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CHINESE CUSTOMS
NOTIFICATION.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB..
MEETING WIN be held (wea
IN THE ·SECOND EXTRA RACE:
THE OFFICES and STATIONS of the CHINESE MARITIME
ther parmitting) at Happy Valley CUSTOMS for Kowloon and Dis- trict will be CLOSED to Publicon SATURDAY 13th April and MONDAY, 15th April,. 1927, Business on the 15th and 15th commencing at 2.30 p.m. on both April, 1927.
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F. HAYLEY BELL, Commissioner of Chiness Customa, Kowloon and District,' York Buildings, Hong Kong, 9th Aprik 1927.
dog, white and black markings. THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON Please elurn to J. Deakin, Govern-
WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD. ment Hous0.
TO LET.
TO LET-Ground Floor, Building Suitable an Apply to Tabaqueria A.P.C. Building!
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N that
the undermentioned Roods, at present in No. 60 Godown: of the above named Company at A.F.C. Kowloon, in the name of THE Shop. CANADA CHINA TRADING CO. Fit:pini, w be disposed of unless taken delivery of on or before the 14th instant.
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TO LET Furnished Flat. 3 Rooms Happy Valley, Kent very low. Apply Box 182, c/o "China, Mulk"
Lot 99872-10 Barrels Neutral Spirits, stored 1st April 1920.
Hong Kong, 2nd April, 1927.
KOWLOON BOWLING GREEN CLUB,
TO LET-P. & O. Bulldink, Com- moddoua ollees to let For parti autors apply to:-Maukianos] ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Mackenzie & Co.
OF MEMBERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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TO LET-Furnished for five that the TWENTY-SEVENTH
months from May 19 Modern
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of
Bungalow at No. 4 Broadwood Road Members of the above Club will be containing 2 Reception Rooms and
[held in, the Club House, er
3 Bedroome. Apply Hong Kong THURSDAY, the 14th April, 1927, Tramways Limited
at 5.46 p.m..
ΤΟ " LET-ONE EUROPEAN HOUSE, 3, 'Babington Path, con. tadning bent, 10' rooma, with veran- dahs, besides bathros, kitchena and! servants' quarters. Quiet Joe Bity. Immediate occupation. Moderate rentali Apply Babington Path or Tel. C,4625.
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FOR SALE-Cabinet Gramophone! Pathe nearly new, with 70 Select ed Records $150 Apply Box 484, co "China" Mall"
MISCELLANEOUS..
BUSINESS: Adoption of Report and Accounts, Grunting of Honorarla. Election of Office Bearers. Election of Life Member. Election of General and Balloting
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Prizes for Forthcoming Season. Any other Business.
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Hom Secretary. Hong Kong, 4th April, 1927.
HONG KONG TELEPHONE:
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the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the frear ended 31st December, 1023, and
LAMMERT BROSelecting two Directors and the
2.OUTIONEERS APPRAISÉES ANG SURVEYORS,.
Public Auctions
THE
HE Undersigned have received.
instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, the 14th April, 1927,
commencing at 245 p.m.
at No. 88A, Nathan Road, Kovloot
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Particulars from Catalogue).
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On View from Noon, Wednesday,
the 13th April, 1927.
Terma-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
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Hong Kong. 8th April. 1927.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
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The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited)
Hudson, from Shanghai.
Wexot, from Shangha
Suzmanager, from Tokyo.
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E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent
Hong Kong Stution, April 7, 1927.
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA
TELEGRAPH Ce
List of Unclaimed Telegrame lying in . E. Telegraph Office.
Hồng Kong.
Erosborn (2), from Tacomayn.
tion, from Saigon.
Marine Underwriters
Associa
Docter Greig c/o Bluefunnel
from Dundee.
E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent
Hong Kong, 7th April, 1927.
TANG YUE, DENTIST
Successor w the late STEN TING. 14 D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
MASSAGE
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Auditora.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from the f16th April to the 23rd April, 1927,
both days inclusive.
The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1 per day for all persong including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.
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sure.
Each member has the right to Introduce 2 non-members to the Members Eneidsure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs. tstead & Davis at $5 each per day up to THURSDAY, 14th April, 1927.
The charge for admission for
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Hong Kong. 11th April. 1927.
HONG KONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
SEVENTH TOURNAMENT
OF THE SEASON
SATURDAY, 16th April
at 9:35 pim
nt the
THEATRE ROYAL,
ነ ዩ
MAIN EVENTS: Welterweight Championship of the Colony 15th Round Contest: STOKER NORMAN MORRIS H.M.S. "Hermes".
V.
A. B. BENNETT H.M.S. "Witherington"
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and
10 Round Contest; A. B. EWIN H.M.S. "Hermes"
V.
STOKER EVANS H.M.S. "Enterprise" Welterweight Middleweight Champion of India and
Four Other Contests.
BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S:
Members-13th April.
NANKING HORRORS.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE
TO: HAND....
“OUTRAGEOUS ATTACKS,”
MUITSAI EVIL.
RESUSCITATION OF LOCAL
SOCIETY.
"NOT YET ABOLISHED ?
Evidence of outrages in the With a view. to preventing the Nanking case are coming to be movement from petering out and so overwhelming that comment is in consequence of recent evidences wholly superfluous. The only that the evil which it was formed way to present the facts conto combat is still in their midst.. vincingly is to present them in the Hong Kong Anti-Muitsal bald detall without attempt at Society met after the lapse of a artistry.
considerable length of time, at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Saturday afternoon.
Pertaining, to the mattor of outrageous attacks upon women, that two young it is learned married women, delivered" of babies within forty-eight hours of the Southerners' attack upon foreigners were found in their beds in hospital by the "Nation" aliat" crusaders and that the latter attempted violation.
"CHINA MAIL" CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
NO. 13-850 MUST BE WON
iy
FIRST READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY THROUGH."
1.
The PRIZES: In this competition are AWARDED STRICTLY on MERIT,
2.
Each solution sent in must be mado on the coupon cút from the "China Mail,” Any number of soluilons may be sent in..
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An entry fee of fifty cents must accompany each coupon. Three entries, however, may be sent in together for one dollar. Letters sent through the post must not contain coins as they will not be delivered by the Post Office.
4.
A representative Committee of 37, consisting of Chinese and Europeans and the respective papers, was formed for the pur-5. pose of further investigating local conditions and maintaining the desired contact with responsible Government conditions. 11
Missionary Demented. One woman of seventy-two years, who was apoplectic, was thrown out of bed, stripped naked and searched for valuables, while prostrated by shock,
Mr. Yueng Shiu-chuen, who pre- sided, referred to the "go-ahead" section of the Canton Govern ment which had promulgated a law for the entire suppression of the multaat form of domestic ser. vice and which had gone further An elderly missionary, rescued than the Hong Kong Ordinance in from the Bund by an American striking at the very root of the landing party, seemed half deevil They were reminded that mented in his plaints, against the this evil still existed in Hong Chinese at large until it was Kong by cases which had finally discovered that he had from time to time come up in the witnessed the violation of Amer Courts. In one of these they had by uniformed the glaring instance of a Chinese savages (says the "N.C. Daily woman, a well-known member of Society, being prosecuted for ill- treating her muitsai.
jean women
News.")
AFTER HOURS.
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SOLDIERS AND WANCHAI
LIQUOR
The object of the Society was to abolish the evil entirely, it was stated, by means of enlightening If propaganda.
they could Inchieve their object without rẻ-] sorting to more 'drastic steps, then it would seem that the local
Ordinance in its present form was sufficient. Otherwise, the atten- tion of the local authorities would have to be called more closely to the problem.
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Following complaints by the military authorities about certain private houses in Wanchai being opened as all-nigh; haunts for Service men, two European de- tectives visited No. 20 Praya widow of Mr. H. A. Cart- It was decided to write to the East on Thursday night last, and after being served with a bottle wright, Editor of the "Hong Kong of Japanese beer, brought a
Daily Press" in recognition of the summons against the Japanese campaign he sponsored for the mistress of the house charging. | abolishing of the evil. her with having sold liquor without a publican's licence..
Mr. D. L. Strelett who Ap peared for the woman pleaded "guilty" to selling just the one bottle mentioned in the charge, and said that the beer, was sold under pressure. »
There was some argument be tween Counsel and Chief De- tective Inspector Marphy on the subject of confiscation of in- toxicants found on the premises, and eventually Major Willson, before whom the summons was
Dated this 7th day of April, 1927. General Public-P4th & 16th April. heard at noon on Saturday, re-
By Order of the Board,
R. GUY WILKERSON,
Secretary.
USUAL PRICES.
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served his decision on that point. C.D.J. Murphy pressed for a heavy fine saying that defend-'
The number of foreign newspaper correspondents in Shanghai has been augmented by two, who arrived from Paris by the French mail. These are M. Jean Fontenoy. who represents the Havas News Agency, and M. Manue, who is on the staff of "Le Journal," .
to
ant's action was unfair publicans who had to close their doors at a fixed hour. It was after that hour that business the defendant's: developed on premises.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $100.
6.
No entry will be considered under any circumstances whatso ever, unless entry money for each solution is enclosed.
Entries must reach the office of the "China Mall" not later than the time and date for closing announced on, the coupon. No responsibility is accepted for loss or delay in the post. letters should be rogistered and/or sealed.
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7. The prize of $50 must be won and will be awarded for an all correct or nearest correct solution. In the event of lies the $50 "will be divided. No competitor may win more than one share
of the prize in each competition.
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8. The coupon must not be defaced in any way. All attempts
must be in plain block letters and legible.
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10.
11.
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- petition have been published.
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13.
All letters must be addressed, "China Mall" Cross-words, c/o "China Mall" Offices, No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. No member of the staff of the "China Mail" will be allowed to compete...
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Solutions are held under sealed cover and in no way will be opened until the close of the competition,
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To "China Mail" Cross-Words." c/o "China Mail" Offices,
164
772
No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. DEAR SIRS,
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agree to abide by your rules, and I enclose.
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for
solution (s) which are attached.
Name
Address
Clues Down.
1.
Uneven.
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2.
MCI (actual).
8. Pertaining to the poles.
4. Church of England (abbrev:)
Russian Emperor.
Clues Across,
1.
To bound.
4.
Dainty food.
7. To care for.
10 A number of people.
12.
To understand.
18.
Docelt.
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5.
35. Well known city before Tien-
tisin
6.
To stupefy.
7... Nimble.
17. A game played with a club and
ball.
8. Past
19: Great Northern (inits:)
9. To obliterate,
20. To produce an offest,,
22. To tear
THE
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READY
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[Please Write In Block Letters.]
CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, APRIL 18, [Coupons received at the "China Mail" Office after mid-day!
on Monday will not be included in the competition:]
32.
37. A
A smart blow.
39.
A
A northern sea-duck..
41.
25. Distemper,
31.
24 AA (actual).
25, Confident expectation.
Possessive pronoun.
To put on.
30. Royal Engineer (abbrev:)
81. C. S. (actual).
To unite.
34. A Mediterranean Island.
88. Those who rate!
40. IMA (actual).
Pertains to the middle.
48. "Noist made by a hinge.
48. ND
11. To start back
14. Prefix meaning "not"
10.
Crooked.
18. Sixth note in scale.
21. Theosophical Society (abbrev:)
20. A tomb," IL
26. To draw along.
28. Hila
A vehicle moved on wheels.
28. Bulix forming abstract nouns.
35. A" torch.
36. To return.
38. Friend (Fr:)
42," Abbreviation for; the present||
month.'
44. To stir up.
Title for
48. A
tree;
60, A
known quadruped.
46.
Grief,
Ka
58: Young rabbit.
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49. Accident.
56. Rail transport (ins:)
ALSO AT:-KELLY & WALSH, HONG KONG FERRY WHARF, PEAK STALL, LEE
58.
A room in the roof.
81. A loud noise.
YEE KOWLOON
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32.
In that degree.
FERRY WHARF, AND HUNG CHEONG.
88. Initials of the Order of Buffaloes
A freehold estate.
66.
Not
Elly
broken.
98. Slang for a silly fellow. 80. 70. To strike.
To often.
71. Later in time.
72. A.amall hole in a wall
31. A wooden shoe.
$2.
54.
Stardy.
Abbreviation meaning, In the
year of our Lord'
65. The stroke of a bell
57. Thanks!
69. A trumpet shapeé Instrument.
40. To throw.
62. A G (actual),
64. OBE (actual).
67, CTO (actual);
69. Abbreviation for mister.
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