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tsh family, full teard nud residence from 24.00 daily. One minute from ferry Special family
rates.
Cuisine unter personal supetvis on, ), Victoria Garions, Hunkow Road, Kowloon, Tel K 357.
TO LET No. 11, Chathum Road, Kowloon. Apply to J. M. Pereira. Kowloo I. tel.
TO LET-Offices on the
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MISCELLANEOUS.
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION,
THEATRE ROYAL,
December, 7th, at 9.15. p.m.
Second Tournament of the Benson.
FINALS OF THE NOVICES
COMPETITION.
MAINVENT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1925.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
HE Undersigned bave receiv- ed Instructions, to sell by Public Auction on Tuesday, the 5th Dec, 192 at the Kowloon Naval Depot, commencing at 9.30 a.m. Old and Surplus Victualling
TREATMENT OE COLOUR RACES.
THE MALAY ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN,
DIVORCE LAW.
NEW YORK PHONES.
OPPOSITION TO INCREASED
RATES.
(Continued from Page 1.) were that they would continue to
New York, Nov. 6th-More- he turned down. He had offer d "The white races must treat to provide a passage lome for than a million telephone users, the coloured man in a spirit of her and also to provide for her in according to New York Tele- absolute equality and give up the Paris, but that too had been re- phone Company officials, will bo affected by the 10 per oont. in- atlitude of superiority, "doclared [fused. Lord Willingdon, formerly Gov.
MADAME INTERRUPTS-
crease temporarily granted last Stores
At this point, Madame Maurin year by Federal Judgo Knox, Comprising:-Tab'o Linen, Imornor of Bombay and Madras, 10 Round Welterweight Contest plemants, Serge, Flannel, &s, at the recent Church Congress asked permission to make a state which the company, at a meeting Remnants, Blanko's. Sundry Among the speakers who fol-ment, and was told by the Bench hold liere to-day before Public Articles of Mesa and Table Gear,
Frank A. was, 'Sir
that she was represented by a sell-Service Commissioner Van Voor- (including Bectro Plated Ware)! Clothing, Condemned Provisiona Swottenham, a former Resident-citor and that whatever statement his, sought to have made par for Poultry Feoding, &o, Conoral of the Malay States and she wished to make could be made.
Terms of Salo:-AS LETAIL-Governor of the Straits Settlo
through Mr. Hind. "I disagree monts, ED IN CATALOGUES.
Ho said: with Lard Willingdon on this
because point, not
I am opposed to the principle of equa.. lity, but because I think it is al pity he made such a swooping statement. Tho Englishnan,
between
STOKER MORRELL
and ABLE SEAMAN EWIN
And five other six round
contests.
Booking at Moniric's for Members only on Friday the 4th., GENERAL PUBLIC December
Prices: $5, 53 and 51.
FURNITURE of 2 roomed
furnished at for sale, or 5th, and 7th, would let for term. Fitted with Furopean bath, Kayser, W.C. Kee stove. Can be visited from Mid- day to 35 p.m." any day excapt Monday Top floor. No 4 King's Terrace, Nathan Road, Kowloon.)
"Houso, Flats, Building Lots, Estates neporiated for rent, auc- tion, or private sale.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY
ANNUAL BALL to be held on
LAMMERT BROS.,
71
By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiraly. Hongkong, December 1925.
lowed
Turning to M. Maurin, she ex- claimed:-"Are you not ashamed of it. It is awful."
Being enjoined to sit down, Mn- damo Maurin complied, although from time to time the displayed
manont,
Frankland Briggs appeared as counsel for the company, whilo Assistant Corporation Counsels Fortig and Morrissey, represented the city.
George W. Whittemore, valua- tion engineer for the telephone company, was on the stand for cross examination by Mr. Fertig. The company engineer has pre- pared an apprateal which the.
a fair
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS perhaps, considers the coloured great agitation, and broke intu nan as something beneath him. exclamations in French, which were For instance, I have heard the more or less-nitressed to M. Mau-company sets forth as term 'nigger' used in India. But
tion,
on TUESDAY,
Manage Friday 26th February, 1926. the 8th December, 1925, at the Kowloon Naval Depot, commencing
ment arranged for clients pro- ceeding abroad. Telephone C4630 Small Investors, 1, Des Vur Road."
FOR SALE.
ut 9.30 a.m.
Making a lengthy
Mr. Whittemore's figures on seventy-three buildings owned by the telephone company, in service July 1, 1924, were attacked vigorously by Mr. Fortig, who contended that as only forty- threa buildings had bean examined, no fair appraisal could be made since the deterioration figures varied from 1 per cent. to 7.4 per cent.
valuation upon which to base a PUBLIC AUCTION,
permanent rats: The city con- in those parts of the Enst that rin. know I have not heard it used. I
reference to the tends that this appraisal is a The Undersigned have received thing it wrong. In Malay the
the delay in case,broad guers."; " Instructions to sell by Public Aucnative in treated always as the Mr. Hind gave as the reason that.
gentlenian that he is. If you do he had at first thought local help not treat the Malny respectfully would be available, as he thought be will hit you in the eye. I can that Mr. Zeitlyn, who was not only only says that in my experience an English lawyer, but also was in the East, particularly in fully qualified as a French aancat, Ceylon and in the Far East, the might be brought into the case to native is always the subject of give his evidence on French excellent treatment. "
divorce law. But on communica- tion with Mr. Zeitlyn he found that the latter had already been instructed by Mr. Brutton, and that caused a certain amount of delay. Through certain French people interested in the case, Mr. Hind said he was at length en- abled to get into touch with the
Old and Surplus Victualling Stores.
The abovo date has now been fixed for the Annual Ball. Real Practices will take place in the City Hall on Friday 19th Feb. and on Tuesday 23rd February] Comprising:--- from 5.30 p.m. to 7p.m.
Arrangements for Ball Tickets
Table Linen, Implements, Serge,
FOR SALE. Madame Marie for Members and their guests Flannel, &c., Remnants, Blankets, Will open at Room No. 17, will remain as already instrusted Sundry Articles of bless and Table Astur House Hotel, a good selec- for the original date unless the Gear, (including Electro Plated tion of Evonning Dresses from Honorary Secretary is notified in Ware). Clothing, Condemned Pro- Terms of Sale:-As Detailed in $10 to $100 also stockings etc., etc. writing of any changes on or visions for Poultry Feeding, &c.
bofore Thursday, 18th Feb. 1926.
Owing to the resignation of Catalogues. Mr. A. Ritchie, the duties of Hon. Secretary will now be undertaken by the undersigned.
CYMDEITHAS DEWI SANT. (HONGKONG).
The Ordinary Annual Mooting
A. K. MACKENZIE,
& Co., ltd. Queon's Buildir g.
TO LET(ro Furopean flat, of the above Society will be hold c/o Mesera. Holyoak, Massey
Wanrbai Gopad, Hong-at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 16th koug. Apply to 32 Kennedy December, 1925, in Mr. D. J.
Lewis Office, Princes Building. Rond.
D. DAVIES,
Hon. Secretary.
Lot.
Two newly con
Treted European Louses, Magazine Gar, Motor Road, three flats, three large 100me servants' oach with kitchen. quarters and. bub room, fitted with flush system. Garages provided. Immediato possession. Apply Sang Keo, New Bank Building.
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resumes
By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,
Gonoral Manager- Hongkong, 1st December, 1925.
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NOTICE,
ANNUAL DINNER
The Hongkong University En- gineering Society will hold its Annual Dinner on Saturday, 19th December 1925 at 8 o'clock, in the Great Hal: of the University. Graduates and past, members
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DRESSES
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OF
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NOTICE.
At the General Meeting held
AT
MESSRS. KOMOR & KOMOR,
·LAMMERT BROTHERS, By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty. Hongkong, November 25, 1925.
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
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LOCAL GOLF.
DRAW FOR TAGGART CUP.
In the Indies' section of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club,, the draw for the Taggart Cup result- ed as follows:
Mrs. Lewis v. Mrs. Leggatt. Mra. K. S. Morrison v. Mrs. Cameron.
Mrs. Shellshear v. Mrs. Piercy.! Mra, T. E. Poarce v, Mrs. E, E. Reed.
Mrs. Hooper v. Mrs. S. B. C.
V. Mrs.
Ross.
Mrs. H. D. Evans Murdock,
Mrs. Forguson v. Mrs. Dodwell. Mrs. Murray v. Mrs. Griffin. Byes: Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Cassidy, Mra. Shields, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Daigety, Mrs. Stoddart, Mrs.j Rowley, Mrs. Walter Lang.
MEXICAN LAND LAW.
AN AMERICAN PROTEST.
New York, Dec. 3.
A newspaper despatch from San Antonio (Texas) states that it is learned authoritatively that the United States Ambassador In the Mexico has presented to Mexican Government a diplomatic note protesting against the now land legislation now before the Mexican Senate.--Reuter's Ameri- can Service.
HISTORIC MOSCOW.
RESTORATION WORK
PROCEEDING.
I
Mr. Whittemore declared he had inspected $19,233,779 worth of buildings out of $34,570,000 worth of buildings, taking into account only those, that were in service at the time of the survey: in New York City, and not figuring in several millions of of new buildings under construction. The issue is still undecided.
French lawyer in Shanghai and he expected to receive a reply very dollars worth soon.
more
Moscow, Nov. 16.-Repair and restoration work is being con- China nected on the walls of
great Town" in the centre of Moscow. He entirely agreed with a This Wall was built by Ivan the deal of what Mr. Bratton had said Terrible in 1536, and the last ro-jexcept that on his part he could prove domicile of the lady's former pair work was done in 1822.
Deterioration has
mostly husband, and that he had lived for affected the surface; the Wall it-twenty years in Paris as an self has become monolithic and student with occasional excursions handwriting of that man, could only be destroyed by to New York, in which city he was dynamite.
Moscow.
married to her:
art
I can also prove this to be in the
We are 4 prepared to send her home, where that divorce is legal. The husband is prepared to go to her later and make his arrangements with her.
A BOMBSHELL.. Mr. Hind then dropped his
In the process of work, 5 can- nons have been found evidently left behind, when Peter the Great was awaiting the assault of the Swedish King Charles 12th on A stock of paper money has been found laid out in pilos. One of the towers has been turned into a stalactite grotto owing to water
It is absolutely untrue and I am dripping in through the roof.
surprised that may friend should' Mt. Hind "reiterated a previons have seen fit to make a statement. Great accumulations of earth and buried trees have been statement he had made that they of that nature in this Court. I cleared away from the Wall. were quite prepared to drop the submit that it should not have
The entire Wall is being paint-case should the French avocat's been made in this Court...
Continuing, Mr. Hind said that they could more or less rely on the opinion of the French lawyer Failing that, they could expect the services of another French avocat bombshell.. He said that this man who would shortly be passing (M. Maurin) was living with an- through Hongkong. They might other French married woman in even expect him to appear before Hongkong- that Court to give evidence.
HELPED HER DIVORCE.
Mr. Brutton (interrupting)
ed white as in the time of Ivan opinion be adverse. It was his case Mr. Hind: This affair is not the Terrible, when the town was that M. Maurin know perfectly well only known by my client but by a named "Moscow of the White the facts concerning the woman's considerable number of the French Stones."
previous marriage and of the di- community here for a considerable. In the Kromlin restoration
The helped her to obtain. onus of the present trouble. work on the Patriachal Cham-vorce which M. Maurin himself time and this actually is the cause bors is being continued.
Continuing, Mr. Hind said that was on him to prove that the divorce Old gates of the 17th century was a valid one, and, in connec- there had been feeling in the case have been found here, and anion with that matter, to prove do- and he did not wish to deal further ancient ruined staircase has beon restored.
Some extremely interesting coloured tiles have been disco- vered in the, Trinity Tower.
Doctor: There is no hope 1")
Fot!"
Patient: "But I am not dead Wife: "Hueh, dear the doctor knows best!"Aussie, Australia.
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with the point. He would like an Mr. Brutton: The case will be adjournment for 14 days to get the thin as we see it. The divorce lawyer from Shanghai. may be valid according to French Further opposition was raisedt law in France alone, but it may not by Mr. Bratton, but at length an be valid outside France..
adjournment was granted on the Mr. Brutton later remarked:-understanding that if the opinion: At this moment I have three sought from the French lawyer letters in Hongkong from three dif- turned out adversely for Mr. ferent places from her (former) Hinds ellent, then the case was to husband claiming her as his wife, be dropped..
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