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A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
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Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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Hong Kong, August 1, 1929.
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ON
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Terms-Cash on Delivery.
FURNITURE. (Catalogues will be issued). On View from Wednesday, FOR SALE Silk Skirts $3.00. August 7, 1929. Ladies' Embroidered Pyjamas, $800, Gent's Striped Silk Pyjamas, $6.00, Cotton Pyjanins, $2.00. Neckties with Handkerchief to Match, at $2.75 and $2.50. Hole Proof Socks, at 75 cents a pair. Ladies' Underwear, sets of 3,] $17.50.--See our YouAL, S. Narain, China Building, 4th floor.
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A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
Comprising:-
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PUBLIC AUCTION
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VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY situate at
SHAMEEN CANTON
to be sold
By Order of the Mortgagee
By
PUBLIC AUCTION
ата
WEDNESDAY,
the 7th August, 1929, at 3 o'clock p.m. By
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers
at their Auction Rooms.
in Duddel! Street. Victoria, Hong. Konx,
CHINA MAIL,
THE
"GOD SAVE THE KING"
THE SOLDIER'S SONG"
NATIONAL ANTHEM prestige of those professions. Men of spirit will not submit to such and ARGUMENT IN IRELAND OVER terms and such restrictions,
they will seek in growing numbers carrers in countries where oppor- tunities are open and Com- petition is free. I feel bound to
"
at
"MAN IN BLUE"
3
The operation popularly known
as the "moonlight fit" is referred to thus:
ig!!
Furniture-May be detained be- tween 8 n.m, and 6 am, when fraud is suspected or clandestine removal to avoid payment of rent
Officers are left in no doubt as to
KNOWLEDGE AMASSED BY THE POLICEMAN
PERFECT CONSTABLES In most countrica students speak say that this is a solution that a
Every man in blue has his little and act with diretness and candour, certain vocal, powerful section in blue book, which is entitled "Duty their duty where a big disturbance It is, therefore, perhaps just as well the country would not be sorry to Hints to Constables," and when any occurs. It is expressed in this very that the management of the Trinity see. With them it must be all give police officer is in doubt simple language: College sports was under the control and no take; it must be either com- as to what he should do the little
Kiot.---Prevent and send imme- of a body of students instead of the pliance, obscurity or exile.
blue book is sure. to put him right.diate notice to station. more responsible and vulnerable The class to suffer in the first From time to time it may be an
Nothing could be simpler than college authorities. This has en-instance from this policy will be officer's duty to stop, among other that! abled the attitude of our rulers to the Anglo-Irish. At present they things, a bicycle. He may stop it,
"Not Authorised" wards the National Anthem to be play a part in trade and commerce, of course, by placing his bulk in
Very delicate duties are defined clearly revealed. The matter had and enjoy an influence out of all the line of approach. But it should thus under "Dying Declarations": to come to a head before long, writes proportion to their numbers and not be done;
"First ask victim if he believes the Dublin correspondent of the political power. They have always This is what the blue book ad- he is dying and whether he had any "Sunday Time."
done so, partly in the past because Vises:
hope of recovery, taking a careful The
note of answer. If case not urgent send for superior officer. To be admissible, the person making must believe himself to be dying without any hope of recovery."
representative.
aetion.
Some of our most
junction:
facts appear to be these. of their privileged ascendancy, but Bicycles or Tricycles. When For some years past the late mainly now, and then, on account of necessary to stop, take hold of | Governor-General, Mr. Healy, had their energies and special aptitudes, framework at back of rider. The property consists of:-
attended the college races, and Their names adorn the annals of The mystery of the policeman's been received in a manner appro-Irish history, not alone in litera- boots is quickly solved by this in- The pieces or parcels of ground priate to his office as the King's ture and the arts, but in the field respectively situate on the British and Wrench
Boots-Strong and serviceable Last year the pres- of Concessions
ent Governor-General Shameen, Canton, in the Republic
to be worn when on duty in uni- attended, honoured patriota, to mention only form.
This Emmet, Wolfe Tone (who both of China and respectively known year, before accepting the invita graduated at Trinity College) and
and was similarly received. and registered at His Britanniction, inquiry was made as to whe- Parnell, were drawn from this ele-
Ways with Strays Majesty's Consulate General at ther the "Soldier's Song," and the ment.
One of the peculiarities of the Canton as Lot No. 41 and at the Soldier's Song" alone, would be of courage and private judgment not pick up
It was those very qualities police profession is that officers do or carry anything. not acceptable to the students, who and won them fame. as played. It appears that this was
which gave such men distinction They just seize the article, as the
It is those following instructions indicate: however, agreeable to play very same qualities that
Cattle-Straying. Seize and take a certain
to greenyard. element is trying to extinguish to. both national airs, or who were playing "God Save the King," if poorer if they succeed. even prepared to abstain from day, and the country will be of glanders, etc.
Dogs-Stray Dogs-Seize take to station. the Governor-General definitely ordered them not to do so. This
Fireworke-Hawking in Street. Setze explosive, Report offender. course did not commend itself to
Poaching.-Seize game, instru- the authorities, and His Excellency
ments; etc., if found and report was not present at the festivities.
particulars.
French Consulate at Canton
Lot No. 22 with the buildings res
pectively erected thereon and known as BOMANJI, BUILDING and THE CLUB HOUSE held for the residues of terms of 99 years
each.
For Particulars and Conditions of Sale-
Apply to
Messrs. DEACONS, Vendor's Solicitors,
1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
Dr to
Messrs. LAMMERT EROS.. The Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 27th July, 1929,
BRAEMAR TERRACE.
A FEW THREE-ROOMED UNFURNISHED
MODERN EUROPEAN FLATS AVAILABLE NOW. EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE. Motor road up to flats RENTAL (lncluding Rates, Taxes and Water) $110. monthly. Apply :-
Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, SUGAR BOOK OFFICE.
TO-DAY
and every day
46
drop in for a
'quick one
"
at the
"
"
ST. FRANCIS
at $23.00 per ton.
" $22.00
"
», $21.00
.. $17.00
Central Office, $20.00 Kowloon
The above prices include dell- very charges to destination.
After Weaning- What?
Bear
Brand Milk of course - according to doctors and experienced mothers.
They know that bables love Bear Brand -- and that it's good for them. BEAR BRAND Natural Cow's Milk
It's not Bear Brand
Sole Agents for HR, & So. China
A. B. MOULDER & CO., LTD. China Building, Hong Kong.
TANG YUK, DENTIST
the late SJEN TING,
TERMS
MODERATE
HOTEL.
FREE SNACKS
every day from 10.30-12.30
and
5.30- 7.00 p.m.
GROUND FLOOR LOUNGE.
PROMPT REPAIRS
were.
FREEDMEN
SNOBBERY IN ANCIENT ROME
Strict injunctions are given with regard to the policeman's personal conduct, as these extracts show!
Servants-Police may not gossip with nor liter near houses with that
object, nor accept gifts from them. Mistakes. If made should be frankly admitted.
Gratuities. Always to be report- ed and not to be received unless authorised.
The encyclopaedic Look for symptoms amassed by a policeman in the exe
knowledge
and cution of his duty may be gauged from the fact that the blue book gives some 2,000 hints on nearly 500 various subjects.
In fact, policemen seize almost
MEN'S DRESS
RALLEY
Land Band
Happily, his absence did not affect the general attendance, and the "The newly freed stave had everything except the persons they AMUSING SCENES AT LONDON races were a greater success than additional difficulties to face on en-arrest. In that matter they have they have been for many years past. tering free Roman society. Not to be gentle.
President Cosgrave has since only was he hampered by obligations An arrest has to be made quietly, stated that the action
London, July 5. of the to his former master, but in com- using no more, force than is neces- The Men's Dress Reform Rally, Governor-General was taken onparison with the free-born he found sary, and intimation of arrest has held in London under the auspices the advice of the Executive Council. himself on a distinctly lower social to be conveyed by taking the per-of the newly-formed and ambitious We thus enjoy the unenviable dis-plane, and he laboured under many son's arm-not seizing it or in Men's Dress Reform Party, must tinetion of being the one and only disabilities which were the heritage some way restraining his freedom have disappointed the doughty among the King's Dominions where of his servile days. Nothing, not of movement.
pioneers. His Majesty's representative is not the most unselfish patriotism, not) accorded the usual formal, appro- the most enlightened public spirit,
Whether through indifference, or because a charge of sixpence was priate courtesies. It is very much not the possession of
Cab drivers are among those per-made for admission, is unknown, to be hoped that this gaucherie, wealth, not even the friendship and sons to be viewed with for it is little more, will not be confidence of an emperer, could wipe be prevented from standing to not risk sartorial innovations.
siderable suspicion. They are to 150 were present, half of whom did con- but it is a melancholy fact that only taken seriously, either at the heart out the original stain of slavery.gether in the footway, though or throughout the body of the Slaves, on being freed, passed into nothing can be done with them, ap Empire.
A "National" Policy
society, if not with Greek cognomine, parantly, if they hatch their nefaria good example, with two women at least with names that suggested ous schemes on the kerbstone. This affair is symptomatic of aor even betrayed a servile origin. policy which seems to be definite- Successus, Dama, Apparatus, Pri-problems which are very carefully open at the neck, a woollen pullover Carpets and doormats provide sandals; Ernest Thesiger, the actor, in corduroy shorts, a drill shirt ly emerging in our national life. mitious, Primigenius, Optatus, Felia į explained in these ternis:
new-won
It is a policy which seeks to im- [ie, the judge of St. Paul], Fortu
Sweep-Watching
It is true that the platform set.
in cream-coloured trousers and
a certain point of view upon natus, Amatus, were shunned not beating (except doormats, between jacket; and Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the Carpets. Report offenders for gathered in at the waist, and no an indeperdent minority. There only by aristocratic Remans but also midnight and 8 a.m.) in street. Chairman, wearing shorts, a tennis
pose
bean by poorer citizens of the native
Latin stock.
is to be as there bas perfect fairness in the administra tion of the law, and official toler ance to all sects; there is to be ho
Prejudice of Romans
Whe- "Persons dressed as, to be carefully
The blue book pats black suppi-shirt and a tweed coat.
The Chairman explained that. cion upon chimney sweepers. "Re-
there was no official dress. port those knocking doors, ringing
But the fly in the ointment was As actors, charioteers and gladia- bells, or using noisy instruments to Dr. Leonard Williams, defiantly be deliberate discrimination in the tors, slaves and freedmen dominated solicit ordera," says the book decked in a black coat, grey Ascot laws themselves, but, at the same the stage, circus and arena. time, certain national tests are to ther be imposed. Those who reject masters or as independent citizens morning."
as the employees of their observed in the early hours of the hat, spats, and wing collar, because, as he pointed out, if the Reform them will be allowed to live in who offered their services, it was
So, it is easier to enter an Eng-Party was going to exist, it must peace and security, to pay taxes the pre-eminently who engaged in lishman's castle as an undisguised
avoid ridicule. and accept all the obligations of these professions. How strong was thief than in the role of an honest citizenship, but they will be unable to take any real part in such occupations is shown by ex-
the prejudice of Romans against chimney sweeper.
A constable is instructed to find public life, or even to enter certain ecrations hurled against Nero when out everything he can about a street professions. In other words, all he forced nobles to perform in public accident with the exception of must conform to the national mould and eventually followed in their one great secret-the victim's age. or become
little different foreigners in their native land.
to
fortable in this kind of kit as any other," he added, which statement was heatedly challenged by his colleagues on the platform.
"Besides, you can he just as coni-
wake himself. Certainly Nero in- Under "Accidents to Persons in SCHOOLBOYS CLASH flamed the wrath of the aristocracy Streets" is this admonition: Anthem, Flag and Language
"Age not to be asked for, but ap- ARRIVAL OF POLICE AVERTS The tests are to be found in the as the murderer of his mother, his
or in-parent age to be given in report." SERIOUS TROUBLE wife, and many a wealthy triology of anthem, flag, and fluential citizen; yet it was no less Officers have been known to
language. It may be argued that the first wo are mere outward
Scholars in knickers and wearing as the man who made senators dig. founder horribly sometimes in this formalities, and do not affect the grace their dignity by dancing, particular where women have been "hammer and sickle" badges were concerned, but there is an un-involved in a miniature battle in cultural and economic position of who dragged in the mire the honour combine guesswork with extreme splinters of wood were freely used. acting and singing in public, and written rule which allows them to Bombay in which brickbats and anybody. This is a very mistaken
of the Caesars by doing so himself, charity on such occasions. view of the matter. These externals that he earned his title to infamy
Three were injured." have a spiritual meaning.
With regard to deserters from They
It appears that the Hindu boys of stand for loyalties hallowed by the among all Romans of native stock the army or navy, this odd rule is a school situated at Chinchpokli,
Consequently it was left to slaves given..
which was the scene of the worst generations and for living ties of circus and areas.
and freedmen to occupy the stage, Arrest on confession (false or communal fighting recently, at- kith and kin. As the Bishop of
otherwise) or sure information. tended wearing badges inscribed Waterford and Lismore said last times were freedmen of the imperial fortable experience for the prac-distributed by the Red Flag Union, That seems to indicate an uncom-with the sign, "Hammer and sickle," week when addressing his diocese
sacrifices of past and
prezent
The most famous actors in Roman
In
The Mohamedan boys of another. school in the same compound shout- ed, "Victory for the black flag," and the Hindu boys replied, shouting, "Victory for the red dag."
The exchange of shouts passed
in synod: "Voluntary and heartfelt house, who were useful both in tical joker who desires to pose as a isolation from our brethren of the amusing the court and in any per-deserter and makes a false confes British Empire is not in astformances with which the emperors sion.
sought the favour of the proletariat. give."
Some constables must gather The language question has a
Several imperial freedmen of the wealth of information about the more pressing and practical bear-
of Paris, Pylades and weird habits of deatitate peraons, Tel. No. C. 5134. Tel No. C. 5134.sion, however. fanatical and mis the time of Commodus was called by
ing. Certain advocates of compul. Apolaustus won great celebrity on for under that heading appears this into an exchange of fisticuffs; but
the stage, and Agilius Septentrio in instruction.
the police arrived in time to avert taken, are undoubtedly sincere.
"Known to be in the habit of a clash between the boys" elders Some are indifferent, a large num
the citizens of Lanuvium the first sleeping in cellars, report parti-who had been attracted to the spot. ber object yet they both render Pantomime of his day. Nor culars. passive support because it would and their dependants less marked indoors and runs away has achieved HAPPINESS GOES WITH HEALTH was the pre-eminence of freedmen | The playful person who knocks at be unpatriotic and unpopular to do otherwise. They act in public very Roman's mind it was less diagrace-
trade and industry
a the distinction of a reference...
Under "Doors" is found: "Pre- differently from the way they talk ful to depend idly on the state or on vent and detect wilful disturbance You may be sure that if your little The healthy child is a happy, child. in private. The minority who
a patron for subsistence than to by knocking or ringing at If one is cross and cries a great deal, really do object, and are not afraid earn it by sordid labour, War and without lawful excuse, and in view refuses its food at the proper times, to say so, are powerless. While
sleeps hadly, compulsion was confined to primary agriculture were the only work to of constable, offender may be aromit, has pain and secondary schools, anda
which he might put his handa.rested."
and trouble with knowledge of the language was Roman Empire. By A. M. Duff. [From Freedmen in the Early
Correct Beat Walk
its teething and alone required for public appoint Oxford: at the
In such cases the officer may be and weak, there continues thin ments, it was still possible for a Price 12s. 6d. net.]
Clarendon Press. called upon to decide very rapidly is something. fortunate few to be educated in
whether a practical joke is a law-wrougAA England and then enter the free
ful excuse. If he has a sense of m To remedy professions. Irish is shortly to be
humour, and no desire for a stern these conditions chase, he can obviously decide the good as Baby's
nothing is alon compulsory for future barristers and solicitors, and so this avenue
London, July 12. question in the affirmative. Own Tablets, of escape will now in effect be
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It can be established as soon as the the kerb and on night duty he correct infantile Barrow Darpone, this policy will authorities give the necessary per walks on the house side of the pave indigestion, con- succeed. It will enable the promission.
ment. The blue book lays that stipation, colic fessions to made
for
down as the correct way of beat reduce feverishnces, allay teething, oyalties. A bale of four in Sanfa la walking but does not explain why and colds, expel wurins, Your chem- pains, check diarrhoea, relieve croup bat, quoted at $14. Hundreds are It is one of the professional myast sells the price 60 cents per vial. atus and dying of starvation
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