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London, Saturday. The death occurred on Thurs day on board the steamship "Nes- tor whilst en route to South
An alarming, but fortunately The following programme will THE TWENTY-FOURTH AŃ-
not fatal, accident occurred on be broadcast to-day from the Gor. NUAL GENERAL MEETING on aatton on the Pear, of Shareholders will be hold in the Railway, when the electric train the wave-length being 350 metres, Offices of Mears, Dodwell & Com (No. 22), en route from the ter- The call sign of the station: Africa, of Lieut-Colonel Sir James pany, Limited., on THURSDAY, the minus to Shamchun, was derailed
Wishart Thomson, K.B.E, the 31st January, 1920. at 11 am. for at a point between Shatin and 5.15 to 7.15 pm-The orchestra well-known alipowner connected the purpose of receiving the report Taipo, 10 miles from Kowloon. of HAMS.Fermes (under the with the Ben Line of Steamers, of the General Managers together
The coach was wrecked, and the direction of Mr. Compton) relayed Ltd, and who was Shipping Con- with a Statement of Accounts to escape of the passengers almost from Lane Crawford's Restaurant, troller for India and the Far East 31st December, 1928. The miraculous. Two Europeans were By kind permission of Captain in 1917-18. He would have been TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-injured, one a lady, but both Hopwood, C.B.E., A.D.C. and the 53 years of age on July 80 next. pany will be CLOSED) from the pluckily "carried on" as best they management of Meam Lane Craw-Renter. 23rd January to 31st January, were able, refusing all offers of ford. 1929, both date inclusive.
DODWELL, & COMPANY, LTD. General Managera. Hong Kong, 18th Jan., 1929.
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
T MEETING of the Hong Kong
HE ANNUAL GENERAL M'me BARONELLI, ARTISTE,- School of dancing for children and Benevolent Society will be held in adults. Special Physical Culture St. John's Cathedral Hall on FRI- class for Stout and Stiff Ladies. DAY, 1st February, 1929, at 5.30 Address 31, Ashley Road, Kowloon
p.m. Mr. R. SUTHERLAND, (Back of Star Theatre).
O.B.E. will take the Chair.
Hong Kong, 18th Jan., 1929.
GOOD SCHOOL
ANNUAL RACE MEETING.
A school of Chinese and Mathe- THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB matica of C. Y. Chan begins to give the registrations to students, the Manager being formarly M.A., Professor of Mathematics in Kwangtung Higher Normal School, and Author of Inventful Mathema- tical Booka.
25th, 26th, 27th February and 2nd March, 1929.
TRY FORMS are now ready Differential and Integral Cal-DRAFT PROGRAMME and EN- culus will be taught In Home and may be obtained at the Race Tuition by C. Y. Chan:
Coaching of Mathematics is to be Course, Hong Kong Club and
Causeway Bay Stables.
had day and night.
For Particulars apply to 45, Moaque Junction C. Y. Chan School.
TO LET
Hong Kong, 15th Dec., 1928.
assistance. Their names were not overture, Post and Possant, Suppe, NOTED MONARCHIST obtainable, and it is presumed Cornet Solo The Rosary (Sololet that they did not wish to give
Musician). Nevin.
DEATH OF LIANG CHIH- them.
CHIAO
Sulte, Three Hungarian Danes,
Brahm's
Traffic on the line was com- pletely suspended for over two hours, after which trains were Opera, Rigoletto. Verdi, run to either side of the wreck Descriptive Sketch, In a Persian
Market. Ketalby. and passengers changed over,
motor-cars Valse, Blue Danube, Strauss. Ambulances and were rushed to the scene, but Patrol, Phantom Brigade." happily were not needed, The wrecking gang were early at Selection, Sunny. Kern. work, and by 7 p.m. the line was clear for through traffic.
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CABINET ACTIVITIES
Peking, Saturday. The death has occurred of the famous Monarchist, Liang Chile. Myddleton. chino, who was Minister of Justice In 1914 and Minister of Finance. 8.16 p.m.-Evening Weather Re-In 1917-Reuter. port.
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London Symphony Orchestra. “Carmen-Flower Song," "O Vision Entrancing,”.
The accident was singularly
8.20 p.m.-Evening Programmie troublesome. In view of the in- (Columbia recorda). creased traffic due to the Fanling "The Desert Song." Selection. Race Meeting.
Debroy Somers Band. The coach, which was des- "The Caliph Of Bagdad,"- Overture, patched from Kowloon at 2.45 p.m. "Habanera," left Shatin with 19 passengers, Including three European ladies, and five or Bix Chinese. Some of the company were golfers, but the majority were going out for the woek-end in the country.
The accident occurred in the mid-] "Cherie,” dle of a small cutting, with high "Warryln"," banks on either side. The line:
Tenor. Arthur Jordan.
Poul Jones," Selection.
London, Symphony Orchestra.
Waltz Organ Solo Pattman
ANOTHER DEATH LOSS TO THE PORTUGUESE COMMUNITY
MR. J. C. BOTELHO
The death from heart failure oc- curred at his residence, No. 889, Meskin-buliding, Kowloon, at 11.45 p.m., on Friday, of Mr. Julio Cecilio Botelho, a well-known member of the local Portuguese community."
Mr. Botelho, who was 48 years of age, was born in Hong Kong and was
bachelor, being survived
takes an awkward curve bere, and "The Broze Herse," Overture. by one brother in Hong Kong, Mr. the driver, Lee Wing, drei noticed London Symphony Orchestra. A. Botelho, of Messrs. Shewan, trouble when he felt the coach jump. | "The Adventures Of "Arry, Emmmy Tomos and Co., Ltd., two others in With commendable promptitude sad & Joe," great presence of mind he applied THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI ble brakes, and switched off the "A
current, but to no effect. The train BANKING CORPORATION
left the track, and healed slowly TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN over to the left. After running on TO LET-No. 7, Stewart Terrace, N
that an Extraordinary Meat for 50 yards, it turned completely 270, Peak, from March 1st to
sulting of the Shareholders of the over on its side, on the left band October 31st. Five rooms furnished. Modern Sanitation, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking aide of the track, coming to rest servants quarters, garden. Apply Corporation will be held on Satur against the cutting bank, F. A. Mackintosh,
Manila and San Francisco, respec- London Sketch Company.tivaly, four sisters, Paulina, married, Musical Switch-Humoresque," and Marie, (both in Mandis), An- Plaza Theatre Orchestra. gelima, married, and Celly (in "The Storm,"
Kowloon), and two step-sistere, (Esther and Emilia Carvalho), with "Evensong,"
Organ Solo.. G. T. Pattman, whout much sympathy will be felt Excerpts from "Primrose," Selec- by a large circle of friends in their
tion.
Bad bereavement. There are other Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra. relatives in Shanghai and Macao. "I Make Hay While The Moon At the time of his death Mr.
Shines,"
Botelho was accountant in the firm Heather Thatcher & Chorus. of Messrs. Botelho Bros., of Alexan-
dra-buliding, `· Mophams,"
Passengers Injured day, the 2nd day of February,
The coach was wrecked, and all 1929, at 12 o'clock noon at the City Hall Victoria in the Colony of the passengers bruised and severely Hong Kong for the purpose of con- shaken. Thrown from one side to "The
the other, all was confusion, whilst
Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher The funeral took place at the
& Thomas, Weguelen.
Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy New-Fangled Mother of Valley, on Saturday evening,
TO LET Offices to be let insidering, and if thought fit, pass-showers of splinters of glass follow- Queen's Road, Central. Apply to ing the following resolution,
ed the crash. Eventually the pas-The. E. D. SASSOON & Co., Ltd., viz:—
sengers were compelled to crawl out French Bullding.
That the Directors of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank-by the rear entrance, there being
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ing Corporation be and they are no other way of egress. Many of "When Toby Is. Out of Town,"
them were out in different places, and Mr. H. K. Hung, a partner in Deacons, the law firm, had his right collarbone injured, besides sustaining a badly cut right arm.
10 p.mNews Bulletin. The Charlot Show of 1926,
with Herbert Mundin.
Dick Francis. Jesale Matthews, Henry Lyttton. Hazel Wynne,
The London Theatre Orchestra &
Prince of Wales Theatre Company.
God Save The King. 10.30 pm-Close Down,
The chief mourner was the de- ceased's brother; Mr.. A. Botelho. A large gathering of friends were present to pay their last tributes, and there was also a considerable number of wreaths,
-EDITOR DIES
hereby requested and authorised by and on behalf of the share holders of the Corporation to take all such steps as may be necessary for the introduction of
Two Europeans were injured. an Ordinance Into the Legisla One, a lady, whose name was not tive Council of the Colony of obtainable, received a severe shock, Hong Kong and for the enact and, it is believed, was injured in- ment of the same by the Gov-
ternally, The gentleman, it is ernor of Hong Kong with the thought, had his shoulder dislocated. advice and consent of the Legis Both pluckily refused all offers of lative Council thereof, in the assistance, preferring to take pri terms of a print which, for the vate treatment rather than avail purposes of identification, has themselves of the ambulance which been signed by the Chief Man-had been rushed to the scene. ager of the Corporation, in sub- stitution for the existing Ordin- ances (except as in such print) is mentioned) and Deed of Set
The terms port and... starboard tlement of the Corporation.
will be replaced by the terms left The number of Chinese vaccinate and right in relation to civil air- AND NOTICE IS HEREBY
Mr. R. Baker, manager and chief ed-free of charge-by Members of craft, states a British Air Ministry ALSO GIVEN that a further ex-engineer of the Kowloon-Cantou the Ambulance Brigade, up to and notice... traordinary meeting of the share- Railway, arrived in an engine from including Friday, January 18, la:—
Miraculous Escapes
Amongst the miraculous escapes | was a "Sunday Herald" man, who was on his way to the Fazling Race Meeting.
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LAMMERT BROS. holders of the Corporation will be Taipo about 40 minutes after the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Division 27,198,
held on Saturday, the 23rd day of smash. Afterwards, some of the King's College Division 26,954, Rall-THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, February, 1929, at 12.45 in the passengers expressed. Indignation, way Division 8,761, Indian Division afternoon at the same place for daiming that more attention was 92,697, Mongkok Division: 104,004, the purpose of receiving a report padd to the whereabouts of certain Shaukiwan Division 6,810, Un Long of the above mentioned meeting pare cleepers, than to their own 1,352, St. Joseph's College Division and of considering, and, if thought unfortunate condition. At about 8,401, Victoria Nursing Division At, confirming the above resolu- 4.80 p.m. two European volunteered 581, Y.W.C.A. Nursing Division 881. tion in accordance with Article 96 to carry the lady up the steep Total 278,237 from Dec. 8, 1928 to THE Undersigned have received of the Corporation's Deed of Set-cent. Before they had gone far, Jan. 18, 1929. Tinstructions to sell by Public tlement.
the stretcher, taken from the wreck- Dated this at day of January, ed train, broke. Another, from the 1929.
Alderman E. H. Matthews, who Taipo, engine, was requisitioned.
Scar Mr. Hung was assisted up the hill was formerly Mayor of A, C. HYNES, by: Mr. J. F. Grose and Mr. 8. M. borough, died suddenly in a London
Chief Manager. Churn, whilst the more fortunate institution Note:-A copy of the proposed passengere slated others.
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