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HONG KONG BENEVOLENT

SOCIETY,

THE ANNUAL GENERAL

T MEETING will be bold in the Sanitary Foard Meeting Room on Monday, 15th February, 1934, at 5.30 P.M.

His Horou M2 JUSTICE J. R. WOOD has kindly consented to take the Chair. Subscriptions are argently needed and will be gratefully received by the Eon: Treasurer, Mrs. J. Ralston, 188, The Peak.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934,

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ASK FOR

IN THE SUPREME Court of HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS or JOHN RYRIE GREAVEN, FORMERLY or NUNWOOD, Tennales, STEWARTBY OF Kinkoodanig ay "SOOTLAND AND LATE OF NITH BANY, THORNHILL, DUMAIZSHIRE, SCOTLAND, DECEASED,

TOTICA IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of ta Probate Ordinance No. of 1897,

made an Order limiting the Time fr Creditors and Others to send in thi "Olaims against the above Eatste to the

9TH DAY of FEBRUARY, 1934,..

All Creditors and Others aro accorl. ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.

Dated the 11th day of January, 1934.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTE 8, Solicitors for the Executrix,

Prince's Building,

Ice House Street,

Новя Кор

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

IF

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1984. ENTRIES CLOSE 3.00 P.M.

ON

SATURDAY, 29TH JANUARY.

OWNERS

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reminded that antries for the Annual Baco Meeting, 1934, must be in the hands of the Secretary at or before the above time and date.

By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

W Secretary.

Hong Kong, 17th January, 1934.

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THE YELLOW TAXICAB CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

"that the management of the affairs of the Company is now under the control of Massts. Woo Iu Ki, La Ngok Wah and Lam Pak Loen.

The Company will not recognise a y contract unless countersigned by three above named persons.

YELLOW TAXIQAE CO., LTD., by WUO IO KI AND LAM NGOK WA, Directors.

Hong Kong, 18th January, 1934,

BEER

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LESS

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#

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The engagement has been an- nounced between Charles James Anthony Haines only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Haines of Kent. England, and Winkred Dorothy Deason, youngest daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. F. Deason of Kent and Singapore.

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Hoxe' Koko, January 18,

A REVALUATED DOLLAR

Critics of President Roosevelt's inflation policy may пок feel somewhat reassured in that he definitely seems to have no inten- tion to carry it too far. Some ́radical inflationists are disappoint

ed at his gsudden stand against monetary inflation - 18. it

rather than

[ 7 sudden stand

SOLE AGENCY

SOULPTO ART LTD.

the Producers and Patentees of PIRIM

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premeditated policy? Finance is growing 50 complicated that

Is dificult for the most

astute financiers to do more than form a certain general policy and feel their way step by step. Cer- tainly President Roosevelt began his inflation scheme in no uncer- tain way. moving the immense forces at his command in the at- are prepared to appoint territorial Dista talament of an only vaguely dis- butors in CHINA for their famous pro-cerned objective, but his modi- duct, Vaique opportunity for right organization, Apply with, references to | fication, at

stage really

Portraits in Bellef, in Metal

“Oxford Street, LONDON,、

this

Bales Controller, Sculpto Art Ltd, 13, amounting to comparative stabili

zation in a modified degree, may be the balanced retrenchment which is a prerogative of any captain in his scheme of opera

"People Who Matter"

PEOPLE WHO

MATTER, to the advertiser see the people who LA adford to buy his goods. Most of these people buy (and sound the

Hong Kong Daily Press,

tion,

The calling into the Treasury of all gold held by individuals excluding the holdings of the Federal Reserve Bank estimated at over: £700,000,000 and which will always be at the disposal of Con- gress in any case of emergency- is a step highly necessary in view

which

actually, undesirable. This is a departure from the school of thought dominant in the United States and

has been, through its insistence, on a sub- stantial portion of debts being paid in gold, a factor in the cur "rency chaos of the present time. However, we are very willing to applaud President Roosevelt's strength in that he has not been afraid to admit the menace of the in the matter of the settlement of transference of gold in bulk except

trade balance between govern

ments.

The idea of issuing gold certi- ficates against gold reserves is very sound and simplifies the Govern- ment's position in the matter of ownership of any added

dollar value to the country's gold stock, resulting from any decreases in the gold content of the dollar which way be made in public terests.

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What is surprising and most gratifying about this revaluation of the dollar at 60 cents is the comparatively mild reaction it has had in London and Paris.

For

their discernment in Axing a 60 cent mark, which must fust about "toe the 'line" else there would

BRITISH SHIP IN

DISTRESS

Bad Leak In Engine Room

San Francisco, "Jan. '17.. Distress messages have been re- ceived from the British steamer, "Cape Cornwall," which is in the Pacific en route to Shanghai with a crew of 40 and a cargo of Jum- ber.

The vessel is stated to be in dis- tress and leaking badly in the en- gine room.

QUAKE HAVOC

..

IN INDIA.

Further Shocks Re- ported in the South

ANOTHER BIG SWINDLE

Smart Work By

Art Dealers

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daits Press" (Copyright.)}

Dresden Jan. 17.

Calcutta. January 17. Further reports of the earth- quake havoc in the province of Bihar continue to filter through. In addition to the destruction of the Important sugar "centre ΟΙ Murtazapur It 15 reported that three hundred were illed in Dur- One more gigantic swindle in It is believed that the "Cape was done.

bhanga where considerable damage connection with art galleries was Cornwall is off the coast of Japan.

brought to light here at Tuesday's. Reuter.

Aerial reconnaisance by a Gov-session at the Courts against Pro- The sis. Cape Cornwall is a steel-emment aeroplane revealed that fessor Hauser who was once restor- screw ship of 5,021 tons gross, and

large tracts of

er in State art galleries, and also waler appeared was bulls in 1918 by Messrs. R.

on Eltherto dry ground,

against Mr. Paul Rosenthal and several other art dealers. Duncan Company:. Ltd., for the ous cracks in the earth are visible Lyle Shipping Company, Ltd., or while in some places gréy mud Glasgow. She was formerly named and sulphurous water 1s being 8.8. Verbania and sa. Trafalgar.

forced from the ground. Many Her. dimensions are: length, 405.3 sugar mills have been destroyed, feet; breadth, 53 feet: depth, 27.4 while there is wholesale destruc- feet.

tion of railways roads and bridges: There are reports of shock in South In damage is not serious.-Reuter.

STREETS STREWN WITH CORPSES

PRINCE GEORGE GOING TO AUSTRALIA

It is

London, Jan. 17. announced that Prince George will visit Australia ext Autumn, shortly after his return from South Africa, for which he leaves on January 19...

numer-

A few years ago, Hauser was pensioned at his own request on account of 11-bealth. Since this time he copled paintings of old masters, which in reality were them at high prices. As he con- worthless productions and sold further tracted large debts, after a time but the he found himself without means of

support. Hauser then began cert!, fying as an expert 0 Dab:+lugs said to be. Old Masters. These

Calcutta. January 17: Hundreds have been killed at Muzafarpur, a Northern Bitin town, which was reduced to ruins The occasion of. the Prince's by the India earthquake, accord- visit is the centenary celebrations Ing to reports from Patna. of the State of Victoria. It The streets are atrew21 with is expected that His Royal High-corpses.a nd communications ness will be away for six months. cut off.-Reuter. He will sail on September 30,- Reuter.

GOODBYE TO PARENTS

12,000 HOUSES COLLAPSE

The

are

NEWS SUMMARY

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