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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. . The Fifth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting)' at Happy Valley on Saturday, 26th May, and Monday, 28th May, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m. on both
THE HONGKONG
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
TELEGRAPH.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Sunday of the Ascension,
ROCKET CAR'S 430,
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FASTEST SPEED EVER ON GERMAN TRACK.
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Derlin, April. 13,
LOCAL SERVICES,
days. The first bell will bo rung St. John's. Cathedral, Hongkong. at 2 p.m.
The charge for admission to the Publié Enclosure will be $1,00 por day for all persons including
Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Members" En- closure.
Each member has the right to introduce 2 non-members to the Members' Enclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Mossra. Linstead and Davis at $5.00 each per day up to Friday the 25th May, 1928...
The charge for admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.00 per day. Each mem- ber can obtain upon application to the Secretary, Badges for admis- elon of 2 Ladies free of charge.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, eteo- tera, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hongkong Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB SUBSCRIPTION CRIFFINS
1928/1920.
Lists are now open for Members
May, 20th "1928. Sunday after Ascension, Holy Communion,
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LONDON'S NEW 'PHONE EXCHANGES.
FANCY IN NAMES.
POST OFFICE NOTICE
RADIO NOTICE.
RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICES are now in operation sa follows:-- Ships at Sea, Europe, American Continents, Hawaiian Islands, Dutch Baat Indies, Dutch Borneo, Philippine Islands, French Indo-China, Province of Yunnan, British North Borneo, Siam, -Canton, Swatow, Kwongchowan, Fort Bayard, Tchekam, Hollow, Amoy and Foochow, sicut
It notiled for information that the, via Wirciosa rate to EUROPE has been
een reduced to $1.85 per word. The rate to the Dutch East Indies as from April 25th; A pleasing imagination has been has been reduced from $1.00 to 90 cents per
COUN- at work in christening some new 1928. London tolephone exchanges, exist-
+
to cloret
Word
Horr Fritz von Opel, director of
and further particulars 8 a.m. Military Service, 9.80 the Opel Motor Car Company, the
having correspondents an Telegraphic Addresses-Persons and firmis a.m. Children's Service, 10.15 Viggost automobile firm in Ger. Ing or prospective, and, as a change. TER, 1st Floor, Government Building, application to the RADIO CO
Peak Sunday School, 10 many, stated that during trials from arbitrary. or purely local a.m. Matins, 11 a.m. Pescher: yesterday at Russelsheim, with a names, we shall soon be calling or the places named above should in order to avoid delay to telegrama received Registered and Parçal Malls are closed 15 minutas-sarlier than the Rev. HL V. Koop. Holy Com driverless motor car propelled on dialling some taken from the scroll by radio rogister their telegraphic address immediately.
the rocket system, a spoed of 490 of history. Evonsong 6
In the London Telephone Directime given below unima otherwise stated, and whers malls are advertised munion, 12 noon.
or before 9 am, registered and parosi máileʻare closed at E pan.. miles per hour was attained for a
tory now being issued to subscribers on the previous day. p.m. Preacher: The Dean
Low seconds.
Datiable articles forwarded by inter port to Great Britain are Herr Opel further declared that appeara "Temple Bar," although
exchango, which is ilable to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be forwarded. there was practically no limit to the this
Strand, bas not yet by parcel post only.
Letters
and postcards for Europe and the British Isles are forwarded First Church of Christ Sefentist, speed which could be reached by the
Macdonnell Road, below Bowen the new machine, which has the been opened. Telephones were
thought of vis Biberia if so saperscribed. Sunday appearance of the ordinary racing only just being Road Tram Station. Service, 11.15 am,
Subject, car, except that the back part con- when Temple Bar made it exit The Postal Servios tó Bwabne and calahbouring place is entirely **Soul & " 'Body"
Wednes.sists of a steel chamber with 12 from the London atago, but none suspended until further notice. day Evening Meeting at 5.80ound openings, out of which pene-will begrudge its reappearance in trate the steel pipes from which the the new setting, seeing that for many centuries Temple Bar was p.m. Reading Room at above rockets are discharged.
far more frequently on the lips of address, open Tuesday and
Fuses are connected. with the Londoners than Trafalgarsquare or Friday, 10 am, to 12 noon, Mon-
For day and Thursday, 5 to 7 p.m. pipes and are linked upon a switch-Piccadilly-cireus now are.
board,
Temple Bar, as is well known, The Public is cordially invited!
marked the division between ahiro und city, and the hoads of traitors to attend the services and visit Branch of the Reading Room,
were left to moulder on it. The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in 'Boston, Mass., USA.
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
6, Duddell Street. If you have anything you would like to sell, exchange or advertise
Sheet of Flame.' The rockets are discharged by means of an electric spark, and a sheet of flame bursts out from be- hind the car, which shoots off at a terrific speed, enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
The drawback to the new inve
small fortune.
A direct service to Yunnan Province has been opened 20th April, 1928, The inclusive charge will be 60 cents per word; no charge will be collected from the addressee in Yuman. The service is, however, llable to interruption owing to atmospheric disturbances and massages are accepted at sender's risk.
The service from GOW Royal Observatory W/T Station is temporari ly suspended owing to a breakdown of machinery. Meterological traile with ships will be worked by VPS Caps D'Agullar W/T Station on 600 metros. The 800 metres telephony service is suspended until repairs are effected.
The Postal Service to Swabue-and neighbouring places has now bees wumed.
INWARD MAILS.
From
was regarded as "the richest cam-Shanghai and Swatow
hai
FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gar- been posted at the Race Course, gend It to the CHINA AUCTION railways are placing a suitable men servants In livery, and when U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-
dens.
and Quiet apartments Suites of rooms. Full board from Largo $95, $110, $130, monthly.
Also dally commodious rooms. rates; five minutes from ferry, next now Hotel; Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tel. K.357.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Chesterfield suite, bedroom suite, blackwood chairs, bed, coffee set. Apply mornings, 17, Jordan Road, top floor, Kow- loon, Owner leaving Colony.
to subscribe for Subscription Grif- fina for season 1928/1929 and have Stables (Causeway Bay) Hong- kong Club, and Secretary's Office.
By Order,
II. IL, FORSYTH,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 15th May, 1928.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
· NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-FIFTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the FOR SALE Armstrong Siddeley Society will be held at the Ifend Saloon 5 senter 1927 model. Al- Office, Union. Building, Hongkong, most new. Special model foron FRIDAY, 25th May, 1928, at Hongkong all windows opening | 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of balloon tyres. Price $4600 Ap receiving the Report of the Direc- ply. Box No. 36, care of "Hong tors and the Statements of Ac- kong Telegraph."
count to 31st December, 1927, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET.—AL moderate rental, Ofee 1st and 2nd floors, No. 1. Duddell Street. Use of Lift. Apply Box No. 368, care of "Hong- kong Telegraph."
TO. LET-Ofice Rooms, 2nd 'floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building. TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchal Gap Road, Hongkong. Apply to 32, Kennedy Road.
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sagoon and Company; Ltd.
TO LET-Rest locality Kowloon, sea-front, 7 minutes to ferry, fully furnished five-room flat, top floor, modern sanitation, July to Septem- ber. Rent: $175.00. Tele. C.8616.
TO LET OR FOR SALE-With early possession European House on Broadwood Ridge, Happy Val- ley, containing six rooms with Ten- nia Court. Particulare. Apply Messrs. Deacona.
แ
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 9th; May to 25th May. Both Days in- cluzive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st May, 1928.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN' that the FIFTY-NINTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its. Hend office, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1928,' at 13.15 a.m., for the purpose of re- celving the Report of the Direc- ters and the Statements of Ac- count to 31st December, 1927, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th May to 25th May. Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st May, 1928.
ROOM
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U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shang-
Other interesting titles chosen for new exchanges are "Amherst," which celebrates the long connexion of that family with Hackney, a connexion going back to the time | U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-
hal inven-when founder of its fortunes
Straits moner in England," and when the
London 19th April "Abercorn," the title of U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- home. old Hackney Manor House was its Europe via Negapatam, papers only relief exchange at. Maida Vale, re- calls the territorial associations Manila with Middlesex of a family whoso Shanghai name has always been one to con- Shanghai and Amoy One of the earliest Japan and Shanghai jure with, scions of the family kept sixteen Japan somebody suggested to him that he had copied the livery of the royal house he replied: "Sir, this was the livery of the Hamiltons before the House of Brunswick had a ser with vant to put it on."
connexion Gladstone's Cricklewood is rather slender. Saigon
опе would have Manila, Straits, Caylon, India, Blackheath,
*Mauritius, *East and South thought, might have appropriated
Africa, Egypt and 'Europa vis Marseilles. his name more properly, for there' he ones made a celebrated speech in the rain, standing not Indeed on a Amoy and Japan
but on a wagon. However, on Shanghai and Europe via Siberia the strength of some walks he used loihow and Haiphong
Bangkok vin Swatow to take at Cricklewood at one period Swatow, Amoy and Formosa we shall recall his name before we Straits
Swatow can telephone to anybody in that district. The origin of Living-Amoy stone" for West Norwood is ob- Straits
The machine will be brought to Berlin next month for trial purposes and an attempt will be made to beat the British world's speed, ro cord with a car which will run on ralle.
For this purpose the German atretch of railway-line at the dis posal of the Opel Company. E. V. M. R. de SOUSA
60 m.p.h. in Eight Seconds. The rocket car attained a speed of 60 miles an hour in eight seconds, For more time past experiments have been conducted with a view to propelling an acroplans by means of explosive gases fired out of the back of the plane.
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Siboria.. house still stands; but no doubt the exigencies of dialling, not to mention phonetic, are against him.
"Macaulay" will be a delightful Straits and Calcutta name for the Wandsworth-road ex- change, for it celebrates, the his torian's boyhood connexion with the district immediately adjoining. To him Clapham Common was a place of inexhaustible romance and mystery. "A slight ridge inter- sected by deep ditches towards the west of the Common, the very ex- istence of which no one above eight years old would notice,' 'says Tre- velyan in his biography, "was dig-
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the Mount Pond, was regarded with Manila, Australia and New Zealand infinite awe as being the nearest approach within the circuit of
his observation to a conception of the majesty of Sinal.'
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“Enough for one if one's Enough" though it terminated in his twelfth Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-SECOND ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office. Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th May, 1928, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of re- colving the Report of the Direc- tors and the Staterrents of Ac- count to 31st December, 1927, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th May to 25th May. Both Daye inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hongkong, 1st May, 1928.
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year, was the period of his most Shanghai ........... prolific.literary activity-accord- Straits, Ceylon," India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, Aden Egypt ing to his biographer. Poems,
and Europe via Marseilles hymns, and universal historica came from his juvenile pen.
JUDICIAL CHANGES.
MR, JUSTICE RUSSELL PROMOTED.
Amoy
The King has been pleased to approve the appointments of the Bangkok via Swalow Honourable Frank Russell, one of Amoy
the Judges of the High Court of Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, "San Justice, Chancery Division, to be
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place of the Right Honourable Sir
Charles Henry Sargant, who has
resigned his appointment as Lord Straits and Calcatta Justice, and of Mr. Frederick Her-
Marsoilles
bert Maugham, K.C., to be one of Straits, Egypt and Europa via the Justices of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, in the place of the Honourable Frank Russell.
Sir Charles Sargant was ap pointed to the Chancery Division in 1913, and promoted to tho Court of Appeal ten years later. Sandakan He recently completed öfteen years as a Judge, and is therefore en- titled to a retiring pension. Bir Charles, who was called to the Bar in 1882, completed his seventy- second year year last month.
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