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SOCIETY?
BRIEF HISTORY TO COM- MEMORATE CENTENARY.
Ana ing tribute to the bundred years' existence of the Netherlands Trading Society. a.
PHONE 1500
THE MUI TSAI
CRIMINALS VISITED.
THEIR MEASUREMENTS
TAKEN..
THE CHINA MAIL.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGA-
TIONS.
Criminals at the Victoria Ghol have been the subjects of some rather interesting investigations during the past few days. They' have been intensely amused and yet mystified at the examination they have undergone at the hands of a learned gentleman who has seemed very anxious to obtain their exact
'measurements.
HOME TURF.
ROYAL HUNT CUP RESULT.
WIN FOR DINKIE,
LONDON, June 18. The Royal Hunt Cup resulted as follows:-'
Dinkie..........
Weather Vane......... ཌུ Twelve. Pointer... 3 Twenty ran.. Dinkie won by a neck. Weather came in one and half lengths before Twelve Pointer.
WEATHER REPORT.
June 19d. 11h. 3201.-Pressure has decreased slightly over Indo- China N. Luzon, and S. Formosa ; | it has increased slightly to moder- ately elsewhere. An area of re- latively high pressure extends from N. China to the Ladrone Islands and the depression remains over 5.W, China, Pressure is relative- ly low over the northern part of the China 'Sea.
N.B. The following was received by radio at 11h, sm. Six a.m. nineteenth low pressure area near western coast" northern Luzon second signal Manila Observatory."
Hongkong mintail for the #4 hours euding at 10 a.. to-day, 0'51 Ina. Total since January 1st. 38.04 inches, proust an average of 33.10 inches,
The betting was as follows: pinkie só-1, Weather Vane 100-6: and Twelve Pointer 5-1. These investigations are being The place betting was 7-4, Twelve made by a visitor to the colony-Pointer and the others in Dr. S. M. Shirokogoroff; of Shang portion.
hai, who is a well known anthro
CASE.pologist and ethnologist. He has
WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT:
I
taken measurements in Northern
Forocast for the 24 hours ending b nove on June 2), (894.
1-Formosa Channel, mmlerate; cloudy, showerg,
-cum comes i
8. winds.
China, Mongolia and Shanghai HOW THE WIND BLOWS. Howong and L. & winds,
bean
these
the
with a view to forming some idea! of the past and present distribution of the human species in Asia and More evidence was heard by Mr. Fafter a short stay in Hongkong hei
Hamilton at the Kowloon is leaving for Canton where he Magistracy yesterday in the case will be able to measure a number in which a Chinese wonne is of Cantonese and Hakkas, charged withassaniting two Dr. Shirokogorof has
It had been stater enabled to undertake "mui teat"
owing to previously that when the girls, investigations wer four at plaintiff's house result of a public appeal specially compile volume Wits they were in a pitiful state and which was made by the China pronuced by the Society fr murkampeared to have been scalded and Society of Science and Arts who hope to "raise, a much larger sum the centenary of its foundari, assaulted.
for it will be necessary for visits. "The book which reaches the (hints
to be paid to Szechuan, Shensi the
and Kansu before the work of Mail office, was written a!
investigation can be completed. express desire of the mutagenet and under the title of "A brief
Inspector Blackman described the the state of the girls' clothes and appearance when they were taken to the Police Station.
The girls themselves did not His history of the Netherlands Trad-give evidence yesterday. ing Society" gives an putline of Worship remarking that they the remarkable growth and were too small and, would not development of this reputaldenderstand the oath. Dutch comimrrvial institution.
M. N. L. Brewer for the from its birth and sponsoring indefence submitted that the prose- 1824 by King William 1. duits cution had given no dirvet evid- present flourishing, commuliting Itereo against defendant as to the is fascinating history, and the assicult. Look is made ail the more interest ing by its excellent reproduction and its many illustrations, one of the outstanding features in this connection being a photographic Teproduction of the first page of the subscription list to the capital of the Society.
BRIBERY CHARGE,
CONSTABLE FOUND NOT GUILTY.
The Weihaiwei constable charged at the Criminal Sessions yesterday with accepting bribes for not reporting gambling on the occasion of the annual festival at a remote Hakka village in the New Territories was discharged later in the day.
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The doctor had said that the wound on one girl's head' might have been inflicted by a the instriinient and when cross examined he said that the piece of wood (produced in court) might have fallen on her head. A visit
Defendant's somewhat startling to the house had shown that the defence was that the charge had miere of wood, which was an up-been trumped up by a Chinese To trace the progress of the right post of a staircase,, could detective. who wanted to get Society from its inception, in 1824 easily have fallen from its place rid of him. He (defendan) through hundred years to 1921 sand struck anyone sitting on the had gone over to the island because to follow in the jstgres of this book steps below, as it was not very he had never seen a Cantonese the whole history of Holland's fem and a child playing on the theatre before and he heard there King Willamstairs might have knocked it out. was going to be one. He found overseas trade resolved to create a large concern PAs to the wounds of the other gambling going on aud commenced; for overseas Trade in view of the girl the doctor said that they to whip the people. A Chinese virtual monopolies held by the might have been caused by her shouted to the people that the West and East India Companies sitting in a basin of boiling water. Chinese detective (not defendant) and the incorporation of the Mr. Hamilton explained that had given them permission to Netherlamis Trading Society under the Ordinance he could find Karable on condition that he was (Nederlandsche Handel-Maats- defendant guilty of negligence, paid $10 a table. "chappij) was anuanced by the atthough there was no direct proof publication of the Royal Decree on of assault March 29 1824. The public showed great interest and she scribed towards the capital to the extent of nearly 1.79,000,000 ayhile the King himself had sub- scribed F4.000.000. The Society was charged with the task of restoring the former commercial/ bonds, which had been broken with foreign countries such as the Levant, the Wed Coast of Africa:
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Mr. Brewer replied that she was prepared to defend a charge of negligence ever at that stage. The case was again adjourned.
STAR THEATRE.
EXCITING-COWBOY PICTURE.
moderate; cloudy, showery.
3 Houe kocke
Rock. B wide, moderate; cloudy, showery,
4.-Soub
DAY BRA "Hongkong and Hainen. S, windr.
LONDON, June 18. Reuter's lobbyist states that the division on the first preference re-moderate; couly, showery. solution will probably be decisive. If it is defeated, which is anticipat- cd, the opposition will not trouble to divide on the remaining resolu- tions, but if it is carried they will divide on the others, at least till defeated on one of them.-Reuter.
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
LONDON, June 18: At a meeting of the Russo- Caucasian Company formed last. year to carry on trading with Russia, the Chairman announced that the Soviets without warning ordered the liquidation of the Com- pany's affairs within a month. Reuter
FOOTBALL.
ROYAL OBSERVA
докадата.
A
DAILY WHATHIR REPORT,
diation.
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JUNE 19, 1924.---..
*Wind
Hour.
Vemuroba.
Harometer
Sea Laval.
Temperatura
Humidity.
Directjon.
བ-་་ ྃ 28.75- *20.78.
'divostook 8 a, 29.16 63, Rakodate ... Priklo swor Cochi Nagasaki...
29.09
29.88.
Regoabime. Jabins
ap.8"
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19,76 -
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Vaha....... al
29.74
11
and 29.82 - Cheloo 88, 29.89 6764.
Cobang! Bankow .... Thangas.. Kick-off, bangbal...
A grand charity' football match East Surrey Re Rest of Garrison, will be played on the garrison ground at Sookumpoo on
21. Junc Saturday 5.30 p.n. (Proceeds to be devoted to the widow and child of the late . M. Sgt. Griggs, Royal Army Ordnance Corps).
By kind permission of Lieut. Colonel F. S. Montague-Bates, C.B., C.M.G., .D.S.O., the Band of the East Surrey Regiment will be in attendance.
29.85 16 29.80 $7
telaff... sharp Pk. 76.32.16 2 Amoy 9.29.57.1006 3
$-
8 29.73 75 20.78 76 23.73 77 99.74 77 99.72
3rstar! Tathoku... Tafcha Talaan Cosbon .............. Pescadores. Canton Hongkong Tickets may be had from the
Gap Rook. Hon. Secretary, Garrison Re-co creation Club (Sgt. F. Bailey, Wohow... 8.
c/o SM.O, Head- Pakbol R.A.M.C) quarters, Victoria Barracks, or any Holbow.
Phullen member of the R. A. O. Corps.
This detective, said defendant, | Be before he went had offered him 50
cents if he would.not go over to the island. In support of this defendant called two policemen who said that this other detective had also offered them 50 cents not to go over to the island and pre-] vent the gambling.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after a short deliberation.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
OFFICIAL NOTICE
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.
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Hongkong Observatory, June 18, 1974,') 1. BAROMATE, reduced to 81 degrer, inches, tenths and hundredths.
That daring, lovable cowboy, THE LATE MR, P. SHAW, GOON TOCK of 80 Stone Nullah, Fahrenheit, on the level of the sen ly -
A LARGELY ATTENDED
FUNERAL.
There were many mourners and of the late personal friends Mr. P. Shaw at the funeral at Happy Valley cemetery yesterday tonnage afternoon, the service at which was conducted by the Rev. J. H.
Kowicon.
3rd Floor, Wanchai, Hongkong; British India, China and the Enst William S. Hart comes to the Star
hereby give notice that in conse Indian Archipelago. The Society
quence of change of Ownership was thus entrusted with the task,Theatre this evening in the best
for British Registration, I have a no mean one, of spreading Dutch Picture of his career. It is called
applied to the Boardrade, under trade throughout, the entire world.The Toll Gate" and deals with
Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping To-day-one has only to glance at the rugged days of the olden West.
Act, 1894. in respect of the Steam The world's trade to calette the Mr. Hart appears-as-Black-Desi
launch "3 UEN CHOW" ét. Canton, sucress the Society achieved oring, head of a bandit gang hut. a good fellow at heart. When the
of gross tonnage 54.44 tona, register 31.84 tons, beretofore SLB mission.
The Dutch East Indies occupy a pieture opens he is anxious to prominent veiu if the history, and bandon his lawless iife. but
owned by Tsui Chou Sking of Sai Jordan, his chief lieutenant, urges
Nam, Chung Kai. Canton, Kwang throughout the book, Java is go him to one more hold-up. Swayed Johnston of the Union Church, tung Province, China, for the per mission to charge her name to sistently mentimui; for it is upon
Representatives were present "GE MBROOK" sad to have her Java, that the Dutch Far Eastern by the wishes of his gange he con-i trade revolves. Even as far back sets, and plans are made to rob of all branches of the Fublic registered in the new name at the 28 1858, a branch office of the mail train. The hold-up proves Works Department in which Mr. Port of Hongkeng e owned by Society had been stablished at to be a trap organized by Jordan. Shaw had done, much useful Goon Tuck of Hongkong.
and Deering.is captured. How work; the Union Church; the Singapore siber 1858.
he manages to make a Kowloon and Taikoo Docks, and Coming penrer home, the lever, Society was induced to establish perilous rape from the moving the Rowicon Bowling Club.
The Director of Public Works, its own uilice at Shanghai in 1903 Ledo, and with the sheriff's and three years later also at Hong-Posse hot on his trail, finally Hon, Mr. H.T. Creasy, was present, In a deserted A. H. Hollingsworth and amongst kong owing to the fact that the teaches safety after many thrill also the Assistant Director, Bir Society could not compete with ing adventures. banks that possessed their own clearing he comes upon the cabin many others were Mr. J. H. and Mrs. branches at various places while of Mary Brown and learns that Kynoch; Mr. A. E. Wright, Mr. Brooksbank, Mr. B. Wylie, Mr. their own business connections she is the deserted wife of the Wattie, Mr. J. M. Smythe, Mr.
who betrayed him. C. S. Coom, Mr. H. B. Green. were being maintained, through n
Influenced by her noble character,
The wreaths were numerous correspondents.
From the financial statistics, Deering surrenders to the sheriff. and beautiful."
This does not mean that his which perhaps convey to the reader more eloquently than does adventures are over," for a section biography the growth of the of the sheriff's posse falls into Society, it is shown that the the hands of Mexican outlaws and
markable work and a monument to an institution which carries # ume and reputation which has survived a hundred years.
tion.
6+
NOBODY'S KID."
Mawwwww
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong, within seven days from the appear ance of this advertisement.
Dated at Hongkong this 19th day of June, 1924.
Signed) GOON. TOCK.
DURING
NOTICE.
NG my abrence in Canada, Mr. P. A. COX is appointed, from date, Acting Oriental Manager, Hongkong, in charge of the Com pany's Affairs in the Orient.
ALLAN CAMERON,
Oriental Manager. Hongkong, 17th June, 1924.
J
PUBLIC AUCTION
Undersigned have received instructions to well by Public
nominal capital of the Society in there is yet another exciting."Nobody's Kid," which ends its 1824 was 37,000,000. In 1921 incident in which Deering kills this had been increased to his old enemy Jordan, The end successful run at the Queen's story with a unique ending. Mae 7.150,000,000. The average divi- of the picture is as appealing as it Theatre to-night, is a wholesome dend for the century passed is unexpected. Anna Q.-Nilsson Marsh is the star and she portrays invests, the part of Mary Brown a quaint orphan girl with a heart through has been 7.79 per cent.
The book, published in the form with great charm, while Bill of gold and whose love brought of a presentation copy, is a re/Hart's famous Pinto pony comes sunshine and comfort to others, in for a good share of the atten- She radiates happiness in the first part of the picture and puts in a genuine appeal towards the end Auation. Tokyo, June 18-A compro by rising to the occasion with nise by both sides has resulted in some excellent acting. The plat itself provides good entertainment. reaching a satisfactory basis for a formal agreement on the Russo- According to <fficial pro Japanese questions, it approved by gramme, M. Merlin Governor the Cabinet, according to remarks: General" of Indo-China, accom-credited in a Press Interview, to panied by Madame Merlin and Mr. Miyagawa an interpreter party, were to have left for Cantor attached to, the Peking Legation. 1 day by the French gunboat It is stated that this compromise lis Craonne. Macao la to be seen been affected on such questions as Saturday and our distinguished the withdrawal of troops and the visitors will return to Hongkong recognition of the Nikolalevsk on Sunday in time to sail by the responsibility. Courtesy Daily
Chantilly" for Indo-China.
Bulletin.
Ithe 6542
ROXOR
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2. TEMPERATORE, In the shade In de grees Fahrenbelt.
* HOMIDITY, in percentage of satur on the humidity of air saturated th moisture being 100.
4.
DIRECTION OF WIND, zo. two point B. FORCE OF WISD, according Beadford Sesle
6. STATE OF Wrazne, b blusky.
FOR detached cloud, à drkling rain, g gloomy, h hall, I lahtning, o overrant P pasalog showers, q'equali, riado, « snov
thunder visibilty w dew, wet. % RATS in fashes tenths and hue-
derdha,
HONGXONE REGISTER.
Prior day
AL
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in dots at
p.mx
10-60
29.67
19,66
Barometer ---
70
RO
80
Temperature Humidity Direction of Wind...... ForceOLİ Weather
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87
80
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3
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0,60
0.00
opt 0.00
Right open als Temperkines on the 19th- Lewart open air Temperature on the 19th-79 T. P. GLAXTON, Director. Hongkong, Observatory June 19, 1974.
HONGKONG TIME SIGNALS,
The Timo Ball on Kowloon Signal Bill } is dropped daily at 10 'am, and 4 p.m., axcept on Saturdays when it is dropped at 10 a.m. and i pm, and on Sundays sad Holidays when it is dropped at
1.0.
The Ball is hoisted half maat at 5th minute and full mant at the 67t faute. Should the ball fail to drop si thè corroot time it will be lowered att minutes peet the hour and the ordinary. routine repeated at the following hour li. nonsible.
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