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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1927.

Phone C.22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi-' tional word four cents for threa insertions.

TO LET.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

THE

HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

WEDNESDAY, 2nd November, 1927, commencing at 11 mm.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Streat.

P. & O. BUILDING.-Commodious One Cass Striped Woollon. Offices TO LET, for particulars One 3 Phase Electric Motor 8, 8 apply to:-Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.

TO LET.-A Flat of Five Living Rooms. Separate entrance and verandah, bath, servants' quarters, and cook house. Rent $80.00. Im- medinte Possession. Apply Box No. 508, care of "China Mail."

WANTED.

WANTED--To Buy or Rent House nt CHEUNG CHAU. State price and full particulars to Box No. 510, care of "China Mall."

H.P. 200 Volt, 60 Cycles 1,160 Revs. with Accessories, One & Phase Electric Motor 11 H.P. 200 Volt, 60 Cycles 1,140 Reve. with Accessories. One 3 Phase Electric Motor 12 H.P. 200 Volt, 60 Cycles 1,075 Reve, with Accessories. One Direct Current Electric Motor

5 H.P. 110 Voita 1,750 Revs. One Direct Current Electric Motor 3 HP. 110 Volts 860/1,275 Revs.

One Box Shoo Nails. Four Sacks Flour,

ALEG

A Lot of Polished Brass Belts, Boaring Blocks without Bushings, Steering Chain, Ship Scuttle Glass, Jackson Belt Fasteners, Flanged

WANTED-Lady Canvasser for Couplings, Brass Chocks, Flag European Printing Offee. Good prospects. Apply, stating previous experience to Box No. 509, care of The "China Mail."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Chefeo Stamps. Un- used. Set of six stamps;-2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 cents. Price $2 per set. Apply Box No. 500, c/o "China Mail."

FOR SALE-One brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, c/o "China Mall.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pole Sockets, Treasure Steam Gauges, Cast Iron Reducing Valves, Cast Iron Sleeves, Ship's Lighting Fixtures, etc., etc.

AND

A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneera. Hong Kong, 31st October, 1927.

ON

THURSDAY, 3rd November, 1927, Commencing at 10 o'clock a.m. at Godown No. 17, The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.

A Large Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS

comprising:-

NOTICES.

NOTICE.

་་་'' ་

IN THE MATTER of the CHINA-PROVI DENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE COM- PANY LIMITED (and Reduced).

and

IN THE MATTER of the Companies Dr dinance 1911.

N that the Order of His Honour

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, Knight, C.B.E. dated the 24th day of Octo- ber 1927 confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named Company from $6,000,000 to $3,000,- 000 and the minute (approved by the Court) showing with respect to the capital of the Company as altered the several particulars re- quired by the above Ordinance, were registered by the Registrar of Companies on the Twenty-sixth day of October 1927.

And further take notice that the sald minute is in the words and figures following:-·

"The capital of The Ching Provident Loan and Mortgagé Company, Limited and Reduced, henceforth is $9,000,000 divided Into 600,000 shares (of which 696,247 have been Issued but 6,669 have since been for- felted) of $5 each, instead of the original capital of $6,000,000 | divided into 600,000 shares of $10 each. At the time of the re- gistration of this Minute the sum of $5 has been and is to be deemed pald up on each of the said shares. 3

Dated 31st day of October, 1027.

DEACONS,

TH

Solicitors for the Company.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACI I MEETING will be held i ther permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, November 5, 1927, commencing at 2 p.m. The first boll will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1, for all persons including ladies. Soldiers YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly

and Saflora in uniform half price. and promptly printed.--"China India Rubber Shoes, Serge,

Members are advised that they Mail" Office, No. 6. Wyndham St., Novels, Socks, Jackets, Buckles, must show their Badges to obtain Telephone Central 22,

Tobacco, Carbon Paper, Tin Foil, admission to the Members' En- Envelopes, Overcoatings, Iron closure.

HOME TUITION.

Ware Glass Ware, Porcelain, Each member has the right to in- Needles, Metal Toys, Pig Iron, Fro- troduce two non-members to the vistons, Angle Iron, Bonemeal, Members Enclosure, tickets for Round Iron, Earthenware, Canvas, whom can be obtained from TESTOVER - STEVENAGE, Paints, Flat Iron, Square 'Iron, Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5 each Wwithin an hour from London, Window Glass, Umbrella Frames, up to Friday, November 4, 1927.

Newspapers, The charge for admission for

DHI

ladies to the Members' Enclosure

In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL Cigarettes,

Ѕодра,

for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A Gunnies, Narciseus Bulbs,

few Boarders received In the House Pickles, Canned Sardines, Tea, will be 82. Each member can ob of the Principal. Individual care Milk, Carpets, Personal Effecta, and attention. For Particulara etc., etc. apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local), (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate)./

WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of water in Reservoirs on October 1, 1927;- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Tytem Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk..... Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum

+ 1924

1927

Level 7"B do. 20' 8"B

ALSO

250 Cases Beer.

AND

724 Casks Cement (stored in No.

7 Godown, Lower),

118 Caska Cement (atored In No.

32 Godown).

3,094 Casks Cement (stored in No.

33 Godown).

89 Casks Cement (stored in No.

Godown), -

889) Casks Cement (stored in The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown. Co., Ltd., West Point, Hong Kong). Terms:

Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

ON

.do. Level FRIDAY, the 4th November, 1927,

do. Level do. 17'11"B

commencing at 5.15 p.m..

tain, upon application to the Secre- tary, Badges for admission of two! ladies free of charge.

Hong Kong, October 29, 1927.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Hit of the Year Sale

GREAT NOVEMBER REDUCTIONS

Commencing To-day

SILKS, HOURI COATS, KIMONOS, DRESS LENGTHS and LINGERIE,

DOWN TO LOWER PRICES THAN EVER BEFORE.

SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY

TO BUY

YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR SENDING HOME

BUY AT

CHELLARAM'S

DEEP-LAID PLOT.

CHINA'S POST OFFICE IN DANGER.

"N.C.D. NEWS" REVELATIONS

Shanghai, Saturday.

N Serip Certificats No. 4964 TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN with respect to 5 Shares numbered laid down by the Washington 4062/4066 in the above Office, Agreement by setting up its own standing In the name of Ranesboo Directorate of Posts... (Widow of the late Abdooltyeb They planned to order Mr. Allymahomed) of Bombay, has been Picard Destelan, co-Director-Gen-

LOST, and should the same not be

AND SAVE MONEY.

D. CHELLARAM.

Right Opposite Queen's Theatre

EX-KAISER'S SISTER.

MARRIAGE TO IMPECUNIOUS YOUNGSTER.

!

DISPARITY OF AGE.

Bonn, Saturday.

Alexander Zoubkoff, the im-

con

Hong Kong, 26th October, 1927. produced before the 8th November, eral, with his staff and archives to

and 1927, a new Scrip Certificate will move to Nanking and when he be issued in favour, of the said refused, to dismiss him by man-

The bride, who is sixty-two, searchlights were used to dazzle the Raneeboo (Widow of the late date for disobedience, then an- bitterly complains of Press at monsters. Another passenger saw Abdooltyeb Allymahomed), and no nounce that they must set up tacks as regards the disparity in armless and legless bodies Boating transaction taking place under the their own Directorate and take age and says that experience on the surface Reuter Old Scrip Certificate will be re-control of all offices in their ter compensates him for what he cognised by the Office.

ritory. Ho Ying-ching's brother- lacks in age.-Router. JARDINE, MATHESON &]in-law, Wang Pei-chun,

CO., LTD.

selected as Director-General and General Agents. Liu, Commissioner for Anhui, as Hong Kong, 25th October, 1927. co-Director.

do. 6.10" at their Sales Room, Daddell Street. A VALUABLE COLLECTION

OF POSTAGE STAMPS

[Note: B. donetes Below Overdow"; A denotes "Above Overflow."]

Storage in millions and decimals

Tytam

Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk

of gallona.

1920 1927

$30.66 884.80

22.37 2.42 195.00 105,00 3,419.90 1,419.00

80.84 11.45 66.00 51.00

2,118.41 2,010,29

Wong Nel Chung Poktulum

Total

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de cimals of gallera during the month of September.

Consumption

1026, 1927

208.24 314.54 Estimated population 405,040 416,380 Consumption per head

per day....KA

Was

CRAWLEY CASE.

15 'MONTHS". GAOL FOR FRAUD.

BOGUS ARMS DEAL.

Shanghai, Saturday.. The American, K. M. Crawley, was sentenced to fifteen months" imprisonment.

:

LINER DISASTER.

"MAFALDA'8” · REFUGEES ARRIVE IN PORT.

SOME TERRIBLE SCENES..

Rio de Janeiro, Saturday. The "North China Daily News"

The Dutch steamer “Alhepa” has in a leader headed "Wrecking the pecunious scion of a minor Rus-arrived bere bringing in 581 aur- Chinese Post Office" states that sian noble family, whose mar vivom from the Italian liner it is known confidentially for riage next week to Princess "Principessa Mafalda." The French Crawley has voluntarily re- several months that the Nation Schaum Burglippe will give him steamer "Moselle," conveying 100 turned the $90,000 which was state en indignant denial of survuthoritative connected story defence is appealing and the alists are proposing to circumvent the ex-Kaiser as a brother-in-law, survivors, has arrived at Balla, his share in the swindle. The the report that he once earned of the disaster is still unobtainable Judge agreed to G$4,000 as bail. his living as a dancing partner as. the rescued are necessarily un--Reuter. and wishes the statement con-able to visualise the horrors of the tradicted as it "annoys the wreck as a whole. A saloon pas- The case of the United States Princess." He insists also on & senger aboard the "Mosella"

v. K. M. Crawley, in which the correction of his age"he is not firms that huge sharks, caused latter was charged with obtaining money by false pretences, was twenty-three but twenty-eight." havoc

swimmers among

concluded before Judge. Milton D. Purdy in the United States: Court for China, at Shanghai, on the 21st instant. The charge was brought in connection with an alleged arms deal between an agent of a General in an inland province and the defendant, in which the latter posed as a seller of arms and ammunition. Par suant to the contract entered into between the parties, it was under stood that the defendant, together with another under the assumeds name of "John Doe Thompson, were to deliver to the buyer, the London, Saturday. agent of the General, two million TROUBLE IN SPAIN.

were killed and much rounds of ammunition at ap damage done as a result of a gale proximately $78,200. It was An Entertainment under

Paris, Saturday, which was felt throughout the alleged in the information that HONGKONG HEIGHTS, the auspices of, and in comes a liability rather than an It is reported that 1,500 Catalan country. Telephone communica- the defendant had misappropriat asset it will probably fade away, or Spanish Republican insurgents tion with Ireland was severed and ed the money in question, and de- aid of, the

The "North China Daily News from Paris and Brussels crossed a massive crane with tripod, aclined to fulfil the contract. He concludes: "In the light of experi- the Franco-Spanish frontier and hundred and fifty feet, high, was Judgment of guilty was given ence we have little hope that the concentrated on the Spanish side of blown across Southampton Row, by Judge Milton D. Furdy. The Powers will take adequate steps Mount Camporadon. According to Holborn. The crane crushed a Court's judgment was to be an to forestall the destruction of the an "Echo de Paris" report from taxicab and formed a barrier of nounced later, the bail of the pri Postal Service.”—Reuter.

Perpighan, they are commanded by wood and iron wreckage thirty soner being increased to Gold the famous novelist Blasco Ibanez feet high. A ferro concrete mill and Ventura Cassolits

The greatest unrest prevails. It is rumoured that the present plot has a much greater object than amare separatist movement Catalonia fands were provided by Catalan centres in South America and Soviet Russia.

(Used and Unused).

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Thursday, the 3rd: November, 1927.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers Hong Kong, 31st October, 1927.

For the information of visitors

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

the following list of some of the HONG KONG WOMEN'S

22,0 25.2 highest points on the Island and Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis- Mainland is published:- tricts during September,, 1928 and

1927.

· KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL.

Kowloon Reservoir

1026 1027 Level 0'9"B.

Shek Kai Pul Reservoir Da. Lavel Storage in millions and decimala

of gallons, cons 1028 1027 Kowloon Reservoir d 362.50 344.71! Shek Lai Pul Reservoir, 100.80, 100.80 Reception Reservoir ̧ì.

Total

453.30: 446.51

Consumption of water in Kowloon

in millions and decimals of gallons dur-

ing the month of September

201926 1927

Consumption **** 81.78 105.53 Estimated population 156,880 101,029 Consumption per head

per day

an

21.7

Fall Supply in all districts during

August 1926 and 1927.

The Government":"Analyst'

show that the quality of the wat

sadafactory

E

Total rainfall to September 20, 1928; 82.09 Feptember 30, 1927/98.25.

Island.

Victoria Peak Signal Station

Mt. Parker Mountain Lodge The Eyrie

Peak Hotel.

Taikoo Sanatorium Mt. Davis Bowen Rd. (alterbeds);

Mainland.

Talmoshan Kowloon Pea

Feat.

1828 1774

LEAGUE

MINISTERING

GALE AT HOME

They were favourably inclined WARLIKE NOVELIST. DAMAGE DONE THROUGH-

to foreign Commissioners in South China being retained until

the new system was in working

order and tacitly accepted by the Powers after which they were to be eliminated and the service run on the familiar, Chinese methods. When revenues declined, to sa

point where the Post Office be

1734 CHILDREN'S LEAGUE A VITAL QUESTION. 1725 will by kind permission WHY VISCOUNT CECIL LEFT

1726

1305 of

1000

877

207

H. E. The OFFICER Administering the GOV-

3124

1971

POLAR CAKE

TIS QUALETY

THAT COUNTE

GOVERNMENT. '.

DISARMAMENT: NEEDS.

London, Saturday.

IBANEZ AS LEADER OF INSURGENTS.

Extraordinary precautions are

ERNMENT be held in Viscount Cecil, who is pursuing the BALL ROOM of the League of Nations' propaganda being taken by the authorities on GOVERNMENT HOUSE campaign at Durham, said that both sides of the frontier.Reuter.

when the Three Power Conference

Teacher Bantalted.

on THURSDAY, 3rd on Disarmament failed he came to diperan Pergignan, Yesterday. November, at 5 p.m.

Tickets Price $1 may be obtained from ANDERSON MUSIC CO.

MOUTRIE & COMPANY.

encamp the conclusion that he must leave Aschoolmaster at an the Government not in order to ment in the tiny republic of An- attack it but in order to convince dorra in the Pyrenees, has been his fellow countrymen of the vital i banished followi importance of disarming by inter-visit „which resulted nation agreement. If the resolut: covery of arms and

tion of the League Assembly were 1.1 understood that

carried into

in the letter showed the

| and, spirit there, would be, po, need

for diftare

tween is him and

domicilary in the dis; ummunition, pers: seized

OUT COUNTRY."

FOUR PERSONS KILLED."

Four

chimney, a hundred and eighty feet high, at Bradford collapsed and demolished part of an office. warehouse in which two hundred workmen were employed. None was injured. Reuter.

VERY ILL.

FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF

VIN, MANILAVENANMAA

$20,000.

LINCOLN AGAIN.

REPORTED TO BE IN PEKING.

London, Saturday, The "Westminster Caretto” learns that, Trebitsch Lincoln, the aL M.P., who acted as an enemy during the war has Peking disguised as a

la believed that he persuade the Pansh Loa. Angeles, Oct. 27. facilitate his entry Into India Archbishop Jeremiah Harty of Tibet-Reuter. Omaha, formerly American Arch-an bishop of the Philippines, is seri- ously ill here with lung trouble of- long standing for KS The illness in a result of an attack of: Influènia which the Archbishop

Mane foar

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