NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING &
MINING CO., LIMITED..
PATMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND ON SHARES FOR THE YEAR-ENDED
THE
30TH
JUNE...1993.
INTIMATIONS.
HONG KONG GENERAL CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE.
(IN FOLUNTARY Liquidation.)
T
AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the abore named Association held on 14TE DECEMBER, 1923, it was resolved that the Association be Wound Up and THE Company haring declared A that JOHN FLEMING and ARCHI RITCHIE, Chartered Account. FINAL DIVIDEND of 15% BALDinted Liquidatora, filter For Cent), free of Income Taxants, be a
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that for the Year
JUNE, 1928, ended 30th Holders of Bearer Shares and Holders of CREDITORS of the HONG KONG Dividend Warrants received from Lea- GENERAL OHAMBER OF COM on account of Registered Shares, MERCE are required on or before the will be paid their Dividend on preson 31st DAY OF DECEMBER 1929, to inz No. 53 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, end in Particulars of their Debts and sad Dividend Warrants on Registered Claims, if any, to the Undersigned at CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, Victoris.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 1928.
INTIMATIONS.
*THE PEAK MANSIONS,”
[ITUATED · within Two Minutes' Walk from the Tram Station and overlooking the Santhera Bide of the Island. Boady for Occupation. .
Fire-Boomed and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS
with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Boom and Out-boness, Two Lift,
Apply to
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT.
4TH Floor,
Fanc BANK BUILDING..
FOR SALE OR TO LET ON LONG LEASE.
Shares, to any one of the following Ag Kong, when Claims admitted will N
Banks
THE
HONG KONG & SHANGRAS BANKING CORPORATION.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
THE BANQUE BELGE POUR L'ETRAT
The Payment, will be indè in Dollara
P. G. YOUNG,
General Manager,
to paid in full.
Dated this 15th day of December, 1999..
JOAN FLEMING,
A. RITCHIE,
Liquidators. [7114
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS,
sit the Buying Rate of Exchangs of the day.
THE KAILAN MINING
ADMINISTRATION.
1719 N°
PUBLIC AUCTIUN,
R.
PART by Public Auction to
DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
by
be bekl on MONDAY, the 24TH Day of DECEMBER, 1929, at 3 PM.. at the Otices of the Public Works Department, b Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNos, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shahnipe, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commerciag from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crowa Bent to be axed by ha Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one farther term of 24 years less
three-days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
New Kowloon In-
| No. of Pale, "
land Lot No. 1193. Registry No.
Lea Chou
At junction of Tung Chan Bireet
Street, Shamphaipo
Locality.
Boundary Measure
ments.
Annual
Rental.
Square feet.
| Upset Price. |
ft. ft. Lift.!
As per
sale plan:
$
About
20,000
138
35,000
C7119.
UNITED SERVICES RECREA-
TION CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT will be held. at the OLUB, Com- mencing
LIMITED.
TRAMWAY ORDINANCE, 1902.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this Company intends to apply to the Governor-in-Council for power to construct:-
(a) An Additional Single Lina Tramway about 350 Yards in Length connecting the Present SHAUKIWAS TERMINUS with SHAURIWAN VILLAGE.
and (b) Three Additional Loops or Fassing Placos in SULUKITAN ROAD between NORTH POINT and QUARRY BAY.
These Extensions and Additions to be carried out in accordance with Plans deposited with the DixzCTOR OF PUBLIC WOARS.
LC. F. BELLAMY.
General Manager. Hong Kong, 15th Dec., 1928. [7108
ST. GEORGE'S BALL.
4 JANUARY, 1929.
MEMBERS art Requested to send
their Applications for TICKETS to the BALL s soon as
BUTLIN to MESAKR. possible BOMMERFELT, Joint Ball Secretaries, C/O LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
[708!
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING. 25TH, 26TH, 27TH FEBRUARY, AND 2ND MARCH, 1929.
DRAF
and
Now
RAFT PROGRAMMES ENTRY FC AMS are Ready and may be obtained at the BACE COURSE, HONG KONG CLUB and CAUSEWAY BAY STABLES.
-Hong Kong, 15th Der., 1928. [7109
- FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1929, T
The Tournament is
Only Open
to Members and Subscriber, their Wivesand Families and Guests staying in the Houses of Members and Subscribers.
ENTRANCE FEES for Each Event for Each Player as follows:
".
$2-HANDICAP EVENTA 33-OPEN EVENTS SINGLIZ $5-PER PAIE DOUBLES
should reach the Hon. ENTRIES SECRETARY, USR.C., by 5..., TUES- DAY, JANUARY 157, 1929: Lista Posted in U.S.R.C. will be Taken Down at the Same Time.
EVENTS:-
"
Mixed Foubles Bandicap. 11-Hep's Doubles Handicap. III-Men's Singles sadiesp. IV-Ladies Doubles Handicap. V-Ladies' Single
VT-Mixed Doubles. VII-Mer's Doubles. Open. VIII-Men's Singles. Open and Tottenham Cup. Holder-Lient. J. W. HALE, ZN.
CHAMPIONSHIP: - IX-Ladies' Doubles.
Open to the Colvży. [Under the Auspices of the LawnL Tennis Association, Hong Kong). A-Ladies' Singles. Open.
C. N. JOY, Lical, BA,
Hon. Secretary, U.S.RO. 17107
FANLING HUNT
STEEPLECHASES.
SATURDAY, 2ND DECEMBER.
FIRST RACE3,00 PM.
ADMISSION
To PERLIC ENCLOSURE:-$1.00 (Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform- HALY PRICE.)
CARS PACKED ON THE COURSE $10.00 EACH.
SPECIAL TRAIN: Leaves KawLOON: 1.50 TL Returns: 5.40KX.
FIRST CLASS BETUas Fax ingloding ADICINION TO PUBLIC Enclosuri-$9.00 TREE PARKING FOR CARS,2
17108
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
BE Undersigned have received
Instructions
TO SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION,-
ON
FRIDAY,
THE 21ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1928,
AT 3 P.M.
AT THEIR AUCTION-ROOMS, No. 4, DERDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG.
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
No. 36-88 (Erea Numbers) CHATHAM ROAD, KOWLOON Erected on BENGHOM INLAND LOTS Nos. 292 & 223
IN TWO LOTS...
-
Particulars of the Properties are:-** Lot 1-All that Piece or Parcel of
Ground sitaste at Huxomox in the
Colony of Hong Kong and registered in the Land Office as HUNGHOM INLAND
Lot No. 22 together with the Tenements thereon Meseuages or known as Nos. 36-54 (Even Numbers) CHATHAN ROAD.
Area: 10,000 Sq Ft. or thereabouts. Crown. Rent: $121 Por Aunum. Lor 2-All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situste at HurGION. fore- said and registered in the Land Ofice a BusGoM ISLAND LOT No. 993 together with the Mearages or Tenements theroon known as N 36-68( Even Numbers) CHATEAK BOLD, Area: 7,980 Sq. Ft. or thereabouts. Crown Beat: 300 Per Annum.
Farther Particulars and Copies of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be bad from—***
MEST. DEACONS,
Vendas Solicitors, "
JEW HOUSE on Prax, Siz Rooms and Large Hot Room Modera Fittings, Flush." Enay. Access Tram. —— Write to Box 6965, eļó Hong Kong Daily Press,
[6965
TO LET.
NO 36 and No. 36A, QUEEN'S
ROAD CENTRAL, GRUND FLOORS Only (opposite. QUEEN'S THEATRE). Possession from 1ST JANU. ART, 1999.
Apply to
7018)
or
WO FAT SING,
E1, Wing Lok Street,
TEL. C. No. 5.
TO LET.
CUITE OF OFFICES (As A Whole Part thereof) FACING THE HARBOUR on GAD FLOOR. ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, compris ing One Large, Two Medium-Size and Two Small Rooms. Total Area: 2,450 Square Feet.
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Apply to- LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS
Chartered Bank Building.
7091
Street.
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House London Office: 21. Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, EC. 4.
The Daily Press.
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THE FUTURE OF FLYING.
Ix December 1903, WILLIAM and
INTIMATIONS.
Remembrance is bom of a multitude of little the things a lift of shoulder, a lilting laugh,
snatch of
songa breath of perfume.
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The woman of to-day chooses her odeur with this truth in mind. Like a master in the art of mosaic, she enhances the " delicate pattern of her personality with a frag rance that gently points. the way to remembrance.
We have the latest and best to select from
**«L' Áîmant'
Nuit de Noel
"Miss Kate "
Coty:
Caron:
Bourjois :
Mulhens:
"La Tosca " Houbigant: "En Visite" Bourjois : Talis
OnYTLLE WRIGHT made the Erst A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.||
flight in an airplane driven by a petrol engine, and on Monday Inst a publie dinner was held in London to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this great event. Almost simul- taneously comes news from New York of the organisation of a tremendous merger of air and road; transport interests with a capital of about fifteen millions sterling.
The use of airplanes for carrying mails and valuable freight has developed very rapidly is the United States, and the establish- ment of this new combine suggests" not only the considerable extension. of existing services, but further development of passenger traffic, probably operated in connection with fast motor-coach routes. In a vast country like the United States -as in China-there are tremendous' opportunities for extending air- plane services. For years there have been regular trans-continental mail services, and more recently there have been further extensions in various directions north and
south of the San Francisco-New will York route. The next ten years v certainly witness an astounding development of air services in the United States-and probably also in China.
It was in May, 1800, that a power-driven model airplane made a flight of ninety seconds which definitely demonstrated the pos- sibility of free dynamic flight Professor S. P. LANGLEY, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, Wash,
1, DES VOD ROAD Cert, Hord Roxo; | ington, started experimente in 1887
ов
MESSES. LAMMERT BROS,,
The Auctioneers. 57002
HY Continue to suffer when
immensely simplified their difficul ties when he discovered that it was possible to sustain a weight in the air with less than "one-twentieth of the power considered essential. under the Newtoninn. theory. LANGLEY should be regarded as the
pro-
father of modern aviation, for it was he who inspired the Brothers WRIGHT to undertake the liminary investigations which pre- ceded their active work. His was the belping hand at a critical time, and the famous American aviators have gratefully admitted their obligation to LANGLEY'S knowledge. and encouragement. .Their "ärst fight lasted for twelve seconds! Next time they spent just one second ander a minute in the air and the periods gradually grew longer until after two years of patient experiment, the brothers res mained in the air for thirty minutes. during which time they travelled no less than twenty-four miles! And now we read without any great thrill of regular flights made at four times that speed, and of millions of miles being covered by passenger-carrying airplanes with extraordinary freedom from accidente, serious or trifling.
The British service known as Imperial Airways has a very fine record to its credit, yet English people generally are strangely slow to appreciate the advantages of air travel. It is, of course, true that in England itself there are so many fast and frequent rail and motor- coach services that there is less scope for the development of air
which eventually proved that what had been called the Newtonian Law was wrong. He it was who found that the more rapid the motion of nu airplane, the less power is re-routes than in large countries not WPOO ON HEERS are within your reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Asthma,quired to support and advance it. o well served by older methods of Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dis- Engineers had been struggling with transport.. But there is no disguis. betee, Dropay, Rheumatism, and many
ing the fact that commerce is other Diseases. No Drage, Parely huge, and heavy machines designed Chinese Herbs.
to make air flights possible long literally acquiring new wings; air before they had studied the prin are cutting down distances ciples of dynamic motion. LANGLEY and times in all directions, and will
POO ON HERBS CO., _58, Qwsax's Boan Üzrzeal, 1ST FLOOR. TEL C. 5009.
men
railways are doomed to extinction,
noticities and returned unopened
to the Proctors' office.
continue to reduce not only these Oxford Undergraduates Boazed. important factors but costs as well. An unusual hont has been played on a number of Oxford under- The reaction of air services upon graduates. One night last month other methods of transport cannot about 180 men feceived summonses apparently from the Prectors re- be yet estimated, but that there will queting them to attend at their be a reaction is not to be question-office at the Old Clarendon-build ed and should not be ignored. This ings at 9.45 next morning. The Proctors became aware of the hoax does not mean that steamships and and in most of the colleges the were intercepted by the but it does mean that the advan-
Late at tages of swift air travel will affect-right five undergraduates drove up to what extent remains to be seen
to the Clarendon-buildings and throw bottles of whitewash at the -those methods of transportation windows. Six windows of the Uni which are subject to costs andversity Chest Offices were broken, but the windows of the Proctors' delays which are avoided by taking ofice escaped. Next morning a crowd
of 80, or 60 undergraduates assem bled outside the buildings, and about 40 more passers-by stopped to see what was happening. Shortly after 943 members of the City Fire Brigade appeared with two motor tenders. Apparently they had re seived a telephone message at 9.42 am, that the Clarendon Buildings were on fire. Soon afterwards the undergraduates dispersed and the motor-tenders also departed.
to the air.
pas-
London Ecuses Into Shops...
Naval Gun Löst în Thames.
Divers from several salvage vessels last month were searching the bed of the Thames Estuary at a pointe about a mile off Southend Pier for a twelve-inch naval gun believed to be worth £20,000, which became unshipped from a lighter during a gale. The lighter was being towed from Shoeburyness to Woolwich by a Government vessel when it fouled. ped at the stern. As it did so the a barge, with the result that it dip- gun, which was mounted on a car- riage resting on rails on the ligh ter's deck, moved and slipped inte the water. The lighter then broke adrift and was carried away by the storm, but a Trinity boat located it and rescued the crew, For several days bonts were dragging the bottom of the estuary as the spot where the gun was believed to lie in four or five fathoms of water.
Games And Experts.
It will not be very long before there is a regular nir service front Europe to the Far East deross Siberi. German interests for some time have been in negotiation with
Senor Capablanca has suggested the Russian authorities with the
that the perfection of its masters is object of organising a service which
killing chees. In tournaments be would foliow the route of the
tween first-class players a succession Siberian Railway. In China there
of draws is today, virtually in- is at present no air service in re-
evitable. Knowledge and memory, gular operation, but preliminary
have made superfluous or reduced to nullity the higher qualities of im plans for carrying mails and
agination and resource. Unless sengers have been drawn up and are being rapidly developed towards the
In Chelsen the latest idea seems chess, he declares, is to become "in- stage of actual operation. As an
to be-if you want a house convert tolerable to play and intolerable expert recently pointed out in an.
a shop into one. Shopid, however, to Watch,' it must be reformed. article appearing in our columna,
a shop for the sale of books or some Then there is the news that one of the innumerable rivers and water elegant trifle be the object in view, the front-rank players of billiards ways constitute natural, air-routes.
then an ordinary shop would never has made a break of over 2,700. for China and enterprising design do, but a house must have a glass Here again technical proficiency has ers and engineers who give careful show window put into it. Now remastered a game "that only the study to the subject wil and insidential quarters and new shopping amateur nowadays finds full of China an enormous field in which streets are the result of this curious variations and surprises. It was to develop their ideas. Whether craze. During the last year or so the same with whist. It is becoming British aviation interests are giving shops have gradually been dig the same with auction bridge. this matter the close attention it appearing in Cheyne Walk and in What were games of skill have been. deserves we are not sure, but we many litt streets running down devitalised into pegs for the mar do know that French and American to the river. In Church Street, vellous display of memory and concerns are actively engaged in Royal Hospital Row, and Danvers technique. On the whole there is prospecting this field, and Russo-Street, for instance, quite a number more fun in being one of the noble German interests are also keeping of little shop have had their shop army of ardent daffers at a game in close touch with Chinese aèrial
windows removed and the domestic than o past-master at it. variety substituted, and. with ambitions. A Japanese air service
touches of bright-coloured paint. made into attractive little dwelling- bouacs. On the other side of the King's Road the opposite thing is being done. A year ago Sidney Street. except just at the King's Road corner, had no shops; now the whole street is sprinkled with shop windows in which books and anti- ques are chiefly displayed. The same thing is being done in many other streets pearly, where the at- tractive little old houses certainly make a charming setting for the ornamental goods that are display-
d.
between Tokyo and Shanghai has been already organised, and may be extended considerably if it proves to be a business success. Fransport will be speeded up in China as it has been elsewhere, and we may expect to see close co- operation between land, air, and water services-irst for mails, then for valuable freight. and finally for passengers. With their splendid record for speed and safety, British aviation interests should be able to secure their full share of the development which will be seen in China within the next few years in this direction.
News and Views.
Pre-Wedding Parties.
A new kind of party has recently been introduced into London which shows every sign of becoming popular. Its occasion is some ap proaching wedding. Instead of the bridegroom merely having a bache- The Hong Kong Benevolent So-lor affair on the eve of the marriage, ciety acknowledges with thanks a the latest thing is for the engaged donation of 850, through Mr. Leo couple to give a large party to all D'Almada e Castro, from Miss their young friends a day or two Sybil Joseph.
before the wedding. Quite a num- ber of these pre-wedding parties have been given recently.
A fine of 84, double the usual amount, was imposed by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis tracy on a hawker. The Magistrate remarked that the Star Ferry Pier, where the alleged offence took place, was the last place where hawkers should be allowed to cause obstruc-precautions were
tion.
The interesting little statuette in portrait, and has attracted a good bronze and ivory, which is a self deal of attention during the tim it has been in the shop of op and Komor, has been sold locally It is to be delivered on Christmas Eve as a surprise for the wife of the purchaser.
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THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC. »^
91 CASES AND 99 DEATHS LAST WEEK.
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There were ninety-one Fresh casES -- of small-pox and twenty-nine deaths last week. Formerly most of the cases have been at Kowloon, but in this return twenty-one are from Victoria.
cases
were
On Monday another twenty-two notised, six from Victoria and sixteen from Kowloon..
All cases are Chinese.
Cases of other notificable diseases remain at a satisfactory figure During the week there were four cases of diphtheria, two of exterio and one of paratyphoid (Japanese). There were also three deaths from influenza. On Monday two cases of anterie were notified.
AN ILL WIND.
BLEW TROUSERS TO A MAN'S, SHOULDERS!
A Chinese who appeared before
Last month most of the fashion- Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow able young people in London were loon Magistracy yesterday treated an affair of this kind, given by his hearers to a short but incredible a popular young couple, for which story. Perhaps he had in mind the the whole of a well known restauraxcuse given by a chicken thief on ant was taken. In this case special previous occasion to the effect that
taken against
the bird was blown by the wind "gate erashers " As well as an
from an upper floor into a basket Which he had under his arm. “ ordinary invitation requesting the pleasure of your.company" ate party A pair of trousers hung on a line nutside a house in Hunghon pro- special tickets which the guests had The evidencament under his coat to celebrate their forthcoming mar- ringe the boat and hostess sent
vided the charge against the man.
of party seems quite new in Eng-
to put the garment take with them. While this kind
and a constable eventually caught land, for a generation a young
him after a chase. given on the eve of a wedding in people's party has always been Germany. There is usually dane-
to
A Chinese woman died in hospitating, and poems are recited in hon. on Monday afternoon from injuries our of the bride and bridegroom. While the former amusement, with received while alighting from a perhaps a cabaret entertainment as moving tram-car near the Manila well, is provided at the new Eng; Shows in Prays East. The worGRD
lish variety the German poeticni Was in a burry to leave the speed and against the advice of a Why Horse Traffic Fersists. ear while it was moving at full touch has not yet been added.
relative she jumped and fell on her bead
At the Criminal Sessions yester day, a Chinese gentleman, Mr. Im Pak Hai, failed to answer his sum- mans for jur, service, and was fined 830. Later in the afternoon, be to the Chief Justice, Siz Henry appeared in Court and apologised Golan. He said that he did not feel well and in consequence had arrived late. His Lordship then reduced the fine to $10.
The defendant then explained that he was passing the house when a sudden gust of wind blew the" trousers onto his shoulders. - A woman raised the alarm and he was arrested.
His Worship; Apparently some people steal trousers and other have trousers thrust upon them,
Defendant was sentenced to seven days' hard labour.
PENANG WATER SUPPLY.
PROGRESS OF THE BATU FERRINGHI SCHEME.
PENANG, Dec. 10th. Excellent progress is being made, with the new water scheme at Batu
Inquiries and applications for comparative costs of horse and motor traffic are continually being received from many parts of Eng- land, by the National Horse Asso- ciation, Several ecunty councils are also going into their compara. tive cost. Some interesting com. and mechanical power have shown mile tunnel which was recently ent parisons made between horse-power Ferringhi. The one-and-a-quarter that for city transport the horse through is now being levelled and In one, instance the incidental daily pleted by the end of the year after. is the cheapest and more reliable, it is hoped that this will be com-
costs of horse-drawn vehicles came which the whole arch throughout its The sequel to a fight between twa out at 16s, 8 d., regard being had entire length will be lined with con- clan factions in the Tung Tuanddlery, depreciation of both horse tunnel are expected to be done by to feeding, renewal and repair of crete. The finishing touches to the Coolies' Union, which occurred on the waterfront last week was heard and curt, shoeing and veterinary May of next year.
Two-thirds of the construction of attendance, stabling charges, repair at the Central Magistracy yesterday to sart, and driver's wages and in the service reservoir in the pass when a number of the injured who had been in hospital were charged surance. The cost for mechanically behind Mount Erskine are finished. with unruly conduct. It was stated propelled vehicles, on the other the whole of the pipelaying is com
hand, worked out at 40s. 101d. per pleted and the supply can now be that the fight was due to the Wongs, day, consideration being given to increased by one-and-a-half million having obtained Some business which the Chongs had previously driver's wages, packers' wages, oils, gallons daily,
defendants
waste, etc., depreciation of tyres, enjoyed fined 820 each, two others 85 ench,garaging, licence, and repairs. The and all were bound-over-to-keep working costs per hour were, in the case of the horse-drawn vehicle, 28. the peace.
| dd. against Ba Id. the cost per The hearing of the forged bank ton 28. 74. against 5a ld.; and the note case in which twelve Chinese cost per load Os. 3d against 123. are involved was continued before. These comparisons were based Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central on an eight hour day for 313 days afternoon. a year. A Manchester firm who Magistracy yesterday The evidence of the Chinese deice carefully took out their costs over tive who was to have bought the
The anti-cyclone which was cen- a long period for the collection forged notes frorn the prime mover and delivery of cloth find that the tral near Nagasaki this morning has cost per piece of cloth for horse been absorbed by the larger anti- of the gang Chan Wing--was con
0.852 cyclone central over North China. tinned and the cate adjourned. delivery only amounted to Detective Sergeant Fitches, the pence, while for motor delivery it Fresh to strong mensoon may be police officer who was in charge of was 2.454 pence. It is therefore not expected along the S.E count of the raid on the premises at No. 19, surprising that the horse not only China and over the China. Sen.
Local forecast: N.E. Queen's Road West, will be called remains but is being put back on the
winda, fresh, fine to cloudy. at the next hearing.
Two
were
road..
uke are
Several roads in generöl now being asphalted. The whole scheme when completed will be a credis to the Municipality.
WEATHER REPORT.
The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser vatory, Hong Kong, at 5.55 p.m.. yesterday state