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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENT.

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TE beg to announce the opening

We Emperium at Now.

62-68, Queen's Road Central, at nooo, on Saturday, the 16th instant.

All friends are cordially invited to attend the opening ceremony. Light Refreshment will be served from 13.30. to 2.00 p.m.

THE CHINA EMPORIUM," LTP.

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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVÈN that on Monday, 18th Septem- ber the supply of electricity will be interrupted at 7 am. in the Yaumati area from Waterloo Rond to Ningpo Strest, excluding the area to the East: of Nathan Boad and South of Kansa Street Supply will bo restored

fore

5 p.m. and the frequency will then be 50 cycles.

NOTICE.

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THE HONG KONG BREWERS & DISTILLERS, LTD.

Te to thank the

HE" Hong Kong Brewers & Dis public for their splendid support of H. B Ber and again beg to ask that orders for Beer should be given i good time. The Brewery staff is working day and niht, and no effort is being spared to £ll'orites as quickly as possible.

NOTICE.

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THE HONG KONG BREWERS &

DISTILLERS, LTD.

DE SAILLE

MROBERTSON is no longer in

the employment of the Hong Kong Beavers & Distillors Ltd.. His en- gagement terminated on 31st Averat,

1933.

THE

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THE HEEL CLUB.

THE seventh Annual General Meeting of the Reel Club wil take place at the Helena May Institute on Monday. 18th Septem- ber, at 5.15 p.m. All members and prospective members are particularly

attend. requested to

The first practice of the season will commerce immediately after the meeting and ench practices will be held on successive Monday, up to the 20th November.

D. I. PRO "HET, Actg. Hon. Secretary.

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 11, 1933.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dr. R. A. de Castro "Basto Foga to inform his relatives and friends that his marriage with * Miss Analė Korodi, daughter of Dr. and Mme Horodt" of Zurich, will take place on the 19th instant, at Zurich, Swit 'zerland."

DEATHS

∙DE MACEDO.-Faleceu em Lisboa 4 de Agosto de 1933 a Sra D. Capitolina Maria Loureiro de Macedo, viura do General Al- fredo Macedo e sogra dos Br Almirante Toto "de Marais, Augusto Campos e Bousa, Capitao de Fragata Goulart de Medeiros e Capitao Tenente Bobela da Mota.

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MACEDO.----On August 4.

TWO STATES GO BRITAIN'S TRADE NEWS SUMMARY

WET"

Another Blow To Prohibition

New York, Sept. 13. Maryland (and · Minnisota. have voted wet, the latter by two to one being the home state of ex-Senator Volstead. Indications are that Colorado" is polling ikewise.- Reuter.

IMPROVES

Returns Very Encouraging

Island storage of water amount- ed yesterday morning to 1,736 mil- of: 289 lion gallons, an increase m.g: in 48 hours. Restrictions will have to be enforced until the situa- tion still further improves, Page 6.

A large party or guests, includ- London, Sept. 12.).

ing H. E The Governor "were FROM many reliable sources re- entertained by the Directors of cently, evidence has been the King's Theatre at the initial forthcoming of a very definite im- showing in Hongkong" of " Caval- provement in trading conditions' in cade.”

Page 8. Great Britain.

The China Emporium in Queen's The best possible confirmations | Road will be officially opened on are provided by the Board of Trade „Saturday at noon. Page 7. returns issued to day which" show "Waterman" writes about, the that the improvement is not con- forthcoming interport swimming

tries only, but includes busineas Shanghai and also the V.R.C. generally.

Championships to be held at the For the eight months to the end end of this month.

Page 6 of August, imports decreased by

His Excellency the Governor of about £354 millions as compared Macae who arrived in the Colony with the corresponding period of

on Tuesday on board the s... last year, while over the same Cremer left for Macao yesterday period, the decrease in exports, was on board the Sui Tal at 1 p.m. about £8 millions.

at Lisbon, Sra. D. Capitolina EARL OF KERRY and to a few trades and Indus- contest between Hongkong and

Loureiro de Macedo, widow of the late General Alfredo de Macedo.

MADEIRAOn Friday, September

.8, 1933, at the Country Hos-. pital, Shanghai, Clotilde Maria Madeira, aged 64' years.

BIRTHS DUNCAN-On September 6, 1933, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. George Duncan, a daughter. Both well.

MORRIS-On September 8, 1933, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. I T. Morris, a daughter,

MARRIAGE.

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KILLED

Fatal Tube Accident".

London, Sept. 12

T nineteen-years-old Earl of Kerry, eldest son and heir of the Marquis of Lapsdowne, was the letim of a terrible accident in London to-night.

The young Earl fell from the At Shanghai, on September 3. platform at a tube station as a train was rushing through and was killed instantly.

between-

ERICH "SCHULT LENI SCHULT.

OBITUARY

Mr. Gilbert R. Ashford

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The first two carriages ran over his body..

this

It is thought that he was stand- ing too close to the edge of the platform and was seized by giddi- ness as the tube train approached.

In 1928, when he was only fifteen years of age. the Earl survived a The ashes of the late Mr. Gil-succession of illnesses including a bert R. Ashford, formerly of the serious attack of typhold. British Cigarette Company, Ltd., Pootung, were placed in Bubbling Well Cemetery Chapel on Tuesday afternoon, the

ceremony being strictly private with no flowers, in accordance with the wishes of the deceased. The late Mr. Ashford, who died on September 1, follow- ing a serious operation, had been in the employ of the British Cigarette Company Ltd.,.. for twenty-five years, ten years being spent in Hankow, and he and Mrs. Ashford had resided in Shanghai since 1929.

He

In recent months, however, the figures have tended to improve and those for August are regarded as exceptionally encouraging.

Exports last month totalled £35,397,184 as compared with £34,171,060 in July and £32,043,245 in August 1932.

Imports compared with August last year show an increase of £3,432,077 which is entirely due to the larger amounts of raw materi als entering the country.

Some of the principal.increases In exports compared with a year ago occur in iron and steel, woollen manufactures, electrical goods and cutlery and hardware. British au- tomobile exports also continue to increase.--British Wireless.

PERSISTENT RAIN IN LONDON AREA

He was described as an excep- tionally brilliant youth. "He had Just returned from a tour of Ger-

London, Sept. 12. many, arriving in London morning. He was due to rejoin London has experienced its his family at Derreen, Kenmare, | first wet day for several weeks. Co. Kerry in Ireland to-morrow.

was Light rain

general The Earl of Kerry was born in Southern England to-day and fell October, 1918, the eldest son of the also in many parts of the North. Marquess of Landsdowne, The forecast is for unsettled: con- sixth who succeeded to the title in 1927, ditions-British Wireless. and who has two other. sors and two daughters-Reuter.

SILVER MARKET

over

London, Sept. 13.