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TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 7, 1924.
INTIMATIONS.
A. D. C.
IN view of an important dramatic
production contemplated by the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club) for this Winter, all interested in Dramatic work are cordially invited to send in their names to the undersigned.
Previous experience not essential, In addition to acting parts there are vacancies for assistants in every form of stage work, such as lighting. scene construction, costume design. I ing and supervising, also organising and publicity work. No siriging and dancing called for.
W. A. HANNIBAL. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Hongkong Amateur
Dramatic Club.
c/o Messrs. W. A. Hannibal & Co.
8a, Des Voeux Road Central Hongkong, 2nd October, 1924.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HE FIFTH EXTRA RACE THE
MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley, on SATURDAY, 11th & MONDAY, 13tb Octobar 1924 commencing at 3.30 p.m. ench day. The first ball will be rung at 2.15 p...
The Charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be 81.
Soldiers and Sailora in uniform half price.
Mambers are advised that they must show their Season Tickets to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.
to
Each member hat the right of in- troducing 2 non-memberi the Members' Enclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Mesara. Linstead & Davis at 85.- each up to FRIDAY October 10th."
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, 2nd October, 1934,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
Issued for Round Trips during the month of October, 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, well appointed steamer Hai Ning" at į the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port.
TICKETS will be
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
28 WORDS 5 INSERTIONS, 01. PREFAJD,
Every additional word Cents
for 8 insertions.
TO. LET,
TO LET.-Two Godowns, or
For Particulars apply to:-H. Rut- shops, in DUDDELL STREET tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road,
TO LET-Office Rooms in Central position. Apply:-Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE: JAMES Twin
3h.p. Sports Model with ali accessories. Practically brand new Driven and in perfect condition. under 1,000 miles. Guaranteed to road. exceed 65 m.p.h. on the Owner leaving Colony. On view at Dragon Garage, Happy Valley Apply to Box 314 c/o China'Mall
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
No
Write to
G. MOUSSION c/o "Chinx Mal" office,
G.
INTIMATIONS.
R.
FIRE BRIGADE CALLS..
"OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
The of
establishment of 6 Street Fire Alarms in Kowloon Peninsula situated
(1) In Nathan Road at Halphong
Road.
(2) In Nathan Road at Austin
Road.
(3) In Nathan Road at Gascoigne
Road.
(4) In Shanghai Street at Jordan
Road.
(5) In Shanghai Street at Wing
Sing Lane.
(6) In Shanghai Street at Pitt
Street.
These Special Tickets will be
Each of the above Fire Alarms available for return only by this lead into Kowloon Fire Scation steamer, either by the Voyage for where they transmit an instantaneous which it is issued or by her call. The Public are requested to following sailing from Foochow acquaint themselves with the Duration of stay at Foochow 48 positions of these alarms and to use hours.
the First Alarms in preference to The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days using the Telephone or blowing and the atcamer will leave Police whistles when requir.ng the Hongkong from the Company's services of the Fire Department. Wharf at
5 p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather
The Company's Steam Launch
permitting).
will convey
passengers
Chy, if required.
Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow
For further particulars
dates of Sailing→
Apply to
E. D. C. WOLFE Chief Officer, Fire Brigade. Hongkang, 6th October, 1924.
from
G.
R
and
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
114 Peel Street
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HONGKONG TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE.
THE INSTITUTE will reopen on
THURSDAY, October 9th. Students will be enrolled at the Education Department Only, - and should apply At Once for Entry Forms.
Hongkong, 6th Oct., 1924.
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
Mr. Harry Moss, the aldast fish merchant at Fleetwood,
suddenly.
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died
STRANGE AFFAIR.
GHASTLY KIRKINTILLOCH
DISCOVERY.
JEWELLER'S TRAGIC END.
Glasgow, September 6-Kirkin-
Lady Jones, 78, widow of Gener-tilloch was shocked on awakening al Sir Howard Sutton Jones, has on Wednesday morning to dis. died at Lyme Regis, Dorset, cover that a tragedy had occurred in the burgh overnight. About seven o'clock to the morning Mr. John A. Graham, watchmaker and jeweller, 9 Cowgate, was found "dead in the back premises of his shop with a number of gushes on the top of his head.
Copper coins bearing the image of the uncrowned head of Queen Victoria are being withdrawn.
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In September the battleships Barham, Vallant, and Malaya will join the Mediterranean Fleet.
Manchester licensing compansa- tion authorities reduced the num- ber of "beer-on" licences by 21.
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The ancient castle of Winzig, near Landsberg, Germany, has been almost completely destroyed by fire.
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The discovery was made by a woman who has a fruiterer's When she business next door. went to open her shop she found that the door of Graham's back premises was open exactly as she had noticed it at 10.30 the previous night:
Thinking this was something Lieut-General Sir Arthur unusual, as Graham was generally Holland has been adopted pro-up before she came to spective Unionist candidate for business, she looked in and saw Northampton.
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There was a pitch of 55 tons at Market Drayton cheese fair Finest lots. made from 11d. to 11⁄2d. per lb.
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Station Sergeant Arthur Crouch, leader of the Metropolitan Police Minstrels, has been promoted inspector."
Dr. R. de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch Minister to Great Britain, has had his collar bone broken in a motoring collision.
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Mr. Winston Churchill' and Sir Robert Horne will address a political meeting together in Edin- burgh on September 25.
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Weighing 7ib. 20%, a seu trout was caught in the River Wyre by Mr. W. Marshall, of Mill Bank, Church-street, Preston.
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Sub-Lieutenant E. C. Tower, of the Devonport Naval Engineering College, has been drowned while bathing at Polperro, Cornwall,
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About £25,000 profit is expected from the recent Olympic Games near Paris, and is to be used in improving the Colombes Stadium.
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a strange sight. Graham was lying back in his chair by the side of the fire, covered with a blood- stained blanket. The gas ring was burning by the side of the fireplace with
a pan of water beside it.
Chief Constable M'Lennan at but once prosecuted inquiries. motives or clues.
hampered by the entire
was
Mr. Graham was highly respect- ed in the community. He was a leader in the Methodist Church and in the local temperance movement.
His wife died some time ago, and since then he had been living
alone in the back shop, which is a workshop, but arranged as contains a single bed. He was in the habit of taking his food out, and was last seen alive about eight. o'clock on Tuesday night,' when he was in his usual health.
A MUG'S GAMES."
ABERDEEN WORKMAN'S £75 FINE.
HUGE BETTING TRANSACTIONS.
Glasgow, September 6;-A re! remarkable case, in which an Aberdeen workman, in an effort Ashton-under-Lyne Conservato square his betting losses, de- tives have adopted, Mr. Cornelius frauded a bookmaker of £366, Homan, of Windsor House, Lon-was dealt with at Aberdeen on don as their prospective can didate.
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Mr. George Buchanan and the Rev. Campbell Stephen, Socialist M.P.s, gave evidence at Glasgow in a case in which three. Com munists were fined...............
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As the body of Major Imbrie, the United States Consul who was murdered at Teheran, crossed the Persian frontier, on its way to Bushire, it was given a salute of Il guns.
The Lord Great Chamberlain has decided that the baby son of Mr. Ian Macpherson M.P.; may be. baptised in the House of Commons crypt chapel by a Free Church minister:
BABY'S OWN TABLETS The Children's Own Medicine,
Reasons Why No Home Where
There Are Little Ones Should Be Without Thom.
Monday. The accused was Harry Davidson, and during the time he was in the dock he sobbed and hung his head.
He pretended to William Jamieson, bookmaker, that he could buy brace and sell it again at a big profit. He induced. Jamieson to give him £270 to pay for a quantity of brass, which he said he had bought and had sold to a London firm for £600. At a later date, by pretending that he had bought more brass, he in- duced Jamieson to give him £6 and allow him to retain for a week Soo which he was due Jamieson in respect of betting losses.
Mr. J. G. D. Ferries, advocate, said accused was 38 and a mare ried man. He was foreman_brass moulder, and earned about £4 per week. Betting had been a curse to him, as it had been to many others. He had started in a small Since way, risking shillings. May last, however, his losses had been £1892, and his winnings £1051, leaving a balance of £841 to account.
AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE. The Fiscal said accused would have been comfortable but for the curse of betting." He entered into a silly scheme to try and square his losses. Although large sums of money were mentioned. It was solely a case of juggling. It was a silly offence.
It is a mistake to give 'grown-up' medicine to little children. What they need is something made specially to sait their own delicate little insides. That is just what Baby's Own Tablets are pleasant little pellata which crush up casily fate a powder or can be eaten like sweets; so absolutely harmless that they can be administered to the youngest babe with perfect safety...
Sheriff Dallas said there were The action of the Tablete is thorough most exceptional circumstances in Jet gentle. They dispel constipation, the case justifying the Court in correct in hoes, relleve, colps and stop colic, cedere
not sending accused to prison fever, chack croup, allay teething painr, quiet the wi hout the option of a fine. norvel, quickly Indace, peaceful health had an absolutety clean record, a restoring sleep in a perfectly natural character of the highest kind, and way. They also expel werme
was a good workman and a good Administered in time, Baby's Owo husband, Continuing, Sheriff Tablets have saved many little lives. Lar them protect your home and, happi-Dallas referred to betting as a nows. Of chemfate, or post free, 80 cents mug's game." He imposed a the vial, from Dr. Williams Medicine Bne of £75, with the alternative of
five months' imprisonment, Co., 60 Kiangse Road, Shanghai,
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