NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
THE Sixty-fourth Onlinary Gen- THE
oral Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Monday, the 10th April, 1933, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1932.
The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting:
(1). "That as from the ist day of: "January, 1933, the remunera- "tion of the Consulting Com "mittee bo increased "$15,000 to 824,000 per annum."
from
(2) That as from the 1st day of
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January, 1933, the remunera
"tion of the Auditors be raised "from $1,50 to 81,500 per "annum for each Firm."
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 27th March, to the 10th April, 1933, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD,
General Managers,
The Hongkong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd.
Hongkong, 20th March, 1933.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
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NTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting
of the above Company will be held at the officer of the General Managers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Com- pany Limited, Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on MONDAY, the 10th day of April, 1933 at 19.15 o'clock in the afternoon or so soon thereafter as the Annual General Meeting of the Company shall have been concluded when the sabjoined Resolutions will be respectively pro- posed as Extraordinary Resolutions
viz:-
1
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"(1) That the existing 8,000 shares "in the capital of the Company of "the nominal value of 8250 each,
upon which the sum of $100 has
"been paid up, be divided into "40,000 shares of the nominal value "of 850 each, upon which the sum "of 82) shall be credited as paid
"up.
(2) That as on und from the 1st "day of July, 1933 the regulations "contained in the printed docu- "ments submitted to the meeting "and for the purpose of identifica "tion subseribed by the Chairman "thereof be approved and adopted "As the Articles of Association of "the Company, in substitution for, "and to the exclusion of, all tho "existing Articles thereof ".
AND NOTICE is hereby given that a further Extraordinary General Mooting of the Company will be held at the same place on Tuesday, the 26th day of April, 1933 at 12 Noon for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of the above men tioned Meeting and of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Resolutions the above mentioned Resolutions res- pectively (Nos. 1 and 2).
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HONG KONG, MARCH 20, 1933.
PROTECTION IN GREAT
BRITAIN
LAST year was one of the most mo
reduced
from £882,175,000 to £703,133,000,
while exports declined by only
£25 millions.
From the above figures it seems clear that the Government's inten-
OBITUARY
DUKE OF ABRUZZI
THROUGH ELUTER'S ADENOY]
* News and Views ⭑
His Majesty and the Graft.
The gracionis intention of the ROME, March 18.
King to open the new Freemasons' THE death occurred here today Hospital at Ravenscourt Park in
oi
Prince
Luigi Amadeo July recalls the fact that his Guiseppe Maria Ferdinando Fran Majesty is not a member of the cesco, Duke of Abruzzi, in his 61st | Craft.
year.
The Duke of Abruzzi, who was a famous traveller and explorer, was born in Madrid, being the third son of Amadeo, Duke of Aosta and Princess Marie del Pozzo della Cis- terna. He ascended Mount St. Blina, Alaska in 1896, and four years later he led an expedition to the North Pole region, penetrating nearer to the Pole than anyone els at that time. His party reached Lat. 88 degrees 33 north, thus beat- ing Nansen's previous record. Ju 18 he conducted an expedition to Mount Ruwenzori and three years later to Mount Kenia.
LORD LOVAT
FAMOUS HIGHLAND CHIEFTAIN
In this be differs from many other members of the Royal family. King Edward was Grand Master from 1874 until he came to the throne, when he was succeeded in that office by the present Grand Master, the Duke of Connaught
the distinction received by their leader is in recognition of his per sonal and their collective loynity,
The Karens, obviously, come mainly from the Karenni States in Burma, but they hava settled just anywhere in the country, as the Welsh have in England. Although they have, particular strongholds the mast notable in the port of Bassein. ··
1 "Irregular" Loyalists." and Provincial The Welsh are mentioned because his the analogy is no new one. The Karens are famous for their choirs, for religious zeal, for hill-bred stockiness, for a capacity of self expression, and for language diff.
The Prince of Wales is a Senior Grand Warden Grand Master of Surrey; brother, the Duke of York, ie Senior Grant Warden and Provin dial Grand Master of Middlesex; while Prince Arthur of Connaught is a Past Grand Warden and holds the position of Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire. Keen Interest.
The King has always taken the keenest interest in Freemasonry, especially on its charitable side.
One may hazard the suggestion that had it not been for his long fatal absence at sea and on his Empire tours, he would have followed the example of his father and joined the craft.
Lord Lovat had Beizure after watching his son, the Master of Lovat, win the last race in the New College and Mag- dalen Point-to-Point Steeplechases at Little Tew. He was 61 years of age.
Lord Lovat was Sir Simon Joseph Fraser, K.T., the Chief of the Fraser Clan, and the fourteenth baron of a line which in the past was strongly attached to the Jace
bite cause.
C."
At Thorpe Lodge.
culties.
Mr. Montague Norman's role as a mystery man is familiar. As a enomies, the British in Burma result few people have ever seen the warmly approve of any honour ac interior of his home-Thorpe.corded to the Karens. Lodge, 'Campden Hill.
The entrance hall is very strik- The most notable of his predeces- sors was Simon, Lord Lovat, who ing. The floor is of black marble, joined the Young Pretender, and do which lies a magnificent royal The stairs are of was appointed by him general of blue carpet. the Highlands and created Duke satinwood, with panelled walls. of Fraser. He did not long sur- Indeed, each ground floor room is vive the honour, as in 1746 he was panelled in a different wood. tried for high treason and behead- ed on Tower Hill.
This panelling represents one of the Bank Governor's hobbies. Whenever he goes abroad he keeps
one
The late Lord Lovat succeeded his father in the title at the age of 15. For three years he held a com- mission in the 1st Life Guards. During the South African War he organised and commanded the Lovat Scouts, who were recruited from the stalkers and ghillies on the Highland estates, who knew how to meet the Boers at their own tactics. For his services he was awarded For Music. the D.S.O.
On his return he raised two Yeomanry regiments, which formed part of the Highland Mounted Bri- gade, which he commanded with He distinction during the war.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local."
A very enjoyable dinner party to advertising representatives of loent / firms was given as the Peaineita Hotel on Saturday night, Mr. E. Millington presided. Pago 7.
Two old favourites Royal Flush, and Wonderful Stag secured very. pupular wins at Happy Valley on
Page 2 Saturday, full report of the meeting appears on
Yesterday's Races at Macao, are Page 11. A farewell bowls match was play-.. reported on ed at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club on Saturday in honour of Mr. W. Russell, the Interport bowler, who is leaving here, shortly, presentation was made and Mr. Kapley, the President paid tribute to Mr. Russell's services to the Club. Kowloon Supplement,
A
Munsang College prize giving took place on Saturday and a new. college hall was declared open by
Page G. the Bishop of Victoria:
Craigengower C.0. 2nd XI. made certain on Saturday of second divi- sion honours by beating the. Navy at Kings 'Park. In the first divi sion the same clubs were engaged but Navy beat Craigengower,
Their position during the Burnin Wag difficult. Mostly rebellion Christians, their small communities were often isolated from local sym- pathy, but instead of cracking un-
Kowloon Supplement " dor this strain they rallied to the
Eight football matches were play. Government's aid and many of the ed over the week-end. The Royal Irregulare" given deserved bou-Artillery, League leaders, were again beaten by the Lincolns, while quets for dealing with rebels were or leas than a few
in the only Senior Shield match nothing more Karen comrades uniformed aud
played, the Borderers beat St. sanctioned by..the Government.
Full details of these Joseph's. In times when loyal friends are matches, with the exception of the often forgotten in the auxiety to Kowloon ones, will be found on placate
Page 10, present. or potential
General, Amerien axported 8} million gold dollars of gold to Italy, yesterday. Page 1 Scotland beat England by 3 points to all in a Rugby match at Murrayfield, on Saturday. Page 1. The results of the inter-Varsity
Page 10. sports, held at White City, will be The Anglo-Italian conferences in found on
be progressing Rome seem
Page 9. favourably.
A serious view is taken by the British Government of the arrest of several British subjects in Mos- Page 1. Far East. cow.
It is reported Japan will with
Page 9. draw from the League on March 24.
A lull in the fighting in North China is taking place. Page 9
Physiological Limits of Flying.
Great Britain has won the world's records for air speed and for altitude in the air, and both feats have raised questions whether the limit of human powers has been reached.
Wing Commander G. S. Marshall, eye open for suitable trees. of the R.A.F. Medical Service, read Having found one, he brings it a paper on the subject before the back to England, has it dried, and Royal Aeronautical Society. For then has, the panelling made from theoretical reasorn is gave it as his it by a country carpenter. It may opinion that the safe limit of height be added that every wood used for a person breathing pure oxygen comes from trees to be found in is 42,000 feet if he is to take moderate exercise and 44,000 feet the Empire.
if he is merely to go up and come down again immediately. These of the most One
remarkable figures, he said, represented what he rooms in the house is the music regarded as the limit of safety and This was built to Mr.not the limit of possible per
formance: Norman's own designs, and, I am told, is acoustically perfect.
tion to secure 1. moro equitable balance in trade was aided by the It is im- imposition of tariffs. portant, however, to remember that the depreciation of the pound sterl-K.C.M.G. ing in terms of the remaining gold currencies has also operated to re having already gained considerable perceive him at a public concert:
saw service in Gallipoli, France, At one end there is a dais for
duce imports and has served at the same time, as a bomis to exports. It may be to point out here that the balance of trade so far dealt with in this account is the "visible"
trade, balance. Great Britain has
A copy of the proposed new Articles of Association of the Company with mentous in the long history of always had in addition
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and Flanders, and was given the
The Karens.
In the recent
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SIAM'S IMMIGRANT TAX
BIG INCREASE OF BATE NEXT MONTH
Bangkok, March a-This week As regards speed, he said that there is no physiological limit to has witnessed an influx of immi- the speed at which man may grants from China which is not travel uniformly and in a straight difficult of explanation. The fee for there were substantial alterations of seat is Tes. 40, from April 1st it line. Complications occurred when each immigrant entering at pre- speed, or the reverse, and turning will be Tes. 110. and banking brought in the problem "This large pump is sufficient ac... of centrifugal force. Opinions count for the increase., Honours list a differed, he said, as to the medical steamers arriving over the week- knighthood was conferred on Dr. cause for the temporary blindness end brought in practically: 3,500 San Crombie Po, the leader of the known as "blacking out" when a deck passengers, and doubtless the Karens. It has given great satis-pilot turned at high speed, but he boats arriving all through March faction to the loyalists in Burma." thought it was due to blond being will be as full. How Bangkok or the the outer marches, are going to To people unacquainted with that drawn. from the eye to
He sug- assimilate this extra dabour in the the country the Karens are an unknown abdominal blood-vessels.
present difficult time is difficult to foresce, and adds not a little to the difficulties of the police and others responsible for the safety of the capital. Fortunately the staple tood rice, is cheap and there is plenty of accommodation of a kind, but the problem is to what form of labour these thousands, and the others now afloat or arriving before the new schedule becomes affective, are to be allocated.
raco.
As a community they aregested a form of belt which he be warmly attached to the Empire, and lived would mitigate this,
performers. Mr. Norman is pas In 1910 he was appointed chair- sionately fond of music, though it man of the Forcetry Commission, would be a sharp eye which could experience as a wartime Director of Forestry, but much of his know-- ledge was the result of the systema- tie afforestation he had carried out on his Highland estates, which covered 180,000 acres.
Towards the end of 1826 Lord Lovat was appointed Parliamen to her tary Under-Secretary for and exports;
Dominions, and during his term the alterations and amendments and British trade. The primary reason visible imports
of office he made an extensive differences between the existing and
tour of Canada, New Zealand, and for this was that 1832 was probably large amount of invisible" ex-
the payments Australia in furtherance of over- the proposed new Articles incorpora- ted and indicated in red ink can be the nadir year in the greatest ports. These are seen during the usual business hours trade slump that the world has made for services, such as banking seas settlement.
In 1910 he married the Hon. was fees and profits, freights earned by Laura Lister, a daughter of the at the aforesaid office of Messre.
seen. Another reason Jardine Matheson ad Company, over Limited.
that, after nearly a century of be the mercantile marine, insurance fourth Bar Ribblesdale, and a Dated the 18th day of March, 1933. ing a Free Trade country, Great premiums, and interest on foreign niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith Her marriage took JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Britain, departed from the Cobde-loans. In recent years these have place from 10, Downing-street, Mr.
doctrine. nite
been much reduced, so the impro-Asquith being then Prime Minister. Certain import
vement in the visible balance comes The heir to the barony is the elder duties were imposed in the autumn
son, the Hon. Simon Christopher opportune moment. It is Joseph Fraser, Master of Lovat, of 1931, but last year was the first at an
thought that Britain's-invisible-ex-who-is-91-years of age, and a se complete year under the new
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LIMITED,
General Managers,
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
THE Annual General Meeting will Tbe held in the Board toon
of
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on TRURSDAY, the 3rd of March, at 5.30 p.. By Order,
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B. D. EVANS,
Hon. Seer,tary,
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.
Local and General
At to-morrow's meeting of the Rotary Club Dr. R. W. Brock will speak on the subject of The History of Hong Kong recorded in the Rocks."
The
18th Anniversary of
Six cases of small-pox and one
of diphtheria were reported on Friday.
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The annual general meeting of the Kong Kong Automobile Asso- St. ciation will be held in the Board Room of Mesars. Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., on Thursday, March
gire. The chief reason for this, ports must have further contract-cond-lieutenant, in the Scots Guard Paul's Girl's College will be cele triking volte-face was the need to ed last year. The decline in inter- Charles Fraser, aged 15, and there brated in the Lee Hyson Hall at redress the adverse trade balance, national-trade in 1832, which was aro-three-daughters, the Hon. Mag 4,30 p.m. to-day. Mrs. O. C. Bor-23, at 5.30 p.m. which was held to be a primary accentuated by the breakdown of dalene is read, wife of G.O.C., will distribute
Fraser, and the Hon. Mary Fraser. the certificates. cause of the depreciation of the the international financial pound sterling. The results of, chinery, must have reduced ship-
ma-
The second general meeting of the Hongkong University Medical So- cioty will be held on Tuesday, March 21, when Mr. Chui Put Po will rebel a paper on The Pathe genesis of Acute Haematogenous Osteamyelitis."
William Peel on March 31. The
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
Concerning the loss of the China An Old Alleynian dinner will be
Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.'s Meli, we have been. held at the Hongkong hotel at 8
steamer. such a complete break with Great ping and banking earnings, whilst The figures here given are in mil-'clock to-night. Those intercated
Favoured by the manager of the Britain's economic past cannot, of the list of defaulters on British lions of pounds, those for 1931 ber should communicate with Mr. S. E.
company hore with a fow further particulars.
the According to oourse, be fully measured till a foreign loans has unfortunately ing in parenthesis. Pottery, &c.Edgar, 9 Queen's Road Central.
advices received by the Saltee from few years elapse, and in consider-grown longer during the year. £5 (29); iron and steel, £8 (10);
HE. the Governor of Macao Haiphong, on Monday night, át ing the figures for Great Britain's More than usual interest therefore electrical gesds, £2 (3); machin- Latest tenders invited by the Senhor Antonio Jose Bernardes de would seem that the Meli grounded overseas trade in 1937 one must attaches to the Board of Trade esery, £10 (£15) cotton textiles, £1 Government include the following: Miranda, is making an official on the bar of the river going up to constantly have in mind that they timates, showing the country's (£8); wool textiles, £2 (£13); silk Widening of Robinson Road be visit to H.E. the Governor, Sir Hue in heavy weather. Capt. Nuil at
tween Peak Road and Glenealy, in
once turned his attention towards cannot, rightly be compared with balance "of payments in 1932. In textiles, £3 (£3); apparel, £7cluding the bridge. Second section, distinguished visitor is due to lightening the vessel to get her off, 1931 the invisible income was es (210); chemicals, £9 (213); and of the west catchwater of the Aber arrive at noon on March 31, and As the steamer was in a bad posi FILECTRICITY supply to the
South aide of Prince Edward those of previous years,
deen Valley scheme. The work will make an official landing, ac
tion with the rough es. timated at £301 millions (against miscellaneous articles, £15 (23) consists of the construction of the companied by his wife, daughter her in one of the boats to get Roud from Waterloo Road Eastward Bearing in mind, then, the dif to Ma Tau Wai village will be feront fiscal dispensations under 414 millions in 1830), making s
At first some of those goods were extension of the west catchwater and A.D.C.Tho visitors will spend
and he had not long got away when where a dinner and reception are Laying concrete surfacing to cor
the steamer went over on her side, £108 millions, compared with a tations duty of 50 per cent. ad portions of Prince Edward being held in their honour. 1932, we find that the main purpose. of the change, ie., to secure
credit of £28 millions in 1930 and valorem, a duty subsequently modi Road, cast of the railway bridge. party will leave for Macao on the and some of the crew were swept off-Hongkong Daily Press, March jovaning-of-April-1. fied in certain cases under the par-
20, 1683, greater balance between imports £103 millions in 1929.-
The weekly report issued by: St. and exporte was to a considerable Returning to the trade figures for manent tariff scheme.
John's Ambulance Brigade, states
Looking Back 25 Years, The decline of £83 millions in that up to March 16, 285,010 per THI'D EXTRA RACE MEETING extent achieved. There was an im- 1932 and examining them by cate
song were vaccinated. The Chiness KAET Programa Entry trade balance last year of £127, note that the outstanding feature largely the result of lower prices, with 63,323 while King's College bride is the daughter of A Courred $1 West Point on Thurs
Aprovement in the country's visible,gories of goods, it is of interest to imports 21 nw materials was Athletic Association tione dealt.
Forma for the Third Extra895,000,-the-excess of imports over was the decline-in-imports-of-arti-for many of the more important ad the Chinese YMCA deals Thong former compradore of the day night by which five godowna
He left
discontinued from 9 am to 3 p.m. on which trade functioned in 1931 and net, adversa balance of payments of subjected to the abnormal impor- approximately 7,000 feet in length the night at Government House lighters or junke to take cargo off,
Wednesday, 22/8/88.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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The
The wedding took place on Satur day at the Registry of the Supreme Court, between. Mr. Wesley Thom, B.Sc and Miss Millie, Chap. The
As briefly mentioned in our issue of yesterday a big fre
-were-gutbed and their contents of---
Dairy Farm Ltd., while the bride tee, matting and tar destroyed. The groom is on the staff of the Central alarm was not conveyed to the Fire Hospital at Nanking A large
Hide Meeting to be held on SAPU DAY, 1ST APRIL, 1933 (weather exports falling from 2403,970,000 eles classed as wholly or mainly classes of materials showed in with 30,525 and 22,900 Cases Tes permitting), may be obtained rat, the
pectively. Secretary Office, the Club Bonse to £287,081,000. The improvement
nufactured abroad. The decline creases in quantity. Raw materials Happy Valley the Hong Kong Club, was entirely due to a reduction of the Sports Club, and the Stables, imports, for, there was no ingresso
very marked in some cases and were naturally not taxed, or sub- Draft programmes and entry gathering was present at the Re Bridge until some time after seven forms for the Jockey Club's third gistry and at the reception which o'clock and then every available Village Road,
may be given here as an indication fect only to a light duty. Among extra race meeting at Happy Valley was held at Lane, Crawfords, Dr. and available apparatus Was Enteins close at 12 o'clock NOON in exports, but, on the contrary, a of the grant change that has taken exports a few groups showed in oprit can be obtained from Li Shu Fan, proposed the health employed. The two steamers were on THURSDAY, 25 MARCH, 1933. small reduction Comparing "pro- place in Britain's trade das to the creases, cotton textiles, for example, the Secretary's office, the Club of the bride and bridegroom, the out, (or, Iron Wall be well as the Lectionist" 1932 with "free-trade" causes above mentioned, namely; an increase of over 28,000,000, and othe, and the Stables, Vil- father of the former replying en fire float and six hydrants wore in
the latter and the other from Central) as House, the Hong Kong Club, the uncles of 1031 we find that imports fell by · tariffs, andi currency dòpreciation chem and eatlery and hard lage Road Entries close at noon
their behalf. The honeymoon is to 150 Hongkong Daily Prat, 19.3 per cent, and exports by ~6,8-(Continued at foot of news (pluma);
| March. 20, 1908 onhursday.
be spent in Shanghai.
By Order,
D. B BROWN,
Becretary,
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