MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926.
Phone C. 22.
FOR
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING
NOTICES.
HONGKONG AMUSEMENTS, LTD.
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE FIFTH ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held in the Queen's Theatre, Queen's Road Con- tral, om TUESDAY 10th AUGUST
NOON, for the purposes 1920. At Twenty-five words three Inlewing, aunely-
Every sertions prepaid $1.
tariat consider the annual statement of Accounts and the additional word four cents for
Report of the Directors for the three insertions.
years ended ist Maceh, 1928, « th) To elect Directors in the placs of those retiring by rotation and an Auditor.
T
TO LET.
LET."The Towers" Broad- Wood Royd, 8 Bits, Tennis Court, Stables. Apply to Perry Smith, Seth & Fleming.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TOUR visiting cards neaty and YOUR Mall Office, No. 5, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
By Order of the Mortgageen. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES Aituate at
Nos. 155 & 157 Queen's Road West,"
Victoria, Hongkong.
to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION
об
TUESDAY, the 3rd day of August, 1926, ut 3 o'clock p.m.
Mr. A.
by...
da ROCHA, Auctioneer; at his Sales Room, No. 24. D'Aguilar Street.
The Properties consist of:
All these pieces or parcels of grund situale lying and being at Victorie in the Colony of Hongkong and respectively Pegistered in the Land Office s Subsections and F1 of Section A of Marin Lut No. 57 rogaining respectively the areas af square feet and 4441R square feet or thereabouts together with ah aneksuakes, erections and "buildings thereon respectively known as Nos. 155 and 157 Queen's Road West, Victoria, aforesaid and All rights of ways if any The properties are held from the Crown for the residue of the terms of 924 years computed from the expiry
of the term of 75 years hereafter
ເ
16 To sanctions the declaration of a
dividerd. (d) To transact any other orinary
business, of the Compapy. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th day of August to the 10th day of August both days inclusive,
Dated the 51st day of July, 1920, By Order of the Board.
CHAS. S. ROSSELET,
ני
Secretary,
HONGKONG AMUSEMENTS, LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY "GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the above antred Company will be held in the Queen's Theatre, Queen's Road Central on the 10th day of August, 1926, at 12.15 'elork, in afternoon, for the purpose of consider ing and, if thought it. passing as an Extraordinary tion follow Resolution, the Resolu-
the
THE CHINA MAIL.
CALL OF THE WILD.deed, is the time for the naturals
THE ART OF THE SHORE- SHOOTER.
NERVE AND ENDURANCE.
ist sportsman to be on the, spati to watch the marvellous exhibt tion of bird Hfe as the birds pass !continuously in their hundreds or their thousands. Then quite rare. birds inland may be seen in big i companies.
21
good
41
A FINE TATTOO.
PAST AND PRESENT AT ALDERSHOT.
How comes it. Maecenas, that' no soldier, whatever the aim
Larg attempting shore- which he served, or how many the At this time of the year the shooting unless one has plenty of years he endured the pulverulenta really keen sportsman, prompted nerve and unlimited powers of of horrid war, can witness without by the call of the wild. takes his encurance. There is always the little spinal thriile guns galloping ticket for the favourite bit of prospect of exposure to all kindste music by mazy, convolutions 7 const where, from past experi; [of weather-wind, gales, rain, It is difficult to hazard a ̈ reply. ence, he knows he in get the deg-und one must put up with all and, could one be given, the key
These manner of shore-shooting.
inconveniences or to the attraction of pageantry est windy days, with gales at inter-even hardships. It is often very would be supplied. Te-day when vals, indeed, tell him it is time to cold, and the clothing one wears everyone either is a soldier, or has!
and been, or will be on, or is of a pack his kit and spend a week or must be of the warmest
family including a soldier, or ot so on the coast whilst the wea-waterpoof. Sea-boots! ther is propitious: for now not Burberry or tarpaulin coat, and any rate has lived through an "ern only dunlin. stürt. knot. plover, cup or sou'-wester, are invaluable or very real soldiiring indeed, the, For weapon, the miltary spectnele at Aldershot ap-“ land, of course, wild-fowl. are and necessary,
plentiful, but they are much more | 12-bore cunnot be beaten. Size pals with its accustomed force. easy to approach than when it is of shot No. 4, for many bids Judging-from-full-dress calm. The days are slipping by, will not do for others, so onehearsal, this one will rival, it, in- and soon there will be no shoot-should carry Nos. 5, 6, and 8 as deed. It does not eclipse, all its ing, so these opportunities must well. A good tip is to use a sling | predecesacra... it will be the fast! not be neglected. Reports show to carry the gun when picking up Tattoo with which Major-Generati that on all the best parts of the birds. To stalk shore birds needs A. G. Stevenson, the watgoing coast, particularly the East, and a good deal of care, and one C.R.E. at Aldershot, has had to do. some parts of the West, there are must ure every bit of cover. For The series of four with which he good ficcks of golden plover and the above this is very varied, and has been concerned has marked ni redshunk and curlews
Al
there is some
Jori
T
move
ני
OUR CROSS-WORD
ון
PUZZLE.
(This orvas-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
13
די
19
15
20
121.
22
2.
27
24
30 36
3M
135
42
447
149
62
יי
53
09
143
11 12.
15
146
49,
51
52-
55
57
62
166
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE. KORIZONTAL Cont.) 1.
HORIZONTAL 1-Spanien for maint 43-A metrical foot
An American aretie| 49–Interjaction
explorer und
50-Wla men Birman
10-Prohibit 13-A province of Ecuador
14-Notable
performances
16-A diminutiva suffix 16-To ram down
18 To grow old
13-To have caprolty
fat
20-A large dear
22-Preposition.
23-Heavy weight
25-A philosophy taught
in India 27-Among 30-Latin for Holt?
(abbr) 32-The recipient of a
togacy 33-Topographical
engineer (abbr) 34-Having slila 37-One the sarth's hemispheres 40-An Egyptian goddess
41-A oase for carrying
amali articles 12-Appropriata 45-Soats again;
61-8hort poat in a
Buliding-frame 83-Likewise not
·B4~A dos 34-To
mingle Ba-Courtship 60-Profix. Thrion
-An Old World
marganser
04-Present participle
ending 65-Fleb-trapa korosa a
stream 67-Exlat BB-Hurrah. (abbe.) 89-Afemalo divinity 70-A olaas or company VERTICAL
.
d
1-A drunkard 2-A Donatellation 3-A town; N. W.
Alaska B-Conjunction
-Follage
T-A form of palanquin
(Jap.)
B-To repeat S-A province of
Canada, (abbr.)
|10-Ganiel; joviali $11-Everything
.may consist of" marrons, sandspock in the life of the country.
On the main feature of the pro-i the sea wall, Perhaps, indeed, the greater dunes, a boulder.
Do not shoot at birds com- zramme the producers of the part of a bag on low-lying coasts etc. will be made up of golden and ng towards you, but let them pass Tattoo have succeeded, in combin few grey over, and aim well ahead. When ing in one harmonious whole the green plover and Pover like to feed on saltings, at night in doubt as to the loga-glamour of the East, the reality modern war, and military That the 8.000 Deferred Ordinary and come to the coast when theirtion of birds, strike a match. All of
the indication one may have will pisodes of English history drawn Shares of $5 each and the 18,000 Finland haunts are closed to them. Preferral Ordinary Shares of $10 each in the Company be re-organised Ringed plover are always to be be the swish of wings or the call from the past thousand years. The scene opens with the entry of and consolidated into one class of met with on shingly beaches as notes in the distance.
Pits" and Punts. 20,000 Shares of $10 each tis be called the Thesis Beach. Aldeburgh
a modera British military detach- ordinary shares and to muk as re-Blakeney, and elsewhere, with
By day one may do very well ment, which goes inte camp on gards dividend and capital pari passu Türastone. known by their by piteshooting, or making a pit the outskirts of an Oriental village., and each share to confer ua vote
In the sand large and deep enough While the camp sleeps, guarded by and that the Company's Memorandum crouching walk, and of course; and Articles be altered accordingly." oyster catcher. The skilt clamour to hide one well close to where the its gentries we think that belt- Should the above resolution be pass- of the latter sets the entire beach hory birds regularly feed. For tents have a distinctly banal touch
would, be ed by the requisite majority it will be agog. Nor are redshank any unlin. stint, knot, this is a very venacking submitted for condemation as a Speels more obliging, for they are the good pinn, if there be a sand-romantic, as well as being much Resolution in a fursher Extraars veritable sentinels of the shove, bank not far from the shore the more like the "real thing cloud General Meeting, and
Meeting much will be held on the 25th day of August, and long before one is within birds will settle in large numbers wreathed visions appear in which such bank are seen glimpses of bygone war 1926, at the same time and place for even long range they give the on this, and if no
exists. one may put one up, as the purpose of considering and, if alarm. It is not the luck
and battles, long ago. The t thought the confirming auch Resolution
every sportsman to meet with the this is an excellent way of bagging vision is the Battle of Hastings: as a Special Resolation accordingly.
Phalaripes. the red-necked, or them in numbers, the pit being then follows Agincourt; and th Puted the 21st day of July, 1928,
the grey, the latter more plentiful within gun-shot. Late in the sea-last of the three episodes is the By: Order of the Board,
in winter, and the former breed-son this plan is far better than arge of the Light Brigade at? CHAS, S. ROSSELET,
Secretary, ing with us. There are always patrolling the beach. When one Balaklava.. Wher the sleeper: 1
punt shooting. wake the weather wants to.do any some chances when
nard of coming across a few one must not do any shore-shoot-Teniente in the Oriental" village,
ing. woodrock, snipe, or jack Snipe
When there are mud banks which the British force dents, with in a manner that would impress more particularly, of course, at far out to sea this plan is better migration time. when the local than shore-shooting-the only Zaglul Pasha very deeply. shore-shooters often take heavyway, Indeed. The birds crowd
The three scenes are staged with P. ML HODGSON having toll of them..as they arrive some-on these banks waiting for the the perfection of drill and setting "resigned the Honorary Secre- times weak and exhausted Plentide to recede, and numbers of that we are acetatomed to asse Aryship of this Association all ty of dunn can usually be had, birds can be shot there from a chute with anything of this kind Communications and letters and very extraordinary and de punt on the seaward side, or ever at Aldershot. and they conclude! future should be addressed to the lightful to watch are their aerial the landward side of such bunks. with a march past to music of the LAMMERT BROS. undersigned who has been appoint-elutions. The flock meves as a swivel gun is required for Ancient and Modern Warriors, Pik Honorary Secretary of
the
battalion, as one bird, so perfect many birds, but not these smaller This is without doubt the most is the anison between each Mudhon golden plover. A shoulder beautiful spectacle of the evening. Cats, in the Wash especially, Eut gun is preferable for the latter. Slowly to music there defily before on many other shores, afford now A good dog is a necessity to re-the spectators Harold and his good charices of hagging some trieve the birds shot on the water- Saxon, William and his Normans, knot. Tame as they are, they can lige, or over the water, and one the armies of Agincourt that of readily be decoyed if desired.
cannot beat an Irish spaniel England small indeed, but "enow One must bunt by the tide mar-
When snow is on the ground one
to doe par Countrey loase"-de- in to get near the numerous needs a white overall and cap.tachments representing the companies of little stint. which are very busy just now! derling, too, are in their company and those of the dunlin. Roff, once breeding freely in East Anglia, are only now and then to be bagged on the const nowadays. One may see a sandpiper at times, but generally on migration. Once more numerous greenshank afford
HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
M
ASSOCIATION,
G. E. S. UPSDELL.
Hon. Secretary,
H.K. Telegraph. Hongkong. 29th July, 1926.
#
mentionethy nie wn, ladentus Extension of Crown bence Marine Soe N-57-dated-M-Asociation.___ day of November. 1904 and made between His late Majesty King Edward Seventh of the one part and Li Po Kam and Li Po Yang of the other part the term of 75 years from the 26th day of June, 1843 originally created in the saidi Marine Lot No. 57 by a Crown Lease daled the 26th day of October, 1844) and made between Her late Majesty Qaren Victoria of the one part and Joseph Brost Bilger,of, the other part having since expired subject to the payment of the yearly sums of $20.95 and $320.79 Pspectively being the due proportions of Crown Kent and to performance and obser- vance of the Lessee's covenants and conditions contained in the said Crown Lease and Extension so far as the same relate,te the said pre- mines,
For further particulars apply
--
Mr. A. el ARCULLI,
"
17 Queen's Road Central, Solicitor for the Mortgagees
OT
Mr. A. G: da ROCHA, 2a D'Aguilar Strees, Auctioneer.
Hongkong. 26th day of July, 1926.
TANG YUK,
Sacconsor to
DENTIST
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free.
CORNS?
Put a Drop of GETS-IT
They Fit-But Oh! my Corn
Works like magic on any kind of corn, no matter how old, where it is, how bad hurt. One touch and the pain goes. Almost unbelievable Then the cera loosens up and goes.." A scientific way that dancers, walk- ers, actors, doctors and millions usé Beware of imitators. Get the real "Geta-It." For sale everywhere. “GETS-IT" Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.
D
ני.
MOTOR NOTES.
Armstrong Shideley Cars Alemite Gascoltnes Ames Precision Tools Beton Motometra Buell Turis Murna
Benzinaa. Tip-Top Acetosarien Cadillac Custom Built Ch Champion Spark Plugs Cuno Cigar Lighters Duratex Upholstering Materials Dunlop Tyres and Tubes Dayfomu Products-RADIOLITE Economy Steel Wire Brules EdelzonHan-D Tools Klantcle Connectors & Motor
Fitinga
The Hongkong Hotel Garage Spload Accessories Queen's Road Central Tol. C. 4700 "
Servico and Parte
Stubbs Road
-Pol C 4302
it
KOMOR & KOMOR
Art Curfo Experts temporarily removed to St. George's Building Chater Road, 2nd Floor. Patróndaro Juvited to view thu-jatest. additional to their fino entloution.
LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD
TILE CO'S.
We have a largest stock of White Glazed Wall Tiles. Colour Glazed Wall Tiles Mosaic Tiles, ...Ceramic
Geometrical Encautic Floor
Tiles, Tile Fire Grates.
Inspection Invited..
Showroom: 21, Wellington Et.
·Tel. C. 1488.
1111
five
11
47-Loft oldo jabbr.)
$12-A color
VERTICAL (Cont.) 17-Thloicnoma; layar 19-Goal-outtle 21-An African nut 1.23-6❘ndm
24-3ocial gatherings 26-Procuring 28-Paarast; shabbiest 10-A blaming 31-8pazka Imperfectly 33-Ronilty 36-Part of the face 88-Combining form.
Equal
88-Golf torm 13-Boventh letter of
Greek alphabet 23-a river, 8. W. Germany 44-Infratod
46-To breathe in and
out 40-Unformentad
grupa julos 80-Bon mot 152-Prefix Apart
53-Noar
וי
|55-Parched with heat
57-A great holiday
(abbr)
168-A knight's title [59-Girl's name
82-Sooner than 65-Watery 185-Heavy affilction [86-Simplified: spelling: C
(abbr.)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
AUCTIONKIES, APPRAISESS AND STEVEYORS,
Public Auctions-
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
GRAT.COMPANY, LTD.
To detect small shore birds feed-light cavalry regiments of Lord THE GREAT. NORTHER!' TELE- San-ing down by the water-line a good | Cardigan's brigade, and in- pair of field glasses, which every fancy regiment, Cossacks and the sportsman should carry, are very Russian gunners with their bronze necessary. To know call notes, runs, and, finally, the tin-hatted and to be able to imitate them is khaki-clothed soldiers of to-day. very helpful, and so at times are
in spite of the rehearsal touch; decoys.
the garish daylight; the army of "movie" men: the inevitable Tattoo log, and a gueh distractions,
sport, and so do whin orel, but CONFIDENCE TRICK. roar of applause went up as the
they only come to the shore when leaving us earlier. Every bit of cpast hus some few curiew, and their shrill plaintive cry is one of the charms of the seashore.
Red-Letter Days.
ני'
المر
CHINESE POSES AS A WATCHMAN,
הדי
fantry of to-day atrode steadily by. The cheers "went off by them- selves."
.
Where everything is supar- nest confidence trick was wellent, criticism may seem out turned on July 14 by a
of place. But in the charge of the Chinese who posed as a watchman at the Light Brigade a better spectacle Chinese Post Office, Shanghai, andould have been obtained it the up the this netted him the sum of $20 and, brigade had advanced
Now and then some of the rurer shore birds turn up, and every sportsman and sports woman marks these. as red-letter in all probability, will be the means longest diagonal of the arena,
instead of past the grand stand;! days. Little ringer and Kentish of sending him to prison for a
term; The lover, for instance, though more
this would have given an oppor- pacudo watchma:
runity too. of bringing in the frequent in the South, are seldom appeared in the Mixed Court next seen North. Though it once bred day and was charged with obtaining "rannon to right of them, cannon And it is a pity to left of them." money by false pretences. with us, few sportsmen now cạn say they have shot the avocet. Another Chinese who was the that. Lord Cardigan's charger had Temminck's sturt comes regular- complainant in the case retently not the famous "white stocking ly, but is infrequent, and wood received a notification from the Post which showed the regimental off- and green sandpipers are inland Office informing him that there was vers and men "the straight honest | waders at the coast only when 1 Postal Order for $20 awaiting way, the way down to the enemy Again, at Balaklava, the him there. He went to the office guns." migrating. Both bartailed and black godwits occasionally turn
and saw a man, whom he mistook Hussars wore the pelisse put on al a jacket, and not hanging from the up, but they are rare. So, too, is for the watchman sitting in the
ehair. Not being shoulder. The infantry detach- Great Watchman's the purple sandpiper. snipe are probably often overlook. familiar with the routine of the ment ought to go through the ed. Now and then spotted red- office be asked this man' how to go motions of muzzle-loading, inatend shank may fall to one's gun, but about cushing the order and how of loading with bolt and breech.
There are minutiae. The Tattoo The accused politely what is more treasured is a colto obtain it. lared pratincole. Stragglers from informed the owner of the order is magnificent. Just a word more. America, mainly the red-breasted, that there was no possibility of The proceeds go to military chari- pectoral, curlew, buff-breasted, getting the money at the hour as ties, and the Southern Railway la and Bertram's sandpiper, or the all the clerks were away at tiffin, running all the special trains yellowshank, are not likely to be but obligingly offered to collect the arranged for before the strike. met with more than once in a money for the complainant if he lifetime, but are to be looked out would sign the order.
The complainant did so and "There is no set time for this agreed to meet the accused in the sport. One may indulge in it, by sathe place after tiffin. He arrived day or by night. But by prefer at the appointed hour, but the ence flight time is more suitable, accused could not be seen any that is at dusk. And as this lasts where. About an hour later the but thirty minutes or so, one has complainant saw the accused in to use every opportunity to the another part of the building, but full Then, too, wild duck and the latter rofused to recognise him geese may also be bagged on the and so a policeman was called in same ground. No better time is there than when a thaw follows he had collected the money, and a long frost; then the birds, feed- ing eagerly, are much less alert, had riven it to somebody whom Calm days are of no use to one, he thought was the complainant.
The Court found the accused One requires a windy day; even
for.
and arrested the "watchman."
He explained to the Court that
a gale to be able to do the best guilty and remanded him for
and this applies either afloat or ashorn. Of course, some ahora
sentence.
birds are only seen as noted in It's been years since a moder. autumn on migration
That, in girl's eyebrows met.
His Wife's Aim. dear old lady made it her business to visit the poor patients in the hospital, On one occasion she approached a much-bandaged individual who was sitting up in bed, and, after a little preliminary talk, she said to him vary sym- pathetically: ad
"I suppose your wife must miss you a good deal."
"No, mum," came the prompt re ply: "she's got a wonderful dim, fer a woman."
"
,1
Don't worry about the spot, just send the garment, no matter how delicato, to the INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANERS."
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) :-
Poisat from Saintubel Mayeda, fr. m Tukio
Knowie Dji, from Marcilles Chang Shun Lumber Co., from Cedarapids lows
Matsunaga, from Tokio Vinal, fr m Eakone
#
S. BLACK, Acting Superintendent, Hoogkong Station, S8th July. 1996.
YOUR VISITING CARDS
NEATLY PRINTED WITH ALL PROMPTNESS. O
ANY SIZE ANY STYLE.
በቂ
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE, LTD. GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL. PRINTERS & BOOKBINDERS.
6. WYNDHAM ST. TEL. CENTRAL 22
SHOEMAKERS (Japanese Hand Made)
Every Kind of Footwear MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
4. D'AGUILAR STREFT, Opposite Kayamally & Telephons CenteilTM No.. 49L..
Hongkong, March. 20, 1994,
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
HAS
TALS
STOGY DIAN O SAY D RA JAM
WOO
10TE UNISO
S B1 T
N WET
BI
CEDAR BUSON
FOR
VUSES NOW ALONE. E LULLITROD
THE INTERNATIONAL BERDICATE
WHY LOOK OLD
YOUNG AT 50
AND KEEP YOUNG.PNG"
Dr. Legard's New Life Tablets. A FOE TO OLD AGE Imparts to the Old and Middle-aged Youthfulness. Energy and Fitness, retards, mental and physical decay...
Pro- thus promoting longevity. serves the arteries and tissuca. Sufferers from Deafness with its many distressing accompanying ail ments as head noises derive almost immediate benefit. Calm refreshing sleep is assured Gloom, Depres sion and Nervousness are banished under the Influence of these. Life- giving Tablets. Wrinkles, hard lines and blemishes dieenpear. The skin becomes clear, tight. and elastic, and the Complexion bright and smooth. Think of the bless-" inge of perfect health, the posses- sion of few; the Joy of a clear Youthful appearance and tingling blood, of lustrous hair, bright eyes and health tinted cheeks--the beauty of radiant life and the realisation that Time has been put back Ten Years to the envy and admiration of your friends; and tha unbounded satisfaction of yourself. Can you allow a golden opportunity like this to pass? Remember there are no arduous rules to follow, no restriction in diet, nor are there. any ill effects after. On the con- trary it gives the entire system a feeling of exaltation with increased mental and bodily vigour.. Why not look and feel 30 at 502 Do not delay, commence the treatment at once. You will never regret the slight cost incurred for such incal- culable benefit. The price of thene | Marvellous Tablets including Mall | Charges in 12/- per Bottle, dispatch- ed in plain wrapper on receipt of amount.
Obtainable only from
DR. LEGARD'S LABORATORIES, 106, Liverpool Road, Barnsbury,/
London, England
AVOID, USELESSTÄTILA,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.