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Guests will be received from 415 r.. to 4.50 PM

All Unosta are requested to bring a Card on which their Names should be written.

Tea will be sorred in the ST. GroR'A HALL and the ST. ANDREW'S HALL

The Hosting wil Begin at 6.15 PM. Punctually in the ROTAL THEATRE.

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.

General Managers, Hong Kong, December 22nd, 1928.

1916.

that the various provinces should receive Miss Roberio, residing at 5. Leman BIG FIRE AT YAUMATI. additional revenue would do welcomed Villas, Chatham Road, reported yester throughout the country. But we do not day to the police that between December

FIVE HOUSES GUTTED. expect the Foreign Office necessarily in 25th and 27th a gold ring set with a single uncut diamond had been stolen

FIRE BRIGADE'S SMART VÕRK. argue upon the lines of the man in the

from her dressing table. street" We expect the officials to know something of the facts of the situation and it would be interesting to know from where they obtained the inspiration for this latest, well-meant, but hopelessly ili advised "gesture" of goodwill. If car

are requested to take their Seats there batwson HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING WHAT-shall I give HER ned into elect the policy will only

4.50 r. and 6.10 . The Main Entrance only to the Txaran will be used.

CORPORATION.

There will be & Chak Robin the Franco NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

to the CTTY HALL but not at the

REMOVING NOTICE.

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HONGKONG, 2ND OCTOBER, 1917. for One Or, what shall I send Him. Share of this Bank Numbered 54007 in the Name of Mr. 1 KWONG HIN has been LOST or STOLEN, and would this Certificata not be produced to the Bask before the S JANUARY, 107. & New Cartificate for the Shers will be issued, and the aforesaid Certi Beata No.5/NS 429 will be theresa ter treated by this Corporation na NULL and VOLD.

By Order of the Court of Directura,

A. H. BARLOW,

Chief Masager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1925.

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

WATSON'S

THE undermentioned Share Certificate N Certificate No. AS $760 dated firest selections of

has been declared DESTROYED and NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN Against the Negotiation of These inres.

Duplicate Certificate will be isened One Month hence and the Original Certificate, unless Recovered within that Period, will there after be held by the Company as NULL, and VOID.

Certificate No. 6100 for 100 Ordinary Shares Numbered 218550/849 in Name of MOK HUKMING.

-JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Managers,

Ewo Corton Milla, LxD,

Shangtai, 8th December, 1928.

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HEREBY GIVEN that the

HONGKONO, 31st AUGUST, 1917, for Three Shares of this Bank Nambered 34094) 54096 in the Name of Mn 10 KWONG

LOST

and STOLEN, LUM Las been should this Certificata art be produced to the Bank before the Bru JANUARY, 1927, Now Certificate for the Shares will be issued. and the aforesaid Certificata No. 5/NS 4760 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as NULL and VOID.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. U. BARLOW,

Chiel Manager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1928.

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The Rava J, C. Knight Antsay, the new Minister as the Wanchal Wesleyan Church, and Mr. Antsoy; arrived in the Colony by the P. & O`za. Kalyan yea- terday morning, and was met on arrival by officials and members of the Church A reception is being held in the Sailors' and Soldiers Eeme,, Arsenal Street, this

his wife. Next Sunday, the Rav, Knight evening, to welcome the Minister and Antsey will conduct the services at the Wesleyan Church.

STARTED IN CRACKER SHOP.

At 6.43 last night a serious' fire broke out in a block of houses at the junction of Wing Shang Street and Temple Street, Yaumati. These houses are four stories high-shops on the ground floor, and then tenements and according to one report the fire started in a Chinese cracker shop and quickly spread upwards.

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A Chinese - married woman living at

"Another atory puts the cause of the 306, Reclamation Street, Kowloon, on outbreak down to the ignition of some the 2nd floor, reported to the police that kerosene by a woman in the floor above The idea apparently of the unsophisnt 1.10 p.m. yesterday she was alone the cracker shop. All that is certain is ticated British official is that the Chinese

on the ad floor when a knock came at that a great fusilade of, crackers wai have desired these extra tariffs and the door. She opened it and five men heard, smoke and Hames were seen to entered on the pratext that they were issue from the building and very soon it going to repair the water pipes. They was seriously on are. walked towards the kitchen, but sud denly turned and seized her. They bound and gagged her and started to ransack the room, taking about of minutes over it. They eventually went away taking $181 in money and jewellery which the woman valued at another $136.

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annoyed because they have been denied; therefore, to make everyone happy let the taxes, be imposed without any more tormalities or delay. The fact that all the Powers have protested against the saxes in Canton is overlooked or forgot ten, of the vulic face is excused on the ground that conditions. in China aro changing and that consequently our policy must change with them. No one wishes a small matter such as two

The P.&O... A digma-arrived in and a halt per cent. tariff to remain a where one has the choice of the bone of contention. It is all beautifully Port yesterday morning from Home, and simple and agreeable on paper, and six among the passengers on card for long months or more ago it might have been Kong were:-Mr. and als. J. Archibald, acceptable in practice, but what are the Rev. and Mrs. K. Anstey, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Abbott, Miss Abbott, Mr. J. facts to-day? Canton being refused Fer Bright, Mr. and Mra. Boothby Mr. W. mission to collect the taxes through the Customs is collecting them herself Carstairs, Miss M. de Boilean, Mr. A. 8. Gordon, Mr. L. H. Gipps, Mr. H. comparatively easy matter in Canton and Swatcw, SUN CHUAN FANG would probHatch, Sub-Lt. E. W. Howard-Crockett, ably do the same if he could in his own Mr. W. Kay, Mr. R. Kirkwood, Miss Lander, Mr. H. A. Lucas, Mr. and territory in Shanghai, but in his case a subsidiary Customs Bureau to operate Mrs. F. R. Mason, Sub.-L. C. H. de B. effectively would have to be established Newby, RN., Miss C. Ross, Mr. H. V. in the International Settlement. Sacha Robinson, Mr. T. R. Stobbart, Miss M. Barent would

be allowed on Turner, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Waterton. *not Shameen, except through international agreement; nor would it be allowed in Shanghai, As a consequence the collec tion, as far as Marshal SCN is concerned, has to be made legally through the Mari time Customs or not at all. A protest was entered quite properly against the collection of taxes in the beginning. Now the Nationalist cause has spread half way through China and Sus CHCAN FANG that surtaxes should be legalised and the revenue produced handed to the Provincial authorities." Marshal Sux, although without, a province which he can call wholly loyal, is still the ruling authority in Shanghai Presumably, therefore, the extra revenue obtained from the Shanghai Customs would go to his account. It would be a very valuable.. gift indeed considering that the present Customis revenue of Shanghai represents nearly 50 per cent, of the total for China. What would Carton think of this delight- ful plum being handed, in this way, to its, adversary: Very naturally, it would consider Great Britain had changed her policy aimply to help the North against the South Our wonderful gesture of good-will" would have an effect entirely opposite to that intended. And what policy would be more calculated to pro- long civil strife? What military leader would not desire to gain possession of Shangbai with such a prize dangling in front of his nose.

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There werc no fewer than four accidents during the Christmas holidays. From the servants' quarters on the 1st floor of No. 65, Macdonnet Road, Chinese man accidentally fell into the street and was killed. His body was removed to the mortuary. A Chinese woman who was putting out clothes an a bamboo to dry, tumbled over the (1st in the western district. She is now be ing cared for at the Government Civil Hospital. Other inmates of the hospital are a coolie who got entangled between trucks on the Shaukiwan Road, near Bay View police station; and a Chinese earth coolie who was hurt by a fall of earth at Morrison Hill..

These houses are of fairly recent can- struction but the partitions are of thin matchboarding, and the rooms crammed with light furniture and clothing, all of

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most inflammable nature. he barat quickly upwards and soon the buildings on cituar side were alight.

Fortunately, there was little or no wind or instead of five houses only being de- royed the whole block of sweaty would in all probability have gone Hoses Flayed from Verandah's Opposite.

The fire brigade were quickly on the sceae, two appliances from Kowloon, another two from Mongkok and the Bre Bloat soon being at work.

The firemen played their hoses from opposite verandahs and by about 10.30 pm. appeared to have got the conflagra- tion weit in hand, four houses having been involved.

Then it about 11 p.m. it broke afresh, with renewed vigour and a fifth house caught alight, the Sad and 3rd floors being gutted and the two lower Boors badly damaged by water.

Completely Guttad,

By 11.15 p.m. the first four were completely gutted, but flames still buras up Bercely umid the great heaps of debris. All bat the bare walls had fallen. and these were in so precaricus a condi- tion that the police erected strong bar- out of danger.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that theIn fact Everything that will has been defeated the suggestion is made floor) verandah of No. 131, First Street, ricades to keep adventurous onlookers

Certified Transfer Deed for One Bhare

of this Bank Numbered 62858 in the Name of MANTHONY HENRY CARROLL stated Te been completed by Mus. E.. STAPLETON has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certified Transfer Deed not be produced before the 9TH JANUARY, 1097, New Certified Transler Deed will be issued, and the aforesaid Missing Certified Trander Deed will be thereafter treated by this Oot poration as NULL and VOID.

By Order of the Court of Directors, A. E. BARLOW,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1926.

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The Daily Press.

Hono Kore, Ducaмaza 28, 1926.

A MISTAKEN POLICY.

THERE is no doubt that the Memorandum, outlining Great Britain's policy towards China, which our Chargé d'Affaires re- cently handed to the other members of the Diplomatic Body in Peking for con sideration, was prompted by sincere good-will. It seems to us, however, that

PEDDER BUILDING BLAZE.

MADAM FLINT'S BEAUTY

PARLOUR DESTROYED.

CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE.

In a Busy District, The scene of the fire is in one of the basiest shopping centres in Yaumati and very quickly a huge crowd collected. As the fames spread occupants of adjoining houses started to remove their belong- ings and the pavements and streets were soon piled high with furniture of every description.

Up to the time of writing neither loss of file or injury of any kind has been reported.

It was 12.30 am. before the fire brigade ceased work and it was cozaider-.. ed advisable to leave one section, with an "appliance, "to keep guard during the night Mr. H. T. Brooks, Superinten dent of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, The spick and span Beauty Parlour on his arrival zoon after the alarm was of Madam Flint was totally destroyed given took charge of the fire fighting yesterday morning. The Café Parisien operations and with him was Mr. Saud- has also suffered slight damage by water.ders, of the Kowloon Brigade. twelve minutes past one, and four engines ed house was a cracker shop, another The Bre Brigade received the call at As already stated one of the demolish-

was being set out at a pawnshop, but had not opened business, and a third was a rattan shop,

About 300 people were rendered home less by the fire and the loss of furniture. and other personal property is estimated Fat 390,000.

of revenue can be permitted there must

Before such indiscriminate handing out were promptly despatched to the scene in charge of Superintendent Brooks When the Brigade arrived it was seen be some representative Government or some attempt to establish zones of in- that the flames had obtained a good hold faence with certain responsibilities and in the upper part of the building, and duties attaching to them. To agree that the fire-fighters found some difficulty in every militarist who captured a port bringing hoses to bear. should ipso facto be rewarded with a Entry Gained by Knocking Down Door. slice of the maritime revenues would end all prospects of peace by putting a pre- down a door leading into the yard at

However, they got inside by knocking YESTERDAY'S LOCAL WEDDING. mium on plotting and intrigue.

the back and the fire-fighters were then able to take a hose right inside into the upper past of the Cale, and get at anuch closer quarters with the fames.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Trenchard-Davis and Miss Dodd of Shanghai are visitors at the Repulse Bay Hotel

CURTIS MERCER.'

A pretty wedding took place, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, The windows in the Beauty Parlour Glenealy, yesterday, between Mr. Walter were broken and a ladder was placed Shillite Vaughan Curtis, of 23, Cameron against the outside of the building, and a Road, Kowloon, and Miss Emma Esther Special excursions, particulars of which hose taken up. The Brigade was thus Mercer, residing at the Italian Convent, able to attack the fire directly from two Caine Road, and daughter of Mr. and were given on Saturday, were ran to different angles, and after an hour of Mrs. A. Mercer. The Rex Father Noval Macco during the Holidays, and on strenuous work, the outbreak was

oficiated.

farge number made the trip to the Christmas Day, Sunday and yesterday quelled. ⠀⠀ Portuguese Colony.

lies Lim Beng Hong, who arrived in Singapore from England recently after having passed out as a barrister, the first woman in Malaya to have done so, filed her application for membership of the local bar in the Supreme Court Registry, Penang, on December 9th..

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Like the Effects of a Flood., th The trim and neat entrance to the Café cd as though there had been a flood and is now gone, and inside the Café, it look- when our representative saw it, there ground floor. The upper part of the were several inched, of water on the Café escaped with little or no damage, and when the water has been drained off the ground floor it should not take

it was entirely lacking in good, The wedding took place at the Presby. long to put the Café into use again.

We hold no particular briel for the "man on the spot" and are ready to admit that the Foreign Office, with its

terian Church, Singapore, on the 18th late Dr. John Barclay, of Banff, Scot instant, of Mr. John Barclay, son of the

land, and Miss Ethel Constance Murray,

Hong Kong Government service.

Considerable Damage Dene.

The bride, who was charmingly attired in white crêpe morocain trimmed with silver lace, and carried & bouquet of white roses with maiden hair fern, was Cornie Gardner, the Bowergirl, wore given away by Capt. B. Ianes. Miss crêpe de chine, trimmed with georgefte bouquet of pink roses and pink rosebuds She also carried &

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The honeymoon is being spent at White Cottage, Taipe. The bride's going-away costume was of bêche de noie marocain with hat and coat to match.

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENT.

TBOSHAN ROAD, Three Stories, six many sources of information and its con until recently a nursing sister in the throughout in cream and sold is burnt POLICE OFFICER SUSTAINS BAD

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Booms, Five Bath Rooms, Kitchen, Servants' Quarters, Recently Repaired and Benorated.

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stant reports from all quarters, should.

INJURIES.

MOTOR-CYCLE SMASHED,

and the stock is very considerable. The The damage done to both the premises

Beauty Parlour, which was enamelled

beyond recognition, and the entire con teats of the shop were destroyed, Diwan Mengel Sen was again remand- Outside in the lane which bounds the be in a position to form a sounder anded for two more days, when appearing north side of the Café were heaps of more statesmanlike judgment than in- before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday gooda all badly burnt. Most of the George, of the Hong Kong Police met While going on patrol day, Sgt. A morning on an application for his re- were brought out. from the Beauty dividuals whose vision may possibly be patriation to India on charges of forgery Parlour, and it was evident that many with a serious accident on Sunday, and FPICTURES Apply Box 319, de clouded by undue concentration upon and criminal breath of to start dooyed, together with several tolls of Hospital with a broken leg

Bergt dollars of had been des

was removed to the Government Civil

their own particular interests. But in India

cloth & number of models, which were

He was going from Stanley Palico- this case the Foreign Office seems to have From Kowloon City an armed robbery charzed masses, and there are also some bend some 300 yards up the gradient used for the showing dresses, are A.6. combination. When rounding a Station towards Repulse Bay on an

acted upon the results of abstract reason is reported, in which the gang used screw- purses and bags among the heap. ~ Boxes,

which to terrorise the occupants. This attire were mixed up together in the with car No. 347, owned by Mr. Gabbey drivers and a chopper as weapons with gloves, and various articles of ladies leading from the Stanley Police Station, his motorcycle collided slmost head-on ortured on Sunday-- After patting the lane. lady occupant in the kitchen the gang of The damage caused by the fire is in the

of Messrs E. D. Sassoon & Co four ransacked the house and made of neighbourhood of 28,000. with loot totalling $181.50.

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ing without paying the slightest regard to practical possibilities and 43 & con sequence, it has stumbled badly. A policy based upon nothing but abstract reason ing is absolutely futile in Chinese affairs.The Kowloon Fire Brigade were called

Cause of Fire not Known, It is not known definitely at present how the fire started but it is believed to have broken ont through the fusing of an electric wire

So heavy was the impact that the cycla was smashed and the rider was thrown to the ground Sgt. George received first aid treatment from a fellow-officer from the Stanley Police Station, and a. few minutes later he was conveyed to hospital in a motor ambulance At the bospital an examination disclosed com the knee and ankle of the right leg An operation was performed later in the evening. Bgt, George was said to be in

■ precarious "condition.""

The man in the street" who knows to a small fire which broke out in

knitting factory on the ground floor of nothing of Chinese politics might reason No. 6, fung Hing Road, Mongkok, yes

terday morning. The Brigade were only The fire started in the Beauty Parlour, ably be

Posted to argue that agree prezent for a matter of five minutes be. A thin match-board" partition is thought pound fractures in three places between On Sale at Hongkong :" Daily Prese ". Office. ment upon the Washington surtaxes and fore the stop call was given. It appears to have soon burst into flames, tais Messrs. KELLY & WAL, Ltd an offer to legalise their collection that some waste material in the cockloft. igniting a quantity of cotton wool and Moters, Benwa & Co.

caught on fire. Very little drange was other highly inflammable fabrics in the

work rooms „Mzara, A.F. Wiens #ca,, through the Maritime Customs in order done.

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