INTIMATIONS.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONGES
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
IN THE GOODS 07 ALEXANDER JENKYNS FORMALI ΟΣ VICTORIA IN, TUR 'COLORT' 07 Hoxo Kono," AND LATE OF TOXOBAMA INTEX EXPIRE OF
JATAN DECEASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOTICE 18
of Section 38 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1697, made An Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to the 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1928.
All Creditors and Others are accord ingly bereby required to send in their Claims to the Didersigned on or before that Date.
Dated the 18th day of August, 1928. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Bolicitors for the Administratris, Prince's Building,-
Long Roar
[6619
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
' HỒNG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
Ix
THE
GOODS OF WILLIAM! BIRKBECK HARRIS, LATE OF THE WHITE HOUSE, HATES, 1X THE COUNTT OF KIT, ENGLAND, DECHAIED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the Court has, by virtue of
the Provisions of Section 38 of Ordivance
INTIMATIONS.
WAISON'S
E
WHISKY
DISTILLED,
AND
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 27th, 1928.
What formerly was regarded as a -A Chinese boy who was found curio, as an object of interest only carrying a parcel containing four for those of antiquarian mind who feminine silk garments and who seemed to be out of touch with was unable to give satisfactory ac practical life, is found to be part count of his possessions was order- of the fabric of our own life ended by Mr. W. Schofield at the it exercises an attraction which Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday cannot be fgnored.
to receive twelve strokes of the birch.
The test which the American shows for the ancient monument is
Mrs. Mackie hopes that all easily understood when it is realised--- parents and friends will be able to that for the most part he lives per-attend the last meeting of the manently in a new country at best Children's Club on Friday, August in a garden city. It is not to be wondered at that he seeks his 31st, at Craig Ryrie. All the work done during the season will be on spiritual home in Europe, or ad-view and a small sale will be held mires those concrete things which
in aid of the funds of the Minis- embody the traditions of the past. tering Children's League.
So in a sense is it the same with us in Hong Kong. We are living
LI TSAI HSIN EX-
*
PECTED TO-DAY.
PERSONAL STAFF FROM CANTON TO MEET HIM,
It was stated last night thất Marshal Li Tsai Hsin is due back from the North to-day by the 8.8. President Paft, and the report was strengthened by the arrival last night from Canton of three of the Marshal's person staff.
DIPLOMATIC: IMMUNITY.
| FOREIGN OFFICE "INQUIRY,
* WHOLE QUESTION."
BRITISH IN RED TERROR.
CLAIM BY POLES WHO LENT THEM MONEY.
Two Polts who were driven out of Warsaw by the German advance." in the Great War, and afterwards li had to fee from Moscow owing to the Bolshevist revolution, were Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson, suppliants in two petition of an- right heard by Mr. Justice Row- Under Foreign Secretary,
lait in the High Court involving. nounced in Parliament that the total claims of nearly £30,000, the whole question of diplomatic Foreign Ofice is now looking ints
immunity."
Adan Stein. Their case was that They were Chaim Rapaport, and
they advanced 3,000,000 roubles in 1819 to the British Committee Replying to Mr. Horse-Belisho, formed in Moscow for British re When the ss. Faithon came in Mr. Locker-Lampson said that the fugees during the Rumism revolu- list of persons who, the Govern vances were acknowledged by re- tion. They alleged that the ad- "last night, there were several pro-ment considered, were entitled to ceipts providing for repayment at minent local Chinese at the wharf claim diplomatic immunity was the best possible rates of exchange. to welcome Mr. Li Man Yin, last printed and circulated in the Poles, said that during the Bolshe Mr. D. N. Pilts, K.O., for the Two Chinese appeared before Private Secretary to the Marshal, quarter ended June 1938. The list viss revolution: British subjects, BLENDED in a garden wity set by the sear Major C. Willson Saturday and Chiu Kin Tong and Chan Sau was being constantly revised, and many of whom were very poor,
in its preparation and revision' the went to Moscow for protection. amid nothing older than 1840 except morsing at the Central Magistracy Tong, sides-de-camp to Marshal question of the candidates who British chaplain. there, was at the The Hav, F. W. North, the
some of the ideas by which we are
оп a charge of assaulting and Li, These three gentlemen, it is could be properly accepted would head of a relief committee sat up guided. There is hardly & respect wounding another Chinese last understood, had specially journeyed continue to be carefully watched. to get funds for the assistance of his distressed compatriots Mr. able bit of antiquity in the island Thursday night at Sharp Street. from Canton to meet the Marshal
Mr. Hore-Balisha: Have you North, ran the very gravest risks and if there were it would not Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the in Hong Kong.
seen the observations of a judge, to himself in carrying out his rẹ
lief work. appeal to us very strongly because complainant and asked for an ad-
who said that apparently anybody. The Poles were not pretending could get on the list 1-
that they seted sa” philanthropists joarament saying that his client
in advancing money. They were It is this manner of life that was still in hospital, having been
themselves in terror of losing their drives us back to seek out in Eng-wounded in five places. Hr. F. H.
own property. In handing it over tế Mr. North in return för receipts land what is old and historie, that Loschy appeared for one of the de-
they were rescuing their property, which gives a richer and, deeper fendants and applied for bail.
which would probably have been" meaning to those buildings and in- This was granted in the sum of
seized by the Soviet. stitutions which have done so much 8500.. The case was remanded for to mould English life. Few who return to England from Hong Kong would contemplate a long stay för
BOTTLED
IN SCOTLAND.
A Skilful blend of the finest matured Highland Whiskies. No. 2 of 1897, made An Order Limiting The happy result of long the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above years of experience in distill- Extate to the 1817 SEPTEMBER, 1928.
All Creditors and Others are according and blending; with a fine ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before Bavour that cannot fail to that Date,
"DEACONS,"
assure appreciation from the most discriminating palate..
Solicitors for the Exocator, 1, De Vox Road, Central,
Hong Kong.
[6628
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN AT GOODS OF DORABJEE EDALJI DHARWAB, LATE Flirt or $1, KIBINGTON GARDENE, KENSINGTON, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESAL, ENG- ZAND, DECHABLE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made An Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others send in their Claims against the shove Estate to the 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1928.
to
All Creditors and Others are second- ingly hereby required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executar, 1, Dea Vaux Boad' Central Hong Koag.
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Howe Kone, Admost 271x, 1928,
THE APPEAL OF THINGS NATIONAL AND ANCIENT.
J
it is not of our ancestry.
a week.
The World Peace Union which is affiliated to the National Council
example in Letchworth or Welwyn Garden city in spite of every modern for the Prevention of War, has re- contrivance, of accessibility to Lon-cently become incorporated in The don and the desirability the houses Theosophical Order of Service, and as houses. No, what we seek is has asked Mr. Herbert E. Lanepart the old village, with its thatched of the Hong Kong Lodge, The cottages of ancient date, with the Theosophical Society, to act as its
irregular shape, and its Normian or representative in China. The Union possibly Saxon church. This pas is organising this year in the 43 sion for things ancient increases in countries belonging to the Union, an International Peace Week, to intensity in proportion as it bas been starved and denied expression take place from November 4th to in the course of absence from Eng-November 11th. It intends to carry the International Peace land. It is a true and wholesome out instinct. It is the longing for home Week" this year also in Hong in a spiritual sense, a desire to
Kong get back as closely as possible to that national source from which we Sprang. It is as if we wished to rerasure ourselves that we are beyond doubt English, Scottish or Irish as the case may be. This is the true homing instinct which craves satisfaction when we are abroad for long period.
21
› OBITUARY."
MR. J. G. GARRAWAY,
YEARS WITH HONG KONG
& WHAMPOA DOCK.
The news of the death, in Lon- don, of Mr. James Graham Garr away reached this Colony by cable on Saturday.
The "old abbeys, cathedrals, the Tower of London, the numerous galleries and museums with the national treasures, towns like Lon Mr. Garraway joined the Hong don, Winchester, Wantage, Oxford, Kong & Whampoa. Bock Ca, in March 1906 and was for a number York and Chester, old manuscripta, old books, pictures and such things of years shop foreman at Kowloon all appeal to us with irresistible Dock, and later, until his retire- power, for they bind us to that
ment last April, Harbour Engineer. He had been in poor health for ancient tradition to which it is our
some time before he retired and privilege to belong and which we
on arriving in London he was taken recognise, perhaps unconsciously as
treatment to once for dominating factors in our existence. hospital for tropical diseases. He was accompanied home by bis wife for whom much sympathy will be
at
B
Ir is a striking fact that those whore lives are spent for the most part in exile from England find when they return that certain
The Colony had a clean bill of elements in English life have a health ag regards notifiable diseases felt in her sad bereavement. quired an enhanced value to them on Friday,
The Dock Company in a letter during their absence. What hitherto
The Hong Kong Postal Guide notifying the Daily Press of the has been taken for granted as
death of Mr. Garraway say "A con for 1928 is now on sale at the possessing small significance be-
scientious and thoroughly efficient General Post Office and Kowloon comes, on return; something really
Post Office at the price of 30 cents employee, Mr. Garraway had the worth attention and appreciation.
respect of all his fellow workers, Few realise how beautiful a
and his death will be much regret hedgerow can be till they are de-
The appointment of Company ted by all who knew him. Mr. prived of its presence, how extra Sgt. Major J. S. Rodrigues to be Garraway was about sixty at the ordinarily attractive an English field 2nd Lieut. in the H.K.V.D.C., time of his death. is after a sojourn in lande where with effect from August 14th, has
to sit down or roll at length in
per copy.
been" gazetted.
graas is to court disaster. There is
ar Land, Telephone, without obligation,
You wish to rent a Flat, House I Foth Bret Bat House
The total outpat of the Kailan something clean and healthy in an Mining Administration's mines for
WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, fore-
Among other prominent passen gers from the North by the Presi dent Taft is also the Hon. Dr. R. H. Fotewall, C.M.G.
YAUMATI FIRE.
TWO SHOP PEOPLE GET ELECTRIC SHOCK.
· Mr.. · Löcker-Lampson: I know the case referred to, but it is in
na.cze
better
Do way automatic.
Diplomatic immunity in Grest Britain is granted by an Act of Parliament dating from the reign of Queen Anne. The privilege it So acute did the position become grants of immunity from legal in 1920 that people handed over proceedings, has been pleaded in a to Mr. North money, jewellery, wide and ever extending variety of cabbages, and anything else........ cases It reached its most sublime
Daughters Murdered. --or most ridiculous point when s Mr. Stein had-lent the committee On Saturday morning at about London, being served with papers concealed in his fat in Moscow for secretary of a foreign embassy in 250,000 roubles. The receipt was tez o'clock a small outbreak of fire sa co-respondent, in a viscut's a long time. Eventually be escap
divorce suit, claimed diplomatic rd to Poland. Thinking that his occurred at the Sang Choi Engi-privilege, and his
WEL daughters would have a neering Shop, No. 8, Pikem Street, struck out of the ease. That was chance of amuggling the receipt out of Russia, be handed it over Yaumati, but was extinguished three years ago.
to them. before the arrival of the Brigade.
In company with Mr. David" It was stated that the fire was Howard, the British Ambassador. Aspapers, the father of the other and his fourteenteen-year-old son; frontier. It was almost certain suppfiant, they reached the Polish were concerned. Sir Esme's son that they were murdered there. was driving the car, with the The receipt had not since been chauffeur beside him, when it scen
Mr. David Rapaport had ad- knocked down a girl of twelve and
Sir Eaméanced, to the committes more than severely injured her. secured the son's release by plead. 2,000,000 roubles The receipts were hidden in the hinges of a ating diplomatic privilege.
Bir Esmé afterwards called on door, but they, too, were lost, and Mr. Kellogg and declared that he the best evidenes that could now. was ready to asume all responsi- be produced were copies prepared bility in the matter which meant from the recollection of witnesses that he did not plead privilege..
who had seen them
caused by the fusing of an electric wire, and that while putting the fire out, a woman and a shop foki were slightly injured by coming into contact with the current. The damage done was estimated
about $100.
COL. FAWCETT KILLED,
EXPLORER SLAIN IN JUNGLES OF BRAZIL.
On January 10th, this year," a storm was threatened in Washing- ton over a case in which Sir Emé
Struck Outing
ས ་
In their defence the Crown re- On January 11th attention was quired the loans to be proved called to the case in which a car strictly. There was also a plea belonging to the American Em- that it was an express or implied bassy in London knocked a boy of condition of the transactions that NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 20th his bicycle. The boy was injured, repayment would not be made News of the death at the hands and eventually &
summons was unless the receipts were delivered. Mr. Pritt said that Mr. North of Indians has come as culmina-issued against the Ambassador in tion of the search for Colonel F. the Brompton County Court in an had died and the only evidence he Fawcett, daring explorer who action for damages. The summons could produce would be the oral disappeared in the jungles of was struck out on the ground of testimony of those who carried out the transactions for the Poles and Brazil in" 1025,
diplomatic immunity. This news is conveyed in a story Then came the case of the handed them the receipts. from North American Newspaper Spanish Ambassador, the Marquis
A Compromiss. Alliance, copyrighted and printed Merry del Val, whose car, driven. After a consultation the parties to-day in the New York World. by the Ambasador's eldest son, reached a compromise. The rato According to his story Comman-ran into a motor cycle combination of exchange was agreed at 800 der George Dyott, he went into near Windsor, injuring a man, roubles to the 41, the rate in Octo- the jungles in search of Fawcett, his wife, and their little girl, aged ber 1919. Mr. Stein accordingly has sent a radic message from Rio four. The child's collar-bone was secured judgment for 2312. 105. de Janeiro saying that Fawcett broken. An insurance company with costs.
1923.-Manila Times. 1.as killed by natives in July of denied liability on behalf of d
бол
FOUR OXFORD RIVER
TRAGEDIES.
SOCIALIST CANDIDATE
DROWNED.
OXFORD, August 1st. Four people were drowned in river accidents near Oxford today, one of the victims being Mr. 5. Sherman, secretary of the League
at Oxford, who was the Home Sec- retary's unsuccessful Socialist op- ponent in the last two elections at
Twickenham,
Part of Mr. Rapaport's claim Ambassador, and the injured man's
was given up and judgment enter- solicitor was advised that a sume for him for £1,718 55. with costs. mons could not be issued against an Ambasador,
The House of Lords allowed the appeal of a German, on the ground that he was a consular, secretary on the staff of the German Ambas- sador in London, and that his name appeared in the Diplomatic List issued by the Foreign Office. The claim was for alleged arrears of rent-Daily Express.
MODERNISING OBERAM-
MERGAU.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE 1930. PLAY.
the
Reports of floods
..
CENTRAL 4630, "Hoxo Kore Sxa English landscape;, the trail of the the week ending August 4tcast and remarks, issued by the was prospective Socialist candidate Pretension, and no redress for the roads leading to it in good order.
BERLIN. The Daily Express, in a leading Oberammergau, probably article on January 20th, said: "Itmost-written of place of its size in of Nations Union Summer School is time that the Foreign Offices of Germany, is once more very much
the world should sound each other to the fore. in order to restrain diplomatic which damaged the lower portions immunity within its original and of the village were fortunately exaggerated, but reports of the justifiable limita."
The London Morning Post says: "modernisation" of Oberammer- Mr. Sherman, whose home is at
As Lord Justice Scrutton re-gau are true. Ealing, was with a boating party marked in the Court of Appeal, The inhabitants are spending on the Cherwell. The punt came never before had the Foreign Office much time and money on prepara into collision with another and Mr. intervened to prevent the Courts tions for the next Passion Play, Sherman and a woman member of from deciding what was the status which will take place in 1930. A the party. Miss R. Houd, were of a servant of an Embassy. It vast influx of motorists is expect thrown into the water. Miss Hoad is obvious that, if a Department ed, since motoring is now begin- was rescued, but Mr. Sherman was of the State can arrogate such ning to capture the popular drowned, although two members of powers, the consequences may be imagination in Germany and may, the party dived repeatedly in the very serious. A Socialist Govern in two years' time, have assumed hope of saving him.
ment, for instance, could by a proportions similar to those in and A Former Wrangler.
stroke of the pen confer diplomatic countries where both, cara Mr. Sherman, who was thirty-immunity on an army of Bolshevik garages are cheaper.
Oberammergau is therefore or three years old, was a Cambridge agents. There is, in short, no
guarantee against the abuse of the dering, asphalt so as to get the man and a former Wrangler.
aggrieved subject.
A new theatre in being built with for the Harborough Division of Lei-
This aspect of the matter seems a glass roof, which, though_retain- pestershire
to have presented itself even to the ing the simplicity of the old, will In another tragedy three Oxford Foreign Office; for the House of show marked improvements in the boys, one named Boswell and two Commons was assured that there way of lighting and seating", "as- brothers named Walker were drown was nothing automatic in the pre commodation. Those who remem ed. They were playing on the bank of paration of the immunity list; and her hours spent on the wooden the Thames at a dangerous spot near that, in consideration of the case benches of Oberammergau and who Iffey, when the youngest over to which allusion has been made, had not the forethought to provide balanced and fell in. His com- the whole subject of diplomatic themselves with cushions will wel- panions tried to save him, and all immunity was being inquired into, come this information, an TWO TYPHOONS."
were drowned before help came, This recent extraordinary inter- Those who fear that the simpli
The two brothers, who were aged ference of Department of State, city and beauty of the Passion A-message-from-Manila-Observa-1-five and seven years, were the sons at the directed instigation-of-Play-may-be-marred-by-the-im--- states that there is a typhoon in tory went at 5.40 p.m. yesterday of the second porter of Hertford foreign Embassy in contempt of provements will be glad to hear
W the evidence, and in denial of the that, though experts have been College. about 120deg, Long. E, 10deg. Lat. press representative that her son that in some directions our For are responsible for the finished do Mr. Sherman's mother said to a jurisdiction of the Courts, suggests consulted, the villagers themselves
N., moving N.N.W.-
was the eldest of five children, and eign Secretary is inclined to be signs of theatre and stage. This There is a second typhoon in had been the mainstay of the family much too complaisant; and to be autumn rehearsals for the play
for-more-than-ten-yesra Hifattied too farby heal for the will begins the four hundred BEGS
the about 111deg. Lang. E, 18deg. Lat. death, he added.
leaves us ab promotion
Locarno | fifty participants,” have — already N. moving W
solutely destitute."
been chosen.
INVESTORE.
serpent and the ping of the mos- quito seem to pervade the Eastern TITANTED 17 SEPTEMBER— one. It is not so much England's WTWO ENGLISH LADY TEACHERS for English and General green and pleasant land with its Subjects Apply to Tax READ-lakes, hills, trees and hedges and MASTER, THE DOCHAN BOTE SCHOOL bird life that gains in value, though P.O. Box $3, Hong Kong, [6040
amounted to 92,001 tons and the sales during the period to 81,099
Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m., stated
tons.
At the Crown Land Office, on September 10th, there will be three that does happen to a very large further lots of Crown land offered extent; it is not so much the chalk for sale. They are Kowloon "In- glorious stretches of sand that 0,604 square feet and upset price cliffs of the south coast and the land Lot No. 2138 with an area of
exhibit the richness of English of 822,194. New Kowloon Inland beauty, though they too are sought Lot No. 1166, 1,880 square feet, up- gratengerberg; it is the coprire, 83,220 The Jest lot is 66, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR Splendid monuments to our ancient K.I. Lot No. 2137, 1,090 square
WPOO ON HEBES are within BY Continue to suffer when your reach Pimples, Catarris, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dia betos, Dropay, Rheematism, and my other Diseases. No Drugs, Paraly
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At 2 p.m. the typhoon was situ- ated within 100 miles eastward of Tourane, moving westward.
moderate, cloudy, occasional rain.
Local Forecast:-East winds,
spirit.'