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ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

THE Undermentioned Certificate

́for 50 Shares in this. Company

BRITAINS BEST

BEER!

registered in the Name of KWOK WHITBREAD'S

- SIN HING, has boon declared LOST,

It at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the following Share Certificate be not produced to the Cotopaxy, namely, Certificate for *50 Sharon No. 20,191 to 20,240, -& NEW CERTIFICATE for the; said shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter NO. OTHER will be .recognised.

A. 8. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hong Kong, 8rd Sept., 1981. (1147

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

THE Undermentioned Certificate for

TH

100 Old Sharos in this Company registered in the Name of Mns. E. S ANDREWS has been LOST or DES TROYED; and should this Certificate not be produced to the Company before the 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1951, New Certificate for the said Bhares will be inned and the Old Certidente No. 6161 will themafter be treated by Lhis Company as NULL & YUID

Certificate No. 5161 dated 7th EXTER, 1904, for 100 Shares Nos," 78801/78900.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON; General Managera.

Hong Kong, 24th Aug., 1931. · [1080

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NOTICE.

Who on and after the 25ru beg to notify our Customers

"AUGUST, 1931, the TAXI FARE in

Bocordance with Government's approval. will be as follows com

First Milearent Every Subsequent Mile..

...

50 Centa

40 Cents Per Mile.

THE NEW TAXI Co, Lap

(Telephone No. 26180)

ELUE TAXICABS, LTD.

(Telephone No. 87417) |

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

TAXICAB Co., LTD.

STAR TAXI Co.

(Telephone No: 20408)|

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of the Sale by Public Anotion to be held on MONDAY, the 14rn DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1931, st_3_r.m., at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCE THE GOVER NOR of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Hai Ying Por, Kowloon City, in the Colony of Har

Hong Kong, for a term of 75

1st Years, commencing from July, 1898 with the option of renewal at a Crown Beat to be fired by the Sarveyor of Et MAJESTY TUZ Kina, for one further term of 24 years less the last three days

thereof.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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Now Kowloon Inland

Lot No. 1587. Boath of New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1388, Sai Ying Pan,

Kowloon City.

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DEATH

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SANEARDY.-O¤ September 1

Shanghai, Ro9INE aged 40 yearn.

BIRTHS. HALTON-OU Septembar 1,ate

Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. M. C. HALTON, a. son. HARDING-On September 1

"Shanghai, to Mr. and Mra.

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MARRIAGES.

News and Views

Roligious Disturbance

The Kind Farmer:

Don Bradman's Future!

If it be true that Mr. Don Brad man's injury is going to end his cricket enreer, then the game will sustain a severon los than any, since that caused by Mr. Frank Foster's motor-eyole accident. Sup- posa Mr. Foster, still not over 30, and been fit and in form in the... yours immediately succording the helpless against the Australians and war! We should not have been so

pur younger batsmens would have learnt, in a hard school, what real-

argument for its ercation. Just as a cortain patriarch of

of old time. ency wanted mess of poltage, and wn's mad to pay highly, Kowloon might easily give too high a price- for the privilege of being able to County Championship Proposal. build, bathing pools, to lay down The noheme for two-day matches Lanarkshire made pine arrests public parks, and put a matched in the County Championship pro-dering disturbances following « a and a few trees in the children's posed by Leicestershire is not the Protestant conventiclo in a field at playground,

same as that tried in 1919. The ex- Carûn. A crowd of about 4.000 Mr. BELLAMT quoted an aphorism tended hours were then played on Protestants were leaving the mostly hostila bowling can be. There is of that amiable sentimentalist Sir six days in the wock, and the playing when a number of youths causa report that Mr. Bradman has re- HENRY CAMPBELL BANNERMAN to theers, as well as the public, found it ed sectional fights. A youth who veived an invitation to go to Holly effect, that Good government is by far too much of a good thing was alleged to have sprung from bewood, but his reputation as a bata no substitute for self-Government. The new scheme provides for only hind a hedge with a knife in his American film magnates.

mait would not moan much to It is a singularly pernicious doc four days a week and might, woll hand was chased over fields by a tring, for a nation's type of popular with the players. But crowd of 400 people, but he man-

*Moscow's Licensing Laws Government must depend on ite it means reduelug the hours allotted aged to elude them. The police lad cultural development Self-govern for each match from nineteen,"

two prison. vans and a couple of "with

fying squad cars in readiness for ment in Italy nearly led to coma possibility of a short extension, any disturbances. munism, and iz Sir HENRY CAMPBELL to fourteen with no such possibility. BANNERMAN'S Gessor, Mr. As. The present hours are often too QUITH, had not been soundly bullieduction of them would lead to a showed to an unwanted baby and short in good weather and any re-

The kindness which an old farmer by Lord FISHER, England might not tarcical, sengon...

how this kindness was rewarded, is at this moment be enjoying either:

told in Canton paper. At the good, government or self-govern"]

Poon Fuk Road, Canton, a large ment. The letting loose of demo Sir William Thwaites, who bea crowd had gathered to stare at

just been appointed AD.C. General haby boy who, wrapped only in old cratic doctrines in China has to the King, is a fine type of British newspapers, had heen abandoned by wrought, irreparable harm, and the officer of the old school Beneath his parents. An old farmer andden Republic offers a sorry contrast the outward appearance of a soldier ly announced to the crowd that as of fashion ho conceale some pugna- he was without children of his own with Japan, where there is nu pre-city and a shrewd political instinct, he would adopt the baby No one, tenes at self-government, es British As Commander-in-chief of the was particularly interested and he Liberals would understand the Rhineland Army from 1927, to 1919 duly picked up and carried off his General Thwaites was able to put adopted son. On unwrapping the to "good service those diplomatic newspapers out fell un envelope abilities which he had acquired as addressed to The Finder of the Director of Military Intelligence Baby" On opening the envelope through constant contact with the he discovered two hundred dollars Foreign Offon." The Germans tes in notes and a letter asking that pected him as a gentleman of last the child be taken ware of, The and sympathy. The French stood money is to help towards the up- in awe of his uncompromising in- keep and education of the child atines for, fair play And by his "The old farmer rejoicing at his own, staff, as by all ranks, he was luck took the baby to his home regarded with unfailing confidence where it can be assured of a good

pupbringing.

term.

In Hong Kong we have a dense and cosmopolitan population, which is only kept healthy and orderly by the imposition of conditions of life that many of its inhabitants wildly resent and would not maintain in thair, up-country homes. They are under a form of civil discipline The Executive authorities in Hong Kong are circumscribed by law, and their actions can be challenged in the Courts, but "their powers are immense, and not dissimilar to thos vested in the Commander-in- Chief of an Army on active service, The need for this despotic form of Government has constantly been

SHEK SHBA-LAW LOR.-On Septem- ber 1, at Shanghai, CAxis (MAMIE), daughter of the late Captain F.. B. Shen-Lawlor of Shanghai, to. PETER PUY CHURK, son of Mr. and Mr. K. S. Sakproved. of Hong Kong," TAYLOR-KALOGGER-On September

1, ot

Shanghai, YARMILA KALOUSEK the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. KALOUBEK, to HAROLD TAYLOR, of Huddersfield, Yorkshire..

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ice House Street. Tel: 30251.

Tel. 24-11. London Offs:8, Fleet Streety

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Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.

THE BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

MR. L. CF. BELLAMY in his in- teresting and ablo address to the

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We all remember the

popalar clamour at the time of the Water Famine for a supply to rider mains that would have dried the reservoirs in a week....... There was further demand for schemes, of water importation that would have cost millions, and then would never have worked. Certain members of the Sanitary Board did everything

Diplomatic Soldier,

and affection.":

In the days of Taardom there were no restrictions on pleasure in Rus sia Alcohol was sold for the round of the block. There were even re taurants which opened at 5 am.

a clean sweep of the system of un- to cator for the Inst needs of the returning 'revellor Bolshevism made limited licence: Cafés and night slabs were the haunts of the harjui," Vodkn was of the devil. But, fust as Stalin has compromis ed with his Communist conscienco over the Five-Yeara Plan, so the Bolshevists have now compromised Cover alcohol. To swell the Budges rovenue, vodka has long been restor ed. With the advent of summer, late closing became general No restaurant or café closes before 2 am. Many establishments remain open til 4a.m. In their desire to serve two masters, the Moscow man darins have found an ingenious de- vice. Alcoholic drinks served ba twcon p.m. and 6 a.m. are charged double, The system has its merits. The Russian can now indulge bis natural instincts more freely. The Bolshevists can fill their coffera and still maintain to the outside world their pious horror of alcoholic

CXCCAS.

Local Notes and Events *

Cheung Ngan, aged 27, a marri od woman, was removed from her home at 324, Hennessy Road to hospital on Tuesday, subsequent drinking opium water in an tempt to commit suicide.

Thero cases (Chinese) of typhoid fever were reported on Tuesday For the week-ended September 5, there were 8 cases of anterio, 2 cases

in their power to secure the open (one fatal) of puerperal fever and ing of wells, in spite of the warp-57 deaths from pulmonary tuber. ing that the water was contaminat. culosis ed, and would start an epidemic. The Government defied popular opinion, continued to ration the water, made plans for a future supply, and as the last moment relief came

"Good Government," said, the Inte Lord FHER, is an intelligent anticipation of agitation," and our own' authorities "would do well to bear that in mind. Because the Legislative and Executive Councils are trusted, of necessity, with des potic powers, there is all the Rotary Club, oxamined the oft-greater need for sympathetic can debated pros and cons of municipal Government for this Colony. In his review of municipal activities at Home it was shown that town. councils rendered great services to the community, and that though there might be foolishness at elco tion time, the system worked well. Beyond that however, Mr. BELLAMY gare facts to suggest that certain

sideration of popular demands, for scrupulous justice, and for a fixed refusal to bend the knee to expedis ency.

Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Taggart gave dianer party at Repulse Hay Hotel last night. There were forty- two guests present.

The Peninsula Hotel advise that their new Soda Fountain is now open to the public for the sale of American iced drinks, tea, coffer, enkes, chocolates and fruits The.

According to a police report a new premises, the entrance or fisherman of Cheung Kwan O vil which is in Nathan Road, is at- ["logo="htte='been" arrested on the l tractively decorated being finished charge of setting fire to the house of a widow who lives next to him. in terrazzo, and is replete with The woman told the police that every modern appliance necessary she was awakened from her sleep for the production of the best ice kerosene and, on investigating, sne on Saturday night by the amel) of cream.

found a lighted candle and a small quantity of straw on the step of her house, Fortunately little damage was done, but the following night she was

again awakened and this time she found her door on fire. She also aw a man climbing. out of the nouss through the fanlight and she re- cognised him as her next door neighbour. She made a report to the police who arrested the man

An attack on a well-dressed young Chinese woman by an acid-thrower resulting in the victim being sent On the arrival of the Empress to hospital suffering from burns in of Japan from Manila Yesterday, the face, led to Court proceedings a Chinese steerage passenger nam yesterday, when Fung Yee, aged 23, ed Young Taui, 31 years of age, was charged with carrying out an was sent to the Mental Hospital.attack with intent. to disgure or He is believed to bo insane.

maim the woman. Sergt. Roteskwy said that the woman was still in

Three Chinese boatwomen were hospital, and a week's remand the following day.. each fined $10 or, a week's impri- desired. The accused was remand- Bonment for having moored theired for a week." boats inshore between the Sat: Kung, Chip On and Cheung Chau harver by Comdr. Hole, at the Marine Court. yesterday..

Mr. S. M. Edwards, lately Bo cretary of the Shanghai Municip aj Council, has returned to Shang hai from a holiday in Peitnahe Venturing too far out on to the He has opened offices in a Kiu.

Chiness Liang Road as an arbitrator sea wall on Tuesday, a than 1 into the water, pear will be recalled that Mr. Edwards, Star Ferry A Indian co who is a barrister-at-law, before stable took her out, and she was coming to the Shanghai Municip afterwards found to be none thal Service, assisted the Treasury worse for her experience... in England op an organiser of the National Savinge Movement in England and Ireland,

The building presented by Mr. Tong Chi Ngong for the use of the School of Chinese Studies at the University will be officially opened by HE the Chancellor of the University at 5 p.m. on Mon day, September 28.

From the Files:

Looking Back 25 Years

In view of the approaching Inter port matches at Shanghai: a match between teams captained by: Mr.R‚" Hancock and Mr. W. C. D. Turner has been arranged, to take place. this afternoon on the Cricket. Ground. The following players, have been invited :-

as Surnames in strict alphabe public utilities such na lighting in the churchyard: But a proposal some family affair, a 16-year-old which has caused the Chinese Gov. RA. B. Ponsonby, Mr W. Peake,

tical order.

CLASSIFIED LIST

or

MERCHANTS,

to be held on MONDAY, the 14TH Day: of SEPTEMBER 1921, at 82Mat the Ollone of the Public Works Depart- ment, by Order of Has ExoLLENT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Ühentg. Bha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 Jears, commencing from 1st July, 1

1898, with the option of renewal at a. Crown Rent to be fed by the Sarveyor of Hu MAJERTH THE KING for one further for the whole of the Far East term of 94 years less the last three dayı

arranged, with addresses,

thereof.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,

No. of Bale.

Registry No.

Locality.

*New Kowloon Inland Let

* Adistaing New Kowloon - Inland Lot No. 60, Castle Park Road:

Boundary 9

Pas per

sale plan.

About

Contents in

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Square feet.

Anansi

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T1103

10,445

• Dpset Price: *

AND

MANUFACTURERS

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List of Agencies held by

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SMALL EDITION

HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, Ltd. 11, Ice House Street,

Hong Long.

gus, find trams were well maintained

by the average borough authority as by private enterprise. Mr. BELLAMY's examples of Home usage do not, however, apply to this Colony, and he was himself entirely non-committal when considering the possibility of modifying our local constitution, though there was n suggestion in his last sentence that Kowloon was due for a municipal charter

Because she was reprimanded, by her elder brother on account of girl living nt, Sze Ma Terrie threw herself over the verandah of the second floor and suffered injuries from which she died whi's on her way to hospital.

The Chinese Press says that the Ministry of War's Aviation Bureat has, through the Chinese Legation Mr. R. Hancock's Team:-Mr. R. in Tokyo, requested Col. Charles Hancock, Mr. T. Bercombe Smith, A. Lindbergh to make a direct bop Mr. C. H. Mackay, Mr. G. E. from Tokyo to Nanking instead of Morrell, Mr. H E. Stanger- landing in Poking as he had Lenthes, Mr. W. E. Dixon, Mr. W. originally planned. The reason G, Martin, Mr. A. R. Love, Mr ernment to make such a request Mr. E.A. Fowler, Et, Ussher

Mr. W. C. D. Turner's Team :--- is that there is no flying field in Peking which can be used as a Mr. W. OD. Turner, MY TE landing place for Lindbergh's Pearce, Mr. H. W. Woodward, Mr. pontoon-equipped, aeroplane, WA. Smith, Mr. H. Hancock, Lt. Hope, R:ALt. Graham, Mr. W. The City Government of Greater J. Daniel, Mr. Walter Daniel, Mr. Shanghai bas lodged a further pro PW. Goldring, Lt. Lucy, R. A.- teat with the Japaness Consulate Hong Kong Daily Press, Sept. 10, General against the arrest of sever-1009. god al pickets of the Anti-Japanese 'As^»

THE WHIPPING-BOY.

THE throwing of confetti is a long standing nuisance to clerics, and vergera, who do not see why the matrimonial link should mean litter

which has been put forward in England with a certain air of ccclesiastica! support that bride grooms should be fined five shillings every time this form of paper am- munition is used would be adding to the embarrassments, of those who The case in which a Chinese in are already rather well laden with charged with impersonating out doing anything to penalise the police constable was concluded be trug offenders. It is not very likely fore Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Row that bridegrooms approve of con- loon Magistracy yesterday, when fettiany more than they warmlyn Chinese polica constable, the de-sociation by Japanese

marines. Looking Back 50 Years. endorse the habit of tying old shoes fondant and the defendant's mas The City Government, reiterating A licensing meeting was held yes to the back of their motor-cars or ter gave evidence, Mr. Fraser its duty to protect foreign interests terday to consider an application by chalking "Newly Married on the reserved judgement until to-day in Shanghai, says that in no cr Mr. Hahn "for a licence for the door of their compartment. Such

cumstances must Japanese marines Kowloon Hotel for the remainder of BELLAMY "quoted a passage high-spirited efforts to contribute Dr. J. T. Smalley, medical offi. be permitted to encroach, upon the the year. The justices present were from a leading articlo in this to the confusion of the principal cor in charge of Kowloon Hospital, rights of the Chinese authorities in Dr. F Stewart, Hon. Capt. Deane, and Mr. A. Lister. The leance for paper stating that there were times actors in the day's affair are the has notified the Police that a man, this respect...

the Kowloon Hotel is at present, work of the irresponsible chorus Lei Fo (99), employed as a laun when one wished, Kowloon had its rather than of the star performers dryman on board the as. Tai Ping The engagement is announced held by a man named Whittaker own council. That is perfectly true It is the guests who should be fined was admitted to hospital on Tues from Paris between Miss Aileen but this person has left the Colony, when one brings to mind the urgent

and not the bridegroom, whose only day and is not expected to live. Triang, daughter of Mr. Tsiang and an affidavit, had been filed to offonce seems to lie in the fact that He is apparently, zuforing from Lu foo, Chinese Charge d'Affaires the effect that he had absconded necessity for better British school he can be got at because the poisoning. He was sent to hospital in Rome, to Mr. Tsavec Poi, from his creditors and was. Bot premises, which one knows the parson is bound to know his namo by the ship's sturgeon. umgeneral manager of the Bank cf likely to return. Mr. Hahn, under and address. But ikuis, nob, even China in Shanghai and former, these circumstances, applied for the Government is determined not-to-

rough Justice, let alone Christian=" A Chinese, who appeared at Kowmember of the Shanghai Mun issue of a fresi licence to humTM! supply, or when one remembers the charity, to pounce on bim because loon Magistracy yesterday, admit cipal Council. Mr. Pei, who re- the remainder of the year. Mr. need for bathing pools, which, he is the only one who can con ted having been hauished but stated cently attended the sixth Biennial Hahn's fitness to be entrusted will veniently be caught. Let justice bojthat he did not know he had over roonference-of-the--Internatinuși-a licence considering, his watcded- again, the Government has no in-one-though the confetti fallebanished for life It was mention Chambers of Commerce in Waents, was discussed by the Justices, tention of providing. But because catch the real culprits, if they per-ed that the defondant wan banish shington and the International but the application was refused on sist in their error after public ed in 1996 and had served & lerm|| Labour Conference in Geneva, left the technical ground, that there had a municipal council might do better

warning, but let the bridal, couple of imprisonment in, 1929, for armed Marseilles for Shanghai yesterday, been no surrender of the, existing than the present Government in ago their way as free from fines a robbery. If Worship imposed sea-scootding to amengo received licence ng Kong Daily Press, few directions that is not a first, they ought to be from confetti..

Sept. 10, 188)

tence of nine months", hard-Ishour, where,