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THURSDAY JULY 3, 1924
INTIMATIONS.
WANT
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, ADVERTISEMENTS
LIMITED.
TICKETS will be issued for
16 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, 81. PREPAID.
Every additional word « Cente
for 8 insertions."
Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling et Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, weli appointed steamer "Hai Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the TO LET Ellenbud
round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer' Is In port.
These Special Tickets will be available for retum only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her "following sailing from Foochow.
Duration of stay at Foochow 48 hours,
The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the steamer will leave Hongkong from the Company's' Wharf at 5 m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather permitting),
TO 'LET.
Villas
Apply ET. H. Bunjo do H. M. H., Nemazce, Prince's Building.
LET-Epropean House, First floor. Immediate occupation. Whitfield Street, Causeway Bay (Opponite Bay View Station). Apply Kwong Sang Co. 57 Connaught Road. Telephone 2554.
TO LET Shops in China Buildings
facing Queen's Road Central and the New Street. For terms apply
Buildings, Sth Floor.
The Company's Steam Launch to Chinese Estates, Ltd., China will convey passengers
from
Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow
City, if required.
For further particulars and
dates of Sailing-
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Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.;
General Managera. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned assumes charge of this Society as General Manager as from today..
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manger: Hongkong 1st July, 1924.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned assumes charge
of this Company as General.
Manager as from today,
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER
General Manager.
Bongkong, 1st July, 1921.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE |
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE undersigned assumes charge
of this Company as General
Manager as from to-day.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LABDER,
General Massgor. Bonghong, 'st July, 1921
NOTICE.
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As from To-day's Date and during the absence of Mr. FREDERICK CHARLES HALL, we have authoris. ed Mr. HENRY WILLIAM MOON to sign Insurance Policies as Manager of our Insurance Department, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD,
Hongkong, 1st July, 1924.
...NOTICE.
THE American Community will be
At Home to their friends at the Hongkong Hotel Grill on July 4th. between the hours of 4 pm, and
6.30 p.m.
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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS and Conditions of the Public Auction, to be held on MONDAY, the 7th day of July, 124, at 3 p.m., at the Officos. of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of are lot 'of CROWN LAND near Bo Mon Tia in the Colony of Hongkong, for a temo of 75 years, with the option of renewal nt Crown Rant to be fixed by the Furveyor of His Majesty the, King, for one further term of 75 years.
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the Salo hy Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the th day of July, 1:21. at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by order of His Excellency the Governor of ono Lot of GROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tsui. in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of
76 years, with the eption of renewal at Crown Roat to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
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STAL PAGEANT.
THE COF A WONDER- FAST.
One hd thousand people standingence throughout the eternity one minute at the Empire ksgiving Service in the Stadat Wembley heard the call gonderful past.
It wasd by the King and Queen me Prince of Wales, who stooh bowed heads with other ners of the Royal Family royal box. It was heard bymilitary band of 1,000 and their of 3,500, massed together harmony of silence.
Dim-e Chelsea pensioners heard itler than ever before in theirs. Fifteen hundred people,g and old, in, forty types ofform, were conscious of the cal
Peoplosed on three sides of the Stati so thickly that the Stadium ht have been made of peopfoundations of people, with thecrete divisions mere grey rib laid on their heads, were arred by it as if the Empire-Hers of the past-for whom thilence of Thanksgiving and Pris was called-were
paradingpectral and shadowy. before th
ID PICTURES.'' Nothian ever blot out from the mosncertain memory any one of thictures.
The mes of people on three sides of great oval of green lawn be other end the purple and crilu dais, gold topped. Behind dais were two large 20000000000000000000 oblongs white surpliced choris-
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now a solid square of brilliantly uniformed troops broken by one avenue. It was in line with a tunnel which fed into this field of the cloth of crimson the, most colourful procession ever witness- ed.
uniform It comprised every with which the British public in familiar, and many with which it is unfamiliar. It surprised even the Indians, Africans, Burmese, and others from lands of colour, who were assembled in one picturesque square near the royal box.
SYMBOL OF EMPIRE,. From this magic tunnel there came first eight lines of Metro- politan Mounted Police, every horse in each line being a perfect match. Then the vivid red splash of a detachment of Canadian Mounted Police appeared, and then a large Union Jack.
It was the symbol of Empire, and was at the head of Dominion standards, borne by troops in national uniform and flanked by a picturesque Indian standard-bearer. Then appeared one tall figure in black, followed by one Boy Scout It was the Empire of Menth, to whom the festival of Empire Day is due. Every minute the tunel was providing new colour surprise, now ile hues of the Yeomen Warders of the Tower, and then the crimson of more Chelsea pensioners, smartly stepping,
The next colour was blue. It was!
more
MAIL WEEK NEWS,
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
A contract has been signed with German buyers for 1.250,000 tons of iron ore from Newfoundland.
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A naval seaplane fell into the sea at Southsea. The crew of four were rescued uninjured.
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The Vienna cost of living index figure is higher than at any time since the end of the war. The cost of living is also increasing in Spain,
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The King has sent £100 to the Dockland Settlements appeal fond for rebuilding and extending clubs for boys and girls at Millwall and Canning Town, E,
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arrested at Vilna (Lithuania) at a Seventy-eight Communists were meeting discussing final plans for a simultaneous rising in Vilna and Warsaw.
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A Bill to compel employers to
employ a certain number of disabled ex-Service men has been presented to Parliament by Mr. Fielqu (Cons, Stourbridge)......
While conducting a prisoner
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an unsteady square that faltered from Cardiff to York, Corporal and broke at times, and it moved Barry of the Welch Regiment forward very, very slowly. Yet It Depot, died as the train reached earned
applause than Birminghan anything else in the pro
An order for 12 large passenger- cession. It consisted of lamed! soldiers, come pitifully crippled train is for Brazil has been and wearing hospital blue. On secured Ly Messrs. Beyer, Pea--
and Co cock,
of Gorton,
The youngest French senator, M. Brugnier, just elected for the Gard Department, only reached the minimum age limit, 40, Iwo months ago.
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Political prisoners in the fish Free State against whom charges have not been made, are being released at the rate of 50 a week, and there are only 345 now in custody. The original number was 12,000.
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Modern research has led to the conclusion that there are at least 1,000 thunder-storms in action on the earth's surface at any time, said Dr. E. V. Appleton at the Royal Institution, Albemarle- street, W.
Devolution must 'become more and more urgent, the Parliamentary machine being utterly impossible for dealing with the growing public business Health, at Porth, Glamorgan. said Mr. Wheatley, the Minister of
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Rallway workers at Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, who are short time, agreed to take any work offered them by the... company, irrespective of their trades, rather than that there should be a big dismissal of men.
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A steam wagon mounted the pavement at. York-road, Stepney E. and ran into the front of a house. It knocked over a peram bulator containing a four-months old baby named Elizabeth House, who was killed
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A mysterious fish, about a yard long with a head like a rabbit and a black skin covered with sharp
ters, wismaller oblongs of Boy each side of all this colour were.the Manchester, in face of keen foreign spikes resembling white ivory.
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By a lpy accident there were thin redines of Chelsea pea- sioners here one would expect to find flagstaffs.
From tunel there came a stream scriet that settled as a huge squealnost the width of the Stadiumind one-fifth its length. It was thmased band
GODEN TRUMPETERS. Then,into a scene of what seemed to be unsurpassable pageante, tere charged, eight golden atsirumpeters on grey piebald hors with a sweetly brazen esize: "The King is here."
There vahe rustle of the vast gathering ate one note of 1,000 instrumentend then "God Save the King" ms played and sung in a velure that can never have been excodes.
One is cheer at the end was accordete two distant, proudly erect tires of the King and Queen.
H
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ensigns of the Dominions.
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As this stream of colour moved competition. forward there came a drenching
Baron Paul d'E-tournelles de rainstorm. Eyes turned to the
French senator, a royal box saw that, although the Constant, a wind was lashing the rain into it, Nobel peace prize winner, and the King and the Prince of Wales formerly a member of the French Embassy staff in London, has died declined the offer of umbrellas.
An aeroplane swept low, and in Paris. the distant singing of "Lift Up Your Hearts "was heard. Then,
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Factory girls in the East End as the mighty choir struck up the gave a performance of the Glibet Sullivan Opera "The hvan "Thon, Whose Almighty and
Shoreditch Word," another procession entered. Gondoliers" at the
First there was the processional Town Hall, Old-street, E.C.
* cross; then the gold and purple of the Chapel Royal choir; then the
In receiving a depuration on white and crimson and black of behalf of the Prime Minister other choirs, singing as they which urged the Government to walked. Free Church divines in support the second reading of the black, next bishops and clergy of Blil to facilitate the construction the Church of England, and after of motorways, Mr. Clynes said the Bishop of London the Arch he would bring before the Cabinet bishop of Canterbury."
the desirability, if time permitted,
House note a of the
of Commons At the sounding of a standard hearer ran to where a discussing the important principle
dais. The National Anthem crash Union Jack was waving before the involved."
out from a thousand instruments and 100,000 voices as the flag was dipped to the drums.
Then he huge band moved forwardat the first note of a
Every head bwed in the prayer for Empire, and there followed stirringharch A big crimson the Silence of Thanksgiving for
size square one-fitth its
the Past and Prayer for the moving over and blotting out Future." every th of the great lawn in
Afterwards there was an ad- tumult of cheers, told the
dress by the Archbishop of band tlt it had marched through Canterbury, in which he pointed Its awdanks without a flaw, and then, ith a brilliant wheeling movent, it brought itself, still playing immediately under the royal bk,
turn.
The King and Queen were lookinglown for the first time on the bad men of every British regimet
IELD OF CRIMSON.
out that more would hear the service than those in the Stadium, Does everyone who hears me "the realise." he asked, tremendous fact that we are taking part in the largest religious service which, as a deliberate act the world has ever seen }"
MANY PEOPLE FAINT. During the Archbishop's address The ast note died, away, and a strong sun came out, which made then che the first note of a druni s noticeable mist rise from the dried,
and fif band 300 strong, which people as their clothes
I played its own splendid counter- There were several cases of marchig, and with another fainting in the first half of the brillian wheeling movement faced address, but towards the close the the rol box from the opposite ambulance whistle was continually side ofhe Stadium.
calling for ambulance men.
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The the note of the bagpipes. There were four cases of faicting One ndred, slate-grey pipers in little more than a minute and hemma with crimson drummers workers were called from all parts marchel to the dals, couster of the ground. Two girls were marche, wheeled, and came to removed into the arena and one attentin just in front of the fifers. was taken away on a wheel-
In fint of the King there was ambulance.
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Railway passengers, excluding season ticket holders, in February numbered 85,668,382, a decrease of 1,652,643 compared, with the same mouth in 1923, and goods carried amounted to 29,758,716 tons. The receipts from pas senger traffic, however, showed an increase of £57,181...
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