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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Phone C. 22

G.

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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

All replies under this heading must be called for.

TO LET

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

NOTICES.

NOTICE.

In re J. E. HANCOCK (Deceased).

NY CLAIMS against the late

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS A Mr. J. E. HANCOCK should PART

of the Sale by Public Auction be forwarded without delay to to be held on MONDAY, theJ, N. OWEN, c/o Mesars, Dodwell 26th day of August, 1929, at & Co., Ltd., Queen's Bldgs., Hong 13 p.m., at the Offices of the Kong.

Public

This Notice admits Department, by liabilities. Order of His Excellency. the Gov- ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony

Works

of Hong Kong for a term of 75

10

THE

CHINA MAIL,

FAMOUS CHARGE

THE "DEATH OR GLORY BOYS"

AN ANNIVERSARY

A model in sugar of the historic

charge of the 17th Lancers "the which closed the Zulu war, was on Death or Glory Boys"-at Ulumdi, the banqueting table at a London hotel recently.

It stirred many memories in the minds of the com- pany seated at dinner. Among them were 22 white-haired men-all 'sur- vivors of the gallant charge-cele- brating the fiftieth anniversary of

years, with the option of renewal LAMMERT BROS. the battle.

at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King,;

TO LET-Furnished, one room; use for one further term of 75 years. of bathroom and kitchen. Apply: Mre. Chan, 587, Nathan Road, Kow- Joan.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

TO LET OR FOR SALE-Ori Broad- Wood Road two semi-detached 5 room- ed houses with Tennis Court and Garage to each house... Reply Sccre- tary P.O. Box No. 22.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE-On Broadwood Road 3 roomed Bungalow. Reply Secretary. P.O. Box No. 22.

WANTED

ROOMS WANTED-By Bachelor- furnished or unfurnished-bed-sitting room or bedroom and sitting room. bath, kitchen, verandah if possible on Peak or mid levels. Please state loca- tion and rate. Box No. 68, c/o "China Mail."

SITUATION WANTED

85

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

of Sale

Raglebry

Loon lay.

Kowloon Island

Inland Lot No. 1689,

G.

athan Road

Boundary

Manemerita

*.

R. L ft.

Hboat

As par male plan.) 14,250 136

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

– Public Auctions

HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

ON FRIDAY. August 23, 1929,

commencing at 11 a.m at. No. 4. Granville Road (2nd Floor), Kowloon.

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE. (Catalogues will be issued.) Terms: Cash on Delivery. On View from Thursday, August 22. 1925.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, August 19, 1929.

instructions to sell by Public HE Undersigned have received

Auction

of the Sale by Pablic Auction to be held од MONDAY, the 26th day of August, 1929, at 3 p.m. at the Offices of the EURASIAN GIRL with experience Public Works Department, by wants position

NURSEMAID Order of His Excellency the Gov Will live in. Apply Box No. 607, c/o ernor, of one Lot of Crown Landat "China Mall."

at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by, the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and pramptly printed.--"China Mail" Office, No. 3A. Wyndham St. Telephone Cen- Laal 22.

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER-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. Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

Für

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

(National Frodel Bigher Certificate).

HACKSAW FRAMES & BLADES

BIT BRACES GAS PLIERS PUNCHES

A. MING & CO.

105, Des Voeux Road Centrni (opposite Central Market). Tel, C. 147.

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. 9459.

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, Tung Man Street.

TANG YUE, DENTIST

Successor to

the late STEN TING,

14, D'Agullar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

Kowloon Leland Lot Registry No.

Tung Choi Street and

Locality.

G

N.

Boundary binamente.

W.

Square feet.

11.

St.

L ft. About

** | Aunuzi Bentaj

por male plac, 4,849 (109

R.

Upset Price.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction

to be held on MONDAY, the 26th day of August, 1929, at 3 pm., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov-| ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crewn Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

3.

Janation of Apili

IC

Bonadas

...

Centrale i

W.

Lit

ADOLE

Ax

per male plan. 6,224

PUBLIC AUCTION,

R.

ANDAI RAISI

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

PARTI Lale by Public Auction

to he held on MONDAY, the 26th day of August, 1929, at Spa, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov ernor, of one. Lot of Crown Land at Waterloo Road, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixe by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locality.

Bocedary Bigakuremenla

*

3, 燃

W

About

persal plan. 21,700

a

ON

TUESDAY, August 27, 1929,

Godown No. 18, The Hong Kong

commencing at 10.30 a.m.

& Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.

A Large Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS

Comprising:--

Colonel Mortimer G. Neeld, who at the time was serving as orderly officer to the colonel of the rexi- ment, the late Colonel Sir Drury Lowe, came up from his Wiltshire home to preside. Other survivors came from all parts of the country.

Among them were!—

Major Anstruther, of Taunton, one of the five surviving officers;

Mr. W. A. Mowatt, of Blyth,; Northumberland:

Mr. W. Hands, of Hull;

Mr. F. Langley, of Worcester; | Mr. T. Boyne, of Bristol and. Mr. J. G. Richardson, of Cam- bridge.

Mr. W. Woodyard, of Potters Bar, who organized the dinner, stated that 15 of their old comrades were unable to be present owing to ill- ness. Two others were abroad, one in India and the other in Australia.

Mr. Woodyard said:"Most of us are now has-beens' of between 70 and 80 years of age. Until two years ago, when we held a similar gathering, most of us had not seen Nowadays most of each other for about 40 years. living quietly in retirement."

Recalling the stirring events of that July morning in 1879. Mr. Woodyard said:---

us are

"It was in beautiful moonlight, I remember, that we set off to cross the river to be ready to engage the enemy on the other side. A hollow square was formed, with Gatling guns mounted at the corners and Longwith a few old seven-pounders to give them support. The Zulus did not know very much about firearms, and their method was to join up then make a massed charge with the regiments some distance off and. their assegais.

Flat, Round, Square and Iron, Wire Nails, Iron Plates, Iron Wire, Toilet Goods, Japanese Por- celain,

Fire Crackers, Cigars, Cigarettes. Tobacco Leaf, Matches, Ammonia, Sodium Sulphide, Hydro- chloric Acid, Glass Ware, Ophthal rate Instruments, Wines. Flour, etc., etc.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, August 20, 1929,

con-

The Unbreakable Square "As we expected this was exact- ly what they did. I remember that; the Gatlings got choked, but al though the Zulu attack was tinuous the square stood solid. Not once did it break. If it had, not a single man would have been, left alive to tell the story. At last the Zulus turned. The square opened, and we mounted and went out and chased them. That finished it."

The battle of Ulundi was fought a mile from the royal kraal of Cetewayo, a Zulu army some 20,000 strong being totally defeated by Lord Chelmsford. The British force, consisting of the secon

Its not Bear Brand division and Wood's column, num-

BEAR Pure and Wholesome BRAND

Na Better Milk Produced BUILDS

More sold than other milks BETTER

Because of its superiority BABIES

Sole Agents for HK. & So, China A. B. MOULDER & CO., LTD. China Building, Hong Kong.

SPORTING

GUNS AND ACCESSORIES.

GUNS: Greener, Webley & Scotts, B.S.A., J. W. Needham & Ruick Freres-Air Rifles-Revol TEL. S. & V.-Rifle Accessories Aperture Sights-Sporting quisites Cartridges to suit all. bores.

THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION

STORES 5-6, Beaconsfield Arcade.

FOR SALE. Ladies Pyjama Suits

at $8.00.

S. NARAIN, China Buliding, 4th Floor

LAZARUS

the RECOGNISED HOUSE for

ZEISS BINOCULARS.

bered in all 4,200 Europeans and some 1,000 natives. After the fight the royal kraal was burned.

JAMES SMITHSON

FOUNDER OF THE SMITH- SONIAN INSTITUTION

SENSATIONAL RESULTS

OF A

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

ON SALE AT:

IN THE PRODUCTION OF CAMERAS

PHENOMENAL DROP IN PRICE!

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS DISCLOSED!

"

How is it possible to offer a high-class CAMERA at such a ridiculously low price?

HERE IS THE ANSWER

1. By standardising the manufacture!

2. By concentrating all efforts on

ONE PARTICULAR CAMERA only!

3. By MASS PRODUCTION!

THIS IS THE SECRET OF THE

"FOTH"

ROLLFILM CAMERA 24" x 34" (6 x 9 cm.)

with a most powerful LENS F: 4.5 and with patented built-in SELF TIMER, some- thing entirely NEW which no other Camera has got.

FIRST SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED.

$29.50 each.

Commercial Freas Ltd., 25, Queen's Rd. C. Long Hing, 17A, Queen's Rd. C. Kwong Kwai Co., 60, Queen's Rd. C. The Pharmacy, Asiatic Building,

A. Sek & Co., 26A, Des Voeux Rd. C.

Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd. C. The San Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd. C. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

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20, Des Voeux Rd. C. Wing On Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd. C. Yours Truly Tobacco Store,

22, Des Voeux Rd. C.

Sub-Agents wanted for a few out-ports. Write to THE FOTH AGENTS.

P.O. Box 325, Hong Kong.

ments; but to the provision he made in his will for the founding at Washington in the United States "under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an estab lishment for the increase and diffu. sion of knowledge among men." It was not till 1837 that any part of A month after the death of Sir America, it was not till 1846 that Smithson's bequest was sent to Humphry Davy at Geneva, James the American Government could Smithson passed away at Genoa, make up its minds to become the dying there June 26, 1829, and guardian of such a trust, but in being buried in the old English September of that year the Board Cemetery on the heights of San of Regents of the Smithsonian In Benigno. During his lifetime, | Smithson was known among his stitution met for the first time; scientific contemporaries

shortly afterwards they appointed student of chemistry and minera- and from that time onwards there Joseph Heary as the first secretary, logy and he had had the good for has been no looking back, tune to count among his correspon- dents and friends such men

From Smithson's fortune of Black, Thomson, Cavendish, Biot about $120,000 have come the in- and Arago, and had lived at various euguration of many notable enter- times in Berlin, Rome, Florence, prises; the National Museum, the Geneva and Paris. He had for the National Gallery of Art, the most part apparently lived a lonely Bureau of American Ethnology, the life, never marrying and suffering National Zoological Park, the As- somewhat from the disabilities of trophysical Observatory, expedi- his illegitimate birth.

tions, explorations and exhibitions.

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LADIES' and

GENTLEMEN'S

BATHING

COSTUMES

of superior Quality "OCEAN" "VIKING”

"HOLLYWOOD"

in a great variety of colours. All moderately priced.

THE BAKILLY CO., LTD.

153-155 Des Voeux Road Central.

THE PHILIPPINES

FRESH MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE

was

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His father was. Dugh Smithson. It was the Regents of the Smith- afterwards Hugh Smithson Percy, sonian Institution, who authorised 1st Duke of Northumberland of the Henry in 1855. to suggest to the third creation, a Privy Councillor British Association the formation

Washington, July 16. and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; of a catalogue of scientific memoirs, A renewed movement to give the; hia mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hunger- which led ultimately to the Icter Philippines independence

The following unclaimed tele- ford Marie, already twice a widow, national Catalogue of Scientific originated with a stirring appeal stems are lying at the office of the when the son, who for the first Literature, while the Reports, Pro- for freedom by Mr. Manuel Roxas, Great Northern Telegraph Com- thirty years of his life bore her ceedings and Bulletins of the Speaker of the Philippines House PR (Limited) of Denmark:— name, was born. It was as James Smithsonian Institution itself have of Representatives before.

the

Tuen, from Amoy. Macie the boy was entered as a been issued in their millions, Senate Finance Committee. Gentleman Commoner of Pembroke "Smithson's wishes," once wrote Later Senator King, who has leng College, Oxford, in 1782, it was as Langley, one of Henry's successors advocated such independence, an- James Macie he graduated M.A. "have been carried out by those im-nounced that he would move next at the age of 21, in 1786, and itmediately administering them with session for the adoption of his bill was as Jarnes Macie he was the fol-a constant scrupulous thought of to free the islands as soon as the lowing year admitted a Fellow of the intent of the founder, while in Philippines established constitu- the Royal Society, his sponsors, doing this the best results bave tional government. Senator King among whom was Cavendish, deflowed from a rigid construction of said he would also press for action claring him to be "a gentleman well his own words, so briefly expressed, on a resolution asking the Presi-. versed in various branches of and from a division of the activities dent to open negotiations with all natural philosophy, and particulars of the Institution into two great Pacific Powers for a treaty guaran- ly in Chymistry and Mineralogy." distinct but parallel paths, the teeing the neutrality of the islands, Altogether Smithson-exactly at increase" and diffusion" of know- Senator King claims that the what time he obtained permission ledge.”

growing competition of suger from to assume his father's surname is The motives which led Smithson the Philippines with domestic sugar not known-published 27 scientific to make his bequest to the United will soon force the United States to papers, and at his death left a large States, a country he had never grant the islands independence, collection of notes and manu-visited, remain unknown, but of which has been mentioned frequent- gram scripts. From the first be enjoyed the fruitfulness of his bequestly during the tariff hearings. the advantages of wealth, and there is no question. Of the man through his mother could claim hiuself we know little, and all his lineal descent from Henry VII. ¡papers were unfortunately destroy.

But his fame to-day so not dured in a fire in the Library of the 'plane falling into an air-pocket

Owing to a Spanish Air Force

to his connection with noble Institution in 1865. “Engineer. two officers were jerked from their families, or his scientific attain. ing.”

seats and fell 4,000ft,

E. V. JESSEX,

Superintende Hong Kong, 15th August, 1o

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