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PARTIOle by Puble Auction ABTIQULARS & CONDITIONS to be held on TUESDAY, the Srn DAY of SEPTEMBER, 1982, at 8 r.M. st the Offices of the Public Works of Firm Order Department, by EXOTLLANOY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of OROWN LAND at To Kwa Wan,
in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Urown Bent ・to be fired by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KIo, for one farther term s! 75 years.
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If precedents are considered the odds are, therefore, slightly in Mr. HOOVER's favour, as the Republican party has been decidedly dominant for the last eighty years, On the other hand, precedents go for little today, and the instinct for chango and, experiment has replaced the caution of an earlier nga As for na English people are concerned most of them will wish Mr. Hoover SURCOSS. The rights and wrongs of the controversy raging round bis nama ara less to them than the frot that Mr. Hoover knows Europa well. His work as “food It keeps leather soft and provider" during the Great War prevents cracking. As sad luring the famines that follow. Cobra cream gives thatod is remembered, and we know brilliant polish which that here is a President against lasts.
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PART Sale by Public Austion to be held on TUESDAY, the GTB DAT of SEPTEMBER, 1939, at 8 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Depart. ment, by Order of His ExcaLzENOT THE GOVERNOR, Df One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshnipo. in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, 1898, commencing from 1st July, with the option of renewal at Crown Hent to be fred by the Burveyor of Hw MAIROTY THE KING, for one further term of 24 years loss the last three days thereof.
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ly, to represent him as a "colour foes "
candidate. On the other hand, the Democratic candidato comes of a famous family, whose greatest ornament, the late Mr. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, held a warm LAMBOOT.-On August 25, at Shang-place indeed in English hearts.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
ALTHOUGH more than two months have to run their course before the last and most terrible Inp in the American Presidential Stakes is completed, the poople of the United States seem fully settled to elec tioneering as their main occupa tion An army of ́ 400,000 `pro- fessional politicians has been lot loose on them, and in fnce of so appalling an idea we can only say that if anyone in England has Re- publican tendencies the thought of America's example should restore completa loyalty to the throne. No
at Bhamshuipo, in the Colony of wonder foreigners of advanced Hong Kong, for a term of 75. Jess: viowa consider us bigoted upon that commencing from 1st July, 1808. with the option of renewal at & Crown question. But tho average British Rant to be fixed by the Sarvayor of His MATEITY ZHE KING, for one further term person would probably say: "Better of 24 years less the last three days, a Heliogabolus permanently on the thereof.
throne, than a LINCOLN or WASHING-
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shots were fired by a thus improved Paradoxically enough, the busi 70 millimetres field gun, when the ness slump sees horses displacing noise of firing was scarcely percept- tractors on the farm both in Engible and the smoke almost unnotice- land and America for the original able. The experts who wero pro- reason given for the reverse pro-seat at thean tests are reported to cess-because cheaper.
Progressi
The benefits of higher education are showing results in Nebraska, U.S.A., where a milking shed is now termed a lactorium,
"All Right.”
A man with his heart on the right side of his body, was examined by doctors at a Middlesex hospital
last month.
They found that all his internal organs were on the opposite side to normal. The man's health, despite his peculiar build, is particularly good. "The phenomenon is very tare," a doctor said
Happy Spain1.
The Spanish guols will have to be considerably enlarged if tha arrests of alleged participants in the Con- recent insurrection continue. trary to former reports, the number of those arrested now total 4,000, and in Madrid alone no fower than 21 generals are in prison
Noiseless Artillery?
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have been greatly impressed and to have spontaneously broken out into the ory "Viva Italia" Similar equally successful tests have, the paper claims, been made with guna of heavior calibre,
Bible Stories.
Bible stories, questioned for years by modern critics, have, it is claim- ed, teen proved to be accurate by remarkable linguistic discoveries made by Dr. Yahuda, formerly of the University of Madrid.
Dr. Yahuda said to a Press re- presentative that the sojourn of farael in Egypt, believed by many scholars to be myth, must now be accepted as historical fact.
"Philology has confirmed the work of archaeologists," he said.
"In my study of the Hebrew language 1 have made discoveries which show that Egyptian influence was so strong that the two races
must have had a common environ- ment.
"Just as the archaeologists can point to their discoveries to prove that the story of Israel in Egypt is no myth, the philologists arrive at the same result through the study of languages.
The claim to have invented noiseless and smokeless cannon has "Professor Garstang, it will be been advanced by two Italian artil- remembered, has made recent ex- lery officers, Signori Deluce and cavations which show that Joshua's been examiner by a commission of accurate. Guerra, whose invention has already story of the walls of Jericho is It was found that an Izraelites Italian experts. The newspaper sarthquake, while the
attino, in publishing soms details were besieging the city, caused the of these tests, says that several walls to fall."
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America must of necessity play & great part in the economic re habilitation of the world, and if the question of tariffs, disarmament and the League of Nations, from which the greater problem is ia- extricable, are to find adequate solution the United States cannot |stand aloof. The American people ara becoming increasingly alivo to their inevitable participation in world politics. They see that the old isolation is impossible. The doctrine of self-sufficiency has fail- el They need leaders who will guide them not only in Home but in World affairs, and restore to America the prestige in commerce, in military powers, and in those ideals and political concepts of
Old World to the new Republic, freedom, which drew men of the and created out of the little nation
The R.M.8. Empress of Asia ruled by WASHINGTON A great (from Vancouver vil porta) is due Power, and the leader of the here at 11 am to-day, and will berth at tho Kowloon Wharf. She will sail for Manila at 6 p.m. the same day.
American Continents.
PREHISTORIC MAN IN BUCKS.
DISCOVERY IN A CHALK
GRAVE.
The Hong Kong dollar rompined unchanged yesterday at 13, 4d
The National Government has issued a mandate eulogising the deeds of the late General Ma Fu Col. Raiken, B.W.B., has now left Hsiang, former Chairman of the the Military Hodpad, Bowen Road, Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Com when he has been a patient for the mission, and granting 50,000 to last nine days following an accident wards his funeral expenses. Gen-
ing polo. which occurred while he was play-eral Wang Shu Han, Chairman of
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY,
Est. 1841.
We regret to announce the death, which took place on Sunday at the Yeung Wo Nursing Home, of Mr. Fung Kai Koung, a popular student at St. Paul's College and an en thusiastic member of the troop of the Chibli Provincial Government, scouts attached to the school. Mr. bas been ordered to represent the Fung, who was only seventeen years Central Government at General of age, had been suffering from Ma's faneral.
DIPLOMAT
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SPANISH-PORTUGUESE
RELATIONS STRAINED
Lisbon, August 14-A serious in- cident which has caused consider. able strain in the diplomatie, re- Intions between Spain and Porta- gal, occurred to-day when three cases destined for the Spanish Ex- malignant fever for a few days bassy hers, were found to contain The death occurred in Londen prior to his removal to the nursing arras and ammunition. on July 22 of Mre. Wodehouse, the home. A particularly sad feature wife of Mr. B. L. D. Wodehouse,
One of the Eiges, was dropped accidentally and broken at the customs house here, and arms and
formerly of Hong Kong and now in is that, whilst he had relatives in The master of the Clara Jebsen i Calcutta. Mr. Wodehouse is a Hong Kong, both Mr. Fung's reported at the Harbour Office brother of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, parents are in Penang. He was ammunition appeared from inside. yesterday thas a Chinese member the famous novelist, also of Mr. of the crew fell overboard in the vicinity of Llama Island, and was rescued immediately.
During last week there were cight cases (six deaths) of cholera, four fatal casca of enteric, one fatal case of meningitis and 48 deaths from pulmonary tuber- eulosis. One case of cholera was reported on Monday.
P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E, who buried on Monday afternoon in the The Customs authorities imme recently retired from the past of Chinese, cemetery at Caroline Hill.diately seized all the craes, Divisional Superintendent of Police hero. Deceased's husband was in Hong Kong in 1920 and played cricket against Shanghai and Singa- pore in the first Interport after the i War,
Volume IV, of the Report of Mr. Justice Facthum to the Shanghai Municipal Council has now been
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From the files.
The annual meeting of the mem
The Spanish Ambassador hero explained that the contents in the were samples sent by a French-controlled factory in Spain
casca
for the purpose of selling its pro duco to the Portuguese army, and submitted an official domument to certify it. ".
Citizens here are highly in-.
The City Goverment of Greater printed and will be available from Looking Back 25 Teats. Shanghai is endeavouring to make the Revenue Office and local book. Kaochino, Pootung, a regular week-isollers on September 1. end summer resort, and towards viously announced, this volume deals bers of the Hong Kong Civil. Ser dignant at the Spanish Govern this end steps have been taken to with details of internal adminis vice Club was held yesterday at ment, holding that Spain has been develop a model village there. tration and procedure, and thus, as Small parcels of land are being sold at low prices to attract the people and strendy, it is said, many have been taken up.
When she tried to restrain her father's, bullock which was attempt- ing to run away, Liu Fook Lim, 12, The City Government of Greater try, Mr. L. E. Brett; Treasurer, rope to which the clung, and drown- nese Press to have rejected an ap team, Mr. Chawkley, Committee: was drugged into a stream by the Shanghai is reported by the Chi- Mr. E. Dawson Captain "A".
A discovery of considerable in tarest has just been made on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Bucks, When sinking a pit, workmen came upon a prehistoric burial.
Beneath 43ft of soil the complete TON after a nine months election skeleton of a man was found, firmly campaign every four years! How- embedded in the chalk. It lay ever, each man and each nation to upon the left side in a contracted its own tastes, but no wonder desposition, the knees drawn up to pita all the Irishmen in the States, wards the body, with the right arm it has never been thought neces between them. The left arm was sary to introduce that great on- on a level with the head. livener of humanity, the funeral
The opening of the grave was wake. Every instinct therein grati-supervised by Mr. Francis Colmer, fcd is sated once every four years who has recently been engaged in e Her father, a villager, from the plication of the Japhness, naval blessrs. Adams, Howell, W. H. Soccer and Its Rivals,
excavating the Roman villa near Nest Territories, reported the ac-authorities for permission to inspect Parkinson, M. McIvor, J. J. Blake
eldent to the police yesterday. The the Chapel remission to intrecct and W. F. Gast. Voting took place Association football club man- Wycombe Rye.
child was drowned within a few letter to the City Government, the The bones are those of a man ap-hundred yards of the Sheung Shui Japanese naval authorities asked a stoward should be elected by the other things desides the industrial
in America.
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it is not of the same public in the club house, Happy Valley. Dr. smuggling frearms into Portugal. terest as the previous volumes, only Clark presided over a very large for the Oppositionists of the pre- 1,000 copies in English have been attendance. The election of office sent Government, and the Spanish ¡ printed. The Chinese sdition of beaters resulted as follows:-Cap Embassy is now being strongly which 600 copies will be printed, istain, Mr. H. T. Jackman; Vics- guarded to provide against pos- in course of translation.
Captain, Mr. F. A. Bidan; Becreible untoward outbreaks,
as to whether a bar committee orngers are beginning to realise that The general opinion seems to be that Mr. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, tha
former proposition was defeated parently in the prime of life, the Police Station, he said, near Fron- that two parties of their marines; and Mr. C. Bond was appointed and financial depression are likely Democratic candidate, has
skull being heavily built and tier Road
each of 180, be permitted to visit steward-Hong Kong Daily Press, to make their gates" even smal better chances. But the issue is
the Chapel war zone. The City square-jawed, with prominent
August 31, 1907 extraordinarily uncertain,
ler ir future than they were last There was nothing of public | Government, has rejected the appli- Sinco
year. 1880 there have only been Sive Deco cheekbones. No grave furniture interest at the fortnightly morting ostion on the ground that it was Looking back 50 years.
of the Sanitary Board yesterday, deemed inadvisable for the Japanese
To begin with, there is the great oratic presidents the last of them was used, stich as might assist in the matters coming up for discus marines to inspect the Chapel war
The City of Peking which ar and growing counter-attraction of INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL WOODROW WILSON against thir. dating the burial, but the remains sion being of a routine nature. zone in view of the many wild rived at Ban Francisco on July 24
aro necribed to the Early Bronze Those present ware:-Mr G. R. | rumours now current,
the docked at her wharf about five) dogs Greyhound racing, toon Republicans. On the other
o'clock the following morning, hay hdmittedly, does not begin until (IN LIQUIDATION)
hand, re-election is no easy matter. Age, which is approximately plac- nye (Chairman), Hon. Mr. R. HI.
Henderson (vice-Chairman), Dr. In H.M. Supreme Court, Judge ing complied with the necessary football matches have t ed as beginning about 1800 G
been conclud "Taking (the 's records again, since
G. W. Pope (Medical Officer of Sir Peter Grain board the case in quarantine regulations. Among her No, similar burial has hitherto Health), Mesars, Wong Kwong Tin, which Mestre, Bhainin & Co., Inc., cabin passengers were thirty-foured but nevertheless, there must be Second Dividend is intended to 1660 only GRANT and WOODROW been recorded in Bucks; though not LC. E. Bellamy, C. Champkin, brought action against Mr. C. Chinese women and nineteen Chin many thousands of people who be declared in the matter of WILSON havo served the full term far away, on the Dunstable Downs, Dr. Li Shu Fan, Mesars J. H. Yngr Jones for the recovery of ese children. Many of the women enjoy both sports but will choose the Industrial & Commercial Bank, Ltd. (in Liquidation),
of eight years.
ROOSEVELT and the crouching skeleton of a woman Golling (Bexrotary) and Ng Mui 803.80 for provisions supplied up to are of the small foot variety, and gracing when lack of time or Creditors who have not proved their Coolinan stepped into White House a recovered Fronstable Museuss Kai (Assistant Secretary). January, 1831. Mr. I. Abramovitch, all were vouched for, as being of
assistant manager of the plaintiff highest respectability, among the money makes a choice essential. debt by the 20th day of September, from the vice-Presidency owing to 1926. A flint knife was with the Despite the embargo placed by firm, produced a number of chits wives of the members of the Chinese The same argument applies to dirt, 1832 will be excinded from this the deaths of MCKINLEY and HARD bones, and a surrounding tranch the National Government upon mail signed by defendant, who failed to Legation, at Washington, the Chin track krasingampak me yet st dividend.
Proofs should be sont to the underd, respectively, and both secured had been accompanied by human, Chinese post offices of districts ant) had done nothing towards besides the wives of several of Ban prising than logical, are planning bore evidences that the interment matters to and from Manchuria, the appear, and said that he (defende Vice-Consul in San Francisco, So certain managers, more enter- signed at 6, Dos Vaux Road, Contral, re-election. LINCOLN and MCKINLEY, sacrifices, many skeletons being under the control of General Mamoęting the debt except to make Francisco's wealthiest Chinese mor, to slage evening matches between Hongkong, on or before the 20th day two victims of assassination, also found of victims whose hands had. Chan Shan, hero of the Nonni promises Mr. J. McGeown, chanta There were also two wo the big league teams an pitches of September, 1938, dhe pri
been tied behind their backs River fighting last year, continue to Marshal of the Court, proved sermon in the steerage who were like illuminated by floodlightage The Dated the 16th day of August, 1932. scoured second-cousecutive term "Mr. Colmer-thinken it probable function as usual and letters destin;vice of the writ His Lordship with youched for. It is said that suggestions is that the lending clubs
of office, while CLEVELAND was that the Dunstable woman and the od for these places can still be for-scrutinising the chite, observed Consul Mosby has decided to issue should engage many more players. THEWNESSEY SETH
twice President, but with an in Wycombe man, belong to the same warded vik Vladivostock, states the "Ah! A bottle of whisky, brandy, no mora certificates of character, to than they carry on their payrolls B. HAMPDEN KOSS-!·
period, and may, represent a Neoli Chinese Pross The districts of and port wine. Judgment was Chinese women destined for Amorist present and that football should, "Joint Liquidators,
terval between his two periods at thic or Pictish stock, who followed Heilungkiang now under General given for plaintiffs in the full sun ca-Hong Kong "Daily Pren, be played on every evening of the the head of the State,
the practice of matriarchy...
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August 31, 1882
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