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PIRATES: ATTACKV0JUNK.

Ja BovinBOURÖMEN KILLED:"

TWO HOURS BATTLE

SAMARIA ARRIVES.

COOK'S JUBILEE TOUR.

SIGHTSEEING PROGRAMME,

JAPANESE WOMEN

DEBF INTEREST IN PARIS-FROCKS..

NO SERVANT FROBLEM.

the

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENTA

PETTY OFFICER INJURED,

E Ball, second claka petty officer of H.M.S.Iroquois," received a

fractured thigh on Saturday through An exciting encounter between The Cunard liner "Samaria," of

Interesting impressions formed while riding on a motorcycle. If colliding with motor-bus No. 620 a cargo junk and a three masted 20,000 tons register, which has been Hokle junk at Ping Hot, in Chinese chartered by Messrs. Thos, Cook during a stay of close upon two is believed that the cycle swerved waters, has been reported to the and Son, arrived at the Kowloon years in rural Japan were given to and ran into the bus which was Wharf at 8 a.m. this morning from 3 Daily Mail, reporter by Mrs. coming from the opposite direction police.

While on its way from Kap Shek Manila. The vessel has on board Forbes-Sempill, wife of The accident occurred at the Market to Canton on March 25, Junk Li09H 366 chiefly American tourists for Colonel the Master of Sempill, who Street corner of Nathan Road, was fired at by the pirate funk, whom the most complete arrange- went out to Japan at the head of a Yunati. Bail After putting up a stout resistance ments have been made to enable mission to teach the science of Kent all was taken to the for two hours the crew surrendered visits to be paid to the various flight to the Imperial Japanese aid was rendered and was after- and the pirates boarded the ill- places of interest in and around Naval Air Service.

wards removed to the Royal Naval fated vessel. The steersman and Hongkong, Canton and Macao. Mrs. Forbes-Sempill is the

Hospital. been daughter of Sir John Lavery, the artist, and during her stay there she lived in the house of a Japan ese farmer. On many occasions she adopted the national dress and elaborate coiffure, particularly for with her dinners

have tourists a little girl were killed and a wo The man was wounded in the, shoulder. split into five parties known as When the Hokip junk drew along A. B. C. D. E. and the vessel is side, it was noticed that the dead scheduled to sail for Shanghai at bodies of two plates lay on deck. I am. on April 7. This afternoon There were about forty pirates party A, leaves for Canton, B. visits in all, every one of them being the Peak, C. and E. will be taken armed to the teeth. A thorough to Repulse Bay, and D. will have a neighbours.

the New search was made after which the motor trip through were removed to the pirate craft, a dinner dance at the Hongkong cargo, personal effects and arms Territory. To-night there will be The pirates subsequently sailed Hotel at which it is expected most away in the, direction of Fan Lo of the visitors will be present.

The Round the World Tour of the Kong. The loss sustained by the junk is estimated at nearly $6,000. Samaria" has been arranged by Messrs Thos Cook and Son to com-

SOME" LAND.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR MALAYA.

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Japanese

Mr. W. Arthur Wilson has rC- linquished the Editorship of the Malaya Tribune and proceeds to Kuala Lumpur to take up a position on the staff of the Malay Mail. Ou March 24, at the Europe Hotel, he One of the most important jourpalistic friends of Singapore, was entertained at dinner by his concerning dress and when the most cordial wishes were fashions in Japan is that there is extended to him for his future in points always a recognised fashion for the sphere of I.M.S. newspaper your age and position in life and work, and he was presented with a for the season of the year," said gift in kind to mark the kindly Mr. Forbes-Sempill

The outer kimono for all mar feelings of his fellow newspaper

ADVERTIS

ENTS.

MACKINTOSH & CO. LTD. NOTICE is hereby given that wo

Goodwill of the business hitherto acquired the Stock-in Trade and carried on by Arthur C. Disa under the style of Dise Brossar Alexandra Building Victoria Hong kong Tailors and we intend to carry on such business in our; Tailoring Department.

All claims and accounts unsettled discharged by the said Arthur C. up to this date will be paid and

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Dated the 2nd day of April, 1923.

DISS BROS.

NOTICE is hereby given that MACKINTOSH AND COMPANY have this .day sold to

Goodwill of the business hitherto LIMITED. the Stockin-Trade and carried on by me under the style of DISS BROS at Alexandra Building Victoria Hongkong Tellors,

All claims and accounts unsettled

discharged by me.

A. C. DISS. Dated the 2nd day of April, 1923.

memorate the 50th anniversary of ried women and those who have men. Mr. Wilson leaves Sing up to this date will be paid and. passed girlhood is invariably dark ore after a connection with the Singapors press of over ten years, in colour, though young girls and His conscientious and capable brids are dressed in bright self-work has earned the respect of all colours.

his colleagues of the Singapore

the first escorted tour that ever made the circult of the world under their guidance.

The "Samaria" is sailing cast- ward instead of westward to enable the passengers to enjoy, as far as climatic conditions allow Spring weather almost continuously, The New York Sun gives the The present tour is looked upon following Rougemontian story as a cruise-de-luxe, the passenger under the attractive headings of accommodation having been limit

'Yale men told of land where ed so as to provide the maximum wives cost $5" "And crocodiles of comfort on board. The trip open mouths to let birds pick their teeth":-

Carveth Wells, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Malayan explorer, told an audience at the Yale Club recently that Iomantic facts required apologies. Then he proceeded to advertise the Malay Archipelago with unprecedented zest.

COURT "FOREIGN STYLE,"

"The most wonderful clothes of newspapers, and their best wishes all are worn by the children. Un- go with him. [der-kimonos are, however, often very beautiful, many-coloured flower designs being worked into the material."

Mrs. Forbes-Sempill made it clear that all classes of Japanese women retain their national dress o all occasions except those who hold positions at the Court, where "foreign style" dress is compulsory. None the less, they are intensely interested in Paris frocks.

will prove an expensive one to imany of the passengers, for prices range from Gold $2,000 for the rou, I trip, up to $10,000. There is a staff of ten experienced guides on board as well as three tour no managers, with a staff of clerks, most of whom are well acquainted

The interior of the houses is kept with the ports touched en route. scrupulously clean. No one is Among the passengers are the allowed to enter without first re- There is a land, said Mr. Wells, following Mr. Forrest F.moving his shoes. "This makes the where surveying sticks stuck in Dryden, Newark, NJ., president work of looking after the house the mud grow six feet tall and leaf of the Prudential Life In- quite easy" said Mrs. Forbes out; where crocodiles stretch out surance Company. Mr. Darwin Sempill. "No furniture to scratch with their mouths open while birds P. Kingsley, of New York the floors or for dust to collect come and pick their teeth; where City, president of the New York under. In Japan, too, there are no a first class wife can be had for $5; Life Insurance Company; Mr. scrvant troubles. No murmur of where fish roll up on the beach, Charles B. Storrs, formerly disturbance ever climb trees, and look at you; lecturer on law in the Tokio mistress of the house," where lizards break their tails off if you try to catch them and then grow a new tail at their own convenience..

One of the exploret's prize re velations was about the popping fish, which, he affirmed, is captured in Singapore and vicinity. When thrown on the ground it sucks in air until it becomes almost perfect- ly round instead of its normai three inches in length. Native boys throw popping fishes-into the air, they strike the ground and bound eight or ten feet high; when tossed into the water again they expel the air, sober up and swim away,

About three and one-half million swallows' nests are exported an- nually to China, the explorer said, Mildew is another remarkable pro- duct of the climate, and before shaving it is necessary to shave the mildew from your mirror.

For further particulars see Car- veth Wells, who spent nearly, seven years in Malaya surveying for a railroad line through the jungie,

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

Imperial University; Baroness Von Schlotheim, Helsingfors, Finland; Colonel Sir W. H. Gastrell, K.C.M.G., London, a quondam M.P.; Mr. Charles Peabody; Mr. Richard B. Storrs, a retired banker, and Judge Jean H. Norris, the only woman magistrate of New York City.

Cook's staff is headed by Mr. Ross Skinner and Captain Bennett, Q.B.E., of London, -

HOCKEY:

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TICAL AND DOLLAR.

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EXCHANGE DIFFICULTIES.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA LTD.

LOST.

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HE share certificate Nos. 2100 for fifty shares numbered 18925-18974 Standing in the register in the name of Kan Wong Tak Yin (109) Hongkong having been lost,

NOTICE is hereby given. that unless the said certificate be produced at the office of the Com- pary, 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or about the 25th April 1923, a new certi ficate for the shares will be issued and the old certificate will there- after be held by the Company as null and void.

KAN TUNG PU

Chief Manager, Hongkong, March 23, 1923..

· THE HỌNGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (wes ther permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, April 7th, com- mencing 3 p.m.

So/much has appeared in the press lately about the exchange value of the tical, a correspondent writes to the Bangkok Times, that a note on the exchange difficulties of an earlier generation of traders in Bangkok may not be without interest. I refer to the piping days when the tical was worth 2/6 and the dollar 4/2. When the export trade of the country began to ex- paid following the Bowring treaty, half price.

coming vessels brought dollars. Members are advised that they According to telegrams from to pay for the cargoes they must show their Badges to obtain Shanghai, Shanghai beat the Hong-wished to take away, and these admission to the Members Enclo- kong Garrison team by 4 goals to 2 dollars were exchanged at the

INTERPORT CONTEST

RESULTS.

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The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniforin

sure.

N and the Garrison team beat Tientsin Treasury at the rate of 1671⁄2 ticals

Each member has the right of by 2 goals to nil,

to 100 dollars. This rate left introducing 2 non-teenberg to the the government a sufficient seigni membors enclosure, tickets for orage to cover all expenses atten- whom can be obtained from the dant on re-coining the silver. Secretary at $5 each up to Friday, Supposing the tical and the dollar 6th April. to be of equal purity there was a

THE HOME MAIL.

The home mails (letters and profit of something like five per Dapers) arrived by the 3.5 cent in the transaction. But dollars Three more matches were played "Scistan" yesterday afternoon, accumulated faster than ticals during the holidays. In the second and the delivery was carried out could be coined, and considerable round of the Open Doubles Chan-just in time for all the home news delay ensued in merchants getting pionship, P. Lo and Thomas to be read over the dinner table. supplies of coins which exporters Lay. won with ease from W. B. Roberts and R. E. Lindsell in three straight sets.

The results were ♪----

OPEN CHAMPION DOUBLES,

Second Round.-M. P. Lo and Thomas Lay beat W. B. Roberts and R. E. Lindseil, 6-0, 6–2, 6–1,

HANDICAP SINGLES "B." Second Round.-R. Pestonji (12/6) beat B. Growléy (scr.), 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.

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HANDICAP DOUBLES. Second Round.--E. R. S. Dods and A. B. Raworth (-15/1) beat C. Willson and A. G. M. Fletcher (†4/6), 6-2, 6-4,

WORLD THEATRE.

THE UNKNOWN WIFE.

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could use, and outside of Gover- ment people fought shy dollars. Accordingly the Govern

of

It is notified that Messrs. mest issued a notification en- Mackintosh & Co., Ltd. have pur-joining people to use dollars in chased the tailoring business, of buying and selling with one an Messrs. Diss Bros. and intend to other and fixed the rate of ex carry it on as a tailoring depart-change that three dollars should

ment.

be reckoned as equal to five ticals: But this decree did not solve the A Chinese widow, 56 years of difficulty and the people were still age, was sent to the Goverment nervous of the dollar and its value. Civil Hospital on Sunday through Accordingly in July 1857 a further being knocked down outside the proclamation was made announc Wanchai Fire Station by motoring that in order to let people car No. 56, owned by, Mr. C. H. know good dollars from bad, the Rowe, 38, Des Voeux Road Central. Treasury would test all dollars and

those accepted would be over

An earth-coolie working at stamped with the seal of the Wongnelchong, has been sent to Kingdom, as a guarantee A the Government Civil Hospital that it was good money. suffering from injuries to both legs, further proclamation issued at caused by a piece of granite, dis- the end of the year above referred lodged from the hillside, falling on to, decreed that persons declining to accept these dollars in payment him.

should be mulcted, five in every hundred of the amount refused. I have never seen any specimens of the dollars with the Siamese arms superimposed, and they must be comparatively rare.

Edith Roberts has a hew kind of role in The Unknown Wife," her The new Chinese Conservancy latest Universal photo-drama in Board has made a start fa real carn which she is to be seen at the est to improve facilities at Chin World Theatre. The story gets klang for native craft to enable away to a fast start and ends with them to reach the railway jetty. The old pillar" dollar which a whirlwind of action. It was where their goods can be tran can still be found in Pattani and directed by William. Worthington shipped by rall to various centres Kelantan districts were treated in at Universal City and gives a of trade. At a cost of $12,000, similar fashion: Le, the Portuguese. brilliant caste splendid opportunity workmen are now busy erecting a prins were stamped over the to emphasize the star's dramatic dam by the old Ewo Wharf, and Spanish. These pillar dollars skill. The programme ends with a the creek which runs through the with G.R. stamped on them were two-part comedy entitled A large sand bank is to be deepened also in currency in Kelantana fow Family Affair

and widened from that point to the years ago. railway wharf. At the present

time, an army of coolles has to

carry the cargoes of peanuts, etc, im

from the junks a long distance over

the mud, before the goods can be

heredem fallway, mucks... When "Remedy lak

boon and will effect the eroap and Prest having in time and labour inbox familya

Hongkong to be present.

The Stewards invite the ladies of Hongkong, March 31, 1993.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigners have received In- structions to sell by Public Auction.

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SATURDAY, April 7, 1818,

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st their Nulen Rödme, Daddell Street,

Two 'MOO 6-passenger Motor s

Cara (sw)

4 OƑl.: 22.5 8.P.; Artillery Wheels ; 31X4 Tyres. One Man top: Nickel plated drum shaped Headlamps, &c. (complete).

On view on day of sals.”

-ma-Cash on delivery:

LAMMERT, BROS., Austidaearn.

ON

WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1938, commencing at 11 am.

in their Bales Rooms, Duddell Street. -One Übandler 8 Cylinder, 7 Pas: serger Cae fesmplete),

in good running order. On view on day of sale. FormCash on delivery..

LAMMERT BROS,,. Auctioneers.

OF

MONDAY, April 30, 1923,.. at 1a'o'clock (noon), their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, The Wreck of the ạ

*.. "Nishfren Maru". she now lies tranfed. in Lon 110% 432-60" E-Lst 26° 10' 30" N-together with whatever cargo of coal as may be in the vessel at the time.

Terms: Cash on fall of hammer, when Tassel,. &c. will be at the par- chaser's risk.

-- LẬMMENT BEOS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 2, 1025.

Bowel Complaint in Children. Daring the summer months children 10 subject to diurder of the bowels and attention. As soon as any unnatural Iould receive the most ca‘eful

Jocseness of the' bowels is: noticed Chamberlain's Colle and Diserhea Fmedy should be given. For sale by all Chemists and Storekarpats

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