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THE FANLING HUNT AND

RACE CLUB.

~PECIAL: Train leaves Kowloon

1.06 pm. Returning 0.08 p.n First Class Return Fee of $2.00 includes admittance to Race Course.

Two Buses of the China Motor Bua Co., will leave the Star Ferry (Go- down Entrance), on TUESDAY, 17th instant-one at 19.45 am. and une at 11.00 am.-going direct to Kwanti Race Course via Castle Peak, and returning soon after the last race.

The fare there and back including entrance to the Race Course (Public Enclosure), will be 83.00.

Admission Public Enclosuro $1.00. Service Men in Unifara half price.

THOMSON & CO‚ ̈

Chartered Accountants,

Secretaries.

129.30

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING CO., LIMITED.`

PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND ON SHARES FOR THE YEAR ENDED

THE

30TH JUNE, 1938.

Company having declared

DIVIDEND of 5% Fire per cent), free of Income Tax. for the your ended 30th Jane, 1933 holders of Bearer Shares and bolders of Dividend Warrants received from Lon-. don on account of Registered Shares, will be paid their Dividend on present ing No. 41 Coupon of the Rearer Share and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares to any one of the following Banks:-

Tax Hoxe KONG & SHANGRAT

BANKING CORPORATION.

Tax CHARTERED Bank of India,

AUSTRALIA & "China.

Tas Banque Belge roun L'ETHAN.

Can

The Payment will be made in Dollars

at the buying rate of exchange of the

day.

E. JANATHAN,

General Manager:

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

NOTICE.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG. NERTIFICATES No. 2193 aat

2194 for Fifty and Ten Shares respectively, Es per share paid 'up, Numbered 81180/61185 and $5008; 95017 in this Society standing in the name of Mas. FAN 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 Certifiesto will be deemed CANCELLED an of No Effect, and NEW CERTI- FICATES for the Said"Shares will be issued in their stead by the Society.

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 23rd l'ecember, 1982.

NOTICE.

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HAEUBBLER, JOHANNES HAEUSSLER at the French Hospital yester day at 1 pm., after a short illness:

Mr.

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than widening,, and the possibility of "Home Rule" for England, Wales and Scotland in the course of the hext ten years cannot be dis missed. "An adequate second chamber

The funeral will leave the French Hospital at 4 p.m. tois, therefore, likely to become an day, the service being held at Imperial necessity. The Labour 4.30 p.m. in the Chapel in the Party, unfortunately, favour single Protestant Cemetery, Happy chamber government, for obvious Valley.

reasons, and if any reform of the present system of Parliament is to be effected, it will only come from either a National Government, such

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

DAVID HARVE. wishes to think his many friends for their kind messages of sympathy, wreaths, attendance at the funeral in his recent bereavement.

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HONG KONG, DECEMBER 27, 1932,

THE EMPIRE AND THE

HOUSE OF LORDS -

HE undermentioned Certificates for 75 shares in this ́Company, registered in the nauis of Chow Peng deceased, have been declared LOST. If at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the following. share certificates be not prodused to the Company, namely Certificate for 25 shares. No, 58105/56129 and Certificate for 50 shares No THE question of the Reform of 66180/55229, now Certificates for the the House of Lords is of no said shares will be issued by the minor interest to the Crown Company and thereafter; NO OTHERS will be acknowledged. Colonics. At present far too little A S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. of these vitally important units of the British Empire is known in Hongkong, 28th November. 1932,

the Imperial Parliament. The Dominions, with their virtual inde- pogdence in politicni matters, are in a better position, their size and the direct representation they often get through the presence of a hand ~N Urgent Appeal is made for ful of their sons in either the Lords Winter. Clothing particularly or the Commons ensured that Parlia for Children

that oficial Many requests for blankets are ment can obtain othe boing made. Any covering of any kind

opinion-on-the-ata ut the self

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or any thing which could be converted into a covering will be most gratefally governing colonies, - Moreover received at the City Hall on Mondays Viceroys and Governor-Gent and Thursdays between 10.30 and ¦ the great dominions are, almost in--- 11.30 Em

variably active members of the Upper House The Grown are in different case. Moel of them are mere names to the average This con;

LOCAL MAPS politician, absorbed

Peak District,

stituency, and its social trial interests, ~ The

mentary

Industrial magnat Jawyoru)!

rule,

as that now in power, or a Conser- vative Party Government

It was, therefore, disappointing that the Joint Committee of Peers and members of the House of Com mons on House of Lords Reform should have produced a report which

SAYS 5 TO 1 CHURCH ASSEMBLY

LIKE A SCENE IN TATTER SALL'S RING.

VARSITY NOTES

“14 OBTAIN M.B., B.S.

• Ib is announced that the following have obtained their degrees, of. M.B., B.S.-Cheung Kung Leung, Kuo Shao Chon, Les Hah Liong, Lee Shit Ece, Li Ching, Wa.. Lim Nget Siew, Liu Yan Tak, Mak Kai Cham, Ng Tin Fong Tam Hee Choo, Tam Liang Hwat, Wong Wa Kwan, Yip Yuet Fong, and Miss

The Church Assembly had fold day at Westminster on the question of gambling and betting. Archbishops, bishops, vicara, cu rates, and the laity all joined in the discussion, which ranged from Louis Todd. Irish sweepstakes to threepenny guessing competitions at church bazaars,

The Archbishop of York opened the matter with this resolution, that was eventually carried un- animously:-

"That this assembly views with grave anxiety the great evils caus ed by betting and gambling, and enrnestly hopes that the Royal Commission now sitting may devise effective means of checking incite- ments to batting and the exploits tion of the gambling justinct for private profit or for charitable in stitutions."

Mr. S. J. Bartles, of Derby, told the assembly that he had had one bet. Ho put a shilling on Darby' County for the Cup, and they lost 8 to 0.

This initial loss had evidently had its effect. Mr. Bartles never bet again.

"Yet," he admitted, "the only pleasure I got out of bazaars is in the raffles,

The Bishop of Ely, tall, ascetic looking, and serious of mien, pre- voked the chief laughter of the day.

Ha tackled the enurch raffle pro- blem the point of view of the dis- honesty of the people raffling, say, a cake worth a shilling." [}," said he, you raffle the cake with twopenny tickets and sell only six tickets you are within the limite

Graduates' Dance.

SUEZ CANAL IN A TANK

PROBLEMS SOLVED IN

LONDON

NEW MEANS OF INVESTIGATION

KOBE

OSAKA

PORT ASSOCIATION'S

PETITION

Tokyo, Dec. 15. —An» association which was formed in Kobe some,” time ago for the purpose of 'advan... sing the prosperity of the port of. Kobe in competition" with "Osäkä, is pushing on its movement. It has just Faida petition before the

}.

The Medical Graduates of the University are to hold a dance on January 7, at Messrs. Lane, Cransical Laboratory, Teddington. able decrease this year, and the ford.

"Varsity Re-opens Next Week..

The University is now closed for the Winter Vacation,, and will re- open on January 3, 1933, when worz for the first terms will begin.

One of the major problems of the local Prefectural Assembly-now in Suez Canal is expected to be sol-session asking for italarnest study ved, as the result of tests which of concrete plans for the attain will be undertaken in the new tankment of the end in view. of the William Froude Laboratory, The petition mys that shipping"

This was opened last month by and goods passing through the port Mrs Baldwin, at the National Phy. of Kobe has witnessed a remark

danger is imminant of the position The problem is the inability of of the ports of Kobe and Osaka same ships to obtain satisfactory being completely reversed. This steering during the passage of the constitutes a serious menace to the shallow waters of the Canal, large majority of all classes of Kobe, citizens." The' scutal incomes The matter was first brought to of Kobe labourers have been reduc the attention of the Laboratory, ed to one-third or even one fourth. through an inquiry concerning If things are left to take their liner, the behaviour of which, on

course," serious consequences may her maiden voyage to Australia, soon result on the economic life of gave rise to considerable anxiety. the city as whole and on the ideas" A message was sent to the Labora of the citizons generally. Those will|tory staff, and experiments were who are either optimistic or indif- immediately made on a model of feront are ignorant of the very ad- the ship. --

verso circumstances in which the So far as this particular liner city of Kobe is now placed. All

was workers, on the sea, in the liarbour" "was concerned, the problem solved by a small addition to the and on land, their employers and rudder, made at the suggestion of industrialists who have big invost- the Laboratory during the fourments in the port, regard with JUDGES MUST HAVE THE days turning-round time allowed great alarm and dread the new big after her maiden trip at the Bri-of Osaka, which is calculated to harbour construction programme tish port

Congregation Day.

The University Congregation take place on January 8. The Chan cellor, Sir William Peel, will most probably be present to confer the degrees upon the graduates..

TRUTH.

HUSBAND LOSES HIS DECREE NISI

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kill Kobe's trade, From the point For the purpose of these tests, a of view of national interests also,.. falso bottom was inserted in the this programme means, an overlap- old tank, the dimensions of a part ping of investments and deserves of the Canal being reproduced in condemnation. scale with the model bast. Al-

are Osaka interests

striving though the alterations in this par- strenuously to attract shipping, Mr. Justice Bateson, in the Di ticular case were successful, it was of honesty. Every one of the peo-vorce Court, on the intervention of found that the false bottoin of the foreign as well as Japanese, and ple getting a ticket has a sixth the King's Proctor, rescinded a tank could not be made suficiently cargoes to the port of Osaka at the cost of the port of Kobe and | chance. That is, the chances are decree niti granted on Decembar rigid for the needs of a general in their efforts are meeting with a. 1830, to Mr. Edward Leyland quiry into the effects of shallow Rhodes, of Lyme. View, Cheadle, water. Cheshire.

¡ six to one."

Immediately there were shouts of objection against the odds men- tioned by the learned bishop.

"Five to obel Five to one!! they roared, with as much clamour as if it had been the ring at Tat- tersalle..

The bishop was nonplussed for a moment or two. Then he retort

ed

The house are universally not only better mathematicians then I am, but they also know.inore about odds.”.

When I was connected with the Post Office," mild. Lord Daryng- top. "I saw the extent to which tipping went on. On one particu lar merging one man sent 30,000 telegrams and probably be receiv ed: 21. on each.”go

good deal of success. It is regret- table to note that on the part of Kobe and Hyogo prefecture, all classes are betraying & lack of foresight and energy in Tetting the

This it is now proposed to under- Mr. Rhoden had been granted a take on a section of the new tank, decree nit because of the miscon: which has been specially built with duct of his wife, Mrs. Gladys shallow bottom, and the results situation alone. Evelyn Rhodes, of Bruntwood will be applicable not only to the avenue, Healed Green, Cheshire, Suez Canal, but also to navigation with Mr. Willson Pollock, of in the St. Lawrence, the Hooghly West-avenue, Finney-jane, Chandle. River, and the Thames, concerning year; of £105,000...

Mr. W. N. Stable, by the King's which other inquiries, have been Proctor, asked that the detree bo received. rescinded on the ground that Mr. Rhodes had not disclosed his own misconduct with a Miss Lonnen.

Very Bad, Case,"

Towing at 30 Knots.

International competition in ship- building design has become ing creasingly keen. Built at a cost of $48,000 the new tank at Tedding A second important featurs of ton is ez feat long, 20 feet wide. the new tank is that the speed at and nine feet deep. It will extend". which models can be towed has the work of the Yarrow tank pre think this is a very bad which will increase the securacy row in 1971. Sir James Lithgow. is been increased from 25 to 30 knots, santed by the late Sir Arthur Tar- cass said Mr. Justice Bateson, with which bigh-speed craft and providing the £5,000 needed for giving judgment. "Here is a man particularly "speed-boats," can be the propeller tannel which will of education going into the wit tested. The tank is also necessary ness-box and utterly deceiving the to meet the normal extension of complete the Laboratory's equip court about his whole married testing work.

ment. The cost of the new tank 18. life..!

容易

He admitted that he had had one bet during the last thirty years, and, amid laughter, he said it was with Sir Godfrey Baring, one of that for no less than five years he He withheld from the court the previous speakers.

had been practically living with "It was whether the Russians another woman and that that, wo were in France or not," said Lord man was about to have a child. Daryngton. "And he won his

--The-soosier people learn that truth is better than falsehood in this court the beter it will be for on the basis of 242 steaming days avesse) required b

(C'ontinued on wext ('alumni) the advantage of the community."

money.

In illustration of the importance borne by the State. tory points out that, during the tank are between 18 and 20 feet. of this general work, the Labora- The model ships sailed in the

four years 1927-30, 114 vessels were long, and are mad fested for commercial firms with a is used because it is- resultant annual saving, in fuel, any alterations to the she

the experimenta can be raade with ease.

Local and General

the

has very little chance of proving even the foundation of a permanent settlement. The recommendations of the nobility" lapsed with the are a House consisting of 220 mem- passing of feudalism, but a consider. bera. Of these 150 would be elected able proportion of the peers were by the hereditary peers; a like big landowners and thoroughly re- number would be chosen by county presentative men. The old order councils and municipal boroughs, han peased. Peerages are awarded and the remaining twenty would for distinguished services, directly include six bishops, the law lords or indirectly, to the state. There is His Excellency the Governor has According to the Shih Uhich Jih gest that the device of the corpo and the Peers of the Royal Family no longer any necessary connection to be an Assistant Government come for the current year totalled ed and volent Hong Kong Daily appointed Mr. John George Charl Pao, the Chinese-Government in rate seal be a Magple open mouth- It is easy to see that such an with the land, and not infrequent Marine Surveyor (Engineer Bur820,000,000 (Mexican) and the ex- Press, December 27, 1867. assembly is not likely to commendy the distant relative of a veyor), Harbour Department with penditure was $780,000,000 (Mexi-

can). The deficit for the Govern- LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS itself to any but the Conservative Peer suddenly finds himself saddled effect from December 15, 1832

ment's Treasury is $160,000,000 DE MAR

We understand that game is Party. The Committee responsible with an honour which he has His Excellency the Governor, has (Mexican).

plentiful up river at Shanghai but for the Report, it will be urged not earned, which he has no appointed Mr. Michael James

much less so than in former Pan- by all apponents, has concentrated means to keep up, and which is Breen to set as Colonial Treasurer. The Government's financial state song, owing to the extensive" in- upon the creation of a second line more of a hindrance than a help lector of Stamp Revenge, and ment for the month of September andation which has destroyed any Assessor of Rates, and to be the 1938, states, under the heading of emount of pheasants, hares, deer of Conservative defences. The pre Most of the hereditary peers never Commisalaner to carry out the pro revenue and expenditure that the end wild pigs, etc. Unfortunately sont peerage is overwhelmingly Con- Venture near the House of Lords, visions of the Estate Daty Ordin" excess of saveta over liabilities on most of the crop have been annile servative. As An electoral body it and the business je conducted fargeance, 1916, in addition to his olber August 31, 1888 was $12,320,811:72 lated too, in many portions of the daties, during the absence on leave and the revenue from September 11 Yangiare Valley, and the total des would, under any system of voting,y by a handfuḥs

have of the Honourable Mr. Edwin Tay to 30, 1932, was $2173, 107.75, mak traction of most of the country ons or lor, with effect from the December ing a total of 114403,91867 peoples cattle has only been pre- secure a predominating proportion already had Ho

[penditure from Sep of representatives of its own poli- other national exp This in 1836 $2,448,600.71 leaving

mber 1 to 30 vented by the timely interference of some energetic public minded. tical colour County Councile are itself, tends to we

"and intelligent« local mandarins.—-- also, for the most part, highly con-

fidence in the present.

Con Daily Press December servativa organisations, and these

principle of life together would make quite certain

one and could of controlling disse from the larger tow

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opportunity,

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gozd War Memorial Hospital on Friday..

took place at the Protestant Cems

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graveside. Mr. David"

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