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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929.

Phone C. 22 FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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WANTED

NOTICES.

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.

LOST.

APPLICATION has been made to this Company to issue to Mr. BERNARDINO DE SENNA FERNANDES, of Macao, a dupli. cate Certificate for Forty Shares In this Company numbered 491406/ 491445, or other Certificates In Rea thereof, upon statement that the original Certificate No. 8252, dat- led 18th September, 1928, has, to- WANTED. For Young English Girl gether with a digned blank trans- passage or part passage to England fer, been lost or mislaid; and In return for services. Reply: Mrs. 3. McCormack, The Bungalow, Quarry notice is hereby given that, if within thirty days from the date hereof no claim or representation in respect of such original Certi- ficate is made to the Company, this Company will then proceed to deal with such application.

Bay.

WANTED English Woman seeks daily employment. Capable child's Nurse. Apply to Box 580, c/o "China

Mail."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Large Rickshaw, in per- fect condition; paeumatic tyres: re- cently overhauled, Can be seen any time. Y.M.C.A., Kowloon.

FOR SALE-One

Morris Oxford

Motor Car 1928 model, 5 Seater, in perfect condition. Owner driven. Ap- ply Box No. 580, c/o "China Mail."

TO LET.

TO LET.-One Front and One Back Reem. Can he let together or separ- ately; use of kitchen and bathroom, Apply to: Mrs. Chan, Orient Build- ing, 587, Nathan Rd.

TO LETA Spacious and Well- Lighted Godown, 161, Praya East. Apply Gonde. Price & Co., Ltd.

TO LET.-lices to be let in Queen's Rond, Central Apply to E. D. SASSOON & Co, Ltd., French Bulld Ing.

TO LET.-"Belleview No. 0, Peak Rond. Fully furnished f-roomed house with early possession.-Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.

To LET-From 15th May to 30th November, No. 203. The Peak. Five roomed house fully furnished with three modern Bathrooms, Garden, 8 minutes rickshaw from Tram and on- Motor Road. Apply John Fleming, c/o Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

For the CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD., SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Manager, Hong Kong, 8th March, 1929,

TO-DAY

and every day

drop in for a

quick one"

at the

ST. FRANCIS

HOTEL.

FREE SNACKS

every day from

10.30-

0-12:30

and

5.30

7.00 p.m.

GROUND FLOOR LOUNGE.

NOTICES.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

CO, LTD. -

THE CHINA

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nthat the 40TH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Sharehold

MAIL,

DO NOT. PITY HER

POOR LITTLE' RICH

GIRL

WEALTH A DANGER

held by one descendant or by a vory few were thinking more of adolescence than childhood, But even so, I think their fears were unfounded.

Whea a rich man's son turns apendthrift, when a rich man's daughter proves a fool, we all hear of these developments, while the the dowerless go unrecorded. improvidence, and foolishness of

The willa of a Salmon and of a ere in the above Company will be Gluckstein, heads of the great held at the Offices of the Company, Lyon's Arm, have been published in St. George's Building, Chater Road, close succession, and in each the Victoria, Hong Kong. on WED-testator expressed a belief that the NESDAY, the 18th day of March. (expectation of riches was harmfal 1929, at Noon, for the purpose of to young people, writes Edith receiving a Statement of Accounts Shackleton in the "Daily Express."

Rich men often suffer from this and a Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, fear that their wealth is a dangering tight to the some bits of land

1928.

to their immediate heirs, so often The TRANSFER BOOKS of the that I sometimes wonder if rich Company will be CLOSED from men forget their own early youth MONDAY, the 4th day of March, more completely than the rest of us. 1929 to WEDNESDAY, the 18th It must be rarely indeed that a very day of March, 1929, both days in-young child is harmed, or greatly affected at all, by the knowledge that he will inherit a fortune later clusive.

on, since nearly every child has in his own imagination a far more glorious future than any the rich- eat of fathers could ever secure for

By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

General Managers, Hong Kong, 21st Feb., 1929.

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

him.

Which of us would have had the heart to grow up at all had wo sup- posed we were going to be the or- dinary men and women we have in fact become? Were we

aired by a delicious not all sus-

moment?

ARY GENERAL MEETING willague splendour and delight which be held at the Company's Offices, might begin to occur almost any P. & 0. Building, on FRIDAY, 22nd

When the child says he is going March, 1929, at 11 a.m., for the

to be an omnibus conductor or a purpose of presenting the Report sailor he does not mean that he of the Directors together with a will be one of the humdrum, humble Statement of Accounts to 31st Defellow we know in these employ- cember, 1928, and electing Direc-

As many poets have point- tors and Auditors,

ments.

flower. a

"But not like that the

The Register of Members of the ed out, we may see a bird or Company will be closed from 11th child has seen," and the child does March, 1929, to 22nd March, 1929, both days inclusive, during which not see our omnibus conductor, but a gloriofis creature of dominance period no Transfer of Shares can

and covetable possessions. be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directora, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong. 1st March, 1929.

His sailor sails uncharted faery Bear, still encounters mermaids and pirates, and now brings a monkey. to the Court of Queen Elizabeth, now dies heroically in Trafalgar Bay.

How could the knowledge of mere money wa'ting for him in the bank

like these?

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSUR-upset the central figure of dreams

ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE SIXTIETH ORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of Share holders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the 26th March, 1929, at 11 am for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Ac- counts for the year ended the 31st

TO LET OR FOR SALE—At Fanling (in On Lok Village). Furnished or Unfurnished, 4, Roomed HOUSE with

December, 1928. Moderate Price. Tel. No. C. 5134. Tel. No. C. 5134. Garden and Garage.

Apply: KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., 260. Des Voeux Rond Central,

TO LET OR FOR SALE—No. 56 The Peak, within two minutes' of Tram and Un-furnished on main Motor Road.

Seven-Roomed House with modern; Sanitation. For particulars apply: Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co., Ltd.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 26th March, 1929, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance

Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1929.

It is not true that rich parent. age automatically produces idle ness and folly. If it were Wa should have no ancient families. such as you can find by the score In Debrett, who have been hold

since the Conquest or before it.

YOUR TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

ARE NOT COMPLETE

WITHOUT

COOK'S TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES

ISSUED IN STERLING AND US DOLLARS. THOS, COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD.

AND -

WAGONS- LITS CO. Pedder Bldg. (1st Floor), Pedder Street, Hong Kong.

The fact is that acquisitiveness and thrift are inherited character- LIFE OF ADVENTURE Istics and at least as likely to oc- cur in the children of the rich as

ENGLAND'S OLDEST in those of the people who have never themselves acquired any- thing worth making a will about.

A possibility, even a certainty,

DOCTOR

DEATH AT 99

of future power and distinction is Sir David Maurice Serjeant, the surely a help rather than a hind- doyen of the English medical pro- rance to the average young perfeanlon, died recently at his home son. As a rule the adolescent boy in Peckham-road, when within a or girl is pathetically eager for week of his ninety-ninth birthday.

Doria Kenyon.

The immediate cause of death was the fracture of a leg when he was stooping down to pick some- thing from the floor. Until three years ago he was in active prac Hice.

He was an adventurer of the Elizabethan type. As a young man he was a victim of the gold fever. He was articled to a Peterborough |doctor, but abandoned his articles to join in the gold rush at Mount Alexander. Gold digging falled to make his fortune, and he had to work as a gardener, a gold buyer, a paperhanger, a painter, and a con- veying and engrossing clerk be- fore he came back to England. in 1895 to complete his studies at Guy's Hospital and take his de- gree.

on

The P. and O. service then at- tracted him. Like Sir Frederick Trevera, in his classical book the "Elephant Man," he could re- call the time when surgeons per- formed operations with the aid of unskilled Sarah Gamp" nurses smoking clay pipes.

Camberwell in his earlier days In was full of wealthy people.

the late 'Sixties he recalled a case self improvement, and not only where a member of his profession longs to have all the graces. and performed an operation on a lady accomplishments appropriate to and left the house with a thou- high estate, but is willing and sand guineas in his pocket, though eager to work for them.

the lady died two days afterwards.

It is in the periods of depression Camberwell people were then during which the boy or girl sud-wealthy, and once when he was a denly stops dreaming and realises sideaman in Camden Church the

drab, undistinguished future offertory amounted to £3,600. lying ahead that moral degenera For literary work on Australia tion is likely to take place... and Australian' cricket--he played More boys, I think, must have in the two first Inter-colonial abandoned studies for a profes- matches he received the thanks sion in a dismal certainty that of Queen Victoria, King Edward owing to their lack of money the VII., and King George V, and other struggle was useless than have members of the Royal Family. He done so because it was clear that was knighted in 1922. they would always have enough to live comfortably without working at al

SPORTING GUNS AND

ACCESSORIES.

GUNS-Greener, Webley & Scotts, B.S.A., J. W. Needham & Reich Frores - Air Rides Rovolvers. A&W-Rifle Accessorien Aper- tore Sights Sporting requisites Cartridges to suit all bares.

THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION STORE

E-6, Beaconsfield Arcada.

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. G $459.

26. 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, Taumati or

C.2560

Man Street.

No. 36, Tang

Do we not give the children por- sistent bints of great fortunes in all the fairy tales? When every little boy knows that there is a pot of gold at the rainbow's end and every little girl knows that there may come riding by, however neglectedly one may be sitting among the cinders, in "a fairy prince with joyful eyes," how could the comparatively dull cows that one was mentioned in Uncle Arthur's will prove a distraction"?

And though we tell the fairly tales, they are really the children's own, since men made them in the childhood of civilisation. If we did. not pass on the ready-made fairy princes and Cinderellas and changelings that solaced our own Infancies, the children would in-

He has left three daughters, two vent them for themselves.

of whom are doctors, and a son, Nearly every child at one time

who is also in the medical pro- pretends that he is a. changeling, ! For a girl the certainty of fession. One of the daughters, the counterpart of the prince rear-wealth ahead is often beneficial Dr. Helen Serjeant has received ed in the woodcutters" hut. Pay- because it keeps her from the an illuminated address presented chologists say that this is due to temptation to marry for money, by the Borough Council because the child's subconscious memories which does not distract a boy. her book on "Hints on Infant of its own soft and guarded baby- If I had some children and a Feeding" had reduced infant mor hood, but, whatever its origin, the lot of money I do not think 1 tality in Camberwell by 20 per Imaginative habit of assuming, a should try to keep from the child- cent."Morning Post." glorious inheritance is there and ren the sense of security that surely a fortfication against the ill-money brings. And if I had a lot

The wedding took place in St. effects of subsequent knowledge of of children and no money at all I actual wealth and power to come. should invent for their improve- Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on Probably the two affectionate ment and encouragement an uncle March 1 of Mr. A. C. Twyford, fathers of the now famous wills in the Antipodes who might die Asst. Supt. of Surveys, Segamat, KWONG HANG & CO.

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE Within FAR to sell by Public Auction, a part of ber Valuable House that barbarous dealre of many rich if they were not clever and charm- [R. S. Ward of Christchurch, New THE Undersigned have received instructions from Mrs. C. Montague whose earnest desire for their some day and leave them so much Johore and Miss Edith Ward, eld- children's welfare kept them from money that it would be acandalous est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. hold Furniture,

"Zealand.. men to

have all their riches ing enough to deserve it.

TUITION

SPECIAL PHYSICAL CULTURE

M'me

CLASS.

BARONELLI,

School of dancing for

ARTISTE,-~- children

adults. Special Physical Culture clasA for Stout and Stiff Ladies. Address 31. Ashley Road, Kowloon (Back of Star Theatre).

HOME TUITION.

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. Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb, Higher Local).

For

Camb, Teachers* Diploma).

MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frodel Migher Certificate).

?

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS nestly and promptly printet "China Mail" Office, No. 3A. Wyndham St. Telephone Cen-. trai 2.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

- Public Auctions -

THE

HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

ON

Auction

TUESDAY, the 12th March, 1929,

commencing.at 5.15 pm.

at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street.

'A Valuable Collection of

POSTAGE STAMPS

(Particulars from Catalogue).

On View from Monday, the 11th March, 1929.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.“

Hong Kong, 7th March, 1929, 3

FOR QUICK REPAIRS

FIAT GARAGE

67A, 67B, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel C. 4821.

DISTILLED PEIPI WATER for diluting drinks,

A great remedy for lung trouble

stops that irritating cough. 45 cents per bottle. on 'Sale at:

SHING CHAI TONG DRUG STORE.

Established 1892 180, Queen's Road C.

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,

the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th March, 1929,

commencing each day at 11 s.m. with an interval from 1 to 2.30 p.m.

At

No. 3, Bowen Road.

Teak Upholstered Black Satin Couches, Armchairs, Book Cases, Mahogany Dining Table, Tables, Teak Ice Chest, etc., etc,

Oak Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobes with Glass Doors, Teak Dress- ing Table, Teak Chest of Drawers, Largo Teak Linen Cupboards, etc., etc.

Curios, Old Japanese Prints, Water Colours, Bronze and Brass Ornaments, I Large Carved Ivory Tusk, etc., etc.

LARGE QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD AND RED LACQUER WARE.

Comprising:-

Joas Tables, Tables, Chairs, Bookcases, Cabinets, Decks, Stools, Blackwood Frames with Jades, Ornaments, Screen, Chinese Tempie

Arma on Blackwood Stands, etc., etc.

also

Telescope in perfect condition, Valuable Books, New Oxford Die- tionary and Contury Dictionary, etc, etc.

and

One Very Fine and Old Japanese Dinner Service (complete) One Large Kelvinator

One Large American Ice Box with Glass Doors

One Victrola with 600 Records (Mostly Red Seal).

Also

4 Old Carved Blackwood Clothes Chests

1 Old Carved Blackwood Mirror (which belonged to the late Empress Dowager of China, brought from Peking during the Boxer trouble in 1900), J.

And

Wine-bins by Lane, Crawford, Ltd. and

a good quantity of Vintage Wines,""

and N

Large Quantity of Cocos Palms (Ostrich Feather), Mauritius. Palms, Fan Falms, Standard Orange Trees, Plants, Maiden Hair and

Asparagus Ferns (All Plants in Tubs and Pats)

1000 Plaster Boards for Garden Beds,

On View from Monday, the 11th March, 1929, Cataloguer will be issued,

Terms: Cash on Delivwy,

They'll Battle for the Ryder Cup

TANG YUE, DENTIST Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE

Tel. C. 2736.

43, Des Voeux Road Central. Government and Admiralty Coal

- Contractors. HOUSE COAL

Peak

Upper Level Middle Level

Central Office Kowloon

.at $23.00 per ton..

$22.00 M

$21.00

#

*

» $20.00 » $17.00.. The above prices include delt very charges to destination.

"CHINA" LADIES' HAIR DRESSING SALOON.

Hand Office:-25, Des Voeux Rond Central. Tel C. 6234.

First Branch ear

No. 5. D'Aguilar Street, (For Ladles only) (Telephone No. C. 42347

Second Branchi

No. 22, Queen's Road Central (For Ladies & Gents.) (Bear Ground floor of Kayamally Buliding).

Your Visit is cordially welcomed when you will see that our Train-

· ed. Female'; Hair Dressers giro

`you every satisfaction.

Business Homes F

·

8 m. to: 7 p.m. on wecks days.

~12 noon to 6 pm, on Sundays.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION “AUSTRALASIA 1& CHINA TELEGRAPH CO, LTD.

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying in the E. E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- Gould Warship, from Weybridge. Kaede, Passenger,

WW Haruna Haru” care of Yusen, from Bam- bay/?

Hong Kong Hotel,

from

BLACK

Buperintendent. 7th Marck1929.