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self before a critical Opposition in RABIES FACTS. the House of Commons, although Brown

not exactly able to placate a still REVIEW OF THE POSITION mors hostile Freas throughout 'the country.»

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TO DATE.

IGNORANCE TOO PREVALENT

IN BANKRUPTCY.

NOTICES IN THE GOVERNMEN

“ GAZZETTEL AVIVA VIET

RECEIVING ORDERS.N

In Northern China the Kuomin- chun has received a severa set- buck in the civil war raging there The presence of Russian cavalry seems to have helped thern. little getting any worse as there huve ground floor. so far, although it may be pre-been no fresh developments of an mature to predict the ultimate alarming nature. On the other result in a warfare begotten of the hand, the situation cannot be said spirit of militarism and not of the to be better, as improvement can sentiment of real patriotism

only be recorded when there are no more suspected cases.

be correct to say that, the present the style or firm name of Luan On Strictly speaking, it would notness as building contractor under "Re-Pank Chik, carrying on busi

outbreak of rabies in Hongkong is Company of No. 4, Lam Fat Strest

A NEW REWARD,

Petition dated March

March 81, at 10.30 a.m., has been Receiving Order dated March 20 fxed for the first general meeting of creditors in the above matter, to be held at the Official Receiver's Office.S

Ro Lee Chak-man, residing and Kee firm, at No. 34, Gough Street. acarrying on business as Lee Leung

As far as is known three per- sons have died.

One was Chinese boy, 14 years of age, whose mother took no action been attacked by a strange dog. after he had told her that he had! As reported in the "China Mail tho boy was taken to hospital hydrophobia, when little could be when he was in the last stages of done for him.

March 3, at 11.30 mm, has been Petition duted March 13. Receiving, Order dated March 20 fixed for the first general meeting of creditora in the above matter, so. Office." be held at the Official Receiver'

The Freedom of the City of London is rightly regarded as a great honour. Those on whom that honour has been conferred, are to be numbered amongst the nation's great personalities,

Re The Wang Cheong Loong One lesson. to be em-ot No. 26, Wing: On Street. Other cities in Britain have a

phasised is that there: la Petition dated March 23. much similar honour at their disposal ant classes, especially in a place

of which the ignor Receiving Order dated March 24 March 20, at 10:30 am, has been Generally it is the greatest dis-ke Hongkong, should be inform-fixed for the first general meeting tinction any city can confer. The ed A Chinese man 40 years of of creditors in the above matter, lo suggestion is that Hongkong Several days afterward the Office..

age was bitten by his own dog.be held at the Oficial Receiver's might very well institute an order animal died in strange and suspi- of the Freedom of the Colony, to tious circumstances.. Even then, The Hing: Loon Birnt, of No. 3 be given in meritorious cases had violent convulsions, and it was cated bankrupt on March 20. and

the owner did nothing. When he Lyndhurst Terrace, was adjud Honours in this part of the world plain that he had contracted Mr Poor Yan-shan, managing" are severely limited. Legislative hydrophobia, he was taken to partner of the Hip Kas firm, of No. Councillors; as a rule, five long hospital. As was to be expected, 1. Bonham Strand East, was up. and remain so in an honourable

he succumbed office. Justices of the Peace are

Adjudication..

pointed trustee of the estate of the death of a 16-year-old Chinese

The third case concerned: the bankrupt.

The Kwong Luen Hing Arm, of

ture and the practical sympathy of His Excellency ought to prove la real stimulus to ambulance work in the Colony. Early in the week the appointment of a new Coloniali Sevrotary to succeed Sir Claud number, but like the box Altogether seven dogs have [No.. 37 Jervois Street, was died of rabies during the present adjudicated bankrupt on March outbreak. Six belonged, to the The island of Hongkong, and the compradore of lesers. John D.

other was from Fanling.

Hutchison and Company, of King's.. Building, was appointed trustee of the estate of the bankrupt Arm. → Dividends.

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DEATH.:

TAGGART-On March 26, 1926, at sea, Lilian M. Taggart, the wife of Mr. J. H. Taggart

A SATURDAY CAUSERIE,

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and Mr. Chan

Fel-yee,

wun to be selected being Mr.. W. T.

neither do they apin Senthorn, of the Ceylon Service. University a semi-Government The date of his probable arrival institution confers honorary

Immediate Action Urged. in the Colony has not been an-degrees. At this, the recital must symptoms of rabies there is very Re Lucas Leonardo de Silva,

When a dog actually shows nounced yet. Interest was at-stop. There is clearly need for a little hope for it: Accordingly, clerk, a second dividend of 32 per tached to the annual meeting of fresh distinction, to which all the importance of the Allee Memorial Hospital, irrespective of creed or class, their own and public interests the Official Receiver's Office, on owners-intent. has been declared payable at when a record of good work was would be eligible. And just as taking immediate action cannot Monday between 10 a.m. und 4 p.m. disclosed, and an appeal made for the University does not confine its As soon as it is known that a chee hours.

be emphasised too strongly.... and on any subsequent day during further funds, to which it is to honorary graduates o those dog has come in contact with a" be hoped there will be a teady re-within the "Colony, but honours suspected canine. it should be tor of "Daily Press Limited, a Re: Li Yuk-fong, linotype opera- sponse. The enterprise of the the worker in different fields of nedy Town. If it has rabies it been declared, payable, at the kept under observation.at Ken-. first dividend of 40 per cent, has. Directors and General Manager of endeavour, so the Colony would has to be destroyed... the Hongkong Tramways was not necessarily restrict its "Free-

Orce Receiver's Office on. Although the veterinary sur-Monday, between 10 am. and 4 pm

exemplified by the trial trip of a dom" to its own residents, algeons are given wide discretionary and on any subsequent day during new tramicar of modern design, though it is as a "home" honour Motoring also came into the lime-that we think of it giver not only Right at the annual meeting of the to members of the foreign com- Mongkong. Automobile Associa- tion, a body which is making condone something in social or public munity, but to others who have siderable headway and doing service to merit the thanks and much toward making motor traffic safer alike for the motorist and

esteem of the community. the mere pedestrian. Three

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$1,000,000 WILL,

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is given the utmost chance. powers in such matters, every dog office hours,

There was a private kennel at A meeting of the Soldiers' Shahin in which one of the dogs Christian Association is held

died, at the Kennedy Town con- was suspected and ultimately at the Union Church Hall was bitten by a strange wonk. It locally every Wednesday at 8 pm:

bound, of the disease.

After a fight at Exchange Bulld- Fdogs that it had come into contact ing (in Des Voeux Road Central, with were very valuable, They next to the Hongkong Hotel) now were kept in their own kennels at in course of construction, a Chinese first. Then, when it was estab was taken to hospital to have his lished that the other one had injuries attended to rabies, they were taken away and separated for six months. At the

It is notified by the Harbour end of the period all cause for Master that information has been doubt had been removed, and the received from the Military authori- animals were handed back to the ties that station practice aquidé not OLD LOCAL RESIDENT

owners.

take place from Stonecutters West Battery on March 16, or from It is only by the loyal co-opera-Devil's Peak Palshawan, or Probate of the will of the latation of the public that the authori-Lyeman West, Mr. Alexander Findlay Smith ties can hope to stamp out the practice, consisting of two full formerly of The Peak, Hong- disease. Even the ignorant would charge rounds per gun will there- Yesterday ation kong, who died at Home, on prefer to have daily injections fore be fired from these batteries granted to Mr. William E of days, rather than that fat 4 pm. The direction of fire will January 26 (aged 81) has been given to their dogs for a number on Tuesday, between 8.80 am and Shenton, solicitor of Hongkong consequences should ensue. (of Messrs Deacons).

be us already, notified

LATE MR. FINDLAY SMITH'S

ESTATE. "N

Hongkong. Saturday, March 27, 1926 Company meetings were held

the Hongkong Engineering and Construction Company, the Hong- kong Rope Company, and the Fire Insurance Association. The Brimful of interest and of fond first named concern showed con- expectations have been the local siderable losses Lon Government events of the past week. Premier contracts; the Rope Company re place must, of course," be given to vealed reduced profts and the the important intimation by His "passing of the dividend; and at Excellency the Governor in regard the Fire Insurance meeting strong to the willingness of the Canton criticism was levelled at the Fire Government to meet three officials Brigade, particularly in regard to from Hongkong to resume the the insufficient European per-perty in Hongkong to the value

This deceased resident left. pro negotiations in regard to ending acnel. It was announced to-day of $1,056,500. The will is dated the strike and the boycott The that the Rents Ordinance will be March 29, 1924 question may properly be regard-repealed on June 30. The sym- ed now as sub-judice, and there-pathy of all residents will be Vivian Findlay Smith, and his old He appointed his two sons, Mr. Egmont Findlay Smith and Mr. fore it might be imprudent or at extended to Mr. J. H. Taggart, of friend William Edward Shenton least impolitic to indulge in com-the Hongkong and Shanghai as trustees. ment for the present. This re- Hotels, Ltd., on the occasion of He enjoined that all his person- mark may also apply with equal the death of his wife on her way foree to the retrospect of the boy-tack to the Colony,

cott cuntained in the General

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articles, Ee given to W E all domestic and household

Shenton on trust, to share dis- Chamber of Commerce annual re-Nothing doing is becoming a

lcriminately between his two sons. He gave to his trustees the sum port and likewise to the dishackneyed phrase in regard to Im to pay an income to his sister, 'of $7,500 for investment, closures made during the week of perial questions. The fiscal bogey Mrs. Jennie Bell Smith, and on the brutal treatment meted out to wis raised in the House of Com- her death to be an income for her two Indian watchmen who were mons. by one worthy Conservative two daughters. A similar sum captured and held in chains in the member who desired the Gov to pay the income to his brother, (with similar instructions), was strikers prison. In the same ernment to commit itself to the Mr. Rose Smith, and on his death, category of discreet silence may policy of preference for British it should form a part of de- also be placed the coup effected by goods from the Colonial Posses ceased's residuary estate. General Chang Kai-shek, regard-sions. The Secretary of State for He bequeathed his real and per- ing which rumours have been as the Colonies was called upon to

sonal estate and effects to his two thick as leaves in Vallombrosa, give him womation that he

apns,

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In purely, domestic affairs the

might have procured for himself amy standard referencer book,

amual meeting of the Genel including the intelligence" that, Chamber of Commerce has been save for two articles, Hongkong the most important event of the is a free port week, particularly as His Excel

SUPREME COURT.

will be open daily from 10 am to The offices of the Supreme Court

1 p.m. during the Easter vacation, except on public and general Holl tirely closed. days, when the offices will be en-

The Easter Vacation begins on April 2 and torminates on April 9 (both days inclusive).

lercy created a new departure on Internationally Geneva has the part of local Governors by af-again filled the bill to the almost Lending and delivering an excel- utter exclusion of everything else, lent address. Earlier in the week an exception be made in regard His Excellency associated himself to the effort of Senator Borah to with the humanitarian work of revive the Americans claims for The Hongkong, Army chaplain the St. John Ambulance Corps allegedy violations of neutrale will be grateful for any garments when he invested Mr. Ho Kom- rights during war time before or articles suitable for a jumble tong with the lasignia of a Knight the United States decided to throw der Bundles can be left at of Grace of the Order of Saist in her lot with the Ales As 19cept Sunday, between 10a.m. and Scandle Point Hut any day ex- John and presented a number of galda Geneva Bir Austen Chem 11am saya current Command medals and shields. The investberlain was able to vindicate Orders.

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AMBULANCE INVESTITURE

Photo by Ying Ming

Photo by A. Fong,

Snapshots (aked at the Murray parade pun "afternoon when HE the Governor (Bar Cech Clusa In the centre, in levee uniform, of both photos paja Organisation of the St John Arabulance Brigade members were invested with decorations of the Order. Jerusalem, for their part in the rescue work after the Pa Fiat Forg

the Hongkong number of John of