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THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING CO., LTD. (ÎNCORPORATED IN QUEĦĦILAND),
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND,
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that a SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND of TWO SHILLINGS per share on account of the financial year ending 81st Manou, 1932, bas been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore on TUESDAY, 15 DECEMBER, 1981.
***NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY SINGAPORE GIVEN that the TRANSFER REGISTERS will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, Bra DECEMBER. to TUESDAY, 15тa DECEMBER, 1931 (Both Daya inclusive) for the preparation of Dividend Warrants.
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be installed at Emperor of Manchuria bas as the time of writing, met with no contradiction from the Japanese Government. The story of the young man's forcible abduo- sion, and removal from Tientsin to Dairon has been officially denied by Japan, but his departure from Tien tain is admitted and his where abouts are unknown. It is a little
difficult to believe that su important" La personage would be allowed to |slip away, unknown.
Is it altogether a coincidence that the League Council meets to-day "* If Japan can present the world with an emperor of Manchuria," acclaimed by a number of his own people, will the fait accompli be accepted If this is, indeed, the programme then the demand for General MA CHAN
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Tale of the Day,
News and Views
cutting lectures and
4oram
He said that he was aware that the proposition was likely to meet with opposition on so-called moralming for a few weeks before an Hernd religious grounds.
Wife: You've got your bab on the wrong way round, dear. professor husband: Now, how do you know which way I am going?
Another Landon Ronald Story.
axamination.
it is in any way contrary to true mined that the ordinary degres mun That is no proof, however, that University authoriting are detor- morality," he said; or that it will
not be approved and sanctioned shall pass out with a far more gen--- ultimately by the enlightened con-aral education than has been the scienec of mankind."
A correspondent who read tho recent story about "Sir Landon Ronald sends another anecdote | Telegrams from the Air. which, he says, the composer has
old agnies himself.
Sir Landon was at one time at
tracted by the lyrics of W. E, Hon- ley nad Hot a selected half-dozen to music, labelling the lot, "Six Henley Songa" -
He duly called upon h music
publisher liked the music, but ob
case and are equally determined la that man" who wish to remain at Cambridge shall work diligently
A cross Chanel telegram-from-throughout each of the pine terms. the-r" wireless service has been started in an Air Union liner Aying Our Realists. from London to Paris.
The gtistic world is stirred by The charge sid, a word, and the discovery that a real mosquito the massages sent by wireless from -ha-bery affixed a painting of a air liners are picked up at Croydon mosquito net, which is hailed as a
SHAN's resignation, and CHANG HAI publisher, with the manuscript. The and Le Bourget and re-transmitted. novel move towards, realism. It
Earl Kitchener Fined £20.
Earl Kitchener, has been fined £20 at El Doret, Cape Colony for a most unusual offened. He was the subject of the first prosecution under the law which obliges settlers to report the presence, of Joista, and the penalty was for failure to comply with this rule. The Earl has lodged an appeal.
The prosecution emphasised the danger which would arise should the country wexlert to destroy the pests, Lord Kitchener's estate is
Exo's appointment to his post be-ected to the title. Too local," he declared. "Why not call them comes more than over signifcant.
Six Regatta Songs 21" Will Manchuria and China'accept such a settlement? The Fongtion Army shows no sign of wavering in ita allegiance, and if the Boy Emperor reigns at Mukden his bodyguard will be Japances. Por DURO GARAGE hapa Japan reckons on enforcing this policy on China and the world, in preference to war. Her states men, taking long views, may say that there will be trouble at Arst, but peace and good government in Manchuria will win the hearts of the antive population, that an anti-Soy, Kenya Colony. Japanese boycott in China cannot last for ever, and that the Powera will accept the position, as the only practical solution of the problem, especially in view of the aggressive policy, of the Soviet in Mongolia to-day, with Manchuria as the next leaf off the "Chinese artichoke.""
Japan is playing a dangerous and high-handed gaane, and if General MA CHAN SUAN, who seems to ban determined and high spirit leader, should throw the whole weight of
MARRIAGES.
KWOR-WONG-On November 11,
a Shanghai, Mr. TAK WA KWOK, 801
of the lato Mr. FA TING KWOK and Mrs. Kwox. and Miss THEN BONG WONG, daughter of the late Dr. T. T. AVONG, and Mrs. WONG. MURPHY WALKER-ON November
9, at Shanghai, Mrs. H. "A: WALKER to Captain J. A. Kur
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Strategic Retreat......
[Secret slogan of the Henderson men.]
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Wenk men and vain who run away May live to fight another day Or rather, being weak and vain, May live to run away again.
The Right to Die. ~
The proposition that individuals. who are suffering from sa incurable and painful death should be allowed discaso which usually entails a słów by law to substitute a quick and painless death was made by Dr. C. Kille Millard, Medical Officer of his forces on the Japanese a waHealth for Leicester, in his prasi- may be started, which, we have dental address to the Society of
been warned, will hot end in Mediant Offers of Health in Lon-
Fower Marriages in France,
| may be a move, towards realisni, but
it is not novel,
Four hundred and thirty-soven Sono years ago, at an exhibition fewer marriages were registered in of uitra-modern paintings, a prac France (on A total of nearly tical joker secretly affixad a banana- 100,000) during the second quarter skin to a cubist picture of a dish of 1831 than in that of last year; of fruit. The verdict of the $49 more divorces; 3,567 fower nogmuncești was that "the painting. births (on a total of over 180,000); was, à masterpiece of realism with and 1,046 more deaths,
the exception of the banana, which- was voted & Victorian error of artistic judgment, tonding towards soulless mechanism,'
Harrings Ton A Penny.
Herrings were sold at ten a ponny Realism in these matters, appar at. Dend recently following heavyantly, depends on one's artistic catches in the Channel. by local soul. Meanwhile, ones sympathy fishermen..
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Small boata coming ashore had goes out to the mosquito.. to be partially unloaded before they Wireless Makes Mirth could he pulled clear of the water. Fishermen described the sen At a far away farm in the Nysat- being thick with herrings,"
room" district in. northern Trans- byaal, all the natives are laughing, Queen Wilhelmina's Reonomy. for they cannot understand the Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether white man and his funny ways. lands, who has always had the in- They have been laughing for the terests of her people at hoast, has past three or four weeks, and or taken a self-sacrificing step in view Sundays they bring their friends of the prezent economic difficulties, to see the strange washing line and She has decided to abandon all, laugh with them. The thing is a festivities, banqueta and ofsial mystery. The boas had spanned a recaptions during her residenca-at-clothes-line-some-forty-feet-up-in- Amsterdam.
the air from the ground, and they wonder however the mistress could bang her washing on it. They have never before seen a wireless seria). Abgit Omen.
Harder Work for Varsity Men
sity will have to work much harder Freshmen at Cambridge Univer
thin their immediate predeceaanra
The range of subjents for the The finance report presented to ordinary or pass. degree is wider the Round Table Conference than formerly. The freshmen will India was: Numbered 19. Pre- have to attend a definite number of sented on the 13th of the month. will put a stop to the habit of members,
lectures per week, and this, it srums. Prepared by a sub-committee of 10.
* Local Notes and Events
Ice House Street. Tal, 3021.
Tel. 24811. London Office: 43. Fleet Street, Manchuria." General Hoxso, more-don.
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byer, has asked for a "free hand," which means that he will not wait upon events, but strike if the Chi- nero forces, in bis' opinion, start a. movement that menneer the anfety of his troops, When policy is sub- ordinated to military necessity the chances of peace diminish, and, are health for Friday.
The Colony had a clean bill of
indeed, thrown into a balance "that may be disturbed at any time. The League has by no means lost hope, and while Japan has brought her self to the very brink of war, the possibility of withdrawal still re- mains open a little longer.
Hosa Kona, NOVEMBER 16, 1931.
CAN PEACE.. BE MAINTAINED?
HARDLY in a dozen moons has there been seen in print a small news item possesed of so much meaning, us that proceeding from New Orleans. tolling of four destroyers which a steamship company purchased from
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It is notified that the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.C., C.B.E resumed daty as Secretary for
Chinese Affairs on November 9.
rie to be Senior Assistant Colonia! Treasurer, with effect from Novem- ber 2, 1ea1.
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A proclamation issued by His Excellency the Governor indicates that a new coinage of Hong Kong one-cent pieces is to be undertaken in the near future.
The annual drill play of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade will take place on the Compound of the Cen
Wednesday.
tral Police Station at 3 p.m. o
There will be a whist Drive in St. John's Cathedral Hall to-mor- row (Tuesday 17th) evening at 8. will be given to the V.D. M.A. p.m. Admission 83. The proceeds
Chistmas, Gift Fund.
The management of the Penin sula Hotel have reported to the police the disappearance of Mr. C. Taylor who has been miesing since November 11.
Mr. Taylor, who had been a guest at the hotel for over a month,, is described as A native of Queensland and about
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From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years,
Dr. J. F. Griggs, a medical mis-
His Excellency the Governor has 30 years of age. His property issionary in Peiping, goes ahead at a great rate. Ho declares that appointed Mr. William James Car-still at the Hotel It is a curious fact that as long
China has made more progress in According to a report made to two years past than in a thousand age as the middle of August, or a
the police, No. 278 Peking Baild years preceding. Pig-tails are to month before the now, famous in BANANA DESTROYERS."
ing, the residence of Mr. T .be eut off; foot binding is to cease; Fraser, was twice burgled during the buying and selling of women cident on the South Manchuria
last week On Monday someone is forbidden: girls schools are to Railway, which precipated the pre
affected an entrance and stole a be fostered; the civil service sent crisis, Chinese papers were
small clock, a purse containing 83 aminations are to include mor in money and a small slide rule. and practical studies; jury trials On Thursday night theives entered are to be introduced; the penal saying that Japan was working to
and stole a "sewing, machine.
code has been revised and brutal overthrow CHANG SUR LIANG's
forms of punishment abolished; a A new parking place for motor constitutional government is pro régime in Manchuria and to place
of the Police Club in about a week people can cars will be available to members mised in twelve years sooner. It the the Boy Emperor on the throne, the American Government and has
or so. The garden on the west of Chinese newspapers are multiply be prepared daily converted into Diesel-powered car- The suggestion was tüne D. group
the Clubhouse at Happy Valley is ing a modern army is being de riers designed to ply between
being cleared and this will form the veloped; electric lighting, told of northern war lerds, including Tobasco, Mexico, and New Orleans
the Police Club have been in sore like improvements are being foster- new parking place. The members of graphs, telephones, railways, and YEN HB SHAN and Fesa. Y with cargoes not of marines, not of
need of a parking place and when ed: Sunday is to be observed in the Hsia were expected to move munitions, not of supplies of, war,
the present work is completed there Empire, and its foreign embara will be room for eight to ten cars. Best of all, the opium curse is to but of-bananus'] against CHANG HUER LIANG, and
The total output of the Kailan
be done away. Next to the Em It is a captivating story, with Mining Administration's mines for Crusaders which is classified as all this is Viceroy Yuan Bhi Kai- The well-known race pony, Gay press-Dowager, the leading spirit in the change of government would be
weak ending October 3AL" in the Hong Kong Jockey Hong Kong Daily Press, Nov. 18, slightly ironical alant which adds the given the appearance of a normal
amounted to 114,437 metric tons, ta its piquancy--this casual, unsus and the sales during the period to Club's classification, was sold by 1900. moga in Chinese politics, for FENGpecting recital of a commercial 130,070 metric tons.
| auction last week and was: bought -
by Mr. Priestley for 8900. Mr. booking Back 50 Years.. and Yes have never been reconciled transction." Four great formid-
It is satisfactory to learn that to Mukden and Nanking after the ablo hulks of steel, fashioned for ment of Professor L. P. Ride, M.A one, it is understood. is in order at length decided to do something
The Gazette notifies the appoint Priestley and the late Mr. Toeg
owned the pony jointed and the the Portuguese Government have 1830 revolt, and were believed to be the exclusive purpose of destruc M.B., M.Ch., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
tion, to-day are assiduously plow-to be Lieutenant in the Hong Kong to arrive at a valuation for estate for the large number of unemploy ed" Portuguese subjects at Macao. preparing a further attempt against ing along an 810-mile, route at the from October 20, 1931,
Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect purposes.
For some years past this majority their old adversary. But no Chi-quite respectable speed of 15j knots,
Under the provisions of section of the Macaenses have been obliged ness war lord, with the exception dedicated to the task of taking arraigning two prisoners who came tion Ordinance, 1901, Mr. R. A. D.
For using unnecessary energy in 58 of the New Territories. Regula to bat the bread of idleness of earn just sufficient to keep body of the unsatisfactory CHANG HAnanas to the American public.
up for trial, the constable on duty Forrest has been authorised to hold and soul together by service in the The situation transcends that of in the dock at the Kowloon Magis a Small Debts Court in the New National Guard. The enforced Pano bas struck a blow against the the aged thoroughbred reduced to tracy was severely reprimanded and Territories at the following placos: idleness in which the young men sent off duty by Mr. J. A. Fraser. The charge rooms of the Police of Macao have grown up has doubt Manchurian Governor. Not one hauling a peddler's cart: For we
Stations at Tsuen Wan, Tai O leas had a demoralising effect, in even of those ambiguous soldiers-of. have here a pretty paradox: degra- Sentence of three months hard (Lantao), Tung Chung (Jantao), stifling the desire to get on in forting the Grey Generals has lation has produced exaltation. It labour was passou on Imam Ullak, Cheung Chau, Yung Shu Wan in the world and rendering them unfit is, at first blush, a very sad spec. Indian yhe stowed away from Lamma Island, and the office of the to compete with others- it mor
cantile life Unfortunately there. played the Japanese game.
Singapore on the s.o. Antenor. De District Officer, South. tacle: the mighty have fallen, the fendant's record showed that he had
is no scope in Macao for their en Someone must have been known progid (and just why should ships previously been convicted
ergios, and the Lisbon Government List of Agencies held by before-hand what was going to of war he always proud") des- stowaway.
solid good" might have resulted, will do nothing to improve the especially during the past two harbour, which has for years been. happen. The early suggestions that Toyers are reduced to menial work. A Chinese girl from the coun-years, during which there has been sitting up, so that at the present Whereas, as a matter of fact,try, who stayed with her cousin at a partial revival of trade. As the time only river steamers, and those 25, Battery Street on her arrival Lishon Government seem disinclin of light draught, can eater 17.
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the Boy Emperor might become & banana carrying has put four in in Hong Kong, is suspected of hav-od to allow such an appropriation, Ordinary merchant. vessels have to game met with vigorous struments of destruction, of shearing stolen from her cousin & quant of the revenues, and the anticipat lie out a distans. of some two miles denial. Tokyo, it is true, still waste, to constructive work, that ity of jewellory. It was stated at cel splendid increase in the income from the harbour, which is a seri
drawback, and necessarily the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur- derived from the Wei Sing Farmour denies that the young man is fo of transporting a popular, appetis day, where the girl was charged and other monopolies has dissolved operates injuriously to the com-
ing fruit. volved, but the Chinese report
with theft, that she only stayed two into thin air, the employment offer. I merce of the port. Had some of As a practical variation of bent days in the house and then returned ed to the Macaenses in Mozambique the surplus revenue sent to Liabon that HECAN TUND, or Mr. Pu. Ting swords into plowshares, the to the country. She was arrested is something for them to be thank been retained in Macao for axpendi later in Dos Voeux Rond. A week's ful for.-Hong Kong Daily Przis, tire, in dredging the harbour some the Nationalist call him, was to example might well be emulated. remand was granted.
Nov. 18, 1881.
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