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SPORT NOTICES
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1936 22nd, 24th 25th 26th, and 29th. February, 1936
ON SATURDAY, 22nd MONDAY
ary, the first bell will be rang at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m
be.taker The tiffin interval will after the fifth race on the first four days,
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their bidges prominently displayed. throughout the Meeting.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY GENERAL NOTICES
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
W. S. BAILEY & CO. LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. Shipbuilders & Repairera.
Call Flag "L". Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors
OPTICIANS
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY
Phone 2223R 53, Queen's Road Central.
EXPERT MASSAGE FOR SPRAINS & STIFFNESS MRS. Y. AMANO No. 26 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor.
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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions
THE undersigned have received
Auction
OD
Saturday, the 29th. Feb., 1936
commencing at 10.00 am.
at No. 47 B, Peking Rd, Kowloon A Quantity of
-VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
On View from Friday, the 28th February, 1936.
Auction
do
Auctioneers
Monday, the 2nd. March, 1936 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
By Order of the Board of Directors,
BRIDGE NOTES
Passing A Two-Bid
By Ely Culbertson
SOCIETY'S 70TH BIRTHDAY Aeronautics Before Aeroplanes
AN UNBROKEN RECORD
ARADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will
WORST PLAGUE OF EGYPT
Man Who Broke Drug Traffic
HOW RUSSELL PASHA MET
AN APPEAL -
THE FINAL DIVIDEND de dared for the Year ending. $1st December 1935 at the rate of Three Pounds Sterling at ex-
The Royal Aeronautical Society change 1/3 5,5 is payable on and Coming in on a commuting after the 24th February 1996 at train the other day, a friend the oldest aeronautical institu-
How a determined drive by an the Offices of the Corporation. of mine witnessed a strenuous tion in the world with an be broadcast to-day from the where shareholders are requested card tussle by Bridge players broken record-celebrated its 70th Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Englishman, Russell Pasha, rid to apply for Warrants.
who had ideas of their own birthday on January-12.
ZB.W. ana wavelength of 355 Egypt of the drug evil in six years
was related recently.
The drugs-hashish, opium about the game, when a deal The Society was founded in days metres. (845 KC's.
4-7 pin-Chinese Programme. came along which reminded me when the sole exponents of aero- Its were balloonists.
6-6.30 p.m.-Childrens' Studio Concocaine, and, worst of all, heroin immortal mautics of Tennyson's '
-were smuggled into the coun- "Charge of the Light Brigade." (origin is traced to a suggestion by cert
11pm-European Programme One of the players had open-James Glaisher, the meteorologist-7.30 p.m.-Selections from Musi-olives, in barrels of tomato sauce, ed with a two-bid and his part- and balloonist, that attempts be cal Comedy by The New Mayfair
lines made to control a balloon by Orchestr The ner passed! thought of need only a slight mechanical means. change to be applied to partners Theirs not of two-bidders.
Theirs but to to reason why. make reply."
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. .Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1956.
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NOTICE TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned will no longer be responsible for any com plaints and debts that may be in- curred on and after 1st March 1936, as he is severing his part- nership from the business ccrued.
con
All Creditors are hereby in- formed to send in Bills on or be fore the 29th. day of February 1936.
This was the hand: North, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable.
S
H. 9 9 42
D. 8 7 6 3
C. 7 6 5 3
N WE
S. 75
C KQ 10
S.K 10 643 HJ
LIM YONG KWEE,
Partner. D. QJ9. OVERSEA TRANSPORT SERVICE (Cheong Kee} China Building 7th Floor
Company Meetings
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO, LTD.
HAU
H. 763
Bow Bells Sullivan) Words and Music (Coward) Rose Marie (Friml)
Sidney Torch
Reginald Dixon.
Quentin M. Maclean.
try in canned goods, in cases of
|
in sacks of prunas, and in the soles and heels of shoes.
Eussell Pasha's investigations showed that the more vicious drugs appeared to be sent to Egypt at the direction of a group of criminals. who had made Viens their beadquarters. The arrest of an Armenian trafficker" provided the clue to their activities. Ring Broken Up
First Meeting The Duke of Argyll was the Casangra (J. Strauss)
7.30-2.50 pm Cinema Organ Solos Society's first President, and he was a strong advocate of heavier. Film Hits of the Moment than-air flight, as opposed to what Mississippi-Selection The called the false principle of
buoyancy." The Society's first Parade of Parades Selection meeting took place on June 27,
Nola (Arndt)-Sydney Gustard. 1866, when F. H. Wenham read a paper on "Aerial Locomotion.”
8 pm-Local Time & Weather Restock in Alexandria, but after In its recent history the most: importaut event was the amal-port Closing Local Stock Quotations, wards, to cut out middlemen, Recital by Charles journeyed to Vienna for supplies. him to those Agents tracked (Griez)
"circles in which the word heroin was an Open Sesame." Then, in due course, the ring was broken up and the principal members convicted.
The President is Lieutenant-3 Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, and the Secretary Captain J. Laurence Pritchard.
2.50-3 pm From the Studio. "Book Reviews" by AD.
(Tenor).
I Love thee Still as the Night (Bolm) Serenade (Ravini)
D. E 10 4 2
C. AJ 9.8
gamation in October, 1927, with Aeronautical the Institution of Engineers.
3.05-8.18 pm
Kallman
2.
CQ 10 5
C. 2
Pass
The bidding: North East South Pass Pass 25. Pass
West Pass
South, had a real two-bid- honour-tricks "imore
than
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS losers and North's pass, was inexcusable despite his Yar- FORTY-NINTH ORDIN-borough.
club
WEDDING AT PEAK CHURCH
Sargent - Roberton
Re bad at first been buying his
Come Back to Sorrento (Cartis) 8.18-8.30 p.m.-The BBC. Wireless Chorus Wine, Women and Song (J. Strauss)
"Today" writes Baron Harry Morgenblatter (Morning Papers)
(J. Scranss)
d'Erlanger, in "The Last Plague 8.30-9.20 p.—A Relay from' Dav of Egypt" (Lovat Dickson, 108.
8.30 pm-The B.B.C. Danes Orch-5d-), "to look back at the history of the drug evil in Egypt...is to estra, directed by Henry Hall.
pm-The Daventry News Bulle view the course of a victorious tin (Copyright by Rester).
campaign."
Programme
Kaley.
Lieursnee.
Russell Pasha initiated the cam- paign în 1929 at the request of
vice. Important.posts were offered to him at home and abroad.
Not In Vain The Egyptian Government,
that, the people were in the "grip
9.20-9.30 pan-A Selection of Eng- Tish Melodies (arr. Myddleton)
9.30-9.45 pm From the Stodio. Terms: Cash on Delivery 24th, TUESDAY, 25th, and
A Recital of Ballads by Helen Lock-Mohammed Pasha Mahmad, who POLICE OFFICER MARRIED
He had hart (Contralto)
by was there Premier. accompanied WEDNESDAY, 26th February, the
LAMMERT BROSARY ANNUAL MEETING OF In actual play, West opened
Ireze Miller.
then climbed the highest rung of first bell will be rung at 11.00a.m..
the ladders, and the first race will be run at 11.30 *.01. On SATURDAY, 29th, Febru Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936. SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the King of clubs and South
Peak Church yesterday My Barrett the Office of Messrs. Jardine, ruffed the second round of the. The wedding took place at the have received Tinstructions to sell by Public Matheson & Co. Ltd., on THURS- suit Down to four trumps, noon of Mies Elsie Nora Rober-2 The Shirasest router that blows could charm white gyropeas
ton, youngest daughter of Mrs.
3. By the Waters of Minnetonka NOON, for the purpose of receiv- when his second lead of hearts w. Roberton, of East Cowes,
was again lele of Wight, England, and 4 The Glory of the Sea Sanderson ing the Report of the Directors and was trumped. be the Statement of Accounts for the forced to ruff a club. A third Mr. William Thomas Sargent. S. Bless this boase Brahe
round of hearts was ruffed by the Hong Kong Police, son of 9.45-10 p.m. The JB Squire however, had, awakened to the fact rear ended 31st December, 1935,
Celeste Octet declarer discarded his the late Mr. and Mrs. Sargent Hearts and Flowers (arr. Willoughby) of a plague more dangerous" than The TRANSFER BOOKS of the West and on the fourth
of Exeter, Devon. Company will be CLOSED from lead
The bride, who was given FRIDAY, the 21st February 1986, losing diamond, but squirma to THURSDAY, the 5th March, though he would, he could not away in marriage by Cmdr. D. save more than six tricks neo Ewing, R.N., wore a white diamond, a heart and four
satin and lace dress and 2 löng spades...
After the hand, the argutulle veil held in place by a bandeau of orange blossom. ment began in earnest and She carried, pink and white North used the fact that part- roses. ner couldn't even
Bridesmaid In Green spade to justify his having
Miss P. Colegrove as brides- passed-claiming that South
maid wore a green flowered silk always shaded his two-bids dress with white hat and shoes
this tirae the anyway. By train was in the station and 2nd carried a bouquet of mixed
sweet peas. South was too angry to point Mr. Shepheard was best man.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:-
1936, both days inclusive.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. Badges admitting non-member to the Members Enclosure and Club Chesterfield Suites, Teak Dining Rooms at $10.00 per day including Room & Bed Room Furniture, Of-tors. tax or $40.00 including tax for
the
Meeting fladies $5:00 and $20.00 res fice Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Or- pectively) are obtainable through the naments, Porcelain & Glass Ware, Secretary upon introduction by Brass & Alum Ware. Clocks, Pic- member, such member to be respon-tures, etc., etc. sible for all chits, etc.
Badges admitting to Members' En-
closure
will NOT be on sale at thei
Race Course.
The Secretary's Office, 1st EXCHANGE
floor
also
A Few Pieces of Black Wood Furniture and
Kastner & Co., Ltd.
BUILDING, (Te:.) One Pianola The "Autopiano" 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10.00 a.m ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, an
12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.
A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable each day at the Club - House, provided they are ordered in Edvance from the No. 1 Bay, Tele- phone No. 21920.
On no pretext will children be per mitted in either enclosure during the frat four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
One Typewriter.
One Portable Gramaphone.
One Radio Set:
One Sewing Machine.
By Order of the Board of Direc-
+
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
Hong Kong 12th February, 1936.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY LIMITED.
make
ope
The Wedding of the Rose (Jessel.
2TT. Willoughby)
Famous Operatic Melodies
(arz: 3. EL Squire)
- 10 pan. Big Ben
10-11 pm-Dance Music. 11 pm-Close. Down.“
AIRCRAFT WORKS EXTENSIONS
Day And Night Activity
Manchester. Important developments
A
any of the 10 enumerated in the Old Testament.
"It may, bs;; assumed,” · says Baron Harry d'Erlanger, that Mohammed Pasha Mahmud had to appeal to the Englishman's feelings of affection for the country, he had served for so many years??-
He did not appeal in rain. Brissell Pashe accepted what was jalmost a superhuman task, and his Central Narcotics Intelligence established. This book vividly records its triumph:
Bureau
TOPLIS
of
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN out the fact that he could bave The Rev. H. W. Baïnes officiate taking place in the Manchester LATE MR. LANDALES
made five-odd at their best con-ed at the ceremony. Nat the "ELEVENTH OB-track hearts-if North had
ESTATE -A reception was held at 106, aircraft industry. A V. Roe and DINARY YEARLY MEETING merely kept the bidding open The Peak
Later, the newly Co. makers of Avro aeroplanes, now working day and of HONG KONG TELEPHONE to give him a chance to name
red couple left for Macau. Tho are
Valued At Over Two COMPANY, LIMITED, will be his second suit.
Mrs. Sargent wore T brown night on orders for the Air Minis- The bidding should have
Million Dollars On View from Saturday the held on THURSDAY, the 12th
try, are negotiating for the pur and white figured silk dress March, 1936, at
the gone? iday of 29th. February 1936.
South
with brown swagger coat and chase of additional premises. North
It is understood that they may|| BOARD ROOM of the Company,
Mr. David Landale, late Terms: Cash on Delivery
brown accessories. 25. Pass
take over a large cotton mill at Dalswinbod, county of Dumfries, LAMMERT BROS.. Second Floor, Exchange Build-
*2NT
Failsworth. If the purchase is Scotland, and formerly of Messrs. 3H. Auctioneersing, Hong Kong, at Noon, for the
4E.
Pass
completed the new factors, it fe Jardine Matheson Co, Ltd, Hong purpose of receiving a Statement the Report of
estimated. could accommodate Kong, who died on September 6, A Christmas cake sent by the 2,000 additional workers and 1995 left local estate valued at the Board of Directors, for the dream of passing a two-bid as financial year ended 31st Decem-North did.
Princess Royal to Scarborough would enable the firm to produce $2.070,100, ber, 1935, and re-electing two guilty of a fault which spoile fishermen was cut at the local aircraft with a larger wing-spread The application by the Hon.
the efficacy of this bid. By Seamen's Directors and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of shading their own two-bids be-dinner.
The price of admission of the Pu blic Enclosure is $2.00 per day in- cluding tax for all persons including THE undersigned have received of Accounts and
ladies and is payable at the Gate.
T
instructions to sell by Public
OFL:
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are Auction admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1.00 day including tax.
per day
Bookmakers, Tie Tac men, etc. will not be
to operate within permitted
the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting. Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Pablie Enclosure.
SERVANTS" PASSES
Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, 1st foor, Exchange Building.
Tuesday, the 3rd. March, 1936
commencing at 2.30 pm.
at their Sales Room,
Daddell Street
A Quantify of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:
Teak Dining Room & Bed Room Office Furniture, Any persons found loitering with Furniture.
Servants' passes in their possession Bronze Ornaments, Curios, Car
Most players who would not
themselves
are
and
CLOSED low normal requirements, they the Company will be from the 2nd March to the 12th create the state of mind which March 1936, both days inclusive occasionally causes a partner to
remember previous, sets Dated this 4th day of Febru-pass a force with a bust hand [ary, 1936.
A two-bid should be respected by the player who makes one
as well as by his partner.
Order of the Board,
W. L MCKENZIE,
Secretary.
will forfeit the same and will be repets, Rugs, Pictures, Clocks, Gra-14, Des Voeux Road Central, moved from the Enclosure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN.
Secretary
Hong Kong. 17th February, 1935.
FOR SALE.
SPECIAL PRINTED ENVELOPE
maphones & Records, Glass &|-
Brass Ware, E: P. & Alum' Ware, Electric Table Lamps, Typewrit jers, etc., etc.
A Quantity of Black Wood - Furniture
j On View from Monday the 2nd.
March 1936.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers..
Hong Kong.
STRUCK BLIND HUSBAND
ALLEGED SHOP- THEFTS
Three Sisters In Custody
.
PRINCESS ROYAL'S CAKE
Institution's annual than any previously produced at 1, 7. J. Paterson, the lawful at
its Newton Heath factory,
St. Teresa's Church
torney, for sesling exemplification (nominate) of the executors of the said "deceased, was granted.
Mrs. Mildred Sophie Landale, widow, and M., David Fortune Landale, elder son of the deceas
The following are the services. CYMS, for proceeding to Temed were named as the executrix etc., for the forthcoming week at Wan for Sunday School and Lay and executor respectively. the St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon mission,
ANOTHER ESTATE Tont-
3. p.m. Meeting: general of St. Local estate valued at $2,300 To-morrow St Oswald, Bp. and Teresa's Chinese Young. Ladies, it was left by Mr. Albert Liang, late (C. (a 992) 3 pm. Meeting of St. the Parochial · Fail'
Teresa's Chinese Young Men at
Monday
of Chefoo, who died on January Sini-25, 1934 Letters of Administra- the Rectory for visit for the sick on Pope St Chad, Ep. (ation, with the will annexed, bare
March-Dedicated to the depora-
678),
tion to. St. Joseph, ten
been granted to Mr. G. G. N. Th
ส
One case each of diphtheria and chicken-pay were reported to the Health LIAI
Sunday First Sunday to Eat Tuesday, March Three sisters, Frances Mere-St David, Patrpa of Wales (a P..and K dith, aged 52, of Maryland-read, 544 7.30am First Mass with,ser 5 pm. Little Flower Choir Prace Thornton Heath; Ada Rogers, in English, General Comtice..
Wednesday, Mirch : 4—Ember "Murder Done If You aged 48, Westcombe-avenue, Croy-munion for the Children of Mary
Are At Large”. Įdon, and Laura Terry, aged 41830 a.m. Meeting of the Day St Casimir E. and Chours ended 'an Wednesd
Children of Mary at the Parochial Abstinence. Wandsworth-road-S.W.; all mar-
Hall
Thursday, March 5-St. Andrian
months imprisonment to run con-Police-court
Two sentences, each of sixfied, appeared at Westminster Sunday School for Mexican M 67 Holy Hour with Bermo Com of the Air Katt berpeston COASTWISE ecutively, were passed at Old-l. They were charged with being Boys, Maryland Carvent 3.30 mi. Dalush Meding of The Apostic
Mail Service
by Pan American Airways
from Macan to America. at 20 cis. per Envelope
GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, Wyndham St
Hong Ko
by
“ALGIE” BENNETT.
An interesting book
of Cartoons "Happenings" on the Chma Coast
PRICE $100
Now on sale at
The Newspaper Extery
China' Mall Building
street last month on Kathisen Gil-concerned together in stealing and Second Mass with sermon in Eng-ship of Prayer
Friday, March 6 First Fridaý bey, aged 7, of Little Essex-receiving dresses, jumpers, shoes, ish, followed by the Benediction street. Shore-ditch, for causing gloves and a mackintosh, valued the Most Blessed Sacrament.-Ember Day S. 8. Perpetua, and grievous bodily harm to her blind together at £18 178, 5d, from a Collections for the SVF. St. Felicitac MX-Fact Day. 6 pm
Teresa's Conference will be fade Way of The Cross fhusband and for-a-breach of a West End store.
before kid after both Massès at Saturday, March 7. Ember Diy probation -order. «
the Church doors.
St Thomas Aquinas D. - 10.30 amy meeting, Sto Week Days Hasms at 6.30 and
My Kenneth Marshall, the ma It was alleged that she struck gistrate, said it was a serious, mat her husband with the wooden scatter, when women put their heads Teresa's Conference at the Paro(7.30 am. lofía chair.
värstogether, and went out and raided chial -Hall.
are doing
* Confessions are heard daily be quickly, disperse any The magistrate (Mr. F. 0. Lang-in shop. He did not think he would 2 pm. Catechetical Instruction fore and after Masses in the foot Lidley) said to Mrs Gilbey: There be doing his duty if he did not in Chinese followed by Benedic Chinese French English Italian bowel Mction,
will be murder done if you are at send them to prison. They would tion of the Most Blessed Sacra-Spanish and Portuguese
Saturday Special time for Con-in good health and spirits. Sold by Harge."
3 p.m.:Meeting of St. Teresa'slfession is from 4 pm to 8 pm (chemists everywhere.
be remanded in custody, and he ment would consider what to do.