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CHINESE LANGUAGE. SOHOOL THE CONNOISSEUR

NEW CLASS for BEGINNERS

in the Study of Colloquin CANTONESE will if suffolent sup part a forthcoming-be hold in the Ofilos of the Chamber on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS at 5.15 pm..

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HONG KONG CRICKET CLUE

【LOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the following Debontuena were drawn at the PAVILION on MON DAY, the 26 Dar of OCTOBE ›," 1931-

70 No..

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Treasurers, Mourato inform the

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Fleming, on or before Friday, 80th October, 1991;

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dabentures burakered as above which are not cashed on the 31st October, 1931, will be paid on t 20th April, 1932, after which date they -will cea e to bear interest,

By Order of the Committer,

E. J. R MITCHELL, Hon. Secretary, Hong Kong, 28th Oati, 19317

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ARTICULARS 4-CONDITIONS

PO Sale by Publie Anction to

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square feet.

39,043TM

PUBLIC AUCTION,

1978

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,

Gifts about which there can be mistake

no

It's no fun going through all the bother of buying carrying about and handing Motor prosent if it. doesn't mest. with approval.

Even as a waiter nover. refusos a tip, a WOMEN turns not up her nose at those delicious

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failed its leaders. Not only tha rank and Ale, but more than half the Cabinet rejected the warninga.. Thor werd "blind to the storm swcoping Germany and Anterion.

1931.

News and Views

Piratas."

Major S. L. Harvey, Conservative On The Truck of 150 Radio M.P. for the Totnes, Division of Parliamentary salary in Devon, has decided to forogo hie querice of the, national crisis,

French

Banks and Sterling,

The campaign in London against wireless pirates, the people who uso wireless receiving sets without a licence, has so far met with re

they could not read the trado baro-Tale of the Day. mater in our own land. Woll might Mr. SNOWDEN pour his dea-tried to make me believe that 's Auto Salesman "Jones just pairing scorn on former colleagues, driven his fivvor for fve yours and when, with his old opponente "as never paid a cost for repaire.Do "the watch on deck," he carried you believe that gen through the Commons bie plans for I made the repairs."

Garage Mans "I'll say I do.

At mid-September the total star-markable success. battening down the ship and stop-

ling balances held by foreigners in In London alone 10,000 new wire ping obvious leaks. What irony Ofertory Boxes of Sted,

London were £230,000,000, reprenant loss licences have been taken out ed (1) by deposits, and (2) by storlainen the campaign was instituted, that thus his Parliamentary carcer Churches in England aro dis-ing bills held on foreign account! in addition to the renewal of old should close

card og woodon affertory boxes and

licences. In post offices in nearly using heavy steel receptacles in efforts to stop thieving, of which

every district there have been secr long queues waiting for licencor. there has recently been au opido. mic

The people of Britain were alive to the danger, and were not filled with projudice and preconceived notions, like the Trade Union. Congres, whose dictation experienced minis

tars, mcckly accepted. It may be

Of this amount the French banks held £60,000,000 on deposit and ap.

proximately £50,000,000 of bills.

Since that time the French backs have been cautiously but persistant- boxes are being fitted with specially reducing their balances. locks and built into church walls.

As a further precaution the stool.

The demand for licences, by, delin quents has been so great that tho supplies at several London district

Everyone will be pleased if they post offices have given out, remove them altogether. The storwhich supplies the post offces, is

They have been tried with success in parish churches in Hampshireg is available. and Kent.

The staff at Someract House,

There are immense short accounts sages for more wireless licences, working at high speed. Urgent mes- in New York and Paris, and, in please have come in so fast that addition, many British subjects the staff have experienced consider- have cash balances abroad which able dificulty in keeping pace with they are anxious to bring home at them

that Mr. HENDERSON and the ser elementa among Official Labour may have argued that if the Prims Minister and the Chancellor could not curry the Party with them, a number of responsible mun must re- main in charge of it, whatever their personal opinions might be British people do not take to sophistries of that kind. If a man dislikes The Empress Booms at the Royal

The Cuban Arrives in London.

Do you Cuban ? ~ This will be one of London's a profit.. questions now.

The Cuban is a new dance, jollier than the foxtrot, rather less com plicated, though faster than tho bango.

Alding The Nation."

The Duke of Abercorn, the Gov. ernor of Northern Ireland, has offered, voluntarily, to surrender 20 per cent, of his salary of £3,000 as Governor.

his party's policy he should rerign. Palace Hotel, Kensington, are unk- If he is genuinely converted from ing'a speciality of the dance, which camo from Miami and Hollywood. one party to another he should be is fascinating Paris, and captured free to change his allegianes with the Prince of Wales and Charlie

Chaplin recently. out suffering taunts and recrimina Imagination, liveliness, style and tion. The electors have been parti-personality-all these you may cularly severe on the ex-Ministers, weave into it in your own step and fashion, and it is expected that the evidently. holding them responsible, Cuban will be the most popular for not guiding and controlling the dance of the season. rank and file. There may be signa of a rally when today's figures are published, but on present re- sults the Labour party has suffered not defeat, but annihilation. A political structure created by patient and, on the whole, states law-abiding effert during the last thirty years has been destroyed in a day. The Labour Party by the good-tempered adjustment of its early MP's to House of Commons tradition, By patriotism during the war, The Eyes of the Civilised World were by many solid successes while in yesterday turned from the grave office, and by the integrity of its complexities of the Manchurian personnel was winning the could crisis to the General Election in ence of the nation and taking the Great Britain. An issue momentous position the Liberal Party.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, OCTOBER 20, 1837.

BRITAIN'S VERDICT.

manlike and

to Great Britain and to all the Exaggerated promises with regard forces of ordered progress and to unemployment were tolerantly civilisation was at stake. A great regarded, as part of the political party claiming to represent the game, which no one took lob workers of England, and no small seriously. But for the failure of percentage of its intelligentsia, the last two months full reckoning had thrown over its most trusted has been demanded.

and experienced leaders and was It is to be hoped that the lessen setting before the country a pro-] of this cloction will not be lost on gramme of revolutionary socialism, the victors, If a predominantly BAFT PROGRAMMES and DEANT FORMA MED Lavish promises were made of doles Conservative Government wastes on VENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING, and relief, of social services and portunity, behaves, ungenerously to to be held on SATURDAY, 7ra NO-maintenance of wages. The ward the Prime Minister, or plays into VEMBER, 1031 (Weather Permitting),

I obtained at the RACE COURBEng of the seceding loaders were the hands of sectional interests, a HONG KONG CIPS, CAUSEWAY BAY deolared to be a bankers rump, and similar fate to that of Official STABLES and the BrCarTART'S OFFION,

TURY

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1.

This surrender corresponds to the reduction made in the salaries of Judges and Cabinet Ministers of the highest ranked

his Majesty's Government, has ex- The Home Secretary, on behalf of pressed warm appreciation of the Governor's action.

An Englishwoman, who has re- turned to England after living in the United States for yours, has sent a cheque for 1,000 dollars to Mr. Snowden. She desires her. gift to be anonymous, but hopes that it will act as an incentive to others to send gifts according to their

mean..

Any fall of the pound below $3.00 will bring these British nationals into the market.

Bride Defies Tradition...

Miss Margaret Esther Maurice, the 24-year-old daughter of Major- General Sir Frederick Maurice, and Dr. Eric Boyland, of Kensington Park-gardens, S.W, who first met as students at Heidelberg Univer sity, were married at the Kensing ton Register Office. Dr. Boyland is 28.

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The Post Office. authorities believe. that there are--or were before the round up commenced-400,000 wird less pirates in London alone, mak- ing & loss to the Post Ofee of £200,000 a year.

Rallway as a Gift.

The Bavarian Government are

offering to anyone who cares to accept it a railway, 20 miles long. in the mountain district of Chiem, and, as an additional attraction, £500 in cash.

The railway, which, since it was wearing a green costume and hat carry wood to sawmills in the nei

The bride defed tradition by built in 1910, has been used to She wore a bouquet of red rops.ghbourhood as well as carrying pas She arrived at the office accom-sengers, has always been run at a panied by her father, and brought loss, perhaps because it required 110 and its rates with her two vases of yellow chry- officials to look after santhemums to decorate the office for the ceremony.

Flying Dutchman("^

"My life has been paced by the airplane, writes. Manthony Fokker in his book, "Flying Dutch- man" (George Routledge and Soïs, 12s. d.), just published...

The book gives a full and charse teristic account of Mr. Fokker's

were at first double and then treble. those of the German State Railway As the authorities can neither make it pay nor afford to have it on their hands they are obliged to give it

way.

is

Records of Man's Andestry,

Professor Elliot Smith, present- ing prizes at the Royal Dental Hos- pital School of Dental Surgery, said that enamel was the most. of as a pilot, an aircraft manu-durable of all animal tissues and in facturer, and an industrial "force" consequence, fossil teeth provided The War period in particular, the fullest evidence for the student whan Mr. Fokker was producing of evolution the Germans had, contains many some of the best fighting aircraft new facts about the technique of the supply of aircraft to the Ger man foros I

which nature has inscribed upon The bieroglyphs," he added, the enamel caps of teeth have pro vided the most important records. of man's ancestry and kinship.'

Local Notes and Events*

One case of typhoid and one of cerebrospinal meningitis were re ported on Tuesday.

Captain A. J. N. Woods, mastër of the s.n. Venezia, was charged before Comdr, G. F. Hole, RN. Owing to the China Exhibition (retired) at the Marine Court ye being held the same day, the con- terday with disobeying the orders fer arranged for Thursday, Novem-of the Harbour Master by passing has been cancelled: ber, the Helena May Institute

inshore of the red buoy off Queen Victoria Street. The defendant, on pleading guilty to the charge, was fined $50.

Among those who left the Colony on board the Chichibu Maru yes strong, assistant chaplin of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon

"ENTRIES ('LOSE at 19 O'clock charge of "traitor" were freely). Labour, will be reserved for it when i terday was the Rev. E A Arm!

NOON, on THURSDAY, 207 OCTO levied against the Prime Minister the people ugain pass judgment at BER, 1931..

[1300 and the handful of Labour collea

the polls.

gues who remained faithful to him.

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| Hong Kong Daily Press.

(1874

recover.

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years,

sented to the establishment of a Chi- The French Government havá.con- nese Consulate at Saigon.

The armoured cruiser Satles, re- cently with the China Squadron and now with the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, has been ordered to Cha tham to refit, prior to taking on

course of gen

Whilst driving a motor lorry along

It is estimated thas an expendi Shanghai Street on Tuesday, a ture of $73,000 will be necessary licensed driver in the employ of the put the S. P. Hitchcock in a sea Apparently having committed sui-Shing Fat Garage of Nathan Boad, worthy condition. She received. THE SUPER BABYLON.

cide, the body of a Chinese, aged 23 knocked down a boy, aged 12, who enter damage during the typhoon years, a shop foki at Queen's, suddenly crossed the road. The than was at Brat anticipated. On the other hand, the National

Raud West, was sent to the public was removed to the Kowloon Hos Government confronted the country A WORLD faced with the prospect mortuary after having been found pital in an unconscious condition, with a hard alternative. "Sacri- of pretty severe pinching to keep by a fellow foki hanging on the suffering from severe head injuries, its humble homes together in the premiacs at 12.16 p.m. on Tuesday.from which he is not expected to fice all round," does not round like coming winter will read with the the slogan to win an election. The wonder #fairy tale evokes the fatis Mr. Herbert May member of: case was argued by the leaders over of America's latest and largent ho the Permanent Central Board of the Five casualties at sen have been some 250 boys for

tol. This new addition to the arLeague of Nations, and Mrs. May reported at the Harbour Office by training from the Shotley establish." the wireless, by parliamentary chitecture of New York has 2,200 ure passing through Hong Kong the masters of two ships, whichment. candidates and their supporters as bedrooms, and in each of those a en route to Bangkok where Mr. May i came into port, on Tuesday Capt. thousands of meetings, and in the television set and a wireless set are will attend the spium. conference A. Hall, the master of the 8.8. The death is reported of Edmund public press.

telephone, Moreover, leat its clients able order was maintained and should suffer from the impact of

rane, reported that a passenger jumped overboard and was drown of 75, an old China hand, who both sides had their hearing.

fresh air while making for a train

Among the passengers leaving on ed. A woman deck passenger joined the firm of Smith, Kennedy

played his part as a sportaan. H Less than half the results are brought into the basement. Toits was Sir William Hornell, who is causes. Capt. J Blankert, the from that period to the early '60's the railway has been providentially Tuesday on the President McKinley died on the voyage from natural, & Co, in the middle of 30's, and available, but sufficient, has been miles of earpeting, ite myriads of going to Shanghai to attend an im- master of the Dutch vessel Tjis the sport of horseracing was at its received to judge of Great Britain's cups and saucera, and its colossal portant meeting of the Board of dane, which arrived from Muntoh, height. The deceased was a member verdict. The people of England nold Bennote could do instice. It Committee, of which he is Vice- died at sea, while a quartermaster Beds, a household word in the cour Armoury of cutlery tone but an Ar- Trustees of the Boxer Indemnity reported that two deck passengers of the Wallez family of Luton, (havé spoken with an almost is the Grand Babylon and they im Chairman.

was missing. The vessel encounter try-Hungkung Daily Press, Oct. terrifying unanimity aid strength. perial Palace of this fancy rolledredak

ed very strong monsoon weather. into one. Its dedication"—for a The following forthoning mar will not have political mera opening is too common-place ringes are announcedAlfred Aston quackery. At a time of crisis for such a building was performed Lewis, of 1. Yue Kwong Terrace, to Offcial Labour put forward a by nose other than President Hear Florence Mary Willshire. Clar. that of a considerable proportion of !;

or himself, while the great Unitedence Cheslyn Foreman, chief petty the Portuguess flows. They have no The need for a Savings Bank in dangerous policy, a policy savour: Staka dirigible Los Angeles bang officer, II.M.S. Berwick to Annio means of investing small sums and this Colony has been more than once ing of Russia's experiments in like a benison overhead. We come Wong, of 941, Nathan Road, Kow, are tempted to hazard their small suggested to us. It has been point Socialism. They were playing with slowly to associating real comfort loon.

ravings on the rather vague chance of out, with great justice, that with such vist agglomerations of

of obtaining a lucky turn of For there are large numbers of personŃ national bankruptcy they were our follows. At the back of our The subraiction griffins ordered tune's wheel and winning the great here or employed in the costing afraid to take the measures that minds, despite our Bahnett, is by the Fanling Hunt and Race prize How seldom those trifles fall trade to whom such an institution the situation required. The Prime feeling that even a television set by | Olub are due to arrive in the into the laps of Hongkong people would be on undoubted convenience the bedside hardly compensates for Colony to-day. According to 'an, we have had abundant illustration; The officers and engineers of vessels. Minister and the Chancellor of the the personal relationships with the advertisement appearing elsewhere, and equally abundant have been the many of the junior clerks employed Exchequer had appealed to the proprietor and the saving sense that the draw for these subs will take instances in which such windfalls in mercantile offices, and a consider. country and to their political op some individuality is left to the place to-morrow at the Causeway have proved anything but a blessing able portion of the Fortuguese com

to the recipient. The Manila Lot minity would invail themselves of ponents for a united front in face resident which come of staying in Bay stables at 8.30 pm.

the smaller hostelries we know and

fery draws a large amount of bull, it, until they had. noquired a sumn of a national emergency unequalled favour. We have an uneasy feeling A now class for beginners in the ion out of this Colony every month that could be more profitably invest- since August, 2014. The response that it may not be all for the best study of colloquial Cantonese will, in good deal of which would bored. At Singapore and Shanghon was magnificent and Parliament that while life becomes more disciif sufficient support is forthcoming, tained were there a Bavinis Bank there are Savings Banks and we fail ament plined and mechanical for the work-be held in the office of the Hing, in which muall' sims could be lod. to see any good reason why the ox- was ready to ontrust the Labour man the bourgeois, on his travis: Kong General Chamber of Com god. It niatters little under whose periment should not be tried. here, Government with the task of pilot should also be regimented into vast merce on Mondays, Wednesdays and auspices the Savings Bank is start. At present the Manila Lottery, in 17| abiding-places which, luxurious and Fridays at 5:15 p.m... Fall partí-l'ed, whether by Government or by the ordinary channel into which tha ing the ship of state through the efficient though they are recull the culars may be obtained from the one of the Banks-Hongkong spara cash of many Europeans and economia storm," But the Party" barracks rather than the home, "Secretary,"

Daily Preu, Oct, 0, 1881

Efinwtinued on previous Column)

The most commend.added to the normal h, and a. and which will take place on November Halvard, which arrived from Tot Waller, on September 20 at the Tips

They

29, 1906

***Looking Back 50 Years.