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EW ADVERTISEMENTS

HUNT BALL.

EMBERS of tho Fanling Hun, and Roco Club, who have no applied for their tickets for th Hunt Hall, are requested to do so **.

don sa possible.

Application for tickets should he gade at the Secretaries' Office, York Building, Chator Road.

THOMSON & CO,

Chartered Accountants,

Secretaries,

8th February, 1933.

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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

SPRING RACE MEETING, 12/3/3

TEMBERS and OWNERS are advised that the conditions Di The Fourth Raca, "The Bedale Handi- ap of the above Meeting have been

tered to road as follows:-

The Bedale Handicap" Winner 300, Second $100, Third $50. For China Ponies, "D" and "E" Classer. lassified by The Hongkong Jockey Club as at 31st Deceraber, 1932 Entrance 35. Once Round.

By Order,

W. L. ALEXANDER,

Secretary.

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SAILORS & SOLDIERS' HOME WANCHAL

TO-NIGHT 8-11-P.M.

CHEERO DANCE

SERVICE MEN ONLY. ADMISSION $1.00.

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THE MACAO JOCKET CLUB,

ROGRAMMES and ENTRY

PFORMS for the Spring Race Meeting to be bold in "Asoso on Bunday, 12th March, 1933, may be obtained at The Sports Club, Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, or at the Offices of Mours. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,

Des Voeur Road Central.

ENTRIES Close at 4. p.m. on FRIDAY, 17th FEBRUARY, 1993,

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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED,

TOTICE in boroby given that the FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Offics of

The Company No. 1o, Des Voeux Road,

Dentrai, at 2.30 p.m. Baturday the 4th March 1933, for the purpose of receiv- ing the report of the Directors together With a Statement of Accounts for the Jear ending 31st December, 1932,

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday 26th February to Saturday 4th March 1991 both days inclusive) daring which driod no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager.

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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

A STORAGE Co., Ltd.

HONG

Good

Selections!

KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933.

A NEW SHIPMENT OF THE

FAMOUS FOSS CHOCOLATES

HAS JUST ARRIVED.

NEW FLAVOURS!

ARTISTIC BOXES!

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY, Est. 1841.

Mr. D. J. N. ANDERSON

BIRTH.

P.P.C.

1207

OBITUARY

FIELD MARSHAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY" }

LONDON, Feb. 12. THE death occurred peacefully to

day of Field Marshal Bir William Robertson.

[Field Marshal Sir William Robertson; one of the greatest figures of the world war, was 73.

years old. His phenomenally suo. cessful military career began in 1877, when he was a private in the the 16th Lancers. In 1898 be was passing through the Staff College, of which he became the head in 1910, and from 1015 until early in 1918 he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff. For his services in the war he was created"a" baronet, received the thanks of Parliament, and a £10,000 grant! Since the war he has spoken with conviction on the futilitly and horror of war: fare.]

* News and Views

The Gat of Persia,

Mr. W. Thorno's pan in the House of Commons recently on the Persian royal title "Shah" and the French word for ent recalls an incident in Paris in which a former Shah Agures His Majesty wished to give someone a gift of jewellery and rang up a famous firm in the Rus de In Paix. "Who are you monsieur" asked the salesman, "I am the Shah of Persia" replied the monarch. "This is n business bouse. Don't come minouing here" snapped the jeweller and rang off. £70,000 worth of goods. A rival firm got an order for

Official Jargon.

600

Materia Medica.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY (February 13).

Research is continually putting- (1 Moon 10th Day).

Annual Meeting of Humphreys new weapons, into the doctor's" hands to aid him in the fight Estate & Financs Co., Hong Kong against disonse, and as a general Hotel, 11 am. rule the layman cane do nothingMooting of Licencing Board, 2.30 but applaud each fresh discovery p.m.

"Cheero! Dance, Sailors and as it is reported to him. Soma people, however, may feel disposed to enter a protest against the in- troduction of "calciferol," name given to Vitamin D in its

the

purest form, which is said to be 400,000 times as powerful, weight for weight, as cadliver oil."

The Wanderer.

"I have been round the world. From the Report issued by the thirty times. I had tea with Ro

investigators appointed bybert Louth Stevenson in Samos" in President Hoover three years 1896, and I have not a friend or relative in the world," said an old sailor accused at Wellingborough of being drunk and disorderly.

ago:-

Unless there can be a more im- pressive

of integration

social schemes and a fusing of social pro- grammes of social purposes than is revealed by recent trends there can be no assurance that there al ADML. SIR H. CAMPBELL &ternatives, with their accompaní

SIR J. ARTHUR THOMSON ments of violent revolutions, dark periods of serious repression of libertarian and democratic. forms, and the proscription and loss Of many useful elements in the pre- sent productive system, can be avorted."

(79KOÇUN REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Feb. 18. The deaths occurred to-day of Admiral Sir Henry Campbell and Sir J. Arthur Thomson.

CLEVER HONG KONG

CHILDREN

· EXAMINATION SUCCESSES OF MISS CARTWRIGHT AND MR. O. J. BREAKSPEAR

(Special Air-Mail Service)

'London, Jau, 20.--The Class„Liela

of the Senior Cambridge School Certificate Examinations contain the name of Josephine Cartwright, of The Royal Masonic School, Clapham Junction as having gain ed School Certificate with Honours in the December Examinations which carries with it-Matriculation exemption.

.

Short Shrift for Strikers.

They have a short way with strikers in some parts of Germany and a high regard for the dignity of State officials. A visitor to East Prussia writes that there was

Soldiers' Home, 8.20 p.m. Sailors and Soldiers' Home, 3 p.m. Ladies Whist and Bridge, Drive, Exhibition of Antique Pictures, Peninsula Hotel.

Central

Theatres.

Air Mail.""

King's: The Big Broadcast.**. Queen's

*

Grand Hotel."

World: Hell's Divers." Oriental Tarzan the Ape Man," Majestic: "The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Star: "But the Flesh is Weak - Danger.

He was William Mason, aged sixty-nine, and he said he was a native of Chester. An inspector said that Mason had served sixteen Tea Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, years in the Royal Navy and Gloucester Building, King's Res thirty-five years in the merchant tourant, and Majestic Dancing service, and had never been in Academy. trouble before.

Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and King's Restaurant."

Evidence was given that Mason was found in the centre of Wel- lingborough acting in a disorderly manner and smelling strongly of methylated spirit. He was sen- tenced to one day's imprisonment, which meant his immediate release. Robin Hood Spirit.

ing is done so that people can give "Much of present-day shoplift

a strike of some agricultural la- others presents." The.. Mar bourere in a village near where he borough-street Magistrate. was staying; and during a de- A revival of the Robin Hood monstration the local policeman spirit. shot and killed a striker who had threatened him with a pitchfork.

The visitor suggested in conversn- Kandy "Manners,

Sports.

Hockey-Maniak Tournament: Police Veteran (Naval ground), 4 p.m.; Royal Engineers 7, 19th Battery (Sookunpoo), 4 p.m. Friendly: Hong Kong Hockey Club

Park), 5.15 pm seconds. Club de Recreio (King's

Lawn Tennis:-Open Singles: E. C. Fincher . I. M. A. Razack; 9. A. Rumjaha . H. D. Rumjohn; Y. Hachiuma E. S. Howard; G. Gumble v. H. J. Armstrong.

Open Doubles: M. W. Turner and. F. Hyde v. F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang: A. E. P. Guest and E. Fincher 2. In Tak Cheuk and Iu Tak Lam; Ng Kam Chuen and Tsof Ping Fan G. Lai and Tain Yoc Fong: E. Grimble and H. R. B.

about the unapproachability of Hancock v. D. C. Dunham and R. Mr. Shaw, they went straight P. Newell; T. A. Pearce and L. T. ahead to him. He was pacing the Ride . Wong Fuk Nam and He corridor of the hotel to and fro, Hin Kwan.

Principal Mails, and was taken" unawares.

One of the blue-stockings was

Outward for America and Europe. heard to say "Mr. Shaw I have read most of your plays..

vin San Francisco by Chichibu Maru, 5 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.37 a.m.; Sunset: 6.19-

Tides-High at 11,50 and 23.20; Low at 8.26 and 16.45.

tion on the subject that the police- A couple of hours before he left man might have stopped back a Mr. Bernard Shaw was approach few paces and fired over the striked by a brace of blue stockings. er's head. He was gravely told They were smartly dressed and, that the policeman represented the apparently ignoring all the things authority of the State, "which that had been said in the Press should never step, back." It is recognised as being one of the most vital supports of indus.

The PerfectWatch-dog."

There is apparently no "watch try in general. There is scarcely

dog' equal to the guinea fowl. An London an industry which does not awe a

enthusiast writes in a great deal to the instrument de

paper.

Following my recent reference to signer. The metal, industries have

the use of geese as "watch-dogs,” a profited enormously from this de-

reader has asked me to put in a Mr. Shaw repulsed her with his She is the younger good word for the guinee-fowl,

caustic humour. He said: "You velopment. Apparatus has been

daughter of the late. Mr. H. A. There is no creature so reliable ought to be ashamed of yourself." HANE-On January 16, 1933, in designed which makes it possible Cartwright and of Mrs. Cartwright for giving warning as the guinea ce on Mr. Shaw when they

They had hardly turned their p.. to find whether a certain element formerly of Hong Kong. Mr. fowl, I have often tried to pass by is present in a batch of metal with. Carawright, it will be remembered some, but I have never had any burst out giggling. Mr. Shaw out the metal being touched; and Director of the Hong Kong Daily to gamekeepers; they often turn a short range. But, he was not mov- was for several years Managing success. This fact is well-known evidently heard them. It was at a great benefit has been derived from Press, Ltd. Incidentally, the elder guinea-fowl out into a wood where ed a whit. improved methods of measuring daughter Betty; passed the same pheasants are breeding. If this is "Jump Into the Lake,"

examination with Honours threa done, it is almost impossible for a high temperatures. Discoveries of years ago. It will be remembered stranger to enter the wood with fundamental importance to the that the Members of Parseverance out this guinea fowl sounding the textile industry have been made Lodge of Hong Kong No. 1166 were alarm. Consequently the bird is a

instrumental in getting these child terror to night-poachers." through the use of improved Xren elected to the Masonic School ray apparatus. Such industries as on the death of their father. those concerned with paper, lea- ther, tobacco and the like have pro- from scientific apparatus which records and controls tem perature and humidity.

London, HELEN, wife of E., W. HARE of the Chartered Bank in Yokohama, a daughter.

Editorial and Business Office: 11. Ice House Street. Tel. 80251, Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 94311.

London Office: 83, Fleet Street

E.Q. +

I

dress fited The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 13, 1933:

BRITISH SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

O.J.C.W. Breakspear, only son of Mr. and Mrs. O, T. Breakspear, of Hong Kong and Shanghai, also succeeded in obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board School Certificate from Oundle School, in the December examinations, with credit in six subjects. Break spear was also Managing Director Ltd, from 1925 to 1929. of the Hong Kong Daily Press

from the files.

LOOKING. BACK 75 YEARS

in

straight up to Mr. Shaw. While The next hero-worshipper, went

bum out of his pocket he said: boldly. "Mr. Shaw!"

the half-drawn out album and said Mr. Shaw cast a furtive look at

be was drawing his autograph al-Jamp into the lake!" The great

(Continued on nezi Golumn):

dramatist then, left the scene.

Local and General

On Friday six cases of email-pox, che of diphtheria and four of meningitis were notified.

Macao.--Sir, having seen your paper of the 9th inst. a long The next Criminal Bessions will article about the Ningpo Consulate commence at the Supreme Court on and the Portuguese, Lorchas, etc., Monday, February 27. written by you, or by some other

Was

The Convention between the Unit- ed Kingdom and Italy regarding Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial matters which signed at London on the 17th of December, 1930, has been extended to this Colony as from the August 25, 1932. A copy of the Convention Colonial Secretariat. may be seen on application at the

Although we use the term scicati fie instrument industry as if it were one, there are really a aum- ber of industrica concerned, and the one of most importance is per haps that concerned with the pro- it served as a valuable advertise public character is gratuitously, sence from the Colony of Mr. G. person, in which my honour as a It is notified that during the ab- duction of optical instruments.ment for British microscopes; and and most grossly abused: and as Miskin, Mr. C. Blaker will act as ONE of the few benefits which the

With this is included, of course," from the social point of view it you affirm, that "you possess the Vice-Consul for Sweden in Hong late world war conferred on man.

The following have been added to kind was the impetus it gave to the optical glass industry A helped to track down and elimin-most irrefragable practicable proof Kong.

of the ex-Consul's correspondence

the register of local medical practi." NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

ate some of man's greatest enemies. with the perpetrators of those i scientific invention and research quarter of a century ago, owing to

The forthcoming wedding is an tieners-Dr. Tai Hon Hange, Ba

Edmund Owen, chelor of Medicine and Bachelor of TOTICE is hereby given that the Every possible means of stimulat the superior optical glass avail Medical science owes much to the legal practises, etc. I demand of nounced of Mr.

you the favour of, producing the baker, and confectioner, of 8, Shou- Surgery of the University of Edin- Thirty-Sevanth Ordinary Yearlying production of all the many able to them continental firms bad makers of optical instruments,

almost

said my correspondence, you say son Hill, Deep Water Bay, to burgh; and Dr. R. M. Aldertoo, Tooting of the Shareholders in the

monopolised this trade. ompany will be held at the Comany's things needed for the prosecution of

It was for long believed that you possess, in aid of your false Miss Lillian Caroline Carr, of 54 Member of the Royal College of Now British manufacturers tave British firms could not compete in my honour and character; and' in Love Ofica, & Lower Albert Road, on hostilities was tried. In Great

and calumnious assertion against Village Road.

Surgeons (England), Licentiate of duosday, 1st March, 113, at 11 a,.

the Royal College of Physicians Britain

re-established themselves in an ex the making of cheap camera lenses. case of your not complying with The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall (London), Bachelor of Medicine enormous strides were purpose of receiving the Report The Directors together with its made. It was found that in many trenely strong position by catny. That, japresion has been proved by just demand, I shall repute and Mrs. Kotewall left the Colony and Bachelor of Surge Vellow of heat of Accounts, declaring a Dividend

British

you the most vile and infamous on Saturday by the as Naldera University of London, nd re-electing Directors and Auditors, instances, manufacturers had beening out the necessary research and

calumnator I ever know-Hong for Bingapore, where they will stay the Royal College of Surgeons cineruatograph camera and projec Kong Daly Press, Feb 18, 1858, The Transfer Books of the Company satisfied with the position won experiments. They have now avail: be wrong. Similarly

about a fortnight as the guests of (England). Sir Cecil and Lady Clementi.

The Italian Opera "par-

ll be closed from the 18th February to loug ago, when Great Britain fed able optical glass, which absorbs tion lenses have found favour with LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS

March, 1933 both days inolasiye

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. D. THOMSON,

Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1835,

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#HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

PINANCE CO., LTD..

that the ANNUAL OR. the nation at war.

construct

**

Miss Hosa Hooper informs us that

the way in all commercial and in- only 0.6 per cent. of light per cen-

a number of famous "studios and

On February 1, resident of Pe" timetre thickness, and from this dustrial enterprises, and that in

seeing the exhibits of Chinese Secretary the meantime their younger rivals glass high illumination prismatic picture theatres. A recent achieve formed Gounod Company per on February 11, 16 and 18 he is king were given the opportunity of hnd outstripped them in the Ald binoculars are new constructed forment of British instrument work-turday night, before a rather thin having an exhibition of portrait, defind from that on for art ere was the construction of an aphouse, the smallness of the attend- miniatures and various studies on Chicago Exhibition, The exhibita ance no doubt being due to theory, at the Hong Kong Hotel, in included carving, lacquer Ware, of international competition. A night, work,

paratus whereby, through the com- very cold night. Signora Lubicci the Jacobean Room, from 2 until elcsonné, rugs, ote. Although most spur was needed to urge them to In a recent article in The Times,parison of the length of a wave of sustained the role of Margerita. 6 o'clock daily

of the exhibits, which were housed make greater efforts, and that spur it was pointed out by Mr. W. G. cadmium light with the present conscientiously, the part seemed brothel in Wanchai on Friday been completed, many were still in Although she, sang well and acted When the Police raided as in the offices of the Peking Bureau of Engraving and Printing, had TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN was provided by the vital needs of HARDY that one British firm can fundamental standards of length, hardly adapted to her, and the night, they found eight girls on the last stages of being finished and telescopes from solid an accuracy of measurement of one did not appear to the same ad the premises and a number of visitors had the interesting expori- INARY GENERAL MEETING An important example was the glass, as the absorption of light part in 30,000,000, or about ono vantage as we have seen her on clients The mistress was ence of watching the craftsmen at

SHAREHOLDERS. will be held at scientific instrument industry. Dur even in such thicknesses of glass in millionth of an inch in a yard, can Daily Press, Feb. 13, 1888.

formor occasions, Hong Kong charged in Court on Saturday and Hongkong Hotel, Hong Kong,

work. ing the latter half of last century small in comparison with the loss be attained. Spectrum Analysis is MONDAY, the 18th February

was fined $300. The house was or- || dered to be closed. Looking at 11:00 am, for the purpose of it suffered a decline. By 1914, of light by reflection from the repincing" chemical analysis in ng the Report of the Directors Great Britain was practically de- several glass-air surfaces found in many industries, since there beGO. Franklin on account of his show that the average mean tem- at the advanced age of 88416

Owing to the resignation of Mr. Observatory returns for January in Kobe of Mr. Richard Gabaretta torthe year ended 81t pendent upon Continental manu- the ordinary types of telescopes. A

came available so many efficient leaving for Japan, Mr. Hedley perature was 6 the highest becorded by the Japan Chronicle. facturers for the instruments need triumph of British instrument spectroscopes, in the design of G. White has been appointed Hen- ing 72.5 and the lowest, 41.1 There The late Mr. Gabaretta, who NSFER BOOKS of the ed to facilitate the rapid expansion workmanship was the design of an which British firms excel" Thus orary Secretary and Hon. Treasur- were 76.8 hours of sunshine, and one of the oldest foreign resid

ULOSED from of vital industries. Immediate ac ultra-violet, microscope which re- the British scientific instrument Club as from to-day

er to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht 0.48 inch of rain, while the average in Japan, first came to that

| humidity was 24 rocuired; the industry vealed the existence of extremely makers have again achieved excel. The matshed at

matstied at Kowloon is lence in all their products and Leland and waremboisking too

The engage apparatus was thereby have helped to establish Tow must proceed to the new Club Payne, of Bingapore

many other industries on a sound House at North Point which is Mr. and Mrs JE "ér basis. They have become an

¦ Cottingham, Es Yorks, and Baz The date of the official ceremony, Muriel, second daughter of Mr. Hadispensable-link between science will be advertized later. Hong and Mrs. Donald Mackay,

Kong Daily Press, Feb. 13, 1908. Gunyerwarildi, Warialda, N.B.W.

her with a Statement of ho

small

now open.

The recent death at his residence.

try from Glasgow as thi

gineer aboard the Tuni

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