NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
MELE Undersigned,
going Home on leave. begs to inform that K. LIMAGE bar been Appointed LOCAL AGENT of the COMPARE DES MEMAGERIE MARITIME with affect from the 19TH INSTANT.
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Acting Agent. PEAK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION.
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MEETING of PHAK RESIDENTS will be held at the Prax CLUB on MONDAY, THE Rör¤ APRIL, 1926, at 5 px. for the purpose of alceting Officers and a Goos eral Committee for the current jaar.
Indios are Cordially Insited is Attend,
B. C. HOBNELL, Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, 12th April, 1925
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THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE. held at the Offices of the GESZRAL AGENT HOLDERS of the above Company will be Pedder Street, on THURSDAY, 2ND APRIL 1928, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving
and Statement of Accounts for 10 LET-FLATS with all Modern
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the Year Tha
the ER BOOKS of the Company
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TOWICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
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Street
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
8. J. JORDALS, Secretary.
Hongkong, 12th April, 1986."
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STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS,
LONDON.
THE YEARLY GENERAL MEETING THROUGH BITS OF LADING ISSU
of the SHAREHOLDERS of the
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BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN- AND SOUTH AFRICAN
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BONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
BC
DELTA"
Captain F. SUDILL.B.DR.N.R. FR.G.S. carrying His Majesty's Malls, will be despatche from this Port on or about THURSDAY. the 15TH APRIL, 1926, at Noox aking Passenger and Cargo for the shores Porta
Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, France
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period of the past twenty yours have The muziling order for dogs came into seemed to be so good that their develop
force yesterday.
ment appeared certain. We may be
The dollar again dropped yesterday; marking time, but the new ideas about the T.T. rate being 4. d. This is the machinery and science are spreading
lowest point renched since May of last
MISS 1926.
HER MOTHER'S DAUGHTER.
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in the papers at Home regarding Miss There has been some discussion of late,
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Is the
cocktail-drinking girl or not?
Le sughout China. Large manufacturing frms in Great Britain and America have year. been greatly disappointed at the poor The forthcoming wedding is announced demand for engineering goods in China. of Surgeon Commander: Geoffrey Palmer A, certain doctor has made an attack on They thought that they would have a Adshead, of the Royal Naval Hospital, to the "cocktail drinking and drug-taking wonderful market for machinery of every Miss Olive May Orme, of No. 515. The modern girl" and there have been description. Many have only too good, Peak.
indignant retorta.
BOMA
The question surely revolves around the Draft programmes and entry forms for
type of girt one should take to represent the second extra race meeting of the this year. If the Society butterfly repre
For too bad, a reason to rue their great optimism: China seems at times deter mined to remain untouched by impetuous efforts of this kind. The vast millions Hongkong Jockey Club, to be held on
sents her generation then there may be
go on toiling with their primitive appli- Saturday, May 1st, can now be obtained some basis for the strictures of the learn nnees just as did their forefathers at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and centuries and ten of centuries ago. The Causeway Bay Stables... Entries close at projected railways still remain only noon on Saturday, April 17th schemes: the mines that were to pour out mineral wealth are still untouched; the improvements that are so obvious are not carried out.
2
Mr. R. J. Hunt was elected Asting.
Secretary of the Hongkong Ex-Active
Service Men's Association at an extra-
ed physician. The spoilt children of". wealthy families have nothing to do but amuse themselves;, the social whirl palls after a time, and they naturally take the arat stimulant to hand, usually a Singa- pore Gin-Sling, from which they quickly learn the rest of the alphabet. But while looking askance at such modern young.
women we forget that they are their Mothers' Daughters, at whose door the
real blame should be laid.
It would, however, be foolish to sup-ordinary general meeting held at the pose that nothing worthy of record has Easua Club during the week-end, in sac taken place, only a few days ago Mr. cession to Mr. T. N. MacReynolds, who LLOYD GEORGE in Parliament spoke, of is proceeding on leave.. Shanghai as a place notable for its great Á motor-car driven by Captain Cardew, On the other hand, if the thousands of consumption of electricity. Anyone who of the Royal Garrison Artillery, knocked level-headed girls who earn their own knew the Canton of twenty years ago, down a small Chinese girl on the Shau- living are representative of Miss 1996, it when there was not a wheeled vehicle kiwan Rond during the week end. The is a very different matter. The business in the City, will admit that there girl was slightly injured, but her father girl is too sensible to turn night into day accepted 83 compensation, and refused to have her removed to hospital.
has been some progress, despite all the
trouble and uprokt. There are roads and motor-cars in the City of Rams.” - There·
are
130 numerous workshops with Owing to the beavy rain, some land machinery of a type at least fairly slides occurred during the week-end. At modern. Great strides have been made the upper part of Stubbs Road, about in Hongkong. If the consumption of thirty feet. of the side of the road has subsided, but the road is still available for traffic. Minor landslides bave occurred at Mount Kellett Road, Plunkett Road, and Craigmin Road,"
and indulge in cocktails and other, ex- travagances, for the simple reason that she knows she would lose her job under
existing competitive conditions if she became washed out or lost any of her.. vital energy.
But one writer to the Home papers. I noticed, argued that probably not one girl in ten thousand has ever tasted n... cocktail" Oh, deas, that is ridiculous. That correspondent, I think, must have been a very, very good young man from the country. The average girl takes ber one cocktail, if asked to do so, as natur ociation to be ally as a cigarette.
WATSON electricity is not as great in this Colony as in Shanghai we can at least be sure that the Chinese like to use it, even use it extravagantly, when they get the chance. There has been a most remark- All interested in focal baseball are in able increase in the engineering facilities vited to attend a meeting of members of of the local dockyards. Twenty years the Hongkong Baseball ago there was no great establishment at held at the office of the American Con- the East end of the harbour. Nobody insulate-General to-morrow at 5.15 p. this Colony in 1906 then believed that The meeting is being held for the purpose in this year of grace we should pick up of electing officers and to discuss arrange wireless messages from England, nor did ments for the forthcoming season. they venture to suppose that we should sec, almost daily, aeroplanes in flight.
BIRTHS. CHANFIELD-At Shanghai, on April 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. F. CHAFIZID, a Firca At Shanghai, on April 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE A FITCH, a son.
MARRIAGE.
son.
One of the most astonishing changes in China has been the almost universal demand for cigarettes and kerosene oil, In the remote villages of the interior, thousands of miles from the sea coast,. MULLER-ALLEN-At Shanghai, on April
16th, GUSTAV MULLER, son of the late these pioneer articles from the West Mr. and Mrs. G. Muller, of Buxton, are to found. The habit of smoking Derbyshire, England, to BEATRICE ALICE ALLEN, daughter of Mr. and cigarettes has spread to all classes and Mrs. W. R. Allen, of Brighton.
a buge demand for this foreign com- WEDDING.
modity has been skilfully created by Cathedral at 3 pm on Tuesday, Aprit European enterprise. Similarly with sugar 20th, of Mr. S. B. Tax, son of the late refined in factories in Hongkong and Mr. and Mr. Tan Cheng Tuan, of
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FORMS for the SECOND EXTRA transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer The wedding will take place at St. John's f
Froceeding direct to Harmilles and London,
Parcals will be received at this Goe until
BACE MEETING to be held on SATUR- DAY, IT MAT. 1936 (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Race CouE, Hover "KONG Club and Causeway BAY`STABLES.
ENTRIES WHI CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK Nook on SATURDAY, 17TH APRIL, 1926.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
IN
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
ТАЕ Goods' or ALEXANDER FINDLAY SMITH, LATE OF VIC TORIA IN THE COLONT OF HONGKONG DECEASED..
TOTIUE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Nourt has by Firtar of Section 55 al
the Probates Ordinance, 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made An Order Limiting Time For Sending in Claims to or Against the above Estate to the 30TH DAY OF APRIL, 1826. --
Creditors and Clainants are beroby Re quired to Bend their Claims to the Undersigne ed by the above Date.
Dated the First day of Ap-il, 1926..
DEACONE, Solicitors for the Execators,
1, Des Voux Road Central Hongkong.
VISITORS TO CANTON.
Should Purchase
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FOR HONGKONG TO CANTON
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With Illustrations, Maps and Flags
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the Day before Bailing. The contents and value of all packages must be declared.
For further Particulars, Apply to
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Agents. Hongkong, 10th Aprü, 1925," [3419
THE BANK OF EAST ASTA, LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKON
10, Des Van Road Central, Hongkong.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL....... PAID-UP CAPITAL..................................... RESERVE FUND (1998)........
DIRECTORS:
$10,000,000 5,000,000 1,200,000
Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman. Fung Ping Shan Mok Ching Kong
Wong Yun Tong Hayub Tai
Li Koon Chan
P. K. Kwok,
Ng Ching Luk Pong Wai Ting
Kan Ying Po
Chan Ching Shek
because of a moderate indulgence in cock- It is equally ridiculous to argue that
tails the next generation will be miserable physique, and of a neurotic type As a Lady Mayoress remarked, "What about the men? There is a The rain of Saturday, Sunday and yesterday has aclved the water problem strange silence about their habits." Not so far as Kowloon is concerned, and as very many years ago there was the same reservoirs are now replenished, the Water restrictions so far as Kowloon is concern because hitherto it had been a strictly Authority has decided to remove the outery against women smoking, merely
on the Island will remain in force. ed from to-day. The existing restrictions
masculine enjoyment. If cocktails are such poisonous things," as some would Two persons
were bitten by dogs have us believe, why can men drink an Royal Engineers was bitten by a wolf- apparently unlimited supply uncensured,, during the week-end. A signalman of the bound owned by the manager of the and, to all appearances, unharmed ? AP.C. Installation at Taikoktai. The other case was in Kowloon, the victim, Few of the girls in this Colony can be Chinese woman, being sent to the accused of indulging even lightly in the Kwong Wah Hospital. Both dogs were sent to Kennedy Town,
cocktail habit. It may be that, often coming straight out from school, they mitted at the China Building, a systema-
Following the recent big burglary com- have not bad time to cultivate it, and
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Singapore, to Miss ELIZABETH WONG, Japan. An enormous network of agencies eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. has been built up and although just attic inspection of the place is made cach Hongkong certainly does not encourage Wong, Hongkong..
Friends are invited to be present; also at the reception after the cere mony, at the Chinese Merchants? Club, China Building.
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Hongkong Office: la. Chäter Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.0.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 13TH, 1928,
PROSPECTS OF, DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA. Osg of the most puzzling facts of exist Every description of Banking and Ex-ence is the varying rate of progress in change business transacted. Loans grant- ed on approved securities.
BAJE DEPOSIT Box To Let.
KAN TONG PO.. Hongkong. 8th February, 1928.
AN AMERICAN BANK,
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
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present the conditions ore difficult, the fact remains that the demand for refined
The sixth and concluding concert in
But, after all, if it was the recognised thing to fit every girl for some serious
detective's suspicions were aroused when such adventures. Cocktails are assuredly night by detectivca. On Sunday night. I he found the floor of the dress-making an acquired taste. and few Hongkong establishment of Mrs. Weill open The sugar has been created. It is only by place was therefore kept under guard until girls seem to take the trouble to acquire, taking a long view and remembering the the stock, and found that nothing had
the morning, when Mrs. Weill examined it. developments that have taken place over been stolen. many years that we can base, any judg ment about the future. We do not wish to underrate the importance of politics, but if there is one lesson to be learnt fzóm a calm survey of progress it is that politicians have delayed, but have never entirely checked, the use of convenient commodities
by an intelligent, populace. Even the returned Chinese students, who have been so discontented with the con: dition of China, wish to raise the general
aid of the St. John's Cathedral Organ occupation in life, as it is with a boy, Fund will be given to-morrow at p.m. there would be even less cocktail-drinking in the Cathedral Hall. The artists who
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Mrs. Davis (soprano), Mrs. Watt (cor- cld adage about Satan and “idle hands''. will contribute to the programme are and drug-taking than there is now. The tralto), Mr. H. Edwin Gardner (tenor)
and Mr. Li Chor Chi (baritone) with still holds good. Thousands of efficient Mr. F. Mason at the piano. The pro- girls work at highly-paid jobs to-day, but, gramme. includes selections from the Haha, Curran, Kramer, Gilberte. Elgar: those who have too much money to spend works of Massenet, Handel, Gounod, thousands still do not.. and Squire,
and too little to do whe lower the whole
It is generall
SIR JAMES JAMIESON. LEAVING BY EMPRESS
FRIDAY.
£117 14% had been received from H.M.S. Royal Sailors' Rest that a remittance of. Tawkins, fagthip of the China Station. by the Fire Insurance Association of The sum was a contribution to the Trust
rendered by officers and men from the Hongkong in recognition of services Royal Navy at a fire which occurred at Bir James Jamieson, the British Consul the Hongkong Hotel on January 1st, in the course of which an able seamas from General at Canton, is leaving Canton to-- HM.8. Hawkins lost his life.
morrow (Wednesday) in order to catch Mr. Leroy Webber, American Consul, the Empress of Australia on Friday leaving the latter port to take up duties
A recent Plymouth paper reports that standard of their generation, and cause mittee of the Royal Naval Benevolent aspersions to be cast on their sex. the chairman of the Devonport Com- human knowledge. As we look back standard of living throughout the counTrust, announced at a meeting at the along the endless avenue of time which try. That can only be accomplished by Chief Manager. history enables us to see more or less providing more work for artisans, and imperfectly, there seem to be sudden that means, inevitably, more railways, Awift movements and long pauses of roads, machinery and foreign trade. At EQUITABLE EASTER BASKING inaction. Anyone who came out to the my time there may come a great im-
CORPORATION.
Far East twenty years ago must then tus have been quite certain that China would
petus for such schemes. The great dif
.8. $3,000,000.00 of railways and many roads, to say no who are ready to supply the dAmoy, for the last two years is soon He is going-home on leave vid America,
have had, by this date, a vast network period of waiting, but in the end those calty is to tide over the aggravating
thing of factories and harbour improve-hen it comes will reap rich rewards. at Winnipeg, Canada, Consul Webber was suggested previously that Sir ments. The advocates of the Canton Think only of the millions of potential South China coast. He was formerly be one of business and pleasure com at is well known and well-liked along the James Jamieson's visit to England would Kowloon Railway were sure that it would users of wireless sets when broadcasting stationed. at Hongkong During the bined as his advice on the situation in be only a few years before the line, was dono in different Chinese dialects. In serious operation and has been in Office. It now appears, however, that
latter part of 1925, he underwent linked up with the steel rails that will the next few years we shall surely see apparent ill-health ever since."
China would be required by the Foreign perhaps at some distant future, enable many astonishing changes in China, and, many friends hope that the new Foreign Office conferences are to be of Hi there will be little time for pleasure if the goods to be carried overland between not very distant future there will come will lead to his complete recovery arrangements Sir James "expects to be in spite of our present anxieties, in the surroundings and more-vigorous climate long duration for according to present Canton and Bankow, Some of the many the demand for foreign goods to which Consul JR. Putaam, of Chefor, has back in Canton at the end of July. This both Chinese and European traders are been-appointed to succsed: Mr. Webber roeans that his stay in England will not mining projects talked about during the eagerly looking forward.
at Amoy.
be for more than six weeks.
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