Page
MONDAY,
Phone 20022
FOR
NOVEMBER 17, 1930.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-rs Words thres haer - tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.
All replies under this heading must be called for.
WANTED.
WANTED.-Shroff for old-established Company. Security required. Apply Box No. 672, c/p "China Mail."
TUITION GIVEN
ST. ANDREW'S BALL, November 28. -The latest BALL-ROOM DANCING taught by AILEEN and DORIS WOODS. recently returned from Perfect HOLLYWOOD, California. and rapid tuition assured,
23, Hum-
phreys Buildings, Kowloon Tel. 50651.
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE
Within
an haar from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarder received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb. Higher Local), Camb, Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and printed. "China" Mail** promptly Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tala- phone 20022.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE
BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger
Marcel Waves, Hair Cutting and
. Manicure for Ladies &
Gentlemen.
Fedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5 Tel. 25169,
Opposite entrance .K. Hotel.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaka and Cameras Films, Plates and Papers, etc., Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.
Flowers beautify and make the Homes attractive as nothing cisé enn do,
FOR SALE
FINE SELECTION OF
GARDEN SEEDS
From
SUTTON & SONS, Reading ARTHUR YATES & Co., Ltd., Sydney.
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Philatelic Goods, Toys, elo. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Bar No. 620, HONG KONG.
COASTWISE
ALGIE” BENNETT.
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings on the China Coast
PRICE $1.00.
Now on sale at BREWERS
WHIT AY LAIDLAW EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE. and at the
Hotel Strathcona
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Make this Hotel your headquar- ters while visiting Victoria, BC. Ideally altuated and within easy access to vi} the famous Beauty Spots in and around Canada's Island Resort.
The Hotel where personal service makes your stay enjoyable.
RATES MODERATE. ||2|31999||||||||||||182Ƒ Á±Ðμ涶
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry by bus.)
Sultes of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, -private bathrooms attached.
EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.
Terms very moderate. Rossr vations by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT Tel.: 07880 & 57385 (Private). Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE.”
REMNANTS
:
SALE
at.
KASHMIR
SILK STORE
Opposite Queen's Theatre. 36A, Queen's Road, C.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions -
Tinstructions to sell by Pubile
THE Undersigned have receive3
Auction
ON THURSDAY, November 20, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at. No. 110, The Peak (4, Mountain View).
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Hatatands, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs Teak Dining Table, Sideboard, Chairs, Glass Cabinet, Ice Chest, Silver Ware, New Cut- lery, Ornament, Pictures, Brass Ware, Curtains, Carpets, etc., ote.
Teak Bedstead, Teak Dressing Case, Teak Chest of Drawers, Table, Table Lamps, Table Fans,
Also
A Quantity of Blackwood Ware.
On View from Wodnesday, No- vember 19, 1980.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
SPORT NOTICES
THE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
THER
NOTICE.
THE HALF YEARLY GEN- ERAL MEETING of Voting Members will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on MON DAY, 24th November, 1930, at 5.15 p.m.
CHINA MAIL.
.
THE WHISTLING MONKEY.
Sees Ghosts and Covers Up His Eyes.
QUAINT SUPERSTITIONS.
AIRWAYS SURPRISE,
A BRITISH-AMERICAN LINE TO BE STARTED.
READY NEXT YEAR
A specimen of the Malayan slow
Washington, Saturday. loris, a diminutive tailless lemur, was a recent arrival at the London Second
Mr. Warren Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster Zoo. It is about the size of a General of the United States, an- ALL Members are cordially in-month-old kitten, with enormous nounced that an agreement has vited to attend and participate in bulging eyes and a dense plush-like been negotiated between the any discussion which may ensue coat. The little animal is strictly Imperial Airways and the Pan
By Order of the Stewards, nocturnal, sallying forth at night American Airways for a British
C. B. BROWN,
In search of insects, birds, and their American air mail service, to start eggs, and the Zoo specimen when within a year. brought out of its darkened cage for Everything is settled with the inspection during the day-time exception of equipment, inter- covers its eyes with Its hands.
change of weather reports,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th Nov., 1930.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
Mr. E. G. Boulenger, writing in and the establishment of the "Dally Telegraph," states that landing flelds.
the loris's principal interest lies in The American Post Office will the wealth of folklore and supersti use the line for mail concessions, DRAFT PROGRAM Er the tion which has grown up around it. and Charleston, so
RAFT PROGRAMMES and
to
Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth To the sallors it is known as the will probably be the American Extra Race Meetings to be held "Ling Long." or Wind Monkey, terminus on account of its altua- on SATURDAY, 29th November owing
its habit when tion below the bad weather zone. of uttering B tune- Flying boats will very probably and 6th and 13th December, 1990, pleased respectively, may be obtained atful whistle, regarded by them be used, and passengers might be the Race Course, Hong Kong Club 8. A forerunner af a and Causeway Bay Stables.
Entries will close at 12 o'clock Noon on the following dates:-
Thursday, 20th November, 1930, Monday, 1st December, 1930. Monday, 8th December, 1930.
GENERAL NOTICES
HONG KONG A.D.C.
PRESENT
"THE MIDDLE WATCH"
A ROMANCE OF THE ROYAL NAVY
BY
STEPHEN - KING HALL &IAN HAY
THEATRE ROYAL
fair-carried later. Bermuda and the wind. Its large eyes and slow, casy Azores will be the bases of the
have movements
no doubt done planes of the Pan Americaă Com-: much to create the mystic aura pany, which now runs a line be
tween the United States and which surrounds it.
-Malign Influence.
South America, and will do tho According to Major Stanley stage between Bermuda and the Flower, an authority on Malayan mainland. animals, it is credited with an in- London circles are not prepared fluence, chiefly in a malign direc- to endorse this, although they tian, and one which is just as active confirm some statements and when the animal la dead as when acknowledge that the manager of ft is alive. A Malay may commit the Imperial Airways is visiting a crime he did not premeditate and the United States and that the then and that an enemy had burled project will probably be discuss- a slow loris under his threshold. ed.-Reuter's American Service. Thus, unknown to him, he had been compelled to act to his own dis-! advantage.
BURMA CYCLONE.
NO LIVES LOST, BUT ** MUCH DISTRESS.”
Thera 1s, in fact, hardly an event in life that may not be influenced for better or worse by the loria. The animal's own life is said to be an unhappy one, for it la continual- ly seeing ghosts, for which reason it hides its face in its hands. An allied species inhabiting Ceylon is
Rangoon, Saturday. held sacred, and its eyes are em- Reports published abroad thất | ployed as charms and love potions. hundreds of lives were lost in a This and much more which has cyclone at Kyankoyu Island, been written about the folklore, sur-Kamri, in Lower Burms, are base. rounding the loris may amuseless.
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THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.
St. George's Building, 2nd Floor
WHAT you need..
Phone. 23639.
WHEN
you need it!
We guarantee prompt delivery of Cargo ex ships delivered to all parts of Hong Kong and South China.
Also passengers' lug- gage called for and placed on board out going ships.
WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE.
Correct Styles FELT HATS :
Andrews,
Battersby,
Borsalino,
Cambiaghi,
Hardeman,
AN IRISH COMEDY.
HUMILIATION FOR A PATRIOT.
"IN-HAT" PUT ON.
NOV. 15171820-21-22. superstitions, not only in foreign uninhabitable, but there were no language in
AT 9.15 P.M.
MATINEE: NOV. 1916
- AT 5.15 ́P.M.
BOOK YOUR SEATS semination of knowledge, some still
NOW.
ANDERSON. MUSIC CO.
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
by
A. H. CROOK, O.B.E. M.A. W. KAY, MA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE H.A. R3⁄4c.
PRICE $2.00..
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mail Offices.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
"THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
linger.
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
Ward's,
etc., etc.
THE BAKILLY CO., LTD.
153-185, Des Voeux Road Central.
LETTERS AND RADIO
ADDRESSES WHICH CANNOT BE TRACED.
FOST OFFICE LIST
Radio Telegraph Ofce, Govern- ment Euilding:
many, but it is of interest, since it i Practically all the houses in the An interesting case involv-
A. General Post Office notificm- arouses the question of animal town are so damaged as to being the status of the Irish tion gives the following unclaim-.
the Free State ed correspondence, etc., waiting countries, but in our own. Many lives lost.
before Mr. There is much dis- came
Little, Dis- at the Post Office," and also un volumes might be devoted to the tress, and food is very scarce.__| triet_Justice_in_the___Dublin claimed radio telograms at the animal beliefs once current In Great Reuter.
Court, when Michael Obolguldhir. Britain, and although most have
of Kilkenny, claimed £10 damages been dispelled by the general die-
against Dantel Murphy as licensoo D. Barendse, H. 1. P. Bruno, Ivan' of Wynn's Hotel, Dublin, for alleged Borisovich, Mise May Bend, W.. T.. breach of duty as an innkeeper by Booth, Mrs. R. T. Capen, J. Drewry, refusing to admit plaintiff without | A. Dalanay, Rev. Frank Eckerson, lawful excuse. It was explained | TA: Ella, G. J. Frans, H. F. B. that the plaintiff (whose name in Gardiner (Shell-Mex Ltd.), Mile. English is Bolger) gave his name Gradet, Mrs. Ruth Gill, Mrs. T. in Irish at the hotel, and was told Heker, L. M. Harmon, A. C. Hamil- he would not be admitted unless heton, F. Jaccofo (Oriental Ham gave it in English.
Manuf. Co.), E. G. Jordan, R. P. Mr. Sean O'Hundbaigh, for the Larain, Mr. Larue, N. G. Majer, plaintiff, addressed the Court In J. H. May, J. Martinke, W. G. Irish.
Mckenny, Miss G. McKenzie, Mr. Mr. Little: This is rather em- ; and Mrs, D. G. Mirama, Dr. H. M. barrassing. We are short-handed O'Connor, G. C. Pelham, J. Schilton, here, and Mr. Clery, the clerk, who Wireless Operator (Felix Tausig).. knows Irish very well, will not be | G. E. Stockley, F. C. Volkman, F. A' available.
Wallis, Dr. A. L. Wärnthuis (Pres. Mission), Miss Wong Pak Ying.
Registered Articles. Mr. Isako (Isakd Circus), Wm. McLoughlin.
Rabbit Taboo.. Black cat and lucky pig charms, which enjoy such a ready sale, are taken by many more seriously than they care to admit. In Cornwall,
"Mortals and Immortals" was where a brisk trade is still done in the subject of the Lesson-Sermon "charms," many strange beliefs are in all Churches of Christ, Scient- cherished by the fishermen. It is ist. on Sunday, November 16. considered, for instance, most, un- The Golden Text was: "As we propitious to mention the rabbit on have borne the image of the board a trawler, and few skippers earthy, we shall also bear the will permit the animal to figure on image of the heavenly." (1 Cor. the diet sheet.
16; 49.)
Quite recently a West Country Among the citations which com- trawler brought up amongst other prised the Lassen-Sermon was the rubbish a rabbit's skull, whereupon following from the Bible: "So Mr. O'Huadhaigh said there was the net was hauled in and a dash when this corruptible shall have another Irish-speaking clerk who made for port without further dal-put on incorruption, and this mor- had done excellently as an inter- Hance.
tal shall have put on immortality, preter a few days previously. Snakes, of course, have always then shall be brought to pass the
Mr. Sherry, for the defendant, been regarded as in league with saying that is written, Death is said he wanted to raise an objection. the powers darknças, and much ex-swallowed up in victory." (1 CorThe bill was against Daniel Murphy, cuse can be offered when one takes|15; 54.) *
whereas Wynn's Hotel was owned into account the serpent's sinuous The Lesson-Sermon also includ-by the Clarence Hotel Company. So movements and possible poisonous ed the following passage from the far as the defendant was concerned properties.
Christian Science. textbook, the bill was bad.
Mr. O'Huadhaigh then said 'some-
Unpaid Correspondence.
M. Lacson, R. L. Stewart.
Radio Telegrams. Lim Tet-lin (Ho Hong Bank), from
Soengelat.
Padovaal (Hong Kong Hotel), from
Yunnanfu.
Governbank, from San Francisco.
There is far less excuse, however; "Science and Health with Key to for the general horror in which the Scriptures," by Mary Baker many lizards and amphibians are Eddy: "Truth will be to us the thing in Irish which led Mr. Sherry 1560, 2867, 6670, 0022; 1129, 2639,
to say, "That puts the tin-hat on held. In Madeira, for instance, the resurrection and the life only as native fishermen, who will not it destroys all error and the belief it." (Laughter.) hesitate to bite the offending wea-that Mind, the only Immortality of The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the E.E. Tele Pons from living sting rays and man, can be fettered by the body, have no fear of octopods, will recall and Life be controlled by death." graph Co. Office, Hong Kong with horror from the small and (p. 292.)
Jenkins, Peninsula Hotel, from perfectly harmless wall lizard. Lansing, Mich
The common toad In England Senpakubu, from Bangkok. ·
which in Shakespeare's time was Woods, from Liverpool, Po, accredited with carrying a precious 8. LACK, jewel in its head, is still regarded Superintendent. In many parts of the country.as Hong Kong, November 18, 1930.a creature of ill omen.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH. CO., LTD.,
OF DENMARK.
The Praying Mantis, An animal's appearance ho doubt | goes far to encourage curious be liefs. The praying mantis,, abund ant in Southern Europe and the East, has achieved a widespread re- The following unclaimed teleputation for salutliness as a result grams are lying at the office of of ita devout crouching attitude the Great Northern Telegraph when on the look-out for pray, In Company (Limited) of Den Arabia, where the insect is very abundant. It ́ le sald always to perform its devotions with its face towards Mecca.
LÄMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.mark:- Hong Kong, November 14, 1980.
G. P. Broadloom; from Bradford. Hahn, Peninsula or Hong Kong have received Hotel, from Yokohama..
In conclusion, it sald
Tinstructions to sell by Pablle King Mo Chão, from Kingatou, that animal superstitions, benign
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, November 21, 1930, commencing at 11 am
At No. 15, Humphreys' Building,
Kowloon H
RUSKA Largo Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD -
FURNITUREN
On View from Thursday. Nows ember 201
Jamaica K
F. V. JENSEN,”
Superintendent, Hong Kong, November 18, 1938
Bring Your PRINTING
otherwise, are in these enlightened days still sufficiently accredited by all classes to justify a kindly toler £nce for those held by the distant to-patriots of the slow loris.
Thero are over - 108,000 Indiana now living in Caunda, and last year they harvested 1,800,000 busheli of grain. Their real and personal pro- perty is valued at $75,000,000, and they are making steady progrces, "according to a repart of Dr. Duncan Campbell Booth, deputy superinten dent-gederal of the Department of Indian Affaku,“
After the arrival of an inter- preter the case was resumed. Mr. Sherry's objection was upheld by Mr. Little, who dismissed the case.
6794, 1648, 0702, 0204, 0615, from Swatow.
Pan Line-ho (44, Mongkok Road, Yaumati), from Dartagnan.
Sin Hwa-eng (Lobging House),
from Baigon.
2880, from Swatow. - 8888, from Yunnanfu. Goodwill, from Swatow. Hahn (Hong Kong Hotel), from
·Berlin.
4187, from Balikpapan,
8888, from Yunnanta.
· Paoy - Keo ⠀ (Chan Sing), from
Sandakan.
Man Jook-shing, from Soerabaya.
STANDARD TIMES.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY,
Sunrise and Sunset In Hong Kong for November. (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, "East"of Greenwich) aró as follow:--
Nov.
17
Sunrise Sunset 6.37 5.30 6.37 5.39
5.39
18
19
6.89
20
6.89
5.39
21
6.39 5.38
22
6.40
5.88
6.40 5.38
24
6.41 E88
28
6:42 638
26
6.458.88
6.48 £39.
DOROTHY JOBDAN ang RAMON NOVARRO (6. DEVIL MAY CARE
Dorothy Jordan and Ramon Novarro in "Devil May Care, the current attraction of the Queen
6.44 6.98 $6.456.89