MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1921.
CAR ABERA
"BURETKY" BENAROJA,
ORDES THE IN
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MERCURY MOTOR CARE OFFICE
RICE MERCHANTS RISE.
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AEG MI ESITION
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BESTELAY'S
59-81 Des Voeux Road Central,
ELANCE WEST PAINT BRANCH LEAR WORK SHOT
FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS.
CHINESE WILL DISPUTE.
HONGKONG.
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MANAGER
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
The King and the Small Boy.
There is no doubt the King thorough- ly enjoyed his visit to Plaistow. 1 never saw him looking so happy writes a London correspondent. He was interested in everything, and pluckily ploughed-with the Queen through the recreation ground. which would have been a quagmire in places had the threatened rain come down. At one stage a small boy seized the arm of his Majesty and requested him to pose to his cham for
photograph.
The King made no objection. but the boy with the camera was either, so flustered, or had not fully pre- pared himself for the work, that the King was laughingly constrained to tell him to get along with it." The boy got his snap" all right. Cosjugal Unhappiness.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Said to be France's oldest soldier, Antoine Genest, who was 99, has died. He took part in the conquest of Algeria in 1842. He drank a jug of wine at every meal with a glass of prune brandy after it.
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INTERESTING ACTION.
THE CHINA -MAIL.
LAST NIGHTS - RAIN.
SILK STORE'S STOCK DAMAGED.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $20,000,
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,
! ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB,
THE NEMORIAL. STONE 21 FAN- LLING erected in memory of the members of tha: Club who fell in the
Last night's heavy rain proved Great War will be unveiled by His The estate of a persevering Chinese disastrous-for Messrs. D. Chellaram Excellency the Governor on SUNDAY, who, beginning life as a labourer & Co., Indian al merchants of Nd.ith inst, at 5 pm.
in the fields, worked his way 36. Queen's Road Central,
where water caused damage to their stock- cf silk and
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Main Conrea.---Fanling. This course will be reopened for play on SUNDAY, 14th inst. "The Bye-law curtain days is cancelled from 15th inst. restricting ladies from playing ca until farther notice,
Kelief Course-Fanling. This course will be CLOSED fo topdressing on MONDAY, 15th inst.
stil further notice.
up - the ladder of Success until he had won a large fortune in China, Saigon and Hongkong formed other valuable goods to the extent the subject of an interesting wil case begun in the Supreme Court this of some $20,000. The water was morning before the acting Chief blown in sheets by the wind into the verandah of Messrs. Cooper & Co., Justice (Mr. Justice Gompert:).
Lau Kong Hing (with several Importers and Exporters of the aliases) was the name of the testator second floor of the same building, and the action was brought by the and working its way into the ceiling, deceased's oldest surviving son, his poured down in torrents into the concubines and the first floor, used as sleeping quarters widow, two widow of a deceased son. The by the assistants of Chellaram and defendant was Lau Shui drited by counsel as
Co. It took only a few minutes a life-long friend of the testator, to whom for the water to get into the shop probate in common form of the below, where it poured into the show document in disbute was granted in windows. The shop people who were awakened by the dehige, were soaked had an interest in the estate, that deep water to eare the stock. No the Club on FRIDAY, the 12th day of The plaintiffs claimed that they to the skin, working strenuously in THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- ING of Members will be held at
the alléged wi 1/3.3 invalid, sooner had they removed a bale of August, 1921, at 5.30 pm, for the
October 1913,
By Order of the Committee. J. B. ROSS,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, August 8, 1921
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
William Schuetz, who recently won national fame by winning a prize for an essay, entitled "Ideals was arrested in of Americanism. ' New York en a charge of burglary, He pleaded guilty and was committed that the deceased was of sound silk to one part of the shop than the purpose of considering and passing tha mind at the time the document pur-water broke through the ceiling and Annual Report and Statement of ported to have been executed and did its work of destruction in the new Accounts for 1920 and of transacting for trial.
that he was unduly influenced by the place. The men worked strenuously all other business which ought to be
transacted therest.
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Crossing the road in front of his shop John Everton, 60, a grocer, of Grimsby, saw a child playing in the path of an approaching motor-car. in trying to save the child be was knocked down by an electric tramway car and killed.
Lordon is suffering from Àgue of moths. A drastic brushing of the entire wardrobe in
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the sun is the best remedy," declared a clothing expert to a reporter Mr. Justice Harridge, in giving,g." Although naphthaline and camphor ment dismissing a wife's petition for serve to keep them away, he added judicial separation on the ground of people should not neglect to look cruelty in a case not otherwise of through their clothes weekly." public interest, drew attention to the large degree of domestic unhappiness which resulted in proceedings in the Divorce Court, and which, he said, was due to the desire for excitement and amusement in many young women. That desire seemed to be a result of the war. In the case before him feelings of this sort bad made the petitioner dissatisfied with the con- ditions of life which she had taken on herself when she agreed to marry a
is
Having been responsible for the appearance at police courts of 5,000 motorists, Constable W. Eustace retiring from the Metropolitan Police, and at Hampstead Police Coust. Dr I. Macdonald Brown, the chairman, said that Eustace had earned the reputation of being a perfect terror to scorchers and road-hogs.
man. of moderate mears. Such feel- street a tramway-car driver had to
ings had resulted in her magnifying petty grievances, and in her turning them into accusations of cruelty. World's Largest Flagpole.
presented with the largest flagpole in
the world. It is made of American
passed.
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R. C. WITCHELL.
Hon. Secretary. Fogkong, August 2, 1921.
NOTICE.
defendant. It W urged that the Court should pronounce against the validity of the to alleged will and revoke
the saving probate, granting letterz of percentage of the valuable stock administration to the first plaintiff. in the front part of the shop Inckily It was denied by the defendant the rain stopped before the water that the plaintiffs bad any interest in reached the rear portion of the the estate and that the will in dispute premises, and the valuables stored was not executed, made
there were spared. A China Mail re- are made & REDUCTION of 15% on all SMOKING requisites acknowledged according to Statute porter who visited the pre nises this The other allegations were also denied.
afternoon, was informed by the from August 4th to August 18th. Mr. C. G. Alabaster Instructed by manager, that it was fortunate that (Messrs Dennys and Bowley) ap a large shipment of silk and other peared for the plaintiffs and the finery had been despatched only the defendants were represented by previous morning or the loss would Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by have been more than double.
at
Messra Wilkinson and Grist.)
When the hearing was commenced this morning Mr. Alabaster pointed out that the burden lay upon the defendant to prove the validity of the will and Mr. Jenkin then pro- ceeded to outline his case.
MOTOR CAR INCIDENT.
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SAILOR WHO WANTED SPEED.
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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA.
VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPVAART - MAATSCHAPPIJ (United Netherlands Navigation Co.),
HOLLAND-COST AZIE LUN. (Holland-East Asia Line.)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From: HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, LA ROCHELLE PALICE, GENOA
and LISBON.
Mr. Jenkin related to the Court Charged with having assaulted a how Lau Kong Hing, after beginning motor car driver, a Filipino aamed life as a toller in the fields, rose by Felix Ponciano, a member of the Swarms of tiny black insects were dint of hard works and perseverance crew of the U. S. destroyer "Rizal," seen at Edmonton, N In Fore to wealth and position. Born of poor this morning admitted the offence but
The evidently, counsel laid, a boy of some provocation.
driver said FE Steamship pull up and the service was interrup parents in the year 1855 he was claimed that he had received ted while his colleagues tried to industry and ambition but his parents that the Bocused and. two
** TJIMANOEK." dislodge the insects from bis eyes. could not afford to give him the other sailors hired his car for a trip baving arrived from the above Ports,
They swept over playing fields like & swarm of locusts, causing the opportunities and advantages for round the island. He was running Consignees of Cargo by her are notified which he craved. But in his at a moderate pace when the accused that all goods are being landed at their The people of Australis have been tennis players to stop until they had spare time the youth studied hard urged him to go faster. When wit risk into the hazardous and/or extra
at the local school and it was when he news told the accused that he would be According to a wireless from the was 16 years of age that fortune first exceeding the speed limit, the latter hardou Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godowa Co, Ltd, fir and measures 150 feet in length. "Aquitarla," on her way from New began to take notice of him. At attempted to take the steering wheel.) whence and/or from the wharves deli-
that time he came into contact with himself. The Witness tried to The American Consul-General for York, £10,000 worth of jewels has a Chinese gentleman, managing part-prevent him, and the
accused ay may be obtained. Australia (Mr. Sammons) is the been stolen from Mrs. C. A Mann, ner of a rice shop, who was visiting struck him behind the
Goods not cleared by the 14th authority for stating that it is the a passenger in the ship. English the village. Pitying the lad's poverty The accused asserted that August, 1921, will be subject to rent largest Bagpole in the world. At all detectives and an inspector of Lloyd's and inability to advance himself the when he asked the complain. All broker, chafed and damaged events he claimed that this was the have arrived at Cherbourg to make rice merchant took Lex Kong Hing ant to go a little faster, the latter packages are to be left in the Godowns, case when he presented the pole to the in, quiries when the "Aquitania" to Hongkong and found him a job stopped the car and refused to go where they will be examined on the acting Prime Minister of Australia on arrives.
as servant boy in his shop at a any further. When he remonstrated 18th August, 1921, at 10 x by American Decoration Day. He also
It is estimated that the police in monthly salary of two dollars. Two with complainant, the latter. left the Mera Goddard & Douglas. gave the acting Prime Minister a
New York County have seized liquor years later the boy was still in car and challenged him to fight, he "landed** - one 00 the little sliver replica of the pole, with a since the new dry laws went into the same position but evidently be a
W28 contented because when ear. Magistrate Orme decided that the small silver model of Australia as its effect worth £10,000,000 at present he wrote bis auto biography later on case was not a serious one, and bound base. The American Consul-General prices. Some of the very highest be voiced his pleasure at the the accused over in the sum of $59 did not bring the flagpole with him class will be sold to hospitais or when he made the presentation but it other legitimate users, and the re-acquisition of so large a sum at that to be of good behaviour for six has been landed in Melbourne and mainder will be towed to sea in barges age. Afterwards, however, he be months.
and there dumped, flavouring the came restless and when he was 19: ocean and perfuming the breezes years old he pressed for an appoint- many miles around.
will ultimately be erected at the Federal capitul site at Cuntura, where some day the Australian seat of Go- vernment is to be established. Paris Police to be Armed.
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A rather unusual wedding took place on a bridge at the town of Up-Szeged. The bride was a Jugo
of them had
1
ment in some other foreign country. Next year he went to Saigoo and there by his great zeal he secured a position which carried a salary of thirty dollars a month.
The real beginning of his advance
LOST P.NE
DEBTORS DEFENCE FAILS.
ear.
The fact that the documents
Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effented by the undersigned in any case whatever.
Billa of Lading will be countersigned
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
General Agents.
by
--Hongkong, August 2, 1921,
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'THURADAT, August 11, 1921, commending at 19 o'cleak (noun), at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
Motor Car with Electrie Starter, Lamps and Hera, etc.. Farther particulars and inspection
PUBLIC AUCTION. In consequence of the last daring exploit of motor bandits in breaking Slay, and the bridegroom a Hungarian: to fortune, proceeded Mr. Jenkin, was had been lost did not help a into a jewelier's shop in broad day and since neither
Office, from tona to sell by Public Auction, light and making off with jewels said to obtained a passport visa, the wedding when he was able to invest bis scanty Chinese clerk, formerly a shroff THE Undersigned have nesired instruc
eavings in a small share in a rice mill at the Harbour be worth over 600,000f, the Prefect of ceremony was performed by Police has given orders that the police- Hungarian magistrate on the Hung.ing business which was formed by whom two Indian moneylenders men of Paris have to be armed with arian-Jugo-Slay frontier line, which some of his uncles. He seemed never claimed payment of $400, under two revolvers night and day. At present passes across the middle of the bridge. to have looked backed from that promissory notes and two LO.Us, at Mr. G. R. Haywood who appeared After the wedding the bride, having moment. Be made money fast and the Summary Court to-day.
at the age of 35 he wished to retire. they only carry weapons at night become a Hungarian citizen, was uncles were against it but shortly to support the claim explained to Mr. One 5-Beater-20 1. F. Nazwell time. Jewellers have become nervous permitted to step over the border afterwards his father died and that Justice Wood who beard the case and are thinking out schemes for and go into Hungary with her
the four documents had gave him an opportunity of re- that preventing robberies of the kind com-husband.
handed to him, but had turning to his home where he bees mitted one Sunday morning. A
remained for a period of three since been raislaid by his clerk, jeweller in the Rue de la Paix has in- The Japanese Government has years attending to various cere Alter the evidence of the plaintiffs orders may be had from the Unda- | vented an effective method. Behind the
detalls connected had been heard Mr. Haywood called signed. window is an arrangement of copperdition of lepers with a view to form with the burial.. Then he went back Mr. Cooper, of the Supreme Court wires which are almost invisible. An ulating a policy of relieving the again to Saigon where he spent one staff, as a witness. Mr. Cooper said electric current passes through them sufferers in the most practical way. more year during which he managed that when the defendant was served and immediately the glass is broken Government asylums for lepers in to double his fortune. He retired at with the writ he admitted that he owed the money but said Ee could with a hammer or by other means, the the Empire number five, capable of the age of 40.,
Although good fortune had at-not pay it just thến. aires get into contact and, thanks accommodating only 1,500, whereas
In the witness bot the defendant, to an ingenious mechanism, the board the total number afflicted aggregates, tended him throughout his career
visited him in his retirement. who was represented by Mr. C. H. on which the jewel cases lie is over- over 25,000 according to the latest il-luck
The authorities hope to He was bed-ridden for six or seven Lyson, told the Judge that he had turned and the cases fall into the returns. aub-basement, while the iron shutter carry out their plans in concert with years but afterwards he recovered paid the money and received back the the various public charity associa and after expressing gratitude to notes which be had thereupon burnt. His Honour said that he disbelieved falls with a crash on the thief.
tions. The necessary measures will his ancestors and to his gods be Wasted Millions.
started investigations into the con-monies
and
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DEBELIGT LIGHTER.
Terms ---Cash, on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,"
Auctioneers. Hongkong, August 8, 1991.
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
coming meetings, lectures and be brought before the Dirt in the next began to enjoy the fruits of his labour, the defendant and gave judgment. A preliminary notices of forth- It has been computed by a Par- session. One of the chief needs is a bet. His mode of life was very simple and for the plaintiffs directing that the entertainments, sent for insertion in liamentary expert that considerably terarrangement in the asylums, where economical and at the age of 55 he latter and Mr. Haywood should the news columns of the China Mail, more than £100,000,000 of our nation- by proper segregation of the sexes died leaving extensiveestates in China, I furnish an indemnity bond in reaper. are charged for at the rate of $1 each, (as announced in May and June of al expenditure this year was directly may be secured. The sexual question Hongkong and Saigon The only of the lost documents. paid in subvention and bonuses to among the lepers is perhaps the most cloud which shadowed his otherwise
last year) providing that they do not the workers and the lower middle horrible feature of the whole business succes a career was trouble between
occupy more than four lines. In class. Civil Service bonuses absorb So far, the handling of the question blmselt and members of his family.
was evident!
future if this space is exceeded they from one of his documents in £40,000,000, and Post Office bonuses has been even more inadequate in its That this was
methods than in amount.
Capt. T. Brown, of the as. "Yuet £28,000,000, On the railways up
which he stated his opinion that Wak reporis hering passed on will be placed in the advertising to the end of May we were paying
too much money was not goodly 30 at 12.30 pm a derelict lighter columns at the prevailing rates. £21,000,000, chiefly to make up re-meet the trading losses of the Bugar for certain of his relatives. The about 50 feet in length, half sub- ceipts lost by the coal strike, and Commission, the Treasury has to pay deceased arranged many safeguards merged, in Lar. 16 11 long 119 which would otherwise have to be some £24,000,000. Of all this ex-against their getting hold of more 41 E. near Paidra Point, Cape
Bolizna, Pallippine Islands made up by traders and the travelling penditure the large part cannot re-than he considered good for them.
Mr. Jenkla said that the amount of public. From June to Angust the cur after this year, and the rest, the railways will receive at least £18,000,- bonuses to civilians and postmen, the deceased's Hongkong estate was 000 out of the taxes, and between will diminish rapidly se the cost of reckoned to be about $45,000 and his Saigon estate was worth between Angust and the end of the financial living falls. Meanwhile the money $60,000 and $70,000. His Chinese year Parlament har arranged to pay is distributed to a large section of, the
property 35
amounted 10 shoot en them £30,000,000, which discharges community and part of it returns for k half of their war time claims. To the Treasury as income tax.
The case is proceeding.
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