NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
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DINNER DANCE
Saturday-10th September
KOWLOON RESIDENTS*
ASSOCIATION, ~
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
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NOTICE..
Kowloon, 7th September 1921.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1921.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
As certain times of the year | many birds,leave their native homes. They have to go-in search of food. But there are Discerning beauty in the leaf many other creatures which seem Particulars and Conditions of of a sprig of parsley, the fourteen- to be driven 10, wander by a spirit mau of restlessness akin to that which the letting by Public Auction year-old daughter of a The Committee of the Kowloon Sale, to be held on Mondas, ufacture invented one of the most makes the human gipas move Residents Association respect the 12th day of September. 1921, popular patterns in cotton cloth constantly about the country. fally urge the members of their at 3 p.m. at the Offices of the The manufacturer-Poel by name The British common red squirrel Association to sign the petition Public Works Department, by was engaged in making some is an example in point. The THE JAZZ BAND OF THE now being circulated for popular Order of His Excellency the experiments in printing on cotton squirrel, it is said, pairs for life: "KEYSTONE STATE WILL representation in the Government Governor, of
Lot of handkerchiefs, which his little yet a pair of squirrels do not re RENDER SPECIAL DANCE of the Colony.
Crown Land at Taitam Bay daughter hurried in from the main in the satue coppice or wood MUSIC.
in the Colons of Hongkong, garden with a sprig of parsley all their lives. They wander She remarked that she thought it across the country, and a curians would make a pretty pattern, and point of their wandering is that her father said he would experi- they nearly always travel in ment with it. A pewsor dinner-
northerly direction. Some plate was taken down from the monkers have a similar babit. It shelf, and on it was sketched the is said that a chimpanzze never] figure of the parsley leaf. From uses its sleeping platform a this impressions were taken. The second night. Yet each night it child's idea helped to lay the makes for itself a rough nest or foundations of the enormous for-platform on which to sleep. The tunes of the Peel family. Among gorilla of the Niger Foresta members of the trade it was wanders constantly, and rarely the parsley-leaf spends two nights in the same spoken of pattern; while the father of the tree. The only exception is when little girl became known as the female gorilla has her young
Parsley Peet."
family to look after.
DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL
KOWLOON.
The School will be re-opened on Wednesday September 14:5.
. C. A. FERGUSON,
HONOKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL!
THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL Headmistress.REOPENS AND A BEGIN
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
CO., LTD.
The Ordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices 20. Des Voeux Road on Friday Sept. the 30th instant at Noon.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 16th to the 30th of September both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers.. Hongkong, 9th Sepz., 1921.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE -
NERS CLASS will be started on Monday, September 19th at 5.15 p.m. at the Chinëse Language School, junction of Zelland Street and Ice House. |Street, (Masonic Hall Premises),
ed to send in their names to the Intending Students are request- undersigned for enrolcent
By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary. Hongkong, Sept. 6th, 1921.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
for
$
of 75 term
years,
with the option of renewal at Crown Reat to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
years.
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HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
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The Yise and fall of large bodies
The ingenuity of the modern of water a phenomenon to which film camera-man is seldom out we have applied the name of tides to greater teat than when he has is the result of the influence to climb into the clouds in an exerted upon the earth by the aeroplane and secure thrilling moon and sua. Both pull or pictures of adventures in mid- artract the earth in varying de-air. Aircraft diring, looping, and grees, the power of the moon be spinning at over a hundred miles ing about two and a quarter times an hour have to be kept in the as great as that of the sun. This focus of a narrow legs, a feat NOTICE is hereby given that action is most exident in the which requires an almost instins. with reference to the Special Refluid portion of the earth's surface tive sense to make it possible to --the oceans and larger lakes anticipate the morements of the solution, passed and confirmed at
which are so affected that they machines. Pathes employ Q ex- Extraordinary General Meetings
bulge outward, forming a rising of dying offer for the purpose of of the above Company held the water on the side of the earth obtaining mid-air thrills for the the 13th and 31st days of August 1921 regarding the division of the rarest the moon, and also on the screen. Recently, this camera- above Company's share capital pposite side with corresponding man obtained what is the first from shares of the denomination low water between. The reason for complete loop by an aemplane of $50 each into shares of the extreme high tides at the times of in mid-air secured by the Sla depomination of $10 each, ine new and full moon is because camera. Many hundreds of feet order to enable such Special Re-he moon is then in a line with of film were wasted before the the sun, and the water reacts to perfect result was registered. aulutions to be carried into e Tect the combined pulls of both bodies. On one occasion the camera-man it is necessary that chareholders; should forthwith forward to the At the time of the first and third dived in his aeroplane of undersigned the Share Certi-quarters of the moon this in other machine spinning earth- fluence is divided-the single unit wards at one hundred and fifty Credit National Bonds to te and will be payable at the ficates in respect of their respec-pull of the sun acting at right! miles an hour, and during this tive holdings of shares in the Company in exchange wherefor angles to the two and a quarter dizzy descent had to gauge ac the undersigned will, upon receip: unit pull of the moon, thus dim-curately, the whole time, the of such Share Certificates, turinishing materially the attraction exact speed at which to turn the ward to the respective bolders exerted upon the earth and pro-handle of his camera. thereof written acknowledgmentsly as high as the ones occurring ducing tides that do not rise near-i
DE CHINE.
It is hereby notified for the information of those who have deposited with this Bank French Government Bonds or interim certificates for such Bonds for safe custody, or who have deposi-, ted interim certificates of the
exchanged for permanent Boads, that the following telegram has been received from Paris in con-
nection with such Bonds.
atates
The First yearly Drawing of Twenty Debentures of the Hong, kong Club (1920 issue, $500 each) was held in the Club House on Thursday, the 8th September 1921, when the following Debentures were drawn for Redemption
28 100
495
60.1 635
442
43
139 487
68
172
742
#9
293
552
805
$0 354 601 820
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation on Friday, the 30th September 1921, in exchange for
surrender of same.
By Order.
"
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary.
**Administrator Reglement Transactionel
Bonds deposited for safe custody at the disposal of Clients where Hongkong, 8th September, 1921. there is no lebit accoun: or legal difficulty."
The undersigned will be pleased FIRST LUSTRUM, HOLLAND to transmit instructions from BondholderS to the Adminis-
trator at Paris as to the disposal
of their Bonds.
CLUB.
The Committee of the Holland
of the receipt thereof.
When the new Certificates in respect of the division of the shares into shares of the denomi-
during the times of the full or
new moon.
an-
THE CORDILLERE AND GLAUCUS REFLOATED.
Damage to M. 1. Liner Not
Yet Ascertained.
A preacher in a London church ication of $10 each as aforesaid preached recently on "Purified are ready, Notice thereof will be by Fire, and a few days later given to shareholders and such the sanctuary was burnt down. The M.M.S. Cordillere, which new Certificates will be obtainable Texts sometimes
went aground on Tangsha Bank by shareholders upon application to the undersigned at the Lom appropriate, though they are not on August 22, was refloated on
the 2nd ins!. such grimi often attended to results. We have, for instance, News ofthe salving of the Glau- the story of the preacher who, in C3s was re orted in yesterday's
ledgments.
prove
very
the
It is requested that when com-Club will be at Home to members pany's Registered Office in the municating with the undersigned and friends on the occasion of the Hongkong Hotel. Pedder Street the numbers of the Bonds be celebration of the Efth anniver- Victoria Hongkong, in exchange order to conceal his short stature, issue. The tugs St. Dominic, quoted.
sary of the Club on Saturday, for the above mentioned acknow-stood in the palpit on a pile of Victoria and Alexandra brought 10th September, from 12.30 p.m.
Blas Funnel liner hassocks. He gave out his text, Dated this Seventh day of A little while and ye shall see Glaucus off the mud at about September, 1921.
Monday, and me: a little while and ye shall not. p.m. see me." when to the mirth of the by the next high tide the follow- congregation his support collapsing morning were equally suc ed, and he disappeared from cessful
F. A. M. WILLIAMS, Special Manager. Banque Industrielle de Chine.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned have received
instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Saturday, the roth Sept. 1021. commencing at tin.m.
at thoir Sales Rooms, Deddell
Street
to 1.30 p.m.
By Order, J. H. VAN GENNEP LUHRS,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, Sept. 8th, 1921.
THE HONGKONG ROPE
MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR ($1.-) per share, for account 1921, will be payable
on Monday the 19th September
FOR THE HONGKONG
HOTEL COMPANY
LIMITED.
H. N. Beaurepaire
Secretary.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
оп
in dealing with the
view. "But the eyes of the Cordillere, towing her into deep wicked shall fail" was the index water at about 11 am.
During the last few days the to a sermon prepared by a certain curate. Unfortunately he had .M.S. Commandant Mages has
been
the relied on reading his sermon
anchored close to when his glasses slipped from his stranded mail steamer as a base nose and broke upon the floor. and receiving ship. It was not And then he wondered
use her for towing. why decided to
Only after the tugs bad made a everybody laughed!
Fruitless effort, had it been Arranged that the Commandant Few people realize what a Mages should make a "big pull,"
A Few Complete Sets of Crystal 1991. Shareholders are requested From YOKOHAMA via KOBE, marvellons pumping engine is the as did the Blue Funnel steamers
Glass Table Services
to apply for Dividend Warrants: DAIREN & SHANGHAI,
Also
at the Company's Oce, St.
A Few Pieces of Crystal Cut
George's Building, Hongkong.
The Company's Steamship
Glass Jugs, Vases, Bowls etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of
ALASKA MARU"
On view from Friday the 9th
inst.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
heart-beats.
power.
human heart. Its work, from awith the Glaucus last week. man's cradle to his grave, is
The latter ship arrived in port incessant and stupendona. On
under her own steam in the an average, each human hear afternoon. As the Cordillere's the Company will be closed from having arrived from the above heats about 4,500 times an hour raider post is damaged she is Saturday, 10th September 1931. ports. Consignees of Cargo arel Every single mioute, after its unable to proceed under her own
this! to Monday the 19th September hereby notified that their goods, sever ty-five 1941, both days inclusive.
are being landed and placed at wonderful engine-bas pumped 750 |
When surveying takes place SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
their risk in the Hongkong and cubic inches of blood. This means on this vessel in a few days Kowloon Wharf and Godown that the heart pumps over 225.000 time, it will probably be found General Managers.
Company's Godowns at Kowloon cubic feet of blood every year that she requires a two months where delivery can be obtained as Think of the heart as a water pump; refit, a representative of the local soon as the goods are landed. By the same reckoning it wonkaffics of the Messageries Mari- Good not cleared by the 15th pump, aoproximately. no less times informed the North China Sept. 1921 will be subject to rent. than 7.000 tons of water in the Daily News,
Damaged packages must be left course of a year. If it were
THFUndersigned have received THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL
instructions to Sell ty Public Auction on
Wednesday, the 14th Sept. 1921
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street
A Fine Valuable Collection of Antique and Curios
comprising :-
COMPANY LIMITED.
SILIMPOPON COAL.
in the Godowns for examination possible to collect in a cubical) by the Consignees representative reservoir all the blood pumped by The andersigned are prepared and the Company's Surveyors, a human heart in one year, that to quote prices for best quality Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at reservoir would be about Gift, freshly mined SILIMPOPON 10 am. on Wednesday and Satur-square-large enough to contain COAL, trimmed into Bunkers at day. All claims must be present-about 1,700,000 gallons of water. SEBATTIK
within Teo days of the SANDAKAN) ed
or
J
JUDGE ON THE CHEEKY CHILDREN OF TO-DAY.
How They Were Treated In Victorian Times.
TS THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. T
482
3552
24 Des Vœux Road Central.
3552
FIRST CLASS LIVERY SERVICE.
GARAGES IN HONGKONG & KOWLOON.
HONGKONG-24 Des Voeux Road, Central, Tel. 482 and 3552 and at 20 Praya East, Tel. 8609.
KOWLOON-26 Nathan Road, Tel.. K226 H.K. or 432.
REDUCED
PRICES!!
MOTOR CAR TYRES.
Effective this data we neu enabled to announce » large reduction in the prize af motor car and motor (FLİO INIMA L— DUNLOP MAGNUM NON-SKID.
OTHER MAKES. 3223 CL
$43.79
Fisk Non-skid (), $35.00
FB 13
32 x 34 SA.
32 $ 85.
31
Fisk
50.00
58,87
334 89.
53.77
31 x +
Siout
80.00
344 CL
$0.00.
11.4
32 x 4
General Cord 8.3. 179.80
S.S.
.56.58
33x5
73,00
19.33
3414
Fisk Non-ažid S.S. 35.00 Fiak plain S.S.
55.00
30.00
820 x 120 Sioux Non-skid Cl. 95.00
12.17
3.73
$15 x 105 divus
30.00
112.13
$15 105 Genl. Fabric
75.00
Eat.ely sew Stock
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
TA
453 £ 3311
Tel.
3552
The 3rgest stock of tyres as the Culous
AT YOUR SERVICE
CARS THAT ARE COMFORTABLE
RATES THAT ARE REASONABLE.
DRIVERS THAT ARE RELIABLE.
SCENERY THAT IS ENCHANTING.
SATISFACTION
Hongkong 2556
BY
THAT IS ASSURED. -
*PHONING EITHER
Kowloon H
The United Motor Co., Ltd.
WORLD THEATRE
PHONE. 1337
PHONE. 1337.
Hongkong's Most Modern Picture Palace Entirely Under British Management.
Saturday, 10th. to Monday. 12th September.
--9.15 p.m.-
AUGUTUS
THOMAS' Famous American Success
“AS A MAN THINKS’
Featuring
LEAH BAIRD
The Picture Girl Beautiful,
WHY DOES SOCIETY PUNISH A FAITHLESS WIFE MORE SEVERELY THAN A FAITHLESS HUSBAND?
MATINEE PROGRAMMES
5-15 p.m. Friday, 9th & Sunday 11th - A PLACE IN THE SUN.” Saturday, 10th:-"TO HONOUR AND ÖBEY:""
7.15 P.M.
Friday to Monday :-"VANISHING TRAIL," 8 & 9 Epis.
USUAL PRICES.
Booking at Messrs. MEHTA & CO. (Phone 051.) Hongkong Hotel Buildings.
(British North Borneo) or to steamer's arrival here, after which Some birds, such A3 Jarka, Are the children of to-day more Old Bronzés, Jade. Agate and contract for regular Bunker Sup-date they cannot be recognized. finches, buntings, starlings, and impudent than those of years Crystal ornaments, Ivory carving, plies for 6 or 12 months at favour-No claim will be admitted after thrushes, tly in flocks from one ago?
the goods have left the Godowns. part of the country to another in The question was raised by an Embroideries, 5-coloured, 3-col-able rates. ·
No fire insurance whatever will their partial migrations, and one incident in Lambeth County oured, Famille-rose, and Blue and] Steamers calling at SEBATTIK be effected. white vases, jars, bowls and wall or SANDAKAN exclusively for
sometimes sees a great troupe Court. An applicant for posses- plates of Kanghi. Tongching. Bankers are exempt from pay-send in their Bills of Lading for the level of the water than the children annoyed his father, who Consignees are requested to crossing the ses no higher above sion of rooms said the tenant'e Kienlung and Towkwang periods, ment of ordinary Port Charges.
countersignature immediately. Including Scrolls of Tang, Sung The minimum draft of water
rigging of a abin, and looking like was a reader at Brixton Syna OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, cloud of smoke. Bat this is not gogue. When remonstrated with, Yuen, Ming and Tsing Dynasties, alongside the Company's Wharf
the Y. YASUDA,
children wero At Sebattik is 28 feet at low water!
the way with the majority of he said,
BAD LANGUAGE “LICENSES.":
¡PUBLIC WASHHOUSES PROSPEK, Also
Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie;
migratory birds; most of them fly cheeky.
No license can be given to There are over 2,000 customer fairly high Even wild geese,
"That is the general charac-soldiers in hospital to use bada month at Fulham's public required information concerning
whose flying phalanx can be seen teristic of the children of to-day," language," the chairman of the washhouses, the figures being an the the port can be bed on applica
so plainly, go northward at a con- replied Judge Parry. "I am Oxford justices told an offender. increase of 477. tion to
Manager.
A Few Pieces of Old Lac-Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any Hongkong, 9th September, 1921, quered-ware
On view from Tuesday
13th September
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Agents,
siderable height.--
Some Batro not sure," added bis Honour, IN MEMORY OF LORD ROBERTS- "LEFT-HAND" MOTORS. nomers have seen birds at night whether the Early Victorian
To commemorate the residence RELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS. Disapproval of left-hand driven crossing between their telescopes children were better, but if they of the late Field-Marshal Earl A bill has been passed by the -- mator-cars in London was ex- and the moon's disc, and have did not do as they were told it was Roberts, the LCC. intend to Chinese Cabinet grautlog $10,000 The COWIE HARBOUR COAL pressed by the City Coroner (Dr. estimated their elevation at nearly worse for them than it is for the tablet at 47, Portland for the relief of flood sufferere s
cheeky children of to-day.” CO. LTD.
two miles.
Mienyang, Hupeh. place, W.
Waldo).