NEW ADVERTISE-
MENTS.
REMINDER.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; TUESDAY, JULY 19th, 1927.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA.
TION CO., LIMITED.
CHINESE REPUBLIC 5% GOLD TIRE FORTY-SIXTH ORDINARY
DOLLAR BONDS.
FOLDERS who have not alrealy H
presented their Coupons No. which were due on JULY 1571, TO Requested to present them for Payment BANQUE FRANCO. at the CHINOISE, PRINCES BUILDING, LOS HOUGH STREET, As early as possible.
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THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following persons have been from appointed to hold. Office, as JANUARY 18T, 1927:
LOUIE. WAI SUN,
Managing Director.
LOUIE LEUNG,
Treasurer.
LAM MING FAN,
Seorotary.
L. G. CHONG,
Manager.
No Contracts can be recognized by this Company unless signed by at lengt Two of ita Directors.
All Communications t, be addressed
to the Secretary,
By Order of the Board of Directors, LAM MING FAN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, July 18th, 1927. [5127
THE HONG KONG LAND IN VESTMENT & AGENCY
N
CO., LTD.
INTERIM DIVIDEND of TWO "DOLLARS Per Share for the Bix Months ending 30th JUNE. 1927, will be payable on TEURSDAY, AUGUST 4rt, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on applica tion at the Company's Office, 3, Chater Road.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will beCLOSED from FRIDAY, the 22ND JULY to WED NESDAY, the 3AD AUGUST (Both Dage inglarive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
L. S. GREENHILL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th July, 1997. [5122
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
ID INTERIM DIVIDIED that IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Per Share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been Declared for the HALF YEAR Ending 30TH JUNE, 1927, at Bate of 2. Per Dollar,
The Dividend will be payable on and after MONDAY, the STH AUGUST, 1927, at the Offices of the Corporation," where Shareholders are requested to REGISTER OF SHARES of
Warrants. the Corporation will be CLOSE from MONDAY the 25TH JULY, to BATUR.
for
TH
GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Mesers, JADDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD., Pedder Street
Kone, on MONDAY, the 25r JULY, 1927, at 11.00 A.M., for the par- Tone of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Anditore.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18TH JULY 10 TH AUGUST, 1927, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD., General Managers. Hong Kong, 24th June, 1927, [5072
NOTICE.
Mitable for investment on TONIES Up to $120.00) are 1st Class Mortgage Security subject to a Trustee Valuation.
5124)
Apply: Messa, DEACONS,
Princes Buildings.
FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.
No, 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD.
HOUSE, with
EIGHT Roord
Central Heating, Five Bedrooms, Four Bathroome, Three Drying Rooms, Modern Banitation, Grass Tennis Court and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
(4776
TO LET.
OFFICES TO LET on 3an FLOOR, CRATER ROAD. Moderate Rental. Apply P. O. Bor No. 611.
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TO LET
ROUND FLOOR, Three Roomed FLAT in PRAT BUILDINGS, with Flush and Sanitary Conveniences.
Apply to:- SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION.
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WANTED-5/6 Boomed HOUSE Mid-levels or near PEAK TRAN preferred. Apply Box
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ANTED A EXPORT MAN W
Thoroughly Conversant and Experienced in All Classes of South Chins Produce and particularly the Canton-Frade. Apply Box No: 1-20-
[5120. io Hongkong Daily Preza.
POOMS.-Hong Kong, Kowloon, DAY, the 6TH AUGUST, 1927 (Both single, double, Fists furnished or Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered. 'By Orde' of the Court of Directors, A. O. HYNES,
Acting Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 12th July, 1927: (5118
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
NOT Certificate No. 5/NB 2895 dated Bong Kong, 14th OCTOBER, 1913, inclusive, and Certificate No. 5/NS 2896
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
unfurnished. Flat, for disposal with furniture, House $20:30,000 wanted. Also 30,000 Sq. ft. land on Peak, SMALL INVESTORS. Tel. 0. 4630
PREPAID "WANTED"
ADVERTISEMENTS.
for 5 Shares numbered 14833/14627,10 LET--Three Roomed, Newly
Furnished FLAT, close to Ferry. Modern Conveniences, Linen, Crockery etc. From 18s of AUGUST.
datel Hong Kong 14th OCTOBER, 1913, All
for 6 Shares numbered 62432
and
98786/33730 inclusive, registered in Rent: $140.00 Per Month.-Box No,
all
the Name of LI SING KON, have been 261, a/o Hong Kong Daily Fress. [261 LOST or STOLEN, and should the
Certificates. nat be before the
29TH JULY to the Bank 1927, New
Certificates for the Sharus will be feed
and the aforesaid Cortificates Nos 5/NS 2896 and 5/N8 2896 will be therestier treated by this Corporation as Nall and -Void,
By Order of the Court of Directora, A. O. HYNES,
Aoting Chief Manager.
NO LET FOR SIX
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Two more cases of enteric, one "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LANTERN."
British and one Chinese, wero re- ported from the Victoria District during the week-end.
A Chinese who is alleged to have offered a bribe of $30 to a policeman was remanded for a weck on bail of 8500 and $500 in sureties.
Fog and drizzla, wet and slush, Fell all sticky with mud and musb, Stop on tram and go up Perik. Arrive at party and feel a freak.
declined until last year it was only 303. Obviously if this continues in a short time a position will be reached when the working of the parochial system as we have known. it hitherto will become impossible. The question of man power can be
When you leave a Hong Kong Thus sang a local poet smarting Tegarded as one of urgency, be
under the indignities of going out party on a wet night pandemonium at night in Hong Kong's und wen ensues. The garden is a seething conc new districts are springing
ther. It is certainly an amazing mags of chairs and coolics shouting up around London and the big The total output of the Kailan proceeding to the newcomer, espe and shoving, and endeavouring to towns, and the increase of the Mining Administration's mines for cially if you happen to live on the find their owners in the dark. You population means, that in many the week ending June 28th amount top of the Peak. The delights of heave a sigh of relief as you sink moonlight have been described, but your homeward journey through the parishes the essential work of the ed to 99,999 tons; and the sales logging along the Peak paths in the back in the chair and prepare to
it is another story when the winds dark wild night. Church is left undone. Moreover, during the period to 93,871 tons.
whistle, the fog hang's heavy, and
The Peak tram offers a slightly unless some means can be devised
the rain streams down. As you less wearing form of transport, but Mr. P. J. Wong, hon. seere open the front door the wind roars is not a joyous affair. As it to assist recruiting for the ministry
creeps up the mountain side, stoep the continuance of the present tary of the baseball section of the in, the chair coolics have carried
South China Athletic Association, io chairs right up the steps and as the side of a house, I often think the side curtains flap in a melan of the words of the American stu- work will be jeopardised,
is departing for North China en
choly way. The coglies themselves dent, who on ascending for the first Briefly stated, the position is vacation but will be back in a are in oilskins, their bare feet time by the Peak tram gazed appre- splashing in the pool that has colhensively at the cable slipping down that since the war & minber of month.
lected on the top of the steps. A
candidates who had served in the
Among passengers leaving on the 3.5. President. Lincoln last night was Mrs. Wu Ting Tang, wife of the late Dr. Wu Ting Fang, en route for Shanghai, and from thence she is understood to be going
to Nanking
Henven to-night.”
The Tommy's wife was almost as effective. After her first journey in the tram sho unid in an injured
The Peak tram is a necessary evil,
to be a hotbed of gossip, for overy-
"Gee, if that little string broke A Chinese, living at No. 437, more gloomy way of setting out for the precipice and said:
a party it would be hard to imagine. Forces have received help from Shanghai Street, second floor, was You worm your way into the chair, there'd be some strange faces in Central Funds, and a couple of mooked down by a dust cart on the coolic lets down the front cur. tain and you lurch down the steps years ago a new scheme of assist Sunday, sustaining injuries to his holding on to the sides of the ance was introduced. It was profeet and mouth which gecessinted chair. posed to allocate £10,000 of Church bis removal to the Kwong Wahi
If by any good fortune the rain | voice has stopped and all you have to "I never thought when I left me Assembly funds in 1925, and £20,000 Hospital.
contend with is fog and wind, you'ome in Chatham as 'ow I'd be in 1926 to the purpose of training,
keep up the front curtain and gaze drawn up a 'ili in & rabbit-'utch. out into the encircling gloom. The on a string.' and to accept candidates only when
lamps appear dimly with a halo of the total cost was actually in hand.
fog round them, the bushes and and abuse it though we may, we But sufficient money could not be
trees drip, and ever and again the realise our debt to it, when it goes wind darts out from n, nullah and obtained for the specific purpose.
deals the chair a sounding buffet out of action. True it is supposed In 1928-only-$4,200 was allocated,
which causes the coolies to stagger thing indiscreet said in it is over- and the chair to sway ominously hoard and magnified, but neverthe and in 1926 nothing could be done,
On one occasion as we came up less it provides a dry means of for the resources of the Assembly
A bribe of 8670 was alleged to through the fog, one of theso sudden transport once you are inside it.
no Indian gusts of wind blow off the hats of are limited and the calls upon its have been offered to
four of the coolies. They set down exchequer are heavy For adminis-police constable by two Chinese who our chairs on the path leaving us the with the bitter wind whistling round were charged yesterday at tration the annual payments are about £25,000, for clergy pensions Central Magistracy, Bail was fixus while they leapt about the moun- £50,000, and for interest on the ed at $10,000 each, and a week's
formal remand was ordered. Training Colleges Capital Fund £19,800 has to be found. These three payinente of nearly £95,000 amount to affpost as much or the total sum received from what is raised in the Dioceses of England under the heading of the Diocesan quotas,
#
A Chinese who was found tres- passing in the Naval Dockyard on Saturday was fined $5 or seven days' imprisonment at the Central Magistraey yesterday. Defendant said he did not know that he could not enter the yard without per- mission.
A six-years-old Chinese girl; living at No. 6, Tai Wong Street East, fell from a fith floor to the street, sustaining injuries to her head and body. She was attended to by Dr. S. L. Shin and then removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
tain side like goats, looking for their hats and giving hoarse yells of laughter and screaming raucous jests. It was twenty minutes before they found the last hat. It seemed much funnier to them than it did to us.
Of all the ribald sayings about the tram this is, I think, the best. A certain professor of the Univer- sity set about the task of distilling the Peak fog into rain.
Far better and more profitable,” said the cynic, it he were to devote himself to distilling gin from
BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF. the atmosphere of the Peak Tram,"
(Mrs. W. T. Southorn).
PROPERTY SALE. THE C.N.C. STRIKE.
HAVE DISMISSAL NOTICES.
BEEN SERVED?
MANY HOUSES AT YAUMATI.
REALISE NEARLY TWO There was
MILLION DOLLARS,
a rumour current yesterday evening that dismissal notices had been served on members of the floating staff of the China Navigation Company.
It is interesting to know that a effort is being made to fill the gap left through lack of funda from official sources. There is no shortage of men of good quality,
At the China Auction Rooms yes but it appears that most of the
torday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. candidates offering themselves come
Although the story was fairly per- de Sousa sold, by order of the from poor or comparatively poor
mortgagees, a valuable leasehold sistent, a Daily Press representative homes, and if they are to be accepted
One of the light trains used for property at Yaumati, Kowloon. It failed to elicit any definite infor. it is imperative that the Church
Neither confirmation nor denial must provide financial help. To meet conveying material from Morrison realised nearly two million dollars,mation regarding it.
Hill, to the Praya East reclamation, The property is registered in the LAYTON WRIGHT-On June 18th, the present need and provide for jumped the rails at the Happy Land Office as-Sections A and B, could be obtained-from-representa............... 1927, at St. Mary Abbots, Hen- the future Eary GREY on behalf of Valley crossing, yesterday morning the remaining portion of the Section tives of the C.N.C., our representa- sington, GEOFFREY RENDYSHE LAYTON,
VBBA
ESTELLE the Central Board of Finance of coming to rest practically at righ C and the remaining portion of tive being told that "there was no WRIGHT.
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the Church. Assembly has invited angles to the track, and causing a Section D of Kowloon Marine Lot information for the newspapers." those who can to become spon-traffic obstruction. sors" for students and see them through.
MARRIAGE,
to
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The family of the late Mr. Joas LUIZ DE SELAVISA ALVES beg, to thank their many friends and relatives for the kind inquiries and expressions of sympathy shewn them in their recent bereavement and also for their attendance at the funeral.
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Hong Kong Office: 1a, Chater Rd. London Office: 21, Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, E.Q. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JULY 19TH, 1927,
(
No. 49..
A C.N.C. officer, when approach- The property has a total area ed, said "he knew nothing about
it." The Chinese driver of motor car of 338,558 square foot of which the
There was, it is understood, No. 411 reports that as he was area of 88,065 square feet has been The proposal is that individuais driving from Mongkok Road into build upon and is covered by 111 groups of individuals should Shanghai Street the car knocked houses. The rest consists of vacant undertake to complete the training down a small boy, four years of land.
or
meeting of the Guild last evening,
but no further information could be gathered from that quarter.
Whether the story current, is
of selected candidates. In some age. The boy, who was slightly, in- The 111 houses erected on the cases amounts varying between £25jured in the head, was taken to the property are all newly built four- correct remains to be seen. If it is,
Kwong Wah Hospital
TWO MONTES-No. 2, Bang
WEEKS OB
OME TOWERS, Folly Fornighed, Three Roomed FLAT, Two Modern Bath- roonis. Apply LINSTEAD & DAVIS, THE MAN-POWER OF THE of one candidate. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
[262
CHURCH.
storied Chinese shops or dwelling the strike must automatically end, houses and are known as Nos. 501 but there will probably be some im The construction of the new to 581 (odd numbers), Canton Road, portant issues. school house at Ying Wa College and Nos. 1 to 80, Wai Ching Street. for boys has begun. It will replaca the present premises at 82, Bonham Yaumati.
T.
Earlier news in the day was to the effect that there was still no change, and that the deadlock would be a long drawn out affair.
The as. Shantung did not leave for the North owing to the typhoon, until yesterday morning, when she for Shanghai. sailed with a full cargo of 2,000 tons
and £150 year for one or two years are needed for the special training of those who have taken their degrees, and amounts of be tween £20 and £250 per annum for Road. The cost of the building The vacant land consist of five five years for those who are at the will be more than 850,000. Mr.
Moffatt, a secretary of the Chinese pieces of ground one abutting on beginning, of their training. Church, Y. M.O.A., is chairman of the build the Harbour with a frontage of 680
Although regular meetings have men and women are invited to ing committee.
feet and an area of 213,810 square been held in Hong Kong by the make themselves responsible 10 Twenty-six Chinese were arrested feet, two abutting on a new street Guild, there appear to have been whole or in part for the education by the Wanchai police on Sunday with areas approximately of 18,733 no instructions of importance receiv for gambling at No. 12, Star Street, square feet 17,490 square feet res
ed from Shanghai. when the case was called before
pectively and the remaining two Mr. R E. Lindsell yesterday There is a human touch in this morning, three of the men, all of abutting on Wai Ching Street with auggestion. In the past many whom were on bail, failed to AD- Hong Kong, 29th June, 1827. [508510 LET, Font Rooms, Flush England are
LET.—No. 1,KELLETT HOUSE, THE authorities of the Church of eminent divines of the English swer their names, and their bail of areas approximately of 3,219 square $5 each was estreated. Mr. Lindsell feet and 3,219 square feet respec confronted with a Church have been enabled to comfined the 22 gamblers 83 each. He tively. System, Separate Kitchen, Servante
The property is held under a Quarters. All Modern Conveniences matter of considerable perplexity, plete their educational course by fined the keeper 850, or in default,
four weeks' jail.
THE BOYCOTT Apply Missna. DEACONE, PRINCE' It related to the great and grow generous helpera at
Crown lease for the term of 75 years crucial BUILDING.
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Lieut. G. F. Dent, D.C.M., of (renewable for a further term of ing shortage of recruits for the moment, and others who have done
the 2nd Battalion the Welch 75 years). `-
There is no change in the position. ministry. The position is of such good work would never have had Regiment, had a narrow escape The proportion of Crown rent pay-traffic on the British steamers.
of the boycott of Chinese passenger grave concern that the Church the opportunity but for such assist shortly after Sunday night's thun-able in respect of the property is
derstorm. He was returning to is $3,086.30 per annum
afternoon with six European pas Assembly recently sent out what ance.
The Kinelian arrived yesterday If the appeal meets with mess from the U.S. Recreation
The upset price was $1,700,000, sengers, three Naval ratings and 24 may be described as an S.O.S., to the response eagerly hoped for it Club by richs when the coolle
slipped and precipitated his passen and bidding progressed at the rute Chinese, of whom only two or three the laity throughout the land. The may be that in England there will ger into the K.C.C. grounds of 500 until the figure of 81,700,000 were legitimate passengers, the Comprehensive and Complete Report facts as made public indicate that be a return to the days when a drop of fully twelve feet. The was reached. From then onwards others being cargo coolies.
coolie and richa followed, the the bids were of $1,000, and the
The Lungshan arriving in the many of the reasons which have promising young man, was sent up ricsha being damaged and the property was eventually, knocked been assigned from time to time to the University by the parish in officer and coolic suffering some down to Mr. N. V. A. Croucher for evening, was similarly situated.
$1,780,000,
TO LET
OFFICES
STEPHENS' BUILDING,'' 67/69, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL
AND
PRINCE'S BUILDING, OHATER ROAD,
APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO.
PRINCE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD,
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c;"
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from shock and cuts. what to account for the disinclination of which he lived and became lo " men to offer themselves for Holy after life, if he had the gift for it, Orders are wide of the mark, se, a leader in the Church.
for instance, that the average stipend is too low. A more import ant deterrent is inability to meet the cost of training,
The annual general meeting of the Peak Club will be held on Fri At present there are 10,600 clergy-day, July 20th, at e p.m.
men at work in England, so against
The staff of the Prison Depart- 21,000 in 1914. It is said that about ment are holding a whist drive at
20
"Among those present at the. funeral
Saturday at the Catholic Cemetery of the late Mrs.. Maria Theres Ligares, the wife of Mr. Manuel Ligores, store
were:-Mr.N.
PILL PURVEYOR SUSPECT-
WEATHER REPORT.
ED OF RED SYMPATHIES..
THE END OF THE TYPHOON who is well known as a purveyor Dr. Loung Pui Kie, of Canton,
of anti-malaria pills in Hong Kong and throughout South China, le still in Hong Kong. Dr. Leung on arriving here was detained by the Police but is now out on bail, Dr. thing to do with the Reds Leung denies that he has had any Canton and his affairs are in the hands of a local solicitor,
kerer of the Sanitary Department, Mackenzio, Ml of the Sanitary Mr. Forrest, Mr. Reidy, and Mr. Davis, al
Yesterday's weather report, fore- Department, members of the staffs cast and remarks, issued by the of the storekeeper's department, Itoyal Observatory at 5.20 p.m., the general officce, the sanitary stated Chinese staff of the Sanitary Board, depression over 8 W. China
The typhoon in now shown as a inspectors, the disinfecting station,
LOCAL FORECAST:-South winds, moderate, cloudy, some rain. and many others
550 are falling out every year, while Lano, Crawford's Restaurant to staff of the water works, Mr Wong the number ordained has steadily I day at 8.15 p.m.