NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1925 -
JUMBLE SALE in Aid of Charities THE SPIRIT OF
will be held in the UNION CHURCH
on TUESDAY, JUNE 1, si 2.307. [3501
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRA· LASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
FROM
HONGKONG STATION.
1 MAY, 1926, and until Further
Notice Ma. E. J. PATERSON wil be Je Charge of the above Company's Station at Hongkong.
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E. A. LEGGATT.
Superintendent
THE SEAS.
been showing recently in their balance sheets there may be another explanation of this "conservation of the use of rub ber" by users of motorcars, CN
Mr. HOOVER's campaign is likely to | have a boomerang effect in the course of the next three or four years. There is a cpasangus of expert opinion in the rubber growing industry that the world's demand for rubber will very soon be exceeding From the great blue deep came the supply; but Mp Heaven's constant forth the Empire, boundless and warnings must, if they are widely needed free. Across the wide waters of by planters, have the unhappy result of all the seas unceasingly pass, men delaying efforts to meet such a situation. and ships, binding more tightly Rubber does not grow as rapidly ar
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Yesterday, constant
It is announced that a supply of water will be turned on in al rider, main districts of the Colony from to-morrow.
The Committee of the Peak Club hava
arranged with Mr. Dick Norton for a performance to be given by The Globe Trotters" at the Peak Club on Monday evening next..
Wax
revenue officer found LATE MR. DENMAN FULLER'S
WILL. one revolver and 800 rounds of ammunis
BEQUESTS TO LOCAL RESIDENTS. tion in the servants' quarters on board the s... Zyson.
The late Mr. W. G. B. Denman Fuller,
Mr. I. E. Curwood, of 9. Knutsford formerly organist at St. John's Cathe Terrace, Kawloon, reported to the police dral, who died at his home at Bromyard, yesterday that whilst riding his motor Hereford, left in Hongkong estate to the cycle near his residence an Alsatian wolf value of $3,000. Probate has just been hound rushed at him and bit him in the granted to Mr. 'C. EH. Beavis, the leg. The dog, which was owned by Capt. local solicitor.
He bequeathed $5,000 (Hongkong cur Finn Maim, was sent to Kennedy Town. “
A mistress of a fishing boat roported to rency) to his aunt, Miss F. M. Bennet, Bromyard, Hereford; $5,000 to his the police last night that, she had tied cousin, Mrs. Parken (nez Gwendolyn up her boat at Cheung Sha Wan the weeks). British Columbia; $2,500 to his previous day. She had gone away for cousin, Mrs. J. Smith (née Gertrude,
missing. It is thought that the boat cousin, Miss Annie Philpot, Bromyard; writing desk at the Boy Scouts Head- must have drifted, but it is quite likely $1,000 to Kiss Olive Spyer, Warwick
that it was stolen. „
A Chinese messenger in the employment
Mesars. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., bitten yesterday by a dog owned by Mr. L. H. Railton, of No. 198, The Peak.
The animal was sent to Kennedy Town,
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CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED. the common bonds of & noble/shrooms; it takes about seven years report has been made to the police short, time and on her return it was Werks), British Columbia; 81,000 to his
ROYDON FARBANT haring bees Mracted to Terminst his ponportion with the Company as from the ler MAY, 1926, ties is
ME HERBERT ROTHSAY STURT, VIA
bees Appointed
HANAGER and
SECRETARY of the Company in his place sa from the 15 MAY, 1948, in addition to his present Appointment as Actuary.
CHINA UNDERWETTERS, LIMITED, SHEWAN, TOMIs & Co.,
General Managers.
Tated this 30th At ril, 1926.
G.
NOTICE.
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HONGKONG, WATERWORKS.
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, On and
IT IS
A CONSTANT SUPPLY OF WATER WILL BE TURNED ON in all Rider Man Districts
under further Notice.
HAROLD T. CREASY. Water Authority..
Public Works Department, Hongkong, 29th April, 1996..
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SECOND EXTRA RACE MEET- TNG wil be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY OF SATURDAY, 1ST MAY, 1920, Commencing at Jr.M. The First Bell
at 2.80 r.M.
will be orgy for Admission to the Public
*The
Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Persons inclad- ing Ladies. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform-- Half Price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members' Enclosure.
Each Member bax the right to introduce Nen-members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs. & DATE at $5 each up to FRIDAY, 30TH AFRI
The Charge for Admission for Ladies to the
Enclosure will be
Mem
for a rubber tree to reach the bearing heritage. Not least amongst these stage and the longer new planting is delayed now, the greater the likelihood of a shortage if expert calculations of the progress of production and consumption enn be relied upon.
DEWAR'S
DEWAR'S “WHITE
LABEL"
AND
16
that a sum of $16 was stolen from
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quarters, Lower Albert Road, sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday,
Avenue, London; $300 to Mrs. J. S. Dobie, Connaught Square, London; A social, which proved very enjoyable,
88,500 to Mr. William Kearley Raynolds was organised and held at the St. John's
(Secretary of the City Hall), Hongkong; At the Central Magistracy yesterday, a Cathedral Hall last evening in aid of to his godson, the eldest son of Mr. Chinese was fined &i for having been drunk the Building Repairs Fund of St. Peter's Thomas Doughts, Paradise House, Coal. The programme brookdale.. Shropshire. $1,000; to Mr.. and disorderly near the Hongkong Club Church, West Point.
Hongkong, $500; and to his couson, Mr. on the previous night. He was also fiocu consisted of games, music and refresh-William C. Blackett, 4, The Albany,
Vincent B. Weeks, £50 sterling. 81 for having assaulted an Indian watchments.
man.
The Eastern News Agency states, that
It is not without interest to observe that Mr. Hoovza's campaign has been as trenchantly criticised by Americans with knowledge of the industry as it has
He gave power to his trustee, in the by British experts. Not long ago, we saw the American journal Commerce and Among the passengers arriving by the according to Russian Press reports at Far East to dispose of his property and It is to the credi" of 5.3. President Taft yesterday from the Harbin, the issue, raised by Marshal efter paying out the bequests, to pass the Pingner saying: the American Press that it has not joins North were Mr. M. K. Chanson, Mr. {Chang's refusal to guarantee the safety residue to his cousin, Mr. Vincent in the hysterical clamour against the Wallis Betts, Mra E. Middleton, Mrs. of Comrade Karakhan, Soviet Ambas Bennet Weeks, the appointed trustee in
Stewart Masson, Mr. N. Ott and Mr. M.sador in Peking, has been settled amic-England. that
VICTORIA fished all the misinformation that has
VAT"
FINEST
British rubber growing industry Secretary Hoovis has set up, nor pub- bren put into circulation without analyz ing it and showing its essential falsity It will be remembered that Mr. Hoorer staggered the world some months ago by saying that because of the Stevenson
OLD SCOTCH WHISKY. Restriction Scheme American consumers ing that the "rick" was discovered.
As supplied to the Houses
of Lords and Commons.
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By Royal Appointment to His Majesty The King.
SOLK AGENTS;
He enjoiard that after all the bequests T. Young,
ably by negotiations between Comrade On Wednesday, a Chinese called at Srebriakoff, an croissary of the Moscow and his funeral expenses had been paid, the house of Mr. J. V. Dodd, interpreter Government, and Marshal Chang Tso that the residue of his estates, both in
Jane Fuller. at the Supreme Court, and informed Mrs. Lin. It is reported that the understand the Far East and in England should go Dodd that the master had asked him to ing reached is that the Moscow Govern-absolutely to his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth The will was made in Hongkong, in call for some clothes. The clothes, which ment will voluntarily recall Comrade
January, 1824. were valued at 827, were handed over. It Karakhan at an opportune moment, was only on Mr. Dodd's retura in the even-
Home And Europe mail, via Siberia ar- rived by the s.8. President Taft yesterday.
AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY. of rubber had to pay last year $500,000,(KX)
Mr. J. Th. de Vries, agent of the The liner.brought an exceptionally heavy above the fair price" for rabber. lie
Holland China Trading Company in mai! for Hongkong, a total of no fewer ROUND THE WORLD ON BICYCLES. Of this Igino Gibelli, a young Italian, who is arrived at this figure by the simple ex-
as number, 4 bags comprised letters from attempting to traverse the globe on his pedient of taking the cost price of rubber Canton, has been in charge of the than 705 bags being landed. of the day and overlooking the important Netherland Consulate at Cantes fact that the American manufacturers had acting Consul since April 18th. Mr. G. the United Kingdom; while 45 bags were | bicycle, arrived in Hongkong on Wednes Woudenberg, formerly acting Netherland from Europe. The remainder of the mail day. He is awaiting here the arrival of Consul in Canton, has rejoined the was letters and papers from U.S.A., young Cresho-Slovakian," who has ac- Ho left his Holland China Trading Company in Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai. To- companied him on his tour.
Lorrow the P. & O. s.s. Khyber is due companion for a time in Singapore and Hongkong.
with letters and papers from Home vid had not heard of him since leaving Suez (dated London April 1st) and Hanoi. When he arrives, it is their in- tection to cycle to Canton, then to the parcels (dated March 25th).
North. Thence they will go to Japan,. and Canada, and then make their way to South America, waste Gibelli's re- latires reside.
made sure of their supplies by forward
contracts made at very much lower prices. Indeed one American expert's calculation showed that Mr. "HOOVER's figure of $300,000,000 as "excess cost" shad in, be
Members pia upon pplication to the A. S. WATSON reduced to less than $200,000,000 to be
SECRETARY, Badges for the Admission of, 2 Ladies Free of Charge.
547
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GEN. MEETING of. SHARE.
BRAL HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on TUESDAY, row 182 MAY, 1998, at Nock, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agente, together with s Statement of Account for the Tear ended the 21 xxx, 1925.
The REARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS ill be ULOSED from the 4re to the 1872 HAY, 1926, both days inclusive.
+
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Azenia. Hongkong, 28th April, 1926.
(3498
& CO., LTD.
BIRTH.
Coo-At Shanghai, on April 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Cook, a daugh ter, ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. and Mrs. A. DENISON, who left for
"Home on April 27th, "desire to take
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., Hongkong Office: 11, Chater Road.
London Office: 181, Fleet Street, E.C.
LIMITED.
NOTICE
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate for Shares No. 36-35/36642 issued on 20th NOTEKEZE, 1899, in the Name of the Lato Me, ALLISTON O'DRISCOLL GOURDIN Has Been Declared LOST and should the Same not be produced before & MAY, 1926, it shall be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,'
Agente.
[3478 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1926."
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
anywhere near the mark.
It still seems to be a debateable.ques tion, even among British rubber growers, whether the Stevenson restriction scheme was responsible for the price advance which took place soon after its inaugura tion. There are those who argue that this rise in price was the natural result of a greatly increased demand for rubber Moreover, it has to be remembered that while restriction has been in force in the
The cyclists have already toured Ame rica, Europe, and North Africa. This entailed nearly five years' travel,
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, the driver of a bus was charged with dangerous driving and with failing to
The meeting of British residents held have efficient brakes. Evidence was given to the effect that the defendant, whilst in the Ballroom of Government House driving his bus ran into four rickshas in yesterday afternoon for the purpose of The considering suggestions for increasing the Gascoigne Road on the 23rd inst. coolies had to be treated in hospital. The efficiency of the Volunteer Corps was pri- vate, the Press not being admitted to the case was adjourned.
The young cyclists rely on hospitality proceedings. It is understood that their Excellencies the Governor (Sir Cecil and donations, Gabelli, in fact, having Clementi, K.C.M.G.), and the General travelled the greater part of the journey Officer Commanding the Forces in China with only a shilling in his pocket. They (Major-General C. C. Luard, C.B., have obtained many autographs of dis." CM.G.) and Commodore A. J. B. Stirling tinguished persons in the course of their travels, Gibelli's "book containing the addressed the meeting." and it, was pro- posed to form a small Conunittee of Heads signatures of King Hussein Ibn Saud, of Commercial Firms to discuss with the King Feisal and the Sheik of Moham- merah. Whilst in Burma, Sir Harcourt Volunteer Authorities the best methods Butler consented to sign his book and of combining maximum eficiency and in Malaya, Sir Laurence Guillemard and minimum interference with business re Sir George Maxwell. His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong has also consent- quirements.
ed to autograph Gibelli's book.
an
Owing to the heavy rains two landslides occurred in Stubbs Road on Wednesday, and traffic was held up for some time In the larger of the two slides, about 100 tons of earth fell into the roadway. The this opportunity of acknowledging British Colonies, the native production same day, a retaining wall at the rear of the very many expressions of good in Dutch India has been greatly stimul- No. 43, Pokfulam Road, collapsed, and a will received from friends before
This the native production in large quantity of Earth obstructed the their departure: They return their ated. sincere thanks and heartily recipro Netherlands Tadia in the five years before back lane. ente the good wishes
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Restriction came into force in the British
The forthcoming weddings are Colonies averaged oaly 7,500 tons a year nounced of Mr. Walter John Smith Key, in 1999, in spite of low prices, it rose to civil engineer, of the Port Development 23,000 tons, and the better prices have Department, residing at No. 2A, Cambay continued to stimulate that production Building, Kowloon, to Miss A. B. Macfar- sipec.
What the Stevenson scheme has lane, assistant mistress, Education De- done for rubber in the British. Colonies partment, residing at Kingsclere, Kow- has been to preserve a great industry in loon; and Mr. Francisco Maria Franco, which a large amount of capital had been of No. 7, Nanking Street, Kowloon, to invested from atter demoralisation. It is for a precisely similar reason, we take it, that proposal has been recently made to restrict the Cuban sugar dutput, and. curiously enough, Mr. Hooven has been
proposal! If that is the case, enough is
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL SÜTH, 1926.
AMERICA AND RUBBER.
Tax recent'announcement by the Colonial Office, that while" allowing a full hundred
Miss Celeste Jalia Castro, of St. Joseph's Buildings.
A case of highway robbery in the Pok. fulam district was reported to the police yesterday. A house-boy residing at No.
Tis Proposed to Hold A JUMBLE SALT per cent. export of "standard rubber credited with the authorship of that 7, Felix Villas, Jubilee Road, Pokfulam,
on WEDNESDAY, MAY 578. Con production," from Malaya and Ceylon, tributions of Clothing, etc. will be Gratefully Received at the CITY HALL on MINDAY. the Stevenson Restriction scheme is to
DUTE, THURSDAY, 20T and MAY 31, 4 be preserved for application if in any
and Syy at 11 x
·SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
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Tto inform All Interested in SAFE THE BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE beg
Des
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and
2
Varaz Road Central
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was proceeding home from Hongkong on Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, by of Kennedy Town and Jubilee Road.
way
LEAVING TO-DAY. PASSENGERS ON EMPRESS OF ASIA."
Among the passengers who will leave Hongkong to-day on the R.M.S. Empren
MR. SUN FO.
BACK IN CANTON AGAIN. ' Mr. Sun Fo, who recently visited the North on mission to which he was
of dia, which sails for Vancouver vid delegated by the Canton Government, Taft yesterday morning. He was met Shanghai and Japan ports at noon, are returned to Hongkong by the President the following:---
by an official of the Canton Government, and returned to Cantor soon after his arrival.
Mr. L. Dunbar for Shanghai, and Mrs. L. Dunbar for Boston.
Mr. E. V. Jesson of the Telegraph Company, and Mrs. Jesson, and Miss Jesson, all for Europe.
Mr. J. H. Wallace, Manager of the Sun Life Assurance Co., Hongkong, sad
There is a limit to the conservation when near Military Path, leading to Mr Wallace and children, for Shang- one quarter of the year the price of rubber of the use of rubber," and while there. I Mount Davis, he was accosted by two falls below an average of ls. ad per lb. may be more activity in the reclama-
hay
Me and Mrs. Raphael Levy, prominent Bir Hesketh Bell (a retired at Washington with another opportunity seen whether there will be greater sue- dagger. They seized him and searched has provided the Department of Commerce tion of used rubber," it remains to be men, one of whom was armed with a Manila residents, for Shanghai.
hama.
VIEWPOINTS:
OLD WOMAN WOUNDED AND
yesterday, and in, addition was stab bed when she offered alight resistance to the robber.
ROBBED. EARLY MORNING INCIDENT IN NEW TERRITORIES. According to a report made to the British police an old woman, aged 61 years, was
DEPOSIT, that they have actually in their New Balding, 5, QezaN'S ROAD, BAFE for a kick at the official protection of the cess in the effort. As to American con him, and stole $1.50. The boy gave, a Colonial office official, with wide expert- the victim of an armed robbery in the sumers securing their own sources of good description of his assailants to the ence in Africa) from Manila to Yoko New Territories in the early hours of DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Rate of 8
ebe Smail Size and $19 for the Large Size, rubber-growing industry in the British supply, nobody will quarrel with them police, and it appears that they are
[3472 Colonies: This continued price-fixing for that.
The doors of the British Northern Chinese, Please Apply to The CASHIER.
There was a large and distinguished No. 41, ROBINSON ROAD, Booms by the British Colonial Authorities," says Colonies have never been closed to their
Large Garden-Apply to
attracted to engage in an industry which PERCY STEL SBER & FLEMING, No. 6, statement issued at Washington, "will enterprise. They simply have never been gathering at the Singapore Club, when Bir [3479 simply mean continued conservation of past experience showed to be highly Arthur Yapp, KB.E., General Secretary of the National Council of Y.M.C.A's, of If British of nursing. quired years PREMISES TO LET in the DARY FARM the use of rubber by American consumers, speculative. It is an industry that re
activity in the reclamation of used capitalista had shown an equal lack of Great Britain and Ireland, was the guest
confidence in it, the great rubber.mann- Point, Floor Arta: 6,835 8q. FL, Height: more 50:40 TL. Make Excellent Godown. For rubber and in securing our own sources facturing industry that exists in America of honour at a dinner given by Mr. G. W. further particulare apply to the SEOBRTANT, THE DAIRY PARK, 102 & COLD of supply." We are further told that the to-day could not have developed. A lot A Trimmer, President of the YH.C.A. în
of money has been lost in the "rubber STORAGE CO., LTD.
users of mictor-cars in the United States growing industry; sa immense amount of Singapore Amongst those present were have reduced the consumption of tyres by British capital is still invested in it, and His Excellency Major-General Bir Theo- there is just as much reason why the dare Fraser G.O.C., and the Bishop of twenty-five
per cent. as a result of Mr. British Government should seek to pro Hooven's campaign. Judging from the tect the industries carried on ita terzi. Singapore and several members of the torities from ruin, as that the United Civil Service Sir Arthur Yapp is due to enormous profits which the tyre-mabular States by bigh tarina and restricted}
arrive in Hongkong to-morrow. turing concerns of the United States have exports, should seek to protect its oWIL
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The Barkerraadite and the man Who lived up on the top Were chatting as they homeward- (The tram was a non-stop).
I wonder if," I heard one say, "The fog will ever:
go away,
It appears that she lives at No. 18 Taipo Old Market, and at 1.00 am. yesterday she was aroused from steep by a noise in her front room. Getting up, and catching up her cash box at the same time, ale proceeded to the room where she was promptly seized by a man, who struck her on the head with a dagger or some other sharp instrument.
I saw a third man turn and smile And marvelled he was gay g
The woman attempted to conceal the cash box by throwing it into a cup- Until he too began to speak,"
board, but the noise of it falling at "Ab, you should live in May-" He stopped, nor uttered one word more tracted the robber's attention, and be. As past May Road that con-stop tore.immediately took it and decamped. The
cash box contained $30.
Nor one word more but it was plain. It badly went against the grain.
As the occurrence took place, in the dark, the victim of the outrage was un able to give any description of her E. D. & assailant to the police.
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