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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Pablis Austion to be held on TUESDAY: the 47 DAY of. AUGUST, 193), at 9 M., at the Offices of the Pabllo, Works Department, by Order of HIS EXOLLECT THE GOTERMOS, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tea in the of Hong Kong, for a term of. 75 Colony years, with the option of renewal stʼn Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY Tus Kino, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sulo.

Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No. No. 2554.

Fa Yan Street.

Locality.

Boundary Hearure.

imienta, “

Ai por

sale plan.

10,540

28,350.

Annuai

Hental,

Upset Price

Square feet:

(1008,

BRITAINS BEST

BEER!

WHITBREAD'S

PALE ALE

ATTIL

PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Pthe Sale by Public', Auction to be held on TUESDAY, the r DAY of AUGUST, 1931, at 8 P.M... at the Offions of the Public Work

Onder of. Department, by

EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, al

Lot of CROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tani, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of, 75 year, with the option of renewal at & Crown Bent to be first by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE King, for one further term of 75

years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary Measure-

BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD

| No. of Sais.

Registry

Locality.

Kowloon Inland Lot

No. 9555.

Fa Yuen Strest.

ments.

ft. ft. ft. ft.

As per

sale plan

Square fo

10,840

P. M. PINGUET & CO,

JULY, 1981.

194

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$10

SOLE AGENTS:

A.S.WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED,

EST. 1841.

NOTICE.

HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD,

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TAKE NOTICE that Mr. HO SAI MAN having resigned from the Position of Compradere has severed his APPLICATION has been made connection with our Firm as from 25. YEUNG IU TUNG, Duplicate to this Company to issue to

Certificate for 50 Shares in this Com- pany numbered 79886 to 79885, or other Certificate in lieu thereof upon talement that the Original Certificate. No. 655, dated 8th NOVEMBER, 1922, has boon LOST or MISLAID.

909]

P. M. PINGUET &.00..

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

**

THE INAUGURAL RACE MEET. THE

ING of the above Olab will be held (Weather Permitting), at MACAO,

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, if, at the Expiration of One Month from the Date hereof, the above Certificate be not forthcoming

on the dry and 778 SEPTEMBER, the Said Certificate will be deemed

1981.

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms

|| CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT, for the Morting may be obtained at and a NEW CERTIFICATE for the the Offices of MERSA8. PERCY SMITH, Said Shards will be issued in its stead SETH & FLEMING, 6, DE VOZUX by the Company.

ROAD CENTRAL

at the ARIA or

PRAETA, MACÃO, on or after 4TE

AUGUST, 1931.

B. ALVES,

Secretary.

Entries ULUSE at 12 O'clock Hong Kong, 22nd July, 1931. [988 NOON on TUESDAY, 2511 AUGUST,

1931.

996)

W. L. ALEXANDER, Becretary

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED."

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

«FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

THE «Undermentioned Certificates

or 150 Old Shares in this Com pany registered in the Name of the Late ISAAC BAMUEL PERRY have AWO DOLLARS Per Share la

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of bees, LOST or DESTROYED; and these Certificates not be for the Six Months ending 30th produced to the Company before the June, 1931, will be payable on 2010, AUGUST, 1931, Now Certificates WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12TM, on for raid Bhares will be issued and the June, 1911, and, 6765 dated 27th July, Old Certifiestee Nos. 6744 dated 2nd.

will be thereafter treated by

NULL and VOID. Certificate No. 6748 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos. 38501/89550,

which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office, 3, CRATER ROAD Company at NUL

The REGISTER" of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 8an AUGUST: to TUESDAY, the 11TH AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.

1911, for 100. Shares Nos.: 36901/36950

Certificate No. 6765 dated 27th July,

and 129845/120694.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON, General Managers,

[970

By Order of the Board of Directore, Hong Kong, 20th July, 1991,

H. A. RODGERS,

Acting Secretary.

Hong Kong, 21st July, 1981 1987.

FOR SALE.

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MEMBERSHIP.

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Рися 84.500.

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* News and Views *

Mathematics.

cleared. The HoLAN, GREGORY Comunission, which the Government appointed, made recommendations which would have saved the nation 8000 £10,000,000. Actually the Government have put in foro rereedies of the worse abuses only, and involving only a reduction in expensa at about £0,000,000. This was very clever The working Aren't you too young to do classes themselves were getting

that! You are only nix," she anid.

It's all right, missis," replied tired of the more glaring anomalies, the boy. I'm aine while I'm up and these have been removed with- | side down" out, apparently, touching the grent":

A little boy was balancing him- self on his head. An old lady, who know him, came by,

Mayors Make Merry,

A London diarist writes. A friend of mine has just come back from Le Touquet, which was, made the headquarters for all those attend- ing the unveiling of the Haig Where is Wisdom!

Memorial at Montreuil British"

London is growing more and more told me it was easy to understand Just when dress at the opera in Rear G.H.Q" and from what he

conventional and has recovered that the visit had been a very varied completely from that immediately one." "On the lighter!! sido some post-war period when light tweed diversion had been caused by the suits appeared in the stalls, Chicago appearance in the gambling-rooms is going to the opposite

extreme. The fashionable women

of the at the Casino of a number of Eng mass of dole voters--a very con Whampoa Military Academy."

windy city are now going to the lish Mayors, complete with chains siderable factor at a general elee-

opera in sandals and pink lace of office. Emerging from his hotel... Over two thousand cadets hve pyjamas-a useful antidote to tion.

been admitted into the Canton, Wagnerian gloom. Perhaps there next morning my friend had been Military and Political Academy is some significance in the fact that just in time to see them all start- since its reorganisation recently. General Tas Link Him, the vice.jamas are technically described as

plumber-wear," President of the academy, stated lately that the school will open officially for class work on August 1. An advanced course in military science and tactics is offered to officers already serving in the armies.

All this might be called the debit account. But there is plenty on the credit side. Mr. RAMBAY MAC DONALD's policy on foreign, Indian and defonce affairs is capable of searching criticism, by. exparta, but the popular view is that the Government, has genuinely and not unsuccessfully striven for Disarma

at the same time warn-

ment,

|

Arnold Bennett.

An Ambassador's Gift.

2.

|

Pavlova's Peacocks,

ing off on a charnbane four of the noighbourhood. He had also': hnel Occasion" to remark how much less impressive generals, of whom there. were scores, appear when clad in A well-known London wine mer plain clothes. For the Haig statue chant tells a charming little story behind the highest praise. What of the late Dr. Sthamer, the Gerrity it seems that we at home man Ambassador to London. Not should have been so much less sire- far from the German Embassy cusful in producing a lifelike repre- stood, in all weathers, a British ex-sentation of our great war lender! A well-known bookseller's in service man selling matches and ing the World that Great Britain Conduit-street, London, recently umbrella rings. Dr. Sthamer, who had on view the typed manuscript frequently bought a box of matches

It is not only the awan at Ivy, was getting impatient &teneri.from which the printers set Arnold from him, noticed that he looked fices without response." The Indian Bennett's Inst" navel, Imperial ill and wan. He asked the man's Lodge which has been left to mourn the passing of Pavlova the two Round Table Conference on the Palace," and also the author's address, and the following day n

magnificent; peacocks, which have proofs Quito carly on thore was dozen of port reached him. whole enhanced the Government's an example of "third thoughts" on

strutted proudy for years over the torraces of the famous dancer's. prestige, and their collaboration the part of the author. At first he

Hampstead home, have recently with the Conservative and arise that to lounge."

wrate the word "foyer." He alter Moscow's Film Stars.

Then he Attempts of several film actors. to been broadcasting their uncase to tocratie Lord Izwix, n figure who came back to the word he original obtain excessive salaries, have been the neighbourhood. Apparently the bas captured the popular imagina ly wrote "fover." To one galley checked by a ruling issued by the sales of the household effects un- proof, was, attached a long explana Central Committee of the Artists settled the birde. For several. tion won approval. The handling tory note about the internal run- Union, fixing the salaries of all successive days there were throngs cf the recent German moratorium ning of an hotel staff. There was film actors, Under this ruling of strangers in the house and eritis appears to have been steady marginal note in which Mr. Ben- actora and notresace playing lead-grounds. The result was that the nett indicated that "a" hotel, not ing parts receive 270 roubles a peacocks took to spending the night and efficient, even if results were

"on" hotel was his emphatic month. Second leads must be satis.in the trees of nearby gardens, the peor. Mr. SNOWDEN is again choice. Another note in his hand fied with 200 roubles while extras owners of which have had their rest' Editorial and Business Offices: 11guarding the purse, when it comes writing showed that at first he may receive only 160. Only stars considerably broken by piercing:

Ice House Etreet. Tel. 30251.

to raide from foreigners," and thought of calling the hotel round of the first magnitude may be re- screams at regular intervals. The

which the novel centred Royal munerated with the maximum of patients at Manor House Hospital Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24011

for that he is forgiven a jerry built Palace, and then changed to Im-360 roubles per month. The trouble just ncross the road from Ivy Lodge London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

and socialistic budget.

perial Palace. He desired the title is that film stars, unlike those of are among those whose drenma throughout to be Imperial Palnoc,the sky, bave a habit of moving have been turned to nightmares by E.C. 4.

never simply Palace.

money being the motive power! the àbrill manifestations of grief.

NEW BAXE BUILDING.

BIRTH...

[A.P B.]

NANCE-On July 22, at Shanghai, to Dr. and Mrs. W. K. NANCE, a daughter."

The Bady Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 29, 1931.

* Local Notes and Events

The Government appointments, particularly that of Lord, WILLING-- pos to the Viceroyalty of India, | have been good, the honours lists have been unexceptional, and no minor ? jobs" have been detected by lynx-eyed opponents. In all these things, Labour must be award- ed full marks for conduct."

The R.M.S Empress of Asia, from Manila, is due here at 8 am. The Government is not really to-day and will berth at Kowloon SAFE TILL THE AUTUMNI tackling the dole and unemployWhari.

ment, its taxation ir class-biassed, it repulsed the Dominions at the Imperial Conference, it is afraid of tariffs, it is no doubt waiting for a majority in the House of Commons to proceed with "Eo. cinism in out times." But it is uct, as une Conservative member put it, "the worst and most incap.

LIKE many a supposed invalid the Labour Government is showing vitality that delights its friends almost as much as it exasperates its enemies. The long vacation in close at hand, no contentious busi ness is likely to arise before the end

Comdr. G. F. Hole fined a Chinese At the Marine Court, yesterday, 8:0 for boarding the 8. Coblenz without permission.

A Chinese woman was yesterday fined 830 for dumping the body Dundas Street, near the Kwong of her four-year-old daughter in Wah Hospital..

A fracas on a tramcar led to the

Of the 200 or more graduates of appearance of a Chinese before the Central University, Nanking, Mr. Williams yesterday: The de- this year, balts have tried in vain. fendant was fined 830 on being conto secure employment, states D victed on a charge of assaulting Nanking telegram to the Shanghai resented being asked to stand clear graduates of the University's Phy the conductor. It appears that he Chinese Press. The demand for the of the third class passageway and sical Training Department is, how.. on being pressed to stand aside, he ever high, over 20 students of this assaulted the conductor.

department having been engaged by schools at home and abroad na physical directors.

was seized by Revenue Officers yes specializes in victimising. ignorant

A carge of 7,620 tagis of raw opium, presumably from Wuchow, Connected with

agang which terday on lighter" in the har-Chinese women of money and jewel- bour. The

opium was packed in jery by means of the well-known

valued at $30,000, was removed to at Central Magistracy yesterday, merchandise. The contraband, were charged before Mr. Williams the Imports and Exports: Ofice,

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of the Session, and the Goveru able Government which England that a rug valued at $30, the pro. sacks and disguised as legitimate banknote trick, two Chinese, who

ment has secured a welcoms" respito til Parliament re-assembles

in

It has been reported to the police has suffered under for the last three perty of Mrs. Scambler, of 534, hundred years its restraint, its Nathan Road, has been stolen from attention to detail, and its gentle chair in the bedroom of her soothing of people naturally dis-

home, trustful of the Party's ultimate purposes, must at least tommand some degree of admiration and respect.

TOPSY - TURVEY ECONOMICS!

The China Times states that the National Government has consent ed to release the three remaining vessels of the nine which were com; mandeered some months ago for the transportation of troops.

One Chinese case of typhoid fever was reported on Monday. For the week ended on Saturday, there were seven cases (four deaths) of enteric fever, one case of diphtherin, one case of scarlet fever and 81 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Two persons wert charged in con- nection with the seizure, but there being no evidence against them, both were discharged.

were sentenced to three and five

women

months' imprisonment, respectively, A further term of seven months' imprisonment was inflicted on, the Bscond defendant for breach of the, Banishment Ordinance. When” ar- Two amphibians have just been rested yesterday both men were: completed by the aircraft division acting in a suspicious manner by... of the Ministry of Navy at Kao accosting

in the street, changmino at a cost of G.840,000 When searched, the well-known and will be known as the Kiang begus bundle of nates was found on keng and the Kiang-chong. These one of them, will be fitted with 105 horse power engines brought from the United States and will be capable of at taining a speed of about 100 miles an hour. Apart from the engines all the materials are Chinose. The work was carried out by Chinese labourers under the supervision of experienced native aeronautical en- ginecrs."

From the files.

October. And much can happen, in these changeful day's, during a brief two and a half months, even if they are holiday months. At the beginning of the year the Trades. Dispute Bill threatened defeat 'ind a dissolution. The Trades Unions were out for blood. They wanted their charter of political piracy; they would be satisfied with.nothing less than the old power of coercing

For what are the Bahamas chiefly trade union members to support remarkable?" asks the geography Labour Party funds, and, in admistress The finest climate, the dition they clamoured for a full biggest drink bill, and the worst

Lrade balance in the world,” re- The Police have sent a Chinese, cloak of legality for any futureplies the precocious pupil, produc- 2 years of age, a pantry boy on General Strike. Under the ining in support of his remarks the the Kowloon Canton Railway, to Buenco of Sir John SIMON the

recent issue of the British Govern the mental hospital for observation. ment Board of Trade Journal. The The youth was seen naked in the Liberal Party refused to go thus offcial summary there given of the streets near Statue Square in the Reports from Paris state that the far. Very neatly Mr. Lovn Bahamas trade for 1930 fully bears early hours of yesterday morning. Hon. Mrs. Holman, only daughter

bim out. The climate, it is true, GEORGE's supporters voted for is not expressly appraised, though

of Lord Tyrrell, the British Am second reading of the obnoxious the fact that tomatoes are the Colony's large number of silk stores petition with the Vatican, asking again issued a proclamation urging

the bassador to France, has filed & measure, and then, in Committee principal export is strong evidence is the Princess Store which has its that her marringo with Mr. Adrian the boat people to take out licenses.

in ita favour. The drink bill is premises in Queen's Road West. It Holman, until recently second seere for their heats. Any boats failing stage, they inflicted mutilations.

thero beyond question. The popula will no doubt prove a boon to retary of the British Embassy in to take out licences, after the 20 which made the Bill harmless, and tion of the Bahamas je about sidents in the western districts and Paris, may be declared void. Mr. day of the 6th moon will be fined: to hateful to the Trades Union 60,000; last year they imported save them long journeys to the Holman has taken up a post with The fu will be 823 on big beats Council that it was quietly drop the year before it was more tha

liquor to the value of £720,000, and Central shopping district,

the British Legation in Peiping, and a on small boata. Any men ped. Again a crisis" with, the £600,000. The lower figure allows Mr. Chen Shu Jen, the noted Dame Cathedral on April 30 last and report it to the Water: Police The marriage took place at. Notre ¦ who' fod out, an unlicensed bont five chillings worth a week, tax Chinese artfate now attached to the year. Miss Tyrrell being the first will receive half the amount of the

Liberala threatened over the Land

"

Tho latest addition to

.

Looking Back 25 Years,

Since the establishment of the Water Police in Canton, only about 9,000 boats have taken out licences and have been numbered. Now the Water Police authorities have

Daily Press, July 28, 1908.

Looking Back 50 Years,

Tax proposale of the Budget, but for overy man, woman, and political commission of the Canton British woman to be married there fine as reward-Hong Kong

child in the archipelago, But the Government, is bolding an exhibi. mero Tweedledum and Tweedledes improvidence of the Bahamas is tion of his latest pictures at the tince Mary Queen of Scots in 1558. battle resulted...There was a head- even... ... moro ... – striking......than...theirKwangtung Educational building }..............

thirst. For in the tame year, they aty Canton, The exhibition com-- An extraordinary but true story: acho, on one side, a toothache on

imported goods to the value of menced last Friday and has been, is told of two Russians in Tientsin, the other, and the fight was called £1,002,000, while their exports attracting a large number of says the Peking, and Tientsin

Referring to the supposed evil Timer About off, both parties making capital out totalled only £334,000; an adverse people.

"week ago, a influences of the White Lily Secret Russian, somewhat the wores for Society at Téochow, as mentioned-": of the exemption of playing fields balance of about 400 per cent.

The explanation is abvious to any Meiers. Bun Fo. Wang Ching liquor, went to the office of a doctor in our last issue, we have, yet to from the imposition. Unlike a economist; it is a case of "invis. Wei and General Tang Bheng Chi, with half his car missing and the record further of their supposed Government nearer to us out here ible exports." Only in this case of the Canton Provincial Govern remnant bleeding. Ho asked the charms. We visited, last week, ment were warmly received on doctor to fix it up for him. The child who was terribly mutilated the exports are invisible", in a the Labour Cabinet, never dis literal rather than a metaphorical their return to Canton on Monday doctor replied, that he could ban-about the person another party courages the pleasures of the senec, for their being exported de-evening. Representing their Gov dage it, of course, but if his client and his tail cut off, and saveral mhases. On the contrary it has had heads upon their not being seen, ernment they have been visiting wished a better job. made he had more cases are reported in the city. the good sense to make a London. The fact that the spirituous needs Wuchow and attending military better find the missing portion of This is all attributed by the

of the Bahamas vary, directly with and administrative conferences at his ear. The upshot of it was that Chinese, to this White Lily Or Lido" of the Serpentine, and pro- the state of trade on the adjaccut the later place..

the doctor and the Russian went ganisation. The mandarins: have poses, despite an effervescence of continent supplies further cluc

to look for the missing pices and i not been backward in taking official One interesting point emerges from The visiting troon of Boy Scouts their investigation led them to notice, of the supposed evil,” and" tectotal eloquence to license beer the equation. The gulf to be were the guests of the 24th Bong another Russian also considerably have consequently arrested all the e gardens in the public parke Infilled by invisible experts is about Kong: Troop (St. Joseph's Troop under the influence of alcohol. itinerant fortune tellers, medicico

The liquor imported at a Chinese tiffin party yester This man admitted that they had plaster vendors and dentists with.../ the matter of minor points the £1,300,000.

post about £720,000 Allowing the day Besides the scoutmasters of been drinking together and that he in the precincts of the city. Thes Labour Goverqtient conitihtly islanders of fair pull at the battle both the troops others present had suddenly leaned across the table poor, unfortunates were terribly. scores with real-emartness--

for themselves, one deduces that were the Ray, E. Armstrong, Scout and bitten off his friend's-ear, { }^ squeezed?" and then were zelenard they re-export at an average profit Commissioner for Kowloon, and But whore is the ear 1: naked the upon the promise not to do it of 100 per cent. They understand Mr. R. Dormer, Soutmaster of St. surgeon." I swallowed it," replied again."-Hong Kong Daily Pren, business in the Bahamas, mudy

July 28, 1881

ZW. E. HOLLANDS,

1978.

Over, the matter of dole". Fe form another dangerous ditch was

Andrew's troop...

the man.