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ECHOES OF 1860

22-Some Curious Advertisements

Below will be found some of the j unususi type of advertisements which appeared in our columns in 1030:-

NOTICE

Ran Away from his Creditors, une Stanilaus La Valette formerly of Batavia at present residing at Honam under the name of Sanor Roberto. The community wherever this notice

be may

seen are cautioned against the above named Individual as he is dishonest and a Notorious Liar and a person in whom the slightest confidence can not be placed.

T. F. Andruss,

FOR SALE

White Fine Bengal "Pacca. Cheese of 3 and 4 lbs. each at $1.50 and $2 each cheese. Apply to Dorabjee, Nowrojee (Hong Kong Bakery),

'A' CARD

The undersigned, being about to. return to England, takes leave to Intimate that he has to associate himself in business'with his father in a firm, the address of which is: given below and he trusts from his long res!derice in China (18 years) to have acquired valuable experi- ence as to the selection of goods ordered, or the transaction of any other business with which the firm may be entrusted.

J. P. Watson.

The address is as follows:--

G. & J. P. Watson Care of H. Podmore, Esq.. Hatton Court Threadneedle Street,

London.

884, Old Bailey Street. Below the China Mail Office. The Illustrated London News..

Mrs. Low, Milliner and Dress- maker, begs to intimate that she has arranged to receive by every mall a supply of the above popular Illustrated Journal, regularly as re- ceived in London.

The Nos for July 21 28 and August 4 are to hand.

Bubscription 6 months $5, 12' months $10.

M. C..Eastlack Surgical and Mechanical Dentist. Staunton Street, Back of Union Chapel.

A CARD

E. Parker Albion Hotel Opposite the P. & O. Co.'s Office Wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchant.

N.B. Captains and Officers of ships boarded on the most moderate

terms.

Around the Courts

SOLDIER IN TROUBLE

gether with his accomplice, to whom he passed the money, Bath Private John Henry Sanby, aged were charged before Mr. Hamilton 21 of the 1st Battalion, Lincoln-at Central Magistracy yesterday, shire Regiment was brought be- the former receiving a sentence of fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at Kowloon six months had labour and two Magistracy yesterday on charges years' 'police supervision and the of breaking and entering a shop latter alx weeks' hard labour. on the ground floor of No. 48 Na- fhan Road and stealing three slik dresses, and causing malicious damage to the glass window,

Defendant pleaded gulity. Inspector Lane prosecuted told the Court that defendant broke the glass window at No. 48 Nathan Road on the evening of March 26 and stole three silk dresses. He made no attempt to escape, or hide the dresses, but walked along the road until he was caught by a policeman.

EXPENSIVE BUS RIDE

On a charge of falling to pay for his fare on a China Motor Bus Company vehicle, a Chinese name ed Chat Stu "Yeung had his ball of $25 estreated when she falled to appear before Mr. MacFadyen at Central Magistracy yesterday.

His Worship-What was, the fare?

Sub-Inspector Dredge. The fare

S.M.C. ANNUAL REPORT

Features Of Past Year Surveyed

some length:

The address of the Chairman of the Council to the special meeting of ratepayers on April 19, 1933, on

H.K. POLICE RESERVE

ORDERS BY THE HON. MR, E.

the licensing of factories is includ-D. C.. WOLFE, C.M.G. INSPECTOR The "Survey of 1933 presented ed in this annual report. In his ad- GENERAL OF POLICE in the annual report of the Shang- dress the chairman gave a histor- hai Municipal Council contains a leal summary" of the Council's at- brief though comprehensive re-titude towards the regulation of vlew of the important events and Industrial conditions in the Settle- developments of the year, and ment leading up to the resolution extracts from the survey are given before the meeting for the amend- below.

ment of Byelaw. XXXIV in order to permit the Council to Bcense factories.

the week, limitation of hours of night work for women, abolition of child labour, annual leave and con- ditions - ́governing dismissal of workers, compensation for injury. sickness and death, welfare work

INDIAN COMPANY

CHINESE COMPANY Inspector (R) Chow U Ting of the Chinese Company has been awarded the 4th. Class Police Reserve Medal for long and faith- ful scervice. As regards, international rela-

Inspection by HI. E. the Governor, tions it is stated that at the begin-

All ranks of the Chinese Com- ning of the year the aftermath of On August 1, 1931, the Chinese pany will parade at Central Police feeling after the conflict on the Government declared in force its Station on Wednesday, March northern borders of the Settlement, Factory Act which had been pro- $ 28th at 14.15 hours. Dress Sun- the trend of events at Geneva and mulgated in December, 1929. This hats, Blue Uniform, and Belt with the portentous situation in North Act was of a far-reaching charac- Brace. China threatened to have some re- ter involving questions such as the Training Course-Part II. percussions in the International limitation of the number of hours There will be to class at the community of Shanghai. The year, † of work during the day and during Chinese Company Headquarters however, passed without any re-

on Tuesday, March 27th, 1934. crudescence the form of any major incident; the undertaking to keep the peace; given on May 6,ɛ| 1932 was kept throughout the year and national feeling became less

The anti-Japanese movement and the boycott of Japanese goods steadily declined in spite of inti- midation by means of threatening letters and bombs and other modes of pressurE. The new year saw the growth of a movement for China's reconstruction as witness- ed by the formal inauguration of the

Aviation Association and the extensive propaganda for the building up of China's aero- plane strength and the sale and consumption of national products. Special District Court the annual meeting of ratepayers In the course of his speech at

in 1932 the Chairman of the Coun-

intense,

China

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Strength. Constables R207 Igbal Mahan Singh and R260 A. Abdul Rehman and several other social and indus-

have been taken on the strength trial features of wide scope in ad- of the Indian Company, as from dition to the subjects usually in- cluded within the ambit of a Fac-Inspection by H. E, the Governor.

19th, March, 1934,

tory Act, namely, the provision of health and safety measures.

All ranks of the Indian Com- pany will parade at Central Police Station оп Wednesday. March 28th at 14.15 hours. Dress Blue

with white cover, and Belt with Brace.

Training Course--Part II There will be no class at No. 3 Chi Woo Street, Kowloon Wednesday, March 28th, 1934. ม

Geneva Representatives. In September, 1931, M. Camille Fone and Dame Adelaide Ander-uniform, cap Son, two representatives from" the International Labour Office Et Geneva, arrived in Shanghai at the invitation of the Minister of Industries of the Chinese govern- ment to advise upon the question of factory inspection. In Novem- ber of the same year the vice- Minister of Industries, Mr. S. U.

on

All recruits of the Indian Com- pany residing in Hongkong will attend Chinese Company Head- quarters, 17, Queens Road Central on Thursday, March 29th, at 17,50

FLYING SQUAD ·

Inspection by H. E, the Governor. All ranks of the Flying Squad will parade at Central Police Station on Wednesday, March 28th. at 14.15 hours. Dress Cap with

Blue Uniform

cil expressed, the hope that on the Zauf invited the representatives expiry on March 31, 1933, of the of the three Shanghal administra-hours for instruction. Special District Court Agreementtive areas to attend two informal of 1930 & more satisfactory agree-meetings for a discussion with M. ment might be secured for the fuPone and Dame Adelaide Ander ture. Unfortunately this hope was son with a view to exploring the not realized, and in February of possibilities of reconciling diver- this year the Agreement in its or- gent and conflicting viewpoints regarding the application of the iginal form was extended by mut-Factory Act, or parts of it, in the Waite Cover, Belt with Brace, and ual consent for a further period industrial area of Shanghai. It was generally agreed that uniform application of the same conditions In respect of the factories of all three Shanghai areas was greatly to be desired but difficulty experienced in formulating "a met- hod to carry out a uniform policy in the matter of Jurisdiction. t view of the different viewpoints

of three years

In the supplemental exchange of notes there is a statement to the effect that measures' are "now under contemplation by the Chin- ese authorities for checking undue

delay in civil proceedings with special reference to matters of appeal and execution of judgment Adoption of Dollar Standard The survey continues with com ment on the change from taels to dollars at 0.715 in accounts, the re-

of levying of land tax, which be- assessment of land for the purpose

came effective on July 1 last, and' the attaching of graduates from the central Political Institute. Nanking. to Municipal depart- ments for training purposes.

Industrial Conditions The survey deals with the re- was only ten cents, but it was thegulation of industrial conditions at Inspector Lane added that San-act. Defendant got on the bus by was the same man who broke and said he had a ticket, when was walking-away she noticed that a glass window in Hankow Road he did not.

·SAME OLD STORY

"

the ten cents was bad. She gave *chase" and the defendant was caught by a plain-clothes police- man. When searched, 28 more false coins were found in his, pos- session. He had no genuine money

last January when he was sen- tenced to a" month's imprison- ment. On that occasion, he took away several clocks and other ar Charged before Mr. QA.A. Mac. ticles and took them back to Fadyen at Central Magistracy yes-

Nobody knew who hadterday for returning to the Col-tall camp broken the glass window, and ony after having been banisBed Defendant was sent to Canton when Detective Inspector Rozenkwy, for a period of ten years in 1932.

as a mendicant last month. He was making Inquiries the next Wong Sam, a carpenter told his told the police he obtained the morning, defendant walked up to Worship that the reason for his coins in Canton. bim and said he was the man re-return was to get money from his sponsible.

clansmen to go abroad. On the first charge, defendant Inspector Vincent:-He has been was sentenced to three months, abroad before, when he was ban- and on the charge of damage, to six months, the sen, He has no convictions in Hong-ced to three years hard labour

malicious.ished from Singapore for robbery.

tences to run "concurrently..

POSSESSION OF OPIUM

European Lady Involved

man

RECENT ROBBERY RECALLED

The recent armed robbery at No. 61, Lockhart Road in which three Chinese had already been senten-

kong. We don't want this here, a convicted armed robber

each was recalled, at Central Ma- from Singapore. It's the same old gistracy yesterday when Wong story every time, either mother is

Yung was charged with being sick or they want money to

connected with the robbery. Evid- back to the country.

ence was given by two tokis of the Defendant was sentenced to nine shop, who both identified the ac- months' hard labour.

cused.

go

CHINESE YOUTH IN TROUBLE

The charge against defendant is that he with the three others named and another man not ar-

Mrs. J. Boys who gave her ad- dress as No. 47 Waterloo Road was one of the two defendants charg- ed before Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Magistracy. yesterday with being in possession of 300 taels of

A well-dressed Chinese youth, Ngested stole $580 in money, a foun raw oplam outside the Kowloon-Lay Fong was charged before Mtain ben and a gold ring from Canton Railway Station at Tsim- MacFadyen at Central Magistracy Lau Chi-kong, master of the shop, yesterday for the theft of a gold and a wrist watch from So Ko- Chinese woman named Leung Ying pendant and $16 from Li Tak The hearing was adjourned un- bangle, a gold neck chain and fit, a fok of No. 67, Lockhart

Road, ground floor. for whom Mr. M. A. da Silva ap-ching, a mariled woman of 130 peared. Revenue Officer Browne Wellington Street art door at 11 am on Thursday. prosecuted.

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shatsui,

The other defendant was

Saturday evening."

his boarding-house.

It was alleged that the opium. which was contained in a leather that defendant was arrested on Detective-Sergeant Glld stated suit-case, was carried by Mrs. the Saturday evening, in Woosung, Boys while the second defendant Street, Yaumati Defendant sold was in a taxi which was waiting the bangle for $112.1, and de- outside the railway station, posited $102 with the master of

When the charge was read to her, Mrs. Boys sald-The optum Defendant was sentenced to does not belong to me I don't three months' hard labour in ad know, it, was opium, otherwise; ach to a fine of $2, which was would not have carried it flatten the deduction of 375 to Inspector Lane asked his Wor-the goldsmith, who bought the ship to order Mrs. Boys mental | bangle and 125 16 complainant state to be inquired into He knew for damaging the banglea tran that she had once before been certified as feeble-minded.

COUNTERFEIT COINS

The case was accordingly re- manded, Mrs. Boys being ordered Sentence of four months.. bard to be placed under observation, labour was passed by Mr. Mac- The second defendant was grant- Fadyen at Central Magistracy ed ball of $5,000.

yesterday, on Chinese named Wong Him who was convicted on charges of uttering a false. Hong- kong ten-cent place and posses sion of 28 other like coins, o

THEFT AT FOOTBALL FIELD

While purchasing his ticket at the Hongkong Football Club for the Senior Shield Anal on Batur day, Wan Yin had his pocket pick ed and robbed of six allver dol- lars. The thief was seen by a Chinese detective and arrested, to

Inspector Jamas said defendant tendered a false ten-cont piece when buying a five-cent packet of cigaretta at a woman, hawker's stali at Bonham Btrand West. She gave him the change, but as be

5:

Dangerous Trades.

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE ..

Police Station

on

Inspection by H. E the Governor. All ranks of the Emergency. Unit Reserve will parade at Was

Central Wednesday," March 28th, at 14.15 hours. Dress Cap with White Cover, Belt wh Brace, and Blue Uniform.

sgd, D. L. KING,

D.3.2. (R). Hongkong, 26th. March, 1934.

employers

Relations between and employees and #gures regard- ing factory strikes during the year follow, as does comment on "serious ́tndustrial accidents, with tables. Special reference is made to the rubber factory explosion as the result of which 81 people lost their lives, and to the use. for in- dustrial purposes of buidings de- signed as domestic dwellings. -

Public Utilities.

hai Fower Co., the Shanghai Tele- phone Co., the Shanghal Electric Construction Co., Ltd., Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd., and the "China Gen Omnibus, Co., and, an innovation. this year, reports on their own activities by the companies them- selves.

The chief matters of discussion As regards water the discussions between the Council and the pub regarding metering and the pro- He utilities during the year, the visional tariff scheme are reported survey states, have concerned upon, as are the negotiations over questions of tariff, especially in supply to outside roads, this lat- the case of the Water and Tele ter also applying to the telephones. phone companies, and negotiations Financing of the Power Co. and for facilities to extend the services the Telephone Co. occupy a great to meet the demand from existing.deal of these reports. consumers on the outside roads Prospects of the Gas Co., obtain- and to keep pace with the rapiding a franchise similar to those of development in the western area, other utilities companies are dealt

The survey includes reports, by

as are the, revised the Council on the Shanghai fares and the former black smoke Waterworks Co., Ltd., the Shang- nuisance of the buses,

with

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