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H.M.S. Superb's Stores.
A Centenariant.
Mre Rebec: Clark, High-road,
A court-martial has been in-
Wood Green, is 109 years of age. vest gating a serious case of She enjoys remarkably good shortage in
stores borne on
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1913.
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10, Peak, TO
health. Marries 90 years ago, Government charge in H.M.S.MEIRION, No. Mrs Clark brought up nine" Superb"
furnished or unfurnished. į
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LET.-Drawing Room suites and single rooms to lot at BERYL" Station Hotel No. 21, SHELLY STREET, Annexo, Kowloon, Separate bath- No. 59 The Peak, & "CAM- room, tennis court and separate
To let or for sale, GLEN- Kowloon.
The deficiency ohildren, and there are now living amounted to 455 yards of serge, 6 Rooms. four generations of her descend-25 yards of flannel, 40 marked ants. She attributes her long blankets, 147 pairs of woollen life to going to bed early, getting drawers, 68 silk bandkerchiefs, ERON VILLAS," Mount Kellet, entrance.-Apply Station Hotel, up early, and working hard.
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A Mysterious Passage.
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rooms, tennis and croquet lawns.
To let, furnished "KIRKEN- DOA" No. 113 The Peak, till 30th September. Immediate pos- session.
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ANTED.-By a Bachelor, for six months from Date, a
W Four or Five Roomed furnished House Situate on the Middle Levels. Apply 'S. B. c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph
office a non-Chinese Clerk
331 pairs of thin socks, and 209 SHIEL, Barker Roud, No. 124, towels. The Fleet-Paymaster of Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, The bodies of two boys, tied the "Superb" admitted that he 1913,"
CRAIG RYRIE,' No. 4, the| together, were found in a disased failed to examine personally, or and flooded quarry in a lonely to direct the Assistint-Payraaster Peak to let, fine situation; 8 part of Linlithgowshire, near to examine any of the clothing Winchburgh. The bodies were in his charge for a whole year. decomposed and bad evidently fle said he bad trusted to the been in the water a long time. leward, who, in his turn, di The Bruxburn police have detain-claimed any responsibility under
A the regulations, formal ed a man who was living in 'n
reprimand
Do excex Broxburn lodging house.
aive punishment for an officer While the new altar anu reredos who takes his duties no en-ily, were being got up in the chancel especially in view of the posal- bility that this frame of mind of Harrow Church to the memory of Mr Hewlett, the old Harrovino, prevails more widely, in the Navy a flight of worn steps was die than it ought to do. This case covered behind the altar. It is follows closely upon the wholesale thought that the stops may lead disappearance of drums of white to an underground passage which lead from one of the County." Hongkong, 27th June, 1913 (211 oruisers, which nobody respon is traditionally believed to run from the church to fleadstone sible knew anything about, är would have Most Farm. It is said to have apparently ever been made in the Civil War, when known but for one of the culprits hlowing the goff" upon another Cromwell quartored troops in the
nar of vindictiveness Sach inei- church.
deate create an uneasy feeling that there may be a good deal of J. W. Fieber, patters maker, sort of thing going ou, and Preston, was ch: rged with thet there must be serious slack. manslaughter of Jimes Wilan lo whom he had given a slight blow as in the system under which stres are surveyed and checked. in the course of a friendly alter oation over a penny. Wilson
One Godown, Duddell Street. FOR SALE-HARTING and ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- land Lot No. 1154. ·|
| ነፃ WANTED. In a mercantile No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View (Indian preferred). Who is Con- of harbour: 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, versant with the Cantonese col- Garden and Tennis Court. Ac-loquial and acquainted with Fire- and Marine Insurance work. comodations for 30 Servants.
Apply, stating particulars, to X.Ż.Y. c/o Office of this Paper.
The Right of Self-Defence.
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fell and received injuries from With reference to colonial al. DAVIS. which he died. Counsel for lowances for N.C.0.s and pri- Hongkong, 9th June, 1913. [345 Fisher argued that the blow was vates, a "Retired Colonel' given in self-defence as he be-gests that these allowances Bro lieved that Wilson was about to given to commissioned officers in hit him and he had the right under aid of expenses which are borne the law to strike though he had by themselves, whereas the ex- not been struck himself. The penses of soldiers are borne hy Judge endorsed this view, and the State. I cannot follow my cor- the jury returned a verdict of respondent's argument. The sol- Not guilty.
dier gets bis uniform and a ra-
FOR SALE-Auxetophone, by the Gramophone Company, Limited, complete with 100 ra- cords, of which 70 are practically new. This gramophone works It was bought in May, 1911, and is in good condition. Originally cost £100.-Apply to Adjutant 126th Baluchistan Infantry, Kowloon.
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GOOD GLASSES PROPERLY FITTED
There is no economy in going to an optician of doubtful ability to purchase glasses upon which your eye-sight depends.
Personal attention is given to
ned for what they could not pre-officers, who are on precisely the TO LET-AT KOWLOON, NEW MODERN 3 ROOM. vent. It was easy to protect the same footing as N.0.0.s and men|ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms Viceroy in functions in a build-in regard to uniform and I cannot Pantry, Kitchen and Servants' ing, but it was difficult to do so see why the latter should not re-Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with when be took part in processions, ceive an allowance corresponding English Baths, Kitchen has En-OST near Royal George the examination and the fitting
Hotel, Kowloon, White which passed slowly along a pre- to their rank. On the West Coast glish Cooking Range and Hot determined route.' Sir Edward of Africa they do get a colonial Water Boiler. Electric Light Terrier Pup, 2 months old, slightly of lenses that will relieve all condemned the placing of village allowance, not in the shape of ex- throughout. Immediate Posses- yellow spots over eurs. Reward trouble. The only charge is for
Finder.-Apply S. Y. L. c/o the glasses. watchmen ander village pun-tra pay for serving in a bad sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED to
· WITH " Hongkong Telegraph.” chayets, which system, he said, climate this provided for in the TERRACE HOUSES
TENNIS COURTS. Now ready. had the effect of their not giving Royal Warrant-but as a grant for occupation. Apply
to:- news to the police: Sir Edward in aid of the expenses of living. HUMPHREYS КЪТАТЕ & praised the district officer as the Wherever he is stationed a soldier FINANCE. Co, Ltd. backbone of the administration. has private expenses as well as on officer, and he ought to particip- A Girl Wanted Thore. At a recent meeting of the Bury ate with his officers in any help St. Edmunds Board of Guardiane given by the State when he is a letter was rend from a man at sent abroad to do its work. Byron, near London, Ontario,-"Truth."
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are getting it and the officers who Note: are not particularly in India and the the Colonies.-"L, and C..
present at the battle of Feroze sbah. It was fortunate that he was not with his regiment at Express." Delhi in May, 1857, when the of from 18 to 23 years of age who On May 20 two veteran would like to go out to be his ollicers of the Indian Army, both 54th joined the mutineers, and wife. He was just a plain work-of whom were on active service almost all the British officers ing man who had gone to Canada nearly 70 year ago, celebrated were killed. He was Brigado eight years ago from Surrey, and their birthdays, Gon. 0. T. he felt that he wanted a mate. Aitchison being 90, and Ger. H. Major of the Rohilcund Field He offered to pay all expenses, C. Anderson 87. Gen. Aitchison Force during the Mutiny, and and, if required, to furnish rejoined the Bombay Army in 1842, was given a brevet-majority. ferences from people there. All and served with the 2nd Bombay Subsequently he joined the 4th he required was some one country European Regiment daring the bred who would not want a lot Mahratta campaign of 1844-5, Bengal Infantry, which be com- of city life. The chairman said when he was wounded and manded from 1873 to 1880, and the letter seemed to be genuine, mentioned in dispatches. He was nine years ago he was appointed and it was referred to the Esgiven a brevet-majority for his its titular chief. Gen, Anderson tablishment Committee.
good work in Perein in 1858.7, was given the C. B. on the cele Death of the **Sleeping Man." and he also assisted in the
Arthur Fitzgerald Mann, aged suppression of the Indian Matiny, bration of the 50th anniversary 46, known as the "sleeping man," Τη 1876 ho was awarded of the Mutiny in 1897.-"Globe." died last month in the Bakewoll the O. B. Gen. Anderson workhouse infirmary. Mr Mann joined the Bengal Army also in left the United States last April, 1842, and served with the 54th Some time ago the Secretary and on arriving in Derbyshire be Bengal Native Infantry in the for War, Colonel Seely, announced
'Army Pay,
fell asleep, and did not wake for Sutlej campaign of 1845-6, being with a flourish of trumpets, bis
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THE FAIR FARM
a week. After recovering he
scheme for increasing the pay of started for Bakewell, but fell
officers, and for enabling poor asleep on the road, and did not
men who had won their com- wake for five days. He was late
missions through shear merit to ly found on the bank of the River
live on the allowance which a Lathkil in a wet and unconsciona
generous country makes. One of condition, and it is believed that
the stipulations is that selected while sitting on the bank of the
non-commissioned officere, must river he was seized, with one of
have three years' service, and an his sleeping attacks and fell into
18 Located in The Healthiest education something below the the water. A medical officer District of Kowloon, and Supplies stated, at the inquest that the us daily with the Choicest par of a first-class certificate. shook would produce sufficient VEGETABLES, EGOS, and This rule cuts out all men who have been enlisted for three years stimulus for him to get out, but POULTRY.
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