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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
N INTERIM DIVIDEND £:40 A Centa Por Share has been de clared payable on TUESDAY 26TH AUGUST, on and after which. Date Dividend Warranta may, he abiained upon application at the REGISTERED OFFICE of the Company, CAVAL ROAD EAST, BOWRINGTON, Hosa Koso. (1099
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AUGUST, 1931, the TAXI FARE in accordance with Government's approval
· will be as follows pe
Fint Miles 0.50. Cánts' Evory Subsequent Mile ..
40 Cent Per Mile.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
In the Maiten of the EstaTE OF
· DOUGLAS, G. CARSTAIRS LATE OF VICTORIA, --- IN... THE COLONY or Hono Боко, CANTEEN MANAGER, DECLARED, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtuo e
s of Section 58 of the Probates 'Ordinance. 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order limiting the Time for acading in Claims to or against the above Estate, to the 12TH DAT or AUGUST, 1931,
Creditors and Claimants are hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Date.
Dated this 2ând day of August, 1991.
“E. P. H. LANG,
Official Administrator.
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THE Undermentioned' Oertificate for 100 Old Shares in this Company registered in the Name of MRSE. S.. ANDREWS has been. LOST or DES. TROYED; and should this Certificate not be produced in the Company before the 230 SEPTEMBER, 195, Now Certificate for the said Bhares will be farned and the Old Certificate No. 618) will thereafter be treated?
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HONG KONG, AUGUST 25, 1031.
A MORE COSMOPOLITAN
SPIRIT NEEDED.
In spite of the continuous and energetic efforts of succeeding generations of Government officiali, notably Sir CECIL CLEMENTI, and other public spirited residents, to weld more firmly together the many
the commercial and material that Moore. Thero was the task progress of those countries. It is much choice about who was to do
and there the
the teil, and not very Casontial that ways and means it But we in these later and less should be found for breaking
News and Views +
down these partition walls, be-Pastoral times have gone aside after tween various communities in many inventions; wo bave increased habiting the same Inad, and a club the tasks and thereby increased the such as this is one of the beat, opportunities for disappointmann Warm Workill? KOT
means to that end. A
as Mr FISHER suggested, the
a
totheque. Tranchise.
The oxcellent library of French
1
Whon Sir CECIL was Governor of wrong one has come their way. II, You ought to have a thorougBooks in the French Consulate, Hong Kong, he 6 expressed prao teachen really feels that he ought ¦enning,' snapped the irato fexandra Building, has recently tically the samo, santiments when to have been a hospital matron, gentleman wish I were your been enriched by the addition of he proposed the formation of and the clergyman thinks that he father." Well, sir, you can be," Concordia Club,
should have trained his voice up said the youngster. My motilor's a considerable number of new which members to opera standard, their senses are
volumes, technicalwbooka - classics widow.
-and-light novels. The liberary con of all the different nationalities in undoubtedly ones for sympathy. Whipsnade."
vo detains over 2,500) carefully chosen the Colony could moet in social few things are more exhausting
than to be tied for ever to the Ever sincs the great traffic jam books and, the membership des sa 81 per month. The treasurer of the and intellectual equality Can the wrong task. But, as already hint of Whitsun the authorities at library Y. Segalen Esq. c/o Banque Rotary movement take the place of nd, a good deal of it may be Whipsnade have been plotting t de l'Indo-Chine would be pleased to the Concordia Club! We think imagination; the other man's job secure that for the August Bank | give, further details to any one in- go very far in might be nothing like so attractive Holiday there shall be no jam ho terested. Further reference, en not, though it con.
Cat close quartera And if they all, says a London paper. Huge français, is made but Page achieving Sir CECIL' far-sighted modern world, by multiplying the parking spaces have been secured, AMANDA S ideal. It is certainly the basis or tasks, has multiplied the grievances, pads have been widened, notions Childbirth Drag Buocean, which a frm structure could be if has niso one redeeming point I have boen plunked on every tree, fand a vast foreg" of constabulary site crediti It has no mutiplied will be drafted into the area to built of amity and mutual esteem the opportunities for leisure so that instruct the people how and where The Sports Club, Jockey Club, and most of us have the chance to cu: they should go. It is expected, that several other sporting institutions, ivate as recreation those taster some 50,000 visitors will attend,
Menu Fand inclinations the which might not! in which all nationalities, are
myveno permanende, Agreeable it and one hundred giant waste-paper eligible for membership, are steps the were harnessed to, a job of with the litter of the multitudo.
baskets have been ordered to cope in the right direction: It is not work. sufficient, however, that Briton an
and Chinon sit side by side for an hour every Tuesday at Lane, Craw ford's Restaurant qmix for short time over a couple of drinks at the Sports Club. Where we of Hong Kong all seem to feel a great shyness is in the matter of our homen Many of us, and, here ya married man with a family to vailing in Berlin decisive sympathy drug for the last six months in th refer to members of all the races that comprise Hong Kong, are most anxious for an interchange of hospitality, but a difidence in making the first step seems to hold us back. A notable lead is being given in official circles in Hong Kong, and with great sucess, but us yet this is practised to a very limited extent.
The greatest obstacle in the pest has been the language problem but this is no longer a valid excuse. Generally speaking, it must be ad mitted that British residents have made no effort to learn the Chinese language and it is to the credit of the well educated Chinese, that they have counteracted this dis ability by inaking themselves con-
UntellshnessHowarded,
Mr. MacDonald in Germany.
Following two years' exhaustive experiments, obstetricians of the Sloane Hospital, New York, hevo evolved a new method of reducing the pains of childbirth, which makes time ordeal virtually without pain for the woman, and is without danger. to either mother or ahlid. Tho. method, first introduced in Ger mnny involves the use of a drug called Pernoctin, which experte The following littlel, story còn The visit of Mr. Ramsay Mac forecast will eventually be used cerning the unselfishaces of a Donald to Berlin has had a tonic universally Experiments show that Chinese workman comes to us from affect, says a Londen paper. It with the use of Farnostín, the trade a Canton furniture dealor, which was sorely needed: The though she does not remember it Canton. Owing to slackness of administered a whiff of oxygen mother feels some light. · pain, decided to dismiss one of his staff.German people now realise that afterwards The drug in, thus res It was only fair that the man to they have a firm friend in Downing, regarded as better than twilight Inst employed. This happened to be situation as hysterical as that pre methods. The hospital has used the be discharged should be the man street. This gives them hope. In a sleep, and other so-called painless
support, and, realising this, an- of this nature has a practical majority of cases. Pernpatin is ad- other employee, who had been with effect. The Germáns do know that [ministered as soon as the pain bo the firm a number of years, volun- at least one. Great Power ardently comes ante. The woman there teered to resign in favour of the desires their recovery. This is the upon falls asleep, and the effects of married man. The story soon got sort of mission which Mr. Ramany the drug lasts from two to four about and the unselfish workman MacDonald fulfils to perfection. He hours, after which the injection can was only unemployed for a short is solid, he is sturdy, he is pruebe enfely repeated if desired. While while, To-day he is permanentlytical; yet with it all he displays an twilight sleep has been found to that which he was receiving in his delicate human understanding of tin does not affect the infant in any employed at a higher salary than almost feminine sympathy, and affect babies deleteriously, Pernoc
previous position.
bther people's problegs., - way.
Local Notes and Events *
One case of typhoid, one of|| A junk "master was fined $33 by celebro-spinal meningitis and one of Surya fever were reported on Sunday..
The Rov O Duppuy, D.D.,
Comdr. Hole at the Marine. Court yesterday, for leaving the harbour without obtaining a clearance, The defendant stated that he was ordered
From the files.
verannt with English. It must be shop of Victória, and Mrs. Dip. day afternoon and as the Harbour Locking Back 25 Team,&K 10, 20
muy returned to the Colony on Saturday after having spent a short vacation in Japan.
to go to Castle Peak on Satur Offico was closed he could not get clearance papera
admitted that they have more than met us half way in this respect, for which we should be grateful.
The language barrier therefore is no longer existent and there appears no reason why the different -races should not enjoy better the Kowloon mortuary Murder is at the time of his arrest. He did mutual understanding and social intercourse. To quote again Siringly. CIL CLEMENTI... More from laziness than anything else, they (Europeans) take refuge in the quotation than "East is East and
When charged before the Marine Magistrato yesterday with causing bound hand and foot, was yenteras. Haiching, a boatmae pleaded The body of a middle-aged man, an obstruction at the gangway of day recovered from the harbour by not guilty saying that he was en- the water police and removed, 10 gaged in loading cargo to his boat suspected, and the police are there fare prosecuting, enquiriga, ateird-
not hear any wanting to clear the way, but the Magistrate held that the man had no business to load in such a manner and imposed a fine of $20 or 14 days' imprisonment. **
There was a strong muster of merrio Englishmen and others at St. George's Club on Saturday ing concert was held. Although in night," when a most successful amek
a sickly, child requiring all sorts its infancy, the Club is not like of attention to uphold it in the day of childhood. Rather it is like the robust boy who knows not what laes means, Started but a few months ago, St George's Club now a fourishing institution with a large membership, which bida fair to increases This antisfactory' position has been brought about by the energy of the committed and tho The police are investigating the enthusiasm of the members who admitted to the Government Civil of the club. Those who attended Hospital yesterday suffering from the smoker" on Saturday night hend injuries.
will have no doubt about this. The Fellow workers Whilst driving back to down on stated that the man, fell down the best of good-fellowship prevailed, Sunday evening, Mr. L. Q. Nagel hold of the steamer Wo Ping Yee and the flower of the Colony's accidentally ran into a Chinese boy but the captain of the vessel said musical talent, both of the senti aged 10 who ran into the way of that he heard the man crying that mental and comic order, contributed to the night's pleasure. During the the car. He received serious in he was being assaulted, and inter interval on the programms Mr. A juries to the head and was removed. found him in the hold of the ship Cunningham, Chairman of the Club, to the Hospital by Mr. Nagel in The ship' wan docked at the Chuet presented the prizes' won in the last
Before Mr. Schofield yesterday, two chair-coolies were charged with behaving in fa; disorderly conduct, and one of them, the aggressor, was ordered to pay 83 compensation to bound over to keep the peace for a year.
Assault or Accident.
different nationalities which go to West is West and never the twat the other, while both men were case of a dock labourer who was pull together for the advancement
shall meet, and they forget that KIPLING, also wrote in the same poem:-
But there is neither East nor nor West, border, nor breed nor birth, When two strong men stand Ince to face though they come from the ends of the earth."- Coxruorca put it even better he said:-
brethren."
when
the car.780
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make up the population of Hong Kong, there is no use in shatting our eyes to the fact that very little success has been achieved. It has been the custom to lay the fault. at the door of so-called British snobbery, but Chinese conservatism and suspicion of foreigners are, we suggest, quite us much to blame.
On' wharf at the time.
billiard tournament Mr. Perey The large and prosperous Portu-
Browne, of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Before Mr. W. Schofield yester-& Co., was handed the bandsome guese community, who have taken no small share in building Hong
Within the four seas all are the police, armed robbers broke the son of weil-to-do parents, as Chairman in presenting it con- According to a report made to day, a young, Chinese, described "as cup which went to the winner. The
Kang's prosperity, have always
into floor at 1, Victoria Street, charged with the alleged theft of a gratulated Mr. Browne, who receiv about 6.48 a.m. yesterday, and topco at, the Chinese Bathing Clubed the trophy amid the unstinted kept to themselves, as have, the
alter terorising the inmates with Pavilion on Saturday, Mr. H. C.applause of the large gathering- Indians and other nationala. The
a revolver and daggers, made a Macnamara who appeared for the Hong Kong Daily Press, August result is that the social life of
thorough search of the place. Ac defcoce applied for a remand and 28, 1000. the different nationalities in the
cording to the principal tenant, who bail. The police stated that the AccoRDING to Mr. H. A. L. FISTE, is a fishmonger at Central Market, topee was valued at $3.50 and de- Colony is divided into water tight
a former British Minister of Educa the intruders decamped with over fendant was remanded for a week, I Looking Back 50 Year compartments, between which sport tion, and now. Wanden of New, Col. $977 in money and valuables ball being granted in the sum of Either Sir John Pope Hennessy has no genuine desire to promote is the main communicating door,
lege, Oxford, when speaking in At Central Magistracy yesterday dung cute barn harmony between the British, and This state of affairs was prob London on educational topics, mosting to the Colony from banishment, Lokmachau New Territories was ties in this Colony or he is most a Chinese was charged with return. The tenant of a tek shef at Foreign and the Chinese communi- ^ ably at the back of certain very of the world's workers of to-day and after it was disclosed that he aroused early on Sunday morning lamentably lacking in all tho quali- pertinent remarks, made by Sirare inclined to think that they had committed the same offence for by a knock at the door. A minties that go to make successful CECIL CLEMENTI at a recent tiffn of would have worked, better if they the seventh time during the past asked for admission stating that he ruler of men. When His Excellency the Singapore Rotary Club, which had -
nine years, he was given a term of wanted to buyscakes, · He was ad. I first arrived in this Colony the com-r en working at, something eight mouths' hard labour by Mrmitted and then seized the tenantmunity generally were anxious no suggest a new and vitally important else, A It is the exception rather E. H. Williams feld for Rotary activities in Hong than the rule," saggested. Mr. Agape
THE SQUARE » PEG."
Zied to s Tree.
by the throat and forced him backaccord him every chance of achiev on the bed. The latter was thening distinction here as an adminis- frussed up and the robber calmly trator. Instead of seizing the op-/ searched a drawer and walked away portunity, the Governor almost im-... Chan Hing, faki in the Yuen Lee with an electric torch and $4.40 inmediately set to work to inaugurate Feneral stores, made a report to money dont knjiga policy calculated indeed to pleaso the police to the effect that he was 3 de regala
the fanatical Humanitariang at attacked by three men at the top paszport Not Valid, home, but which could not, however bf Saikong Bond, whilst, he, was
gracefully carried out, be altogether L. I Nindus, young, Russian, welcome to the residents, in the aaying two baskets of beef and poak from Kowloon City to the appeared before Mr. Williams at Colony, Bome of his Rota might, Saikong district The men accused the Central Police Court yesterday however, have been approved him, of stealing the meat and after charged with entering the Colony others would have excited little op they bound him to a tree they without a valid passport. The deposition, and though, in the main mado away with the baskets and fendant stated that he had had His Excellency must neccpaarily passport but had lost it on the way have found himself at isats poli Salata for gray ban ble from Hong Kong to Canton. He tically with the immense majority When a Chinese appeared before did not report the matter to the of the British and Foreign commu Mr. Hamilton at: Koslooo Magis officials of the ship and bad-return- nity hotesd not have been pers tracy yesterday, it was stated thated to Hong Kong to make arrange, |sonally unpopulatio. His Excellenc he boarded the Santhis with monta to obtain another passport. instead of steering to perpetuate but permission, and also that he is Worship, suggested that he be and increase the good feeling exist 777conhose for sidanes sms to make inquiries in Canton but therese.bators, his arrival getzan, was found trying to break openia remanded for a week for the police | ing between the British and Chinese
inkon, ahdimana asiyen rks farm. (defendant, stated dat he was mild hins benzin raisku of one month's imprisonment on the Ing to pay, the cost of a cablegram, between them, and would, hard- firah charge and six months' on the a reply to which Tould be received succeeded, no doubt, but i for the second count; the sentences to run to day. The case was, adjourned good sense of both
for 24 hours.
Daily Prein August 25,-
Kong. To quato Sir CECIL FIBUS, “to and an individua! The successful formation of whose tastes and inclinations do Rotary Clubs in Singapore and not run outside the narrow, sphere in other towns of the Malay Peninsula has given me very keen of his or her duties. It is prob- pleasure, for I consider such ably true-but then it is also prob. oluba to be among the best means ably true that if the tastes and of preserving the harmony which ao happily exists between all inclinations were transferred to races and creeds in this country. the sphere of work, they might be Nothing has caused me greater come far less attractive, Oh, the anxioty in other parts of the British Empire in which I have brave music of a distant drum the content served, than the fact that the but when the drum resounds daily communities of different races as the call to duty it may lose much there resident), although in daily
of its present charm. contact with each other, never-
Sull, it i theless move(as it were) in true that there must be more square separate worlds without any real pegs in round holes than there ever comprehension of each others were before if only because there moda of life or ways of thought This in intento most unfortunate; are so many more different kinds.cf circumstance, and from it spring bola waiting to be Blied: “When
pany regrettable misunderstand ings, which retard. the social, Adam delved and Eve spans there moral and intellectual-and even i was room for far less heartburning I concurrently,
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