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October 20-Third meeting of The China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.,`st Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, noon.

November 6.-Farther extra ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.8. Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Road Central, noon.

OTHER MEETINGS.-

NAPLES PEDLARS,

THEIR CUSTOMS QUOTED

IN COURT,

THRUST BY MR. RUSS,

SUN YAT

KEEN TO RETURN TO CANTON.

NORTHERN PLAN FAILS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.

CANTON, September 22.

CANTON.

ANOTHER STRIKE NOW THREATENS.

CHRISTMAS

(COMING.

FATHER TUCK "MAKES":

PREPARATIONS.

BETTER THAN EVER.

The arrival of a parcel of

Raphael Tuck and Son's Christmas

To revert to the Xmas cards, the designs are of every imaginable subject, yet are founded in thể main upon the familiar and popular aspect of Christmas, AY distinctive line in Christmas auto- greeting cards. There is also a sationery is the semi-privata

dered and delicately patterned wide choice in perfumed, embroi

cards and etchings.

Fária) "many people! *>>4le® Che, September20Lammert Brow perhaps excited by the care, at Saleh Room, cambrica and would take this to discredit the cottons 11 mingg

--September 24-Lammert Bros. whole concern. That, of course at Sales Room, Duddell Sreet, was no doubt very foolish and very varnish wires, fire pumps and mischievous, but the fact remains machines, etc., ete, 1 a.m.

represents a very September 24-Mt. Avenue,

A. G. common human failing. Moreover, Kowloon, household furniture,

An increase of 300 per cent, once certain impressions get including two Baby Grand Pianos, ie, from $42. per month to $130.

and New Year cards, Christmas abroad it is often a long time one Gramophone and records and was the rental sought by the

auto-stationery, calendare, gift. before they are finally removed one Drawing-room suite, 2.80 p.m.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen is reported as books, toy and painting books, September 28.--Mr. A. G. da owners for a part of No. 38 anxious to return to Canton. Those picture postcards. "Bon Appetit Consequently, looking to the

Rocha at No. 11, Hart Avenue, Pottinger Street, to be fixed as the from whom the report originates paperware, etc., reminds us that important part the Dairy Farm Kowloon, valuable tessehold standard rent in a case which state that he has not found things Christmas is at hand. plays in the life of the community, property, 3 p.m.

came before the acting Puisne to his liking, after attempting to the Government, we think, might

An examination of these artistic start the ball rolling for a Northern I well have given any áld within its October 8. Second meeting of Judge, Mr. Justice A. Dyer Ball, at Expedition. The only detachment productions cannot fall to lead power to put the public mind at Ltd., at Co. Ofics, Pedder

the China Sugar Refining Co., the Summary Court this morning.

which has responded to his callny, who are appreciative of true Mr. A. el Arcull appeared for to arms is the Honanese, the beauty in art even if it is only on rest. To retort, as the Colonial Street, noon.

the plaintiff owners, and Mr. tennants of "White Wolfsa card, to the conviction that if Secretary did, that an inquiry October 4.Twenty-eighth meet CA. S. Russ defended on behalf have antagonised the inhabitants use Raphael Tuck's Temples of Art bandit army, but these troops they were only in more general should not be held because any Farm, Ics and Cold Storage Co.,

ing of shareholders of the Dairy of Chung Mow-fung, the tenant.

of towns, they have passed on the exhibited at Wembley former imperfections would have Lid., at 2Tower Albert Rd., noon. Mr. U. Gonella, au architect, North Rivera ang m

might with advantage` be taken since been removed, was begging October 18. Extraordinary was called to give expert evidence. Although the question of the as symbolical of the Home. U As usual, the children are well the question, in the light of the General Meeting of Douglas S.8. In his opinion, the rental according merchants arme remains to be

Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office to value, should be $25 per month settled, Dr. Sun seems willing to catered for. It would be difficult to facts we have set forth above of the Company, 20, Des Voeux for the basement, $100 for the risk public opposition by returning conceive of any more suitable gift The Dairy Farm deserved better Road, Central, noon,...

ground floor, $60 for the first floor to the capital. His decision may for a child than such productions treatment than the Government

and $65 for the top storey, a total have been Influenced by the de- as the Mother Goose Nursery -parture of several of his Cantonese Rhymes, Little People's Annual, has conceded, and we repeat that

of $250 per month...

Cross-examined by Mr. Russ, adherents.

Father Tuck's Toy Books and having regard to all the circum

witness said that "be valued the

Father Tuck's Painting Books. stances, it has received less than

property at $36 per square foot. justice.

Asked how he arrived at the figure, Mr. Gonella explained that an adjoining owner had asked $38 | per-square foot for similar proper- September 21.-Public lecture ty and he thought $36 was the Whatever their ideas as to on Self-sacrifice" at the Hong-figure he would give a client when Ltd are few to whom the operas of Society, 16, Queen's Rd., 6.45 p.m.

"highbrow" music may be, there kong Lodge The Theosophical asked to make a valuation.

Lava From Vesuvius.

Another strike of Canto Gilbert and Sullivan do not make

September 26.--Annual general Mr-Russ replied by asking if merchants to arouse popular a-very-great-appeal-Therefore, meeting of members at V.R.C. Mr. Gonella had been to Naples opposition against Dr. Sun Yate the Philharmonic Society's ven- Club, 3.30 p.m.

and had seen there the pedlars who sen and his followers is contem

The Raphael House Library, ture "The Yeomen of the Guard,"

Xoffered pens made from lava from plated, as a result of their refusal once again, provides literature for the first practice for which took

Vesuvius. On Mr. Gonella nodd-to release the consignment of arms boys and girls of all ages. Charles place yesterday, should be 狂

ing, Mr. Russ said that they on August 11. Dr. Sun has been Kingaley, Washington Irving and successful one. If it is, we may

generally asked two lira aplece; keeping the merchants waiting for Lewis Carrol' are amongst its safely presume that it will be but

but if one replied fifty centimes the last 40 days by promises to famous authors, and the books are the first of a number of such.

Reports from Smyrna state that This, pointed out Mr. Russ, was an arrangement for their release by illustrated by leading artists,

the pedlars always said "Yes" return them, putting off every unrivalled in design, all being operas that the Philharmonic will give us. At the annual meeting, 20 persons were killed, 20 injured which preceded the first practice, and 25 are missing as the result of ample of a price asked, not new excuse or with a new Con the day. Mr. Collett, the Society's able con- a fire in a cinema. ductor, seemed a little apprehen- sive on this score. When asked by a-member if it would be possible to arrange another opera perform ance for March he replied that the present one arranged was largely in the nature of an experiment and said, in effect, that it would be time enough to consider arranging another if the first venture was well-received. He also remarked

Captain R. F. Mitchell of the- on the length of time which had to be devoted to the initial work s.5. "Klangsu" reports two deaths of preparations and practices. on the ship during its last trip from

to Hongkong Whilst recognising the need for Singapore caution, when a Society has made Amoy. Cause of death is not such a considerable outlay as the given. Philharmonic in the purchase or hire of the expensive dresses A sentence of two months' needed, the music lovers of Hong- hard labour was meted out to a kong-it is to be hoped-can be Chinese, 68 years of age, for steal- relied upon to furnish the necesing a parcel containing twenty sary financial support when the pieces of clothing from the Canton

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. ·

Silk forwarded from here by the s.s. "Empress of Asin" on August 28, arrived in New York on September 20. was 23 days.

Time in transit

name of any one of them.-

a

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

dition which the merchants are The annual, like its 26 predeces

being a true, reflection of actual value.

asked to fulfil. Notwithstanding sors, is a splendid production. One of the plaintiffs also went the faed $25 for

A building contractor, was into the box where he stated that merchants have fulfilled most of all lavishly illustrated in colour many disadvantages, the Stories, verses, songs and puzzles,

pleats of sand from another con- been offered $30,000 for the proto

stealing cight as recently as last month he had them, but their forbearance seems and black and white, fill the 144 trator at Kennedy Town yesterday.perty but had refused to sell. He softened the heart of Dr. San. has provided the charming cover, bave hardened, instead of wonder pages. Jennie Harbour

mentioned that many brokers had Dr. Sun is made similar offers to him but volunteer corps, but not in prise a collection of over 100 in favour of a The daily block calendars com-

that he could not remember the listen to his orders to mobilize for artists. They thus stand unrival when pressed by Mr. Russ, said favour of a corps which will not varieties, with pictures by great

political and not for purely settled, each containing a fund of defensive purposes.

useful Information, while a notice- The Kuomintang Government in able addition is Twit and Canton denies that. It has already Wisdom," which is sure to prove divided the arme among Wuwelcome. Techen, Chu Pelteh, Hsu Chung- From the review parcel to hand, chi, and other leaders of the Red it is evident that this famous Army, The Yunnanese mercenar House of Art has this year pro- les are now casting envious eyes duced a service which may truth- on the remaining arms, insisting fully be termed "better than ever." that they should have a share, it is stated.

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"Selfsacrifice" will be the subject of this week's Public Lecture of the Hongkong Lodge The Theosophical Society, 16, Queen's Road Central, on Wed nesday September 24, at 545 pm. All are welcome. Advt.

(Case proceeding.)

WHAT IS A WALL?

IS IT PART OF SITE OR HOUSE?

ARCHITECT'S DEFINITION.

General Hsu Chung-chi of the Red Army in Canton is con centrating in Canton for reasons

Much argument took place at the unannounced. It is feared that Summary Court this morning, as the Yunnanese, Hunanese, to whether a retaining wall is a Kwangsi-ites, and other mer- part of a house or a part of the site.cenaries will combine against this. Another of the many recent Red force One-of-the-detach- cases of possession of property ments of the Red Army in the came up before His Honour Mr. Szeyap districts bas disarmed a A. Dyer Ball (acting Puiene battalion of Kwangsi-ites, led by Judge) in which counsel were Major Li Hoy wen, and the briefed. Mr. Eldon Potter, KC. Kwangsi-ites are now demanding

Since Hawking "lost himself in the Atlantic flight a few years ago to be sensationally picked up by a small steamer there has always been an added thrill to attempts to maké fresh conquests of the air. As will be seen from our Knowledge, purchased at the cost advertisement columna, the Hong. appeared for the plaintiff, owner retribution. of many valuable lives and obtain-kong, Canton and Macao Steam- of No. 238, Queen's Road Central ed at great monetary expense, has boat Company, Lid.. have altered and Mr H S. Fitzroy for the brought aviation further ahead, the schedule of their steamers. defendants, the firm of Sang But with greater power at their The sailings of the s.5. "Sul An Hing Tai, merchants. disposal, aviators are looking for- for September 25 and 26 are ward to bigger things and the risk, cancelled. in ratio to the test set, is just as

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`HAWAIL

FILIPINOS KILLED IN

RIOTS...

MANILA KEEPS QUIET,

CRICKET.

INTERPORT GAMES NOW PRACTICALLY ASSURED.

TENTATIVE_DATEA.

Cricket enthusiasts will be pleased to learn this morning. Mr. S. Greenhill, honorary secre tary to the Hongkong Cricket Club, received a cable from Singa pare intimating that it was prac tically certain that an interport cricket team representing the Straits Settlements will leave for Hongkong on November 5 or 6.

It was felt that a team from Shanghai would not be held up by the war conditions in its neighbour. hood Prospects of triangular interport in Armistice Week and

Tentatively, the programme of interport matches would be follows:-

House Built On" A Rock. -- Mr. A, R. F. Raven, the architect, said that a retaining wall was part A Chinese coolie was brought of a site and not of a house. A re- great is say, when Bleriot crossed before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the taining wall would still have been the Channel more than a decade Central Magistracy this morning, in position even there was nо ago. There is little chance that on a charge of theft of two house. He had known cases where (From Our Own Correspondent.) the following week were bright. a Hongkong man will embark on a iron eye-bols from world fight or something even "Pearl Shell" lying at Taikoo wall. When property was sold the ss. a rock had served as a retaining more difficult. Still the day is not Dock yesterday.

He was sen- there was an express condition

Friday and Saturday, November

14 and 15-Shanghai Hongkong.

Monday and Tuesday, November

and 18.-Shanghai Straits Settlements, Wednesday and Thursday,

November 19 and 20-8traite"): Settlements v. Hongkong.

MANILA, September 22. so far distant when this outpost of tenced to four weeks' hard Jabour, that the buyer should build a fuses to interfere la the Hawaiian

Governor-General Wood Empire will be no more than a makeshift atop for passing 'planes

retaining wall to keep up the situation, where the coroner's A man alleged to have been hillside. and it would not be out of place to entrusted with a draft for £85. (the

verdict shows the Filipino strikers A point raised by Mr. Fitzroy were to blame. ask potential Alexanders of the residue of the estate of Yu Pak-yau was that the notice to quit. CORONER'S VERDICT. air, on the lookout for new worlds who died in Australia,) which he included the words "on or to conquer, to be a little more con- was to hand to the next of kin, Yu before," which he claimed was Liuhe, Hawaii, September 17.— siderate for the press and public Kung, was defendant in an action ambiguous. A definite term must The coroner's jury to-day ren- which is so keenly interested in yesterday for the payment of the be stated as the phrase could be dered its verdict in the their accomplishments. Instead money. The only witness called interpreted to mean that the lord of the policemen and Filipinos The first interport trial takes of leaving warning of departure to was the plaintiff, who said that lord could get in before the date killed in the riot at Hanape place on the Hongkong Club chance it would perhaps be wise defendant had several times pro indicated.

plantation last week.

**ground on Saturday, October 8. to keep all concerned well posted. mised to pay but had not done so. Mr. Potter cited a number of The verdict was that the death No league games will be played on Those who remember the sudden. The case was adjourned. ་ ་

cases in reply and His Lordship of the policemen was caused by the Club ground until after the reserved judgment.

gunshot wounds, the guns being interport fixtures.

point in the defensive armour" of the Dairy Farm, and against this had to be set the facts detailed in the prompt reply made by the Secretary of the Company. Fur thermore, as we pointed out at the

through of MacLaren's sprint The sea route to north Siberia;: time when warning the public across Indo-China and to Hong-discovered by the famous Captain against the inevitable tendency to kong will appreciate the patience Wiggins in the eighties has beer panic, the Dairy Farm is almost an of the few pressmen who kept a three British ships chartered by successfully re-opened. Of the Institution here, having long been daily look-out for him.

the Colony's principal, milk pur- veyor. Those two farts the lack

Horgmond, TUESDAY, HEPT. 98, 1924. of definite proof that the Dairy

DAIRY FARM LETTERS,

Farrh was responsible for any typhoid cases at all and the stand- ing the Company has in the com- munity-should surely have been enough for the Government to have granted the very reasonable

ness with which news came

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Case

in the hands of certain Filipino strikers, while the police were acting in performance of duty, we

SUPERSTITION.

The verdict in the cases of the Filipinos was that the deaths of WOMAN the 16 Filipinos were cauzed by gunshot wounds in the riot caused

the Leon Idkrassin, has arrived in MESSAGES HELD-UP OWING 15 an attack by the deceased

London from the Yenisei › river with a cargo of timber, after a record,voyage of forty-seven days for the round trip.

Rending the correspondence between the Government and the Dairy Farm regarding typhoid, the public will agree, we think request that an Inquiry; be held September 23. World. Theatre;nounced of Mr. Herbert Chambers, that the Company has received into the methods employed in less than Justice. Even if it had handling milk, so as to satisfy the

been conclusively proved that the Dairy Farm was responsible for the entire epidemic, the reg for an inquiry could not have been treated with

public that these leave nothing to

be desired: That the Government. is wrong in assuming

inga

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. A Fool's Paradiso." September 23-Coronet Theatre;

The forthcoming wedding, is an

| merchant of: No. 58 Parkes Road, The Night Message

September 23 -- Queen's Theatre; Tientsin, to Miss Eileen. ¡Tatter- The Price of Possession: Boyjny sell, of Roselea Didsbury, Man,

Septe Partners of the tide,” My Colony by the a.secžiantua? SERA

26. Promenade Maste teer Hes

Miss Auna Tedep daughter of the

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WHO ATE DAUGHTER'S FLESH.

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strikers and other Filipino strikers

PEKING, September 12, on the police. Bake for MAN

That the old days of superstition Harry O'Neal, captain of police have not entirely passed is Mr ME. F. Airey, Superin testified that between 150 and 200lustrated by a story, appearing tendent of the Eastern Extension Filipinos were drilling on Monday the local pressure t Australasia, and China Telegraph night, preceding the riot, armed "It seems that an old woman' Co, Ltd; issued the following this with clubs, guns, and knives, living near the Yung Ting He had moming, GA 31

The drill lasted unul 3 o'clock been troubled with a malady for Senders of telegrams are in the morning, he said. He which even the doctors could fined hereby informed that owing to testified it was led by Lorenzo no reinedy, In desparation, har foterruption of the Chinese Alcorcon.

My daughter returned home, and cut- landlines beyond Tientsin, G. F. Rankin, assistant manngerting a nieco of her flesh from her ordinary private, telegrams for of the Makaweli plantation, an left thigh put it in the med Mukden, Harbin and other eyewitness at the slot, instifled the us to the patronse of every one

* Manchuria,” except | police were returning with tw

whên itted by: Trac from Tientsin to strikers began pressing la glow

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