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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.--
-Public Auctions—
THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
WEDNESDAY, 4th January, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Large Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:
Teak Bookcase, Hatstand, Ches- terfield Couch and Chairs, Glass Cabinet, Oil Paintings, Pictures, Ornaments, etc., etc.
Teak Dining Table and Chairs, Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Ice Glass Ware, Cheat Crockery," Kitchen Utensils, etc., etc..
Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Mattresses, Single and Double Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawera, Hardwood Couch, Mosquito Nets, etc., etc.
ALBO
"A Few Pleces of Blackwood Furni
ture and Tientsin Carpets and Rugs.
AND
One Astromomical and Terres- trial Telescope by Aitchison & *Co. Ltd., London (including Ac-
cessories).
One Pathe Baby Projector with
1 Screen, 1 Transformer, 1 Clean-
ing Outat and 43 Films.
One Electric Heater.
One Clinometer (New).
One Sextant.:
Four Gramophones.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Tuesday, the 3rd
January, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
LAMMENT BROS., Auctioneers
Hong Kong, 29th December, 1928.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS
For the Information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the "Island, and Mainland in published:
Island.
Fest
Victoria Peak
1828
Signal Station.
1774
Mt. Parker
(1784)
Mountain Lodge
1725)
The Evrie
∙1725
Poak Hotel
1805
Taikoo Bana
1000:
Mt. Davis Bowen Rd.
877
1297
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The picture of Terrible Scene of Canton city raid by
Communists.
ON SALE AT
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Photo-Supplies.
Tel. No. C. 3459.
26A, Des Voeux Road Central. . 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
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THE CHINA MAIL,
THEFT ENCOURAGED REV. COPLEY MOYLE,
R.
GIRL'S CHARGE AGAINST WOMEN.
NOTICE.
A DIAMOND RING.
HONG KONG WATERWORKS.
FAREWELL RECEPTION TO CHAPLAIN.
LEAVING HONG KONG.
CHINESE OBJECT.
NEW WAY TO WHITEWASH. HOUSES.
EXPERIMENT CRITICISED.
Now methods have been adopted Two Chinese women and a girl St. John's Cathedral Hall was by the Sanitary Department in of 14 were yesterday charged be-well filled yesterday evening on whitewashing Chinese tenements in [T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that fore Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kow- the occasion of a farewell recep- the Colony, meeting with a good on and after TUESDAY, the loon Magistracy in connection with lion to the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, deal of adverse criticism in the 3rd January, 1928, THE SUPPLY the recent thefts of some jewellery who is retiring after 32 years vernacular press.
The OF WATER to ALL the RIDER and money from No. 3 Carnavon spent in Holy Ordere, 15 of which The following, entitled MAIN DISTRICTS will bo
had been occupied us Chaplain of Should be Rectified" is a close con-Road, Kowloon.
Squirting Scheme of Whitewashing| trolled by bringing the RIDER-
The girl pleaded guilty" to St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong. translation of an article in a local MAINS into operation and that
Gifts comprised a draft on a vernacular paper:→→ Water will be Turned on to each charges of theft of a diamond ring. RIDER-MAIN daily
The squirting scheme of white- for Two two gold brooches and $10 the pro-bank in London for £230 sterling, Consecutive Hours. Information perty of Mra. L. de Sanchez, and and a Corona portable typewriter, washing, which has been newly as to the Hours of Supply to any larceny of a gold ring set with enclosed in a case, the cover of adopted by the Sanitary Depart. Particular Property may be three stones, a plain gold ring and which bore a suitably inscribed ment this year, is (we are able to obtained
state as a result of our reporter's on application at the a pair of earrings, the property of silver plate. Office of the Water Authority, the Miss P. Buon.
The presentation was made on inquiries), regarded by the public Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, or
The case for the prosecution was behalf of the subscribers by the as unsatisfactory.
It appeared many times in the that the girl alleged that she was Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes,
newspapers that he (the reporter) On the platform in addition to called upon Dr. S. W. Teo and Mr. encouraged to steal the things by A woman named Leung Lan. The the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, were Wong Kwong-tin, the two Chinese diamond ring she subsequently the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes members of the Sanitary Board, in- handed over to Leung Lan who sold (presiding), H.E. Major-General forming them of public opinion. it to a seamstress for $4. Of this C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G., (G.O.C.
An Experiment. - South Cina Command), Col, F. money Laung Lan deducted 40 Hayley Bell, Mr. T. H. King, Mr. cents and handed the balance over P. S. Cassidy, Mr. W. Jackson, to the girl. The girl continued to
at the Tung Wah Hospital.
H. T. JACKMAN,
Water Authority. Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 80th December, 1927.
1926.
BANK HOLIDAY.
QUEEN'S
BEAUGESTE
wwRonald Colman
[Perennostmi
*A HERBERT BRONION Chaduction
NEW YEAR'S DAY.
The two gentlemen said that they FAMOUS DUNCES. were quite pleased to convey the in-
CELEBRITIES WHO WERE DULL AT SCHOOL.
One of the most brilliant. of liv
IN Accordance with Ordinance steal from the inmates of the house Mr. T. G. Weall. Mr. C. Blaker, formation to the Head of the Sani- IN
tary Department but, that without a No. 6 of 1912, the EXCHANGE from time to time, and always the and the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. true and clear statement, containing BANKS will be CLOSED for the woman Leung Lan accompanied her modore J. L. Pearson, C.M.G., Dr. actually find it inconvenient, such Others present were: Com-full particulars, from those who transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS to pawnshops to dispose of the valu-W. V. M. Koch, the Rev. W. T. information would not be of much ing men is Lord Birkenhead, yet on MONDAY, the 2nd January,ables. The girl was eventually de- Featherstone, the Rev. W. Walton assistance. They also asked the he has just confessed that when he
tected when she stole $100 on De Rogers, the Rev. A. D. Stewart, reporter to accompany them to was a boy he sat for an examina Hong Kong, 28th December, 1928. cember 18, and it was then that the Rev. H. R. Wells, the Rev. inspect houses in Old Bailey
the loss of the jewellery was dis-W. R. Cannell, the Rev. H. F.
tion in which, after two days, the On Saturday, the reporter's resi-examiners stated he was a "half- covered.
Stoßford, C.F., Mr. Justice J. R.dence was whitewashed by coolies wit" that is, one who showed no of the Sanitary Department who The girl was warned by the Wood. the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp were engaged by the landlord, such signs of being able to pass the test. Magistrate
againat committing KC., the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, to be done as an experiment. Lord Birkenhead has since then as- such thefts In future, and was Dr. Sanders, Col. C. Russell
The following is the reporter's tonished the world by his meteoric ordered to sign a bond in the sum Brown, Col. Robertson, Capt. statement of what actually happen- rise to eminence. Among the other
KING'S. COLLEGE.
NOTICE.
KING'S. COLLEGE WHI RE- for 12 months, fond behaviour Tributes to the sterling work to and in intended for the informa-boye labelled as "for its
OPEN on TUESDAY, January
•
of the public-
.. Procedure Described.
Was
one named Amery, who is now a Cabinet Minister.
The charge of aiding and abet-of Mr. Moyle were paid by the 3rd, 1928.
ting the girl was then proceeded Hon. J. Owen Hughes and the Rev. Entrance Examinations will be with against the two wamen, and J. Kirk Maconachie.
At 8.30 a.m. that day, two Sani- It was said by wise old Roger held on. December 30th and
after hearing the girl's evidence,
tary Department coolies. came, Ascham, four hundred years ago, The Rev. Copley Moyle briefly bringing with them four large that experience of life taught him December 31st:
BY ORDER. the Magistrate
the replied, thanking them all for the pieces of canvas to be used as that those "which commonly be call- seamstress, and sentenced the help they had been to him in his covers for articles in the houssed the wisest, the best learned, and Hong Kong, 28th December, 1927.woman Leung Lan to six months' work in the Colony.
As the canvas-covers were wet with the best men also, when they be. hard labour.
lime-water, old newspapers had to old, were
discharged
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. SWORD SUPREMACY.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING.
13th, 14th, 15th & 18th February,
1928.
RAFT PROGRAMMES
D ENTRY FORMS are
ΠΟΥ
ALLEGED MOVEMENT IN
FRANCE.
PALM TREE,
GIVES SHELTER FOR HOMELESS.
man pat
be placed beneath them.
•
never commonly the
The experiment commenced with quickest of wit when they were the kitchen and then with the roof young." of the main building. Pure water
Darwin the Dullard.
was discharged from a pump be- At any rate, the list of famous fóre lime-water was used in the dunsea is long and illustrious. Sir same way.
Walter Scott was the despair of his France is fighting hard to regain
To the homeless and outcast of
Six or seven buckets of lime- tutors. At Edinburgh University her old supremacy in awordman- Berlin, "The Palm Tree" offers a water had been used for the roof. he showed and
no signs of his later ship.
Over half of it fell on the floor like Italy since the war has diligently the name
veritable haven of refuge. This is rain. It was just the same as if the amazing genius and energy, and of the big municipal house were on fire and being ex- Professor Dalzell declared that "Dunce he is, and dunce he will duelling sword, and sabre. The the north-eastern working class dis-
Fingers Split by Contact. remain." The late Rider Haggard prevalence of the duel there is con-trict of the capital. Having been sidered by many to have stimulated refitted for the coming winter sea-the walls were all wet. The lime- never took a high position in his The result was that the floor and sea youth was tall and lank, and the enthusiasm for fencing.
aon "with all modern comforts;" water became mixed with dirty mud class. Both his masters and his French and Itallan. fencers have the Palm Tree is now more like a which fell on the floor and came to fellow-pupils looked upon him as rather shared honoura in interna hotel than an asylum and will not an inch thick.
dull and stupid... Yet in addition to A dollar was paid to two coalies his romances, which could not have
developed talent with folls, epee or shelter on the Froebelstrasse, in tinguished with water.
ready and may be obtained at the Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables,
Hong Kong, 16th December, 1927.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
NEW YEAR'S EVE DINNER DANCE
8.30 p.m. to 12 Midnight.
$2.50 Per Person.
tional matches and both are keen lack for "guests." The building for washing the floor. But, before been written by anyone who was
on having another grand match be accommodates 1,900 men tween teams of the best, as a pre-women.
games.
half the flat had been washed, they dull, Haggard was one of the great- paration for next year's Olympic | Every applicant for shelter takes could not continue to finish the est authorities on the difficult sub-
rest, because their fingers were a compulsory-shower bath, and is hurt the skins of their finger Ject of agricultural economy. Lucien Gaudin, generally consi-given the use of a night shirt and tips split by the chemical effect of Mr. Hugh Walpole, too, was not a dered the world's best blade in a pair of slippers for the night. the lime-water containing an in-bright schoolboy. Indeed, it 18 matches with both foils and epec, Moreover, a portion of soup is gredient which, when touched, obvicus that Walpole hated his has failed to stand the strain. of served out night and morning. Dis- causes pain to the fingers. The lime school life, and even to this day he Olympic contests and is likely to infection of clothing also compul-water also. contained some liquid avers that he cannot count.except Booking can now be made at the be replaced by a more "hard-boil-sory-is carried out during the substance which is also rather upon his fingers.
ed," less elegant performer, Phil-night by special apparatus.
Scientists cannot be considered ippe Catilau, in the falls and pos-
The majority of Berlin's home were ordered to take up the job and at all as stupid men, but at school sibly by Georges Buchard with the less are street beggars or curb the result was that they, too, had several of them were by no means epee, Roger Ducret, France's best vendors who carry their matches suffered and still suffer the same bright. Newton, the propounder bet in the 1924 Olympics, hopes to and shoelaces in a box strapped fate as the coolies. wield the sabre for Frame.
Hotel.
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Per Trip
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By Order of the Board of Directora,.
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 14th December, 1927.
JUST ARRIVED
FEW MORE SETS
OF OLD
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$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.
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NOTICES.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION,
SHIELD COMPETITIONS.
LUBS
In Membership are reminded that Entries for the Shield Competitions CLOSE on January 1st, 1928.
W. E. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Secretary. Į Hong Kong, 30th December, 1927.
THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD.
round the waist. In previous years there
hurtful.
Two amaha and a maid-servant
of the theory of gravitation, usual
ly gravitated towards the lower end
"An Unhappy Year." were nightly squabbles in the home over alleged nightly still there.
The white spots on the floor are of his class, and although Darwin was zealous in subjects which in- pilferings, but now a proper "bag- This is an unlucky year for the terested him, it was the general gage master" has been appointed poor servants! Their fingers have opinion of his masterd that a dull- to take charge of the street mer-to be hurt when they clean the er boy had never entered the school. chants' stock in trade on the cloak room check system.
In hard winters, the home is always full.
GRAVE COMPANY.
LORD MAYOR PROPOSES
ONLY SLOGAN. ··
A grave company assembled at Magdeburg. All the oberburgo- masters of Germany had met in' solemn conclave for their annual congress to discusa. weighty, mat- ters of municipal and political im port. Lord Mayor Boess of Bar- lin was in the chair, surrounded by a bevy of ministers; Chancellor OLDERS of the above-mention- Marx was also present and men of
"SPECIAL” and “FAMILY”- Monthly Tickets.
HOLDERS above-mention-mera than alat
Adenauer. And Dr. Karl Jarres. respectively lord mayors of Cassel, and Duisburg delivered addresses.
that effective January 1st, 1928, Philip Scheidemann, Dr. Conrad such tickets will not be available.
SPECIAL tickets are those which have hitherto been sold at less
The latter created somewhat of than the charge of $5.00 each,
a sensation by his strong advocacy By Order of the Board of Directors, of a German republle "one and
LAM MING FAN,
Indivisible" instead of a federation Secretary adminitratively split up into dif Hong Kong, December 20th, 1927. ferent staten.
STEAMSHIP SERVICE.
MACAO TO TIMOR:
SHE Government of Macko is T: prepared to accept proposals
floors.
On inquiry, we find that most of
Famous Preachers. Preachers who have been dunces the citizens are strongly opposed to include Dr. Chalmers, Adam Clarke, this procedure.
and Henry Ward. Beecher.
Chal-
Buch are the facts, and as news-] papers are meant to express public mers was expelled from his parish opinion, we earnestly hope that the school as a dunce for whom there Sanitary Board' will see "eir way was no hope: kia collected works fill to fulfil the people's exper ation by thirty-four large volumes, and he rectifying the scheme.--Contribut became the Professor of Moral ed.
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CHILDREN AND SWEETS.
Over-indulgence in sweets spells a" disordered stomach in children
and adults alike. In the case of children this may be 'speedily coun-"
Philosophy at St. Andrews and the.. ¦ Professor. ‚ of " Divinity at Edin
burgh. Adam Clarke's father des- cribed him as a "grievous dunce," and this grievous dunce was pre- aldent of the Methodist Conference- three times, and wrote a popular long Commentary on the Bible, and a learned Bibliographical Diction ary of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Oriental: books. Henry Ward Beecher, who preached for forty years, at one church, and whose writings filed volumes, was one of the mightiest of American preach- ers. As a boy, he was a dunce, and every Sunday, when his father set. the children to learn the catechism, young Henry always broke down.
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Then up rose Kard Scharnag), lord mayor of Munich, to uphold Bavaria's opposing claims.
#Gentlemen," he exclaimed, "our teracted by Baby's Own Tablets may be the outcome of a breeze in one and only slogan is and must an absolutely harmless yet super the Berlin theatrical world owing to forever remain SWEDEN |latively." eficient⠀⠀⠀ remedy for
"Drink up and have another, boomed a deep bass voice
for the establishment of a ateam- Then all the grave burgomasters, ship service between MACAO and recalling Scharnagl's hospitality to TIMOR Mayor Walker of New York at Proposals should reach the un- the Munich Hofbrauhaus, forgot dersigned mot later than 17th their dignity. The whole assembly JANUARY, 1929. Particulars may rocked with laughter
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SUNRISE AND SUNSETS
December
a critic's slip-up over the age of stomach and intestinal disorders Fritzl Massary, popular operetta in the very young..
Baby's Own Tablets
diva, who is also well known in the United States. The critic wrote of her recent performances as a very creditable one for an elderly lady who is understood to be 56.--
Now Frital'a Husband, Max Pal- -only remedy Infantile
lenberg, Germany's leading digestion, constipation and colle, but they promptly, check diarrhea, dian, writes an indigi reduce feverishness, Allay teething to the papers saying his wife, is not pains relle [crou]
4 day older than 48, and that be expel worms. Of chemists every regards the critic's utterance as
ar 60 cents the vial, post malicious slander for which its au free from Dr. Williams @ Medicine thor will please consider his "face
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