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SANDAKAN LIGHT & POWER CO. (1922), LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIGHTH ORDINARY

YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the HEAD OFFICE of the Company, Br. Groner's BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, Visteria, Hong Kong. on MONDAY at 12 29TH DECEMi

EMBER, 1930,

O'CLOCK, NOON, for the purpose of recefring & Stateinent of Accounts and the Hejrt of the Directors for the. Year endeel 3 th Jan, 1990, and electing Directors and Auditors.

By Order of the Board,

BEEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hong Kong, 12th Dec, 1980.

One Bottling-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930,

by the Brewer, anti-cyclone remains station. ary and has increased slightly in intensity. Moderate monsoon will

at the Brewery

Whitbread's

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(Estab: 1742)

Finest

THE ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of TOE BOYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB will be held in the BOARD ROOM of Mressa. JAX- DINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hong Kong, on MONDAY, the 15TH of DECEMBER, 1930, at 5 30 P.M.

To receive from the Committes-a Report, Balance Sheet and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1930.

To consider and, if thought fit, pass' Luo following Resolution:-

From and after the 31st of Decom ber, 1930, the Bubscription of s playing member who uses all the Cub

息

coumes and Club houser shall be month. The Subscription of play ing member who does not so the courses or stay at the Club houses at Fanling shall be $5 a month. Prori. ded that if a member paying the latter subscription desires from time to time to me the said contus or stay at either Club house, he abail pay a green fee of $1 por day...

To alost Officers, Hembers of Com- mittee, and an Auditor for the ensuing year.

To decide on any Isolation which may be rabmitted to the cocoretary four days prior to the meeting.

And other Barinen.

By order of the Committee,

E. D. MATTHEWS, Lient. Cel,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 25th Nov, 1930.

It is requested that Nominations for Mombers of the Grueral. Com- mittee duly proposed and seconded way Trash the SECRETARY Not Later Than WEDNESDAY, TH DECEMBER. though. Nominations will be scorpted at the Meeting.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE

EXTRA HE THIRTEENTH

RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL- LEY on BATURDAY, 13TH DECEM BER, 1030, Commenting at 2 P.M. The First Boll will be Bung at 1.30 P.M.

MEMBERS' INCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladion must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

Badge will bo No One without a admitted to the Members' Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Endlostro and Olab

Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen

and $2,00 for Ladies, are .oh.

London

Stout.

Quality unequalled.

At Beer Prices,

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

Established 1841.

LAND FOR IMMEDIATE SALE,

ACANT LAND at EAAT POINT consisting of R.P. of I/Lot 149

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Very

despite personal feelings, que

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* News and Views

WEATHER REPORT.

According to the letter from H. E. within hail! How one misses them the Governor (Sir WILLIAM PEEL) on the home voyage when Aden is reached'; how one regrets their

For s Yesterday's weather report, fore.to the Colonial Secretary, which we absence oven in Londen! east and remarks, issued by the published yesterday, the number of short journey the ricksha is un Reya! Observatory at 3.30 p.m., registratiche up to June this your equalled for cheapness and con- venience. The ease of the man be Blated :-

tras been over 4,000. This is fairly tween the shafts is different, and, No Medical Student Shortage.

The statement in a Home Paper satisfactory, but it is difficult to

hope for the time when men who that at the hospital schools there explain the somewhat airy sugges should be tilling the fights or exeris "universal consternation" at the tion that the original estimate of cising the skill of a craftsman are very small number of male on-

en no longer waiting the minor con.trants for first-year courses far too high. It is much more likely venience of wealthier folk. For all only apply to the provinces if it that, the ricksha coolie's calling islas any truth in it at all. At the winds, to have been an under-estimate less demeaning than those much London hospitals there is no sort The fact that registration is the more profitable forms of work of anxiety. The number of on law, and the realisation that no whose reward is in the form of a trio at St Bartholomew's is up to tip. In such occupations the standard; King's is quite normal; legal control exists over the muitakings vary in accordance with St. Mary has actually a larger tani, may possibly act as a deter-skill in the arts of obsequiousness, number than usual. The London Hospital does not take first-year rent to prospective purchasers, but the system will die hard.

prevail along the Chius Conet and

over the N. China Sea.

Local Forecast: N.E. moderate; fine to cloudy.

a gon

20,000 mati tant in the Colony was

The reports suggest that there is still urgent need for activity

Government, for my renouns quite Ensy to understand, has never been very zealous in this matter. The magistrates convict in bad cases, but it is generally considered

The Sultanah of Johors,

who was Mrs Helen Wilson before The wife of the Sultan of Johore,

students.

Terror of Motorists Killed.

The notorious "bandit of Golair (lumania), who murdered four people in three days and has ter rorised motorista for weeks, has at lost been killed in battle with the Newspapers, report that palice. his head was, Bovered and brought to Bucharest in accordance with the ancient custom, while his body was handed over to relatives for (burial.

A V.O.'s Reverie.

A mao in a navy blue suit, man who still had a boyish alr about him was seen looking rather furtively at a tiny canvas rait at the Crystal Palace just before, the

BIRTHS. ARDRY-On December 8, at Shang

bai, to Livit. and Mrs. J. Angry of the French Defence Forte, a daughter, YVONNE.

Frensham Poad In Danger. Rix-On December 7, at Shang

The. Minister of Health has de- hai, Mr. and Mrs. C. BLIX by the Anti-Mui Tsni Steiets. The her recent marriage, accepted an (cided to hold an inquiry at the vil annual re-union dinner of the invitation to open a new Dockland lage hall, Grayshott, to the apoyal Naval Division. He was by Settlement hostel in the East End plication of the Alton Rural Dis-Lieut-colonel Freyberg V.C... and on December 17. It is stated that trict Council to borrow £12,000, for the bit of canvas was that

ashore at Gallipoli in the Sultan and Suttanuh intend the purpose of the storage of which he conveyed the flares when staying in London until next year, Grayshott and adjacent areas. The be swam and then proceed ko Jobre vid Farnham Rural District Council 1916 from a warship and contrived America, when the new Sultanah has resolved to oppose the appli- what the Turks thought was a Bri- will be crowned.

cation. Mr. W. W. Szlumper tish landing. The raft was one of stated at the meeting of the Farn the exhibits in a little muscunt ham Counell that the outfall works which had been arranged for their at "H.M.S. Crystal would be a Plaster Farm, and that reunion neighbouring stream, and thence first training ground. the effluent would flow into the Palace," which was the Division's

ад important amenity of into Frensham Fund, which was Farnham Rural District.

CHASE-On December 1, at Paris, and nine Barentzen) Gilbert, Chask, a son, FLEMING.At Victoria Hospital, Hong Kong, on December 19, 19:10, to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN FLEMING, 203, The Peak, a daughter (Marion), [10230 STOCKS.-On December 7, at Shang hai, to Mr. and Mre. C. W.

STOCKS, a son.

DEATH,

GRAY,On December 4. nt Sydney, N.S.W., WALTER GRAY, former ly of Shanghai, in his 48th

Insomnia.

the

wiser, not to interfere with, social custom, unless of a very outrageous nature. All Governments, in fact, tend to have a few of the charne

Sleeplessness is the bane of the teristics of a somewhat famous over-worked, and it is to be feared that Mr. Raasay MacDonald, wha historien character--Fontius Pilate, by nature is an easy alceper, has They eco what is right, and they in the last year been finding it try to do what is right, but when more and more difficult to banish the phantom of worry from his it comes to outraging local suscep pillow. Mr. MacDonald dors not tibilities and causing real trouble, possess the enviable faculty of Zenn Dare, who was touring in Napoleon and Gladstone for sleep. The First Mre. Fraser until she Mrs. WILLIAM FARNER and her then it is better to be circumspecting at odd moments; nor has he found the play involved in some family wish to tender their It in the people themselves who yet adopted the habit of the siesta argument over touring rights, had

n}} grateful thanks to

their must banish the mui tani system, habit which Mr. Churchill, int give up the part, with the con- friends for the many floral tri-

public men. The ato Lord Bal in "Other Men's Wives" in which butes and letter of condolence and by that we mean the enlighten is autobiography, urges upon all sequence that, she is now touring received, and for the sympathy ed Chiness of Hong Kong, four would regularly, retire. to his she plays the Fay Compton part extended to them in their heavy

room after luncheon, and possess with very great ality. bereavement.

year.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

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

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53. Fleet Street,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, DECEMBER 13, 1039.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MUI TSAI.

and B.P. I/Lot 781, having Areas For many years the Hong Kong of 4,730 and 10,947 Square Feuily Press has waged war on the respectively. The Late Suitable for CHINESE FLATS and mus tai system. It has taken the view that the mui taai is a slave, are Situated Closa to the MAIN ROAD,

For further particulars 'apply'

and that slavery is illegal, and intolerable in a British Colony. Time was when Europeans had their mi tai and exercised over them very much the same rights as the Chinese proprietor. That has

Property Office, JARDINE, MATHESON &Co., Lt. Joint Liquidators, CHINA SUGAR REFINING Co. lab.

(In Lionidation).

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long ago been put down. The niuž

tati system has never hud legal sanction, for slavery is against the common law of the British Empire. In England quite early in the 18th

tainable through the SECRETARY CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME century an escaped slave appealed

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* PEAK MÁNSJONA".

The Elder Dure,

Zen,

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LIV.E.R. The festive calf a-gambolling Beside its mother, is a thing

A charming picture! That long will to the memory cling, And you can calmly think of As in a restaurant you sit Without a stricture. Consuming liver, bit by bit,-

But otherwise, if it is pig. And if your appetite is vig- Orous, your helping big.

A charming picture Will dawn on mind's enquiring eye, When it recalls the fragrant sty

Without a stricture! Then lucky are you if you die

Jons WILLWYN..

It is to them that the appeal to abolish domestic slavery is madeed the gift of being able to sleep since returning to the stage two at any moment ho desired, Nor or three years ago, has settled No one denies that there are happy did he allow his slumbers to inter- down to the hard work of a tour. prezi teni, and that the system has fere with his public duties: Lord ng actress. She learns her job, good in it. If it had not it would Ralfour always woke up just in and does it. "Other Men's Wives”

has been a great success. tims. not survive. But it is liable to abuse, and to very great abuse." Ask a young Chinese if he would like to see his sister a mui trai and the negative will be vigorous. Perhaps the gravest danger arisce out of the coming of factories to Hong Kong and China. There has been child sweating in the Colony, and it is notorious that mui taai were so sweated. If there is some sort of defence of domestic slavery, there is none whatever of indus trial slavery. By industrial slavery is meant the gang labour that built the pyramids, and worked-the cotton plantations. It is easy to see how this form of horror could be installed in modern factories and mines.

Local Notes and Events ★

THE RICKSHA PULLER.

BLACK cheep appear in every fold, but

it is seldom indeed that

any fault can be found with our

local ricksha pullers.

The case

One death from typhoid was 10. ported during the 21 hours ended December 1.

A fatal accident occurred a board Sir Creil and Lady. Clementi have arrived in England from the 6. Tilawa, at the Kowloon Malaya. Their address for the Wharf on Thursday when a Chinese winter will be Sillingford Wharf, coolie was killed through a large-

wooden ehest of tea falling on him. Oxford. received many congratulations on

Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming have;

Among the calls to the Bar (In- the

Out of the seventeen joen arrest- the birth of a daughter, at

ed at Queen's Road West on Thursher Temple), on November 18 were Victoria Hospital yesterday morn

day, six were released by the police A. T. Tan, B.A., LLB, Christ's ing.

yesterday. During a search at the College, Cambridge, and H. Y. Yin Houng Tea House, where most Teh, Edinburgh University. Mr. of the arrests were made, over 2,000 Szeming 810 Jave a lecture on seditious circulars and a large red "Chinese Students in Great Bri flag were seized.

The Craigongower Cricket Club are holding a danes for members and their friend, commencing at 15 this evening. A string band will be in attendance:

Before Mr. Lindsell at the Con. A 69-year-old coolie was rushed tral Magistracy yesterday a driver

Lain" before the China Society at the School of Oriental Studies, or November 21.

A fine of $15,000 with the alter-

to the Kwong Wah Hospital yes of a motor lorry was charged with terday morning, after being knock-negligent driving. It was alleged native of one year's hard labour ed down by a 'bug on Saigon Road that the defendant drove his car was imposed by Mr. Lindsell at the round the corner of Bowen Road Centra! Magistracy yesterday on a and sustaining a broken leg.

on thy wrong side, and nearlyChinese who was charged with the came into collision with Mr. F. C. unlawful possession of 100 taels of Hall's car. The case was adjourn ron-Government opium. It was ed till Tuesday.

The total output of the Kailan Mining, Administration's mines for

the week ended November amounted to 128,858 tons, and the

sales, during the period to 144,592

concluded at the Central. Magis tracy on Thursday, in which two tons. pullers were convicted of robbing fare was, therefore, a very un- uuri ono. Not long ago the Kos

stated by the prosecuting officer that the epium was found cloverly A has been made to the concealed in the false bottom of a report hon taseter of Messte. trunk and also in two pillows Sang Les at Morrison Hill to the The defendant pleaded guilty and The Automobile Association an-

effect that while travelling in a said that he was taking the drug nual dinner-dance was held at the tramear from the Sincere Company to the Sandwich Islands. Peninsula Hotel last night. It was

to Happy Valley he had either

According to a police report, a friends, so the President of the three 810 notes, a deposit receipt highway robbery occurred at Tai

for 8500, and a shareholders' depo Roid on Thursday." It was. Association informed us...

stated that three men engaged" a posit, receipt for 84,500.

inator-car in Shanghai Street,

to the British Courts for his foon Magistrate said that he had a private affair for members and inst or had stolen from his pocket!

Members can obtain, upon application Six-rocmped & Fire-roomed Apartments forming the basis of the legal the SECRETALY, Badgce (Limited

to Twoj for the Fres Admission to the Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady Belatives and Friends. Names must be stated when applying.

On No. Pretext will Children be permitted in either Enalogars during the Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $1,00 for all. Fersons, Including Ladies, and is payable at the Gsto...

Boldiers and Sallors in Uniform aro admitted Half Prics,

Bookmakers, Tic Tac Mon, etc.,

will not be permitted to operate with.

in the Precincts of the Hoxo KoNo.

PRINCE EDWARD HOAD, KOWLOON,

Detached and Semi-detached Villar Modera Construction with Garage.

** CAMBAY BUILDINGS". Flats with Modern Convenience.

liberty. This was granted by an obscure judge of the King's Bench, and the decision is a standard one, position. In British colonics, not ably Jamaica, slavery continued well into the 19th century, but it

ended in the year 1834.

never Ind a ricksha puller charged before him with any disgraceful affair. There were occasional traffic

A chair-coolie was removed to the offences but nothing more. Hong Government Civil Hospital on Mr. A. Lawam; who arrived in stating that they wanted to go to Kang ricksha men are n festura of Thursday suffering from a stab the Colony yesterday, accompanied Fanling. When nour Taipo Shek, wound which, it is alleged, was by Mrs. Lawson, is joining, the ene of the men asked the driver to the Colony. Their keennere för a fare, their honesty and cheerfulness inflicted by another chair coolie in literary staff of the Daily Press. stop under the pretence that his and the physical finess which on-

the course of a fight at Aberdeen Mr. Lawson is a nephew of Colonel hat had blown oft. The driver

H. F. Murrow, Chairman of the prompty stopped, when, it is al ables them to maintain a jog-trot Street.

Hong Kong Daily Press, Ltd., and eged, the three men set upon him almost indefinitely, are all more There is, therefore, no legalised noticeable to visitors than to re-

a grandson of the founder of the and, after pushing him down the

Mr. and Mrs Lawson hillside, thoroughly searched, him. slavery in Hong Kong, and theresidents who take this fine body of

the... Bar- never has been. The purchaser men for granted. Most of them of A mui tai has no legal are up-country pensants who come

hero to make money: hold over the child. If she Presumably a-living can be got.of an Indian constably on duty at. likes to walk out of the house, or if her natural guardians, her parents, care to take her away, the owner" can do nothing. The

JOCKET OLUB during the Race Meeting. COMPREHENSIVE AND COM-system is based solely on social

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Secretary.

FOR SALE. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY. NLAND LOT No. 2580, PORFU.

ILAM ROAD

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5th December, 1030.

An attempt to commit suicide by an unemployed Chinese, who jump-" paper, ed off Blake Pier at 3 p.m. yester travelled out here day, has been reported to the pedon. Police.. But for an net of bravery

the pier, the unfortunate man would have lost his life.

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The Bishop of Victoria (the Looking Back 25 Years,"

As they were Innded froni tho 25. Since there is no falling off in

Right Revil. C. R. Dappuy, D.D.) and Mrs. Duppuy arrived in Hong Choy Sang on Saturday, the thir Kong yesterday by the ae. Sar teen new griffins imported for next the apply and they all look well nourished and decently elad.

As a result of a raid carried out pedon. Dr. Duppuy has been in year's raws did not have the Many, however, fall a victim to the gambling habit, and, having by Revenue officers at 201, Queen's England attending the Lambeth appearance of being able to provide come for a brief and profitable stay, ond Central, men appeared before Donference to which all bishop's much sport for & Hong Kong they end by making Hong Kong Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magis of the Anglican church were sum gathering. They were straggling custom. That is also the law of their home and ricksha pulling tracy yesterday charged with be moned Dr. Duppey and Mre looking mob, but a number of them the Chinese National Government. their career. In Kowloon the charge ing in unlawful possession of 470 Duppuy both look extremely well, had the fiery eye which bespeaks the time test at Shanhai, however, But social custom is stronger than of ricksha men as sack ferry drassa heroin pills and four mace of after a very smooth and enjoyable determination. They had all passed

The first defendant was voyage. in may be dangerous, but it is at opium,

therefore they must be up to the law in China and in Hong Kong.

least convenient to find a convey-fined 8380 and the second 83.

Fints totalling 830 were imposed usual standard; and within a The registration law of December, ance rushed to one's feet. The.

A Chinose cook, employed by the on a coal coolie by Mr. R. E. Lindmonth's time, says Mr. Gregg, they

yesterday, 1929, was the first real blow at the pullors know every Europe Wing Fat furniture shop at 48, sell

Defendant way will be unrecognizable.Hong sident, where he lives and, prob system. It was freely said that ably, all about him. Most of the Prince Edward Rond, was charg charged with speeding along Hen- Kong Daily Press, December 13, either the law would be a dead rickshas serve the ferry but others at the Kowloon Magistracy younessoy Road and with driving a 1905. Jetler, which the Government would have their regular pitches outside terday with stealing 84 from his lorry without permission. It was

European blocks of flats, and soon master. It was alleged that the stated that the lorry was being Looking Back 50 Years.

II.M.S. Curacao, 14, Captain W. make no attempt to enforce, or

after stealing the driven at 35 miles an hour. Ac are on terms of cheerful friendship defendant, that the ingenious Chinese mind with the occupants and, particular money, attempted to poison the cording to the police, the defendant H. Cuming, arrived in harbour A remand of three days was probably anxious to learn how yesterday morning from Singapore. would discover a dozen methode of iv. the children of the occupants. master.

fo drive and ho stole his employer's The Curacao is a scrow corvette of circumvention. Grave festa were They are great purveyors of news, was ordered.

£30 horse power and of 2,383 tons lorry for the purpose. from A resident recently returning

She is built of steel and iron, and. expressed that it active measured long leave at Home wae visited Due to unreliable evidence given)

Charges of possession of dutlable is a sister chip, and in every were taken to enforce registration, within two hours by the whole of by a Chinese Watchman in a case

her former domestlo staff. Ench in which a Chinese yesterday for tobacco, without the permission of respect similary built and armed sooner than comply even with so

one said "rieksha man talkes my stealing various articles, the Magis- the Baperintendent of Imports and to the Comus, being of the new simple a formality, canny Chinese one-time missie come back." trate acquitted the defendant. div. Exports, were preferred against class of corvette. She was oonimis: to The abolition of the ricksha is ing evidence the watchman and he won Chuen, 396, Shanghai Street, sloned. at Devonport on February would take their mui imi

often urged because

it is said that chased the defendant un the hill at the Kowloon Magistracy, yester 24 of the present year for service. Canton and there "dispose of the work is derogatory to the and had biin arrested. When cross day. Mr. J. M. d'Amade Rome in, the Clung command, and has them." A more familiar contention dignity of man. There are two examined, the watchman admiticu dios, who appnered for the defen been stationed for some timo past why that the mui tear would become poftus of view the rich pullarla that beeson after the defendant asked for the case to be ad. at Singapore, doing duty there as

and his, fare's Despite the ardant and that all he did was to journed till Friday, the 1018 h the Southsign for t vent of the 'busca few of us would hold a lamp while search was tant, and in doing so Mr. Butters Settlements-Hong Kong Daily

fixed bail for defendant at 85,000. Press, December 13, 1880. like the prospect of no risksha made by others for the thief.

the adopted daughter and there

the matter would end.