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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.

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|HONGKONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors

the following list of some of the The following Unclaimed Tele-highest points on the Island and

Mainland is published:-

Island.

are lying in the E. E. grams Telegraph Co, office, Hong Kong:-

Brachmann

Manila.

Waidefag,

Budin, from Oakland,

Exposicion, from Idma.

Giraud Kremlin, from Hanoi.

Victoria Peak

Feet.

1829

from

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyrie

Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sanatorium

1725 1306 1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds)

297

Mainland.

Talmosnan

3124

Kowloon Peak

1971

Limgimkhean, care of Univer-

sity, from Penang.

Petrosam, from Taipeh..

E. A. LEGGATT, .

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 12th January, 1928.

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Notes on Chinese Sword Furniture

The Yala River to Linkiang Tai-kam-a Paradise for Lepers

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25th January, 1928.

THE CHINA MAIL,

HAPPY HOLLAND.

MONEYLENDERS.

PROSPEROUS AND ATHLETIC PEOPLE.

GLOWING TRIBUTES BY RELATIVES,

A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS."

ALL BENEVOLENCE,

My Impressions of Holland were Moneylenders are

sentimental,

STRANGE STORY:

DOCTOR WHO LET A MAN DIE

MISERY IF HE HAD LIVED.

MOUNT EVEREST.

A CONTROVERSY RECALLED FROM INDIA.

COL, 'WOOD 'RETIRES.

Colonel H. Wood, of the Survey A remarkable story of why he of India, who has recently retired

whether Mount

EMBERS desiring to be pre- fleeting. So, for the matter of generous, upright people, the sort allowed a man to die without after many years service, will be sent at the above are that, was I. Holland is a good af men who are kind to animals and attempting to save his life was told remembered chiefly in connection requested to notify the undersigned place to be fleet in. There are who love to pat little children on by a doctor at a Sheffield Inquest.

with the controversy in regard to as soon as possible. `...

plenty of trains, trams, and motor the head.

The inquiry concerned the death the identification of Mount Everest E. M. BRYDEN,

buses, and in places all three I didn't know this refreshing of John Robinson, a master asphal- and Gaurisanker. c/o Lowe, Blagham & Matthews trundle along side by side in per- fact until recently, writes R. E. ter, of Brineworth Street, Atter- In 1908 Lord Curzon, Viceroy of Hong Kong, 14th January, 1928. fect harmony. All are cheap and Corder in the "Daly Mail," when cliffe, whom he had been attending India, obtained the consent of the

comfortable. The trams are de-at the Thames Police Court, Ifor chronic dropsy.

Nepal Durbar to the deputation of corated with vases of daffodils, and heard a succession of moneylenders, Robinson's housekeeper said that Colonel Wood, who then held the STEAMSHIP SERVICE. a polite request to visit the bulb all wearing their hats, apply for she gave him a sleeping draught rank of Captain, to visit Katmandu

to ascertain flelds. This is for the visitors, certificates under the new Money- and later found him a sleeping For the natives there is an equally lenders' Act which came into force and later found him apparently identical.

Everest, and Gaurisankar were MACAO. TO TIMOR.

Captain. Wood headed polite request, not a buttonhole to on January 1.

asleep in bod. As his condition did the expedition, and as the result HE Government' of Macao is betake. THE

The second-class rallway Under the new Act moneylenders not improve she telephoned for the of his observations the separate prepared to accept propesale carriages seat three a side like our have to bring evidence of charac-doctor. A drawer in the room had Identity of the two peaks was for the establishment of a steam firsts. There was, perhaps, a timeter, and this is no idle formality. been tampered with.

established. ship service between MAÇÃO and whon three Dutchmen a side was

Not only are the "friends in Dr. A. T. Simpson said that In 1904 Captain Wood published TIMOR.

all a railway carriage would hold, need" put through a searching ex- when he called at the house he report on "The Identification and Proposals should reach the un- but that is all changed. Hollandamination by the magistrate, but found Robinson suffering from Nomenclature of the Himalayan dersigned not later than 17th today is svelt and athletic. This also a police Inspector who has laudanum poisoning. He was con- Nepal and the conclusions which Peaks, as seon from Katmandu be obtained from the PORT does not include the Amsterdam made exhaustive inquiries attends vinced that the best thing to do was he expressed have since been fully confirmed by the recently com- pleted survey of Nepal.

JANUARY, 1928, Particulars may

NOTICE.

Chinese New Year

to let the man dle, and occurred three hours later.

death

Tsangpe Exploration.

GUESE CONSULATES at Hong Jew, who is as nearly egg-shaped to ask awkward questions.

Director and Treasurer. Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Manila, as it is possible for a human being'

Mr. Sharpe, who sat at Thames

Nothing Could Save Him. Kobe, Amoy and Saigon, or from to be..

Police. Court, A Transformation. the undersigned.

gave the money- "We could," he said, "have done lenders a very uneasy time in the nothing to save the man, as it was Expedition in 1904 Captain Wood At the conclusion of the Tibet In the Amsterdam Station I saw witness-box. ALMEIDA PINHEIRO,

Harbour Master.la train decant about 300 bob-hair-

Impossible to get the laudanum out accompanied Captain Ryder in his The first one, who carried his of his stomach, and even then survey expedition behind the water- Macao, 20th December, 1927. ed, short-skirted lassies. When old, framed certificate under his would have hesitated to try to bring shed

they stampeded for the uitgang the arm, said he was the managing him wilfully back to life, as if he Gyantse to Simla when the course of the Himalayas from whole platform became a whirl of director of a company.

Some years ago

had lived his life would have only of the Tsangpo in Tibet was ex- spidery legs.

"You are Bure it is not a one been a misery." Danish agricultural official told me man company?" asked the magis-

plored to its source. The Coroner: Is that what you From 1905 to 1014 he was, for proudly that in six months, to meet trate.

really think?—Yes. I have thought the greater part employed in have come to the conclusion that Berar and Bangalore. this case over very seriously and topographical parties in Poona, many other doctors in the city will was a Major, was sent on deputa- In 1914 Colonel Wood, who then "And who is the treasurer?" iu- agree with me.

tion with the Flippi Scientific Ex- quired a police. Inspector. •

Dr. Carter, the police surgeon, pedition to the Karakoram, and limited company,"

"No treasurer is needed in a expressed .the opinion that death explored the headwaters of the answered the was due to natural causes, chiefly Yarkand River, and for his service moneylender sweetly. "I, as man- dropay; but Dr. Simpson, recalled, received official recognition by the aging director, held all the money." adhered to his view that the cause King of Italy, was awarded the

The inspector, having some fu- was laudanum poisoning.

order of the Crown of Italy, and formation up his sleeve, asked for The coroner adjourned the in-ales the Silver Medal of the Royal and obtained an adjournment of quest for the

Geographical Society. tails and the Charleston. Certain the application.

contents of the

War Services. stomach to be analysed. ly for the Charleston, which is

On the outbreak of the Great more than a fashion. In a narrow

War, Major Wood was still in Cen-

Holidays.

account of the CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS our Office will be CLOSED from JANUARY 23rd to 26th inclusive. THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.

Hong Kong and Kowloon. Hong Kong, 16th January, 1928.

a change in the British taste, the Danish pig was made over from a He has invested £750 in the con- "No, there is also the secretary. rangy, long-backed, rasher-yieldingcern," creature to a short, plump, kalipy- ginous porker with a maximum yield of ham. By some subtle pro- cess the Dutch girl has made her self over in the opposite direction She used to be sturdy and plump

To-day she is long and thin, I suppose she has exchanged Dutch

cheese and Amstel beer for cock.

Model Citizens.

But the evidence of character street in Amsterdam-what would was wonderful. A first cousin of have been a slum in England-the moneylander put wings on the 8AW A dozen wee, hockey-nosed shareholders of his relative, whont! THE HONG KONG LAND INVEST, girleens Charlestoning to a sort of ha represented as a man kind of hurdy-gurdy. One was the funni- heart, upright in conduct, a model eat little creature Imaginable- citizen. Javanese-Chinese-Dutch piccaninny with a dash of Semite, if you can Imagine such a mixture.

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

NOTICE

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SEWAGE DISPOSAL.tral Asia with the De Fillipi Ex-

COMMISSION'S STUDY FOR 15 YEARS.

HOUSEHOLDERS DUTIES.

:

pedition, and had an adventurous journey across Central Asia, Rua- |sia, Bulgaria, etc., in order to re- port himself in London, where he was reverted to military duty in January, 1915 an... šerved in France

in command of the First Field Survey Company.

"You have not borrowed money TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

from him?" asked the magistrate.

Since that anxious period, about that the FORTIETH OR

"No, thank heaven,"

60 years ago, when the heir. to the Bold the

He was inter sent to Salonika to DINARY GENERAL MEETING of

Apropos of Java, there is no faithful cousin hastily.

British throne nearly lost his life introduce modern methods of locat- SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of doubt that the Javanese are exer.

"As a dairyman he was loved by by typhoid fever, the energies of ing enemy batteries, but the Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., cising a strong influence on Dutch everybody," declared a witness on engineers, chemists and biologists inaccuracy of existing work neces-

One see behalf of a man who had changed have been unremittingly directed to sitated a fresh start and a com Ltd., on THURSDAY, 9th February art and architecture. 1928, at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose everywhere in the newer building his job from milk selling to money For more than 15 years a Royal triangulation.

the problem

of sewage disposal. plete organisation of the whole of receiving the Report of the a style or ornament that may be.

He effected very lending. Directors together with a State- called "Sophisticated - Barbaric." "And he is very well Hiked by our Commission, appointed in 1998, great improvements in all branches ment of Accounts for the year On the magnificent bank building congregation," observed a neigh-studied the matter, with the aid of of survey with the Salonika Field- ending 31st December, 1922,

there were pedimenta decorated hour. "Indeed, he is a tower The REGISTER of SHARES of with skulls. Probably the arch!- strength."

the Company will be CLOSED tect was a reformed head-hunter. from THURSDAY, 26th January

to THURSDAY, 9th February, both days inclusive, during which

Artistic Brickwood.

of

off

"Ever borrow any money him?" inquired the clerk. I should say that in architecture, "Not yet," replied the witness. period no transfer of shares can certainly in domestic architecture,

"Pep-Pees-Road." be registered,

the Dutch are 75 years ahead of Another good, kind moneylender By Order of the Board of Directors, us. We still build hideously when said he lived in Pep-pees Road. we use brick, though brick is still "How do you spell it?" asked Mr. L. S. GREENHILL,

Secretary. our standby.. The Dutch have Mr. Sharpe.

Hong Kong, 10th January, 1928.

FANLING HUNT

STEEPLECHASES.

SATURDAY, 21st JANUARY, at 3 p.m.

Admission to Public Enclosure $1.00. Ladies Free.

Force and was mentioned three competent experts, and issued

times in despatches, awarded the long series of pregnant tomes em- Order of the White Eagle 4th class bodying the results of their labours. (Serbia), and was promoted Brevet These dealt not only with current Lieutenant-Colonel on January 1, practice, but with laboratory rc 1918, search and experimental work on a large scale.

Administrative Work On his return to the Survey of The results so far obtained are India in December, 1920, Liea- of great and permanent value, but tenant-Colonel Wood was appoint they do not include the discovery ed to officiate as Superintendent made a fine study of artistic brick- "Pepys," said the benevolent one, of any simple and cheap way of (Director) and confirmed in the work. If they ever had a jerry. "Peeps, man, peeps," corrected purifying sewage in the numerous grade on August 12, 1922.

As Director he held two of the builder they have disposed of him. the magistrate; and the money-cases to which the fundamental na-

onerous administrative On us his hand is still heavy. Our lender looked helplessly at the usher tural methods of discharge, upon most only alternative the stucco box-with the air of one who did not suitable land or into large volumes charges in the Department, firstly All the old Northern Circle (from the Dutch will have none of. Re- deserve to be the object of epithets of water are not applicable..

such cases could be efficiently dealt 1928), which has since been made December 14, 1920 to August 24, gent street, London, la now prob. from the Bench. ably the most terrible, example in

by Pawnbrokers who

appropriate are money with

special

more manageable by the creation Europe of meaningless architecture, lenders too have also to obtain a methods, but very often only at an of the Frontier Circle, and after of a period that is wobbling un new certificate under the Act; and impracticable cost. For this rea-wards as Director of Map,publica- easily between Victorian sedateness one of the applicants at Thames son, even in these favoured islands, tion, in charge of the technical and luxury and the threat of the Police Court recently was a solici- the soil, air and waters are, in offices at Calcutta. Admission to Subscriber's 'En-

Explorer and Mountaineer. closure on production of badge only, akyscraper complex. The only in tor who, as sole surviving executor many districte, polluted by casual

Colonel Wood was also an ardent Subscribers can introduce Two fluence that might have produced and trustes, administered a pawn makeshift drainage, and the provi-

post-war shop in Mile End Road, which has sions of the Public Health Acts pro- explorer and mountaineer, and good-our Ladies Free and Two Non-members something

Hol-carried on business for nearly 100 hibiting overflow or soakage from after the War was anxious to at $5.00 each.

penury-has been ignored. Cars parked on Racecourse 35,00 land is building its large and most years.

cesspools, are widely disregarded. carry on the explorations beyond each. Free parking arranged off public and other buildings of brick. The manager has been employed With a pressure supply of water the Karakoram which he had to the course.

They represent the spirit of the for 44 years, and a tailor from next and a cesspool, constructed in ac-abandon in 1914, even offering to Tickets obtainable from Dr. Fage, are good to look upon, and door who gave evidence of characcordance with the law, a household-bear a large portion of the cost

himself. Pierce Grove, Alexander Buildings. cost about half as much as our out-ter has been in business for 50 er in every urban district in Eng-

SPECIAL TRAINS Return fare: of-date dreams in stone.

land, and in all districts in Ireland,him that sanction was not obtain- It was a great dieappointment to 1st Class $1.50, 2nd Class 90

This new Act is doing much good has the duty imposed on him of able for his expedition at a time centa. Trains, leave Kowloon. 2.00

even before. It comes inte force, pumping or bailing out and then when he would have been able to p.m. Return 6.00 p.m.'

we had more Bolshevism (meaning because shady moneylenders can- disposing of all the drainage of his act as its leader. thereby the manis for exchanging not pass the severe double test of house. old things for new) in the arts, we the police and the court.

The additional work put PILLS should probably have less in poli-

MARTINS

APIOL

& STEEL

Sare and pertain for all pamalo samplainin. Xvwy lady should keep box in the bozze. Chemists and Storme

sell them thewughout the world. Proprietor: Martia Chander, Fasthampton, Var.

JUST ARRIVED

A FEW MORE SETS

OF OLD

CHEFOO STAMPS

$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.

Cash must be sent with order to Box No

China Mail"

Life Worth Living.

A wider thought obtrudes.

years.

A brief calculation-evidently

tica is to pass on the difficulty to Dame Nature, by permitting illegal soakage or overflow. Fortunately, when neighbours or wells are not

EX-CONVICT ORATOR.

ADDRESSES A JURY FOR THREE HOURS..

on never made by the Parliamentary tica. It threatens our political sys. magistrates is very heavy, but they draughtsmen-shows that this. Is tem which is worth preserving. It have the satisfaction of knowing an almost impossible task. It is would do no harm to our aesthetic that they are rendering excellent seldom attempted. The usual prac

public service ideals which for the most part are not. One gets in Holland the im- pression that life must be better worth living there provided, of According to information from course, you are Dutch-than in Chinese circles, four Chinese banks seriously affected, this system England. Certainly they are pros-in Tientsir, including the Bank of serves tolerably well. The best ar- rangement, however, and one which perous, and healthy. They are be- China and the Bank of Communis legal, provides that the overflow 58 convictions, addressed the jury coming athletic, too. Tennis courts cations, have agreed to advance a

Eum of $200,000 for the conservand soakage "shall take place at the Old Bailey for three hours are being laid out everywhere and ancy of the Hai Ho river. An through an adequate longth of in his own defence when charged hockey is becoming popular agreement between the parties con-open-fointed pipes laid at a moder-with stealing a horse and gig. He Among the young the "Fadfinders," cerned was to be signed a week ate depth in a garden or field-ended by, saying that he had had

as they call their Scouts, are beago. It is predicted by the experts "Engineering.” coming very, numerous. In the in connection with conservancy streets one sees no surly faces. affairs, that navigation along the No discontented voices are raised, river will be resumed by March. The police are

a mere formality. next. The depth of the river water is now thirteen feet, one foot deeper Cleanliness prevails. There is ap than during last month. parently no unemployment. Erices are high and taxes heavy, but I saw no slums, no beggars, and, though I roamed the poorer streets of both Amsterdam and the Hague, no "drunke.".

Work For All.

dustrialism has still a large rEBOTVO of potential development. 4,

My experience on returning to: my native, fand was unpleasing. The explanation is simple but The train was an hour later, and rather disquieting. There are not it took them an hour and a quar-}; enough people in Holland to get ter to serve breakfast, most of under each other's feet. There fe which was cold. I felt that the still enough of everything to go over-population of our island could round. If Holland, had to-morrow not be to blame for that, but it to find work for a hundred thou may be. In any case we do not sand unemployed, it could be done seem to be able to do anything In a dozen ways, since Dutch-In-1 about it.Ex.

BEN-HUR

COMING SHORTLY.

Watch For Opening Date.

TIRED OF TALKING.

Simon Cain, an old convict with

to leave out a lot of points because he was tired of talking."

When found guilty he began by saying: "The jury have come to their conclusion on your direction. Thore, is not one among them has sense enough to understand it. .. “I am prepared to meet the ablest barrister in this court, to show that you are guilty of misconstruct- |ing the facts to the Jury”: MMM

A detective said Cain was a man of violent, character, "the terror of Deptford."

Judge Atherley, Jones passed sen- tence of five years penal servitude. I think protably a great mistake was made in sentencing you to be lashed for your first offence," be added. Had you been treated mercifully you might have become a worthy member of