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JEWELLERY DEPARTMENT,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
YOU that the introduction of the mea- MUST sure is sure to entail, and the ex- pense of preparing and issuing OWN IT
bonds. It could easily be male a loan of twice the amount, and by some indication of the value of the bonds the general public could bo mado keen investora, instead of be-
To realise what a wonderful holper and time saver it is you must own a Romington, Portable.
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It takes the drudgery out of ovory writing task.
It has the longest writing line of any portable and takos the standard long envelope.
The Remington Portable is the lightest and smallest portable with the standard koyboard..
Demonstration without obligation.
Mustard & Co., Ltd.
Incorporated under the Companies"
Ordinances Hongkong.
Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The following telegram from Shanghai was received by the "Heartfelt thanks best wishes
AUGUST 29. 1927.
DAY BY DAY,
TRUE FREEDOM DOES NOT MEAN ABSENCE OF CONTROL; IT MEANS FULNESS OF CONTROL, COMPLETE CONTROL OF ONESELF, Rev. R. C.
Gillie.
The E. and A. .s. Tanda is due here from the North on Wednesday morning.
OBITUARY,
The Very Idea!
"Gosh, I had a narrow escapo last night."
MR. T. W. HILL.
It is with much regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. T. W. Hill, of Messrs. Bradley and "How's that?" Co., which took place on Satur-] ""Well, I woke up in the middle day, at Arosu, Switzerland. Tele- of the night and saw something ing left with the idea that the sub
graphic news has been received white moving in the room. So here to-day by his firm.
I grabbed my gun and shot It. scription is to be taken up mainly
The late Mr. Bill first came to After I turned the light on I by certain large financial interests.
The Empress of Asia is due to for Messrs. Bradley and Company.
Hongkong from Shanghai in 1913, found it was my shirt" The term of the loan could also berth here from
"I don't see any narrow escape the North,In the Great War he saw active in that." usefully be extended. The money to-morrow afternoon.
service with the R. A. F., winning is required for a scheme which is
the Military Cross. He returned only being undertaken in part famous violinist, is to pay Hong-lised and remained here until We learn that M. Zimbalist, the to Hongkong after being demobo- posterity is to benefit, and posteri-kong a visit in mid-October.. 1923 when he left on account of ty will look for the completion of
sickness. He was a keen member of the Volunteers, and was at one time in command of the Scottish Company.
"Why, just suppose I hadn't taken my shirt off last night." ".
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The wise collector sneaked
right up
A's quiet as a mouse. Nobody saw him come because
It was a vacant house.
the entiro Shing Mun project. It} The P. and O. ss. Khyber is due here with the, English mails from appears to us that it would be Manila on Thursday afternoon. sounder finance to have a bigger
The late Hr. Hill was the son Night lifers are offered "Cupid loun, to extend it over a much i A Chinese cook of the 8.9.
of Mr. Robert Hill, a Governing at Your Elbow" by a fashionable longer period, and thus in advance Athos Il has been arrested for Director of Messrs. Bradley and Hamburg dancing pavilion.
The being in possession of six revol-Company, and he was also a modern Cupid bearing tonder ensure the whole water-supply pro- vers and sixty rounds of ammuni-grandson of the late Mr. T. W. messages is a house telephone ject being carried through to tion. finality. We presume, however,
A boarder of the Empress that the Government has decided Hotel, reports that sometime dur on a small loan so as not to affecting yesterday afternoon. someone the local investment market, and stole, from his room, money and
jewellery valued at $378.
has its hands free to raise further loans at some fùture date.
Richardson, who was the founder of the Company. Mr. Hill was himself a Director.
installed at each table.
say,
"Cupid "at Your Elbow" works in this manner. The male guest It will be in the realm of golf of the establishment, seating that the late Mr. Hill will best be himself at one of the tables remembered here, He was a keen grouped about the dance floor, and enthusiastic member of the surveys the hall with a view to Royal Hongkong Golf Club, was espying some girl among the A house in Water Street, used honoured by being elected Cap. dancers that especially strikes his It remains to observe the objects terday. The house was in a fair- ber of the Committee and had re- upon the pretty brunette at Table
as a coal godown, collapsed yes-tain, was for some years á mem- fancy, His choice falls, on which the money is to be exiy old condition and as far as presented the Colony in many of 15. He turns the disk of the pended. No less than 70 per cent. can be ascertained no one was in the Interport games both here telephone at his elbow to No. 15. is to be used for the waterworks jured, as the premises were un- and in Shanghal. He was, on one A little red light at Table 15"
occupied.
occasion the runner-up for Cham-blinks: discreetly until the girl development of the Colony, which
pionship honours.
takes off the receiver. means the completion of part of
Mr. Hill took an active part in "Please may I have the next the very important Shing Mun
the life of the community during dance with you?" queries the man his stay here and was for a of the world in a voice audible Valley scheme. This was the one
time the Hon. Secretary of the St. to the woman of his choice only, project which, in spite of the some 9, a partner of his shop abscond-Andrew's Society. what struitoned circumstances ined with over $8,000, the property which the Colony found itself after of the firm.
Ng. Kau, partner of the Tung Hop lead full shop of Nos. 125 137, Tai Nam Street, has report ed to the police that on August
Mr. Guy R. Haywood. After an illness lasting, only a the strike and boycott of two years A fire broke out in
days the sudden death ago, it was decided not to abandon,wooden hut in Chatham Road be-occurred of Mr. Guy Robson Hay- wood, a well-known local solicitor.
2. small
few
as it is lost to others amid the din of jazz music. Receiving favourable reply he can come to Table 15 without risking a turn- down.
Netherland Consulate General. and hitherto the payments for the longing to the Hongkong Engineer at his residence at Taipio, yester. in art.-The Hon. John Collier.
all. Quist."
DEATH.
The hut was completely burned to ing and Construction Company,
the ground, but the value of the damage done is at prosent un
development work have come out of revenue. With the proceeds of the loan, the Government will be able to reimburse the general revenues of the Colony. There is also half a million dollars set aside for others.s.
known.
day.
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There ought to be no fashions
A spirit of unrest has become Mr. Haywood, who had been a menice to the whole of civilisa- practising in the Colony since tion. The Pope. 1913, was taken ill last Wednes- The British Army is an amazing- day with fever. On Saturday hely sober body. The Rev. A. C. E. was reported to be a little better, Jarvis (Chaplain-General.) but yesterday morning his condi- from
The Home Secretary is the tion became worse arousing Minister with the Dustpan, and he
Amongst those arriving by the
President McKinley
.
27th instant, Thomas William. public work of a nature that caunot Manila was M Moiseiwitsch, the anxiety. Mr. Baker, of the Kow has cleared out a lot of rubbish,
HILLAt Arasa, Switzerland, an dearly beloved husband of
Rosalind
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
be postponed. When the decision for economy in every possible way a wholesale yas taken, there was abandonment of many schemes, which had been conceived at a time when the Colony was apparently of un: near the crest of a tide exampled prosperity. Certain road.
United States.
.
Notieg is given that owing to Chinese naval and military eper tions, such lights as the Woosung Light, Whangpoo Entrance Lead
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mes-
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927.. building and harbour developmenting Light, Lismore Buoy, Woosung Joon mortuary, for a post mortem head of the fur department, re-
world-famous, pianist. He gave four very successful recitals there, loon Canton Railway, who also Commander Locker-Lampson,.. He is on his way to Peking where lives at Taipo, was sent for, and M.P.
on his arrival he found Mr. Hay- he will give two concerts, after wood's condition to be such that which he will proceed back to thee at once telephoned for the motor coat purchaser that she had some It is told of a prospetive, fur- ambulance, to take him to hospital.fur coats sent up on approval on When he returned, after telephon- Saturday, and returned them on critical condition, and he died very sage "None suitable." ing, he found Mr. Haywood in Monday morning with the shortly afterwards.
The next day she received a The body was taken to the Kew.courteous communication from the Spit Buoy, and Quarantine Buoy at Shanghai are liable to be ex-examination.
turning her Bible, which had tinguished without notic... Mr. Haywood is survived by his been found in the pocket of one Mariners are warned accordingly. wife, formerly Miss Violet Searle, of the coats.
whom he married three years Chinese girl
ago,
THE PROPOSED LOAN.
nature.
The body
of a
fifteen years of age, was found in
programmes have necessarily been shelved, as not being of an urgent There are certain other projects, however, which cannot be For some time before the actual indefinitely, postponed, and it will announcement of the intention of be a relief to know that they will be the Government to float a loan for provided for without any the purpose of financing urgent paring tactics in the future bud- public works, it was known that gets. So far as the proposed acr- drome is concerned, it is 'pleasing such was the idea, and the long to note the decision to place no remains of a girl who lived at
expected official reference to the subject has not come as a general surprise. The loan is an attraé-| tive one: there is no indication for the present as to the price at which
it will be offered, that having been
left to the Governor to decide later,
ánd
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it is understood Tamson had a good deal of that the only other relation trouble with his laundress.
butt.
a pool of water behind the Kwong In Hongkong is Mr. G. Arch Saturday after Saturday his shirt cheese-Man Loong cracker factory at Ma
related by marriage. came back with the neck button off or hanging by a thread. He Tau Kok. The body was remov. He leaves relatives in London. ed-to the Kowloon Mortuary where
Mr. Haywood was a member or had spoken to her on the matter, it was identified by some of the the Perseverance Lodge of the Ma- but without result. deceased's friends as
being the sons,
Getting out of patience, he de- Mr. Haywood formerly lived atcided to teach her a lesson, so 241, To Kwa Wan.
15 Fairlawn Avenue, Chiswick taking the lid of a round tin can, Park, Eton, London, and for a about three inches in diameter, ber 15, 1903, he served articles of sewed it on the neck of the shirt period of five years, from Decembe drilled two holes in it, and clerkship to Mr. W. F. Foster, of that was to be washed. Mears. W. F. Foster and De Gex. 4 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn. found she had taken the hint. When the washing came back he
amination of the Law Society of fit it!" He passed the solicitors' final ex- She had made a button-hole to England in January 1909, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of At Epsom Charles William Judicature on January 18, 1912. Edwards, of East Molesey, was with demanding by
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in the way of that plan. The time restrictions, through want of funds,
In connexion with the fire which is past when such a scheme was broke out at 19, Tai Wo Street it is now ascertained that one half considered something to discuss
of the premises was used as a academically recent advances in kerosene shop while aerial science, and the present half was a motor car repair shop. the other ear and two motor urgent questions that have arisen One motor but the offer of six per cent. perin connexion with defence of our aged, and, in
cycles valued at $4,000 were dam- addition to one annum as interest, on what will be
''interests out here, commercially man being burned to death, an-He arrived in the Colony on Jan-charged gilt-edged security, ensures its suc- cess. Money is considered to be and otherwise, have definitely other was asphyxiated and died unry 4, 1913, and commenced tamenaces from Charles. Marshall,
in the Government Civil Hospital practice with Mr. Leo D'Almada. shortly after admission.
He was admitted to the Supreme wards is a textile manufacturer of Sutton, the sum of £40. Ed- Court of Hongkong to practice as and Marshall a butcher, and it soliciter and prector on January was stated that both carry on the 18, 1913, when application was business of commission agents. made by the then Attorney General, the Hon. Mr. J. A. S. Bucknili, be-1926 a bet was made, £60 to £40.. It was stated that some time in fore, the then Chief Justice, Sir W. Rees Davies.
a possible placed Hongkong, as aviation centre, "on the map."
THE BUDGET.
TO BE INTRODUCED NEXT MONDAY,
from
against Marshall walking ten After working with Mr. Leo times round the Molesey golf D'Almada for a period of three Course in 12 hours and dropping a wood started on his own, after that a combination of circum- years after his arrival, Mr. Hayball in each hole. Marshal said which he joined with Mr. F. stances prevented him Nash. Afterwards Mr. Nash com- taking the walk, but he held that menced business of his own necord, the bet was still good, and he was and Mr. Haywood continued to quite willing to walk round the practise on his own account."
links on a day to be fixed. His The funeral taken place this complaint, was that at Sandown evening.
Park Races Edwards came up und abused hita and threatened what
EXCHANGE RATES. would happen if he did not pay
London, Aug. 28.
"Light" just at present, but this is more in connexion with specula- tion, or possibly speculative stocks; and in the case of a loan of the na-
Rhineland Army. ture under consideration, there
Little by little, the size of the should be a good deal of this tied-nemy of occupation in the Rhine- up money available. The funds land is being reduced, and we have are needed for really essential pub-read with some satisfaction that an agreement has been come to be- lic works, and the plan to pay for tween the French and British Gov-
We learn that the Budget will them out of a on has already rnments whereby a further reduc-be introduced by the Government much earlier this year than usual, been advocated, and is a subject tion of 10,000 men is to be made the date of its issue being set for forthwith. As 1 stated in the for general approval. The Colony's telegrams to hand the present
Monday next, financial position, despite the hard total number of French, British and Belgian forces in the Rhineland timos, is an essentially healthy one, is 70,100, made up as follows: ing maintained in the Rhineland and the likelihood of better times France 56,500; Britain, 7,300; as a guarantee of the due per- ahead has not been lost sight of in and Belgium, 6,300. On the sug-formance by Germany of her obliga- the provision for drawing bonds gestion of Britain, France had tions under that treaty, but no one agreed to a reduction of 10,000, will gainsay the fact that a gen- for repayment before the actual but had stated that it could not crous gesture by the Allies to Ger-Paris date of calling them in. And, reduce its own number by more many in this respect would result Brussels
Amsterdam there is the added assurance that than 5,000, leaving the other 5,000 in far more general amity and con-
to be taken away from Britain and cord than does this keeping of Berlin the funds raised are going into ac- Belgium's 13,600. But now ap-foreign troops on German-soil at Copenhagen tual local development, which in parently, France is willing to make a time when Germany is fulfilling Vienna itself is destined to make of this means that there will be a reduc- tions. If Germany were in de-son
a proportionate reduction, which the spirit and letter of her obliga-Helsingfors port a more attractive place for tion of 8,050, in the French total. fault, the presence of irmed foreig Bucharest trade, and a richer producer of The agreement is satisfactory soners within her boundaries would
far as it goes, but we are among indeed be justified, but it strikes Yokohama revenue. Having said us much, we
those who believe that it does not us as being a little lacking in far-Now York should like to comment on one or go far enough. As we auid at the sightedness and generosity to har- Geneva two points. There is, so for, no opening, the army of occupation des Germany with the cost of 60, Milon indication either of the price at is being reduced "little by little" 000 foreign troops on her soil be- Stockholm
but it is a process of reduction that
cause of some possible eventuality which the loan is to be offered or lags far, bohind the wishes of the for which there are no very great the denominations of the bonds. German people and also the con- grounds for fear. We know that Madrid
aldered view of those who place The amount to be raised, again, very high value on the speedy re-in Germany, this little by little Rio is comparatively smali The sum turn to "normaley" in Europe. We reduction, gives rise to much re- Bombay of $5,000,000 is, after all, not very admit that it is in accordance with sentment, all of which is keeping Hongkong much for the amount of trouble the terms of the Versailles treaty back the dawn of happier days in Ellver (spot and forward)
that the army of occupation is be-Europe.
Buenos Aires Shanghai
0810
Prague
Athens
the debt. The same kind of con- duct was repeated in the grand 24stard during the Epsom Race .84.924 Meeting,
12,13 The Magistrates suggested a .20.44 settlement on terma. The felony ..18.10, chargé Was withdrawn, and .84.494 Edwards was bound over to keep.
103 the peace towards Marshal, cach .2.27/64aida paying their own costs.
700
47.63/64
Another condition was that the 2/64bet was declared off, and, at the 1/11.0/82 Buggestion of the Magistrates, the 4.86 8/16 parties shook hands.
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.89.06 An Irishman and his wife on .18.10% visit to London, went to a theatre. .18.71 The wife noticed the word asbestos" printed on the curtain. "Faith, Pat, an'what does 'asbestos' on the curtain mean?" 1/5.27/82 "Bo still, Bridget, an' don't
1/11% show
ignorance. 26.3/10 Latin for: Welcome!'
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-British Wireless,
.yer
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