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EXHIBITION TENNIS MATCHES. (A GREAT TUSSEL BETWEEN ÜHAMPTONS-) (Proceeds in Aid of Local Charities).
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AND
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ADMISSION: $1.00 EACH DAY
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BY ORDER OF THE
MORTGAGEE, PARTICULARS AND CONDI.
TIONS OF SALE
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THE VALUABLE "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY Situate at VICTORIA, in the Colony of
Hong Kong, and INLAND LOT No. 1907, Together with No. 2, MEE LUN STREET thereon
known
To л SOLD - ET PUBLIC AUCTION
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WEDNESDAY,
THE 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1927,
Ar 3 O'CLOCK M
AT TIK
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS,
"No. 4 DEDDELL STREIT, VICTORIA,
Home Kose.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 1927.
HỒNG KONG J0CKEY CLUB.
VALENT – On
EIGHTH EXTRA RACE TBETING will be held. (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY SATURDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1927, Commending at 2 r. The First Bell will be Eung at
1.30 T..
The Obargo for Admission to the Public Endeure will be $1.00 for all Persons including Ladies. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform: Half Price.
Members are
bars are advised that they must how their Badges to obtain Admission to the ambers Enclosure.
Each Member has the right to in-
2 Non-members to the Membera
trod crickets for whom can be
obtained from Messrs. LinaTRAD & DAVIS st $5.00 Each Up to FRIDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1997.
10
The Charge for Admission for Ladies the Members Enclosure will be obtain, $2.00. Each Member can apon application to the SECRETARY, Badges
for Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge.
Bookmakers, Tia The men, etc.. will not be penaitted to operate with in the Precincts of the HONG KONG JOCKEY OLUB during Race Meetings.
MACAO RACE CLUB.
INTIMATIONS.
CHOCOLATES
De Luxe
over the English. It creates a "superiority complex" that in times of disagreement and orisis leads nations to think that to draw the sword means to continue an unbroken series of triumphs
L
There is probably much less is generally supposed in the old
The Chairman of the Chinese Mission to Lepere (Hong Kong | Auxiliary)· gratefully acknowledges a donation of $200 received through the Chinese Rotary Club.
There will be another musicale at the Helena May Institute this Among those contributing to the programme are evening, at 3.30. by Mrs. Cashman, Mr. Sanger, Mr. Li Chor Chi and Mr. F. Braga,
THE BRIBERY CASE.
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.
PRISONER DISCHARGED.
- IN THE INTEREST OF
SCIENCE
INTERESTING VESSEL AT
MANILA?
MANNED BY THREE BRITISH OFFICERS
A
Th
At the Criminal Sessions yester day, before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood and a jury, the case was concluded fashioned notions of a natural
in which a Chinese motor driver small unpretentious-looking aptitude for war being monopolised
was charged with attempting to motor launch, manned by three bribe three Indian police constables British officers, arrived in port by certain nations and that our own nation (whichever it may be)" The transport Somersetshire bas | with 8100. It was alleged that the several days ago, says the Manila goes just one better than the rest. left for Home with Marines, and bribe was offered in order to save Times. The launch, which bears The effectiveness of an army depends Class "A" reservists. The Somer prisoner from arrest after 300 table the name of Harpada, in o mainly on training, leadership and setshire "arrived here first fork of opium had been found in his world-wide expedition in the in
The expedition equipment. The intensive training night ago with reliefs for the car at Un Lang village, New Ter terest of science. lavished on the Old Contempt-Northants, and sailed with that ibles" enabled them to accomplish Battalion for Shanghai, where she
embarked men for Home. the seemingly impossible, but by the end of the Great War there was little to choose between the skill and bravery of the leading belligerents. Of the generals, probably Marshá! Foca alone. Will emerge as one of AMERICAN the world's really great military
In
Wonderful Variety
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DRAFT Programmes and E(METCALFE)
of the FIFTH
RACE MEETING to be held on
SUNDAY, 1118 DECEMBER, 1927,
leaders
One Indian case of typhoid fever the Authorities was reported to during the 24 hours ended Xovem-
can be obtained upon application to FRUIT IN LIQUER TRU VALUE ber 22nd. the INTERNATIONAL RACE AND RECREA- TION CLUB OF MACAO, LTD., Hong Boxe JOCKEY CLUB and CAUSEWAY BAT STAL, HONG KONG,
Entries will CLOSE on FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER, 1927, at 3 r..
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificato No. 8/N8 13017 dated Hong Kong, 7th SEPTE ZAR, 1917, for Ten Shares of this Bank numbered 56160/56189 in the Name of ME ARNOLD RUSSELL RIVETT has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate not be produced to the Bank before the 22ND DECEMBER, 1997, a New Certificate for the Sharew will be issued, and the aforesaid Certi
GIFT
A coolie employed at the cement LA MERITA, works at Hunghom was sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from injuries received through ac- TRIBUTH AS YOU LIKE IT cidentally falling into a kilu.
SPECIAL
IDEAL
Boat people at Connaught Road Weet rescued a woman who jumped into the harbour in an endeavour to, commit suicide. It was stated that the act followed a quarrel with her mother-in-law.
The Xmas letter mail for Great Britain, Siberia, will be closed
Scato No. 6/N 13017 will he therefter A. S. WATSON the General Past. Office on Tues.
treated by this Corporation as NULL
and Vol.
Br Order of the Court of Directora,
LTD.
& CO., A. C. HYNES.
Chief Manager. Bong Kong, 22nd November, 1917.
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Ma. E. V. M. B. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer. LO O FAR THE COLLE
The Property consists of :---
All that Piece or Parcel of Ground sitante at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong and known and registered in the LAND O77ic as INLAND LOT No. 1907, Together with a Mearnage or Tanements Erections and Buildings there on known No. 2, MEE LON STREET, VICTORIA, aforesaid.
The Properly is held for the Unexpired Residue of the Term of 75 Years from the 4th day of MARCH, 1918, created by an indenture of Crown Lease dated the 7th day of JULY, 1913, and made between His Majesty KING GEORGE V. of the The Part and WONG HANG of the Other Part. Annual Crown Bent of the Property: $22.00. Total Area: About 1,361 Square Feet. For farther Particulars, Apply to:- Mass. D'ALMADA & MABON, Mortgages's Socilitora, Ma. E. V. M. R. DE BOUBA,
Auctioneer. Hong Kong, 22nd Nov., 1997. [3361
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NOTICE.
CHANGE OF NAME.
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TE, the Undersigned, hitherto carrying on Business as Archi- tects, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, under the Firm Name of "ANDOGLEÄHIM & Co. HEREBY NOTIFY that as from the 21st NOVEMBER, 1927, the aid Business will be carried on under the Name and Style of HALL & HALL, Architects. Civil Engineers and Sur veyors, at 84, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. WILLIAM HALL, B.Sc. (Exo.) GEORGE ALBERT VICTOR HALL, B.ARCH, A.R.L.B.A. 34, Queen's Road, Central.
FLATS
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KOWLOON.
APPLY TO
S. J. DAVID & CÓ,
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
CHATEREGAD,
OST Between JAXDINE'S CORNER INSTANT-STONE MARTEN CHO- KER FUB.-Owx12, 273, TH PEAL.
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WE Bequire FLAT and HOUSES
HONG KONG.
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WELLINGTON, LINCOLN and GRANT among the greatest men of action
day, November 20th, per 1.8. Prei sident Cleveland. This mail should reach London about December 22nd.
الخدمة
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The case in which an Indian. warder charged three Indian con- stables with stealing his, gqat was again before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, and was further adjourned until December 7th.
"
Mr. H. Graves, living at Peak Road, was Aned 84 at the Central Magistracy yesterday for allowing
to wander out of her control.
.
ritories.
is financed by V. M.. MacAndrew a millionaire of Dartmouth, Eng Without retiring, the jury re turned a unanimous verdict of land. The officers of the launch are "Not Guilty," and prisoner was deeply interested in the treasures
of the sea, and already have ex-" discharged.
the
In his concluding address to the plored the Red Sea, the Indian
Japan. his dog to wander about without a jury, Mr. Hin Shing Lo, who dean, and the coasts of China and Captain Light heads the expedi muzle. A similar, "charge against | fended, pointed to the conflicting QMS. Murray, of the E.0.8.B., nature of the evidence and said tion. R. P. Kindersley is in charge was answered by Mrs. Murray, who that if the jury had any doubt the of navigation, while M. Stones is The second...officer. acting as submitted that she was standing on defendant was entitled to
launch, obly 53 tees long and five the steps leading to their quarters benefit
The defence was that when the feet wide, left Dartmouth, Eng- at No. 8, Peak Road, and had the animal within sight. Mr. Murray passenger in the car jumped out he land, three years ago. It has al was cautioned for allowing the dog actually carried the basket contain-ready touched at Port Said, ing the opium with him, and that Colombo, Singapore. Kobe, Yoko- the constables chased him. When hama, Hong Kong and Vladivos- Three bookshop owners at Holly he disappeared into a house, the tok. She came from Vladivostok on wood Road were fined $50 each at constables returned to the car and her trip to Manila. the Central Magistracy Yesterday | arrested the driver. This statement for exporting for sald indecent was borte out by witnesses. literature. On a similar charge In discharging prisoner, His MARRIAGE OF EX-KAISER'S three bookstall holders of Hillier Street were fined $30 each., An order was given for confiscation and destruction of all the books seized. It was submitted on behalf of the dealers that they were unaware of the contents of the books, which were printed in Shanghai and in- troduced by a traveller.
WEDDING AT UNION CHURCH.
MCALPINE STEWART.
McAlpine
The bride, who was given away
Lordship said that the verdict was in accordance with the weight of the evidence.
MOHAMMEDAN CEMETERY
LANDSLIDE.
BUILDING WITHOUT A PERMIT.
CONTRACTOR FINED.
SISTER.
THE BRIDEGROOM'S LIFE STORY.
"DESIRES TO SECURE A
COMMERCIAL POST.
do, he took service on
Finnish
he was three years at sea. Finally he cast up in Berlin. Of his life here he says: "Many a night I spent without a plennig in my pocket, either in the station waiting- rooms or in a Salvation Army night shelter, and I was happy if I could earn three marks a day and my food On several occasions he acted as a as a plate washer in a restaurant.
alm, super.
Alexander Zoubkoff, the young Russian, who has just married the ex-Kaiser's sister, the widowed Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe, has given a picturesque account of his romantic career to a representative of the Acht-Uhr Abendblatt Ho stated that he was born in 1899 at the small industrial town of Ivanovo, At a recent enquiry into the death where his father owned a textile The marriage of Mr. Archibald of three Chinese coolies through factory. His mother was a Swede
and Miss Elizabeth a landslide at the Mohammedan from Upsala. He was stadying,
medicine at Moscow University Paterson Stewart, third daughter of Cemetery while they were engaged when the Bolshevik revolution made Mr and Mrs. John Stewart of in excavation work for a retaining it necessary for him to escape to Greenock, took place at the Union wall at the foot of a bank, the jury Sweden. Finding nothing better to Church, Kowloon, on Tuesday after-considered the contractor to blame steamer as ship's boy. Altogether noon The Rev. J. Horace Johnston for failing to take, proper precau-
tions to prevent a subsidence. conducted the marriage service;
When the case against Chan Kam. by Mr. A. M. Holland, was attired the contractor, was resumed before in a gown of white satin trimmed Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central with silver lace and orange blos- Magistracy yesterday morning, he soms, and carried a bouquet of white pleaded guilty to the charge of chrysanthemums and heather. Miss carrying out the work without a Betty Laing was bridesmaid. Her permit from the Building Authority, dress was of mouve crêpe de chine and was fined $200... BIRTH.
with picture hat to match, and she FRASER At Victoria Hospital, on the 23rd inst., to Mr. and Mrs.
Further evidence was taken yes carried a pink bouquet of Honolulu J. FRASER, a son. (5669
Mra A. M. Holland, terday by Major C. Willson at creeper, DEATH.
the Central Magistracy, in the matron of honour, wore a dress of CRUICKSHANE.-On November 19th,
enn derive a good deal of amuse-
case in which two men were charged black georgette and velvet over WILLIAM ARTHUR CARRUTHERS. CRUICKSBANK, formerly of Jarment from comparing the different with aiding and abetting others to silver grey, with blue and grey hat. dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. national histories. French accounts steal slabs of antimony regulus Mr. Peter Morrison carried out the
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of the Hundred Years War, for from the godowns of the China duties of "best man" Mr. Rupert
pass over, Cressy and Provident Loan and Mortgage Co. Baldwin presided at the organ. Agincourt, but dwell at consider. The next hearing will be on Tues. Following a reception at the Row
loon Hotel, the married couple left. able length on victories of St. day at 2.30 p.m.
for Repulse Bay for the honeymoon." Joan and Duncis of which English
The bride's going away dress was of schoolboys have never heard. The
new pink, biege, with defeat off la Rochelle of the Duke at the Kowloor Magistracy yester- pink hat to match.
The death was announced yester. in CENTRAL Kowloor and of the Anglo-Saxon race. But that day of Mr. W. A. C. Cruickshank, Messrs. Jardine, formerly of above MAY ROAD LEVEL, Hong Kong is not to say that be, or any other Matheson & Co., Ltd. Mr. Cruick Will Landlords interested send part human being, was a paragon of thank passed away at Home on cular to SMALL INVESTORS
perfection, and it is just as well Saturday last. He left Hong Kong TEL C. 4630?
that this should be known, d- many years ago, and only a few truthful history has a lot to answer of the older members of the com- for: It has been a fruitful source mugity will remember him. of international hatred and con- tempt.
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice
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Horo Kona, NOVEMBER 24TH, 1927
FACT VERSUS NATIONAL HISTORY: AMERICA's profession of letters is be congratulated on possessing in Mr.
Anyone with a sense of humour
instance.
of Buckingham, the favourite of Charles I., also receives more atten- tion than Trafalgar and the Nile. A classic example of the same thing is the way in which the relative importance of the parts played by
BLUCHER and WELLINGTON at Water-
loo is reversed in English and German popular history. One of
A Chinese said to be a member of the Knitters' Guild was charged
day for distributing pamphlets calling on the textile workers to go on strike. It was also alleged that the strike at the War Tueng Knit- ting Factory on Monday: last was caused by him. The case will be heard this afternoon:
The master of a sumpan and his two fokis, were charged yesterday
black and
PROPERTY SALE.
The defendant pleaded that he not the money to meet the fine and said that he would have to see the Cemetery Committee to help him out.
Remarking that was the contrac tor's business to have carried out the regulations, the Magistrate allowed the defendant until 4 o'clock in the afternoon to pay the fine.
He denice newspaper reports that he acted as a professional dancer in public ball-rooma. That, he says, "is the one thing that I cannot do, greatly to the regret of the Princess, who loves dancing above every thing." Her acquaintance, he says,
he made through a chance idea. He was in Cologne on his way to Ant- werp, whence he hoped to work his passage to the Belgian Congo, plantation, when he remembered a remote relation in Bonn, and decid- ed to try to borrow money from himi
where his maternal uncle has a
WoakTM Mortar,
This relative proved to be a fre Another Chinese contractor also quent visitor to the Schaumburg pleaded guilty to a charge of using Falace at Bonn, and secured him an invitation to take ten with the weak mortar in the construction of Princess. As his much-patched a retaining wall at Caroline Hill. trousers were not suitable for Court wear," he borrowed a pair from It was stated by an overseer of his kinsmag. Though they were
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the Public Works Department that much too short for him he decided the case was a bad one. Two to take his chance. The result justi- further in- fied his daring, for "At the Chita Auction Rooms samples of the mortar were taken vitations to play tennis soon follow
Princess, he says, "touched by my yesterday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. and tested. The first broke under ed, and in this way a cordial friend R de Sousa sold, by order of the pressure of t lbs., and the other ship gradually developed." The
under a pressure of only 6 lbs.). leasehold property
emigré fate, backed me up in mortgagee, a situated in Victoria, Hong Kong, Defendant was fined $150 and really magnanimous way." I am pro
riage will be very, very happy, for we understand one another wonder and known as Inland Lot No. 2301. ordered to pull down the wall he foundly convinced that our mar-
The property is held for the un-had built. the queerest vagaries of history is at the Kowloon Magistracy with expired residue of the term of 75
fully." RUPERT HOHES, & historian, who
the account of the Spanish Armada importing into Cheung Sha Wau years with the right of renewal for places truth before popularity even
campaign, which represents great 100 jars of smehu on which duty one further term of 15 years from in dealing with so sacrosanct a
The area of the property is about figure as GEORGE WASHINGTON. Mr. Spanish warships opposed by a few had not been paid. Mr. M. K. Lo July 28th, 1920.
cockleshells of ships, and gives Pro appeared for the defence. The two 27,772 square feet, and the annual Huanes biography" shows, in fact,
vidence the credit for the English fokis were discharged and the mas Crown rent is 8288. that the Father of bis Country was not the perfect prig of American victory. The real story of theter was allowed bail in the sum
The upset price was 872,000, and Mr. Joe Yung, c/o Wong Pun & Co., being the purchaser.
WEATHER REPORT.
Zoubkoff added that his only plan for his life alter the wedding wis to What I get some kind of work. should like best," he said, “would be some kind of commercial post. The report issued by the Manila But several film companies have Observatory at 9.15 am yesterday made me offers.
and a good many English-school triumph of QUEEN ELIZABETH'S well 81,000. The case was adjourned there were two bids of $1,000 each, stated: Cyclone or typhoon E. of
until next Wednesday morning.
The annual Church Parade of the Scottish Company of the Hong Force Kong Volunteer Defence takes place next Sunday at Union Church at the morning service at 10.30. The Company is expected to attend in force under Capt. K. 8.
POPPY DAY..
histories, written with a greater found and heavily gunnéd Fleet regard to the correct, moral than against a drove of what were little to the hard facts. If, from the more than transports not only puts "Elysian Fields" GEORGE WASH- the details in proper proportion
828,000 COLLECTED IN SINGAPORE. INOTON still follows the affairs of but makes much better reading.
All this might seem a matter of this world, no one will be more
Although the final results of the grateful than the hero of the War small practical importance, but the of Independence for his removal fact remains that it is not good for Morrison. The Chieftain and mem- Foppy Day collect on in Singapore are not yet known the Straits from a fanciful pedestal. Nothing English people to imagine that bers of the Committee of St. Times is informed that the total so national history consiste Andrew's Society will also he pre- far is roughly $28,000, as compared will ever shake, the position held their
the French, sent and a good rally of the Scot with 823,000 last year and $25,000
in 1925.. in history by the real Geoage mainly in victories over
All previous Singapore records WASHINGTON. He stands with or for Americans to think they have tigh community generally is antici
were broken. OLIVER CROMWELL and CHATHAM, I had an unbroken record of successes pated
northern Luzon, more than 300 miles distant, moving E.N.E..
FRESH, CLOUDY.
THREE-EYED HADDOCK.
NEW YORK. Any one who stoffs at fishermen' The report issued by the Royal stories should go at once to the fish Observatory Hong Kong at £10 pier at Boston, where the greatest fish story of history-a haddock last evening stated: The anti-with three eyes which was caught cyclone over N. China has strength-by a local trawler outside Boston ened. The typhoon is about 400 Harbour-is on exhibit
Naturalists have declared that a three-eyed haddock is unprecedent- miles to the E. of N. Luzon moving E.N.E. Fresh monsoon may be exed and numbers of them have made a local pected along the S.E. coast of special visits to see the fish, which
muzeum. A China, and over the N. China Sea. is to be presented to
Local Forecast:-N.E winds
The third eye is midway between the normal ones." fresh cloudy.