NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINESE ESTATES, LIMITED.
INTERIM DIVIDEND
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEY
that an INTERIM.DIVIDEND for year suding 29th February. 1931, of three per cont, that is 53 për shari will be paid to all sharma in this Company on the 30th January 1832 at the Company's Office at Chits
· Buildings, 5th floor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th to the 30th Jondary, 19-2, bath daya inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors, HENRY LOWCOCK, Booretary. Hong Kong, 22nd Jat., 1982.
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FANLING HUNT AND RACE. CLUB,
TWO base of the China Motor Bus Co. will love the Star Ferry on Sunday, 24 instautune qt 10.48 am, and one at 13,15 am.- going direct to Kwarti Race CourKA in Chade Peak, and returning HOO after the last race.
The fare thore and back, veluding entrance to the Race Meeting (Public Enclosure), will be $3.00.-
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NOTICE.
HENRIQUE HYNDMAN, J., Late c/o Monary, W, 9. Bailey & Co. Ltd., DEOXARED.
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CREDITORS and Other are 10
quested to send in their Claims against the Estate of the abovo forth. with to the undersigned the Solicitors for the Executor.
Dated the 22nd day of Jan...... 1932. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER'
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES that the Court line by virtue of Section 18 of Probate Urdiñance 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the abovs Estate to the 2011 FEBRUARY, 1932. -
All Orrditors and Others are acioni ingly boroby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date...
Dated the 21st day of Jan., 1932.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Bolicitors for the Executors, Prinos's Building, les House Street, Hong Kong
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 23, 1882,
FRANCE AND EUROPE.
WHEN complaints are made in Europe because of the French atti bude in the present financial and IN THE SUPREME COURT OP economic crisis, thers springs up i
HONG KONG.
fooling of intense resentment in the
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breasts of those who bear then be- etuse of the obatinney which sacri- IN THE GOODS OF FRANCIS DESMOND TALBOT CORE,
fices the whole Earopean social LATE OF WATERFIELD HIGH-structure to the principle of security MOND ROAD WORTHING SCHEX which France demands... Yet this FOILMERLY of CLATKAMORE Nenoot. ·NGAL WINCHESTER resentment does not overdow into CONNAVEST | threats to violent action, because: HANTS AND 5 FLACK HYDE PARK MINDA there is at the same time a recog- A CAPTAIN (RTILED) IN HIS Maszaty's Axxy, Decrasan, nition of the fact that all Franes has twice been threatened - with ex-
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 19332.
reach a low cab in the course of the DEATH OF LYTTON
hext two он three year. The the future lice, of danger for course, in the fact thai armaments develop a will of their own, and that the possessor of a sharp sword is bound sooner or later to test its quality. This excessive caution alo upplies to French Baancial opera- $100 Before the war the French
STRACHEY
AUTHOR OF TWO REMARK- ABLE BOOKS
[AHITIS" WIRELLSB BERVICE)
Ruany, Jan. 21.
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CHINESE ART.
LAST DAY OF EXHIBITION.
AT SINCERE'S.
of
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.
GIVE YOUR
GARDEN
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
A SQUARE
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A noteworthy exhibition
QUOTATIONS. Chinese art is being hold by thej Lai Ching Art College in the Roof The morning session opened quint. Garden of Sincere'a. The founder ly, and there were few changes to of the school, Mr." Fow, ond of China's must noted artists, explain. report, the turnover being or a re-
the various exhibits to a ribre. stricted scale. sentative of the Daily Press.
at exhibits which are separate from
Mr. Pow and his wife have gover
work of the students is remarkabio considering that many of them are young and have been studying for last your's paintings shown at the ..only about six months. Some of
National Exhibition of Chinese Art,
Shanghai are included in the
; the work of the students. The
pencant, the thriftiest in the world, The death occurred this afternoon, found an outlet for his savings interne months of illness, of the Government bond of tho Russia ally. These all evaporated Lytton Strachey, the wall known in the revolution and again principally known for his brilliant author, aged fifty-one Ho. Whe pressed upon the nation, which was nover financially venturesome or other eminent characters of that biography of Queen Victoria and sparniative, the need for caution, period, together with studies on The MAY Hoport and ANDAR SG Elizabethans and French literature, FRIED's book, "England's Crisis
[Lytton en the ecenumio sition of Eagliterature is assured by two books
Strachey's place Inad, wherein ho declared that the Eminant Victorians and Queen British nation was living begund Victoria, Both booky have pro- its income, and that its exports foundly affected the art of hic- were not paying for its importa,graphy and while it is untrue to stampeded the sensitive French in all many writers, like Philips vestor who simply withdrew his inadella,, imitators of Strachey examples of embroidery in tower! money from England and stored it they owed an immense, amount" to a gare designs. One of the? in gold in the cellers of the bank in France.
his methods.
exhibition.
There is also on exhibition soma
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Strachey had longstanding exhibits is a head of
the Magdalene, by Mrs. Pow. been a respected figure in a small
Icoks like an oil painting but the literary circle, when he starbled the world with bis "Victorians"-
fine needle work is seen n closer The blending of the Florence Nightingale, Arnold of Examination. Raghy, General Gordes and Can colours shows, remarkable skill,
inal Manning. With a biting and! polished irony he examined ench one of them, morking wat so muels his central figure, but their ven toniporazion.
Thus, the French people are hoarding and immobihsing their gold, for they are not convinced that anybody is fit to be estrusted with it. They prefer to wrap it up in a napkin and make sure that in there, rather than trade with it and by usury incrisise its quantity,
For all the surnam Bitter experience again does not
view them that the Biblicul and the disillusioning detail, how parable la an infallible guide to grent he made one realise they were. financial operations; on the con Clarence Nightingale in no gentle trary they can produce the Rasian Lady of the Lamp, but a hard. } adventure as evidence to the con-capable arletonrat, with a tongue so terrifying that even the hide- trary
bonnd muddlers of the Cimean France, then, as a county. pre Army trembled and let her have fers a low plane of living, and a
her way. In the study of Gordon store of gold while England cling Gladstone is subjected to a scathing to a higher standard of life and indictment and the curious quali no gold. The real problem of ties and limitations of the old Europe then would seem to be the Duke of Levonshire are drawn with psychologient condition of the
a master hand. The picture of French nation, whos nervous atate Manning is a triumph of polished will require a considerable periodastack. Here real malice orceps in, of quiescence before it returns to heenuse Strachey is to great an normal. England has passed be-
admirer, and so violent a partisan yond the war mood. for which she
of Candinal Newman. interrupted her economic life, and is anxious to get back to peace time renditions. Her attitude of “Let's forget about it and resume normal relations" as soon as possible is just the sort of advice France ennnot yet accept, for she judges the situation from an eutirely different angle She is determined to secur the integrity of her national life, before embarking on ay measures to enrich it. Until that mood passes Europe must re- main in a state of economic stag- nation, for Franco has the initia tive through the control of grent financial resources, a self-contained economic structure and. armed forces that surpass in destructive power those of her neighbours, Britain sacrificed her bargaining power by the excessive generosity
f
In Queen Victoria, the method is repeated.
The Queen and her consort are not spared; all their little failings and idiosyncrasies are revealed, and again and again the reader aniles. But as one reads, the feel-, ing grows, what a great couple they wire! Strachey revealed, in fact, that Prince Albert was nou a plaster saint, but out of awkward begin
(Continsed on next Columa)..
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In view of the great interest! taken by the public, it has bean, derided to extend the cloning day?" of the exhibition to to-da
HANOI TO CALCUTTA
AIRMEN'S RECORD FLIGHT
(THROCAN REUTER'S" AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Jan. 21. The airmen Codos and Rebida, who left Hanoi at 8 am, this mor ing arrived here at 3.16 this after- noon, has heating the record for a non-stop flight from Hanoi to Cal-
They took off again for Karachi, at 8 pm. and hope to reach Paris will beat Costes-Ballontes' record ou January 24. If they succeed they
fight of four days and a half from
Hanoi to Paris.
ninge became a first-rate man of affairs, to whom his adopted coun try owes many debts.
Mr. Strachey came to mock, but his effect was praise.
His her books are competent and scholarly, but he never again touched the level of these two re- markable becks, though his work- was always scholarly and polished."]
Sales.
Ewos, Tis. 161.
Banks of East Asias, $197 Telephones" (part paid), 897,05, Hotels (old), $16.15. Trams, $on
China Lights,. 823.10.
Buyers.
Deugiases, $231,
Venezuelan Goldfolda, 21. Hotels (old), $15. Realtios, 811.eu
Trams, $22.
Singapore Tractions, 3/ Cementa: (combined),
Gehenta (now), 85,80.
10.20.
Hong Kong Government Loan, 83 per cent. premium.
Benguets, $1. Providents (old), 85.35. Providents (now), 32.45. Chinese Estates, 805. Telophones (part paid), #27), Canton Ices, 801. Sincores, 816. Constructions (old)," 85}. Constructions (now), 81.85.
Sellers,
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Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $45. Indo-Chinaa (Def.), 202, Wharvos, $188. Providents (old), 85:40. Malabon Sugars, Kallam Mining, 30/-. Raube, $30. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2, Telephones (part paid), $28. Katertainments (old), #18.
AFTERNOON SESSION. ·
The afternoon session was quietly steady with only a limited enquiry
for stooks,
Bales.
Banks, $1,490. Electrics, $771. *Ewos, Tis. 18.40,
Hotela (old), 815.18.
Sales to Shanghai.
Buyers.
Ewos, Tla. 16. Trams, 822.10.
Ewos, $141.
* Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar appreciat. demand rate, being 1/4-13/18d.
of Mr. LLOYD Gronds, who awardeded by half in farthing yesterday, the the major portion of the indemnities to France, then by her quixotic gesture, over the American debt. and finally by the exceedingly weak terms on which Mr. CHURCHILL settled the French Debt. A new economic structure has now to be constructed
if possible without France and it is to this problem that the National Government must address itself. The solution will not be obtained at once, but the | key so it will probably be found in the development of the Frapire as a trading unit in place of that political unit which has practically come to an end..
"JOY IS MAY NAME."
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Pak hoi.on account of small-pox.
The P&O as. Corfu, from Hong Kong, arrived in London on January 21, at
p.m.
Mr. I. H. Geare was amongst the passengers who left by the Blue Tunnel liner Hestor..
The Fairlen School is holding its annual Speech Day on Tuesday, February 2, when Mr. S. W. Tao will distribute the certificates.
The many friends of Mr. J. M. Quist, the genial Consul-General for the Netherlands in Hong Kong, will be glad to hes that he is re- turning here by the a.s. Empress of Canada, which is due this morning.
The Canadian Pacific Company's magnificent new liner, the Empress of Britain, now on around the world tour, arrived at Colombo on Monday. She is due in Hong Kong on February 11.
PREACHING recently. Dean IxGs de plored the fact that the word joy" has nearly dropped out of our vocabulary, Happiness, and good humour, he remarked, we still man tion and undersland, but joy we Note the Court has by lettinction by the German invasions in have learnt to do withou It is of Section 58 of Probate Ordinance 1870 and 1914. The lessons, which not altogether surprising if the 1887, made an Order limiting the Time these assaults on her existence have observation. should be well founded, for Creditors and Others, to send in their
for the recent experience of the Claims against the whore Estate to the burnt into her very soul, are not world has not provided the sort of The first tech Day of the Hwn 20TH FEBRUARY, 1937.
and cannot possibly be forgotten.pi in which the quality ci joy--Nan College will be held in the Ko this beautiful flower of Christian Shing Theatre, on Saturday, Jan. love Dean of ST. PAUL'e calls it 30, at 3 p.m. Professor R. K. M. can be expected to flourish, The Simpson, of the University of Hong greatest happiness which the gen Kong, has kindly consented to dis tration who lived through the War tribute the prizes. have been "able to attain has been
All Creditors and Others aro accor:)- ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before
that date.
Dated the 21st day of Jan, 1932.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitor for the Executors, Princos Building, Ise Honso Street, Hong Kong.
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[TO THE EDITOR' OF THE HONG KONG DAILY TRESS.]
¦ Seen by an Indian constable in Canton Road yesterday with a sus picious bulge in the region,, of his stomach, a Chinese, wearing a long coat, was stopped and searched. by the constable who found on him 45 taels of raw opium. The man was charged before Mr. Fraser yesterday when it was stated that several chits were found on his per son which showed he was a regular carrier of opium. He was fined to the ratepayers of the Kulangsu 81,300 or nine months' hard labour. (Amoy) Municipal Council is apt to arouse mixed emotions in the A Chinese, who was found on minds that retains memories of that KOWLOON'S GARDEN CITY.
Cumberland board, H.M.S. months hard labour by Mr. Scho- thought occurs that in such
o pretty island settlement. Thursday was sentenced to two!
feld yesterday, a previous convie- Araadia as Drum Wave Island tion for larceny being proved municipal councillor is an asomaly, against him. According to the police, the man was found in posses and a sion of a paas which he claimed bad | Where every prospect pleases, men been given to him by his uncle. The should not be troubled with vile re- pass belonged to another man who, had lost it when he had coati ferences to ecncrote drains or muni- stelen on January 11.
Icipal debentures. To the sentimen- talist with an eye for the beautiful A fine of $10 with an order for and a proper appreciation of Na expulsion was the "sentence passed by Mfr: Williams on an Indian ture, it all seems as improper as a named Ishar Singh, a Sikh, who pack of cards would seem in Para- arrived in the Colony without proper papers. The defendant had dix: The product of modern Euro- spent the best part of a decade in pean civilisation, however, has cem- Jamaica and had then proceeded plex tastes, and just as the untu- to Shanghai. He found his way to tored Indian would shrink from set- Hong Kong on a Chinese bost and his presence would not have been ting forth, to the Happy Hunting discovered but for the fact that he Grounds without his earthly wea applied for a job as a watchman.
poas, so the foreigner, preparing to
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a respite from anxiety and from The Management of the King's
Dr. Suc de Waldemar, Manter settle down in an earthly paradise a sorrow's crown of sorrow, reinform us that although negotia Magician and Telepathist, who like Kulangsu, locks round for a membering happier things." The tions are now in progress for the world commered and paralyses load of unliquidated obligations renting of the King's Theatre for Eva & very successful entertain rase course site, and makes a me Germany, financially and economi. that the War has left is even heavier future boxing tournaments, nothing on at the Peninsula Hotel recent morandum to the offset that he ly, is giving a performance at the must order a ballot box fret thing cally. because from
than materially. We has yet been definitely arranged Club de Recreio on Monday at 6.30 Hong Kong Daily Press, Jan. 23, Germany spiritually
only been forced to with regarding to holding there the menace to national life has have not
p.m. the price of admission being 1003. THE HONG KONG. LAND
mobilise our foreign securities," contestant the King's Theatre come twice within the memory
81.00 (children half price) Dr. INVESTMENT & AGENCY ·
as the familiar election jargon put
Chan "Kon, the conswain of the Saar has a pair of very clever Looking Back 50 Years. CO., LTD.
of many who are still alive. France it; we have had to pledge joy na at the moment weeks no quarrel, the future. Nor wil any exhorta before the Hen, Comdr. Hole, at visiting our office, he thoroughly for the proposed Observatory at collateral for our hope in facing motor boat Chan On, was charged hands, and he can do magic" on
the spot. Yesterday morning, when At what point the arrangements HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE IS HYPOTH who is merely taking much precaution, lurerer authoritative, retire the Marine Court, yesterday with ORDINARY GENERAL MEET tions, as this catastrophe she has that which is forfeit. If it is re- having failed to carry the required, amused and mystified the staff for Hong Kong may have arrived wo ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this just saped, suggists and even Time, which covers the scarred January 16. On admitting. the him in a close circle he had his ment has been much talked about,
covered, it will be by the hand of number of lifebelts on his vessel on quarter of an hour-even etanding are unable to say. Company will be held at the Offices impelà her to take,
audience gusssing as to how it was but, so far, only the preliminaries battle-folds again with wild flowers, charge. he was fined $50, от але of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.,
That those precautions are far in and effaces their bitter memories month's imprisonment, Comdr. Hole
I have been taken, and it will be Ltd, TUESDAY, 16th Febuary,
some time before any real progress 1982 at NOON for the purpose of excess of the needs of the situation from the generations to come. Still, remarking that he considered it a
na Dean "INCE admits, we may see
A roport has been, made to the is made. In the meantime the receiving the Report of the Directors as the rest of Europe sees it carries joy on the face of little children,
police of the theft of luggage be- Shanghai people have been working" together with the Statement of little or no weight with French for delight and liberty are the Thres youthful Chinese, two of longing to a merchant, named Li quietly and effectively, and a re Accounts for the year ending 31st people who see it from the angle of simple creed of childhood. Was not whom were under sixteen years of Tol It soos that on arrival from gularly organised noteorological December 1931.
the mad poet BLAKE" ♫ 5861,
wers charged before Mr. Canton on Thursday, he was met on service for the China Coast is to be The REGISTER of SHARES of bitter experience, and are, there when he discerned the true stel of Williams yesterday with the theft board the s.a. Fatahan by a man, established next month. The first the Company will be CLOSED from fore, not amenable to the sort of that beautiful flower of Christian of three furs from a shop in Lynd- who, presenting a card purporting consideration that suggests itse!! THURSDAY. 28th January to reason which satisfies her foreign love" which the prophet of a later hurst Terrace on Tuesday last. The to establish his identity as a runner is this state of affairs is the superi Another very strong day lamenta? In his "Songs of defendant who was over sixteen from the Hotel Asia, took over the ority of the system of government TUESDAY, 16th Febuary, both days neighbours. inclusive, during which period no induerment to this scare for Innocence," di ho not write to years of age was sentenced to 15 merchant's luggage. Not until his in force at Shanghai to that under
Infant joy:' solute security through powerful
weeks' hard labour. The others arrival at the Hotel Asia, which in which we labour in Hong Kong. transfer of shares can be registered: land and air forces lies in the fact
were sentenced to one month's hard on the Central Praya, did the mor- The elaborate machinery of the By Order of the Board of Directors.that the population of France does
labour each on the police producing chant discover, after enquiries, that Government of a Crown colony ap not expand an that of her former
records of previous convictions. It his luggage had not been delivered patra to act as a dead weight on enemy does. On the contrary it de-
was stated that banishment war at the hotel. It was further dia- all enterprise of a public character, [1724 clines and, as a result of the war
rants would be applied for against covored that the so-called runner fong Kong Daily Prem, Jan. 92,
1881. was not employed there. and its devastating effects, it will
All defondanta.
Secretary,
7OL B. GREENHILL,
Hong Kong, 19th Jan. 1932.
I have no namo:
I am but two days old,' What shall I call theo ? 'I happy am,
Joy is my name,' Sweet joy bafali thee!
serious offence ·
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St.-My colleagues and 1 on thả Board of Directors of the "Hong Kong Engineering and Construc tion Co, Ltd., feel Hattered at the extremely friendly and encouraging comments which the newspapers of the Colony have seen fit to direct on the Company's Garden City Scheme just inaugurated.
The Daily Press editorial of this morning is a stimulating endorse- mont of spirit of enterprise, which is appreciated at its full value.
Your invitation to residents" to order their chauffeurs to make a detour when on the way to Faaling in order that they may see for them- selves, what is being done in Kow- loon is advice which, we hope, many of your readers will take ad- vantage of, There are, I am sure, many Kowloon residents who will be only too eager to act the part of the man from Cook's if any Hong Kong, resident cares to no- cept the services, of. Kowloonites, to become acquainted with all-and it is a great deal there is to be seen on the Peninfula. That live or- ganisation of willing service known as the Kowloon Residents' Associa- tion fins, I am sure, ready merabers who will be only too happy to act as guides to their insular fellow- residents on sny tour of Kowloon. The weather just at present is in- vitingly, ideal for a tour of the near and distant parte of Kowloon and its environs.
I would ask you, in conclusion, in the name of my co-Directors, to accept the Company's best thanks for the kindly welcome accorded the initiation of the Company's project which has earned the goodwill of the local Prias and merited their encomiumg as guido, counsellor
·and. :friend '!. of public opinion. Yours, etc.,
J. P. BRAGA, Managing Director.
Hong Kong, January 22
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