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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THỨ HONG TÔNG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RAOB MEETING, 1932.

2018, 22ND, 231D, SirH^and 27TH FEBRUARY, 1935.

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ON Saturday soth, Monday 22nd,

Jyowday, 23rd, and Wednesday S4th February, the Brat bell will be rung at 11 am, and the Brat race will be run at 11:30 am. On. Natur- day, the 27th February, the first belt will be rung at 1 pm, and the first race will be run at 1.30 p.m.

The tifin interval will be, tåkon aftor the Bfth race on the first four days.

MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE

Members are reminded that they and their ladies must wear their badges prominently displayed.

No one without a badge will be admitted.to the Members Kacloruro.

non-moinbers, to

the Mombors

Badges Enclosure and Olabl Rooms nt $10.00 per day including tax-or $40.00 including tax for tha Meeting Gadios $5.00 and $20,0 res pectively) are obtainable through the Secretary upon introduction by a Member, such Member to be "ras

for all chits, etc.

admitting to Members En- closure will NOT be on sale at the Enge Course.

A limited number of Tifins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided, they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tele- phone No. 91920

Un no protext will children be permitted in either enclosure during the Arst four days of the Masting.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $4.00. per day including tax for all persons, ivolading, indieš, and is payable at the Gate.

"Soldiers and Sailors in uniform aro admitted to the Public Enclosure, at $1.00 per day including tar

Bookmakers, Tic Tac meu, eta, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Clab during the Raco Mesting, Tifins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enelosara.

SERVANTS PASIES Passes for Serrauts will be issued on application to the Secretary, Brd Flour, Glosaster Building.

Employers are requested to distri- bute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the pasBOS.

Servants are not permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing. through on their duties, but must remain in their employers stands,

Any prasons found loitering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will bo removed from the enclosure."

By Order;

CB. BROWN,

Secretary," Hong Kong, 8th February, 1832.

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Shareholders. in this Corporation will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kork on BATURDAY, thế 27T FEBRUARY, 1982, at 11.80

m.

TO TAKE ONE

IS BETTER THAN TO HAVE ONE HEADACHE

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It's like the stitch intime-ETON ́ ́ YOU”

mine of trouble. Yeuntivite is not a modicine but prèren- tative of half the little worries and pains that we all suffer from.

YEAST VITE

omos-in-a-whils

?GILMAN & Co., Ltd. Agents.;

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, stated:

The anti-cyclone haa. strength- enet. It is now central N.W of Vladivostook, moving N.E.

Load Forecast:-E. winds, fresh;

generally drizzle and mist.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932

Tale of the Day.

News and Views

no country are they now so grené a mehaon: ga in China over whom they are ever suspended like the sword of Damooks. Typhoons Invy their annual toll and again improse upon the Chinees the uttar inada, quacy of human power over the A prominent spinster in a country elements. In addition to these caled her an old cabbage, taxed him village, hearing the vicar had onld- mities which continuously threaten with it. He immediately replied: the lives of thousands, there are “Yes, all heart, my dear Indy, all others, piracy, brigandage and the

"Heart""" oppression of militarists.

-No wonder there is a super- stitious belief in the existence of evil spiritual forces, for nowhere in the world is the human being exposed to so many and so vast forces of disaster.

Added to these natural enemies, China this year is engaged in deadly conflict with foreign power, well armed and highly or- ganised. Was it merely fancy or | did' wo really detect in this year's celebrations louder and, more con tinuous noises than usual? A Beres Anger naturally looks for some outlet. Bitter resentment, and the sense of powerlessness in fee of the forces, whether natural. human, that are arrayed against un, cannot be entirely suppressed even if they cannot find their normal expression in actual âght- ing.

or

German Tribute to British Wavy.

tion, story-telling, whistles, and Disappearing Gun. during the midday rest hour. mouth-organ playing were held

Joseph Jones Panthy deudraeth, The chair prize was awarded to

Though these, bóata are conäider.

cessation for 12 years, they are 200 ably larger than the 14 H boater which, have been running without

who was chaired with all the pomptons under that the 1: Class, of the national Eisteddfod, and which are the smallest of what may other prizes included a silver ten be considered our ocean-going sub- pot, biscuit barrel, and books. marinos" The last submarines to mount a disappearing gan waro the "G. Class R.M. submarines Swordfish and Sturgeon may be re- garded as vessels whose primary scale attacks on the const une is for operations against large-

British Navy to stamp out the glave The King's Racing Yacht,

A tribute to the efforts of "the trafo in the Red Sea is paid in Berlin by Herr Hana Helfrite, the the re-coppering of his famous rac The King has given orders for German explorer, who lately re-ing yacht, the Britannia, in pro turned from a visit to that region,paration for next season's racing

British gunboats, he says, "; 29-

Fox Bolt Up a Chimney.

siduously give chase to the slave The yachs is laid up at Cowes. flourishes despite their watchful traders, But the nefarious traffe

neas.

The anti-slave campaign does not perturb the dealers, who again and aguin endeavour to smuggle their valuable black wares from. Africa

into Arabia.

Embarked. Secretly.

Obok, in French Somaliland (Herr Halfrits anys), is the chief loading loading port, and the slaves, from the interior, sometimes as remote as the Abyssinian moun bains.

are usually embarked in scoret at night.

Should a slave chaser approach the trader during the crossing to the Arabian coast, the human cargo is thrown overboard to the sharks.

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Literary Nourishment,

There is some humour in the report that Gandhi'a literary nourishment in gaol will include an

FINEST

AMERICAN

CHOCOLATES

OF THE FINEST QUALITY».

FROM

autographed and specially-marked H. D. FOSS & Co. After swimming the Severn, with py of the Secretary of State for India's book, "The Fourth Seal," the Berkeley bounds in close pur and the Prime Minister's Wan- a fox dashed into a housederings and Excursions." It munt Llanthony, Gloucester, and bolted be rare indeed for a political up, the chimney."

RECEIVED

prisoner to beguile the hours of in- FRESH SHIPMENT JUST The hounda swarmed over the carceration by perusing a work by.. house, but they soon loonted the and autographed by, one who is, fox, and the huntsman's endeavours technically, partially responsible

for his imprisonment. to get them out of the house failed.

Finally a sweep was fetched to thing is possible in politics these But Any-

dislodge the fox.

days. When the brushes were thrust up Hamorous History.. the chimney the fox jumped on to the roof, then on to some back pro 1060 mises, and made another dash for

life.

To: Cross Atlantis in Tiny. Grait.

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Hounds were close upon his heels, The crackers"when exploded.

Evon when a cargo of blacks is and he was killed on the river perhaps, symbolise the assault that to sent the slaves back to the

interocpted, it is often impossible bank. one would like to make upon the native villages, whose names and enemy. China never in her history Reographical position are unknown. has opened the new year in such remain for weeks a the to them. As a result they have tragic gloom, but it would be well quayside, and the authorities ex if China learned that the way of perience great difficulty in provid- diapeiling auch gloom, was not being for them. yond human powita

The way to fall in Prices. regeneration does not lie in a blind

acceptance of the inevitability of disaster, but in a resolute and determined. exercise of those forces which are potentially within her control. Top long has China yield- KW-HAROLD GEORGE, youngest of nature's forces and too long has ed to this belief in the domination son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. W. KEW. Funeral will pass thoshe bowed down to them in an Monument to-day at 6 p.m.

DEATH.

Herr Halfrit says that today

Portsmouth harbour on a daring Six young men have set out from voyage across the Atlantic in two small boats

One of these, the Ahto, is a 94ft. aloog. It is manned by two bro thers, one of whom, Mr. Ahto Walter, book the vessel from the Baltio across the Atlantic and back He and his brother,

last year.

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savo are sold in Hedias, Neid, Yemen, Hadrament, and in other South Arabina States, and that in Yarillo, are Fathonians. overcast,

Abyssinia and other African States the trade although officially for bidden, is actively carried on.

Th world fall in all commodity who this winter fetch only from prices has affecter those of slaves,

£2: 10%, to £5 per head. In general, the slaves are well treated by their owners.

Editorial and Business Ofoen: Ik

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel: 24511:

attitude of traditional fatalism. Let her abandon this belief in tho power of the devils of destruction and rely on the known sources of strength to control her destiny."

The Hankow Goods were of so

London Office: 48, Fleet Street,terrible and unprecedented

10. 4.

The Daily Press.

1.

(Hora Kona, FEBRUARY 9, 1082).

CRACKERS.

for the purpose of receiving the CHINA invented gunpowder, many Report of the Board of Directors together with a statement of Ascounts centuries ago but such was her for the year ending 31st December, penceful nature that she never 1931.

used its explosive power for any. The Register of Shares of the thing but celebrasion of a social Corporation will be CLOSED from event, and the greatest event in the Monday, the 15th February to Saturday, the 27th February, 1982, Chinese Calendar is the New Year's (both days incinaive), during which Day. It is amazing the amount of period no transfer of Shares can be noise that marks the end of one registered.

year, and the beginning of another

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nature that it is doubtful if any system of dykes could have contain- ed the mighty torrents of the Yang- taze, but how many floods in China could have been averted but for the | corruption of those who had divert

ed the money for maintaining dykes into their own pockets ? Fore- thought and the application of scientific knowledge are more effec- tive in staving off disaster, than offerings to the gods who are sup- posed to preside over the rivers. To obey is better than sacrifice" and it is the lesson of obedience to the

of

fundamental principles

human relationships that must arst

be nequired if a stronger and more efficient China is to emerge from the present chaos in domestic and that punctuate every moment of foreign affairs. Slogans and cracker the day and night. must surely have some deep significance, for other firing are very well, but when

By Order of the Board of Directors, in Chin The loud detonations

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, Stli Feb., 1992. 1786

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY,

10B001 reopens February 8th. Examination lot No Studenta at. 9.80 a. For Prospectus for Boarders and Day-bo e, apply Mr. Li Hoi Tang, Banker & Co., 20, Liss Toux Road, Central or te

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

STANLEY,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

Lawrence of Arabia: Latest..

Lawrence of Arabia, the man who gained feme in the war, has proved cyclist, and he is now, developing himself to be an excellent motor-

into a skilful speed-boat pilot,

T.

The second boat is the Enter prise, a 32ft auxiliary cutter, which will carry a orow of four, consisting of Messrs. C. P. Barber, Erie Hughes Ronald Wright, U. K. Walter, and

for the coast of Spain. They will The party propose to make first proceed to West Africa and go by way of the West Indies to America,

New Submarine" Reversion to Older

Type...

The submarine Sturgeon, 740 tons, Officially known na Aircraftman built at Chatham Dockyard, has Edward Shaw, attached to been lauachod. Her armament, in- now engaged, as part of his normal gun Mount Batten Air Station, he is eludes one 4.1-inch disappearing.

Mrs. Little, wife of Rear Royal Air Force duties, in trying Admiral C. J. C. Little, Rear- out boats on Southampton Water. Admiral commanding submarines, of great importance to the flying

The development of fast boats is performed the ceremony.

boat and seaplane squadrons.

Lawrence is to be seen frequently" speeding down the Solent when em ployed on these motor-boat testa.

Eistedford in a Quarry."

A

The launch of H.M. S. Sturgeon,

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farcical

and All That "the history-book-han been. made into a play, and is described as being a very funny skit on an cient history.

NEW STYLES

AND

After this success, if the authors 'want to produce something even funnier, it is suggested transferring some of our very modern history NEW FLAVOURS to the stage. It will not require satirical treatment. It could not be made funnier than it already is. The Silent Cax Science, for

new

conquesta. OVOK

sighing, "Seeks tollence sounds that sadly

Jar

High-strung, modern nerves, and

so is trying

car.

To achieve the soundless motor A. S. WATSON That's the problem she is keón on

Bolving

Nothing must be heard from tyres Audible exhausta are a disgrace;

revolving

On the road, however, swift the

раса

Walkers, thanks to Nature's limite

tions,

"

Save in front are practically

blind Nothing will appeal to their, sense-

tions

When the silent car comes up be-

hind

& CO., LTD.

HONG KONG DISPENSARY

EST. 1841

Still there may be hope for brea HEAVY MORNING AT

tures creeping

If they will observe the highway

code,

Where there is no footpath always

keeping

MAGISTRACY.

Strictly to the right hand of the NEARLY 100 CASES DEALT Science is, moreover, never-resting:

road:

Sho has other triumphs yet in

view.

While her latest fent we are digest-

ing

She has turned her mind to some

thing now.

Out

zistor submarine to H.M.S. Swordfish, is of considerable in- terest, as these two vessela are a resuscitation of a smaller type of submarine not built for many years. They are, in fact, approximately of the same tonnage as the old. An eisteddfod," which lacted "E" class submarines, which play. a fortnight and was held in the ed so prominent a part in the dinner cabin of the Onkeley siate War. and in which some of the So, quarry, has just concluded..

greatest submarine exploits, includ. Fifty quarrymen took part, and ind the dangerous passage of the the competitions-singing, elocu- Dardanelles, were performed..

of any gadget you can men

tion

Yet another surely will be born.

I wonder, will her next inven-

tion Be a super-strident motor hors,

TOUCHSTONE.

WITH.

Nearly a hundred cases, more than half of which were from the Wanchai District, were dealt with at the Central Police Court yesterday by Mr Wynne Jones who was occupied throughout the morning coping with an accumulation of cases over a period of three days, there hay. ing been no sitting on Saturday.

The majority of the offenders were charged with firing crackers in pro- |hibited areas, or in a manner whier.... constituted a danger to the gener. nl public. Fines of 85 or 810 were Tung Lok Theatre Co., Ltd., has aga & years, was found floating off Hiking Club had an outing.

It is notified that the name of the The corpse of a Chinese child, Some twenty members of the imposed. Quite a number of other

on cases were for street gambling. been struck, off the Ragister. 0

Stonecutters Island on Saturday. Saturday afternoon when they were A middle-aged man, who was ac lend on a long walk by Mr. C.

Local Notes and Events ★

It in declared by order of His

wise it would be hard to under-dulged in for the purpose of solving Excellency, the Governor Cou-beon pleased to appoint Professor derstanding, they missed Dr. Herk- had seen some small boys gambling.

fail.

Light on Old Moors,""

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stund the extravagance of so frugal national problems they completely a race as the Chinese. At funerals, af course, the object of the noise. is to frighten away evil spirits that are lurking at the corners and doubtless the terrifying, explosions on the eve of New Year, and on the day itself are believed to cleanse the air of those malevolent forces, which lurk around, and are ready to blast the fortunes of those, whose lives "seen to be at their mercy.

to..

Letters published in Home papers seem to castablish that the original "Old Moore "

was one "Francia

Moore, Physician," who practised at Westminster in the latter part of the 17th Century. He was also a schoolmaster and an astrologer, His Almanac for 1711 was dated from "The sign of the Old Lily, near the Old Barge House, in Christ Church Parish, Southwark, July 19, 1710." He was apparently

in Bridgenorth, in the County of a partly gentleman, and was born

Salon, 29th of January, 1656.***.*

-In qua Goods or BAMUEL BELL Such deafening noise does afford

SMITH, LAT or East LuzTOB

bense of human importance for near Mauron IN THE COUNTT OF YORE, ENGLAND, RETIRED it exhibits the power of man MASTER MARINIE, DEGRASKU. compete with nature in its most TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN violent aspect-in the Ansh of that the Court has, by virtue of lightning and roll of' thunder. Wɑ the Provisions of Seatton 58 of Ordinance ourselves mimis nature this way by No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting our naval salutes. But China does the Time for Creditors and Othora to send in their Claims against the above this, not. as an act of politeness. Estate to the BRD DAY of MARCH, but with a deeper conviction that All Creditors and Others are accord- | in this manner the enemy is to be films to the Undersigned on or before China are mumerone and of many ingly hereby required to send their dentroyed. The natural enomics of SERET date.

Another Francis Moore," Phy forma. Disease and death are sician," appears as the author of Common to all, but to none do they

the Almanac for 1821, of which one ooo so frequently as to the, Chinese family, Floods and famine of the correspondents possesses two Pare not unknown elaowhere, but in copies.

1932.

Dabed the 2nd day of Feb., 1932,

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTIE Solicitors for the Extentor, Pinos's Building, Ios Honas Street, Hong Kong

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His Excellency the Governor has M. Grenhan. Owing to a misun-use of gambling pleaded that ne all that Saigon is a place at whica: Robert Kennedy Muir Simpadh, lots who was to have met thom on and had snatched the dice from

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an infectious or contagious diseas". M.C., M.A., to be an additional the way and the company returned them to stop them playing. namely, small-pax, prevails.

member of the Council of the to town on a motor bus,

Hia Worship accepted the evi- of one year, with effect from versity of Hong Kong for a period

A considerable amount of excite dance, given by the prosecution and, February 1.

ment was caused along the water in imposing a Ane of $10, asked front in the western district last

His Excellency the Governor hus been pleased to appoint Mr. Ed-¦ ward Irvine Wynne-Jones to be a Pulice Magistrate, with effect from February 1

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avening when the motorbont Asta" the defendant since when he had His Excellency the Governor, has which was lying at the Tung On appointed himself censor of morals. bean pioneed to apoins, the Hon. Wharf at the time caught fira. The On Friday forendon, Ng Kai-w, curable Bir Shauson Chow, St. to Fire Brigada was communicated an aged Chinese, fall down the be an additional member of the with and two appliances were de stairs at his home in Haiphong Kong for a period of three-years, eneily put out and little or

Council of the University of Hong patched to the scone. The fire was Rand. and injured his skull. While; on the way to hospital the unfor with effect from February 1 damage was done to the boat. tainate man died.

1932

no

LICENSING FEES.

REVISED SCALE PUBLISHED

When a Chinese was brought bur It is notified that, His Honour His Excellency the Governor has fore Mr.. Wynne-Jones at Central the Chief Justice has ordered that been pleased to make the following Magistracy yesterday on a charge the next Criminal Sessions for the tranater in the Hong Kong Volu of bag-matching, it was alleged

The Governor in Council has re dospatch of the business of the tear Court shall be held on Monday, Robert Keith Valentine, Armourcdia Chinese lady in Wong Nei the Licensing Ordinanco

Defence Corps-Lieutenant that the man snatched & bag from vised the following licences

under February 15, at 10 am.

Car Bention, to be transferred to Cheong Road but was caught by the Reserve of Officers, Hong Kong Sanitary Inspector "Sky" Karri

Auctioneer (Annual), $600, Lt., Wolfe-Barry reporte that on Volunteer Défence Corps, with son. After evidence had becni

Auctioneer (Weekly); #25. of a gold and platinum brooch ses February 1 he discovered the loss affect from January 18.

taken, the case was adjourned h Public biliard table, skittleground order the further evidence might or Ninopin of bowling-ally (An- in have been stolen from the Off. tion received a report from a wo with 20 small diamonds with a Shortly after seven o'clock last be brought

nual), 8100. pearl in the centre. It is believed | evening," the Wanchai Police Stu-1

It is notified in the Gazette that cers' Mess on Stonecutters Island... Iman residing at 311, Hennency a competitive examination for the

Rand, to the affect that a man Indian Civil Service, open to all 825 His Excellency the Governor has armed with a revolver made his qualified persons, will be held in bert Richard Budd Hancock to act tain been pleased to appoint, Mr. Her way into her fint and woole à cer Ladon in July and August, 1982,

amount of property and and that copies of the regulations, { As a Member of the Court of the money, Sulesquent enquiries, syllabus of examination, and lorras University of Hong Kong, during however, revealed that the repor of application to be filled up by the abschen on leave of Mr. Hugh was false, and that although a man the candidates may be seen on all- Blackwell Layard Dowbiggin, with did enter the flat, he went away plication at the Colonial Boaretary's effect from January 30,

without stealing anything..

office.

Money changer (Annual) 8100. Chinese undertaker (Annual)

Hawkers..

Stalholder

Itinerant for other than tobac (Annual) #4.

teamship (Annual), 824. Native araft (Annual), 24. Newspaper (Annual), 8),