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NOTICE.

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"FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING,

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THE Attention of Owners and Jookoya are drawn to the rovised: conditions of the above race reading

follows:

For China Ponies" "D1" Clas ar olsasifod by the Hoxaxoxo Jookky, Cton To be ridden by Jookoys who have not won five fiat roes in Macao, Hongkong, China or elsewhere. En- trance Fee $5.. | Firat Prize ·8950· Second Prize $150. Third Priza #75.

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Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1931,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

FROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE "Good" or "THOMAS GITTINS LATE OF BRECH. CROFT CROIN ROAD, TADWORTH BANSTEAD IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY TORNERET OF FOOCHOW In China) Retired, Tea Mar- GRANT, DECRASEDU

【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nthat the Court has, by virtus of

Section 38 of Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1887, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to sand in their Olaims against the sbora Eslata to the END DAY of NOVEMBER, 1981.

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

Dated the 2nd day of Oct 1981.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG, FA

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

THE

Goors, or EDWARD ALFRED PROBST LATE OF 14, HYDR PARK · Gate, in Tüb COURTY OF LONDON, RETIRED MERCHANT, DECEASED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court lane, by virtue of Beotion 18 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 2wn Dax of NOVEMBER, 1931.

All Creditors and others are accord- ingly hereby required to and in their Olafmo to the Undersigned,an or before that Date.

Dated this 2nd day of Oct, 1981, -

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitor for the Executors, Prince's Building, Hong Kong.

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HONG KONG TECHNICAL

INSTITUTE.

THE Institute will RE-OPEN an WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 78.

LIMITED.

EST. 1841.

THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING

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COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

TOTOE IS HEREBY GIVEN TOT

that the TENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the GENERAL MANAGERS, 2, LOWER ALBERT Hoan Hong Kong, on FRIDAY," the Prn OCTOBER at 10.45 A., for the parpose of receiving a Report of the. Directors together

Statement of with Accounts, declaring a Dividend and r6- elasting Directors and AndiforR

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25 SEPTEMBER to the PTR OCTO, BER, 1981, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J, D. THOMSON,

Asting Secretary.

Entry Forms and Copies of Prospectas Hong Kong, 19th Sept. 1931 may be obtained, at the Ednostión Department or at the CENTRAL BRITISH "BCHOOL.

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NOTICE:

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 1931.

GILMAN'S

HILLMANS

British car with an engine

?

to American power standards — that's worth your study

and final choice.

SEE THE

HILLMAN

WIZARD

AT THE

FIRST

and colle

Sabin way, child-

real delight"in words,

new expressions; ike now toys. In his Just So Stories".

News and Views*

Invisible Eay for Burglars.

nust not fish here. It is

my wat

Mr. KING shows his understand At the ing of the child's love for long words One little girl spent whole morning reposting to herself combinations, meticulous combina

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Then I will wait here until the water from above arrives here:

Why the Boa la Salt,

wine bricks rice blocks of some my

substance which, combined

with grapes, will make wine if allowed to stand in whter for a period will enable the staunch

show us skyscrapers built of wine bricks, growing beautifully lass,

Burglars and thieves will shortly have a new torror to face when Is it your water up above invisible ray instruments from sima wall round himself of protective. wireless enthusiysts can construct anti-Prohibitionist literally to build plo sets of parts, which are to be alcohol

Captain B. R. Mullard of the marketed shortly. Perhaps America will one day valve firm, is at the head of the new company which will soll the ap paratus in complote home construc tor's kits any vary by storey in the sacred cause, the invisible guard recently placed The principle is much the same as

of hospita unor the Persian art treasures, but the apparatus is to be sold in such a simple form the non-teclinical

In the Imperial War Museum in buyers will easily be able to build reliable burglar alarmis, They will London is the fire book probably to also be able to instal the apparatus contain the signature, of a dog. It so that it automatically turns, the lights on in a house as soon as is one of the most expensively darkness begins to fall bound books in the Museira. Labre The apparatus employs a amallary It found its way there be light-sensitive cell which passes an

tions. She had just heard the words and they delighted ber

Sing-song class reading, that Dr. T. A Jagger, Director of the great destroyer of the human voice, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, has is now almost a thing of the past, put forward the theory that the sea although one occasionally passess

ve is salt because there are 488, active voloances in the world, which each village school and hears the voices year holch forth more than 100,000, of the children within going up and coo tons of hydrochloric acid. This goes out as gas mixed with steam, down, down and up, like a see-saw, mingles with the clouds, and, unit In most schools un effort is made ing with the sodium of the rivers, to teach children to recite poetry intelligently and rhythmically Such recitation, is the best means of developing a pleasant-speaking

DURO GARAGE voice.

In Nathan Road, Kowloon.

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GILMAN & Co, Ltd, Agents.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT,

Mrs. Manta Sequeira Rosari0 ́and family tender : their alücera thanks to relatives and- friends for floral tributes and for the

expressions of sympathy in their sad bereavement, and also to those who attended the funeral..

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Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tel 20251. Night Editor (Wanchai Offos)="

Tel. 21811. London Offe BO. 4

Fleet Street,

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, OCTOBER 3, 1931:

MODERN ENGLISH.

MODELN girls may congratulate themselves on the beauty of their

speech,

said Mr. Jour DIN WATER recently, when judging an, olocution contest Fifteen years: ago auch voices would have created

a sensation."

careful about the

Mr. DRINKWATER is right. What ever detractors may say, the modern girl has learnt to talk. Her accasional lapses into "American" are not nearlyen painful as the ́shortened! "O's" and dropped" “G's" of hur grandmother,✨✨

Present-day mothere are more way their child: ren speak than the mothers of the past. This does not mean that they pull the child up with a "may at again, dear, moro slowly," every time it miepronounces a word, They have learnt that such correo tions only make for stammering and other nervous speech defects Instead they are careful to see that the nurse and other children with whom the child plays speak good English,

Maimed speech is as pathetic as maimed limbs, but

it is fortunately far more curable, The days have gous when children, responded to their teacher's corrections with: defant "Dad says he'll smack me if I try to speak fine." There is far more desire for comely speech, and far less self-consciousness about

it

forms common, unit. 4

Boviet Exploitation.

a new example of the Soviet des There comes a story via America, conding from the full purity of the Communist faith. They have fallen so far from grace that they have set up in one of Moscow's hotels an American bar and all the pleasures that a jazz band can or cannot give But they have done the thing pro Forly. It is as though Stalin or We'll show the Capitalists how to some other high official had said: run their business. So the scale of prices would put a fairly honest aven New Yorkers refuse to buy. bootlegger to shame, and has made But the greatest joke of all is that the prices are listed not in Russiau money, but in American dollara; ";

The Road to Promotion.

There is a pleasant story about Mr. Le Maitre, who is one of the permanent staff at the French Ad mirality,

Having left Fattes to serve with the Black Watch in the war, he was severely wounded, and subsequently Fresumed his education at St. John's,

Cambridge.

Even at night time these rays cannot be seen bad if a burg terrupts them by walking through them bells ring all over the place. No Floodlights for Cenotaph.

"Bags"

electrig current whenever light falls cause it is the was record of a dog upon it. The light, however, need named Rage" which was unofficial: infrared rays (invisible to the not be visible light, for they attached as mascot to the Int naked eye) operats it just as Division of the United States Army, efficiently.

The animal was picked up in Paris and taken to the Front. It evens tually figured in the casualty list. The size of the book and its binding suggest that "Rigs" played the

Bon, the Nelson Column, and other

hero's part, and was many times While Westminster Abbey, Big (unofficially) mentioned. When famous buildings have shared in the the book was printed the Division flood-lighting in London the Ceno-way specially paraded at Fort

It would cost very little to flood- topa has remained in darkness. Hamilton to witness the signature light the Cenotaph permanently book cannot mistake the "writing an official of the International for there is the print of the dog's of "Rags Anyone opening the

Illumination Congress stated, "For £50 a year it could be lit splendidly pas. Half a page is generously and would be very little trouble."

allotted to it, signed the Cenotaph, sud The But Sir Edwin Lutyens, who de Cenotaph was

for flood-lighting, and I do not designed

not think it would be suitable. I havo always held that view, and, after seeing the present flood-light ing display, still hold it."!

A Telephons" Trick, The story runs that he and severe benesse

Doubt has been thrown on the Hundreds of Divorces Faked ?

validity of several hundred divorces obtained in New York Stato in the past eight years, by the disclosure of astonishing plots to manufacture: evidence, organited by fr. Louis. Greenspan, attorney of this city.:

Vowel sounds are like notes struck on the piano. If we raise or lower the noto just a little, it becomes out of tune or flat, but if we raise or lower it a great deal it becomes an entirely new note quite as pleas. ing as the original;

The cockney and the young man with a""

refined "

voice do not create new vowel sounds as doss

A warrant for the arrest of Green- the Somersetehire farmer. They al other young men, when they came A certain London schoolboy who span, charging him with subornation down, were all given similar posts occasionally goes to spend the even-of perjury, was issued but he de merely get their vowels out of in a big Government departmenting with a friend likes to announco camped before he could be arrested. bune. The cockney says Bhal Id After some months the newcomers his intention in advance but does taking with him his office staff and rand," when he means Mile End-wore sent for by the authorities and not like spending twopence in doing fles

asked how they were getting on. so. He therefore puts his two pan- rand," because he cannot compass With one exception they said: nies in the box dials his friend's any letter that needs nasal reson- "Very nicely, thank you." The ex-number, allows the ringing, tone to ance. He can be taught to

make

ception was Mr. LeMaitre, who said sound three times, replaces the re his speech movements correctly, but wasn't any work for him to do

be was not getting on nicely, there ceiver and recovers his money

His friend knows what the gnal the person who is making an entire- One of that little group was immeans and the Postmaster General ly different eat of movements and mediately promoted. selecting a different vowel series need only be reminded to make bis speech understandable to as many people as possible.

Shop Assistants, waitresses, and telephonicts are all learning the value of attractive speech, and there is probably less difference be tween the way people talk in Eng. land to-day than ever before. Eng lish girls may not have attained the standard of the well-bred French woman who chooses and forms her words with scrupulous care, but at least they have learnt something of the secret of forceful and expressive speech.

UNDUE OPTIMISM.

Joses twopence.

The divorce pilots were unearthed as the result of a complaint by a woman separated from her husband, who on a recent visit to Brooklyn found to her surprise that her hus band had remarried. Inquiry show- ed that she had been divorced with out her knowledge.

Local Notes and Events

The many friends of Mr. NV A Croucher will regret to learn that he is a patient at the French Hospital, suffering from diphtheria. progress He is, however, making satisfactory

From the files.

Looking Back 23 Years,

An Indian contemporary suys

The rainfall for last month Two cases of diphtheriaware totalled 14.82 inches, of which 2.08 reported on Thursday,

A-Chinese-boatwoman was charged was registered on September 4 Church, Kennedy Road, on Sunday, the Marine Court yesterday with The preacher at the Union before the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at will be the Rev. Frank Short having used grappling irons for the purpose of dredging or lifting The Hong Kong dollar was quot-articles from the bed of Victoria ed yesterday at 1/11d. but it was Harbour yesterday. On admitting It seems to us a bare dozen years as high as 1/2d. The market an-default, three days imprisonment. familiar figure at Simin as one of reported that business was done at the charge she was fined £3 or insince. Captain Nathinn, RE, was a peared rather uncertain. the younger lians of the Defence Tomorrow being the feast of Committee. Since then he na Holy Rosary, special, services are to been at the Horse Guards, be held at the Rosary Church, Kot- loon. The first mass will be said at Bgure on the Gold Coast, and later on became, a political 8.30 am, the second at 7.30 the is now Sir Afatthew Nathan, third at 8.30 and a solemn ponti- the capable, and we understand, po- fiea! mass at 9.30. There will be an pular Governor of Hong Kong. We Dr. C. C. Wu, former Chinese will consist of the recitation of the of his old association with Engineer- ovening, service; at 4.30 p.m. which are very glad, if only for the anko Minister to Washington, has re- rosary, procession, sermon, and ing in India, to learn that Sin turned to Canton. He has been benediction.

Supreme Court

while searching a trunk belonging appointed by the Canton Govern-On ment to be Chief Justice of the A burglar who was disturbed to a Chinese woman, took to his Mining Administration's mines for Meanwhile the woman had mised The total output of the Kailan heely and fled down the stairs, the week ending September 19, so much noise that an Indian con amounted to 119,764 metric tons, stable rushed; up the stairs to ses and the sales during the period to what had happened with the result

He was sentenced by Mr. Fräser to 116,071 metric tons

ed that the burglar was, arrested.

six months' hard labour

3.

Matthew is busy making things bom

Kong is going to spend two millions tions. The information that Hong in the matter of railway communica-

sterling on milways has already is very high time that British in been chronicled in these pages. It terests in China began as they now seem to have done to look out for themselves instead of waiting for dives. We wish Bir Matthew Na- more German and Belgian initia than every success in this project and shall look out with interest for further and more technical details.

Hong Kong Daily Prest, October

We are our readers an apology for misleading statements in this column on October 2. We con gratulated the Government on its upon boldly pushing forward with faith in the future of Hong Kong;

urgently needed, public works, and upon realising that Kowloon had become a town. The explanation lies in a telephone misunderstand ing, and undue optimism on the part of tho writer, It is true that the Colonial Secretary announced It is notified by the St. John the proposed beginning of a new Governor will on Tuesday evening Ambulance Brigade that HE the goal, but the completion theroof receive on loan for the Colony the lies in the far off future

in the for

Once new motor ambulance intended for vessels engaged in the Eastern or before a new prison was designed,

the Kowloon District

suggested that a time ball could he in fact any trade. In 1878 it was £, 1909 Today children are not bothered begun and abandoned in face of A report has been made to the dropped at very little cost, while Looking Back 50 Years. with baby talk. It is annoying to find unforeseen difficulties We shall police by a Chinese lady named Ng being sufficiently accurate for the Many years ago, when it was fras A S. WATSON & CO., LTD,

at the age of five that the things believe, therefore, in the new penithe effect that she lost a pearl neck An elaborate scheme for an obser su rested that a time bull should be

Sui Ching of 128 Came Toad to practical purposes of the seamen, Hong Kong, Brd Sept 1981. [114you have always been taught to tentiary when the outer walls are face valued at 2300 somewhere be vatory on a calusisond only to inituted for the benefit of ship

call bow

Low-Wows and geo-geos are finally capped with broken glass, tween Repulse Bay and Cains Hoad that at the Cape of Good Hope, ping, it was thought that as ships really dogs and horses. Mɛny and a great trek starts from Vio- yesterday ele ponge which, by the why, is entirely sup, lay here long enough to enable ship- modern girls owe their gift of flucht forin Gaol The Government has

ported by the Admiralty, has, how masters to rate the chronometers A lift attendant" at the suprema | ever been recently drawn up, the on shore, and that the rating wan speech to the fact that they have in view the works which we

ellaiently performed be those who Court was imprisoned for an cost of which to the Colony is eati hour when the lift of which be YAI imated to be in the first instanco.

undertook the work there was no

Undermentioned Certificate for 50 Shares in this Company registered in the Name of KWOK BIN HING, has been declared LOST, If at the expiration of One Month THE Public are notified that from the Date hereof the following TATE CARS Bre available Share Certificate: be not produced to immediately on demand Every Morn- this Company, namely, Certificate for ing between the hours of 12.15 a 60 Shares No. 20,191 to 20,240, A and 8.00. AM. unless a Notice to the NEW CERTIFICATE for the said. contrary advertised during the shares will be issued by the Company preceding day Fares 50 cents per and thereafter NO OTHER will be Thesenger, with a minimum charge of

recognised. 12.00 per car

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers

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NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVIN that the STATUTORY MEET. ING ☎ THE UNITED PHOTOPLAY SERVICE, LIMITED Will ̈ ̈ be "buld Fat the::Company. Studio of68, "MING" YUEN GARDENS, NORTH POIN Hong Kong on - TUESDAY,

• ОСТОВЕЕ, 191, at arm for the parpoco al considering the Statutorri Heport and of conducting all other brainsen which ought to be conducted Sai sack Ristutory Meeting

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PEAK MANSIONS MAGI Six-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartments PRINCE EDWARD BOAD, KOWLOON.

been taught from childhood to take ed it with tas intention of begin charge refused to function when $93,000, with an annual cost of necessity for; establishing a time ning this financial year the new it was between two for $10,000. It is said that the Hong ball. A years rolled by, and steam

an interest in words,

Mothers who realise the value of hospitals, the new Central British message to the PW.D. soon brought Kong Observatory is to be entirely gradually shut out sailing ships, and, such un interest encourage the child School and the Kowloon Fost Office men to his rescue, and he was supported by the Colonyf the the incoming and entroing of the to learn the name of

ultimately released. mg in--but presumab

Colony can afford the ostley there former was more rapid than the At distance lenda

| is no reason why Hong Kong should ter, the question of a time ball www ver that. enchantment to the view, and as

• Refusing to give any particulars; not join the (prai encies of Bengal, Again revived. Steamships de hot Togard; thèse matters we shall hars | 15 to how he came by bis injuries, i Rombay and Mid the Australian

empan u

port long enough to land Wawan Chinese youth, named Ng to live on pious hopes and good red 21-employed by

zofi Colantes, and

Chronometera and got them era-biri„bend doubt that a time ball at Singapore, Hong Kong had other places which ships frequent and make short ataya atı would be most beneficial to the (Continued.onS ane Column)

the nursery, the

falls over tha

which the fire

booked to the

Intentions for.

Modern Construction with Garage,

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YO JEFFREY BUANG,

ić. Secretary ANORAKA

yours to