NEW ADVERTISE. MENTS.
CHINESE CUSTOMS
NOTIFICATION.
THE OfficPH andi Stations of The CHINESE
MARITIME CUSTOMS for Kowtoes and DistBICT will be CLOSED PUBLIC BUHI. NESS on the 4ru JUNE, 1927.
F. HAYLEY BELL, Commissioner of Chinese Custama,
Kowloon and District.
York Buildings, Hong Kong, 30th May, 1927, [-4980
NOTICE.
THE Ex-ACTIVE SERVICE MEN'S THE
DERBY AsocATION EPSOM SWEEP Draw will take pines at
INTIMATIONS.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG DAILY
HE FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETIN of the SHAREHOLDERS of the above Com pany will be held at the Offices of the General Agenta, PENDER STREET, on TUESDAY, JUNE, 1927, at NOON. for the parpon of receiving the Report and Statement of Accouuls for the Year ending 1st Brownnen, 1926,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 26тH MAY to 7TH JUNE, 1927, Both Days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Agents,
Hong Kong, 18th May, 1927. [4932
3.45 M, TO-DAY, ut the HABMA PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, CLUB, No. 17, Queen's Road. Central. All subscribers are cordially invited to attend.
14.87
LIMITED.
GIVEN NOTICE IS HEREBY
that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Hong Kosa Hotel,
REMINDER
MIN at the PAVILION, EMBERS are Reminded of the called for 5.30 PM. TO-DAY for the paepoan of considering & Proposal by the Committee to add a Second Storey to the PAVILION ar muke Other additions And Improvements to the Building.
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L. S. GRENHILL,
How. Secretary-
TROLLOPE & COLLS (FAR EAST), LIMITED
(IN VOLUNTARY Liquination)
TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
Hong Koug, ph THURSDAY, 9TH JUNE, 1927
1927, at
11 AM
, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Director
with Statement of--Accounts, together for the Year ended 30th APRIL, 1927,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 4TH JUNE to FRIDAY, 10TH JUNE, 1927, Bath Days in clusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managera. Hong Kong, 30th May, 1927. [4974
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
04
INTIMATIONS.
PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 31st, 1927.
compared men and women to por- cupines. They huddle together for warmth, but if they get too close, they run their quills into each other
DEWAR'S and then there's a row. The same
WHITE
LABEL
FINEST
WETU
Dr. W. Leslie Thomas has re ported to the Police the theft of a radiator thermometer from his car.
On Saturday and Sunday one case of small-pux and one of enteric were reported. Both patients are Chinese.
cynic said that scoundrels always sociable. Certainly some men and women are temperament- ally gregarious. But there are exceptions and those perhaps not Hong Kong will be located at No.
From June 1st the Chinese Young Women's Christian Association of
13, Caine Road.
Meuibers afe reminded that
fur cutries
the Craigengower Cricket Club tennis tournament close on Sunday next,
always the meanest of mankind.
Hut in Hong Kong the greatest bar to the mutual understanding as between the Chinese and British communities is the langage diffi enity. How many of the leading
The pupils of Mr. Harry Orrave SCOTCH WHISKY Chinese merchants Talk English to give a piano recital at St. How many of the lending British | John's Cathedral Hail at 5.30 p.in.
un Torsday, June 7th. OF GREAT AGE.
merchants talk Chinese How un- speakably boring is the averago Awarded 50 Gold dinner at which a Chinese merchant
and Prize Medals.
entertaina British merchants (T
rice peract.
No one can utter an intelligible word to his neighbour. Pantomime is the only resource,
and all that any one can do to
The offices and stations of the Chinese Maritime Customis
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
PRACTICE PARADES
YESTERDAY.
4,000 MEN AT HAPPY VALLEY.
The presence of several thousand men in martial array
LINKING
UP THE
EMPIRE.
HONG KONG A FUTURE AIR PORT.
at Happy A BIG SCHEME UNDER WAY.
Valley yesterday morning held the
interest of the residents in that neighbourhom, European and Chi-
nese.
DREDGING THE HARBOUR AND COMPLETING RECLAMATION.
The occasion was one of the final rehearsals by the Foreys now in the Colony for the big parade
Two schemes each having a close which is promised for Friday morn ing on the aversion of IL31. the bearing on the other, are now under King's Birthday.
way. The Government has decided. The parade on Friday will be of to have the harbour thoroughly n character and on a senle which dredged, and the silt will be dump Hong Kong has not seen before,
Movements yesterday morning ed on the Recinmation at Kai Tack, the strains of the martial airs play site for were carried out with precision to which is to be transformed into a n big civil aerodrome. fored by the massed bands. Sorge:
review This will be linking up station 4,000 men were there in order, omplete with artillery with the proponed England to transport and aeroplanes were in Australia service vid Singapore, evidence overhead.
The first step will be the dredg-
Kowloon and Districts will b closed to public business on Jun
4th.
The fourth ordinary yearly meet ing of the Prince's Building and Land Co., Ltd., will be held a
The
some units included sailors drawn from the various ing of the harbour. The need for warships in The Harbour. on this has been stressed in the past
*VICTORIA while away the time is to drink afternoon at Prince's Building, at marines, and a half-battalion front in a very practical manner for it
VAT
**
must
antes neighinur's health-a exacting procedure. I might ne eur to ask how business is done as
four o'clock.
The 6th annual general aceting of the liong Kong Exenvation. Piir Driving and Construction Company, between British and Chinese. The Limited, is being held to day at Powell's Building, second for, at answer is apparently, the Com-3 jr. THE VERY FINEST OLD pradore." But that is another
story.
British matrons, sweltering ou
A mongrel dog was seized and removed to Kennedy Town depot, on Sunday, after biting a school boy in the chest. The boy was
Hospital.
SCOTCH WHISKY the torrid plains of India, as they taken to the Government Civil
try to explain to a bland and
that the Creditors of the abavo.OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN As supplied to the Houses of dignified khanmamah in Hindus
r[
that Certificate No. 5/NS 9849 named Company are required on dated Hong Kong, 20th July, 1923, for before the 15 Day of Ji LY, 1927, to Twelve Shares, Numbered 130590 130541 in their Names and Addresses, and inclusive, and Curtilicate No. 6/NS sonil the particulare of their Debt and 10116 dated Bong Kong. 6th Arai, Claims. if any, to the Undersigned at 1925, for Six Shares Numbered 56744 to
131549 the Ofice of Messi LOWE, BING 5700 and
registered inclusive, all HAM & MATTHEW, Cleartased in the Name of AL GUSTE MAURICE
CHAMBION, have been Accountants, 3, Queen's Road i entral. Victoris, Hong Kong, and, if no required by Notice in wating from that: STOLEN, and
11
are to in
red
Certificates should these not be produced to the Bank before JUNE, 1927, Sew Certificates
Lords and Commons.
SOLE AGENTS!
tanec how intolerable it is that they should pay for mutton and cat goat, recall with envy, how they were one: told on a P. & 0. steamer that in China every servant speaks, and understands, English. "Folgin-English" may be, but still
The draw of the Epson Derby Sweep organised by the Ex Active; Service Men's Association is ad vertised to take jace to-day at 8.45 p.m. All subscribers are in- vited attend.
signed, te lo que im and in the the the bhares will to foredrift als A. S. WATSON English Now Pidgin-English" tres. The afternoon session was
and Place as shall be specified in such Notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from any distribution which jaay be made before such Debts are proved.
Dated this 30th day of May, 1927.
JOHN FLEMING, CA,
Liquidator. Note:The Creditors of the Company will be paid in tali, above Notice being inerted in compliance with the Companies Ordicances.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION,
74
ALL Proposed Alterations to the
Rules of the above Association, the Challenge Shield Competition, LA WAH CUP and SUNDAY HERALD
aferesaid Certificatos Nos. 5/NS 8846 and 5/NS 10-416 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Null and Void. By Order of the Court of Directors, A. C. HYNES,
Acting Chief Manager Bong Kong. 11th May, 1927. [4909
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGED.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY,
TUATE at VICTORIA, HONG KONG, registered at the Land Office as 9.CTION A OF INLAND LOT No. 17, Together with Buildings thereo
& CO., LTD.
HONG KONG DISPENSARY.
[50
in itself is not a very dignified thing; it is defined in the New Oxford Dictionary as
Owing to the indisposition of Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Mr. "E. W. Hamil ton took his place as Magistrate yesterday at the Central Magis-
taken by Major C. Willson.
Dr. D. G. R. Black, while bathing at Shek O on Sunday after- the jargon.ucon, was swimming some distance Cousisting chiefly of English words from the shore when he found that, often corrupted in pronunciation owing to the strong set of the tide, he was unable to make headway. and arranged according to Chinese Dr. Black called for assistance and idiom, used between the Chinese anpan went to his aid. ST-Black and White TERRIER and Europeans at seaports L'Black and Wh the Name of China, the JIM. Finder please communicate with Rev. G. T. WALDEGRAVE, STAMEN's etc.**
But how any servants in [4982 INSTITUTE.
Hong Kong to-day understand even → Pidgin-English!" The No. 1 boy a little perhaps 2 But when the NURNISHED FLAT on PEAK TO
LET: Two Bedrooms with Bath. No. 1 boy is out-and he so fre- rooms, Two Peoption Rooms and
in
Straits Settlements,
wire
The stapping of an overhead near the Naval Yard on Saturday afternoon caused a slight dislocation of the tram service Mechanics were quickly on scene and within twenty minutes the wire was re-connected and the trung were running again.
the
Leach of the Regiments represented.
in the Colony. Seven naval gans will be reñensed that last year fired the salute of twenty-one several ships went aground near gains. nine aeroplanes engaged in evolutions, while the assed the Kowloon Ferry Wharf through hands of all the battalions present the sifting up of the harbour at played the various regimentul this point. marches. The salute was taken by
A contract has been placed with Major-General C. C. Luard, C.B.¦ C.M.G., (6.0.0. Sonth China the Netherlands Harbour Works Commeritd).
Company to carry out the dredging
Details of the arrangements for the public have already been given.
operation in the harbour. This work includes special attention to
Yesterday evening a representa tive contingent of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps also ear- ried out a final rehearsal and cer- dredging in the neighbourhood of tainly showed up very wel.
the Penguin Shonds (Just off Quarry- Bay), the Belcher Ridge and Ram- hlers Shoal (opposite North Point) an area opposite Kowloon Point, MEMORIAL DAY.
and also in the Tsimaats aren. The whale harbour is, in fact, to AMERICAN OBSERVANCE IN be thoroughly drudged, and the
HONG KONG,
work is to be commenced at once.
It is tatimated that these opera- Yesterday was American Mero- orial Day, and following the usual tions will take about 18 months. practice, wreaths were laid by mem- ¦ It is not possible to give any ceti- bers of the American community at the Wanchai Obelisk and on the
mate of the cost, but by placing graves of soldiers and sailors of the contract with the Dutch Cont
Happy Valley. their nationality in the cemetery at pany a considerable saving, pos-
control
The ceremony was timed for 10.0sibly in the neighbourhood of three a.m., the organisation of the ser-akhs lins been effected. vice being in the hands of ladies of The Netherlands Harbour Works the American community, and the Company has done some very im. general
vested in Mr. Shantz, the United States Consul portant work of the new harbour in-Charge.
at Maeno and in connection with *Decoration Day," or "Mean- the reclamation work at North orial Day," as it now more gener Point.
This Company are parti ally known in the United States atest in 1865 at the conclusion of the dredgers and all necessary neces- since the Great War, was origin cularly will equipped as regards
American Civil War. It is observ-
The dredgings will be either ed as a public holiday, and there is
parade of veterans of Lee's and pumped out or the sitt removed War, the small and fast diminish two dredging barges will be eni ing band being now greatly reinployed on the work. forced by men who served in the Great War.
"Decoration Day" thus forms o Civil War, the Spanish-American
sly.
CHARITY CUP Competitions wurt known as Nos. 38 &, 40, Quoon's enclosed Verandah. Modern Sanitation/quently is, what then! Mute mis- Lo be a meeting of members of the Grant's time, and of the Spanish by the suction process. Probably
be forwarded to the Undersigned No Later Than the 1r MAY. 1997.
W. F. HOLLANDS, Secretary.
P. O. Box 233.
Road Central and No. 1, Stonley Street to be sold by PUBLIC AU0- on Monday, the 30th day of June, 1837, at 30 CLOCK FM, by Mr.
TION
his AUCTION [ 3.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
on
THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE THE
MEETING will vo bekl (Weather
VALLEY HAPPY Permitting) at SATURDAY. 4T JUNE and MUN- DAY, 6TH JUNE, 1927, Commencing- at 2.4.x, un Both D The First Bell will be
be Rung at 2.15 P.. The
Admission the Public by $1.00 Per Day for all Persone including Ladies. Soldiers
Uniform, Half Price. and Sailora
Members are advised that they
Budges to obtain Admission. to the Members Enclosure.
show
their
for
in
Immediate Possession.-Apply Box 4796, tresses and murderous masters? c/o Hongkong Daily Prem. [4796 "But it is impossible to learn Chinese, especially the Cantonese
As mentioned last week, there is
Hong Kong Cricket Club to day at 5.30 pa at the Pavilion, for the purpose of considering a proposal the Committee to add a second storey to the Pavilion and make
to the building.
Room, No. 4, Duddeli PREPAID "WANTED" dialect," say some people." Is it other additions and improvements memorial for those who fell in the of the harbour, as outlined above,
E. V. M. R De Sousa, the Auctioneer,
Ser further Partirulars and Conditions
Koug of Bule, Apply to:-Dr. 8. W. Tso, olicitor for the Vendor, No. 26,
Des Voeux Head Central or to Mr. E. V. M. R. De Sousa, the Auctioneer,
Hong Kong, the 19th day of May, 1927.
71038
FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.
No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD.'
Boemed muCentral Heating, Five Bedrooms, HOUSE, with
Each Member has the right to in troduce 2 Non-members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Mesare. Lanstead & Davi At $5.00 Each Per Day up to FURS. DAY, 28 JUNE, 1927.
The Charge for Admission for Ladies
to
the Members' Enclosure will be $2,00
Each Member can obtain, upon applica.
Four Bathrooms, Three Drying Rooms, Modern Sanitation, Grass Tennis Court Bad Garden-Possession MAY 18-
DAVIS, 42 Apply: LINSTEAD ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
TO LET.
[4776
MONTAQUE EDE wishes
tion to the SECRETARY, Badges for MOLEF ber HOUSE. 3,
Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge
14973
SHOPS TO LET
88/94, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.
OFFICES TO LET
STEPHENS BUILDING, 67/69, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
AND
PRINCE'S BUILDING, OHATER ROAD.
APPLY TO A. J. DAVID FRINCE'S BUILDING, OHATER ROAD.
[*k
BOWEN ROAD, without Plate or Linen, for Five or Six Months. Old Servants would remain. Only Rent Required; No Charge for Furniture.
[4984
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED A CHINESE CLERK
with Good Knowledge for an Import and Export Office. Apply in own Hand-writing. stating Age. Experience aud Salary desired, to P. Box 580.
1250
H.P. AUSTIN FOR SALE-New June 1926; Perfect Mechanical Condition. Owner leaving Colony. Price: $960-Apply B. M. EDR, 24 Floor, POWELL'S BUILDING, (251
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Hong Kong Office: IA, Chater Rd. London Office: 21, Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, B.C. 4
not a fact that such persoUS 38 Consuls and members of the Chi-
A Chinese aged 65, who has beru nese Customs service, after years 50 years in the Colony, was found of struggling with Chinese ideo-Hamilton of stealing a length of
guilty yesterday by Mr. E. W
granis:-
Become by slow degrees, Brainless as chimpanzees Mengro us lizards,
255-257; drain pipe from No. Queen's Road West. He was bound Over žu come up for judgment whenever called upon, the Magis trate taking this lenient course on account of the man's age.
War and the World War.
"POSSIBLY A GALE LOCALLY."
TYPHOON 200 MILES OFF.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER
The
REPORT.
THE AIR BASE. Details concerning the dredging and the beginning of the formation of a local aerodrome were given to a Daily Press representative. yesterday when he called on Mr. H. T. Jackman, acting Director of Public Works, who is in charge of the scheme.
At present Kai Tack is being used as a landing and taking-off ground for the RA.F. units now in the Colony, but the scheme is that Reclamation shall be complet- While the Hong Kong Hotel
ed to provide for a first-class civil motor-bue No. 55 was proceeding
aerodrome in connection with the along Bonham Road, near Kings
typhoon, which became Imperial Airways, thus linking College, on Sunday, a little Chi- stationary on Saturday, began on Hong Kong and the Far East with nesegirl ratt across the roadway Sunday to move in the direction of the other lines of commercial com- and was struck by the vehicle, the Swatow, and yesterday morning's munication by air now being in-
weather report, issued by the Royal stituted throughout the Empire. wheels of which passed over her.
Observatory, stated that nt 0a.m. carried into
Hong Kong will, it is proposed King's College, which ja now
it was 20 miles to the E.S.E. of form A military
a connecting link between hospital, but died shortly after-Hong Kong, moving slowly towards Shanghai, Japan and the Philip
Swatow. wards.
pine Island with Singapore, which A later report (5.30 p.m.) states is to be One of the important that the typhoon is about 200 miles stations on the proposed airways from Hong Kong still moving in between England and Australia. the same direction.
She
was
This ambitious scheme will entail Pressure has increased slightly- a big expenditure, but in this con- ver Japan, and decreased moder- neetion a large proportion of the ately at the Fratas, and slightly cost will be borns by the Imperia?
Government, elsewhere.
A cyclonic gale in the Formosa The immediate work is the com Channel was forecasted by the Obpletion of the reclamation and the servatory, while the local forecast sea wall at Kai Tack, and also the is-N.W. winds, moderate; pos provision of a typhoon shelter and sibly increasing to a gale, over-basin for seaplanes. The nullahs rast, rain.
are to be covered in in connection with this work.
Go mad and beat their wives Plunge after shocking lives Razors and carving knives. In their gizzarılı " Possibly! But we know five or six Chinese scholars who freely mix still with their neighbours. Chi- difficult nese is undoubtedly B A marriage has bern arranged to language. No foreign adult can
take place in September be
But once master tween JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER, pick it up by ear. Hong Kong Civil Service, and the degrees and the construction of KATHLEEN ELLA, daughter of the
A motor-lorry ran off the high late HENRY LSES MOZLEY simple sentences and one can go
way at Chin Loong Tau, in the Ceylon papers please copy. ahead, at least colloquially. And New Territories on Sunday, and
[4981
what a domestic and social asset is the occupants of a motor car pass ing the place some time afterwards, a little colloquial facility in Can- saw the lorry on the field, with the driver stretched on the earth tonese especially in these days.
beside it. The. injured man was We are giving in another column taken in the car to the Kwong Wah some details of the Hong Kong Hospital, and a report was made University's new Chinese School to the police at Mongkok Station. ress. and extend a cordial welcome to
A highway robbery, in which that enterprise. We understand Chinese lady was attacked and that the School is going to start robbed by, two footpads, has been The following telegram was
With the ground thus prepared,.. reported as occurring an era of "Chinese without tears."
in Queen's ceived by the local U.S. Consul requires plans and advices from in a very literal aense it only Gardens on Sunday. From a General: A few of the more cautious among police report yesterday it appeara
Home with regard to what build-.. Manila, 0.30 p.m., May 30th, ings will be required for the in- us may perhaps postpone our les that Mr. Taung Sum, who lives typhoon in about 117 deg. Long. Fstallation of a civil air-station, or aons until this system has been at No.2, Queen's Gardens, was 22 deg, Lat. N. moving N.N.W.
seized by two men ng ́sho was walk- perfected but there are doubtless ing along near No. 10, and was IMPRESSIVE appeale to the various many, younger and more enthusias forced by them to hand over $13.50.
made tic, with the world at their feet, The robbers
good their. communities in Hong Kong to "get who will eagerly seize the wonder- not far from beach and on motor bus together" are made from time to ful opportunities which the School
pozicing garage bus two ista
time. These are nonnally followed is providing. farnished possessing modern bathro tally equipped, flush, hot and cold water, broad verandahs having excellent by suggestions, always abortive, of! views. Foulbly available to bachelors se mess or single rooms with private bathrooms with "breakfast nud service or- full board. We also have houses and Bate furnished or unfurnished in other locations.
BEAUTIFULLY situated bouse
oald
standing within own spacious grounds (30 canta by chair or 40 cents by taxi to reach sama) will accept young family or two bachelors for large front room possessing broad verandahs and good outlook, private bath with hot and etc. Service and food included Moderate price tonico One self-contained furnished fat mid-level. available by taxineart flat or to door by chair 40 cents for Lachelors' ness or young family. Bervice and food small quired: Excellent view and food Airy position. Modern house
people
it
CALL HONG KONG SMALL INVESTORS SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO.
Or Tel. C. 4030.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, May 3187, 1927.
THE LEARNING OF CHINESE.
There will be a meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon.
various forms of Concordia clube. Clubs are bred out of harmony by goodwill and they can only be reared in an atmosphere of social
Among the passengers arriving National and personal idio here from Manila yosterday by the syncrasies are among the prickly | Empress of Canada was Dr. O. H. realities of He. Schopenhauer Burton.
en Bc.
escape.
ย
Manila Telegram.
The
air-base
If the Empire Airways scheme develops, as there appears every WITHDRAWN FROM SALE. Tikelihood of it doing, Customs in- spection facilities and other de- At the China Auction Roons yea-tails of an air station will have Arrested by a Chinese revenus terday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. to be provided. officer on the waterfront on Sunday of the mortgagee, a leasehold pro- will be to the East, and it will
de Sousa, offered for sale, by order The
proposed basin for seaplanes a Chinese, who had just returned
have a sea wall running out and from Java, was charged before perty at No. 18, Castle Road. Major C. Willaon yesterday morti- The upset price was $24,000, but a slipway. The other buildings inb with having in his possession as there was no advance, the pre- will be erected, in due course, an offensive weapons, namely perty was withdrawn.
following instructions from Home, This property is held for the un- on the Eastern side of the Reclama- ewordstick, Inspector Cotton said that defendant made an attempt to expired residue of the respective tion. conceal the weapon, and it was seen terms of 909 years' and 999 years It is understood that negotiations by the revenue officer lashed against from November 15th, 1855, and are in hand for the completion of the Kai Tuck Reclamation Com- a piece of baggage. A fine of 450 June 25th, 1880. was imposed, and an arder given the annual Crown rental $2.25.
The area is 2,139 square feet and pany, the Government having taken for the confiscation of the weapon.
over the land.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.