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Auction
ON
THURSDAY, the 19th July, 1928,| commencing at 11 am,
at No. 14, Granville Road (Top Floor), Kowloon. A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE. (Particulars from Catalogue.) On Viow from Wodnesday, tho 18th July, 1928.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 12th July, 1928.
Emblem Competition'
AN EXHIBITION of designs submitted for this Competition will be held at the Naval and Military -Y.M.C.A. CITY HALL
ON
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TUESDAY, 17th & WEDNESDAY, 18th July. from 10 am to 6 p.m. Admission Free.
NOTICE.
1
THE PUBLIC ARE HERERY that the only
JAPANESE HONOUR. parable of the Prodigal Son carried "WINNIE" AND WAR.
EPISODE OF SEVERED FINGER: TALE OF DISINHERITED.
DRASTIC DEMANDS.
made it
THE LEGION'S WORK.
"NEVER AGAIN,"
The circum-youngest daughter Mary.
Mr. Churchill, who, like the decorations, spoke on the work of other legionaries present, wore the British Legion. It consisted he said, in preserving the com- radeship of the war as a fertile means of promoting the higher form of social comradeship and intercourse in the long years of
peace.
to its logical end. It also takes us much higher in the social scale..
A few days ago a well-known financler and former director of one of the leading Tokyo trading com. panles appeared before the Tokyo District Court with, an application for tho disinheritance of his son. It is over a hundred years since, According to Japanese law a son
Miss Diana Churchill, the eld- Edmund Burke, in his day the chief inevitably inherits his father's pro- the Exchequer, laid the founda
est daughter of the Chancellor of mourner, for times past, movingly parts, unless a definite legal pro- tion-stone of a British Legion declared: "It is gone, that sen-vision, such as this, has been made. Club at Westerham, Kent, recent aibility of principle, that chastity of The father 1 this caso honour, which felt a stain like a quite clear that it was contrary to whose country home is at Wester- ly. Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, wound."
But of course, it has his own wish to disinherit his son, ham, were present with their | not gone.
Ideas of honour may but that the son himself had com- change, methods of maintaining it'pelled him to do it. may change, but not the sensitive stances are surely peculiar, ness that feels a stain like a wound, The son had been a hard-working nor the will to remove that stain. student in the Economics Depart This ja sometimes proved from ment of Kelo University until, the most unexpected quarters and year ago he fell a victim to the in the most astonishing way, the allure of wine and women in the "Manchester Guardian' learns from form of sake and Golsha, which, a correspondent in Japan. when a Japanese youth once sur We of the West have long been renders to them, work on him with TWARNED
Accustomed to the Idea that the a peculiarly devastating effect. The Japanese are so peculiar as almost lad had indulged in quite as fighting their battles over again He asked the legionaries, while genuine 'Lipton's Tea No. 1 to be called unique in their sensi-riotous a spell of Hving "YELLOW LABEL," bears Chinese tiveness to a stain on their loyalty Prodigal of old. There was no end ber how ghastly was the injury as the in the new club-house, to remem- Characters on the top of the tin, to country, emperor, or lord, THE Undersigned have received whilst inside the lid will be found length to which they will go to con-hausted every sen of his money, he and how long and toilsome would The to his debauchery until, having ex-done to civilisation by the war, Tinstructions to all brocublic
& Coupon. 12 Coupons from 1 lb. vince themselves, even when others found himself Auction
tins or 24 Coupons from 1⁄2 lb, tins
utterly abandoned be the process by which the waste can be exchanged for a 1⁄2 lb. tla need no further convincing, that, by his companions in vice. As in and havoc of those years would
they are loyal to the uttermost has the old parable, poverty and hunger have to be repaired. of Tea, Free of Charge on applica-
won the amazement and sometimes compelled him tion to
to return home; "And when you dwell on the the reverence of the West. There where his family were ready to deeds that have been done, cele- MESSRS, W. R. LOXLEY & CO., is the famous Instance of the great welcome and forgive. But he brate the triumphs which have
Local Agents.
Japanese sailor, Admiral Nogi, who, would not allow his father to kill been gained, and the deeds of MESSRS. LIPTON, LTD., with his wife felt that it would be any fatted' calf. Rather did he prowess which adorn our annals,
COLOMBO.
a stain on their loyalty to the Em-refuse.even the sackcloth of re- I trust you will continually re peror Melji to suffer him to begin pentance and the bread (or, rather, solve that nothing like what hap his new life beyond the veil without race) of affliction, except on pened in 1914 must ever darken the service to which he was terms that would satisfy his con- and sear the world again." accustomed. So these twain com-facience. He was, in very truth, no mitted suicide in order to ensure more worthy to be called
a son, him their service at least...
and therefore his father must dis- There is, too, the case of the inherit him, young lieutenant, named Ohara, So the father, with tears, disin- It was one of those houses which N INTERIM DIVIDEND of who arrived at the conviction that harits his son, who has now gone seem to spring up overnight. The
TWO DOLLARS per share Japan must take strong measures to work as "s hired servant in a
landlord had called to collect the Ho cycle ahop at Kobe. for the six months ending 30th agains Russian encroachment.
rent, only to be met by an irate June, 1928, will be payable on set forth his opinions in writing, More Japonica!
tenant demanding a new front door. THURSDAY,
2nd August, on and then, fearing that his sincerity
"New front door? Whatever do which date Dividend Warrants may might be questioned, sealed his
A Montreal newspaper prints an
you mean?" the landlord gasped,, be obtained on. application at the opinions by killing himself in front advertisement offering for sale a equally indignant. "Why man, it's Company's Office, 3 Chater Road. of his ancestors' graves, Not only
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the the men but the women also of this foreign hereditary title at the price a new house, and you've only been sick with Chinese herbs, is now Company will be CLOSED from country have often felt that death of £10,000. The advertiser claims in it a week."
that he has hereditary rights to a "Yes, I know," replied the tenant, SATURDAY, the 21st July to WED. must be endured in order that there Polish title and needs money in "but I merely tied my dog to the on their devo-order to support his wife and door knob-a cat went by-and now tion. Therefore more than one)
ON FRIDAY, the 20th July, 1928, commencing at 11 am..
at No. 94, Nathan Road, First Floor, Kowloon.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
(Particulars from Cataogue.) On View from Thursday, the 19th
· SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL July, 1928.
BOYS. A few Boarders received
in the House of the Principal In-
dividual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
Fór
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed."China Mail Office, No. Sa, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
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YEE FOO LUN, Chinese Herbalist.
Over twenty-five years' Practical experience in America curing the
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Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1928.
A
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
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1st August (both might be no stain
during
which
If you аге suffering from NESDAY, the Catarrh, Kidney, Stomach trouble days inclusive) Пхурну. Indigestion,
Castritis, period ne transfer of shares can be soldier's wife, for example, has fol- daughter who are now in Paris.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Eczema, Blood Poison, Diabetes, registered. Bright's Disease, Lung, Constipa- tion, Tumor, Ulcer, Hay fever, Malaria, Nervousness, Rheumatism, Coughs, Throat Trouble, or other ills, there is hope for your relief] through the POO ON CHINESE HERBS.
PO ON HERB CO., 66, Queen's Road, Central, Phone C. 5009.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG.
L. S. GREENHILL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th July, 1928.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong during July, 1928, standard time for the 120th meridian, East of on Greenwich, is as follows:-
IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
lowed her husband's death on the battlefield by her own.
This sensitiveness, however, be-! longs to no particular class smong the Japanese, nor to any particular loyalty, and is as much in evidence to-day as ever. In common with all the world, the Japanese are ready, only more so, to wipe away any stain on their honour as lovers by: death. But the three following in- stances. happening within a week or so of each other, are, in all lice- Hhood, typically more japonica.
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THE SEVERED FINGER.
That
an INTERIM DIVIDEND of £3 The fret one is rather gruesome- per Share, subject to deduction of ly comic. Prince Iesato Tokugawa, Income Tax, has been declared for president of the House of Peers,; the HALF YEAR ending 30th received an amazing letter, JUNE, 1928, at rate of 2/- per an unknown man, a painter by Dollar.
trade, should write and ask badly THE DIVIDEND will be payable for a loan of 3,500 yen (350) to and after TUESDAY, 7th start him in business and be repaid AUGUST, 1929, at the offices of in fifteen years was strange enough Sunrise, Sunset the Corporation, where Sharehold-to begin with. Yet there was this ers are requested to apply for justification, at any rate, that this man was of Samural descent, whose Warrants.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of ancestors had been loyal warriors the Corporation will be CLOSED under the ancestors of the Prince, from MONDAY, 23rd JULY to the great Tokugawa Shoguns. But ithere was a small parcel accom- SATURDAY, 4th AUGUST, 1928,
3.m. 1.10. 5,48 7.10 7.10 6.49 7.10
ADDRESS
July
317
(BEHIND Hong Kong ELECTRIC CO. SHOWROOM)..
18
5.49
19
21
5.50
7,09
BREAKING BRIC-A-BRAC
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., OF DENMARK,
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
Nassim from Kobe. Retransmitted from Shanghai, S. J. Burn, c/o King Edward Hotel, from Bradford.
T. V. Ally, from Shanghai. Mapocho Sailing, from Shanghai. Sempakubo, from Moji. Oglive, Victoria, Kowloon, from Amoy.
ABC, from Shanghui.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent Hong Kong, 12th July, 1928.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following Unclaimed Tele- grams are lying in the E E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong
Buchenholz, from Salgon, Mortlaut, from San Francisco. Nanotte, 23, Gage-street, from Manila.
Thorsen, from Singapore..
E. A. LEGGATT.
Buperintendent,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
(both days inclusive) during which Panying the letter, wrapped up in hosho, a kind of paper used only period no transfer of Shares can
ceremonial occasions, on great be registered.
which, when opened, was found to contain the applicant's own finger, freshly amputated. The mar fearing leat his honour be ques- tioned, had taken this strange way to maintain It. Subsequent in- quíries proved the complete genuineness of the case. Whether the man got his loan is not stated, but he certainly proved most con-
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 10th July, 1928,
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Inspection of our Jewel- lery and Curlos is cordial- ly invited,
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willingness to suffer in the cause! of honour had not been extinguish ed even by the ups and downs of In business career.
In still humbler ranks of society is the hero of the following pathe- ¡tle tragedy. The watchman on duty at the gates" of a' dangerous level crossing in the neighbourhood of Tokyo was guilty of a serious error of judgment that cost two lives. Instead of closing the gates he allowed a motor-car with two occupants to pass over the crossing Just in time to be caught and utterly shattered by a passing train, No great blame was laid on the man for there were several mitigat- |ing circumstances. But the watch- man blamed himself.. ́ ́Arraigning | himself bofore the stern bar, of his ownsensitive conscience, hear- rived at the verdict of guilty. It was his act that had led these two people, relying on his Judgment, to [their death, and, in his own eight, he was a murderer. A philosopher like Hegel might be capable of say Ing that a true man welcomes. punishment, but this old Japanese watchman proved the truth of this by his deeds. By way of explation {he lay down on the railway metals and allowed the same train to pass over his body that had, killed the two victims of his carelessness."", * THE DISINHERITED SON.
The last incident la fortunately Jess tragic, but probably more ha teresting, because it shows us the
we haven't got a front door! !"
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