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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING will be hold (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL LEY on SATURDAY, 10TH MAY, 1991, Commencing at 2.30 P.M.

The First Boll will be Rung at 2 P.M.

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.

Badges admitting Nou-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for

(both including Tex) are obtainable through the SECRE TABY

Bach

upon to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, &c.

Introduction by a Mombor,

Hodges admitting to Members'

Enclosure will not be on sale nt the Race Course.

Members can obtain, upon Application to the SECRETARY. Badges (Limited to One for the Free Admission to the Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady Relatives sud Friends. Names must be atated when applying.

On No Fretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

The Price of Admission to the Publis Enclosure is $200 incloding Tax,

for

Persons including Ladies, and

is payable at the Gate,

Boldiers and Bailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price,

Bookmakers, Tie Tac Moo, ko.,

not be

permitted to operate with

will

in the Precincts of the HONG KONG JOCKEY OLOS during the Race Meeting.

Tiffin will be obtainable in the Restau rant in the Publio Enclosure,

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary:

Hong Kong, 9th May, 1931.

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WEATHER REPORT.

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News and Views

Putting Prosperity in its Place,

than in the previous year. Agricul tural machinery manufacturers, together with makers of gas and oil engines and printing machines, all thought it prudent to make no distribution on their ordinary capital. Part of the reason for Anti-cyclones are sentral to the this is that while profits were enra.. N.E. of Japan and to the north ofed the share capital was larger, a Koren. A depression appears to be consequence of borrowing under forming uver Tongking.

rationalising schemes, the full fruit Local Foreenst: F. winds, of which can only be gathered in

the future. This those sharehold- | History of the Kiss. moderate; grinerally cloudy; some rain.

era who have had to forego divid- ends may at any rate reflect that the efficiency of their concerns in now higher than it was a few years

·

Editorial and Business Offices: 11.

Ice House Street. Tel. '30281. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tol. 24511.

London Offer: 83, Fleet Street,

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ago.

"BREACH OF PROMISE."

The Baily Press. for breach of promise of marriage

HONG KONG, MAY 11, 1931.

BRITISH HEAVY

INDUSTRIES.

Chicago's now Mayor ended his declaration of policy: "... and, lastly, I am out to restore pros. perity and employment."

Honest Conversation,"

In appointing a parish clerk, at- tention was called at Kingston Buci. (Sunnex) vestry to a curious fact.) According to rule, the clerk," is to be 20 years of age, at least, and known to the incumbent to be of

"

Professor Kristoffer Nyrop, the honest ennversation, and sufficient Danish philologist, who died last for his reading and writing, and month, wrote in 1807 The Kiss also for his competent skill in sing-

ing." And Its History," which was trane. lated into English, Swedish and Russian. He wrote many school text-books,

The Hoares.

The Prince of Wales Theatro,

Lady Wyndhain,

|SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Government Honse during last werk.

activities Page -7.

Amendment to Tobacco Duties Page 7. Ordinanec.

An attractive festival of folk was held on songs and dances

Page 7. Saturday.

Today's wireless programme.

Page 3.

Sport.

Яulls.

Shanghai Raera; Saturday's re- Page 7. Home cricket" iešulta. Pago. 10, Results of Saturday's opening games in the Lawn Bowls Lenguo uro given on

Page 10.

Latest Cables.

The Into Lady Wyndham was. ill for a very long while and almost her last appearance in public was He would have to be an imaginat Sir George's Dance's garden- IN the list for the Easter law tive man who decided to form a party in Regent's Park last sum- sittings in London only five actions dining-club of all discoverable memmer, when she talked pluckily about

Gen, Berenguer was released on Pago 9. May 10. bers of his family related by blood

being quite herself again and of were entered. This is a smaller or marriage. The banking family of resuming her dance-giving; but she Chiang Kai Shek is dispatching It is reported that Marshal number than has been known for the Honres are to form such a club, was obviously failing. Those dancer three of his trasted crack divisions several years, and it follows a

Happily, in their case, the convener which took place weekly in herunder General Koo Chuk Tung to period during which such cases

situation.

Page 9. have been notably declining. The can look back on ten generations drawing-room in the afternoons the South to cope with the Canton decreases can scarcely be due to the or more of recorded and stainless were quite a feature of London life.

That there is a possibility of n family history.

The hostess danced as energetically

Franco-German compromise in re- fact that fewer betrothals are

as anybody, and made her guests gard to the projected Austro-Ger- broken off; during the past year

feel at home instantly. For she inna Customs Union is indicated by there has been, among those doings

was a born "manager," and many Paris and Berlin messages. Page 9. which are noted in the newspapers,

stories (some of them quite apo & curiously large number of engage- dustries issue their annual reportaments which have come to nothing.

cryphai) are told of her business during the spring, and as the cool, Lawyers are said to attribute the so called when, in the early acumen. Like so many comedy ac absence of this kind of litigation 'eighties, a slim, sandy-haired young tresses, of the front rank-Miss | iron and steel, and engineering

actor Aamer Beerbohm Tree drew Marie Tempest, Mies Gladys to the prevalence of briefer en-all London by his performance as Cooper, Miss Constance Collier, and industries form so large and im-

gagements; where a young woman Macari in Called Back." It was Mias Marie Löhr among them-Lady portant a part of the country's has spent at the most, six months here that, rather more than 20 years Wyndham started na a chorus girl. economy these reports are cugerly of her life instead of six years or

ago, musical comedy flourished as She married James, Albery, the read. This was especially the case more in waiting for a young man a serious rival to that at Daly's dramatist, very early, in life and re- to carry out his promise any and the Gaiety. It saw the produc- tired from the stage for some years, this year. As was only to be ex-damage to her subsequent career by tion of such successes as "Miss to reappear at the Criterion with pected in view of the depression his refusal, is obviously much Hook of Holland," Lady Mnd- Wyndham. of 1030, only a few of these companies could show a profit on the year's trading, but the "Brial

MANY of the British "heavy" in-

GENERAL MEETING of SHARE-Aerated Water Manufacturers. results in a number of other case

HOLDENS will be held at the Re- GISTERED OPPics of the Company, KINO'S THEATRE BUILDING, 5TH FLOOR on SATURDAY, the 16TH DAY of MAY, 1981, at 11 o'clock in the FORENOon, to receive the Direc tors' Report and Accounts for the period ended Elst DECEMBER, 1980, ? to Elect Auditors, and to Transact such other Business as may be Pro- perly Transacted at on 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 9rx to the 16Tя DAY of MAY, 1931. Both Days inclusive.

LIANG CHI HAO,

Managing Dincter. Hongkong, 30th April, 1931.

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THE

THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on TUESDAY, the 19 MAY, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the Year ended the 81st

DECEMBER, 1931.

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were not as insatisfactory as had bern anticipated. The end of the first quarter of 1931 has closed with a little morę activity in certain of these industries and generally the outlook, is regarded as brighter. ( The Times publishes in a supple meat from time to time figures, the study of which reveals how certain British industries are faring Particularly interesting are the

lighter than under the older system. At the same time, if bus bands are to be regarded as a valuable form of property-and they must be so regarded when people go to court over the with- drawal of a promised acquisition it might have been thought that when potential husbands were fewer their value would increase However, the gaps created by the Great War do not seem to have had that effect. Any shortage of possible husbands has probably been more than corrected by the greater economic independence of women,

The Prince of Wales' Theatre, London, which is for sale, was originally called the Prince's, and it

WAS A Very Flat Bear Baron.

hont. Do from rising when it Portuguese Guinea, this morning, according to n

Its weight prevented the dying-

attempted to start for Bclama,

wireless message Page 9. from the machine....

Prince and Princess Takaiinisu arrived from Toronto on the con- Canada and saw the famous falls clusion of their tour of Eastern

by night which were specially huminated by voloured artificial Page 0. lights.

A momentous decision was taken by the International Chamber of Commerce Congress which formally recorded its conviction that War Debts should be open for re-exami- nation, pointing out that the inte- A new method of discouraginggrity of the obligations are funda- racketeers is being tried by the mental for the maintenance of inter- New York police. They are deny national credit and the expansion Page 2: ing them publicity. Arthur Schultz, n notorious beer baron, swaggered Mrs. Elinor Glyn spoke of women. into the police station hero and an- Miss Ethel Mannin spoke of style and sex. Candide lay on the table nouneed that he was ready to be

A man who, at the critical time, and slept. A cat, they say, may questioned about a shooting affray added up five rows of five figures laugh at a king, at a literary ent one assumes, may sleep at a best-in Club Abbey, a fashionable New and said "Royal Irish Horse Artil- Elinor Glyn's favourite Persion. Be it had been supposed that Schultz against a drunkenness conviction. Candide is a cat-Mrs. York night club, some weeks ago. Iery, has won a Sussex appeal was among the guests at Foyle's literary luncheon at the Criterion was killed in this fight, and he Science is still trying to find a Restaurant. He sat on Mrs, Glyn's staged his reappearance with melo- ready test which may be aniver lap, with two paws on the table,

cap" and The Schoolgirl" (in which Miss Edna May charming). Later it became the home of some Charlot revues and, in grim contrast, of "Journey's End.

Elinor Glyn's Cat.

seller.

sible to train a cat

of commerce.

"Royal Irish}"

Local Notes and Events

'H. E. the Governor has appointed Lieut.-Commander T. C. Stiff, R.D., R.N.R., to act as Assistant Harbour Master.

H.E. the Governor has fixed July lat as the date for the coming into force of the resolution altering the valuation percentages payable as rates.

Rev. Father G. Byrue, S.J., will One case of typhoid was report- give an address nt to-morrow'sed during the 24 hours ended May Rotary Club tiffin on "Our Emo-

tional Life."

Mr. F. A. Hopkins, the new Assistant Superintendent of Pri- sons, who recently arrived her from Cyprus, has been appointed a commissioner to administer oaths

B.

Looking Back 25 Years.

statistics showing industrial profits which has brought about, a balanc- and he even maintained is poise dramatic effect. To his great dis-sally applied in eases of suspected in 1930 in certain groups of allieding shortage of would he wire. when the fish course was served appointment, the police declined to drunkenness. A telegram, from. trades. These are based on repre- We are a very long way from they expression of discipline.

Candide," said Mrs. Glyn, in question him about that night's Indianapolis tells of a demonstra

You events, and even refused to ring sentative companies, the position days when marriage was the only cannot train a woman, we all know, up the newspapers to announce histion by the American Chemical So- of the whole group being deduced career open to vast numbers of but I wanted to see if it was pou return. Instead, they escorted the eiety of an improved testing device,

that he ab- crestfallen racket chief to the city The suspected person's breath is from a representative few. Accord middle-class women; the girl of soluteh obeys. I claim that Can- limits and told him not to come ing to these figures (based on eleven to day inarries because she wants dide does so. He is really a paychic back, announcing "We're not blown into a twopenny toy balloon. companies) for the coal, iron and to and not because she is looking ent."Romanticism," said Miss going to build you up into a hera From there it is bubbled through steel trades the year 1930 opened for a livelihood. And on the live good, but the rex interest, Insts for Court prosecutions against racket-white if there is alcohol in the mis- "makes you feel very by giving you a lot of publicity," a red liquid, which turns almost Mannin, not unpromisingly; but from the fihood side of marriage diminishes ever, if you know what I mean." eers usually fail and merely result pect's body. The only sag is that the presence of alcohol does not summer onward a species of dry in importance the damages that are Everybody (except Candide) looked in adding to the prestige and flat- ret" set in. For example, coal, to be gained from a sudden with very knowing..

tering the vanity of these men. prove drunkenness. which in the Arst quarter of the drawal of that basiness opening year carned' à net profit equal to

are correspondingly decreased. Yet ta. 1/37d, per ton of coal produced it cannot be said that juries tend throughout the country, sustained to be altogether unsympathetic to in the third quarter an average this type of litigation; they still luss per ton of 2408. Pig iron award daraages of some sort where production fell during the year damages are claimed. But these from 7,580,000 tons in 1920 to aro queer and unsatisfactory cases 6,197,000 tons in 1830, and the out to take to court, and it seems put of steel ingots and castings healthy sigu that they should be from 0,050,000 tons to 7,208,000 tons,

growing rarer. --Prices of these commodities follow- ed the general downward trend of all materials, and the, average price of a representative grade of The Ascetic Chancellor. pig iron fell by 121 per cent, during the year, while the price of tin plates' declined by nearly 175 per

H.E. the Governor has appointed cent. The net profits of this group (he began his political career as Commander J. B. Newill, D.8.O., of eleven firms were, however, a representative of the Catholic | R.N. (retired), to act as Harbour nearly twice as much as those Trades Union), he has practised Master and Director of Air Ser-rates, subject to a minimum charge in 1929, being £077,097 against the austerity of his early days. He|vices. £377,670. This enabled an average is tho must ascetic Chancellor who i dividend to be paid on the ordinary has ever ruled Germany. His per- stock of 3.7 per cent. as against sonal needs are frugality itself. only 2.8 per cent, in the previous His. wardrobe is limited to the year. Reserves and other appro- minimum of necessity. He occupies priations were larger in 1930 than only two rooms of the Chancellor'a in 1929, but the carry-forward was residence, turning over the rest to not so great. These changes were the public as a Bismarck museum. not, of course, considerable, but More remarkable still, he is one of were on the right side and the more the few Ministers on the Continent welcome in the general depression, who do not complain of the men'

In so large an industry earning greness of their salary. He even It is notified that H.E. the Gover. power is generally very varied, and returns the unused balance to the nor-in-Council has given directions for the rescission of the Order of last year the profits in the different Treasury-an net which has struck January 29, declaring Bangkok to branches of the industry proved no terror into the heart of German be a place at while plague prevail exception to this rule. Although Civil Servants. Two years ago | ed. relatively few railway contracts Germans were complaining that

According to information received placed, the carriage and they had no men. To-day many of from the local. Consulate General Bignal-making. Arma maintained them believe they have found their for the Netherlands, the poll-tax, Club their profits and dividends. Textile strong man-in his modesty and in engineers deserer found sendi. his patience a type of strong

more.. difficult man for Germany-Dr. Brüning.

were

tions in 1930 oven

Ever since Dr. Brüning, the Ger man Chancellor; dame with his carpet-bag from Cologne to Berlin

A petition by Messrs. John D. Hutchison for the winding up of the Lai Wali Company is to be heard in the Supreme Court at 2.30 pm, on the 22nd instant.

We understand that the Unofficial members of the Legislative Council and the Sanitary Board have been appointed to sit as a commission to inquire into the subject of con." plaints under the Building Ordi- It is notified for information nance and into other matters affect- accepted at the Radio Office for the Public Works Department and that daily letter telegrams are now ing the working of the staffs of transmission to places in Europe at the Sanitary authority. It will be approximately one-third ordinary remembered that at the last meet- ing of the Sanitary Board Mr. for twenty-five words and to forty Hewett indicated that the Governor eight hours' delay.

had appointed, a committee of five to investigate certain complaints. We regret to hear that Mr. R. but we understand this committe E. Lindsell had a slight accident has been since enlarged so as to recently in which he injured nue make the scope of its inquiries more of his knees. This did not doter comprehensive. The commission will him, however, from appearing in be reated with full power-Hong “Caroline," an A.D.C. production Kong Daily Press, May H, 1908. The Gazette contains the list of given at the Peak Club on Satur- medical practitioners for the day. We wish Mr. Lindsell a Looking Back 50 Years, Colony. There are 167 names on speedy recovery, the list. The Dental Register, con

At a nesting of the trustees of taining 22 names, is also publish- tement in this issue in connce 10th instant, the following division Attention is drawn to an adver. St. John's Cathedral held on the tion with to-night's dance at the was made of the sum of 8511.08, City Hall, organised by the offertory funds which had secumu. Cheero Club. These dances have lated since Christmas: - Appre- been held every month during the priated to defray debit balanco winter, and the present function is on Cathedral accounts, 1880-1881, the last for this season. Tickets $130.20; to pay for boxen fired at are 81, and will be on sale at the the doors and sundry other ex- door. On Wednesday evening, compensen, 827.50; to the Bishop of mencing at 8, the usual monthly Victoria for Missions, 8100; to the concert will be given at the Olieero Seaman's Chaplaincy fund, 8100; An excellent programme for the poor 825; for the Diocesan which has to be paid for admittance has been arranged by Mrs. L. C. Home, 850; further grant to Cathe into Netherland East India, will bo F. Bellamy. There is no admission dral funds, 879.99; Total 6511,08-* increases from 100 guilders to 150 charge All Service men are cor- Hong Kong Daily Press, May 11, gülders from July 1 nest.

ed.

dially invited to both Junction

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