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NOTICE.

NOTICE is heroby given that a Delivery Order issued by Mer, Buttarfeld & Bwire to us and endorsed by us for collection anted 28rd July, 1982 for the follow- ing ex. 8/8 PATROULUS"

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1004 Pieces &/or Packages Steelwork

4 Barrels Bolts & Nuts

1008

Total One thousand and eight packages only has been cancelled and is hereby declared to be null and void and that no delivery can be effected against same.

LEIGH & ORANGE.

28th July, 1982.

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HONG KOKO, JULY 29, 1932.

BATTLESHIPS.

Ir is interesting to recall that ten (2400 years ago the naval shipping yards of Great Britain had on the stocks four battlecruisers, wok, of 48,000 tons and of a designed cost of between eight and nine millions sterling. They were just short of 800 feet in length, the beam was 110 feet, the speed was to be thirty two knots and the main armament:

TT is hereby announced that the representation of Wilkinson. Heywood & Clark will be transferret to Messrs. ODWELL & Co, Lro., as from 1sr AUGUST, 1932.

All customers are kindly requested to address enquiries, orders, etc, to our now Agenta instead of to Mesura. 8. C. Lay & Co. after that dato.

For WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK,

H: W. MAXTED, Manager in the Far East

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HONGKONG FOOTBALL

ASSOCIATION,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932.

tons to 23,000. It would seem that tho tids has turned and there is a curious movement to build quite small battleships of about eleven thousand tons 'and armed' with sloven inch guns, the theory being that a shell from a modern gun

It

Butterers.

Charity Bureau Head:

News and Views

"I'm collecting for the suffering poor and shall be glut of your help.”

Housewife: "Suffering poor 1. Are you sure that they really do

Buffer!"

end!"

Everything about "Jimmy" Sex-| Begent's Park Rongs, ton is picturesque: his battered

Ton thousand British-grown rose fighter's face; his faithfulness and trees, of nearly 100 different varie chivalry; and his refusal to take ties, are just coming into flower colear from his surroundings. His in the new rose garden at the Inner own colour is good enough for him; Circle Gardens, Regent's Park, and oven at a Royal garden party states a Home paper,

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Almost all the newest varieties,

DEWAR'S

THE

SPIRIT OF

FRIENDSHIP.

he was seen in a plebeian costume,

Friendship is the sunshine of The story is told that, when he was

Its rays reveal in the knighted he jibbed at the cost of as well as a number of old-estab life.

lished favourites, are to be seen in hearts of friende unswerving the forty beds, flanked by wido

sword and bought an' empty scab- bard.

of that size would do all the damage necessary even to the heavicat giants in the water. Jia a nice problem for the experts, and no doubt controversy has raged as Geneve round this point.

It is possible, however, that the! Charity Bureau Head: "I'm quite Nelson and the Rodney do mark sure. Why, I go into their homes the beginning of a now era in and talk to them for hours on warship history-a nice iruny, especially for those who have first | hand experience of those grim monsters.

At the defeat of the Royal Air Force Restriction.

Acrobatics under 2,000ft, are pro- Spanish Armada, in 1888- Bir MARTIN FROBISHER's flagship, the hibited, states a new Air Ministry Triumph, of 1,000 tons, was the order. Air officers commanding may H.M.S Hood of her day.

At grant permission to carry out acro- Trafalgar the Victoria was 2,000 baties under this height in specifle She bad cost £150,000 and case and for definite purposes. A minimum height will be laid down was nearly ifty years old. The Majestic class of 1805-98 were of in all cases where this permission year.

granted. The Director of 14,000 tons and cost about £900,000 in The million mark in price was Technical Development Air Minis- topped by the "London" class six try, may granted special permission years later, and the Dreadnought for aerobatics below 2,000ft, at ex- (1006) raised cost to £1,800,000 and perimental establishments for speci tonnage to 18,000. The war hasten- fic experiments. fed matters, but the Hood was a

pence ship. Despite the soar ing dreams of designers it looks A Popular Museum. as if she will remain the Mount

tons,

Everest of battleships, and future generations will be left to bewail the degeneration of the times.

South Kensington Science Museum is probably the most popular museum in the world, if attendance figures can be taken as a criterion. In the first six months of this year it has been visited by 650,000|

FOREST RAIDERS IN people-100,000 more than during

SCOTLAND.

MOTOR-CAR POACHERS WHO LEAVE NO TRACE.

MYSTERY OF SCOTTISH

FORESTS.

A mysterious band of what are described as mechanised poach- ers" is seriously threatening tho deer in cortain Scottish forests, ac cording to offeinl representations made to the Scottish Office.

By their remarkable methods the raiders are said to be able to ac count for several deer in a night, and game-keepers are finding it im possible to cope with them.

the same period last year.

Sir Henry Lyons, the director, declares that these figures best any thing which can be shown by other museums in England or America.

Sir Henry is particularly proud of the numbers of his schoolboy "patrons." They often learn more when they come alono," he remark ed, "than when they are conducted round.

"At first they may rush from one exhibit to another, just turning handles for a thrill. But soon they notice how each exhibit works. I know poveral of them who come regularly, and even bring their friends."

Owners of the valuable shooting estates concerned, which are in the neighbourhood of Lochaber, Inver- A Picturesque Figure,

ess-shire, have asked Sir Murdoch Macdonald, M.P. for Inverness, to

Sir James Sexton's resolve not place the facts before the Secretary to stand again for Parliament re of State for Scotland, and the com plaints are now being investigated. moves a man of character from no

The procedure of these new-style tive politics. poachers was to-day described to s reporter by a Highland laird on a

uine guns of sixteen inch calibre. They were officially known as the "improved Hoods." The Hood, has a displacement of 41,200 tons, a speed of 31 knots and an arme ment of eight fifteen inch guns, so the advance was decidedly marked. But, according to one of our lead ing naval correspondants, Mr..

How They Do It. HECTOR BYWATER, this was by no.

This mechanised poaching,' as means the last word, and the 1929 programmo included four battle we call it, is being carried out by a gang of mon with a light motor

visit to London.

LUBS wishing to join or tships of nearly 50,000 tons, with lorry capable of a good speed on the

retain membership of tha speed of 23j knote and a main high road," he said. Association and Longue aro reminde that JULY 31ST is the closing dat: for entries for both,

W. E. HOLLANDS,

Hoo: Secretary.

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HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.

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armament of nine eighteen inch guna, with a range of twenty-five miles and projectiles weighing a ton-and-a-half. The designers, with eharacteristic optimism were, more-

over, busy on ships of 55,000 tons and guns of twenty inch calibre. This was Groat Britain's reply to

side borders, which compose the loyalty, unfailing understand- ing and mutual appreciation

new garden.

This is the first year of the gar don's existence, but experts so far of all things that strengthen are well pleased with the success of comradeship, not least among the experiment.

£4,000,000 Contract,

The Egyptian Government bre be inviting inter reported to

The trees are from the stocks of them the unchanging friend- national tenders on August 15 for the proposed electrification of the English, Scottish and Irish rose-liness of Assuam Dam ho tenders will growers, and were the gift of the be returnable by February 18 next British Bose Growers' Association

to the London parks,'

The cost of the electrification of the dam is understood to be esti-Flood-Lighting of Arterial Ronda, mated at £4,000,000.

480 to 1 Totalisator Odds.

The Newmarket Totalisator last month paid a dividend or £46 2s. 6d. to a 29. unit for For minnetta, the winner of the Haugh ley Selling Plate. This equalé odds of 460 to 1. The bookankers' price

was 20 to 1.

Electric Shopping.

A remarkable mechanical shop has been opened in Camberwell Green. Its customers are able to buy a packet of tea or any one of to commodities by the insertion of a coin in a slot.

Boforo lang motorcars inay speed along the great arterial roads at night without headlights.

DEWARS

WHITE LABEL

This was visualised by Sir Hugo Hirst, chairman, and managing director of the General Electric Company. Speaking at the annual FINEST SCOTCH meeting in London he said:-

"For some time we have been

carrying an research and experi mont with an entiroly new kind of' lamp, which will save 70 per cent. of current, compared with the pro- sent standard lamp. Because of its brilliant and efficiency it will prob- ably land itself in the first instance to street lighting.

"For the moment we call it the hot cathode' lamp.

WHISKY

SOLE AGENTS:

The lamp is not yet ready for A. S. WATSON

the market, but I have seen some The shop has been installed as an demonstrations in a public high- addition to the ordinary shopping way outside

our laboratories countors at a Lyons teashop, and which impressed me to Buch it is worked by electricity. It an extent that I visualized takes orders, delivern the goods, the possibility of lighting arterial counts the change, and is open day roads from London to Birmingham, and night. Customers merely place London to Glasgow, or London to money in the slot and press the Bristol, with tha damp Motor- button opposite the name of the article required.

cars will be able to speed along at night without using headlights."

Clear Now?

The machine tests the coin in- sorted in twelve different ways. If it is genuine, a poumatic de

"Pinch Poko by Yde Ices Tilt- vice selects the goods required and This a baseball headline in an projects them down a chute to the American paper. What the writer customer. If too much money is meant was that Yde, emergency clouter, smacked a bingle to re- placed in the slot it will return the gister the tally that copped the

excess.

Local and

contest.

General

& CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MEROHANTS....

果

ESTABLISHED 1841.

OBEDIENT UNTO

DEATH."

INJURED DOG RETURNS

TO BE KILLED.

PRISON FOR CRUEL MASTER.

"This man is a nauseating hypo- erite and, professing to be a Chris- tian, commite the mast fiendish eruelty on dumb creatures,' said Mr. Gordon Jones (for the R.S.P.O.A.) at Romford on June 23, when Frederick Kay, aged 60, of Hayburg-way, Hornchurch, Was A peculiar incident occurred in sentenced to six weeks' hard labour Owing to unforeseen circum-. When Loung Pak,, mistress of a stances the recital. to be given by junk, was charged before Mr. "Their method is based on the Portuguese Amateurs at the Fraser at Kowloon Magistracy yes. Statue Square at 10 am. yesterday for causing unnecessary suffering to phenomenon well known to all Club de Recreio is postponed sine terday with the unlawful possession when a public vehicle, driven by a dog by killing it unreasonably,

Mr. Jones said that when Kay motorists who drive much at night || die,

of two coils of steel hawaers, the an Indian crashed into two others

was returning from Divine Service, it is the hypnotiem of animals

Magistrate decided to discharge the standing in the rank, forcing one his dog met him and jumped up in by a powerful headlight..

Connaught Road between Jack-defendant or account of insufficient!

across the footpath, and damaging delight at seeing him, causing him evidence, son Street and Wardley Street has;

the wing of the other. The car that to stumble. In the early hours of been temporarily closed to traffic!

the morning he proceeded to execute owing to a burst pipe under the

caused the damage was No. 4, the unfortunate animal for its mis- and the one that was forced on the deed.

Most motorists have had the experience of seeing a hare or s rabbit run sometimes for a mila in front of a car, apparently unable to

get out of the beam of the head-

amps. That is how the poachers the attempt of the United States transfix the dear. to snatch theo trident from her

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road.

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:

The South China Athletic Asso. ciation are holding a social meet ing for all members and friends to footpath was,No. 192. The car that "He tied a piece of rope in_a A harbour notice states that the morrow evening at 7 p.m. The Hall appeared to have received the noose on the dog's neck and the

end to a post," said Choosing a dark night, they wreck of the steam launch Edith will be artistically, decorated for 3: hint of the collision was No. 160, her for he boat the dog over hands, and the forcing up of size drive quietly to a wild and lonely lies in a position half a mileiseries of interesting games that N INTERIM DIVIDEND of

was in accord with a former rute part of forest-land, and, leaving the W.N.W. of North Fairway Buoy, promise to add to the evening's, and had been hit almost broadside the head with an axe. Unfortunate-

highway for one of the rough tracks, with mast and funnel visible above entertainment. 50 cents per Bhare has been declared payable on MONDAY, 15th for putting the rival Power in a they search around with a powerful the water

spot-light. As soon as the rays aro AUGUST next, on and after which difficulty.. dute Dividend Warrante may be obtained upon application at the designed the "Dreadnought"

Twenty years earlier Lord FISHER

Canal Road East, Bowrington, Hongkong. ... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | virtually 'immobilising her navy that the REGISTER of MEMBERS until this task was completed. The

Registered Office of the Company make! Germany spend vast sums knocks it on the head, or sticks it workshop where they had been left!effect that the Directors of the Ho Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy

Selling the Ment?

ly, the dog broke away and could have escaped but Kay called it back. Charged with the theft of a gold and the dog, obeying its master, re- directed on to a deer, it stands, Two lensca mounted on brass cells The Acting Manager of the local watch valued at $85, TA Pan, a turned for further ill-treatment; dazed and transfixed in the blinding are reported by Staff Sergeant Branch of the Ho Hong Bank, Ltd., foki employed in a ten-shop in The whole performance was then to glare, and one of the poschers goes Dyer, R.A.0.0 to have been has received cabled advice from the Shanshuipo, was sentenced to six repeated.

AGreat Pat." softly round behind it and simply stolen from the front of the depot Head Office in Singapore to the weeks hard labour before Mr.

Inspector F. J. "Carter, of the on widening the Kiel Canal, and with a knife.

after being used in an experiment. Hong Bank, Ltd., the Chinese Com- yesterday. Sergeant Tuckett stated R.S.P.C.A., said that he saw Kay, morein! Bank, Ltd., and the Over- that defendant had only been em who said," He was a pol, a great While being driven along Nathan sea-Chinese Bank, Ltd., have decid- ployed in the shop for two days. pet, and obedient even when the

On Wednesday he was left in the rope broke, I called him to me. of the Company will be closed from super-Hoods were to put the United men, where do they keep the motor "Kid" Marriott's Austin, Seven

"The mystery is, who are the Rond on Wednesday evening Mr.ed to amalgamate.

shop with another joki, and when again and he came, obedient upto :__SATURDAY, 30th JULY, to

the master returned, he found a death." SATURDAY, 18th AUGUST, 1982, States to the inconvenience of vast lorry, and how do they dispose of caught alight by an electric wire On turning into Nathan Rand, gold watch to be missing. Defend Kay evidence, and in cross- bath days inclusive,

improvements to the Panama the dear? They have been seen once fusing. Fortunately the slight out from Saigon Road, Mr. E. Sant was suspected and later inves-examination said he did not know

daring recent, operations: the num-break was soon extinguished with Franks, of the Lalohikak Prison, tigations made by the police reveal that By Order of the Board, Canal, if she wished to keep pacs ber plate, however, was not lighted out any damage being caused.

veterinary surgeon would. who was driving motor eyele No ed that he had really stolen the have killed the dog for him. LC. F. BELLAMY, in the new ram of armaments and they drove quickly away.

The appointment has been an-170, lightly struck a man who ran watch.

Mr. Jones-I bave suggested that | Britain's | bold" and somewhat General Manager.

"It was at first thought that the

i across in front of the cycle carrying .

you are a hyprocrite; do you want their own consumption, but it is ment of Mr. Yu Shua Wah, well-ground and received slight injuries the-8.8. Kin Shan, jumped over as well I did not want to give the Washington Treaty, when a now thought that the morauders known Incal racing owner and to the back of its head and was board during the trip from Canton work to someone else when I would severe limitation on capital ships have discovered some method of soil-jockey, as the General Manage treated by Dr. Asjoe, of Nathan to Hong Kong, whilst the stesser

ing the carcases.

Hongkong, 22nd July, 1982.

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POSITION: VACANT

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was imposed and, in return, Great, Britain accepted "parity" with the United States and scrapped her super-Hoods. It is reckoned that America, Japan and the British Empire were saved £360 million in Battleships alone. ---

"It is a serious matter for some of the landowners who rely on latting their estates for shooting. and fears have been expressed HE EASTERN BANKING & PROVIDENT INSURANCE

that the value of the forests may be seriously lessened-if any whole Co., IAD., H.O. DELHI (India).

sals form of poaching goes on."" Larites applications from respect.

An official of Smithfield market able and influential people for appoint

said to day, "It would be impos- ment as District Manager for Hong Thus the Hood remains the sible to sell poached venison in the Kong on a consolidated salary in the largest warship in the world and Landon markets. If the poachers grade of Rs. 100, 25, 250. Cash Security required Rs. 3,000/- bearing the later battleships, Nelson and attempted it they would be spot ted at once, for the existing sellers [2400 Rodney, shrank by about over 8.000 are all known... interest at 1.pa.

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of the Chins Merchants Steamship Road. Navigation Company, Hong Kong branch, ns from August 1.

have done it myself.

was off Ching Shan at 1 pan on Kay mlmitted that he had killed Wednesday and was later picked half a dozen dogs in the last twents. A got together eupper-darice, in-up by the s.8. Kiang Ning which years in the same way.

The Chairman-In` all my long According to a report made to augurated by the members of the was following closely. It is enid the police by Mr. G. White, assist Antae Company of the Hong Kong that when the man boarded the experience as a Magistrate, I-have- ant manager of the Graeco-Egyptian Volunteer Force, will be held at the steamer be went to the compra- never heard of a more monstroar Tobacco Store, a case of smokers' Peninsula Hotel tonight. Over 120 dore's office and said that he would case of cruelty, Under the guise requisites which was consigned from residents have signified their intan bo assaulted by certain men, who of religion, you have carried out Hamburg was found on arrival to tion of "being "present at the fune wished to kill him. After the ship this very dreadful action to this contain nothing but foreign news tion, the primary object of which had sailed the mat again, auproach: unfortunate dog, which, as you papers The discovery was made in to bring together the Australian ed the compradore's office and said, was obedient unto death. If when delivery was being taken from and New Zealand residents in the stated he had seen his enemy. you had been a younger man, the the Kowloon Godowns on Wednes- Colony. A very enjoyable evening Shortly afterwards he was seen to sentence would have been the maxi Jay.

promised.

jump overboard

mum.