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HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUR.
THE FIRST PRACTICE for the
Tcoming Senson will take place
on the Club ground on TUESDAY. September 2nd, at 5.45 p.m. All those interested are requested to attend.
H. M. MCTAVISH,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong. August 28, 1930.
THE BRITISH CORPORATION REGISTER OF SHIPPING & AIRCRAFT,
Head Office:
14, Blythswood Square, Glasgow.
UNDERSIGNED has been
Tappointed NON-EXCLUSIVE
SURVEYOR to the above Corpora- tion for Hong Kong.
T. H. G. BRAYFIELD. 3-Queen's Building Hong Kong.
Telephone No, 30281 (two lines).
Hong Kong, 25th August, 1930.
THE BUREAU VERITAS INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF SHIPPING.
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THE UNDERSIGNED has been appointed SURVEYOR to the Above-mentioned Society for Hong Kong, Canton and Macap..
T. H. G. BRAYFIELD. 3, Queen's Building, Hong Kong. Telephone No. 30231 (two lines).
CLAREMONT PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry
..by, bus.)
Suites of roomas (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.
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WEST POINT FIRE.
TWO HOUSES PARTIALLY GUTTED.
· BRIGADE'S GOOD WORK,
MOTOR. FATALITY,
PEDESTRIAN KNOCKED DOWN IN KOWLOON.
VERDICT AT INQUEST.
A verdict of death by misadven-
A spectacular fire which start- ed in West Point district, at about ture was yesterday afternoon re-
10 o'clock last night did consider { turned by a Coroner's Jury which able damage to the first, second sat with Mr. T. S. Thyte-Smith to and third floors of Nos. 167 and 189. Des Voeux Road Weat, near the junction with Western Street. The ground loors of the houses fortunately escaped damage.
It is thought that the blaze ori, ginated on the first floor of No. 169, which is used as a Chinese medicine shop. It quickly, spread
aquire into the death of a Chinese named Cheung Sing, who died in hospital. from injuries received through being knocked down by a motor lorry in Nathan Road on August 2.
Evidence as to the injuries was given by Dr. K. Uttley who said that six ribs on the right side were to the second and third flours fractured, and the spleen ruptured. which
are occupied as Chinese Death was due to shock following } tenements. Great excitement en- a ruptured spleen and internal sued, but the appliances from Cen-haemorrhage.
tral and Wanchal were on the
Pak Hang, the driver of the lorry,
spot in very quick time, followed said that the accident occurred at by a body of Police.
Risky Escape.
The Brigade "under the direc- tion of Mr. Brooks, succeeded in confining the flames to the two houses Nos, 167 and 169, the in- mates of which effected their es- cape from the top floors by a risky scramble along the roof.
Some damage by water was done to the stock of a Chinese tobacco, firm occupying No. 171, but it is understood that the loss was covered by Insurance.
The blaze WAS subdued in about half an hour, although a party of firemen were left behind to search the debris.
Lost Jewels.
A Chinese woman, an inmate of No. 171, complained to onlookers that in her hurry to escape sho misplaced her jewel case, which contained valuables worth Over $1,000. She said that she was later able to recover part of the valuables.
MONEY LEFT.
BRITISH LADY'S ESTATE IN COLONY.
The late Helen Strachan Lloyd Thomas, spinster, late of Yamano Cottage, Willingdon Road, East- bourne, Sussex and formerly of the Croft, Holmwood Gardens. Wallington, Surrey, left estate in Hong Kong to the value of $124,400 and net personalty in the United Kingdom amounting to £37,691.
She was last seen alive on The Big Party-The romance March 2, 1930, and on March 13, of a shop girl and her boy her body was found at Yamano friend," played against a varie Cottage.. gated setting, ranges from a
10.20 s.m., an' August 2. The lorry was filled with earth. It was rain-"
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Record and The Evening News, Glasgow.. Until then the firm had consistently re- fused to advertise.
So
that successful. WAS initial advertising experiment that later the company decid- ed to adopt a forward policy, and it initiated a well-plan- ned national advertising cam- paign.
Space WAS taken in the Manchester Dally Despatch, and other papers, as part of a regular judiciously organis- ed campaign. This year the recognition of the value of publicity in modera business influenced the company to take larger and more frequent space.
How this has influenced the volume of business is indicat- ed by the annual report made up to June 30. This shows that the net profit has risen · to £2,522,079 from £2,208,388.
Ite-sealing of the probate of her ing at the time and the lorry was Third Avenue tenement to an will has been granted to Mr. D. J. following a bus, about 70 feet be- elaborate roof bungalow and a Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stakes hind. At the junction of Argyll gorgeously modernistic modiste's and Master, who is attorney for Street a Chinese suddenly appear- establishment, and further adorn the executor, Mr. Allan S. Young, ed and tried to cross the road be- ed with delightful comedy and of Little Court, Court Road, Ban-tween the bus and the lorry. The half a dozen of the season's catch- stend, Surrey. iest songs-that, in a nutshell, is "The Big Party." A talkie film.
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man was only nine feat away from Among many family bequeats, the lorry. After sounding his testator directs that the residue horn, witneas applied the foot broke of her estate be given to the Chris- and slowed down. When he saw CENTRAL features William tinn Social Union for the purpose that the man kept on running, he Powell and Richard Arlen in "The of establishing a rest room in the applied his hand brake and swerv Four Feathers." A war in which country for women and girls. ed to the left, but it was too the casualties were almost as
Buddhist Priest's Savings. late and the man was knocked down. Immediately after the man fell wit ness felt the torry jump as if it had run over the man. When wit ness dismounted he found the man lying under the foot board. Two Europeans, helped him to lift the injured man into the lorry, and witness took him to the Mongkok Police Station, whence he was re- MAJESTIC presents Dorothy It will be recalled that the three moved to hospital in an ambulance. Mackaill and Jack Mulhall in alleged murderera were tried at At the time of the accident the "The Crystal Cup," a film without the Assizes a few months ago. lorry was travelling at not more B "villain." What "menace" They were defended by Mr. F. C. than 12 miles per hour. does appear in the picture is in Jenkin, who attached great im- only the first scene, but his in-portance to a tooth found on the fluence during the rest of the premises. It was claimed by the story is sufficient to make the Police that the tooth in queation N EXTRAORDINARY GEN-
plot a highly dramatic one. A was a molar from the dead man's of the silent film.
jaw, and that it had been-knock- ed out while the assallante were gagging him. Mr. Jenkin disprov- ed this theory.
large as those of the world con- The Chinese Buddhist priest, flict forms a thrilling background Cheung Hung-chan, who was alleged for this Paramount film. The to have been murdered by three Dervish Rebellion against the Chinese a few months ago, left British in the Soudan in estate in the Colony to the value 1881 cost
more than 6,000,000 of $1,000. He died intestate and lives. A magnificent spectacle letters of administration have been throughout. A sound film.
granted to his brother, Cheung Yum. a.gardener..
Hong Kong, 25th August, 1930.
HONG KONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
AERAL MEETING
Club will be held in the Club House on FRIDAY, the 5th Sep- tember, 1930, at 5.30 p.m.
Business: As set forth in the notice posted in the Club.
By Order, TA, ROBERTSON,
Lieut.-Col. Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th August, 1930,
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
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STAR featurs John Barrymore in "Eternal Love." It is a story of love and passion," of deep hatreds and gay abandon, of tense moments and breath-taking! climaxes. The high Swiss Alps and the simple folk who dwell in one of the villages provide the locale for "Eternal Love." silent film..
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Evidence of testing the lorry brakes was given by Traffic Ser- geant Clark who said that he found them to be in perfect order,
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MARQUESS OF WATERFORD ENGAGED.
Waterford with Mr. Russell. For some years his sisters, Lady Blanche Girouard and Lady Katherine Dawnay, were joint masters of the same pack.
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Miss Lindsay, who in a brunette of medium height, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Lindsay, of South Audley Street, W. She bears
To their list of hlatory-while-it- WORLD presents Victor Master's Voice has just added happens gramophone records, "His Varconi and Jetta Goudal in several of the principal speeches Fighting Love." The picture is delivered at the Imperial Preas LAMMERT BROS. described as a romantic drama of
Conference in London. This love and intrigue ranging from the castles of nobility of Italy to achievement, the first of its kind, the African desert. with Miss was rendered possible by placing the "His Master's-Voice" electrical Goudal in the role of a young girl recording van close to Grosvenor of the Italian aristocracy who, in House in Park Lane, and the ad order to escape marriage with dresses were engraved on war the disreputable scion of a great discs through the medium of family, Niccolini, whom she des«
microphones In the Conterence THE Undersigned have received pises, accepts the hand of an hall. The sole object was to pre- Tinstructions to sell. by Pabllenged soldier, General Navarro, attach loopt a permangut
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