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NELSON DAY.

EE President and Members of the

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Dommittee of the Hongkong.

Branch of the NAVY LEAGUE wil

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IN THE "SUPreme courtT OF

... HONG KONG.

„PROBATE, JURISDICTION,

IN THE Goons or WILLIAM SPILLER BIRDWOOD, LATE OF COLMER IN THE PARTIES or Nonter Brit Any Loodin WELL, IN TON County of Devon, ENGLAND, A. COLONEL -IN, THE INDIAN ARMY OF THE RETIRED LIST, DEORABED.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by viring of Section 59 of Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1807, Tanto an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Olaims against the love Estate to the

7 DAY of NOVEMBER, 1931,

All Creditors and Others are necord- Jagly hereby require to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that. Date.

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Dated the 13th day of Oc^,, 1981. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors,

Prince's Bailding,

Hong Kon

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

EXTRA RACE

TMEETING will be held (Weather

Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 24TH OCTOBER, 1931, Commending at 2 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung as 1.30

p.m.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE Membora are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges. prominently displayed, an

No ans without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gantlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax). ars obtainable, through the SECRE TARY apon Introduction by Member, saah Momber to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, etc.

Chit

Badges admitting to

Member'

Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.

Members can obtain, upon Application

to the SECRETARY, Badges (limited for the Free Admission to the

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Members Paolosure of Wives," Lady E Relativas and Friends Names must be stated when applying jan

On No Frotert will Children be permitted in either Encloanze during The Meeting.

Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the Noi Boy by 6 p.m. on the 2310. OCTOBER, Telephone No. 21920.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, The Price of Adminion to the Prblin #Kinoloenre in: $2,00, including Tax, for all Parsons, including Ladies, and la ipayable at the Gate.

Soldiers and

Ballore admitted Half Price

Uniform are

Bookmakers, Tie The Men, eta, will not be permitted to operate withi in, the Precincta of Tan Hong Koro Josker. Chata during the face, Macling

Tiffin Di bo obtainable is tho Ross taurant in the Publio Enclosure.

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to the polls. That is not the case to-day, for at the 1924 contest eighty per cont of the electorato recorded yoles, un seventy-nine por cent.in 1998, The electorate in 1919 consisted of a total of 28,800,000, of whom 13,000,000 were mon and 15,200,000 were women. The number of votes chat was

22,600,000.

The feature of moderni politica has been the replacement of tho Liberal by the Labour Party since the War. In 1010 Labour returned 43 members to Parliament, but in general elections since the Armistico the figures have been

1938

82 nombers. 1992 149 1923.......... 191 1024 2.150 1929

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Tale of the Day.

News and Views

"I gave that man, half-a-crown for saving my life.""

What did he do?" "Gave me back a shilling change.??

Faraday and Food.

In recent years has supply of What's In a Name?" black bass has decreased alarming. ly. The bass are being destroyed by the cooters-the soft-shelled turtles of the Southern waters. The "cdoters" have increased bgenuse of the wholesale destruction of alliga tors by the gator hunters.

House Property in France.

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Everything was in order, when: suddenly the hotel chef refused to cook the birds. The French part ridge, acuson, does not open till the fifteenth, and the chef was terrifiod of being fined.

The peer, however, had a nervous, crisis. Henco his good resolution..

Jobless Find Good Quarters.

Regarding "Faraday's accidental

In American fishing circles the

At the eleventh hour the dinnor---- discovery of what later becanic theory has now gone up "Save the including the birds, which were aor. basic principle of refrigeration, it good alligator who eats the coaters, ved he "pouillards was transfer- appears that Thomas Mort, the and leave us our black.hinss." red to another hotel, and all was Iamous Lancashire-Australian who As a fisherman President Hoover well. founded the Australian frozen meat should have no souples about pro. trade, bnsed his invention of reparing the necessary legislation. frigerating machinery on his know ledge of Faraday's work

Mort, it seems, first gained the idea of preserving meat by freezing from reading of the finding, in a mass of ice in wapoger account Siberis, of the perfectly preserved body of an animal which had ob- viously been there for many years. fast by thumping the table and eja- He astonished his family na break culating, "I've solved the problem of the world's food supply." Six- teen years later, after incessant work, he completed the refrigerat

An English chartered accountant resident and fabusiness in France men to enjoy for a short while bot

In order to enable unemployed writes from Paris about the happy iter fund and more comfort than statement of a purser on eng of the Channel beats that he and his wife they can obtain for their dos dolce

Few people would venture an finalysis of the effect of women's admission to. Parliament and of the women's vote. There were fifteen

own their own home in France, now kind of hotel has bern opened women MP's in the last Parlia

"And in France when you build in Hecklingshausen, a small indus- mont, and two women, Miss BOND-

taxes for the first 15 years to out of work lodging and food for your own home they let you off trial town of the Ruhr district, not

far from Wuppertal. It offers men. FIELD and Miss A. S. LAWRENCE,

encourage house building." held office. There are now sixty

"Every form of income is taxed from nine to twelve marks a week, ous women candidates in the field,

pondent. The relief to which the are good. This "proletarian hotel" twice in France," says the corres-The rooms are cosy and the meals of whom thirty-six are for Labouring machinery for the first consign-purser is entitled as the proprietor also opens its doors to men who Mort women claim, however, that ment of frozen ment to leave Aus

tralin. "" a greater care has been shown by Parliament for the interests not English as She is Spoka,

Here is a really bright piece of advertisement-writing, from a Pei- Ping nowspaper "Beautiful. Just received 8-Skins of White Polar Bear, luxuriously effected in Grand- ness Different size; Saloon and Cabinet.

Lovers of the Fine and. Rare

means

·COAL TAR SOAP only of women and children, but also for social services, generally since the masculine monopoly in politics, was abolished. Whether the chango will usher in a new age or Innd the nation' in bankruptcy is a matter of opinion, by divided en party lines. Many Con gertatives hold that women have had a steadying influene, und no one denies that their participation in politics has at least cleared up much of the old time drunkenness, bribery and rioting at elections, for which the only defence was that these good old English practices proved a source of inspiration to satirista like HooT and DICKENS. A modern polling sintion is a model of decorum, where the police usher in old ladies, and the presiding officers explain the procedure. To the old hands all this abandonment of the ancient customs is the last and most terrible sign of national

· degeneracy 1.

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, Ocromen 20, 1931.

BRITAIN'S VOTERS.

DESPITE the wide extension of the British franchise and the great social changes of the last thirty years, politics have altered less than might have been expected: Britain has not followed the Continental to be halt at MACAO on SUNDAY, system of a multiplicity of small lat NOVEMBER, 1931 (Westber mitt ng, may be obtained at the SPORTA Parties. There were three groups

Hose Koss ToCKET CLOR CLUB, THE

in the Victorian Parliaments, Con- STABLES or at the Offres of Memrs.servative, Liberal and Irish Nation; PRECT SMITH, BETU & FLEMING, 6, Des lists, and there are three groups Voeux Road Central.

Entries CLOSE at 12 O'cloox NOON.to-day, Conservative, Labour and bo THURSDAY, "22ND OCTOBER, 1981,

[1940 Literal. It is true that

Liberale have, for the time being, sub-divided into three" sections; but if Mr. LLOYD GEORoz is ever able to buy himself a place in the Labour Party with the funds sealed up in

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MRS. OHAN MOK SZE, of Hong Kong, in respect of Certificato No. 11757, covering Six Shares Numbered 881870/861375, and CHUN CHIU TUNG, of Shang. hui, in respect of Certificate No, 11898, covoring Sixty Shares Numbered 876867/876426,

upon statements that the respective Original Certificates have been Lost or Mislaid.**

the

SPEED-IN DRESSMAKING.

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of a recently built house is that have just left prison. Here they during the first 18 years he will not have an opportunity to accustom pay the schedule tax on the annual themselves to the conditions of the value of the property.

But the gutside world. Unemployed and annual value of the property has to former prison inmates took a pro- be included in the annual declara-minent part in establishing this tion of revenue on which general hotel, which bears the inviting income tax is assessed-which makes name of "Home of the Friends."

difference."

Blind Ex-Service Men Make Good.

Day of Reckoning.

In view of the paralysing de Things from the North Pole who mands, which will face the Home wish to adorn their Nice Saloons taxpayer on January 1 it is under for coming season or to make a pre-stood that a movement is on foot. sens to a High person elected-are among realists to have the name of invited to have a look-up till sath the night before changed to "Blue is only becanee this Lot further Year's Eve." has to go despatched to the South.

Price-cheap. Requiring for a mediator to liquidator urgently..

Personally, of course, we would

choose the Saloon Size Polar Bear. Good News for Alligators.

Hitherto alligators have always been regarded as pesta useful prily when dead for ladies' aboca and handbags. It appears that that im- pression is a wrong one.

A Partridge Story..

A certain peer has decided to give up his fifelong habit of gating grouse on the Twelfth and part- ridge on the First, irrespective of expense or of what, part of the world he might be in.

His decision he been influenced less by the Budget than by a recent experience at a Trench gambling

resort, s

.

Americans are fishing mad. Their

On the First he gave arlarge din. favourite haunts are in the watersner-party. Six brace of partridges of the sunny south, where the black

-succulent young birds, especially bass provides them both with sport brought over from England by hand and succulence.

-were to be the titbit of the feast,

What has becoine of all thosp men, blinded in the war, who a few Years ago were so often seen in the streets lending to Regent's Park? St. Dunstan's "Someone To Sen for: The sixteenth annual report of Him supplies the answer.

Thanks to the training they have received 2,000 of them have learn-··· ed to be blind" and to do a day's work like other men.

Samo have become telephoniste and typists, others are muscurs in private or hospital practice, and still others are poultry farmera

Ons is a lecturer on physicsd. treatment at a hospital in the Unit ed States, another is doing chemical research work, and a third is a Pro- fessor of Languages at a university. A barrister, a soliticitor, a char-

tered accountant, and the head of w great commercial enterprise in Aus tralia are among those who were in- nigtes of St. Dunstan's.

* Local Notes and Events

The Colony had a clean bill of health for Sunday.

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The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton has left for Shanghai to attend the Facile Relatiene Conference.

New speed records are not alto gether confined to aeroplanes. The winner of a recent dressmakers' competition in Berlin made a com pleta dress in 45 minutes. There are dresses and dresses, but reports of the event indicate that this was no mere "armholes and neck-hole " production, but a genuine affair Lady Feel and party attended the H.E. Si William Peel and with sleeves and all the other - King's Theatre on Saturday night bellishments which go to distinguish to witness the British mystery thru the average dress from a flour, The House of the Arrow."

sack.

A woman who can take a piece of cloth and turn it into a ready to-wear dress in less time than it

At Kowloon Magistracy yester- day, a Chinese was sentenced to three weeks hard labour for the theft of a bicycle. The police stat- Fed that the complainant left the machine outside a friend's house and the defendant, took it home" and dismantled it. The pieces. owever, were traced and the thief arrested.

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from the files.

Yesterday Messrs. Hughes and Hough, auctioneers, offered for sale. by public adiction the Spaniel steamer Tri facleod, but rathe

the upset, the vessel was with price offered, $10,000, was below

Looking Back 25 Years.

Navigating-Lieutenant Charles E. Bockwith of HMS. Diadem haa Six disreputable-looking Chinoso been appointed Harbour Master were arraigned hefore Mr. Fraser temporarily. at the "Kowloon Magistracy this morning on the charge of begging For the first time in eleven for money in a public highway, months the Hong Kong dollar Sergeant Madgwick, who prosecut reached 1/3d, which was the official ed, said the defendants would last stood at this figure on Novem-tence. His Worship imposed a Ane quotation yesterday. The dollar banished after serving their sen

of 83 or three days in each ense. Silk forwarded from here. by R.M.S. Empress of Asin on Septem-Beauty Parlour at 1. Hotung Reporting damage done to her ber 5 arrived in New York (St.Mansions, Kowloon, through the October 10, having been 21 days in some time in the early hours of John's Park) and Hoboken on smashing of a plate-glass window. transit.

Sunday morning, Miss Julia Sagen told the police that she suspected drunken sailors passing along in The glass, valued at $100, was in- rickahan as having been responsible,

While working on Monday on A Refinery, Loung Lin, a bricklayer building at the old Jardine Sugar accidentally fell to the roundsured. and suffered injuries from which ho died,

his notorious war chest," no takes a man to now a refractory |ber 24, 1930. doubt Sir" JOHN SIMON and Sir button on his last year's overcoat HEBERT SAMUEL would com tois demonstrating a rate of speed an agreement. The Labour split is that should give her right and title also a temporary matter, and the to a place well up on the list of National Labour Party" will in Records for 1931." The expert time either rejoin Tabour or the dressmaker may encounter, no air borbed by the Conservatives. Of pockets or low ceilings" in navi the 1,221 candidates only seventy-gating her sowing machine through five stand outside the orthodox several square yards of material, parties; twenty-five are Commu- but it takes pilotage of no mean nists, twenty-three belong to Sir order to sail her craft successfully OSWALD MOSLEY'S Now Party and around the buttonholes and other

classed. are

by pitfalls encountered in a cruise from under the heading of the neckband to the hem of a frock the inte hereof No Claims or Repro-Others." The Communists, poll-It is said that there were fifty parti rentations in respect of such Originaled only 50,000 votes last, election,cipants in the competition, and the Certificates have been received by the Sir OSWALD does not cut much ice, resultant operation of as many

A Chinese was convicted of steal Company, this Company will then proceed to deal with the Applications, the "Others," are mainly cranky sewing machines must have presenting a pair of trousers, the proper some of they of Mr. A. Landabert, residing persons, with small local reputed in some degree tions, and it is not likely that more aspects of a triple-engined acrolu York Road, Kowloon, and was sentenced to three weeks' hard lab- than half a dozen of these seventy plane making ready for a flight over our by Mr. Fraser at the Epw. five will journey to Westminster. the Atlantic,

toon Magistracy, yesterday, The electorate

from about million in 1832, after the Reform Bill was passed, to 2,500,000 in 1867, and 5,000,000 in 1934. In

NOTICE IS HEREGY GIVEN twenty-seven. that, if withio THIRTY DAYS from Router

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The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Bernabe Antonio Road, Kowloon Tong, to Miss Celes d'A. Almeida, 332, Ma Tau Wei tina Alberts Souza, 5, Granville Road, Kowloon,

drawn.

Hotel, lost in the typhoon, has been The fine launch of the Hong Kong recovered and is undergoing ce pairs.

The British Consul at Tunis has telegraphed to Malta for assistanca to raise the Lutin. The submarine. lien at a depth of 125 feet.

The following have been seleted: to play in a club practice rugby, A Chinese was sentenced to eight match to-day at 4.30 p.m. sharp. 15 strokes of the birch by Mr. WilRN J. C. Kendall, J. May, R.N., months' hard labour and to receive Colours TO.. Gray; Bell, liams at the Central Police Court and G. L. Letham, R.N.; J. C. of snatching a hand-bag from Chard, H. M. Kendall, R. G. Mun- yesterday on being found guilty Jonghin and P. Blunt H.F. Mia C. Britto, of 70, Parkes Street, roo, J. Honron, E. Rogers, B.E., T. *Kowloon, Mr. Sully of the S: Greenwood, R.N., F. O. Davies,

NAO.C. a thanked by Bench for aiding in the capture Whites: W. S. Gilbert, IN; A..

the H. 3. Topties and S. C. Vickers. of the defendant, Another Euro M. Forrest, T. E. Penroe, S. Potley pean, whose name was unknown, and A. Gregory A. M. Freser, also helped in the arrest.

RAM.C., and R.-J. Blackburn: H......, G. O. Bailey, RM Hankin, R.A.M.C. T. G. Drakelord, A. Gange, H. F. Hickman, H, M other reasons influenced the step. Greonhill, C. B. Hayward, and £...

was suggested by one journal H. Mackay. Referee: Mr. that the withdrawal of the students Clark Hong Kong Daily Preat, was partly in retailiation to the October 20, 1906, opposition Chaped to the minie Looking

Eternal Clock." The Swiss inventor, who claims that ho has invented a clock which 1910"the" Agure was 7,700,000 will run for ever on the power sup for work and produced a pass States: but this theory does not The recall of the Chinese students

cluding Ireland, but in 1018 the anfranchisement of women over thirty put twenty-one million per sons on the electoral roll. The flappers vote," which abolished all sex distinction in the franching. brought

amberof British

Detached, and Bom-detaebed Villas | voters-up to 28,550,000 in 1920.

Modern" Courtrustion with Garage,

It used to be said that voting was left to enthusiasts and the *average mait hardly bothered to go

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ration of Chinees into the Pacife Back 50 Years,

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A Chinese was fined $10 by Mr, Schofield at the Central Police Court yesterday for trespassing in the generating station of the Rayal Naval Dockyard. The de fendant said he had gone to took which he had borrowed from a

c^, nor do we think that thia.com- from the United States has caused friend employed in the Yard.

Esideration weighed much with the a good deal of comment in the press. Estate in Hong Kong worth authorities, concerned. Commission of that country. The grounds for 83,100 was left by Mr. Esckiol Bale Won had expressed his fear the ection taken by the Peining/ It is high time that somebody mon, late of 117. Beymour Road, that the students would became im Government has been freely ping

Shanghai, who died intestate on bued with Republican... notions, vassed, and various surminės started. “ found some useful way of employ. 123, 141 Ietters of adminis and that their loyalty to the throne, do account for it. : The report made Fing

per tention have been granted to Mr might bo weakened. Most of the by Commissioner Woo in generally, petually moving East from Iceland, Lawrence Radnorie of Shanghai, Inds bad cut off their queues, and accepted as the primary cause of the and many people will had some contemporarily residing at the Tenim that act alone, was viewed by the decision arrived at by the Chinese solution in the English climate if sula Hotel, who is attorney for Commissioner with much disfavour. Authorities, but it is conjectured by· it saves them the trouble of winding Mr,cob Erra: Salmon, 250, Hong Kong Daily Press, October some of the American, papers that

20, 1981. up the clocks.

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