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NOTICE

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Tan Honorera DISFENBÄNY, Dispensing Department will be OPENED for dispensing prescriptiona from 10 am to 1 pm and from 8 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.).

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL MEETING will be held at the SANITARY BOARD ROOM, POST OPTION BUILD ING (by Kind Permission), on FRIDAY, the 117 Dar of SEPTEMBER, 1931, at 5,15 Ex.

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Hon, Secretary.

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TN Accordance with Government

Ordinance,

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IN SEPTEM911).

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NOTICE.

A. SWATSON & CO., LIMITED.

HE Undermentioned Certificate

THE

for 50 Bhares in this Company,

registered in the Name of KWOK

BRITAINS BEST

BEER!

WHITBREAD S

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SOLE AGENTS:

SIN HING, has been declared LOST A. S. WATSON & Co.,

If at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the following:

Share Certificate be not produced to

the Company, namely, Certificate for

50 Shares No. 20,191 to 20,240, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the said shares will be issued by the Company. and thereafter NO OTHER will ba; recognised.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

LIMITED.

EST. 1941.

Hong Kong, 3rd Sept., 1981. [1147 For reliable information about

NOTICE.

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AUGUST, 1931, the TAXI FARE in accordance with Government's appróval will be as follows:--

OF"

STRAITS MALAY

First Mile Coats CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO- Every Subsequent Milo...

CHINA, SIAM, 40 Cente Per Mile.

SETTLEMENTS, STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc.

THE NEW TAXI Co., LAD

(Telephone No. 26180) BLUR TAXICABS, Lrs.

(Telephone No, 57417) HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

TAXICAB Co., Lap. 1

(Telephone No. 25408) STAR TAXI Co.

(Telephone No. 28748). Hong Kong, 24th Ang., 1981. (1093

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTE,

THE

NOTICE.

HE Undermentioned Certificate for 100 Old Bhares in this Company registered in the Name of MR. E 8. ANDREWS bas been LOST or DES TROYED; and should this Certificate ant be produced to the Company before the 80 SEPTEMBER, 1981, Now Certificate for the mid Rhares will be issued and the Old Certificate No. 6161 will thereafter be treated by this Company.as NULL & VOID.

7th

Certificate No. 5181 datod BarraMBRE, 1904, for 100 Shares Nos. 78801/78900.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.”. Hong Kong, 24th Aug, 1981

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MEMORIAL SERVICE.

The service in memory of those who lost their lives in the Kwong- anng disaster will now take place at St John's Cathedral on Friday, September 11, and not as previously announced. (1142

BIRTHS. MARTIN-On August 0. at Wen- chow, to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. MARTIN, BON. STONE-At Peking, on August 20, to Mr. and Mrs. LANCE B. STONE, a daughter.

...DEATH. ROBERTS-On August 29, at Shang- hai, WALTER DARRELL ROBERTS, aged 21 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. ROBERTS, **

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HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931.

LABOUR PARTY TANTRUMS.

THE Labour Party in Great Britain i nos covering itself with glory at the present time, and those who have deserted the Prime Minister will probably live to regret their chickenhearted action. The request

Mr.

rocks, but the economio, tide roood- ed, and Mr. SNOWDEN sounded the warning.

News and Views ✰

Maoris Striks Gold.

new and promising gold reef has been out by Maori claim-hold- in the Thamas district. A ton of stone was crushed by their pri- mitivo appliances and it yielded 1oz 3dwts of gold. The Maoris any that the stone becomes richer as the drive progresson

The Lemon {'·

The Empress of Britain.

This

Setting bor third record in less than two months, the new Canadian Pacifu Einor, Emproes of Britain, arrived at Cherbourg on July 3, four days, 10 houra, 18 minutes after leaving Father Point. now record, the shortest time in which the Atlantic has been arons. ed by a passenger vessel, breaks the liner's previous best time on the 'nstward passage by 27 minutes.

Bookles.

MOORING IN CABLE AREA.

JUNK STEERSMAN FINED.

Charged before the Maring Magiss trato yesterday with having moorod'. his craft within the Victoria (Chole: area and also with having failed to exhibit a regulation mooring light, thestooreman pofen, convervancy junk pleaded guilty on the Arm count but persisted in his story that he had a mooring light, on the junk, " Sergeant Woymes, who prosecut ou, told the Court that he noticed the junk at about 8.45 p.m.... on Thursday and boarded her but found nobody on board. He return od later with the intention of mak ing an arrest but at that time there was a light on board.

The defendant said that 'he "vas.

"To many Labour members, of honcat mind but with no deep know ledge of economics, it cathea a road shock to learn that sources of revenue from the wealthy were not inexhaustible The immense expen-ars diture of the War had confirmed a belief that money for overy kind of social amelioration was to be had for the saking. When, there fore, Mr. SNOWDEN, their own Chancellor of the Exabequor, made the announcement that coonomy was

Tho

greatest orators have been necessary, they were dumbfounded.

known to mix their metaphors, But some months later when the but an open air apeaker in Hyde HOLMAN GREGORY Commission ro Park thus, excelled himself during strange sight could have been in the cabin all the time and that was probably the reason why the port ou Unemployment Insurance a denunciation of the hated cap) seen on the Shanghai Bund yes

calist: "Ho's a drone, who just torday morning, says the NC officer did not notics him on his abuses, the MACMILLAN Report and wake the honey cut of the awoat Daily News, when a thousand new first visit to the boats the May Report all pointed sternly of the honest working-man; then recruite for the 10th Division of Magistrate you were "sleep. towards economy there was abs throws the squeezedout lemon on the Chinese Army under Genoraling, how did you know the light

was burning t Liu Ho Ting atraggled along in general revolt against the expert to the acron heap

twos and threes on the way from Mr. Maxton complained ingenuous

Anhui to Eukien. Only one in twenty had uniforms, the others ly because the Commissions had not

being the proud possemors of little been packed with good extremists

banners attached to their conta, pro- like himself. The National Union

sumably giving their regimental of Teachers, a well knit association,

names and numbers. The majority a couple of the wine bricks that were young lads of barely sixteen whose slogan scema to be "Charity are causing so much commation in years of ago, who had apparently begins at Home," passed resclu- the United States. While they were joined the army to get something not missives from Bacchus, God to eat. Only one officer was seen tions to the effect that they would of Wine, they could claim connec- and he was armed with an umbrella. strike and would sooner see, all the tion with Prometheus, that ancient schools of Britain closed, than friend of man, for the contents proved to be a consignment of ax- submit to a penny being cut off collent matches with pictures of a their own salaries. As Lord TENNY-Dollar liner on the top.. BON did not any

A Gift From Cappy Ricks.

When Wo received yesterday morning two squaro packages from the Dollar Steamship Lines a hope was expressed that they might be

Lynchings on Decrease.

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Defendant: I could see it through. the window

Magistrate: Did you also see the police board the boat fagper

Defondant: No. I did not spe

the police board the boat, but I

m

saw the police on board at 8.30

Magistrate: I don't believe you." You are fined, 818" or two weeks" im- prisonment on the first count, and 10 or a wook on the second, the sentences to run consecutively..

OBSTRUCTION IN ICE HOUSE STREET,

NEW ORDER EXPLAINED.

Following the general resentment on the part of local brokers resuit- ing from the order issued by the The question of removing rickalvis Inspector General of Police regar l- from Ice House Street altogether ing traffic in Ice House Street, it was considered, but as the majority is understood that the new regula- of these rickalans are brokera rick-tions are merely intended to point shine, which must necessarily be out to persons obstructing the rond that it is a thoroughfare, and that parked somewhere, while the occup ants alight, it was considered only it must be kept na such,

According to Hon. Mr. E. D. C reasonable to allot one side of the road to rickshas, the bulk of which Wolfe, IGP, it is not intended are hired..

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Local Notes and Events

to clear the street, and persons con- versing at the west side of the road, which is not encumbered with zick- shas, will not ordinarily be inter- fored with. All persons standing There's not to do and die! There's but to reason," why!

The lynching record of the South-in the centre of the road, thereby ern States of America for the Arst abstracting the through traffe, vill. It is a pity that there should six months of 1931 reached the low be invited to move on, and, if they Ire this natbreak of throats and level of five for the six months' fail to do so, it will be necessary

period, as against an average of to take further action: childish temper on the part of about ten times that many for section of the nation who think they like periods throughout the last half century. Primarily, credit for are in a position to avoid by this steady decrease in lynching is bluster the sacrificos that they per-to be given to the newspapers of fectly well know will have to be this section, the church groups, the made. Though a noisy and voci-officers of the law and the growing opposition to Jynching on the part ferous group of politicians, In and of thousands of southern white wo out of Parliament; will oppose and men. to the best of its power, impede the Government, the majority of people, | | rich and poor, realise that Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD and Mr. SNOW.. DEN are not betraying the work. era," but are seeking to save them. from distress and disaster of the kind that has swept Germany, and the United States. The National Government consists of men who "Two rafte with diving platforma have the public confidence and it fitted have been found by the police time drifting, one at Capauimun and the is to be hoped that by the

other off the Yaumati Breakwater. Parliament reassembles the present outbreaks of rage will have cooled,

One case of typhoid was reported: The Exchange Banks will be closed to the transaction of public on Thursday.

business on Monday, September 7..

The memorial service at St.

At Central Magistracy, yesterday, theft of a damaged baie of cloth Chinese was charged with the

from a depot of retrieved wreckage, picked up along the waterfront in the West Point District. The pro- Mr. Ngan Shing Kwan, managing secuting officer asked for an ad- director of the China Motor. Busjournment, stating that he might be Company, has reported to the police able to find the owner and this was

accordingly granted.

and that the proposals of the Gav-John's Cathedral to the officers of the theft from his office of $3,500, the ill-fated s... Kwongsang has now He stated that when he opened the been postponed until Friday, the safe in the accountant's room on 11th inst.

ernment will receive a fair and general hearing, even. from the Labour Members who intend to form the Opposition. A fractious and unreasonable obstruction will com- plete the widespread disillusion. ment felt with regard to the aime and the abilities of the Labour Party.

Thursday afternoon he found the The speaker at The Quiet money and a quantity of jewellery, Hour service at the YM.C.A. on the value of which is at present un Sunday evening will be the Rev.

J. C, Knight-Anstey. Mr. Knight known, missing. An accountant of Anstey is shortly leaving Hong the Company has since disappeared. Kong and at this meeting he will

from the files..

SAP Locking Back 25 Years,

give one of his last sermons to a Mr. Fartsin T. Sung, the Chi- local congregation.

Their Majesties, the Empress nesa Consul-General for Java, arDowager and Emperor of China,

At the Sailors and Soldier?rived here yesterday per s.s. Em- have lately received a most earnest Home, on Monday, September 14, press of Japan. He is on his way ily worded memorial from His A SCREEN IMPROVEMENT.there will be a farewell gathering Batavin. During his short stay lie strongly condemned the in- to assume his official duties in Highness Duke Tsai Tach, in which here, Mr. Sung will stay in thedolence, indifference and selfishness Empress Hote, as a guest of Dr. of the great majority of highl

Mr. Sung was ple are ready and eager for re-" Frank S. Goon, a well-known: Hongcials serving the Crown The peo- Kong resident, formerly Consul-General in Aus-form, but so long as their officers above them manifest their usual selfish indifference there is no one

EXPERTS in the science of optics now of the great advances that have been made since the war in the manufacture of English lenses. Bat non-expert persons are rarely

invention.

to the Rev. J. C. and Mrs. Knight Anstey, at 8 p.m., to be followed by the opening and dedication by the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southora of a new lounge.

In falling from the verandah of train 11, Kam Wah Street, a five-year-old

www.giging

The Courier of August 20 giver

hoy, Cheung Po Kan, received in News hat been received in Shang- to encourage the masses to try to of Mr. MacDONALD'e "constituents acquainted with this rapid pro-juries to his head and right ankle hai of the death, which took pinee better themselves, with the result that he should resign, the decisiongress, or with the fact that the best but his mother refused to allow him in Peking, on Tuesday morning of that China is, at present, standing of the National Union of Railway lenses used in the cinema studios to remain at the Government Civil Mme. Hsiung Hai Ling, one of the as it were on the edge of a pre- men that Mr. J. H. THOMAS bind of Europe and America and for Hospital, where he was first taken. best known Chinese Jadies in participice. The Duke further proceed. China. The wife of a former Tred to denounce the members of the projectors are nearly all British. – 20,000 FOREIGNERS,

forfeited his pension, and the Indeed, it is more than probabis

On the arrival in port of the ss,mier, she took a very activo part clique who are showing opposition that without these excellent lenses Ling Nam, the chief officer, Mr. in all forms of charitable work and to reform and the inauguration of Arranged, with the initials as well hysterical accusations of "trea-

́as Surnames in strict alphabachery," suggest a personal feeling millions of cinema-goers would not G. Greff, reported to the police was to have attended the Inter-parliamentary representation, de- find nearly so much enjoyment in that it was discovered after the ship national Women's Conference to heclaring such men to be traitors, and tical order.

alica to British traditions. The the Sims as they do at present came into harbour that a cargo of held in Geneva in November. She instruments of the destruction of the writer of Native Notes," hat mass of letters, from people of Manufacturers of the Lenses con deer's taile and horns had been was 54 years of age at the time their country. It is stated, sys their Majesties were quite moved class, which have been showered on tinually endeavour to improve their broached. The loss is estimated at of her demise..

Messrs. Musso, Fischer & Wil at the eloquence of the Duke, his Mr. BAMSAY MACDONALD, withing quality but, such is the state of 810,000

perfection already reached, that int

The Chinese National Quarantine helm have addressed a letter to the Majesty the Emperor being especial- him success in his task, are a much provement in a slow process, and Service announces that, beginning Ministry of War in Nanking rely pleased with the sentiments of better indication of the general seldom achieved suddenly, except from to-day, all vessels arriving questing permission for the 3 year his Highness-Hong Kong Daily

as a read of some revolutionary from foreign and/or infected ports, old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vander-Press, September 8, 1906, attitude towards his decision to stay at his post. Mr. WINSTON

The working of a new British when presenting their fumigation cruyssen, accused in the Noulens Looking Back 50 Years,

certificates for approval to the Ser case, to visit His parents who are CHURCHILL, Bome years ago wrote a invention has recently been demon vice, will be required to produce under detention in the capital en provocative article entitled, "Istrated in London. It is device at the same time their respective charges of attempting to injure the the following account of the re- which can be attached to existing certificates of practique duly Republic of China. They ask that oent gale at Shanghai:Within the Labour Fit to Gosera?"

cameras and projectors, and its ultisigned by one of the officers of the the child, accompanied by a nurse recollection of the typical" oldest CHURCHILL expressed a churae mate effect in to give s picture on Quarantine Bervico.

of one of the local hospitals and inhabitant it is but twice or thrice Dr. F. Wilhelm, who has been. that Shanghai has been visited by screen very much wider thar that teristic, negative, but his views an

usually used in cinematography. When Gauthier, a Frenchman, placed in charge of the little fellow, auch a hurricane and deluge 35 to who is fit to govern are, perhaps, It achieves the wide-acrece effect was summoned before Mr. Justice should be allowed to be brought to reigned here during the last forty- eight hours. Storms we have heard constricted to a minimum. For two with standard film and without the Lindsell yesterday by an Indian his parents.

of in Southern China far surpass- years the Labour Government has necessity for scrapping or altering tailor for $18 in respect of a coat carried on with fair success Noth

oth the ordinary cinema projector ordered, the defendant stated that The Chinese Press, unanimouslying in intensity the one which forms This may prove to be a most im when he went into the shop to try praise Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for the subject of these remarks, but as List of Agencies held by ing was very much changed; law portant advance, as the general on the coat, he brought a lady along placing his nation before his party. a general rule the placid attitude and order "were maintained, the desire of itm-goera has been for with him in order that she might Commenting on the collapse of the of Shanghai and the surround- Far Eastern firms.

Bervices kept up to a standard larger pictures a desire is direct see how the cost fitted. The tailor Labour Government, they state ing districts have been singu opposition to the narrowing of the in alleged to have said, that he did that, although the Labour Party larly exempt from these viralent against, which the technical experts

screen induced by the talking me not care about the lady's opinion bas lost its power, Mr. MacDonald visitations of rude Boreas, in his mide no protest, and, as far as It may save the film trade milions and for the reason M. Gauthier remsins head of the British state more blustering moods. Sometimes is concerned of pounds and it will enable the asked Mr. Justice Lindsell to fine and he has shown his courage by the fringe of a typhoon has gyrated the average citizen. was Mr.BALDWIN might have hoon ineral public to see in close detail the tailor 10. for being rude to remaining in spits of the secession over the mud fate of the Whangpoo scenes" that would ordinarily be the lady and another $5 for being of a large number of his former and inflicted-much-trifling damage power. But all the time the ship long shots. The demonstration made to himself. His Lordship, ex colleagues and supporters and their usually accompanies a gale, hot. of state was heading for the great showed that the device gave picplained that he could not do that hitter attacks. Buch patriotism na in the tempest of yesterday we have tures of a greater impressiveness; as it was a matter for a tower that shown by Mr. MacDonald in experienced an almost unprecedente ofanancial disaster the audience could feel themselves Court at the Bred for remaining in-office-instead of yielded amount of destruction bywint A food of prosperity might more in the scene than when the Wednesday, September 16, at 10ing to his party and his supporters and rain Hong Kong Daily Press,

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