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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BONG KONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

THE FIFTH YEARLY DRAWING

T120 Dobostran (1928 2510- $500 each) of the Hong Kong Club, payable on Saturday, the 30th Septem- ber, 1933, will bi hold in the Club House, at 10 o'clock, A.M., on Monday, the 20th March, 1933.

Boarora of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.

By order,

-T. A. ROBERTSON, Lient. Col.,

Secretary.

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Hong Kong, 8th March, 1933,

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Company will ba. bald at the Board Room of the Company, Fecond Floor, Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road, Contral, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, 1833, at 11.45 o'clock in the forenoon, or so soon thereafter as the Annual General Meeting of the Company -skall-have-been concluded when the subjoined resolution will be proposed as an extraordinary resolution viz-

That the Articles of Association be altered so that the following Article shall be substituted for existing Artiolo 100 viz :-

"100 The Directors, ather than "the Mansging Director, shall be "paid by way of remuneration for their services the sum of 83,000 "per annum in respect of each "Director. Such remuneration shall "be deemed to accrue de die în "diam."

WHATBREAD

LUNDON

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933.

CONCERT AT SAILORS' HOME

SERVICE MEN ENTER- TAINED

* News and Views

Phenomenon.

sug-1

A Grace "Incident." "Anything my husband says has

Veteran ericketers havo my full approval." (Mrs. Amy (Johnson) Mollison to` an interested that modern batsmen should play bumping fast bowling with the fortitude of W. G. Grace.

An enjoyable concert was held at the Sailora and Soldiers' Home last night. Songs were sung by Mrs, viewor). Portallion (Contralto), Mr. Li Chor

SUMMARY OF NEWS

General.

The Prince of Wales, on behalf· · of the King, held the Arat loyee of the season at St. James' Palace on Tuesday.

Page 0. Chi (Tenor), Mr. W. Houston A Lion's Dentist."

But a correspondent suggests that Mr. Woodin, U.S. Secretary of (Baritone), while several pianoforte

the Treasury, has authorised tho Who can read without tears the the doctor, was by no means. 80 solos were rendered by Professor Stale of the lion for whom a dentist |

Spartan as some people suppose, Federal Reserve Bank to conduct Maklozoff. Mr. V. C. Labrunt also of Chateauroux made false teeth? and recalls an apparently well normal operations pertaining to

In one respect a lion, when he authenticated incident. in a match exchange of United States obliga Page 9. goes to the dentist, is more fortun- in which he was playing Ernest tions. Jones,

The British Cabinet Committee in the waiting room good raw mont ate than a human being. He finds

Jones was very fast indeed-quite discussed disarmament for two instead of vapid illustrated weeklies as Yast as Larwood, and much more hours on Tuesday.

Page 0. all about women's dogs.

erratic. W. G. received several

The Irish Free State Land- short ones with an ominious gather Annuities are being used for normal ing of his formidable yebrows, exchequer requirements. Page 9. But when one whistled through his beard his dark eyes snapped like t decided to demand 60 days written The New York Savings Bank has sergeant-major's.

notice of any withdrawals. Page 'D.

entertained the audience with his

yarns." The programine follow Songs. Mr. W. Houston Bailey -(0) Linden Les

Vaughan Williams. (b) Youth.

Frances Allitsen. Mr. V. C. Labrum will entertain, Songs

Mrs; F. Portallion. (a)-Hille of Donegal

A West Ealing cat has been left W. Sanderson. £ a year for the rest of his life. (b) Meltaande in the Wood If that is the standard of living to Alma Goetz. which he lus been accustomed dur Pianoforte Solo...Prof, S. Maklezoff. ing the fifp-time of his owner, he;

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(a) The Lark

(b) Polishinelle Songa

GOOD FOR HIM AND GOOD FOR YOU

SINCE

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED & FORTY-TWO

SOLE AGENTS:

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting the Company will be held at the same place on Monday, the 10th day of April, 1933, at noon, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of the above men tioned meeting and confrming, if thought fit, as a special resolution the above mentioned resolution.

Dated this 8th day of March, 1933. By Order of the Board,

W. L. MCKENZIE,

Secretary,

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NOTICE.

Taider fers to purchase the THE Underiguod ia prepared to andermentioned properties:-

DEATHS

Est. 1841.

at

FHILLIPS-On February 7,

nursing home in Eating, JANE Emiry, Inte of 14, Egerton Gar. dens, West. Ealing, and widow of GEORGE PHILLIPS, H.B. China Consular Service, in her 89th year. Funeral at Padding ton Cemetery, Fehmiary 19. (China papers, please copy).

Editorial and Business Office: 11,

Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.

The nations which are now in- volved in this international crisis

Cat Comfort,

What the blazes are you doing, Jonah," he demanded.

"Sorry, doctor; she slipped," ...... Glinka. must be a super-cat, Half a pint Rachmaninoff of milk and six-pence worth of fish explained the Australian amiably, Mr. Li Chor Chi.or other cat comestibles a day, and there the "incident ended."

Lee. would only cost about £11 188 ) ... Molloy. year, unless I have forgotten my multiplication tables. Perhaps the trustees of this feline annuity will devote the remaining £8 53, to buy- ing him a new silk ribbon for every day in the year.

(a) My Dreams (b) Carnival Song Mr.. W. Houston Bailey,

"The Midnight Review Glinka Pianoforte Solo...Prof. S. Maklozoff. (a) Prelude-in C Sharp Minor

Rachmaninoff. (b) Prelude in G. Minor

Rachmaninoff. Songs

Mrs. F. Partallion. (a) Slave Song (b)" By the Waters of

Minnetonka"

Lieurance.

~ Mr. V. C. Labrum will again en- tertain.

Songa Mr. Li Chor Chi. (a) Ay, Ay, Ay,..". ..Freire. (b) Rondo Valse Planquette.

CORRESPONDENCE

[All letters intendea jur puðli cation must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless to desired but as evidence of good faith.-ED.

THE GENTLE ART OF SPITTING

DAILY PRESS.")

Other Days-Same Ways.

It is the business of a social com- mentator to hold up a mirror to the follies of the age.

But I rarely print anything

£4 for "Valse Triste,”

Sibelius, the great Finnish com- poser, to pay a visit to London

in "March.

He will conduct the overture be fore the first performance of a forthcoming West-end production in which his incidental music for "The Tempest" is to be played.

Besides being a national hero in so severe as the following extract his own land-his works reflect the from "The Tatler" of April 13, rugged, stormy grandeur of Finland, 1710, by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.--Sibelius is an unique figure in which deems as appropriate and contemporary music. justifiable to-day as it was then, 220

He is admined by the intelligeni years ago.

sia and by the "man-in-the-street" alike.

"The Wits of this Island, for above Fifty years past, instead of correcting the Vices of the Age, have done all they could to inflame

them.

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Far East.

The Japanese Cabinet, yesterday evening, approved the Draft Noto regarding her withdrawal from the Lengo of Nations.

Page 9 Chinese troops are making à determined effort to hold on at Kupeikow

Page 9. Chang Hsueh Liang's resignation has been confirmed. Page 48..

Local

The 8.8. Anahui arrived here yes- terday with the European officers, 50 members of the crew and 288 880ngers from the ill-fated An- tung. There is very little hope of salvaging the vessel, Page 6

The draw for the Hong Foursomes

of the Kowloon Golf Club will be found on Kowloon Supplement. Capt. Freer of the s.8. Halvard Some English connoisseurs have was fined $100 at Marine Court for lately formed a society for the having failed to proceed to th

Page & special purpose of producing gramos, Quarantine Anchorage, Marriage has been one of the phone records of his major works; Fifty-four race ponies, wore sold common Tepicks of Ridicule that and there can be few restaurants, by public auction at the Race every Stage Scribbler hath found popular concert halle, or broadcast Course yesterday. Papc 10. his account in: for whenever, there his Valeo Triste" has never been celebration on March 15 the depart ing studios in the world in which

At the University coming of age is an Occasion for a Clap an imper-played.

ments will be opened to the public tinent upon Matrimony is sure to raise it.

for inspection, admission being by ticket.

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This hath been attended with very pernicious Consequences.

"Many a Country Squire, upon his

Perhaps, even, as you read these words, the wireless is tinkling out that familiar, melancholy' melody.

Yet all that Sibelius over made out of the "Valse Triste" was £41

The P.W.P. water return for March 1st, shows total storage in the Colony of 1,869 million gallons and gone Home in the Gaiety of his

n. consumption during February of Heart and beat his Wife.

He sat down at the piano and 388 m.g. There is a four months wife as a Domestick Aninial, wifit party in a Helsingfors restaurant.

"A kind Husband hath been played it for the first time one supply at that rate of consump- looked upon as 7 Clown, and a good evening, years ago, after

dinner- tion.

Page 6 for the Company or Conversation of the Beau Monde.

At yesterday'a meeting of Hong One of his friends was so impress Kong Brewers and Distillera, Ltd., "In short, Separate Beds, Silented by it that be produced the £4 Mr. J. P. Warren announced that it was hoped to start brewing this Tables, and Solitary Homes, have and bought it outright. heen introduced by your Mon of He has never regretted the par-supply had been most favourably re- or next month The local water Wit and Pleasure of the Age."

ported upon.