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TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.

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THE 7TH ANNUAL GENERAL

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ON TUESDAY, the 8th May, 1928, commencing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Daddell Street, A Valuable Collection of.

POSTAGE STAMPS. ·

and accounts for the year 1927.

To alect officers, etc.

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Rare Hong Kong, China and Macho, etc.

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TO LET. On or before lat July, 4-roomed Flat in Tregunter Man- sions, May. Road, Rent $200, Pros- pective tenants willing to take over furniture have the preference. Ap-May, 1928. ply Box No. 544, c/o "China Mail."

TO LET.FURNISHED ROOMS, single or double,

board.! with Modern sanitation. Apply No. 11, Chatham Road, Kowloon.

FOR SALE.

Auction

ON WEDNESDAY, the 9th May, 1928, Commencing at 2.30 p.m..

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MIGHTY LONDON.

"BRINGING THE COUNTRY' NEARER PICCADILLY CIRCUS.”

A MODERN MYSTERY,

(By Edith Shackleton.} For those of us who belleve

LOCUST SWARMS,

SCIENTIFIC DEFENCES

AGAINST AGELESS FOE. ·

WORSE THAN MOSQUITOES.

The locust is a plague which is

we know да

Arab Emirate

therefore,

to ex.

apparently is that aeroplanes shall spray affected areas with poisonous solution. But obviously this scheme has disadvantages, If only from the point of view of the comfort, of the human population.

In the mandated territories in Arabia much simpler methods are used. There are three in most common employment. First, there

and which, incidentally, were to

are

3

DEVIL'S ISLAND.

AKREST AFTER 18 YEARS OF FREEDOM.

EXTRADITION SOUGHT.

:

a

Jerusalem.-Sentenced to death in older even than the Bible itself. are flame-throwers, which in Trans- sentence which was commuted to In Algeria in 1908 for murder, a Busincas:-To receive the report the re-population of London, the Century after century, and in every/Jordan, at any rate, are held tonenal servitude for life, a Pales- news that permission has been 'Continent in the world, crops have give the most satisfactory results, tinlan Moslem has just been arrest- given by the Crown for the build from time to time been destroyed have been used by the Palestine ed by the Jerusalem police on

and Transjordan authorities for the charge of having escaped from ing of a block of flats in Regent- by this pest,

At this very moment an invasion invasion which Providence has just Devil's Island, the French penal street is welcome and exciting is reported from Iraq, and it may thwarted. Secondly, there is the colony, sixteen years ago. enough to call for banners and pro- be interesting,

He has been remanded awaiting construction of barricades of gal- cessions. It foreshadows the day amine what defences men are now Vanised Iron, which are built too extradition proceedings. These when the disfiguring of pleasant old putting up against an ageless foe. high for the young locuata to hop are being sought by the French. villages by ribbon development For despite modern scientific, re- across. With these ·pro

used Ambassador in London. The fugi bored in search and invention, the locust has trenches, into which may be checked, and

fall the tive had settled in a village near locusta. They. habitants of dormitory suburbs remained the pest of agriculture,

thereupon Jerusalem, had married two wives, On View from Monday, the 7th | NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

and become a farmer.- "Central may find posters about their rail- almost in every part of the Earth, destroyed.

News'. way stations which read, "Sleep in to blight alike the hopes of the Quito recently the various coun- Terms: Cash on Delivery,

TERY GENERAL MEETING of them and Galets!!

THE FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN- the City" or "Live in London for farmer or peasant and of the Chan- tries which suffer in this way have cellora of the Exchequer of various tried to find some commion remedy. LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers. Shareholders will be held at the

Governments, writes a correspond-Not long ago, for instance, a Locust focusts, against which aeroplanes London la an extraordinarily Offices of the undersigned on

|ent to tho "Morning Post."

Congress met at Damascus, in are being mainly used, Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1928.

THURSDAY, the 17th May, 1928, good place to live in. Our savage

Not long ago,

an expected In-, Syria, at which the interests of at Noon, for the purpose of re-

forefathers, tracking their dinner

The great thing in locust fight- vasion (HE' undersigned have received ceiving the Report of the General "through Regent's Park into Cam Southern Transjordan, and threat-and jointly considered. Only last they are young,"

of locusta loomed up in Western Arabia were specifically ing is really "to catch them when den Town," as Mr. Kipling hus it, their billion that is, before of Accounts for the year ended the found the mound

Ludgate Hill to possess sound resi-It had come from the Soudan via to the authorities of Iraq an ex- of locusts which inflicts the great- across the Jordan. of the Union of South Africa" lent fold. For it is not the main flight 31st December, 1927.

dential qualities, and the few thou-Aqaba. By a signal mercy, a north- pert. Gradually it is dawning on est damage, but the occupants of The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSsand years that have elapsed since weat wind suddenly swept the nations that international treat- the eggs which remain after the ED from the 3rd to the 17th May, domestic, smoke first rose from greedy swarms into the deserts of ment la the only treatment. to be fliers have passed 1923, both days inclusive.

Threadneedle-street have not de- the Hejaz, which are peopled by no applied to an

on to pastures stroyed the natural advantages of one but a few nomadic Wahabi no boundaries. JARDINE MATHESON & the district.

Nor is the belief, to which I have tribes. CO., LTD.,

The dirty

referred, that the invasions come in nineteenth-century General Agents.

Poison From Aeroplanes.

cycles of thirteen years, scientifical- men were so pleased with their newi

Of all the methods employed ly established. Very little indeed that Hong Kong, 26th April, 1928. mechanical

peasants marvels

(fellaheen) in against the locust perhaps the use is known about their periodicity any amount of smoke and noise seemed Transjordan assert that these in- of the aeroplane is the most fas- and the causes

of it. The main vasions occur every thirteen years, cinating.. Not much is known yet trouble about locusts is lack of in- worth while in their name, even- tually wrecked the homes of cen- and since the last serious swarming of the possibilities of this weapon. ternational organisation. At the tral London, but the Smoke Age is was in 1915. the Arab country, to- It was first tried in Russia in 1925, time of their invasion, people are mercifully passing, and it is time together with the more cosmopolitan but, according to Dr. Uvarov, of the eager (and nerous in providing Palestine, has been prepared for Imperial Bureau of Entomology, means) to discover the why and populate London again.

the worst. Moreover, it had been success is incomplete as yet. For wherefore A Modern Mystery. warned in time by the Soudan and one thing, the cost of using aero- plague; but the The new Regent-street la among Egypt, where towards the end of planes is very considerable; for an- and with it the keenness. So "all's invasion passes, the greatest puzzles of modern 1927 fore-runners of the locust In-other, the dusting of poison in or to do again." It is to be hoped, times, and one of its mysteries vasion appeared.

near populated areas has manifest however, that not the least of the which is especially deep to the lay In Egypt the Ministry of Agri- dangers. For the desert, of course, benefits of Western European con- mind is that is vast, so healthy and culture quickly seized upon the offer it would be another matter; and trol of parts of Africa and Asia will 50 convenient an area should be of the British Government to lend that is where the R.A.F. in Egypt, be, if not the eradication, at least forbidden for, human occupation the Royal Air Force in helping to Transjordan, and Iraq.might be of the limitation, of the post which except during working hours. It combat the invasion. The plan to very great uso. In, Russia, by the has mocked, the farmer's hope of Is obvious that residential flats be followed in the Land of the Nile by, it is the hoppers, not the flying toll since time began. could not carry the rents of the present business, but a well-art- back, final storey with a terrace promenade could, one imagines, have been made both pleasant and profitable.

FOR SALE-One five-senter Hup-) mobile motor car. In good running erder. Newly painted. Apply Box at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. No. 545, e/o "China Mail."

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FOR SALE. New Orthophone Cabinet, excellent tone.. Can play eight records at one wind-

FURNITURE. Comprising:

Teak Bookcase, Hatstand, ing. Price only $150. Apply Box Cretonne Covered Couch and Arm-

No. 541 c/o "China Mall."

TUITION GIVEN.

Deska MACAO RACES.

Glass Cabinets, chairs, Office Chairs, Clothes Hanger, Gramophones, Records, Carpets,| Rugs, Oil Paintings, Pictures, Or- naments, Curios, Electric Table Fans, etc., etc.,

Eighth Extra Race Meeting. SUNDAY, 13th May, 1928.. First Race 1.15 p.m.

Public Enclosure.. 40 cents, Members' Enclosure .. $1.00 RACE STEAMERS:

Teak and Oak Dining Tables, 'MME. BARONELLI, ARTISTE, Dining Chairs, Sideboards with School of dancing for children and Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggons, adults in character, classical, ex-Ice Chesta, Dinner Crockery, Glass hibition, fox-trot and Charleston. Ware, Cutlery, Kitchen Utensils, Hong Kong to Macao

Special Attention to stout Ladies etc., etc. who are desirous of regaining their|

of

SUI AN

Teak and Iron Bedsteads with TAISHAN youthful figure. Address -31, Mattresses, Teak and Oak Ward Macao to Hong Kong.. Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kow-robes with and without Mirrors, loon. (Back of Stor Theatre). Chesta

Drawers, Dressing Tables, Washstands, Chamber Standa, Side Tables, Toilet Crockery, Commodes, etc., etc.,

Also

don,

HOME TUITION.

TESTOVER

STEVENAGE,

Within an hour from Lon-

In healthy neighbourhood.

A Quantity of

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

Comprising:

SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALLİ Teapoys, Curio Cabinets; Murble BOYS, A few Boarders received Top Round Table, Marble Top In the House of the Principal. In-Stools, Chairs, Joss Tables, Opium dividual care and attention. For Stools, Jardinieres, Folding Tables,

etc., etc.,

Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY,

(Camb, Higher Local),

(Camb. Teachers' Diploma).

· MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frodel Higher

Certificate),

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly

and

One "White" Frost" Refrigerator. Two "Remington" Typewriters One American Ice Chest One "Morrison" Cottage Piano Two Enamelled Baths with Fit-

tings.

One Oliver Typewriter

One Royal Typewriter

Six Woollen Blankets (New)

One Roll Endless Felt.

Catalogues will be issued.

SUI AN TAISHAN

By Order.

S. W.

LADIES!

8.90 á.m. 9.30 a.m.

3.30. p.m. 5.30. p..

CHENG,

Secretary.

WHY SHOULD YOU BE EMBARRASSED BY

PIMPLES.

:

Pimples and all skin diseases are enally cured by Poo On Chinese Herb treatment. POO ON CHINÉSE HERBS CO. GG, Queen's Road Central.

WATER SUPPLY.

Nash built his loveller Regent- street to be lived in as well as look- ed at. I can myself remember see- ing children and housemaids and odd, dreamy ladies looking down the from the top windows in

old pudding-batter-coloured fac- ades. Shopkeepers 'lived over their shops and reared families there.

One of the very last residents was an old lady who had gone there as a fur-dealer's bride in the 'six- ties and for whose delight a roof garden had been made to flourish through all the grime of the end of the century. I suppose a contem- porary fur-dealer would probably have to take his bride to some ill- mannered villa in a community Re-precariously held together by golf and bridge, and she would have some difficulty in recognising the shop when she came to town.

Level and Storage of water in On View from Tuesday, the 8th servoirs on May 1, 1928:

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER

WORKS LEVEL.

und promptly printed. "Chína Mail" Office, No. 30, Wyndham St., May, 1928. Telephone Central 22.

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.

Gam

Please phone or call: K.661 No. 2, Saigon Street, Yanmati or

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Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 3rd May, 1928.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. 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.

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 Box No. 618.

̈¤/o, “China. Mall”.

1027

1928

Lawn Tennis on the Roof.

12' 11 B 17' 5"B Tytam

Now that the smoke is going- Tytam Byewash ...18' 4"B 10' 8"B from a high window near Tytam Intermediate 10' 0" 4' 6"Bį Piccadilly-circus I saw the Crystal Tytam Tuk28" 4"B 28 0"B Palace, importantly sticking up a Wong Nei Chung 21 7"B 16 "B Pokfulum

12' "E 11' 10" tower at each end of Westminster [Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": Abbey-there is no good reason A. denotes "Above Overflow."} for leaving so much of London

Storage in millions and Decimals

every evening entirely to night- watchmen and the basement-dwell- 253.30ing char-women. The luxurious 4.67 town house is a compact affair. It

does not

necessarily call for a

171.36

of gallons.

Tytam

Tytam Byewash

Wong Nel Chung.. Pokfulum

1927 283.99 3.07 Tytam Intermediate 143,00 Tytam Tuk....... 820,00 8.80

1928,

458.00

39.93

Total

12.62 washhouse, ä drying-ground, or a

40.44 stable. The city roofspace could'

1,800.29 1,140.30 provide lawn-tennis courts which

Consumption of water in the City would please the adept youth far and Hill District In millions and de-better than the damp grass of the cimals of gallons during the month of suburban garden. Especially con-- April,

scientious parents still send their Consumption

217.00 boys and girls to the excellent old) Estimated population 411.080 421.480 London schools. Consumption per head

1027 215.20

1028

per day...yo Intermittent Supply in all Rider inhabited premises in the Quadrant Main Districts west of Garden- may work the beginning of a new road during Abril, 1927, and Full Supply in All Rider Main Districts epoch. It may be that the City cast of Garden-road during April, churches will again be filed by 1927.

local merchants, their wives and

17.4 17.1 The lifting of the Crown ban on

Intermittent supply in all Rider children and apprentices. And if Main Districts during Apill, 1028.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL. Q

1927 1928

Kowloon Reservoir .18" 8B 17

Shek Lal Pol Reser

a revival of the maypole in the Strand does not seem even remote- ly possible, it is not difficult to be- Hleve that there might be a Bank

Holiday carnival in the City, where the smooth, cloan streets are now Bdeserted at festive seasons Reception Reservoir 0' 10"B. 2' 0"B Alexandria when the populace had

Storage of millions and decimals

voir..........................204′′B

of-gallons.

1927 1928

gone to gaze on Cleopatra's barge.. There will always be town work- Kowloon Reservoir... 191.50 106.58 ers who want to live in the real Shok Lal Pul Reservoir. 81.48 81.84 Reception Reservoir 80.95 27.87 country and will suffer much to get their desire, but if the genuine out- 269.93 808.20 and-out townsfolk would only, stay Consumption of water in Kowloon in town the country could come In millions and decimals of gallons during the month of April

nearer than it is now instead of 1927 1923 being pushed half across the Home 81.80 97.59 Counties by ill-considered dora

Total

Consumption

Estimated population 159,820 164,880 tories-Evening Standard." Consumption per head.0

nar day ********

10.7.

Full Supply, in all districts during

April 1927 and 1928.

The Government Analyst's reporte

Men cannot keep secreta

from

show that the quality of the water is women; that is why women eples satisfactory. STAANDES

Total rainfall to April 80 1027, are always the most successful,

The

enemy who respects new.

The Hoppers.

of this

immemorial

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