NEW ADVER
PEDIGREE DOGS FOR SALE.
ALSATIANS
OG at BITCH PUPPIES born 2310101
DPRIL 2000 FOR A
INTIMATIONS.
BANK HOLIDAY.
Accordance with Ordi
4 EXCHANGE BAL
Hongkong, 26th June, 1986,
$719
the lex JULY, 1938.
And Black, Breeptionally Strong and HeadATE: PUBLIC BUŠINI No Expense Spared in Bearing, in Outdoor Kennels Weight st 8 Wonke: 14-15] The Both parents Pedig ea Dogs of boat Cons tinental strain and imported from T MATTESDON KENNELS in 1925/6.c
AT-STUDI
JUAN or MATTESDON is Now Avail-
(Man) ADA RAYDEN, DODDINGTON Kenezia,
73, Grest Western Road, Shanghai
Farther particulars as to the Pedigree of JUAN OF MATTESDON can be shown at This Offics from the Uri Kisazz Club (SHANGHAI) CATALOGUE, A
187:20
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. PUBLIC. AUCTION
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD ..
PROPERTY Situate at VICTORIA in the Colony of Hong- kong and registered-a-tho-Land Office as SECTION A or INLAND LOT NO. 417 with the Premises therson known si No 12-8-TRIANGLE STREET
IN ONE LOT
WEDNESDAY. THE 7TH JULY, 1928,
At 9 T.M...
A LAMMERT BROTHERS,
- Auctioneers,
TEZIK SALISBOOK, No. 8A, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG
For further Particulars and Conditions-of Sale Apply to:-
MEARS. WOO AND NASH,
Mortgagees Solicitors, Nos. 4 and 6, Queen's Road Central, Messes. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneer No. EA, Daddell Street. Dated the 17th June, 1926.
INSURANCE OFFICES.
NOTICE.
GENERAL HOLIDAY.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that All. FIRE and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the TRANS ACTION & HUSINESS on THURSDAY, 1m JULY, 1826/200
By Order,
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWB-
Becretarias,
Tax FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF ·
TO Marine Insuranch ASSOCIATION OF
·HONGKONG AND, CANTON,
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
ARNHOLD & CO., LTD.-
INGKONG TEATE
INTIMATIONS.
Required
Hongkong
Write
3729
FORCAT KATHAEEN VILLA
OR SALE on TO LEP-At FANLING, S-Boomed BUNGALOW, Marble Varandabe, Step and Porches, Electric Light, English Baths (Hot & Cold), Kinah System, Garage, Fresh Water from Goverment - Main,
Well Lad UR OFFICES will be at 5, QUEEN'S Brick Kannels. Carriage, Driva,
ROAD CENTRAL (BANQUE DE Lawns and Large Garden. Also FOR SALE. LINDO-CHINE, 1ST FL008) From THURS-Sold Wooden BATHING SHED, Founda
tion, on Concrete Files, at CASTLE FEAL DAY; THE 1ST JULY
Apply to JHN. MODY,
"BANK OF CHESA BuildIse.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL,
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F. D. SASSOON & CO., LTD. OUR OFFICES all be at 5. QUEEN'E ROAD CENTRAL (BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE, 1 TL001) From THURS-
£3715 DAY, THE 1ST JULY.
LOST.
CHARE WARRANT (No E. 998) with its 7. DIVIDEND COUPONS of TEE CHEE ESIN CEMENT COMPANY, LTD., Was LOST at Fixe, and Has Bean Render ed-Null and Void. The Public is Hereby Advised Not to Negotiate the Same
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NIEH OBLA SUN.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS,"
THE LINDo in SAFE HE BANQUE DE LINDOCHINE HR. DEPOSIT hat they have seinally in their New Building. 5, QUEIXE ROAD, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Bate of $3 for the Small Size and $12 for the Large Size, Pleas Apply to The CASHIER.:
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MÈSSRS, KOMOR & KOMOR, AFT & CURIO EXPERTS. TEMPORARILY REMOVED
TO
ST. GEORGES, BUILDING, CHATES ROAD, SD Ficon-LIFT-
*
All are Condially Invited to View car"
FINE COLLECTION,- (99
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS
OF SALE:
OF THE
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND Sitcats at YAUMATI
MINING CO., LTD..
6% FIRST MORTGAE DEBENTTREA
(KAILAN ONDS).
DAYMENT", "Of The HALF-YEARLY
PE
1st JULY INTEREST Due, on
1928, will be made on presentation of Coupon No. 28 at any of the undermentioned Bazka,
HONGKONG AND SHANGBÀI
"BASHKING CORPORLIJON.
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
- AUSTRALIA AND CHINE
BUSEO-ARIATIC BANK,
BANQUE DE L'ADO-Ores.
·BANQUE BELGE. POVE L'ETRANGER.
the £, will be id
(ÖK: £20. DIBENTURES -
Per Coupon (Grom) Les Tax at 4 in the
At Tientain;" Shanghai
or..
Hongkong.
At
Tientsin and
Hongkong only
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
KOWLOON, in the Colony of HONGKONG being Nos. 12. 14, 16, 18 wad 20 HAMILTON STREET, YAUKATI,
erected pian EVOTION KOWLOON LAND LOT No. 760-and Nos. 74, 78 78, 30, 82 and 84, PORTLAND STREET, YAUMATI, eracted upon the REMAINING -PORTION or KOWLOON INLAND *LOT No. 760
و
To Z SOLD BY PUBLIC-ABETION-
WEDNESDAY, THE 20TH DAY OF JUNE, 1926, AT O'CLOCK, TX; AT THE
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUZA, Auctioneer.
The Property consists of At Tientsin and1-All that Fiese or Parcel of Ground Shanghai only situate at Yaun aforesaid and known and registered in the LAND OFFICE & SECTION Bor KOWLOON INLAND LOT No 165 together with the Five Mearnages thereon. known as Nos. 12, 14, 16, 18 and 3, BAMIL- TON STREET, YAUKKIE
All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situste at TAUMATI aforesaid and known and the LAND-Ozfies the RES
KOWLOON PORTION OF
d.
$2.4, 4/5 Net Amount Farable 9. 71%
(Gross
Cat in the £
Net Amount Ezyable
•£2 B 0
Tax at 4 in the £3.0 Net Amount Payable £13. 0, 0. Payment will best made in either Dolkre Tacir at the Demand Buying Rate of of the Day the Comport is presented. THE FALBANERMINING ADMINISTRATION, A
87281
POWYOUNG GNP General Manager,
VISITORS TO CANTON, Should Purchase
BOOK FOR HE GLOBE TROTTER
FOR HONGKONG TO CANTON BY THE PEARL RIVER
CAPTAIN OY LLOYD With Illustrations, Maps and Flags
ERIOR
On Balea
DALLT PRISE” Ofice, Lesara, KELLY & WAR, Ltd Hestra, A 8. WATSON & Co
INLAND-LOT No.-760, together with the
Six Messunger thereon known as Nos. 74 76, 80, B2 and 34, PORTLAND STREET: 79 YAUMATI
The Property is held for the Unexpired Residue of a Term of 75 years from the lat day of January, 1898 Total Annual Crown Renf $20.75. Total Area: 9,001 Equare feet. For Further Particulars, Apply to m MESERE, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Mortgages Solicitar, don MRVR DE BOUZA, Auctioneer.
[8703 Hongkong, 21st June, 1926.
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA,
INDIA, AUSTRALIA; : &c.
Comprehensive and Complete Report
of the
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST Is given in the HONGKONGWEEKLY PRESS.
with which 18 mcorporatad
THE CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT."
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TO LET KING EDWARD HOTEL BUILDING, For Particulars, Apply to the CHINA LAND & INVESTMENT CO.
[9679 LTD., BANK OF CANTON BUILDING.
TTO LE-A FLAT of 3 Large Airy Toons on the Secrad Floor of No. 15, CONDUIT ROAD. Apply to HM. I NEMAZEE.
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PREMISES TO LET in the DAIRY FARX
PENNINGTON STREET, East Point, Floor Area: 0,235 Sq. Ft. Height: $0.40 Ft. Make Excellent Godown. For farther particulars apply to the SECRETARY, THE DAIRY FAEN, IOE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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FOR RENT LEASE DERRING.
TON," No. 8, PELE Roan, Two Tennis Courts, Niss Rooms, Sir Bathrooms, Own Grounds, Harbour Views. OneHouse, GLENÉALY, Near ST. PAUL'
SMALL INVESTORS.
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st the
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IN QUARTS, PINTS & SPLITS.
about the
in the Empire:
The
no help in his re
biggest port practical advice
to the Hongkong
Yesterday was St Peter's Day, and the thanksgiving
patronal festival and
St Peter's Church, service was held West Point Holy Communion was cole- brated at 7.30 am and festal evensong. at 6.90 p.m.
ment at the Colonial Office.
Of course, things may be better now
The fourth of July falls on a Sunday: information gleaned From the Colonial Office was very depress will be at home to their friends on | ing--^^ A~~ beastly -- climate, said the Monday next, July 8th. The reunion official Impossible for white women."will" take place at the Hongkong Hoot Cost of living! Oh bere's a pamphlet Garden from 4 to 6.30 p. about that." The prices of rice, ginger and other commodities were recorded in an unfamiliar coinage, and the enquirer came away with the impression that not only was rico the staff of life in Hongkong but that one had to pay a fairly high price for it.
KIPLING's reference to Gay Street, Hongkong, creates a false impression and we do not think the Colony has been particularly fortunate in its later novelists. The three novels about Hong kong which have been published during the last eighteen months all seem to convey to the reader, directly or in- or lesser degrće, directly and in a greater that-British-residents here have little respect for the seventh commandment. It fa, of course, true that geographically we are a long way east of Suez and KIPLING's rhymes stick in the memory of the British public.
Ship me somewhere cast of Suez- Where the best is like the worst Where there ain't no ten command-
t
"Icenta
And a man can raise a thirst."
In actual fact the ten commandments are, as far as is possible in this wicked world, incorporated in English law and, surprising as the statement may appear to those who read KIPLING and the novels
FORMAZONE-THE about Hongkong, English law is the rock
upon which we build social life in this
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ment to the ten commandments keeps many people in the straight and narrow path. It is "Thou shalt not be found out." If one really wanted to lead the gay life" and keep, the fact a secret.
Indiscretions" would be much simpler
The funeral of the late Rev. S. L. Woodbridge, D.D., took place at Bub- bling Well Cemetery, Shanghai, on tha 24th inst the Rev. J. Walter Lowrie, D.D., officiating. There were nearly 200 Friends at the chapel and gravesides
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday, when there were present Mr. N. L. Smith (President), Dr. A.G. M: Severn, Dr. W. F. M. Koch, Dr. S. W. Tao, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Wong Kyong Tin and Mr. R. A. D. Forrest (Secre tary).
Mr. H W. Raty, of the Hongkong. Amusements, Etd., who has been carrying out a combined business and pleasure tour through Europa and the United.. states, during which he visited various, film headquarters, has now returned to Hongkong.
Last night at 6.30 an unknown Chinese tran-car whisk it was in motion in Wong managed about 35 years, jumped from s neichong Read, opposite the Dragon Moter-Works. He was badly injured about the head, and was taken to hospital in an unconscious conditio
In connection with the shooting, in- Des Vaux Road, Central, on Sunday night of a Chinese, it has been establish- ed by the police, as the result of inves tigations, that the dead man was a person of bed character. No relatives havo come forward to identify him
Mr. HC. Josss, of the Hongkong. Bank, has taken over as Sub-Manager of the Singapore Branch from Mr. H. C. Aspinall, who left for home leave by the Khyber last week Mr. C. G. Adams passed through Singapore from Calcutta on his way to Sourabaya, where he har been appointed Accountant.
Having failed in his efforts to secure downpour of rain, the Civil Governor of Shantung is reported to have sent an agent to Canton to take the Tron Shield God to Tainan. Upon the arrival of this deity in Tsinan rain is supposed to have failen immediately, thousands of people having gone to the station to welcome the god.
fairly large, mail from Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai arrived yesterday by the R.M.S. Empreis of Canada To-morrow the as. Fan Cloon 18 due with Home and Furope mail via. Negapatan (letters only, dated London, June 3rd). The Home papers of the same data are not due until next Monday by the s.s. Akita Maru
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED DAVIES-On June 23rd, at Brentwood in London, where nobody cares a heap.m. by the Hon. Sir-Shou Sen Chow
FOR EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN AND CONTINENTAL PORTE
LONDON
AND
THE Steamship
"“JEYPORE"
carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatch. ed from this Port at 4 Ex. on MONDAY, the Bru JULY, 1926, taking Cargo for the Lbove Forta
Bilk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France and Landes (under arrangement) will be conveyed by this Steamer, proceeding to Bom bay and there transhipped to the on-carrying Steamer for Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Office until Noos on the IFTE JUNE. The Contents and Value of all Fackages must be declared,
For further Farticulars, Apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Hongkong, 29th June, 1926,
ON SALE
Agents.
Court Branksome. England, to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM STANLEY DAVIES, B
***MARRIAGE
son
DEXTER KELLEY.-On June 25th, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Very Rev. CJ. F. Symons, M.A., England to FRANCZY ELLEN KELLEY, of Omaha, Neb., U.S.A
The St. Stephen's College Bazaar,
H.E. the Governor at 3.15 p.m., will be opened on Friday and Saturday at 230 and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Eotewall, res" pectively. The Exhibition Tennis Match, for which tickets are obtainable at Messrs. Moutrie's and Anderson's, will take piace on Friday at 5.30 p.m.
what-my neighbour does.
These modern novelists and the popular national poets, unintentionally it may be, We will, perhaps,
At the Central Magistracy yester do us an injustice. consider on some future occasion whether day, a Chinese was sentenced to six
WALTER JAMES DEXTER of Londo something ought to be done about it! weeks hard labour for damaging & pipe
DEATH. SCHMIDT-On June 17th, at Newchwang
Mrs. A. SCHMIDT (née LISTER), aged
57.
Hongkong Office: 1a. Chater Rond London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Daily Press.
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ONGKONG HANSARD EXPORTS STORIES ABOUT HONGKONG.
of the MEETINGS
COUNCIL for LEGISLATIVE Bestion 1925.
Revised by Membara,
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the the
The complaint has often been made that people in Britain know nothing, and care less about this little outpost of Empire. "It has been suggested, of course, that something ought to be done about it," There have been proposals regarding propaganda, and somebody was it Mr. ROBERT SUTHERLANDÎ-not long ago put forward the motion that there should DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE lectures, and similar attractions, for the general public in Britain, about this great centre al commerce. That is work CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA that might be carried out by those who to retire Have been fortunate eno STATES HONGKONG
while still in middle life. Enthusiastic citizens of Hongkong could help during their periodic farlought,
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In the meantime, however, we will con- tent ourselves by stating, as emphatically as possible, that the British section of the Hongkong population behaves quite as decently as any similar crowds elsewhere. And that's that as our friend the American would say.
Hon Mr. D, G. M. Bernard to the Colony yesterday from Shanghai by the RMS. Empress of Canada.
Two well-known race ponies (Melody and Daisy) will be sold by Lammert Brothers at the Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, Causeway Bay, at 5.30. this evening.
fine which carries water from a reservoir. to the European quarters at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery Defendant was caught in the act of taking the lead attached to chains which held the bolt of the pipe. It was stated that of fifteen chains thus used thirteen had already been stolen."
The Italian Consul General in Houg kong writes that the news cabled from London concerning big destruction!' and great damage in Italy and Colonies in consequence of an earthquake fare greatly exaggerated A cable from the Italian Legation in Peking to the Italian Consulate-General here states that there has been neither destruction nor damage of any kind in Italy or Rhodes Island
A warning to young men who may be thinking-off trying Malaya is issued. by a Straits newspaper. The prosperity of Malaya, it says, is more raputed than actual, and while for a man than actual, The local returns of cases of notifiable and while for man with experience of disenses, during the twenty-four hours the country to be out of work there
bad the position of a man with ng ex ended June 26th, state that there wexperience is almost hopeless. Many young three cases of small-poz (Chinese) and
men from Shanghai are at present one death, and one case of enteric fever stranded in the Straits lured there by (Chinese). For the twenty-four hours tales of jobs to be had for the asking... engled June 28th, no case was notified a
The funeral of Miss Enid Hepping Centuries-old trees at the Summer stone, the young Anstralian lady - who Palace, a short distance west of Peking, died in the hills behind Kobe whilst are being chopped down and sold for taking a walk, was held at All Saints firewood by soldiers. Last year the Church Kobe, on June 19th. There were historic grove at any de trage Western many ympathisers and the geteem in which the young lady is held by all who Tombe) was similarly destroyed
knew her was typified by the large num New large dollar coins are being pather of Boral tributes The Rev. FR cut at the NorthEastern Mint, Mukden. Harrison, who conducted, the service, from the 15th inst. The new dollar bears paid high tribute to the assistance given picture of Yuan Shih Kai, the same by the Japanese in finding Miss as its predecessor turned out while Yuan Heppingstone's body ma was President of China. Its purity is
James B. Underwood and R. A. Miller, claimed to be 73 per cent. with 27. par cent 20,000,000 18 to be the total who were sentenced to a term of 100---- amount of new dollar coins, but they have prisonment at McNeill's Island by Judge It used pertainly to be very difficult not yet been put in circulation. MD. Purdy when the United States Court of China was sitting in Tientsin to find out anything about Hongkong in A Chineso pickpocket was sentenced to early this month were sent aboard the six weeks' bard labour, at the Central | President McKinley. They were convict- Condor unless one had personal friends Magistracy yesterday. He had ertracted in connection with a gun smuggling or acquaintances connected with the ed what he took to be a bank-note from ease in North China. This is the second man's pocket, but as he was ascertain time that a sentence of imprisonment at place. The Royal Colonial Institute does ing the value of his but he was McNeill's Island had been dealt out by arrested by a detective who had followed the Court, the first being that of a man admirable work, but the officials of & him. The paper which he had secured named Chandler convicted on a charge of
forgery couple of decades age could give one was found to be religious tract fan