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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
CO., LTD.
of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 12th day of August, 1940, nt 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Govorner of one Lot of Crown Land at Magazine Gap Road, in theme's per second. Colony of Hong Kong, 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 ond further term of 75 years..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of $1 per share has been declared in respect of the half year ended 30th June, 19-10 on G00,000 OLD SHARES and will be payable on and after Wednesday, 11th Sep- tember, 1940. Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Registered Office, P, & 0. Building.
THE REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 2ND SEPTEM. BER, to SATURDAY, 7TH SEP,
1940, TEMBER
(both
inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be regis tered.
of
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12.15 p.m. Stort Service of Inter- cession.
12.30 Compositions of Debussy. Nocturnes .Orchestre De La Sedicte Des Concerts Du Conserva toire; L'Isle Joycuse ... Walter Gieseking (Piano).
1.0 Local Time Signal and Wes- her Report.
1.03 Dance Music by Vietor Blives.
1.30 Reuter and Butby Press, Wen-
1.45 Variety Programme. ther Forecast and Announcements.
2.15 Close down.
and is Ballroom Orchestra.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo- daysal of the lot the Purchaser (ifter
Authorised not the applicant) will be required to deposit with officer who will be present at the gale, the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) in cash. This som will be refunded on payment of the Purchase price.
the Board of
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Agents. Jongkong, 1st August, 1940. Edition.
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"Imperial Airways UT
Aug. 8. Aug, Aug. D.
Air
Mall
Service"
Shanghai
Bangkok
Bangkok and Tourane
Aug.
Bangkok and Saigon. ...
Aug.
Hulphong and Fort Bayard Java and Monlia
Aug. 9.
Loudon and Straits
Aug. 9. .Aug. 0.
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Ice Cream As Germ Carrier
Court Told Of Typhoid & Dysentery Dangers
At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning Chun Yuk, 17, was charged before Mr. E. Himsworth with breach of Cholera Regulations by hawking ice cream in Bute Street.
Sanitary Inspector Clark sald he arrested the defendant in the course of making enquiries into the presence the of typhoid and dysentery In
ico of Bute Street. The vleinity
cam was probably ane of the cream rources through which the diseases WAR im- were being passed and It portant that a serious view be taken of the case.
The defendant was fined $10 or three weeks in prison.
.
6.0 An hour of Dance Munte. 7.0 Closing Icoal Stock Quviations, 7.02 Dilly Mayerl-Aquarium Suite. Billy Mayer (Pinto) and Ilis Or- chestra.
7.15 Reginald Dixon at the Organ.j With Sword and Lance-March (Starke); Sweet Music-Film Selec PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. tun; Roberts Film Selection.
Inland Lot
Magazine Gap Road No. 65-L
opposite Inland Lot
No. 2310.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
Boundary Measurements
XIR.
EW.
ftertretenditori
as per sala
plan.
R.
16.200
0501$
of the Sale by Public Auction
OUTWARD MAILS Thursday, August 8 Parcels only for Shanghai and Japan,
5 p.m. Manila
7 pan. Amoy
7 p.in.
In Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen'n | PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Shanghai, Japan, Canudo, U.S.A., Court, Chan Siu-ki, 19, was fined $5 Central and South Ameries and or five days in prison for breach of United-Kingdom
(Cholera) Heulo- Vancouver the Emergency
flons. Chan was arrested when he B.C.-(Pateels for Canada only) Note: All Mall for United-King- was seen hawking peeled pine apples In Nathan Road near the Po Hing dom will be forwarded with or
Theatre. without
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Reg.
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..Aug. 9, 10 nm Friday, August 9 .Straits and Calcutta.
Parcels,
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Letters
Parcels only for Tientsin Shanghai
Straits
Saturday, August
Parcels де
H.K. RESIDENTS
ROBBED
A thief entered the residence of Mr. Hackney, 3 May Road, yesler- day and stule three pieces of jewel- lery to the value of $121,
10.00 a.m
Mr. F. Brown, of 45 Village Roal, 12.30 p.m.
ther was robbed of $30 when 12.30 pm.
Tuesday entered his home during .1.30 p.m. night. 10
stolen $30 was for only
Shanghai
Tientsin
0. Japan
.9.30 am. Straits, Ceylon, India, E. and South Africa, Lisbon and United-King- clor.
G. r. O. and K. P. O,
Rex.
.2.43 p.m. .3.30 p.m.
Ord.
•Superscribed Correspondence Only.
Internee Is Charged
Alleged Assault With
Four Others
Described u5 an internee of the Argyle Street Chinese Soldiers' Internment Camp, Ku Ming, 25, was one of five men who appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon Magistracy to-day charged with assault with intent to rob possession of arms and ammunition without a licence.
and
The other defendants were Wong
altas alias Wong Chiu,
Kam-yan,
to be held on Monday, the 12th
7.30 London Relay The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 D'Erlanger-The
Kisses-Sulle.
London Philharmonic
conducted by Antal Dorati.
8.29 Violin Solos.
Ilundred
Orchestra
B.40 Studio-Local Newsletter. 8.30 Songs by Raymond Newell (Baritone).
Follow Me 'Ome--A Barruck-Itoom Ballad (Kipling-Ward-Higgs); Man-
(Kipling-Willeby). daluy
9.0 London Relay The News and Topleal Talks,
9.45 Excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."
10.10 A Variety Programme. 11.0 Close down.
FAR
EASTERN TRADE America Issues Figures
For Half Year
Washington, Aug. 7. The Department of Commerce to-
omitted) are:
Exports
day of August, 1910, nt 3 p.m.,day issued figures for June and the ut the Offices of the Publie half year and comparisons with last The figures (thousands Works Department, by Order of year. His Excellency the Governor of one lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong, 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
Pippines KING, for one further term of Japan 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dispo Clothing worth from May Hall, Hongkong; Universal of the lot the Purchaser (if sity, between Monday and Wedoes-not the applicant) will be required nuthorised an to deposit with wo fron gates, valued at were stolen from the garden of No.uflicer who will be present at the 3 Kent Rand, Kowloon Tong, yester sale, the sum of two hundred day. The residence is occupied by Air. Hender,
$10,
dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of
KIDNAPPINGS the Purchase price.
IN SHANGHAI
here
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6 (Reuter- Terrorists were active again carly to-day, three kidnappings in two hours claiming four Chinese vic- tima.
At least one case is known to be political
Two Chinese were kidnapped from a hotel in the. Settlement.
Bishop John, head of the Russian Church here, is the latest foreigner to reecive a threatening message,
ITALIANS BOMB WAJIR
NAIROBI, Aug. 7 (Reuter)-To-
Wong Lum, 34. Ko Kin, 33, Tsang day's communique states:
"Yesterday two enemy
aircraft
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Kowloon
Inland Lot
Registry No.
Locality
Between Fa Yuen
Sai Yee Street.
Street and
Hong, 31, and Wong Wing-wal, 27. They were alleged to have assaulted bombed Wajir without success. They Vol. X No. 2
Shing Muk at Kowloon on July 31 with intent to rob and to have had possession of two revolvers and 11 rounds of ammunition.
Additional Chargo
Ku Ming was also charged with being an "allen" escaping from con- Anement, on July 7.
Although the case has come before
were pursued by our fighter aircraft. Bts were registered on one enemy THE machine. Both escaped in the clouds."
Raid On Haifa · SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CAIRO. Aug. (Domel)-Italian planes again raided Haifa yesterday, dropping a large number of bomba.
Mr. Himsworth several times before, Most of the missiles fell into the
this morning was the first time that sea. Wong Kam-yan, first defendant at-
The Italians were soon repulsed by
tended Court as he has been in anti-aircraft fire.
hospital. This morning Wong's left
hand was bandaged and there were Soviet Adds To Her
blood stains on his clothing.
It was sold that Mr. B. C. Hobbs will appear for Tsang Hong. The case will be heard.ot 2.30 p.m., on August 15.
Vice-Presidents
MOSCOW, Aug. 7. (Reuter).-Otto
Motor Car And Bus tured Finnish territory after the
Collide
It. K. A. Munro, RA, of Gun Club Hill, reported to the Police yesterday that while driving his car in Castle
bounitary
Measurements
N.. W.
|feel feel feel fert
us per salc
ploa.
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May, 1940
HONG KONG NATURALIST
A quarterly illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and S. China.
Birds and Butterflies of Hong Kong.
Notes on Vegetable Insect Posts in Hongkong
Kuusinen, who headed the gave The Typhoon of Nov, 23, 1939. ment set up by Moscow in the cap-
Hail and Halos Soviet invasion, has been appointed Vice-President of the Soviet Union representing the new Kurclu-Finnish Federal Republle.
The number of vice-presidents has been raised by decree from 11 to 10,
Peak Road, on Monday, he collided including spokesmen of the new re-
with a motor bus, which came from the opposite direction. Slight dam- ago was suffered by his car, but nobody was injured.
865 JAPANESE
IN ENGLAND
LONDON, Aug. 7 : (Heuter)~The number of Japanese registered with the Police in England is 665, of whom 762 are males, stated Capt. D. Peake, Under-Secretary of the Home Office, In a written reply to Lieut. Col. Sir T. Moore
the (Conservative) In House of Commons to-day.
publics, the other four being Modavia, Betonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Naval Authorities state that a floating mine was seen in lat, 20 de- grees 20.5' N., long. 122 degrees 27' E., on the morning of August 0.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition
June
-September, 1940. Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD. LTD.
For the best and second-best entries.. Four Silver Trophins Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO. First Prizes in each of the four Sections. $250 CASH PRIZES $250
SECTION ONE
General Pictorial; Land and Seacapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.
SECTION TWO Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human
Studica.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.
- SECTION THREE
Still Life and Table Top Studies. 1st. Silver Cup, 2nd. $30, 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50. SECTION FOUR
I
(Craftsmen's Section)
The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this effect. Each entry must have posted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society... Subjects at the discretion
competitors. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12,50.
RULES
of
The following Rules will govern the Compeition:
1-The Competition is confined ex- clusively 10 pinatour photo- graphers.
2-No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.
3-The prizes will be awarded to the compeillor sending to what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Come petition. and which must posted on back of entry. The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.
be
9-All photographs entered must have been taken in the Calony of Hongkong, Photographs which have been already entered in attier Competitions are ineligible -No responsiblity will be accepted for tun-delivery of loss of, or damage to entries.
-All entries to be either black, sepia, or toned pictures, and must to mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible.
8.Pictures abmilled in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. D-No picture to entered in more
than one Section. 10-Mounts to be anly white or cream, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12, 16x30.
11.-No correspondente will be entered into in connection with the Come petition.
12-Members of the Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph And the Fouth China Morning Port are not permitted to compete. 12-~~The decision of the Judges, shall
be final.
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