1933-06-27 — Page 8

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE.

MILLINGTON, LIMITED.

MONSEQUENT upon the demise of Mt. W. C. Clark, manager

of the Hong Kong and Canton Branches of this, firm, the manage- ment of the Company's affairs in South China is rested temporarily in the undersigned.

MILLINGTON, LIMITED, BERNARD ROZENBAUM.

Hong Kong, 27th June, 1999.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

EXORBITANT

WHY PAY PRICES FOR A PRETTY BOTTLE WHEN WE CAN του WITH SUPPLY

SAME EXACTLY -PRODUCT IN AN ORDINARY

BOTTLE

(952

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,..

LIMITED.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that we will remove to No. 12. Des Voeux Road, Central on 1st July, 1983.

Hong Kong, 27th June, 1938.

1950

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

FROX LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, AND STRAITS:

Too Steamship

"BENLEDI."

MONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

CONSIGNET tall woods are being

landed at their risk into the hazardons and/or extra hazardone Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whale and GODOWN COMPANY, LTD, whence and/or from the wharton Delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and-ali Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th June, will be subject to Bent,

All Claims against the Beamer mast be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 19th July, or they will not The reorgnised.

All tasken, skafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 7th June, at 10 by Mesura Goddard Douglas.

To comply with the General Banded Warehouse Regulations consignees

in atten Beyenne Officer Taust bave dance when damaged dutiable goods. are examined.

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.. Agents.

Hoir Kong, 20th June, 1933.

PRINCE LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM NEW YORK.

THE Motor Vessel

THE SILVERWALNUT

as:

having arrived from the above Port on 21at instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consiguees' riak and expense.

All broken, shafed, and damaged Goo are to be left in the Godowny, where they will be examined on Tuesday, 27th instant at 10 am.

All Olaims must be presented within 15 Days of the Vessel's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be re cognized.

To Claims will be writted after the Goods have left the Growns, and all Goods remaining underred after the 28th instant will be subject to Bent.

No Fire Insurance has been offected,

Bills of Lading will be countersigned FUENESS (FAR EAST), LTD., 2nd Floor, King's Anilding, Connaught Ros).

Dial 23166... Hong Kong, 21st June, 1983 1949

THE

FOR LESS

THAN

HALF THE PRICE ?

WATSON'S

LIME JUICE CORDIAL

WHOLESOME

A DELICIOUS, AND PRODUCT PREPARED IN OUR OWN FACTORY FROM THE FINEST WEST INDIA LIMES AND PURE CANE

SUGAR.

$1.00 PER BOTTLE.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Est. 1941

Fod

DEATH

Rodgers HERBERT * Austin,

Kowloon Hospital on June 26 Aged 38. Faneral will paes the Monument at 5:30 p.m. to-day, Tuesday,

In

4:

ANNOUNCEMENT view of the news received from Shanghai of the death on June 26 after a short illness of Mr.

W. C. Clark, manager of this branch, the office of Millington Limited will be closed, to-day,

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THE CITY HALE, LIBRARY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]

News and Views *

Ah, Ces Anglais)

Optimism, Fatalism, and Sincerity.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

General.

As people always believe what Chi-

The England West Indies Test eago inventors say, especially, Match was resumed yesterday morn Salient characteristics of the

Mr. Shaw remarka somewhere,

never invented jag, latest scores will be found on British people, according to "when they have André Maurois, the noted French

anything," the laboratories across page 9.

Typical American conditions pre- novelist and biographer of Disrasli the Atlantic should be enjoying wailed at the opening of the Ryder and Shelley, are hon.

heaps of fun at the moment. Num bers of harmless citizens will be Cup contest at Southport yester- Page 0. day. sitting clamped in chairs, festooned

It is reliably reported that Colonel with mysterious wires, while the inventor, in the approved fashion," Lindberg will shortly fly to Green- Page 1. will be dropping books behind their land from America,

Following on Herr Essor's speech hacka or cise shouting "Bo" at

on Sunday, the lenders of the Bava- them suddenly in order to see what happens. And all in the interests rian People's Party and the Social Democrats were arrested. Page 0. of science.

Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, who is at tempting to fly to England from Australia in six days has arrived at Rangoon,.

Page .

Dear Sir, I have to inform you British optimism is due to the that the City Hall Library has now geographical position of the Unit been transferred to the Old Sea-ed Kingdom, says Mr. Maurois. men's Institute, No. 18, Johnston The Briton does not worry about Road, and have to request that, the fature as the Frenchman does. from this date, all matter address ed to "The City Hall be now forwarded to the new address.

Yours faithfully,

W. RYDE, Secretary, City Hall. City Hall, Hong Kong,

June 28, 1833.

considered private gain an inalien- able right. In the end the Govern ment intervened and put the ad- ministration of British India under.

a Secretary of State responsible to Parliament. In the history of South Africa, and the career of CECIL RHODES, - we find a later

example, of that buccaneering period of Colonial development, when a curious mixture of states- manship, idealism and personal cupidity seems to animate the leaders of these distant communi-

ties.

In Hong Kong matters came to a head during the administration of Bir Joan BowRING, a man of culture and kindliness of heart," but weak in character, indolent, and woefully indifferent to the prestige of British Government. Little or

The Briton takes things as they come, and saya to himself they will turn out all right in the end. That is his fatalism.

The Briton is amazingly ingenu- ou That is a mark of him since rity.

An Ungenerous Government.

One repercussion to the J. P. Morgan investigation which is now proceeding before the

U.S.A. Senate Banking Committee will be a revision of the salaries paid to American Heads of Missiona

The inventor says that his ma chine is designed to test the "ac- tive potential, or the electrical charge, in the nerves of living hu- mans." He jabe hypodermic needle into the "ulnar nerve of

The Japanese Delegation is res- tive at the slowness of the progress the hand" and watabes the result. of the World Economic Confer- Pago D. One result might be that the sub-ence. ject would hit the experimenter on An adjournment of the Disarma- the nose. But as he is tied down a ment Conference, possibly until been virtually mere needle has to indicate his sub- September has sequent opinion of the proceedings. agreed to by 1. Paul Boncour dur- - Page 0. Electricity is produced. "People ing an interview with Mr. Hender- in a state of excited action may sen. generate as much as one-hundredth Soviet circles in London do not of a volt." It would be interest regard the outcome of the Litvinoff- ing to think that the human body Simon talk optimistically and in- is thus actually, a producer of pow form Reuter that, the status quo is Page 9: er even though the power it does unaltered. produce would hardly run a wire-

America's minor diplomatic offi cials are as well paid as those of other nationa. Her Ambassadore are paid, worse than the Minister of the poorest and smallest Stateless set. in Europe.

The British Ambassadors in Paris and Washington receive in Don Quixote. salaries and allowances, approxi- The official mately £16,000 a.year. emoluments of an American Am- baseador in London amount to a mangro £3,800, despite the fact that the minimum cost of running his Embassy will not be less than

£15,000.

The same is true of the American Embassies in Paris, Berlin and Rome,

Exploiting the Bich.

The system arises from the fact that in the United States ambassa, dorial appointments are given to men who can afford to take them.

In 'pre-war days, and even five years ago it was easy enough to find candidates. Since the alump the rich men are fewer, and those who might be available prefer to stay at home to look after their re-

work did not then prevail. Even as

no control was maintained over his late as 1668 a somewhat notorious subordinates, and the influence of the Dr. BRIposs, already mention Dr. BRIDGES acted on and off as Colonial Secretary, while at theed, was supreme. We published remaining wealth. same time holding the post of cently an extract from our files, Attorney-General, with a right to describing how the Harbour Master private practice in the courts. No

and Deputy Harbour Master, were simultan susly; extended doubt the work of both posts was

Home leave, and their duties were

light, and probably Dr. BRIDGES had procedents for his plurality of offees. It is a common enough trait in humanity to complain of over

work and to ask for assistance. No

doubt in those spacious days every official, had subordinates enough to help him through his tasks. The Colonial Office accepted local de- mands at their face value, and if the Governor wanted an assistant ress, harbour master or another personal

llowed.

assigned to the Governor of the Gaol, who appears to have been an ex-sergeant-major. A relative of the Governor was a member of a

leading hong, and instances were. quoted in the Press of partiality a chartering of ships and other direc tions. The last straw seems to have been when the Times correspondent was given every facility at the

front, being entertained The Baily Press.

Hose KONG, JUNE 27, 1933

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

7

secretary, they took bis word. The distance was too great for close inquiry and no one on the

spot seemed to mind.

Trade and

Government were very much family affairs, mixed up together, with the inevitable family quarrels, which EXTRACTS that we have been giving everyone took care did not re-echo from our file of 1858, and which we overseas or to trouble-making cars hope to continue to give, reflect on the spot. After all, adminis phase of the Colony's history of tration extraordinary interest and import

*

was

fldous energy

caay

on the

The Fidget Machine,

41

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have never had the success on the stage that, with the aid of Chalia- pine and George Robery, they aze now having on the screen in Lon- don.

Far East.

The renewal of rainy weather is causing considerable, anxiety, as it is considered that unless the situa tion shows an immediate improve ment flood disaster is, inevitable along the Yangtze River basin.

Page 1.

At least 67 people are reported killed in an earthquake which oc curred in S. Bencoolin, Sumatra.

Page 1.

Local

Although the records show mora than a dozen adaptations of the Cervantes satiro, only two of them are notable-the version by W. G. Willa, in which Irving appeared The death occurred yesterday of at the Lyceum in 1898, and a play Mr. H. A. Rodgers of the Hong by G. E. Morrison, formerly dra-Kong Land Investment and Agency matic eritic of the London Morn Company Limited. Mr. Rodgers ing Post, and R. P. Stewart,

Sir Frank Benson produced the second one at the Straford Festi val of 1907. For years his friends had urged him to find satisfac tory version and to play the Don, and the Morrison Stewart play, an adroit piece of craftsmanship, ar- rived opportunely.

served throughout the War and has a splendid war record. He joined the Land Investment Com Page 7. pany in 1922

by

The Annual General Meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce takes place to-morrow at 4.30 p.m. The, business will in- clude the consideration of the draft of the Hong Kong Textiles and Page 7 But although Benson was in his Yam contract

An address to Shanghai Rotary Chicage inventor (or should element is the cadaverous knight

Professor Middleton one say "the Chicago inventor of La Mancha, and that ripe come-Club we have long suspected that this dian, the late George Weir, played Smith, on the training of Chinese In the lawn match on his Shakespearean business is being worked, through Sancho Panza with all the art be engineers appears on: Page 6. a number of aliases, by some large lavished

Page 10, reason to attract J. Purvis by 21-10. vented a machine which will test failed for some

An application for leave, to corporation) esys that he has in clowns, the new "Don Quanto played yesterday. We motor the extent of other people's fidgets.❘ the public. --

presume the death of a Chinese rubber planter, by drowning, was made before the Chief Justice yes- terday. The application was op posed by the China Underwriters, with whom the man is insured for Straits $20,000. --

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Local and General

two

Over the week-end- two cases of With previous convictions dating enteric (cne imported) and one case back to 1012, a ten years' banish- ment against him, an unemployed of meningitis were notified.

Chinese was sentenced to month's goal by. Mr. Wynne-Jones yesterday for the theft of clothing from a house in Wing Lok Street. Defendant got into the fat by climbing up a rope

Jewellery to the value of 897.1a reported to have been stolen from 238, Fuk Wah Street, according to a Police report.

Mr. K. E. Greig, the manager of the Taikos Dock, returned to the Colony from Shanghai aboard the Empress of Azia yesterday.

LOCAL ESTATES

DR. OBREMBSKI LEAVES $66,500

"There was a rear-guard action”

Marian Obrembeli, late of Ngau- New Territories, but said "Sub Inspector S. Logan in a case in which two Chinese were hi-wan, charged with fighting in Belchers formerly of 8, Nathan Road, left At to-day's meeting of the Street, West Point. Both accused local estate sword at 368,500, and H.K. Rotary Club, Mr. M. E. Lo said that they had been hit by each probate of the will has been gravt- to show Mr. shi-wan. Deceased was a Doctor of singlets, will speak on An Aspect of other on the back, and turned up ed to Mr. G. A. Duru, also of Ngau-

Schofield the bruises. They were Natural Science (Warsaw). Chinese Community Service: Chin- their ess Hospitals.””

each fined" 89 and bound over in Local estate valued at $12,500 was 880 each to be of good behaviour left by Lee Kay Lau, alias Lee Kee Lou, alias Lee Kee Low, of Mon- for one year.

treal. Deceased was a washerman Methode employed by expert and was on his way home in the

Governor's private steamship, while of local papers were representatives deliberately kept in the dark as to happenings of vital importance to the Colony. An attack on the Government was launched by Mr. H, Y. Munnow, the founder and editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press, and elsewhere in this issue will be found an article for which

Commencing on Sunday June. 25 and business he was summoned to the Sessions simple. A friend or a relative was on a charge of, libel. Eventually Z.B.W. will broadcast with reduc sent to prison for ed power until the new Z.B.W. ance. Nor is this record of old-

a better proposition than a can- he was

aix months. The Governor, how Transmitter has been transferred to nickpockete were demonstrated to Protesilaus when he died at time quarrels and controversies

tankerous stranger with an uneasy

Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Shanghai on July 13, 1932. Letters ever, still halted between two the new station at Hung Hom. without its lessons as well as its conscience, and too much super-opinions and actually allowed Mr. Another request for a hawker's Court yesterday when two Chinese of administration have been granted interest for to-day. All human

Mrazow to continue his activities Hoonce was refused yesterday by were alleged to have stood by the to his son Lee Yim Cheung, student, and ability.

from gaol, one or two half-hearted Mr. Wynne-Jones, who said: We side of their respective victims and of 150 Connaught Road Central. communities changé, and progress.

But when a place develops rapid- efforts to silence him being neatly have no more money to pay for attempted to extract a purse from Letters of administration to the renna an intelligent grasp of these

ly, as Hong Kong developed, when circumvented. Needless to say the licenses. If you can raise four, the opposite pocket. This method estate of the late Marie Joseph Pa new technique, One defendant Avenue de Friedland, Paris, who changes, and an adaptation of big money, and diplomatic relations unhappy Sir Jos was ridiculed dollars we will give you a licence."! was described by the Magistrate as atphone Stanislas. Same, Jon

here, and in London papers, The chairman of the committee was sentenced to four months herd died on July 13, 1091, leaving local granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, This process is always involved, this family informality China Express, referring to Me appointed to examine the problem labour, and the other discharged state valued at £30,900, have been

of the marketing of New Territories. having arrived, from Hamburg and painful, and in the past the cry of had to give place to ordered and MURROW's services in the fight produce is not the Colonial Secre- The warmer sales are starting attorney for the executor Mr. Paul

against official irregularities said:ary announced on Friday, but and Messrs. Wm. Fowell Ltd are Lemoine, of Brunoy. Ports of call Coungnets, of Cargo are "let be," was perhaps stronger controlled Government. The pro- especially signalized himself by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, giving the lead with a special shoe sale. Now aboes are thing's we the fearless courage, energy and the Hon. Mr. A. E Wood.

all wear Boots once in way presverance which he displayed in

Charged with the theft of a che perhaps, but shoes are the thing. which seem inseparable from the que stamp and a stapler from the This in morover, the first special exposing and rectifying the abuses

Oriental Commercial Company, a shoe sale ever held by Powell's, is founding of every British Colony, Chinese who sated he were having been found necessary to find

QUARREL OVER A FARE increased and intensified in the osse lye broker, was sentenced to six entra space for their new "W" cordially invited to call in and of Hong Kong by the events of weeke geol by Mr. Wynne-Jones Shoe Agency Customers are

see what they are offering. A "A ricksha.coolie who was offere No Claims will be admitted after the operated the "factories" of Canton, similarities can be traced, in fact, The Friend of China, also fall foul Goods hare left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the reaping therefrom in the roistering between Hong Kong seventy-Ave of the Governor, and thus a second Colonel MH. Logan, the well visit pats you under no obligatwenty cents for the fare from

Hong Kong editor was gaeled, known Shanghai architect, who is tion to purchase. Thunday, 29th

HAMBURG "ALERİKA LINIE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

THE MORGENLAND

custom

dition-laws to the new cou with the Chinese authorities became for his indecision, The London and:

hereby notified that their Goods are bring landed and placed at their risk than how, when, however, we pride

cess is never easy or comfortable, into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whari ourselves, perhaps a little too easily and Godown Company's godowns at Kowloon, where Delivery may be on our increased reverence for all either for the trading concerns, ́or obtained as soon as the Goode are landed forms of virtue and good conduct for the officials, whom they have boniere Notice has been given 43 Hong Kong as a trading Colony been keeping in good humour by

Optional Carge will not be landed on hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried was a natural development from an open-minded tolerance of local the small and close circle that customs and traditions Many

on from part to port to the final port

call to walch, the option extends

war." Mr. TARBANT, then editor of yesterday.

A

RICKSHA COOLIES SHOW FIGHT

Star Ferry to Salt Fish Lane, W Point by a hanghai Chinese, also in a half-hearted manner undertaking the construction de Following the theft of several fused the fare and struck the wou

Eventually tan, battle was WOD,

and while to-day we have careful

and upright administratio home and not from the who hold their appoin

29th Jane, will be subject, eighteenth and early nineteenth years ago and both earlier and All breken, chafed, and damaged centuries, vast gains. Like the fac. subsequent developments of Britain. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, tories, the Colony of Hong Kong overseas. We all know something hers they will be examined on Weduss was at first small, and isolated of the East India Company, that 28th Jan at 10 There were ap telegraph cables started as a trading concern, and day, Surveyors, Mosers. Goddard & Dougla

To comply with the General Bonded then, and ships travelled slowly, Warehouse Regulations,consignees inst The place was left to its own de then became first a minor and rigid audit" of pub have's Revenue Officer in

in attendance vices. Early colonists and officials then a major potentate in India. an independent- ben damaged dutjable goods are found it a bleak and barren spot Battles were fought and diplomacy Office, it is well examined.

* though from first days the protene All Claims must reach

before the #Thursday, 20th July, 1983, or they will tindities of the harbour were recog- dar de manised and the great thing was that not be recognisediak

money could be made No Insuration will be entered Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

AJEBBEN 200 Arenta

Hota Kise, find Jope, 1935

The

lear, out between Gover

private

'general supërvis

ducted on the grand scale, but these things did not was still The Company," in They were fought

De Colony owes Ind. and its

fearlessness, seven ans, fot. the

now

with

(Contin

editors of those far

from

be passenger acroes" the w damaging his watch. Other 600

of the of the And Shanghai Banking Coon the past week, a watch was now premises of the Hong Kong, tape in Whitfeld Barracks tion in Hong Kong, arrived in the on Saturday and resulted in the Colony aboard the Empress of Asie arrest of two Chines who were joined in the fight which tive yesterday

charged before Mr. Buiters at the ensued,

An Indian Policeman on Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with attempted Jarpenice of taps Sub-duty outside the wharf inter Inspector Rotaskyry alleged that and took the coolie, to Central one man was caught by an Indian Station.

the Sentences totalling twelve monthe lal hard labour, were passed by Mr

Schofield

mon

caught red binded in

ning the counter.

with a tap in his hands Brought before Mi. bath room. He was sentenc he was fined 60 or to six weeks hard labour. A Worship told?

of pliers was found in the right to strike the ession of the second defendant proper course, West ai Wab and the same sentença and then the passen was passed upon him

tually have to cal

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