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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

TUBBS ROAD Will Be OPENED to the GENERAL PUBLIC 5. TO-DAY (1921 JULY), Caution must be exercised particularly in passing the Point where the Retaining Wall Collapsed about 1 Mile up the Road from the Hoxaxono & SHANG HAI HOTALA GARA. There is only ROOM for One Car To Fasz This Point at & Time.

Up-going Trafie will, therefore, have the light of Way and Down-going Traffic mast Wait Until the Road in Clear.

A Police Officer will be Stationed at This Point to Direct Trafo. Light Signals Green and Red will be Used at Kigns and in We.

Weather.

E. D. C. WOLFE, Capt supt. of Police.

Hongkong, 29th Imy, 1925.

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31 JULY TO ED AUGUST.

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PEAK CHURCH.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAYS. LIMITED,

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of 50 Cente

Per Share has been Declared Payable on THURSDAY, 26TH AUGUST NEXT, on and after which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon Application at the Registered Office of the Company. CANAL BOAD FATE Bowrington, Hongkong.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Com- party will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 137 1926, both days inclusive.

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ASSOCIATION.

By Order of the Board, W. F. RIMMONS,

Secretary-

26th July, 1926...

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LIMITED.

UNTIL Farther Notice THE

PEAK TRAMS Will RUN Between KEN.. NEDY ROAD and BARKER BOAD as Per TIME TABLE Bolo

4.K.

Mthe Hozorary Secretaryship of this E. P. M. HODGSON, having Resigned Association, Comunications and Letters in 7.30 future should be Addressed to the Undersigned, who has been appointed Honorary Secretary of the Association.o

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Hongkong, 19th July, 1926.

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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES,

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

Sitnate at SHAMSHUTPO in the Colony of Fong.. kong and registered at the Land Office as NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 949, Together with Three Buildings thereau incourse of construction st CHEUNG SHA WAN KUAD. Annual Grown Rant: $22.00. Area: 8,940 square feet or therembrate."

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Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer,

AT

THE CHINA ACOTTON BOOMS, 4. DUDDELL STREET, HONGKONG,

WEDNESDAY, THE ITA DAY OF AUGUST, 1976, AT 3 o'clock PM

For Further Particulars and Conditions of Bals, Apply to:

MESA, GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & 00,, Mortgages Solicitors,

St. Georges Building, Chster Road,

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DEWAR'S

WHISKY.

MESSRS, JOHN DEWAR

method that ensures for the community. an increasing revenue as values go up. Of course, as with all other commodities, buildings and land are subject to the law of supply and demand and during the last few months the local "slump" in trade has affected everything, but it must be remembered that this is by no means the frst trade "alump" we have experienced. We have successfully passed the others and there is good reason to believe now that we shall soon see & return to more

normal conditions,

Accountants tall us that there is often an item which they discuss with financiers that never appears in balance sheets. It is called Secret Reserves. The classical case that has been quoted is

that of the Bank of England. It is said that, in the annual balance sheet, the

A Haiwalian trio, known as the La FAR Belle Irene & Co., are giving concerts at Lee Gardens to-night and to-morrow,

Mr. C. J♫ Evana, British Vice-Consu?: of Canton, arrived by H.M.S. Tarantula on Wednesday, and is staying at the Hotel Metropole.

Considerable advance has been made in the clearing of blocked roads since the storm of last week, with the result that practically every route on the Island is now open to motor traffic. The latest road, which is now available for use is Stubbs Road, which was opened yester day afternoon at five o'clock.

There were 1,053 deaths in the

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

(THROUGH: REUTER'S AGRYOY.}

GENERAL FENG,

· RETURNING. TỔ CHINA FROM MOSCOW.

A NEW AIR SERVİCE Í

Tokyo, July 29th. The Nichi Michi 'professes to have lead from a reliable source that General Feng Yu Hsiang will leave Moscow for China' shortly, and also

pablishes the text of an alleged secret agreement negotiated by Feng for the catablishment of a regular air service Inter-between Moscow and Mongolia.

national Settlement of Shangbai during They have

& SONS, LTD., and subsidiary companies hold the LARGEST STOCKS of MATURED" SCOTCH WHISKY in SCOTLAND TO-DAY, and are theres fore able to guarantee the "same fine quality all over

the" world." recently secured the FAM OUS ROYAL LOCHNA- GAR Distillery at Balmoral, -which is situated on the ESTATE OF H. M. THE KING. In addition they own directly or are jointly Interested in NINE OTHER of the finest MALT DIS- TILLERIES in Scotland. thus ensuring future sup plies of their well known brands

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ST GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, 2ND FLOCK-IT-

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Thirty-five aeroplanes will be used,

THE MIXED COURT.

CHINESE LEADERS" PETITION

TO PEKING.

SHORA, July 29th. Marshal Sun Chuan Faag and the

value of the buildings and land in the the month of June. Of this number 921 with a branch line in Alongoliaut City of London owned by the Bank is were Chinese and 46 forcignore. British Ussuri not included. It has been written deaths numbered 12, Americans three and down" so much that it has reached the Japanese 23. Tuberculosis took the biggest. figure nought: These lands and buildings toll of deaths for any single disease, now, represent a secret reserve,"

being responsible for of the Chinese. cidentally, there must be a similar secret deaths and three of the British. reserve" for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for experts tell us

The Japan Christian Intelligencer, the that the value of the buildings and land first number, of which has been published, Civil Governor, Chen Tao Fi, jointly is an attempt to make known to the world telegraphed to the Foreign Ministry and owned by this great Far Eastern Bank

what is believed to be "the best in the Ministry of Justice yesterday, peti- very much exceed the figures that appear

tioning them to sign "the Mixed Court) Japan."

The Intelligencer proposes to in the annual accounts.

So it is with offer faithfully to the world such of Agreement. They pointed out that the this Colony. There are secret re- Japan's hidden best of every kind, and Agreement is purely provisional and will serves." All of the public works have is therefore submitted to foreigners who not hamper the Central Government's been inanced out of revenue. If the

actions for complete rendition. water supply system were offered for sale to-morrow financiers would be very will- ing to put up large sums for the conces sion We do not, of course, advocate such a procedure. We simply wish to emphasize the fact that, in comparison Property in Singapore valued at with almost any similar cominercial centre 8170,000 belonging to the estate of the late Sultana of Johore, H.H., Inche in the world, Hongkong has a unique

Rugiaa, was mentioned in the Supreme financial record. The many and expen-Court, Singapore. Mr. W. E. Demuth, sive local developments have been paid on behalf of H.H. Tungku Abubakar, son for out of income and for all practical of the Sultan of Johore, applied for the purposes Hongkong is free of debt. In cancellation of letters of administration

desire to acquire a correct knowledge of the real Japan as she is and as ahe hopes to be. Those wishing to subscribe to this magazine should communicate with Mr. Tsuruta, of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., Hongkong.

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STUBĖS. ROAD OPEN.

TRAFFIC PRECAUTIONS.

Since the storm of last week consider-

able progress has been made in the clear- ing of blocked roads, so much so that practically every read on the Island is now open to motor traffic. The Intest road to be re-opened following the storm, is Stubbs Road, which was available for motor traffic as from last evening at five o'clock.

This will be welcome to many residenta who found access to Repulse Bay and the Peak by this route cut off by the number" of landslides caused by the flood.

venience.

that respect it is in sharp contrast with granted last May to Sheik Abdullah Al- any city in Great Britain. The citizen Arishce, and for administration to bs Mr. granted to Tungku Abubakar. of London must carry on his shoulders his share of the now enormous national Demuth stated that H.H. the Sultan had consented to this change, and there were debt-including the annual tribute that no debts due to the estate. The Chiefred, but several portions of the road also The obstructions have now been clear- goes to the U.S.A-and also the share Justice (Sir. William Murison) granted received damage, and the work of mak- of loans raised for municipal works.

the motion.

ing the route safe for traffic has been We mention these facts because during

English education continues to appeal hurried in order to remove the incon- the past few months there has heen what to Eastern people, and there is many regard, os “a penny wise and pound large number of young men yearly who

CAUTION ADVISED. foolish" tendency in Government circles. leave their homes for the West to study. Motorists using this road are request- Economy is very desirable, but it must The latest addition to the number is Dr. ed to exercise extreme caution, particu- S. A. M. Sepher, the first local Indian larly in passing the point where the re- be real and not false economy, Hong-

to graduate in medicine at the Hongkong taining wall collapsed, about a mile up kong must go forward and a bold finan- University, who saile to-morrow by the the road from the Hongkong and Shang- cial policy on the part of the Govern-s.a. Hakone Mdru. Educated at St. hai Hotel garage. There is only room ment would convince the Chinese that Joseph's College, whith Institution has for one car to pass at this point at a we have faith in the future, and in our educated many prominent men in the time. Upgoing traffic will have the right selves and would breed confidence all Colony, Dr. Sepher entered the Univer- of "way, and down-going traffic must sity in 1918 and, after succeeding in wait until the road is clear. A police round. There are big schemes of develop-passing the final examination, obtained officer will be stationed at the point to In less than seventy years the annualment that should be carried out as appointments in the Government Civil direct trafic Light signals, green and revenue of Hongkong has increased from quickly as possible. The water supply Hospital, where he served in various red, will be used at night, and in wet 200,000 dollars to more than 23,000,000 for example is inadequate.

The credit capacities. He intends to continue his weather.

-have-a studies at Glasgow University, dollars. The actual figures for the year of Hongkong is good. Let us ha 1925 show that $23,244,385 was collected public loan and let it be free of the c/o Hongkong Daily Press, as revenue. It is below the "record military contribution tax. It is the bold policy in these matters that will pay in figure, which was for the year 1923 and the end. We have built on good founda which reached $24,183,763, but we firmly tions for the benefit of posterity. Let H OUGH of Ten to Twenty Rooms Wanted, believe that many of us will ses that posterity pay something for the privileges

near Ferry, Kowloon, FLATS mod HOUSES Requiral, Hongkong and Kowloon." record" passed. The growth in the that will be theirs. HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS, SHAR local revenue during the last few years REAL ESTATE OG., 10, Des Voeux Road. has been amazing. During the last do- TEL. 0. 4630.

[100 cade the Rateable Value of the Colony

has been nearly doubled. It has creased by $430 per cent. These pre figures which must convince the most

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NOTICE.

N the event of the Consignees not taking Delivery of the undermentioned Goods

now stored in the Company's Godowns at West Point by the 81ar JULY, 1924, they will be BOLD PUBLIC AUCTION to defray

Cart of Storage, etc.

Godown War.

Packages

Date of

storing

Consignees,

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LET.-GODOWN, No. 150. Prata

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78 pcs. Iron Pipes 5/3/21

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Hongkong, 16th July, 1928.

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FOR RENT-16, ANLEY ROAD, KOW

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'FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA,

INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c.

Comprehenave and Complete Report

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NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

In given in the

A BOLD POLICY,

centre of commerce.

The Exchange Banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Monday, August 2nd.

PROPERTY SALE.

At the China Auction Rooms yester-

Further details have come to hand with regard to the double tragedy -in Kowloon, in which a coolie of the Kow. loon Godowns died as a result of being day afternoon, the postponed sale of two wounded with a chopper, and another leasehold properties at Bands Street and coolie, his assailant, committed suicide Lan Kwai Fong took place. The auc by jumping off from a second floor tioneer was Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa, verandah at No. 9, Haiphong Road. It and the properties were disposed of by appears that the man who was wounded order of the mortgageen.

The first property sold was No. 23, was sitting on a mat near the kerbstones in front of the Kam Hing Knitting Sands Street, situate upon the remain- Factory, Haiphong Road, when he was ing portion of Inland Lot No. 2308, truck on the head and chest with a and containing an area of 2,168 square thed followed by a yell was heard, and of 22. The upset price was 811,000, an.. an old man was found lying in the road after an advance of 2500, the property with his head smashed. The two men was knocked down to Mr. Sur Man lived together, and though the exact The next property offered was No. 13,

suicide.

The total output of the Kailan Mining EAST. Possession from 1st Saiz pessimistic that, despite the rumours Administration's mines for the week chopper. Immediately afterwards a loud feet, and with an annual Crown rental

about the decay of Hongkong that have ending July 17th, amouited to 46,670 been spread from Penang to Feking, there tons, and the sales during the period to is still great vitality in this important 25,148 tons.

The facts of the The return of notifiable diseases for motive of the attack is unknown, Lan Kwai Fong, situate upon Inland past cannot be suddenly brushed aside the 24 hours ended on July gath, stated although a quarrel is suspected, the Lot No. 1007. The area in this case în as of no importance. When Hongkong that there were reported two cases of chopper which indicted the fatal wound 603 square feet, and the annual Crown commenced its business carcer in 1841 enteric fever, one Chiness and one. was found and has been identified as the rental 88. The upset prics was 13,000, there were three Chinese villages with a Indian, and also one Chinese case of property of the man who committed and following an opening bid of 8500, total population of 4,000. By the end of paratyphoid fever. May, 1842, the population in the new

The bodies of fifteen members of the British, town, now called Victoria, had crew of the Aberdeen fishing junk which reached 12,000 and a sum of £6,000 had was reported in yesterday's Daily Press. been received for the sale and leasing as having been wrecked near Gap Rock of plots of land. One of the wisest men during the typhoon last week, were re sures introduced in this Colony was that covered from the rocks at Hai Pong Chau which abolished outright salos of land, yesterday. The bodies were brought to Formosa to the Basins. An area of rewithheld, £10,000 5 per cent, war loan Kowloon by the launch Stanley, and latively low pressure exists east of N. bonds and £3,000 4 per cent, funding loon The present system of Crown leases is a were removed to the mortuary, It in Luzon.

bonds for cancellation. Mr. Churchill source of revenue that is the envy of believed that only two or three of the Local forecast:-S. winds, moderate, Majesty's Government for this generous desires to express the thanks of his municipalities in Great Britain. It is crew escaped drowning.

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WEATHER. EZFORT,

The weather report, forecast and re- marks, issued last night, from the Royal Observatory stated ~

A feeble anticyclone extends from

bids of 8100 brought the price up to #14,100, at which figure, Mr. Yan Wing Tong" and Mrs You Fong became the purchasers.

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer has received from a gentleman remding in Bomer, who desires his name to be