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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at the Re- GISTERED OFFICES of the Company, KINO'S THEATRE BUILDING, 5711 Froon on SATURDAY, the ́ 167n; DAY of MAY, 1981, at 11'o'croOCK in the TORENGOs, to receive the Direc tora Report and Accounts for the period ended 1st DECEMBER, 1980, to, Elect Audilors, and to Transact Bach other Business as may be Pro- perly Transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.

And Notice is further hereby given that the Register and TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the Drù to the 18 DAY OF MAY, 1931. Both Days inclusive.

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Mr. Pepys in Hong Kong. Page 6. Hong Kong Stock Market: Cioù-

At the Legislative Council meet- ing on the same day, His Excel- lency the Governor paid a Well-The Guomen Explained. anerited tribute to all who gave

"Boredom is the greatest enemy help after the Taipo railway smash

Manager of the Railway, and his an April 20, and to the Acting American Society, and the gang-rond, Thornton Heath, Surrey, has cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 1. sters entertain people, and dispel won the tramcar-riding endurance

The Colony's water supply. eunui,"-Count Keyserling, staff, for the way in which they

record. Mr. Kardux purchased a

Figures for May 1st.

Page 7. grappled with the situation and the

akilling all-day ride-nt-will ticket trial at the next Criminal Sessions A Chinese was committed for speed with which they have re-Film Industry.

at midnight and travelled by tram on a charge of murder. Page 7. started the service. But His Excel-

en continuously for 27, hours. He teacy made no announcement as toed motor-car and many pedestrians, one ear for 152 miles. The cost of Banking Corporation against, an Several policemen, a requisition-covered 351 miles, and remained in

Judgment was given by the Full Court yesterday dismissing the appeal by the Equitable Eastern

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GEORGE, only son of Col..and whether or no an inquiry into the after a long chare through the busy, ordinary fares for the performance order made by Mr. Justice Wond

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Mrs. H. M. STEPHENSON of Middlewich, Cheshire, England, ELAINE HERMIONE, sider daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. J. R. Hargreaves, of Shanghai.

ENGAGEMENT, LOVELESS-KKODBEN.-Mr. and Mrs. L. J. KNUDSEN announce the engagement of their daughter, DOROTHEA MARY, to EDWARD WILLIAM, son of Mr. and Mrs. CHAR, LOVELE9s, of Finsbury Park. London, England,

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 9, 1935.

TELL THE PUBLIC!

necidont is to be held. Presumably streets of London, captured an would have amounted to £1 38, 3.

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der who was at his heel; both men escaped convict" and the "war- were found to have been engaged by local cinema to advertise a prison

Siegfried on England.

been beaten by 80 miles. The récord previously hold has thus

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A "Flying Fortress."

there will be an inquest, but up to now no steps have been taken, and thing has been said. It is most important, in the interests of the Railway, that there should be in-film. quiry. Assurance should be given

A new monoplane designed by the that the track is properly insported

Pekker Company, is described as a and that there is no possibility

flying fortress "in the New York of a recurrence of the tragedy, Comes of Age" has published bristles with machine-guns, and M. Siegfried author of " America | Herald-Tribune. Its single wing possibly on far bigger scale, friendly but incisive study of Eng.when the machine is diving to an next time we have a typhoonland in her dotage. or a few heavy stormus.

It is almost attack all the guns open fire under Public confidence in the railway must

with a sigh of enddened regret automatic control. It is manned by be maintained.

that M. Siegfried cats into our a crew of two and carries in ad- In England a rail-

flesh and displays the way disaster is followed not only within. Our love of sport. Our ter of a ton of bombs. In spite of ulcers dition to six machine-guns a quar by a coroner's inquest but by intellectual indolence. That moral this enormous weight, tests which public inquiry presided over by timidity which leads us to ignore have been successfully carried out Board of Trade Commissioner. The the unpleasant truth. That im-at Peterborough (N.J.) indicate Colonial Government way deeide mense faculty for self-deception that this monoplane is a faster pur- that such double inquiry is not which panders to our optimism.spit plane than any now in ase needed out here, but the loss of The ideal," writes M. Siegfried, in the United States army. cleven lives, under such circum-" of a gentleman, the foundation of stances, eannot be passed with an modern British civilisation, seems expression of sympathy and thanks.

to have contributed to this relaxa- tion of fundamental energy.

GERMANY TO-DAY.'

gentleman, we must realise, never strives ton much; it is not consider ed the thing." At one point only has M. Siegfried misunderstood the

tions!

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Halping us Out.

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that the onus was on them to start proceedings in no netion involving the sum of 8000,000,

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