NEW
PREPAID
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ADVERTISEMENTS WE the indigned hereby
25 WORDS-
$1.00 for 3 insertiona $1.50 if not prepaid State if Box No; is required
TO BE LET.
TO LET-Large Ground Floor
Office, Central Location.
give rate that we have resumed bush as as shara and general brokers under the style or firm of WRIGHT AND COM-! PANY at Princes Buildings, Ice House Street, Third Floor as from
the 31st. March 1924.
Telephone No 3519 Central,
J. F. WRIGHT.
J. W. HORNBY.
NOTICE.
AMUSEMENTS
PUBLIC DINNER
to
Sir Willian Rees-Davies, K. C.
-
the should be given by T is proposed that a dinner Forsign Community in honour of the departing Chief Justios at the Hongkong Hotel, on Satur day, 12th. April at 8 pm. Gentlemen wishing present should notify before 5th. April, their intention to Colonel Robertson, Hongkong Club, who will be supply all
Particularly suitable for Banking HONGKONG & CHINA GAS particulars business. Apply Box 1091 clö.
CO., LTD. "Hongkong Telegraph.
TO LET. For two months. MR. G. P. CURRY, having
Five roomed furnished house at Magazine Gap with:
Apply Tennis court attached
retired from the Company's
MONDAY, MARUH 31, 1924.
FORTHCOMING
AUCTION
Lammert Bros. Lammert
THE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Undersigned have receiv ed instructions to sell by Public Auction
Tuesday the 1st. April, 1924.
commencing at 11 am.
at Godown No. I. (Lower) The be Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon
to
03 or
Hongkong, 2nd. March, 1924.
service, on completion of his ST. ANDREW'S FETE
agreement, notice is hereby given that Mr. L J. BLACKBURN,
.'in
Box 1093 co "Hongkong Tele the Resident Engineer, has been The Church Hall & Grounds graph."
appointed, as from this date, to hold all powers pertaining to the
PRIVATE HOTEL - 1, Vic-office of Local Secretary..
toria Garden Kowloon 1 minute from ferry. Next door new hotel Terms from $4 per day full board. Special rates for families. Tel, K.357.
то
"O LET FOR 6 MONTHS.- Peak residence-253 "The Falla" unfurnished, with garden and swimming tank." Possession 1st April, 1924. Apply SANG KEE New Bank Building.
LAND 8000 $9,000, Cheung
Sha Wan. Shengshui and
elsewhere, also houses to rent and for sale Homuntin, Shengshui Peak & Lower level Tel. 4306 Hongkong Small
Investors Share & Real Estate Co.
то
O LET-7 houses in Gordon Road. Causeway Bay, near waterfront, good locality, suita
(Signed) JARDINE, MATHE
SON & CO., LTD. Local Agents.
NOTICETO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD. and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM - NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees
Steamer
NATHAN ZOAD, KOWLOON.
од
WEDNESDAY, April 2nd. 1924
at 2.30 p.m.
OPEN AIR CAFE. STALLS OF ALL SORTS. SIDE SHOWS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. CINEMA HOOPLA- CHUTE- FISHPOND
per Company's Competitions & Entertainments.
Military Band and Pipers will} give selections during the day,
RHESUS
}
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Ending with a Grand Variety Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie a: Consignee's risk and subject to Entertainment at 9 p.m. when terms and conditions of storage la number of talented artistes at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery Godown on at.1 after 31st March.
from
Optional cargo with be lande.
to steamer's arrival.
All
and
ble for godowns and factories.unless notice has been given prio: nicely built with reinforced con- crete. upper flats suitable for
broken. chafed, dwelling purposes with
water damaged goods are to be left in meters. Apply N. Gordon the Godowns, where they will be Road, Causeway Bay or Tel.examined on any Tuesdays and C.2721. Cheong Hing Contractor Fridays between the hours of Company.
10.45 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.
BU
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the
be subject! 7th April, will to rent.
will appear. Prices of Admission 25 cents
(Children 10 eta
Circular Ticket including Admission and
all Side Shows
$1.00-
"
(Children 75 as
HONGKONG ENGINEERING
AND
CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. NOTICE OF MEETING.
(for account of the concerned)
100 Tons Sulphate of Ammonia (Long Crystals-English).
Terms-Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have re- by Public Auction,
Tuesday, the 1st. April 1924. commencing at 2,45 pm at Chater's Bungalow, (North) at No. 66, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
ceived instructions to sail
A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture
comprising
Teak batstand. chesterfield couch and chairs, tables, brass fenders, brass ornaments, cur- tains, etc., etc.
Extension dining table, chairs, sideboard with bevelled mirror
dinner waggon, ice chest, crock-
ery, glass ware, etc., etc.
White metal bedsteads, springs
wardrobes with glass doors, chest and mattress, double and single of drawers, dressing table wash- ing stand, toilet sets, etc., etc.
and
One Yacht Piano by CRAMER & CO.,
Catalogues will be issued
On View on Monday the 31s March 1934
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have receiv ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 4th. April, 1924. commencing at 10.30 am.
UNGALOW, Punished. at Pokfulam, and MATSHED at Repulse Bay, to let for 5 mon-
At Godown No. 18, The Hong- the form April, Situated 4 miles
kong & Kowloon Wharf & from town on a beautiful site
Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon, overlooking the ocean. 5 Rooms,
All Claims against the Steamer NOTICE is hereby given that 2 Bathrooms, Hot Water System.
that the Second Ordinary (for account of the concerned) Electric Light, Flush Lavatories must be presented to the under-
or before the 21st. Yearly Meeting of Shareholders A Large Quantity of Miscel· Garage for 2.Cars, Tennis Court signed on
will not be of the Hongkong Engineering &
laneous Goods and commodious servants April, or they
Construction Company Limited.)
Comprising: quarters. Rent $350 per month. recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be will be held in the Offices of Apply G. H. Wilson, care of
Messrs. Shewan. Tomes & Co.. Paper in bales, Cotton Yarn. Robertson, Wilson & Co., Ltd.. effected. Tel. 1746.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE St. George's Building Chater Imitation Leather, Cotton Waste,
Agents.
Road. Hongkong, on Thursday Cotton Duck, Shovels, Tarred the 10th day of April 1924, at Rope, Carbon Sticks, Wire Net- 12.00 noon for the purpose of ting. Fountain Pens, Porcelain, receiving the Report of the Board Brass Shoe Nails, Cotton Printed of Directors and a Statement of Calico, Cotton Spool Yarn, Match- Accounts for the Half-year ended Frames, Toilet Soap, Cotton Sing- on the 31st. December 1923, and lets. "Beads, Enamelled Ware, of electing Directors and Auditors.Umbrella Handles and Umbrella
The Transfer Books of the Ribs, etc., etc, etc. Company will be closed from the 4th. to the 10th. April, both days
то
O LET-5 roomed house No. 5. Peace Avenue, Hemutin Apply within or Hongkong Bor 1087. Telegraph.
FOR SALE. #
FOR SALE Bangour". 192
Mount Kellet. Four-room- ed Bungalow with Hall. Recent- ly reconstructed and entirely
modernised. Site area 37500 sq.
ft. Possession 1st. April 1924.
31st March 1924.
DO NOT MISS--
ROCHA'S
POPULAR AUCTION SALES Every Tuesday Thursday
Saturday
At 2.30 p.m. Specialist is the Valuation of
For permits to inspect apply in Household and Office Furniture!
writing to A. R. Lowe. Special DA ROCHA'S MART Manager, Reiss Brothers Ltd.
(In Liquidation)..
THIS
| 2A D'Aguilar St. Phone 2931.
FOR SALE.
3,000 B.H.P. POWER PLANT.
"HIS plant consists of the following, all in working order having just recently been in full use:- (r)-Four "Mond gas producers capable of generating 400.000 cubic feet of gas per hour of 140 B. T. U. per cubic foot complete with washers, cooling tower, scrubbers, centrifugal cleanors, blower, motors, piping, etc., coal.. elevator and charging plant. (b)-Two Cockerill" horizontal 4-cylinder tan-..
dem double acting type gas engines, 1,000 B. B. P. each and two same type 2-cylinder engines of 500 B. H. P. each, all the above made by Richardson Westgarth & Co., England. Engines complete with air starting plant, elec- tric ignition, water cooling pumps and motors, turning gear, motora, etc.
(c)-Two dynamos by Dick Kerr & Co., England,
having an output of 150 K.W, each at 250 volts when driven at 120 revolutions, also two similar dynamos of 375 K.W. each, complate with switch-boards, and instruments, etc.
For further particulars, apply to
Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents,
The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.
Hongkong Limited.
Hongkong, 28th. Mach, 1024.
inclusive.
By Order of the Board.
S. COURTNEY COOK,
Secretary, Hongkong, 27th. March, 1954.
2
also
270 Packages Matches (all more or less damagedi Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
LUX
- for all Fine Laundering
NOTICE
OF
REMOVAL,
We beg to notify the Public of our removať on the Ist. April, 1924, into New Premises situated in the Asiatic Petroleum Company's. Building, 28, Queen's Road Central
THE
PHARMACY
(FLETCHER & CO. LTD.).
Queen's Bood Central
STEL
PUBLIC
SALES
Bros. HUGHES & HOUGH
AUCTIONS,
HE Undersigned have receiv- ed instructions from the Owners and Underwriters to sall by Public Auction va Tuesday, the 1st. April, 1924. at Noon
at their Sales Room, Duddell
Street, Hongkong,
The British River Steamer
“Heungshan"
LIMITED.
IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND
·GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
J.
LOST CHARACTERS.
What Happened to "Cousin Ferdinand”?
Here and there. (saya Mr. W Lawrence in the Dublin Magazine we find traces in the works of Shakespears ‘of minor characters which for a brief hour fretted and strutted on the boards and than were heard no more, Perchance this slaughter of the innocents was greater than can The Undersigned.have received now be estimated; it was the busi instructions to sell by Public Auc-ness of the reviser to gover up his tion (for Account of the Con-tracks, and he generally knew cerned),
this business. Now and again, however, in working on the old prompt-book, he would, by some oversight, omit to delete or alter a criminatory textual allusion or a less criminatory stage direction. Whenever we find a named obar-
on TUESDAY,
the 1st April 1924, commencing at
as she tow lies in her present 230 pm at their Sales Rooms condition in the Canton River, No. & Des Vaux Road, Corner of beached opposita Larkins Point lea House Street
Kellett Reach) Blenheim Passage Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood
Terms -Cash on fall of ham- mer when the rassel will be at Purchaser's Risk
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
THE Undersigned have receiv- ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Furniture, and Household
Sundries, &c, de, &c. Comprising:
acter coming on with others and failing to break silence, especially a named character which does not otherwise take part in the Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas, play, and whenever we find char- Arm-chairs (new), Tea Tables,acters familiarly referred to and Teakwood Beda, large and small never putting in an appearance, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and in such cases we may rest pretty Chairs, Washstands, &c. Side-cartain that the pruning knife has boards, Dincer Waggons, Dinzer been vigorously wielded. Sets, and Glass Ware. Cutlery.
Revision of "The Taming of the Carpets and Rugs, Electro-plated Shrew" by a second hand is prov- Ware, Electric Reading Lamps, ed by an ugly oversight. “Amidst Teakwood Screens, Blackwood Tea-[the hurly-burly of his noisy, care- $ Commercial Radio Receivers Poys, Marble-top Flower Stands, fully staged-managed home-com- Side Tables and Cabinets, &t, &c. Ing. Petruchio sends for "his consin Ferdinand," axplaining in (Ce Forest)
Wed., the 2nd April 1924 commencing at noon
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street
and
A Quantity of Coils, Racks, Vacuum Tubes, etc, etc,
also One Bungalite". Electric Lighting Sat
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioeners.
THE Undersigned have receiv- ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Sat the 5th. April, 1924. commencing at 11am.
at No. 6 Catchick Street, Kennedy Town
Also
2 New Carpets alze 3 x 4, an aside to his wearied lady that 1 American, Filing Cabinet, 1 Mar he is "one, Kate, that you must met Perambulator (first class con-kiss and be acquainted with.". dition) new tyres and hood (com. But whatever happened in the plete) with canopy and covers, beginning, the poor shrew in her later stage-life never got that kiss. 1 Piano by Robinson Piano Co. Ferdinand not only fails to materi- 1 Piano by Collard & Collard.
alise, but sends no apology for (Full Particulars from Catalogue)-his remissness. We are left to
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 28th March, 1924.
surmise that he had gone off in spontaneous combustion while Petruchio was engaged on his unconventional wooing.
So, too, in that much-altered" o: TUESDAY,
play, "The Tempast we learn the 1st April, 1924, at 250 p. that Antonio's son was in the at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des assailed Tessel, and must, of Veux Road, Corner of Ice House
2 "Atlas" Combined Rice Milla Street,
with Huller
Scouring Cones and Fan with
Aspirator
"Hindustan Rice Huller &
Polishers
Compete with spares
-height of lift 6′ 6′′
i
A Quantity of Valuable Books, Comprising:
course, have landed with the others, seeing that Prospero, after giving then the fright of their lives, took CATE that nobody International Encyclopaedia of should be injured by the storm, Surgery Volumes, Practical Les Yet, wonderful to say, we see sons in Hypontism and Magnetism, nothing to him. Stockhart's Principles of Chemis-
1 Portable Crane-lift 2 tons, try. Workshop Receipts for Mand
facturers. Mechanics and Scientific Ma-Amantares, etc., etc.
And
Automatic
chines
3 Electric Fan
Knitting
A Quantity of Electric Grillss Sectors, Dishes, Bar Grill,
etc., etc.
5 Pressure Gauges
also
10 Electric Motors from 1/4 to
114 EL.P.
Complete with "Pulleys Slide-
rails and Starters
and
A Large Assortment of
Paints. Varnishes and Patent Dryers
Terms-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
THE
4
When *Much Ado About
Nothing" was first presented, Hero had a visible mother whose
name was Immogen, but the poor lady was fated to have but a short An Assortment of Medical Books career. The curious will scek in etc., etc.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 28th March, 1924.
MIAOW!
Į
taip in modern editions of the play for any trace of her, bat in the first quarto there are clear indica- tions of her transitory course. At the beginning of the first act, and again at the beginning of the second, she comes on with the other characters, only on both occasions to remain as mute as
MYSTERIOUS CAT DISEASE. an oyster.
DOGS ALSO AFFECTED.
In "All's Well that Ends Well" there was originally a character Owners of dogs and cats in called Violenta, which, under sub- this Colony will be interested in sequent revision of the text. dis the following, from the British appeared from the play. A modest
tombstone to her memory will be
ANOTHER LOST CONTRACT.
North Borneo Herald:
We regret to report the death found in the opening direction of of two old friends, "Tim," the Act. III., Sc. 5. Government House dog, and Jim," the Residency dog both "HE Undersigned have receiv-of which succumbed to some!
ed instructions to sell by mysterious disease which is now Public Auction on
attacking the Sandakan dogs. Wed, the 16th April 1924. Our dog Pipsy " was the firs: victim and died about six weeks at 3 o'clock p.m.
ago when the Sandakan were dying off so rapidly. symptoms appear to resemble slow poisoning and happily the deaths are peaceful
at No. Catchick Street, Kennedy Town
N. B.
com-"
cats
The
German Rails for South. Africa.
Two Complete Sets Rattan and
Following on the acceptance Cane Splitting Machinery.
The Herald has received the by the Indian Stores Department to be put up in two Lots
following letter from Dr. of the tender.of.a Hanover firm Lot 1. Machinery consists of 2 Hamilton, District Surgeon :-- for the supply of five locomotivas Splitters and 4 Shavers "In regard to the little matter for the Indian State Railways, complete with Shafting of the Sandakan cats who have and the placing of a contract with and Pedestals and a been dying off so rapidly, I would an Italian firm for 30 loco- Quantity of Spare Cane like to say that the autopsies I motives for the Egyptian State Splitting Cutters (New.) performad were done some two Railways it is now known that manufacturers have Lot 2 Machinery consists of 2 years ago when the epidemic British
Splitters and 6 Shavers last raged in town. At that time failed to secure an order for 6,000 with a Quantity of Spars Dr. Conyngham also performed tons of 801b. rails and fishplates, an autopsy or two and I under-required by the Union of South Cane Splitting Cutters.
stand that his results were aa Africa. Inquiries which have The Machinery
negative as my own. I did not been made, show that British prising Lot 1 has been then and I do not now understand tenders have been rejected, and in use for 6 months and the condition, but, as I am not a it is understood that the contrac is in first class and veterinarian that is not to be has gone to Krupps, in Germany. serviceable condition. wondered at. So now, fearing a The German price, it is stated, The items comprising like abortive terminantion to any was more than 3bs. a ton below Lot 2 are new and are research I might make myself, the British tenders. still in their original have taken the trouble to
The lost contract is not a parti refer the matter to others who cularly big one, but the belief For Further Farticulars apply would be in a position to know that the South African Govern
more about it I have sent letters ment has placed the order with to the Government Veterinary Krupps has caused a good deal of Surgeons at several Centres in comment among steal manufac the Tropics with a full account tures, as in past years the Union of the condition and a request for has almost invariably bought suggestions as to lines of invest British rails. It was stated at igation and treatment. Mesa- the offices of the High Commis while a certain amount of successsioner that no observations on RADIO-MAGNAVOX Loud has attended the treatment of the
Speakers and Amplifiers disease by the use of throat the matter could be made in
London.. Batteries, Insulators massage and the administration
British manufactures contend Crystals, Aerial Wires to the sick animal of small doses ...t, and sill öther parts.
Cases.
to be Undersigned.
Terms 30% of the purchase price on fall of hammer.
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers.
DE SOUSA & CO, LTD, St. George's Bldg, 2nd Floor
Tel No. Central 1264, 2
of brandy diluted with milk that the German price could be the proportion of about one part made possible only by low wages of brandy to four of milk, half a and the incidence of the ex-
changes. teaspoonful every two hours,”