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ernised. Sito are a 37500.xq. ft. Possession 1st. May 1924. For permits to inspect apply in writ ing te A. R. Lowe, Special Manager. Reiss Brothers Ltd. (In Liquidation). Hongkong, 10th April 1024.
less than ton month's WILLYS KNIGHT motor-ear service and in perfectly sound comditor, Moderate price Apply 1109 Box No. 111 e/o "Hongkong
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ANTED. Interprotor,
lutteries, no refills. Motor- British Subject born, White EVERLITE Pocket Lamps, no Race, able to speak, read, and write dialects of Southern China, cycle or cycle lamps from 19 Should also be qualified Stenotetail. Reduction for wholesale. grapher. apply P.O. Box, 247,Lights for over giving full information of quali. First cost last east. flcations and experiance.
To
TO BE LET.
LET. Large Ground Floor
location.
we guaranty. Invaluable
to all. Telephone: 4630. EVER- LITE ELECTRICAL CO., 8. Des Vorux Road,
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то
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Peak residenco 253 The Fails unfurnished, with garden And swimming tank. Possession 1st April, 1924. Apply SANG. KEE, New Bank Building.
то
TO LET Office and Godown No. 1 Stanley Street Apply
to Compradore Department cho
The Hongkong Land Investment & Agency ('o., Ltd. 2nd. floof 11 Queen's Road Contrai, Telephone Contral 820.
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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND
MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
THE TWENTY SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL of SHAREHOL- MEETING
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924.
FORTHCOMING
AUCTION SALES.
Crippled
HUGHES & HOUGH Lammert Bros. by Corns?
LIMITED
UNDER, THE PATRONAGE IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND
OF LADY STUBBS,
in ald of
ST. DUNSTHN'S
WILL BE HELD AT THE CITY HALL
On
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
NOTICE.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have recoiv- THE
ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Thurs, the 24th. April, 1924. commencing at 2.45, p.m.
at
No. 4. Torres. Buildings. Kimberley Road, Kowloon
FRIDAY, April 25th, 1924 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN A Quantity of Valuable House-
f.
Tickets, at $4.00 each,
can be had from Messrs. S. Moulfie, Chater Road,
House Street, The Anderson Music Co., fee
The Kowloon Hutel. The Hongkong Hotel.
Cafe' Wiseman
(Lane, Crawford, Ltd.)
HOT X BUNS
for
GOOD FRIDAY.
HONGKONG
DERS in the Compitty will be SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE held at the Offices of the Com- pany, St. George's Building No. 6, Connaught Road, on WED- NESDAY, 30th. April, 1924 at 11 o'clock.m. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Ac- counts and the Report of the Gen-" eral Managers for your ended 31st Dec., 1923, and electing a Con- sulting Committee and Auditors.)
Furnished from O LET.-
June 1st. Now House at Deop Water Bay with 4 bedrooms, drawing and dining room and
The TRANSFER BOOKS of library. Hot and drild water laid
system. the Company will be CLOSED Flush sanitary Sorvants qurlers and garage, from Wednesday the 23rd April Apply to 1924 until Wodnesday the 30th 134 acres of ground. Geo. P. Lathmert. 4 Queen's April 1924, hoth days inclusive Road, Central.
оп
To
LET-7 houses in Gordon
Road, Causeway Bay, noar
waterfront, good locality, suita-
blo for godowns-and-factories,
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
General Managers
NOTIFICATION.
nicely built with reinforced con,["NOTICE~15-hérchy-given that a Public Auction will hei crete upper flats suitable for dwelling purposes with water-held at this Treasury Office on moters. Apply No. 2 Gordon THURSDAY, the 15th May, 1924 Road, Causeway Bay or Tel.at I u.m., for the sale of the C.2721. Cheong Hing Contractor opium monopoly in Macao, for a period of three years extending .Company.
from 1st. July. 1924, to 30th June! 1927.
'designs.
FOR SALE.
UST received a shipment of JUST
PRINTED VOILES Or.ontal Also ARTIFICIAL SILK for Knitting Jumpers in various colours. Inspection invit- "MARGUERITE" 1, Rose ed. Terrace, Kowloon,
2
It is proposed to hold
A TIFFIN
in the HONGKONG HOTEL
On
St. George's Day, WEDNESDAY: April 23rd.
at 1 p.m. Prices of Tiffin 52.59
(Exclusive of Wines) Mombers, desiring to attend are requested to forward their samos to Mr. W.A. Dowley, Hongkong Hotel.
-List will close et 4 p.m. an Aptil 22nd.
that on April 1st, 1924 I have bought the goodwill and practice of Dr. G.W. McKean and that the latter is no longer connected with said business,
(S.) DR. RALPH E. GILL.. Hongkong, 15th. April, 1924.
hold Furniture comprising: Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Took Extension Overmantel. Dining Table, Chairs, Toak Side- board. Ulass Cabinet, Ice Chest, Ornaments, Crockery, elc., etc.
Dressing Tenk Bedsteads, A.S. WATSON, & CO., LTD. Table, Wash Stand, Tenk Ward- robe, Teak Chost of Drawers otc., etc.
NOTICE.
ON GOOD FRIDAY, the 18th. Instant. and FASTER MONDAY, the 21st. Instant, all departments will by CLOSED.
On these days
The Hongkong Dispensary wil be opened for dispensing prescrip tions from 10 a.. to 1 p., and from 6pm. to 7.30 p.m.
19th.
On SATURDAY, the Instant, all departments will be
! open as usual.
Hongkong, 16th. April, 1924.
:
BANK HOLIDAYS.
Accordance with ordinance
IN with exchange
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNMENT. UBJECT Lo weather and!
ін Kround conditions, il Particulars us to the condition
seen at the hoped to carry out the following of sale may be Portuguese Consulate in Hong-programme,
SUB
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Ng Sau Kwong & C. Chan Dated at the Treasury Office of
and at this Treasury Office.1. Thursday, 17th April. tho Province of Macao, the 31st. Murely 1924.
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*2. Tuesday, 22nd. April
Semi-Final Doubles (H. D. & O. Runjaby'
V.
S. A. and A Rumjahn) 3. Wednesday, 23rd April. Semi-Final Doubles.
4. Thursday, 24th. April.
Semi-Final Singles."
*5. Friday 25th. April.
Semi-Final Singles.
H.D. Rumjuhn Winner, Ng Bze Kwong and T. Honda.
V.
6. Monday, 28th. April, Final Doubles.
*7.. Wednesday, 30th 'April. ·
Final Singlos.
All the above matohos will bo played on the Stand Court.
Seats will be reserved for those matches marked
⚫ (Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7) Mombers, Subscripers & those holding "Privilege Tickets" may book seats at the Pavilion up to 8 pm. on TUESDAY, 15th, April Booking thereafter will be at Mosare, MOUTRIE & CO. Price $1, each.
Ticket holders are requested to consult Plan on Back of Tickets.
MASSAGE
Banks will be closed for the Transaction of public business on FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND MONDAY, the 18th 19th & 21st instant.
Hongkong, 14th. April, 1924.
WE
NOTICE.
and
A Complete Punch Library of Humour (25 Volumos) in Orns- mental Teak Cuse
Catalogues will be issued On View from Wednesday the 23rd April 1924
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
DO NOT MISS- ROCHA'S
POPULAR AUCTION SALES Every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday
∙At 2.30 ·p.mA. Specialist is the Valuation of Household and Office Furniture DA ROCHA'S MART
E have this day established 2A
ourselves as Import und Com- Export merchants and mission agente.
BAYER, BITZER & Co..
D'Aguilar St. Phone 2931.
Use "Gets-It"
the only good com is a dead corn. A few drops of "Gris-it": will quickly start soy corn
a
METEORIC IRON.
Présented to Geological Institute.
Tho S.M.R. Co. Geological In- xtitute is to accept as a gift from the Mongolia Industrial Com- pany a meteoric iron, which, was discovered at about three miles. southeast of Laotapan; Palin Tribe, in Mangalia, In 1916, re- poris stato. It weighs 40 lbs., and is 20cm. in length. 18cm. in. width, and 10cm. in thickness. According to an analysis con- duated at the Institute, it is found to have a spociße gravity of 7,316, It consists of 94.8 tron, 3.8 of nickel, 0.8 of phosphorus, and 2 of cobalt. It takes the fourth. rank among its kind existing in Japan,
The same Institute has in its possession a much largor meteorie iron, 14ft, ng, 10 inches wide and 9 thehos thick, weighing 152 the
second in size in all Japan!
or esllow on the way to the happy hunting. It is pronounced B #round." "Get-It brings intant fellet from all pain and hurting. Cae bottle contains enough "Gela-k” tu remove it dozen corns, hard or solt, old or new Conte you nothing i It fails-but i doesn't fail, Let your drugsist tell you why millions demand it. E. Lawrence & Co, Mú. Chicago. Sold la this city by
leading chemists.
"DRIFTING TOWARDS
MASSACRE."
Dr. H. Murakami, Chiof Cicolo- gist at the hoast of the Institute. takes an open pride in the Rail- way Company's being the posses- sor of the second and the fourth meteorie iron in Japan.
In commenting on the meteoric that Doctor owns iron, the ecience, in its presunt stage of progress, cannot tell yot how and wherefrom metoorio irons fall to ourth, except that they are cer Sir O. Lodge on Destiny
tain to have got detached from of Human Race.
some solar body. No authorit
vanced Mutual extermination may be alives theories have yet been ad- the subject. Some the destiny of man if he wills it
oven say that they coine from so. It is for mankind to decide.
The average man has not pro-the moon after a volesnic ex- Kressed very for us yet. His plosion. However, an analysis ancestors were tree dwellers and of a meteoric icon shows that it cave dwollors he himself might contains constituents not ocur ring on earth's crust. This leads be styled a slum dweller,
the
On
The above are püssages from one to infer that they are part of an address by Sir Oliver Lodgeja solar body. Old records de- on "The Dostiny of Man, deli-scribe how one of those irons come vered
National Free crashing down to earth while giv
thundering sound. The Church Council in Brightoning &
vacuum created by the precipitous recently.
Man, he said, had not fashioned full of one of these irons is believed. ordinary human life into much to cause a very loud sound. Ono of those irons is said to plough dignity or beauty.
its way into the ground to the depth of from 5 ft. to over 10 ft.
But he added, "humanity is far better than one would expect from its suporficial aspect and sordid surroundings.
The characteristics of a mete- oric iron are that they are rough Many of the animal intincts on the surface, giving traces of romain, continued Sir Oliver. The having been molted more or less fighting instinct, for instance, has by hoat. Thoy contain nickel result of an analysis. Moreover.. which inflict untold misory.'
It would seem now as if it they are of crystalline structure. might be regarded as a step in as, if the surface is polished and advanes
Fel. No. 1655, Central. A trump card blossomed into irrational forms and cobalt, as proved by the
2nd. floor, Queon's Bldg: Hongkong, 10th. April, 1924.
BILLIARDS.
HO KAM TONG CUPS,
$300.00 5 175:00 75.00 50.00
Value of Prizes 1st. Prize Cup Valued 2nd do do. -do- 3rd. dola. -do-...
Entries close 20th, inst. Play commence in 25th. at 9 p.m. GAME 250 uz
DYSPEPTICS CAN EAT WHAT THEY LIKE
if they take half a teaspoonful of Bisurated Magnesia in a little nater immediately after eating.
is something to Le pleased about only if circumstances permit the playing of it.
The high quality of Brinke Bond tea is our trump card, and the vacuum tin in which we pack it, cables us to
play it every time.
to WAT mainly by nitric acid is poured over it, it Etched figures, as guide in machinery, guiding tanksand sub-will produce
them. Munchuria marines and aeroplanes from a which will serve distance with ut human bodies classifying inside, so that they can be laden Daily Nors. wholly with high explosives, poison gas, and disease germs,
"Thie," he declared "is what
we shall be coming-to-if-sanity is
not recovered."
Massacre, continued Sir Oliver.
UNABLE TO RESIST.
Cases. There is no fear of Brooke is not fighting, and it is masenere Insanity Plea in Murder again lending. Mutual exter- Bond tea deteriorating before towards which humanity is now
Lord Hewurt, the Lord Chief Justice, dealt with the insanity you get it. The tin harboursmination may be the destiny of
man if he wills it so. no tea-destructive tropical air.
He can be guided if he is will-ples in murder trials in charging What a treat it is to get ing, but the higher powers will the grand jury last month at
not compel him. He has been Lewes Assizes.
At the prerent time, he said, good tea as fresh as Brooke allowed to be cruel and ruthless Bond in a tropical country in the past; he may deceive him every person was presumed to be self into such courses still. But sane and responsible for his acts what a wretched outcome all this and for the consequences at the is of the original fighting in-time they were committed. If a like this
rtinct The original whole some defence of insanity were about to animal instinct is not responsible be sat up, it must be clearly proved
on the part of the defence:-- for all this.
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gas. Gatulonco, or
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VACUUM COVER
watter how many medicines you Rosy & Co. Hong Kong CUT OPEN/ sneaking of is not really the out-the act was suffering from a
may bave tried without succoss-
Thousands! aen't give up hope. who once suffered as you now suffer who had tried everything without obtaining relief-now enjoy perfect health, and can get almost anything without the slighted pain or discomfort. You can do the same if you will go to-day to any good chemist and Bisuratod get A package of
dírected Take as Magnesia. above and you'll soon forget you ever had a stomach...you'll find your vital orgains strengthened, while content and opjoy mont will fill your life. But bo quíto sura you yet the right thing for your protection the oval mark is trade BISMAG prominently displayed on the wrapper, and you should look for it when buying.
The Sign of the
Genuine
BISMAG
Sen it on every Package
TOWN WITH NÒ UNEMPLOYMENT. When the New Romney (Kent Town Council had before them HALLrecently a communication from the Ministry of Health on the subject. of unemployment, the Town Clerk reported that there was not one-man out of work in the borough
WYNDHAM STREET MRS. H. MORITA.
(SUGITAS
Fresh!
BY USER
Brooke
Bond Tea
Vacuum facked
LEVER LID FOR DAILY USE
he cost our.
was
. (1) That the accused person at * SUPERMEN? The evil that we have been the material time of committing come of our animal ancestry, dipanse of the brain ;
(2) That, in consequence of that continued Sir Oliver, it is a dis vafo of civilisation, a mania disease of the brain, he which has accompanied material suffering from a defect of reason; (3) That at the material time progress. It is a devil that must
either ho did not know what ho The gap between the highest was doing, or did not appreciate and lowest man is immense, but the nature and quality of his the universe must certainly con- note, or that if he did know the tain beings far higher than man. nature of bis acts, did not know
From the hoginning this bas that it was wrong.
It had been from time to time been suspected, and now, in, the light of a supremo revelation, attempted to alter that law, and man has begun to realise not comblee the third alternative for. only the exisionce of but his the last of these three points; that' kinship with higher beings. He although the accused, know, what le aware of an atmosphore of he was doing or knew that what friendliness which gives himle was doing was wrong, or that |confidence and strength.
What, he taked, destiny of man?
was
ho know both povertheless he the had an uncontrollable impulse to
do it.
"Man's existence," be said, "Is It might be that before long the. an amazing medley of good and question would have to be serious- evil. Even the body is seldom ly considered whether the low what it might be. Ugliness is should be altered or extended on too prominent both, in surround that important point.
SAVARESSESge and conditet.
Santal Capsules
This best interuel treatment, Sa made that the antiseptio is Hot Freed by the digestive. juices. No me can revale. Physician recommend bana
"I am expreasing no opinion ab "Some day the rage will roslino, this moment," said the Lord the possibility before it," con- Chief Justice" but I invite you oluded Sir Oliver, the powere carefully to consider the topick that can be wielded by mutual so that if, when the time comes help by the working together of and the law really is to bo ex the nations for trus do-operation tended in that way, if that large "How much already could they door is really to be opened, it not easily doby contributing be done, not in a mood of lack- each bin quota and pooling all and dary-going benevole discoveries as we do
Carefully and after39.162
great extent in the solentific has been fully and, world.