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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

The Mellowness of

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

Great Age-

THE ANNUAL MEETING 1 to be with a fragrant bouquet, THE at 5.18 P.M. at the CITY HALL

on 80ru DECEMBER

14 is carnestly bopod that all Mem- bern will attend.

Those wishing to become Members will be welcome and are requested to eign a List that will be at the Door.

NOTICE.

a genial flavour

Doze that warms the heart-

8 From the 8TH INSTANT Our OBeer will be Located on the

7ru FLOOR of CHINA BUILDING.

HONGKONG AMERICAN TRADING CO

Docomber 30th, 1930,

(10201

such is

Dewar's l

FANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB, & rare old

FW

NEW YEAR'S DAY POINT-TO-

POINT MEET, at POTTS".

BUNGALOW at 3 P.M.

NOTICE

[10300

WING to the Increased Cost of

Imported Coal, which is the

Principal Item in the Company's

SCOTCH

WHISKY

Operations, and to an Increase in White

Wages due to the Higher Cost of

Living. We are compelled To Increase

Our Ubarges by 10 Per Cent, From

18r JANUARY NZIT

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS

'Co., LTD,,

WEST POINT.

BANK. HOLIDAYS.

[10288

Accordance with Ordinance No. b

will be CLOSED for the TRANSAC TION of PUBLIC BUSINESS on THURSDAY, 1er of JANUARY, 193) (NEW YEAR'S DAY).

Hong Kong, 24th Dec., 1980. [10294

KOWLOON-CANTON

RAILWAY,

BRITIS' SKCTION.

NOTICE.

IS HEBEBY THE PUBLIC

NOTIFIED that On and From the 167 JANUARY, 1931, All Local And Joint Bectional Fares on This -Railway will be Revised.

The NEW SCALE OF FARES may be Seen at any Local Hallway

By Order,

Station

ROBERT BAKER, Manager and Chief Engineer. Kowloon, 29th Dec., 1930.

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UNION WATER BOAT CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the REGISTER OF

and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY DECEMBER 30, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5pm stated:-

DEATH.

SILTA-On December 30, 1830, at 12.20 .m., at 17, Jordon Road, Kowloon, Mrs. FILOMENA FON- BECA DA SILVA.” aged 88 years. (Shanghai, Maeno and Manila papers please copy)... (741

WHEN CHINA WAS

AWAKENING..

★ News and Views ⋆

Albino Patridge Shot,

| Learn to Run a Tenshop..

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

In a shooting expedition in the There is very little the LC.C. Local. north of Transdanubia a completels Education Department is not pre- been living with a covey of ordinary latest offer of instruction in rande Sessions on charges alleging t white partridge was bagged. It bad | pared to teach the Londoner and its brown birds.

...

Montorg

Three men are on, trial at the

to, the girl to whom the office and tempted arson at Wing Lok Street. typewriten do not appeal. Why not

Page 7 run a ten shop says the L.C.C. |--At Central Magistracy, yesterday, Education Department; we will Mrs. Jestina Maria, Xavier was teach you how. The coures, in ten charged with the attempted murder shop and restaurant management, of Mr. Alfred Joseph Monton. the only one of its kind, is on the

Page syllabus of the Girls' Trade School

Mr. M. K. Le made an applica at Clapham just opened. It is tion of appeal on behalf of a

which includea one-year course, practical work, book-keeping and Chinese interpreter who was cen arithmetic, physical training-bevicted for obtaining money by false

Page 0 cause a tea shop girl must be phy. pretences. sically fit and hold herself well and The eighth ordinary yearly meet- attractively and French, because, ing of the Sandakan Light & Power presumably, there is always French Co. (1999), Ltd. was held at the Company's Head OfBoo at St. George's Building yesterday. on the best menus!

views, and though, Victoria Gaol may have its disadvanages one isn't shut off from street noises and con- tnet with one's fellows, and if you do get out of this there is always The anti-cyclone over: 8.E.. Mon sporting chance-hundreds of golia has increased in intensity.tenement houses are near at hand The V-shaped depression is moving for inconspicuous refuge There is Therd and is nas central.to.theie tune of a new prison becoming south of Tokyo. The monsoon will freshen along the B.E. Const of popular, even if a little more rice China and over the China Sea. is allowed per diem, The change Boys Who Gained In Weight.

Local Forecast:-N. winds, fresh-cannot be made in a hurry, but it An experiment in feeding Scor ening; fine at first; doudy later. is good to know that His EXCEL tish school children has had as LENCY believes in the utmost ex-tonishing results, according to Mr. Tom Johnston, Under-Secretary for pedition."

Scotland Boys of 11 who were fed with 1-pint of milk daily for four months increased in weight by 12 az, a week-double the normai,

Brides Must Be Punctual.

In Paris war has been declared A Revised edition has been publish on brides who arrive late for their weddings. Cardinal Verdier, Arch ed of Mr. PAUL KING's fascinating bishop of Paris, has instructed all volume "In the Chinese Customs priests to wait 15 minutes, and then Service,” which, was first produced whether the bride is present or not.

to go on with the nuptial Mass, Adonis.

The Humphroys Estate and Fin- Mr. Thomas Chadbourne, the by Mesara, T. Fisher Unwin in 1924. Cardinal Verdier says: "Marriage famous American millionaire law-aboo Co., Ltd., at a extraordinary It is a personal record of forty-is a sacred institution, into which yer, now in Europe in connection general meeting yesterday, adopted. one must go well prepared. It is with a sugar conference is describa solution to increase its capital Page 6 ed as not a fashion show."

the handsomest man in America, Tho handsomest man in Three men were charged before the British Army was long consider the Central Magistrate With the To ensure that his clothes willed to be Colonel Eben Pike, of the unlawful possession of a quantity be property pressed in the London Grenadier Guards and as regards of morphia. They were arrested in manner, the Prince of Bhopal, who the Navy, Lord Beatty would winn Chinese restaurant with the con- is at present in London, is contem- plenty of support. If he is not the traband in their possession, and plating installing a steam press in handsomest man in Egnland it is after hearing to opening for the his Indian palace Two of his long, time since we have had a prosecution, the defendants were re- Page 5. native valets are taking lessons in better looking Prime Minister than manded for a week.

MacDonald. A list of the art of steam pressing at the England's possibles" would in-

Shipping Intelligence, Page 10. Duke-street shop of a firm of clean clude Lord Cholmondeley, Bunny

To-day's wireless programme.

Page era. They are being instructed by an operator who spent nine years Austin, the lawn tennis player.. in the East and speaks Hindustani James Pryde, the artist, the Duke of Westminster, Lord Sefton, Sir John Martin Harvey and the Binbop of St. Albans,

Editorial and Business Offices: 11,

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Tel. 24611

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Street,

London Office: 53, Fleet

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, DECEMBER 30, 1930.

Steam Press for a Prince.

Great Contract for English Firm.

Bevon yours in China, covering a period that began well back in the Imperial days and ended with China in the throes of civil war and, apparently, hopeless disorder. Mr. KING was first appointed to Swatow in 1874, and draws a very vivid picture of the social life there and in Kiukiang, whence bo bad been transferred on account of " the "THE UTMOST EXPEDITION! exigencies of the Service neces sitating," a favourite euphemism Label is the settled conviction" of

ol the Inspector-General, Sir II.E. the GOVERNOR "that the ROBERT HART. Kiukiang in the late whole establishment (e, Victoria 'seventies was still a tea-port, and Ltd., the great electrical engineer- Messrs. Crompton, Parkinson, Gael) must be moved to building among the tasters who paid punualing company, of Guiseley, have of a more modern design in more visits were ARCHIBALD LITTLE and secured an order for more than 1,800 satisfactory surroundings." Hrs H. T. WARE, the "Father" of land), Ltd. The order is one of the

electrical motors from Ford (Eng EXCELLENCY concluded his remarks Shanghai cricket. After a brief largest of its kind ever placed in on this subject at yesterday's meet-

spell at Chefeo, where Mr. KiNG England. The motors will be used in the Ford works at Dagenham, ing of the Legislative Council by met Chinese GORDON," the author Essex, and it is hoped that the work saying that he proposed to "press was transferred to the London will keep hundreds of men in steady on to this end with the utmost office, at that time in charge of Mr. employment throughout the winter. expedition at my command." Sir JAxes DUNCAN CAMPBELL, who held ROUNDEL OF SAINT WILLIAM PELL's speech, in fact, bears out the main criticism levelled at the prison administration of the Colony. It is not disputed that Victoria Gaol is too small for its

Victoria

(de Luxe).

BOLE AGENTS:

Vat

A. S. WATSON & Co., purpose and that its surroundings

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MEROHANTH.

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

A will be held in the GREAT

are most unsuitable. The convicta ! are able to keep some sort of touch with the outside world, segregation in difficult, and short sentence men make easy contact with the prison ers in for long terms of punishment A serious stabbing affair and a gaol strike within the space of a month are expressions of the present state The misapprehension created by the fact that there had

MEETING of GRADUATES of affairs. HALL of the UNIVERSITY at 5.15

23rd December, 1930.

STANLEY V. BOXER, Asting Registrar,

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2

the post of Non-Resident Secretary continuously from 1814 until his death in 1907. The author "bad the good luck" to serve two terms with him as his Chief, and eventual-

AUGUSTINE'S OAK.

I stand, as 1. for centuries, have

stood,

And watch the evolution of the

Land

"

The Aldine Trust Company, with closed its doors yesterday. Page resources amounting to £1,800,000,

The British motor ship Eleanor Joan, a sister-ship of the Audrey B., which was captured by Ameri can coastguards last week, has been captured by constguarda." The ves sol is alleged to have $170,000 worth of liquor on board. Page 9.

lynt in his chair" during the From out the curried monarchs of to be issued at any moment.

troublous years from 1014 to 1920, immediately prior to his retirement. In 1883 Mr. Kiro was transferred to Shanghai. Here he introduced

A

the wood, And, sturdier than them all,

I stand.

At me, the woodman stays de structive hand:

my hood' The great Augustine and his

priestly band.

the boxing-ring to the gymnasium, For mine it was to shelter 'nenth and mention is made of CHARLIE HOLLIDAY, the Shanghai champion,

.

and good Obey the only Master's high

Cornmand,

and GORDON of the Rosetta, known in And now I pray that all men true the fleet as the "F. & O. slogger." From thenes he went to Ticntein as Senior Assistant to Commissioner And sink their differences in Severn

flood; GUSTAV DETRING, "a man to whom

For union of warring creeds the Tientsin community should have

stand. Brooted a statue." In 1900 he was

Jon WILLWYN. appointed Commisssioner at Can- ton.. Tho. author's two terms of service in the South provide the

The National Government issued In mandate officially promulgaling the 1931 Import Tariff Schedule, but the date of its enforcement is not mentioned. Another Mandate giv ing further particulars is expected

Page 2). The London Daily Mail gives pro- minence to a statement by Dr. Elliot Smith that the fossilised skull of the Peiping an," re- cently discovered at: Choukoutien, undoubtedly represents the "most" primitive type of human being ever discovered."

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Two Russians were sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined $1,000 each for conducting á and their nine Russian assistants public gaming house, at, Shanghai, were sentenced to two months' im 7prisonment and fined $100 each. There were tearful scenes ht the close of the trial.

Sport.