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THRUSDAY JUNE 5, 1924.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
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THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS will be held on SATURDAY 7th June 1024 at 12:30 p.m. In the Jockey Club Rooms, Hongkong Club Annex. Hongkong, 24th May,"1924.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
95 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,
$1. PREPAID..... Every additional ward 4 Centa
for 9 insertione,
ASSISTANT WANTED;
THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE EUROPEAN ASSISTANT required MEETING will be bold (weather for the Customs & Trade permitting) at Happy Vallby, on Department in the Sarawak Govern- BATURDAY, 7th and MONDAY, 9th ment Service. Preference given to June coramending at 3.30 p.m. onch day. J'applicants with previous experience The first boll will be rung at 3 p.m.
of China Customs werk, . Applicants The Chargo for admission to the should be under thirty years of age. Publio Enclosure will be $1..
| Initial salary $300 with opportunity Boldiers and Sailors in uniform balf of appointment to Permanent priso.
Pensionable Staff. Free quarters Mombers are alvised that they must and first class passage to Europe show their Season Tickets to obtain after three
Healthy, years. admission to the Morabers' Encloauro. tropical climate - comparatively Each momber has the right of in cheap living Applications, troducing 2 non-member to the together with any testimonials, Members Enclosuro, tickata for whom particulars of previous and present can be obtained from Mosses. Linstdar employment, education and recent Davis at 85.- eneb up to FRIDAY photograph to be made to the Cam FRIDAY missioner of Custams, Kuching, June 6i..
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Sarawak
Hongkong to be prowout.
Hongkong, 29th May, 1924.
NOTICE
TO LET.
TO LET-Offices
In Central position. Apply The Hong. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN kong Land Investment and Agency
that scrip No. 4227 for 500 Co., Ltd,
shares Ewo Cotton Mills, Ltd., int
of "Mr.
EZRA
the name ABRAHAM of Hongkong to- gether with a duly executed
TO LET.
Iransfer deed purporting to assign TO LET Ellenbud *Villas the said shar: has been lost.
Apply E. T. H. Bunje clo
The said s res are the property H. M. H. Nemazec, Prince's of the undersigned and appli- Building.
cation has been duly made, to the Company for the Issue of a duplicate scrip.
sald
........The_public_is_therefore_warned. against dealing with the shares without reference to the andersigned. Any person having any knowledge as to the where abouts of the said scrip is asked to communicate with the under- signed.
Mosers. ELLIS & CO. Hongkong, 9th April, 1924
THE HON. MR. ARTHUR RYLANDS LOWE
(DECEASED)
ALL Claims against the Estate of
the above decensed must be
sent to the undersigned.
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Hongkong, 2nd June, 1924.
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| TRAVEL BOOK COMPETITION.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM PAR AND,
NEAR."
Messrs. Duckworth & Co., 3 Henrietta Street, London, Eng., who are the publishers - of: Snow and hall were experienced Ponting's "The Great South, in London and other parts of the Mitchell-Hedges' "Battles With country. In Pengo as much as zin. Giant Fish, Doughty's "Wan-Bristol University.
SHIPYARD DISPUTE.
Å bell weighing 10 tons, said to be the fourth heaviest in England. 10 be placed in the new tower of
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registrar of births and deaths for Hove, Sussex, died in Hove from a bullet wound in the head.
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of snow was recorded. In North derings in Arabia," Lady Dorothy Mr. Alfred George Campion, London there was some slect, Mills "The Road to Timbuktu" while heavy rain, fell in the and other famous travel books, Western suburbs.
are offering a prize of £100 to the Further conferences were held author of the best original manu- a book of travel- in connection with the shipyard script of dispute, as a result of which the adventure submitted for this com- Messrs. Duckworth & operation of the lock-out notices petition. has been suspended not the | Co, will publish the winning book time of ceasing work. The and pay the author, in addition ecutive of the Shipwrights' to the £100 prize, a substantial Society have expelled the royalty on each copy sold, as well Southampton strikers from their as any sums received for serial,
anton while the executive of the cinema or other rights.
Messrs. Duckworth & Co. have Federation of Engineering and Shipping Trades have ordered organised the competition in con their men to resume work to-day.junction with Mr. Raymond
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Savage, the Literary Agent of 43 Lord Thomson announced that Aldwych, London, W.C. 2 (cables: revised odlet 'regulations would
should
competitors
The Electric Railway Company have informed the local authorities who are pressing for the extension of Tube railways in South London that they are unable to promise any immediate progress in that direction.
At an Inquest at Eastbourne "on" Sarah Ann Billet, of Meads-street, who was found dead in her house, it was stated death was due to the bursting of her heart, which weigh- ed 28oz. or three times the normal.
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The Rev. Alan Hunter Watts. who died aged 72, was vicar of Leaflets containing German pro- Holy Trinity Church, Brighton, paganda against the French and which was built in 1817 as a Non- asking, "What can you (the British) conformist chapel, but pine years do to help us in our fight?" have later was consecrated for Church been sent by a Hamburg firm to a of England services. Liverpool merchant.
summons at Willesden against an A taxicab driver was granted a
refused to pay 6d. for luggage be American woman who, he said, had cause it was not shown on the taximeter.
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The father and grandfather of Brighton-road, Sutton, Surrey, who Mr. William Knibb Appleton, of
also kept the 50th anniversaries of celebrated his golden wedding their weddings in 1893 and 1865 respectively.
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Four Belfast people, two women,
Colonel Maritz, who deserted shortly be Issued. A number of Kaymosava London), to whom a child, and a man-lost their lives from the South Africa Union ineasures re advanced a stage, intending
in a holiday boating tragedy on forces and joined the enemy: in and a Govemment bill was intro-apply for the exact terms and Lough Neagh, Ulster,
The boat, German South-West Africa early- duced to grant leave to high details of the competition and for which contained seven people, in the war, was tried for high officials in India who cannot at entry forms. The latest date on capsized?
treason at Capetown before a present visit Europe without re- which Mr. Savage will receive
MSS. for the competition will be Foot-and-mouth disease has special court which will deliver signing their positions.
judgment. HOUSE OF COMMONS, December 31st of this year. The broken out for the second time on Leave was given for the introduc-result of the competition will be a large farm at Risley, Cheshire, tion of a bill to facilitate the cone announced not later than March, and 60 cattle have been destroyed. struction of motorways, and of 31st, 1925, and the winning book About 80 animals were slaughter- ancther brought forward by Captain will be published in the Autumn ed at the previous outbreak,
# Wedgwood Benn to prohibit the of 1925
eviction of distressed tenants.
A COLOUR LINE ON THE PAVEMENT.
WHERE CHIMNEY SWEEPS MAY NOT WALK.
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In spite of the strenuous‹ op=" position by several local authori ties, the. Minister of Health has sanctioned the application of the Cemetery Co. for a At the conference of the National Hebrew Amalgamated Union of Engine licence authorising the construc- men, Firemen, Mechanics, Motortion of a cemetery for Jews near men, and Electric Workers at Totteridge, Hertfordshire. Sheffield it was decided to apply }
| for a 10s, a week advânce in wages. The body of a woman, aged about 25, was recovered from the
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By climbing up a stack-pipe Thames ar Battersea, having been while the family were at luncheon in the water about three weeks. a, thief got into a bedroom of the The woman was of medium build. house of Mr. Ross at Oatlands with-dark-brown-hair,--and--was Park, near Weybridge, Surrey. wearing a blue serge dress and. and secured jewellery valued at brown coat, with for collar and
cuffs:
The aed Is Very Urgent An stack of dysentery often resulta
On the resumed debate on thei order for the second reading of the Treaty of Peace (Turkey) Bill, to which an amendment had been moved by Sir Edward Grigg de- clining to proceed with the measure until the House had received a definite statement that the Do- minions and India had been fully informed of the liabilities involved; Mr. Lloyd George made a strong In blissful ignorance of the law, speech condemning the Treaty as Charles George Vass, a Windsor humiliating and as a dark patch in chimney sweep, tripped gnily £200. the history of British diplomacy along the footpath in Eton High-
Mr. Baldwin declared his belief street carrying a sack of soot, a the information sent out by them The Press Association stale that that the only reason Mr Lloyd George was disappointed at the sweep's rods and brushes.
in January that a petition for the He had, apparently, not a care reprieve of George Henry Wood, results was because, during the WAR REMINISCENCES.
long period of his dictatorship of in the world.. tilt Police-constable sentenced to death for the murder from indigestible ford, polluted drink. dis-Europe, he felt he was the only Bryant spoke to him, and pointed of his wife and Frederick Curry, a ing water, or striden changes in westber Captain Palazzoli, the
History out that he was committing an Civil Servant, at Plumstead, was or climate Chamberlain's Colic and tinguished Italian soldier, was re-begeltor of treaties. ceived by Mr. Lloyd George in his would prove whether the Treaty offence as a Bucks County Council signed by the widow of Curry, is Diarrhoea Hemedy, should be in every
of Lausanne might not live to be by-law prohibits chimney sweeps incorrect, and that Mrs. Curry did home, every traveller's hag, every vac
tion kit. A valuable medicine, depend private room in the House of Co-healthier and stronger than that of from carrying sacks of soot along not sign the petition and had no able in morgencies at home or when.
ops on April 17. It was a very
the públic pavement to the annoy-intention of doing so.
travelling. For salo averywhero. hearty meeting, as the two had not
ance of pedestrians. seen each other since the Genoa Conference. Captain Palazzoli said to Mr. Lloyd George, "Years may pass but your deeds as champion of European liberty, and as the staunch friend of my native country
At the Slough Police Court Vass in the most critical periods of the provisionally valued for probate said he did not know he was world war, and of my comrade in at £2,006,770, in addition to settled
breaking the law. arms and ideals the late Secretary property. Daries at this valuation
Superintendent Pearce said he of State, a patriotic Socialist, amount to over £800.000,,
In the Leonide Bissolati, will live in my "Strategical, and Tactical Con- had been such a prosecution.
course of a paper, thought it was the first time there heart for ever."
The summons was dismissed on "What a loss." Interrupted Mr. siderations Governing Warship
Design," Admiral Sir Doveton payment of 18. towards the costs, Lloyd George "what a loss it, has Sturdee expressed the view that and Vass left the court without a been for Italy, and dare say
we were less prepared for war at soot stain on his character. for, Europe, the death of my dearest friend Bissolat! Were the present time than atany period
Versailles.
The debate was wound up by the Prime Minister, and the amend- ment having been withdrawn, the second reading was agreed to.
GENERAL NEWS.
Viscount Allendale left éstate
be alive now, how many important of our existence. services would he have rendered
In commercial circles
of
the
¦
constable Saw several The persons step off the footpath to avoid Vass and his bag of rich black soot.
."
to the cause of real peace aniong announcement that the Govern- and Brussels 34. Stock markets the nations" Mr. Lloyd Georgement do not intend to prolong the were quiet and rather dull. was profoundly impressed by the life the Safeguarding of news brought to him by Industries Act, has caused not Captain Palazzoli that General merely interest, but in
very quarters consternation. Elsewhere
some
Riciotti
is Garibaldi ill i Rome, and begged the we publish the views of repre- captain to express personally to sentatives of various industries Lady Constance Garibaldi, the which will be affected: general's English wife (she was For a rare proof mezzotint by the born in London), as well as to all ungraver, W. Ward, ARA, of the members of Garibaldi's family Hopper's
Sir Thomas Frank-
DOMINIONS.
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S. AFRICAN ELECTIONS.
General Hertzog, opening the Opposition campaign, in an address to coloured people in Stellenbosch, directed special attention to the
his most ardent wishes for a speedy lund's Daughters, 2,350gs was question of the segregation of recovery. Mr. Lloyd George added, given at Christie's "The British people of my own During 1023 582,807 persons generation-have-all-in-their-heart-visited the National Gallery, and
AMERICA.
U.S. OIL SCANDALS, Senator Wheeler, chief secator of the Daugherty Investiga tion Committee, is now himself
pro
natives, which he said was a definite policy of the Nationalists, He urged that they should have of hearts the ineffable image of the 3.984 copies of the official catalogue political and industrial equality prodigious leader of the Immortal and 12,446 copies of the illustrated with Europeans. At the same time Thousand. When the hero of the guide were sold. Visitors to the he was careful to explain that he
did not include social equality. two worlds visited Great Britain Tate Gallery numbered 293,564
LAW. he received such a tremendous ovation that it frightened all re- Further arguments were heard actionary Europe, and Lord in regard to difficulties which have Palmerston himself. Some thrones arisen in the administration of experienced something like an Viscount Northcliffe's will, and the proceedings were adjourned until earthquake."
Mr. Lloyd George and his next term. visitor recalled some of the most The case for Dr. C. H. Bond, involved in the oil scandals. The of the Great who, with Dr. G. H. Adam, is grand jury at Great Falls has in- War, and Captain Palazzoli, appealing against the verdict in dicted him on a charge of accept referring to the Caparetto reverse, the action brought against them ing fees to influence the Govern declared that all who knew what by Mr. W. S. Harnett, was con- ment to grant oil leases to private M. Loyd George said and did cluded, and Sir Douglas Hogg interests. He Indignantly denies with Napoleonic rapidity in order opened the appeal of Dr. Adam. the allegation. fore-establish the Allies' The proceedings superiority before a seemingly adjourned. irresistible enemy would for ever At Alton Police-court, Lance. revere the memory of the British Corporal, Jack Goldenberg, 2nd statesman. He expressed the Battalion East, Lancashire Regi- earnest hope that Mr. Lloyd George, ment, was formally charged with
anxious moments
·were again
FOREIGN.
EXPERTS" REPORTS.
as well as other British political the murder of Mr. W. E.. Hall, The reports of the Experts' Com leaders, including Mr. MacDonald, manager of the Bordas Campmittees were handed to M. Barthou, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Baldwin, together branch of Lloyds Bank Bvidence president of the Reparations Com- with the statesmen of the other of arrest having been given, the mission, dies all alone o victorious nations, would dedicate prisoner was remanded for eight the best of their noble energies to days. create a new Europe according to
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A ficasso from Berlin stator og ufthat Herr Stimmès; the wall-knowi f the ideal of Gladstone, Victor | Mr. S. Joel's Getmic, which start German industrialist, it in a Hugo, Mazzini, and Garibaldi-ajed at 6 to 1 against, won the serious condition, and that little United States of Europe; otherwise Alexandra Three-Year-Old Hand hope is entertained of his recovery.
GENERAL NEWS. there would be no real peace, and cap at Gatwick by a neck from
Four of the prisoners in the have an invigorating, anti-the unspeakable sacrifices of the Zoza, with Halldome third, á
war would be fruitless,
The Amateur Boxing Association treason trial at Kieff have been Mr. Lloyd George replied. "My championships were decided at sentenced to death, six have been dear captain, you remember very Alexandru Palace. The principal sentenced to ten years' imprison. wallowharf said to you about contents are described by Mr. B.ment, one to seven years, gud! "Mazzini just four years ago When I Benulsen.vatera others to five years. Yaklovsky received you at Downing street
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