THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928.
Phone C. 22
FOR
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FOR SALE.
LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS. Its the way you have your HAIR done that makes it [attractive.
Our barbers are experts in Bobbing, Shingling and Way.
ing:
CAMPBELL MOORE
19, Queen's Rond C. Tel. C. 151
FOR SALE. One brass "Hung UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
Mi" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487. c/o "China Mail,"
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed.--"China Mall" Office, No. 8a, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
HOME TUITION.
**TESTOVER
STEVENAGE.
WEST an hour from London:
In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frede! Higher Certificate).
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
and
more
MR. LI HON PUN begs to state MR.
that he has been a teacher of Chinese to European Officers Merchants in Hong Kong for than twenty years, that he has had considerable experience in training students for examinations in Chinese, and bolds first-class certificates.
Persons wishing study the Chinesa ungunge are requested to: communicate with him at No. 104, i Praya East, first floor.
Terma moderate.
to
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions-
THE
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
אפ
Tuesday, the 7th February, 1928 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
·A·Large Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. -
Comprising:-
Teak Hatstand, Bookcases, Desks Chesterfield Couch and Armchairs, Glass Cabinet, Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, Ornaments, etc., etc.
Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggon, Ice Chest, Glass Ware, Crockery, Kitchen Utensils, etc, etc.,
Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Mattresses, Wardrobes with and without glass doors, teak and
Small 3-Bank Portable Model
Yew 4-Bank Portable Model and
Standard Office Machines
Every Size always in stock Suitable for all requirements.
-SOLE AGENTS
Queen's Building.
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Ground Floor. Opposite Ferry Wharf. Tel 1030 Central.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.
Films, Plates und Papers, elc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate,
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. C. 3459.
26A, Des Vœux Road C., Hong Kong.
NOTICE
TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has men available to ship as watch- men, seamen, &c.
Our men are employed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.
Please phone or call: - K.661-No. 2, Saigon Street. Yaumati or
C.2560-No. 36. Tung
· Man Street.
Having Returned from Japan MRS. INAGUCHI
MASSEUSE
HAS RESUMED PRACTICE AT 6 ASHLEY ROAD, KOWLOON. Telephone K. 764.
Camphorwood Chest of Drawers, HONGKONG HEIGHTS Dressing Tables, Marble Top Washstands, Side Tables, Toilet Sets, etc.
Also
A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture And
One Cottage Piano by Brins.
mead and Sons
Two Cottage Pianos
One Piano Player
One Victrola
Four Gramophones
One Underwood Typewriter
One Perambulator
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Monday, the 6th.
February 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers
Hong Kong, lat Feb., 1928,
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS,
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. OF DENMARK.
The following unclaimed, tala grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
Yamakami, Tokio Hotel, from Shanghai,
Gibbison, from Shanghai. Dodwell, from Shanghai. Daini, Atsuta Mara, Mitsui, fron Tokio,
Braky (2), from Yokohama. Walker, care of Linstead, from Kobe.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent.
Hong Kong Station, January 26, 1928,
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and
lainland is published:
Island. Victoria Peak
NOTICES.
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB,
TENNIS TOURNAMENT,
REMINDER.
ENTRIES CLOSE. on
Hong Kong, 1st February, 1928,
THE CHINA MAIL,
NOTICES.
UNION WATERBOAT CO. LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
RESTLESS AGE.
PEOPLE CANNOT AMUSE THEMSELVES.
THE REASON WHY.
L'EPINE MILLIONS.'
BARRED BY STATUTE OF JAMES I.
CLAIM FAILS.
BANK CLERKS.
BILL OF £10,000 FOR ·
OVERTIME.
TREASURY REFUSAL.
THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL.
SATUR- Shareholders will be held in the make us regard Christmas as the Crown to recover the fortune left Street hus been in a state of per DAY NEXT, 4th February, at Offices of Masara. Dodwell & Com- outstanding holiday of the year by Maria L'Epine, of Portsmouth, turbation owing to an objection by NOON.
pany, Limited, on TUESDAY, the (writes John Blunt) but there is who died insane In 1798, was dis- the Treasury to foot the bill for 7th February, 1928, at 11 a.m. for one point about it which is often missed on the ground that the claim £10,000 put in by the clerks of the the purpose of receiving the report overlooked but which seems to me was barred by the Statute of Bank of England wh, worked over- of the General Managers together one of its most delighted features. James I.
time during the recent Conversion with 8 Statement of Accounts And that point is that Chrismas During the hearing it was dis-operations. Many conversations to 31st December, 1927,
Day is the one holiday of the year closed that the estate was valued are in progress and the entire staif The TRANSFER BOOKS of the on which we practically all know at £45,000, to which had to be add-is disturbed at the suggestion that Company will be CLOSED from beforehand precisely what we are ed interest for 129 years.
is being made. that overtime raies the 80th January to 7th February, going to do.
When Maria L'Epine died it was shall be reduced, Even the most restless person, assumed that she was illegitimate Roughly speaking some three 1928, both dates inclusive.
the kind of person who cannot stay and as such had no hoirs-at-law, months overtime was worked bu DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD. General Managers.
alone with a book for an afternoon and being insane she could not tween August 1 and October 30 by but must wander about, however make a will, so her fortune became batches of clerks ranging in num- Hong Kong, 21st January, 1928.
aimlessly, surrenders himself on escheat to the Crown.
ber per night from 200 to 1,300.
GENERAL MEETING of There are many things which The Petition of Right against the : The Old Lady, of Threadneedle
NAVY LEAGUE (Hong Kong Branch.)
The Annual General Meeting of the Navy League will be held on Wednesday 8th February at 5.30 p., la the board-room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd. (by kind permission)
All members are cordially invit- ed to attend-
L.M. WHYTE
Hoa, Secretary
HUMPHREYS ESTÀTE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
AA
Hong Kong, February Ist. 1928 | │▼▼▼・ that the ANNUAL ORDIN for it seems to me that an increas made it a condition that the fund sistants and girls received slightly
RACE MEETING, 1928.
Christmas Day to a feeling of rest. King George III. bestowed the The average time worked was about I do not necessarily mean outward property, except 10 per cent, which five hours, from 4 o'clock to 0 rest, but to that innor kind of rest he retained, upon her adminiatra- o'clock. This time included one which comes from having a de-tors, Admiral Earl Howe and hour for dinner. The average pay- finite programme.
Countess, Howe, and their two sur-ment is about 28, 6d. hour. A Problem of Leisure. viving daughters, Baronesa Howe This is the amount received by the Probationers and aa- And that is an excellent thing, and the Marchioness of Sligo, but "Fourths." ARY GENERAL MEETING of ing number of people do not really should be restored if a right to it less, while "Thirds" and higher offi
cials received more. Shareholders in this Company will know what to do with their leisure: was established,
It was not until July 1921 that No payment was made.for the ue held at the Hong Kong Hotel, This may sound strange, consider- HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, the ing that the opportunities for re- it was found that Maria L'Epine's first hour, this being counter-
9th February, 1928 at 11 a.m. for creation and amusement
of all parents had been accretly married balanced by payment for the dinner It is new suggested that he purpose of receiving the Re- kinds are constantly growing, but in 1785 at St. Martin's-in-the-hour.
while the first hour should still be port of the Directors together with am not at all sure that the rest-Fields.
The petitioners based their claim worked without payment, no pay- Statement of Accounts for the lessness of this age is not mainly year ended 81st December, 1927. due to the very fact that people on the assertion that they were ment should be made for the din- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the through force of circumstance, descendants of Abigail Eccles, the ner hour, thus reducing the nightly Company will be CLOSED from have largely lost the art of amus- aunt and heir-at-law of Marla. Be averago to 78. ed., or really is.
ing unable to trace any living des- 1011⁄2d. per hour worked. MEMBERS' BADGES.
WEDNESDAY, 1st February to ing themselves.
The clerks are pointing out that Mombers Badges of AdmissiFRIDAY, 10th February (both
They are so accustomed to be. condanta of the Howa family they are now ready and may be obtain days inclusive), during which ing catered for and to finding hap contended that the money should an ordinary workmen, when he does
be refunded by the Crown,
overtime, generally receives pay at el by those members who have period no transfer of Shares can being left alone and having to de- Knight Mason, Jessie Margaret and a quarter. In their case, how- piness in crowds that they dread The ten claimants were: Amy the rate of time and a half or time already received them, from Messi, bu registered.
vise their own pleasures. Linstead & Davis, Alexandru Builu-
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, are always looking for excitement Mason, Ethel Marion Mason, Al- ever, the rate of pay they ings.
fred William Masan, Herbert been receiving is no General Managers,
and variety, and thus they have Frederick Mason, Arthur Charles three-quarters of the rate they are Hong Kong, 25th January, 1928. lost the art of sitting quietly at Mason, Emily Eliza Harrison, Wil-paid for the regular work.
home and finding enjoyment of liam Henry Knight, Lucy Taabella their own making.
Coldwell Knight, and Viscount! Bangor.
13th, 14th, 16th and 18th
February.
Members are reminded that these Badges will also admit them to nu the Extan Race Meetitigs of this
your.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Members have the privilege of]THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, introducing two an: 1.: mibera to the Members Enclosure.
A limited number of tickets are available and may be obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexa
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
dr Buildings, on or before SATUR- NOTICE
DAY, 11th February, 1928, at a cost
[year.
They
more
have than
JORDAN WATER.
USED AT CHRISTENING OF
3 GENERATIONS:
infant son
Endearing Routine, But nobody feels this, vague King George III's Gift. restlessness at Christmas, because
The Crown set up a number of everybody's Christmas Day ia map-legal defences, which they said ned out beforehand. Indeed, the would dispose of the claim. routine of Christmas, with all its
Mr. Justice Romer, delivering a different conventions, is one of the reserved judgment, said he would! IS HEREBY GIVEN things which endears it most to first consider the defence of
Water brought from the River the us all and sets it aside as a day Statute of Limitations. Assuming Jordan more than 50 years ago was that the THIRTIETH OR-unlike any other throughout the the claim was one to money rightly used at the christening of the of $10 each per day or $30 for the DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of
belonging to the next-of-kin of Robin Grosvenor at St. Mary's of Captain and Mrs. Meeting.
this Company will be held at the This feeling has been built up Maria L'Epine and wrongly naid Church, Eccleston, near Chester. The charge for admission for Office of Messrs. Jardine Mathe through centuries, and. even those over to King George III., as the The child will one day, in the ordin Ladies' to the Members' Enclosur son & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY restless people who in the ordin- suppliants contended, such a claim, ary course of events, become Duke will x $4 per day. Eselt memb, the 16th February, 1928, at 12.30 ary way acarcely know what to do although founded on equity, was an of Westminster. ras obtain upon application in them, for the purpose of receiving with themselves are quite content action at common law for money
the Report of the Directors, to- to fall into their proper niche at had and received, and was barred Porter, who was well known as a It was in 1874 that Profeskor Secretary, balges, for the admission
wether with a Statement of Ac Christmas. of two Ladies" free of charge. Di
by the Statute of James I. "ounts for the year ended 31st no, pretext will children be permit December, 1927, and if thought fit them will draw the obvious moral estate was ever in the hands of his gave it to Miss May Guild, daughter .It is to be hoped that some of It was clear that no part of the home a bottle of Jordan water and mfasionary to the Arabs, brought ter in either enclosure during to sanction the payment to the and learn that more happiness is present Majesty or formed part of of Mr. Alexander Guild, of Belfast, first three days racing.
Directors of the arly sum of to be got by schooling themselves the. Consolidated Fund. 31,000.00 as an anal bonus in than by giving rein to their rest- Another class of case for exemp
of th addition to the yearly sum lessness. If in the coming year tion from the Statute was where
paragraph 96 of the Company's their own happiness, they may trust funds, had been received by the christening of Mr. and Mrs. $1,000.00 payable to them under they will make an effort to create trust funds, or, the proceeds of Articles of Association as from the suddenly wake up to the fact that a person with knowledge that they Edwin Tate's three children, also 1st January, 1928. The purpose they are no longer restless.were wrongly paid to him.
for the baptism of their two grand- The supplants contended that children, and more has been used this class of case applied to their for the Captain of their great- claim, inasmuch as King George grandson at the recent ceremony. III took steps to procure an in- Notwithstanding the years which the water is still the claim of any next-of-kin. He clear, as after each occasion could not regard the taking of the which water has been taken from indemnity as offering any indica- the bottle, the bottle has been tion that the Crown knew that the tightly corked again. estate was being wrongly paid over. It was an ordinary measure of pre- caution..
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. Tickets of Admission
Lo
Publis Enclosure, price $8 per de for all persona inchiding Ladies, may be purchased from Mesars. Kelly à Walsh, Ltd., or at the Gate..
Soldiers and Sailors' in uniform admitted to the Publie Enclosure $1 per day.
of this ia to make effective the "Daily Mail." following resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of the Company held on 28th January, 1927-"That
who soon afterwards married Mr. Edwin Tate, son of Sir Henry Tate,
the donor of the Tate Gallery.
Some of the water was used for
the Directors' remuneration be in- ST. ANDREW'S `CLUB. demnity from the grantees against have passed,
Admission by ticket only. Bookmakers, Tic. The inen, ele..creased from $1,000.00 per annum will not be permitted to operito $2,000.00 per annum." within the precincts of the Hong THE REGISTER OF SHARES of Kong Jouluy Club during the Rnethe Company will be CLOSED Meeting.
SERVANTS' PASSES, Passes for Servants will be ison on application to Messrs. Linster & Davis, Alexandra Buildings,
Employers are requested to dis tribute them with discrimination. and to endorse their mites on the PRSSES.
Servants are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for pass- ing through on their duties, bin must retunin in their employers" slands.
Any persons found loitering about with Servants Passes in their pos session will forfeit the same axl will be removed from the enclosure.
By Order,
from MONDAY, the 6th February, 1928 to THURSDAY, the 16th February, 1928, both days in- clusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Secretary.
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Hong Kong, 30th January, 1928.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Q.
R.
ANNUAL MEETING: NEXT MARATHON.
Added
The claim was barred by the Statute of James L., and that was sufficient to dispose of the petition.
on
Officers were re-elected for the ensuing year at the annual meet- of St. Andrew's ing yesterday Church Young Men's Club when the past year's activities were reviewed and a satisfactory financial position was indicated. It was agreed to ruit WEDDING MYSTERY, the New Territories. Plug Woo is
BRIDE VANISHES FROM
⚫ LINER.
PING. WOO'S FIGHT.
The sensational fight between bandits and the village volunteers of Ping Woo bas had a sequel in
only 20 miles from the British border, and is the birthplace of the late Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak.
the annual Kowloon Marathon race: over the same course on March 5. A' board bearing the names of the champions is to be placed in the
The fight followed the disappear- Church Hall together with the res-
ance from the village of 15 cows, pective times. The work of those
The relatives of Miss Jean soven of which are stated to have who had given up their time to the Brown, living at Alexandra Street, been recovered a few days ago by the entertainment of members of the Partick, Glasgow, have been Hong Kong Police at Shataukok, in Services was commented on and informed by cablegram of her dis- the New Territories. thanks expressed by the Rev. W. W. appearance from a ship on which On Saturday about 100 village Rogers, Vicar, who presided over she
from volunteers left Ping Woo and was coming home the meeting. It was agreed to
America, It is feared she has marched to Shumchun in search of hold a social on Friday, March 3,
been drowned.
the bandita. After scouring the Miss Brown, it Officers Elected.
bills for several hours, the volun- Officers elected to serve for the is understood, left Glasgow for teers succeeded in locating five of DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ensuing year were; chairman, Rev. New York to be married, and her the bandits late in the afternoon,
of Sale by Public Auction W.
vice-chairman, parents were informed that the but only one was captured. W. Rogers: to be held on MONDAY, the 6th Messra, J., H. Hunt, P. Sands, C. C. ceremony had taken place. day of February, 1928, at 3 p.m., Mitchell and Capt. Thomas: hon. mail week they received the news at the Offices of the Public Works secretary, Mr. R. Baldwin; hon. that she was returning to Scot-
mittee, Messrs. P. White and R. Wong.
Feet. 1823
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 30th January, 1928.
Signal Station
1774
PA
Mt. Parker
1784
Mountain Lodge
1725
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel
1305
Taikoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Davis
877
Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds)
297
Mainland.
Taimoshan...
8124
Kowloon Peak
· 1971
PUBLIC AUCTION
PILLS Department, by Order of His Ex- treasurer, Mr. J. W. Baldwin; com- land
MARTIN'S CRE
Sure and Gertahs for all Femala wenplaints. Evacy lady abould keep bey in the house, Chemists and Sta sad them throughout the world. Proprietor: Martia Chemist. Foulkem
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: 519.
China Mail"
celleney the Governor, of Three Lots of Crown Land at Prince Edward Road, Ma Tou Wei, In the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75
years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Begistry No.
No. of Bale.
Kowloon Island Kewicz Tabad Kowlown Intim
Prince Edward Band,.
Locality.
Boundary
Measuremmta,
L w,
• Aumal Rent
it th
Aboa
As
| perisalo | plan, | 125,880 708
Da
* | Upset Price
LOST MOTORISTS.
In
FIRST IN 18 YEARS.
Miss Brown, who was twenty- At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- six years of age, was one of twin terday. Mr. W. Schofield imposed a alstera, and prior to her departurej Ane of $25 or one month's hard for America she was in the em- labour on a private watchman em. ployment of a Glasgow firm. She ployed at the Kowloon Godowns, for had known her husband for many the theft of a pair of binoculars be- years, it is understood. He left longing to Mr. F. G. L. Wheeler. The binoculars were recovered Scotland for the United States a from a pawnshop. The accused considerable time ago for the was given the option of a fine be- purpose of making a career for cause it was stated that this was of himself. Not long ago he return his first lapse after about 18 years' Aus-ed from America for a short holi- service during which time he had have just been illus-day in Scotland. A few months had a good character, trated by the narrow cscape ago Miss Brown received intima- from death of a family of three tion from her fiance to go out to
48 HOURS IN SAND HILLS.
Adelaide, travelling
- The
perils in Central
tralia
MURDER VERDICT.
in the Cooper Creek sand hill the States. country. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and their child, aged three, took the wrong track, but fortunately their wheel marks were picked up by
At the Kowloon Magistracy yeB- other motorists who realised that terday, Mr. W. Schofield and a a mistake had been made.
Coroner's jury held an inquiry into the death of a Chinese bean curd They followed the tracks for maker who was killed by three rob- 100 miles and were about to aban-bers on the night of Nov. 27 last. 50,000 14 don the search when Mr. Walsh's A woman who had lived with the car was observed bogged in the deceased was stated to have made Band. The family were nearly ex- various contradictory statements to hausted, having been without the police and then disappeared water for two days and nights, from Kowloon City a week after The searchers had a 25-hours her release. At frat she had sald continuous motor journey through that she did not recognise any of the difficult country not previously said that one of the three who at
three alleged robbers, but later traversed by motor-cars. Mad tacked her was the step-son of one. The Walshes had been moisten of the neighbours. The jury re- ing their mouths with glycerine turned a verdict of "murder by and eye lotion.
|some person or persons unknown,”
Do
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