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HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S
SOCIETY..
THE
THE ANNUAL CITESH PAR.
ADE of the SCOTTISH COM PANY, HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS. will take place at UNION CHVAC, Kennedy Road, on SUNDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER, at
10.30 AM.
It is hoped that Members of the Soalety with their Ladies will endeavour to attend...
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No
that the Certificate No. 5/NB 13017 dated Hong Kong, 7th SEPTIM for Ten Shares of this Bank F0/819 in the Name,
жел
M. ARNOLD RUSSELL. 27)
bas bean LST or STOLEN. and
this Certificate not be produced to the Bank before the 22ND DECEMBER, 1927, a New Certificate for the Shares will be issued, and the aforesaid Certi ficate No. 5 NS 13017 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as NULL and VOID.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. Q. HYNES,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd November, 1927.
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NOTICE.
CHANGE OF NAME.
E the Undersigned, hitherto Warrying on Business as Archi
torts, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, under the Firm Name of
ABSCOLRADIM.
& Co. HEREBY NOTIFY that s from the 21 NOVEMBER, 1927, the Bid Business will be carried on under the Name and Style of HALL& HALI., Architects Civil Engineers and Sar veyors, at 34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
WILLIAM HALL, B.Sc. (Exc.) GEORGE ALBENT VICTOR HALL, B.ARCH, A.B.I.B.A. 34, Queen' Road Central.
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NEW WESLEYAN SAILORS' & SOLDIERS' HOME, PRATA EAST.
STONE-LAYING CEREMONY:
WEDNESDAY, NOY $3RD, AT 3 2.X.
STONES TO 31 LAID ET:
HIS EXCELLENCT
AND
W. T. FOUTHORN, Esq., C.M.G.. Bis EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL C. C. LUARD, CE. UM.G., COMMODORE J. L. PEARSON, C.M.G.
A Cordial" Invitation to attend is extended to all.
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MACAO RACE CLUB.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 1927.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB, TER EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAFFT VALLEY BATURDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1997, Commencing at The First Bell will be Rong at 1.80 p.m.
on
The Charge for Admission to the will ba $1.00 for Endoaure Pablic
all Persons including Ladies. Soldier and Sailors in Uniform Half Price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure.
Each Member has the right to in- troduce 2 Nen-members to the Members' Enclosure Tickets for whom can he obtained from Moses. LIMETRAD & DAVIS $5.00 Each Up to FRIDAY, 25TH at NOVEMBER, 1917.
The
Charge
Admission for Ladies for
obtain, to the Members Enclosure will be $7.00. Each Member
por application to the SECRETARY, Badges for Admission of 3 Ladies Free of Chargs.
Bookmakers, Tio Tac mos, etc., will not be permitted to operate with. in the Precincts of the Exo Keno JOCKET CLUB daring Race Meetings,
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WOMEN AND ENGLISH PUBLIC LIFE.
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LA MERITA
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HONG. KONG.
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LADY IVEAGH's election to Parlia ment probably caused very little comment in the British Press. She the useful members of the Labour is the seventh woman to be re Party. It was quite expected when turned, and her success at the polls Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD formed his shows that women's participation government that Miss BONDFIELD in parliamentary life is making would be given Cabinet rank, but steady, if not very rapid, progress. actually she was appointed to the Although the changes may not Parliamentary Secretaryship of the
he very apparent there is no doubt Ministry of Health. Following this
HONG KONG VINDICATED.
A raw days ago wo published an article from Nottingham paper describing the e return home of the first detachment-of-roservists from China during thatcourse of which an ofter was quoted as having said that in Hong Kong the mes were locked upon as necessary nuisances, “The article appeared in more than one Home newspaper. Sir HENRY Potlock, who is on holiday, read it in the London Morning Post and," we are glad to say, took prompt, stops to cor rect the unfavourable and unfair impression given of this Colony The following letter and quotation the which, were published in Morning Post, speak, for them-
selves:
TROOPS FROM CHINA. CAMERONIAN "RESERVISTS' HAPPY TIME. ·
A Chinese who fell from a motor bus while it was in motion at Nathan Road was removed to the.
wong Wah Hospital. The man was badly bruised in addition to receiving internal injuries,
Captain J. M. Murphy, of 724, Nathan Road, has reported to the palice that a thief entered his bedroom during the week-end by climbing up a bamboo scaffolding and removed a typewriter and a camera valued at 873.
A cow tender employed at the Dairy Farm at Pokfulam was on Monday admitted to the Nethersole Hospital suffering from injuries to his head and chest. He was an gaged in cleaning out a shed when he was attacked by a bull
POPPY DAY FUND.
DONATIONS FROM SWATOW
AND WUCHOW.
The Hon. Treasurer of, the Hong Kong and Chips Branch of the British Legion, writing in connec- tion with the Poppy Day. Fund says:
Awatow."
ANOTHER OPIUM SEIZURE.
HEAVY FINE IMPOSED.
FINDERS OF OPIUM WILL BE REWARDED. ·
Hardly a day passes without
by revenue officers. Another sol some illicit opium being discovered
zure of 96 taels. of prepared opium "We have received from Swatow was made on Monday at the Yau- The mati Shelter by Rovenue Offer Hk. $600.18 and £2 sterling. dollar amount has been remitted to Ward, and a sampan owner was for £69.10.9 charged with possession at the London by D/D.
Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. W. The total of E84. 10.2. making o drive was organised by A. M., Scott Schofield yesterday. Morris.
Wuchow.
It appeared that Revenue Officer Ward, who was in a motor boat
"We have received a cheque for inside the shelter, saw the defen- $30 collected by Mrs. Coates by dant's sampan acting in a very A fine of $25, or three weeks' hard the sale of poppies in the Wucbow suspicious manner. An order was Jabour, was imposed by the Kon-Customs Club and have remitted wade for it to stop, but this was disobeyed. Revenue Officer Ward loon Magistrate yesterday on a £3.3.2. Chinese youth for stealing a brass
"Both these efforts are particu- then fired a shot from his revolver across the bow, and the defcudant at once threw a bag overboard, 'and hose cap from the ferry boat, Soins larly praiseworthy. Star, which is undergoing repairs at the Kowloon Docks,
dived into the water himself, being followed by two of his fokis. He was arrested as he clambered on board another junk, but the two fukis made good their escape.
U.$.3.0.
Sir,-In your issue of Saturday, under the above heading, a officer of the First Detachment of Reservists from China, the Cameroniana, is reported to have said to a Press Representative: "In Hong Kong we were looked upos as necessary nuisances."
In justice to the residents-of that Colony, of which I am the erior unofficial member. I en close a cutting from the Hong Kong Weekly Prea, of the 16th September, 192 which I should be glad if you would print in Section "A" Reservists of the the Central Police Station hurried Cameronians have expressed the warmest appréciation of what was done for them during their stay in Hong Kong.
"We have received from the U.SR.C. $1,350 being the proceeds Nine months' imprisonment with of the Fete held on November 10th, hard labour was the sentence meted
"The Ladies Committee respon out to a Chinese by the Kowloonsible comprised:-Mrs. Robinson, Magistrate yesterday when the man Mrs. Matthews, Mr. Hunt, Mrs. was charged with returning to the Cock, Mrs. Hogg and Mrs. Charles. Colony before the expiration of a
Captain Hawthorne and Captain unishment order.
Howard also worked for the Fete and ran the Coffee Stall. Captain
the Club."
The bag was hauled out of the water and was found to contain 95 taels of opium and a big piece of :
stone.
The defendant, who was repre-
order to show your readers that About a dozen detectives from Charles is honorary secretary of sented by Mr. D. McCallum, ad-
H. E. POLLOCK." Grosvenor Hotel.
The following is an extract from
in the direction of Chine Road early yesterday afternoon in the hope of dealing with a gang of robbers. On arriving at the house from which the electric burglary alarm was sounded, it was found
the "Good Bye" message sign that an ignorant coolie had been
ed by Section "A" Reservists,
the Cameronians, and published responsible for the signal.
in the Hong Kong Weekly Press:
The body of a Chinese which was "Not one evening has passed without a concert or sing-song found hanging from a tree was
one party or another arranged by old spend a really sent to the public martuary on jolly time. We cannot show Monday. It is believed to be a case enough appreciation or thank you of suicide. Another body of a suficiently for all that has been Chinese was found in No. 5 railway done; it is a thing that can never be forgotten, and will be spoken of io thousands of homes in Great Britain Words cannot ex "press our feelings towards you'
Sir Henry Pollock, who is on holiday in England, is due back in Hong Kong by the Malwa on January 8th.
Silk forwarded from Hong Kong by the Empress of Russia on Octo- ber 20th arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on November 18th having been 3 days in transit.
Another practice dance for St.
D Forms of the FIFTH EXTRA that What is generally termed precedent Mr. BALDWIN, OF, Telure. Andrew Bell, which is being held
BAFT Programmes and Eutry BACE MEETING to be held on SUNDAY, 11TH DECEMBER, 1927, can be obtained upon application to the INTERNATIONAL RACE AND RICEZ- TION CLUB OF MACan, LTD., Hong Kosa JOCKET CLUB and CAUSEWAY BAY STABLE, HONG Koxe.
Entries will CLOSE on FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER, 1927, at 3 r..
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women's emancipation,
ΟΥ the ing to office, gave the Duchess of next Wednesday, took place at the women's movement, is profoundly Atholl, who had had great experi-City Hall Cast evening. There was
a good attendance. affecting England. Probably the ence in municipal and charitable remarkable achievements of Queen work, the post of Under-Secretary VICTORIA and FLORENCE NIGHTIN- to the Board of Education.
tons
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The working girls of the Wah Yeung Knitting Factory, 482, Can- ten, Road, Mongkok, have been on
strike since last Monday. They complain of the discharge of two employees. Nearly 950 girls
are
tunnel at Taipokau on the Kow- loon-Canton Railway in circum stances pointing to the man having been knocked down and killed by a traźn.
PROPERTY SALE.
No. 11, ASHLEY ROAD, KOWLOON.
At the China Auction Rooms yes terday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M.
de Sousa, by order of the mert-
gegee, sold No. 11, Ashley Road, Kowloon, a three-storied European dwelling-house, with na 1,995 feet, and an annual "Crown rent of 812.60.
-
area of
The upset price was $23,000, and with only one advance of $200, Mr. Liang Ki Ho, of Happy Valley, be- came the purchaser.
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mitted possession of the bag, but said that it was dragged 'from the sea and that he had never looked at its contents. He did not know it contained opium. He only jump- ed into the water because he was scared by the revolver shot.
The defendant's story was not accepted and his Worship imposed a fine of $3,000, or eight months" hard labour. Before rising the Magistrate said that he wished the Public to know that opium found
over should be handed
to the who would pay a Authorities, reward to the finder."
FORGED BANK NOTES.
-A SHANGHAI, CASE.
CHINESE GETS SIX YEARS.
WES
The forthcoming weddings are Gerd Otto announced of Mr. Brotje, assistant, Melchers & Co., Hong Kong, and residing at Long FAN TAN AT JOCKEY CLUB
STABLES. sight Villa, Pokfulam, to Miss Clarita Maria Christiane Wilkins,
route to the Colony, on the TWENTY-TWO MAFOOS FINED. notes of $100 denomination on the Derflinger; and of Mr. Vinzenz Singer, engineer, residing at the Station Hotel, Kowloon, to Miss
Wong Tuh Pisu, who charged with issuing forged bank.
Mercantile Bank of India, WAS sentenced to six years' imprison- ment, before Judge Wan and Deputy Stovers, at the Special Provisional Court of Shanghai on
As a result of a raid made by the Elisabeth Schulz, secretary, resid. Police on the Jockey Club stables
nese mafoos were arrested for play November 17th. The prisoner was hai. ing at 22, Kiukiang Road, Shang-at Causeway Bay, twenty-two Chi-
ing fan tan. They were brought accused of the offence of presenting A slight fire broke out yesterday before Mr. B. E. Lindselt at the counterfeit notes by the Wing On afternoon at West Point, which Central Magistracy yesterday morn Co., and the Sincere Co.
arrival of. the prompt
Fire
ing. Brigade appliances prevented from spreading. It appears that some The fan tan beads and other para. straw baskets at premises in Rose Lane, in Second Street, caught are phernalia were produced in Court One appliance from Kennedy Town, was found on the table by the in a kitchen on the ground floor. together with a sum of $2.27 which three from Central Station and Police. The defendants all plequ- one from Wanchai turned out. The alarm was given at 3.37, and ed guilty to the charge, and partment of Messrs. Jardine and the fire was effectively coped with twenty-one of them were fined $3 in less than ten minutes.
each.
The other man was charged with - Three cases of diphtheria, one British, one Portuguese and one keeping a gaming house. He ad Chinese four cases of typhoid, mitted that he was conducting the one Norwegian imported and three Chinese, one of which was import game at the time, but said that he ed; one case of paratyphoid fever; was dot keeping a gambling den. one Chinese ease of cerebrospinal All those who played were in fever and out Chinese case of perferal fever were reported to mater, no outsiders were present, the Hong Kong, authorities during Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine $10. the week-end November 19th. There was one death from diphtheria, and one from typhoid. The cases at paratyphoid, cerebrospinal fever, and puerperal fever also proved typhoid fever were reported during the 24 hours ended November 21st.
Mr. G. H# Wright, of the firm of Mesars. Hansons, appeared on be half of Mesara Jardine, Matheson.
It will be remembered that, on November 1st, at about 4 p.m. the The accused was not represented. accused went to the shipping de-
Matheson and booked his passage. to Tsingtao, the ticket for which cost 833. The accused offered a bank-note of 8100 denomination on the Mercantile Bank of India," and in exchange he was given the balance of 887. He gave his name
North Honin Rod.
stated, and his address as 9
Later in the day a shroff of the complainant found that the note was a counterfeit one. It appear
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for GALE started the idea that many. It has been clained that the the week ending November 5th women might have as great an granting of the full rights of citizen amounted to 105,944 tons and the aptitude as men for public affairs. ship to women has led to an en-sales during the period to 99,086 Somewhat grudgingly they were tirely new outlook on législation welfare. first accorded a place in local housing and social
1.0 these measures government and soon proceeded to whether or justify themselves on Boards of would in any case have gone for- Guardians and Municipal Councils ward just the same is a matter of The movement for the Parliament opinion, but the fact remains that ▼E Require FLAT and HOUSES ary franchise was unquestionably since, the women's vote has had to
concerned. in CENTRAL Kocoon and handicapped by the fanatical Hys-be reckoned with successive govern abore MAY ROID Laval, Hong Kong. teria of the suffragettes," but the ments have set to work with un-
The Rev. G. We Sheppard, secre Will Landlords interested wond part-
part played by British women in precedented vigour upon housing tary of the British and Foreign colare to SMALL, INVESTORS
the Great War removed the final schemes, the improvement of educa- Bible Society, arrived from Shang, TXL. C. 4630 ?
objections to granting the vote and tion. health services and infant hai by the Empress of Canada repealing the sex disqualification welfare. The big questions of adul yesterday on a visit to the Society's
futal. Two teration of food and reprehensible sub-agencies in Hong Kong and
Canton.
A message issued by the Manila another Jardine bost, the 3.3. Lady Astor's election to West practices as regards weights and minster excited world interest and measures in retail establishments Mr George E. Lerrigo, a secre
Observatory at 8.20 . yesterday Kunguro, and practised the same. trick by booking his passage to eo rapid was ber success in the have also received government tary of the National Committee of
Among passengers arriving by stated-Cyclone or typhoon E. of Kiukiang. He offered another House that it has remained some-
the Y.M.C.A. in China, visited the the R.M.S.Empress of Canada Northern Luzon, less than 300 forged 8100 note, and received the thing of a mystery why she his
Recent years have also marked Association at Toysban recently yesterday were Mr. A. . Butcher, miles distant, moving. N.W. or balance of 873,-Shanghai Mercury. a Chicago merchant who is on n "sex war" and found conditions there as not been given office under the
passing of the
business trip to the East; Mr. H.N.N.W. the
satisfactory as could be expected. W. Livingstone, manager of the
WINDS FRESH AND FAIR. Conservative Government. Fer The phrase is seldom heard now, and Mrs. Lerrige will sail for Standard Oil Company of New
York, at Foochow, and Mrs. Living- Last night's weather report, issued haps a certain eccentricity of views
and H.M. the Queen and the Royd Amoy in a day or two or a similar stone; Mr. H. J. Wallem Mr. C. from the Royal Observatory af 6 on the subject of prohibition in
H. Benson, of the American Express Co., Hong Kong and Mr. o'clock, England together with her inher Princesses as well as the women inspection trip
A Chinese who
6 taels of and Mrs. L. Dunbar, and Miss ent dislike of compromise decided Members of Parliament have alf
Dunbar. Among those leaving by
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attention.
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ed that the secused had scraped off the numerals "30" and put in their place 100.'"'
Notice was immediately sent to men on various Jardine steamers în port to watch for the accused. The accused never called at the steamer he intended to travel. He went to
XMAS MAILS.
FOR CANADA AND U.S.A. stated: The anti-cyclone remains over The Xmas letter and parcel mail the party lenders in favour of a countered the allegation that gold and other jewellery valued at his steamer for Manila, to-day. China, and a depression is situated for Canada and the United States less stormy colleague. Miss Max-femininity was inconsistent with 83,740.00 from a goldsmith in Mr. L. Yates, Chairman of Furness to the north of Japan. The typhoon of America will be closed at the GARET BONDFIELD was the first public service and efficiency. What Canton where he was employed, (Far East), Ltd., on a business trip appears to be nearly, stationary in General Post Office as under Englishwoman to attain Ministerial ever the causes may be, England was charged at the Central Magia, from Hong Kong to the Pi Lat. 15deg. N., Long 124dèg. "N...
tracy yesterday afternoon before pines Major and Mrs. W. H. An-
office.
Starting her remarkable undoubtedly possesses healthier and Major C. Willson. Another Chi- derson Mr. Vincent Richards, the Fresh monsoon will prevail along
nese and a woman were also well known tennis champion, and
Yokohama, General China Seu, career in domestic service Miss better looking women and children charged with aiding and abetting Mrs. Richards; and Mr. M. T. the S.E. coast and over the North
The jewellery as pawned. Fitzgerald,
Local several than in the days when. legislation him.
Forecast:-N.E BONDFIELD organised
police. The case was set down for Pacific Steamships, Ltd, who is women's trade unions and was for affecting their welfare was exclu-here and was recovered by the Agent for Japan of the Canadian
hearing next Monday afternoon. paying a visit to the Philippines. fresh, fair. years
one of the most moderate vely in the hands of men.
winds,
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