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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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NOTICE..

WATER SUPPLY.

IT is hereby notified that the Water Bupply in Queen's load Central from Pedder Street to Garden Hload will be shut off hatween the hours of 1 p.m. on Saturday, ath November, and I p.m. on Sunday, 6th November, to allow certain alterations to the water mains to be carried out.

R. M. HENDERSON,

Water Authority.

PUBLIC WORKS Department,

Hong Kong, 1st November, 1932,

ANNOUNCEMENT.

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WE buvo appointed Messrs

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Co., Ice House Street, the Sale Diatributors of BRUNSWICK RE- CORDS, Radio, Panatropos, etc., effective from 1st proximo, on and aftor which date pur Store Gloucester Building will be cloned. THE BRUNSWICK HOUSE. Hongkong, 81st October, 1982.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that

pursuant to the provisions of the Legal Practitioners' Ordinance 1871 and 1913, Christopher D'Almundu Castro of the 1st floor of David House, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, who was articled to his father, Mr. Leo. D'Almada e Castro, Solicitor of the same place, intende, at the expiration of one month from the date hereof, to apply for his examination and admission as a Solicitor and Proctor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.

Dated the 18th day of October, 1839.

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THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS OF HỒNG KONG

A Paper entitled

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.

ELIZABETH ARDEN has made guessing ages an impossibly difficult game.

She has taught women to hold on to

of

age youth, not, to hide the ravages with cosmetics but to keep their skin young, firm and fresh by scientific

care.

HER FREE BOOKLET-"The Quest of the Beautiful" will tell you how this is done, and there is now a SPECIAL DISPLAY of all the Latest Elizabeth Arden preparations at- THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY,

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Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

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"THE HIGH SPEED AND IN-London Office: 53, Fleet Street, TERMEDIATE SPEED HEAVY

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will be read in the Institution

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(Member)

on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND,

at 5.45 P.M.

Members and their Friends are

invited to be present.

NOTICE.

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 9, 1932.

NIGHT SKY-WRITING

H.K. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

(unitioned from page 6),

General of Police for the valuable assistance rendered by the police; to a Col. G. T. Raikes, D.5.0. for the loan of the Band of the 1st Bn. South Wales Borderers, Re giment; to all those who rendered services in various capacities, and also to the donors to the prize fund..

Suffering from an Árgué?

News and Views

Said a husband as Tottenham po- ties court: My wife is suffering from a disagrievance against me.-

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Little Red Schoolhouse." The "little red schoolhouse" seams far from obsolete as yet, there being stili 100,000 one-room, one-teacher schools in the United States.

The Pope and Everest.

Last year the Society had on its

One of the person's most interested membership roll 29 Life Members in the fortunes of the new Everest And 262 Ordinary Members of Expedition is the Popo, himself an Alpine climbor of distinction. Two whom 41 either resigned or left the days after his elevation to the Pa- Colony during the year, in their pacy, Monsignor Achillo Ratti re- place the Society has acquired 12ceived a telegram of congratulation new Ordinary Members, making a total of 15 against 202 in the pre- vious year. The Committee appeal ence again to all Members to make an endeavour to induco as many of their friends as possible, who are interested in gardening, to join the Society.

It is gratifying to report that the financial state of the Society is sound in spite of the fact that the holding of the Show at the Volunteer Headquarters entailed additional expenses in the erection of matsheds

Officers,

The election of officers for the ensuing year retuited as follows:- President: Mr. J. T. Bagrnan, F.R.H.S.

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from the members of the last party to attempt the conquest of Mount Everest. Later General Bruce sent him a piece of rock from the highest print reached, a tribute which the ex-Alpinist warmly appreciated:

For Bridge Players.

The manufacturers of a well- knowu brand of cigarettes, who gave away motor cars by the score, now include specimen contract hands in their tins of 50 and 100. Each hand, arranged by a bridge authority, is Bet out on one side of the card, and may be played by bending back tabs arranged round the card to repro- sent the four hands. On the back of each specimen hand appears the bidding, with explanations by an export, and also the play as laid down by him.

Second-hand Aeroplanes.

New Roses with Royal Names

A visitor to the autumn show of the National Rose Society, in Lon

ranging between £300 and £400 While that is still a price which ro quires consideration before it is paid down, there is said to be quite a brisk demand for these second-don, remarked that the cultivator hand aeroplanes.

Links With the Past.

of roses has a greater scope for taste, novelty, and ingenuity than any other class of amateur garden....... ér. Ther wero numerous new Whau a Londoner who is still in his forties mentioned at luncheon blooms, as well as the old favourites, that his paternal grandfather was and the well-known love of flowers born in 1748, the balk turned, as it of members of the royal family finds was bound to, to the ever-fuscinat- ing topic of links with the past. There was the story of the man who had intervened in a similar discus sion with the lacuic observation that his brother (meaning his half. brother) had been dead 148 years. One member of the party told how his father remembered in his youth a lady whose husband delighted to begin a reminiscence with "As Louis the Fourteenth said to me..."

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recognition in the names given te- new plants. A rose of very pale pink was named the "Princess Mar- garet Rose," and one specially at- tractive red bloom bore the name "Pius XI." Elizabeth of York." was the name of a new white rose with a tint of yellow.

Train.

Another recalled an aunt who, on n wet midsummer day, remarked, Sir John Simon Nearly Loses His "But not inclement as in the year of Waterloo."

Sir John Simon, the Foreign Se The upshot was the conclusion that there are many more remark-cretary, gured in an amusing able links with the past than most episode as he was leaving to cate people realise.

British Record-holders,

the 9.40 express from Geneva on lus way to London for Cabinet meeting. A last minute interview was bekl with M. Herriot, the French Pre- mier, who had been held up by bad weather during his journey by rond from Lyons and did not reach Gene-

In that useful and bulky volume

va until 8.35. Little time was left the British Who's Who," the two record occupiers of space are both members of the intelligenzia. First when the statesmen met at the. place goes to Sir Ernest Wallis Fronch headquarters at the Hotel Budge, former, keeper of Egyptian des Bergues, and at 9.35 Sir John and Assyrian antiquities at the Bri-, suddenly remembered his train. tish Museum. He fills two full co- Ignering the waiting lift, he dash- Jumns, the bulk of which is takened along the corridor and ran down up by the list of his publications, the three flights of stairs to the Second place is occupied by Dr. ground floor. Anxious to speed his Among private owners af acro planes in Britain, who fly for sport Montague James, the Provost of gnent, M. Herriot, despite his 29 Vice-President: Mrs. R. M. Dyer. rather than for business reasons Eton and author of a whole series stone, ram after Bir John and fol

The French Premier Hon. Secretary Mr. L J. Davis. September marks the end of the sea of ghost stories. Here, too, publi-lowed him in his precipitate flight

son, and whether it is that with cations account for most of the downstairs. Hon. Treasurer: Mr. A. Too.

many of them the "Arst fine frenzy" space-a third of a column less than was rewarded for his energy, as he managed to reach Sir John's car at Committes:- Mr. R. E. Hoare, has worn off or petrol costs and run- Sir Ernest Wallis Budge's,

Strangely enough, the politicians the moment it was drawing away Mrs. F. C. Hall, Dr. G. A. C. Herk. ning expenses are proving rather

burdensome, the fact remains that are well behind in this contest. Mr. and gasp a farewell, lota, Lt. Col. T. A. Robertson. Lt.. there are now on the market quite Lloyd George occupies only a quer Mr. Churchill, with a number of second-hand machines.tor-column. Col. Raikes, and Messrs. J. Most of these, are of the light two-two-thirds of a column, is a com Robinson, F. W. Stapleton, H. seater type, and though uriginally fortable first by reason of the list Green, V. H. Jarrett, Ho Korn they may have cost up to £500 each of his publications and the recapi- Tong and Ho Leng.

they can now be purchased at gumatulation of his military record.

The principle having been ad. mitted what is the situation with regard to the development of a. system and technique of night sky-

In 1927 Major J. CSERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST writing 1 SAVAGE, a British inventor, having

A SWISS perfected his well-known day sky- writing process," turned his atten

tion to night-sky-writing. Starting | HEARING IN CLOSED COURT.

at the very beginning, he persisted with his many experiments until he

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The cxpress was delayed a few minutes at the station to enable Sir John Simon to join. Sir. Bolton Eyres-Monsell, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was also return-

ing to London.

Local and General

The Scottish Company of the According to a report made to the Volunteers is holdingg a Hallowe'en police, motory lorry No. 2314 collid- re-union dinner at Volunteer Headed with another lorry, No. 2004, in quarters on Friday.

Wintery conditions descended upon the Colony yesterday, and, at about noon, a comperature of only 62°F. was registered on the Peak.

Mongkok Road, near the Wo Yuen Chan timber yard, causing the latter vehicle to run into a stack of timber and also to knock down nman, Lai Lin, aged 64, of 11, Pine Street. The man subsequently succumbed to his injuries.

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From the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

The charge of rape against had produced an entirely new apHeari Urmi, a Swise, was reduced paratus. It represented the appli-

yesterday to one of "indecent cation of new principles involving

assault" new optical equipment of revolu-

At the hearing at Central Magis tionary design and hitherto un-

tracy before Mr. Schofield, Mr. J. known powed. Previously, experi- A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney-Gen issued by the Nippon Yusen We are living in an age of adver-

menters had relied on the use of eral, was present in Court. Mr. P. Kaisha and covering One case Binck tisement. Modern commerce de stencil, between the source of light. K. Kemble was for the defence

mands that the greatest possible and the image, to break up, the and Inspector Shannon conducted back from their honeymoon over the either or both men who held up Russian newspaper published in the

DELIVERY Order No. 01067

Cotton Batin marked

CHERRY

Shipped from

3470 Hong Kong.

Osaka

2710)

p.m.

1,30

per

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

amount of publicity shall be obtain ed for the multifarious products that modern machinery pours into the market. Artists and scientists have been recruited in the efforts

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beam so to form designe or the case on behalf of the police. letters. Major SAVAGE discovered the fallacy of this principle, The aggregato area of the cut away part of a stencil being only ten per cent.

..s of the most up-to-date firms to sell of the total area of the disc, ninety

THIRTEENTH EXTRA

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

manufactures, but they are en:

absolute

The evidence of Dr. Thomas, and Dr. Begley was heard before a closed Court after which the girl, Cheung Wan, gave evidence,

She showed considerable distress

There has just been brought to Mr. J. B. Hinton, manager of A reward of $200 is offered by light a great scandal with regard Amur River, The Priamurye, a Messrs. Butterfield & Swire in the Police for information leading to the flotilla of gunboats on the Canton, and Mrs. Hinton arrived to the arrest and conviction of

week-end.

During last week four cases of diphtheria, and two deaths were reported. There was one fatal case of meningitia, and 40 deaths from tuberculosis.

During the absence on shart the duties of second magistrate at the Central Police Court are being carried out by Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton.

Mr. A. V. Alvares and Miss Marin Botelho on Saturday, October 15, Far East, contained the Incomic last, and relieved them of property item, that seven gunboats, belang. to the total value of $1,307, including to the Amur flotilla, were des- ing a ring worth $1,000 from Miss.

troyed by fire early in August.(now Botelho.

style) near Sretensk, The gunboats had not been launched, and the now

Six months hard labour and twenty strokes of the birch was the

The damage is esti- pleaded guilty to snatching a hand. same time. bag from Mrs. Chan Shu Ming. The 'mated at rather more than £100,000. incident occurred in Des Voeux Road The gunboats referred to are prob on Monday when Mrs. Chan, was about to enter her motor car on ably thoes which were sont out in The Y Men's Club will have, leaving a shop. The defendant was sections last spring froin St. Peters- their monthly dinner at the Chinese chaned by Mrs. Chan's chauffeur burg by rail to the Far East to be Recreation Club. Causeway Bay, to- and also by a district watchman.

patrolling the Amur River.-Hong morrow, Thursday. A number of Ho throw away the handbag, but, put together at Sretensk for use in interesting topics will be put for whe unable, to escape,

Kong Daily Press, November 2, ward to be discussed by the mem-

1907. hers and their guests.

were:-

A fine of $60; or one month's hard labour, was imposed on baker employed by the Repulse!

TOTTORI MARU destined for the their particular products, or to per cent. of the light used-the most when first brought into Court, but leave of Mr. E. L Wynne-Jones, sentenco passed on a thief who workshops were destroyed at the port of Hong Kong dated 7th create a demand for new types of intensive light known, condensed later regained composure. September, 1982 (Original only), has been lost and the same is now goods.. The public are not only with the very largest lenses it is subjected to the arts of persuasion possible to make—is thus deliberate considered Null and Void.

it is claimed that the new projector to buy Smith's rather than Brown's | ly thrown away. CHERRY & CO.

is as near technical perfection as After years of patient and costly modern science can make it. couraged to think that certain

The apparatus comprises essen articles, of which they have never arch, a means was found of

using the whole of the available tilly the most powerful searchlight the world has ever seen, working previously heard are

light, a gain of nine hundred per in conjunction with subsidiary ap necessition. TRACE MEETING will be. heil Scarerly any medium available for cont. over all previous methods of paratus by means of which light is

to any pre-determined plan. The Despite the 'counter attractions

Bay Hotel who admitted stealing Looking Back 60 Years. (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY advertising purposes has been negligt efficiency. The next awkward controlled and projected secuording

The ninth annual meeting of the VALLEY on SATURDAY, STH NO. VEMBER, 1932, commencing at 2.00lected, and it was not to be expect fact to be faced was that the diver searchlight proper is claimed to be the attendance at the weekly ser

ed that the air would continue to Rent (or "magis lantern" type the largest and most accurately vice whist drive at the YMCA, a bottle of cochineal and a bottle

to a Chinese superintendent of this was held at the Society's office, Hong Kong, on the 27th October. The First Bell will be Bung at be ignored. For sometime sky-of beam loses its intensity in pro mado reflector in the world. The Kowloon, on Monday night was of honey. The defendant was ar-

parallel bout, ininfringes On a occupied. Pelze-winners signs have been used; smoke-writing portion to the square of the dis-Primary light in the form of a well maintained, 30 tables being rested following information given Union Insurance Society of Canton

wanted to drink the honey and that Members are notified that they and by saraplanes is a coinmon dovice, tance from the source of light-at secondary reflecting surface so con- Ladies Mrs. Hyde, Miss Temple Hotel. Defendant stated that ho There were present Hon. Mr. P. F. D. Sassoon, H. L. Dairym. he took the bottle of cochineal to Ryrie (Chairman), Messrs. H. Hop transmit the light beam in a pre-

Iple,

PW. H. Holliday, A. Coxon, W. A reward of $100 is offered by the use it as ink, their Ladies must wear their Badges Then came the development of ten times the distance there is butstructed as to break up and re-Men-Mr. Scott, Mr. Rex. prominently displayed.

No One without & Badge will be night sky-writing, or the projection one hundredth part of light, Major arranged number of individual rays,

To meet the popular demands of i H. F. Darby, Hon. F. B. Johnson, admitted to the Members Enclosure.

parallel characteristics throughout mond studded platinum ring valued

the local community, & second stock J. H. Cox, A. I. Remedios, D. Badges admitting Non-Members to of words or other designs on the SAVAGE therefore set himself the cach one of which maintains its Police for the recovery of a dia- its length, and is bdjustable as to at $2,600 which was stolen frem the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms clouds of the night sky. Against task of providing that every ray at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 this there waS somo outery by of light from his projector should direction so as to form any desired Messrs. Ullmann's jewellery store of the Chinese and English copies McCulloch, A. Weinyes, H. Fr. M.

Ho núctaeded; configuration.

on October 13. In addition to that of the Lytton report has been sent B. Polishwalla. C. Stuart, W.

The J. D. Hutchison, T. Jackson, T. G.-- for Ladies (Both including Tax) are

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this process no light is lost, $100 is offered for the arrest and to its Shanghai Branch by the Reiners J T Chater, H. G. James, obtainable through the SECRETARY naturs-lovers, and the British boa parallel one.

introduction by a Member, such Government appointed a special with the result thing his apparatus so that not only is maximum pene conviction of the thief concerned.

first consignment of 200 Chinese and Williamson, J. P. MeEuen, A. G. Morris, C. D. Bottomley, A. da Member to be responsible for payment

leaves a bright image on clouds up trating power achieved by means Four men who were found on the 200 English copies were sold out Bilveira, Douglas Jones (acting Cummitted to investigate and report of all Chits, etc.

to and exccoding one and a half of parallel rays, but the whole of seas clinging to floating within two days after its arrival secretary) and W. Wotton (solici to Members Badges admitting

on the subject. The Committee_rè.

the primary light source available high milca high.

is projected on to the screen of wreckage wore picked up by tradat Shanghai recently. The second tor. The Chairman said: Gentle Ensloware will NOT be on sale at the.

ported a short time ago, luud recom-

to be sold at $1.25 each and, 200 convening the meeting read, and the Race

Course,

There were many other probless clouds. It is claimed that, with ing junk and brought to Hong Kong stock consists of 600 English copies, men, you have heard the notice business now is to submit the report pretext will Children be mended, with certain reservations, permitted in either Enclosure daring that the principle should not be to solve. The beam must be cap clouds at 2,500 feet high, this pro where they have been removed to

jcator throws an image clearly hospital for treatment. The men Chinese copies at $0.00 each.

the the Meeting

The sequel to a fight at Aber for your adoption. It has not been

the custom at meetings Tiffing are obtainable at the Clab objected to, as it may be of national able of being thrown anywhere, in visible to anyone within a distance werd members of the crew of a

dean Lower Dam was heard at Society to read the report, an mem- House provided they are ordered from value. It is proposed that night the sky without damaging the of one mile from the point of pro-junk which was sunk in the recent

the Central Magistracy yesterday,bers have had it so long in their the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone

sky-writing should be prohibited in lenses; the image must be clearly jeption: In other words, anyone storm, near the Colony.

within a circle of rather more than

Eight pooks-formerly of the when two men were fined $25 each, hands that they are presumed to be 81920,

thoroughly acquainted with it: I ****** PUBLIO ENCLOSURE. rural areas-that is, in districts with defined at any altitude; there must three square miles aron, drawn

The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for populations of less than 20,000; it be enough actual light on the around the projector, can read the Imperial Household of Manchu Gov- with the alternative of one month's

ment to the sky-writing Committee, employment as a result of the 1911 hound over. Members of the Kin. would also remark that although the il Persons, including Ladies, and lo should be absolutely prohibited on clouds to make the image stand out amouncement. To revert for a moernment, who wore thrown out of imprisonment, and a third was payable at the Gate.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are Sunding; and the Secretary of Stato brightly even when viewed from the fieir report declared that the mem-revolution, are reported by Chinese Lee and Yuen On Firms of building business for 1881 shows a falling off should be armed with powers to glare of wall lighted streets; the hers were at first frankly apprehen press messages to have been re-contractors, armed with axes, in the receipts of premium sa com admitted Hall Price.

advertisement; but after having Henry Fu Yi, now chief executive other, and were fighting hard when in entirely owing to the consider Bookmakers, The Tea Meteo prohibit it within a defined rodius of image must be instantly changeable aivo regarding this now form of engaged in Peiping by agents of Mr. shovels and poles set at each pared with the previous year, this will not be permitted to operate with

"seen it their fears were allayed of Manchukuo, and sent to Chong-the Police arrived and scattered the able decrease in rates of premis in the Precinct & Tan Hore Bowen ancient monument or bundling of Some form of remote control was Jockey Ozus during the Raos Meeting. historie importance. On the other also found necrsery, for the light They formed the opinion that this chun. Before departure for Chang combattants, making the thren arduring that period, and you will

By Order,

hand, sky-writing should-be protect, at the projector is so intenso as to method of advertisement is far more chun, the soles, according to Chie resta in question. The Magistrate be glad to see that the premia

pleasant than many of the per nose press messages, received from remarked: I am getting tired of was smaller, the result is letter

2, 1882

·Dam" B. A. BLHAP,

ed by legislation against action for hinder the operator from seeing manent forms to which people are Mr. Fu Yi's agente $100 each as these continual fights at the Lower Hong Kong-Daily Press, November

family consolation fees.""" Acting Secretary.

results he is getting, To-day already, accustomed Slat Ooty 1934.

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