WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1921.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONSERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALTY.
Coal Contractors
General Brokers.
•
PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
TIRE Undersigned have reenivad instrue
Section
(For Account of the Concerned}
ON
THURSDAY, September 23, 1921, commencing at 3 pm, at their Sales Rooms, Na 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street, Colleation of BRITISH FOREIGN STAMPS.1
about 250 lots. including over 600 British Colonis', war and new water-mark,
any unused.
No Reserve.
On view and Catalogues issued from the 19th instant,
Tertosh on delivery.
HUGHES & MOUGH, Auctioneer Hongkong, Septenber 19, 1921.
from ACCOUNT OF FEX CONCERNED),
FRIDAY, September 30, 1921, commencing & 2.30 pm at their Sales Roams, No. 8, Die Faux Road, Corner of
Ico House Street, Chinese Porcelains and Red Lacquer Ware, Incinding a variety of 5-coloured and 3-coloured Vases and Jars, Wall Pistes. Table Screens, Blue and White Yates, Incense burners, Uld Bronze and Brass Figures and Vases, Kakemonos, Lac Screens, Chaire quered Cabinets, Tables, Ivory Ware, Jade, "Agste and Crystal Ornaments, Mandarin Pieces,
Aiso many Green Jade Ornaments, Bears Hand Bage, Embroidered Bags, Amber Seck-laces, Golden Breast Fins, Scarf Pins, Sleeve Buttons, Bracelets, Broaches, &c. &c.
The bore stock recently arrived from the North and includes pieces from the Ming, Kunghi, Kiedlung and
Towkwong Periods.
The bulk of which will be sold with
out reserve.
(Full Partitulars from Catalogue). On view from the 29:b and morning of sele.
Fatmax :-Card on delivery.
HUGEES & HOUGH
Artinmarri
Hongkong, September 23, 1921.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY has been acquired, as from July 7th, 1921, by the undersign- ed with all rights and titles, and will bereafter be published by them. No claims against the Hongkong Dollar Directory incurred prior to this date will be simitted by the undersigned.
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
LTD.
5, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, July 7, 1921.
FOR SALE,
New and Used
HARDLEY-DAVIDSONS.
INDIANS. HENDERSONS.
WOLFE
and SMITE
MOTOR CYCLES.
REEVES & CO. 106-114, Woo-Sang Street, Kowloon
MARTIN'S
APIOL & STEEL
STPILLS
£ French Komody Sur nåt Tenugulastties.
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-MARTIN'S
SAPIOL STE
PILLS
PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd.
Phone Central
看
Western Branch 2148 Kriwloon Branch K997
Row.Car For Hire & For Sale.
Private Cars garaged.
Repairing 'Cars-a Speciality.
MASSAGE.
ME/HONDA Lad Mrs. HONDA.
1-2 years' experiemon
10 the Ckins/MEL,
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TU ANIMALS.
A
GENERAL MEETING of Mem- bere will be held on THURSDAY, 29th inst at THE HELENA MAY | INSTITUTE, at 5.30 pm.
Basine: To pass the Rules and report progres5,
Hongkong, September 24, 1921.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
OWIN
WING to the inability of, the SHANGHAI HORSE BAZAAR to supply Time Subscription Grinius, it is proposed to procurs a further batch of Larsen Griffins on the same terms as) before. Lists are posted at the Hong- Long Clab, Racecourse and Jockey Club Stables and members desiring to subscribe are requested to put their names down by FRIDAY, September 30th.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
15 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word & Cent
for 3 insertions.
WASTED
WANTED.
YOUNG CHINESE, with many years' experience in BANKING, SHIPPING, INSURANCE, and general office work, open for im mediate engagement Will ask for a reasonable salary. Please apply For 1327, do "China Mail“
TO MOTOR CAR OWNERS.
Closed Boxes for CarK TO LET $15,
per month. Special attention girea to Cara stored. Apply EAST POINT GARAGE, Telephone $422, East Point.
TO LET.
It has been decided to term the batch already arrived Subscription Griffics And the new batch now being For particulars apply to THE
ubscribed for "Subscription Griffins
B".
There will be 'cartain number of races for the two classes separately according to the number of posies in each class, as well as races for the row classes combined.
H. BIRKETT Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, September 2, 1821.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
THE ORDINARY GENERAL THE
MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices 20. Des Voeur Road on FRIDAY, September the 30tà instant at Noon,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Campany will be CLOSED from the 10th to the 30th of September both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.
General Managers. Hongkong, September 9, 1921.
THE BONGKONG & HEAMPLA
DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that IN the SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to 8th October, 1921, both days inclusire.
Warrants for the Interim Dividend be chained at the Office of the Company, 2. Queen's Buildings, Bong kong on and after the 13th October
next.
Ey Order of the Board,
R. M. DYER.
Chief Manager. Hongkong, September 17, 1921.
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD
STORAGE CO. LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TEE TWENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of Share! holders in the above Company will be
O ́LET-GODOWN at Ysumati,
HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION CO LJ.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
[To the Editor of the “ China Med,“l
PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
KINDLY MURDERERS.
CRIME EXPERTS SIDELIGHTS
ON SCAFFOLD.
-“But for the grace of God, crimmals in the mass at you and 1.2
is made by Sir Basil Thomson, K.C.B.)
A BAD DAY FUS IT.-
"It was in November, the main was Coming down in sheets, When I went to his cell he was quits cheerful, and said, Good morning, sir. What a pity it is.a rainy day.', I magnured something about the weather being of little interest to him, and he said,
I
$50,000 WINDFALL"
DAUGHTER FOUND AFTER 30 YEARS
After searching for her for 30 years
FIGHT WITH MADMAN.
350 FEET OVER RIVER
· MID-AIR STRUGGLE BEEN BY
THOUSANDS,
In the presence of thousands Ob, sir I was not thinking of myself, to tell her that she is heiress to her was thinking of the Princess Five grandfather's fortune 30,060, Mr of people aiming the arms
of steamships and tugboats i minutes later he had passed into & Forte Allison, a retired railway con- the harbour, two New York police aim where weather and princesses tractor of Philadelphia, has learned men rescued a madman who was try the eternal scheme. fall into their proper place in the whereabouts of his daughter,ing to throw himself from the top of
months old.
This rather disconcerting statement who, as Assistant Commissioner of the C.ID. should know as much about criminals as anybody-in an interesting article. Sidelights
At the same prison another man whom he last saw when she was six one of the towers of the great Crime, in the World's Work.
Williamsburg Bridge, which jains Most criminals, says the author executed during the same year. He of a very different temperament wa“
She is now a married woman with New York City to Loug Laland,-over are just men who have gone wrong had taken the life of a girl for zo very five children. When the other died, the East River. This applies particularly to murderers apparent reason, and, though the de- in the child's infancy, her father put who are not criminals at all in the sails were squalid and brutal, he be her into the care of his sister. Soon of the suspension bridge bang are sense of being dangerous persons, hared with perfect prepziety up to after he went to Missouri and the sister
"but accidental offenders who have
excention.
ANOTHER HELPING, PLEASE.
The friend saw the last advertise- was almost timed to toll in the neigh-ment of all, as the father had come to bouring church, when the warder in the conclusion that his daughter rast charge of the condemned cell came be dead and decided to abandon out to say that the condemned man attempts to find her. would like another helping. Chief Warder, a kindly but a most religions man, protested. "It
The
i The towers from which the cables
ft. high
The two officers then faced the most
The man, a young Hungarian, who yielded to a sudden impulse or have the time of his death. On the last moved to Texas, then to Ilinois, and collapsed under the influence of heavy moming, when invited to choose his finally to Birmingham, Alabama climbed the tower by an iroa ladder breakfast he selected beefsteak and There his niece grew to womanhood used for Inspection purposes, was seen on the narrow platform at the top, drinking.
"With very rare exceptions," adds onions, and made a more than hearty and mamed.
In 1889, a year after she had left wildly waving his arms.
Two traffic policemen immedi dy Sir Basil," the condemned murderer meal. Time was getting on
her father, the girl's grandfather died, left their posts and went up the tower. wins the pity and king of all who
leaving her his entire fortune Her have to do with him during the short
The executioner, a horrible little father, who was unaware of his sister's In a few minutes they closed with the period between his conviction and his man, who, while he talked to you, movements, advertised in the hemadman, and the three men struggled instinctively looked at your neck to papers, and has continued to do so and swayed on the tiny platform in NOT TO GIVE TROUBLE
see what drop you would take, had every week since 1890. Recently, he mid-air. Failing to subdue the Hun "I remember one who had com stripped himself to his cardigan and received a letter from a former friend gatian, one policeman knocked him mitted peculiarly brutal crime was hovering in the background with telling him where his daughter was. senseless with a blow from his tran under the influence of drink, who the pinioring apparatus. The bell
-cheon. was the mildest and most inoffensive man in the prison. He had killed
hazardous part of their tank, that of his wife with a shoemaker's rasp and
getting the man down. The last 100 then got into bed with the corpse
tt. of the tower has two ladders a few Down there the con- feet apart. He was sober enough to go down stairs and cook his breakfast and to
stables carried the unconscious man, wander out for some hours before he
One held his ankles and the other his decided to give himself up to the is not right," he said, "that to bring up two daughters respectable wrists, the body swinging between NEW YORK, September 27th.
The should be thinking of on ten jobs a year {' The Yer Fork Times Washington cor- police.
and "All he seemed to think about his beefsteak
onions. when "There are many men who ought Holding on with their free hand respondent states that President Harding has informed the Republican Senators conviction was how to give us little he ought to be thinking about his to hang and do not, and those who and buffeted by a high wind, the of his view that the vote on Senater trouble as possible. He was in soul"
But in the end the proceed- do are not always the worst," says policemen slowly made their way Borah's bill. restoring the law exempting American consting vessels from payment variably cheerful, and if he did not ings were delayed until he had finished Sir Basil, weighing the pros and cons to safety. As they set foot on the of tolls in the Panama Canal. should sleep well it was because, as he said, his second meal.'
of capital punishment. "On the upper roadway a great burst of cheer- be delayed until after the Washington he did not like to think that while he
After all these years I confess other hand, where capital punishmenting came from thousands of spectators. Conference, as he fears that the repeal of the Panama Tolls Act, if sccomplished slept the two warders would have that I have not yet made up my mind has been abolished cases have occurred and the din was swelled by the sirens as to whether I would abolish capital which are an outrage to the public of steamers and tugboats on the siver by an Act of Congress, would introduce to remain awake.
"It happened that the day fixed panishment if I could. I believe that conscience, and I am not sure that and by dozens of motor bums, another disputable issue into the con- ference and influence the attitude of the for his execution was that on which the actual number of executions in the alternative-keeping a man inter British delcgates.
Royal Princess was to open a public Great Britain does not exceed nine orned for life is not in the end a less building in the town. There is ten in the year. Indeed, I remen humane punishment Prison officials nothing drearier than the dawn bez an executioner bewailing his fate would not be good witnesses on the LONDON, September 24th.
of a morning in a prison when an How, he said, can one expect subject, for I imagine that one and The Leafield wireless station in Oxford-
a bairdresser, all would vote for the abolition of shire, which is the British end of the execution is to take place, but this much Imperial wireless chain, has been search-morning was the dreariest I remember. situated as I am. And how is a man capital punishment.”. ingly tested and found to be entirely satisfactory. It will begin its regular work оп October ist.
IMPERIAL WIRELESS CHAIN.
The Cairo station, the next link in the chain, will be completed before the end of the year.
It is intended to push on the Imperial- wireless scheme as quickly as possible. Experts are expected to produce plans When of other stations in November. these are approved, orders for right or ten stations will be placed without fur- ther delay.
Probably over £200,000 will be spent on the engineering plant in this connec tion in the next financial year, mostly in Great Britain, and this whelp in relieving unemployment.
NEW FRENCH LOAN.
PARIS, September 27th. In order to facilitate payment of re paration for waz losses, a loan of three milliard francs is being issued on Octo- ber 27th, which will be divided into six million bonds of five hundred francs cach. The interest is 6 per cent, and is tax free. The bonds will participate in four draw- ings annually.
MEXICAN OIL LANDS.
Mexico City, September 7th.
Ar important decision affecting owner-
held at the Company's Town Office, ship of Mexican cilfields has been given Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on in the Supreme Court in an injunction SATURDAY, 8th day of October, 1921, suit brought by the Texas Oil Company
1st, 1917.
at NOON, for the purpose of presenting in regard to oil lands it held before May the Report of the Directors and State- ment of accounts to 31st July, 1921.
The TRANSFER-BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from lat to 8th October, 1921, both days izelosiva.
By Order,
M. MANUK,
Secretary. Hongkong, September 23, 1991.
HONGKONG. POLO CLUB.
THE INTERPORT POLO MATCH against Shanghai, will take place on the Club's ground at Causeway Bay, on MONDAY, October 10th, at 4.30 p.m.
The Public are cordially invited to
attend.
Hongkong, September 24, 1921.
SAFE Sure and Gearoutéed cure for Leprosy, Leacoderma, Patcher, Marka, Eruptious, Eczema, etc. in fons weeks. Patients willing to be treated by Post, are requested to write, R 7/8 (Ten shillings) per week. Full particulars Free under cover "SRI WORKS, Beadon Square, (C.M.) Calcutta, (India)
EAGLE BRAND SILK BOCKS AND STOCKINGS
(Registered Trade Mark)
"LAS - CHING" "KNITTING" › FACTORY, " 2 Kai Yis Fong, Hongkongs
The company pleaded that if the Gov. eriment, under Article XXVII. of the Constitution, denounced the Company's rights to these lands it would be violat ing Article XIV, which provides that ao law can be made retrospective.
The Court's decision definitely estab lishes that Article XXVII. is not retros- pective, as far as concerns property acquired for oil exploration or exploita tion prior to the present Constitution be coming effective.
The Judge, Senor Moreno, reading the decision, said that this should establish the principle of law, on which other pending injunction suits, bould adjudicated.
ARMS FOR IRELAND.
be
LANDON, September 27th. Sir. James Craig told the Ulster Par- liament, yesterday, that the Government had information that large quantities of arms and ammunition had been brought to Ireland during the past two months by Sinn Fein gunmez, and Sinn Fainers were constantly drilling.
NEW YORK, September 27th. George Borke, a a commission dealer: in arms and ammunition, has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to furnish British subjects in Ireland with ands and munitions for use against the British Empire.
It is alleged that Borke was implicated in the purchase and shipment of machine- guns and ammunition seized in New York in June last aboard a steamer east- side, which was believed to be destined, for Ireland.
ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.,
New Yozr, September 7th.. The New York Times Washington cor- respondent states that the Administra Lion hopes that the Conference will agree to measures providing general agreements to replace the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and agreements between Japan and West- ern Powera affecting Chins..
post
The Administration's idea is to arrange for virtually identical treaties between China and each of the Powers, defining exactly the limits of the rightful, claims of the foreign Powers, so that the Conference Eta may start with a clean sheet,and with all the Powers subscrib ing to the principle of the open door." und quilohimeroral fat fáa bem? opportunities
business as
them.
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
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honest?
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