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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

IN BANKRUPTOY. Notios of Resising Orders and First General Meeting of Creditare.

No, 21 of 1831.

Ra Stanley Greenwood, of 14 Essex Cromont, Kowloon Tong. in the Dependenar of Kowloon and Calony of Elong Kong.

Fetition dated the 3rd day of Decoin- ber, 1981.

Receiving Order dated the 23rd day of December, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that Mon-

day, the 4th day of January, 1938, at 10.40 o'clock in the forenoon precisely, has been red for the First General Meeting of Creditors in the abore-matter, to be held at the Official Beceiver's Offico, Vistoria. Hong Kong,

No Creditor can vote unless ho previously proves his debt at Innst 24 hours before the Meeling.

Bherus of proof on be obtained and filled in at the Officiel Receiver's Office during the office hours.

At the First General Moetion, th

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1931.

Dated the 24th day of December..

B. L. AGASSIZ,

Oficial Receiver

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. TOTICE IS BERDRY GIVEN Director of the above named Company have resolved to issue 80,000 shares forming the remaining part of the noisined. Capital of the Company and that such sbarer shalt in the first instance be offered to the parsons appearing in the Company's register of members as shareholders on the lat day of January, 1932, at par and on terms and conditions which will be communicated to such persons The attention of all a inter date, at. persons who are new or may become before the 1st day of January, 1939 the holders of abaran je the abovn named Company in respect of which their names are not been entered in the Company's register of members is particularly flirected to the above rosolution and to the fact that in the evens of such praca wishing to participate in the said offer they should take immediate stops to have their namas antored in the Company's regis ter of members.

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HONG KONG, DECEMBER 28, 1031.

A GREAT REFORM.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, THE current number of the Govern-

General ManagoORK.

ment Gurette contains a draft bill for ereating n new machinery for dealing with juvenile erime in the Colony: The Government's intention to set up what are pop"-" THE

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No.larly called Children's Courts and

4264 for ONE

HUNDEED to appoint Probation Officers had 1100) SHARES minbered 6680/8738.ready been announced, but the 7889/7893 and 89190/29214, above Company and standing in the Bill in question-extracts, of which name of FRANCISCO XAVIER

are published elsewhere-is of great SOARES having been reported lost

interest in detailing the way in NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

which the proposed reforms will be unless the ORIGINAL CERTIFI CATE " prodne within ONE MONTH from the date thereof, it will put into practice. The problem is thereafter be held by the Company as met fally and fairly in the, Bill NULL AND VOID, and NEW CERTIFICATE for the said shares and if the administration does not will be issued.

lag behind the Legislative inten- tion, modern methods of dealing with young offenders should by giveri an ample trial in this

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Hong Kong, 4th Dec., 1931.

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om which thò publia, but not shad" bd. "und the "pró- ceedings need not be in the usual court room. Every effort is to be made to keep the defendant “out of prison, and in most odres the delinquent will be bound over to bo under the supervision of the -Probation– Officer --British-Proba- tion Officers are firm as well as kind. They stand uso nonsonce, and a charge who does not respond to leniency is soon back into court for sterner menures. No doubt corporal punishment and commit ment to industrial schools and re- formatories will figure prominently ̈in"

the administration of the net, and a useful feature of the system

News and Views

Clergy and Politics.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE AT ST. JOHN'S.

STIRRING SERMON BY THE BISHOP.

-PRESENT. -..

· desires to stato 'that Lord Kylsant | The Bishop of Derby (Dr. Court-is, and has been, in his usunt ney Pourer), referring at the dio health. There has never been any cox conference to the participa-question of removal from prison to SIR WILLIAM AND LADY PEEL tion of the clergy, and oven bishops hospital for X-ray examination," in the General Election, said that operation, or any other purpose,

they were entitied to their own political opinions, but it was denir. able they should keep them' to themselves and be content with their votes,

At the Depot

Inspecting Officer (to recruit who comes from Lancashire): "Now

Britannia to Race Next Season.

"Tho King, it has been stated, will race the Royal cutter Britania next season. This announcement, made at the Yacht Racing Association's Conference in London, was received

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!! We live in a world which, all

the time is pointing to a world be yond, a world of signs and sokona, in which we think in pictures, and through the material seo the spiri- buai.”.........These ---- thought-provoking words form A Jummary-

of preach-

with great applause by the men the interesting sormon bers and club delegates. Sir Philip ad by the Bishop of Victoria tell me in your own words exactly | Hunloke said that the King, desired what you do when you load your to create work, and yacht racing gave employment in a number of open t bottom-and dir etions all round the coat. t' tin box and one it

is the Axing of a big respon sibility upon parents and guard ians. This is often done at pre- sent but the method. is extended and | rifle." systematised.

Recruit: Every effort is, in fact, to be put four made to cut the young offender off funnel." from the world of rice and crime."

Once a young person has entered Drink Commission Costing £20,000. that dismal territory his chances of The Drink Commission is now lending A decent life rapidly expected to present its report carly diminish; -A” career of excitement; † next prOT******* of idleness and possible proft- It was appointed in September, scem open to him. He does not 1229, and has established a dara "readise: that the fore of law and tion record for recent inquiries, its order are stronger than the under nearest rival being the Civil Ser world, whose denizens, spent most vice Commission, which continued of their lives in prison and end in months. It will cost about destitution. The ba" boy or

£20,000. girl is sometimes no more than high-spirited, and still more often is phasing through a phase of development in which norme powers of control and moral sonso are to & raster or less degree deranged. If young people can be helped over a few perilous years

normality returns; but if in this time of stress they are treated as adult criminals have to be treat ed, and are made to consort with persons of the worst type irrepar able harm is done.

Vital Statistion."

at the Christmas. morag BEIN vice at St John's Cathedral The sermon, which is given in full below, was delivered by the Bishop to a congregation which filled the Cathedral.

The

The Moscow "Institute for Vital

Assisting tho Bishop were the Statistics" predicts that the Dean, the Very Rev. A. Swann, Us.SR. will have a population of and the Rev. H, V. Koop. 240 millions in 1980. This will Dean read the lessons, while the really depend, of course, on the Responses were conducted by the even more vital statisties-which Rev. H. V. Koop.

are, unfortunately, absent-of how His Excellonay the Governor and many people will die of starvation Lady Peck, accompanied by Cap or be bumped off by the Soviet intain T. A. H. Coltman, A.D.C., the interval

Mr. Bert Hinkler Arrested.

A message from New York states that Mr. Bert Hinkler, the famous Australian airman, has been arrest-

The Balfour Commission on In- dustry and Trade involved an ex- penditure of £30,287 198. But it did produce some useful information.

The Drink Commission was doomed, and his aeroplane impounded by ed to futility from the start, and the authorities at Fort Aleza, ac-

and Mr. G. W. Tufton, Private Secretary, were among the congre gation.

The Sermon.

The Bishop, choosing tor'. his text; "God hath spoken to us in. His Son: the effulgence of Hig (Hebrew I, 2 and 3), said: glory the image of His substance,"

"Once more Christmas has come

the main purpose for which it was cording to a Rio de Janeiro telepon us, bringing joy, goodwill,

adoration before the unspeak able mystary of the love of God, declared in Jesus Christ.

COLD, DAMP AND CHANGEABLE WEATHER

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established, namely, to shelve the gram. The reason given for his and hope and landria to worship A. S. WATSON & Co., question of licensing legislation on arrest is that his papers were not which the Labour Government was in order. Mr. Hinkler was bound hopelessly split, has disappeared,

for Rio de Janeiro, when he landed at Fort Aleza.

Paris Noises. Reduced,

o Bagpipes!

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But is this story true?" a young girl said to Sir Edward Tan HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Burne Jones as abe watched him painting the Mother and the Child with the wise men worshipping, in his wonderful picture "The Star

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of Bethlehem." It is too beautiful KOWLOON DISPENSARY, 57019,

The campaign againat noise which There are among influential re-M. Chiappe, the Padis prefect of sidents of Hong Kong a few "old-polico, has been lending, with the not a sinkle bagpipes player can be not to be true," the artist replied,

Though Berlin has half a million unemployed, az agency reports that

found among them, although one is wanted to take part in a Mozar Symphony (why is not stated):

Established 1841,

And so Christmas, with its story

Probably there is no one of you timers" who, no doubt, positively help of several newspapers, has

who has not, at some time, been snort at such methods, and believe been most successful, and Paris, so

haunted by the beauty of the story of Christ's birth: it may be you in unmitigated severity. The only noisy in the daytime, becomes sur

were watching the German Nativity answer that can be made is that a prisingly quiet at night. This re- To be perfectly frank, it is dif- play the other, night, and it came eriminal is an

expense to the sult, which was thought impossible, ficult to get any definite reaction home to you afreab. "But is the of two worlds commingling, of an story really true" perhaps you invisible order helping forward State as well as a nuisance; that was achieved within only eight of astonished amazement at this find yourself aaking today. For this visible order, seems to meet a Since the quality of mercy hug her month. It is a success of which intelligence. But all Sassenachs myself, I believe that nothing makes a financial boon in England, where. Chiappe and his rolicemen can will venture to offer Berlin, their sense of this life of ours. so much primary human need.

be proud, for they have rigorously felicitations, enforced the regulations äpplying to noise,

the

criminal bill" is low, we might at least, sed how Hume methods werkt out here. After all, society did not collapse with the abolition of torture and public executions, though many worthy gentlemen loudly lamented passing of such selutary deterrents

the wrong doer!

ACCIDENT ON

PEAK.

the

THE

Nolay Policemen,

PASSPORT FEES.

NEW RATES FIXED,

as the old Christmas story, and that ité convincing it will never lose Dawer in the hearts of men, for i is a revelation of eternity, and of the love of God.

Christmas as a Revelation of Eternity,

Christmas as a, Rovaiation of the Love of God.

eye, or hear a chord of music, you hem, you must remember that it is must surely feel there is some better through persons that we get ou

truest glimpse of God. with all its incompleteness, and n

"The first Christians claimed world beyond this material one life deeper than this visible life.

The there is another primary human need met by the birth of Christ. It is only a person who" can satisfy a person. Our greatest Drivers have learned that they!

"We live in a world which all need. is our need of one another. mt not make use of their horns

the time is pointing to a world during the hours: usually put aside

The Passport Office's new scale of beyond, a world of signs and tokens. When you go out under the stars in which we think in pictures, and and sak whether the great Creator for sleep, and housewives dure no longer beat their carpets at what charges comes into effect on Janu- through the material see the spirisan reveal himself under such, a over time they choose. M. Chiappeary, and in as follows:-Issue of tusl. When you watch a sunset homely sign as the Babe of Bethle

Travel "scene, or catch the light in a human Passport, $10; Issue of has no intention of stopping there; he intends to make the capital quiet Certificates and similar documents, even in the daytime. Among the each $4; renewal of passport, for things which he had to do in order each year of renewal, 82; endorse ment of passport, otherwise than

great truth of Christmas. Through trait of the invisible God, the to achieve this are (1) to convince as the time of issue of renewal, 81; c, sems to me, it is with the boldly that Jesus Christ is the por drivers that it is not necessary to transit visa, normal foe, 60 cents; the visible the invisible is seen

1 through the manhood the Godhead, brightness-the effulgence of His make continual use of their klaxons, entry visa, nomal feo, 88,

In the case of viste granted to and when you hear the. Christmas glory, the express image of His and judges. The Borstal instit The Peak, met with a motor head (2) to silence his own police nationals of these countries which story you must remember this

This world is very rough for person, the very love of God come tions have turned many unpromisrident ear! on Friday morning men, who scem, to take particular charge British subjects visa fees.in

pleasure in sounding their shrill excess of those quoted above, reci- many people: it is so incomplete, among men. I suppose no-one can ing enses into good citizens, though when returning to their home on

procal charges will be enforced con but never let yourself forgat ibat deny that Jesus of Nazareth has vorted, until further notice, at the what is seen is only a fragment of Mr. Taylor's motor cycle, but for whistics, cunately the injuries they sustained were not of a very serious naturs although Mrs. Taylor was admitted to the Victoria Hospital later in the day where she is reported to be making a rapid recovery.

In England the greater leniency shown towards criminals has been justid, and the work of the Pro- bation Officers has met with genern) praise from police, magistrates

a residuum of incorrigibles remains unchanged either by kindness or severity,

"Because a system works well in Great Britain, it does not follow that it will be a success ten thou Band miles away in Hong Kong.. The platitude about "human naturo being much the same every. | where" is arrant nonsense. There is, however, this in common between the Chineso of Hong Kong and the people of Britain. Both are essch tially-abiding, It is no small thing for a Criminal Sessions, like that just concluded, to contain ave capes, none of great seriousness. No one claires, perfection for any human institution, but English legn and Police methods have justified themselves in this place, and there is no reason why this

great experiment in reforming young offenders should not be of benefit both to the youth of Hong Kong and to "the community in general.

In future the young offender from. the time of arrest onwards is to be carefully segregated from adult prisoners. The police ure given wide powers in allowing young- on bail immediately sters out after arrest and magisterial pro ceedings will be before a court

MOTOR-CYCLE ORASH.

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Taylor of 150,

It appears that Mr. Taylor way driving is pembination, and when descending Stubbs Road near Jar- dine's corner, on thkir way to Magazine Gap, an nknown cor came round the corner suddenly, on the wrong side of the road. Ip order to avert a collision, Mr. Tay- lor was compelled to swerve over to the right of the road and to turn sharply again in order to retura to his left.

The machine turned over with considerable force, hit a retaining wall and it was then that the os cupants were thrown heavily to the Toad:

Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Grayburn were driving past at the time, and together with "Mr. and Mr. M. St. J. Walsh, near whose house the accident happened, ren- dered valuable assistance,

Mrs. Taylor received considerable shock and was badly bruised, while also severely Mr. Taylor

bruised.

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following fixed rates of exchange: that which really is. Every instinct brought. God into maa's life in a -H.K. 1.30-1 shilling (gold); H.K. in man tells him that this life is way noone else ever has. There are 84.00---1.8A 81; H.K. 8.80-1, only a preparation for a higher many of us to whom the infinate was frane (gold).

In

personal ore, and that in the life

Health of Lord Kylsent.

statement The following.

Particulare concerning the fees beyond everything of the human love and personal care of God as issued from the Home Office view of the persistent circulation of charged in any particular case may tenderness and grace we know in revealed in the person of Christ, be obtained on application at the this life will continue and become the "Alpha and Omega' of all rumours with regard to Lord Kyl-Passport Office, Colonial Becretary's complete. sant's condition, the Home Offee Department.

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Local Notes and Events

It is notified that Mr. Philip The speaker at to-morrow's meet Jacks resumed duty as Land Officering of Botary Club will be the Rev. on the 19th inst.

G. T. Waldegrave, Commissioner, Boy Scouts' Association, who will Mrs. AO Franklin will dia- toke an his "subject Scouting in tribute the prizes at Cheung Chau Hong Kong." Government School on Tuesday, December 20, at 3.15 p.m.

the love of God made manifcat: wo realize that love is absolute, and that the love of God is the life of the Universe, We are sure that be lief in diffusive goodness pervading the Universe will never change men's lives and win them from sell- According to a report made to interest to love and services, but that belief in the personal love of the police, a leopard shout saven feet long was shot in the New Terri God, declared in Jesus Christ, has tories by villagers of the Chung power to do this. Because we bo Pui district, Shatoukok, two Sun-lieve in Christmas we believe that days ago after it bad mauled one God is Living Perserial Love, and of them, who, fortunately, was not that he is the Eternal Friend cf us, and seriously hurt. This man, named Mankind, watching over Wong Fun Yau (2) refused to be caring for us with all the love re- taken to hospital to have his in-vealed in Christ Jesus.. It is God's goodness alone that can transform juries attended to.

us out of self-centredness" inte Recent criticism in the Legislative self-forgetting love, his vast genercs. Council of the form of tender for ity, his undiscouraged pity, his the passenger and vehicles ferry is eagerness to render kindness, his recalled by a notification in the cir-gentleness in rabuke. If you believe rent issue of the Gazette, This this His commandments are not states that provided the particulars grievous. The Christian life is the Amongst the passengers who ar

of vessels, other than special type response of yourself to God's mil A Gazette notification states that rived by the Empress of Japan vessels, are given in suficient detail giving consummated in Jesus Christ H.E. the Governor-in-Council has wore Mr. and Mr B B Box to enable the Government to satisfy and in the gift of His Spirit: the burgh, Mr. LE, N. Ryan, Mr. and itself that the vessels are suitable Interpenetration of your personal appointed Saturday, the 2nd day J. Draper, M. A. 8.for the service required, drawings ity with the personality of Jesus Do. Obrist Christ's Spirit" reborn", "is of January, 1632, to be observed as Gubbay Mr. and Mrs. A G. and pecifications need not

general holiday.

The Gazette contains scale of charges by the Medical Department for radiological examinations, elec The forthcoming wedding in nii-

Aric treatment, massage, etc., as Bounced of Joseph Salazar, 17, well de fees for analytical examins Water Street, second floor, Hong tions at the Government Labora Hong, to Ines Chiu, 19, Second Street, second floor, Hong Kong.

tory.

Mossop, and Mr A. Stokkink.:

provided

you."