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THE 87TH ANNUAL MEETING of the above Society will be held' In the City Hall on WEDNESDAY, 23rd February, at 12 o'clock ((noon)
Chairman:
Ron Sir Honry E. Pollock, K.O.
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London. Even In the present "The Leagues of Nations has the age of super things the trend of goods, but it does not get sufficient aorial research Indicates that we publicity under presont conditions," are, approaching new world of says Mr. Murray Allison, the pub- in the most surprising developments, in licity man, in an article
planes, "Spectator. which huge passenger aerial post
giant battle
He suggests that the Longue the skies, each flying on its own paign throughout the world. planes and bombers will crowd should start an advertising cam-
level to avoid collisions, and Mr. Allison estimates that the
offices,
carrying searchlights of 100,000,000 cost of a column advertisement in candle-power, sweeping the firma the daily papers, two columns in
testimonials to Box No. 474. c/PT FLOWERS & VEGETABLES his, agents
THE ANNUAL SHOW of triumphant glee on the action ofment, says the "Evening Standard." the Sunday newspapers, and a page
"Chind Mail"
All New York to-day is reciting amid imprecations against Mr. Hon: Secretary. Elmory R. Bruckner, United States Public Prosecutor, these lines from Tennyson's "In Memoriam." The form the text of a mocking sermon which Mr. Bruckner addresses: through the newspapers to citizona, The sermon is delivered with
The French, realising that the in the weeklies of the world, ex- In "padlocking" 58
immense height at which planes cluding the United States of will be held at Volunteer Head-of New York's. most expen-wh fly in the future raised the Amerien, would be £1,985,000 & quarters on THURSDAY, 10th sive and hilarious night clubs and
most important question of light. year. March, 1927..
restaurants and warning the mana- have developed the most powerful Entrion will definitely close at 1gers that they will be charged with searchlight in the world.
This p.m. on MONDAY, 28th February, contempt of court if they attempt to they installed on Mont Afrique, at 1927, at the Hon. Secretary's Office, seil forbidden liquor again.
Dijon (150 miles south of Paris), but intending Exhibitors are re-
Mr. Bruckner treats these raida at an altitude of 1000 feet. quested SEND IN THEIR-the most sweeping and effective ENTRIES AS EARLY AS POS-of all raids in the history of Pro- SIBLE.
hibition-in: A humorous spirit. APARTMENTS TO LETy Schedules are being prepared and He boasts that he has stilled the will be sent to all members who sound of alcoholic Christmas re. have paid their subscription for the very by night throughout New York
;; TO LET.
TO BE LET-Furnished house on The Peak. All modern conven ences. Apply Box 475, c/o "China Mail"
to
FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gar-currens year. dena. Quiet APARTMENTS and SUITES of rooma. Fall board from $96, $110, $130 monthly, large com- modious rovims, also daily rates; five minutes from ferry, next new Hotel. Hinkow Road, Kowloon Te No. 1.457.
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Members who have not yet paid) their subscription and ALL THOSE who wish to join the SOCIETY are requested to send $5 immediately to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. E, B, C, HORNELL, e/o Mesars. Jardine; Matheson & Co., Ltdu.
Hong Kong. 9th February, 1927.
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI
"HOTELS, LIMITED, Incorporated in Hong Kong).
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEARLY- FACETING of SHAREHOLDERS of
NO
LAMMERT BROS The Hong Kong and Shanghai
`A CUTIONEERE, APPILAIBERS
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Hotels, Ltd. will be held at the Registered Office of the Company Exchange Buihlfing, Des Voeux Bond Central Hong Kong), on FRIDAY, the 4th day of March, 1927, at eleven o'clock in the fore
Public Auctionsoon, for the purpose of receiving THE Undersigned have received Report of the Board of Directors
Abution
on. FRIDAY,
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the difth February, 1927
"commencing at 2.30 puh.
at their Sales Room, Daddell Street, A Large Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:-
a Statement of Accounts and the
year on
December, 1926, confirming the appointment of Directors and re- electing a Director and the Audi- itors.
By Order of the Board,
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C. G. COPLEY,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th Feb., 1927.
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
MARKT MŰLING WASH.D. G
Professor Franck, of Gottingen University, one of the foremost of German physiclats, who has been awarded the Nobel prize in.. physics, a double award being. made this year, the other going to Professor Hertz, of Halle.
and that he has completely fooled even the generalissimos among those who have been mosking the Flaw by serving drinks at fabulous-
Teak Halstands, Silver Cabinets. Bookcases. Teak and Tapestry Covered Couch, Sofa and Arm- chairs, Teak Desks, Cherry woon: Desk, Chesterfield Arochains. CarTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN prices to thirsty plutocrats, pota, Rugs, Electric Ceiling Fans, etc.
It in of 1,000,000,000 'candle-power has eight optical lenses and prisms; and projects two rays which succes- sively sweep the horizon every 10 seconds, being visible at 400 miles, Both can be merged into one benm..
The searchlight was primarily Intended to light aerial routes, but such a development is certain te altitudes, where, for the purpose" of resisting the low temperature In the rarified atmosphere, pilota - will wear electrically heated:
suits, and also be enclosed as the crew in a submarine.
Night bombers will speed at 200- drive hostile aeroplanes to im-i mense miles an hour, and be able to swcop down on their prey at 800 miles an hour. They will climb. 1,000 feet n second. Moreover, there will be ghostlike fleets, owing to the almost silent.engines and
Invisible" paint.
America, however, is carfying dut sound-ranging experiments with apparatus so highly tured, as to detect the approach of aircraft fying at a height of over 30,000: feet...
Great developments are expected In wirelessly-controlled planes In which television will enable a view of machines throughout, even when bombs are to be dropped 500 miles Ffrom the bare.
Already aerial torpedoes travel three miles for every 3,000 feet of altitude. Therefore, at a height ¡ of. 20,000 feet they can be launch"
ed: 21 miles from the target.
Crowded Always.
The International Commission on aerial navigation's regulations, to be introduced in 1927, provide that, owing to the increasing volume "of air traffic, pilots of large passenger, duty of communicating by tele- 'planes should be relieved of the
phone with aerodrom.es, and that planes carrying 10 or more pas- sengers must carry 11. wireless operator.
Imperia Airways, Ltd., conde- quently, is training air mechanics as wireless operatora at the Mar-
spat
He describes how his agenta the ANNUAL ORI DINARY GENERAL MEETING of duped several well-known actresses Teak Dining Tables, Dining SHAREHOLDERS in this COM-by posing as rich Englishmen of Chaira, Ice Cheste, Teak Sideboards PANY will be held at the Hong ancient lineage, as Russian noble-con! College.
men, as men of vast wealth from. with Bevelled Mirrors, Tenk Dinner Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, сп Waggon, Crockery, Glass Ware, SATURDAY, the 12th February, the West, and as spend-thrift papas. Kitchen utensils, etc., etc...
1927, at 11 am. for the purpose of
Teak, Iron and Brass Badsteads receiving the Report of the Direc with Mattresses, Teak Single and cors together with a Statement of Double Wardrobes with Bevelled Accounts for the year ended 31st Mirrors, Teak Dressing Tables December, 1923. with Bevelled Mirrors, Teak Chest The TRANSFER BOOKS of the of Drawers, Marble Top Wash Company will be CLOSED from the stands, Chamber Standa, Toilet 5th February to the 14th February Sets, etc., etc.
(both days inelusive), during which period: no transfer of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 29th Jan., 1927.
ALSO
A Few Pieces of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.
and
1 Cottage Piano by F. Doerner &
12-Valve Set..
Sohn, Stuttgart.
Enamelled Bath.
25-Valve Receiving Sets...
14-Valve Receiving Set.
1-Valve Amplifier.
1 Gecophone Loudspeaker.
1 Pathe Loudspeaker (Cone
Type).
1 Lot of 5 High Frequency
Transformers.
1. Lot of 4 Valve Sockets. Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Thursday, the 10th February, 1927..
Terms:
Cash on Delivery.
* LAMMERT BROB.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1927.
on SATURDAY,
the 12th February, 1927 commencing at 11 a.m.
at the Mezzanine Floor, No. 47.
Godown (Kowloon Godowns) opposite No. 5 Pier
A Nice Selection of
TONKIN EMBROIDERIES.
On View from Friday, the 11th
February, 1927..
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 8th Feb, 1927.
or MONDAY,
the 14th February, 1927 commencing at 2.43. p.m.
at No. 2, Waverley Terrace (Hong
Kong & Whampoa Dock Co, Ltd.,)
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Hunghom
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
· FURNITURE
(Property of the late Mr. A: A. Bolton).
Catalogues will be issued,
Di View from Sunday the 18thi February, 1927. 5.
Terms: Cash on Delivery...
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1927.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Managercss's Kiss.
Actresses,, including one popualr leading lady, introduced their supUR'S BURIED STORY. posedly aristocratic acquaintances
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He adds: "It is A great sum, but A cigarette firm spends more. The Laver Arm alone spends. only a little less in Britain alone, advertising a brand of scap. After all, It is one- third" of one per cent. „of the amount that the nations spend.an- and only nually on armaments, one-tenth of the cost of one day of the Great War."
Count Ludwig. Salm, whose marriage to Millicent Rogers, daughter of Col. Henry H. Rogers, financier, aroused the latter's ire, is suing his wife for separation and the custody of their Infant sun. The Count contends that his wife left him in May, 1924. It is reported that the case has been settled for $500,000, the Countess to keep the child and the Count to leave the United States,
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to managers of the "most exclusive" resorts, where they were royallyWHAT NEWLY-FOUND TABLETS
TELL. welcomed. One agent, posing as a titled Englishman, introduced an- !
Nicknamed the "Soho Terror" other agent posing as a Russian The Anglo-American expedition, George Kent, aged 35, motor me- nobleman and succeeded in extri- which has resumed excavations at chanie, who is known in the Lon-| eating from the manager commis-Ur of the Chaldees, has unearthed don underworld as the worst man sion on the money spent.
numerous tablets, giving lists of in Soho. was sentenced to has to do with the success of one
But Mr. Buckner's proudest fent square root numbers to 50, and also months hard labour as an incor- of his bogus noblemen in winning hymns and records of early kings. rigible rogue.
The excavations bave for the It took a detective 15 minutes to the conficence of the manageress frst time revealed the appearance read out his previous convictions. of The 800 Club, which he des-of a city in Abraham's time. The The officer added that the only cribes as a resort known through- ruins show narrow streets filed thing in Kent's favour was that
comfortable out the United States for its Bac-with
two-storeyed he did not assault the police when chanalian revelries, He boaste houses, resembling the best houses he was last arrested. that on his second visit the man- in modern Bagdad.
The "Evening News" recalls that ageress threw a kiss to the noble. As it was the custom to bury the Kent, the associate of racing gangs, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN man and his friends and as, they dead beneath houses, many dis- confidence triekstera,
were leaving
tomba, with food in various ves- seldom arrested without MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS they were departing so early. in this Corporation will be held at loaded with the licit fruits of the
To-day Mr. Bruckner's office is sols, were made.
severely injuring the police. When An unusual discovery was a long, be wanted a drink he entered City Hall, Hong Kong, on SATUR vine and of the cornfields die narrow room in "No. 7 Quiet Soho cafe and demanded free re- DAY, the 26th February, 1927, at covered behind secret panels and street," containing, an altar on freshments for himself and "his Noon, for the purpose of receiving in hidden cupboards.
refused which were 30 bowls filled with tho friends. "If he was
he the Report of the Court of Directors
With unrestrained glce he pub-bones of children.
smashed the glasses and mirrora.
11. Direction together with a Statement ofHshes a column-long list of the This is believed to be a shrine Hie mother recently presented 12. Printers unit of measure. Accounts for the year ending 81st casualties he has caused on Broad dedicated to a deity kind)- dis him with a motor car to start a
12. Thus, December, 1926.
Kent worked 24. Conducts water to a mill. way and elsewhere-a list which posed to children, to which rela- carrying business. The REGISTER of SHARES of constitutes a guide to the night tives brought their Infante for for a month, and then resumed his 16, Turns round." the Corporation will be CLOSED life of New York.
vicious career.
18 Oceans.. from MONDAY, thỏ 14th February |to SATURDAY, the 28th February,
1927 (both daya inclusive) during ||] which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of. Directors.
A. H. BARLOW,'
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 7th February, 1927.
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To keep in safety.
4. A knob in roots.
7. To ripple.
10. Postscript (abbrev.)
20. 3rd. pars; eing: pres of Be.". 21. A email tinned fish,
(28. Mother.
124.
a. To revolve.
26. Sty
Style of expression.
28. Edition (abbrev.)
28. Doctor of Divinity (abbrev.).
30. Us..
31. Advertisement (abbrev.)
32. Thick hempen.cord.
86. Open (poetic).
1871 Clone by.
40. A genus of rodent. quadruped.
41. A lifting machine.
42. Destruction
43. A girl's name,
To perform
A mabl
47. Church of England (abbrev.)
48. 6th note in scale.
LIDA.. Mer
60. Like this.
(no H),
58. Begin.
68
An
erection.
A pot
for stewing, in..
01 To Increase
İse.
BOVA (actual).
60 Theosophical Society (inits.)
108. Mentally conceived;"
04 Aboz
Masculine pronoun,
87. In the same manner.
09. Knock-vuit (abbrev.)
8. Holds stop (Inter).)
70. To provide for
71 Twists that fo
Clues Down.
2. Imitatas.
3. Royal Scottish Society (abbrev,)
4. Ready to do,
5. Keep together; ;
4. To snow again..
8. To employ..
To wander.
14 Animate, existence.
16. Fart of word, 'er king.' 17. Dull,
19. A variety of quartz.
21. Edge or border of anything.
22. Eve's garden.
27. A bea that collects no honey. 29. Room.
81. Get up
aa. Old
(pidgin-English).
84. By means, oĽ
35. Pray (Latin).
88. Suffix (belonging to);
38. An Epoch.
39 A.U.S. (actual).
44 Danotas plty.
46. Anything lent,
47. A shelter.
49. A professor of an art.
BU. Stemal
52. Ascended.
64, Toʻlay gza
55. A watering place.
57. Continued, pain,
59. Adam across a riversi
60. Price (then revaraa It),
62., A Tezikle fowl.
65 Exclamation
12, . To, gond, away (as from employ-
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have not done the cross-word puzzle in full
done it may prove to be the nearest
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