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TWELFTH BI-ANNUAL
Public Auctions-RACE for Ships' Lifeboats
by public the 23rd October,
THE Undersigned have received will be sailed on WEDNESDAY,
Auction
ON FRIDAY, October 25, 1929, commending at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAŽIPS
On View from Thursday, Octa- ber 24, 1929.,
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, October 19, 1929.
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Each Ship may enter any num- ber of boats.
COURSE:-Start from Channel Rocks, thence to Kowloon Rock (P), Mark off Yacht Club (8), Cust, Rock Gas Buey (P), Finish at the Yacht Club across the line
from West to East,
Competing boats should be in position at the starting line by 3.30 p.m.
MOSCOW TO-DAY
Tientsin Residents' Interesting Account
TRIP VIA SIBERIA
A Good Word For Everything
PEOPLE HAPPY AND CONTENT
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. T. Lewis, who have just returned from furlough in England, when interviewed by representative of the North China Daily Mail" gave an interesting and vivid description of the Old Country as it appeared to them, na well as their impressions of Moscow, So- Ships proposing to enter boats viet Russia in general, and the trip are requested to notify the Hon.
acros Siberia Secretary.
by the Trans- Roynl Hong Kong Siberian expreas from Moscow to Yacht Club, not later than noon Vladivostok via Chile and the Amur on the 23rd October,
rallway.
THE Undersigned have received | LAUNCHES for the use of the:
instructions to sell by Public General Public will leave Queen's Pier at p.m. on WEDNESDAY. the 23rd October,
Auction
ON SATURDAY, October 26, 1920, commencing at 11 a.m.,
at No. B. Knutsford Terrace, Ground Floor, Kowloon
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
(Catalogues will be lasued.) On View from Friday, October
25, 1929.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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VJHEN YOU TRAVEL, and are seeing new sights—in the desert-or anywhere—make full use of your Wahi Pen.
Fill it with ink before you start-this "camel" among fountain peas, with its thin, tough metal barrel, will give you solid writing comfort throughout your trip without. further attention...
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RAFFLE
RAFFLES POLICE M.C.L.
DRAW will take place at 4.30 p.m. on THURSDAY, 24th October at the Police Recreation Club. Happy Valley.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
p.m.
will be
The frat bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
ties or inconvenience while travel- "Did you experience any diffeal ling from Moscow to Vladivostok?" Mr. Lewis was asked.
"None whatever. We had a most fenjoyable trip. The train can on time, the coaches were clean, the food excellent and the attendance on the train itself all that could be desired."*
ed to go about their business as if they had an object in view, I was only a few hours in Moscow, but from my short stay I could distinct- ly see an Improvement for the better. The people seemed to be more contented and happler.
travel the long distance from Mos- "When a train which has to
cow to Vladivostok can be run punctually on time at each station. the trains kept clean and the com- fort of the passengers being one! train attendants, there cannot of the first considerations of the much wrong with the economic con- dition of the country. Any sinister, under-currents or signs of an up- heaval would have at once been re- Rected, on communications, rail services being the first to suffer.
THEATRE-MUSEUM
be
AUSTRIA'S WORLD SURVEY OF NATIONAL LIBRARY
its
2
PUBLIC AUCTION
3
THE Undersigned have received instructions from Messrs.
SENNET FRERES to Bell by Public Action on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 24th and 25th October, 1929,
commencing each day at 10.30 a.m.
(with an interval from 12.90 p.m., to 2.80 p.m.)
at their Store-York Building
THE WHOLE OF THEIR SURPLUS STOCKS Comprising:
Gold and Silver Watches, Jewellery, Silver and Plated Ware, Porcelain and Cutglass Ware, Ladles Fancy Hand Bags, Silver Cups, Silver Photo Frames, etc., etc.
On View Now.
Hong Kong. October 22, 1929.
THEATRE
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Auctioneers.
ROYAL.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR FOUR NIGHTS ONLY
WARWICK REVUE COMPANY
THE PEEP SHOW
THE
TO-MORROW, October 23rd.
THURS. NEXT, October 24th.
FRI, NEXT, October 25th.
SAT. NEXT, October 26th.
IN INNUMERABLE "PEEPS."
HIGH LIGHTS
A FUNBURST.
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
A JOYOUS MISCELLANY,
AIRY NOTHINGS
"JUST FOR FUN;"
Plans at MOUTHIE'S till 5 p.m. from 8 p.m. at the Theatre.
POPULAR PRICES: $3.00, $2.00, $1.00. BOOK BEFORE YOU SLEEP DO IT NOW
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK
FUTURE PATROLS
Immense Changes "Did you stop at Moscow?" "Yes, for a few hours, It was five years ago since I was in Mos- cow, and I was much struck by the immense changes in the city. The streets are clean, there are plenty The National Library of Austria of shops open, all of which seem | has for many years had to be doing a good business, there in
possession
large is an excellent service of electric collection of literature deal. trams to all parts of the city, and ing with, the theatre, including THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE bus service which not only feeda on dramatic subjects bequeathed I was much surprised to ace a motor some thousands of valuable works T MEETING
held Moscow itself, but the surrounding by the great actor, Hugo Thimig. (weather permitting) at Happy suburbs and country. All these filtherto, owing to lack of accom- VALLEY on SATURDAY, 26th buses are English make, Leylands, modation, further expansion In this October, 1929, commencing at 21 believe."
section has not been possible. Now Absence of Soldiers
it has been decided to transfer the "Did you notice any warlike pre-existing collection to 1 special parations going on in Moscow while theatre museum, to
The following orders have been you were there.
be housed in Did you seo any troop movements?"
one of the unused State buildings, issued by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, And opened in the autumn.
Acting Captain Superintendent of "During the entire journey from it is hoped, will be a complete aurvey
Police:- Moscow to Vladivostok I did not of the theatre, not of Vienna alone, see any bodies of Soviet soldiers but of the world.
Squad Drill. All recruits of the anywhere.
It was only when we portraits,
Manuscripts,
Chinese Company will attend at arrived at Vladivostok that wè saw
newspapers, almanacks, etc., all of great value to the student day, October 24 at 5.30 p.m. sharp Central Police Station on Thurs- any large bodies of soldiers.
of the development of the theatre, for squad drill under P/Sergeant Vladivostok was in a very poor con- will be on view here, and special R. J. Hunt. Dress: Mufti. Each member has the right to In Vladivostok, everybody seems to dition in comparison with Moscow. introduce 2 non-members to the
Indian Company Members' Enclosure,, tickets for be keyed up to the highest pitch of
tension and nervousness. The peo-i Recently some valuable Chinese Indian Company will attend Police obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $ing for something. We were not are depicted, were acquired, and under P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt on
ple seem to be expecting and wait-log-books, in which theatre scenes Headquarters for ench up to Friday, 25th October molested in any way, although we also a model of a peasant theatre. Tuesday, October 22 and 29 at 1929.
had an enforced stay there of Ave which is an exceptionally The charge for
rare 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: Mufti. admission for days waiting for the steamer con example of its kind. Ladies to the Members' Enclosure nection to Tsuruga."
It' la built
Flying Squad will be $2.
The charge for admission to the Publie Enclosure will be $1 for all persons including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sallors in uniform half price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Members' Enclo-
sure.
whom
can be
•
啪
Each member can obtain upon
"What do you think of the hotel application to the Secretary accommodation and food in Vladi Badges for admission of 2 Ladies vostok?" free of charge.
NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.
Hong Kong. October 19, 1929.
Newly Arrived From Peking
CLOISONNE,
Here,
of students, authors, actors, etc.
rooms will be set aside for the use
Chinese Company
Squad Drill. All recruits of the
squad drili
in three stages, and is enclosed in
The fortnightly patrol of the s huge glass bottle. All the Kowloon Section will take place figures on the stages are made by on Tuesday, October 22. Fall in hand.
at the Tsim-tsa-taui Fire Brigade Another interesting theatre col-1 Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: lection to be opened to the public Khaki Uniform. in the near future is the memorial The next fortnightly patrol of exhibition in honour of the great the Hong-Kong-Section will take actor. Max Devrient. This will place on Thursday, November 7. be in the Burgtheater, and will Fall in at the Central Police Sta contain some hundreds
Dress of exhibits, tion at 5.16 p.m. sharp. including films, letters and photo-Khaki Uniform. graphs, all relating to Devrient's Commencing from the month of connection with this theatre during November, future patrols of both an Interesting period.
the Hong Kong and Kowloon Sec- tions will be held weekly.
"Hotel accommodation is not Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, &e. what you would call exactly cheap, will not be permitted to operate but It is reasonable, and food on the within the precincts of the Hong other hand is expensive. There are Kong Jockey Club during the Race some good cinemas in Vladivostok, Meeting.
the orchestras are excellent and the pictures exceptionally good, al though they deal with Russian life and the revolution. I believe they are Soviet-made pictures. In Vladi vostok there is a magnificent bath- house which does not seem at all in keeping with other aspects of the city. The town itself appears to be in a sad state of neglect, and, as I previously said, everybody seeme to be watching everybody else."
"Did you hear any war-talk white coming acroas Siberia in the train?"
"No. Perhaps some of the Rus sians on the train might have been talking about the Sino-Russian affair, but to all outward appear- ances there was nothing exceptional about either the people on the train or the attendants on the train. At the many stations we stopped at there was the usual crowd of vil- lage folk trying to sell their pro duce in the shape of chickene, fresh milk, butter, eggs, fruit, etc., Ro anybody who travels to Europe over the Trans-Siberian route need not This be afraid of going hungry. It is always possible to find plenty to
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A Peaceful Journey
Bonny Little Girl
In Burma
Owes Her Robust Health To Baby's Own Tablets.
**If one is furnished with the proper papers in the way of pass- Ma Chit, mother of the little ports, etc., the Journey across girl whose portrait appears above, Siberia to Europe via Vladivostok teaches school In Mandalay, is quite an agreeable one. There Burma, where her late husband is nothing to fear, and I was quite was also in the teaching pro- surprised on my return to Tientsin fession.
Sharpshooters' Company Revolver Practice. Members of this Company are reminded of the revolver practice to be held on Sunday, October 27, at 10 a.m. for details, see last week's orders. Winter Uniform
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Members of the Chinese, Indian, The following unclaimed tole- and Flying Squad Companies are grams are lying at the office, of the warned to get their Winter UniGreat Northern Telegraph Com form ready; those who are not in possession of same will apply to their respective Equipment Off-
COTA.
(Sgd.) W. Kent, A.S.I..
Adjutant.
. Hong Kong, October 21, 1929.
PIECE GOODS
EFFECT OF DECLINE IN EXCHANGE
The
reports and prices are published as supplied by importers, and the General Chamber of Com- merce. cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy thereof
Colton Piece Goods & Fancy Cotton Goods
pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
Chi Dong-young, Ligation Drug, Wantaal, from Kobe.
Hardivilliers, ""Atauta Maru," from Shanghai,
Richard Curry, 8.8. "Guoam," from Kobe.
T. P. Tailong, Shangwan, from Kobe.
F. E. A WORSOE, -
Acting Suprintendent. Hong Kong, 17th Oct., 1929.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following unclaimed tele gram is lying in the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-
Asticlips, from Sydney. S. LACK,
to hear of all this war talk, inter- "My little daughter suffered Exchange decline whilst tempor- ruption of rall service, blowing up greatly from stomach troubles arily killing all prospect of forward of bridges, derailment of trains, when four months old," states Min busincas should ultimately desist etc. Of course, in coming via the Chit. Amur railway we did not touch at er food without force being used;}
"She would not take milk liquidation of existing stocks. either Manchull or Harbin, but if and was, very thin.
It will necessarily take some little there had been any rear troop move- and I decided to try Baby's Own to levels approximating the present Her father time for market values to appreciate ment on the part of Soviet soldiers Tablets for the child and I am aliver parities of replacing costa we should certainly have come thankful that across some troop trains between then she has taken her food re- Exchange. Clearances are main-Kong for October (Standard time of
we did, for since based on current rate of Sterling Moscow and Vladivostok. We did not pass one single tropp train, neither did we see any bodies, "of Soviet soldiers during the whole of our train Journey until we arrived at Vladivostok
gularly, aleope well, and is in the tained.
beat of health."
Mid. Am.. Colton "Spot" was Baby's Own Tablets are equally quoted 10.06d. in Liverpool on 17th good for infants and little chil-Instant, and Eg. Sakel, 15.750. dren of every race and cilme. Cotton Yarn. During the In- "Did you notice any improvement Their specific purpose is the cor-terval prices have appreciated $3 to in the way of economical conditions rection of infantile stomach, bowel 84 per bale due to the heavy decline as far as they affect the Russians and teething troubles. They also in the Rupees exchange.
While-in-Moscow did notice quickly reduce fever, ease croup Nominal quotations are as fol- a decided and marked improvement and colds, expel worms. Chemists lows
for the better. The Russian popu- everywhere sell them, or poat free, lation seemed to have thrown of 60 cents per vial, from the Dr. that despairing look. The people | Williams Medicine Co., 60 Klangse were better dressed, and they seem. † Road, Bhanghai,
No. 10 $170-100.
No. 12. $180-2000-
No. 166. $200-210..
No. 208. $210.220.
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 17th Oct., 1929.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY Sunrise and Suntet à Hong
the 120th Meridian, East of Green- wich), are as follow:-
Sunrise Sunset. October
p.m. 4.20 5.58 5.52
24
4.29 6.24
5.52
25
(6.24 30 6.51
26
4.25 5.50**
6.25 -5.50
4,20 5.49
6.26 5.49
6.26 * 5.48
6.27
5.47
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