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ADVERTISEMENTS.

REUTERS LIMITED.

TR. J. E. HENRY ResuMGJ Charge of our Hongkong

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Branch as from JUNE. 15th..

REUTERS LIMITED,

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General Manager for the Far East.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO.. LIMITED.

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THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & 0. Building on Wednesday, June 29th, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Gecoral Manageri together with a Statement of Accounta to the 31st December, 1931.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 24th of June to 29th of June, both days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.

Hongkoug. 15th Juno, 1932.

NOTICE.

GILMAN & CO•}

AGENTS FOR

(YEAST-VITE

INVITE SUFFERERS

FROM

INDIGESTION, HEAD-ACHE INSOMNIA SICKNESS OR PAINS/

TO TAKE

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HOLIDAY

AP.B. S

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

LOST.

APPLICATION has been made to the Company to issue a dupli

cata Shinro Certificate in respect of 195 shares Nos. 129467/12966 (100). and 244560/2446-4 (95) registered in

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YOT ( 热 which have been declared lost.

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Notice is hereby riven that if within

'DEATH.

SUTHERLAND.-On June 12.

Shanghai, DONALD SUTHERLAND, Fate Shanghai Dock and En gineering Co., aged 34 years.

ANNOUNCEMENT,

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE

17, 1932.

* News and Views *

increased in the number of recog nised secondary schools, and the amber of pupils in attendance waE considerably greater than in recent yes, chiefly on seenunt of the efforts made to admit large numbers | Tal" of tas Day, of childron between the ages of clever and twelve born in the years of exceptionally high birth-rate immediately after the War. Thus, in spite of the drastic economy que to national financial stringency, the general level of education maintained.

WES

A child, with her nurse, was watching some anglers as they put off in their punt.

Nurse," abo asked in a puzzled voice, do the fishes want all that boert"

A Puzzler.

Someone has been suggesting that in order to make Shakespeare pay most of his plays should be re- written and brought up to date. You know, a rendering of Mark Antony's famous speech; where he got Brutus and the rest of the gang all hot and bothered, might be com

The Unspeakable Soot.

·EVOLUTION OF

THE STARS.

SIR JAMES JEANS' NEW

"THEORY.

IF

You still yearn for that taste of real beer which you had at home,

THIS EXPANDING 'UNIVERSE. Don't count up the days before

John Wilson, aged 26., a young Scotsman, charged at Willesden Police Court recently with being a

Fürthor light of the evolution of you go on leave, suspected person, appeared in the a blue noat wit musquash collar, James Jeans on May 8, when deJust ring up :- dock dressed as a woman. He wore the universo was given of Sir aloche hat, silk stockings, and high livering the Mond lecture at Man- hoel shoes a scarf was round his chester University.”

"It is one of the recent discover neck and he wore kid gloves.

A policeman said that he saw ics of astronomers that tho coles.

Some of the and order a case of Wilson walking about in the middle tinl universe is expanding at en- of the night in a suspicious manner. ormous velocity. When bo arrested him he frst pro- nebulae" are receding into space ni tended to be dumb, but later ad- speeds which are allowed to be mitted that he was a man,

Wilson said that he game from Aberdeen to London for work. The iden occurred to him that if he dressed as a woman lorry drivers would be pleased to give him a free Say listen, folks.

ride. He therefore, borrowed I've come 'oro to say fow Kind words at Caesar's funeral woman's putas and that enabled You'll get no eeb stuff from me,him to get to London for nothing. I'm tellin' yer.".

Wettest May in Fifty Years.

A particular feature of the re port is the section devoted to technical education. The number of technical and commercial students continues to increase, owing chiefly to the large growth of evening institutes, The number of full-menced somewhat like thin time studenta attending the various types of schools and classes under the regulations for further educa tion last year whs 29,615, compared with 97.78 in the previous year. The part-time dadonta wambered 097,070 last year as compared with 941,944 in the previous year. There may be further extensions possible in various directions, but it may be claimed that the gap in the national educational system which existed when technical education enme into being and developed haa bren largely filled,

Some people like that sort of thring, but what would your trans- ator do with the following from

Twelfth Night "1

"I did impoticos thy gratility: for Malvolio's nose is no whip stock. My lady who has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.""

Modesty.

Monsieur X Y,

Ex-soldier, volunteer, former Nentenant of mountain artillery, war cross, commemorative medal of the Defence of Asingo, wound- cd.

Bachelor of Sciener, languages, mathematics.

On the other hand, there is, still

Election methods differ in every need for closer contact between in-country but surely, this French elev dustry and commerce and education, Ition poster takes a lot of beating: There have been great changes in both the national system of educa- tion and in commetice and industry, and to some extent a failure of adjustment in the factor of recruit- ment The problem is not an easy ene to solve, and it is suggested name of (Mise TANG TSUN Mrs. H. H. LARPER Announces the

marringe of her

daughter, that there should by closer ec. tho originals of

VICTORIA, to Dr. MURDO NICHOLSON, which will take operation between the representa- place today at the Rexistracytives of the various "organisations it 3.30 p.m. There will be a reception later at the Ameriona and institutions concerned. Club at 4 p.m. No invitations of the chief sources of difficulty is are being issued but all friends the rapidity of recent changes. are cordially invited..

Foreign competition has been in- tensified to a great degree of lase years, and, in an effort to improve the relative position of "Great Britain in regard to the rest of the world, British, seientific research and invention have modified some industries and enlind others into being.

days hereof ao clim or representa tion is made to the Co., the original cortisonbes for the said shares shall be doomed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT and that the Co. will then proceed to deal with such application

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD Agents. Hong Kong, 14th June, 1939. [2288 Editorial and Business Offices: 11

THE HONG HONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.

LOST SCRIP.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 2696 for 50 shares numbered 251381-251480 in the name of HERBERT AUSTIN RODGERS has been LOST, and notice is hereby also given that unless the said Certificate is produced at the rogistered office of the Company

withie Thirty days from the date of this notice, the aforesaid Cortificate

los House Street. Tol. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Offee):

Tel. 24511

London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

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The Baily Press. LOCAL ESTATES.

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No. 8696 for 50 shares in the name of TRE

HONG KONG, JUNE 17, 1932,

BRITISH EDUCATION.

drnatio economy measures Harbert Austin Rodgers will be necessitated by the financial crisis deemed and declared cancelled and of inst year affceted the estimates of no effect and an application lodged with the Company for the issue of a expenditure on education in Great duplicate certificate in respect of the said shares will be proceeded with in the usual course.

L, S. GREENHILL, Secretary.

18th June, 1932.

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PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.

Estate in Hong Kong worth $3,100 and property elgowhere amounting to 2431,885 178. 4d. wnd left by the late Mr. Harry Beaufoy Leonard Sergwick, late of London. The will contains family bequests, mostly in.

lavour of the widow. Probate has

been granted in respect of the local

catate.

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England bao bad the wettest May in fifty years, according to the meteorological reports.

The rainfall in the Thames valley was, estimated at 5.25 inches, while the previous highest record since 1880, was 4.8 inches.

The average May rain fall has been for the last 35 years under two inches,

The Perfect Husband,

My idea of a perfect man, writes a wife to a home paper, is one who haa keen sense of humour; a great love of children, animals, and birds: temperate in all things; & good mixer courteous, tactful, and forgiving,

terrife" by Sir James' himself," accustomed as he is to thinking in terms of millions

"The problem which has faced scientists is to account for the evolution of an originally stable universe into an unstable and ex- Sir James Jenna panding one.. made public a theory he Ens, worked out as a solution." It is that:

The impulss which pulled the trigger and handed over the uni- vorse to the effects of its own in- stability was the condensation of chnetic gas into nebulae."

The nebule, as Bir James ex- plained, are the agglomerations of The nobula, marter in gaseous form from which stars are evolved. parents of the stars, are grand- parents of planets, including the earth planet on which we ivo.

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A Gigantic Babble. According to Sir James' hypos thesis, we must now regard the first step of stollar evolution which re- aulted ultimately in the birth of the world as being also the first step leading to the expansion of the universe like a gigantic bubble which doubles ita enormous dimen sions ir 1,000,000,000 years.

In explaining his hypothesis Sir Janes said that the most sansa- tional property, only recently dis- He is not a snob, and is depend-covered, of the universe, was that its equilibrium was unstable. The able..

universe was like a stick balanced would set up a motion which would on its point. The slightest impulse continually increase with the pas sage of time.

My opinion, of course, is based on the fact that I married such a man thirteen years ago.

Sounds like patting the worm, pa the hend, doesn't it

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When a stick is balanced on its

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WHITBREAD'S

PALE ALE

point and falls, the direction of the IT'S

impulse which upsets the equili

THE

REAL

brium determines the direction of HOME-SIDE STÜFF"!! the fall-hut nothing more.

The

Electrical engineer with diploma of the Electro-Technical Institute of Grenoble. Engineer with dip- loma of the Paris School of Mechanics Engineering officer, first class, of the Mercantile Marine. Passed out first of all The Apology. Franco (1925 examination). The agent had come aboard to Former chief engineer.

see the master and coming up the forces of the impulse really pull the Fermer major district coun- gangway a man spilled a little paint trigger; the permanent forces of hia nice white clothes--not gravitation provide the gunpowder, cillor. Suspended and dismissed

"It is the same with the curved without the least administrative

enough to matter but sufficient to

universe. When this stands at rent dult, for having stood out, in the call forth a protest. course of the electrifiention of

"Go to Hell," was all the reply any minute impulse is sufficient to the countryside, against the Band

he obtained.

going.. and determine the direction of Vulture who descended upon,

But on the After all agents are entitled to of this motion. the Department, shamefully to exploit the Public Treasury, the some respect, and upon his commotion has been started its aubre- Taxpayer," the Farmers, and Allplaining to the captain, the latter quent progress results from, and

sent for the man involved and told the Utilisers of Electricity.

him he would have to apologize;

"J'll do no such thing," was the stubborn raply of the guilty one,

replied

Public lectures-subjects treat ed; war debts; the electrification of country districts; the law or tuberculosis in cattio: unemploy ment insurance; the economie crisis and unemployment.

Independent candidate, whose electoral campaign is paid for by no party. The servant of no one, Axcent of Justice, Right and

"Are you the man I told to go Truth.

Speaks English, Italian, Span-to Hell a few minutes ago 1" he

asked. ish. Portuguese and dialect.

"Look here, my man, the captain. "It does not cost you anything to apologize and you may lose your job if you don't."

Some minutes later the agent was on deck when the man enne over to him.

"So many qualities," adds Monsieur XY modeatly. "cannot" leave the electors indifferent."

SOLE AGENTS:

pull the trigger, to set the motion A. S. WATSON & Co.,

depends only on. the properties of the universe itself.

"It has been shown that the condensation of chaotic gna into nebule can provide in a somewhat roundabout wav-the initial im- pulse which pulls the trigger. "and handa the universe. over to the effects of its instability."

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"A disturbance which was liter ally an infinitesimal amount would require literally a whole eternity of time to produce an appreciable motion of expansion.... The trem. bling universe must have been "Yes," replied the agent coldly. "Well, you needn't," was the balanced with almost unthinkable

precision. amende honorable.

Local Notes and Events

Britain. According to the Raport of the Board of Education for 1981, which was recently published, the

The late Mr. Euphemio Comíiè original estimates for 1831-32 were

One case of diphtheria and one £18,362,377, in izcrons of £2,888.724 Graham, of Perth, Scotland, left

Wednesday. [2274 on those of the previous year. The estate of $44,000 in Hong Kong of cuterie fever were reported on

and £1,814 48. Od. in England. extra sum was to be devoted to in- Letters of administration have been creased grants to local education granted locally.

Probate has been granted to an provements As a result of the estate of $23,719 left in the Colony economy measures, a saving of by the late Li Ying Oho, a mer- about £2,500,000 was effected on the chant. Testator's concubine and äriginal estimates.

For 1932-33 & three song

the beneficiaries further saving of nearly 23,000,000 under the will

COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE REPORT

of the

4:

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

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HONG KONG

WEEKLY

PRESS

***THE CHINA OVERLAND

TRADE ESFORT."

80 Cents per Copy.

authorities for developmenta or' im-

is anticipated, the estimates, being

·

less than the original estimate for 1981-32: by £6,100,701.

Economies were offected in three directions.

There was the with- drawal one year earlier than the date originally proposed of the special temporary fifty per cent, prant in respect of capital expens diture on Elementary schools for reorganisation nach development; teachers salaries were reduced by tem per cent.; and a certain special grant for elementary education was abolished. Thus there was a slight check on the further expansion of new educational development, apart | from visus, of exceptional urgency, bút existing facilities were to be generally maintained.

In spite of this restriction of expenditure, the report shows that during the year considerable pro-

Subscription, paid in advance-gress was made with the reorgani-

per annum for delivery in Hong

Kong $18; including Postage to any part of the world-$18,

sation of the elementary school' system, and the provision of in-

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A Larewell dinner in honour of

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Chief Inspector Peter Grant, a

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If you want to buy prepared medi- cine at moderate price or to order a pair of glasses of the highest point of perfection please come and patronize The Great China. Medical Co., No. 11, WING LOX STEBET (Opposite The Sun Co.). A trial will convinos you and make you satified.

HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

listed.

QUOTATIONS.

1

Quotations were more or less and Mrs. Cronay, was given at the on June 22, on six weeks' vacation, the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E., very popular figure locally, is legy Gloucester yesterday evening by which will take the form of consta

unchanged yesterday morning, "but Under the auspices of 6. An-number of Chinese friends. Many trips, with visite to Wuchow, Can there appears to be more interest. drew's Club an informal Social well-known local people, British ton, Nanning and the West River. Bloor, Divisional, Inspector Central,

Sales, Evening was held at the grounds of and Chinese were present and a During his absence, Inspector E. being taken at the level now estab-

Very enjoyable time was spent.

will act as C.1. while Inspector R. St. Andrew's Church last night.

Shannon will perform the duties of Providents (Old) 25.10.

Hotels (Rights) 81. Among the passengers leaving by

was reported Divisional Inspector Central. The junk which

Hong Kong Realties $1.00 the ss. Tatsuta Maru on Wednes missing on Wednesday night was

Buyers. day was Mr. J. Jons Salus, the found near Stonecutters Island Consul General for, Peru, accom carly yesterday morning, The junk panied by Mrs. Sains,

was to have anchored alongside & lieved that the muster changed his Charged with the theft of a hand-wharf along the Prays but it is be bag containing 806.50, the property mind and anchored off Stonecutters of Miss Lau Wai Tak, a Chinese instead. was yesterday given six weeks' hard labour by Mr. A. W. Q. H, Grantham,

According to a report issued by the police, Wong Po, the appren- Tae Yeo Kai, a watchman em. bice painter who sustained concus- ployed by the Sincere Company, sion and injuries to the head when was charged before Mr. Grantham he fell off his "bunk, 134, Aplin at Central Magistracy yesterday Street, on Tuesday night, and was with the theft of a singlet, the removed to the Kwong Wah Hos property of the firm. He was fined pital, succumbed to his injuries on

Wednesday evening, $5.

Arrested on the Po Tak Wharf

from the Files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Captain Fuliamo, commanding the United States cruiser Marietta, demanded an apology from the Honduran revolutionaries during British fag. The revolutionaries. the fighting for an insult to "the cut down a British ding which William Collins, en Englishman living at Salado, had raised for his protection. Captain Fullam told

A clerk employed by the Texas with 135 taols of illicit opium con- Oil Company was yesterday charg conled in the false bottom of a cd before Mr. A. W, G. H. Grant Colonel Istila, the leader of the trunk, a Chinese was charged be ham, with the alleged utterance revolutionaries, that the Americans fore Mr. W. Schofield yesterday of a forged cheque for the sum of would not allow insults to the and the colonol with unlawful possession of the $524 at the Mercantile Bank In British flag, drug. He was fined 85,000 or a spector J. Murphy applied for apologized. Hong Kong Daily

1-48-hour remand and this was grant Prem, Juno-17,--1007 year's hard labour.

ad, bail being axed in the sum of $2,000.

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Looking Back 50 Team,

A

message received from the Senior Naval officer at Weihaiwci

An interesting wedding took A notification in the. Government. on Wednesday night states that the Chinese naval authorities are order place at the Registrar's Office, on j farette state that the Scorotary of ing a gunboat to proceed immedi Wednesday, between Mr. A. V. State for the Colonies has granted Acting atoly to Chiming Island to afford Harvey, Reserve of Air Force Mr. William McKinney,.. thescerdary protection to the Oloers, and Mre. W B. Preston, Fourth Master at the Government strandal as, Shengking. A British sister of Lieut, W. B. Parkin, R. N., Contral School, an extension of x destroyer will remain on the scene who is at present serving in H.M.8 months leave on half salary.com Mr. Harvey is Manager mencing on the fourth proximo.- until the arrival of the gunboat, Hermes,

which will take over entire respon- and Chief Test Pilot to the Far Hong Kong Daily Press, June 17,

11882 sibility for protection of the vessel. East Aviation Co., Ltd."

Qanton Insurances $1,200.

China Fire Insurances $600. Hong Kong and Whampoa Decks

$18.

Hotels (Rights) *1.

Hong Kong Lands $76). Hong Kong Trams 82, Star Ferries 800,

Yaumati Ferries (Old) 8334. Yaumati Ferries (New) $32, * Macao Electrics. $24,1 Canton Ice $6. Dairy Farms, $28, Sinceres $18. Constructions (Old) $5.10. Constructions (New) Hong Kong Government Loans

24 per cent premium. Wallace Harpers 813.

Sellers,

South China Motora "B" $11. 8.C. Enterprises $5:

AFTERNOON SESSION,

A few of the lower priced issues were marked down resulting in soïne transactions being put. through.

"Eriod. Hotels (Cum Rights) $11.20. in Burers, Hotels (Cuni. Rights) 811." Bonstructions (New) $155.

Sellers, then Wallace Harpers $131 Hong Kong Banks $1,500, Hotels (Cum, Rights) 11:35: Constructions (New) $1.70.