NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,
HEREBY NOTIFIED that
ISHALED TENDERS in Triplicate, which should be dlunrly marked Tender for Shaukiwon Quarry Lot, No. 1,
1," will be received at the Colonial Bouretary's Office until Noon of MON- DAY, D., 187 day of JANUARY, -1939. for the occupation for a period "commending from the date of
tion of noceptance of tender and
on 31st December, 1994, of the picos or parcel of ground as shown coloured rod on a
A plan signed by the Director of Public Works and dated 22nd Dao-mber 1931, and, subject to the conditions which can be ascertained at the attice of the Director of Public Works,
Opast sunnal fou $4,000.
Each tender must be accompanisë by a recipt to the effect that the tondorer has deposited, in the Coloniat Treasury & sum of $100 as a pledge of the búna fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer, whose tender in Resepted, refusing to carry out the terms and conditions of his offer.
On the scooplanoo of a tender the doposite: of unsuccessful tenderars will be returned to thers.
Form of tender and further particu- lars can be obtained' from the offics of the Director of Public Works.
The Government does not bind itælf to accept the highest or any tender.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Director of Public Works..
(1660
.Jlsi. December, 1931,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.
|humanitarians: Some of the short- arme tre fud to ship's officers and private guarda for obvious reasons. But for the ordinary population the fower pistols the better. Quite a number of persons who were given an
Arms licence rears ago, when, perhaps they were living in a lonely place or expect ring to go up-country have kopt n revolver in a drawer or a trunk, more or less forgotten, except for the renewal ceremony at the begin- ning of each year. Many of thean weapons are now being surrendered to the police and this is the best thing to do with them. The impost was, in fact, probably levied to
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News and Views
Tale of the Day.
Maid: "There's no coal left in the cellar, mum. 1)
me befere?"
Mistress: Why didn't you tell
Maid: "Beenuse there was some, mum.”
"Movements."
"Though such helpful suggestions it for the first time ait the rehearsal have been put forward by those there, enman sudden, hush, with an intimate knowledge of
Theatre workers stopped their Rnancial and political circles, it is
feit, I understand, that they are ubiky bustle, other members of the impracticable na the all-British natures of the company is too wotions, and there was not a mov company suspended their" consula known: "
ment until Misa Ellinger finished the nong
The "Anchorites,"
"
FINE
SHERRIES
SUPERIOR PALE DRY
FULL GOLDEN
of very superior
get this result, rather than for the bentures ("Stliks" to their intim- when they meat for their monthly It is Dangerous to Forgot Either quality grown and
A.G. Extraordinary Deferred De
tea). "I cannot understand your! small amount of revenue collected, diffoulty: Sterling is all a ques- It is known that houseboys-who,tion of movements and feelings.
of colire, know all about every accessible. possession in the houses where they are employed-get hold of these neglected maments and Ioan them out for eventual hiring in andesirable quarters.
|
4
Roaring Bea Shanties.
it
¿
man, #
Southwark
nons for an income-tax demand. She promptly put it on a shelf and. completely forgot its existence.
Judge Moore.--Don't forget in. come-tax papers in these days. They must be promptly attended to.
bottled by Anto R.
Ruiz Y. Hermanos
Xeres de la Frontera. Specially
selected.
"It's quite simple to understand In these times of worry and an- Then, to her surprise, everybody the E," said a London Financier recently, when questioned--pausing xiety, when most faces wear a very in the theatre joined in a round in the act of creating a-bull-war anbined aspect, it is satisfactory to of applause. ket in Czechoslovakian Smoked-Fish know that the "Anchorites, at laat, pan still cast gloom aside
Seho. Anchoriten, dinner in should be explained, are not
who, ab company of lonely cell-dwellers, County Court applit for the ro
a band of "With bad feeling in New York on the contrary, and better feeling in Burlin, the seaman whose lives have been de mission of a fine for failing to movements of starling from (and voted to the sea in some form or serve on a jury, offered as an ex- to): Paris create a bull-feoling in another, and the majority of whom ouse that his wife mistook the sam Bones Aires and bear feeling at are still actively engaged in sea-i The Hague. This matarally starta faring employment. mixed foolings in London and marginal movamente towards the This habit of keeping a pistol strangest feslings in Copenhagen.
"After that it is perfectly easy At these dinnere sailing ship partly a relic of boyhood instincts to forecast the feelings and move captain with white hair roar e will receive a useful check thanks mente anywhere, unless, of ocuras; shanties with those whose lives are there is a tightness in contangos wrapped up with motor-ships. to the imposition of the tax. It is as San Francisco, when, as anyone Admirals, shipowners, Naval Cor not everyone who will pay ten will tell you, you must expect respondents, Marchant Service of dollars and go toʻh certain amount Montreal." You have to allow for recount old days, fight old battles, Morale.
orrtain савілея in starling on Scers, R.N.R., R.N.V.R., and R.N of trouble once a year, in order to that, of course, but oven
and indulge in maritime contro-
"In 1918, when things were look. gratify a whim. It is doubtful commission man can work that out.versy which is as candid as it is whether we shall co a decrease in
"If there is anything, elso you friendly. The "guest of the evening very black in Francs-I wou ́l are not clear about, don't hesitatsing" is always some aca-faring say we were downhearted, but we local crimes of violence, but into drop in for a chat any time notability, and may be a Lord of were these days of the glorification of you're passing.'
apprehensive- fight the Admiralty, a Merchant Service German aeroplanes came right over the American gunman it is just as
Commodore, or, as at the last ENGAGEMENT.
dinner, a great sea writer in the us. Presently one little British. STEVENS HOOD-The engagement is well to be on the safe side. On
An Eight from St. John's: Col. person of Colonel Drury.
'plane appeared in the distance announced of Miss MARGARET of the signs of the advance of
lege, Oxford, arrived at Putney
Old sea pustoms are preserved
and attacked one of them. W3 BRYAN (Peggy) Hoon second civilisation is the disarming of theater rowing 1041 miles from Ox. throughout, and speeches are rea- daughter of Major, and Mrs. J.
triotod, for the most part to could see the flash of the bullets W. Hood of the Shanghai civilian population. In England; ford in three days.
strange and unusual experiences passing between them. One of the Beyond the bliss of bullets from our little 'plane struck Municipal gaols, to Mr. W Raa sa Hong Kong, one has to show
which the speakers have enjoyed, the patrol tank of the Gorman M. STEVENS, Hon of Mrs. A good cause why one should be issued
or suffered,
dreams." machine, which burst into flames, Stevens and the. Inte Mr. A Stevens of London.
with a revolver licence, and the
and fall to the ground. I heard one of the men near by say, 'Well, restrictions imposed after the War had a salutary effect in reducing
perhaps we will win the war after
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MARRIAGE.
A... A
Thamse Row of 104 Miles.
a half.
At Kingston, where tho oRTBİNET. lunched, Mr. V. F. J. C. Snee, captain of the College Club, said to
reporter:
Women's High Heels.
He remitted the Sne of 20.
of
be held on MONDAY, the HT DAYGOODWIN MCLEAN.On November not only crime but accidents and land rain, finished the first day at read at a "Safety First" conference all.' That ans boy had been ablo |
of JANUARY, 1932, at 3 ra, at the Offices of the Pablo Works Department, by Order of HIS EXCELLENT 708 GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CHOWN LAND st Ma Tau Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixed by the Burveyor of H Maxsyy run" Kina, for one further term of 15 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Talend Lot
| No. of Bale,
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon $732.
Inland Lot No 1309, Opposite Kowloo
Pai Chung Street
TO
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
N... W
As per
asle plan,
LET
About
43,000
Contents in Square feet.
*Annual
Велева
22,500
Upset Price
(108:
Sea, Sussex, Dr. T. S. GooD-
1933, at St Leonards-suicides. A revolver is a dangerous WIN, MA, M.B. (of C.M.S. toy, and a sinister thing in the Hospital, Hangehow) hand of a neurotic person. It mukes SHERLAR, only daughter of the
St. John's Vicarage, Hoiling
„ton.
Editorial and Business Offices:
Ice House Street, Tal. 2027. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 94511. London Offs; 53, Fleet Street,
E. C. 4.
"We left Oxford at nine o'clock on Saturday morning, and, after fair weather, followed by winds Roading-29 miles. From Reading we rowed just over 30 miles to Staines on Sunday, and, to-day, starting as nine o'clock, arrived, at at 11.30. Most of the Kingston
This is the first trip of the king over made,
1
The Duke of York, in a meseng emphasised the part women play
the home
сам
ini.
in preventing accidents Lieut-Colonel J. A. A. Pickard general secretary of the association said it was a curious thing that many more women were killed by falling downstairs than men.
One sip
will bathe the drooping
spirit in delight
to influence probably 100,000 men, who had been watching the Aght A. S. WATSON along the whole front."
This story was told to pupils of King Edward VI, Grammar School, Totnes, at the annual prizegiving by Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, who is a free- man of the tow,
Church and Birth Control
& CO., LTD.
Established 1841-
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS PHONE 20616.
Kov. W. and Mrs. Mdeas, of) death easy and certain." Nothing time the weather was good."
will save a determined suicide, but many lives have been lost owing to
This was not so much due to in the horrid fascination of the wen.
sobriety as to high heels..
Figures showed also that only worthy citizen of Hartford (Con that there is no truth in pon invented a contury ago by a Unfounded.
"I um able to roveal exclusively half as many women" as men were Canon Lyttelton, in an addresă
the killed accidentally, added Lieut at B. Stephen's, Walbrook, referr necticut) named SAMUELS COST, and rumours current to-day that the Colonel Pickard,
to the Church's attitude towards. since perfected by many enterpris-Cunard Company, contemplates.dir.
birth control. Now that the mnt- ing and ingenious persons. No guising itself as a German Loan, Surprise for a Binger.
ter has become better and botter Beviet industry, an Armenian There was an unusual incident understood," he said, "it is ex- doubt SAMUEL COLT's native town farmer, Dr oven
Palestinian during the daily rehearsal in Loni tremely probable, I should say, BRAWL ON STEAMER suitably honours his memory in orange-grower in order to receive dan of the new Cochran show, that at the next Lambeth Confer sculpture and architecture, and the unstinted and enthusiastic sup- "Helen !"
ence they will raverse the vote ane the boy give something very much more in, perhaps it benefits by a bequest port of the City and the British Desiree Ellinger, as
Government,"
London Orestes, hes to sing a beautiful accordance with the ruind from his estate. But the police the diarist.
solo, and when she began singing) Christ." world over, and nowhere more than in his pyn country, are now hard at work taking the,, fruit of his perverted ingenuity out of the hands of l-balanced adults, and persuading respectable citizens that. they are much better without such
thing as a gun in the house.
The Baily Press.
Host Koso, JANUARY 7, 1932
"ARMS AND THE MAN."
THE Government of the Colony has made wise innovation in fixing a
293 PEAK, three bed and charge of ten dollars for a licence
bath rooms, flash b. and "c., garden, near motor road, TO LET
30th November. from 1st March:
Apply J. FLEMING LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS.
11664
· ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY OF HONG KONG.
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THE Annual General Mosting of THE
St. Patrick's Society of Hong Kong ho held in the Hong Kong Hotel, Roof Garden, on Friday, Jant
ary 8th, at 5.16 p.m.
G. F. MURPHY,
F. T. MABONT,
Joint Hon. Becretaries,
PLEASANT OUTING.
ATTEND THE NEW TERRITORIES AGRICULTURAL SHOW
ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY "JANUARY, Pra & 10rs, 1982.
T SHEK WU HUI (Near BHxUNG
SAUI RAILWAY STATION).
Watch for the Handbook on the Bookstalls!
Special Railway Facilities, and Reduced Fares. Band in attendanes, English and Uhinese Restarants, Drinks with Meals obtainable, Theatri cal Performance.
Bes the Development and Growth of Local Vegetables,. Foultry and
₤1651 Cattle.
to carry firearms. The strictest
care has in the past been exercised
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writes
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Local Notes and Events
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Revenue Officer Harold Victor Pearas, 76, Morrison Hill Rond, to Miss Elizabeth Neca Thomas, No. 120, Whitfield,
A sentence of 12 months! im-
prisonment was passed on a Chinese when he was found guilty of enticing are two small boya from their parents on December 19, 1931,
in the granting of such licences, Ir has now been definitely decided but when the police had decided to open the air mail servico beat Kowloon Magistracy on Tuesday that an applicant was a fit and tween London and Cupotowa, prepar person to be allowed lethal South Africa, on Wednesday, the weapons the necessary permit was twentieth of January. The first issund free of charge. A careful cutward air mail will leave on record was kept of all the persons that date, and eleven days later the so.. licensed and of the arms which mails, carried on the way in five they possessed. Dealers in firearms different types of aeroplanes, will are also under close supervision, be delivered, in. Capetown. having to record, after the manner first homeirard mail is scheduled)
The
of purveyors of wines and spirits, to depart from Capetown the the stock received, and full part of January and to reach London eulars, of all sales effected. To be on the 5th of Feituary. Thence
forward, the mails and, after
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According to a report made to the police by Mrs. Augus, of Humphreys Buildings, some person stole a counterpane valued at 85 from the root of the promises where, it had been hanging out to-dry.
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was neatponed or account of the The Rizal Day Celebration, which diphtheria enidemic, will be held at the Peninsula Hotel at 8.30 am. on Sunday, January 10.
From the files.
HARD LABOUR" FOR" SEAMAN.
FRIEND. ATTACKED WITH RAZOR.
Sentence of one month's hard labour was passed
William
Peutyne, by the Kowloon Magis Wishart, a seaman од the .8.
trate when fie was charged with: inflicting grievous bodily harm or another asaman, William Davidson, on the morning of January 1, with
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The wedding took place at Kow. loon on Tuesday of Mr. Chan Lai Sang, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. T, White Smith, who, ap- Chan Tae Yuen, and Miss Yeung Yim King, daughter of Mr. and
peared for the prosecution, pressed Mrs. Yeung Tui Tong. The ecre-
for a conviction, saying that David- The only CASO of diphtheria mony was conducted according, to.
son sustained very serious injuries Chinese (imported). The epidemic the couple left for Canton where notified yesterday was that of a Chinese rites and after the wedding Looking Back 50 Years.
and there was no evidence to show therefore is following the course the honeymoon
The passengers by the P. and 0. is being spent. steamer. Peshawar for England yes-
that Wishart did not know what he confidently predicted by the autho- They will later leave for Northterday included Colore. L rities, and should soon be a thing China."
F. was doing at the time. The two of the past.
Hall, R.A. During the gallant men hida quarrel after which the officer'a arvice here-be took com- defendant went back to his bunk," རྟ ། ་ A meeting of the Council of the mand of the Royal Artillery in tailing to stop when called upon to Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Associa March, 1875he has made
Pleading guilty to the charge of
many got the raser and then assaulted do so by the police in the harbour tion will be held to-morrow evening friends, and a number went off to Davidson. about 34 pm. on December 20, when suggestions securing a ground the steamer yesterday afternoon ic The defendaht said he had been- in possession of firearms in the el pericd, passengers as well, Lee was fined $10 with the alter in the Colony can hold champion-han twice
the coxswain of the motor boat Tai on the governing body of the game bid him farewell, Colonel Hall
acted as Commanding on the vessci for about six months. Colony
without obtaining the will be transported once each week native of one week's hard labour by ship, interport and exhibition tennis Officer of the Colony during the As regards the incident, he remem proper licence is a major offence in either direction. The African the Marine Magistrate yesterday.
matches will be considered. It is absence of the Genéral, and now stated that the Council have on goes home on promotion. He has bered having gong ashore with the for which sentence of a birching service at present ends on the Great
The trial of two Chinese at the mind a piece of ground in Kowloon, taken a keen interest in all sports. complainant on New Year's Eve and up to ten years' imprisonment "The total distance to be flown Criminal Sessions on a charge of which, when properly laid out, will being for some time President of when they had some drinks. They can be imposed by a court consist through Africa is about 6,750 miles robbery at Kowloon City was con-
serve the purpose admirably.
the Choral Society. He in succeed.is brought some liquor with them ed in command of the Artillery by ing of two magistrates. If any of and while most daily stages will be tinued yesterday when evidence for
over 600 miles long, three of them the defence was continued and a At a general meeting of the Hong Lieut-General G. A. Crawford when they returned to the ship just our readers, therefore, have fire will represent 825 miles oach. further adjournment had to be made Kong University Amateur Photo who has just arrived from Bombay, before midnight. He only vaguely samo-even an old and broken When more experience has boon until this morning. This trial has criticism on the pictures entered in Hong Kong Daily Press, January recollected having had a quarrel pistol-for which they have not regained, the eight days of the pre- sow been proceeding for eight days. the Union Assembly Room, which 17, 1882,
was open to non-members, Mr. E. A newed the proper licences for the sent African schedule will be
reduced, and London will be The Committee of St. Patrick'avon (Kobza-Nagy gave à friendly Looking Back 28 Years. current year, as required by the brought, within nine days of Cape Society of Hong Kong expect a criticism on the pictures entered in
1t the police, they will be well advised to town, as compared with seventeen large attendance
first the fourth annual exhibition. His repair the omission. It is a much by sea. The aircraft upon which annual general meeting of the So- comment on the good and bad the service will depend range from ciety, to be held in Hong Kong points of some of the pictures which more serious matter than forgetting the new forty-scater fors to the Hotel Roof Garden to-morrow, at he selected for criticism proved in- to take out a similar document on fourteen-senter Hercules machines 5.16 p.m. The annual report, which teresting as well, as instructive, behalf of a car or a dog.
which have been in use on the Ens has been in the hands of members tern section of the Imperial "Air- for some days, has been received Last year about 2,300 local citizens ways routes for the past four years with considerable pleasure. were permitted to own firearms Many more would have liked suck
a privilege, but every application
Lakes.
or so. The Hercules machines have
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with Davidson."
The defendant was given a good The competition for the Bander's Cup among the Volunteer half character, by Capt. Bullock who said companies takes place on Saturday, that he (the defendant) had never
given any trouble on board. One European case of diphtheria The Magistrate then anid he would "is the only instanco of communi- bear this in mind when passing sen-
cable disensa recorded in the
tenac. Colony for last week.
Residents in the Colony will
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doubtless welcome the news that by Changchun (Kuangcherigtee), Kirin, the month of April the Tytan Tuk Harbin, Taiteihar and Manshuria. scheme for an additional water will be opened to foreign trade. The
The Right Hon. the Earl of Beau- champ, former Governor of New South Wales and for many years worked well in tropical tempera- Before Mr. W. Schofield yester-Leader of the Liberal Party in the turer. They have also been tried day, six Chinese were charged House of Lords, paid an informal out at the high altitudes at which with conspiracy, in connection with visit to the Colony over the week Byrne of the aerodromes in Central an alleged long-firm fraud. ead. He arrived here on the s. is thoroughly gone into, and ro Afrion are situated: But towards After Detective Sergeant Meadowa Tjinegara on Sunday and left for supply will be completed; and that Paquiring of land by foreigners will, fused unless very good reasons can the end of next summer they will had given a brief outline of the case. Java on the same venne on Tues the water should be turned on that, however, not so permitted until
give way to the new Armstrong bailing ranging from 3500 to 3,000 day. After spending about three month. Siddeley monoplanes, which will bo was granted. Two of the men, Ho weeks in Jars, he will proceed to faster and which have been design-Kwok and Taui Wai Keung, were Australia for the purpose of being ed specially for operation under represented by Mr M. A. da Silva present at the opening of Sydney's
and Mr. D. B. Evans, respectively. African conditions.
new bridge in March.
be given. Many of the firearms in
question are, of course, sporting us, to which no objection enn be taken, except by advanced
The Chinese Government has fix ed January 14 as the day on which (Continued at foot of next column.")
special ragulations have been pub." lished about the creation of settle. monta-Hong Kong Dolly Pren. January 7,1907.
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