FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929.
FRENCH STAMPS
PROCURED FOR HUNGARIAN
BONDS
27 PERSONS TRIED
MANSION HOUSE
AFGHANISTAN
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHADOWS BEFORE.
PROMISE OF HONOURABLE COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
PARDON
DISCOVERY OF CRACKS IN STATE DRAWING-ROOM
TO SAVE THE COUNTRY CORPORATION ACTION
Peshawar, Yesterday, Cracks, which, though not alarm- Paris, Yesterday.
In view of the heavy fighting persons haveing, are serious enough to be taken! Twenty-seven been tried in the Correctional official notice of, in view of what Nadirhan has written to Habibul- Court for illicitly procuring Gov-has happened to other buildings in flah, "as one Muslim brother to ernment stamps for 100,000. Hun- the heighbourhood, have been found another," assuring him of a full garian Bonds, thus giving them a in one of the State drawing- and honourable pardon if Amanul- greater immediate value and pre-rooms at the Mansion House. Some lah or any other member of the ferential treatment under the Re- of them are horizontal, but the two Royal Family returned to the principal ones are perpendicular, Throne, providing that Habibul- parations scheme.
Banker Josef and extend from the ceiling to the lah avoids involving the country Å Viennese
in disaster and loss of life and pro- Blumenstein, a French Consul, floor, à distance of about 17ft.
They are on the inner wall, which perty-Reuter. Lacaze, and nine others were sen- tenced to two years' imprison-forms part of the wall of the saloon, ment and fined 3,000 francs, four and is of considerable thick- There are minor cracks others were sentenced to a year's mess. imprisonment and a fine of 1.000 in other parts. of the room, and. francs; two to eight months' im- within a few score feet of the great
IN NEW ROLE prisonment with the benefit of the building, which is being erected at First Offenders Act; and ten were the corner of Prince's-street, and
of for which foundations great
DRAWS CROWDED HOUSES acquitted. Reuter.
So far as a depth are being dug. representative of "The Daily Tele-
Colleen Moore was never more graph" was able to discover, no delightful than she is revealed cracks were observable in any other this week at the Majestic Thea part of the building between the tre, Kowloon, in her latest First drawing-room and the front por-ational attraction, "The Desert tien. In this area is the rear stair- Flower." case, the justice-room, and the chief
"DON'T LOAD IT”
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"DESERT FLOWER"
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To-day Queen's Theatre; "The Rescue.”
NOTICE.
Theatre;
Today World "Under The Eagle."
To-day. Star Theatre; "Good Morning, Judge." The Desert Floatie "The Desert Flower."
To-day Star Theatre; W. R. Banyard's English Comedy Co. in "Rookery Nook."
Theatre;
Home Maile To-morrow-Outward for Africa and Europe via Marseilles (Kar mala) 10.30 ain. (Kitano Maru) Vancouver 9.30 a.m. Europe via (Talthybius) 10 a.m.
To-morrow-Inward from U.S.A.
(Pres. via Siberia, and Europe Wilson).
Lammerts' Auctions To-day-At Sales Room, Postage stamps, 5.16 p.m.
April 20-At Sales Room, Dud- dell-st., & wardrobe trunks (new), Tit-a.m.
The picture, an adaptation of April 23-At 17, Jordan-rd., (1st cierk's office, which have windows the stage offering of the same floor) Kowloon, household furniture, facing north and south-east.
name, recently presented in New 11 a.m.
"Tell-Tale" Instruments
Land Sale
APRIL CRIMINAL SESSIONS
York by Al Woods, teems with the April 24-At Sales Room, house- "Don't load it," enjoined his
The City Corporation at its meet-action and colour of Western life.hold and blackwood furniture, etc., Honour the Puiane Judge (Mr.ing unanimously adopted a resolu- It presents Miss Moore in the 2.30 p.m. Justice Wood) in the April tion of the City Lands Committee pathetically ignant guise of Criminal Sessions yesterday when for authority to retain the services little Maggie Fortune, step-daugh April 22-At P.W.D. Offices, two dealing with a revolver and am- raunition. He asked if the rounds of Messrs. Blott, Hay, and Anderson, ter of a brute of a step-father, lots of Crown lend at Cheung Sha the consulting engineers, to section boss of a railroad cor Wan and Shamshuipo, respectively, fitted the weapon, and Mr. Somer-take periodic levels to ascertain struction gang on the desert, and
13 p.m. set Fitzroy (Assistant Attorney-whether any movement, was taking whose inherent instincts for the General) inserted the ammunition place in the building.
better things of life seek to find into the chambers. On his Lord- Mr. Alderman Pheno Neal stated expression through a baby sister,
April 20-Closing Cruise of the ship making the enjoinder, Mr. that the matter was one of urgency. whom she sends away to enjoy Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Fitzroy replied: "I don't propose Mr. J. II. White, chairman of the the refinements of a real home April 21-Fanling Hunt Spring to."
committee, said the proposal to and education, while she herself meeting.. Prisoner in this case was Chan engage an eminent firm of consult goes into a miring camp dance
April 27-Fourth Kin-shun, on whose behalf Mring engineers was simply a precau-Fall to provide the wherewithal of meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club, Leong Hing-kee of the Metropole ionary measure for the stability of it all.
at Happy Valley.
and these movements
sinking or
Sports
extra
race
Meetings To-day Annual meeting of the Navy League, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's offices, 5.30 p.m.
Meeting of To-day General
Hotel gave evidence of character. the Mansion House. A number of The houses yesterday at the Prisoner was employed in the "tell-tale" devices would be placed Majestic were all crowded. The hotel as "boy." He was defended in various parts of the building, picture is on to-day's programme by Mr. Hin-shing Lo (instruct-
would show any also. ed by Mr. A. E. Hall).
His Lordship expressed agree-structure. In view of the tremen- ment with the jury's verdict of dous excavations that were taking WOMAN AND WILL members of H.K. General Chamber guilty on an indictment of pos-place in the immediate neighbour- session of the arms.
sion House.
of the
STATEMENT BY MISS NORA DELANEY
of Commerce to nominate a member for the Legislative Council, 4.15 p.m. April 24-Extraordinary meeting
HONG KONG & KOWLOON WATER SUPPLY.
THE QUANTITY OF WATERS
the Storage Reservoirs has fallen so low that further restric- tive measures are under considera- tion, and should an adequate rain- fall not occur before the end of April the Water Supply in HONG KONG and KOWLOON will be CUT OFF daily between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from the 1st May.
The most rigid economy in the consumption of water is now es- sential, and the co-operation of the public in preventing waste is again earnestly requested.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Water Authority,
Public Works Department,
Hong Kong, 19th April, 1929.
TO LET
10 LET-Part of House with furni- Rent ture to be let on the Peak, $100 inclusive. Available immediate- ly. Write P. O. Box No. 67
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
ON
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 1929, at 2.30 p.m
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
One Motor Car "Standard”---
2 Seaters.
On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, April 19, 1929.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
of United Asbestos Oriental Agency, THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
Ltd., Messrs. Dodwell & Co.'s offices,
11 a..
11. a.m.
Miscellaneous
From MIDDLEBRO', DUNKIRK, TONDON, STRAITS & PHILIPPINES,
be ob-
hood, and of the fact that a num- Sentence Deferred
ber of buildings had subsided, it Yau Ngan pleaded "guilty" to was essential that the committee robbery by two or more on Wong-should take every care to prevent | COUNTRY-HOUSE OWNERSHIP nei-chong Gap-road on January 8, anything happening to the Man- the victim being a woman.
The mystery in connection with
April 25-Annual meeting of Lo Man, the "No. 3" of four Sir Banister Fletcher said that the will of Sir William Maxwell, Gande, Price & Co., Ltd., 2, Ice The Steamship.
BENCLEUCH" prisoners charged yesterday was the problem was not an engineer- the war correspondent, who died House-st., noon.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- convicted of receiving stolen pro-ing, but an architectural one, and last December has deepened. April 29-Meeting of Douglas formed that all Goods are being land. perty but not of robbery. The what was wanted was a man who It has been stated that Sir Steamship Co., Ltd., P. & O. Bldg.ed at their risk into the hazardous
niecės, the Misses
and/or extra hazardous Godowns of other three of the four had pre-had a knowledge of London and its William's viously pleaded guilty to robbery, water courses. The old Walbrook Margaret and Elsie Stevensor,
May 10-Further meeting of The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf
Godown Co Ltd., wheice and/or His Lordship, as in cases heard stream car by the side of the Man- two Brighton typista, are heiresses United Asbestos Oriental Agency, from the wharves delivery may earlier yesterday, reserved sension House, and that fact was well to a considerable fortune ander Ltd., Messrs. Dodwell & Co.'s offices, tained. tence until 10.15 a.m, on Wednes-known to the City Architect and the will and that their mother-11 am. day.
Surveyor and to the City Engineer. Sir William's sister-Mrs. Steven- Mr. Walter Fortescue said that son, a widow, inherits the residue within a few hundred yards of the of the fortune. His house, Long- Mangion House
great holes field.
Wraysbury, Buckingham- of 60ft,
70ft. had
been shire, it was stated, goes to Miss
April 20-Dinner of Royal Hong and water bad been Nora Delaney, the actress. dug, withdrawn from the soil. That fact As much as $10,000 a year has Kong Yacht Club members at Lane, rendered it necessary for the com- been mentioned by friends as the Crawford's Restaurant, 8 p.m.
April 25 Parade of ex-service mittee to take every precautionary amount of the bequest to the
nicces, but this statement has ap men at Queen's Pier in honour of Redecoration A wireless message received on
parently not been put forward by H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, At the same meeting the Gen- the legatees or solicitors. In fact 11.56 4.m, April 10 by the Commissioner of..
May 1 Spring Festival at Coal and its origin is a mystery Police, Federated Malay States, eral Purposes and the
Quarry Bay School, 11 am. "Offensive Words" from the master of the P. & O. s.s. Corn and Finance Committees were
May 2-Bridge party at Talkoo "Khyber." read:-
instructed to prepare a comprehen- An application was made in the "R. J. Farquharson, Railway sive scheme for the rearrangement, Probate Court by Mrs. Stevenson Club in ald of H.K.W.G. & M.CL. Police, disappeared during night. redecoration, refurnishing, and re-as residuary legatee to have "cer- Please communicate next of kin." lighting of the interior of the Man-tain offensive words" expunged
Mr. Farquharson, who was pro-sion House. ceeding on eight months' Home
MISSING AT SEA
MR. R. J. FARQUHARSON, F.M.S. POLICE
FORMERLY OF HONG KONG
measure.
and
from the will. Mr. Justice Hill Mr. H. S. Syrett aaid the Corpora said that he could not expunge leave on board the s.s. "Khyber," tion should make the interior of the words, but they would be ex- was 43 years of age. Ile had been the Lord Mayor's official residence ranged from the probate of the in the Dumbartonshire constabu-a credit to the occupant and to the will and all copies issued from the lary prior to eaming out East in Corporation.
registry.
1907 to join the Hong Kong!
Police in April of that year.
Miss Nora Delaney, comedienne,
He joined the F.M.S. Police WESTMINSTER CITY who is appearing in Liverpool,
an Inspector, and in 1925 receiv-
as
£40,000 MORE FOR ROADS
force on April 10, 1910,
ed the appointment of Chief In- spector, FM.S., and
Q.CP.D., Kuala Lumpur.
became
Fur- There is an increase of £52,507 ther promotion came to him the over the previous year in the es- following year, when he was timate of £635,126 expenditure for, gazetted Assistant Commissioner the year ending March 31, 1989. of Police and was placed in charge adopted by the Westminster City | of the Railway Police, which post Council. The chairman of the he held until proceeding on leave finance on the "Khyber."
AIR MAIL
committee, Alderman Hillersdon, stated that this was for expenditure under their direct con- trok
of
said to а reporter recently concerning the will:
The house and grounds of Longfield should never have been mentioned in the will at all Sir William made over Longfield to me four years ago in settlement for money owing to me. Furthermore his qualify- ing shares in the International Paint Company, Ltd., of which he was managing director, were purchased with my financial as sistance and beld in trust for me by him.
I would like to say that the statements about Sir William's great wealth are entirely with- out foundation. As far as I know, during all the time I knew him, he was not a rich man,
April 20-Ninth annual dinner of Queen's College Old Boys' Assen., College Hall, 8 p.m.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all: Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th just will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or 1929, or they before the 9th May, will not be recognized.
All broken, chafad, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Gudowna, where they will be examined on the
Goddard and Douglas. 24th inst. at 10 am. by Messra.
No
edFire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign- ed by,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 18th April, 1929.
Youth tackles Romance and Scores a Thrilling Victory
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DAVID BUTLER Production COMING TO THE
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QUEEN'S
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and I shall be very surprised DAIRY FARM POULTRY
to hear officially that he ever
was.
The Local Government Bill, he said, would affect them a great deal, and he hoped it would tend to NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR improve the conditions of the poor
MALAYA
and relieve unemployment. It must] mean additional cost to Westmins- The Secretary for Postal ter, and the committes should be Affairs, B.S. and F.M.S., regrets to as economical as they could. The announce that the air mail service Works Committee's increase between Great Britain and India £45,000 was the largest, and that
Director of Four Companies which was inaugurated or March was chiefly due to £40,000 for un-
Sir William Maxwell, according 30, is not yet available for the classifed roads. The Council had transmission of mails between spent about £750,000 on housing to the Director of Directors, was chairman of the Goodson Gramo- Great Britain and Malava or vice schemes. versa. Provisional arrange- Councillor H. J. Greenwood, ex-phone Record Company, Ltd., the ments had been made for the dis-chairman of the Finance Commit- International Paint and Composi patch of an air mail for London tee, said that the Westminster Coun- tion Company, Ltd., and Kalahart from Penang every Saturday.eil housing work was a wonderful Diamonds, Ltd., and a director of achievement. Already they had the Standard Anti-fouling Comi- via Calcutta and Karachi
A telegram has, however, been spent $229,000, and practically position and Paint Company, Ltd. received from the Indian Post £100,000 of that was provided in
Mr. EE. Chambers has gone to Office to the effect that the pro the last two years entirely out of posed service via Calcutta would revenue. By reason of Westmins Kuala Lumpur from Penang to not connect with the westbounder's rateable value they also coun- succeed Mr. J. Macdonald as an aeroplanes at Karachi, and that tributed to the county rate on hous-ager of the Chartered Bank. M the British Post Office is not yet ing between £60,000 and £70,000 a Chambers had been president of the Penang Turf Club for several able to accept correspondence for year.
years. transmission by Air to or from countries beyond India.
The position is being carefully ed anonymous gift of $2,000 to- A short-wave wireless station has watched, and as soon as a service wards building laboratories for the been installed at Kiangsan, at a can be offered to the public a fur Radium Annexe to be opened short cost of $7,000. It is to begin
operating shortly. ther announcement will be made. ly,
Westminster Hospital has receiv-
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