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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

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URING the Abroace of the Undersigned Mr. H. A ROD. GERS will not an Becretary to the Company,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

L B. GREENHILL,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 10th Fab, 031.

PENINSULA HOTEL.

FRIDAY, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1981. FRIDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1931.

PATRONS are Notified that NO

DINNER DANCE will be. held at the above Hotel on-FRI- "DAY, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1991, and FRIDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1981.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAT HOTELS, LTD.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY

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...' CONCERN. -

ALEXANDER OAIRD

I, INGLIS, Master of S. 8.

"SEISTAN," hereby give notice that

I hereby expressly Withdraw all and every authority which I may at any

time have given to any person to Contract for me or in my name or as my agent or in any way pledge my credit.

If any one attempts to contract for me or to pledge my credit, reference should be mudo at once to my

Solicitors, Meisrs. WILKINSON & GRIST, er to me if I ara in port.

Dated this 16th day of Feb., 1981 A. O INGLIS

NOTICE.

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HE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

THE

CO (1918), LTD., beg to notify their Consumers that, owing to alterations in the Generating Station, the supply of Electricity will not be available betweon the Hours of 8 A.M. and 8. A,M, on TUESDAY, the 17TH FEBRUARY, 1931.

SHEWAN, TOMES CO, General Managers.

Hong Kong, 12th Feb., 1931.

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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND), NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a THIRD INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING Per Bharo on account of the Financial Year ending MARCH, 1931,

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FASHION

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Leading

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A. S. WATSON &

Co., LTD.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT."

Yesterday's weather, report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the

loyal Observatory, stated:

Local Forecast: N.E. winds, moderate; fair at drat; drizzle and mist later.

BIRTH.

DHAKE-On February 10, at Shang bai, to Mr. and Mra. O, W DRAKE," A. BOT..

*News and Views *

"It will be interesting to see the reaction of the Chiness, people to the new deorce. It is an axiom of. statecraft that interference with An anti-cyclone is central to the religion and custom is dangerous, north of Peiping and a depression.but China has known so much Fonder Agafa! |

A Veteran Dlos in the Field ncor Nagasaki, Moderate, monsoon along the SE. Coast of China and change in the last two decades that Mr. P. G. H. Fender was last Sir Richard Cruise, surgeon month unanimouslý, re-elected cap- oculist to the King, was riding his over the N. China Sen.

the common people may well, fortain of Surrey County Cricket well-known horse, War Gratuity, the sake of peace and quiet, submit Club for the coming season. The with the Warwickshire Hunt pent to the will of the Government. It general committee which made the Banbury, when the animal collapsed is unlikely that men will be readyppointment decided upon Mr. M. and died. After about 40 minutes JO. Allom as vice-captain. Mr. min, the hunt followers woro going to fight and womun to suffer for H. D. G. Levosan-Gower, the pre-over a ploughed field when Sir their New Year rites. Should. Can-sident of the club, who was in the Richard felt that the horse was ton be visited by a calamity in the the general wish of the sub-com-stood by the animal as it died. He dismounted and chair, told the meeting that it was giving up.. near future no doubt the older mittec, who had been considering Although 18 years old and a horse heads will say that the devils who the question of the captaincy, that that had a silver tube in its throat were not driven out and the gods Mr. Fender should continue in who had not been propitiated aro exacting vengeance.

We hope there will be no such tragio coincidence. But young China, the Chinn of reform and Westernisation, is not likely to be stayed even by fortui tous happenings. So many things have gone, though they find endured through the ages, that Chinese New Year may well be transposed, in alightly different form, to the date when Scotland keepe Hogmanay, and most of Europe is holding the revelry that England enjoys six days earlier.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

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

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London Office: 83, Fleet Street,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 17, 1931.

CHINESE NEW YEAR.

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Jano's Legacy.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Judgmunt of the Chief Justice in. the Sze Yap Steamship Company nction.

Page 5. Calendar for the February Criminal Sessions v oh will open. on Thursday.

Pago 5.

To-day's wireless programme."

to assist its breathing, War Sport.

Gratuity won many point-to-point steeplechases against horses much younger. The animal was known all over the world: Sir Richard bought the horse with his war service gratuity, and was deeply attached to it.

Nathan Straus Passes

Devonshire in 1830-in the days when that lovely county was really remote--is the actting of "Jane's Legacy," the new Eden Phillpotts comedy which is proving a success at the Duchess Theatre London. The play is in the best Eden. Mr. Nathan Straus, probably the Phillpotts' tradition, which made test known philanthropist in the "The Farmer's Wife" and "Yellow United States, died at his New Sands" two of the most popular York home after a brief illacas He comedies of the last few years. was eight two years of age, Nathan "Jane's Legacy" is the most frosh-Straus went to the United States ly-entertaining play in London.

First Night Audiences.

IP the orders of Nanking were SHANGHAI-MANILA FLIGHT. week after week, are to be seen

carried out it must have been

BROPHY ARRIVES AT. KAI TÁCK · FROM MACAO,

Mr. G. W. Brophy, the L. E. Gale & Co., aviator, who is on a flight from Shanghai to Manila, arrived at Ka Tack Aerodrome yesterday afternoon from Macao Mr.

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It is sometimes supposed that a first-night audience in London nover varich that at each theatre, the same merchant prince, the same monocled civil servant, tha bearded wig-maker, the same morose critics, and the same hys- terical gallery girls. This is not the case. A first-night audience at, say, the Lyric Theatre, Hammer- smith, in as different from ano nt Hie Majesty's though not noces sarily Iesa "distinguished"as homespun is from silk, or as the audience at any rocent Cochran premiere from that which attended the opening performance of "The Song of the Drum."

Mr. Birrall at 81.`

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