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Modern
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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPE FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932.
A HOPPNER IN A ; ·HOLIDAY TOLL OF
TRUNK
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS STOLEN IN ENGLAND
(1918) LTD.
Notico la hereby given that on Sunday, 24th April, the supply to the New electricity of Territories will be discontinued between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 2.1.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
The Fourth EXTRA RACE MEET Per- held (Weather ING will bo
VALLEY on сота- mitting) at HAPPY Saturday, 23rd April, 1932, mencing at 1.45 p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. 1.15 pm.
Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure. Badges admitting Non-Diembers to Club the Members' Enclosure and Rooma at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) the SECRET are obtainable through
Member, ARY upon Introduction Ruch. Member to be responsible for
to Members' En Payment of All Chita, &c.
Badges admitting closure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
On No Pretest will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
to the
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
of Admission The Price Publie Enclosure is $2.00 including
all for Parsons, including Tax, Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
in Uniform Soldiers and Sailors are admitted Half Price.
Hankuakors, Tic Tac Men, &c., will not be permitted to operate within of Precincts the Hongkong the Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
obtainable In the i. Tiffins will be Bestaurant in the Public Enclosure.
By Order,
9. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary. ! Hongkong, 18th April, 1932. REMOVAL NOTICE.
No. of Sale.
of the Sale by Public Auction
Paris, Mar. 27. to be held on Monday, the 25th
A valuable painting by John Hop. day of April, 1932, at 3 p.m., at the Officon of the Public Works pnor was discovered yesterday con conled in a woman's trunk at Department, by Order of His Marselles. It is believed that the Excellency the Governor, of one picture is one of ten which were Lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok stolen from the house of a wealthy Taui, in the Colony of Hong English collector three years ago.
A few days ago the French pollee Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of ronewal at awere informed that a woman who Crown Rent to be fixed by the was staying at a hotel in Marseilles of His Majesty the had been talking of an unusually Surveyor King, for one further term of valuable painting which she claimed
to have in her possession.
75 yours.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Registry No.
"ÉLI TROOST
Lot No. 2877. Kowloon Inland
Between Kowloon
Nos. 2605 & 2631, Inlend
Ki Lang Street
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PENINSULA HOTEL.
LIFE
MEN KILLED WHILE CROSSING ROADS Several fatal accidents have curred during the Eastor holidays in Britain,
POST OFFICE NOTICE
It la notified for the information of holders of Private Boxes at the General Post Office that on and after 1st February no taxed correspondence will be placed in the Boxes. A notification will be substituted and Boa holders are requested to call or send for the correspondence at the Hos holders' Lobby and there pay the amount of the Tax against the de oclivery of the letters or packets.
Letters and postcards for Europe and South America are forwarded "Wix Hiberia" if so superscribed.
INWARD. MAILS.
Per
Siberia
From
(London, 4th April).
Pres. Taft Heiyo Maru Salyang
Tjinadano Kiddorporo
Rio de Janeiro Maru
Das. ..April 22.
April 23, ..April 20..
April 21.
.April 21. "
April 84.
Pres. Jackson
Apell 25.
Georges Philippar
April 25.
Chenonceaux
April 20.
Nellore
April 28.
April 28.
Hector
April 20.
Hakozaki Maru Hakone Maru
.April 29,
·April 20.
April 20,
April 30,
Two boys were drowned in the Itiver Darwen, a tributary of the River Ribble. They were Harold Japan and Arthur Illingworth, of Maud-U, S. A., Canada, Japan and Shang-
hai (Seattle, 2nd April) James Brown, of Portland-street, Japan land-streot, Preston.
a neighbouring Bhanghai & Swatow Preston, ran to arrived the boys had disappeared. farm for assistance, but when help Shanghai, Amoy and Europe via After making inquiries the police Their bodies were recovered from removed her luggage to headquar- the river later. The three boys Straita ters and searched it. The unusual had gone on a day's camping excur- Manila thickness of the lid of a trunk alon, and had not long been at the Japan and Shanghai aroused suspicion. The lining was spot, which is known as Gatty's Saigon
John Meadowcroft, of Grosvenor Amoy ... torn open and a canvas neatly fitted Wood. inside the lid was disclosed. It was shown to an art expert, who iden-street, Kearsley, Bolton, died from tified it as an original Hoppner a fractured skull received when his which had been bought at a London car came into colllalon with another Frederick Thomas Manton, aged dealer's premises for £8,000, and ear at Blackpool. was stolen three years ago.
19, of Atkinson-street, New Cross, at was killed at Rushey Green, Cat- ford, while cycling to camp Knockholt, Kent. He was run over by an omnibus after falling in the road, apparently as the result of a skid.
She
The woman was arrested. is French and the wife of an Eng- lishman. It is alleged that a year ngo she tried to sell the same pic- ture at Genoa. She denied she had any knowledge of the picture, and declares she has not seen her husband for many years.
+i
"Portrait of a Gentleman." The canvas, Recording to Reuter; is a "Portrait of a Gentleman. The woman arrived in Marseilles a few days ago, it is alleged, with her
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One nun was killed and another injured in a collision in which twa motor-cara and a pedal cycle were involved on the road between Esher, and Cobham, Surrey.
The man who was killed was the Shanghai driver of one of the
cars,
and
The Sixth Floor having husband, who however, went on to papers found on him bore the name Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,
been reserved for the St. George's Society, there will be no DINNER DANCE 23rd on SATURDAY, April, 1932,
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
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per-
Draft Programmes and Entry Farms for the Fifth Extra Race Saturday, We beg to notify the Public Meeting to be held on that have removed from 30th April, 1932, (weather
we 14, Queen's Road, Central, to mitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, the Club House, 18. D'Aguilar Street.
Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, and the Stables. Road.
WING HING CO. TAILORS.
Tel. 21417.
METALS
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Village
Entrien clone at 12 o'clock Noon | on MONDAY, 26th April, 1932.
By Order,
M
S. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary.
ASSEUR R. SHIMIDZU. ASSEUSE S. HONDA. ASSEUSE S. KISAKI.
another town, from which he sent two telegrams to his wife. The police have lost trace of him, how- Jever.
Edwin Wigmore, of Bristol. He died in hospital.
The cyclist, A. Pryor, of Denis Park-crescent, Wimbledon, was de- tained at Kingston General Ho-
leg. pital, suffering from Injuries to the
Pedestriane Killed.
Per
Date and Time Wing Lee.... Fri, Apr. 22, 2.80 p.m.
Ramaco Kiungchow
Chung On
Sirdhana Kwansai Maru
Reg., Letters
Enst and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Rawalpindi
Fri., Apr. 22, 3.30 p.m..
Fri., Apr. 22, 3.30 p.m.
Fri., Apr. 22, 4 pm. .Fri., Apr. 2, 5 p.m.
Parcels Registration Letters
Parcels
.Fri., Apr. 22,
22nd, 5.00 p.m.
22nd, 6.00 pm.
.Sat, Apr. 23. K. P. O,
22nd., 4.80 p.m. .23rd., 9 a.m. 23rd, 10 x.m
G. P. O.
22nd. p.m. Registration .23rd., 9.45 a.m. Letters......23rd., 20.80 sm. (Dac Marseilles, 20th May).
A Hoppner portrait of Willian Grimstone, an English statesman, was stolen from the house of Mrs. Ernest Cunard at The Grove, Stan-
Two men were killed while cross- more, within the last few years.
Mrs, Cunard told a Press repre-ing roads in London. James West- sentative last night: "The policeweed, of Belsize Park, Hampstead, have been in communication with was knocked down by a vehicle in Manila, Australia and New Zealand !” A ijpe me about the picture found in Mar-Clifton-road, Paddington; and Ed of Friern seilles, but I cannot tell whether ward Smith, aged 50, it is mine or not until 1 have Been Barnet-road, New Southgate, was knocked down by a motor-car in it."
High-road, New Southgate.
FRENCH INVENTOR'S BID FOR RECORD
Parls, Mar. 27. Experiments are being made with a new type of racing car de- signed by a French engineer, M. Stapp, with a view to attacking the world's speed records. M. Stapp hopes to attain 375 miles an hour.
vin Thursday Island
Ceylon, India, Saigon, Straite,
Mauritive, East and South Africa and South American Porta
Walter Hills, aged 57, of Dray- ton-road, Leytonstone, who was in- jured in an accident in Ruckholt-Haiphong
which another Manila rond, Leyton, in cyclist was killed and one injured. Saigon died in Whipps Cross Hospital.
Harry Wadsworth, aged 74, of Wilby, Northants, died from in- juries through being knocked down by a motor van.
Amoy Manila...
Bangkok via Swatow
Straite, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
and South Afrien, Egypt and Europe via Marsellios
Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A.
Central and South America and *Europe via Vancouver B.C.
A climbing accident occurred in The car is driven by three 800 North Wales. Mr. T. E. Davies, undergraduate of Liverpool horse-power Jupiter engines and it an also carries an ordinary 60 horse- University, whose home is at Pren- power engino for getting under ton, near Birkenhead, was injured of a three on Snowdon. He was one way and starting up the racing engines It is 32 feet long party which climbed Crib Goch and looks like an enormous bluedge, and on the return journey shell. It in fitted with an aeroplane left his friends. Intending to Swatory
transmitted reach Penypass Hotel by another rudder. Power is through all four wheels, which are way.
He was missed, and was found 'evidently having trials unconscious, Recommended for many years of independent.
Peak Civil Hospital, Government
Successful preliminary Hospital, etc., and by all the local have been made in Paris and the stumbled and fallen same distance, car is to be taken shortly to La Members of the party brought him
down. He
suffering from 24, Wyndham Street. Tel. 24945. Baul for tests on the sands.
acalp wounds and bruises.
Trawler on the Rocks. The steam trawler Macaw, owned Steam Trawler by the Swansea
the Black Rock. Company, a on aitunted between Ballycotton and Garryvoc, Co. Cork. She went on the rock in a thick mist. The Ballycotton lifeboat remained in until the weather attendance moderated..
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OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
A broadening of demand appears to
Kamo Maru ........ Sat., Apr. 28. Iteg... Apr. 29, 8.45 a.m. Letters,... Apr. 28, 9.80 a.m. (Due Thursday Island 5th May).
Rio de Janeiro Maru
Canton.....
Sat., Apr. 23, 1280 p.m.. Sat., Apr. 23, 2.50 p.m. Free. Taft....Sat., Apr. 23, 4.30 p.m. Ciara Jebsen
Antung
Nevada
Anshun Canton Maru
Calchas.
Reg..
...Sat., Apr. 23, 5 p.m.
Sat., Apr. 23, 5 p.m. .Sun., Apr. 24, 9 nim. .Sun., Apr. 24, 9 a.m. .Sun., Apr. 24, 9 a.m.
.3ion., Apr. 25, 1 pm. K. P. O.
26th 1 p.nl.
Letters, .........26th 1 p.m.
G. P..O.
neg.,
25th 1.45 p.m.
Letters, ........25th 2.30 p.m. (Due Marseilles, 20th May). Hydrangea.... Mon., Apr. 26, 3 p.m.
Heian Maru
Tues, Apr. 26. Reg..
Apr. 25, & p.m. Letters.... Apr. 28, 8.30a.m. (Due Vanvouver B.C., 10th May) Tilsadane, Tues, Apr. 26, 9.30 a.m.
Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., *Canada, Central and South America and Europe via San Francisco and Europe via Siberia Pres. Jackson
Fort Bayard, Holhow, Fokhol and
Haiphong
Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe vin Marseilles.
Swatow, Amoy and Foocnow Shanghai and "Japan Swatow
be making itself felt, several stocks Sandakanı being bid for at this morning's session Straits ami Calcutta without attracting sellers. The under-1
tone was Grm.
Salen,
Union Insurances $160. Wharves $144.
Providents (Old) $4.70/4.80.
Hotels (Cum. Rights) $13.16/13,20.
Hotels (Rights) $2.60.
Ewo Coltons Tis. 15/15.10.
Hongkong Trams $22.
Chinn Lights (Old) $21/21%. Cements (Combined) $18.30. Dairy Farms $28.
Buyers. Donglases $204.
Swalow, Amoy, & Foochow
Japur
Manila
...Tuea., Apr. 26. Parcels
Apr. 20, Noon. Rex.,... Apr. 26, 12.45 p.m. Letters... Apr. 20, 1.30 p.m.
(Due San Francisco, 17th May).
..Tue. Apr. 26, 1 p.m.
Tankin
Georges Philippar... Tues., Apr. 26. K.P.O.
Reg., Letters,
G.P.O.
Apr. 26, 1 p.m.
Apr. 26, 1 p.m.
Reg., ...... Apr. 26, 1.45 p.m.
Letters, Apr. 20, 2.30 p.m. (Duo Marseilles, 28th May.) Hai Ning ....Tues., Apr. 20, 2 p.m. Chenonceaux Tues., Apr. 28, 2.80 p.m. Kwalsang.. Wed., Apr. 27, 8.30 am. Mausang..Wed., Apr. 27, 10.30 am.
Hosang...
Parcela
Letters
Wed., Apr. 27.
.Noon. .1 p.nl.
Haiyang ...Fri., Apr. 20, 1 p.m.
Hakozaki Maru
Fri. Apr. 29, 3.80 p.m. Emp. of Japan Fri., Apr. 29, 6 p.m.
Straita, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Afrlen, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Mareelllen Hakono 'Maru
Fri., Apr. 29. K. P. 0. ... Apr. 29, 4.30 p.m. Lettern, Apr. 20, 4.80 p.m.
Reg
G. P. O.
Reg
... Apr. 29, 5 p.m. Letters, ...... Apr, 29, 0 p.m. (Due Marseilles 28th May).
Manila, Raubaul, Australia, and
New Zealand via Brisbane ...
Nellore
Benguet Explorations 20 conta. Docks $21.
Parcela
Registration
Providents (Old) $4.05. Hotels (Rights) $2.40. Chinese Estaten $96. Ewo Cottons Tia. 16.
$22.10.
Hongkong
Trams China Lights (Old) $21.10. Hongkong Electrice $79 Macao Electrics $24. Comente (Combined) $18.35. Hongkong Ropes $14.10. Lane, Crawford (Old) $5. Binckintosh $20%. Sinceres $174.
Gove Loans 34% Premium.
Sellers.
South China Motors "B" $12. Star Ferries $00%. Telephones (F.P.) 138. Telephones (P.P.) $24.00. Entertainments $144. 8. C. Enterprises $10.
Manila,
Letters
.Sat., Apr. 30.
.29th,
p.m.
..90th, 8.46 am.
..80th, 9.30 a.m.
(Due Brisbane, 17th May), Pres. Pierce....F., Apr. 30, 6 p.m.
*Buperscribed Correspondence only.
ITALIAN FLAG INCIDENT
BRITISH SHIP'S OFFICER UNDER ARREST
bineers, is not likely to be released until next Wednesday.
Mr. Shepherd is alleged to have told the carabineers that ho had no Italian flag on board his ship, the 8.8. Barrgrove, and as he wished to have one and the shops were shut and he was unable to buy one, he is alleged to have lowered the flag, and then, reponting of his action. A British mercantile officer, Mr.to have thrown it away. William Shepherd, who, it is alleg.
Leghorn, Mar. 26.
It is expected that Mr. Shepherd,
od, lowered an Italian flag from its if found guilty, will be fined a small mast over a local shop and was jaum and released after the Easter promptly arrested by Italfan cara- 'holiday, on Wednesday,
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