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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. IT IS BEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of 23 per Share, subject to deduction Income Tax, has been declared for

of

the HALF FEAR ending 30th June. 1931, at the rats of 1/5. 8/4 per Dollar.

THE DIVIDEND will be paya'lo.

after on and

MONDAY, 18th AUGUST, 1934, at the offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY, 30th July, to SATURDAY, 11th August, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares Can be registered.

"By Order of the Board of Directors.

V. M. GHAYBURN, Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 11th July, 1934.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TONG CONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance

BIRTH

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934.

MONK LOSES HIS D.B. PRESTEGE

MONEY

Waylaid by Old Employees

Found Dead In A Restaurant

A monk named Yul Sam. 49, has

·made a report to the police suthorities to the effect that he wis waylaid" at 3.30 p.m. yester- day while on his way from `Tsun Wan to Kowloon and robbed of $50.

He told the police the names of his assailants, who had previously been in his employ. They asked for employment and pretended to be very interested in the old man's answers. In the midst of their conversation one of them produced

a knife and slashed at the old man's girdle while, the other held the old man to prevent him from struggling

As a result of the struggle the victim received a cut in his face through falling ten yards down the hillside. His injury fortunate- ly is not serious

KOWLOON AND CANTON LINE

Railway Receipts Question

According to a police report, the

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STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER

(By “NO QUAETER ")

Shek-O: A government. preserve, somewhat like Whipsnade, for the preservation "of curious local fauna,

NEWS SUMMARY

the

The annual general meeting of Hongkong Football Council was held at the Sports Club..yes- terday when the President, the Hon. Sir Thomas Southern appeal- alike, to "play the game." Page 10 ed to the players and spectators

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A communique issue by the Colon- ial Secretary last evening contain- ∙ed the names of "the gentlemen

dead body of European was The proposals and counter-code, rigidly prohibits Tramways removed from the Wellington proposals for the extension of the and work in the afternoon. Cafe, at 113, Des Voeux Road Cen- Peak Tramway to the Queen's tral to the Public Mortuary last Road Devel have aroused storm night.

of controversy. Mrs Marina was The dead body was identided as loud in her condemnation of the that of D. B. Prestege, an old man, | scheme and spoke for forty Compradora: A high Chinese appointed to the Commission to in-. who was born in Hong Kong and minutes at the Womanly Woman's | Naval Officer engaged in the Anti-quire into the Tragte Depression who was a familiar figure in the Guild in this connection. streets of the Colony, being well

Picture to yourself." she said, known in the Happy Valley dis-

what will happen when the quiet trict. It is reported that he col- decent citizens of Wapchat and lapsed after entering the restaur-West Point can no longer keep ant and ordering some food.

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TOBACCO TAX

Change Of Control

Nanking, June, 29-Beginning

themselves aloof from the pleasure-loving scum that inhabit the upper levels. You all know of the orgles that take place, nightly on the Peak, where young girls are bathed in champagne..."

At this point Mrs. Ruglinson, who was again very drunk, was heard asking for the address. She. was carried out, singing » “Fiza! Fizz G'ime samfzz!"

NO MORE PLEASE froin July 1, the Tobacco and Wine License Tax, which has hitherto The power of the Press has been been collected as National Re demonstrated to me in the most venue, will be transferred to the remarkable manner. For the be control of the Provincial authori, neft of those treacherous” dogs ties with a view to facilitating the who missed last Friday's exquisite readjustment of Provincial finan- | little trifle, I repeat it below. ces. It is announced at the Minis- try of Finance.

Personal: Will the gentleman who took my wife from the cloak The Stamp Tax Bureaux and room of the Hong Kong Club" in the Tobacco and Wine Tax Bureaux mistake for his own kindly return in the different provinces have the same to No. 10868 the Peak been instructed, to wind up im- when I shall have much pleasure (From Our Special Correspondent) mediately those affairs relating in restoring his own.". A simple Canton, July 12. to the Tobacco and Wine License advertisement I should have Formal negotiations for Brevi-Tax The license forms, however, thought. Yet up to date 43 com- sion of the Canton-Kowloon Rail-will continue to be printed by the pletely strange wives have been yay agreement is to take place Ministry of Finance, for the pur-left on my doorstep: some of them to-day at Hong Kong. The Chin-pose of securing Uniformity-Kuo have become extremely attached ese section is represented by three Min. pfficials from the Ministry of Rail- ways and three others appointed by the Kwangtung Provincial Gov- ernment.

The first agreement was conclud. ed in March 3, 1907 and was sign- ed by Mr. Tang Shao Yi on behalf of the Chinese Government. The' Anglo-Chinese ·Corporation, advan- URQUHART-At Kaltaurata, Newced £1,410,000 to the Chinese see

Zealand, on June 23, 1934, to tion for the construction of this Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Urquhart, a son.

DEATHS

4, 1934; at MANDEL-On July

Cleveland, Ohio, USA., Edith Mandel, younger daughter of Mr. A. E. Mandel

LEE-On Thursday, July 5, 1934,

line.

The length of this railway is 113 indles. The Chinese section begins

ANGLO-FRENCH NAVAL

DISCUSSIONS

London, July 11, In the continuation of the Anglo-French bilateral naval con- versations, experts attached to the British and French delegations were again in consultation-yester-

day.

from Canton Shumchun at a dis- Sir John Simon, Foreign Secre- tance of 89 miles, while the Bri-tary, said in the House of Com- tish section runs from Chumchun mons that he proposed to make to. Kowloon at a distance of 23 a statement on the subject of this miles. Although the British sec-week's conversations between him- French Foreign at his residence, 39 Moulmeintion is one-fourth of the total dis- self and the

the Road. Shanghai, Lee Kung tance, Its share is 35 per cent, of Minister in London during

the receipts.

course of the foreign afairs de- Doo, aged 48 years.

bate in the Commons on Friday. As the Kowloon section is 20 per-British Wireless, cent. of the total distance, the Chinese section desires that. the British section takes its share ac-

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HONG Kowa, JULY 13, 1934.

CHILDREN'S PLAY. GROUNDS

cording to the ratio of mileage.

to me, but the thing can't go on Will everybody please realize that I am suited, the position is filled. My own wife is still at large.

SOME DEFINITIONS

Military: A guild of penurious unemployed men, supported by the Government The exact purpose of their presence in the colony has long since been forgotten. Their

CONSTITUTIÓN FOR CHINA REVISED

High Powers To Be Vested With President

"F

Shanghai, July 1. China will have a president and he will be vested with high politi- cal and military powers, if the

According to an official of the SINGAPORE'S CHINATOWN dratt constitution to be published

railway, the receipts of the rail- way have fallen off during recent months to $5,000 day The in- come six months ago was $7,000 a day and 8.000 during Saturdays and Sundays. The decreasing busi- ness is due to the high fares as compared with steamers.

Trust.

from various

| Firacy Campaign.

PERSONAL

between The Hon. Mrs. Gertrude The engagement is announced

Marina (nee Gudge) and Dr. Axei Aufgang of Pretzel Norway. The wedding will take place quietly next Friday at a time and place to he appointed by the Bridegroom.

Flossie Eyes: Same place,' Same time, Same thing.

TAILPIECE

SONGS OF LITTLE MEN

The Beak

He rose in majesty above the bench: The Court was silent with

reverend' awe,'

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He spoke:

No power in heaven or earth

can quench

The grave impartial fire of the

law.

In the Colony. It will be found