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Manager

Hong Kong, 80th May, 1991.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

COMPANIES (WINDING UP)

No. 1 of 1931,

IN THE MATTER OF THE CHINESE;

PARTNERSHIPS

ANCE 1911

AND

ORDIN

IN THE MATTER OF THE COM. PANIES ORDINANCE 1911

AND

IN THE MATTER OF. E. HING & CO, ALBO XNOW AS E, HING CHAN AND ABE, BING.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DIVIDEND.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Notis intended to declare

FIRST AND FINAL DIVIDEND in the above Matter, and Creditors, WHO HAVE

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that ways and means will be found, MOALEN-N1881M,On May 25, as though no one will anvy tho Shanghai, Nicut, second daugh-Chancellor of the Exchequer who ter of Mr. Luo D. Nissius, shoulders such a job, 'If he can do to SIMEON Joseur, kecond son of it the fact that the enterprise will Mr. and Mrs Mostes, of show an adequate return on ex- Oh! Shanghai.

penditure is a sound enough reason for undertaking it. That, it will provide employment for thousands of men, both skilled and unskilled, is a reason for deciding rapidly and if agreed upon for making a start with the minimum of delay. Nor is the effect upon industry likely

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Hani Koko, Max 30, 1931.

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FOR BRITAIN?

Tua report of the Weir Committee on the electrification of Britain's

railway system contained a mass of evidence na to how much a project should be undertaken and how much it would cost. Recommenda tions had not been asked for, but the evidence for electrification was, on economic grounds, irresistible. The Committee have not hidden the

bigness of the, undertaking. The complete conversion of main and

branch lines (but not suburban) would take from fifteen to twenty years and would cost £261,000,000 The Committee reckon that the

* News and Views ⭑

"The Royal Academy stands for

good now idena."--The President of progress and the encouragement of the Academy.

The Will to Live.

11

What Did Ho Deserve i

The casa had ended. Counsel had

Sessions retired to consider their said their last words. The gentle- mon of the jury at the London

| verdict. They were away only s few minutes. Then they filed back. There was a silence in court as pri- soner and prosecution waited for the verdict. But the foreman anid: We have just discovered that one heard any of the evidence." jury had to be discharged at once

When a man committed suicide by 10001 tore away material which affected by the work done. What filled the cracks in the door, and is loosely called the "psychological effect" might Lo tremendous." Wo are to-day in process of undergoing

to be confined to the trades specintly in Liverpool a puppy in the of the juryinen ja deaf and has not

or

new industrial revolution. It would be wrong to say that the Coal Aga WOR ended, Coat, translated into electric energy, KAR, oil, will continue to dominate industry. But the age which depended for its industrial power upon the burning of raw con is certainly drawing near ita end. That Great Britain should recognise that fact, and, in the midet of her economic disorders and difficulties, should net about n grent scheme of national reconstruction to meet the new conditions, would mark her as the leader of the now

industrial revolution as she was of the old-a leadership of incalculable valua to her international trade and prestige:

OPEN AIR "TALKIES."

Two talking films now being shown at local theatres, The Big Trail, at the King's Theatre, and Trader IN A JOYOUS GURGLE.avings in current costs due to Queen's, Star and World Theatres, the Horn, simultaneously nt

electrification would give a return suggest that a very welcome deve |of about 7 per cent, on capital | |lopment is now taking place in The expended. Even this satisfactory the cinematograph drama...

thereof they will be excluded from the A. S. WATSON & Co., figure is based solely on direct

benefit of any Distribution made before" ench Dabta are proved.

Dated the 20th day of May, 1931.

E. L. AGASSIZ,

Official Receiver and Liquidator of E. Biro & Co., also known as E. HING QuaN and as E. Hind

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Dated the 27th day of May, 1991.

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INDO.CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION CO., LIMITED. THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be Leid at the Offices of the General

MEINS & CO., LTD., PEDDER STREET, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 17TH JUNË, 1931, at NOON for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, paming the Accounta, and electing Directors and Auditora.

JARDINE, MATgers,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10rn JUNE to 1ST JULY, 1931, Boll Days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD. General Managers, Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.

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ORIENT.

silent fim, in the course of some

survived.

The Flapper.

Archaeologists have been anding coffins in Jutland containing the bodies of women of the Bronze Age, pickled by vegetable substances,

All the women had long hair and long clothes, but now the digging parties have found the flapper of the tribe, a fully grown woman with short skirta and cropped hair.

The Politician.

The theatre manager at Mattoon, Illinois, decided on a new publicity policy. He offered free admission to all children who would bring one FF piece for charity. Two thou Band children came, but the theatre could only hold 1132 of them. So the rest threw their eggs at the theatre-front.

Worcestershire Sauce.

Tiw

and the caso had to be retried with A new Juryman in the place of the one who was dent.

New Civil Service Age Limit.

Important changes in the ro gulation ago for retirement from the French Civil Servico have been approved by State." in many cases

the Council or the age limit has hitherto been only 80 but in future it will normally be 60. Members of the police and Cus- toma officers are among those who' have enjoyed the privilego" of ro tirement at 50, while for other classes of civil servants the age was 55. Curtain high "cficials will now have to remain in servico until they are 62, 63, ar 65.

first-class inspectors group are general of the Ministry of Air and somo officials of the Ministry of Labour. Any civil servants may in fact,

retained beyond the

limit. #go

for from year to five years it s

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In this

SUMMARY OF NEWS

| Local and Far East.

H.K.V.D.C. orders. Mr. Pepys in Hong Kong.

Local Company meetings.

Page 0.

Page 0.

Page 10. Benjamin & Potts weekly review of the local stock market. Page 12. Arrangements for King's Birth- day celebrations.

Page 7. Hong Kong Stook Market: Crou cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 7. resident, died at Home on Wednes

Mr. G. R. Edwards, an old lven).

Page 7. day.

A private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was com mitted for trial, on a charge of rabbery.

Page 7. eur hiking correspondent gives

interesting picture of the dis turbed state of the Province of Page 7. 1.Kiangsi,

Week-end radio programmes,

Page 12.

Sport.

U.S. baschall results. Page 10. Entries and weights for the seventh Extra Race Meeting.

Latest Cables.

Page 7.

Senator Pittman, who is on his silver question, arrived at Yoko- way to Shanghai to investigate the

hama yesterday morning, Page 9.

A fragment of the country of special decree applying to them Flint, cut off from the main body is approved at a Ministrin Couno Sun Fo replying to the tele

of the shira, may shortly be absorbcil, ed in England. !

Worcestershire in the worst offen-

among scattered

der

Joan and Peter.

Paymal

Children's Hour,

A message from Nanking states that Chiang Kai Shek has wired

ram from Sun Fo, Wang Ching Wei and Tang Shao Yi urging him to resign.

Page D.. A new record for flight from counties. **Other Woman" to Pay £8.

India to England in a light fuse county spread over the maptured to fix the cash value of a hus-Officer, John Gricson, who reached There are eight pieces of this dif The Versailles Court has venneroplane has been made by Pilot the parent county and seven scrape.band's faithfulness to his wife. Lympne Aerodrome last night in Isolated pieces of Worcestershire The judgment might tempt one to four and half days after leaving five thousand mila while one fragment, a square mile worth mach in France for may be found in Staffordshire, suppose that the observaner of mar-Karachi, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, riage vows is not thought to be distant.

the Many distinguished scientists, in- in size, is attached to Oxfordshitc, damages awarded amounted to cluding Sir Frederick Hopkins

only £8. Tho plaintiff, Mme. President of the Royal Society, and Gattet, whose husband died in 1998, Lord Rutherford were much im- had asked for £800. It was, expressed by a demonstration at plained that M. Gattet, a school the factory of Messrs Spicers, twenty years of rapid development To-day comes the news that they inspector. Tell in love some time Limited, Cambridgeshire, of the economics in the earringe, of exist had evolved a subtle and complex have exhumed and photographed before his death with a Mlle. Pay- new colour film process, which that

the remains of Peter Cauchen,mal. Mme. Gattet held that his firm has developed, ing traffic. It takes no account of technique: Actors, producers and Bishop of Beauvais, who excom gifts to the other woman were made the increase in traffic which would camera mon knew how to play upor municated Joan of Arc, and hand-at the expense of the family pro- the emotions of their audiences and ed her over to the English and the perty, and asked the Civil Tri. be likely to be brought about by could produce their effects by deli Shaw's heroine calls him He re- ought to make material restitution.

atake in 1431. Poor Petersbunal to say that Mlle.

The Bishop of Ely warned-too improved services, or by winning cato touches,

presented authority and the Maid Counsel for Mile Paymal main arduous church workers when he back some of the great volume of

represented heresy. But after his tained, however, that the affection preached at St. Paul's recently. He With the sound picture the whole death he was excommunicated and with which his client had sur said: "It is more important that business which has gone over to fabric crashed. As Miss Many formally cursed by the head of his rounded M. Gattet had given her a father should use the children's her visit to church, while the woman he him- the right to accept his presents. hour for working or reading thun the roads Further, the Committee PICKFORD said, on

that he should be with them 1 Ab- Hongkong. "We are again at the had excommunicated was pro- This view was taken by the court. estimate that to complete the eléc

claimed a saint, And now they |It held, however, thát Mlle. Pay- | sorption in work has often had beginning. For a long time we have dug up his unpretentious mal ought to compensate Mme. lamentable results on family life. trification of suburban lines would shall have to go back to crude stuff, bones and clicked a camera shutter Gattel for "the moral prejudice" It may not only lead to lack of CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME Cost Bome £45,000,000 and would We shall learn the refinementa fall on the 500-year old drama of this ground that £8 damages was tions, but may prejudice children at them. Will the curtain never which sho had suffered. It was on confidence between the two genera-

bring in the handsome return of 13 | Inter."

obvious line of Joan t

against the work.” per cent. Furthermore, the demand ndrance was to reproduce the ela- borate revues at which the New for locomotive power would mean an outlay by the Central Electricity York theatre excels, "Broadway Board of about £50,000,000, which Melody," with its glitter, and rush,

and unexpectedness, backed by a f would not only pay for itself but story of quite genuine pathos, was would appreciably reduce the cost of power. for industrial purposes.productions hardly came up to ex- a brilliant start, but subsequent

In short, the country is given the pectations. Simultaneously, how chance to invest nearly £400,000,000

ever, some very good crook 'dramas at a profit. Well may the Commit appeared, though they did not get tee conchide that "the magnitude quite the thrill of the silent picture of this would be unique in the versions of The Bat, The Cat and history of the world.”

the Canary, and the Thirleenih Chair. Still they did not fall far short, and, with the added resource THE HONG KONG DAILY political difficulties are substantial, of mound, one knew that in time KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through Weir Repart has shown that the would be eliminated.

PRESS, LTD., and the HONG, but by no means insuperable. The the weak dialogus and other faults their London Office, at 53, FIZET STREET, E.C. 4, Tel: 3137, are pre- sum apent on conversion to electric

What one misled, however, was pared to give Subscribers and working would be a good in- Visitors advice regarding accomvestment.

the out-of-door effects, which were But it would be an modation available, motoring faci

the great charm of the silent film, lities, suitable shopping centres,

exceptionally large investment.

and the source of its advantage Suppose the railway companies If, when at home, they will call attempted to complete the work over the theatre. "The "talkie" has or telephone to the above address, in fifteen years, and to spread it been largely an indoor affair, pre they will receive the utmost aust

senting stages and drawing rooms, anco and the latest availabile infor evenly over that period. They mation on all subjects of enquiry would have to borrow at tip rats of thieves, kitchens, and sets" not will be placed at their disposal.

more convincing than theatrical

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★ Local Notes and Events

Ono case (Chinese) of diphtheria was reported on Thursday.

Looking Back 25 Years.

A fuki of a tea shop at 233, The body of a Chinese woman Queen's Road East, fell from the aged 40 years was found washed roof of the premises on Thursday up on the foreshore at Bailey's whilst drying ten leaves and died Shipyard at 16.35 a.. on Thurs after being rushed to hospital. The day and was removed to the Row- man was 31 years of age.

During the 48 hours ending at loon Mortuary where a post-mortem noon on May 23, 20 plague cases examination was held. It was re were reported; eighteen of them Pleading guilty to possession of | venied that the drecnued died from

fatal. The return for the week end- ing May, 20 was 116 cases and 116 6.5 tacla of raw opium in Wang drowning, it being suspected that deaths. With the exception of three Street on Thursday, a woman, Yip she had committed suicide.

Indian cases, all were Chinese. The Ying, was fined $195 or in default

Indian Plague Commission aro Baid to have definitely proved that six weeks' imprisonment by Mr. A belater report has been made rat's fleas are the normal vehicles Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis to the police by the master of a of infection in animals, and prob- tracy yesterday,

trading junk to the effect that his ably in man. This has been arrived vessel was pirated on May 1, near at by showing that animals pro- The General Electric Refrigera the So See Moon Pass in Chinese tected by fine wire gauze remain tors wish to announes that, in order waters, by three men carrying short immune in plague infected build- to accommodate the many people arme, At the time of the piracy, ings, while unguarded contacts con- who were unable to view the first the junk was carrying a consign-tract the disease in large number: exhibition, they are giving another ment of singlets and piecegoods Although Ogata as far back as 1807 demonstration of their models at from Shaukiwan to buyers in Wai- showed that titurated flens of rate the Wing On Co. (ground floor) be chau. The total value of the booty were infective, the theory of insect tween the hours of 5 pm, and 7 scized by the pirates was about transmission has been generally P.. on the let, 2nd and 3rd Jung.

$200,

pooh-poohed," and much of the credit.of bringing the matter again Captain Glen Liston, LM.S-Hong to the fore is undoubtedly due to Kong Daily Press, May 30, 1000, Looking Back 50 Years.

£20,000,000 a year, and it is very

Beginning with June 1, the Royal unlikely that the effect of the

Observatory, Hong Kong, will issue officer, who lived at 51, Bonham Mr. R. Laceda, formerly a ship's savings obtained would be felt soon

new Synoptic Weather Report, Road, committed suicide on Thurs enough to meet the charges on isese

details of which are given in a day night by taking a heavy doco Notice to Mariners recently issued loans for the first few years. It

and distributed to shipping Com- of veronal. The deceased was 57 would be necessary to assist the

panies, etc. Copies of this notice years of age and was of Spanish The Army and Navy Garette descent. It is thought that long saya:-We understand that the Ad- KONG DAILY PRESS, 31, railway companies to tido over this noises of naduro are reproduced. may be had on application to the unemployment had preyed upon miralty has expressed to the late

Observatory.

AGENCIES.

The

London

HONG

Both Trader Horn and The Big Trail take place in the open air Real scenary extends before the eye, trees wave in the wind, and the

his mind. He was rushed to hos Commander-in-Chief in Chins the pital on Thursday night when it opinion of the Board that the Iron was found that he was suffering Duke episode was, in all its bear- from the effects of poison, but in ings, unsatisfactory. At the time spite of every effort, he passed away at the grounding we pointed out circumstances that called for the 10.15 p.m.

strictest inquiry, and also ex- was so long, delayed. That surprise pressed surprises when the inquiry

the "application of Det.-Bergt. J. Admiralty, and the delays in order- Kennedy. It was stated in Courting the court-martial were unfortu For the theft by bailes of `n mah that the defendant had been in the nato in the result, ne material wit- appear. In

yesterday committed to the House Paul Augusto, a Filipino, was

Ollies of the

FLEET STREET, E.C.4, is constant initial period, until the ecomoniy There is no limit, to the possibili- ly receiving Enquiries from Home

The great In an attempt to commit suicide Manufacturers regarding Suitable of electric working began to tell. tics of the "talkie." Firms to not as Agents for their Then the underwriting of so large operas, tragic and comic, could be a man named Leung Ho aged 30, products in Hong Kong, and

of the Ko Shing Hing shop in Fonth China.

a loan is in itself a formidablo shown with a splendour and 'a'

Queen's Road West, jumped off the If Loca Companies desirous of taking

problem. Similar sums have been phantary undreamed of by their Shamshuipo ferry boat Man Pat, up further Agencies will let ne raised in recent years for electrical authors. We shall one day, no on Thursday as the launch was on know the Lines in which they are development, but twenty millions in doubt, see the ghostly Flying Dutch-shuipo. The man was rescued and its way from Hong Kong to Sham- interested the information' will be forwarded to London and passed one lump is a big thing for any man crash through a galo, T-taken to the Goverment Civil Hos-of. Detention by. Mr. Williams on scoma alno" to have shared by the on to interested parties as op- privata house to handle. Perhaps HAUBER in his haunted forest and pital. portunity offers,

the Government might be enlled in the strange revels of Twelfth Night This Service is offered to our Reader again, as it was to underwrite the in a real Elizabethan garden, jonge, sel, a Chinese was sentenced Colony for the past eighteen months nesses as were unable to

without charge and, of course

one month's imprisomeat by and had during that time obtained the opinion of the Admiralty, we no obligation is incurred on either insurance on the new Cunarders. The Gilbert and Sullivan series to sido.

But the awkward question arise as would make admirable "talkies," Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon work on a abip but had not been understed, the sentences were too Magistracy yesterday. It appears ablo to keep his job. He had con-light for so grave an error, as tha to whether the Government is in a and all, of these may be suspassed that the defendant went to a shop atantly been borrowing money from stranding of the flagship, and there Position to pay out yet more money when mon of first-rate ability write in 100, Sai Yeung Choi Street, and a friend in Hong Kong and had is a feeling of dissatisfaction with even in support of 20 excellent an plays direct for the open air pagean. hired the set for twenty cents, and oven obtained a passage to Shang- all concerned, not omitting the most on the same day he pawned it for hai, but had no sooner gone North senior-Hong Kong Daily Press, object. It is certainly to ho hoped ⋅ try of the talking film.

when he returned again... | May (31) 1881.

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