16.
HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographio Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telographio Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL",
HOTELS. LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotal
Dos Wagons Lits, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Meals can be had as follows:
Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10. 2.1.
wi
$1.00 por Cover
Tiffin 1.00. p.m.- 2 p.m. $1.00 Dinner 7.30 p.m.-.9, p.m. $1.25
Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony.
CENTRAL LOCATION
Electric Lifts and Lighting.
Tolophones on each floor.
Hotel Launch moots all Steamors.
TELEPHONE: C. 373;
TEL. ADD VICTORIA.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
KOWLOON HOTEL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII,
SATURDAY, MARCH 12,
1927.
DUCHESS INSPECTS GIRL GUIDES.
Entertainments.
2.30
5.10
QUEEN'S
7.15
9.20
WITH
ERNEST TORRENCE THE FOURTEEN: INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY
LEATRICE JOY
and
MODELS
sts br ADOLPH ZUKOR
JESSE LASHA
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator and Tolophones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Tablo
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Tola. K. 608-G09. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
Tel. Kowloon No. 3
WM. HAROLD PERRY Manager
PALACE HOTEL.
H.R.H. the Duchess
House, Kingston, Jamaica.
HAYLEY MORRISS
AFFAIRS.
APPLICATION BY FORMER WIFE.
Mr. Justice Hill, in the Divorce Court, on February 7, heard ar application by Mrs. Daphne Mor.. risa, the first wife of Hayley, Mor- riss, of Pippingford Park, Sussex.
of York is here sean inspecting Girl Guides at King's Lady Stubbs is seen on extreme right of picture. (Photo-
engraving by S. C. M. Post).
CHINESE COMMUNIST'S
ASPIRATION.
WANTS TO ENTER HOUSE OF COMMONS.
BORN IN HONGKONG.
KALEE HOTEL.
AS ANNEXE TO THE PALACE.
To meet the great demand for rooms and to alleviate the crowd- ed conditions at the hotels, the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., has secured the old Kalee'
The Communist Party in Lon-Hotel on Kiangse Road, says the
Sir Patrick Hastings, KC., fordon intends putting up a Chinese Shanghai Times, and will com- Mrs. Morriss, said the application candidate for the Holborn Divi-mission it again ns the Palace was made by her against her form-
er husband, Hayley Morriss, and sion, says the Daily Mail. He is Hotel Annexa under the manage- asked for an injunction and Mr. Fung Saw of Penny-closement of Mr. R. W. MacCabe, for- Tol. Address "PALACE” Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station, the appointment of a receiver in Entirely under English Management, Electric Light and Fana throughout. Grder to protect his property as Poplar, E., and he has been adopt mer manager of the Astor House Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Roomas.security for the permanent main-ed by the Holborn Labour Party Hotel. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietreas. tenance Lo which she was entit- which was recently disaated Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
led. Hinyley Morriss, he said, was from the National Labour Party Mrs. J. H, OXBERRY, Proprietress.erving a term of imprisonment. because it refused to expel its
The case was tried about twelve Communist members.
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
Cablos:
"EUROPE"
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
QUEEN'S
Mon, and Tyes,
March 21 & 22
9.30
p.m.
JASCHA
HEIFETZ
Prices. $6, $4 & $3 Booking at Moutrie's
E. HING & CO.
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS SHIP CHANDLERS HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
PHONE CENTRAL No. 1116.
The old Kalee Hotel has been the subject of many rumours re- cently. One had it that the Shanghai Defence Force Head- months ago, and was of a some- The Holborn Labour Party is quarters would be established what notorious character. Since immediately to challenge the mem- there, that it would be used to then layley Morriss had re-mar ber for Holborn, Sir James F. house refugees, and that Ammuni- ried. The first wife took proceed-Remnant, who has represented the lion was stored there. Mystery ings against him for divorce, and constituency as a Conservative has been added to the old. struc- a deerce nisi was obtained by her continuously since 1900, to resign tare recently by the presence of a en May 10, 1922, and was made his seat and contest it at a bye- Municipal police constable on absolute in the following Novem-election" with Mr. Saw on the duty there through the day and ber. Subsequently an application Government's Chinese policy, night.
was made to that court for per- Mr. Sow, who is a pure Chinesel When the hotel was put out of manent maintenance, and an in- but is a British subject by virtue commission recently all the furni terim crder was made on Novem- of the fact that he was born inture was auctioned off leaving it bet 14, 1924, for the payment to Hongkong, was adopted by the devoid of fixtures. Its re-esinh- her of 4300 a year and £75 per executive of the Holborn Labour lishment as a hostelry will take annum for each of the three chik Party by 22 votes to 16.
several days to accomplish in order dren. That interim order was Mr. Saw is 43, and has been ch to install furniture and modera still standing.
agitator among scamen in China hotel conveniences.' On the application for that or since boyhood. Since coming to This move on the part of the der, said Sir Patrick, evidence was England he has been a propa- Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, filed, and Hayley Morris stated gandist at the London dacks and Ltd., was necessitated by the in that he had nothing, substantial in the East End among Oriental flux into Shanghai of large num except freehold property, on which sailors, has formed a London Com-bers of refugees from upriver he had spent some money, at Pip-mittee of the Kuomintang, the ports, the presence of numbers of pingfore, and about £5,000 in the Chinese Nationalist Party, and is farmy officers who required hotel ac- bank. Hayley Morriss had been a the organiser of the Chinese commodation and because of the bill broker in China, and he had Workers Union. "Your Govern-removal of a number of residents owing to him £101,000 by the French Industrial Bank of China.ment no good," said Mr. Fung to from the outskirts of the Settle- That bank had suspended payment Daily Mail reporter. "It sendment into hotels of the central dis- about June, 1921, and during 1922 troops to China and that again do trict as a safeguard against sud- and the early part of 1923 there the British Government no good. den evacuation.
According to the announcement were negotiations between the Me not able tell why do this kind French and Chinese Governments of thing. Me no my I be success-of the company, it is anderstood with regard to the liquidation of ful in Holborn at by-election or that even the accommodation.at very the Annexe will not meet the re- the debts to the Chinese Bank.general election, but very,
servations already booked. Counsel thought the undisputed hopeful."
fnet was that an arrangement was
ultimately made in which the Chin-
ese Government agreed that some CANTON BANKNOTES.
portion of the Boxer Indemnity
should be used for paying the 1- abilities of the Bank, but from whatever source it came, they handed over to the French Goversi- ment, as against the debts of pri- vate persons-and, he thought, the Government, too-in connection
with the Bank 5 per cent. Chinese
Bunds.
Sir Patrick Hastings agreed to accept Hayley Morriss's undertak- ing not to deal with half of the bonds, and the judge made an or der accordingly, each side to pay their own costs.
ACCEPTANCE MADE COMPULSORY.
Since certain foreigh
firms,
A TRESPASSER.
CHARGE OF BEING A VAGABOND.
A Chinese who was found in an
Was
specially certain banks and shops, unoccupied room at No. 4, Peak doing business within territory Rond, was charged before Major under the control of the Na C. Willson at the Central Magia- tionalist Government, refuse to tracy this morning with being a accept Central Bank Notes and rogue and vagabond. Mr. Y. F. insist on Hongkong Bank notes, Shenton the complainant. the Kwangtung Provincial Go The defendant denied the charge. vernment issued a general order; Evidence was given by the No. on March 9th making the aceep-1 boy who said when asked tance of Central Bank Notes com questions the defendant'ran away pulsory in all business transactions and witness give chase. In The notification states:
Robinson Rond, the defendant "As, instructed by the Political jumped down a distance of about Council (Canton Section) which four feet on to another road and decided at Its 11th Session to pro-just afterwards "witness caught BIG VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.hibit the use of Hongkong Bank him. A struggle ensued, but
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, March 11.
notes in business transactions be-with the help of two schoolboys tween foreign and Chinese buck-and an Indian constable, the man The Chamber of Deputies, inness circles in territory under Kuo- was secured and brought back to closing a discussion on the stop-mintang rule, as proposed by Schu the house. page of interpellations, voted con-Seng-mel, notice is hereby given The defendant said he was fidence in the Government by 393 to all foreigners and Chinese that engaged by an old woman to votes to 160.-Daras.
in all business transactions' be carry something to the house. tween Chinese and Foreigners the He went there, to make enquiries The Chinese who was charged use of Chinese Central Bank notes about the,woman, but denied that
with the theft of a shirt from as compulsory."
Wing Woo Struct TEL. 52 Cnstrai
cabin on H.M.S. Hollyhock again appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, when a witness ap
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1: and. 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
he entered the house. Ho gald he could not find the woman.
Detective Sorgt. M. J. Flattery The special dinner dance at said the defendant had not said peared for him. The witness oven- tually said he knew nothing about $1.50 per head, at the Cafe anything about an old woman the matter. The defendant waslund net on Saturday next, as he fendant for enquiries to be made,
Parisien, is being held to-night previously
His Worship remanded the de- fined $10, or fourteen days.
erroneously been stated.
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