1931-01-24 — Page 6

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL

*... SOCIETY.

ANNUAL

SHOW

TFLOWERS AD VEGETABLES

will be held at the CITY HALL on THURSDAY, 26TH FEBRUARY, 1981. ENTRIES 1. Dofinitely OLOSE at NOON on THURSDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1931, at the HON. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, but it is hoped that Intending Babibitors will sond in their Entrian as Early as possible.

J. T. BAGRAM.

Hon. Boerntary, 11, Queen's Road, Contral.

1238

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

COMPANIES (WINDING UP),

No 8 or 1928.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCES 191-1918,

AND

Pilsner

Urquell

The original and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

for the Colony-it has made us realize the dollar's tremendous pur- Yesterdaye weather report, fore-chasing power locally. There is a east and remarks, issued by the wide field for coonomic development Royal Observatory at pin Hong Kong, and a still larger stated.—N

ia Kowloon and the New Ter ritories. This development may be hastened by the present slump in silver, and the sooner this comes about the better for all of us.

The anti-cyclone over N. China has strengthened. The depression is moving eastward and is now central to the north of Tokyo. Moderate to fresh monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China. Sea,

Local Forecast:-N.E. winds,

only genuine moderate; fine to cloudy.

PILSNER

BEER.

of the MUNICIPAL BREWERY, founded in Pilsen 1842.

IN THE MATTER OF TER BUSSO On Sale at all the principal

ASIATIC BANK.

NOTICE OF INTENDED SUPPLE. MENTARY DIVIDEND.

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

Hotels, Restaurants and Clubs in Great Britain and

BIRTHS. VANTORURIN-On January 18, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. G. VANTCHURIN, a daughter. BARRACLOUGH-On January 18, at Shanghai, to MARGERY, wife of E. S. BARNACLODGя, a daughter.

'MARRIAGES.

H.M.S. LUCIA-WHO WAS

TO BLAME?

many.

*News and Views *

Italy's New Bola!

Food for Legal Wita. Thomarriage of King Boris of The Government has produced ite Bulgaria and Princess Giovanna | Tradea Disputes Bill in a form of Italy is no without political calculated to fit it for the battle significance. Italy has become of legal wits which its discussion sincerely reconciled to her ancient will inevitably become. Sir Wil unemies. Her relations with Ger- liam Jowitt will be in charge of it, Austria, Hungary, BulLord Hailsham has been appointed garia and Turkey are more than to provide ammunition for the re earnest they are cordial. She has sistance of the Conservative opposi.. become "the protestor of the States tion, while Mr. Norman Birkett, mutilated by the Panco. Treaties, the famous Liberal K.C., skirmish and the claims of Hungary and ing on the flanks of both the arinics, Bulgaria are based, above all, on

will have a good deal to say. The layman must hopefully await the. exposition of those exports; for in their present shape he cannot pos sibly understand the Government's

THE British Navy holds a warm pince in the hearts of all English people, except, of course, a fow ex- pacifists like Mr. PHILIP SNOWDEN,Italian support. who returns a sour "no" to any suggestion for improved pay, pan-Robbed in the Fog.

While walking across Richmond sions and allowances for officers and

Golf Club course nt Petersham GARD TIPTON.On January 17, at One mustallmit, however, during a dense fog. Arthur Frost

men. Shanghai, LAURA Aoxes, drugh- ter of L. HANSARD GABR, to that in these days of economic (50), caddie umster of the club, proposals without a great deal of

was attacked and robbed of a bag labour, WILLIAM HENRY TIPTON, of stress, officera and men enjoy a

containing £38-the day's takings Tipton, Staffordshire,

security and a standard of living "I board a sound behind me," said No Rush of Men.

Are men beginning to fight MOINTYRE-KUDLITSKAYA-On Jan that should make their profession Mr. Frost. Then an old lime

uary 17, at Shanghai, Mra attractive, Work is strenuous and sack was thrown over my head, shy of the dry drudgery at NINA KUOLITSKAYA to ERIC Mo

I got the sack off my head and the there are vacancies in England INTYRE, of the Public Works competition for advancement is and I was knocked down. "When the desk's dead wood!" Although in alerical occupations with op Department, Shanghai Muni keen, but, on the other hand, it is lime out of my eyes, I saw two

of promotion-men cipal Council..

possible for those who cannot ex-figures disappearing into the fog. portunities pect continuous promotion to obtain 1 rushed back to the club house acem to be ignoring this sphere A case in point is and telephoned for the police, but of work.

furnished by the General Pur- poses Committee of the Lewisham no trace was found of the men."

Borough Council. Only eight ap plied for a vacancy, as male short- hand typist at £3 a week, and only one possessed the requisite quali- fications, for new entrants to the municipal service. The Committee 15accordingly recommends inviting ap the plications for the vacancy from

women as well as men.

that it is intended to declare on the Continent--and in Editorial and Business Offices: 12 technical knowledge which will

& Supplementary Dividend in the above matter, and Creditors, WHO HAVE all NOT ALREADY DONE 80, are required on or before the TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF MARCH 1931, to send their Names and Addresses, and particulars of their Debts or Claims and the Namos and Addressora of their Solicitors, if any, to the UNDERSIGNED, the Liquidator of the said Bank, and are also by their Solicitors or

Persons rod

come in and prove their said Debts or Claims at the Office of the OFFICIAL RECEIVER, SUPREME COURT, on any

•Wook Day (except Baturday). between the hours of 10 AM. and 4 FM, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution mado before such Delite are provod.

Dated the 23rd day of January 1931

83. . L. AGASSIZ, Oficial Receiver and Liquidator of the RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.

NOTICE.

235

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTIOODWIN

COMPANY, LIMITED, bare bon for SOLE AGENTS Appointed MESSES. JAMES BUCHANAN & Whisky COMPANY. LIMITED. Distillers, for HONG KONG and SOUTH CITINA. JAMES BUCHANAN & CO., LTD.. B. C. GUY,

Far Eastern Supervisor.

NOTICE.

British Colonies including Hong Kong.

Demand and insist on

having it !

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA':

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

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

'E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JANUARY 24, 1931.

THE AMAZING DOLLAR.

ONE very important and far-reach- ing effect of the fall in exchange in Hong Kong is that we are being forced, in spite of ourselves, to

enable them to make good in civil life,

++

Old Masters for a Mess of Pottage. Three old master paintings valued at £60,000, reputed to have bo acquired for two chickens and a loaf of bread, have been found

Ozo

Pensions are carned while men are still young, for in the Navy an early start is made, and there are very few places for those uver forty. Much of the old, semi-at Zawiercie, Poland. skilled work, such as stoking the Rembrandt's "Christ Before

Dyck's "Miser," and the third is furnaces, has been superseded and High Priest," the second ia Van- the ratings of to-day are highly Coreggio's, "Madonna," painted on tin and which, according to the skilled and well-educated artisans

experts who discovered and identif and mechanics. In a naval ported the paintings was finished at the like Hong Kong we all know. from personal experience the fine quality of the British naval personnel. It is seldom, indeed, that a naval rating is in trouble ashore, and, taken all round, a finer body of men does not exist.

For that reason one is the more

A. S. WATSON &AM• adopt a much lower standard of puzzled by an incident like that of

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED 90 YEARS.

!

The last big naval living, and we are beginning to the Lucia. realise the purchasing price of our court-martials, those in connection local dollar, not in-so-far as its with the Royal Oak, affairs, were worth in shillings and pence is con- understandable." A ship's company, cerned but as regards its buying including the brilliant captain and power locally. The very common commander, both, representative of assertion that the dollar-paid the new, scientific navy, fell foul worker can purchase in these days of a cholerie old salt of earlier of the shilling dollar only one-half tradition. There was so much that of what he could when exchange was human, so much of comedy in ara Reminded that was at two shillings cannot be main the whole affair, that one could afford to smile and to remark that these things must happen in an age of transition. It was all a little reminiscent of certain scenes from

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

OWNERS

ENTRIES for the ANNUAL RACE MEETING must be in the tained. [226

Hands of the SECRETARY on or Before SATURDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1991, at a P.M.

By Order,

IS HEREBY GIVEN

C. B. BROWN, Secretary.

NOTICE MERE DODWELL & Hong Kong, 20th Jan., '931.

COMPANY, LIMITED, have been AGENTS for Appointed OLE MEDIES. TANQUEBAY GORDON & COMPANY, LIMITED, London, Gin Distillers, for HONG KONG and SOUTH CHINA.

TANQUERAT GORDON & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

[297

same time as Coreggio's famous picturo, Ecce Homo," The pic turos ate now the property of a schoolmaster, who bought them for £19 from the village shopkeeper, who, in turn, bought them from a ponsant. The peasant, thinking the paintings to be Holy Ikons, obtain ed them from a famished soldier during the war for two chickens and a loaf.

World Broadcasts from Soviet

Russia.

According to the official Izvestia, plans have been completed for the construction of powerful wireless stations in important contres in the component republics of the Soviet Union. It is proposed to erect 11 stations of 100 kilowatts the construction of which is to be and 38 stations of 10 kilowatts, finished by the end of the Five- Year Plan Plans have also been 500-kilowatt station at Noginak, prepared for the construction of a It is true, indeed, that

near Moscow, to which will be add- the prices of imported goods from

ed a short-wave 60 kilowatt station. abroad have been doubled, but there

Roth stations, according to Isvestia, ing. No such powerful stations have beens few big increases in the

are destined for world broadcast exist either in Europe or in necessities of life, all of which can

America. The total cost of the new be procured or produced locally In the Lucia, however, according stations is estimated at 90,000,000. [820 or in near-by China. As the price to the sparse enble news, a number roubles (nominally £8,000,000). At of imported goods, which, in the of men refused to obey a perfectly present the finishing touches are bo ing given to the new wireless past, we were accustomed to use, normal and routine order. The only station of 75 to 100 kilowatte, at increases as the value of the dollar hint of the source of the trouble Kolpino, near Leningrad, which decreases, we are being forced more lies in the cross-examination of will begin functioning at the end

of the present month. and more to use local or Chinese one of the officers. He admitted products, and it is amazing what that the ship had, previously been a happy one, but strenuously denied our much-slandered dollar can do.

Take food for example. We can that he had been harrying the men still buy a pound of fresh meat for or was responsible for the change. 35 cents, mution and pork for 45 The fact remains that someone must

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

and Now

ANNUAL RACE MEETING. 2811 FEBRUARY, 2nd, 3rd, 4tu and 7 MARCH, 1931. DRAFT PROGRAMMES ENTRY FORMS OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Now bare been appointed Roudy and may be obtained upon

Mes Application to the SECRETARY. AGENTS for BOLE

Entries CLOSE on SATURDAY, JAMES BUCHANAN & COMPANY LIMITED, Whisky Distillers, for 24TH JANUARY, 1981. Hone Kora and South CHINA.

Hong Kong, 10$ Jam, 1931. DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

[248

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that we have been Appointed SOLE AGENTS for MissS, TAN- QUERAY GORDON & COMPANY. MIMITED, London, Chin Distillers, for Hoxe Koxa and SOUTH CHINA.

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

TONICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN

N°

CYMDEITHAS DEWI SANT,

HONG KONG

THE

"The Middle Watch."

cents, milk for 18 cents a bottle; have been to bisme. We believe that vegetables and fruit at a few cents the old "bad hat--n'th class for a cattic. We can get a decent house conduct and n'th class for leave," [11 in a good locality for round about is no longer tolerated. He, with a hundred dollars-£o-a month. his bag and his hammock, is "put on the beach.". In the close quar- If we go to a Chinese bazaar, we can purchase at amazingly low ters of a warship it is still true prices locally-made ar Canton-made that one senior officer can upset a cloth, woollen or cotton, not indeed whole ship. It is not suggested as good as the Manchester or that the officer in question was to Bradford products, but serviceable blame. He said he was not. The enough Locally-made shoes of Chi- history of the pre-war fleet recalls nose leather cost á quarter or a certain hard nuts, who adopted the sixth of the price of the imported manners of a circus ring-master. variety. Good felt bais made in A naval Leeky would, indeed, find Kowloon City are more and more material for a History of Naval ousting the expensive article from Martinets," though by 1914 the abroad. Cotton and artificial silk worst examples.could be counted on

(ST. DAVID'S: SOCIETY,

HONG KONG

ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held in the Office of the HONG KONG GENERAT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (CHA TERED BANK BUILDING) on MONDAY, All Persons of Welsh Nationality

26ra JANUARY, 1931, at 5.15 P.M

are invited to attend.

E, R. PRICE,

Hon. Becretary,

that the Bunnors DONNEL Hong Kong, 23rd Jan, 1931. LEY & WHYTE, Wins, Spirit and

General Merchants, har boen transferred

to MESSES, DODWELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, as from JANUARY 1er, 1931.

ESTATE OF L. M. WHITE, DEOD.

A RITORIE, CA, Administrator,

[930

AGATE CUTTERS. EYSEE, RUDOLF, Hauptstrasse 154, IDAR/NAKE GERMANY. OUTTER of Bemi-precious Stoner. REAL STONE NECKLETS Caps. Fancy Out Goods Rough, Stones Boughts

1281

—

The "Baver in Chief's" Weakness.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Local.

-༔

Week-end wireless programme.

Page a Dr. S. W. To presented the prizes at Yaumati Government School yesterday.

Page 4. The public examination. of a Chinese debtor was closed at the Bankruptcy Court yesterday.

Page 6. Four Chinese newspapers were concerned in summonses brought by

the S.C.A. for, alleged evasion of the censor in connection with certain articles on the strike in Victoria Page 0. Gaol,

Shipping Intelligence.. Page 13.

Sport.

Details of local week-end sport.

Page: 8..

Home Football Cup and League programine.

H.K.C.C. Tennis Doubles draw.

Page 8. Tournament Page 8.

Jock Crichton and Harry. Ewin. weight championship of the Colony. are to fight again for the middle- Page 8..

·

Arrangements have been complct- ed for the four-ball match between I. W. Shewan and O. E. C. Marton, two of the Colony's leading players, and Wild Bill" Mehlhorn and Bobby Cruickshank at Fanling on Sunday. Full details of the game "Page 8. will be found on

Latest Cables.

The funeral of Muhamed Ali took place at Jerusalem yesterday.

Page 7. At the inquest on the death of Baroness de Pidoll at Shanghai a Page 7. verdict of suicide was returned.

The Shanghai Municipal Comcil has approved of a scheme to cope with the armed gangster meance at Shanghai by means of wireless acts: and a street telephone service.

Major-General J. E B. Seely, Chairman of the National Savings Movement, made this confession: when he addressed the Head masters' Conference at Cheltenham, "I was made chairman of the movement four and a half years ago. I suppose that they wanted me to be at the bend as an awful example. Though I have tried to do it, I have never saved a penny in my life. At the same time, I have learned what a wonderful

The opinion is expressed in movement it is. Ita oaults have Sydney that the 10 per cent, re- been astonishing. On January 7 we duction in the Federal awards will are going to celebrate the fact that stimulate trade, lower the cost of the thousand-millionth-certificate living and increase employment Pago 7 has been purchased. I shall present within a month... this certificate to the King."

Guilty Party and Special Licence.

Tho rule of

:

Savings Certificates.

Page 7.

The Archbishop of Canterbury

Evidence that the Savings Cer- Lificate is growing in popularity will not issue a special licence for respondent, and co-respondent in among the classes for whom it was the marriage in hospital of the recent divorce case, the Church, it is stated, is not to primarily intended as an invest- suity party, and the Archbishop National Savings Committee for assist in the remarriage of the ment, is given in the report of the is within his rights in refusing his assistance here. In ordinary prac the year ended March 31 lust. tice few people think it worth while Marked increases in the sales of

view, matter. Whon they are refused the certificates of lower denominations, to battle with the Church over this single certificates and of multiple religious ceremony they simply be are recorded, "In our take themselves to a register office. states the report, "this shows that But in this case that alternative those people who are able to save is not open to the parties. The in these difficult times are becom Registrar, it would seem, has no ing increasingly aware of the im- power to perform the civil cere. portance of making some provision mony outside his own office, and for the future." The total num- the co-respondent is so gravely ill ber of certificates sold was 52,623,D50

previous year... moved from hospital. that he cannot without risk be as compared with 52,342,210 the

Local Notes and Events ★

For the 24 hours ended January there were 2, cases of typhoid lever and 1 case of diphtheria,

A Chinees who was charged be years was identified with Hong Kong. The statue has been made fore Mr. E. H. Williams yesterday to the order of the Hong Kong and with the unlawfunl possession of a Shanghai Banking Corporation, quantity of dutiable tobacco was, and is to be erected on the Bank's property facing Des Voeux Road. The motor tanker Utrecht which fined $25 or three weeks' imprison. The beautifully polished granite arrived here from Tamarui on ment. Appearing for the prosecu pedestal on which the statue is to Thursday afternoon has made a ré- tion, R. O. Grimmitt said that "a stand will soon be in position. On the front panel of this is inscribed port to the Harbour Office to the big hulking brute" like defendant "Sir Thomas Jackson. Knighted effect that she passed a derelict junk

a Baronet 1002.: with her stern showing. She warn should not go about smuggling but 1890, erested

Joined the Hong Kong and Shang- red three other vessels and requested do some honest work.

hai Banking Corporation 1860; appointed Chief Manager 1878; re them to inform the Harbour Office.

A Chinese who was discharged) tired 1009," Prince Arthur of Among passengers aboard the 8.8. from prison only two days ago, was Connaught will probably unveil the Malwa, which is expected hero next brought before Mr. H. L. Butters statue-Hong Kong Daily Press, week, are Lieut.-Commander and yesterday when he was charged with January 24, 1000, Lady Mary Burton, who are booked having in his possession a tape- to Hong Kong. Bit James and Lady measure valued at 82. The man Looking Back 50 Years, Broom, and Sir John Simpson. Sir told the Court that he picked the mixture socka, produced by the tens the fingers. Such men once had John is on a three months” tour to article up, but was fined 850 with

Hong Kong and the East..

the alternative of one month in gool.

At the Criminal Sexcons yester day Mr. Doral of Mera Hughes and Legge's office, was called on. the jury and also Mr. Legge. The of thousands by local factories, can their uses, but they were a heavy

The Empress of Asin has been

latter gentleman asked to be excuse bo obtained for 30 cents. a pair, cross to their subordinates. In these

Six robbers made a raid on theed, one gentleman from his alco and are now being exported to days the tradition. of NELSON, who delayed by fog outside Shanghai,

and it is expected she will not be first floor of 41, Feel Street, shortly having been endled alreatly. His post captain led a narable to leave that port until noon after one o'clock on Thursday after Lordship, acting on the usual rule, London and New York Women'a as a CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME silk stockings, to masculine eyes young midshipman over the rigging to-day (January 24) for Hong naan but the plucky resistance by excused Mr. Legge, and requested. no whit inferior to the much more is the need. The Admiralty, know Kong. It is not now possible for the women inmates of the premises Mr. Sangster to stato how the jury expensive · imported article, are all about the officers of the Fleet. the Empress of Asia to arrive bore frustrated their attempt and the was drawn. Mr. Sangster explain-

on Sunday, and she is now due to intruders bolted, leaving behind

the ballot box: being turned out in Hong Kong There is no question of unwittingly reach Hong Kong at noon, January them a toy pistol and two ironed that the names of all the jurors

bars. The Police arrived subsero put in

at the beginning of the year And many of the cities in China, giving employment to a martinet 20,

quently and carried out investiga- and at each sessions the num tions,

ber required were drawn by the and are being shipped abroad. who should ke on half-pay. There Lis an abundance at efficient officere

Sheriff and the Registrar," and

ORIENT.

MORTGAGE BANK AND EorarE ADENTR

"PEAK MANSIONS," Bix-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, KOWLOON,

Detached and Bemi-detached Villas Modern Construction with Garage,

"CAMBAY BUILDINGS" Sials with Modern Convenience.

"products"

more économical to use.

Chan Kin Ying, a Chinese woman,

WHO

would be well if My Lords paid the Government Civil Hospital on Looking Back 25 Years.

the year intil the remaining names Hong Kong can never be entirely particular attention to "peculiarity Thursday, suffering from the h is It has long been known locally were exhausted. The system follow-

of some kind of poison which

ed was this as fair for one, as eclf-supporting, but the low dollar of temperament," when considering believed to have boen self-adminis- that a statue was to be erected to and the resultant need for economy the candidates for appointments tered Her condition was then re-perpetuate the memory of Sir another, Hong Kong Daily Press,

Thomas Jackso who for many January 24, 1881. ported as serious. has done at least one good thing and promotions.