1937-01-08 — Page 8

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.

GOVERNMENT BILLS,

etc.

TENDERS for DOLLARS current in this Colony, for tele. graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the sum of £128,000 will be re ceived by the Treasury Chest Oficer, Command Pay Office, un- tl 11 o'clock a.m. on the 8th January, 1937.

The tenders to state the total "amount (in pounds sterling); No telegraphic transfer will be made for less than £100,

The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com mand Pay Office, and endorsed "Tender for Government Bills,

etc."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is re- served.

Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.

"Persons tendering for (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and 41. George III Cap. 52 the accep: tance of any such Tender is sub. lect to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract

thereby made for the allotment

of such (Bills)."

"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Com. pany in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company."

L. J. LIGHTFOOT, .

Colonel, R. A. P. C., Treasury Chest Officer

His Majesty's Treasury Olliec, Hong Kong.

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NEW TERRITORIES AGRICULTURAL SHOW 1937.

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

His Excellency The Governor, SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT,

Kt., C.M.G., C.B.E. SATURDAY and SUNDAY, 9th and 10th Jan., 1937 at

SHEK WU HUI Near Sheung Shul Railway Station,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY

Editorial

and BusinesSS Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchai Omics);

Tel. 24511.

London OMee: 53. Fleet Street

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The Daily Press.

BONG KONO, JANUARY 8, 1937,

Safety In The Air

Reduced fare by the Kowloon Canton Railway on both days,

Accidents to passenger aircraft on the 10.16 a.m., 12.12 p.m., make so deep an impression that 1.25 p.m. and 1.50 p.m. Trains there is a natural tendency to from Hong Kong to Sheung exaggerate their frequency. Shui, returning on any train On British services, travellers from Sheung Shui after 1 p.m. :—can insure themselves at the same rate as if they were going by rail or sea.

First Class Second Class

$2.25 1.50

Third Class ....... .75

for the round trip.

Nevertheless, the development of air transport calls for the most careful insistence on the safety

Tickets are effective for the day factor. of purchase only.

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CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

LOST

DUTCH CAPITAL

EN FETE

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streets cheering themselves hoarse in their enthusiasm.

The civil ceremony was per- formed by the Burgomaster of The Hogue and a copy of the entry in, the register was. Immediately sent to the Court Chaplain, Dr. Obbink, who officiated at the church cere- mory.

"I WILL FOLLOW THEE-

After Dr. Obbink has concluded his address for which he took as his text the Psalm "I will follow thee with mine, eyes," the actual marriage ceremony was performed by the retired Court Chaplain. Welter, who had baptised and

christened the bride.

All the bells of every church in

the city pealed out as the newly- wedded couple left the portals of the church and took their seats as man and wife in the state coach. Cheers of-jubilation were

unending as the procession re-

traced its way through the streets and passed the overcrowded tri- bunes, onlookers from all sides waving and shouting their good wishes.

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At the portals of the Royal Castle the newly-married couple were received in state by the The

A very useful reform has been made by the establishment of the Air Registration Board which will be responsible for the air chief Court Chamberlain. worthiness of all civil aircraft | ofacial part of the proceedings plying for hire, except liners were thereby terminated, being rarrying more than ten passen-character in Noorlinde Castle.

followed by a reception of family gors. For those the Air Ministry remains responsible.

In the course of the afternoon Princess Juliana and her husband Notice is hereby given that

This arrangement was recum will depart on their honeymoon application has been made to this ended by Lord Gorell's Com- trip to a winter sport resort--

Transocean News Service. Company to issue to the regis.mittee three years ago. tered shareholder named below a duplicate certificate for the shares covered by the following original certificate, upon state ment that such priginal certificate

has been lost :-

From 1992 the Air Ministry has been assisted in dealing with civil Joint Aviation aviation by a

Advisory Committee formed from the Committee of Lloyd's Regis- ter and the British Corporation Aviation Committee.

Lord Gorell's report advised that this body should be recon-

Certificate No. 22829, dated 3rd February, 1934, for 200 shares numbered 1523707/1523906 in-

stituted as a statutory, autono clusive, registered in the name of Miss Kwok Yin Choi, care of ous and executive Air Regis The Wing On Bank, Ltd., Hong!tration Board. There has been Kong.

some opposition to the proposal on grounds of finance and limita- tion of powers. It is satisfactory to find that agreement has been reached within a few months of the passing of the Air Navigation Act which provided authority for

And notice is hereby given MACAO JOCKEY CLUB. that, if within thirty days from the date hereof no claim or re The January Race Meeting prescutation in respect of such will be held on Sunday, 10th original certificate is made to the January, 1937 at Arela Preta, Company, the Company will pro- Macao, commencing at 2.00 p.m.ceed to deal with the application

The first saddling Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

By order,

S. W. CHENG,

Secretary, 1937

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of

ROBERT MORTON DYER late of Beck Head Withers- Jack in the County of West- morland In the United Kingdom, deceased,

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such manner and on such terms as the Directors of the Company may decide.

the Board.

Air transport, construction and insurance will all have their

members, and the powers con ferred should be ample to ensure" By Order of the Board of that our commercial aircraft are Directors,

maintained at the highest and most reliable efficiency.

NOEL BRAGA,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 24th Dec., 1936,

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RETURN OF WANG CHING WEI

DEATH FOR DRUG. PEDLARS

Shanghai, Jan. 7. The determination of the local authories to stamp out the drug evil was to-day re-affirmed by Mr. Tai L, chier of the Narcotic Narcotic Section

BRILLIANT GATHERING

The Hague, Jari. 7. Princess Jullana's wedding day opened with fine weather and a

cloudless sky. The crowds were early astir and troops took up positions along the route before

dawn, all positions or vantage in "the neighbourhood of Groote Kerk town hall being occupied at an early hour.

joicing.

Amid scenes of tumultuous re- Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard were married in the historie Groote Kerk. The included brilliant gathering of Royal guests 33 members of Royal Familles from Britain, Germany and other countries."

Through gaily beflagged streets

1937.

FIRST SCOTS QUEEN EMPRESS

The first Scottish Queen-Empress of Great Britain and the Dominions has won an enduring place in the affections of the people, especially in Scotland, as the Duchess of York. Her Majesty was married to

the Duke of York in Westminster Abbey in April, 1923.

THE HAPPY COUPLE the Royal couple drove in the famous golden coach in state

Princess Jultana, on account of procession. first to the town her own personality as well as her hall where the civil ceremony was royal mother's splendidly gracious solemnised and then to Groote service on the throne of Holland,

Kerk for the religious ceremony.commands, widespread admiration Princess Juliana wore a beauti- and lively interest. Romante sure- ful dress draped with ivory and satin. She was attended by twelve bridesmaids dressed in rainbow hues, while Prince Bernhard wore full dress uniform of Captain of the Blue Hussars.---- Beuter's Bulletin Service,

WEATHER IMPROVES

ly attaches to a young man whose ancestry is traced back to the an- clent Germany of the 12th Century. Bernhard 1-Princess Juliana's flance is Bernhard too-received bis land and the title of Lord of Lippe from the Emperor Lothair. He himself claimed as his forbear

a certain Hoold of the 10th century,

KING GEORGE VI COINAGE

Three Artists To Share Work Of Designing

designs for the George VI coins sixpence, and the die for the I am able to announce that the crown, the forin shilling, and

have been entrusted to Mr. Kruger reverse of the half-crown was

Gray, Mr. T. H. Paget, and Mr. actually cut-a design of a sea- Percy Metcalfe, writes the London horse surrounded by waves and correspondent of the "Manchester surmounted by the royal crown, Guardian." Mr. Kruger Gray de- The reverse of the two-shilling signed the reverses of the George piece showed the rose, shamrock,

of the Chinese Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar- Varus in the Teutoburger Wald. in v coins and is also undertaking ] and thistle, growing from a central

the reverses of the new coins. Mr. stem, while that of the shilling

To-night the weather had con- Lippe itself was in early days in siderably improved, after a dren-habited by the Cherusll. The

was Arminius. ching rain had ruined the day and heroic chieftain many of the decorations.

whose annihilation of the three The German Prince Wied and legions of the Governor Quintis Nanking, Jan. 6. Mr. Wang Ching-wel, President Police Bureau, who asserted that Elsenbach, who at the last moment AD.9 gave rise to the famous cry of the Nanking Exective Yuan is the death sentence would be meted found themselves, unable to come of the Roman Emperor: "Varus. Percy Metcalfe was responsible was based on an arrangement of' expected to arrive in Hong Kong out to pedlars and manufacturers to The Hague, will be replaced as give me back my legions."

The Lords of Lippe became

Simon V ruled the principality and the diguity of prince of the empire was conferred in 1720 on Count Frederick Willian Leappold and

on the 12th instant, where friends

and representatives of the Nun- king Government are waiting to welcome. blm.

Messrs. Chow Fat-hot and Chow

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the Kal-kong, representatives of the provisions of Section 58 of Or Nanking Government will accom- dinance No. of 1897 made an pany Mr. Ching-wet back to Nan- order limiting the time for credi. king.-- tors and others to send in their Chinese Evening Press. claims against, the above estate to 30th day of January, 1937

All Creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.

DEACONS, Solicitors for the Executors,

1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

| FLEET 'MOVEMENTS

of narcotics, while addicts would groomsman and bridesmaid by

at least receive Hife imprisonment. Professor Huizinga of Leyden Uni-counts in the 16th century when ir not the death penalty...

versity and

the Baroness van Hoeckeran-van Kall, one of Frin- Reuter.

cess Juliana's ladies-in-waiting,

CAUGHT IN THE NLE

Peiping, Jan. 77 Plain-clothes police to-day be gan a round up of drug addicts. dealers and manufacturers, but

the

Dutch commercial circles are

Heuter..

man a younger son of Count Simon

the

Crown.

The Mint Committee, on second thoughts, presumably shocked by the very novelty for which they had been seeking, then decided that Mr. Dulac's dealins were un- suitable an the grounds that they

for the beautiful coinage of the | wings. Irish Free State, The head on the obverse of the new coins will be designed by Mr. Faget, and Mr. Metcalfe is doing the King's head wearing

Imperial which appears on the Indian and colonial coinage. artists were chosen to design the only Edward VIII co'nage, but after there had been some alter- cation on the subject.

These same

When at the death of George V

were neither sumciently British nor sufficiently heraldic.

pleased mightily by the request of confirmed in 1789, The Lippe Prince Bernhard to the managing. Blesterfeld branch of the family is director of the Dutch Trading Cor-descended from Count Jobst Her-

Eventually the reverses of the Edward VII coins were entrusted so far only the unfortunate ad-jporation to keep open for him a dicts got caught in the net. It is position in the business, as after Prince Bernhard of Leopold zu Lippe-Blesterfeld is a nephew

to Mr. Kruger Gray, the head on reported that about twenty were his honeymoon he proposes to re of the fast reigning Prince of the question of the coinage was

the obverse side to Mr. Paget, and taken into custody and about a sume his studies of the economic

Holland and her lippe, the principality lying in the being considered by the Mint the head wearing the Imperial dozen will be executed to-morrow. position of

north-east of Westphalia, and Committes King Edward VIII ex- crown to Metcalfe-just as they Nothing has yet been done about colonies

south-west of Hanover. Its cap- Destroyer HMS Thracian is ex-

pressed a wish for a complete are now to be for the George VI pected to arrive here from England Korcans except that the police many drug dens run by

Ital, Detmold, was the ancient breakaway from the traditional coinage. Thiatmell where, in 783, the designs of the previous reign via Singapore to-day. Other move-

BRITISH GOODWILL

If the coinage for the present have been posted outside most of

Baxons fought the troops of Char- | and asked for something,, now ments of warships Hated for to-day them and are waiting for Chinese

reign is to follow" Mr," Kruger" include the departure of HMS either calling or leaving.

Warm wishes for the future hap lemagne; it was the birthplace of and modern in spirit. The Mint Gray's Edward VIII designs, with piness of Princess Julians of the poet Ferdinand Freillgrath | Committee; therefore asked a the substitution of a new head on Capetown for Shanghai, the de- General Sung Chen-yuan has

·Holland ́and Prince Bernhard and the dramatist Christian number of artists to submit dethe obverse, we are not likely to for Canton and the arrival of the petitions from public bodies that parture of H. 1. 3. M. gunboat Saga not yet acceded to the many Lippe Blesterfeld who are belna Dietrich Grabbe. The great monu signs embodying the King's wishes and when it is issued any notable US. transport

married to-day at The Hague toment to Arminius, completed in Sir Robert Johnson, the Deputy break from the spirit of our Chaumont from 4935 Shanghai. The Chaumont will sat f he either postpone enforcement of expressed in British newspapers 1875. stands on the Grotenburg Master of the Mint, it is gathered, i George V coinage.

the law for three months or which have displayed the keepeat mountain, three miles outside the was change the penalty for addicts to interest in the preparations for: town.

particularly enthusiasticį

It is hoped to have a few of the about the opportunity for intro- fe imprisonment.-

the happy event. Reuter.

Princess Juliana, a tall blonde or ducing a new spirit into the now coins issued by the Corona- tion. The Indian and colonial. Typical comment is that of the 21, is the only child of Queen Wu- national colnagc "Morning Post" which says the hemina, and the late Prince Con-

Eventually Mr. Edmund Dulac, coins will not be ready tit later. "presence of our Thuke of Kent and sort, Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-whose design for the King's The designs for the Coronation other members of our Royal House Schwerin.

Poetry Medal of 1935 was con- medals have not yet been finally sidered by Sir George HI and approved by the King, but it is at the ceremony will be an earnest

others to be the best English known that, following precedent, of the British nation's hearty good. wishes and goodwill to the Royal

medal, produced in recent years these medals will have the emay was told that his designa were of the King on one side and that bride and her husband, to the Joy- ful people who acclaim them, and

approved, and he was commis of the Queen on the other. They will be £32,000.

sloned to proceed with models will be issued in the same two Prince Bernhard, who is 25, is Mr. Du'ac accordingly produced sizes as those struck to, com- tall and fair with blue eyes.

models of the crown, the half -memorate | George Vs Juhtes.

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HER LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE

A seventy-five-year-old Danish woman; Miss Cecilie Lutken, who is spending her declining years at sea, recently arrived in Australle

for the first time.

She made her decision seven Fears ago, and since that time she

has made several voyages to India, China and Japan.“ pardu

At present she is booked in the Danish cargo ship Stam for the duration of her voyage-which is likely to take two years

"There is nothing finer than a ses voyage," she said on arrival in Melbourne,

not least to their well-beloved sovereign Queen Wilhelmina.”— British Wircle,

Her husband will receive £26,-

000 a year from the privy purse of Queen Wilhelmina, and Frincess allana's income after marriage