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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
'N Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSINESS on THURSDAY, 3an JUNE, 1926.
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Hongkong, 29th May, 1926
DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA, E.C.
T in Requested that CIVILIAN MEM.
IBERS LOAFT Attending the MEMORIAL SERVICE at St. Joan's CATHEDRAL on MONDAY Wear WHITE CLOTHING with BLACK TIES.
By Command of D.S.G.W. IN CHARGE,
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HONGKONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED,
KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE. HAPPY VALLEY, JONE 3RD, 1926,
8.50 DETWEEN 8.10 d
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INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 31ST, 1926
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that No
the Undersigned has No Connection whatsoever with LEUNG KAM SEUI, Trad- ing under the Name of LEUNG KON TAI, of No. 21, LEE YEIN STREET EAST, STEVEDORE
LEUNG KOON TAI. Principal of Meer. Koox TAX & Co.. Stevedores, Coal Merobauta, Freight Brokers Commission Agents and General Contractors, etc.,
24, Den Vieux Road Central,
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
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HE BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE beg
INTIMATIONS.
FINE
PORTS
AND
SHERRIES
Bottled and shipped by
To inform All Interested in SAFE Geo. G. SANDEMAN SONS DEPOSIT that they have actually in their New Bailling. 5, QUEEN' ROAD, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Rate of 88 for the Small Size and $19 for the Large Size.
(3473 Plesas Apply to The CASHIER.
INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LTD.
B. TRANCAES will re the POST THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GEN-
OFFICE for HAPPY VALLEY Every TWO MINUTES.
L C. F. BELLAMY,
General Manager.
Hongkong, 29th May, 1925.
DISTRICT GRAND
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LODGE OF
SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY
OF HONGKONG AND..
SOUTH CHINA,
A MEMORIAL SERVICE for the Late
BAOTHER PER Y
HOBSON HOLYOAK, E. C., will be held in ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL on MUNDAY, 31st MAY, at 6 P.M.
BRETHREN of the SCOTTISH LODGES
ERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers. Messrs. JARDINE, MATHLON & Co. Lrm. Pedder Street Hongkong, on THURSDAY the 10TH JUNE, 1925, at 1: Noon, for the
purpose of reiving the Report of the Direc- tors, passing the Accounts, and electing Direc tors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3RD to 24:1 JUNE,
1926, both days inclusive.
R Order of the Boari, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD...
General Managers.
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Invalid
& Co., Ltd.
Douro. Old Tawny
PORTS:
The name of Dr. John Durran, Alex-TROUBLE IN SHANGHAI, same standard of living. Hany, zo doubt, have attempted to live more or andra Buildings, Bachelor of Surgery, of Indded to the list of medical practitioners
of the Colony.
less luxuriously without giving services the University of Edinburgh, has been CROWDS GATHER NEAR LOUZA
in return If it is all due to the condi tions created by the war, the phenomenon. will pass. It is, however, noticeable that the number of fraudulent offences seems to increase more rapidly than the con- victions.
Nobody supposes that human nature. will change so completely as, to enable us to disband the police and to close the
them.
An amah living at 19, Great Street, was bitten by a dog owned by Mr. J. Baker, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. She was taken to the Government Civil Hospital.
POLICE STATION.
FOREIGNERS PELTED WITH STONES.
THROUGH AKUTEN'S ADENCY.]"
SHANGHAI May 30th." It is expected that there will be The first and Enal dividend of 2.74 trouble in connection with the anniver- The trouble has of last year. stry
Mr. Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin,
whose death occurred on April 24th at Darlington, was the father of Dr. Henry Hodgkin, Secretary of the National Christian Council of China.
There was a bathing fatality on Satur. day afternoon, a Chinese boy from Tai Kang village, Causeway Bay being drowned at the publis beach at North Point. The body was ultimately recover-
police being able to control the situation without resort to more serious mesures..
SHANGHAI, May 30th.. The part
of Nanking Road that was the scene of last year's firing was crowded at one o'clock, mostly with curious Chinese who were expecting something to happen. Thess provided good material for the agitators, who soon worked them up to a serious pitch.
From then they began stopping tram- cars and ejecting passengers, and smash- ing windows.
cents in the dollar has been declared in prisons. Mr. BARNUM is reported to have the matter of & Greenfield of Victoria, started but there is still hope of the
on Hongkong. adjudicated' bankrupt, said "There is a 'sucker' bora every February 9th, 1993. minute." While there are people who will listen to stories About gold bricks and fortunes offered to them for a mere song, there will always be parasites who will feed
Although the Criminal Statistics recently published, bowever, show that the number of cases of fraud has increased, it kas also reveal ed the fact that, in comparison with DUTY PATO.
other races, the British are a very law . Fer Case Per Hot abiding people. There is a high standard
$39.00 -83.30
of commercial integrity in the British
Sir Newton Stabb, Sir Montague Empire. There is a spirit of "live-and- 38.00 3.25
let-live" despite the strenuous competi-Turner, Sir Charles Addis and Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P., were among the guests 44.00 3.75
tion in trade which now obtains. There
at a dinner given by Mr. Samuel Samuci, 3.90 is less crime, for example, in Greaty.., at the House of Commons on April 4.75 Britain than in the United States, 28th. 5.00 although, if we judge from the current
An extraordinary general meeting of quick firing guns and a policeman with Hterature published in both countries, the Hongkong Civil Service Cricket Club a megaphone warning the crowds to keep there is more idealism in the T.S.A. will to held to-morrow at 5.15 p.m. in the back. This is driving, up and down the
Sanitary Department. Beard Hoom. All street. There is certainly much more wealth members are particularly requested to
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60.00
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Light Dry Solera ... Very Pale Dry
Fine Old Brown Pale Dry Nutty.
...
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37.00 38.00 .40.00
44.00
$2.75
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HE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET.
wishing to Attand" will feet in ZETLANDING of SHAREBOLDERS in the
HALL at 5.30.
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By Order of the DISTRICT GRAND MASTER, A. W. HILL, District Grand Secretary,
NOTICE.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE to the Late D.G.M. of Hongkong and South China will be held at ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL 6 r.M., on MONDAY, 31ST MAY.
The MEMBERS of UNITED SERVICE LODGE, 134, E.C., will Rebe at MASONIC
[3621 HALL st 5.3) гx,
HONGKONG CIVIL SERVICE CRICKET CLUB. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING.
N. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will be beld at the SANITARY DEPARTMENT BOARD Roos (3rd Floor, Post Office Building), on TUESDAY, 18 JUNE, at 5:15 PM,
All Members are particularly Requested to Attend.
BUSINESS-As posted on Notice Board in
Club house.
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By Order of the Committee, R.S. VERGETTE, Hon. Becretary.
THE HON. SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, C.M.G., DECEASED.
ALL Claims against the Estate of the
abore named Deceased must be Sent to
the Undersigned forthwith.
DE CONS.
Solicitors &ė..
1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 29th May, 1923.
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OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR
MOE the Convenience of our many Cus. tomers in the EAST POINT DISTRICT, we are OPENING BRANCH at No. PENNINGTON STREET, on TUESDAY, where DAIRY PRODUCE 1ST JUNE NEXT, MEATS, FISH (Fresh and Cured), and will be ON SALE. MESSES, LANE ORAW- FORD S PROVISIONS, etc CAFE WISEMAN'S BREAD, CAKES, etc., and
FRESH FRUITS And VEGETABLES will aleg be Available on the Fremises.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Hongkeng, 28th May, 1926.
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JUNE 3RD.
above Company will be held at the Company's Offices, or FRIDAY, ruz 117H OF JUNE, 1926, at Nogs, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Stanagers, together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st of DICEM- BER, 1995.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compaar will be CLOSED from the 67 to 117 of JUNE, both day inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO... General Managers.
[3608 Hongkong, 26th May, 1976.
CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
PATMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND ON SHARES. FOR THE YEAR ENURE 30TH JUNE, 1926.
THE Board having declared An INTERIM THE
DIVIDEND of One Shilling per bare free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 30th JUNE, 1926, Holders of Bearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Warrants received from London on account of Registerer Shares will be paid their Dividends on presenting No. 28 Corpon of the Beater Shares, and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares, to either of the following Back:-
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRA
LIA AND CHINA
THE HUSSO ASTATIC BANK
Tae HANQUI Belay For L'ETRANG EX Payment will be made in Dollars at the Buying Rate of Exchange of the Day.
P. U. YOUNG,
General Manager, KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
TO LET.
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there.
Many complaints have been made by 5.25 traders in the Far East regarding the 340 decline in commercial probity when com 3.75 Fared with that which obtained in the
A. S. WATSON
LTD. & CO.,
Wine and Spirit Merchants.
cd.
attend.
A warrant has been issued by Mr. R. E. Lindself for the arrest of the manag. ing partner of the Hang Tai distillery, who railed to appear at the Magistracy in answer to charge of not making correct liquor returns.
good old days." Education is often blamed. It has been said that some of the Asiatic students who go to Europe or America gain knowledge that does not Friday. A Chinese snatched from his pocaet a wallet containing 200 and some help towards a maintenance of high moral papers and escaped.
Mr. C. S. Goddard, chief examiner of Was Customs, the Chinese Maritime robbed while in Li Chit Street, on
standards. His word is his bond" was the comment of the early British traders. concerning many a Chinese merchant. The late Mr. HOLYOAK. a few months before his death, said about his Chinese friends in business words of which all Chinese merchants may well be proud. "I have transacted very large business BIRTH.
in silk and other commodities with my BUNBURY.-On April 25th, at Woking, to
MARJORIE (née MILES), wife of H. W. Chinege friends. No written contract L. BUNBURY, The Residency, Sanda-between us' has ever existed, but I cannot kan, North Borneo," a son.
recall one single instance of serious de DEATHS.
fault, and constantly contracts that were merely oral and could not be defended in a Court of Law have been fulfilled to the letter, even with market conditiona
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BOWRING-Or May 8th at the Ealing Community Hospital, Kuling, AGNES CLARA BOWRING. JOHNSTON-On April 25th, at 115, Chats worth Road, N.W.. EMILY ALICIA, widow of WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM JOHNSTON, late of Amoy, aged 75."
the MIDDLETON.-On May 22nd, at
General Hospital, Shanghai, JOSARNE ELIZABETH, beloved child of Mr. and Mrs. R. MIDDLETON, age eight months.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.~{ } ... Lady CHATER desires to thank friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in her great bereavement and for the many floral tributes.
+Roomed FLAT in CARNABTON BUILD- Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Boad. A
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HONGKONG, MAY 31, 1926.
Furnished BOOMS
Verandab TO LET with Good Board at the SULPHUR BATES, WET-TEL HOUSES on one of the Best Beaches and next to the THE DECLINE IN COMMERCIAL MAINLAND GOLF Counsz. Special Rates for A Stay of More Than One Month.-Apply Mas. NIVEN, WEI-HAI-WEI,
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PROBITY.
Today is American Memorial Day." The committee of ladies in charge of arrangements and others will meet at the American Consulate-Gereral at 9.30 a... to proceed to Happy Valley to decorate American graves in the cemetery.
A new lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes was consecrated on Saturday evening at the Institute in This lodge is mainly Duddell Street.
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Police parties were called out being stretched across the busiest part of the street and the other by the Louza Station, where the trouble started last year.
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Besides the matters mentioned before, there is dut a caged motor-car with foreign police standing on tap, with.
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The Fire Brigade were also called out and are "lining the streets leading off Nanking and Chekiang Roads.
Crowds were throwing bricka at the Gremen, who replied with hoses which kept back the crowds. One of the foreign
iremen was seriously hurt, and one foreign civilian was badly injured, both with bricks.
Foreigners in rickshas were molested, and ricksha coolies were beaten.
The police were handling the situation with great discretion. Several of the better class Chinese were seen in the crowds attempting to calm their com patriots, without tangible result. There has been no firing on either side.
SPASMODIC STONE THROWING.
LATEX. The trouble started at two this after-
for the ship's company H.M.S. Hawkins noon, but by 4.30 the police had the and is called the Prince George Lodge.
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situation well in hand and had cleared
a large part of Nanking Road of all Chinese.
Capt. E. W. Morris, who is attached to
Half the Volunteers have been called the Mule Corps, has reported to the police the loss of a driver's mirror from his motor-ear, which he left on Friday out and these are assisting the police to on the public stand outside the "Star" Ferry Wharf at Kowloon. It was valued patrol Nanking Road, while a motor..
cycle squad is patrolling the back alleys.
Crowds in other populous districts of " $10.
Mr. H. R. Greenhalgh, one of the Vice-
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seriously against them." A similar state- Chairmen of Lever Brothers, Ltd., in Shanghai also indulged in spasmodic ment was made by a Far Eastern resident addition to his general work, bas acceptatone throwing. Many trams having
ed the position of chairman of the over. every window.smashed. A visit to England in 1923, but it was seas committee of the Board, and is challenged then by at least one newspaper making a voyage to India, the Philip pines, China, Japan, America, and in North China.
Canada in the Company's interests. These are hard times but the very wartAmong the passengers who left on the way of meeting hard times is to embark P. & O. s.s. Malia on Saturday were: three men and woman were sent to hos
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upon a career of dishonesty. Discipline is the great tonic. Dishonesty never pays in the long run, and it most certainly never brings happiness.“
There may be exceptions but the vast majority of the successful business men in the British Empire fervently believe in the sentiment expressed so finely by their greatest national poet..
Mr. and Mrs. G. P. McAdams, Comdr.
The crowds are now apparently mostly good humoured and amenable to police. discipline. At six this evening there was
gradually melting away.
Among the several foreigners nemulted
The police throughent behaved with the utmost restraint and few arrests were made. The police are hopeful that the trouble will be only a one day affair.
VOLUNTEERS WITH FIXED BAYONETS.
H. B. Robinson, N., Mr. and Mrs. W.pital, but the injuries were not serious. H. Newman, Mrs. C. H. Arahold, Miss Arahold. Ms. W. A Eustace, Mr. and Mrs. J. Malcolm, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kent, Mr. H. J. N. Burrows, Mr. R B. Salisbury and "The Quaints," Mr. and Mrs. H. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. J. Watts,
Foreign volunteers, with fixed bayonets, Comdr. H. Potts, Mr. H. K. Prosser, Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Tottenham, Mr. L. were patrolling the principal streets this Charlesworth, Mr. and Mrs. G. 8. V. evening. No trams or buses are running Bidwell and Miss Bidwell, Mr. A. Me-since this afternoon. Arthur, Miss D.. Woods and Mr. E. M.
"Mine honour is, my life, both grow Paterson.
in one
Take honour from me and
is done."
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life
A special King's Birthday dinner anor is to be held on the Roof Garden of, the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday
next.
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Tur Home Office in London has issued Criminal an interesting document on PREMISES TO LET in the DAIRY FARM Statistics. It should be remembered that
BUILDING. PENNINGTON STALET, East Point, Floor Area: 6,835 Sq. Ft. Height: since the slump which has so adversely 20.40 Ft. Make Excellent Godown. For affected the trade of Europe for five or further particolare apply to the SzczTAT, THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD six years, there has been an exceptional An extraordinary general meeting of STORAGE CO., LTD.
amount of unemployment. The great the Hongkong Philharmonic Society has shock of a world war destroyed many of been called for June 7th, at 5.30 p.m. at
the Gathedral Hall. Coon Vacaat, Semi-detached HOUSE, our old habits and strained the cables GOVERNMENT HOUSE RECEPTION Magazine Gap Ideal Position, Cool,
Excellent Views, consist of Baite of Five which kept us fast at old anchorages. A whist drive held by the Dockyard Rooms, Two Bathrooms, Hot and Cold Water, Social relations were inverted by that Ladies' Club on Friday evening con Use of Telephone, Lawn Garage. Servants' Quarter. Entirely Self-contai
great upheaval. It is, therefore, perhaps H.M.S. Tamar in aid of the funds of the are oficially informed that the Furnished $275. Unfarnished $25). For Sale not surprising that the total number of Ministering Children's League realised
offences known to the police of the big $50. cities has increased. The Home Office The public examination of Leung Kam suggests that, because of the number of Shyi, trading as Leung Eon Tai, Steve recorded cases of fraud, there has been dore, of No. 21, Les Yuen Street East, probity. The war to be held in the Supreme Court on a decay of commercial. ONGKONG. HANBARD REPORTS gave many people, especially the selfish Saturday, June 5th, at 10.30 a.m.
the and unscrupulous, opportunities to "get Dr. E. P. Minett, the Government rich-quick" Since the world-wide slutop Batteriologist, met with an unfortunate in trade there has been" evidence which accident on Friday: When leaying his makes us believe that, with reduced in-house he stumbled over a dog chain and comes, people have tried to maintain the fell so heavily that an arm was broken.
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Isolated foreigners in several instances were pelted with stones, but this wea mostly the work of small boys. Other wise the situation is quiet.
IMPERIAL CONCERT PARTY'S "
GOODBYE.
There was an excellent attendance at the evensong service at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday, when Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L., who only a few weeks ago derived from Home to FAREWELL TO MR. BURROWS. take up his appointment as organist at St. Andrew's gave his first organ.recital. He opened with ""Prelude in C Minor "Slumber Songs." Later he played Prior to his leaving for Home on Satur- (Guilmunt), following with E Mason's Schaikowsky's Chanson Triste, and day on the P. & O. as. Malin, Mr. Bert Hollins "Spring Bong," concluding, a Burrows, the organiser of the Imperial thoroughly appreciated programme with Concert Party," was given a farewell cop the rendering of Markham-Lee's "Festal cert at the Dockyard Recreation Club. Portlude. Solos were given by Miss F. McGill, who ang "Oh, for a closer walk (M. B. Foster), and by Mr. J. W. Baldwin, who contributed "The Blind Ploughman" (Clarke).
APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments are notifi- ed in the Government Gazette:—
Mr. A. B. D. Cousland to be a member of the Licensing Board during the ab. sance from the Colony of Mr. John Owen Hughes, with effect from May 10th. Medical Officer of Health, with effect from May 29th.
Dr. A G M. Severn to act as
Dr. Sai Chuen Ho has been declared to be duly elected a member of the antar Board for three years, with effect from May 22nd.
H.E. the Governar has been pleased, to recognise Mr. John J. Muccio as a Vice. Consul, for the United States of America in Hongkong.
Mr. Burrows during his three years in. Hongkong arranged many concerts for charitable objects. In 1925 he formed the Imperial Concert Party," which on its first appearance raised over $900 for the M.C.L funds. Mr. Burrows is the proud possesses of. & prograzame autographed by HRH Prince George, Sir Edwyn Alexander Sinclair (Commander-in-Chief of the China Station), Major-General C. O. Luard (General Officer commanding the Forces in China) and Commodore A. J. B. Stirling
At the farewell concert, Mr. Burrows was presented with a silver coffee service, silver rose bowl and a silver rickshaw, esteem in which he is held. as parting gifts and as tokens of the
The concert was a great success, among those taking part were Mr. W. R. Fleming, Mr. Whelan, Mr. E. Crocker, Mrs. Chittenden, Mr. J. Lyal, Mr. Lock hart and the "New Imperials."
Mr. A. B. Allen is succeeding Mr. Bur- rows in the management of the New Imperial Concert Party,"
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