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HONG KONG SHAREBROKERS"

·ASSOCIATION:

NOTICE..

TÖTICE, TE HEREBY GIVEN that May Pottlement will be held on WEDNESDAY, 25th inst bead of Tuesday, 26th May, 1932. By Order of the Committee,

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Secretary.

Hong Kong, 5th May, 1939.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG.

IN BANKRUPTCY

No. 6 or 1982.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DIVIDEND

R. CHARLOTTE GEORGINA LILIAN MATHESON, LATH OF BUNTINGTON, ON Bruuns ROAD, VICTORIA IN Hora THE COLONT OF KONG, WIDOW, DECEASED,

frat and final dividend: intended to be declared in the

above matter..

Creditors who have not proved: their debts by the 7th June, 1982, will be excluded.

See

The HILLMAN

WIZARD

Before

FIRST

laying

out good money, these days, it as well to see what you are buying.

Don't buy a car without seeing the

HILLMAN

WIZARD

AT THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

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a general expretation that by the 31st March; the end of the financial year, would soo tha Budget duly balanced This anticipation ham happily proved correct, the revenue return showing that, after thu pro- vinish of £32,508,000 for the re- demption of debt, the Budget, balanced with small surplus of £384,000. When it is reenflod that in September last, the country was

BANK OF MALAYA SHUTS DOORS.

$4,000,000 ON LOAN."

UNABLE TO REDEEM MONEY ON MORTGAGES DUE.

1932

News and Views

Tale of the Day.

Boy Wonder what makes lambs. hop like that, BİR ??

Girl: It's their now wool ticklin" am, 1 'specs.?? Buster Keaton® "Detained,”

Back to Matilda.

It will be a source of great satis- ination to the world that King Carol of Rumania has turned fron his wild coursen, aud docided to become a respectable king again. compeer of the youth of whoot it

faced with a deficit of £74,700,000. Apoh, April, 24-A tremendous Mr. Buster, Kenton, the Am He has proved himself a Royal

it will be realised what a fine example of patriptie effort and powers of recuperation has been given the world by the British people.

comedian, has been detained for Riego, California, questioning" by the police at Sanwas ung:-

aa: his wifo,........ formerly Mise Natdhe Talmadge, accuses him of taking their two children away from her.

sensation was caused here this morn ing by the announcement that the Bank of Malaya had suspended pay

ent.

The decision was apparently are de rived at late last night as the clerks employed in the Bank were unaware of the position, many of them turning up for work as usual only to and the doors closed

over

In Searah of. Honours...,

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Two of the most interesting American golfers who have not hitherto competed in the British opon championship are going to take part in this year's tournament

A notice was posted outside the Bank stating that owing to un-at Sandwich, in June. foreseen circumstances the Bank was closed with a view to reorganisation. A large crowd collected outside the Bank,, composed mostly of Chin. and chettiars, gesticulating and shouting wildly.

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They are Fred Morrison, winner of a recent big open, meeting at Caliente, and Harry Cooper, who has tied for the American open championship and sequred many "important events.

He married Matilda, the dough-

ter of the builder But his heart was true to Poll The very word Carol reminda one of the lark. The Ink, how ever, is over, and Carol now cenach beating his wings against the pale purple even, and goes back to Matilda, arying peccavi (or, may be, peoenvesed) and mottling down to the humdrum business of opening dog shows and getting out" of one uniform into another, as decent. Balkenkings must do. The Sydney "Sun"

An examination of the details of the year's revenue, and expenditure roveals several interesting items One is immediately struck with the hesponse that the direct taxpaper: fas made to the uppeal of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer (Via count SNOWDEN) to pay promptly their due. The yield from income

Job Relief Paid by Orchard Work, tax and surtax was £10,000,000 in

Commissioners of Douglas Coun- exćena of the expected amount.

ty, in the State of Washington, U. The Customs figures were £4,500,000

Cooper was born in a golf clubs.A., with its hundreds of acres of house in the Ealing district, Mid-Forchards, have devised more than estimated, £9,000,000 of

It is understood that the Bank dosex, where his father was programme to get back something out this increase being due to the new

fessional, but he settled in Amarionof the dole system. has

over $4,000,000 out on loanyand too early to reveal His possibilities tariff duties. These duties were not the several mortgages have maturin his native country contemplated, or at any rate noted but the Bank has been unable projected, when the revised Budget.

to redeem the money lént. was presented last autumn, and for

The "Bank of. Malaya, Ltd., in the most part they were only incorporated in the FM.S., waa existence during the last cath ofed and now has agencies in Singa- founded in 1990. It rapidly extendi the financial year. A yield at this pore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, rate would give about £2,000,000 in | Amoy, D.the course of a complete year.

DURO GARAGE

In Mathan Road, Kowloon.

GIZWAN & Co.,

Ltd, Agents.

D. L. AGASSIZ,

Official Reeciver,

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BIRTHS.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HEATHCOTE-On May 1 at Shang

HONG KONG

bai to Mr. and Mrs. HEATHCOTH, daughter, MANN-On April 30, at Shanghai,

to Joan, wife of Go MANN, a daughter.

COMPANIES WINDING UP

No. of 1924.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1911-26

AND

Tuz "OHINESE MERCHANTS BANK LIMITED:

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.

*

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN FOURTH AND FINAL DIVIDEND in the above matter and creditors, who have not already done so, aro required on or before the EIGHT DAY OF JUNE 1934 to send their names, and addresses and the particu lars of their Debts or Claims and the name and addresses of their Solici tors, if any, to the undersigned the Liquidator in this matten and are also required by their Bolicitors or Farsonally to some in and prove their Dabta or Claims at the office of this Oficial Receiver, Supreme Court between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm, or in default thereof THEY WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BENEFIT OF ANY DISTRIBU- TION made butore such Debts are provod.

-Dated' this 4th day of May, 1922,

JOHN FLEMING, CA,

c/o Low, BINGHAM & MATTERre, 7, Queen's Boad,, Central, Kong Kong

NOTICE...

WATER SUPPLY.

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TT is hereby notified that, commen- cing: on Saturday, 7th May, the water supply will until further notice, be turned off daily in all districts of the Colony between the hours of 8 pan, and 6 a.m.

HAROLD T. ORFANY,

Water Authority. PUBLIC WORKA DEPARTMENT. Hong Kong, 5th May, 1832,

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THE Fifty-here. Ordinary General Mooting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson *Co. Ltd. Podder Street, Tong Kong, on Wednesday, the 18th May, 1932 at noon, for the Directors, Kot receiving the Report. of the passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors. ENDIS * The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 11th May to 1st June, 1932, both days inclusive- By order of the Board

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers,

DEATH.

It is well that the two items of direct taxation and Customs have Hhown up woll, for between them they Havo, balanced certain fallings off in revenue dae to bad trade. Thus Stamp duties are down by TANG CHU NAONG.--At his residence £3,580,000 as a result of decrease

at 37, Gough Street, Bong. Kong, on May 3, 1932. Min fnancial activity, and the Post TANG CHE NOONG, aged 74. Offer proft, though £1,400,000 after a long lines Funeral will take place on Monday May larger than in 1930-31, fell short of B. Cortage arriving at the the estimated figure by £700,000, a "Farewell Pavilion, Kennedy fact also to be attributa to trade Town at 1p.m.

depression. On the other hand

WEATHER REPORT.

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Yesterday's" weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, at 5.45 p.m., stated: mm.

The anti-cyclone rómains cen- tral over North China and has „spread"-south-eastward: the de- pression is crossing Hokkaído on a north-east trick.

Local Forecast-East winds, moderate; fine to cloudy.

Editorial and Business Office: 12

Iot House Stroet. Tel: 30257... Night Editor (Wanchai Office)

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The Baily Press:

HONG KONG, MAY 7, 1939.

BRITISH FINANCE.

į savings were effected in expenditure, this being £12,500,000 less than was estimated in the Budget. A con- siderable portion of this saving, is is good to note, is due to the fact that average unemployment has Beon less than was estimated in September Fast,

Hong Kong Shanghai, Bangkok, Batavia, Somerang, Sourabaya and Rangoon,

According to the directories the manager is Mr. Goon Siah Kes and the managing director Mr. Lee Ah Wong, J. P.

Mr. Lee Ab Weng is a well-known financier and landed proprietor. He was born in 1888 the son of the late, Mr Sec Siah Seng, of Penang He went to Ipoh in 1,000 to take up an appointment in Government service but later began his own busi news us a miner. He was appointed managing director of the Bank of Malaya when it was foundedi.

POSTAL INCREASE

ILLEGAL.

REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT BY LEGISLATIVE. YUAN.

Nanking, April 30-The Legials Reference has been made to the the proposed increase in inland tive Yuan this morning declared high price of British Government postal rates to be illegal. The deck securities and nothing has contriaton to increase the rates wña re

cently taken by the Ministry of buted more to this than the main Communications and should go int tenance, at the high figure of £32 effect on May 1 millions, of the Sinking Fund for debb repayment,

Another factor which has recently helper in this direction is the liquidation of cer- Lain credits, from France and the

United States, contracted in the endeavour last year to save the gold #tandard.•

That trade generally has improved since the beginning of the year is evident from the rise in the market value of British industrial ordinary shares. These figures culled from a London newspaper are instruc tive on this point. Taking the aver age values in the year 1930 at 100, the figure for December, 1931, was 79.0, For January this year the figure was 72.6, for February, 70.9,

TRAGIC DEATH ON

WEDDING EVE..

UNCROWNED KING OF

THE "AROTTO;"

At this morning's meeting of the Yuan it was decided that the Ministry's decision was legal and) the Yuuur requests the National Government immediately to issue orders forbidding the enforcement

of the increase.

In its resolution the Zunn says the increase is illegal as the matter was never submitted to the Lagis lative Yuan for examination and

the most brilliant players in the At 28 he in recognised as one of

United States;'*.

Fresent Economies,

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At a recent wedding the guests bhaw wheat at the married pair instand of rice. We understand the throwing of old shoes was omitted, due to the fact that they were: oo bupied as the time by feat.

Phar Lap's Record. 7-

and Australian-owned and trained Phar Lap, the New Zealand-born champion. achieved his mission in winning the rich handicap at Agua Caliente, Mexico, but his sudden death in California is another re minder of the great risk involved a sonding oyen the sturdient race

awn country.

horses to seek honours outside their

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Men who have been unemployed

of inability to find jobs, will be put and have been receiving financial assistance from the county, because

to work in orchards at pruning. picking brush and sundry Jobs. Orchardists; who also are hard pressed for finances, will repay the county out of their crops next au- tumn thus enabling them to have necessary work done now w

without capital, outlay

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Unemployed men will earn the ralief being given them, "and the County will be reimbursed for the money spent. If crop reverses pro- yent growers paying the county. taxpayers would not be out in return they would receive sorge more money than at present; still, form of work.

Any

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Gerard B. Lambert's America's cup yacht, Vantile, is to carry the tallest single mast ever stepped in A. S. WATSON & Co.,

a sailing vessel during the coming season. The new stick, designed by W. Starling Burgess, is to be 173 feet. from heat to head Ib is now under construction at Bristol, Rhode Island.

Phar Lap was an illustration of the unreliability of looks in race. horses He was big and ungainly, he would never have won a beauty weights over a long distances (he prizo, but he could carry heavy

The mast, five feet taller than the won the Melbourne Chip under st. one the Enterprise carried while 121b.), and he earned £86,000 in defending the America's cup, in

1930, is to be hollow and will be stakes. Ap

It is perhaps a pity to knock made of pieces of Alnaka spruce on the head the story that he was glued together, It will support a Melbourne Cup Just Ared at before the race for the sail area of 7883 square feet. The that was a joke which received extreme width of 22 feot, 8 inches. year. But yacht is 75 feet long and has an

world-wide publicity,

Mercantile Marine Chief.

The civil hend of the Mercantile Marine, Sir Charles Hipwood, K.BE., is to retire from his post at the Board of Trade about the mid- die of the month:

He is a very quiet man, and very efficient, as those of his staff in the Mercantile „Marino Department

now.

Sir Charles took honours at OX-

| Revolt Against Censorship.

Senatur W. B. Yeats, the famous Irish poet, who is now in London, has a project to establish an Irish Academy of Letters in Dublin.

He hopes to get the aid of Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. James, Joyco, Mr. Liam O'Flaherty and Mr. Peter O'Donnell, and another score of.. Irish writers, novelista. and dramatists.

•

He wants to establish a new cul-

because the Budget of the National ford at: the sama, time as tural body in Ireland which will Government has already been adopt did Lord Hugh Cecil, Canon represent the revolt of the Irish in- does not include increase of postal Laurence Binyon Lord Atkin and which are represented by the Irish ed and promulgated. This Budget! Percy Dearmen Lord Hewart, Mr. telligentsia against the influences rates.

Lord Peel.

censorship.

Local Notes and Events ★

Remarking that that type of offence was not a common one, Mrs.

Schofield fined a contractor's coolie from the files.

810 at the Central Police Court

and fuse without properly labelling Looking back 25 years. for carrying a parcel of gunpowder

the packet "Dangerous" The man

LIMITED.

THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY,

KOWLOON DISPENSARY.

GUIDE TO BOYER.

If you want to buy prepared medi- cine at moderate price or to order 'n - pair of glason of the highest point of perfection pissas come and patronize The Great China Medieal Co.,

No. 11, WING. Lox STABE (Opposite The Sun Co.), ,& trial will convince you and make you satif edi

JENNY DOLLY WINS £40,000.

Nice-Miss Jenny Dolly, the dancer, established a world re cord at the baccarat tables here by winning 5,000,000 francs (£40,000: až par) in a little less than an hour

This was the remarkable revenge she took against Benor Amletto Battisti," the Uruguayah mathema tician and banker with whom she has been engaged in an exciting duel at the Palais de la Mediter'. rance Casino.

while passing a hand-truck. in A Sanitary Department lorry,

Wing Lok Street on Thursday

In a run of bad luck she lost knocked down one of the coolies, was carrying it for his master who Authorities for the suppression of £18,000, and her change of fortune hold a lienes for a magazine at crime behind those prevailing in was cheered for several minutes by Causeway Bay:

causing internal Injuries from

which the man died after admision to the Government Civil Hospital.

and for March, 78.4. These Agures) One case of meningitis and one are the more remarkable in that of smallpox were reported on BRITISH Snance is showing many in the same period, ie, from 31st Thursday. INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGAovidances of recovery from the of December to 31st of March, com-

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aonto financial disorders of lastmodity prices have fallen 5 points ynar. There is no doubt that a pro- from 79,7 to -74.7. longed period of convalentener will be required before the patient is restored to even such measure of health as he possessed before tha world slump set in in the autumn of 1929, but it is already abundant- ly clean that the period of sente crisis is past. The higher rates of foreign exchange, the successive res "duutions in Bank Itate, the huge over-subseription of new capital issues, the strength of gilt-edged securities; these are a few of the many indices pointing to a return of confidence in the stability of British finanes. This renewal of support comes from home and from abroad and is now of auch a volumé that only the most serious Annncial tatastrophy alsewhere is likely to sinw-down the prosent movement

The greatest factor making for

Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1932,

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confidence is, of course,, a balanced budget, and all during the month of March the weekly figures issued

by the Treasury showing how taxa tion was being gathered in led to

Ottawa, Apr. 30-Known as the Uncrowned King of the Arctic," Inspector Joy of the Royal Cana on the eve of his wedding. dian Mounted Police, nlied to-day,

Inspector Joy frat upheld the Force's reputation for "getting its man, which in 1916 he journeyed up in the wilds of the frozen North in earth of the Eskimo who had slain a white trapper.

One year Inter he apprehended the murderer, who, though saved from execution because

.of. Hie ignorance of the laws of civilisa tion, nevertheless served a sentence of imprisonment.y:

The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Marciano Francisco de Paula Baptian, St. Joseph's Building, Block, second bor, to Miss Anna Tezorú Pereira, of the

same building, Block, ground Bobr.

Are the methods of our

local.

other parts of the Far East From the excited onlookers. aconversation which our repre sentative had yesterday with ta

Coast!

A Chinese was sentenced to ofght police officer of long service and Civil War on the South months hard labour by Mr. Scho- much experience it would appear Beld at the Contral Police Court so The gentleman in question re yesterday when he admitted that halated something which is not gen resorts will laugh uproariously at "I imagine that other seaside.

had returned to the Colony after erally known--that a large per- the decision of the Bournemouth January, Defendante har lave centage of the crimes which are Town Council that, in order to two committed locally are perpetrated preserve the tone" of the place, previous convictions for breach of by what may be styled "rogues and trippers who come in steamers the Opium Ordinance and one for vagabonds, wanderers who have from Brighton are not to be allow A report to the police states that larceny."

no roof to shelter them. These are ed to set foot on its holy ground,” 60 yards of telephone cable, valued at 8250, the property of the Hong.

the men who are generally caught writes a London journalist, Kang Telephone Company, was

in the act of descending down. stolen from the new whicular ferry to the Minister for the Colonies for women, and of holding up passere pipes, of snatching jewellery from wharf under construction at Row a concessions to himself and others; by in the back streets of the city loon Godowns some time between for lighting that city with gas Hong Kong Daily Preen, May 7,

March 21 and May 3

within three years from the grant 1907

of the concession. The Minister i

"What I want to know is where Brighton is clearly slow, bait, what Bournemouth draws the line, about Weymouth? Would a party of refined persons from 8anage be allowed to land 1 And, what pro cinoly zis Bournemouth's standard of refinement?

"Another point that occurs to me

The resumption of the Village fins forwarded the application to Looking, brok. 60. YOLIS. Road murder case, in which Toong the Municipality at Manila for Kwok Yau is charged with procur. their opinion. The Dreaza advo: The question of gue seraus the is the possibility of reprisen. We ing the murder of George Fung, cates the adoption of the electris electric light seems likely to be may yet, if this goes ones the Accompanied only by an Eskime has been fixed for Thursday after light instead, as being cheaper and fought out first in Manila, that South Coast ablaze with civil war. and a constable Inspector Joya Hoon next. Mr. E. Lindwell, less dangerous, and walle attention city being still unlighted by either suggest that the League of Ne which led to the establishment of other case in the Supreme Court, of the concession applied for, name, cessionary of the tramways about inquiry, consisting of two Finns a complished the "1,700 miles patrol who is meanwhile engaged in an to the inconvenience of the term means. Don Luciano Bremon, con- tions should sand a commission of British sovereignity over the entire expects to be able to continue with ly, afty years-Hong Kong Daily to be laid at Manila, has applied Monegasque, an Eskimo and Arctic archipelago.

the case by that date.

Preis. May 7, 1882.

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