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NOTICE.
WMJ. MOWBRAY JONES
"E buvẹ THIN DAY Authorized
To Sign Our Firm Per Procuration.
W. A, HÀNNIBAL & CO., Hong Kong and Canton. “August 1st, 1997.
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ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NTO AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL BERTING of the MEM BEES of the above Club will be held at the CITY HALL, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, SE AUGUST 41 5.30 P.S for the purpose of considering and if
thought passing tha Sabjoine
Besolation as an
Ordinary
•Resolu That this Meeting authorises Commited to smittel to use the in future, to Ladies who are
Golf Courses or Club Houses a mb scription not exceeding $2.00amnth, and to make all necessary alterativas to the Rules for this purposs.
By Order.
E. D. MATTARWS,
INTIMATIONS.
FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1927.
No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD. FIGHT Boomed HOUSE, with
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OFFICES TO LET on SED FLOOR, 11, CHATTE BOLD. Moderate Rental. Apply-P. O. Bar No. 611.
Secretary, R.H.K.G.CP.
1st August, 1927,
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS.
LIMITED.
N
INTIMATIONS.
WATSON'S
AERATED WATERS
ARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCES.
GUARANTEED
uncertainty which led to lack of cendence." Hong Kong, with all the Treaty Ports, hea to how to the inevitable in this matter. We stand here in the position of A pumping statiód between two reser-. Pairs. Frantie-over-driving of the pumping machinery is na remedy for a water shortage if the reger- voirs are nearly dry.
Two Indian cases of enterio and one. Portuguese caso of puerperal fever were reported on Friday.
"
THE C.N.C. DISPUTE..
CONFERENCE AT SHANGHAI,
Mr. C. N. Callias of the Savoy Hotel reported to the Police that NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. $90 had been taken from his pocket. He found the money yesterday in his bed,
Prior to
the service at
Many rumours were current in Hong Kong during the week-end St.with regard to the C.N.C. dispute. It was widely stated that the China Navigation Company have received instructions to submit the matter
A Buick cardelt outside the Star Ferry pier at 10 o'clock on Satur- day night was gone when its owner, Wong Chai Sheung, went to claim it at 9 o'clock next morning.
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A Chinese was arrested for steal-
ing by finding a ring valued at 3200.
His wife has also been arrested for receiving the ring and be charged at the Central Magis attempting to pawn it.. Both will
John's Cathedral last evening There is, we gather, no shortage, there was a short organ recital by neither is there a glut, of money the argusist, which was much in the Colony," Ample facilities. appreciated. exist for Gnancing such business enterprise as may be safely under- ABSOLUTELY PURE. taken, Merchants would be the first to admit that the foreign banks have followed a helpful policy for LEMONADE-Has the real years past, and there has been no essence obtained from" tightening of the screw" in recent Lemons grown in Son-months. 15 Chinese merchants can thern Italy.
not obtain as "easy terms from a native bank they have the obvious RASPBERRYADE-Is pre- remedy, provided that the business pared with the juice of transaction they propose is of the Raspberries grown non-speculative type. England and Tasmania.terest were reduced by, say, one per cedt., the effect, if any, would only FORMAZONE-THE (5)56
be to encourage some degree of NON-ALCOHOLIC
over-buying and so pile up more OHAMPAGNE. It
troubles for the future. Another possesses the character: form of "assistance? which the istio stimulating and Chinese Chamber may have in mind refreshing qualities of is that the rate of interest on loans Champagne and has to native banks from foreign banks delicious flavour.
should be reduced. Unless this were passed on to the merchant, quantity
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0. BUILDING-Commedions OFFICES TO LET. FIT particulars, Apply to:-
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
WANTED-5/6. Boomed HOUSE.
Mid-levels cr Bear
Frax Tax preferred. Apply Box No. 5191, do Hong Kong Daily Press. (512)
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 60 Ceuta Per Share has bean declared Payable on TUESDAY, 232D AUGUST NEET, on and after which date Dividend Warrants may be abtained upon application At the DOOMS-Hong Kong, Kowloon, REGISTERED OFF.CE of the Company, single, double, Flats furnished or
Road East, Bowrington, Hong
unfurnished. Flat for disposal with
ROTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS furniture House 30/30,000 wanted of the Company will be CLOSED from Also 30,000 Sq. ft. land on Peak. TUESDAY, PT AUGUST to MON DAY 22 AUGUST, 1927,
Days, inclusiva,
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary
Both
Hong Kong, 29th July, 1927. (5171
NOTICE.
SMALL INVESTORS. Tel. C. 4630
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO LET No. 1, KELLETT HOUSE,
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"ONIES, Up to 8120.000 are Bystem, Separate Kitchen, Servants' Quarters. All Modern Conveniences.--
BUILDING.
STONE GINGER BEER
in
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tracy to-day.
On Saturday evening as about seven o'clock the Star Ferry on reaching Kowloon crashed into the wharf with considerable violence, reducing two of the huge vertical beams on the wharf almost to splinters. No one was injured.
A small fire broke out in a)
cracker-shop at 105, Reclamation Street, Mongkok, yesterday. A of paper cracker-cases
were destroyed, but the damage was slight. The Fire Brigade ex- tinguished. the blaze in a
minutes.
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RUGBY, July 30th. to arbitration, but no information The Prince of Wales, Prince was given and there is evidently George and the British Frime very little foundation to the re Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin and port. Some significance was at his party, on board the Empress tached to the fact that a. meeting of dustralia, arrived in the Saint is stated to have been held in Lawrence River yesterday and the Shanghai during the week-and be vessel dropped anchor off Quebec tween the Guilda and the Company. This will be the first round-table
conference, and gives some hopes
of a settlement.
early this morning.
The visitors were later officially welcomed on board by the Lieuten- On enquiry yesterday, we were aut-Governor of the Province, Mr. informed that nothing had been Perodeau, and the Prime Minister
heard from Shanghai, and it was
understood by the local Guild Offices that the meeting referred to was not on Saturday, but is to be held to-day.
An unconfirmed rumour prevalent yesterday was that an arbitration already concluded had been in favour of the officers.
BY
of Canada, Mr. Mackenzie King.
Both Princes have on former occasione visited Canada, but it is first time tha.. a British Prime
Minister has visited the Dominion during his term of office,
Great preparations have been made to welcome the guests, and Quebec is crowded with visitors.
The Royal party will leave for Montreal on Sunday and will reach Ottawa' on Tuesday. After visita
$14,990 IN FORGERIES.
SEIZURE SENSATIONAL
to Brockville, Kindston, Toronto CHANDU OFFCER. and Niagara they will proceed to Banff, where they will arrive ..on which it probably would not be,
SINGAPORE, July 2nd. August 10th. Thence the Prince The only genuine Brewed the effect on trade would be 7;
Offcera few
of. the Government will proceed to his ranch, and Mr. Ginger Beer in the East. if it were passed on it would give
Monopolies, Singapore, in the Baldwin will pay short visits to Prepared by a special the undesirable stimulus to over-
discharge of their duty of prevent prairie cities and maritime pro- process of fermentation buying already referred to.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shim, ofing the import of illicit cpium and vinces. which gives
We shrewdly suspect, however, Ying Wa College, were hosts at other drugs, often make interesting distinctive flavour which that the instigators of this agitation dinner in Tao-to Shin Kun Reseizures. Indeed some of the big THE INDIAN FLOODS. is so pleasing to the are the share speculators. They taurant last Saturday evening to a gest hauls of arms and ammunition palate.
would naturally like to see a little, large number of friends and re have been made by men of this
department. temporary boom.
the share Iatives in honour of the "first market in the course of which they mocn" festival of their son, who
was born a month ago. would unload on the "innocents
it
the
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to s Trustšė Valuation. *
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Friaces Buildings,
TO LET
OFFICES
STEPHENS' "BUILDING,
67/69, DES VŒUX BOAD` CENTRALA
AND
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
'CHATER ROAD.
APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO.
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
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(if they can find them) those shares
The funeral of Mrs Edelmira which have been a burden on their Maria Castilho took place on hands since the slump of Jane, 1925,Saturday at the Roman Catholic In a very short time the inevitable Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, reaction would set in and the only there being many friends and re- result would be that a certain latives at the graveside. The de- amount of money would have ceased died at the Government changed hands, the actual position Civil Hospital on July 29th. of the Colony generally being just what it was before.
The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10a.m. on Saturday was
0.8 inch. The total since January lat is.60.3 lacher, against an average
of $1.10 inches.
A Chinese was removed to the Government Civil Hospital from TRADE AND SPECULATION. Telegraph Bay where he received an injury to his hand during blast ing operations on the hillside.
We gather that our recent remarks on Hong Kong trade conditions are. thoroughly endorsed by a large number of foreign and Chinese merchants, who are disposed to cynical regard with somewhat amusement the manoeuvrings which have been going on for some weeks past in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, as the result of which the speculative element, it is under
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3RD STAR THEATRE stood, have obtained temporary
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A Chinese, who was employed in the printing department of the Chinese Mail was fined 850, with the alternative of four weeks' im prisonment by Major. C. Willson at the Central Magistracy, for stealing three bales of paper.
prove
A JUNK FIRE.
A freight junk carrying some 90 "cases of oil while at anchor hear Mongkok, caught are last Saturday night, causing serious injury to a 10-year-old youth who, however, managed to reach the Kwong Wah Hospital at Yaumati without assist ance. The owner of the junk is Ng Ken, and his beat number is 367. He had more than 50 cases of oil on board the junk when it caught
fire.
DOGS AFLOAT TO BE
LICENSED."
The regulations with regard to dog licences for animals kept on board junks are now being strictly enlorded.
According to statute, all animals
It is notified that His Majesty the King has been pleased to apjunks, sampans or other har
the appointment of the Hon.bour craft should be licensed, but Mr. A. C, Hynes to be an Un- there has hitherto been a certain dominance, That their away will official Member of the Legislative amount of laxity. only be temporary may be taken Council,vice Mr. A. Q. Lang, By a recent order of the Captain for granted because circumstances resigned, with effect from April Superintendent of Police, the law as they are, and not as we would 4th, 1997.
is to be applied without exception, like them to be, govern the situption.
owners of dogs in all harbour „British and foreign merchants assure It is announced in the Govern craft, junks and sampans being al; that their Chinese confrères ment Gazette that H.E. the Gover- lowed one month in which to take ns a whole entertain perfectly sound nor has appointed Bishan Singh out licences. views as to the realities of the to be Honorary Commissioner of Police (Reserve), and Sirdar Khan present position in China and have to be Assistant Superintendent of been for months unusually cautious
Police (Reserve) and to be in com- in placing orders. They realise that mand of the Indian Company,
DEPORTED.
V
A seizure at Tanjong Pagar on July 18th among the luggage of a Chinese passenger landing from the Nam Sang, on. her arrival from China, was a sensational ore, forged currency notes of a face consisting as it did of allegedly
value of $14,990.
RAIN NOW HOLDING OFF.
COMMUNICATIONS STILL DISORGANISED.
[THLOUGH BEU (ER'S AGENCY.]
The affair had a sequel this morn-
BOMBAY, July 9th. Treasury, giving evidence before from the Gujerat flood areas, the ing, when a Chinese clerk from the
There is more reassuring news Mr. H. R. Bull on a charge against
a Chinese named Lim Kust of be- rain holding off.
ing in possession of counterfeit Communications are still dis- currency, described as forgeries
every one of the 1,499 810 notes organised. The mail train passen- which had been submitted to him. gers, who were marooned while Giving evidence regarding the travelling from the Punjab to seizure Mr. Listerman stated that
on July 18th laat he was en daty Bombay, have been rescued and at Tanjong Pagar examination shed taken to Delhi. during the arrival at Singapore
Further Details, from China of the Nam Sang.
A lorry passing out with four Chinese was stopped. The accused, one of the men, claimed a chest, siding. 40,000 persons at Ahmedabad
which was examined.
In the chest was a wicker basket,
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LATER The floods at Gujerat are- sub-
are reported homeless. Barodi is a bag of yarn and other odds and still unable to communicate tele-
graphically.
enda
Within the bag of yarn were three paper parcels, which upon examination. proved to contain what appeared to be currency notes.
Having his suspicions aroused by the appearance of some of the notes, Mr. Listerman rang up the police, and gave the Chinese in charge.
The accused was committed for trial.-Straite Timer..
AMOK IN SINGAPORE.
SINGAPORE, July 22nd. An amok occurred in High Street, Singapore, yesterday evening, the man being a Chinese inmate of the passenger lodging house at the Hil Street end of High Street.
TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL BEATTY.
LETTER FROM THE PRIME MINISTER.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, July 20th."
The following letter is issued, which Mr. Baldwin, before leaving. for Canada, addressed to Earl Beatty,
"On your relinquishment of your appointment as First Sea Lord, Armed with a chopper, he attack and Chief of the Naval Staff, I ed and wounded two Chinese in the lodging house before rushing at the wish to place on record the thanks constable as traffic duty at the of the Government for the valuable Street. A constable in plain clothes ing the last eight years, following junction of Hill Street with High assistance you have rendered dur- was at hand, and the two officers overpowered and captured the your great service in the war. We assailant
all recognise that the period of se The wounded men are fortunately trenchment and economy which not seriously hurt.
necessarily followed the war bas been one of exceptional difficulty HEAT WAVE-IN-SHANGHAI for the Admiralty, and we greatly appreciate the continuous efforts
Chinese girls, suspected of freed
During the week-end some 20 The little rainstorm which drop, you have made to achieve these half-inch of water upon objects consistently with the essen- sweltering Shanghai on Saturday quenting rhins in the Harbour,night while it did not break the hot- tial-needs of naval defence.......... have been deported by the Hong spell did at least lower the minimum "As president of the Committee Kong Authorities.
temperature five degrees so that of Imperial Defence, I wish also many thousands got a better night's rest than for many nights before, to thank you for the prominent says the China Press.
part you have played in the success- WEATHER REPORT. Baturday's maximum was 94.8, a ful inauguration of a committee of drop of 5.1 degrees from the day chiefs-of-staff, and for the promo before The temperatures for the Yesterday's weather report foreinst eight days are comidering and if thought fit, pass
tion of closa co-operation between ing a resolution authorising the cast and remarks, issued by the more disposed to be careful when
the three fighting Services, to which Committee to charge in future all Royal Observatory at 8.15 p...
the Government attach the greatest they see the shopkeepers in their ladies who are permitted to use the stated chiế outlet-Caston-driven
importance. Golf Club's courses or Club houses," threats that they will close their
a subscription not exceeding 8% a shops as the only way of combatting month, and to make the necessary extortionate taxation. These are alterations to the rules for this only a few of the elements of trade i purpose.
ACCOMPANIST: MR. WILLY REIMANN. OUR CABARET with the country torn by military Hong Kong Police Reserve.
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factions, and conditions-in-that respect worse than ever this year, the ordinary process of exchange of commodities is greatly impeded, and that safety for traders lies in a hand-to-mouth policy. Hong Kong Chinese dealers are all the
An extraordinary general meet ing of members of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club will be held at the City Hall on Tuesday, August 8th, at 8.30 p... for the purpose of
There is little change, in presúre distribution since this morning, --A. from the westwards printin depression is approaching Shantung
FORECAST:W. winds, molerate, claudy, showery, improving.
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May express the hope that, notwithstanding the completion of Four term of office at the Admir alty, your advice will remain at the disposal of the Committee Imperial Defence.??