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WANTED.
WANTED. Commodicas Godown
with or without Office attached. Central location.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING CO, MACAO AND HONGKONG,
R.
NOTICE..
It is heroby notified that the In connection with the proposed office of the Government Marine voluntary Hquidation of the above Surveyors has been transferred to firm, owing to the death of Mr the New Fire Brigade Building J H. van Gonner Luhrs, the sole 4th. Floor as from Monday, 17th. proprietor, all persons having January, 1927. cinims against or owing monies to the firm's estate, are requested to hond particulars thereof to the Macao Office before 'Monday, the 24th of January, 1927.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
Members wishing seats for the Inter-Port game with Shanghai can have same on application to the oudersigned on or before Wed- nesday 19th January. Price, $2.00 per sent.
NOTICE.
The Marriage Registry has been Apply stating transfered from the Secretariat rent to Bex No. 153 cure of "Hong-for Chinese Affairs to the Land kong Telegraph."
FOR SALE.
SPECIAL SALE. ~~~ Of Ladies Drenses. Jumpers, Suits, Hats, etc. Prices for below cost to clear. Dorothy Ross.""Ruttongee Build- ing, 7, Düddell St., 2nd Floor. Phone 3558.
PREMISES TO LET.
Office, Supreme Court, Hongkong.
PHILIP JACKS, Registrar of Marriages,
The Marriage Registry,
Supreme Court,
, Hongkong.
E. S. KADOORIE & CO.
BLIND HOME.
Kowloon City Road
KOWLOON.
Come and See our
47 Blind Girls at Work and Hear Them Sing. (Hours 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m.) They knit Socks, Shawls, Jersey Suits, Cardigans, Jumpeza, Etc..
Daintily Dressed Dolls $2.50
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1927.
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS.
Madame Flint will sell for the account of the concerned at her shop "Au Chic Parisien" Pedder Street®
Commencing on
Monday the 17th January 1927.
A very large Assortment of Fur Coats. Evening and Afternoon dresses efc. etc. etc.,
at prices that will satisfy everyone.
Lammert Bros.
Auctioneers,
Hongkong 14th January 1927.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
each Ladies' Own Wool or Silk COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES knitted to Order 30 cents to $1.00 per oz.
1)
K. BESWICK, Superintendent,
20 Minutes from Star Furry by No. 3 Bun.
Telephone: K.101.
Social & Dance will be held at the Diocesan School on Satur day, 22nd instant, at 8.30. p.m.
All Old Boys and friends are in- It is hereby announced that the vited to attend. Tickets ($2 per business of the above named firm head) can be obtained from the will from this date be carried on Secretary, Mr. B. C. Randall, care by Sir Elly Kadoorie K.B.E, and of Messrs. Benjamin & Potts, Ice Messrs. Lawrence and Horace House Street. Applications should Kadoorie in partnership under the he sent in before Wednesday, the name and style of "SIR ELLY 19th. KADOORIE &SONS."
Shanghai, Jan. 1st, 1927.
Ac.
MARITIMES.
SHEER FOLLY,
CHINESE POLICY IN HANKOW.
DOCKYARD LADIES
CLUB,"
LAST NIGHT'S FANCY DRESS CARNIVAL.
Abundant proof of the populari- ty of fancy dress earnival dances the large number present at the in Hongkong was forthcoming by Naval Dockyard Ladies' Club carnival dance held at the Hotel Savoy last evening, in aid of the Ministering Children's League.
· POSITION ANALYSED. Someone has opened the flood gates of the sea of disorder in China, and the question is who will proceed to ordain the limits of the flood. No people can thrive on agitation, no state can exist
Successful as the social func without order. Thus writes tions organised by this anter Shanghai Times contributor, who prising ladies' club, have been in çontinues:
the past, an unusual excellence characterised last night's festivi- ties. Tastefully decorated with draped flags and palms and bril-· liantly illuminated, the spacious ball room of the new Hotel presented an inviting and charm-
There does seem to be a method in the present madness, for the Fronch and Japanese Concessions In Hankow are left in quiet and peace. The British Concession alone is the object of attack and the scene of turbulence. This ing spectacle. shows that the breaking out of This radical change is permit- violence is, part of a well-defined oponed at 9p.m.
plan and directed by responsible individuals.
0
NO WISH TO STOP DISORDER.
CAMPAIGN OF LIES,
ed by the Undersigned, Goods recondition of the country will be
the worse than, the first." maining unclaimed after Mobo
Neon
หุบ subject to rent and landing charges. OPINION OF THE WORLD. before Wednesday the
the 19th at
It is surprising that the respon- Great Britain is the most signal or they will not be recognized. aible persons of the Canton Gov-instance of pathos that the woria
Damaged packages must be left in i
All claims must be sont in to me or
It is
A vast number
was
A lengthy dance programme ted and has been encouraged by
of people dressed in the most the authorlties. It was a method
picturesque and original costumes seen in the Colony for many a day, initiated in Russin, and is now be The Steamship, "DOCTEUR PIERRE BENOIT." ing attempted by the unions in
whirled around in the spirit, of To irrational violence is added gaiety and joy, to the strains of Consignech of Cargo from Dunkirk,China with the connivance of those Antwerp, London, Cognac La-Pallice in power. So it would not be a campaign of lies, one of which the exhilarating dance music correct to say that the autho is that the ferocious British have served up by the Titania's Melo- In connection with above Steamer rities have no means to repress this killed innocent Chinese. If these diars, a talented juzz band of are hereby informed that their goods! with the exception of Opium, Tressure social disorder. They do not wish mischief-makers imagine that they musicians. Among those present DIOCESAN SCHOOL OLD BOYS Valuables are being landed and to do so. The present policy is to can deceive the world by such were:-Lady Tyrwhitt and the stered at their riska into the Godowns favour disorder. For disorder, it false information and stir up Misses Tyrwhitt, Commodore and ASSOCIATION.
of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and is thought, helps the party to gain antipathy to Great Britain in this Mrs. J. L. Pearson, Captain Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon whence delivery may be obtained immediately its ends. If this is allowed to go way they are much mistaken. Ramsey (of the Keppel), Com- ufter landing
on indefinitely, eventually there Others are not so credulous na mander and Mrs. E. H. Phillips, Optional Cargo will be forwarded will come what one writer calls, themselves, for the public of other Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Gillingham and on unless instructions are received
I may lands are accustomed to weigh others. from the Consignees to hours before spontaneous anarchy."
The dazzling effect of the dif- arrival requesting it to be landed here. then be difficult to stem the flood evidence and to examine thei
that has been let in, and the last sources from which such informa-ferent coloured costumes Bills of Lading will be countersign-
most weird. Originality жде tion emanated.
The grandlose iden of broad-
wonderfully represented. Much, casting the news that these agi- might be said about the costumes tators have made an outlaw of
One lady wore a and rig-outs. striking dress representing u Chinese Princess, while another fair competitor was dressed to highly amusing. It shows a very copies of, the local press with a low degree of mental perception cruss-word puzzle on her shoulder and a total failure to appreciate and interesting correspondence the seriousness of the situation. columns overleaf. Then a young The people, or at any rate a part fellow paraded as "Three o'clock. Britain of them, who claim to be as high in the Morning-a young married for the moment is the focus of at-ly civilised as the rest of the world man with a pair of troublesome. tack, and by concentrating against are doing the most outrageous twins, alarm clock and candie that country they may feel that things: and they who claim the complete. they still can keep the goodwill rights of rational men are trying of the United States, Japan and wily devices that can belong to the other Great Powers. In this no other stage of civilization but A biography of the late John they will be mistaken. The Pow that of the primitive. G, Des Voeux Rd., C.
Wanamaker, America'a famous de-era are not so dissociated in in- partmental store owner who died terests and divided in objects that HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
a multi-millionaire, has recently an "injury and an offence against I hope we are not unjust to centre-forward-she looked been published. Mr. Wanamaker one will not affect the others. primitive people. To compel wa-that; while another was dolled up TO LET-Furnished House on
Entries for the Forthcoming
carried suveral million dollars of To think so is to misunderstand men and children to go from their in a creation of Black Cats and Peak, All modern convenientes. Races close on Wednesday, 26th Apply Box No. 1-17, care of long-January, 1927, at 3 pm, and must First Church of Christ Scientist, life insurance although he was so the bonds of human society and a own homes and seek an asylum Whiskers and her costume was in There Macdonnell Road, below Bowen rich His first policy-a small one failure to appreciate history. No elsewhere from the violence of the keeping with her name. kong Telegraph.”
be sent to the Secretary care, of
Road Tram Station. Sunday: he took out when he was in his lone liveth to himself. The wel- mob, when there is no state of were Rajahs, Sheiks," savages Linstead & Davis, Alexandra
Subject "Life." Wednesday- teens and very poor. As he got fare of one is the welfare of all war existing, is not the mark of chequered clowns, and "Good TO LET-Furnished House on Buildinga on or before this date.
Evening at 5.30 p.m. Read on he kept on adding further in-
power but of incompetence. The Night" clad in pyjamas. A Peak. All modern conveniences. Entry Forma are now ready and
ing Room at above address open:surances, and never allowed a
outlaw is not the country or the "Dark Horse of the IIe-sex dis-. Apply Box No. 147, care of "Hong-can be had at the Jockey Club
Tuesday and Friday: 10 am. to single policy to lapse. (The bio-Refusal on the part of a man to people who suffer such indignity guised himself វាន Madame kong Telegraph."
12 noon. Monday and Thurs-graphy tells the whale story). To wear glasses where it has been and inconvenience, but it is the Lenglon, and bolted with a charm
TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchal Gap Road, Hongkon Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.
TO LET,-Office Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building.
'Apply Sang Keo, same building.
NOTICE.
HOLDERS of shares standing
THE HONGKONG "JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING.
i the name of the undersigned on The date for the closing of en-
inst.
the Godowns for examination by the ernment head so little the good has seen for a long time. Consignees and the Company's Sur-cpinion of the world. Apparently veyors Messrs: Goddard & Doughs they are indifferent to that side at 10.00 a.m. on Saturday the 15th of the question. It may be that No Claims will be admitted after they think that bitter hostility to only one country may not, arouse the goods have left the Godowns,
No Firo Insurance will be effected the hostility of others.
J. LIMAGE,
Agent. Hongkong January 1, 1927.
TO LET-From 1st April furnish Registers of local Companies are tries has been postponed until by us in any case whatever.
ed flat at the Pouk. Apply Pro perty Office Jarding, Matheson, & Co., Ltd.
TO LET A three roomed Euro- pean FLAT on top floor of No. 14, Condult Road. Apply to H, M. H. Nemazea.
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chuter Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon, and Company, Ltd. --
TO LET.—European house, 4 VIC- TORIA VIEW, KOWLOO, near New Kowloon Hotel, three minutes from ferry. Apply Tung Tak Co., China Building, 6th floor. Tel 0.4926.
TO LET.Furnished 3 Room Bún galow at Fanling N.T. Bathrooms, Kitchen, Servants' quarters, Elec- tric Light. Close to Golf Links, Apply Box No. 151, care of "Hong- kong Telegraph."
TO LET From 1st February, "No. 2, North View," five-roomed BUNGALOW, two bath rooms, aer-: vante' quarters, and recently exten- Blyely repaired. Apply Deacons, Princes' Building.
COMMODIOUS Ground Floors of No. 15, 16 & 17, Connaught Road C., and First Floor of No. 16. Next P, and O. Bldg. Suitable for shipping ofces. Apply S. K. Trust Ltd., 29, Connaught Road C.
requested to have them transfer-Wednesday, 26th January, 1927, at red immediately out of his name, p.m. failing which no future dividends
can be claimed thereon.
SEU KON CHI,
Stables, Race Course. Hongkong Club of Linstead & Davis.
THE INTERNATIONAL RACE
·AND RECREATION CLUB OF MACAO LIMITED,
MACAO.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Inaugural Race Meeting for China ponies of this Club will take place at Macno or the 6th February, 1927, 'zext, if weather permits, There will be only one, event at this Meeting, "The Trial Stakes."
The first annual Spring Meeting for China ponies is scheduled to take place on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 24th April, 1927. The Cham- pion Sweepstake will be run on the 18th April, the 3rd. day of the Meeting.
By Order,
S. W. CHENG,
· Secretary.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD..
By Order...
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
CHURCH NOTICES.
ACR AROK OF ONE DOLLAR IN MADE FOR NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING
Room.
Holy
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MARK OF INCOMPETENCE.
the
There were Eastern
muids, Sparish Senoritas. kilted ladies, early victorians, promising "Bads," "Breaths of Spring,"
Herbs, and Dreams. One charm- Ing Tass, where handicap was seratch, was dressed as a Chelsea all
day: 5 to 7 p.m. The Public is a gathering of life insurance man certified that they are neces- party that permits such irrational ing girl dressed as "Minus" she cordially invited to attend the he once said: "My five reasons sury tó prevent Invaliding acts and works through mob viol-was, without face powder and lip Services and visit the Reading for ny sixty-two life insurance will be regarded as unreason-ence. We do not say people, but stick. Another gent paraded"as"
policies were (1) Afraid 1 might able, says an Admiralty Fleet a party, for we do not think that "Nobody's Darling-he wag pass St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, become uninsurable; (2) best.form order issued recently regard the country" of countless sages and ing himself off as a Coolie Lady, "January 16th, 1927, 2nd Sunday of investment; (3) a savings fund: ing eyesight standard for the the high dignity and lofty "lecals with Market "chow" and baby on a moment back complete-and in the course after.
Com (4) from the standpoint of quick Navy and the supply of glassbs to of China would for Epiphany. Holy munion, 8 a.m.; Children's Ser- determination more profitable thun certain ratings. If the refusal countenance outbursts-we of. his travels he gathered a
for the " vice, 10 a.m.; Matins, 11 a.m. any other investment 1 could persisted in so as to necessitate in- can call them nothing else that respectable cumshaw
perhaps. Pierrot, Prencher: Rev. H. Copley Moyle; make; 5) enables a man to give validing it, may result in any are disgracing places along the "cans'
Communion, 12 noon; away ll he wishes and still make award due on discharge being Yangtze Valley at the present slaves. goblins, niggers, reincarna
tions, and other equally attractive Evensong,
Preacher: suchan, estate as
to withheld or being reduced, Per-moment. 6 p.m. Rev.
characters sprang into view. Walter F. Scott, R.N. leave."
mission to wear ginaacs at work.
DAZZLED BY SUCCESS.
There was has been given within the past
break in the Tuesday, 6 p.m., CE.M.S. Meet- ing address by Rov. N. T. Venn;
The Royal Society of British year to certain ratings, but it does" On the other hand it must be dancing at 10.80 p.m. for a grand R.N. on Faith.
Sculptors' gold medal "for distin- not apply to seamen,"
recognized that the people of the parade and march past, when guished services to sculpture" hos
southern provinces are all mere or Commodore and Mrs. J. L. Pearson As an 'been unanimously awarded to Mr
additional precaution less dazzled by the success and and Captain Ramsey fudged the
the accidents Alfred Gilbert, whose works against
fancy
dresses. the Canton promises of clude the Shaftesbury Fountain Traffe Commissioners of New Jer-gramme. They look upon it as the Amongst such a galaxy of original at Piccadilly Circus and the Duke sey have ruled that henceforth all instrument for the creation of the rig-outs and creations, it was no of Clarence Memoria! in, Albert drivers, to secure a licence, must Chapel, Windsor.
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DANCING
A DANCE will be held at the Palace Hotel KOWLOON.
TO-NIGHT Saturday, 15th January. January 8th at 9 p.m. The Black & White
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Syncopated Orchestra
OR
that the THIRTY NINTH DINARY GENERAL MEETING | of SHAREHOLDERS in this Com
TO LET-Furnished February,pany will be held at the Offices of 1927, a good four roomed house Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., with boxroom and servants' quar- Ltd., on THURSDAY, 27th Janu- tora, 'Modern conveniences. Apary, 1927, at noon for the purpose. ply 6, Observatory Villas Obser- of receiving the Report of the vatory Road, Kowloon,,.
Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1926,
TO LET-A four-roomed HOUSE, with Bathrooms and Servants" The REGISTER of SHARES of quarters, sbout five minutes walk the Company 'will; bo CLOSED from the Ferry. For Torms and from Friday, 14th January to farther particulars. Apply Box Thursday, 27th January, both days No. 152, care of "Hongkong Tele- inclusive, during which period no graph."
transfer of shares can be regla- tered.
FOR RENT, possible salo, in re- glon of Governmont House, Rẻ- pulse Bay, & Kennedy Road de- tached houses, nine, six, & five rooms respectively, lattor Includ ing furniture for salo. SMALL INVESTORS, Tel. C4680,
'By Order,
(H.M.S. "Hawkina") will be in attendance with all the latest jazz music.
Ladies are Cordially Invited.
MRS. SEKAI MASSAGE
Tel. No. C. 4433, 2nd Floor.
2, Duddell Street, Hongkong
CHINA AUCTION
ROOMS.
4, Duddell Street.
of the Board of Directors,
If you have anything you would like to soll, exchange or advertise L. S. GREENHILL, send it to the CHINA AUCTION
Secretary. ROOM
Hongkong, 6th January, 1927.
E. V. M. R. de SOUSA.
he cares
motor
pass a rigid eye examination.
"THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
The Bishop of London is here seen conversing with the Hon, Sir Henry Pollock and Mr. H. R. Phelipe, on the occasion of his recent departure from Hongkong.
pro-
new China: they hope its army will deliver the country from the tyranny of, militarism without in quiring whether it may not crente a new tyranny: they laud the viol ence and irrational acts in Kiu- kiang, and Hankow and think it n splendid opportunity to wrest back the foreign Settlements. The sense of justice and methods" of, sanity are clouded......
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costumea
and
ensy task to individualize, for the spirit of rivalry was keen, notice- ably among the ladies. However; after a short consultation, thê judges awarded the prizes to the following successful competitors ·
Ladka-1st, The Parley. Queen, Miss. Lily Spanten; 2nd, The Gipsy, Miss E. Long.
Gentlemen-1st, "Three O'clock in the Morning," Mr. Jack Greń- ham: 2nd. The Coolte. Lady and Baby, Mr. Charlie Jones.
The spotlight prize was won by Mrs. W. Osbourne und Mr.
Perrow.
TOO MUCH LIBERTY, Liberty is running to licence. The organization of unions of overy description is spreading
Lady Tyrwhitt presented the apace. Wherever the Cantonese awards to the lucky winners. rule extends, there the workers of There was a short Interval for every description are allowed to a-flash-light photograph and re- combine and impose arbitrary and freshments, after which dancing dnerous demands on the wealthier was resumed, and with streamers sections of the community.
and baloons everywhere, the goy Economic conditions of modern carnival spirit continued until life necessitates an advance in 1 am. The success of the even wages to the wage earner. That ing was due to the splendid organi everyone should have enough to sation of Mesdames Danfels, Pons- clothe himself and to supply the ford, Hughes, and Gairns, whose family with enough food is an ad- united efforts for the cause, or mirable ideal and towards which charity should considerably benn- every civilized community should fit the funds of the M. C. League." strive. But it' is to be feared that The Dockyard Ladies' Club [s the unions have changed this hon- fortunate, in having such an est purpose into an occasion for enthusiast as Mrs. L. Daniels for despoiling the wealthier classes, a secretary, and another carnival The "have-nots" are determined to dance in the near future will be redcre "the haves" to a state of welcomed by all who love this forns -beggary,
of social evening-Contributed..
(Continued on Previous Golumn.).