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GENERAL ITEMS.
Four hundred actors took part in an historical film, based en Dumas's "Black Tulip." cutside the old prison gare of the Hague. where the states
man Jan De Witt was murdered.
At the Oli Balley, an amazing casa
The German airship "Nordstern," of card-sharping and betting has ended in Aive Australians being past surrendered to France by the five years penal terms of the Peace Treaty, is to be senterad
One victim lost! used commercially for transporting servitude each. altogether $25,000 by an infallible goods between Marseilles and Algeria. betting system, and an Arzac exi
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Five insurgent Montenegrin officer last 1,076 at cares at the!
risoners dat on one rccasion. A chieftains leaving Antirari, near testiñed to the Bari, threw themselves out of a volice inspector fence having been carried on for train from fear of being taken to years, but he said that as the victims Serbia and delivered to the authorities were unwilhe 2 to testify prosecution there. was made dieut. As a result of the publicity given to these cases, Lon den is freer thom trick-ters than has been the car for quarter of a century Twent fine ethers, all Australians fexrept one South Africa), have fled to the Continent. The police hell warras against them.
A French Herns Datb..
Camel Domine, the heccio defender: of Tuven-thuar, has died at Vertus, roat Very Francois, where he was b 1848 He had fought in almost every part of the world where' the French dic
with the Zonaves
AFTER SEVEN YEARS,
PEAUNT SELLER PAYS-
THE CHINA MAH;
Nemesis, in the shape of a conscien-
tious lakes... overtook yesterday a
wrinkle-faced old peaunt-seller who, when charged at the Police court to-day with selling hiswares without a licence, naively
confessed to Magistrate Orme that he hadn't worried about a licence for seven years.
"In that case" observed the Magis trate drily "you have saved quite a lot of money on licences and you can well afford a two dollar fine out of your accumulation."
OPIUM OFFENDERS.
THEIR UNLUCKY DAY.
It was an unprofitable day in the illicit opium smoking business yester day. Seven raids on opium divans were successfully carried out by the police and revenue officers and this morning 43 offenders were haled be fore Magistrate Orme at the Police Court. Fines totaling $150 were imposed.
MARINE MISDOINGS.
HOME TRADE.
MANCHESTER MARKET.
Hesers, Morrean and Spiegelberg's report for July 13 was as follows:
Cotton-On better trade reports fron. Manchester, the raw material shews advances on the week.
Liverpool spot prices yesterday
Weye-
American F. 3. S.70. last week 800.
· Egyptian Sakellaris F.C.F. 14.5RAL last week 15,500.
Yarns. Prices are fitra at rates the same a last week to id, a P. higher.
Cloth, steady business con- tinues to cane to book. Prices are armer. and some advances in rates
recorded. It has been a surprise to buyers to find that they have in some cases had to pay more than the quotation of a week or the agu. Delivery dares have become more extended.
The export gures for June shew1. that in the first six topths of this year only about half the yardage of 1920 was exported.
This must help the consuming markets to
healthier state, ani Lenable them to clear their stocks. A coolie from Nam Hoi and a The Eastern markets are still hawker from Tung Kun were sen- buring cautiously. India. China. Java" tenced to imprisonment at the and the Straits haring made con A neat little piece of abbreviation | Ma inc Court to-day for being siderable purchases. occurs in a Home paper's "Personal" aboard the ss. "Ixcon" without column. It runs: L. o-Must cu permission. One offender was awarded snt tried 1st wk Wlle arrange? Spk A
a month's jail and the other one, Another letter would have cost an who had been in trouble before, got ether S.
six weeks.
None of the capital ships for this year's naval programme will be built in the dock-yards, said Mr. Amery in Parliament. The Admiralty hopes to be in a position to call for tenders on September 1.
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fate. He *A Orange trees in fruit will shortly wounded in the France-Prussian War, add further beauty to the famous and are conclusion went to Africa,, Place Vendeme in Paris. They will be where he had begun active service placed in decorated tree tubs. In Transferred to the winter they will be replaced by China, ar Tugen-tuan he put up a hardier plants and trees. defence which is the annals of French colonial wars much what the siegent Chialis in English records. With 100 troups he resisted for three months and almost without food and mauritians 15,00 enemies. He lost a third of hi little force, and was so badly wounded himself that one arm bed to be amputated.
Emir At The Palace.
When the Ecuir of Katsina, Nigeria, Visited the King at Buckingham Palace he told his Majesty that horsee are among the greatest delights of his life, and as for racing, his fondness for the sport is boundless!
"I think."
that I he said, carefully studied the horses before a Face I should succeed in picking out
those that would win, or be among the first three." He said that in Nigeria he keeps his own stad of racehorses, and that he has won five: Cups,
The Emir was deeply impressed by al he saw at the Palace. I have seen nothing so magnificent in all my trave," he declared.
Before leaving he was invested by
Effortsareto be made to preserve the remains of the nid London Bridge, built in 1209, which were recently discovered during excavations for a new building at Adelaide place, on the north side of the river.
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The Etna Insurance Company, says a Hartford (Conn.) message, which employs 6,000 women, has issued a Fuling that none of their employees!
must wear bobbed hair.
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Charged with having made fast to the ss. Siberia Mara" when two other launches were already lying alongside, the masters of the steam faunches "Lee Ping" and "Vacuum" were fined $5 each.
TAIKOO TALLOW THIEVED.
The heavy sales in Liverpool during the weak reflect the volume of business done. This is the best week Liverpool has had since the stump contended.
The general tone is optimistic, and! it is considered that if we are not actually on the high road again, we are at least out of the wond,
Bar Silver is quoted at, 86jd. last week, 36ji.
Exchanges: --
| Paris......46.87 last week
Amsterdam 11.391 New York 3,641 Calcutta.. 1.31 Caught in Taikoo dockyard yester Hongkong 2.74 day with two bags of tallow in their | Shanghai.. 3.1! possession two Chinese who presented an unusually tatterdemallion appear. ance were pronounced guilty by Magistrate Orme at the Police Court to day on a charge of stealing.
A Chinese watchman said the men had the bags slung on a bamboo carried between them. They tried to run away when they saw him but he stopped them.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
THE BANK OF CHINA will, : on the 1st Sept. (Thursday) remove ta their new Offices in No. 4. Queen's Read Central, and will from that day, transact their buisness there.
For THE BANK OF CHINA,
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Manager.
Hongkong, August 26, 1921.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS THE Endemicced Lave received în- structions to seli by Public Auction {FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNES),
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TUESDAY,
August 30, 1921, commencing at 4.30pm, at their Bales Booms, NA Dor Vans Road, Corner of
Jan House Stresi,
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Electric Reading Lamps, Screens, Sandry Blackwood Farsiters, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, Enamel Bath,
&c.. (Pall Particulars from Catalogue). Terms: Cash on delivery.
AUDHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong August 20, 1921.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED) ON
TUESDAY,
August 33. 1931, commenting at 1.37 pm at their Exles Rooms, No. 8, De Feux Road, Carner of
Ice House Street-
A Consigament of WHITE GOODS,
Comprising >
One man was given a month's the Competitions arranged for Shirtings. Sheetings 72 and 90 inches
"We want jail and the other, who was younger, SUNDAY, 8th int have been post- workers, not circus riders," is the was let off with three weeks.
poned until SUNDAY, 1th September. official reason iven.
J. B. ROSS,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, August 20, 1921.
A feature of cricket in mail week MONEY CHANGER ROBBED. was provided by Rushby, the Surrey bowler, who took the whole of the Somerset wickets in their first innings at Taunton for 43 runs. This is the third to the feat of taking all ten wickets has been accomplished this
season.
A French infantryman who deserted in September 1915 and had evaded ail the efforts of the authorities to trace him has just been arrested.
shop along the Praya East yesterday Dashing into a money changer's afternoon, a Chinese grabbed up a packet containing several dollars in small change while the proprietor was looking the other way and made off with it. Fokis gave chase and the man was stopped by a constable on point duty.
Presented before Magistrate Orme at the Police Court this morning he
the King with the medal struci elped by his wife, he had lain con-confessed his guilt and was sent to
cealed in the house during the day, jait for a month. expressly ter African chiefs-an oval.
despite frequent searches by gendar silver gilt medal bearing the King's. head and attached to a gold chain. His immediate desire was to be photographed wearing it, Took's Coart.
centur
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A lahours in a village near Dover recently lost £50, his life savings, which he kept in an oki tobacco pouch under his pillow. He reported his loss to neighbours, and a search
FIRE THIS AFTERNOON.
A fire broke out in Hollywood Read at 2.45 this afternoon. The Fire Brigade turned out promptly with two engines and are attending to the outbreak as we go to press.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Poulain, mounted on his Aviette-a man propelled aeroplane-has won the so called "Prix Decametre " of 10,000 franes by covering a distance Interesting examples of eighteenth of 70 metres in one direction and 45 domestic architecture metres in another at a height of 80 London are rapidly disappearing centimetres, says 3 Reuter Paris There are two gund houses in Took's Court, a shabby angled passage be tween Cursitor Street off Chancery Lare, and Fetter Lane. These, with the rest of the court, are now the property of the Government and are scon
Mrs. Louise Sassoon, of Spring. coming duo to make way for an
field, Walton-on-Thames, widow of extension to the Patent Office. Both resulted in the discovery, near a large show as fine trickwork as anything in rat hole in a barn. of the pouch, Joseph Sassoon, and a daughter of London, and are decorated with tall badly gnawed but with the notes the late Baron de Gunsburg, left pilasters, one with Corinthian capitals intact. and the other with Ionic. Tock's Court has been in an exhausted con-
An IOU for £600,000,000 has been Andrew Thomas Bruce. K CM.G. (75), dition for many years, and is probably known to very few but those whose handed by the War Damages Com-who saw service in Nigeria and was mittee to the Allied Reparations second in command in China. at the business takes them that ·way.. Students of Dickers will recognise in Commission. It begins: The Ger- time of the Boxer outbreak, formerly it, however a haunt of Mr. Chadband.man Empire owes the holder of this A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, left estate The least one can do for these promissory note the sum of 12,000 of the gross value of £20,957. houses is to 1ecord their parsing.
Twice-Told Tales.
In his lucid moments he was a big
game hunter; in less lucid ones he was a ladykiller; and in less lucid ones still he was our prize whisky drinker and our prize liar. All his ties, of course, were about animals or women.
to scale in rear-and we waited for
the denouement.
Just as it should have arrived he ceased speaking and dropped asleep. We determined not to let him escape, and woke him up.
000.000 gold marks (£600,000,000
of the weight and standard legally stipulated on January 1, 1914.
estate valued at £11,091.·
The late Admiral Sir James
Sir Arther Whitten Brown, the Transatlantic airman, who has been
l at the Manchester Military
Kissing is not illegal in Berlin. Hospital, having undergone an opera- This decision was given by a Berlin tion for appendicitis, has now almost court when a lawyer's clerk and pretty recovered. Sir Arthur has recently trpist were tried for making a public been in China on behalf of Messrs. scandal by kissing in the Tiergarten Vickers.
Garden). They bad (Zoological
The old Beachy Head lighthouse, near Eastbourne, is for sale.. The price is £2,500 and it is recommended
desirable
Ladies and Gent's Handkerchiefs, Damask Table Cloths 60 and CS inches wide, Serviettes, Turkish and Eocka- back Towels, Bed Quilte, Bed Valances Bedspreads, Pillow Cases, Cotton Calo, Doilies, Tray and Glass Cloths,
wide, Fed Steels.
&c, Terti-Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & BOUGH, Auctioneers. Hengkong, August 26, 1921.
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Those Mean Beach Thieves...17 1-6A $1,000 P. N................................18
E Is A Window A Door?...18--19 ....710 Defunct Company 19
ΤΟ The Morder in Theatre.......
Attempted Kidnapping ---- Fatalities and Accidents At the Fountain ............................ Ko-rloon Land Sales....... Weekend Burglaries ........... Pirates Caught.
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Shipping ....
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Local and General New Taikoo Steamer..... kissed many times as they walked A marriage has been arranged, Burned with Matches......... 10 One night he had lied himself into along before they were stopped by a and, will take place on August 30, Chinese Will Dispute.... an impossible quandary-lions it detective who had followed them for very quittir, owing to recent breave Banque Industrielle 11 front, rhinos to the right, hippos to half an hour. Their counsel told the meat, between Major I. G. Cadell, Chinese YMCA. ......................11 the left, and a python writhing down court that he spoke as the defender D.SO., 45th Rattray's Sikhs, elder Praya East ..***. the tree which he had attempted of all lovers and the Court acquitted son of the late Alan Cadeil, C.S.I.,
Spite Screens** them. They had a good kiss outside. L.C.S. and Margaret, youngest Children's Corner
daughter of the late Mr. H. J. Hunt, Cupid Still Busy of Yokohama, and of Mrs. Hent, of Stolen Brooch.*****
Strikers Dismissed........... Crawley Wood House, Camberley.
Old Post Office Size... Bummer The marriage took place on July Barr's Flying Circus ..... Well, how does it £rish?" we residence." At present it is owned 11. at Holy Trinity Church, New Publications .... by Sir Howard Frank. The lantern Brompton, of Mr. Victor Harry Jones, Yarn Market ...................... asked.
How does what finish? be room from which the light once 14th King's Hussars, second son of Correspondence me
gleamed across the Channel is now Mr. H. D. C, Janes, Hongkong and Obituary mumbled.
Why, the story you were telling fitted as a smoking room. There are Shanghai, Bank, London, and Mrs Motor Prosecutions 15 "we insisted. 'You rememberit” | an entrance hall, sitting room, Jones, 7, Hanover-terrace, Regent's Summary, Court Smalle..
On. Vein, 1 member,* came the octagonal dining room, five bedrooms, | Park, and Emily Charlotte (Milly) Stocks for Steading -**** reply. "Well, to cut a long yarn a garage and three quarters of an eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rents Ordinance. short, I was dont near landed in a acre of ground. The new lighthouse Arthur Thomson, Heathside, Wimble Little Drops of Water breach e' promish case in lie endi “*- stands on the water's edge.
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