MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927.
Phone C.22
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions..
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-One
brase "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, c/o "China. Mail."
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed.--"China Mail" Office, No. 5. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
LAMMERT
BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVIVORS.
-Public Auctions-
HE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Duble
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, the 28th July, 1927, commencing Pt 2.45 p.m.
at No. 9, Queen's Garden (Ground Floor).
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View fromn Wednesday, the
27th July, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1927.
Tinstructions from the Execu THE Undersigned have received
tor of the Estate of the late Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, to sell by Public Auction
ON
THURSDAY & FRIDAY,
the 4th & 5th August, 1927 commencing each day at 11 am. with an interval from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
at No. 5, Peak Road The Whole of Her Valuable House- hold Furniture, Blackwood Ware, Collection of Pictures, Curios, etc., etc.
comprising:
Tenk Hatstand with Bevelled Suite, Mirror, Drawing Room
Chairs, Chesterfield Couch and Overmantel. Oil Paintings, Old Japanese Prints, Bronze and Brass Ware, Lacquered Cabinets, Lac- quered ware, Barometer, Orna- ments, Curios, Cloisonne Ware, Curtains, Carpets, Rugs, etc., etc.
Teak Extension Dining Table, Teak Sideboard, Dinner, Waggon. Cabinels, Cut Glass, Silver Ware. Cutlery, Crockery, Teak Desk, Chairs, Electric Fittinga, Ceiling and Table Fans, Filter, Teak Ice Chests, Table Clock, etc., etc.
Iron Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror Doors, Tetk Dressing Table Glass Top, Teak Wash- Chest of Drawers, Teak stands, etc., etc.
Very Fine Carved Blackwood Ware, Porcelain Panelled Screens, Corean Cabinet with Brass Clasps, Curto Mother of Pearl inlaid Cabinets, Old Chinese Hall Lan- terns, etc., etc.
AL50 Old English Clocks by G. H. Borrall and John Moore & Sons, London. One Old Grand Father Clock
One Safe by Milners
CAMPBELL MOORE
LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS.
BOBBING
SHINGLING.
WAVING
By Expert
Barbers.
19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 151
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Dixie
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
Small 3-Bank Portable Model
New 4-Bank Portable Model
and
Standard Office Machines
Every Size always in stock Suitable for all requirements. - SOLE AGENTS →→ Queen'a Buliding.
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Ground Floor.
Opposite Ferry Wharf. Tel. 1030 Central.
A. SEK & CO.
26A, Des Vœux Road Central. Tel. No. C. 3459.
PHOTO SUPPLIES Kodaks, Cameras and Films &c.
LATEST STYLE. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS FIELD GLASSES.
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.Į
Full particulars for the
1928 DIRECTORY
can be sent in Now.
THEATRE
ROVAL.
SATURDAY, August 6th. MONDAY, August 8th.
A. Strak presents
BENNO
MOISEIVITSCH
THE WORLD RENOWNED PIANIST.
Booking opens al Moutries on Monday,
July 25th.
Prices: $4, $3, & $2.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
BY ORDER OF THE OWNER,
PUBLIC
Cups
packed with
Delicious
Ice Cream
EX S.S. "PRESIDENT MADISON"
Sold
AT THE ICE CREAM PAVILION 96 Nathan Road, Tel. K. 874.
AT THE ICE CREAM KIOSK
Queen's Theatre Building Tel. C. 3456. And by our Brown Ice Cream Boys in the streets.
Foreign Products Distributors FORPRODIST LTD. China Building, 1st Floor, Tel. C. 3888.
NOTICE.
THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS
IT
CO., LTD..
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED 'that the following persons have been appointed to hold office as from January 1st, 1927:
LOUIE WAI-SUN,
Managing Director. LOUIE LEUNG, Treasurer.
LAM MING-FAN,
Secretary.
L. G. CHONG,
Manager.
No PURCHASE contracts can be recognised by this Company unless aigned by at least two of its Direc- tors.
All communications to be ad- dressed to the Secretary, By Order of the Board of Directors.
LAM MING-FAN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th July, 1927.
NOTICE.
Our Representative, Mr. K. M. DAHL, is now in Hong Kong for the purpose of bringing the 1928- Edition of Rosenstock's Business Directory of China upto-date.
Please address all communica- tions to P. O. Box No. 640 Hong Kong.
UBLIC AUCTION of the un-
The Publishers, dermentioned Valuable Pro-Rosenstock's perties Situate in the New Terri- One Safe by Herring Hall Marvin torles in the Colony of Hong Kong.
AND
AND
One Piano Pianola by John Broad- wood & Sons with lot of Music Rolls AND
A Large Quantity of Maiden Hair Fern and Plants in Pots. Catalogues will be issued.
Or View from Monday, the lat
of August, 1927,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT EROS, Auctioneers Hong Kong, 19th July, 1927.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET.
a.m.
p.10.
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New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 59 on which is situated the Ta! Wan Glass Factory.
This Lot is situate at Kowloon |
Bay.
A Fish Pond situate at New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 8 in the New. Territorios.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
of CHINA.
HOME TUITION,
【7ESTOVER
- STEVENAGE,
W within an hour from London.
Lot Nos. 5908 and 5918 in Survey In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL District 1 in the New Territories (Agricultural Lola)
to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
THURSDAY, the 15th Sept., 1927, at 3 o'clock, p.m.
IN FOUR LOTS
by Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
at their Sales Room,
8. Duddell Street, Hong Kong. For further particulars and Con- ditions of Sala apply to:-
Mesars, HASTINGS, DENNYS
& BOWLEY,
Vendor's Solicitors,
8, Des Voeux Road Central..
... or to
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.,
The Auctioneers,
No. 8, Buddell Street. Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1027.
for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
POLAR CAKE
FTS QUALITY · THAT COUNTS
T
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NOTICES.
PEAK CLUB.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be held at the Peak Club on:-
FRIDAY, 29th JULY, 1927, at 6 p.m. E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th July, 1927.
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Generous Jar only $2,00. On Sale at:
No. 40 Queen's Road, C., Hong Kong-
NOTICE
TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has men available to ship as watch- men, seamen,' &c.
Our men are employed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.
Please phone or call:→→→ K.661-No. 2, Saigon Street, Yaumati or
C:2560--No. 38. Tung Man Street.
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opened until the close of the competition.
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On the occasion on Saturday of the inauguration of the Hong Kong to Manila short wave commercial wireless service, the following con- gratulatory message were Cx- changed:
To His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, C.31.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief Crown. Colony of Hong Kong.
Upon the opening of the first com- mercial radio
circuit between Manila and Hong Kong, I send you cordial greetings and felicitations and express the hope that this latest link between our two cities estab lished by radio corporation of the Post Office may render a mote- worthy service in the development of mutual trade and business rela- tions
Eugene A. Gilmore, Acting Goy. ernor General.
To His Excellency the Acting Governor General of the Philippine Islande.
On behalf of the Colony of Hong Kong, I cordially reciprocate Your Excellency's greetings. We share the hope that the opening of a com- mercial radio circuit between Manila and Hong Kong will develop and link still more closely our mu- tual trade relations.
Cecil Clementi, Governor of Hong Kong.
To Hon, Director of Public Works Dept, Hong Kong.
The staff of Radio Corporation of the Philippines Join me in cordial greetings and congratulations to yourself and staff upon the in- auguration of this commercial short wave radio creuit joining Hong Kong with Manila with con- nections to the Americas and
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To "China Mail" Cross-Words,"
Offices, c/o "China Mail"
No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. DEAR SIRS,
I agree to abide by your rules, and I enclose..
for
Name
Address
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[Please Write in Block Lettera.]
CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1. [Coupons received at the "China Mail" Office after mid-day
on Monday will not be included in the competition.]
1. Craft.
7. Emerging.
Across.
14. A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs, usually with thorns and pinnate leaves.
16. Portaining to trap-rock. 17. Harmony of language. 18. Precedence.
...
20. A beautiful flowering tree of
China.
21. Edge of the roof of a building. 22. Scoffs.
28. The magpie.
24. R. T. E. (Actual). 25, Censuro,
26. A particla often prefixed to
Anglo-Saxon verbs.
28. A nocturnal lizard,
31. Tree found in Pacific islands,
posed to prey upon human bodies. 133. In good senso2.
Europe. Our best endeavours will32. An imaginary evil being sup- he.devoted to making the new Ber- vice second to none in accuracy, speed, and reliability with corres- ponding benefits to both communi- ties.
C. H. Nance, Vice President and General Manager.
To the Vice President and 'Gon- eral Manager, Radio Corporation of the Philippines, Manila.
OUT
The wireless telegraph staff of the Public Works Department, the Colony of Hong Kong, desire to join me in reciprocating greetings and congratulations. It will be endeavour to assist you and your staff make the commercial radio service now to be inaugurated be tween the Philippines and this Colony an efficient o
H. T. Jackman, Acting Director of Fublic Works, Hong Kong.
MOVEMENT OF STEAMER.
The P. & O. 8.8. "Mantua" from " Hong Kong arrived Marseilles on. July. 28 at 6.30 a..
34. Barrew.
35. A simpleton.
3. A bore.
89. Plerced with a sting. 41. Because.
19. Squirrel's nest (plural).
44. Compass point (abb.).
45. Non-commissioned officer (abb.). 47. Armed hostility.
48. Artifices.
150. A tassel.
52. To make a whirring noise. 58. Fabled giant of ancient mythe-.
logy.
65. To provoke.
58. A genus of palms. 67. Abundance...
(59. An ornament worn as a remedy or preservative against evil, or mischief. 60. Earnest 61, To roll
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1. An unimportant or superfluous
word.
2. An agate.
3. Ingenuous,
4. U.C.M.E. (Actual).
5. Plant closely allied to wheat,
6. A Gothic prefix.
8. C. T. (Actual).
9. Arid
10. To cry out like a child,
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11. To part asunder.
12. 1. E, A, C. A. T. (Actual).
12. A congregation.
15. A species of sapajou.
18. One of the faces of a hewn stone.
19. To become extinct.
27. A hat or small cottage.
28. To shelter.
29. Kilns for drying hops or malt. 30. A prairie.
32. A rogus.
83A. An age.
86. A gregarious aquatic animal.
38. To draw conclusiona. 29. Surely,
40. Notched on the edge,
42. To write, ongrave, or mark upon. 44. The pinion or outer joint of the
wing of a bird,
46. A carnivorous animal of the
genus Lutra.
47. To handle.
40. A long embroidered scurt. of
gauze or silk
51 A barrier.
52. A river or small stream.
54. N. T.-0. (Actual).
56. A. M. U. (Actual).
58. Nephrite or fade.
59. A. R. (Actual).
Competitors are reminded that the prize is to be awarded for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct solation, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even if you have not done the cross-word puzzle in fall, send in what you have done-it may prove to be the nearest correct solution,