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BOARD RESIDENCE.
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Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 29th May, 1926, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of re- ceiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year onded on the 30 WORDS—50 CENTS. 31st December, 1925, confirming the appointment of a Director, and re-electing a Director and. the Auditors.
By Order of the Board,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Manager. Hongkong, May 1, 1926.
THE CANTON INSURANCE
OFFICE LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Forty-fifth Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be
DIOCESAN OLD GIRLS' ASSOCIATION,
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MONDAY, MAY 10, 1926.
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Monday, the 17th May,
Street.
at 3 pm,
I
DRAMATIC TALE.
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SHARE PRICES.
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so very high cut from which we would escape from the basin into which the river had brought us.
MORE TROUBLE.
"The third outbreak of trouble dontally, led to a near tragedy for with our cargadores, which, incl-
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the list of local
Banks.
Hongkong, $1,100 Bp. Chartered, £20 n.
Mercantile A. and B., $30 b Marcantile C., £131 b.
P. and O., £974 п.
East Asia, $86 n.
Marine Ins, "
Canton Ins, $635 b.
China Underwriters, $1.90 b North China, Tls. 145 n. Unions, $2887 ea. Yangtze, $37 n.
Fire Ins.
one of the Americans, occurred share quotations issued to-day when we were travelling along this A BIG CLIMB.
river bed. They refused to follow "Following this advice, on, us and Kauch went back along the April 11, after a conference, we trail to find them. Meanwhile they 1926 set out to climb the mountain had changed their minds and decid
which lay before us.
ed to proceed; following the op- It was no uphill march all the way and the posite bank.
In the dusk, Kauch At the premises of "The Hong-last 1,000 feet was so precipitous passed them and missed them com kong Telegraph 11, Ice House that we were crawling on all fours. pletely.
About 5:45 'crack in the after- "A second man was sent back to Two large newspaper printing noon we reached the top of the look for him when the Mangyans machines.
ridge, cut some wood and bulit arrived without Kauch.
He re- By C. B. Cottrell and Sons.)
our fires. Half of the supplies had turned, reporting only hearing a 1-Electric Motor 1.-H. P. been left below and we had to send sund on the opposite bank of the 200 V.
the cargadores back after them. river. We waited anxiously some) "From this point of vantage, we time longer, and fearing that one of 1-Flectric Motor 5.-H. P. were able to see the ocean. The the Mangyans had done away with A Social Evening will be held
200 V.
sight was too much for Lieutenant him or that he had shipped and fal- on Friday, May 21st, 1921, at 8.30
These machines may be in- Hammung, the
len into the river, we were orgniz p.m., at the 'Diocesan Girls' School. spected in operation on appli- whose shoes were worn out bying a searching party with lanterns
photographer. For members only. Apply for par-cation to the Manager of "The the long tramp, and inasmuch as when Captain Kauch returned un- ticulars to:~~~
Hongkong Telegraph."
Corporal Mercer and Corpora) harmed. Terms: Cash on Delivery, the Welch were suffering similarly and "A new danger beset us on the Machines must be removed with- Robert was beginning to show the next stage of the journey, when we in ten days from date of sale.
strain of the arduous trip, these the river valley and plunged LAMMERT BROS., four separated from us and head-into a dense jungle, which seemed
Auctioneers,
ed for the coast, accompanied by to avoid them, particularly when alled with leeches. The only way two cargadores. The story of their trials before they reached sleeping, was to build our beds on poles two feet off the ground. The their wanderings without suitable drinking water In the jungle more of the shy Ba- lecebes, wouldn't climb that high. for live days, has already been told.
gongs appeared, but whenever we approached a village they ran away frightened and hid themselves.
MISS M. HACKER,
Hon. Secretary,
c/o. Lo & Lo, Hongkong, May 8, 1926.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS,
The Banque de l'Indo-Chine beg PARTICULARS" & CONDITIONS the coast, of
held at the Offices of the under to inform all interested in safe signed on Tuesday, the 18th May, deposit, that they have actually 1926, at noon, for the purpose of in their new building, 6 Queen's receiving the Report of the General Road, safe deposit Boxes at the Agents, together with a statement yearly rate of $8 for the small
FOR AUTOMOBILE BAR-of Accounts for the year ended the size, and $12 for the large size.
ment.
GAINS see Motor Supple-
FOR SALE-Three Jatter
Press Printing Machines, with motors. Apply Manager "8.0.M. Post."."
PREMISES TO LET
2
TO LET Mid level, furnished flat from June lat. Apply Box No. 1511 o. "Hongkong Telegraph."
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31st December, 1926,
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 4th to the 18th May, 1926, bath days inclusive.
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO., LTD,,
General Avents. Hongking. April 27, 1926.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
TOI ET Hall house, funished that the FIFTY-THIRD OR. or unfurnished, Kowloon, DINARY YEARLY MEETING Nathan Road Vicinity, large of the Society will be held at the combined dining-sitting room and
Hend Office. Union Building, large double bedroom separate MAY 1936, at 11 o'clock a.m., Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 2816 cookhouse, all conveniences, select locality, Rent $9600 por Report of the
for the purpose of receiving the month. Apply Box No. 1510 c/o Statements of Account to 31st Directors and, "Hongkong Telegraph."
December 1925, and of declaring, Dividends, etc.
VICTORIA HOTEL. QUIET THE TRANSFER BOOKS of RESIDENTIAL APARThe Society will be CLOSED from MENTS-Full board small room May 12th to May 28th both days, $95. nthly. Medium sized inclusive..
room $120 inclusive Large com- modions bedsitting-rooms $130 monthly, 1 minute from Ferry. Next now hotel Hankow Road. Kow on. Tel. K.357; ---
FLATS FOR RENT -- Orient
Puilding Coronation Road. I Kowloon., No. 5. Ground Flaor No. 9, 1st Floor. No 19, 2nd. Floor. No. 11, 2nd. Floor. No.! 12. 1st. Floor. No. 13, 2nd. Floor, No. 14. 1st Floor. No. 15, 1st Floor. immedia o Becupation.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. „Hongkong; May 3rd 1936.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO. LTD."
NOTICE TO SHARE- HOLDERS.
Enquire Caine Road or Telephone that the SIXTIETH ORDINARY C.317 between 9 and 10 a.m. TO LET-One European fat, 1 Wanchai Gap Road, Hong kong. Apply to 32 Kennedy Road.
Wm. POWELL, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
YEARLY MELTING of the Company will be held at its Head. Office, Union Building, Hong- kong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY 1926, at 11.15 a.m., for the pur- pose of reciving the Report of the Directors and the statements of Account to 31st December 1825, and of declaring Dividende, etc..
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS the Company will he CLOSED, from May 12th to May 28th, both days inclusive.
Notice is hereby given that tho 25th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, will be held at the Offices of the Company. Des Voeux Road, on Saturday, the 22nd May 1926, at 12 noon "for the purpose of receiving the Re-
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
Genera: Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1920.
part of the Directors and State- THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
ment of Accounts for the year
ending 28th February 1926.
Transfer Books of the Cont
COMPANY, LTD.
pany will be closed from the 13th NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS."
May 1926 to the 22nd May 1926, both days inclusive.,
By Order of the Board of Directors
A. O. HOWELL,
Secretary,
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tho FIFTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET. ING of the Company, will be heldi at its Head Office, Union Build, ing, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY 1926, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of rocoiving tho Report of the Directors and the Statements" of "Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring
UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPLY Dividends, etc.
COMPANY.
.
THE
Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, May 6, 1926-
THE NEW
Actuelle
RECORD Pathe Patrat
FOR ALL NEEDLE
MACHINES.
$1.50 each
Pathe Orient,
12, Queen's Road, Central,
PLUMBING
WE EMPLOY A SPECIALLY
TRAINED STAFF UNDER THE
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ADVICE GLADLY GIVEN OR ESTIMATES SUBMITTED FOR ANY STYLE OF WORK.
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BUY BRITISH
GOODS
Columbia
GRAFONOLAS
ALCIO MOTES
TRANSFER, BOOKS of Columbia
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New
from May 12th to May 28th, both process RECORDS
OUR OFFICE and SHOW days inclusive.,
ROOM have been REMOVED to 61, DES VOEUX ROAD. af CUSTOMERS are requested to go to the above mentioned address.
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By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager, Hongkong, May 3rd 1938,
AT..
ANDERSON'S
OF SALE
.OF THE
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
SITUATE AND BEING The Remaining Portion of Subsection 3 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 70
TO BE SOLD
th
By Order of the Mortgagee.
by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
on FRIDAY, the 14th May, 1926, at 3 o'clock p.m..
IN ONE LOT by
MESSRS LAMMERT BROTHERS. Auctioneers
At their Auction Rooms, 8A, Duddell Street,,
The Property consists of:
"In an endeavor to reassure
FIRST WHITE PEOPLE, "After losing these four mem- bera of the party, Captain Kruch them, we sent our Mangyan guide and I broke up camp ourselves on ahead to the next. village to tell April 13 and followed the ridge them that we would bring them no north. During the day our cook
harm. 4ms finally led to finding came in with two bolcs and thei two inhabitants, of one barrio,} first two Bagongs we met. They n old couple who chatted incidentally, were introduced to with cne another with the Erst white men they had seen animation. We nhmed the in their lives.
man Jerusalem and tried to teach
great.
"The cook reported having had him his new name. He reached a serop with the wild tribesmen the point where he could repeat and showed us a small village of Yu-slem and let it go at that. not more than two or three huts trail, the only passage which led "Following an old Mangyan where they had been living. Som of the Mangynus in the
east and west in this wiki, jungle party spoke a few words of Bagong and
country, WC were at length managed to get a manger assort where, some of the North Mang- brought to the Ammay basin, ment of information relative to their mode of living and tribal van informed us that one white man, ten years ago, had gone up "It was shortly after this that That was their only knowledge of the same trail we had come down. we struck the headwaters of the
white explorers. Mongpong and here one of our natives we met had never
All the other men expressing a desire to take heard of a white man before.
customs.
even
All
All that piece or parcel of groun, his children back to San Jose, we these oboriginal tribes displayed a situate at Victoria. in the Colony sent a note out which was the great fear of the Tagalog,
THE LAST STAGE.
+
"We were now on the last stage
of Hongkong and registered in the only communication we succeeded Land Office us the Remaining Por-in sending off during the entire Ition of Subsection 3 of Section A trip. We were then opposite
of Inland Lot No. 70 together with Point Siblayan, which shows on. of the journey and leaving the the messuige or ténement thereon the map, and ran into a long pass Amnay basin, we cut across some erected and known as No. 25 which brought us to the south timber country to the south of Lower Lascar Row.
fork of the Pandan River about Mount Halcon and renched the The property contains an area of April 18. This fork we
headwaters of the Bucayo river. 732 square feet or thereabouts and fed Patrick River, after the Chief For the last ten days we had been is held under a Crown Lease and of Air Service, General Mason M. living on rice and tea without Extension for the term of 999 Patrick, yenre.
bam:
China Firos, $170 b. Hongkong Fire, $551 b
Shipping
99.
Douglasos, $28 n. Steamboats, $26 Tugs, $2 ea. Indo-Chinas, $38 Shell Trans., 87/6 ↳ Star Ferries, 802). sa. Waterboats, $15 n.
Refineries.
China Sugars, $25 Malabons, 835 b.
Mining.
n.
Br
Benguets, $1.50 b. Kailans, 4 b. Langkats, Tis. 243 n.. Shai Explorations, Tls, 5.25 Shanghai Loans, Tls: 7 n. Raubs, $5.00 .n. Tronohs, 65. n. Ural Caspians, 8-n.
•
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, 128 b. Whampoa Docks, $59 s. Hongkows, Tis. 180 b. New Enginoorings, Tls. 5,90 by Shanghai Docks, Tis. 106 b. Lands, Hotels, etc.
*.
H. and S. Hotels, $10,25" Ba. H.K. Lands, $03 Realtys, $5 b. Territorials, $5 - Humphreys, 157 Princes Eldgs, $100 Rural Lands, $7 п.
Cottons.
Ewos, Tls. 10.35
8.
11.
Orientals, Tis. 3,00. b.
S'hai Wottons, Tls. 53 b.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $114
Canton Ices, $7 n.. Coments, $15" s.
China Buses, Tls. 11 b. China Lights, $19 b. China Prov., 85.80 b. Constructions, $. n. Dairy Farms, $20 Der A. Wing, 810 n. Electries, 866 b.
B..
Macao Electrics, $40 n. Developments, 25 cents, n. Roper, $30 s. Tramways; $21.50 s. Lane Crawfords, $10. Mackintosh, $193 m. Peak Trams, 817 b. Sir.cerés, 311 n. Taxis, $4 s.
A twin-peak mountain sugar, so that it was an immense near the source of this river, wo relief that, after dismissing all The proportion of Crown Rent designated as Mt. Mitchell. after our cargadores and piling our payable in respect of the property Colonel William Mitchell, because goods on a home-made raft, fight- is $0.16 per annum.
of its being so contrary to all reing our way over drifts and shoals Particulars and Conditions of gulations.
for three days, during which we Salo may be had from:-
"We had been thus travelling made only ten miles, we emerged along watercourses and acro on April 28 within sight of the divides, going from the top of one ocean at a little town called Baco pass down to the, next river to and purchased some coconuts and follow it to its source, and our egga. next was to follow this third "It was the first place we had. river, the Pandan, to its The walls of this canyon were aed the value of money.
source, struck where the natives recogniz steep but not quite so high as we had paid for all services and Europeans may frequently be those of the Lumintao.
food with nothing but salt, red seen taking a post-prandiul walk cloth and rice. From Baco wealore the Circular-rd after dark,
Messrs. DEACONS, Vendor's Solicitors,
1, Des Vaux Road Central,
or from
Messrs, LAMMERT BROTHERS,
The Auctioneers, Hongkong, 5th May, 1926.
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Duddell Street.
DANGEROUS WATERFALL
con.
Hitherto
United Asbealos, $20 b. Watsons $12 b
Powells, $10 n.
"At one point we ran across a went to Calapan along the coast says the Malay Mail. It is. waterfull which completely block and thence by boat to Puerfa doubtless, very pleasant to stroll ed our path and to attempt to go Galera, where we got a ferry to past the Gombak bridge, with a over it in a raft would have spell-take us to Batangas and same to cooling breeze fitting down the ed certain disaster. In this
Manila by train""
valley and the soft tinkling of the tingoney we piled two large trees After resting for a day, Captain river forming a delightful ac If you have anything you would and clambered up on to a narrow from Camp Nichols, on Monday in comes from the swamps upon the of drift-wood against the cliff,Eagle and Captain, Kauch set forth companiment to the sleepy hum of myriads of mosquitoes, that like to soll, exchange or advertise sloping ledge about 200 feet above a Martin bomber, to cover in the left of the road. At least one of send it to the CHINA AUCTION the raging torrent. By letting air the route travered on foot.
town vines, we managed to
our readers, however, will never ROOM.
Puli Checking all their topographical tako this walk after dark again. up all our food beside us, and, surveys, they found that their He writes: "Last night, about. erawing along this precarious calculations had been within a mile ten o'clock, I was motoring along shelf hewn by nature into the of being correct.
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA:
HUGHES & HOUGH. let ou
LIMITED.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS..
GLENEALY HOTEL.
SATISFIED WITH RESULTS,
the Circular-rd. when, about forty yards on the Ampang-rd. side of
side of the cliff, we passed safely over the dangerous spillway and let ourselves down in a similar Captain Engle was well satisfied the Gombak bridge, a huge black manner on the other side. with the results of the expedition, cobra which appeared to stretch "With two-thirds of the journey he said. The party had suceeded from one side of the road to the completed and still fighting in exploring the entire wertern por-lights, turned and struck at the other in the glare of my boad- against obstacles which tested tion of the island of Mindoro. The our utmost strength, we were left party had not found any natural running boards of my car as I man by more of our cargadores; in resources, he declared, of great or as the wheels passed over his
over him. I felt distinct bumps.
| IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS & order to prevent the whole int unusual valué. Timber, eveh, was thick body but he had managed going off and leaving as alone and thinly distributed over the greater to wiggle into the undergrowth GENERAL BROKERS. without food, we kept vigil over part of the area covered.
our supplies night after night,
by the time that I had stopped One of the chief ways in pistol in hand.
which and reversed the car.” the expedition might have been of "Along the edges of this canyon scientific value, he declared, was more of the strange primitive tribe missed by the absence of experts culled Bagongs were found. We in various folds. A huge orchid, could not pay his fine of 108, Mr. When an out-of-work youth offered them some of our food, but for example, of a rare banuty, with Cairns, the North London megis they refused it, preferring instead a single white petal, was found at trate, lent him the money. to eat roots and wild fruit. The one place. Butterflies and insects Bagongs are a tall race, several of unknown classification, wore en-
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Every room with private
"bathroom. Entirely English Control.
EXCELLENT CUISINE
MRA. FREDERICKS, Proprietress?
Tal, CI90,
inches taller than the Mangyans countered at various points. All bute to the Mindoro Sugar Com They speak a language which sounds very like Chinese, with all through the trip, he said, the ser-pany at San Jose, whose co-opera- their words articulated slowly ethnologist would have geen of accomplish its aim of crossing the vices of an entomologist and an tion alone enabled the party to and distinctly. We shot ono. or
uncharted lands in the interior, of Captain Eagle paid a high tri the island.
two" deer in this country, too, great value, da creatures that scarcely make