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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HỒNG HỒNG.

IN TER MATTER OF THE ESTATE

or E. P. WHELAN, LATI OF THE SHAMER'S INSTITUTE, VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF Hoxe KOND, AND ENDINER, DEOTAGED.

Not the Court has, by virtue of

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN

Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1887 (No. 2 of 1897), made nu Order limiting the Time for sending in Olaims to or against the abore Estate to the 10TH DAY of DECEMBER, 1932.

Creditors and Claimants are hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Date. -Dated this 22nd day of November, 19 2

T. M. HAZLERIGG,

facial Administrator.

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that a Third Interim Dividend of Six Pence per share (now Five- Shilling Shares) on account of the Anancial year ending 31st March, 1933 has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brishane, payable to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore on Thursday, 15th December, 1932,

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BIRTH.

Cooke-On November 22, at Bal

larat, Australia, to CLAR wife of DAVID COOKE, and sister of L. G. and R. Y. Frost, a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

The Daily Press.

BONG KONG, NOVEMBER 24, 1932.

THE COST OF POST-WAR

UNEMPLOYMENT

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Oun London Air-mail correspon- dent informs us that a sum of £810 millions has been expended

dom sineo the end of the War.

SOLDIERS SENT TO PRISON

BARRACK STORE BURGLED

The Biter, Bit.

News and Views

Rivals to the League.

EL

over the

Premiers and Public Schools. Before Mr. Schofield at Ceutral !' I don't have any more confid- Nearly dozen European na-. To prove the superiority of the Magistracy yesterday, Pte. Alfredence in women."

tions have signified to the Foreign ordinary day school" "Why not " Cooke and Pte. Horace Edwards, "I put a matrimonial adverOffice their adherence to the Anglo-public school, Lord Arnold says both of the South Wales Borderers, tisement in the paper and one of French Pact, now known officially that, out of our last six Prime were charged with breaking into the replies was from my fiancee,"

by the weird title of the "De- Ministers, only one went to a pub- Feroz Din's tailoring store in

claration of Intent."

Ho school. The public schoolboy: Wellington Barracks and stealing

was Mr. Baldwin. goods valued by, the owner at $215.

Window Smashed.

Sergt. Kennedy stated that the store was behind the main building. On Saturday night it was entered, a window pane having been amash- ed with an iron bar and the fasten- ings removed,

On Monday morning, after Police investigations, Pte. Cooke confes:

Almost Human,

A Chinese inventor of Shanghai, It is stated, has perfected a device by means of which a motor-car gives off a shrill shriek if anybody attempts to steal it.

What we really want is a car that bites the driver savagely in the leg when he tries to cut in on a crowded road,

Lord Carson.

The same suspicious promptitude was to be romarked on the occasion

Lord Arnold's point is interest- of the launching of the late M. Briand's Pan-European scheme. In ing. Still more illuminating how- that case, however, the early rush over, is a comparison of the last to join was rapidly followed by six Premiers with the six who in- almost general indifference. The scheme perished of the modern dip-mediately preceded them, for it re- veals how much more easily the lomatic disease of unanimity,

Will the same fate overtake the non-public school man may wip by the weird title of the "De advancement in this democratie claration of Intent" It appears to supersede the Briand achome,

contury. which in its turn appeared to Balfour, Salisbury, Rosobory,

.

Lord Carson, whose life and fa-supersede the League of Nations Gladstone and Lord Derby (the sod he was responsible and implimous cases from the subject of ner, at least as far as Europe is conRupart of debate") were all at

eated Edwards,

Cooke's kit-bag was found dump ed in the water in the unval camber, with all the stolen property in it,

and in addition certain articles which it was believed were stolen by some other persons who may have seen Cooke hide the bag and added their loot to the cache.

The Police Officer expressed his |bolief that Cooke and bis com-

panion had had no intention of profiting by the theft, as shown by the method they took in disposing of the property. Although valued at $218 by the owner, the property, in the opinion of the Police, was worth only half that.

A Previous Conviction,

The 0.0. of the accused men, who was in Court, produced a pre- vious conviction against Cooke for a theft committed at Southampton on January 19, 1930, when he was bound over. I think I mhy men tion," the officer said, "that Cooke is the ringleader and Edwards is

weak and easily led."

cerned.

hape the beat biography of the year, (by the late Edward Marjoribanks) was, in the primo of his legal career, terrible prosecutor. He Dukes in Two Countries. his fame as Counsel for the defen- learnt his business in Ireland. But ce was hardly less high in the legal profession.

Ted Carson when I was wrong than "I would rather be defended by by any other man when I was right," was the opinion of a high Ingal authority,

At a Bar mess some famous legal men were discussing him and his great rival of the moment.

The debate was concluded by an admirer thus: "I should be ready to hunt tigers with Carson; would't bunt cats with the other:"

Eton. The exception was Disraeli, who want to Mr. Potticany's school at Blackheath and to Higham Hall,

the list, recently published in the

There is a curious coincidence in | Walthamstow, an academy kept by

a Unitarian Minister. Spanish Gazette, of grandees whose lands are liable to confiscation,

The list contains the names of Unlucky Phone Numbers. Ciudad Rodrigo, The Duke of Chu-Does the thirteen superstition ex- the Duke of Albs and the Duke of dad Rodrigo is, of course, the Duke tend to telephone numbers? Many- of Wellington. His Spanish title

In

was given to him by a grateful hotels have no Room Thirteen, but Spanish nation in 1819. The Duke who has heard of anybody worry-- of Alba, who is the premier gran ing because his telephone was re- wick. His family name is Fit førred to as dee of Spain, is also Duke of Ber

** one-th-r-r-ree." James. He takes his name and his Japan, however, the allotment of a. title of Duke of Berwick from telephone number must be awaited James Fitz-James, the natural son as tensely as a "sweep " draw. of James II of England and Ara Mora so; for it may mean life to bella Churchill, the gister of the you, or death. If you get a num- The Government of Costa Rica, great Duke of Marlborough.. It ber ending in 42 you die within which owns the Cocos Islands, was through Arabella's influence the year. Accordingly, it is the claims one-third of the £12,000,000! that Marlborough received his cheerful babit in Japan to allot

Pirate Gold.

reported to have found there late start in life, ly. But the Bahama Islands au- thorities are much more grasping:|

these numbers to police-stations and fire headquarters. The argument: seems to be that as policeman and firemen live dangerous Eves al- disturb them unduly. ready a little more peril will not

There are lucky numbers, also

they took two-thirds of a £12,000 A Pensioner of the Zoo. treasure (five gold bars left in the

In the sanatorium of the Zoo, rocks by seventeenth and eighteenth whore, for good reasons, contury pirates) which a fisherman

no one found there last March. More may enter without special autho Eight is much in demand. And the over, they imprisoned the unfor-rity is an old, old griffon vulture, sequence 357 caaures a succession Until recently he was with others of agreeable surprises"-obriously, toate man, after he had reported of his kind in the birds-of-prey a series of right numbers. his feel, until they, had verified aviary, but it was found that,

his statement!

imprison-Koltchak's Treasure.

Sentence of six weeks' ment was passeri on both defend ants, who were also ordered to pay 835 each to' complainant for the property unrecovered, '

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of

owing to the handicap of age, he was being deprived by younger and more vigorous competitors of Lis When Tote Cannot Meet Bots. This is a sophisticated ago, fair share of food, and so it was which generally prefers to put its decided to pension him.

The Racecourse Betting Control Board of Great Britain has an- treasure in the bank rather than in No one knows precisely how old, nounced that in future when the the ground. But at least one great he is, but he has been for over monoy in the Totalisator pool is treasure has been buried within the thirty years in the Gardens. There insufficient to pay back the value- last fifteen years. Just before the is nothing amiss with him except of the bots the stake, on the win- Bolshevik Revolution many Rus his years, and he seems perfectly ning or placed horses, as the caso siduum of unemployed.” What sian nobles entrusted their family content where he is. He is full may be, will be returned in full. directly and indirectly on unem-sentiments from a former socialist, jewels to Admiral Koltchek, who winged, but be shows no inclination At Newmarket lost month the book- once fired, with the belief that already had charge of the national to leave his present quarters, makers starting price for Myró- ployment pelief in the United King nationalisation of banks and indus- was secretly stored in Karzan, but source of heart-searching for many. Stakes, was 100 to 8 on, which gold reserve, This vast fortune The birds-of-prey aviaries are a bella, winner of the Prendergast It is useless to spaulats whether try, open diplomacy, and dix it is not publicly known what hap. They ace there noble birds with meant that 2100 had to be invested pened to it when Admiral Kolt-piercing eyes gazing skywards, and to win £8. The "Tote returned WHITE-COOPER-THOMAS-On Nov. the money could have been better armament agreements could create chak was captured and executed by think of them as grieving after the the minimum dividend of 3d. on

3, 1922, a Mhow, Central In-spent.

a new world! Mr. KAMBAY MAG- the Red forces. Though it is be greater freedom of the limitless every unit of 2., which is equiva That must remain a per- dia, RICHARD WHITE-COOPER, sonal opinion, and much can be DONALD, as n statesman has grown loved that some of the coin and either. Are they in fact enduring lent to 8 to 1 on.

bullion He has left the orthodox White Russians to whom the trea- must remain unanswered:

was divided among the the human regret. The question. The machine had to sacrifice its The Bedfordshire and Hertsaid either way.

up At least it in

but usual 10 per cent. deduction and fordshire Regiment, only sur common ground that in return for Labour party, which is stili flous sure was encharged by the admiral when one has seen a condor sitting also to lose more than £230, which viving son of Mr. and Mrs. A. those millions we have had poti dering in a slough of political and many of the jewels had pre- happily in an old lady's lap and had to be added to the pool in or

viously beery restored to their own eagles coming st call to have their der to pay the dividend. S.. P. White-Cooper, of Nettletical stability in Great Britain, of national relief works,, once geld is still unaccounted for. There one may hope that they are not affairs, when Myrobella won at the

immaturity. Those grandiose ideas

ers, yet at loan, £1,000,000 worth of polls tickled by friendly visitors, There was a similar state stead High Hall, near Ipswich, where Socialism, and far less.Com fostered by all political partics, are probably people alive to-day too unhappily conscious of their de previous Newmarket meeting and to MARJORIE HELEN, youngest munism, have made no progrés, for have also evaporated. Of what use

who know whereabouts in Siberia privations. And in any case thers also over Jim Thomas in a race at daughter of the late Dr and the recent riots were no more than

this fortune lies hid,

are no pensioners in the wild.. Stockton. Mrs. R. Wilfred Thomas, of

are the land drainago schemes, har- polies affairs. Because starvation Welwyn, Herts. (China papers and want have been staved off to out-of-work townamen? In all bour improvements and new ronds please copy.)

people have kept their heads, such undertakings unskilled labour which has not been the case in absorbs only a small proportion of the outlay. The cheapest method of other countrips. The examples of supporting the unemployed is by America and Germany hardly sup-ons or other form of relief, with port the view that unemployment | nothing asked from them in ex-

One case of enteric and one of Forming the second batch of i An exhibition of modern Photo- change, except civic good-behaviour. ANDREWS. On Nov. 1, 182, All and destitution are no affair of the They have no service which they hiphtheria were reported oa Tups Shanghai volunteers," a score if graphy in Fortraiture, photo

day. Saints' Day, at Sydney Lodge, State.

young Chinese, left the Shanghai Etching and colouring by Mr. Britain's national health can offer the State, that does not

North Station. last week for Man- ¦ D'Asis, a very clever artist photo- St. Leonards-on-Son, the Rt. returns are further evidence in involve still further outlay. And

The Chinese Catholic yet the terrible question must be

Young churia to take part in the fighting grapher, will be staged ni the Rev. WALTER ANDREWS. D.D., support of the relief policy of faced, are these mea to be regard Men's Society is holding a sports against the Japanese and Manchu loucester Building, roof garden late Bishop of Hokkaido, successive governments, for bad ch as a lost generation of per moeting on Saturday, 20th last,, kun forces. They were given an to-day. The exhibition is open to Japan, and Vicar of St health among its citizens is Д manent pensioners, for whom no commencing at 12 noon, at the enthusiastic send-off by a large the public. Peter's, St. Leonards-on-Sea liability from which no nation can What an appalling doom for at ground, Caroline Bill,

useful place can ever be found? South China Athletic Association's crowd of Shanghai Chinese.

Professor P. I. "Edge, of thỏ Aged 60.

Funeral service at escape. It is true that there have least a million of honest and

department of tropical medicine, Six Chinese, including a woman, University of London, who is or St. Peter's, St. Leonards, on been abuse of the dole," but for decent mon, of professional and A Harbour natice requests that arrested by members of the Shangganising a department of tropical Nov. 3, at 1.30; interment at the past year a strenuous campaign artisan ns well as general-labouring ships leaving the harbour will re-hai Public Safety for being con medicine at the Lester Insitute, ia attainments. What a prospect not train from throwing overboard urned in a sensational bank rob making a tour of North China and Tonbridge, Keni, No moura has left little even to the experts only for them, but for their ashes, rubbish, etc., until they are bery in July last in Sungkiang, expects to return about the end of ing, by request.

well clear of the Lyemun Pass and have been handed over to at cadging. The sporadio outbursta familicet.

the

[this month. HORSON, OR No. 1, 1032, ELIZABETH against the now "means test **: The Prime Minister stunts to have passed Waglan.

authorities of Sungkiong to be dealt with according to law. The Mr. John H. Hunt, Secretary of complainant hook is the Bungkiang The six million dollar loan to be GEORGIANA, widow of the late have subsided and the British settle them on the land. But the peasant must be born to the soil. Captain 11. A. Hobson, and people are bearing their troubles He must serve a life apprentice the European Y.M.C.A., will speak branch of the National Industrial floated by the City Government of B.N.I., at the residence of her with characteristic stoicism.. ship. How many derelict chicken at the Y's Men's Clubs time to-day, (Bank.

farms and small holdings testify The subject of Mr. Hunt's speech at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant. son-in-law, Councillor F. W. The Prime Minister, it is satis-

the futility of dumping industry's

ing."

DEATILS.

Local and

General

Frost, Kow Green, in hor 87th factory, to soe hy his latest sperich, east-offs on the land 1 And yet here will be "By Way of Understand to light, the Police made an ap are making arrangements to raise

year. Deeply mourned by all

who knew her. Service at Row has shed many previous fancies may lie the solution of the problem. Parish Church on Nov. 5, at 11

Cemetery.

ENGAGEMENT,

fined $25 with the alternative of

charged.

Greater Shanghai, for the reliabili- tation of the war-devastated' dis In view of new facts having coine tricts is insuflicient to meet the demand and the Chinese authorities' plication yesterday to Mr. Scho- With training with organisation The Rov. Eris C. H. Trbbock field to withdraw the charge of 1.200,000 more for this purpose, and illusions about unemployment and with subsidies, a certain; pro

which was brought against a Tai: A detailed history of Shanghai, -am interment at Mortlake Office has taught him that no portion of these men and their will speak on Some Sociological dumping the dead body of a child according to the China Time..

Problems penz_at_hand,” at the special blame attaches to any quar families may be settled on the meeting of the Hong Kong Prac koo Dock toolie on Monday. The which will be contained in 25 ter for the world's ills, and that land in Great Britain and the tical Psychology Club, at Lane coolie, who had previously been volumes of 100,000 words such, is Dominions. At least their children Crawford's restaurant to-morrow at one month's hard labour was dis to be issued next year by the unemployment is discase of will have a chance to make good. a p.m.

History Compilation Bureau of the City

Greater civilisation that goes deep and It will mean diverting to this par

Governmcent of pose much of the capital gained by

Shanghai, which has offices a 201, on to intersted portion af op Leutenant W. 6 RODINOR Auduits of no sudden and cosy cute industry, and that was ward during of the Canton Municipal Govern Certificates of commendation. Itur Chapsal: A staff of 30 Cilicials 'portunity offers

Miss STRANACK-The engage As he stated in Monday's debate the last century to prend pros- ment, the Government is planning wore awarded on Tuesday to exame working under the direction of ment is announced between on the Ring's speecht, rates and pority in the Argentine, the United the construction of a large electric hibitors of the recent Domestic Mesere. Liu Ya Tez and P. K. Chu. Licut (Junior Grade) Warner-

Staten and Japan, as well in in power plant in Baichuan The Goods Fair held at the Emporium An historial account of the whole Scott Rodimon, U.S. Navy, taxes must not be drawn on British Dominions Thus taak is to proposed power plant will have on Wai Of Road. Central, Canton of Shanghai, and its educational, older son of Mrs. E. W. Rodi extravagantly. The Government build up co-operative, and almost two: 6,000 kilowatt, two 10,000 The certificates bore the characters financial, commercial, economical, mon, of Hartford, Connecticut, had faced up to the fact that when self-supporting settlements on the kilowată, and two 15,000 kilowatt Strive Euergetically! The 1933 industrial, religious cultural ? so- U.S.A., and Jestne Grutier trade recovered, to a degree which land, large enough, and elastic dynamos. The plant, when contrair Committes have been instruct cial, agricultural, political, Airo

anyone could reasonably expect fenoligt, to absorb those for whom plated, will be able to meet this fed by Mayor Liu Chi Wente com mintang, diplomatic and military there would still be a large re there is no place in the office or increasing demand for electricn! mence collecting exhibits for the development and other data will be

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