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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.'

NOTICE.

TOTICE is hereby giren that,

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me from the 18th instant, MB. LEONARD YATES, who is being trans- ferred to the London Office, is re- signing from the Local Board and MR. COLIN CHARTERIS BLACK is appointed Chairman in his place

MR. W. F. G. HARRIS has been appointed Member of the Local Board.

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate No. 4/N8 502 dated Hongkong 14th April, 1932 for Five shares of this Bank numbered 180792/180796 inclusive registered in the name of Kichard Tooroy has boen Lost, Stolen or destroyed by Fire, and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before 10th SEPTEMBER. 1932, Dow certificate for the shares will be issued, and the afore. *said Certificate No. 6/NS 502 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Null and Void.

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By Order of the Court of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

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GERMAN CONSTITUTION DAY

On the occasion of the

of the German Constitution Day the German Consul will hold an official reception on THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST, at the German Club, Connaught Road, No. 2, IVth floor,

in the hour from 12 to 13

The Office of the German Consulate will be closed on that day.

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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

; CO. (1918), LTD.

LOST

NOTICE is hereby given that

application has been made to this Company to issue to the respoe. tiva regiatored ahareholders nataed below duplicate certificates, or other certificates in lieu thereof, for the shares covered by the following original certifiestas, upon atatoment that such original certificates have been lost:-

Certificate No. 16178, dated 24th December, 1931, for 600; shares numbered 353062/453070; 401478/401525; 490846/490045 491048/491146; 590562/590511 607800/607949; 607980/609009 747651/747944 and 792489/792445,

registered in the name of Mr. Ewok Hin Wang, of Alexandra Building, Hong Kong,

Certificate No. 16332, dated 12th February, 1982. for 100 share numbered 792223/792822 registered in the name of Mr. Wong Chan Woon. of 53, Des Voeux Road. I ast. Hong Kong. And notice is bereby given that, if within thirty days from the date hereof no claim or representation in respect of such original cortificator is made to the Company, the Company will then proceed to deal with the applications in auch manner and on such torms as the Directors of the Company may decide.

For THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.

NOEL BRAGA,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 9th August, 1982.

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PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULAĦS & CONDITIONE of the Bale by Publia Auction

to be held on MONDAY, the 10TH DAY of AUGUST, 1992, 8 M., at the Olion of the Public Work Department, by Onter

of Hi EXONZIENOT THE GOVERNOR, &f One Lot of UROWN LAND at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Surveyor al He MAJESTY THE Kue, for one further term of 78' years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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doubt, but unless there is clear proof of the accusation made! against him to raise fractional dis- putes at this time, as the writer already quoted points out, is to occur a terrible responsibility. This is precisely what Mr. WANG CHING WE has done, and he should there fore be in a position to justify him. self. But in Mr. WANG CHING WEI in a position to "secure a convio tion," in the eyes of all decent Chinese people, against CHANG HBUEN LIANO He has sent in his

*News and Views ⭑

A Floating Exhibition.

After the Ottawa Conference it is the intention of the White Star Line to fit out the Laurentie to visit, Caunda, carrying examples of British manufactures. She leaves Liverpool on September 2.

No doubt the company has before it the example of the Scottish trade mission ship Jetitia, which last May paid a successful visit to Montreal with a display of Scottish goods on board. During a week's stay over 200,000 people visited the

There are, however, a great num- ber of distinguished persons who are honorary Elder Brethren. Mr. Baldwin is one, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was elected a couple of years ago. The Duke of Connaught is the Master,

A good story in told apropos of the mess dress of the Corporation. Mr. Winston Churchill, was sitting next to the French Ambassador at a dinner party.

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My Lady of the Jury.

The list of titled and otherwise distinguished persons resident in the United Kingdom is longer than Mrs. Henrietts Churchill Deacon. in any other country in the world. aged 98, of Oldhill-street, Stamford Nearly 1,800 pages of Kelly's Hill, N.. was recently summaned to Handbook to the Titled, Landed serve on an Old Bailey jury, but and Official Classes" are required was later excussed. to set forth the names and claims to fame.

course of action that, judging by Western standards, only the most the outcome. urgent and relentless circumstances. could justify. Unless he wore bezet | Titles! by cowards and traitors it was Mr. WANG CHING WEr's plain task to continue at the head of the govern- ment; to make the best of hie colleagues, and to dispense only with those whose absence would do less harra than their presence. To quarrel even with an unsatisfactory ally in the middle of a campaign

is a desperate course. HRB CHANG HUSEN LIANG made Mr. WANG The engagement is announced be-CHING WEI's resignation, with all

tween Derrick, elder son of Mr.

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The Clyde Fortnight, at Largs America has its Four Hundred, kept up to its traditions very suc- while in most of the Continental cessfully, and yacht clubs and capitals the people who count could yachtsmen look back on it with be enumerated by the score.

neither Mariners' Oldest. Guild.

better nor worse than his kind. To deprive a war-lord of his position is moro like deposing the king of an allied state than replacing Viscount FRENCH by Sir DOVOLAB HAIG, The

London O: 53 Fleet Street,Manchurian leader has his own

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The Daily Press.

Hoyo Koyo, August 11. 1932.

CHINA'S POLITICAL CRISIS.

A WRITER in that interesting and instructive publication The People's Tribune (published in English by China United Press, Shanghai) points out the gravity and the peril, of the situation that would be precipitated by the fall of Mr. WANG CHING WEI's administration, The writer argues that there is no political party in China in a position to replace the Kuomintang na the repository of political power, and within the Kuomintang there in no alternative to the present coalition between Mr. WANO CHING WE and Marshal Curang KAI SHEK.

The writer states:

army, paid, supplied and command ed by himself, and in practice owing allegiance to him and to him only. Is it within Chinese custom to suggest that he should hand over bis command to the nominee of the Nanking Government as Mr. Wao Cuixa WEI suggests? Does Mr. WANG CHING WEI imagine that all the feudal militarists of China are

The Elder Brethren of Trinity House were recently entertained by the Lord Mayor.

The Corporation-or to give it ila old title, "The Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood, of the Most Glori. ous and Undivided Trinity, and

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Despite the Disarmament Con- of St. Clement in the Parish ference, there has been no cessation Church of Deptford Strond"-is in the experimental work of finding

the oldest guild of mariners in new war weapons, Great Britain. It might almost he said to have been the cradle of the Royal Navy.

...

Socrat trials of an important in- vention took place last month ander the auspices of a well-known arma

New Zoo Lion.

It is said to date from the ment firm. thirteenth century, and its duties from earliest times have been to look after buoys and lighthouses, lightships and other aids to naviga- tion. Thus in the course of time

to be brought by word of command it has become the most important under the orders of the Executive body in the world of piotage Yuan? Optimism can hardly run

to such lengths. Why then is Mr. The Elder Brethren. WANG CHING WEI setting himself In the Elder Brothren is vested, to achieve the seemingly impos- by the charter of 1800, the sole He is like a man ordering management of the affairs of the corporation. Tho practical duties the mountains to vanish like of the body are discharged by act

sible ?

Cecil, one of the finest lions over exhibited in captivity, has arrived at the London Zoo from Whipsnade. He e distinguished by a magnifi cent black mans and a ferocious disposition.

The latter characteristic has ren- dered it impossible to let him mix

Hence his with the other lions on the new Whipsnade rockeries. appearance at the Regent's Park menagerie.

The Hong Kong Dispensary.

Est. 1841.

A Bachelors' Stronghold.

Vienna's first skyscraper, sixteen stories high, is approaching com- pletion in the famous Herrengasse. It is to be a stronghold of bachelor- dom.

CHINESE WOMAN FINED.

FOR KEEPING UNREGISTER- ED MUI-TSAI.

Chan Kwai, a married woman, The Austrian capital is full of huge Ants and old aristocratic pa-living at 3, Rednaxela Terrace was laces which are empty because the fined $200 by Mr. W. Schofield at impoverished population cannot af- Central Magistracy yesterday when ford the cost of upkeep of roomy she answered two summonses for qartors. married persons are all keeping two unregistered mui-tacis, obliged to live in furnished rooms. aged 10 and 11, respectively.

The "Bachelor's Stronghold" at- tempts to remedy this. A binding clause of the lease is that none of the "bachelors of either sex in- habiting these dwellings may marry, on pain of expulsion.

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This rule has had a curious sequel A Divorce of Convenience. The popular Vienna actress, Hilde Wagener, bas divorced her husband, Otto Tressler, in order that they may ench occupy a bachelor flat. They also save over £100 a year in

income-tax.

Frau Wagener declares that the ix purely formal-on economic and financial grounda.

Local and General

of

were eh.

Seven years of captivity have not clouds. It may be that he is seeking elder brethren, thirteen in ing to appeal, over the heads of numbor. Two of these are elected tamed Cecil, who was presented to Mr. from members of the Royal Navy when quite a small cub feudal chiefs, who care little or

and the rest from the Merchant Rostock. He was a terror even in divorce

his cradle. nothing for Manchuria and for

Service. China, and much for their own fortunes, to the great mass of the Chiness people, whose patriotism was roused, first by the somewhat legendary docds of MA CHAS #4 hold that any political

A victim of insomnia, Wong Lui, Seven Chinese milk boys, employ. SHAN, and later by the achievements.

The Hong Kong dollar was, yea crisis in China at the present may

of 124, Cheungshawaned at the Pokfulam farms of the result in

of the Nineteenth Army. Time will terday quoted at 18. 34d on demand, aged 25, a sinte of absolute

Road, took a dose of medicine to Dairy Farm Company, anarchy. And could China under reveal relentlessly whather Mr.

Four CNSCE of cholera, induct sleep, but he apparently used gaged in a wild fight on Monday a result they were such dangers risk further WANG CHING WEI is a Cromwell, diphtheria and one of meningitis too much and was later removed tonight and as period of lawlessness... Would

the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering brought before Mr Schofield in the Central Police Court yesterday. any of my countrymen risk the using desperate methods to sweep were reported on Tuesday

from the effects. freedom of the race by upsetting he is merely one of a group, schem away half-hearted mercenaries or if

The first four pleaded guilty to According to a report made to the the present government throngh

To-day being the anniversary of fighting, while the fifth, sixth and ing for power, and in the course of police by Lo Kwok-cheung, of 5, any rash agitation or caroless fomenting of trouble?"

the political conflict making use of Peking Road, his dog was run over the German Constitution Day, the seventh defendants claimed that appeals to simple-minded popular by a bus in Nathan Road on Tues-German Consul in Hong Kong, Dr. they were peace-makers. His Wor Those are statcemanlike words, patriotism in order to get rid of day night and had to be destroyed B. Ilahn, will hold an official re-ship bound all defendants over in ception at the German Club, 2, personal bonds of 876 to keep the Connaught Road, from 12 noon to peace for a year. He remarked that the defendants, especially 1, 2, many people A fox terrier dog belonging to i pau. All friends are welcome.

3 and 4, had suffered enough punish WANG CHING Wer and Marshalsuspect, we must not take these Mr. C. J. Waddell, of 633, The CHIANG, though maintaining that quarrels too seriously, and in a few Peak, was removed to the Kennedy

days the storm in the tea-cup will Town slaughter house for observa-left yesterday by s... "Henelaus" Traffic Inspector Mason prosecut- have subsided, and all the pro tion on Tuesday after it had bitter or an extended vacation. They exed in a case in which a lad named tagonists of this crisis, will be Ku-Bing, a-cook-employed at 530,pect to be in the United Kingdom as Hoksang was charged before back at their desks; carrying on The Peak. The victim was admit- for approximately three as before! To Western nations this ted to the Government Civil Hospi- and return to Hong Kong via Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magis- would suggest a Tweedledee and tal for treatment...

Panama Canal, New Zealand and tracy yesterday with driving a car without" "A valid licence and with Tweedledum mentality. It would

driving car,No. 1800, without the permission of the owner. It was disclosed that the owner of the car

and they reflet the sober patriotism

of the article, which pays tribute

to the great qualities of both 'Mr.

inconvenient rivals.

Or perhaps, as

by the police.

the Intter's return to supreme power in the state is "illogical and im "practicable.” It is therefore dis

tressing to read in the same issue of this periodical a fierco denuncia tion of Marshal CHANG HSUE LIANG far outstepping the limits imposed upon Western Journalism.raiso a suspicion as to whether the The case in which a Chiness Marshal Chang Isora Liang is, of protests about the loss of Manchuris tailor was charged with attempting course, the powerful ally of CHIANG: KA BREX, and as we have seen. nothing could have been better calculated to bring about a crisis than an attack upon the Man- churianwar-lord. Of the hatred felt in certain quarters against the

Mr. and Mrs. James Ormiston meat.

Australia.

mantha

A Hokle, a stranger in, the were not part of the same game. It to steal 8950 from a Philippinu Colony, was fined 82 by Mr. Fraser

was a relative of the defendant, and would give further excuse for the lady, residing in the Peninsula at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday he did not wish to press the charge. League of Nations to say that Hotel was concluded at the Kow for the evasion of payment of fare. Inapeeter Mason. said he saw the Inspector defendant driving the car in Water- Chinese politics were beyond the loon Magistracy, yesterday. Mr. J. on the Etor Ferry.

Elaton told the Court that a great loo Road on Tuesday afternoon, Western mind, and that the best A. Fraser, in discharging the man,

many Europeans do the same thing and when he stopped him, he found thing to do is to leave China to remarked that he thought him very and naturally the Chinese try to be had no licence. A flue of es was

imposed on this count, copy, them. lucky to get off. settle matters in her own way.

Mr. W. M. Thompson, of the So- cretariat for Chinese Affairs pre- secuted and said that on the first occasion that an Inspector and lady inspector visited the house, the wo- man claimed one of the girls as her god-child. The other girl was concealed under a bed.

Mr. Horace Lo, for the defence, claimed that the woman did go to the 8.C.A. offices for the purpose of registering the girls, but was told the period of registration was over.

Regarding the offence as technic- al, his Worship imposed the, nomin al line of 85 on another married woman, Hui Yu Cheung, of 308 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, who was summoned for failing to register a mui teas.

THIEF'S USELESS, HAUL.

PILE OF SHARE SCRIPT.

According to a police report scrip in local companies worth thousands of dollars are said to

of Mr. Wong Chan Woon, building have been stolen from the residence contractor, of 62 Tak Ming Street,

It was stated that the lock on the shortly after noon on Tuesday. staircase door was forced during the absence of the occupants of the promises, and two baskets contain ing ten pieces of clothing and a gold watch to the value of 878.50, were stolen, as well as the share certificates.

Certificates in respect of the fol- lowing shares were stolen

100 "Old" China Light and Power Co.,

China Light and 20" Now Power Co.

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500 Yick, Ka Co., 248 Bincere, Co., 210 Sun Co.,

81 Ping On Co.,

130 Hong Kong Telephone Co... Other documents takes included

the deed of a Hong Kong Inland

lot lease, one share in the Kwong

Tak Wing Co. for $3,000 and the

Wing On Co. money receipt book,

The scrip is, of course, valueless to the thiof or thieves,