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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF PHILIP WILLIAM BLACKWELL FATE OF 295, THE PAAK, HONG KONG, FORMERLY OF HAWLOW IN CHINA, DECEASED TOTION, IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtus of Section 58 of Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to send in their Olaims against the above Estate to the 18TH DAY of OUTOBEN, 1931, AN

All Creditors and others are socord. ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Datora p

Dated the 10th day of Bopt, 1991. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,“ Solicitors for the Exocatrix, Prince's Building, Hong Kong.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE

THE REEL CLUB.

EE FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE REEL CLUB will take Pino at the HELENA HAY INSTITUTI, on the 21 SEPTEM BEB, at 15 M.All Members and, Prospective Members are partianlarly requested to attend. The Firat praatios of the season will commence immedi ately after the meeting and practices. will be held on each successivo Monday up to the 23rd Nov,

T. P. SAUNDERSON,"

Hon. Becretary.,

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NOTICE:

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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

INVITATIONS FOR TENDERS FOR CATERING AT BACE MEETINGS AT MACAO.

ENDERS are Invited to Supply NIFFING, BETRESEMENTS and BAR SERVICE at the RACE COURSE at MACAO for (bo Forth- coming BACE MEETING to be held at the ABEIA PRETA RACE COURSE on SUNDAY, the 4TB GOTOBER, 1931, and on Subsequent Race Montinge

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Undermentioned Certificate for 50 Shares in this Company, registered in the Name of KWOK SIN HING, has been declared LUST, If at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the following Share Certificate bo not produced to the Company, namely, Certificate for 50 Sharas No. 20,191 to 20,240, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the said abares will be issued by the Company and thereafter NO OTHER will be recognised.

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

HUMPHREYS" ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

Application mast be made in Sealed Envelopes addressed to the BROBE- TABY of the Club, c/o MESH, PEROY, SMITH, SETH & YLEMING, 6, D VOEUX ROAD, Hoso Kose, and to roach the Office Not Later Than NOONE Undermentioned Certificate for

2 SEPTEMBER, 1931. Appli-100 Dild Bunton cations will be Opened on Test Date.

For further particulars apply to the Undersigned.

Company

registored in the Name of MRS. E. S. ANDREWS baa. boon LOST or DES TROYED; and should this Certificate. not be produced to the Company befors the 23 SEPTEMBER 1931, New Certificate for the said Shares will be [1194 farmed and the Old Certifonte No. 51st

W. L. ALEXANDER, Becretary. Hong Kongs 17th Sept., 1931.

NOTICE.

TIRA is prepared to consider

THE Government of TANGAN-

will thereafter be treated by kita Company as NULL & VOID.

Certificats No. 5161 dated 7th September, 1904, for 100 Shares "No1, 78801/75900.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers."

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GERMAN AND BRITISH FINANCE.

News and Views

Tale of the Day..

Oh, yes, I like to read a bit

WERE HE said the old lady, "I can read but I can't write. I always think that, if it is given to you in one way, it's taken away in another."

Etiquette,

זייד

The old gamekeeper thought he know the ways not only of birds but of apertamen until he found a bishop among the guna Ho in xiously inquired of a friend how such occlesiastical dignitary should be addressed, and was told,..." Oh, it would be safest to chil him

my Lord. Later, the friend asked how he had fared. "Awful,

he lamented. A bird. rose right under his un, and I shouted. Shoot the damned thing, your Holiness. And I saw ac once by his face that I used the

tors Thastened to withdraw their strong drink. It bamirally, follows. staments in Germany, and in that there exists strong drink which this med sauve, qui peut Bri is not raging Nor is it surprising" Ananciers wore almost overwhelm that the French Government should ed. They suffered both because they select for particular recommenda were barring the United States, tion French wines rather than Ger Germany's largest short-term eredi man wines or Scotch whisky or tor, and because they yielded less English beer. Thus a moral and than other Powers to the panic an economic good are happily com- Between the end of Math and the bind. Children are taught to drink middle of July, the United States what their Government believes short-term credita in Germany fell by good for them and at the same from £104,000,000 to £81,450,000, time to assist a depressed industry. 47 Years' Walt for a Medal.__________ while during the same period Ger- If Bacchus occurs in their class An old soldier of Bath, has just man, short-term indebtedness to reading he is made to wear a parti- received a war medal 17 years Britain fell only from £57,850, cular label, he is not Bacchus mere-after the act for which it was to £52,550,000. This money is newly a God of Wint, but a God of awarded. The medal, which is ac- ocked up in Germany as a result French Wine. Lord BEAVERBROOK Companied by a pension of 10 wrong title,

should investigate the possibilities year, was for gallantry in the of this kind of propagandu. By battle of El Teb in Egypt in 1884, means of suitable copy-book maxims when he saved the life of a young he might be able to wean the British officer. There were two battles at

Sow to Ube public from its fondness for boer Teb in 1984. In the first -- an in favour of Empire vintages, to Egyptian force under Boker Pashu inculcate a taste for Imporial was destroyed by Budanese tribes articles by making children copy men, and shortly afterwards. A sentences full of their praise. Who British force under General Gra would look to Burgundy if in hisham partially avenged the disas- tender-years he had traced glowing tar. praise of Australia

of the compulsory prolongation of the aurviving foreign credits which the bankers have arranged on the recommendation of the London Con- ference Great Britain did Ger many good service by not withdraw ing our credits when others retreat ed in panic. But the panic of these other countries was not limited to their own direct holdings in Ger- many; it extended, in part at least, to their credits in Britain because they held that Britain was in danger through leaving her money in what they regarded as a bankrupt con- verh

Probibition and Profit,

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Prohibition has not only enriched Great Britain's belier that Ger- the boot-legger; it has brought many was not really bankrupt has prosperity to the American inven. now been borne out by the bankerator. Previous to 1919 his lot was report, The London Conference precarious. Now the Volstead Law held that the lack of confidence in his provided him with an outlet for Germany is not justified by the his genius. Since the introduction economie situation of the country of prohibition thirty-two new shapes The bankers endorse this view of cork-screws, complete with But if, as we believe, Germany is battle-cap removers, have been not bankrupt, how is she to be patented in the United Statce. made solvent, which she plainly is There have also been one hundred not at the present moment 1 The and twenty-five machinos. invented problem is how to replace some at to get the cork to the bottle, least of the capital that has been most of them hand-operated and withdrawn. There are two ways in designed for the home. Patents which Germany might conceivably have been granted for twenty-two do this without foreign assistance varieties of pocket fasks (to-day and such method of self-help fasks are more popular than cups golf prizes), thirty-five non- alone has, of course a facile ap.. peal to foreigners in these trying refillable bottles, twelve new cock

tail shakers, and nine improvements timca. One way would be by a mobilisation of Germany's remain to detachablo siphons Thirteen ing assets abroad, but these have different kinds of musical jugs and decreated by 40 per cent, since the bottles have been protected, and end of 1930, and a large amount special siphon arrangement for botiled carbonated beverages to is needed in any case for the prevent loss from sizzling. In many ordinary processes of international cases large fortunes have been made trade. The committee is quite clear from these inventions. Prohibition way mean poison for the consumer," that such a plan is out of the ques but it obviously provides grist for tion. The other system of self-help the inventor and the patent-agent. would be the reduction of German "Don't mistake the

imports and the increase of Ger “cultivation of loveliness

man exports dumping" in fact. "for make-up. They are

"natural forgetfulness. The committee feels that this would miles apart! It is wisdom The bankers admit that no per lead to further impoverishment **of course to make subtle manent improvement in the German inside and outside Germany and

use of fine toilet

situation can be looked for until would make matters worso instead "accessories to enhance the causes of the general depres of better. There remains only the "and accept the featuression have been removed, but they method of foreign assistance by "and the natural colouring: add that Germany plays so im Jong-term loans, and here we are "But it is tragic to try to portant a part in the economic life at once brought up against the "hide blemishes with

of the world, and in particular of problem of reparations. Before the #cosmetics for

each

year

Europo, that until the situation in crash Germany had too many short "you will grow more and Germany improves there can be to term debis, too few long-term.

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THERE is a danger in these days of political crisis at home that the German Apancial catastrophe may be allowed to "slip out of mind. And yet the German crisis is, if not the sole, at least a principal cause of Great Britain's present dis- contents. The bankers' report on Germany's immediate credit needs contains a strong warning against

this very

Even

A More De-tall.

Then there is a variant of thin story of the bishop and the game- keeper. The bishop fired at pheasant and scattered his tail feathers. "Did I kill him ;” he anxicusly asked the gamekeeper. No, your Oliness," replied the gamekeeper, but you made him think of his latter end.

Ghorts on the Dolo.

For ton yeurs the poor relief Americanese,

office at Marsailles has been pay- ing doles to people long since dead.. From the latent report on theà careful examination of the rolls British Film Industry: "We de of those drawing relief has shown siro to emphasise the menace of tant about £2,400 a year has been paid out on account of people whe the Americanisation of the world departed this life long ago. The

total aura thus misapplied in esti by means of the film. more important to many of us is mated at £24,000. It had been en- tered in the accounts in respect of and cultural

orders under which the doles were the educational mace of Americanisation.

originally granted. It appears. We can doubtless learn much of however, that those records had value from American and other not boon revised so as to conform idens in all these matters, but with the register of deaths, with educationally and culturally wo❘ the result that some hundreds of think it vital to preserve the Eng-ghosts were drawing the benefits. lish character of film performan Con

From an interview in the

New York Sun" with Miss Vicki New £8,000,000 Hotel Luxuries, Bavim, the authoress of "Grand

The new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Hotal: "What I like about 1

in New York, which has been built tollywoote well treat a cost of £8,000,000, will be at along quite well by knowing two once the largest, highest, and most words of English swell and luxurious hotel in the New World.

lousy. It makes life simple, yes. Some of its features and Ewo thousand two hundred guest ructus, including 300 residential suites. A. Saving Fetrol in the Air

An Air Ministry Order directs ballroom four stories high, accom that Royal Air Force pilota shalimodating 4,000 dancers, and con tako especial care to economisetaining the world's largest orches petrol while flying, and gives in tral organ. Provision for televi. structions for the use of the ear ion in every room. private buretter "altitude control" for rail siding beneath the hotel wher this purpose. This control has the guests can arrive or leave in their effect of weakening the mixture of own rail conches. Twin towers of patrol and air which is drawn into luxury residential suites, rising the engine cylinders. Its chief forty-seven stories (625ft) above purpose is for high flying, when, street level. Commendatora. Ge owing to the rarity of air, the lardi, general manager C amount of petrol must be reduced Claridge', who is to manage the if the correct proportions are to hotel, will retain direction of ho maintained. But the control Claridge's, and will hold daily enn also be used near the conferences with his London staff ground, and pilots are now direct by means of the trans-Atlantic ed to use it then,

telephone.

Local Notes and Events

One case of typhoid fever, and one The Hong Kong University Arts of diphtheria wore reported on Association are having a Dramatic Wednesday.

Evening on Saturday, October 3,

From the files.

A memorial service will be given at 9 p.m. in the Great Hall of the by the Hong Kong University University. Under the director of Christian Association to the late Prof. B. K. M. Simpson, M.A. Miss Leung Tsui Ho on Bunday at McC., two plays, "A Collection Locking Back 25 Years. 8 pm, in St. John's Hall, Rev. Will Be Made" and "Teaching The Right Half No Company, "more dependent on these general recovery from the existing This, however, with not from choice, Cheung Chok Ling will officiate. Teresa" are to be acted by the men.K.V.D.C., is taking.commendable

All are cordially welcome.

and women undergraduates Mrs. Lartificial means of depression." The obvious source of but from necessity. Foreigners

AM. Bowes-Smith and Mr. G. Mc- | steps to stimulate a greater in- "concealing the ravages of Germany's trouble is that she bus were not prepared to lock up their The annual general meeting of Leod have kindly consented to sing. terest in shooting. In addition to “your unwisdom."

been borrowing, too freely from money in Germany. Why Partly the Hong Kong St. Andrew's So-

A haul of money and jewellery the monthly shoots at Tai Hang foreign countries in order to help at least because of reparations. cicty will be held in the City Hall "Learn to care for your her to meet her reparation pay-- But although reparations have been on Tuesday, September 20, at 5.46 amounting to over $700 was taken Range, which this month, takes

p.m., for the purpose of receiving | by gang of three men who raided "akin scientifically to keep ments. During the seven years euspended for a year, they are due the annual report and statement of the fat of e Japanese family living place next Sunday, 4 special com- "it young and naturally

office-bearers for the ensuing year.

noon yesterday, while the husband truits with the object of encourag- lovely. Quicken the from 1924 to 1930 inclusive Ger- to be resumed, and at a slightly accounts for the year and electing at 507, Nathan Road, shortly after petition has been arranged for re- whs away at the M.B.K. coal varding them to practice for the annual “circulation that carries many's foreign indebtedness actual higher rate, in less than twelve

ly grew faster than her foreign months' time. The same obstacle A man named Chan Chin, who One man entered firet, armed with "off poisons and bring assets. By the end of last year which hindered long-term loans bo was said to have spent only six a knife, and he was followed by two musketry course which will be fired-

fresh colour to

the

months out of prison since 1998, was others. Mrs. Hideko Katabe and during Camp in October. There foreign investments in Germanyfore the Hoover Plan and the sub sentenced to 12 months hard labour her children were driven into a being five Sundays in this month, "cheeks Nourish the

stood at £1,225,000,000; German in sequent catastrophe is, therefore, by Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon cubicle and bound with wire, aud

the Commandant has placed the "tissues to keep them firm vestments abroad were worth only still in existence. It is, then, the Magistracy yesterday for returning the two servants were also over; "and round. Drive away £400,000,000.

from banishment before his term of powered while the gang collected King's Park Range, Kowloox, at duty of the Governments at once to ten yearsna

their booty.

the

„disposal of this company, and all signs of age by holding

to enable members to obtain an "the keen contour, and the

set about a readjustment of Ger

A 14-year old boy was fined $200, With regard to the report, pub t or one month's imprisonment, in lished in yesterday's issue of the extra practice for the musketry "radiant sparkle of youth."

many's reparation obligations..

addition to 13 strokes of the oans, Hong Kong Daily Press, dealing course a spoon competition will be by Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon with the confiscation of three rifles, held under the M.O conditions Magistracy yesterday, for unlawful found at the North Point Instal Hong Kong Daily Press, September

Iation of the APO. Co., Ltd. w 18, 1904. Defendant said he had been given are asked to state that the Head

was found tied to his waist.

The crisis came this year with the stampede, of creditors seeking to withdraw their short-term credits from Germany. The fall in the

the burden of the fixed sums which

We have the following 20s, of One Lot of OROWN LAND Elizabath Arden Venetian prices which goods would fetch made WINE IN THE COPY-BOOKS, possession of a quantity of opium. Hong Kong for torm of 75

reparations in stock.

at Wong Net Chung, in the Colony of

with

the option of renewal at a

Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of

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Locality.

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As per

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Bental.

Contents i

3,750

Square feet

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Germany had to pay as reparations THE il consequences of over indul.20 cents to carry the, drug, which Storekeeper concerned resigned. Looking Back 50 Years.

from the firm and was not dismissede

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greater than had been expected, or ema

ed, and that the rifles were found in Macos we learn that serious: designed. Sho was also thrown gence in strong drink have frequent

Two cases of attempted suicide, by the Installation Manager, and complications have arisen in refer- more on her own resources because ly been pointed out in corybooks by the victims taking opium, come not by the police We understand enos to a sale to the Government long before the rush to withdraw "Strong drink is raging" laborious to the notice of the police on Wed- that the ex-employes referred to, of certain portions of the De Mello are prepared to rise the odium had started the willingness to lend by copied in childhood has been nesday, with the removal to the although he has left the Colony, cetates, and unless the Government

Government Civil Hospital of two has not sailed for Home

which would certainly result from had vanished. Until 1020 Ger- thought to be a safeguard against Chinese from different board houses

Charged with having failed to their keeping the property, it will in the city. Both are young men many's foreign borrowings were in drunkenness in old age. The pay and appear to have arrived in the pay duty on 35 lbs of Chinese pre have to be restored to the original creasing since then they have been chological soundness of this method Colony recently in destitute circumpared tobacco, a Chinese, yester owners, or a very considerable ad- day, fined $400, or in default, three vance, say sixty instead of twenty stationary By June, the burden has so impressed the French Glov stances,

months hard labour. It was stated thousand dollars, paid to the family of reparations had become beyond ernment that they have ordered its The forthcoming marriage is an that Revenue Department Offcers by the Government. The estates her strength; a moratorium was in extended application, but in announced of the Day. Francis George I went to a wharfint West Point, and have been for several years the sub sight, with its consequent shock to opposite sense. Children in their Healey, of Shinro, Tainan, For-watched cargo being unloaded from icct of litigation between Baron de German credit It was hoped that writing exercises are not to make mosa, and Miss Mary-Taabel Dixon, junk. They saw a coolie tako two Cercal and his wife, and the lady the brick and inclusive nature of a sweeping condemnation of all who is travelling to Hong Kong by tubs to 21, Jai Wod Street: Revenue now having won her caad on appeal the P&O... Rajputana also Officers entered the fat and arrest refuses to dispose of her share of the Hoover holiday would prevent alcoholic liquora ;* they are to of Mr. Samuel Bandle of Police ed the defendant. The tubs were the estate at the price realised this shock, but delay caused by the select, to discriminate Not strong Headquarters, Hong Kong and found to conceal false tops, under sad questions the legality of the

Kains Eva Winifred Loutro Gowers, which the tobacco was cleverlyanlo while the case was sub pulsce. protracted negotiations in Paris drink as such is raging,

thi of 29, St. Mary's Road, South Nor hidden, A consignoe's note found, Hong Kong Daily Pren ind of wood, London.

it was stated, bore another address 181 1881 defeated this hopa Foreign invee kind of strong drink, that

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