FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928.
Phone C. 22
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YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly sud promptly printed."China Mail" Once, No. 8a, Wyndham St. Telephone Central 22.
HOME TUITION.
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TESTOVER STEVENAGE.
Within an hour from Lon-1
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·don. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL, for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal.
dividual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
In-
For
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb, Teachers' Diploma). NISS GERTRUDE TURNER (Nutional Frodel Higher
CertlAcate).
LAMMERT KROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, 23rd November, 1928, commencing, at 5.15 p.m.
at their Salea Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of Old and Rare Postage Stamps of Great
G.
NOTICES.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
R.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
of the Sale by Pubife Auction
THE CHINA MAIL,
YOUTH OF TO-DAY
ATTACK AGAINST STANDARD OF MORALITY
GAMBLING MENACE-
"What are we to say to the of a Pagan morality, to be held on MONDAY, the renasconce 28th day of November, 1928, at almost unknown in the last cen- 8 p.m., at the Offices of the tury; a morality infecting with its Public Works Department, by deadly polson much of the poetry Order of His Excellency the Gov and many of the novels we read, ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land and many of the plays and films wa at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony see?" of Hong Kong, for a term of The Rev. Bertram Smith put this 75 years,
with the option of question in his presidential address renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed to the Autumn Assembly of the by the Surveyor of His Majesty the Congregational Union at Leeds in King, for one further term of 75 mail week. He made a
attack on present-day standards of morality and, while admitting that there was much that was happy' and good to be found in the progress of social civilisation throughout the world, said there was still "a dark background to human life which must ill mankind with great an- xiety for the, future."
years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Registry No.
KOLO, 21
Locality.
Boundary Mouremontя
ft. ft. 12. ft. About
As per male plan. 1,AGI
PUBLIC BAND CONCERT.
| Uppet
Rental
Price.
Annual
1#
A Public Band Concert will be given in the
BOTANIC GARDENS
on SUNDAY, November 25th, from 4 to 5.30 p.m.
By the Band of the KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS
By kind permisaion of Lt.-Col.
L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.0.
and Officers)..
Admission to Gardens free;
50 cents to Enclosure..
FANLING HUNT
FANLING HUNT
Britain and Colonies. FANLING HUNT
Comprising:
Triangular Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Gibraltar, India, Irish Free State, Natal, New South Wales, New Zealand, Nyasaland Protector: ate, North Borneo, New Brunswick, Queensland, Samoa, South and Western Australia, Victoria, etc., ute,
On View from Thursday, the 22nd November, 1928.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
· LAMMERT UROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 17th Nov,, 1928,
THE
HE Undersigned have`received" instructions to sell by Public
Auction
י,
ON MONDAY, 20th November, 1928, commencing at 11 am.
at No. 34. Humphreys' Building.. Kowloon.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Catalogues will be issued,
On View from Sunday, the 25th November, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 19th Nov., 1928.
THE
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON TUESDAY, 27th November, 1928. commencing at 11 am.
at No. 39. Humphreys' Building (Top Floor), Kowloon. A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
(including Fine Carpets and Blackwood Ware.)
Catalogues will be icaued.
On View from Monday, the 26th November, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
LAMMERT DROS.,
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, 21st Nov., 1928.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG
·
Sunrise and Sunset In Hong Kong during November, 1928, (standard time for the 120th Meri- dian, East of Greenwich), is as follow:-
Nov.
ឆនននននន
Sunrise. Sunset.
Steeplechases.
SATURDAY, 24th NOVEMBER.
First Race 3.00 p.m.
Admission to Public Enclosure $1. (Soldiers and Sailors in. uniform half price) Car parked on the course $10 each. Special Train leaves Kowloon
1.50 p.m. Returns 5.40 p.m.
First class return fare including admission to Public Enclosure $2. Free parking for cars.
MACAO CHARITY· AND COMMERCIAL FAIR.
\HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
strong
He enumerated some of the things the world could be bettor without.
"What are we to say of the gam- bling menace," he asked, "which threatens to bring under its de- grading thraldom every activity of
life?
"New Claims for Sex Passion" "What are we to think of the new claims made for sexual passion- not made by the outcast and fallen, hut by young people born in luxurious homes and educated at our Universities. What are we to think of the decline of the old Puritan sense. of duty and self- restraint and the demand for sensuous excitement at all costs7 Above all what are we to think of a society whose economie stracture Is frankly unchristian-a society in, which the most essential serviceal are scarcely rewarded with a living wage, and the greatest fortunas can be won by the idlest and most useless members society in which an honest and industrious man can toil all his life at work socially essential, for a wage upan which he and his family can scarce-
British Star
Reginald Denny, who has made a big | name in the films.
"No children will be born in Blums;
"No crowds of disheartened men will tramp the streets in search of work they cannot and;
"No gifted lads and girls will be denied University education be causs of the poverty of their par ents;
"No women will sicken to their death in dismal, crowded dwellings, when a sea voyage would restore them to health;
"No gangs
of bookmakers will
y live, and in which a worthless infeat our sports fields, like I
speculator can amass an enormous
fortune in a few years?"
stockbrokera
omened birds of prey; "No apeculating will be allowed to 'bull' and 'bear"} he acknowledged should be the the markets, and gamble in the
Against this he contrasted what
chief concern of Christian people,
Happiness that Should Be "When society is really Chris- tlan," he said:-
JOYOUS CHILDHOOD
primal needs of life to the hurt of the whole commonwealth;
"Clever novelists will not dirty their pages with all kinds of nasty realism;
"Theatres and cinemas will show how the drama, with its laughter and tears, can become the true handmaid of religion; and
"Prostitution, drinking dens and night clubs will be only a painful memory."
Society not Christian'
But what of the future? Mr.. Smith agreed that there was much in social progress for which to be devoutly thankful, but sober judg ment compelled the verdict that society was not really Christian, nor its steps set firmly.on the up- ward track, The numbers of those! who worshipped grow less every year. Sunday was becoming little less than a weekly bank holiday.
Dealing with Socialism, Mr.
cordially requests the pleasure For the preservation of chil- Smith said: "God may have some of the presence of the general dren's health and happiness the better things in store for us than public at the Inaugural Ceremony simplest foods and simplest medi- those conceived in the brain of of the Fair on SATURDAY, 3rd cine are desirable, and it is be Bernard Shaw. I think the Church November, 1928, at 9 p.m.
COL DUARTE VEIGA, solutely gentle, and
cause they are absolutely pure, ab- would go beyond her province to absolutely pledge ber allegiance to any one Chairman.
safe, that Baby's Own Tablets are theory of economic,progress." He 24th October, 1928.
are ideal treatment to give the condemned idlers. "You cannot little ones in most of the troubles pay the debt you owe to society which befall during their tender with money left to you by your aunt, or by a successful deal in shares, or by filling up football соироде."
SPORTING GUNS AND
ACCESSORIES.
GUNS-Greener, Webley & Scotts, D.S.A., J. W. Needham & Ralck Freres Air Rißes Revolvers. S. & W-Ride Accessories Aper- ture Sights Sporting requisites Cartridges to suit all bores,
THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION STORE
5-6, Beaconsfield Arcade.
A.M.
0.41
5.88
6:41
5.88
'6,42 5.38:
6.48
5.88
A.WC, TEA DANCE
6.44 5.88
Joara,
Baby's Own Tablets
an-
A cable from London to the are pleasant little pellets with no Malayan "Daily Express" drug taste. They crush' easily to nounces that the wedding was a powder. The children like them. solemnised on a recent Tuesday of For infantile Indigestion, constipa- Sir Theodore Fraser's daughter tion, colic, 'wind,' they give prompt Elizabeth and Mr. H. Taylor. Sir relief: they allay, the pains of Laurence and Jady Guillemard teething almost as if by magle; were present. Bir Theodore they check diarrhoea, ease croup Fraser is a former G.O.C., Malaya. and colds, expel worms. Chemists
·
everywhere dell them, or post free, Two men were killed by an ex 60 cents the vial, from the Dr. plosion at Messrs. F. C. Dickson's Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Klang-' gunpowder works, near. se Road, Shanghai.
Ulverston, Lancashire.
6.45 5.88 6.455.88 6.46 5:38
The American. Women's Club gave a very successful tea- dance at the Majestic Hotel, Shanghai, when the ballroom was crowded, and many leading members of the American community were among the guests. The pur- pose of the dance was to raise funds for the Club's new quarters, which require furnishing and equipment to be of real use to members — (Ah Fong).
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A Trial Order is Solicited.
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