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HEW ADVERTISEMENTS FINE

HỒNG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO.,

LIMITED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN YEARLY MEETING of SHARP. HOLDERS of the BONG KONG ENGINFRING and CONSTRUC TION COMPANY, LIMITED, will be

RD ROOM held in the BOARD

of Messrs. SHIVAX TONES & Co., St. George's

Chator

Iload, Kong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 22ND APRIL, 1031, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the агроже of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the Bist DECEMBER, 1930, and olecting Directors and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

SHERRIES

SUPERIOR PALE DRY

FULL GOLDEN

Company will be CLOSED from the of very superior quality

13 to the 23rd APRIL, 1931, Bolh Days Inclusive.

grown and bottled by

Riuz Secretary Anto R.

By Order of the Board

B. ALVES.

Hong Kong, 7th April, 1931,

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FOR SALE BY PRIVATE

TENDER.

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COMPANIES WINDING-UP No. 1 of 1931.

B. UING & CO, ALSO KNOWN AS E. HING CHAN

AND AB E. HING.

T 19 HEREBY NOTIFIED

THAT SEALED TENDERS

will be received at the OFFICIAL

Y.

Hermanos Xeres de

la Frontera. specially

selected.

"One sip

RECEIVER'S OFFICE, SUPREME Will bathe the drooping

Count, Hong Kong, until NOON on

SATURDAY, the 25TH Day of

APRIL, 1981, for the Purchase in spirit in delight

One Lot of :-

(4) The Goodwill of the above Beyond the bliss of

Business;

(B) The Stock-in-trade, Furniture

Tenants' Fixtures and Fittin 28,

at present on the Promises Nos. 24 and 25, WING Wa STREET and in the Godown No. 810, HENNESSY ROAD, WAMOHAI; and

(C) -MARINE Lor No. 121 and the

Building standing thereon.

SEALED TENDERS are also.caled for Lor (B) abov0 SEPARATELY.

dreams."?

A. S. WATSON

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

administrative efficiency, security and the application of Western Yesterday's weather report, fore-inventions. But to maintain its cast and remarks, issued by the standard in face of a live and pro- Royal Observatory at 6.35 p.m.,gressive China is a more difficult stated:-

ask than when the Celestial Em- pire looked to the past, and had neither roads, nor motor cars, nor talking pictures, Hong Kong needs in these days n far greater nucleus of Englishmen, and in her indus trin army there must be British non-commissioned as well as com missioned officers,

The anti-cyclone over N.E. China has increased slightly in intensity. A deep depression is central to the N.E. of Hokkaido.. Fresh monsoon may be expected along the 5.E. Coast of China and over the N. China Sen.

Local Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh; overenat; soma drizzle or light rain.

MARRIAGE,

BLOUNT KARLIX-On April 1, at Shanghai, Mr. PAUL BLOUNT Miss ANNA KARLIK,

to

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News and Views ⭑

A Dealer in Lies.

Lies to order, by letter; telegram, or cablegram from all parts of the world, are offered for sale by a Paris organisation. A man who has told his family that he is going on a business trip may have letters ia his own handwriting forwarded

The Handy Man

A Belfast church which advortis- for a sexton had over 300 re plion. One applicant wrote: "I can preach, and in the event of the minister being ill I would be able to take his place in the pulpit."

Thus, owing to both local and Home conditions, a number of people are prepared to pass their lives here, and, in fact, to settle down as Colonists rather than as Beeting prospectors. They are; wo suggest, a most valuable factor in the life of the Colony, and pro- toria B. C. ANDERS OLSEN, vision should be made for their K.C.), charging a grand jury at his other selections were placed.

to his wife from various citica while Mr. Morning Dow's Belcations. he remains in Paris, a message

It is always dangerous to blow from that ingenious city recently announced. If anybody wishes to one's own trumpet, but our Rae avoid a social or business engageing Correspondent, is we think mont he can arrange for the stane deserving of congratulations servico.

having spotted six winners for Monday's roes, in his selections

DEATHS: OLSEN-On July 12, 1930, at Vié-

aged 77 years

Lau-On April, at 5 am., K. C. ceds. The incident of the closing LAU. The funeral takes place of the bathing beaches is not ea to-day, leaving the French couraging, but more serious is the Hospital at 3 p.m., and will refusal of the Government to pro proceed to Kennedy Town (Yar Pit Ting)..

vide increased educational facilities PEREIRA-On April 2, at Slang for those who cannot send their hai, AMALIA (MALY) MARIA children home. The lack of wider PEREIRA. Aged 22 years. provision than is now available will Act as a strong deterrent to many people who might otherwise remain

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tol. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24011.

London Offer: 53, Fleet Street,

E.O. &

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, APRIL 6, 1831.

HONG KONG'S "MIDDLE

CLASSES."

Is the good old days, before the Strike, Hong Kong was & CO., LTD.

No Teader will be considered unless WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

the Person tendering pays to the OFFICIAL REORIFER and LIQUIDATOR

A Deposit of $1,000.00, in Cash, as 1 Pledge of the bona fides of h offer, which sim shall be forfeited to the OFFICIAL RECEIVER 2a Liquidated Damages if such Person faila to carry out his Toader, in the event of the same being accepted.

Deposits will be returned to the Unsuccessful Tenderers when One Tender has been accepted, or in the event of no Tender being accepted.

The OFFICIAL RECEIVER sad LIQUIDATON does not bind himself

PHONE 20616..

NOTICE.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOT that the interest of Ms. NOEL VICTOR AMOR CROUCHER in our Firm censed us from the 318T DAT or MARCH, 1981..

BENJAMIN & POTTS,'

to accept the highest or any Tender. Dated the 1st of April, 1981. [555

Forms of Tender may be obtained en application at the OFFICIAL RECEÏVER'S OFFICE, SurzkxY: COURT, Hong Kong.

Dated the 7th day of April, 1981.

E. I.. AGASSIZ, Official Receiver and Liquidator.

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NOTICE.

On and aller 1st April Boxt, the Hongkong Dispensary Drug Store. and the Wine Department, will! observe the following hours of business:-

On week days until 7.80 p.m.

On Sundays and Public Holidays 10 am to 1 pm. and from 6 pm. to 7.30 p.m.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 28th March, 1981.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN MR. SHI YU MAN as a partner in

that we have TO-DAY admitted

our Firm.

BENJAMIN & POTT). Dated the 1st of April, 1991, [556

NOTICE.

here and render excellent service:

London's Crime Not Growing.

The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild,

the Old Bailey, said that it was curious haw, constant, the amount of crime seemed to be in the dia- triots covered by the Court, in tion. "My experience tells me," spite of the increase in populn. he added, "What there are about onses a week which come to the court. That may sound a lot, but when you consider that our juris diction extends over 8,000,000 peo- ple it is not so many as it sounds. Although population has increased; erime has not increased pro rata,"

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Yunnanfu news letter. Pago 7. The funneral took plnonat Happy Valley last evening, of Miss Nany MoNeillie.

Wireless programme.

Sport.

Home racing notes.

Pago 7. Page 4...

Page 10 Hdine football results of Easter. Monday matches.

Page 11. Three senior matches in the Hong Kong Football League' are arranged for this afternoon. Page 10..

Latest Cables.

published that morning. Four of

A fresh shook of earthquake was The sinnera tipped wore Gleneag- les, The Grouse, Noukhni!, Jill, experienced at Tacuman, Argen- Page 9. Pacemaker and Apollo. Those who tinn, on Monday.

Gandhi lectured the financial were placed were Evening Star, Sitting Bull, Paul Fry, and Cycla pandits at the Federation of Tadian ron Bay. On dividends paid, five | Chambers of Commerct on Monday, dollars on each of the six winners

Page 0. would have brought in $159.

In connection with the Anglo German discussions which are to take place early in May, it is an- nounced that M. Briand was also invited to take part, but that he declined.

Page 9.

The Prince of Wales and Prince George witnessed an illuminated game at soccer at Rio de Janeiro on Monday night.

Page 9, Their Majesties, the King And Queen of Siam arrived at Yoko. hama and proceeded by special train to Tokyo.

Page 9. Pago D. The British Government has in- Mr. Justice McCardio, after

The draft Constitution of the vited the German Chancellor and dealing with ten divorce cases of proposed new Federal unit in Aus- Foreign Minister to come to Lon- the Sussox Assises at Lowes, said tralia, to be known as the "New don for a friendly and informs) that each one was undefended, but England" province, was approved visit. an average of three or four wit by 180 delegates at Maitland, NewOwing to a new restrictive oil nossos por case had been called. South Wales, yesterday. Fago 9. law in Colombia, the Texas Petro- "In my opinion, there are nearly The Times is of the opinion that leum Company is withdrawing its thirty witnesses whose presence the crime of an unbalanced in prospecting geologists from the said. "They could have proved Sovict Counsellor in Japan, is was absolutely unnecessary," hdividual in shooting M. Anikieff, territory.

Page 0. their facts by affidavits without the being used as an excuse to drive sor Castle says that His Majesty An official statement from Wind- lightest difficulty. I consider this the Japanese fishing fleet from in suffering from a sub-acute attack Page 9 of bronchitis, and that he is making waste of time and money is perfect-Siberian waters. iy appalling. Witnesses have been called from the North, South, East,

slow but satisfactory progresa. and West of England to prove facte with which there is not the faintest measure of dispute. I express my view that the time is coming when the laws of England with respect They are old-fashioned and out of to evidence ought to be amended. date

to their employers and to the com-Laws of Evidence Out of Date? munity, It Hong Kong could offer satisfactory British schooling it would possess an asset of incalcul able value. Unfortunately, we find that the leading British school of its kind, the Central British School, as we pointed out some time ago in this column, is overarowded, badly equipped and on a most unsatis factory

site. The Government thought fit, however, to save $2,300 out of the estimates for the current year by delaying work on the new site allotted to the school. It

would be interesting to know if that site is to be kept for the school, or whether it is liable to become, place like Taiwan Beach, a matter for where money was made easily sale negotiations," No one would Senior men in the big firms soon suggest that merely because mem- amassed enough to enable them to bers of the Government are not retire, leaving their subordinates much effected by what is happen- to have, in due succession, a briefing, that they are unaware of the but lively innings The British changes that have come over the community could then be divided Colony in the last few years. But inte three classes, Government, ser- thes Arn hardly showing vants, taipans and men who had flexibility of mind: foresight and every prospect of becoming taipans, imagination that are characteristic and, finally, unsatisfactory persons of British officials all the world who did not count.

For all but

the last classification life was main- tained at a high standard: of com- fort, reguler leave, Home education for children, and affluence in early middle age being in the natural order of the universe.

over.

The polling for the election of Mayer for the City of Chicago was to take place yesterday. Page 9. Japan's reply to the Soviet pro- test in connection with the attempt on the life of M. Anikieff, Soviet Soviet Ambassador yesterday Counsellor, was handed to the

Page 9.

Page 0,

Mr. Anderson. Scott, who is en- aged on a record-breaking flight from England to Australia, left. Rangoon yesterday well ahead of Kingsford Smith's "time. Page

(Continued on previous column.)

Local Notes and Events

Lady Peel will perform the open- Three cases of diphtheria (all The Rosary Church, Kowloon, the

Chinese) were reported during the was the scene of a Children's Firsting ceremony of the new premises five days ended April 6.

Communion and Confirmation Sor- of the Young Women's Christian vice on Monday, which was con- Association, 38c, Bonham Road, at The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of William Charles Simp-ducted by Bishop Valtorta, assisted (2.30 pm, to-day. son, of the Y.M.O.A., Kowloon, to by Rev. Fr. Spada and the Rev. Anna Gregory Logosh, of the Kow-Fr. Granelli. Over forty children loon Helena Mny Institute.

THE STERNER SEX AND

HIS HAT.

Ir seems an odd illustration

of

I

A Victory Medal and General Service Medal found in & Hang Kong Hotel livery ear on March 13, hava been handed to the police, Chief Inspector's Office,

of both sexes, all dressed in white, Locking Back 25 Years, wezo prosent at the service.

The change in the political situa- tion in the Far East conscquent upon the recent war has not un-

The body of Tung: Leo, a Sani-naturally caused some apprehension

and love opened offices at Exchange collected to bank the same amount mended for summer wear on the Staints Church, Sidmouth, Devon, yesterday with. the theft of fishing the case.

NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDRESBANK N.V. (Netherlands India CommercIAL DANI) Established 1863 at AMSTERDAM HONG KONG AGENCY,

of sterling. Moreover, Hong Kong ground that it will do its best to Took like the, hat he has been wear-

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This is not at all the position the comparative `poverty of men's and are awaiting a claimant at the tary Department foreman, who was among those who view with dis- at present. The Nationalist move fushions that, according to the

lavour the alteration between the reported missing since March 31, ment in China, the impoverished Home papers, there is to be a

proportion of European a com- was found on the foreshore near pared with Asiatic influence in condition of that country, and the special campaign to launch and

The South Wales Borderers have Kowloon Dock on Monday. It was any questions which may in future world economic depression have popularise a new hat-that is to postponed their regimental sports stated that the man left a letter arise. The fear is expressed that broken up the system under which

meeting, which was to have been

difficulty may ensue from too much Bay, one new hat, a sclitary sur-heid yesterday, till this afternoon. aflirming, his intention of doing power being now vested in the British people once lived in the prise, while women at the same The meeting takes pines at Sookun away with himself, and he named latter direction. The ghost of the Far East. The heads of firms hold period of the year will have: their poo, starting at 2.30 p.m.

that part of the foreshore at Kow. old Yellow Peril" scare has not on to their posts, money-makingfifties and hundreds to inspect.

loon City where stands the rock in fact been entirely laid. There HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that having become a slower jobs than What is more, man's promised ad-

dedicated to an Emperor of the is a feeling that it will bo unsafe I have retired from the Firm of it used to be, and more than double venture does not seem to be a very and Miss A. E. Hendry, late of the

The marriage between Mr. V. J.Sung Dynasty as the scene of his for foreign nations, if foreign in- MEBLE, BENJAMIN & POTTS as

Atkins of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. attempt.

fluence

not to continue the dominant foree in the Far East, the number of dollars must be new one, for it is specially recom- Education Dept, took place at All from the 31ST DAY OF MARCH, 1981,

Charged at Central Magistragy this can hardly be expected to be and with the upries of Japan,

Building, where I am carrying on

eu March 6. 8.30 am to

Such a state of the 6 p.m. except business as a Stock and Share is more comfortable than it was,ing all winter. The hatters think

lines from a boat at Shaukiwan, balance of power it, is surmised Saturdays, when both Stores will Broker as front the date hereof

Chinese told the Court that ho had close at 1 pm, *

may lead to unreasonable demands Seven weeks' hard labour was the Leen kidnapped and brought to the on the part of China, and there under the style or firm name of and, as a place of permanent that Englishmen should obviously The Hongkong Dispensary," OROUCHER & CO."

residence for the well-to-do-man of have a new but for the summer, sentence passed on a Chinese who Colony from Singapore. His con- is no gainsaying that there have Dispensing Department, will

and some them seem to have de- was brought before Mr. Williams dition, when taken to the Police been some signs that the less in- N. V. A. CROUCHER.

advancing years, compares well with spaired of ever seeing the straw on the charge of theft of seven felt Station, was such that he was given formed among the Chinese have be open.

Dated the 1st of April, 1981. [[557 over-taxed and servantless England. variety restored to the favour which Fute from Messrs. Boudiker & Co., hot meal and now he declares that been disposed to look upon the

he would sooner go to gaol, rather There are other factors in the it once enjoyed. They have, there of Des Voeux Road, Central,

fore, produced a specimen

which

than be in the hands of his would changed condition of affairs as change. The recent developments, to all outward appearances, is

returning to the time-honoured A concert in aid of the Home will be assassin. He was remanded in possibly affording an opening for of Western civilisation have called exactly like the soft hat that is he held at the Sailors' and Soldiers' police custody for three days, --- | policy of withstanding_foreign pro- for an increasing number of men worn in winter" but which has Trome, Praya East, at 3 pm, to

press-Hong Kong "Daily Press, been reduced to a featherweight day. A splendid programme, has The weekly meeting of the Rotary April 8, 1906, from Europe to do work of a kind that turns the scales at two ounces.Leon arranged and a very enjoyable Club yesterday was presided over that was formerly trusted to native, This is lighter than the straw hat, evening's entertainment is pro by Hon. Dr. S. W. To, in the Looking Back 60 Years, labour. Coolies could sweep the which may easily weigh five ounces, mised..

absenco of Sir William Hornell, and lighter even than the Panamá.

who has gone on an official visit Master for the year ending 31st The report of the Harbour stairs, but European engineers have. It is, therefore, hoped that the

to Nanking The nomination of to be employed to look after lifta, universal summer hat for the cau Friends of Mrs. Iggleston will be officers and directors took place and December, 1880, though it contains feature of iraportance, shows TOTICE `IS' HEREBY: GIVEN / There is, in fact, n new class of tious mal has at last been displeased to hear that she did not it was resolved to re-nominate that the trade of the Colony for the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N Nhat DIVIDEND WARRANTS this Pask will occupy New Premises

that as from 7th APRIL next, English people in Hong Kong still be fairylike. It seems a touch the motor mishap recently. She these capacities at the present mo

covered; he can stick to. felt and receive serious injuries following loc all those who are serving in past year had undergone square- vival, The total tonnage entered and may be obtained on application by B, DES VOEUX ROAD Chat They are not wealthy, they haveing tribute to man's conservative was treated for abrasion and shock ment. Mr. L . F. Bellamy asked

very littlo prospect of ever acquir. i instincts in the matter of costume--at the Government Civil Hospital, to be relieved for business reasons crease over that of 1870 of 83,177 (Opposite present Office).

amounts to 4,185,845 tone, or an in- or should one say to his tremendous and apart from this she did not and nominated Mr. M. F. Key in tons. That the above incrense-is ingefluence, and they live either strength of character He may be receive any other injury.

his place. All nominations will be bond fide is proved by the fact that in boarding houses, or în flats, gently and insidiquely led-soothed

confirmed at the first meeting in the number and tonnage of vessels [where many are content with ono imperceptibly into accepting a

The Great Northern Telegraph | May. different article which looks exactly

jantering and clearing in ballet in or two amadis in place of a retinue like the one that he has on his Co., Ltd., and the Eastern Exten-

1880 were less than in 1870... The CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME of boys. A proportion of the head-but never pushed and bullied sion Australasia and China Tele At a public auction of Crown increase of steam tonnage and unmarried stay at the European into strange or disturbing novel graph Co., Ltd., announce that land at the P.W.D. yesterday after gradual decline of sailing ships Y.M.C.A., and the existence of this ties Weak and variable females owing to one faulty cable between noon, there was brisk bidding for sill continues. The increase in the may be dragooned into showing Hong Kong and Shanghai, tule thres lots, all in Kowloon. The tonange of steamers amounts to largo establishment for men (not their kaçes one year and not even grams to and from Shanghai and fret, Kowloon Inland Lat No. 2450,111,920, tops over that of 1870, and all of thin young); for whom there their ankle-the-next-but-man is beyond may be subject to slight North of Kowloon Inland Lot No. the old clippers are yearly grow is no hong mess, has its significance. differ in weight, but never in size made of sterner stuff; his hata may

Jelay.

1873, Fa Yuen Street, had an upscting tower, a fact made only too price of $32,218 and was sold for obvious by the forlorn and deserted The future development" and pros and shape. And as a matter of Three Chinese were brought be. 243,200, . Kowloon Inland Lot No. aspect of the West end of the har perity of the Colony must depend fact it remains to be seen whether fore Mr. Schofold yesterday, 02101, the junction of La Tven hour. At the present rate of de- very largely upon men of this type. this loyal creature will accept even charges of possession of a revolver Street and Bute Street, with an crease in another decade there will a reduction in weight. The hatters and five rounds of inmunition. It upset price of $31,070 was sold at be comparatively few sailing ships Hong Kong is a model for renascent had better not dwell too proudly was stated the men were arrested 247,200. New Kowloon Inland Lot employed except for short coasting China," and in that role, as well on the difference which they have after a fight in Belchors Street in No. 1447. Shek Kip Mei Street, be- trips, and even in that trade they as in its trading facilities Nes its achieved or they may be left talking which the third defendant was in tween Un Chan Street and Fuk are being rapidly superseded.

through their hints instead of selling jurad: They were formally remand. Wing-Street-with-an-upset price Hong-Kong Daily Prae÷April=8F=

ed for-o-week...

of $18,676 was sold for $34,700

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

will be available on APRIL ST. 1931.

Shareholders in person or in writing að the-flagistsmd Ofioss-of-the-Company--|---

178, CONNAWGHT ROAD West.

By Order of the Board,

D. L KING,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 1st April, 1991, [662

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

and ENTRY FORMS for the THTRU EXTRA RACE HELTING to be held on SATURDAY, 18

DRAFT PROGRAMMES

APRIL 1991 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the Race COURSE, More Kore Our sad OitaÀY ĐẤT Entries CLOSE at 12 O'clock NOON

THURSDAY, DTH APRIL, 1981.

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NOTICE.

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-C. {--ENDERT,- Manager. Hong Kong, 30th March, 1991.

ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE AGINTB,

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Six-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments

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KOWLOON,

Detached and Semi-detached Villas Modern Construction with Garage,

CAMBAY BUILDINGS

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future. It is ahead of Chine in them

1881.