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ADVERTISEMENTS.

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

NOTICE

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Saturday, 20th instant, the supply of electricity to, the area bounded by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, Boundary Street. Ma Tau Wai Village and Argyle Street, will be disconnected between the hours of 9am. and 12 noon.

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a

Mooting of the Board of Directors of Green Island Cement Company, Limited, held at Excluogo Building, Victoris, In the Colony of Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 17th day of August, 1992, a Call of $2 73 per share was made upon all the members holding sharos, whose Dames appear in the Company's register of shareholders on the 17th day of August, 1932, upon which only $1.00 per share has been paid, and it was determined that such Coll should be paid on the 81st day of December, 1982, to the Company's Bankers, The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation at their Head Ofica, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid,

Your Car,

Sir!

whatever model you choose, will be waiting for you

• HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.

and meter supplies had the prací

| tical effect of cutting ionsumption of water, and keeping something in the reservoirs.

Speed!

* News and Views *

Dying Man's Bot.

John

About another five years must elapse before the Shing Mun

The measured speed of a driver Scheme is completed, and while a

when it connects with the golf ball When you reache

useful addition to the storage will is from 10 to 125 miles an hour, Engload

be available before then, the prob or approximately one-half the speed Gilman's will arrangeability is that this will be absorbed at which the news seems to travel that a new Hillman by the normal growth of populain the event the balls rolls into the or Humber,

tion. If, therefore, we get a bnd

cup for a hole-in-one. drought in about 1930, when meters are in general use, it will be dif feult to keep the reservoira wet. Appeals and propaganda are ali vory well, but in practice, directly the supply is turned on, for some limited period of time, every tap will be opened, and everyone of us will get what we consider we need --an amount far in excess of what many were last summer able to get. The morals of the present system are bad but dry reservoirs would

be worse! The remedy might come down to about half an hour's AP.B. 8 supply twice a week!

On the

quay

The Ready for

&

Upeu presentation at the office of the Company of the Bankers' receipt for the payment of such Call, to gether with the Certificate of Bhares, a note of the payment will be endorsed on the Certificate.

Dated this 17th day of August, 1992.

By Order of the Board,

ALLAN KEITH, . Secretary.

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nthat the Certificate No. 6/NS

50% dated Hongkong 14th April, 1982 for Five shares of this Bank

numbered 130792/180790 inclusiva registered in the name of Tichard Tuorey has been Lost, Stolen or destroyed by Fite, and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before 10th SEPTEMBER, 1932, a new certificate for the abarea will be issued, and the afore Baid Certificate No. 6/N8 502 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Null and Void.

By Order of the Court of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Maonger.

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE.

THE undermentioned certificate for 50 Fully Paid up, shares in this Company registered in the name of Weng Fat has been lost; und Rhould this certificate not be pro- duced to the Company before 16th September, 1982, a new certificate for the said shares will be issued and the old certificate No. 268 will thereafter be treated by this Company as NULL & VOID,

Certificate No. 263 for 50 shares Nos. 2951/3000.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 17th August, 1932.

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE

STANLEY.

you to drive away. Get full enjoyment out of

Your next

leave.

DEATHS.

LANG.-On August 13, at Shanghai,

Ardeg!

For the last two years 6128 little Americans from kindergarten to the sixth grade have been taught to spell and do sumes on typewriters. Perhaps the children of tomorrow will learn their Asdfg's.

Ancient America ↑

Western America 'will be asked

to disclose, through its stones and bones, how long it has known the dominion of man. When Coronado the famous explorer moved north. ward from Mexico in 1541, flourish-

Sutton, a (13-years-old bottle-worker, of St. Helens, Lancs shire, who had both his legs cut off by a locomotive on April 6, found the sporting instinct strong enough ing towns occupied the Misscuri to use the date as an omen for 4 River bluffs. When Lewis and bet.

Clark passed 300 years later the While he lay in hospital, look.eivilized towns had gone; there were only nonadie Indian buffalo. ing at a list of horses in the Derby, hustors with horses between their he took this as an omen and had legs. When began that lost civi a 10s, bet on April the Fifth, which lization f Smithsonian Institution experts are to read the rocks and won.

to consider fint arrowheads found Among the bones of mammothe. If an arrow says it slew that mam moth, then that civilization. active. 20,000 years ago—If

He died in hospital and at the Dr. KOTEWALL in his able and inquest, when a verdiet of Death eloquent speech at the Legislative from Misadventure was recorded, Council meeting put cogent argu-the Coroner said: "I am sorry he JAMES LANG, aged 47. SYMINGTON. On August 14, atments against the assumption that came to such a sad end; ho was

Shanghai.. ALMA LEITOR DEWAR

a great sport" (NANCY), beloved wife of water is wasted in the rider main ROBERT SYMINGTON, aged 20 districts. Where there is waste is *years

through leaky taps! It is difficult, however, to understand the fervid

Five Day Week?

American adoption of a regular

Editorial and Business Offices: 1% | opposition of the Chinese commu-five-day working week would be

Ice House Strest. Tol. 30951.

Night Editor (Wanchal Office): nity to the abolition of the rider

*Tel. 94311.

London Office: 83, Fleet Street, mains Landlords may well and

EO. 4

The Baidy Press.

20. 1932.

HONG KANO, AUGUST 20.

RIDER MAINS AND THE

WATER SUPPLY.

one long step in a right direction. So Ethelbert Stewart, retired Com; themselves enddled with charges missioner of Labour Statistics, tells which they will prove difficult to the University of Virginia Institute pass on to their tenants, but when of Public Affairs. With a large em- 'the time spent in waiting in waterployment decrease, 60 per cent, of queues, and the money extorted by the persons now at work might on carrying coolics in totalled up, it

is hard to understand why the full time produce all the market, do poorer classes should resent themands. A machine nge has brought changu Carrying nalies often a permanent problem, but not ¤

Doing Her Bit!

was

Says a Chinese Proverb

"AN ILL-KEPT DOG DISGRACES HIS MASTER"]

SALCA

FOOD SUPPLEMENT FOR DOGS

IS NOT A MEDICINE, IT IS A FOOD SUPPLEMENT

WHICH INDUCES PERFECT HEALTH AND DOES AWAY WITH THE NEED FOR ANY MEDICINE.

* LITERALLY THOUSANDS, INCLUDING PROMINENT PROFESSIONAL AUTHORITIES, HAVE TESTIFIED, QUITE VOLUNTARILY, TO THE MARVELLOUSLY BENEFICIAL

OBTAINED FROM THE

RESULTS

REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION

DAILY ADDITION OF A LITTLE "BALCA" TO THE A OF DIETARY OF ALL CLASSES

DOGS.

OF SUCH

TESTIMONY IS YOURS FOK THE ASKING.

A SAMPLE TIN OF "SALCA" COSTS 50 CENTS. THE PRICE OF A LARGE TIN IS $1.75.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR HONGKONG & CANTON

A feminine personification of A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

France offering an olive branch to·

a war-distracted world is the deal cription given of France's newly designed postage stamp showing

Pacificateuse." Another small step toward the promotion ofį

world-wide peace which will reach the far-flung nations of the earth.

Big Race Parades to Cease

Orders have been sent to all Clerks of Courses holding licences from the Jockey Club in Enginn to the effect that in future there are to be to parade befare races.

Est. 1841.

Timea racing correspondent writer: -There have never, to my know- ledge, been parades at Newmarket, and I am very glad that there aro now to be one on nuy course where racing is conducted Rules of Racing. I have long argued in these Notes that parades were useless and senseless things.

under the

RAN AWAY FROM HOME.

GIRL WHO DESERTED HER FIANCE.

Before Mr. Wynno Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Li

Feharge as much for a bucketful as catastrophe. The workers' future i The horses will still have to go It has been urged that the general Tak Fan, aged 19, clerk, was

these parades, depends on how the problem is met down the course in front of the public like to see

on the intelligence with which Stands, but they will not have to but now that all horses carry num adjustment is made to a decreased go out in any special order or beer-clothes there is no need, from the working period and an increased paraded as they are sometimes now public's point of view, for the set

on the occasions of big races. The parade. leisure,

the Government wants for 500 gallons! Perhaps the thought of the surrender of a nominally free THE real objection to the Govern

water supply is a displeasing pros ment's policy of abolishing the

pect, but the said "free supply" rider main system and introducing is a distinctly illusory nases. The

general installation of

poorest class, will in the long run do meters in houses, is that an effective well out of the change; the land. if unfair and unpleasant means of lords may suffer a little, and, if a reducing water consumption is bad drought comea, the Government | inndoned. In May this year con; will find itself severely punished for sumption in Victoria was screwed the delays in getting on with the

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water

THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.

——

Local and General

Two cases of cholera and four of enteric were reported on Thurs. day.

down to 213 million gallons as proper development of the Colony'sterday quoted at 18. 3jd.

The Hong Kong dollar was yes. An interesting visitor to the last week, had been captured at ngainst a normni 100 million supply.

Colony yesterday, was Mr. Shigem Chefoo: Our news was cordfirmed gallons, and it could be brought

Noba, a Japanese world traveller, later by an official telegram, to the If Jower!

limited supply

It is not through street fountains is given

Whilst in our office he showed us | Colonial Secretary. a minimum of water is ured, and

many photograph albums of the known yet whether the Shanghai not a drop being wasted. A Daily

| places he had visited, together with Police will bring him to Hong Brother Aimar of La Sella Press representative worked out,

College, returned to the Colony booka filled with autographs of not-Kong or whether members of the by timing how long it took to draw

yesterday by the s.s: Suwa Maru.

able Japanese, Chinese and foreign him. At any rate he ought to be local force will have to go up for 几 bucket of water that many people were, at the beginning of!

residents in the Far East. Mir. on his trial here within two Noba leaves here very shortly, for three weeks.-Hong Kong Daily Singapore and from thenes to Pren, August 20, 1907. India

(Continued From Page 7.)

A

concert

Suffering from acute opium poisoning Ho Kwai Sang, a woman aged 22 years of Tai Chung Wal Boarding house, Connaught Road, Central, was last night admitted to hospital in Д dying condition. Little hope is held out for her re-

June, down to about two gallons will be given over to locker rooms a day, a ration that hardly bears and lavatories, etc., for, the use of much cutting. At that time the officers and men. The seamen's supply to metered houses was ro billiard, room, library, XAMINATION for New Stad-duced to three hours a day. This room, restaurant and kitchens are EXA

eats on Sept., 8rð, at 9 am. was rather inconvenient if ons located on the ground floor, and School begins Sept. 6th. For Pro- wanted a bath after hours, but three the Chinese staff accommodation is spectus, for Boardera and Day boys,hours a day; of tup service enables citored for on the mezzanine floor apply to Ms. LI HOI TONG BANKER & CO., 20, Dea Vour household to draw off as much between the ground and first, floors. According to the Chinese Press,

Road, C., or

·

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

Sianloy.

AGENCIES.

covery.

Į

From the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

#

Looking back 50 years.'

or

charged with unlawfully, receiving and harboring Li Sau Ying, an unmarried girl, aged 17, without

the consent of her mother at 47 Elgin Street.

The case, Inspector Shaftain said,. presented a conflict between old Chinese customs and modern ideas, The girl's parents had arranged for her marriage to a man in the coun- try, but she apparently was oppos- ed to it, and ran away from home, being found ten days later living, with the young man now charged.

In asking for a remand, Inspec. tor Shaftain suggested bail of 200. He hinted at the possibility of the case being settled out of Court, "For instance," he said, "We can arrange la, marriage between

tham

settlement.

Mr. Wyone-Jones:-That seems. to me to be a reasonable form of

The case was adjourned for week.

EUROPEAN INVOLVED IN

MOTOR ACCIDENT.

WOMAN KNOOKED DOWN IN CAINE ROAD.

At last Hong Kong is to be sup plied with a sufficiency of pure water, and that "white elephant," as we once heard Sir Arthur Ken nedy describe the Special Fund, is water as it wants, and often as

to be used to defray the expense. The first floor is devoted to the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will j much as might be wanted is run officers' lounge, billiards and dining shortly send Notes to the United

The statement made by His Ex- into baths, buckets, kettles andi

cellency the Administrator, in hie [2427 cther receptacles. Those in house rooms, and study and lectum rooms States, Great Britain, France,

for officers and engineera. The Holland, Norway and Brazil, ro- The resources of the Shanghai minute on the estimate for next with meters did not, in fact, suffer

31 the least hardship.

Chaplins' office, vestry, and chapel questing the opening of negotin Municipal Police are taxed severe, year, as to the water works, has

As a result of being knocked is also situated on this floor. The tions for the revision of the Shang-ly sometimes, but selden more been received with unqualified satis down by a motor-ear at 5.10 p.m. The ethics of such a system are three upper floors are devoted to hai Provisional Court Reorganisa embarrassingly than at an early faction: Many years ago the ro- yesterday, a woman was admitted The London Uffice of the HONG extremely bad. The people with sleeping quarters for the various tion Agreement which will expire hour one morning last week when quirements of the growing town of to the Government Civil Hospital

KONG DAILY PRESS, 18, meters got three hours at a tape classes of men and officere.

at the end of March, 1033.

a newly-born Chinese infant, evi- Victoria outgrew the capabilities suffering from injuries to the head. FLEET STREET, ECA, is constant-

dently in need of nourishment, of the Pokfulam Reservoir, and Villas who was driving his car, No. Mr. E. A. Hameik, of Felix ly receiving Enquiries from Home the users' of street fountains about Manafastaram regarding Suitable ne many minutes. It might be said The building is served with pag-

Mr. William Yinson Leo of was presented at the Hongkow (though the summer supply of water 70, in a westerly direction along Firms to act as Agents for their

The officers were products in Hong Kong and that the meter supply should have songer and baggage lifts, in addi Shanghai, who passed through the charge room.

was increased five years ago by the Caine Road, said that as he ap

proached-Shung Wong Streot-ho- been cut still further, and prob- tion to four large staircases.

Colony at the beginning of this equal to the emergency, however, construction of the conduit along noticed a crowd of people in the month with his daughter, Arline, and a married detective promptly the hill-side above the Pokfulam road ahead of him, ap further Agencies will let us had not come in time If about

en route to the Philippines was produced a feeding bottle and and Robinson Ronde, which brought

He sounded his horn, and with know the Lines in which they are interested the information will behalf-an-hour,-with-weak-pressure, In viewing this

entertained at tiffin, by Governor-some warm milk. The child was into town the water that would the exception of ene elderly wo forwarded to London and passed were allowed then the upper floors enterprise, I would not but General and Mira. Roosevelt at then put to sleep and remained otherwise have overflowed the remade for the pavement. The wo

ninn, the crowd dispersed and on to interested parties as op would do badly for the ground wonder at the enormous progress Malacanang Palace, Manila, on the satisfied with its lot, until the servoir, the storage for winter use man became furried and attempt partumty offers,

How inadeed to run in the direction in which This Service in affered to our Eeaders floor timants would be able to take made since the days of its humble 11th instant. Others present were time arrived for conveyance to the remained the same.

without sharge and, of comme the lot. As it was last May and inception one hundred years ago Mr. Roosevelt's two sous, Theodore Mixed Court where it was handed quate that storage was is demon the car swerved, but before the vehicle could he brought to a no obligation is incurved on either June the

strated by the fast that during the standstill, the woman had sustain. on upper floors We can all ecc and appreciate the and Cornelius, who had just arrived over to more practised nurses. The sired Laformisan abocla o scnerally had to wait fit the material good that, hue done from who just at Mer

Yesterday the Hong Kong Police last dry season the residents in so- cd a glancing blow, and was knock-

ed down. S ground floor, tenants had finished by this institution, but who knows Yentura, Secretary for the Interior experienced a feeling of relief veral pants of the town were com

On being admitted to hospital HONG KONG DAILY PRE88, Lrd but it was only a question of wait to what extent its long succession Mr. Vinson Lee and Miss Lee in- when they learned from the Daily pelled to purchase their supply it was learned that the victim's

ing! However, the indisputable of members have benefited morally tend remaining in the Philippines Press that Adsetts, the man sus from water boats-Hong Kong arme was. Lo Shui Sun, sxed 88% sombunfairness as between rider main and spiritually.—LM.

until the beginning of September.pected of committing the murder Daily Press, August 20, 188,

Fonth China.

If Local Companies desirous of taking ably it would have been if rain

Veldo,

went to the ....

11, Ice House Braunr

Bong Kong/--

The Benefits Accrued,

ambitious

years of Queen's BondWest,

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