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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928.

Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inser tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.

WANTED.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

Por the Sale by Public Auction to

be held on TUESDAY; the 5th day of June, 1928, at $ p.m. at the Offices of the Public Works Depart- ment, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Shamshuipo in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years commencing from 1st July. 1928, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the

WANTED you to know that Sennet Freres are selling regardless of cost their entire stock of Jewellery, Watches, Fancy Goods, etc. No Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years loss three days,

Tensonable offer refused.

ENGLISHMAN, with good commer cial connections, holding a number of, fraticinas Agencies, thoroughly conversant Indent business, secks position with reputable British or Chinese firm, salary and commis slon basis. Replies to Box No. 550, c/o "China Mall."

WANTED-Compradore or Chin- ese Broker with capital for import business. Partnership considered right man. Replies to Box No. 551, e/o "China Mail"

WANTED-Small furnished house Please Gr flat, Hong Kong side.

state terms. Apply Box No. 549, c/o "China Mail.".

***HAIR WAVING.

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

New Kawigan Island

Adjoining Now Komiqu

Shamshafpo

Begistry No.

Locality.

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

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"BOLLY

THE CHINA MAIL,

NOTICES.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

I undersigned, Master of the British S.S."Lancaster Castle" will not be responsible nor recognise any debts con- tracted by members of the crew.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

HE Undersigned, have received

Tinstructions to sell by Public

Auction

.

ON

FRIDAY, the 1st June, 1928, commencing at 11 a.m.

at No. 8. Highburgh Terrace, Kowloon Dock, Hunghom,

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

(Particulars na per Catalogue), 'On View from Thursday, the

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS SIst May, 1925.

the by Publle Auction

to be held on TUESDAY, the 5th day of June, 1928, at 3 p.m., MRS. BETEN (trained in Paris at the Offices of the Public Works and Inte of Hong Kong Hotel) Department, by Order of His Ex- guarantees that her permanent cellency the Governor, of One waves revives faded hair leaving it Lot of Crown Land at Mengkok soft and glossy. 2. Pratt's Build-in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a ing. Kowloon. For appointment term of 75 years, with the option of phone, K. 945,

renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

TUITION GIVEN.

PRIVATE LESSONS in English and French; violin and piano; stenography and typewriting. Easy conditions. Apply to 6, Aimal Villes Kowloon.

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

Special Attention to stout Ladies. who are desirous of regaining their youthful figure. Address 81,

Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kow- loon. (Back of Star Theatre).

MR

LESSONS IN CHINESE.

R. LI HON FUN begs to state that he has been a topcher of Chinese to European Officers and Merchants in Hong Kong for more' than twenty years, that he has had considerable experience in training students for examinations in Chinese, and holds first-class certificates..

Persons wishing to strady. the Chinese language requested to communicate with him at No. 104,

are

Praya East, Arst floor..

Terma moderate,

HOME TUITION.

(TESTOVER. — ŠTEVENAGE. Within an hour from Lon- don. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and. SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. In- dividual care and attention.

Particulars apply to:

For

:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frodel Higher

Certificate),

MISCELLANEOUS

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

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locality.

Rosary

Hessarementa,

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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 Voeux 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, Tang Man Street.

"A" REAL BARGAIN.

THE OLD ORIGINAL

CHEFOO STAMPS

UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS

$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.

"Cash must be sent with

Box No.

"Ching-Mail"

LAMMERT. BROS.

'Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 25th May, 1928.

Auction

THE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by. Public

ON FRIDAY, the 1st June, 1928, commencing at 2.45, p.m.,

at No. 4, Peak Rond. A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

Comprising:-

Teaking Desk, Teak Hatstand

with Double Mirrors, Chesterfield

Couch and Cover, Easy Chairs, Car

G. W. LOWE.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.

VISITORS PLEASED· · WITH THEMSELVES IN WAX.

THE NEW PREMISES.

An even more terrifying Chamber of Horrors has risen from the charred remains of the famous Madame Tussaud's, which was destroyed by fire in 1925.

Madame Tussaud's has re- appeared, in many ways, in a form more sultèd to modern taste; but the French guillotine, the pri- son treadmill, and all the eerie relics that made people shudder fifty years ago are still there, says the London "Morning Post." Wax figures still tempt the visitors with programmes. at the entrance to the main hall. They, Accordance with Ordinance too, have become modernised- IN NO. 6 of 1912, the EXCHANGE, Bvbbed hair girls in becom BANKS will be CLOSED for the ing blue uniforms. Men remove transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS their hats politely before dis

covering that young Mr. Tussaud has carried on the family joke and that the girls are beautiful, but mute, and their programmes are stuck to their finger tips with glue.

on MONDAY, the 4th June,

Hong Kong, 31st May, 1923. ·

NOTICE.

---

But the House of Tussaud has

S from To-day's Date we have changed much. It now includes a authorised Mr. HENRY super-cinema, where persons apt

| WILLIAM MOON to act as Man- to become morbid after an hour ager of our Insurance Department in the Chamber of Horrors may during the absence of Mr. be brought back to laughter by FREDERICK CHARLES HALL.

the art of Harold Lloyd or Charlie

JARDINE, MATHESON & Chaplin,

'CO., LTD.

Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928.

The Duke of Wellington and Napoleon have had the dust rubbed off their shoulders, and are once again in their proper places. Although Messrs. John and Bernard Tussaud do not claim to have the same "witchery in the tips of their supple fingers" as the original Madame Tussaud, JAST. Fupils and Friends, of St. they have continued the good

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

(St. Joseph's College.)

Strong Men.

as well as past papils of Colleges across the room at Sir James

Christian Brothers

else-Barrie and Mr. H. G. Wells. of the where, are invited to attend a gen- eral meeting of the Above Associa=| tion at the College on TUESDAY, the 6th June, at 6 p.m.

.

Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928.

NOTICE.

Mussolini, provided some dif- ficulty, and one of the sculptors said recently, "these strong men are difficult to do since there is so much more in them than can be caught in a portrait."

The Grand Hall, between a large restaurant and a monument- al staircase, is the most modern' part of the exhibition. Here are HAVE appointed Mr. G. A. H. the figures of statesmen who be POTTS as my attorney to act came famous between 1914 and

ner.

Premiers, the

pets, Rugs, Pictures, Folding for and on my behalf under the 1918, Colonial Screen, and Electric Fan, etc., etc., style of ELLIS HAYIM, Share & Royal Family, and a literary cor-

Teak Extension Dining Table, General Broker as from 1st June, Dining Chairs; Ice Chest, Side-1928. board, Dinner Waggon, Crockery, Cutlery and Kitchen Gear, etc.,

Tenk Bedsteads with Mattresses, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Side Tables, Marble

-

ELLIS HAYIM. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1928.

and Tile Top Washstands, Tollet PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.

Crockery, etc.,

AlBo

A Quantity of RATTAN FURNITURE.

One Victrola

And

One Grand Father Clock One Bath.

:

Catalogues will be issued, On view from. Thursday, the 31at May, 1928.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, May 28, 1928,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Several people inspected the {wax models of themselves

and appeared well satisfied.

Downstairs, in the vault, is the Chamber of Horrors. It is guard- ed by a burly commissionaire,

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who explained that he not HONG KONG HEIGHTS about the figures and that he had ja special interest because he had

spent several years in prison.

that the ANNUAL ORDIN- "In prison?" I asked. ARY GENERAL. MEETING of "Yes," he answered, "as a ward- Shareholders of the above Com-ler at.Wormwood Scrube-but we pany will be held at the Hong worked a lot harder than the pri-

Hotel, Hong Kong Kong

on, soners." THURSDAY, 7th June, 1828, at 12] Charles Peace is still there, and noon for the purpose of receiving so is Dr. Crippen, and the the report of the Directors together coiners' den looks as dreadful as Landru, Bywaters, Mrs. with Statement of Accounts for the ever.

Thompson, and Vaquier are dread year ended 30th April, 1928.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the figures, in the dim light. Company will be CLOSED. from SATURDAY, 2nd June to FRIDAY, 8th June, 1928, both days inclusive, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

THE Undersigned have received Hong Kong, 28th May, 1928.

instructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

| WEDNESDAY, the 6th June, 1928, commencing at 11 a.m..

at No. 1 Frat Building

(First Floor), Kowloon,

A Quantity of

:

· VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

(Particulars from Catalogue.} On View from Tuesday, the 5th

June, 1928.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

L'AMMERT BROS. Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 81st May, 1928.

THE

WELCOME STUDIO,

EXPERT OUTDOOR

PHOTOGRAPHERS.

QUICKEST SERVICE

DEVELOPING, PRINTING,

AND

ENLARGING.

ICE "HOUSE" STREET,

«BEHIND Hong Kong” ELECTRIC CO. SHOWROOM).

INDO. CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION.CO., LTD.

THE FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN

TARY GENERAL MEETING of

IRATE BISHOP.

RUMPUS OVER GARDENER'S LICENCE RENEWAL.

FINED £2.

now

Bishop Gerard Trower, rector of Chale, but for many years Bishop of North-West Aus- tralia, was fined £2 at Newport, Isle of Wight, for keeping a gar- dener without a licence.

A police-constable stated that the Company will be held at the when he called on the bishop on Offices of the General Managers, Feb. 17 he said that he had not Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., renewed his licence as he only Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on came to England last July, after WEDNESDAY, the 20th June, 1928, at Noor for the purpose of receive which he took out a licence, pay- ing 15s. which should last til ing the Report of the Directors, June this year, The constable passing the Accounts, and electing told him the licence expired on Directors and Auditors.

Dec. 31, whereupon he said that, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the on principle, he refused to pay ex- Company will be CLOSED from the cept under protest, adding that it 18th June to 4th July, 1928, both was a swindle, as he paid for a daya Inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

JARDINE, MATHESON

CO., LTD., General Managers. Hong Kong, 29th May, 1028.

MACAO RACES. MACAO RACES.

·MACAO RACES.

licence for one year and had only employed the gardener for seven & months.

When the County Council noti fied him that they were prepared to stay proceedings provided he paid a compromise fine and renew ed the licence within ten days, he stated that he was writing to Somerset House or Whitehall to find out whether Council's action: was legal. The Council replied that he was under a misapprehen- slon, that their action was legal,, and they were acting very lenient- ly in giving him an opportunity of paying a small compromise fine of 100. before the summona was issued.". The "bishop then Intim- ated to them that he had renew- ed the licence, and that, as he had lived out of England for more that thirty years, it was not sur- prising if he was not, acquainted with the petty regulations." The bishop, in court said that he did not think he had any casa to answer, as he had obtained a new licence, and the proceedings suggested"aw taste for the methods of blackmail:

The chairman said it was Becretary. clear case for conviction;

Ninth Extra Race Meeting. SUNDAY, 3rd June, 1928. First Race 1.30 pm.

Public Enclosure.. 40 cents. Members Enclosure. $1.00 RAGE STEAMERS: Hong Kong to Macno SUI AN DER STAISHAN Macão to Hong Kong

SUIAN TAISHAN

8.80 a.. 9.80

3.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m.

By Order,

CHENG

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