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THE Undersigned have receiv ad instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Tuesday, the 8th Oct. 1925,
commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Streot
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps
(Full Particulars from Catalogue) On View from Monday, the 5th October 1925.
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at Volunteer Headquarters On Friday 9th October, 9:15 p.m.
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The cream of local talant "Hongkong Telegraph."
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NOTICE.
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and
In the Matter of the North Point Development Co., Ltd..
Voluntary Liquidation)
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 188 of the Com- panies Ordinance, 1911 that d General Meeting of the Members of
NOTICE.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Colonial Register of Share- holders will ba closed from September 30.) to October 27th, 1925, inclusivo..
"By Order, LOWE, BINGHAM &
MATTHEWS,
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TUESDAY & FRIDAY,
at 2.30 p.m...
every
By Order of the Supreme
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CORRESPONDENCE.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
Home Letters.
Sir-The majority of those who road "M.P.'s" letter in your issue of yesterday will, I feel sure extend him their sympathy in a friendly way. M.P." doos not roalise the fact that ho is ap exceedingly lucky follow. Look at the multitude of hen-peoked hus banks at Home, who are not so fortunate in being able to place 9,900 odd milos botweon them and their wives! He can go where he wisho, do what ho likes, come home at three o'clock in the morning, smoke in bod, sing in the bath, woar at the dog, the cat or the parrot, drink what he chooses, and generally let more freedom and maybe sunshine into his life Why
worry about
letters?
When a loving husband writes
about such sloppy things as the
staying out at night; or that the paper boy forgot to call that morning, and other insignificant matters, it's not to be wondered at that such outpourings · are treated as lies by a suspicious wife, who will further imagine that her spouse is trying to bide or side-track some secrets rolat- Courting to the good times he is having.
Most wives are suspicious of their husbands in this hectic age.;
Your wife, "M.P.." must have been exceedingly ungrateful after a nine-page attempt by you to introduce a little pep into a welcome epistle, The treatment you received reminds me of the yarn of a fellow who did not get on at all well with his wife. One day, a "pal said to him The Auctioneering and Brokering" Ever try lovingly kissing your
"Co., Ltd., at their salesroom,
STEAMSHIP “ANJOU,” Now lying at Shamshuipo in the Harbour of Hongkong
by
No. 4B Duddell Street.
on
October, 1925,
at
2 o'clock p.m. For orders to view, apply to the Auctioneering and Brokering Company, Limited. For further Particulars and Con- ditions of Sale,
Apply to:-
HELPING TRADE.
(By Stan Hill.).
HONGKONG
STAN thil
1975.
Lady Bountiful arrives
VOLUNTEERS v.
“HERMES.","
THE FOOTBALLERS DRAW.
BY "WANDERER."
MOVIE CHASE.
AN UNSCREENED INCIDENT.
The Anish of the 9.15 perfor mance at the World Theatre last. night was followed by an exciting episode..
wife ?" "I haven't kissed my wife for avor eighteen months," he replied. "Now, look here," WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of said his pal, when you go. home to-night, go in with a broad sinile on your face, pat your wife lovingly on the back, and then kiss her as though you meant it. I will," said the other. Next day, his pal enquired how he got on. "Simply awful," he replied. " "I did as you told me, and when I
After the audience.had cleared. kissed my wife, she burst 'out A football match, one of the from the Theatre the attention of crying." "Crying?" queried series of sports being decided an employee was drawn to a leg his pal. "Yes, crying, and between the H.V.D.C. and HM.S. dangling from one of the upper Messrs. WOO and NASH,
muttering something about Hermes, was played last evening windows. The owner of the leg Solicitors, Dolly having smashed a lot of and resulted in the division of was ordered to come down from Nos. & 6 Queen's Road,crockery, the cat having eaten up four goals.
his perch, but no heed was paid. the canary and the dog having The Hermes were the first to to the command. bitten the neighbour," adding score, their inside-left heading The combined efforts of the em- "and now you've come home through beautifully midway ployees were then employed in drunk!" All a misunderstanding.' through the second half. Up to an attempt to dislodge the in- And it's the same with many, that time the football had been truder from his refuge on the things that go wrong.
very scrappy and purposeless, scaffolding, but the latter proved Forgive me, "M.P.," for suggest but the goal served to put a little to be too agile. ing some slight improvement on more life into the Volunteers and
Achase occurred in which the your discovery. Your romantic, Mason broke through to score intruder scrambled from post to phantasy of the cook-boy's fare-easily. Some few minutes later post along the scaffolding, but in well will not interest such a wife, Bowker secured about forty yards
or to:-
GRAFONOLA
TRIPLE SPRING MOTOR
$ 350.00
DOUBLE SPRING MOTOR Oak $115.00 Mahogany $130.00
SINGLE SPRING MOTOR Oak $60.00 Mahogany $70.00
at
the afternoon, for the purpose of eldadaos Portugueses que o quei- ANDERSON'S
rain honrar com a sua visita, na
having an account laid before them, Sala Luiz de Camoes do Club showing the manner in which the Lusitano, das 11.30 a hora da
winding-up has been conducted,; and the property of the "Company disposed of, and of hearing any explanations that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of deter- mining by Extraordinary Resolu- tion the manner in which the Books,
tarde,
NOTICE.
LAWN BOWLS.
INTERPORT SELECION
GAME.
Accounts and Documents of the Sunday 4th Oct. at 3.30 p.in. Company and of the Liquidator Talkoo Club Extend A Cordial:
thereof shall be disposed of
Doted this 28th day of September, 1926.
W
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC
Central.
The Auctioneering & Brokering
Co., Ltd.
No. 4B Duddel Street. Dated the 30th September, 1925.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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as yours, not a wee bit, but some-out and after defeating the back the end his escape was cut off, thing like this will: "I know, dar and gotting clean through he and he was seized.
The captive turned out to be a THE undersigned have received ling, that you are not exactly a drew out the goalkeeper and put small boy, who was charged be
instructions to sell by Public Gloria Swanson or a Gladys Coo- the ball into an untenanted net. Auction for, account of the per, but I am desperately longing The Hermes equalised just before the Magistrate this morning
with trespass, concerned at their Auction Room for the time when I can see your fore time. at 4B Duddell Street on.
wwoot, smiling face. It would be The Volunteers did not turn up a great change, dear, from the as selected and Wheeler and Watz, Monday
motley crowd of sour-faced amahs, son filled the vacant positions. boys and shroffs with whom I am They were the better, side, on the whole, but the Hermes goalkeeper daily brought into contect."
Those fellows who really desire played exceedingly well and kopt to receive nice, appetising letters out many shots which lookedgoals. from their wives at Home should all the way. remember that a little encourage-
The Hormes have several good.
the 5th October 1925 at 3. p. m. Consisting of:-2 paite woollen blankets, 2 Gent's Overcoats, 1 Gont's Summer Suit, 1 Gent's Hat, 1 pair Grent's Leather les gings, 1 Ladies Winter coat,ment goes a long way. A woman players but do not work well as an Electric massage Vibrator, f likes to be continually assured, eleven. Folding camp-bed, I set of Golf that she is loved.. Faith moves sticks in case, Champagne mountains, and, after all, the cooler, 1 Allen Portable Bath.woman who gets the most out of 1 Solid tuho, Dasks, Cup-board life must be a woman of infinite Stands, Staves, Butter dishes, curiosity. Yours etc.
also
2 New Fire Extinglushers (with Chemical filler) All tho above lote are to be sold without reserve
Terms: Cash on delivery.
Auctioneering & Brokering
Co., Ltd." ́·L. E. 8. HODGE,
Au ctioneer Hongkong, 2nd October, 1925.
SINBAD. Hongkong, Oct. 2nd, 1925.
DEBT DEADLOCK.
FALL OF THE FRANC.
New York, Oct.
EINSTEIN.
Storm Centre.
Professor Albert Einstein seems
to be becoming increasingly tho' storm centre on the frontier of science.
One argument is already raging as a result of Dr. D. C. Miller'a atherdrift experiment atop. Mount Wilson. Dr. Miller is now repeating it and I results are the 2same, it may be necesary to The disappointments resulting modify the section of the theory Sir.-The correspondence on from the absence of a permanent which has to do with the the question "Should men write settlement of the French Debt is relativity of motion
home to their wives?" is quite reflected, to-day in an initial break Now a second battle is looming: intriguing. Personally as far as
I
am concerned I think the habit of eight points on the frune to as a result of the experiment absolutely futile. For nearly 4662 cents and a decline in all performed by Dr. A. A. Michelson soven long years have 1 rasided French bonds listed here. Wall of the University of Chicago at in Hongkong, but although I like Street was expecting that the Clearing Ill. writing and receiving letters, I debt negotiations would have the Dr. Michelson built a rectangle have never yet been guilty of way to a French loan here shortly of water pipe, 2,000 feet long and writing home to the wife "for of probably a hundred million that I haven't got one vice. Yours etc.:
R. M. Hongkong, Oct. 3rd, 1925
HUGHES & HOUGH the simple reason, Dear Editor, dollars-Reuter American Ser
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If you have anything you would
An electrical apparatus invent ed by Phillip F: Quale of the U.S. Bureau of Standards makes it possible to take pictures of bullets:
1500 feet wide and pumped the air
of light through the rectangle and measured their speed. T
The results do not directly challenge the Einstein theory, but
some ways are hard to recon oile with it
out of it, Then he reflected bepins
Dr. Ludwig Silberstein, the foremost American Authority of CHILI'S NEW CABINET, as they leave the mouths of guns relativity, says they can bo ox
THE PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS,
Piotures taken so far upset one
of the theories which has been plained by assuming that the held. This is that the gases which other of space is compressible and loave the muzzle of the gun after subject to the action of gravity Dr Lorentz the famous Dutch the bullet follow closely behind. and holp increase the initial physicist, also makes the velocity of the bullet. The xplanation.
But Professor: Ein A new Cabinet has been formed, photographia show that the gasos nounces from Berlin the
Santiago, Oct. 2.
Holyoak Massey Co. to like to sell, exchange or advertise with Sether Luisa Concha alag for hobing the bullet alios unwilling to believe that the
Invitation to the
Ladles
9. M. CHURN,
Louidator,
Tea will be Served. Launch will leave Taikoo Dook For Kowloon at 7, p.m.
Distributors
Queen's "Bida,A
send it to the CHINA AUCTION ROOM.
EV. M.R. DE SOUSA
"Auctioneer.”
Premier, Senbar, Barros Jarga sa Immediately and so cannot con behaves that was Minister for Foreign Affairs, and tribute anything to t
the veloc Senhor Thaney as Minister form of the bullet once it
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