NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
TOMMENCING 24 APSIL and during COMM
Mr. 8. J. JORDAIN's Abrance on Love, Ms. A. W. BROWN will Act as 8xcAITANY of This Company.
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By Order of the Board of Directors, ALEX. 8. D. COUBLAND. Chairman.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRENS, SATURDAY, APRIL 2ár, 1926
FLIX VILLAS-At the TERMINUS of
INTIMATIONS.
the new BUS SERVICE, Ears THE SPIRIT OF
residences equipped with modern sanitation, electric lighty gne, na well ne` garsige and comprising 6 rooms, bathrooms, servante quarters, etc., at $150 and upwards. These comfortable residences, on Hours DAVI Baan, face South and are situated in ons of the most delightful localities in Hongkong. Apply to the Horarono Land InvesTMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
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has
other
The cup presented to the Golf Club by Shanghai visitors is on view in Messrs. Falconer's window, ⠀⠀⠀
A Chinese employed on Blighter owned by the Taikoo Sugar Rednery was drowned near the Company's Wharf on Thursday.
intenser civilisation, and it is 5' wholly. economical arrangement which makes a meana" of "communication which
The annual expenditure on the Obser to be carried on anyhow serve purposes than its primary aim. Invatory in Hongkong has just doubled in
tea the other years. It was $21,977 in 1918 and the United Kingdom, on hand, the population on the whole $41,955 in 1923. lies thick on the land, though it is apt to be ignored that there are whole regions From the great blue deep came of England, Scotland, and Wales, to say forth the Empirë, boundless.
and nothing of Northern Ireland, which are free Across the wide waters of for practical purposes as remote as an NO
the SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY all the seas unceasingly pass men American or Colpaial outposta
What iretions of the community have MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of CHINA and ships, binding more tightly UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED, will at the Offices of the General Managers the common bonds of a noble been pressing the matter, upon the con-
TOM & Co., St. Mesars SurwaN, TEL. ADDRESS: "FOUCHANG."
Building George's
ding. Chater Road, Ilong heritage. Not least amongst these MONDAY, TE DAY OF ties is XPORTERS of TEA and other Prodnes 1996, 60 LL O CLOCK
ock in the FoRNOON, EXPO, and General Importers and for the purpose of resiving the Report of the Commision Agents.
General Managers and a Sistement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st Daczanax, 1925, and of electing a Consulting Committee and Anditors.
J. MOLCHANOFF, S. PECHATNOFF & CO.
HEAD OFFICE: HANKOW, CHINA "Hong Name: FOU CHANG☎.4
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FOR SALE IN FOOCHOW,
CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
be bald'
The TRANSFER BOOTS of the Company will be CLOSED from 19TH APRIL 1918, to
TWO TANGYE'S BOILERS, 31 x 720
Face Doors, Fire Bars, Gong-
Valves, des de
On. HORIZONTAL PUMP.
One DONKEY PUMP
One DISINTEGRATOR with Accessories.
One STEAM ENGINE with Accesorios.
Three "CHALLENGE" PUMPS with
Sustion and Delivery Hone.
APRIL, 1926, both days inclusive.
By Order of the General Managers, R FARRANT,
Manager and Secretary. Hongkong, 14th April, 1996,
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Taree Seir of Seraw TAPS and DIES, by SHEK O DEVELOPMENT Co., Ltd. Buck Loades, fin. x gins. 18 Taps; and LAWSON, Glasgow. 24 Taps. A Large Quan- tity of Wooden Moulds, the Appurtenances of A Brick Tes Factory.
Basaru in Good Creable Con- dition, can be Been at Any Time, and Further Farticulars obtained from---
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Foockow..
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
TOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN that
NOTICE."
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
DEWAR'S
DEWAR'S WHITE
LABEL"
AND
"VICTORIA
VAT
THE SHAREHOLDERS of the SHEK O DEVELOPMENT Co. Ltd., will bo hald in the Offices of Messrs. PALKKE &44 TURNER, on TUESDAY, THE 27 APRIL 1926, at 5.15 F., to adopt the Accounts for the Year ending the Sist DICERBIA, 1925, and to elect Officers, etc.
By Order.
P. M. HODGSON. Secretary,
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12th April, 1825,
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. issued on 10th Novxax, 1899, in the Name of the Lose M ALLISTON O'DRISCOLL THE SECOND EXTRA BACE MEET- GOURDIN EL Been Declared LOST and TINGill be held (rantber permitting) should the Same not be produced before Grat HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 1ST MAY, MAY, 1928, it shall be deemed CANCELLED 1926, Commending at $ F.x. The First Bell and of NO EFFECT.
will be Rung at 2 30 .M.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.... Hongkong, 2nd April, 1926.
...NOTICE.
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HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO, LTD.
The Charge for Admission to the Pablo Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Parsons includ ing Ladies. Soldiers and Sailers in Uniform Half Price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Adminion to the Members Eaciorare.
Each Member haw the right to latroduce 2 Non-members to the Members Encicanre, Tickets for can be obtained from
FINEST
OLD SCOTCH WHISKY.
As supplied to the Houses. of Lords and Commons.
By Royal Appointment to" His Majesty The King.
SOLE AGENTS :
WBRIAN LANDEB LEWIS to Sigu
TE Hare THIS DAY Authorised MR. LINSTEAD & DAYS as 30 cache to DAY, A. S. WATSON
our Company Per Procuration.
KOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st Apri", 1996.
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NOTICE.
HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO. LTD.
URING the Absence of Mr. P. H.
SOTH APRIL
The Charge for Admission for Ladies to the Members Enclosure will be $t. Each Meg ber can obtain, upon application to the SECRETARY, Badges for the Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge. -
PEAK RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
MEETING of PEAK RESIDENTS A Milled at the Fra Chus on DRULYOAK hom the Colony, Ma. MONDAY, 282 20TE APRIL 1926, 6. BRIAN LANDER LEWIS will be in Charge for the purpose of electing Officers and a Geo- of Our Business in Hoxaxorg and Bouwaral Committee for the current ear. CHINA."
Ladies are Cordially Invited to attend
ÉR, C. HORNELL, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 12th April, 1926
HOLYCAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 7th April, 1928. [3477
NOTICE.
H. SKOTT & 00.
URING the Absence of the Undersigned
Dem the Oolong the abots Firm all be
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EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOURS
KOMOR & KOMOR, »
ALEXANDEL BUILDING, ...
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under the Management of Mr. E. H. MELBYE.THIS being the LAST EXHIBITION in
April 17th, 1926.
G. E. WETTON,
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NAVY LEAGUE (HONGKONG
BRANCH)-
HE ANNUAL 'GENERAL MEETING TEAM Dove will be held in the Cry HALL (Old Chamber of Commerce Room), on TUESDAY, 27TH ivar., at 5:30 PM.
Our Present AxT Books before Removing to Our New Premises. A Special Selection of Pictures by the Best Artists of Japan will be Shown.
Prices Ranging from $2 to $35.
#
The EXHIBITION is Open from 9AM to 5 r.. for TEN DAYS ONLY.
A Cordial Invitation is extended to all "Lovers of ABT
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Oriental Art Experts, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong.
& CO., LTD.
MARRIAGES.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL ZA:K, 1926,
CASH-ON-DELIVERY SERVICE..
COL. HAYLEY BELL ASSAULTED.
BRUTAL ATTACK 'OUTSIDE SHAMEEN.
BEATEN WITH STICKS AND BAMBOOS.
There is very great indignation among residenta on Shameen over the brutal assault made on Colonel Hayley Bell, the
Mr. D. W. Salter, deputy victualling Commissioner of Customs at Canton, by storo officer, H.M. Victualling Yard, Hong-strike pickets at the French Bridge, kong, has been appointed to the Royal Shameen, on Thursday, William Victualling Yard, Plymouth. The assault took plate about mid-day.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dyer, and Mrs. The Commissioner of Customs was" walk- 8. T. Williamson were among the paning quietly from his office to the Shamren sengers of the Changte which left for simply with a rain coat over his arm. Australia ports via Manila on Thure When near the French bridge a picket day.
Endeavoured to snatch the coat from him.
Tercifully by a gang of five or six then armed with sticks and hamboos.
sideration of the Government we are not- Aware The Premier's brief announco- ment of the intention to introduce the "The system began with the words: Government, after consideration of the
Gramophone enthusiasts will have an Colonel Hayley Bell resisted. There was whole nubject, have decided that these opportunity of hearing the Orthophoniosa altercation and a tussle for a second. facilities should be afforded to the Victrola in the City Hall on Monday at or two and then without warning the Com- public." We have seen some reference 5.30 p.m. at Prof. Daneuburg's Pupils missioner was set upon and beaten- un- to it in the programme of the newly Recital-ADVT. former British Housewives "Union." The death bas occurred at Peking of
A blow on the forehead, which made The system, of course, "specially appeals the Hon. Mr. Yeoh Gunn Scok, "partner to the housewife since it will enable her, in the legal firm of Logan and Rose, the food run freely, felled him to the and Penang Chinese representative on
ground. His eyeglasses were smashed if she is in a remote country district,
the Legislative Council of the Colony. and whilst be was on the ground his to deal with great urban shop, while the
H.R.H. Prince George last week re assailants coatinued to raia blows upon housewife in the towns is enabled to
visited Perak as the gucat of the Sultan hin.. obtain her country produce direct from
It seems quite possible that murder A pro of Perak at Kuala Kangsar. the farms. The departure, however, is
gramme, including elephant rides, water would have been done had not a foreigner not one which commands & unanimous sports, polo, a danes and a trip up the on. Shameen who noticed the occurrence," rushed to Colonel Hayley Bell's assist- assent. Some of the town tradesmen are Perak river was arranged.
ance. This foreigner intervened to some sceptical of the ability of the Post Office
While Dr. W. B. A. Moore, of the purpose and managed to pull the Colonel to bring the arrangements up to the Victoria Hospital was riding in a ricksha through the French gate into safety.'
A correspondent in Shameen, comment- necessary degree of efficiener One great along Bonham Road on Thursday, the shopkeeper, we read, thinks the Govern- wheel of they ricksha came off. Dr.ing upon this assault, says the pickets ment will find the scheme a very expen- Moore was thrown to the ground, but have been carrying heavy bamboos or" sive one. The small shopkeeper in the was not hurt. The coolie was struck, in sticks for the past three days. country cannot be in love with it, for it the side by the shaft and was slightly ruffian who, withcut provocation, assault- ed the Cominissioner of Customs was a must mean to him loss of trade. But, as injured." one of the London papers remarks, "we
al
Shortly before five o'clock yesterday have the fact that most countries have afternoon a Chinese" working on the top floor of Exchange Building in course adopted cash-on-delivery and that none:
of erection in Des Vaux Road "Central, which has adopted it has given it up." I fell from some scaffolding a distance of Now that the system has been actually about ten feet and was removed by am- inaugurated in the United Kingdom' it bulance to Hospital as he sustained must be left to time to prove whether severe head injuries. it will not be as generally acceptable to the public there as it is in other
countries.
The
tall, stalwart fellow and, it is believed he was, stationed near the bridge by the Picket Authorities" for the sole purpose
of committing this cutrage.
This dastardly act has set as thinking Our correspondent adds significantly :
again. Where are these insults and in- juries going to end? Are we waiting for. a murder to be committed before some-
WELLINGTON STREET FIRE. FIRE BRIGADE'S DIFFICULT TASK.
A Chinese girl was knocked down inf one puts a stop to them.". Coronation Road on Thursday by a motor-car driven by Mrs. Geldart, "of No. 4, Torres Buildings, Kowloon. Sho THE ATTACK ON COL. HAYLEYs slightly injured. Two ricksha coolies were knocked down by a motor bus in Gascoigne Road. The bus driver was de. tained by the police.
BELL.
The Director of the Royal Observatory
by
A fire occurred yesterday morning at No. 162, Wellington Street. One floor was practically gutted.......”
When the brigade from the Central Fire' Station arrived, the blaze was at its full height, and considerable labour was neces sary before it was extinguished.
The extent of the damage has not been assessed. The building was insured for $4,000.
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fr appears to us that the brutal assault on Colonel HAYLEY BELL, just outside of
The alarm was given in good time, and BUCHANAN-KAY-At Shanghai, on April Shameen, the details of which are given
advanced, 17th WILLIAM BUCHANAN, of Bannockin to-day's paper, should bring the con-at Kowloon mentions in his annual re- before the fire was in any way. burn, Scotland, to HELEN HEPBURN KAY, of Clarkston, Glasgow, Scot-flict between the Canton Government and port that for the purposes of upper air the inmates took to the street.
The fire began on the third floor, which" land.
the Strike picketa to an issue. We are research, 10 fights with pilot balloons
were made during the year 1995. On was used as an eating hous, and before HALWELL-DAVEY-At Shanghai, on April
17th, EUSTACE HOGAN HALWELL, of ready to believe that there are members September 2ath the balloon was observed the blaze was extinguished the second Wembley, to SERILA ALICE DAVEY, of the Canton Government who are sin for 131 minutes on September 24 for 90 floor, used as ♫ restaurant was also daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H
cerely anxious to put an end to the minutes. The Director thinks the former affected, whilst the contents of the floors DAVEY, of Shanghai,
DEATH.
irregularities and disorder which are is one of the longest observed fights on below were damaged by water. ROBERTS.At Shanghai, on April 18th, hampering trade throughout the Province, record. The results of these observations ANGELA MARIA, the beloved wife of Thes must somehow or another convince were forwarded to the International Com FRED. . ROBERTS, aged 38 years.
their extremist colleagues that order must mission at Oslo, which is investigating
the subject. be enforced and maintained in their City Hongkong Office: là, Chater Road.
Years ago--five at least-currency was London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.unless the Government as a whole, the
moderates as well as the extremists, are given to a report that the Telephone to be irrevocably and hopelessly dis- Company in Hongkong had issued a notice that subscribers who dirt over the
LONGITUDE “OF HONGKONG. credited.
The criminal and unprovoked wires with telephone girls more than attack upon the Commissioner of Cus-three times will have their numbers cat
TIME VALUE CORRECTED, toms, a highly respected and responsible off. This story still appears in the
The following paragraph is taken from servant of China herself, in broad day-world's Press at intervals. We see it in the annual report of the Director of-the light and within a hundred yards of his Manila paper which reached
Royal Observatory, Hongkong":
Simultaneous observations of the Bor- own office, should give them the opportu- Yesterday's mail. It states that the
notice was issued recently."The truth deaux rhythmic Time Signals by radio As inland cash-on-delivery service for nity for which, perhaps, they have been is that no notice of the kind was ever were made by the Royal Observatorys Great Britain and Northern Ireland was looking. No sane men can offer an excuse igated in Hongkong."
Greenwich, and this Observatory on 13 instituted at the end of March. The for such an outrage. The only thing to
Since the retirement of the Kuomin- occasions, between September 3rd and
familiar fenture of life in the United miscreants and to see that they are Premier of China, is once again in the adopted times of receipt at Greenwich States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, punished effectively. If it is found, as social limelight, says the North China and Hongkong has been made possible by India, and a good many of the Crown doubtless it will be, that they have a Star. During the occupation of this city the courtesy of the Astronomer Royal, and Colonies. It is not altogether unknown strong labour organisation at their back, by the national armies the former the longitude as redetermined by this in Great Britain, since the British Post that organisation should be taught that emperor lived in seclusion at his resid- means is 7h. 36m. 41.255. (East of Green Office collects for some of the Overseas it must not countenance crime or endea.ence in the Japanese concession. He was wich). This value will be used from Dominions. But hitherto, though the vour to shield criminale. There is no closely guarded. He is again 'receiving January 1st, 1928, in place of 7h 28
motor drive or a horseback ride. Twice of the U.S. Navy in 1881. matter has been for years the subject of other way. The Government must estabusts and goes out occasionally for a 41.868. determined by Commander Green recurrent discussion, the British Govern lish themselves as masters in their own a week he is host to foreign. friends and ment declined, on various grounds, to house or, sooner or later but inevitably, fortnightly he gives his "state dinners,"
At the Kowloon Magistracy yester. consent to its inauguration, in fact go under.
Among passengers arriving in Hong day, a Chinese was fined $5 for attempt- there has been a considerable difference or months past the streets of Canton kong yesterday from Manila by the sing to throw a box of matches to s of opinion as to the desirability of much have been free, as they should be, to President Pierce were:-Mr. W. A. prisoner, who was lodged in the cells below the Magistracy. The prisoner saw a servion in Great Britain. The con- foreigners. We are inclined to think that Butterfield, Major. FE-Winter: Mis defendant passing the door, and requeste PRED PREMINGTON STEEL, Kas OREMISES TO LET in the DimY FARM
ditions here," a London paper points the murderous assault on Colonel HAYLEY Milton D. Purdy, (wife of Judge ed him to give him a match to light Point, Floor Area: 5,835 Bq. Ft., Height: For 20.40 -Ft. Make Excellent: Godown.
out, are widely different from these BELL was premeditated and prearranged. Purdy, Shanghai), who is remaining in a cigarette. particulare apply to the SOLITARY,
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Overseas Dominioun, Ver. All the more reason that punishment Hongkong for about ten days; Mr. A. B. The Japanese Consular. authorities, af
has so successfully."
In the
even in the
should be swift and sure.
United States, there are large popula Mr. and Mr. Gordon Mackie left
W Desires POST an Garracas for the tions altogether out of touch with shop Shanghai on the Empress of Australia Child. Would also Consider POST House ping centres. The post is the chief.con-last week. They are proceeding home on keeper or a Travelling Companion for a Lady.
boliday. Box 201, c/o Epagkong Dully Prom. 3+ [201 - necting link between them and an
lierson, connected with a large embroi Shanghai have effected the arrest of a dery stores in New York, with branches former captain in the Japanese Imperial on the way to San Francisco with his Army, named M. Sugita, on a charge wife, and daughters; and Mr. Arsenie of disclosing military secrets. Japanese Luz, Director of the Philippine Islands Consular officials stated that Sugits has Carnival, accompanied by fr Carlos P been under suspicion for several weeks Romolo, Editor of one of the Manils of bartering with Soviet agents in Shang newspapers, both of whom are stopping hai to hand over certain important maps
And documents. at Repulse Bay for a time.