NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
is requested that all Olvi Associations and individuals, who wish to place wreathe on the Cenotaph ab the conclusion of the Service on, Armistice Day, will kindly inform the undersigned, in writing, before Novem ber 6th, so that accommodation may be arranged within the Police barrier.
84.E. D. Q. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police:
Bad November, 1931,
THE CHOICE OF
THE CONNOISSEUR
SCOTCH WHISKY WHICH
BERMS TO HAVE CAPTURED
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THE SUNSHINE OF
BARLEY
THE
THE TANG
OF THE PEAT SMOKE.
THE MELLOWNESS OF GREAT
WHISKY AGE.
FAR EAST BREWERY, DIS. TILLERS AND DAIRY FARM, LTD. NOTICE
MR. BENEST A. UDY. is no longer connected with the abova Company ainoo the "Day of OCTOBER, 1991:
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THE SUPREME COURT OF
A HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
LT THE
Goopa or WALTER, ALBERT HANNIBAL, LATE or No. 6, Thoar MAVOB, May ROAD, IN THE COLONT OF HENG KONO, MERCHAKE, CARNYIKO ON BOBINESS AS W. A. HANNIBAL & COMPANY, DECEABED.
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of Bastion 58 of Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estato to the 28TH DAY of NOVEMBER, 193).
All Croditors and Others are accord. ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or beforo. that Dato
Daled the 31st day of Ook, 1981. HASTINGS, DENNYS & BOWLEY, Solicitors for the Administrators, No. 8, Des Voeur Road Central, Hong Kong:
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THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION.
His Excellency Sir William Feol, KOM.G, K.B.E.,
will prodde at the first meeting of the year, on Tuesday, November 3
(TO-MORROW)
at 6.80 p.m.
in THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE,
Mr, G. P. de Martin, M.B.E., M.A.
will take on
"People who read and write History truth and fact are not synonymous termB,"
As this mosting for tho year, there will bo an election of office-boarors, and, all who intond to join the Association are invited to bo present
RK, M BIMPSON, Hon. Secretary and Treasuror,
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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
THE ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE TELLING will be hold (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY 7TH NOVEMBER, 1931 Commending at 2 p.m. pla
The First Bell will be Büng at 1.30 p.10.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badgen- prominently displayed,
No one without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Badger admitting Non-Members to the Member Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentleman and 3.00 for Ladion (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, co
Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course
Members can obtain, upon Application to the BEOLETARY, Badges (limited to ONE) for the Fres Admission to the Members" Enclosure of Wivas, Lady Belatives and Friends. Names must be
when applying. #tated
On No Fratert will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during
are obtainabis at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No 1 Boy by G on the UTE NOVEMBER Telephone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, S The Price of Admission to the Publis Enclosure is $2.00, including Tax, for All Persons, Including, Ladius, and is payable at the Gata, java
Boldiers and Sailors in: Uniform
Mon etc.
WITH A FRAGRANT BOUQUET,
'A GRACIOUS MELLOWNESS, AND
A. GENIAL FLAVOUR FILAT
WARMS THE HEART — SUCH
1 DEWAR'S, A RARE.
OLD SCOTCH WHISKY:
DEWAR'S
·LABEL
"WHITE
AGED IN THE WOOD AND BOT-
TLED
THE
IN SCOTLAND,
UNVARYING QUALITY OF
-DRWAR'S LEAVES NOTHING TO
BE DESIRED.
SOLE AGENTS:
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931.
COLOR
WILLYS
"CARS-TRUCKÉ BRÉSIS
TRANSPORTATION
ON AN
ECONOMICAL BASIS
ed nearly a contury before extre territoriality was conceded and will continue long after all necessity for it has vanished. Wo make no suggration" that the time for nach abolition has arrived, but it is while the violence of the Chinese industrial and nationalist revolu tion is slowly subsiding that markets will be won. The people. who helped the Chinese and traded with them in the troubled times will seap the reward when prosperity comes,
China and Britain have traded. toguthor over many generations. They have had, and still have their differences, but the two countries need each other, and can help each othor;; 1f Britain fails there is no Jack of willingness and enterprise elsewhere, but Britain will not fail. Upon Hong Kong much depends. Hong Kong in the natural meet ing place of China and the West it is a British Colony and British trade still predominates. But we are, and must remain, a free, port, giving equal opportunity for all DURO GARAGE must keep our places in fair competition with the world, and if our ancestors could create Hong Kong surely we can maintain our
See them
at the
Distributors
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Tale of the Day.
News and Views
First DramatioCritic : You know, old man, you and I could that in half an hour.'! have written a better play than
Second Dramatic Critic: "I agree old man, but it would have takon us. at least an hour to write 4 worse pne
Prison to be Olosed.
Bagthorpe Prison, Nottingham, to be closed at the end of this year for reasons of soonemy.
will be dispersed. There are The whole of the staff numbering at present about one hundred pri- sonors, and they will be sont on to Wakefield and Lincoln.
A New Life Saver.
inquest on a child to the Drinker Reference was made at a London Machine, a remarkable apparatus for restoring respiration. It was is at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. stated that the only ono in England According to the ovidence, the child's heart failed before an ope- ration was over. The heart was breatho again. She was then placed massaged and the child started to
in the "Drinker Machine," which is a bontahaped apparatus eft. long, The patient's head rested outside pumped air on the body for artifi in respiration. The child died, however, four hours later, a
Thames Sea Serpent."
Havages of Red Deer. Marinors taboring the Thames at Scottish farmera have asked the low water might ronsonably think, Home Government to take action to when in the neighbourhood of prevent the damage done by herde Thorpe Bay, that the sea serpent of red door. has appeared at last, for in the The animals, it is stated, juvade distance can bs 800 something turnip fields and sheep lands and which looks like part of the body play haves with produce and atod of a snake of large dimensions.
The Highlands are overrun with
About midway between the fair
way and the shore nearly a hundred door, and it is suggested that estate verde of it is visible when the tide proprietors should take immediate closos; that the unusual spectacle is bords, which every year are incress. is out. Closed investigation die top to deal with the surplus part of a line of pipes, which, some-1.
ing in number how or other have been forced out Church Ofertory for Nation of the position in which they word laid beneath the bed of the son. The pipe line forms part of a sewerage scheme in course of con- struction. What caused the pipes to risc is a mystery.
In Brightest Africa,^
During the broadcast of a recent service from St. Martin-in-the- Fields, London, the vicar, the Rev Pat McCormick, announed that the collection was being sont to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ABA contribution to the national boemergency.
tween Nairobi and Mombasa broke
Telegraphic communication down one day last month
The New Police Chief Engineers went into the country If Lord Trenchard can bring to to investigate, and found that the Metropolitan Police Force n scutions of the wire were missing.itho of the enthusiasm which for They also found that the dusky so many years inspired the de beauties of the neighbourhood were voted service he gave to the Royal wearing necklacos, bracelets and Air Force, then the police will be wire. anklets made of bright, think copper fortunato indeed in their new
chief
Poillital Limerick,
It ia aid that the following stro-
guished M.P.
For eleven vital years" Boom "" Trenchard directed the fortunes of
Stuff.
heritage Hard work in the im-the, machine, inside which bellows city was perpetrated by a distin the Air Force as Chief of the Air
port and export of merchandise, backed by an efficient government have made Hong Kong and will keep it great. We, have no future nan pleasure resort or as
the Wall Street of the East.
Hong Kong is a port and "a" trado em- Fleet Stroot, porium, alive and alert for busi-
Editorial and Business Offices: 11,
Ice House Etreab. Tel: 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel. 24521" London Office
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The Daily Press.
Hong Kong, November 2, 1831.
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ness; ready, after years of mark ing time, to fall in line with the Home country now that the signal to advance has been given.
SHAKESPEARE IN LOW GEAR.
THAT Shakcepeare was a lawyer,
A. S. WATSON & CO., THE SIGNAL TO ADVANCE. harristors have long been convinced
LIMITED.
Established 1841.
THE FANLING HUNT AND
RACH CLUB."
REMINDER.
TINTHIES" for the NOVEMBER IM RACE MEETING CLOSE on MONDAY, NOVEMBER INDE NOON, to the Beorotarios M28R. THOMSON & COMPANY, YORK BUILDINGS.....
1986
THE UNITED ASBESTOS
'ORIENTAL AGENCY,
LIMITED.
(IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LIMITED (in Voluntary Liquidation), will be held at the Offens of of EARS, DODWELL & COMPANY,
LIMITED, at QUEEN'S BUILDING, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 6TH day of NOVEM BEH, 1931, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
at which Meeting the Liquidators will lay before the Meeting an account of their acts and dealings and of the conduct of the winding my during the Becond year of Liquidation.
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL ÄGENUY, LIMITED.
(In Voluntary Liquidation), Fór pro. Dodwell & ContaNI, LIKITRD,
J. P. WARREN.
Manager, Liquidators
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“HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED,
from the wealth of legal knowledge shown in his works. From time to time sailors, for similar reasons, have felt equally sure that he must have spent several years afloat. And scholars, from the classicał allusions in his plays, have often
The Cornner, Dr., Waldo, expres sed a wish to go to the hospital and see the machine.
City Council Etiquetto.
Members of the City of London Court of Common Council do not know one another, a new member stated at a recent Council meeting..
There's an old politician
Churt
Whose feelings are dreadfully
hurt
Because all his followers
The fact that, he was re- confirmed in that appointment up periad well in excess
to
of that for which any chief of staff had ever had such a post in the fighting Services is in itself Have turned tariff-swallowers-indicative of his almost fanatical' And left him alone in the dirt.
interest in the R.A.E...
Channel Crossed in Galley.¦.
In the Track of Mosas,
A crew of four, with a cox, in a The news that movẹn Jewish racing galley have rowed across the motor cyclists are going to beat English Channel, the record of Moses by crossing When they left. Calais conditions tho Sinai Desert in forty hours will were favourable, but during the recall vivid memories to many mer The member, Mr. B. A. Barry, crossing south-west wind increas-who were with the infantry: said that he met an old member of ed, and when they reached Eng brigades of the E.E.F. that the Court, and anid that he too was fish waters a rough spa was run pioneered the weary crossing in n member. You are noty bluntly declared the old member. "Yes I am,” he replied..
ning
1010..
Channel crossings have now They were always far ahead of taken the following forms, among the advancing railway, and, like others: Waterskis, Swimming, their historic predecessors, were Cance, Rubber canoo, Water cycle, too early for that graat invention." Rowing boat, 22ft. yacht, Glider, the wire road, which kept the feet BA Canadian diyer has suggested of those who came after them from
walking across on the sch bottom. sinking in the aand
Such an occurrence should not be possible, he added. New members should be properly introduced.
The matter was referred to Committee:
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Local Notes and Events
an Ordinance to amend, and consoli
The Gazette contains the draft of
date the law relating to intoxicat ing liquor. It occupies over fifty
try licences in the New Territories
New regulations regarding fores. | pages. are gazetted.
Ar this distance there is a danger of regarding the General Election rather in the light of a Test match. It was very exciting while it last ed, the result was most gratify ing, England's prestige was en hanced, and now we settle downconcluded that he was a man of to go on
Two onse of typhoid and one of as before
struggling professional learning. No one diphtheria were reported on Fri- through hard times as best we hitherto, however, has supposed that day. may It is necessary to Shakespeare was a motorist. But Phasise that the General Election from data compiled in a recent was an event of historic and prae letter to the Observer it seeme evi- tical importance that should have dent that he had a copious and ex- a profound effect upon Hong Kong. haustive knowledge of automobiles The rejection of socialism by the that would not disgrace a garage the British people, and the return mechanic. In opposition to this cf a Government strong enough to theory there is, of course, the At to-morrow's meeting of the carry through a policy of economy triffing difficulty that in Shakes Rotary Club, Mr. A. L Shields and re-organisation, on careful and peare's time motors had not bean will talk on Yachting in Hong steady lines, gives a solid founda- invented. Such a slight anomaly, Kong." tion to British trade in Hong however, has never been known to His Kong. For five years we can count discourage the determined "resear been pleased to appoint. Dr. D.
His Excellency the Governor bas upon political and economie sanity cher," and on other grounds the Valentine to act as Director of in England. Confidence has been evidence is so overwhelming that Medical and Sanitary Service. restored and manufacturers at only the most Incorrigible of Home are in a position to undertake sceptics could refuse to recognize the recasting of their respective that the Swan of Avon was a handy enterprises, with a view to acting man at the wheel. upon the recommendations" of such,
His private preference as a car,
J
His Excellency the Governor has he a member of the Licensing Board appointed Mr. J. L. McPherson to for a period of three years
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines" for the week ending October 17, and the sales during the period to amounted to 118,081 metric tons,
138,583 metric tons.
From the files.
Looking Back 60 Years,
To the already long list of ship. ly had before us this typhoon sea- wrecks which we have unfortunate son, and which we regret to have.
General Officer Commanding the occurred to the American ship A new regulation made by the bad to chronicle lately, another Forces, with the approval of the Andholdt, brought to Hongkong. Governor, provides that the Com- yesterday morning by the British mandant, assisted by the Quarter steamer Gordon Castle, J.ernment for all stores, arms and here from Singapore on Sunday
Mastor, is responsible to the Gov-
The latter vessel was on her way. equipment supplied by the Govern- last, when some object was sighted ment for the use of the Volunteer near Lincoln Island, near the Para Defence Corps, - His Excellenty the Governor has.
col Roots. The Gorden Castle was at once turned in the direction of appointed IL R Todd to act ne
this object, which proved, on near Superintendent of Imports and Ex- porta during the absence of Mr. J. ml by which the island is formed." approach, to be the head of a ves D, Lloyd
the feet, in particular, of all of el fixed upon the rocks. Soon them being very much lacerated. after this, a camp was noticed on investigating bodies as the British owner is perhaps revealed, in his ex-ders for the partial demolition of thing but a hopeful one, on a small signals. The stemmer was brought The Government is inviting ten-Here their position was indeed any. the shore, with flags flying for Economic Mission, and the reports clamation in Troilus and Cres- the Aberdeen Paper Milla Dam and bare island, not more than a mile as close as possible to the island. of their agents on the spot. Until sida" "Give me Swift for trans-general preparation for reconstruc-, across and out of the track of ships, and the engines were then stopped. there was assurance that political purtation, while, in Hamlet" hetion and contingent worka.
The Governor in Council has ordered the suppression for the proud of two months of the print ing and publication of the news paper and Kusy Sheung Yat Po.
The Gazette notites, that the fee for each gunpowder manufacturer's licence and each fireworks manufac turer's licence shall be 450 per anum payable in advance.
A plentiful store of provisions was The starboard life-bost was got quickly secured, however, for the out, and manned by the second ship soon began break up, and large officer and six men, who took her quantities of her stores were washed to the island. There they took on ashore, but still, they were without board seventeen persons, the survi water. A search was made all over vorn of the crew of the Humboldt, the island for this necessity of and brought them to the ship. They good fortune to and a pool of frean the tale of their hardships is a life, and the poor follows had the were all in a very sorry plight, and water near the centre of the island, most pitiable one. which was sufficient to supply their The master of the Il-fated ship, wants during the time they were Mr. Reynolds, stated that his ves there, and which was indeed salva loft Bhanghai on the 16th Ce tion to them,
tober bound for New York, and The Annual Dinner of the The party was divided into two shortly after the commencement of Guards Association of Hong Kong one under the captain, and the the voyage ho met with bad wea and South China will take place on other under the chief officer, who ther and terrible wind. On the Saturday, November, at 6.p.m. at were stationed on either side of the 2nd it seems that he had got about Cine, Crawford's Restaurant
Restaurantsland to keep watch day and night 10 miles out of his reckoning be for any vessel which might pass had not even the sun for three
that at a MEETING of the position in `South Chine has input him on the road to Detroit, «tion of three months the Winson, &. to direct attention. However, in unable to take any observations
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DIRECTORS HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY LIMIT ED, held on the 24TH of AUGUST, 1981, Oall of $2.50 per share was made upon all the members holding Shares upon which only $5.00 per share haw boru paid, and that such Call will be payable to the Bankers of the Company, Tun Hoa KoNG & BUANG- HAI BANKING CORPORATION, at their Central, Victoria: Bong Kong, on the Head Office, No. 1, Queen's Road Bookmakers,
31er DAY of DECEMBER, will not be permitted to operate with
NEVER BOOKS, of the in the Freninate of Tax. Hosa KonG
Company will be CLOSED from the Jocket. Ulus during the Race Meeting. Stu DECEMBER to the Pen DECEM
Tifins will be obtainable In the Rese
BER, 1981, Both Days inclusive s Gammas in the Public Lidlosure. Tá an
By Order of the Board, By Ordon
WLMOKENZIE, Secretary. Hong Kong, 28th Dol, 1981. [1800
admitted Half Prices
Hong Kong, 2nd)
CB BROWN.
Becretary.
1931.
1
folly was not likely to play hatos draws public attention to a famous with industry, capital was withheld brand of petrol with the words, and enterprise delayed,
This Lapwing rung away with the British merchanta and indus- Shell," He was not a one-car man, trialists have been besitating and however, for there is an unmistak: holding their hands for so long able note of satisfaction in his re- that the world was beginning to mark Henry VI,Here is believe that our race had lost its the Tabor." Nor was be, above qualities and initiative. Now is making mistakes now and again. the time to confound such sceptics, Some of them indeed aru rather sur- and the chance must, he seized with prising in a writer of such universal all our might, for it is not likely knowledge In The Merry Wives of Windsor," for example, he asks, to return. China is struggling to Which of you know Ford of this wards peace and unity, The nowe town?" No doubt the inhabitants varies from day to day, but the of that pleasant royal borough soon It is notified that at the expira within sight, and flags were got up, days, and consequently had been But what sort of a motorist was Company, Limited, will, unless this miserable condition they re-and during the night the vessel proved during the past four years; Shakespearef He was not immur causo is shown to the contrary, be mained for eight days, until on the struck a rocke off the Paracel Roofs the embers of war are slowly dying from the ordinary trials of the struck off the register and the com 30th October the Gordon Castle was she got clear of the rocky but dir- owner-driver, His question in pany will be dissolved. Bighted and, to the great joy of the octly afterwards breakere WCTO down the wish for peace and pro-Macbeth." "Whenco comes this Gress has been engendered; the knocking 1" will strike a responsive Amongst arrivals by the Empress the island. They were very kindly go. The vessel was terribly castaways, she was seen to make for soon ahead, and the anchors were. War Lords are no longer reading chain, il y antigens of Japan were the Kov. C. L Blan- received by Caritain Waring of the beaten about by the horry on, and emphatically a law-abiding motor- chett, Mr. and Mrs. W, L. Handy-atter vessel who did everything in the poor fellows on board had a the country; trade and develop it. His dislike of excessive buste sido, Mr E. dos Vooux, Mr. 55 his power for the comfort of the very hard time of it all being ment are in the, ir. There is a is shown in his cutburst in Ham- Perry Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter unfortunate men, and by the time andly bruised and boltered, in goods into an enormous market Henry VIII" (showing here. per and Mr. E. Kadoorie... chancs for foreigners to push their "O most wicked anced," and Mrs. C. Thwalioz, Mr. and Mrs. J. they got to Hongkong, their condi- Tho skip was at length driven
in his cautious advice in K. Bousfield. Sir Elly Kadoorie, tion was much improved. For yours to come: there will be danger and hardship for the up country pioneers. But British prople are not going to be elbowed out of the Ching market for lack ́of men of during and ability. Our trado with this country was found
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haps somewhat less then his usual
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from her anchorage on to thes
Three of the crow were lost, name ore and the next morning, fear wisdom), To climb steep hills Friends and helpers of the M.O.Lly, W. C. Clinton, secand mate, the ing the ship would break up any quires slow pane at frat It and Hong Kong Women's Guild, steward and Chinese cook-The minute, the crow made for the is, gratifying to know that the will be interested to learn that the Gordon Cattle had rather a rough shore, and after a hard battle with greatest of English poets was sum of 81,000 was realised at the time of it after leaving Lincoln the way seventeen manage to essentially the sort of man who fely and sale al work hold on Saturd Island, as was evident from her reach the shero, but were again would, not attempt. cross the day in the Voluntoor Headquarter appearance on ber arrival hero. terribly bruised and out about by streets while the signale were grounds. A description, of the fete Hong Kong Daily Prem, Nov. 2, dashed against upon the cor- against him.
appears on another page, 1881,
(Vontinued on predidla Columna
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