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TUESDAY, JANÚARY 8, 1929.

NOTICES,

FOR

THE CHINA MAIL,

LORD ASHFIELD

Phone C. 22

DENISON, RAM & GIBBS.

TO REDUCE HIS ACTIVITIES

I FEEL TIRED"

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BARTNERSHIP-Mr. GERALD BOND

PHOLLINGSWORTH

SIR O. MOSLEY'S WILL PORTRAIT MYSTERY MR. L. J. NEWMARCH

: NO MENTION OF HIS

SOCIALIST BON

$2,000 TRUST SECRET

has been admitted as a Partner in Lord Ashfield, who

Derby-The will of Sir Oswald the firm of DENISON, RAM & London's great transport combine Mosley, Bart, who died at his GIBBS, Chartered Architects, Civil and is interested in many other house, Hilton Lodge, near Derby, Engineers & Surveyors, as from companies, told a "Daily Mail" re- on September 21, makes no refer- 2nd January, 1929. The Business porter that he intends to give up a will be carried on under the Name number of his activities as oppor of DENISON, RAM & ĠIBBS.

tunities arise.** Hong Kong, 2nd Jan., 1920,

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has

REYNOLDS "REPLICA" AN

ORIGINAL":

A SECRET SALE

RAILWAY CHIEF TO RETIRE

35 YEARS IN NORTH.

Mr. L. J. Newmarch,

MICE..

A. C. R. Carter in Daily Telegraph]

A full-length portrait of Anne whose retirement from the post of General Manager and Engineer-In- Viscountess Townshend, by

Chlef of the Peking-Mukden Rail- Reynolds, "- which for years ence to his son, the Sociallat M.P.

been judged by experts Way was recently recorded, had been on the Railway no fewer and present baronet.

to be 1 copy-although by The will was filed here, the un-the master himself of an original than 85 years. Following his ap He is proposing to the share settled estate being sworn at painting, has now been proved by pointment as Assistant Engineer holders of the Standard Film Com- | £5,764.

family letters to be itseif original. in May, 1899, he was employed on

on construction work the line pany, Limited, of which he is Sir Oswald appointed his sister, Theré nover was a replica. chairman, that they should accopt Mrs. Violet McKia, and Mr.

from Kuyeh to Shankalkwan. TO LET No. 7, Stewart Terrace,

an offer from the Gaumont-British William Woolley, solicitor,

the following year he narrowly 270, Peak, from March 1st to

Pictures Corporation to buy the Derby, as executors.

escaped drowning when on duty October 31st.

whole of the shares. The company Five rooms fully WWALTER SCHACK to sign controls Provincial Cinematograph life a portrait of himself by the on to the present owner's forbear. He was washed away with a trol-

He bequeathed to his mother for

during the floods at Lushouying. furnished. Modern Sanitation, servants' quarters, garden. Apply for our firm per procuration from Theatres, Ltd., with a joint capital Hon. John Collier. It is then to

of about £14,000,000.

TO LET.

F. A. Mackintosh.

TO LET.-Offices to be let in Queen's Road, Central. Apply to E. D. SASSOON & Co., Ltd, French Building.

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RAFT PROGRAMME and EN-

[become

the property

of

of Mrs.

It appears that about half a con- tury ago a member of the family secretly sold the portrait to an art dealer, who very speedily passed it Robert Townley Parker.

When this sale was discovered If the offer is accepted by the McKie. To the latter he left all by other members of the family shareholders Lord Ashfield wil, jewellery, personal ornaments,

they made every effort to recover sever his connection with the Bri-household furniture, and other the portrait, offering to pay twice tish film industry and will soon household effects, to be distributas much as the purchase price, but retire from other concerns in which ed by her among his family. the new owner was too much in love he is the moving spirit.

He left $2,000 in trust to the with his prize to accede to their Lord Ashfield, who is 54, controls, executors to be used for a pur-

request. He did not contradiot as-only-part-of-his-activities-the pose-already declared to them, and -the-statements-of-the-writers-on- Underground railways and. tubes, which they have agreed to act Reynolds's works to the effect that the London General Omnibus and upon.

the picture in his collection must be a replica-even though they could

its allied companies, and the Lon The residue of the estate is left don United Tramways. He is the on trust for his housekeeper, Mary DARY FORMS are now ready Chairman of man these and alot me faithfully and looked after

of 16 companies, Elizabeth Hipkiss, who has serv

and may be obtained at the Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables,

Hong Kong, 15th Dec., 1928.

director of six more.

London's Busiest Man

me in various illnesses for over 16 years."

He originated the great scheme The smallness of the estate has to include the London County caused much surprise. . Council tramways in the traffic

Giving up Titles

not trace the original.

level when a 100 guineas to Even when a group of collectors anyone who could give information fist to the whereabouts of the "original," the owner refused to speak.

In

ley, but was saved by a trolley coolie.

In 1896 he was acting Locomo-

tive Superintendent at Tongshan for one year. From 1898 to 1900 he was on construction work on the line from Chung Ho So to Kao Chiao, the work including the building of the new Bridge 24, 100' spans, across the Lukuho. In 1901 the line into the Chlen Men at Fe- he was on construction work on king, from the Ma Chia Pu, "and

also on the now line from Tung Plen Men to Tungchow. In 1902 he was promoted District En- in 1910 he became gineer, and Senior District Engineer.

From 1901 to 1916 he was on maintenance work along the Bec tion from Tientsin to Peking and Outside Wall District.

SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC making London's transport still be known as Mr. Oswald Mosley, from Preston for sale at Christie'sing Chief Assistant Engineer, and!

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pool, and it is in the direction of The present baronet prefers to more complete that he Intends to M.P.

In a letter to ""The Daily devote his activities.

Mail" in 1926 about his son's He said:

Socialistja declarations, the late gir. Oswald said:

I have got to reduce my work. It has been said that I am the busiest man in London, but I find work good fun, and I have enjoyed my strenuous life. But during the last few years the de- mands of all my companies have been so great that they are now becoming too much for me.

Business has never been more. exacting than it is now. Any- body who is in control of any enterprise that means to be suc- cessful must work hard. No business can succeed unless the directors put all the energy they

are capable of into it.

INFERIOR CUTLERY

WOOLWORTHS TO PAY

£80

More valuable help would be rendered to the country by my Socialist son and daughter-in. law if instead of achieving cheap publicity about the relinquish ing of titles, they would take more material action and relin- quish some of their wealth and 80 help to make easier the plight of some of their more un- fortunate followers.

.

In

The portrait forms one of the remarkable Tatton collection sent

In 1917 he was appointed act-

on Dec, 14.

the substantive was promoted to When it is recalled that this

the post

following year. Viscountess Townshend is March, 1922, he was acting En- Anne one of the three graceful sisters gineer-in-Chief and General Man- grouped by Reynolds for his famous ager, and in September the same picture bequeathed by the Earl of year he was appointed to the sub- Blessington to the National Gallery stantive post. in 1837, "The Graces decorating a terminal figure of Hymen," it will be understood with what zest Rey nolds painted this single portrait of her reating against a pedestal, on which is a bas-relief of The Judg ment of Paris.

It should be further explained that, as Anne Viscountess Town shend was

the second wife of

George, who afterwards, became the

During his period of service at: the Head Office additional new lines were arranged and built, Chaoyang Tahushan — Tungliao. The section from Tongshan to Shanhaikwan was double-tracked, and the track from Shanhaikwan to Huangkutun was replaced with heavy section rails.

Mr. Newmarch was Consulting

Lady Cynthia Mosley, whom the present baronet married in 1920, is one of the three daughters of

Engineer of the Chin Kong Bridge the late Marquess Curzon by his first Marquis, her son did not across the Pelho in Tientsin, and first wife, who was a daughter of succeed. At her death in 1818 she among his Chinese decorations Mr. Levi Z. Lelter, a Chicago mer-bequeathed her portrait to her were the Order of the Double daughter Anne, who married Har-Dragon, the Striped Tiger (5th chant,

rington Hudson, M.P. for Halstone. Class), and the Chia Ho (3rd

The portrait is of outstanding Class). merit, and now that the wrongful

THE JOKE SONG

WHY IS THE BACON SO

"TOUGH?

Mesars. F. W. Woolworth and Co. Tid, carrying on business in Corn- 'market-street, Oxford, were fined TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, £5 and ordered to pay £75' costs at bo know that an Extraordinary Meet the Oxford police court for a breach tough?"

NOTI

viz:-

2

to

A restaurant customer demands

"Why is the

bacon 50

He thinks he is asking the mattre

band-conductor who

1s

atigma of its being a replies has WORTH MILLIONS"

been completely wiped out it is sure to receive an enthusiastic welcome.

CHANCE FOR BRITISH SHIPS AND MEN

ADMIRAL EVANS ON WHALING

£640 For Whistler Studies In a sale at Sotheby'a three very Interesting studies of the nude by Whistler done in pastel colours on brown paper and framed together, brought £640 (Colnaghi). Time brings its revenges. There are whe can recall 巋 people

at auction when one scene

Whistler's pictures was hiased by the assembled.com. pany and when Victorian, collectors luncheon in London recently, avowed that his works would never fetch any price worth recording.

of

FROM FAR PAHANG Comes This Father's Grateful Praise Of

Baby's Own Tablets.

The great possibilities for Britain in the Southern Seas whal- ing Industry, to which attention has been drawn recently by "The Daily Mail, were referred to by Rear-Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans ("Evans of the Broke") at a

Rear-Admiral Evans, who was the hero of the "Discovery" and the Scott Antarctic expeditions, said: The founders of the whaling industry throughout the world

were

British seamon. There is every reason why we should At tempt to tap this industry and share the enormous profits that are being made.

are untouched.

I do not imagine there is any chance of the industry in the Southern Seas failing for the next

g of the Shareholders of the! of the Cutlery Trade Act by causing Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking to be sold six table knives bearing d'hotel, but he is actually address Corporation will be held on Satur-; the words, "Best. English cutlery, ing. the They were also sum-passing. day, the 2nd day of February, Sheffield."

The conductor mistakes the com- 1929, af 12 o'clock noon at the moned for having six knives so City Hall Victoria in the Colony of, marked in their possession, and for plaint for a request to play a jazz tune of that name. He can't find Hong Kong for the purpose of con-selling six knives so marked.

The case was sidering, and if thought it, pass-

brought by, the the muste, but promises to get it. ing the following resolution, Shefeld Cutlers' Company. Mr. He does not know that the tune is

F. J. O. Coddington prosecuted, and non-existent.

"A.D.C." tells the story in "The That the Directors of the Mr. Richard O'Sullivan appeared for

Daily Mail," and suggests that Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- the defendants.

Mr. O'Sullivan submitted that the "Why is the bacon so tough?" ing Corporation be and they are hereby requested and authorised; information had been wrongly laid sounds good enough to be set to by and on behalf of the share-against his clients as a limited com-music.

A week passes, and it is turned holders of the Corporation to pany. The statute referred take all such steps as may be offences committed by individuals into a song by a score of composers necessary for the introduction of and not to limited companies. The and a hundred lyricists. A selected

The Ross Son la teeming with an Ordinance into the Legisin- statute was made in 1819, and it version-that.by those highly suc- How greatly helpful Baby's Own

into cessful authors Reginald Arkell and Tablets are found in distant places whales and the adjacent oceans to have passed tive Council of the Colony of appeared

to be where medical aid is difficult to obr resurrected by his Charles Prentices about Hong Kong and for the enact- oblivion until ment of the same by the Gov. friend in the course of the present published by Messrs. Ascherberg, tain is proved by what Inche Ad!

Hopwood and Crew, Libd.

Bin Budio, Settlement Officer at ernor of Hong Kong with the year.

But the burlesque chain of actual Temerloh, Pahang, writes about The magistrates decided that the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, in the Information had been correctly laid, facts does not stop there. Sindbads them.

"My baby, Abdul Ralim, when

Whaling offers a fine opportunity terms of a print which, for the and Mr. O'Sullivan then pleaded and Robinson Crusoes, Jack the

Glart-killer and Mothers Geese are aged three months, was constipat for the employment of British | purposes of identification, has guilty. been sigried by the Chief Man- Mr. Coddington said that for demanding the joke-song wherevered and had fever at times which capital and work in the ship- Also there is a ager of the Corporation, in sub- many years Sheffield cutlery had Christmas pantomimes are being caused him to be very cross and building yards. stitution for the existing Ordin had to be made very secure in com- rehearsed. The thing has become fretful," states this Malay father. very Ane chance for the employ- markets, as inevitable as an approaching "It gave the child Baby's Ownment of ex-naval officers and men ances (except as in such print petition in the world's

Tablets and they quickly made a in the Industry. is mentioned) and Deed of Set- and it was important for the Cut depression from Iceland.

"Why is the Bacon so Tough" is wonderful change in him. Now he is We have sat still while the Nor- tlement of the Corporation. ler's Company to maintain the great

wrested They were claiming the "No Banana" throne fifteen months old and quite wellwegians have virtually prestige of Sheffield.

from us the whaling industry, NOTICE IS HEREBY determined to stop the practice of with irresistible might. Within a and healthy."

Baby's Own Tablets are a speci-which is bringing them millions ALSO GIVEN that a further ex-marking inferior goods as bost short time it will be on sale, while traordinary meeting of the share-

quality. On Nov. 12 two Union as soon as an artist has rendered it fie for stomach and bowel troubles of pounds. holders of the Corporation will be held on Saturday, the 23rd day of leaders went to Oxford and pur-with the necessary dash it is to be in infants and little children. chased six of the knives, and saw Impressed on thousands of records. February, 1929, at 12.45 in tho

By pantomimetime at the latest you will be crooning or humming or afternoon at the same place for about a dozen and a half similarly

marked. The knives

were not whistling the new ear catcher, which the purpose of receiving a report of the above mentioned meeting merely not very good," but almost started as a growl, changed into an and of considering, and, if thought as bad as they could be hotter error, and blossomed Into a joke- fit, confirming the above resolu- were roughly ground, the holster tion in accordance with Article 96 was not made of steel but of a kind of the Corporation's Deed of Set of zinc. The haft was made of low quality celiullod, and the blade tlement.

was- unfinished...

AND

Dated this 1st day of January, 1929.

Mr. O'Sullivan said the knives were ordered from a reputable By Order of the Directors, manufacturer in Sheffield, and at A. C. HYNES: that time his clients had not re- Chief Manager. celved any warning from the Cut- Note:-A copy of the proposed lers Company. The defendants Now Ordinance can be seen had not ordered any of this quality during the usual banking of knives since December, 1927. hours (Sundays, Public They were ordered in all and Bank Holidays adopt Innocence, and when they were pur- ed) in Hong Kong at the chased in Oxford they were a amall Head Office of the Corpora- remnant, man

tion or at the offices of Solicitors Messrs. Tounge, Wilson Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & and Co. Messrs. Lovell, White and Master, Prince's. Buildings, King. Solleitors to the said Cor

poration, and in Shanghai M. Rel, leader of the Esthanian at the Office of the Cor Socialist Par as agreed to poration from the date form a new Cabinet, as General hereof until the date of the Soots, lender the Peasant Union, above mentioned confirms has tory, meeting

Coalition.

song.

20 years.

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