WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928.
Phone C. 22
FOR
CLASSIFIED · ADVERTISING
Twenty-five Words three inser-
tional word four cents for three insertions.
WANTED.
WANTED · IMMEDIATELY. — A Chinese shroff, must have slight knowledge in English. A security of $300 required. State salary wanted. Apply Box No. 540, c/o "China Mall."
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
• AND RURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions
Auction
ON FRIDAY, the 30th March, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street, A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Silver
FURNITURE.
Comprising:-
Book
NOTICES.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
{THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
pany.
By Order of the Board.
R. M. DYER,
CATHOLIC MISSION..
NOTICE.
NOTICES.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC ́COMPANY, LIMITED.
that a further 'EXTRA-
OLD-TIME LAMPS.
THEIR PROPER PLACE IN RITUAL.
SLOW. EVOLUTION.
J
POLICE RESERVE.
THE GOVERNOR'S INSPECTION POSTPONED.
TRACTICE PARADES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DURING the Absen. L. HOSIE. De of the Company will be held rather than the practical endea- Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.,
from the ORDINARY GENERAL MEET instinct for playing with
It was no doubt the human Hong Kong Police reserve. fire orders Issued on March 27 by the tions prepaid $1. Every addi, instructions to sell by Public will act as Secretary of this Com- the Colony of Hong Kong at 12.80 ation that first led to the devising are as follow:
THE Undersigned have received Mr.. DAVID GRIMMOND GOW at P. & O. Building, Victoria, in\vour to accure a means of Illumin-Captain 'Superintendent of Poller[ o'clock in the afternnon on MON-by primitive man of a utensil The Inspection by H. E. the DAY, the Second day of April, which should enable him to main-Governor which was previously 1928, for the purpose of consider- tain in being the fascinating fixed for March 28. is postponed to Chief Manager, ing and, if thought fit, confirming sparks produced by the rubbing April 17, 1928. Hong Kong. 28th March, 1928. the following Resolution passed as together of two highly resistant
an Extraordinary Resolution on
Practice Parade. surfaces. 'the 16th day of March, 1928 as a
All members of the Chinese, Having made the discovery Indian, and Sharpshooters' Com- ¡Special Resolution:-
that fats and oil are capable of panies will attend practice parade "That the capital of the Company ready ignition in conjunction with on Central Police Station
"be increased from its pre-a length of plaited pith, the next poud on Wednesdays, April 4 and Com- "sent capital of $3,000,000 step was to hollow out a ground 11. Fall in at 4 a.m. sharp. "(Hong Kong Currency) or large nutshell to act as contain- Dress-Uniform, Helmet, Belt. "divided into 300,000 shares er. Such materials being of
Flying Squad. "of $10 each, to $6,000,000 small durability, a further stage The next weekly Instructional “{Hong Kong Currency) was reached in the potting of patrol of the Hong Kong section "divided into 600,000 shares vessels of baked clayed in a simi- on Thursday, March 29, will start "of $10 each and that such lar form, which evolved ere long from Central Police Station at 5.15 "additional shares shall rank into an elliptical shape, ending in p.m. sharp. All members are to "in all respects pari paasu a lip or spout for the readier pour-Jattend. "with the original capital of ing of the oil. Later came the Sharpshooters' Company. "the Company."
covered-in top, an improvement Open Revolver Competition AND NOTICE IS HEREBY in so far as it reduced the ease The annual rifle meeting of the Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Mattresses, Teak Wardrobes with
FURTHER GIVEN that a fur-with which the oil might be split, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence and without
Extraordinary General and still later arrived the handle Corps to be held on Sunday, April Mirror, Dreasing Tables, Chest of Drawers, Marble
Meeting of the Company will at the end opposite to the spout, a and Monday, April 9, includes an and Tiled Top Washstands, Side DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., be held at the same place on conferring upon the lamp the ad-open Revolver Competition for Tables, Shaving Stands, Chamber)
MONDAY, the Second day of vantage of portability. And so which members of the Sharp- April, 1928, at 12.40 o'clock in we get the classic lamps of an-shooters' Company Stands, etc., etc.
the afternoon or so soon there- cient Greece and of Italy, forms Firing may be carried out on the have terminated for the purpose constther than in the pottery ed entries are permitted at a cost after as the above Meating shall that are still in everyday use range at Stonecutters at any time among the peasantry, though in on the above two days. Unlimit-
TO LET.
TO LET.-Fully furnished, with servants for six months from 1st June, No. 191 The Peak, Mount Kellett, 5-roomed concrete house. All modern conveniences, Rain proof. Would consider let from lat! May Apply:-Hastings, Dennys & Bowley, No. 8, Des Voeux Road Central.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.--One 35 hp, twin cylinder Gas Engine, with gas pro- ducor, complete. One 25 k.w. three wire 460/230 V., D.C., gen- erator, with switchboard complete. One 19 hp. Gas engine, with gas- producer, complete. One 10 k.w. 220 V., D.C., generator, with switchboard complete. For fur- ther particulars, address: Stout Memorial Hospital, Wuchow, Kwangsi, South China.
FOR SALE.-One, brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 497, c/o "China Mail."
MISCELLANEOUS.
Telephone Central 22.
from
Cabinets, Docks, Cupboards, Filing Stands, Hat MISSION will be given in the Stand with Mirror, Clothes Hang-
Catholic Cathedral ers, Chesterfield Armchairs, Car-THURSDAY, the 29th inst. to pets, Rugs, Pictures, Ornaments, WEDNESDAY, the 4th of April. etc., etc.
There will be, ench day a special Teak Dining Tables, Dining Sermon preached by the Rev. G. Chairs, Sideboards with Mirrors, Byrne, S.J., at 6 p.m., followed by Dinner Waggon, Teak Ice Chest, Benediction. Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, Cut- lery, etc., etc.
Also
A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture
* And One Royal Typewriter. One Typewriter.
Seven Enamelled Baths. Two Victor Gramophones. One Gramophone,
Two White Frost Refrigerators. Catalogues will be issued. One View from Thursday, the 29th March, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 27th March, 1928.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
All, especially Catholics, are cor-* dially invited to attend.
Hong Kong, 26th March, 1928.
LIMITED.
THE ORDINARY GENERAL T MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Build-'
| April, 1928, at 11 a.m.
ther
may cnter.
of considering and, if thought fit, ing, on MONDAY, the 2nd of passing the following Resolutions, of their ancestry, forms that be- of twenty cents per entry. Any cause of their exquisite grace and type of revolver or automatic may namely:-
beautiful adaptation to purpose be used and competitors provide "That the Directors be, and still survive among the decorative their "they are hereby, authorised to fitments of wealthy homes.. "capitalise the sum of $1,500,- | "000 profits of the Company "standing to the credit of the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of 1. the Company will be CLOSED from the 29th of March to 2nd of April, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers.. Hong Kong, March 21, 1928.
THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.
No that
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL: MEETING of Shareholders of the Company will be held at the Head Office, No. 6, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong, on WEDNES- DAY, the 4th, April, 1928, at 2.30 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors to- The following Unclaimed Teld (gether with a Statement of Ac- grams are lying in the E. Ecounts for the year ending 31st
THE EASTERN. EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA
TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly And promptly printed.--"China Mail" Office, No. 3a, Wyndham St., Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- December, 1927.
Nipshameving R. Dickson Co., The TRANSFER BOOKS of the from San Salvador.
Company will be .CLOSED from Atkinson, Hong Kong Hotel, from Bangkok.
HOME TUITION,
WESTOVER
STEVENAGE.)
Schroeder, from Amsterdam. Within an hour from London. I Morren, Steamship "Kwong Fook In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL Cheung," Engineers Institute, Con-
for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A naught-road, from London.
few Boarders received in the House .Near Peninsula Hotel, from
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of the Principal: Individual care Toronto, Ont. and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
HONGKONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors
the following list of some of the
highest points on the Island and
Mainland is published:-
Island.
Vivy Williams, Sailors' Institute, from Singapore Sub
Fansay, from Badalona. O'Brien, Victoria Recreation Club, from Singapore Sub.
the 20th March, 1928, to the 4th April, 1928 (both days Inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board,
LOOK POONG-SHAN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 19th March, 1928.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE
M. H. Pearson c/o Savoy Hotel, N
COMPANY, LIMITED.
2.
"the
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Dated the 26th day of March 1928, By Order of the Board, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
חצים
Lamps For Safety.
are
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's Building.
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
seen in
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Ground Floor. Opposite Ferry Wharf, Tel. 1030 Central.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras, Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO
Tel. No. C. 3439.
26A, Des Vœux Road C.,
•Hong Kong.
NOTICE
TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
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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. 36. Tung Man Street.
For China's Products
General, Pastoral and Agricultural
THE
Consult
THE CHINA
YEAR BOOK 182
ammunition. The firing is deliberate, six shots at The First Candlesticks, twenty yards range stationary
bulls
Entries eye target. It is likely that in point of time "Company's Reserve Fund and there is little difference in regard made at the range. "to allot to the members hold-to the dates of origin of the "ing shares of the Company as earliest lamps and candlesticks. "on the lat day of July 1923, The difficulty of keeping a candle Moon. An example of one of the "in respect of the net amount upright must soon have led to the latter, of great size and globular "capitalised fully paid shares invention of the pricket form of in form, is still to be "of the Company of equivalent candlestick with the spike on Chichester. "nominal value in the propor-which to impale the tallow rod. Sun, is no longer extant, but tra- Its companion, the "tion of one share for every two This type of candlestick still sur-dition has it that it was still more "shares of the Company then vives amongst altar trappings, gigantie in dimensions. "held by such persons respec-point which brings us to the in- "tively and that such shares soclusion of illumination as part of "allotted shall rank for divi-the rites attendant upon divine
In these days of almost too "dends aa from the 1st day of service. This
would appear brilliantly illuminated streets and "July 1928."
ultimately to be traceable to the houses, It is not easy to realise "That if, on such distribution Vestal Fires of the Ancients, per- how essential a feature of every- "as aforesaid, any person would petually maintained ostensibly as day life the lantern was for those "be entitled to a fraction of a tribute to the goddess Vesta, who live in eras precedent to the "share, the Directors shall, in but more truly instituted as a
nineteenth century. A portable "lieu of issuing fractional cer- means by which the community lantern was necessary for every- "Lificates, Cause the whole might avail themselves of a cen- one who would walk abroad after "shore to be allotted to a per-tre whercat they might at all dusk, or even proceed indoors "son or persons to be named by times be sure of an opportunity of along the corridors whose "the Directors and such share replenishing their household fires, draughts made the unprotected "may, at such time as, the This honouring of light in light of a candle likely to fail at "Directors think fit, be sold and religious ritual is by no means some crucial moment. For use proceeds distributed confined to the temples and out of doors, the lawless condi- "amongst the persons entitled churches of the West. A templetions of the times made the pro- "to the fractions making up the lamp of Tibet is circular in form vision of some means of obscur. "share."
and functions by means of a cot-ing the light at will a necessity ton wick fixed to a socket in the in the outwitting of highwaymen centre and permeated in melted and desperadoes, and so we get
"dark
lantern," butter. Kept continually burn-the ing, it provides light for the eighteenth century altars of the High Lamas. Aple, also from the Osler Collection. Taoist Lamp in bronze from Such lanterns were equipped with Japan is in the form of a crane, a simple mechanism, which by standing on the back of tortoise three turns screened the candle and holding in his beak the sym-within, glazed the aperture with bolic lotus flower, which in the horn, or re-exposed the light. In and Taoist creed stands for happiness. form it differs little from the tra for the Every Taoist shrine is illuminated ditional lantern with which Guy Telephone Company, Limited, will THIRD EXTRA RACE MEET either by a lamp or a candlestick, Fawkes is depicted as pursuing be held on WEDNESDAY, the ING to be held on SATURDAY, in which appear these or similar his nefarious deeds in an earlier Superintendent. 11TH day of APRIL, 1928, at the 7th April and on MONDAY, 9th emblems. The Sabbath lamps of century. Certain forms of car- Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1928. Board Room of the Company, April, 1028 (weather permit the Jewish religion exemplify the riage-lamp are also on similar
SECOND FLOOR, EXCHANGE ting) may be obtained at the Race development of multiple spouts
lines. BUILDING, Hong Kong, at 12 Course, Hong Kong Club, and and with them multiple wicks, Designed for use in a cellar, o'clock noon, for the purpose of re-Causeway Bay Stables.
functioning on the same principle where tragedy might ensue on ac ceiving a Statement of Accounts Entries will CLOSE at 4 p.m. as the early lamps of terra-cotta cidental overturning and exting- and the Report of the Board of on THURSDAY, 29th March, and later ones of iron and bronze, uishing, is the "cellar candlestick" Directors, for the
of the seventeenth century, made financial year 1928,
already referred to. ended 31st December, 1927, con- Hong Kong, March 24, 1928.
with a heavily weighted base for safety's sake. Such candlesticks must have made a great appeal, These lamps which were, ac by reason of their grace of line, to cording to the Hebrew rites, lit the Dutch painters of their day, upon the Sabbath eve were for they appear with considerable usually either five or DANTRY
RAFT PROGRAMMES and branched, and were fitted with a in those of Rembrandt. The sim seven-frequency in their works, notably FORMS of the pendant tray for the purpose of ple mechanism by which the ING to be held on SUNDAY, 15th catching the drops of oil which candle could be raised above ita April, 1928 (WEATHER PERMIT which were useful not alone for so practical that it well deserves might overflow. Such trays, framework, on burning down, is TING) can be obtained upon ap- the protection of the floor, but for the attempts at reproduction plication to The Jnternational Race: enabling the oil to be returned to which have lately fallen to it. Manager. and Recreation Club of Macao, the body of the lamp without The line of demarcation be Ltd., Hong Kong Jockey Club, waste, seem to have been intro- tween lamps, lanterns, and candle. Causeway Bay Stables, and Roxor duced before long in the various sticks is often a slender one, the Advertising Co., 3rd Floor, Ex countries in which illumination one encroaching so nearly upon change Building, Hong Kong.
Entries will close on TUESDAY, in force.
by means of a floating wick was the other as to make classification difficult. The "candlestick-lamp" 3rd April, 1928, at 1 p.m.'
Splendidly decorative are many was a seventeenth century de- of the early professional lanterns, velopment, and was really a used both in religious and in civic (candlestick adapted so that double rites and ceremonies. For the the amount of light could be ob- illustration of three auch lanterns (tained from it in conjunction with, and for much valuable data on the a two-wick lamp. To the-bowl of |___ subject of early' lampa I am in- the stick would be added a lip for POO ON CHINESE HERES CO. debted to Messrs. Osler, who have the easier pouring of the oil, and; 66, Queen's Road Central. brought together an interesting a handle would likewise be fitted collection of specimens, both of for readier lifting. Lampa and of lanterns, writes The eighteenth century, which pany, Exchange Building (2nd Admission: Public Enclosure $1.00. terns were carried aloft en poles candlesticks, both in silver, pew
Louise Gordon-Stables: These lan-produced so many-fine designs for Floor), Des Voeux Road Central; Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 18th
from. Guildford.
Nagatetau, from Antwerp.
E. A. LEGGATT,
THE GREAT NORTHERN
TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
OF DENMARK.
www.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Hong Kong
The following unclaimed tele-firming the appointment of three
Directors and
re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the
Mrs. K. P. Chen, Kowloon Hotel, 4th April to the 11th April, 1928,
Feet,
Victoria Peak
1823
Signal Station
1774
Mt. Parker .....
1734
Mountain Lodge
1725
grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany (Limited) of Denmark:—
The Eyrie........................ 1725
Peak Hotel
Taikoo Sanatorium
1305
*1000
from Shanghai.
Sonoul, from Hankow,
Alt. Davis
877
Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds)
297
Mainland.
Fujibun, from Osaka.
Taimoshan
Kowloon Peuk
$124
1971
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 22nd March, 1928.
both days inclusive.
Dated this 20th day of March, J. F. Rhame, c/o Hong Kong 1928. Hotel, from Shanghai.
By Order of the Bourd,
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD ORIGINAL
CHEFOO STAMPS
UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS
$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.
Cash must be sent with order to Boz No. 619
c/o “China MaÜ”
J. P. SHERRY, 14, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.
HONG KONG REALTY & TRUST
COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated under the Companies, Ordinances of Hong Kong).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEAR-
N
LY MEETING of Shareholders of
DRAENTRY FORMS
PROGRAMMES
MACAO HACE CLUB.
SEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEET-
FANLING
HUNT
STEEPLECHASES:
the Hong Kong Realty and Trust SATURDAY, 31st MARCH, 1928. Company, Limited, will be held atị
the Registered Office of the Com-
First Race 3 p.m.
Ladies Free.
Processional Lanterns.
:
by acolytes (or in civic procester. and brass. sought out ways
day of April, 1928, at 12 o'clock; Admission to Subscribers Enclo- dions by some officials of the in which to adapt this form for noon, for the purpose of receiving sure on productida of badge only, parish), and replaced the earlier oll illumination, and another form a Statement of Accounts and the Subscribers con introduce Two flaming cresset, a picturesque but of lamp, which in outline inclines Report of the Bontd of Directors Ladies Free and Two Non-members extremely sullying form of illu- rather to the candlestick. Is for the six months ended on the at $5.00 Each
minant. On their return from the known as the "pump-lamp," since
Obtainable ut
KELLY & WALSH, LTD,
HỒNG KONG
PRICE $15.00.
LADIES!
WHY SHOULD YOU BE EMBARRASSED BY
PIMPLES.
Pimples and all skin diseases are, eaally cured by Poo On Chinese Herb treatment.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong
81st December, 1927, confirming| Tickets obtainable from Dr. F. tour of the town the processional it functions by means of a com- during March, according to the the appointment of two Directors Pierce Grove, Alexandra Buildings, lanterns would be affixed by their trivance which raises the oll to standard time of the 120th meridian and re-electing two Directors, and
SPECIAL TRAINS leave Kow. Poles to the cathedral walls, there the wick. This is fixed at the cast of Greenwich, is as follows the Auditors,
loon 2.00 p.m. Return from Fanto serve decorative end until summit of a tube, proportioned to Dater
Sunrise. Sunset. By Order of the Board,
ling 6.00 p.m. Return Fáre 1st the next great teactive ser candle is proportioned to its stick 28
should its base on the lines on which a March
více. The processional lan-Such lamps work on colza
C. E. V. RIBEIRO,
Hong Kong, 28rd March, 1928.
Class $1.50, 2nd Class 90 cents.
CARS.
|ly known as the Sun and the "Daf T.
Land
6:20
8.19