIMETABLE will come into Force on and from TUESDAY, 2611 AUGUST. Attention is DRAWN to alterations to the Time of Arrival and Departure of Certain Local Trains,

As a result of Improvements to the Track between CANTON and SHEK LUNG the through journey is Now Reduced to 44 Hours."

It is hoped to resume Normal Run- ning by the end of the year.

R. BAKER,

Manager.

Kowloon, 22nd August, 1930. [9759

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NOTICE.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by, the Royal Observatory at p.m., stated:

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The northern depression is mov- ing eastward and is now central to the north of Korea. The depression over SW. China has decreased slightly intensity..

Local Forecast:--SW or var able winds; light to moderate: overmat; showery at first probably improving later,

BIRTHS.

THE WHITE HOUSE GANG,

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There are scores of amusing stories suitable for quotation, but the reader will be able to form na idea of the tone of this book by reading how the Gang dealt with ' candidates for admission to its charmed circle. Initiations began mildly enough. A member was blindfolded and presented with three or four inches of wet worm, alive, cold and wriggling. and swallow it down, after chewing it thoroughly, for a minute by the watch. Sometimes he would be giver, one grain of cooked tapioca, and told it was the eye of a fish! The "black" hand was fireplace-root smeared across the lips, and drinking four full tum-

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News and Views *

The Duke of Gloucester, named tho ni motor lifeboat, Princess" Mary, at Padstow on July 31. The lifeboat cost £15,000, and was presented by the F. and O. Co.

silly.

season.

is is

To, write a book on lines unlike nny ever before attempted is perhaps impossible. Very many years ago a sceptic seribe declared "there is no new thing under the SUD," yet if this Hebrew philo sopher could but revisit the earth upon which he once walked, prob- ably he would be disposed-without much argument-to amend slightly the sweeping statement he made in some unknown year B.C. During the intervening centuries many new things have been seen, both in the heavens above and the waters beneath, to say nothing of the new blers of water in immediate succes eral conditions on the Stock Ehave left New York in a motor-car"

at things moving about on the earth

BesBow-RowE-On June 13,

Mandeville, Jamaica, the wife

of E. S. BENBOW-ROWE, & son, FINCH-On July 19, in Norwich,

the wife of RALPH FINCR, PA

ang, a son.

- MARRIAGE.

DRUERY-RCSA-On July 12, at St. James's, Piccadilly, GILBERT MAURICE DRUERY, Singapore, to DAPHNE NELLA, only daughter of

Mrs Ross, of Muswell Hi!.

The writer of An Investor's Note Book in the Finansial Timer, notes with the recent renewal of mild optimism as to the oil outlook in America the tendency for quiet it macaroni, and told to "cat this vestment in the shares of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Co. has becons, accentuated. But he adds, it takes a lot to move the quotation of shares of which there are over 24,000,000 in issue, and at estates and to meet needs in other present the sales out of decreased directions suffice to keep the price of Shells well below £3. At the level of £4 158. these shares show a yield equal to of per cent, gross, and they would not long be pur chasable on such a basis were gen change to take a marked turn for the better.

sion, which was supposed to pro itself. But to come back to theduce the cramps-but never exactly making of books- profess to worked. The white" hand was which yet another Jewish philo- talcum-powder, more preferably sopher declared there is no end, flour, masenged well into the scalp, though he knew nothing of lino and sifted down the neck, on the types and rotary presses. Not for the outside. The "hot" hand was first time has the White House been stinging blow with a shingle on the made the central scene of an interest-sitting-down portion of a member's ing "narrative-historical, fictional, anatomy, delivered with all the

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A typhoon in the China Seas, said to be

depicted with amazing realism." and the presence on board the private yacht of a steward heat en rapine and murder, make the film The Ship from Shanghai, at the Empire, London, quite an exciting entertainment.

Among recent appointments to

the late Mr. T, R. E. Ross and or a combination of the two in pro- strength each of the other" members the Colonial Service are noted those

DEATHS.

FRASER.-On July 17, at Pitlochry, HENRY FRASER, M.D., M.R.C.P., of Leamington Spa, formerly of Kuala Lumpur, Malay States. PHILIPS.-On July 18, in a London Nursing Home, JOHN I. PHILIPS, of 38. Celcherne-court, S.W.5, aged 69.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 94511.

London Office: 63, Fleet Street,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, AUGUST 23, 1930.:

could muster. All of this was to be taken without the slightest demur, or sign of annoyance. There were higher degrees, but for further information the reader must turn to this most lively and human book of boyish mischief.

The American nearing its height. In Kansas City Jack Richards, aged fourteen, häs been sitting in a tree for 140 hours and his family has not yet persuad- of other boys and girls are not ed him to come down, while scores; many hours behind him. In New Jersey, four boys, riding in suc cession, have kept a bicycle moving for nine days, and they say they will continue until the machine falls apart. Four men, of St. Louis equipped only with a reverse gear in which they intend to drive back- wards across the continent in twenty-six days..

Two Malay States marksmen were in the last hundred for the King's Prize at Bisley, Major W. Edwards, who scored 201, and Mr. for the Brst time in women, Wies T. J. McGregor, 233. The winner,

Marjorie Elaine Foster, a poultry farmer, of Frimley, Surrey, scared 280.

portion known only to the author. We all know of-if we have not read-that fascinating story of a poor boy's progress from log-cabin to White House. Latterly the public has been given some very sordid pictures of life teatering upon that same historic building, describing Presidential dealings with crooks and bootleggers, and

Dr. Philip Brunellrechi Cousland, an account of an affair of the who died at Victoria, B.C., on July 7, was regarded as one of the heart" which was very kindly ad- "fathers" of modern medicine in China Born at Glasgow in 1861 vertised by the police raiding a

and educated at George Watson's printing-office and seizing the un-College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh completed volume and the type University, he went out to China from which it was being printed. under the Presbyterian Church of When subsequently the book was England and the China Medical Spencer, who was killed in an aero- plane crash on July 20, had been Missionary Association to Swatow second-in-command of submarine published, this attempt at sup- Hospital, in 1883. In 1903 he was M.3 since April, 1928. He had Colonial Office to encourage the pression naturally served as an transferred to Shanghai, his served in L.1 and L. on the China

vices being lent to tho China excellent advertisement.

Medical Missionary Association

of Miss E. Connan, M.R.C.S., A suggestion" that British women L.R.C.P.. as Lady Medical Oficer overseas should break through the in the Straits Settlements, and social convention which cuts ther

11. Miss.-S.

Bernard, M.D., off from native women was made re- M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.. as Medicalcently by Mr. L. S. Amery, who was Officer to the Federated Malay Colonial Secretary in the Conserva- States. Of late years the Colonial tive Government. President at am Ofice has been paying a great deal informal conference of the British more attention to the questions of Social Hygienic Council, he spoke health in the territories under its of the need of securing the help and control, and women have been call-interest of the wives of Colonial ed upon to play an increasingly in officials, and others living in the He believed portant part, with the gratifying Colonies, in welfare "work among result that none but the most satis the native women. factory reports on their work have their attention had only to be drawn been received. The only complaint to the need, and white women would. is that they all too quickly get be very willing to help. But their married.

attention was not directed to it, and there was a kind of social, conven- tion that white women should have,

In the volume now before us is (now the China Medical Associa

Lieut. Samuel. Edward Harrison

nothing to do with the native wc- men among whom they lived. The Council had appealed to the wives of officials to undertake such Station.

work. It would be an excellent thing if white, women, as well as Messrs. Christie recently conclud- their husbands, would learn the lan- given a view of life at the White tion) for the purpose of editing, ed in London the sale of the co-guages of the native people among

translating, and publishing medical lection of the late Mr. L. Brait whom they lived. House from an entirely new angle. books in Chinese. He was presi- The gang whose doings are so dent of the association from 1910 to 1913. In 1890 Dr. Causland be vividly described was not composed came a member of the terminology of politicians, but a group of mis committee of the association, and chievous boys who were the play the bulk of its work fell upon his shoulders. It largely lay with him mates of young QUENTIN, son of to render in Chinese ideas and President ROOSEVELT, and we learn words wholly foreign to the Chi with amused interest that T.R."nese language. He was twice mar was himself an active member of ried, secondly to Miss Ida Rebecca. Lutber, and settled at Victoria the Gang With the exception of BC., where his younger son was in Mrs. ROOSEVELT, the boys saw little inedical practice. of the other members of the Pre- "I do not remember that we spoke sident's family. Says the author

to them, or they to us, except to Anyway, the make mutually disparaging re- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the fact is the Hong Kong Government marks." Evidently the President's Attractive Propoaltion for Company will be CLOSED From I has decided not to continue ite/ older children had a poor opinion movements schedule sous time ago, Shanghai."

ASSOCIATION,

O. F. RIBEIRO,

Hon. Secretary.

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1933, To WEDNESDAY, TRE 3RD annual subsidy of $33,600 to SEPTEMBER, 1930 (Both Days in- clusive), during which Period No Reuter's Agency after April 30, Trucsfer of Shares can be registered.

when the existing contract expires. By Order of the Board of Directors,

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A few days ago we commented upon Acting Secretary.

some fatuous remarks appearing in Hong Kong, 9th August, 1930. [9745

the Sunday Herald to the effect that the Government was fritter-

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VERY VALUABLE WHARVES Situata at or near the WESTERN BUND, CANTON and known as THE BAM KING WHARF, THE

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Brigadier F. H. Burnell Nugent, the command of the Tientsin Area, D.5.0., OB.E...on July 18 took up for which he was selected in sue- cession to Brigadier R. M. Heath, C.M.G., D.S.O. The two battalions of the Area were placed in the

and there will only be one battalion

meyer. One of the chief lots was an old English lacquer cabinet, The cruiser Suffolk, Captain G. decorated with Chinese landscapes S. Arbuthnot, D.S.O.. returned to in red and green on cream ground, Portsmouth on July 13, from her the interior with Chinese figures first commission spent on the China. and flowers on, red ground, 43 in. Station. The Suffolk, first of the wide, and this fetched 820 guineas. British 10,000-ton post-Washington The sale of the property of the late cruisers, is to refit at Portsmouth, Earl of Balfour included a pair of where she was built, and will leave Chinese porcelain howls and covers again for the Far East on Octo-

namelled in famille-rose, with ber 5. Louis XV. ormolu mounts, 134 in. high, which fetched 720 guineas (E. Jonas, of Paris).

Hung Wab Hung, head of the Tong Ong Society, which remained neutral during the recent Tong war Brigadier George Carpenter, in the United States, was shot dead pointed a Royal Marine Aide-de- play in the Bowery New York. 0.B.P. D.S.C.. who has been a recently while watching a Chinese Camn to the King, was the comHe had been co-operating with the manding officer of the Royal Marine police in their attempts to find the Battalion sent to China in January, convict murderer of another mem- 1997, "at the time of the threat to her of his society, who was stabbed

some time ago.

in future, the 1st Battalion The Mr. Ichiro Ota, secretary at the Capt. P. R Stevens, D.S.O.; Queen's Royal Regiment from Japanese Embassy in London, has whose retirement is announced at Malta, taking up the Aren: duties left for Japan to take up an ap his own request, last served in com- in the first week of November. The pointment in the Foreign Office at maad of the cruiser Dragon in reliefs in the personnel of the an Tokyo. Mr. Fujii, has been a China in 1926-25. A farge part of cillary detachments at Tientsin and pointed First Secretary in London. his 34 years' service was concerned Peiping will be effected Novem Mr. Okumaru, of the Japanese with the Far East, where he was Embassy in London. has been apa midshipman on the Dido during pointed Japanese Vice-Consul, for the Boxer War of 1900. Australia.

ber also.

Captain AH. Walker, O.B.E.,

Dame Rachel Mary Hele Lamp- who since January, 1929, has com

A change has been made in the son, of The Farm House, Pont- manded the battleship Warspite, has been appointed to the Tamar arrangements fer HMS. Caradoc, street, Chelsea, S.W., who died at additional, as Commodore, Second which has commissioned. for the Hong Kong, on January 23, wife of Class, in charge of the Naval estab- China Station to replace the Castor: Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. lishments nf Hong Kong. He suc- Instead of Captain H. T. Baillie K.C.B. (British Minister in China... ceeds Rear Admiral R. A 8. Hill. Grohman, D.S.O.. O.B.E., Captain and daughter of the late William C.B.E., who has held the command V H Danckwerts will command, W. Phipps, left unsettled property since December 7, 1928, and was the ship. The Caradoe left for in her own disposition of the gross

a gunnery £3,712 of this year. Captain Walker's ap- Danckwerts is both promoted to fag rank on April 3 Hong Kong on July 6 Captain value of £3,818, with net personalty pointment dates from September 19, specialist and a staff officer. but he will not assume..command but be me time later. Ou his ar- Miss Biso Mei Jang, Chinees who has won so many English lawn rival at Hong Kong, he will hoist woman, is the first student to re tennis tournaments, has said good- his broad pennant in such ship as ceive the degree of Doctor of Poli-Lye to England after nearly three" China, tical Science at the new Institute years. He is fulfilling one or two the Commander-in-Chief, may select. Rear Admiral Hill will for Higher International Studies in Continental engagements, including vacate his post and return to Eng- Genevs University. Her thesis was the German championships at Ham land, and the broad pennant of his entitled Women's Part, in the burg, and will then take up it successor will be transferred to the English Co-operative Movement and Manchuria a post at a girls high

school as lecturer in English. Related Problems." Tamar on the following day.

Mr. Yoshiro Ohta, the Japanese

of QUENTIN and his companions, end possibly were pained to think their distinguished father should so far forget the dignity of his office as to associate with a pack of such impudent and mischievous young rascals as were the White House Gang. "We were fright- reverence. There fully short on was none we were afraid to ape BY ORDER OF THE VENDORS. ing away" the ratepayers' money

and mimic-not even T.R." upon news which, it could obtain

And so it comes about that this from the morning and afternoon, book really is a volume quite aut newspapers.. That statement was of the crdinary. It is a collection grotesquely inaccurate, because the of most amusing escapades and effect of the Government's subsidy practical jokes in situations and circumstances which must be surely has been to enable a much more unique. We get some very enter comprehensive cable service to be taining sidelights upon ROOSEVELT's laid down in the Colony than would character-his generous "tolerance be otherwise commercially possible of healthy boyish pranks, and ruth Jess intolerance of anything mean The discontinuance of this annual

or unfair. The adventures of the payment of $33,800, will mean that Gang read like a modernised ver- Reuters news service will be re- sion of the escapades of Tom duced proportionately unless that Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, with the important difference that amount is forthcoming from ather these joyous skylarkings" in and sources. Perhaps we are not in a about Washington really happened. position to express a wholly un- What a rousing chapter is that biassed opinion on the subject, dealing with the pirates of the

Potomac, with T.R." leading a The Bauk Australian Gold Min- Through the mediation of the number of fairly well-to-do coun- nevertheless it is our view that the landing party and attacking a de- ing Co., Ltd. has declared a first Chinese General Chamber of Com-trymen on board, who subscribed axe might have been better applied serted shack, seeking for hidden interim dividend of one shilling merce, the strike of the scaffolding the necessary money to pay their per share on account of the finen- and matshed workers has been passages and saved the deliquents. to many other items of expenditure gold." Ambassadors, Government cial year, ending March 31, 1831. settled. The employers have pro- the consequences of their misdeeds.

workers wages by twenty-five per 23, 1905.. For Further Particulars and Cohdi. than to a vote which assisted the facials, policemen, dear old ladies. Details will be found elsewhere in mised to increase their regular-Hong Kong, Daily Press,

provocative dandies, workmen these columns.

cent whole community of the Colony to yes, and even T.R.. himself, all

When prosecuting a Chinese bo- keep in to

with current world were victims of the Gang at dome fare Mr. T. 8. Whyto-Smith yester Looking Back 25 Yeara,

Kan man day, Aspenat drmphanys mid the

farochained boys had out of it all with an from ships, which he usually occasional well-deserved-biding!: visited at night. In the present in stance he was charged with the theft of a blanket. Defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months hard labour. His record showed previous convictions for similar offences

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tions of Bala, Apply to:-

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mitted that conditions have changed. since 1922, and so it comes about the Press has the dubious diatine- tion of being the firet sacrifice to be offered on the altar of economy.

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The White House Gang By EARLE LOOKEE Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, London; 7. 6d

Local Notes and Events

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Looking Back 60 Years.

"Sir,—In reply to “Nepotism's letter in

B. this morning- heading which the sight b Chinese assist their compatriots in of the Folice Fores are well pl difficulty was demonstrated by an with Inspector Quincey's pr incident which took place on board tion. If there is any doubt the Earnest Simons on her present the matter, send and ask the ser outward run. Shortly after the geants-and-constablez So Nepo- vessel loft Saigon nine coolies weretism, shut up.-Yours, etc. Blop. found stowed away in the hold Hong Kong Daily Preis, Au Fortunately for them there were a 24-1860