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MEMBERS are asked to Note that IVE the LIST of SUBSCRIPTION PONIES for Next Year's Stooptochas ing CLOSES at NOON on MAY 20TH to

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Exchango Building,

IN THE SUPREME COURT of

HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE Goods or WILLIAM JOHN MARTIN, LATE 07 PAINO KWAXO TUKO, IN TE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, TIDE SURVEYOR, IN THE CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS, DECEASED.

TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN Nthat the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Boction 68 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the TWENTY-Taing Day or MAY, 1931.

All Creditore and others are accord. Ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.

Dated this 2′′rd'day of April, 1931.

DEACONS,

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Splicitors for the Administratrix. 1, Des Vmex Road Central, Hong Kong.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

In Tax Goopa or KEITH FEN. TON CRAWFORD, LATE OF 45, BRAHMORE BOAD, HOVE, IN

WATSON'S

LEMON

SQUASH

MADE FROM REAL

CALIFORNIAN

LEMONS AND,

THE PUREST OF CANE SUGAR.

DELICIOUS

AND REFRESHING

SUMMER BEVERAGE.

THE COUNTY OF SUBBEL, KA.

LAND, MERCHANT, DECEASED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nthat the Court hat, by virtue

of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinanca No. 2 of 1897, made an Order

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limiting the Time for Creditors and Aerated Water Manufacturers. others to and in their Claims against

the abors Estate to the TWENTY-THIRD

DAY OF MAY, 1931.

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Hong Kong..

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HE List of Subscribers to the THE

above will GLOBE at NOON on SATURDAY, 2018 May, 1931.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on TUESDAY, the 19TH MAY, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts 734) for the Year, ended tho 81st DECEMBER, 1991.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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JARDINE, MATHESON&TERAL MEETING of VOTING Hong Kong, 28th April, 1931. (002 CLUB HOUSE, HAFT VALLEY, on WEDNESDAY, 27TH MAY, 1981,

16.30 P.M.

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All members are cordially invited to attend and participate in any discussion which may ensue.

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the Report of the Board of resolution will be proposed :-- sector and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DECEMBER 1930 and of electing Directors and &aditors

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULOSED from 157H MAY, 1931, to 22nd MAY, 1991, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directora, ·

·HERBERT R. STURT,

.Secretary.

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"THAT Article 6 of the Articles "of Association of the Club ba "altered by deleting therefrom the,

·" words "Ordinary Members may "be unlimited in number" and *substituting therefor the words,

The number of Ordinary "Members shall be one thousand "two hundred or such greater "number as the Voting Members

shall (727

from timo to time

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AND NOTTOE is ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a further EXTBAOR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBERS of the Clab will be held at the same place on WEDNESDAY, the SEVEN- TEENTH DAY or JUNE, 1981, at a quarter past FIVE O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON, for purpose of receiving Bix-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments a Report of the proceedings at the above mentioned mosting and of confirming if thought it as a Special Rosolution the above mentioned Rosolution

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT,

Yesterday's weather report, cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.35 p.m., -slated:-

* News and Views *

Finia or Interregnum?

Topsy Turvy Land,

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

sound breakfast consisting of 10 or of rice, vegetables or salt-fishiy fore-salt, and a drink of tea. The mid-' a favouring of chutney, oil and day meal is a pint of congee (2 ozs. rice, oz. beans, with salt.) Supper more or less repeats the opening A feeble anti-cyclone is central meal. The long term prisoner gets to the SW. of Korea. A depres-more rice, more fresh vegetable, and sion lies over 5.W. China.

either beef or fresh fish for supper.

Fifty-eight years. havo passed We have all heard China'referred Lovat Forecast: E,

The Indinn dietary includes the national curries, four, rice, dall, sinte Spain last grew tired of the to as "Topsy Turvy land but it chutney, etc., to be prepared ac Bourbon dynasty and provinimed in a little surprising to learn from cording to national custom.

For the short term convict who Republic. It wanted but two years a contemporary that the reign of isil conducted .or

"Idle," the of the anarchy that ensued to con- Shun Chich (the first. Emperor of daily ration is to be as follows: vineo its people that rule by a con- the Manchu Dynasty) "began in European Bread, 1b, with stitutional monarch waspreferable. 1944" and that "he died in 1601. water, daily; Chinese: Rice, 12 01 The call then came to Don Alfonso's Not less surprising is it to rend marine office, is retiring on pension, Bait, oz, with water," daily; Indian; Flour, 12 ozs., salt, or,

winda,

moderate; generally overcast; some

rain.

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tal. 30261, Night Editor (Wanchai Olce):

Tel. 24311. London Office: 83, Fleet Street, with water, daily.

E.O. 4.

For the old hand who breaks out,

father, Alfonso XII, who died six months before the birth of his son, What thoughts, one wonders, dees that reflection awaken in the mind of the deposed monarch 1

Press. Baial parts of Indian meal and Lady Oxford's Help,

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, MAY 18, 1831.

PRISON FARE.

THE current number of the Govern- ment Gazette contains an item of human interrat. It gives the new prison dietary, set in force on May 7th, and states in exact detail what every, prisoner is to cat and drink during every day of his sentence, be it a matter of a week or a life term. There is a weekly routine and if you are a conviet you keep count of what day it is by this, nature of your menu. There is no variation for summer or winter, and a reprieved murderer knows exactly what meals the Government plans to give hun for the next twenty years of his life. The diet ap pears to be sufficient, and in fact generous, especially for the Chinese

prisoner.

things are not quite so severe. Stir- about is served for dinner, Stir- about 'in dracribed as follows:-

oatmeal, with salt The Indian men! requires more cooking than the oatmeal. To minke, 11 pints of stirabout, boil 2) pints of water, to which far, salt should be added: stir in 3 oz of Indiún meal, and afterwards o of oatmeal; keep constantly stirring, and when the meals are cooked, the required quantity of 14 pints of 'stirabout will be produced.

The diet for Chinese and Indians is a generous one. On the other hand a mere sufficiency of plain food, monotonously regular in quantity and quality, is not likely to lessen fear of prison. For Earo peans who get themselves into trouble there is plain food, enough to keep up strength and physique, but hardly, when we consider that the cooking is not likely to be pleasure to eating. dainty, of a kind that lends much

The authority responsible for the dietary has done its taak with with marked imagination. Meals humanity, and good sense, if not must assume an enormous import ance to men and women in prison. To keep convicts short of food leads to mental depression and desperation, nor enn food that is wholly unappetising build up mental and physical health. The modern theory of prison is that it should be a place of hard work, The European undergoing a short strict, discipline and, good health, It should seek to make its inmates term of hard labour, or for the fit to re-enter life as decent and first three months of a long een-well-equipped, citizens when they tence, starts his day, with ozs.

leave its gates. It is not a mere place of torment, and if a diet that of breed, and a pint of gruel, ten would shock Bumble is required to or cocon. The regulations do not get the best results, then it is only state whether you can pick or right that convicts should have it. And a little extra money for prison choose between these accompani- fare is cheap if it saves first menta of the brend of affliction, or offenders frem losing hope and be- whether they are served alternately coming old lags, or at the Governor's discretion, but what they are is as follows:-- Gruel: each pint to contain 2 oz. oatmeal; or, molasses, with salt; Cocoa: each pint to contain 3. oz. finice cocon or nibs, 2 oz. sugar and 2 czy milk; Toa: each pint to contain oz ten, 7 oz. sugar and 2 ozs. milk.

A PARASITE TO THE

RESCUE.

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A VERY interesting story of research.

Mr. A. 8. M. Hutchinson and his pretty wife are, I hear, con Eastbourne, templating leaving where they have lived for the last year in an attractive house called Dittona few minutes walk from the golf courRO, Mr. Hutchinson first became a bestsellor with If Winter Comes," and though he has never met Endy Oxford, Mrs. Hutchins often tells her friends that her husband attributes much of the success of this famous nove to that good lady. Lady Oxford in her memoirs mentions that she over A, 8. M. Hutchinson's story. went to sleep one night crying This was probably the finest piece to any book! of publicity she could have given

Case for a New Museum.

* Murder From Pity."

A

case

on the same page of the same paper that Inspector Chevalier prosecuted

Our Kong foon nows will be found on

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Mr. Soopin Soonderam, a well- known member of the local Hindu community, who has perved for thirty-eight years' in the mercantile

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To-day's wireless programme. ··

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woman on May 10." for keeping on unlicensed police establishment." Naturally the police union object Sport.

ed!

Any Claimants?

Lawn Bowls League, results appear on

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Mr. Leo Frost was the outstand ing jockey at Saturday's raco meet-

terday

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