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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING &| MINING CO., LIMITED.

PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND ON SHAKES YOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1935

THE Company having declared a TFINAL DIVIDEND of 5% Five per cent), free of Income Tax, for the year endort 30th June, 1939, bolders of Bearer Shares and holders of Dividend Warrants received from Lon don on account of Registered Shares, will be paid their Dividend on prevent ing No. 41 Coupon of the Hoarer Shares and Dividend Warrants on Registered Sharga to any one of the following Banks :--

Tar HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA & Curva.

Tux BANQUE BELGE `rova L'ÉTRAN

GEK.

The Payment will be made in Dollars

at the buying rate of exchange of the

day.

General Manager.

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

5. J. NATHAN,

NOTICE.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.

CERTIFICATES Nos. 2193 and

for Fifty and Ton Shares respectively, & per share paid up, Numbered 61138/81185 and 98008 95017 in this Society standing in the żame of Mus. TAN KIM NEO have been declared LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Month from th Date hereof the above. Documents b not forthcoming the Said Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED an of No Effect, and NEW CERTI FICATES for the Said Blares will be issued in their stead by th Society.

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

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Hong Kong, 28rd December, 1982.-

BANK HOLIDAYS.

IN Oriende,

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Government socordance with

The EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI NESS on MONDAY and TUESDAY, 26th, and 7th, DECEMBER, 1933. (CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS). Hong Kong, 21st Dec., 1932.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB,

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1933 (18th, 20th, g'st, 22nd and 25th FEBRUARY) .and

FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING 1933 (4th March).

DRAFT Programmes are now ready

and may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club and the Btables.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 2nd December, 1933,

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KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,

THE Public are bereby notified that THE in connection with the Christmas and New Year Holidays, additional Express trains will be run between Kowloon andi Canton as follows:-

DECEMBER 14TH AND 31ST

Kowloon...Dep. 12.43 p.m. Canton Ari. 1.53 p.m. "Canton ...Dep. 5.10 p.m. ∙Kowloon .....Ari, · 8.10 p.m..

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* News and Views

The Last Straw!

Soviet Russia has recently lifted the ban on jazz. What can the peo ple of that country have done How to deserve such, treatment f

-Bough-Stuff-at-Reading;"

£200,000 Mira Collection,

CIVILISING NEW...

GUINEA

| AUSTRALIA. REPORTS ON HER

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DIARY OF LOCAL- EVENTS

TO-DAY

December 23).

Auctions

Sale of Motor Car, China Auc-

Now York. The collection ofį 280,000 bird specimens of Baron Lionel Walter de Rothschild, Tenual Report for 1831 of the manda- Geneva In presenting the An. garded as the most famous in the tary power for New Guines Sir world, and valued originally at Donald Cameron (Australia) intion. Rooms 30 p.m. £200,000, has been acquired by Mrformed the Tonnanent Mandates Harry Payne Whitney and her children for presentation to the Commission of the League of Nu American Museum of Natural His- tions that the welfare of the natives tory as a memorial to her husband of the territory had been the para rather than economic exploitation

Because of the unseemly be haviour of a section of the public, Rending Museum and Art Gallery is not to be opened on Sundays,” saya a Home paper.

Now they are going to the pic | Trade Union, Membership, tures.

Road Up to Moscow.

A visitor to Moscow in 1930, heard that the old cobbled streets were to be relaid with the finest concrete slab surface. Returning in the summer of this year, she found that the cobbles had been raised, but that nothing had been Inid down,

3.0,'s Timber Wealths,

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The Ministry of Labour reports that at the end of Inat year the total number of trade unions in Great Britain and Northern Ire land was, 1,061, and that they had

imount consideration of the manda lory. The health services absorbed one-fifth of the total revenue. The Report shows that the health of the population has vastly improv. ed, and there Is been a notable reduction of infant mortality."

In raising a very primitive peo a total membership of 4,611,000. In ple, accustomed to incessant tribal the preceding year there were 1,098 warfare, to the standard of the unions with 4,824,000 members, so mechanical age, care has been taken that the decrease was 213,000. Fif-not to interfere with native laws teen small unions, with an aggre- and customs inore than is absolute gate membership of 8,000,

were ly necessary. Special attention dissolved during the year, and is being given to education. seven other smali unions, with an

The Annual Report for Western aggregate of 5,000 members, amal

gamated with other unions. Five Samos, presented by Sir Thomas unions, with a total of 2,000 mem- Wilford (New Zealand), also tex- Nineteentifies to satisfactory progress in were. formed. bers, unions had their headquarters in that territory. Northern Ireland.

The export trado in lumber from British Columbia, one of the rich est sources in the world of high grade commercial lumber, has been notably good this year and pros pects are most promising. In the first eight months shipments to the British Isles totalled 00,000,000 feet, Ita highest point in 1920, when the and by the end of the year the total | total was 8,339,000, and the de- will pass 100,000,000 feet.

How Liquor Disappoints.

Trade union-membership reached

cline since then has been 3,728,000,

or nearly 48 per cent.

Finland furnishes another exam- ple of the manner in which liquor. disappoints those who look for Eggs Extraordinary,

ward to

large governmental re- | A remarkable story comes from venue as the result of its legaliza-i

tion and taxation, says an Ameri. New Guinea, where it is claimed ean paper. Sales by the govern that the natives, by feeding the monopoly dropped from guinea fowl on the seeds of a cer. 406,000 liters in September

mont

252,000 liters in October, chiefly as

totais yam, have been able vastly to

Adelaide, S. Aust. Too proud to live any longer on the dole, six youths from Port Adelaido have just embarked on a thrilling river adventure in search of odd jobs.

First of all they saved enough from their relief rations to provide them with food for two days. With wood picked up from ships at Port Adelaide they built & dinghy, and fitted it with a mast, bowsprit, sails, oars and rowlocks at a total Tho cost of 5/- for copper nails. sails were made from seven flour bags,

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PLAN TO SAVE FAMOUS DOWNS

SUPPORT FROM SUSSEX

LANDOWNERS

Sport. Billiards:-Open Championship: Atkinson (St. Patrick's Club), 8.30 Master-Gunner Bailey Ple

P.

Chess:-Kowloon Chees Club Champions, Senior: A. D. Sequeira P. T. Rozario: A. C. Ridington J. S. Smith B. W. Paul, v. C. M.Sequeira, Junior: AJ. Biriukofte. P. Yvanovich; A. Karrik H. H. Bush: T. E. Parry J. Easton; A. Prata ». A. L. Rocha; Dr. H. D. Matthews

3. Cuniätti. Hockey-Mamak Tournament: University ". 12th Battery (Soo- kunpoo), 4 p.m.; Gignals v. Med. way (Marina), 4 p.m.. Friendly match: Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" » Y.M.C.A. (King's Park), 5.13 p.m.

Theatres.

'King's: * Dance Queen's: "Chances."

Homicide Squad.' Transgression."

·Dances.

Team: Central: Star:

Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel

Dianer and King's Restaurant. Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, King's Restaurant and Peninsula Hotel.

Miscellaneous.

Navity Play, St. John's Cathe Brighton, Nov. 11.-Steps will be

dral, p.m. Kowloon Union taken at the next meeting of the Church Special Choral Service, Brighton, Hove and District. Town | 9 p.m... Planning Advisory Committee to

form

An executive authority to the result of smuggling activities, increase, the size of the eggs.

infeguard the glory of Sussex-the Young Australia.

Having assimilated the sends, 3.

South Downs. hird produces eggs of normal size,

Encouraging support and co- but their peculiarity is to continue growing after being laid. The na operation have been given by a tives take the egg and place it in number of owners of large estates the, steamy atmosphere, of a man-in the region, notably Lord Gage. There is ample land both for grove swamp-which apparently as sists the process of swelling-and building and for preservation. All then, after about ten days, retrieve that is necessary is that the place it and have a feast. The dainty is and form of development should cooked in a cistern, and a score or conform to the nature of the coun- more sit round and carve it with, tryside. their long, sharp knives.

The Downs are famous all the There is enough yolk and white world over, and with the people to satisfy twenty-three men, and a of Sussex lies the responsibility project is on foot to mature several for safeguarding this precious dosen of these extraordinary eggs heritage. Destroy their beauty and and make a delicious omelette to seclusion, and one of the chief as-

Principal Mails,

Inward :-America by President Monroe; Europe ria Bucz by Hakone Maru; Europe vin Siberia by Buenos Aires Maru.

Outward :- Amerion and Europe. via Siberia by Pres Jefferson 5 p.m.; Europe via Buer by Katori Maru.“

SATURDAY (December 24). Sport,

Sovereign States are now queued up for Federal hand-outs. The President of the American Federation of Labour warned Mr. Hoover of a possible revolution unless Federal doles were set on foot for an army of unemployed which may number 18,000,000 hands before the spring sun shines again No wonder there is a lack of eager ness to forego the hope aroused by the promise that, any annual payments for foreign debts will be used to secure the expansion of foreign markets for America's agricultural products."

There are two views as to the holding the gear, is being towed possible way. out of the chaos. The All the members of the party bwhich the whole island will be in sets of the towns and villages petition: Chinoen v. Navy (Caro-

British attitude is that America,

In addition to the dinghy, the party has two canvas canoes, mea- auring eight and six feet. Three of the lads will row the dinghy, and the other three will take charge of the large canoe. The third craft,

by an unselfish and bold polloy,long to the Port Adelaide swim.

of cancelling war deble, will imming club, and are used to boats. prove her own, as well as the world, position. Further it is urged that a lowering of tariffs, a better dis tribution of gold, and an inter national scheme of armament re duction would restore confidence. and stimulate a return to normal

modities of all kinds, While that

MR. ROOSEVELT'S CAUTION Production and distribution of com

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Local and General

The Hong Kong dollar was quat- ed yesterday at is 3d,

The Chinese Government Railway Zone Products Exhibition will be opened in Shanghai about the One case of meningitis was re- middle of February, 1933, instead of the middle of this month as pre- ported on Wednesday.

viously announced,

There will be a midnight service Eve, commencing at 11.30 p.m. at St. Peter's Church on Christmas

A Chinese having the appearance of a mendicant went to the Taum

From the files.

LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS

Cricket: Triangular Tourna- mont: Hong Kong 0.C.. Army, First Division: Civil Service University (F.); Indian R.C.. Craigangowe. (F.). Second Divi- on Police Hong Kong O.C. (L); Craigengover . Queen's Col- lege (F.); University Civil Ser vice (F.).

Footbali:-Lai Wah Cup Com line Hill), 3.30 pm. Second D.vi sion: Lincolns. St Joseph's; · Exo v South China; Chinese Athletic Navy; Club e. Tsung. Tain; S.W, Borderers. Royal Artillery; Kowloon Easters. Third Division: St. Joseph's r Lincolna; Royal Air Forces. R.A.S.C.; Signals r. Radio Sports: University . Hooreio; 8,W. Bor dererse. Chinese Athletic.

Rugby:-Combined Services Club (Bookunpoo), 4 p.m.

Theatres,

Central: "Homicide Squad." King's: "Dance Team. Majes tic: Palmy Days" Queen's

Chances."

of Taiping: Rainbow Trail." Oriental: "Night World." Star: Transgression."

Dances,

Wan Police Station on Wednesday We are much afraid that our to make a report, but collapsed and strictures upon the local Govern died before he could make any statement of this Colony have been so ment Death appears to be due to repeated and so sweeping, that we

are looked upon by the community Tea Danoes at King's Restau natural causes,

as the shepherds looked on the boy rant, Hong Kong Hotel and During the absence in Macso of who cried wolf" too often. We Majestic Dancing Academy. Dia- Leung Bookken, a married woman cannot conceal from ourselves the ner Dances at King's Restaurant, living at No. 31, Wing Wo Street, Spprehension, that we have been as Peninsula, Hong Kong and Re- a thief presented himself at the it wore making and vending plaister pulse Bay Hotels

Whether the Entertainments: Gala Nights address with a letter purporting to of Paris images have been written by her, and se-Colonial Government loves to be at Peninsula and Hong Kong cured possession of three trunks despised," or whether that portion Hotels, and Gloucester. Austra containing dresses worth $200. The of the community whose opinion in Trio at the King's Theatre fraud was discovered on the wo-carries weight, consider the sets of their legislature too frivolous to

Principal man's return.

|notice and too contemptible to re-

Outward-Australia by Atauts nist, we cannot any but this we Maru 9 m, Saigon Marseilles Captain V. L. Ralster, master of know that whilst our pleister imagos Air Mail Services 9 a.m., Austra coolie, Mr. C E. Terry, on Wednes the motor vessel Huinam sell like hot cakes, they seem en day night drove his car into the charged before the Hon. Comdr. tirely to fall in producing the effect is and New Zealand Atita Maru railings guarding a nullah in Wa Hole, at the Marine. Court rester desired, and nothing but the delight 9.a.m. terloo Road.. Mr. Terry received a day, with having on December 1 we feel in turning them out, causes light out on the head and the car exhibited navigation lights on his the stock to be kept up. Hong

damaged to the extent of 80g No. As the police were not Kong Daily Pren, December 23, ready for line. All that is wanted

buoy 5. 1857.1 Members of the Indian Company pressing the charge, Commander

may be the cure for Great Britain, The President-elect of the United for the world, there is no disguis and is, wo believe, the right, policy

States is acting with great circum-ing immediate difficulties and losa, spection. His role, while awaiting which such course may involve Protected industries and the the time, next March, when he na-U.S. National Treasury would alike sumes office, is no easy one, and he feel the strain. Moreover, many is determined not to find himself poople firmly believe that in the creed of national self-sufficiency, addled with responsibility for ties the way to reconstruction.

The members of the Indian Sec policy that he cannot control and President HOOVER inclined some

tion of the Royal Naval Yard Police are giving a tea at Lane Crawford's does not approve.

whab grudgingly to the wider view. He is declining To him the world owes the great Restaurant on the 27th inat, in hon co-operation with President HOOVER moratorium at a time of catastrophic Khan on the occasion of his retire-

our of Sub-Inspector Mir Alam: in choosing the personnel of the paril. He is a protagonist of dis

ment on pension, Debt Cominission, despite the Pre-armament to the extent of using the prospect of cancelling war debts na sident's plea that while the lever to obtain, a genuine reduc

The American Consulate General, Commission's labours may begin tions of armed forces. It would Shanghai, will appreciate the re- before Mr. Hooves's kaves White even appear that he clings to War spint of information regarding the Debts not because he believes they present whereabouts of Mr. Frank House they will continue long after are of real use to his countrymen,

lin Geovany Fraykas, who is re- the change-over. Of equal signi- except as a bargaining weapon, Tolanda about four years ago,

ported to have left the Philippine Seance is Mr. ROOSEVELT's dia. but because onucellation is not prac

tical politics. H countrymen are avowal of President Hooven's at almost solid against that course. In endeavouring the avoida tempt to link the problem of war. The holding of office changes out debts either with the world economic look, but at present Mr. ROOSEVELT apparently jeans to the view that a conference or with disarmament. It self-supporting Americs can work is difficult to see how a world out her own salvation regardless of cebnomis conference, if it is to be rope. Mr. Rogerver is a gentle man-farmer of New York Stato- of the slightest assistance, can or he was before he sailed the boas ignore War Debts. The armaments of politics. As a young man he problem is also interlocked with those of confidence between nations, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, protection of industries, and poli- big navy Americas for the

tical alignments affecting trade, but THE undermentioned Certificates a certain superficial case axists for

for 75 shares in this company considering the two things na dis registered in the name of Chow. Peng! deceased, bave been declared TOST.tinct and independent.

DECEMBER 26TH AND JANUARY 3RD, 1933 Kowloon Dep. 8.85 a.m Canton ...Art. 12.03 p.m.

Canton...Dep. 3.30 p.m. Kowloon Arr. „330°p.m. Seata may be reserved on application to the Station Master at Kowloon or (2014

Cariton.

NOTICE:

of the Hong Kong Police Reserve Hole administered, a caution. Į LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS.

hold the post of Under-Secretary will be holding a tea party in hono

Yesterday evening

now is a large number of recruits and the movement will be started on a first rate footing. Hong Kong, Daily Preu, December 23, 1832,

Frincipal Chinese Detective Sek

Yesterday evening the enrolinent Fui arrested a Chinese in Reclame of volunteers for the new corps tion Street on Tuesday night and was commenced. The Commandant, Looking Back 25 Yeare. in his shoes found two forged 810 Major Moore Lane swore in the re Chartered Bank notes. The arrest cruits, who were passed by the Hor

The Hawke cruiser, was recom

ther and the first drille will take the nucleus grew of place after the Christmas holidays cruiser. Her relieved net

Singa

towards protection by tariffs, and O., on the ociation of his retire ment on pension the function tak Americans He does not wish the ing place at Lane, Crawford's re-, come first. Possibly it is as well. world ill, but his own country must staurant to-day at 5.10 p.m..

ed man, Sin Matty was brought be Surgeon, Dr. Stockwell Between missioned at Chatham by Capt. 0. Mankind has not yet reached the Mise WF. Ho living at 30, Cum-fore Mr. Butters at the Kowloon 30 and 40 were enrolled yesterday. Gillett for special service in mental calibre required for world betland Road, Kowloon Tong, was Mugistracy yesterday and charged evening, which was considered very conveying naval relicta collaboration, An era of organised the victim of a bag snatcher in Lad-with possession of the notede satisfactory for a commencement pore, after which are If at the expiration of one month The tenacity with which America frugality such as prevails in Gerder Street on Wednesday night a pleaded guilty and was sentenced The earciment will be continued at Portemouth Division of the from the date hereof the following

many may be ahead for all coun- bag containing money and other to four months' fard labour, Ing, the same hour for some nigby fur.. Fleat UThe Hawkeses share certificates To not produced to insists upon the payment of war trice. There may be an abandon articles to the value of 805 being spector Dorling rosecuted. the Company, namely Certificate for debts can only be understood it ing of luxuries and a return to the stolen by a young Chinese who me 25 ron No. 56105/56120 and the extraordinary distress of the ancient Greek idea that men should ceeded in making good his escape.

The weddings will shortly take Bomo specimen of the uniform to drafted to the King Alfred, cruiser, Certifinate for 50 aharos No.

live simply and strenuously not

place between Mr. William Kay, be worn are already to be seen at Capt.-F. Thursby, flying the 66180 66229, new Cottificates for the country, be kept in mind, Accord so much in the manner of a swent

int has been lodged with schoolmaster of the Education De the Drill Hall, and the Cörpt, will Eng For Admiral Bir A Ahares will be issued by the ing to a well-qualified observering industrialism, as in thletica the apt by Yu Poòn Cho, mag-partment, residing at 18, Conduit certainly be very well and nesty. Commander-in-Chief of

| art, and intellectuni-yaramitara

wn Beng-load, lazd. “Miss "Grace. Estbleen attired, altogether in a fat seperior - Restion.

Williams, 2by Kennedy Road; and¬ mamer to the now defunct Carps.- Cre book to set out its wintry vagaries, ing to that way, a Great cities, are bankrupt. Empty nations whose greatner skyscrapers are being pulled down the theory that the wor

baced upon internation 2833: to save the manda. Even the grossing towards-coo

banyakkand thereafter US NOW KARAMerion misery, would need many, Italy and Russit

ERA will be acknowledged.

- §. WATSON & 00., LIMITED, Hoogkong 28th November, 1989.

and

Fol whore

Mr William Edward The building has been cle

"Hospital; Bowen the Iumber by which it was former-

Nellie, Lincoln) ly filled, and having been clen

idray: 2- Kimberley Road, Kows cand: put into "order-cias now!!

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