TO-DAY'S WANTS
25 WORDS
ONE DOLLAR
($1.50 IF NOT PREPAID)
The following replies have been received:---
295, 300, 301, 305, 306, 915 344, 363, 371, 374, 376, 381, 385, 411, 426, 427, 443, 445 455, 461, 462, 465, 474, 476, 486, 505, 512, 519
SITUATIONS WANTED,
CARS FOR SALE.
Advertiser.can strongly recom- FOR SALE.—1925 STUDEBAKER, mend two Sorvants, Gardener and five-passenger car, in good order. Cook-boy. Services available end[Can be seen by appointment. of May. Write Box No. 520, care $1,500 or reasonable offer. Write
No. 517, Hongkong Telegraph. of "Hongkong Telegraph."
PREMISES WANTED.
WANTED.-On Peak,
WANTED.
WANTED.-Second-hand MOTOR! amall CYCLE with sidecar, must be furnished bungalow. Rent must cheap and in good condition. be moderate. Willing take On Apply Flat Garage. yearly loase from 1st July. Write Box No. 619, care of "Hongkong Telegraph.
LOST.
TABBY LOST MALE
CAT, vicinity Broadwood Road. Finder please communicate with Box No 518, care of "Hongkong Tele graph."
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LTD.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Forty-eight Ordinary, Gen-| eral Meeting of Shareholder, will be held at the Oflees of the un- dersigned on THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1929, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929.
New Advertisements Lammert's Auctions HUGHES & HOUGH
HONGKONG' JOCKEY CLUB.
The Fifth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valloy on Saturday, 18th May, and on Monday, 20th May, 1929, commencing at 3 p.m.' ·
The first bell will be rung at 2,30 p.m.
The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1. 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' Ea- closure.
Each member has the right to introduce 2 non-members to the Members' Enclosure, tickets for be obtained from whom
CAR
Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5.--- each per day up to Friday, 17th May, 1929.
The charge for admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2 per day.
Each member can obtain upon to the application
Secretary Badges for admission of 2 Ladies free of charge.
Bookmakers. Tic Tac Men, étc., will not be permitted to operate within' the precincts of the Hong- kong Jockey Club during Race Meetings.
NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
on TUESDAY,
the 21st May, 1929, commencing at 5.15 p.m. at thoir Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps,
(Particulars from Catalogue)
On View from Saturday, the 18th May, 1929.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
1
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction
on WEDNESDAY, · the 22nd May, 1929, commencing at 10.30 n.m.
at Godown No. 18, The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Co.,Ltd., Kowloon,.. (for account of the concerned) A Large Quantity of Micellaneous Goods. comprising:
Dried Fish, Angle Iron, Iron Pipes, Napthaline Balls Sweep- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETYings, Mangrove Bark, Plate Cul-
OF CANTON, LTD. (Incorporated in Hongkong.)
LIMITED.
PUBLIC AUCTION. -
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell, by Public Auction
(For Account of the Concerned),
on THURSDAY, ".. the 23rd May, 1929,
at 11 am..
at the China Navigation Co's West Point Godown.
A Large Quantity of Sundry Rubber Goods etc. stated to bo damaged and/or partially damaged, consisting of: Canvas Rubber Shoes, Crepe Soled Shoes, Crepe Rubber Sheets, Rubber Sheets, Rübber Soles, Crepe Soles, Galoches, Water roof Cloth, Biscuits, Medicinal Pills, Soap, etc., etc.
Terms: Cash on Delivery. For Inspection order apply to HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 18th May, 1920.
TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC
LONDON.
The Local Examinations will fake place on and affer 25th May 1929.
a statement of Accounts for the NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Tube, Lumber, Iron Ware, Drugs, Candidates will be notified
year ended the 31st December, 1928.
ARE YOU SICK? Why Continue To Suffer. Get The Poo On Chinese Herbs and' Get, The Share Register and Trans- Well. Constipation; Rheumatism; fer Books will be closed from the Dropsy; Typhoid Fever; Nervous- 9th to the 23rd May, 1929, both
ess; and Diabetes. Yee Foo days inclusive. Ian, Chinese Herbalist, Managing Director. Entrance 66, Queen'a Road Central, Tel, C.5009,
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-On Broadwood Rond,
Write #roomed BUNGALOW. Secretary, Post Office Box No. 22.
FOR SALE.-Alsatian PUPPIES, 2 months old. Apply Pedder Building, 1st floor, Room 6, Tel. C.5106.
PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET One Office Room at Kayamally Building. Apply to Kayamally & Co., Queen's Road. Central.
TO LET-Furnished FLAT, on motor road, at Pokfulam, with all modern sanitary conveniences, Write Box No. 514, care of "Hong- kong Telegraph."
TO LET-From 1st Joue, 1920,
Nos, 5 and 6, Prospect Place, Bon-
ham Road, Rent Moderate, Write
to Box No. 515, care of “Hongkong) Telegraph."
JARDINE MATHESON
AND CO., LTD., General Agents, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1929.
WHILE LIFE IS STILL A BIG STICK
OF
1
Candy
give them the
TO LET or FOR SALE--On Broad best in MUSIC
wood Road, two semi-detached. 5 roomed HOUSES, with -tennis court and garage to each house. Write Secretary, Post Office Box No. 22,
MELODIES Leard during child- hood are traced indelibly on the mind.... What an oppor tunity to give your child the TO LET-Furnished 3 Room rich background of the world's FLAT, with modern sanitation in great music with m Ortho Ashley Road, Kowloon. Rent $120. phonie Victrola. Sultable, Married Couple or two One of these instruments is Bachelors. Write Box, No. 521, care of "Hongkong Telegraph.” a constant source of entertain- ment to the whole family. We TO_LET—One Bungalow, 12 have models at our store which Broadwood Road, 4 Roomed House cover every taste and every in with one Kitchen, 2 bathrooms, come. Convenient termal Servants quarters, garden, and Liberal allowance on your old tennis lawn. Apply to Soo Pel Shao and Co., 11, Queen's Road talking-machine. Come in and Central.
have us explain.
KHONG HANG & CO. TEL C.2736.
43 Des Voeux Road Central. Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors.
Posk
HOUSE COAL.
...at $23.00 per ton.
$21.00
Upper Level ... $22.00
Middle Level-
Central Office..., $20.00
Kowloon
Tho above
TI
+
$17.00 pricos.
"
includo
delivery charges to destination.
"PEAK MANSIONS."
SITUAT
TUATED within Two Minutes' Walk from the Tram Station and) overlooking the Southern Elde of the Island. Ready for Occupation,
Five-Bloomed and Blx-Roomad APARTMENTS,
with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Booms and Out-houses, Two lifts.
Apply to CREDIT FONCIER":
D'EXTREME-ORIENT,
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO
↓
B, Des Voeux Rd, Tel. C. 4048.
T. NAKAO.
Japanese Shoe Expert ... TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND
CASES A SPECIALITY./ Hongkong Hotel Building, Queen's Road Central,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-SIXTH ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the Head Office, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 24th May, 1929, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpoan of receiving the Report of the Direc- tors and the Statements of Ac- count to 31st December, 1928, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 6th May to 24th May, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st May, 1920.
THE CHINA FIRE. INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD, (Incorporated in Hongkong.)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the SIXTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Com- pany will be held at its lead Office, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 24th May, 1929, at 11.15 a.m., for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Direc- tors and the Statements of Ac. count to 31st December, 1928, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 6th May to 24th May, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager, Hongkong, 1st May, 1929.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-
·ANCE COMPANY, LTD.
(Incorporated in Hongkong.)
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-THIRD ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 24th May, 1929, at 11.20 a.m, for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Direc- tora and the Statements of Ac- count to 31st December, 1928, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 6th May to 24th May, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st May, 1929.
BANK HOLIDAYS,
In Accordance with Ordinanco No. 5 of 1912, The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of public business on Monday, the 20th May, (Whit Monday.)
Hongkong, 14th May, 1920,
ting, Plank, Timber, White Zine, Caustic Soda, Galvanized Pipe, Sulphate, Wire Shorts, Wire, Iron
Wine, Window Glass, Round Iron, Confectionery, Penells, Bar Ends, Toys, Wiro Beds, Flat Iron, Flat Bara, Old Trunks, Charcoal, Empty Sacks, Ton, Red Wood, Mats, Personal Effects, Myrabol- lam, Matches, Pineapples, Yarn, Scrap Iron, Sulphate of Ammonia, Match Sticks, Porcelain, Soda Ash, Glass Bottles, Flour, Lead, and Groundnut Seeds, etc., etc. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION. The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public
Auction
on WEDNESDAY, the 22nd May, 1920, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
comprising:→
In due course.
J. E. ANDERSON
Actg Looal Sooy.
RUNAWAY COUPLE'S
ORDEAL..
HOSTILE RECEPTION BY UNDERGRADUATES.
Cambridge, Apr. 25. The Pembroke College under- graduate, Mr. Hector Mappin, whose recent elopement to Gretna Green has received auch widespread publicity, met with a Somewhat lively reception at Cambridge to- day, when he visited his College with his bride,
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Per
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Individuals and firms are recommended to register their telegra phic addresses at the Radio Office. No charge is made for this.
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Some of the undergraduates re- sented the publicity given to their Mundla college by the affair, and particular- Swntow ly the remark attributed to Mr. Amay Mappin by some of the morning Hallow papers to-day, that "the boys of Pembroke" would want to give him a luncheon.
Upon the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Mappin at the college, no luncheon invitation was forthcoming, and so they went to a hotel for luncheon with one or two friends, after hav ing been given a rather boisterous send off from the front gate of the college.
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Manila
Teak Hatatand with Bevelled Mirror, Glass Cabinet, Chester- field Couch and Armchairs, Draw ing Room Suite, Desk, Bookcase, Ceiling and Table Fans, Pianos,
Meanwhile, about ten or a dozen Electric Gramophone, Cameras, Typewriters, Carpets, Rugs, Pic-undergraduates had hatched a plot tures, Wardrobe Trunks, Indian to kidnap Mr. Mannin after lun- Manila Motor Cycle, Porcelain Vases, eheon, but their original plan was Ornaments, Curios, etc.,
foiled by the departure of the pair Teak Dining Tables, Dining from the hotel in a taxicab instead Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled of in their own motor-car. The Mirrora, Dinner Waggon, White plotters, however, promptly gave chase in a high-powered motor-car, Frost-Refrigerator, Ice Chests, and when Mr. Mappin got out of the Dinner Crockory, Cooking Stove, taxicab, he was promptly seized and carried to the plotters motor- Glass Ware, E. P. Ware, etc.
car.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Mattresses, Wardrobes with and Without Bevelled Mirror, Dress- ing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Sets, Washstands, Baby Cola, Curtains, Linen, Enamel and Shanghai Baths, etc.,
and
A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture.
Catalogues will be issued,
Running-Board Struggle,
*Correspondence bearing vassol's name only.
MAKING A RACE OF SUPERMEN.
EMBRYONIC EXPERIMENTS
POSSIBLE
ין
DEARER MONEY.
INCREASE IN BANK RATE IN AMERICA.
San Francisco, May 18. The San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve Bank has increas-
Increase Vetoed.
Chicago, May 18. According to the Chicago Tribune
Now York, Apr, 19.
race of The possibility of a Mrs, Mappin, in the meantime, jumped on to the running-board of supermen, with their physique, ed its discount rate to 5 per cent. the motor-car and took a firm grip their genius, their general health of the steering wheel to prevent it and immunity from discase as an, being driven off. The Mappins' outgrowth of experiments in em- motor car had also arrived on the bryonic development, was ictured the Federal Reserve Board has re- the American Philosophical fused to "ermit several of the scene by this time, and the bride-to
Federal Reserve Banks, including groom, partly freeing himself, Society by Dr, Oscar Ridāle. shouted to his wife to get into it. The speaker told his audience now New York and Chicago, to increase The moment she released her hold at the Carnegie laboratory the basis their re-discount rates to alx per of the steering wheel, however, and was laid for the development of a
Following on the raising of the
cent.
On View from Tuesday, the jumped from the running-board, the science of "supermedicine" by ex-San Francisco rute. all twelve in- motor with its unwilling captive periments which radically trans- drove off at a high speed in the dir- formed livin- creatures by interstitutions will have a rate of five 21st May, 1929,
fering with their early development. per cent. from May 20.-Reuters
American Serviço. - Ho spoke of transforming a salamander, from a water to a land animal, by feeding it on theranoid tissuo; of doubling the size of rats tissuing them on the anterior
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT KINDS.,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
on THURSDAY,
the 23rd May, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at No 3, Tregunter Mansions (May Road.).
Furniture.
(Catalogue' will be issued.)
ection of Grantchester,
Mra, Mappin and two friends followed in pursuit, and arrived at the mill pool at Grantchester just in time to prevent Mr. Moppin being ducked.
JAPANESE FLIGHT. AMPHIBIANS HOUND TRIP
lobe of the pituitary gland; of re- Mr. Mappin, with the timely are moving, excess legs from fruit flies
OF 2,544 MILES. rival of assistance, let drive with his fists, and Mrs. Mappin also by hatching them in a low tempera-
Tekyo, May 18. ture; of reversing sex in birds, rushed into the fray and distribut-froga, and other animals by tem- Two naval amphibians are hop- ed some hearty slaps.y
changes perature
and other ping off from Yokosuka to-morrow methods.
on a round trip of 2,544 miles to The "raggera" were eventually
Dr. Riddle feels that these and Saipan Island, in the Marianne persuaded to relinquish their hold on their victim, and Mr. and Mrs, other experiments have destroyed Group and return.
The amphibians expoct to arrive Mappin drove off in the direction the theory that heredity is a thing
apart from environment, and have at Saipan Island on Sunday, "stop- of Saffron Walden. “
act and interact electrically and ping at Chichijima, in the Bonins, chemically in a vast variety of ways on route. This is their first at- during their carllest existence with-tempt. Reuter, in a single cell. BES
On the return of the couple to chown that germa of inheritances Wickford, near Billericay, Essex A Quantity of Valuable Household (the home of the bride's parents), last night Mr. Hector Mappin told a Press representative that the ln cident at Cambridge was a good. natured "rag" carried out in the nast friendly spirit. He added that he would not be returning to Cam Terms: Cash on Delivery.
bridge, but could not state yet LAMMERT BROS. whether he would be going into
Auctioneers, business, '
On View from Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1929.
He contends the experiments have number. In the cells of a given proved that heredity and environ-species] but feels that these quall- ment are so related that the one lies are altered by their molecules. cannot exist without the other with which chromosones come in Dr. Riddle's paper does not ques contact, which are too minute to be on the fact that hereditary qual seen by the microscope, but are cap. ties are contained in chromozones able of being interfered with in Tsmall bodies, ordinarily dehnite in various ways by experimenters,