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THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE,
THE
SOCIETY.
HB Annual Varsity Matola will be played to-day on the long Kong Cricket Club ground, by kind permission of the Committen Tilip 13.45 p.m. sharp-game begins 1,30 pal
The Pociety will be at home there to: membert and their friends at 4pm, in the Tons, where tos will be served,
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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER
CO. (1918), LTD.
THE THIRTEENTH
TE
ORDIN.
ARY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Hend Office of the Company, St George's Building Chator Road, Victoria, Hong Kong. on Thursday, the 31st day of December, 1981, at 12 o'clock, Noon, for the purpons of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors för the year ended 30th September, 1931, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from Monday, 28th December, 1981, to Thursday, 31st December, 1931, both days. inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Manager,' Hong Kong, 16th December, 1991.
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INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
ME
& SHIPBUILDERS OF HONG KONG
NOTICE
TO
EMBERS are reminded that a Dance will be held in the Roots of the Institution on Satar. day, the 19th instant, and requested to and their applications for tickets to the Hon. Secretary an soon as possible.
A. L. LANDSBERT,
Hon. Secretary.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
Is Tha
FRANCIS Goona et AUGUSTUS CARL, LATE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN
THE COUNTY AND STATE OF
NEW YORK IN THE UNITED STATED OF AMERICA, GENTLE
·MAN, DOCKASED.
NO
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 68 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, unde an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above the 6T DAY of JANUARY,
Estato 1932.
All Creditora and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to and their Clame to the Undersigned on or before
that Dato.
Datad this 7th day of Dozem er, 1831.
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The Daily Press.
Hose Kong, DECEMBER 17, 1931
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.
"ignored" and a stand and got to be
made.
Constabulary Duty* "*
News and Views
The promoters of the game with the visitors were the Hong Kong. Chinese Amateur Athletic Fedora- tion and the shenes of co-opera- tion between this body and the Hong Kong Football Association
The cpa of Peabody (Mans.) further complicated matters. have been ordered to add to their correspondence, the Chuba claimed normal dusion-the-Lask of cumper that the Federation was aliated ing matrimonial differences in or
In
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Drug Fiction,
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Fortune for Lanos-Corporal. Mr. "Walter de la Mari has de Lance-Corporal H. W. Merryy of slared that the worst kind of the Training Battalion, Royal the forbidding or forbidden, but Engineers, stationed at Chatham, tion is not that which deals with
that which is moan in scope, skimp has bon left a legacy of £28,000 un- เร the National Federation of der to reduce the number of divored in excaution, and intended for the will of Miss Bruce, daugh China, a body recognised by the ces. With the march of civilisation.
merely as a drug...
ter of the lab Sir William Bruor, British Football Association, and it is really wonderful to thin between drug Action, and ordinary She was a friend of Merry's par There is one important differences of Stan House, Stirling, Scotland. therefore in a position to arrange what we owe to the police..
druga. The fortior leaves no erav.onts. matches without reference to the Unfortunately. details are.
ing for more. Joeni branch of the FA The fhet available as to the peace-making Now Five Year Plan...... thit games had been an arranged technique to be employed by cou was cited as justification:
2017
atables, but one gathers that the devised a New Five Year plan. It is announced that Russia has procedure is to be left to the in-which includes, it is understood, a dividual discretion and ingenuity New Five Year Plan every year of each member of the force.
for the next five years. It is hop- great novelists. Instond
Here is a worthy theme for oured that the limited knowledge of of the elementary prithmatic possessed by hackneyed story of how the tiny, the average machik will prevent clutching fingers. of a little child his guessing which year in which hearts of squabbling parents and adsorthing a little more entwined themselves round the plan it is, until Stalin has invent brought pance and happiness, letment. " us have full-blooded romance abent the peace-making possibilities of the heavy feet of large constables.
Neither side would give way and an attempt by Ma. M. K. Lo to get A medintor met with no success. The Council of the HK.P.A thon passed a series of resolutions, one af which admitted that the Lougue Management Committee had acted hastily, but early in November tho Chinese clits addressed a letter to the H.K. F.A. in which they dis sented from another resolution by the H.K.F.A. Council to the effect that the promoters of the interport matches acted wrongly in
A nine-year sublease of a West- communicating earlier with the End theatre in London has just H.K.F.A. Stating their case at been given for the record low price length, the Chinese clubs suggested of £700. It is the Prince of Wales
Theatro, Coventry Street, W.
Not
that the H.K.F.A. had been "auto- cratic, unhelpful and unsympathe tie" towards them.
The Hong Kong Football Associar tion bave now replied, to the letter 'in disail, repudiating the sugges tion that they are autocratie, un- Helpful or upaympathetic to the Chinese clubs. But they refuse to entertain any further correspond ench on the ubject until the Chinos luts withdraw their resignations.
Five weeks have elapsed since the Chincue clubs wrote their original letter and in the meantime they have formed a League of their own under the control of the Hong Kong Chinese Amateur Athletic Federa- tion; thus disposing of any alender hope there was left of a reconcilia- Lion..
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Casisoa Arts Ball.
per.
The main theme for this year's London Theatre Lat Nine Years for at the Albert Hall on New Year
Cholson Arts Club Ball, to be hold
£700.
Eve in Fifty Years Hence."
The Centrul School of Arts and Crafts will this Lima do "Colour," School has chosen the Slado
His father, who was a Brovej. Ma jor, was killed 111 action in aotion in France, and after the death of his mother, Miss Bruce three children. took over the guardianship of the
A Prayer för Alpinists.
A special prayer for the protu tion of Alpinista, which asks the blessing of God on alpenstocks, ropes, iespicks, and other imple ments used by mountaineers, is tu be incorporated in a new edition of the Roman Catholic Rituale, er prayor book by order of the Pope,
The adoption of this new prayer is evidence of the Pope's love al mountaineering.
M Justice McCardle's. Mot.
At inst he had scoured an in- terview with a film producer.
"Now," Baid the produceT, Rocket from the Moon, you've been asking me for month
to give you a trial-so I'll do st An oxcellent chance for you to get your hands in?!"
Westminster's contribution will be. "Music."
But the price is not so trifling! as it appears since costly altern-Open Sesame. tions are needed and the occupant 2800 Banually. At the auction, the North of England sends the must pay ground
.
rental
A choolmaster correspondent 10 mention was made of negotiations following true up-to-date version of
of
The young man beamed.
"Yes," went on the other.
/
there's a close-up of a telegram
thumb that helds it!"
At WATSON'S
CHOICE WINES
for
THE FESTIVE
SEASON
Champagne de St. Marceaux Vintage 1920 Vin Brut &
Extra Dry
Ayala. Vintage. "Eatru Dry Golden Guinea. Sparkling
Muscatol
Sherry. Bu z'a Full Golden,
Amoroso Extra
Ports. Robertson's Choice Old
Sandeman's Vintage 1911 Clubland White Silva & Cosen's Vory Fine
Old Tawny
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Renault'a
Brandies. Finest Old Brown ("E")
Reserve Grande Champagne 100 years old | Courvoisier's Napoleon 80
Joutsald
for letting the building at £250 the Ali Baba story that comes from in this him-end yours will be the Cocktails in Boitle"
wock. This is roughly half what this theatre ordinarily brought in the form of rent before the trade drop and "talkie" competition set
in.
Cheaper Tennis Balls."
Agreements are being entered into by the Lawn Tonais Associa tion with four firms for the supply of the official ball for 1932. The price per dezen to the public will range from 13s. 6d. to 148. 6d., and to afliated, srubs from 1s to 14 Eleven makes of ball have been authorised for next year,
reduction of approximately sixpence The prices represent a general
a dozen.
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his own class. his own words "..."an they
A boy was telling the story carries. bags of treasures an' things! and hidded it in a cave in the side: of an ill as opened for them at the magic words, Open Sez Mo!"
O tempora. Oh, yeah!
Viceroy's' Asroplane.
Tale of the Day.
A famous KC. ia responsible for the following story of Mr. Justice MoCardie.
Shortly after the cuts in judicial salaries were announced, the judge was called upon to reply to a toast at a dinner
Liqueurs in Fancy Carafas
in grest, variety Santernes, Clarets, Hocki Whiskier. Dewar'a "White Lubol" and Victoria Vat
Glen Moray '93 Liqueur Gilbey's Spey Royal. Watson's
A special triple-screw Avro Arm-
He rose very slowly- slowly monothat most of the company thought strong Siddeley passenger plane, whier has been built in Brihe was suffering from rheumatism
His first words dispelled the taia, is to leave London. for India, where it is to be used as a Viceregal illusion and brought down the A. S. WATSON air-car to convey Lord Willingdon, house journeys. the Viceroy of India, on his official
He quoted the line from John- son's poem, "London" Slow
By using an aeroplane, Lord Willingdon will save the cost of rises worth by poverty depreas'd" special military and police patrois which are necessary to guard roads Nauruans Toit Not But Live in and railways, over which he would normally travel.
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THE TROUBLE IN THE
Meanwhile the Hong Kong Foot- FOOTBALL WORLD. ball Association will carry on the League without the participation EVERYONE the Colony who of the Chinese, and the results will interested in sport and lovers oferi at the end of the sun. Unique.
The Chinese mutches have always Association football in particular, cen a big draw and the charities
"An Unique Preserve -- made will be disappointed that the bege which benefit from the gates, will from Choice French Apricots, hay
Luxury. ed and preserved whole.”—Jarn tiations between the Hong Kong the chief sufferers. Hootball Association and the realises that there is far more be-.
Everyone in the football world | label.
Officers of a steamer which arriv- Chinese clubs over a revent dispute hindthe dispute than a question England's 3 Million Dogs,
Latest U.S. Golf Ball.
ed at Sydney, recently from the The Executive Committee of the natives there own their own auto. Pacific Island of Nauru and the have culminated in the definite of a delayed application. The resignation of the Chinese clubs the F.A. rules to be irksome. They double the number kept 20 years the new ball, announce a "return to
Chinese "clubs appear to have felt,
There are three and a half milUnited States Golf Association, in
mobiles but have not worked for lion dogs in England to-day-making known the specifications for
years. from the League. Local football do not always like the discipline
the old weight of 1,82oz., but with The island is being worked f matches draw thousands of specta-imposed: Opinions will differ as 15| 380.
its phosphate deposite and most This fact was revealed by Cap the retention of the present size o fors every week-end during the cool whether the H.K.F.4. should cr
should not have given greater tain H. E. Hebbe, the authority on 1.58 inches in diameter. A pro of the work on these projects is noon, and the break between the latitude to the Chinese clubs in dogs, spanking at the Aldwych Club, dicted when this change was first done by Chinese. Officials of the two bodies has enused widespread order to keep them in the fold, London. The surplus female popu foreshadowed, it marks a compro- British phosphate ecmmission sup- The HK.FA has beat the football latina, he said, might have some mis between the old specifications ervise operations and the natives comment and general regret. The inter of South China and there is bearing on the increase in dog keep of 1.02 by 1.62 and this years look on. The natives own the is. incident that brought matters to till much, that it could teach. I, fing: Women predominated fas "balloon ball," which is 1.55 by Jund and receive a royalty on every
ton of phosphate mined. head was not of itself of great on the other hand, the Chinese owners.
clubs showed that they could no moment, but a principle was in-
longer work in harmony with the volved and the Hong Kong Football H.K.F.A., the latter body should. Assceiation considered it necessary have recognised the fact and an to assert their authority.
Amiable grrangement instead of an serimonious severate. af relations would have eventuated. The Chi-
THE SPEED OF BIRDS. Barout man himself required wings, it was lay imagined that birds flew used to he made on the false ass at prodigious speeds. Calculations
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of enteric fever were reported on Three cases of diphtheria and one Monday and Tuesday..
with 52 tacks of prepared opium in Arrested at the King Kee, Whart his possession, a travelling. trader who appeared before Mr. Gran- in the rooms of the Institution of was fined $3,000,
A dance will be held on Saturday | thàm at the Central Police Court |
The defendant Engineers and Shipbuilders of had the opium concealed in the Hong Kong.
During last week there were eight cases (two denthe) of diphtheria, five cases (one death) and 43 denthe from pulmonary tuberculosis.
false bottom of a rattan bnsket.
We have received from Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. the local agents of the P.&O. and British India Companies, a diary and almanac for 1002, containing quite an encyclopedia of informa tion, and also a wall calendar with stend a coloured picture of the Cathay
and the Talamba at Singapore.
Five Bills, including the Ordin- ance making provision for batting taxes, are to come up for we know
reading at to-day's meeting of the Legislative Council.
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From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years,
Mr. F. A. Hazeland is again presiding at the first Court at the Magistracy, and Mr. C D. M boarne has returned to the con....
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HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
There was no special fenture in the market to
report yesterday morning, everything being quietly steady.
Bauks, 81,500.
Sales.
Providents (new), $2.45. Telephones (part paid), $28. Lane, Crawford's (old), 807
Sellers,
Providents (old), $5.15. Providents (new), $2.38, Raubs, 842:
Humphreys (old), $18. Trams,,.821.
Hong Kong Electrics, 879 Canton Tces, Dj,
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Lane, Crawfords, (old), $0). Entertainments (new), $16. Hotels (old), $14,00. Hong Kong Lands, 190." Chinese Estates, . Paak Trams (old), $15). Telephones (part paid), 8254. Dairy Farms, 2281.
Hong Kong Amusements, 820. Hong Kong Government Loan," "Are You a Mason" is to be pro-se per cent. premium,
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China: Lighta, -827,60. Venezuslan Goldields, $2.
6.C. Enterprises. #10.
AMERICA'S FIGHTING
The facts of the case were briefly 'as follows:-A tenin of Malayan ese clubs may run a very success- ful league of their own: they may Chinese visited the Calony and it
even evolve a new kind of footbal} was diranged that they should play more suited to the national tem ta kunta of local Chinese on. Sep- | pertumorit, But if things Init to tember 20, which coincided with turn out as well as they hope, it A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, the opening day of the H.K.F.A. conciliation as if the party had been will not be so easy to effect a re-
NTOTICE İS HEREBY GIVEN Lengue programme. The South by friendly agreement.
that the Directors of the abova China A.A., who were due to play named Company bavo resolved to isaue 80,000 shares forming the remaining the Hong Kong Football Club, iart of the animated Capital of the wrote to the H.K.F.A. on Septem-, Company and that such shares shall in the Brot, instance be offered to the her 21 making permission to post in the Company's pone their lengué fixture as the register of members as shareholders on majority of their senior players had the 1st day of January, 1939, par
duced shortly by the St. George's conditions whics boon elected to represent the Hong tion that migratory Hights were and on terms will be communicated to such persent Keng Chinese in the match with made non-stop. Now
Dramatic Society. The Catholic at a Inter date. The attention of all
butter, During recent years especial
Union are engaged on " Aladdin." Permission was "re-.
ly reliable information has been pareone who are now or may become the visitors. before the 1st day of January had fused by the League management gradually amassed by motorisig
Mr. B. H. Galbraith, M.A., BR, Canon Streeter, Fellow of Queen's, the holdors of abares in the abcommittee and the net result was with their speedometers by ground The annual meeting of share College, Oxford who has an inter. S.1. District Surveyor, R. E., and named Company ia rospect of which
chaurvers, with their theodolites and holders of the China Light & Power national reputation as a lecturer Mr. G. W. Sayer, F.8.1, Asst. Sur- their names are not lean ontored in that the Chinese Clubs resigned stop-watebes, and, more satisfactori C, Ltd., will be held at the head and writer will address a public veyor, B.E., arrived by the Frans the Company's register of members from the League a few days later. ly still, by sirmey themselves, who
office of the company, St. George's meeting in the Cathedral Hall at Mr. W. H. Moxon who left thes port Sicilia. The former relieves: is particularly directed to the boss The Hong Kong Football Associa take a professional pride in assess-
Building, on Thursday, December 5.15 p.m. to-morrow. His subject Colony three months ago. The lat resolution and to the fact that in the
will be The Bearing on Religion Event of
of such persons wishing to fion, ns the governing authority of ing natural light at its true value. 27, at 12 noon. participa a in the said offer they should football in the Colony, niso expect is demonstrably the victor. A swift So for as speel goes, man's artificu
of Recent, Scientific Thought. The ter relieves Mr. Nicholls, who gdca Some alarm was enused in Wel Meeting is open to all. Canon me next week on the trouper. tako immediate stops to have their names entered in the Company's regised that their permission to play on circled about an aeroplano in lington Street on Tuesday at about Streeter is on his way to England Hong Kong Daily Press, Dereinbar
17, 1900. Stor of memboru.
the game against the visitors should. Memupotamia when it was ambling 40 p.m. when the chimney, of No. after a lecturing tour in Japan.
along at 65 miles per hour, but that 34 caught fire. The Fire Brigade JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, have beesi astrad as soon as the was probably the last heroic effort was notified and a machine was
Washington, Dec. 4-According Malayan match had been pro- of the aperies to jostify its name.
sent to the scene, the blaze being:
to the annual report submitted to Ton, it we may accept the latest extinguished in a few minutes. will be the case, there will be more The Police authorities are making Congress by the Under-Secretary of visionally fixed: There is no dis evidence from America, can acceler
arrangements for extra power for Stato for War, the United States. puting the fact that the rules of ate s m.p.h. when frightened, and
Two coolies, who were engaged
the purpose of maintaining order has 1,000 aeroplanes in the Navy; the Football Association require wild geese are good stugers at an in transporting rations for the The Russian frigato Prince Pojar. during the visit of the Princes. Ye and 1,470 in the Army.
terday 100 special constables were Crow R.AS.C were caught by Pte. sky, which arrived in Hong Kong taken on to the force for that pure terception and bombing plants, average of 50 or more!
Orders have been placed for in- SOCIETY OF ST, GEORGE,
that such permission be obtained starlings, ducks, falcons, tid sand Clifford in the act of stealing some on Sunday afternoon, is a very nepose, and they will be sworn in to capable of flying at the rate of 444. HONG KUNG
from the local Argociation for grouse are known to travel frequent sugar. For this offence they were vessel, fitted with two funnels. Her morrow, The Fire Brigades are not matthes of that kind, but in this at between 43 and 6 miles an fined 84 or seven days' hard labour tonnage is 4,567, and her horas pow resting idle, either, and the reckless and 30 kilometres per hour res M
【EMBERS are requested to send in.
hour. But, in long distance, steady, by Mr. Grantham at the Central er 60: she is 250 feet long, herness of the Chinese in the use of fre pectively. as soon as possible their applic. instance application was only made direct flight, man leaves all his com Magistracy, yesterday.
breadth of beam 43 feet, and her has been born in mind. ations for tickets for the ball, to be on September 24 and then in apetitora standing." Yet his hap
Engine „draught of water 10 fost 2 inches. held at the Pen naula Hotel on Wedosacmewhat ambiguous manner, the piness is not like that of the swal
Mrs. Matheson, proprietress os She has eight guns of a diameter etc., have been moved to the differ day, 8th January, 1981.,
tow, the hawk, the wheeling cormor Englishmen willing to join the Se result being that the Hong Kong ant, the little, darting sung-birds, reparted to the police that during and 8 of 34 inches. She accomplish been made so that in the event of z Huntingdon," Stubbs Road, has bore of 8 inches, two of 6 inches, at stations, and arrangements have ciety may obtain particulars from the F.A. did not give consent. The As who are all in love with their native the week-end two blankets, a quilted the journey here from. Nagasaki. Bire in any direction, means for ex- sociation felt that its council, on element, and fly for the sheer joy in bedsheet, a camera and a pair of in four and a half days, and an the tinguishing it will be immediately
· LÏNSTEAD & DAVIS,"
of the thing. Man's joy rides pinner, were stolen from her bed-way broke her: fore top garde, she on the spot. Should a fire our Semstarios and Treasurers, which all leading clubs are repre are dismal travesties of the real rooma. The total value of the stolen carries 27 offers and a crow of 4388 officers of the fire brigade believe
Alexandra Building. serted, had been alighted and article.
property is placed at 8160.
(Continued on Previous Column.)
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General Managora,
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FORCES.
2,400 AEROPLANES AND NEW TYPE OF TANK IN USE,
The Army has tested a tank mounted on wheels and caterpillar tractors capable of 96 kilometres per hour on the road and 48 to 64 kilometres per hour across fields. The regular army « consists of 12,000 officers and 118,750 pen. The territorial army has, 100,000 men and officers, and the reserve army 105,000 officers and men.
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