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8.15 am, Holy Communion; 10 Confirmation Closses;
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ST. JOSEPH'S (BRANCH) COLLEGE, CHATHAM ROAD, KOWLOON.
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HOUSE PETERS
The
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À UNIVERSAL. JEWEL PICTURE
from the alb CHARLES CUERNON draced by EDWARD SLOMAN
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions from Messrs. Wing Yue Teung to sell by Public Auction for account of Messrs. Him Yuen Cheung Keo.on
Wednesday, the 6th January 1928 at 11.30 a.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell St., 200 New Tins 'FONG TSZE' O11) The Goods are now stored in Messrs. Wing Yue Tseung's Go. down, No. 402, Des Voeux Rd. W Torms-As Customary
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS
Auctioneers
CHINA AUCTION. ROOMS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
By Order of the Mortgagee.
Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa has received instructions to sell by: Public Auction
on MONDAY, the 4th January, 1926, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the China Auction Rooms, 4 Duddell Street, Victoria, Hongkong.
The Very Valuable Leasehold " Property
FIERCE STORMS.
BRITAIN SWEPT BY
HURRICANE.
London, Jan. 18t.
SERGEANT ACQUITTED.
SUBJECT TO:
·HALLUCINATIONS.
Pleading that he had always. Gales and storms over Europe suffered from hallucinations, Sgt.
are causing serious floods in many places... An eighty-five mile per J. F. Caswell came before a Dis- hour hurricane swept over Britain trict Court Martial which assembl- Telegraphs and telephones are in- laat night causing much damaged at Victoria Barracks yesterday
terrupted.Reuter.
to try him on a charge of conduct prejudicial to good order and dis- DUTCH TOWNS. INUNDATED.
London, Jan. 1,
cipline by Indulgence in alcoholic The Burgomaster of Manatricht drinks. The Court was presided has sought the assistance of the over by Major C.. T. M. Smith, military in connection with foods]
caused by the overflowing of the 5/2 Punjabi Regiment. Mouse. Train" services" betweeṛ. Evidence was heard in regard Manstricht and Liege aro com-to an incident on the 15th Decém- pletely interrupted, and Sasyan-ber, when, in a state of consider- accused gent, Zevenaar, Goude and Zwolle able apprehension the and several other places are par-came running in from the Ord- tially inundated, while, the village nance Depot, in which he had been of Megen is completely isolated, working, to give himself up for It is foared that the dyke near the purpose of being kept in, safe Ravesteyn will collapse. A divi-custody, complaining that he was sion of Marines has been went being threatened by a crowd"" of. to Nymegen to render assistance. the Surreya. This turned out to be a mere figment of the imagina- tion. From his condition the medical officer, who kept him under observation at the Military Hospital, concluded that he was suffering from alcoholic poisoning and evidence to this effect was given at the hearing yesterday.
A number of Chewell's [rades appeared before the Court to state that from time to time the
Renter.
COTTON TRADE.
PLEA FOR REMUNERATIVE
PRICES.
London Jan. 1st."
.com-
Mr. Fred Holroyd, President of accused acted in a very strange would At times he the Federation of Master Cotton- manner.
situate at Victoria aforesaid and spinners Associations, in a New Imagine that he was being watch- being The Remaining portion of Year message advises the cottoned through cracks in his room, Inland Lot No. 1556 and The Re-trade to hold out for remunerative and on other occasions he would maining Portion of Inland Lot No. prices. He says he is deeply con- imagine that he was being follow- vinced that if spinners, especially ed by the Surreys and his life
threatened. 1657
In One Lat.
of American yarns, insist on such
The accused was found The property comprises the ja price they can undoubtedly se messuages shops or dwelling cure it. He is firmly of opinion guilty and was acquitted. houses known as No. 244 and 246 that the world has hot taken all it Des Voeux Road Central and con- requires because customers of
not
tains an area of 1582 Square Feet cotton goods know that if they wait| ROYAL RENUNCIATION. or thereabouts. Further particu-long enough they can get their
lars and conditions of sale may be needs supplied at practically their obtained from the office of
Messrs. DEACONS,
+
1 Des Vœux Road Central
Vendor's Solicitors, or MR. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, The Auctioneer.
Hongkong, Dec. 14, 1925.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
PARTICULARS AND CONDI- TIONS OF SALE "of the
Valuable Leasehold Properties Situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,
own price.-Reuter.
FRANCE & MOROCCO.
POLICY OF DIRECT
NEGOTIATIONS.
NEW RUMANIAN HEIR.
Bukharest, Dec. 31. Crown Prince Charles has re- nounced his succession to the throne and all his prerogatives a3 a member of the Royal Family. The King has proclaimed his four- year-old grandson Michael, son of Charles, as heir.
Paris, Dec. 31. In the Chamber, M. Briand de- The thirty-two year old Crown clared that the Government had Prince of Romania's remuneration neglected no occasion to make is a sequel to his romantic marriage peace in Morocco, but cannot ad-jat Odessa to the commoner, Zizi mit Capt. Gordon Canning's terms Lambrino, contrary to the laws of claiming Tetuan as Abd-ei-Krim's the country. The Prince was sub- capital and territorial concessions sequently sentenced to a term of which would cut the French lines close confinement for transgressing between Fez and Algeria.
military, regulations by leaving the Capt: Canning came to Paris country without leave. His mar- with the purpose of obtaining Lord riage was declared legal, and the Section H of Inland Lot No. 151 Crewe's, opinion of the movement, bride was reported to have refused
and Section D of Inland
but was informed that he could a huge fortune to give up her hus- not be received officially.
band, and the Prince was faithful The Government was pursuing to her. Subsequently, however, and would pursue, direct conver-the Prince travelled and in 1921 he sations with the tribes, and free married Princess Helen, daughter. them from tyrannical oppression of ex-King Constantine of Greece, The best means to bring about a their son Michael who is now hel". satisfactory peace was not to par-Reuter.
and known as
Lot No. 152A
Together with the messuages erec- tions and buildings thereon known as Nos. 9 und 11, Prince's Terrace,
To Be Sold
In One Lot by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
on TUESDAY,
the 12th day of January, 1926, at 3 o'clock p.m.., at the China Auc- tion Rooms, Diddell Street, Vic- toria, Hongkong,
by
ley, with a single potentate, but with the tribesmen. themselves.-- Havas,
—“:
LIBERTY BELL.
TOLL IN AMERICA'S NEW
SHENANDOAH DISASTER.
NAVAL COURT'S FINDINGS
New York, Jan, 1. YEAR. Mr. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA.
The Naval Court enquiring into The properties consist of:-
the disuster to the airakip Shenan- All those pieces or parcels of
Philadelphia, Jan. 1.
doah found that the final destruc- ground situate at Victoria in the
ninety years of silence,tion was due to large unbalanced Colony of Hongkong and registered "Liberty Bell" tolled in the New external aero-dynamic forces and in the Land Office as Section H of Year.. The Mayor's wife struck asserts that the disaster "is part Inland Lot No. 151 and Section Dthe bell with a golden hammer and of the price which must be paid in heard the development of a new and
After
were
of Inland Lot No. 152A with the her light strokes messages erections and buildings throughout the United States by hazardous art." It exonerates the thercon known as Nos. 0 and 11, means of wireless. The bell, personnel and endorses the Cap- Prince's Terrace, Victoria, Hong-which is America's sacred symbol tain's action in starting the fight kong. The properties are held for of independence, was imported when he did and tributes his the anexpired residues of the from England in 1752
and pro-skill and courage when the vessel respective terms of 924 years from claimed the new ideal of nation-brake up.--Reuter's, American the 22nd day of January, 1919, and hood in 1776, but in 1836 it was Service...
999 years from the 25th day of badly cracked and, apparently, June, 1840, created by an indenture silenced for ever.-Reuter's Ameri-
of Extension dated the 3rd day of can Service.
November, 1849, and made between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria
of the one part and Abraham
Joseph Burley of the other part,
and by an Indentire of Crown
RECORD BANKING,
Lease dated the 1st day of Novem- LAST YEAR'S HUGE FIGURES.
ber, 1849, and made between Her
late Majesty Queen Victoria of the
London, January. Ist.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE.
BIG DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED,
New York, Dec. 31. Important International deri
one part and the said Abraham Despite the trade conditions, Burley of the other part, respec-a record has been broken by last velopments are believed to be fore- tively. Annual Crown Rent $9.50 year's bank clearings, totalling shadowed by, the arrival of Mr. and'centa 28 respectively,
£40,437,000,000, an Increase of Montagu Norman, Governor of the For further particulars and con- |2904,000,000. The annual state; Bank of England, and Mr. Gilbert, ditions of sale-upply to:
Messrs. JOHNSON STOKES
& MASTER, Mortgagen's Solicitors,
..or to
Mr. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA;
The Auctioneer. Hongkong, December 24, 1925.
ment attributes the increase to the Agent General for reparations signs of an Increase in commercial who have conferred at Washing banking, turn over and also an in-ton with Mr. Mellon and Mr. crease of new issues, especially Strong. The latter fe Governor. overseas of the Federal Reserve Bank. after the embargo ...on' loans was removed. New Issues The nature of the discussions have
been... divulged. totalled 8224,000,000, an increase hitherto not
Router arAmerican Service, C of £12,000,000 Reuter,