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LOCAL BRANCH.

FOR SQUALLS.

Paddar Bldg-

CIVIL SERVICE QUAKE RUIN GLOUCESTER BLDG A VALUABLE RING DIRECTORS READY A GOLD MINE FIGHTING SPEECH

STAFF

CUTS CIRCULAR.

PREPARATION FOR THE WORST.

LIST OF MEN WILLING FOR TRANSFER.

INCREDIBLE.

LORD BLEDISLOE'S COMMENT.

WEEK-END TOUR.

London, Feb. D. The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, who, with his wife, spent the week-end in thei

devastated Hawkes

NOTHING SETTLED.earthquak

PROGRESS.

TO BE READY BEFORE CONTRACT DATE.

LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY PROSPERITY.

FREE OF MORTGAGE.

arca. in # Ielegram to the Donaufonn Secretary, refers to the "qulet courage, mutual helpful resourcefulness and dip cipline of the whole population.it was Including the Maori race, amid

a

scene of wholesale destruction and borravement."

"The medical and retini

SUP-

While there is at present na suggestion that staff re- ductions in the Civil Service are imminent, or even decid- ed upon, the Telegraph learns to-day that every avenue is being explored by the Government with a view to facilitating the process in

vices," he adds, "have been orcupation' by May and that the com- a way occasioning the least ganised admirably and are work whole building would be

should

noothly. With improved pleted before the end of the hardship

circum- stances compel the Colony transport. the majority of the year. It was also disclosed at to retrench in this direction. population have left Napier and the meeting that the Company's its well-equipped Field Hospital properties were now entirely free The financial position is more

serious of mortgage, and that a sum of serious to-day than ever be-

casualities in other hospitals in $100,000 had been set aside to The deficit on the basis North Island. Tore.

initiate a fund for rebuilding. of to-day's dollar value is

cer- "The

bax

evacuatel the most

STOLEN,

HOW LOCAL GOLDSMITH WAS TRICKED.

BRASS SUBSTITUTE.

A successful rufe by which ne was able to rellevau local jeweller of a diamond ringiyniued at $1,380 was practised by Chinese from Canton, he visitob taking advan tage of a short ncquaintance with the unfortunate goldsmith.

SZE YAP STEAMSHIP

CO. ACTION.

PREPARED TO EXPLAIN CONDUCT.

NEWSPAPER NOTICE.

If the conduct of the directors Presiding at the annual The victim, Ho Tak-ho. of 18,) general meeting of the Hong-Gage Street, informed the police had been involved they would kong Land Investment and that whilst in Canton some two have been ready to face it, declar- Agency Co., Ltd., this morning. weeks age he was introduced in aed Mr. Chiu Yu-chi, formerly the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson said nan named Long Sau-sham and chairman of the Sze Yap Steam- Son that occasion the man intimat-ship Company, when cross-ex- anticipated that greater part of the ground and ed that he would be in onko samined in the case concerning shortly, when he would require a mezzanine floors of Gloucester diamond rlag. Leung arrived on the company's affairs which was

before Building would la rendy for oc- Saturday and called on the jewel-resumed

the Acting Chief Justice this morning, the ler, but, finding him out, left message to say that he was stay-sixth day of the hearing.

at the Empress Mr. Polter referred to the notice lug in Room 91 Hotel.

of the directors published on July in compliance with a request, 21 or 23 in which they said that

took an 18 carot platinum Ho ring set with 135 mare diamonds, the eight resolutions, brought up holders, had previously been de- worth $1.380, to Leung at the at the special meeting of share Hotel. The ring was placed in aclared by the Board to be illegal, match box and whilst the transac tion was being carried out, Ho Chiu Yu-chi said that it tain to exceed the estimate of people are accommodated com- Higher Directors' Fees.

ha

the ferred to the subsequent meeting Occasion

Телье to

• $5,000,000 by at least a million ||fortably under

WAN obvious that On his return, Leung also and it As a mark of appreciation of room. dollars, and staff cuts, though| Public Park

elsewhere. the success of the company, it was excused himself and when left meeting was quite illegal. regrettable, may be necessary Essential supplies are fairly ade-proposed on behalf of the share Inne Ho opened the box to examine

What Notice Mennt. if an improvement does not soon quote and the deficiencia, chiefly holders that the Directors' feen the ring but found that také place.

of clothing. are being rapidly should be increased te $16.000 genuine article had been sub- made good.

stituted by a brass ring. In acknowledging the gesture. search for Leung failed to which emanated from Mr. E. At. reveal his presence out the pre- Raymond, supported by Mr.

Homises and it was discovered that he Kwong, the Chairman pointed out hud absconded, with the ring. that it could not be passed "Sailors are engaged on the that meeting, but that as it was demolition of precarious buildings a matter which came under the and the recovery of bodies from Articles of Association, an beneath great plies of debris. The traordinary general meeting, to- scene of ruin is diffeult to ex-gether with a confirmatory meet- aggerate. The tremora continue Ing, would have to be called and mak- but they are not serious,"

the proposition laid before them that

J

Transfer Circular,

unevacuatul homeless

CANVAS

the

"The prompt, efficient and in-

In the past week, we

under-defatigable services of the Naval stand, an enquiry has been eir-cers and mon continuously from culated through all Government the time of the ultial disaster are departments, with a view to as beyond all praise." Pertaining how many Civil Ser- vants who were asked to give their names would be willing to be transferred to other Colonies if staff reductions in Hongkong became necessary".

We

ing

the

were informed, on enquiries to-day. purpose

the of

In a telegram to the King, Govern President Hindenburg has ment in issuing the circular was pressed sincere comialences

UX-

num.

Chairman's Speech,

ai

the

SIXTY-NINE MISSING IN KOBE DISASTER.

PORTHOS COLLISION IN A BLINDING SNOWSTORM

Tokyo, Feb. 9.

re-

that

PURCHASE.

MR. THEODORE IN CROWN ACTION.

£30,000 CLAIM.

Brisbane. Fob. 9.

Based upon the findings of the

ON PEACE.

BRITAIN DEMANDS

DISARMAMENT.

MR. HENDERSON ON A NEXT WAR.

Queensland Royal Commission of YEAR OF PROMISE. Enquiry into the circumstances attending the purchase of the

London, Feb. 9. Mungana (Chillugoe) Mines by

A forceful and eloquent appeal the Queensland Labour Govern- Mr. ment when

Edward G. for the banishment of war from Theadore, the present Federal the world was made by Mr. Treasurer, was Prime Minister. Arthur Henderson, the Foreign the Crown's statement of claims Secretary, to-night, in the case have been delivered in great disarmalsen, speaking at a

the

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of

Disarmament, he said, must be

the defendanta solicitors.

The Commission, which sub-tion in London.

The destruction of life and pro- mitted its Report In July Inst found that Mr. Theodore, another perty in the next war, should there

Premier of Queensland, Mr. W. be another war, would be McCormack, and

Mines scale exceeding all powers

were imagination, he declared, Mannger, Mr. Goddard, guilty of fraud and dishonesty in procuring the State purchase of Mr. Theodore Immediately the mines for £40,000. resigned his position in the Federal Cabinet, though he declared that the charges were the result of the work of political enemies. It is less than

a month since he resumed his position Mr. Scullin's second-in-command,

It is understood that

tit

would represent a dofinite recogni- by international mate

tion by all nations that their armies, their navies, and their nir forces, were matters which con- cerned not themselves alone, but other peoples of the world also.

Imperative Obligation.

A disarmament agreement would

I put it to you that is not what Crown's claims total £30,000, four represent acceptance of the im- Including Mr.porative obligation that military the notice meant. Your conten-defendants,

AMERICAN NAVAL

determined by nations' unrestrict- ed, that military preparations will only be part of the general con- cern of the international communi-

tion there is, that the meeting of Theodore, being jointly sued.-proparations should no longer be July 8, convened by the requial-Reuter, tionists, was, for certain reasone in the directors' opinion, illegal?-- It does not say in the newspaper that the meeting convened by the body of shareholders for dis- cussion of the eight resolutions Was illegal. I do not think it means that at all. It clearly re- fers to the second meeting.

DECREASES.

BIG REDUCTION IN THE ANNUAL BILL.

Everything, he emphasised, de- pended upon the manner in which the governments of the world com- pleted the framework which the Preparatory Commission had drawn up at Geneva after long years of work.

Public Opinion.

Will you point out to me any

Washington, Feb. 9. reference

tho in that notice to

The Appropriations. Committee/ Becond meeting?-it clearly rehas sent to the House of Represen The collision between the Mes-fers to the second meeting because tatives the annual Naval Supply The figures which the Govern- sageries Maritimes liner Porthos the eight resolutions were not Bill. providing for credits of ments inserted in that framework and a ferry-bont outside Kobe passed at the first meeting and the G$344,000,000, which represents a depended upon public opinion. if Harbour this evening occurred notice talks about the adoption of decrease of $36,000,000 as com- the people wanted disarmament

the eight resolutions,

pared with the current year. during a blinding snowstorm,

The Committee recommends His Lordship thought the way witness read the notice was that sharp decrease in the officers at- the bringing up of the matters attending the Naval Academy and in the subsequent meeting had been enlisted personel, a reduction of the ships of the-line and of their declared illegal.

crews,

were

Sixty-nine persons who aboard the ferryboat are missing and must have lost their lives, Twenty-five were rescued.

nn Addressing the shareholders, the to discover those officers willing the New Zealand earthqunke dis-Chairman said: - Gentlemen. to go. The Government has noster and has assured His Majesty With your permission, I propose to desire to dismiss anyone without that the whole of Germany feels follow the usual procedure and take endeavouring to find them em- the deepest sympathy.

the report and accounts as read. ployment elsewhere, and where The King, in reply. expressed Profit and Loss Account:-There such employment can be found, it profound gratitude for the kind are few appreciable differences as is obviously better to, place those message which, he is confident, compared with the previous year, men who are willing in leave the will

deeply appreciated Apart from sales of poperly the net Hongkong service.

throughout the Dominion-British result is some $10,000 better.

Turning to the balance sheet,

It was the Porthos, it will be you will notlee that the amount adrecalled, which

was responsible vanced on mortgage has been re- for the rescue of the survivors of duced by slightly over twelve lakhs. the Tricolor disaster Colombo This is largely due to mortgagus recently-Reuter- the Praya East Reclamation lots ex- piring and being paid off, mortgn- gors having found ready sale by splitting up. their lots and selling free of encumbrave.

but

Surprising Response?

I is reported that the respotise

A

to the circular has been surpria-)

very large number of applications having been received, we were officially informeri to-day that the Government does not see its way clear to indicate how many Government servants have indiente willingness to be transferred.

The Government considers thut it is a private matter between the individuals concerned and the Executive, and is not prepared to make any disclosure.

Wireleas.

MADEIRA FLOUR

RIOTS.

PORTUGUESE OFFICIALS ARRIVE WITH TROOPS.

Funchal, Feb. 9,

PRINCES ARRIVE IN PERU.

VISIT TO BRITISH OIL CONCERN,

a

they could have it, and the friends of peace had twelve months before them in which to mobilise public opinion in favour of u groat which might not opportunity

recur.

If they really drifted, the next war would be incomparably worse than the last.

Judge's View Accepted.

A rum of G$31,000,000 is allowed for naval aviation, which is a Mr. Potter said he would be reduction of over G$1,000,000, but quite prepared to share his Lord- the report adds that an expansion A military expert had sald that

hip's view on the matter.

programme to be spread over a In the last war we were killing Mr. Potter: In this notice you period of five years, and providing by retail, but next time it would published, I put it to you that you a thousand aeroplanes, will be com- be done wholesale. do not find it stated, as one might pleted early in the next fiscal year. expect if your case is correct, that-Reuter's American-Service. it was put to this meeting that the resolutions should not be

with at all. but, in their THREE YEARS' PEACE

IN COALFIELDS.

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eight dealt place, there should be merely resolution for chartering and dividend?-At the end of the notice it says that the object of

The amount invested in property has increased by shout three and a quarter milions. This is partly ae- The High Commissioner, Senborned for by our having paid the Silva Leal, and the new Governor, anal call on the areas we still own Senhor Sotto Maior.

arrived on the Praya East Reclamation. The to-day with full powers to effect settlement of the flour dispute. £1 reminder is chiefly due to the gen. struction f Gloucester Ballding. Troops escorter Them From You will, of course, understand that Lisbon nboard the destroyer Tamaga, which is lying at anchor included in this figure are contracters, this morning, and motored the shareholders was for the dis-

which we are already committed, but not necessarily completed.

The strike appears to be col.

killed in were

Anxiety in Service. Naturally in the circumstances off Funchal. prevailing some anxiety is, or has been, felt among Civil Servants inpsing. regarding their future, especially among those in their first term of service, but it has been generally believed that

Government the

would be most disinclined to embark on dismissala without

in

All Property Free.

Four persons

On the liabilities side, you will riots, following the prohibition of

nolice that the mortgage of $660,- the import of foreign flour.

Calm has been restored, but 000 on Prince's Building has ceased will not resume work until the and the whole of our property is now striking mill workers declare they to appear. This has been paid off

London, Feb. 9. The Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived at Cape Blanes,

to Salera.

cussion of chartering and dividend Their plans include a visit to and nothing else should be dealt

with. the International Petroleum Fielda and the Lobitos Oil Company's :

Are you referring to the minutes Fields, a British concern. After which are also published? Yes. wards they will rejoin the .s.

Not Necessary. Oropesa and continuc their voyage to Payta.--British Wireless.

MINERS AND OWNERS SIGN AGREEMENT.

endeavouring to place its officers our deeree has been annulled.free. With regard to the approSUDDEN BOOST ON N.Y. that meeting. As none of the other necessary,

elsewhere.

This is borne out by the latest circular,

In his connexion It must be remembered that many of the young men who recently came out from Home for the Government.

did unly

до after mature Consideration and possibly after' giving up good prospects in Eng. kund,

It would certainly be most re grettable if they were thrown out of

their positions because of a financial

crisis the seriousness of which no- one could foresee.

Retrenchment Efforis.

The Report of the Retrench-

Committee mient

ม expected bo ready shortly, while II. E. The Governor has been con- ducting special inquiries through the heads of Departmenta regarding means of curtailing expenditure, by means of staff roductions and otherwise.

It in notified that no examinations

Masters, Mates, or Engineers will be held during the week ending February 21, 1931.

for Certificates of Competency for

|

Reuter.

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

SOVIET TO TAKE PART IN ECONOMIC PARLEY.

priations proposed by your Directore Special Repairs & Renewals Ac count would be brought up to its original figure $26,000. Equaliza- tion of Dividend Account:-By ap propriating $50,000, this account would be brought up to $300,000, which is the equivalent of $1 per share of issued shares.

STOCK EXCHANGE.

REMARKABLE JUMPS IN ·

SPECULATIVE SHARES.

the

"We have surely learned," said Mr. Henderson, "that it is beyond our power to humanise the con- duct of modern war.. Once war.

begins, no man and no Government can control it. The only way to stop such barbarities is to stop war itself.

pointed out that the economic crisis in Germany, the spectre of unemployment, and the

of the aftermath of the last war, world crisis generally, was all part The problems of thousands of. men idle, of the depressed state all represented of Industry, victims of war.

Civilisation Threatened.. London, Feb. 9.

"We may be very certain that The South Wales coal-owners and

if war occurs it will bring with It a destruction of life on a scale miners' leaders have signed the new

which agreement

for provides peace in the coal such as we have never imagined three years' fields, the agreement running untilnor can imagine, a destruction that will probably engulf in all January, 1084,

probability the very The Aettlement represents con human Let us confine qurselves to the directors' notice. Your case la that cessions by both sides. Wage dis-civilisation in which we live."

will be submitted, if only two resolutions were put toputon

Turning to the strictly economic to An Independent reasons for the polley for which resolutions were put, on your case, chairman of the Joint Conciliation the Government stood, Mr. Hen- you could not have a confirma. Board, the miners having given derson

on this point, while tory meeting regarding them? way Really, there was nothing decided owners agreed to the demand for about the eight resolutions. It was an extension of the period during not necessary to put in this notice which the 74-hour day would be that the eight resolutions were not paid at the same rate as for an

8-hour day. discussed. New York, Feb. 9.

The ruling rate is that in force Prices on the Stock Market to- Witness nuld if he had anticip- It is also proposed to put aside $400,000 to initiate a fund for re- day bounded sensationally to theated all this trouble he would have In November last, and the men will building. As years go on, your pro-highest points recorded months, set matters down much more clear work 74-hour every week-day Moscow, Feb. 9.

the increases ranging fromky. Also, if the directora bad The Soviet Government has ne. pertles tend to become obsolete and

the Invitation of the that before long a scheme of re-between three and four points enter he had left, he would have

require more and

to known that some shareholders were more repairs, so eighteen and three-quarters

start another meeting cepted

going to Longue of Nations to participate building will have to be taken in the more conservative stocks. in the deliberations of the Com-hand. Your Directors therefore The totul anles were round about paid a solicitor to remain on the milter which is engored in inves-consider it wine to set aside some 4,100,000, the largest turnover premises all night, until daybrenk Ligating the prospects of European of our profits for this purpose. aince the middle of December.-[if necessary. economie union---Reuter.

As regards the property market Reuter's American Service. during the past year, matters im-

to proved somewhat, but not

extent. "Your Directors. Kreat

Doffers however, took advantage of for two blocks of vacant land on the Praya East Reclamation and Inland Lot No. 45, which were sold at 'a good profit. We also disposed of Home old property in Kowloon upon which we had had to re-ontor A meeting of the Legislative Oakland, Calif, Fab. 9.. owing to non-payment of interest. Council has been called for Thurs According to the latest esti- There was no immediate profit in day, February 12, at 2.30 p.m. when mates, four men and forty-six this sale, but it secured the pront the Attorney General will move the horses perished in the Horse Show made on the original sale peveral fire. The damage is placed at years ago.

CALIFORNIA HORSE SHOW TRAGEDY.

FOUR LIVES LOST IN FIRE DISASTER.

· G$925,000)—Router.

(Continued on 'Page 18.).

any

ESTATE DUTY BILL.

SECOND READING TO "RE MOVED ON THURSDAY.

second reading of the Bill to amend tilaw relating to Estate Duty,"

Mr. Potter said that aerording to the minuten, the chairman said that shareholders had been arguing for over two hours without result, Mr. Wong had proposed that the ships bo chartered and profits divided and he asked for the opinion of shareholders.

Reuter.

CANTON FERRYBOÁT

MISHAP

PASSENGERS RESCUED BY

SAMPANS

The world economic crisis, he declared, could only be coped with by world netfon, but world action moant international cooperation on économic questions of avery kind, and this would never be obtained while policies were founded upon a constant fear

of war.

Canton Fob. 9. Tariff barriers, self-sufficiency; prohibitions, economic A small motor ferry boat plying | trade between Canton and Honam turn-nationallem in all its aspects, were oded turtle yesterday afternoon. all the consequences of concep

Fortunately, there were only tlons of national Interests which. seven passengers on board at the have been created by the fear of time of the accident, all of whom war. were rescued by sampaas in the

Resolution Questions.. Witness said that the minutes | viciulty. could not contain all the words spoken at the meating.

Will you agree with me that, In effect, the eight resolutions were (Continued on Page 18.)

Eurone to-day was as full of

A sudden heim manoeuvre in dimeült politieal problems, as it avoiding a junk in the strong was fivo years ago. As the tideway is said to have been the Foreign Minister of a great Power cause of the mishap Our Own he declared that disarmament, Vase

the key to their peaceful soluti Correspondent.

British Wireless,