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NOTICE.

HONG KONG WATER

SUPPLY

It is hereby notified that com mencing on Sunday, 14th instant. the hours of supply to all districts on the Island will be

6 am to 9 p.m.

R. M. HENDERSON,

Water Authority" Public Works Department, Hong Kong. 10th Feb., 1937.

5021

NOTICE.

1. Arthur John Mann, hereby give notice that I will not be responsible for any debts incurred by my wife Carmen Navarro Guirerra Mann.

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H. K. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

THE ANNUAL SHOW of FLOWERS and VEGET ABLES will be held at the VOLUNTEER HEADQUAR TERS on TUESDAY, the 2nd MARCH, 1937, from 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. and WEDNESDAY, the 3rd MARCH, from 10 8,m.. to 4 p.m..

ENTRIES WILL DE. FINITELY CLOSE at the Hon. Secretary's Office, Stock Ex. 'change Building, Ice House Street, at NOON THURS

DAY, the 25th FEBRUARY, 1937, but intending exhibitors SEND lo requested to .. are

THEIR ENTRIES AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

MEMBERS who have not yet paid their subscriptions and ALL THOSE who wish to join the Society are requerted to send $5.00 to the UNDERSIGNED.

J. T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 3rd Feb., 1937.

HUMPHREYS

5005

ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the

ANNUAL ORDINARY

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora tion will be held at the Head Office of the Corporation, No. 1, Queca's Road Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 27th February, 1937, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1936.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937.

35 Women Embroider

Royal Robes

Thirty-five of the finest needle-, another wait to the Queen to dis- designs for Her Majesty's

CUES

TO SUBMIT DESIGNS "The Queen, who is president of the school, bas asked us to submit

women in the country are to em- braider the canopy to be held over robes. the King and Queen during the anointing at the Coronation cere- moty. They will also do the em- broidery work on the King's robe, and probably on the Queen's dress

and train.

The needlewomen have been chosen by Lady Smith-Dorriea, principal of the Royal School of Needlework, London

The King's robe will be that which was made at the school In 1902 for King Edward VII. and it is to be sent to the school shortly to be thoroughly examined repaired if necessary.

and

designs for the embroidering of her Coronation dress and train and we

are hoping that the work will be done at the school," explained Lady Smith-Dorrien.

"I have been busy getting out designs, and in those for the train we have included in the centre a large 'E with a crown above it.

"In the other part of the design we have included the "thistle, the Tudor rose, the shamrock, and the daffodil, instead of the Welsh leek.

The train itself will be made of royal purple velvet, the texture of which is perfect that the firm

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from

ROSES AND THISTLES Monday, the 15th February to It is of cloth of rold embroder- Saturday, the 27th February, ed all over,with coloured emblems 1937 (both days inclusive) dur--red Tudor roses, green sham-where it is woven can turn it out and silver only at the rate of three yards a ing which period no transfer of rocks, purple thistles,

The design chosen will be week eagles. shares can be registered.

carried out in gold and silver, and perhaps a little diamante.

·

Upon the golden canopy raised By Order of the Board of silver eagles will be appliqued on to the border. There will be 18 of Directors.

these eagles around the edge. Two samples of cloth of gold from which the canopy itself will be made have arrived at the school. One of the samples is pure cloth of gold and is priced at £14 a yard.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. y Hong Kong, 8th February, 1937. 5014

The canopy will be lined with rich white satin and supported at each corner by four slender silver and Business Office:

poles made by a famous Court 15-19, Queen's Road Central Jeweller. The whole canopy will be Tel. 30251.

finished with silver tassels.

Editorial

Lady Smith-Dorrien, who is now one of the busiest women in Lon- 53. Fleet Street don, is making arrangements for

Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel. 24511. London Office:

E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 11, 1937.

PASSENGERS

Departures By Aeneas

The folowing passengers sailed by the s.s. Aeneas for the United Kingdom, via ports, yesterday :-

Mr. and Mrs Arns, Miss Adey.

QUEEN'S SATIN DRESS The dress to be worn by the Queen," continued Lady Emith- Dorrien, "will be made of white a little gold, and perhaps also diamante.

"We are submitting designs for the embroidery of the dress as well. and they include similar emblems to those used in the design for the train.

"In the dress designs we are try- ing to get every Colony and Dominion represented by emblems;" flowers for with probably lotus India."

YACHTING

Yesterday's Results

The following were the results of yesterday's yacht races held at North Point:-

(Resall) "R" Class-Started 14.40

Diana: 16.36.45; 16.36.45 (1) (Mr.

Good-Bye To Gretna Mrs. F. M. Adey, Mr. and Mrs. G. Barnett).

Green

I Scots law still shows, an example of Common-sense

to

land in the matter of divorces, Englishmen may take to them. selves sore comfort from the fact that a

Scottish Departmental Committee has just recommended that marriage laws in existence north of the Border shall in effect be harmonised with English prac- tice. The Committee, in brief. recommends the abolition of what are known as irregular marria- ." and the recognition, after a given date, only of religious cere. monies of marriage or of civil }· marriage before registrars.

ves.

O. Bass, Dr. and Mrs. W. Balgarnie, Mr. G. F. D. Campbell, Mrs. R. H. Chandless, Mrs. B. L Evans, Miss M. J. Fisher, Mr. P. D. G. Gain. Miss I P.. Humphrey, Miss G Hogan Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Me- Adam, Miss F. M. McAdam, Mr. D. J. Mullen, Dr. J. S. McKenna. Mrs. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. A. Ritchie and in- font and amah. Mr. and Mrs G. S. Burton Sayer, Miss M A. Bayer, Mrs. A. G. Turnbull, Mrs. F. J. Wakefield, Mrs. Watson. Eng. Comdr. S. G. West, D.SC., R.N., Dr. Watson, Mrs. White. Mrs. Wood.

The s.s. Rhexenor is expected to Sourabaya 00 arrive here from February 12.at p.m..

The 8.5. Gneisenau will arrive She will here to-day at 6 am. berth alongside Howloon Wharf and will sail for Japan and Shang- hat at 6 pm on the same day.

King's Memorial Fund

Hitherto, it has been possible for couples who have been (in GENERAL MEETING

OF English eyes merely posing as SHAREHOLDERS will be held narried, or even betrothed, to at the HONG KONG HOTEL, claim that a legal marriage binds Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, them. When the certainty of the 18th. February, 1937, at 12 the bond has been subsequently

London, Feb. 9. noon for the purpose of receiving disputed, great distress has been The King George V National the Report of the Directors to caused to both parties, to their Memorial Fund has now reached gether with a Stateraent of Ac- children, or to the men and wo- total of £533,000. Added to this total are gifts of land valued at counts for the year ended 31st. men who havą subsequently mar-

over £100,000. December, 1936.

ried more regularly one of the partners to such a match.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 9th. February to THURSDAY, 18th. February, both days Inclusive

John D. Humphreys & Son,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 30th. January, 1937

500G

HONG KONG/JAPAN

CONFERENCE

Dorothea (Lt-Col. S. D. Reid). "A" Class-Started 14.45 Painted Lady; 17.11.25 (1) (Mrs. P. M. Newman).

Lobo (Mrs. E, R. Edwards).

Eve (Mrs. S. Hopkinson).

H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS

Although the market kept steady

during the day, trading was rather a restricted stale,

The Manila market opened with an Improvement on the previous the days' quotations closing on quiet side, although prices were fairly well maintained.

BUYERS

H. K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) £114. Providents old), $1.70: Rauba, $13.10.

H. K. Lands, $36. H. K. Realties, $4.70. H. K. Trams, $131. Peak Trams (old), $4, Peak Trams (new), $1. China Lights (old). $13.80. China Lights (new), $10.80. H. K. Electrics, $551. Cementa $10.95. Dairy Farms, $22.90. Watsons $4.

Ewo Cattons, Sh$15.80, S'hal Cottons (old). Sh.$98, S'hal Cotters (new), Sh.368. Constructions (new), 40 cts.

SELLERS

H. K. Wharves, $108). H. K Hotels, $54. Humphreys, $94. Star Ferries, $85. Wallace Harpers, $4.

SALES

H. K. Hotels, $51. H. K. Lands, $38). Star Ferries, $85.

China Lights (old), $13.85. H. K Electrics, $56. Telephones (old), $30. Telephones (new), $11. Cements, $11.

H. K. Ropes, $31. Dairy Farms, $23. Demonstrations, $1.53/1.54.

E Mindanao, 64 cts. Itogons $2.72. San Mauricio, $4.90.

Aeroplanes For

Scots Lifesaving!

Joss (Mr. K. 9. G. Garner-Smith) | Would Scour Seas Cicada (Mr. F. 8. Coote). Kittiwake, D.N.F.

"Mixed" Classes Started 14.55 Colleen: 17.03.28 (1) (Mr. E. D. A. Staunton).

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Better Than Boots

A demand for the reorganization" of the life-saving system in the Widgeon (Miss H. Crawhall-Wil- North of Scotland is expected to follow controversy in the Orkney Islands over the loss of 30 lives in the recent Johanna Thorden dis

son).

Nannette, D.NF.

Sirius (Mr. W. O'Grady), Zephyr (Capt. E. R. Newman). Grel, D.N.F.

ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB

Ladies Section

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Result of L.G.U. Monthly Medal Competition held at Fanling on Tuesday, 9th February:-

Silver Division

Old Course:

2nd Score:

Mrs. Garnett 94-1777

Mrs. McGowan 06-14-82

Bronze Division

New Course:

direct the and Score:

The recent and novel proposal that Bank customers banks to devote the odd shillings and pence of their balances to the Memorial Fund on a specified

date has resulted in the £190,000 being paid in......

Reuter.

sum of

Mrs. Ellerby 113-31-82

Mrs: S. D. Reid 106--22-84

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New Home For Elgin Marbles

Red brick walls are slowly rising alongside the west wall of the British Museum, where workmen are building the new Elgin Gallery, the gift of Lord Daveen. It will be

the new home of the Elgin mar- bles.

The new building is parallel with

aster.

It is revealed that while the Fla- mish vessel's two Lifeboats were drifting in the storm on January 12 the daily air services were plying as usual between Inverness and Kirkwall, Thurso and Stromness. and between Kirkwall and the so- cal Orkney Islanda

One machine and a pilot wer available at Kirkwall airport for any special duty, but not until darkness had set in did it be come known to the air companies operating locally that a ship had gone ashore 10 hours earlier with 38 people, on board.

air

No person in Orkney was armed with authority to order a 'plane search of the sea west of the wreck area. It is stated that the companies themselves would have instituted a search had they known of the disaster.

It is pointed out that a lifeboat might be within half a mile of a drifting small boat and not find it owing to the high seas limiting the horizon.

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State Performance

At The Opera?

A command gala performance at jcprated. In addition to the boxes. Covent Garden is, I hear, likely to set apart for the members of the to ba take place at the time of the Royal family, others have Coronation. writes a Home corres- ear-marked for members of the

DI Cabinet and the Diplomatic. pondent. An event of this kind has

Corps

Command performances frequent in the reign of King Ed- ward VII, who was himself a sedulous opern-goer.

not occurred since the war.

I cannot imagine anything more likely to Impress our guests from the Dominions. especially as there is more than

that possibility ย Signor Gigit will be singing at the Royal Opera this summer.

To B State performance the King and Queen drive with an escort of Household Cavalry. They are received by the nigh oficials of the Court, and the Royal box occupies the centre of the grand

tier.

wete

The last was in 1908, when Fre- sident Falleres paid a State visit to London. In his honour the programme was a French one. It. | consisted

of the first ret of Bizet's "T Pescatore di Perle" and. the second act of "Faust"?"

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Acts of different operas traditionally chosen for command was one When performances. given for the King and Queen of Denmark in 1905 the bill was "Butterfly." Act I.; "Boheme," Act- I.; and "Meistersinger," Act II

Except for the gallery and am- phitheatre, tickets are, I belleve. in the hands of the Lord Cham- berlain. His department, in fact, the becomes the box-office for

Those who remember these Ed-

occasion.

wardian functions agree on the of the There is, however, little room for extraordinary brilliance the normal opera-going public. scene presented by the auditorium. The interior of the house is en- The lights, incidentally, were not tirely rearranged and specially de-lowered during the performance.

Mrs. Chaug Leaves

For China

"Young Marshal's Wife

Goes Home'

It was learned to-day that Mme. Chang Hsueh-lang wife of the Chinese "Young Marshal," who Kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek, has left this country to rejoin ber husband in China, writes a Home correspondent. She sailed from Southampton for Shanghai.

She has been staying at Hove In a house on the sea front for ten weeks accompanied by her secretary, a Chinese mald and an English chauffeur.

Her three children, Martin, aged 19, Raymond, aged 18, and Pauline, aged about 20, have been in this country for some time. Raymond, who has been, has returned with his mother. He had beep studying, with his brother, under a tutor at Hove.

A friend of the family told me: "It has

Chang's been Mme.

Chaplain Denies Rebuke Over Ex-King

The Rev. Charles H. D. Grimes,. Chaplain of the British Legation at Vienna, who is in charge of the English church there, denies a re- port that he has been rebuked for allowing the Duke of Windsor to read the lesson at his church last Christrans

Since the British Minister to Austria was present and made no objection, Dr Grimes was amazed to discover that he had "enraged Church authorities in England."

Commenting on this story, Mr Grimes said "There has never been any question of a rebuke from my superiors. All these reported facts are quite new to me.

WHAT DID HAPPEN "What actually happened was that the Duke of Windsor asked me if I might allow him to read the lesson. 1.saw no reason why he should not "My superior asked me to supply, afterwards, informa- tion on how this had taken place. I supplied that information.

"Far from rebuking me, I re- practice to come to this country ceived a communication from him

each year for three months to see her children.

"She is a small graceful woman of great charm. She lives quietly and does not appear to take any great part in her husband's politi cal activities.

Telephone Talks "But while she was at Hove she was kept constantly in touch by telephone with the developments of the situation in China, and she with anxiety the time #walted when she could return. She twice altered the date on which she pro- posed to sail.

"Her son daughter will remain

England to complete

their education."

Mme. Chang's address in Hove All communica- was kept secret. tions were forwarded through the Chinese Embassy in London.

Shrapnel In Lung Since The War

A plece of metal similar to a bolt head, which had been remov- cd from a man's lung at a post- mortem, was produced at a Stock- port inquest recently.

Lifeboats Useless An aeroplane search would have covered the whole area in one hour, and the pilot would have been able The Coroner (Mr. J. A. K. Ferns) to direct share authorities by xa-sald that it could be inferred that dio and thereby provide a bear-the metal entered the man's body ing to be communicated to the through a wound he received in Hfeboat before it set out for the the chest in France in 1916. The area or to be signalled to it from War was drawing to its end, and the shore in the usual way if it it appeared that the enemy were

putting in their shells any was already at sen.

meta! which they could find.

"It is a terrible example of what war can produce when a man is walking about with things like this

less

Lifeboats, it is declared, are use

for searching unless they know where to search.

Less frequent, but hardly less distressing, cases where it was the validity of the marriage that caused the tragedy were cited in the evidence given before the Committee. These were the cases of irresponsible young people who, looking «pon a Gretna or at most for couples one of Green union as half a romance who has lived in Scotland for and half a joke, married on the previous three weeks.

Thanks, however foolish and fleeting inpulse, and

to legend, had cause to repent their rushness judiciously fostered by the former owner of the Gretna "smithy," for the rest of their lives.

Until Lord Brougham's Act of Gretna has of late years been the 80 years ago. runaway. English xene of "marriages" by many the present Elgin room, when 11 Foreign & Chinese Shippers

beirs and heiresses, fortune-hun- English couples without these is completed the dividing wall will

On a false alarm five days after be demolished. NOTICE is hereby given thaters and ronunties of either sex, qualificationa..

the Johanna Thorden disaster anlu his body." he added. The 2,000 or so couples who

An oblong hall of great dimen- as from the 1st March. 1937, used to dush northwards by post-

alons will contain the Parthenaeroplane search was speedfly or rates of freight from Hong Kong chaise and across the Border to have sought the "blacksmith's"

of Coastguards, and one hour of to Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya make marriages by Boots law, blessing in the past ten years trieze, set against the walls at the dered by the Wick District Office

as at present. Two

flying resulted in much more than and Yokohama will be increased without notice. Gretna Green have included Chinese and Finns, same level

square rooms opening out of the

the suspected area being covered 20 per cent over current rates. won such fare that Horace Wal-Americans and Eungarians.

hall at either end will house the Now that it is revealed that the pediments and the metopes, which in a severe gale which would have piece of metal ·

badly hampered a lifeboat. Schedules

current pole mentions a nobleman who showing rates as from the 1st March, 1937, would not enter the same vehicle "amithy" never shod a horse, or will be set at the same height. are now in course of preparation, as a match-making mother for the ""smith" worked at a forge, fear of being carried to Gretna the romance of Gretna appears and will be issued shortly.

Green and married by force." But somewhat tarnished. Parliament Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

since 1957 the matrimonial privi-will doubtless put an end to all; Secretaries, Hongkong/Japan leges of Gretna (which are, inci- the pretensions of "irregular

dentally, no greater than of any marriages, whether at Gretna Hong Kong, 5th February, 1937. place in Scotland) have been Green or anywhere else in Scot 5007 reserved for residents in Scotland, land.

Freight Conference.

old

The cause of death, stated Dr.

and. pulmonary tuberculoats.

Nightingale, was haemorrhage was reasonable to infer that the tuberculosis was caused by the

The inquest was on James Wal- As the telephone line linking ter Seddon, aged 43, of Jersey- The wall covering will probably Orkney with Wick frequently goes road, South Reddish, Stockport, out of action by storms, It is con- and a verdict in accordance with be of stone and the floors of mar

tended that some one in Orkney the medical evidence was recorded ble mosute.

One of the architects, Mr. John itself should be armed with au- Russell Pore, has also collaborated thority to order an in the new Duveen sculpture halls search

at the Tate Gallery. It is hoped that the Elgin Gallery will be com-

pleted in 1938.

aeroplane

Criticism is being made that searched, the Wick, Thurso, and even without the aid of aircraft Longhope lifeboats concentrating the sea cast of Orkney was not on the Pentland Firth itself.

stating that if the Duke at any other time made a similar request

"My superior in all these matters it should be granted.

The Bishop of Fulham, the is the Blahop of Fulham."

Right Rev.Basil B. Batty, has charge of the chaplaincies of North and Central Europe.

Lame Jew Without Walking Stick

Members of the Jewish religion to carry walking- are forbidden sticks on the Jewish Babbath- Saturday,

Alexander Ketchinoff, aged 76, of Great Alle-street, Whitechapel. despite the fact that he was lame, went on the evening of January 1 to a synagogue without his walk- ing stick. While passing a pubile house he fell down an open celiar and received injudes from which he died in St. Peter's Hospital,

At the inquest at Poplar when a verdict of accidental death was re- turned, it was stated that Jews were not allowed to carry anything on their Sabbath.

· BRITISH COAL SUBSIDY

London, Feb. 9.. The question whether legislation should be introduced to provide a subsidy from national funds for as- sisting British coal sold in, foreign markets is still under consideration by the Government in consultation with representatives of the coal ini- dustry, according to a Parliament- Bry answer.— British Wireless.

ARGENTINE LOAN IN NEW YORK

Buenos Aires, Feb 10. The Argentine Governinent bas arranged a loan In. New York for a nominal total of $70,000,000 at four per cent Interest, to be issued at 91. The proceeds of the loan will be devoted to the conversioni or the Argentine's external debt.

Bruter.