1931-11-26 — Page 7

INACCURATE FILE

OF SHARES. ·

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1931

EDGAR WALEACE A “CORNER” IN THE

AS PREACHER.

APPLICATION FOR TIME TO "CHRIST IS THE GREAT

CORRECT.

A MISUNDERSTANDING.

Following an uisunderstanding due chielly to splitting of shares consequent upon an increase of the company's capital. an inaccurate

the

TABOO."

Fleetwood, Oct. 20. Free Trude candidate nt

Mr. Edgar Wallace, Liberal and Bluck- pool, prenched in a Congregational Church at Fleetwood to-night.

SOLENT.

BIG PLAN TO ROUND IT OFF.

SAFER CHANNEL FOR

GIANT SHIPS..

minimum

part of

an

A FAINT GREY FILM.

SCIENTISTS' DREAM REALISED.

A faint grey film, like the faintest of faintly smoked glass- such is the outward appearance of the latest triumph of the re- nearch laboratorics of the Im perial College of Selener and Technology. South Kensington.

with

Southampton Oct. 29. The sermon was the outcome

Work has been begun on exten- of controversy begun last July, sive Improvements Lo return of allotments was made to en Dr. Porter, the minister of approaches to Southampton Docks. the the the Registrar of Companies en be-

church, complained that These will reduce to

It is a crystal of platinum an "modern half of the South China Motorship

young people

would the danger of vessels grounding, thin as to he virtually invisibin. Building and Repairing Works

rather read Edgar Wallace Limited, St. George's Building

read the Bible."

than and will make Southampton Water and represents the realisation af unvigable by all ships, however the mathematician's dream of a An application on

Until a quarter behalf of the

of Att hour large.

two-dimensional world-in which before the service began admis Company, made yesterday

The improvements now being there is no volume and where air Supreme Court before the Chiefalon was by ticket only, but a carried out form

Its capacity for unlimited Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp). by queue from the street to the Mr. II. G. Sheklun, instructed by steps to the door started to form tious "Five Year Plan," which expansion is an Impossible con-

has been launched by Southamp ception. Mr. P. M. Hodgson, of Messrs. To at half-past Ave, and scores of fon Harbour Board, and which will and Hodgson, for an extension of people waited in a shootroom 100 help to reduce local snemploy surfe without thickness. The

A plane may be defined time of seven days in which to the yarda away for an overflow an ncurate return was granted.

vice to whi

which Mr. Wallner went The various schemes in all will. I. Finch nag his fellowworkers crystals produced by Professor Mr. Sheldon referred to

afterwards,

rost nearly £250,000. When con- atticavit nude by Mr. G. Brandt,

Before Mr. Wallace began his pleted they will make practically

are as large as a florin in area, กงกางเking partmer of Mosare, sermon Dr. Parter announced impossible a repetition of mishaps smail na one million milienth

but their thickness my be 11μ Brandt and Company, which Arto that he had received an any-such as befell the Berengaria, the the smallest particle of platinum are general managers of the peti-mous letter criticising him for Mauretania, and the Statenda which would be visible to the

inviting "such a sinner" to

in last

last spring when they pulpit.

naked eye.

tioner company.

The affidavit showed that the company was incorporated on June 12, 1990, as a private limited com- pany with an authorised capital of † $250,000 local currency divided into 2,500 shares of $100 ench

Capital Increased.

On October 29, 1930, by special resolution, the Company we con- Verled into a pubile limited com- pany and the authorised capital was increased to $2,000,000, by the creation of 175,000 new shares of $10 each, and the 2,500 shares of $100 each were split into 25,000 shares of $10 each,

Between June 12, 1930, and June #1, 1981, certain shares were duly applied for an allotted to share- holders and paid for in cash, but owing to an error and misunder standing of clerks,

due, chilly, to the splitting

of the shares wrong instructions were given to the Company's then solicitor, Mr. A. el Arcalli, as to the shares allot- set, arst in consequence inaccurate returne

of allotment were filed. was desired that the accurate return be filed with the Registrar in substitution for the inaccurate returns.

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There was no dispute or mistake in the number of ahure allotted or in the money paid for them, and no one had suffered through in- accurate returns filed.

RUSHING GOODS TO

ENGLAND..

BIG SHIPMENTS BY AEROPLANES.

Cologne. Nov. 20: A last-minule effort to avoid the anticipated British neasures against dumping is being made by

West German manufacturers who

are rushing goods in England by aeroplane to-day?

Although yesterday was a public

|

ner-bient.

"I Am A Sinner," "I am," Mr. Wallace began, "a sinner. I go to racecourses and mix with course man who Course language. I make out of the theatre, and lose money In it.

U80

aground in the Southampton Waler.

went approaches to

One section of the work the widening of the channel near the entrance to the docks-is already In hand. At present this channel meyi-600 feet wide, but after dredging operations have been completed. its width will be increased to 1,000 This improvement will give feet

giant Transatlantic liners more room in which to manoeuvre, and will obviate the danger of con gestion.

"You are practising Christiane, and this is what I cannot understand about you. Why are you afraid to talk about Christ? When some one at lunch mentions Christ, why does everyone look fortable, cough, and change the subject?

uncom

"Do you really believe these thinga? Is it that you are shy or that you lack faith?

"I believe it is bernuse Christ is the Great Taboo.

"I believe the trouble of

Christian world lies in its trying to recept both the Old Testament and the New, and you cannot re- concile the two,

The Powdered Diamond.

Improved Signals.

The rent of the work to be undertaken by the Harbour Board consists of widening and deepen ing the channel rear the entrance to Southampton Water and off Calshot Spit.

ม

of

fun

Scientists have drawa analogy between the difficulty experienced human being in understanding by the ordinary

the world dimeulty which would be

Einstein and the perienced by an inhabitant of a two-dimensional

world auddenly found himself transport- ed into the world in which we live.

cx-

who

Scientists Regret. Professor Finch's crystals may be transferred at will from one world to the other, and the only regret af scientists is that they are

unable to record their in- pressions of the process.

But this much is known of their two-

crystais lead as perfectly ordered

existence-it been shown by X-Rays that the has

aimilar

Opposite Calshot the channet is dimensional The

but the most importaal stage in to be dredged to a depth of 38 feet, the scheme will be reached in the New Year, when work is to be begun on

in the Solent,

exlatence TIA do

christ des、ross the god of the corneanding- the abrupt crystals in our ordinary three-

This

where

dimensional world.

RADIO BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME OF RECORDED MUSIC.

z. B. W. OB

To-day's radio programme, from metres.

4 wavelength of 855

6.00-6.38 p.m. European .pro- gramme of Victor and H. M. V. re-

corda.

6.38-0.08 p.m. European children's programime

0.08-8.00p.m. Europcun programme of Victor and H. M. V. records.

8.00 p.m. Time signal and wenther report,

Chinese Studio

V.03-10.30 P.RL. Concert.

10.30 p.m. Rugby mid-day press

news.

10.33 p.m. Cluse down. 6.00-5.30 p.m. A Concert.

Song-Little Brown Owi (Sanderson).

Maris Bennett (Soprano). 12100, Violin Solo-Oh Promise Me

(R. De Koven).

Ronco Chemot. 1828. Song-The Erl King (Schubert). String Quartet Londonderry Air

Robert Radford (Bass). D1270.

(Arr. Bridgo).

Virtuoso String Quartet. C1470, Song-By The Waters of Minnetonka

(Llourance). Song-The Lase With The Delicate Piano Sato-Etude in F Major

Air (Arne). Mavis Bennett (Soprano). B2453.

(Mendelssohn). Piano Solo-Etude in A Minor

(Mendelssohn).

1266,

Song O Mistress Mine (Quilter).

Sergei Rachmaninoti. Song-Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

(Quiller).

George Baker (Baritone). B2500. 6.38.0.08 p.m. European children's programme from the studio. Spanish Dance (Moszkowski). 6.08-0.30 p.n. Orchestral.

Victor Concert Orchestra. 22769. The Daughter of The Regiment

{Donizetti).

La Scala Orchentru Milan. C1054. Maslasippi Suite (Ferdie Grofe). Paul Whiteman and His Orch, 35853.

6.30-8.45 p.m.

by Reginald Goss-Custard F.R.C.O, on Suite Gothique (Boelimann) played the organ.of Queen's Hall London.

BS260-B3201.

7.00 .. (Stock quotations and mail notice, etc.).

Song Zigeuner (From "Bitter

6.45-7.32 p.m. Variety,

Sweet").

.

Peggy Wood (Soprano). B3144. Song-If Love Were Ail (From

"Bitter Sweet").

Ivy St. Heller (Soprano), B3144. Monologue-Another Bedtime Story-

Cind'rolla.

Wish Wynne. B3127.

Jack Hylton and His Orch. C1863. Song-Down In Our Village in

Zummerzet. Song-Tonsta.

Old Testament, the deborah whopeen-bound ships at present have

Are these crystals of practical was so small and menn that be to take a right-angle tura before use? The purpose of Professor sole strik poor people

making for the Nab and open sea. Finch's work was an attempt to Purosy. Chips, showed that the with

turn needs careful pilotage, determine why platinum Was and beauty of latent, rea! God is love good fellowship and if the channel is at all. con- more efficient in some forms than

gested

there is at present a danger in others in accelerating certain "I think the time will come when

of whi

ships groundinar.

chemical changes. we shall discuss Christ as freely being carried out by Southampton used, are of commercial Orchestral-Early Ragtime Memorica.

While these developments are changes, in which platinum is Many such and proudly as we discuss Nurse Harbour Board, Trinity House is Cavell or any other national hero.iving careful attention to the be found for the new crystals it is tance, and if a suitable use chul Mr. Wallner concluded:

question of inproving the varietts possible that resources of " had a dream. dreamed I!

the was standing on a parapet looking Southampton Water,

signals its the approaches to two-dimensional world may be down on the earth, and that three

called in to redress the balance old sainta, alt smoking their 4upes, during the summer between the

result of negotiations of our own. were pounding a diamond into Harlour Bourd and Trinity House. powder by my side,. They east the

latter body has decided the powder mu to the earth, and carry out much-needed improve- we saw meu pick

up separate ments, and at the same time to grains.

"The old saints were scream-Signalling

experiments with new

apparatus. ing with laughter, and 1 asked

As

conduct Lan

to

spring, when the three

one of them what it was all about. Transatlantic liners named went That was the diamond of truth,” ground, it was suggested that

THE DOLE THAT

he said, and the joke is that every improvel signalling apparatus in the

Mr. Wallace said he intended

The

KILLED AN EMPIRE.

Continued from Page 6)

distracted people actually

man who picka up a speck thinks the Solent would make navigation found relief under the stern but he has got the whole."

easier. considerably

stronger rule of a barbarian con- Harbour queror. made recom- padations to Trinity House, und some of these have now been

holiday various airports in Rhine his sermon to be that "of a sinner Board Houthi

in criticism of the Christian Churches."

Norman Long, B2296. Vocal Gems from Hit The Deck."

Light Opera Co. C1433. Organ Solo-Desert Song.

Reginald Fouri. B2443. 7.32-8.00 p.m. Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan. The Gondoliers. Patienco.

The Sarceror. Trial By Jury.

The Regimental Band of H. M. Cold- stream Guarda. C1273, C1274, C1486, and C1436. 8.00 p.m. Local time and weather 8.03-10.30 p.m. Chinese studio con- 10.30 p.m. Rugby mid-day press

report.

cert.

news.

10.33 p.m.

Close down.

The récorda in the above European

BRIGHTEN LIFE. programmes are kindly supplied by

land and Westphalia were also mally busy dealing with freights for England, over a ton of undi

When he sat down Dr. Porter, opted. It has been decided to NEW HATS MAY other wares being loaded on area- thanking him for his sermon, accelerate the period of the for planes at the Krefeld aerodrome said: "It would he a good thing signal at Calshot Spit. This will alone.

Normally, freight handled if Mr. Wallace would forsake detec-prove of considerable help to daily

at this

particular airport live stories for a time, and g forth pilots entoring for leaving averages less than seven vwt,

preaching."

Southampton Water. Consignments of manufactured goods despatched to

from

ke Cologne airport and

to-day were 100 per cent. over nar- mal and included even machine parts and pockets kniven,

JEWEL THIEVES BIG HAUL.

£10,000 THEFT FROM

SHOP IN STRAND.

London, Nov. 20.

tower.

for navi-

By HELEN ROSE. Wireless Beacon. The other bone of contention is bachelor Judge, Mr. Jus- ROUND THE WORLD.

the apparatus at the Nab Tower,} Lice McCardie, passing sen- off the easternmost end of the fence on women's dress a day or STANDARDISED TRIPS.

Tale of Wight. Ships have to two ago, declared that nothing The ruah will be continued until

AND THE OTHER WAY. round this point before entering or brightened the lives of women like the moment, when the measures in- For the average turist, a trip leaving the Solent. At present a new drew or a new hat, and that stituted against dumping are en-round the world is an amusing the Nab Tower la equipped only the brighter the lives of the wo forced.

but often a standardized experi with a for-horn, but improvements men the brighter the lives of the ence. It is apt to resemble a aort are being carried out which will men. of grandiose moving picture per- make it mare useful

He was right to a point. But formance with the train and state-gators.

Attention is being given to the he forgot that every silver lining room window for a silver seres question of the Installation of a has a cloud. Does an extrabright To the artlat, however, who, violin wireless beacon, and experiments wife make a husband brighter in hand, wandera from place to

are i

also being carried out with a when he has to pay the bill? place in strange countries playing submarine oscillator. Efforts are doubt it. A'à rule the only thing everywhere before people as dif-aine to be made to improve the a man notices about his wife's ferent from cosmoplita audiences effectiveness of the fog-horn by clothes is the bill, and I can't so as an American Ford differs from removing it to a lower position on that a man who has nover observ. a Chinese ricksha, a world tour is the

ed a new hat will take a delight in an endless chain of new and fan- An nuincionsly planned

Board are wasting no executed robbery occurred in the experience in the field of music and time in putting these, improve-

tastic adventures, an unforgetable Harbour House and Southampton payin- for it.

A wife pays for her brightness, centre of London last night when of human paychology-

ments into effect. When they are too. She may be pleased to ex- jewela

to the value of $10,000 were Heifetz who has made three completed Southampton will be hibit her new hat to her husband, stolen.

world tours and who is making n able to claim with some justidea- but the most hardened of wives The thieves, who were apparent- ly master craftsmen and used the fourth this year, says that, after tion that it is one of the most on a tremer at exhibiting the ac most up-to-date safe-breaking im having played before an almost acccesible and convenient ports in count for it. plomenta, bored through a 16 inch endless variety of audiences, he the world.

As a matter of fact, it is not the the Strand. They then cut the music speaks an eternal and in-stons, which are being carried out woman who does not know how to brick wall in a jeweller's shop in has found that standard Western

being

Med excellent progress is bost-dressed woman who spends with the dock exten- mat on her clothes. It is the strong steel lining of a safe and ternational language, intelligible escaped with their valuable booty.

This is the second time that these Sheik, the Japanese student, or the hollow has been made for the Afty. The husband who has to pay

to the Parsee merchant, the Arab by the Southern Railway.

dress. You can be well dressed on enormous spoon-shaped Aive pounds, and vilely dressed on premises have been burgled within | American stockbroker.

largest graving dock in the world. few months.

He has discovered three things This will contain upwards of xorbitant dreas bilis la usually which know no borders; classical 360,000 tons of water, and will be paying not so much for his wife's musle,. American jazz, and ap-required as soon as the new extravagance as for har ignorance. HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB, plauso as the sign of the public's Cunard liner now under construc-

approval. Play where you please, tion, loaves the Clydebank ship honds over clothes, but they dro- Few women really loss their

The following will represent the Bond Stroot and your women by

he says, if your men are dressed by yorda.

quently buy what they don't want Club 1st XI v. the Indian Ro- the Rue de la Paix or if your pu- completion of these extensions do want.

The revival of trade and the bocause they don't know what they creation Club on the Club ground diance comes on Saturday 28th November, com- sandain, you may be nearly suro result in a large Increase of ship in kimonas and will, it is confidently expected,

In epito of Mr. Justice Mc- moncing at 2 pm--H, Owen Hughes (Capt.) E. J. R. Mitchell, of one thing-that if your hearers ping at Southampton, and the Cardle's condemnation of modern K. H. Batger, G. E. R. Divett, A. Hike Beethoven, they will show it improvements to the approaches woninn's extravagance, more self- Reid, A, C. Bock, E. I. West, E. ft. by clapping their hands together will remove one of the principal denial is practised by women with obstacles to Southampton's regard to their clothes thar. in Duckitt, O. G. Simpson, Capt. Miro- log and loudly.

passenger and ever asked of mea. What does the -house, A.-G.. I. Bowker.

Heifetz is expected to be in the development as a

cargo -port

·Colony again on Dec. 4th.

bachelor Judge know of the pink-

An

Mesars, Moutrie and Co.

frock dyed brown, of the shabby cont re-turned, or the last your's hat re-trimmed?

be very extravagant in the matter The majority of women cannot of clothes, or every newspaper would be crowded with notices from husbands that they are not responsible for their wives' debts. A new hat may be a tonic to n woman. She needs it after wrest. ling with the old one. And when Mr. Justice McCardle says that the brighter the the men, he should add the men Women the brighter who don't pay.

It may not occur to husbands that their wives are extravagant. that it is often their owir fault Many a young wife dresses to please her husband. At first, any- how. She little knows, poor dear, that the man who notices his wife's clothes is as rare as hens' teeth.

Perhaps if he took the trouble wouldn't buy so many now ones. He might oven help her choose them. If he told her sho looked divine in the blue frock at a rememaker who tells her she looks guinea, she might not listen to the divine, in the black, one at five gulnens.

to praise her old clothes sho

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