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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY ¿CONCERN.

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REFRESHING!

ROBERT GEORGE WITCHELL, Lot No. 6, SurroLE Roan, Kow. LOOK TONG, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I have expressly forbidden My MARIA KLEMENTIEVNÁ Wife WITCHELL to contract for me or la My Name or as My Agent or in any way to pledge My Credit and that She is saliciently applied with all Suitable Necessaries and that I will not be responsible for Her Dobts whensoever or howsoever inomized.

Dated this 21st day of August, 1931. B. GWITCHELL,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IS TER GOODS OF NG SHU alias GLADYS NG alias GLADYS LOUIE, LATE OF VANCOUVER In British CoLUMBIA IN' THR | DOMINION OF CANADA, DE

CRANED,

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Not the Court hat, by virtue of

the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors su olhers to send in their Claims against the above. Estate to 15 SEPTEMBER, 1931:

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

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DEACONS,'

Bolicitors for the Administrator, 1, Des Voeux Head Central,

Hong Kong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

... HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF ARRATOUN

VEETANNES APCAH, LATE | 01 VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY | or Hona HoxD, MERCHANT DECEASED,

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinanca No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Oreditors and others to send in their Olaims against the above Estate to 90 DAY OF AUGUST, 1931,

All Creditors and others are accord. ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Dato,.

DEACONS,

Selicitors for the Executors, 1, Des Voeur Road Central, Hong Kong.

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MARRIAGE.

BENJAMIN MARCUSE-On July 30 1031, at London, David, oldest son of Mrs. LUNA BENJAMIN, of Bhanghai, to Eusa, only daugh- of JUSTITZHAT and Mrs. MARCUSE, of BRBALAU, Germany

ter

GOLDEN WEDDING."

EASTON GARDENER—On August: 18, at Chefoo, GronGE. FREDERICK EASTON, to CAROLINE GARDENER, both of China' Inland' Mission,"

Editorial and Business Offices 12

Joe House Etreet. Tel. 30251. Night Editor' (Wanchai; Office):

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the Bard sate for the homo, Vic- torian and Edwardian literature: (with a low exceptions) was a model of diferetion, and the trans-

Bargains

News and Views

Tale of Troubled Wight."

A Lycus chomu? wag" awakened. early in the mening and inform od that his shop had been broken. into. Greatly disturbed, he dross- ad hastily and tied to the pre- Bountiful Harvests,

mises, which, tí enough, hach Bountiful harvests throughout been burglarious visited. Numer- Ontario are anticipated according ous, cases had been opened, and the to reports submitted by agricultural contents spread out in disorder. representatives to the Provincinte was however, ifficult to deter Department of Agricultura. Hay ing is general, fall wheat, barley and a fow folds of oats aro in head.

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nad root crops are excellent. A few fields of early potatoes have been dug and placed on the market, the department's crop report, strawberries are plentiful ready for picking.

Working to Muzic,

I was privileged yesterday

whlie and

in

lations or Frend, Jung and Bohopenhauer were dull and ex- pensive, So rigid was the tabu that SHAW'Mrs. Warren's Pro-

"Wall madam," said the shop- fession was banned by the censor, walker. "I wish to get a present and Mr. Haney's masterpiece Jade for my husband." "How long the Obscure was wet with a male married?" "Eleven years," was the reply. "Bargains down that volont excoration, which the post- war generation cannot understand. aide pointing to the right.

Misa MAR12 Stopes early, and patien most popular works can just be Hong Kong-Canton, Telephone. Pastures are still in good shape fore the War, at a time when We call the attention of our Puritan control was slightly relax-readers to the regulations, charges ing under a general restiveness and instructions, etc., in connection Scientista were already becoming with the Hong Kong-Canton Tole candid in their lengthy manuals, phone, which we give in full on but Dr. STOPES books were cheap, Pago The new service is to be frank, and expressed with entire opened by H.E. the Governor (Sir. simplicity of diction. Dr. Srores William Pool) on September i held the theory, widespread among Gold Supplies. psychologists and medical men, that much unhappiness, was

I almost all the discussions on witness one of the latest refinements

·caused through sex ignorance and the pre-

the world's gold supplies and their in Industrial officiency, writes valence of certain conventionalised proper use in creating a standard"Londoner" in the Evening ideas. Her books sought to roof value and providing a mean Standard. It was a factroy in Lon

of settling international trade | don where work is carried on to remove the ignorance and destroy balances one point is overlooked music. "In every room, save one or the conventions. So completely has Gold is extracted from the earth two where the machinery in so loud this been done in England that it when the value of the product is that it would be useless, there is a is difficult to recall the reticence of greater than the expense of getting loud speaker which discourses sweat it. There is much gold that it is music during working hours. I. There are many who would de-not profitable to work, but as the was told that it has resulted in de scribe Dr. STOPES as a pioneer of shortage of gold becomes more finitely increased productivity, us a new age of greater health and acute the tendency will be for more well as more happiness among the Happiness, founded upon frankness gold workings to become profitable factory hands, most of whom are and knowledge; that to her is It is, therefore, an actuarial pro-women. Indeed, I could see the largely due the emancipation of blem whether it would pay a coun- effects myself, girls carrying piles women from Victorian tyranny, try better to work its goid at a of boxca from one room to another any of men from the drunkenness small loss or bear the cost of main- and walking in time with the and furtive immorality of a hype taining its unemployed. The main music, and packers whose fingera erital age. To many young people sources of gold are in the British moved to the rhythm of a foxtrot. "of to-day, she appears, somewhat in Empire, and unlike the subsidized I was also told that the most stimu the guise of an attractive and production of commodities, the sub-lating piece is the "Marseillaisa," audacious aunt, with an altogether sidized production of gold would but it has to be played sparingly extraordinary candour,

tend to raise commodity prices, not so that it shall not grow stale nad to lower them-The Times,

lose its effect.

apart generation.

There is; however, another aspect, and many sincere and far sighted thinkers maintain that Dr., STOFES has aided in opening the floodgates of selfishness and licence of a.

London Oke: 88, Fleet Street, senlo dangerous to the morale of

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, August 22, 1931.-

mine what if thing, had been taken away, and its soomed as though the shop-ursaker had been pengaged in a Traitions soarch, for something. At rgth the chemist came across-a-note, which explain the mystery, Th note ran: "1 could not get a wink of sleep Inst night for mosquitos to whose bites I am very susceptible. They bit me most mercilessy and some al farming lumps developed rapidly on

my face and head, while one of my ears increased visibly. In the circumstances. I liad to hava some. anti-mosquito bite ointment at air, coste, and therefore I took the

Liberty of breaking into your shop. The price of the tube, seo, ie 18. ud, which please find enclosed."

ONE TO THE NEW BOWLEU.

I can endurs the greatest pain In canine or in molar,

But not the pain that I should j

set

the p

If my wife buys a bowler.

Her face is large and rather wide, And in a hat that's shady, She looks, (as" I would have her.

-Book)

A really perfect lady.

Now in a straw or felt hat small, Or in a topee solar —

Nor in this hatoful bowler. I do not like my wife at all,

But just because the fashion is *. To wear this hideous beadgear, My wife will buy a bowler hatë And look a fright all next year. F. H.

Local Notes and Events ★

Two cases (Chinese) of typhoid were reported on Thursday.

At 5 o'clock, yesterday morning them (Vice President), Dr. Pearse, a Chinese district watchman came M.O.H. Hon. Mr A. W. Brewin, upon a woman lying on her side, oritically injured in the street Dr. Macfarlane, Hon. Mr. E. A channel outside 91, Queen's Road Hewett, Lieut. Col Joslin, MYA. East. The woman was removed to Shelton Hooper, Mr. H. H. Hum- the Government Civil Hospital

the race. They are of opinion that the psychology upon which her philosophy is founded is altogether false, and that the old and more austere view of life is the truer

A promenade concert will take guide to happiness, to nobility of place at Volunteer Headquarters at character and to national great-pm on Friday, August 28.. nese. The falling birthrate, es pecially among the prosperous penant when proceeding to the

For failing to fly the where she subsequently died. It is phreys, Mr. J. Badelay, Mr. Fung not definitely known how the Wachun, Mr. Lar Chu-pak, and classes, the manin for pleasure, the Southern Fairway, Captain J., S. woman received her injuries but it Mr. G. A. Woudcock (secretary), prevalence of divorce, the gambling Anderson, of the Naming, was ing in her sleep...

is probable that she had been walk- craze and the materialism of the fined 25 by the Marine Magistrate cinema are signs of decadence, yesterday. which are not counterbalanced by less drinking and a higher standard

among the masses. This is not, however, the place for weighing the merita of the argument, and our object is to draw attention to as interesting and important pheno- menon of the social life of to-day.

In reply to a letter from the Board relative to the application

EXAMINATION for NPW N that the TRANSFER BOOKS Rome. No propaganda is to be of education and material comfort Young, of the Claremont, Hotel, ritory to the extent of some 400 stating that the necessitty for such

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School Be-opens SEPTEMBER 4rs of the Company will be CLOSED from For Prospectus apply to ME. LI SATURDAY 2017, to MONDAY, HOI TUNG, BANKER & Co. BANK 81ST AUGUST, 1981, Both Days OF CHINA BUILDING, or to ST STE inclusive. PHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY. [1059

By Order of the Board,

B. ALVES,

*Secretary,

THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD Hong Kong, 17th Ang., 1931.

MINING CO., LTD.

(INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND).

NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN HE ORDINARY C GENERAL TE INTERIM DIVE. I MEETING of the Shareholders DEND of One Shilling Per Share on in the above Company will be held account of the Financial Year ending at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, P, &

A PILGRIM. TO' ROME.

THERE is ironic humour in the success of the pertinacious efforts of Dr. MARIE STOPKS to lecture, in

allowed, but in the citadel of her implacable opponent, the Roman Catholic Church, and in the capital of the country, whose Dictator has announced that "it is the duty of woman to provide sons for the fatherland," Dr. Stores will: ad- dress the International Congress for the Study of Population Prob lems...

The name of Dr. Manis STOPES is known throughout the English speaking world, and her books have been sold by the million. For good or for ill this gifted lady, of Quaker, extraction and the highest

THE TRUE PROPHET,

In connection with a report that for a site for a Roman Catholic The forthcoming marringes are the Soviet in northern Manchuria comotory on the north side of the announced of Frederick Charles have forcibly occupied Chinesa tor-harbour, the Government, replied Kowloon, and Jean Kathleen Wagi and illegally removed many staff, of the same address; and of boundary stones, the Shanghat a cemetery had not been overlook Lambert Gockahin, merchant, 14, District Kuomintang is again co-ed in the plane for the laying our Tramway Path. Fung Fai Terrace, to Naney Li, 2. suring the "Red Imperialists.” At

of Kowloon,' its last meeting, it was resolved to i send a petition to the Government It is notified that chorus re-requesting an investigation of the hearsnis for the musical comedy, affair and to issue a manifesto

Miss Hook of Holland will take i pealing to the Chinese people to place at the Cathedral Hall on Mon- I put on a united front against Bol- days at 5.30 pm, and on Fridays shovik aggression. at 8.45 pm, commencing on Mon day, August 31. Ladies and gen- tlemen wishing to join are request ed to attend on those dates.

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"An application from a number

hamlets near Lyte.joon for a picce of villagers, resident in different

of land to be set apart as a public cemetery, which came before the

ferred to the Registrar-General for Board at the last meeting, was re-

report

The Registra General

utilised for other purposes,

stated

Miss Marion Howlett, known as THOSE of us who feel pessimistic.

The Ambassadorees of Goodwill" Great Britain and are dismayed at about the economie situation of

will be passing through Hong Kong the weight of Way Debt should take Damage to the extent of 800 The President and Council of the that he saw no objection to a

on her world tour, from : America. heart from MACAULAY. They should was sustained by the Dairy Farm Helena May Instituto propose to

a the City Hall, or some other. launch, Madge at the pier invite Mise Howlett to a reception small cometary being established in SoUTHTY's Colloquies on the Pro The starboard side of a lighter September 4, from 11.30 a.m. to could be closed at any time by the local library, and read his essay on at Kowloon Point on Thursday at the Helena May on Friday, this particular aighbourhood. It gress and Prospects of Society, towed by the Kowloon Godown's 81it MaxCH, 1982, has been declared O. BUILDING, ON MONDAY, AUGUST personal character, has had us bview" of January, 1830, Then, as Madge, according to a report made social work will be cordially wel-, lapse of years the land could bebi

published in the Edinburgh Relaunch Compra, bumped into the 12.30 pm. No invitations are being Government, and after a certain

ferued but all women interested in i by the Directors of the Company in 3107 at 11 AM for the purpose of an influence on England, and now England was undergoing a by the coxswain of the latter to the

receiving the Report of the General

possibly on the world, as any living

come. Any alteration, of the above: "BRISBANE, payable to: Shareholders Managers together with a Statement

idato and time due to the steamorʼa on the Registers at BeresAME und of Accounts to the 31st DECEMBER

writer Mi GK CheESTERTON BINGAPOEL, on WEDNESDAY, 23rd 1930.

said recently that in twenty years SEPTEMBER, 1981, 8,

England had changed from Puritan to Pagan, and there are, both among those who approve and those who hitterly regret and resent the. change, many who maintain that MARIE BTOPCs has been one of the strongest influences at work in our land.

NOTICE 18 ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the SINGAPORE TRANSFER REGISTERS will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 17TH SEPTEMBER to WEDNESDAY,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the of AUGUST, to 318r of AUGUST, Company will be CLOSED from 24mm* Both Days inclusive,

DOUGLAS LAPRATK & Co., General Managers.

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282D SEPTEMBER, 1981 (Both Hong Kong 19th Aug., 1991. Daya inclusive) for the preparation |..

of Dividend Warrants. My

By Order of the Board, "DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries, `•

HONGKONG BANK CHAMBERS, SINGAPORE, 15th August 1981. [1082

THE SOUTH CHINA MOTOR- SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRING WORKS, LIMITED. Ats

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

ORIENT. MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATN AGENTS.

PEAK MANSIONS" Biz-roomsă & Five-roomed Apartmentá

PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, HOWLOON,

Delached, and – Bomi-detached: Villae Modern Construction with Garage,

"" CAMBAY BUILDINGS”. "Tiská' wifi Młodies ConveníamoOI.

that the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, 9r. GEORGE'S BUILDING, 92D FLOOR, on TUESDAY the 267 Dator AUGUST, 1981, at 12.30 r., to roosive, the Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts,,to,, re-elect Directors, and to reelect Auditora

MTG AANPAS By Order of the Board

BRANDT & CO., MPP! "General Managers, Hong Kong, 18th August, 1981.

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period of great distressa, Then, police,

believed that England's sun had.

as now, there were. Englishmen who ho Kwangtung Provincial Chris-movements will be notified in the mended to grant the application.

·Prem,

The Government. is to be recom

Hong Kong Daily, Press, August 22, 100,

set. MACAULAY, however, bade his tian Summer Conference was held countrymen be of good cheer. He yesterday at Pak Hok Tang, Can pointed out how in the past the ton. Among the participants wAS At Central Magistracy yesterday pessimista had said we had seen our a party of Hong Kong University the driver of a public motor-car Looking Back 50 Zenzs, best days.

students headed by Mr. S. T. was charged with driving his It will bo remembered, that, in A million a year will beggar Cheung, Secretary of the Univer vehicle along Chater Road on Aug. our issue of Juni, 21, we called at- us," said the patriot of 1040, Twoity Christian Association. The 1, in a manner dangerous to the tention to the strkiing and utter millions year will grind the conference will last for a week.public. It was stated that the dely abnormal death-rate among country to powder,” was the cry in There will also be a conference in fendant's vohiole was going along Chinese women n this Colony, 1000. Six millions & year and a the forthcoming winter, de at an excessive speed and almost The average annual & mortality debt of fifty millions exclaimed

knocked over a rickshaw, in which among them, we then showed, was SWIFT the high Allien have been Members of the Hong Kong Uni- Mr. H. Jebsen was riding. The 72.25 per thousand, and as compar- the ruin of us!” "Two hundred vèrsity Union will participato in a fatter, in evidence, said the chauf-ed with the average for the whole and forty millions of debt!" éried launch pienie to-day to Clear Water for was not locking where he was population, which ranges from 26 tao statesmen of 1783; “ what can Bay. The launch will leave Blake going at the time and if his rick to 30 per thousand, it must be, ad- Lave a country so burdened 1 " Pier at 9.30 p.m. It is learned that | show, bearer had not swerved they mitted that some exceptional causer,

Yet the debts were paid, t

must exist to 'account for so 'alarm-t a large number of andergrads have would certainly have been run “On what principle, then," says bought their tickets. If the wea into. Holding that the case had ALACAULAY, do we expect nothing ther turns out, all right the picnic, been proved, the Magistrate im- but deterioration before us, when will, no doubt, be a great success poard a fine of 825," and we see nothing but improvement. This is the second picnic held under... behind us???

Twenty years ago the subject of sex was tabu in polite society. It might be the subject of jest, and discussion, of a sort, among-young mon and elderly rakes, but among all classes, when respectable women were present, it was the conven- tion that sex did not exist that it was not a factor of any import. ance in human peychology. Thera were, of course, allusions to those questions in the classics, in French- and Italian novels, the Elizabethan drama and, in certain eighteenth century writers; but none of these, CXCOPE SHAKESPEARE's plays and GULLIVED's Travels were general reading, and BoyDLEE's expurgs. tions had aade both the Dean and 1 less.

the auspices of the Union since the beginning of the year

?

It was in this same article that MACAULAY, made his famous pro- phecy of the England of 1030 with At the Marine Court yesterday, A population of afty millions, the mistress of a: passenger bout batter fed, clad and, lodged, than was charged with using her craft the English of our time," with to convey thros girls för immoral if machines, constructed "on" prin- purposes tela stenmer flying at ane ciples yet undiscovered in every chor. The woman pleaded not house, and with railroads instead 3 gality After sidence had been of highroads. Vie

given by the officer for the prose MACAULAY may have his defects, cution, however, the Magistrate ye but he was a true prophef His gistered a conviction and imposed belief in the future has been just a line of 850, remarking that he Ged. Our own belief should be no would increase this to 8100 in the

next case of such a nature

From the files.

t

Locking Back 25 Zears.

ing a discrepancy In our last. article on this subject; we gave, statistics for six years preceeding the current twelvemonth, and these showed that the deaths omong Chinese females ↑ « 1881 numbered: 2,020 against 1,920 among the males. The returns for the first Hit of the preset:t year havo ginçe. heen published, but they show little improvement. - The death; fora. -the six monthaywira as follow:-

Females, 800, ma'e1, 742 It inenly DEPASAXY-10 remember tant there. are £3,041 Chiness women in the

A meeting of the Sanitary Board Colony se compared with 101,452 was held on August 1 at the Board malas, to fully understand and ap Room The Hon Dr. Fy Clark precinte the enormous

isparity in Prujdont, presided, and there were the death rats. -Iong Kong Daily als present Hon Mr. W. Chs-] Prene, August 23, 1881;.-A.