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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that

IT

an Interim Dividend of 29 per

Share, subject to deduction of

Income Tax, has been declared for THE BEE

the HALF YEAR ending 30th June,

1982, at rate of 1/3, 1/8 pse Dollar.

on

THE DIVIDEND will be payable

and after MONDAY, 8th AUGUST, 1932, at the offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY, 25th July; to SATURDAY, 6th August, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD. OF DIRECTORS,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Uhief Manager.

Hong Kong, 12th July, 1982.

Q.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PARTIARY &able Anction to

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

be held on MONDAY, the 187 DAY

of JULY, 1982, at 3 z... at the

of Offcor the Public Works Department, by Order of Hu EXCELLENOY THE GOVER NOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND In the Colony of near Causeway Ba

Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a drown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further | term of 15 yourE.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

· No. of Salo.!

Locality.

Inland Lot

No. 3505.

Junction of

Shaukiwah Road and Tin Han Temple

Boad.

Registry No.

Boundary

Mohanre-

menta.

|X. 5. 2.T.

As par

male filan

Contents i

Annual

Kental.

About

7,620

Square feet.

**

| Upset Price.

O'T'es

that

[tep off

The Ship

into your own

motor-car.

Its best to arrange, before you you are met by a new Hill. man or Humber. Pick your model with us and we will arrange it. HILLMANS & HUMBERS GILMAN & CO.,

leave Hong Kong,

LIMITED.

Have the car you want just when you want it. Got the most from every moment of your next leave.

A.Þ.B. 10

Editorial and Business Offices: 14

Ice House Street. Tel. 80251.- Night Editor (Wanchai Office) :

Tel. 24511.

London

E.O. &

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 13, 1932.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13

13, 1932.

*News and Views *

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

Jsufficient to say trust the ex- perta" Experts are by no means exempt from human fallibility,

even in their own respective lines. Like lawyers they gorally differ. A tyranny of exports is a bad thing;

it lacks the human touch, which is present in the decisions even of unsatisfactory Iny rulers.

Glass!

Interesting!

*

Mr. George Buckie,

Men of letters were wondering last month if the name of Mr.

LIFEBUOY. AS A "TROPHY."

OXFORD UNDERGRADUATE'S

PRANKent Str

the list of Birthday Honours. He George Earle Buckle would be in

A warning that "undergraduates has just completed the great task would not be allowed to do just as of editing Queen Victoria's corros they pleased in the town was given pondence, and in due course this achievement will doubtless receive by the magistrates at Oxford Police- official recognition.

court on June 10 when they fixed The late Sir John Murray, who Albert Idris John Williams, 21, of published most of the Queen's cor Keble College, £3, for damaging à respondence, as well as other Royal

books, was created a K.C.V.O. The lifebuoy.

SHANDY

IN THE WORDS OF MILTON

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**DELECTABLE BOTH

TO BEHOLD AND TASTE" WHEN IT'S MADE WITH

WHITBREAD'S

It was Rudyard Kipling who Sovereign's personal interest is al: The original charge of stealing it Britain's Best Beer

write in the late ninetees,

A house made entirely of glass The report that it has been pre- has been, constructed in Glasgow. souted to Mr. James Monton, and his follow "Reds" of the Clyde In this Colony we have governs untrue, Nor has the house been

taken by anyone in Hong Kong. mont by experts, tempered with press criticism and a

curtain mild criticism from unofficial members of two public authorities, the Logia- lative Council and the Sanitary Board, and from recognised bodies like the Chambers of Commerce and the various Residents' Associations. The question arises as to how far theso are sufficient to keep the benevolent autocracy that rules us up to the mark, and to air either rainer or major abuses, such as certain matters in connection with the state of the prisons, the govern- ment hospitals and, the British schools.

Most

ways associated with the Victorian. Order, which Queen Victoria found was reduced. Defendant pleaded ed with that intention.

guilty.

with bor in the way of authorship

Earlier titled names connected It was stated that as a result of were those of Sir Arthur Helps, who complaints of lifebuoys being stolen edited her Highland Journals, and from the riverside, three having

sort... Sir Theodore Martin, who wrote boon taken in six weeks, a detective. the biography of the Prince Convisited Williams' rooms at the col- lege and found a lifebuoy hanging

Yes, it will be a spectacle for all the world to watch, this big, slash- ing colt of a nation, that has got off with a flying start on a freshly to the ruck by that very mutton littered course, being pulled back

fisted jockey, Necessity There will few score millions of sovereigns be excitement in America when a

discover that what they considered

Byron, just uponed, is not the When questioned about it Williams the outcome of their own Gover only telephone exchange in the said, "Oh hell, do you think it is. ment is but the rapidly diminish Harrow district to be named after fair? I suppose being found in ing bounty of nature; and that if a poet. One at Kenton is to be they want to get on comfortably Wordsworth, and one at Wem. possession amounts to stealing it. they must tackle every single probley Arnold." This is in pursu. What shall I get for it? A couple blem, from labor to finance, humb-ance of the policy of using histori of quid or something."

Telephone Names.

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ly, without gasconade, and afresh. cal names which was first adopted

BECAUSE THIS BREE IMPARTS TO IF AN APPETISING COLOUR AND

THAT DELIGHTFUL FLAVOUR AND AROMA OF THE

on the wall over the mantlepiece. Finest Kentish Hops

But at present they look "that all about four years agu and has At the police station he declared: the to-morrows shall be as to-day, already given England Macaulay," It is a recognised thing to get a and if you argue with them, they Gladstone, Abercorn, &c. say that the Democratie Idea willi keep things going.

Too Latel

Doctor: "By the way you've had your first cholera injection 7' Patient: "No I haven't." Doctor: "Well d it I've just given you the second shot!"

Speeding up.

Wo understand that a French aviation company is planning to run weekly nine days air service between Marseilles and Hanoi, A group of Hong Kong business men is considering an extension of this service from Hanoi to this Colony, Letters from Home in about eleven days!

The New Bayonet,

A Representative of the War Office has been asked to attend the first of a series of experiments with a new infantry bayonet.

*

few trophies to take down with one at the end of the term. I saw it hanging there, thought it would be a good thing, and pinched it.".

"Pretty Low Down."

The chief constable said it was The new weapon is constructed on a pretty low-down-thing" when the principle of those toy knives

took

FROM WHICH IT IS BREWED,

TRY IT AND INHALE A

Breath of Home

DON'T SIMPLY CALL FOR A SHANDY-DEMAND AND ENJOY A

lifebuoys Whitbread Shandy"

which by means of a spring, ap-undergraduates pear to ponetrate the body, but in which were placed at spots near the fact close up when brought into contact with the object aimed at.

river where there was considerable

* If they are

after

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

The question is complex. of us are here to earn our livinga and do not regard the place as our home. Owing partly to the climate the average Englishmen has not the superfluous energy which at Home Office: 83, Fleet Street, he puts into local and national poli- tics. Therefore political machinery based on Home conditions would

The inventor claims that if this danger. fail in Hong Kong. The leading

bayonet were adopted the soldier, trophics," he added, "lifebuoys Chinese people are in much the

while retaining all the illusion of should be the last things they should same position as their European

violence and bloodshed, would in reality be perpetrating a practical, take." colleagues. If therefore power were

joke upon his enemy; & proceeding Mr. Edridge, for Williama, said that could hardly fail to bring his client regretted the incident and vested in an elective body the best

about a better understanding be- could only plead that he did it in the exuberance of the moment. It elements would and could not give

tween rival armies.

was a foolish and thoughtlese thing their time to using it. Adventurers

to do, but the lifebuoy was take and representatives of interests

It is good news for North Africa during Eights Week, which was and more powerful personalities

that the breeding places of the de traditionally associated with the IN addressing the Rotary Club would be drawn into such an

sert locust have been found in spirit of axuberance, Africa between the tenth and Williams was going up next year yesterday the Rev. E. L. ALLES authority. There is not at present

eleventh parallels of north latitude. to tako his diploma of education criticised the cult of the "strong sufficient tradition of disinterested

Regularly every year these pests and Mr, Edridge appealed to the Nerger has been affected between man." The speaker contended that, public service for an elected senate

in Algeria and Tunis and Morocco. TOTICE is hereby given that a

take toll of the vineyards and crops bench not to record a conviction.

The chairman (Alderman W. Boyd & Co. Ltd., Shanghai, and Boyd as an escape from the consequences or council to exercise wise control -& Co., Amoy, and the business of these of his own weakness and inertia, of the Colony.

Large sums of money are spent Stobie) said that fun wae all right For more than an hour-and-a half annually by the various govern in its way, but undergraduates FOREIGN LIVES SAFE firms in Shanghai, Foockew, Amoy. and Hongkongvil in future be ordinary man liked to create a On the other hand is all wellhorsenian, moves back and forth it has long been recognized that the Williams, he added. "If there had his Majesty, a solitary, outstanding ments in antilocust campaigns, but were going too far. Addressing carried on under the name of Baydiegendary strong man, who would do Do we feel cutirely satisfied? The under the eyes of those privileged only way to succeed is to carry the been an accident at the spot from & Co. Ltd. & British Firm incorporated under the Hongkong Companie Orlin. the things that ought to be done, Colony is quiet, and orderly and, to occupy pinces around the Horse war into the enemy's country which you took this lifebuoy you

and generally get us out of our as things go now, fairly prosperous.

Guards Parade. That he is no mere Happily France and Italy and Bri- might have found yourself on a very troubles. Part of the process is The medical and sanitary authorizehead, but a very much alive bain are taking, united, or at least serious charge."

is abundantly coordinated action, and research is Defendant was ordered to pay that some well-known personality ties seem to keep down epidemics, clear no less to the officers and men going on in different parts of 10s. damages, in addition to the is by popular accord credited with though as Dr. Porz warhed us on parade than to the onlookers. | Africa."

fine.

NOTICE.

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There will be no material change in

the activities or policy of the Firms the direct control remsias in the hands of Messrs. F. B. & J, E. SMITH as heretofore

BOYD & CO., LTD.

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NOTIOS "TO SHIPPERS AND CONSIGNEES OF CARGO FOR

RIVER PORTS, HUNAN LINE PORTS AND LAKE PORTS.

"STRONG MEN" AND

"THE PEOPLE.”

:

The

The King's Birthday.

Of all the occasions upon which his Majesty appears in the midst of his people, none is so intimats the parade of his Guards in celo or so personal as his appearance on bration of his birthday.

Locusta Must Go,

༄།

Local and General

The Hong Kong dollar yesterday advanced to is, 3]d. on demand.

LIMITED.

EST. 1841.

IN SIAM

NEW GOVERNMENT GIVES

ITS ASSURANCE

{THROUGH REUTen's agÈncy.]

LONDON, July 1).

"I HAVE received official assur

ance that all treaty obligations will be observed by the new Govern-

As a result of raids carried out Before Mr. Wynne Jones at mant of Siam and that lives and by the French Municipal Police in Central Magistracy yesterday, property of all foreigners will be Shanghai-on opium dens in the Con boutin was charged with the theft scrupulously protected as hereto. cession, 14 pipes, 14 lamps and other of 5 pieces of grass cloth and 13 fore," stated Sir John Simon, opium-smoking paraphernalia have pictures, the property of Messrs. nested nine opium den conductors 8585. The recused is alleged to reply to a question in the House of been seized. In addition, the police Wassiumul Assomull, and valued at Minister of Foreign Affairs, in and ten smakers.

have transhipped the cargo, In Commons to-day. granting a remand for a week, the Magistrate allowed bail in the sum of $400.

the supposedly necessary qualities,, "there is no reason why there even if he does not possess them, should not be a very large number and the ultimate result is dis of cholera casee." Governments are illusionment and sometimes disaster. Luman. Minor faults can always The Kitchener myth was quoted, also be found. The question is, can we the apotheosis of Woodrow Wilson do better than we are doing now? after the Great War, and

the Are any of the commonly suggested pathetic neclaim accorded to every improvements really likely to add British Prime Minister and Ameri- to our welfare? Or is it better to

The Sanitary Board again draws OWING to danger of Floods, com President at the outset of his leave things as they are?

In Mr. ALLEN'S

the attention of the public to the Owners of Cargo consigned to term of office.

answer must depend upon Hong possibility of contracting cholera River Porta, Hunan Line Ports and opinion, moreover, when a success-Kong people themselves. Are the from cating uncooked vegetables Lake Porte, are warned that goods ful dictatorship was installed, and best of them ready to take up public and fruits. lying in the godowns of the under one man assumed responsibility for work, as in the Home manner!

I mentioned Steamship Companies are the destiny of a nation, as in the Experts have their disadvantages way from Cunton to Hong Kong at was only of a hearsay nature, Mr.

While the s.s. Kinahan was on her; at their own risk, and are advised to take such measures as they may cases of Stalin and Mussolini, more but they are infinitely to be pre- 1,40, a.m. on fonday, a Chinese Wynne Jones discharged the sum- consider advisable to safeguard their harm than good was done. Iferred to professional politicians, woman passenger jumped overboard mans against a Japanese woman without an appropriate licence and Churges of driving a taxi-cab goods.

citizens wished to be prosperous:

named Iketak Anako for keeping with taking the vehicle out without Any steps taken by the shipping and well governed, they should'!

whose first care is to feather their and was not seen again.

disorderly house in 2, Ming Yuen the permission of the owner were companies to safeguard such cargo

Town nests. Only the willing tor-

Street when the ease enme up at preferred against a will be taken at the risk of cargo. manage their own affairs, and they vices of the leaders in commerce nounced Me Richard Johat the Central Magistracy yesterday,

The forthcoming wedding is an

car-cleaner named Wah Hwai at the Kowloon owners, And any extraordinary should have not dictators but i expenses Bo incurred will be collected leaders.

and the professions can keep the Joseph Lieverts, ship officer, 8.5.

Magistracy yesterday when Mr. Tjisadane, and Miss Olga Alexeicne

As the Japanese Marines have Fraser imposed a fine of $10 or 14 against delivery.

not evacuated "D" urch, the days' on the first charge and 823 BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE..

Hong Kong. government.

Agents, CHINA NAVIGATION Co

LAD,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

LTD.-

General Managers, I. C. 9. N.

Co., LTD.

i

Because the evidence against heri

It may be interesting to consider undesirables out of a democratio. Smoliansky, of Gloucester Building, Shanghai District Federation is; or one month on the second. In '

how far these principles can and should be applied to Hong Kong. In any community the members of it can always get their way if they are persistent enough. As a minor example, the Penk Tramway adver-

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AGAIN.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TO S. AFRICA.

LONDON-CAPE JOURNEY TO BE SHORTENED BY TWO

DAYS.

alleging that the armistice agree the event of the fines not being A fire broke out at the Tai Shen meat has been violated and the paid, the sentences are to run con- London, July 6-Part of a ficct. tailoring establishment in Pos! Central Government has been asked secutively,

of eight large monoplanes intended Street early yesterday morning but to despatch the 5th Division under no serious damage was done. The General Chiang Ting Wen to Shang premises were insured for $4,000! hai, with the Sincere Insurance Co.

A party of police under Dotec-

for African routes of the Imperial

tive Sergeant D. C. Macdonald Airways are now undergeing-final boarded the s. Bui Tai which was tests at the Coventry works of Ten Jeruit priests are en route to lying at the time at the Wing Lok Messrs Armstrong, Whitewerth and

CHINA MERCHANTS S. N. CO., tiscent was removed because of ALLEGED SECRET PACT BE The Chinese Bathing. Club are Manila by the 8.8. President Hoover Street Wharf on Monday night and Company. The whole fleet will be

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA.

popular outcry. Above and ridicule,

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if they cannot cast mountains into

the sen, art strong enough to sweep considerable · obstacles before them,

*FOR SALE"

To cite another local 'mattor, it

Th

more

TWEEN BRITAIN AND

TIBET.

holding their second swimming gala They are to take the places of oight arrested 32 Chinese on charges of

of the season on Saturday night teachers in the Jesuit-school there gambling. The men were produced completed within the next few commencing at 6 pm A very full who are returning to the States. before Mr. Wynne Jones at Central weeks. programme has been arranged, one The party is in charge of Father Magistracy yesterday when the Each machine, when fully loaded, of the events being a relay race Moran who together with Father keeper was fined $75. The other

} open to ladies only.

1

1

Wm. Dow intend to stay for good men wore each fined Bawhile the will waigh 8 tons and has a wing in Manila. The other professors are others, who were absent; had their span of D0 feet. The liners are In attempting to alight from a j due to stay only three years.

¿ tramcar whilst the vehicle was in motion, a young amat employed at

London, July 8The romantic would be distinctly unwise to figure of Lawrence of Arabic, who

bail of 15 each estreated..·* shifts attempt any

and ¦ is now simple Aircraftsman Shaw,

powered with four doubled Mon- -1- Ford Van (1924) ir ranning order. evasions with regard to the Shing has again been erroneously featured

Delegates of the teachers employ Nine cures of alleged traffic vicla-goose-340-h.p. air cooled radial Triumph (P Type) Motor Cycles Mon Water Scheme.

in connection with an alleged im-3 Yick Wan Rond, fell-and-received-ed by the Greater Shanghai Burcan tion came up in the United States motors and are designed to meet (Solo) with accessories.

How far, however, is it possible portant development in the Orientries to the head. She had to be of Education called at the Edura- Consular Court, Shanghai, the Com- dimoult dying conditions character

taken to the Government. Civil Hou- tion Bureau, Nantno, and demand-missioner, Mr. A. Krisel, presiding. Being disposed of as surplus to or desirable for the public to get This time the story is that apital for treatment.",

ed (1) that teachers of primary Fines of G81 each were imposed istic of African airways. requirements.

ita own way? During our water secret pact has been concluded be-

Several of the aerodromes. bet its

schools in the war areas should be upon Dr. D. J. Collins, Messrs. J. The machines may be viewed daily crises demands are

When a Chinese was charged at paid 70 per cent of their wages, E. Rowland. O. J. Dow and W. Etween Cairo and Capetown are made that tween Great Britain and Tibet and, the Central Magistracy yesterday which are in arrears, for the period Bolton, while the case against Mr situated more than 6,000 feet above (Sunday Excepted) between 0.00a.m., would empty the reservoirs; in 1929 in support of this report, it is stated with hawking a sweet drink with of the recent fighting and full wages Sam Firks was adjourned sine die the sea level and the new liners are and 12 noon, at the R.A.8.0. Garage, the opening of germ laden welis that Lawrence went to Tibet to play out a licence. Ar, Wynne Jones beginning from June, and (2) that That against Mr. J. Polonetsky was designed to operate normally at a RA.8.0. Camber, Queen's Road

asked if the defendant should not teachers of primary schools in arena dismissed, as was that against the height of 9,000 feet, even with one (opposite Garrison Bergeants' Mees). Was urged. Not long ago there was a part in the negotiations,

have been charged under the new not affected by the fighting should Shanghai Express Company Mr of the four motors idle. The graft an agitation in Offors should be sent to reach the

favour of the

The story was circulated by a regulations. Sub-Inspector Russell be paid in full. The delegates were H. J. Elder was discharged with will be among the fastest civil asro- office of the 0.0., B.4.80. Queen's stabilisation of the dollar. The German wireless, station, but in anid that the man was selling a received by Dr. Paul Hu, Coma caution and the case against Mr. planes of comparative size yet built Rond, not later than 10.00a.m., on popular wish in each case clashed quiries in official quarters soon dis. boiled drink so that he did not think missioner of Education, who pro R. P. Honigsberg was adjourned for and will shorten the journey be it came under the new regulations.mised to take the matter up with one week, since he was unable to twees. London and the Cape from Friday, 15th July, 1982. [2858 with expert opinion. But it is not posed of it.

A fine of $4 was imposed.

the City Government,

attend.

eleven to nine days.