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TN Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 af 1919, the EXCHANGE BANKB will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION PUBLIC BUSINESS on `thp før-JULY, 1925,

Hongkong, 20th June, 1988.

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UR OFFICES will be at 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE, AT FLOOR) From THURS- DAY, tin lar JULY

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LOST.

HARE WARRANT (No. E. 999) with its 7 DIVIDEND UPONS of THE CHEE ESIN CEMENT COMPANY, LTD., Was LOST at Peking, and Has Been Hender. od Null and void. The Public in Hereby Advired Not to Negotiate, the Same.

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MESSRS. KOMOR & KOMÓR,

AZT & CURIO EXPERTS, TEMPORARILY REMOVED

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ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING. CHATER ROAD, AND FLOOR-Lirt- All are Cordially invited to View our FINE COLLECTION.

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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE

OF THE

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTIES

Situate at YAUMATI KOWLOON, in the bing Nos. Colony of HONGKONG

1. 14, 16, 18 and 20 HAMILTON STREET. YAUMATI erected apon SECTION B d KOM LOON LAND LOT No. 760 and Nos. 74, 70- 78,8,82 and 84, PORTLAND STREET, YAUMATI, erected upon the REMAINING PORTION or KOWLOON INLAND LUT No. 750

ON

To a Sotr BY PUBLIC AUCTION WEDNESDAY, THE 30TH DAY 01 JUNE, 1920, AT 3 O'CLOOK, I X., AT THE

OHINA AUCTION ROOVS, DUBBELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, Ma. E. V. M. R. DE BOUZA, Auctioneer,

The Froperty consists of:-

1. All that Piece or Farcel of Ground situate at Yauziri aforesaid and known and registered in the LAND OFFICE AS SECTION B or KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 76, together with the Five Meseninges thereon known as Nos. 12, 14, 16, 18 and 2, HAMIL- TON STREET, YAUMATI

All that Fices or Parcel of Ground sitaste at Yauxazi aforesaid and known and

INTIMATIONS.

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TO LET-KING EDWARD HOTEL BUILDING, For Farticular, Apply to

the OHINA LAND & INVESTMENT CO., ITD., BANK OF CARTON BUILDING,

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OLET-A FLAT of 8. Largo Airy TRooms on the Second Floor of No. 12, E CONDUIT ROAD. -Apply to H. K. NEMAZEE.

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BUILDING, PINNINGTON STREET, Fast Point, Floor Area: 5,835 Fq. Ft. Heights 20.40 FL Make Excellent Godown. For farther particulam apply to the SECRETARY, THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

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Tenders are being invited for widening SHOT DEAD IN STREET. and improving the Shaukiwan Road-.in Shaukiwan village.

H.E. the Governor has appointed Dr. Hilmar Florens Sommers to be à member of the Dental Board.

SENSATION IN CENTRAL DISTRICT LAST NIGHT,

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER KILLED BY DETECTIVE.

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is always open to the ambitious," they should retrace their staps before it is too lätgi ór, having tired of England and failed to find their metier, and being profoundly dissatisfied with the Far East, there are still the glorious unter- tainties of the Great Middle West and Australia. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, we be

No fewer than 51 pages in the Govern- lieve, started from a log cabin on his mieni Gazette are taken up by new. Re- way to the White House, but it is pregulationa under section 3 of the Post sumed he did a fair amount of hard Office Ordinance. work upon the journey. The opportu- nities to achieve fame and fortune are far greater now than they over wore; but the great trouble in these days is that many young men appear to imagine

Mr. Otto Stinnes, a son of the late appears that the detectivo, who was at-- that the world should gather around and place these opportunities at their feet Hugo Stinnes, the German industrial tired in plain clothes, was on duty be whilst they themselves recline in a long magnate, has arrived in Singapore and tween 8.30 and 8 o'clock, in Des Vœux chair and have their, material comforts has joined the Straits-Java Trading Co. Road, Central, near the Coatral Market and in the vicinity of Jubilee Street. He brought to them on a tray. by "the

Notice is given in the Government observed four Chinese approaching hin, boy."

Garttel that a portion of the piece of and their actions arousing his suspicions, Our thoughts are recalled to this subland known as West End Park" hai he decided to investigato matters, further, jeet by a letter we have just received been re-appropriated as from June 11th. and proceeded to pay closer attention to

ANOTHER MAN IN HOSPITAL.

Something of a sensation was caused Senders of telegrams are informed that, in the Central district last, evening when owing to faulty cable connection, tele-2 Chinese, believed to be a person of graba to and from Shanghai and beyond uspicious charactor, was shot dead by s ara subject to delay.

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Chinese detective.

From the meagre details available it

their mevoments. The new Catholic Bishop, Monseigneur |

Accordingly he went towards them, and Valtorte, paid his first official visit, to as he got near one of the men closed St. Francis Convent (Home for the with him and a struggl♦ ensued. His sa- Poor) in Francis Street, Wanchai, on sailant, the detective states, drew a Saturday.

dagger, and attempted to stab the detec tive.

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from a Hongkong resident who has been touring the East. He asks plaintively whether "the grine is worth the candle " and says that the incessant rise in the cost ef living will soon reach a point at which people will refuse to come out here, or having come, to stay. "In almost all the great ports from Bombay to Tientsin," he writes, "Europeans are worse served and relatively worse paid than ever before. Consider housing alone, one could put the whole of many

Mr. Claude Falkiner, the well-known low, but this failing to halt the fcsing of the modern flats in one room of the kind of houses in which we used to live.billiards player, has gone to Java. He man, three more shots, were fired, and It needs a great deal of white tile in the will retura inn fortnight's time to bathroom and many hot and cold water Singapore before proceeding on a tour taps to make up for that. In Bombay of the F.M.S. Later he will leave for

Ceylon and India..

The concert at the Kowloon Cricket

The assailant then bolted, but in his Club, which was to have been given on Saturday night by the Imperial Concert hurry to escape discarded his coat. The Party, was postponed. The concert will detective blew his whistlo, and called upon the runaway to stop, but he failed now take place on Saturday.

to do so. The detective then fired a shot

A carnival is announced for Repulse Bay Hotel on Saturday, July 3rd-fancy

the runaway was killed instantaneously,

Meanwhile, the other three men had de-

camped. The dead man was taken to the

IN QUARTS, PINTS & SPLITS.

Central Police Station, and when search- and Calcutta it is almost impossible to

ed, a dagger was found concealed in FORMAZONE THE

the clothing. Examination of the body get even the accommodation at which NON ALCOHOLIO

revealed the fact that two bullets, at we grumble in Hongkong." CHAMPAGNE. It possesses the characteristic stimulating

"To make them more serious," beer evening dress optional. Dinner 84 per least, had proved effectivo.

was removed to the and refreshing qualities of concludes, "these hardships are not set head. Special bus to Peak at 12.15 s.. The dead man

and to the Hongkong Hotel at 12.30 a.m. | Government Civil Hospital, and from a off by any compensating quickness in Booking is now open. Champagne and has

thore to the Mortuary. delicious flavour.

getting rich and retiring. No-one ex- pects home comforts in gold rush, Mr. Fred Williams, of Messrs. Jarding, always provided he gets the gold or has Matheson & Co., and scoutmaster of the]

porting chance of getting it. But Wesleyan troop of Boy Scouts, left for Prior to his de the average mercantile, assistant in the fiome on Saturday. Eat might just, as well be living at parture, he was presented with an appro. Tooting as far as his chances of for-priate souvenir from the troop. tuno are concerned, and when the other

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An open-air dinner was held at the samenities become hopelessly interior to Woagneichong Recreation Ground, by the Tooting it seem silly to live so far South China A.A. on Saturday night, to from Home."

THE WOUNDED MAN. Shortly after the removal of the body, a message was received at Police Head- quarters to the effect that a Chinese-had been admitted to the Government Civil

Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in

the thigh. It is believed that he was shot. by one of the bullets from the detective's revolver, but this had not been establish

ed at a late hour last night, neither is it

was merely":

celebrate the winning of the champion known whether he was one of the three ship by Chinese soccer teams in both men who bolted, or

podostrian. divisions of the junior league last season.

This will not be known until the difce-

To-morrow, which is St. Peter's Day, patronal festival and thanksgiving

tive has had an opportunity of seeing him for the purpose of identification.

Our correspondent happens to be on his way to Tooting or to some similar suburb and presumably, therefore, he will stay there. With the general trend of his letter we heartily disagree. The only part which we endorse is that in service will be held at St. Peter's Church, which he refers to housing as the funda-West Point. Holy communion at 7.30 - rental problem of healthy life in them. and festal evensong at 6.30 p.m. Á

rotice has been issued to the congrege Far East. He suggests that the high

tion. rentala here are not due to the demand for houses being greater than the supply A Memorial of Re-entry by the Crowa, but to the rapacity of "ringe" of con-

on Inland Lot No. 1355 has been regis tractors. If that is true the Government tered according to law, also the cancel THE GAME AND THE CANDLE should undertako the task, without lation of the Memorial of Re-entry on Inland Lot No. 2137, and a Memorial of delay, of breaking down such "rings.”

It is of no use the individual repin-le-entry by the Crown on Shaukiwan in the Colony.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JUN 28ru, 1926.

A WEEK or two ago some of the members of the Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, hotly debated the always interesting question whether

ing against inevitable economic develop Inland Lot No. 480. ment, but he has the right to ask for

His Majesty the King has not been

Madame Kamper, of 500, Nathan Road, Kowloon, who holds diplomas as Doctor of Medicing of the Moscow University, and is a graduate of the Gymnastic In- atitute, also of Moscow, whilst the has also studied dancing at the Billet School of Madame Koolichecskaga, the toneher of Pavlova-contemplates estab- lishing an Institute of Physical Culture

Among the passengers who left Hong- kong by the P. & O. 6.8. Mantua .on

registered in the Lure OFFICE as the RE NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, SIAM they had done wisely in coming to the protection if the scales are being un advised to exercise his power of disallow Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. H. S.

MAINING PORTION or KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 760, together with the

Six Mesenages theroon known as Nos. 74, 78, 78, 80, 62 and 84, PORTLAND STREET,

YAUMATI.

THE PHILIPPINES, ETO.

The Property is hold for the Unexpired LARGE EDITION, with Maps and Treaties... B12 Residuo of a Term of 75 years from the 1st day of January, 1898. Total Annual Crown Rent: 32075. Total Area: 9,091 Square feet,

SMALL EDITION

ON SALE

For Further Particulare, Apply to

MR JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Mortgages Solicitors,

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Ma. EY.M.B. DE SOUZA, Auctioneer.

Hengkong. 21st Jane, 1926.

VISITORS TO CANTON,

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DISILLUSIONED.

We once with respect to the following Ordin Stanley, Miss V. P. Stanley, Captain fairly weighted against him. noticed recently that Sir Svou SON ances: Ordinance No. 3 of 1990: AR J. S. de Wolf, Dr. and Mrs. Chan Kun - Chow and Dr. KOTEWALL published a Ordinance to give the Governor in Sung, Mr. B. L. Frost, Mr Nissim, letter advising landlords to be fair and Council power to order refunds of rater. Burg. Lieut. J. A. Cusack, Professur R reasonable to their tenants. in view of Ordinance to repeal certain enactments W. Marriott, Captain C. F. Mathews, the lapsing of the Rents Restrictions imposing disabilities on former enemy Captain Kennedy, and Mr. J. B w Bill. Such a letter was kindly and well- aliens. meant but in this business-like world it The can scarcely have much effect. In this instance; of course, the voting Hongkong and Kowloon Property Main was a mere matter of form following an

tenance Association, an organisation of academia discussion. The problem is landlords, have since issued a notice to one which cannot be decided by a their members imploring them to be majority vote. It is a question which reasonable. That again is a kindly his to be answered by each individual gesture. But after all neither of these for himself. Everything depends upon appeals should be required. Rents must individual taste and individual ability, be allowed to find their own level with What suits one, may not suit another, out artificial restrictions on one side or the other. On the one hand the Rents and the only safe line to take with those Restriction Ordinance has gone. If ou disgruntled persons, who still labour under the delusion that "distant pas tures are, always green," is to remind them, that in this comparatively tree world, they are still the masters of their

the other, it is found, as commonly reported, that, gangs of unscrupulous speculators in the building trade nré *holding "the community for their own financial advantage, such," rings " and grafters should be crushed at what-

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own destiny. If they have made a mis-over cost. That as we have enid, is the take in leaving England, where, as they duty of the Government and it is for are quick to point out," the Premiership them to find a way?

When I was young and fond romantic notions Thrilled me through and through:

As such sweet things are apt to do.

Then carried I my charmer's letter rear my heart, From it I could not-part,

Now that I'm not so young, alas! and cold, Forgetful that I once wer bold,

Sweet romance hath burnt itself away, Like a candle in its socket.. Ah, what do I do?

Now list yo, for this is true

I carry my darling's latest letter.

(Indeed I ought to know better)

Not near my heart, but quite as safely As in a docket.

Pat, alas in my hip-pocket!

DON