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NOTICES.
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NOTICE.
Salary will be £260 rising to £460 per annum by increments of £10
annually paid in dollars according to scale fold down in the Govern ment General Orders,
Free quarters and uniform will be previded. Applications to addressed to The Harbour Master. Hongkong 'enclosing references. 41 Hongkong. Sth July, 1926,
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AT THE QUEEN'S.
"THE PONY EXPRESS.""
THE CHINA MAIL.
AT THE STAR.
"COME ON OVER."
From to-day to Saturday in- clusive, "Come on Over" will be screened at the Star Theatre, Kowloon. This picture, which has the real Irish flavour, features Colleen Moore and it' is impossible. to imagine anybody of Irish descent not liking, it, while those not so intimately connected with the distressful country, as it used to be called, must be sadly de- ficient of a sense of humour, if they can pass it up without a smile.
THE
NOTICE.
THE SALE by auction of the Leasehold properties, ns shewn below, advertised to take place on THURSDAY, 15th day of July, 1926 has been postponed.
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A. & ARCULLI, Solletor for the Mortgagees. Hongkong. July 15, 1926,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
By Order of the Mortgagees VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES " "
situate at
Nos, 15 and 16 Mui Fong Street, Victoria, Hongkong,
on
to be sold by
THURSDAY, the 15th day of July, PUBLIC AUCTION
1928, at 3 o'clock p.m. A. G..da ROCHA, Auctioneer,
by
From to-day to Saturday, The Pony Express" will be shown at the Queen's Theatre.
As the title suggests, the plot TRITTEN Applications are contres about the pony express vited for the post of Beard-riders who maintained communi- cation between the East and ing Officer Harbour Department
Successful applicants will be re- West In the early days of 1860. quired to act as Master of "Kau The country was at that time Sing" In addition to his other undergoing n titanic political up- heaval due to the slavery issue, Applicants hould be of British and strenuous efforts were being nationality and must hold à Boardmade to swing California to the of Trade Certificate of Competency Southern cause. It was largely as Master. They should not be through the instrumentality of
In the story. Shane O'Mealla more than 35 years of age.
the Pony Express that the State (Ralph Graves) leaves his sweet- was saved to the Union cause.
heart, Moyna Killilea (Colleen With swift, bold genius Cruze has built up against for America, promising to send
strokes of Moore), in Ireland when he salls) a remarkable natural panorama of for her. Unable to hold a job for the uncivilised frontier as a set- long, he cannot scrape the money ting for the whole amazing pattogether and a friend brings Mr. betern of those memornule episodes Moyna over
which eventually culminated in Shane.
as a surprise for She arrives to hear Civil War. Combined with the Shane and an American girl talk- adventures of the pony expressing about going to see the priest riders, the portrayal of the crude life of the pioneers, the frontier banditry and savage. Indian at- tacks, there are an excellent love story and some rare comedy.
The acting honours are equally divided among Betty Compson, as
popular the
frontier belle, Ricardo Cortez, in the character of an intrepid pony express rider, Ernest Torrence, who combines religious zeal with blacksmithing, and Wallace Beery, giving an inimitable comedy performance The TRANSFER BOOKS of the as a lovable roustabout,
"The Pony Express' was adapt. Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 23rd July to WED. Jed by Walter Woods from the NESDAY, the 4th August both story which he wrote in col- "days" melusives, during which laboration with Henry James perind o transfer of shares en Forman, the well-known author!
and editor. be magistered.
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By Order of the Board of Directors.
H. A. RODGERS,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 14th July, 1926.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that 'an INTERIM DIVIDEND of £3 per share, subject to deduction of Eurome Tix. has been declared for the HẠLP YEAR ending 30th June, 1928, at rate of 2 278 per doltar,
The dividend will be payable on ́and after MONDAY the 9th August. 1926, at the Offices of the Corpora- top, where Shareholders are quested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of 'the Corporation will be CLOSED. from MONDAY the 26th July to SATURDAY, the 7th August, 1926, both days inclusive) daring which period no transfer of shares can be registered:
SHANGHAI M. POLICE.
MR. E. C. BAKER GAZETTED. AS SECOND ASSISTANT,
A new Shanghai Municipal Police appointment is gazetted. Mr. E. (. Baker having been appointed 2nd Assistant Commissioner, "connected with the foreign brakel, This brings the commissioned ranks up to full strength, each branch now having the requisite number of officers, with an allowance for one away on lonve.
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Apart from the more definite requalifications that have secured him the appointment, Mr. Baker has are excessive enthusiasm for the work and states "thal, although a mercial life has not treated him, altogether unkindly, nevertheless his ambition always has been to get into military or other associated work and he regards his present commission as the fulfilment of his aims. Hitherto he has been an in- SUPANCC man and he came to Shang- bai in 1918, for the Northern As- surance C He was on the com- mittee of the Shanghai Fire a 'sgrance Co., of which, in 1925," he
was Vice-Chairman.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A.-H. BARLOW,
Chief Manager. Hongkong. 13th July, 1926.
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
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In 1909, when in London, "Mr. Baker joined, the London « Rifle, Brigade, one of the most famous of THE THIRD ORDINARY AN- the old Volunteer organisations and NUAL MEETING of Share-certainly no less a proud unit of the holders in the Company will be helil | Territorial Forge. Still with, them at the Oee of the Company. 35 when the way brike, 31 Baker
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and believes they are planning marriage. Then complications arise. All ends well however, when it is at lust discovered by Moyna, that it was merely an effort on Shane's part to get the girl's father to sign the pledge.
at No. 2 D'Aguilar Street,
The Properties consist of:-
ground situate at Victoria In the Colony of Hongkong and register- ed in the Land Office as Section
All Those pieces or parcels of
of Inland Lot No. 1947 and Section
of Inland Lot No. 1252 respec-
tively together with all messuagas and buildings thereon known as
There is rollicking fun through- Nos. 16 and 16 Mul Fong Street, out and Colleen Moore, perhaps victoria aforesaid. The property shines more naturally in this pic-nown as Section L of land Lot ture than in any other of her No. 1247 has an area of 1995, square hoydenish flapper roles. At the feet or thereabouts and is held from same time, the film is not devoid the Crown for the residue of the of touching episodes and provides term of 999 years from the 4th day* a thoroughly enjoyable two hours of August, 1856, and the proper- entertainment which should not
tion of the Crown Rent payable" be missed.
therefor is 316.36' për urinuto; and -property-known-4 Section---of Inland Lot No. 1262 has an ares of 770.04 square feet or thereabouts and is held from the Crown for the Beside of the term of 999 years. from the 4th day of August, 1865, anf the proportion of the Crown Rent payable therefor is $6.56 per
This bag made of a million steek bends was purchased in Paris.
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INTERMENT AT THE SHANGHAI
JESUIT CEMETERY.
annum.
For further particulars and con- ditions apply to:-
Mr. A. el ARCULLI,
17 Queen's Road Central, Solicitor for the Mortgages
or
Mr. A. G. da ROCHA,
D'Aguilar Street.
Auctioncer.
Hongkong, 6th July, 1926.
HONGKONG DISCOVERED.
A REGULAR LITTLE RABELAI-
: SIAN COLONY.
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OUR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This v1.088-word puzzle has been made by an expert. -. but our reallers are warned' to;look out for occasional phonetio spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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(The solution of the above ercas-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue.along with'o new cross-word puzzle.).
LAMMERT BROS.
A JOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORE...
Public Auctions
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THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction
The "N. C. Daily News" of July 9. published á
and com- ment under the caption "Hongkong Discovered."
Hongkong has been "discovered" by the literary world. If things go on like this we in Shanghai shall begin to get jealous. First came Somerset Maugham's repulsive at effort "The Painted Vell," then "The Uncharted Sen" by an author whom. for the moment, we forget, and now we have "The Dew on the Leaf," by Mary Leinster. Allthree novels, following close on each other's heels, deal with the people of Hongkong and their supposed mode of fc. Really, we are surprised. If we are to judge the southern colony from what the novelists any
Des Voeux Rond Central on TUES- went to Frange in 1914 and served THE LATE FATHER KENNELLY. about it. we have a regular little DAY, the 20th of July, 1926,,,at 12 continously at the front until 1917, Noon for the purpose of receiving receiving a commission in 1916, The Ia statement of Account and the Re-next year he got a vory`, bady) port of the Directors for the year "blighty" and when he recovered he ended 30th April, 1926.
was sent to the Instructional Staff of the Aldershot. Command School of Musketry and subsequently joined the Staff of the Western Command School of With the military spirit still strong in him, one of his first acts after arriving in Shanghai was to join the Machine Gun Company of the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 10th of July, 1926 in TUESDAY, the 20th of July, 1926, both days inclusive.
Ey Order of the Board of
. Directors,
A. H. ROWE, Managing Director.
Hongkong, 9th July, 1926.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
THE
THE BANQUE DE L'INDO
CHINE beg to inform ali The following unclaimed tele-interested in safe deposit, that they grams are lying at the office of The have actually in their new build- Great Northern Telegraph Company Ing. 5, Queen's Road..safe deposit (Limited):-
boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the small size and $12 for the large aizo.
Licorne, from Paris
Dalton, Kowloon, from Amoy Kobayashi Yoneko, from Tsuyama Point, from Saintchef.
8. BLACK, Acting Superintendent. Hoogtorg Station. 1 th July «4926,
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.
List of Unclaimed Telegrams lying in E. E. Telegraph Office -Hongkong.
Aw. by, tram Prt'and, Oragon. Bradaell, Pol.ce. Kowloon, from +tain: s
KA. Boughtra, Hongking Bot 1, frond hangbai
E. J. PATERSON,
Superintendent. Hangking, b July, 1928
Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, 21st April, 1926.
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Musketry.
S. V. C., in which he later · was commissioned (1922) and in the absence of Capt, Bond, he had com- mand of the unit during the hectic times of last summer. He is almost as proud of the Machine Gun Com pany is of his beloved L. R. B., and regards them as having reached the pitch of keenness and enthusiasm, not to mention efficiency.
Rabelaisian community living al- most next door to us, and we never even knew it. Indeed, our imprès- alons of Hongkong in the past have 'been quite different. We have al- Shanghai, July 9.-The funeral took place at the pesuit Cemetery
ways pictured our neighbours' as pice, quiet and respectable English- of the late Pather Kennelly, who, it folks typical of England's "Subur will be recalled died several weeks ago. The Father Superior, Father the vices of "Suburbia." Certainly bia," having all the virtues and all Beauce said the High Requiem Mass in the cemetery chapel the
we never suspected them of this various other brethren assisting.compared with which the unkind amort-Continental-naughtiness. The service simple and severe, was selemn, indeed, and all attached to look quite mild: Can it be that in things often said about Shanghai the Siteawei Mission, who could comparison with Hongkong we are leave the premises. were in atten- the really and truly respectable dance. There were also visiting community of the East? Butl fathers from every district of the there, even if the novelists neglect mission, including Scochow, Lan- chow, Shinnua and Nanking. A
us the newspapers do not, and when large representation of Canadian Hongkongite na painted by the the worst comes to the worst, the
clergy were also present.
novelist in Infinitely preferable to the Shanghai denizen as painted by the Homekida newspapera and
An Enthusiastic Sportsman. In the chapel, assisting Father Mr. Baker also has earned fame Beauce, were several subordinates, in Shanghai as a cricketer. Though while those present, garbed in long not of herculean proportions, he is rebes, and carrying lighted candles, a mighty hitter and has a very sure chanted antiphonal refrains. The pair of hands and the latter posses-service in the chapel completed, the sion, added to the fact that he procession marched to the grave- invariably runs even for obviously side, where the usual Catholic cere. impossible balls, make him a very mony was held. valuable man in the long feld He will be a distinct acquisition to the rejuvenated Police team. He has interests in other sports, but says he always has found Volunteering to occupy most of his spare time in winter. Actually it was hle cricket which sent him into the Machine Gun Company. He was asked one day In the Cricket Club pavilion, in an emergency, If-he-would play for the M. G. C. team and consented and then, so that no rule should be broken, an S. V. C. form was handed to him and he signed on.
"It is easy enough to find men who know things; the difficulty is to find men who can do things." Austin Hopkinson.
magazines, who cull their know- edge" from passing tourists and "penny-a-liners."..
H.K. HOTEL RESIDENTS.
July 14.
Mr H. H. Priestley J.Mr H. PexemaA
Mr H. J. Piaron Mr M. A. Beasa Mr E. C. Sandstrom Mr F. Sharp Mr. B. R. Templeton Mr O. Wragge
On Wednesday, by happy chance, a telegram was received at the Mission, from a nephew of the late- Father Kennelly, which stated that Mr O. P. Anderson Hr H.A. Kellor the sender, who is a father in B. Bjuro ..Prof, M. Langmor Azzurica, was coming to China as a Mr and Mrs Brave Miss H. Lillie missionary. Needless to say, those Consal Dama stationed here, were rejoiced that a
Mr and Mrs F.
Gallion relative should come to carry on the W. Git son work of the deceased. It will be Mr. Gourlie impossible for the moment to do r A. Llicka*** the translation, which had been
Mr M. izbot Mr W. Kruger done by Father Kennelly, who untii the day before his death; was en- gaged in translating the 10th of 14 valumes of Chinese superstitions..
Buried beside the late clergyman, are representatives of nearly every nation, the date of the first burial, that of Father Brancati, being 1671.
"The great need in America to day, above all others, is an in- dividual, moral, and spiritual re eponsibility. The great need to- morrow will be the same."--Will H. Haya..
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ON FRIDAY the 16th July, 1926, commencing at 11 a.m. their Sales Room, Duddell Street. 60 Doz. Brunswick Records 4 Brunswick Gramophones
2 Cases Tennis Balls
14 Cases Glass Tumblers 18 Electric Heaters 32 Electric Irons..
7 Automatic Fuse Plugs
8 Hotpoint Immersion Heaters
26 Heating Elements
3 Curling Irons
i Case Electric Immersion
Heaters
8 Canvas Camp Pads "
etc., etc.,
AND
etc.
A Quantity of ARTIFICIAL FANCY SILKS
and LADY'S FROCKS.. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 13th July, 1928.
TANG YUK, DENTIST.
Successor to the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street,
TERMS VERY MODERATE
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-1000 877
Maloland.
Taimoshen Kowloon Peak
Bowen Rd (alterbeds) 297
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