NEW ADVERTISE MENTS,
R.
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DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Pablis Austion to be held on MONDAY, the Das Day of DECEMBER 1928, at 9.P.M., at the
Choes of tas Pablio Works Doo
Order of His ExOELLANGY THE
of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Meng Kok Taut, in the Colony of Hong Kong. for a term of 73 years, with the option. of renewal at a Crown Bent to be Azal by the Surveyor of this Mazaser THE Kine, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Bireet..
Road
No. of Rale,
Registry No.
Locality.
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Kowloon Tulad
Lot No. 2157.
At
junction of
Na
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Boundary
Meseurs-
manta.
As per
salo pian.
About
7,130
Equare feet.
Contents in
Annual
Rental 16,010 ** Upset Price.
R.
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DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to he held in MONDAY, the 3RD DAY of DECEMBER, 1925, 19 r., at the ent, by Offices of the tublic Works Department, by Order of Hu ExoSLLEMET THE GOVERNOR of One Lot ni CROWN LAND at Prince Edward Read, in the Commy at Hong of 75 years, with Kong, for a term the option of renewal at Crown Kent to be fixed by the Burveyor of HIS MAJOY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Bala
Locality.
Kowloon Inland
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Price Edward Road,
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Kowloon.
Boundary.
Мевлите-
ments.
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sals plan
Contents in
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Upset Price.
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1,304
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of
Pthe Sale by Public Auction to
be held on MONDAY, the E Day of DECEMBER 1928, at 3 .., at the Offices of the Pallic Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Morg Kok Tsai, in the Colony of Hong Kong. for a term of 75 years, with the option of retewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY, THE KING, for one further term of 70 years,
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No. of Sale
Kowloon Inland Lol No. 2161,
Registry No.
Locality,
Junction of Arran
Reclamation Street:
Street and
ASK FOR
Boundary
Measure-
37
A
sale plan
About
Contents in
2,070
Annual Squan: Tea
Bontal.
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[7031 MARRIAGES." BLAKE-WILLIAMS-At St. John's
SGR.
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Canton. There is no doubt, how- ever, that the burdens the poor people have to carry have become almost unbearably heavy during the past six months, and unless there is some appreciable lightening of the load a climax will soon be reached and there will be a revolt As we have already pointed out, trade this year has not revived and developed as it should have done, although the South has enjoyed a period of peace, and comparative tranquillity and upon every side the explanation is the same: Prices everywhere are high because the taxes, sometimes legal dut chiefly illegal, which goods have to pay, render business transactions dif- Acult and frequently impossible. Prosperity wifi never be reached by
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending November 10th amounted to $4,839 tons. and the ales during the period to 75,308-
tons.
WEDDING.
MR. D. H. BLAKE AND MISS
E. G. WILLIAMS,"
A very pretty wedding took place. yesterday afternoon at St. John's Dumping of dead bodies in Cathedral when Mr. Denis Henry Blake, a member of the well-known various parts of the Colony and infrm of solicitors, Messrs. Wilkinson
Police re the harbour continues. ports yesterday recorded six cases the majority of them children who showed signs of having died of amall-pox.
Admiral. Li Fong, head of the West River Command. has called a meeting of his staff and other commanders recently, to discuss methods for the prevention of piracy during the coming season. It is his aim to leave no loophole for any further disorder-Canton
Gazette.
& Grist, was married to Miss Elizabeth Gwen Williams.
The Dean of Hong Kong (the Very Rav 4 Swann) otheiated
The bride who was given away by the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes wore a very lovely dress of ivory
and orange blossom wreath- Barthouse, trimmed with old lace, tulle veil. Her bouquet was of byacinthe.
The bridesmaids, Miss Morrison and Miss Alwyn Owen Hughes, wore dresses of blur georgeste and carried bouquets of pink roses. Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones was best
man."
THE KING OF
KINGS,'
SINCERITY AND REVERENCE: IN THE PRODUCTION.
THE DIFFICULT ART OF SELECTION.
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC-]
The.
It is impossible to judge King of Kings" quite as other. cinematograph pictures. The sub- ject alone precludes that. You may speak of the production, which is very fine; of the acting which keeps to a good standard; of the photo whatever you may feel of the whole graphy, costumes and setting; but must be coloured by your religious
beliefs.
Perhaps on reviewing The King. of Kings" the first thought may be one of regret that, good as the
The purpos6.
this road, and the Canton author Southern cruise last Monday, but friends of bride and bridegroom picture is, it is not so good as it
ities would do well to give up their recently started fad of bath ing the mendicants--although ad mittedly an occasional bath will do these unfortunate people. `a world_of_good-and concentrate their attention upon ways and means of providing them, and the other unemployed with some sound prospect of earning their own living
A week or so ago our Chinese correspondent provided us with the details of an amazing example of corruption and extortion on the part of likin officials of the West River. A sampan load of firewood, to pay over $2,300 in taxes on its estimated to be worth 84,000, and way from Dosing to Canton. every little port the likin collectors demanded tribute. It was of no
115€
At
the owner, protesting. His complaints were met with threats and permission to continue the journey was absolutely refused until the money was paid, and it had to be paid without anything in the shape of a receipt being return. No wouder the givea in price of firewood in Canton is
exorbitant and entirely out of the
The Aircraft Carrier. H.M.Ś. Hermes, was to have sailed on a
was obliged to stay in port owing to the presence of the typhoon. The tagship of the China Station. HM.S. Xrat, left Kasakabe for Shimizu last Monday, while H.M.S. Berwick arrived at Yokohamn the same day from Osaka.
the
Since the formation of Asylum Fer the Poor by the Can- ton Municipal Government, flocks of these unfortunate ones have been admitted and given work besides board and lodging. Investigation has revealed that the institu. tion has now about two thousand- inmates, among whom, are nearly 1.000 old persons of both sexes. about 600 cripples, and about 300 young folks.
The work is being
carried out very efficiently-anton
Gazette.
It is reported that among a group of escaped convicts from the
who have arrived at Caracas (Vene zurta) is the notorious Dr. Bougrat, French petal settlement of Guiana
given a life sentence for the murder of a cashier at Marseilles. France-
Following the wedding service & reception was held at No. 1, St. John's Place, a large number of being present
The catering and might have been. wedding cake were supplied by Mears. Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Blake left for their honeymoon which is being spent at Fanling and Baguio.
OBITUARY.
MR. TS'O SEE KAI
WORKER FOR ST. PAUL'S.
The death took place at the French Hospital yesterday morning.
a long linees. He had been suffer- Mr. Ts'o See. Kai, B.A., after ing for more than three months
from cancer.
Mr. Tso had a long connection
College where he received his early education, he went to the Union Theological College in Canton, and with St. Paul's After learing the
later returned to the Colony to take charge of St. Paul. For a short time he was in England where he obtained his degree at Durham, and be returned again to the scene of his labours
The funeral takes place this morn 1t the news is true Dr. Bougrating at 11.30 from St. Paul's Church, therefore quite safe.
no extradition treaties with Venezuela, Mexico, or Brazil, which have become the sanctuary of many criminals upon whom the French police would like to lay their hands.
Here is another case of truth being stranger than fiction. Alfred Frederick Williams called at the bouse of Detective Beer, of the Brighton Police force, and said: My feet are wet; have you a pair of boots?" Detective Beer surpris No, ed Williams by replying:
Williams, but I have a warrant for
SMALL-POX IN THE
*COLONY.!
More than the usual number of continue to be shpox` cases notified mainly from Kowloon
Last week there were 17 freeb cases and s deaths, to which must be added another 7 cases reported
Williams was sub your arrest."
at Brighton sequently sentenced Police Court to six months im-on Monday, prisonment for embezzling £3 38. belonging to his employers, a local firm of tailors."
avowed on the screen as the pic- ture opens, is that of spreading the Gospel, of teaching by means of the cinema the story that mission aries have been carrying to the.. World for nearly 2,000 years. The manner in which the story is told must to a certain extent be in- fluenced by the mentality of the teller. It is probably this factor. more than any other whion has led to the edict against stage produc tions of the life of Christ.
The director of The King of Kings," Cecil B. de Kille, had an enormous task before him, of select- ing from that most dramatic life scenes on which to rely to tell his story. Being a cinematograph director rather than a missionary
has seized on strong contrasts, on spectacular episodes, and on in cidents which have a direct human
put
Moby Dick" on the screes, with a consequence that reverent Gospel rather did the director who
43 the production is the scene is appeal. He has, in fact, used the
Hollywood in the wentieth century. Yet it is hard to judge. Had those first scenes in which Christ rather that Palestine in the first
appears rather as the magician than the Saviour been cut out would the latter sequences have been so extraordinarily moving "The King of Kings" is good film art, like say
**Intolerance or "The Ten Commandments" but not as good as Ben Hur," during the first hour. But with the scene in the Temple when Christ drives out the money-leaders a different atmos phere seems to creep in-an atmos phere of reverence, truth, and deep
sincerity, which gets deeper and deeper until the climax on Gui- gatha. Then, when that most pathetic Figure on the cross, bows Other cases during the week were his head and the heavens aro enteric 8 (3 fatal), paratyphoid,; darkened, it seems as if the in- cerebro spinal fever 1 (fatal); inspiration which had managed to Auenza 1 fatality.
sweep "filmdom" out of the way. There was cae British and be for a while, fails and the subse American among the enteric patiquent scenes are pure cinema, even ents.
reach of the poorer classes. What advantage is there in giving the beggars free baths and schooling and depriving others of the op portunity of purchasing the fuel
The denth took place on Monday
Mra. necessary to keep themselves warm of
Theodolina Vicencin
crudely sentimental, with the ex- in winter? But this is only, one | Ribeiro. at No. 7, Gordon Terrace,
ception of that picture of the Risen The deceased was 4 Kowloon.
PRECAUTIONS IN CANTON.
Lord standing on the threshold of instance of a regular procedure. It
years of age and an old and respect-
The Canton Gazette states that His tomb, and a moment or two could be multiplied in a thousanded member of the local Portuguese cases and to cover every branch of community. Mrs. Ribeiro is sur as smallpox is now prevalent in when He is made. manifest to His
vived by her only son, Mr. L. G. Hong Kong the Bureau of Public disciples in the closed upper room.
Comparison with "Ben Hur" is commercial and industrial activity. Ribeiro, the export manager of Health has decided to stamp out
As soon as suf- thing so big was attempted in the It ie the root cause of the trade Mesare. J: M. Rocha & Co., to whom this horrible disease by adopting inevitable, and perhaps because no-
much sympathy is extended. The strict measures.
ficient statistics have been gather earlier film it succeeded better stagnation which is now leading to funeral took place yesterday even- the misery and suffering of thouing at the Roman Catholic cemetery, ed, all incoming steamers from There was an amazing atmosphere quarantine and passengers discover hand and the light which repre deceased being present. sands among the Chinese popula. any relatives and friends of the Hong Kong will be subjected to of a real spiritual presence in the
ed to be suffering from this diseasesented Christ in Ben Hur," tion, and it will not be cured by
with either be compelled to return atmosphere which it was not bard to Hong Kong or be removed to to sustain for a short period and philanthropic endeavour or works
isolation hospitals." The Bureau which was heightened by the con- young has issued pamphlets urging the trust of the story of the of charity.
public to be vaccinated, and public Jew. But when the Sacred Figure speakers will be sent out to de scribe the helpfulness of vaccina tion as a means to suppress the spread of email-pox
ELIZABETH OWEN WILLIAMS.
17035 BUCK-ERIDGE-On November 20th. at Shanghai, ARTHUR WILLIAM Buck, son of Mr. H. J. Brex. and the late Mrs Brek, of Yesterday we had the pleasure of Ipswich, England, to OLIVE MAS BRIDGE, daughter of Mr. and announcing the arrest of one of Mrs. T. J. BRIDGE, Cf Van these likin farmers. He was trap couver, B.C.. HALL-TARLING-On November 21st, ped by a well-prepared scheme at Shanghai, the Rev. THOMAS under which a Government official WARD HALL, M.A., son of Mr.
was sent down the river in the guise and Mrs. ALLAN H. HALL Mottram, Cheshire, to Dons of a trader. The goods he had with KATHLEEN daughter of the s him were taxed "according to
late
TARLING, London... DEATH.
·GOMOGA:~~On November 19th, at Shanghai, ARCHIBALD GILMOUR aged 44 years.
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House
Street. London Office: 21. Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, E. C. 4.
The Daily Press.
Case
the
chronological
an
The Scots Year Book for 1028-29, of which we have received a copy, shows an advance on earlier issues. The section devoted to "Recent Books of special interest to Scots"
has to play the central role and has been considerably extended.
be always on the stage, the op and is cre of real interest. There is a world list of more than 1,200
portunities for falling short of that Scottish Societies the interests of
atmosphere are multiplied enor mously. It is most noticeable in which it is the purpose of the Year
that it is The King of Kings Book to foster; and
in those scenes in which Christ. list is given of the meetings of Scottish Associations in London.
appears as a small or indistinct pre-- sence, when perhaps Mr. Warner's The illustrations are numerous and interesting and, altogether, the
face does not intrude itself on the Year Bock is well designed to
mental image. (however vague) that all Christiaus must have of Jesus," achieve its um-the fostering af the best Scottish traditions in all The anti-cyclone is unchanged and that He appears the most moving
the typhoon remains stationary and most truly Christ. about 400 miles 8.S. E of Hong It is possible to judge how "The Kong. Cyclonic gales will continue King of Kings over the China Sea
parts of the world. The price of the book is a modest shilling.
WEATHER REPORT,
The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- vatory. Hong Kong, at 0.15 p.m. yesterday state:-
would strike anyone who was not a Christian-- Local forecast: North winds, i to them would come or not the fresh, cloudy, probably some rain.
custom," but in this matter was immediately taken up by headquarters and the farmer is now in prison faced with the ex- In the United States there are tremely difficult task of rebutting about 8.000 miles of air routes which are provided with beacon
conviction that truly this man evidence of illegal extortion which, lights not more than 10 miles apart.
was the Son of God." I am in- elined to feel that they would.szy we should imagine, must be over and illuminated intermediate land- The miles apart. ing-fields 30
An investigation of the informa- this was a man with a gift of whelming. Following the arrest a
beacon lights are erected on steel Government notification has been towers about 70 feet high, at the tion contained in Burke's Peerage healing, a good man with strange bases of which are chrome yellow leads Mr. F. A. Woods to the con- powers and a winning personality, circulated complaining that there arrows 8 feet long which indicate clusion that wealth and power do who was brutally murdered by a is absolutely no standard for the the line of fight. For daytime not lead, as is so often asserted, jealous priest." If that is so the to idleness, sterility, and degen. picture has failed as a means of asscosment by likin collectors. This, identification the number of the
eracy. On the contrary, there are spreading the Gospel to non-Chris- beacon is painted in black on the of course, is stale news. The abuses
arrow. The beacon develops a good reasons for considering aristo- tians, but it must be extraordinarily Hone Kone, NOVEMALE 28TH, 1928.
have heen evident to all merchants beam the intensity of which is about tracy to be in many ways superior moving to anyone who already pro two million candle power. Its axis to the masses of mankind. Of 622 fesses Christ. Even if you deplore. for months past, but there may is elevated about two degrees above British peers in Burke's Peerage the production, if you disapprove " SQUEEZÉ.”
possibly be a grain of comfort in the horizontal and it makes six (1921), 834 are continuously aristo- of such a subject being Blmed, you WHEN Chinese officials give up the official denunciation of such revolutions per minute. The inter cratic in the direct male line of cannot fail to be moved by a visual abuses as "worse than banditry "mediate landing fields usually have their family trees to as early as presentation of a scene which has their practice of " squeezing" the and in the promise that offenders two landing strips at right angles the year 1450. Old families, then, been wonderfully told in words- now caught will severely dealt to one angther, each of them being do not become decrepit because of that last scene outside, the city There have been very few people merchants the millennium, "as far with.": Complaints have been in- about 500 feet wide and 2,000 feet their old age, but in a general way walls.
"The King of · ps trade in China is concerned, will namerable in the past but, as far long. The boundaries of the land families that once acquire high
as are dware, until a few days agoing strips are marked out by white social position retain the high level. who have seen have arrived. We do not expect to no action, was taken by the respon lamps; green lights mark the fay The author of this article in the Kings" who have been able to con- all causce which contribute to this should not be shown, despite tho W POO ON HERBS are within live to see those days, but we did sible, Government department. If ourable approaches, and lamps in Journal of Heredity analyses the demn it, or even to say that it
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