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PUBLIC AUCTION,
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS PA
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 26TH DAY of AUGUST, 1929, at 3 r. the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Em EXCELLENT ZE GOVERNOR of One Lot of OBOWN Mong Kok Tani, in the Colony of Bong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal si a Crown Kent to be fred by the Surveyor of His ManetTT THE Kixe, for one farther term of 75
years.
I No. of Sala.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Registry No. Opposite Kowloon Inland Lot No. Lot No. 2212.
Q.
PARTIC
Nathan
1652,
Koad.
Boundary
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sale plan.
Dontents in
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Annual
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
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the Bale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 2818 DẠY of AUGUST, 1929, at 8, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLEKOT TER GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Sham shuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Grown Bent to be fixed by the Burveyor of His MAJESTY THE KG, for one farther term of 24 years less three days
About
14,250
32,063
Upset Price. į
No. of Sain
18264
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Bale by Public Auction to be belà on MONDAY, the 26TH DAY of AUGUST, 1929, at 3 r., at the Offices af the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNDA, of One Lot of CHOWN LAND at Mong Kok Tsai, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Beat to be fixed by the Surveyor of Hire Man THE KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
| No. of Bale.
Registry No.
Locality..
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 2319,
Bate Street between
Choi
Street
and Fa Yuan Street,"
Mong Kok Tani,
Boundary
Measure
ments.
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Contenta in
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality,
New Ko968. Registry No!
Street and Shek Jasetion of Aplin
land Lot Ng
G.
Kip Mei Street.
Boundary 9
Measure.
ments,
127.
As per
nale plass.
Anoual
Rental.
Abont
Contents in
8,324
Square feet
9,488
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stated:---
Pressure is highest over Japan and relatively low in the Pacific to the east of Luzon.
A depression remains over Tonging.
Local Forecast --S.E. or variable winda, moderate, fair to-showery,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT... Mrs. Cossaar wishes to thank all friends for kind letters of sympathy.
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The Museum of Fine Arts at stay. The machine nose-dived from..
of 300ft, and struck the Antwerp, recently discovered that a height, a well-known and often-reproduced grass 200 yards from the 'herodrome. picture by Teniers-"The Singer"-The two dead men were taken to had been renfoved from its place. Hendon Mortuary, and the injured The canvas measures din. by sin., man was not expected to recover. and the picture represents pensant dressed in brown, holding a paper in his hands, while he lis- tens to the song of a guitar-player, The picture is valued at 500,000f. (about £3,000).
A
WEATHER REPORT. It appears from Visaia's work | Visuza has studied the question as ' The latest development in Eng- Two men-Mr. Ernest John An- that, in defining the two remote to whether unusual storminces in land of gramophone caterprise is thony Barnett and Mr. W. J. Yesterday's weather report, fore.) eastern areas of cyclone-formation, the early part of a storm season is in the form of postcards Messrs. Williams-were killed and a third, chat and remarks, issued by the it would have been better, not to an index to the probable storminess Raphael Tuck issue seven packets Mr. Dermot Ealer," was badly in- Royal Observatory at 4.40 p.m., have restricted the eastward exten of the remaining part of that sea- each coataining records of various jured in an accident at Stig Lang sion of those areas, for although son, and finds that the storminess types (vocal, orchestral, instru- Aerodrome, Hendon; last month. it may be true that more cyclones of June in little or no index, mental solos, etc.) at the price of They were visitors from Shoreham who had landed at the aerodrome occur in the western than in the whereas that of July may be of Is, each packet,
and were returning after a brief eastern half of the Pacific, many adme value. There seems, in general, to be some slight positive corre undoubtedly occur near the western coasts of America both north and lation between "the number of south of the equator; so many must cyclones in one month and the occur unrecorded in the Western number in the remaining monthe of Pacific, unrecorded because of the the season. This applies to the Far small number of islands inhabited East as a whole, and not to one It should be by educated white men and because particular district. of the small number of ships that noted, however, that variations in paas westwards beyond American the completeness of the information coastal waters, that accurate about the number of storms that estimate of their average annual number and of their distribution is at present impossible. V13HER, in- | deed, lays great stress on the under- estimation that has been made of the number of storms over the tropics as a whole. If attention is not confined to the most violent and destructive storms, the season of cyclonic activity expands from the rummer and autumn to the whole year, and, judging from those re- gions near the western border of the THE ORIGIN OF TYPHOONS. Pacife for which reasonably detail
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occur each year would give rise to a spurious positive correlation.
News and Views.
ence
At the English-Spenking Confer- Maternity and Child Welfare, in London last month, Mrs. Chalmers Watson said that The Colony bad a clean bil of investigations in Germany into the health from the M.O.H. on Thurs-value of irradiated milk in the day.
treatment of rickets had given uniformly
Captain Jorge, master of the ss. Man Lee (Chinese) reports the loss of a lifeboat, which was blown overboard during the typhoon.
ed synoptic charts are available, for example, the regions around Aus
Some excellent views. of the tralia, and Japan, the annual num- ber must be very large. Of these a damage caused by the considerable proportion appear to typhoon will be shown at the pass out of the tropics, and, by Queen's Theatre during all per- the large exchange of air between formances to-morrow and Monday. tropical and temperate latitudes to which they give rim, exert a big in- fluence upon the weather of both zones, and upon the general circu- lation of the atmosphere of the whole earth.
But for the fact that ample warn- ing was given, the typhoon which passed over the Colony on Thurs- day might have been as destructive as that of September 18, 1006. That disastrous storm gave no indication of its existence until close to Hong Kong, and consequently no adequate warning of its approach could be given by the Observatory. In two hours enormous damage was done afloat and ashore, and thousands of lives lost, including about sixteen
The idea that tropical cyclones Europeans, among whom was the are of rare occurrence appears to Bishop of Victoria. This week's have been held by many meteoro- unwelcome visitant gave good notice logists, and has probably arisen be- of its coming, and the Colony was cause, on the average, only a small prepared to receive the intruders proportion of the total area within So far as in known at the moment the tropies is affected annually by of writing, there has been no loss winds of hurricane strength, and a of life, the damage afloat has been largo part of this proportion is negligible, while the destruction open ocean traversed only occ ashore though representing asionally by ships. In considering
serious sum in the aggregate-does the exchange of air between the not include anything which may tropical and tenperate zones, the be regarded as really disastrous, numerous lesser systems of low! Hong Kong escaped very lightly, pressure are probably, in the long- thanks to the timely warnings given of the proximity of the typhoon, thereby allowing ample time to pre pare for the blow. Improved com- munications between various Obser-
satisfactory results.
They showed that milk irradiated with ultra-violet rays possessed re- niarkable therapeutic power in the
cure of rickets.
According to the Johannesburg Star, there is still a large lenkage of Namaqualand diamonds, which are being exported illicitly, probab- ly through Portuguese territory. Sales in this way aro estimated at £300,000 a month. It is alleged that these stones are sold at half their market value. South African diamond buyers have been inform- ed by cable that large stones are being sent direct to Antwerp, and they fear that unless drastic action is taken by the Union Government to prevent illicit exportation, the diamond market may be glatted, with a consequent fall in the prices. of the larger stones.
You are an extremely difficult As a further means of extracting. recent case to deal with because, frankly, grain from the reluctant kulaki you have about as bad a record as (richer peasants) in Russia, the any it has been my painful duty to Soviet authorities apply a measure, come across," said the Recorder of suggestive of the so-called "Com- mittees of the Poor" existing dur- Ipswich when sentencing Herberting the period of civil war. The Mulley, a seventy-year-old dealer, village Soviets, in
which poor to three years' penal servitude for Peasants are presumably predomin- antly represented, possess the right. obtaining £4 by false pretences. tu decide how much grain the Mulley, it was stated, started un richer peasants must sell to the State organisations. Should the a career of crime forty years ago, kuläks resist this ruling they may and had since been convicted ten times, the sentences including four
Bail of 82.000 each was granted by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith yester day to a married couple of No. 138. Tai Nam Street, who appeared be fore His Worship on a charge of being in possession of 62 taçla ul raw opium. The case will be heard on Wednesday next..
In a small Galician village in Poland recently, a 23-year-old farm hand murdered six members of his family with a hitchet whilst they were sleeping on the eve of his sister's marriage, thereafter sleep ing soundly. The cause of the dreadful act is unknown.
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A Chinese amah was fined 85 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith for dump
terms of penal servitude.
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In view of the fact that postage
be fined five times the value of the grain which they were required to sell, and further resistance is punishable with exile and confisca tion of property.
stamps bear the portraits of the
While the Berlin wireless station rulers in case of monarchical coun- was transmitting a six-act play tries or those of the presidents or different classes of the population. dealing with the effects upon founders in case of republies, the of an electric light failure caused Government of China is understood by a fire at the power station, recent-
ly, listeners suddenly heard to have issued instructions to re- hoarse and agitated voice shout, place the present postage stamps,The station is on fire. Stop which are deemed not sufficiently to other confused noises, a second. transmitting. All out." There were represent the evolution of Chinese voice was heard appealing for affairs, by portraits of the late Or. calm, then there was an anxious in-
a third voice which explained that. terval, ended after some minutes by the first speaker had exaggerated, and that the fire, which was on the ground floor, was being got under control. Actually the fire had started among gramophone records.
run at least, as important as the ing rubbish in a scavenging lane Sun Yai Sen and other heroes who relatively few destructive storms. behind Chi Wo Street. The scaveng-were responsible with the establish Vzanez gives a table of annual freing coolics, who were engaged in ment of the Republic of China. It quencies of recorded cyclones. In clearing the debris following the is expected that the new issue will view of the large number of storma typhoon on Thursday, saw the amab soon be on sale at the various post
throw out a quantity of rubbish offices. just after they had cleared the place. The defendant pleaded that she was a stranger here and did not
know the law.
The pilot of an R.A.F. bomber in London had a miraculous escape,
Oricket-East and West!
England is now the only land where cricket contests flourish. But wher in England the game of Grace and Hobbs was merely monkish stool ball (see Medioera! Chroniclets)
all
appropriate and useful crop.
Real
in a shop and had filled the trans-" mitting rooms, which are on a higher floor, with smoke, so that the agitation in the studio was ex- cusable. About nn hour later: transmission was resumed and fis-
teners heard the fourth at of the play, in which noises were made to indiente the approach of firemen, the rattling of fire-escapes, and the wish of water from the hosts. Ther subsequent news bulletin, curiously enough, contained no mention of the exciting event of the evening. in the broadcasting station.
Looking Back 25 Years.,
Attended by a large of the seafar-
al took place on Monday of Mr. Scott, who died on the previous day on the sailing, ship Eclipse, which he had just joined as chief officer. Mr. Scott was very well- known on the coast and the Canton River. He was at one time on the Algoa Bay, and afterwards served on the Hong Kong, Canton Macao Steamboat Company's 8.1. Fetshan, and on the Tak Hing of the same company as chief officer. His death was due to heat apoplexy.. Rev. C. H. Bikling performed the funeral services.-Ilong Kong Daily Press, Aug. 24, 1904. - -
Looking Back 50 Yanrı.
vatories along the China Coast and and disturbances that are not re- even much further afield, and parti-corded, the figures are conservative cularly the receipt of information estimates, much below the true from and the sending of warnings totals. These give an annual total to ships by wireless have very large for all classes of cyclone of more ly minimised the dangers of these than 173. Two other points of parti cyclonic storms so far, as shipping cular interest that the brought out is concerned. Vessels at sen can, in the paper under notice are:- if necessary, steer clear of typhoons, (1) The unexpectedly large number injury, when his machine erashed staged
not only from death, but from then, as now, cricket fighting was
over. China. thanks to the information broadcast of cyclones that occur within 8 from shore stations or by near-by degree of the equator in the Pacific, last week. The acroplane was Ay-crickets, of the chirraping variety, especially in the neighbourhood of ing in the neighbourhood of Bir-are matched against each other in ships. We on shore cannot dodge the the East Indies; (2) the apparent storm path that swept over us, but absence of any kind of direct re-mingham when it got into difficul- Republican China as they were in lationship between the number of ties and crashed on to the roof of the days of the Han Dynasty. But we can and do-make all, snug 50 cyclones that occur in the Pacific x mission church Church and just as James I. of England pro that the damage done is as little and the physical state of the sup aeroplane were completely burns hibited football, so Chiang Kai ing men of Hong Kong, the funer as possible. That the Colony as revealed by the number of dark
out but the pilot of the machine, Shek's China has been forbidden escaped so slightly on Thursday is spote that are visible.
With regard to the first point, offer Hewins, escaped the delights of cricket fighting due solely to the fact that we were
without injury.
There is too much money wagered two cases of cyclones originating warned in good time of what to
not more than 4 degrees from the
Manking is said to be considering on the sport, and too many fights expect.
equator in the North Indian Ocean during the period 1900-1912 have the introduction of the Anglo-Saxon over it; so, Nanking decrees, it has There is need for more complete been recorded. V18HER was inform-ystem of sending experienced got to go. Magistrates have been knowledge of the meteorological ed by the Director of the Japanese judges on circuit" to more or warned, under pair of dire penal,
less Isolated regions. In view of the conditions in the regions where Imperial Marine Observatory that inadequaes of the number of moties, to put down cricket fighting in
the meteorological conditions at tropical cyclones storms form, in Jaluit indicate typhoons west and dern courts in China, the authori- their districts, and to see that the cies believe that the introduction of pitches are duly planted with some arder to test the correctness of the south-west of that island, and in
table giving particulars of the place the circuit system will make justice various theories of the origin of of origin of typhoons that were first mere accessible to the masses as well cyclones that have been brought reported within 8 degrees of the the country with their legal rights na familiarizing people throughout gives forward at different times. Our equator, VISHER
On Saturday evening the Chinese knowledge is very incomplete even latitude 4 degrees N., and several and obligations...
in latitude 5 degrees N. These
celebrated the festival of Teat che as regards the frequency of their
We understand that Mr. Harry Casca are interesting in that they
or Seven Sisters. This festival is. occurrence, the paths which they show that although some deflexiona! Q. Odell bas resigned his seat on
observed hy women only, who wor- ship the Seven Sisters, or fairies, follow, and the length of life of effect of the carth's rotation is neces-The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at individual storms, and this is parti- directly into a centre of low preselected a member. Mr. Odell's busi- sary to prevent air from Bowing and that Mr. L. Weill has been
to avert diseases and acquire skill in domestic work. The floral decora- Waterloo Road, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong
for cularly true for the Pacific Ocean. sure and so filling it up, theness in Hong Kong will be carried
tions of the native houses were of on by Mr. L. Weill under the firm terin of 75 years, with the option A book by Mr. 8. C. VISHER, pub amount need only be very small.
a meagre description, and compar ed unfavourably with those of for- of renewal at Crown Bent to be
The second point mentioned above me of Harry O. Odell & Co. Mr. fized by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY Tlished by the Hawaii Museum, fills
little requires
comment. AN
mer years. We noticed a large Kina, for one further farm of 75 years. up a few of the gaps in our know- VIRHER'S ingenuity in handling the
Wella" has always done extremely crowding into the family residence. The Chinese John Wellington number of people pushing and Jedge. The materials for this work available statistics, so as to bring
good business but now, after the in Hollywood Road of Mr. Tang were collected in 1921-1922, when out any connection that there may
manner of a celebrated grocer, be, gives negative results. Although
Alook, Government contractor, the author spent a year in visiting several earlier investigators have
"His time-just like his weight whose house was tastefully decorat is short." The Canton Society ed. The crowd were more inclined, tropical Oceanic and the Far East claimed that there is a connection,
her way to the for the Amalioration of Manners to be turbulent than is usually the in order to gather information it appeare very unlikely that there
amah was victimiz and customs," whose activities at case with native mobs. The manual is a simple direct relationship, when about cyclones at first hand from it is remembered that the variations ed by 痛 footpad on Pok- the recent religious festivals, have engine of the Cheong On Fire In- resident officials; he also visited of the solar constant of radiation fulam Road at about six o'clock been described in our columns, is on surance, with its foremen and mem- the Meteorological Bureau of the between, times of sunspot. maximum yesterday (Thursday) morning. The the truck with the following official bers, was stationed at the foot of and minimum, if any systematic robber came stealthily behind the programme gleaming in their hands: Lascar-row and Hollywood Road Australian Commonwealth and the variations do in fact exist, must be woman and auddenly grasped the, Confisention of all monestary until after mignight ready for an Japanese Marine Observatory, as very small, and the effect of gold ear-rings on both her ears and and temple property and the con-emergency, should one arise. This well as various other meteorological variation of the intensity of solar then pulled violently. The ear-rings version of the fabrics into schools; would seem to suggest that the rediation upon terrestrial atmes were quickly obtained by the robber, An increased duty on joss sticks Chinese are beginning to be more centres in the East, in order to pheric processes is likely to be com- who then made of quietly. The jos paper, etc. ; 2, Destruction of alive to the risks which occur when study local synoptic weather charts plex. Another aegative or almost victim turned her head and found all images of the goods; 4, Probibl quantities of paper are burnt in.. and to discuss his subject with those negative result of some practical that the robber had already dis tion of the sale of superstitious honour of "jose," and we could wish who have made a special study of importance relates to the varying appeared. She then proceeded to books, 5, Prohibition of fortune that they extend their precautions degreep of storminess experienced in the police station to report what telling and sorcery; 6, Prohibition to more ordinary occassions-Hông
of oracles and magical medicines. Kong Daily Press, Aug. 25, 1879). the cyclones of those regions. different years in the Far East, had happened.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sals by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 26TH DAT of AUGUST, 1929, at 3 r.M., at the Officer of the Public Works Department, by
Order of Hm EXORLLERGY THE GOVERNOR,
Annual
Rental.
+ Square feet.
No. of Sale * Upret Price.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
14,144
Kowloon Inland
Adjoining Kowloon In
Begistry No.
land Lot No. 2145, Waterloo Road, Kow-
Locality.
As per
102 anie plan
About
8,940
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YING A TOT
Boundary
Mesaare-
monta.
As per
salo plan
Contents
Square feet.
Rental
About
000'I
144
18207
Upeet Price,
,500
one in
Odell has established himself in broker, and is learing Hong Kong Shanghai as a stock and share for the Northern port on Tuesday morning, accompanied by his family.
While market, a
!
The Chinese John Wellington.
Wella,"
All lovers of Gilbert and Bullivan know the blithe, frock coated
Sorcerer" who sings:- "My name is John Wellington
Wells,
"I'm a dealer in magic and spells, In blesses and curses and ever-
filled pursen," "In demons and witches and
knella."