THE
HONGKONG
TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
WANTS.
25 WORDS
$1.50
($2.00 / Not Prepaid.) The following replies have been received:-
908, 950, 944, 945.
AGENCIES
Old Established high clans
and English Woollen
Worsteds Place goods manufacturers of all descriptions desire to get in touch with reliable Importers, either European or Chinese, In Hongkong and Canton. Particulara and samples available by addressing to out Shanghal agents, Post Office 2089, Shanghai.
POSITION
CENTRAL
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU opposit City Hall, can recomatend experienced Teachers, Office Assistants, Book-kepers, Boiter makers, Structural engineers, Over-
веста
ele. (British); Stenotypists, Junior Assistants, Motor Mechanics, Watchmen, Servants, Coolien etc.
(Anlaties).
TO LET
TO LET-Two Semi-attached Euro- pean HOUSES, on Prince Edward llot and Rom. Renta reasonable, Cold Water Installations. Apply National Commercial & Savings Bank Ltd. Des Voeux Rond, Central.
BQ.
OFFICE TO LET Floor space 450 It (partiiloned In halves) Alexandra Buildings, 1st Moor. Apply Goddard & Douglas, Alexandra Bulldings.
·
Tho SEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be bald (Weather
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY
NOTICE.
on Saturday, 28th May, 1932, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at
p.m.
The Half Yearly General Mect-1.30 ng of Voting Members will be hold at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Monday, 30th May, 1932. at 5.30 p.m.
All Members are cordially in vited to attend and participato In any discussion which may ensure.
By Order of the Stewards,
8. A. SLEAP.
Act. Secretary.
Hongkong, 16th May, 1932.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 4th June, 1932, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Dirre. tors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th April, 1932.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from Monday, 30th day of May, to Saturday, the 4th day of June, 1932, both daya inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
Gonoral Managers. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1932.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES that the FIFTY-NINTH ORDIN- LET.--Immediate occupation. ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Two roomed furnished FLAT. pear Humphrie's Buildings, Kowloon bacholom preferred. Rent $130 monthly, Write No. 965, "Hongkong Telegraph."
ΤΟ
TO LET-Well furnished FLAT,
modern conveniences, cool, quiet locality, near scafront, Kowloon.
$230 monthly. Write Bax No. 956, "Hongkong Telegraph"
APARTMENTS
Nathan Road, Kowloon, Under European Management. Excellent
Culoine, Modern Apartments. Terms Moderate. Three minates from ferry. Tel. 67357.
AIRLIE HOTEL-23-25,
A FAMOUS BRITISH MATERIAL
We have great pleasure in announcing the arrival of a big shipment of
“FERGUSON FABRIC"
-BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS
VOILE DELIGHTFUL PRINTED DESIGNS.
ONLY TWO DRESS
LENGTHS IN EACH PATTERN.
MOST MODERATELY PRICED.
COME, WHILE THE SELECTION IS BIG,
TAJMAHAL
SILK STORE
King's Theatre Building. D'Agullar Street.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Membora aro notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will bo admitted to the Members' Enclo- Buro.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 fro Gentlo- mon and $3.00 for Ladies (Both are obtainable Including Tax) through the SECRETARY upon introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, &e.
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at: the Race Course.
On No Protext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure dur- ing the Meeting.
arc
Tils are obtainable at the Club House provided they ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance, Telephone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 Includ- ing Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price,
Bookmakers, Tic The Men, &c., will not be permitted to operate within the Precincts of the Hong- kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the in the Publle. En-
Society will be held at the Restaurant HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, closure. Hongkong, en FRIDAY, 27th MAY, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 193), and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 27th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1932.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
FOR
HAPPY SUMMER
HOURS OF FROLLICKING FUN
POST OFFICE NOTICE
BHANGHAI SERVÍCE SUSPENDED.
It is notlåted for information thab the transmission of mails to Europe, vin Shanghai and Siberia, is tomporarily suspended. During the tem- porary suspension, theso mails will be forwarded via Japan and Siberia.
The parcel post service to Shanghai is also temporarily suspended.
Letters and postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded "Vin Siberin" if no superscribed.
INWARD MAILS.
OUR
From
Amoy
"Manila
Japan and Shanghai
Japan
BUOYANT
RUBBER
BATHING
TOYS
ARE IDEAL !
They are made of good strong rubber strengthened for use in the sea.
They are easily inflated and when deflated pack into small space
Stocked in the following figures-
SWANS, DUcks, coldFISHES, HORSES, ETC., ETC.
(Small & Large Size).
WATER-POLO BALLS.
From $16.00.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
·Paris... Geneva Berila Oslo..
SPORTS DEPARTMENT.
Canada, U. §. A., Honolulu, Japan
and Shanghai
(Vancouver B. C., 7th May).
Europa vin Negapatam (Papers ony),
London, 28th April·
Japan and Shanghai
U. S. A., Honolulu, Japan & Shang-
hat..
(San Francisco, 29th April),
Straits
Japan and Shanghai
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai
(San Francisco 6th May)
Menila
Cnicutta and Stralis
Japan ***
Europe via Suez (Letters & Papers) London, 5th May, and Parcels, 28th April
U.S. A., Canada, Japan and Shang-
hai (Senttle, 14th May) Japan and Shanghai Australia and Manlia
Swatow
For
Samshul and Wuchow
Per
Tilawa
Dne
Pres. Madison Fushimi Maru
Kitane Maru
May 26, May 27. .May. 21. May 27.
Emp. of Canada
Bhutan
May 27.
. May 28.
Tatsuta Maru
.May 28.
Hiye Maru
Pres. Van Buren Mirzaporo
May 28.
.May 23.
.May 20..
Pres. Lincoln
May 30,
Chichibu Maru
May 80.
Santhia Tanda
May $1.
June 1.
Kalsar-1-Hind
..June 1.
Pres, Cleveland Ranch! Nankin
June 3.
.Juno 8.
Per
OUTWARD MAILS.
Shanghai, Japan and *Europe via
Siberin
Saigon
Swatow
Haiphong
Swatow and Bangkok
Foochow
Manila
Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America and Europe via Victorin B.C.
Hydrangea Колдно
Hakusan Maru
.Juno 4.
Date and Time .Thura., May 26, 8 pm- .Thu. May 26, 4 p.m.
Thura., May 20, 4.30 p.m. Pong Tong ..Thurs., May 20, 6 p.m. Kwangtung.. Fri, May 27, 10.30 a.m. Canton Fri, May 27, 2.30 p.m. Fri., May 27, p.m.
Muinam
Tenn***** Fri., May 27, 4.30 p.m.
Emp. of Canada
Fri, May 27, 4.80 p.m.
President Madison.... Fri, May 27. Parcels, ...... May 27, 11 p.m.. Reg. ...... May 27, 4.16 p.m. Lettera ...... May 27, 6 pm. (Dua Victoria B.C. 14th June.)
Shanghai and Europe via Siborla Pres. Madison .....
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
The Settlement yesterday passed 3/16 off satisfactorily. Markets 35.3/16
opened
1/8 quietly steady this morning, with a 3.08% fair general demand for the invest- 0.09 ment section, ratus being practically
36 unchanged.
Balcs.
EXCHANGE RATES
.93%
.18.82
.15.17/32 .20.1/16
Previous Day. Yesterday,
03 19.824 15.57
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE
2036
Helsingfors Athens Buenos Aires Shanghai New York Amsterdam. Vienna. Madrid Bucharest.
.216
215
560
660
3.48
.9,09 .364 44.0/16 .617% 1/3
44.1/16
14.1719
61714
1/3
26.30
26.11/32
.71%
124
71%
124
19.19/32 18.35 110
19.177391
18.35
110!
.1/5.31/32
47% 1/5.61/64
1784
.30
30
4.2214
10.15/16
16.15/16
--British Wireless.
NOTICE is hereby given that an By Order of the Board,
Extraordinary General Meeting of PAUL LAUDER,
The China Fire Insurance Com- General Manager.pany, Limited will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Hongkong, 30th April, 1932..
Union Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, immediately after the con Hongkong elusion of the Annual General Brussels
takes place
Milan Meeting, which
at Prague Friday, the 27th May, 1932,
Stockholm 1.15 a.m. when the subjoined St
Copenhagen. Resolution will! be proposed:---
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ORDIN- that the SIXTY-THIRD ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE. Union Building. Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 27th MAY, 1932, at 11.15 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1931, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 27th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 30th April, 1932.
BRITISH TRADERS, INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ORDIN. that the SIXTY-SIXTH ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 27th MAY, 1032, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1933, and of declaring Dividends, elc,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 27th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hongkong, 30th April, 1932.
MRS. MOTONO Massage.
Hand and Electric 318, Wyndham Street.
M
ASSEUR R. SHIMIDZU. ASSEUSE S. HONDA.
ASSEUSE S. KISAKI.
on
Rio.
That it is desirable to Bombay capitalise a sum of $1,600,000 Yokohama being part of the undivided Montevideo
4.22 profit of the Company standing Montreal
credit of the
Silver (spot)....16.13/16 to the
Extra
(forward)..16.13/16 Reserve Fund and for that purpose
(a) Should tho Hong Kong the Dollar equivalent of Extra Reserve Fund on the 13th June, 1932, be not of the value of $1,600,000 then there shall be transferred i from the Re-insurance Fund to the Extra Reserva Fund such
with a Aum as will the amount now standing to the credit of the Extra Reserve Fund make up the sum of $1,600,000.
(b) A call of $80 per share la hereby made on the share- holders of the Company ap- pearing on the Register of shareholders on the 27th May, 1932, and such call shall be payable on the the 13th June, 1932, to General Manager at Registered Offlec
of Company.
the the
(c) That for the purpose of paying the aforosald call of $80 per share a special dividend of $80 per share is hereby declared payable on and the 13th June, 1932, that such special dividend be applied on behalf of the shareholders by the Direc- tors in satisfaction of the call of $80 per share.
Dated 1932.
this 11th day of May,
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
General Manager.
MASSAGE
MR. & MRS. Y. MORI Holder of Japanese Govt. Certificate.
From the 1st May, 1982 Mosange fees will be reduced $2.00 for one Recommended for many years of treatment at offfee and $3.00 to Government Civil Hospital, Peak Hospital, etc., and by all the local $4.00 for one treatment outside. doctors
1st floor, 4, Wyndham St. Tel. 26031.
24, Wyndham Street. Tel. 24945.
Amsterdam, May 26. The Government of the Dutch East-Indies has assented to the revised
out-put curtailment scheme.-Router.
tin
Some stocking are a sheer
extravagance.
OPEL
For Maximum Mileage
THE NEW PAULUSH KRMEDY.
ERAPIO HERAPION NI THERAPIQN No3
BEST. MOVE: MIĀNS APPLETO XN MUSEUKU PADARIN
Union Insurances $4771%, Hongkong Lands $77/77.35. Ewo Cottons Tia. 13.60, Hongkong Trams $21.60. Constructions (Old) $5.20. Constructions (New) $1.70. B. Ind. G. Bonds 68. Wallace Harpers $14.
Buyers,
Canton Insurances $1200. Union Insurances $170. China Fire Insurances $600, Douglases $27,
Union Waterboats $20. Benguets $16.
Benguet Explorations 31 cents. HI.K. & K. Wharves $14414. H.K. & W. Docke $18. Providents (Old) $4.90. Hotels (Cum. Rights) $12.70. Hongkong Lands $77. Shanghai Lands Tla, $274. Humphreys $15. Hongkong Realties $12. Ewo Cottons. Hongkong Trams $21.40. Peak Trams (Old) $17. Yaumati Ferries (Old) $32. Yaumati Ferries (New) $31. Hongkong Electrica $74. Macno Electrics $24. Telephones (P.P.) $234. Canton Tees $55. Cements (Combined) $18. Hongkong Ropes $13.35. Watsons. (Old) $14.. Watsons (New) $13%. H.K, Govt. Loans 2 Premium. Wallace Harpers $14.
Sellers.
China Underwriters $3.70. Rauba $384.
South China Motors "B" $12. S. C. Enterprises $8.
WATER LEVELS.
WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
The following table issued by the Kwangtung River. Conser Ivancy Commission. showa the height of water in English feet on the dates named in the West, North and East Rivera:
Higbeet on Lowet Mar Mar
record on record, 24
20
West Alver ni
0.1
8.1
8,0
10.1
2.0
2.8
0.7,
0.4
Bhiahing. +417, North River T
Thingyuen + -|-$0.4 North River KË”
Sashu
27,1 m -B.B East Riverat"
- 1.7 Bhakung. 415.5
Nanking, May 25.
The Foreign Office has received no confirmation from Gateva in regard to the press report that the League of Nations will be recom monded by the Lytton Commission to excrise control in Manchuria. Comment on the subject is with- hold.--Reuter,
Rog..... Lettors
Fri, May 27.
May 27, 6 p.m.
May 27, 6 p.m.
East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseliles Fushimi Maru ........Sat, May 28.
Manila, Australia and New Zealand
via Thursday Island
Straits and Calcutta
→
Amoy
Shanghai, Japan and Europe via
Siberia
Manila
Bangkok vin Swalow
Swatow, Amoy, and Formosa Manila
K.P.O.
Reg.,... May 27, 4.30 p.m.. Lotters, ...... May 28, 9 a.m..
G. P. O.
Reg., ...... May 28, 8.45 a.m. Letters, .... May 28, 0.30 a.m, (Duo Marecillos, 27th June).
Chenan
Kitano Maru...Sat., May 28, 9 a.m
Registration Fri, May 27, 5 p.m. Letters ..Bat. May 28, 9 am (Due Thursday Island 9th June) Tilawa
Sat, May 23- Parcela, .....May 28, Noon.. Letters, .......May 28, 1 p.m..
Sat., May 28, 8.30 p.m.
Bhutan.....
Sat., May 28, p.m... Pres. Van Buren Sat., May 28, 5 p.m. Kalgan
Sun., May 20, ◊ àm. Hozan Maru ..Sun., May 29, 9 am. Tasuta Maru.... Sun., May 29, 9 a.m... Tibadak....Tues., May 31, 9.30 a.m. Halyang...... Tues., May 31, 1 p.m. Pres. Lincoln Tizes., Blay 81, 4.30 p.m. Hang Sang....Tues., May 31, 5 p.m..
*Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Manila Swatow Shanghai,apan, Honolulu, U.8.A., Canada, Central and South Ame rica and Europe via San Fran elsco and Europe via Siberia... CH'
Straits
Manila, Rabaul, "Australia and *New Zealand via Brisbane......
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U. S. A., Central and South Ameri- ca and Europe via Vancouver B.C. and Europe Via Siberia
Maru ....
Wed., Juno 1.. May 81, 6 pm. ...tern.....June 1, 8.30 am. Dee San Francisco, 22nd, June.) Van Heutez Thurs., June 2, 10.30 am.
Tanda
Parcels,
....Fri., June 3. ..June 2, 6 p.m. Registration..June 3, 9.15 p.m. Letters.......June 3, 10 am.. (Due Brisbane, 20th June).
Reg.,
Empress of Canada ....Fri, Juno 8
Parcels,...June 2, 6 pm.
.June 3, 0.15 a.m. ..June 3, 10 a.r (Due Vancouver B.C., 21st June). Halching
Fri., June 8, 10
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Strafts, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseillas Ranchi
Letters,
K. P. O.
Parcels Reg
Letters,
Parcels,
Reg...
Letters,
(Dae Marseilles, 1st
Manila
Shanghai and *Europe Vin Siberia
Pres, Cleveland Sat, J Gange
..Sati "Superscribed Correspondence only.
NEW SHIPMENT
CHEMICAL WASHE
CARPETS
FROM TIENTSIN
SHINING AS BRIGHT AS SILK WONDERFUL & ADMIRABLE,
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