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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the Society will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th MAY 1932, at 11 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State. ments of Account, to 31st December, 1932, and of doolaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from "9th MAY to 28th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
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INDIAN CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS.
the WITH the presentation of British Government's Propoenda for Indian Constitutional Reform," a further step has been taken to- wards the framing of a system of Government for India. When the Government of India Aet Was passed in 1910, elected representa- tives of the people of India were given a definite share in the govern ment of their country. This was understood to be an experiment in self-government, to be carefully watched and reported upon it the end of ten years. In 1930 the SIMON Commission, which had been appointed in 1928, issued its report and recommended that the experi- ment alould be extended and the Indian Provinces be given auto- nomy.
The next step was the holding of the Round Table Conference, which held three sessions, the last one concluding in December of last year. Both the Indian Princes
* News and Views *
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Romance {
The Lord Mayor's Visit,
The South China Gold Bar Com- Berlin. The Warsaw Press re- The Cathedral was the first to
pany which commenced business in that Stalin, be erected in the British Isles after Hong Kong on Monday affords an ports from Moscow whose wife died last year, hins mar the Reformation and the cost opportunity to all and sundry to
Irish ried again. His new wife is the defrayed by the Hon.
makė a spec on the price of sister of his right-hand man, Chm Society, which received in 1013 missar Enganowitch.
French Air Armada.'
the
*-
grant of what is now the city and gold hars. A full account of the
of county
The new enterprise appears on page 7 Londonderry.
at- thanksgiving services will be
Notarian J. D. Eush gave a most The French Air Minister has tended by the Lord Mayor of
interesting address on Chinese decided that a fight of from 60 to London. 200 military planes will take place. During his visit to Londonderry, Drama at yesterday's meeting of the Page 7. round the shores of the Mediter Sir Percy Greenaway will open the Rotary Club. ranean and Africa in the autumn all-steel bridge across the Foyle,
A Chinese constable was charged The personnel chosen for this mis, which has involved an outlay of
at Kowloon sion will be selected shortly and £250,000. Afterwards his name will before Mr. Butters
tion. The case was adjourned ow- will undergo a special course of be added to the roll of fresnen of Magistracy yesterday with deser- training preparatory to the flight, the City.
ing to the omission of the date on Lenin's Text.
a warrant of arrest appears in our
"Give us a child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik for ever” ➡Lenin.
"Don't be Cocksure."
The salesman's job to-day is not to sell but to interest..
Some unorthodox advice on enles- manship was given by Sir, William' Crawford to-day at the annun Knowledge in General,
meeting in London of gas salesmen. Who said, "Après moi, le déluge "Some of his "tips" were "Noah was the smart reply of a boy at a British public schools.
Equally ingenious but unexpect- ed answers were furnished by other papila in their struggle with the "general knowledge" them by the headmaster.
For instance, "Herr Frankens-like modesty. tein' is the President of the Ger Never write business letters; pro- man Republic, and "Rin Tin Tin ple would much rather be talked Never ask anybody to pay any thing.
Kowloon Supplement.
Three Indians were each bound over in the sum of 8250 by Mr. Schofield at Central Magistrier yes-
terday for behaving in a disorderly
Always take the customer's point manner. It was stated the delend- ants were arrested during a fight in Page 6. of view.
The inferiority complex-the re- Tin Lok Lane. set verse of cocksureneas-is the great- paper
A fine of $100 was imposed by Balesman. est asset to a
People Comdr. Newill at the Marine Court
who rule the independent States, covering anaren of about one- is the name of the Dog star. In to.
loco parentia is translated "Fol; fourths of the country-and the re-lawing father's footsteps." presentatives of British India- which comprise the remaining three-fourths were in favour of a
a
The All-rounder.
of cold dissecting a chicken? (d) Wrote a History of the World in prison? (e) Wrote a famous classic in cypher
London's Irish Cathedral,
I
Never talk about price unless your have to. In fact, never sell any thing at all.
or
Never talk about yourself, your headache, or your wife and children, to a customer.
Muddle in Bussis.
yesterday on Capt. Yardley, master the President Lincoin who was charged with committing breaches of the quarantine regulations,
Page 6.
Further evidence was given by thờ master of a trading junk, at Central Another question was:
Magistracy yesterday, when the case What famous writer (a) was) Federation embracing the whole killed in a tavern brawl (h) was
in which Mr. M. C. Hallums is charged with the manslaughter of put into guol for preaching with
a three-year-old girl, was resumed. country. The Conference also fav-out a licence (c) Caught his death
Page 7. oured a certain amount of respon
General. Moscow.-The political section of sible Central Government, with
the Commissariat for Agriculture. (a branch of the Ogpu), whose
Viscount Knebworth, the elder Buch safeguards as might be neces
Brushing aside Marlowe, Bun- duties consist of examining the son and heir of the Earl of Lyiton, sary in the interest of all, pending yan, Bacon, Raleigh, and Pepys agricultural position in the Soviet was killed on Monday night in an Page 9. further advance towards self-as persons of no consequence, the Union, have sent in a statement aeroplane accident. government within the Empire. In boys with one accord plump for concerning the ploughing and sow-
According to special correspon- Bernard Shaw as the hero of each ing conditions in the southern dis-
President their proposals the Government incident.
tricts, which has caused the great dents at Washington, est consternation in Kremlin circles, Roosevelt may attend the World have thus adopted the view of the
Page 9. and once more raised the eternal Economic Conference. SIMON Commission concerning the
The citizens of Londonderry are cry of sabotage.
Twenty-five people are known to The report states that approxi- granting of autonomy to the Pro- preparing to celebrate the tercen-
tractors be dead. while hundreds are injur ary of the completion of their mately one-third of the pronounced vinces of India; and also the cathedral and mark at the same; which were overhauled during the ed as the result of a tornado which Page 9. Round Table Conference view that time the close connection which has winter months are already in an struck the states of Arkansas and
The Louisiana.
nt. responsibly governed All-India existed for three centuries between unfit state for further use.
authorities and mechanics The Council of Ministers the city of London and its daughter local Federation should be established city in Ulster.
blame the factories for delivering Teheran approved on Monday the new concession to unsuitable and inferior spare parts, granting of subject to certain safeguarda.
and the latter accuse the farmers the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. -wise he difficult to obtain and in
The Government's policy may be
of "brutal treatment" of the trac
Page 9. tors. this way it actually tends
So long as summarised as follows:--A Federal tubise exchange.
There was a heated argument re- garding the Anglo-German Trade China is on, a silver standard the Logislature will be set up consist-
Trenty in the House of Commens existence of a genuine market, in ing of an Upper and a Lower
on. Monday.
·Page 9. gold, working on sound and pru Chamber. The members of the deut lines, should exercise a steady. Upper Chamber, corresponding to ing influence on the dollar, for a Senate, will be elected by the when "silver is dear the Chinese wil Provincial Legislatures as regards exchange it for gold and when gold. measured in terms of silver, is dear British India, and appointed by A message has been received by the Indian Princes as regards the the Japanese Ministry of Overseas Affairs, saying the Manchukuo they will reconvert it inte silver.
independent States. The members Government will order a ban on of the Lower Chamber, correspond-gold export in May. The neces- ing to a House of Commons, will sary law is now being drafted.
directly elected regards The semi-finale and finals of tha Boxing British India and appointed as Army Open Individual
Championships and of the Novices regards the independent States. Competition, will be held at the The popular legislature in British open-air ring at Shamshuipe this
evening, commencng at 7.45. India will be wholly-instead of
to
By Order of the Board,
THE latest addition to the temples
It may be that the enterprising PAUL LAUDER
of Brokers Alley is what
is gentlemen from Shanghai who have General Manager.
1714 pheniously termed a Goid Bat started this concern in Yee House
Exchange. The unsophisticated Street have these ceonomic con- be visitor who expects to pass through siderations in mind, but the aver its swing doors and find a body of age citizen will probably reflect bullion-minded bankers haggling that unless we are to have one law over bars of gold may well marvel for the rich and another for the at the euphemism when all he sees
better consideration
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up. sometimes over, sometimes
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Onion Building, under, the previous number-and Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 261 MAYs the profts come and go, "Now 1933, at 11.20 A.M., for the purpote of receiving the Hoport of the Direston you see 'em and now you don't." and the Statements of Account to 31at It doesn't matter what the mumber December, 1932, Dividendi, etc.
sive.
PUS
As the commemoration stone dat
cd 1833 in the Cathedral has it:
"I stones could speake then London's prayse should sounde
Who built this church and cittie from the grounde,"
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The committee of inspection are (Continued as foot of next Column
Local and General
Lord Clive, a descendant of the famous Robert Clive, arrived in Yokohama on the C.P.R. 6.8. Em- press of Asia on April 19. Lord! Post and the object of his present Clive is representing the Morning visit to Japan is to inspect condi- tions in that country subsequent to the Manchurian affair.".
A raid on the Seamen's quarters of the Harbour Office resulted in the arrest of five persons who were caught gambling on the premises. as hitherto, partially-elected; and The eleventh annual general meet- One man who appeared before the the provincial autonomy will be ing of the Hong Kong Engineering Magistrate yesterday was fined, secured by transferring to Minis and Construction Co., Ltd. will be while the others, who preferred to lose their bail rather than face held at the offices of Messrs. Lowe, the music" had their hail of $5 ters responsible to the Provincial Bingham and Matthews, Mercantile
cach estreated. Legislatures a certain number of Bank Building at noon to-day. has been passed-if it infringes subjects which, under the Act of upon or interferes with his res 1919, are now reserved to official ponsibilities, powers, or preroga- administration. tives.
.
Far East.
It is officially admitted that a grave situation has arisen between Manchukua and the Soviet. Page 0.
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS The annexation of New Guinea by the Queensland Government 19. W? gather From the Australian papers, the latest and most daring development of the policy of the vigorous Premier of that Colony, Sir Thomas Mellwraith. To this gentleman's energy Queensland is indebted for her direct mail service. with Great Britain, and to him is The dissolution of the alliance due the inception of a scheme for a A Mexican named Alfredo concluded in 1930 by the two lead- Traus-Australian Railway connect- Fernander was charged with ing German shipping companies, ing Brisbane with the Gulf of vagrancy at the Central Magistracy the North German Lloyd of Bre- Carpentaria. It does not appear and the Eamburg America that the annexation of New Guinea Various heads of expendi and of declaring is, the gentlemen that run the show
The Federal Legislature, as was yesterday. It was alleged that he men
was brought about by any imme- had accosted an American sailor Line of Hamburg, has been decid- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the undertake to buy from you at that ture--including the loane services, the case in the past with the Pro- and had asked for assistance. The ed upon as opposition on the part diate probability of that vast trepi- case was adjourned for the appear of the banks, under pressure of cal territory being seized by a for- Company will be CLOSED from figure gold bars that they know you the expenditure of the reserved vincial Legislatures, will have a
which the alliance was brought eign Power, though that is the MAY to 26TH MAY, Bath Days incls haven't got, or to sell to you at departments, including defence, wide field of discussion, but the ance of a Spanish interpreter.
about, is no longer to be feared."
contingency which Queensland has long feared, and the chief reason that figure gold bars that you know and the salaries and pensions of subjects actually entrusted to its A fine of $10 was imposed by Mr.
The Hague, Apr. 25. The Car- advanced by her Premier for the By Order of the Board.
taken-Hong Kong they haven't got.
the Imperial services will not be responsibility will not be so wide. Schofield at Central Magistracy PAUL LAUDEN,
amall boy, Mr. Arthur Henderson, President Daily Press, May 3, 1883. ing an apprentice, a General Manager. Well, we have a bullion markel subject to the vote of the Legisla The Governor-General-the legal yesterday on a carpenter for beat-negie Endowment-to-day awarded action now
a wooden stick. of the Disarmament Conference, a now and this is it, fost financial ture. These special powera con- term for the, Viceroy in his excca, with a cane and 'centres have facilities for dealing inferred on the Governor-General tive capacity will retain respon. It was stated the defendant was prize valued at £2,200 in conside- Looking Back 28 Years.
arrested as a result of a report ration of his work in the promo-
During the past month, the ques- gold fars. In normal timce bullion and the Governors are wide and sibility for such subjects, includ-made to the Police by a passer-by tion of peace and also in conside
¡ration of the energy, talent and tion of building a breakwater for operations are based mainly on numerous, but in the main they are
Sentence of six months' hard impartiality" shown by him dur Chefoo Harbour which was mooted very long ago, has again been trade conditions or seasonal re
labour was passed by Mr. Schofield, ing the Conference.
agitating the native merchants at quirements affected by crops
watchmen Two Indian at Central Magistracy yesterday!
were Chefon. Mr. Wan Kun Shan one other rearring factors that in
arrested following a burglary at fluence exchange within the herands
on a burglar who was traced and charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones of the leading business men of the at Central Magistracy yesterday port, was instrumental in bringing with causing grievous bodily harm a meeting together, to discuss this that normally constilate builiofcordance with the constitution out
100, Thompson Road.
to another colleague. Inspector project. The estimate cost of the points. In China, fluctuations in lined for it at the close of the
record showed that he had pre-, viously been convicted for thefts in the price of silver necessarily react
ant was suffering from serious head lion dollars. The native merchants to remain a Province of India.) on the dollar quotation for gold. A With regard to the franchise, the the fullest powers to prevent may
The National Government is injuries, and had to go to hospital resolved, at the menting to subscribe legitimate dealer in arbitrage vote for the Lower Chamber will grave menace to peace and tran Voel out addicus will 19 6., Bunken a profit in gold barn by be given to between, two and quillity; to safeguard the rights contemplating the, establishment in for treatment, Roth, defendants at least one half of the sun, tur
Hong Kong 1st May, 1933.
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Defendant's
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For the possession of dangerous deaths 14; Diphtheria, Hong Kong profit or cut his los en blackboard for them in, both the Federal As also the special responsibility of sembly and the Provincial Legis safeguarding the financial stability quotations whenever they suit him latures. It is intended to submit and credit of the Federation. In goods, namely 250 sticks of dyna-1, death 1; Typhoid, Hong Kong, of the opinion that ploughing by a clerk in the Lee Cheong 1; Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Hong horses will have to be resorted to Gambling in gold, even to the the proposals to s. Joint Select the ovent of a breakdown of the mite,
ning centres of the Union. There extent it is practised in Shanghai, Committee of both Houses of Par machinery of Government he and machinery shed at Fortress Hill, Kong 2, Kowloon 1. deaths 6. in the most importent wheat grow is not necessarily a hindrance to lament, in consultation with the Governors will have power to North Point, was fined $200 by Tuberculosis (non-notifiable)
tracy yesterday. It was stated the for Monday, May 1 were: Small those available being in an emaciat legitimats trade or a disturbance to Presentatives of India opinion, and assume full control. The Governor Mr. Schoñeld at Central Magis counted for 45 deaths. The figures is a tremendous, dearth of horses, on the Report of that Committee General will five a complete veto defendant had a permit but the pox, Hong Kong 1, Kowloon 1ed and unfed condition, and it is the stability of oxchange. Thero the Government will submit their over legislation either before it stuff he had was greatly in excess. Diphtheria, Hong Kong 3; Typhoid, considered improbable that more can be little doubt that evils exist final proposals in the form of a he been introduced or after it. The dynamite was ordered to be Hong Kong 2; Cerebro-spindl Men-than half the estimated programis-
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