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HAV

NOTICE.

"AVING" resigned, "from the Position of COMPRADORE to MR.P. M. PINGUET, AND COMPANY, I have severed my Connection with that Firma as from 25TH JULY, 1931, ⠀⠀ 1084]

(Signed) HU SAI MAN.

NOTICE.

TE, the Undersigned, hereby confirm our Notice dated 26TH JULY published in the Local Pread that ME. HO BAI MAN is No Longer connected with Our Firm.

·P, M. PINGUET, & CO," Dated August 8th, 1981. [1042

THE BRITISH LEGION HONG KONG *CHINABRANCE

THE 10TH ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING will be held at 5.15) P.M. on THURSDAY, 18x AUGUST, 1981, in the BOARD ROOM of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- BON & CO., LTD.

BUSINESS

To receive the Bepari and Accounts.

for the Year 1930.

To elect Officers,

P. M. ROSSER,

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Hon. Secretary.

HONG KONG REALTY & TRUST. COMPANY, LIMITED.

N. INTERIM DIVIDEND of 30 Cants Per Share has been declared payable on TUESDAY, 187 SEPTIDEE NEXT, on and, after which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtaised upon application at the

Whisky!!

DEWAR'S

White Label"

Awarded 50 Gold and

Prize Medals

and

DEWAR'S

"Victoria Vat

Whisky de Luxe.

- HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931.

WRIGHT'S

COAL

TAR

SOAP

INVIGORATES AND

REFRESHES.

TAKES AWAY

in question has compiled an Index temporary English writers. The from 176 securities, both business books are, as a rule well printed and gill-edged, their market value and bound."

Ships Speed.

News and Views

The S.A. and Street Sleepers,

at December 31, 1923, being fixed Tho Omnibus . Book is ns the" datum line of 100 points. | volume of a thousand pages or so.. The value of textile securities containing more than ong work by (other than silk-cotton being the the same or different authors, and Girls' Looting Bald. chief). were according to this rec varying in price from seven shill

Seventy-one articles, proceeds of

May we call the attention of our koning 100 at the end of 1923; 14ings and sixpence to thirty shill were displayed at Marylebone published in this issue, which Miss. a looting expedition by two girls, renders to the excellent address, ip 1924, 122 in 1986, 102 in 1998,ings."The average price is about Police Court. Lily Yette (10), of Rains gave to the Hong Kong. 100 (again) in 1927, 87 in 1928, 11 eight shillings and sixpence. The Smith (14), of St. Ervans-road, of the Salvation Army at Home and Elgin-terrace, Maida Vale, and Ella Rotary Club yesterday on the work in 1920, 41 (again) in 1930. Sinte."Omnibus" offer many advantages North Kensington, pleaded Guilty" in Chian, The Salvation Army has, this last Sgure, for December 31, to compensate for its one disadvanto stealing the goods, value £6, the great quality of getting prac 1930, the lowest monthly figure wastage of bulk. First in its cheap. from Mesars. Selfridges. The girls tical results. Its devoted soldiers 28. for the end of May, which had ness-tha mader obtains the equival tody...

were remanded for a week in cus are in action while others think, an

talk. There is, na immense amount recovered to 33 by the end of ent of thres, times the size of an

of Mocial work that needs tackling June. No doubt part of this re-ordinary novel for an extra shill.

in Hong Kong.The winter is not covery pas due to conditions ex-inga or so above the price of dre

The fact that the average speed very far off, but must the problem. terdal to the industry, such as new novel. Hence the books make knot in years is revealed in the Salvation Army can find the of ships has only increased by one of the street, sleepers be left til) President HooVER's offer on War admirable presents and, for the statistics published by the Shipping money to solve it ↑ debts, but cortain other factors re-traveller who wishes to carry about World. The average of all British

ships last year was approximately Birth Control, cently have led to a more optimistic several works. made up BA on 10.51 knots and of foreign ships 6.39, feeling

volume, they are most useful. The knots. The difference is due to the The British Minister of Health

a... memorandum.......to- First, it must be recognised, that National Book Council, London, fact that the British feet is better has issued Lancashire is not alone in her as prepared lists of modern pocket balanced between various types maternity and child welfare authori

ties on birth control, certain mia.. than foreign cete.. trade difficulties Other countries volumes and Omnibus. books, and

understandings having arisen (he which in recent years have made these lists are supplied free to

states) in regard to the memoran- whoever asks for them. Taken to An incident almost unparalleled that the Government are advised dum last March. He emphasizes: advances at Lancashire's expense gether, the lists are a guide 10 in the history of railway working that local authorities have no gen are losing ground. As compared with her principal competitor in

the cream of contemporary English occurred at Crewe last month, oral power to establish birth com. The express from Euston to Man trol clinics as such. He states: literature; and they, represent some cheater, due at Crews at 3.45, or an authority decides to provide the Far East, Japan, Great

of the best value obtainable in rived 30 minutes late, and when it facilities for giving birth control Britain, has bettered. her position

books.

loft was from some unexplained advice at maternity and child in the world export markets during

cause shunted on to the main welfare, centre the use of these recent months. The last isqued

Liverpool line, instead of the Man-facilities must be strictly incidental Monthly Bulletin of the British Law, and Stock Exchange.

chester rection. The driver dit to the purpose for which the centre covered the mistako aftor travel-is established, and they can, he' Cotton Trade Statistical Bureau

The Chancellor of the Exchequer ling over two miles. He pulled up, mindenminble only for married shows that in April and May last has declined to accede to the sug-but it was impossible to run the women already in attendance at the there was a definite improvement gestion that he should introduce train in reverse back to Crowe, and centre. The Minister adds that the 10 in British exports of cotton pies legislation to make the London it went on about six miles to Mins work should not be regarded, a Stock Exchange a statutory body hall Vernon. An engine from falling within the neope of the WILL: On August 4, at Shang-goods, as against a marked decline. with appropriate" safeguards to Crewe was attached to the rear of normal dition of the medical offi

hai, to Mr. and Mrs. G. JAMES in the export of cotton goods by protect the public against losses the train, which was pulled back to cers of & Local Authority, who WELLS, a son.

There was a delay of should be free to undertake it or Exchange. FRIES-On August 3, at Shanghai, Japan. In November Inst British due to the methods of the Stock Crewe

nearly two hours.

decline it.

SUMMER

TIREDNESS.

WRIGHTS COAL TAR SOAP}]

ERGENS

BIRTHS..

SWAN On August 3, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. MOREHOVE SWAN, Bon.

to Mr. and Mrs. G. FRIES, &

500.

In

totalled 130.3 exports

million competitor's square yards, her HALL-In St. Albane, Herts, Eng- 134.7 million square yards.

land, to the Rev. and Mrs. T. January British exports were 155,6". WARD HALL, a daughter.

million square yards, the compeli.. HEGERTY.---On Augual 4, at Shangtor's 124 million square yards,

hai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. H. HECERTY, a son.

REGISTERED OFFICE of the Com-A. S. WATSON Editorial and Business Offices:, 11

EXCHANGE BUILDING, PROY RD FLOUR, DIYOTUX ROAD CENTIAL

NOTICE 18 REBEBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the 'omniany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 27zn Auover, to MỌN. DAY, Sier August, 1981, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

0. F. V. RIBEIRO,

Acting Secretary. "Hong Kong, 5th Aug., 1931.

NOTICE..

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HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

"A"

PPLICATION bas been made.

to this Company to issue to

li

& CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTE.

For reliable information about the whole of the Far East

use the

ME. YEUNG IU TUNG, Duplicate DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

Certificate for 50 Shares in this Com. pany numbered 79835 to 79885, or other Certificate in list thereof upen staterent that the Original Certificate No. 655, dated 8th NOVEMBER, 1922, has been LOST or MISLAID.

AND NOTICE 181 HEREBY GIVEN that, if, at the Expiration of. One Month from the Date hereof, the aboro Certificata be not forthcoming the Said Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT, and a NEW CERTIFICATE for the Said Shares will be issued in its stead by the Company.

B. ALVES,

Becretary. Hong Kong, 22nd July, 1931.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

1988

HE Undermentioned Certificates for 180 Old Shares in this Com- pany registered in the Name of the Late ISAAC BAMUEL PERRY have boen LOST or DESTROYED; and

hould thesa ·Certificates not "produced to the Company before the 2017 AUGUST, 1931, Now Certificates for said Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates Nos. 8748 dat

dated 2nd. June, 1911, and 6765 dated 27th July, "1017, will be thereafter treated by thin

Company as 2ULL and VOID.

Certificate No 0748 dated 2nd June, 1911, for 50 Shares Nos 88501/89550,

Certificate No. 6766 dated 27th July, 1911, for 100 Shares Nos. 36901/30950 and 199845/129694.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, '***

Hong Kong, 20th July, 1931.

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The Daily Press

HONG KONG, AUGUST 19, 1931

HOW BRITISH TEXTILES STAND TO-DAY.

..

THE figures for the export trade of Great Britain during the first CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO half of the current year have been STRAITS completed, and, as was only to be SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS

PHILIPPINES, Etc.

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Train Takes Wrong Turning.

*Local Notes and Events *

It is notified at the Harbour! A Chinese woman was found Office that the Inspecting Ordnance hanging in a cubicle at 914, Recla Officer, Hong Kong area, will fire mution Street on Monday. No res en pyrotechnic stores this morning at son for the suicide has been given.

Stonecutters Island, seawards from & position according to the wind. The stores consist of rockete and signal grenades, both giving various coloured lights in the air, with no sound effect.

while in April British exports. were 133.2 million square yards and Silk forwarded from here by this competitor's figures had inllen.M.S. Empress of Japan on July 18, arrived in New York (St. to 08.5 million square yards. In John's Park) and Hoboken India the improvement has been August 1, having been 22 days in marked, for whereas in November

transit. last, that country imported only 13,887,000 yards of British cotton cloth, there has been an increase each month until the figure of 35,931,000 yards was reached in April.

A Chinese house-boy has been admitted to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from head in juries said to have been inflicted with chopper in an attempt to commit suicide.

*

A Chinese coxswain was fined 810 by Comdr. Hole at the Marine Court yesterday for having made his bout fast to the s.a. Tauda while she was under way without the per- mission of the master.

........

on Monday afternoon Kowloon In At the P.W.D. land sale held land Lot No, 2301, in Lim Po Fong Street, with an up-sot price of 818,685, was sold to Mr. Chow Chong Ting for 823,100.

The 10th annual general meeting of the British Legion, Hong Kong and China branch, is advertised to take place on Thursday, at 6.15 p.m., in the board room of Messrs.

The improvement shown by those figures can be rightly attributed as more the results of the economics effected by amalgamation

and rationalisation in various sections of the industry than to any-im- provement in world trade. The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, which was established a few years since by British banks under the | lead of the Bank of England, con- tinues to carry out its progressivo policy of reducing costs. expected in the present state of There is a more hopeful spirit INDIA, BORNEO, Tworld-wide economic depression, regarding the outcome of converse Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. they make a poor showing. Betions between employers and work- cause of the universality of the

ers on the question of more-looms. depression, the staple industries of

per-weaver. The "quality" and of. the trade is doing fairly well, and This Large Volume of approximate the world have been the most

ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition hardly hit, and a trade like the while it is doubtful whether all to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Lancashire cotton industry, which lost ground can be recovered in the Alphabetical Lists, of Residents manufactures predominently for

coarser grades; good work is un- in the Far East containing the the oversens markets, has been

doubtedly being done by the Cotton Names of nearly

among the chief sufferers. The total Corporation in standardisation of value of cotton exports for the first bath yarns and cloths. Generally 20,000 FOREIGNERS.

six months of this year amounts speaking, the home trade has been Arranged, with the initials as well

to only £28,829,167, This is a defairly good during the first half as Surnames in strict alpbabeeline of £23,234,025 on the first half of 1931, and taking a long view

tical order.

CLASSIFIED LIST

OT

MERCHANTS,

AND

MANUFACTURERS

in alphabetical order.

Alphabetical lists of Cable

Addresses.

List of Agencies held Far Eastern firms.

of 1930. Matters are not so bad

as they look when due allowance is made for the concurrent fall in commodity prices, but that the position is far from entisfactory is apparent when obe examines the Agures for actual square yards of materials exported. The total of piece-goods of all kinds exported in-January-June, 1931, was only

there is every reason to believo that the effects of recent reconstruc tion will manifest themselves as soon as general economic conditions improve.

POCKET "AND" "OMNIBUS BOOKS.

General Chang Chun has vetoed the ahema to constructs steel- bridge over the Whangpoo River because the merchants have shown. no inclination to finance it 'but he' has instructed the Commissioner of A Chinese was charged before the Public Works for Greater Shang Hon. Comdr, G. F. Hole yester. han to make an inquiry into the day with boarding the ss. Antung industrial and commercial condi. without permission. It was alleged tions on both sides of the river and that the defendant stole a jacket ascertain whether such a bridge is from a steerage passenger but the absolutely necessary just now: if it defendant could not be charged is, what the approxinlate cost with larceny because the complain would be and which would be the ant had left on the same abip.. A best site. T fine of 850 was imposed.

The extradition case in which

by an official of the Ministry of on charges of murder and robbery According to a statement made Chan Yeo Wo is wanted in Macao Finance to the Chinese Preas in was further remanded until Friday respect of the new banking profits morning. In asking for a further law, foreign as well as Chinese remand, Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy banks will be required to observe stated that the requisition for the it. The tax, he said, was collected extradition papers had not yet been in foreign countries and there was acted upon. He had sent a tele- no reason why it should not be gram to Mano and the necessary collected in China also.

papers would arrive shortly. Be. further stated that though, he was

The non-arrival at Cheung Chau in a position to proceed, he thought of the Hong Kong Ferry launch, that it would be much better if the Sam Yee, on Monday night, led to case were adjourned. Armed thieves entored 95, Argyll a search which resulted in the find Street on Monday and escaped with ing of the launch at about midnight; reported that the men gained en ferry was due at B.40 p.m. and its jewellery valued at $300. It was half way to Cheungchow. The trance to the house on the pretext belated appearance gave rise to the of nakug for a member of the fear that she had been pirated. family.

The ferry was towed into Cheung Chow at 12.17.a.m. yesterday:

Mr. Sun Fo bas returned to

From the files.

Canton from Hong Kong accom The complete equipment for run- Looking Back 25 Years, panied by Mr. Yu Ming, of, Chung ring the mechanical hare, formerly latter gentleman is chairman of the has been purchased by the Macao dent, your Governor was satisfied Shan, and Mr. Lo In Nin To installed at Lunn Park, Shanghai, hope, anys our Macac correspon- Sir, Matthew Nathan's visit:-1 purchasing commission of the Can Hong Kong Sports Club and ship with the reception accorded to him

Railway.

ped to Macao for the greyhound by the Government and the people racing course which is being open

on

fover were reported on Monday, general manager, is arranging to tion was impromptu. His Excel- Two cases (Chinese) of typhoid ed there. Mr. L. F. Joving, then his recent visit to Macao, AF overy, arrangement for his recep. During last week, there were seven ship greyhounds which have been lenty could have boun much impress cases (two deaths) of enteric fever, purchased locally to the south imed with the state of our harbour, one fatal case of diphtheria, one mediately. caso of rabies, and 54 deaths from

as although he came over in a sime:1 Government tender, the vessel got pulmonary tuberculosis.

A charge of having harboured a stuck in the mud for some time, a teal was preferred against Mok and Senhor Montenegro had to The police are on the lookout for Lui before Mr. E. H. Williams yes send a bost some miles out to in- a Chinese, aged about 20 years,terday. Sub-Inspector Fraser, of form Bir Matthew that he was a who is wanted in connection with the S.C.A., told the Court that welcome visitor. When will the passing a worthless cheque on the there was no difference between an Government and the people nf Chun Loong hardware shop, 100, adopted daughter and amui Laai Macao become less ignominiously Queen's Road. It is stated that in reply to defendant's excuse that unapproachable 1- Hong Kong the man bought two fans, paying the thought there was no need to Daily Prent, August 13, 1904 for them with a cheque which was register the git as she was an adopter diughter. The officer, how ever, did not press the charge and Looking Back 60 the defendant was let off with a

later dishonoured.

Years

for the whole of the Far East 648 million square yards, ne against

arranged, with addresses,

1,487 million square yards in 1000. Two developments of English So much for values and quan-publishing are likely to be of tities of exported cotton, goods. interent to readers of English How has this decline affected the books. These are the publication values of cotton textiles stocks and of series of pocket volumes and of of Finance, Canton, is at present fino of 840.

Dr. P. C. Hsieh, of the Ministry

From a writer wo learn that long shares Certain figures collected what is known as the "Omnibus visiting the Colony in an oficit!

finger nail aro considered a great by a British weekly financial Book" As regards the pooket capacity. Dr. Hsieh is making a It is reported that General Liu beauty in India, as in China. This by journal, the Investors Chronicle volumes, they are the publishers customis houses in the district, Customs in Shanghai, who is now the case long age, for in an old tour and inspecting the various Chi Wen, former superintendent of appears at any rate to have been and Money Market Reviere, show reply to the general demand for afterwards proceeding to Haines in Japan with Mr. Eugene Chen, story book we read that when the how, the stock markets have reflect inexpensive editions of modern Island, and Kwang Chow, Wan on has contracted a loan of $30,000,000 moon one went out to dinner the for the Couton Government with remembered her mother-va distant. ed the cotton trade's difficulties in copyright books, in a form which a similar mission

'the revenues of the Canton-Shiu star-who had not been invited, $19 the past few years and the hopes does not occupy much space The Charged before Mr. J. A. Fraser kwan Section of the Canton-Han and a dish after dish cams round, for recovery during the last few price is generally three shillings at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday kow Railyay as security. It is said placed a portion of each under her $8

weeks. An important factor is and sixpence. The principal. Ens Street, a Chinese.ploaded that cash, and the balance in arms and were of such length that she was with breaking, "into" 100, Tai Nam that $25,000,000 will be paid in beautifully finger b/nails, l,"which, there hopes is that ze the end-of-lish publishers are producing these fulthuugh he was present at the munition. The Japanese are able to carry away a very choice HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. Ltd., June, for the first time for many books in increasing numbers and, burglary, he took no active part said to have demanded that the dinner in them. In these days of monthe, the index figures for whole in the various series now on the His Worship pointed out that that anti-Japanese movement shall be novelty seme one might favour us 11, loe House Street,

amounted to burglary and passed suppressed and that punitions sup-with a history of the art of dress- sale commodity prices took an upmarket, it is possible to find the sentence of three months hard plied shall be partly new and ing finger nils Hong Kong Hong Kong

ward tui The economic journal works of nearly all the great con- labour.

partly old;

Daily Pren, August 13, 1881. 22.

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