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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA, E.C.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO THIN
LATE RIGHT WORSHIP
BROTHER
PERCY HOBSON HOLYOAK, D.G.M.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
<x
MONDAY, 31st MAY, at d PN.
M HALL at 5.50 F2. Prompt.
EMBERS l Assemble at ZETLAND
Masters of Lodges are Requested to have their Members Marshalled at the HALL by That Hour.
....
D. G. Secretary.
A. MOREIS, Hongkong. Sth May, 1996.
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DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY OF HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA.
MEMORIAL SERVICE for the "Ente BIGHT WOKAMPFEL Rother PER BY FOBSON EULYOAK, E.C., will be held in ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL on MONDAY, 31st MAY, at 6 ṛM”
BRETHREN of the SCOTTISH LODGES wishing to Attend will Meet in ZETLAND
·HALL BE 5.30 PM.
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By Order of the DISTRICT GRAND MASTEL,
·A. W. HILL, District Grand Secretary.
NOTICE,
MEMORIAL SERVICE to the Late D.G.M. of Hongkong and South China will be held 2: ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
6x, en MONDAY, 31ST MAY.
The MEMBERS of UNITED SERVICE
LODGE, 1841, EC., will Rove at MARONIC HALL at 5.3) Y...
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INTIMATIONS.
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BASEBALL.
HONGKONG BASEBALL
ASSOCIATION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 29TH, 1926
OPENING GAME. SATURDAY, MAY 29TH, AT KÖ0 Pa AT HAPPY VALLET.
8. CRINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (Oolong Champiɔna)» JAPANESE BASEBALL CLUB (Ruanera Up).
BY KID CONSENT Bts EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. Sm CECIL CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G., WILL THROW THE FIRST BALL
wwwwww SUNDAY, MAY 30TH, AT 4:00 PM. HONGKONG BASEBALL CLUB
THE FILIPINO CLUB,^.
ADMISSION-
COVERED STANDS UNCOVERED STANDS... SOLDIERS & BAILORS IN UNITORM LADIES...
50 CENTS.
CENT BALP PRICE. FxzZ
(3602
CLUB LUSITANO.
BILLIARDS EXHIBITION
MR CLAUD FALKINER
Mr. A. J. OSMUND
EMBERS informed that ANOTHER FALKINER at the CLER LUSITANO on SATURDAY, the 297 MAY, 1998, at 9 F.M. The Exhibition is Open to Lady sud Gentle- Ticketa of Admission may be obtained at the Secretary's
M EXHIBITION will be given by
Friends of Members. THAT
Oce..
E. D. DA ROZA,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 26th May, 1926.
NOTICE.
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NOTICE, MEMORIAL DAY. THE Committee of Ladies in charge of
Arrangements for the Observance of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEMORIAL DAY on MAY 31st and other whatsoever with LEUNG KAM SHUI, Trad the Undersigned bas "No Connection Ladies interested will meet at the AMusican CONSULATZ GINEBAL on MAY 31ST, 90 Ming under the Name of LEUNG KON TAI, 21, Lx XuN STREET EAST, and proceed to the CEMETERY at HAPPY VALLET of No. to decorate the Graves of Americans there.
STEVEBORE,
LEUNG KOON TAT All Americans and Others who wish to take Part in the Decation of these Graves should be at the CETEXT Not Later Thau 10.40
AK
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AMERICAN CONSTLATE
GENERAL.
HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE CRICKET CLUB.
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EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING.
N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of MEMBERS will be held at the SANITARY DEPARTMENT BOARD Room (3rd Floor, Port Office Building), oa TUESDAY, 1ST JUNE, at 5.15 P.M.
All Members are particularly Requested to Attend
BUSTERASA posted on Notice Board in
Club house.
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By Order of the Committee, R. S. VERGETTE,
Bon. Becretary.
THE HON. SIR CATCHICK· PAUL CHATER, C.M.G.. DECEASED.
LL Claims against the Fatate of the above named Deceased must be Sent to the Undersigned forthwith,
DEACONS, Solicitors &...
1. Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
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Hongkong, 28th May, 1926.
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT.
NOS the Convenience of our many. Cus. are OPENING A BRANCH at No. 2, PENNINGTON STREET, op TUESDAY, 17 JUNE NEXT, where DAIRY PRODUCE MEATS, FISH (Fresh and Cured), and
Fotot in the BASE FOINT DINERICE, We
Principal of Me, KOON TAI & Co Stevedores, Coal Merchant, Freight Brokers, Commission Agents and General Contractors, ets.....
24, Das Vat Road Central.
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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE beg. Tlator An Interested in SAFE DEPOSIT, that they have actually in their New Building, 5, QUEER'S ROAD, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Rate of 88 for the Small Size and $12 for the Large Size. Please Apply to The CASHIER.
TO LET."
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4-Roomed FLAT in CAZNARTON BUILD-
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INTIMATIONS.
INTIMATIONS:
THE PASSING OF THE OCEAN
TRAMP
Captain KETTLE and other romantic
figures of Action have made a sentimental
appeal to us. The increasing need for
It
DYELIX VILLAS-At the TERMINUS of W. & A. GILBEY'S THR latest inventions and developments eficiency seems to destroy romanco. FX
the new BUS SERVICE, Earcpraz residences equipped with modern vanitallop.. electric light, gat," as well as garage hid comprising oms, 4 bathrooms, servants
at $150 and upwarda. Tiene quarters. etc.,
residences comfortable
on Moor Davi ROAD, Face South and are situated in one of the most delightful localities in Hongkong- Apply to the HornKONG LAND INFISTENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
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THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED. (INCORCORATED IN HONGKONG).
SPEY ROYAL'
SCOTCH WHISKY.
TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that the THE CHOICEST and
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED will be held in the Roor GARDEN of the Hore- KONG BOTEL Pedder Street, Hongkong, o SATURDAY, THE POTU DAY OF MAY, 1990, at ELLYEN O'CLOCK in the Foxxzoos, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Acccants and the Repert of the Board of Director for the Year naded on the 31st Droz, 1925, Confirming the appointment of a Director, and re-electing a Director and the Auditors.
By Order of the Board,
WALTER JHAWKEE, - Manager.
"Hongkong, 1st May, 1996,
INDO CHINA
f
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Messrs. W. & A. GILBEY, LTD.
in the shipping world have a particularis much more comfortable to travel on a interest for most of us in Hongkong liner and apparently it is more satis- The ceaseless change of ideas is constantly factory to move cargo by a regular ship- hringing forth new types of ships and ping line. It is, however, rather sad to the iron law of the survival of the fittest part with old friends.
A Chinese woman was rescued from the harbour near the Wing "Lok Wharf on Thursday and sent to hospital.
is just as applicable to machinery and to methods of transport as it is to any other department of activity.
The " Cutty Sark" and the once famous "China. Te Clippers" are now only memories and in a few more years in all probability Two typewriters, valued at $100 hare they will be forgotten altogether, And been stolen from the offices of Marers, · now we have evidence that the ocean Odell & Behar, A.P.C. Building..
One Chinese ease of small-poż and one Portuguese case of diphtheria were re ported during the hours ended May
"An Indian steerage passenger on the B.1. steamer hirala, jumped overboard" in the Sulphur Channel on Thursday 'and was drowned.
OLDEST procurable: tramp is gradually disappearing.
Somebody once said that facts have tendency to develop faster than theories The facts about ocean shipping since the 27th. war are fairly plain. The tramp steamer has, for many years, heen considered the drudge of the seas. "She has carried the dirty and bully cargoes which have great weight or size in proportion" to valas. Tramps have no regular sailing
Dr. . C. Ho has received a notification schedules, nor do they travel on any declaring him to be a duly elected fixed routes. They go from port to port member of the Sanitary Board with effect wherever cargo offers. But, as KING from May 22nd. wrote the liner she's a lady ̈¦ she has
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being the proprietors of Three Highland Distilleries are in a position second to none to supply STEAM NAVIGATION the finest possible Scotch Whisky,
COMPANY, LTD.
THE
THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GEN."SPEY ROYAL" Scotch Whisky
ERAL MEETING of the Company will
pre-arranged schedules and routes as
be held at the Ofices of the General Managers has been matured for many years regular as those of the railway trains.
exBTH, JARDINE MATEOS & Co.. L... Pedder. Street. Hongkong, on TAURSDAY, the 10TH JUNE, 1928, at 12 Now, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc tors passing the Accounts, and electing Dires
tors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from the 320 to 24TH JUNE,
1998, both days inclusive..
By Order of the Board,' JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 20th May, 1976.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- above Company will be held at the Company's Officer, on FRIDAY, THE 11TH or JUNE, 1926, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with 4 Statement of Accounts to the 31st of Dec B, 1925.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the Gra to in dot JUNE, bath days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
Geber 1 Manager, Hongkong, 26th May, 1926.
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CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING
COMPANY, LIMITED,
PATMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDENT OF STAKES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30TH June, 1925,
INGS, KOWLOON-Apply to HUME Board having declared An INTERIM
DIVIDEND
nf Use Shilling per Share PHREYA ESTATE & FINANCE CO. free of Income Tax. for the Year ending 30th LTD., Alexandra Building.
Jusk, 1948 Holders of Bearer Shares sad Holder of Disflend Warrants received;from London on account of Registered Shared will be paid their Dividends on presenting No. 28 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, and Dividend Warrante on Registered Shares, to either of the following Bank
TO LET.
ROOMS
Furnished
Verandah TO LET with Good Board at the SU FOR BATES, WEI-HAI-WXI. HOUSES on one of the Best Beaches and nart 10 the MAINLAND GOLF COURSE. Special Rates for A Stay of More Than One Month, Apply MRS.
(3572 NIVES, WEI-HA-WLC.
COMFORTAB Bathrooms and Private
➜REMISES, TO LET in the Dairy Farm
STREST, East
For
Point, Floor Area: 5,336, 6q. Ft. Height: 20.40 Make Excellent Gedown. further particulars apply to the SICRETARY. THE DAIRY FAEM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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will be ON SALE Mzasas. LANE CRAW ONE OFFICE ROOM, Geol Location
FORD A PROVISIONE. etc., CAPE
Use of Boy, Light and Telaphone, $50 WISEMAN'S BREAD, CAKES, etc, and Monthly, for Six Months or Longer. Houses, FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES will Flats and Building Negotiated. Mortgage also be Available on the Premises.
Arranged.
THE DAIRY FARM. ICR AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD: Hongkong, 28th May, 1926. (3610
GOVERNMENT HOUSE. RECEPTION
JUNE 3RD.
We BTO officially informed that the correct Civilian dress for this occasion is
WHITE MESS JACKET. WHITE WAISTCOAT
BLACK TIE
STIFF or BOFT FRONTED SHIRT WHITE GLOVES
MINIATURE MEDALS.
MACKINTOSH & CO., LTD.
Kur' WIAK SPOLALISTS. ALYZEDRA BUILDING, Drs Vaux BOAD. (3615
SMALL INVESTORS,
TEL. 4630.
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA," INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c.
Comprehenarre and Complete Report
of the
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST
Is given in the
HONGKONG - WEEKLY PRESS,
with which as incorporated.
TIE · CHINA' OVERLAND
"TRADE REPORT."
Babeription, paid in advance-$13 per annum for delivery in Hongkong; including Prace toany part of the world—$12.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL BAŃKING
CORPORATION.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, Arbera-.
LIA AND CHINAN
THE RUMO-ASIATIC BANK. THE BANQUE BELGE POUR L'ETRANGE Payment will be made in Dollars at the Buying Rate of Exchange of the Day.
P. U. YOUNG,
General Manager, " KALAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OP
TWO LOTS. VALUABLE "LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES
NAMELY:~~
LOT NO. 1.
in their
own Excise " Bonded Warehouse, and has been special- ly stored in Sherry Casks.
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
Wine and Spirit Merchants.
BIRTH.
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What are the facts that make us think that the tramp will soon become as
In a dispute between two Indiana on the a.. Mantan yexterday..n coal trimmer received wounds in the head. His alleged“ ussiilant is now in custody...
The annual dinner of the Kowloon
Football Club, which, was" to have taken
place this evening at the Kowloon Hotel, has now been definitely cancelled.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, obsoleth as the mastodon or the coracle Mr. D. O. de Silva, of the Sun Life I that was once used on the river Thames? Insurance Co., was fined $1 for allowing
In 1913 the British liners in overseas this deg to be abroad unmuzzled. trade totalled 1,590 ships with an agire- gate net tonnage of 4,200,000.. The tramps numbered 2,400 with an aggregate of 3,700,000 tons It was because there were twice as many trumps as liners in the British mercantile marine before the war that we were inclined rather to ex45 gerate, in our own minds, the work done by tramp" steamers. If, instead of the number of ships, we take the tonnage and the average speeds of the vessels into face and with his clothes wet. He was consideration we have a different aspect removed to hospital, and missed his ship of the situation. For tramps the average in consequence...
S. Anderson, a seaman of the s.. Elkridge, reported to the police yester day that he had been attacked by a number of men at 3 am, and had been thrown into the harbour. He appeared at the Police Station with cuts on his
‚speed “was about eight knots and for A Chinese stoker of the s.8. Sheung Mi liners sixteen knots. In 1913 therefore was fined $5,000 or six months' imprison- the British liners offered sixty per cent.ment at the Central Magistracy yester of the space available for carrying pur-day for possession of 70 taels of opium,' to MARGARET ETHEL (née BEER), wife poses in the British mercantile marine. valued at 2380. The vessel had arrived of Lieut. G. P. CLÀRIDGE, R.N., a daughter (PATRICIA MARGARET). ' ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
CLARIDGE-On May 18th, at Weihaiwe,
Lady CHATER desires to thank friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in her great bereavement and for the
13623 many floral tributes.
Hongkong Office: la, Chater Boad. London Office: 181, Fleet Street, EC,
The Daily Press.
HONGIDES, MA 29TH, 1926.
AS A MEMORIAL..
Tuz spontaneous tributes of respect and grief, which the Colony paid yesterday
Mr. R. E. from Amoy on Thursday. Lindsell, the Magistrate, said that he understood there was a great deal of opium smuggling from Amoy.
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In 1922 the liners offer eighty-one per cent. of the total: available.
space The statistics of clearances of ships with cargo for 1922 provide some most interesting figures. Of the vessels plying. Incorporated with the eventong service. between Europe and Asia "vid Suez 93
at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, to per cent. were linere, on the Europe and morrow will be the first-organ recital by Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L, who ret North America route 60 per cent. were
cently arrived in the Colony to take over liners, on the North America and Asia his duties as Church Organist. His pro- rups, vii Suez and Panama Canals, the gramme will consist of are numbere liners totalled 94 per cent The lowest opening with a prelude in minor" Agure in ten world routes was that re-(Guilmant) and concluding "with Festal corded for North America and South Prelude (Markham-Lec). The vocalists Africa The liners took 72 per cent of will be Miss F. MèGill and Mr. J., W. the trade on that route.
Baldwin. The former will render "Oh,
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for a closer wilk" (M. B. Foster) and
MILITARY RISINGS IN NORTH AND SOUTH.
SEQUEL TO GOVERNMENT'S "DICTATORIAL METHODS."
(THROUGH REUTERʼ7 ADENCY.),
LISBON, May 26th: Amilitary insurrection in which two divisions are laid to be involved, has broken out in North and South Portugal.
Why has there been" this decline in the to the late Sir PauZ CHATER, should take use of tramp ships? The only real differ the latter will contribute The Blind some permanent and tangible form. To ence between liners and ocean tramps is Ploughman" (Clarke). some extent this is provided for in the in regularity of employment. "The types bequest announced by HE the Governor merge into one another when considered REVOLT IN PORTUGAL: yesterday. The Colony will have the structurally. There has come, however, Chater Collection of porcelain and pica tendency towards specialization and tures as a memorial" of one of its pioneers.organisation. The methods of merchants But its
soon as financial considerations have changed. Tropical fruits are now curried, in ships fitted up especially for permit, something more should be done.
A few trumps pick up The time must come before long when the purpose. the City Hall will have to be rebuilt. occasional cargoes of bananas, but the Whatever the final decision of the town wastage of the fruit is much greater than ALL THAT Piece or Parcel of Ground situate planning experts, it is clear that some when it is carried in the more suitably
at MONGKORTSUI in the Colony of HONGKONG and Registered at the LAND thing must be done with the existing equipped vessels. The big industrial con- OFFICE BUBSLICTION 1 OF REC 'TION C or KOWLOON INLAND LOT library and museum. It would be a most cerná own their own ships or have agree The Government is stated to be in a
No. 1217, Together with the Building fitting memorial to one who has played ments with certain shipping combinations. position to control the situation. thereon now known as No. 677, SHANG-
LATER. HAI STREET
so great a part in the history of this! They have ceased to charter tramps. The BLOT No 2.
The only previous indications of poli- ALL THAT Piece or Parcel of Ground Colony, if all the valuable part of that large, established shipping companies
situate av MONGKOKTSUI afed library and museum were housed with have sought out the traders and have tical trouble in Portugal were contained and registered at the Land Office - au
in despatches ten days ago, stating a more or lens permanent KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 1823 the Chater Collection in one building, containing about 4,218 Square Feet under a competent curator, and provision arrangements with them. The great trade ministerial crisis was inevitable over the
tobacco monopoly. slump that followed the post-war boomForce had to be used to disperse crowds made for its improvement.
was world wide. The traders were taught of demonstrators for and against the by experience to move, not whole cargoes, monopoly, outside Parliament where but small shipments. The Buctuations in stormy debates ended, in a decision to exchange made them cautions. No doubt extend the Legislative session to July civilisation developes, with its rapid 15th, with a view to a definite settlement
of the tobacco question. method of communication by wireless and
Senor Jozs Santos, addressing a meet-
IN TWO LOTS BY
Ma. E. V. M. E. p■ SOUSA, Anctionėèr THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS,
No. 4, DODDELL STREET, Hoxokone;,,
FRIDAY, THE HITH DAY OF JUNE, 1926,
MAT 3 O'CLOCI Z.X.
ON
For further Particulars and Conditions of Bale, Apply to- MER, GEO. X. HALL BRUTTON & CO.,
"Mortgigne's Bolicitor,
St. George's Building, Chater Road. Hongkong, 27th May, 1928.
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The Chater Museum might thus beoog the nucleus of something which is sadly needed, namely a place in the Far East, on British soil, where students of Chinese Art, History, and Literature could ind all the facilities necessary for their: studies. In this respect we lag behind cables and its tendency towards aural-ing of Left Democrats, said if the Govern our French neighbours in Indo-China, gamations in industry, anything indivi- ment did not abandon dictatorial methods, though our commercial and diplomatic dual such as a tramp steamer will find it would be dismissed if necessary by a
revolution. competition increasingly hard. interests in China are so much greater.