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Accordance with Government Ordinance The EXOBANGE BANKS i be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIO BUSI. NESS on MONDAY, the San of AUGUST (Ts FIRST MONDAY IN AUGUST),

Hong Kong, 29th July, 1931.

NOTICE.

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their Offen to No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1x Fioox (Entrance: ICE HOUT STREET)

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ASSOCIATION,

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CLUB Secretaries aro Reminded that Applications for MEMBER BHIP to the ASSOCIATION and Entries for the LEAGUE COMPETI- TIONS CLOSE on AUGUST 1er.

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Hon. Secretary. (973

HONG KONG. TELEPHONE CO.,

... LIMITED,

NOTICE OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

TOTICE J8 HEREBY GIVEN NINTERIM DIVIDEND of FOUR Per Cent. (4%); amounting to FORTY Cents Per Share on the Fully-paid Bhares and TWENTY Centa Per Shares on the Partly-naid Shares of the Company, for the Six Months anded 30th Josz, 1981, will be Paid on TUESDAY, the 4TH AUGUST, 1931, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Registered Office of the Company, EXCHANGE BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR.

The TRANSFER BOOKE of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 29TH JULY, to TUESDAY, the 4ru Auguer, 1931, Both Days Inolarito, ja

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. L. MCKENZIE, Scaretary. "Hong Kong, 7th July, 1981,

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

N. INTERIM DIVIDEND of A DOLLARS, Per Share for the Six Months ending 30th JUNE, 1991, will be payable on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12rя, on which Date Dividend Warrants, may

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The REGISTER of SHARES of the company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the Sap AUGUST. to TUESDAY, the 11 AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which Perica No Transfer of Shares can be registered.

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By Order of the Board of Directors,

H.A. RODGERS,

Acting Becretary, Hong Kong, 21st July, 1931.

HUMPHREYS ESTATe a FINANCE CO., LTD.

THE

NOTICE.

1987

THE Undermentioned Certiflöstes for 150 Old Bbares in this Cara- pany registered in the Name of the

to this Company to issue to Mr. YEUNG IU TUNG, Duplicato Certificate for 50 Shares in this Com. pany numbered 79836 to 79885, or other Certificate in lieu thereof upon. statement that the Original Certificate No. 555, dated Bih NOVEMBER, 1922, has been LOST or MISLAID,

HERUBY

AND NOTICE IS GIVEN that, if, at the Expiration of Ono Mouth from the Date hereof, the above Certificate bó not forthcoming the Said Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED and of NO 'EFFECT, and & NEW CERTIFICATE for the Said Shares will be issued in its stead by the Company, DAN ANAKKA

B. ALVES,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 22nd July, 1981. [968

Late 184AU SAMUEL PERRY haveIN THE SUPREME COURT OF

been LOST or DESTROYED; and should these Certificates not be produced to the Company before the 207 AUGUST, 1931, New Certificates for said Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates No. 6749 dated End. be dated 27th July. June, 1911,

and 678% 1911, will be thereafter treated by the Company na NULLs and

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Certificate No. 1746 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos, 38501/33550,

Certificate July,

HONG KONG

TROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODA Or JESSIE SMITA MOL&KEN, LATE OF AYONDRU, GRANGEMOUTH, IN THE COUNTY OF STERLING, SCOTLAND, IN THE UNITED KINGDON, SPINE.

· TEX, DECEASED. ***

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1911, for 100 Shares Nos 38901/26950 N The the CELERY GIVEN

mud 129845/129894,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.. Hong Kong, 20th July, 1831.

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HONG KONG, JULY 31, 1931,

HILL-STATION FÖR HONG KONG.

First Prize

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News and Views

Not What He Meant.

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Tilden Tour Proâts.

The American Press has publish- ed the annucin) results of the Tit. don Tennis Tour Company. Dar- ing the present season 130,000 - spectators have attended the tennis "circus." In New York. the tour-

A Poet's House at Highgate.

Coleridge's pleasant house in the ing company netted 30,000 dollars, in Chicago 22,000, in Boston 18,000, Grove, Highgato, is to have an other literary tenant. Mr. J. Bos Angeles 14,000, in Denver.

10,000 In two months Tilden him Priestley went to see it and was so

self is reported to have earned by charmed by the unspoiled atmos.

dollars. The figures are impressive. vertisement not less than 125.000

Perhaps they were meant to im- pron Wimbledon. And yet Ameri can opinion holds that the bottom lawn tonnis business. Most of us is already out of the professional

will be glad, however, that "Big Bill, who is a fine sportsman, bos

is. The mall houses of rough-hown nativa stone with wide vorandabs a dotted over the hill-tops and are connected by picturesque wind- ing paths. There is a recreation club, tennis courts and swimming pool fed by mountain streams, but the greatest delight the long Black hens are cleverer than walks throughout the beautiful and white ones, aren't they, munuié ?" hilly country side.

"Why, dear? Cos the black We see no

reason why we inones can Iny white eggs, and the Hong Kong should not be similar.white ones can't lay black." ly served. In considering possible Y

phere of Coleridge's study that playing, by film work, and by sites, there are many that spring

decided to buy the place. Mrs. to mind, but notably Tai Me Shan,

Priestley, who, has a talent for There is a story told at West- Castle Peak or the hills around minster of a very cautious and that kind of thing, is now planning Shatin and Taipo. Those fortu halting member of the present Govthe necessary renovations and ad nato few who live on the Peak bave ernment who wound up an evasive Pearson (Miss Gladys Cooper) have Sir Neville and Lady their own hill-station, which, on speech to a deputation by saying the house next door, which they account of its restricted area, is "And there, gentlemen, is the closed to the great bulk of Euro door."The visitors were astound.

have discreetly modernised. pean residents to whom the laying-ed at the apparent rudeness," but "beard am had his financial reward. out of a summer resort in the Newthe Minister proceeded in his plod Territories would be no inestimable ding way: Aye, and you'll find boon. Ag in their of Kuliang, open any time you want to come local women-folk and children could and ice ma again.” live during the "very trying hot weather in beautiful surroundings and ideal wenther, visited by their

mon-folk over the week-ends; in

to town,

T

A Great Balsaman!

ditions.

Cushions for Commissars,

Slipper or Half-brush,

and sometimes with delight a silly I have been reading with interest

A sense of humour, as everyone season" correspondence on the knows, is not the strong point of place of corporal punishment in the Bolshevik-Russian or home- education of girls, writes.&. London; grown. A man who has been work- Mr. H. Willoughby Lovell, who diarist. One ferocious parent ad- Ling in the frontier". towns and fact it might be possible for the as just retired on pension from the socates the frequent use of the slip-villages af Poland, where Russian latter to make daily visits by carposition of Admiralty Marshal, per and the enne for girls between trains are constantly coming and sold Bome £21,000,000 worth of ships the ages of twelve, and eighteen, going, described how the humeur- and cargoes seized. na prizes during Anather helpfully suggests that the less Bolsheviks have abolished

back of a hair-brush, damped to "class distinction' on the railways.... the war. He went to the Admiralty 3 Register in 1801 and served under make it sting more, is a pretty use-Passengers are not permitted to ask. seven Presidents of the Admiralty, fel instrument. The majority is for a first, second, or any other Probute and Divorce Division-Bir clearly opposed to these Spartan Charles Butt, Lord St. Helier, Lord methods, but there is a substantial Gorell, Lord Mersey, Sir Samuel minority. Yet I have never heard Evans, Lord Sterndale and Lora of any young lady of my acquair Merrivale.

tance being so much as slapped by her parents, at any rate after emer gence from infancy.

The scheme" is also, we think, a business proposition and similar enterprises in other parts of the East have done well financially Wo submit the outlines of a scheme As worthy of consideration from a

financial point of view.

ALL'S WELL UNDER THE RED LIGHT!

General Booth's Grandson.

Mr. John Myron Booth Tucker, w

Put Off Their Stride!

Dry

case of ticket as the rulers of the proletariat consider that, this sav curs too much of bourgeois snob- bery. A 100 per cent. proletarian asks for a soft scut on a hard seat,, according to the length of his purse, and, owing to the interesting dis tribution of sondy cash in the Land. of Equality, by a strange co- incidence it is usually only the Com- missars who can afford to softest cushions.

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Modern Celibates!

"Lar all things be done decently grandson of Genera? Booth, the and in order,'' says a certain, writer founder of the Salvation Army, is The exuberant Mr. George Lane- of the first century, and if only agged to marry Miss Mereybury, First Commissioner of Works, loent Chinese family had realised Standish-Barry, the actress. Mr. recently met in the House of Com that this maxim is strongly on-Myron Booth-Tucker is in the 2nd mons a deputation of teetotal mem A vow of at least temporary coli- forced by the Hong Kong Govern-Battalion The Queen's Own Royal bers who protested to him against bacy was the outstanding feature West Kent Regiment. He is a soc drink licences in the Royal parks devised by an impresario of the pic of a new form of contract recently ment, they would have been spared the late Mr, Frederick Bt. It was soon turned into a convivaltares, who has made up his mind an expensive and humiliating ap-

A deputation to ato put an end to the too-frequent pearance in the Police Court. The George de Latour Booth-Tucker and gathering. family in question was poor but the late Mrs. Bouth Tucker. Miss Minister, is usually a formal affair dislocation of his schemes by marriage and giving-in-marriage. honest. It was in debt and unlike Standish Barry has appeared on in the sanctuary of his private. The

young ladies whom he Hong Kong with all its modern many more exalted persons and the stage a number of times, the room. For Mr. Lansbury a large engaged signed the under amenities has still something to

taking lightly. They were obsess Great Powers it had no intention last occasion being when she under committee room was hired.

edfor the moment by pro learn from other places in theither of avoiding its obligations, or studied Miss Annie Croft in the and wet members of Parliament fessional zeal and ambition; their East. We refer especially to the even of declaring 'n.moratorium..

recent revival of "The Maid of assembled; there was a buckground ono thought was to become stars. present lack and ever-growing need

the Mountains." Resolving itself into committee a

Mrs Standish of temperance propagandists from But love gained the supremacy

over ambition in the case of one. Barry, told a reporter when inter- outside. Mr. Lansbury took com mademoiselle, and without consult. of a summer resort or hill-station decision was reached that, in order viewed: My daughter and Mr.plete charge of the deputation. He ing the impresario, the entered into within reasonable distance of the to raise the wind, the daughter Booth Tucker met when she was told them they could not all speak the bond of matrimony. The film city. There is no doubt that the

of the house be sold into an ancient very young at the house of Mr. at once and ho threatened to "going to listen to the appeals of the producer was ao angry that, refus summer in Hong Kong is one of if not honourable profession. The Douglas Sinden, the writer. He is downstairs" if they did not follow bride, he embarked on an action to the most trying in the world and resolution was carried unanimously, should be avoided as far as possible subject to one, condition on the part cousin of Mr. Booth-Tucker, who custore. Then he clapsed his hands have her contract-that is, her cou. at least by Eruopean women and suraubly for the honour of her Coast."

of the principal. She insisted, pre-a at present serving on the Gold bobind his head and listened to the tract with the "movies "-annulled. Counsel on behalf of the girl sub- Misy Marcy Standish teetotal arguments with a quizzical mitted that such a claves in a children. The, trouble with Honghouse, that the should pursue her Barry is a grand daughter of the smile on his face. As the speeches professional engagement was con- Kong in that it is hard to get and associates. But in transferring late. Major-General O. B. Lucie dragged on Mr. Lansbury, became trary to the public and national. away from, at least without heavy the scene of her activities to Macao Smith, and a grand niece of the more and more shadowy in the arranged a settlement out of court. interest. In the end there was initial transportation expenses the upset the apple cart. The late Viscount Southwell and the clouds of tobacco smoke, a gesturaUnder this, while there is to be no which few of us can afford these whole party was arrested in the

inte Field-Marshal Bir Evelyn which added the insult of nicotine attest to untie the marriage knot, days. Truc, Canton and Macao Portuguese Colony and sent back

the lady undertakes to concentrate to Hong Kong.

Wood, V.C.

to the injury of beer gardens.

her thoughts on her röle in the film... can easily be reached, but climatic. conditions there are similar to those in Hong Kong.

Europeans in North China are more fortunate. There is Kuling,

new career » away from her home

Two members of the family were. fined and the would-be-devotee of Aphrodito, now languishes under the vigilant guardianship of the Honourable the Secretary for Chi- latives, whose honesty is surely nese Affairs. Presumably, her ro the hill-station for the Lower Yangworthy of record in some pious taze and within fairly reasonable ode, are now in Victorin Gaol, for the fines were heavy. No doubt distance of Shanghai; even the

they are cursing themselves for many beautiful health resorts in listening to the absurd preference Japan can be reached in a few days. of a young baggage for Macao over In Java there aro hill-stations Hong Kong.

Perhaps they have learned, for within a few hours journey by car future reference that the proper from the large towns, while Singa-procedure, would have been to have pore has the bewly laid out approached one of those afluent and important local ladies licensed Cameron Highlands and Brastagi in Sumatra. Even Foochow, with

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Local Notes and Events

Mr. P. C. Solman, of Shanghai, On Wednesday night a Chinese, Ono. Chinese case of typhoid fever and well-known in that port as an employed by the Hong Kong Electric and one non-Chinese case of dith- amateur actor, is, on a business

it to the Colony. Mr. Columns Company, fell from a heigh of antheria were reported on Wednes

day.. an uncle of the notel film star,feet at the power station at North Ronald Colman,

Point and received mortal injuries., He died shortly after being ad-

It has been reported to the police mitted to the Government Civil | to carry on this business. Surely fell off a lighter, when they were

that two Chinese girls accidentally Hospital.. one of them could have found room fishing on No. 5 Pier at the Kow for this humble and conscientious loon Wharf on Wednesday evening. recruit? The preliminaries com pleted the young, jedy would have They were not seen again. sought the Office of the Secretary.

for Chinese Affairs for her proper

Two blacksmiths received serious,

The case in which the Kwong Yat On firm were summoned for in- fringing, the Stag trade mark. applicable to soap, for which

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from the files..

Looking Back 25 Years.

its handful of foreign residents, chiefly missionaries, has a beautiful sunumort rökort at Kuliang up on the hills about a four-hours journey by chair from the city. It is registration. We believe that there head injuries when they fell from Mosara. Jebsen & Co., are the local Shum is in recript of a telegram, in a daily ration of thest registra scaffolding at the new Jockey agents, concluded at Central Magis tiens, but no doubt patience, per Clab, stables at Wongnoichong yes tracy yesterday. The defendants severance, civility and other virtues would have in due course secured terday. The men were removed to were fined $100 and ordered to pay, the completion of the necessary the hospital for treatment, formalities. At this simple form of wedding to Priavos, a responsible

Kuliang on which we think & Hong Kong hill-station could be model- led; in fact local conditions : are much more favourable than those

$950 towards the complainants'

I am informed, writos our Can ton correspondent, that Viceroy from the Waiwupu, saying that the British Minister in Peking has prevalence of piracy on the West made representations regarding tho River; and cited the recent attack.. on foreigners. It is said that the dispatch enjoins the Viceroy to take prompt measures to secure the, her full consent, and tells her that

A deaf mute was found guilty arrest of the pirates and to adviso she is under no compulsion to take the with the festa de cont of the theft of two silver dollars means for the wholesale extermina

tion with the jewel swindle at the and sentenced to three months' tion of these desperadoes--long time she wants to loave she has Wai Kee jowellers shop, was again hard labour by Mr. Williams at Kong Daily Press, July 31, 1000, up prostitution, and that if at any only to come round and see him remanded yesterday, his the second the Central Police Court yesterday. Brides do not any "I won't," it appearance.

The case against Vasili Palecek,

Bond in their. Claims against the above which Foochow has so skilfully official asks the bride if she gives who was charged on Wedussday at

(979 Estate to 16TH AUGUST, 1981.

MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

THE INAUGURAL KACE MEET- ING of the above Clab will be held (Weather Permitting), at MAUSO, on the era and 7ru SEPTEMBER,

Draft Programmer and Eatry Forma for the Meading may be obtained at the Ollócs of life. PEROY SMITH, ITLEMING, 6, Des Vozox BETH

All Creditors and others are necord- ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.

DEACONS,^^

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1981.

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ALEXANDER, Becretary

it.

required. Apply in Writing Only to Mama THOMSON & CO. Jo

exploited.

The journey to Kuliang has to be made either by chair or "Shank's mare" over coolic paths across a

dead-level plain to the foot of the mountain and then up the steep

shallow steps have been cat. When the top is reached the visitor seems to be in a new world. The tem

the altar rails. Such a renndal bas nover occurred in recorded history.

conta.

The complainant told the court that Looking Back 50 Years. while he was standing in a tram-'

sides of the hill where innumerabla | But at the 8.0.A. young women are. A fiue of Bio was imposed by ear he felt a pull on his cont and Ip Alum, coolie was an plum

no doubt hraver, and perhaps figures Mr. Williams at the Central and facts as to the number of last. Police Court yesterday when a minute recalcitrants are available.. Chinese appoured on a charge "of We can see what an excellent smuggling wine. It was › ' stated tem prevails in Hong Kong, We that the wine was carried in two may have brothels, but no girl kerosene tins. enters unwillingly). We can sleep soundly in our Beds with a, final" reflection that all is well under the

turned around and grabbed the demokor" and would not work; he fendent's hand

egy had to be supported by his wife. She had one dellar, out of which she paid fifty cents for rent, gave: The body of a woman who, com-defendant thirty cents, and kept. mitted suicide by jumping into the twenty cents for herself Defen- Sumchun River, was recovered at dant was not satisfied and wanted 1 p.in. on Wednesday. It will be more money and upon being res Ward recalled that Fung Fai, a farmer, fused it he became angry, beat his, Another marricil woman attempt at a village at Lok Ma Chau, was wife with his flites, and took a fan- Led lights of Vaumati and est, to commit suicide from san informed by friends that they had dagger and tub her heres the Wanchal, that dae vanishment is mati-forry on Wednesday evening; been his wilo jump into the river hugers. The wound had to be meted out when',' noor mammas " She jumped off the "Man Shung" and disappeared. The woman, it dressed at the hospital, ; The ma The resort is managed by brothel kcerers, and any interested but was rescued by two of the was stated, had been fretting a lot gistrate awarded him two months small committee elected by the com- parties disobey the adage quoted at forry crew and was removed to I recently over the death of her four hard labour Hong Kong" Daily munity," and very well-managed it the beginning of this article.

the Government Civil Hospital Jjear-old son..

Prem July 31, 1881.

perature is that of a fine English summer and the scenery with the wind soughing through the fir trees, and familiar home side shrubs and flowers complete the picture.

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