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NEW ̄ ̄ ̄`ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.

Meating of the League Manage ment Committee will be held in the office of the Association, 20, Ice House Street, at 5.0, P.M. on TUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1932, to arrange fixtures for the forthcom ing BALLON. Club Secretaries may attend if they so desire.

W. D. HOLLANDS,

Hon. Becretary,

NOTICE.

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THE Public is hereby notified that

the undersigned has ceased to carry on business under, has abso lutely abandoned the style or firm name of NAM SANG HONG, Hong Kong under which style he has been trading heretofore.

(Signed) CHAN PO BANG. Hong Kong, September 7th, 1939.

NOTICE.

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HE SWIMMING CHAMPION.

TSHIPS of the Colony will take place in the V.R.C. on the 29th and 30th September, and the 1st and őrá October. Entries close on the lat September, at 6.00 p.m. Entry forms may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary,

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. [2505

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI 'BANKING CORPORATION.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

N°

that the Certificate No. 6/NS 502 dated Hongkong 14th April, 1982 for Five shares of this Bank numbered 130792/130796 inclusive registered in the name of Hichard Tooroy has been Lost, Stolen or destroyed by Fire, and should this certificate not be produced to the Bank before 10th SEPTEMBER, 1982, a new certificate for the shares will be issued, and the afore- said Certificate No. 6/NB 502 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Nall and Void.

By Order of the Court of Directors.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

G.

•PARTIC

Chief Manager.

B.

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PUBLIC AUCTION, ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Bale by Pablo Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 19TH DAY of SEPTEMBER 1933, at 3 r., at the Office of the Public Works Department, by Order of HIS EXCELLENT THGor NOB, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Bhamahaipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, dommencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be Exed by the Surveyor of HI MAJESTY THE Krea, for one further form of 24 years loss the last three days

thereof.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale

Begistry No.

Locality.

New Kowloon Inland

Lot No. 1997. Adjoining New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1457,

G.

Un Chan Bireet

Boundary

Measure-

mesta.

As per

nale plan.

TERURG

Contents in

Squar

feet.

Bental

** | Opret Price

About

3,440

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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8,600

CONDITIONS PARTICULARS & DONDON to be held or MONDAY, the 19′′ DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1932, at At the Offices of the Public Works Department, by

THOMAS

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HONG KONG, SEPTENDER 9. 1939.

THE POLAR YEAR.

jubilee of the Polar Year is being celebrated by repeating the experi Fourteen countries are bo- ment tween them sending but nearly thirty parties of scientists who will form a complete ring round the Arctic Ocean Great Britain will bo responsible for two stations, ons. near the North Cape in Norway, the other in the far North of Denmark is occupying a Canada, place called Thule, elose to the in Greenland, magnetic pole Sweden and Russia will share the honour of having penetrated furth- est north in Spitzbergen and Franz! Joseph Land, respectively. With the greatly improved instruments now available, an impressive body of fresh information should be brought back next year by the different parties, and doubtless wo shall enjoy in consequence more reliable information from our wea- ther prophets.

International co-operation of this kind should serve as an example in other spheres of action. Fifty years ago the idea of twelve nations pool- ing their resources in the disin- terested service of 'scienco was re garded as a revolutionary innova tion. Today, thanks to the world of the League of Nations and its Committee of Intellectual Co-opera- tion, such joint enterprises are Ir was fifty years ago that the first multiplying and grave problems of great experiment in international disease and natural disaster, which co-operation between scientists was have troubled the human race since a striking success and laid the time began, are being solved by common endeavour. Such work is foundations of ono of the most rarely spectacular and seldom ob- uncful branches of modern know-tains publicity, but, one of the great achievements of the League is to ledge, meteorology or the systematic have rendered it practicable, and study of the weather. In the as the years pass it may save more middle of the last century it had lives and more property than even

the Great War destroyed. gradually come to be realised that the climate of Europe was caused by the complicated interaction of

“AN OXFORD INNOVATION.

the currents of hot air that blew THE great English Universities have northward from the tropics with considerably modified their curri cold blasts from the Arctic circle.cula of recent years in order to keep abreast of events. Oxford, for We knew something of the course

example, shortly after the

founded a modernist, school "ar

1eu}k

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.

ON 355 METRES. :-

11 to 11.30 am-Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. 19.30 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.M.V, records,

To-day's Bright Thought.

Scene: North London

Court.

News and Views

A Voluble Woman: My husband's dislocated my jaw,

Lever House, as Unilver House ture, or a poem-Lady Oxford and Polios, was previously called, was the last Asquith,

I could easily make mischief if office to be occupied by the late Lord Loverhulme. His judment on really wanted to Mr. Lloyd sito values has been well proven. De George. Mr. Samuel Pope (the magis Kayzor's Hotel was the Brst build- trate): Madam, you must be mining erected on the land which was reclaimed from the Thames. At the taken; your jaw is working ex-

end of the war, during which the hotel became Adastral House, Lord Loverhulme took up possession

1 p.m.-Local time and weathertremely well.

report.

1.50 pan-Rugby Press news, etc.

p.m.-Close down..

5 to 7 pm. Chinese programme.

7 to 10.30 p.m.-European pro-

gramme.

p.in-Stock quotations, etc. 7.63 to 7.45 p.m.-

Been

Operatio.

The Way!

Solicitor at Willesden: My learn ed friend is merely quibbling. The Magistrate: Is that not the way you both get your living t

Unilever BouKA.

Recent Sayings |

There is nothing like the violent end of a millionaire, or indeed of any rich man, for turning the or dinary man inte a philosopher, Although Unilover House, whien; Mr. Robert Lynd. the Lord Mayor of London opened i In the books of Lewis Carroll, as Song" Thaie-Love Has Long recently, is a model of mechanical in those of no other writer, we And Rare Virtue (Masse-efficiency, the personal alement haal the true mirror for our own genera net).-Maria Jeritza (Soprano). not been forgotten. Lord Loverhul- tion,-Lord David Cecil.

I have observed all through my Orchestra

Le Coq D'Or-In-ma's room is modern in conception; traduction (Rimsky-Korsa-flush doors. In it he sits at his the people who think it clever to it has plain panelled walls and life, with aurprise and impatience kow). Orchestral Le Coq D'Or father's deak, a massive mahogan; criticise adversely everything of Bridal Cortege (Rimsky-Kor- piece, rich in ornament of beadings beauty which is original and new to them-whether a statue, a pic sakow), London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Contes.-9606

--1214.

21

Chorus "Gioconda - Sperting!

Feasting!" (Ponchialli ). — Metropolitan Opera Chorus 9234.

Orchestral "Faust" ....Ballot Music (Gounod).—Royal Opera Orchestra. Convent Garden.-- 0944/9047. Song" Manon Lescaut-Maiden

So Fair" (Puccini). Sang-Tosca - Strange Har- ruday" (Puccini).-Beniamino Gigli_(Tenor).--1213.

་

8 p.m.-Local time and weather

.report.

7.43 to 8.30 p.m.-

Variety.

and with ball and claw feet.

業

50,000 Pigeons In a Race,

Fifty thousand homing pigeoirs. brought from Cologne, Solingen, Aachen, Dusseldorf, and other Rhineland towns by a special train of thirty wagons, made the alr black over Linz, Austria, when they were released for a long-distance race.

Hundreds of spectators gathered

at the Linser Homing Pigeon Club to see the birds set off for home with unerring instinct.

As carrier pigeons can fly up to 500 miles in a day, the birds were oxpected to reach their homes the same evening. Quotation for To-day.

There is no quality more efficient in dispelling ignorance than the courage which dares to confess it. Anon.

Local and General

The Hong Kong dollar was quot- ed yesterday at 18, 440.

A small fire broke out yesterday at 191, Tai Nam Street, Shamshuipo, the premises of a small Chiness printing shop The fire was no Two cases of cholors and two of ticed by some fokis who did their meningitis were reported on Wed-best to confine it to the yard where nesday,

The annual general meeting of the Kowloon Golf Club will be held today at 6 pm at the Y.M.C.An. Kowloon

The Shanghai postal authorities announce that the Sian-Lanchow air mail service is temporarily

it had started, but it was until the arrival of the Fire Brigade that it was ultimately extinguished, with only small. damage.

At 6.10 p.m. yesterday a call was received by the Mongkok and Kow loon fire station, and immediately two appliances were despatched from each station in the direction of Jordan Road. The engines were brought up near Temple Street where it was discovered that it was a false alarm, arising from mis

Song--" Far Away." Song-" High and Low"--Sylvia

Cecil (Soprano).---B3300. Fox Trut

Love Made a Gypsy Out of Me." Fox Trot-"Beside an Open Fire-suspended.

place."--Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees.-22284. The British Naval Buoy Shang- Mandoline Solo- Concort hai was removed last week for in-placed humour.

Mazurka, Op. 190."

spection and minor repairs, as the Banjo Solo Frivolous Toe."-result of the ss. Haiping having

Mario De Pietro.—B220. Yoel Duet Thinking of You."' Vocal Duct-"Marigold."—Win-

bumped into it.

Gertrude, daughter of His Excel- bie Melville and Derek Old-lency, the Czechoslovak Minister Fam.-B3029. “

to China, and Mrs. Robert Feita- Band- Tu Vagabond King "-

cher, passed away on the 2nd of Selection-Savoy Havana Band September in Japan.

--C1333..... Song" My Si." Song "Junior"

Baur (Tenor).-22030. 8.30 to 0 p.10-

Franklyn

In the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Schofield,

young lad appeared in answer to a theft charge. He was said to have stolen his cousin's trousers and to have tried to pawn them. He told the Court, while manfully trying to hold back a flow of tears, that he had stolen the trousers to get enough money to get a haircut which ha sorely needed. Mr. Scho field bound him over ou a personal bond of 850, with the provision that he be of good behaviour for a year,

Messa. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., general managers of the Indo. China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., in his interests of the travelling. public on the lower Yangtsze river, made & further innovation in the passenger business by providing. the holiday residents of Kaling with a special steamer to take them from Kiukiang to Hankow on August 30, at which time the majority of holiday makers' return ed that members of the prison staff to their business in Central China. heard a shot in one of the offices The entire accommodation on the about 1.30 p.m., and rushing to Suiwo was placed at their disposal the scene found Mr. Rooney. And so appreciative were the resi

Mr.dents on the Hill that a record revolver was lying nearby.

Mr. Michael Hooney, aged 38 years, a warder at the Laichikok Prison, died on Wednesday as a result of a wound in the head, caused by a revolver. It is report

passengers,

Mr. Khou Hoi Hye, Chinese tes nis champion, returned to Shang-Rooney was immediately taken to number of passengers was booked, hai on board the French mail liner the Kowloon Hospital, where he for 114 first and intermediate class, together with 110 first and Athos II. after a tour in Malaya, died at 3 pm,

second class · Chinese Orchestral.

Singapore and other southern

More than 10,000 bales of rice took advantage of this special sail- "Ma Mere L'Oye" (Mother ports.

were shipped to Shanghai from ng It is believed that these book- (loose) (Navel).-Boston Sym

the China ings constitute a record for the phony Orchestra under the The total output of the Kailan Hunan Province by direction of Serge Koussevit Mining Administration's mince for Merchants Bs. Kiangtah last week number of passengers carried from zky. 7370/7371.

the week onding August 27, amount forming the first shipment of Hu-Kiukiang by any one steamer. "La Valre

(Ravel)-Boston ed to 109,252 metric tons,, and the nan rich this season. As already Symphony Orchestra, directed sales during the period to 08,601 reported, the rice crops of Hunan this year are very good and local by Serge Koussevitzky.-74137 metric tons.

Chinese merchants are planning to ship from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000

7414.

to 9.30 p..-

From the Studio, Selections by the Melody Team. 9.30 to 10.10 p.m.—

A Concert, Song "Beautiful Sky" (Mexi-

can Folk Song),ut_ Song" ('emela (Hague-Ross) -Dasolina Giannini (Soprano)

--1195,

After taking a dose of Jesen fluid in mistake for Chinese wine,picula of the cereal from that pro-. Li Leung Shi, aged 50, of 29, vince to Shanghai this year to meet

the local demands, Belchera Street, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital." ¦ Her condition, however, is not serious.

Mr. Kue Cheng On toog up his new appoistment as director of the Central Mint of Shanghai last Fri- day morning, a large number of Violin Sol—” Slavonic Danco Chinese officials and leading mer- No. 1 (Dvorak-Kreialer). chants being present at the cére- Violin Solo-" Songs My Mother mony.

Taught ale (Dvorak-Kreisler)

Fritz Kreisler.—1414,

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hart-Codman).

for Mr.

From the files.

Was

A matsbed on Conduit Road was partly burned out by a fire which, Looking Back 25 Years, broke out shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday night. Two engines The departure of the new Turbine from the Central Fire Station wero Cunarder Lusitania doveloped quite soon on the soene and little damage & patriotic demonstration; 100,000 was done. The shed belonged to people lined the banks of the Mer- the Tung Nam Construction Co., sey. The Lusitania is the largest. of 100, Hennessy Road, and had ship in the world and steams 231 been used as a cook-house The knots. It is confidently expected aho will regain British A. tifin was given at the Ameri- cause of the outbreak is not known that Song "The Darlin' Girl from can Club, Shanghai, by the States but it is probable that a few sparks.supremacy for speed. At Tuskar

Steamship

from the fire came in contact with Rock Light the Lusitania (French).

Company Clare" Song Tis I” (Pinsuti).- Arthur J. Farmer, manager of the the inflammable material of the already leading the Lucania which

shed.

left the Morsey 2 hours ahead. Department Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Maritime Commerce ---B34:10.

of the Portland Chamber of Com-

On the King's Park ground on Convicted of receiving a quantity Piano Solo-Suggestion Dia-merce, who is on a visit to Shang of brass stolen from the Tung Tai Saturday next at 2.16, the following

hai. bolique (Prokofieff).

workshop at Shaukiwan, an elderly will represent Kowloon against.. Piano Solo"Fairy Talo"

(Medtner-Banno Moiseivitch. The Lincoins are coming to Hong hawker was sentenced to three H.M.S. Flora in a cricket match: Kong from Shanghai, & month months' hard labour by Mr. Echo W. Dixon, S. Lightfoot, A. E. Song" At Dawning" (Eber- earlier than expected and will deld at the Central Police Court Fowler, F. Day. C. Libeaud. 3. arrive in the Colony on October 3 yesterday. It was dated that the Robinson, D. Mackenzio, J. Olel- In consequence of their earlier ar metal, which was worth $20, was land, 8. Green, H. Stevens, and Song At Parting" (Peterson-

Rogers). Mary Garden (80- rival, the Argyll and Sutherland bought by the hawker for $2.59, the J. H. Mead. Umpiro: Mr. Gold- prano). 1210."

Highlanders will leave for Shang- disparity in values being held smith-Hong Kong Daily, Pren, Quartette: Deep":· River " hai early in October against the defendant as denoting September 9, 1907.

guilty knowledge. The police chon). Quartette. Trish Reel" (Fo-Indian constable, who was on duty against the defendant, the last one

Early yesterday morning an proved three previous convictions Looking back 50 years.

Cricket in Hong Kong Season chon).-Flonzaley Quartette.in. Kennedy Road, was attracted dating as far as 1911. ⠀

1081-1882 A few Remarks on the 10.10 to 10.28 p.

Wong Hair a driver of the Hong players (continued from yester Kong Hotel bus service, reported day),

M H. Foss-A mainstay of the to the Police that at 3.15 p.m.^on Wednesday he left his motor bus Eleven. Very steady bat, with lots stationary at the junction of. Bon-of hit, however, when he likes; has favourite late cut, and takes the ham Road and Pokfulam Road, Employed as a cook on the 8.8.

When he returned the vehicle had wicket for the cleven. As a bowler, victed by Mr. Fraser of the posses and found that the bus had been stock, both equally bad.

Mr. H. de C. Forbes Fine free sion of 75 pounds of dutisble Chi- driven down & steep incline in nese tobacco, was sentenced to two Third Street, West Point district. bat with great driving power, fields months hard labour, and fined The bus had crashed into a wall well and box is slow round, which $500, or, in default, an additional knocking down about 12 feet. The comes of occasionally when it is a three months hard labour.

right mudguard and axle of the bus good day for catching. Has left.

Mr. AK. Travers-Batted more were damaged.

in his old form last year, and de- cidedly the most difficult, bowler

1276,

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and behaviour of tropical winds, but no one had yet observed in Philosophy, Politics and Economica, detail the weather of the Arctic in full realisation that in a post war world such subjects would in- Hm waters. For a true picture to be ovitably be of the greatest import

Savoy Orpheons, 01406 EXCALLANGY THE GOTEzNOx, of One obtained it was essential to take ance to all who wished to under Lot of OROWN LAND on the 8. W. side of the Bhathiwa yam Tuk observations simultaneously on all stand what was happening around Thin Oxford development

Ordar

of

them.

"Musical Comedy." ***Hit the Dock "Bolection,-

"Clowns in Clover-Selection. New Mayfair Orchestra.-- 01456.

to house No. 87 by the blowing of polico whistles. He noticed a man, evidently a thief, drop from the window to the ground and dis appear among the bushes. Nothing. however was stolen.

Boad, in the Colony of Hong Kong, sides of tho Pole. The impossibility was greatly appreciated by stu-10.29p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press Taiyuan, a Chinese, who was con-disappeared. He made a search bas very fast and very slow i

for a term of 75 years, with the of camping at the Pole itself made dents. They found in the new news. option of renewal at a Orown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Et MAJKITY THE Kine, for one further for of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bala.

Registry No.

Locality.

Lot Nɑ, 554,7

- gheuliwaa’Inland

Shaukiwan

mand Lot No. 493,

Adjoining & No.

Boundary

Measure

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About

1,569

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school facilities for studying the it necessary for a number of ex subjacta mentioned, and the popu 10.30 p.m.-Close down. peditions to make records ab dit larity and progress of the school

All records in the above Euro- ferent points and pool their results. is highly significant of the trend Bean programmes are supplied by

No one country possessed either of social and political problems has

of the age. The open discussion Messrs. Moutris & Co.

the human or financial resources become a normal feature of the

the

keep 'em more on the.

Taking advantage of the holidays boys, a young man named Ng Hung Widea and no balls awful. and his acquaintance, with the office for the Clab, but wants practice to

of no fixed abode, entered the Mr. W. do St. Croix-Always. offices of Messrs. Jebsen & Co, on

at the wicket; one of the right Saturday and stole a pair of bino-play the game both in the field cular belonging to Mr. J. Fernan: sort, and his innings of 90 against... des. The article was pawned on the Buffs was a fine exhibition of Sunday, and when a report was sound baltina made to the police, a description – L'out R. 8. Hedley, f.E-Com was circullied. A pawn-broker mences batting very well, but

Two presidential decrees have. to undertake such a task alone, but University programmes, and there teaching and standard in this sub- been gazetted in Athens recently, by the summer of 1889 an agree studenta for degrees in political make it approximately equal to that hon. Consul General for Greece in is now an increasing number of ject is to be broadened so as to appointing Dr. S. Spourghitis as ment was reached by which twelve theory leconomion, administration of the Oxford School The chief Tientsin and Mr. Emm, P. Yannou nations each sent out an expedi and kindred subjects

difference between the two is that, laton to act for the Consul General Many English Universitica: have tion to spend a year in the north followed the example of Oxford, whereas Oxford starts from Philo in charge of the Greek Consulate

sophy, Manchester starts from General in Shanghai orn ice and measure day by day and the most recent to do so is Economics, History especially the changes in the atmosphere and

University of Manchester, modern history will receive close It is learned that Fireman No. the speed of the winds. The in This institution has long been not attention at Manchester. The re- 16, Chan Yuk Kong, of Central formation gained during the Aratable for its fine schools of techno- silts of these developmenss in edu Fire Station, died from bronchitis Polar Your, as this international 19gy and science, which tended to cation must be to produce men and and beri-beri at the Government handed the binoculars to the police rather disappointed us towards the enterprise was called, plays a large overshadow the faculties of Art and women more highly trained and Civil Hospital at 8 pm, on Wed part in the preparation of the Philosophy. It has always had a better equipped for the higher nosday. His body was taken yes weather reports which makercom school of modern studies which posts in life than were their pre- terday afternoon from the Hospital

embraced economics, but now the transport over Europe to day, The

| buried in his native village2

and with their assistance the thief fatty kept wicket; in brilliant was arrested. He was brought be form. Han left ge fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Den Mr. A. P. McEwen-Stendy bat.

tenced to one month's hard labour, Preez, September 9, 1882-

mercial aviation a safe means of (Continued et foot of next column) fecessors, who had no such opporto the Macao, ferry and is to be tral Police Court yesterday and sen-Plays but littleHong Kong: Daily

tunities,