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PUBLIC AUCTION
NOTICE
IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of FELIX JOSEPH ALEX- ANDER otherwise known' A FELIX J.. ALEXAN- DER or F JOSEPH ALEXANDER or F. J. ALEXANDER late of Bears House, Wentworth, Virginia Water, Egham, Surrey, England, and core of
Messra. Percy Smith andTM
Company Hong Kong, Retired Ex- change Broker anci Financier, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtus of Section 88 of the Probates Ordinance 1807 made an Or-
tors and others to send in their claims against the above Estate to the Twenty-sixth day of May 1950.
quires qualified dispenser able to The Undersigned has receiv-der limiting the time for credi- write and speak English and ed instructions from the Head Cantonese Fluently. Applications Bailiff, Supreme Court, to selt with coples of references stating Salary required to Box No. 599 "China, Mal!"
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THE LUXURIOUS MOTOR YACHT "MISTRESS"
(As she now leg at METROPOLE HOTEL, 10 Queen's Messrs. Cheoy Lee's Shipyard. Road Central, Hong Kong, located Ngau Chi Wani, Kowloon City, in the very heart of Hongkong,
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1950,
NOTICE
THE CANTON
Į INSURANCE-OFFICE,
› LIMITED
Obtained money by false pretences
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Sentences of nine months that the Sixty-fifth Ordin- and alx months hard labour ary Yearly Meeting of were respectively imposed on Shareholders will be held two unemployed men, Chung at the Offices of the Ngau and Sun Chi-keung, by Undersigned on Wednesday Mr. F. X. d'Almada at Kow- the 17th May, 1950, at Noon, toon yesterday on two charges for the purpose of receiving of obtaining and attempting to the Report of the Consulting obtain money by false pre- Committee together with atences. Statement of Account for the Defendants wero alleged 10 year ended 31st December have obtained 1500 from Kwok 1949, electing Members of the Chuen, married woman, on March Consulting Committee and ap-3 on the pretence that they could pointing Auditors.
The Register of Members and Transfer Books will be closed from the 3rd May to the 17th May, 1950, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Agents, The Canton Insurance Omice, Ltd.
All creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to Hong Kong, April 20, 1950. send in their claims on or be- fure that date to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Hongkong (Trustee) Limited, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Hongkong, the duly appointed Executor of the will of the abovenamed deceased.
1950.
DEACONS Solicitors,
NATURALISATION NOTICE
obtain the release of the woman's husband, Li Man, who is now detained in the Victoria Remand Prison awaiting deportation.
Kwok Chuen giving evidence said that on March 1 defendants, whom she knew, had tes with her in a tea house where they dis- cussed her husband's affairs.
There second defendant. was alleged to have told complain. ant that whather her husband was released or banished ́reat- ed entirely with him as he was the one who had ). Man ar. rested. Witness sald that $3,000 was demanded of her for the release of her husband,
Asked for $200
The next day first defendant came to her and asked $200 for expenses. Saying that she had no money, she arranged for an- other meeting the next day and later she reported to the Youmati Police Station. A trap was act was $500 note handed over to first defendant at and a marked a prearranged meeting at the tes house.
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Notice is hereby given that WONG PING LAI, alias EVELYN WONG, alias YUK- Dated this 26th day of April SIM WONG of 1, Hankow Road, Kowloon, 3rd floor, is upplying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason When sentences were pronoun
Mr. d'Almada the wives why naturalisation should not feed by
of the defendants raised a com- be granted should send written signed statement of the motion, umbrellas and fists were
raised against the complainant ZA fucts to the Colonial Secretary, who stayed behind while the Colonial Secretariat, Hong-pólice escorted the querulous
Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
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UNION WATERBOAT
CO. LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the forty-first Ordinary General Meeting of the
kong.
IMMIGRATION NOTICE.
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Company will be held at The Masters of all types of the Offices of Messrs Dodwell vessel entering the port
of
women out of the Magistracy.
First defendant Chung Ngau had a previous conviction on similar offence. Inspector C. Dowman prosecuted.
ROYAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATION
In view of the large numbers of ex Royal Signals Personnel now
Invited at Long Kee Ladies Tailor Terms: 50% of purchase price & Co., Ltd., 3rd floor, Hong Victoria, must proceed at once resident in Hong Kong and Kow-1
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of Accounts for the year end-tion signals showing,
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An examination in Tropical Hyglen for Sanitary 'Inspectors will be held in Hong Kong on the 8th and 12th May, 1950.
Application_forms_for_entry. to the examination may be ob Lained from the Hon. Secretary, Room 109, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building.
An entrance fee of $150 will be payable for sitting the ex- amination. The application list will close on Tuesday the 2nd May, 1950.
E. L. STRANGE, Hon. Secretary, Royal Sanitary Institute, Hong Kong Branch.
PANY, DEERFIELD, ILL: U.S.A. April 26, 1950.
Agent: George Lin & Co. 202 Bank of East Asia Building, Tel: 24408.
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Notice is also given that the Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the
25th April to 9th May 1950, April 26, 1950, both days inclusive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.. General Managers.
Hong Kong, April 14, 1950.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUBS ASSOCIATION
The Annual Meeting of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Asso- ciation will be held in the Lecture Room, Public Relations Ofice, Statue Square, Hong Kong on Friday, May 12th. 1950 at 5.30 p.m. All who are interested in the work of the Association are cordially in- vited, but only members will be entitled to vote.
By Order of the Executive Committee
HURBERT LAI
Secretary.
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"Confound it, Berthal Why can't you drop your spare. change in the sugar bowl where it belonge?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE A
By Shepard Barclay
“The Authority on Authorfflox"
The 2
was
BEE THE CRUCIAL POINT quite sound logic. IT IS amazing, if you study a played from dummy, East' put in lot of deals with the idea in mind, the J and the Q'won, The heart I was scored and the J finessed how many contracts depend on come one fundamental point of to the Q. East shifted to the play. That point may be some spade 3, South playing the and thing done by the declarer or West winning with the 10. Now something by one or both defend- the club 3 was led, the K going ers, If it is handled just right by on from dummy. East couldn' the indicated
or inch-let that win as a re-entry for the individual viduals, his sido gets a fine result. established hearts, so won with If it is mishandled, the other side his A, hoping thereby he would
But South pu profits. In most cases, these cru-block the dummy. etal features are more or Jess his 10 under the A, leaving the
Lise
simple and basic. The player high in the suit. The spade 5 who treats them correctly need return was won by the not worry too much about fancy plays...
S:Q 1062 H 10 7 D-10 9-703 C43
HAJD 5 4 3 DJ 4 CÍK 9 5 2
S X753 N
HQ82 W EDQ 8
CAJ87
SAJOB
H K 6 DAK 5 2 CQ 10 6
club 8 to the made possible,
four ensuing heart tricks and two diamond
tops finished the hand to give South an extra trick.
At another table, where West lod the club 4 against 3-No
2. went
Truings and the went on, East
played bis 8 so he could retain his A-d over the K-9 in the dum my. Now you in dummy's figure out how South can bring
hearts, if you can. This South tried to develop the diamond J ing toward leading
13
as a re-entry by
it, but as you
see this failed.
will see
North-South; with the Q sitting over it. There- after South struggled around and
North❘ got himself set three tricks...
(Dealer: vulnerable). East
East.
Bouth
West
Pass
1 S
Pass
2 H
Pass
A D
Pasa
3 H
Pass
3 NT
Mony spened this deal with 1-
Diamond instead of 1-Spade, and
- Tomorrow's Problem
a sizable number of pairs in the SQB8S tournament wound up in a heart HK 95
2 extra game, which produced an
trick where the club J was DQ 2 guessed successfully, game where CQ 0 2
was
it
not.
Both good and bad scores came
where the contract was 3-No
Trumps. Let's follow the play
where South got his good score. Dealer
West led 'the club 4 because his vulnerabio).
HQ.8 0.
DJ 10.97 5
CA 93
S'AJ 107
0,2
N
WE HA 10
S
DKO
CKJ7
6.4
HJ. 43:
DA 8.43.
C. 10.8 5.4.
North. North-So
hand was so weak and he hoped What would you consider the
to develop something for. East, soundest bidding of this deal?
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