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MISCELLANEOUS.
"NOTICE'.
OBSTRUCTION OF GARDEN
ROAD...
A now Water Main is being laid across Garden Road. The work commences on Friday the 22nd October at 7 a.m, from which date Garden Road will be available for "Up Going" traffic only. "Down Going traffic may uso either Ica House Street or the Military Road in front of the Detention Barracks and the Road East of Murray Barracke connecting with Queen's Road Central."
. Ice House Street will be avail. able for traffic both ways while Garden Road is partially closed. The Military Roads East and South
TWO EUROPEAN LADIES play-of Murray Barracks may only be ing Piano, Jazz-Band, harmonium used by Motor Cars not by Lorries. and Banjo-Mandoline, open for
engagements in hotels, or private
parties.
Would go any other
town, Write Box No. 97, caro of "Hongkong Telegraph.
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POSITION WANTED.
EUROPEAN LADY willing to give services as Companion, or assist with Children, in return for passage to England. Apply Box No. 49, care of "Hongkong Tele- graph."
PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET.-One European .FLAT Wanchal Gap Road, Hongkong. Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.
· TO LET --Office Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Koe, same building.
TO LET-A three roomed Euro- poan FLAT on top floor of No. 14, Condult Road. Apply to H, M. H. Nemazce.
ΤΟ LET.-GROUND FLOOR Offices, near Kowloon ferry. Apply to Box No. 47, care "Hongkong Telegraph."
of
TO LET.-Spacious Office on the ground floor of P. & O. Building, Dev Voeux Central. Apply Mac- kinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
TO LET-Furnished, "Oragside", No. 460, Barker Road, Peak. A six roomed HOUSE with Tennis Court. Apply Box No. 95, care, of "Hongkong Telegraph."
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company. Ltd.
TO LET-European Houses Nos.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Capt. Supt. of Police.
Hongkong, Oct. 20, 1926.
"HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB...
Draft Programmes and Entry, Forms for the Fifth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 6th November, 1926, (weather por- mitting) may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Causeway Bay Stables..
Entries will close at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, 23rd October, 1926.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The FIFTH ORDINARY AN- NUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2; Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, 2nd Day of November, 1926, at Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Re port of the Directors, and State- ment of Accounts to 81st July, 1926.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 19th October to the 2nd November, 1926, both days inclusive,
By Order of the
Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
*Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 16th October, 1926.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong..
THE SHIP
"A Brief History
A Paper on the above subject will be read by
J. S. GILLINGHAM, Esq., M.I.N.A., M.B.E.,
of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, (Member) in the Rooms on FRIDAY, the 22nd October, 1926, at 6 p.m. Chairman-James Ormiston, Esq.,
President.
The Committee trust that Mem- 58 & 55, Kennedy Road and Nos.bers and their friends, including Ladles, will attend in large
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTICE.
THE BANK OF CANTON,
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, No. 6, Des Voeux Road, Contral, Victoria, In the Colony of Hongkong, on the 23rd day of October, 1926, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of considering, and if thought at, passing na solutions, the subjoined Resolu Elons:→→
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1926.
LAMMERT'S CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HOLLAND-FAST ASIA LINE
From AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN and GENOA.
THE K. R. A.
IMPORTANT MATTERS
CONSIDERED.
part, situated in the outlying dis tricts of Kowloon, but that there. are very low vacant premises, of any sort in the Teim Sha Tsui dis trict and these have in meat, In- stances become vacant in con quence the increased The Undersigned have received The Steamship,
A number or important matters unded of three cont de wore dealt with at the October It was further agreed to inform instructions to sell by Public Auc-SIMALOER (1)
meeting of the Committee of the the Government that in the cases. bating arrived from the above port Kowloon Residents Association of large increases in rentals, re consignees of cargo by her pro notified that all goods are being A letter from the Colonial Secreported to the Committee, the landed at their risk into the hazardous tary, dated September 15, was read tenants included both Chinese and and/or extra-hazardous godowns of giving the Government comments Europeans but the landlords were the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart
on all the recommendations of all Chinase. and Godown
and/or Brom the Wharves delivery, may be the K.R.A., as follows: It is really a matter that de- 1 The suggested alterations mands Inquiry how it happens
tion,
on FRIDAY,
the 22nd October, 1926, commencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
obtained.
Goods not cleared by the
Extraordinary Re-A Valpable.Collection of Postage October, 1920, will be subject 27th in the stopping places in Route 8 that the fact that there are more
1. "That the nominal sterling capital of the, Company as existing at the date when this Resolution is confirmed na a special Resolution bacon- vorted into Hongkong cut- roney at such rate of Ex- change as may be determined by the Board, and that such capital so converted be in- creased beyond the Hongkong equivalent of such sterling capital when such conversion takes place to the sum of $11,000,000, Hongkong, cur- rency, divided into 275,000. shares of $10 each."
2. "That each of the issued ater- ling shares of the Company of the nominal value of £5 each, upon each of which the sum of £5 has been paid, be converted into one share of the nominal value of $40 Hongkong currency, at such rates of Exchange as may be resolved upon and deter- mined by the Board, and ac cordingly that 216,605 shares out of the 275,000 shares of the nominal value of $40 each, constituting the capital of the Company so converted and in- creased may be distributed by the Board to the persons who are registered as shareholders of the Company at the date when this Resolution, is con- firmed as a Special Resolution in exchange for the sterling shares then held by them."
3. That the Articles of Associa- tion be altered by deleting Article 184 and substituting
Stamps (Used and Unused), Catalogues will be Issued.
have been made. L broken, chafed and damaged.
vacant premises than usual has 2. The work of surfacing Prince not resulted in a general reduction packages are to be left in ther
where godowns, they will be examined Edward Road is in hand and a of rents. There are a good many on the 28th October, 1928, at 10 am. rangements are being made for factors in the situation that inter- On View from Thursday, the by Mosers: Goddard & Douglas, lighting.gifere with the natural working out 8. It is considered that present of the law of supply and demand.
21st October, 1926."
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received
tion,
instructions to sell by Public Auc
"I
P
on SATURDAY, the 23rd October, 1926, commencing at 11 am."
nt their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
5 Cases Venetians. 50 Doz. Records.
.50 Doz Glycerine Soap.
10 Doz, Eau de Cologne:
8 Doz. Eau de Cologne
Salta..
33 Chair Covers. " 24 Couch Covers,
Hongkong.
Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ton traffic conditions do not neces- The Committee believe that the in- days after arrival of steamer, other-altate the remova) from Canton wiso they will not be recognized.
Road of trees and the stone curbs 4. The removal of all lamp
No Firo Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case what round their roots. over,
Bills of Lading will be counter-posts In the centre of Sallebury signed by
and Nathan Roads and their re- placement by pendant lights in- volves the change from gas to elec- tric lighting and will be effected 48 soon as the roads concerned are strengthened.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LLIN.
General Agents.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM
NAVIGATION CO., LTD.,
Consignees per Company's Steamer "NINGCHOW"
From United Kingdom and Continental Ports via: Straita
Star Ferry Area..
vestigations which would result from the setting up of a Fair Renta Board would inevitably help to elu- cidate the whole housing problem
in Kowloon, i
Children's Playground.
The Children's Playground Bub- Committee reported that after interviewing the official-in-charge, arrangements had been made for 6. The question of the recon- the watchman of the playground to struction of the area adjoining thebo on duty from noon till 8 p.m., Star Ferry Wharf da under con- and that the swings wore, now pad- alderation,
locked at 7p.m., so that the mui
6. There was at one time a regu-sance of noises at night from this
are hereby notifed that the cargo wlation to the effect that motor vehi-source had now ceased. be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kow- cles should dim their head lights
The Convener of the Sub-Com-,
loon, where will lie at Consignee's when approaching other vehicles mittes showed a plan of the pos risk and subject to terms and con- but the practice sometimes prov. sible development of the plot of ditions of storage at Holt's Wharf.
on
Bath The Garge will be ready for delivery ad dangerous and the regulation land promised by the Government from Godown on and after. 19th, Oct. Wwas accordingts rescinded. To in the neighbourhood of Holt's Optional cargo will not be landed introduce a regulation as suggest Wharf, but explained that the Gov- hero, unless notice has been given ad by your Committee would be ernment was not prepared to ex- prior to steamer's arrival, but carried difficult, if not impossible, of append any money on the develop-
from of fall to which the option extends plication, as this would require a ment of the ground at present.
to port to the final part All broken, chafod, and damaged classification of the streets of the goods are to be left in the Godowns, Colony into well lighted and badly. where they will be examined on any lighted streets. Tuesdays and. Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and noon within the free. storage period.
43 Colour Table Cloths (Plush),
18 Padded Gownɛ.
1 Bale Green Printing Paper. 7 Bales White Sheeting.
and
A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
·LAMMERT BROS.,
therofor the following artf- HUGHES & HOUGH
cle:
184. "A dividend, instal. "ment of .dividend,
or
interest payable in cash by "the Company to
LIMITED.
க GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
"shareholder in respect of IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS &
or
"a share, may be paid by "posting a cheque, order or "warrant for the amount in the "a cover directed to "shareholder
at.
nis "registered address, or, by "payment of a cheque, or "granting of an order "warrant on production of "the dividend book issued "by the Company in res- "pect of such share. Every "anch warrant shall be. "made payable at the Com- "pany's Head Office or "other appointed place of "payment. The Company. "shall be discharged from
"liability for the sum ex- "pressed in any warrant by "payment according to any "order for payment or en- "dorsement thereon, pur- "porting to be made by the "payee therein named, or "by any other person on his "behalf, and no person "shall be entitled to pay- "mant of any dividend, in- "stalment Or dividend "bonus or interest for "which 8 warrant shall "have bean so posted, or "for which payment shall "have been made by a "cheque or the granting of "an order or warrant on "production of the dividend "book as aforesaid, except, "upon presentment of the Six (29/50) condition excellent-
"warrant." running order perfect-owner AND NOTICE IS HEREBY given
1 & 2, Broadwood Rond, with all numbers.. conveniences. Apply X. Y. Z care
of "Hongkong Telegraph."
TO LET-From 1st November,
Furnishad, No. 402, Severn Road, Peak, Eight roomed house with Garden and Tennis Court. Apply
A. LANDSBERT,
Hon. Secretary.
FOR SALE.
Special Manager, Russo-Asiatic FOR SALE. Studebaker Special Bank.
༣༤
TO LET First Class European driven, any trial-recommended by that should the above Resolutions Residence 8, McDonnell Road, two. Hongkong Hotel Garage. Price be passed the
by
requisite
storied, with gar ge, phone, light, $1700. Apply Box No. 94, care of majority, they will be submitted
gas installed. Moderate rental. "Hongkong Telegraph." Apply Box No. 85, care of "Hong-
kong Telegraph.”
COMMODIOUS Ground Floors of Nos. 15, 16 & 17, Connaught Road, O, and First Floor of No. 16, Next P. and O. Bldg. · Suitable for shipping offices. Apply 8. K. Trust. Ltd., 29, Connaught Road C.
FOR QUICK, disposal one No. 77. Mimeograph cost $326.00 also one Corona Typewriter for cash imme- d'ately $195 and: $55. respectively. Mimeograph will be kept in good order and cleaned free of charge for 12 months from date of pur-
W
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC
for confirmation as Special Resolu- tions at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to be held on the 10th day of November, 1926, at the same time and place. By order of the Board,
LOOK POONG SHAN, Chief Manager, Hongkong, October 14, 1926.
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Duddell Street.
If you have anything you would like to‘aell, exchanga or advertiso
Lase. Present owner getting Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd. send it to the CHINA AUCTION
larger machines is reason for dis-
posal. Address Post Office Box
484 or Tel. 0.4680.
Distributors. Queen's Blds.
ROOM
Tol, 0.678.
E. V. M. R. de SOUSA,
GENERAL BROKERS,
Are the sanitary arrangements of your home thoroughly up-to-date?
We shall be pleased to quote you for the installation of modern conveniences at competitive prices.
All Work Guaranteed
C.E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.
CHINA BUILDING,
(Opp Queen's Theatrs) TELEPHONE C. 269.
Before You Advertise
COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS
On The Kowloon Forry
7, All three Bus Companies
Kowloon Cemeteries.
The Secretary laid on the table
a sketch plan showing the new pro- posals of the Government with re-.
have been approached on the sub. gard to the allotment of sites for No claims will be admitted after theject of Time Tables, The Kai the various cemeteries required to Goods have left the steamer's Go-Tack Go. is already running to meet the needs of the different down, and all Goods remaining unde-
livered after the 25th, October will time schedule and the other two classes of the Community. be subject to rent..
Companies have expressed their He also read a letter from the All Claims against the Steamer willingness to rún to time Government in explanation of their must be presented to the undersigned schedule if it is found prac-sketch and asking the concurrence on or before the 8th Nov. or they
ticable.
of the K.R.A. Committee... The will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE Agents. Hongkong, October 19, 1923.
CAN MEMORY BE
·INHERITED?·
Public Officers on Buses.
to
8. A regulation to the effect Committee were gratified to note that no one be allowed to stand on that the new arrangement secured the footboard of a bus whilst in that each division was self-con- motion is embodied in the pro- tained and separate and was posed. new regulations, and is have a separate entrance, but there under consideration.
appeared to be some matters re-m quiring further consideration, and, 9. Postmen in uniform on duty rence, it was decided to submit one before signifying their concur-
travel 2nd Class. They are not or two inquiries to the Govern». allowed to travel 1st Class. The ment. Postal Inspector and the four Boarding Officers who travel 1st Class are instructed to give pre- The attention of the Committee "Ancestral memory" is suggest-cedence always to the travelling was drawn to certain letters which ed by a reader of the Daily Ex-public. Indian and Chinese Police had appeared in the Press. One of... prese as the explanation of the fact are not allowed to travel 1st Class, these was an old letter urging the that many persons firmly believe They must occupy 2nd: Class re-establishment of the system of this is not the first life they have seats. Police in uniform but not semaphore and light signals in lived on earth.
on duty are instructed to give pro- dicating times of departure of faz-
BIOLOGIST'S THEORY.
"I believe these impressions arise from the fact that my father fought in the Indian Mutiny and the Zulu war, and that I have in- herited a part of his memory.
"My great-grandfather was a sea captain who travelled all over the "globe, and it seems possible that some of his memories, too, are stored away in my mind."
The Star Ferry.
"I served twenty-four years inference likewise and nob more than ries. In view of the five minute. the Army," writes this correspon-two Police Officers (Indians and service during crowded hours it dent, "and travelled to South Chinese) fn uniform off duty may was agreed that there was no ur- Africa, India, Egypt, Creto, Malta, travel together in one Bus:" gent need for the signals. A and France. On these journeys I As regards No. 8; the Committed The other letter pleaded for have often met people and visited agreed to renew recommendation some loud signal to mark the stop- places which seemed overwhelm that the trees and stone curbs in ping and restarting of ferries. dur ingly familiar, though they were Canton Road should be removed, lng typhoon weather. As it was in fact new and strange to me. seeing that they sorve no useful not found possible to suggest any purpose, and prevent the road such signal which would not inter- bearing the amount of traffic that fere with the system of maroons. it should. As regards No. 5, too used to announce the arrival of Committee resolved to ask the Gov- the typhoon itself, the Committee ernment to accord to them the pri- decided that nothing more, could vilege of geoing the plans for the be done than had already been reconstruction of the area adioin, done, on the initiative of the Kow- ing the Star Ferry Wharf, "before loon Residents' Association, some they were put into execution, and at time ago, namely an agreement be the anime time to express to the tween the Ferry Company, and the Government their opinion that the Telephone Company that notice recent experimental arrangement should be given to the Exchanges la most unsatisfactory.
when the ferries were withdrawn Before the subject of the Bus and when they were to be started "It is peculiar that each former Service was dismissed, it was de again.. existence so far recounted has cided to write to the Captain During the recent typhoon opera- been a highly romantic one. While Superintendent of Police, advocat tors at the Kowloon exchange in- Hot casting any doubts on the ing an official stopping place informed some inquirers correctly sincerity of those who believe that Kowloon City at the farthest point the time of restarting, but as this they were once kings' daughters, to which the buses travel, namely arrangement is not known to every- governors of islands, or captains the junction of Saf Kung and Po one, it is suggested that, at the be of regiments, it would be more en-Kong Roada, and also requesting ginning of the next typhoon season, couraging, if less thrilling, if some that, if possible, one of the stop the attention of the public be call- of ua could remember being ping places along the Kowloon Cityed to this happy accommodation scavengers moneylenders, of even Road should be shifted nearer the between two public utility services. gaolbirda
foot path to the Blind Institute. Dogs Home.
だ
Mr. C. C. Fletcher, of Derby,
writes:
Miss May Stratchan, a biologist, offers an interesting explanation of the phenomena, also on the lines of ancestral memory.
Fair Rents Board.
1
Serions complainte, having been In reply to the Committee's petl received of the disturbance at night tion to the Government for the in the Waterloo Road caused by the establishment of a Fair Rents continual barking of dogs in the Board, which they made in accor Dogs Home; it was resolved to ask. "A scientist has recently dance with the referendum to the the Government to change the site proved," she writes, "that the ex-
perience of one generation of rats Association, an inquiry was receiv- of the Home to some less inhabited is inherited, to their advantage, od, asking whether it was not a quarter. US
fact that there wore many vacant Education Board. Theso by successive generations.
houses and flats in Kowloon sult A letter from the Government results should satisfy us that some considerable element from the able for the various classes of the was read, stating that the period parent survives in every living community and what classes of the of Mr. B. Wylie's appointment as thing,
community were particularly re- a member of the Education Board. ferred to in the Committee a letter corralantes on October 26, and In- "Everybody who has bred any It was agreed to write to the quiring what arrangements the Ap kind of pedigree animal or birds Government stating that there sociation would wish made. It knows this quite clearly, yet few are a large number of vacant was unanimously decided to take the next mental step of apply houses and flats, adopted for nominate the Rey, G. R. Lindsay, ing their knowledge to humanity.”" Chinese occupation for the most M.A,, to illl the vacancy."