WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1927.
Phone C.22
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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TO LET.
NOTICE.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
W
TE are moving our Office Pre-
mises ax
1st and from August, 927 to Prince's Building, ground floor, lee House Street (nest, Alexandra Cafe).
CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the Companies
Ordinances of ilang Kong). Hong, Kong, 13th July, 1927.
TO LET-Five-Roomed 11OUSE, THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS No. 49, in Granville Rond, Kowloon,
with lush system and all modern'
CO., LTD.
5.
conveniences. Apply to-Spanish TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Dominican Procuration.
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.
the following persons have bern 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.
NG PURCHASE contracts can be recognised by this Company unless
flors.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly signed by at least two of its Direc- and promptly printed. "China Mail" Office, No. 5. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVIVORS,
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to full y Public
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, the 28th July, 1927, commencing at 245 p.m.
at No. Queen's Garden
(Ground Floor).
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE..
Catalogues will be issued,
On View from Wednesday, the
27th July, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1927.
THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions from the Execu
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 a.m.
with an interval from 1 p.m. -
to 2.30 p.m.
ut No. 5. Peak Road The Whole of Her Valuable House. hold Furniture, Blackwood Ware, Collection of Pictures, Curios, etc., etc.
comprising:-
Teak Hatstand with Bevelled Mirror, Drawing Room Suite, Couch and Chairs, Chesterfeld Overmantel. Oil Paintings, Old Japanese Prints, Bronze and Brass Ware, Lacquered Cabinels, Lac- Barometer, Orna- quered ware,
Cloisonne Ware, ments, Curios, Curtains, Carpets, Rugs, etc., etc.
Teak Extension Dining Table, Teuk Sideboard, Dinner Waggón, Cabinets, Cut Glass, Silver Ware; Cutlery,
Crockery, Teak Desk,
Chairs, Electric Fittings, Ceiling
All communications to be ad- dressen to the Secretary.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
LAM MING-FAN.
Secretary. Bong Roug. 18th July, 1927.
THEATRE
ROYAL.
SATURDAY, August 6th. MONDAY, August 8th.
A. Strok presents
BENNO CMOISEIVITSCH
THE WORLD RENOWNED PIANIST.
Booking opens at Moutries on Monday. July 25th.
Prices: $4, $3, & $2.
HOME TUITION.
TIJESTOVER
STEVENAGE. Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL 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).
FAMOUS ECZEMA REMEDY. FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY.
GÉONGE YLEE
Thousands prakt tale wonderful Telderly. Uses for cra tarise with weszleg Kucre. À swift, white sellel for Mezetua, lich, Tetier, stil, Ticerated beg kad ati Mala dinner. No matter how long standing. Clve IL LHA. Generous Jar only $2.00. On Sale at:
and Table Fans, Filter, Teak lee No. 40 Queens Road, C... Hong Kong
Cheats, Table Clock, etc., etc.
THE OHINA MAIL
Dixie
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 Bays in the streets. Foreign Products Distributors FORPRODIST LTD.
China Building, 1st Floor.
LESS NIGHT LIFE.
EFFECT OF CURFEW ON SHANGHAL
GOING HOME EARLY.
Writing from Shanghai, Sir Ter- cival Phillips, the "Daily Mail" special correspondent, vtatus that curfew has killed the much-adver- tised night life of Shanghai. Though the ban has been lifted, its moral effect remains. Purveyors of but champagne and jazz mourn, many wives rejoice.
The curfew lived but a little while, he says, and vanished when the Chinese ceased their foolish an ties beyond the barricades. It was
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police discovered that much foot traffic was still passing back and forth through a barrier that apparently sealed.
Observation showed that the ten- unts of houses which had front en- trances outside the barrier and back doors within it were admitting pedestrians through their premises at 5 cuppers a head-and doing big business.
The Nut Hawker.
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MAXIMUM PENALTY
IMPOSED.
'The maximum penalty of £50 was imposed by Mr. Ratcliffe Cousins at West London Police-court OR George Lewis, of Oxford-gardens, North Kensington, who answered But the first prize for turning a
charging him with misfortune Into prosperity must go offering a bribe of £5 to Chief to the hawker of nuts and small Inspector Chamberlin, of the “F” sweetmeats, who found the curfew Division, on May 7:
Bummone
an unexpected source of profit. The Mr. W. L. Sanders, prosecuting, first night the 30 o'clock ben was Raid Chief Inspector Chamberlin enforced this aged and extremely visited a house occupied by defen- dirty Chinese was arrested, in spite dant in Johnson Street, Notting- of tears, at a corner of the Bund.
The next night he was back at hill-gate, where on the first floor his post and, in spite of two warn- he found two rooms fitted up as a mild affair at the best, 10 p.m. asings, persisted in remaining after regular betting offices.
toare.
Two men who were in the room
To "China Mail" Cross-Words,"
Offices. c/o "China Mail"
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for
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the first limit for being outdoors, 10. Again he was flung into con- left, and defendant, who was then and an extra two hours' liberty finement, this time without after the first month. No one would have believed that it could so effectually kill the pastime of dancing night-long in a devil-may- care atmosphere. Yet the floors are well-nigh empty, and Russian partners (at 1s. per dance) sit dis consolately after midnight with a suitor to disturb their hardly thoughts of next month's bills.
When the curfew descended a naughty Shanghai rebelled like child, and was punished according ly. The first night more than 1,200 defiant persons mostly Chinese were gathered in by patrols. the die-hards dwindled so rapidly that within ten days the nightly bag was fewer than 100. Very Fine Carved Blackwood:
The first full night of freedom Ware, Porcelain Panelled Screens.
DUBLIC AUCTION of the un-found expectant cafe proprietors Mother of Pearl Inlaid Curio
To the end of my life I shall Cabinets, Old Chinese Hall Lan-perties Situate in the New Terri-champagne and extra cashiers in re- tories in the Colony of Hong Kong. serve. Now for the deluge! But
Dancers and drink- never forget that I once spelt terns, etc., etc.
never came. New Kowloon Inland Lot No, 63
"But you can midnight.
stay." Robert Blair. Glass Factory.
"But we pleaded the proprietors. This Lot is situate at Kowloon want to go kome," retorted the
patrons.
When he appeared the third night alone with the inspector, said: "I as usual the sentries were furious have been wanting to see you for at such a display of defiance, but some time. Can't we work toge their anger turned to perplexity ther? Here is a prezent for you," when the Eawker packed up his at the same time holding out some baskets on the eve of curfew and Treasury notes.
"I don't do business like that." waited with an inscrutable expres sion to be arrested.
said the inspector, Defendant re- The secret was out when he ar-torted, "That's all right," crept rived at the detention hall. He set forward, and thrust five £1 notes out his wares at a pitch he had oc-in the inspector's waistcoat pocket. cupied the night before and pro- Three days later defendant called! ceeded to sell nuts and other re- at the police station, and said:14. A genus of leguminous trees freshments to his fellow-prisoners "What I gave you was for your throughout the vigil. When the charities, not for yourself."
16. Pertaining to trap-rock. Sir Travera Humphreys, repre- 17. Harmony of language.. curfew was finally abolished he ap proached the sentries on the Bund aenting defendant, who pleaded 18. Precedence. and offered them a "cumshaw" (tip) guilty, said he had advised defen- 20. A beautiful flowering tree of dant that there was no answer to
Iron Bedstends. Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror Doors, Teak Dressing Table Glass Top, Teak Chest of Drawers, Teak Wash- stands, etc., etc.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
BY ORDER OF THE OWNER.
But
Corean Cabinet with Brass Clasps, PUB dermentioned Valuable Pro-entrenched behind barricades of
ALSO
to restore it.
1. Craft 7. Emerging.
and shrubs, usually with thorns and pinnate leaves.
China.
the charge, and that the suggestion 21. Edge of the roof of a building. that the money was offered for 22 Scoffs.
charities could not maintained. 23. The magple.
he beat that could be said was 24. R. T. E. (Actual). that the defendant must be an ex-25. Censure.
Anglo-Saxon verbs. thought that a bribe of £5 was likely to affect a man of the rank 28. A nocturnal lizard.
Old English Clocks by G. H. Borrall on which is situated the Tai Wan ers began to drift homewards at "ejaculation" with a "k."Sir traordinary stupid person if he 26. A particle often prefixed to
and John, Moore & Sons. London. One Old Grand Father Clock
Bay.
One Safe by Milners
AND
A Fish Pond, situate at New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 8 in the
One Safe by Herring Hall Marvin New Territories.
AND
Lot Nos. 5908 and 5918 ip Survey One Piano Pianola by John Broad-District 1 in the New Territories
wood & Sons with lot of (Agricultural Lots)
Music Rolls
AND
A Large Quantity of Maiden Kair Fern and Plants in Pots, .
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Monday, the 1st
of August, 1927.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers Hong Kong, 19th July, 1927.
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS
to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION ・・
on
IN FOUR LOTS
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A sermon is the most contempt ible thing on earth unless the preacher preaches to himself.- Rev. G. A. S. Kennedy,
The New Habit. Even the Chinese have fallen into the new habit. By midnight the streets they largely inhabit are de
The man who knows Shakes- serted. Ricsha coolies left high peare will handle men a great and dry by the lack of late fares deal. better than the man who wander about forlornly, convinced that the new order of things is an- only knows his mathematics.— other form of oppression by the The Bishop of Hereford. foreign devil. Yet what they lose
when
THURSDAY, the 16th Sept., 1927, after midnight is more than made
at 3 o'clock, p.m.
up earller in the evening, Ballors and soldiers. distribute YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE "small money" with incredible gen- |
but the limit of that "once mey erosity.
The Chinese have lost no oppor- be prolonged almost indefinitely if turity, however small, of profiting you take proper care of the body
by Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
at their Sales Room,
8, Duddell Street, Hong Kong.
was
of Chief Inspector of Police in the 31. Tree found in Pacifle islands, course of his duty. The real fact 32. An Imarinary evil being sup- posed to prey upon human bodies, that defendant, recognlaing that the chief inspector of the 33. In good season. district was the man responalble 34. Sorrow. for the control of betting premises, 36. A simpleton, wished to be on friendly terms with 37. A bere. wanted to be of hind til pre- 39. Pierced with a sting.
41. Весливе. 43. Squirrel's nest (plural). the Mr. Ratcliffe Cousins said
44. Compass point (abb.). suggestion made by defendant that. Non-commissioned officer (nhb.). the £5 was for charities was ridi- 47. Armed hostility. culous, and he was glad it had been. Artifices. 60. A taasel, abandoned.
sent.
Italy is the only country in Europe which is at present being
by the militarisation of Shanghal. with which Nature endowed you. governed in the Interests of the For further particulars and Con-We enjoyed the thoroughly Chinese One of the chief factors in the people.-Lord Sydenham.
ditions of Sale apply to:-
spectacle of one set of coolies put preservation of youth is daily re- Messre. HASTINGS, DENNYSting wire up in the daytime and gularity. To prevent constipation others taking down sections of it and to keep the system clean and at night, almost under the eyes of healthy there is nothing better the sentries.
than Pinkettes, the dainty little
& BOWLEY.
Vendor's Solicitors,
8, Des Voeux Road Central. or to
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., The Auctioneers,
No. 3, Duddell Street. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1927.-
A SOOTHING BALM,
For surches of the muscles after No less resourceful were the Chi- laxatives and liver regulators. Of violent exercise and for rheumatic ness householders living on the chemists, or post free, 60 cents the pains, much relief is afforded by massaging the affected parts thorough- "frontier" street which divides the vial, from The Dr. Williams' Medi- with Chamberlain's Fan Balm. Try International Settlement from thei
Though the cine Co., 60 Klanger Road, Shang it when you have need of such a pre- French Concession.
paration and see for yourself what an side thoroughfares were sealed with
excellent fulment it is. Sold every.
hai.
wire and bulks of timber, the PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL.
where.
I
62. To make a whirring noise,
03. Fabled giant of ancient mytho-
logy.
56, A genus of palms. |67. 'Abundance.
155. To provoke.
50. An ornament worn as a remedy or preservative against evils or mischief.
60. Eamest. ¡01. To roll.
·
Down.
1. An unimportant or superfluous
word.
2. An agate.
3. Ingenuous.,
4. U.C.M.E. (Actun!).
5. Plant closely allied to wheat.
d. A Gothic prefix.
E. G. T. (Actual).
9. Arid.
10. To cry out like a child.
11. To part asunder.
12. I. P. A. C. A. T. (Actuml).
13. A congregation.
15. A species of sapajou.
18. One of the faces of a hewn stone.
19. To become extinct.
27. A hut or small cottage.
28. Ta shelter.
29. Kilns for drying hops or malt.
30. A prairie.
52, A rogue.
35A. An age.
38. A gregarious aquatic animal
38. To draw conclusion
39. Surely.
40. Notched on the edre,
42. To write, engrave, 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.
49. A long embroidered scarf of
gauze.or
61 A barrier.
silk,
62. A river or small stream. 54. N. T. O. (Actual),
68. A. M. U. (Actual)..
16. Nephrite or jade.
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 Bolution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even f you have not done the cross-word puzzle in full, send in what you have done-it may prove to be the nearest correct solution.