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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1929.
New Advertisements Lammert's Auctions NEW YEAR MURDER. A BOGUS PATIENT.
BANK HOLIDAYS,
In accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the Exchange Banks will be closed for tho transaction of public business on Monday and Tuesday, the 11th and 12th February.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Hongkong Stock Exchange will be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 11th, 12th and 13th February.
By Order of the Committee.
A. NISSIM,
Secretary. Hongkong, 8th February, 1929.
HONGKONG. TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of HONG- KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be held at the
offices of Messra. Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd., Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 1st day of March, 1929, at 12 n'clock посп to transact the ordinary business of the Company. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be closed from FRIDAY, 15th { FÉBRUARY to FRIDAY, 1st MARCH, 1929, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary: Hongkong, 7th February, 1929.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corpora- tion" will be held at City Hall, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 23rd February, 1929, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1928.
PÜBLIC AUCTION, ``:
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by
1929,
PUBLIC AUCTION
commenting each day at 10.30 a.m. at The Tai-Koo Sugar Refinery, Quarry Bay,
OLD STORE KEEPER DONE | NATIVE DOCTOR HELD UP IN
TO, DEATH,
HIS SURGERY.
་
The passing of the old Chincen
A man who appeared to bo suffer- year was not without its usualing from somó form of ailment on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, quota of crime. In addition to an limped into the surgery of a native the 18th, 19th and 20th February,ported elsewhere), a dastardly Jervois Street, at ten o'clock on armed robbery on Saturday (re-doctor in the first foor of 63,
murder was enacted in a lonely Saturday morning, being helped atorehouse in Kennedy Road at along painfully by a companion. about 2 p.m. on Saturday.
As he took the patient's chair The victim la 'an old man of 61, and as the doctor, Tam Sing-kau, a storekeeper of the Botanical and was proceeding to unwind some Forestry Department, who lived dirty" bandages with which both A Large Quantity of Surplus in n storehouse of the department legs were wrapped, thero came a
Stores, ..
in Kennedy Road, near Garden knock at the door, and two other Comprising:-Engine Packing, Road.
mon came into the floor, being Roofing, Wire notting, Pipo At- At 12 hoon on Saturday, another admitted by the man who was tings, Belting, Bolts, Nuts and storekeeper went to the store-supporting the patient. The true was revealed when the Washers, Electric cable, Load house with the intention of pay-ituntion
ing the old Iman a visit on New patient, suddenly wakening into covered wire, Copper sheets, Rub-Year's Day. To his surprise he activity, soized and shook the sur ber, Brass wire Gauze, Insulators found the house In entire disorder prised doctor violently, and do- Steel, Boiler tubes, Zinc Sheets, and lying in the middle of the manded money. Electrical fittings, Muntz metal, room was the body of the old man,
The wito' and 9-year-old son of the Small tools, Stocks and Dica, badly cut and disfigured.
doctor, who were the only other in- Screws (Brass and iron), Brass The police were communicated mates of the fluor, were also seized Hinges, Woodito Pump Caps, with and the murder squad was and bound, the latter as he was: Lubricators Glasa, Rubber Valves, on the scene soon after the dis-on the point of shouting an alarm | Emery: wheels, Gauges, and Valves covery.
from the verandah. Gauge glasses, Steel window andIt would seem that the old man The robbers helped themselves skylight frames etc., etc.
was the victim of robbers, as there to all the money they could find on were indications that robbery, was the victima and in a cash box which the motive, but it was not pos- they smashed open. This amounted | sible to catablish how many men to over 8300.
took part; Judging from the con-) After spending half-an-hour in the dition of the victim's body, the old floor the four men escaped. Boon man must have died many hours after a report was received by the before. A fuller investigation police, an ex-detective, who followed showed that the storehouse was ransacked, but it Is not known how much property the storckeup. er kept in his house,
and
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580 R.P.M., 440 v. 77′Amp, 50 cye
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On view on Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th February.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMEKT BROS.,'
Auctioneers.
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
LETTER GOLF.
Women may be hard to under- stand but they're pretty much NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. alike, in letter golf. Take MARY and RUTH, for example. Par is only five.
NOTICE is hereby given that. the THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF THIS COMPANY will be held at the Office of Mesars. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd., on Friday, the 15th February, 1929, at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors' to- gether with ↑ Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1928.
The Register of Shares of the The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Company will be CLOSED from Monday, the 11th February, to Thursday, the 7th February, 1929, Saturday, the 23rd February, 1929, to Friday, the 15th February, (both days Inclusive), during | 1929, both days inclusive, which period no transfer of Shares By order of the Board of can be registered.
Directors:
By Order of the Court of Directors,"
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager,
Hongkong, 4th Feb., 1929.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HANKING CORPORATION,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
F. H. CRAPNELL
Secretary. Hongkong, 1st February, 1929,
HONGKONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
RUTH)
MARY
a suspoot into Aberdoon Stroot, caused him to bo arrostod. On n little over 100 was this man found, which is bolloved by the police to be part of the proceeds of the robbery.
The robbers are stated in a report to have béon armed with knives.
SERVICE CONCERT.
MR. WM. HEUGHAN DELIGHTS A LARGE GATHERING.
Through the kindness of a Jocal resident, a concert under the auspices of the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. was given by Mr. Wil- Ham Heughan, the famous Scot- tish singer, and his company in St. George's Room at the City Hall on Saturday evening. There was a large and enthusiastic audience of soldiers and sailors, who were most demonstrativo in their ap- preciation of the excellence of the entertainment.
From his extensive repertoire, Mr. Heughan sulected those songa 1-The idea of letter golf la to conceivably dear to the hearts of change one ward to another and his audience, and his resonant do it in par, a given number of voice, with its wide range of musi- strokes. Thus to change COW to cal inflexion, delighted while it HEN, in three strokes, Cow, thrilled with the link it suggested HOW HEW HEN.
with the Homeland. The Service- men were most insistent in their demande, for encores, to which Mr. Heughan showed a ready com- pliance.
2-You can change only one lattor at a time.
3-You must have a complote word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbrevía. tions don't count.
changed.
4The order of letters cannot be
One solution le printed on an- other page.
Supporting Mr. Heughan were Miss Gladys Sayer, who accom- panted him at the piano, and Miss Bell, whose cello performance was a treat in itself.
At the close of the programme, the audience joined most heartily in the singing of Auld Lang Syne
ARE YOU SICK? Why Continue that at an Extraordinary Meeting that the Fourth Ordinary Yearly To Suffer. Get The Poo On Chin of the Shareholders of the Hongkong Meeting of Hongkong Telephone cse Herbs and Get Well. Conti- &Shanghai Danking Corporation pation; Rheumatism; Dropsy: held on Saturday, the 2nd day of Company, Limited, will be held on Typhold Fever; Nervousness; and February, 1929, at 12 o'clock noon at Friday, the 22nd day of February, Diabetes. Yee Foo Lun, Chinese the City Hall Victoria in the Colony 1929, at the Board Room of the Herbalist, Managing Director. of llongkong, the following resolution Company, Second Floor, Exchange TRANSPORT HELD UP. and of the National Anthem. Entrance 66, Queen's Road Cen-was passed, viz:- tral, Tel. C. 5009.
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Cheers were heartly given by the Sorvicemen for the performers and for those who had made the concert possible,
Building, Hongkong, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the financial year ended 31st December, 1928, and re-electing which is making her second visit Singapore.
The transport Somersetshire, expected as she was going back to two Directors and the Auditors. to the Far East during the present The Somersetshire has on board The Transfer Books of the Com-trooping season, left Singapore for the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regi- pany will be closed from the 16th Hongkong, on Friday but has had ment, which is destined for Shang- February to the 22nd February, to return to that port on account hat. On the return trip sho will 1920, both daya inclusive.
of engine trouble.· As far as can embark the 1st. Beds, and Herts. Singapore when the trouble deve- Messages received on Sunday be gathered she was well out of at Hongkong for Bombay.
loped and on Sunday a wireless give no information regarding the message was received in Hong- extent of the engine trouble or of kong stating that she would rot the time necessary to effect re- arrive on Wednesday evening as pairs.
That the Directors of the long kong and Shanghai Banking Car- poration be and they are hereby requested and authorised by and on behalf of the shareholders of the Corporation to take all such steps as may be necessary for the intro- duction of an Ordinance into the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong and for the enactment of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and con- Бель of the Legislative Council Dated this 30th day of January, thereof, in the terms of a print 1929. which, for the purposes of identi fication, has been signed by the Chief Manager of the Corporation, in substitution for the existing Ordinanco, (except as in such print la mentioned) and Deed of Settle-
ment of Corporation, AND NOTICE 18 ALSO GIVEN that a further extra- ordinary meeting of the shareholders
HEREBY
By Order of the Board,
T. A. BARRY,
Acting Secretary,
14, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hongkong.
of the Corporation will be held on A VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT
ni
Saturday, the 23rd day of February, 1929, at 12.45 In the afternoon the same place for the purpose of receiving a report of the above men- tioned meeting and of considering, and, if thought fit, confirming the above resolution in accordance with
Organized by 2nd Bn.
K. O. Scottish Borderers
AS A
Article 90 of the Corporation'a Deed FAREWELL TO MRS. LUARD
of Settlement.
1920.
Dated this 8th day of February, By Order of the Directors,
A. C. IIYNES,
Chief Manager. Note:-A copy of the proposed Now Ordinance can be seen during the usual banking hours (Sundays, Public and Bank Holidays except ed) in Hongkong at the Head Office of the Corporation or at the offices of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, Prince's Buildings, Solici tors to the sald Corporation, and In Shanghai at the Office of the Corporation, from the date hereof until the date of tho above mentioned confirmatory meeting.
MRS. MOTONO
HAND & ELECTRIC
MASSAGE "
No 51B, Top Floor, Wyndham St. Hongkong.
will be held in
THEATRE ROYAL Saturday, 16th February,
at 9 pim. in aid of
Soldiers and Sailors Families Association
and
Garrison Ladies' Help Society.
Well-known Local Artistes Highland Dancing Full Military Band and Pipes
BOOKING at Anderson's Tickets $3, $2, $1. Service Men in Uniform, half price.
"TARZAN AND GOLDEN LION”
TO-DAY
Only
at 13.80, 2,80,5,20
7,15
&
9,15 p.m
A cyclone
of conflict t.
A maelstrom
of mystery!
A simoon of
Suspense 1
An earthquake of emotionst
Also
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Danseuse in
a complete
change of Programme,
ALMAJESTIC
MATHAN ROAD, KOWLOOH.)
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and
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HOME FOOTBALL.
RESULTS OF SATURDAY'S MATCHES.
The results of Saturday's Home' Football, as cabled by Reuter,
were:
First Division.
Birmingham Bolton Bloraley Cardiff Huddersfield
Liverpool Manchester C.
Nowcastle Portsmouth
Sheffield U.. West IIam
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1. Sunderland -2 Wednesday 0 Leicester D-Aston Villa
Arsenal 1.Everton
1 Blackburn 8 Manchester U.
1 Derby
6. Bury
8. Leeds
Second Division.
Bristol C.". Clapton O.. itull Middlesbro' Notts. Forest Oldham Preston N.E. Reading Stoke Tottenham West Brom.
3 Barnsley
1 Bwansea .2 Grimsby 8 Wolves 3 Chelocs 3 Bouthampton 0
Notio
County
9 Miliwall 2 Bradford 4-Port Vale 2 Binckpool Southern Section.
Charlton Coventry Fulham Gillingham Luton Northampton Norwich Plymouth Queen's P.R. Swindon Torquay
B'Southend
.1' Bournemouth
2 Watford
0 Newport
2 Brentford
4 Merthyr 5 Exeter 2 Walsall >" 0. Fristol R. 2. Brighton.
Crystal Pal
↑
Hakusan Mary
Hai Ching
Barpedon
Registration Letters
Registration
Lettera
.Tues., Feb, 19. K:P.O.
.3 p.m. .4.30 p.nl.
G. P. O.
4.15 p.m.
...0 p.m
(Duo Marsoilles' 20th March);
Hopsang ... Ha'zing
Tues., Feb. 19, 5 p.m.
Fri., Feb. 22, 2 p.m. Halyang... ...Fri, Feb, 15, noon. Nam Bang. Fri, Feb, 16, 5 p.m. vessel's name only.
AMATEUR AGAIN.
TILDEN REINSTATED.
New York, Feb, 10. The United States Lawn Tennis Asociation at a meeting today, reinstated W. T. Tilden to a com pleto amateur status.
He is, however, going to Europe with F. T. Hunter on May 8, on w 0 tennis tour and It is probable that 2 bath will be unavailable for the com
petition-Reuler's American Servios.
Hoji, Feb. 9.
The M.M. steamer General Met- zinger was towed away, hound for Nagraki, this morning, and will be docked at the Mitsubishi Dockyard.- Router.
Northern Section,
Accrington Barrow. Bradford C. 0 Carlisle
Chesterfield Hartlepools Lincoln New Brighton 2 Rochdala! Rotherham Wrexham
Ayr
4 Clyde
Dundee
1 Hearts
Z Stockport
3. Ashington
2. Unlifax
1 'Crewe 3-8th, Shields
4 Tranmere
2 Doncaster 1. Darlington 1 Southport 4Wigan
3 Nelson
Bcottish League.
Motherwell Queen's Park
2 Ralth Re 3 St. Johnstone
Et. Mirren. Third, Lanark
1 Hamilton
2 Aberdeen
1. Falkirk
3. Airdrie
3: Hibernians
6 Cowdenbeath
Rangers
1 Partick T
• Celtle 2 Kilmarnock
DONONIMOTH