NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
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GODE
OF ALICE MATILDA HAMILTON, LATE OF 7, Queen's Parade, CHALTEN, IN THE COUNTY or GYODUIRTER IN TIR UNITED- KINGDON, WIDOW DROKABRD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Coark has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1997, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 5TH DAY
of FEBRUARY. .1952.
All Croditors and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to and their Olime to the Undersigned on or before that diste.
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DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executrizon, 1, Dor Vaux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
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COME
OVER
TO-DAY
and see the finest motor cars in this Colony.
English construct tion and body-work, high-power engines following the Ameri can practise, and every good point of both styles
HILLMAN
WIZARD
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and.
HUMBER
SNIPE
AT THE
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
11 HBBY NOTIFIED that
SEALED TENDERS in Triplicate, whlob bould be clearly marked
Tender for Shaukiwau Quarry Lot No. 1," will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, until Noon of MON. DAY,, the 18TH day of JANUARY,
commencing from the date of enig
1932, for the occupation for a poried
tion of acceptance of tender and
on 31st Desember, 1994. of the piece or parcel of ground as shown coloured red on a plan signed by the Director of Public Works and dated 2nd December 1981 and subject to the conditious which can be ascertained at the office of the Director of Public Works.
Upset annual fes $4,000,
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in Nathan Boad, Kowloon.
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GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932,
subsided. Ab Hankow the highest
lovely 53 foot, was recorded on
August 19, and as late as October
19 the water still stood at 41 fot.
The devastation of the countryside |
News and Views
"You sosem "angry, Mr."Smith," and measures has just boen in.”
I am The Inspector of waights Ha ha! Hr. caught you giving 15 ounces to the prund, did he
Worse than that. He said I'd been giving 17."
was therefore extraordinarily, com- | Tals of the Day, plete. The gall for relief is urgent. While public interest in a clarity is greatest in its early stages the full effects of n flood are not felt until months aftor. The worst horrora for the victims of this disaster lio ahead.
According to the statement to which we have referred,
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Disease has taken a fearful toll, and despite all that can be done, famine and its accompanying scourges are certain to carry off increasing mimbers throughout the winter and spring
shelters.
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Airmen's Banquet.
There is loss excuse for failure to Income Tax: Demands. vote in Australia than in England. į With, 10,000 Income Tax OffBaitula Provision is made for invalida. working avrim Ovor the hospital cases, voters thousands of country, and 1,000 or thereabouts
FINE SHERRIES
FULL GOLDEN
of very superior
miles from thora, de toute extra hands ongaged to help them. SUPERIOR PALE DRY and passengers, on ships, to record there will be very faw people hable their verdiet, all on the prefore to Income Tax who do not receive tial system
their demand notes in good time in January. Various means have Now Use for Destroyers,
been suggested for avoiding the "Taffrail, the well-known au- payment of the tax in one aum, but thor, talls this story. After reccnably be expected if the the groutest concession that can lecture at a proparatory school be Chancellor is to balanes his Budget offered prize-to- the boy who is that the last, payment must be wrote the best. cway on "Why we made some time in March. In must still have a Navy. concentrated on the need for des- unable to raise such an unusually A twelve year-old, in his effort, employees fear that they will be many London offices, where the
trayons. "One reason why we must large sum in January, what may have them," he wrote, "is that they be called Income Tax Clubs havo wanted to, chaperone our boon started. Members pay a hospitables.??
Ono hopes that this indisputable this means to alleviate the bitter certain sum weekly, and hope by argument will be suitably consider chill which would otherwise fail ed at the Disarmament Conference upon them in January.
Absent-Minded Referees.
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Sel moud, famous for his Taile up!" moat remark message during the war, made a at the Royal Aero Club banquet to the High Speed Flight when, in relation, to public speaking, he quoted what he said was the maxim of the wheelwright: The longer the spoke the greater the tire." 317)
Those presont experienced there fall truth of this when some succeeding speakers missed a splen did opportunity of making them selves interesting Blessed Brevity.
Are You a Typist. If so
It was left to the men of action to remedy these omissions, and An eyestrain frequently suffered they did it manifully, Colonel by typists, muscular inhalance of referee often arrives without one, Moore Brabazon, the first man to the eyes, can be definitely preventedida
1.
Unofficial Dentist,
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I koop police whistles because® a
who rents DILA
Tea Soup.
A sports
Still small voies: "Shunt Order-
officer! Any complaints ?” Orderly: Yes, sir, just taste that, sir."
Officer: "Well what's the matter with it. Very good soup that!?
quality grown and bottled by Anto R.
Ruiz Y. Hermanos
Xeres dø la Frontera. Specially
selected.
One sip
Orderly: Yes, sir, that's just will bathe the drooping
spirit in delight
"Tens of millions flod for refuge to the homes of mare fortunato relatives and frienda on higher ground. Others are living as best they CAR in temples, schools, mission compounds and in concen- tration camps composed of read Only herois work by an inadequate staff of phy- fly over England, introduced if this little-known hint is followed pavilion at Grove Park, 8.B., an DURO GARAGE sicians, nurses and sanitary workers meringues where previously there If you have no appliance, for hold Bromley, Kent, Police Court when
had been auet dumplings.
ing your notes or other copy two, young men wore remanded on haa prevented the outbreak of very Squadron-londor Orlebar made a directly in front of you, simply a charge of stealing whistles. serious epidemic."
wilty comparison when he com- place your work on alternate sidos
the typewriter on pared his team to a jockey, with a of
alternate Sir JOHN HOPE SIMPRON personalne pair of hands. in Stainforth days. This, if constantly practised, Ly "endartes "the appeal which is and Ecothman, opts to help them will save the cost of future con- now being made to charitable in Long and Snaith, and a wonder sulations, and in many cases, the
in two-year-old by Rolls Royce out wearing of spectaclau. persons in all lands, who may rest of Supermarine: assured that every dollar subscribed! will be used to the best advantage Hinkler's Report. for the relief of suffering Funds when Colonel Mouro-Brabazon in the Army Dental Corps, attached bo to."
Francis Fletcher, There was a roar of laughter
a private in the trouble, sir, it's supposed· ·Lo may be sent, the pamphlet tells us troduced Squadron-leader Herbert Woolwich, who was found guilty lying in Darkness.
No. 12 Company R.AM.C., to the National Flood Relief Com John Louis Hinkler," who, of by a Woolwich court-martial of mission, 1c, Kiukiang Road, Shang- course, is never referred to by any practising dentistry (though not for the first part of his South Beyond the
Kinkler says that he flew "blind hai, China. In collaboration with more affectionately by all flying his own use money given to him by officers, only a more handful of other name than "Bort," or, even registered), and of converting Atlantic fight. Apart from R.A.F. rities have acted with energy and foreign helpers. the Chinese autho men, as "Our Bart."."
foresight. The situation was caro- fully surveyed-a task in which Colonel and Mrs. LINDBERG took, a notable share-and the needs of the winter are being met, as far as re- sourers allow, according to careful Yote or, be Fined.
Australia is to have a general plans. Special grants have been made by the Chinese Government; adult population must vote or be election, next month, and the whole the medical and nursing personnel fined. A penaly of £2 per head on therunto."Great thought, dated have to of the country has been mobilised, general election produced a useful scenes of the wildest enthusiasm, hood puts them in total darkness WINE
those who failed to vote at the last July 30, and released, amidst cockpits of their machine. This and the medical schools have re-contribution to the Exchequer. by H.M. Stationery Office price 1d except for the lights illuminating
PERRY-At Hampstead, London, on January 8, to Mr. and Mrs. S S. PERRY, a son. [1207
· DEATH,
Each tender must be accompanied REMED106-At The Hut," Castle 7. JOAD JOAQUIN VANDENBERG Rond, at 2.20 p.m. on January
DOR REMEDICA. Funeral will paas the Monument at 3.15 p.m. to-day
by roceipt to the effect that the tandarar hai deposited in the Colonist Treasury sum of $100 na a pledige of the bona fides of his offer, which sum. shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer. Whors tender is socepted, refusing to carry out the terms and conditions of hie offen
On the measptanes of a tender the deposits of unsaasssful ten ferers will bo returned to them.
Form of tonder and further partiou-
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Ice House Street: Tel. 70251.
Night Editor (Wanchai. Office):
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lars can be obtained from the office of London Office: 53. Fleet Street
the Director of Pablis Works,
The Government does not bind itself to noorpt the highest or any tender.
HAROLD T. OREAST,
Dirnoter of Public Works..
Blai Decotaber, 193).
PUBLIC AUCTION
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PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Bale by Publio Anation-to be bold on MONDAY, the 11 DAY of JANUARY, 1232, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of H EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CHOWN
LAND at Ma Tan Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY ZUR KING, for one farther term of 75 years,
No. of Bale,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
9732
Kowloon Inland Lot Registry No. Opposita Kowloon
Inland Lot No 100, Locality.
Pau Chong Street, |-
Boundary
Measure
ments,
As per
anie plan.
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Syaare feet
About
41,000
Annnal
Bent.
Upset Price
810
11861
PLEASANT OUTING.
ATTEND THE NEW TERRITORIES AGRICULTURAL SHOW
ON
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. JANUARY, 9TH & 101, 1992...?
22,500
B.C. &
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 8, 1932.
'CHINA'S DEVASTATED
AREA.
ATI 8.70 the West,
leased their staffs and senior at-
dents to render assistance. Mission aries of all churches are also taking an' active share in the work.
It is needless to dilate upon the social and political perils attached to this upheaval in one of the most densely populated areas in the. world. We all know the nature of the forces that are seeking, in all parts of the world, to exploit
pilots have mastered this difficult
art.
Two women-Lady Bailey and Mra Victor Bruce-are taking lessons, and are the first women in the world to learn the accomplish
dreams."
bliss of
But the little man who has made another soldier for artificial teeth such astonishing Bights got his own has been sentenced to 68 days' back when he replied. With the hard labour. He is discharged quiet humour that is one of his from the Army with ignominy. greatest characteristics he alluded to "Lieut.-col John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, "
Theodore Our Informative Legislators. ment, which enables pilots to fly A. S. WATSON
"The Select Committee appoint safely through fog and cloud whe ed to join with the Committee of
landmarks
obliterated and the House of Lords, to whom the when no horizon is visible. London Passenger Transport, Bill guide in keeping the airplane on the Bill and made amendments was. committed, "have gone through level keel,
Lady Bailey and Mrs. Bruce-
fasten a hood over
Defenders of the system point out that it imposes no hardship on the conscientious objector to vot ing, who can always make his paper invalid,
are
the
This must be a record in brevity the instruments, which are their for any Committee, and for that sole guide. The instructor is in reason is aimoat worth the £1 7s the open, and with his duplicate ad. which it bas cost the taxpayer set of controls corrects any mis- 1
in printing charges.
take the pupil may maks.
Local Notes and Events
18.
CHINA is a land where great disas- ters are accepted with a stoicism human misery for their own ends, remained unchanged at 1s, 5-6/led. The Hong Kong dollar which had and a silence that never ceasca to The Yangtaze foods crnnot be re-for some time, dropped to
Probably there i has been less ink spilled in the
garded as merely a Chinese prob-5-3/16d. on demand yesterday. newspapers of the world over floods coming the reaction to this immen lom. If proper relief is not forth-
that inundated an area as large naj England and effected the lives ofurable tragedy will be felt far down by a public motor-car in Con- open to the public from 12.30 and Looking Back 25 Years,
fifty million persons, than in des- cribing some crime by an individual
the details of which have caught popular imagination. Already,
beyond the national borders.
THE OPTIMIST.
な
young sampony girl was knocked At ten-flty yesterday morning a
naught Road Central, and sustain- ed a broken right leg. She was taken to the Government Civil Hos pital where she is progressing antisfactorily..
other schools will be admitted to "Scholars of Government and
morrow and Sunday into the ox hibition grounds of the New Ter ritories Agricultural Show on passes headmistress. The uxhibits are duly issued by the handmasters or
HE. the Governor will open the show at 3 p.m.
Handbooks des-
aribing the show and the exbibits can be had at Mosern. Kelly Walab.
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From the Files.
Four Captains in the German Army have started for Japan to study the military institutions of that country:
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BUILDING SITE CHANGES HANDS AT $500,000.
SKYSCRAPER ON SASSOON'S SITE
As a result of a property deal involving half a million dollars which has just been put through, we are 'in a' position to state that.
yet another "sky-scraper will be added to Hong Kong's modern buildings within a short space of
His Majesty the Emperor of time. even in Hong Kong, people are In these days of glociny anxiety,
Mr. Peter A. Dragon will lecture Final addresses to the jury were Japan
twenty forgetting the Yangtaze floods and both national and personal, it Amateur Photographic Club on trial of two men at, the Criminal next autumn are to be on a larger effect, that the site, at present oc-
to-day reviewed to the Hong Kong University delivered yesterday afternoon in the thousand troops. The TÁROČGUVJes There had been rumours to the assuming that the catastrophe was encouraging to find an optimist" How to make Exhibition Pio Sessions on a charge of robbery at scale than ever before, not so serious had been imagined with the courage of his convictions turcs" at the University Union Kowloon City. Mr. Hin Shing Lo
cupied by the David Sasoon Build- We received yesterday a brief pam-Old Mocre," whose face has long Assembly Room this evening at 8.45 defending the prisonera, spoke for phlet, issued by the National Flood been shadowed by extremne appre the public.
The financial statement of Nowing had changed hands at the figure. p.m. The lecture will be open to nearly two hours. It was 8 p.m. South Wales shows an enormous mentioned above, and when inter- Belief Commission of Chins, with hension, has begun to smile again,
when Mr. Somerset Fitzroy clored surplus. his brief address for the Crown.
viewed by a Daily Press repro- an introductory statement by Birland As we are all aware, "Old
Proparation classes for conarma The Chief Justice remarked thus. At Southampton, the South West sentative, Mr.. A. H, Compton of JOHN HOPE SIMPSON, the Director- Moore" understands a thing or tion candidates are being arranged the ease bad reached a stage which are Railway Company is project. Mesars, David Sascon and Co., General of the Commission. In a two about planets and "fe by the Rev. A, Swann, Dean of St. culled for the jury's most careful Fing the largest wet doak" in the confirmed this: He said that the
As they would be world, tired with the day's proceedings, he The Bishop of consideration
would reserve the summing up until 10 o'clock this morning.
few admirable written pages a füll and vivid summary of the position is presented.
In North Kiangsu alone some 8,000 square miles are still under food, and water was still pouring in from the Hwad River through
aigus" which make his smiles, like his frowns, particularly know ing. If he proves to be as good a prophet about 1032 as he was in predicting (as far back as the Gunmer of 1930) that now Na- tional Party would be returned to power in October, 1931, we may all
John's Cathedral.
the Diocese will bold a special ser vice at the Cathedral on Sunday, March 13, when the candidates, from the Anglican churches in the Colony, will be confirmed.
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A Nine-Storey Building,
Enquiries at the latter institution
T SHEK WU HUI (Fear Suzukobreaches in the Grand Canal when the ruling sign of 1982, is," he Centre Street in the Western Dis. with atrokes of the birch and & tcxicating liquors at the Conlicited the nows that it is planned,
A
Watch for the Handbook on the Bookstalls F
cal Performances.
a survey was made in December,
and there is all possibility of the floods receding sufficiently to allow
to put up a modern nine-story con- crete building.
of spring sowing. Food. reserves will apparently make by for the Was missing and is believed to have. You seem to have acted vers Maru came out of the Cosmopolitan regarding the, question of widening...
boen drowned,
site had been purchased by the N- Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Captain tional Commercial and Savings. F. J. Badley, and Lieut. C. W. Beckwith RN were present at Bank, 144 Des Voeux Road Cen- the licensing Court yesterday to tra Charged before Mr. Schofield consider an application from D. M. JA yesterday with snatching a bag in langrana for the transfer to him Early festerday morning, a sam- Queen's Road East, a Chinese was from one A. W. Blaten of the ad- take heart ca grace. Bagittarius, pan capsized in the harbour of sentenced to six months' hard labour junct license to sell by retail in- trict. Two men were rescued, and further thres, months in gaol it neserts, the sign of world trade, taken to the Police Station by found mediendly unit for the birch Daily Press, January 8, 1907,
naught House Hotel....Hong Kong shipping, expansion, and " the
Revenue Officer Humphreys, and Addreming Yip Ki, a bus conduc growth of international relations,* ad ef, all countries Great Britain thence to the hospital. A third man tor, who was responsible for the Looking Back 50 Year
man's arrest, the "Magistrate said,
¡Special Railway Facilities, and
greatest strides. The rising sun
smartly and, vory well and I wish Reduced Fares. Hand in attendance, are rapidly becoming exhausted of prosperity will begin to dispel
to comunend you.' The defendant English and Chinese Restaurants, and famine is expected, which, if the shadows, and oven next April's The head monk of the Po Kong offered the excuse that he snatched Drinks with Meals obtainable, Theatri not relieved by outside-help will Budget will be " not unpopular Yuen Monastery at Lo Wai has the bag because he was very hungry
one, owing to reduced taxation." made a report to the police that and had no money. increase until it reaches its peak We trust that Mr. Chamberlain burglars tried to break into the in April. Farma in the flooded will take note of this and do monastery at about 1 am.
to nothing
disappoint "Old Thursday morning by breaking a arsa have been destroyed. The
Moore." If one could be positive window and trying to force the houses of clay have dissolved and that the astrologer has read the iron bars behind. He blow a police the farmers have lost everything, stars correctly on the point, our whistle and sounded the monastery There is already a great scarcity of friends at Home would hand over gong, and the intruders fled. THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,
that three-quarters of income tax seed grain and though the Chinese due in January with much DANTRY FORMB for the First
PROGRAMMES and Government has scoured 450,000 tons lighter heart. As it is, "Old The following books have beened the first floor of 306, Reclamation Extra Race Meeting of 1932 to be held of grain from the United Stater Moore" himself scoms to be a trifle added to the Diocesan Library in Macso on Sunday, the 17th Jane this what cannot be used as seed perplexed regarding the character Christ at the Round Table The of the administration, which is Christ of Every Road," "The Re- ary, 1892 (weather permitting) may be as it will not grow satisfactorily destined to spend the money. Heligion of Jesus," "Chios Reali obtained at the Sports Club, Hongkong | Jockey Club Stables, or at the offices of under the different conditions of dimly forescos "an entire re-ties." "Dr. Main ol Enchow
organisation of our present system (Biography)-The Diocesan Library Mears. Percy Smith, Beth Fleming, Central China.
of Government," following two is housed at the Cathedral Hall, 6, Des Voeux Road Central
A feature of these floods has been major political crises, one of which and in open to members of the ENTRIKE lose at 11 am. on Bater
[1858 the slowness with which they have is due next month.
Anglican community. day, the 9th January, 1992,
See the Development and Growth of Local Vegatables, Poultry and Cattle.
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The Mitsu Bishi steamer Niigata
There is, however, some difficulty
Dock yesterday, and the German Ice House Street. It is understood steamer Cassandra and the Ame that the Government require a ro The P. M. steamer City of Rio de sumption of 19 feet, As the site, can steamer Bluejacker went in. Janeiro comes out of the Aberdeen as it now stands, mesures only 60 dock to-day, and the British When a man and his wife were steamer Sunda and the German by 100 feet, the architects, Masca charged before the Kowloon Magis corvette torch will he docked Palmer and Turner, have been rec trate yesterday with the unlawful there.
quested to make an application to possession of a dagger and D bludgeon, Detective Sub-Inspector Return of visitors to the City the Government for a modification Elston said that as a result of in- Hall Museum for the week ending of this decision, and until a reply formation received, the police raid. January 8:
as received; plans will be held in aboyance,
Strost and in a cubicle found the Monday two defendants. The dagger, was Tuesday found under the man's pillow while | Wednesday the other weapon was in his cost Thursday pocket. As the weapons wore found Friday
The present property is to be handed over to the new owners by
European Chinco
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640
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539
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Closed Closed
March next and it is understood that when the building is complet
in the man's possession, the women | Saturday was discharged and the onie aanimat | Sunday.. the man was adjourned until to Hong Kong Daily Press, Januaryed, the National Commercial end morrow morning.
B, 1889.
Savings Bank will move into it
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