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NOTICES.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING, 1928.
13th, 14th, 15th and 18th February.
THE CHINA MAIL,
BAR AND BENCH. THE COMMON COLD.
HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED,
£40,000 OFFERED FOR A CURE,
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
FINGER PRINTS.
NEW THREAT TO CRIMINALS:
BRIDE FROM U. S.
THE EX-MAHARAJA OF
INJORE,
YOUNG AMERICAN.
BombayThe ex-Maharaja of
FIVE YEARS' RESEARCH.
STRIKING ADVANCE.
It is a curious proof of the un- New York.-Recognition of the just been made in the fingerprint Indore has been been preceded on
Paris. A striking advance has The First Race on each day will conscious reverence the people of baleful effects of the "common identification system. be run at 12 o'clock noon. Hong Kong, 8th February, 1928. first bell will be rung at 11.80 am. Judges of to-day, though as learn- given in the establishment of a Dr. Edmond Locard, director of
England pay to money that the cold" upon man's physique is The great French criminologist, Miss Miller, a young American his return Journey to India by
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
give instructions in Fencing (Falls NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
and Sword). Please apply, stating terms to: M. Bonenfant, P.O. Box 16.
WANTED.-Partner or Compra- dore to put up $2,000 cash for pay-
c/o "China Mail,"
WANTED PAYING GUESTS.
French Family like to take Pay-
ing Guests. Comfortable house, well sitanted, Hong Kong side. Apply Box No. 527, c/o "China
Mail."
TO LET.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
each day.
MEMBERS BADGES.
The
ed and as reputable as the Judges fund of £40,000 to permit the the police technical laboratory at Woman, whom, it is announced, of a hundred years ago, are not Johns Hopkins University and Lyons, has demonstrated that by a he proposes to marry in Indore are now ready and may be obtain-as were their predecessors.
Members' Badges of Admission received with the same prostration the Johns Hopkins Hospital at new method called "Foroscopy" a shortly. The prospective bride is The Baltimore to make a five-year person can now be positively iden-24 years of age, dark and vivaci- ed by those members who have not explanation is that £5,000 a year study of the causes and conse-tified, not only by a fingerprint, ona. The Maharaja met her in Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Build-income, whereas to-day it is no Francis Garvin president of the discovered that there are already received thom, from Messrs. In those days was a very splendid quences of this malady. Mr. but by a tiny fragment of a print, the course of his visit to America, The famous criminologist has and she arrived-at-Bombay in an more Italian-boat in the charge of Chemical Foundation, makes the than 2,000 pores on the end of a Abdul Rashid, the private secre A Judge of the High Court in gift in the name of Dr. John man's finger. They can all be tary, who has accompanied the the time of George III, was a very Abel, professor of pharmacology checked, charted, and counted on a Maharaja on his travels. She is majestic figure in Society; he may at Johns Hopkins, who "perhaps microphotograph. Every one of proceeding to Indore, and will ed on circult from county to county more than any other living scien- these pores has a different shape there join the Maharaja, who is with pomp and circumstance almost tist to-day exemplifies the bene and a different position in relation
inga.
:
of
such matter.
Members are reminded that these Not the THIRTIETH OR Badges will also admit them to all DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Extra Race Meetings of this this Company will be held at the year.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Office of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY, Members have the privilege ing business. Apply Box No. 528, the 16th February, 1928, at 12.30 | introducing two non-raembers to the regal, in chariots with four horses ficial application of the science of to other pores, and the microphoto returning to India by way of
p.m., for the purpose of receiving | Mombers' Enclosure.
and pestillons, surrounded by a chemistry to medical problems"graphs of two fingers are as differ- Colombo, the Report of the Directors to A limited number of tickets are bodyguard of Javelin men, and his
Commenting on
the gift, Dr.ent as the maps of Africa and It is announced that Miss Miller gether with a Statement of Ac-available and may be obtained from entrance into a city was calculated Abel declared that colds and their Asia. The shape of the pores is will accept the Hindu faith and December, 1927, and if thought fit dra Buildings, on or before SATUR-titude. counts for the year ended 31st Messrs. Linstond & Davis, Alexa to strike awe into the gaping mul consequences were the most im never changed by acid, growth, or that, the marriage will be solemn to sanction, the payment to the DAY, 11th February, 1928, at a cost pitality from any human being but ment of efficiency and loss of
Too great to accept hos portant general causes of impair anything else.
Ised in accordance with Hindu rites. The American Consul saw Directors of the yearly sum of of $10 each per day or $80 for the the Lord Bishop of the diocese, he comfort and well-being, and often Ridges and Valleys. $1,000.00 as an annual bonus in Meeting.
the girl at Bombay, and in the addition to the yearly aum of
condescended to grace the episcopal precede a pneumonia epidemic, In addition to the pores, the is course of a protracted interview $1,000.00: payable to them under The charge for admission for palace at a stately dinner attired influenza, and infections of the lands, ridges, and valleye on a fa- explained the seriousness of the paragraph 96 of the Company's Ladies' to the Members Enclosure in knee breeches. black gown and throat and head. Every year sta- gerprint car be charted in the step which she proposes to take. Articles of Association as from the will be $4 per day. Each member wig, where he took precedence of tistics showed that colds tempor same way, and the differences be- Miss Miller was, however, ob- 1st January, 1928. The purpose
can obtain upon application to the every possible guest, were he a arily disabled four out of ten men tween two prints, thereby increas- durate. She is apparently much of this is to make effective the Secretary, badges for the admission Duke or a Lord Lieutenant, or a and seven out of ten women, and ed thousands of times.
attracted by the Maharaja, in following resolution passed at the of two Ladies' free of charge. On High Sheriff, writes the Hon. the discovery of dependable A tenth or even a twentieth part spite of the fact that he has two Annual Meeting of the Company so pretext will children bo permit- Stephen Coleridge in the "Morning methods of their prevention and of a print is now quite sufficient wives already and of the Mumtaz held on 28th January, 1927-"That tod in either enclosure during the the Directors' remuneration be in- first three days racing.
Post."
cure will mean the elimination of to decide if it was left by a cer- Begum affair, which cost him his creased from $1,000.00 per annum
Gradually these august
considerable economie loss to the tain person.
throne. "I have already secured a dozen monies have yielded to the chang- country.
| convictions by the use of this new
The marriage was apparently Judges can be, on occasion, observ- ing spirit of modern times, and
evatem," Dr. Locard explained, arranged in America before the adding that otherwise the criminals | Maharaja's departure for Swit- zerland, and Abdul Rashid was "For example, we were called in left behind to arrange the details to, Investigate. a burglary in an of travelling. The date of the apartment in the Rue Centrale, at marriage is at present uncertain, Lyons, several years ago, and the as the Maharaja is first going on only traces we found were some a pilgrimage. fragmentary fingerprints on A rosewood chest of drawers.
TO LET.-Large double airy
room with bathroom and verandah
attached., Suitable for two or three bachelors or married couple. Ex- cellent cuisine and good attendants. Terms moderate. Apply Box No. 529, c/o China Mail."
FOR SALE.
SALE-One brass "Hung FOR Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, c/o "China Mail.”
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions—
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, 16th February, 1928, commencing at 11 a.m.
at their Salea Room, Duddell Street.
5 Packages Old Clothes
198 Tins Coloured Paint
2 Cases Cigarette Boxes
AND
A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers Hong Kong, 13th February, 1928.
Having Returned from Japan MRS. INAGUCHI
MASSEUSE
HAS RESUMED PRACTICE AT ASHLEY ROAD, KOWLOON. Telephone K. '754.
to $2,000.00 per annum."
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. Tickets of Admission
to the
By Order of the Board of $1 per day.
Directors, F. H. CRAPNELL,
Hong Kong, 30th January, 1928.
Secretary-
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI ·
BANKING CORPORATION.
cere-
RENT AT SIXPENCE 'A YEAR.
Mumtaz Begum was a dancing
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of Public Enclosure, price $8 per day the Company will be CLOSED for all persons including Ladies, soned entering their assize town trudg- 2,999 YEARS' LEASE. would have gone free. from MONDAY, the 6th February, be purchased from Messrs. Kelly & 1928 to THURSDAY, the 16th Walsh, Ltd., or at the Gate.
ing on foot in the voluminous February, 1928, both days in-
Soldiers and Sailors' in uniform habiliments of the golf course, and clusive.
admitted to the Publie Enclosure at subsequently dining as guests of a law society composed of solicitors! Admission by ticket only.
Thus they have acquiesced in an A land lease covering a period Bookmakers, Tic Tau men, etc., England "made safe for demo- of 2,999 years, at an annual rental will not be permitted to operate cracy." Their outward magnifi-of 6d. was referred to at a meeting "We compared them with the girl who fled from the Maharaja's within the precincts of the Hong cence has disappeared, and their of the Woking Urban District records in the Surete Generale, and palace and took refuge in the Kong Jockey Club during the Race salary, reduced by confiscatory Council. It was stated that a they were sufficiently identical house of a rich Indian merchant Meeting.
taxes to little more than £3,000 a piece of land which a resident has with the official prints of two pro named Bawla. Shortly after- SERVANTS PASSES.
year, renders them an object rather agreed to throw into the highway and Simonin to convince us that an attempt was being made to fessional burglars named Boudat wards Mr. Bawla was killed while Passes for Servants will be issued of compassion than of adulation in for an improvement at Horsell, these two men had committed the kidnap the girl. Some of the on application to Mosers. Linstead a world where auch an Income Surrey,, is held under a lease burglary. We arrested them, but Maharaja's officials were atated & Davis, Alexandra Buildings, carries with it no distinction. An-granted in the reign of James 1. they absolutely denied any know-to
Employers are requested to dis other consideration that has de-and dated March 29, 1610, for "a ledge of the crime. There was no affair, and the Maharaja, rather have been involved in the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tribute them with discrimination. pressed the splendour of the Bench period of two thousand nine hun- other proof against them.
that the ORDINARY YEAR- and to endorse their names on the is the enormous Increase in the dred and four score and nineteen had plausible alibis. LY MEETING of the SHARE-ACB.
fees paid to counsel. A popular years at a yearly rental of six- HOLDERS in this Corporation will Bervants are not permitted in the advocate may now in a week receive pense." be held at City Hall, Hong Kong, Mambers Enclosure except for pass more than the Judge, before whom on SATURDAY, the 25th February, ing through on their duties, but
Solicitors for the owner stated 1928, at Noon, for the purpose of must remain in their employers receiving the Report of the Court stands. of Directors together with a State- Any persons found loitering, about ment of Accounts for the year with Servants Passen in their pos: session will forfeit the same and will be removed from the enclosure
By Order,
N
ending 31st December, 1927,
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 13th February to SATURDAY the 25th February, 1928 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered..
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. C. HYNES.
Chief Manager.
955 Pores.
Both
than face a commission of inquiry,
gave up his throne and went to the United States.
he appears, receives for his whole that no rent had been paid, and "Although the staff of the police year's labour. It is impossible to their client did not know the pro-technical laboratory found the Prevent this discrepancy of reward perty was leasehold until he paid prints were the same, this had to from rendering the position of the off the mortgage recently. A deed be demonstrated to a jury. Judge rather undignified by con- of enlargement converting the long "We therefore made a micro- trast.
term of years into a fee-simple. In photograph of one of the prints 1931 ia to be executed, so that the found on the chest of drawers and I have myself been on terms of land can be thrown into the high-checked and charted 155 pores, as
Notable Changes..
Secretary, friendship with a very large num-way and the improvement carried well as all the islands, ridges, and | Herefordshire "coroner who fa 79,
C. B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 30th January, 1028.
CORONER AGED 79.
Alderman E. L. Walla, the South valleys. We also mida a micro photograph of the portion of scaled Orcop Ridge, 15 miles from Boudet's left middle finger that Hereford, in a blinding snowstorm had made the print on the piece on hifa way to hold an inquest on of furniture, and we checked and an aged man, Joseph Smith, who charted the same 955 pores, died in the hamlet of Chapel Cross
"Simonin, the other burglar, had
He reached a village at the foot left an impression of the palm of of the ridge with comparative nasa, .
Hong Kong, 6th February, 1928. ENTRY FORMS, for theferably rude to the counsel, help-It is reported of Disraeli as one his left hand on the furniture, and but the ascent to the next village
FANLING
E
HUNT
STEEPLECHASES.
SPRING MEETING..
Saturday, 3rd March, 1928.
INTRY FORMS to be returned to Dr. F. PIERCE GROVE, Alexandra' Building. BEFORE NOON, Monday, 20th February.
Hong Kong. 13th February 1928.
a
this was enlarged and compared was either between 10. ft. walls of
way.
ber of Judges, and can testify to out. the great improvement in their courtesy and kindliness in the ful- filment of their duties that has HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. happened in the last fifty years. grown up a far kindlier spirit and In the Seventies of the last cen- far gentler courtesy among the RAFT PROGRAMMES and tury Judges were frequently insuf occupants of the Bench.
of his aphorisms that he remarked "Dressed in a less before them. FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on Saturday, 25th little brief authority" they did in- that a great lawyer can never be with his official print in the sathe snow or over great snowdrifts. As
great man February, 1928 (weather permit deed "play fantastic tricks before
"I went before the jury with this he climbed higher the difficulties in ting), may be obtained at the Race high Heaven"? But in these days The imperative claims of the pro evidence, comparing pors for more, creased, but at length, five minutes Course, Hong Kong Club, and it is quite unusual for a Judge to fession upon the entire time and and both men were condemned to abead of the time fixed for the in- Causeway Bay Stables.
forget that he was once down in energy of a successful barrister five years' bard labour."
quest, he 'reached' his destination. Entries will close at 12 o'clock the counsel's scate, and to diaplay have an almost irresistible tendency Noon on MONDAY, 20th February, personal unkindness to anyone who to ahut out from his life during
appears before him,
many years all other fields of men- He has no time to Hong Kong, 8th February, 1928. The Judges of the Seventies were tal culture.
hard-hearted set of men, with a store his mind and heart with the few notable exceptions. I have sublimities of literature, or seen a poor man sentenced to penal sweet, influences of the arts. His servitude for stealing a loaf of days and nights are filled to the bread. I have sean poor boys given last limit of available time with the nive monthe hard labour for steal-preparation for, and absorption in ing a breakfast, when there was one contest after another, some So times of a rather squalid nature, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN none in their desolate home.
that I can safely assert that with and if he finally reaches the Bench, that the ANNUAL GENERAL the decay of the splendoar and the the habits of his life and the bent Chinese Herbalist, the founder and 1818, we took the boy to the Foo On Association will be held in the Pompous surroundings there has of his mind are commonly too fixed Yee Foo Lun has had practical experi-Ho took the herbs a little bit over a
1928.
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE.
ASSOCIATION.
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NOTICE OF MEETING.
| MEETING of the Members of this
MACAO RACE CLUB.
Oleo of Messrs. Jardine. Mathe- RAFT PROGRAMMES and En- son & Co., Ltd. on WEDNESDAY,
EXTRA RACE MEETING to be to pass and adopt the Accounts for held on SUNDAY, 4th March, 1928, the year ending 31st December, can be obtained upon application 1927, and to elect Officers, etc. to The International Race & Re- creation Club of Macao, Ltd., Hong Kong Jockey Club and Causeway Bay Stables, Hong Kong.
Entries will CLOSE on FRIDAY, 24th February, 1928, at 3 p.m.
Hong Kong, 18th February 1928.
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD ORIGINAL
CHEFOO STAMPS
UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS
$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.
must be sent with urder to Box No
9/o "China Mal".
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
.
the
WONDERFUL CURES BY CHINESE HERBS.
Mr. Yee Foo Lun Now in Hong Kong.
The Poo On Chinese Herb Co., of Httle time at school, until some par- Modesto, California, U.S.A. is new ticular friends of ours told us of Poo ready for business. Mr. Yee Foo Lun On Chinese Herba On February 0, managing director is in charge. Mr. Herb Co, and obtained some herbs. and formed to afford him any ence for over twenty five years." month and this eye was completely very lively desire to explore fresh How Chinese Herbs have been used cured. Since then he has never had fields of self cultivation even if his to care thousands of sick persons in bit of trouble and besides his head- natural vitality, and energy are not America, making him famous by the ache and catarrh in the head were special treatments which he designed, also eurod, We haven't spent say fully exhausted by the arduous He has brought with him thousands money for anything in the way of labours of the Bench
of testimonials that he has published medicine for him sincs. He has en- And when, after another fifteen in the United States. The following Joyed better health than any time in tantimonials were pablished in the his whole life. Now he is going to or twenty years, he retires into pri "Modesto Evening NewsMarch 21. school and making up for all the time. vate life, rest and the indulgence of 1922,
of lost. some hobby are often all that his
Mr.Antone Eno's, resident at
Wife cured of Rheumatism tired old age permit him..
and Heart Trouble. Hughson Stanislous 'County California since 1906, route My wife was suffering with rheumi- tism, heart trouble, and obesity. She 1-box 24, says:
had suffered a long while, but after she "Several members of my family took took the Poo On Chinese Herbs she be held on MONDAY, the 20th day lofty Sights of eloquence which the Poo On Chinese Herbs and cer-
fine. myself caught a cold a few days of February, 1928, at 3 p.m., at the adorned the advocates of the Victainly received wonderful results." Office of the Public Works Depart-torian age. Many of the professionMy boy, Joseph, had had trouble with 80 I had aches, pains, headache and his eyes since he was baby three just felt miserable. I took two herb ment, by Order of His Excellency in those days made memorable weeks old. He caught a severe THE NINTH BI-ANNUAL RACE the Governor of ane Lot of Crown speeches that were worthy of pre-and it settled in his right eye. It was all Poo On Herb Co. and was
By Order,
G. E. S. UPSDELL
Hong Kong, Feb. 18, 1927..
G.
Hon. Secretary.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
A Memorable Speech. For some reason, which entirely escapes me, the barristers of to-day
ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT of the Sale by Public Auction to the mice erorts to rise to the
CLUB
“TREVE:SA" TROPHY..
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cold
E
Felt
teas from
„Thousands suffering from catarr),
for Ships Lifeboats will be Land at Shamshulpo in the Colony, servation. They aspired to be ora- very watery, red and inflamed bronchial trouble, thront trouble, sailed on WEDNESDAY, the 14th of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 tors, as well as advocates, and many We had treated him for all these athma hay fever, malaria, stomach March next, starting at 4 p.m. Vears, commencing from 1st July greatly succeeded. The finest of all years with are specialists, physicians, trouble, indigestion, constipation, gas-
Each ship may enter any num- 1898 with the option of renewal of them
and everything. people foco
focommended, tritis, pies, datula, heart disease, zidn that I ever heard was ber of boats.KA
"At times his eye was so bad he had | disease, eczema, "scrofula, nervousness. at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Charles Russell, afterwards Chief to go to a dark room and stay there insomnia, obesity kidney and bladder Course: Start from Channel Surveyor of His Majesty the King. Justice, and the greatest of his for hours because he could not see in trouble, diabetes, rheumatism, neural- Rocka, thence to Kowloon Rock for one further term of 24 years speeches was without doubt that the light and it hurt him, so bad he gin, dropsy, hvorrhez, epileptic its, (P) Mark off Yacht Club (8), Cust less three days, h
which he delivered at the conclu to go to school, he was phable to redesiness, headaches, and many other had to cry when he was old enough paralysis, tumors, altera, pimples, alon of the Farnell Commission; is because of the strain to his eye, and ebrorile diseases, have bem restored ty the last flight of that speech he could not stand it. It caused a ter health, and happiness, without poison- rose to a level of majesty, and of rible headache. Up to the lindy hellomaragdder the knit, by the Foo Un profound emotion that overwhelm-weight he could caly put in a Chinese Herbs,
Rock Gas, Buoy (P), finish at the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. Yacht Club across the line from|2 West to East d
Competing Boats must be at the starting line by 8.80 p.m. and place themselves - under the Starter's orders so that they can be lined up before the gun is fred.
Ships proposing to enter boats aro, requested to notify the Hon. Becretary, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Clüb, not later than noon, on the 14th, March-AS LAMARAN
CAR J. VERNALL Hon Secretary, HERY.C Hong Kong, 18th February, 1928,
New Kowloon Talend
Mourtne
The
ed all who heard it. It was a dark
and gloomy day, but when the ora
The above,
Lestimonial
serenonly a few of many thousands
tor finished his!/Vinal beautiful „THE POO ON CHINESE HERB 00.
tribute to the land d of his birtha (upine podpore Sofyan ATA BERNAT DETOMA
Yee Foo Lun, Chinese Herbalist, Managing Director.
AST
and, with lifted arms, made his last appeal, a alaft of light shone down, upon him as though in benediction, and ha, sank back into his seat trambling but triumphant, with the glowing a conviction, that he had welendidly achieved,azmat-vindicazi zet
tion.
MAIN OFFICE, MODESTO CALIFORNIA. ali je van de Hong Kong Office 62A, 1st Floor Queen's Road Central
Bildirgintrapes at-66. Queen's Bead Central.
office hours daily 9am-12 pm. 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sum-
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