NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the MEM. BERS of HONG KONG ENGINEER. ING AND CONSTRUCTION COM. PANY, LIMITED, will be held in the BOARD ROOM of Hess, BHEWAN TOMES
and COMPANY, St. GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHAFER ROAD, Hong Kong. on WEDNESDAY the TENTA DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1990, TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON for the purpose af considering and, if thought fit, passing as an Extraordinary Resolution the following Resolution
That the Capital of the Company. be reduced from $1,000,000 divided into 100,000 shares of $10.00 each of which 95,000 have been issued and are now outstanding to $200,000 divided into 100,000 shares of $2.00 Each and that much Redustion be effected by Cancelling Capital which has been lost or is unrepresented by Available Assets to the Extent of $8.00 Per Share upen Each of the 98,500 Shares which have been issued sad are now outstanding and by Reducing the Nominal amount of all the Shares in the Company's Capital from $10.00 to $2.00 Per Phare,
AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY EXTRA- GIVEN that farther ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the above
named Company will be held at the Same Time and Place on FRIDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH Day of SEPTEM BBB, 1930, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the before mention d Meeting and of confirming, if thought fit, the before mentioned Resolation as Special Resolution.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of Afanas, 1930..
By Order of the Board,
9770)
B. ALVES;
Secretary.
DAIRY FARM; ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY,
LIMITED,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
A
WONDERFUL
N HISKY
AWARDED
Or SEDA AMMOUNTMENT TE KIT MAJESTY DE
*
White Label WEST SCOTCH WHIS
OF GREAT AGE.
Dewar & Sons
DISTILLERS.
= Megnevek si, SW,1.
PER
AWARDED 50
Not An EXTRAORDINARY GOLD
GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at EXCHANGE BUILDING (FIRST FLOOR), DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, Victoris, in the
Colony of Hong Kong, on TUESDAY,
the 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 11 A.M. in the FOREXOON, for the purpose
& PRIZE MEDALS.
SOLE AGENTS:-
of considering and if thought it A. S. WATSON- passing the following Resolutions us Ordinary Resolutions, viz:-
(1) That the authorised capital of the Company (which is
new
& CO., LTD.
$1,500,000 consisting of 200,000 WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. shares fully paid up of the
PHONE 20616."
numinal value of $7.50 per
share all of which have been be increased from
issued)
afore
$1,500,000 consisting
said to $2,250,000 (consisting
300,000 shares of the nominal
HONG KONG CRICKET LEAGUE.
Falue of $7.00 each) by the creation of 100,000 additional THE TWENTY-FOURTH AN. shares of the nominal valueNUAL MEETING will be held of $7.50 each.
at the SANITARY BOARD BOOM, (2) (4) That 30,000 of the said Poar OFFICE BUILDING (by Kind For: 100,000 new shares be offered mission), on TUESDAY, 9TH SEPTEM forthwith (in the proportion of BER, 1930, at 5.15 P.M. one new share for every com- plete number of four issued shares held by them respec
W. C. BUNG,
Hon. Secretary.
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tively) to "the persons who on Bong Kong, 3rd Sept., 1930,
the 23rd day of September, 1930, are registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of
of
the said 200,000 issued shares at a premium of $7.50 per share and so that on acceptance the offer the nominal value due in respect of such new shares plus the said premium of 87.60 per share (making $15.00 per share) shall be payable in full. Such new shares (when alloster) shall rank for dividend ns from the First day of January, 1931,
THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING
.CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
18 HEREBY GIVEN NOTIONINTH ORDINARY the SHARE YEARLY MEETING HOLDERS in the Company well be held at LANE, CRAWFORD'S CAFE,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930.
"WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.40 p.m., stated:-
Pressure is highest over the East ern Sea and is relatively low in a trouch extending from Indo-China to Guam.....
Local Forecast: - E. wirds: moderate; fair,
Editorial and Business Offices: 11, Ico House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai. Office):
Tel. 24511.
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The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 9. 1930..
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* News and Views *
Shareholders in the Branston Artificial Silk Company had a noisy meeting last month. Mr. Martin Coles Harman, king of Luady Island," was in the chair, and when he said the accounts were "din-
A woman having complained to the Tower Bridge magistrate that she had to pay £13 for a money- lender's licence although a number of people in the district were carry- ing on the practice without being registered, Mr. Campion (the magis
there should be this easy evasion or trate) said: It is disgusting that defiance of the law. It is no won der that law-abiding people com- plain. I warn these people who as moneylenders without a licence that they are liable to an Excise penalty of £100. I have reason to believe that one person carrying on was refused a licence at this court. The proper. people to inquire into the matter are the Commissioners of Excise. I hope this will be communicated to them and that they will take steps to end what I regard as a very grave scandal.
It was argued that so long as non-European planters are free to cultivate and export rubber just as they please, the present over- production. (if such it be, and not under-consumption) would continue.
A West End tailor revealed re- ! Although urged to offer some ex-appointing" a shareholder shouted: Prices would drop still further,
"A disgrace." Mr. Harman was and Europeans in Mainya be driven cently that a bill for suite ordered planation as why he struck his sar- completely out of business, leaving over "a number of years had been geant and used insubordinate lan asked why £224,241 worth of shares.
in Kirklees, Ltd., were purchased, thousands of Indian coolies without met by the gift of a picture, be guage. Private William Burgess and from whom. I cannot answer employment. One London. broker | lieved to be à Paul Veronese, worth Parlett, of the East Yorks Regi-that question," he replied. "We boldly carried the argument a stage more than £12,000. The picture ment, refused to speak at an Alder want the name of the man who sold holder. Where's the secretary, ha further, and reminded those whom formerly belonged to a conaty fami- shot court-martial. Parlett pload those shares," yelled another share- it might concern that non-European ly that had once been wealthy. Theed guilty, and the president, Major should be able to tell us," Mr. B... planters cannot possibly be brought canvas is about 19ft. by left., and Bentley, of the Cheshire Regiment, F. Conigrave, a director, also refus." ed to give the name. The chairman to co-operate in any restriction now hangs in the establishment of told him that an explanation might had to hammer and shout for order. London Office: 53. Fleet Street, scheme without "an element of a firm of tailors in Sackville-street. induce the court to give a lesser and the meeting was still in uproar compulsion which the Governmental Twelve years ago it was valued at sentence, adding: “You cannot go when Mr. Harman declared the re- authorities along can supply more than £12,000. It is thought about the world knocking people solution for the adoption of the re-
port and accounts carried. This scarcely veiled hiat at big that it would realise a larger about." Asked if be bad anyone to stick" or "mailed fist" methods amount if offered for sale" now, speak as to his good character, Par- of reducing rubber output in The head of the firm said to-day: lett smilingly rpelied, "I haven't one. Sentence will be made known Malaya' was taken seriously only as Several eminent critics in Eng- later. an indication of the extremely grave land and on the Continent have
The day when policemen will have position into which the industry has assured as that it is certainly a fallen, and the desperate state of Veronese. It was originally brought camers to take snapshots of a mind, this depression has produced. from Madrid by Sir Henry Win. dangerous driver is looked forward to by Sir Wm. Brass, Conservative RUBBER-WHAT ABOUT IT? Recent reports have indicated so ford, who was British Ambassador M.P. for Clitheroe. In the House it is said that the production of to the Spanish Court in the reign of Commons recently he asked the of Charles I. It was saved from a Home Secretary if he would con-
are carrying on mansion in Worcestershire sider issuing cameras to the officers FIVE years ago rubber. was selling native rubber is beginning to decline fire at at 45. ed. a pound. The latest feature of the market which has in 1810, and passed through several of the new mobile police force with a view to obtaining pictorial evi: quotation cabled from London is been now, observed for the first time hands before it was brought to me
in payment of a customer's debt. dence of dangerous driving, danger 4.3-16d-the lowest figure ever re-for several years past. That news young man owed me a fairly subous parking, and traffic obstruction. corded. This price is estimated to is good for the shareholders in stantial bill. The father suggested Mr. Clynes replied that the sug represent an average loss of about British rubber companies so far as 1 should accept a charge on this gestion might well be considered by picture. I agreed, and here it is." the police authorities, who were primarily responsible. Commander threepence per pound for the it goes, but it scarecly goes far
Kenworthy (Lab., Hull) suggested Malayan planter. No man would enough. So long as consumption
that the provision of moving-picture be bold enough to say that the continues small, so long will the
cameras would be more effective. market has even now reached rock market be depressed-but here is
Mr. Clynes said he would leave that bottom-that a further decline is faint ray of hope. Some believe the
also to the police authorities. impossible. There were men who present low price of rubber must talked that way when rubber fell before long act as a very active demand. Cheap to a shilling, and again when it stimulant to dropped to sixpence. Now even the rubber, it is argued, wil! lead to most optimistic, are dumb; whatever its being turned to wider and even hopes they may have, they hesitate entirely new uses. This would not mean a return to the 4s. a pound to give open expression to them. There is a fatalistic tendency now days, but it would mean a brisk to talk about the survival of the demand at prices at least as much Attest, but even that solution leaves above actual cost as they are now the inquirer unsatisfied. Who are below it. That might not be very these fittest who alone, are expected consoling to speculative share to survive the present crisis? At holders who put all their savings the moment, the most efficiently into rubber, but it would be a more managed estates-and therefore the natural and therefore more healthy attest-are selling rubber at a loss, solution of the problem than any called for that and the recent record slump was scheme which partly due to indications of a fur-element of compulsion" which ther increase in output. Sir CECIL only a Government can supply. CLEMENTI, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, has talked the
MADE OF.
catter over with the Governor- THE STUFF HEROES ARE General of the Dutch "Indies, and the putcome of that discussion is that neither the British nor the Dutch Government is prepared to do anything to enforce a restriction of rubber output.Economic laws must take their course."
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At a luncheon to freight shippers in the new White Star motor liner Britannic at Liverpool, last month, it was stated that it is proposed to runke an early start with the build- ing of a 27,000-on sister ship, which may be in commission by the end of 1031 or early in 1932. The suggest ed name of the vessel is Irelandic.
The appointment of Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani as president of the recently constituted opera for the preservation of the faith and the supply of new churches in Citizens of Boston, U.S.A.. have Rome" was followed by the pub- subscribed £10.000 towards the relication in the Osservatore Romano steration of Boston Stump, Lin- of the names of the other members. colnshire. Twenty thousand pounds The secretary-general is to be Mgr. had already been raised in two and Pietro Ercole, who is also to act half years for the restoration of ad interim as secretary of the the church, and the American quota section for the supply of churches. intercentenary birthday gift The secretary for the section for the from the daughter city in U.S.A. preservation of the faith is the Rev. The Stump-St. Botolph Church Giulio Bevilacqua, while the legal tower has 363 steps, and a beacon adviser is the Marquis Pacelli, brother.of the Cardinal Secretary was formerly lighted on it to warn ships entering the Wash. The first of State, who played a leading part foundation atone of the church was in the negotiations for the solution laid in 1309.
of the Roman question.
The campaign by Church and police to purify the New York stage met with an unexpected rebuff Inst month when the Grand Jury, after only 20 minutes' deliberation, threw out the indictment against Earl Carroll and three players in The Vanities of 1830 for obscenity. Police officers reproduced before the Grand Jury scenes which caused the revus to be raided. The Roman Catholic drive against objectionable plays has been reinforced by th heads of the Protestant Episcopal and the Jewish Churches in New
denounced plays
by the York. The publicity thus given to the Churches has had the effect of in- creasing their box office receipts. The Grand Jury action virtually rules out any hope of further police prosecutions.
Local Notes and Events ★
A. Chinese was charged before fr. Whyte-Smith with the unlawful possession 137 lottery tickets on the first floor of 394, Shanghai Street,
and was fined 850 or one month's
imprisonment.
It is reported that a Chinese magistrate and about thirty of bis followers were captured by bandits recently in the Hoyuen district. It is alleged that a ransom of 800,000 is being sought by the bandits.
Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen an iron support from the
That restriction of output would as synthetic activities in other John Ambulance Brigade begs to Malays, appeared before Mr. Whyte- Magistrate yesterday, he admitted
Club de Recreio football. ground but denying that he had a previous conviction, an unemployed Chinese was remanded when he ap- peared before Mr. Whyte-Smith a Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday. On his re-appearance before the that he had been sentenced before to they pleaded guilty to having stow for three weeks but he had forgotten
Kong on the 5.8. Glenbeg. They
sentence of four months' hard were found hiding on the shelter labour, the Magistrate told the deck one day after the ship had prisoner that he had been telling a left. Singapore. Defendants were deliberate lic. each fined $50, or one month's jail.
Gossop and Jöhnnie Ahab, two e-Smith at Kowloon Magistracy when
solve the problem is the opinion of many, and there will be disappoint ment at the news of the Anglo- ing influence for the development Brigade funds :-Tung Hing Knit- ed away from Singapore to Hong when that took place. In passing
Dutch decision. But the figures for the first half of this year show that falling off in consumption rather than increase in production has teen chiefly responsible for the refutes rapid deterioration in the statistical
century months' imprisonment by
-Mr.
Looking Back 25 Years."
and in all other. respecta pari ExcuANGE BUILDING, on TUESDAY, position. These figures of shipment Stepe, but from the knobs of coal, fendant admitted two convictions "Let's Go Places," Fox Movietone Tomes & Co." in Canton have com-
pass with the shares con stituting the Company's present issued capital.
(2) That such offer as aforesaid be made by notice specifying the number of new shares to which the member is entitled and luniting the time or times within which the offer if not accepted by the member either on behalf of such member or bis nominee will be deemed to be declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fx such respective times and to extend such times to such date or dates and upon such terms as they may think fit and farther that any the 50,000 Buy of sich shall not be taken
23LD SEPTEMBER, 1930, at 10.45 and consumption compare as follows A.M., for the purpose of receiving the with those for the first half of for instantaneous injection into the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, and re-electing,1929- Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 177H Lo 23AD SEPTEMBER, 1930, Both Days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
M. MANUK,
*Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1930. (9312
At the Crown Land Office yes terday, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2388, situated at Tang Choi Street, was sold to Mr. Lo Man Chuen for $43,100. The upset price was 841,100. The land has an area of about 20,550 square feet and its annual rental is $236.
How the talkies are made forme one of the interesting features of
singing and dancing whirl around Hollywood, now playing at the Queen's Theatre. The story is laid chiely in the film capital, and actual studio scence of the fiming of vocal pictures are incorporated in the story,
It is said that Messrs. Shewan,.
municated to the Consul General that rumours have been spreading in the city that the China Light and Power Co., Ltd., is an American concern because they are agents for the Company in Canton Conse quently some of the bad characters in the city have cut the electrio wires and destroyed some of the poles. The British Consul has sent despatch to Viceroy, Shum calling
THAT life can be created in a test tube has been claimed by biological chemiste, and now it appears that psychological attributes have chemical origin. How long it will be before laboratory creation of life will become as commonplace
The bon treasurer of the St. directions no man can say, but the chemist can now provide those who acknowledge with thanks the need it with the necessary stimulat- of the following donation of heroic aspirations and achieve ting Factory Co.-85 ments. Dr. JoHNSON used to say
Charged with the larceny of a that claret was liquor for boys,. port for men, but he who aspires clock valued at 2 from a house in to be a hero must drink brandy. Wai Ching Street, Kowloon, a Alas, the twentieth century chemist Chiness was sentenced to four
the eighteenth philosopher. Not from the luscious Whyte-Smith yesterday. The de- is extracted that heroic spirit which for larceny before. can be now supplied to order, ready trembling limbs of those unfortu nates whose adrenal glands are not 1930. 1920. Bo active as they should be. Shipments:-
Тень. Tons.
The secret was revealed a few Malaya
215,000 218,000 weeks ago by Mrs. M. G. ADAMS, Ceylon... 36,000 28,000 lecturer on biology at Cambridge, Dutch East Indies 125,000 122.000 who said it had been found that
Two songs will be featured in Other Easterd
when a man distinguished himself
"Caught Short," Metro-Goldwyn plantations 22,000
Mayer's new talking comedy, co- 23,000 in face of great danger or during Brazil and wild....11,500 14,000 a sudden crisis he was under the The death by drowning of a young starring Marie Dressler and Polly his attention to what has happen- influence of a eubstance called unknown Chinese girl was reported; Moran. I'm Spanish Now," aed.. Yesterday the Viceroy ordered 400,500 425,000 adrenolin, which flowed from the from the Un Long district over burlesque number sung by Miss the Prefect to issue & proclamation ndrenal gland into the blood. the week-end. The girl had fallen Dressler, was composed by. Dave informing the people that the "Heroes," said Mrs. ADAMS, are into a fish pond near the cracker Snell and Ray Egan. "Somebody," electric company is a British con- Consumption:
U.S.A.
220,000 200,000 simply people with enlarged adrenol factory at Un Long Market and sung by Charles Morton, is the work cern and a great many Chinese are United Kingdom. 32,500 31,500 glands. We found that when a cat was rescued by a Chinese and taken of Roy Turk and Fred Ahiert. also interested in the company; Other countries. 128,000 140,500 arched its back and spat fire when to the dispensary, but died fifteen "Caught Short will be the attrac-that in the beginning of this year tion at the Queen's Theatre from the company had made a contract a dog came along, it was due to minutes later.
Friday,
with the Chinese Government in 378,300, 441,000 the presence of this substance. We
which they have agreed to pay an also found, that if this stuff was In order to cffcet repairs and
A Chinese who was banished from annual royalty; that if the people. Thun while consumption exceeded put into the bloed of a cat parring overhaul to the transmitter, there production by 18,000 tons in the beside the fire the effect was, the will be no broadcast from Z. B.W. Hong Kong for ten years on August were to destroy any of the coin- first half of 1920, production exceed same as if a dog had arrived. This the Hong Kong Broadcasting Sta- 3, 1929, was charged, before. Mr. pany's property, they would be only adrenolim CEN be made in the tion, on Sunday next, September Whyte-Smith with having returned doing harm to their own country- ed consumption by no fewer than laboratory by the distillation of 14. The Station will therefore be to the Colony Inspector Marks men-Hong Kong Daily Press, 31,000 tons in the past six months. cool tar, so now we know what closed down, from 11.30 p.m. on informed the Magistrate that the September 8, 1905. These figures also appear to show heroes are made of
At the risk of -annoying the Saturday, the 13th to 11 p.m. Mon, man was arrested whilst sleeping! Looking Back 50 Years,
outside the door of 62, Shanghai We understand that no telegram that although the May tapping Editor of the China Fundamentalist day, the 15th.
Street. The banishes, who received was received from Manila about
Chinese shroff was previous conviction, was sentenced rities here. The only fatimation that the Business Hitherto ternal improvement in the situation lady's 'lecture, it is interesting to Before M. R. E Lindsell yes- ten months' and 20. strokes on his the recent typhoon by the autho new abarca constituting the OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN holiday could not produce any in-
with misappropriating to twelve months' hard labour and received was by a telegram to the Company's unissued capital be issued ut such time or times Carrie On br me under the Name of owing to the rapid decline in con-
No. 34,
Company, which arrived at twenty- in Auch manner and for anch "YEE BANG, FAT" at purposes and upon such terms QUEEN's Road CentraL which Presumption, it was probably reapon- control of nature and decreased our. $18.30, collected from two different ordered to receivo 24 strokes of the Eastern Extension and Telegraph ning minutes past five, and was im- said, "is only at the head of had been posing as a wizard.
We broke off these branches mediately coramunicated to the and conditions in every respect mises have been Recently Demolished sible for smaller shipments in the pride in ourselves. Man, she clients. It was stated that the man birch. as the Company's Board of sad upon the Bite of which the New first half of the year,
the animal creation, perhaps only amongst the superstitions fisherfolk Theatre of Tez CHINA EXTERTAINMENT Directors may decide
In London, there has been a de momentarily. I prefer to think of of Aberdeen village. Sentence of from a tree at the Yaumi Rail newspapers. The delay in ite trans GIVEN That the REGISTER of
and by come who represent British man not as a degenerated descend- four weeks hard labour was passed, way Station to decorate our shop mission would appear to have been NOTICE IS ALSO REBEBY & LAND INTENTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED
door Yesterday was our festival in Manila. Of course, it cannot ant from the gods but as respect MEMBERS of the Company will be
rubber companies for Government able relation of the ape? A hun- Harry Lauder without his songs day pleaded two Chinese When be expected that it is the duty of who captivated Whyte Snrith Kwon-Magionekorologisolmadinma for the SEPTEMBER, 1930, inclusive during
action Towns betioned by the dred-years-goa zen would need and his patter is still the same they were charged before Mr. a telegraph company to act as the
to have exceptionally enlarged Harry Lauder who which Period No Transfer of Shares
more hopeful that this would come adrenol glands in order to have the millions of hearts during his tours tracy yesterday with causing Colony; the duty clearly belongs about, and very soon not because courage to talk that way from a of the world. Huntingtower," damage to a tree. In imposing to the authorities. The public have,
public platform Nowadays, by a his first film venture, which is now strange cycle of circumstances, 15 18 showing at the Majestic Theatre the denial, of evolution which calls Kowloon, assured the famour stage for the administration of adrenolin comedian of a new success in motion
pictures. in large doses.
up
by the Company's share hulders in manner aforesaid be disposed of in such manner at such time or times and upon such terms as the Company's Directors shall in their absolute discretion see fit
(e) That no shareholder shall be entitled to claim for a fraction of an additional new share in respect of any odd share held by him.
(d) That the remaining 50,000
CLOSED from the 17TH to 23R
can be registered." Dated this 4th day of September, 1930,
By Order of the Board,
M. MANUK
Secretary,
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DRANT PROGRAMMES. and SEVENTH EXTRA BAGE MEET- ING to be held on SATURDAY, 27m SEPTEMBER, 1980 (Weather Permit ting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONG KONG CLUB, and CAUSE WAY BAY BTABLES,
Kutics CLOSE at 12 O'clock NOON on TELLESDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 1930.
NOTICE
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is being rected, has been wound up GIVEN that I havo 20 coporn with norm I connected in day way with the Business now carried on under the Name of BANG TAT" TAI FIN BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL But will not be responsible in any way for any of the liabilities of such business,
Dated this 6th day of September, 1950,
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER
I
OHANG FAT.
(9810
of any special consideration for shareholders in rubber companies, but because of fear of the economic consequences of a complete crash.
by further quotation from this
read the declaration by Mrs. ADAMS terdaq, à that science had increased our charged
*1
as of 810 on each man, the however, to thank the Eastern Ex Magistrate pointed out the extent tension Company for all news of of harm that would be done to the kind from Manila yet received. trees if people were allowed to Hong Kong Daily Press, Septem
ber, 1880 ng pangat resort to this practice.
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