TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB..
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WHY SWELTBR?-GOMEWHERE THE PINE TREES PINE!
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On FRIDAY NEXT, 4th March.. by klad permission of Capt. B.H. Ramsay, M.V.O., R.N.' H.M.S. "DANAES" DANCE
BAND,
will give a CONCERT in the above Insitute
commencing at 8:46 pm, punctually
Collection in nice the Missions
ADMISSION FREE.
to Seamen,
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NOTICE.
RACE MEETING 1927
1st, 2nd & 5th March.
MEMBERS BADGES,
THINGS TO SOLVE. find that after every 10-guinea fare on a plane a new language becomes necessary to ask for our bed and breakfast,
SCIENCE SECRETS AND,, PROMISE OF 1927.
CHARACTER TO ORDER.
Traffic Problem.
The traffic problem will cer tainly not diminish in one year.
I believe that new methods of | lighting our silenced main streets Not long ago any suggestion will be developed, illuminated of the "future possibilities" of kerbs may be introduced, and
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MEMBERS' Badus. of Admission science was locked upon askance overhead travelling Bridges me
are now ready and may be obtained by those Members, who by the learned professions, help to save the loss of time which causes the public to risk have not already received them, writes Professor Low in the its Hfe and neglect the wearisome from Messrs, Linstead & David, "Daily News."
subway.
Alexandra Buildings.
Members are reminded that these
Budges will also admit them to all the Extra Rage Meetings of this
year.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members have the privilege of introducing two non-members to the Members' Enclosure
THE INSTITUTE will re-open on Mnderm Fivirnomed BUNGA-] 1. TUESDAY, March 1st. Stu-
A Himited number of tickets are LOW FURNISHED, South-Westdents joining classes held
at available and may be obtained from Breezes, Swimming Bath Five Queen's College will be enrolled at Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexin Miantes Chair-Ride from Trams. the Education Department only dra Buildings, on or before Satur Must Art. NOMINAL RENT (Fe Brigade Station building, 3rd day February 26th, 1927, at a cost Careful Tenant. Apply Box 476, for those joining classes held at of $10 each per day or $30 for
"China Mall"
the Centara British School. Kow-the Meeting. Feon, nuy be enrolled at that The charge for admission for Ladles to the Members Enclosure will be $1 per day. Each member enn obtain upon application to the Secretary, badges for the ads. mission of two Ladies free of charge On no pretext will chil dren he permitted in either enclosure during the days racing.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
TOUR visiting cards neatly and Y promaly Printed China Mail Office, No. 5. Wyndham St Telephone Central 22,
LAMMERT BROS.
T
A DUTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions-
TW12 Umiersigned have received: instructions to Sell by Public
"ON
Auction
THURSDAY, the 3rd March, 1927. commencing at 1a.m.
at their Sules Room, Duddell Street.
98: Cases Whisky
87 Eass Roy. Ale
AND
A Qua way of Reval, Lin and
Ord To Beer.
(ie sou i bobs to xull purchasers)
On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cush on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers." Hong Kong, 26th Feb. 1927,
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School
Entry Terms may be obtained at the Education Department or at the Central British School.
Hong Kong, 28th Feb., 1027.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. Tickets of Admission to the THE FINAL DIVIDEND Public Enclosure price $3 per elated for the year ending day for all persons including 31st Deceml en 1916, at the rate of Ladies, may be purchased from Three Poundsterling regether Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. or at with a Bonus, of Two Pounds the Cate Sterling is paya. le on andi after
Soldiers and Sailors. In uniform the aes February 1927, at the admitted to the Puble Enclosure at Offices of the Corporation where $-per day.. (Shareholders are Jequested o
apply for warrant
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By Order of the Court of Directors.
A. II. BARLOW,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 26th Feb. 1627.
THE HONG KONG ELÉCTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
Admission by ticket only.
SERVANTS PASSES.. Passes for Servants will be hued on application to Mesare. [Linstead & Davis, Alexandra
Buildings.
Employers are requested to dis- ribute them with discrimination, and to endorse their names on the Įpasses.
Servants are not permitted in the Entlosure except for
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IS HEREBY GIVEN Members' NOTICE IRTY-EIGHTH passing through on their duties, but ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING must remain in their employers
stands. wilf be held at the Company'a
Mees, P. & 0. Building, on Any persona found loitering SATURDAY, 5th March, 1927, at about with Servants Passes in 1a.m. for the purpose of present-their possession will forfelt the ing the Report of the Directors same and will be removed from the
with в Statement of enclosure. together
By Order, and electing Directors and Audi- Bors
The Undersigned have received Accounts to 31st December, 1926,
Eaur to sell by Public Auction -
ON
THURSDAY, the 3rd March, 1927 commencing at 2.45 p.m. at." Tre Cotige” darker Roid. No. 452, The Peak
A Large Quantity Of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:
Teak Hatsland, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Glass Cabinets, Leather Seat Chairs. Carpets, Pictures and Electric Fillings etc Teak Sideboards, Teak Dining Tables. Dining Chairs, Dinner Waxgon, e hest, dass Ware.. Crockery, Kitchen Utensils, etc.
Teak Bedsteads, Teak Dres sing Tible with Bevellet Minor, Teak Chest of Drawers.. Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Medicine Chests, Side Tables Teak Washstands. Toilet Sets. etc, etc.
AND
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from. 21st February to '5th March, 1927, both days inclusive,
Quantity of Blackwoods Ware, Curios, Chine e Porcelains. Japanese Frints and Old Chinese Pictures etc., etc,
On View from Wednesday, the 2nd March 1427.
Catalogues will be issued. Ferma: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT. BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1927.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the office of The Great Northern Tolegraph Company (Limited)-
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Moris, from Amor.
Talahinyoko, from Shimonoseki.
· Clado Folkener, from Yokohama.
Tyoneniia Bunhamu Tanko 71,
from Amoy.
Pursell, from Kobe Dorothy White, from Shanghai.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent.
Hong Kong Station, Feb. 24, 1927.
EASTERN
EXTENSION : AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO
List of Unclaimed Telegrams lying in E. E. Telegraph Office, Hong Kong.
Abel, Miller House or Claromont,
from Foochow.
Breyer, from London. Hardiviler, from Hongay. Jayme Sison, from Iloilo
E A. LEGGATT.
-Superintendent: Hong Kong, 24th Fab, 1927:
By Order of the Board of Directors;
GIRB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
4 LTD.
Agents. Hong Kong. 12th Feb., 1927,
HONGKONG' BOXING
ASSOCIATION.·
SIXTH TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON
SATURDAY, 5th March,
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at 9.15 p.m.,
at the
THEATRE ROYAL.
MAIN EVENT: Round Contest for Welterweight Championship of the Colony STOKER NORMAN MORRIS H.M.S. "Hermes"
V.
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FIRST READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY THROUGH,
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The PRIZES in this competition will be AWARDED STRICTLY on MERIT.
2.
Each solution sent in must be made on the coupon cut from the "China Mail" Any number of solutions may be sent in..
3. An entry fee of fifty cents must accompany each coupon. Three
entries, however, may be sent in together for one dollar.
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ever, unless entry money for each solution is enclosed.
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letters should be registered and/or sealed.
7. The prize of $50 must be won and will be awarded for an all correct or nearest, correct solution. In the event of ties the $50 will be divided." No competitor may win more than one share of the prize in each competition.
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The Editor's decision will be final and binding in all matters of dispute, and he reserves the right to enter into Correspondence regarding the Competition.
Solutions will be published with the results, in this paper, every Thursday following the Closing Date,
Coupons will be kept for four days after the results of the com- petliion have been published.
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All letters must be addressed, "China Mail Cross-words, c/o "China Mail" Offices, No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. No member of the staff of the "China Mail'; will be allowed to compete.
To-day time has taught most people that science is little but intelligent prophecy under the influence of the tendencies of the
Fool-Proof 'Motor-Cars Motor-cars will become, fax past.
in tech more luxurious while automatic Facts hardly exist nology. Most of our schoolboy devicon will make the average car learning has become scarcely more fool-proof,
New foods will certainly be dis. more than a joke in the light of even our present day very limited covered; no doubt new methods knowledge of the atomic theory, of electrical breatment will help That it is only a theory is pain-us to cope with the nervous" dis- fully evident. It has been alesey which will spring up, and I ready suggested by those com-hope that glandular treatment petent to speak that the atom it will be so simplified that all can self may be a world whose in-benent. habitants are trying, hard to It is high time that our foods11.. communicate with us.
became less bulky. There is All we can do at present is to something gross about the mano express an opinio, and to add 1927 stuffing himself with pounds that as many, baileve, it is quite of food to extract therefrom a
few bunces of benefit. likely to be true.
It is more than likely that
At Bethlehem. during, the coming year some Nothing is more important in method of sex determination the coming year than that we prior to birth may be developed, should all realise our own, ignor. and it is far from impossible that ance the very nature of children may be determined or altered by the progress when you know that inf
Does it not make you long for blochemist with his increasing 60 years' time the world will
of the knowledge.
"secreting || laugh and say, "Good Heavens, glandsv
how ignorant, how coarse, and In the very far future. I do not animalke, they were in 1926?"* regard the possibility of synthe-I learnt at Christmas that tically building the character as the streets of Bethlehem are at all ridiculous.
made hideous by the hooting
In 1927 radio will grow vastly of motor-car horns.......What All England is to be wired by strange vehicles in two thousand the Electricity Commission, and years' time will convey the tele- radio' accumulators may suffer in pathic sensation of its presence. consequence. They may become to the world, as it floats through quite unnecessary during the next the streets of covered London in two years if selence should teach 39277 us, the possibility of a coldi emitter:
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Away With Aerials, We shall surely do away with our aerials and high tension bat teries will perhaps begin to dwindle.
POET AND JUDGE.
DINNER WHICH WAS NOT PAID FOR.
A young Italiang with be-frizzledi
WAA
It is high time that the beam hair and dressed in the Bohemian (of directional system was ap-fashion of fifty yeas ago, plied in some small measure to brought up for trial in Milan for our entertainments. The public giving dinner parties without pay- recognises that education must ing for them. The judge made a
shrewd guess at his age: be interesting, if it is to educate, Secretary."
and it surely will not put up with the one-programme broadcast for much longer.
C, B. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1927,
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL
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WE have This Day removed nur offices to York Building Top floor) Chater Road
THOMSON & CO. Chartered Accountants. Hong Kong, 2018 Feb., 1927..
HARTINS
"Yea, answered the young man, as you see, I am not yet 'Nel mezzo del cammin d nostra vita."
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When the judge congratulated. Beam radio might give us the him upon his knowledge of Dante, power to sweep the country with the young, man reeled off the rest periods or bands of education and of his acquaintance with the world of authors until he was pulled up pleasant music.
I have no doubt that short-by a caustic remark about his wave selectivity, would enable timacy also with swindles.
"Do not talk to me about such wireless control rapidly, to be miserable trifles, I who have shaken developed as a weapon; ultimately hands with Marconi," replied the to become serviceable for postal irrepressible debtor; and his de- services, and in the far distant fenee went on these lines. I am future to steer our vehicles along a poet; out of my brain verses uninteresting aerial journeys as overflow.
"And cheatings," added the power is picked up from afar. :
Television may become com- judge.
"But what can you expect?" ask, mercially practicable by further
ed the defendant, "I had no more investigation of short-wave wire-money, Carmina noa dant panem.
PILLS less, and pure reproduction would you doubtlessly understand Latin? then give us the radio talking "But who did you think was go-
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bor the botten. Chemicas and Stone
16ll them throughout the world, Proprietor: Martin Chrmals ontbrampton Far
cinema in our homes.
two Be
ing to pay for the dinners?" A broadening of our views on And the young man answered the subject of general education, unhesitatingly: "Why, the and particularly the teaching of young ladies with me. foreign languages, must follow element with me, Mr. Judge; I will from flying and radio, for it is write some beautiful verses for you becoming increasingly absurd to because I am a poet whose genius
will one day dazzle. Italy."%
HOLT'S WHARF, KOWLOON.
In the event of consignees not taking delivery of the undermentioned goods by the 11th March, they will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION to defray cost of storage, etc,
Date of Arrival
Ex-Steamer
Marks
Packages
"Laomedon"
6
5
7 bdla. Plates.
"23/4/22
5
4
S
J
"Helenus"
Chop Ping Kh
1 case Glassware
5/2/26
"Machaon"
WOC
1. case Hardware
6/3/26
1 case Beer
4/4/26
"Asphalton"
"Telemachus" VOC
2/8/26
7/7/26
"Troilus"
GB&Co
"Agapenor"
"Eumaeus"/ "Keemun"
Pedeuco
1 case Samples
MAC
2 boxes Tinplates"
11/6/28
28
N/M
4 boxes Tinplates
1 cank Oil
18/3/26
"Euryades"
ITC
box Tinplates
19/8/26
"Euryades"
11⁄2"pel.
B M
19/8/28
DB &
**Troilus
3 bags, Soda
3 kegu: Paint
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Hong Kong, 25th February, 1926.
The unrecognised post got 'a light sentence of seven days' impri sonment and a fine of a hundred Hire because, to use an Italian ex- pression, he "did not seem to be in possession of all his Fridays.”
"THIS BARRAROUS LAW."
"In the present barbarous, atste of our law on the subject, I have no alternative.but to send you to prison," said the Recorder of Liver pool, Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., at the Liverpool Quarter Sessions, in sentencing James Whitworth, labourer, aged 40, to a year's hard labour for being an incorrigible
гprue.
14. Solutions are held under sealed cover and in no way will be
"opened until the close of the competition,
ME
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To "China Mail" Cross-Words,'
c/o "China Mail" Offices,
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No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. DEAR SIRS,
I agree to abide by your rules, and I enclose...
solution (s) which are attached.
for
Name
Address
(Please Write in Block Letters:]
MAR. 7.
CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, [Coupons received at the "China. Mail Office after mid-day
on Monday will not be included in the competition:]
Chues Acrosa.
1. To make rough. "G. "Surrounding."
11. A printer's measure.
12. To carefully examino. 13. Consumed.
15. A place whero a gorm lodges
16,
and begins to develop.
A ruminant of the camel family. 10. A subject for discussion,
quid.
20: Unlawful.
22. Gronsy
28. This is "Easy" 24. A head-dress.
25. NN (actual). 28. To touch gently. 28. A small tally tag.
50. A period of time (then reverse
it).
91. Laid by a hen.
13. Exclamation of surprise.
B
35.
"I desire once mcre," added the protest Recorder, "to make a against the barbarous, law which compels me to pass these idiotici sentences on people who are really mental cases. I think it is time something was done to bring our criminal law into line with more civilised European countries. It is] ridiculous that a man who is a mental case should, be sent to do hard labour, which can do him no possible good. simply because the people responsible for the adminis tration of justice in this country will not take the trouble to look into the matter."
"WASTED COURT'S TIME."-
London. Mareus Aurelius Giovanni Salvatore Formo, who claimed that he was "English- born, and ⠀⠀, proud. ... of when final 108 for contraven ing the motor bag regulations, sald, I have wasted the court's
time."
Thereupon, after paying hie fine, he placed a guines in the court's poor boxi
tease.
27 Royal Navy (abbrov:)
38. By word of mouth.
40. Summary of articles of religious
belief.
42.
A tree of the Pacifle.
43. A crow..
44.
Donotes a thing near.
46. Jointed parts' in animals.
47. To brood.
49. Ento (actual).
81 Church of England (abbrov:) 62 To-bo in trouble.
54. Not
50.
A household god of divination (Heb:)
68. A type of curly conted dog (then
reverse 6).
80. 3rd pers; sing press of "B".
1. A poer of the realm.
62. Belonging to me (pong: adi:) 68. An irritating, sensation in the
skin.
64 The supracaudal plats of s
45.
chelonian carapace.
Open (poetic).
67. In like manner.
as T8 (Betual),
69. To kindle.
Clues Down.
2. Non-existence; a cipher,
3. Royal Engineore (abbrev.)
4. Enas of memory.
5. Women of refined, manners,
5. To help.
7. Initials of a military decoration,
8. Used for tennis, golf, etc.
9. Place of ingress or a small bay.
10. Thread-ike,
18. Makes reparation
14. A snako-like fish.
17. Same as "Again,”
18. On the lee side.
21. A leash,
27. To scare away.
29. An unmarried man,
32, Sterri
$4 Levantine spirituous liquor.
20. A derisivo smile.
89. A flower.... ́ ́
41. To stop of bar.
42. A votch.
43. Royal Scots (abbrev;)
40. Watery stuff.
48. A hay loft
80. Out from.
51. The jaws.
68. Imagos.
. 65, Doomed.
56 Pertaining to, chief race in tite.
Indo-Chinese-peaingula.
6%. Woalthy.
59. "To-do" reversed.
62. Plural of “man.”. 40. To mix type.
Competitors are reminded that the prize is, to be awarded for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct solution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even if you have not done the cross word puzzle in full, send in what you have done it may prove to be the nearest correct solution.
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