SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1928.
UNION CHURCH.
SEATHOLDERS' ANNUAL
MEETING.'
. PASTOR'S RETIREMENT.
was
GOLD BARS.
ECHO OF THE RECENT ROBBERY.
ENGINEER IN CUSTODY.
THE CHINA MAIL,
AT POTSDAM. ‹‹ ‹ Shadows 'Before.
THE TRAVELLER SEES THREE OLD BOATS,
A STRANGE TRIO.
محسن
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MAIL.”.
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Low The annual meeting of soat- There was an echo at the Kow- Berlin lies in country of sanders." hulders of Union Church, Kennedy loon Magistracy yesterday of the and heather, firwood and lake. All
To-day-Star Theatre;
The Roar, was held yesterday, Mr. E. B. robbery on board the steam summer through it is crowded with Road To Yesterday." Cubey presiding.
Jaunch "Wo Fat Shing" in Hong tampers and boating parties; but Reference
To-day-World Theatre; "Altars made to the Kong harbour on October 12 with the arrival of winter the boats diminution of sent rents and week-last, when she was seized by are beached and the woods deacrt of Destro."
·ly offerings. The question of aboli- | armed men whilst an her way toled. The silence is broken only by tion of sent rents had been raised the 3.9. "Prominent" - with the hoarse voices, of the tugs taking but it was considered advisable to $32.000 worth of gold ingota con- the barges a stage further on their continue them at any rate for the signed to Saigon. The launch long journoy from South Germany prenant. In regard to the accounts, was eventually beached by the to the sen. the Chairman pointed out that had robbers at North Point and they On the island of Potadam, within it not been for the interest from got away with the gold. investments and' endowments they
CINEMA NOTES.
RAMON NOVARRÓ'S FINE FILM.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY.
Showing for the Inst time at the Queen's Theatre to-day is "Lovers," Ramon Novarro's first film since "Ben-Hur." A ronince of modern Spain, "Lovers" is unique in that It has no conventional villain, the To-day Craigengower Cricket place of the villain being taken by Club's annual Bachelora' Dance: the invisible tongues of scandal February 26-27-Queen's Then- which blight lives and wreck soula, tre; "There You Are."
The plot is developed with rare at 5.15 & 9.20 "Tin Gods"; at 2.30 to another, including a sensational February 26-27-World Theatro; dramatic intensity from one climax sight of the roofs of the empty 2.30 & 7.15, Chinese Drama "The word duck. Alice Terry, leading The man in the dock yesterday yachting cap guards the boats of
woman of "The Four Horsemen," was the Chinese engineer of the his cilenta, in one of his sheds three Romance of a Star."
heads a brilliant supporting cast. It was hoped that some day a more
"Wo Fat Hing," who disappeared upturned keels lie side by side.. remunerative investment would be immediately after the robbery. One is a Bob Roy canoe built at "Elarney.". found for the Endowment Fund. He was charged, on three counts Spandau. The second, a heavy The Kowloon Building Fund still of being an accessory before the white rowing-boat, is sixty years formed part of the accounts and unfact by counselling the commit-old, and first saw service as a plea- the term allowed for the considera-ment of the robbery; of harbour-sure boat on Windermere. The tion of the suggested site for the in three of the victims of the third is lightly built and brightly robbery in a motor car and taking varnished-it was built at Eton by Cherch WAN almet concluded, ster were being taken to deg what them away from the scene of the Dester Warre in 1901,
crime; and of conspiracy, with: is 1x 1D do in the present,
others not in eusterly to steal the virermelanees. Sir Paul's gift was old, the property of the Wo Fat
Shing firm.
would have fared badly last year.
unhampered by any restrictions und therefore it WHE considered al-
The present owner had a boat- house that was too short for the standard boat of the type he want- ed, so he took the advice of an English relative and placed his order at Eton. The beadmaster, a rowing enthusiast, had a desire to Wednestly, the experiment with a specially short
On the application of Sub Inspector Dorling who intimated that the acensed was arrested in Canton last
and was delighted to seem- He
visable that the Pastor's furlough expenses and other necessities of the Church work at Kowloon should be borne by that fund, as is shown Mingistrate remanded the accused heat, in the account.
Reference was made to the im-of the case for Friday afternooned to
in police custody, fixing hearing find a purchaser who peuting retirement of the Rev, 3. next. Kirk Maconuehle and telbauto was paid to him and Mrs. Mavonachie for their work during the past fifteen years.
officers
were
Hon.
ETONIAN TIES.
REDUCED TO A BARGAIN BASIS.
The following elected for the year-Hon. Secro- tarx. Mr. M. F. Key: Tre surer, Mr. H. J. Lamb.
|
London, Jan. 18,
February 26-27-Star Theatre;
wwww...m
WORLD AND STAR
February 28-29-Queen's Thea- tre; "The Side Show of Life." Other pictures showing for the February 28-29-World Theatre; last time to-day are "Altars of De- at 6.15 & 9.20 "The Great Love" at sire" at the World Theatre and 2.30 & 2.15, Chinese Drama. The "The Road to Yesterday" at the Romance of a Star."
Star Theatre. "Altars of Desira" February 28-29-Star Theatre; presents the star of "The Merry "Fascinating Youth."
Widow," Mae Murray, in the story of a wilful society beauty. Conway Tearle is excellent as her leading
February 27-Sixth Dancing dia- play by Miss Violet Capell's Pupils, Queen's Theatre; 5 p.m.
Dancing display is the Pupils of February 29 Star Theatre:
Miss V. Capell, 9.15 p.m.
March 1-5 Queen's Theatre: "The Scarlet Letter."
humour his fad.
March 1-3-World Theatre; "The gave the construction his par- Confession of a Queen." ticular attention, and produced a
March 13-Star Theatre; "In- fine craft just suiting German re-troduce Me."
quirements. It is designed for that March 8-Musicale at Helena
curious combination, two
rowery Bay Institute. and one aculler, and is also adapt- ed for sailing before the wind.
So there they lie, thia strangely assorted trin, in the half-light of
kindlier
Sports.
The Committee of Managenient
To-day-First Extra Race Meet-
fwith the Hon. Secretary and Hon.
An pulvertisement which will the Potsdam boathouse. A fussying, Happy Valley.
March 3--"American" lawn ten- Treasurer netine on iss-officio): surely strike at the foundations little Rob Roy that has never been More E. B. Cuber, N. Guri, A. the old public school spirit out of Prussian waters, a dim white members of the Ladies Recreation nis tourney (mixed doubles) for Calvert, E. I. Barev. a. W. C. With the axe of economy was pub-ghost from the hills of Westmore-Club, 2.30 p.m.
ished yesterday. Bonnar, C. Wilson. P. D. Wilson,
land, and a long, straight kool laid March Paling Hunt steeple CC. Hickling, P.. Siewart, J.
The advertisement ran
to the roder of a huge man with a chases (Spring meeting). "Old Etonians. A marvel-rumbling voice, where a Wattie. Dr. E. Kirke and the Päv.
March G-R. I K. Golf Club ous deonomný. O. E. Tas at 29. river sweeps round another set of Ladies' Section) medal competi- H. R. Wells.
Ladies' Committen.--Mrs. J. Kirkj
61 Sampit tie on receipt of Royalty. One wonders what they tion. postearti." Maznacchie, Mr. C. Wilson, Mrs.)
thought of the time when for four March 11-Sixth extra race meet H. Wilson, Mrs. C. Pryce, considerations into the veneration for, when long trails of barges were
This intrusion of commercialsad years they were left uncareding Macao Race Club. Maic. Mrs. 1. D. Wilson. Mrs. that surrounds all public school the only traffic on the winding Drummond, Airs. Calvert, Mrs. cd boys' ties, especially the O.E. waterways beneath the firwoods. Kirke. Mrs. Fleming. Mrs. Nicol surely another unmistak-Londen Daily News." and Mrs. McNeillie,
telle sign of par degeneration.. Representatives
Those ties-especially that O.E.;
the New
Territories-The Rev. J. Horace te-were things to le bought re- Johnstone. Messrs. E. R. Dovey;gardless of expense. They were H. J. Lamb. D. F. Warren, and rustling creations of the finest, Mrs. C. C. Hackling.
BROADCASTING.
INITIAL Y.M.CA. PROGRAMME LAST NIGHT.
most sumptuous silk. Now they
GREEN EYES.
DID NOT LOOK.
for ship's life boats ("Trevosen" March 1-Ninth bi-annual vace Trophy) starting at p.m.
March 26-R. H. K. Golf Club (Ladies' Section) bogey competi- tion, New Course, Fanling.
msn.
"The Road to Yesterday," produc- Schildkraut. Jetta Goudal and Wil- ed by Cecil B. De Mille with Joseph
with the theory of reincarnation. liam Boyd in the leading roles, denis
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Ice House Street.
Telephone C. 1322.
A railway smash, precipitates the BOORD'S OLD TOM & DRY GINS
principal characters into the past,
where a series of dramatic incidents are depicted as having a vital bear- ing on their present day lives.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
DOUBLE PROGRAMME FOR TUESDAY.
The attraction at the Queen's day of next week, according to a Theatre on Tuesday and Wednes
special advertisement in this issue, will be the screen version of Wil- liam J. Locke's brilliant novel "The Side Show of Life." The leading players are Ernest Torrence and¦ Anna Q. Nilsson. The story begins with Ernest Torrence as an Eng lish clown in a French circus and family who falls in love with him. Anna Q. Nilsson as a lady of high
many changes in the lives of these The coming of war brings about two, the clown rising to the rank of brigadier general. The climax is distinctly unusual and not a Lammert's Auctions.
Httle dramatic. The photography
mansion with its gardens and To-day At Godown No. 18, of scenes of
is excellent; there being a number an English country Ltd., Kowloon, miscellaneous goods, lawns. An additional attraction on Tuesday and Wednesday will be the February 27-At Sales Room; appearance of Miss Chee Toy, a Duddell St, Cameras, Red Seal Chinese singer who has been bill Records, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m. ed" at London and New York February 27-At Sales Room, theatres. Miss Chee Toy will sub- Duddell St... jewellery. 2.30 p.m.
mit popular English and Chinese February 27—At 5, Armend
songs at all performances. Bldg.. Ground Floor). Kimberley Rd., Kowloon, valuable furniture, 11 a.m.
have been ranked as bargain lines MAN KILLED BECAUSE HEHK & K. Whf. & Godown Co. -with common 'gents' natty neck-wear" The Old Etonian is invited to come in on a good thing! And that good thing is
bob!
Identified several days after his darling tic-three for seven his death because his description Gramophone pieces, songs, plano
included the unusual feature of Effect on the Guards. Relos, tapieni news, stories and an The effect of this advertise-green eyes, an inquest was held address by Mr. G. C. Moxoa entitied ment on the Brigade of Guards at Wallasey on Walter Richards "Hong Kong Re-visited" figured in and stockbrokers' offices-institu- (50), a pawnbroker's assistant, of Wright Street, Egremont, who radio programme broadcast yes- tions, particularly, which are terlay under the aegis of the given tone by the presence of Old was knocked down in the street by YALGIA, Entertainment Committee. Etonians is likely to be awful.
la motor-car.
The widow stated that when Reurts of residents. and institu- A new war and a violent fluctua- tions tuning-in to the required wave tion in Consols are both consider her husband left home he said length have not yet all been received as possibilities. It is under-that he might go to London, so ed but the initial attempt appears stood further that an Old Harre she did not make inquiries for to have met with a fair measure of vian in a heavy cavalry regiment three days. Then she read his
intends to ask the next Foot description in a newspaper.
A witness, who saw Richards Guards Old Etorrian officer he
was crossing the tramlines very
Success..
SPURIOUS NOTES.
SERIES OF FORGERIES IN CIRCULATION.
de p
Closed Imitations of an old issue of $5 notes by the Hong Kong office of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation are in circula. tion.
household
Duddell Street, Silver and plated February 27-At Sales Room, ware, 2.30 p.m.
February 28--At 25 Humphreys
Bldg., Hanoi Rd., Kowloon, house- hold furniture, 2.45 p.m.
NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
No that
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. the THIRTY-NINTH February 29-At Sales Room, ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Duddell St., provisions, wires etc., will be held at the Company's
Hughes & Hough's Auction.
Offices, P. O. Building, on FRIDAY,
meets if he can put him on a seralight from a. tramcar, said he etc., 10 a.m. viceable line in cheap underwear slowly with his head down, when March 1-At Anction Room. Ice 16th March, 1928, at 12 Noon, for
The most terrible consequence,
motor-car, coming from the House Street, valuable leasehold however, is that many worthy direction of people who have no connection
New Brighton, property situate in Peak District,
He had p;m.
with Eten will splicit a sample tie knocked him down. with a postcard. They will then Plenty of time to get out of the buy three ties for sever. shillings, way. and wear them for years.
H
The Coroner said that, speak-
Meetings.
To-day-Ordinary yearly meeting
the purpose of presenting the Re port of the Directors together with A Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1927, and electing Direc tors and Auditors.
The Register of Members of the Company will be CLOSED from It is anticipated that the only ing as a motorist, he considered These bear the 1909 date, and way of boirig taken for an Old that pedestrians as a rule did not of shareholders in the Hong Kong &-3rd March, 1928 to 16th March, the facsimiles of signatures of Mr. Etonian in the near future will be take the care they ought to Shanghal Corporation, at City Hall, 1928, both days inclusive, during
take in crossing a road. Many of noon. J. R. M. Smith (Chief Manager) to wear no tie at all.
and Mr. W. C. Cowan (Chief Accountant). The numbers which
have come to light range between
A111,000 and A166,000. Colours
NOVEL BARRED.
which period no Transfer them when they saw a motor-car February 27-The Hong Kong Shares can be registered. coming deliberately walked in Tramways Limited, hold yearly front of it, and it was only due to meeting at Messrs. Jardine's offices the alertness of the driver and to at noon. his good brakes that he was en-
are deeper than in the genuine FAMOUS AUTHOR NOT TO BE abled to avoid an accident.
"feel" of the paper is inferior. The
notes, especially at the back. The
letter "A" prefixed to the number
in the spurious notes is not in correct alignment.
READ.
February 29-Forty-first annual meeting of the H.K, & K. Wht, & The jury found that death was Godown Co., Ltd., Mesara Jardine's, accidentally caused, and that no noon. blame attached to the driver of
Paris, Jan. 18. Astonishment has been caused the carg
in Paris by the announcement] *: that, on advice from the Vatican,]
MOSCOW WIRELESS. Roman Catholics in France are
STALIN BROADCASTS IN
PERSON. A
forbidden to read the works of
M. Marcel Prevost, the famous novelist, and dramatist.
This action has been taken by Stockholm, Jan. 12. a vigilance committee, of which For some time ast Swedish, the Archbishop of Paris is pre- Danish, and Norwegian wireless sident.
One of the banned books is M. Prevost's recent novel, Retraite Ardente.” bow
listeners, when searching for sta tions, have frequently heard violent
"LOVERS."
FINE FILM AT QUEEN'S
THEATREST
"LOVEID,
of
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBE, LIVINGSTON,
& CO., LTD.. Agents.. Hong Kong, 24th Feb., 1928..
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
March 10 Thirty-second yearly meeting of shareholders in the Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.,.2, Lower Albert Rönd, noon.
March 16-Thirty-ninth, general meeting, of the H.K. Electric & Co., Auction { Ltd. Company's offices,' P. & 0, m. 29
Bldg., noon.
Miscellaneous.
and Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall exter
ON
WEDNESDAY,
the 29th February, 1928, commencing at 10 am.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street, A Large Quantity of PROVISIONS, WINES And MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
+
*
***
(to be sold in small, lets, to suit purchasers).. and...
a Swedish wireless expert has dfs many books could be classified as it most aptly defines that wretchedtain Sit Miles Lampson, K.C.M.G 50 Brasa. Hanging Lamps with
Glass Chimneys and Shades
4 Cases Clocks
14 Cases Printing Inks
4 Rolls Diamond-shape Wire
25 Netting" (50' x 4')
starring Ramon Nevarro, is showing at the Queen's To-night-Old Haileyburians d'a- Theatre to-day for the last time, Itner at Hong Kong Hotel...
[* February 27- Presentation to in based on the well-known and sue- Soviet propaganda in Danish, Eng. Prevost, when asked to cessful stage play," The World and Commander G. B. Hartford, F.N., at Hsh, Swedish, and Esperanto,
Hotel Savoy, 5 pm A floating station on board shio comment on the action of the vixi. His Wife."* An appropriate sub- February 28-Bir Shou-son Chow in the Baitle was suspected, but now lance committee, replied: "How title for it would be "Gossip" For -covered that the messages are sent "good books" in the sense that partime and its evil consequences.
in Chinese Merchants Club. out from Moscow and Petrograd.
they were fit for everybody to Ramon Novarro takes the part of
February 29 Mrs. Russall- a young Spanish diplomat who is be- The wave lengths are 450 and
read ?".:
A B.U.P. message states that friended by an elder member of Brown distributes prizes and certi 1,450 metres. Two days ago there the worke have not been put on the Service and a potential. Minis-cates at the Diocesan Girls' were for fifteen minutes violently the Index. Expurgatorious, but erat Washington. This Ambas- School, Kowloon, 6p.m... rabid speeches delivered by Stalin have been placed under an inferendor to be has a young and pretty bers of St. David's Society, Lane, Marah 1-Annual dinner of mem- himself and many others concern: dict on the ground that they wife and the smart set, of Madrid Crawford's Restaurant, 8 n.m... ing the departations of members of constitute a danger to the faith are soon engaged in coupling her the Opposition and glorifying the
burch-E the Governor Sovlat regime.
ful."
pour att same with the youngster. There is formally opens King's College, The Soviet Minister here admits the evil done by the banned works consequences are as terrible as they March Distribution of prizes
The official statement says that no truth in their wild talk, but the Bonham Rd 3 pm/q q that there is broadcasting from is aggravated by the fact that would have been if every word was at St. Paul's Institute, Causeway Moscow and Petrograd, but alleges they mix a false mysticism by fair instead of false. The picture Bay, by Lady Clementi, 4 pman that everything is "above-board, combining immodest love with a gives an opportunity for the dis March Annual Inspection of which is contradicted by the fact and of piety towards God, mak, play of nome" splendid swordman- St. John Ambulance Brigade by H.E.AVATAMMERT BROS, that all the messages are of a ing a morbid sensuality pasa un-shif and 15 altogeth strictly propagandist character, der cover of the things of God."
well up to The Governor Murray Parade standa wall Bed Sbria to dand
the
Cases Crown Corks
1 Bag Bolts and Nuta
1 Case Hymn Books
Case Crowl Cork Re-sealers
2 Packages Personal Effects
1 Case "Syd" Glans Holders
Case Canned Sardines 2 Cases Cigarette Boxes.""" TermaCash on delivery."
pikkewyzwAuctioneers Hong Kong, 24th:Fob2a928.
3 Cases Flavouring Essences
'Cat on Barrel' Brand
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