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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
CANTON TO CELEBRATE
VICTERY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1931.
CONSIGNEES.
HOTELS.
· Victory Gate" to be Opened. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
Parade for participation in the elebration.
"PANAMA MARU".
THE HONGKONG HOTEL C
OPERATING —
HONGKONG HOTEL
(1ang-ng)
LTD.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL PENINSULA HOTEL (Kowloon)
(Repulse Bay]
(URĖSI DUBAI PINKLİBİ )
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
(Pedicur SOL)
REPULSE BAY GARAGE
Battles fought with Prowless Aug. 7th, next Saturday, will aeroplane bombers, mines unman-ba observed as Victory Day in OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. ned. submarines, ships, search-Canton in commemoration of the lights, guus, etc., all controlled very of the Cantonese Army From YOKOHAMA via KOBE by wir les all the mapbination in the recant campaign against*
& NAGASAKI, of strif› brought into play, per the Kwangsi militarists: Bamboo hape, by the simple pressing of arches are now being erected in The Company's Steamship button! Such, it is said, are but a different important streets of a few of the wireless wonders of the city for the eventful day, A the future. Along the paner side parade will be held and people having arrived from the above! of life there are otherjays to come of all classes are now registar-ports, Consignees of Cargo are TOWN GARAGE & SHOW ROOMS RUSSELL STREET GARAGE The journalist will be armed withing the naines of their organisa hereby notified that their goods a pocket wireless telephone in-tions, clubs, ar guilds with the are being landed and placed at siri ment. From the scene of his programine committee of the
newN story he will talk bis dret to the news-room, and revive his instructions frum the
The front of the Governor's editor without further time and Yamen is now being altered and
noner being wasted in getting
"Victory Gate" is being built hart to the office. Wireless pho-in place of the old wall which has totaphs will extend their power. When the wireless system is more perfect newspapers will be able io publish pictures at topical in terest within twenty minutes of their being taken and at a dis- tance of 10,000 miles away. trains no driver, guard and stoker! will be necessary; wireless will is control the whole thing from baginning to end. Who knows?
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B
len turn down.
their risk in the Hongkong and Godown Kowloon Wharf and t'ompany's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as son as the goods are landed.
Goods not cleared by the 30th Aug. 1921 will be subject to rent. Damaged packages must be left To add to the impressiveness of the Godowns for examination victory Day. next Saturday, the by the Consignees' representative burning of the large quanity of and the Company's Surveyors, confiscated opium will also take Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at place.
1a.m. on Wednesday and Satur- While the defeat of militarismday. All claims must be present- within Ten days of the being celebrated the burning of ed the confiscated opium will impress teamer's arrival here, after which the people that clean government date they cannot be recognized will be the keynote of the new No claim will be admitted after authorities in Canton, in the ad-the goods have left the Godowns. ministration of their duty toward No Sre insurance whatever will
Can be effected. the country and province.
s
WEATHER REPORT.
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Over
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Science has done wonders for the sense of sight. Eye troubles can be cured quickly and painless By: the oculis: can Rive บง spectacles when our sight is fail- ing. The telescope diminishes distance; the microscope enables us to see things invisible to normal vision; and with the aid of the micrograph we
Augus: 244. 11h 20m-Pressure can take pictures of those things. By has increased moderately means of the microphone we can Shanghai, and slightly hear a fly walk or a caterpillar Formosa and the Loochoos. erawl, and instruments have ben is nearly stationary at other perfected with an almost uncanny reporting stations. "Hense of tout." to serve us where A trough of low pressure"ex- ringers fail. But science is beaten tends from Tongking to the Fouth | by be sense of smell. This sens of Japan, with a shallow depress- has been blunted by the fact that ever lainan. we no longer need for our pre-
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 servation to sniff the presence of an ere, or for our dinner to ours ending at 10 am to-day. to low the scent of an animal. 0.27 inches. Total since Januars Deer can detect the presence of lat. 73.76 inches. against an man or wolf from a distance of average of 63.20 inches. two miles. Yet science cannot FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOUR tell us why, though it has exa-)
ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW. mined the olfactory nerve of the
District. deer. Nor by chemical test can science detect any odour in the air given off by man which would betray his presence to the deer.
SHERIA
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To the modern playgoer it incomprehensible that until the mildis of the seven 'teenth century, women were entir-ly excluded from the cart of publicly performed plays. The first English actress to appear was Mrs. Colman, who took part in Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes" in 1658
Did you know that blue-eyed cats are invariably deaf? It's e fact. Even more surprising is the fact that human beings with a bluish tint in the whites of their eyes are prone to deafness.! These persons, moreover, hav
with britele bo tầ Ona girl Hidish ese-whites bad 120 fractures in
The two years. trouble runs in families, and generally those affected are short in stature. In one family it was traced for five generations, and thirty-one of thirty-five members of the family were afflicted with deafnek and brittle bones.
0
1 Hongkong to Gap
Rock
...
2 Formosa Channel
Forecast.
E.
| variable winds, light to moderates J showery..
The same
1 No. 1.
3 South coast of The same
China "between H.K. & Lamecks.)
+ South coas:
of)
China between H.K. & Hainan.)
T. F. AITON,
as No. 1.
The same us No. 1.
Director.
.K. Observatory, Aug, 24, 1921.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Barometer Temperature Homility
Previous
Day
on fate.
on date.
4 p. 3. 2.1.1.
:29.56 29.62 29.63
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Y., YASIDA.
Manager. Hongkong, 24th August, 1921.
NOTICE.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
CO., LTD.
An INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents (5) cents) per Share has been declared for the half year ending 30th June 1921.
Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after Friday the Pri September at the offices of the Company, where shareholders. are requested to apply for War-
rants.
The REGISTER of SHARES' of the Company will be closed from the 30th August 1921 until the 9th September 1921 (both days inclusive during which period no ranster of shares can be regiscar- ed.
By order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO..
General Managers.
EXCHANGE.
(Opening Rate: closing Rate
NT
Demand
10 d/a
PROPRIETORS:
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.
TBL 373.
Talexraphis Address: "VICTORIA
J. WITONELL,
Manager.
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THE PEAK
530 FEET 460/E
HOTEL.
SEA LEVEL
15 MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE. UNGER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. BLAIR.
EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.
SITUATION
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT, THE PREMIER HOTEL FINEST
EXCELLENT CUISINE.
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HOTEL
MID-LEVEL
KO LOON
SACHSE, LENNOX & Co.. Genera! Azen's
Are resident Managers.
RIVER LEVELS.
As a guide to shipmasters and others interested in the water levels of the river we have been requested by the Board of Con- servancy Works of Kwangtung to pablish the following table of water levels. The levels are taken at 10 am. each day.
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
WEEK DAYS.
Every 13 mia
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15 min
10 min
15 min
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NOTICE.
ENTERTAINMENT.
HE CORONE
PICTURE HOUSK DE LUXE SE
TO-DAY at 230, 5.15 and 0.15
FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY
"THE DEVIL'S PASSKEY"
Topical Budget.
KOWLOON THEATRE
TO-DAY at 5.45 and 9.15.
THE CLARINS
in Songs and Dances
NORMA TALMADGE
.IN
“SHE LOVES and LIES."
SLIGHTLY INCREASED PRICES.
HONGKONG THEATRE
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY.
PAULINE FREDERICK
in
"RESURRECTION
CHARLES MURRAY
in
NEVER TOO. OLD.”
TO-DAY'S SHARE
QUOTATIONS.
OFFICIAL PRICE. Bank*.
ם
732
224
PASSENGERS DEPARTED.
Per FUSHIMI MARU --- Mr. P. Bossut, Mr. H. B. Cooper. Mes. 6. M. Churn, Mr. J. Fujimoto Mr. S. Hagiwara, Miss A. B. Jones, Miss Kong. Mr. W. F. C. Momma, Miss Mckay, Mrs. Pyne, Commander Pyne, Mr. J. Sekine, Mrs. M. A. R. Souza, Mr. H. A. R. Souza. Mias M. White, Commander Westfall, Mr.. O. Wariu, Mr. G. Young, Mrs. J. E. Costa, Mr. H. T. H. Oban, Mr.. Resuricoiou, Mr. W.Shibata, Mr. Fun Wau Shek. Mrs. Wong Ha Shee, Mr. Wong King Hang. Mr. En Shui Tai, Mr. & Mrs. Kui Kwok Chang, Miss N. E. Britto, Mr. Cecil, Miss S. Elfman, Mr. J. M. P. Hirmanns. Mr. S.
Mr..
1. E. S. Kuriyama
Mori, Miss Hodge, Mr. B. E. J. Momma, Dr. Newman, Commander. Rogers, Miss M. Sano, Mr. & Mrs. G. W. C. Sharp. Mrs. T. Tomizuka, Miss Doris Taylor, Mr. Y. Wuriu, Dr. Wissler.. Mr. Y. Adachi, Mrs. W. Goulbors. Mr. A.-J.-Peterson-MB-H. M Zequeira, Mr. Wong Chuen, Mr. 82/6 Luk Sik Sung. Mr. & Mrs. S. Mukasa, Mr. Wong Fook San, Mr. 1014 ee Shiu Sun & Mr. & Mrs. Li
Slag.
1201
Highest W. L. Lowest W. L.
ser
tecorded
Ferl
стар recorded Feet
Wuchow,
West River
79.50
-242
WE TW. L. A-22 Aug 23 Feet Feet 32.20
on Page 1). SELLING.
Kongmoon.
14.70
-0.80"
5.40 5.60
H.K. S. Bank
£35 paid
11.
n.
435
Linkonghow, North
-57.03
7.59
7.8)
3k. of E. Asia
b.
152
2/844
Samstui. Sheklung
-27.25
-5.00
18.20
8.30
Marine loчurances.
East
+15.15
-0.98
0.99
105
Задсола
b.
495
2/82.
North China
153
Unions
IL
230
* dis
Yangisze
b.
24
1 m/s
2/8/1
Far Easterns
b.
MVT Shanghai
Nom.
FIT Singapore,
11614
TIME TABLE.
Fire lasurenCCS.
IT Japan
101
China Fires
b.
T/T Indis.
191
1.00 .. to 1.07 0.
1. K. Fires
b.
122 3:25
Jamand, India
3.05
to 30.3.
So 10.00
69 81
85
Shippie.
66
89 75 & New York.]
IT San Francisco 494
13.30 p.m.
12.30 p.m. to 230 p.m.,
Douglases
..
55
10 100.3.
156
18.19 p.)
HK Steamboats b
25
2
1
2
IT Marksmi
IT Fraces
Nom. 6.35
Indos (Pref)
b
33
C
ор
Indo Del Lon/Reg. n. Indo Def. H. K. Reg. n. thells
2921
BUYING.
F'errion
1 n/a L/C
2/97%
b.
Refineries.
28714
96/- 2924
4 m/s. D/P
2/1014
6 m/s. L/C
2/10/1
Sugars
a.
T. F. CLAXTON, Director. H. K. Observatory, Aug. 24
24th 8110 d/s. Sydney and)
Melbourne...
Malabon=
186 55
2/1156
10 d/e.San Francis
co& New York)
524
4 m/s. Marks
Nam. 6.95
Kallans Langkais
Mining
b.
hanghai Loans
D.
>'hai Explorations.
7.15
Laubs
b.
$1
Tronohs
b.
Bral Caspian-
9.
A scribe in a Home paper lets Wind Direction himself go as follows:
"Watch that man over there," Wind Force he and the Weather.....
Asid the doctor.as
W S. 8.3.W.IT Java
0.00 0.00 0.27 open air Temperature on the 23rd 89:
*ir open Temperature on the
writer were walking together in a Rain......... London park. "See anything | peculiar about him." He walk Highest rather like a cat on hot bricks,"! was the answer. "Exactly. ILowest will make you a small bet that the poor fellow is suffering from sciatica He is afraid to put his "That is heel to the ground." interesting. Are there any other discases you can spot at sight, so
Demand, Paris ......
4 m/s. Francs
Nom.
191
Nom
191
10 speak?" "Plenty. Locomotor up and disguise his form. The 6 m/s. Franca....
takie, for instance. When it is robin would be much more in evi- Demand, Germany. pronounced, anyone, of course, dance to his enemies if he were Demand, New York 493% can see it,but even in its vers early painted all red. But he has a IIT Bombay sters a medical man sill notice parti-coloured dress, and often be Demand, Bombay... that, instead of lifting his feet, will be in situations where his red T Calcutta......... the bufferer steps with a kind of waistcoat might pass for a splash Demand, Calcutta...
Nom. 104. sideways sweep. "P-lsy, again. of light, or a coloured leaf, or an Yokohama......... 101
Seen from Demand, Manila This very often first shows in the banch of red berries. Gnzers. The Fufferer rubs his above, his olive-green back might Demand, Singapore. 11611⁄2
thumbs together. be no more than a dark leaf. The Demand, Batavis Later the disease affects his walk.lark's dress is a grassy pattern, Haiphong and be moves in little jerks or so that be perfectly matches the On Saigon Jans.. "GP.I. is easily detected. grasses among which he feeds and Oo Bangkok What is it? Oh, general paralysis nests. The woodcock's plumage Sovereign of the insane. In the beginning is exactly Tke the withered stalk Gold tear per Tael... 5'40 · the pupils of the eyes are of and leaves of the ferns and gra-se Bar Silver, ready... 38 different sizes, and the corners of of his solitary haunts. The grouse
fingers ard
11.02.
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Buy is mis
15 m
KIE ST
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30 min
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NIGHT CARS.
NIGHT CARS.
3.50 p.m. to $.00 p. x. 1.27 pm. -
3.50 m. 111-50 p.m. every 50 mianta 11.45 p.m
SATURDAYS.
EXTRA CAR 11.00 midnigh
SUNDAYS.
8.00 to 11.10.1.
2.
■.0, 11.00 abo
p.m. to $30 p.m.
1.30 p.m. to
3.00 3.
6.00 p. 1.30 p.m.. 1.30 p. to 1.13 je
As of Week Daya SPECIAL CARS.
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TIDE TABLE.
22nd to 28th Aug., 1921.
Weight.
b.
سال
18-
locks, Wharves, hodawans, & .
90 6. 1894 sa. 190 Cements
Miscellaneous
Chins' Light old b Do. Light new b
1.K. Wharve-
bai Docke
Hongkong Ropes b. & sá. 24
n.
1.3 b. & sa. 12
China Providents 8.
b. 16. 16.20 11.10
If 12.10.
156
Dairy Farme
b.
2.14
Nom.
Jentexis
b.
140
Electrics H.K.
п.
2312
Low Water
78
koog
Hongkong
Mean Time
.... Nom. 7.20
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Wed, 24 m
Thur, 25 m. 42 THL 26 m 1 38 5.9
Mon 22 m 11 3
23 21 43
05 1.6 0 2 53
1 308 47
6.t
z 5 8
I s
5.4
349m 2 t
8,5
5 46
6 17.
LK. Hotels LK Lands I'phreys ESL C'loon Lands
Reclamations b
b. Fast Points
Cotton Milis,
D.
218
Electrics Macao b.
22
II.
201
b.
1.10 H Tramways
b. ex div. 13.10
b
40
Peak Trams, old
Σ
9
130
Do.
new D.
1
51
Steam Laundries b.
8,60
Steel Foundries
b.
104
Water-boat
FL.
16.
7 21
WOS
b. & să.
22
Watsons
b..
8.10
Kung Yiks
Wm. Powells.
b.
18
.9.2
741a
La Kung Mows Jrientals
b.
17
do New issue b.
par.
Jst, 27
6.1
m 1 52
Thai Cottons
D.
155
4 56%
4.1
8 3.a
1/2 pn. 114% dis. 15,2% dis.
Jun. 28
1 0 6
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the lips draw down. But please is painted with the colours and Back of England rates 516%, don't think that everyone whose patterns of heather, and one may New York/Loudon ... 3.66 pupils are different is a suffererce in his plumage wood-riu! from this dreadful thing
pictures of heather, twigs, leaves.
10
5
and blossoms. The peacock gives The robin's, red breast is perbaps, the best example of typical example of Nature's gorgeous dazzle-painting for con kong 50 ct. pieces dazzle-painting. That splash of cralment. The colours blend sn) red a really to conceal the robin perfectly with the bright hues of from his foes. It is a bit of protec-the tropical trees whereon he Canton sub, coins tire colouring, tending to break perches as to make him invisible, Hongkong Aug. 24, 1921.
H
6 21
m morning; a afternoon
25
S. KOMURA, Manager. No. 14, Pedder Street Hongkong
Yangrezepoas
Wisemans b. ex ris. cnm dir 31
Hongkong. Aug. 24, 1921.
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