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Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been giver 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and All Goods remaining andelivered after the 9th Oct., 1939, will be subject to Boat.
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From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO", "
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YONSIGNEES of Cargo are bareby
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No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all Gooda remaining undelivered after the 8th Oct., 1939, will be subject to reat
All Claims against the Steamer must All broken, chafed, ani damaged Goods before the 22nd Oct, 1939, or they will be presented to the Undersigned on or are to be left in the Godowns, where act be recognised. they will be examined or 7th Oct., 1939, at 10 m., by our Surveyors Warehouse Manara. Goddard & Douglas.
To comply with the General Beaded Warehouse Regulations congnoo must have a Revenge Officer in attend. sice when damaged dutiable goods are examined.
be
All claims must reach us before the 9th Nov., 1939, or they will not recognised.
No Insurance will be effected.
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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBSEN & CO.,
Agents,
Hong Kong, 2nd Oct., 1939
(747
To comply with the General Ronded Regulations, consignor must have a Revenue Officer in siten!. sace when damaged dutiahle good. are examined
All braken, skafed and dainaged Gjoci ure to be left in the Godawîn, where they will be examined on the 6th Oct, 1939, at 9 am, by Messrs. Carmichael
& Clarke.
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HELPING POOR Rotarians Baffled And Amused By Max Malini
OF COLONY
Work Of Society Of St. Vincent de Paul
ANNUAL REPORT
The Report and Statement of Accounts of the Secretary of St. Vincent de Paul for 1938 states thas the nett proceeds of the "A Fresco Fete" "and "Our Poor Day Sale of Roses held in November and December last, amounted to $21,348,52
During the seven months Janu- ary to July, 1939, the Society has contributed to the maintenance of 194 families as against 154 last 2,328 visits have been made to the Poor in their homes. The disbursement for the whole of 1938 amounted to $8,947.50. For
year.
the first seven months of 1939 it was $6,583.30 as against $5,091.00 for the same period in 1938. The Society has also assisted the children of these poor people with shoes and clothing to the extent. of $175.69 in 1938, while for the seven months ended July 1939. It amounted to $42, **
MEDICAL AID The expenditure in 1938 was $152.95, while for the first seven months of this year assistance to
With nothing more than three ordinary tumblers from the Hongkong Hotel pantry, each individually wrapped in a 'tor-off sheet of yesterday's issue of the "Hongkong Daily Press," the world-famous magician, Max Malini, worked a number of tricks. which both baffled and amused a large number of local Ro- tarians at their regular weekly tidin yesterday. The attendance at the tiran was
the biggest for many months,
A
which was an eloquent tribute to C.M.C. OFFICER
the guest of honour, who has been a regular annual, visitor to Hong- kong for more than three decades and has a friends here.
very wide circle of
Malini recounted some of the experiences he had had in the
MARRIED AT ST. ANDREW'S
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 1938, 9:30
Owing to the uncertainty of Sea transport the public are requested to post Christmas Parcels early,
INWARD MAILS
From
Air Mail by "Pan American Air-ways Direct Ser-
vice"-San Francisco date, 28th September,
Air Mail by "Air France Direct Service"-Paris
date, 27th Sept. Shanghai aišku
course of his long and colourt Capt. I. MacRobert & Australia and Manila.
Miss E. D. Witchell
Miss
Bandakan
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U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Fran-
cisco date, 8th September) Haiphong. Straits.
career, and kept his "listeners in excellent spirit throughout with.) jest after jest. After showing | A pretty wedding was solemnised what a gifted humourist he was, at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, Malini proceeded, to demonstrate yesterday his genius as a magician.
morning when Evelyn Dorothy Witchell became the bride of Capt. I. MacRobert, of Haiphong the Chinese Maritime Customs. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. V. L. Witchell, of Bath, England, and the late Mr. R. C.
At the end of the entertainment, Major C. M. Manners, O. BE proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Malini.
"
VISITORS AND GUESTS
Dr. Arthur W. Woo, who pre-Witchell, of Hongkong.
The Vicar, the Rev. J. R. Higgs, sided, introduced the following:- Visiting Rotarians: "Messrs. R. J. BA, FRGS. omelated at the Frost, W. Gock Young. Lee Fong, ceremony and the bride was given Edward Shim and Yau- Tsang away by Dr. J S. Hardy Scott in (all from Canton), and Mr. Ed- the absence of her uncle. Mr. G. B. ward Fung (Nänking); Guests: Witchell, who is in Shanghal on Messrs. Walter Hanming Chen, H. business. Braga, C. C. H. Hobbs, S. M. Lee, French bridal satin gown created
W. 0. Pirie. I, N. Murray, R. V.
The bride looked charming in a
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service
London data, 27th Sept.
Straits Japan and Shanghai Stralis.
Japan and Shanghal.” .....................
Shanghai
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Canada, U.S.A. Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver, B.
-C. date, 17th September) Japan. Shanghal Manila... shanghai.
Canton. Shanghai.
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Calcutta, Straits and Saigon. Japan. Haiphong
Straits "and Manila
the extent of $150.35 has been given. The Society is deeply grate-Lederhofer, Fung Ping-wah, Cainhby "Diana" and cut on princess ful to DTS: Guterres. Barnes, Malini, son of the guest of honour, lines. The costume had long fitted Rodrigues, Gosano, and Ribeiro for and Dr. Chau Wal-cheung.
sleeves with squared shoulders, a their honorary medical treatment
sweeping train with long tulle vell and to the St. Raphael Society for
and her headdress was of orange free burials.
Her bouquet sheath of tuber roses...
Attending the bride were her sis Japan, ters, Miss May Witchell and MrsShanghai and Amoy. Maude Philippens, who wore laven- Japan.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION Besides paying rent to some of the cases whose special circumst ances justify such expenditure, the Society also maintains a four storied building at No. 23 Kwong Ming Street, Wanchal, two flats at Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City, know as "St. Teresa Home" and a flat at No. 156 Kut Klang Street, Sham Shui Po.
CLAIM AGAINST blossoms.
· INDIAN FIRM
Garments Factory As Plaintiffs
A claim for $160 for balance due for work done was brought against Messrs. Poohoomull Bros, of No. 29 Wyndham Street, by the Kam Wah Garments Factory, of No. 195
Pelho, Street.
Mr. D. McCallum appeared for the plaintiffs, while Mr. M. A. da Silva was for defendants.
The increase in rent and in the cost. of living has considerably aggravated the distressed condi- tion of the poor families which can be realised only by personal visits to their homes. This is giv-
The parties, said Mr. McCallum, ing the Society no little cause of
had been trading for about a year, anxiety, as, apart from the ques- tion of health, there is, in this and the relations consisted of defendants supplying from `time to overcrowding a grave moral dantime materials to the plaintiffs to ger for the children of such poor be dyed or made into garments.
expenditure under this heading for the whole of 1938 was The formal thing to do after the $2,164.10. For seven months Janu- garments had been made for "the ary, to July 1939, the disbursement defendant arm to inspect the goods
prior to shipment. amounted to $1,279,25.
The
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Serv
-London date 30th Sept... Was A Palembang......
Shanghai...
der net and taxeta bonnets to Haiphong and Pakhof, | match. They carried posies of Shanghal
violets.
Mr. H. Merrick was the best mana
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A reception was subsequently held at No. 231. Prince Edward Road, the residence of Mr. and
Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier Mrs. G. B. Witchell, after which the happy couple left for `their than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where honeymoon at Cheung Chau, Mrs.
mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered" and MacRobert's going-away costume parcel mails are closed at 5 pm on the previous day. being of pale blue georgette with
When mails are advertised to close after $ p.m.,
Registered and matching toque and white acces-Parcel mails are closed at 5 pm.
sories.
TWO WEDDINGS
AT REGISTRY
There were two marriages at
For
WEDNESDAY
the Registry, Supreme Court, yes- Swatow. terday, at both of which Mr. T. J. Shanghai (Parcels only) Gould, Deputy Registrar, officiated. Bangkok The parties were:-
Plaintiffs had always looked Mr. Wyndson Lau, of the staf SPECIAL CASES
upon the defendants as unsatis-of the Hongkong Clay and Kaolin During the period under review factory, and after the last con-Co., Ltd., and Miss› Gallant Tsut. the Society had again to deal with tract decided to terminate business teacher, of No. 23 Cheungshawan several cases of this nature, « The | with them.
Road. The witnesses were Messrs. expenditure on the former was Mr. McCallum said that defen-L O. Tsut and Lau Pui-sang. $355.04 while the latter $103.90 was dants had complained of interior Mr. Yeung Ping-yin, draughts- provided. In a few instances, the work, and plaintifs had bought man of the Talkoo Dock, and Miss Connell has had the pleasure in the goods and sold it at a profit. Tam Pui-man, of No. 146 Tam co-operating with the Hongkong There was still a balance due to Kung Road, Kowloon City. The Benevolent Society and the Social the plaintiff firm in respect of witnesses were Messrs. Yang Pak- Service Centre of the Churches in other goods shipped.
yuen and Young Yiu-hing. attending to some cases that have come forward to the notice of
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' both, in assisting in the necessary enquiries into those cases, and in
OFFICER WEDS
rendering relief.
On this matter, the Society wishes to
express its grateful thanks to some Shipping Com- panies for the generous reduction in their fares and to the Hong- kong Benevolent Society and the Social Service Centre, for
their willing co-operation,
EDUCATION.
It is the policy of the Society to afford as good an education as possible to the Children of the Poor as funds permit. To ensure
MATTER DRAGGED ON When the accounts were being settled, the defendant wanted to deduct $160 to keep as a deposit
Mr. P. E. Bressy, First Officer against possible Inferior goods. Plaintiffs opposed this, but later. lying staff and at present engag
connected with Imperial Airways' as the matter dragged on. they ed on the Hongkong Bangkok took whatever they could and left route was married in the South the sum outstanding, the sum last week to Miss N.C. Oakeshott, being due to plaintifis
Lee
of South Croydon, Surrey, England. Cheung-hing, assistant manager of the plaintiff firm,
Mrs, Bressy few from London by gave evidence, after which Mohan where the wedding ceremony took Imperial Airways to Bangkok Mahtan, manager of defendant
place. that plaintiff's had arm, said
and agreed to leave behind $160. receipt for the amount had been issued to the plainting.
The hearing was adjourned to November 10,
ROBBERY CHARGE
this, there is an Education- Sub- Committee whose chief duties are to examine the weekly reports of the students, to look after their moral and intellectual improve- ∙ment and to provide them with
A charge of robbery at Fu Tau shoes, books, stationery, etc, when Mun in British waters on Septem- required. 132 children are at pre- ber 18 was preferred at Kowloon Court yesterday against 11 Chi- sent receiving an English Educa- tion at the expense of the Society,nese, who are accused of having The Society acknowledges, with robbed Ho Cheung, a junk master, grateful appreciation for the re- of $1,200 in Chinese currency and duced. charges made by the of some clothing.mpg schools, and to the Government The defendants are also charged Eduation Department for the anh- with having robbed a second man sidy of $90 per, quarter, # MOET,
named Wong Wah-lan of 11 pigs. The Council desires to thank the The 11 defendants, six of whom Hongkong Government most are surnamed Tseng, were remand- gratefully for the annual Grated eight days in custody.
Det.-Inspector R Cunningham' is in charge of the case.
of $1,000.
GENERAL
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The Bociety is deeply grateful to
HELP HONGKONGS POOR His Excellency, the Governor for
The Comeli feels that it can so kindly opening the Bazaar Inst year and to the following for their again appeal with confidence to invaluable assistance: the ladies the kind generosity of the Hong and gentlemen who worked so kong Publie for support both on hard and so devotedly for the suc- the occasion of our "Al Fresco DEATH OF SEN. cess of the "Al Fresco Fete" and Fete" which will be held in Kow-
M. M. LOGAN "Our Poor Day" Sale of Roses, to loon on the large open space op Mr. E. D. de Rozs AB.AA. for so posite the Peninsula Hotel on Sun- WASHINGTON Oct 3 (Beuter) kindly auditing the accounts and day, November 5 and to the Street The death occurred "to- to the Press of Hongkong for pri- Bale of Roses on Our Your Day! Benator Marvel M Login Demo vilege granted;
on Friday, December 1.
crat) of Kentucky,
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