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Owners must furnish certified proof of weight of vehicle on re-licensing.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police.
Hong Kong, 29th June, 1934.
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TOTICE is hereby given that a
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Dated the 29th day of June, 1934:
By Order of the Board,
L. KAN CHAN,"
Chief Manager.
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IN Accordance with Government
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KO
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
IN THE GOODS OF MA E'Y UNSWORTH, Larz OF "HONETIZLD" BARLOW ROAD BAIXWELL IN THE COUNTT OF DERBY, ENGLAND, WIDOW, DICEABZD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
that the Court has, by virius
of the provisions of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time fen creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to: the 20th Day of July, 1934.
All creditors and others are accord. ingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that data.
Dated the 22nd.day of June, 1934,
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors for the Executor, Prinos's Building,
Ice House Streek,
Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG, JUNE 29, 1934,
PIRACY AGAIN
PRIME MINISTER FAREWELLED
Holiday Overseas
London, June 28. Detalls of the Prime Minister's health tour are still under con- sideration. He will leave London
OBITUARY
Mr. E. M. Rhodes
San Diego, Col. June 27. The death has occurred to-day of MATE. M. Rhodes, the novelist. -Reuter
BANK NOTES RECOVER
Full Value Now
"Attained
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
(BY NO QUARTER ")
It is a journalist's first duty not did take a glasse of Hollands
But Lord! how inclement were the elements.
to disappoint his public. I owe waters with Mr. Muley and Mr. my readers à humble and sincere Foveygrub. apology. When I promised last. week to publish the fearless re- miniscences of Anna Siipitova, world-adventuress and arch-apy, I was reckoning without Mrs. Marina: sponsor of the Cleanser and Duller Hong Kong movement.
Mrs. Marina, who sinca the Inception of the Marcus Show has been confined to her bed with was so stirred by my an-
&
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Editor (gently)-Are you quite sure
you aren't making a mistake? I mean. I think this has been done before somewhere. Myself To my knowledge it has been done in France, Spain Cyprus, Eritrea, Naples. Editor (roughly)-Well don't do it again please. You aren't very good at it.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
(From Our Special Correspondent)nouncement that she went forth-
Canton, June 28.
with to the hotel of La Spitova. Merchanta who have business She found the arch-spy in transactions with the provincial | pair of purple lace pyjamas, amok-Heartbroken-I strongly advise you government от the militarying an Assyrian cigarette in a authorities: to-day presented bills long brass holder. She was play→ for collection on various accounts, fully tapping a hypodermic syringe which had remained unpaid from against her jewelled teeth. June 11 to June. 27.
The so-called "moratorium was officially explain as a means to prevent flooding the market" with notes of the Kwangtung Provincial Bank, as all expenses of the pro- vincial and military authorities are paid in such notes. It is also true that money was required for the purchase of military supplies and machinery... -
Dealers with government buyers are glad that the provincial bank- notes have recovered full value. All payments for government sup-. plies being made in paper money. these merchants suffered heavily during the depreciation period. They could not refuse payment in notes, nor could they raise the commodity prices to cover the de- felt.
With the stabilisation of the provincial notes, it is believed that foreign and Chinese business in Canton will be benefited. The Provincial Department of Finance deserves credit in bringing the notes to full value. Now the next step is to redeem the notes of the $10 denomination. At the same time, the Finance Department is planning to redeem in full value the notes of $5 and $50 issued by the defunct Central Bank of China during the administration of Mr. T. V. Soong.
Holders of the old notes have to register at the Kwangtun Provin cial Bank the amount they have. Redemption is in priority accord-
banknotes of the Provincial Bank.
in the course of the next few daysing to time of registration, and and, after a brief stay as Lassie-
holders of old notes will be given mouth, will set off on his overseas holiday. It is now probable that part of the holiday will be spent in the Canadian Rockies and he will afterwards visit Newfound- land.
Yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet was the last to be presid- ed over by the Prime Minister be- fore his departure.
Last night he was received in audience by the King, at Bucking-
Palace.
The Premier's Cabinet colleagues took the opportunity yesterday to wish him God speed and to express the hope that he would return to resume his duties in the autumn with his eyesight restored-British
Piracy is ever recurrent in the China Seas and seems to be taken for granted. In these days em clency in shipping means so much in competition that it is necessary to criticise the governments con-ham
cerned. There are two aspects of the defence against piracy. First, IN THE Goops of SIR HENRY
MEBRICK LAWSON, K.C.B, the defence of a ship and second, LATE OF 12, QUEEN'S GATE the suppression of pirates at their PLACE KENSINGTON IN. THR COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENG- Source, Are there any principles LAND, FORMERLY OF73 CALIBL that the mercantile community' MANSIONS, IN THE COUNTY or might aim at? As regards British LONDON, ENGLAND, A70XENAID A LIEUTENANT GENERAL shipping it is right and justifiable (RETIRED. IN HIS MAJESTY's that every ship salling in the in its knowledge of British prestige
China Seas and fiying the British ag should be safe. If a British TOTICE IS SEREBY GIVEN ship is not safe, then something is
that the Court has, by virtus wrong somewhere. As
ARMY, DECEASED.
of the provisions of Section 58 of stand at present the trouble Is the Probates Ordinance No. 2 of 1897. made an order limiting the time for obvious. There should be armed creditors and others to send in their guards aboard every British ship claims against the above estate to the sailing these seas. Not guards paid 2018 DAY OF JULY, 1934,
for by the companies, but British All creditors and others are accord-soldiers. The government will al- ingly hersby required to send their ways make excuses about the cost. claims to the undersigned on or before but such are no more than excuses; that date.
treasury excuses. British shipping Dated the 82nd day of June, 1934. is not subsidised and in the face
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"Put that down," said Mrs. Marina, "and listen me," | Madame Slipitova lifted her left eyebrow, and drawled,
"Surely a Hittle gauche and bourgeois. My dear good femme,
"Stop using words,"
those ridiculous Marina: snapped Mrs. "About these memoirs of yours You're not going to write them, do Fou hear?"
The arch-spy shoulders twice.
shrugged her
"And who is going to stop më. hein?" she marjed.
"Mon mot, mon mot, qool une femme."
"I am," said Mrs. Marina. "Oh, vous etes, étes vous ?**
"Ja," said Mrs. Marina, and battered her into Insensibility with her umbrella (a gift from the Bishop of Wigan on the occasion of her playing the cornet solo in the Cathedral).
But that is another story, as the lift boy said.
PEEPS AT HONG” KONG " Uppe betimes and so to the clubbe, where to my good content
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