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Miss Ella Wendell, described as. the loneliest and richest womnair

in the world," has bequeathed. 2,000,000 to the Methodist Theo- logical Seminary at Nanking,

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In accordance with expectations, the Bill proposing the grant of local franchise to women in Japan, which had passed the Lower House, was heavily defeated in the Upper House.

Page 0. Regarding the protests against the Austro-German Customs Union,.. the Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Schocber says that no decision bod bepn come to, but that Austria and Germany had merely expressed their readiness to enter into nego commercial rapprochement. Pago 0.

tions Drake himself once had to twenty years ago be was a choir can gop work during the daytime Nationalists walked out of the IT'S

THE REALight Editor (Wanchai, Office) court-martial and hang a colleague, bey at Magdalen School. No choris is joies and patent

This point of view is well express ter ever sang with greater fevour. London Office: 53,. Fleet Street, ed in the real and Military R| Old ladies would travel from Lon. folder ones.",

don to bear that angel voice, and HOME-SIDE STUFF"!

cord, one of the best Service publi, would sob quietly to themselves in British Embassy in Brasil. cations in England, from which the train going home. Ivor Novel- London, Mar 17-The question wo give the following extract:-

lo enjoyed the effect ho produced of building a British Embassy in as chorister. He once admitted Rio de Janeiro is apparently to It would be idle to deny that toe that the angel voice had almost wait until the Brazilian authorities action of the Board of Admiralty rendered him "insufferable." Then have made further progress with it broke. For a whole day Ivor their town planing proposals. in regard to the three officers in Novello lay on his bed weeping at Rio de Janeiro possesses one of the plicated in the unfortunate affair the loss of all his power. It was most picturesque harbours in the in H.M.S. Lucia has produced a some time before, once again, he world and the city has a number of

emerged into fame. This time it beautiful avenues, but the autheri wide feeling of disquiet in the Navy. was his face that was his fortune. ties are not satisfied and they have There is no disposition to doubt He went to London and acted an elaborate scheme of development that the Admiralty were the best sometimes in charity tableaux. One on hand. The building of the met him at lunchoon. He was British Embassy was authorized by judges as to the merits of this case.

vaguely known as an actor-intellect Parliament some years ago and re- and the uneasiness is not caused unl. But he was very poor indeed.cently a member of the House asked is

so much by what was done as by At one period his total capital why the work had not been started. of opinion that some of the the manner of doing it. Ono di Ho sat on the pier at Brighten the Commissioner of Works, replied | tiations aiming at a Customs and

amounted to seventeen shillings Mr. George Lansbury, the First criticism of the mari tai system is tinguished eritie put the thing in whole of one Sunday afternoon that, the site had been purchased deal of it is unjustified and with perhape, well founded, but a great nutshell when he said that it thinking that for a man of his in 1928, but building had been de-

In the course of a was perturbingly symptomatic of tastes sorenteen shillings was not layed pending definite information out foundation." Sir WILLIAM

enough. So he composed "Keep regarding the new town plans. It Gandhi described the hanging of

conspirators surrender on the part of the the Home Fires Burning." It did. was proposed to include the Britials the Lahore

grave Government blunder," but PERL has not been in the Colony Board to "the fetish of gallery 1 kept them burning until such Embassy in what was to be known very long and there have been so publicity Presumably, the First time as Ivor Novallo could obtain as the Embassy quarter. Apparent he added: We must not get important engagements opon thely the difficulty at the moment is angry and accuse the Government" many stirring events since his ar-Lord's statement was drafted with London stage. And last month. he that neither the British nor the of a breach of the settlement,” ́and the concurrence of the Sea Lords signed a five-year film contract Brazilian Government knows pre-he advised the All-India Congress Parliament was entitled to a state which, it is said, will bring him csely where the Embassy quarter to endorse the Irwin-Gandhi settle- Page 0. nient, and the First Lord is the

will finally be located. right and proper person to make

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD. NOTICE.

Not the TRANSFER BOOKS TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the Company will be OLUSED from THURSDAY, 26TH MARCH, 1931, until TUESDAY, 7TH APRIL 1981, Both Days inclusive, instead of for the period previously notified.

By Order of the Board,

D. L. KING,

Secretary.

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNón

rival that he has probably not made a deep study

the and system and relies, very properly, upon the Hong Kong, March 21st, 1981, (501 advice of his colleagues in speak

ing of this matter.

ANCE CO., LIMITED.

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It is a curious thing that somo English people who know a lot

it. But the morale of the service i can hardly benefit by such a public' denunciation of certain offers. The open satisfaction of a very sympathy with this form of slavery large element which is always There is no disguising the fact jubilant at the spectacle of autho that the mui tani is a slave. She rity rebuked and penalized forms

MARCH, 1931, at NOON, for the THE HONG KONG FIRE INSUR-about Hong Kong should have purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the Year ended DEDEM. BER 91st, 1980, electing Directors and Auditors, and for the Transaction

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

£200,000.

ment..

Local Notes and Events

Looking Back 25 Years.

statement

of any other Ordinary Business ofEE SIXTY-SECOND ORDIN is transferred from her natural a very doubtful justification for ground at 5.15 p.m. between the nual general meeting of the Union any functions which have takeo...

the Company.

By Order of the Board, D. L. KING,

Secretary,

ARY GENERAL MEETING parents to another family on pay-gratifying that sentiment.

of SHAREHOLDERS will be heldment of money, and becomes the One inevitabla result of the First at the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, the 26TH MARCH, property of her purchaser, subject Lord's statement is that naval 1931, at NOON, for the purpose of to the ordinary law of the land, and officers will hesitate to accept a re-

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A Rugby football match will take We would draw Your renders' place this afternoon on the Club attention to the fact that the an Not the least interesting of the place at Government House was the Waterboat Company, Ltd, takes At Home" to the more distin- place in the offices of Mesars, Dod-guished of our navel visitors and Following the explosion of a stick well & Co., Ltd., pa Tuesday, the residents in the Colony. Al- though the weather jacked that of dynamite near an unnumbered March 31, at 3 p.m., and not as brilliance which is essential

Hong Kong, March 11th, 1981. [458 receiving the Report of the General certain conventions about her mar-sponsibility which " the exigencies hut in Saiwanho, part of a kitchen p.m. as, we stated yesterday.

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Managers, together with a Statement ringo on reaching a certain age of the Service" may require them of Accounts for the Year ended at Under British law the transaction is to incur owing to doubt as to whe damaged. The police have detain DECEMBER, 1930.

The SHARE REGISTER and null and void. A girl so disposed of ther they will receive support ined one man for inquiries. TRANSFEILBOOKS will be OLOS can return to her parents, and her the event of that protest to higher ED From the 127 to the 26r parents can claim her any time authority which Mr. ALEXANDER MARCH, 1981, Both Days inclusive, they like. The purchaser acquires rather emphasized. The trouble is

An oil painting of Mr. A. Morris, JARDINE, MATHESON &

no rights whatever. That is the that a step intended to meet one the Headmaster of King's College, Co., LTD., General Managers,

law, but law and social custom particular case is pretty sure to be presented by patrons and past and do not coincide, Many Chinese

demonstrating a present pupils, is now completed families have a mui tani, though at general principle. Will the Service and is hanging in the Great Hall the present time it may often be be any the better for this example of the College, declared that the girl in question of frankly telling the world'

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to the enjoyment of al fresco events, the conditions were by no means disagreeable, and the many Two cases of diphtheria and one ladies and gentlemen who paid case of small-pox were reported their respects to the Governor during the 24 hours ended March found the time passed very 23. For the week ended March 21, pleasantly. The French and Japan- there were three cases of diphtheria, use naval officers, attended in linie seven cases (two deaths) of enteris form, as did also a pumber of fever and 47 deaths from pulmonary British naval and military officers; in fact all the services were repre- tuberculosis,

sented, and as a result the scene in

great. Yau, appeared before Mr. Hamil oived his guests on the lawn, greet-

Leung Yau Choi, alias Leung the grounds was one of

His Excellency » re- animation: ton, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, an a charge of larcenying each one with hie characteristic is an adopted daughter. Years ago To put an officer on half-pay, with Mr. G. 8, Hugh-Jones, the well; Kowloon British School Former

of nine silver tea spoons from the cordiality, Hong Kong Daily.

Press: March 25, 1008. the Daily Press took a share in the

a formal intimation of their Lord known Hong Kong solicitor, former Pupils' Association, King's Park, Looking Back 50 Years. agitation which made it illegal for ships displeasure, is a sufficiently ly of the firm of Messrs. Wilkinson was formally remanded for one that on March 4 the British barque

on Saturday, last. The defendant

Our Amoy contemporary learns Credit Foncier D'EXTREME. Europeans to have mui tani. No drastic penalty for any incompet- & Grist, was admitted to practice doubt many people would consider enen or undue harshness, since it in I.M. Supreme Court in Shang- that a gross interference with the means professional blight. This has

The tramcar driver had to put Shanghai, at Chefoo, while abiftin liberty of the subject, and the old

on the emergency brake to prevent her barth and caused considerable Collision, remarked Inspector damage. She then let go heran- arguments could always be trotted

CF. Alexander in the Centraleber between the Martha Siegfried. out that it was better for a mis

of the" popular Press," for good trai to be with a European house limelight efecte. We have every A Japanese poddle dog belonging Police Court yesterday, when he and the Empress; but during the bold than Chinese; that the reason to believe that these remarks to Mr. Kanada, of 7, Bowen Road, summoned before Mr. Schofield the evening he parted her starboard" Chiness driver of a taxicab for cable, and at about 8.30.p.m. part- European mistress was always reflect the general-feeling of thing been removed to Kennedy Town having failed to recognise asignaled her port cable and drifted

Navy upon the matter, and, hap- kind, eto That argument, bow-pily, we have not yet arrived at an for observation after it had bitten given him by an Indian policeman, ashore, The vessel being water- ever, somewhat cut across the com-era in which the retart would be its owner's son in the leg. The lad on point duty, at the junction of tight, thore is every hope of getting Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road her off after discharging her cargo. that the Navy no longer has a right was trented at the Government Central. A fine of $10 was impos-Hong Kong Daily Press, March forting notion that the average mui to have any feeling upon matters

24, 1681 Civil Hospital.

ed. Fiala with Modera Conveniencontrai-in-no-well-treated, and has the relating to its administration

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Detached and Semi-detached Villar Modern Construction with Garage, -“CAMBAY BUILDINGS"

been frequently done it the modern hai by Judge Sir Peter Grain on history of the Navy, but never with Monday.

much concession to the clamour

week.

Martha came into collision with that British barque Walter Siegfried o