Prepaid Advertisements
G. 2. R.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Owners of dogs are notified that
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926.
LAMMERT'S THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL
AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION,
on and after the 12th April until BY ORDER OF THE OWNER. further notice every dog going abroad in the publle thoroughfares; or elsewhere will be required to hel muzzled under section 6 of Or- dinance 5 of 1893. Any owner await-whose dog is found abroad un-
23 WORDS FOR $1.00
($1.50 If not prepaid) The following replies are ing collection
1314, 1376, 1384, 1385, 1392, 1842, 1997, 1409, 1418, 1375, 1441, 1444, 1456, 1462,
MISCELLANEOU. S
STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
STEAMER FOR SINGAPORE PENANG and BOMBAY.
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY.
PROBLEM ÁT BENGAL
" UNIVERSITY.
FORBIDDEN THINGS.
SHANGHAI'S DEATH RATE.
SOME THOUGHTS ON PROHIBITION
LOWEST FOR FIVE YEARS. Calcutta, March 1-The nation- THROUGH BILLS OF LAD-alistic spirit in Bengal expressca
Every sane man abominates that
The foreign death rate in ING ISSUED FOR EGYPT, Itself in other ways than in the breach of good manners which is Shanghal last year decreased to
political arona.
Recently there drunkenness. Intoxication means 16.4 per thousarid, as against 17.1 was a far-reaching proposat in literally poisoning, toxicum being in 1924 and 17.2 in 1923, accord- connection with
Bengal
ing to the annual report of the. University that Bengali should re- the Latin word for the stuff in Commissioner of Public Health. place English as the language of which arrows were dipped. But This was the lowest within the last five years. This, however, is instruction and examination in the
a man may poison himself with higher than it should, be, for a schools aliated to the University.
MEDITERRANEAN AND CONTINENTAL, PORTS AND LONDON.
The Stoamship
" JEYPORE
1%
the
of the Valuable Leasdhold property situate at Victoria, Hongkong and known as muzzled will be liable to a fine of $100 under, section 7 of the same Bection C of Inland Lot No. 712! Ordinance. On and after the 6th and Subsection 1 of Section B of April muzzles will be on sale dur- Inland Lot No. 712, together with ing ordinary business hours at the the mussuage erections and build-carrying His Majesty's Mails, will Lord Lytton at the Convocation strychnine, a drug which saves as large number of deaths, were ings known as No. 2 Conduit Road be despatched from this Port at held the other day showed how many lives as perhaps any other caused by such preventable dis erected thereon. Area, 5,440.square 4. p.m., on Wednesday, the 7th impracticable this was, while at in the pharmacopoeis. It all de.eases as smallpox, cholers, dysen- feet. Annual Crown rent $8.60. April, 1926. taking Cargo for the the same time expressing sym-pends upon the amount. Whence tery and typhoid fever,
pathy with the scholars who, as one might lay it down that the Of the deaths among foreignore, above Ports.
following places:-
1. Mesara: Lane Crawford, Ltd. 2. Hung Cheong, 66 Nathan Road, Kowloon.
The price of the Government
FOR RENT Bix roomed house pattern will be 30 cents each with-
middle level. House want-out strap.
ed Peak with tonnis court long
BASD,
N. L. SMITH, We have houses and land Head of the Sanitary Department. for disposal. Small Investors. Hongkong, April 1, 1926. Tel. 4630.
وان
PREMISES TO LET
RABIES.
Members of the public are hereby TO LET EUROPEAN RE Informed that a "Removal Permit" SIDENCES within easy re- le necessary before any dog can be ach of the City and the University, taken across the Harbour. Such comprising 6 rooms, 4 bathrooms, permits may be obtained at the up-to-date sanitation, electric office of the Colonial Veterinary light, gas, as well as garage, at Surgeon, " $150 upward. These resid- Persons in possession of Anti-
Vaccination ences. on Mount Davis Road, rabies
Certificates Pokfulam, face South and are issued by veterinary practitioners situated in one of the most de-are not thereby entitled to take lightful focalities in Hongkong. their degs across the Harbour It is hoped very shortly to provide this neighbourhood with a bus service at popular rates. Apply to Hongkong Land Investment and agonoy Co., Ltd.
TO LET. One flat of two rooms of No. 38, Wyndliam Street, with bathroom. Kitobon, servante room, from 1st. April. J. P. Vasunia & Co, same bouge.
FICTORIA HOTEL, QUIET RESIDENTIAL APART- MENTS. Full board small room $95. monthly. Medium sized room $120 inclusive Large com modious bedsitting-rooms $130 monthly, 1 minute from Ferry Next new hotel Hankow Road, Kowloon. Tei. K.357.
+
without a "Removal Permit."
WALTER J. E. MACKENZIE,
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon,
Hongkong.
March 31, 1926.
HUNT
FANLING STEEPLECHASES.
EASTER MEETING.
Monday, April 5th, 1926. Saddling Bell
....... 12 noon.
12.30'
First Race Entrance to Enclosure and
Covered Stands......$3,00 Motor cars can be parked on the: rail.opposite the grand stand, $5.00,
The Masters of the Hunt request the pleasure of the presence of the Ladies at the Races,
Specia! Express Train to the TO LET-One European flat, T
Wanchai Gap Road, Hong-Races leaves Kowloon at 11.02 a.m. kong. Apply to 32 Kennedy Buses, and Jitney cars for the Road.
Course will meet the train.
TO LET. From 1st. April to
31st December, furnished, top floor flat of four large room with kitchen and gas stove, pantry, store room, bathroom with goyter, etc. Apply W. S. Bailey, 4 Armend Bldge, Kimberly Road, Kowloon,
Two
“WO large rooms excellently situatod for offices on the Rnd. and 3rd. Floors of "at. George's" Building facing Tee
Extra lighters for taking care across Harbour will be provided,
Cash Sweep through tickets.can now be obtained from Mr. U. Rumjaho.
Hongkong, March 25, 1926.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
The forty-eighth ordinary annual
To be sold in one Lot
by.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
on TUESDAY,
BY MESSSRS, LAMMERT BROS.
For further particulars and Con-. ditions of Sale.
Apply to Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master.
..
For further Particulars,
Apply to MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
& CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 1st April, 1996.
The desire of Bangalis, however,
60.6 per cent occurred among
Silk, Valuables Cargo for Italy, he pointed out, in addition to moderate use of poison is good,
Asiation other than Chinese, com-, France and London (under having to acquire a knowledge of and the immoderate use "evil.
pared with 62.7 per cent. in 1924. My dictionary writes James Acute communicable diseases (ex arrangement) will be conveyed several languages, were severely by this, Steamer proceeding to handicapped by having to study Agate in the Daily Chronicle, gives oluding venereal) were responsible Bombay and there transhipped to every subject in the medium of a the on-carrying Steamer for foreign language, a fact which secondary meaning to intoxica- for 42.7 per cent, of the whole. the 13th day of April 1926, at Marseillos and London. must considerably retard their ton: "A high excitement of mind; number, against 44 per cent in an elation which rises to en- the previous year. Of the deaths o'clock p.in, at their Sales Rooms,
Parcels will be received at this progress.
thusiasm, frenzy, or madnese." recorded in this class 46.8 perí Duddell Street, Victoria, Hong-Office until 5 p.m., on the Day kong.
previous to Sailing. The contents to substitute their mother tongue! Whence you might say of a percent. occurred among Japanese and value of all packages must for English is, unfortunately, not son suspected of being tipay that subjects.
he had "had a couple," that he was nearly so simple as it appears.
It is a regrettable fact that a Auctioneers, bo declared.
"a bit on," or that he was drunk large number of foreign deaths The dimculty is that there are many scholars in the schools of the full police-court sense of were caused by adute communic the word. Even the mildest in able diseases most easily prevent Bengal to whom Bengall is 8 terpretation implies a quicker ed, namely, smallpox, cholera, and much a foreign language as is
pulse and a state of mind above typhoid fever, indicating grave English. Moreover, it would be
the normal Mr. Shaw even goes neglect of the simple rules for the impossible to force schools in
so far as to declare that he could protection of health which have Assam merely because they are detect in any page of Jane Austen been constantly placed before the amiliated to the university, to re-
the paint at which that abatemi-Shanghai publio during the past 6. S. AMBOISE" ceive instruction in Bengal. ous lady had indulged in a cup of twenty years.
Also, there is a large minority of teal
Regarding Chinese the report SERVICES CONTRACTUELS Urdu speaking Mohammedans in
Mrs., Jones, the charwoman in states: Altogether 8,936 deaths DES MESSAGERIES Bengal who are equally entitled to
consideration. "We must not Mr. Galsworthy's play of "The were reported, compared with MARITIMES.
forget," said His Excellency, "that Silver Box" puts the case succinct-9,259, in the previous year Tak- Consignees of Cargo from even if the number of Mosteins in ly when she reiterates of hering the census returns as a basis MARSEILLES &c., also Cargo Bengal whose mother tongue is drunken husband that "He was for calculation (eliminating the The Undersigned have received from Havre and Cognac, ex 8.a. Urdu be small, they will have the not himself." Mr. Jones, we must population in ships and boats, the instructions to sell by Public" LIEUTENANT de la TOUR" gympathy of millions, if their in- believe, was on these occasions death rate is 11.2, the same as for In connection with above Stea-terests are not adequately safe literally in ecstasy which word 1924. The death rate was highest mer are hereby informed that guarded." Finally, a good know the dictionary again tells me thousand), where poverty is most the 6th April, 1926, commencing at Opium, Treasure and Valuables the study of any technical subject beside himself ceases to be man; their goods with the exception of edge of English is 30 necessary to, means the state of being rapt out a.m., at their Sales Room, are being landed and stored at that it would be a serious handi- Duddell Street.
their risks into the Godowns of
Prince's Building, Hongkong, orto MESSRS. 'LAMMERT BROS.,
The Auctioneers.j Hongkong, March 30, 1926.
Auction,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
रा
on TUESDAY,
A Quantity of Household Furniture.
And
A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
of one's self. But a man who is
the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf cap to students if the teaching of, he may either be god or devil. and Godown Co. Ld. Kowloon English as a separate subject were, whence delivery may be obtained allowed to deteriorate. immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forward-
ed on unless intimation le feceiv
ed from the Consignees before 9 a.m. to-day requesting it to be landed here.
Bills of Landing will be counter. signed by the Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after Tues- fday the 6th. April, 1926 at noon will be subject to rent and lad-
HUGHES & HOUGH ing charges.
LIMITED.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS
GENERAL BROKERS,
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Duddell Street.
House Streat. For terms and meeting of the shareholders of the particulars apply to Hongkong above company will be held at the and Territorial Estater, Ltd., 'Stoffles of the General Agents, Ped- George's" Building.
der Street on Thursday, 22nd April, 1028, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement like to sell, exchange or advertise of Accounts for the year ending send it to the CHINA AUCTION
ROOM,
ON
N or about March 1920 whole flat or spacious site of offices
in the "Fronok Building ". "Victoria Building,"
5 31st December, 1925.
No. Queen's Road Central (between
The Transfer Books of the com- Chartered Bank and Mercantilopany will be closed from 8th to Bank.) Apply to: Banque de 22nd April, 1926, both days inclu- Indochine Chater Road.
GROUND FLOOR PRE-
MISEB "ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, opposite the STAR FERRY PIER, best locality in Hongkong for Shipping Com- panies or Shops. Single Office, room, or whole suite of 3 Office rooms for short or long lease. For terms and particulars apply
Ealatoe, Ltd., "St.
sive.
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO., LTD.,
General Agents. Hongkong, March 26, 1926.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
"The First Extra Raco Meoting will be held (weather permitting)
to Hongkong and Territorial at Happy Valley on Saturday, George's" 3rd. April, 1926 commencing at The first bell will be
Building, let. Floor.
FOR SALE,
2.30 p.m. rung at 2. p.m.
The charge for admission to the 'Public Enclosure will be $1. for all persons including Ladion.
MOUTRIE PIANO Excel- Soldiers and Sailors in uniform
and Condition, half price.
trial welcomed. Cost $800.00 in
Mombers are advised that they
October 1922, will accept $550.00 must show their Badges to obtain or nearest offer. Apply Box No, admission 1483 c/o "Hongkong Telegrapli." Enclosure.
FOR SALE-Small cruiser
to tho Mombors'
Each member has the right to yacht "Coquette." Winner introduce 2 non-members to the R.H. K.Y.O.. champ onship 1924, Members Enclosure, tickets for be obtained from runner-up 1925. Apply Box No. whom can 1482 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph." Messra Linstead & Davia at $5;
ench up to Thursday 1st April.
"TO BOARDING & PRIVATE The charge for admission for
HOUSES STOCK-TAKING | Ladies to the Members' En SALE of Pure Blackberry and closure will be $2. Tach mem Strawberry tins at $26 00 and tor can obtain, upon application *28.60 per caso. Two weeks only. to the Secretary, Badges for the Montgomery, Ollerton and Com-admission of 2 Ladios free of pany, 10, Dos Vooux Road, charge. Central, Tel. 4630.
FOR BAIE STEAM
LAUNCH about 60 foot MASSAGE HALL
Jon in broilent condition and
Arboupland River,
WYNDHAM STREET
If you have anything you would
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
PORTABLE MODEL
·
Weight 84 lbs. in travelling case.
MINIMUM WEIGHT. MAXIMUM SERVICE.
Price Mex, $112.50 Nett,
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.
Office Equipment Dept. Office Equipment Dipl. Queen's Building, Ground Floor. Opposite Farry Wharf.)
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the Friday. the 9th. April or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on Tuesday; the 6h April at 10 a.m. by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
No fire insurance has bee effeated.
R. RODENFUSER,
Agent. Hongkong, 31st March, 1926.
"GLEN" LINE LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From United Kingdom and Straits. Consignees are hereby notified that owing to a Fire in the After Hold a General Average has been declared. It is therefore neces- sary for the Average Agreement to be signed and a Deposit of 15% paid before Bills of Lading can be countersigned.
Goods damaged by Fire ori Water will be surveyed by Messrs., Goddard & Douglas on 1st April at, 10 ■.m.
The Steamship. "GLEN. SHANE" Baving arrived from the above purts, Consignees of cargo by her are hereby informed that all goods are being landed] at their risk into the hazardous | and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar & Godown Company. Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained."
Goods not cleared by the 5th April 1926 at Noon will be subject
to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where, they will be ex- amined in the presence of Con- signess by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. on 1st April 1926 at 10 a.m. Claims against the steamer including those for cargo short delivered must be presented on the special form provided, and must also be submitted with in 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be
offected by us in any case
whatever.
Bill of Lading will be coun- torrigned by
JARDINE MATHESON & CO, LTD.
Agents. Hongkong 30th Marob, 1926
**
in the Eastern District (16.6
acute.
Communicable diseases, includ ing pneumonia and the unclassifi-, ed diarrhoeas, caused 24 per cent. Now the gist and point of Proof the total number of deaths. hibition is that to save ourselves Classification of the deaths from from the devil we must deny our communicable disease shows that selves the god! This seems to me 14 per cent. were caused by the to be as though one should decreg respiratory and 10 per cent, by black to be an ugly colour-and, the alimentary group of these to ensure a world of harmless diseases. The deaths of infants drab, decide to forgo the joys of one year and under) showed an scarlet and purple! Or deny our appreciable reduction on the 1924 selves the splendour of the sun figures; 12.9 per cent. of the total, that we may banish gloomy night! compared, with 15.4 per cent., in Or do away with birth that we the previous year. The deaths of may never know death!
adults of 50 years and over. wero Shakespeare talks somewhere of 32.2 per cent. of the whole, com- "the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rol-pared with 31.6 per cent. in 1924. ling," and I would be prepared to maintain that all the finest achi-
Owner of villa in course of cor-evements of the humah mind struction: "Pardon me, sir, but have been conceived in a mood of you are walking in my garden!" Passing Show, London.
CHURCH NOTICES.
The 2nd. (St. Andrew's) Troop. ecstasy, though exocution must be carried out when he who is in- of Boy Scouts are holding their spired becomes himself again. annual display of Scoutcraft and There are many men who can be Scouting Games in St. Andrew's both great and good; but there are Church Hall at 8.30 p.m. on Mon also a not inconsiderable number day. The grounds will be special who carry their ecstasy from their y decorated and illuminated for
the occasion. work into their private lives. Wagner was unfaithful to his wife) First Church of Christ, Scientist, as Mr. Jones was to the charwo
A CHANGE OY ONE DOLLAR IR MADE O FUR NOTICEK UNDER THIS HEADING
MacDonnell Road, below Bowen man. But would the world have I would close no gambling hells Road Tram Station. Sunday been richer if that genius had de-because some wretched clerk may Service 11.1′′ a.m, Wednesday voted his energies to keeping trie rob the petty cash. I would for Evening Meeting 5.30 p.m. to Cosima instead of writing bid no night clubs because the Reading Room at above address, "Tristan?" The faith of the half-wit may befuddle even that open Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. Jesuits allowed them to do a little half which he hath. And this be to 12 noon. Monday and Thura- evil that good might result; the cause I hold that by lessening evil day 5 to 7 p.m.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH. Easter Sunday.-7.15 a.m. Holy
2
creed 01
the Prohibitionist opportunity you are diminishing preaches that to ensure the ab-man's virtue in control, and, there- sence of evil we may do away with fore, decreasing the moral stature good.
of man.
more
Because steeplejacks occasion- On the other hand, I would Communion. 8.15 a.m. Holy ally fall from chimneys, shall make the law about drunkenness Communion. 11 s.m. Morning, vanes remain awry? Because the at once more lenient and Prayer and Holy Communion.(masthead is giddy and precarious, severe: The drunk who is merely Preacher: The Vioar. 3 pm-shall sailors not mount the rig-incapable should go free; ho Young People's Service. 6 p.p.ging? Because railway accidents punishes himself next morning. Evening Prayer and Holy Com- have happened, must Euston and But the drunk who is quarrelsome munion. Preacher: The Lord St. Pancras be closed? Because and a nuisance should serve seven. Bishop. The Bishop will license; battles have been lost, shall brutal days without the option, and in Mr. J. H. Hunt, 0.8.E., tbe and vainglorious nations be allow the case of a gentleman fourteen Vicar's Warden, as a Diocoasued to ride roughshod over the days. The drunken husband who Lay Reader at the evening world? Because of anthrax, shall beats his wife should for the first service.
we abandon wool and go back to offence be given öne stroke of the wead? Because one negro, whose cat,. for the second two strokes, nature is vicious, becomes, and at the twentieth lose the hand through contact with white races, wherewith he beats her. After ten times more dangerous to that, the other hand, then both society, shall the Gospel be no feet, and last the lethal chamber. more preached to the heathen? I would sentence the drunken Because husbands and wives are motorist who ran over a child to sometimes unfaithful, shall the 10 years' imprisonment if a poor sexes not take each other in mar-ntan, and if a rich one to the same. riage? Because children may sentence plus an annual payment come to know discuse, misery and to the parents of such sums as want, shall, none be born? Bethat child might have been "sup cause death is the end of life, why posed to earn if he had been should we not cut our throats with spared.
Appetizing
FOOD
EVERY POSSIBLE CARE IS TAKEN IN THE PRE- PARATION OF APPETISING FOOD AT THE RITZ
$1.00 TIFFINS
SERVICE CLEANLINESS
TEL. C. 2936
THE RITZ
all convenient dispatch. I But I am a good citizen. If the
But my gravest objection to community as a whole desire Pro Prohibition fa that it limits man's hibition, then let us have Prohibi- responsibility. What credit can Ition, and let messieurs the boot- claim for not being a forgor if I loggers begin. Only let us accept have never learned to write, or denial with our eyes open, and for refraining from thieving if I knowing that where there is greater have no inclination to steal? His safety there is also lesser glory. mother's apron strings are ex-Let us agree to read "ginger pop" cellent for the growing child, but wherever Shakespeare mentions) we have authority for knowing sack. And let us teach our child. that the time comes when he must ren that the diet of the gods can renounce even these best of aufe slated solely of amb guards.
them not hear of nec