PAGE 8 HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
"PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
HE Undersigned have received
Instructions
to sell by 2 PUBLIC AUCTION.
on
Tuesday, the 21st January, 1941
commencing ar 10.30 a.m.
Station, Yaumati, 1st Floor.
"
Memories Of
Of The Past
Interesting Reflections
Over A Century
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GENERAL
HOLIDAYS
IN 1941
It is notified that the following School and General Holidays will
be observed during 1941:----
SCHOOL
GENERAL
Jan. 27 (Chinese New Year's
By the end of the week, Hongkong will be a hundred May 24 (Empire Day), years old. The British flag was hoisted on Possession! Point on the Island of Hongkong on January 26, 1841, the treaty of Chuenpl, by which the Island was ceded to the British Crown, having been signed on January 8 of the same year.
The population of Hongkong is only in very
day). Jan. 28.
April 11 (Good Friday), April 12, April 14 (Easter Monday).
June 2 (Whit Monday), June 12 (King's birthday).
July 1. August 4.
Oct. G (Chinese mid-autumn festival day), Oct. 10.
Nov. 11.
Dec. 25, Dec. 26. Magistrates
are excluded 00
small proportion a settled one and families who have been here since the earllest days of the Colony are few and far between. But there are people living who remember the Colony's Golden Jubilee in 1891 and they will pause to reflect what the Col ny was like in their day.
It was certainly very much Kowloon Railway left Hongkong. 1st the premises of The China Light & Power Co., Ltd., Subdifferent from what it is to- On July 24 "an Indian constable at Stonecutter's Island was "blown day. Sir William Des Voeux
to pieces by an old Hotchkiss was the Governor, and he was shelf, which he was using to chop much vexed by a multitude frewood"!!! On September 18. the of problems. A principal one Türkish man-of-war Ertogrus sank
The Imports and Exports Depart- of these was the problem of in the Ki Channel while on her ment will be open for the purpose! suppression of gambling and passage from Yokohama to Kobe of revenue collection and issue of On November 20, an editor of permits only from 9 a.m. to noon strenuous efforts were being an afternoon contemporary and a on all the above days except Sun- made to dissuade a large member of the staff of the same days, Chinese New Year's day, proportion of the Chinese paper received sentence of six Good Friday, Oct. 10 and Christ- population from a favourite months' imprisonment for having mas Day.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
On View from Monday, the 20th January, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
Undersigned have received
The instructions
to sell by
pastime.
conspired to charge another party with rape. On December 1, the "MEN FROM THE WEST:"-day's big story was the introduc- It must be remembered that tion of electric light in Hong- Hongkong's Chinese population in kong!
at day did not thrill to the per-"BARE LUMP OF ROCK:" formances of heroes of the foot-
Thus for an year. A half-cen-
Jan, 28, April 12 and 14. June 2, July 1. Aug. 4. Oct. 6. Nov. 11 and Dec. 26.
Cheung Chau Americans Evacuated
Quite an exodus from Cheung Chau is taking place as the result of instructors received from U.S.A. to evacuate the students and
PUBLIC AUCTION. ball league and there was not the tury earlier, Hongkong was, in the attraction in the evening of a werds of a scribe who wrote two UTA of cinemas and theatres. score years ago, a "bare brown There were, to be sure, Chinese Jump of rock in the sea." "Hong- operas, tea-houses and other cen-kong," the same scribe opined,| Lres of attraction, but these were "can grow nothing bnt wiry of passing interest in days when
has been located there for the last the drama produced very little grass. The land around Hongkong staff of the American school which grows only 9 crop of granite that was new or instructive and
boulders, for miles and miles three yeBTS. the gossip of the tea-houses was along the neighbouring hills on
A party of 50 were to sall from the Colony yesterday, but some of little stilted in an ever eager
the mainland.” sttempt to understand the
Speaking of the approaches to the husbands are remaining and, strange aspirations of the "men
the language the scribe, for the present, from the West.".
Hongkong harbour, commenting on а situation he school will tarry on. claimed to' exist in his time. states, "Hongkong harbour, is the
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Wednesday, the 22nd January, 1941
commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2. Con- naught Road, Central (2nd Floor).
A COLLECTION OF VALUABLE
POSTAGE STAMPS
(mostly China and Hongkong),
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
Wed. In Hongkong vied with one
variety save athletic, and master
as shown by the number of ship-
MONDAY,
JANUARY 20, 1941.
$800 Thousand Additional Building To Police Headquarters
In its issue of Jan. 9, the Hongkong Daily Press revealed that plans for a $800,000 ADDITION TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS building have been completed, and passed, and that tenders for the construc- tion of this edifice" would be called for in the very near future.
Full details of this new structure have been released by the architects, Mesurs. Davies, Brooks and Gran, St. George's Building, and the design of the building, when completed, should be a great credit to Mr. H. J. Tebbutt, ARBA., who was, incidentally, responsible for the plans of a number" of important buildings in Hongkong and Shanghai, #
LI
Removed somewhat from the
The proposed new buliding will, the lifts serving the whole bulld-rooms, one aitting room, gne din- ancient odour of the ways of the
as stated in our prévious article, ing.
ing room, two bathrooms, à ft. mandarins, Chinese and had site contrary to being easy of approach, and to obtain for the unofficial be erected on the eastern side of On the ground floor-the enchen, and the usual servants' another in competition of every wrecks in the vicinity, and by the members and for the community the slope leading up to the com- trance to which will be at the top quarters.
The lower portion of the build- minds met master minds over the number of navigators, who refuse a more potent voice in the ad-pound of Police Headquarters-the of the slope will be the waiting
to take a ship near the place in ministration of "affairs." The ad-site at present occupied by an un-room, offices (occupying a totaling will be finished in pre-cast ter- the reply. sightly building formerly housing area of about 7.446 square feet), ramo facing, while the remainder dress, published with variety of games of chess and the night, though well lighted." bare the signatures of local bust the Special Branch of the CID lavatories, and so forth. At the will be in stipplecrete. All windows
Yet Hongkong was then the first- led to the banker to be shorn-or/Port of the orient, and Marillà, in nessmen of a dozen national- at the Junction of Hollywood Rd. western end of this floor will be a in the building will be of steel.
card tables, over dominoes and a
large flocks of human sheep were
the same scribe's words "almost a their wool at such amusements as suburb of Hongkong." fan tan, po tzi, and dice games of every description.
LAMMERT BROS., THE NEWSPAPERS:--
AUCTIONEERS.
COMMERCE:-
Steamers in Manlia filled their Enough said for what was then bunkers with coal brought from considered, with piracy, one of the Hongkong. Manila bought Kera two biggest problems of the day sene from Hongkong and the peo- MARINE NOTICE in Hongkong. Let us turn for a
A warning issued to mariners on Saturday announced that the
extended.
doorway leading to the bridge con- It will serve as the nerve centre necting this new building with the of the local Police Force as, within existing one on the right side of In 1893, too, people were talking its doors, will be found all the ad- the slope.
The Special
Approximately 8.102 square feet of an Athletic Festival for Hong-ministrative offices. kong to be held in conjunction Branch of the C.LD., now at Chung of the first floor will be given to Exhibition." Tin Building, will occupy offices on offices. There will also be a wait- a "Hongkong with
one of the lower floors as will the ing room, messengers' rooms, and
Javatories on this or Fingerprint Department.
JUNIOE OFFICERS
ties and races. The Chinese signa- and Arbuthnot Road," tures numbered 39, NATIONAL SPORTS:-
SIX STOREYS Covering an area of approximate-
Tenders for the constructional
work will be called for in the very near future. and will be received some time during next month.
TWO SUB-STATIONS
ernment are
"In connexion with this building." it is of interest to note what Gov- contemplating the erection, of two new sub-stations-- one at Kowloon Tong at an appro- The next two floors will be for ximate cost of $30,000, and the
and a half miles either side of a past an even more frequent topic millions of dollars out of Philip as running, rowing, jumping, wrestition and central low pressure heat-these floors will be found the mess development of these two areas á
line joining Pillar Point and Red Foint (Chu Lu Kok).
.d.
ed one me on either side of the line."
The minefield previously extend-
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le of the Philippines bought cot-"The scheme," the Daily Press re ton garments from Hongkong. ported, "is that the coast ports, noment to an year's digest of
Sald the Manila Times: "The Singapore, Shanghai, Yokohama, what the "Colony's newspapers had say. Shipwrecks on the Philippines do indeed grow sugar, Kobe, and perhaps places even a North Lantau Minefield has been china Coast were a very frequent and it" is, refined in Hongkong.ittle further afield might be in-ly 12,800 square feet, this modern
On Valley, at $80,000. With the rapid occurrence and tollisions between Hongkong has several great prosduced to send representatives to six-storeyed building will contain junior officers, each of whom will other at Blue Pool Road, Happy The minefield is now laid for one vessels in the harbours of the Far perous sugar refineries, making compete in national sports such the latest in mechanical ventila- have a separate bed-room.
rooms, lounges, lavatories, and Police station (or even depot) has Valuable, trong Plants
kitchens for pines sugar, while the refineries ling, boxing: etc.
these become an absolute necessity, es- of conversation. Piracies were
The two basements will provide communal
officers.
pecially when the distance of these talked about, as already mention-in the Philippines are struggling phies might be offered and three
concerns not to be compared with days excellent sport might be bomb, blast, and splinter proof ac-
provided."
commodation for 1:150 persons. In Senior officers will have their districts from their controlling Editors slashed
the them and it is the Hongkong at away
That it was an era of excellent these basements wil Iso be situat-quarters on the fourth, fifth, and Police stations (Kowloon city f that supplies the lethargy of mandarin officialdom Ropeworks and the Hongkong Dally Press world. And when communication trophies might be gauged from ed the garages both general and sixth floors. Each officer will have the former, and Wanchai in the WEATHER REPORT intedly remarks in an editorial between Manila and Hongkong is the following report of the prizes individual--the boiler room, and assigned to his own use three bed-latter) is taken into consideration.
Viceroy
of cut off it is the fertile, luxuriantly presented at the annual Hong- Hukwang is awovedly working to productive Manila that starves, kong, School Sports, a forerunner Instead of the barren bit of brown of the Inter-School Sports of the produce rails from Chinese iron...
is programme promises to rock." Thus a high compliment to present day: "The prizes pre
enterprise of Hongkong.sented were a box of mathema- sume much time on its perfor-the nance. Festina lente is.. empha- Would a similar compliment stand tical instruments, boxes of
iours, gold scarf rings and pins, a leally the motto of Chinese re- up to the test today?
football, a silver butter cooler, a Speaking about how long some silver plated ice bucket, a plated families have been in Hongkong biscuit box, etc., etc. let us turn for a moment to a
"Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am, Jan. 19.
29.89
Barometer, (at sea level),
: י למ!
,"
Temperature, 69 F.
Humidity, 90 per cent,
Wind Direction, E.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 2. Temperature: Maximum vesterday
36 F. Temperature: minimum last night
85 F.
1st
or
January: The
formers."
con-
I
co-
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS
AT CENTRAL
Avenue on Friday, The snatcher. Lam Ping, 25, was arrested and charged before Mr. Himsworth on Saturday.
KOWLOON GAS USERS WARNED
As a result of 200 shroff receipts covering gas accounts collectable Kowloon having been stolen. Kowloon consumers are warned to Det. Sgt. 'W.G. Morrison sald withhold
payment temporarily complainant Wes walking and, to be on the look-out for any
of No. 190, bogus collector using those re
de- ceipts. her handbag
SPORTING PUBLIC:-
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE Rearing of the case In which Fifty years ago, another report case before His Honour Mr. EJ. PET GROUSE:→
To win the last mentioned prize. Chan Snu yip. allas Chan Shui- that shows, the Colony had as keen a
Ackroyd, Acting Chief Justice, at sporting public as. It boasts to-the Summary Court in 1893. Mr. worthy performance was ne-
with Prince Edward Road, when as a broker, was charged H.L. Dennys presented his case ascessary, and it might be mention-king, alias Shu Ying, 32, described with Mrs. Lessing. follows: "In or about the year ed that the winner of the quar-
1y. A Straits Settlements team Rainfall for 24 hrs, encing, isited the Colony from Jan. 19
today. 0.17 ins, Tulal rainfall since January
0.94 ins... Against an average of 0.47 ins. Sunset tonight, 8.03 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7.05 a.m.
4 p.m., Jan. 19.
the
of
1
At that time, 1770, the coming off the field with a cruet appeared on remand
residing at
little stand' were
The case concerned bucket!
chase before Mr.tendant during the
was not recovered,
Defendant wa6 sentenced On the request of defendant the
and four months' hard labour and ten
strokes of the cane,
Company, Limited, while he was
and
travelling on a bus from the Cen tral District to West Point on Jan. to 16
PROCURING CHARGE
These receipts, together with to 29, 1890, and Inter-Colonial 1770 a man who belonged to the ter-mile did the distance in 58/having carnal bnowledge of a fendant snatched
$15 $10 in cash, were picked from the shrof of matches were held in four branchun clan cr family-Chun Yut-seconds. This is a fraction of a/12 year-old girl, Kwok Shuk-ching, and contents, valued at ches of sport. Two Inter Colonial hing-presented a god ito a cer-second off the winning perfor-allas Ah Nut, at St. Francis Hotel They gave chase and accused was pocket of Lau Sai in,
Jan. arrested by two passers-by. The the Hongkong and China Gas 'cricket matches were played, antrain temple on the Island) and nance In 19401 Imagine an athle- on Dec, 30, was fixed for
terport billiards and an inter- built over it a small temple or tie hera of our modern youth 24 at 2.30 pm. when defendant handbag was thrown away by de port tennis match. Inter Colonial cover
wing races were held.
family
silver-plated ice-O.T. Lowry on Saturday. Barometer (at sea level), 29.80 ins. traits Settlements winning the Hongkong.." femperature, 12 F
single sculls and Hongkong the a member of the family who had: Before closing. It would be an original ball of $2.500 cash fours. There was even an inter-objected to a troupe of actors car- unworthy achievement if we did the same amounted ti surety was
rying on religious theatricals in not turn up the pet grouse of the reduced to $2,500 each,
Det. Sub-Insp. O'Donovan is in the temple and was in consequence day. The,,Hongkong Weekly Press
of Jan. 25, 1893, carried an extract charge of the case. ejected by the actors.
from the Courrier d'Haiphong re- lating to the worthy French esteem for their
Humidity. 86 per cent. Wind Direction, N. Maximum temperature, 73 F. Minimum temperature, 65 F. Rainfall, 0.18 ins.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 90 to 26 Jan. 1841.
HIGH WATEE.
Doye
Dats
Month.
Height.
Height,
olonial tennis encounter between ladies' teams!
A report speaks of Chinese mili- tary operations in Formosa and! the loss of a Colonel and 100 troops
Shing
THE PUBLIC VOICE
AT KOWLOONTM
BOUND OVER..
luk was searched in Quarry Bay A freman attached to the Cen-about 1.15 p.m. on Thursday when tral Fire Station, Fok Hang. 28.75 bags of rice, valued at $1,600, and two actors. Chan Chung-yau, were found on, board.
the Ban
EXPORTATION OF RICE Ball of $500 was granted... by
24, and Li Hing, 20, were charged
...Defendant admitted that in an engagement, Their Royal It was in 1893 also that rumbles journal's high
Batur before Mr. Himsworth on
rice was to be exported to Highnesses the Duke and Duchess were quite audible on the theme then ambassador to the court at
day with conspiracy to procure | Mel... of Connaught arrived in the Co- of demand for more represents-Feking, M. Lemaire. It would seem lony on Jan. 31 and on the 2nd tion for the public voice on the that at that time, the Ambassa- MI VE Remedios, of No. 24, a 20-year-old spinster, Tam Fung- April they entertained at the Ko Legislative Counell. A first clerk dors at the Manchu Court mea-Billwood Road, appeared as comping, to have enlawful carnal con- Theatre. On April 12. I the Treasury, a Mr. Alves, had sured their dignity by the door plainant before Mr. E. Himsworth nexion with second defendant and Citizen George Franets Train ar- embezzled from the Treasury a which was opened to them for on Saturday when Leung Pun with threatening complainant with Mr. Himsworth on Saturday to wha was charged with rived in Hongkong on his "60 days sum or $83,000: The consequent admittance to the Imperial pre-hing, 30, was charged with lar injuries with intent to alarm her. Leung Chin, 38, foki of boat No.
Det. Sgt. C. Dowman asked for 12804V, around the world" Journey (They furore did not die down for many sence. The only concession ob- ceny of $70,
was moving-70 bags of rice; valued at travelled fast in those days!). months. On May 12, a letter signed tained by Mr. Ở’Conur,” sneered Pleading guilty to the charge, remand of a week which
Defendant were each $1.670 in the Harbour, On March 3, the Hon. Ho Kai by C.P. Chater. Ho Kal. T. the Courrier d'Haiphong, "was to accused was ordered to
sign, a granted;
Mt. CA'S. Russ will appear for 32 was sworn in to Legislative Coun- Whitehead and ER. Bellies, an enter by the Imperial doorway, personal band of $10 to be of on $250 ball.
defendant., Sgt. Galvin asked for of Legislative Instead of by the side door which good behaviour for a year and to 2307 2 cl vice the Hon. Wong Shing. On official members
a remand of 48 hours which was June 20, a report announced the Council appeared in the press. It was opened for Baron von Blegle- pay $70 compensation to death of Lady "Four Bea Woods," said: "We have the honour to ben."-V.VJ.K.
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Det.-Sgt. Bethell prosecuted.
JUNK FOKI FINED
A fine of $500 was imposed by granted. Mr. Elmsworth-on Saturday ស Wong Pui, 20, foki on board trading funk No. T3100H, for ex
the porting rice from
Colony SNATCHER IMPRISONED
the Con Mrs. Friedländer. of No. 23, Ca-without a permit from duringieron Rodd, was the victim of troller of Food
handbag matcher in Peace It was atated that defendant's
one of the Colony's civil servants thanking us for our efforts in the the end of October were 220,242, promote a drop of £38,829, on the average a4 titled the "Inspector of Nuisances Legislative Council to
this period
of Hongkong." On the same day economy and efficiency in the receipts for
survey party of the Canton-Government Service of Hongkong | five pre-war-years,||
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HEARING FIXED
Hearing was fixed for Jan. 21 and 22 by Mr. K.M.A. Barnett on Saturday of the case in, which Feroz Shah, 40, watchman of
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