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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that and after SUNDAY, the 15TH INSTANT, the SUPPLY OF WATER to that portion of the RIDER-MAIN DISTRICTS WET D GARDEN ROAD will be Controlled by bringing the RIDER-MAINS into Operation and that WATER WILL BE
TVENED on to Each RIDER-MAIN Daily for Two Consecutive Hours. Information to the Hours of Supply Particular Property may be obtained on application at the Ofice of the WATER AUTHORITY, OF
to
any
SZORZTARIAT FOR CHITRE AFFAIRS, or at the Tuxo Wan HoshiTA L.
HAROLD T, GREASY,
Water Authority. PUBLIC WORK Dart Hong Kong, 18th July, 1938. [8503
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LIMITED.
AN DIVIDEND
TWO DULLABS Per Share for the Six Months ending 30th Just, 1928, will be Payable on THURSDAY, 2ND AUGUST, on which Date Dividend
Warrants may be obtained on Applica fion at the Company's Office, 3, CHATEN ROAD. The
TRANSFER BOOKS' of the Company will be CLOSED from to SATURDAY,
JULY la WEDNESDAY, the laz AUGUST
INTIMATIONS.
COMMERCIAL "UNION ASSUR.
ANCE CO., LIMITED,
R. R. K. HEPBURN, having Mreturned to the Cology, will taks Charge of the Company's Hong Kore BRANCH from léza JULY, 1929.
[6495
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 14th, 1928.
THE BAN the attention of the SANITARY BOARD wishes Public, and especially of those who have recently come to this Colony, to the possibility of acquiring Diseases, eg., Dysentery and Typhoid fever by eating of Uncooked Vegetables.
from human sources and their custom Chinese market-gardeners use manu
is to pour the manure or spray it from watering pots in liquid form over the growing Plants.
Disease-producing Parasites are, there- fora, possibly present on the surfaces of Plants, e.g., Lettuce, over which the gardener's spray falls.
J. WATSON, Secretary, SANITARY BOARD, [6472
July, 1918.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORFORATION.
1 INTERIM DIVIDEND of
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that
£3 Per Share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the BALF YEAR Ending 30TH JUNE 1928, at Rate of 2/03 Per Dollar.
The DIVIDEND will be Payable pa
(Both Days inclusive), during which and after TUESDAY, 7 AUGUST, 1928, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
Period No Trauster of Shares can be registered,
By Order of the Board of Direbtors,
L. S. GREENHILL,
Secretary Hong Kong. 19th July, 1929. $499
HAI HO CONSERVANCY COMMISSION.
VACANCIES FOR THE POSITIONS OF ASSISTANT DREDGING SUPER. ANTENDENT AND ASSISTANT WORKS SUPERINTENDENT.
APPLICATIONS are invited from
Mechanical Engineers for the
above positions.
Applications are required to give the following ParticularsName, Nation
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of
the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 23xD JULY, to SATUR DAY, AUGUST, 1923 (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. C. HTNES,
Chief Manager. Fong Kong, 10th July, 1928. [6486
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their future The Authorities do- cided very wisely that the whole matter should be sifted to the bottom and an attempt was made by the Director of Public Proseca- tions to obtain evidence which might clear the character of the constables or, alternatively, justify a criminal charge being made against them. It was perhaps natural that Sir LEO, MONEY and Miss SAVIDOS! should desire to escape further unpleasant publicity after the close of the original police court pro- ceedings but, in view of their evidence in the police court, there
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sec, why Sir Leo should have objected zo strenuously to answering any further questions. Most men in such circumstances, if they considered they had suffer- ed grievous injury through the lying of a constable, would have urged the higher officials to take action and would have assisted in every way in order to bring the constable to book.
Our lady correspondent, dealing with another aspect of the ques tion, writes: "I Miss SAVIDGE were lying she must have been, as
her counsel pointed out, an extra- ordinarily clever young woman, but
what neither he nor the men on the Tribunal seemed
to have realised is that her statement* contained information that it ja most unlikely the would have volunteered as the police alleged. The colour of her petticoat, or the fact that she wore one, might have interested the police, but it seems hardly credible to a woman that & girl, alone in a room with two men, would volunteer informa tion about her petticoat. She
The Colony had a clean bill of health on Thursday as regards noti- fications of infectious disease,
Seventeen beggars, taken into custody during the past few days, were deported to Naitao yesterday morning.
A Chinese youth fell when getting out of a moving tram in Des Vœux
THE TYPHOON.
TO STRIKE HERE AT
10 A.M..
PRATAS WIRELESS STATION WRECKED?
The expected typhoon will, ac-
Road West at 11 o'clock yesterday cording to Mr. Claxton, of the morning, and sustained injuries Royal Observatory, strike here with which necessitated medical "atten- some force at 10 am. to-day, Speak-
tion.
a
ing to our representative about 8 A Chinese woman hawker whom yesterday, Mr. Claxton said was charged with uttering trade
that his observations had to be cries in Wyndham Street, lost her bail of $3 since she failed to appear made entirely from Hong Kong, as before Major C. Willson yesterday the wireless station at Pratas had morning.
been destroyed by the typhoon some time between 4 and 3 that after noon and thus no messages were obtainable from there.
H.M.S. Carlisle is leaving the China Squadron to-day, her place having been taken by the new 10,000 cruiser, R.M.S. Suffolk, which arrived in Hong Kong early, this week.
REM VE BANK NOTE
FORGERIES.
WOMAN SENTENCED FOR UTTERING.
WORK OF AN ARTIST.
Sentence of three years' penal servitude was, passed by the Re- corder, Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., at the Central Criminal Court on Nellie Lee, 41, described as being of no occupation, who, pleaded Guilty" to a number of charges of uttering forged Bank of England
notes.
Mr. Roland Oliver, K.O pro- secuting, said that, a somewhat
alarming feature of the case was
that the man who actually forged the notes was still at large. The woman had apparently acted as po agent, though, of course, she was an accomplice in the fullest sense of the word. She bad cashed spuri- ons notes which purported to be of the value of £3 and £10 at branch post-offees and shops in several Signa of excitement and anxiety, London suburbs. including Stoke- Newington, Highbury Park, Horn- about the coming, typhoon were sey, Finchley, and Crouch Hill. The notee, which were really mar- evident in the harbour by noon vellous forgeries, the work of an The body, of a Chinese woman,
yesterday, Junks with all sail set artist, were paid into banks in who is believed to be an amah was
many instances and finally passed found floating in the Harbour yes were making for Causeway Bay, through to the Bank of England, where they were detected. After terday afternoon near Wing Lok and small tugs heading for the the prisoner was arrested, she re- fused to give the police informa- Street Whar. The body was re-same refuge were puffing along with tion which might have assisted them to catch the forger. She had told them, however, that he was a
make the bad notes from genuins ones by tracing them in pencil and then inking them over. The water- have been artistically produced by painting process-probably with grease.
moved the Victoria Hospital.
a crowd of sampans round them
During the forenoon of yesterday like minnows round a piece of draughtsman, and that he used to the Central Fire Brigade received bread,
a
summons from Wanchai. Two By half past six the Star Ferry mark, counsel added, seemed to appliances were immediately des patched to the scene, but the fre was found to be a chimney affair
which was soon settled.
boats were making the passage come
stripped of their awnings despite the fact that a few heavy drops of rain were beginning to fall.
ality, Date of Birth, Married or single, land. Eoady for Occupation in JULY. Prepared with the juice of might just as credibly have inform. He was shouting that he was being curls of smoke rising from their
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
· MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS No. 27, or 1928.
IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED (AND REDUCED)
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A Chinese apparently insane was surrounded by a crowd last night outside the Central Fire Station
assaulted, and called for help. Two Raspberries grown in Englanded them unscked that she wore Chinese police arrived but could do cornets. Again Miss SAVIDOE is little with the man. He was allow- said to have told the police thated to roam on shouting out that she had 'only two decent outâts,'
he was dying. He finally disappear- a 'best drees' which she wore ted into a side allay. meet Sir Leo MONEY, and the one she had on at the moment. Yet the police officers report her as having stated that she was wear- ing a fawn coloured dress and a black or blue satin coat. Young ladies in her position who have only one best dress do not have a selection of satin conts to wear
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TYPHOON CURTAILS Y.M.C.A. CONCERT,
H.M.S.BLUEBELL " CARRIES ON.
The special concert which was to
The naval ships had all drawn away from the sea walls and were lying in mid-harbour with lazy
funnels, showing that the fires were lighted ready to go full steam ahead
RCCERBATY.
if
The most optimistic person wai one of the Star Ferry foremen who declared that Hong Kong would not get it badly" because there has been a lot of rain already." There were several sharp showers during the course of the evening.
Elver Boats In Typhoon Anchorages.
The s. Taishan (Capt. Madden) arrived from Canton last night and
Mr. Thomas Zwinger, an official of the Bank of England, said the forgeries were undoubtedly very clever. He had not seen such pen- and-ink forgeries done in England for 30 years.
DIRECTORS AND. THEIR FEES.
£100,000 IN A YEAR SUGGES- TION BY SHAREHOLDERS.
CHAIRMAN'S DENIAL.
Directors' fees were
discussed during animated scenes at an extra- ordinary meeting of shareholders of Messrs. John Barker and Co.
The proposal before the meeting was to abolish, a systou by which I per cent of the turnover of the company over a certain figure was to be paid to directors. This prac ties had been set up when the Articles of Association were revised in 1919.
Mr. G., W. Bellamy, who was
London Office: 21, Bride Lane, over it, and, even supposing she have been given at the Cheer reported that the weather coming until March, the secretary of the had, she was not in the least like... YM.CA. at the City Hall by the down was very good. As soon as company, now moved as a share.
The Daily Press.
Hana Koxe, JULY (átu, 1928
A WOMAN SPEAKS HER MIND.
We have received an interesting communication from a lady cor
respondent regarding the findings of the Tribunal appointed to quire into the SAVIDGE case. The burden of the story in that a woman should have been one of the three persons chosen to con. duct the investigations, and with that point of view we are inclined Na Fotition for confirming the EMI-DETACHED HOUSE, with to agree. On the other hand we
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Reduction of the Capital of the above Flush Installation, No. 5, Coxpert do not believe that the Company from $350,000.00 to $100,000.00 ROAD. Three 3-4 Boorsed FLATS, in was on the 4th Day of JOLT, 1928, No. 14 and 18. CompUNT ROAD-Apply man will find auch at which to presented to the Supreme Court of Hong to: H. M. H. NEMAZEE.
cavil in the Tribunal's majority report. A tremendous fuss
Kong and is now pending. A List of the Persons admitted to have been Creditors of the abore Company on the
POO ON HERBS are within
haa
on.
to be uncertain which one she had
«These points would never
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concert parties of H.M.B. Carlile the passengers had disembarked, holder the first of a number of and Bluebell had to be very cur the vessel left her wharf and went quisition for the extraordinary proposals. He said that the re- have tailed. On account of the typhoon to the Stonecutters anchorage. In meeting had been made by share holders holding £250,000 of Barkers' paered without comment if
danger no leave was granted to any eidentally all the river boats have issued capital. B woman had been on the Tribunal. mer from the naval ships, except left their wharves and are anchored "I am not here to vilify any man," A woman moreover would have put H.M.S. Bluebell which is in dock at the typhoon shelters.
despite insulting remarks made to tae at the annual general meeting. her finger on another fact. The The latter's concert party came
The dividends. In 1920 were 20 per cent, and have remained at with along by themselves, however, and police chapercn, who was
that rate for nine years," he add Mies SAYIDGE during the drive from
ed," and we are told the dividends her place of business to Scotland
have not remained stationary}" Yard, was present, according to the police, to make the girl feel com-
The concert was arranged by Lt. bow arching into the blue sky made fortable." When they neared the E. W. Thurston, while those who a picture of strange beauty. The Yard, said the chaperon "I pulled helped to make it a success, in ad-wharves on the Hong Kong side were pay directors of a company one per out my little powder thing and dition to the two ladies were crowded with Chinese staring out weed it and asked her if she pow-Messrs. J. H. Athan (tenor), F. L. Across the harbour at the strange
dered, The well meaning gentle men of the Tribunal accepted this at its face value as a normal and friendly remark; but Lady ASTOR, for example, would have realised an every modern woman must, that there could be no doubt in a woman's eyes whether the girl did or did not make up";a
man
THO 13th Day of July, 1928 (the Date W Continue to suffer when been made over the manner in might be deceived but no woman Bred by the Registrar in parsuance of your reach-Pimples, Catarrh," Arthma, which Miss SAVIDOR was carried could be. The friendly gesture the Order of the Court in this matter Bronchitis, Congh, Constipation. Dis off" to Scotland Yard to make thus becomes the first of an so dated the 6th Day of JULY, 1928) tetes, Dropay, Rheumatism, and many may be inspected at the Offices of Messrs. other Diseases. No Drugs, Farely statement. But what are the facts DEACONS, the Solicitors to the Com- Chinese Herbs pany at No. 1. Dza Youx RAD CESTRAL Houg Kong at any!
daring Usual Business Hours.
Any
Person who claims have been an the Last mentioned Day and still to be Creditor of the Company and who is not entered in the said List and Claims to be so entered must on or before the
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The Sunset.
Though the sun was setting in a gave a very good concert. They cloud of gold in the west, Lyemun were ably assisted by Mrs. R. Ewas hidden in an ominous low bank Duncan, and Miss M. Hanson." of black cloud, while above a rain
Chapman and H. Berry, with their
sight. saxophone and banjo, and D. Mo Crutcheon who gave selections on his mandolin.
Mr. AE. Alder was responsible which were well appreciated. for several light comedy turns
SIAMESE TWINS?””
TWO OF LIMCHOW TRIPLETS JOINED TOGETHER.
SOLD FOR SHOW.
PAXHOL, June 28th.
The Weather Baport. The weather report, forecast and remarks isaned by the Royal Obser- vatory, Hong Kong, st 6.10 p.m. yesterday state:
The typhoon is near Pratas,| moving N.W., and if it continues on its present track it will pass das gerously near Hong Kong before
noon to-morrow.
Local forecast:-Moderate N.E winds, W. at first. Cyclone gales
The presence
of a pair of later, fair at first. Forecast: Will Brazik, twins in Pakhoi bas aroused rain later. unusual interest amongst curiosity- seekers. This abnormal pair, who were admitted to the O. M. 8. Hos pital for medical treatment during
: Gourse Of The Typhoon, According to the Manila Obser
Mr. Bellamy added it was not open to the directors to appoint a committee to discuss the matter and report to the shareholders in ten days' time,
Is it proper," he asked," to cent. commission on turnover on purchase!" (Cries of "No.") every new business they choose to
If they were to obtain a new busi- ness of Sve million they would get £50,000 cut of it.
Referring to the abolition of "You have got a vicious strangle management share in 1919, he said:
hold on this business to-day (Hear, hear.) You got rid of the first serious grip on the business in 1919."
Mr. Stevens, seconding, said that in 1920 the profits were 24.91 on the capital, and last year were 17.57 on a large capital.
Questions For The Chairman,
said he had asked the directors Mr. C. H. Parker, of Eastbourne,
whether it was true they got. £100,000 Jast year or £800,000 the past eight years,
S "I am not including the fact that you are not in the position of having to pay surtax or supertax.
Have you had it 1"
Bir Sydney Skinner: The answer
successful series of questions and Sir Leo Caiozzi MONEY and Miss innuendoes calculated to give the SAVIDGE were discharged by the impression that the girl was Police Magistrate who declared fast little piece. As a matter of that there was no case against common senar again, them. They would doubtless have than these gentlemen seem to have the last few days, and another baby vatory at 9.15 am. yesterday the
would have realised, more clearly DATLY been perfectly satisfied to allow done that in 1928 a girl can wear triplets and all females were PRESS, LTD., and the HONG the matter to rest there, but their short skirts, powder, and smoke born in Limchow: They are now typhoon was in about 120° Long. E. his Claim and the Name and Address of KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through
themselves possibly more so, weighing only 8 lbs., do not seem his Solicitors (if any) to the Undersigned their London Office, at 31, Bams Lus, discharge, and particularly the are yet be as respectable as they 10 days old and the pair of twins, and 18° Lat. N., moving W.N.W.
At 11 am the typhoon was in No. 1, DI FEUX ROAD CENTRAL FLELT STREET, EO. 4, are prepared to aforesaid or in default thereof he will begive Subscribers and Visitors advice manner of it, brought the Police Let us hope that the women mem to he getting on well."
bers of Parliament will when the Investigations revealed that the about 118 Long. E. hind 19" Lat. regarding
accommodation available, into disrepute. The obvious infer-matter comes up in the House, as twins have been sold to a company motoring facilities, suitable shopping ance was that the constables re- it is sure to do, rub these facts of interested money-makers for a
N., moving W.N.W. into their men colleagues. And if lump sum. It is stated that pre-
A message to the UB. Consul at the veracity of another young vicus to their admission to the hos
Sir Sydney Skinner: You won't woman be made the subject of an pital several hundred dollars had 8 p.m. yesterday states that the
be bluffed, my boy. You are doing West of Belentang the bluffing. (Cries of No, be nquiry let us hope that one woman been collected in shows where a fee at least will be appointed to the of 20 coppers was charged to each typhoon was
spectator."
Channel, moving W.N.W. or NW. im't.") Tribunal "
precluded from obiecting to the proposed Redaction of Capital:{"opt**
Dated this 13th Day of July, 1928,
DEACONE,
Solicitors to the Company, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central,
A
[6500
Victoria, Hong Kong.
centres, ata.
If, when at home, they will call or sponsible for the arrests had been telephone to the above address, they will mceive the utmcet assistance and the guilty of perjury. They were mar- latest available information on all sub zied men with long and honourable jects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal.
records in the service. What of
p
is "No" I will reply to all this Mr. Parker: How much have you in my speech,
had
Sir Sydney Skinner: I will tell You everything. I am going to be -perfectly frank, I always have been..
(Applause), MAR
Mr. Parker: We are not here to be blaffed,