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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

HANK HOLIDAYS.

Accordance with Ordinance No I 1911, the EXORANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION af PUBLIC BUST. NESS on MONDAY, the 15 AUGUST.

Dated, 28th July, 1987.

[5163

·HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

of

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that Certificate No, /NB 2895 dated Hong Kong, 14th Octoaxa, 1913, for & Shares numbered 14633/14827. inclusive, and Certificate No. 5/N8 2596 dated Hong Kong 14th Octo111, 1913, for 5 Shares Bumbered 63433 and 35738/38798 inclusive, all the Name of LI SING

have boo

goon LOST or STOLEN, and should these the Bank Certificates not be produced to the before the ST JULY,

KONSistered

Certificatan for the Sh 19

in

lagued

and the aforesaid Certificates Nos. 5/NS 2596 and 5/8 2898 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Null and Foid.

By Order of the Court of Directors

A. 0. HYNES,

Acting Obiet Manager, Hong Kong, 29th June, 1927. [5088

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

Wand In AUGUST, 1947, E are moving car Office Fremises to PRINCE'S BUILDING, GROUND 2008, ICE HOUSE STREET (ROT) ALT ADA CÀ72} CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO,

LIMITED.

: (voorperetul under the Companim2 Orðlaunova "et liong Kong)

[3114.

FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.

No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD.

GRT Boomed HOUSE with

Central Hosting, Five Bedrooms,. Four Bathrooms, Thres Urring Booms, Modern Sanitation, Grass Tennis Court and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

[1776

TO LET.

Rooted HOUSE, No. 49, in GRANVILLE ROAD, KOWLOOS, with Flash System" and all Modern Conveniences.

Apply to: SPANISH DOMINICAN

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THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD.

HEREBY NOTIFIED that

PROCURATION.

TO LET.

I the following paranta have beetFFICES TO LET on 51D FLOOR.

appointed to bold Office a from

JANUARY 15T, 1927-:--

LOUIE WAT BUN.

Managing Director.

LOUIE LEUNG,

Treasurer.

LAM MING FAN,

Secretary.

.L. G. CHONG,

Manager.

No Purchase Contracts can be re

1A, CHATIR BoaD. Moderate Bental. Apply-P. O. Box No. 611.

108

WANTED.--5/8 Roomed HOUSE

Mid-levels or ACET

PRAR TRAX proferroci, --- Apply Boz No. 5121, c/o Hong Kong Daily Preu.

[5121

OOME-Hong Kong, Kowloon,

cognized by this Company sales signed Ro

by at least Two of its Dinsetors.

All Communications to be addressed to the Secretary.

By Order of the Board of Directors, LAM MING FAN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, July 16th, 1987. [5127

NOTICE.

Me for Investment on TONIER Up to 8120.000 are 1st Class Mortgage Security abject to a Trustee Valuation.

318+]

"Apply: Mzinas. DEACONS,

Princes Buildings.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

BY ORDER OF THE OWNER. PUBLIC AUCTION

OF THE WIDERMENTIONED

VALUABLE PROPERTIES. Situats in the NEW TERRITORIES in the Colony of Hong Kong: NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT No, ta, oa which is situated the TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY. This Lot in situato at KOWLOON

BAY:

A FISH POND taste at NEW

KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 8 in the NEW TERRITORIES. LOT NO. 5903 and 5918 in BURVEY DISTRICT in the NEW TERRITORIES (Agrical- tural Lota)

TO BE SOLD

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THURSDAY, TRY 16TH SEPTEMBER 1927, 3 o'CLOCK 1.X. IN FOUR LOTS

M13333.LAMMERT BROS,,Auctioneers,

AT THEIR

SALES BOOM.

B, DUDDELL SIZE, HONG Koso.

For further Particulars and Condi-

tions of Sale, Apply to:-

Ms. HASTINGS, DENNYS

AND BOWLEY,

8. Dis Your Boad Central,

OR TO

› MESRA, LAMMERT HROS,

The Auctioneers, No. 8, DUDDELL STREET. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1927, (6151

FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA AC.

Comprehensive and Complete Report ol the

NEWS OF THE FAR EASA

la given in the

"HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS,"

with which is incorporated.

THE CHINA OVERLAND

TRADE RETORT."

20 Cents per Copy. Subscription, paid in advance –$13 per annum for delivery in Hong Keng: including Postage to.......BOY. part of the world=$15)

singis, double, Flats furnished or unfurnished. Flat for disposal with Furniture House $20/30,000 wanted. Also 30,000 Sq. ft. land on Pesk. SMALL INVESTORS. Tel 0.4830

OR SALE-TELESCOPE with Stand, Length 3" 4' and 3" Object Glass. Exceptionally Good Field of Condition. Vias, Recently Overhauled, in Perfect,

Prict 3300.00.-Apply MESS PRESIDENT, 8/20 PUNTAR RIMENT.

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INTIMATIONS.

MORE DEWAR EPIGRAMS.

THE HON. JOHN DEWAR'S remarks at the Distillers Company's banquet, 2nd June, 1927, contained the following epigrams:-

farmers the lower price is said to be on the border line below, which it does not pay to grow the-crop. On the other hand, whers the growers ara natives working on their own holdings they cannot | understand the fall in values and jump to the conclusion that they are being exploited. In such cases they cut down their acreages in the following year. It is stated that the best way of stabilising prices is to extend the area from which the

supply of cotton is drawn: and we

JULY 28th, 1927.

A shopkeeper residing at 200, The troopship. Karmala arrived Wyndham Street, first floor, has here last night from Shanghai en reported that some person entered route to India with the two Regi- his house through the verandah and ments that from the Indian Brigade stola money, jewellery and clothing-the Durham Light Infantry and valued at $154.

the Gloucestershire Regiment.

Four more cases of enteric fever The Mobile Concert" Party gave

were notified on Tuesday. · Two are

anc British and Chinese,

an excellent entertainment at the one Shamshuipo Camp last evening to

Japanese. One case of small-pox narge audience of troops. To-

and one of diphtheria, both Chinese, night there is an informal dance were also reported.

Valley Cemetery lass, evening of The funeral took place at Happy

GHOST OF CARNARVON ROAD.

CROWD'S NIGHTLY VIGIL

EERIE HAPPENINGS IN KOWLOON.

Two untenanted houses at the "end

of Carnarvon Road, Kowloom, have

at the "Cheer O" Y.M.C.A., and for several nights been the scene of sing-song and ginging competition vigil kept by a crowd of over a V. Capell and her popular "Jsmall detached block completely at the "Better 'Old" while Miss hundred persona The houses--a

Man respa what he sows may say that to this end the Cor Hilda Mary the four-year old Pans" are appearing at the Rope surrounded by a verandah in the

-unless he is an amateur gardener.

War does not pay, but it makes everybody pay.

The wages of war is debt. "Britannis rules the waves," but in future it may be the wives who will rule Britannia.

:

The real puzzle to-day is China. Never was it more necessary to handle China with care.

Four-fifths of the perjury of the world is expended on tombstones, women and com- petitors.

DE WAR'S

WHITE · LABEL"

AND

**VICTORIA VAT '

VERY OLD

SCOTCH WHISKY

poration is turning its energies Careful plans are being laid for the future. It is of prime importance that quality and staple should be maintained; and in this connection

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mar riott, who died at the French Hos- pital early yesterday.

Factory, Kowloon.

centre of a populous neighbourhood are said to be haunted. Passers

A Chinese charged at the Central by and the inhabitants of two Magistracy with the theft of some nearby houses began to notice un- A Chinese servant girl, aged 10, spammers from the Electric's Co- usual happenings in the block' on it is said that so long as Empire residing at Third Street, attempt any works, at North Point was Monday night, when a reddish fight cotton holds generally its premium ed to commit suicide on Tuesday discharged. Another man charged was seen overal times to burn for a on American' Middling the superior jumping into the harbor. She with the theft of coal from the site few seconds behind the closed shut-

was rescued and sent to the Go-locality was also discharged.

Small Aters and then to go out. ity will be Britain's most valuable-

ernment Civ Hospital,

sentence of three months' hard showers of stones have also fallen asset, while the ratio of Empire to American cotton is likely to

labour was passed upon a third on to the pavement before the man for stealing 16 pounds of houses from a tall banyan tree in increase.

cement from the same Company, front," and continued to do so as This defendant had six previous late as last night. The fragmenta

It is understood that the North Point Bathing Beach will be closed for about ten days as a result of the almost complete destruction of the enclosure boom by the "blow." and high tide of Monday morning. Little damage was done to the matsheds.

convictions.

Many curious discoveries have been made since the Corporation

were of plaster, which led a bystan- It has been found began work

der to suggest that they had been that certain varieties of soil will

The marriage took place yester-blown from the roof of the tumble- day morning before. Lieut-Cal. F. down building during the typhoon only produce crops of a specially

Eaves, D.8.0., at the Registry of and had 'lodged in the thick foliage graded seed. In most parts of

Marriages, of Mr. Harry Cooper, of the tree. Africa the improvement of seed A Chinese, employed as a carpen a local journalist, and Miss. Frances supplies upon which the quality of ter by the. P.W.D., was sent to Sharman, of Tientsin, the only untenanted for "only about six Akhough the houses have been the crop depends is a matter of the Government Civil Hospital on daughter of Capt. W. G. Sherman, months they have every appearance urgent necessity. Consequently the Tuesday suffering from injuries of the Taku Bar Works. Mr. of decay. The popular fancy has technical staff of the Corporation caused through falling through a Cooper was formerly on the Hong been wrought upon by a story of a is now endeavouring to discover a window at the back of a European Kong Daily Press, and later with young child's death in one of the type of seed more protic and lavatory, in the Central Police the Sun Life Assurance Company, houses some months ago, and when

Station,

more resistant", to disease than the mixed types hitherto planted in

A dog belonging to Mr. Africa Jassid is the most destruc- Rodrigues, residing at Liberty tive disease; and among insect Avenue, Ho Mun Tin, bit a Chi pests the red ballworm is the chief nese who was working in Victoria enemy. It is due to the patient Avenue on Tuesday. The man has experiments of the Empire Cotton been sent to the Kowloon Hospital

IT NEVER VARIES Growing Corporation that a method and the dog to Ma Tau Kok for

A. S.

AGENTI

& Co TSON]

LTD.

has been devised of trapping, the moth upon a crop specially grown for the purpose, thus securing in- munity for the main crop.

L

In India special precautions. are taken to guard against the spread of insect pests. American cotton, for example, must be fumigated Frox 0.616. before importation. Progress in cotton growing is reported from Australia, where a bounty on seed

TIT PAL, Four Booms, Flush LET-No.1,KELLETT HOUSE,

System, Separate Kitchen, Servants' | ESTABLISHED 1841. Quarters. All Modem Conveniences.- Apply: MagS. DEACONS, Paixer's Bunning,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

TO LET

ΤΙ

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OFFICES

STEPHENS BUILDING,

67/60, DES VEUX ROAD

CENTRAL,

AND

PRINCE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD.

MARRIAGE.

[3)

cotton" is given by the Common wealth Government. In the Angio

of Marriages, Supreme Court cotton has considerably increased Hong Kong, before Lt. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O., Registrar of The Governor-General of the Sudan Marriages, on July 27th, 1997, has stated that the cultivation of FRANCES LOUISE, only daughter

COOPER,

Hong Kong Office: 14, Chater Ed. London Office: 21, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, E.0.4

obeervation.

afterwards' spending a number of an Indian constable reported that years in newapaper work in Shang on Tuesday he had seen a woman bai and Tientsin, returning to doing "jom "on the flat roof at Hong Kong recently and joinings 8 o'clock in the morning, the super- stitions connected this becurrence the staff of the China Mail.

with the child's death. One of the

Before Mr. W, Schofield at the watchers, more hardy than the rest, Kowloon Magistracy yesterday actually declared that he had a

morning, Mr. Leo d'Ainada made friend who had seen a hondless

Neighbours on both sides of the

application for the reduction or figure gliding round the verandah! Three railway carriages on the variation of the sentence of two A number of gruesome legends have Fanling-Shataukok branch line of months hard labour imposed on already been woven about the two the Kowloon-Canton Railway were Ghulam Ali, an Indian Warder, of houses. blown over by the heavy winds of Laichikok Prison, who was recently

A crowd began to collect on the Monday morning. The carriages convicted on a charge of saulting road almost an hour before dark were at that time standing on the two Chinese women without pre last night, and these people kept rails near the Bhataukok Station vocation, the application being their vigil till a very late hour, and, ad a result, the line will be made on the ground that it was despite frequent dispersala by the out of commission for a few days only a common assault, and that police. The police were sent for by defendant had not had the oppor- the owners of nearby houses to put A young Chinese woman, of about tunity of refuting the allegations a stop to the annoyance that hid 20 years of age, jumped off the made by the prosecution. His persisted for several nighta Ata Yaumati Ferry as it was going Worship commuted the sentence to about & o'clock's Chinese detective COOPER-SHZAMAN.-At the Registry Egyptian Sudan the acreage under from Hong Kong to Yaumati yes a fine of $50, with the alternative made a complete search of the tarday afternoon, apparently with of one month's imprisonment. houses from floor to roof but wis the intention of committing suicide. She was picked up by a passing

unable to find the slightest trace Efforts are being made by the of anything to account for the sampan, the number of which is Traffic Department of the Felice to ghostly "manifestations." Soon of Capt. W. G. SHERMAN, Taku cotton by the natives of North- unknown, and was none the worse

ttace the driver of a motor car, afterwards Bar Works

two British Police Superintendent, East and Central Africa adds for her immersión.

who when stopped by a police officers searched the building with Halho Conservancy, Tientsin, to HARRY

officer at West Point for driving a similar result. The search was MJ.I greatly to their welfare. In Tam D.C.M., of Upper Norwood, ganyika Territory high grade cot

The master of an oyster junk has at a very high speed gave the name carried out in a spirit of levity, Surrey, eldest son of CHS. W. Cooper, of London. [3162

ton is being produced Cotton reported that on Monday morning of U Sza Wing, of Messrs. Dodwell and even the crowd of vigilants- growing has been started in Cyprus, during typhoon weather, heavy & Co. A summons was accordingly mostly Chiness-did not seem to re- squale upset his junk which was taken out against Mr. U. Sze Wing gazl the matter very earnestly. It and the outlook is promising.

then off Sai Kong. The master and for reckless driving and for failing was suggested that a prospective An interesting experiment is his fotis were able to swim to the to produce his licence, and when tenant had found a novel way of being made in Ceylon. At the shore, which was quite close. On he appeared before the magistrate getting the rent down!, - request of the Government Mr. G. board the junk were one cannon, he explained that, be was not R. HILSON, of the Indian Agricui- two muskete, ilty rounds of Win driving the car, and at the time in tural Service, visited the Colony chester ammunition and 100 rounds well dinner to Capt. C. H. Steele, a brilliant light shining straight question he was attending a fare house reported that they had seen last year, and with the object of of shotgun ammunition which all A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor. The through the house for a few seconds extending the acreage under the went to the bottom when the boat summons was withdrawn, and as crop he suggested the introduction capsized. The licences were also stated, the police are now attempt at a time. A similar story was told. ing to run to earth the real offender. to a Daily Press reporter by a ot a proper system of crop rota

number of soldiers leat night. The COTTON GROWING IN THE tion and the cultivation of the same

Sentence of two months' bard

ghost" is believed to be a prat land in consecutive years by the labour was passed yesterday morn- EMPIRE.

tical joker who gains access to the native growers. Arrangements have ing on a shop-lifter who was arrest-

bouse from the renin-a explana It is very gratifying to know that now been made to grant a cultiva ed at the Wing On Company on

tion that is nearly always found for similar scares that sometimes excite the cultivation of cotton in the tor who has sown cotton on a one Today. It was stated that do-

A Aghi at 6 p.m. yesterday be country villages in England. The acre plot for a second season an fendant asked to be shown several tween two fokia living at 151, showers of plaster on to the pave Empire is making steady progress.

additional two acres adjoining his pairs of expensive silk socks, and Connaught toad Central, had a This fact is brought out in the

first clearing. If he carries out a when he had looked around and Ho Lun, is said to have kicked the for, and can certainly not be dis fatal termination. One of the men, ment are not so easily accounted general summary of the important regular rotation on this area for five thought that he was not being other, Yu Muen in the spleen, caus missed as fignents of overwrought and valuable work carried on by years he is then to be entitled to observed, he pushed the goods ing so terrible an injury that the the Empire Cotton Growing Cor-claim that the land should be an umbrella Defendant had two Ho dashed into the house and walked along the footpath last under his jacket under cover of latter at once dropped dead. imaginations. A large shower fell Folice whistles were blown but on to the umbrella of a lady, who" LEO PODOLSKY Corporation by its Administrative cereals and cotton are to form the offences

poration, recently presented to the settled on him. In all such cases previous convictions for similar escaped over the roof. The police Council, of which Lord Danny is chairman. In every part of the

The problem of transport will Among the paengers leaving Empire in which the growing of take some time to solve, as the yesterday morning by the as cotton is possible favourable reports cost is heavy; indeed, there is a President Cleveland were Comdr. recommendation that an intarzi have been received of the work Colonial body should be created and I. W. MayBeld, Commander of the done. But as might be expected endowed with-inter-Colonial funds U.8.S., Sacramento, who is retura- to deal with the whole matter. there are many difficulties to be Meanwhile the Empire Cotton ing home to the United States on overcome, and it is the business of Growing Corporation will continue vacation; and Dr. J. F. Rock, to "give skilled advice to cultiys Botanical Explorer for the US. the Corporation to find the appro- priate remedies.

mental and research work, and

APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO.

PRINCE'S BUILDING, CHATER BOAD,

MONDAY, AUGUST 8TH

AT 9.30 P.M.

THE WORLD FAMQUS. PIANIST

AND

VERA MIROVA

PREMIERE DANSEUSE

PRICES: $3, 82 & 81

BOOKING AT MOUTRIES

QUEEN'S

Tbe

Baily

Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 28rm, 1927.

In the period under review the price of cotton fell from 10d to little more than ed. alb. Fluctus tion in price is a most disturbing foctor. In some parts of the Em- pire where cotton in grown by white

main rotations."

Flost

tors, carry out valuable experi Department of Agriculture, retura-

render Snancial assistance wherevering home to the United States. Dr. necessary, ss has been done already Rock has been doing research work in the various countries préviously in Yunnan; also Mr. C. Gordon mentioned. It is largely due to the Corporation that what will become Mackie, Shanghai Manager of an immense, profitable and stable Mesare Mackinnon Mackenzie & Imperial industry over vast tracts af hitherto uncultivated and has Co., returning to Shanghai, and 'been founded upon, to frm a basis. ME

ind Miss Bay..

FATAL FIGHT IN CON- NAUGHT ROAD.

ESCAPE - OVER THE ROOF.

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are hot on his tracks inat up to at night in full view of about 100 per- late hour last night the fugitive had sons. A man who climbed up into eluded them..

the branches of the tree was unable The men's employer said that they had given him a lot of trouble to and a cause for the "

d were always fighting.

WEATHER REPORT.

menon

pheno

The block is of so neglected and forlorn an appearance that the most absurd legends circulated fall upon MORE SHOWERS.

ready ears Though the crowd was cast and remarks, issued by the police last night it returned each several times dispersed by the Yesterday weather report, fore- Royal Observatory at 5:40 pm, time. The vigil was continued until stated Haiphong is moving slowly weet

ted depression to the N.W. of such warts as this are by no.

the small hours of the morning,

ward. A trough of relatively low means uncommon in England, but Pure Davers the northern por- the ghost sually appears once fion of the north Chma Bea

Loc. FORECAST Eastwinds too often and shows himself to be, moderate, cloudy showery

“vulnerable" to svid And stouEE.