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" NOTICE. *The Attention of all Persons in possession of Firearms is drawIL TO Section 4 of the Ammi and Am- munition Amendment Ordinance, 1949 (No. 32 of 1999). This Section rescinds the exemption previousl given to Public Officers, Justices the Peace, Sp,cial Jerors, Barris- ters Solicitors, Medical Practi- tioners, Clergy and others. FormE of Application for Arma Licences can be obtained on application at the Arms Office, Polico Headquar tars. Licences are renewable on January at of each year.

Licences will not be renewed to parsons who have failed to attend at the Police Revolver Ra go, Bowen Road, to pass a Preliminary Revol ver Courie, to satisfy the Inspector. General of Police that such Licence Holders are Bocustomed to the un of firearms. The Range is open for practices and tests every WED- 5.30 NESDAY EVENING between F.M. and 7.30 P.M. Arms Licences Holders must provide their own Bumunition for use at the Police Range"

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

Pthe Sale by Public Auction to

be held on MONDAY, the 29TH DAT of SEPTEMBER, 1930, st 8 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department. by Order of HIS EXCELLECT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Lai Chi Kek, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE Kino, for one further term of 24 years less three days.

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

New Kowloon loland Registry No. Lot No. 1408. Weat of New Kowlony

nland Lot No. 1130, Lai Chi Kok,

Locality.

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NOTICE.

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KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

THEAN the ROWLOON FOOT HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET BALL CLUB will be held in the Chus PAVILION at 6 P.M. on TUESDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1880.

By Order of the Committee,

JAMES SMITH,

Hon. Secretary.

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Our friend--

THE DOG.

be kind to him and keep

him fit!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT.

from $60 pence on the London market to 37.4 pence, its purchasing.

Yesterday's weather report, fore-power parity actually recorded a cast and remarks, issued by the Reyal Observatory at 3.30, p. stuted:

The anti-cyclong has increased in intensity.". Depressions remain to the north of Tokyo and the east

of Tourane.

Local Forecast:-- N.E. winds,

The "QUORN" fresh, cloudy; ocencional rain,

DOG REMEDIES

CONDITION AND TONIC POWDER They cool the blood, remove all impurities and act as a tonic to the whole system

Price: 80 Cents Per Box.

SKIN OINTMENT 75 Cents per Tin.

WORM POWDERS

Box. 80 Cents per

TIC LOTION (Parasitin) $1.25 per Bottle.

most effective and quite harmless

WATSON'S

DOG SOAP Keeps the skin healthy, prevents mange and other skin diseases. 1.00 per Large Tablet.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS:

A. S. WATSON

BIRTHS. HUCHES.-On September 19, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A J. HUGHES, & daughter. ISOBEL STRATHEARN. POOLM-On September 17,at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs W. F: POOLE, & 801. TRENCHARD Davis.-On September 16, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. TRENCHARD DAVIS, a

decline Erom a premiunt of 84 per cent to that of 76 per cent relating to 1915 as 100 per cent..

*News and Views

The Russian Ambassadar Dov- galewski has been instructed by the Soviet Government to lodge a pro- test with the French Foreign Office against the recent miliary parade

It is officially announced Garmany has recognized the Argentine Government.

At the Building Exhibition open. ed at London Olympia, last week a special feature is made of the means and material for excluding the noise of modern traffic. Sir Banister Fletcher, the President of the In. stitute of British Architects, speak ing at the opening ceremony, said that that British architects were devot

ing much attention to the method' of noise absorption."

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Ivar Kranger, the Swedish match

During a bull fight at Prebla, of former Russian officers and men king, after lengthy negotiations Mexico, the stands collapsed under for the tomb of the Unknown with the general manager of the the weight of the crowd of specta Soldier at Paris when the Russians Bank of International Settlemente tors. Two persons were killed and appeared fully armed, in their uni-at Geneva, has agreed to co-operate 40 were injured. forms and with other military with in fosting for Spain, But paraphernalia and banners. The garia, Rumania and certain other. The Committee appointed by the Ambassador was also instructed to countries large loans for their Government to consider proposals declare that the Soviet Government economic and financial rehabilita for the construction of a ship canal would welcome an assurance on the tion, such loans to be guaranteed between the Forth and the Clyde part of the French authorities that sad administrated by the Bank for estimate the cost of such a canal measures would be taken against a International Settlements. repetition of auch an ocgironee.

Again in 1990, while the average price of silver rose from 37 to 31.5 peace, its purchasing power parity actually recorded a decline from a premium of 21 per cent. to that of 8 per cent, Dr. He believes his studies justify the conclusion that "if we confine our observations to the prices of silver alone, we could hardly know exactly how much its real value fluctuates from time to time. Dr. Ho's charts, covering the period from 1833 to July, 1930, reveal, however, that the fluctuas

Twelvo Arabs have been commit. tions in the purchasing power of

ted for trial at the Central silver are very great, with conse-

Criminal Court, London, for com quent disruption of Chinese trade.plicity in the recent ricts at Cardiff. The value of silver (purchasing powor) has declined more or less steadily since 1881, when the 1926 15, at Shanghai, LILA, daugh dollar was worth 83.81, the highest The ter of Dr. and Mrs. J. P. figure during the century." STORMAN, of McClellanville,

year 1890 was the inst in which the S.C., U.S.A., to PATRICK CROSBY, son of the late J. C dollar exceeded 200 in purchasing and Mrs. GILMORE, of Clifton, power, and in 1915, the purchasing Bristol, England.

power dropped below a dollar to HENRY-EDNIE.-On September 19, at Shanghai, Joas, eldest son of the late ROBERT HENRY and of Mra HENRY, Edinburgh, to MARION HELEN WRIGHT, Younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER EDSIE, Edin- .burgh.

800.

MARRIAGES.

GILMORE-STROMAN-On September

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DEATHS. CAMPBELL-On September 16, at Shanghai, MARY CAMPBELL, widow of DAVID CAMPBELA. MANCINI-On September 17, in San Paulo, Brazil, as the result of a motor accident, CARLOS. MANCINI.

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THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY

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SOCIETY.

MEETING will be-bald in the City NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

HALL on FRIDAY, 26th SEPTEM BER, at 5.45 P.M. for, the purpose of adopting they Report and Accounta 1999/30, Election of Office Bearers, etc.

E. M. BHYDEN, ".

Joint Bon. Secretary. [9864

that the ANNUAL GENERAL

3 CHARMING CHINESE CALENDARS for 1931.

They cannot be duplicated elsewhere because thought out for you by the Press they were of KELLY & WALSH.

CHINESE JUNK CALENDAR

Illustrating 6 water-colour reproductions of Chinese Junks tastefully mounted on bevelled boards. Decorated with silk tassels.

CHINESE LANTERN CALENDAR

A true design of a Chinese Lantern in rich colours with peacock illustration. Adorned with silk tassels.

CHINESE ROMANTIC GINGER

JAR CALENDAR

An assemblage of the colourful splendour of the Oriental Bamboo Hanger, ilk tassels," pompoms, glass beads, silk cords, all blended in perfect harmony. With a facsimile in beautiful blue of this famous jar which realised £5,000 when sold.

$2 Each. All Boxed and Ready For Mailing. $2.

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

rporated Hong Kong);

HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.

A NEW ANGLE ON SILVER.

97 cents

The woll-known German author, Emil Ludwig,, announces that he is working on a new drama to be

amed "Versailles."

nt £50,000,000 and consider that the expenditure would not be justified by the results obtainable. Sir Ian Hamilton condemns the report 'as lacking in courage.

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The Hotel de Reservoir at Ver Two English women, Miss Belcher sailies, which is one of the most The Polish Press, carries reporta from foscow to the effect that the and Miss Budgell have arrived at famous in the world, is shortly to Cairo after motoring from Cape be pulled down to make way for a Politbureau has opened & campaign

town, 6,300 kilometres, without a block of luxury apartmenta The against Lenin's widow, Madame on a burst tyre und will proposal is subjected to heavy op- Krupskaya, who in a recent pam-

their way position in the Paris Press. phlet on Lenin's attitude towards leave by boat for Italy the agricultural problem severely to London. While in the desert and present 150 kilometres from any inhabited criticized the Soviet's agricultural policy and the collce place their car caught fire but they tivisation drive.

Pravda soon put it out, said to demand the unqualified, time. withdrawal of the pamphlet by

Madame Krupskaya.

£rst for the Although the actual price of silver almost tripled between 1915 and 1920, its purchasing power rose only from 07 cents to $1.91. It dropped below a dollar again in 1927, and has remained below since.

The

Mr. H. G. Williams, a junior Minister in the last Conservative: Government, has declared that safe guarding will be a dominant issue at the next election.

What practically amounts to a state of siege has been declared in THE ROMANCE OF QUININE. Warsaw following the trade union

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The Lord Mayor of London with the Lady Mayoress, and a large party have been visiting Sweden and Denmark in civic state this month.

Cordial speeches emphasizing the existing friendly relations between Turkey and Persia were exchanged at Teheran on the occasion of the new Turkish Ambassador presenting his credentials to the Shah. It was declaration of a 24 hours general announced that both Governments strike in protest against the arrest would co-operate in military opera of a large number of prominent tions along the border. public mien belonging to the opposi

tion.

In order to counteract the growth ing with the end of the harvesting of unemployment in Italy coincid- season, the Ministry of Labour has instructed the provincial authorities to promote road-building and other Public works which have already absorbed 80,000 previously unem played people..

During manoeuvres at Catterick, which were temporarily suspended by heavy rainfall, the soldiers put. on bathing kit and forming a living chain waded into a flooded river to rescue sheep which were in danger of being drowned by the torrent.

Recetly Mr. V. G. Standring climbeu the Wetterhorn by a new route up the abrupt north wall, wearing rope soled shoes. The feat is regarded by Alpinists as excep~~ for climbers is up by the west face tionally daring, as the usual route. or by the east flank.

Tacss unlucky people who have to take their little daily dose of

With the exception of the St. Kilda has now been complete quinine may be interested to know tramwaye and the municipal works ly evacuated under Government in that while this year is the thirty-the strike is being generally obstructions, and the tenants on the third anniversary of the discovery served. Mounted police equipped island have been settled on the of the malaria "germ cycle, it is with carbires are patrolling the mainland of Scotland.

strikere streets, dispersing the

The Moscow authorities have de also both the 300th anniversary of wherever they stand around it

monument in Sir Gerald du Maurier has made cided to erect the discovery of the most important groups.

memory of the great explorer and his first appearance in a talkie film humanitarian, Fritjof Nansen, who in the production of Mr. Gals did so much to save the starving worthy's ""Escape": "Escape" was not a sucess as a stage play, but the are enthusiastic masses in Russia after the war. of marble from the Urals which will about its presentation as a talkie. The statue will stand on bruge blocs London erities look like blocs of ice thus recalling Nansen's Arctic exploration work.

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to descend 400 feet. It was stated

cure for malaria, quinine, and the Sir Hamilton Harty has publicly anniversary, hundred years ago condemned the British Broadcast this summer, of the birth of Siring Corporation's musical policy as CLEMENTS

MARKHAM, who trans unfairly competing with private enterprise. planted the cinchona plant from

Last month the Chancery Court Former King Ferdinand has re- Peru to India and made that had been an expensive febrifuge avail turned to Soña from Germany

Circles close to the Wagner fami- in London refused to extend the where he had spent most of his time i able for the poorest ryct. in exile since the end of the warly state that the famous conductor, time-limit of patents relating to powder from cinchona bark was when he abdicated in favour of his Alberto Toscanini, has decided to the Iron Man," a huge meta used for the first time to cure fever eldest son, Boris. It is understood live in Bayreuth as a spiritual ad diving suit which enables a diver in 1830, the patient being the that King Boris and the governministrator of the work of Richard corregidor of Loxa, Dor FRANCISCO ment sanctioned the return of the Wagner and his son Siegfried who LOPEZ DE FANIZARES. Eight years former King with the stipulation died a few weeks ago, liter he sent a parcel of it to the tha he would refrain from all inter- Countess of Chinchona, wife of the ference with polics and would live Viceroy of Peru, who was suffering a retired life. froin ague. LINNAEUS intended to

The French Government has de. name, the tree after the Countess, but, hearing of her from a foreign cided to recognize the new Govern source, used "cinchons," an error meat of Peru. At the same time, the French Government announces which has persisted since.

that it will recognize the new Gor ernment of Argentina.

ENCOURAGING information for mer chants engaged in trade with China has been supplied by Dr. FRANKLIN Ho, China's leading statistician, from a study of the price of silver during the past century, as com-

The bark was made known in pared with commodity prices dur-Europe by specimens of it which the Countess brought home, and ing the same period. Dr. Hd, who which were diffused by the Jesuits. is Director of the Economic, Re- The first effort to transplant the cinchona from its native habitat search Bureau at Nankai Univer- was made in 1743 by the French sity, Tientsin, claims to have dis- botanist, LA CONDAMINE, who lost. covered that the decline in silver his specimens in the Amazon, after prices, while serious enough, is not preserving them for eight months; JUSSYED, after Afteen years' labori- to disastrous in the effects upon ous work, was robbed of his collec trade as is generally believed, betion because a native thought that the box containing them, being so cause silver prices do not reveal closely guarded, must have gold in the actual purchasing power of the it. The loss deprived the botanist

metal.

of his rensen. By the middle of the last century the trees in Peru had been cut down so indis criminately that quinice was sell ing at 208. an ounce, and in the East thousands died yearly for the lack of it. CLEMENTS MARKHAM, in 1860 a clerk in the India Office, who had been to Peru previously, sug gested another effort at transplanta tion, and he was appointed head of a small expedition in which his principal assistant was the cele. brated botanist, Senvce,

on

Thirty bays left London August 29 for New Zealand under i the New Zealand Sheepowners' Training Scheme, Fund Farm founded as a memorial to the ser vices of British seamen during the War in keeping the eas clear for

duce. the transport of New Zealand pro-

paratus the Admiralty have got to

a depth of 344 feet, and round the British Isles 300 feet was all that. was necessary.

that with the ordinary rubber ap

A homing pigeon few through the bedroom window of a house in Derby Boad, Southport, and laid an egg or the dressing table, The rest it flow away again. bird was given a feed, and after a

Local Notes and Events

The attention of all persons in possession of firearms is drawn to an official announcement in regard to arins licences appearing elae where in our columns.

The following cases of notifiable diseases occurred in the Colony during the week ended September 20Diphtheria, 2; enteric fever, 5 (3 deaths); influenza, 1 death. For the 24 hours ended September 22 there was one death from typhoid fever.

elderly Chinese received severe injuries in a fall from the third floor of a house at Chung Hing Street, in the Central district, He is removed at yesterday. once to hospital, but died an hour later."

Describing himself as a member of the Yu Woo Ling firm, a Chinese boarded the a.s. Cheong Shing and obtained delivery of merchandise valued at $1,776. A report has been made to the police,

At the Central Magistracy yes- terday, Mr. G. Gee was fined $5 an obstruction in for causing he parked his car between the Pedder Street. It was stated that white lines opposite the Hong Kong Hotel, thus blocking the passage'

A reward of $250 is being offered by the police for information which will lead to the arrest and convic- tion of the person, who, on Sep- tember 4 murdered a bakery fokz named Lam Tsci, aged 22. The body of the murdered man found near Chai Wan village, near the junction of the Stanley and Shek O Roada

which is kept clear lor pedestrians, that "Bio Aer, who declares

The Chinese, who was charged with the larceny of $12,300 from a money changer, again appeared before Mr. R. E Lindselt at the Magistracy yesterday Central Complainant's son, who was in Court,, asked his Worship to dis charge the defendant so that be According to a police report, a family living at 1094, Canton Road, could explain certain items in re Kowloon, is believed to have taken spect of a sum of $3,000, poisonous fungis in mistake for Magistrate, however, said that he edible mushrooms. A woman and could not discharge the defendant three sous, it was stated, were and remanded him for another three seized with pains soon after a meal, days. and were later removed to hospital; their condition is not serious.

The

"Reporters are plentiful at the Central Theatre these days, accord ing to the

the all-talking. all-musical Radio Pictures? extra vaganza, featuring Bebe Daniels and John Boles, has broken all re- corda lor, attendance at the house. Much of the romantic operetta of the Rio Grande country was filed in technicolour,

Looking Back 25 Years.

The Chinese statistician bas worked out an ingenious method for discovering, the actual purchasing power parity of silver, which is more important from the trader's point of view than the price of the metal. He has fixed an index of purchasing power by comparing the index of silver price with the index of wholesale prices in Eng.

It was absolutely necessary not land, which correspond roughly to let the natives know what he with those in China. The relation was doing, but he quickly found

his intentions were suspected, 80 ship between these indices is obtain instead of waiting till the seeds ed in the form of percentage. In ripened, he decided to get what be

About 350 coalies returned from July 1930, for example, the index could quickly. Even so, he met with, several adventures. A hut number of silver price was 55 (18ried departure from one village

South Africa by the Catherine last week They will be quartered compared with 100-for 1928), and saved him from arrest, and from

Park, which vessel, arrived in port in the old Laichikok Camp until the index number of commodity another he got away by virtue of a

timely flourish of his revolver

The American Consulate-General the vessel is ready to proceed on prices was 18. Expressed in perioaded with hopelessly damp am

tas received instructions from the ber voyage north.-Hong Kong centages, therefore, 72 indicates the munition. When at last he got the

A report has been made to the Department of State of the Ameri- Daily Prem, September 25, 1905. actual purchasing power.

plants to the shore he heard that

can Government to issue gratis Looking Back 6 Years the boatman who was to convey police by Capt. P. Abbo, of the

Although the Colony of Hong Dr. Ho's tables are encouraging them to the ship had been bribed s.. Tjikembang, that Netherlande passport visas to British subjects for traders, because they indicate a to pour boiling water on them. Indies and Japanese money, the domiciled in the Colony of Hong Kong may not have much to boas better condition than simple com-Nevertheless, MAUKEAM Always said equivalent of $2,12 in local cur- Kong who are not immigrants, and of in a general way, it may fairly that it was with the full permis rency, was stolen from his cabin who desire temporarily to visit the be congratulated upon the posses parisons of the price of silver would sion of the Peruvian Government on Sunday night. A Japancao Philippine Islands from Hong Kong.sion of such a dock as Aberdeen. indicate Between the years 1956 that he took the plants, because member of the crew is suspected. This authorization has been made and ach facilities as are afforded and 1030, for example, the actual he was not allowed to put them on of the theft and police investiga on the understanding that the by the Hong Kong and Whampoa British Consul General in Manila Dock Company On Monday morn does not require passport visas for ing last her Majesty's ship Iron price of silver dropped more than board till he had interviewed tions are proceeding

Minister. Grown at Kew, they yield 50 per cent, but during the same ed seeds which were sown in the Sentences of six weeks hard Philippine citizens or American Duke came out of the Aberdeen pering the purchasing power, which Neilgherry Hills, India. The plan labour each was passed on two citizens who are proceeding on a dock, after having had the damage tations were bringing in a revenue Chinese who were convicted of theft temporary visit to Hong Kong. made good which the ship hall suɛ-. is more important, dropped little to the Government of thousands of electric wire from the Kowloon Gratis passport vins will, there-tained through being run, upon a more than 25 per cent. Dr. Ho year by 1880, and twenty years Docka. Sergeant. Marriott said that fore, be issued to British subjects reef in Japanese waters in July is not a genuine measure of the of quinine to a few pence per oz bont was lying alongside the deck Kong temporarily visiting the been thoroughly dons a week under points out that the price of silver of to reduce the price on Funday alongside the Romic temporarily been to the work upon her has The total cost of the expedition was when its lights suddenly went out. Philippine Islands, long as the stipulated time. We say fuctuation of the silver market, 28001 MALKHAM died in 1916 and Lujuries subsequently showed that Philippine citizens and American thoroughly done, because the work and in "some years is entirely de lies in Kensal Green Cemetery. At length of the boat's wiring had citizens are not required to present could not have been better done

bust of him is outside the home of been cut. Detectives were put on British visas from Manila, or if so in any naval yard in England. ceptive. He says that in 1880, in the Royal Geographical Society, in

watch the following night, and tins, required, are issued gratis visas for Hong Kong Daily Press, September resulted in the azrest of two men, the purpose of visiting Hong Kong. 24, 1880. fact, while the price of silver rose Kensington Gore!