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NOTICE.
A SPECIAL INAUGURAL
SERVICE.
For the consecration of a new Altar at the Church of St. Law- rence at Macao, will take pluce on Sunday, April 27th at 8.30 a.m.
Hongkong residents desirous of!
advised attending are
to make their arrangements in Macro on Saturday evening.
HONGKONG WAR MEMORIAL.
The laying of the
Foundation
Stone of the War Memorial Nurs- ing Homo by Mrs. W. T. Southorn! will take place on Thursday, 24th 1930, at p.m.
• Cards of invitation have been
sent to all Subscribers, and the public are cordially invited to be present.
By Order of the Committee
LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
Secretaries.
Hongkong, 17th April, 1930.
NOTICE.
Hongkong Water Polo League,
Two Divisions will be run this year
Senior and Junior
Entries close
May, 1930 at 6 p.m.
G.
NOTICE.
| PARTICULARS
R.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Lammert's Auctions
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received
on Friday,
the 25th April, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
AND CONDI-instructions to sell by Public TIONS of the Sale by Public Auction, Auction to be held on Monday, the 28th day of April, 1930, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hongkong, 'for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Lot No. 2322.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1652, Nathan
Road.
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon
In›atid
Near
G.
the ut
Victoria
Recreation Club on
Saturday 10th
Affilation fee to Association
17
Annual Subscription
$ 2.00 $ 2.00
Boundary Mexsurements
feet/test]feel)feet
As per sale
plan.
NOTICE.
Entrance fee to Senior Division $10.00. PARTICULARS Entrance fee to Junior Division $ 5.00 Fees must be enclosed with entry. Entries otherwise will not be en- Lertained.
JAMES STEWART,
Hon. Secretary.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
. FINANCE CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on Wednesday the 7th May, 1930, at 11.30 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc- tors together with a Statement of] Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1929.
at
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from
Monday 28th April to Wednesday
7th May, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 22nd April, 1930.
CRIDIT PONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT
Mortgage Bank & Estate Agents.
"PEAK MANSIONS"
Six-roomed and Five-roomed apartments
Prince Edward Road, Kowloon
Detached and Semi-detached vilas. Modern construction
with garage. "Cambay Buildings”
Flats Ith modern conveniences,
Contents 10.
one
Bg-foot
Rental
Upset Price
6,448
$74
$16,120
E.
AND CONDI. TIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 28th day of April, 1930, a1 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of two Lots of Crown Land at Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No.
Toland Les 40 3053
Regino
Inikad lot No. 3054
Srk of
Inland Lot X6,
1737.
Boundary
ezeurement.
I.
W
feet fel|feet feet
Ar per vale p'aɑ.
Contente
03,600
S.S. "BRAALAND.”
$100,150
"'pret Price
Offers are invited for purchase! of the wreck of the above vessel as she lies on the Bombay Reef Paracels.
GILMAN & CO., LTD,
TAJMAHAL VALUES
SINCE WE OPENED OUR NEW STORE, OUR NAME HAS BECOME POPULAR ON ACCOUNT OF OUR EXCELLENT VALUES.
HERE ARE SOME
From Gooda Just Arrived-
MORE
145 shades Crepe de Chine (double width)... $ 2.25 yd.
95
do (single width)
135
11
Spun Crepo
225
03
Fuji Silk...
180
75
$ 1.85 yd.
$ 1.40 yd.
$ .75 yd.
(3 pcs) $15.00
$ 7.50 $ 5.50
225 sets Crepe de Chine "Undies"
Crepe do Embd. Pyjamas.
Ladies' Fuji Pyjamas ...
98 Men's Coloured Silk Washing Pyjamas $6.00
60 Crepe de Chine Tie/Hankof, sets...
$ 2.00.
60 Men's Coloured Grape de Chine Pyjamas $11.00
And Many Lines In
KIMONOS......BRIDGE COATS......HOURI COATS.
New Shades in
KAYSER STOCKINGS.
TAJMAHAL
SILK STORE
5-WYNDHAM STREET.
- Tel. C. 6136,
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture
comprising:-
Teak and Glass Cabinets, Glass Bookcases, Cottage Pianos, Gramophones, Records, Desks, Chesterfield Couches and Arm- Wardrobe chairs, Typewriters,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930.
THE NAVY LEAGUE
Hongkong Branch.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held in the
HONGKONG HOTEL PRIVATE DINING ROOM · (First Floor).
nt
trunks, Electric Table Lamps, 5,15 p.m., on MONDAY, 28th April. Pictures, Carpets, Rugs, Curios, Ornaments, etc. etc.
with
Teak and Iron Bedsteads Mattresses, Teak Double and Single Wardrobes with- Mirrors, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Toilet Crockery, Iron Safes, Linen, Washstands, Hat- stands, etc. etc.
MINER AS NERVE SPECIALIST.
COAL FACE TO STAFF
ON HOSPITAL.
A man who worked for years as Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Ice Chesta, Teak Side- a miner, and who up to 1914 had; boards, Dinner Waggons, Dinner no actual medical experience, is Crockery, Glass Ware, Electric now one of the most valued mem- Table Fans, Vases, Box Couche, bers of the staff of the National Hospital for Diseases of the Ner- etc. etc.
yous System, in Queen's-square, London,
and
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A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture.
including:-
He is Mr. John Anderson, and he worked formerly at Howden
lough, near Leeds.
More than that; he has recent- ly published a book on the treat- Joss Tables, Chairs, Jardinieres,ment of the nervous system, which Cabinets, Tea Poya, Opium Stools, book for medical students
is intended as a laboratory hand- etc., etc.
+7
also
One Indian Motor Cycle.
On View from Thursday, the 24th April, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
· !
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Aue- tion,
on MONDAY.
the 28th April, 1930,
commencing at il a.m.
At No. 1, Observatory Villas, (Kowloon),
A Quantity of Valuable Household
Furniture.
also
and
technicians,
A friend told the Daily Chronicle that Mr. Andreson's rise and pro- gress is a direct consequence of the war. He had been interested in ambulance work, and in 1915 joined the R.A.M.C.
Encouraged to Remain. Later he was drafted to the Queen's-square Hospital, and so keenly did he apply himself to his work, and so expert did he become in it, that on demobilisation he was asked to continue in the hos pital's services.
He did so, and has now so in- creased his intimate knowledge of nervous diseases that he has be- come chief of the laboratory as- sistants,
The former miner from the coal face is how helping to teach medical students one of the most important branches of the science of medicine-his- tological technique.
His book, which is semi- techni- cal in its appeal, has an introduc- tion by Dr. J. G. Greenfield, patho- logist to the National Hospital, who points out that technical dif- feulties have hindered or checked. much work on the nervous system, One Piano and Cabinet Grama- and that, therefore, in many In-
phone.
of
boratories little attempt is made to investigate unusual diseases On View from Sunday, the 27th the brain or chord. April, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
This is mainly because the necessary methods of investiga- tion are unfamiliar. "Nothing to Make a Fuss About." Dr. Greenfield goes on to explain that Mr. Anderson has collected in concise space the routine methods used at the National Hospital, giving sufficient details to enable uny workers with the most elemen- The undersigned have received tary knowledge of general work instructions to sell by Public Auc-on these lines to obtain satisfac- tion,
PUBLIC AUCTION..
on MONDAY,
the 28th April, 1930,
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
At Dr. Heanley's Laboratory and dwelling house Mount Davis Gap Felix Villa Road.
,
A large quantity of valuable Household and Office Furni-
tare and Laboratory
Glassware.
tory, or even good, results at the first attempt.
Mr. Anderson, who is a popular figure at the National Hospital. and is also well known in the medical profession, has taken his rise and his achievements with becoming modesty. He thinks there is "nothing to make a fuss about."
HUGE L.N.E.R. PLAN.
SIXTY MILES OF LINE MAY
BE ELECTRIFIED.
Teak and Glass Cabinets, Glass electrify the. L.N.E.R. main lines to Details of a $4,400,000 schème to Bookcases, Cottage Piano, Grama- Hertford and Welwyn Garden City' phone, Records, Chesterfield and the branch lines from London Couches, Armchairs, Carpets. to Edgware, Alexandra Palace and Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak New Barnet have been announced. Double and Single Wardrobes with The company will undertake the Mirrors, Chests of Drawers, Dress work subject to an adequate Govern- ing Tables, Toilet, Crockery, Ironment grant and satisfactory AT- rangements for terminal -- accom- Safe, Teak Dining Extension modation in the City. Tables, Windsor Ice Chest, Kel-
Over 60 miles of lines are involv- vinator Ice Chests, Teak Side-ed. The stations which will be boards, Electric Table Fans, affected on the suburban routes are Vases, Table Glass Ware, etc, etc. King's Cross, Finsbury Park, High-
Typewriter, Sixteen Office Desks, gate, Finchley and Edgware, with Library Tables, Small Tables, Iron branches to High Barnet from Fin- Filing Cabinets.
chley and Alexandra Palace from Highgate. Bacteriological Microscopes, His-
The main line stations involved torical Microscopes, Laboratory are King's Cross, Finsbury Park, Glass Ware. Sterilisers, Incuba-Wood Green, New Southgate, New tor, Lymph Boxes and Grinding Barnet, Hadley Wood, Potter's Bar Machinery, etc., etc.
and Hatfield on the Welwyn Garden City section,
On View from Sunday, the 27th April, 1930.
i
The other main line. stations which will have to be extended-uri- der the new scheme are those to Terms-Cash on Delivery.: Hertford-Wood Green, Bowes
LAMMERT BROS,
Fark, Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Enfield Chase, Gordon Hill and Auctioneers. Hertford North...
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the Hst of local share quotations issued to-day:
Banks,
POST OFFICE NOTICE
RADIO NOTICES.
The Radio Office, where full information concerning all wireless services may be obtained at all times, is situated on the ground floor of the P. and O. Building in Des Voeux Road, next to the Generol Post Office.
Individuals and firms are frommended to register their telogra- phic addresses at the Radio Office. No charge is made for this.
b. Hongkong Bank, $1395 Chartered Bank, $187 m. Mercantile A. & B., £30 n. East Asia $109 b.
Insurances.
From Calcutta and Straits Japan
Canton Ins., $825 8. Union Ins, $430 b. North China, Ins., Tis. 160 Yangtaze Inc., $50 n. China Underwriters, $1.50 b. China Fires, $355 b.
H. K. Fire Ins., $900. b.”
Shipping.
Douglases, $221 n.
H. K. Steamboats, $261. a. Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $60 1 Union Waterbosts $261 b.
Mining.
Benguets, $6.70 b. Kailans, 61/3 n.
Langkate, Tla. 13.60 n.
b.
S'hai Explorations, Tla. 1.30 m. Roube, $23 b.
Tronohs. 21/...
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, $150 b. Whampoa Dooks, $38 b. China Providents $5.25 8. Hongkews, Tls 245 n. New Engineerings, Tis. 81 b. Shanghai Docks. Tis. 128 n. Cottons.
Ewo Cottons, Tls. 13.10 b S'hal Cottons. Tls. 80 (old) n.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H. and S. Hotels, $12.95 s. H. K. Lands, $72 b. Shai Lands Tls. 245 b. Humphreys, $14. n. Redities, $8.75 b. Chinoso Estates $98 8.
Public Utilities, Tramways, $221
B.
Peak Trams (old) $11.65 n. Star Forries, $72 b. China Lights, (Old) $23. b. H. K. Electrics, $72 b. Macao Electrics, $23 b.
b. Telephones $134 China Buses, Tis. 19. b. Singapore Tractions. 10/- s.
Industrials.
China Sugars, 80 ots. b. Malabons, $27 n.
D.
Cald: Macg. Ord: Tls. 10 n. Canton Ices, $2.50 Cements (Comb.) $15.99. 8. Ropes $7.35 b. United Asbestos $5 b.
"Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $231 Watsons, $10.80 Der A. Wings, '80 · b. Lane Crawfords, $3.88. Mackintoshs, $18 b. Sinceres, $12 n.
Miscellaneous. Amusements, $31 Constructions, $1.30 n. B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 62% 8. H. K. G. Loan 8% Prem, n.
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Europe via Suez (Letters and papers, London 27th Mar, and parcels 20th March.) Japan, Shanghai and Europe via
Siberia (London 4th April)
INWARD MAILS.
Per
Due.
Sul-Sang Buenos Aires Maro
April 28. April 24.
Mantua
.April 24.
Rajputana
April 25.
Heiyo Maru
April 25.
(Seattle 5th Apr.) Canada,
Pres: Madison
April 25.
Emp. of Asia
April 27.
Fushimi Mara
April 27.
Pres. Cleveland Nellore
April 28,"
April 30.
May 8.
.May 5.
Melbourne Maru
May 5,
May 6.
Sand Shanghai
Manila Straits Manila
Japan
U.S.A., (San Francisco 4th April),
Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai Pres. Polk U.S.A., (San Francisco 11th Apr.),
Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai... Pres. Pierce.... Japan
USA., (San Francisco 10th Apr.),
Honolulu, Japan and Shanghal Taiyo Maru Canada (Vancouver, 3.C. 17th April) USA Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai
Emp. of Canada ............May 8 OUTWARD MAILS.
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m, registered and parcel malls are closed at 5 p.. on the previous day.
For
Samshui and Wuchow
Amoy
Hollow and Pakhoi Straits
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Swatow Saigon
Swatow and Bangkok Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa and "South American Ports
Amoy...
Per Taiyuan
Date and Time.
Wed., Apr. 23, 3.30 p.m. Tai Ming
Wed., Apr. 23, 4 p.m. Nampeng.....Wed., Apr. 23, 5 p.m. Cremer..Thurs., Apr. 24, 10.30 a.m. Deli Maru' Thurs., Apr. 24, 10.30 am. Hydrangea. Thurs., Apr. 24, 2.30 p.m: Helikon...Fri., Apr. 24, 3.30 pm. Michael Jebson Thurs, Apr. 24, 5 p.m.
Buenos Aires Maru
Sui Sang.....
Mantua
Shanghai, Japan and Europe via
Siberla
Shanghai
Kanchow
Straits and Calcutta
Namsang
Parcels Letters
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Haining
Swatow, Foochow and Wei Hai Wei. Kweichow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,
East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles
Manila
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Bangkok via Swatow
Rajputana"
Thurs., Apr. 24, 5 p.m. Thurs., Apr. 24, 5 p.m. Fri, Apr. 25, 8.30 a.m. Fri., Apr. 25, 10.30 a.m. .Fri., Apr. 25.
.noon,
....1. p.m. Fri. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. Sat., Apr. 26, 9.30 à.m.
.Sat., Apr. 26. K. P. 0. Parcels......Apr. 25, 4.30 p.m. Registration...Apr. 26, 9 km. Letters.Apr. 26, 10 am.
G. P. O. Parcels.....Apr. 25, 5 p.m. Registration Apr. 26, 9.45 am. Letters....Apr. 26, 10.30 a.m. (Due Marseilles 23rd May.) President Madison
Sat., Apr. 26, 4.30 p.m. Canton Maru...Sun, Apr. 27, 9 a.m. Kaying .......Sun., Apr. 27, § 1.m. Cheklang....Sun., Apr. 27, 9 a.m. Fushimi Mari
b.
11.
Hollow, Pakhoi and Haiphong Shanghai
*Swatow and Amoy..
Anhui
Japan, Canada, U.S.A., `C. and S. America and Europe via Victoria B.C.
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Of Course You're Heard-
-that all the
manners
- so long discarded-
soming back!
OKLA
Mon., Apr. 28, 10.80 a.m., .Mon., Apr. 28, 3 p.m.:
President Cleveland..Mon, Apr. 28,
Parrels
Registration
Letters
....3 p.m.
.4.15 p.m.
.. Dittle.
(Due Victoria B.C. 18th May).
Shanghai and Europe via Siberia. President Cleveland..Mon., Apr. 23,
Hoihow
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ...... Straits. Ceylon, India, Mauritias. East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles
Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America and "Europe via Vancouver B. C. and *Europe via Siberia
Sandakan Swatow
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A.,.
Canada, Central & South America and Europe vin San Francisco and
Europe via Siberia
Japan
Manila, Sandakan, Australia, (except places South of Townsville) and *New Zealand via Thursday Island
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Manila
Manila, Australia and New Zealand,
via Brisbane
Manila Manita
Registration
... pin. Letters
..6 p.m. Kwangtung Tues., Apr. 29, 9.30a.m. Haiching....Tues., Apr. 29, 1 p.m.
Calchas
Tues, Apr. 28, K. P. O.
p.ro. p.m.
..1.45 p.m.
Registration Letters
Registration Letters
G. P. O..
2.80 p.m.
Due Marseilles 30th May).
Emp. of Asia
...Wed., Apr. 30. Parcels...Apr. 29, 5 p.m. Registration Apr. 30, 9.15 a.m.. Letters..
10a.m. (Due Vancouver B. C. 17th. May.) Hui Sang Wed., Apr. 30, 10 am. Hop Sang Wed., Apr. 30, 8.30 p.m.
Asama Maru
.Thurs., May-1. Registration.Apr. 30, 5 p.m. Letters... May 1, 8.30 a.m. (Due San Francisco 22nd May), Heiyo Maru...Fri, May 2, 10.30 a.m.
Nellore
Parcela Registration Letters
Fri, May 2. ...Noon.
.1.45 p.m.
.2.30 p.m.
(Due Thursday Jaland 17th May.) Halyang
Pres. Polk
Melbourne Maru'
Registration
Lettera
Fri., May 2, 1 pm! Sat., May 8, 6 pan.
,Mon., May 5.
.4.15 p.m. .5 p.m.
(Due Brisbane 19th May.) Pres. Pierce Tues., May 6, 1.50 p.m. Emp. of Canada
Thurs., May, 8, 3.30 p.m. *Superscribed Correspondence only.
ROMNEY SOLD FOR £20,000.
MONEY REQUIRED TO PAY DEATH DUTIES.
In order to pay death duties, Sir Armine Morris, of Sketty Park, Glamorgan, has been obliged to sell a Romney family portrait
first Lady Morris, a famous beauty of her time, with her son stand- ing on her lap, ***
She was also painted by Rey, nalds and this picture' was sold in 1873 for £3,622 10s. The Romney has been in the possession of the family since it was painted, over 120 years ago...
Sir Armine succeeded in 1927, on the death of his father, Sir Robert Armine Morris, to the title and estates at Swansea.
It has been bought privately by an American for approximately $20,000, he told a representative. Last year a Romney-the "Blue Sir Armine added that he would Boy" was sold to the Ehrich Gal- also have to sell next month-leries of New York for a sum said two Hoppners, four Hogarths, and to be in the neighbourhood of four Reynolds. ***
£55,000 "Nothing but regrettable neces- It has been stated that more sity would compel me to this than half of our pictures by Old course,” he added wet le ju Masters have left these The Romney is a portrait of the during the last 50 years.
shores