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TỔNG KONG ENGINEERING &
"CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that, it Hesting of. the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Enginee.
og and Construction Co., Ltd, he'd at St George Bailding, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 31st January, 41833, a solution was passed making
Call of 95 cents per share apo, all gembera as shown on the Register of Bhareholders on the Bist January, 1. 33, s holders of shares on which only u cents has beer; aid. --
Bach Call shall be payable to the Company's Banker, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Queen's Hood Central, Victoria,noug Kong, on or before the 91st March 1933, in the case of shareholders whose registered address le i the Far Est. and, in the case of shareholders avi
registered address outside tho Fai East, on or before the 30th June, 183.
By Onder of the Board, --
B. ALVES,
Secret-ry.
Hong Kong, 31st January, 1933.
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DR. BAGENAL HARVEY MEL. LON, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., etc, deceased.
LL persons having claims against,' or having knowledge of any assets forming part of the estate of the above named deceased, who del recently in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, are requested to forward particulars thereof to the undersigned immedi. ately.
WILKINSON & GRIST,
9, Queen's Hoad Central, Solicitors for the Executrix.
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P. O. Box 33.
Telephone 37717,
Headmaster:-C. B. R. SARGENT, M.A. (Cantab.).
Tax SCHOOL Ba-oygas on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 1923.
NEW Boys toate will be held on Saturday, February 11th, at
$9.00 a.m.
Dayboys' fees Classes 1 - 6 #42 per quarter, Dayboys' fees - Classes 6-8 $36 per quarter. Boarders' fees - Cinases 1 - 3 814 per quarter. Boarders' fees-Classes 6-8. 8134 per quarter. Entrance fee
$10. Prospectases, entry forms and all other particulars may be obtained from the Headmaster.
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JUBILEE ROAD MURDER
(CONTINUÈD FROM PAGE 7.)
Is it usual for you, a Chinesa detective, to take a statement from a person accused of murder without the presence of a Europeon Inspec- tor-I would not do a thing like that unless I was instructed to do so. I was instructed by Chief De- tactive Inspector Reynolds.
No Third Dogres." Did you not take the prisoner by the loft arm and twist it round the back -I did not. I had no reason for that..
And did
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News and Views
At dinner at Government House the keys of Gibraltar are laid on a plush cushion in front of the Governorthe symbol of the British sovereignty, which has to often bean contestexl.
The famous balons are another such symbol, for legend maintains that the day they leave the Rock, that day will the British hold be relinquished.
Consequently, the gunner officer whose duty it is to care for them is an important figur indeed. So much so that he hears the splendid title of "D.C Apen."
Accidental Truth.
Low Latin meaning of "cowherd " generally attributed to "bac. calarius," to scent unfair · din- crimination against mere males in sou pay "nuojaz posodead sya is also cominon usage to be consi dered. However it sounds to In- (dian ears, virago has in Britain associations far from heroic, Nag- pur is tackling a difficult problem and may find the cure worse than the evil it proposes to remedy..........
Plough Monday..
Sir Porey Greenaway has too a regard for old customs to allow the ancient ceremony sociated with Plough Monday to fall into decay.
Ds.
I hear he has so far recovered from his attack' influenza that he
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
(February 1)
(I Moon 7th Day),
local branch of Too H Sailors" Entertainment by members of the
& Soldiers Home.
Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute, pm. University Medical Society An- nual Meeting. 3.13 p.m.
Theatres.
Central: "Young Bride."
"Kismet." Queen's:
King's Sky Bride." World: "Three Modern Girls." Majestic: Movie Crazy" Star: At the Villa Rose."
Dances.
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant, Hotel, Gloucester
you say: "Until you confess, I will not let your arm go!"-No. There was a lot of European sergents in the place and nothing like "that happened.
His Lordship: Are you naking
The current issue of the "En
journal these questions under instructionsversity Correspondent," a
Yes, my Lord. I am terribly sorry which for a number of years now will preside on Monday at the Hong Kong to have to ask these unpleasant has had a reputation for its sym-rand Court of Wardmote at the Building, and Majestic Dancing questions.
posing for authentic "howlers," Guildhall, and in the evening, after Mr. Lim (to witness): Did you contains the fruits of a competition the age-old fashion, will entertain also knock him on the right arm for the best collection of examples the officers of the Corporation. with a piece of wood 1-No. There of this humour of the school-room. is only a glass partition between the C.D.I.'s office and the place where I questioned him. I would not lay my hands on an accused person if I was affered $10. ·
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Did you give him a blow on the forehead just before you took him to the European detective office room 1-No.
His Lordship (to Mr. Fraser): Do you feel it your duty to tender this evidence 1---Yes, my, Lord. was going to submit various autho rities for your Lordship's considera- tion.
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The course indicated by the cross- examination may make it necessary. for you to call the constables It might be so.
After further, cross-examination of the witness by Mr. Lám, Mr. Fraser proceeded to cite anthorities to show why the statement made by the prisoner to the detective, should be accepted.
The Court then adjourned until this morning.
"LONDON GIN" MADE IN TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
A verdict of $1,198.89 damages against the Tientsin British Mun- cipal Council was awarded by the jury after considerable deliberation in the case of E. O. Spiridis v. the B.M.C. at the Tientsin sessions of H.M. Supreme Court on January
Academy.
Dinner Dances at King's Restau- rant, Peninsula, Hong Kong, and" Repulse Bay Hotels, and Glouces- ter Building.
Bports,
17.
That the prize went to Calabar First Day's Work. may explain how some of these Plouga Monday, the first Monday howlers" arose, but it does not after the twelve days of Christmas
Hockey-Friendly match; Houg invalidate their humour. The fol-morry-making, was a day when the Kong Hockey Club Seniors lowing is a brief selection :-*-*-*-
A Prime Minister is the oldest andman resumed the plough, H.K.SR.A. (Marina ground), 5.15
Village me dragged the gaily: p.m. Minister of any denominations; decorated plough from door to Hunting:-Fanling Hunt Hounds A Republic is a place where door, and in the evening, in cale: Meet (Sheung Shui Cross Roads), nobody can do anything in private.bration of the first day of hard Active voice is the voice of a per-work in the New York, the son when he is quarrelling,
"Plough Monday Supper" was Matrimony is a place, where souls
provided. suffer for a time on account of their sina
An undergraduate is # person not up to the mark.
From all of which it may be deduced that a little insccuracy may produce inuch humour and an occasional grain of truth..
Captain Townley,
Similarly, the Lord Mayor of London entertained his officials, It is a kindly custom that goes well with Sir Foroy's temperament.
Royal Academy.
The Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy attracted a Very large throng to the private view on January 10, at Burlington House. Indeed, quite late in the afternoon the congestion of cars in the courtyard was as dense as that which usually marks the opening of the Summer Exhibition.
Captain J. C. Townley, whom Now York has been fêting for tak ing the old Mauretania through a terrific Atlantic storm and berth ing her on schedule time, whils her powerful younger rivals were last, is known as one of the most trust The Orpens dominate the ex that not merely worthy of the Cunard skippers" hibition and
Ho in Cumberland man, and numerically, though the whole of there was a time, before he first the first two rooms and the large
contain nothing went afloat in all, when his family room gravely doubted whether he had a William's work. nad, there
other canvases of his in the octagon pair of sea-legs. During his boyhood he and his room, hrothers were once enught in one of those miniature but dangerous storms that occasionally spring up on Derwentwater,
A Boyish Adventure,
At some hazard, their small boat had to be navigated back across the lake to Keswick. The Townley boys, cogitating hard, decided that the future captain would be a precious poor hand in rough wea hindrance than a holp..
So they unceremoniously "Shang hai'd him on the opposite bank
"for out." and left him to dreary tramp home
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One goina an impressive idea of the immense virility of the ma and of the early age at which he came into possession of his great powers as an artist. - Open's Debut at the E.A.
When did Orpen exhibit for the first time at the Academy? I put the question to the veteran editor of The Year's Art" (who has seen every show at Burlington House since 1882), and he replied that he had very good reasons for remembering the year-1904
For early in that year Charles Wertheimer, the famous dealer, had asked him about "these young men at the New English Art Club,” and whether it would be a good thing to have his portrait painted by one of them..
Kowloon labours under a certain $1,126.82 DAMAGE AGAINST sense of grievance. There is a Government suspicion that the [391
neglects it and knows nothing about it. There is no form of municipal council or even an autho rity on the lines of the Sanitary Board occupied with its interesta There is no resident axial, and at night this great city, is solely in charge of its senior police officers. On the Legislative Council it has оле representative! No official 21. member of the Council has ever The case arose out of the rovok-ther, and his presence more a lived in Kowloon and probably using of Mr. Spiridis licence to un-official member, except Mr. J. P. operate vodka and wine distil- BRAGA
lery" during the hearing of which it transpired that the plaintiff was It may be said that Victoria and Kowloon are really one town and an Italian subject born a Turk but
really a Greek, coming before that the whole Colony must be re- British Court with an American ▲ University Reform. Editorial and Bums Offices: 11, garded as an administrative unit lawyer and a Russian translator to The long-standing aendemic Ice House Street. Tel. 30351. There is truth in that, but to admit he made Scotch whisky in anomaly of women having degrees
isolate n town containing 270,000. China out of Japanese alcohol in
which in. literal accuracy, are strict inhabitants, and many and varied
a distillery undor a French, name. ly masculine has been causing con- The name suggested was Orpen's interesia, from the administration
cern in the University of Nagpur, and the very clever portrait which jury based award on is not conducive to good govern- allowing dr. Siriclit six months Central India, where steps are con resulted was the first of the buil- ment. We have suggested before rent, five months payment of femplated for the maintenance liant young executant's subsequent that a senior cadet officer, resident coolie hire, light and water, 8500 of the aesthetic side of the degreas contributions to the Academy. Yet in Kowloon, should be responsible compensation for his enforced idle. given to female candidates. The he did not exhibit again until 1903, for the whole of the Mainland. What would be do, it may be mess, 3208 interest on his capital gist of the reform is the substitu- when he sent another portrait of
bac. Wertheimer. *** of virago "for invested in the distillery, and Lion asked! But is Kowloon-a city as $18.40 for interest from November calarius in the Arts and other Strangely enough, neither of
Portsmouth-unique big 20
24 to the date of the verdict. degrees. Much is made of the there portraits is in the present er involving no administrative work After hearing the verdict Judge original meaning of "virago "hibition.
As for that remarkable Orpen that could be handled on the spot, Sir Pater Grain announced judg being "heroine" and
(Vontinued on next Oolumn). and is now somewhat laboriously ment for plaintiff on the issue of tempted, remembering the humble bandied about between various de detention of property from July 6, partments? The Government in 1932, to November, 24, 1932; dam- tends, we believe, an eventual ages, $1,125.89; on all other issues transfer of the General Post Office jury find for defendant; costs to be. to Kowloon, logipal,enough
apportioned." move considering that the deep-sea wharves and the railway are over on that side. We would suggest STARTING from to-day we are devot that the Postmaster-General should ing a two-page supplement daily have a residence close to his office. to the news and interests of Kow- Might not the Harbour Office also loo We hope by this innovation ba transferred with general advan not only to cater more fully for tage to the shipping community our Kowloon renders, but also to Further appointment of Kowloon,
London Office: 53, Fleet Street
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The Daily Press.
Hora Kosa, FEREUARY 1, 1933.
IN THE INTERESTS OF KOWLOON
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In answer to the question aub- mitted the juny found that defend ant's cancellation of the license was lawful...
The question of how the costs will be apportioned between defendant and plaintiff was to be determined by His Lordship in chambers,
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LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
The robbery committed at Mr. Glatz's house accompanied by the
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3.15 p.m.
Principal Malls,
Роди
Home Mails: Outward America and Europe ein Siberia by Empress of Canada 10 am for Europe rin Suez by Memnom 8.30 p.m.; for Australia by Nellore, 4.30 p.m.
Sunrise: 7.03 a.m.; Sunset: 8.19 p.m..
Tiden: High at 0.40 and 14.04; Low at 7.13 and 19.687
THURSDAY
(February 2).
(I Moon 8th Day).. Claims against the Estate of. Yasin Khan, late of Naval Dock- yard, due,
Lammert's Sale of Household
16 Conduit Furniture,
Road, ground floor, 10.30 a.m.
Pianoforte Recital of Classical and Modern Music by Mr. Harry "Ore, Helena May Institute, 5.30
D.m.
Meetings.
*Thepsophical Society, 6 pm.
Hong Kong Union
Church, Church Hall, 8.20 p.m.
Entertainments Committee, Sail- are & Soldiers' Home, 5.30 p.m.
Theatres, i
Queen's Carlo."/
King's:
Central
Woman from Monte-
Hores Feathers
Young Bride."
Oriental: My Pal the King." World: Three Modern Girls" Majestio:" Bring 'em Alive.".
Star: At the Villa Rose."
Dances,
Back
Ten Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester Building, and King's
Restaurant.
Dinner Dances at Peninsula and
Hong Kong Hotels, and King's Restaurant.
portrait of Augustus. John which greated a stir at the New English. 1900-an essay somewhat in the manner of Whistler's "Carlyle"- it is a pity that contemporary portrait painters do not paint encla other more frequently,
Local and General
The Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes was reported yesterday to be better and going on as well as could be expected.
Krakotoa, the world-famous vol cano in the Netherlanda East In- dits is an unauterrupted how heights in
which sometimes shoots to 's height of 3,000 to 4,000 ft.
Mr. P. H. B. Kant was attorney cold blooded murder of his adopteu Nanking, Jan. 23-The Nation convey to the oficial and commer- residents to the Legislative Como for the British Municipal Council son se ult. The murderer was Aral Government, in an order to the Ge ein circles centred on the Island is another reform which is long and Dr. C. J. Fox attorney for Mr. the 26
The s.8, Gange eailed from Singa- better recognition of the growth | overdue. ..
Spiridis, the plaintiff, buthipening. the ath, and arrived in Appropriations be made from the pore at 1 pm, on Monday, and i rested, at Macao on Wednesday Ministry of Finance, instructs that and the nature of the Peninsula
Directing the jury, His The alternative to developing town, that now covers the area in- cluded between a rough triangle in this way, closer contact be stated that in his opinion the Hong Kong before the Coroner's Boxer Indemnity Refunds in favour due here at 8 pm on Thursday, and joining the Star Ferry Pier, Lai- tween Kowloon and the Govern British Municipal Council did all jury had done sitting on Thursday of the National Chungshan Uni will berth at the Kowloon Wharf. [204 chikok and Old Kowloon City. ment would be the undesirable it could to help the plaintiff. When afternoon, the 28th. He was ar Versity, Canton, to assist the in She will be despatched for. Shang-
Though there are still open spaces
device of some form of muni- Mr. Spiridis asked for a new raigned on the 20th and pleaded stitution in tiding over its present hai at daylight on Friday
Owing to the indisposition of the of some size-mainly hills that will cipal council. Such an innovation analysis of bis liqueurs, the H.M.C. guilty, and was condemned on the financial difficulties. Kuo Min. be duly levelled and used to fill in a grave disadvantages. It is tried to get it frota Shanghai as 30th. The Attorney General, de-
Cases of notifiable disease in the President, Mr, T. Megary, the sirous of making the execution as Cofons during last week were as Hon. Mr. R. Henderson pre In regard to the allegation by impressive as possible, has we hear follow: Smallpox 14 (4 deaths); sided over yesterday's meeting of the builder is rapidly obliterating as a partner-if junior part the plaintiff that it was unlawful moved the Governor to order it to diphtheria, 4 (2 deaths); entoric, 8; the Sanitary Board. The busi Awampe and extend reclamations for better to recognise Kowloon soon as possible. the no-man's land between. Newer of Victoria, and not, as an Kowloon, Mongkok, Tatrati, unimportant suburb, housing dock for the British police to search his take place opposite Mr Glatz's meningitios (3 deaths) There was of a formal character. Those Shamshuipo and Laichikok, to the yard labour and a few eccentric Premises and hold his property His house Hong Kong Daily Press, were so deaths from suberculosis, present besides the Chairman were,
Lordship pointed out that this was Feb. 1, 1858. West; Homurtin and Kowloon Europeans Bishop HALL, în are
On Monday 6 cases of small-rox, Dr. G. W. Pope, Mr. Wong Kwong Tong in the Centre and Hunghom cent address to the Rotary Club not a raid by the British police LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS 9 of meningitis and 1 of diphtheria Tin, Mr. F. C. Hall, Dry La Shu
Yesterday morning a batch of 1-were reported
Fan and Mr. C. H Bastolat UNDAY, 8th FEBRUARY, 1981 Fest landing ground at example of the Tyne, that rivers do the police of three nationalities, about sixty convicte ware marched and Old Kowloon City to the demonstrated, from the Homeside alone but an organised search by
arranged simultaneously.
uri Nanking, Jan. 23.—According Kai Tak ends development in this not divido. This is very true of It would have been less complint out of gaol shortly after seven Manuel, the only surviving on a ruling of the Ministry of Fi heitans are alcondly build the are an economic unit, one is comed, His Lordship said, if at the lock, and set to work on the who is 12 years of age, has been ance, revenue stampinistry direction, though beyond it a few Hong Kong and Kowloon. They Snl Kung road, will when complet loon, has long outgrown the stage but the fact that even the Italian-assisted by a turnkey, and the the terrible tragedy occurred on all account books and other
plementary to the other, and Kow known Mr. Spiridis was an Italian,der the charge of a head turnkey, the governor of Macau, states that rent year will have to be aüixed to
time of the search the B.M.O, bat new Hospital The party was un. Proclaimed King of Portugal 1939 may reman Vaildi
The telegram received by Eary 31, 1933 Stamps for el open new residential districts." Within the area generally known of an unimportant outpost that can as Kowloon are the "dpokland look after itself,
Spiridia' true nationality before they were divided into gangs of January 20 and that the attack weements from February Gravaries and the "hunkland" of Yaumati.
twelve, each under the surveillance made on the royal parts they Min of an assistant, tarnkey, while four were leaving the Villa Vicarn Bootch Hi Lordship also reflected that Sikhs, armed with loaded rifles, The telegram, reached Lacro at too on the British police were justified in performed the duties of guards 5 pm on Chinese New Year's Day
revoking Mr. Spiridis license. The convicts are to be employed and at midnight an order wan
The plaintiff made an applica Daily Press Feb. 1, 1883,
nine hours a day-Hong Kong sued enjoining publlo mournin on for n license to manufacture Cooking Back 25 Years
House and other buildings: | Yesterday the flöge pe c liqueurs and later.
Baddling Bell at 1:45 pm. Bass at 9.15 pm. ADMISSION
London Gin
Whisky
Cormulate did not known Mr.
raid reached in favour of the de fondant
barthworks in connection with, the
Le - Grande, my The Portuguese Consulate has city "wers, fiying at hálfA Pedrozpr-2. been officially notified that Prince Hong Kong Daily Pres
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