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NEW

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE FANLING HUNT AND RACE CLUB,

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hereby nalilial that meals may now by had at the "HUNTERS ARMS" provided the usual notice of 24 hours is given. Tolephone Dis! 91 and request extension 3038

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By Order of the Stewards,

THOMSON & CO.,

Chartered Accountants,

Secretaries.

HONG KONG - CRICKET CLUB.

NOTICE.

THE ANNUAL "GENERAL MEETING will be hold in the

Pavilion on THURSDAY, the 27th October, 19132, nt §,30 p.m.

THE HONG

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KONG

JOCKEY CLUB.

HE TWELFTH EXTRA RACE

THING will be held (Weather Permitting) HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 29 UCTOBER, 1932, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 pm.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE, Merabera are notified that they and their Ladies must woar their Badges prominently displayed. “

No Ons without a Badge will be admitted the Members' Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemon and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the BECRETARY introdnation by a Momber, such Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, olo.

Badges admitting

to

Members"

Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the

Race Couras,

On ne pretext will Children be

in

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.

DEWAR'S

White Label

KVARDIO

Whisky

Sole Agents-

1000 Prime M

White Label NEST SCOTCH WHISK Dewar & Sonst

OF GREAT ACE

DISTILLERS

PERT

permitted other Enclosure during A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

the Meeting.

Tillins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.

PUBLIC-ENCLOSURE.

The Price of Adminion to the Public Endlosure is $2.00 seluding Tax, for All Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate,

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted Half Prico.

Bookmakers, Tie Tao Mon, etc., will not be permitted to operate with in the Procincts of Tux HONG KONG Jocker Ous during the Race Meeting. By Order,

8. A. SLEAP.

Acting Secretary, Yong Kong. 17th Ock, 1932.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

PARTI

of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 24T DAY of OCTOBER 1932, at P.M. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Onier of HIS EIGELLENCE TO GOVESTOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tani, in the Colony of Hong: for a tenn of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fired by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE Kino, for one further term

of 75 years.

KODK

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

I No. of Sale,

Registry No.

Locality.

Lot No. 3027. Between Kowloon Inland Lote Nos 282

Kowloom Inland

and 2934,

Fortland Street.

Q.

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Measure.

ments.

Aaper

asie plan

Contente in

Scusto feet.

About

1,036

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Annual

Bental

| Upset Price.

(2677

801'2

BIRTH.

Est. 1841.

in

submarine, or to be outmatched IETTIT-On October 14, at Shangaerial combat thousands of feet hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. above the earth. And naval and PETIT (nee Morphew), a son.

MARRIAŬĒ.

HINTON-Kroon.—At the Peak Church on the 19th October, 1932, by the Very Rev. A Swann, JOHN REGINALD, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. FJ Hinton, to KATHLEEN Elate, second daughter of Lt, Col. Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Keogh, The Rectory, South Molton, Devon,

aerial branches of warfare, are less

MAN GOES TO GOAL

FOR FRIEND

JUST TO HELP HIS

FAMILY!

AND TRIES TO DO IT AGAIN

News and Views

His Majesty said: My father! The "Autosave," which is "L" Corduroy Dostumes,"

Several sartorial establishments used to have big shooting parties shaped, is made of steel bars here, and couldn't get his guests covered with sponge rubber. It is in the West End are featuring cor- duroy coats and costumes of vari- up in the morning, so he put the fitted to the front axle, and, liy mwans of a reissors device and a ous designs. A parade of these clocks on half an hour!" styles for sarly winter was given The rule applies to the whole vil- pin' in the steering gear, moves

the garments worn being notable lago and the clocks are not chang-with the wheels. for the rather violent shades of ed to summer time: An avent was

As soon as any weight strikes the red and purple which were to be given out in church as taking place "Autosave" it falls back towards a'clock, Sandringham the radiator, providing a kind of found among them. These rolours, Three together with the milder attractie." A popular idea was that platform which quite easily sup tions of cream and blue-which is King Edward started the innova ported a still fashionable contrasted with tion, because Queen Alexandra, had the large brass buttons sewn over the very human failing of general- the surfaces of the creations. Cerly being about half an hour nito!

How a man went to prison for a munth in the place of another, in order to help his family," was re veiled at the Old Bailey,

William Thomas Staples, aged forty, a fruiterer, of Holloway rond, and Alfred James Phelps, Bgod twenty-nine, • a coster, were accused of conspiracy.

Mr. Gerald Dodson. prosecuting, said time in January, when a com- mitital order of one mouth's im- 'prisonment Wha made against Staples on warrants for arrears of taip ideas were effective in'a viru- rates, Phelps represented himsel! lens fashion, and may be worn ex- to be Staples, and,served, the sentensively in the near future. It in, tence in his stend..

Samuel Butler on Ireland.

Among the new extracts from the notebooks of Samuel Butler in the

Later, another committal order to be hoped, however, that the in-

two makers! was made against Staples, and the bols used by one or Rame deception was kept up, but will be destroyed "Breathlessly current number of the English the authorities became suspicious. amart," "desperately decorative," Review" is a reflection on Ireland A policeman said that Staples and besieging are descriptions, which falls (shall we say rather was faced with opposition in his capable of condemning the best of business, and Phelps was anxious raiment. to help the family. He received

nothing for going to prison,

Staples was sentenced to four months' in the second division, and Phelps was bound over.

THREE YEARS FOR BLACKMAIL

LETTER FROM FIANCEE

Unbreakable Shoe-Lace.

pat:

SQUAUING TRE CIRCLE

in old times people used to try aud square the circle: now they try and devise schemes for antisfy ing the Irish nation.

The Emotional Dishclout.

In

14t man at the trial.

The back, being made of flat sterl bars, affords hand-holsis. There is alsa a steel frame round the radia- tor which offers additional band- holds in an accident.

Aberdeen!

"Who are all those mom huddled together with their bends in the middle like that "

"Visitors from Aberdeen, light- Ing cigarettes."

I

Not Worth Itt

Husband at Willesden Palier Court: My wife promised me inore pocket money if I would live with her mother. I was not attracted.

He Might?

Although it may not affect the destinies of nations, an unbreak able shoe-lace, privately 'exhibited in London, should prove a blessing to mankind. This wonder among shoe-strings is said. to resist any strain up to. It stonea, and its

reviewing Mr. Francis

"I suppose you thought these strength does not desert it for sar Stuart's new novel, "The Colour two men were engaged in a joint eral months. The lace is perhaps, ed Dome," British crities, of the adventure?" a witness was naked a little thicker than its more des | high-brow order, ladled out lavish at Tottenham at a London Police. licate brethren, but there are no praise. Remembering what they! And he lucidly replied, ** other difference, and the samples said of this writer's earlier books, thought the other man some at were displayed in three colours. many people wondered what they time or other might have done some

would declaim about "Coloured thing or other somewhere." | Dome." One at least of them con- fessed himself stumped. 1 am of Giant Photographs, labourer, &

really at a loss for words," he Beyond Price: Faracombe, near Godalming, for

The extent to which a photograph wrote. The emotional dishclout had uttering letter demanding £40 of normal size can be enlarged at last been wrung dry. "Thetist the gold in the oceana is said

IN A LOST WALLET

Sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed at the Old Bailey on James Hardman, aged forty three,

with menaces from a man, referred

to as Mr. "A."

Mr.A." on his return to Guild. terrible than land warfare, with its ford found that he had lost his ordent of the trenches, with the sick-wallet, which had contained three ness, and all the horrors that an photographs and a lotter. infantryman knows

י

nowadays is almost unlimited. Coloured Dome" is abour the

reader.

According to an American scien

that to recover it

Practical Help.

Mr. E. Gibbs Kimber, prosecut-Several specimens of the art were Irish Republican Army. It is mo- to be worth G828,000,000,000,000,000 ing stated that while Mr.A." ahown at the Professional Photo delle on the more mysterical Rus- but it would cost much more than

One chapter in the and his wife were canoeing on the graphers' Exhibition in London. Binn masters. River Wey near Guildford, the Each portrait was at least seven feet Elinor Glynn manner condescends boat capsized and they were throw square, and in none of them could to be intelligible, to the ordinary there be detected the slightest ten into the water.

The Prince of Wales hus replaced deney towards "fuzziness" or any

one Scilly Island farmer, who has lack of the clarity of outline which

retired, by two unemployed Walsh belonged to the small originals. A Pedestrian-Catcher. Giant examples of the art of en-London.--The alarming number miners and has sent an expert from his Duchy of Cornwall to teach The letter, was from Mr. A'largement though these were, ther wife, written to him before their could have been made even larger of fatal motor accidents in which them the intricacies of agriculture. without loss of detail if it had pedestrians are involved makes ca Meanwhile, since they have been marriage, and the photographs been necessary or desirable for the pecially interesting some experi- taken off the dole, he is paying were also of the wife Before marr- age. They were married in August purposes of the display to increasements made with a device which is them from his own pocket

designed to pick up the unwary their first tropa are hartested.. of last year.

pedestrian.

A 30cwt lorry, fitted with the de- !

Di An Old Hobby, vice, which is known as the "An- tosave, three times charged en byt According to the London dummy and after that orden the| Humorisi "the latest hobby is col: overalia in which the dummy was lecting spiders' webs, which are clothed were not even, torn."

of pressed between thin sheeta Mr. A. J. Grafham is the inven- glass." But there's a corner

in and anticipates that it will many a house that has been follow- ing that sort of hobby for years. fatal road accidents.

and years..

their dimensions.

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On the other hand, it is a pity that the peace movement does not combine, according to the highest instruction, the wisdom of the serpent with the gentleness of the dove. While the spirit of aggres

Hardman wrote to Mr. "A" sion and suspicion is abroad, dis. that he had found the wallet float armament by a great Power is only ing in the river and asking for "Bandringham Time." an invitation and a provocation to £40 for the articles. Mr. "A" nt Į2687

rivala, The British lead in dis- armament, including the post-war force, encouraged rivals to steal a dismantling of our fleet andTM air march on us, which they might not have done if cathusiasm for peace had been tempered by a better grasp of the ideas and intentions

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The Daily Press.

Hoya Kong, OCTOBER 21, 1932,

TRAFALGAR DAY

It was perhaps a cringidence that petition signed in England by some three hundred persons eminent in the Church, the arts, scienes and Labour politics, was presented to the Prime Minister three days be fore the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, demanding drastic reductions of the British Fleet and other armed forces. It would be interesting to know how many of these distinguished personages hare

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS taken the trouble to acquire any

of other nations. Since the Prime Minister announced that Great Britain had gone to the limit of example, and expected response from abroad, the policy of attempt. ing to outwit Great Britain, and get the whip-hand, thanks to a blind dairo for disarmament at all costs, 'has received, at check, and some degree of real progress has ben made towards a genuine and not a camouflaged disarmament

man was arrested.

In view of the mild controversy, once went to the police and Hard-aroused as to the reason why the clocks at Sandringham the King's Bir Ernest Wild, K.C., passing country residence are kept half au sentence, said that the case was an hour fast. The following explanator illustration of the wisdom of peo- tion given by the King himself may reduce considerably the number of ple who were blackmailed calling be of interest. the police at once...

AN IDEAL SUNDAY

REPULSE BAY HOTEL ARRANGEMENT

The management of the Repulse Bay Hotel has inaugurated for the winter season a very delightful Sunday programme in the form of

Local and General

One case of diphtheria was re- The Inspector-General of Police,tructed by notices-which has been ported on Wednesday.

The quarantine restrictions' im- special tifin and afternoon tea posed against arrivals from Tientsin dance. The first of these took an account of cholera have been re- place Last Sunday and was moved. thoroughly enjoyed by the large crowd that attended.

A charming day's programmo is First the car-drive, offered. through scenery so lovely that no

The first change in the Hong Kong dollar rate for three weeks occurred yesterday, when there was an advance of 1/8th to 15, 4d.

Hon. Mr. E D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.,, posted round the fence of Sir returned from leave on the ka.. Francis Piggott's residence to the Corfu on Wednesday. On Novem-effect that there was a shop inside ber 10, Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., is at which could be obtained coffee, proceeding on leave, followed by milk, tea and meals at all hours Mr. L. H. V. Booth, acting Director also cool water, etc. Seven large of Criminal Intelligence, in Decem. tables were laid on the lawn in ber. Mr. D. Burlingham, Divisional front of the house at which visi- Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, tore were seated, while the cooking is expected to retum from leave

was carried out. in the kitchen. early next year. His place has been The No. 1 boy had provided a filled by Mr. C. G. Perdue, Director special staff of waiters to attend to customers, and it, would appear of Criminal Intelligence.

that these were busily engaged when Polics Sergeant Gordon onl The Y's Men's Club held their ed, and was very considerably sur- prised to witness the garden party weekly meeting at Lane's Craw- ford's Restaurant yesterday, 'during that the family were absent from Jon his Lordship's lawn. Knowing which Dr. K. O. Yeo, Chairman of the Colony, it occurred to him that the Chinesu Medical Association,""]

The winning of peace on earth is a slow process, and it can only continue if civilised nations agree to abstain from fighting among themselves, and, at the same time, maintain sufficient armed strength to suppress the military ardour of

one can fail to be thrilled and peoples still in the combative phase of development: The Western nations are slowly learning the charmed, no matter how many folly of War. Despite the Great hotel, with its lovely views and its week, Mr. W. B. Buckberrough, of

At the Tokyo Union Church last- times they have seen it; then the War, the nineteenth century Bw some degree of advance. Following modern amenities.

the Tokyo O.P.I. office, was married Watering there were the Crimean After tiff, either dance, a to Miss Katherine Williams of New

walk round the Bay or a scramble York. war, Franco-Prussian wars, the American up one of the mountain paths, and Civil War, the war of Italian uni- then, a drive home, when the sum fication and the Spanish-American is setting behind the islands, or war, bat France, Spain, England when the monn is shining over the and Holland ceased their age-old sca

The management of the Repulse contests, and there is hope to-day that Franco-German: enmity may

on a Sunday arrangement equally

"bright

Mr. Bessell, a resident of the Shanghai and Hangchow. young

Repulse Bay Hotel, has reported meeting was presided by Mr. Tan to the police the theft of 230 in Eng Hooi, President of the Club; Australian bank notes from his and nearly thirty members were pre- jacket pocket in his room some time

the

Austro-Prussian and

the by Pahlia Anotion to knowledge of the nature of sea slowly be stilled.

be held on MONDAY, the 24TH DAY

Bay Hotel is to be congratulated

It is perhaps significant that enjoyable

for

thinga," strenuous people, and

́of OCTOBER, 1932, at 3 r., at the power and the functions of a fect since Trafalgar there have been those anxious for a quiet day,

Offines of the Pablic Works Department, Certainly they had little knowledge only two major feet actions, with by Order of His ExÜBLUEBOT TIH GOYER- NOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND of history, for persons undoubtedly capital ships opposed, namely Teu-

shima and Jutland. Apart from

Today is the anniversary of the Hong Kong, gave a talk about his they could not be entertaining Battle of Trafalgar and Sir Henry visit to the Shanghai Y's Men's Chinese, so he proceeded to make Pollock is broadcasting this evening Club recently while he was attend inquiries which resulted on the at three minutes past seven, an aping the Chinese Medical Conference arrest of the No. 1 boy, who was

at the Police Court yesterday: with; -- gave a short talk on his trip to keeping a common eating house at on behalf of the Navy League in Shanghai. Dr. F. 3. Teang also charged before Mr. B. A. Hozeland The the Chief Justice's residence, Chan admitted the charge and his War- chip adjourned the case until the return of His Honour to the Colony-Hong Kong Daily Press, October 21, 1907.

at Ma Tau Wei, in the Colony. of well endowed with imagination, an action in which Bir RICHARDteries of the Dreadnought battle. between 8 am, on Sunday and 10.30

a.m. on Monday. Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, and the dramatic instinct, would STRACHAN captured several of the ships that fought at Jutland to

with the option of renewal at a

Стома

HI MAJINY THE-Kive, for one further

term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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Contents in

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us

on

which to

French ships that escaped from decide the future history of the

Wars

sent..

From the files.

Looking Back 50 Years,

The corvette now under construc-, tions in the Yokohama Dock will most likely be ready for, launching in January next.

Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of Iravo soized upon Trafalgar 1987. Trafalgar, there was no further world, were firing for a matter of 1". The marriago in announced to

the 'occasion

sen battle after 1805, in the Nupe minutes only. The Victory-fast take place between Dr. Cheung make their representations. Most leonis

The Battles of survivor of her age-must have been Shiu Fan and Miss. Ta'o Mai In, || of us will agree with their aspira Navarino, when ng Anglo-French in floot action longer, over her daughter of Mr. Te'o Sen Kan, on Fleet, wiped out the Turkish Navy, fifty-five years of fighting service, Saturday, November 5, 1939. After tions even if we disagree with their like America's victory in Manila than all the first-line battleships of the wedding to reception will be

The Jigs. Shinbus has got hold immediate aims.

of a remarkable story. It says that No one wants Bay, was a one-sided contest within the Great War,

held at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Looking Back 25 Years,"

the Government has requested Bir war, particularly war of a kind in harbour limits The naval struggle A genuins love of peace is by no Garden at 3 p.m.

in the American civil war was means incompatible with a know

During the last few months the E. J.-Reed to construct another which modern flects and air ser chiefly a matter of river, and lake ledge of war, and a pride in the.

Lady Clementi and her second Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, iron clad ship of war in Holland, vies will prove the decisive factors engagements in the Great Was great fighters of old time. Pacifige daughter, is Cical Clementi, were has been on holiday in Japan, and at a cost of 2,000,000 yen.: "

The Naval Department has bee It is all very well for posts and the Dogger Bank Heligoland, run wild provokes intense irritation passengers to Malaya on the P&during his absence it occurred to Tublicists of a bollicoso, rather than Coronel and the Falklands were among normal people, but if the O. Comorin which is due in Singa- his No. 1 boy, who is in charge of contemplating the construction of prosentation of the disarmament pore on October 23, but just before the Eyrie that he might con- magnificent new premises in which a pacifist, disposition to declaim

How many warshine of the major petition had been preceded by an the boat reached. Port Baid, Miss siderably increase his earings by to conduct the business of the de about, "Battle's magnificently powers have gone from rocks to appreciation of NELSON, from some Clementi was taken ill with sppen- turning the ground of the judicial partment; but the idea has, for the

but it is a different

ship-breakers without firing a shot genuine, expert on ses power, like dicitis. Upon arrival at Port Said, residence into an open air restau-present, been abandoned, it having in anger or in no more than some Adutral St HeroRY HICHKOND, Mike Clementi was taken ashore, ut On Tuesday local Chinese been decided to devote the money. matter to fight, out-ranged and out, skirmish in a remote cornor of the thara would be less clination to accompanied by her mother who ra celebrates the Chung Young fest intended for the building to the gunned, in a rising storm, as did world No seventeenth or eigh dismiss the incident as the work of mained with her, but it is expret val quite a number of them ascend construction of a new man-of-war. the losers in those grim tragedias tenth century warships passed such well-intentioned persons, out of ed that the patient will be welling the highest points of the Peak The Daijokwan, it is said, has off Coronel and the Falkland Isles: an existence. The immense bat touch with the bitter facts of enough to resume her journey on as is customary on this occasion: sanctioned this action-Kong Kong

the Ranpura.

En route their attention was at Daily Press, October 21, 1882. [1878 ====a-ngoio,, to be stifled in a disabled_ (Confiered af foot of next column.) modern day hatreds and Jealousies.

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Registry No.

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