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THURSDAY MARCH 15, 1928

INTIMATIONS.

ROYAL HONGRONG YACHT CLUB,

CLOSING CRUISE & INTERPORT & INTERCLUB REGATTA

ÄT, THE

CLUB HOUSE. NORTH POINT, SATURDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1923,

LADIES' Yacht Race: 1st gun, 3.15 p.m. ROWING Events morning and afternoon First Regatta Event after tiffin will be at 3 p.m. "HONG" FOURS:

INTERPORT FOURS:

4 p.

:5 p.m. Special TRAM CARS from Post Office:

215 p.m., 2,30 p.m., 2.45 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Special LAUNCHES from MURRAY Pier:

2 pm to 3.30 p.m. every 15 minutes.

The INTERFORT CREWS will be entertained to dinner at the Hong- kong Hotel at 8 p.m., when the prizes won will be presented. Tickets may be obtained from Mr. D. C. LOGAN epo Messer. Rains & Co. -

BOXING.

By permission of the Officer Commanding,

THE KING'S REGIMENT NOVICES TOURNAMENT will take place at MUERAT BARRACKS

on

THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, March 15th; 16th & 17th, at 9 p.m. There will also be Middle and Lightweight Competitions open to the Services, and a 10 Round Contest on each night. The Regimental Band will be in attendance.

Prices of Admission → Ringside seats)

reserved General $2.00 Two Smul

stands ...Public $1.00 Large stand (services in

Uniforni)

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & HAIROA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the ORDINADY YEARLY MEETING of SHARDHOLDERS wil be hold in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong on | MONDAY, 26th March, 1925, AT NOON, for consideration of THE DIRECTORS' REPORT and STATE- MENT OF ACCOUNTS för in your ending 31st December, 1984,

TRANSFER BOOKS will be "alonad from the 17th to the 36th March, 1923, both days inclusiva,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER,

Chiot Manager. Hongkong, March 12, 1928,

CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO.

NOTICE.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

36 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,

--§1. PREPAID, Every additional word & Centa

for 8 'Insortiosa.

TO LET.

THE CHINA MAILA

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

WHO HAS THE BEST ONE?

ROMANTIC BID FOR EARLDOM.

A NEW ZEALAND CLAIM.

Writers, music-hall artists, actors and singers take great trouble to select effective names. Politician rising of 1716 is the claim just A romantic sequel to the Jacobite aro at a dindvantage, for they adopt entered by an oighty-year-old resi platform names. No doubt the dont in Lyttleton, New Zealand, to man makes the nano and nanes the title and states of the Earl of like John Bright und W. E. Glad-Derwentwater, who was executed stone seen familiar and homely. 1710, for luis part in the rebellion.

on Tower Hill on February 24.

nell seem strange because of the personality of their holders.

TO LET-Two Alry Office Rooms

on top floor of 6, Queen's Road while unes like Disraeli and Par- Central Apply to Gande, Price & Co. Ltd.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION

15, Morrison Hill Road,

CALCUTTA SWEEP.

NUMBERS INSTEAD OF

TICKETS,

It has been decided to hold the Calcutta Sweep this year, states

pay his

bers will be allotted numbers.

The sweep entrant will money to a member in return for a

number.

RE-SALE SCANDAL.

there promises to be a legal battle Now, over 200 years afterwards, Theno cannot be any intrinsic for the Derwentwater carldom,

On October 1 last the following virtue in "P. E. Smith," yet "F.E., for the future, will be an paragraph appeared in the Souret History column of Reynolds's Newspaper":

effective combination.

A good amne is an asset to any public man. Somic nanies suggest interested in the possibilities of a People surnamed Radcliffe will be. plain honesty. It will take Colonel claimant to the Josish Wedwood. M.P. long carldom coming forward. With the Derwentwater, time to live down his first usme, titlo pay go the vast estates in the and Colonel John Word failed to North. These were forfeited to the communicate bis surprise to the Crown when the Jacobite, Lord League of Nations Assembly that Derwentwater, was executed on the officials had forgotten his titles. Tower, Hill, and are now the pro-

The ox-M.Pr for South Hackney had no asset in his public carver to compare in value with his superb name of Horatio Bottomley. How the Shufflebuttons of the world get on at all beats me.

Mr. Lloyd George has been happy

porty of Greenwich Hospital,

When James Radcliffo, third Earl of Derwentwater, went to the scaffold for his staunch support of the Old Pretender he had no chil dren and his brother Charles escap

sons.

THE SHARE REGISTH2 and the Daily News Calcutta correspon-in a name which combines mosted to the Isle of Man as a fugitive. dent, but instead of tickets mem-effectively the democratic and the Mr. Thomas Radclife, the claim-,

ant, says the New Zealand Herald, uncommon. How his friends rage claims to be a direct lineal descen when he is called plain "Mr-dant of Charles.

fine name, a little too purely Isle of Man, where his forefathers George." Sir Donald Maclean has. Mr. Thomas Radcliffe left tha Scotch, perhaps. Ramsay Mac-have lived for generations, for New Does this change mean that the Donald is a fine mouthful, made up Zealand in 1871. Ho is over 60, circle of participants in other coun-of elements more familiar to the and the eldest of a family of four tries will be greatly narrowed? Southern. Mr. Scrymgeour made Possibly,

an impression by his name as well sa by his Prohibitionism, but how in the family, is an ex-Mayor of His brother William, the fourth can a man with a name like that Lyttelton, where he still lives. A hope to go far in public life?

third brother, Edward, lives at On the other hand, what chance Woolston, Christchurch. Mr. Rad is there for a man with a deathcliffe has always been recognised by trap Montmorency to make a lasting im the head

name like Marjoribanks or the Radcliffes of the Isle of Man as

the Radcliffe family. pression on Parliamentary con- stituency? Lord Hugh Cecil just the family has ever laid claim to the The reason why no member of manages to exist as a politician, but title, it in stated, is simply that suppose he had been called Lord one of them until now has felt. Clarence Cecil?

financially able to undertake the II. 15. Asquith has a dry, effec-task. tive sound. Sir John Simon's name several sons, and as the New Zea- Mr. Thomas Radcliffe bos not, robust enough. If he had land branch of the family is not by

THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Sharchoklore of the above Company will be bold at the Offices of the Gonoral Agents, Padder Street, on TUESDAY the 27th March at 11.30 am. for the purpose of reesiving the Report & Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1922.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

50 cts.

Reserved sents may be booked and unreserved tickets purchased Company will be cloand from the 13th at the School Room, situate at to 27th March, both days inclusive.

The "scandal" of the re-sale of tickets in Great Britain has been the subject of anxious discussion of late, and it is believed that the Calcutta Royal Turf Club, had it under consideration.

Scotland Yard is said to take a grave view of sweep scandals,.

The Daily News Calcutta cor- respondent wrote last August :-

There is the best authority for stating that the sale in England of Calcutta Derby Sweep tickets will

the Garden Road entrance to/JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. in future be considerably curtailed,been called by a name which could any means dying out, it is probable !|

Murray Barracks, from Monday,

12th, to Wednesday. 14th., be- tween the hours of 12 to 2 and

5 to 7 p.m.

The Army Tournament will take place at Murray Barracks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 22nd, 23rd & 24th,

J. BAILEY, Lieut. President Regimental Boxing Committee.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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General Agents.

Hongkong, March 8, 1923,

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR. ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

if not stopped altogether. sentations by Scotland Yard, but Arthur Griffith Boscawen has another reason is the fact that fraud plenty of syllabes but it clearly does; is freely practised in London and other centres by persons selling bogus tickets.

This step is partly due to repre-be rolled off like. Clifford ! Sir that the claim will be thoroughly

pursued.

not make a hit, any more than Capt. the legal question, whether the The chief difficulty in the way is Gee's, which ends before you have estates, having been seized by the well begun on it.

Crows, can be recovered.

It is clear that thousands of

Natnes with broad vowels are the pounds have got into the pockets best line in England, John Morley, THE FIFTY-FOURTH ORDINARY of crooks," who have relied on Thali Caine. Wedgwood Benn or

GENERAL MEETING of Share-back street printing presses in Marshall Hall,

been a fax more appealing figure holders will be held at the Offices of the England.

The new Ministry is weak in that A. Bonar Law. undersigned on TUESDAY, the 27th Last year the first prize was good names, though Sir Douglan March, 1933, at Noon, for the purpose £116,000, and the year before Hogg should do well if he can live the land who has a name da suitablo But there is not a politician in of receiving the Report of the General £60,000, both being won by re-down his middle name of MeGerol. for his job as Ivor Novello or Wilkie Managers, together with a statement of sidents of the United Kingdom.

Andrew Law would probably have Bard. Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1922,

The Sharo Register and Translor Books will be closed from the 13th to the 27th March 1923, both daya

NOT

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

(weather permitting) Gym-inchisive. khana Meetings will be held on the following dates:-

April 7th, May 5th, June 2nd, July

7th (Extra)

Oct: 6th, Nov: 3rd, Dec: Ist (Extra)

11. BIRKETT, Clerk of the Course.

Hongkong, March 14, 1923.

NOTICE.

WE have authorized Mr. LIONEL

EUGENE LAMMERT to sign

our Firm from This Date.

LAMMERT BROS.

Hongkong, March 12, 1923.

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Hongkong, March 8, 1923,

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The farms prescribed for public vehiclea are as follows:-

in the Island of Hongkong, Caina Road and Lower Levelí, and ta Kowloos, and New Kowloon,

fivo minutos.

Ten minutes,

NICKSHAS.

Quarter hour, s

One hour,

wy Bubeequent hour, 30

$ cents

the jiorickaha be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis- charged outside the Western part of the Jity of Viotorie after 9 pm, or be dis charged to the East of Bay Viaw Pollos Station on the Eastern side of the City Victoria after 9 pm, an extra half fare shall be charges bla.".

For å or a drivers the fare is double or troble respectively.

Is the Hill District.

Ten minutes, Quarter hours+)2+0+0+8

Half bour, One hour,

15 cents,

40

eve IT-In the News Territories- By arrangement with the proprietors through the Police."

1.-Lower Levels.

Fith 4 Bearers With § Bairers. 20 conta

Tou minutos, 1) centa

Quarter hour...ter 10:

tall bour, as, 25

Jan hour, masa 34

„Evory subooquent

... hour,

30

27

**

II. -Hill District.

With a Bearers With 4 Bearers+ Ton minutes, 15 conté Quarter hour

Balf hotte: 30

One hour man 60 Every subquent

benr

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