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THURSDAY JULY 17, 1924
INTIMATIONS.
WANT
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP ADVERTISEMENTS
"CO., LTD."
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an Extraordinary general Meeting of The Douglas Steam- ship Company, Limited, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company: 20. Des Voeux Rond Central. Victoria, Hongkong, on
SATURDAY, the 18th day of October, 1924. nt Noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving the draft new Articles of Association of the Company which will be submitted to the Meeting.
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Every additional word Centr
for insertions.
TO LET.
Villas Apply E. T. H. Bunje“ c/o H. M. H. Nemazee, Prince's Building.
TO LET-Ellenbud
To LET-New and Airy office
rooms on Ground and first:
A print of such draft new floors, 5, Duddell Street. Can be used "Articles and a print of the existas Bank, Commercial, Motor Car ing Articles of the Company mayOffices. Rent moderate. Apply be seen at the Company's said Sung Tal, 1. Queen Street/ Registered Office, and at the office
of Messrs. Deacons, 1, Des Vœux. Road Central, Victoria afgresaid, Solicitors för the Compally, and the portions of the proposed now Articles which differ from the existing Articles are indicated by being underlined in red."
Should the Meeting approve of such new Articles of Association with or without modification, the; subjoined Resolution will be pro- posed as an Extraordinary Resolu- Lion, namely:-
"That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and, "for the purpose of identifica- "tion, subscribed by the Chair- "man thereof, be and the same
EDUCATION.
HINESE Gentleman'with therough
knowledge of English, English | customs and manners, desiree ex-i change English or Chinese for French "lessons, with French gentleman.
Apply Box No. 30. "China Mail,
POR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
B. MQUESION" c/o "China Mail" office.
INTIMATIONS.
are hereby adopted as the **Articles of the Company to thệ | ----
"exclusion of and in substitu
tion for
& SHANGHAI all the existing HONGKONG "Articles thereof."
BANKING CORPORATION.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a Further IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim dividend of £3 per Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Company will be held at share subject to deduction of Income the Registered Offre of the Com-Tax. has been declared for the pany, 20, Des Vœux Road Central, HALF YEAR ending 30th June. 1924: aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, thear rate of 2/4 5/8 per dollar.
The dividend will be payable on 5th day of November. 1924, at
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INTIMATIONS.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED HONGKONG
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REMOVAL NOTICE
THE CHINA MAIL.
HE BANK OF CANTON LTD. beg to announce the renoval of their office from No. 6 Queen's Road Central to their new the Central on the 14th July 1924.
Hongkong, 14th July, 1924,
Noon for the purpose of receiving and after MONDAY the 11th August premises at No. 6. Des Voeux Road
a report of the proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting, and of confirming, if thought it, as a Special Resolution the above men- tioned Resolution.
Dated the 4th day-of-July, 1924.
By Order,"
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
TICKETS will be issued for
ນ
1924, at the Offices of Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY the 28th July to SATUR- DAY the 9th August 1924 (both days inclusive) during which period sbares can be transte: of
no
registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors.
A. H. BARLOW. Acting Chief Manager,
Hongkong, 8th July, 1924.
CHEFOO HARBOUR
COMMISSION.
TENDER FOR GRAB DREDGER..
THE Chefoo Harbour Commis
sion invites tenders for a Grab type self "propelled Hopper Dredger.
Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and feturn, cafting et Swatow and An oy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, well #ppointed steamer "Hal Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port.
Approximate dimensions: Hop- These Special Tickets will be per capacity. 80 tons; Length 80 available for return only by this feet OA; Beam 20 feet; draught steamer, either by the Voyage for loaded 6 feet; speed knots; which it is issued or by her extreme working radius of crane tollowing sailing from Foochow. 20 feet; 1 Sand and 2 mud crabs Duration of stay at Foochow 48 and usual warping winches; wind-
lass; 2 suitable mooring anchors! The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days with 45 fathoms of cable on each; and the steamer
leave crew space; latrine: galley; etc. Hongkong from the Company's etc.; 4-1 cwt. warping anchors; Wharf at $ p.m. arriving at necessary fairleads, etc. daylight on her return (Weather Delivery at Chefoo, complete permitting),
and ready for immediate use before acceptance.
bours.
will
from
The Company's Steam Launch will convey: passengers Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.
For further particulars and dates of Salling-
Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong. June 17, 1924.
MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS.
MONIES up to $425,000 are avail.
able for investment on first class Mortgage security subject to a trustee valuation.
Apply
to Messrs. DEACONS,
1, Des Voeux Road Central
Hongkong, 11th July, 1924.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
EMBERS are hereby notified that.
MEM
the Hate for next season's sub- scription griffins will close on the 31st July.
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TEENS VRET MODERATI
Comunibution Proce
The Commission does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any of the Tenders submitted.
Tender and drawings should be sent to the Treasurer, Chefoo Harbour Commission, care of Commissioner of Customs, on or 1 before the Ist day of August, 1924.
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MAHON'S DIARY,
STATEMENT FROM THE DOCK.
THEORY OF VIOLENT BLOW.
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CROWDS SEE ROBBERY.
HIGHWAYMEN'S HAUL IN DENSE TRAFFIC.
Scores of people, including traffe policeman, were witnesses of a dramatically staged robbery on the lower West side of New York. | Twelve bighwaymen, well led and formidably armad, succeeded carrying away jewellery diamonds and watches variously estimated at between £50,000 and £100,000 in value."
Patrick Herbert Mahon, charged with murdering Miss Emily Bielt y Kaye, whose mutilated remains were found in a bungalow on the Crumbles, near Eastbourne, a in month ago, was at Halistam Police Court committed for trial. He
pleaded not guilty...
Mr. R. Sefton Cohen prosecuted for the Crown and Mr. Mayo defended. Mr. J. A. G. Keeves represented Miss Ethel Duncan,
one of the witnesses.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND
.. NEAR.
Mr. Shaw (Minister of Labour In answer to questions in the House of Commons, promised that the Government would do all that was possible to effect a settlement Sir Edward Hulton's'
of the strike, but it was impossibla traitlad won the Oaks. Lord Rosebery's to recognise a body that neither Plack, the favourite, being second, companiesrecognise. The Govera
The trade unions for the rallway. and Mrs. Whitburn's Mink third,
ment would do all it could" to
By 247 votes to 183 the German food, assential services Reichstag has passed a resolution such as food, lighting, water, and proposed by the Middle Parties Power. approving of the Dawes Report. Our Parliamentary Correspon A Nationalist vote of no confidence dent states that the Government was rejected.
will be prepared to proclaim a
cattic.
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All New York is discussing their
The Northampton cattle market state of emergency under the fent, which is paralleled in daring was to have been reopened on June 3 Emergency Powers Act should
warrant such only by the robbery in the same after being closed for many weeks, circumstances
aro Tea district three years ago of securities but when the farmers arrived they course. Ministers who Mr. John Webster, chief analyst worth £200,000 from a United found the gates shut, as a new cut given full power to take whatever
mining in London have been, to the Home Office, said that on States mail lorry. The chief of break of foot-and-mouth disease
action Is in their opinion May 10 he received from the police the highwaymen on that occasion had occurred. A special force of certain articles. Dealing with was. Gerald
Chapman, who, police was sent out to turn back the each of these, he pointed out that though subsequently captured and
Demands put forward by the as regards the, coal cauldron, the
B sensational
Associated Sociery of Locomotive piece of the door, one side of the sentenced,... made
Richard Strauss, the composer,, axo, and the saw the stains were escape last year from the convict who celebrated his 60th birthday Engineers and Firemen have. not sufficient to state whether caus- prison at Atlanta.
at Munich on June 3 has been given been refused by the railway that ed by human blood or not. There The jewellery stolen was an honorary degree by the Munich managers, who point out were extensive red stains on two being transported from the Gen- University and made a freeman of conditions which the union wish pieces of flooring, which he found renal Post Office at the corner of the city. His new opera "Inter to have cancelled are part of to consist of human blood In Eighthavenus and Thirty-third-mezzo" will be produced at Dres unanimous decision of the National Wiges Board. The National reply to Mr. Mayo, Mr. Webstertreft to the Government Valuers'den in the autumn. said it was probable that the carpet offen in Hudson-street, where it
Executive have adjourned their decisión. had been washed. It was quite possible that the marks on the s to be assessed before being stolen from the flat of Mr. R. Tozer. door, had been caused by washing up bioed from an adjacent spot on the carpet.
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Jewellery valued at £1,000 was Hyde Park-manstons, Marylebone- road, N.W., on Whit Monday while the family were at the seaside. The thieves also took luggage back ed in preparation for a visit to the United States.
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At the Royal Counties Agricultural Show in Windsor Great Park, the King and Viscount Lascelles were among the prize. winning exhibitors. Owing to foot-and-mouth restrictions the Prince of Wales's stock had not, been brought to the show.
Members of the Actors'
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Patrick Mahon was committed
forwarded to "diamond and watch dealers. The motor-van carrying the packages was in charge of Sir B Spilsbury, who was then Daniel Kenbon, vive-prisident of a called, said he visited the bungalow | large carrier company which in company with police officers exécutes the business for the Gov. and made an
examination of eruent, and the driver WOLS
Lord Forteriot and Lord Dewar, certain rooms. He described the Edward Foy. discovery of portions of numan
who are brothers, have declined Kerhon femembered afterwards the freedom of Perth offered to remains and went on to say that on a subsequent examination he that a fellow taxicab followed, the them in recognition of public ser- Association, who resigned in found a condition consistent with van closely all the way down vices and their munificent of gifts consequence of being dissatisfied few streets from the to their native city. They con- with the trade union methods of No condition of disease was scene of the robbery the cab over-sider the pleasure of being able to that body have formed a Stage found in any of the organs. The took the van. It drew up to the be of service to Perth sufficient Guild, "a co-operative sostitution suitable to the dignity and condition of the lungs showed that kerb just as the dense traffic cacne reward. the woman had suffered recently to a standstill owing to the pre-. It is expected that Sir H. Curtis
comradeship" of their calling. from pleurisy. There was no evidence of injuries inflicted durupation of a policeman who was Bennett will defend Vaquier at his ing life to any of the other organs. ring summons to a driver who trial at Guildford Assizes on the for trial at Lewes Assizes on the
lud violated the regulations.
charge of poisoning Mr. Alfred charge of having murdered Miss Four men, heavily armed. Jones at the Blue Anchor Hotel, Emily Kaye, whose dismen bered. leaped from the taxicab and hauled Byfleet, and that Sir Edward Marody was found in a bungalow at the Crumbles, near Eastbourne, Foy and Keulion from the yun, shall Hall will prosecute.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury; honorary beating them on the head with "the butts of revolvers while they
A verdict of Found Drowned was pathologist to the Home Office, carried them to a motor-car on the returned at an inquest at Cirences- expressed in evidence his opinion opsmite side of the street. In this ter, Gloucestershire, on two child-that Miss Kaye could not have ren under 3 years of age who were received rapidly fatal injuries by were eight armed men.
found drowned in the canal. Mrea fall on the coal cauldron.. As soon
ured by two of the robbers and in the water clasping one child in as. the jewels were Day, their mother, who was lying: Keshon was thrown into the street her arms, has been certified as the motor-eur started off at break-insane." neck speed. I travelled un- moiested for five miles up town. A1 145th-street the Highwaymen vanished after flinging out Foy, who was picked up by bystanders and taken to hospital."
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A VIOLENT BLOW." He added:
No condition has been found to account for death from natural causes, and the cause of death has not been discovered. The only bruise found was that at the back of the left shoulder, and was
inflcted a short time before. death. There were no indications that any of the cuts on the body had been done during life
In my opinion the woman could not have received the rapidly fat injury by a fall on the coal scuttle. Mr Cohen. In Mahon's state ment he says: "I don't know whether I strangled her or whether "she died from the fall:
Sir B. Spilsbury: My exatuin- ations of the organs do not enable me to say that death was caused by strangulation.
Do you attach any significance to the fact that the head is missing -The absence of the head indicates, in my view, that the cause of death could be found in the head that is missing.
Other
messages from New York state, that the jewellery had
arrived from Europe in the liners
Lexinthan" and "Paris.
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me to Eastbourne Railway Station, ; were caught the 4 30 train to Laidon
What is your view as to the cause of death?-In, my view this woman died from a violent blow On April 11 I took a taxi from inflicted on the head or neck. The Officers House about 3.45 and Cross-examined, Sir Bernard drove to the railway station, East. Spilsbury said the bruise on the bourne On April 27 I took a taxi left shoulder was consistent with a fall and it might have occurred within a few minutes of death.
This concluded the evidence for the prosecution and Mr. Cohen applied for Mahon's committal.
MAHON'S DATES
On being formally charged, Mahon stood up and in firm, clear voice read à statement from a piece of paper as follows:
I have already made full state. ment of the facts in this case, but I wish to add some details which
'nesses.
On April 9, 1924, I took a room at the Bonnington Hotel, South ampton-row, London, for two days, signing the hotel register as J. Waller, 14, Clifton-gardens, Bristol."!
and drove to Fastbourne, where I caught the 5:55 p.p. train to London.
April 19 went by taxi to Plumpton Races, arriving about 1.30 p.m. After the last race the same car took me back · to Fust- bourne Railway Station."
----MISS KATE G HATHON-
On April 16 Í dined at the Victoria Station, London, Res-
may save a waste of time and taurant, leaving there about 10.10 money in calling unnecessary wit-in. On April 18 I met a train: in London arriving up Eastbourne about 1.20, lunched at the Royal Hotel, Eastbourne, leaving there about 10 p.m. I drove to the Officers' House and slept there during the nights of April 18, 19, and 20. During those days Miss Kaye's trauk and her hatbox were in Bedroom No. 2, and the tor toiseshell hairbrush- and other articles were in Bedroom No. 1.
I removed a pair of her shoes on the from Bedrooth "No. 1 morning of Saturday, April 19. On that evening I dined at the Sussex Hotel.
On April 12 I drove with Miss gaye in the early afternoon in taxi from Eastbourne Station to the Officers-House,
On arriving at the bungalow I opened the door with the key, and the driver placed the trunk in the first bedroom on the left. At that time my right arm was in a sling. owing to a sprain sustained a few days before.
On the sight of April 13 I stayed at the Clifton Hotel, Eastbourne,
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On Sunday morning, April 20, I opened a telegram, which had
registering as "J. Waller, Bristol" been delivered at the bungalow
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On April 12 I drove with Miss the previous evening in my Kaye in a taxi from Officers' absence addressed to me AB House to an Eastbourne hotel. Waller, Officers' House." -
where we dined, returning by taxi P., about 10 pinima
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On April 21. I left the Officers' House 'about 3,45 and drove to
tually reaching by home in Rich- mond just after midnight.
On April 16 I engaged a taxi to Eastbourne Railway Station, and drive me from the bungalow to thence by train to London, even- Hastings, and I wanted to get back to Eastbourne for me to catch the 430 train to London. The driver said he could not do it, so I instruct ed him to take me to Bexhill Post Office. He did sp, and I entered the post office, and he then drove
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"Hot"Waatior-Diseason-
Disorders of the bowels are extremely
On March 20, 1924, I stayed with Nise Kaye at the South- Western Hotel, Southampton, for one night, registering as Mr. and Mr. P. H. Mahon, Richmond, Surrey, returning to the bungalow mort day alone,
After Mahon had signed the danantque, particularly during the hd statement he was committed for wether of the anomer months and in, trist at the next assizes af order to protect yourself and fully Tewo
Beainst a sudden atrack, not a battle of Mr. Mayo said be called... nó.
Chamberlain's Colio and Diarthoon
Bordady. It an, bs depended upin evidence and formally reserved his | For são orary whom,
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