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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1926

FELIX VILLAR-At the TERMINUS of

the new BUS SERVICE, Enrepen residences equipped with modern Fanitation, electric light gas, 'sa well-as garage and comprising 8 rooms, 4 bathrooms, servants quarters, etc., at $150 and upwards. Those residences on Mount Davie Boan, face South and are tested in one of the most delightful localities in Hongkong. IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that On and Apply to the HONGKONG LAND INVESTME [8429

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A CONTINUOUS WATER SUPPLY will

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About Three Quarts of the Total Normal Supply will then be Available and Consumers Must Reduce their Consumption to Three' Quarters of their Normal Sapply.

In the event of This Aversco Available Supply being Exceeded, Restriction will be Introduced without Further Notice and Ar Intermittent Supply will gain be Enforced,

The Advantages of & Continuens Supply an obvious and it is hoped that Consumers will Government to Layally Co-operate with Prevent Waste...

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Public Works Department "Hongkong, 16th August, 1928.

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CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS in MANILA -Single, with Initiative. Interview can be arranged in HONGKONG, AD AGENT, 1926.. Beply-Box No. 3868, c/o Hongkong "Daily

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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES. PUBLIC AUCTION

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VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

Situats at Victoria Hongkong, and known as "No. 606, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, erected aron THE REMAINING POR- 17ON OF INLAND LOT No. 1069,...

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION

WEDNESDAY. THE 25TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1926, AT 3 o'clock r., AT THR

CHINA AUCTION BOOMS,

No. 4, DEDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, HONGLONG, Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA; Auctioneer.

BY

The Property ensists of:~

All That Piece or Parcel of Groun 1 situate at Victorie aforesaid registered in the Lard Office Tuz REMAINING PORTION OF INLAND LO Na 1639, together with No. e-sctod 606, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST whereas The Property is belt for the Uner- piral Residue of a Term of 75 years from the for Que (Benewable 12th NovEMBER, 1900 Further Term of 73 years) created by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 4th DECEMBER, 1901, and made between His LATE MARTY KING EDWARD VII of the one Bad WOOYIU NAM and TSUI WAN KWAL of the other part. Anoual Crown Rent: $15.00, Area: 739 square fet.

For further Particulars, Apply to- Mrs. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Mortgagera Solicitor,

OE TO

M. E. V. M. B. De SOUZA, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 14th August, 1926,

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GOOD TENANTS AND BUYERS AVAILABLE FOR FLATS AND HOUSES IN SUITABLE LOCALITIES FROM OCTOBER-NOVEMBER. "

OFFERS INVITED FOR POS-IBLE PRIVATE DISPOSAL OF HOUSES SITUATED IN

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

-IN TAR GOODS OF THOMAS SHAW FORREST, LATE OF ST. ANDRZWI, IN THE COUNTY OF FIFE,IN TER UNITED KINGDOM, MERCHANT, DECEASED.

TAKE NOTICE that the Supreme Court of Hongkong has in accordance with the provisions of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, made An Order Limiting the Time for Sending in Claims against the above state till the BIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER. One thous nd Nine hundred and Twenty-six

All Claims against the Fatate should be Sent in by that Deto to the Dedersigned, the Solicitore for the Administrator.

„Dated this 10th-day of August, 1976...

DBACONS,

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No. 1, Des Vaux Road Central, Hongkong.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF "

HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

OF

IX THE GOODS DY WILLIAM STEWLET DAVIDSON, LATE SICCAWAl Loner. NotA HATLEY PROVINCE OF QUEBIC, CANADA, DECEASED.

TAKE NOTICE that the Supreme Court of Hongkong has in accordance with the provisions of Section 55 of the Probates Ordinance, 1997, made An Order Limiting the Time for ending in Claims against the above Estate till the SixTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER,

INTIMATIONS.

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If you pursue the enquiries still further was formerly dependent entirely on hand and ask why the walls must be made so labour. thick in Hongkong, the answer is again usually-rague. The Chinese bricklayer will not put the mortar in the right place or the strength of the local mortar is very low" or "it is impossible

Among passengers embarking on July 19th at Marseilles in the P. & 0.

whs Sir Edgar Reer Jones, for « Hongkong), se

We like this ides of a mental partner ship between employers and employed of

Sir Frederick James, who was former- all grades for the solution of problems that affect an industry. There may-be-ly-Colonial Secretary at Singapore and difficulties in adopting such a method in is now Governor of the, Windward Is

to provide proper European supervision Hongkong but we do suggest that the lands, and Lady James have arrived in and you know how careless the Chinese skuled artisans in this Colony are a lavel England. workman is. In Hongkong there must headed body of men who are not alto-Dr. V. K. Ting has been given full gother devoid of a sense of duty to the command of the 13th Chokiang Battalion, be a big margin of safety."

Another reason often advanced is that public. We should like to have all the of the cost of the preparation of the site. facts known about the cause of high We are told that often it costs about prices of building in this Colony and the twenty per cent. of the total contract to artisans could possibly provide some use level off the site and to provide retainingful information. There are only two ways walls. That is quite plausible, but there of proventing a "hold up" of the publis is much more than twenty per cent, to by a ring. One is by breaking it up by

comes from Marshal Sun Chuan-fang now stationed at Shanghai. This order who hopes that it will help Dr. Ting con- siderably in his administration of the district.

The engagement is announced between Yernon Stevenson, elder son of Sir George Maxwell, K.B.E., C.M.G., and. Lady Maxwell, recently of Carcosa, Fede- rated Malay States, and Elizabeth Maud,

Orwin, of Oxford."

SCOTCH WHISKY account for. The cost of freight for steel law. The other is by throwing the full eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. §.

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and pipes and fittings is quoted. Against that we may set the lower wages paid to the local workmen.

Finally, we come to a reason which seems to be the one, that needs following up. We are told that there is a "ring"

of local contractors. Without any univer. Bity education in economies or business principles, the Chinese contractor has apparently realised the fundamental truth that a "ring" can make the consumer. pay more and produce much bigger pro- fits for the contractors. We wish to he

blaze of public opinion on it. We think that the Government might cause an enquiry to be made into the facts of the After all, the Government. itself case. spends millions of dollars annually on local contracts, and the public finds the money, We favour economy, but it is "better to tackle the big problems first.

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It is understood that Prince George, who joined in. the gift of two beautiful quarto volumes of Ackermann's His- tory of Westminster Abbey" which have just been presented to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster by the King and Queen and their children, will autograph the gift on his return from China.

Whilst we in Hongkong are sweltering in beat of some ninety odd degrees with lots of humidity accompanying it, Shark- Rear-Admiral A. J. B. Sterling, C.Bhood of 103. A certain amount of hai's thermometer is in the neighbour-

morbid comfort may be derived from the tact that Kangchow (Chekiang) bas succeeded in touching the 107 mark.

The London Gazette notifies that the

was last month, when still Commodere, made a Naval A.D.C. to H.M. the King.

One Chinese case of enteric fever is

"VICTORIA quite just in this matter. There is, as reported in the return of notifiable King has approved of the following ap-

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far as we are aware, no law against the diseases for the 48 hours ended August pointments: Mr. G. L. Winterbotham formation of rings-and-trusts in 15th this Colony. We are not at all sure that

as Consul of Siam at Bombay; Mr. Keizo Naito as Consul of Japan at Rangoon, Mr. W. B. Wright as Consul of Japan at Durban, Mr. A. W. Micallef Eyraud as

Maceio as Vice-Consul of the United

H.R. H. Prince George joined H.M.S. the commercially cute Chinese did notiolighuck at Nanking on August 3th, Consul of Siam at Malta; Mr. J. J, grasp the ideas about the advantages of and proceeded in her to Weihaiwei where States of America at Hongkong. rings long before the exponents of the he will rejoin H.M.S. Harkins. system in America and Europe had ever

Ons thousand Nine hundred and Twenty-six SCOTCH WHISKY heard of them. They are within the law,

All Claims against the Estate shop'd be Sent in by that Date to the Underrigred, the Solicitors for the Administrator.

Dated this 10th day of August, 1926.

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Mr. J. W. Gillman, as a member of the F.M.S. team in the Junior Kolapore Cup competition at Bisley, wrote to the Morning Post from Bisley Camp giving the assurance that the team was not sent home by the Government, and,. to the best of his knowledge, no member.. of the team has received any help what- soever from the F.M.S. Government. We are just four men from oil He added:

Malaya, home on a holiday, down here for the love and sport of shooting, and entered for this competition entirely on our own, paying all our own expenses. and entrance fees."

Revenue Officers conducted opium raids and, no doubt, arguments can be adat Ping Chan Jaland on Sunday night, vanced to show that "rings" prevent when, eighteen men were arrested.

one hut a large number of inmates competition which is ruineus to the con-

escaped. petitors.Without doubt the ring system obtaina in other branches of Three murder cases, commercial enterprise in Hongkong, be-piracy, a manslaughter and a robbery sides the building.trade. In the case of charge are down for trial at the Criminal the contractors who erect bouses and Sessions, which open at the Supreme

Court to-morrow. who do road-making, reclamations and

similar work, however, the results seem to be more apparent. We hear stories of how this or that man was a working carpenter ten years ago and now is able to tender for contrasts involving many hundreds of thousands of dollare. No-

"

Three men, one of whom was later released on bail, have been arrested by Portuguese detectives in Matao, in con- nection with the discovery of a cannon in an engineering shop...

Hiver boat officers down-from-Hankow state that the depth. af water by the Hankow Bund is over 48 feet,-higher than it has been for a quarter of a century. The floods, it seems, continue and navigation is still extremely difficult owing to the fact that it is impossible to tell where the river banks, Far miles down from Hankow the country is flood- Police reports yesterday stated that the ed, and all that can be seen of innumer body of a Chinese lad, of about 14 years able villages are the rools of the houses of age, had been found floating in the just protruding from the water. Menn- Pokfulam Reservoir. The youth is be--while, strange to relate, Hankow is cooler inland and 80much further south. Hospital Shanghai, to. M. and Mme. the warthy author of "Self-Help." Lieved to have been drowned whilst bath. I than Shanghai, even though it is so far Doubtless the heavy rains account for this.

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dustry should be rewarded. Fair profits.

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are grudged by none. It is "profiteer- "Arrested at Taipo on a charge of· ing that is the trouble. The housing killing" a Chinese, the sanitary coolic, RETIREMENT OF MR. J. WILSON. who is alleged to have caused the man's. death by a blow with a broom, has been remanded by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill-on a charge of manslaughter.

-problem-is, however, not-a-matter-that- concerns only the contractors. The cost of houses affects very much indeed the cost of living. Rents are still far too high in Hongkong,

D'ALMEIDA-OL August 4th, at Foochow, doubt, such a man instinctively followed to Mr. and Mrs. D'ALMEIDA, a daugh the precepts set forth by the late SAMUEL MARY-On August 11th, at the Country SMILES, although he had never heard of

"G. MART, & daughter, COLETTE

HELENE. MILLS-On August 9th, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to the wife "of Mr. C. MILLE, S.M.P., a daughter. NELSON-On August 10th, at Mokapsban, Chekiang, born to Dr. and Mrs. 0. NELSON, a son, CHARLES ANDREW,

MARRIAGE. SMITH-TEMPLE.-On August. 10th, at Rathlin, Comrie, Perthshire, W. ELUKI DRUMMOND SMITH, of Shang bai, younger son of Mr. SMITH, Carpfield, Couric and of the late We are led to these general reflections Rev. WM. EMITE, Greyfriars U.F. by a close perusal of a re sarkable report Church, Aberdeen, to EVELIN LEWIS, youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. on the shipbuilding industry in Britain. C. D. TEMPLE, Comrie

This has been signed both by employers ABBAS-On August 19th at the General and by trade unionists. The one great Hospital, Shanghai, KATHLEEN GER fact that emerges from this Report is TRUDE ABBA68, aged 14 years, the that prices have gone up because of the youngest and dearly beloved daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. ABBASS. formation of "ring" and combines.

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Mr. John Wilson left the Colony on H.M.S. Teal left for the Upper Saturday, retiring after 25 years' service Yangtze on August 12th, Commander C. with Mesara Butterfield & Swire in the M. Butlin, D.B.C., has been appointed Far East, in the course of which he has in temporary command of H... Teal been stationed at several different ports, to replace Commander Higgins, whose and made many friends. death occurred a short while ago.

Hongkong yesterday sweltered in heat, The temperature recorded by the Obser. atory at 1 p.m. being 92, which is the highest recorded so far this year. At tiffin-time the thermometer at the Upper Peak Tram Station registered 88,

Mr. J McMurray, who leaves for Home ria Canada by the B.M.8. Em press of Asia on Thursday, on retirement from

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A CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.

Interviewed at the Savoy Hotel on July 12th, the hottest day of the year,

Singapore, said to the Daily Mail Is

He was prominent as a fine Ragger player in his early days at Shanghai, and was a member of the Fire Brigade, but

serious riding accident later prevented any active participation in sports and " compelled him to live very quietly.

He has been an invalid lately, but a few friends entertained him at tifin before leaving, taking, the opportunity to present him with a silver cigar box and cigarette case as a mark of esteem

A PLEA FOR VARIETY."

{DY "TOUCHSTONE IN THE "DAILY MAIL"}

[d Chinese girl, studying in Lonilon,

Very sensibly the Committee have asked Mr. G.. de Meyer, a French visitor from declares that the is going out to China this a heat wave? I am afraid I haven't to instruct her countrywomen in English noticed it yet." At the same time more ideas of beauty, including shingled than one Singaporean wore his whites hair.] and others were sorry they had left them behind. It was 5 in the shade.

the Board of Trade to investigate the matter. It may be added that the Com- mittee also stated that the local rates and taxes had increased threefold since the war. In Hongkong the local rates and taxes that affect industry have in- Ir has often been remarked that the cost creased since 1914, but not to the same of building a house in Hongkong istent. Wages have gone up, but we "ridiculously high." Although there has agine that the increase in the cost of been's decline in the general value of killed and unskilled local labour is about local house property since the commence afty per cent. It may be argued, of

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Though English maids to me are quite-

The loveliest in creation,

Marshal Bun Chuan-fang has presented I do not feel it would be right General Lu Hsiang-ting, his subordinate To coas each other nation who is Tupan of Chekinng, with a gift To ape a beauty standard which consisting of a trainload of ammunition. So aptly suits our native pitch.

rails for the use of General Lu's troops, Our English maids are very fair (200,000 rounds in "all) and 8,000 m2 M

presumably in connection with the Our cheeks of cream and roses, threatened invasion of Marshal Sun's And exquisitely shingled hair territory by the Canton Expeditionary And saucy little poses Army. The gift was taken to Hang. But would these attributes sit well News

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Mr. T. Hynes, Superintendent of_the I only know by pictures - Mails Deportment of the Hongkong Post But, though their wear if chiefly smiles, Office, departs from Hengkong for New They do not earn my strictures, Zealand to-morrow by the e.. Changte And I should hate to see them dress on leave. He will be away for about ten Or groomed like Chiod at her best. months, and his many friends in the

been no decline in the cost of building on gets forty-five dollare a month We have made enquiries as to the reasons whereas in 1913 he was paid thirty dol but the answers are usually vague. The lars a month, yet the actual cost of his building regulations compel you to have labour is double or treble what it was, walls that are much thicker than those because he now works so much slower.

Colony hope to see him returo to Hong. The folk of every land should be used for a similar structure in London. We do not say that the argument bas

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