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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

SEA. INROADS...

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The peculiar run of the local tides and several recent storms

HONGKONG TECHNICAL

INSTITUTE..

Dame Fortune has smiled have practically denuded the. benificently on three Shanghai policemen. While on duty at western beaches at Eastbourne of Kiangwan Racecourse, (Shanghai) shingle and have exposed the sea

MONDAY, February 18th. during the 1.R.C. New Year Races, wall right down to its rocky TE INSTITUTE will Re-open on they bought a single ticket in the foundation. The corporation have Students will be enrolled at the Champions Sweepstakes. The spent large sums of money in the Education Department only and ticket was one of the last, but it erection of groynes to try to form should apply at once for entry forms, was the lucky one,

Hongkong. 16th February, 1924. It drew the a bartler, against the sea, but is favourite and the favourite ran vain. true to form und cleared the till During the last storm waves at the cash sweep counter for the broke against the wall of the Royal three policenien a return of over Parade and built the beach up lu ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. $77,000 for their investment of $10. the roadway, while the water broke The three fortunate men are all over the promenade in huge sub-inspectors. Sub-Insp. Milne volumes. The western parades of Central Sation is well known are now practically emptied of

beach, in sporting circles particularly as a member of the Clay Pigeon Club. He was third on the list in the 1923 championship and is a familiar figure on Nanking Road

Towards Langrey Point the sea has eaten into the land, under- mining a Martello tower, which

NOTICE.

LADIES SECTION.

CUP PRESENTED BY COL. HILL.

has had to be demolished. BigUALIFYING round to be play. where he daily superintends falls of the cliff have occurred'ated MONDAY, 25th February, Jones, Beachy Head and Birling Gap, 1924, 18 Holes Medal play under the traffic. Sub-Insp. familiarly known as Bill" and the coastguard, station at handicap over Relief Course, Fan- was in his youngar

days Birling Gap is doomed. The ling. First eigt to qualify and

a champion swimmer and took Lloyd's signal hut on Beachy play off by Match Play, In the nan years ago in the fambus swim Head now stands right on the Event of a tie for the last, place, from Garden Bridge to the Foints., brink of the cliff, while the large the lowest handicap player 10 He is vice-president of the Interna coastguard station on the highest qualify.

Full handicap allowed. tional Swimming Club and is point of the Head is only 100

R. D. MITCHELL, stationed at Hongkew, Sub-lasp. yards from the edge.

Hon Secretary. The local authorities are entire Ockwell is also well identified in

Hongkong. 16th February, 1924. sporting circles chiefly in the lawny at a loss to know how to get the tennis section. He is one of the beach to remain on the shore. tallest policemen in Shanghai and although the best marine engineers

The

been country have is attached to the Western District. ; in He is the only married man'in the consulted. trio.

Another sub-inspector also had

a windfall S.I. Jack Selvey was Mustapha Kemal Pasha has left one of the two people who received Angora for a rest cure, and is like- the record' Far Eastern dividendly to be absent for some time. of $5.730 which was returned on The question of appointing an Act- the pony Pennsylvapin, ridden by ing-President has, it is believed, Mr. Encarnacao on Champions, been left in the hands of the Day.

And they say a policeman's life is not a happy one!

BANK MYSTERY. $40,000 LOSS ADMITTED. SUBSTANTIAL REWARD OFFERED. Although the Police have been reticent over the loss of $40,000 by the compradore department of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, as first reported in the China Mall of the Monday before last, aroward of $1,000 and 25 per cent. of the sum recovered has now been offered for the arrest to have of a shroff alleged absconded.

It appears that he is accused of having paid out $40,000 in notes to

Assembly.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

RACE HOLIDAYS.

THE EXCHANGE BANKS will open

for the transaction of Public Business at 9.30 a.m. on WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, the 20th, 21st and 22nd instant, and close at 12 Noon,

Hongkong, 14th February, 1924

TO LET.

TO LET No, 2, Queen's Road Central, the premises at present occupied by the "Pharmacy." Apply

a confederate and that in doing so, 10 China & Japan Telephone &

he took a forged cheque trom the Electric Co., Ltd:

Current Accounts department to

the paying-out counter without having presented it for scrutiny and approval by the Bank officias. This is supposed to have been a blind bur the forged cheque is also missing.

As regards the sum of $3,000 stated to have been erroneously paid ont against a cheque for $300, proceedings were held at the Magistracy yesterday and remand- ed till Monday. Mr. M. K. Lo is Bank's prosecuring for the compradore (Mr. Ho Wing) and Mr. F. C. Jenkin barrister-at-law, instructed by Mr. F. G. Vaux will defend.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

motor

To-day's Government Gazette contains the new regulations re- lating to launches and boats prescribing the number of passengers that shall be carried, the lifebelts, the fire-extinguishers, the cargo, elc Certain vessels are Hlable to stability tests.

Mr. D. B. McKenzie Bone, of the Taikoo Dock and Engineering Co., has been given permission 10 use and publish in the Colony for a period of nine months an inven tion of Valve gear for direct acting pumpa" without prejudice to the Letters Patent to be granted for the invention.

This morning's police reports state that a Chinese girl, 11 years of age, was knocked down and killed by motor bus No. 948 in Hunghom yesterday. She is said to have been walking to Kowloon City and was struck, when near the, Leather Factory, by the bus which was proceeding in the same direction. The driver was detain ed at the time bat subsequently released.

From Canton comes the news that Hunan troops under Dr. Sun, baye refused to embark for the East River front even on the promise of $200,000 in cash. They are quoted as insisting that the provincial revenues be evenly divided before they will fight. This Is Interpreted as an effort to nibble at the revenues, now con- trolled by the Yunnan contingent

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS THE Undersigned bare received instructions to sell by Public Auction.

TUESDAY, February 19, 1924, coming'st 2.80p.m.

at their Bales Rooms, Duddell' Stroot,

1 Astronomical Telescope,

4. Mycro Telescopes. -

1: Field Glage.

4 Binoculars.

11 Ofinerer Anter Covers 310 x 90

1. Large Silver Centre Piece,

4 Silver bowin,

And

1. Cabinet Gramophone.

"I"Tab Tee" Anglo Chinese Dictionary (3 Volumes). T

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BRO8, t

Auctioneers.

TUESDAY, February 19, 1924,

comthencing at 11 am. at Godown No. 25 The Hongkong Kowloon Whar! & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon

(for account of the concerned) 235 Coils Galvanized Wira

(more or less damaged). Terma-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS, Auctionents.

Hongkong, 16th February, 1924

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