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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WM. POWELL, LIMITED

NOTICE

IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-8fth Or. dinary General Meeting of Share holders will be held at the Regis tered Office of the Company, 6, Des Voeux Road Central. on Thursday, 25th June, 1936 at 11.30 am. for the purpose of res celving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended. 29th February, 1936, and electing Directors and Audi

tors.

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The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 12th June, 1936, to 25th June, 1936, both dates inclusive during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board.

W. L. ALEXANDER,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 11th June, 1936.

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THE RAUR AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in Queensland)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Share Registers of the Company will be closed From Monday, 22nd June 1936, to Friday, 3rd July 1936 (both days inclusive).

By Order of the Board,

DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,

Local Secretaries. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 8th June, 1936,

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BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. TIENTSIN

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ON HIS MAJESTY'S

SERVICE

Tenders are invited for the supply of Painters and Scrapers (and painting work), Caulkers (and tanking work).

Forms of tender can be obtain ed at the Office of the Chief Constructor, H. M. Dockyard, Hong Kong, and should be Ülled in and returned, as indicated in Tender Form not later than noon on Saturday, 20th June, 1936.

A. W. WATSON,

Chief Constructor.

GOLD OUTELOW FROM FRANCE

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Strike Movement Affects Finance

Paris, June 9. The outflowing stream of gold, checked yesterday.

recommenced to-day.

Most of it is going to the United States.

The new selling movement de- velpped from the protraction of the strike and also from appre- hension arising out of M. Leon Blum's New Deal" with the nigh- el production costs looming ahead of industry

French securities slumped fur- ther on the Bourse. with the single exception of the Banque de France shares.-

Neuter.

-HOLLAND'S LOSS

Amsterdam. June 9..

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 11," 1936.`

BIRTH LAMPEN.-On" June 4, 1936, to Clare (née Lambe) wife of L- Comdr. D. Lampen, R.N., a son.".

MARRIAGE

LARGE-FRASER.—On

QUEEN MARY AT JAPANESE

CHERBOURG

Slow Speed Owing To Fog

London, June 10.

June 5. 1038. at H.B.M. Consulate General, before Mr. J, W. O. Davidson, and at the Church of Christ the King. Shanghai, by the Rev. Father MacDonald, S.J.. Mary Catherine Chisholm, eldest daughter of Mrs, and the late Mr. J. S. C. Fraser of Victoria, BC, to George Cur-morning that the official time of ford, only son of Mr. and the late Mrs. Frederick, Large, of Shanghai,

It is announced from the bridge of the liner Queen Mary this

crossing from Ambrose Light to was 111} Cherbourg breakwater hours, the distance being 3.198 miles-Reuter

FOURTH HOLD-UP

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DEATHS GREAVES-On May 31, 1935, at Shanghal. Cecil Keat Greaves,

Cherbourg, June 10. aged 50 years.

After a further two hours' fog TRIGO-On the 8th instant at delay-the fourth such hold-up York-the Funchal (Madeira) Mrs. Ade- since she left New lalde Trigo, widow of the late Queen, Mary arrived at 9.55' this Col. Adriano Trigo. Deeply morning, the tune being four days regretted.

[4493. sixteen hours at an average speed

of 28) knots.

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Editorial and Business Office; 11,

Ice House Street, Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53. Fleet Street

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, JUNE 11, 1936.

CORONATION ĐẢY

From the courtyard of St. James's Palace, Garter King of Arms, with his attendant heralds. proclaimed to a listening Empire that it was the pleasure of King for his crowning on May 12, 1937. Edward VIII. to go to Westminster

To the King's remote ancestors, who were but Dukes of Normandy

Holland lost a further £5.500 C00 worth of gold, according to the weekly statement of the Nether- lands Bank, and at the same t'me the banknote circulation was limuntil the very moment when the nished by only about £3.000 000.- Reuter.

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TO HOLD FIRM Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)

Amsterdam, June 9: The Minister of Finance, speak- ing in the Second Chamber on Tuesday, declared that the Dutch Government would continue to hold firm to the Gold "Standard, adding that there had now been enough discussions on this ques MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATIO!tion, so that the Government had

nothing new to propose direction- jannincean News Service

No. 21/36.

VACANCY FOR DEPUTY ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, is prepared to receive applications for appointment to the position of DEPUTY ELEC. | TRICAL ENGINEER.

In this

DEGREE CEREMONY

IN CAMBRIDGE

Premier To Attend

Lorodn.. June 9. M. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Candidates must be Chinese, Minister, has left for Cambridge who hold degrees in Electrical where he will attend the con- Engineering from

gregation for conferring degrees recognized universities, and who have had of the University, of which he is several years experience in, Among the recipients of degrees Electricity Power Station work. will be Lord Hailsham and Lord They must be conversant with Willingdon, the retiring Viceroy of

Chancellor.

1.

The liner is expected to arrive at Southampton at 4 o'clock this afternoon.-

Reuter's Bulletin Service.

SCOTTISH JUDGE PASSES

Lord Murray"

PROTEST NEWS SUMMARY

TO NANKING

Student Demonstration Near Consulate

BRITONS MAY

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EVACUATE

SOUTH HUNAN

Nanking, June. 10.

The Japanese authorities have lodged a vigorous protest with the Foreign Office against an anti-Japanese demonstration by a thousand students in front of the Japanese Consulate here at noon.Reuter.

BRITISH WARNING

Hankow, June 10. The British Consul at Changsha has issued a provisional warning for evacuation of Britons in South Hunan.

H.M.S. Scarab left for Changsha last night:

The situation appears to be calm with the Government troops at present following their policy of withdrawal.--

London, June 10. The death has occurred of Lord | Keuter, Murray, the Scottish Judge, in his 10th yeär.-

Reuter,

Charles David Murray, who "be- came a Privy Councillor in 1922, Was Judge of the Court of Session, Scotland, since that year.

He was Major of Forth Division R.E, retired in 1907, Staff Captain at the War Office 1916-17, "Lieut.-

SHANGHAI AGITATION

Shanghai, June 10. Anti-Japanese agitation has spread to Shanghal and a group of students from Kwangsi has ar- rived to spur on the activities of their Shanghai colleagues who are planning a general strike.

Competent observers are of the opinion that the financial crisis In South China, following Nan- king's currency reforms Jast November, is the root of the whole trouble. Nanking being expected to alleviate it with money payments. Peuter,

NORTH CHINA CUSTOMS

Commons Questions

London, June 10." In the House of Commons to-day replying to Mr. V. La T. McEntee (Lab., W. Walthamstow) and Mr. A. C. Moreing (Con.. Preston), Mr. Anthony Eden said that no specific assurance has been received from Japan

Chinese Customs Customs officers will not be pre- vented from carrying out their

that of National

Colonel in Army (temporary) in 1917, and Director

"He Services for Scotland

Edinburgh in 1910. also Unionis Candidate for South

FIFTEEN PEOPLE

KILLED

Serious Train 'Accident In Italy

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Crown was set upon their brows, so long a postponement of the ceremony would have seemed a dangerous tempting of Providence; for who knew if some dynastic rival might not steal march upon the lawful heir and reach the Hong Kong Daily Press" Special} Abbey first? No such misgivings any longer beset the occupant of the most impregnable Throne on earth, and King's Edward's officers. of state can afford to prepare without haste for the celebration of a pageant that must draw together from the ends of the earth an assembly of his subjects

a has never met before. Yet, for all the vastness of the multitudes and the pomp and glitter of the appurtenances, a coronation is in Its essence a curiously domestic thing. All its symbolism is a re- minder of how the government of England and the Empire has developed through the centuries out of the administration of the King's 'private household. The Palace and Abbey of Westminster are but his home and his parish church; and the exalted function- arles who make the splendour of

Naples, June. 10. Fifteen persons were killed and about two hundred intured when a train was derailed on the local railway connecting Naples with a little town called Nola. The cause of the disaster has not yet been

ascertained...

Pranpocean Waves Service.

ANOTHER REPORT ·

Rome, June 10. Fifteen persons are known to have been killed and many others are feared to be dead, while two hundred were injured when

a

workman's train was derailed at Bufola at the foot of Mount Vesuvius.--

Reuter,"

The

AMERICA WINS POLO MATCH

Hurlingham, June 10. International polo match for the Westchester Cup resulted America beating England' by ten goals to mine.

in India and former Governor-Gene-

the control, maintenance, and reral of Canada, who wil be given pair, of modern Steam Turbines, the honorary degree of Doctor of Alternators, Water-tube bollers Law.

etc. They should also be able to Peuter's Bulletin Service. supervise the installation of

London, June 9. Transformer Sub-stations and Mr. Stanley Baldwin, as Chan- Transmission

cellor of University, presided ar and Distribution

Cambridge to-day at a special con- systems, including overhead

gregation in the Senate House for mains of 5000 volts tension. A granting of honorary degrees, knowledge of the construction, Among the distinguished IA- repair and test of domestic elec- cipients were Lord Willingdon, ex- trical appliances is also desirable, Viceroy of India and Lord Chan-

cellor Lord Hall häm.-

In addition to A thorough | British Wireless. knowledge of English candidates must be able to speak the North- ern Chinese language fluently.

The successful candidate will receive a salary of $600 per month from the date upon which he takes up his duties in Tientsin.

He will be upon probation for a

MOUNT EVEREST

EXPEDITION

the occasion are not his Prime Ministers, and Secretaries of State. but his domestic servants of long ago-his butler and his chamber- lain and the man who looked after the stables. The glory with which they are invested for the day is a proclamation of the dignity of service, and especially of service to the common weal, of which the King is consecrated to be the em- bodiment.

There was no change in the teams. Reuter

A new secret society, known as the All-China National Salvation Association, is actively engaged in propaganda work in favour of cause with the making commen Chinese Reds against the Japan- duties. ¿se.

Reuter

CANTON-NANKING PEACE

Shanghai, June 30, All classes of Chinese in Shang- hal and Canton, where the cur- rency crisis is causing widespread bankruptcies, demand peace at any price between Nanking and Canton, which is universally re- garded as the real issue, Japanese aggression being merely camou-. age to cover Southern demands

on Nanking.

WANG CHING WEI'S HEALTH

Berlin, June 9,

"It seems to be a simple case where my Cilent has been vic- tmised

A by sleight-of-hand trick, commented Mr. D. H. Blake when he defended Chan Fal-nam, 22. assistant employed at the.. money-changer's shop on the Hong Kong Star Ferry whart, be- tore Mr. Balfour at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of larceny by a trick of $5.

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"When the right hand of a Government Department does not know what the left hand is doing. then it is awkward for the public.” remarked Mr. C. A. S. Russ. ap pearing on behalf of Ng Kam- shan, summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magis-

tracy yesterday, for using the ground floor of No. 134 Queen's Road East as a restaurant without a licence on May 22.

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The action brought by Messrs. Com- Rajaram Girdharilali and pany. of Bombay, claiming $92.- 862.75 from the Dollar Steamship Line was abruptly ended at the when Supreme Court yesterday the trial judge. Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, held there "was not suff- cient evidence for the case to ga before the special jury who, inci- dentally, were not present.

Judgment was given for the de- fendants.. with costs.

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Lady Caldecott, wife of Hg Ex- cellency the Governor, arrived in the Colony from Home by the P. & O. liner Corfu yesterday, and was met by His Excellency, who was accompanied by his A.D.C., Captain W. J. R. Crags