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ADVERTISEMENTS

THE CREAT. NORTBREN

TELEGRAPH

COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION. AUSTRALASIA

AND CHINA TELEGRAPH

COMPANY, LIMITED:

HONG KONG, STATION,

TELEGRAMS FOK AMOY

AND FOOCHOW.

Owing to direct cable communica tion with Amoy and Foochow having. been closed by The Chinese Telegraph Administration telegrams for theso

hai and Chinese landlines at following increased rates;

Plain Obinese L

PERFUMES

OF

FASHION

....20 Cents

By the

Foreign & Chinese code, 40

F.V. JENSEN,

Superintendent

S. LACK,

Superintendent,

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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS,

LIMITED..

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

that the RDINARY TEARLY GENERAL MEETING or HONG KONG TRAMWAY, LIMITED, wil bs held at the Offices of Mekens. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., 1m, Hong Kong, FRIDAY. the 27TH DAY of FEBRUARY. 1931, at 12 O'cloox NOUN, to transact, the Ordinary Business of the Company.

AND NOTICE 18 HRKEDY ALSÓ GIVEN that the HEGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLONED from FRIDAY: the 15, to FRIDAY, the 27TH FEBRUARY, 1931, Both Days inclusive..

By Order of the Board,

W. F. S'MMONS, Secretary

Hong Kong, 0th Feb., 193'.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE

CO., LTD.

(360

TOTICE IS HERFRY GIVEN

NOT

that the SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held on WEDNES

DAY, the 11TH DAY of MRCH. 1931,

at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, Bebond Flor. EXCHANGE BUILDING, at 1190 AM. for the Bong Kong,

Sistemezt of purpose of ra eiving Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the Financial Year ended 318 DECEMBER, 1930, and Telesting Two Directors and the Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4rn to the 11TH MARCH, 03, Bath Days indusive,

Dated this 11h day of Feb., 19:1.

By Order of the Board,

W. L MOVENZIE,

Becretary.

14, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

NOTICE.

HONG KONG ENGINEERING & - CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

PPLICATIÓN has been waic to this Company to issue to Ma YEUNG JU TUNO, Duplicate Certificate for 30 Shares in this Com- pany numbered 78886 to 79885, or ather Certificate in liou thereof upon intement that the Original Certificate No. 555, dated 8th NOVEMBER, 1922, has been. LOST or MISLAID.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, if, at the Expiration of One Month from the Date hereof, the above Certificate be not forthcoming

GOARH MOPDOHN

Leading

Makers

DERON

Hopaнodke

DOHN AOROCH

A. S.

MARBHAAHO

WATSON

Co., LTD.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore" east and remarks, issued by the Roval Observatory at 5.22 p.m. stated:

"

*News and Views *

Flowery!

Householder: How did you get int

Burglar Through the drawin room, window.

Good heavens, then you've rain

my tulip bodi

It is easy to understand the im patience of Messrs. MAXTON, KI wood and the other extrémists They want to see the banks, mines, tailways and assurance com panies nationalised, the game laws An anti-cyclone is central to thetho Army, Navy and Beotland and capital pantalument abolished, north of the lower Yangtze Valley Yard disbanded, and the old laga Frosh monsoon along the S.Ein Dartmoor act at liberty. They Coast of Chius and over the N. would, tlso democratize" the China Sea., TH

public schools and universities, Local Forecast North to north abolish titles, and perhaps, readjust onst winds, fresh; overcast rainy the judiciary. But none of thesed and misty.

things has happened because there are steady men in the Labour The Empress of Britain." Party, who can see grave objections to any of these courece, the chief of which is that the country has no GIBBON.-On January 8, CHARLOTTE wish for them. But Labour will STRUART HOWIE, beloved wife of not lightly put aside its halo of ADAM GMBON (formerly Coloniexceptional virtue in things poli- al Veterinary Surgeon), 3 tical It will continue to make Wigtown Road. Newton promises, and to declare that So Stewart, Scotland. [383 cinliam is its policy, and under Socinium all will he well. In spite

DEATH,

of

the

vehement protestations British people only see the usual

The Brilifant Failure,

Editorial out Business Offices: 1 spectacle of mediocre men doing ship was launched by H.R.H. the crning class, and wils sent to Etun

Ice House Street. Tel. 30981.)

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.D BARIER

Shipping Intelligence.

Sport.

Pago Page

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Page

Page

Local cricket results. Local football results. Shanghai soccer tourists scored

Page: 8.. Annant sports of Hong Kong University

Page 0.

Night Editor (Wanchai (co): except, perbaja," a Small section of and she will make her first voyage castle and became president of their second victors on Saturday,

their best, and, no one benefiting Tel. 24511.

trade unionists who are already London Ofice: 53, Fleer 8tract, well provided for The very or dinary naturf Mr. RAMDAY MAC DONALD'S Government has been made apparent during the last year and a half

H.O. 4

The Daily Press.

How comes it that the brillinut · The Rev.. E. "Az Armstrong was AuCousste of school or university the speaker at the first of the fail so frequently, to make good in Lanton Services yesterday at tho after life Is it that their en- Cathedral.

Page 8. ergirs are spped by the effort of excelling before the age of twenty-Annual meeting of the Bank of

Fast Asia

Pago 5. five? Is it, on the other hand, that the triumphs and glories of Shanghai's interport Boccer FC- school or university ifo seem so presentatives and gursta: ware, on- When the Empress of Australia sweet to the adolescent palate that fortained at the Peninsula Hotel on

* Pago arrived in Hong Kong on Februagail subsequent attainments are as Saturday. 14, she brought with her a model dust, and nahes to the tnate 1 Lord

To-day's wireless programine." of the new 8.5. Empress of Britain Francis Harvey, who has just died which is now on view at theat Brighton at the rigo of eighty- The model is 12 feet long. 1B diminuendo which so often assails Canadian Pacific. Passenger Office..

classic, instance of this I four, is inches wide and four feet high. The the triumphant school or acaderio Empress of Britain is 765 feet long career Lord Francis began life with a breadth of 97.8 feet and with every possible spoon in his gross tonnage 42,000. Her speed mouth. He belonged to the gov will be 24 knots per hour.. The Prince of Wales on June 17, 1933, and Oxford. He won the New between Great Britain and Canada of Balliol that he went up to Ox- "Pop" And it was as a scholar. in May next.

ford. Here, again, achievement wa his in a varied field. 'Ho se The Argyll and Sutherland High British International Pictures,

cured a first in Mods, and his gelanders held a Gymkhana at Kwanti: Is that the 8 per Cent. Cumi-cond in Greats was balanced by Race Courne yesterday. Page .. hatiye £1 Preference abarea of his almost simultaneous election:

Wecking-end yachting. Page 0 British Internaional Pictures can as President of the Union. By still be bought for 19s to return the age of twenty-six he was in Racing notes and training times. THE AMATEUR STAGE IN nearly 8 per cent on the money. Parliament, with an assured aire

Page 4.

ENGLAND.

writes the City Editor of the er before him. But Lord-Francis- Home football resluts and League- Evening Steradrid. "I regard them became a marked man who never table.

Page 2 As an attractive high-yielding in- made his mark. After a few un- AMATEUR theatricals in Great vestment. On last year's profits eventful years in the House of post na Britain at the beginning of the the dividend on these shares was Commons he accepted a

covered: 8 times over, and even the Civil Service Commissioner. He present century were largely re

8 per cent. Ordinary dividend re- so other young men the examina- garded as something to be good presented only about one-third of tions which he had loved so much humouredly tolerated and support the amount available for distribu- himself. For the rest he dabbled tion to the Ordinary shareholders in the archnology of Bury St. Ed- THE Labour Government has now ed rather than as serious contri-appreciated to 6. When the next munds, and took a deep persona been in power since June, 1929. Itbutions to the development of report appears in August I look interest in the amenities of the is supported by the largest party drainatio art. The plays were.con- for an increase in profits which will gardens of Sussex-square, Brigh- in the House of Commons and, fined to a few popular successes, in still further improve the over beton, where ho lived."

hind the Preference lividend. with the sixty Liberal members to which the players mostly tried to lielp it, o'n certain. conditions, copy the acting of well-known Labour has. a comfortable majority. professionals. During the war not

The Director of the Prohibition It may be said that the Liberal much was done by amateurs locally,ential election campaign in the Law in the United States disfavours contingent drives a hard bargain | and on the regular stage wrious for its continued support, but drama was somewhat at a discount, despite the restiveness of Sir Joux Then came the reaction and a SIMON and a small group of Whigs, revival of interest in the draina the Labour Government seems to among all types and classes. carry through anything that it really wante It secured, for example, the second reading of the Trades Dispute Bill, despite the

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 23, 1031.

LABOUR'S MEDIOCRE

RECORD.

&inct that the measure pretty clearly

'HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

·BANKING CORPORATION,-

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Ý. M`GRAYBURN, YA

Chief Manager.

[301

Hong Kong, 9th Feb., 183. THE HONG KONG, CANTON &

legalises any General Strike on the lines of the attempted revolu- tionary upheaval of five years ago, when the whole nation set itself to defeat the Trade Union Council and their supporters,

are stage then their pants had

stage

The results have been most

-amateur

before this year is out "The De Zogu, whe was shot as he was

or

to

|

Latest Cables.

Disturbances have again broken out in the Tharrawadily region,

Page 7 Dame Melba is dying, and was not expected to live through the Page 7. night.

Mrs. Coolidge launched the Dol lar liner President Coolidge at Newport News.

Page 7: Thirty-one miners have been kill ed as the result of an explosion: in

Page 7..

Local Notes and Events

The annual general meeting of, His Excellency the Governor has re-appointed the Rev. Fr. George Byrne, D.Ph., to be a Member of the Board of Education for a fur- ther period of two years.

com-

Democratic Party" Gone Wet."

&- mine at Nothberg (Germany). Interest in noxt year's presid-

an expenditure, of vast sums of The inter-Varsity hockey match United States and its relation to the prohibition issue was emphasis-oney or the employment of the resulted in a win for Oxford against. ect by Mr. Jouets Shouse, the chair-forces of the country to enforce the Cambridge by three goals to stil. ::.

Page 7 man of the Democratic Nationalquor laws.

Page 7 Committee's executive committee.

The Prince of Wales and Prince The "conversations" between Mr. Shouse declared that the Dethe representatives of the British George flow in an amphibian plane mocratic party must take a definite Treasury and the French Finance from Antofagasta to Santiago de Amateur dramatic societies were stand on the prohibition, before the Ministry regarding the silver prob. Chile.

Page 7- formed in various parts of Eng-presidential election campaign. em have been resumed, the nature President "Hoover has announced' land, and the young man and One year from June the major of which is being kept a profound that within a month the Govern women who joined them soon show parties will nominate their stan-

sceret.

Page 7ment will find work for 50,000 cd that they were more keenly dard bearers and the preconven-

persons, alive to the possibilities of the tion campaign will be started even It has been revealed that King

Page 7 A revolt started in Paraguny, been. They did not seek to copy inocrats must decide whether they leaving the Opera House in Vienna, where the robels captured the town i nor te rival the professional are to enter the next campaign i was attacked by two Albaniane, que

of Villa Encarnacion, which was "'wet' Thy realise that the definitely amater and Utiel professional dry said. Mr. Shouse. "They but who had become his bitterestment troops.

decidedly of whom had been his closest friend later recaptured by the Govern

Page 7. have different functions. They must have a recognized leader who enemy since the struggle for leader Severe snowstorms have been ex- have now a better scrise of values, will not attempt to dictate the ship in the State.

Pago 7perienced in the North, several and they demand and provide for stand the party is to take." Bol,

houses in the native city at Hané their audiences something different Mr. Shouse pointed out, the states.

The US Senate has passed thekow collapsing, and a train was The record of the Labour Govern- from the reproduction of popular which will end, the greatest num Naval Appropriation Bit for derailed by 'n snowdrift Page 7 ment must be a disappointment to playa or the copying of the work ber of delegates to the presidential 8339,000,000, which includes an Earl Harewood (husband of Prine

of popular stars.-They appreciate nominating convention already additional sum amounting" [ansTOTICE 18, HEREBY GIVEN their supporters Unemployment the good work of the professional, favour changes in the prohibition $10,000,000 for starting work on 11 cess Mary) was thrown from his that the ORDINARY YEARLY has increased three-fold and Labour but, for themselves they cultivate inve. If that means that the destroyers. Important develop. horse while hunting in Yorkshire, MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS has been powerless to check the the spirit of adventure. As their party is going 'wet' then I my ments are likely to result from the and he sustained several cuts on the in this Corporation will be held at

recent maneuvres in the defence of face and an injured ear. Pago 7.. that it has already gone "wet"," OITY HALL

Hong Kong on general economic depression. Other productions need not be of costly or

lavish character, they can experi Mr. Shouse and

the Panama Canal Zone, Pago T. (Continued on pretioue column.) SATURDAY, the 28 FEBRUARY,

parties admitted that they could meat with new forina and the work- 1831, at 11.30 A.M.,. for the purposs of reoriring the Report of the Hoard do very little, but Labour always of new writers whom the profes of Directors together with a Statement claimed that, given a free hand,sional producer would be inclined of Accounts for the Year ending 31t they would provide work for all. cial risk;

to ignore on account of the finan DECEMBER 1080.

THE REGISTER of SHARES of Now we know that they cannot. the Corporation will be CLOSED from Doles have been made easier to get, gratifying, but they have been MONDAY, the 16TH FEBRUARY, to SATURDAY, the 28TH FEBRUARY, but Labour has done nothing. to gradual and of such an unspecta

cular character that they have been 1931 (Both Days inclusivo), daring check unemployment and increase largely ignored by the Press and

Looking. Back 25 Years.; which Period No Transfer of Shares the general standard of living, the public. According to a writer Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., will

Perhaps no undertaking, of the can be registered.

The fact, is that England has gone nearly three thousand

in The Times, there are to-day be held at the offers of Mests.

Government is watched with such sager, almost impatient interest; on under a Labour Government very dramatic societies regularly produe Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at

as the construction of the railway. from Kowloon to Canton, and it is much in the same way as it would ing plays and pageants. Most of neon on February 27.

re-amuring to learn' that “a them are affiliated either to the have done had Mr. BALDWIN been British Drama League or to the

mencement has already been made At the Rotary Club tiffin- to- The Eliot Hall annual concert with the work. The Public Works Power, Mr. SNOWDEN Bored a Village Drama Society, and they big success at The Hague in the "are associated with the widest morrow, Lt. Col. Reginald Morgan, and dance will be held on Satur Department have started on the northern section, between Taipo matter of War Reparations, but the possible interesta, ranging from C.R.E, & member of the British day, February, 29, at 8 p.m. Grad-and Sumchun, and nuput 400 coolies

Women's Institutes to art circles, Economie Mission, will speak on Naval Conference was not the ad- and from the clubs of the commer.

uates who were members of this are employed in making the em "Commercial Balance."

bankments., which are necessary in vance towards, Disarmament that cial firms to those of the university

hostel are cordially welcome. had been hoped. Substantial pro-societies are also members of the

view of the perennial floods. This college. A number of dramatic

work is in progress in four or The medium used for the com

It is notified that at the cupira- five different places-one squad nt MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in government would have done at Association, and the British Drame petition is a one-net play, and over tion of three months Jack A Tai & Taipo, two or three at Fanling, and the Company will be held at the

three hundred authors have been Co., Ltd, will, unless cause is ed diverting the streams. Although another at Lofu. Others are engag- Office of the Company, 1, QUEEN's least as well. Of the Round Table League will soon branch out in

new direction by announcing & represented in the Inst four Tes BUILDING, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Conference the same may be anid. schems for conitaunity, draran do- tivals. The present basis of mark-shown to the contrary, be struck off the route has been surveyed some THURSDAY, ben MARCH, 1981, Neither failure nor success crown signed to attract the smaller ing is as follows:-Acting, thirty the register and the commay will little time, ita course through thos at 11. A.M., for the purpose of receiving

village societies and clubs associat. Per cent; production, forty per be dissolved.

Kowloon mountains bas, not become Report of the Directors, together edits. efforts-fair progress was

ed with elementary schools, * cent; stage, presentation (in

public. However, it is known that with a Statement of Accounts, and made and with that the electorato As Religion! Drain Society was propertica, lighting, costumes, and At the Kowloon Magistracy on

a tunnel will have to be eut to electing Directors and Auditor,

connect Shatin with Kowloon, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the will have to be satisfied. In the recently formed, and director of make-up); ten per cont, dramatic

With the exception of this, no Company will be: CLOSED From matter of appointments a similar by the Church of England. He twenty per cent. The play of decision convicting Loung Chi Chulikely to be encountered. The Sum-

religiond drama has been appointed endeavour. (merit of the play), Saturday, Mr.

great engineering difficulties are FRIDAY, 2018 FEBRUARY, 1931, story has to be told. No Labour will waist in the choice and pro-idene, well need and produced in to THURSDAY, Bru MARCH, 1931, Both Days inclusive, daring which genius will take India in band but duction of religious and poetic simple settinge, has the best chance and Li Fung Leung on the large chun river will have to be bridged. perie No Transter of Bhares can be a typical pro-consul of the govern-plays-and-wilting up with local of success and the widespread of having obtained #3,300 by micans Hong Kong Daily Press Feb- registered:

ing class. The judicial and diplo Saints' days, and dramatic pre-emphatic reply to the pessimists gan, on November 13, 1928, and Looking Back 50 Years.

church festivals, colebrations of enthusiasm for the Festival in a trick from a widow, Choi Tuary 23, 1906, matic promotions have been assentations in church and village who so continually, deny that tho

In their review of the trade of conventional as the Honours Lists, halls. This is clearly indicative of British people really value the also on an alternative charge of

Newchwang for the year 1880 the general interest shown, and of dramia

Broery. They were sentenced to Years. Bush Brothers make some. and Hong Kong did not have the the now attitude of the Church, The amateur movement to-day la unosey recruit to Labour, whose At the present time amateur living force. Not all those in months each on the first count interesting observations on the name was mentioned, as her Gover actors in all part of the country terested and practising in it can and one month each concurrently cultivation of the poppy in Shing-

are busily engaged in the pro- take a great part in the actual on the meand.

king. The import of Indian drug at that port in 1880 was about one. PA. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

liminary rounds of their annual plays produced, but all of them

half what it was in 1870. In the There is no abort and easy way Festival of Community Drama, the aro learning to appreciate good

· It'is' notified in the Gazettë for', former year the total, import was THE undermentioned Certificate for to prosperity for all. The govern final of which takes place in drama and good soting. In such THE

hares in this Company, ment of the country has to be car-Londen in April. At this Festival matter as that of speech the general information that the fol- 1,168 piculs, value TIR 858,000, a regin'ered pin'. FREDERICD:

the Name of 300 ried on, and the vast machinery of societies compete for a eup nresent amateur movement is providing ewing gentlenen now constituth compared with 2,452 chests, value NOLASCO DA SILVA, local and central administration ed by Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN, a necessary and wholesome cor the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Tls 354,475, in 1879. This enormoua has been declared LOST. If at the cannot be changed fundamentally and the growth of the movement réctive to the Americanisms of Corps Advisory Committee appoint falling off in the demand for for-li Esparition of Ore Month from thp and rapidly by the score of gentle may be judged: by the incrense in the talkies" In the small ed by His Excellency, the Governoreign drug is due, the authorities ¡¡ Dato herof the following Share mien Who compose, the Cubings and entries. In 1027, the first year of taxus and villages, amateurs are under the chairmanship of His above quoted say, partly to the Corticate be not produced to the their fifty or so, mince Ministers the Festival, there were 118 entries, producing local plays which are Excellency the General Officer Com- higher value ruling for Malwa, but UNNY South Coast of England for 40 Shares Nos. (5) 138179395, (10) in this 'respect like a great liuer, there word 230; and last year there the expressiveness of dialect. The Commanding (Chairman), Mtion of the native opium, which is

Company, namely, Certificate No. 1153 and Under Secretaries. A nation is In 1825 there were 170; in 1929 helping to retain the beauty and manding H.E. the General Officer still more to the increased produc-1.

retirement Houses and langalows 104104, Now Certificate for the said work an infinity of harm, even

is most enitable for long or 6310/659), (2) 11081/11886, (20) 104445/ whose Captain and Officer's and wore by caries. The din gura considerable action of the public. F. Bellamy, Houn. Mr. P very much cheaper than the im. ported article. This increase in alfram£1,050 Furnished Shares will be leened by the CompARA TESARST

is being educated, in serious drama, Braga, Mr. 3. D. Butcher, Mr. J House To Lat. Easy sosese lo-ondod and therealler Ao Olber, will be powers for good are luulted to will wke part in the competitions great effect upon the commercial Mr. C. d. Mackie, Mr L., N. with all sorviços. State Clearly Regnfis fcknowled od; mente. when writing NEWMANI

A. 8, WATSON & CO., LTD. og to the schedulo and main: now being judged all over the stage and improve the taste of the Murphy, Hon. Mr. J. J Paterson,

taining Agent PERRING near WonTNIKO,

proper discipling and country. R

whole body of playguera in Great Mr. T H. It Shaw and Mr. J. P.. SUMDEX, EsoLANDİ

Ta18efficiency.

Warren. Hong Kong, 12th Feb, 1931.

Britain (Continped on ners Columa.)

The Said Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT, and a NEW CERTIFICATE for the Baid Shares will be issued in its stead by the Company.

·B. ALVES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, Feb., 1981.. [861

TRINITY COLLEGE-OF-MUSIC

LONDON.

LOCAL EXAMINATIONS

19zą JUNE, 1981,

THE LAST DAY of ENTRY for Forthcoming Examinations in THEORY and PRACTICAL will. bo 10TH MARCH, 1981.

MACAO STEAMBOAT CO,, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS."

AND

THE ONE HUNDRED

ELEVENTH ORDINARY gress was made, but any other National Operatic and Dramatic

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JORN ARNOLD,

Secretary,

Entry Forms may be obtained Hong Kong, 6th Feb, 1981.

om the Local Secretary,

WM: ANDERSON,

c/o THE ANDERSON MUSIC

CO. LTD.

WHERE TO STAY IN ENGLAND

NOTICE.

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