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TUITION GIVEN..

MME. BARONELLI, ARTISTE,— School of dancing for children and adults in character, classical, ex- hibition, fox-trot and Charleston,

Special. Attention to stout Ladies who are desirous of regaining their youthful Agure. Address — 31, Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kow- loon. (Back of Star Theatre).

HAIR WAVING.

NOTICES.

HONG KONG TELEPHONE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICES.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

ORIENTAL BLOOMS. SAILING-SHIP DAYS.

DISPLAY OF RHODODENDRONS

AND AZALEAS. »

PASSING AWAY OF A VETERAN SKIPPER.

CAPT. RICHARD WOODGET.

LANTRANCE EXAMINATION for WEDNES- The

AT KEW GARDENS,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ENT Nthat the THIRD ORDINARY DAY. April 11th at 9 a.m.

New Students on

For

TEARLY MEETING of Hong Kong Summer Term will begin on that Telephone Company, Limited, wil day. be held on WEDNESDAY, the 11TH day of APRIL, 1928, at the and Board Room of the, Company, SECOND FLOOR, EXCHANGE BUILDING, Hong Kong, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of re- celving a Statement of Accounts the Board of and the Report of Directors, for the financial year ended 31st December, 1927, con- firming the appointment of three Directors and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4th April to the 11th April, 1928, both days inclusive.

Dated this 20th day of March, 1928.

By Order of the Board,

J. P. SHERRY,

Manager. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.

HONG KONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, COMPANY,

MACAO RACES. Ing from afar.

Seventh Extra Race Meeting. SUNDAY, 15th April, 1928. FIRST RACE 1.30 p.m.

Public Enclosure.. 40 conta. Members' Enclosure.... $1.00 RACE STEAMERS: Special reduced. Saloon Fares $5.00 return.

From Hong Kong Whart. S.S. "TAISHAN" 8.30 am, Returning from Macno at 5.30 p.m. From Win Lok St. Wharf. S.S. "SUI AN" 9.30 am. Returning

from Macro at 9.30 p.m.

will

JAPAN & CANADA.

ly.

QUESTION OF ORIENTAL

IMMIGRATION.”

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY,

WOMAN SCIENTIST.

DEATH OF SELF. EXPERIMENTER.

SAVED MANY LIVES;;

"Last Experiments,” The crucial experiment of in- oculating a human being with a

Captain Richard Woodget, Speaking in the British Colum- Among the signs of, an early

Miss K. M. G. Marry Davies, ¡who. died ät the age of bla Legislative, Assembly, on the youngest daughter of Sir spring are the Chinese rhododen- 82, at The Anchorage, Burn- March 1, Mr. A. M. Manson, K.C., R. H. Davies, formerly; Lieuten-

WRB prospectus, for day-boys, drons at Kew. The bright purple ham Overy, Norfolk,

the Provincial Attorney-General, ant-Governor of the Punjab, boardera, apply

flowers of the mucronulatum have very remarkable man. He was made some outspoken suggestions India, has died at Cannes. ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, been out since January, but the one of the greatest personalities in regard to the Oriental problem She ranked with the heroes of

Prospect Place,

commoner varieties are now open of the old sailing-ship days, and as it affects Canada. The discus- yellow fever and malaria because Bonham Road. ing. In the next few weeks the for ten years, 1885-1895, com- sion arose out of a resolution pro-just as they injected themselves

rhododendron dell Hong Kong, 7th April, 1928.

be the manded "Cutty Sark."

Al- chief glory of the Gardens.

He was one of the old type who posed by Mr. C. F. Davis, the Con-with those disease, so she, as a servative member for Cowichan-nurse working at the American ready the nobleanum is a splendid learned their seamanship in the Newcastle, which urged the abro Hospital, Neuilly, Paris, in 1915,

hard school of experience, and spectacle, its rich red flowers flam- though he was desperately exact- gation of the Anglo-Japanese deliberately injected herself with

Other varieties in flower in the dell is the sutchuen-ing, the men loved him. Once he Treaty in ao far as it related to the the bacillus responsible for pro-

was at sea the only thing that Provincial Government's right to ducing gas gangrene. ense, a species from Szechuan, a mattered was to make the pass-enact anti-Oriental legislation, and At the time she was working fine plant, with, large brushes of

age in the shortest possible time, requested the Federal Government as a bacteriologist under Dr. rosy-iflac blooms.

and he drove the crew relentless not to grant any further naturalisa-Taylor, whose duty it was to in-. Near the hillock crowned by the ly, but he was always fair and tions to Orientals. Mr. Manson sug-vestigate the causes of gas "Temple of alus," and bespan- just, and never did he ask a man gested that all members of the gangrene, which was resulting in are to do a job which he would not Legislative Assembly should unite numerous deaths and amputa- gled with early daffodils, the pale blossoms of a Japanese undertake himself. Being ab-in preparing a resolution pointing,tions. Doctor Taylor was experi- sense of out to the Federal Government the menting with guinea pigs, but cherry-plum which show up start solutely without any lingly under the dark, leafless fear, he expected the same in-seriousness of the Oriental Immi-was unable to obtain results trees. A Japanese quince (eydonia domitable courage from those gration question. He went on to which would allow him to apply japonica) is in leaf, as is also a under him. With officers, men, say that the greatest danger his conclusion to human beings.

cherry (pyrus flori- and apprentices alike he would threatening was that of a disas- Japanese bunda). The houses are also full unbend and show that he had a trous intermixture of races through of interest to the general public keen sense of humour, but even inter-marrying, and declared that now, Probably house No. 4.is the with the familiarity the iron dia- the situation must be met prompt-

cipline never relaxed.

pure culture of the bacillus was most attractice, with its amazingly

His proudest boast was that

necessary, and this appeared to perfect yellow azaleas, and in con- during the ten years that he com-

be impossible. Miss Davies, who trast the dainty Japanese "Kumanded "Cutty Sark" he never

had studied bacteriology at the rume" azaleas.

hove her to, but always ran every-well had Captain Woodget retired Pasteur Institute, had seen about thing out. Asiatic Poppies.

When other ships when "Cutty Sark" was sold, but 209 fatal cases of gangrene, and were reefing "Cutty Sark" would the call of the sea was still per. had seen guinea pigs die, but also Asiatic popples, although they be carrying her full canvas, and sistent, and he took command of recover, under Doctor Taylor's ex- carry everything before them at the harder it blew the more pleas- the "Coldinghame" for two periments, states the "Morning flower shows in May, June and ed was the "old man." He simply years. Like so many old sea- & Construction Company, Limited, TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN July, are never likely to become revelled in dirty weather, and, in faring men he then turned to Without revealing her inten- will be held in the Offices of NEXTRAORDINARY common in this country. With his yellow oilskins and sea boots, farming, purchasing a property tion, she took a room near the George's Building, Chater Road, GENERAL MEETING of the above trilling exceptions, says a corres- would hang on to the weather on the Norfolk Coast, and reared hospital, and one day Doctor Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, the Company will be held at the Office pondent of "The Times," they are rigging on the poop, keeping an pige, chickens, ducks, geese, tur-, Taylor received a note from her, แทบแ nor perennial ever-watchful eye aloft and refus- keys, and rabbits. Never, how- asking him to come at once to Price $1,000,00. Apply Box No. 14th day of April, 1928, at 11.00 of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., neither

a.m. for the purpose of receiving the General Managers of the said plants, but are of the class called ing to shorten sail until absolute ever, did he lose his love of the make "last experiments." 487, c/o "China Mail."

the Report of the Board of Diree- Company, St. George's Building, biennial, which, for practical pur-necessity compelled him to do so. sea. He kept a small sailing boat; He found that she had given It has been said that he drove and at many a regatta he showed herself two deep injections of the on MON- poses, means that, having taken a

to reach THA- his ships perhaps it would be the younger hands that they had culture of the bacillus, in the for the year ended on the 31st DAY, the 23rd day of April, 1928, year from birth

perform

their nearer the truth to say that he a lot to learn. His three sons are muscles of each thigh, and had. December, 1927, and of electing at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, when turlly,

coaxed them. task of

As all seafaring carrying on the tradition, each thus furnished him with a pare flowering the subjoined resolutions will be allotted Directors and Auditors.

"fruit" men know, ships are temperamen- having command of a ahip. When case

Doctor of gas-gangrene. developing their The TRANSFER BOOKS of the proposed as ordinary resolutions, and

tal, and "Cutty Sark" was no ex- he was 76 Woodget married for Taylor at once injected the anti- in the succeeding year, before dis- Company will be CLOSED from the viz:-

ception. She has been described the second time. At the age of dotal preparation of hydro-. 8th to the 14th April, both days (1) That the authorised Capital of appearing for ever, a meteoric exis-

thee the authorison Capotence. Those who wish to have a "witch" certainly she was 80 he bought a motor-car and chloride of quinine with which he Inclusive.

wayward. Some of her skippers learned to drive and look after it. had been working. these lovely plants as regular semishandled her and she played In $3,000,000 consisting of 600,-

1922 "Cutty Sark" "was Miss Davies was removed to 000 shares of the nominal cupants of a garden must there them tricks, but Captain Woodget bought back from the Fortuguese the American Hospital, and in 24" value of $5 each the whole of fore continually replenish the stock knew and understood her every by Captain Dowman, and brought hours she was pronounced out of

ra mood, and, chewing one side of to Fowey. which have been issued) be in- by annual sowings. Another

Once more her old danger. By her self-sacrifice in creased to $3,600,000 by the ther trying peculiarity of the race his moustache, he would watch skipper was to visit her. Captain taking the risk of a painful and creation of 120,000 additional for those who are unprepared for for any little prank she might S. L. Vivian Millett, who had lingering death she had proved

2 tiresome constitutional play. shares of the nominal value it is

Thus it was he got the served in "Cutty Sark" under the efficacy of the cure, and had

MRS. BETEN, late from Hong Kong Hotel Beauty Parlour, is giving permanent hair waves in her home at No. 2 Pratts Building, Kowloon. For appointment: 'Phone K.946.

FOR SALE.

LIMITED.

NOTICE OF MEETING.

NOTICE

By Order.

S. W. CHENG,

Secretary,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the SIXTH ORDINARY THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER YEARLY MEETING of Sharehold- ers of the Hong Kong Engineering

COMPANY, (1918) LIMITED.

FOR SALE-One Brass "Hung Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., St.

Ming" Pan of the Chinese Han

Dynasty with automatic springs.

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed. - "China Mail" Office, No. 3a. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.

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HOME TUITION.

TESTOVER -STEVENAGE, Within 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 Frodel Higher

Certificate).

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. OF DENMARK,

The following unclaimed tele. grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph: Com. pany (Limited) of Denmark:

Fujibun, from Osaka.

Murray Wanduly, from Shanghai. Skae Dollar, from Williams Port Pa.

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent

Hong Kong, 6th April, 1928.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following Unclaimed Tele- groma are lying in the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:~~

Mrs. Turner, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, from Madras.

Mrs. Christie, 26, Granville-rd., Kowloon, from London.'

Haraf, from Wien.

Din Mohammad, 30, Kowloon Civil Corps, from Qadian.

Antonio Ossorio, "Empress of Aula," from Manila.

E. A, LEGGATT,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 29th March, 1928.

Į

tors and a Statement of Accounts Victoria, Hong Kong,

By Order of the Board,

S. COURTNEY COOK,,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 81st March, 1928.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

-Public Auctions

Undersigned have received

Tinstructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON FRIDAY, the 13th April, 1928, commencing at 2.45 p.m., at No. 3, Kimberley Villas, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

Comprising:-

Teak Hatstand. Chesterfield Couch and Armchairs, Bookcases, Pictures, Ornaments, Curios, Very Fine Carpets and Carpet Runners, Gramophone, Grand Father Clock, etc., etc.,

Teak Dining Table, Dining Chaira, Sideboard, with Bevelled Mirror, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Service, Glasa Ware, Kitchen Uten- sils, Ice Chest, etc.

Teak Bedsteads with Mattresses, with Mirror Doors, Wardrobe Dressing Table, Marble Top Wash- stand, Chest of Drawers, Toilet Set, Chamber Stand, etc., etc.,

and

A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture.

On view from Thursday, the 12th April, 1928.

Catalogues will be. Issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 6th April, 1928.

A REAL BARGAIN.

THE OLD ORIGINAL

CHEFOO STAMPS

UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS

$2.00

per set of 6 stamps.

Cash must be sent with order to Boz No. 619 d/o “China Mol"

they

(2) That the said 120,000 shares many of the flowers of

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Post."

·

of $5 each ranking" (subject inability always to breed true to very last ounce out of her, leav-Woodget, motored the "old man" thus saved thousands of lives. as hereinafter mentioned) as type; having sown the seed of aing all other sailing ships, and from his farm to the Cornish The treatment was subsequently from date of allotment for poppy with flowers of the most ex-even steamers, behind.

port. On the way Captain used at the American Ambulance, dividend and in all other rea- quisite Capri blue, unversed ama.

A Great Bible Reader. Millett overtook several other but the modesty of Miss Davies pects puri passu with theteurs experience something of a

Woodget had many peculiar-care and asked if he was driving prevented any honour accruing to shares constituting the Com-shock at finding a strong leaven of ities. When at sea he always too fast. Woodget's reply was herself. pany's present issued-Capital. red-purple or a dirty. alate tint in

wore 2 tam-o'-shanter. which characteristic. "When I was in

The Best Memorial. the off-

may have been in keeping with command of "Cutty Sark" and

It was her desire that the cure the name of the ship, but was in saw a ship ahead I passed her, violation of tradition. He never and I am glad to see you are do- should be used as a preventive measure, and, with this object, drank, neither did he amoke, but ing the same." he did not seek to enforce these Captain Woodget was on board she wrote a monograph showing views on his men. Though not during the run from Fowey to that if the Government cloth; what would be described as a re- Falmouth, and actually took the issued for military uniforms, was ligious man, he read and re-read wheel. The old sea spirit came treated with hydrochloride of the Bible until he knew whole back, memories of long ago surg-quinine, the infection of gas chapters by heart, and from time ed upon him, and, giving way to gangrene might be obviated.

In recent

The best memorial of her life, to time he would hold services on emotion, he wept. board. Once he did so during a years he suffered from impaired a relative writes, would be for a storm, and while he was deliver-health, a paralytic stroke having further investigation to be made ing an extempore prayer a parti-deprived him of speech, and he on this subject.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

be offered forthwith in the spring. first instance (in the propor- tion of one new share for every complete number of five exist- ing shares held by them res- pectively) to the members of the Company who on the 23rd) day of April, 1928, are re- gistered in the Company's) Share Register as the holders of the said 600,000 shares at par and so that on acceptance of the offer the amount of $5 due in respect of such 120,000 shares shall be payable as to the sum of $1 part thereof, on the First day of May, 1928, and as to the balance thereof, e., $4 on the First day of June, 1928.

nominal

And further that until such time as the said 120,000 shares shall be fully paid up they shall vis-a-vis the said 600,000 shares only rank for dividend in proportion to the ratio borne by the amount paid up thereon in respect of the! nominal value thereof to the full nominal value ($5) there- of.

And that such offer be made by notice specifying the number of shares to which the member is. entitled and limit- ing a time within which the offer if not accepted by the member on behalf of himself or his nomince will be deem- ed to be declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fix such time and to extend such time to such date or dates and apon such terms as they may think ft And further that any of the said 120,000 shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's shareholders in manner aforesaid ba dispon-i ed of in such manner at such time or times and upon such terms aa the Company's Directora shall in their ab solute discretion think fit,

(3) That no shareholder shall be

entitled to any offer of a frac-] tion of an additional share in respect of any odd shares held by such shareholder.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 16th day of April, 1928, to MONDAY, the 23rd day of April, 1928, (both days, inclu- sive) during which period no transfer of shares can be regis- tored.

Kodaku and Cameras

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderute.

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 his men available to ship as watch- men, teameh, &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

C2560-No. 36, Tung Man Street.

LADIES! WHY SHOULD YOU BE

· EMBARRASSED BY

PIMPLES.

Pimples and all akin diseases are caally cured by Poo On

nesa Herb treatmenti

Dated the 6th day of April, 1928.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. POO ON CHINESE HERBS CO.

General Managers.

60,- Queen's Road Central

murmured

a

cularly heavy sea struck the ship, became more and more dependent "The mast will be overboard on the gracious ministering of soon,"

'seaman.his devoted wife. But in spite of Wheeling round on the man, the physical infirmitles his brain was skipper roared, "Stop your ever alert, and to the last he re- row while I'm praying." A re-mained the stout-hearted sailor markable trait in his character of old.

was his love of animals, and white

in his command "Cutty Sark" be-

came famous for her collies, of

THE "TEA RACE."

which he often had as many as There was great controversy three on board..

for years concerning the tea race With his instinct for the sea from China between "Cutty Captain Woodget did not come of Sark" and her most formidable seafaring stock. He was born rival, "Thermopyle." In point of on Nov. 21, 1845, his father being fact neither ship actually did a farmer, of Burnham Norton, win the contest, and the only oc in Norfolk. His school days casion when they came near to seem to have been one long trial making a positive race of it was to his masters, for his high spirits on the homeward journey from were always getting him into Shanghai in 1872. scrapes, and they must have Both vessels left port on June been mightily pleased when, at 16 21, but were delayed for some years of age, he went to sea in a time by fog at the start. Two coasting ship plying between days out "Cutty Sark's" foretop ¡Blyth and London.

gallant sail was split by, a gale.

In those days there was no Going down the China Sea the mercy shown to the newcomer, two ships were constantly in

DISTRESSFUL NIGHTS.

Are. Bad For Both Your Baby and Yourself.

One of the first signs that some~

At such times there is a tempta- tion to give the child a sleeping

BABY'S OWN TABLETS

but the young apprentice had zeal sight of each other, first one, then thing is wrong with an infant is.

If your baby is and fabounded self-confidence. the other, having a slight advan-disturbed sleep. Like the rest he had his share of tage. At Anjer "Thermopyla" wakeful and in pain you suffer too, bullying, and, perhaps, that, was was leading by a little, but a few not only in anxiety but also for why, when power came his way, days later "Cutty Sark" went to want of your proper night's rest. he was never a bully himself. In the front, and a fortnight later due time he rose to mate, and had established a good lead; then Captain John Willis, owner The "race," however, was des- draught or an opiate of some of many ships, offered him the tined never to be really finished. kind, but don't do it unless special- command of the "Coldstream," a in latitude 34 S. a strong westerly ly ordered by a competent phy- slow old ship that had seen better gale carried away "Cutty Sark'e sician. Sleeping drugs are al- dangerous. Instead give days. Woodget, however, learned rudder, and the chance of beat-ways to handle her, and did two voying her rival vanished at once, ages that were remarkably profit- Whether "Cutty Sark would able to the owner. actually have been the winner of In 1885 he was given the "Cutty the race had all gone well with Sark," and retained command till her must remain a matter of con-which are guaranteed to be entire- she was sold to a Portuguese firm.jecture for all time. Daly free from narcotics or opiates In those ten years Captain Wood- Both ships came too late for of any kind and to be absolutely get added a chapter to the mer the China trade the "Cutty pure and safe for even the young- cantilo history of England. No Sark" in 1870 for already the est or most delicate infant in arms. sall can embark on the unequal supremacy of the sailing-ship for They quickly correat infantile In- task of competing with steam fast passages had been doomed digestion, constipation, colle, vomit- where speed is concerned, but the by the steamer, independent of ing, wind, check diarrhoea, allay fast sailing ship failed at the the vagaries of wind. In fact, teething pains, ease croup and very zenith of hor achievement, "Cutty Sark" did only a few voy colds, expel worms, bring peaceful, and the splendid record of ages in the tea trade, and there refreshing, health-giving sleep in Cutty Sark will ever be remem- after she was transferred to the a natural way. Your chemist sella bered with pride by those who go Australian wool trade, in the Baby's Own Tablets, or post free down to the sea in ships, course of which she was on one 60 cents per vial, from The Dr. Farming in Norfolk, s occasion driven before a full gale Williams Medicine Co., 60, Kiang- Perhaps it would have béen at 360 miles a day.

se Road, Shanghal