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THE NEW P. G. WODEHOUSE BOOK

ground through the success of be haviourism, and the theories of paycho-analysts demonstrate the "I can't rend him; but I like to

upon have him told me "such was dependence of rational

elements. Casting the comment of a lady offered non-rational the MOLLINER NIGHTS (Jenkins, his eye backwards, Mr. Joad 74. 8. net) of P. G. Wodehouse.notices be materialism that do It embodies a compromise be-

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tween the views of those who minated nineteenth-century science put Mr. Wodehouse as a funny and summarizes its views of man in a glass by himself and the relation between mind and of those who examine his opus body. Returning to the present be. and pronounce that he is no

gives an account of Pavlov's ex- Whether or not Mr. Wodehouse perimenta on conditioned reflexes knows of this literary controversy, and the psychology of the be- he is to be found in his latest bookhaviourists Having dealt with the administering the mixture as dobit side of the account, he turns before. It is made up of nine to the credit items. In his account each of the present state of physios; he examples of Wodehousery: begins with a few lines of intro- gives special emphasis to those phy- duction to suggest to the reader | sicists who conceive reality that what follows is being told by mental or spiritual. In a chapter certain Mr. Mulliner to his on biology, prominence is given to cronies at the "Angler's Rest," medem criticisms of mechanistic and each deals with an entangle-methods, and the point is driven ment in which some relative of the home against Bergson's system that multifariously connected Mr. Mut if the intellect is untrustworthy wo finer's has recently involved him- cannot know that evolution is true," self. One such entanglement arose and the chief basis of the system PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS when the Bishop of Bongo Bongo, disappears. Mr. Joad then turns to be held on MONDAY, the 27

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HONG KONG CLUB. THERE will be a vacancy for the post of Secretary in the late Autumn.

Application in writing should bo made as soon as possible.

It will be essential that the Secretary reside in the Club where he will be provided with free board and Applications should be quarters. Bent to:

The Secretary, HONG KONG CLUB, Hong Kong.

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HONG KONG LAWN BOWLS ASSOCIATION.

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THE Annual General Meeting of above will be held in Messrs.

Jardine Matheson & Co's Board Room on Wedneslay, March 2nd at 5.30 P.M..

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG - FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

aral Meeting of Shareholders THE Sixty-fourth. Ordinary Gen- will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Monday, the 10th April, 1933, at NOON, for the purpose af receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1939. „.

The following Resolutions will also be submitted to the Meeting

(1) That at from the 1st day of "January, 1933, the remunera- tion of the Consulting Com "mittee be increased from $18,000 to $94,000 per annum.” (9) "That as from the lat day of

"January, 1933, the remunera "tion of the Auditors be raised "from $1,50 to $1,500 per "annum for each. Firm."....

All Lawn Bowlers are invited to Books will be closed from the 37th attend.

Č. J. TACCHI,

Hon. Secretary.

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THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, 1 Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 4th April, 1933, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving & Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday, the 20th, March, 1933, to Tuesday, the 4th April, 1933. Both Days inclusive, during which period NO Transfer of Shares can registered.

be

'By Order of the Board of Directors.

G. E. ELLAMS,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 20th March, 1933.

HONG KONG CLUB NOTICE.

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THE Eighty-Ninth Yearly General Meeting of the Members of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on Friday, the 24th March, 1933 at 5,80 p m.

By order,

T. A ROBERTSON,

Lieut. Col.,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th March, 1988.

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The Share Register and Transfer March, to the 10th April, 1933, both days inclusive.

JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 20th March, 1993.

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

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TOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting

of the above Company will be held at the offices of the General Managers,

Mesars Jardine, Matheson and Com pany Limited, Pedder Strost, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on MONDAY, the 10th day of April, 1933 at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon or so on thereafter as the Annual General been concluded when the subjoined Meeting of the Company shall have Resolutions will be respectively pro posed as Extraordinary Resolutions viz

(1) That the existing 8,000 shares in the capital of the Company of "the nominal value of $250 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 sŪDI "of 830 shall be credited as paid

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"(9) That as on and from the lat "day of July, 1933 the regulations "contained in the printed docu "ments submitted to the meeting "and for the purpose of identifica

tion subscribed 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 the "existing Artioles thereof.":

AND NOTICE is hereby given that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the same place on Tuesday, the 25th day of April, 1833 at 19 Noon for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings of the above-men- tioned Meeting and of confirming, if. thought it, as Special Resolutions pectively (Nos. 1 and 2) - the above mentioned Resolutions res-

transformed by sipping spilt SAY AU R'VOIR, BUT NOT GOOD-BYE. whisky from a cat that was an improving companion for.a bishop into the sort of cat that one would prefer not to write about. They If anyone imagines that novel at will object further that the lan-ninepence must have less value and guage spoken on the Wodehousean interest thair one at ninety pence, plana does not lend itself to this will undoceive him. Mr. differentation of character, The Shiel's remarkable, style../ makes Miss Postlethwaite who said of akimming imposible: it puts a "Run for Remembrance": "Blove-great deal to I page, and makes ly. It lays the soul of Woman a careful reading abundantly self- bare as with a scalpel," was a bar rewarding The plot is to complex maid; and it was a policeman to summarize, but there is a villain who, when asked if he was married, who throws his cat on the fire,

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI replied: "No, lady, I'm just engages in rocomplice to scuttle a

BANKING CORPORATION: solitary chip drifting on the river rival's ship, shoots the accomplice, of life."" But when you have raised and traps the heroins into marriage your eyebrows to

TOTICE HEREBY GIVEN reprovo Mr. (his wife bring alive). The thick- Wodehouse, he makes you giggle, lipped heroine Ada bells her father NOT the Provisional Certificate No. 57/495 dated Hong Kong 20th February, 1922 for Four shares of this Bank numbered 127041/127044 inclusive

that an Extraordinary General registered in the name of LU A BUNTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN has been Lost or Stolen, and should

is certificate not be produced in the Meeting of the above Company will

A copy of the proposed new Articles be held at the Board Room of the of Association of the Company with Bank before 18th April, 1833, a new certificate for the shares will be issued, Company, Second Floor, Exchange the alterations and amendments and and the aforesaid Provisional Certif Building, Des Voeux Road, Central, differences between the axisting and cate No. 57/488 will be thereafter Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, the proposed new Articles incorpora treated by this Corporation as Nall on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, ted and indicated in red ink can be 1933, at 11.45 o'clock in the forenoon, seen during the usual business hours and Void.

or so soon thereafter as the Annual at the aforesaid office of Messrs. General Meeting of the Company Jardine, Matheson and Company shall have been concluded when the subjoined resolution will be proposed a an extraordinary resolution viz:--

That the Articles of Association be altered so that the following Article shall be substituted for existing -Article 1:0 viz

and they collapse. Could anything

my welfare varies inversely, as be more humiliating 1 How does the square of your infirmities," he do it, the poor fith (Wode- drawa hodograph circles absent housean torm expressive of commi-mindedly on paper, and quotes seration 1 In self defence you Benthara on Happiness. The vamp have to look for some good in him; bas eyes nently as big as her ears, and what you find is that he can and gives pneumatic kim that hold his own with the recognised popped like cycle tires" "But they awella in expressing his criticism of are much more attractive people life in words not perhaps subtle than these quotations suggest or fine, but simple, sensuous and indeed it is a characteristic of Mr. often extremely passionate. You Shiel's style that what sounds come to think that he stimulates absurd in quotation is often strik his literary energies with tumblers ing in its context. The reader is: of Mulliner's Buck-U-U-ppo of expected to understand words like which he tells us that "the medium muge, euccasy, wadinine, wawl, dose for an adult elephant is one threeing and to believe that the "wedding- teaspoonful." Plane or no plane clipper Antelope,

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you cannot raise your eyebrows at cake of sail," after being scuttled Miss Gladys Bingley, "a charming in 230 fathoms, rose like Aphro girl who looked like a pen-wiper dite from the sea when her cargo or at the heavily whiskered old of sagar melted. (Hence the title.). gentleman who reminded [one of But the Antelope is almoet as much Mulliner's relatives] of a burst the heroine as Ada is; and in some descriptions of sail and sea horse-hair sofa.'

and moon afr. Shiel's fanciful style

MODERN THOUGHT.

GUIDE TO MODERN THOUGHT. By O. EM. JOAD. (Faber and

Faber. 6. net.)

In this volume Mr. Joad keeps his own views severely in the back ground. He gives a faithfuj account of the way in which eminent leaders of modern thought are answering the fundamental questions, such as: Is the universe

emits sparks of real beauty.

a fortuitous collocation of atoms, or is it the embodiment of design. and plan 1 Is the process of evolu tion haplard or purposive 7 Are we fren to make our lives as

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mined by bodily reflexes and un- conscious wishes 1

At the outret he notices a decline in materialism. Physics is thought, by many to lead to idealistio con- clusions, and evolution is conceived as a creative process. But in psy chology materialism has gained

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·THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THI DEXTRA KACE MEETING.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

be deemed to accrua de die in

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100. The Directors, other than the Managing Director,.shall be RAFT Programmes and Entry- paid-by way of remuneration for their services the sum of $3,000 For the Third Extra Race Meeting to be held on SATUR "per annum in respect of each

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Director. Buch remuneration shall permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Road.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 23RD MARCH,-1933,

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HONG KONG AUTOMOBILES

ASSOCIATION.

THE Annual General Meeting will Abo-beld-in the Board-Room/of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Con

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a further Extraordinary Ltd., on THURSDAY, the 28rd of General Meeting of the Company will March, at 5.80 p.m.. be held at the same place on Monday, the 10th day of April, 1993, at noon, for the purpose of receiving a report.

By Order

B. D. EVANS,

Hon. Secretary,

HONG KONG TELEPHONE CO. LTD.

of the proceedings of the above men- 6083 tioned mosting and confirming, if thought fit, is a special resolution the above mentioned resolution styl Dated this 8th day of March, 1933 By Order of the Board,

W. L. McKENZIE, -

Bécretary.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the EIGHTH ORDIN ARY TEARLY MEETING of the HONG KONG TELEPHONE COM LTD. will be held on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March 188, at the BOARD ROOM of the Company, THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at 11.30 am, for the DOCK CO., LTD,"

purpose of receiving a Statement of Nchat the ORDINARY GABBY Board of Directors, for the funncial TOTICE IN HEREBY GIVEN Accounts and the Report of the MEETING of Sharaholders will be year, ended 31st December, 1989, and

YOUR SAFEGUARD held in the Office of the Company, re-electing two Directors and the

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The Share Regaler and Tanker Dated Books will be closed from the 20th 1983.5

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incipaive..

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