HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1935.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNIVERSARY OF PARIS
THE HONGKONG AND KOW- LOON” WHARF AND GODOWN
COMPANY, "LIMITED.
NOTICE bereby gives that at Extraordinary General Meeting of the above nam d Company will be held at the Board Room of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co., 'd, Padder Street. Victoris in the Colony of Hong Kong on Thursday, the Seventh day of March, 1935, immediately after the Annual General Meeting of Share holders of the Company which is to be held there at 12 Noon on that day when the sebjoinal resolations will be proposed as Special Resolutions:-
That the authorised capital of
HONGKONG AND SHANGWAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE is hereby given that the ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., 18, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 23rd February, 1935, at 11,30a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directora together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 81st Decembor, 1934.
The Register of Shares of the Cor poration will be closed from Monday, the 11th February, to Saturday, the 28rd February, 1935, (both days in-
HONG KONG PHILARMONIC SOCIETY
HIAWATHA
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE
$
Company (which is now 31,0.0,000,00 elusive), during which period no THURSDAY, 7th
consisting of 80,000 shares of the nominal value of 850.00 each the whole of which have been issued) be increased to $8,000,000.00 by the creation of 80,000 additional shares of the nominal value" of 350 00 each" ranking (subject as
transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Director,
V M. GRAYBURN, ·
Chief Manager. hereinafter Hong Kong, 1st February, 1935. mentioned) aa from the date of allotment for dividend and all other respects pari pasau with the shares comprising the Company's present capital.
2-That 1000 of the said now shares be offered in the first instance (in the pro, ortion of cau new shars for every comple a number of sight old shares held by them respecti vely) to the members of the Com- pany who on the seventh day of March, 1933, are registered in the Company's share register as the holders of the said 80,00 existing shares at a premium of $25.00 por shares and upon the footing that the full amount of each share taken up plus the said premium of 825,0 (making together $76.00 per share) shall be paid to the Company on acceptance of the offer, such abares so taken up not to participate in any divident declared before the tat day of July, 1935, but to participate in any dividend declared thereafter pro rata with the existing capital. And that the said offer be made by Notice specifying the number of sharea to which the member is entitled and limiting the time with- in which the offer if not accepted by the member on behalf of himself or
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THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT THE THIRTY. SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF THIS COMPANY will be held at the Office Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Tuesday, the 12th February, 1935, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 1st December, 193.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, the 4th February, 1985 to Tuesday, the 12th February, 1935, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
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his nominee will be deemed to be Hong Kong, 25th January, 1935. ̧* declined and that the Directors of the Company shall be at liberty to fix such time. And further that any
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of the said 10,000 shares which are not taken up by the Company's shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of in auch manner at such "time or times and upon such terms
the Company's
a! Board Directors shall in their absolute discretion think. ft. "3-Thst no shareholder shall be entitle to any offer of a fraction of an add tional share in respect of any odd shares held hy such share holder.
4.--That the remaining 70,000 new shares be issued at sach time or times and upon such terms as the Company's Board of Directors in their absolute discretion shall think
üt.
The transfer books of the Company will be closed from Friday, the 22nd day of February, 1935, to Thursday, the 7th day of March, 1935, both dates inclusive during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
Dated the eighth day of February,
By Order of the Board,
CRAPNELL,
1935.
Secretary.
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DIOCESAN SCHOOL OLD
BOYS ASSOCIATION..
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned that it has now been brought to their notice
that the words “ Vè-Tain" and the
Chinese characters"" form ac integral part of the registered trade mark of the Tien Chu Ye-Tsin manufacturing Company of Shang- hai and that they have the exclusive right to the use of the same in connection with gourmet or flavour- ing powder. As the words "V-Tsin" and the Chinese characters #also appear in a registered trade mark of the undersigned The Yik Ngo Foodstuff Chemical Com- pany, they have by arrangement given an undertaking to the Tien Oha Ve-Tain Manufacturing Com- pany that they will not in future sell y flavouring powder with any mark bearing the words V-Taln?
MARCH
SATURDAY, 9th
MARCH
At 9.15. P.M.
BOOK THESE DATES
DEATHS
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| DAWSON.—Suddenly, on January 31, at Mildura, Victoria, Aus- tralia, Capt. William Dawson, late of the Singapore Pilot Association. GOF-Cheng Chew aged 78 passed away peacefully at his re- sidence No. 487 Sinis Avenue February 1
Editorial and Business "Off"
Ice House Street. Tel 80251 Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel. 94511.
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London Office: 63, Fleet Street,
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG. FEBRUARY 8, 1935.
SIGNS OF RECOVERY IN
SHIPPING
Both optimism and pessimism the figures that might be excited appear in the new return of the amount of British shipping laid up In our ports were read. carelessly. But if they are examined carefully it will be seen that the right con- cluston is well-founded hope of the. future.
There was a great reduction of
lale tonnage during 1934. When the year began 477, ships, mäking. 1,226,813 Let tous, were laid up. When it ended the figures were 318
and 884,922. The decrease is even or the Chinese Characters" "more striking if we were to look and will further apply to the proper further back In July, 1933, the authorities for the rectification of the
totals were '788 ships and 1,945,709 mark of the undersigned by deleting therefrom the said words objected to. Dated this 7th day of February, 1935.
THE YIK NGO FOUD-STUFF
CHEMICAL COMPANY.
HONG KONG
ment.
THE Annual General Meeting and IN THE SUPREME COURT OF amount scrapped. THE Annual General the socia tion will be held in the Chinese Merchants Club-China Building, on
·February 23rd., 1995, at 700.p.m.. and 8.00 p.m respectively.
It is hoped that all Old Boys will be present at both the above.
Tickets can be obtained at the following places :-
B. C. Randall-Benjamin & Potts,"
Ice House Street.
P. H. Sia-P. H. Sin & Co.,
14, Queen's Road C.
W. N. Thomas Tam-Bank
China Building.
of
J. L. Young Saye43 Camber
land Road, Kowloon Tong. "Kenneth Oban-Gande, Price &
Co.
Ewok Chan-Banque de Llado. Chine, French Bank Building. Peter Wong-A. 3. Watson & Co.,
Alexandra Building, Wong Sik Chung-H. K. &
Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. "Dr. "Arthur Woo-China Building T. 8. W. Chan-Diocesan
Boya'
School.
(Signed) T. 8. W. CHAN,
Hon Secretary.
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PROBATE JURISDICTION,
Is Tax Goops or GREGORIO TOLENTINO, LATE OF PHILIPPINE MANILA IN TEL ISLANDS, GENTLEMAN, DECEASED.
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DISTURBANCES
Communist Gang Plans Foiled By Police
Paris, Feb. 6
Special to the Hong Kong Dalls Prem" (Copyright,) } The elaborate precautions taken to prevent violent disturbances in the neighbourhood of Palace de la Concorde on February 6, the first anniversary of the collisions be-
tween street crowds and mounted
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
(BY "NO QUARTER ")
called
With the passing of the China clusions, They arrested a deaf and New Year, my purse and my head dumb piano" tuner
Bob are both empty. My tongue is Trumpeter. covered with enough fur to make "You wait till the boys get an overcoat for an elephant. Why through" with him," said Bubberley
forcibly removed. As M. Flandin's do we do these things? These mad Jones "He'll be talking so fast. motor car left the Cathedrai atmerrymakings and head-shattering that we'll need a machine to take
debauches. As Chaucer said, way it down." the conclusion of the service, a
back:
band of Camelot du Rol-Royalist agitators-gathered round hissing, whistling and cat-calling.
On the very day of the anniver- sary the Paris civil court pronoun-
"When ye newè yeare is inne...
Onde carlys (1) clippit (2) bye Caveat ye demon ginns," Rum lyke foultě (3) fiendě fiye
Dr. Aufgang studied a different angle of the case, and set to work with a powerful microscope, several strips of photographic calico," and la pair of electric bellows. He was
to theorise rashly.
ced its verdict in an action against Notes: (1) 4 species of Siberian reticent about his work, and refused
the State and City of Paris for police when twenty persons were compensation for injuries received
shot dead, a proud inccents through the police shooting on
Do serious untoward incidents the crowd. A fur dealer was shot having been reported. The
through the head and completely. Government had strictly forbidden
demanded 000,000 any kind of assembly, demonstra paralysed. He
francs and was awarded $50.000,- tion and procession, but permitted, Transocean Kuo Min. the near relatives of those killed last year as well as representatives of patriotic societies to lay wreaths on the fountain at the centre of the Palace Concorde in memory of the dead. Many more persons than relatives made use of this
permission with the result that there was a very large number of wreaths.
The police and mobile guards did not relax vigilance all day. `It was solely owing to the wealth of noral offerings that the public of the hardly noticed that four monuments on the square on the side nearest to the river Seine, that is those representing the cities of Lyons, Marseilles, Nantes and Bordeaux had been squirted on Tuesday night with red paint by Communists. Four boys were seen committing the act. Three of them escaped while one was ar- rested. He turned out, to be & jóbless shoemaker.
EARLY MORNING, ARRESTS (Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press") (By Taligraph," Copyright, Tele
Ordinance, 1894- graphic Massager Received, February 7, 4.30 p.m.)
Paris, Feb. 7.
dag-
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Yew tree.
(2) Detruncated or pollard-
ed. (ef Schlopp)... " (3) Henderson spells this word foule," but Father Gudge's "foulle" is gen- erally accepted by the experts.
"I think its an inside job." he muttered. "But it doesn't quite fit. There's a link missing yet."
HOT RHYTHM
Lovers of dance music will be i overjoyed to hear that a first class
EDITOR: What foolery is this? Are Hot dance combination is ex- these lines really by Chaucer?pected to perform "shortly in this Or are
you indulging your colony. This is MOZES MUSIC. probably the most advanced collec- Idiotic" ass's laugh again? MYSELF: What do you think?tion of rhythmiclans in the Terp
Would I dare to publish any- thing bogus in your worthy and august columnis? EDITOR: (doubtful) No, old boy,
but
MYSELF: (with a mighty guffaw). Then think again old spavin- bosom.
sichorean arena.
"
First saxophonists Edward (Bugs) Grillaway, whose rendering of the E fat alto part in "Passing No Wind" was the sensation of the
axperts.
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"Dolly" Gugheim plays the trombone, and proposes to give imitations of Hong Kong talpans on this instrument.
•
At 3 o'clock on Thursday morn- ing the number of arrested per- 50s are stated to be 1,200, many of whom carried revolvers, gers, razors, "life preservers" and even, rags aoaked in paraffin. Gen- crally speaking, thanks to extreme Precautions taken by the authori-there is sterner stuff afort. ties on February 6th' (the "anal- Easy with that siphon; Padre."
"MASKED BLONDE MYSTERY versary of the Paris riots) day passed off quietly...
The Masked Blonde and her mys-star thermal outfit. terious gang of attractive young
Get going boys; one, twoł
the
But away with such windy tries:
In the late hours Communist gangs tried to proceed to the Palace de la Concorde. The Po- females, have repeated their
Judged threats upon my. person. lice, however, got scent. of the
Last Tuesday I received an anony- Reds' intention and acting swift-
mous letter dated October 14, (why ly prevented them from carrying out their plans. Some forty Com-throw me off the scent). It ran as I cannot imagine, but probably to
follows:-
"You lousy yellow rat,
vere
munists armed with revolvers tried TORRENT OF ABUSE
to proceed. to Elysee, but they Memorial services were held in were surrounded by the guardians several leading churches, the chief of the law and arrested. The po being that at Cathedral Notre / Lice ordered the taking away of Dame which was attended by M. an immense heap of flowers and
which Flandin, numerous deputies, State wreaths
stacked oficials and representatives of house-high on the fountain in the pubile organisations. While the centre of the Palace de Concorde. ceremony was proceeding a mem- ber of the Royalist Action Fran- caise who had worked his way near M. Flandin began pouring cut a torrent of abuse until he was
COMMUNIST DRIVE
Officers And Men Captured
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
The flowers and wreaths were
shifted to the cemetery where the bodies of the victims last year were buried Y Transocean Rua Min.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE
Network Over Nine
Provinces
(Special to the Hong Kong Daily Press Copyright:).3
I've thought of something "to do to you if you don't play ball, so lay off the Moll-racket. And I mean nothing but Or else.
BLONDIE."
It was a message calculated to alarm even the most atout-hearted, but without a qualm I handed It ever to the two experts who are at present working the case,- Detective Inspector Bubberley Jones, and Dr. Axel Aufgang. They examined the envelope for finger
prints, and swiftly made their con-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
A telegram addressed to "Milla Ebenezer Pokfulum from Singa pore is lying unclaimed at the office of the Eastern Extension | Telegraph Co...
Eddie Rinowsky, hero of "Thats my nohow” “Old man Scat,” and "Bicycling to Bromwich" tickles: a pleasant marimbaphone in this all-
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· TAIL PIECE
A Song of Wine Once a mighty poet said: "He who never drinks is dead.".
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Therefore I sing of rosy wine That winks on the lips of glasses, That makes all fools feel clever
men,"
...
And clever men seem asses.
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When Adam first, was made,
A very wise creator. Gave him a world both fair and
great,
And wine to make it greater.
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Never scorn the gift of wine: 49 Lift your glasses up to mine. Drink as much as you are able,
One, two, three, four, five, six.—
(hic) and under the table.
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