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Shipping
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Douglases
.$27% n
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It appears that Chang chang shot Hsien Kai under the belief that the latter was a would-be assassin. It was only afterwards that he discovered his victim's identity.
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SIR RICHARD TERRY'S TRAMP TRIP
er
or
(per tael)
Sovereigna
(Bank's
H.K. & W. Docks
buying rate)
10.00
China Providents
Silver (par oz.)
23 11/16
Hongkews
Bar Silver in Hong
Kong
3% dis.
Copper Cash
Nominal
Copper Cents
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.
H.K. Wharves
.$130 b & s
.$823% b
$4.45 b 4.60 s)
New Engineerings ** Shanghai Docks,
Cotton Mills
.7184 n
T7.90 b
PICADILLY
CHURCH NOTICES
.F144 b
A
3% prem.
Ewo Cotions T20.05 b *19/20 sa Shanghai Cottons (old) ....T96 b
[941⁄2 sa Shanghai Cottons (new) ..$64 b Zoong Sings
.T11.50 b Lands, Hotels & Buildings H.K. & S. Hotels
..89.10 b
ONE OF LONDON'S MOST CHEERFUL SPOTS
IS
UNDER
CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR MADE FOR ALL NOTICES
THIS
HEADING
THE TUBE STATION
H.K, Lands
Circus
Rate of Native In- - terest
7% P.B.
Chinese Sub. Coin 25% dis. Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.
LONDON EXCHANGES
Paris New York
London, Yesterday.
123.905
1.84 11/16
Shanghai Lands
Humphreys Estates
H.K. Realties
.3604 b 61 gaard enlarged Plecadilly
.T158 b Underground Railway Station in ....$14.10 bLondon would reveal many out- $78s standing improvements. This has
.$98 s proved to be correct.
China Light (old) $12.60 s 121⁄2 sa China Lights (new) ..$122
Brussels
34.87
Geleya
35.16
Amsterdam
12.094
Milan
Berlin
92.695 20.36
Chinese Estates HK. Territorials Prince's Buildings
Stockholm
18.10
Copenhagen
18.205
Osio
13.205
Peak Trams (new)
Vienna
34.43
Star Ferries
Prague
1984
China Lights (womb.)
Helsingfors
192%
a holi-
Madrid
32.875
Libon
108.20
Athens
375
China Lights 1929 issue. H.K. Electrica (oll)
Bucharest
818
$62 [61/62 sa
Rio
5%
H.K. Electrics (new)
Buenos Aires
47 7/32
Macao Electrics
Bonbay
H.K. Telephones
Shanghai
2/3 %
China Buses
$23 b .$7 £ T15 b
Hong Kong
1/11
Yokohama
1/11
Singapore Tractions Singapore Pref.
23 11/16 234
Sandakan Lis.
-British Wireless Service.
Sir Richard Terry, the compos-
who sals day trip to Norway, is taking with him a fascimile copy of Calvin's first Psalter. During the voyage intends to harmonise the melodies.
ke
ore
Sir Richard is travelling IS purser on
ΞΙΟΠ
tramp steamer at the wage of 15. a month.
The Psalter, which was written by Calvin in 1539, while in exile in Strasburg, was supposed to be lost, Sir Richard told a Press re- presentative but was found in 1878 in the Royal library at
Silver Spot
Silver Forward
ACTRESS
1/5-3/16
Munich. It was the first thing of | DOLLY'S NECKLACE its kind to be published. The music is in the old-fashioned type, MISSING PEARLS OF FAMOUS and only the melody is given. It has never been harmonised, and Sir Richard has undertaken the task of editing and harmonising the melodies.
When I am finished with that," he said, "I am going to begin 'cleaning up my edition of the Scottish Psalter-harmonising all the tunes and melodies by put ting them in the treble instead of the tenor."
Speaking of his voyage, Sir Richard said that he had chosen a cargo vessel in order to get some work done, and for his health
"I hope to be away for about a month," he added. "I have sign- ed on before, and already have the Board of Trade discharge cer- tificate to the effect that my con- drėt and emelency have been good."
MARKING FLOUR
·A voluntary arrangement has been
made with the milling industry for
Mrs. Mortimer Davis, betler known as Miss Rosie Dolly, one of the "Dolly Sisters," Was sum- moned to the office of the police commissary in Paris, recently, together with Messrs. Chaumet and Pollak, jewellers. They were required to be present at an ex- pert examination of the 7,000,000ƒ. (£56,000) necklace for which her husband paid in bills which have: not been met.
As already reported, there were two peart necklaces, but the dane er had them combined into one, which, on the request of the jewel- lers, was seized and placed under seal panding payment. At the afternoon's meeting the two jewel- ters in the presence of the magis- trate took the necklace to pieces and carefully examined and weighed each pearl.
M. Chaumet recognised each |
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HONG KONG
at Peak
It was prophesied that the new Sept. 15, 16th Sunday after Trinity
Holy Communion, 8 am. Holy Communion Church, 8 a.m.
Military Service, 9.30 a.m. Children's Service, 10 a.mi. Sunday School at Peak School, 10 am.
Matins, 11 a.m.
Preacher: The Dean. Subject: "Christian Marriage."
Holy Communion, 12 noon.. Evensong, 6 p.m.. Preacher Rev. H. V. Kaop.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
This new station bristles with improvements, and as a consequence Publie Utilities
it has excited greater interest and H.K. Tramways $18.10 b 18.35 s
attracted possibly more Peak Trams, (old)
attention .$11,80 s
than has ever before attached it-i $6.05 n
self to so prosait a work as a new-j $66% b
ly constructed underground railway atation. There is sound reason, however, for all this, as the station strikes an entirely fresh note in underground railway schemes. -
Beneath the surface of the road. [Branch of The Mother Church, way at Piccadilly Circus, over which The First Church of Christ, Selen- streama a never-ending volume of tist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.]
Macdonnell Road," below Bowen traffic, there is a galaxy of magni-
Road Tram Station, ficent shop-window displays. It is
Sunday Service, 11.15 am. .11/one of the most cheerful spots in
Subject:-"Substance." the West End of London, and is .20/- h
well lighted and well ventilated, no $28
that the shopwindow displays may be inspected with ease and com- .95 cts. 8.
fort. $27 л
The uniform lighting of the $2% b $96 94 & spacious circular booking hall is one $7.70 bof the features of the station. $1b Plain cylindrical shades of diffusing .97.05 bglass equipped with Pearl Osram lamps give a soft yet brilliant illu-
The Public is cordially invited 85mination.
In addition there is to attend the ssion and visit the auxiliary lighting furnished by up-Reading Room
Industrials
China Sugars Malabon Sugars. Canton Ices Caments (comb.) Cements (old)
Cements (new) HK. Rope (old) H.K. Ropes (new) United Asbestos
Stores, &, Dairy Farms Watsons Der A. Wings Lane Crawfords Mackintoshs Sinceres Wm. Powella
Miscellaneous
.$19.90 wards of four hundred Gecoray: ..$11.90 b silvered glass reflectors installed in .80 cts. n the shop windows.
$1% #
The Sunday School is held on Sunday mornings at 10 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening Meeting at 5.30 o'clock.
Reading Room at above address. open:-
Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
Monday and Thursday 5.30 to 7
p.121.
MOSQUITO PEST
are vil of
This rotunda of shop-windows A correspondent writes, to the ..818 bacreens one of the greatest under "Delly Telegraph": A recent let- ..$12 n ground engineering feats ever ac-
ter appeared in "The Daily Tele- .$249complished, for, as a railway station, graph" in which the writer refer- Piccadilly has no equal in any part, rad to the "appalling increase" of H.K. Amusements
$25% of the world. A crowd of eor the mosquito pest, giving the H.K. Construction ...$1.40 aridors, rows of Robot-like booking English summer all the disadvan- B. Ind. G. Bonds......64% n machines that take fares and detages of the tropics. ILK. Govt. Loan.$6%% 8 prem. liver tickets available to all parts Simple remedies should be Caldbeck Macgregor: Ord. 11 hof London, silent direction indica- broadcast, especially after the re- Caldbeck Macgregor Fret $10 btors, and eleven high-speed escala- cent raius, and the likelihood of
Sales to Shanghai.
tors, form part and parcel of this a spell of very hot weather. unique engineering feat.
Children are very often tortured These escalators are illuminated by insect bites, and parents, be IMMIGRANT TYPES by means of projectors that direct fore taking them out for the day. beams of light upwards to the should smear the exposed parts EX-M.P. WITHDRAWS HIS ceilings of the corridors: In all of the body, arms, neck, and legs,
STATEMENTS
there are nearly seventy of these with boracic cream, with a little special lighting walls mounted on tincture of lodine. The P. and O steamer" "Ben-bronze columns between the escala- To allay irritation if bitten the one of the forty-nine pearls he digo" arrived at Adelaide recent-tor runways, each being equipped most useful remedies had sold, But M Pollak recog- ly, having O board Mr. with Gécoray reflectors," and atted citron or oil of lavender, while nised only sixty-seven of a hun- | Collingwood Hughes, ex-M.P. for with Osram gasilled lamps. These milk of heather neutralises the the use of the national mark on dred which he said comprised the Peckham, who is reported to have fittings were designed so that the poisons and has the advantage ́of packages of English wheat flour necklace he had sold. It is stats | made derogatory remarks regarding brightness of the light sources being non-greasy, from October 1, states the Ministryed that the dancer admitted that the type of immigrant passengers should be invisible to users of the Another good plan is to use a of Agriculture.
those pearls missing from the on the "Bendigo": Pescalators-and the whole of the pennyworth of Epsom Salte in the The Minister makes the regula necklace claimed by B. Pollak On reaching the Port Mr.emitted light is, for this reason, morning bath. tions fixing the grade definitions, had been used in rings, brooches Hughes said he apologised to the directed upwards, to be reflected and the millers who adhere to the and bracelets. She promised, passengers. The report of the in- down from the ceiling: It con- scheme will carry them out. Re-however, to collect them again terview was unfair and inaccur- stitutes the most striking escalator tailers will sell the flour under the and to advise the magistrate as
até.
ing lighting installation yet designed, “ A sensation was caused at Indore following grades:
soon as she had done so.
carefully discriminated be- The General Electric Co., Ltd by a report that Udal Singh, Raja All English (plain); All English The examination and weighing tween the different types of im-designed and made the relectors, of Jhabua, who has already marri (self-raising) and All English of the pearls occupied three hours migrants in general," he declar- and were also responsible for the ed eight wives, of whom three are (yeoman).
and haif
ed, "aaying much in favour of all manufacture of the lighting stan- still alive, is contemplating a ninth | An inquiry as to whether import-
of them, but in the report only dards on the escalators and other union with a Rajput girl of 18 ed wireless receiving acto, com Among the passengers by the the adverse remarks were publish- fitments, to the designs of the years belonging to Pali, in Jodhpur perents, and accessories should as "Lancashire saling from ed, and these were exaggerated architects, Messrs. Adams, Holden State bear an indication of origin will be Rangoon on Aug. 22 for the United and accentuated
Pearson. The Installation was The Raja, who is 54 years of age, made by the Standing Committee Kingdom, was Captain F. Kingdon "I regret that the published re-actually carried out by the staff was deprived of his powers in 1927, under the Merchandise Marks Act Ward, the famous botanist, who, a port contained observations cans of the Signal Engineers Dept. of and has since lived at Indore, on September 30 and October 1. few months back, proceeded from ing pain and annoyance to pas- the London Electric Railway, who where his eighth marriage to an Rangoon on an expedition through sengers, which was not my inter- are warmly to be congratulated on other Rajput girl, also 18 years old, Messrs. Prichard and Co, Ltd., French Indo-China Captain King- tion of the statements, and with the establishment of a system of tion, the Rain has arranged to have
The staff of the Ipoh branch of the interior of Burma, China and tion. I apologise for the publica-undertaking what has resulted in was celebrated six months ago.
In order to avoid a demonstra- last week presented Mr. G. B. don Ward was a member of the draw them without reservation. illumination, under exceptional cir Saunders with a handsome solid Roosevelt Expedition, which touch-Inasmuch as the report con-
ver cigar box as a token of their ed at Burms before proceeding on tained a reflection on the mecumstances, worthy of wider adep appreciation and as a memento of its journey to collect botanical and | cal – authorities at Australia their happy association. - Mr. other specimens for the Chicago House or of the P. and D. Com- Saunders, who has been a director Museum.
-
of Messrs. Fritchard and Co and manager of their Ipoh branch, has resigned after about 17 years
service with the company.
-pang, this phase of the publish- fed report was not even mention- The Law Court, which rose fored to the repertor, and I com-|| the long vacation, will re-open on pletely exonerate them from all October 12,
adverse criticism”-
tion.
RAJAH'S NINTH WIFE
his bride taken to Mhow for the
ceremony there.
The Raja receives a monthly al- lowance of 5,000, rupees (375) from the Jhabua State Treasury, and every new wife brings him a More than $484,000 has been sub-dowry, called tics, from the father- scribed to the Thankoffering Fund in-law, with certain lands for her
maintenance.
for the King's Recovery,