MONDAY, JUNE -13, 1921,
INTIMATIONS.
"THE BAITISH LEGION.”
Hughes & Hough A GENERAL MEETING will ha
LUOTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALIT.
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Coal Contractors
General Brokers.
held in the CHAMBER" OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY: HALL at 3.30 PM. TODAY, the 13th of June, ef lose who attendal Major- General Sir G. M. KIRKPATRICK'S Meeting of Ex. Service Men on April 21st, 1921, and signified their inten- tion of juning "THE LEGION," and of those who have since joined. To
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ADVERTISEMENTS
~ 25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,
SL. PREPAID.
Every additional wood & Cantà
for 3 insertions.
TO LET.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS- receive the Report of the General TO LET - Apartment FURNISHED
THE
cu (187 Uadendgoed have roestved iuxtras.
{rom 1000rE OF THE COSLEENED), ON
TUESDAY,
June 11, 1921, at 230 pm
st their Sales Rooms, No.
Des York Road, Corner of
Ive Hotse Street,
AN ASSORTMEST OF Superior Household Elneus, &c, Comprising --
Sheeting Pillar Cases, Bed Valances Table Cloths, Serviettes, Glass- and Kitchen Cloths, Bath Sheets and Towels, Heckaback Towels, Ladies" and Gent's Handkerchiefs
do.. Terms: Cash,
de,
&c.,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers...
Boagkang. Jane 9, 1991.
Committee appointed at that Meeting-
Hongkong, Jane $, 1921.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE NEXT GYMKHANA is fixed
for June 23th, 1921. Draft Programmes and Entry Forms mar be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club, Causeway Bay Stables, and the Ufice of the Jockey Club în Hongkong Club anger.
Entries close. Tuesday, 14th June, but it is requested that they be sent in earlier if possible.
Hoogkong, June 9, 1921,
HONGKONG 3OCKEY CLUB
Laraen Subscription Grifins.
MEMBERS wishing to subscribe for one or more Larsen Subs for the Ocial Meeting 1922, (ii obtainable at about'the same price as last year - Le $300-) will please apply in writing to the Undersigned, or sign the List
Club Stables and the Cofee Room at the Race Course.
(For account of R. J. HUNTER, Esq.)sted in the Hangkong Club, Jockey
WEDNESDAY,
June 15,-1321, at 10.30 à....... at 58, Nathan Read, Kowloon,
THE Valasble Household · Forniture, Comprising Bedroom and Piting Suite, China Glass, Cutlery, &c.
Pall Particulars from Catalogue). Terms:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioners. Hongkong, June 8, 1921.
Glover's
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the diseases of your dog.
Book on Dog Diseases and How to Feed" Sent free on regeatt
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11A West
New York
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▼(Art) 16, Bang Kong
FANCY DYEING
IN
SHADES
TO MATCH YOUR
COSTUME
Stockings, Laces, Nets, Chiffons, Fringes, Braids, Tassels, etc.
Our established reputation as Expert Dyers insures per- fect matching of shades and proper treatment of delicate or rare expensive fabrics.
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and
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As owing to Political troubles in Mongolia there may be difficulty in obtaining posies, as early application is considered advisable, and it is pro- posed to close the Lins on Jene the 23rd.
II. BIRKETT, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, June 10, 1921,
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE. NOTICE.
THIS OFFICE will in future be entirely.
CLOSED on SATURDAYS at I
3. i. SMITH, Superintendent, Import and Exporte Hongong, Jane 9. 19±L
11
Chamber of Commerce Room
(CITY HALL).
14th & 17th June,
At 5.45 pm.
VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL..
Vladimir
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Violin
Virtuoso and
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Pianist Composer..
TICKETS AT ANDERSON'S
at $3, $2 & $1. "
St. John's Cathedral
THURSDAY,
June 16th,
"at 9.15 p.m.
ORGAN RECITAL
Vocalist:
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KERMATH
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SALE by tender of W.D, Vossel "BERCULES"
£
obase of the” above named vesicl TENDERS are invited for the pur with Engines and Boilers and variona spare stores
.
Header forms will be inned ca appli- cation to the undersigned.
Tender forms to reach the Ordnance
once, for later than 12 con 12th July, 1921.
"The vessel is now lyingat R. A SC Pier and can be viewed on pandaction of forms of tender to the Officer îna charge Transport, ASC
Particulars of the vessel re Steam vessel. Displacement tonnage 170. Length...
...$3 foot.
Beam
Depit...
Borse Power Koota
...li feet 2 inches
10 feet 3 inches.
...330. 10.
Working pressure per
sqcare inch.150.
Engines by Cox & Co, Filmonth. Vessel built at Falmouth. Construction of vessel. Food up to water line, iron plazed above. Approximate carrying capacity:-
25 Toms pr 100 Fazsengers. E. G. SPINKS, CAPTAIN,
Ordmace Officer.
R. A. O. C. Depot;
Queen's Road EuL
Hongkong, June 10, 1921.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
the mina zement of the firm of Messrs. J. ULLMAN & CO. has been taken over by Ma RENE AL ULLMANN.
Hongkong, Jane 2, 1941.
ECLIPSE WONDERS.
ANIMALS MISLED.
TWILIGHT AND BIRDS' EVENSONG
EEFORE LUNCH.
The annular eclipse of the sun on April 8 was by general consent a thorough success. The phenomenon created great public interest, and the conditions for observation were per fect, says a home paper of April 9.
It took place at an hour when
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Silence reigned in the Royal Obser vatory save for the solema ticking of the sidereal clock and the gentle murmur of the mechanism which kept the telescope moving with the sun. The "observer lay back in a deck chair, with his head glued to the eye-piece. Every minute cult the clock and jot down hunk- or two he leaped from his seat to
ed notes.
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within a second of the time that had The eclipse ended, as it had began
mathematical exactitude of astrono been predicteda triumph for the
which affect billions of miles of space mers when dealing with calculations watched from trains, tramway-cars, It was a great success from a
thousands of Londoners were on their
way to their day's work, and was
and omnibuses as much asfromstreets
and houses.. There was a great de-spectacular point of view,, said an mand for smoked and coloured glass Oficial at the Royal Observatory. and photographic negatives whether
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of glass or film. Mary people carried Writing from Mallaig, Inverness- pieces in their packes and when-shire, a correspondent says: ever they pulled them but a little It was all still and silent in this knot of spectators would gather and little fishing village when I set ant ask to be allowed to borrow them.] dut about 7.30 to, watch the eclipse, An ex-soldier in Trafalgar Squire The sky was wonderfully clear and charged 23. per head for a look blue as I left the road and climbed through his veled glass. A cinemas one of the rain-saddened hillsides to firm gave away pieces of film which the south of the town. I first recog- served the turn equally well, enda nised the moon through my dark resourceful faxi driver, smoked the screen about 850; it resembled a lens of his headlamp and placed it at the service of his patrons. Tea- chers and pupils assembled in the play-grounds of many schools for lesson on the unaccustomed sight.
Railway, guards were in great demand at Waterloo and other Lon- don termini, for the red and green glass on their lamps provided just the protection the eyes required in I had been watching for more thin watching the eclipse. Interesting an hour and a half when I felt my- effects of the eclipse included: self becoming distinctly colder. · I Reduction of the daylight to twlight | decided to put on gloves, and was for several minutes; fall of several just about to take my eye away from degrees in the sic temperature: the screen when I reminded myself Venus seen with the naked eye as a | how easy it would be to miss the present; Mercury as a half-moons annular phase, which would last sua reflections under frees seen as a less than – two minutes. These present, instead of as a circle; fall of † thoughts were - zuming, through 38 degrees Fabrenheit of the solar i my mind
wonderin! radiation; birds began to ting: their | sight was present my gaze.- The evening song.
[ ] this crescent on the aft of the sun ENDED TO THE SECOND. Suddenly rushed both ways and Officials at Greenwich Observatory formed into a circle. This was the had a busy time. The largest tele l'anglus. I quickly pulled away the scope is unsuitable for solar observar | screen, immediately saw Venus to tion owing to the flood of just, but the left of the
early Georges Carpentier was a visitor Instrements were visible to the naked eye looked to the House of Commons where, as
the eclipse, and, for Mercury, but could not find him, the
Philly Sassoon, in eighteen. I took out my field-glasse
the special
four of the
in use
lipse during one glimpse Mercury, but could
not see him with the nak
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and
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States, where he is to box: Dempsey for the championship of the work on July 5
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