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EXTRA RACE MEETINGS.
Ebeen fixed provisionally for XTRA RACE MEETINGS have
the following dates:-
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Gth and 8th October, 10th November.
1st December.
"By Order,
C. B. BROWN,'
Secretary. Hong Kong, Feb. 29, 1928.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
THE UNDERSIGNED,
going Home Nu leave, begs to in- form that Mr. LESDOS has been appointed Local Agent of the Com-
with effect from the 25th instant. pagnie des Messageries Maritimes
(Sgd.) J. LIMAGE, Agent,
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
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editorially
J
CORN IN LONDON.
TROUBLES OF 4,000 YEARS AGO.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.}
3
NOT TO HANG.
MURDERER WHO LOST
APPEAL GOES MAD,
CARDIFF CRIME.
The interesting fact that gardens John Rowlands, one of the
HOW TO LIVE.
LABOUR-SAVING HABITS OF
BODY AND MIND.
"SCIENCE IN THE MAKING.”
Says the "Shanghai Mercury” Every normal human being de-
sires to be happy and to get out of in St. Martin's-Lane and at Bethnal three men who unsuccessfully ap Three Pounds Sterling together. At all times this international life as much as he can. Yet, after Green were once the scene of im- pealed against sentence of death with a
Bonus of Two Pounds community of ours evince more all the centuries the human race portant agricultural experiments is for the murder at Cardiff of David Sterling is payable on and after the than casual interest in the pro has been adjusting itself to the con- recalled by the exhibition of manus-Lewis, a Rugby footballer, is not 27th February, 1928, at the Offices greas of Hong Kong. Our neigh-ditions of life, it is strange that cripts and printed books, illustrat- to be hanged. of the Corporation where Share- hours reciprocate. Revolutionary no body of-rules for an. art of living the history of agriculture, at He has gone mad, and will be holders are requested to apply for repercussions in the South touching has been evolved so that each the British Museum, says the removed from Pentonville to
us here. When prosperity is en-generation may hand them on for "Daily Express."
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic By Order of the Court of joyed by our friends in the little the guidance of the next, writes It was Sir Hugh Platt, who seems | Asylum, where he will be detained
Directors,
outpost of Empire the port of Dr. F. Aveling, M.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., to have been a sort of Elizabethan during his Majesty's pleasure. A. C, HYNES, Shanghai profits. Depression Reader in Psychology, University Lord Bledisloe, who practised the Rowlands has been certified as Chief Manager. comes, and we share the gloom. of London, King's College, in the "now and admirable Arte of setting being temporarily Insane, but Hong Kong, 25th Feb., 1928.
On Feb. 22, items of news reach-"Daily Chronicle."
of Corne" on the site of modern hopes of his complete recovery ed us as to the aspirations culti- In a rough-and-ready sort of London. He inyented "all the are still held. vated by those who confidently way no doubt, much of the experi- necessary tooles" with such auccess face the future: we learned of the lence of mankind, summed up in that he was knighted in the accend possibilities of aeroplane connect-maxims and proverbs, has been year of James I tions being made between the passed on from father to son.. But island and Shanghai, an average no consistent attempt has been
Labour Troubles. There is speed of 80 to 90 miles an hour made to teach even this piecemeal
amusing evidence labour troubles more than TF the Marine Boller left, on Kow-being maintained, and the estim-and scrappy knowledge in any
loon Marine Lot No. 49 by SEE ated cost of the trip per passenger thorough-going way.
years ago. One of the oldest refer- Each one of us has to learn for ences to agriculture is on a papyrus have been taken back to Cardiff, TO MING is not claimed and re-stood at $170. Not an idle dream, moved within FOURTEEN (14) but a project which is within the himself how to live, and to make describing the work of an Egyptian where they await execution, days, same will be sold to defray realm of possibility in the years what he can out of life, in the gardener, "who brings loads of pro- The Ronald True Case.
to come, for marvellous strides rough-and-tumble school of living duce, and his arms and neck ache are being made these days to itself, by giving and taking hard beneath them. At noon he waters calls the interest aroused by the The fate of John Rowlands re- economise time and snatch at op knocks, by rare
success and fre- the onions, and in the evening the case of Ronald True, who in 1922 portunities.
quently failures. He has had to vines. His is more miserable than was sentenced to death for the Again, His Excellency the Gov- begin where his fathers began, not any other calling."
murder of a woman in her flat at ernor, Sir Cecil Clementi, honour-where they left off; and seldom A telling sentence indicates Brompton, S.W. ed the members of the Hong Kong have we learned the lessons that strained labour relations, for the
After the failure of his appeal. branch of the British
Medical life has to teach us before it is too reckoning of a husbandman is end-condition was ordered by the manuscript goes on. "The wage a special inquiry into his mental Association with his presence. In late to profit by them.
less, he has a louder voice than Home Secretary (Mr. Short), and THIRTY-NINTH up to the traditions of the past.
the crow. He is very weary when True was certified to be insane he comes to his house at eventide." and removed to Broadmoor.
Walter of Henley was the author of the first book on agriculture
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
expenses.
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 24th Feb., 1928.
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
N that, ANDREW HARPER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN this direction he more than lives
that
the
Rowlands and his brother Edward and Daniel Driscoll were brought from Cardiff to London to hear their appeals. John Rowlands, on account of his con- of dition, was not present in court 4,000 when the appeals were dismissed. Driscoll and Edward Rowlands
FOR SALE—Jeffries 404 Mauser Magazine rifle, with ammunition
No Help From Science. and 22 bore rifle and ammunition, SON have sensed to be the au- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING He is determined to keep close to This is all the more strange in Both in perfect condition. Apply thorised dealers of this Company will be held at the Company's the pulse of things in the Colony. view of the fact that modern
for Hong Kong and South China as Offices, P. O. Building, on FRIDAY, In the course of his speech he re-science, which has made such im written in England. It was written | MEDICAL ETIQUETTE Box No. 532, c/o "China Mall."
from the 26th day of January, 1928. 18th March, 1928, at 12 Noon, for ferred to the question which "had mense advance both in theory and in Norman French in 1920, 'and'evi- |
been raised whether it would be practical application of recent possible to build a subway under
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dence of its worth is indicated by
FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Hong Kong 25th February, 1928.
the purpose of presenting the Re- & Statement of Accounts to 91at the harbour between Kowloon/Years, has still so little to teach us the fact that It was printed two and port of the Directors together with
December, 1927, and electing Direc- tors and Auditors.
a half centuries later.
NOTICE.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN STEVENAGE WALLACE HARPER & Within an hour from London. CO., LTD., have been appointed In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL our authorised dealers for Hong for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A Kong and South China as from the few Boarders received in the House 1st day of February, 1928. of the Principal, Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local), (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions
THE Undersigned have received THE
instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, the 2nd March, 1928, commencing at 11 a.m..
at Godown No. 3 Upper, The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., West Point.
A Quantity of
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS Comprising:-
Iron Spikes, Straw Braid, Socks, Paper, Medicine, Iron Bars, China Ware, Tea Mats, etc.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
.LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 28th Feb., 1928,
ON MONDAY, the 5th March, 1928, commencing at 2.45 p.m.,
Road),
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD.
FURNITURE.
(Particulars from Catalogue.)
FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Hong Kong 25th February, 1928,
HUGHES & HOUGH. AUCTIONEERS.
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE 'of the
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY,
FANLING
Agents.
of
HUNT
STEEPLECHASES.
SATURDAY, 3rd MARCH, 1928.
First Race 3 p.m.
Admission: Public Enclosure $1.00. Ladies Free.
Situato in the Peak District in the only..
Colony of Hong Kong, and
about living. and Victoria, such as existed in
It has not yet told us how to many other parts of the world. make the most of our lives. He added, "It had been suggested
While science has been busy con-
What we need is a science of life,
But, until recently, no one has
SHOULD A DOCTOR TELL?
Controversy has been provoked The Register of Members of the that this tunnel should also carry quering time, annihilating space, selves as thinking, feeling, willing in mail week on the question by a ruling given in a Paris court Company will be CLOSED from 3rd March, 1928 to 16th Match, an aqueduct bringing water from
Kowloon to the island." The and harnessing the forces of ex- beings; knowledge which will en- "Should a doctor tell?" Dr. Mor- 1928, both days inclusive, during which period
ternal nature to our service, it has able us to at our powers to prac-nard, a Paris practician, was or- subject has been approached on no Transfer Shares can be registered.
many occasions during the past had small lefsure to spare for the ticable ende, to discipline our emo-dered to pay a fine of 500 francs | twenty-five years. It has no new/Powers that lie within ourselves. 'tions, and to economise our energy should have been regarded as a for revealing what, it was held, By Order of the Board of facts, but it has always had at has left the most vital of all in attaining our desires.
Directors,
fascination for enterprising en-
human problems, for the meat
To a friend Such science, as a finished pro- professional secret. GIBB; LIVINGSTON|thusiasts who believe that the part, to the speculations of the duct, does not exist; but it is cer- who was seeking a divorce, Dr. & CO., LTD., archaic means of transportation moralists; and the ordinary man tainly in the making. We already Mornard wrote a letter, apparent- across the harbour should have who wants practical information as know of mental labour-savingly at the friend's inquest, stating Hong Kong, 24th Feb., 1928. been abbandoned years ago, and to how to live his life to the best methods which we may economise the friend's wife suffered was due that the ill-health from which intimate connection be always advantage is referred to the age our energy and increase our en- maintained by means of a tunnel old disputes of philosophy.
joyment of life.
to a premature confinement for between the island and the main- land. Some of us have known with some knowledge of which better knowledge can help the in-was inserted in the bill of divorce, Taking but one case in which a which he had attended her be fore her marriage. The letter what inconvenience implied when each one of us may set out to un-dividual to make the most of it. the Star ferries hugged their dertake the art of living. For we It is a truism, though often over. and though Dr. Mornard testi- wharves or sought shelter from all perforce muat live; and, with looked, that one man differs from fied, when the wife sued him for the fury of storm or the howl of put knowledge; life may prove to another in mental powers, just as not observing professional loon could not get in touch with ful affair. the typhoon, Residents in Kow-be an exceedingly, costly and waste- he does in bodily traits; differs in accrecy, that he wrote the latter in ignorance of the divorce pro- respect of intelligence, character ceedings, it was ruled that he had Admission to Subscribers En suspended, mails delayed. Again,
their offices, business had to be Appalling Waste of Energy.
and will as much as in physical violated custom which has the Indeed; the waste of energy in closure on production of badge there have been occasions when a most lives is appalling; it is drain-
appearance, health or strength. force of law. dry summer has seriously threat-ed and frittered away in every troubled to find out what mental have since been interviewed on doctors Various prominent Subscribers can introduce Two ened the limited water supply on direction. We aim too high, and equipment is required to fit a boy the question. Dr. Paul, the best- Ladies Free and Two Non-members the island, the while the reservoir fall short in our endeavour. We at $5.00 Each.
in the New. Territory carried aim too low, and spend our labour lifework he is taking up, or to see mortem examinations, is
or girl, say, leaving school for the known figure of French post- The whole for miserably inadequate returns that he is found an employment in firm on the subject. He insists generous quantities. scheme of driving a tunnel under We forget what we should remem-keeping, with his powers. the harbour, permitting of con-ber, and, have to begin all over
that medical secreta should be un- It has been a question of brute failingly observed. from stant connection between the well-again.
But Dr. developed areas in Kowloon and. We allow ourselves to be carried ing the youngster into any job that Services at the Ministry of Pen- supply and demand, of pitchfork-Valentino, Director of Medical the business centre of Hong Kong away by costly emotions which happened to be going, with the con- sions, says that while he favours is unquestionably within reach of drain us white of energy and ruin practical men, and the only pro- our best work. We are enervated the peg in the wrong hole, pos- hold with absolute secrecy, de- sequence of frequent maladjustment medical discretion, he does not tester has been "the purse." by boredom and cursed with a per-sibly life-long diacontent, and a ter-claring that it is a doctor's duty, Such an enterprise demands the petual itch for change. We have rible waste of Individual and social for example, to reveal contagious bheil and fans trouble, throat, burement of millions of doen? plans, as steady ideal to pursue un-ergy which might easily
Thousands suffering investment dollars, no constancy of will, no settled
have maladies which he knows to exist Auctioneers, cough, nathma, hay fever, malaria,
in certain quarters, and which, if At their Auction Rooms, in Ice stomach trouble, indigestion constipa creased facilities would offer for flinchingly. We are square pegs in
To-day a rating of his capacities, not sufficiently combated, might House Street, Victoria, Hong Kong. tion, gastritis, piles, diarrhoea, fistula, the development of miles of Bri- round, holes 'and round pegs in Vacant Posession 31st March, female trouble, nervousness, insomnia, ducement given to tradal prosper-
heart disease, eczemu, scrafula, tish leased territory and the in-square.
physical and mental, can be made, imperil "collective health.” In a bladder
thousand ways trouble, obesity, kidney, Bright's disease, diabetes, rheumatism, ity-linking at all times the main-spendthrifts of life, simply because neuralgia dropsy, pyorcheu, epileptic land with the island-we believe we do not know how to make the The Property consists of:- fits, paralysis, tumours, ulcers, pimples, it would be a profitable invest-most of it.. Surely, if a science of his life.
All that piece or parcel of ground dizziness, headaches and many other ment for the Colony. Conservat: or even the beginning of science- having an area of 91,334 square chronic diseases, have been restored feet registered in the Land Office to health and happiness without pof- 18m would not hail the enterprise, is needed anywhere, it is needed or the Remaining Portion of Rural senous drugs or the knife, by the Poo monopoly might resent the idea, here! Why should we not have Building No. 2 together with all
but the permanent interests of one? the messunges or tenements and THE POO ON CHINESE the Colony would be served if HERES CO. other erections therton and the
confidence was so expressed as to
Regletered in the Land Office as the
Remaining Portion of Rural Build- ing Lot No. 2 together with the Dwelling House thereon known as
"FUNG SHUI " to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION
on THURSDAY, the first day of March, 1928, at 3 o'clock p.m. by
Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.,
1928.
ances thereto belonging and all the estate and interest of the Vendor in and to all the said premises.
For further particulars apply to:-
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Tickets obtainable from Dr. F.
Pierce Grove, Alexandra Buildings, SPECIAL TRAINS leave Kow loon 2.00 Fanling 6.00 p.m. Return Fare 1st
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we are
been avoided.
and at least he can be advised as to suitable employment.
He can
be given a chance to make the most
No one can enjoy living to the
one can make the most of life if he does not enjoy it.
full if he is maladjusted, and no.
Shortening Hours of Work,
very
STANDARD TIME,
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG
6.27
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong The Direction of Life.
the during March, according to at No. 169, The Peak (Mt. Kellett rights, easements and appurten-Yee Foo-lun, Chineno Herbalist, Man-hasten the materialisation of the
Why not? Many sciences, US D This is only one example, but it standard time of the 120th meridian aging Director, Over Twenty-five scheme. His Excellency the Gov-matter of fact, actually do deal is typical of the rest. With the east of Greenwich, is as follows:- Years practical experience in
Those that same end of economy in view, It Date.
Sunrise. Sunset. America curing the sick with ernor, on Feb. 22, closed his re- with aspects of life.
a.m. marks on an excellent note of op- are tributary to medicine, hygiene, has been found possible by motion March
p.m. timism, when he said, "When the sanitation, for example make living and fatigue study to shorten the 1
6.45 6.27 Budget came to be framed in a more tolerable affair now-a-days, hours of work in many employ. 1929, they might be able to take than it was not so very long ago. ments, with great saving in output in the of human energy and great increase their courage in both hands and And if these are mostly Office Hours: Daily 9 um. to 12 p.p.: embark on new projects." The hands of specialist, none the less in actual production. This means 1.80 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday 10 community in Hong Kong has the layman has a considerable prac- the advantage of the employer and Evening Hours: 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.cause to be proud of "the Gov-tical acquaintance with them, and the employees alike, a better under-
by appointment only.
ernor," and will share his con- turns it to his own advantage. standing between them, less fric- European Lady in Attendance.
fidence as to what the future Popular education has gone far tion and discontent industry, holds for the Colony.
On View from Sunday, the 4th March, 1928.
t
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, Feb. 29, 1928.
ON MONDAY, the 5th March, 1928,
commencing at 5.15 p.m...
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. A Valuable Collection of
POSTAGE STAMPS.
Including:--
Old China, Shanghai and Hong
Kong, etc.
On View from Saturday, the 3rd
March, 1928.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 28th Feb., 1928.
Having Returned from Japan MRS. INAGUCHI
MASSEUSE
HAS RESUMED PRACTICE. AT 6 ASHLEY ROAD,
* KOWLOON."
Telephone E. 7645
Messrs. WILKINSON & GRIST, Vendors' Solicitors, or to Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.,
Auctioneers. 8, Des Vœux Road Central, Victoria, Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Office: 02A Queen's Road
C. (1st Floor). Entrance: 60, Queen's Road C.
s.m. to a p.m.
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD
ORIGINAL
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THE HANDSHAKE,
in this direction. Children at greater enjoyment of life. school are now taught as a matter But the principle does not only of routine much that enables them hold good in the case of the ex- to make the most of their bodies, amples given. It holds good, too, at any rate their physical capacities in connection with the use of all and powers.
and any of his powers by the in-
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But the human body is only half divduál himself. He can make the story of the human being, if, more of his life by economising in indeed, it amounts; even to that., his general mental output.
In learning he can avoid, waste "Shake hands," said Mr. Regis- The direction of life and its man- trar Friend at Clerkenwell Coun-agement belongs to the human by economical methods, thus im-
And it is just here that proving his memory. Ho ty Court to a defendant who said mind. he was recently out of work and exact scientific knowledge is most create labour-saving habits of mind urgently required. Not that, and of body. He can strengthen could not pay a small debt;
The man, rather surprised, held science can determine what should and improve his will power, and out his hand which the Registrar be the ultimate aims of life or to learn to regulate that meet waste- wards what final goal we should ful of all energy-sopping experi grasped and held..
Mr. Registrar Friend: You call aspire. That, being a question of ences his emotions.
127 yourself a general labourer, but absolute values, remains with the More than this, he can accept, as it's a long time since you did any province of philosophy or religion. everybody in fact does, some plan work. You don't think I shook But, shart of this, science should of life, and this "science in the hands with you for a joke, do you? be able to tell us what nearby goals making at least to some extent Is it a very long time since you are within the reach of our several will help him to carry out. did any work?founda
individual powers; and us, too, how How can we make the most of The Man: Yes, it is.
best to reach those goals with the lour Hfe! By atting our powers to The Duke of York, who is pre- least expenditure of energy and the tasks of life, and thereby pro aldent of the Civil Service Sports toll, va regis He de
Twenty-five lieut, commander have been promoted commanders and 11 commanders have been
True Knowledge of Ourselves,
curing all possible joy from living. Council, was present at the annual
For "we achieve with ease what we Civil Service dinner at the Con-
The secret of making the most of really enjoy, and save ourselves in naught Rooms, Great Queen.
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